Sunder secured eight points at the end of nine rounds and bagged a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and winner’s trophy. Goa’s Ritviz Parab (2163) of Geno Pharma was the runner-up with eight points on lower tie-breaker. IM Abhimanyu Puranik (2208) of Maharashtra finished third also with eight points on lower tie-breaker.
GM Shyam won seven games and was held for a draw by Goa’s IM Rohan Ahuja (2149) of Geno Pharma and Chander Raju (1840) of Kerala. Ritviz won eight games and lost one game to Gahan M G (2296) Karnataka.
Goa’s upcoming player Amey Audi defeated GM Tejas Bhakre and IM Abhimanyu Puranik scoring seven points but stood seventh. Rohan Ahuja defeated GM Tejas Bhakre in the sixth round and held winner Shyam for a draw to stand eight. The second GM of tournament, Tejas Bhakre suffered defeats from Rohan and Amey, had to settle for the 11th position.
In all seven players from Goa came in prize list and it was good performance by Goan players and 22 got rating in this tournament. Subramanian T V of Tamil Nadu won vetaran prize, stole the limelight with his age of 83 years playing this tournament.
The trophies and prizes were awarded by the chief guest Alina Saldhana, Minister for RDI, Science, Technology and Museum during the prize distribution function.
Alina in her address expressed the role of children and was satisfied with the parents showing keen interest in overall development of their children by devoting time as most of the participants were small children.
Others present for the prize distribution were: Krishna (Daji) Salkar, councillor of Mormugao Municipality; Joint Secretary of AICF Kishor Bandekar, organizing secretary Vasant Naik, Pundalik Nayak VP of MTCA; Adv Anita Thorat, treasurer of MTCA; Achut Naik, joint secretary of MTCA; Anil Patil, Mukesh Adhia members of MTCA; Ashesh Keni and Sagar Sacordekar VP of GCA; Balakrishna, treasurer of TTCA.
The tournament was conducted by Pramod Mori, chief arbiter under the assistance of Sanjay Kavlekar, Swapnil Hoble, Vasant Naik, Dattaram Pinge and other assistants.
Girish Kolamkar compered while Pundalik Nayak proposed the vote of thanks.
Other results from fourth to 20th: Gahan M G (7.5), Ram S. Krishnan (7.5), Mani Bharathy (7.5), Anant Prabhudesai (7), Niraj Saripalli (7), Cruz Wilson (7), Sameer Ghotane (7), Verma Rahul (7), Bavankumar (7), Ramkrishna J. (6.5), Chandar Raju (6.5), Akshay V Halagannavar (6.5), Subramanian V (6.5) and Kambli Datta (6.5). Best Female (Above 18) Nandhini Saripalli (6.5). Best Rated (1500-1900) 1st Sneha Ghatpande (6.5), 2nd Snehil Shetty (6), 3rd Brendan Peroz (6), 4th Shane Braganza (6).
Best rated (1000-1499): 1st Nagaraj Naik (6.5), 2nd Siddhant Dharwar (6.5), 3rd Sahil Shetty (6.5), 4th Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar (6.5). Best unrated: 1st Abhishek Shastry (5.5), 2nd Chokalingam P (5.5), 3rd Gangnaik Santosh (5.5), 4th Soham Dhuri (5).
Best Goan players (boys): 1st Adv. P.M. Kantak (6), 2nd Dias Aston (6), 3rd Bhimappa Harijan (6), 4th Parsekar Anirudh (6). Girls: 1st Thorat Aishwarya (6), 2nd Swera Ana Braganza (6), 3rd Chopdekar Gunjal (6), 4th Prabhugaokar Aditee (6). Best U-15 girls: 1st Gaayathri S (6), 2nd Khan Faiziya (5).
Best U-15 boys: 1st Harsh M Averi (6), 2nd Aryan Shamrao Raikar (6). Best U-13 girls: 1st Naik Vrunda V (5.5), Tejal Sunil Lotlikar (5). Best U-13 boys: 1st Thorat Sanjay (6), 2nd Porob Vraj (6).Best U-11 girls: 1st Alaya D Cruz (5.5), 2nd Sarah Gayle Fernandes (5). Best U-11 boys: 1st Barde Om (6), 2nd Colaco Vernon Jesus (6).
Best U-9 girls: 1st Srilaxmi Kamat (4.5), 2nd Anushka Arora (3). Best U-9 boys: 1st Colaco Reuben (5), 2nd Sairaj Dilip Vernekar (5). Best U-7 girls: 1st Shruiya Patil (3.5), 2nd Valanka Fernandes (3). Best U-7 boys: 1st Parth Kamat (4), 2nd Aarav Kamat (3.5). Best Murmugoa Taluka boys: 1st Kiran Shantaram Chopdekar (6), 2nd Sanjil Hoble (6). Girls: Charuta J Shetye (4.5), Ikra Sarfaraz (3).
