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PANJIM: Mandar Lad emerged champions in the All Goa Open Rapid Chess Tournament organised by GVM’s SNJA Higher Secondary School in association with Ponda Taluka Chess Association (PTCA) and recognized by the Goa Chess Association, at the GVM Science Centre, Farmagudi, Ponda, recently.
Chaitanya Gaonkar secured second place and Joshua Mark Telles finished third.
Datta Kambli, Aayush Shirodkar, Rudresh Fadte, Sarvang Pagi, Atharva Borkar, Aarth Karapurkar, Shubh Borkar, Shane Braganca, Rajveer Patil, Akhilesh Nigalye, Vihaan Tari, Hriday Morajkar, Prayank Gaonkar, Advait Dhawalikar, Ayush Naik, Chaitanya Patil, Mayank Kurtikar, Adarsh Patekar, Atharv Parab, Adarsh Naik, Sarthak Naik and Sai Prabhakaran secured 4th to 25th place respectively.
Other results: U-15 boys: 1st place Supreet Priolkar and 2nd Shriyash Paul. Girls: 1st Riddhi Gaude and 2nd Anvi Desai. U-13 boys: 1st Chetan Kurtikar and 2nd Taapasya Bhat. Girls: 1st Asmi Terse and 2nd Shriya Naik.
U-11 boys: 1st Shaurya Agrasani and 2nd Ishan Paramshetti. Girls: 1st Skyla Rodrigues and 2nd Avani Sawaikar. U-9 boys: 1st Joash Cardozo and 2nd Siaan Kerkar. Girls: 1st Vania Dukle and 2nd Shravani Naik.
U-7 boys: 1st Evan Telles and 2nd Aarush Parulekar. Girls: 1st Aradhya Desai and 2nd Jigyasa Gawas.
Chief guest Arvind Khutkar (director, Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs) gave away the prizes in the presence of Krishna Shetye (chairman, GVM Working Committee), Prabhat Shikerkar (treasurer, GVM Working Committee), Dr Geeta Shastri (principal, GVM’s SNJA Higher Secondary School ), Suraj Kamat (president, GVM SNJA Higher Secondary School PTA), Sagar Sakordekar (president, PTCA), Chief Arbiter IA Arvind Mhamal and Amogh Namshiker (secretary, PTCA).
Sadanand Kamat was felicitated and presented the appreciation award. Aarav Naik and Rehansh Kurtikar secured promising player award.
Tournament director Dr Shantanu Gauns compered and Sushil Parihar (treasurer, GVM SNJA Higher Secondary School, PTA) proposed a vote of thanks.
Sudhakar Patgar (assistant arbiter), Milind Gaude (assistant arbiter), GVM’s SNJA Higher Secondary School staff, GVM’s SNJA Higher Secondary School, PTA members and PTCA members supported to make the tournament successful. As part of Golden Jubilee celebrations, 210 players participated.