PANJIM: Mandar Lad won the Goa State U-19 Junior Chess Championship 2023 in the open category. Mandar and Devesh scored 6 points each but due to better tie break Mandar stood first while Devesh finished second. Aayush Naik finishes third with the score of 5.5 points.
Other prize winners from 4th to 10th are Ekka Aniket, Madhavan G, Nawal Swant, Mayuresh Desai, Chaitanya Gaonkar, Sara Powar and Vipul Kadam.
Category Prize Winners: Srinik Sinari, Aaryavrat Naik Desai, Vihaan Tari, Ethan Silveira, Vardhan Malik, J A Simplicio Viegas, Varad Nagvekar, Ayush Naik, Sahil Naik, Ekang Malvankar, Avnish Chodankar, Dhiraj Desai.
Asmita Ray won the Girls Championship with the score of 5 points. She remained undefeated in the tournament. Valanka Fernandes stood 2nd with the score of 4 points. Vaishnavi Parab finished 3rd with 3.5 points
Other Prize winners from 4th to 10th are Lyia Silveira, Sayyed Maizah, Arya Dublay, Navya Narvekar, Kanak Prabhu Moye, Tanisha Naik Dessai, Shrama Morudkar.
Category Prize winners: Krutika Aggrawal, Ishwari Raut, Vidhi Naik, Vrisha Manerkar, Siddhi Naik, Sangeeta Talankar, Saniya Mayekar.
Four selected players each in open & Girls will represent Goa State in U-19 (junior) National to be held at Ahmedabad Gujarat from September 20 to 28.
Prizes were distributed at the hands of of Ashesh Keni , Secretary GCA, in the presence Vishwas Pilankar, Treasurer GCA, Arvind Mhamal Chief Arbiter, Shirish Divkar, Prabhakar Shetye, Dr Sushant Dhulapkar, Satyawan Harmalkar and other office bearers of GCA and Bardez Taluka.
