PONDA: Parth Kamat won the Ponda Taluka level rapid chess tournament for primary school children organised by Brilliant Brain Chess Academy in association with Ponda Taluka Chess Association (PTCA) at Devi Bhagwati Chimulkarin Devasthan hall, Marcel, recently.
Ishaan Timble, Avnish Borkar, Shreyas Murkumbi, Atharv Shirodkar, Vrujesh Hande, Pushti Bhonsle, Shubham Savaikar, Rohit Bharadwaj and Arush Naik secured second to tenth place respectively.
Vardhan Govekar, Spruha Jalmi, Saideep Naik, Pratik Gaude, Chirag Gawas, Ved Shivrekar, Jayesh Parab, Deepraj Naik, Sharmad Manerikar and Shreyash Naik secured 11th to 20th place respectively.
Amogh Namshiker, President, PTCA.was the Chief Arbiter of the tournament.
Soumitri Abhiskheki secured the youngest player prize.
Dr Narayan Desai (Ex-Principal, S S Angle Higher Sec.school, Mashem and Social worker) was the chief guest and gave away the certificates and trophies to the winners in the presence of Sagar Sakordekar, Amogh Namshiker (President, PTCA), Mahesh Khedekar (Treasurer, PTCA), Dr. Rajdatta Timble and Pramod Kamat (tournament director).
