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MARGAO: Top seed Ritviz Parab of Salcete Taluka won the 2nd Late Premlata Omprakash Agrawal All Goa Fide Rapid Rating Chess tournament title.
The tournament attracted 170 players out of which 72 were FIDE rated players and the tournament was organised by Salcete Taluka Chess association along with BPS Sports club at BPS Club premises.
In the last round, Parab drew with his rival Niraj Saripalli to remain unbeaten throughout the tournament with 8 wins and a draw to clinch the title.
Vivaan Sunil Ballikar also of Salcete finished 2nd with 8 points after he beat Mandar Lad with some tactical strokes to make a new Queen in a fantastic Bishop V/s Pawn end game.
Niraj Saripalli(Salcete), Anirudh Bhat(Salcete) and Gunjal Chopdekar(Tiswadi) all tied with 7.5 points but Niraj was fortunate to have better tie break score and finished third. Anirudh had to be content with the 4th spot whereas Gunjal had to settle for the 5th place.
6th to 20th prizes :-Kuncolienkar Shivank,Nagvekar Sairudra, Asmita Avijit Ray, Devesh Anand Naik, Lad Mandar Pradip, Vaz Ethan, Netra Sawaikar, Tejas Shet Vernekar, Sanvi Naik Gaonkar, Harsh Telang, Srilaxmi Kamat, Ved Narvekar, Parab Rishikesh, Sequeira Alex, Vaz Edrick.
Total cash prizes of Rs 50,000 were distributed along with trophies.Trophies were also given to Salcete Taluka also gave its yearly awards to its top players based on their performance Rs. 10,000 and a momento were given each to Bhakti Kulkarni for becoming First Goan I.M. and Ameya Audi for his International master norms.
Other players to be felicitated were Ritviz Parab, Purushottam Kantak, Reuben Colaco, Sairaj Verenker, Saksham Natekar, Ethan Vaz, Aryan Raiker, Vivaan Ballikar, Shriya Patil, Diya Sawal, Jennica Sequeira, Saaeja Gunesh, Shweta Sahakari, Saìraj Narvenkar, Poorvi Nayak, Atharva Sawal and Shourya Suraj Pednekar .
Sanjay Kavlekar ,Senior SAG Chess Coach ,Prakash Vikram Singh Coach of Chess Guru Chess Academy ,Niraj & Nandhini Saripalli of Nanir Chess Academy were also felicitated for exemplary coaching .
Cash prizes & trophies were given to the winners & the prizes were given by Santosh George (President ,BPS Club, Ashesh Keni (Vice-President GCA), Manguirish Kunde (Secretary, BPS Club), Justin Costa, Member Executuve Committtee, BPS Club, Damodar Zambaulikar (Secretary STCA), Sanjay Kavlekar (SAG senior coach), Sharendra Naik, Swapnil Hoble(SAG coach) and others.
Category Prizes: Best unrated: Sagar Shetty; Veteran above 50: Suhas Asnodkar; Best Female: Shourya Pednekar; Most Promising player: Saieeja Gunesh Desai
Best age category main group: U-5,U7,9,11,13,15 boys & girls:- U-5: Pereira Zach Nathan,Bandodkar Shreeya Shambha , U-7: Shubh Borkar, Saras Summar Powar, Jensina Sequeira, Shreesha Pednekar; U-9: Kanishk Sagar Sawant, Aarav Chopdekar, Sayyed Maizah, Nayak Poorvi; U-11: Ali Amanat, Atharv Sawal, Shriya Patil, Valanka Fernandes; U-13: Kuncolienkar Shivank, Naik Gaonkar Suyash, Varada Raghuvir Desai, Nidhi Gaude; U-15: Jugan Sales Rodrigues, Siddhiraj Gaunkar, Nayak Pavitra, Hemangi Pednekar
Best Salcete Taluka players, U-7 to U-9 boys & girls:-
Boys:-Atharv Katkar(U-15 Boy),Colaco Reuben(U-13 Boy),Prabhu Varad(U-11 Boy), Sairaj Narvekar(U-9 Boy), Aarav Prabhu Gaonkar(U-7 Boy).
Girls:- Shweta Sahakari(U-15 girl), Gawas Sani(U-13 Girl), Kimaya Rohan Borkar (U-11 Girl), Jennica Sequeira (U-9 Girl), Rochel Pereira(U-7 Girl).
