PANJIM: Niraj Saripalli of Salcete Taluka wins Late Lt. Cdr. Gopal Sakharam Sukthankar Memorial “All Goa Open Rapid Rated Tournament organised by Mushtifund Parents Teacher Association under the aegis of Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association, Goa Chess Ad-hoc Committee and All India Chess Federation in collaboration with Institute Menezes Braganza, Panjim.
Saripalli scored 8.5 points from 9 rounds. He is winning back to back tournaments. Last week he had won BPS Rapid Rating tournament.
Mandar Lad of Bardez Taluka too scored an equal 8.5 points on tie break he finished second while Sairaj Verenkar of Salcete Taluka finished third.
The prizes were distributed by Chief Guest Dasharath Parab (Chairman IMB), Mahesh Candolkar (TTCA President), Dnyaneshwar Naik (Chairman Ad-hoc Committee), IA Arvind Mhamal (Chief Arbiter), FA Dattaram Pinge, Aparna Chari (Head Mistress Mushtifund), Pallavi Kakodkar (Tournament Director), Geetanjali Kinvasara, Sneha Tamankar, Nandhini Saripalli and others.
Other prize winners from 4th to 15th are Joy Kakodkar, Anish Naik, Rishikesh Parab, Anirudh Bhat, Vivaan Ballikar, Aryan Raikar, Atharv Nitin Narayan, Vishwesh Kochrekar, Aarush Bhat, Chopdekar Aarav, Anish M Naik, Love Kakodkar.
Category prize winners: U-7, U-9, U-11, U-13, U-15 open and girls are Vihaan Tari, Rishit Gawas, Shrest Ghonsekar, Avani Sawaikar, Trisha Patekar, Shinel Rodrigues, Joshua Telles, Shubh Borkar, Aaryavrat Naik Desai, Diya Sawal, Skyla Rodrigues, Rochel Pereira, Hriday Morajkar, Aarush Salgaonkar, Ethan Silveira, Jennica Sequeira, Vaishnavi Parab, Saeeja Dessai, Ekka Aniket, Aarth Karapurkar, Ali Amanat, Shree Ghonsekar, Arya Dublay, Shriya Patil, Sairudra Nagvekar, Aryan Shirodkar, Raghav Lad, Alana Andrade, Gawas Sani, Shubra Acharya,
Best Veteran: P S Narvekar.
Best women: Asmita Ray.
Youngest player: Manasvi Naik.
International players: Soin Laroslav, Vasarhelyi Szurina.
Mustifund players: Shreyash Hawal, Dharmaditya naik, Sharvil Shedge, Sourish Haldankar, Salij Dhargalkar.
