Lucknow: Arif Ali won the 2nd CCBW Open Chess here today with a consistent performance in a field of more than 100 top chess players from Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and Lucknow.
Vikash Nishad was second with a draw against Ali in an Alekhine-game converting into a French pawn structure. Eleven-year-old Sanyam Srivastava was the kid hero holding rated second seed Pawan Batham to a draw and making it to the main prize list.
Jusfica Lilium Lobo from Lucknow was Best Woman and Dinesh Sinha from Kanpur won the Veteran +60 Section. Among the juniors, u-13 section, Prisha Garg from Lucknow was Best Girl and Arnav Tripathi was Best Boy. Aaryav Yogesh was top scorer in the u-10 category.
Chess Club Black & White hosted the tournament with free lunch and international-standard playing conditions at a city hotel. Mrs Agni Shikha Verma, Chairperson of the Agni Shikha Karn Educational Charitable Trust and Principal of AWADH ITI, gave away the prizes.
*Top Prize Winners*
Open 1st-15th: Arif Ali, Vikash Nishad 6.5, Gufran 6, Pawan Batham 5.5, Anchal Rastogi, Sayeed Ahmad, Shashi Prakash, Vishal Bharti, Rajendra Kumar, Mayank Pandey, Vimal Bhatia, KK Kulhary, Ayush Saxena, Akash Srivastava, Udit Gupta 5.
Women 1st-3rd: Jusfica Lilium Lobo, Aiman Akhtar, Shweta Bharti
Veterans +60 1st-3rd Dinesh Sinha, KK Khare, RK Gupta 5
Under-9 1st-2nd Aaryav Yogesh, Mahir Agarwal
Rating Categories 1st-2nd
Unrated - 1099: Shubh Srivastava, Suneel Kumar
1100-1299: Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Sanyam Srivastava
1300-1499: Vinayak Singh Yadav, Shani Kumar Soni
1500-1699: Ravishanker, Sunny Mathew
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