March 2025 ~ Chess Club Black & White (CCBW)

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Sanyam Srivastava wins CCBW Rapid Chess, Daksh Arora Junior Champion

Chief guest well-known socio-political journalist Chandrani Banerjee with prize winners at CCBW Rapid Open Chess

Lucknow's teen talent fourteen-year-old Sanyam Srivastava won the CCBW Rapid Chess on tiebreak ahead of Anchal Rastogi (Central GST) and Pawan Batham (State Tax Department). All three scored 6/7 points. The state-wise tournament was hosted by Chess Club Black and White (CCBW) at Charans Plaza in Hazratganj on Sunday.

Tournament winner Sanyam Srivastava

Sanyam lost his last round game to Pawan blundering two pawns away but earlier Sanyam beat Anchal in a Scotch Gambit game where white misplayed the opening. Octogenarians Kranti Kumar Gupta (Bareilly) and Kapil Kumar Khare (Lucknow) — an inspiration for the entire chess community — played super strong chess to top the senior citizen section with 4 points each. Well-known socio-political journalist Chandrani Banerjee gave away the prizes and discussed her YouTube channel, Across the Table in the 'Meet & Greet session'.

Junior Champion Daksh Arora

Daksh Arora won the Junior Unrated Under 16 section on tiebreak ahead of Ishaan Kumar. Both scored 6/7 points.

Tournament hall at The Charans Plaza, Hazratganj

Anirudh Dwivedi was the Best Rated Under 16 player with 5 points followed by Anay Agarwal at 4.5 points and Abhinav Kirti Varman at 4 points.

The Best Unrated players were Nikhar Saxena and Somesh Srivastava with 3.5 points each.

The top-scoring schools were DPS - Eldeco branch and Modern School, Aliganj.

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Caption: Chief guest Fariduddin Abbasi, Director, Silverstone Group, with prize winners of the 3rd CCBW Maha Shivratri Chess at Kapoor's Inn.

Defending champion Anchal Rastogi (Central GST) took home the winner's trophy on tiebreak ahead of Pawan Batham (State Tax Department) and Saeed Ahmad (Lucknow Chess Centre) with 6/7 points on Sunday at the 3rd Maha Shivratri Rapid Open Tournament. Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) hosted the tournament at Kapoor's Inn Banquets & Suites in Kapoorthala, Lucknow, on Sunday. All three scored 6 points.

Tournament Champion Anchal Rastogi

Junior Champion Rachit Yadav

Chief guest Fariduddin Abbasi, Director, Silverstone Group, gave away the prizes.

Anchal dropped a point only to Saeed in a Queens Gambit Declined game. Saeed found a great pawn break to set his centre pawns rolling to the last rank. However, Saeed blundered and lost his game versus Pawan. Pawan, in turn, lost a pawn and his game to Anchal.

Rachit Yadav was the junior champion with 6 points and Aadi Saxena was runner up with 5.5 points. Kaustubh Mishra, and Advika Tiwari were the stars of the under-10 section. Shah Murad Alam won the under-13 section.

Tournament hall at Kapoor's Inn at Kapoorthala

Senior citizens' section winners were KK Khare and KK Kesarwani 4 points each. UB Singh was third with 2.5 points. KK Gupta and RK Gupta were close with 2 points each.

Other results
Best Unrated: 1st Nikhar Saxena 3.5 points, 2nd Shatrugan Rawat 3 points

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