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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.
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| Tournament Champion Anchal Rastogi |
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| Junior Champion Rachit Yadav |
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.
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| 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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