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