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| Chief Guest 83-year-old senior player and coach RK Gupta from Jhansi with all the prize winners of the two-day digital detox weekend chess hosted by Chess Club Black and White (CCBW) at The Charans Plaza in Lucknow. |
Ravishanker scored a perfect 7/7 to win the Two-Day Digital Detox Weekend Chess hosted by Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) at The Charans Plaza in Lucknow. Samarth Gupta scored 6.5/7 to become the under-16 junior champion. CCBW hosted the tournament to create awareness about the benefits of playing chess as a family sport and staying away from screens.
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| Tournament champion Ravishanker |
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| RNS World School, Jhansi Best School Team |
The veterans +60 section had a remarkable result: 84-year-old Kranti Kumar Gupta from Bareilly scored 4 points to take first place, and 83-year-old R K Gupta from Jhansi scored 3.5 points to take the second place. R. K. Gupta even brought his student's team, who he is coaching himself, at the RNS World School, Jhansi, they were the best overall team from UP.
Sayeed Ahmad with 6 points and Samyak Sagar with 6.5 points were second in the open and junior sections, respectively. Father-sons' team of Ashish Kumar, Ishit, and Ishaan won the best family prize, and Gyan Argal, Shivansh, and Saransh won the second best family prize. The top two unrated players were Nikhar Saxena and Shatrughan Rawat (4.5 points each).
Other top results:
Best Girl: Advika Tiwari, 3 pts; Best Woman: Aaditri Pandey, 2.5 pts;
Under 10: 1st Diara Agarwal 5 pts, 2nd Shahab Murad Alam 4.5 pts, 3-4th Amay Rajendra, Abhigyan Katiyar, 4 pts each.
Under 13: 1-3rd Arjun Garg, Saksham Srivastava, and Tanish Kumar, 4 pts each.
Under 16: 1st Ujjwal Raj Srivastava, 5 pts, 2nd Saransh Argal 3.5 pts, 3rd Karthikeya Chaturvedi 3 pts.
