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Friday, August 30, 2024

KK Khare wins the CCBW Rapid Open, Himmika Best Woman Chess Player

Chief guest Harsh Wadhwani and Daizy Sonal Mishra with the prize winners of the "CCBW Open Rapid" chess tournament at The Charans Plaza.

Senior Lucknow player KK Khare took down two generations of chess players to win the CCBW Rapid Open. Arif Ali was second on tiebreak. Khare is a huge inspiration for the state chess community, having obtained his first FIDE International chess rating at the age of 62 in a sport where teen prodigies abound. Along with his trophy, Khare received a standing ovation from more than 100 UP players in the tournament hall.

Tournament Champion KK Khare

Best Woman Category Winner Himmika Amarnani

Himmika Amarnani played her usual attacking chess to win the best women's ccategory prize.

Tournament hall at Charans Plaza in Hazratganj.

Prashant Dwivedi from Kanpur excelled in the junior section.

Nine-year-old Mohd Ismail Siddiqui of Prayagraj chose to play among the sharks in the open section and picked up the Best Family Team prize with his father, Rashid.

Hrothbertina Hilton and Ved took home the Best Mixed Doubles team prize.

Abhivadan Shukla fought well to win the Brave Beginner Prize.

Corporate leader Harsh Wadwani and fashion influencer Daizy Sonal Mishra gave away the prizes.

The tournament was organised to create awareness among youngsters about learning from their elders on the occasion of United Nations World Senior Citizens Day.

Other top results:
Under 10: 1-2. Abhigyan Katiyar, Abhiraj, 5 pt each, 3. Viyan Agarwal, 4.5 pt.
Under 13: 1-3. Adyansh Singh, Dibbayan Chakraborty, and Advik Tripathi, 5.5 pt each.
Under 16: 1. Rachi Yadav, 5.5 pt, 2. Ujjwal Raj Srivastava, 5 pt, 3. Kushagra Pandey, 4.5 pt.
Senior Citizen: 1. Kamlesh Kumar Kesharwani, 4 pt, 2-4 Kranti Kumar Gupta (Bareilly), Sharad Kumar Pandey, R P Gupta, 3 pt each.
Under-16 Rated: 1. Chinmay Vajpayee, 5pt, 2-3. Krishna Tejas T, Daksh Surana, 4 pt each.

More photos in Facebook album (including newspaper clippings): https://www.facebook.com/share/p/afhdS3odQRwudgU4/

Other News Links:

- https://theindianview.in/news_id/68271

- https://nationalnewsvision.com/kk-khare-is-champion-in-ccbw-rapid-open-himmika-is-the-best-female-player/

- https://telescopetoday.in/archives/48280

- https://www.jubileepost.in/kk-khare-is-champion-in-ccbw-rapid-open-himmika-is-the-best-female-player/

- https://www.morningpoint.in/kk-khare-is-the-champion-in-ccbw-rapid-open-himmika-is-the-best-female-player/

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Bahraich's Qamar Naim wins CCBW +60 Chess for Veterans in Lucknow

Lucknow: Seventy-year-old Qamar Naim, of Bahraich won the CCBW +60 Seniors' Chess Lucknow today with a blazing 6.5/7 performance. In second and third place were sixty-nine-year old Balgovind Awasthi from Kanpur and eighty-one-year old RK Gupta from Jhansi. The oldest player was eighty-two year old Kranti Kumar Gupta who came to play especially from Bareilly. He set the pace in the initial rounds.

"What an inspiring tournament," said Chief Arbiter, Hemant Sharma. "These are the real masters of chess as unlike us they have had no access to computers. Today's kids have an app of double the world champion's strength on their cellphones to learn from."

Winners, players and Team CCBW with chief guest with Chief Guest Mahamilind Lal, Director Finance, State Nutrition Mission, in Lucknow, on Sunday at The Hotel Golden Apple, in Mahanagar.

Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) hosted all senior chess players of the state in the rapid seven-round 10+5 time control event. "Play chess to stay young and fit. At sixty, free from duties, you can now travel and play. The world's oldest Grandmaster was recently 100 years-old Yuri Averbakh of Russia. We want such inspiring seniors in India as well," said UP champion, 2002, Dr Junaid Ahmad, director, CCBW.

Naim's extremely attacking play was matched by top-seed Vimal Bhatia of Lucknow, but the latter missed out several games in time pressure. Lakhimpur's Krishna Murari Verma started very well but stepped back in the second half of the tournament. In the game of Lucknow stalwarts, KK Khare was winning all the way but blundered a full rook and the game to Prabhat Adhaulya.

Final top standings: Qamar Naim 6.5 pts, Balgovind Awasthi 6 pts, RK Gupta, KK Kulhary, KM Verma, KK Khare 5 pts, Prabhat Adhaulya 4.5 pts, Munir Ahmad, MS Siddiqui, Vimal Bhatia, Harish Kumar Srivastava, RS Kashyap, Sharda Prasad Pandey, UB Singh 4 pts, Shamim Ahmad, Kamlesh Kumar Kesharwani, Deep Saxena, RP Gupta, Phoolchand Basore, Anurag Srivastava, Ambuj Agarwal, Moolchand, KK Gupta, Vinayak Rao, S Mahana, Ajit Kumar Srivastava, Rajesh Sharma 3 pts.