Udupi: International Master Stany wins Dr TMA Pai Chess title

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Udupi, 31 Dec 2015: International Master Stany G A of Shivammoga remained unbeaten to win the Dr TMA Pai Memorial FIDE Rated Chess tournament at the Dr TMA Pai Hall, Manipal here on Wednesday December 30. He remained unbeaten but in the final round was held to a draw by Muthaiah A I of Tamil Nadu who finished runner-up. Stany with eight-and-half points won a cash prize of Rs 50,000 and Muthaiah with seven-and-half got a cheque for Rs 30,000.

 

Balkishan A, I M Girinath PDS, Gahan M G, Aravind Shastry, F M Rajdeep Sarkar, Vivek Nambiar, Vijay Keerthi K scored 7.5 each and based on better tie break, Balkisha A became 2nd runner up.

 

 

Soundarya Kumar Pradhan with eight-points won the National B Chess for the visually impaired and Kishan Gangolli of Karnataka with seven and half points finished second. They won cash prize of 15,000 and Rs 8,000 respectively.

 

Others with six-and-half-points were: Makhwana Ashwin of Gujarat, Darpan Inani of Gujarat, Yudhajeep D E of West Bengal, Aryan Joshi of Maharashtra, Ventak Reddy of AP, Prachurya Pradhan of Odhisha, Krishna Udupa of Karnataka, Wagmare Sachin Lahu of Maharashtra, Samant Milind of Maharashtra and Marimuthu of Tamil Nadu.  

 

The chief guest Dr Narayana Sabhahit distributed the prizes to the winners.

 

Dr H Vinod Bhat, vice-chancellor of Manipal University presided the closing function.