Avani Acharya Udupi wins Mumbai Chess Masters Rating Open 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 10/06/2025

Avani Acharya Udupi and Mayuresh Parkar scored 7/8 each at Mumbai Chess Masters Rating Open 2025. Avani won the tournament due to better tie-break scores, Mayuresh secured second place. Seven players scored 6.5/8 each. Out of them, Reyaansh Venkat was placed third due to better tie-break scores. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹300000. The top three prizes were ₹30000, ₹20000 and ₹15000 along with a trophy each. The six-day eight round Rating Open tournament was organized by Mumbai Chess Centre at Russian Centre For Science and Culture in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 10th to 15th May 2025. This is Udupi's first rating tournament triumph of her career. It is not everyday that a girl wins a rating open tournament, but that is changing rapidly. Photo: Mumbai Chess Centre

Avani's first rating tournament victory of her career

There was a time when a girl winning an open tournament was quite a rare feat. It is still much less, but the rarity has decreased. Over the years they are becoming more frequent. Some of them published on our website are: Sonakshi Rathore in 2019, Rutuja Bakshi in 2019, Swara Lakshmi won in 2022, Alexandra Botez in 2024, Sneha Halder last month and a few days later, Avani won too.

Champion - Avani Acharya Udupi 7/8 | Photo: Mumbai Chess Centre

Yash Kapadi and Darsh Shetty were coleaders 6.5/7, going into the last round. Five players were trailing them by a half point. Darsh lost to Avani and she became champion. Mayuresh Parkar defeated Yash to secure second place. Reyaansh Venkatesh drew with Om Gada and the former finished third.

Runner-up - Mayuresh Parkar 7/8 | Photo: Mumbai Chess Centre

Second Runner-up - Reyaansh Venkat 6.5/8 | Photo: Mumbai Chess Centre

Avani Acharya Udupi scored an unbeaten 7/8, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 37.8 Elo rating points

A total of 218 players took part from all over the country. The six-day eight round Rating Open tournament was organized by Mumbai Chess Centre at Russian Centre For Science and Culture in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 10th to 15th May 2025. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5	TB6
1	24		Udupi, Avani Acharya		w	IND	1669	7	36,5	39,5	34,50	6	4
2	10		Parkar, Mayuresh			IND	1757	7	32	35	30,00	7	3
3	17		Reyaansh, Venkat			IND	1697	6,5	40,5	45	35,75	6	4
4	2		Kapadi, Yash			IND	1879	6,5	40,5	44,5	34,25	6	4
5	4		Darsh, Shetty			IND	1833	6,5	40	45	34,75	6	4
6	9		Vageesh, Swaminathan			IND	1763	6,5	39	43,5	34,25	6	4
7	5		Gada, Om			IND	1814	6,5	39	43	34,25	5	4
8	22		Parv, H Hakani	U10		IND	1671	6,5	36,5	38	28,50	6	4
9	3		Kush, Ajay Agarwal			IND	1850	6,5	35,5	39	31,00	6	4
10	42		Yati, Agarwal		w	IND	1588	6	40	43	30,50	4	4
11	19		Agraval, Shravana			IND	1688	6	39	43	30,50	5	4
12	12		Shreyas, G Kaushik			IND	1736	6	39	42	29,00	6	4
13	1		Jagesia, Daksh			IND	1882	6	37,5	40,5	29,00	5	4
14	11		Soni, Deepak R			IND	1753	6	37	41	29,25	5	4
15	15		Nirvaan Nirav Shah,			IND	1711	6	36	39	27,00	6	4
16	89		Aditya, Kumar (Anay)			IND	1471	6	35,5	39	27,00	6	4
17	56		Kagwade, Kaveesh			IND	1533	6	34,5	37	26,00	5	4
18	53		Kadam, Atharv Ganesh			IND	1540	6	34,5	37	25,00	6	4
19	6		Soneji, Janhavi		w	IND	1796	6	33	36	25,50	6	4
20	31	AIM	Butala, Krish			IND	1642	6	32	34	23,75	5	5