Kartik, Ayush and Kartavya are the winners of 16th G H Raisoni Memorial Chess Festival 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 02/08/2023

15-year-old Kartik Kumar Singh scored an unbeaten 10/11 to win 16th G H Raisoni Memorial Rating Open 2023. He finished a full point ahead of the field. Indrajeet Mahindrakar scored sole 9/11 to secure second position. Daksh Goyal edged past five more players on tie-breaks to finish third with a 8.5/11 score. FM Ayush Sharma scored a perfect 9/9 to win the Rapid Rating event. He also finished a full point ahead of the field. CM Vaibhav Jayant Raut and IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni scored 8/9 each to finish at second and third place. Kartavya Anadkat won the Blitz Rating event scoring 8/9. Daksh and Ayush were adjudged second and third respectively according to tie-breaks. The total prize fund combining all three tournaments was ₹451000, an increase of ₹51000 from the previous edition. Top three prizes in the Classical were ₹51000 and a trophy, ₹31000 and ₹26000. Photo: IA Ajinkya Pingale/Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation

Kartik wins Classical, Ayush Rapid and Kartavya Blitz Rating Open

Both Classical and Rapid Rating event winners finished a full point ahead of the field. Top three prizes in the Rapid event were ₹31000 and a trophy, ₹20000 and ₹10000, all three were doubled since last year. The top three finishers in the Blitz won a trophy each, the champion won a DGT Clock.

Champion in Classical - Kartik Kumar Singh 10/11

Champion in Rapid - FM Ayush Sharma 9/9

Runner-up - CM Vaibhav Jayant Raut 8/9

Second Runner-up - IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni 8/9

Top 3 (L to R) in Rapid Rating - 2nd CM Vaibhav Jayant Raut 8/9, 3rd IM Vikrmaditya Kulkarni 8/9 and 1st FM Ayush Sharma 9/9

Champion in Blitz - Kartavya Anadkat 8/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Kartik Kumar Singh scored an unbeaten 10/11, finished a full point ahead of the field and gained 113.4 Elo rating points

FM Ayush Sharma scored a perfect 9/9 and gained 66 Elo rating points

Kartavya Anadkat scored an unbeaten 8/9 and gained 29.2 Elo rating points

Anurag Jain, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 1, makes a move to mark the opening of the tournament

Girish Vyas, Ex-MLC and Vice-President of Maharashtra Chess Association; Amit Gandhare, Director (PR), Raisoni Group: Bhushan Shriwas, Secretary, Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation and Chess Association Nagpur, IA Ajinkya Pingale, Chief Arbiter were present on the dias. SS Soman the working president of Chess Association Nagpur, and Member of Maharashtra Chess Association Observer committee conducted the inauguration programme and proposed a vote of thanks.

The fourth round of the event was inaugurated by Nirbhay Sancheti, Director, SMS Group of Industries by making a ceremonial first move

The oldest player of the event, 89-year-old T V Subramanian pondering over his next move during Round 6

Archit Chandak, IPS, DCP, Nagpur inaugurated the Rapid and Blitz rating events of 16th G H Raisoni Chess Festival

The Rapid and Blitz events' prizes were distributed by Hariom Gupta, Assistant Director (OL), Central GST, Nagpur and Adv. Chetan Rajkarne, Vice President, Chess Association, Nagpur.

The Rapid and Blitz Rating event prize winners

Arbiters and Volunteers of the Classical event

Arbiters, Officials and Volunteers of the Rapid and Blitz rating events

Thanks to IA Ajinkya Pingale, Chief Arbiter, for sharing photos and info about the tournament.

A total of 256 in the Classical, 386 including an IM and a WIM in the Rapid and 316 including a WIM in the Blitz took part in this nine-day three Rating tournaments in three formats of the sport. The events were organized by G H Raisoni Sports and Cultural Foundation and Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation at G H Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Technology in Nagpur, Maharashtra from 25th June to 2nd July 2023, exact same dates as last year. The time control for the Classical, Rapid and Blitz Rating Open were 90 minutes + 30 seconds, 15 minutes + 5 seconds and 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment each respectively.

Final standings in Classical

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	7		Kartik, Kumar Singh				IND	1813	Maharashtra	10	77	82	73,75	0	9
2	5		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet				IND	1949	Maharashtra	9	79	84	66,50	0	7
3	19		Daksh, Goyal	U15			IND	1675	Delhi	8,5	78	83	54,25	0	8
4	4		Kumar, Gaurav				IND	1991	Bihar	8,5	77,5	83	61,50	0	6
5	6	CM	Gopal, K.N.				IND	1920	Union Bank Of India	8,5	75,5	80,5	59,75	0	7
6	10		Saumil, Nair				IND	1778	Gujarat	8,5	75,5	80	59,75	0	8
7	26		Kherdekar, Arnav				IND	1624	Maharashtra	8,5	68	73	52,25	0	8
8	21		Rohith, Yadav B R				IND	1660	Telangana	8,5	67,5	73	55,75	0	8
9	16		Swarna, Nihal	U15			IND	1717	Andhra Pradesh	8	78,5	83,5	55,25	0	7
10	11		Madhvendra, Pratap Sharma	U11			IND	1766	Mp	8	74,5	78,5	54,25	0	6
11	3	FM	Ramakrishna, J.				IND	2019	Union Bank Of India	8	73,5	79	53,25	0	7
12	18		Boricha, Yohan				IND	1678	Maharashtra	8	73	78,5	55,00	0	7
13	34		Patil, Akshaj	U15			IND	1503	Maharashtra	8	69,5	73	49,25	0	6
14	20		Bartakke, Aditya				IND	1660	Maharashtra	8	69	74	49,75	0	7
15	49		Mradul, Yadav	U15		Nagp	IND	1404	Maharashtra	8	65,5	70	49,50	0	8

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Final standings in Rapid

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	6	FM	Ayush, Sharma				IND	2085	Madhya Pradesh	9	53	57	57,00	0	9
2	3	CM	Vaibhav, Jayant Raut			Nagp	IND	2119	Maharashtra	8	51,5	56,5	48,00	0	8
3	2	IM	Kulkarni, Vikramaditya				IND	2216	Maharashtra	8	51	55,5	48,00	0	8
4	4	FM	Thakur, Akash			Nagp	IND	2109	Maharashtra	7,5	54,5	59	47,25	0	7
5	7	WIM	Pandey, Srishti		w		IND	2075	Maharashtra	7,5	54	59	46,75	0	7
6	8	FM	Ramakrishna, J.				IND	2036	Union Bank Of India	7,5	52,5	57	46,00	0	7
7	16		Daksh, Goyal	U15			IND	1781	Delhi	7,5	51,5	56	44,75	0	7
8	11		Aishwin, Daniel				IND	1905	Madhya Pradesh	7,5	49,5	54	44,00	0	7
9	10		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet				IND	1971	Maharashtra	7	54	58	41,00	0	7
10	17		Saumil, Nair				IND	1736	Gujarat	7	52	55,5	40,00	0	7
11	19		Patil, Priyanshu				IND	1714	Maharashtra	7	52	55	38,50	0	7
12	1	FM	Soman, Satchidanand			Nagp	IND	2231	Maharashtra	7	50,5	54,5	40,25	0	6
13	18		Swarna, Nihal	U15			IND	1720	Tirupati	7	50	54,5	41,75	0	6
14	23		Gawai, Siddhant			Nagp	IND	1685	Maharashtra	7	49,5	53,5	38,00	0	7
15	29		Vedant, Bhardwaj				IND	1595	Mp	7	48,5	52,5	38,50	0	7
16	34		Badole, Shaunak	U11			IND	1545	Maharashtra	7	48	51	37,50	0	7
17	9		Kumar, Gaurav				IND	1981	Bihar	7	47,5	51,5	39,25	0	6
18	41		Vatsal, Makol				IND	1468	Delhi	7	47,5	51	38,00	0	7
19	15	AGM	Sa, Kannan				IND	1782	Tn	7	46	50	33,50	0	7
20	21		Rupam, Mukherjee				IND	1694	West Bengal	7	45,5	49,5	33,75	0	6
21	36		Shirodkar, Aayush				IND	1522	Goa	7	45	49	37,50	0	5
22	47		Prerak, Jayant Darvekar			Nagp	IND	1438	Maharashtra	7	45	48	34,50	0	7
23	45	AFM	Patil, Sudip				IND	1445	Maharashtra	7	42	44	32,50	0	7
24	22		Kherdekar, Arnav				IND	1693	Maharashtra	6,5	52	56	34,75	0	6
25	24		Dishank, Sachin Bajaj			Nagp	IND	1656	Maharashtra	6,5	51,5	56,5	36,75	0	6
26	46		Dalal, Aashi		w	Nagp	IND	1438	Maharashtra	6,5	50	54,5	36,00	0	6
27	5	CM	Gopal, K.N.				IND	2086	Union Bank Of India	6,5	49	53,5	37,50	0	6
28	35		Bartakke, Aditya				IND	1541	Maharashtra	6,5	48	52	33,75	0	6
29	86		Anshul, Nanwani				IND	1266	Maharashtra	6,5	47,5	50	32,25	0	5
30	13		Anadkat, Kartavya				IND	1827	Gujarat	6,5	47	52	36,25	0	6

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Final standings in Blitz

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	9		Anadkat, Kartavya				IND	2033	Gujarat	8	54	59	51,75
2	13		Daksh, Goyal	U15			IND	1977	Delhi	8	52	56,5	49,25
3	1	FM	Ayush, Sharma				IND	2281	Madhya Pradesh	8	51,5	55,5	47,50
4	27		Bartakke, Aditya				IND	1594	Maharashtra	8	43	46,5	42,00
5	12		Aishwin, Daniel				IND	1979	Madhya Pradesh	7,5	50,5	55	43,75
6	11		Kumar, Gaurav				IND	2019	Bihar	7,5	49,5	54	44,50
7	10		Chitre, Arush	U15			IND	2029		7,5	47,5	51,5	37,50
8	23		Dishank, Sachin Bajaj			NAGP	IND	1651	Maharashtra	7,5	46,5	50,5	37,25
9	8		Mahindrakar, Indrajeet				IND	2045		7	53	58	42,00
10	20		Patil, Priyanshu			Nagpur	IND	1731	Maharashtra	7	51	55	39,50
11	41		Boricha, Yohan				IND	1493	Maharashtra	7	50	53,5	40,50
12	17		Gawai, Siddhant			Nagp	IND	1833	Maharashtra	7	49,5	53,5	36,50
13	7	FM	Ramakrishna, J.				IND	2078	Telangana	7	49	53	39,25
14	76		Divith, Reddy Adulla	U11			IND	1275	Telangana	7	48,5	52	39,25
15	39		Joglekar, Abhijit				IND	1500	Maharashtra	7	48	50,5	35,50
16	14	AGM	Sa, Kannan				IND	1956	Tn	7	47	51	38,25
17	33		Badole, Shaunak	U11		Nagp	IND	1545	Maharashtra	7	45	49	37,50
18	24		Vedant, Bhardwaj				IND	1649	Mp	7	42	46	35,50
19	80		Ramteke, Ayush	U15		Nagp	IND	1271	Maharashtra	7	41,5	45,5	32,00
20	4	CM	Vaibhav, Jayant Raut			Nagp	IND	2156	Maharashtra	6,5	51,5	55,5	36,25
21	55		Mahir, Taneja	U11			IND	1384	Delhi	6,5	51	55	38,25
22	3	CM	Arjun, K				IND	2187	Kerala	6,5	50,5	54,5	37,00
23	43		Prerak, Jayant Darvekar			Nagp	IND	1486	Maharashtra	6,5	47,5	50	31,75
24	18		Shegaonkar, Akshay				IND	1830	Maharashtra	6,5	46,5	51	37,00
25	5	WIM	Pandey, Srishti		w		IND	2123		6,5	46,5	51	34,25
26	37		Patil, Akshaj	U15			IND	1510	Maharashtra	6,5	46,5	50,5	34,75
27	21		Rupam, Mukherjee				IND	1699	West Bengal	6,5	46,5	49,5	33,75
28	31		Phani, Kanuri				IND	1555	Andhra Pradesh	6,5	46	50	34,25
29	51		Gada, Om				IND	1434	Maharashtra	6,5	46	48	33,00
30	16		Adhithya, S				IND	1853	Tamil Nadu	6,5	45,5	49,5	33,25