Shashveen A K triumphs at 14th Modern School Rating Tournament 2024

by S Ramanathan - 06/09/2024

Four players - Shashveen A K, Prasanna Karthick M, Hari Ganesh T and Lishanth B scored an unbeaten 6.5/7 each at 14th Modern School Rating Tournament 2024. Shashveen won the tournament on tie-breaks. The remaining three were placed second to fourth respectively. They did not face each other. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹150000. The top three prizes were ₹25000 + trophy, ₹20000 and ₹15000 each. The four-day seven round rating tournament was organized by and at Modern Senior Secondary School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu from 15th to 18th August 2024. This is Shashveen's first rating, second overall tournament triumph of the year. Check out the report written by a passionate chess enthusiast - S Ramanathan. Photos: S Ramanathan

Top four score 6.5/7

Currently, the only FIDE rated international tournament in India wherein all the participants are school children was organized by Modern Senior Secondary School held at their school at Nanganallur, Chennai. This tournament is organized every year since 2008, there was a break in between due to Covid pandemic. The tournament was held for four days from 15th to 18th August 2024 with seven rounds. This is the 14th edition of the tournament and main objective of the tournament is to encourage the school children to have a crack at FIDE rating. Total cash prize of the event was 1.5 Lacs, top 25 players received cash awards and there were cash prizes for top three category prizes in U-8, U-10, U-12 and U-14 boys and girls.

Champion - Shashveen A K 6.5/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

In total 558 school children registered in this tournament, arrangements were made for parents seating at the ground floor and first floor while the tournament was conducted in the second floor. At the end of the sixth round there was no clear leader as eight players were tied at 5.5 points with 28 players in pursuit of them at 5 points.

Runner-up - Prasanna Karthick M 6.5/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

At the end of the seventh round Shashveen A K of Sri Chaitanya Techno school, Prasanna Karthick M of Sri Venkateswara Matric Higher Secondary School, Hari Ganesh T – the tournament top seed of Velammal Vidhyashram Guduvancherry and Lishanth B – Under-10 player from Velammal Vidhyala Mangadu were all tied at 6.5 points. Shashveen A K having a better tie-break among the four players won the tournament - he was the ninth seed of the tournament and won the strongly contested tournament.

Second Runner-up - Hari Ganesh T 6.5/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

Shashveen A K scored an unbeaten 6.5/7, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 65.6 Elo rating points

Players and parents eagerly seeing the final results after the conclusion of the last round | Photo: S Ramanathan

Arrangements for the prize distribution on the final day | Photo: S Ramanathan

Welcome speech and address of the gathering by Principal – Ms. Sripriya Rajarajan | Photo: S Ramanathan

IM Ponnuswamy Konguvel was the Chief Guest of the tournament and he along with the school office bearers distributed the prizes to the participants.

Felicitation of Chief Guest - IM Ponnuswamy Konguvel | Photo: S Ramanathan

IM Konguvel delivered his speech | Photo: S Ramanathan

IM Konguvel in his speech stressed the importance of analysis room where all players and spectators participated in the earlier generations without the use of engines, he spoke about how useful those sessions were for him during his playing days.

4th Lishanth B 6.5/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

Lishanth B of Velammal Vidyalaya, Mangadu had an exceptional tournament finishing fourth, it has to be noted that the boy is just nine-years-old, and he is already challenging the top spot. He gained a whopping 106 elo points in this tournament.

5th Prajit Ravishankar 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

6th Aravindalochanan Atm 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

7th Ashva Shanmugam 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

8th Pranav Ramkumar 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

9th Sharan Sriram S 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

10th Aravindh S 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

11th Darshan S 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

12th Pranav Mukunth P 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

13th Aadwik Abhinav Krishna 6/7 | Photo: S Ramanathan

Aadwik, Abhinav Krishna is an Under-8 player and he gained 46.8 elo rating points.

A total of 543 players took part from various parts of the country, one from Australia and Malaysia each in this four-day seven round School Rating tournament. It was organized by and at Modern Senior Secondary School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu from 15th to 18th August 2024. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	9		Shashveen, A K	U12	IND	1794	Sri Chaitanya Techno School	6,5	32	35	32,25
2	5		Prasanna, Karthick M		IND	1870	Sri Venkateswara matric hr Sec scho	6,5	31	33,5	30,75
3	1		Hari, Ganesh T		IND	1947	VELAMMAL VIDHYASHRAM, Guduvanchery	6,5	30	33	30,50
4	62		Lishanth, B	U10	IND	1576	VELAMMAL VIDYALAYA , MANGADU	6,5	28	29,5	26,75
5	10		Prajit, Ravishankar		IND	1782	AMM MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY	6	30	33,5	27,75
6	33	ACM	Atm, Aravindalochanan	U14	IND	1637	MNC VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA	6	29	30	24,25
7	26		Ashva, Shanmugam	U12	IND	1661	DAV BOYS SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL MO	6	28,5	31,5	26,75
8	25		Pranav, Ramkumar		IND	1664	SAN Academy, Pallikaranai	6	28,5	31,5	26,00
9	18		Sharan, Sriram S		IND	1681	Kalaimagal vidyalaya matriculation	6	28,5	31	25,75
10	21		Aravindh, S		IND	1676	SAN Academy, Pallikaranai	6	28,5	30,5	25,50
11	6		Darshan, S	U14	IND	1855	BHARATHIDHASANAR MATRIC.HR.SEC.SCHO	6	26,5	29	25,50
12	50		Pranav, Mukunth P	U14	IND	1599	BALA VIDYA MANDIR ADAYAR	6	25	28	24,50
13	77	AFM	Aadwik, Abhinav Krishna	U08	IND	1553	Silicon City Academy of Secondary E	6	24,5	26	20,50
14	3	AIM	Muthukumar, Mukesh	U14	IND	1892	Good Shepherd English School	5,5	33,5	36,5	26,75
15	4		Goutham, Ramesh	U12	IND	1879	Chettinad vidyashram, RA Puram	5,5	32,5	36	26,50
16	23		Kesavamoorthy, G	U14	IND	1668	VIVEKANANDA VIDYALAYA MAT HR.SEC.SC	5,5	31,5	34,5	24,75
17	8		Lukesh, A		IND	1799	ST JOHNS, BESANT NAGAR	5,5	31	35	26,25
18	16		Adharva, P T	U14	IND	1696	Thangam world school	5,5	30,5	34	26,00
19	32		Inban, R	U14	IND	1647	Velammal Vidyalaya Ayanambakkam	5,5	30,5	34	24,75
20	37	AFM	Ar, Saisharvesh	U10	IND	1628	BVM Global, Bollineni Hillside	5,5	30	32,5	24,50
21	80		Shlok, Vinay Kulkarni	U12	IND	1550	Mahindra World School, Mahindra Wor	5,5	29,5	31	21,75
22	61	AFM	Pradiksha, P S	F14	IND	1578	VELAMMAL VIDYALAYA	5,5	29	33	24,50
23	2		Kanishka, S		IND	1911	JAYARANI MATRICULATION HIGHER SECON	5,5	29	31,5	23,00
24	43		Ivan, George E	U14	IND	1613	ST. JOHNS PUBLIC SCHOOL, MEDAVAKKAM	5,5	29	31	22,75
25	46		Krithik, Muthukumar	U10	IND	1607	Velammal vidyalaya, Mangadu	5,5	28,5	30	20,75

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S Ramanathan works at a private company in Chennai, really passionate about chess and to write/read/speak about the latest happenings in the chess universe. He taught his 10-year-old son chess at the age of five who is now a rated player and chess has now become an integral part of their life.