Utsab and Sudipa are the 47th West Bengal State Junior Champions

by Shahid Ahmed - 27/08/2019

Utsab Chatterjee scored an unbeaten 7.0/8 to win 47th State Junior open convincingly. Top seed and defending champion FM Rajdeep Sarkar also scored 7.0/8, but due to a lower tie-break score, he was placed second. Second seed Srijit Paul scored 6.5/8 and secured third position. Among the girls, Sudipa Haldar also scored an unbeaten 7.0/8 to become the champion. Both Sinthia Sarkar and Vedika Agarwal scored 6.5/8, however due to a better tie-break score, Sinthia finished second and Vedika at third position. Total 215 players from various district across the state of West Bengal including 169 in open and 46 girls participated in this four-day rating tournament. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Parallel performance of unbeaten champions

Utsab Chatterjee's first State title was back in 2014 when he won State under-11 open. After that his major triumph was in 44th National Sub-Junior where he secured first runner-up position.

Utsab en route his unbeaten championship run | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Utsab scored 7.0/8 and increased his Elo rating by 30 points

Here is an interview conducted with Utsab after his triumph

Utsab shows his best game from the tournament, talks about how Abu Dhabi exposure trip helped him overall and more | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Utsab sent us an annotated game of his against Anish Rooj from round 5.

Sudipa had won State under-11 and State Sub-Junior girls before. Earlier this year she secured the first runner-up position in State Women's.

Sudipa Haldar scored an unbeaten 7.0/8 to become champion | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Sudipa scored an unbeaten 7.0/8 by beating top seed National school under-17 girl's champion Diya Chowdhury in the final round

I caught up with Sudipa after she won almost a 4.5 hour long battle in her final round, must win game.

Sudipa talks about how she won a must-win game | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Here is her best game from the tournament annotated by Sudipa herself

2nd in open FM Rajdeep Sarkar 7.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd in girls Sinthia Sarkar 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

3rd Srijit Paul 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

3rd Vedika Agarwal 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th Subhayan Kundu 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th Koustav Chakraborty 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Aditya Bikram Paul 6.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th Anish Rooj 6.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th Subhadip Seth 6.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th Pratyay Chowdhury 6.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th Shuvam Roy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th Tanisha Chatterjee 6.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th Reigning State Women's champion Ananya Bothra 5.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Arhana Kundu 5.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th Diya Chowdhury 5.5/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th Kasturi Saha 5.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th Adrija Sil 5.0/8 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

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Sudipa wins her must win final round game | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Total 215 players from various district across the state of West Bengal including 169 in open and 46 girls participated in this four-day tournament from 15th to 19th August (16th August was a rest day), organized by 64 squares at ICCR Kolkata.

Final Standings in open

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	4		Utsab Chatterjee		2163	7,0	0,0	42,0	39,0
2	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar		2367	7,0	0,0	39,5	36,5
3	2		Srijit Paul		2304	6,5	0,0	45,5	42,5
4	3		Subhayan Kundu		2280	6,5	0,0	42,5	39,5
5	5		Koustav Chakraborty		1943	6,5	0,0	42,0	38,0
6	8		Aditya Bikram Paul	U13	1811	6,5	0,0	41,5	38,5
7	21		Anish Rooj		1546	6,0	0,0	42,0	38,0
8	17		Subhadip Seth		1603	6,0	0,0	40,5	36,5
9	12		Pratyay Chowdhury		1651	6,0	0,0	40,5	36,5
10	9		Shuvam Roy		1705	6,0	0,0	40,0	36,5
11	27		Sayandeep Roy		1449	6,0	0,0	38,5	37,0
12	26		Soumalya Mondol	U13	1468	6,0	0,0	38,0	35,0
13	14		Anubhab Gupta		1616	6,0	0,0	37,5	34,0
14	15		Raghuraj Pratap Singh		1613	6,0	0,0	36,5	36,5
15	11		Soumyajit Das (Jr)		1664	6,0	0,0	36,5	34,5
16	32		Uddipan Roy	U11	1416	6,0	0,0	35,0	32,0
17	20		Tushar Barua		1552	5,5	0,0	42,0	39,0
18	10		Rounak Pathak		1700	5,5	0,0	41,0	38,5
19	18		Debargha Basu		1586	5,5	0,0	41,0	37,5
20	19		Eshan Bhattacharjee	U11	1553	5,5	0,0	40,5	37,0

Complete standings

Final Standings in girls

Rk.	SNo	Name	Typ	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2	Sudipa Haldar		1624	7,0	0,0	42,0	39,0
2	6	Sinthia Sarkar	U13	1384	6,5	0,5	42,0	38,5
3	7	Vedika Agarwal	U13	1339	6,5	0,5	40,0	37,0
4	8	Tanisha Chatterjee	U13	1333	6,0	0,0	35,0	31,5
5	3	Ananya Bothra		1591	5,5	0,0	42,0	38,0
6	9	Arhana Kundu		1239	5,5	0,0	41,5	39,0
7	1	Diya Chowdhury		1756	5,5	0,0	40,0	36,0
8	5	Prateeti Gorai		1405	5,0	0,0	39,0	36,5
9	35	Kasturi Saha	U11	0	5,0	0,0	35,0	31,5
10	22	Adrija Sil	U09	0	5,0	0,0	34,0	32,0
11	4	Sneha Paul		1439	4,5	0,0	39,5	35,5
12	16	Samriddhi Roy		1036	4,5	0,0	36,0	33,0
13	11	Juhi Parekh		1156	4,5	0,0	36,0	32,5
14	25	Arhashirsha Biswas	U09	0	4,5	0,0	35,5	33,5
15	49	Udita Nath	U13	0	4,5	0,0	35,0	31,5
16	13	Raina Das Gupta	U13	1083	4,5	0,0	35,0	31,0
17	47	Sumedha Das	U13	0	4,5	0,0	33,0	32,5
18	12	Jagriti Agarwal	U11	1130	4,5	0,0	32,0	30,0
19	14	Oiendrila Bhattacharya	U11	1050	4,5	0,0	32,0	29,5
20	15	Disha Mundhra		1047	4,5	0,0	32,0	29,5