Vedant Panesar wins 1st Aquinas International School Rapid Rating Open 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 24/02/2025

FM Vedant Panesar and Atharva Madkar scored a 8/9 each at 1st Aquinas International School Rapid Rating Open 2025. Vedant won the tournament due to better tie-breaks, Atharva was placed second. Vedant also remained undefeated. Six players scored 7.5/9 each. Out of them, FM Suyog Wagh was placed third. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹251000. The top three prizes were ₹21000, ₹15000 and ₹12000 each respectively. The one-day nine round Rapid Rating Open tournament was organized by Universal Chess Foundation and Ashtavinayak Group at Aquinas International School in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 16th February 2025. This is Vedant's second rating tournament triumph of the year. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Vedant's second victory of the year

Five players - FM Vedant Panesar, FM Suyog Wagh, Jeet Shah, Pushkar Dere and Atharva Madkar were in the lead 7/8 each. Vedant defeated Arnav Mahesh Koli to become the champion. Pushkar lost to Atharva and the latter secured second place. Jeet drew with Suyog and Suyog finished third.

Champion - FM Vedant Panesar 8/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

FM Vedant Panesar scored an unbeaten 8/9, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 12.2 Elo rating points

A total of 322 players including an IM took part from various places all over the country and one from France. The one-day nine round Rapid Rating Open tournament was organized by Universal Chess Foundation and Ashtavinayak Group at Aquinas International School in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 16th February 2025. The time control of the event was 10 minutes + 5 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	2	FM	Panesar, Vedant			IND	2225	Po8156_mums_2024	8	54	58,5	51,25	7
2	19		Madkar, Atharva			IND	1872	Po7347_pune_2024	8	49,5	53	45,00	8
3	1	FM	Wagh, Suyog			IND	2316	Po2362_ahme_2023	7,5	54	59	47,25	7
4	9		Shah, Jeet			IND	1969	Po80_mums_2023	7,5	54	58	46,75	6
5	13		Soni, Atharv	U14		IND	1928	Po27_than_2023	7,5	51,5	56	44,25	7
6	4	FM	Bagwe, Gaurang			IND	2114	Po6695_mums_2024	7,5	48,5	53,5	43,50	7
7	5	IM	Ramnathan, Balasubramaniam			IND	2040	Tamilnadu	7,5	48,5	52,5	42,50	7
8	28		Arjun, Singh	U10		IND	1797	Po6772_mums-2024	7,5	47	51	41,25	7
9	8		Dere, Pushkar			IND	1972	Po6980_mums_2024	7	51,5	56,5	41,50	7
10	14		Majumder, Shrayan			IND	1921	Po1435_mums_2023	7	51	54	38,50	7
11	18	AIM	Vivaan, Sardana	U15		IND	1878	Po7236_mums_2024	7	50,5	54,5	39,75	6
12	7	FM	Mithil, Ajgaonkar			IND	2001	Po1196_mumc_2023	7	50,5	54	40,75	5
13	12	FM	Nagarkatte, Vedant			IND	1953	Po3552_mums_2023	7	50	54	40,00	6
14	23		Mishra, Sanjeev			IND	1828	Po445_mums_2023	7	48,5	53,5	39,50	6
15	17	CM	Bartakke, Amardeep S.			IND	1891	Po1218_than_2023	7	48,5	51,5	37,75	6
16	56		Parv, H Hakani	U10		IND	1653	Po793_mums_2023	7	43,5	47	34,50	7
17	27	AFM	Mysha, Perwez	F13	w	IND	1801	Po53_mums_2023	7	43	47	35,50	7
18	16		Kherdekar, Arnav			IND	1893	Po57_mums_2024	6,5	51,5	56,5	38,25	6
19	15		Boricha, Yohan			IND	1903	Po453_mums_2023	6,5	50,5	56	39,75	6
20	10		Chavan, Nameet			IND	1968	Po2160_pune_2023	6,5	50	53,5	35,75	6
21	31	AIM	Rudra, Kandpal	U14		IND	1760	Po1331_mumc_2023	6,5	49	53,5	36,25	6
22	48		Reyaansh, Venkat	U11		IND	1685	Po7570_mumc_2024	6,5	49	53	36,75	4
23	11		Arnav, Mahesh Koli	U15		IND	1962	Po2886_than_2023	6,5	49	53	35,00	6
24	22		Aayush, Kabra			IND	1856	Po2811_than_2023	6,5	49	52	34,50	6
25	148	ACM	Rayan, Merchant	U13		IND	1497	Po3240_mums_2023	6,5	47	50	34,25	5
26	45	AIM	Patel, Neehal Trishulkumar			IND	1705	Gujarat	6,5	46,5	50	32,50	6
27	21		Bartakke, Aditya			IND	1857	Po602_than_2023	6,5	46	50	33,25	6
28	35	AGM	Anubhav, Tuknayat			IND	1734	Chandigarh	6,5	46	49,5	31,25	6
29	34		Kadam, Nikhil			IND	1740	Po7080_mums_2024	6,5	46	49	33,75	5
30	40		Om, Nilesh Deorukhakar			IND	1716	Po2223_palg_2023	6,5	45	50	34,75	6