Kaustav and Arpita win West Bengal Juniors
The 44th West Bengal State Junior tournament was held from the 19th to the 22nd of May 2016. Quite a few strong juniors like Neelash Saha, Mitrabha Guha in the open section and Chandrayee Hajra, Arpita Mukherjee in the girls section took part. In the end Kaustav Kundu and Arpita Mukherjee emerged victorious. We have a short and crisp report sent to us from the city of joy.
The east-Indian state of West Bengal has been producing strong chess players over the years. Like every year the annual national selection tournament was held at Indus Valley World School, Kolkata from 19th to the 22nd of May 2016. There were two sections in this tournament: the open and the girls. There were 183 participants in the open category and 80 in the girls section. The year of 2016 is a golden year for West Bengal because there were the most number of participants in the girls category.
Open Category
Kaustuv Kundu (rated 2121) was crowned the champion of the open section with 7.0/8 points. Kaustuv defeated the tournament leader Subhayan Kundu in the last round with the black pieces. Earlier Subhayan had already surprised the second seed and the defending champion FM Mitrabha Guha, in the seventh round. Top seed Neelash Saha had a disappointing finish to the tournament scoring 5.5/8.
The following game was the title-decider encounter:
Final Ranking after 8 Rounds
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | 4 | Kaustuv Kundu | IND | 2121 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 38,5 | |
2 | 7 | Subhayan Kundu | IND | 2033 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 39,5 | |
3 | 8 | Suvradeepta Das | IND | 2032 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 37,5 | |
4 | 12 | Ritam Nag | IND | 1993 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 37,0 | |
5 | 11 | Anustoop Biswas | IND | 2003 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 36,0 | |
6 | 25 | Sayantan Mukherjee | IND | 1809 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 35,5 | |
7 | 5 | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2071 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 35,5 | |
8 | 15 | Soham Das | IND | 1906 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 35,0 | |
9 | 3 | CM | Aronyak Ghosh | IND | 2158 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 40,0 |
10 | 19 | Sayan Banik | IND | 1861 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 37,0 |
Girls Category
WFM Arpita Mukherjee(rated 1957) was crowned the champion of the girls section with 7.0/8 points. Arpita defeated Sudipa Haldar(rated 1535) in the final round to win the crown. Sudipa had a good tournament finishing as the runner up and gaining 68 Elo points. Top seed WCM Chandreyee Hajra (rated 1996) finished ninth scoring 5.5/8, which was the biggest disappointment in the girls section.
Final Ranking after 8 Rounds
Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | 2 | WFM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 1957 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 38,0 |
2 | 8 | Sudipa Haldar | IND | 1535 | 6,5 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 39,0 | |
3 | 15 | Tishrota Chakraborty | IND | 1348 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 34,5 | |
4 | 13 | Ayantika Das | IND | 1401 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 6,0 | 33,5 | |
5 | 3 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | IND | 1828 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 39,0 | |
6 | 5 | Bristy Mukherjee | IND | 1603 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 38,0 | |
7 | 12 | Asmita Das | IND | 1418 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 36,0 | |
8 | 14 | Diya Chowdhury | IND | 1396 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 5,0 | 35,0 | |
9 | 1 | WCM | Chandreyee Hajra | IND | 1996 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 4,0 | 38,5 |
10 | 7 | Shinjini Sengupta | IND | 1595 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 4,0 | 34,5 |
About the Author
Born in the city of Kolkata in 2001, Hiran Banerjee was introduced to the game of chess by his grandfather at the age of 8. His interest in chess kept increasing with age and currently he has an Elo of 1450. He aims to become a grandmaster. Besides playing, Hiran is fond of writing articles which keeps his updated with the chess world. He maintains his own blog.