Madras wins All India Inter University title

Indian Tournaments 2002

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All India Inter University Chess Championship, Madurai

Madras makes it a grand double

Madras won the Men's and Women's titles in the All India Inter University chess championship organised by the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai from November 14-19,2002. It was a runaway victory for the IM Sundararajan Kidambi led Men's team, as Madras finished ahead of Visweswaraya, Belgaum and Gujarat University.

Showing greater strength in the Women's event, Madras University comprising of Internationals Y Prathiba, C V Rajalakshmi and J E Kavitha retained the title with a whopping 27.0 points. Following them in the second and third place were Mumbai and Visweswaraya with 19.5 and 18.5 points respectively. P.K.Ponnuswamy, Vice Chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University distributed the prizes.

Final Placings (Men)

1	Madras	30
2	Visweswariah, Belgaum	25
3	Gujarat University	24.5
4	Osmania	24
5	GND University	24
6	Patna	23
7	Pune	22.5
8	Mumbai	22.5
9	Pt Ravi Shanker	22.5
10	Bangalore	22
11	Nagpur	22
12	Amravathi	22
13	Jammu	22
14	Nagarjuna	21.5
15	Calicut	21.5
16	Jadavpur	21.5
17	Andhra	21.5
18	MKU Madurai	21
19	Shivaji	21
20	Manipur	21

Board Prize Winners

Board 1	1	P.Dhavani	Amaravathi University	9/9
	2	Valay Parikh	Gujarat University	8/9
Board 2	1	Lakshmi Narasimhan	IIIT, Hyderabad	8.5/9
	2	Sawyam Baran De	Visweswaraya	8/9
Board 3	1	Vikram Chole	Nagpur University	9/9
	2	Ram Mohan Reddy	SKD University, Anantapur	9/9
Board 4	1	Ram S Krishnan	University of Madras	9/9
	2	Vivek Bharti	Jammu University	9/9
Reserve 1	1	Manindar Pal Singh	Osmania University	4/5
	2	Ajay K. Roya	Pt.R.S University Raipur	5.5/7
Reserve 2	1	Abha Thakur	Nagpur University	2.5/6
	2	Manjunath	Mysore University	1.5/6

Final Placings (Women)

1	Madras	27
2	Mumbai	19.5
3	VTU-Belgaum	18.5
4	Nagarjuna	18.5
5	Calicut	17
6	Osmania	16.5
7	Madurai	15.5
8	Manonmanium	15.5
9	PTRSS-Raipur	15.5
10	New Delhi	15.5
11	Gurunanak Dev	15.0
12	Kakatiya	14.5
13	Andhra	14
14	Jadavpur	14
15	Bharathiar	14

Board Prize Winners

Board 1	1	Prathiba Y	Madras	6/6
	2	Vidhyashree	VTU-Belgaum	6/7
Board 2	1	Pl.Sivakami	MKU	6/6
	2	J E Kavitha	Madras	6.5/7
Board 3	1	C V Rajalakshmi	Madras	6.5/7
	2	Prajeesha	Calicut	6.5/7
Board 4	1	T T Lakshmi Priya	Madras	7/7
	2	Srutha Keerthi	Nagarjuna	7/7
Board 5	1	Mansi Rambani	Gurunanak	3/5
	2	Sathyavani	Andhra	3/5
Board 6	1	Uma Maheswari	MKU	4/6
	2	Prathiba Patel	VTI-Belgaum	2/4