YMCA - RDSA Open Chess Tournament, Nagpur

Indian Tournaments 2002

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YMCA - RDSA Open Chess Tournament, Nagpur

Saurabh Kherdeker emerges Champion

Saurabh Kherdeker receving the winner's purse Saurabh Kherdeker, returning a better progressive total, emerged the champion of the YMCA-RDSA Open Chess Tournament that concluded at the Robetson YMCA Hall in Civil Lines, Nagpur on Sunday, 1st December 2002.

Saurabh Kherdekar playing with black pieces defeated Sushant Jumde in the 9th and final round, ended up with a total tally of 7.5 points sharing this tally with Pratik Shriwas. Akash Thakur the top seed of the tournament though beat Saurabh in the penultimate round, lost to Pratik Shriwas in the final round and hence was placed third with five others ending up with 6.5 points each.

Additional Collector of Nagpur, Mr Milind Bansode the Chief Guest on the occasion gave away the prizes. Dr Vivek Vaidya was the guest of honour. The prizes were sponsored by Ranjit Sports Academy and announced by Pankaj Bhandarkar, General Ssecretary YMCA, Nagpur.

Final Placings

Rank	Player	Pts
1-2	Saurabh Kherdekhar	7.5
1-2	Prathik Shriwas	7.5
3	Akash Thakur	7.0
4-8	Nayandeep Kotangale	6.5
4-8	Vinay Barhanpure	6.5
4-8	B.Adithya	6.5
4-8	T.Chandran	6.5
4-8	V.K.Srivatsava	6.5
9-10	Gurpreet Singh Maras	6.0
9-10	Sushant Jumde	6.0

Dr G Balasubramanian