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 Young kids Kaushik and Ashwini won the Under 8 Category in the Bharat Petroleum-Chennai Chess Academy State Level Open Chess tournament for Children held at T Nagar Boys School, Chennai from 23rd to 25th April, 2004.
In the Under 10 Category, S Apoorva clinched the title with a cent percent score of 5/5, while Osama Salim took the Boys crown with a high 7.5/8 finish.
The battle for the top position in the Under 12 category was quite intense, but Ajay Srikanth and D Madhu triumphed comfortably in the end.
Held in six Categories, the event attracted 210 entries all over Tamil Nadu. The tournament was smoothly conducted by International Arbiter A N Venkatesan.
The prizes, twenty each in Boys Category and twelve each in Girls section, were distributed by Shri Somnath, Deputy General Manager, Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limited.
Boys:
Under-12:
1. Ajay Srikanth 7.0
2-4 S Sridev, D Gautam and Kaushik Sampath 6.0
5-6 Diwan S Babu and A Premkumar 5.5
Under-10:
1. Osama Salim 7.5
2. R Nandha Visakan 6.5
3-5 R Vishnu Sharon, C Vignesh and V C Balaji 6.0
6 R Ranjan 5.5
Under-8:
1. S Kaushik 8.0
2. Neil Franklin 6.5
3-6 Akash Srivats, K Arvind Kumar, B Kumaran and Sabari Girivasan 6.0
Girls:
Under-12:
1. D Madhu 7.5
2-3 S S Aarthy and R Harhini 6.0
4 Viswanthitha 5.5
5-6 K Abiniya and R Aishwarya 5.0
Under-10:
1. S Apoorva 5.0
2-3 S Aiswerya and J Janani 4.0
4-6 K Swathi, B Amrutha and D Bhavna 3.0
Under-8:
1. V Ashwini 7.0
2. R Reshma 6.5
3. V Niranjiny 6.0
4. B Samyuktha Deve 5.5
5-6 J Bhuvaneswari and M Tejaswiny 5.0
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