Vaibhav Jayant Raut wins Bhopal Open FIDE Rapid Rating Competition title

Bhopal (Team Newsbuddy): In the Bhopal Open FIDE Rapid Rating Chess Competition held at Hotel Kanta Shravan Palace, organized by Bhopal District Chess Association and Academy of Chess Education in collaboration with Aditi Sweets Bhopal, under the aegis of All India Chess Federation and Madhya Pradesh Chess Adhoc Committee, many exciting matches were played on 180 tables in the final round on the second day and at the end of the last ninth round, third seeded Delhi player CM Vaibhav Jayant Raut played a draw with fourth seeded Bhopal CM Ashwin Daniel and remained undefeated in the entire competition, and got the honor of becoming the winner with the highest 8.5/9 points and won the prize money of 25 thousand.
First seeded Alok Sinha of Delhi defeated Bhopal’s Suraj Chaudhary while eighth seeded AIM Chaitanya Avadh of Jabalpur defeated Ujjain’s Anand Singh Kushwaha in the final round and staked their claim for the second position with a total of 8/9 points. According to the tie-break rules, Alok Sinha won the second position and Chaitanya Avadh came third and won prize money of 15 thousand and 10 thousand respectively. With 7.5/9 points, CM Ashwin Daniel of Bhopal, Hitesh Singh Jaria of Indore and Rajeev Singh Parihar of Bhopal secured the fourth to sixth positions respectively and won the prize money.

In the competition, many seeded players had to face difficulties in their path to becoming the winner due to unexpected defeat or the match ending in a draw. In which 3 matches played on top tables were prominent in which third seeded Vaibhav Jayant Raut of Maharashtra started aggressively using Nimzo Indian Defence and destroyed the security circle of Bhopal’s Vedant Bhardwaj’s pawns in the initial moves itself and separated two pawns from other pawns by placing them in a single line and taking advantage of this weakness, created pressure due to which finally Vedant accepted defeat after 35 moves and similarly in the final round, Vaibhav continued his winning streak and became the winner.

First seeded Alok Sinha of Delhi started aggressively with Sicilian Classical Defence and with the help of his experience, by placing his knight in the opponent’s camp, cleverly eliminated Siddharth Upadhyay’s black camel, which was an important player in this opening, from the game very soon and established a pair of two camels in his camp, which was sure to be beneficial but in a game of 62 moves, Siddharth, with his well-planned play and patient decisions, kept Alok away from winning and finally both the players agreed on a draw, but Alok won in the last round and secured second place.
Winner Rating Category 1400 to 1500: Kaushalesh Gupta 6.5/9 Points 2000/- Trophy
Winner Rating Category 1501 to 1600: Anand Singh Kushwah 7/9 Points 2000/- Trophy
Winner Rating Category 1601 to 1700: Abhibhav Kumar 7/9 Points 2000/- Trophy
Winner Rating Category 1701 to 1800: Kavyansh Agarwal 7/9 Points 2000/- Trophy
Best Unrated: Bhupendra Jatav 6.5/9 Points 2000/- Trophy
Best Veteran Player: Ashok Vishwakarma 7/9 Points 2500/-
Best Madhya Pradesh Player: Mitansh Dixit 7/9 Points 2500/-
Best Bhopal Player: Siddharth Upadhyay 7/9 Points 2500/-
Best Female Player: Siya Neeraj Kushwaha 6.5/9 Points 2000/-
Best Physically Challenged: OP Tiwari 6.5/9 Points 2000/-
Best Under 7 Girls and Boys: Amaira Khan 3 Points Trophy and Bhavya Agarwal 6 Points Trophy
Best Under 9 Girls and Boys: Prisha Maheshwari 4.5 Points Trophy and Manas Saini 5.5 Points Trophy
Best Under 11 Girls and Boys: Vanya Saxena 5.5 Points Trophy and Siddharth Madhur Bang 6 Points Trophy. Best Under 13 Girls and Boys: Aarna 5 Points Trophy and Jatin Malkani 5.5 Points Trophy

In the prize distribution ceremony, 100 winners were awarded by the senior players and organizing committee members present.