Rs.1.50 lakhs prize-money SBI Life All-Maharashtra FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
Seeded players, including top seed IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni, easily won their respective opening round matches in the Rs.1.50 lakhs prize-money SBI Life All-Maharashtra FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, which commenced at the Don Bosco High School, Borivali on Wednesday.
Grandmaster Tejas Bakre (left) and Mr. Anand Pejawar, Executive Director of SBI Life,play a game to open the Tourney.
IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni (ELO 2303) of Railways outwitted Ananya Vora (1041) from Mumbai in the white side of Queen’s Gambit opening.
On the second board, Srinath Rao from Pune made short work of Mumbai’s Hanel Kamdar in just 24 moves from the black side of French Defense While former National ‘B’ champion, FM Avinash Awate (ELO 2135) had no difficulty scoring a full point against Jinay Mehta (ELO 1023).
Earlier, the event was inaugurated by Mr. Anand Pejawar, Executive Director of SBI Life along with Grandmaster Tejas Bakre.
This 10-round tournament has attracted a total of 314 players from Maharashtra, inclusive of 165 FIDE Rated players.
Key results of Round-1:
Kulkarni Vikramaditya 1 bt Vora Ananya 0, Kamdar Hanel 0 lost to Srinath Rao S.V. 1, Awate Avinash S. 1 bt Mehta Jinay 0, Joshi Tapan 0 lost to Bartakke Amardeep S. 1, Boricha Ketan 1 bt Sarode Om 0, Abhyankar M.N. 1 bt Gaurav Mehta 0, Patil Shravani 0 lost to Kumthekar Shubham 1, Gajengi Rajababu 1 bt Patel Devdutt 0, Aarav Bhattacharya 0 lost to Panesar Vedant 1, Shenvi Pratik 1 bt Aarav Dengla 0, Aditi Yogesh Kayal 0 lost to Patil Ketan 1, Ambre Sayali 0 lost to Joglekar Abhijit 1, Kadam Nikhil 1 bt Arjun Santosh Jadhav 0, Arora Advay 0 lost to Gupta Rajesh R.S. 0, Khandelwal Khushi 1 bt Balaji Vidya 0, Barje Chinmay 0 lost to Polakhare Aryan 1, Bandekar Aditya 1 bt Bavishi Krish 0.