Ganguly wins Indian National Chess Championship

GM Ganguly wins National Chess Championship
PTI

VALSAD, Dec 29: Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly on Friday won the 44th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for the fourth consecutive time by drawing his last round game being at the Atul Club.

The 23-year-old employee of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited remained unbeaten throughout the Championship to pocket the winning amount of Rs 67,000 from total prize money of Rs 2.75 lakhs. Ganguly finshed on top of the table with a score of nine points from 13 rounds. He drew today’s game against GM Neelotpal Das.

1 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2573 9
2 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy 2501 8.5
3 IM Arun Prasad s 2424 8.5
4 Rohit G 2393 8
5 IM Suvrajit Saha 2356 8
6 Gopal G N 2397 8
7 GM Kunte Abhijit 2524 8
8 GM Neelotpal Das 2490 8
9 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 2423 8
10 WGM Harika Dronavalli 2353 7.5
11 IM Gupta Abhijeet 2481 7.5
12 IM Sengupta Deep 2420 7.5

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