From Right - Hon'ble Ministers of Finance Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadei and Sports Shri P C Bhanjadeo
during the inaugral function of the 1st SCS GM Ches Tournament with the Sponsor Shri T K Mohanty
SCS International
Open GM Chess Tourney begins in style
Seeded players posted comfortable wins in the
opening round
of the 1st SCS International Open GM Chess Tournament at
Earlier the week-long tournament with 336 players
from seven
countries in the fray was inaugurated by Orissa Finance Minister
Prafulla
Chandra Ghadei. Speaking on the occasion, Ghadei assured all possible
support
for the success of the 10-round tournament.
Sports and Youth Services Minister Praveen Chandra
Bhanjadeo, All India Chess Federation (AICF) secretary D V Sundar,
treasurer
Bhrat Singh Chauhan, host Orissa Ches Ad-hoc Committee chairman Asit
Mukherjee,
spornsors Star Consultancy Services director Triveni Kumar Mohanty,
local
Parliament Member Prasanna Patasani, organizing committee members
Sekhar
Chandra Sahu, Kumud Kumar Nath and Vivek Kumar Tibarewal were present
at the
gala opening ceremony.
The AICF secretary requested the Finance Minister
to allot a
house for the State chess association.
Important results
(Round 1): Sergei Tiviakov (Ned) bt Venu N
Madhav (Ind), Igor Kurnosov (Rus) bt Shyam Sundar Sharma (Ind), Yuriy
Kuzubov (Rus)
bt Atishay Ajmera (Ind), Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukr) bt Sultana Zakia (Ban),
Abhijeet Gupta (Ind) bt Pratik Patil (Ind), Georgy Timoshenko (Ukr) bt
Sayan
Bose (Ind), Roman Ovetchkin (Rus) bt Prakash Nepal (Nep), Enamul
Hossain (Ban) bt
Sanjay Date (Ind), Andrey Rychagov (Rus) bt Suman Suwal (Nep), Anuar
Ismagambetov (Kaz) bt Sanket Sagar Dash (Ind), Segey Vokarev (Rus) bt
Balaram
Napit (Nep), Neelotpal Das (Ind) bt Dasharathi Sahoo (Ind), Rustam
Khusnutdinov
(Kaz) bt Sumit Kumar Banerjee (Ind), Alexander Fominyh (Rus) bt Ranjan
Mohanty (Ind),
B Adhiban (Ind) bt Aditya Chakraborty (Ind), Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind)
bt Md
Rimon (Ban), Lalit Babu (Ind) bt Gobardhan Behera (Ind), Saptarshi Roy
Chowdhury (Ind) drew with Jitendria Vel (Ind).
Orissa results:
Swayangsu Satyapragyan bt (w/o) bt Ashmed Raju
(Ban), Soumya
Ranjan Mishra bt Jyotish Roy (Ind), Mohammad Ashraf lost to Himanshu
Sharma (Ind),
Anwesh Upadhyaya bt Sunyasakta Satapathy (Ori, Ind), Debashis Das bt
(w/o) K
Gogoi (Ind), Sekhar Chandra Sahu bt (w/o) Shyam Sundar Agarwal (Ind),
Pabitra
Mohan Mohanty bt Anil Bhoi (Ori, Ind), Manoj Panigrahi bt Ankit
Tripathy (Ori,
Ind), Padmini Rout bt Ashutosh Mohapatra (Ori, Ind), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo
bt (w/o)
B K Behera (Ori, Ind), Binod Kumar Sahu
drew with Imocha Laishram (Ind), Swayams Mishra bt K K Bisoi (Ori,
Ind), Kiran
Manisha Mohanty bt Dibakar Patnaik (Ori, Ind)
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From Right - Hon'ble Ministers of Finance Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadei and Sports Shri P C Bhanjadeo during the inaugral function of the 1st SCS GM Ches Tournament with the Sponsor Shri T K Mohanty |