Chandigarh, July 24, 2016: Tarini Goyal of Sacred Heart School, Chandigarh with 5.5 points became champion in under-25 category, Tejas Nagpal with 5 points got the second position and Prateek Wadhawa and Rohit Roy Chaudhary secured third and fourth positions respectively, in the Chandigarh Under-25 and under-9 categories Chess Championshilp at the St Xavier's Senior Secondary School in Sector 44-C here today.
. In the under 9 Open category Akshun Punchhi of First Steps School, Sector 26 emerged winner by scoring 4.5 points, Arnav Khushwaha secured second position on the same point. In the under 9 Girls category Precious Bansal became winner with 2 points and Aaviah Goyal on 1.5 points got second position.
In the Under-9 Open Akshun Punchhi, Arnav Khushawaha and in under 9 girls category Precious Bansal, Aviah Goyal. In the Under 25 category Tarini Goyal, Tejas Nagpal, Prateek Wadhawa and Rohit Roy Chaudhary got selected to represent Chandigarh at the Nationals to be held from 20 to 26 September (Under 25) and under 9 at Jalandhar from 22 to 30 Aug.
In the closing ceremony prizes and trophies were given away by Mr. AP Saksena President of Chandigarh Chess Association president AP Saxena distributed the prizes.
Point position at end of 6th and final round:
Under 25 Open category: 5.5 points: Tarini Goyal. 5 points: Nagpal Tejas. 4.5 pts: Prateek Wadhwa, Rohit Roy Chaudhary, Aryandeep Singh Gill, Anubhav Tuknayat, Shubham, Varun Gupta.
4 points: Jaskeerat Singh , Levanshu Khullar, Aviral Singla, Kuljeet Singh Khurana, Anhat Singh, Manav Gupta, Rishabh Jain, Archit Gupta. 3.5 pts: Soumiljit Singh Gill , Kakara Aaryaman, Abhinav Bansal, Rohan Gupta, Hritik Gupta, Vedant Sarthak Gupta.
3 points: Jashanjot, Shishir Lamba, Goel Pratyaksh, Paras Arora, Kumar Kunal, Jasleen Kaur, Shaurya Chopra, Krish Gupta, Japneet Kaur, Aditya Malhotra.
2.5 points: Parus, Aditya Sharma, Gurfateh Singh, Akshay Dhody, Manav Singh. 2 points: Jaivir Chopra, Kritish Latawa, Ajay Kumar, Rishi Nayyar, Akshaj, Pradeep Biswas, Aarav Bhardwaj.
1.5 points: Sachleen Singh, Advitya Arora, Jaskaran Singh. 1 point: Anirudh Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Sahajpal Singh, Ishaan.
U-9 Open category: 4.5 pts: Akshun Punchhi, Arnav Kushwaha. 4 pts: Raghav Prinja, Shaunak Chaudhary. 3.5 points: Samarthya, Tanush Dhody. 3 points: Parmanyu, Aaryaman Gupta , Raghav Chaudhary, Divtej Singh, Abhiraj Jain, Amey Goyal, Aarush Dhawan, Akhil Goyal, Guntaas Kapoor. 2.5 points: Teghvijay, Shivansh Arora. 2 points: Daksh Sihag, Ayush Goyal, Aaryan Gupta, Aahan Gupta, Gurjai Singh, Haralam Singh, Shabad Singla, Shayan Kapur. 1 point: Aarav Sharma, Ayaan Goyal, Kanwar Singh.
Girls U-9: 2 points: Precious Bansal. 1.5 pts: Aviah Goyal. 1 point: Riya, .5 point: Preet Ahluwalia.