Prakash V Rao wins Open Rapid Chess

FIDE Rated Prakash V Rao of Canara College has bagged the top honour in the Open Rapid Chess tournament organised by United Friends, Bejai in association with Derik's Chess School, Mangalore on 18th October 2008 at Bejai church Hall.

Prakash V rao scored 7 points by notching up wins in all the rounds. Vishwas saralaya of udupi scored 6 points to secure 2nd place. Vanessa D'souza of st Agnes Eng High School won the top honour among the womens scoring 4.5 points.

Important placings:

Open:
1 Prakash V Rao, ( canara college)- 7
2 Vishwas saralaya,(Udupi)- 6
3 Ganesh Kumar, (Canara collge)- 5.5
4 Nihal manjunath, (Lourdes central School)- 5
5 Shabdik Varma, (SDM, Ujire)- 5
6 Adith Jagadish, (Lourdes central School)- 5
7 Akash harendranath, (Lourdes central School)- 5
8 Pravin Kamath, (Mangalore)- 5
9 Madhusoodan Bhat, ( Mangalore)- 5
10 Prajwal salian, (Basrikatte, Chikkamagalur)- 5
Best Veteran Player- V P Ashirwad , (NMPT)

Womens:
1 Vanessa Dsouza, ( St Agnes High School)-4.5
2 Andrea dsouza, (St Agnes Eng Pry)- 4
3 Sahana, (SDM, Ujire)-3

Under 16 Boys:
1 Shashank, ( Canara high School, Mangalore)- 5 Points in 5 Rounds
2 Govind Prabhu, (SVS Bantwal)-4
3 Edgar A J Pereira,(Lourdes Central, Mangalore)-4

Under 16 Girls:
1 Pooja S, (Canara Girls high school, Mangalore)-3.5
2 Kripa Jain, (SVS Bantwal)- 3.5
3 Bhargavi Alva, (St agnes High School, mangalore)-3.5

Under 12 Boys:
1 Gopalakrishna Nayak,( Canara Eng Pry, mangalore)- 7 in 7 rounds
2 Akash K, (PPS Aldur, Chikkamagalur)- 6
3 Vivek Joshi,(SDM Primary, Ujire)- 6

Under 12 Girls:
1 Chrisel Ann Pais, (Ladyhill Eng Pry, Mangalore)- 5.5
2 Mahima Khandige, (St Agnes Eng Pry, Mangalore)- 5
3 Suparna K Holla, (Sri Mahalingeshwara, Surathkal)- 4

Under 8 Boys:
1 Sharan Rao ( St Theresa Eng Convent School, Mangalore)- 5 in 5 rounds
2 Amoga Vigram (St Theresa Eng Convent School-Mangalore)-4
3 Chinmaya H N ( B.G.S, Kavoor)- 3.5

Under 8 Girls:
1 Swathi Bhat (Ladyhill Eng Pry School, Mangalore)- 4
2 Reesha Shenoy ( Carmel Eng School, Mangalore)- 4
3 Lavanya Rao, (Ladyhill Eng Pry School, Mangalore)- 3.5

180 players including 18 FIDE rated players participated in this one day event.

Inauguration: The event was inaugurated by lighting the lamp by Nagaraja shetty, President, Karavali Abhivruddhi Pradhikara. Suresh Ballal, President North Block Congress (I) Committee and Lancelot Pinto, Corporator/ Ex Deputy Mayor, MCC played symbolic moves over the board on the inaugural. Rev. Fr. J P tauro, Parish priest Bejai Church blessed the player all the success. Deric Pinto, Administrator, Derik's chess School; C.J Lobo, President, United Friends and Prem Salian, Secretary, United Friends were also on the dais.

Prize distribution: The grand valedictory ceremony of the Tournament was held in the evening. Chief Guests of the ceremony Harsha, President, Dakshina kannada Working Journalists association and Sudhir Bajal, Secretary, Janata Dal (S), D.K distributed prizes to the winners. Event sponsors Prakash Lobo, Mrs Joyce Lobo and Sylvester Saldanha were also present on the dais. On the occasion veteran chess player and promoter Padmanabha Aithal of Siddapura was falicitated.

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