Four Take Lead 1st Pune Open Below 2000 FIDE Rating Chess Championship

Pune, June 1, 2022: Nikhil M, Rahul Verma, Anurag Jaiswal of India and Rashmitha Liyanage of. Sri Lanka took Joint lead at the end of the first round of the 1st Pune Open Below 2000 FIDE Rating Chess Championship being played concurrently with the Maharashtra Open GM tournament at the Boxing Hall of the Mhalunge Balewadi sports complex.

The tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Mr. Niranjan Godbole tournament director, Pol Arokyaraj Deputy chief orbiter, Ankush Raktale, Chandrakant Valwate, Bharat Chaugule were present on the occasion.

Following are the Results: First Round (White/ Black)

Nikhil M(IND)(1) bt Dhruv Gandhi(IND)(0)

Aarit Thakur (IND) (0) lost to Rashmitha Liyanage(Shri Lanka)(1)

Anurag Jaiswal (IND)(1) bt Namra Shah (IND)(0)

Soham Jathar (IND) (0) lost to Rahul Verma (IND) (1)

Dmitry Bezstrakhov(RUS)(½) drew with Subramanian T.V. (IND) (½)

Vaibhav Joshi (IND) (0) lost to AIM Sooraj M R (IND) (1)

Rishi Kadam R (IND) (1) bt Ayaan Chettiar (IND) (0)

Shourya Khadilkar (IND) lost to Nameet Chavan (IND) (1)

Ankit Chudasama (IND) (1) bt Rajveer Patil (IND) (0)

Vishal Thadani (IND) (0) lost to Kantilal Dave (IND) (1)

Shrayan Majumder (IND) (1) bt Alhajjar Mhaid(SYR) (0)

Parth Patil (IND) (0) lost to AGM Kiran Panditrao (IND) (1)

Hitesh S. Jariya (IND) (1) bt Akshay Joglekar (IND) (0)

Atharv Soni (IND) (0) lost to Pranit Kothari (IND)(1)

Gajanan Jayade (IND) (1) bt ACM Trijal Sharma (IND)(0)

Aditya Chhajed (IND) (0) loss to Omkar Kadav (IND)(1)

Gaurav Das (IND) (1) bt Swarali Kothe (IND) (0)

Aarth Karapurkar (IND) (0)loss to Vishrut Parekh (IND)(1)

Vigneshwaran S (IND)(1) bt Pooja Rani (IND)(0)

Ishaan Tendolkar (IND) (0) lost to Sanjeev Mishra (IND)(1)