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Shazuli and Gunasekaran |
Syed Anwar
Shazuli of the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai won the 19th All India
Inter-Railway Championship that concluded at the ICF Stadium in Chennai on
July 31. This is the first major triumph for 28-year old Shazuli. He was
also little lucky as he had the better progressive score after tying for
first place with three others.
The final round saw a sad double blow for Western Railway as both their
overnight leaders, Vikramaditya Kamble and G.Balaji suffered crashing
defeats in the top two boards. This allowed four other players to tie for
the first place on seven points. The tie-break scores favoured the two ICF
players. Gurpreet Pal Singh of Delhi representing Northern Railway and his
team-mate Ram Prakash were unlucky on the tie-break to take the third and
fourth places.
Shazuli, who beat Vikramjit Singh (SCR) won the title on better tie-break
while his ICF team-mate K.Gunasekaran finished second having beaten Kamble.
It was a nine round Swiss format event and this followed the team event
which was played over five rounds.
Dr P.Raja Gounden, General Manager, ICF distributed the prizes on July 31.
Railways is India's largest employer of chess players. India is also the
reigning World Railway champions. They won it in 2004 and will defend the
title again in 2008. "For all railway employees, this is like a world
championship," said ICF's chess incharge T.J.Suresh Kumar. This is an
annual event. "Our increments and promotions are based mainly on this
event," said S.C.Subramanian of Southern Railway.
Final placings (tie-break order): 1-4 Syed Anwar Shazuli, K.Gunasekaran
(both ICF), Gurpreet Pal Singh (NR), Ram Prakash (NR) 7/9 each, 5-7
V.R.Kamble, G.Balaji (both WR), Umakant Sharma (SR) 6.5 each, 8-15
Vikramjit Singh (SCR), K.Ratnakaran (SR), Shashikant Kutwal (WR), Pankaj
Joshi (WR), J.Ramakrishna (SCR), Preetham Sharma (SR), Amardeep Bartakke (WR),
Biswajit Chatterjee (SER) 6 each...100 players.
Team Title For Southern Railways
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Southern Railway Team |
In the team
championship, top seed Southern Railway won the title with 14.5 points
from five rounds. They wrested the title from Eastern Railway. "We missed
Saptarshi Roy in our team," said IM Saha of Eastern Railway, Kolkata. The
star of the winning Southern Railway team was Umakant Sharma who scored
4.5/5 on the second board. Other members of the winning team were:
K.Ratnakaran, B.T.Muralikrishnan, Preetham Sharma and S.Mari Arul. Team
placings: 1 Southern Railways 14.5/20, 2 North 14, 3 East 13.5, 4 South
Central 13.5, 5 ICF 13, 6 West 12.5...18 teams
Published on :
14.08.2006
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