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Laxman
Pockets Rs.50,000 Cash
By Arvind Aaron
International Master
Rajaram Laxman of Chennai won the strong Bengal Peerless FIDE Rating
Tournament that concluded at the Gorky Sadan in Kolkata on January 11. He
scored 8.5/11 to win the tournament defeating the top seed GM Ziaur Rahman
of Bangladesh in the final round on January 11. With three players over
2500 rating it was one of the strongest rating tournaments of India.
Laxman had earlier won events in Sri Lanka and our own National Under-25
Championship. Winning a rating event of this strengt has clearly delighted
the Chennai big boy who spends more time playing online chess and coaching
if he himself is not at the board. The prize list was dominated by Indian
and Bangladeshi players. IM Abdulla Al-Rakib (Ban) finished second on 8
points and was the only undefeated player. He took home Rs.30,000.
The top 30 players received cash prizes. Chairman of the left front Bimal
Bose gave away the trophy in the closing ceremony which was attended by a
galaxy of VIPs like Muhammad Imran (Bangladesh Deputy High commissioner),
Kshiti Goswami (PWD Minister, West Bengal Government), Kumar Shankar
Bagchi (MD, Bengal Peerless HDC Ltd) among others.
Former West Bengal champion Swapan Mitra (2162) was the surprise of the
event. He tied for the second to eighth places with eight points. The
event was organised by Soumen Majumdar of Alekhine Chess Club. It
attracted one GM, one WGM, 8 IMs, 5 FMs and scores of rated players of
which three were over 2500.
Final placings: 1 R.R.Laxman (TN) 8.5/11, 2-8 Abdullah Al-Rakib (Ban),
Saptarshi Roy (Ben), Ziaur Rahman (Ban), S.Satyapragyan (Ori), Abhishek
Das (Ben),
Swapan Mitra (Ben), Enamul Hossain (Ban) 8 each, 9-15 Nisha Mohota (OIL),
Shyam Nikhil (TN), Shankar Roy (ER), S.K.Nasir Ahmed (Ban), Suvrajit Saha
(ER),
Vinoth Kumar (TN), Sakil Abu Sufian (Ban) 7.5 each.
Special prizes: U-8: Mohammad Fahim (Ban) 3.5, U-10: Sidhant Mahapatra
(Ben) 6, U-12: Prantik Roy (Ben) 6, Girls U-14: Mohona Sengupta (Ben) 6,
U-14:
Abhratanu Dutta 6.5, Woman: Supriya Maji (Ben) 6.5, Unrated: Haradhan
Chakraborty (Ben) 6.
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Published on : 29th Jan, 2007
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