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A girl winning a men's event is rare. Nimmy George of Kerala won the 1st
Ramasamy Gounder Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Karun in Tamil
Nadu on May 10. Only last month this girl from a chess playing family
completed her maiden Woman International Master norm in the National
Women's A Chess Championship at Visakhapatnam.
It is a season of triumph for Kerala players. Only a day before
K.Ratnakaran had won the Karwar FIDE Rating Tournament in Karnataka. Nimmy
George of Aluva, Kerala had won some age group events and represented
India in the World and Asian Age Group events. She scored 9.5 points from
eleven rounds. Her father George John is a national arbiter and her
sisters also played good chess.
Several prominent players took part and were part of this 240-player
field. M.B.Muralidharan of Kerala finished second with nine points.
Players from six states took part in this 72,800 Rupees prize fund event.
Nimmy George cashed Rs.15,000. Chief arbiter R.Anantharam of Sivakasi,
Tamil Nadu said the first edition of this event was organised by the Karur
District Chess Association at a spacious and well equipped Kongu Kalyana
Mandapam in Karur.
Final placings: 1 Nimmy George (Ker) 9.5, 2-4 M.B.Muralidharan (Ker),
B.T.Muralikrishnan (Rly), R.Balasubramanian (ICF) 9 each, 5 K.Chakravarti
(TN), 8.5, 6-13 D.Prabhaharan (TN), S.C.Subramanian (Rly), M.Paramasivam
(TN), P.Phoobalan (TN), K.Gopalakrishnan (TN), N.Vigneswaran (TN),
R.K.Ranjith (TN), M.V.Lakshmi Narayanan (TN) 8 each, 14-20 S.Venkat
Sundaram (TN), G.S.Sreejith (Ker), R.A.Pradeep Kumar (TN), K.V.Ven Prakash
(TN), K.Narayanan (TN), P.Maheswaran (TN), N.Surendran (TN) 7.5 each.
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Published on 11.05.2006
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