Kartavya Anadkat dominates 1st Late Shri Dhiraj Singh Raghuvanshi Memorial Rating Open 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 16/06/2023

Kartavya Anadkat scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 to win 1st Late Dhiraj Singh Raghuvanshi Memorial Rating Open 2023. He finished a full point ahead of the competition. Five players - Ram Prakash, Arpan Das, IM Chakravarthi Reddy M, Daksh Goyal and Raj Kapoor scored 7.5/9 each. They were placed second to sixth respectively according to tie-breaks. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹1100000. The top three prizes were ₹100000, ₹70000 and ₹50000 along with a trophy each respectively. This is Kartavya's second tournament triumph, first open rating tournament victory of the year. The last rating tournament the reigning Gujarat State Blitz champion won was in November 2022. Photos: IA Mrityunjay Singh

Three teenagers in top ten

Kartavya Anadkat had a sole lead 7.5/8 heading into the final round. He defeated Govind Kumar to finish a full point ahead of the rest. Ram Prakash, trailing the leader by a half point 7/8, drew against IM D K Sharma, to finish second 7.5/9. Ten players were at 6.5/8. Out of them, Arpan Das won against Dileep Tripathi to finish third according to tie-breaks.

Champion - Kartavya Anadkat 8.5/9

Top 3 (L to R) - 2nd Ram Prakash 7.5/9, 1st Kartavya Anadkat 8.5/9 and 3rd Arpan Das 7.5/9

Kartavya Anadkat scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 and increased his Elo rating by 10 points

A memento is presented to the Guest of Honor

Bharat Singh Chauhan, Chairman of the FIDE Advisory Board, along with Chief Guest, Manjunath T C SSP Udham Singh Nagar, Guest of Honor Dr. D K Singh, Secretary, Olympic Association of Uttaranchal, with Vipnesh Bhardwaj, Interim Secretary, All India Chess Federation, Naresh Sharma, Treasurer, All India Chess Federation, A K Verma Secretary Delhi Chess Association, Sanjay K Chadha, President, Dev Bhoomi Chess Association, Sanjeev Chaudhary, Hony. Secretary, Dr. Seema Singh, Treasurer, Dev Bhoomi Chess Association, IA Mrityunjay Singh, Chief Arbiter, IA Amit Sharma, Deputy Chief Arbiter and live in charge, IA Rupesh Kumar, IA Chitaranjan Taorem, SNA Prakrati Manodhya, SNA Sona Chanu Taorem were present at the inauguration ceremony of the tournament.

Bharat Singh Chauhan talks about Late Dhiraj Singh Raghuvanshi | Video: ChessBase India

A glimpse of the inauguration ceremony

Mohit Garg, Director of Recyclib Private Limited, sponsored and Surjit Sing Grover, Chairman, Delhi Public School, Rudrapur, hosted this event.

Thanks to the Chief Arbiter, IA Mrityunjay Singh, for sharing info and photos of the tournament.

A total of 293 players including two IMs and a WIM took part from various states across the country in this six-day nine-round Swiss league Rating tournament which was organized by Dev Bhoomi Chess Association in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand from 22nd to 27th May 2023. The time control for the tournament was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	3		Anadkat, Kartavya			2120	Gujarat	8,5	49	54	51,50	0	8
2	6		Prakash, Ram			2007	Punjab	7,5	52,5	57,5	45,50	0	7
3	4		Arpan, Das			2042	West Bengal	7,5	52	57	45,00	0	7
4	1	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy, M			2279	Telangana	7,5	48,5	52,5	43,00	0	7
5	10		Daksh, Goyal	U15		1758	Delhi	7,5	47	51,5	41,75	0	6
6	50		Raj, Kapoor	U15		1465	Rajasthan	7,5	47	50	39,25	0	7
7	21		Mrityunjay, Kumar			1650	Bihar	7	51,5	55	40,75	0	5
8	12		Chaudhari, Ashish			1740	Maharashtra	7	49	53,5	40,75	0	6
9	57		Parth, Belwal	U15		1438	Delhi	7	47	51,5	38,25	0	6
10	17		Piyush, Kumar			1675	Bihar	7	47	51	38,50	0	5
11	2	IM	Sharma, Dinesh K.			2198	LIC	7	46	50,5	38,75	0	6
12	58		Sherali, Pattnaik	F15	w	1436	Uttarakhand	7	45	48,5	37,00	0	6
13	40		Patel, Suyogkumar M			1522	Gujarat	7	43,5	46,5	33,00	0	7
14	19		Dileep, Tripathi			1659	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	51,5	54,5	37,00	0	5
15	9		Govind, Kumar			1759	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	50,5	55	37,50	0	5
16	37		Ayaan, Garg	U12		1530	Chandigarh	6,5	50,5	55	37,25	0	6
17	36		Chakrabarti, Tamal			1531	West Bengal	6,5	49	53,5	36,75	0	5
18	25		Pushpendra,			1603	Delhi	6,5	48,5	52,5	34,00	0	6
19	7	WIM	Tejaswini, Sagar		w	1974	Gujarat	6,5	47	51	37,00	0	4
20	18		Vikash, Nishad			1671	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	47	50,5	34,50	0	6
21	22		Mishra, Kamad			1648	Madhya Pradesh	6,5	46,5	51	34,25	0	6
22	33		Anishka, Vikram		w	1564	Delhi	6,5	46,5	50,5	33,50	0	6
23	20		Mishra, Sanjeev			1652	Maharashtra	6,5	46	50	33,00	0	6
24	68		Ayush, Saxena	U15		1395	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	46	49	31,75	0	6
25	84		Prakhar, Tripathi	U12		1341	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	44,5	48	31,00	0	6
26	45		Shubh, Singh Saini	U15		1482	Uttarakhand	6,5	43,5	47,5	32,25	0	5
27	62		Ravi, Prakash Singh			1421	Uttar Pradesh	6,5	43	46,5	30,75	0	6
28	31		Nimay, Agrawal	U12		1575	Haryana	6,5	43	45	32,00	0	5
29	52		Shubham, Kumar			1457	Bihar	6,5	42	46	31,25	0	6
30	67		Mehul, Sondhi	U12		1404	Delhi	6,5	42	44	29,75	0	6

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