Aniket, Ryan , Adiba surge to top in Bihar School Chess

DG Sports Development Authority of Bihar, Raveendran Sankaran, inaugurated the Bihar School Chess Championships in Patna on June 28, 2022. 

Patna, June 28: A two -day AICF-Bihar School Chess Championships  began at the Indoor Stadium of Patliputra Sports Complex here under the aegis of All Bihar Chess Association . A total of more than 200 players from all over Bihar are participating in this competition. The tournament is being organised separately for boys and girls categories. Six players selected on the basis of this competition will represent Bihar in the 44th Chess Olympiad to be held in Chennai . A total of 9 rounds are to be played in the competition and today a total of five rounds were played on the first day. 

After the end of 5 rounds , Aniket Ranjan of Begusarai and Ryan Mohammad of Patna were jointly on top with 5 points in the boys category . In the fifth round, Aniket defeated Kaifullah of Patna on the top board while Ryan outplayed Akshit Jha  on the number two board.

In the girls' category, Adiba Ulla of Patna was leading alone with 5 points. Adiba defeated Kritika Ranjan of Patna in the fifth round. Swarnika Thakur is in second place with 4.5 points. Swarnika defeated the rising player of Muzaffarpur Vandana Preyshi.

Tomorrow, four more rounds will be played in both the sections, after which the players will be selected.

The competition was inaugurated by the director general of Sports Development Authority of Bihar DG Raveendran Sankaran by lighting the lamp and playing a trick on the chessboard along with young player Partha Raj. On this occasion, the Director of the authority and the special guest  Pankaj Kumar, president of All Bihar Chess Association Diljit Khanna, secretary Dharmendra Kumar, senior vice president Rajendra Kumar, convener of Patna District Chess Association Ad-hoc Committee, Ajit Kumar Singh were present on the occasion. 

Many dignitaries including Arvind Kumar Singh, deputy chief arbiter Suraj Gupta, vice president of All Bihar Chess Association Jai Prakash Sinha, treasurer Manish Kumar, joint secretary Viparl Subhashi , Himanshu Kumar and Shashi Nandkumar were present.