Friday, May 29, 2009

Bihar rapid chess: Six players share lead


Patna, May 27, 2009
Six players were jointly on the top of the table with two points each at the end of second round play of the Bihar state senior rapid chess championships at the Patna Youth Hostel hall here on Wednesday.

Senior pros Vipal Subhashi, Y P Srivastav, P K Singh, Sanjiv Kumar, Sourav Rup and Ashutosh Kumar won their first two round matches with commendable ease to collect full points.

Earlier, Arun Kumar Sinha, MLA, inaugurated the tournament. Arvind Kumar Sinha, secretary All Bihar Chess Association, Satya Prakash, Dilip Kumar Bhagat and Birendra Kumar Upadhyaya (chief arbiter) were present on the occasion.

Results (second round)
Vipal Subhashi (2) beat Srishti Gautam (1), Y P Srivastava (2) beat Akhourhi Vineet (1), P K Singh (2) beat Akhourhi Harshit (1), Sanjeet Kumar (2) beat Amarnath Gupta (1), Raj Kumar Chouhan (2) beat Amresh Kumar (1), Sourabh Rup (2) beat Aryan (1), Aasutosh (2) beat Ankit Gourabh Utpal (1), Vijay Kumar (2) beat Gourav Kumar (1), Sourav Anand (2) beat Minhajul Haque (1), Suman Kumar (2) beat Rajesh Kumar Sinha (1), Abhay Kumar Sinha (2) beat Subhandu Chakrabarti (1), Krishna Prasad (2) beat Vivek Nandan (1), Rupesh Ranjan (2) beat Sujeet Kumar (1), Neelesh Shankar (2) beat Raj Tilak Singh (1), Rishi Shankar (2) beat Tushar (1), Vijay Kumar (2) beat Kumar Gourav (0), Soumitra Verma(1) beat Prince Kumar (0), Rahul Raj (1) beat Shidarth Goutam (0), Abhishek Kumar Sinha (1) beat Rakesh Kumar (0), Shambhu Sharan Singh (1) beat Chandra Bhushan (0), Kumar Deepak Singh (1) beat Suraj Kumar Suman (0), Kumar Neelesh Raj (1) beat Sudhir Kumar Srivastava (0).

Photo caption: Arun Kumar Sinha, MLA, inaugurating the Bihar senior rapid chess championships in Patna on May 27, 2009.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui



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