Monday, May 3, 2010

Easy victories for seeded players in APWAD chess

Patna. April 28, 2010: All the leading players won their respective matches with commendable ease on the first day of the APWAD inter-school mastermind chess tournament at the Moinul Haq Stadium here on Wednesday.

Kamani Kumari, Kumar Srishti, Aditi, Arti Kumari and Aditi Arya chalked out easy victories in the first round of girls’ under-14 group.

Earlier, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Narendra Singh inaugurated the championship at a colourful function. Speaking on the occasion, Singh announced that he would give cash award to ten best players of the tournament. Rakesh Ranjan, tournament director, welcomed the guests. Vivekanand of APWAD proposed a vote of the thanks.
Arvind Kumar Sinha, secretary, All Bihar Chess Association, Mirtunjay Tiwari, convenor,Bihar Cricket Association, Kumar Vijay, secretary, Bihar State KabaddiAssociation, Niraj Kumar Pappu, secretary, Throwball Association of Bihar, Dr Sunil Kumar Singh, Abhishek Kumar, Birenddra Kumar Upadhaya and Pankaj Kumar Jyoti were present at the inaugural function.

Results: boys’ under-16 (first round): Nilesh Shankar (1) bt Amit Kumar (0); Ved Prakash (1) bt Anubhav Sahay (0); Prabhat Kumar (1) bt Vikas Kumar Trivedi (0); Tatparya Shankar (1) bt Pritam Kumar (0); Rakesh Kumar (1) bt Sonu Kumar (0) and Shreyansh bt Manish kumar (0).

Boys’ under-14 (first round): Ayush Anand (1) bt Nitish Kumar (0); Siddhartha (1) bt Nikhil (0); Ayush Kashyap (1) bt Raghav Arora (0); Rahul Raj (1) bt Samir Sengar (0); Subhash Saurabh (1) bt Raja Rajesh (0); Aabishek Ranjan (1) bt Ravi (0); Alok Priyadarshi (1) bt Samarth Mittal (0) and Prince Kumar (1) bt S Anand (0).

Boys’ under-12 (first round): Ashwani Arya (1) bt Randhir (0); Abhishek (1) bt Raushan Kumar (0); Sachin Ranjan (1) bt Aman (0); AA Anwar (1) bt Saiyad (0); Ayush (1) bt Sahil (0); Ayush Niketan (1) bt S Verma (0); Siddharha (1) bt Harsh (0); Ishan (1) bt Sumesh (0) and Jayant (1) bt Sundaram (0).

Boys’ under-10 (first round): Veer Sharma (1) bt Nilesh (0); Aditya Bhashkar (1) bt Praveen (0); Adya Kumar (1) bt Rajveer (0); Rishi Rishabh (1) bt Aman (0); Rishi Anand (1) bt Ankit Kumar (0) and Ritesh Raj (1) bt Ayush Ranjan (0).

Girls’ under-14: (first round): Kamani Kumari (1) bt Anjali Sah (0); Kumari Srishti (1) bt Apurva (0); Aarti Kumari (1) bt Riya (0); Aditi (1) bt Sunidhi (0) and Aditi Arya bt Swati (0).
Photo caption: Players concentrating on their moves during the APWAD inter-school mastermind chess championships in Patna on April 28, 2010.
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

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