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Vikramaditya takes title

KOCHI: Railway's Vikramaditya Kulkarni won the 49th National Challengers chess championship at Aurangabad on Sunday.

The 13-round event saw four players — Tamil Nadu's P. Shyam Nikhil, Railway's M.S. Thejkumar and Petroleum Board's M.R. Venkatesh being the others — finish level with 9.5 points but Vikramaditya was declared the champion on a superior Buchholz score.

Shyam Nikhil, the 12th seed who drew his last-round game against the top-seeded M.R. Venkatesh, finished runner-up while Thejkumar was third.

Incidentally, 15 of the top 16 finishers were all International Masters. The top 30 players from the event qualified for the National Premier Championship which will be held in October.

The results (final round): P. Shyam Nikhil drew with M.R. Venkatesh; Himanshu Sharma lost to M.S. Thejkumar; Suvrajit Saha drew with Vikramaditya Kulkarni; Swapnil S. Dhopade drew with M. Shyam Sunder; Rahul Sangma drew with Ashwin Jayaram; P. Karthikeyan drew with K. Dinesh Sharma; Atanu Lahiri drew with Aditya Udeshi; P. Saravana Krishnan lost to K. Ratnakaran; N. Sudhakar Babu drew with P. Konguvel; Saptarshi Roy drew with Varugeese Koshy; Girish A. Koushik drew with Somak Palit; B.T. Murali Krishnan drew with Shashikant Kutwal; G. Akash bt Arjun Tiwari; Abhishek Das drew with Anup Deshmukh; Diptayan Ghosh drew with Padmini Rout.

Final placings (top 10): 1. Vikramaditya Kulkarni (Rly, 9.5 pts), 2. P. Shyam Nikhil (TN, 9.5), 3. M.S. Thejkumar (Rly, 9.5), 4. M.R. Venkatesh (PSPB, 9.5), 5. Swapnil S. Dhopade (Rly, 9), 6. Ashwin Jayaram (TN, 9), 7. P. Karthikeyan (TN, 9), 8. Aditya Udeshi (Mah, 9), 9. K. Dinesh Sharma (LIC, 9), 10. Atanu Lahiri (LIC, 9) . — Special Correspondent

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