Arpit Pandey wins Winter Cup Classical Below 1600 Rating Lakecity Tournament 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 08/01/2024

Four players - Arpit Pandey, Vedant Rupeshbhai Varasada, Phani Kumari and Ranjith Pratap scored 8/9 each at Winter Cup Below 1600 Rating Tournament 2023. Arpit Pandey became champion due to better tie-breaks. The remaining three secured second to fourth place overall. Arpit and Phani remained undefeated among them. The tournament was organized in memory of Late Advocate Mr. Premchand Mogra. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹1500000. The top three prizes were ₹111000, ₹71000 and ₹41000 along with a trophy each. A total of 159 prizes and three prizes above ₹100000 were up for grabs. This was Arpit's second tournament victory of 2023, first rating tournament triumph of his career. Photos: IA NI Vikas Sahu/Chess in Lakecity

Arpit's first Rating tournament triumph

Arpit Pandey and Phani Kanuri were the coleaders 7.5/8 going into the last round. They drew their game against each other. Raj Pandya lost to Vedant Rupeshbhai Varsada. Arpit became first, Vedant second and Phani third overall.

Champion - Arpit Pandey 8/9

Second Runner-up - Phani Kanuri 8/9

5th Vaibhav Gautam 7.5/9

The tournament was organized in memory of Late Advocate Premchand Mogra

Tournament banner

Lighting of the lamp

Inaugural moves are being made

Inauguration of the tournament was done by Chief Guest - Mr.Chanchal Mishra, District Judge, Bharat Joshi, President, Bar Association and Rajesh Sharma, Secretary, Bar Association. Other dignitaries present were Advocate Manish Mogra, Organizing Chairman, Mr. Tushar Mehta, Chief Patron, Chess in Lakecity, Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj, Sanjeev Bharadwaj, President, Chess in Lakecity, IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter and IA Vikas Sahu, Chess in Lakecity.

Kiyana Parihar was felicitated for winning an individual Gold, Silver and three team Gold medal at Asian Youth Under-8 Girls 2023

Kiyana Parihar with her former coach - IA NI Vikas Sahu of Chess in Lakecity

Trophies for the prize winners

Prizes were distributed by Chief Guest - Mr. Gajpal Singh Rathore, Special Guest - Hari Singh Mogra, Neeraj Nagori, Sudha Nagori, Chief Patron Lakecity - Tushar Mehta, Dhruv Shrimali, former Vice President Mohanlal Sukhadia University - IA Rajendra Teli, Vice President Rajasthan. State Chess Association. Dr. S S Surana and IA Vikas Sahu, Chess in Lakecity were present in the Closing ceremony.

Players in action

The tournament hall at Orbit Resort in Udaipur, Rajasthan

Group photo of prize winners

The organizing team with arbiters

Thanks to the Organizer, IA Vikas Sahu of Chess in Lakecity for sharing photos and information about the tournament.

A total of 536 players from various states across the country and one each from Canada and four from the USA took part in this event. The tournament was organized by Chess in Lakecity from 22nd to 24th December 2023 at Orbit Resort, Udaipur, Rajasthan. The nine-round Swiss league Rating tournament had a time control of 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	8		Pandey, Arpit		IND	1510	Maharashtra	8	54	59	51,25	7
2	6		Vedant, Rupeshbhai Varasada	U13	IND	1537	Gujarat	8	53	57	50,00	8
3	28		Phani, Kanuri		IND	1442	Andhra Pradesh	8	50,5	54	47,75	7
4	62		Ranjith, Pratap		IND	1368	Tamil Nadu	8	48	51	43,00	8
5	2		Mohd, Tabseer Alam		IND	1596	Bihar	7,5	54	57,5	45,75	7
6	87		Vaibhav, Parihar		IND	1334	Rajasthan	7,5	49	53	43,25	6
7	75		Vaibhav, Gautam		IND	1348	Delhi	7,5	49	53	41,25	7
8	10		Dabhi, Sangeet H		IND	1508	Gujarat	7,5	49	52,5	42,75	6
9	9	AFM	Hariom, Solanki		IND	1509	Delhi	7,5	47	51	42,25	7
10	18		Agastya, Singh		IND	1476	Haryana	7,5	45	48,5	40,25	7
11	35		Harshit, Dawar		IND	1412	Madhya Pradesh	7	52,5	55,5	40,75	6
12	11		Shaurya, Chaudhary	U11	IND	1505	Delhi	7	50,5	55	42,00	6
13	156		Mohammad, Ismail Khadar		IND	1244	Telangana	7	50	54	40,00	7
14	110		Subhash, Kumar M	S50	IND	1304	Telangana	7	48,5	51,5	36,50	7
15	20		Abhinav, Chauhan		IND	1471	Delhi	7	48	50,5	38,00	6
16	68		Pandya, Raj		IND	1361	Maharashtra	7	47	49	33,50	7
17	30		Shreyas,		IND	1434	Delhi	7	46,5	50,5	37,00	6
18	15		Vivek, Kaushal	S60	IND	1489	Haryana	7	46	50	36,50	7
19	76		Rohan, Kumar		IND	1345	Bihar	7	46	49,5	37,00	5
20	113		Aditya, Bhalla		IND	1300	Delhi	7	45,5	48	33,50	7
21	47	AIM	Alaukik, Sinha	U13	IND	1383	Maharashtra	7	45	49	37,00	7
22	72		Gupta, Mayur A		IND	1356	Maharashtra	7	45	49	37,00	5
23	60		Sameer, Chaudhary		IND	1372	Delhi	7	44,5	46	34,50	6
24	46		Rishaan, Jain	U09	IND	1385	Raj-Lakecity	7	44	45	32,75	6
25	51		Raj, Prakhar		IND	1379	Haryana	7	43,5	46	33,50	7
26	17		Vatsal, Makol		IND	1478	Delhi	7	43	47	34,50	7
27	92		Abishek, K		IND	1327	Kerala	7	40	44	33,25	6
28	33		Anil, Shivpuri	S60	IND	1420	Delhi	7	39	42	30,50	7
29	112		Brijbhooshan, Dubey	S60	IND	1302	Madhya Pradesh	7	38,5	42	31,00	7
30	152		Gajendra, Kumar		IND	1247	Karnataka	6,5	53	55,5	36,75	6
31	93		Arnav, Gupta		IND	1327	Rajasthan	6,5	50	54	35,00	6
32	48		Mayank, Dewangan		IND	1383	Chhattisgarh	6,5	50	52,5	34,00	6
33	45		Mohammed Fasal, V U		IND	1386	Kerala	6,5	49	53	36,25	5
34	59		Hariharan, Gandhi		IND	1372	Tamilnadu	6,5	49	52,5	33,75	6
35	115		Vibhor, Ranjan		IND	1297	Delhi	6,5	48	51	35,50	5