Hrithickkesh Pr dominates Dr. KCG Verghese Memorial Rating Open 2022

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/07/2022

Top seed of the tournament, Hrithickkesh Pr scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 to win Dr. KCG Verghese Memorial Rating Open 2022. He finished a full point ahead of the field. Six players scored 7.5/9. Out of them, Sa Kannan and Badrinarayanan N secured second and third place according to tie-breaks.The total prize fund of the event was ₹200000. Top three prizes were ₹25000 and a trophy, ₹20000 and ₹15000 each respectively. This is Hrithickkesh's third triumph of the year. He started the year by winning 5th Adith Paulson Memorial Don Bosco Rating Open on the very first day of 2022, then he won Vinothkumar Memorial Open in April. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Top two finishes in the same order

Top two seeds of the tournament, Hrithickkesh Pr and Sa Kannan claimed the top two places. Hrithickkesh had a full point lead heading into the final round. He needed a draw in the final round to clinch the tournament and that's what he did. Sa Kannan defeated Adithya Vishveshwaran M to finish second. Badrinarayanan N drew in the last round to finish third.

Champion - Hrithickkesh P R 8.5/9 | Photo: Anbil Mahesh ig

Hrithickkesh scored eight consecutive wins before making a draw in the final round to secure the first place

Runner-up - Sa Kannan 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Second Runner-up - Badrinarayanan N 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

All prize winners | Photo: Anbil Mahesh ig

Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Minister for School Education, Govt. of Tamil Nadu and MLA from Thiruverumbur constituency was the Chief Guest at the prize distribution ceremony.

A total of 343 players took part in this five-day Classical Open Rating tournament. The event was organized by KCG College of Technology at KCG College of Technology, Karapakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu from 27th June to 1st July 2022. The time control for the tournament was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1		Hirthickkesh Pr	IND	2232	8,5	52,5	8	56,0
2	2	AGM	Sa Kannan	IND	1934	7,5	53,0	7	57,0
3	11		Badrinarayanan N	IND	1574	7,5	50,0	7	54,0
4	25		Raghav V	IND	1467	7,5	49,5	7	54,0
5	4		Mishra Sanjeev	IND	1747	7,5	49,5	6	54,5
6	14		Subramanian V	IND	1549	7,5	49,5	6	52,5
7	23		Gokula Vishnu R	IND	1479	7,5	44,0	7	48,0
8	13		Narayan Iyengar	IND	1554	7,0	50,0	6	54,5
9	88		Baranidharan K	IND	1188	7,0	48,5	7	52,0
10	45		Raj Kamal S	IND	1366	7,0	48,0	7	51,5
11	24		Darshan S	IND	1478	7,0	45,5	6	48,0
12	26		Haridev S	IND	1445	7,0	45,0	6	46,5
13	27	AIM	Raaghav Rajesh	IND	1424	7,0	43,5	6	46,5
14	282		Rishiadithya Murali	IND	0	7,0	42,0	7	46,0
15	7	AIM	Kandari Sasidar Kartheek	IND	1649	6,5	50,5	5	53,0
16	12		Jaidambareesh N R	IND	1567	6,5	50,0	5	53,0
17	16		Krishna Ashwin	ENG	1516	6,5	48,5	5	53,5
18	19	ACM	Madhavakrishnan R	IND	1495	6,5	48,5	5	52,0
19	56		Richard Solomon M	IND	1308	6,5	48,5	4	51,0
20	33		Chandra Prakash Sankar	IND	1408	6,5	48,0	6	51,5
21	5		Nidheshpa S	IND	1671	6,5	48,0	5	51,5
22	43		Siddharthan Anandan	IND	1378	6,5	47,5	5	51,5
23	10		Gopinath Parthasarathy	IND	1588	6,5	47,0	5	50,5
24	44		Aravindh S	IND	1377	6,5	46,0	6	49,5
25	30		Thiruvengadam T	IND	1422	6,5	46,0	6	48,5
26	22		Adithya Vishveshwaran M	IND	1485	6,5	45,5	6	49,0
27	58		Ramakrishnan M R	IND	1288	6,5	45,5	6	48,5
28	37		Saravanan	IND	1396	6,5	45,0	6	49,0
29	32		Manikandan Tayalan	IND	1410	6,5	43,5	6	46,5
30	18		Shriman K	IND	1512	6,5	43,5	5	48,0