M.SURAJ OF BANGALORE AND K. SRUTHI OF SHIMOGHA CLINCH THE U-17 STATE TITLE
Belgaum U-17BoysThere were 5 rated players in Boys category
. M.suraj was a top seed.M.Suraj of Bangalore finished up with 5 points with a high progressive score. Stany .g.a of Shimoga finished with 5 points with a slight low progress than suraj. He defeated M.Suraj in the last round. A.Balkissan of Bangalore scored 4.5 points with 3RD place. He was lucky in the last round against Niranjan.C.Navalgund and secured draw being a Exchange down . Niranjan of Belgaum went off in time pressure and could not score a full point. So Niranjan finished off with 4.5 points with a slight low progressive than Balkissan. Kedar .u.vaze finished with 4 points and secured 5th place… For games of state u-17 please blog on to www.chessindia.blogspot.com
Girls
Sruthi k of shimoga scored 4.5 points out of a possible 5. There were totally 5 rated players in girls category. Sristhy.j.shetty was top seed k.Manasa of Mangalore scored 4 points and finished 2nd. Nisha.n.patkar scored 3.5 points and finished third with a better progress than sneha v. karekar of Belgaum. Sneha finished with 4th place and Akshata r.bhat finished 5th with 3.5 points www.chessindia.blogspot.com
Valedictory function was held on 10.12.06 prizes wew distributed by Shri Vikas Kalgathhi, President of chamber of commerce and Industires Belgaum. Shri Prakash Kalkundikar,Editor marathi daily Belgaum Shri, R.Hanumantha,general secretary , United Karnataka Chess association, Bangalore were present on the occasion . Shri P.k. Kulkarni Senior Chess coach of Belgaum and National Arbiter Was felicitated on this occasion.
FINAL STANDINGS: BOYS SECTION1) M.SURAJ 2)STANY.G.A 3)BALKISSAN.A 4) NIRANJAN.C.NAVALGUND 5)KEDAR VAZE GIRLS SECTION1) SHRUTI K 2)MANASA.K3)NISHA.N.PATKAR 4) SNEHA KAREKAR5)AKSHATA BHAT