Sunday, July 25, 2010

Neelotpal wins ONGC Fide Rated Chess tourney

Sun, Jul 25 10 07:57 PM

Tadepalligudem, Jul 25 (PTI) Top seed Grandmaster Neelotpal Das, with eight points, emerged champion in the ONGC All India Fide Rated Chess championship, which concluded at Sri Vasavi Engineering College here today. Kolkata-based ONGC''s Neelotpal started the final round with a crucial half point lead and ensured the title with a comfortable final round victory over CRG Krishna to lift the coveted trophy along with a cash prize of Rs 50,000. Third seed International Master Praveen Kumar of ICF Chennai defeated Pradip Ghosh of West Bengal to lift runner-up trophy while International Masters DP Singh and K Rathnakaran of Railways agreed to split the points in the final round and tied for the third spot along with other seven players. But better tie-break score helped Singh to finish third while Rathnakaran satisfied with fourth spot finish.


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