Madhavansh Mittal wins Chess for Everyone Rating Open 2023 in Jammu

by Shahid Ahmed - 11/08/2023

Madhavansh Mittal and Arvindu scored 7.5/9 each at win Chess for Everyone All India Rating Open 2023 in Jammu. 13-year-old Madhavansh won the tournament due to better tie-breaks, Arvindu was placed second. Deepak Batra edged passed seven more players to secure third place finish scoring 7/9. The top three prizes were ₹5000 + trophy, ₹3000 and ₹2000. The tournament was held from 22nd to 26th July 2023 at IDPS School in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. It was organized by Crown Trust in collaboration with IDPS School Jammu. This was Madhavansh's first rating tournament triumph of his career. The objective of Chess for Everyone is to attract more players to participate in tournaments, get rating in an event which has low entry fee barrier of only ₹250. Photos: Atul Kumar Gupta

Madhavansh's first rating tournament triumph

Madhavansh Mittal and Saransh Dabas - two teenagers were in the lead 7/8 each, heading into the final round. Madhavansh drew against Deepak Batra and Saransh lost to Arvindu. Thus, Madhavansh won the tournament 7.5/9, Arvindu was placed second 7.5/9 and Deepak third 7/9.

Champion - Madhavansh Mittal 7.5/9

Top 3 (L to R back row): Runner-up - Arvindu (second from left) 7.5/9, Second Runner-up - Deepak Batra (third from left) 7/9 and Champion - Madhavansh Mittal (second from right) 7.5/9 with other prize winners, organizers and officials

Madhavansh Mittal in action

Madhavansh Mittal scored an unbeaten 7.5/9 and gained 71.6 Elo rating points

Atul Kumar Gupta, AICF Joint Secretary, lighting up the lamp at the Inauguration Ceremony

A total of 137 players took part from various states across the country in this five-day nine round Swiss-league Rating tournament which was organized by Crown Trust in collaboration with and at IDPS School in Jammu, Jammu Kashmir from 22nd to 26th July 2023. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo	Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	6	Madhavansh, Mittal	U15		IND	1425	Punjab	7,5	51	54	43,50
2	3	Arvindu,			IND	1631	Jammu	7,5	49,5	52	41,25
3	2	Deepak, Batra			IND	1691	Punjab	7	51	55	41,25
4	16	Saransh, Dabas	U15		IND	1193	Delhi	7	51	54,5	40,25
5	15	Lakshit, Pusri	U13		IND	1235	Punjab	7	50,5	54,5	40,50
6	1	Sharma, Shashi Pal	S60		IND	1809	Jammu	7	50	55	41,00
7	11	Aryan, Raj Bali	U19		IND	1275	Jammu	7	47,5	51,5	37,75
8	4	Ashutosh, Jamwal			IND	1502	Jammu	7	47,5	51	37,00
9	8	Ankush, Bhardwaj			IND	1321	Jammu	7	46	49	36,50
10	21	Pazhany, Kaushal Kohli	U11		IND	1176	Jammu	7	42,5	45,5	33,50
11	12	Armaan, Goyal	U19		IND	1266	Punjab	6,5	50	54,5	36,75
12	20	Amandeep, Singh	U19		IND	1176	Jammu	6,5	46	50,5	33,00
13	17	Aarav, Gupta	U13		IND	1185	Jammu	6	50	53,5	32,00
14	131	Sushane, Bahri	U11		IND	0	Punjab	6	48	51,5	32,00
15	126	Soumya, Mahajan	U19		IND	0	Jammu	6	46,5	50,5	30,50