Anurag notches best ever Goan rating performance!
Goa State Champion Anurag Mhamal gave a sterling display at the Parsvanath
Chess Championships which concluded today at the Modern School, New Delhi.
In the process he notched up his best ever rating performance of 2342 and
also increased his FIDE rating by a whopping 35 points. With this
performance Anurag also eclipsed the best ever Goan performance of 2328
posted by National Junior Champion Bhakti Kulkarni in the Commonwealth Chess
Championships in Mumbai in 2006.
Anurag finished with 6 out of a possible 10 points and averaged a 50 percent
score against rated players with 4 out of 8. What is indeed significant was
that he could manage to hold FOUR International Masters to a draw - Roktim
Bandyopadhyay (ELO 2373), P. Konguvel (ELO 2394), Saptarshi Roy (ELO 2404)
and Asian Junior Champion P. Karthikeyan (ELO 2327). Anurag also beat P.
Sarvanakrishnan (ELO 2243) and reputed coach Gurpreet Pal Singh (ELO 2292).
GSCA President Salgaocar hailed the efforts of Anurag stating that this
shows that Mhamal is truly an "International Master in the making". All the
efforts of his parents and coach Akash Thakur have borne rich dividends he
mentioned in his congratulatory message to the young Champion.
The best ever Goan performances now stand as follows -
1. Parsvanath Open, January 2008 - 2342 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
2. Commonwealth, November 2006 - 2328 Bhakti Kulkarni (9 games)
3. National Junior Girls 2007 - 2220 Bhakti Kulkarni (10 games)
4. National B 2006 - 2203 Anurag Mhamal (12 games)
5. Sangli, May 2007 - 2176 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
6. Sangli, May 2005- 2175 Bhakti Kulkarni (7 games)
7. Rochess, December 2006 - 2162 Anurag Mhamal (7 games)
8. Sangli, December 2006 - 2157 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
9. Mangalore 2007 - 2093 Umang Kaisary (7 games)
SOURCE: Sameer Salgaocar - President - GSCA
