‘Tarcar Memorial’ State Selection Chess Youngsters steal show as Gauri emerges Champion
Youngsters stole the show while top seeds tumbled at the ‘Late Shripad Vishnu Kamat Tarcar Memorial’ All Goa State Women’s Chess Championship organized by JCI St. Inez in association with Sports Authority of Goa and Goa Chess Association. In the State selection championship for the Nationals B held at the Indoor stadium, Campal, Panaji, young and talented Gauri Hadkonkar continued her fine run to emerge champion, scoring 7.5 points out of a possible 8 after the end of 8 rounds. Riya Sawant who too displayed fine form throughout the championship emerged runner up securing 7 points. Both Gauri and Riya emerged unbeaten in the Tournament. Nandini Sarapalli emerged third while Riddhi Zantye who has shown great promise this year with some scintillating performances emerged fourth. Aishwarya Thorat emerged as the surprise package of the Championship by emerging fourth. All the three players scored 6.5 points each. The 6th to 10th places were won by Sayani Kerkar, Sakshi Naik Gaonkar, Sampada Barve, Vandana Bandodkar and Disha Verekar who all emerged with 6 points each. Swera Braganza, Vidula Dempo, Urvi Bandekar and Aditi prabhugaonkar were awarded the ‘Virashree Outstanding Player’ prizes for their performances in the Under 7, Under 9, Under 11 and Under 13 categories respectively. Prasanna Swamy and Ruchika Dalvi were awarded ‘Virashree Special Prizes’ for their fine performances. The JCI Promising Player Prizes for Children from rural areas were bagged by Sonika Vernekar, Falshruti Dalvi, Farhin Taz, Afroza B Noor and Ishika Chopdekar. Prajakta Naik won the ‘JCI Young Player Trophy’ while Margaret Fernandes was awarded the ‘JCI Outstanding Senior Player’ Prize. The Tournament was conducted by Mr. Tanay Kaisare, the Chief Arbiter, who was assisted by Mr. D.R. Pinge, Mr. Peter Rebello, Adv. Anita Thorat, Jyotsna Sarapalli, Viju Gaonkar, Santosh Dempo and Latika Ahuja. In all, a record 140 girls/ ladies participated in the Championship. Chief Guest Dr. Dileep N. Deobagkar (Vice Chancellor of Goa University )distributed the Prizes along with Guest of Honour Mr. Chaitanya Tarcar of Virashree Hotels, Special Invitee Dr. Sanjeev Dalvi (Superitendant, Azilo Hospital, Mapusa), Jc Rupesh Golatkar(President, JCI St. Inez), Mr. Ashish Keni(President, GCA) and Mr. D. R. Pinge(Jt. Secretary, GCA). Tournament coordinator Sandeep Heble compered and proposed the vote of Thanks. Photograph of winners with dignitaries available at: http://tinyurl.com/tarcarchesswinners Yours sincerely Sandeep Heble 9326129171 Tournament coordinator
