‘Tarcar Memorial’ State Women’s Chess: Prasanna emerges Champion Prasanna Swamy drew her last round match with defending champion Gauri Hadkonkar to emerge the State Women’s Champion at the ‘Late Shripad Vishnu Kamat Tarcar Memorial’ Women’s Chess Championship organized by JCI St. Inez in association with Sports Authority of Goa and Goa Chess Association. In the Championship event played at SAG Indoor stadium, Campal, Prasanna Swamy, the senior warhorse, put up a fine consistent performance throughout the tournament, scoring 5.5 points out of a possible 6 and remained undefeated throughout.
Sukanya Chari emerged runner-up with 5 points while Gauri Hadkonkar and Aishwarya Thorat, also with 5 points each, had to settle for the third and 4th place prizes respectively. The 5th to 7th places were bagged by Aditee Prabhugaonkar, Apurva Naik and Sayani Kerkar respectively, scoring 4.5 points each while Sampada Barve, Vandana Bandodkar and Sachi Bandodkar emerged 8th, 9th and 10th, securing 4 points each. Gunjal Chopdekar, Faiziya Khan, Vidula Dempo and Disha Verenkar bagged the Outstanding Player Prizes in the Under 7, Under 9, Under 11 and Under 13 categories respectively. Promising Player Prizes were awarded to Sushma Kalyan, Tayeb Gaded, Lubne Naz and Prajakta Naik. Chief Guest Dr. Sanjeev Dalvi(Deputy Director, Azilo Hospital, Mapusa))distributed the Prizes along with Guest of Honour Mr. Chaitanya Tarcar of Virashree Hotels, Jc Uma Sakahrdande(President of JCI St. Inez), Mr. Ashish Keni(President, GCA), Mr. Arvind Mhamal(Secretary, GCA) and Arbiters D.R. Pinge and T. Kaisare. Tournament coordinator Sandeep Heble compered and proposed the vote of Thanks. Yours sincerely Sandeep Heble Tournament coordinator, JCI St. inez 9326129171
