Saranya Devi Narahari wins the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival in Hyderabad

by Aditya Sur Roy - 23/07/2024

Girl power shines in Hyderabad as 12-year-old Saranya Devi Narahari clinches the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival held at the Sarath City Capital Mall in Hyderabad. On the occasion of FIDE's 100th birthday this chess festival was organized as a part of the Guinness world record attempt. On the 20th of July on International Chess Day, more than 100 players were a part of the event while 100s of people gathered around to witness this one of a kind event. Read the full report for a detailed account of the tournament. Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

12-year-old Saranya wins the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival in Hyderabad on the International Chess Day

On the occasion of FIDE's 100th birthday, the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival in Hyderabad was organized as a part of the Guinness world record attempt at the Sarath City Capital Mall in Hyderabad. Celebrating 100 years of FIDE, this was a World record attempt to play the most number of games in a single day. More than 100 players were a part of the event while 100s of people gathered around to witness this one of a kind event!

Champion - Saranya Devi Narahari - 7.5/9 points

Saranya started as the seventeenth seed of the tournament but her seven wins and consistent performance helped her to get better tie-breaks and become the champion as she tied with 1st-runner-up Ravi Krishna G and 2nd-runner-up Nidhish Shyamal who also scored 7.5/9 points.

Runner-up - Ravi Krishna G (1843) - 7.5/9 points

2nd runner-up - Nidhish Shyamal (1611) - 7.5/9 points

The top 3 players and the Champion of the problem solving contest!

A big thanks to Times of India for covering this event on their newspaper!

Saranya was awarded a medal, a ChessBase 17 and Silman's Complete Endgame Course book. Ravi Krishna G was awarded A Super Grandmaster's Guide to Openings Vol.1 & 2 video course by Anish Giri & Medal and Nidhish was awarded Attack like a Super GM with D.Gukesh video course & medal.

4th - Kandi Santosh Sai Kartik (1586) - 7/9 points

6th - Yashvi Jain (1671) - 7/9 points

7th - Amitpal Singh (2107)- 7/9 points

8th - Sharanya Gade (1784) - 6.5/9 points

9th - Arnab Kumar Mullick (1770) - 6.5/9 points

10th - Jaspal Singh (1668) - 6.5/9 points

In the age group categories all the winners received medals. Here are the winners of each of the age categories:

Under-07 Girls

Rishika Janga - Score - 3/9

Under-09 Girls

Nitya Konduri - Score - 3.5/9

Under-11 Girls

Akshaya Narahari - Score - 5.5/9

Under-13 Girls

Aishwarya N - Score - 6/9

Under-09 Boys

Vihaan Datta Katakam - Score - 5/9

Under-11 Boys

Patlolla Indra Reddy - Score - 6/9

Under-13 Boys

Adhyayan Banerjee - Score - 6/9

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	17	Saranya, Devi Narahari	IND	1684	7,5	48,5	52,5	41,50
2	6	Ravi, Krishna G	IND	1843	7,5	46	49,5	40,25
3	22	Nidhish, Shyamal	IND	1611	7,5	45,5	48,5	39,25
4	25	Kandi, Santosh Sai Karthik	IND	1586	7	51,5	53,5	38,75
5	1	Bharat, Kumar Reddy Poluri	IND	2186	7	47,5	52,5	40,00
6	19	Yashvi, Jain	IND	1671	7	45	47	32,50
7	3	Amitpal, Singh	IND	2107	7	44,5	48,5	37,75
8	10	Gade, Sharanya	IND	1784	6,5	48,5	52,5	33,75
9	11	Arnab, Kumar Mullick	IND	1770	6,5	46,5	50,5	34,25
10	20	Singh, Jaspal	IND	1668	6,5	42	46	31,75
11	12	Ravi, Sangole	IND	1762	6,5	41	42	27,25
12	2	Ramu, K.	IND	2133	6	49,5	54	34,00
13	43	Aishwarya, N	IND	1505	6	47,5	51,5	31,50
14	7	Adhyayan, Banerjee	IND	1835	6	47	51,5	30,50
15	8	Sameer, Kumar Y	IND	1827	6	43,5	47,5	29,50
16	46	Patlolla, Indra Reddy	IND	1490	6	39,5	42	26,50
17	15	Sai, Dinesh Garikipati	IND	1713	6	39	45	28,00
18	16	Natura, Bethi	IND	1704	6	38,5	42	27,00
19	27	Vedant, A Agarwal	IND	1581	6	36,5	42,5	25,75
20	13	Karyasheel, P	IND	1750	6	36	39,5	25,50

Check the final standings

All the prizes were sponsored by ChessBase India and medals by Deccan Chess Academy. One of our sponsors Life Purified also send some goodie bags for the winners, but due to some unforeseen reasons we could give them to the players. We will try to make arrangements to get them delivered to the players if possible.

For the first time in Hyderabad, a puzzle solving content was held as a part of the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival In Hyderabad! Around thirty players were a part of the event and The reigning National Under-9 Girls Chess Champion and World Cup in Chess solving Under-10 champion, Samhita Pungavanam won the 1st ChessBase India Chess Festival puzzle solving competition by score an impressive 8/10.

First place in puzzle solving competition - Samhita Pungavanam

2nd position - Ishaan Kandi

3rd position - Virat Dharmik Mylavarapu

Ishaan Kandi and Virat Dharmik Mylavarapu finished as the 1st and 2nd runner-up. All the three winners were awarded ChessBase India Premium Chess Sets!

Check out the positions the players had to solve in the Problem solving Competition

A special note of thanks to Satanick Mukhuty, our problemist and chess puzzle expert who set the questions and Himank Ghosh who helped in arranging the questions and make the final draft of the paper.

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2-year-old Inara’s first chess move

When the crowd gets involved!

Pavan and Lokesh set the board on fire!

The intense final game!

A display of girl power in the tournament. In the seventh round, two girls (Sharanya and Saranya) were playing in the top board and one of them became the winner.

This article was edited by Himank Ghosh

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