1st Indian Chess Club tournament in Bahrain

by Himank Ghosh - 22/10/2022

The 1st Indian Club Rapid Chess Tournament 2022 was held at the Indian Club, Manama Kingdom of Bahrain on 14th of October 2022. There were a total of 140 participants from 11 countries. The event had a total prize fund of $1500. Mero Aghiad from Syria won the event scoring 6.5/7. Vismay Sachar was the best-performing Indian player - he scored 5.5/7 and finished in 11th position, also getting the 1st prize in the Under-14 age category. A lot of the Indian players won category prizes, which were distributed by Shaikh Abdulrahman Bin Rashid Al Khalifa. Photo: Arjun Kakkadath.

1st event by Indian Club Bahrain

This was one of the biggest ever Chess Championship in Bahrain, conducted by Indian Club Bahrain in association with Arjun's Chess Academy. There were a total of 140 participants from 11 countries. The event saw a prize fund of $1500, with a first prize of USD 400. Mero Aghiad from Syria scored 6.5/7 to win the tournament. Novo Lee Anthony and Elsehenawy Ibrahim both scored 6/7, but Anthony took the 2nd place due to better tiebreaks.

Aghiad was the 12th seed of the event, and went on to beat 2 titled players and win the event!

Winner of the tournament: Mero Aghiad (1595), 6.5/7 | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Runner up: Novo Lee Anthony, 6/7 | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

A total of 88 Indian players took part in the tournament out of 140. While no Indian player was in the top 10, lots of them won category prizes. Following are the prizes which the Indian players won:

Under-8 Category: Aaryan Sudheer Menon (2nd)

Aniruddh Anup (3rd)

Dhruvi Shrikant Panigrahi from India stood 1st in the U-10 Category, scoring 4.5/7 |Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Under-10 Category: Dhruvi Shrikant Panigrahi (1st)

Joel Dilip (3rd)

Rishi Kankhara won the U12 Category. The top 3 players were all Indians! | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Under-12 Category: 1st - Rishi Kankhara

2nd - Rudra Kankhara

3rd - Dhrupad Lohidas

Vismay Sachar had the best score among the Indian players - he finished 11th overall, scoring 5.5/7 and winning the U-14 category. |Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Under - 14 Category: 1st - Vismay Sachar

2nd - Vyom Gupta

3rd - Pranav Bobby Sekhar

Dhansika N won the best women prize. She finished 20th overall, scoring 5/7. | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Women's Category: 1st - Dhansika N.

2nd - Tanya Singh

3rd - Shayna Nagvekar

Alzayer Abdulla won the best Bahraini player prize, scoring 5/7 and finishing 14th overall. | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

Bahraini Category: 1st - Alzayer Abdulla

2nd - Hasan Zaki

3rd - Faqihi Abdulaziz

The packed tournament hall. | Photo: Arjun Kakkadath

All the prizes were distributed by Shaikh Abdulrahman Bin Rashid Al Khalifa. The Indian Club Bahrain & Arjun's Chess Academy Bahrain organized the whole 7-round rapid event at The Indian Club, Zubara Avenue, Area 308, Manama, Bahrain. The time control of the event was 10 minutes+5 second increment from move 1.

A special thanks to Tournament director and deputy chief arbiter Arjun Kakkadath for sending us all the Photos and details. The delegates of Indian Club and Arjun's Chess Academy have informed us that there will be many more events coming up in the future!

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	14		Mero Aghiad.				SYR	1595	6,5	0	30	27,25	6	2	5	4,5	1,18	3,32	20	66,4
2	111		Novo Lee Anthony				PHI	0	6	0	33,5	28,50	5	2	7	6
3	8		Elsehenawy Ibrahim				EGY	1754	6	0	33	27,25	5	2	5	4,5	4,00	0,50	20	10
4	9		Lumanog Eddie Jr. L.				PHI	1694	6	0	31,5	26,00	6	3	5	4	3,99	0,01	20	0,2
5	7	AIM	Alaras Alvin				PHI	1911	6	0	28	23,50	6	4	6	5	5,73	-0,73	20	-14,6
6	1	FM	Ayyad Husain				BRN	2217	5,5	0	34	24,75	5	4	5	4,5	4,98	-0,48	20	-9,6
7	6		A.Lateef Ahmad				BRN	1956	5,5	0	34	24,50	5	2	6	4,5	5,44	-0,94	20	-18,8
8	2		Matic Dusan				SRB	2107	5,5	0	32	23,75	5	2	6	4,5	5,98	-1,48	20	-29,6
9	5	FM	Ayyad Maher				BRN	2009	5,5	0	31	22,75	5	2	5	3,5	4,92	-1,42	20	-28,4
10	34		Taqi Mohamed				BRN	1182	5,5	0	31	22,25	5	1	4	2,5	0,46	2,04	20	40,8
11	17	AFM	Vismay Sachar	U14			IND	1378	5,5	0	28,5	20,25	5	4	4	2,5	1,65	0,85	20	17
12	21		Vyom Gupta	U14			IND	1277	5,5	0	26	18,25	5	4	2	1,5	0,01	1,49	20	29,8
13	16		Pranav Bobby Sekhar	U14			IND	1500	5	0	34	23,00	5	3	4	2	2,06	-0,06	20	-1,2
14	70		Alzayer Abdulla				BRN	0	5	0	34	22,50	5	1	6	4
15	93		Hasan Zaki				BRN	0	5	0	31,5	21,50	5	3	7	5
16	35		Faqihi Abdulaziz				BRN	1163	5	0	31	20,00	5	4	3	1	0,36	0,64	20	12,8
17	12		Shaker Musab				BRN	1628	5	0	30,5	19,50	5	3	5	3	4,03	-1,03	20	-20,6
18	18	ACM	Rishi N	U12			IND	1321	5	0	30,5	19,00	5	3	5	3	2,40	0,60	20	12
19	65		Alatoom Ibrahim				BRN	0	5	0	30	19,50	5	3	5	3
20	32		Dhansika N	U12	w		IND	1190	5	0	29	17,50	5	3	3	1	0,18	0,82	20	16,4
21	25		Rudra	U12			IND	1245	5	0	28,5	19,50	4	2	2	0,5	1,24	-0,74	20	-14,8
22	38		Dhrupad Lohidas	U12			IND	1130	5	0	27,5	16,50	5	2	2	0	0,00	0,00	20	0
23	19		James Thomas				IND	1297	5	0	26	15,50	5	3	2	2	1,60	0,40	20	8
24	131		Temporas Michael				PHI	0	5	0	24	16,00	5	1	3	2
25	20		Fares Qanair	U12			JOR	1293	5	0	23	14,50	5	1	2	1	0,81	0,19	20	3,8
26	23	AFM	Prithvi Raj Prajeesh	U14			IND	1256	4,5	0	32	19,25	4	2	4	3	2,24	0,76	20	15,2
27	4	CM	Ben Yahya Larbi				MAR	2041	4,5	0	31,5	17,75	4	1	5	2,5	4,86	-2,36	20	-47,2
28	15		Felisilda Lou				BRN	1518	4,5	0	30	17,25	4	1	3	1,5	2,75	-1,25	20	-25
29	33		Dhruvi Shrikant Panigrahi	U10	w		IND	1183	4,5	0	30	13,75	4	2	3	1,5	0,10	1,40	20	28
30	48		Kablaoui Fouad Fahed				LBN	1064	4,5	0	29,5	16,75	4	1	4	1,5	0,33	1,17	20	23,4

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