Koustav Chatterjee wins WB State Sub-Junior and Youth consecutively

by Shahid Ahmed - 17/07/2018

Koustav Chatterjee becomes the first player in West Bengal to win two different West Bengal State Championships consecutively within two weeks. Koustav won State Sub-Junior for the very first time and within 8 days, he won the first edition of State Youth championship. He had won State u-11 and u-13 before in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Koustav won both Sub-Junior and State Youth convincingly as he finished half point ahead of the runner up. Bristy Mukherjee won State Sub Junior Girls emphatically as she finished a full point ahead of a pack. Photo: Amruta Mokal

Koustav and Bristy are 41st West Bengal State Sub-Junior champions

Top 3 in the Open category: Champion Koustav Chatterjee (left), Runner-up Aronyak Ghosh (center) and Arpan Das (right) with Chief Guest IM Nisha Mohota | Photo: Souvik Chakraborty

Top 3 in the Girls category: Champion Bristy Mukherjee (right), Mehendi Sil (center) and Sudipa Halder (left) with Chief Guest IM Nisha Mohota | Photo: Souvik Chakraborty

3rd The Heritage incorporating 41st West Bengal State Sub-Junior Chess Championship 2018 flex in front of the entrance

Koustav Chatterjee scored 7.5/8, finished half point ahead of the runner-up of the tournament, CM Aronyak Ghosh who scored 7.0/8. Arpan Das Jr. scored 6.5/8 and due to a better tie-break score, he finished as the second runner-up, out of the pack of 8 players who also finished at 6.5/8. Koustav sent us two annotated games from both his championship winning tournaments.

First game is from 41st WB State Sub-Junior of round 5 against Sanket Chakravarty. Watch the game and see his annotations where he talks about what was going through his mind when he played the game.

The second game is from 1st WB State Youth of round 6 against Srijit Paul. However this time, round 6 is a penultimate round. Koustav minutely describes why this win was important to him for winning the championship.

Top seed Koustav is focused and poised to win it

If you go by his t-shirt words then he is definitely bound to surprise you. The eventual runner-up of the tournament Aronyak Ghosh

Arpan Das Jr. scored 6.5/8 and finished at 3rd position

Bristy Mukherjee scored 6.5/7 and finished a full point ahead to become champion in the girls category

Mehendi Sil scored 5.5/7 and due to a better tie-break score she finished at 2nd position ahead of a pack of four players

Defending champion Sudipa Haldar had a podium finish with a score of 5.5/7 at the 3rd position

Souhardo Basak was undefeated till the last round, a loss against the eventual champion cost him a few places. He is definitely a talent to watch out for.

The Heritage School which was the venue for the 41st WB State Sub-Junior has a pillar which is completely dedicated towards chess pieces in art form

Round 2 highlights of 41st WB State sub-junior in the open category

Round 1 highlights of 41st WB State sub-junior in the girls category

Both Koustav Chatterjee and Bristy Mukherjee went on to win Bronze and Silver medal in under 16 open and under 14 girls category in Commonwealth Chess Championships after this event.

Final Standings of 41st WB State Sub-Junior 2018 in Open category

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1		Koustav Chatterjee			IND	2365	7,5	0,0	40,0	44,0	40,50	7	7,5	7,07	0,43	20	8,6
2	2	CM	Aronyak Ghosh			IND	2271	7,0	0,0	42,5	46,0	39,00	6	7	6,77	0,23	20	4,6
3	4		Arpan Das (Jr)			IND	2078	6,5	0,0	41,0	44,5	31,75	5	5,5	6,00	-0,50	40	-20,0
4	7		Sanket Chakravarty			IND	1836	6,5	0,0	40,0	44,0	33,00	6	5,5	4,47	1,03	40	41,2
5	3		Utsab Chatterjee			IND	2105	6,5	0,0	40,0	43,5	35,00	6	6,5	7,31	-0,81	40	-32,4
6	5		Shuban Saha			IND	1939	6,5	0,0	40,0	43,0	33,25	6	5,5	4,93	0,57	40	22,8
7	8		Soham Dey			IND	1799	6,5	0,0	37,0	39,0	28,75	5	5,5	6,00	-0,50	40	-20,0
8	18		Swarnava Biswas			IND	1614	6,5	0,0	36,5	40,5	33,00	6	5,5	4,79	0,71	40	28,4
9	6		Soumma Chakraborty			IND	1921	6,5	0,0	36,0	38,0	30,75	6	5,5	5,79	-0,29	40	-11,6
10	12		Ayan Pal			IND	1663	6,5	0,0	35,5	38,5	30,50	6	5,5	5,33	0,17	40	6,8

Complete standings

Final Standings of 41st WB State Sub-Junior 2018 in Girls category

Rk.	SNo	Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1	Bristy Mukherjee		w	IND	1814	6,5	0,0	28,5	32,0	29,50	6	6,5	6,34	0,16	40	6,4
2	3	Mehendi Sil		w	IND	1611	5,5	0,0	28,0	31,5	24,50	5	5,5	5,76	-0,26	40	-10,4
3	2	Sudipa Haldar		w	IND	1621	5,5	0,0	27,0	30,5	23,50	5	5,5	5,79	-0,29	40	-11,6
4	7	Sanika Sengupta		w	IND	1403	5,5	0,0	25,0	28,0	21,00	5	5,5	5,67	-0,17	40	-6,8
5	13	Das Annika		w	IND	1288	5,5	0,0	25,0	27,5	20,25	5	4,5	3,14	1,36	40	54,4
6	4	Diya Chowdhury		w	IND	1544	5,0	0,0	32,0	35,0	23,50	4	5	4,32	0,68	40	27,2

Complete standings

Final Standings of 1st WB State Youth 2018

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2		Koustav Chatterjee	IND	2365	6,5	0,0	29,5	33,0
2	4	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	IND	2271	6,0	0,0	30,0	33,0
3	5		Subhayan Kundu	IND	2192	6,0	0,0	28,5	32,0
4	3		Srijit Paul	IND	2347	6,0	0,0	28,0	31,5
5	6		Arpan Das	IND	2180	5,5	0,0	31,5	35,0
6	1		Kaustuv Kundu	IND	2371	5,5	0,0	30,0	33,5
7	25		Shouvik Kar	IND	1712	5,5	0,0	27,5	30,0
8	8		Suvradeepta Das	IND	2017	5,5	0,0	26,5	28,5
9	9		Shuban Saha	IND	1939	5,5	0,0	25,5	28,5
10	10		Debankan Dhara	IND	1923	5,0	0,0	29,0	33,0
	12		Koustav Chakraborty	IND	1876	5,0	0,0	29,0	33,0

Complete standings