Dibyendu Barua wins Paritosh Bhattacharyya Memorial Chess Tournament

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/08/2018

Dibyendu Barua wins Paritosh Bhattacharyya Memorial All Bengal Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2018. The maestro organized the event for the family of Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya to raise funds. All cash prize winners donated their prize money and many other people donated through various methods. Sandipan Chanda whose first coach was Paritosh, flew from Harika's wedding ceremony in Hyderabad to support the family of his first coach. Diptayan Ghosh, Saptarshi RoyChowdhury, Neeraj Kumar Mishra, Sayantan Das, Somak Palit played the tournament in his honor. Neelotpal Das was also there despite not playing the tournament to show his support.

Dibyendu Barua organizes a tournament in honor of a pioneer chess coach of his academy

Paritosh Bhattacharya worked at Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy for more than 12 years

Dibyendu Barua organized a one-day all Bengal rapid tournament to raise funds for the family of Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya who has worked for his academy for more than 12 years. The tournament was supported by top players of West Bengal and India. Sandipan Chanda who was attending Harika's wedding at Hyderabad, flew back to Kolkata only for this reason. Neelotpal Das did not play the tournament, still he was there to support. Neeraj Kumar Mishra made his way to Kolkata only for this reason.

Dibyendu Barua hands over the cheque of ₹214201 (2 lacs fourteen thousand and two hundred one rupees) amount collected from all donations to Poulami Bhattacharyya, daughter of Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya

Sandipan Chanda, Saptarshi RoyChowdhury, Dibyendu Barua, Neeraj Kumar Mishra, Bipin Shenoy, Diptayan Ghosh and Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya's wife Mousumi Bhattacharyya lights up the candle during inauguration | Photo: Saheli Dhar

Dibyendu Barua scored 6.5/7, receives the first prize, however he donated the entire cash amount to the family of Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya

There was a four-way tie at the first position. Diptayan Ghosh also scored 6.5/7 and he secured 2nd position based on tie-break score

Neeraj Kumar Mishra played fantastic chess and he was placed 3rd. He also scored 6.5/7

Mitrabha Guha scored 6.5/7 and settled for 4th position. He defeated top seed Sandipan Chanda and drew with Diptayan Ghosh

Anustoop Biswas scored 6.0/7 and he was declared joint 5th with...

...Suvradeepta Das who also scored 6.0/7 and their tie-break score was same

Arpita Mukherjee secured 7th position due to a better tie-break score by scoring 5.5/7

Rajdeep Sarkar was placed 8th with a score of 5.5/7

Arindam Mukherjee scored 5.5/7 and secured 9th position

Tamal Chakrabarty receives 10th prize. He also scored 5.5/7

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Professor Chandan Banerjee made sure that Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya's daughter Poulami Bhattacharya's college fees are completely waived off

Aronyak Ghosh might have gone down against soft spoken powerhouse Diptayan Ghosh, but he won a tournament within six days after this battle

Childhood friends share a good laugh before the match, but when the clock starts ticking, game face is on

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Former National Rapid Champion Neelotpal Das was present during the tournament to show his support

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2600+ GM Sandipan Chanda showcases correct technique in the endgame

Famous and veteran trainer IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra defeats GM Sandipan Chanda

GM Saptarshi RoyChowdhury tries to checkmate with two knights

Childhood friends and rivals over the board faced off each other in a tournament after almost two decades

The prodigal Mitrabha defeated the top seed of the tournament GM Sandipan Chanda

GM Diptayan Ghosh showcased brilliant technique in the endgame

Sandipan Chanda talks about his first coach Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya in a candid interview

Neelotpal Das talks about his childhood coach Late Paritosh Bhattacharyya and his memories of him

Dibyendu Barua talks about his academy's coach whom he has known for a long time

Final Ranking after 7 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	5	GM	Barua Dibyendu			IND	2404	6,5	0,0	32,5	34,5	31,25	6
2	2	GM	Ghosh Diptayan			IND	2521	6,5	0,0	31,5	35,5	32,75	6
3	7	IM	Mishra Neeraj-Kumar			IND	2227	6,5	0,0	31,5	33,5	30,25	6
4	11	FM	Mitrabha Guha			IND	2036	6,5	0,0	31,0	34,0	30,75	6
5	18		Anustoop Biswas			IND	1900	6,0	0,0	29,5	32,5	26,00	6
	21		Suvradeepta Das			IND	1827	6,0	0,0	29,5	32,5	26,00	6
7	19	WFM	Arpita Mukherjee		w	IND	1837	5,5	0,0	31,5	34,5	25,25	5
8	13	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar			IND	1997	5,5	0,0	30,5	33,5	24,25	5
9	8		Arindam Mukherjee			IND	2157	5,5	0,0	29,5	32,5	25,25	5
10	23		Chakrabarti Tamal			IND	1767	5,5	0,0	29,5	30,5	21,25	5
11	10	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	U16		IND	2063	5,5	0,0	29,0	32,5	23,75	5
12	14		Arpan Das			IND	1965	5,5	0,0	29,0	32,0	24,25	5
13	25		Sonkalan Bharati			IND	1706	5,5	0,0	29,0	31,0	21,75	5
14	17		Srijit Paul			IND	1913	5,5	0,0	28,0	30,0	22,75	5
15	3	GM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi			IND	2444	5,5	0,0	26,5	29,5	21,50	5
16	1	GM	Chanda Sandipan			IND	2602	5,0	0,0	33,0	36,5	23,50	5
17	12		Debarshi Mukherjee			IND	2027	5,0	0,0	31,5	33,0	19,00	5
18	4	IM	Das Sayantan			IND	2431	5,0	0,0	31,0	34,0	21,00	5
19	30		Soumyaditya Saha			IND	1650	5,0	0,0	28,0	31,5	22,00	5
20	46		Souhardo Basak	U12		IND	1439	5,0	0,0	28,0	30,0	17,00	5
21	6	IM	Palit Somak			IND	2325	5,0	0,0	27,0	29,0	20,00	5
22	45		Sanket Chakravarty	U14		IND	1449	5,0	0,0	27,0	29,0	18,00	4
23	62		Mouhurtik Ray	U14		IND	1277	5,0	0,0	27,0	28,0	15,50	5
24	44		Atri Chattopadhyay	U14		IND	1456	5,0	0,0	26,5	29,5	19,00	5
25	53		Anuronan Das			IND	1378	5,0	0,0	26,5	29,5	18,75	4
26	32		Sayantan Chandra			IND	1623	5,0	0,0	26,5	28,5	18,75	4
27	40		Aditya Bikram Paul	U12		IND	1486	5,0	0,0	26,5	28,5	18,00	5
28	38		Arijit Mukherjee			IND	1533	5,0	0,0	26,5	28,5	17,00	5
29	199		Subhamay Ghosh			IND	0	5,0	0,0	26,0	29,0	19,75	4
30	50		Soham Dey	U14		IND	1408	5,0	0,0	26,0	28,0	17,00	5

Paritosh Bhattacharyya memorial chess tournament

Dibyendu Barua wins Paritosh Bhattacharyya Memorial Chess Tournament

Dibyendu Barua organizes a tournament in honor of a pioneer chess coach of his academy

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Final Ranking after 7 Rounds

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