Koustav Chatterjee wins 1st DD-DBCA All Bengal Open Rating 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/03/2019

Top seed of the tournament Koustav Chatterjee wins 1st DD-DBCA All Bengal Open Rating 2019 convincingly. He scored 8.0/9 and finished a half-point ahead of the runner-up Arpan Das. There was a seven-way tie for the third position at a score of 7.0/9. However CM Aronyak Ghosh had a better tie-break score. Thus he secured 3rd position. Former Indian cricketer Manoj Tiwary inaugurated the tournament which witnessed 218 participants from various district across the state of West Bengal. This was the first tournament under the newly formed DD-DBCA. GM Dibyendu Barua announced in the prize distribution ceremony that he plans to host more rating tournaments in this year. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Confident Koustav wins his first championship in 2019

Koustav Chatterjee receives the beautiful Champion's trophy and ₹30000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

15-year old Koustav Chatterjee, the reigning West Bengal State Sub-Junior and State Youth champion, has been on a roll lately. He secured his second IM-norm in Aeroflot Open 2019 B, then he finished at the 2nd position in a local rapid event few days before playing in the 1st DD-DBCA tournament. He remained undefeated throughout the event and going into the tournament, he was pretty confident about winning it. Here is an interview with Koustav after he won the tournament.

Koustav Chatterjee talks about his games, how Peter Nielsen's DVD helped him to win and more | Video: Shahid Ahmed

India's 2nd GM in history talks about organizing more tournaments, taking his students for tournaments in Europe and more | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Here is an annotated game sent and annotated by the champion himself:

Photo Gallery:

Former Indian Cricketer Manoj Tiwary inaugurated the tournament in presence of C K Dhanuka, trustee of DD-DBCA | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd - Arpan Das played well, scored 7.5 and won ₹20000 cash. His only loss of the event was against the eventual champion of the tournament | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

3rd - Reigning Kolkata District and West Bengal State Blitz champion CM Aronyak Ghosh. He finished at 7.0/9 and bagged home ₹15000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th - Former Kolkata District and former West Bengal State Open champion Debasish Mukherjee. He also scored 7.0/9 and won ₹10000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th - Swapan Mitra finished with 7.0/9 and took home ₹7000 cash. He was the second ever player from West Bengal to qualify in National 'A' from National 'B' after Ananda Kumar Ghosh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th - Former West Bengal State champion Neelash Saha. He also scored 7.0/9 and won ₹5000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th - Dyutimoy Mukherjee also finished at 7.0/9 and received ₹4000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

WIM Chandreyee Hazra was adjudged as the Best Woman. She scored 6.0/9 and won ₹4000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

For more Prize Distribution Ceremony photos, check here.

Final Standings after 9 rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	1		Koustav Chatterjee			IND	2358	8,0	0,0	52,5	57,0	50,00	7	9	8	7,34	0,66	20	13,2
2	4		Arpan Das			IND	2147	7,5	0,0	53,0	58,0	46,00	7	9	7,5	6,94	0,56	20	11,2
3	2	CM	Aronyak Ghosh			IND	2326	7,0	0,0	54,5	59,5	44,75	5	9	7	7,34	-0,34	20	-6,8
4	6		Debasish Mukherjee			IND	2043	7,0	0,0	53,0	58,0	43,00	6	9	7	6,44	0,56	20	11,2
5	5		Mitra Swapan			IND	2097	7,0	0,0	51,5	56,0	43,25	5	9	7	7,77	-0,77	20	-15,4
6	3		Neelash Saha			IND	2310	7,0	0,0	51,5	56,0	42,00	6	9	7	7,34	-0,34	20	-6,8
7	13		Mukherjee Dyutimoy	S60		IND	1788	7,0	0,0	49,0	53,0	39,25	6	9	7	6,60	0,40	20	8,0
8	7		Sourath Biswas			IND	1944	7,0	0,0	48,0	52,5	39,00	6	9	7	7,09	-0,09	40	-3,6
9	18		Shuvam Roy			IND	1712	7,0	0,0	46,5	50,0	37,25	6	9	7	6,76	0,24	40	9,6
10	10		Sanket Chakravarty			IND	1923	6,5	0,0	50,5	55,0	38,25	6	9	6,5	7,41	-0,91	40	-36,4
11	19		Chakrabarti Tamal			IND	1708	6,5	0,0	50,5	54,0	36,75	5	9	6,5	5,00	1,50	20	30,0
12	29		Shankhodip De	U10		IND	1507	6,5	0,0	49,5	53,0	35,25	6	9	6,5	5,14	1,36	40	54,4
13	17		Basak Bishal			IND	1719	6,5	0,0	49,0	53,0	34,75	6	9	6,5	6,41	0,09	20	1,8
14	15		Aditya Bikram Paul	U12		IND	1759	6,5	0,0	48,5	53,0	36,00	6	8	6,5	5,72	0,78	40	31,2
15	11		Praloy Sahoo			IND	1849	6,5	0,0	48,0	51,5	33,25	5	9	6,5	7,18	-0,68	40	-27,2
16	12		Soham Dey			IND	1789	6,5	0,0	47,5	51,5	35,25	6	8	5,5	5,50	0,00	40	0,0
17	20		Pratyay Chowdhury			IND	1664	6,5	0,0	46,5	50,5	32,75	6	9	6,5	5,79	0,71	40	28,4
18	34		Shounak Mazumder			IND	1472	6,5	0,0	45,0	48,0	31,75	6	8	5,5	4,13	1,37	40	54,8
19	55		Pramit Chanda			IND	1367	6,5	0,0	44,5	47,5	30,00	6	7	4,5	2,43	2,07	40	82,8
20	46		Rachishnu Datta	U12		IND	1393	6,5	0,0	44,0	48,0	32,75	5	8	5,5	3,69	1,81	40	72,4
21	25		Aritrya Pal	U12		IND	1549	6,5	0,0	43,5	48,0	33,75	6	9	6,5	6,65	-0,15	40	-6,0
22	57		Arkya Chatterjee	U12		IND	1357	6,5	0,0	42,5	44,5	27,75	6	7	4,5	3,34	1,16	40	46,4
23	8	WIM	Chandreyee Hajra		w	IND	1927	6,0	0,0	47,0	51,0	32,25	4	9	6	6,54	-0,54	20	-10,8
24	33		Dhritabrata Kundu			IND	1473	6,0	0,0	47,0	50,0	30,25	5	8	5	3,72	1,28	40	51,2
25	32		Subrata Bhar			IND	1474	6,0	0,0	46,5	51,0	33,50	4	8	5	4,26	0,74	40	29,6
26	37		Eshan Bhattacharjee	U12		IND	1453	6,0	0,0	45,5	48,5	28,50	6	8	5	4,25	0,75	40	30,0
27	30		Anushka Gupta		w	IND	1491	6,0	0,0	44,5	47,5	28,75	5	9	6	6,27	-0,27	40	-10,8
28	42		Mrittika Mallick	F12	w	IND	1405	6,0	0,0	44,0	47,5	28,75	5	8	5	4,65	0,35	40	14,0
29	48		Tushar Barua			IND	1386	6,0	0,0	43,0	46,5	28,00	6	8	5	3,35	1,65	40	66,0
30	59		Sneha Halder	F10	w	IND	1328	6,0	0,0	43,0	46,0	27,00	6	8	5	3,61	1,39	40	55,6

For Complete Standings, click here.

The tournament was organized by and at Dhanuka Dhunseri Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy in association with AllSport Management from 15th - 20th March 2019. DD-DBCA plans on organizing the next edition very soon.