Mitrabha Guha wins Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial

by Shahid Ahmed - 25/08/2017

West Bengal chess has a new star and he's 16-year-old Mitrabha Guha. He is the reigning national sub junior champion and now adds another feather to his cap. The 2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial chess tournament was held from 6th to the 10th of August 2017 in Siliguri. Mitrabha was the top seed and stayed true to his billing and won the tournament. Another youngster, Aronyak Ghosh, about whom we recently reported on our newspage, finished second. Santu Mondal and Tamal Chakrabarti finished third and fourth respectively. We have pictures from the event.

FM Mitrabha Guha of Kolkata won 2^nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament 2017 by scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. There was a four-way tie for the championship going into the final round of the tournament between FM Mitrabha Guha, CM Aronyak Ghosh, Santu Mondal and Tamal Chakrabarti with 7 points apiece. They clashed against each other in the last round and both the games ended in draws, resulting in all of them finishing at 7.5 points each. Due to a better tie-break score, FM Mitrabha Guha emerged as the champion. CM Aronyak Ghosh secured second position, while Santu Mondal and Tamal Chakrabarti had to be content with third and fourth place respectively.

L to R: 2^nd Runner Up Santu Mondal, Champion FM Mitrabha Guha & 1^st Runner Up CM Aronyak Ghosh

The tournament took place in Uttar Banga Marwari Bhawan in Siliguri, West Bengal from 6^th – 11^th August 2017 in which 146 players participated across various states of India.

The Venue: Uttar Banga Marwari Bhawan in Siliguri

The tournament hall

Champion FM Mitrabha Guha in action against…

…local lad Sajal Basak

Final Rankings:

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	FM	Mitrabha Guha			2323	7,5	0,0	53,5	58,0	46,75	7,0
2	2	CM	Aronyak Ghosh	U15		2170	7,5	0,0	52,0	56,0	45,25	6,0
3	3		Santu Mondal			2122	7,5	0,0	50,0	54,0	43,00	6,0
4	15		Chakrabarti Tamal			1790	7,5	0,0	46,5	50,0	41,50	6,0
5	5		Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar			2062	7,0	0,0	48,0	52,5	38,00	6,0
6	6		Gurung Rohit			1987	7,0	0,0	47,5	49,5	36,00	7,0
7	16		Shuban Saha	U15		1770	7,0	0,0	44,0	47,5	36,50	6,0
8	7		Tamang Thendup			1938	6,5	0,0	49,5	54,0	37,00	5,0
9	4		Basak Sajal			2115	6,5	0,0	49,0	52,0	33,50	6,0
10	14		Sanjit Saha			1797	6,5	0,0	48,5	52,5	34,25	6,0
11	8		Gurung Rahul	U15		1930	6,5	0,0	44,5	48,5	32,75	6,0
12	26		Madhusudan Sahu			1588	6,5	0,0	43,5	48,0	33,75	5,0
13	17		Aneek Das			1747	6,5	0,0	43,5	47,5	32,75	5,0
14	25		Shuvam Roy	U15		1591	6,5	0,0	43,0	47,0	30,75	6,0
15	60		Namish Sharma	U13		1294	6,5	0,0	43,0	44,0	29,75	5,0
16	39		Aniket Mondal	U13		1462	6,5	0,0	41,5	44,5	29,25	6,0
17	23		Meher Rudranshu Kumar			1626	6,5	0,0	38,0	42,0	30,00	6,0
18	22		Sudarshan Mitra			1663	6,0	0,0	49,0	52,5	32,00	6,0
19	18		Akash Tiwari			1735	6,0	0,0	48,5	52,5	32,50	6,0
20	11		Hilal Mondal			1842	6,0	0,0	45,5	49,5	29,50	6,0

Complete list of final rankings

The tournament was organized by Marwari Yuva Manch Siliguri Branch in association with Darjeeling District Chess Association.

Photographs by: Joint Secretary of AICF, IM Atanu Lahiri and FA Mrinal Ghosh

Mitrabha Guha - the rising talent of West Bengal

Mitrabha Guha apart from having an impressive rating of 2323, is also the national under-15 champion of India

Just to give you an idea of his style of play we present to you his win against Jayakumaar with annotations by Mitrabha himself:

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