Shashikant and Jennitha win All India Open for Physically Disabled

by Shahid Ahmed - 17/05/2019

Top seed and the favorites of the tournament, IM Shashikant Kutwal of Maharashtra and WIM Jennitha Anto K of Tamil Nadu, win All India Open Championship 2019 for Physically Disabled held at Trichy, Tamil Nadu on 4th and 5th May 2019. The event was a selection tournament for 19th IPCA World Championship which will take place in Slovakia next month. Both Shashikant and Jennitha remained undefeated throughout the tournament as expected. Jennitha finished at 100% score of 5.0/5, Shashikant made a draw in the final round and finished with 4.5/5 to clinch the title. Here is a pictorial report of the tournament. Photo: Baskaran

Shashikant and Jennitha are the Physically disabled National Champions

IM Shashikant Kutwal scored 4.5/5. He received the Champion's certificate | Photo: Bhaskaran

Here is an annotated game by IM Shashikant Kutwal sent to us:

WIM Jennitha Anto scored 4.5/5. She also received the Champion's certificate | Photo: Bhaskaran

Check out this nice miniature game in the last round by WIM Jennitha K Anto:

Spastics Society of Tiruchirapalli is the place where Medical Classification took place | Photo: Bhaskaran

Medical Classification in progress | Photo: Bhaskaran

The tournament flex | Photo: Bhaskaran

Inaugural move is being made | Photo: Bhaskaran

The tournament hall | Photo: Bhaskaran

All the players in action | Photo: Bhaskaran

Final Standings after 5 Rounds in Open category

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	IM	Shashikant Kutwal	IND	2150	Maharashtra	4,5	0,0	14,5	12,50
2	2		Naveen Kumar A.	IND	2035	Andhra Pradesh	4,0	0,0	17,0	12,75
3	5		Kannan.V	IND	1500	Tamil Nadu	4,0	0,0	15,5	11,50
4	10		Murahari A H	IND	1198	Tamil Nadu	4,0	0,0	15,0	11,25
5	6		Prakash Banskar	IND	1292	Madhya Pradesh	4,0	0,0	12,5	8,00
6	3	CM	Samarth J Rao	IND	1593	Karnataka	3,5	0,0	15,5	9,50
7	4		Sathya Moorthy	IND	1513	Pondicherry	3,0	0,0	17,5	9,00
8	7		Angappan A	IND	1267	Tamil Nadu	3,0	0,0	15,0	8,00
9	9		Vaibhav Gautam	IND	1237	New Delhi	3,0	0,0	13,0	5,00
10	8		Yesu Babuk	IND	1265	Andhra Pradesh	3,0	0,0	13,0	5,00
11	18		David R	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	3,0	0,0	12,0	6,00
12	26		Sonu Bist	IND	0	New Delhi	3,0	0,0	12,0	5,50
13	11		Venkatesan J	IND	1089	Tamil Nadu	3,0	0,0	10,5	4,50
14	12		Aji Goodwill	IND	1077	Kerala	2,5	0,0	15,5	6,75
15	21		Hari Hara Sudhan	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	2,5	0,0	11,5	4,25
16	28		Vidyadhar K Kelkar	IND	0	Maharashtra	2,5	0,0	9,5	3,25
17	19		Deepak Ravi Lal	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	2,0	0,0	13,0	3,00
18	22		Kamalanathan K	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	2,0	0,0	12,5	2,50
19	16		Arockia Samy M	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	2,0	0,0	12,0	2,00
20	17		Bakthavachalam	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	2,0	0,0	11,0	2,50
21	14		Ajay Kumar Sharma	IND	0	New Delhi	2,0	0,0	9,5	1,50
22	13		Saravanan C	IND	1018	Tamil Nadu	1,5	0,0	12,0	2,25
23	25		Sakthivel S	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	1,5	0,0	10,5	1,75
24	24		Praneeth K S S R A	IND	0	Telangana	1,5	0,0	9,5	1,00
25	23		Murali Vignesh A	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	1,0	0,0	11,0	0,50
26	27		Umashankar D	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	1,0	0,0	9,5	1,50
27	15		Arnold Sugadev T	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	1,0	0,0	9,0	0,00
28	20		Hakkeem A	IND	0	Tamil Nadu	0,0	0,0	9,5	0,00

Final Standings after 5 Rounds in Women's category

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	WIM	Jennitha Anto K.	IND	1972	5,0	0,0	14,0	5
2	4		Kanishri R P	IND	0	4,0	0,0	11,5	4
3	2		Dhanusya S G	IND	0	3,0	2,0	16,0	3
4	5		Karthiga M	IND	0	3,0	0,0	13,0	2
5	6		Mohana Priya	IND	0	3,0	0,0	11,5	3
6	9		Valarmathy	IND	0	2,0	0,0	13,5	1
7	3		Jeyarani	IND	0	2,0	0,0	12,5	1
8	8		Shanthi	IND	0	2,0	0,0	10,0	1
9	7		Nagamani K	IND	0	1,0	0,0	11,0	0