Tapan Badamundi wins 12th KT Global School All Odisha Rating Open 2024

by Shahid Ahmed - 24/04/2024

Top two seeds Tapan Badamundi and Harshit Ranjan Sahu scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 each at 12th KT Global School All Odisha Rating Open 2024. Tapan won the tournament due to better tie-break score. Top seed, Harshit had to settle for second place. Six players scored 7/9. Out of them, 13-year-old Shrihan Sabat was placed third. Tapan drew against the eventual runner-up, Harshit and defeated the second runner-up, Shrihan. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹120000. The top three prizes were ₹20000, ₹15000 and ₹10000 along with a trophy each respectively. The five-day nine round Rating Open tournament was organized by and at KT Global School in Khordha, Odisha from 11th to 15th April 2024. This is Tapan's second tournament triumph in 2024. Earlier he won 1st SOA Category B Below 2000 Rating Tournament in February. Photos: IA Jyoti Shankar Nanda

Top two score 8.5/9 and interchange their places

The top seeds of the tournament - Harshit Ranjan Sahu and Tapan Badamundi were the coleaders 7.5/8 with identical tie-breaks heading into the final round. Harshit defeated Shrihan Sabat and Srujan Pranayee Ray lost to Tapan in the final round. Tapan became champion, Harshit second and Shrihan third. The top two rank holders finished a staggering 1.5 points ahead of the rest. Shrihan is also the youngest top ten finisher of the event.

Champion - Tapan Badamundi 8.5/9

Runner-up - Harshit Ranjan Sahu 8.5/9

Second runner-up - Shrihan Sabat 7/9

Top 3: 2nd Harshit Ranjan Sahu 8.5/9, 1st Tapan Badamundi 8.5/9 and 3rd Shrihan Sabat 7/9

Tapan Badamundi scored an unbeaten 8.5/9, finished a half point ahead of others and gained 8.5 Elo rating points

Round 9: Harshit Ranjan Sahu - Shrihan Sabat: 1-0

Players in action

Group photo of the prize winners

Thanks to the Chief Arbiter - IA Jyoti Shankar Nanda for sharing photos.

A total of 195 players took part from various districts all over Odisha in this five-day nine round Rating Open tournament. It was organized by and at KT Global School in Khordha, Odisha from 11th to 15th April 2024. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo	Name	Typ	sex	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	2	Badamundi Tapan			IND	1868	Gajapati	8,5	53	56,5	52,25	0	8	20	32,6
2	1	Harshit Ranjan Sahu			IND	1890	Cuttack	8,5	51,5	56	51,75	0	8	40	57,6
3	5	Shrihan Sabat	U15		IND	1752	Brahmapur	7	53,5	57	40,00	0	7	40	60
4	6	Sahoo Stitaprangya			IND	1719	Jatani	7	51	53,5	40,00	0	6	40	27,2
5	9	Karjee Manindra			IND	1693	Gajapati	7	50	53,5	36,50	0	7	20	31
6	20	Khillo Purna			IND	1626	Koraput	7	49,5	53,5	40,00	0	7	40	78,8
7	14	Mohapatra Pratyush			IND	1680	Bhubaneshwar	7	48,5	51,5	37,00	0	6	40	44,4
8	4	Rabindra Kumar Ojha			IND	1755	Cuttack	7	47,5	50,5	37,00	0	6	20	2,8
9	10	Srujan Pranayee Ray			IND	1693	Bhubaneshwar	6,5	53,5	56,5	36,25	0	6	40	53,2
10	3	Khadanga Omm Aditya			IND	1775	Bhubaneshwar	6,5	51,5	55,5	39,00	0	5	40	-1,6
11	17	Suraj Kumar Moharana			IND	1636	Bhubaneshwar	6,5	50	54	36,25	0	6	20	22,2
12	28	Pratyush Nayak	U15		IND	1588	Cuttack	6,5	48	51	34,50	0	4	40	72
13	30	Sattwik Swain	U08		IND	1586	Bhubaneshwar	6,5	47,5	52	35,75	0	5	40	64
14	26	Panda Priyabrata	S50		IND	1589	Balangir	6,5	45	48,5	30,75	0	6	20	22,4
15	32	Srikanth T J V K			IND	1570	Andhra Pradesh	6,5	44	47	30,75	0	6	20	19,4

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