Biggest Prize fund at the Biggest stage

17th KIIT International Chess Festival 2026 was one of the biggest chess tournament ever happened on Indian Soil. Over 2000 players took part across all three categories, making this tournament a grand success. The total prize fund was 1.31 Crores, making it the largest prize fund in the history of indian chess tournaments.

GM Boris Savchenko delivered where it mattered the most and scored an unbeaten 8.5/10 to win the tournament with a grand prize of ₹7,50,000.

Champion: Boris Savchenko | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Top 3 finishers (L to R): 2nd Aleksandrov Aleksej, Champion: Boris Savchenko, and 3rd Aronyak Ghosh | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

GM Mayank Chakraborty secured 4th place | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Boris Savchenko before one of his games | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Boris drew his second game against Nidhish, but came back stronger to win the tournament and cross 2500 again

The tournament was organised at Viswanathan Anand International Chess Hall, Campus 10, KIIT University, Patia, India | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Young Talent from Madhya Pradesh, Madhvendra Pratap Sharma, secured 8th place | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Madhvendra scored a nice win over GM Laxman RR | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

9th Place: Wagh Suyog, 10th Place: Benny Aizenberg | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Watch out for these young talents

CM Advik Amit Agrawal | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

FM Aarit Kapil | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

CM Sarbartho Mani | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Audi Ameya suffered a loss against GM Boris Savchenko in the 9th round | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Aronyak Ghosh defeated GM Ido Gorshtein in the penultimate round | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

FM Aarit Kapil showed an amazing performance and secured 2nd place in the Open Blitz tournament after scoring 8/9 points | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Blitz Standings

Rk.

SNo

Name

FED

Rtg

Club/City

Pts.

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

1

3

IM

Aronyak, Ghosh

IND

2476

RSPB

8,5

55,5

60,5

56,75

2

17

FM

Aarit, Kapil

IND

2303

DL

8

54,5

59,5

51

3

1

GM

Ghosh, Diptayan

IND

2529

RSPB

8

52

56

48

4

54

FM

Prakash, Ram

IND

1974

PB

7,5

53

58,5

47,25

5

7

IM

Levin, Guy

ISR

2420

ISR

7,5

53

57

45,75

6

15

GM

Laxman, R.R.

IND

2323

ICF

7,5

53

57

45,75

7

22

GM

Nguyen, Van Huy

VIE

2256

VIE

7,5

52,5

56,5

45,75

8

141

Atiksh, Thakur

IND

1821

HP

7,5

52

55,5

44,75

9

8

GM

Manik, Mikulas

SVK

2395

SVK

7,5

51,5

55,5

43,25

10

41

CM

Gokul, G

IND

2031

TN

7,5

49,5

54

43,25

Details

Chief Arbiter Vasanth B H with Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

A packed auditorium before the start of the Closing ceremony | Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

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Replay Available Games

Prize List

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds

Rk.

SNo

 

Name

Typ

sex

Gr

FED

Rtg

Club/City

Pts.

 TB1 

 TB2 

 TB3 

 TB4 

 TB5 

1

9

GM

Savchenko Boris

RUS

2489

RUS

8,5

59,5

63,5

53,25

0

7

2

17

GM

Aleksandrov Aleksej

BLR

2433

BLR

8

60

64,5

50,5

0

7

3

5

IM

Aronyak Ghosh

IND

2541

RSPB

8

60

64

50,75

0

6

4

7

IM

Mayank Chakraborty

U17

IND

2506

AS

8

59

64,5

51,25

0

6

5

29

GM

Nguyen Duc Hoa

VIE

2381

VIE

8

56,5

62

49,5

0

7

6

2

GM

Gorshtein Ido

ISR

2553

ISR

7,5

63

68,5

49,75

0

6

7

15

IM

Sriram Adarsh Uppala

U17

IND

2465

TG

7,5

61,5

66,5

49,25

0

5

8

30

FM

Madhvendra Pratap Sharma

U13

IND

2373

MP

7,5

58

62

44,25

0

7

9

34

IM

Wagh Suyog

IND

2365

MH

7,5

53

57,5

43,25

0

5

10

14

IM

Aizenberg Benny

ISR

2466

ISR

7

64,5

68

45

0

5

11

6

GM

Visakh N R

IND

2532

ICF

7

62

68

46,75

0

5

12

21

IM

Audi Ameya

IND

2419

GA

7

62

66,5

43,25

0

6

13

32

IM

Sanket Chakravarty

IND

2368

WB

7

61,5

67

45

0

7

14

10

IM

Levin Guy

ISR

2487

ISR

7

61

66,5

46

0

5

15

33

IM

Jain Kashish Manoj

IND

2365

MH

7

61

66

44,25

0

5

Details

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