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Kaustav and Arpita win West Bengal Juniors

by Hiran Banerjee - 30/05/2016

The 44th West Bengal State Junior tournament was held from the 19th to the 22nd of May 2016. Quite a few strong juniors like Neelash Saha, Mitrabha Guha in the open section and Chandrayee Hajra, Arpita Mukherjee in the girls section took part. In the end Kaustav Kundu and Arpita Mukherjee emerged victorious. We have a short and crisp report sent to us from the city of joy.

The east-Indian state of West Bengal has been producing strong chess players over the years. Like every year the annual national selection tournament was held at Indus Valley World School, Kolkata from 19th to the 22nd of May 2016. There were two sections in this tournament: the open and the girls. There were 183 participants in the open category and 80 in the girls section. The year of 2016 is a golden year for West Bengal because there were the most number of participants in the girls category.

Open Category

The winner of the open section: Kaustav Kundu 

Kaustuv Kundu (rated 2121) was crowned the champion of the open section with 7.0/8 points. Kaustuv defeated the tournament leader Subhayan Kundu in the last round with the black pieces. Earlier Subhayan had already surprised the second seed and the defending champion FM Mitrabha Guha, in the seventh round. Top seed Neelash Saha had a disappointing finish to the tournament scoring 5.5/8.

The following game was the title-decider encounter:

Final Ranking after 8 Rounds

Rk. SNo   Name FED Rtg Pts.  TB1   TB2   TB3 
1 4   Kaustuv Kundu IND 2121 7,0 0,0 6,0 38,5
2 7   Subhayan Kundu IND 2033 6,5 0,0 6,0 39,5
3 8   Suvradeepta Das IND 2032 6,5 0,0 6,0 37,5
4 12   Ritam Nag IND 1993 6,5 0,0 6,0 37,0
5 11   Anustoop Biswas IND 2003 6,5 0,0 6,0 36,0
6 25   Sayantan Mukherjee IND 1809 6,5 0,0 6,0 35,5
7 5   Koustav Chatterjee IND 2071 6,5 0,0 5,0 35,5
8 15   Soham Das IND 1906 6,0 0,0 6,0 35,0
9 3 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 2158 6,0 0,0 5,0 40,0
10 19   Sayan Banik IND 1861 6,0 0,0 5,0 37,0

 

Girls Category 

WFM Arpita Mukherjee(rated 1957) was crowned the champion of the girls section with 7.0/8 points. Arpita defeated Sudipa Haldar(rated 1535) in the final round to win the crown. Sudipa had a good tournament finishing as the runner up and gaining 68 Elo points. Top seed WCM Chandreyee Hajra (rated 1996) finished ninth scoring 5.5/8, which was the biggest disappointment in the girls section.

Arpita Mukherjee receives the winner's trophy. Also seen in the picture in GM Neelotpal Das

Final Ranking after 8 Rounds

Rk. SNo   Name FED Rtg Pts.  TB1   TB2   TB3 
1 2 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 1957 7,0 0,0 6,0 38,0
2 8   Sudipa Haldar IND 1535 6,5 0,0 5,0 39,0
3 15   Tishrota Chakraborty IND 1348 6,0 0,0 6,0 34,5
4 13   Ayantika Das IND 1401 6,0 0,0 6,0 33,5
5 3   Ghosh Samriddhaa IND 1828 6,0 0,0 5,0 39,0
6 5   Bristy Mukherjee IND 1603 6,0 0,0 5,0 38,0
7 12   Asmita Das IND 1418 5,5 0,0 5,0 36,0
8 14   Diya Chowdhury IND 1396 5,5 0,0 5,0 35,0
9 1 WCM Chandreyee Hajra IND 1996 5,5 0,0 4,0 38,5
10 7   Shinjini Sengupta IND 1595 5,5 0,0 4,0 34,5

About the Author

Born in the city of Kolkata in 2001, Hiran Banerjee was introduced to the game of chess by his grandfather at the age of 8. His interest in chess kept increasing with age and currently he has an Elo of 1450. He aims to become a grandmaster. Besides playing, Hiran is fond of writing articles which keeps his updated with the chess world. He maintains his own blog.


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