Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 13: Participating first time in any National level Chess Competition, two JK Bank players have moved into the 5th round of All India Patnitop Open Chess Tournament, here this evening.
The tournament is being organized by J&K Chess Association and played under the aegis of All India Chess Federation (AICF) at Patnitop, Jammu.
The tournament is also approved by International Chess Federation (FIDE).
Adil Ashraf and Syed Tasaduq Madni, both JK Bank officials have shown their talent in the game of Chess by winning three rounds out of four against top rated players of the country, while Adil Ashraf won his fourth round against Jatinder Singh, a high rated player of Punjab while holding black dice, Syed defeated another rated player of Madhya Pradesh, Akshit Agarwal in his fourth round with the white dice.
Attul Gupta, also a JK bank official and a reputed and rated Chess player of India, is one of the organizers of the tournament and presently Joint Secretary of All India Chess Federation, also advanced to the fifth round along with Mehboob-ul-Hassan, who also moved in to the 5th round of the competition.
Seventy two players across the country are participating in the six-day long tournament among which most of the players are rated excluding the three players from Kashmir region, who are first time participating in any National level chess tournament.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel