Jaiveer Singh FIDE Ratings Chess Tournament
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, July 29: Top seed Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka and Hemanth Raam of Tamil Nadu were leading at 5 points each after the conclusion of Round-5 of the ongoing Jaiveer Singh FIDE Ratings Chess Tournament at International DPS School Bathindi, here.
Both the players won all the matches. Sparsh Khandelwal and Walde Harshal of Maharashtra and Kumar S. of Tamil Nadu are closely following the leaders at 4.5 points each.
The event is being organized by Crown Trust under the banner of All J&K Chess Association.
Four more rounds are to be played in this championship in which 120 players are fighting for top honours.
There is lot of enthusiasm among young players of J&K particularly who are playing for getting FIDE Ratings.
Today’s matches were played under the supervision of Kuljeet Singh Jamwal while Raj Kumar, DySP Prosecution is the organizing secretary of this event.
Nitin Shenvi International Arbiter is the chief arbiter of this event while Anil Kotwal, Bindu Pathania, Sumit Grover are assisting him.
Baldev Raj,Vikas Nanda, Dr AS Bhatia and Rakesh Gupta were also present on the occasion.
“This will give a big chance to all the unrated players to achieve FIDE Ratings if they score required points against rated players. About 80 players are participating from J&K,” said Atul Kumar Gupta, President AJKCA.
He further said that total 9 rounds will be played under FIDE Laws of Chess, adding that all the players appreciated the warm hospitality of IDPS School, Madhu Abrol is the Coordinator of this event while Suminder Singh, MD International DPS School is personally monitoring all the arrangements.
This is the 13th All India level event by All J&K Chess Association.
This event is being held in the memory of Master Jaiveer Singh Gujral, a promising Chess player of the State, who lost his life in tragic road accident a few months back.
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