Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 4: Jammu Division Senior Open Chess Tournament got underway at Nek Hotel Below Gumat, here today.
Top seven players will be selected to participate in State Chess Championship.
35 players from different districts of Jammu are participating in this tournament, organized by All J&K Chess Association.
Baldev Raj, vice president All J&K Chess Association declared open the tournament in a simple function. Anil Kotwal and Ritwan Sauntra are the Arbiters for the tournament.
Top seeds Sumit Grover and Arvindu Sharma, Ravi Sharma and Maxim Singh Sudan won their first round matches comfortably to advance into the second round.
Total five rounds will be played in this tournament under Swiss System.
Young girls Meenal Gupta and Arushi Kotwal are also participating in this senior group tournament.
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