The players taking part in Youth U-16 event at Qatargas Chess Championship at Al Mirqab Mall yesterday
Doha: India’s Gowtham Ramamoorthy yesterday clinched the Qatargas Rapid Chess Tournament title, scoring a brilliant score of nine points from as many rounds at Al Mirqab Mall in Doha.
Building on his overnight lead, which the U-10 chess star shared with his compatriot Anupama Sumith Aman after three rounds on the opening day of the event, Gowtham went on to sweep all five of his games yesterday to top the standings.
Rayyan Firdaus of Malaysia collected eight points out of eight games to win the second place ahead of Indian U-12 player Chris Mathews, who bagged seven points to finish third.
India’s Gireesh Shivapriya secured fourth spot ahead of De Joya Yuri Evgeni from the Philiphines who booked the fifth place.
Jayachandran R. Madhav, Benov Anith, Allen Tom, Biju Adithya and Sharvesh Balagi completed the top 10 standings as India accounted for eight out of the 10 best players of the tournament.
Ali Al Saadi, Abdulla Al Homaid and Taleb Saeed Dahman were adjudged the Best Qatari Boys of the tournament while Rawda Qassabi, Layan Qassabi and Aisha Al Khelaidi were named Best Qatari Girls.
The Rapid Chess Tournament for youth (U-16) was part of the 6th Qatargas Chess Championship, organised by the Qatar Chess Association.
Today, the Qatargas Open Blitz Tournament will take place at the same venue, starting at 10.30am and will be carried out over nine rounds.
The Blitz Open Tournament will be conducted according to the Swiss System, same as the junior event, consisting of nine rounds.
The closing ceremony and the award presentation will begin at 6.30pm.
