PSPB wins National Teams 2019 for the second consecutive year

by Shahid Ahmed - 13/02/2019

PSPB wins National Teams 2019 in both Open and Women category and successfully defended their title. While women's team won all seven of their games and finished at a 100% score of 14.0/14, Men's team scored 17.0/18 to win it for the second consecutive year. Airport Authority of India secured 2nd and 3rd position in Open and Women's category, by scoring 14.0/18 and 11.0/14 respectively. Railways SPB-B secured 3rd position in the Open category with a score of 13.0/18. Air India secured 2nd position in the Women's category scoring 11.0/14 points. The tournament was the strongest National ever in Indian chess history as 18 GMs, 17 IMs and 7 WGMs participated in it. Complete report including photos, videos, interviews and games from the final round. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

PSPB dominate National Teams 2019

Team PSPB with their Open and Women Champion's Trophy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

National Team 2019 Champions PSPB players share their thoughts | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Round 9 Open

Biggest upset of the final round: 15-year old CM Aronyak Ghosh drew with the highest rated player of the tournament GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

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Final moments: 15-year-old CM Aronyak Ghosh drew with Arjuna Awardee GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Subhayan scored the second biggest upset of the final round when he drew with the reigning National Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM Karthikeyan Murali got a walk over as his opponent Srijit Paul surprisingly did not turn up in the final round | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM Deep Sengupta scored a comfortable victory over Arpan Das | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

The dark horse of the tournament Bengal Red defeated Air India in the final round, handing them their only defeat of the tournament and interchanged places with them. Bengal Red finished 4th while Air India finished 6th | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The talented young GMs to watch out for: Abhimanyu Puranik, Stany G A and Visakh N R. Airport Authority of India defeated All Orissa CA by 2.5-1.5 to secure the first runner-up position | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Final moments: GM Abhimanyu Puranik of AAI was held to a draw by IM Utkal Ranjan Sahoo of All Orissa CA | Video: Shahid Ahmed

LIC lost to Railways SPB-A by 1-3. RSPB-A was placed 5th. GM Swapnil Dhopade had the longest game of the final round against his trainer IM Anup Deshmukh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Trainer IM Anup Deshmukh shows his trainee GM Swapnil S Dhopade how to be the gentleman of the game | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Railways SPB-B whitewashed Telangana SCA 4-0 to secure the second runner-up position | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Round 9 results

Bo.

PSPB

Rtg

FED

Alekhine Chess Club - A -

Rtg

FED

3 : 1

1.1

Ganguly, Surya Shekhar

2636

IND

Aronyak, Ghosh

2324

IND

½ - ½

1.2

Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr.

2601

IND

Subhayan, Kundu

2354

IND

½ - ½

1.3

Karthikeyan, Murali

2560

IND

Srijit, Paul

2340

IND

+ - -

1.4

Sengupta, Deep

2555

IND

Arpan, Das

2164

IND

1 - 0

Bo.

Air India

Rtg

FED

Bengal Red

Rtg

FED

1½:2½

2.1

Bakre, Tejas

2443

IND

Barua, Dibyendu

2414

IND

½ - ½

2.2

Satyapragyan, Swayangsu

2381

IND

Neelotpal, Das

2409

IND

½ - ½

2.3

Swayams, Mishra

2468

IND

Ghosh, Diptayan

2556

IND

½ - ½

2.4

Narayanan, Srinath

2572

IND

Koustav, Chatterjee

2332

IND

0 - 1

Bo.

All Orissa CA

Rtg

FED

Airport Authority of India

Rtg

FED

1½:2½

3.1

Sidhant, Mohapatra

2330

IND

Vignesh, N R

2473

IND

½ - ½

3.2

Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan

2356

IND

Puranik, Abhimanyu

2538

IND

½ - ½

3.3

Nayak, Rajesh

2210

IND

Stany, G.A.

2517

IND

½ - ½

3.4

Baivab, Mishra

2205

IND

Visakh, N R

2505

IND

0 - 1

Bo.

L I C

Rtg

FED

Railways SPB - A

Rtg

FED

1 : 3

4.1

Deshmukh, Anup

2259

IND

Swapnil, S. Dhopade

2488

IND

0 - 1

4.2

Gajendra, Singh

1906

IND

Krishna, C R G

2476

IND

0 - 1

4.3

Sriram, Jha

2376

IND

Deepan, Chakkravarthy J.

2532

IND

½ - ½

4.4

Sharma, Dinesh K.

2274

IND

Thejkumar, M. S.

2470

IND

½ - ½

Bo.

Telangana SCA

Rtg

FED

Railways SPB - B

Rtg

FED

0 : 4

5.1

Bharat, Kumar Reddy Poluri

2252

IND

Nitin, S.

2395

IND

0 - 1

5.2

Raghav, Srivathsav V

2042

IND

Shyaamnikhil, P

2428

IND

0 - 1

5.3

Varun, V

2239

IND

Laxman, R.R.

2417

IND

0 - 1

5.4

Shanmukha, Pulli

1859

IND

Himanshu, Sharma

2441

IND

0 - 1

Round 7 Women:

PSPB Women's team ended on a high note by registering a 4-0 win over UP CSA | Photo: Gopakumar Sudhakaran

Air India defeated LIC by 2.5-1.5 and secured the 2nd position | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Airport Authority of India defeated Bengal Tigresses by 2.5-1.5 when WIM Sakshi Chitlange picked up the crucial win to help her team finish at 3rd position | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Round 7 results

Bo.

U P CSA

Rtg

PSPB

Rtg

0 : 4

1.1

Gupta, Anika

1310

WGM

Gomes, Mary Ann

2317

0 - 1

1.2

Rukhsar, Bano

1331

Padmini, Rout

2315

0 - 1

1.3

Tiwari, Aradhana

1447

Karavade, Eesha

2365

0 - 1

1.4

Jaiswal, Ayushi

1135

WIM

Pratyusha, Bodda

2275

0 - 1

Bo.

Air India

Rtg

L I C

Rtg

2½:1½

2.1

WGM

Meenakshi, Subbaraman

2161

WGM

Swati, Ghate

2229

½ - ½

2.2

Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman

2352

WGM

Kiran, Manisha Mohanty

2069

0 - 1

2.3

WGM

Kulkarni, Bhakti

2348

Tanuja, Kansal

1 - 0

2.4

WGM

Ramaswamy, Aarthie

2004

WFM

Bindu, Saritha K.

1523

1 - 0

Bo.

Airport Authority of India

Rtg

Bengal Tigresses

Rtg

2½:1½

3.1

WIM

Chitlange, Sakshi

2127

Mohana, Sengupta

1834

1 - 0

3.2

WIM

Pujari, Rucha

2133

WFM

Arpita, Mukherjee

2184

½ - ½

3.3

WIM

Srija, Seshadri

2176

WCM

Bristy, Mukherjee

1915

½ - ½

3.4

WIM

Parnali, S Dharia

2146

WIM

Chandreyee, Hajra

1921

½ - ½

Team Prizes:

Champion in open section: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (GM Aravindh Chithambaram, GM G N Gopal, GM Deep Sengupta, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly, GM Karthikeyan Murali and Manager IM D V Prasad) - 17.0/18 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Champion in women's section: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (IM Padmini Rout, IM Eesha Karavade, WIM Pratyusha Bodda and WGM Mary Ann Gomes) - 14.0/14 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

1st runner-up in open section: Airport Authority of India (IM Vignesh N R, GM Stany GA, GM Visakh N R, GM Abhimanyu Puranik and GM Shyamsundar M) - 14.0/18 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

1st runner-up in women section: Air India (WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy, WGM Subbaraman Meenakshi and IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi) - 11.0/14, TB1 - 19.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd runner-up in open section: Railways Sports Promotion Board-B (IM Arghyadip Das, IM P Shyamnikhil, GM Laxman R R, GM Himanshu Sharma and IM Nitin S) - 13.0/18, TB1-26.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd runner-up in women section: Airport Authority of India (WIM Nandhidhaa P V, WIM Srija Seshadri, WIM Parnali S Dharia, WIM Rucha Pujari and WIM Sakshi Chitlange) - 11.0/14, TB1 - 19.0 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th in open category: Bengal Red (GM Dibyendu Barua, GM Diptayan Ghosh, GM Neelotpal Das, Koustav Chatterjee and FM Mitrabha Guha) - 13.0/18, TB1-25.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th in Women category: LIC (WM Bindu Saritha K, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Tanuja Kansal, WGM Swati Ghate and Renuka Kumari B) - 8.0/14, TB1-17 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th in open: RSPB-A (IM C R G Krishna, GM Swapnil Dhopade, GM M S Thej Kumar, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy and GM P Karthikeyan (not in picture) - 13.0/18, TB1-24.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th in women: Tamil Nadu - 8.0/18, TB1-16 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th - Air India (GM Srinath Narayanan, GM Tejas Bakre, IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu, IM C S Gokhale, IM Swayams Mishra (not in picture) and manager V S Negi) - 13.0/18, TB1-25.5) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th - Alekhine Chess Club-A (Srijit Paul, Anustoop Biswas, Subhayan Kundu, CM Aronyak Ghosh and Arpan Das) - 12.0/18, TB-2 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th - Alekhine Chess Club-B (Arya Bhakta, Sourath Biswas, Arpan Das Jr. , Aditya Bikram Paul and Soham Bhattacharya) - 12.0/18, TB-0 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th - Andhra Pradesh SA - B - 11.0/18, TB1-20.0 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th - Tamil Nadu SCA - 11.0/18, TB2-19.5 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board Prizes:

Board #1 Open: Gold - Vipul Subhashi of All Bihar CA-B - 92.9% , Silver - GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of PSPB - 75% and Bronze - IM Vignesh N R of Airport Authority of India - 71.4% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #1 Women: Gold - WIM Sakshi Chitlange of Airport Authority of India - 91.7%, Silver - WGM Swati Ghate of LIC - 71.4% and Bronze - WGM Subbaraman Meenakshi of Air India - 64.3% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #2 Open: Gold - Chaintanya Sairam Mogili of Andhra Pradesh SA-B - 85.7%, Silver - Subhayan Kundu of Alekhine Chess Club-A - 77.8% and Bronze - GM Aravindh Chithambaram VR of PSPB - 75% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #2 Women: Gold - WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty of LIC - 78.6%, Silver - WIM Rucha Pujari of AAI - 75% and Bronze - WGM Mary Ann Gomes of PSPB - 71.4% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #3 Open: Gold - GM Laxman R R of RSPB-B - 78.6%, Silver - GM Neelotpal Das of Bengal Red - 78.6% and Bronze - IM Swayams Mishra (not in picture) of Air India - 72.2% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #3 Women: IM Padmini Rout of PSPB - 100%, Silver - Sudipa Haldar of Rising Bengal - 71.4% and Bronze - Neha Singh (not in picture) of All Bihar CA - 66.7% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #4 Open: Gold - GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J of RSPB-A - 75%, Silver - Joel Paul G of Andhra Pradesh CA - 75% and Bronze - Varun V (not in picture) of Telangana SCA - 72.2% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #4 Women: Gold - WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy of Air India - 78.6%, Marium Fatima of All Bihar CA - 66.7% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Board #5 Open: Gold - Rushyendra Chowdary Kantipudi of Andhra Pradesh CA - 83.3%, Silver - GM Himanshu Sharma of RSPB-B - 81.8% and IM D K Sharma of LIC - 81.3% | Photo - Gopakumar Sudharakaran

Board #5 Women: Gold - WIM Pratyusha Bodda of PSPB - 91.7%, Silver - WIM Parnali S Dharia of AAI - 75% and Sneha Halder of Rising Bengal - 40% | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Final Standings in Open category:

Rk.	SNo	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	PSPB	9	8	1	0	17	0	26,5	98	274,0
2	2	Airport Authority of India	9	7	0	2	14	0	24,0	99	240,0
3	5	Railways SPB - B	9	6	1	2	13	0	26,5	96	248,5
4	6	Bengal Red	9	6	1	2	13	0	25,5	95	242,0
5	3	Railways SPB - A	9	6	1	2	13	0	24,5	97	245,0
6	4	Air India	9	5	3	1	13	0	23,5	99	234,0
7	7	Alekhine Chess Club - A -	9	6	0	3	12	2	23,5	93	211,0
8	14	Alekhine Chess Club - B	9	6	0	3	12	0	22,5	78	176,5
9	20	Andhra Pradesh SA - B	9	5	1	3	11	0	20,0	83	155,0
10	13	Tamil Nadu SCA	9	5	1	3	11	0	19,5	85	152,0

Final Standings in Women category:

Rk.	SNo	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	1	PSPB	7	7	0	0	14	0	24,0	53	175,0
2	2	Air India	7	5	1	1	11	1	19,5	55	143,5
3	3	Airport Authority of India	7	5	1	1	11	1	19,0	55	130,0
4	6	L I C	7	4	0	3	8	0	17,0	54	96,0
5	5	Tamil Nadu	7	4	0	3	8	0	16,0	52	69,0

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