Top seed IM Rajesh VAV emerged champion in  Aamdar Chashak All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament  that concluded  at Dr. Hedgewar Smarak Samiti, Reshimbagh here on Saturday. Rajesh secured highest 8.5 points in the nine-round tournament to win the title. Andhra’s Bharat Kumar Reddy finished runners-up with (7.5, 54) points whereas Prasannaa achieved third place with (7.5, 51.5 points).
The prizes were distributed at the hands of MLA Sudhakar Kohale. NDCA president Dilip Kamdar, secretary  KK Barat, tournament organising secretary  Sushant Jumde, chief arbiter  Swapnil Bansod,  Deepak Chavan,  Umesh Panbude,  Shubham Soni, Milind Marathe and  Amit Kumar Temburne were also present on the occasion.
Final standings: 1. IM Rajesh VAV (8.5,), 2. Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri (7.5, 54), 3.Prasannaa.S (7.5, 51.5), 4. IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam ( 7.5, 50), 5.Sanjeet Manohar (7.5, 48), 6. Trivedi Karan R (7.5, 47), 7. Balkishan A (7, 52), 8. Gajanan Jayade (7, 50.5), 9. Dodeja Pawan (7, 50), 10. FM Shailesh Dravid (7, 49).
Results (round 9): Trivedi Karan R (7.5) drew with IM Rajesh V A V (8.5), Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri (7.5) drew with Sanjeet Manohar (7.5), Prasannaa.S (7.5) drew with Balkishan A.(7), Vigneshwaran S (6.5) lost to IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam (7.5), Dodeja Pawan (7) bt Dave Kantilal (6), Sa Kannan (7) bt Kulkarni Satish (6), Dhanvij Ansh (7) bt Nirgun Keval (6), Sanchit Anand (6.5) drew with Manthan Vijayrao Kale (6.5), Giri Abhishek (6) lost to Gajanan Vijay Jayade (7), Deshpande Suhan (7) bt Herschelle Gupta (6), Kabhilan S (6) drew with Krishna Karthik N (6.5), Shamkuwar YM (5.5) lost to Gawai Siddhant (6.5), Vivaan Vijay Saraogi(5.5) lost to Tajane Ganesh (6.5), Sreenandan Babu J (5.5) lost to Jatinder Kapoor (6.5).
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