Sports & Allied News
JAMMU, July 31:
Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka won the Jaiveer Singh FIDE Rating Chess Championship to claim the Rs.20000 cash prize at International DPS (IDPS), here today.
The event was organized by Crown Trust under the banner of All J&K Chess Association (AJKCA).
Hemanth Raam of Tamil Nadu secured second position to bag a cash prize of Rs 10,000 while third place of Rs 5000 worth cash prize went to Garv Gaur of Haryana.
Others who won special awards and cash prizes included Walde Harshal, Arvindu, Shashi Pal Sharma, Sonali Manhas, Karan Pandita, Swastik Singhal, Pranav Abrol, Ashutosh Jamwal and Manasavi gupta.
A total of Rs 60,000 cash prizes were given away to the winners of different positions. Prominent among those present were ARTO, Shammi Sharma, Taranjeet Singh Tony, Suminder Singh (MD IDPS) and Swarn Singh Choudhary and Ms.Randeep Wazir ((Academic Director IDPS), Atul Kumar Gupta (president AJKCA), Raj Kumar (Prosecuting Officer), Baldev Raj, Kuljeet Singh Jamwal and Vikas Nanda.
Nitin Shenvi was the Chief Arbiter of the event while Anil Kotwal, Bindu Pathania and Sumit Grover were Deputy Arbiters.
