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Caption: (R) Asian Women's Champion International Master Padmini Rout's screen grab from Youtube video.
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| Chief Guest KK Khare sahab with Prize Winners |
One of UP’s finest young players Kuldeep Shankar won the CCBW Open Chess Rapid at Classic Banquets with fantastic 6.5/7 points on Sunday. Veterans Pawan Batham, Sayeed Ahmad and Mohd Raisuddin Khan (Prayagraj) were tied for 3rd place with 5.5 points each. Saransh Srivastava and Nakshatra Srivastava were top scorers in Under 16 rated category with 5 points each.
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| Champion Kuldeep Shankar |
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| Junior Champion Aditya Kirti Srivastava |
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| Playing Hall Photo |
Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) also celebrated World’s Senior Citizens Day. Lucknow’s senior most player KK Khare was the best senior citizen (5 points) who also gave away the prizes as chief guest. Other Senior Citizens who took the top prizes were Mohd Syed Irfan, RP Gupta, Vipul Awasthi and Dwarka Nath (3 points each). Kunwar Prashant Singh was the best unrated player (4.5 points). The Under 16 Unrated section Champion was Aditya Kirti Srivastava with 6.5 points.
Lucknow: Fitness and sports medicine specialist Dr Saranjeet Singh advised chess players to give up junk food for better tournament performance. He also spoke on how a high-sugar food intake, a few hours before a tournament game can influence a player's decision-making at the chessboard. The player, he said, does not even know, why he blundered. But a sugar spike and fall has silently ruined his mental efficiency during the game.
Dr Singh was speaking as chief guest at the Strategy Sunday Chess tournament hosted by Chess Club Black & White, Lucknow.
Dr Saranjeet has served as a resource expert for the Sports Authority of India and the Indian Toxicological Research Institute. Notably, he has been the physical trainer for the National Junior Hockey Team and the Punjab Cricket Team. Over the past two decades, he has trained more than 50,000 individuals, earning recognition from luminaries such as former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, and the late Sports Minister Sunil Dutt.
Dr Singh advised the players about proper nutrition, giving up junk food and controlling sugar spikes, protein and good fat intake. He also taught the players a basic breathing exercise of 3-4-5 seconds (inhale-hold-exhale) to improve game performance.
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| Dr Saranjeet Singh delivering a brief speech to the players and parents |
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| Teenager Dibbyan Chakraboty |
Tournament results:
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| Tournament Hall |
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| Open Category Champion Arif Ali |
Veteran Arif Ali won the CCBW Chess Open with 6.5/7 points. Pawan Batham (State Tax Office) was a close second with 6 points after a draw with Sayeed Ahmad (Lucknow Chess Centre), 6 points, took home the senior citizen’s trophy. Talented youngsters Aarav Garg, Abhigyan Katiyar and senior coach Mayank Pandey all tied for 3rd place with 5 points each.
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| Under 16 Overall Champion Aadi Saxena |
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| Under 9 Champion Kunwar Pranav Singh |
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| Chief guest renowned ophthalmologist with the winners of the Digital Detox Chess Tournament hosted by Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) in Lucknow. |
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| Rated section champion Vishal Bharti from Azamgarh |
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| Dr Vinit Sah addressing the gathering |
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| Dr Vinit Sah interacting with children |
Dr Sah explained the importance of simple eye rotation exercises, palming and meditation. He spoke about the 20:20:20 rule – Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. He said Chess kids must cut back on high screen usage and check the dry eye syndrome.
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| RK Gupta from Jhansi |
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| Unrated section champion Nikhar Saxena |
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| Playing hall at Charans Plaza, Hazratganj |
Harsh Upadhyay (Azamgarh) and Krishna Agarwal (Lucknow) were joint second in the unrated section with 5.5 points. Mohd Irfan was Best Senior Citizen in the unrated section with 4 points.
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| Junior Champion Shubh Srivastava |
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| SR Global School chess team |
The best school trophy went to SR Global School Lucknow.
Kunwar Prashant Singh, Pranav Singh and Abhyudaya Singh bagged the best family trophy
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| Chief Guest 83-year-old senior player and coach RK Gupta from Jhansi with all the prize winners of the two-day digital detox weekend chess hosted by Chess Club Black and White (CCBW) at The Charans Plaza in Lucknow. |
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| Tournament champion Ravishanker |
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| RNS World School, Jhansi Best School Team |
The veterans +60 section had a remarkable result: 84-year-old Kranti Kumar Gupta from Bareilly scored 4 points to take first place, and 83-year-old R K Gupta from Jhansi scored 3.5 points to take the second place. R. K. Gupta even brought his student's team, who he is coaching himself, at the RNS World School, Jhansi, they were the best overall team from UP.
Sayeed Ahmad with 6 points and Samyak Sagar with 6.5 points were second in the open and junior sections, respectively. Father-sons' team of Ashish Kumar, Ishit, and Ishaan won the best family prize, and Gyan Argal, Shivansh, and Saransh won the second best family prize. The top two unrated players were Nikhar Saxena and Shatrughan Rawat (4.5 points each).
Other top results:
Best Girl: Advika Tiwari, 3 pts; Best Woman: Aaditri Pandey, 2.5 pts;
Under 10: 1st Diara Agarwal 5 pts, 2nd Shahab Murad Alam 4.5 pts, 3-4th Amay Rajendra, Abhigyan Katiyar, 4 pts each.
Under 13: 1-3rd Arjun Garg, Saksham Srivastava, and Tanish Kumar, 4 pts each.
Under 16: 1st Ujjwal Raj Srivastava, 5 pts, 2nd Saransh Argal 3.5 pts, 3rd Karthikeya Chaturvedi 3 pts.
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