Chief guest renowned ophthalmologist with the winners of the Digital Detox Chess Tournament hosted by Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) in Lucknow.
Rated section champion Vishal Bharti from Azamgarh
English teacher from Azamgarh, Vishal Bharti, won the Digital Detox Rapid chess tournament (5.5/7 points) hosted by Chess Club Black & White (CCBW). He beat Arif Ali, Pawan Batham, KK Khare and Aarav Garg who were all seeded above him. Bharti lost to Sayeed Ahmad who won the Senior Citizens section with 5 points.
Dr Vinit Sah addressing the gathering
Chief guest, renowned opthalmalogist, Dr Vinit Sah, spoke to all the players about the importance of seeking medical help at the earliest to save vision. All chess players have to practice online and train with computers for long hours.
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.
RK Gupta from Jhansi
Octogenarians RK Gupta from Jhansi and KK Khare from Lucknow — a huge inspiration for all players — were second and third in the senior citizens category respectively.
Unrated section champion Nikhar Saxena
The unrated section champion was Nikhar Saxena with 6/7 points.
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.
Junior Champion Shubh Srivastava
The under 16 section champion was Shubh Srivastava (6.5 points) and runner-up was Aakarshak Singh (5.5 points).
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
Chief guest Harsh Wadhwani and Daizy Sonal Mishra with the prize winners of the "CCBW Open Rapid" chess tournament at The Charans Plaza.
Senior Lucknow player KK Khare took down two generations of chess players to win the CCBW Rapid Open. Arif Ali was second on tiebreak. Khare is a huge inspiration for the state chess community, having obtained his first FIDE International chess rating at the age of 62 in a sport where teen prodigies abound. Along with his trophy, Khare received a standing ovation from more than 100 UP players in the tournament hall.
Tournament Champion KK Khare
Best Woman Category Winner Himmika Amarnani
Himmika Amarnani played her usual attacking chess to win the best women's ccategory prize.
Tournament hall at Charans Plaza in Hazratganj.
Prashant Dwivedi from Kanpur excelled in the junior section.
Nine-year-old Mohd Ismail Siddiqui of Prayagraj chose to play among the sharks in the open section and picked up the Best Family Team prize with his father, Rashid.
Hrothbertina Hilton and Ved took home the Best Mixed Doubles team prize.
Abhivadan Shukla fought well to win the Brave Beginner Prize.
Corporate leader Harsh Wadwani and fashion influencer Daizy Sonal Mishra gave away the prizes.
The tournament was organised to create awareness among youngsters about learning from their elders on the occasion of United Nations World Senior Citizens Day.
Other top results: Under 10: 1-2. Abhigyan Katiyar, Abhiraj, 5 pt each, 3. Viyan Agarwal, 4.5 pt. Under 13: 1-3. Adyansh Singh, Dibbayan Chakraborty, and Advik Tripathi, 5.5 pt each. Under 16: 1. Rachi Yadav, 5.5 pt, 2. Ujjwal Raj Srivastava, 5 pt, 3. Kushagra Pandey, 4.5 pt. Senior Citizen: 1. Kamlesh Kumar Kesharwani, 4 pt, 2-4 Kranti Kumar Gupta (Bareilly), Sharad Kumar Pandey, R P Gupta, 3 pt each. Under-16 Rated: 1. Chinmay Vajpayee, 5pt, 2-3. Krishna Tejas T, Daksh Surana, 4 pt each.
Lucknow: Seventy-year-old Qamar Naim, of Bahraich won the CCBW +60 Seniors' Chess Lucknow today with a blazing 6.5/7 performance. In second and third place were sixty-nine-year old Balgovind Awasthi from Kanpur and eighty-one-year old RK Gupta from Jhansi. The oldest player was eighty-two year old Kranti Kumar Gupta who came to play especially from Bareilly. He set the pace in the initial rounds.
"What an inspiring tournament," said Chief Arbiter, Hemant Sharma. "These are the real masters of chess as unlike us they have had no access to computers. Today's kids have an app of double the world champion's strength on their cellphones to learn from."
Winners, players and Team CCBW with chief guest with Chief Guest Mahamilind Lal, Director Finance, State Nutrition Mission, in Lucknow, on Sunday at The Hotel Golden Apple, in Mahanagar.
Chess Club Black & White (CCBW) hosted all senior chess players of the state in the rapid seven-round 10+5 time control event. "Play chess to stay young and fit. At sixty, free from duties, you can now travel and play. The world's oldest Grandmaster was recently 100 years-old Yuri Averbakh of Russia. We want such inspiring seniors in India as well," said UP champion, 2002, Dr Junaid Ahmad, director, CCBW.
Naim's extremely attacking play was matched by top-seed Vimal Bhatia of Lucknow, but the latter missed out several games in time pressure. Lakhimpur's Krishna Murari Verma started very well but stepped back in the second half of the tournament. In the game of Lucknow stalwarts, KK Khare was winning all the way but blundered a full rook and the game to Prabhat Adhaulya.
Final top standings: Qamar Naim 6.5 pts, Balgovind Awasthi 6 pts, RK Gupta, KK Kulhary, KM Verma, KK Khare 5 pts, Prabhat Adhaulya 4.5 pts, Munir Ahmad, MS Siddiqui, Vimal Bhatia, Harish Kumar Srivastava, RS Kashyap, Sharda Prasad Pandey, UB Singh 4 pts, Shamim Ahmad, Kamlesh Kumar Kesharwani, Deep Saxena, RP Gupta, Phoolchand Basore, Anurag Srivastava, Ambuj Agarwal, Moolchand, KK Gupta, Vinayak Rao, S Mahana, Ajit Kumar Srivastava, Rajesh Sharma 3 pts.
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