Mayor's Chess: Chakraborty emerges champion in category 'B'

West Bengal's Koustav Chakraborty Wednesday emerged as the champion in category B of the 12th Mumbai Mayor's Cup chess tournament being played here.

Chakraborty won the title with 8.5 points, out of a possible 10, with significantly higher tie-breaks than Karnataka's Sharan Rao, who finished as the runner-up.

On the top table, Chakraborty employed the 'Grand Prix' attack against Andhra Pradesh's Mushini Ajay's Sicilian and the game ended in an uneventful draw in 22 moves.

On board 2, Tamil Nadu's Gokulraj K employed the English opening against Karnataka's Sharan Rao.

Gokulraj managed to win a pawn early in the game and clinched the issue on his 36th turn.

Meanwhile, in the Open category, the game between Belgium's Malakhatko Vadim and Amonatov Farrukh from Tajikistan, which lasted for six hours, ended in a draw.

Local lad IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh went down to the experienced Belarusian GM Aleksandrov Aleksej in 33 moves.