Top seed Vikramaditya Kulkarni emerges champion

Top seeded International Master, Vikramaditya Kulkarni from Western Railways justified his billing by winning the SBI Life All Maharashtra FIDE Rating Chess Tournament here today.
In his last round encounter, Kulkarni defeated Vedant Panesar to remain unbeaten with a score 9/10 to win the championship comfortably in a field of 310 players.
He became richer by Rs 25,000 and was awarded the B M Zaveri Memorial Trophy.
The second place was clinched by Chirag Satkar, who defeated Pratik Shenvi in an all-important last round encounter.
Chirag also remained unbeaten throughout with a score of 8.5/10 and was awarded Rs 20,000.

Ketan Boricha from Mumbai also won his last round game against Rajesh Gupta and was able to tie the score with Chirag Satkar.

However, his inferior tie-break pushed to the 3rd place and was awarded Rs 15,000, while the 4th and 5th places were secured by Amardeep Bartakke from Western Railways and FM Avinash Awate. They were awarded Rs 7,500 each.
The youngest participant prize was awarded to Advay Arora, who had just completed 5 years. The lad from Mumbai scored an impressive three points while the youngest girl was Trisha Krishnan.
The best veteran of the tournament was Ravindra Nargundkar from Pune, who scored an 7/10 while Sangita Jadhav from LIC was declared as the best women player of the tournament.

A total cash prize of Rs.1.50 lakhs and 32 medals were awarded to the winners.
Final Standings (top-10): 1. IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya, 2. Satkar Chirag, 3. Boricha Ketan, 4. Bartakke Amardeep S., 5. FM Awate Avinash S., 6. Gajengi Rajababu, 7. Patil Ketan, 8. Gupta Rajesh R.S., 9. Kumthekar Shubham, 10. Joglekar Abhijit.