South Point School Guwahati India Open International Rating Chess Tournament 2023
25 December 2023, South Point School Barsapara Guwahati Kumar Gaurav of Bihar clinched the champion title in the tournament by scoring 8 points out of possible 9. Arpan Das of West Bengal, Y Dhanabir Singh of Manipur, Rahul Soram Singh of Assam and Ningthem Oinam of Manipur scored 7.5 points each and were placed from 2nd to 5th position on basis of tie break score. Altogether 260 players from across the country participated in this swiss league nine rounds tournament which was recognised by the World Chess Federation. The tournament was conducted under the supervision of International Arbiter Biswajit Bharadwaj as the Chief Arbiter and he was assisted by FIDE Arbiter Pranab Kumar Nath, Swaraj Burgohain, Apurba Sonowal, Manik Dutta, Rajnish Verma and others. Nandan Buragohain was the tournament Director of the the tournament. Former commonwealth champion and International MasterAtanu Lahiri of West Bengal was the chief guest of the closing cer...