Abhijeet Gupta wins Commonwealth Chess Championship

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after settling for a quick draw with Arghyadip Das in the ninth and final round that concluded at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India.



Gupta a winner of this event in 2013, regained the crown with a very impressive eight points out of a possible nine, winning the first seven games in the championship and drawing the last two with utmost ease.


Commonwealth Champion Abhijeet Gupta

“I guess I was doing well right from the start, I got off with some victories and it was nice to win seven games in a row, I could not remember the last time I did that in any International event. That was it I guess my seventh round victory was the most important and it came rather quickly as Deep Sengupta (last year champion) was not so well prepared which I found a bit unusual but obviously took it!” said Gupta on his excellent victory.


Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver ahead of M R Lalith Babu who won his game to win the Bronze medal.


Runner-up Arghyadip Das

In the Women’s section, Padmini Rout, S Vijayalakshmi and S Meenakshi all won their games to win the medals.


Women Champion Padmini Rout

As the tie was resolved Rout won the gold, Vijayalakshmi won silver while Meenakshi won the bronze. Both Vijayalakshmi and Meenakshi won the last six games in the championship.



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