2nd Edition of Late Kailash Nath Sarma Memorial All India Online Inter-School Children Chess Championship 2020 Concludes

GUWAHATI: The 2^nd Edition of the Late Kailash Nath Sarma Memorial All India Online Inter-School Children Chess Championship 2020 came to end on 6^th September 2020.

Altogether 300 school students from 15 states of the country registered for this 3 day chess event where competition  were held in three groups namely- Upto Class 4, Class 4 to 8 and Class 9 to 12.

The closing ceremony was held online through a video conference in which Sri Dharmakanta Mili, Director of Sports and Youth Welfare, Government of Assam attended as the chief guest while renowned Chess Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan of Tamilnadu was the guest of honour.

Mrs Bijaya Sarma, Daughter in law of Late Kailash Nath Sarma who was also present in the function expressed her gratitude to all the participants and officials for making this event a grand success and congratulated all the winners of the event.

The tournament was conducted by Assam first and only International Arbiter Biswajit Bharadwaj and VL Anandh Babu of Tamilnadu.

The top five position holders in each of the category of this tournament received scholarship in the form of online chess coaching by renowned trainer which include Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan, International Master Atanu Lahiri, Fide Trainer Biswajit Bharadwaj and Nandan Buragohain.

Prize winners

UPTO CLASS 4 POSITION NAME SCHOOL 1ST POSITION Adhiraj Mitra Loyola School,Jamshedpur 2ND POSITION BHARSITA SAHARIA GLORIOUS PUBLIC SCHOOL MANGALDAI 3RD POSITION Atreyee Talukdar Shrimata Shankdar Academy  4TH POSITION Abhirup Saikia Delhi Public School Guwahati 5TH POSITION JAYRAJ BARMAN Gurukul Grammar Senior Secondary School

CLASS 9 TO 12
POSITION	NAME	SCHOOL
1ST POSITION	Dhrupad Kashyap	Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti
2ND POSITION	Shahil Dey	Maria’s Public School
3RD POSITION	Shankhadeep maity	Tamluk Hamilton High School
4TH POSITION	Shivesh singh	Sunbeam Varuna varanasi
5TH POSITION	Tanisha A.R. Som	Pragjyotika English School, Titabar

CLASS 5 TO 8
POSITION	NAME	SCHOOL
1ST POSITION	Shahil Dey	Maria’s Public School
2ND POSITION	Aslesha Talukdar	Shrimanta Shankar Academy
3RD POSITION	Nihad Islam Hazarika	Maria’s Public School
4TH POSITION	Souradeep Deb	Don Bosco School,Silchar
5TH POSITION	KESHAV SINGHAL	Sunbeam School Lahartara

BEST PLAYER

SHAHIL DEY

Maria’s Public School

FAIR PLAYER

Karnav P Deka

Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti

BEST SCHOOL

Maria Public School