9th KCF FIDE Rating Chess Tournament (for below 1600 Rating)
Date: 2-4 May, 2014
Venue: Velammal Mat.Hr.Sec.School, Chennai-37
Total Prize Fund : Rs.1,50,000
Arbiter Report
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Mr.Rtn.U.Jayavelan(KCF) -Winner Dhiran Patil- Mr.T.Jagadeesh (KCF) - Chief Guest Dr. A. Sankaran -Rtn,R.Tamilselvan (KCF) |
The 9th King Chess Foundation FIDE rated tournament for below 1600 was held at Velammal Matriculation Higher Sec. School, Mogappair, Chennai from 2nd to 4th May 2014. 605 (Six hundred and five) players including 279 rated players from Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Pondicherry, Tamilnadu and West Bengal were participated in the three days nine round Swiss tournament. Prasanta Mondal of West Bengal was the top seeded player in the tournament.
The 12th seed Dhiraj Patil of Maharashtra jumped into lead at the end of the eight round and in the final round he defeated Gowrichander of Tamilnadu and won the Tournament with a full points and became the winner of the 9thedition.