Somak Palit of Mitra Institution(Bhowanipur) emerged as the champion in the 14th The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship at Alekhine Chess Club on Monday. Somak Palit and Saptarshi both both scored 9.5 points but Somak was placed first on account of his better progressive score.

Somak had little difficulty in beating Supriya Maji of BAPLSB Vidyapith in a Centre counter defence.Supriya sacrificed a pawn in the opening but had little compensation for the same.Somak later went into the endgame and won two more pawns after which Supriya resigned.

Top seed, Saptarshi Roy of Kumar Ashutosh Institution(Main)was lucky to win from an inferior position against Joydeep Dutta of Kumar Ashutosh Institution(Branch)in an irregular opening.Joydeep had a clear advantage from the opening but blundered a Rook under time pressure and lost.

Abhishek Das of Bharat Sevashram School, Jamshedpur was upset by Debayan Majumder of St. James School in a long game in the Winawer variarion of the French defence. With the win Debayan Majumder took his tally to 9 points and was placed clear 3^rd.

The players observed a minute’s silence before the start of play in memory of 5 chess players who lost their lives in the tragic car accident at Puri yesterday.

Joydeep Dutta(8)lost to Saptarshi Roy(9.5) Somak Palit(9.5) beat Supriya Maji(8)

Abhishek Das(8.5) lost to Debayan Majumder(9)

Swagatam Sengupta(7.5)lost to Tanmoy Pattanayak(8.5)

Mary Ann Gomes(8.5)beat Suman Basu (7.5)

Ayan Lahiri(8)beat Sourav Bose(7.5)

Samput Mallick(7.5) drew with Najir Arifin(7.5)

Priya Ratnam(7)lost to Soumya Thakurta(8)

Chiranjit Saha(7) lost to Nishikant Mishra(8)

Abhijit Kar(7) lost to Debaditta S Biswas(8)

Sankar Majumder(7.5)drew with Ritamk(7.5)

Minhazuddin A Sagar(7.5) drew with Anirudha Menon(7.5)

Souparna Ghosh(7.5)drew with Saurav Chakraborti(7.5)

Amritesh Ray(7)lost to Rohan V Shandilya(7.5)

Bharat B Mohanty(7)drew with Pritam Banerjee(7)

Sayan Sarkar(7.5)beat Souvik Chakraborty(6.5)

Subhabrata Das(6.5) lost to N Sashank Singh(7.5) Tathagata Banerjee(6.5)lost to Arpan Sarkar (Sr)(7.5)

S Rajbanshi (Vc)(6.5) lost to Abinash Das(7.5)

Suddhasattwa Das(7.5) lost to Sriya Bhattacharya(6.5)

Varun Jain(7) drew with Sandipan Chatterjee(7)

Abhisikta Pattnaik(7)beat Chandra S Mishra(6)

Sayantan Roy(6.5)drew with Prabuddha Ghosh(6.5)

Saurja Dasgupta(6.5) drew with Sk Shahid Ahmed(6.5)

Dipayan Ghosh(6.5)drew with Nandan Buragohain(6.5)

Arnab Chowdhury(7)beat Vikash Kumar Tiwary(6)

Jibanand Singh(7)beat Sharmin S Shirin(6)

Suman Mallick(7)beat Priyanka Das(6)