Mitrabha Guha wins 27th The Telegraph Schools' Chess 2018

by Shahid Ahmed - 20/12/2018

Mitrabha Guha won his maiden title in 27th The Telegraph Schools' Chess 2018 in his final appearance at the longest running school level chess tournament of the country. Mitrabha scored 8.5/9 and finished half-a-point ahead of the runner-up Koustav Chatterjee. Rajdeep Sarkar scored 7.5/9 and finished at 3rd position. Mitrabha also won the Parimal Mukherjee Trophy for the Best Game prize against Rajdeep Sarkar from their round 8 encounter. He was the spearhead for his school team, South Point's another championship run at the Best School prize. We bring you photos, interviews, games and an annotated game by the champion himself. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Mitrabha's all round triumph at The Telegraph Schools' Chess

Mitrabha's Trifecta: Mitrabha receives Champion's Trophy, Best Game Trophy and Best School Prize | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Interview with Mitrabha and his parents after he won the championship | Video: Shahid Ahmed

True Grit shown by Mitrabha

What makes Mitrabha apart from others? He does not like to settle for a draw and leave things up for chance. In a position where it was equal and draw was the only predictable outcome, Mitrabha waited over 41 moves for his opponent to mistake and his opponent eventually did break.

After 51.bxc3, Mitrabha began waiting for his opponent to make a mistake and after 41 moves, he did

Parimal Mukherjee Trophy winning Best Game of the tournament annotated by the Champ himself:

Koustav Chatterjee won his final round with a Bishop sacrifice on g7 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Koustav Chatterjee speaks after winning the last round | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Rajdeep Sarkar en route his final round victory | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Prize Distribution Ceremony Photo Gallery:

Champion - FM Mitrabha Guha scored 8.5/9, received ₹21000 cash and a beautiful trophy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Mitrabha Guha receives 'Parimal Mukherjee - Best Game Trophy' from Late Parimal Mukherjee's wife | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Best School team - South Point 28.5/36, comprising of Mitrabha Guha (8.5 points), Rounak Pathak (7.0 points), Rajarshi Mondal (6.5 points) and Soham Bhattacharyya (6.5 points) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Koustav Chatterjee was placed 2nd. He scored 8.0/9 and bagged home ₹16000 cash and a trophy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

2nd prize for Best School - Aditya Academy 27.5/36, comprising of Soham Dey (7.5 points), Sambarta Banerjee (7.0 points), Soumyajit Das (6.5 points) and Dhritabrata Kundu (6.5 points) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

FM Rajdeep Sarkar scored 7.5/9 and secured 3rd position due to a better tie-break score. He received ₹12000 cash and a trophy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

3rd prize for Best school - Vivekananda Mission School 26.5/36 - Sanket Chakravarty (7.5 points), Anushka Gupta (7.0 points), Eshan Bhattacharjee (6.0 points) and Projoy Jana (6.0 points) | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th - Sanket Chakravarty. He scored 7.5/9, bagged home ₹10000 cash and a memento | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th - Soham Dey with a score of 7.5/9, took home a memento and ₹9000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Ayan Pal scored 7.0/9. Due to a better tie-break score, he was placed 6th. He got ₹7000 cash and a memento | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th - Rupam Mukherjee. He scored 7.0/9 and received ₹5000 cash and a memento | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th - Soyamsree Mohanty of Odisha, scored 7.0/9. He was awarded a memento and ₹4000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th - Praloy Sahoo. His father received the prize worth ₹3000 cash and a memento on his son's behalf | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th - Samriddhaa Ghosh secured 10th position. She received a memento and ₹3000 cash | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Group photo of all 65 prize winners in various categories | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

For more Prize Distribution Ceremony photos, visit here

The Arbiters team: Standing (L to R) - Swapan Adhikary, Shukla Chakraborty, FA Mrinal Ghosh, Tapas Chakraborty, Darunath Chatterjee, Suravi Dutta, FA Santanu Lahiri and Goutam Bhattacharya, Deputy Chief Arbiter IA Asit Baran Choudhury (Sitting left) and Chief Arbiter IA Paul Arokia Raj S | Photo: Pintu Chatterjee

It was absolutely shocking and saddening to the entire chess fraternity when we all learnt that Tapas Chakraborty (standing between Deputy and Chief Arbiter) passed away due to massive heart attack while returning from the his tournament duties.

A minute of silence was observed before the commencement of final round to pay respects to Late Tapas Chakraborty | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Tournament Director Soumen Mazumder (center) along with the volunteers who are none other than the proud parents of the participants who devoted their valuable time for the Club and for the love of Chess | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Former legendary Indian footballer PK Banerjee and former Bengal Cricket team captain and selector Raju Mukherjee | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The tournament was organized by Alekhine Chess Club in Gorky Sadan - Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Kolkata from 14th to 19th December 2018. The tournament witnessed over 425 players from Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines and India. Former Bengal Cricket Team Captain and Selector Raju Mukherjee and former Indian Footballer and Coach, Legendary PK Banerjee were the Chief Guests for the Prize Distribution Ceremony along with President of Alekhine Chess Club - Biswarup Dey and Chairman of the Organizing Committee - Navratan Jhawar.

Round 9 results

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	11		Praloy Sahoo	1795	7	0 - 1	7½	FM	Mitrabha Guha	2351	2
2	3		Koustav Chatterjee	2345	7	1 - 0	7		Ayan Pal	1827	10
3	7		Rupam Mukherjee	1875	6½	½ - ½	7		Sanket Chakravarty	1974	4
4	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar	2370	6½	1 - 0	6½		Shuvam Roy	1681	17
5	6		Ghosh Samriddhaa	1892	6½	½ - ½	6½	AIM	Debarghya Samanta	1595	25
6	21		Pratyay Chowdhury	1645	6½	½ - ½	6½		Sambarta Banerjee	1874	8
7	23		Alekhya Mukhopadhyay	1617	6½	0 - 1	6½		Soham Dey	1770	12
8	16		Mohanty Soyamsree	1706	6½	½ - ½	6½		Sagnik Saha	1478	41
9	47		Anjishnu Mondal	1440	6	0 - 1	6		Bhattacharyya Soham	1727	13
10	15		Rounak Pathak	1719	6	1 - 0	6		Aritrya Pal	1439	48

Complete results

Final Standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	n	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	2	FM	Mitrabha Guha			IND	2351	South Point High School	8,5	0,0	54,5	60,0	55,50	8	8	7,5	6,50	1,00	20	20,0
2	3		Koustav Chatterjee			IND	2345	Garden High School	8,0	0,0	53,0	55,0	47,00	7	8	7	6,91	0,09	20	1,8
3	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar			IND	2370	Bhaban's Gangabux K. V. M., Salt La	7,5	0,0	54,5	58,5	46,25	7	8	6,5	6,97	-0,47	10	-4,7
4	4		Sanket Chakravarty			IND	1974	Vivekananda Mission School	7,5	0,0	53,5	57,0	45,75	6	8	6,5	5,35	1,15	40	46,0
5	12		Soham Dey			IND	1770	Aditya Academy (Senior Secondary)	7,5	0,0	52,5	56,0	44,50	7	8	6,5	5,89	0,61	40	24,4
6	10		Ayan Pal			IND	1827	Don Bosco Park Circus	7,0	0,0	53,0	58,0	43,00	7	8	6	5,42	0,58	40	23,2
7	7		Rupam Mukherjee			IND	1875	Uttarpara Amarendra Vidyapith	7,0	0,0	52,0	54,5	38,75	6	8	6	5,75	0,25	40	10,0
8	16		Mohanty Soyamsree	U12		IND	1706	Delhi Public School Rourkela	7,0	0,0	50,0	53,0	40,50	6	8	6	6,89	-0,89	40	-35,6
9	11		Praloy Sahoo			IND	1795	Santragachi Kedarnath Institution	7,0	0,0	50,0	52,0	37,00	6	8	6	6,01	-0,01	40	-0,4
10	6		Ghosh Samriddhaa		w	IND	1892	Shri Shikshayatan School	7,0	0,0	49,5	50,5	37,50	5	8	6	6,84	-0,84	40	-33,6
11	21		Pratyay Chowdhury			IND	1645	The Park Institution	7,0	0,0	49,0	53,0	39,25	6	8	6	5,20	0,80	40	32,0
12	8		Sambarta Banerjee			IND	1874	Aditya Academy (Senior Secondary)	7,0	0,0	49,0	52,5	38,75	6	8	6	7,15	-1,15	40	-46,0
13	13		Bhattacharyya Soham			IND	1727	La Martiniere For Boys	7,0	0,0	48,5	53,0	39,50	6	8	6	6,28	-0,28	40	-11,2
14	51		Debargha Basu			IND	1428	Hare School	7,0	0,0	48,5	51,5	37,75	6	8	6	3,37	2,63	40	105,2
15	25	AIM	Debarghya Samanta	U12		IND	1595	Calcutta Boy's School	7,0	0,0	47,5	50,0	36,75	5	8	6	4,99	1,01	40	40,4
16	15		Rounak Pathak			IND	1719	South Point High School	7,0	0,0	47,0	50,5	37,50	7	8	6	6,33	-0,33	40	-13,2
17	44		Mohammad Shafiqul Islam			BAN	1458	St. Gregorys High School	7,0	0,0	46,0	50,0	37,00	6	8	6	5,86	0,14	40	5,6
18	29		Arijit Mukherjee			IND	1566	Madarat Popular Academy	7,0	0,0	46,0	49,5	36,25	5	8	6	6,73	-0,73	40	-29,2
19	37		Arijit Ghosh			IND	1509	Delhi Public School, Joka	7,0	0,0	45,5	50,0	38,00	7	8	6	5,87	0,13	40	5,2
20	41		Sagnik Saha			IND	1478	B D M International	7,0	0,0	45,5	48,5	37,50	6	7	5	4,68	0,32	40	12,8
21	45		Anushka Gupta	F12	w	IND	1455	Vivekananda Mission School	7,0	0,0	45,0	49,0	37,00	7	8	6	4,69	1,31	40	52,4
22	67		Arunika Ghosh		w	IND	1338	Sri Krishna Mission School, Agartal	7,0	0,0	44,5	46,5	33,50	7	8	6	3,93	2,07	40	82,8
23	17		Shuvam Roy			IND	1681	Sonarpur Shiksha Sadan	6,5	0,0	51,0	56,0	37,50	6	8	5,5	4,73	0,77	40	30,8
24	18		Sudipa Haldar		w	IND	1675	Shri Shikshayatan School	6,5	0,0	51,0	55,0	37,25	6	8	5,5	6,98	-1,48	40	-59,2
25	26		Anish Rooj			IND	1584	E.G.E.I	6,5	0,0	51,0	54,0	37,00	6	8	5,5	4,88	0,62	40	24,8

Complete results

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