IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins Bijnor Open 2023

IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni receiving the first place cheque and trophy from Bijnor District Magistrate Ankit Kumar Aggarwal, and Director and Secretary of Vivek College.

IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins Bijnor Open 2023, won all seven rounds

Maharashtra's International Master and top seed Vikramaditya Kulkarni won the first Bijnor Open FIDE Rating Tournament held in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh by winning all the rounds. He was awarded INR 40,000 and a magnificent trophy as a reward for his excellent performance!

In the final round, he defeated the second seed of the tournament - IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam from Tamil Nadu.

Sparsh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh took 2nd place in the tournament, winning a cash prize of INR 26,000 along with a beautiful trophy!

Sparsh defeated Harish Sharma from Delhi in the final 7th round.

Whereas Gopal Krishna Maheshwari from Uttar Pradesh stood 3rd, bagging a cash prize of Rs. 15,000.

He defeated a player from his own state, Aabhas Kumar Srivastava in the final round to claim 3rd position.

Just before the final round, ChessBase India had organized another amazing event! Women International Master Angela Franco from Colombia gave a simultaneous chess exhibition to all age group winners and the top two female players of the tournament.

During this simul, Sananda R ( TN ) and Ayush Saxena ( UP ) was successful in defeating Angela by playing some amazing chess!

Angela scored 6.5 points, with 5 wins and 3 draws. Her win percentage in the simul was 65%!

ChessBase India Best Game Award

ChessBase India, in collaboration with the organizing committee, had given away a total of seven prizes for the Best Game of the Round, in which apart from a cash prize of Rs 1,000, a one year ChessBase account was also given away. International Masters Vikramaditya and Balasubramaniam won this award twice during the event!

80-year-old International Master Wazir Ahmed Khan of Uttar Pradesh won the first round best game award!

The best game award was given to Ramanathan Balasubramaniam in the second and sixth rounds. In the sixth round, he sacrificed a full Rook and made a brilliant draw!

Ashu Verma in the fourth round and....

Gaurav Sunil Dutt Rana in the 5th round were recipients of the best game award.

The winner of the tournament, IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni bagged the best game prize in the 3rd and 7th rounds respectively!

Check out all the games which won the "best game" awards in each round

Photo Gallery

The students of Vivek College made an auspicious start to the event with Ganesh Vandana!

The students who offered the prizes to the top position holders of the tournament!

The trophies awarded to the age-group winners of the tournament

The trophies awarded to the top 20 players of the Bijnor Open 2023

The top five players of Bijnor Open with the chief guests in the closing ceremony!

Players ranked 11th-15th in the final standings, and...

Players ranked 16th-20th.

The top 3 players from Uttar Pradesh!

The best unrated players of the tournament

Best Under-10 age category players

The top 3 players rated Under 1500.

All the members of the organizing team at Bijnor Open 2023!

Chief Arbiter of the tournament, Sandesh Nagarnaik and tournament director Niklesh Jain conducted the prize distribution ceremony.

Final Ranking after 7 rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	FED	RtgI	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	1	IM	Kulkarni Vikramaditya		IND	2209	Maharashtra	7	30	33	33,00	7
2	12		Sparsh Yadav		IND	1598	Uttar Pradesh	6	31	35	28,00	6
3	11	AIM	Gopal Krishna Maheshwari		IND	1627	Uttar Pradesh	6	30	32,5	25,50	6
4	27		Amartya Kumar	U15	IND	1375	Delhi	6	29,5	32,5	27,00	5
5	19		Mohammad Sameed		IND	1468	Uttar Pradesh	6	29	31,5	25,75	5
6	10		Verma Ashu		IND	1674	Uttar Pradesh	6	29	31,5	25,50	6
7	6		Daksh Goyal	U15	IND	1814	Delhi	6	27	30	25,00	6
8	7		Anchal Rastogi		IND	1770	Uttar Pradesh	6	26,5	28,5	23,50	6
9	9	IM	Wazeer Ahmad Khan		IND	1686	Uttar Pradesh	6	26	28,5	24,50	6
10	3	IM	Ramnathan Balasubramaniam		IND	1920	Tamil Nadu	5,5	30,5	33,5	23,50	5
11	17		Vatsal Makol		IND	1478	Delhi	5,5	28,5	31,5	24,00	4
12	73	AFM	Abhibhav Kumar	U15	IND	1127	Delhi	5,5	26,5	29	20,50	5
13	64		Rahul Suri		IND	1184	Delhi	5,5	26	27,5	19,25	5
14	14		Ayush Saxena	U15	IND	1567	Uttar Pradesh	5	31,5	34,5	23,00	5
15	44		Prabindra Mani Verma		IND	1273	Uttar Pradesh	5	29,5	32,5	21,00	5
16	60		Nikhil Chopra		IND	1197	Uttar Pradesh	5	29,5	32,5	20,50	5
17	4		Sharma Harish		IND	1904	Delhi	5	28,5	32,5	22,50	5
18	49		Ujjwal Chauhan		IND	1243	Uttar Pradesh	5	28,5	31,5	20,50	5
19	30		Ravish Chaudhary		IND	1351	Uttar Pradesh	5	28,5	31,5	19,50	5
20	66		Shivansh Sharma	U15	IND	1163	Uttar Pradesh	5	28	32	22,00	4

Check out the full standings

Round 1-7 games

This article is translated from Hindi to English by Himank Ghosh.

IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins Bijnor Open 2023