Kaustuv remains invincible at New Year Open 2018
Kaustuv receives his championship trophy and ₹25000 cash from three stalwart GMs of West Bengal
Former Olympic Gold Medal winner in Field Hockey, Mr Gurbux Singh and current selector for Bengal Cricket team, Mr Pranab Roy made the inaugural moves of the tournament
Top seed IM Somak Palit scored 6.5 points, finished 2nd and bagged home ₹15000 cash
Joydeep Dutta scored 6.5 points, due to a lower tie-break score finished at 3rd position and took home ₹10000 cash
Yours truly scored 5.5, had a +8 finish with 12th position and got ₹2000 cash
Kaustuv speaks with ChessBase India after winning the championship
Here is an annotated game by Kaustuv Kundu against Neelash Saha in the 6th round of the tournament. From the analysis you can delve into Kaustuv's mind and have an understanding of what he was going through during the game.
Here are some videos of few games from the tournament:
Mehendi Sil loses against Joydeep Dutta in a Bishop vs Knight endgame
Satya Sekhar Mitra misses a draw against IM Somak Palit in a Queen endgame
Samrat Ghorai causes major upset by defeating IM Suvrajit Saha
Anurag Jaiswal blunders a Knight against Aditya Basu
Somak Palit wins the endgame against Aditya Basu
Kaustuv Kundu capitalizes on Samrat Ghorai's blunder
Joydeep Dutta escapes loss against Arya Bhakta
Final Ranking after 8 Rounds
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | 5 | Kaustuv Kundu | IND | 2098 | 7,0 | 0,0 | 39,5 | 43,5 | |
| 2 | 1 | IM | Palit Somak | IND | 2325 | 6,5 | 0,5 | 39,5 | 43,5 |
| 3 | 2 | FM | Dutta Joydeep | IND | 2288 | 6,5 | 0,5 | 38,0 | 41,5 |
| 4 | 13 | Basu Suman | IND | 1965 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 37,0 | 40,5 | |
| 5 | 17 | Neelash Saha | IND | 1830 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 37,0 | 40,0 | |
| 6 | 7 | Debasish Mukherjee | IND | 2058 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 36,5 | 40,0 | |
| 7 | 43 | Samip Roy | IND | 1423 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 35,0 | 38,5 | |
| 8 | 10 | FM | Rajdeep Sarkar | IND | 1997 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 32,5 | 36,0 |
| 9 | 14 | Anustoop Biswas | IND | 1907 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 32,5 | 35,5 | |
| 10 | 25 | Aryamann Sain | IND | 1681 | 6,0 | 0,0 | 28,5 | 30,5 | |
| 11 | 22 | Aditya Basu | IND | 1706 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 37,0 | 39,5 | |
| 12 | 20 | AGM | Shahid Ahmed S.K. | IND | 1758 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 35,0 | 37,5 |
| 13 | 15 | Samrat Ghorai | IND | 1875 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 34,5 | 37,0 | |
| 14 | 8 | Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar | IND | 2034 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 34,0 | 37,5 | |
| 15 | 12 | Arpan Das | IND | 1965 | 5,5 | 0,0 | 33,5 | 37,0 | |
| 16 | 39 | Arya Bhakta | IND | 1512 | 5,0 | 0,0 | 40,5 | 44,0 | |
| 17 | 9 | Anurag Jaiswal | IND | 2015 | 5,0 | 0,0 | 34,5 | 38,0 | |
| 18 | 3 | IM | Suvrajit Saha | IND | 2253 | 5,0 | 0,0 | 34,0 | 37,5 |
| 19 | 16 | AGM | Ritam Nag | IND | 1837 | 5,0 | 0,0 | 33,5 | 35,5 |
| 20 | 18 | Suvradeepta Das | IND | 1827 | 5,0 | 0,0 | 32,0 | 35,0 |
Alekhine Chess Club will return for 26th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess Championship 2018 in a few days which will be covered by ChessBase India.
