Rajdeep wins his maiden State Senior title

Top seed Rajdeep becomes 57th WB State Open Champion

Former West Bengal State Junior champion, IM Rajdeep Sarkar scored an unbeaten 8.0/9 to win the 57th edition of West Bengal State Open championship. Immediately after receiving his prize, Rajdeep left for the ongoing World Junior championship.

Rajdeep with his shining new champion's trophy | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Rajdeep's unscathed championship run

This is what Rajdeep had to say about winning the tournament - "It feels great to win this tournament as I have never won it before. It was almost an easy event for me as I was the top seed and everyone else were lower rated. First seven rounds went quite smooth for me. Evaluation changed a lot against Subhayan. Made a quick draw in the last round as I knew my Buchholz was the highest."

Here is an interview with Rajdeep after he became an IM

Rajdeep talks about his journey towards IM title | Video: Shahid Ahmed

Former State Open Champion Debasish Mukherjee was one of Rajdeep's coaches | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

I caught up with Rajdeep's one of the former coaches Debasish Mukherjee who trained him and this is what he had to say - "Rajdeep Sarkar is my ex-student. I have taught him chess since his childhood. He was a bright kid, whatever was shown to him even once, he could remember it for a long time. During the classes also he used to work hard and always had various questions. Right now I am feeling very proud of him that he has become an IM and also he has become the State Open champion. I wish him all the best for his future."

Photo Gallery

Runner-up Kaustuv Kundu 8.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Second runner-up Anustoop Biswas 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

4th Subhayan Kundu 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

5th Dilip Das 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6th Arpan Das 7.5/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7th Pratyay Chowdhury 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

8th Avijit Ghosh 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

9th New State Amateur Champion Bishal Basak 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

10th Rounak Guha Roy 7.0/9 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

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The tournament witnessed a total participation of 251 players from various district across the state of West Bengal. It was organized by 64 Squares from 9th - 13th October 2019 at Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology.

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	FM	Rajdeep Sarkar			IND	2384	8,0	0,0	57,5	53,5
2	2		Kaustuv Kundu			IND	2318	8,0	0,0	55,0	51,0
3	4		Anustoop Biswas			IND	2162	7,5	0,0	57,0	52,5
4	3		Subhayan Kundu			IND	2263	7,5	0,0	56,5	52,0
5	16		Dilip Das	S60		IND	1835	7,5	0,0	55,0	51,5
6	6		Arpan Das			IND	2124	7,5	0,0	53,5	49,0
7	24		Pratyay Chowdhury	U15		IND	1713	7,0	0,0	53,5	50,0
8	22		Avijit Ghosh			IND	1724	7,0	0,0	51,5	47,0
9	17		Basak Bishal			IND	1829	7,0	0,0	50,5	46,0
10	26		Rounak Guha Roy	U15		IND	1682	7,0	0,0	49,0	44,0
11	46		Aritrya Pal	U13		IND	1534	7,0	0,0	48,5	46,0
12	10		Suvradeepta Das			IND	2002	6,5	0,0	55,0	50,0
13	7		Saptorshi Gupta			IND	2114	6,5	0,0	54,0	50,0
14	27		Anish Rooj	U15		IND	1672	6,5	0,0	53,0	48,5
15	5		Sanket Chakravarty	U15		IND	2158	6,5	0,0	52,5	48,0
16	20		Shounak Mazumder	U13		IND	1761	6,5	0,0	52,5	48,0
17	32		Soumyajit Das (Jr)	U15		IND	1624	6,5	0,0	52,0	48,0
18	39		Tejash Jain			IND	1579	6,5	0,0	51,0	47,0
19	9		Debasish Mukherjee			IND	2054	6,5	0,0	49,5	46,5
20	36		Tushar Barua			IND	1593	6,5	0,0	48,5	44,5
21	55		Soumalya Mondol	U13		IND	1457	6,5	0,0	47,5	43,0
22	29		Satya Sekhar Mitra			IND	1667	6,5	0,0	46,5	42,0
23	65		Prithwi Sinha			IND	1424	6,5	0,0	46,0	43,0
24	54		Ujaan Bhattacharya	U15		IND	1459	6,5	0,0	46,0	42,5
25	51		Soumen Mondal			IND	1470	6,5	0,0	46,0	42,0

Complete standings

Rajdeep wins his maiden State Senior Open title