Chennai: R K Chopon Babu of Prodapt Solutions won the 23rd Tiruvallur- Sri Krishna Agency team selection chess championship at the end of final round held at Sports development authority of Tamilnadu, Tiruvallur.
The tournament had participation of 132 players and Chopan Babu emerged victorious after scoring five points. Roop Kumar and A.Kumaran from the Rotary Club, being the Chief Guest distributed the prizes jointly.
The top ten players will represent as two teams (4+1) from the Thiruvallur District in the forthcoming TN State Team Chess Championships to be held at Karur.
Final Standings:
Men:
1) RK Chopon Babu (5/5); 2) Jones Prabhakaran(4½); 3) R.Raghavan(4½); 4) A Madhan Baskar(4); 5) N Vigneshwar(4); 6) Balaji Subramanian(4) 7) R Velmurugan(4); 8) G.Heman Raj(4); 9)
Ramesh Murugesan(3½); 10) A Anand(3½).