Chennai: Schooldudes conducted its first District Level Chess Tournament at Avichi Higher Secondary School, Virugambakkam, here recently.
According to a release, the competition was held in ten different categories of Under-8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 for both boys and girls respectively. The tournament saw a participation of 335 students.
In the U-18 category, R Sham and A Bharathi emerged as the winners . The prizes were distributed by Head Pre-Press, The Hindu, R Sundarraman and top 15 players from Boys section and 10 players from girls were awarded. The top 3 players from each category also received a cash award of Rs.500, Rs.300 & Rs.100 respectively.
www.scooldudes.com is an online initiative for students from classes 6 to 12 across the country is being run by Ramachandran Kannan with an objective to give the students from Class six and above a platform to learn, develop and channelize their passion for extra-curricular activities, added the release.
Results
Under-8
Boys – Harikrishna C (Points: 6 out of 6 rounds), Girls – Anjana A (5 out of 5)
Under-10
Boys – Prajit Ravishankar (6.5 out of 7); Girls – Pooja Prabhakaran (5 out of 5)
Under-12
Boys – Jeevan Prakash N (6.5 out 7); Girls – Arithra S (5 out of 5)
Under-14
Boys – Kiruba Hari P (6 out of 7); Girls – Keerthana B (4 out of 4)