Shri Pankaj Dwivedi, chief secretary of government of AP inaugurated the tournament in the presence of Shri Hari Narayanan of NMDC and Shri Praveen Raju of Suchithra Academy.
Shri.Pankaj Dwivedi giving speech during the Inauguration of the All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament Other Guests including Kopella Harinarayana, Praveen Raju and International Master Lanka Ravi can be seen in the pictures.
In the ten round Swiss system, wherein 118 players from ten states are participating, the top seed Debashis Das of Orissa had an easy outing against Nihar L Akula of AP. Second seeded IM K Priyadharshan of Tamil Nadu subdued G Dheeraj of AP in no time and former national champion P. Konguvel of ONGC met with little resistance from JC Karthik of the host state.
Debashis Das ORI 1 beat Nihar L Akula AP 0
Dheeraj G AP 0 lost to Priyadharshan K TN 1
Konguvel Ponnuswamy ONGC 1 beat Karthik J C AP 0
Kavya Srishti K AP 0 lost to Sangma Rahul Rly 1
Krishna C R G AP 1 beat Toshali V AP 0
Mohit Jain ASM 0 lost to Ravi Teja S AP 1
Koshy Varugeese ONGC 1 beat Anurag Kuruvada AP 0
Mohammad Mubashir AP 0 lost to Praveen Prasad P AP 1
Purushothaman T AP 1 beat Vibhav Gadwal AP 0
Mohammad Mudassir AP 0 lost to Aravindh Chithambaram Vr ONGC 1
Dhar Rajib ASM 1 beat Janaki Devi M AP 0
Abhilash Reddy M L AP 1 beat Rama Devi P AP 0
Mohan T V S R AP 0 lost to Deepthamsh Reddy M AP 1
Trailokya Nanda ASM 1 beat K Ashleesh AP 0
Sai Anvith Vattikuti V AP 0 lost to Cholleti Sahajasri AP 1
Saranya J ONGC 1 beat Chaitanya Srihari Y AP 0
Rithika G AP 0 lost to Dave Kantilal RAJ 1
Roshan Rangarajan MAH 1 beat Prasanna Arpita Ch AP 0
Manas Khadke AP 0 lost to Chakravarthi Y V K AP 1
Viswa Teja G AP 1 beat Adarsh Raghavan K AP 0
Anirudh Arkery AP 0 lost to Karthik V Ap AP 1
Srija Seshadri TN 1 beat Ankitha Goud Palle AP 0
Anne Sharath Chandra AP 0 lost to Srikanth K AP 1
Harsha Bharathakoti AP 1 beat Arham Jain ASM 0
Azit Kumar Singh NMDC 0 lost to Krishna Teja N AP 1
Chakravarthi Reddy M AP 1 beat Dawlekar Shrikant MAH 0
Deepanshu Jagannath MAH 0 lost to Kandi Ravi AP 1