Thapathali Chess Park Club won the seventh Tulsilal Smriti National Club Team Chess Championship title on Tuesday. Thapathali became the champion for the third time.
Chess Park easily defeated the previous winner Dolakha Chess Home in the knockout equation and won a hard-fought victory over Lalitpur Sports Club in the final.
Chess Park pushed to the rapid stage by tying the score at 2-2 in a classical 90 minute 30 second increment game. The classical game took an exciting turn and ended in a tie. In the first board, Chess Park's FM Rijendra Rajbhandari lost to Lalitpur's CM Sajin Maharjan, while in the fourth board, women's national champion Sindira Joshi lost to Vinita Kapali. In the
team game, Sushil Choudhary, who played on the second board after facing the pressure of losing 2 points by Chess Park, won against Shailendra Neupane and opened an account of 1 point. In the third word, Ashish Phuyal took a timeout against Rishon Thapa and equalized the score 2-2. After the
, Rijendra was again defeated by Sajin in the rapid stage. Sushil, Ashish and Sindira, the other players of Chess Park, won their matches with a score of 3-1 and won the title.
Thapathali Chesspark, the winner of the competition held at Tulsilal Foundation in Lalitpur under the organization of Nepal Buddhichal Federation, managed to get 2 lakh prize.
organizer Lalitpur Sports Club became the runner-up. The club received a prize of 120,000.
The Lalitpur Metropolitan Municipality team won 60,000 and the former champion Dolakha Chess Home won 40,000 in the third place.
National Sports Council Member Secretary Tanklal Ghising awarded the winners.
Herakazi Maharjan, president of the Nepal Intellectual Federation, requested the member secretary to include Budchichal in the presidential running shield.
