Rupesh Jaiswal and Sindira Joshi have been national intelligence champions for men and women respectively. Rupesh Jaiswal of Rautahat has become the 25th national chess champion by scoring 9 points in the Hetaunda intelligence competition which lasted for a week. This is his second national title.
Rupesh started the match from the fourth ranking and played seven wins and four draws. He has increased his personal rating from 2093 to 30.2 after starting the game. Overall, his best rating performance was 2211.
Young Purushottam Silwal ended the competition by finishing second on the basis of tie breaker. Purushottam, who scored the same 8.5 points with the current Nepal champion Rajan Subedi, had 37.25 tiebreak points and Rajan was limited to 36.25. Rajan of Jhapa stood at the third place.
FM Kshitij Bhandari of Makwanpur got 4th place by scoring 8 points. Ashish Phuyal of Dolakha finished fifth with 7 points. CM Shushrut Dahal of Jhapa was seventh with 6.5 points, FM Rijendra Rajbhandari of Kathmandu was eighth with 6 points, Premkrishna Maharjan was ninth and Suroj Maharjan of Lalitpur was tenth.
Sindira Joshi, the 10th National Women's Champion organized by the Nepal Intellectual Federation, has scored 9 points. She has managed to save the title by playing the best game.
Poonam Prasain, who has spent a long time playing chess, has come second with 8 points. Poonam from Jhapa got the tiebreak point 38.75 and became the second in a tough competition. Banke's Isha Giri secured the third position on the basis of 8 point tiebreak point 36.25. Budding Isha has become third in Nepal in her first attempt.
Angel Maharjan from Kathmandu scored 8 points and scored 35 tiebreak points with an unexpected best performance while remaining in the fourth place.
Similarly, Morang Shanti Dhimal was fifth with 7.5 points, Kritisara Adhikari of Jhapa was sixth with 6.5 points, Binita Kapali of Kirtipur was seventh with 6 points, Sushila Gurung of Bara district was eighth with 5.5 points, Lakshmi Kandel of Chitwan was ninth and Nihana Shrestha of Kathmandu was tenth. happened.
The chief guest of the prize distribution ceremony held under the chairmanship of Federation President Herakaji Maharjan, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development of Wagmati Province, Prakash Shrestha honored senior sports journalist Dhruv Kumar Tuladhar of Kantipur Rashtriya Daily and Govind Regmi of Gorkhapatra Online with cash. In the
event, Wagmati State MP Ekalal Shrestha, President of South Asian Chess Federation and Treasurer of All Indian Chess Federation Dharmendra Kumar, Vice President of Federation Shyam Byanjankar, Spokesperson Raju Tamrakar, FA Sooraj Tamrakar and others were present.
