Bansbari Mavi has won the Chairman's Cup School Chess Championship. In the competition held on Thursday in Baluwatar, Bansbari became the winner by scoring the highest 76 points.
3 hundred and 19 players from 20 schools participated in 6 events of the Rapid Chess Tournament organized by Kathmandu Metropolitan City 4 under the management of Himalayan Chess Academy. Bansbari became the champion based on the points given to the top 10 players in each competition. National Creative Co-Educational School (NCCS) became the runner-up with 53 points. Mahendra Rashtriya Mavi finished third with 32 points.
In the individual competition, Simran Karki of Bansbari became the winner in class 1-4 girls by scoring 4 points. Supriya Moktan of Bansbari, Sandhya Kumari Shah of Dhumbarahi Mavi and Ashika Lopchan of Mahendra Rashtriya scored 3 points each, but Supriya came second and Sandhya third on the basis of tiebreak.
Ayam Subedi of Meridian School won 5 matches for boys. NCCS's Arnav Manandhar won the second place by beating his own school's Shreyansh Sapkota who scored equal 4 points in a tie-break.
Aaradhya Gupta of NCCS became the winner in class 5-8 girls by scoring 5 points. Samiksha Nepal of Dhumbarahi (4.5 points) came second and Apsara Khatri (4) of Bansbari came third. On the boys side, Atish Maharjan of Panchkanya Basic School was the winner with 6.5 marks. Shishir Dhakal of Bansbari, who scored the same 6 points, was second and Sumir Tamang was third.
In class 9-12 girls, Devyani Guragain of Bagmati Boarding scored 5 points and secured the first position. Bagmati's Mayumi Rai came second with 4 points. Aanchal Chaudhary of NCCS finished third after falling behind in the tiebreaker. On the boys' side, Sohan Prajapati of Newton won the first place by scoring 6.5 points. Prem Vikram Adhikari of Brihaspati Vidyasadan won second place by defeating Ayush Basnet of Bagmati who scored equal 6 points in a tie-break. The winner of
was awarded the trophy by Dinesh Maharjan, Ward President of the organizing ward 4, Monalisha Khambu of Himalayan Chess and others.
