PANAJI: Prateek Satarkar won the chess tournament organised by Inner Wheel Club of Ponda in association with Ponda Taluka Chess Association (PTCA) on October 27 at Talaulim.
In all, 24 players took part in the tournament conducted for boys of Matruchhaya’s Bal Kalyan Ashram, Talaulim. Madanraj Sharma and Ritesh Gad secured the second and third place respectively. Amogh Namshiker was Chief Arbiter of the tournament.
Deepak Murgaonkar, Vinayak Gavkar, Kaiwalya Tendulkar, Vedang Kerkar, Vishnu Desai, Sohan Yadav, Suraj Gavandi and Shripat Gadvi were placed 4th to 11th respectively.
The prizes were given away by Chief Guest, Savita D’Costa (President, Inner Wheel Club), Lina Sadekar (Treasurer, Inner Wheel Club), Ranjit Sadekar (Past President, Rotary Club of Ponda), Sagar Sakordekar (PTCA President ), Amogh Namshikar (PTCA Secretary), Anand Kurtikar (PTCA Executive -Member) and Arun Dharmadhikari (Director, Bal Kalyan Ashram). Archana Tendulkar (PTCA Treasurer) compered and proposed the vote of thanks, says a PTCA press release.
