Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy Chodhury of Railways Sports promotion Board won the 2nd edition of Late Shri Vasudeva V Dempo Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2024, organised by Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association in Panaji. He scored 7.5 points and was tied for the top position with Rupam Mukharjee of West Bengal. However, due to a better tie-break score, GM Saptarshi was declared the winner. Rupam with 7.5 points, emerged runner-up.
IM Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra finished third with 7 points. With 7 points each – Prashanth Naik, Bezstrakhov Dmitry, Shriraj Bhosale, Sher Singh, Kiran Panditrao, Aditya Savalkar, Nitin Babu, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Rupankar Nath, Abhishek T M, Kabnurakar Rushikesh, Shejal Sahil, Santu Mondal, Edrick Vaz, Karan J P, Pankaj Bhat, Soni Krishan, Amal Roozi, Dhruv Muthe, WCM Gunjal Chopdekar, Milind Gawade, Mahindrakar Indrajeet, Kirpesh I, Kapil Rana, Anubhab Gupta, Govind Prabhu, Shankar Kuldip, occupied the top-10 positions.
Other prizes: Rating below-1999: Farhan M, Harish Sharma, Hrishikesh Chavan; Below 1799: Sumeetkumar M S, Kartik Kumbhar; Below 1599:Kanishk Sawant, Mayank Kurtikar, Atharva Borkar; Best Veteran: Hariramani R N, Mukhaerjee D S; Best Women players: Skyla Rodrigues, Krutika Pustake.
Other prize-winners in U7,U9,U11,U13,U15 Boys and Girls, Unrated, Taluka Players categories: Evan Telles, Juwan Jinto, Rishit Gawas, Ahaan Kataruka, Joshua Telles, Vipul Kadam, Rajveer Patil, Erwin Albuquerque, Mayuresh Dessai, Aarth Karapurkar, Sidonia Dacunha, Shaurvi Kankonkar, Kirti Sinha, Asmi Terse, Aaradhya Sawant, Saeeja Dessai, Vaishnavi Parab, Avni Kamat, Aditi Kamat, Raposo Maxwell, Ved Naik, Samrat Jindal, Sai Prabhakaran, Sidh Rane, Trivikram Narvekar, Shrama Morudkar, Zacharias Gonsalves, Anvay Boekar, Shresth Ghonsekar, Aloysius Dias, Varad Shirodkar, Coleridge Fernandes, Shivam Maharana, Jerome Rego, Narayan Prabhu Dessai, Prayank Gaonkar, Schaffer Viegas, Sarthak Naik, Vihaan Tari, Akshar Kumbhar, Shaurya Agrasani, Aaryavrat Naik Desai, Ivan Dias, Avnish Borker, Hriday Morajkar, Sanjay Siddharth, Chaitanya Patil, Shivam Maharana, Vrishin Khumaran, Vania Dukle, Shinel Rodrigues, Shreeya Bandodkar, Aaradhya Rane, Diya Naik, Navya Narvekar, Tanisha Naik Dessai, Sayuri Prabhu Nasnodkar, Sanika Naik.
Union Minister of State for Ministry of Power and New and Renewable Energy – Shripad Naik graced the prize distribution ceremony. Pallavi Dempo, Director of Dempo group of Companies was also present among others.
