Mandar Lad of Bardez emerged victorious at the All-Goa Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2025 organised by Serials Chess Academy and GVM’s Chess in School, at GVM’s Higher Secondary School, Ponda.
Mandar remained unbeaten throughout the event and secured a perfect score of 9 points out of 9 rounds. Saras Powar and Paarth Salvi claimed the second and third place respectively, with 7 points each.
Following are the top 20 prize winners: Lad Mandar Pradip, Saras Powar, Paarth Salvi, Chaitanya Gaonkar, Bezstrakhov Dmitry, Shubham Sawaikar, Mayuresh Desai, Hriday Morajkar, Aarth Shenvi Karapurkar, Joshua Telles, Rachel Pereira, Valanka Fernandes, K Suresh Navin, Atharva Sawal, Vihaan Tari, Kanishk Sawant, Adarsh Patekar, Avaneeshwar Guin, Hawal Shreyash, Mayank Kurtikar
Age Category (prize winners): U15 Boys: 1. Asarsh Naik 2. Chaitanya Patil 3. Manjunath Dessai; U15 Girls: 1. Sayyed Maizah, 2. Saeeja Dessai, 3. Desai Anvi; U13 Boys: 1. Shlok Mesta, 2. Atharva Borkar, 3. Cardozo Nathan; U13 Girls: 1. Terse Asmi, 2. Tanisha Naik Dessai, 3. Sawant Aarna; U11 Boys: 1. Atharv Ghatwal, 2. Advaith Prasanna, 3. Aryan Naik; U11 Girls: 1. Skyla Rodrigues, 2. Tvisha Dessai, 3. Redkar Shanvi; U09 Boys: 1. Prayank Gaonkar, 2. Naik Aarav, 3. Sarthak Naik; U09 Girls: 1. Dukle Vania, 2. Rao Shivanya, 3. Amaira Borkar; U07 Boys: 1. Evan Telles, 2. Schaffer Antunes Viegas, 3. Kadam Vivaan; U07 Girls: 1. Adhvi Terse, 2. Jigyasa Gawas, 3. Barreto Eliaza Phacelia.
Best Veteran: 1. Kiran Chopdekar, 2. Nitinchandra Dighe
Best Women: 1. Arya Dabholkar, 2. Shree Ghonsekar
Best Ponda player: 1. Swayam Kamat Bambolkar, 2. Samruddh Borkar, 3. Avnish Borker
Best GVM’s player: 1. Nishesh Gaude, 2. Kamat Helekar Aarya Amey, 3. Avani Sawaikar
Best Serials Chess Academy player: 1. Mandlekar Neevaan, 2. Shivam Maharana, 3. Anvay Borkar
Krishna Shetye, Chairman of GVM’s, Vishwas Naik, Director of Reema Transport, and Sanjay Kavlekar, SAG Coach, graced the prize distribution ceremony. Also in attendance were Sagar Sakordekar, President of PTCA, Wilson Cruz, Vice President of PTCA, and Sandesh Naik, Joint Secretary of PTCA. Veena Naik, the Tournament Director, was present, along with FA Tanishq Kavlekar, the Chief Arbiter, and SNA Anish Naik, the Deputy Chief Arbiter.
