IM Nitish Belurkar won the Late Smt. Sunandabai Dayanand Bandodkar Memorial Blitz Fide Rating Chess tournament.
Nitish scored 10.5 points from 11 rounds and remained undefeated in the tournament. Mandar Lad, Mahindrakar Indrajeet, Kiran Panditrao Harish Sharma scored 9 points each but due to better tie-break Mandar emerged the runner-up. Mahindrakar Indrajeet finished third, while Kiran Panditrao finished fourth.
Other prize-winners from 5th to 25th are as follows: Shriraj Bhosale, IM Abhishek Kelkar, Edrick Vaz, Nitin Babu, GMSaptarshi Roy Chodhury , Datta Kambli, Anubhab Gupta, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Farhan M, Shejal Sahil Sanjay, Rupam Mukharjee, Vishwesh Kochrekar, Vihaan Tari, Kirpesh I, Karan J P, Pankaj Bhat, Bezstrakhaov Dmitry, Kabnurakar Rushikesh, WCM Gunjal Chopdekar, Nikam Ravindra.
Category prize-winners are as follows: Evan Telles, Prayank Gaonkar, Shresth Ghonsekar, Ahaan Kataruka, Joshua Telles, Atharv Ghatwal, Soham Deshmukh, Satyam Phal, Aiden Grao, Mayuresh Desai, Dacunha Sidonia, Shivanya Rao, Shinel Rodrigues, Kirti Sinha, Skyla Rodrigues, Kaya Coutinho, Riddhi Gaude, Vaishnavi Parab, Arya Dublay, Aditi Kamat, Aditi Kamat, Joy Kakodkar, Love Kakodkar, Desai Dhruv, Pritam Wani, Aditya Dublay, Joash Cardozo, Schaffer Viegas, Aryan Naik, Sarthak Naik, Ivan Dias, Arthav Shirodker, Avnish Borker, Sai Prabhakaran, Vedant Angle, Saaurvi Kankonkar, Trisha Patekar, Vania Dukle, Parina Mauzo, Diya Naik, Muriel Fernandes, Saeeja Dessai, Israa Rikarty, Avni Kamat, Sanika Shymrao Naik.
Best Veteran : Phulwani Harish, Hariramani R N.
Best Women: Arya Dabholkar, Alana Menezes Andrade.
Prizes were distributed at the hands of Mahesh Candolkar, President of Goa Chess Association; Ashok Parab, Member Secretary IMB, Vishwas Pilankar, Treasurer GCA, Arvind Mhamal, Chief Arbiter, Dattaram Pinge, Secretary TTCA and others.
