Paarth Salvi of Bardez Taluka Chess Association won the Late Madhav Manohar Dhond Memorial All Goa Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2023 held at Mahalaxmi Devasthan Hall, Panaji. He remained unbeaten with a score of 7.5 points out of 8 rounds.
The tournament was organised by Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association under the auspices of Goa Chess Ad-hoc Committee in collaboration with Mahalaxmi Devasthan.
Mandar Lad finished second with a score of 7 points while Sairudra Nagvekar finished third with 7 points. Other placings from 4th to 15th are as follows: Aryan Raikar, Shekhar Sirsat, Joy Kakodkar, Brendan Peroz, Shivank Kuncolienkar, Ishan Pagi, WCM Gunjal Chopdekar, Sahil Shetty, Sachin Gaude, Mayuresh Desai, Saras Summer Powar, & Avaneeshwar Guin.
The category prize-winners for U7, U9, U11, U13, and Youngest are as follows: Narayan Prabhu Dessai, Sarthak Naik, Ronel Fernandes, Shaurya Agrasani, Rishi Gawas, Vihaan Tari, Erwin Albuquerque, Abhir Prabhu, Sairaj Narvenkar, Kanishk Sawant, Vedant Angle, Chaitanya Gaonkar, Love Kakodkar, Ayush Naik, Sahil Naik, Dhrisha Ghonge, Trisha Patekar, Desai Saanvi, Skyla Rodrigues, Samrithi Malkar, Muriel Fernandes, Diya Sawal, Jensina Sequeira, Lyia Silveira, Jennica Sequeira, Shrivalli Gandhi, Saeeja Dessai, Shubra Acharya, Sani Gawas, Alysa Coutinho, Evan Telles, Tanvi Hadkonkar, Prasad Naik, Kavish Gharse and Namesh Churi.
Gourish Dhond was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes in the presence of guest of honour Yogesh Dempo, President of Mahalaxmi Devasthan, Mahesh Candolkar, Dattaram Pinge, Arvind Mhamal, Atish Angle, Naresh Pednekar, Tanay Kaisary, Pallavi Kakodkar , Sandesh Amonkar among others.
