Top seed Nitin Babu from Kerala, Grand Master Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury from RSPB, IM Abhishek Kelkar, Mahindrakar Indrajeet, Anjaneya Thathak, Shriraj Bhonsle, Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Santu Mondal, Rupam Mukherjee, Abhishek T M, Prashanth Naik, Pradeep Tiwari, Milind Gawde, Bezstrakhov Dmitry and Pankaj Bhat, are all on 3 points each after the 3rd round of 2nd Late Shri Vasudeva V Dempo Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2024.
Nitin defeated Soni Krishan, GM Saptarshy beat Rushikesh Kabnurakar, IM Abhishek beat Harish Sharma, Mahindra defeated Aditya Savalkar, Anjaneya beat Hrishikesh Chavan.
Goa’s WCM Gunjal Chopdekar and Edrick Vaz; Nath Rupankar, Sher Singh, Farhaan M, Kapil Rana, Manav Kirsi Benoy and Sumeetkumar M S are in second position with 2.5 points each. Meanwhile, around 44 players jointly-occupy the third position with 2 points each.
