Jaipur Open Classical Fide Rated chess tournament 2025: Atiq, Ishaan and Arisha start campaign with win
Jaipur: The second edition of the five-day
Jaipur Open Classical Fide Rated Chess tournament 2025
kick-started at the Jaipur Club here on Wednesday. Himmat Singh, founder and CEO of JHW (Jaipur Health and Wellness), informed that in the first round of the competition, jointly organised by Waves and JHW, Shraddha Dhar of Assam held to a draw by Makavana Virendra Singh of Gujarat; Vivan Kapoor of Jaipur had to split point with AK Kalsian of Delhi. YK Srivastava of Uttar Pradesh and Aarav Gupta of Jaipur played out a draw.
Ishaan Satwat
of Bihar defeated PR Harsh of Jaipur,
Arisha Agarwal
of Jaipur outwitted Jalap Indraj of Rajasthan, while un-rated
Atiq Kumawat
of Jaipur got the better of Mukesh Mandloi of Kota.
Organising secretary, Jayendra Chaturvedi informed that the tournament was inaugurated by Balwinder Singh Walia, facility director, Narayana Hospital; Rahul Pachori, regional head, Care Health Insurance; Co-founder JHW, Bhupendra Singh and RK Vyas; Ravi Bajaj of Royal Jaipur Chess Club; Zonal Head, CAT from Madhya Pradesh, Bhupendra Jain; Founder, Food for Needy, Udit Chaturvedi; President, Jaipur Club, Manoj Birla; Honorary Secretary, Vishal Kaushal; Treasurer, Pawan Parashar; Swarn Singh Khanuja; Dr Bharat Grover; Sanjay Madan; Member Executive Committee, Amrish Joshi and Jyoti Chaturvedi from Waves, secretary Ashok Bhargav and Parvendra Mani Verma from New Delhi. In this edition, around 500 players from 20 states in the age group of 4 to 84 years are participating including more than 250 international rated players.
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