Radhika Sharma shocks Fide master SK Rathore in third round of Jaipur Open Classical Fide Rated Chess tournament
Jaipur: After the third round, the top players stopped the series of upsets to some extent and challenged the other participants by scoring third successive wins on the second day of the five-day
Jaipur Open Classical Fide Rated Chess tournament
2025, organised jointly by Waves and JHW, at the Jaipur Club here on Thursday.
The biggest upset of the day happened when Haryana's
Radhika Sharma
(1634) stunned national-level senior player
Fide master SK Rathore
(1788) in a thrilling encounter.
Top seed
Arun Kataria
(2353) of Rajasthan defeated Krishna Kundu (1747) of Haryana to march ahead. Rahul Sangma (2121) of Gujarat outwitted Shayan Barua (1742) of Bengal, Maharashtra's Shreyan Majumdar (2110) downed Shreyansh Puri (1741) of Rajasthan, while Kumar Gaurav (2079) of Bihar got the better of Manish Kumar (1715) of Gujarat.
In other third round ties, senior player and well-known coach GB Joshi of Delhi dismissed Krishna Kundu (1747) of Haryana, while Joshi (2017) prevailed over Siddhant Chaturvedi (1736) of Rajasthan. Organised jointly by Waves and JHW, the tournament is being held at the Jaipur Club.
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