Rupesh Jaiswal has become the champion in the 'Himalayan 100' blitz chess organized by the Himalayan Chess Academy on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) as part of the world record setting campaign. In the competition held by Himalayan Chess Academy in collaboration with Yukti Foundation at King's College, Babarmahal, FIDE Master (FM) Rupesh won the title by scoring 9.5 points while remaining undefeated.
Another FM Kshitij Bhandari became runner-up with 9 points. Purushottam Silwal and Ramhari Karki scored the same 8 points. However, Purushottam came third on the basis of tie breaker.
2180 rated Rupesh, who is also the champion of Nepal last year, before sharing the points with Rajendra Prasad Shrestha in the tenth and final stage, defeated Rubeshree Chaulagai, Vinod Tamang, Bhuvaneshwar Chaudhary, Dhiren Rai, Sushil Chaudhary, Purushottam Silwal, Kshitij, Sajal Neupane and Purushottam Chaulagai and scored full points.
Angel Maharjan scored 6.5 points and became the winner of the women's side. Nepal champion Sindira Joshi (6) came second and Poonam Prasain (6) came third in that event. Sindira became the runner-up after surpassing Poonam in the tiebreaker. The first received 3 thousand, the second received 2 thousand and the third received 1 thousand. Rubeshree (3 points) in U9 girls, Albic Adhikari (5 points) in boys were the winners. In U11 girls, Nayuma Magar (3.5 points) and Amanda Sainju (6) were the first in boys. Siddharth Lama (5 points) and Sophia Gurung (2.5) achieved success in U13 boys.
Ashish Gupta (6.5) in boys and Vipaswi Adhikari (3) in girls won the gold medal in the U-15 category. Pramish Kunwar (6 points) from Butwal came first in the competition for students up to class 10. Veteran (above 55 years) Maheshwarlal Dangol (7 points), Mission Dahal (7.5) under 1900 and Sajal Neupane (7) under 1700 and Phoorva Lama (6.5) in unrated stood at the top. Best Himalayan award was received by Pragya Pant (4.5) in girls and Ryan Shrestha (6 points) in boys.
In the Himalayan 100 held to support the 'Fide 100 Guinness World Records Attempt' campaign, 100 The winners of the competition were awarded by the board member of the National Sports Council, Pema Dolma Lama, the former president of the Bagmati Province Chess Associationhe, Gyan Krishna Maharjan, the president of Nepal Snooker Association and the representative of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Ward No. 11, Saroj Kumar Mulmi, the former president of the Nepal Chess Federation, Bidur Prasad Gautam, the head of the Yukti Foundation, Yukti Lama Shrestha And the founder president of Himalayan Chess Academy, Monalisha Khambu. gave it.
athletes competed in 10 stages based on the Swiss system.
