City Briefs

Russian GM Maxim Turov,with a rating of 2643,is the top seed in the the tournament which is being organised by Venus Chess Academy and Bombay Chess Association,sponsored by Mumbai Municipal Corporation and co-sponsored by LIC of India. The event offers a fine opportunity for India’s aspiring players to achieve their GM and IM norms and title. The GM entrants with their ratings are: Maxim Turov 2643,Martyn Kravtsir 2583,Andrey Deviatkin 2580,Deep Sengupta 2572,Nikolai Chadaev 2564,Tigran Kontanjin 2546,Bartlomiej Heberla 2539,Sethuraman 2529,Abhijit Kunte 2528,Ziaur Rehman 2528,Dzhumaev Marat 2492,Enamul Hossain 2481,S Kidambi 2474,Deepan Chakravarthy 2470,Neelotpal Das 2458,Alexi Alexandrov 2457 and R Laxman 2451.

Hunters tame Mavericks 2-1

Mubarak Hunters scored a hard-fought 2-1 win against Mavericks FC,Kalina in a Division-III match of the Mumbai District Football Association’s (MDFA) League,at the St Xavier’s ground,Parel,on Tuesday. Shadab Malik and Amez Ansari scored for the winners,while Amit More reduced the margin for the losers.

Results: Div-III : Millat FC 4 (Gulam Mohammad 2,Faraz S,Bilal Khan) beat Koli Samaj 0. Mubarak Hunters 2 (Shadab Malik,Amez Ansari) beat Mavericks,Kalina 1 (Amit More). BPCL Marketing 1 (Siddharth Pagare) beat ITC United 0. Central Railway,Matunga 1 (Saurabh Singh) beat Madanpura Under-19 0. Champion 1 (Shekhar Mohite) beat Miracles 0

Shalini Bhalekar from Sept 24

The following players are selected for Shalini Bhalekar Trophy (U-22 Selection Trial Tournament,to be played Sept 24 to October 5.

TEAMS: DILIP VENGSARKAR XI: Nikhil Patil (Jr.) (Captain); Abhinav Jagtap,Hanuj Ambhire,Suryakumar Yadav,Shalabh Agarwal,Apurva Modak,Alif Meradia,Sumit Ghadigaonkar (W.K.),Siddhesh Kinlekar,Pratik Manjrekar,Sagar Gorivale,Mangesh Jadhav,Badre Alam,Saurabh Netravalkar; CHANDRAKANT PANDIT XI: Gaurav Jathar (Captain),Kaustubh Pawar,Akhil Rajput,Kunal Dubey,Nikhil Patil (Sr.),Viraj Parab,Rohan Tendulkar,Raju Sharma (W.K.),Ankush Jaiswal,Virendra Pandey,Pratik Dabholkar,Sahil Madgaonkar,Shivraj Deshmukh,Nadeem Mehndi; HEMANT WAINGANKAR XI: Rohan Kerkar (Captain),Dinesh Natrajan,Rahul Tondulkar,Siddhesh Lad,Shashank Singh,Faisal Balwa,Neelkanth Parab (W.K.),Siddharth Prasad,Vinit Dhulap,Raunaq Sharma,Ameya Dandekar,Rahil Shaikh,Digvijay Singh,Javed Khan. LALCHAND RAJPUT XI: Sufiyan Shaikh (Captain & W.K.),Tanmay Jadhav,Yash Gandhi,Sanket Yadav,Amir Bhorania, Chandrashekar Thate,Kevin Almeida,Pankaj Jaiswal,Jay Nayak,Viraj Hadkar,Kunal Surupriya,Mohammed Amir, Shardul Thakur,Aquib Shaikh.