Dahale beats top seed Kore in 63 moves to be 64-square champ

The PNG Championship was a great success,with 25 out of 64 unrated players being able to complete their rating requirement criteria through their participation in the tournament.

The final prize-winners are listed as follows :
1.Atul Dahale
2.Shailesh Jaiswar
3. Sohan Phadke
4. Poras Kolgane
5.Abhimanyu Puranik
6. Abhishek Kelkar
7.Amruta Mokal
8.Aniruddha Deshpande
9. Akshayraj Kore
10. Ranveer Mohite
11.Omkar Joshi
12. Gaurav Konde
13.Sunil Vaidya
14. Kapil Lohana
15. Hariketan Chitale

Best Veteran :
1st Prize – IM Arun Vaidya
2nd Prize – Ravindra Nargundkar
3rd Prize – Prashant Tulpule

Best Woman Player –
1st Prize – Anuprita Patil
2nd Prize – Snehal Mahajan
3rd Prize – Aakanksha Hagawane

Best Unrated :
1st Prize – Pushkar Saraf
2nd Prize – Shubham Shinde
3rd Prize – Amit Srivastav

Best Under 9:
1st Prize – Amogh Datar
2nd Prize – Aditya Madkar
3rd Prize – Heramb Bhagwat

Best Under 11:
1st Prize – Atharva Madkar
2nd Prize – Pranav Joglekar
3rd Prize – Soumitra Pathak

Best Under 13 :
1st Prize – Nikhil Ranade
2nd Prize – Nikhil Dixit
3rd Prize – Ishan Ballal

Best Under 15 :
1st Prize – Soham Dange
2nd Prize – Sanat Mharolkar
3rd Prize – Atharva Mulay

Best Under 19 :
1st Prize – Soham Datar
2nd Prize – Mihir Salunke
3rd Prize – Tanay Bhagwat