Kanpur: Three local chess players – Rishabh Nishad, Vikas Nishad and Shashank Srivastava – marked their presence in the first Kota International Open FIDE Rapid Rating chess tournament held at Kota ( Rajasthan ) on Oct 3 and 4.
Rishabh Nishad stood in third place and won a cash prize of Rs 11,000 while Vikas Nishad got tenth place and grabbed prize money of Rs 4,100. Shashank Awasthi stood in 15th place and received prize money of Rs 3,600. As many as 239 players from all over India participated in this championship, which was played in nine rounds, Selection – Two players, Yuvraj Chaurasia and Srishti Singh, and two coaches, Satyendra Singh Yadav and Kalpana Singh, have been selected for the preparatory camp (NCC Prep-1) for Special Olympics: Asia Pacific 3 X 3 Basketball championship slated to be held in the Philippines from Dec 5 to 9. The camp will be held at PDEU Gandhi Nagar from Oct 5 to 14. Awasthi selected in Mankad trophy team — Hemant Awasthi of Kanpur has been selected in the 17-member UP squad for Vinoo Mankad trophy. UP team will play its first tie at Puducherry on Oct 8.
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