Patna, August 7, 2010: Rupesh Ranjan beat Himanshu Harsh to collect full points in the opening round match of the Ganauri Das memorial open chess tournament at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hall here on Friday.
Manishankar Kumar and Manya Diptam also won their respective first round matches.
Earlier, Mohan Yadav, deputy general manager of RBI, Patna, inaugurated the tournament. RBI Employees’ Sports and Recreation Club secretary Rajeev Ranjan welcomed the guests.
Important results: Rupesh Ranjan (1) beat Himanshu Harsh (0), Manishankar Kumar (1) beat Ashish Raj (0), Manya Diptam (1) beat Abhisshek Chandra (0), Aditi Aditya (1) beat Piyush Pankaj (0), Rahul Kumar (1) beat Aditya Jyoti Srivastava (0), Shivan Aryan (1) beat Akhouri Sakshi (0), Alok Priyadarshi (1) beat Subhash Kumar (0), Anubhav Sahay (1) beat Sumesh (0), Arvinda Kumar (1) beat Tanul Tanyan (0), Satyaki (.5) drew with Akhouri Vinit (.5).
