“There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world”, as goes a great saying. The last week witnessed a mind boggling chess event organised by the IT-BHU chess team at the Rajputana common room, attracting overwhelming response. Not only there was an enthusiastic participation from the first-yearites, seniors too didn’t lag behind. There was a display of impeccable strategies and methods to captivate the participants and audience alike. Most of the games were close and few had unbelievable turnarounds. Amidst the competition well known aggressiveness of an ITians was evident.
An exciting knock-out round full of complicated combinations and sequences of tactical maneuvers led to the selection of the 20 best brains. This was followed by the second phase of battles where each player had to play 4 matches. It saw some good fighting spirit and the players never went for quick draws and delivered quite a few eye openers. On the basis of the second round the rankings were decided. The first position was grabbed by the very deserving, captain of the chess team, Saurabh Verma from 3rd year electronics along with the first year chess tournament winner Himanshu Tal. Second position went to Shubham Gupta, the vice captain, followed by Venkatesh and Rahul Singla.
Well thats not all!!! Its just the starting, the main event is yet to come. With the mind blowing response in just the preliminary round there's much more to watch out for at the mega showdown, SPARDHA '09, where players will attack with all the vigor, and kings would be in the open with mating threats hanging in the air. So all you chess lovers, get ready…for the royal battle …Be there…
By:Vibhor
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