Humpy, Sasikiran to contest in PSPB Chess tourney
Press Trust of India
Last updated on Friday, 16 December 2011 19:27
Mumbai: India's top chess players, including Grandmasters Koneru Humpy and Krishnan
Sasikaran, would vie for team as well as individual honours in the 23rd
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) Inter-Unit tournament starting on
Saturday.
Besides Humpy and Sasikiran, leading players like RB Ramesh, Surya Sekhar
Ganguly, Deepak Chakravorty, Nilotpal Das, A Kunte, P Konguvel and V Saravanan -
among men - and Nisha Mohota and Anupama Gokhale - among women - will be taking
part in the tournament to be held at hosts Hindustan Petroleum's housing complex
in suburban Chembur, it was announced at a media conference on
Friday.
"This is virtually a national as most of the top players would be
taking part in it. Indian Oil Corporation won the team championships last year,
while ONGC and Bharat Petroleum Corporation finished second and third in that
order," said PSPB's Delhi-based Member Secretary R S Jadeja.
Humpy and
Sasikiran will be defending their individual titles too in the five-day
tournament in which the teams would play over five rounds and the individuals
eight to nine rounds.
"Hindustan Petroleum conducts two inter-unit events
in different sports annually and this time we are conducting chess in Mumbai and
badminton at Jaipur from January 27-31," said HPCL GM (Industrial Relations)
Sandeep Joseph. Though the top performing players would not receive any cash
prizes, they would be given gift vouchers and trophies, the organisers
said.
The team championship would be fought among the PSPB's 11 members
belonging to public sector organisations from the oil, gas and related
sectors.
Jadeja said in the near future even private firms dealing in
these sectors will become members of PSPB.
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