JOIN USGrandmaster Abhijeet Gupta reclaimed the Commonwealth Chess Championship here on Tuesday after playing out a swift draw in the ninth round match against Arghyadip Das. Playing black, the former champion settled down early and didn't give a sniff to the opponent.
Leading by half a point to Das, Gupta needed a draw to claim the championship. Das had to be content with the silver medal.
The story was entirely different in the woman's battle for the top honours. Padmini Rout, Vijaylakshmi Subbaraman and Meenakshi Subbaraman, all three won their respective last round matches.
With the final tally of the three tied at seven points, the medals were settled with Buchholz's system cut one. Padmini was adjudged the gold medal winner, followed by Vijaylakshmi and bronze for Meenakshi.
Winners: Women: Padmini Rout (gold), Vijaylakshmi Subbaraman (silver), Meenakshi Subbaraman (bronze).
Open: Abhijeet Gupta (gold), Arghyadip Das (silver), Lalith Babu MR (bronze).
U-8 girls: Prathivya Gupta (gold), Anisha Vikram (silver), Sanudulakm Dahamdi (bronze).
U-8 open: Shahil (gold), Rai Garg (silver), Tanmay Jain (bronze). U-10 girls: Divya Deshmukh (gold), Bhagyashree Patil (silver), Rakshitta Ravi (bronze).U-10 open:
Sadhwani Raunak (gold), Sreeshwan Maralakshikari (silver), Mahitosh Dey (bronze). U-12 girls: Mrudul Dehankar (gold), Salonika Saina (silver), Lakshmi C (bronze). U-12 open: Kaustav Chatterjee (gold), Aronyak Ghosh (silver), Mohammad Fahad Rahman (bronze).
U-14 girls: Stuti Bhanot (gold), Vantika Agarwal (silver), Harshita Guddanti (bronze). U-14 open: Mitrabha Guha (gold), Neelash Saha (silver), Rahul Srivatshav P (bronze). U-16 girls: Aakansha Hagawane (gold), Sakshi Chittlange (silver), Salone Sapali (bronze).
U-16 open: Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor (gold), Barath Kalyan M (silver), Kane Samvid (bronze).
U-18 girls: Ivana Maria Furtado (gold), Srija Seshadri (silver), Pratyusha Bodda (bronze).
U-18 open: Visakh NR (gold), Siva Mahadevan (silver), Kumar Gaurav (bronze).
U-20 girls: Michelle Catherina P (gold), Vaishali R (silver), Nandhidhaa PV (bronze).
U-20 boys: Murali Karthikeyan (gold), Aravind Chithambaram VR (silver), Akash G (bronze).
Senior category: Hamid Rani (gold), Dave Shiv Shankar (silver), Lim Kian Hwa (bronze).