Port Blair, Oct. 11: Andaman & Nicobar Islands’ young chess players viz. A Chirag Kumar a class VII student of NCS Port Blair and Chittiboina Mageswari, a class VII student of GMSSS Port Blair have secured fifth position in Under 13 Category in the 1^st Fire Chess School All India FIDE Open Rapid Chess Tournament held at Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex indoor stadium Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh from 08.10.2022 to 09.10.2022.

Around 370 players across India participated in the event which was held in rapid format for two days over nine rounds.

B Kodanda Rao of A&N Islands officiated in this event as National Arbiter (NA) and secured his second norm for FIDE Arbiter Title.

Meanwhile Jayden Immanuel Gomez, an under 7 chess players from Andaman & Nicobar Islands is participating in the MPL 35^th National Under-7 Open Chess Championship 2022, being held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat from 6^th October to 11^th October 2022.