186 chess players across the State participated in the event. This Championship aimed for the selection in the National Championship of two category chess players and the development of chess in the district of Ghaziabad.

Chess Sports Association Ghaziabad had unanimously elected Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S- The Education Group as the Vice President of Chess Sports Association Ghaziabad.

The closing ceremony of this championship was held on 28th Oct’2018 in august presence of the chief guest Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S -The Education Group, dignitaries of the ceremony Sh. Surendra Chouhan, General Secretary (U.P.Chess Sports Association), Shree Charul Bhatnagar, Secretary(Chess Sports Association, Ghaziabad), Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director(Management),Dr. D.K.Pandey, Sports Chairperson , Mr. R. S. Chawala, Sports Cordinator and Arbitrator Mrs. Kavita Patel.

Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman- The I.T.S Group congratulated and expressed his best wishes to all the winners and participants for their active participation and encouraged them to excel in future. Dr. Ajay Kumar, director (Management) emphasized on both the physical and mental development of the youth to achieve grand success in life and ensured to extend maximum possible support to promote sportsmanship in the region.

I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad has a rich tradition to reward and honour top class sports persons like Binod Kambli, Lokesh Tewatia, Ashish Nehra, Piyush Chawla, Sushil Kumar in the glorious past and to organize and participate in various sports activities to promote and encourage sportsmanship amongst the students of I.T.S and citizens of Ghaziabad district. The attraction of the Championship was participation of contestants from 7 years to 70 years age group from all across U.P. state.

Cash prize of Rs. 50,000 along with trophies and certificates were awarded to the winners. The winners were as follows:

Rishbad Nashid (Kanpur)captured first prize of Rs. 11000/ with trophy, Madhav (Kasganj) and Kartiyar Prashant (Kanpur) were declared 2nd and 3rd winner respectively with cash prize of Rs. 7500/ and trophy, Lavanya Ishan (Agra) secured 4th position with Rs.3000/cash prize, Rahul Upadhyay (Mathura)held 5th position with cash prize Rs. 2000/, Chouhan Narayan (Mainpuri), Kavya (Ghaziabad), Dubey Sanchay (Agra),Gajendra Singh (Mainpuri) and Nakul Choudhary (Mathura)secured 6th, 7th, 8th,9th and 10th position with cash prize of Rs. 1000/ each and 21 players remaining between 11th and 16th rank received cash prize of Rs. 500/ each. Similarly from Ladies group, Mishra Roy (Raibareilly),Sara Prakash (Agra), Astha Rastogi (Ghaziabad) received cash prize of Rs. 1200/, Rs.1000/ and Rs. 800/ with trophy and certificates respectively for their outstanding performance and Rajendra Gupta (Agra) of forty years and above age group was also awarded with Rs. 1200/ cash prize and trophy for his excellent performance.

All together 35 participants were awarded with cash prize, trophy and certificates for their performance in I.T.S U.P. Senior State Fide Rated Chess Championship-2018.

All participants expressed there deep sense of gratitude and thankfulness to the dignitaries present during the ceremony and promised to excel in future.