The 1st RCA Chess Championship was held at the Raja’s Chess Academy branch at Kaggadasapura , Bangalore - 93 on Sunday , 31st December 2005 - 15 players were given seedings based on marks scored in exam - 2 held in December 2005 - Purely seedings pairings without colour weightage as initially introduced by FIDE in 1985 was used - Only half point bye was given in all rounds - Ties resolved by using (a) S.B. (b) Result of individual encounter (c) Greater number of wins (d) Greater number of blacks played (e) Alphabetical order instead of toss or play off - Note that the SB generated by a half point bye is that of drawing a player with 50% score in the event e.g 01.50 - The seeded players were as follows - 01. Vetrivel Natarajan 02. Shah Rukh Sait 03. K.Srivathsa 04. Anurag Menon 05. Y.G. Sriram 06. Atishay Samuel 07. M.L.Yashaswini 08. Krish Bharat 09. Y.G.Rajashree 10. M.Trivikrama 11. Siddharth Panicker 12. Sijoy Syriac 13. Arjun.R. Bharat 14. B.Venkatesh 15. Prannay.S.Reddy - A base rating of 1000 was given to all players making their expectancy exactly 50% = 3/6 in a 6 rounds swiss event - Crosstable of results is shown below -
Player name--------------Rd-1-----Rd-2-----Rd3-----Rd4------Rd-5-----Rd-6----Points---SB---Rank
01. Vetrivel Natarajan---B08W---W04W---B02L----B13L----W06W---B03W-----4.0---10.50---5th
02. Shah Rukh Sait------W09W---B05W---W01W--B03W---W13D----B04W-----5.5---20.0----1st
03. V.Srivathsa----------B10W---W14W---B06W---W02L---B05L-----W01L-----3.0---06.50---8th
04. Anurag Menon------W11W----B01L---W13L----B10W---W08W---W02L-----3.0---07.00---7th
05. Y.G. Sriram---------B12W----W02L---B09W---W08W---W03W---B13L------4.0---11.50---3rd
06. Atishay Samuel------W13D---B15W---W03L----B12W----B01L----W09L-----2.5----05.00---9th
07. M.L.Yashaswini------B14L---B13L----W10L------Bye----W15W----B12L-----1.5----02.00--13th
08. Krish Bharat---------W01L---B10W---W14W---B05L-----B04L----W11L-----2.0----04.00--12th
09. Y.G.Rajashree-------B02L---W11W---W05L----B14W---W12W---B06W-----4.0----11.00--4th
10. M.Trivikrama--------W03L---W08L----B07W---W04L-----B11L----Bye-------1.5----03.00--14th
11. Siddharth Panicker---B04L----B09L-----Bye-----W15W---W10W---B08W-----3.5----05.50--6th
12. Sijoy Syriac----------W05L----Bye-----B15W---W06L-----B09L----W07W----2.5----03.50-11th
13. Arjun Bharat---------B06D---W07W---B04W---W01W----B02D----W05W----4.0----14.25-2nd
14. B.Venkatesh---------W07W---B03L----B08L----W09L------Bye-----B15W----2.5----03.50-10th
15. Prannay Reddy-------Bye------W06L---W12L----B11L-----B07L----W14L-----0.5----01.50-15th
RCA Rating list - 1 as on 31-12-2005 after the RCA - 1 chess championship -
01-Shah Rukh Sait---(Bangalore)---------1062.50---6 games
02-Arjun Bharat---(Bangalore)------------1050.00---6 games
03-Y.G.Rajashree---(Bangalore)----------1025.00---6 games
04-Y.G.Sriram---(Bangalore)-------------1025.00---6 games
05-Vetrivel Natarajan---(Bangalore)------1025.00---6 games
06-Siddharth Panicker---(Bangalore)------1012.50---5 games
07-Anurag Menon---(Bangalore)----------1000.00---6 games
08-V.Srivathsa---(Bangalore)--------------1000.00---6 games
09-Atishay Samuel---(Bangalore)----------0987.50---6 games
10-Sijoy Syriac---(Bangalore)-------------0987.50---5 games
11-B.Venkatesh---(Bangalore)------------0987.50---5 games
12-Krish Bharat---(Bangalore)------------0975.50---6 games
13-M.Trivikrama---(Bangalore)-----------0962.50---5 games
14-M.L.Yashaswini---(Bangalore)--------0962.50---5 games
15-Prannay.S.Reddy---(Bangalore)-------0937.50---5 games
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