8-year-old Alankrita Sharma dominates Smart Girls Rating Tournament 2023 Jammu

by Shahid Ahmed - 20/08/2023

8-year-old Alankrita Sharma scored 8.5/9 to win Smart Girls Rating Tournament 2023 in Jammu. She finished a full point ahead of the field and remained undefeated. Priya Yadav scored sole 7.5/9 to secure second place. Her only loss was against the eventual second runner-up, Srujanika Gupta 7/9. She edged past Vitasta Koul on tie-breaks. The top three prizes were ₹5000 + trophy, ₹3000 and ₹2000. The tournament was held from 27th to 31st July 2023 at Hotel Nek in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. It was organized by Crown Trust. This was Alankrita's first rating tournament triumph of her career. The objective of Smart Girls is to attract more female players to participate in tournaments, get rating in an event which has low entry fee barrier of only ₹250. Photos: Atul Kumar Gupta

Alankrita's first rating tournament triumph

The top two seeds - Priya Yadav and Alankrita Sharma were the coleaders 7.5/8, heading into the final round. Priya lost to Srujanika Gupta and Alankrita defeated Vaishnavi. Thus, Alankrita became a clear champion 8.5/9, Priya sole second 7.5/9 and Srujanika third 7/9. This was Alankrita's tenth over-the-board tournament.

Top 3 (L to R) - 3rd Srujanika Gupta 7/9, 2nd Priya Yadav 7.5/9 and 1st Alankrita Sharma 8.5/9

Alankrita Sharma scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 and gained 28.4 Elo rating points

The prize winners

Players in action

A total of 41 players took part in this five-day nine round Swiss-league Rating tournament which was organized by Crown Trust at Hotel Nek in Jammu, Jammu Kashmir from 27th to 31st July 2023. The time control of the event was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	2		Alankrita, Sharma	F09	w	IND	1235	8,5	45	48,5	44,75
2	1	ACM	Priya, Yadav	F19	w	IND	1290	7,5	48	50,5	39,50
3	47		Srujanika, Gupta	F15	w	IND	0	7	46	49	36,00
4	3		Vitasta, Koul	F11	w	IND	1110	7	43,5	46,5	33,00
5	4		Sonali, Manhas		w	IND	1098	6,5	45,5	49,5	31,25
6	7		Ojaswani, Mengi	F19	w	IND	1006	6	42,5	46	25,00
7	51		Vaishnavi,	F13	w	IND	0	6	39,5	42,5	23,50
8	5		Manasvi, Gupta	F15	w	IND	1094	5,5	47,5	51,5	26,50
9	8		Aahana Gupta,	F11	w	IND	0	5,5	47	51	26,75
10	6		Amrita, Gupta	F19	w	IND	1058	5,5	40	43,5	24,00

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