Anurag notches best ever Goan rating performance!

Goa State Champion Anurag Mhamal
gave a sterling display at the Parsvanath
Chess Championships which concluded today
at the Modern School, New Delhi. In the process
he notched up his best ever rating performance
of 2342 and also increased his FIDE rating by
a whopping 35 points. With this performance Anurag
also eclipsed the best ever Goan performance of 2328
posted by National Junior Champion Bhakti Kulkarni
in the Commonwealth Chess Championships in Mumbai
in 2006.

Anurag finished with 6 out of a possible 10 points
and averaged a 50 percent score against rated
players with 4 out of 8. What is indeed significant
was that he could manage to hold FOUR International
Masters to a draw - Roktim Bandyopadhyay (ELO 2373),
P. Konguvel (ELO 2394), Saptarshi Roy (ELO 2404)
and Asian Junior Champion P. Karthikeyan (ELO 2327).
Anurag also beat P. Sarvanakrishnan (ELO 2243) and
reputed coach Gurpreet Pal Singh (ELO 2292).

GSCA President Salgaocar hailed the efforts of Anurag
stating that this shows that Mhamal is truly an "International
Master in the making". All the efforts of his parents and coach
Akash Thakur have borne rich dividends he mentioned in his
congratulatory message to the young Champion.

The best ever Goan performances now stand as follows -

1. Parsvanath Open, January 2008 - 2342 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
2. Commonwealth, November 2006 - 2328 Bhakti Kulkarni (9 games)
3. National Junior Girls 2007 - 2220 Bhakti Kulkarni (10 games)
4. National B 2006 - 2203 Anurag Mhamal (12 games)
5. Sangli, May 2007 - 2176 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
6. Sangli, May 2005- 2175 Bhakti Kulkarni (7 games)
7. Rochess, December 2006 - 2162 Anurag Mhamal (7 games)
8. Sangli, December 2006 - 2157 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
9. Mangalore 2007 - 2093 Umang Kaisary (7 games)