Maitreyi Mondal wins 16th KIIT Chess Festival Category B Below 1900 Rating 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 11/06/2025

Maitreyi Mondal and Debanjan Sinha scored an unbeaten 9/10 each at 16th KIIT International Chess Festival Category B Below 1900 Rating Tournament 2025. Maitreyi won the tournament due to better tie-break scores, Debanjan secured second place. Soumalya Mondal scored sole 8.5/10 to be placed third. Maitreyi drew her eighth round game against the eventual runner-up, Debanjan. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹1500000. The top three prizes were ₹100000, ₹75000 and ₹60000 along with a trophy each. The four-day ten round Below 1900 Rating tournament was organized by and at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 9th to 12th May 2025. This is Maitreyi's first individual rating tournament triumph of the year. It is not every day that a girl wins a rating open/restricted tournament, but that is changing rapidly.

Maitreyi's first rating restricted tournament victory of her career

There was a time when a girl winning an open/rating (restricted) tournament was quite a rare feat. It is still much less, but the rarity has decreased. Over the years they are becoming more frequent. Some of them published on our website are: Sonakshi Rathore in 2019, Rutuja Bakshi in 2019, Swara Lakshmi won in 2022, Alexandra Botez in 2024, Sneha Halder last month and a few days later, Maitreyi and Avani won too.

Champion - Maitreyi Mondal 9/10

Both Maitreyi Mondal and Debanjan Sinha were coleaders 8/9 heading into the final round. Maitreyi defeated Dave Sneh to become champion. Akshat Negi lost to Debanjan Sinha and the latter finished second. Soumalya Mondal scored a full point against C R Ritvik to finish third.

Second Runner-up - Soumalya Mondal 8.5/10 | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Maitreyi Mondal scored an unbeaten 9/10, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 109.2 Elo rating points

A total of 310 players took part from all over the country, one from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka each, and two from Nepal. The four-day ten round Below 1900 Rating tournament was organized by and at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 9th to 12th May 2025. The time control of the event was 60 minutes + 30 seconds increment per move.

Final standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5	TB6
1	4		Maitreyi Mondal		w		IND	1843	WB	9	65	70	61,50	8	3
2	14		Debanjan Sinha				IND	1806	JH	9	65	70	61,25	8	4
3	13		Soumalya Mondol				IND	1810	WB	8,5	61	66	56,25	7	3
4	6		Sathwik D S S U				IND	1835	AP	8	64,5	69,5	52,50	7	2
5	30	AGM	Vaibhav Singh Verma				IND	1756	CT	8	53,5	58	46,00	7	2
6	47		Aritra Chanda				IND	1707	WB	7,5	61,5	66	48,25	6	2
7	5		Lalit Ranjan Sahu				IND	1839	OR	7,5	61,5	65	45,25	7	2
8	17		Binayak Rath				IND	1786	OR	7,5	60	64	45,00	6	4
9	11		Dave Sneh				IND	1820	GJ	7,5	59,5	64	45,25	6	3
10	60		Mayanka Paul				IND	1689	WB	7,5	59	63	43,25	7	4
11	41		Debarpit Mishra				IND	1723	OR	7,5	58	61	41,75	7	2
12	7		Rohith N				IND	1832	TG	7,5	57	61	44,25	7	5
13	15		Akshat Negi				IND	1805	DL	7,5	57	61	42,75	7	3
14	26		C R Ritvik				IND	1762	TG	7,5	55	59,5	42,00	7	3
15	54		Mughaho Awomi				IND	1698	NL	7,5	55	59,5	41,25	7	3
16	3	AFM	Abhiram Vaddi				IND	1850	AP	7,5	55	59	43,00	7	5
17	31		Ishan Ghosh (Siliguri)				IND	1752	WB	7,5	54	58,5	42,75	7	2
18	63		Khillo Purna			KITT-KISS	IND	1685	OR	7,5	50	54	41,00	6	2
19	24		Surya Alakanti				IND	1770	TG	7	60	64,5	41,50	6	2
20	16		Prabhman Singh Malhotra				IND	1787	CG	7	59,5	64	42,00	6	3
21	67		Kumaran Charan				IND	1680	TG	7	57,5	63	42,00	7	3
22	1		Soumyajit Das				IND	1865	WB	7	57,5	61,5	40,75	5	2
23	45		Kanoje Alok				IND	1713	CG	7	56,5	61,5	41,50	6	5
24	10		Karjee Manindra			KITT-KISS	IND	1821	OR	7	56	60,5	40,25	5	2
25	132		Arnab Nandy				IND	1590	WB	7	55	57	36,50	6	3
26	131		Tripathy Bijay Ketan				IND	1591	OR	7	54,5	58,5	38,75	6	3
27	56		Rudrasish Som				IND	1693	WB	7	54	58	37,00	7	3
28	36		Sai Shakti Panda				IND	1733	OR	7	53,5	58	39,00	5	3
29	57		Arhan Chatterjee				IND	1692	WB	7	53,5	57,5	37,50	5	3
30	53		Raj Kumar Ray	S60			IND	1699	OR	7	53	57	39,75	5	2

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