August 7, 2016 6:07 PM

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Abhijeet Gupta retains Commonwealth Chess championship crown

Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has added another feather to his cap by retaining the Commonwealth Chess championship crown in Colombo, Sri Lanka, while International Master Tania Sachdev also finished with a gold medal.In fact, all the medals in the senior category were wonby the Indians players.Grandmasters S L Narayanan and Deep Chakkravarthy got the silver and bronze medals respectively in the open section,while Mary Ann Gomes and Kiran Manisha Mohanty reached the podium in the women's section. For Tania, it was a maiden Commonwealth gold, although she had won other medals at international events.

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