62nd National Chess Championship

• Grandmaster P. Iniyan of Tamil Nadu won the 62nd National Chess Championship.
• The competition was held in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He remained undefeated throughout the tournament.
• Iniyan scored 7 wins and 4 draws in 11 rounds.
• He tied with 15-year-old International Master H. Gautam Krishna of Kerala.
• Iniyan won the title due to a better Buchholz score. He received a prize of ₹6 lakh for this victory.

• The Buchholz score is a tie-breaking system used in chess and some other tournaments.
• Gautam Krishna was awarded ₹5 lakh as the runner-up. Six players scored 8.5 points.
• Of these, PSPB Grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan had the best tie-break score. He finished third and won ₹4 lakh.