Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 23: Soham Kamotra, a student of Delhi Public School Jammu created history by becoming first Chess player of J&K to win standard national by winning first place in MPL National Under-18 Open Chess Championship, held at Tamil Nadu from April 18 to 23.
About 140 players from 18 States participated in the championship wherein Soham Kamotra won the Gold medal along with cash prize of Rs 90000 and a glittering trophy for this achievement. He thrashed many big players during the championship to become a Champion.
Soham Kamotra won eight games and drew three games and didn’t lose any game. The event was fully sponsored by the Government of India for World, Asian and Commonwealth events.
With this achievement, he became the first ever J&K player to achieve this feat by scoring 9.5 points, out of 11 rounds.
School Principal, Ruch Chabra as well as Atul Kumar Gupta, president All J&K Chess Association congratulated Soham for his splendid performance. They complimented that he deserved for this feat and has a potential to become a Grandmaster.
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