Soumick Bandopadhyay triumphs at 2nd Royal Rivals Rating Open 2025

by Shahid Ahmed - 13/01/2026

Soumick Bandopadhyay, Debayan Ray, Arpan Das and Shaswata Paul scored scored 7.5/9 each at 2nd Royal Rivals Rating Open 2025. Soumick won the tourament due to better tie-breaks. The remaining three were placed second to fourth respectively. The top two finishers - Soumick and Debayan remained undefeated among them. The total prize fund combining all three tournaments was ₹750000. The top three prizes were ₹65000, ₹40000 and ₹25000 each. IM Aronyak Ghosh won the Rapid Open scoring an unbeaten 8/9. CM Sarbartho Mani and Saptorshi Gupta scored 7.5/9 each to finish second and third respectively. GM Diptayan Ghosh scored 8.5/9, remained undefeated and won the Blitz Open. Aronyak scored 8/9 to claim second place. IM Kaustuv Kundu edged past three more players on tie-breaks to finish third. This is Soumick's first rating tournament triumph of his career. Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Soumick's first rating tournament of his career, Aronyak and Diptayan clinch Rapid and Blitz Open

Soumick Bandopadhyay and Shaswata Paul were the coleaders 7/8 each, going into the last round. Five players were trailing them by a half point at 6.5/8 each. The coleaders Shaswata and Soumick drew against each other, the latter became the champion and the former fourth. Debayan Ray defeated the revered veteran CM K K Chatterjee to secure second place. Debayan finished second at this event for the second consecutive year. Mudil Dharewa lost to Arpan Das who finished third.

Champion - Soumick Bandopadhyay 7.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Second Runner-up - Arpan Das 7.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Soumick Bandopadhyay scored an unbeaten 7.5/9, won the tournament on tie-breaks and gained 24.8 Elo rating points

Champion in Rapid Open - IM Aronyak Ghosh 8/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Runner-up - CM Sarbartho Mani 7.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Second Runner-up - Saptorshi Gupta 7.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Champion in Blitz Open - GM Diptayan Ghosh 8.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Runner-up - IM Aronyak Ghosh 8/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

Second Runner-up - IM Kaustuv Kundu 7.5/9 | Photo: Partha Pratim Manna / Classical Chess Academy

A total of 240 players took part from various parts of India, one from Sweden and USA each. The tournament was organized by Classical Chess Academy at Eastern Railway Sports Complex Majerhat in Kolkata, West Bengal from 18th and 24th December 2025. The nine-round Swiss league Rating tournament had a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings in Classical Rating

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5	TB6
1	4		Soumick Bandopadhyay			IND	1979	West Bengal	7,5	52	56	45,75	6	2
2	1		Debayan Ray			IND	2021	West Bengal	7,5	48,5	53	43,25	6	2
3	2		Arpan Das			IND	2017	West Bengal	7,5	48,5	53	42,75	7	3
4	31		Shaswata Paul			IND	1772	West Bengal	7,5	47	51	40,75	7	2
5	20		Supratim Ghosh			IND	1819	West Bengal	7	51,5	55	40,5	7	2
6	3		Santu Mondal			IND	2001	Delhi IT	7	50	54	41	6	4
7	10		Bhoopnath			IND	1909	Bihar	7	48,5	53	40	5	1
8	26		Spandan Debnath	U12		IND	1782	West Bengal	7	48	51,5	37,5	6	2
9	25		Arghya Sen			IND	1784	West Bengal	7	47,5	51	37,25	6	4
10	59		Sohini Lahiri		w	IND	1681	West Bengal	7	42	43,5	32,5	7	4
11	5	CM	Chatterjee K.K.	S60		IND	1970	West Bengal	6,5	50,5	54,5	36,5	6	2
12	8		Kishan Kumar			IND	1920	Bihar	6,5	50,5	53,5	36,25	5	2
13	16		Mudil Dharewa	U12		IND	1847	West Bengal	6,5	49	52	35,5	6	2
14	70		Shlok Bhar	U12		IND	1634	West Bengal	6,5	45,5	49	32,5	6	3
15	137		Dhruv Jha	U14		IND	1494	West Bengal	6,5	41,5	43,5	28	6	1
16	47		Navaneel Chhatui	U14		IND	1713	West Bengal	6,5	38,5	42	29	5	1
17	6		Soumma Chakraborty			IND	1957	West Bengal	6	49	53	33,75	5	3
18	12		Jaiswal Sanskrit	U12		USA	1886	West Bengal	6	47,5	51,5	32,25	5	2
19	27		Aniket Das	U10		IND	1778	West Bengal	6	47	51,5	31,75	5	2
20	11		Mitra Swapan	S60		IND	1895	West Bengal	6	46,5	50,5	30,75	5	2
21	9		Nath Rupankar			IND	1920	West Bengal	6	46	50	30,75	5	1
22	46		Spandan Roy			IND	1716	West Bengal	6	46	50	29,75	5	1
23	14		Ranit Maity			IND	1870	West Bengal	6	45,5	50	33,25	5	1
24	39	AIM	Vineet Nayak	U12		IND	1729	Odisha	6	45,5	49,5	30,75	4	3
25	52		Sangbit Ghosh	U14		IND	1699	West Bengal	6	45,5	49	29,75	5	2

Details

A total of 227 players including four IMs took part from various parts of India, one from England and USA each. The tournament was organized by Classical Chess Academy at Eastern Railway Sports Complex Majerhat in Kolkata, West Bengal on 20th and 21st December 2025. The nine-round Swiss league Rating tournament had a time control of 10 minutes + 3 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings in Rapid Open

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	1	IM	Aronyak Ghosh			IND	2445	8	51	55	48,25	7
2	17	CM	Mani Sarbartho	U10		IND	1887	7,5	50	54	43,5	7
3	8		Saptorshi Gupta			IND	2029	7,5	50	54	42,5	7
4	2	IM	Neelash Saha			IND	2376	7	56	61	46	6
5	5		Bhattacharyya Soham			IND	2221	7	51	55,5	41,25	6
6	6		Anustoop Biswas			IND	2171	7	50	54	41,25	5
7	3	IM	Kaustuv Kundu			IND	2266	7	50	54	40	6
8	36	AIM	Banik Hrishikesh Kumar			IND	1749	7	50	53,5	40	6
9	7		Santu Mondal			IND	2090	7	49,5	53,5	40,75	5
10	22		Maitreyi Mondal	F14	w	IND	1839	7	49,5	53,5	39,75	6
11	20		Bhoopnath			IND	1861	7	47,5	51	37,5	7
12	14		Priyanshu Barua			IND	1911	7	47	51,5	38,5	7
13	34		Srijon Saha			IND	1753	7	46	49	35	7
14	19		Mitra Swapan			IND	1866	7	45	48	34	7
15	11		Mayukh Majumder	U14		IND	1939	7	44	48	35,75	6
16	23		Kishan Kumar			IND	1835	7	44	48	35	7
17	21		Rangeet Majumdar			IND	1854	7	40	43,5	33,5	7
18	4	IM	Rajdeep Sarkar			IND	2257	6,5	53,5	58	40	6
19	33	AIM	Soham Saha			IND	1757	6,5	49	53,5	36	6
20	30		Sanjib Mali			IND	1776	6,5	48	52	34,5	6

Details

A total of 166 players including a GM and four IMs took part from various parts of India, one from England, Sweden and USA each. The tournament was organized by Classical Chess Academy at Eastern Railway Sports Complex Majerhat in Kolkata, West Bengal on 22nd December 2025. The nine-round Swiss league Rating tournament had a time control of 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment from move no.1.

Final standings in Blitz Open

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB5
1	1	GM	Ghosh Diptayan	IND	2534	8,5	52,5	57	53,25	8
2	2	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	IND	2439	8	52	56	48	7
3	8	IM	Kaustuv Kundu	IND	2194	7,5	53	58	47,75	7
4	6	IM	Subhayan Kundu	IND	2214	7,5	50	54,5	42,75	7
5	3		Bhattacharyya Soham	IND	2297	7,5	50	54	41,75	7
6	75		Adhiraj Mukherjee	IND	1573	7,5	47	50	39,75	7
7	27		Soumma Chakraborty	IND	1866	7	48	52,5	37,5	7
8	7		Anustoop Biswas	IND	2203	7	47,5	51,5	37	7
9	17		Arindam Mukherjee	IND	1969	7	45	49,5	37	7
10	5	IM	Sanket Chakravarty	IND	2247	7	44	48	34,5	7
11	13		Srijon Saha	IND	1990	6,5	52	56,5	36,75	6
12	52		Soumick Bandopadhyay	IND	1710	6,5	51,5	55,5	37,25	6
13	15		Priyanshu Barua	IND	1982	6,5	47,5	50,5	32,5	6
14	12		Santu Mondal	IND	2001	6,5	45,5	50	35	6
15	32		Soham Dey	IND	1817	6,5	44,5	48,5	31,25	6