GANGTOK, 17 Apr: An eight-member Sikkim Chess Association
[SCA] team will be participating in the Ram Prasad Memorial International FIDE
Rating Chess Tournament scheduled to be held in Ilam in Nepal from 20 to 25
April. The team will be leaving on Saturday for the tournament.
The team members were Rakesh Gurung, Thendup Tamang, Rahul
Gurung, Rohit Gurung, Sushmita Lama, Bhoj Bahadur Chettri, Priya Chettri and
Tsetiz Rai. International arbiter from Sikkim, Mahendra Dhakal is also accompanying
the team, who will be serving the tournament as an arbiter.
Mr Dhakal, who is also the SCA general secretary, mentioned
that the team members have undergone training for the tournament where they
practiced for 8 hours every day. He added that in the last edition of the
tournament SCA players won 6 medals and this year the players are ready to win
more medals for the state and to further improve their rating.
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