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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Amit Sampat | TNN

World junior rapid chess champion Raunak gets silver finish at blitz championship

NAGPUR: Two days after being crowned world junior rapid chess champion, 17-year-old Raunak Sadhwani - city's first Grandmaster - finished second in the blitz format of the U-20 World Championship organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) which concluded in Italy on Monday.

Raunak lost a game at the halfway mark to eventual champion and Azerbaijan's second seeded GM Mahammad Muradli and clinched the silver medal in the blitz event.

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