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IM P.Karthikeyan runner up in National Juniors
International Master P. Karthikeyan of Tamil Nadu got the second prize (Runner-up) in the National Junior Chess Championship that concluded at Sasi Institute of Technology and Engineering, Tadepalligudem in Andhra Pradesh. Karthikeyan and Adhiban took 8.5 points out of 11 rounds and spotted the second and third position respectively.
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 Reception for B. Adhiban
Tamil Nadu Satet Chess Association gave a grand reception given to World Under-16 champion B. Adhiban and the other three medal winners when they returned from Vung Tau, Vietnam to Chennai on October 31.
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 Adhiban became champion in World under 16 Chess Championship
our International Master B. Adhiban won the World U-16 chess championship Title in the World Youth Chess Championship held at Vietnam, He got the 9 points out of Eleven rounds to win the title, followed by our another International Master S.P.Sethuraman to finish the second spot for Silver medal. FIDE Master K. Priyadarshan in the sixth spot with 7.5 points.
In the under 18 Girls section, R. Preethi of Madurai finished second and got the Silver medal.
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 Anand regains World Champion Title
Viswanathan Anand retained his world title after drawing the eleventh game of the world chess championship against the Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn on Wednesday. The decisive game lasted 24 moves before Kramnik, requiring a victory to stay afloat, accepted a draw. Anand won by 6.5 points to 4.5.
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Regarding accomodation for National Junior Chess Championship
If any of the players want individual rooms please inform us early. Last minitue booking possibility will not be there. Room tariff details are undermentioned
Single Non A/c : Rs.250
Double Non A/c : Rs.400
A/c Double : Rs.700
Walkable distance from Railway station. Confirm early for booking. Availability is less.
Please bring one stamp size photo for id card.
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TN Players for Asian Junior Chess Championship
Our Tamil Nadu palyers P. Karthikeyan, Ashwin Jayaram, M. Shyam Sundar, P. Uthra, Vishnu Prasanna and R. Preethi were selected to represent INDIA in the forthcoming Asian Junior Chess Championship to be held at Chennai.
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 Eighth-game draw in WCC
After an intense battle lasting just under four hours, a frustrating draw for Vladimir Kramnik.
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Sub: Change of Venue - National Junior Chess-2008
The 38th National Junior & 23rd National Junior girls chess championships which was scheduled to be held at Vijayawada from 3rd to 11th November, 2008 has been shifted to Tadepalligudem, West Godawari District(AP) on the same dates. All State Associations / Players are kindly requested to send the arrival details to Secretary of West Godawari Chess Association, Mr.Chandra Sekhar 09440867370 who is the local organizing Secretary. Email Id apchess_assn@yahoo.co.in The Phone no. of Mr.Kanna Reddy, Secretary AP Chess Assocaitions is 09391102940. WEST GODAWARI DISTRICT.
STATE : ANDHRA PRADESH
Distance from Vijayawada Air Port(Gannavaram) : 100 k.m
Railway Station with express train halt facility is available.
Tadepalligudem Railway Station is 110 k.m from vijaywada Railway Station on main line of Vijaywada-Kolkata Rail line.
PROPOSED VENUE: D.R. GOENKA WOMENS COLLEGE, NEAR RAILWAY STATION, TADEKPALLIGUDEM.
PROPOSED ACCOMMODATION: DHANA RESIDENCY , SUBHODAYA RESIDENCY, VIJAYA LODGE, PARAMESWARI.
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Anand strikes in Game 3
World champion Viswanathan Anand struck with black in Game 3
Anand lead in the 12-game World chess championship against Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn.
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16 TN players to play in World Youth, Vietnam
A large contingent of 16 player of Tamil Nadu will take part in the World Youth Chess Championship to be held at Vietnam from 19.10.2008 to 31.10.2008. In all 63 players from all over the country will be seen in action in the above championship.
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Anand-Kramnik draw in second game
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik settled for a draw in 32 moves in the second game of their World Chess Championship duel in Bonn on Wednesday.
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Tamil Nadu Players Clinches the Title
P. Shyam Nikhil and Pon N Krithika won the National under 17 Chess Championship held at Aurangabad, The last year Champions was also from Tamil Nadu.
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 Anand Draws With Ease
Game one ended in a draw without a punch thrown. After 32 moves the two players reached a dead drawn opposite colour bishop ending at Bonn on Oct 14. A minor advantage for Anand as he has six white games to come in the next eleven games.......
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 B. Adhiban Clinches the National 'B' Title
Our Player International Master B. Adhiban of Chennai won the National "B" Chess Champion held at Goa. He got 11 points out of 13 rounds. In that he drew four games against Rawal Shailesh, Praveen Kumar C, GM Negi Parimarjan and GM Thipsay Praveen M.
Adhiban is coached by FIDE Trainer Mr. K. Visweswaran.
Four players from Tamil Nadu to have qualified for the next National `A' Chess Championship to be held at Mangalore from 17th to 30th December 2008.
B. Adhiban, M. Shyam Sundar both International Master from Chennai District are represents Tamil Nadu.
International Master Konguvel Ponnusamy and Grand Master Deepan Chakravarthy from Tamil Nadu represent Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
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Shyam Nikhil outwits Parimarjan Negi on a day of the teen brigade
Young turks produced some exhilarating display of attacking chess on the leading boards and formed the pack of front-runners after the seventh round of the Monginis 46th National ‘B’ chess championship here on Friday.
The day clearly belonged to 16-year-old P. Shyam Nikhil. A day after miraculously escaping to victory against defending champion Prathamesh Mokal, the Chennai school boy pulled the carpet from under the feet of top seed Parimarjan Negi to take the lead and then maintained it for another round following a 59-move triumph over young IMDeep Sengupta............
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A registered player of AICF was handed a ban of five years
In a sad incident, one parent, Senthil Kumar from Chennai slapped the chief arbiter during the National Under-11 Championship at Ahmedabad after a draw that his daugher claimed was not awarded by him. The parent, a registered player of AICF was handed a ban of five years and his daughter Kavya a ban for one year.
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 Srinath made his third and final IM norm!
Srinath made his third and final IM norm. In the eight round he defeated Hungarian International Master Banusz Tamaswith a rating of 2481to score 5.5. out of 8 rounds in the 10th International Chess Festival at Trieste, Italy. With his victory in 8th round his rating also reached 2414.
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 Srija Seshadri Clinches the Title
Srija Seshadri Clinches the Title in the National under 11 Girls Chess Championship held at Ahmedabad.
She outplayed Megha Gupta of Gujarat to become champion. Megha played under tension and lost her way in the final round.
On board two top seed Sweety Patel of Gujarat was forced to a draw by West Bengal’s Shoumi Mukerjee and had to settle for second place.
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 Karthikeyan Wins International Masters Chess Tournament
International Master P. Karthikeyan of Chennai won the inaugural International Masters Chess Tournament with a 9/11 score at Colombo on September 3, 2008. Recently Indians finished 1-2-3. This week they improved on it by taking 1-2-3-4-5 and Indians are always improving on all overseas performances............
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 Young Champions Given A Boisterous Welcome
A fitting reception was given to the Indian Youth Chess Olympiad team who returned home to Chennai with the trophy and gold medals on August 26.
"The defeat to Turkey-A by 1.5-2.5 was a shocker, as we enjoyed good positions on all the four boards," said coach R.B. Ramesh. Scoring eight victories including some big wins in the end, India won the World Youth Chess Olympiad for the second time in a row. The high point was India's huge 3.5-0.5 win against the top seeds Russia in the second round.
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 India Are World Youth Olympiad Champions In Chess Again
Indian boys put up a splendid show at Mersin, Turkey when they won the World Youth Chess Olympiad for the second time in a row. They did it in the final round by inflicting a big 3.5-0.5 defeat on England. Leaders, Russia who won by only 2.5-1.5 over Azerbaijan finished on 28.5 points. India tied with them on the same 28.5 points and took the title on tie-break.
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Viswanathan Anand's message
World champion Viswanathan Anand in a message has congratulated the five boys:
"Congrats. This is really incredible Two in a row. Looks like Indian Chess is going great guns after the World Junior double."
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India, Armenia In Lead
India rediscovered its winning ways by crushing Georgia 3.5-0.5 in the seventh round of the World Youth Chess Olympiad on August 22.
Led by wins from Adhiban, Sethuraman at the top, Shyam Sundar drew and Prasanna Rao scored on the bottom board. India jumped to 19.5 points to join Armenia in the lead.
The Philippines did a great favour crushing leaders Russia 3-1 to open up the ten round tournament.
Defending champions India have easy opponents to take in the next three rounds.
This event is happening at Mersin, in Asiatic Turkey.
Standings after seven rounds: 1-2 India, Armenia 19.5/28 each, 3 Philippines 19, 4 Russia 18.5, 5 Azerbaijan 18...26 teams.
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 UFC State Level Open Tournament
B.Prasanna Venkatesh (U-9 Boys),Muthu Palaniyappan PL (U -17- Boys), Ramalingam Karthik (Open), Kavitha.PL (U-9 Girls), Sangeetha.K (U-17 Girls), R.Saranya (U-13 Girls). are the category Prize winners in the First State Level Open Chess Tournament organised by Utility Forum of Chess at Salem....
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India Scores Third Straight Win
Defending champions India, seed number two behind Russia overcame third seed Azerbaijan 3-1 in the third round to win their third straight match in style in the World Youth Chess Olympiad at Mersin in Turkey on August 18..........
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 Second WIM norm for R. Preethi
R.Preethi of Maduarai finished her second WIM norm in the world junior chess championship held at Turkey this year, She got her first WIM norm at Common wealth Chess Championship held at Delhi last year.
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 Sasikiran Peps Up Youth Team
The All India Chess Federation invited GrandMaster Krishnan Sasikiran to visit the venue of the Indian Coaching Camp for World Youth U – 16 Chess Olympiad to be held at Turkey from 16th August to 25th August, 2008 which was underway at Chennai......
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 TN State under 13 Chess Championship
Vasantha Ruba Varman of Chennai and J. Vaishnavi of Trichy clinches the title in the 21st Tamil Nadu satet under 13 Boys and girls Chess Championship respectively for Dolphin Trophies. The Championship held at Rajapalayam, organised by Virudhunagar District Chess Association.
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 Sasikiran Wins Najdorf Memorial
Krishnan Sasikiran of ONGC, Chennai won the Najdorf Memorial Category 15 Tournament that concluded at Warsaw on August 10. Sasikiran remained undefeated after he drew Michal Krasenkow in the final round with the black pieces to reach 6.5/9 and win by a one point margin.
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 Sasikiran Playing At 2820
So what is 2820? Isn't Chennai-born Krishnan Sasikiran only listed with 2684 on the July 2008 rating list by FIDE? Yes he is. In his first five rounds, the ONGC player had scored three wins and two draws. He has done what a 2820 rated player need to achieve in his first five games......
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 Anand Wins Mainz Again
World champion Viswanathan Anand won the Mainz Chess Classic rapid chess tournament by winning the 4-player rapid tournament on August 3, 2008. This is his 8th consecutive win.
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 8th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament
FIDE Master S.Nitin of Sharadha Bal Bhavan,Salem was given the top billing.The teenager who is the member of Gold winning Indian Youth Team in the Youth Olympiad in Singapore,2007 justified his seeding by having a dream run upto 8 rounds.With a clear one point lead he conceded a draw in the ninth and the penultimate round against K.V.Shantaram of Indian Bank to win the tournament with a round to spare.
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 Velammal honoured the Chess Players
The Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School today (01st August, 2008 ) honoured seven of their students, who returned with a rich haul of medals in various age groups in the Asian Junior Chess championship at Teheran last month.
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 ASHWATH CLINCHES THE TITLE
Former National Sub-Junior Champion R.Ashwath of Chennai is the winner of Third S.K.Narasimhan memorial FIDE-rating chess tournament at the Nehru Stadium here on Monday. P.Maheswaran of SRM University and Ram.S.Krishnan of BSNL followed the winner with the same points and finished their second and third place respectively on account of tie break score
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 TN State Junior Chess Championship
Navin Khanna and J. Saranya, both representing Tiruvallur district won the Championship for boys and girls.respectivelyThe Top seeds Shyam Nikil (2364), second seeded Arun karthik.R, [SRM] finished second and third placesIn the girls section second seeded N. Raghavi , Madras Medical College, Top seeded S. Harini, Third seeded P.K. Jayashree, they have finished second, third and fourth in that order
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 Asian Youth Chess Championship
M. Mahalakshmi of Chennai who won with a round to spare in the Girls Under-10 section. Another Chennai girl to win the gold medal is P. Uthra who took first place in the Girls Under-18 section. R. Preethi of Madurai finished with a bronze in this group in the Asian Youth Chess Championship.
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 CUSAT Champion 2008.
R. Arun Karthik of Chennai won the 20th edition of CUSAT All India Open Chess FIDE
Rated Chess Tournament in Cochin on 30th June 2008. He is a first year student of SRM College, he got the first prize of Rs.15000 plus a glittering trophy.
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