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Change of Venue: National Challengers - 2012
The New Venue is
RAMATULASI KALYANA MANDAPAM,
D.No: 19-1-120, CHINTALCHENU,NEAR EXHIBITION,
NEAR R.T.C. OVER BRIDGE,TIRUPATI-517501.
Please contact Mr.Praveen for more detail email : praveen.y476@gmail.com
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Mugapair Velammal A team cliched the title. with 16 match points in the National Cities Chess Championship conducted at Sri Sairam Engneering College campus here , and won the Sai Ram Trophy with a cash prize of Rs.25,000.Dr.Jayakumar, Principal of Sri Sairam Engineering College gave away the prizes.Mr.Muralimohan Secretary TNSCA presided over the function, Mr.K.Thirukklathy of Megha Chess Academy rendered vote of thanks.
The final placings: 1) Mugapair Velammal - A (16),
2) Chennai A1 (13),
3) Bangaluru City (11 / 21)
4) Mugappair Velammal B (11 / 19.5)
5) Chennai B (10 / 20.5)
6) Mugappair Velammal D (10 / 20)
7) Chennai A (10 / 20 )
The Board Prize winners are: First Board.:Priyadharshan.K.,Second Board .: Rajesh V A V.,Third Board.: Raghuram Balaji.,Fourth Board .:Vinothkumar M.,Fifth Board.:Sruti.L
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Castrol 25th TN State Chess Championship for U 11 boys & girls was held in Dharani Matriculation School, Mannargudi from 22nd ot 28th April. The official qualifying event for National had attracted around 137 boys from 31 districts & 78 girls from 24 districts. The one week event was organized by Tiruvarur District Chess Association under the aegis of Tamilnadu State Chess Association. The championship was inaugurated by Shri Kaveri Ranganathan ,President, Farmers Welfare Asssociation in presence of Elayaraja,Administrator,Dharani Matric,Santhakumar,President , TDCA. R K Balagunasekharan , Organising Secy welcomed the gathering.
CM V S Ratanvel of Coimbatore and R Vaishali of Chennai were the top seeds in the respective sections. At the end of the 5th round Rathanvel and Tarun Kanth were leading with 5 pts. Rathanvel took the sole lead by beating Tarun in the 6th round. M Aravind stopped Rathanvel’s domination in the 7th round. Meanwhile Iniyan of Erode was chasing the leader, but in the end Aravind won the Boys title with 9.5 points. Iniyan ended with similar 9.5 points and was placed 2nd with lesser tie break scores. Rathanvel finished 3rd with 9 points. Aravind of Chennai, Iniyan of Erode, Rathanvel of Coimbatore , A Ra Harikrishnan of Tiruvallur & S Jayakumar of Chennai will represent TN in U11 National Championship to be held at Jharkand from 5th August.
In the girls section the expressive R Vaishali was unstoppable with an impressive score of 10 points shedding 2 draws to GPS Sneha and Tejasvi in the latter rounds. Vaishali ,Arthika & Subalakshmi of Chennai, GPS Sneha of NLC,Priyanka of Tirupur will represent TN State Nationals.
Prizes were distributed by guests of honors Shri N Govindarajan, PDG, Rotary Dt 2980 and by Shri Muralimohan, General Secretary , TNSCA. N Santhakumar, presided over the function.
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Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) won the Lions Club Jaipur Metro National Rapid Chess Championship title at Jaipur on 23rd April 2012.In the final round he beat D.K. Chopra of Delhi to clinch the title with 9 points. In all 56 players were participated in the championship. Earlier in the penultimate round Ram drew with Shreyansh Daklia of Chattisgarh. Ram s Krishnan was unbeaten throughout the championship, he had won 6 games continuously and drew against former National Champion & GM Pravin Thipsay (Maharashtra) in the seventh game, drew with GM Shriram Jha (Delhi) in the eighth round and in the ninth he drew with top seed and IM Argyadip Das of West Bengal.
Ram S Krishnan took the Runner-up title in the National Blitz championship that concluded on 24th April.
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Mr.C.G.S.Narayanan receiving the Certificate of Honour for winning the 03rd place in the FIDE World Cup of composition - 2010 from Mr.D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE
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D.V.Sundar awarded International organizer Title from FIDE.
FIDE Vice President Mr.D.V.Sundar receiving the title of International Organizer from President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at the Presidential Board Meeting in Elista.... More News - 11 April, 2012
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The tournament was inaugurated by Mr.K.G.Muralidharan,President of Trichy District Cricket Association & Managing Director of G.K Sons Engineering Enterprises (P) Ltd on 06.04.2012 in the presence of Mr.Anantharaja.GG.President,TDCA,T.Sundarrajan,Secretary,TDCA and Dr.Y.Venkataramani (Dean R & D) Saranathan College of Engineering,Trichy.
87 Players participated in the tournament from various parts of Tamil Nadu. Mr. B.T.Sethuraman,IA from Madurai was the chief arbiter. He was assisted by Mr.Anand Babu.V.L, Mr.B.Dhenagaran and Mr.J.Alexander of Trichy.
P.Lokesh of Chennai won the title. The special prizes were given to the top six children in U-8, U10. U12 and U14 categories.
Mr.S.Ravindran,Secretary,Saranathan College of Engineering was the chief guest in the prize distribution function on 08.04.2012. He gave away the prizes to the prize winners in the presence of Mr.Anantharaja.GG.President,TDCA and T.Sundarrajan,Secretary,TDCA.
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Siva Mahadevan, Velammmal Vidyalaya, Chennai won the Trophy of the 4th ACA Trivandrum All India FIDE rated Open Chess Tournament (below 2000) held between 05-04-2012 to 08-04-2012. He scored 8/9 points with fabulous unbeaten 7 wins and 2 draws. The tournament was inaugurated by Mr.V.S.Sivakumar, Minister for Transport and Devaswom, Kerala and the prizes were distributed by Ms.Vanajam, Principal, Government Music College, Trivandrum. The prize included a trophy, a cash reward of Rs.30,000/- and a certificate.
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Wa-Wa Anand ”
Wish Anand :: Win Anand
One Million Wishes for Our World Champion Campaign
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you are aware, the defending World Chess champion Vishy Anand , who has held the World Champion title since 2007 will be playing against Israel’s Boris Gelfand during May 2012 in Russia to defend his World Championship title. To commemorate this Historic occasion and to encourage and support Anand and to convey our wishes to him to successfully retain the World Championship title, the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association has decided to initiate “Wish Anand :: Win Anand ( WAWA) campaign” and collect 1 million signatures from school children across the State wishing Anand for his success at the ensuing World Chess Championship match against Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel.
As you all know, the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association has been fostering the growth of Chess since 1947 and has turned out several leading personalities in this game including the present world champion Viswanathan Anand who has made every Tamilian proud.
Under the Stewardship of Chief Minister Dr. J. Jayalalithaa, the Government of Tamil Nadu has recently announced the importance of Chess and has decided to introduce it in schools for children who are between 7 and 17 years of age and recommended that all schools make this game compulsory. The TNSCA along with its affiliated Association and Academies is keen to take this initiative of the Government forward.
As part of this initiative we request all the district chess association to collect signature from as many school children as possible belonging to the respective districts. We enclose a copy of the signature format along with this letter. We request you to kindly send the collected signatures by 15th April 2012 and the same will be delivered to Grand Master Vishy Anand.
Thanking you in advance.
K.Muralimohan,
General Secretary
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Arbiter Report – R. Anantharam IA
With the introduction of rating for Rapid and Blitz tournaments by FIDE, Sivakasi Chess Club has taken the lead in organising these two tournaments together for the first time in India. The two lakhs and ten thousand rupees prize money tournament for three days from 12th to 14th March attracted 208 players from ten different states. The star studded list included three grandmasters and thirteen IMs for the rapid tournament and four GMS and 13 IMs for the blitz event. Former world under 16 champion SP Sethuraman of Petroleum Sports promotion Board had the honour of being the top seed in both events.
The rapid game was of 25 minutes duration, with an increment of 5 seconds for each move and blitz tournament had a time control of 3 minutes plus two seconds per move. Eight players led with a perfect score 4 out of 4 and the lead reduced to three, after the fifth round, the leaders being former Asian Junior champion IM P. Karthikeyan of Chennai, former national blitz champion GM RR Laxman of ICF and IM S. Nitin, a second year student of SSN Engineering College, Chennai. Grandmasters Sethuraman and Sriram Jha of LIC joined the lead after 6 rounds. Sethuraman emerged sole leader with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round, followed by nine others including Laxman and P. Maheswaran, a former state junior champion from Sivakasi. The lead was short lived, as former under 17 national champion P. Shyam Nikil defeated Sethuraman, to join hands with CRG Krishna of AP, Laxman and Mahesaran who stunned Sriram Jha.
Shyam Nikil lost to Laxman and Maheswaran beat Krishna to stay at the top after nine rounds. They continued to lead in the tenth and penultimate round. In the final round, Laxman defeated Rathnakaran and Maheswaran had to be content with a draw against Asian Junior champion M. Shyam Sundar of Chennai. Thus, Laxman won the title and became richer by thirty thousand rupees. Krishna sprang a surprise by beating Sethuraman to finish on par with Maheswaran (8.5 points). Better tiebreak helped Mahesh to gain the runner up spot.
Things were different in the blitz event, as all the top players met with disaster in one or two rounds. Sethuraman lost in the third round to P. Lokesh of Chennai, GM Deepan Chakravarthy of Madurai losing to IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh in the fourth round and FM VInoth Kumar of Chennai outwitting Shyam Nikil. IM Swapnil Dhopade of Railways, Kunal of Trichy and NR Visakh of Chennai led with 5 points from 5 rounds. But, Swapnil lost to Nitin and Maheswaran again defeated Krishna to join at the lead with Visakh and Kunal who drew the game between them. Nitin outplayed Kunal and Visakh dealt a blow to the local hope, Maheswaran in the seventh round. Sethuraman came back into reckoning with a win over Rathnakaran, joining Nitin, Visakh, Thej Kumar and Swapnil on cloud nine.
In the ninth and final round, Sethuraman stumbled at the post at the hands of Swapnil. Nitin and Themj Kumar also recorded comfortable victories to make a three way tie for the first place. When Buchholz tiebreak was applied, Nitin was declared winner, followed by Swapnil and Thejkumar.
Veteran chess player S. Rengarajan of Madurai presided over the prize distribution function and Mrs. Brinda Raghavan, Director, Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering, Sivakasi distributed the prizes.
Final Ranking - Rapid
Rank Name Rtg Club Pts BH. B
1 GM Laxman R R 2415 ICF 9½ 78½
2 FM Maheswaran P 2297 VNR 9 80½
3 Krishna C R G 2326 AP 9 73½
4 IM Nitin S 2420 SLM 8½ 81
5 IM Thejkumar M S 2446 Rly 8½ 77½
6 GM Sriram Jha 2406 LIC 8½ 75½
7 Visakh Nr 2096 CHE 8½ 72
8 IM Shyam Sundar M 2474 CHE 8½ 71½
9 GM Sethuraman S P 2546 PSPB 8 77
10 IM Rathnakaran K 2410 Rly 8 74½
11 IM Karthikeyan P 2414 CHE 8 73½
12 Gireman Ja 2132 CBE 8 72½
13 IM Himanshu Sharma 2407 HAR 8 72½
14 Lokesh P 2231 CHE 8 70½
15 Karthik V Ap 2015 AP 8 69
16 Shankar A 2197 Rly 8 68
17 Sa Kannan 1972 SIV 8 67½
18 IM Shyam Nikil P 2490 CHE 7½ 79
19 IM Murali Krishnan B T 2337 Rly 7½ 74
20 Kunal M 2265 TRY 7½ 73
Final Ranking – Blitz
Rank Name Rtg Club Pts BH. B
1 IM Nitin S 2420 SLM 8 53½
2 IM Swapnil S Dhopade 2426 Rly 8 51
3 IM Thejkumar M S 2446 Rly 8 49½
4 Kunal M 2265 TRY 7½ 49½
5 Visakh Nr 2096 CHE 7 53
6 GM Sethuraman S P 2546 PSPB 7 48
7 IM Rathnakaran K 2410 Rly 7 48
8 Ram S Krishnan 2287 BSNL 7 48
9 FM Rajesh V A V 2364 CHE 7 47½
10 IM Karthikeyan P 2414 CHE 7 44½
11 Krishna C R G 2326 AP 6½ 50
12 Praveen Prasad P 2248 AP 6½ 49½
13 IM Himanshu Sharma 2407 HAR 6½ 49
14 GM Laxman R R 2415 ICF 6½ 49
15 FM Maheswaran P 2297 VNR 6½ 48
16 Syed Anwar Shazuli 2278 ICF 6½ 48
17 Anilkumar O T 2227 KER 6½ 45½
18 Akash Pc Iyer 2190 CHE 6½ 45
19 Gunasekaran K 2178 ICF 6½ 44
20 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2461 MDU 6½ 43½
Sivakasi Chess Club FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament 2012
CATEGORY PRIZES
U-8 Girls
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Rindhiya V TVLR 1204 F8 5 48½
2 Deepika R VNR F8 5 44
U-8 Boys
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Praggnanandhaa R TVLR 1340 U8 6 61
2 Abhishek S KK 0 U8 5 57
U-11 Girls
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Vaishali R TVLR 1916 F11 6½ 66
2 Dhanusha S KK 0 F11 5½ 50½
U-11 Boys
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Kasthoori Mahalingam K TRR 1445 U11 7 58
2 Siva Mahadevan CHE 1777 U11 6 66½
3 Gurram Konda Tarosh CHE 0 U11 6 50½
4 Dilan Paul Roy J KK 1455 U11 5½ 56
5 Shyam Sundar M MDU 1230 U11 5½ 54
U-13 Girls
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Ananya S KAR 1598 F13 7 62½
2 Annie Gladys A KK 1484 F13 6 55
Sivakasi Chess Club FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament 2012
CATEGORY PRIZES
U-13 Boys
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Prathish A MDU 1780 U13 6 65½
2 Eashwar M CBE 1780 U13 6 61½
U-15 Girls
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Varsha C K CBE 1642 F15 7 58½
2 Sandya M CHE 1811 F15 6½ 66½
U-15 Boys
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Augustin A KAR 2031 U15 7 74½
2 Vignesh Nr CHE 2089 U15 7 71½
Best Women
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Varshini V TVLR 1826 7 63
2 Vishnu Priya T KK 1723 6½ 58½
Best Veteran
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Muralidharan M B KER 2207 S50 7 68½
2 Panaiappan S CHE 1928 S50 6½ 61½
Best Virudhunagar
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 M Bhushan 1992 7 61
2 Paramasivam M 1991 7 60
Best Sivakasi
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Kalidass C 1685 S50 6 62
2 Saravanan G 1760 6 56
Best Unrated
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Arun Prasath S VNR 0 6 60
2 Hameed Suhail S K KK 0 KK 6 57
Best Virudhunagar Dt. Woman
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Sri Vishnu Praba S 1365 F13 5½ 57
Best Sivakasi Woman
Rank Name Rtg Type Pts BH. B
1 Sonaa R 1313 F15 5 57
Photo Captions
P1000510: RR Laxman, grandmaster from ICF receiving the winner’s purse of Rs.30000 from Mrs. Brinda Raghavan, Director, Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering. At the left is IA R. Anantharam and second\d from the left is V. Sundara Pandian, treasurer Virudhunagar District Chess Association.
P1000509
P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi receives the second prize of Rs.22000 from Mrs. Brindha.
P1000480
S. Rengarajan, a former National A player gives away the prize to IM S. Nitin of SSN Engineering College, Chennai.
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Top seed Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran (ONGC) with a cent percent score 9/9 emerged the champion in the Lightning Chess tournament conducted to celebrate the 64th Birthday of "Thanga Tharagai" Puratchi Thalaivi Amma Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu at Hall of Chess, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.
The Chennai based ONGC star proved superior to the rest of the field and pocketed the winner's purse of Rs. 64000 (Rupess sixty four thousand only). In the crucial final round Sasikiran defeated International Master M R Venkatesh (BPCL) with white pieces. The win helped Sasikiran keep his all win record intact.
The second spot was shared by International Master Vishnu Prasanna, Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy and International Master Ravichandran Siddarth, all 8.0 points.
The one day lightning tournament, the first of its kind, saw a record prize money being awarded to the players. The turnout was impressive with 6 Grandmasters, 12 International Masters, including 29 titled players.
The event held in celebration of the 64th birthday of sports loving Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, was sponsored by Shri JCD Prabhakar, MLA. 64 prizes totalling Rs. 160000 (One lakh sixty thousand only) were distributed to the winners by Shri S Ganesan, Patron Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Shri JCD Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess Federation and Shri D.V. Sunder, Vice president FIDE.
Final Placings :
1 Krishnan Sasikiran (ONGC) 9.0, 2-4 Vishnu Prasanna V, Deepan Chakkravarthy J, Ravichandran Siddharth 8.0, 5-7 M R Venkatesh (BPCL), Surendran N, Akash PC Iyer (Modern Senior Secondary School) 7.5, 8-10 R B Ramesh, S Nitin (SSN College of Engineering), Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (Air India) 7.0 points
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2nd seeded FIDE Master M. Vinothkumar of Chennai ensured a thrilling end to the 2nd Padmashri Chess Foundation & Rd International School FIDE Rating Chess Tournament by drawing with Pranav Vijay of Chennai in the tenth and final round at Rd International School Erode here on Sunday. This draw enabled Vinothkumar to take his tally to eight and a half points to take the Winner’s trophy and pocketed a cash prize of Thirty Thousand rupees. Vinoth kumar, Pranav Vijay and Vikash Nr of Tamilnadu along with Nath Rupankar of West Bengal with 8.5 points tied for first place but better tie break score helped Vinoth to won the title.
Dr. Nagarajan, Principal RD International School Erode gave away the prizes in a peaceful closing ceremony. Padmasri Chess foundation Secretary Shri.R. Thirumurugan welcomed the gathering, President Smt.T. Hema Elamathi proposed the vote of thanks.
Earlier, the 2nd edition of PCF & RD International School Fide rating chess tournament got underway at RD International School Campus, Erode from 23rd February 2012. The event attracted 213 Fide rated chess players in action in a field of 409 players from 9 states and an union territory. C.S.Sridhar of Chennai was the top seeded in this ten round Swiss system tournament. The total prize fund of the event was Rupees one Lakh thirty thousand out of which Rs. 30,000/- was reserved for the winner.
At a calmful opening ceremony, Shri. D. Senthil Kumar, Chairman, RD International School Erode inaugurated the event by making the customary first move in presence of Shri. P. Nagarajan, Principal RD International School. The RD International School has been sponsoring this tournament for the first time.
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Ram S Krishnan of BSNL beat Nr.Visakh of Chennai and won the Title with 7.5 points at the end of final round. He received Rs.25000 cash award with a Trophy here at Hall of Chess, Nehru Stadium, Chennai in the 6th S.K.Narasimhan Memorial Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament on 20th February. K. Priyadharshan of Madurai beat IM Praveen Kumar of ICF is the runner-up with 7.5 points. But the better tie-break helped Ram to win the title. J. Ramakrishna of Andhra Bank is in 3rd place with the same 7.5 points. Sri C.G.S Narayanan, International Chess Problemist also the editor of All India Chess Federation gave away the prizes to the winners.
Important Results of final round:
Bo.
Name
Pts
Res.
Pts
Name
1
Praveen Kumar C
6½
lost to
7½
Priyadharshan K
2
Visakh Nr
6½
lost to
7½
Ram S Krishnan
3
Matta Vinay Kumar
6½
lost to
7½
Ramakrishna J
4
Syed Anwar Shazuli
7
beat
6
Raghunandan K S
5
Vinoth Kumar M
7
beat
6
Rajkumar S Singha
6
Ravichandran Siddharth
6½
beat
5½
Rajarishi Karthi
7
Hirthickkesh Pr
5½
lost to
6½
Linda Rangarajan
8
Muthaiah Al
6
drew with
6
Pranav Vijay
9
Sandya M
6½
beat
5½
Vignesh Nr
10
Monnisha Gk
6½
beat
5½
Sathyanarayanan S
Final Standings
Rank
Name
Club
Pts
1
Ram S Krishnan
TN
7½
2
IM
Priyadharshan K
TN
7½
3
FM
Ramakrishna J
Andhra Bank
7½
4
Syed Anwar Shazuli
ICF
7
5
FM
Vinoth Kumar M
TN
7
6
IM
Praveen Kumar C
ICF
6½
7
Visakh Nr
TN
6½
8
Sandya M
TN
6½
9
Matta Vinay Kumar
Andhra Bank
6½
10
Linda Rangarajan
PUD
6½
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Srti Renganyagi Varatharaj College of Engineering
TN State FIDE Rated 19th Team Chess Championship
Chief Arbiter report – IA R. Anantharam
Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering TN State fide rated chess championship , organised by Virudhunaar Districtr Chess Assocaition at Renganayagi Varatharj College of Engineering, Sivakasi is the first ever fide rated state team championship in India. It attracted 32 teams from various districts and clubs of Tamil Nadu. ICF, Chennai comprising GM RR Laxman and IM C Praveen Kumar were the favourites with the highest rating average of 2347 and Indian Bank Chennai was seeded second, with an average rating of 2238. ICF annexed the RVCE ever rolling trophy, donated by the KRTA Varatharaj Educational & Charities Trust, which runs the college.
Indian Bank met with little resistance from first round and enjoyed a lead of one match point, when they defeated Golden Eagles of Madurai in the fourth round. Hitherto joint leaders ICF had to be content with a draw in the same round, when Bloom Chess Academy, Thiruvallur held them to a draw. World under 12 champion Karthikeyan Murali was instrumental for this result, by beating former national blitz champion and grand master RR Laxman. In the fifth round, ICF made amendments by outwitting Indian Bank by 2.5 to 1.5 points. They never looked back until they won the title in the final round with 13 match points. Mighty Indian Bank was dealt with a heavy blow, when Karthikeyan Murali humbled IM N Sudhakar Babu to score a facile victory. This helped Bloom CA to record a 2.5 – 1.5 victory in the final round to push Indian Bank to the fourth spot. Golden Eagles, Madurai outwitted Virudhunagar DCA to collect 11 match points to finish undisputed second. Five teams scored 10 points each to tie for places from three to seven and the A team T Nagar Chess Academy, Chennai with an average age of under 12 surprised everybody by claiming the third place.
In the TN State Blitz Chess Championship held on 12th February, P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi was unstoppable to lift the title with consummate ease. Already with 8 points from 8 rounds, he had a steel of nerves to beat former national blitz champion grand master RR Laxman of ICF to score an amazing 9/9, two points ahead of the nearest rivals! Six players scored 7 points and Karthikeyan Murali had a better tiebreak to secure second place. Syed Anwar Shazuli and RR Laxman both from ICF finished third and fourth respectively.
The management headed by the chairman Mr.V. Kesavan, Secreatry Mr. V. Raghavan and Principal Dr. Suresh Kumar left no stone unturned to make this one as one of the best state championships ever organised. All of them took personal interest in the conduct of the tournament and welfare of the players. A fantastic aerial fireworks display of international standard, with a sumptuous dinner will never be erased from the memories of the participants. Though the college is only five months old, it provided all the facilities to players.
All India Chess Federation, in association with TN State Chess association organised an All India refresher course for chess arbiters in the college campus on 11th and 12th February. In the event sponsored by Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering and Sivakasi Chess Club, 37 arbiters from various parts of India participated. IA R. Anantharam, Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission All India Chess Federation and IA R. Srivatsan were the resource persons. Mr. SK Raja, former Indian player and former coach of Indian Basketball team distributed certificates to the participants. The course was inaugurated by Mr. PRS Srinivasan, industrialist from Kovilapatti.
A.P. Selvarajan, Vice President, TN State Chess Association inaugurated the championship on 9th in presence of Mr. Perumalsamy, an industrialist from Sattur. Arjuna awardee and Nine times national chess champion Mr. Manuel Aaron was the chief guest on the final day, along with Mr. A. Gopalsamy, former Vice President of TN state Chess Association.
Final Ranking
1 ICF, Chennai 13 24
2 Golden Eagles, Madurai 11 21½
3 T Nagar CA- A, Chnnai 10 22
4 Indian Bank, Chennai 10 19½
5 Bloom CA, Thiruvallur 10 18½
6 Coimbatore DCA 10 17
7 Madurai GT Kings, Madurai 10 15
8 Virudhunagar DCA 8 16½
9 Chess Kings, Chennai 8 16
10 Kanyakumari Dt.- A 8 15½
11 Cuddalore DCA - A 8 15½
Final ranking: Blitz
1 Maheswaran P (Sivakasi) 9
2 Karthikeyan Murali (Thiruvallur) 7
3 Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF) 7
4 Laxman R R (ICF) 7
5 Stanley Samson P (Thoothukudi) 7
6 Anand Raj S (Bloom CA) 7
7 Kunal M (Trichy) 7
8 Manigandan S S (Madurai) 6½
9 Ganesh Babu S (Madurai) 6½
10 Sai Vishwesh C (T Nagar CA) 6½
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Sumatisons inter school chess Tournament organized by. Sri Ahobila Math Oriental H S School Inter School Chess Tournament was conducted on 12th Feb 2012 in the School premises. 233 Players participated in Junior, Sub Junior, Senior and Super Senior categories. 6 Rounds for Juniors, Sub Juniors and Senior.
In Prize distribution function prizes were distributed by "Sri B Magesh S.M. Associates" in the presence of "Dr N V Vasudevachariar". Vote of thanks delivered by "Sri R Murali Krishnan
Winners list
Super Senior Boys
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Kishorekumar L.S., m 1608 5 14 8.5 15 Gill Adreash
2 Vijay sarathy, m 1626 4 16.5 10 13 Modern Sr. School
3 Karthik P M, m 1685 4 15.5 10 14 Gill Adreash
4 KalyanaRaghavan V S, m 1552 4 13.5 8.5 12 Valuvar Gurukulam
5 Aravind S., m 3.5 15.5 8.5 11.5 St. Louis, Institue
Super Senior Girls
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Vidubala selvaraj, f 1412 4 15 8.5 12 National Institue
2 Manjula R., f 3 13.5 7.5 8 S.M.G. Jain Vidyalaya
3 Sushmita S, f 3 11.5 7.5 9 Sri Ahobila Math
Senior Boys
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Muthaiah A L, m 1787 5.5 22.5 16.5 20.5 Vellammal
2 Kumar S, m 1789 5 24 16.5 18 Vellammal
3 Hari Ohm Varush, m 1502 5 23 15.5 19 Krishna Swamy MHSS
4 Prakash Ram R., m 1450 5 23 15.5 19 Jawahar Vidyalaya
5 Karthick narayanan S., m 1593 5 22 14.5 18 Vellammal
Senior Girls
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Saranya Y, f 1681 5 20.5 13.5 15 Vellammal
2 Alakarthika U, f 4 21 14 15 M.B. Jain school
3 Ashika Parvatham, f 4 20 13.5 15 Rosary Mat. School.
Sub Junior Boys
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Harsha Vardhan G B, m 1454 6 26 18 21 Velammal
2 Aditya S. Hariharan, m 5 24.5 16.5 18 D.A.V. Boys (Gopalapuram)
3 Sarvesh Kumar, m 5 23 15 19 P.S.B.B. Millennium
4 Abinandhan R., m 5 22.5 16 20 Hari Sree Vidyalaya
5 Dharani kumar, m 5 22 13.5 18
Sub Junior Girls
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Aishwarya S., f 4 24.5 16.5 15 Lochetalain Junior
2 Darshana Balakrishnan, f 4 21 14 17 PS. Sr. Sec.
3 Harini R., f 4 19.5 12 15 D.A.V. Adambakkam
Junior Boys
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Siva Mahadevan, m 1688 6 18.5 12.5 21 Velammal
2 Arun M.S., m 1462 5 26 18 19 Pon Vidyashram
3 Rakshith N D, m 5 23.5 16 20 Don Bosco
4 Tarun V Kanth, m 1456 5 22 14 19 St. John's Besant Nagar
5 Bala Kumar R., m 5 21.5 14.5 17 Modern Hr. Sec. School
Junior Girls
Placing Name Sex Rating Points Buch Medi Prog School
1 Subalakshmi, f 4 23 15.5 12 Hindu Sr. Sec. School
2 Aparjha S, f 4 21.5 14 14 P.S.B.B,.
3 Sri Ranjani N.R., f 3.5 22 15 14 Bhavans' Rajaji Vidyashram
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The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association honoured its Chess achievers with Cash Awards in the RAMCO-TNSCA Cash Awards Function held 25/02/2012 at 5 PM at Russian Cultural Centre, Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai-18.
The three World Champions B.Adhiban ( World Under-16 Champion, 2008), S.P.Sethuraman (World Under-16 Champion, 2009) and Murali Karthikeyan (World Under-12 Champion, 2011) were awarded with Rs.1,00,000/- each. Grandmaster R.R.Laxman was awarded with Rs.50,000/-.
Smt.S.Gokula Indira, the Hon’ble Minister for Tourism, Govt. of Tamil Nadu gave away the awards in the presence of Mr.G.A.Rajkumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Youth Welfare and Sports Development, Mr.D.V.Sundar, Vice-President, World Chess Federation, and Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, All India Chess Federation. The entire amount of Rs.7 Lakh is sponsored by Ramco Group of Companies.
The other recipients were:
International Masters K.Priyadharshan (2009), Ramnath Bhuvanesh (2010), S.Nitin (2010), Siddarth Ravichandran ( 2010), Vishnu Prasanna (2010), P.Shyam Nikhil (2010) and C.Praveen Kumar (2010) were awarded with Rs.30,000/- each.
Asian Junior Champions Ashwin Jayaram (2009), and M.Shyam Sundar (2010), Asian Junior Girls’ Champion J.Saranya (2009), and Srija Seshadri (Asian Under-14 Champion ( 2010) were richer by Rs. 20,000/- each.
National Champions G.K.Monnisha (Under-13 Girls, 2010), Aravindh Chithambaram (Under-11, 2010), P.V.Nandhidhaa (Under-15 Girls, 21010), M.R.Venkatesh (National Challengers, 2010), A.Akshaya (Under-17 Girls, 2010) and L.N.Ram Aravind (Under-7, 2010) were presented with a purse of Rs.10,000/- each.
In the attached photo seen are:(From L to R) : 1.Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF, 2.Smt.S.Gokula Indira, the Hon’ble Minister for Tourism, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, 3. Murali Karthikeyan (World Under-12 Champion, 2011), 4.Mr.G.A.Rajkumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Youth Welfare and Sports Development, 5.Mr.D.V.Sundar, Vice-President, World Chess Federation
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Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering TN State fide rated chess championship , organised by Virudhunaar Districtr Chess Assocaition at Renganayagi Varatharj College of Engineering, Sivakasi is the first ever fide rated state team championship in India. It attracted 32 teams from various districts and clubs of Tamil Nadu. ICF, Chennai comprising GM RR Laxman and IM C Praveen Kumar were the favourites with the highest rating average of 2347 and Indian Bank Chennai was seeded second, with an average rating of 2238. ICF annexed the RVCE ever rolling trophy, donated by the KRTA Varatharaj Educational & Charities Trust, which runs the college.
In the TN State Blitz Chess Championship held on 12th February, P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi was unstoppable to lift the title with consummate ease. Already with 8 points from 8 rounds, he had a steel of nerves to beat former national blitz champion grand master RR Laxman of ICF to score an amazing 9/9, two points ahead of the nearest rivals! Six players scored 7 points and Karthikeyan Murali had a better tiebreak to secure second place. Syed Anwar Shazuli and RR Laxman both from ICF finished third and fourth respectively.
A.P. Selvarajan, Vice President, TN State Chess Association inaugurated the championship on 9th in presence of Mr. Perumalsamy, an industrialist from Sattur. Arjuna awardee and Nine times national chess champion Mr. Manuel Aaron was the chief guest on the final day, along with Mr. A. Gopalsamy, former Vice President of TN state Chess Association.
The management headed by the chairman Mr.V. Kesavan, Secreatry Mr. V. Raghavan and Principal Dr. Suresh Kumar left no stone unturned to make this one as one of the best state championships ever organised. All of them took personal interest in the conduct of the tournament and welfare of the players. A fantastic aerial fireworks display of international standard, with a sumptuous dinner will never be erased from the memories of the participants. Though the college is only five months old, it provided all the facilities to players.
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The Biennial Ramco-TNSCA Cash Awards Function for the years 2009-10 and 2010-11 will be held on 25th February 2012 from 5.00 PM onwards. The venue of the function is at Russian Cultural Centre, Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai-18. These Cash Awards are to be given for Achievers from Tamil Nadu for the Gold medals/titles won in National/International Championships in the years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The entire amount of Rs.7 00, 000/- (Rupess Seven Lakh only) is donated by Ramco Group of Companies as a generous gesture by its Chairman Shri. P. R. Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha. As a general rule, one player is awarded one cash award only– the maximum that is eligible to receive.
The details of cash awards to be distributed are given below:
S. No Name of the player Achievement Amount: Rs. 1. Karthikeyan Murali World U-12 Champion 1,00,000/- 2. B.Adhiban World U-16 Champion 1,00,000/- 3. S.P.Sethuraman World U-16 Champion 1,00,000/- 4.R.R. Laxman Grandmaster 50,000/- 5. K. Priyadarshan International Master 30,000/- 6. R. Ramnath Bhuvanesh International Master 30,000/- 7. S.Nitin International Master 30,000/- 8. Siddarth Ravichandran International Master 30,000/- 9. V. Vishnuprasanna International Mater 30,000/- 10. P. Shyam Nikil International Master 30,000/- 11. C. Praveenkumar International Master 30,000/- 12. M.Shyam Sundar Asian Jr. Champion, 2010 20,000/- 13. Ashwin Jayaram Asian Jr. Champion 20,000/- 14. J. Saranya Asian Champion U-14,2009 20,000/- 15. Srija Seshadri Asian Champion U-14, 2010 20,000/- 16. G.K.Monnisha National Champion U-13 10,000/-17. V.R.Aravindh Chithambaram National Champion U-11 10,000/- 18. P.V.Nandhidhaa National Champion U-15 10,000/- 19. M.R.Venkatesh National B Champion 10,000/- 20. A.Akshaya National Champion U-17 10,000/- 21. L.N. Ram Aavind National Champion U-7 10,000/-
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Sixteen Indians took part in the FIDE Trainers' Seminar that took place at Delhi from Jan 16-22, 2012.
Among those who received the coveted FIDE Trainer certificate include V. Ravichandran of Chennai and Prathamesh Mokal of Pune.
The trainers include Serbia's Jovan Petronic, and our own Lanka Ravi of Hyderabad and G.B. Joshi of Delhi.
Six players who got the FIDE Instructor title, Development Instructor and five National Instructors were also awarded.
This certification offer the Indian chess trainees a wide choice of options of whom to learn the oldest Indian game from.
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From 6 to 9 January 2012 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Chennai, India, by the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturers were IA Casto Abundo (PHI), Asian Chess Federation Deputy President and FIDE Lecturer, and IA Prof. R. Anatharam (IND). The lectures were in the English language. Fifty seven (57) people from various parts of India participated in the Seminar and in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a FA Norm, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board: 1. Ganesh Babu S (Madurai), 2. Murugavel B (Chennai), 3. Ramesh Babu C R (Kanchi), 4.Natarajan C (Kanchi), 5. Vinod Kumar (Chennai), 6. Arivazhagan, 7. Sundarrajan (Virudhunagar), 8. Amburose Arokyaraj A (Thanjavur), 9. Winston G (Nagarcoil), 10. Saravana Kumar, 11. Thiru Murugan R (Erode), 12. Maran P (Thanjavur), 13. Baskar J (Thiruthuraipondi), 14. Jeevan Kumar J (Nagercoil), 15. Gowri Shankar A (Kanchi), 16. Balakrishna R (Kanchi), 17. Natarajan S (Trichy), 18. Visalakchi M (Tiruvallur)
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Pon N Krithika (Kanchi) was awarded WIM Title in FIDE Congress held at Al Ain, UAE, from 3rd February to 6th February 2012. The following persons from Tamil Nadu also awarded titles as mentioned against their names:
International Arbiter Sethuraman B T (Madurai), Sakthi Prabhkar B (Chennai), FIDE Arbiter Anandh Babu V L (Trichy), Palaniappan P (Salem), S.Athulan (Madurai) and Sriman V S (Chennai)
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Adhiban won the Bronze Medal in Tata Steel Grand Master Chess Tournament that concluded at Wijk aan Zee on Jan 29, 2012. In the final round he beat Lisa Schut to ensure third place in the Group C.
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Prasannaa of Tamil Nadu won the 1st ACA Sadhasivam Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament (below 2200).
In the penultimate round Prasannaa beat Sahu Vikramaditya of Maharashtra and in the final round he beat his statemate FM Vinothkumar to clinch the title with a score of 9 points. Prasannaa’s only lost against the top seed A Shankar of Railways in the 10 rounds Swiss event that concluded on Sunday at JN Stadium. Three players namely, Pranav Vijay, B. Sekar both from TN and Dangmei Bosco of Andhra were tied for the second position with 8.5 points. Better tie-break score gave Pranav to runner-up position and others finished in the same order respectively.
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25th Tamil Nadu State Under -7 Boys & Girls Chess Championship for Dolphin Trophies was organized by Tirupur District Chess Association & KPK Chess Academy on behalf of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. The 11 rounds Swiss format was held from 23rd January to 28th January 2012 here at Kamakshi Amman kalyana Mandapam, Tirupur.
This tournament has attracted 49 boys and 29 girls from 12 districts and 5 registered academies. R. Praggnanandhaa of Tiruvallur district was the only fide rated player in boys section. 5 years old boy Riyan Priyank of Coimbatore participated and added beauty to this state championship. Praggnanandhaa of Tiruvallur, R.Abinanandhan and P.V.Rakesh of Chennai shared their lead with 4 points at the end of 4th round in boys section. Praggnanandhaa took sole lead from 5th round till the last round and won the Championship. He received the Dolphin Trophy and Rs.1200 as cash award. R.Abinandhan of Chennai was the runner-up of this championship with 9 points.
In girls section Rakshitta Ravi of Chennai and R.Mohana of kanchi jointly leaders with 4 points at the end of 4th round. Rakshitta Ravi took sole lead from 5th round. But Riduvarshini of Tirupur district beat Rakshitta and stopped the unbeaten record in the penultimate round. Rakshitta won the girls championship and received the Dolphin Trophy with cash award Rs.1200. R. Mohana was the Runner-up of this championship with 8 points.
Mr. M. Govindaswamy, Treasurer of Jai Sriram Group of Institutions and Mrs. Anu Professor of the same institute gave away the prizes in the Presence Sri. Sivashanmugam, Vice-President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Sri. K.P.K Selvaraj, president. Tirupur District Chess Association and Sri. Boopathy, Secreatry Tirupur District Chess Association. The arbiters V.P Manoharan and A. Mani and also parent’s excellent co-operation helped to conclude this Championship without any single dispute
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Harini of Kanchi won the 2nd AIM Chess FIDE rated Tmt held at Surabi College of Polytechnic in Namakkal from 13th Jan to 17th Jan 2012.
In the final round top seed Ram S Krishnan beat Varshini, In the second board Lokesh P of Chennai drew with Lokesh N of Housr and in the third board Harini beat Rathanvel of Kovai. Both Ram S Krishnan of BSNL and Harini tied for the first spot, but better tie-break score gave Harini to clinch the title with 7.5 points from nine rounds. The tournament had attracted 141 players from various parts of South India. Harini is the second girl to win a FIDE Rated tournament in Tamil Nadu, after Nimmy George of Kerala , who had won the Karur tournament, some years back.
Sri KPP Baskar, MLA Namakkal Constituency distributed the prizes in the presence of Sri G. Marimuthu, Chairman, Surabi College of Polytechnic and Mr. GM Gopu Madhavan, Principal, Surabi College of Polytechnic, Mr.V. Sathyamoorthy, Mr.K. Gandhi Murugesan and Mr. RN Kamalasekar. Mr. SV Iyappan, Secretary, AIM Chess Academy welcomed the gathering and Mr. V. Aatahayam proposed a vote of thanks.
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Arbiters have to update their knowledge periodically with the latest developments in chess with respect to laws of chess, pairing, title, rating, and tournament regulations. It is a good chance for the arbiters all over India to congregate and discuss.
The Arbiters Clinic, organised by All India Chess Federation and sponsored by Sivakasi Chess Club & Renganyagi Varatharaj College of Engineering, Salvarpatti, Sivakasi to Sattur Road, Tamil Nadu will be held at the college campus on 11th and 12th February 2012.
Free boarding and dormitory lodging will be provided to all the participants. Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Member, SPP Commission, FIDE and Chairman of Arbiters Council, All India Chess Federation and Mr. R. Srivatsan IA will be the resource persons. A nominal fee of Rs.100 (one hundred only) will be collected towards registration charges. Register your name with a DD in favour of Sivakasi Chess Club, payable at Sivakasi. Registration can also be done through e-mail to vranantharam@gmail.com, with a copy to All India Chess Federation (indianchessfed@gamil.com), on or before 4th February.
Sattur is 70 KMs from the temple city Madurai, on the way to Kanyakumari and connected to all the metro cities in India by train.
Important trains to Sattur/Virudhunagar:
From Chennai: 12633 Kanyakumari Express (Reaches Sattur at 03.05 AM), 12631 Nellai Express (06.33 AM), 12693 Pearl City Express (05.26 AM) and 16723 Ananthapuri Express (04.57 AM)
From New Delhi: 12642 Thirukkural Express (leaves on Saturday), 16318 Himsagae Express (Tuesday) and Navyug Express (Friday), 12652 TN Sampark Kranti Express (Tueday & Thursday up to Madurai)
From Mumbai: 12998 Hapa Ten Super Express (leaves on Saturday & Sunday), 16339 Nagercoil Express (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday) and 16351 Nagercoil Express (Tuesday & Saturday)
From Kolkata: 12665 Kanyakumari Express (leaves on Monday)
From Bangalore and Salem: Mysore – Tuticorin Express 16732 – reaches Sattur at 08.40 AM.
For details, contact Prof. R. Anantharam 094431 55852
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0169 - International Arbiter R Srivatsan, Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, Shri R Anantharam, Member, SPP Committee, FIDE, Shri R S Munirathinam, Chairman, Lakshmikanthamma Educational Trust, Shri J C D Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess Federation, Shri M Vijayakumar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Chennai Open 2012 Champion Yu Ruiyuan, Shri S Ganesan, Chairman, Organising Committee.
eleventh and final round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Sharing the
second spot with 8.5 points were top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), defending champion Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), Akshayraj Kore (India), Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) and Gomez John Paul (Philippines) respectively.
In the crucial final round, Yu held Uzbek Grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev without difficulty in a Sicilian game lasting 33 moves. The tournament is big triumph for the untitled Chinese star Yu Ruiyuan who started as the 13th seed with an ELO rating of 2491 and finished on top of the table. The title win fetches Yu an International Master Norm, as well as a Grandmaster Norm.
As a silver lining, India's performing star in this event, International Master Akshayraj Kore made his Grandmaster Norm with a solid draw in the final round against defending champion Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn of Ukraine. The Nimzo Indian game saw the Indian gaining the upper hand with a pawn up position. But accurate defence by the Ukraine Grandmaster saw the Akshayraj Kore settling for a draw after 55 moves.
The cash prizes amounting to a total Rs.10 lakhs were distributed by Shri R S Munirathinam, Chairman, Lakshmikanthamma Educational Trust and by Shri M Vijayakaumar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu. Present on the occasion of the closing ceremony were Shri J C D Prabhakar, MLA, President, All India Chess Federation, Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE and Shri K Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Shri S Ganesan, Chairman, Organising Committee.
Final Placings : (Indians unless specified)
1. Yu Ruiyuan (China) 9, 2-5 Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), Akshayraj Kore (India), Gomez John Paul (Philippines), Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) 8.5, 6-17 Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine), S P Sethuraman, Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary), V Vishnu Prasanna, Zeng Chongsheng (China), P Karthikeyan, J Deepan Chakkravarthy, T U Navin Kanna, S Nitin, Ankit R Rajpara, Barbosa Oliver (Philippines), R R Laxman 8, 18-20 Ziaur Rahman (Bangladesh), Vaibhav Suri, Ma Qun (China) 7.5 pts
Results (Round 11) (Indians unless specified)
Yu Ruiyuan (China) 9 drew with Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) 8.5, Akshayraj Kore 8.5 drew with Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) 8.5, Barbosa Oliver (Philippines) 8 drew with Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) 8.5, Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) 8 drew with Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) 8, Ma Qun (China) 7.5 lost to Gomez John Paul (Philippines) 8.5, P Karthikeyan 8 drew with J Deepan Chakkravarthy 8, V Vishnu Prasanna 8 drew with Zeng Chongsheng (China) 8, Rahman Ziaur (Bangladesh) 7.5 drew with S Nitin 8, T U Navin Kanna 8 bt Henrik Danielsen (Iceland) 7, S P Sethuraman 8 bt Ghosh Diptayan 7, Ankit R Rajapara 8 bt M R Venkatesh 7, Himanshu Sharma 7.5 drew with Vaibhav Suri 7.5, R R Laxman 8 bt S Amardeep Bartakke 7, Gagare Shardul 7.5 drew with Neelotpal Das 7, Paragua Mark (Philippines) 7.5 bt C Praveen Kumar 6.5
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From 6 to 9 January 2012 a FIDE Arbiters' Seminar was organized in Chennai, India, by the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.
The Lecturers were IA Casto Abundo (PHI), Asian Chess Federation Deputy President and FIDE Lecturer, and IA Prof. R. Anatharam (IND).
The lectures were in the English language.
Fifty seven (57) people from various parts of India participated in the Seminar and in the examination test held after the lectures. The following succeeded in the test and they will be awarded a FA Norm, after the approval of the next FIDE Presidential Board:
Name
Ganesh Babu S
Jismon Mathew
Murugavel
Bhakti R Bahua
Chandra Shekhara Upadhyaya T V
Ramesh Babu C R
Natarajan C
Vinod Kumar M
Roshan Deokisan Bhutada
Akalamkam Ramakrishna
Arivazhagan T
Dattaram Pinge
Plaito V William
Sneha Shethar Ghatpande
Sundarrajan
Vappangi Srikanth
Amburose Arokyaraj A
Pradip Kumar Roy
Winston G
Nadaradjane S
Saravana Kumar R
Tapas Kumar Mohanty
Thiru Murugan R
Maran P
Suresh Chandra Sahoo
Rajendra Teli
Abbas Ali J S
Prem Pandit
Arvind Mhamal
Narayanan J
Kathiravan M
Pravin Devachand Thakare
Amrendra Kumar Pandey
Raghavan V
Baskar J
Sanjay Kavlekar
Chetan Deorao Deodhagale
Jeevan Kumar J
Gowri Shankar A
Venugopalan A P
Vidya Gururaja
Bindu Madhab Hajra
Gajendra Kumar Behera
Vasant Naik
Balakrishna R
Natarajan S
Visalakchi M
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All India Chess Federation on Tuesday decided to recommend Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand for the coveted 'Bharat Ratna' award.
At its Central Council meeting this morning, the Federation unanimously passed a resolution to recommend World Champion Anand for the most prestigious award.
The Central Council also unanimously decided to disaffiliate West Bengal Chess Association and formed an Ad-hoc committee to run the affairs of the West Bengal Chess.
The members of the Ad-hoc committee are: Debashis Barua, Atanu Lahari (Convener) and Tharun Banerjee
It was also decided to explore the possibility of tying up with Tenvic Sports (Founded by former India cricketer Anil Kumble) with regard to setting up a National Chess Academy which will try to promote chess coaching.
The Central Council also expressed gratitude for the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for decided to implement chess in school program (7-17 yrs) from the next academic year.
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PranavVijay Won the 12th Shri Maheshwaranand Sarswati Memorial U2200 tournament held at Pune from 8th to 11th Dec'11.
In the final round Pranav beat his state mate Prassanna to clinch the title with 8 points. He received a trophy, a shawl and Rs 25,000 as prize money.
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In U-12 Boys: Hirthickkesh Pr. NLC 8.5/9, Eashwar M Cbe 7.5/9, Sathya Giri V KKi 7/9 ,
In the last round Hirthickkesh defeated Kamalanathan to clinch the title, and Eashwar drew with Hari Krishnan for the second spot. While Sathya Giri V beat Arun Kumar to settle for the third place.
U-12 Girls: Meera D 8/9, Varsha C R (MMCA), 7/9, Krithigga K 6.5,
In the top board Meera beat Akshaya a to win the title, and Varsha drew with Swarnamala for second spot, while Krithigga Beat Vaisalie for the third spot.
U-14 Boys: Barath L 8/9, Muthaiah A L 7/9, Surya Chander E 6/9
In the boys section top three board s were conceded with draws. Barath drew with Arun Prasad without any hassle and retained his title, While Muthaiah drew with Infant Nisanth for the second spot and surya chander dew with Sathish Chandra for the third place.
U-14 Girls: Manasa S 6/7, Sindhu m Slm 5/7, Aasha C R 5/7
In the top board Manasa beat Kowshika , While Sindhu even after losing her game with Roopverdhini and tied for the second spot with Aasha, but superior tie-break gave sindhu of Salem to second position while Aasha of Kanchi settled for third position after beating Govarthani of NLC.
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V.Mahendran of Madurai clinches the title of 4TH Open State Chess Tournament for the visually challenged. S.Bhakyaraj of Chennai and T. Arul of Chennai won the 2nd and 3rd place respectively. The tournament organized only for the Tamilnadu Visually challenged Players in Thanjavur. About 53 players participated across TN State. This event was conducted by Dragon Chess Academy Thanjavur and sponsored by Rotary club of Thanjavur Midtown, offered a prize fund of Rs. 10,000/-
There were 15 prizes and 3 consolation prizes for the participants without receiving any entry fee.
The winner bagged Rs.3, 000/- as cash Prize. This kind of tournaments (Visually challenged) enables the differently abled talents to exercise their skills and took this oppurtunity to improve their games.
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The Standard Fireworks 1st TN State Chess 960 Championship 2011 was organised by Sivakasi Chess Club at Kamarajar Kalyana Mandapam, Rajapalayam on 5th and 6th Novemebr 2011. The unique feature of the championship is the introduction of yellow card red cards instead of time penalties for irregularities and illegal moves. The championship, played under 3 points for a win and one point for a draw format, witnessed intense fights on the boards, instead of quick agreed draws. The championship attracted 105 participants from various districts, including international master P. Shyam Nikil of Chennai and former state champions Ram S Krishnan of Chennai and M. Kunal of Trichy.
At the end of the fifth round, Ram S Krishnan and former state junior champion P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi Chess Club jointly led the field with 15 points, as Shyam was held to a draw by Kunal in this round. In the seventh round, Maheswaran emerged sole leader, as Ram had to split the point with Shyam. In the ninth and final round, Shyam defeated Maheswaran and Ram beat Kunal to tie for the first place with 23 points each. Better tiebreak helped Shyam to clinch the title and Ram had to be content with the runner up position. S. Vigneshwaran of Namakkal collected 22 points to finish third.
The evenings were enjoyable for the players, because of the conduct of state level Chess Doubles and Blindfold contests. Eight players qualified for the quarter finals from the preliminary rounds of the Blindfold event. In the semi finals, Maheswaran defeated R. Subramanian of Tirunelveli and Shyam scored a facile win over Ram S Krishnan. The scintillating finals in the presence of a sizable crowd extending to 57 moves, was won by Maheswarn.
In Chess Doubles, like other filed games, players had to play in standing position. After making the move, each player had to move a little away like table tennis, to give space to his partner. The tournament generated a lot of interest and enthusiasm among the players and the title was won by Shyam and Kunal. Sivakasi Crackers, represented by R Subramanian and S Saravana Ganesh Pandian claimed the second spot. The team MM (RM Subramanian and ASJ Akil of Dolphin Public School, Madurai) won the third place.
Sri A. Gopalsamy, former Vice president of TN State Chess Association gave away the prizes. Either lunch or dinner was provided on all the days to players and parents.
Final Standings
Chess 960
1 Shyam Nikil P Chennai
2 Ram S Krishnan Cnennai
3 Vigneshwaran S Namakkal
4 Manigandan S S Madurai
5 Uma Maheswaran P Madurai
6 Subramanian R M Madurai
7 Maheswaran P Sivakasi
8 Kunal M Trichy
9 Akil A S J Madurai
10 Sakthivel Pandian V S Sivakasi
11 Sa Kannan Karaikudi
12 Rathish T J Virudhunagar
13 Arun Kumar P Sivakasi
14 Eashwar M Coimbatore
15 Siddharth P Jayan Nagercoil
age group U10
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1 Akash Raj S T Nagercoil
2 Abishek S Nagercoil
3 Ragesh Sarma M Thanjavur
age group U13
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1 Gokul Kannan M Virudhunagar
2 Barath Kalyan M Thanjavur
3 Sri Vishnu Praba S Rajapalayam
4 Sathyagiri V Nagercoil
age group U16
Rank Name
1 Gokul Vijay J Virudhunagar
2 Mani Bharathy Coimbatore
3 Hameed Sohail Nagercoil
Chess Doubles
1 Shyam & Kunal 16 Chennai &Trichy
2 Sivakasi Crackers 15 Nagercoil
3 MM 15 Madurai
4 Tornado 14 Sivakasi
5 Madurai GT Kings 13 Madurai
6 KKCA Rocks 13 Coimbatore
Blindfold Event
Semifinals
Shyam Nikil beat Ram S Krishnan and Maheswaran beat R. Subramanian
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The award carries a sum of Rs.1 Lakh for two Male sports persons and two female sports persons, a citation and a Memento with the Replica of SDAT.
For details visit SDAT Website:www.sdat.in
Last Date for receipt of the filled in application forms to SDAT office fixed on 31-12-2011.
Applications without Attested copies of Merit Certificates will not be considered.
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Manjula won the title with nine points and the runner up is Sandya with 7.5 points and four players namely, Akshita, Saranya Varsha and Varshini are tied for third position with 6.5 points, but superior tie-break gave Akshita to finish third and others were placed as per order with fourth, fifth and sixth positions in the 30th Rachel Paranjothy Memorial State Level Open Tournament for women here today.
The cash prizes amounting to Rs.16,000/- were awarded to Top 16 prize winners. The top five prizes were awarded by Shri J.C.D. Prabhakar, M.L.A. Prisedent All India Chess Federation and the remaining prizes were given by Mrs. S. Parimala Sri, Senior manager, I.O.B. Ethiraj College branch, and Dr. Jothi Kumaravel, Principal Ethiraj College for Women. Three Special prizes were given to the Ethiraj College students namely, Nisha A, Kaushika G R and Shahina.
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GM B. Adhiban has won the CORUS Tata Steel Qualifying Tournament in WIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands scoring 6.5 out of 9
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Tamil Nadu youngster Karthikeyan Murali won the Gold medal in the Under-12 Open Category of the World Youth Chess Championship here at Caldas Novas on Saturday. India won a total number of five medals in the championship which include one Gold, one Silver and three bronze. The two other medal winners of TN are Ram Arvind, who won the silver in Under-8 category while Rathanvel settled for bronze in Under-10 Open categories respectively.
In the final round, Karthikeyan signed the peace treaty with Ravi Haria of England and tied for the top spot along with Gledura Benjamin of Hungary. But better tie break score helped Karthikeyan to secure the Gold medal. In the Under-8 Open category Ram Aravind defeated gold medal winner of the category Liang Awonder of USA in the final round but better tie-break score helped the USA lad to finish first while Ram settled for Silver medal.
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The 1st Karur FIDE Rating Chess Tournament below 1900 & only for Tamilnadu Players had attracted 334 players from 24 districts. Among them 191 players are rated. This event was conducted by Karur Chess Academy under the auspices of Karur District Chess Association, Tamilnadu State Chess Association and All India Chess Federation, offered a prize fund around one lakh. There were 40 main prizes and 58 category prizes. The winner bagged Rs.15, 000/- as cash prize. This type of tournament (below 1900) is a good platform for youngsters and also for unrated players.
The event was declared open by the inaugural move made by Sri Atlas Nachimuthuth, Proprietor of Atlas Textiles against Karur Chess Academy player.
Top billing was given to M.J.Noohu of Chennai. Chinna Durai of Dindigul and G.Ravindran of Chennai were the 2nd 3rd seeded players respectively. Noohu and Chinnadurai drew with Prakruthee of Chennai and V.Abhishek of Kanchi respectively and the local 13 years old boy K.Yuvan Bharathi beat third seeded player G.Ravindran of Chennai at the end of second round. As usual the youngsters made a revolution during the earliest stage of the tournament. J.Charles and M.Eashwar of Coimbatore and S.Kumar of Chennai were the leaders with 5 points each at the end of 5th round. Kumar and Eashwar maintained their lead with 7.5 points after 8th round.
Kumar took sole lead at the end of 9th round with 8.5 points. He drew with K.Krishnamoorthy of Kanchi in fnal round and won the championship with 9 points. After his game he distributed sweets to others. This first title made the boy and his mother very happy. M.Eashwar was the runner-up of this tournament. The winner bagged Rs.15000 and the runner bagged Rs.10000.
Karur District Judge Thiru Ramamoorthy distributed the prizes to the winners. Trophies were given to all under 7 players by the organiser which is appreciable. The tournament concluded in a grand manner.
IA R.Bhuvana
Chief Arbiter.
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Velammal Matriculation Hr. Sec. School bagged the Best performing school award in the 2nd TKSS-Fr. K.P. Joseph Memorial Chess Tournament was organized by Taanya Kaavya School of Sports from 26th to 27th November 2011 for Under 8, 10, 12, 14 for Boys and girls and Under 20 open Categories at Donbosco School, Erukkancheri, Chennai.
Earlier this event attracted a total of 351 entries from various districts of Tamilnadu. A total of 8 rounds swiss system was conducted.
At the prize distribution function Sister Lincy, Principal, Donbosco School, Erukkancheri was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. Sisters Shiny, Priya, Jyothi, Leema were also present at the PD function and distributed the prizes. Mr. R. Srivatsan, International Arbiter welcomed the gathering and Mr. Jagadeesh, Secretary, King Chess Foundation proposed vote of thanks.
Final Rankings of all categories:
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4th Open State Chess Tournament for visually challenged
persons on 3rd and 4th December, 2011 in Raj Palace Thirumana arangam,
Thanjavur. Tournament sponsored by Rotary club of Thanjavur Midtown.
*No Entry Fee.
*Boarding & Lodging will be provided to all the players.
*Cash awards to the top 10 performers & Trophies to the top
3 players with certificates to all the participants.
Contact: B.Rajkumar, Secretary Dragon Chess Academy, No.20,Shanthi Nagar,
N.K.Road, Thanjavur-06.
Mob-98940 74820, E-mail dragonchessacademy.tnj@gmail.com
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2ND ZION CUP CHILDREN CHESS TOURNAMENT-2011
Mount Chess Academy,affiliated to Tamilnadu State Chess Association has organised
2nd Zion Cup Children Chess Tournament at Zion Matriculation School,Tambaram on
12th and 13th November2011.It is a great thing to inform that mammoth record of
more than 1000 players were participated for the District level chess
tournament. Dr N Vijayan,President,KDCA presided over the function and India's
Super GM K Sasikiran has distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of
Shri M Muthukumar,Joint Secretary,TNSCA.WFM Pon N Krithika,National Junior Girls
Chess Champion was felicitated by GM Sasikiran in this event. The entire event was
well organised by the team of 25 Arbiters under the supervision of IA K R Seshadri
and IA R Bhuvana.
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Mary Ann Gomes wins Indian National Women Premier title
Description : (L to R) Chief Guest D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, R C Chatterjee, Chief Arbiter, Tania Sachdev (2nd Runner-Up), K Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Champion Mary Ann Gomes, R K Balagunasekaran, Deputy Chief Arbiter, Eesha Karavade (Runner-Up)
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Woman Grandmaster Mary Ann Gomes of Airport Authority of India, Kolkata emerged the champion in the Velammal 38th National Women Premier Chess Championship 2011 being held at Media Centre, Nehru Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Mary Ann Gomes drew her final round game against Woman Grandmaster Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa, taking her tally to 8.0 points. International Master Eesha Karavade of Maharashtra matched Mary Ann Gomes at 8.0 points, with a last gasp victory over Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout of Orissa. But superior tie-break gave Mary Ann Gomes her maiden National Women Premier title, along with a winner's purse of Rs.75000.
Upon winning the National Women Premier chess title Mary said, "Of course, I feel amazing winning my first National Women Premier Championship. Its a completely different experience. I guess, when I think of it, I feel great joy. I dedicate this title to my mother Freda Gomes."
International Master Eesha Karavade scoring a surprisingly quick final round victory over Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout. The Grunfeld game saw white wresting the advantage early, and a rook for minor piece sacrifice by Padmini did not improve her position. Further intrusions into black's kingside by Eesha's queen and double rooks decided the issue in 32 moves. The win takes Eesha on top of the table with 8.0 points. This third seed from Pune, came up with a remarkable show in the second half, taking the Runner-Up spot ahead of top seed Tania Sachdev.
With the fight for the top two spots decided, experienced Tania Sachdev of Air India secured the third spot with an energetic victory over Woman International Master Sai Meera of Indian Bank. A miracle draw yesterday against Divyasree and a facile win today, takes Tania to the third place finish in the final standings. Tania led the tournament for most part, before a defeat in the hands of second placed Eesha, derailed her. Nevertheless, Tania showed resilience, winning when it was required.
The experienced quartet of top four viz., Mary Ann Gomes, Eesha Karavade, Tania Sachdev and Nisha Mohota has been regulars in the Indian team for the past several years. Padmini Rout and Pratyusha Bodda give an element of youthfulness for the team. The top six players are seeded for the next National Women Premier championship and earn the right to represent the country in International events for an year.
The newcomer in this group would be Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh. As the lone untitled player in the top six, her performance here has been outstanding. Seeded 21st, Pratyusha scalped WGMs Sowmya Swaminathan, Swathi Ghate and WIM Bhakti Kulkarni on way to her sixth place finish. Thanks to her hard work with N Rama Raju, the coach of Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika, this Vizag girl netted her second Woman International Norm and place in the Indian team, and the country can expect more of her.
The cash prizes amounting to Rs.2,50,000 were awarded to the prize winners by Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, World Chess Federation (FIDE) in a function presided over by Shri MVM Vel Mohan, Correspondent, Velammal Educational Trust.
Final Placings :
1-2 Mary Ann Gomes (AAI), Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8.0, 3 Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5, 4-5 Nisha Mohota (PSPB), Padmini Rout (Ori) 7.0, 6-10 Pratyusha Bodda (AP), Meenakshi Subbaraman (IA), Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori), P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 pts
Results (Round 11)
Mary Ann Gomes (AAI) 8 drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) 6.5, Eesha Karavade (Mah) 8.0 bt Padmini Rout (Ori) 7.0, Tania Sachdev (AI) 7.5 bt Sai Meera (IB) 6.0, Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 7.0 bt Chandika Divyasree (AP) 6.0, Sowmya Swaminathan (PSPB) 6.5 bt A G Nimmy (Ker) 5.5, Meenakshi Subbaraman (AI) 6.5 bt R Bharathi (TN) 5.5, P Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 bt Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 5.5, Pratyusha Bodda (AP) 6.5 bt S Harini (TN) 5.0, Swathi Ghate (LIC) 6.0 bt Cholleti Sahajasri (AP) 4.5, Swati Mohota (WB) 5.0 drew with Pon N Krithika (AICF) 5.5, A Akshaya (TN) 5.0 drew with P Bala Kannamma (TN) 5.0, Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 5.0 drew with P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 4.5, Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 2.5 lost to J Saranya (TN) 5.5, Shweta Gole (Mah) 5.0 bt Supriya Joshi (Mah) 2.0, M Mahalakshmi (TN) 4.0 - Bye.
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REGULAR CHESS CLASSES ORGANISED BY TNSCA
The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association will organize regular chess classes for beginners as well as advanced players on all Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 PM to 6 PM at Hall Of Chess, JN Stadium, Chennai-3. The fresh batch begins on 7.11.2011. FIDE Arbiter Mr. M.R.Senthilkumar will be the coach.
For further details contact Tamil Nadu State Chess Association @ 25384477 /25366464 Mobile: 9884631422
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World champion Viswanathan Anand blanked Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan 2-0 in the finals to win the Corsica Masters another time on October 31, 2011.
The 15th edition had a rapid competition for 184-player Open section which was won by Chennai's Krishnan Sasikiran with 7.5/9. Sasikiran and 13 others qualified for the 16-player knock out section for which Anand and Mamedyarov were seeded. On course to the title, Anand had defeated Sasikiran in the semifinals. The event had a Euro 95,000 prize fund.
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Final Placing Open:
1 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr 2213 IND
2 Karthikeyan Murali 2124 IND
3 Vignesh Nr 1955 IND
4 Sidhant Mohapatra 2189 IND
5 Pranav Vijay 2030 IND
6 Visakh Nr 2056 IND
7 CM Puranik Abhimanyu 191
8 Krishna Teja N 1909 IND
9 Pranavananda V 1961 IND
10 Sai Vishwesh C 1967 IND
Final Placing Girls:
1 WFM Monnisha Gk 1974 IND
2 WFM Mahalakshmi M 1954 IND
3 Priyamvada Karamcheti
4 Shoumi Mukerjee 1776 IND
5 Shiny Das 1711 IND
6 Ashwini U 1762 IND
7 WFM Ivana Maria Furtado 2073 IND
8 Sunyasakta Satpathy 1925 IND
9 Megha Gupta 1756 IND
10 Divya Lakshmi R 1759 IND
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GK Monnisha Wins National U-13 Title at New Delhi
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IM P Shyam Nikhil made his maiden GM norm by defeating GM Heberla Bartlomiej (ELO 2539) of Poland at the end of ninth round of 4th Mayor’s Cup International Chess Tournament 2011. While Navin Kanna made his maiden IM norm by drawing his game with GM Laxman.
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Aravindh Chithambaram of Madurai and Pon N Krithikha of Kanchi emerged as champions in the 41st National Junior and 26th National Junior Girls Chess Championships respectively at Goa.
Aravindh Chithambaram drew his 11th and final round game with Diptyan Gohsh of West Bengal and took his tally to 9 points.
Pon N Krithikha had an easy victory against her team mate R. Bharathi in the final round and took her tally to 9.5 points.
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CBSE South-zone Chess Championship 2011 is going to be held at Sri Ram Dayal khemka Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College, Thiruvottiyur, Chennai from 21st to 25th September 2011, in which CBSE Schools can alone participate, team event, For further detail contact, Mr.M.Ganesh Raman( 9840625446 ), Physical Education Trainer, Sri ram Dayal khemka Vivekananda Vidyalaya Junior College.
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Honble Chief Minister handed over financial assistance to a visually challenged Chess Player for taking part in World Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired
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With all of your Wonderful supports and Blessings 24th TN state U-13 Chess Championship Boys and Girls Tournament has been successfully conducted in very good manner at Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem. By Mr.Jaisankar Secretary of Utility forum of sports & Education Trust, Salem on behalf of TNSCA and SDCA.
Our Sincere thanks to TNSCA,Salem District chess association President Mr.N.Vivekanandan, Secretary Mr.Arun and& all District officials for their advises, encouragement and supports to us for the last one month to conduct this tournament.
The tournament inaugurated By Mr.PN.RAM, IRSE, Divisional Railway Manager, Southern Railway,Salem Divisions on 05th Aug 2011 the inaugural function was presided by Dr.PSS.Srinivasan Principal Knowledge institute of Technology, Salem.
In this Tournament 187 players participated from various districts.Out of this Boys 48 Normal Entries and 72 Donor entries, In girls Normal Entries 45 and 22 Donor entries, New TNSCA registration 30 players.All the players enjoyed the entire tournament.
The Prize distribution function held on 11th Aug 2011 at 4.35 PM. The prizes were distributed by the chief guest Mr.K.Muralimohan General Secretary TNSCA, all the trustees of Knowledge institute of Technology salem, SDCA vice President Mr.Mathivanan,SDCA, Advisory counselor Mr.P.Mohanraj,Executive members P.Palaniappan,Mr.Muthukumar,Mr.Elango on behalf of Rubesh chess club Grace the function. 24th TN state U-13 Boys Chess Champion is Mr.B.Kumaran of Chennai, 24th TN state U-13 Girls Chess Champion is Ms.R.Dharani Shree of Chennai,
KIOT Physical Education Director Mr.Kumaravel, English Lecturer Mr.Jegadish and students of KIOT help us very much for the success of the tournament.
The Chief Arbiter Mr.Atulan, Dy.Arbiter Mr.Chelvaprakash done their job in very good manner.Mr.P.Palaniaapn,Mr,Ilankumaran,Mrs.Thilagavathielango Assist in arbitration works.Our special thanks to Mr.P.Palaniappan behind us successful of this tournament. We thank them.
Once again our sincere thanks to all for giving us a chance to conduct 24th TN state U-13 chess championship and also for your timely advice, supports,encouragements and Blessings.
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The Tamilnadu State Chess Association convey his heartfelt thanks to our Chief Minister Dr.J.Jayalalithaa for making chess a must for school children for the age 7 to 17. Her gesture is considered as a reward for the World Champion Viswanathan Anand who hail from Tamilnadu. The chess fraternity involving children who aim to emulate Anand, their parents, coaches, organizers and administrators felt very jubilant on hearing the news. Her decision to give importance to this game will definitely boost the game in a very big way and surely make Tamilnadu flag fly higher in the World Chess Horizon.
A student, who learns chess systematically develops the abilities of concentration, planning, calculation and analysis. Also the game of chess improves a person’s patience, determination and withstanding power in times of trouble. All life principles can be inculcated and developed in the minds of children by teaching them chess. A person who has learnt chess systematically excels in academics. It is a well known fact that chess players have come out on top in whatever field they choose. Such a decision on the part of TN Government is bound to make Tamil Nadu a number one state in India and will ultimately make India a super power!
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SGFI-TN State Selection Chess Tournament will be held on 29th and 30th August 2011 @ DHARANI MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, 54,55 G.S.NORTH STREET, MANNARGUDI–614001, Contact No. 04367-222085.
The tournament will be held in the following Categories: U-14, U-17, & U-19. The Students of Government Schools and Matriculation Schools are eligible to participate. Those who are willing to participate should Produce a bona-fide Certificate from their schools.
For further details Contact Mr. R.K.Balagunasekaran
Cell : 094421-15117
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Padma Awards, namely Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Sri"
Invitation nominations for the "Padma Awards, namely Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Sri" Click here to download the regulations and application forms Aug 23, 2011
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As you all are aware, the All India Chess Federation is very keen in eradicating the overage players participating in tournaments which are for players below their age. It has been a crusade against such wrong doers and we are happy that we have succeeded to a great extent in curbing this menace.
The All India Chess Federation rules stipulate that a player desirous of participating in age group tournaments should have registered his date of birth within one year from the date of birth of his birth.
The Government of India has also directed all National Chess Federations to strictly adhere to the stipulation of age and any one found participating by giving false age, action should be initiated.
We have come across instances of players not having proper date of birth certificates. Therefore, it has been decided to give them a chance to get their date of birth regularized by undergoing a medical test to determine their age. All those players who do not have proper records about their date of birth are hereby directed to avail this opportunity and to inform the Federation latest by 10.09.2011. The Federation will inform all such players the place and date of the Medical test through the website. We once again request all concerned to make use of this opportunity, because players will not be allowed to participate in the Nationals with improper records.
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Inaugural function of the SDAT-RAMCO 50th World Junior & 29th Junior Girls Chess Championships 2011
Amidst a grand cultural bonanza unveiled by Velammal School children, the inaugural ceremony of the SDAT–RAMCO 50thWorld Junior & 29th Junior Girls Chess Championships 2011 took place at Vani Mahal, Chennai, here today.
A mixture of multiple themes viz., a small choreograph on Lord Krishna, Spanish salsa, Japanese ballet dance, Kerala specialty Mohini Attam, poi kaal kuthirai and Aadu puli aatam completed the amazing short term preparation and hand work of the Velammal trained kids.
Honorable Shri D Jayakumar, Speaker, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly inaugurated the event making the first move 1.e3 for which Viswanathan Anand replied ...e5. The TN Assembly Speaker, Shri D Jayakumar in his special address, extolled the sterling show of Anand for the past two decades in the top echelons of chess. He also recollected that Anand (1987) was a one time winner of this prestigious event and has done yeomen service to the game, by just remaining on top of the world for two decades".
Shri M Vijayakumar, IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu spoke briefly, mentioning that the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu strives to give the right climate to groom champions, and added that TN is poised to take off in all the sports in the next few years.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand, in his chief guest address said, "I won my world junior title after four attempts, but experience always helps in handling tougher situations. The Tamil Nadu Government has been a constant supporter to chess in the state and this time it has gone up one step Gelfand world and may as well host the world championship".
This 13 round mega event begins with the first round tomorrow and concludes on the 15th August, 2011.
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Navalgund Niranjan and G.K. Monnisha, both of Velammal School, Chennai won the National Under-17 Chess Championships that came to a close at Puducherry on July 26.
Niranjan who migrated from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu won his first title in representing his new state. "I like to keep improving my chess," said Niranjan who had represented Karnataka in all previous events. His title came with 8.5 points and on tie-break. Top seed N. Srinath also scored 8.5 but was second on tie-break.
Niranjan was the only undefeated player in the entire event. Niranjan learns from K. Visweswaran at Chennai. Srinath was defeated by Saumil Padhya in the penultimate round.
In the girls section too the top seed J. Saranya did not win but finished second. G.K. Monnisha won the title by scoring 9/11 in the Girls section. Her win against Saranya was crucial. It was her third National title. She wants to win the World Under-14 title at Brazil this year.
The Chief Minister of Puducherry N. Rangasamy inaugurated the event and P. Rajavelu, Minister for Welfare distributed the prizes in the presence of Bakthavachalam, Vice President of AICF.
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Sri Kaliswari Fireworks TN State Junior Chess Championships 2011
Chief Arbiter report
Tamil Nadu State Junior chess championship is a stepping stone for many tamil Nadu players, as many grandmasters from Tamil Nadu, including world champion Anand have won this prestigious championship. The fide rated 40th edition for the open category and 25th edition for girls of the championship were organised by Sivakasi Chess Club at Kamarajar Kalyana Mandapam, Rajapalayam from 8th to 13th July 2011. There was a lukewarm response, as only 90 players participated in it, may be due to hectic schedule of many rated events.
Under 11 national champion Aravindh Chidambaram of Madurai was the highest seeded player in the open category and Srija Seshadri of NLC received the same honour in the girls’ section. Aravindh’s first round opponent R. Niranjan of Thiruvallur had no respect for the seeding, as he extracted half a point from him. Muthu Alagappan of Thiruvallur and Nr. Visakh of Chennai had a perfect score of 4 points from 4 rounds. Muthu emerged sole leader in the fifth round, defeating Visakh. but had to lose the point and the lead to P. Lokesh of Chennai in the sixth round.
In the seventh round, Muthu joined Lokesh again at the top, as Lokesh was held to a draw by KG Chaithnya of Thiruvallur. The duo kept the lead at the end of the eighth round also, leading to an interesting situation in the final and ninth round. Lokesh caved in under pressure to lose the game to Karthikeyan Murali. Muthu Alagappan drew with S.Prasanna of Chess Gurukul to win the title by collecting 7.5 points. Prasanna and Karthikeyan finished third and fourth respectively.
The story was different in the girls’ section, as Srija Seshadri met with little resistance to wrest the title with consummate ease. She was on a roll to win seven games in a row and settled for a draw in the eighth and ninth rounds. Though N. Akshaya of Coimbatore was behind her at a long distance, she maintained the second position throughout the tournament. Madurai girls Se. Meenu Priya and R. Karthikeyini secured third and fourth positions.
Sri A. Gopalsamy, former Vice President of TNCA distributed the prizes the winners.
Final Ranking
1 Muthu Alagappan M (thiruvallur)7½
2 Lokesh P (Chennai) 7
3 Prasannaa S (Chennai) 7
4 Karthikeyan Murali (Bloom CA) 6½
5 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr (Madurai)6½
6 Osama Salim (Chennai) 6½
7 Manigandan S S (Madurai) 6
8 Visakh Nr (Chennai) 6
9 Chaithanyaa K G (thiruvallur) 6
10 Mohana Priya J (Chennai) 6
11 Sakthivel Pandian V S (sivakasi) 6
Girls
1 Srija Seshadri (NLC) 8
2 Akshaya N (coimbatore) 7
3 Meenu Priya Se (madurai) 6
4 Karthikeyini R (Madurai) 6
5 Sandya M (Chennai) 6
6 Poonkuzhali A (virudhunagar) 6
7 Srinidhi S (Chennai) 5½
8 Sangeetha P (trichy) 5½
9 Nivedhitha J G (Chennai) 5
10 Nanduja R (sivakasi) 5
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S. Arun Prasad of Bharat Petroleum, Chennai won the Paris Open that ran from July 2-10 in the French capital.
At the end of the penultimate round, three of the four leaders were from India. S. Arun Prasad, S.P. Sethuraman and P. Magesh Chandran were on six points from eight rounds.
In the final round, Arun Prasad beat Sethuraman on the top board with the white pieces to win the tournament on seven points from nine games.
Unfortunately, Magesh Chandran lost to Ruben Felgaer. The other round eight joint leader Sergey Fedorchuk drew Alberto David.
Arun Prasad (Elo 2489) played at 2688, the other two Grand Masters from India also played better than their rating expectancy.
Final placings: 1 GM S. Arun Prasad 7/9; 2-3. GM Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukr), GM Ruben Felgaer (Arg) 6.5 each; 4 GM P. Magesh Chandran 6, 7 GM S.P. Sethuraman 6.
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OPEN PRIZE WINNERS
Rank Name Rtg FED Club Pts BH. BH. BH.
1 Nishvin J 2083 IND KK 7 40 36½ 33
2 Kunal M 2298 IND TRY 7 40 36 33
3 Ram S Krishnan 2305 IND CHE 7 39½ 36 32½
4 Lokesh N 2090 IND HOSUR 6½ 40½ 36½ 33½
5 Ganesh Babu S 2109 IND MDU 6½ 40 36 33
6 Sharma R Preetham 2318 IND CHE 6½ 38 34 31
7 Dusthageer Ibrahim M 2212 IND MDU 6½ 37½ 34 31½
8 Vigneshwaran S 1885 IND 6½ 34 31½ 27½
9 Arul senthil B 1815 IND PDK 6 40½ 37 33½
10 Uma Maheswaran P 1895 IND MDU 6 39½ 35½ 32½
11 Ram Aravind L N 1819 IND TRY 6 39½ 35½ 32½
12 Manigandan S S 2109 IND MDU 6 38 34 31½
13 Sathyanarayanan R V 1850 IND CHE 6 37 33 30½
14 Sa Kannan 1947 IND SVG 6 35½ 32 28½
15 Vinoth M 1641 IND TNJ 6 34½ 30½ 28½
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The tournament was inaugurated by Dr.S.Gunasekaran, Registrar,Periyar University Salem. Prizes were distributed by Mr.Ramesh Chairman of Jayam college of Engineering and Technology, Dharmapuri (sponsorer). Both the functions were organized in grand manner by Rotary club Salem south(co-organizer). Accommodation to out station players and lunch for players and accompanying persons provided on both days.
At the end of Round 9 Kunal.M of Trichy wins the title, the runner up is Ram S Krishnanof Bsnl and Nandakumar T.S of Hosur gets the third place. Total 30 cash prizes increased to 31 cash prizes.
Age group Prizes-30 in U-8, U-12, U-16 categories, (Boys & Girls seperately top 5 in each category.) The top Two in each category is as follows.
U-8Boys- 1.Palani pranav.S-Dgl, 2.Akhilesh.M-Erode
U-8Girls- 1.Subiksha.S-Kgi, 2.Prathiksha.G-Kgi
U-12Boys-1.Narendran.V-Cbe 2.Vishwak.S-Slm
U-12Girls-1.Annapoorani.S-Kgi 2.Kavitha.PL-Slm
U-16Boys-1.Palaniappan.P-Erode 2.Kanthanivaraj.S-Slm
U-16Girls-1.Sindhu.M-Slm 2.Priyadarshini.V-Dpi
The Tournament was a Successful one, all the particpants gained their experience.
Here with am attaching the TRN file, and list of players and list of Tnsca reg.done in this tournament.
The debuty Arbiter is Mr.L.Anandh babu from Trichy, He gave me excellent support I thank him
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Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa and Bharathi of Tamil Nadu tied for the first place with 8.5 points each from 11 rounds. Bhakti played a fighting 51 moves final round draw with the black pieces against Michelle of Tamil Nadu to log 8.5 points. While Bharathi won her aggressive game against Nimmy George of Kerala. The third place was shared by 11 players including WIM Sai Meera of Tamil Nadu. Pratyusha of Andhra had the better tie-break and finished third. Tamil Nadu grabbed half of the 20 qualifing berths for the National Premier Championship to be held in Chennai in October. The recently elected All India Chess Federation President J.C.D. Prabhakar and Honorary Secretary Bharat Singh Chauvan distributed the prizes.
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It is to intimate that the venue of the National U-9 Chess Championship 2011 which was displayed in our circular has been changed.
The details of the venue is :-
College of Engineering, Koustuv Group of Institutions
Plot No - 1, Sector - B, Chandaka Nucleus Industrial Complex
Patia, Bhubaneswar - 24
The venue is approximately 14 Kms from Railway Station and as well as Airport. 24 hours Taxi and Auto services are available to and fro. All the teams are requested to report directly at the venue on their arrival.
ACCOMMODATION
Only Star hotels are available within 5 - 6 kms from the venue having a high tarrif rate
SNO NAME TELEPHONE APP. DISTANCE
1. Hotel Suryansh 0674 - 2303300/2700/7378 3 kms
2. Hotel Presidency 0674 - 2559565/66/67/68/69/70 7 kms
3. Hotel Swosti Premium 0674 - 2300008/14/28/69/83/93 4.5 kms
4. Hotel Ginger 0674 - 6663333 4.5 kms
5. Hotel Pal Heights 0674 - 2361156 5.5 kms
6. Hotel The Crown 0674 - 3000000 6.5 kms
7. Hotel Trident 5 star 0674 - 2301010 4.5 kms
8. Hotel May Fair Lagoon 5 star 0674 - 6660101 4.7 kms
Looking at the high rates of the near by Hotels our Association is arranging double beded AC rooms with attached bathrooms for 1000/- per day approximately. The details of the arrangements made by us will be clear only after 20th July 2011.
Anyway all the selected players plus one manager will be accommodated free of cost by the Association as per AICF rule.
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The former Vice-President of TNSCA was elected as President of All India Chess Federation and K.Muralimohan General Secretary of TNSCA was elected as a Joint-Secretary of All India Chess Federation on 30th June,2011. Grandmaster Vishy Anand greeted the newly elected office bearers at a colourful function. The Newly elected Hon.Secretary Bharat Singh thanked the members for electing him to this coveted office and said that he will do his best to emulate the good work done by his predecessor D.V.Sundar.
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C.G.S.Narayanan, Editor of AICF Chronicle and a problemist of international repute, has won the second prize for his two-move composition in the seventh Belgrade Internet composing tourney 2011 (which was part of 7th Belgrade Problem chess festival held from May 13th to 15th May 2011) results of which have been announced recently in the website
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Place Name Rtg Score Buch. M-Buch. Progr.
1 GEORGE DANIEL, 1712 6.5 30.5 22.5 27.5
2 SATHYA NARAYANAN RV, 1850 6 29.0 20.0 26.0
3 DINAKARAN, 1863 6 24.5 18.0 23.0
4 VENKATESAN K, 1769 5.5 33.0 23.5 24.5
5 MURUGAN K, 5 32.0 22.0 22.0
6 RAGHAVENDER S, 1864 5 30.5 21.0 21.0
7 RAJA A, 1530 5 30.0 22.5 21.0
8 SUBASH SANKAR, 1662 5 29.0 21.0 19.0
9 PRAVEEN KUMAR MC, 1911 5 28.5 20.5 20.5
10 ARUN KUMAR M, 1591 5 27.0 20.5 20.5
11 YASARARAFATH N, 5 23.5 16.5 17.0
12 SRINIVASAN VG, 1863 4.5 30.0 21.0 20.5
13 ABDUL HAMEED, 1570 4.5 25.0 19.0 17.5
14 SIVARAMA KRISHNAN D, 4.5 24.0 17.0 16.5
15 ABISHEK S, 4 32.5 23.0 19.0
16 KANNAN V, 1699 4 31.0 22.5 21.0
17 DIPANKUR SINHA, 1681 4 29.0 21.5 19.0
18 JAYAKANTHAN G, 4 28.0 20.0 17.0
19 ANIRUDH K, 1636 4 27.0 20.5 17.0
20 KATHERESAN M, 4 26.5 19.0 16.0
21 PRABHU S, 4 25.0 17.5 16.0
22 KUMAR TK, 4 24.5 18.5 14.0
23 VIJAY D, 4 24.0 16.5 15.0
24 SHAKETH PVR, 4 21.5 15.5 12.0
25 VINOTH KUMAR, 4 18.5 13.0 12.0
26 JAGAN KUMAR G, 3.5 30.0 22.0 15.5
27 VIVEK RAMANATHAN V, 1527 3.5 27.0 20.0 17.5
28 ADITHYA TV, 3.5 26.0 18.0 15.0
29 GNANA GURU R, 3.5 24.0 17.5 13.5
30 SYED SADIQUE AHMAD, 3.5 23.5 16.5 16.0
31 VARATHARAJAN S, 3.5 21.5 16.0 11.5
32 MURALI KRISHNAN, 3 26.5 19.0 13.0
33 RAJU G, 3 25.5 18.0 15.0
34 MUBARAK ALI CM, 3 24.5 17.5 11.0
35 AZHAR AHMED M, 3 23.5 17.5 12.0
36 SARAVANAN S, 3 23.5 15.5 8.0
37 DHAMOTHARAN A, 3 21.5 15.5 13.0
38 DINESH KUMAR G, 3 21.0 15.0 13.0
39 ARUL AS, 3 21.0 15.0 12.0
40 DINESH KUMAR G (2), 3 18.5 14.0 11.0
41 SRINIVASAN A, 3 18.5 14.0 9.5
42 THIRUMALAI K, 3 18.0 13.5 10.0
43 RAGHAVA M, 3 18.0 12.0 8.5
44 GOWRI KARTHEKEYAN S, 2.5 30.0 21.0 13.5
45 LOGANATHAN K, 2.5 24.5 16.5 9.5
46 PARTHIBAN K, 2.5 24.0 16.5 7.5
47 THIRU VENKADAAM, 1715 2 24.5 18.0 11.0
48 RAJA SURIYA S, 2 24.0 17.0 8.0
49 PREM K, 2 23.0 16.0 5.0
50 SHANMUGAM PK, 2 21.5 15.5 7.0
51 SARAVANAN V, 2 19.5 14.0 7.0
52 UMA SHANKAR D, 1.5 18.5 13.5 7.5
53 ARUN S, 1.5 18.0 13.0 2.5
54 YUVARANJITH M, 1 18.0 13.0 5.0
55 LOGESWARAN V, 1 16.0 10.5 1.0
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Railway's Vikramaditya Kulkarni won the 49th National Challengers chess championship at Aurangabad on Sunday.
The 13-round event saw four players — Tamil Nadu's P. Shyam Nikhil, Railway's M.S. Thejkumar and Petroleum Board's M.R. Venkatesh being the others — finish level with 9.5 points but Vikramaditya was declared the champion on a superior Buchholz score.
Shyam Nikhil, the 12th seed who drew his last-round game against the top-seeded M.R. Venkatesh, finished runner-up while Thejkumar was third.
Incidentally, 15 of the top 16 finishers were all International Masters. The top 30 players from the event qualified for the National Premier Championship which will be held in October.
The results (final round): P. Shyam Nikhil drew with M.R. Venkatesh; Himanshu Sharma lost to M.S. Thejkumar; Suvrajit Saha drew with Vikramaditya Kulkarni; Swapnil S. Dhopade drew with M. Shyam Sunder; Rahul Sangma drew with Ashwin Jayaram; P. Karthikeyan drew with K. Dinesh Sharma; Atanu Lahiri drew with Aditya Udeshi; P. Saravana Krishnan lost to K. Ratnakaran; N. Sudhakar Babu drew with P. Konguvel; Saptarshi Roy drew with Varugeese Koshy; Girish A. Koushik drew with Somak Palit; B.T. Murali Krishnan drew with Shashikant Kutwal; G. Akash bt Arjun Tiwari; Abhishek Das drew with Anup Deshmukh; Diptayan Ghosh drew with Padmini Rout.
Final placings (top 10): 1. Vikramaditya Kulkarni (Rly, 9.5 pts), 2. P. Shyam Nikhil (TN, 9.5), 3. M.S. Thejkumar (Rly, 9.5), 4. M.R. Venkatesh (PSPB, 9.5), 5. Swapnil S. Dhopade (Rly, 9), 6. Ashwin Jayaram (TN, 9), 7. P. Karthikeyan (TN, 9), 8. Aditya Udeshi (Mah, 9), 9. K. Dinesh Sharma (LIC, 9), 10. Atanu Lahiri (LIC, 9).
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VENKETRAMA RAJA
ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF TNSCA FOR THE 4TH TIME
In the Annual General Body Meeting of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association held at Conference Hall, J N Stadium here to-day Vice Chairman and Managing Director of RAMCO Group of Industries SHRI P.R. Venketrama Raja was unanimously elected as its President for the 4th term in succession. The other unanimously elected office bearers for the term 2011-2014 are as follows:-
Vice Presidents: M.V.M. Vel Mohan (Velammal MHS School), Anantharaja G G (Trichy), R.M.N. Karupiah (Sivagangai), B Murugavel (Chennai), A P Selvaraj (Virudhu Nagar) and K. Sivashanmugam (Tirupur)
General Secretary: K Muralimohan (Chennai)
Joint Secretaries: R K Balagunashekaran (Tiruvarur), M Senthilvel (Salem), M Ephrame (Kanyakumari), M Muthukumar (Kanchi), S. Abdul Nazer (Dindigul) and S Balaraman (Tiruvallur)
Treasurer: K Gopalakrishnan (Indian Bank)
Assistant Treasurer: K Thirukkalathy (Kanchi)
The following commissions were also formed:-
Women’s Commission: Sunitha Jain (Chennai), Mrs R Bhuvana (Kanchi), K Ganesan (Chennai) and VR. Deivanai (Madurai)
Arbiters’ Commission: International Arbiters: V Kameswaran (Chennai), Prof. R. Anantharam (Virudhunagar) and R Srivatsan (Tiruvallur)
Disciplinary Committee: IM Manuel Aaron, IA V. Vijayaraghavan (Coimbatore) and R. Rajesh (Thanjavur)
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C.G.S. Narayanan, Editor AICF Chronicle & International problemist will be delivering a lecture on 'Chess Problems - Introduction to an art ' at Mylapore Chess Club, 39 Church Road on Sunday 19th June 2011 at 6.00 p.m. All are welcome
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S.S Manigandan, a XII standard student of Dolphin Public School retained the NR Krishanama Raja memorial trophy, by winning the state under 17 chess championship, here at Kamarajar Kalyana Mandapam today. In the ninth and final round, he drew with KG Chaithanya of Thiruvallur, to score 7.5 points. Manigandan’s schoolmate Vr. Aravindh Chidambaram and Nagercoil’s J. Nishven collected 7 points and were placed second and third in that order as per the tie breaks applied.
P. Bala Kannamma of Chennai also scored 7.5 points to annex the Arasan Fireworks trophy for the girls by defeating J. Janani of Thiruvallur district. R. Bhuvaneswari of Trichy, who dashed the hopes of top seed J. Saranya of Thiruvallur and Srija Seshadri of Neyveli scored 7 points each to tie for the second place. Buchholz tiebreak favoured Srija to finish runner up. M. Meyyappan, Secretary, Rajapalayam Chess Club welcomed the gathering and A. Gopalsamy of TP Textiles, former Vice president of TN State Chess Association distributed the prizes.
Final Standings
Rank Name Club Pts
1 Manigandan S S MDU 7½
2 Aravindh Chithambaram Vr MDU 7
3 Nishvin J KK 7
4 Chaithanyaa K G BLO 6½
5 Ramalingam Karthik SLM 6
6 Abishek I CHE 6
7 Harikrishnan A Ra SPF 6
8 Kumaran B CHE 5½
9 Sakthivel Pandian V S TNSCA 5½
10 Jaswant G CHE 5½
11 Deepenthiranath K SLM 5½
Girls
1 Bala Kannamma P CHE 7½
2 Srija Seshadri NLC 7
3 Bhuvaneshwari R TRY 7
4 Saranya J TLR 6½
5 Hema Priya N CHE 6
6 Varshini V TLR 6
7 Sangeetha P CHE 6
8 Janani J TLR 5½
9 Sandya M CHE 5½
10 Karthikeyini R MDU 5½
Important results of ninth round
Manigandan S S MDU 7½ drew with 6½ Chaithanyaa K G BLO
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr MDU 7 beat 5½ Jaswant G CHE
Anand Raj S TLR 5 lost to 7 Nishvin J KK
Ramalingam Karthik SLM 6 beat 5½ Kumaran B CHE
Abishek I CHE 6 beat 5 Ganesh P CHE
Mukesh M CHE 5 lost to 6 Harikrishnan A Ra SPF
Osama Salim CHE 5 drew with 5 Mani Bharathy CBE
Deepenthiranath K SLM 5½ beat 4½ Gautham V MDU
Jayesh M CHE 5 drew with 5 Shyam Sundar R CHE
Sakthivel Pandian V S TNSCA 5½ beat 4 Subramanian R M MDU
Girls
Saranya J TLR 6½ lost to 7 Bhuvaneshwari R TRY
Janani J TLR 5½ lost to 7½ Bala Kannamma P CHE
Srija Seshadri NLC 7 beat 5 Janu V TLR
Prakruthee A CHE 5 lost to 6 Hema Priya N CHE
Sangeetha P CHE 6 beat 5 Prathipa L TLR
Hemalakshmi V MDU 5 lost to 6 Varshini V TLR
Sushmitha G TNSCA 5 drew with 5 Pritika D CBE
Sonaa R VNR 4½ lost to 5½ Sandya M CHE
Karthikeyini R MDU 5½ beat 4½ Sneha Preethi E VNR
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P.Saravana Krishnan, winner flanked by (L to R) Mullai R.Gnanasekaran, Chairman, Manali Municipality, J.C.DPrabhakar , MLA , Vice-President TNSCA, V.Srinivasan , GM (Corp Plg& R&D, CPCL) and Mrs Srinivasan.JPG
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IM Shyam Sundar of SRM College has retained his Asian Junior title by scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds in the Asian Junior Chess Championship was concluded recently in Sri Lanka.
IM Srinath Won the Silver Medal by scoring 6.5 points and in Girls section WFMs R. Bharathi and J. Saranya won the Silver and Bronze Medals by scoring 7 points each. The Championship was won by Bhakthi Kulkarni of Goa.
The Tamil Nadu players won 50 percent of the medals in Asian junior and Junior Girls Chess Championships.
Final Standings: Girls
1 CMBhakti Kulkarni 8
2 WFMBharathi R 7
3 WFMSaranya J 7
4 WFMPon N krithika 6
Open:
1 IMShyam Sundar M 7.5
2 IMNarayanan Srinath 6.5
3 Krishna C R G (AP) 6.0
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Chennai girl Tejasvi Murugavel and Erode boy P Iniyan were crowned champions in the Jawahar Engg College's 24th TN State Under-9 (B & G) Chess Championship organized by Chennai District Chess Association at Jawahar Engg College, 54 K K Road, Kaveri Rangan Nagar, Chennai here today.
Tejasvi logged in 10.0 points from eleven rounds, the same as V Keerthi, but clinched the Girls title with a better tie-break.
Iniyan who won the Boys title with a round to spare, was joined by Chennai lad R Prajesh who scored a crucial final round victory over Sadhu S Adithya. Iniyan finished with 10.5 points followed by R Prajesh at 9.0 points.
The top two in the boys and girls section go on to represent Tamil Nadu in the National Under 9 Chess Championships to be held in Orissa later this year.
The prizes were distributed by Mr JCD Prabhakar, MLA, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, along with Mr V Raghunatha Rao, Principal, Jawahar Engineering College and Mr Amalan, CEO, Jawahar Engineering College.
Final Placings (Boys) :
1. P Iniyan 10.5, 2. R Prajesh 9.0, 3-9 C S Ashwath, Sadhu S Adithya, A Abhishek, R Viswanath, S Rahul, G B Harshavardhan, P Yutesh 8.0, 10. Tarun V Kanth 7.5 points.
Final Placings (Girls) :
1-2 Tejasvi Murugavel, V Keerthi 10.0, 3-5 M Elakkeya, C Lakshmi, N Natha Mayil 8.0, 6-9 S Pooja, B Kiruthika, C R Reshma, Rakshitta Ravi 7.5, 10. S Dhanusha 7.0 points.
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A. Prathish of Madurai had become National U-11 Champion
R. Vaishali of Thiruvallur and CMN Sunyuktha of Kanchi bagged 2nd & 3rd Place
XXV NATIONAL UNDER-11 BOYS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011 AHMEDABAD - GUJRAT
Final Ranking Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Prathish A IND 1661 TN 9.0 77.0 63.5 50.5
2 Aryan Chopra IND 1817 DEL 9.0 73.0 58.5 45.0
3 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 1802 AP 8.5 83.0 70.5 55.5
4 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 1927 MAH 8.5 79.5 65.0 50.5
5 Gupta Bhaskar IND 1910 MAH 8.5 75.5 63.0 50.0
6 Ningombam Herojit Meitei IND 1665 MAN 8.5 73.5 61.0 47.5
7 Rudraksh Parida IND 1644 ORI 8.5 71.0 58.5 45.5
8 Abhishek A IND 1800 KER 8.0 81.5 66.5 51.5
9 Rathanvel V S IND 1871 TN 8.0 79.0 65.0 50.0
10 Rajaryan Kuvelkar IND 1685 GOA 8.0 69.5 57.5 44.0
XXV NATIONAL UNDER-11 GIRLS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011 AHMEDABAD – GUJARAT
Final Ranking Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 WCM Savant Riya IND 1708 GOA 8.5 77.5 64.5 50.0
2 Vaishali R IND 1653 TN 8.5 75.0 63.0 49.5
3 Sunyuktha C M N IND 1544 TN 8.5 75.0 62.5 49.5
4 WCM Tejaswini Sagar IND 1714 MAH 8.0 77.5 65.0 50.5
5 Hilmi Parveen IND 1629 KER 8.0 72.0 60.0 46.5
6 Vaisalie K IND 1578 TN 8.0 65.0 54.0 42.5
7 Khushi Dharewa IND 1559 WB 7.5 77.5 64.5 50.0
8 Anjali Manoj IND 1586 KER 7.5 75.5 62.0 48.0
9 Sonal Mandhana IND 1633 MAH 7.5 75.0 61.5 48.5
10 Adyasa Mahapatra IND 1469 ORI 7.5 70.0 57.0 44.0
Click Here Boys final Ranking list (full) : http://chess-results.com/tnr50549.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1
Click Here Girls final Ranking list(full) : http://chess-results.com/tnr50550.aspx?art=1&rd=11&lan=1
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Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) emerged the Tamil Nadu State Champion with a higher tie-break over V Haribalu (Cognizant Technology Solutions) after the eleventh and final round of the Velammal 59th Tamil Nadu State FIDE Rated Chess Championship oragnised by King Chess Foundation at Velammal Matriculation HSS, Mogappair, Chennai, here today. Ram and Haribalu finished with 9.5 points each, but a better tie-break gave Ram S Krishnan the title.
Top seed International Master Narayanan Srinath of Velammal School tied for the third spot with 9.0 points along with S Ganesh Babu, G Akash and S S Manigandan. Velammal boy Narayanan Srinath did the eventual champion Ram S Krishnan a favor, defeating tournament leader V Haribalu in the top board. Srinath's win enabled Ram to catch up Haribalu who had a clear point advantage before the final round.
In the second board, facing a difficult middle game, Ram handled his queen against two minor pieces and weaved his way to victory after a marathon game that lasted five hours. Ram S Krishnan was awarded the V J Brahmaiah Rolling Shield.
Cash prizes amouting to Rupee One lakh were awarded to the top sixteen players were distributed by Chief Guest Mr J C D Prabhakar, MLA, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, while age group category prizes were distributed by Mr Jai Shankar, Senior Principal, Velammal Matriculation HSS, Mogappair to the top ten boys & girls in the Under 8, 10, 12 & 14 categories.
This tournament is a qualifier for the National Challenger Chess Championship and the top four finishers here would go on represent the Tamil Nadu state in the forthcoming National Challengers event to be held at Aurangabad.
Final Placings :
1-2 Ram S Krishnan, V Haribalu 9.5, 3-6 Narayanan Srinath, S Ganesh Babu, G Akash, S S Manigandan 9.0, 7-11 P Saravana Krishnan, M V Lakshmi Narayanan, P Maheswaran, U Moamed Ibrahim, K Suresh 8.5, 12-20 P Lokesh, J Nishvin, J Arun, S Prasannaa, Akash PC Iyer, A Balasubramainan, N R Visakh, N Hema Priya, Pranav VIjay 8.0 pts
Results (Eleventh Round)
Narayanan Srinath (9) beat (9.5) Haribalu V, Ram S Krishnan (9.5) beat Lokesh P (8), Arun J (8) lost to G Akash (9), Prasannaa S (8) lost to Manigandan S S (9), Ganesh Babu S (9) beat Siddarth M (8), Saravana Krishnan P (8.5) beat Hema Priya N (8), Anand Raj S (7.5) lost to Maheswaran P (8.5), Sakthivel Pandian V S (7.5) lost to Lakshmi Narayanan M V (8.5), Suresh K (8.5) beat Gopalakrishnan K (7.5), Vignesh N R (8) drew with Gireman Ja (8), Nanda Kumar T S (8) drew with Michelle Catherina P (8), Sekar B (7.5) lost to Mohamed Ibrahim U (8.5).
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We are happy to inform you that the following Tamilnadu players have won Medals in the recently concluded Asian Youth Chess Championship at Philippines:
Category Name of the Player District MEDAL
Under-8 Boys L.N. Ram Aravind Trichy GOLD
Under-8 Girls C.Lakshmi Chennai GOLD
Under-12 Boys Vr.Aravindh Chithambaram Madurai SILVER
Under-14 Girls G.K.Monnisha Chennai GOLD
M.Mahalakshmi Chennai BRONZE
Under-16 Girls P.V.Nandhidhaa Namakkal GOLD
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24th tamilnadu state under 7 boys and girls championship for dolphin
trophies was conducted by TDCA on behalf of TNSCA at St.Joan of Arc
International school from 13.05.11 to 19.05.11. The tournament was
conducted in eleven round swiss system based on FIDE rules.
Mr. Govindaraju, Founder of St.Joan of Arc International school,
inaugurated the championship in the presence of Mr. Anantharaja.G.G,
president TDCA and the secretary Mr. T. Sundarrajan.
The Tournament attracted nearly 69 Boys and 43 Girls from various
parts of Tamilnadu. Mr. R. Balasubrananian, FIDE Arbiter, from Chennai
was the Chief Arbiter. He organized the tournament very efficiently
with the helpof eight other deupty arbiters.
At the end of sixth round S. Akilesh Viswaa and K. Rithikaa both from
Trichy were the sole leaders in boys and girls category respectively.
After that many dramatic changes happened.
Finally at the end of eleventh round, M. Aditya and C.Brgadeshwaran
both from chennai got 9 points. Based on Buchholz tie break system M.
Aditya of Chennai was declared the 24th Tamilnadu Under 7 Boys State
Champion. In the Girls categoy Samyuktha .B.S of Vellore Scored 10
points and became the 24th Tamilnadu Under 7 State Champion for Girls
Category.
Mr. K. Muralimohan , General Secretary of TNSCA was the chief guest
for the prize distribution function. He distributed the prizes to all
the prize winners in the presence of Mr.M. Elangoven, Correspondent,
St. Joan of Arc International School, Mr. Anantharaja.G.G, President
of TDCA, Mr. R.K .Balagunasekaran, Joint Secreatary, TNSCA and other
members of TDCA..
Final Results.
BOYS:
Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Aditya M CHE 9 79.5 74.5 69.0
2 Bragadeshwaran C CHE 9 78.0 73.0 68.0
3 Akilesh viswaa TRY 8 84.0 77.5 71.0
4 Ashwin kumar B S MDU 8 75.5 70.5 65.0
5 Subbu krishna sharma G M T.NAGAR 8 75.0 71.0 66.0
6 Praggnanandhaa R TLR 8 74.5 71.5 66.5
7 Sathyaroopan M CBE 8 73.0 69.0 63.5
8 Abhishek S KK 7.5 73.0 68.5 63.5
9 Rohith P ERO 7.5 71.0 66.0 61.0
10 Sriram B TRY 7.5 68.0 64.0 59.5
GIRLS
Rk. Name Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Samyuktha B S VLR 10.0 73.5 68.5 63.5
2 Rithikaa K TRY 9.0 78.5 73.5 67.5
3 Rindhiya V TLR 9.0 76.0 72.5 67.5
4 Poornasri M.K TLR 9.0 74.0 70.0 65.0
5 Vidula V.K CCA 7.0 67.0 63.0 58.0
6 Rajalakshmi S VNR 7.0 67.0 62.5 57.5
7 Shreya S CHE 7.0 66.5 63.0 58.5
8 Rakshitta Ravi CHE 6.5 80.5 74.5 68.5
9 Dharsana M.S ERO 6.5 76.0 72.5 67.5
10 Sri varshini P M CHE 6.5 69.5 64.5 59.5
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JAWAHAR VIDYALAYA TAMILNADU STATE UNDER 25 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011
Saravana Krishnan & Pon N Krithika are Champions
In open Section Saravana Krishnan drew with Visakh of Chennai and won the championship with 7.5 points. Eight players are following the champion with 7 points each. But better buch holz helped Srikanth Ajay of Jawahar Vidyalaya School declared as runner-up of this state championship. Saravana Krishnan received Rs.3000 with
Annapragada Trophy.
In Girls section Pon N Krithika drew with N.Keerthana of Chennai and won the 10th TN State Under 25 Women Chess Championship with 8 points. Keerthana was the runner-up with 7 points. Krithika received Rs.2500 with Nivarthi Trophy.
The Chief Guest Shri JCD Prabhakar MLA, Villivakkam Constituency distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Shri A Surya Narayana Rao, Secretary & Correspondent of Jawahar Vidyalaya School , Shri D.V. Sundar, Vice President Fide and Hon.Secretary of All India Chess Federation and Shri K.Muralimohan , General Secretary of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
There were 15 main prizes in open section and 10 prizes in women section. The best game award was given to R.Arun Karthik of Chennai. He received The Tenneti Venugopal Rao Rolling Trophy (sponsored by Jawahar Vidyalaya School) with Rs.500.
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Velammal Matriculation Hr.Sec.School has put one more step forward by conducting 24th TN State U-11 Boys and Girls Chess Championship associated with Madurai District Chess Association on behalf of TN State Chess Association. The 11 round Swiss format event was held from 24th April to 30th April 2011 here at Velammal Matriculation Hr.Sec.School, Velammal Nagar,Madurai.
This tournament has attracted 153 boys and 70 girls from 19 districts and 6 registered acadamies. Among these players 52 boys and 22 girls are rated players. It is interesting to note that the youngest participant, 5 years old girl Kanishka Shri of Madurai added beauty to this state championship. Earlier the inauguration was presided by Shri J.Baskaran Former India Kabadi Captain initiated the event by making the first move in the presence of The Principal, Velammal Mat.Hr.Sec.School.
In boys section A.Prathish of Madurai and Aniruddh Iyengar of Chennai were leading with 5 points at the end of 5th round. A.Vaibhav of Coimbatore beat Prathish and took the sole lead with 6.5 points after 7th round. A.Ra. Harikrishnan of Tiruvallur was the sole leader with 8 points before 10th round. Four players shared their lead with 8 points each at the end of penultimate round. At last M.Arvind wins the championship with 9 points. Aniruddh Iyengar is the runner with the same 9 points due to lesser buchholz than Arvind.
In Girls section K.Vaisalie of Madurai maintained her sole lead till 9 rounds. At the end of 10th round R.Vaishali of Tiruvallur and K Vaisalie were the joint leaders with 8.5 points each. R.Vaishali of Tiruvallur district wins the girls championship with9.5 points. K.Vaisalie of Madurai is the runner with 9 points
Madurai District Commissioner of Police Shri M.D. Shajahan gave away the prizes to the winners in the presence of the Principal, Velammal Matriculation Hr.Sec.School and Rev.Dr.Aul Arasu Isral, the President of Madurai District Chess Association.
Velammal's 24th Tamil Nadu StateUnder-11 boys chess championship 2011
Final Ranking BOYS
Rank Name Club Pts Prize Amt
1 Arvind M CHENNAI 9 2000
2 Aniruddh Aiyengar CHENNAI 9 1300
3 Adithya S KANCHI 8½ 1000
4 Jayakumar S TIRUVALLUR 8½ 700
5 Harikrishnan A Ra TIRUVALLUR 8 600
6 Hemanth Raam CHENNAI 8 500
7 Elancheralathan P CHENNAI 8 400
8 Navnitan S V TIRUPPUR 8 400
9 Barath Kalyan M THANJAVUR 8 300
10 Mythireyan P CHENNAI 8 300
Final Ranking Girls
Rank Name Club Pts Prize Amt
1 Vaishali R TIRUVALLUR 9½ 2000
2 Vaisalie K MADURAI 9 1300
3 Sunyuktha C M N KANCHI 8½ 1000
4 Meera D NLC 8 700
5 Harshini A TIRUVARUR 7½ 600
6 Lathecka Sai M A CHENNAI 7½ 500
7 Abirama Srinithi G ERODE 7½ 400
8 Dakshinya T R S TIRUPPUR 7½ 400
9 Dhivyashree J KRISHNAGIRI 7½ 300
10 Tejasvi M CHENNAI 7½ 300
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Krishnan Sasikiran of Chennai won the Asian Blitz Chess Championship that was held at Mashad in Iran on May 11.
Sasikiran, born 1981, recorded 7/9 and won on tie-break after three players tied for first place. Strange, Sasikiran started with a defeat, then he beat six opponents and drew two for the title.
Among Sasikiran's wins was one over the new Asian Individual champion P. Harikrishna in the penultimate round.
Indians missed the podium in the 1st Asian Women's Individual Blitz Championship. World champion Hou Yifan played and did not win! Hoang Thi Bao Tram of Vietnam won on 7/9 on tie-break after she figured in a 3-way tie for the first place. Harika was in sole lead with 5.5/6 but defeats to Tan Zhongyi and Hou Yifan spoilt her tournament.
Final placings: 1-3. K. Sasikiran (Ind), Wesley So (Phi), Bu Xiangzhi (Chn) 7/9 each; 9 G.N. Gopal 6; 11 Vidit Gujrathi 5.5; 14 Surya S Ganguly 5.5, 15 Parimarjan Negi 5.5; 19 M. Shyam Sundar 5, 20 P. Harikrishna 5, 21 Abhijit Kunte 5; 24 S.P. Sethuraman 4.5; 28 Vaibhav Suri 4, 29 Debashis Das 4, 33 B. Adhiban 4...50 players.
Final placings (women): 1-3. Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie), Tan Zhongyi, Hou Yifan (both Chn) 7/9 each; 4 D. Harika 6.5; 7 Mary Ann Gomes 5.5; 11 Padmini Rout 5; 16 Swati Ghate 4.5; 19 Soumya Swaminathan 3.5; 27 Eesha Karavade 3...28 player
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Sri Balaram Trophy and Ist prize{Rs 5000}received by Mr Ram S Krishnan, BSNL, Chennai from Mr. Sundar, Founder - Sri Balaram Memorial Trust at the 1st State level Children and open championship 2011 held at walajahpet on 07-05-11 & 08-05-11, organised by Vellore Chess Players Academy, Walajapet. Others in the picture are Mr. N. Dinakaran, President, Vellore Chess Players Academy, Mr. P. V. Reddy Prasad, Chairman, Vellore District Chess Association (AC) and Mr. Kumar, Secretary, Kasprov Chess Academy, Vellore.
The Rolling trophy costing Rs. 12,000/- was donated by Sri Balaram Memorial Trust, Walajapet AND Vellore Chess Players Academy, Walajahpet is proposing to give every year to the Ist prize winner at the State level chess tournament .
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Sai Krishna & Michelle Catherina emerge Sub Junior Champions
Andhra Pradesh lad G V Sai Krishna and Tamil Nadu girl Michelle Catherina emerged champions in the RMK Sr Sec School 37th National Sub Junior (Under 15) Chess Championship& 28th National Sub Junior Girls Chess Championship held at Media Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.
In the crucial final round, Sai Krishna faced some difficulties from Kerala boy S L Narayanan, but managed to hold on to a draw after 53 moves. Sai Krishna took the top spot with 10.0 points, followed by S L Narayanan at 9.0 points. FIDE Master Girish A Koushik of Karnataka took the third spot with 8.5 points.
The girls section saw Tamil Nadu girls sweeping all the main prizes. Michelle Catherina who had a dream run in this tournament, finished the final round with a victory against G K Monnisha. Michelle logged in 9.5 points from eleven rounds and was followed by top seed P V Nandhidhaa at 9.0 points. Sharing the third spot were M Mahalakshmi, Meenu Priya, G Lasya, Madhurima Shekhar and Srija Seshadri at 8.0 points respectively.
Final Standings :
(Boys)
1. G V Sai Krishna (AP) 10.0, 2. S L Narayanan (Kerala) 9.0, 3. Girish A Koushik (Karnataka) 8.5, 4-10 Akash PC Iyer (TN), Sayantan Das (WB), Shardul Gagare (Maharashtra), K G Chaithanyaa, R Ganesh, B Kumaran (all TN) and Arjun Bharat (Karnataka) 8.0 pts.
(Girls)
1. Michelle Catherina P (TN) 9.5, 2. P V Nandhidhaa (TN) 9.0, 3-7 M Mahalakshmi, Meenu Priya Se (both TN), G Lasya (AP), Madhurima Shekhar (Delhi), Srija Seshadri (TN) 8.0, 8-10 G K Monnisha (TN), Nisha N Patkar (Karnataka), P Bala Kannamma (TN) 7.5pts
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37th Vels Tamil Nadu State U-15 Chess Championship for the V.L Ethiraj Memorial Ever Rolling Ever Rolling Shield & 25th Vels University TN State Sub Junior (U-15) Girls Chess Championship for the Arasan Kalyanasundari Ammal Gurusamy Ever Rolling Trophy was a grand success in all ways amidst so many pit falls. Organized by Kanchi District Chess Association. On behalf of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. and as a special attention, conducted at Vels University, Velan Nagar, Pallavaram, and Chennai.
Peaceful place makes the people in peace of mind and success in every angle. It is true about our venue at Vels College @ Pallavaram. In simple word venue with a variety of gardens and natural green carpets.
Inaugural function was presided over by Mr. Dr N Vijayan, President, Kanchi District Chess Association, Deliver Special Address Mr. D.V. Sundar, Vice-President, FIDE & Honorary Secretary, All India Chess Federation, and Chief Guest & Inaugurate the Championship Mrs. Arthi Ganesh, Vice-President (Academic), Vels University.
Final Ranking Boys
Rank Name Rtg
1 G Akash 2211
2 Akash Pc Iyer 2094
3 Kumaran B 1915
4 Nishvin J 2090
5 Karthikeyan Murali 2132
6 Vasantha Ruba Varman2022
7 Barath L 1973
8 Jayesh M 1708
9 Chaithanyaa K G 2065
10 Ganesh R 1999
Final Ranking Girls
1 Michelle Catherina P 2020
2 WFM Monnisha Gk 1857
3 Akshaya N 1791
4 Aarthi G 1681
5 Bala Kannamma P 1890
6 Meenu Priya Se 1827
7 WFM Mahalakshmi M 1872
8 Varshini V 1663
9 Sushmitha G 1688
10 Shvetha V 1751
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Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts BH. BH. BH.
1 2 WFM Saranya J 2109 IND TRVL 7½ 53 49 43½
2 4 A Akshaya 2019 IND TRVL 6½ 53½ 49½ 44
3 1 WFM Bharathi R 2120 IND CHE 6½ 53½ 49 44
4 7 Visalatchi R 1905 IND VNR 6½ 50 46½ 42½
5 5 Savetha C H 1996 IND CHE 6 53½ 48½ 43½
6 12 Janani J 1809 IND TRVL 6 50½ 48 43
7 10 Sathya Priya S V 1825 IND SLM 6 49 46 41½
8 3 Mohana Priya J 2025 IND KAN 6 49 45 40½
9 14 Akshaya N 1791 IND CBE 6 48½ 44½ 39½
10 9 Hema Priya N 1884 IND CHE 6 47½ 44½ 40½
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World champion Viswanathan Anand retained the No.1 rank in the world when FIDE announced the Elo ratings for May 1, 2011 today.
The ratings of the three players in the 2800-club remained unchanged for the two month period. Anand did not play any rating game and stays on 2817 while Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian also remain unchanged without a game at 2815 and 2808.
In the given period, Anand finished third in the Amber Tournament under rapid and blindfold games. On April 9, he and his wife Aruna Anand were blessed with a baby boy.
Many top flight event like Linares have not taken place due to the economic cycles and most of the elite players did not show rating activity. The oldest player in the top 10, Vassily Ivanchuk managed to get nine games to occupy the fifth place.
Among women, Judit Polgar continues to top the chart on 2699. Koneru Humpy has gained seven Elo to reach 2614 and retain her second place. Harika dropped four Elo to reach 2520 and occupy the eleventh place.
In the country rank, India is sixth behind Russia, Ukraine, China, Armenia, France. This place is decided by the average rating of the top ten players. It will take a while for other nations to challenge Russia's 2734. India is on 2645. In Grand Masters, China is on 27 and India 24. Russia is on 204.
There are a total of 19,376 Indians in the rating file. This shows constant increase and speaks of the healthy chess activity in India
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India's Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran is the Top Seed at the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship which started on Sunday the 10th April at Dubai Chess and Culture Club, Dubai.
India has sent a large contingent of Grandmasters, International Masters to compete at the championship. The total Prize Money id US $ 45,000/ plus $4000 for the Blitz tournament which will be held on the Rest day of the Championship.
In the First Round the Indians had no problem beating their low rated opponents. Sasikiran, Ganguly, Parimarjan Negi , Abhijeet Gupta, Tania Sachdev, Ashwin Jairam, R Laxman , all came out victorious.India's Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran is the Top Seed at the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship which started on Sunday the 10th April at Dubai Chess and Culture Club, Dubai.
India has sent a large contingent of Grandmasters, International Masters to compete at the championship. The total Prize Money id US $ 45,000/ plus $4000 for the Blitz tournament which will be held on the Rest day of the Championship.
In the First Round the Indians had no problem beating their low rated opponents. Sasikiran, Ganguly, Parimarjan Negi , Abhijeet Gupta, Tania Sachdev, Ashwin Jairam, R Laxman , all came out victorious.
Ladies were in charge of surprises as WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh and WFM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat, both from Iran, won and drew against GM Aleksej Aleksandrov and GM Ashot Anastasian respectively. In addition, WFM Dinara Saduakassova split the point with GM Emanuel Berg. CM Sanal Vahap defeated GM Jon Ludvig Hammer with black pieces
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Aruna Anand wife of Grandmaster Vishy Anand delivered a healthy baby boy this morning. The child and mother are doing fine. TNSCA Congratulates Anand & Aruna
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National U-11 Champion Vr. Aravindh Chithambaram emerged as champion in BHEL FIDE Rating Chess Tournament ahead of Top seed IM Sahaj Grover(Delhi) with 10.5 points out of 11 rounds. He was awarded BHEL Trophy and cash prize of Rs.25000/-. In the seventh round he defeated Sahaj Grover.
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Navin Kanna, the top seed from India won the 4th Colombo International Chess Festival convincingly. From the beginning he led the event and finally he drew with RMCM Rajapakse in the final round to finish with 8 1/2 points to achieve the title. Navin received a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- with the Trophy and the Gold Medal. He drew with former Sri Lankan National Chess Champion, GC Anuruddha in an earlier round and gave another draw to one of his fellow Indians, Lake Mithawala in the 5th round.
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Arun Karthik also from India won the 2nd place when he beat RMCM Rajapakse in the 2nd table. He scored a total of 8 1/2 points and collected Rupees 50,000/- with the silver medal. The top seed and only International Master, Vishnu Prasanna has to satisfy with the 3rd place since he lost couple of Games to Sri Lankan, RS Kalugampitiya and the winner CRG Krishna in the earlier rounds. Vishnu beat GC Anuruddha in the final round to collect Rs. 25,000/- with the Bronze medal.
The Sri Lanka open International Rating Chess Championship was held from 2nd to 6th March 2011 at Public Library Auditorium, Colombo.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand downed Anish Giri of the Netherlands 2-0 to finish clear third with 13 points in the Amber Chess Tournament that concluded at Monte Carlo on March 24. In addition, Anand was clear second in blindfold and third in rapid events.
Levon Aronian of Armenia won the event with a double draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia. Aronian is winning this event for the third time. He tallied 15.5/22. Carlsen finished second with 14.5 and Anand was third with 13 points. The blindfold was won by Aronian and rapid by Carlsen by 1.5 and 2.5 point margins.
In the blindfold game, Anand won a rook via a double attack and in the rapid he won pawns and converted a queen ending for a 2-0 sweep.
The results (round eleven): Ivanchuk lost to Topalov 0.5-1.5, Gashimov drew Grischuk 1-1, Giri lost to Anand 0-2, Carlsen drew with Gelfand 1-1, Nakamura drew Kramnik 1-1, Aronian drew Karjakin 1-1.
Final placings: 1 Aronian 15.5, 2 Carlsen 14.5, 3 Anand 13, 4-5. Grischuk, Ivanchuk 11 each, 6-9. Gashimov, Gelfand, Nakamura, Topalov 10.5, 10 Karjakin 10, 11 Kramnik 8, 12 Giri 7.
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White has an advantage in chess and it is sometimes more than making the first move. In the blindfold game, World Champion Viswanathan Anand won against Magnus Carlsen of Norway with black and in the reverse rapid game, the Norwegian won with the black pieces for a 1-1 score in round nine.
Levon Aronian of Armenia has meanwhile widened his lead by half a point by defeating Vladimir Kramnik of Russia 1.5-0.5. Two rounds remain to be played in the Amber Chess Tournament being played at Monte Carlo.
Aronian leads with 13/18 points and Carlsen is behind with 12 points. Anand shares the third spot with Grischuk and Ivanchuk on 9.5 points.
In the blindfold section alone, Aronian is leading with 7/9 and Anand is second with 5.5 points. In the rapid section alone, Carlsen is leading with 7.5/9 and Aronian is second with six points. Section titles are expected to be won with a round to spare on March 23 itself.
The results (round nine): Gashimov drew Gelfand 1-1, Giri lost to Grischuk 0.5-1.5, Carlsen drew Anand 1-1, Nakamura drew Topalov 1-1, Aronian bt Kramnik 1.5-0.5, Ivanchuk drew Karjakin 1-1.
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Levon Aronian of Armenia is one of the few players in the world to enjoy a good score against Viswanathan Anand. In the eight round of the Amber Chess Tournament, Aronian beat Anand in the rapid game for a 1.5-0.5 win on March 20.
Strange, all blindfold games ended in draws and all rapid games ended decisively in wins for white! Aronian keeps his lead after picking up the game of the round prize for winning against Anand in rapid. They drew the blindfold encounter earlier. Anand is on 8.5/16.
Three rounds or six games remain to be played in this 12-player double all-play-all. The players once face in blindfold and another in rapid chess.
Aronian leads with 11.5/16 and closely behind is Carlsen on 11. Anand and Ivanchuk are tied for third with 8.5 points.
Monday is a free day and round nine will resume on Tuesday. March 21 is the first day of spring in Europe.
The results: (round eight): Grischuk lost to Nakamura 0.5-1.5, Anand lost to Aronian 0.5-1.5, Gelfand lost to Ivanchuk 0.5-1.5, Kramnik lost to Gashimov 0.5-1.5, Karjakin lost to Giri 0.5-1.5, Topalov lost to Carlsen 0.5-1.5.
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The Wijk aan Zee champion Hikaru Nakamura of United States held world champion Viswanathan Anand to two draws, once in blindfold and again in rapid in the seventh round of the Amber Tournament being played at Monte Carlo on March 19.
After these draws, Anand made 1-1 in the day and keeps his third place with 8 points from 14 games. Levon Aronian of Armenia leads with 10 points. Magnus Carlsen of Norway who thrashed Vladimir Kramnik of Russia 2-0 is in second place on 9.5 points.
Four rounds or eight games remain to be played in this 12-player event organised by Association Max Euwe.
The results (round seven): Giri lost to Topalov 0.5-1.5, Carlsen by Kramnik 2-0, Gashimov drew Karjakin 1-1, Aronian bt Gelfand 1.5-0.5, Ivanchuk bt Grischuk 1.5-0.5, Nakamura drew Anand 1-1.
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Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine shocked world champion Viswanathan Anand 1.5-0.5 in the sixth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament in progress at Monte Carlo on March 18.
Ivanchuk who turned 42 beat Anand in the rapid game for the Euro 1,000 game of the round prize. In the blindfold game, the players made a draw. After the first defeat, Anand is on seven points from 12 games. There are five rounds or ten games still to be played in this event.
Anand has defeated Ivanchuk many times and leads the head-to-head after the win in their Anibal Match at Linares 18 years before. Ivanchuk unseated Anand from world title in the FIDE World Chess Championship in December 2001 at Moscow.
Levon Aronian of Armenia lost the match and yet leads on 8.5/12. Magnus Carlsen is in second place on 7.5 and the third place is shared by Anand and Grischuk on 7 points.
The results (round six): Gelfand bt Nakamura 1.5-0.5, Grischuk bt Aronian 1.5-0.5, Anand lost to Ivanchuk 0.5-1.5, Topalov lost to Gashimov 0.5-1.5, Kramnik bt Giri 1.5-0.5, Karjakin lost to Carlsen 0.5-1.5.
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Magnus Carlsen tried two poor openings to lose 0-2 to Vassily Ivanchuk. Ivanchuk who turned 42 today (March 18) is the oldest competitor as well as the only player to figure in all Melody Amber Tournaments. He was the winner of the very first edition too.
Ivanchuk lives in Lviv, one of Ukraine's largest cities after capital Kiev. He had won the Linares Tournament in 1991 and was tipped to be Kasparov's challenger after Karpov. Ivanchuk also won the best game of the day Euro 1000 prize for the rapid game against Carlsen.
In the blindfold game, Karjakin entered a rooks and minor piece ending with a pawn deficit but with active pieces he drew easily. In the rapid game, Anand as black had to make some accurate moves in the rook ending to draw in 52 moves.
Six rounds or 12 games remain to be played in this contest organised by the Association Max Euwe at Monte Carlo in Monaco. The venue is close from the French city of Nice. The event runs from March 11-24.
The results (round five): Carlsen lost to Ivanchuk 0-2, Anand drew Karjakin 1-1, Aronian bt Gashimov 2-0, Giri bt Nakamura 1.5-0.5, Topalov drew Grischuk 1-1, Kramnik drew with Gelfand 1-1.
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Anand, the NIIT Brand Ambassador has won three matches and drawn Kramnik 1-1. He had defeated Topalov and Gelfand in earlier rounds. Anand is on 5.5/8 with seven rounds or 14 games still to be played. Anand has scored 2.5/4 in blindfold and 3/4 in rapid chess.
In the blindfold game, Anand played the Berlin variation of the Ruy Lopez with black and made an easy draw by repetition. In the white rapid game, Anand pinned and won a knight of Grischuk for a 1.5-0.5 win.
Levon Aronian of Armenia and Magnus Carlsen of Norway are leading with six points from eight games. Anand is in clear third place with 5.5 points. Grischuk is on 4.5 points and others are well behind.
Karjakin beat Kramnik for the best game of the day prize. What Dokhoian could not do with Kasparov he has done achieved through Karjakin - beating Kramnik's Berlin. The Euro 1000 prize went to Sergey Karjakin of Russia. Karjakin moved from Ukraine to Russia and is now trained by Yuri Dokhoian, the famous Grand Master trainer of Garry Kasparov.
The results (round four): Anand bt Grischuk 1.5-0.5; Karjakin bt Kramnik 1.5-0.5; Topalov bt Gelfand 1.5-0.5; Carlsen bt Giri 1.5-0.5; Nakamura bt Gashimov 1.5-0.5; Aronian bt Ivanchuk 1.5-0.5.
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Aronian and Carlsen drew 1-1 in the day between them and moved to joint lead on 4.5 points from six games. Viswanathan Anand is on four points and shares the third place along with Grischuk.
Anand won a pawn in the blindfold game and at one stage was two pawns ahead with a three to one pawn advantage on the king side. Gelfand fought and won a pawn to draw the game.
In the reverse game, Anand played well with the black pieces to win a pawn in the queen and bishop ending and managed to push the extra pawn to the seventh rank and win.
The 12-player composite blindfold and rapid event is organised by Association Max Euwe. Eight rounds or 16 games remain to be played.
Points table after three rounds and six games: 1-2. Aronian, Carlsen 4.5/6; 3-4. Anand, Grischuk 4 each; 5 Gashimove 3.5; 6 Gelfand 3; 7-9. Karjakin, Nakamura, Topalov 2.5; 10 Kramnik 2; 11-12. Giri, Ivanchuk 1.5 each
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http://www.indianchessfed.org/News/2011/March2011/CGSNarayananwinsthirdprizeinFIDEWorldCupforchesscomposition_files/image002.jpg
C.G.S.Narayanan, Editor AICF Chronicle, has won the third prize in the three-move section of the ‘1st FIDE World Cup for Chess Composition’ held in 2010 the results of which have been brought out by FIDE in ‘ Chess Composition 2010 Year Book” recently. Narayanan, an international problemist of repute, who has won several prizes for his compositions in leading magazines around the world is a three-time recipient of Brian Harley Award awarded by British Chess Problem Society for the best two-move chess problem composed by a subject of British Commonwealth and this recent success in FIDE World Cup is creditable achievement in an international competition in which composers from 33 countries participated
Mate in three moves
Key: 1.Bf4! (threat 2.exd4+,Kxd4 3.Be3#)
1....Rd5 2.Re6 3.Rc6/Na6
1...Rd6 2.Re5+ Rd5 3.Rxd5
1...Rxd7 2.Rxe4 3.Rxc4
Judge Jakov Vladimirov (Russia) commented:
“Harmonious and motivated in-phase movements of rooks in different directions”
Don Smedley of England has quoted the problem in ‘The Problemist’with the following comments
“The problem shows another entertaining (and technically difficult) idea - the anti-magnet theme. Instead of a black piece drawing a white piece in its wake - as in the magnet theme - the pieces mirror each other's movements, but in opposite directions.To be sure, there is no great strategy (other than dual avoidance) but there is something comical in the way the Rooks sail towards then past each other, like ships that pass in the night.”
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World No.1 and world champion Viswanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the blindfold game and then drew the rapid chess game with the black pieces to start the Amber Chess Tournament at Monaco on a winning note.
In the reverse game, Anand played the declined variation as black against Topalov's queen's gambit to draw a simple rook ending in 36 moves. Earlier, in the blindfold game, Anand wrested the lead beating the Berlin variation of Topalov after a long 67-move ending.
The tournament is a 12-player double all-play-all with the players once facing each other in a blindfold game and then in a rapid chess game. They play eleven rounds of blindfold and eleven rounds of rapid chess, in all 22 games.
For the blindfold game, the players get 25 minutes plus 20 second increment per move. For rapid chess they get 25 minutes and ten seconds per move increment. The event can be followed on www.amberchess20.com Ten rounds or 20 games remain to be played.
In the round one results, Carlsen beat Nakamura 1.5-0.5, Karjakin lost to Gelfand 0-2, Aronian beat Giri 2-0, Grischuk bt Kramnik 2-0, Anand beat Topalov 1.5-0.5, Gashimov bt Ivanchuk 2-0.
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Dear Sir,
This is to inform you that "SATYA SAI ACADEMY" is conducting unauthorised chess tournament on 27.02.2011 at Pondicherry.
This academy is not a affiliated unit of Pondicherry State Chess Association.
Players have been advised through our website not to participate in unauthorised chess tournaments.
Thanks & Regards,.
R. Devakumar
Secretary
PSCA
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Ahobila Math Inter School Chess Tournament
SUB JUNIOR BOYS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Aditya M, PSBB 5.5 24.5 16.5 20.5
2 Sai Krishna S, Chinmaya Vidyalaya 5.5 22.5 16 20.5
3 Bhargavan S, P.S. Sr. Sec. School 5 25 16.5 19
4 Prasant N. Nayagam, Sindhi Model Sr Sec School 5 25 16 18
5 Rangesh N D, Don Bosco 5 23 15.5 19
SUB JUNIOR GIRLS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Lakshmi C, Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram 6 22 15 21
2 Reshma CR., MNCVV 5 20 13 18
3 Madhumitha R, Vel's Vidyashram 5 17 11.5 15
JUNIOR BOYS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Siva Mahadevan, Vidya Mandir 5.5 25 16.5 19.5
2 Arvind M, PSBB 5.5 24.5 16.5 20.5
3 Muthaiah A.L, St. Joseph HSS, Chengalpattu 5.5 24 16 20.5
4 Adhithya S, Jawahar Vidyalaya 5 23.5 15.5 18
5 Ram K, PSBB Millennium 5 23 15 18
JUNIOR GIRLS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Sunyuktha C.M.N, Bethel Mat HSS 5 21.5 14.5 18
2 Sona S, St. Joseph HSS, Chengalpattu 4 21.5 14.5 16
3 Shruthi K, Chinmaya Vidyalaya 4 21 13.5 13
SENIOR BOYS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Balakumar R, Modern Sr Sec School 5.5 21 14.5 18
2 Akash R, Hindu Sr. Sec. School 5 25 17.5 19.5
3 Narayanan M.R, Vidya Mandir 5 21.5 15 19
4 Bhuvan R, Jawahar Vidyalaya 5 21.5 14.5 17
5 Aadityan N, Jawahar Vidyalaya 4.5 23.5 16.5 18.5
SENIOR GIRLS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Priyamvadha, P.S. Sr. Sec. School 5 21.5 15 17
2 Thamarai Selvi P, Velammal MHSS (Surapet) 5 20 14 18.5
3 Krithigga K, Velammal MHSS 5 17 11 18
SUPER SENIOR BOYS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Venkatakrishnan R, Sethu Baskara 5.5 25 16 20
2 Kishore Kumar L.S, Gill Adarsh 5.5 18.5 11.5 20
3 Anu Jaffrin, Puthra Mat HSS 4 22.5 14.5 17
4 Bharath K, Sri Vishwa Vidyalaya 4 22 14 14
5 Akhilesh B, Sri Sitaram Vidyalaya 4 21.5 15 14
SUPER SENIOR GIRLS FINAL STANDING
PRIZE NAME SCHOOL NAME POINTS BUCH MEDIAN PROG
1 Abiramasundari C, Ahobila Math 4 19.5 12 16
2 Sangeetha P, Sri Sitaram Vidyalaya 4 17 11.5 10
3 Anujna, Ahobila Math 3 19 12.5 11
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UNDER - 8 FINAL STANDINGS
POINTS BUCH
1 RAGESH SARMA M, TANJORE 4.5 16 9 13.5
2 VIGNESWAR DP, PDK 4.5 15.5 10 13.5
3 SRIRAM B, TRICHY 4 12 6.5 13
4 VIGNESH D, SIVAGANGAI 3 16.5 9 10
5 ABINESH S, TRICHY 3 15.5 10 10
6 RAJA ANNAMALAI S, PDK 3 15 10 10
7 KABILESHWARAN B, TRICHY 3 12.5 7 9
8 ARVIND M, HOSUR 3 12.5 7 7
9 BALA ATHARH M, PDK 3 10.5 6.5 8
10 NILAVAN GM, TRICHY 3 10.5 5 8
GIRLS SPECIAL PRIZE
1 SMRITHIKA S, TANJORE 1 13 9 3
2 SUSMITHA N, SIVAGANGAI 1 10.5 7 3
3 SANGAMITHRAA KS, PDK 0 8.5 4.5 0
UNDER - 10 FINAL STANDINGS
1 NEYAN GM, TRICHY 5 12.5 8 15
2 HARRISH M, SIVAGANGAI 4 14 9 10
3 RAMANATHAN CT, PDK 3.5 10.5 6.5 10
4 NIRMAL S, 3 17.5 10.5 12
5 MURUGAPPA KS, PDK 3 16 9 10
6 GOWTHAM S, SIVAGANGAI 3 13 8 8
7 KRISHNA KUMAR RR, TRICHY 2.5 10.5 7 9
8 BALA GURU VENKATESH S, RAJA PALAYAM 2.5 8.5 5.5 5
9 ARUNAACHALAM M, TRICHY 2 14 8.5 7
10 ARUL PRAKASH R, PDK 2 12 7 4
GIRLS SPECIAL PRIZE
1 SASIKALA S, SIVAGANGAI 3 15.5 9 10
2 MOHANA A, SIVAGANGAI 2 10.5 6 7
UNDER - 12 FINAL STANDINGS
1 VIGNESHWARAN S, TANJORE 5 26 17.5 20
2 JOEL VICTO J, TRICHY 5 20.5 14 16
3 MD HARRIS M, MADURAI 5 20.5 12.5 15
4 ANUP SHANKAR R, TRICHY 5 20 13 17
5 JAGADEESHWARAN J, SIVAGANGAI 4 21.5 13.5 12
6 SETHUPATHY S, TANJORE 4 20 13.5 18
7 YOGESH R, PDK 4 18 11.5 11
8 SABARISH RK, TRICHY 3.5 22 16 15.5
9 PRAVEEN RAJ M, RAJA PALAYAM 3.5 18 12.5 11.5
10 VINOTH K, TANJORE 3 21 14 15
GIRLS SPECIAL PRIZE
1 PRIYADARSHINI R, PDK 4 17 10 15
2 SHAAFILYA SULTHANA F, PDK 3 19 13 7
UNDER - 16 FINAL STANDINGS
1 RAM ARAVIND LN, TRICHY 7 31 22.5 28
2 ARUN PRASATH D, PDK 6 33.5 24 25
3 ARAVINDAN B, SIVAGANGAI 5.5 32 22.5 23
4 ADHITHYA J, PDK 5 30 22 20
5 SURESH KUMAR S, MADURAI 5 28.5 21 21
6 ASPAQ HUSSAIN M, PDK 5 28.5 19.5 23
7 LAKSHMANAN VR, SIVAGANGAI 5 28.5 19.5 21
8 VIGNESHKUMAR S, PDK 5 27.5 19 19
9 VIGNESH ANNAMALAI PA, TRICHY 5 23.5 18 20
10 ANAND RAVISEKAR G, PDK 4.5 32 23.5 20.5
GIRLS SPECIAL PRIZE
1 PRIYANGA R, PDK 5 23.5 16 18
2 ROOPAVERDHINI PA, TRICHY 4.5 26 18.5 17
3 NIVEDHA P, TRICHY 4 22 16 16
4 YUVARANI B, PDK 3 27 19.5 13
5 DIVYA P, PDK 2.5 23.5 16.5 12
UNDER - 25 FINAL STANDINGS
1 BALACHANDAR S, TANJORE 6 23.5 16 21
2 ARUL SENTHIL B, PDK 5 22 14 19
3 ARUN PRASATH P, TRICHY 5 21.5 14.5 18
4 SWAMINATHAN R, TANJORE 4.5 22.5 14.5 17
5 BARATH KALYAN M, TANJORE 4.5 21 14 17
6 PRABAKARAN M, DINDIGUL 4 22 15 14
7 VENGATESH S, MADURAI 4 21 14.5 16
8 SIVAKUMAR G, PDK 4 17 10 10
9 SRIRAM M, TRICHY 4 16.5 10.5 15
10 VIGNESH B, SIVAGANGAI 4 15.5 10.5 13
GIRLS SPECIAL PRIZE
1 KOWSHIKA S, TANJORE 5 19 12.5 17
2 SWARNA LAKSHMIEL, SIVAGANGAI 3.5 15.5 9.5 12.5
3 SINDHUJA J, TRICHY 3 17 11 11
4 ANITHA HELAN A, MADURAI 2.5 14 9.5 6
5 SARATHA M, MADURAI 2 19.5 13 3
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Asian Games Bronze Medalist Indian Team Member GM B.Adhiban is seen receiving Certificate and Cheque from Honorable Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi during Republic Day function held @ Chennai
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Superior tie break gave Andhra star S Ravi Teja the title with 10.5 points from 13 rounds. Earlier a five way tie ensured in the 2nd KCF- Rotary Club of Madras Mount Intl. FIDE Rating Chess Tmt (Below 2200), here today.
Despite a final round defeat, Ravi Teja clinched the title albeit on tie-reaks. Finishing right behind were Linda Rangarajan (Puducherry), M Muthu Alagappan (SRM Eswari Engg College, Chennai), J Nishvin (Kanyakumari) and Ja Gireman (Coimbatore) all with 10.5 points.
Top seed and veteran FIDE Master M B Muralidharan of Kerala finished on a winning note, halting the winning run of local boy Naren Swaminathan. Muralidharan logged in 10 points, a shade lower than his expected ELO performance.
The prizes were distributed by Mr G Olivannan, Rotary District Governor & Mr Marimuthu, Founder, Rotary Club of Madras Mount.
Final Placings :
1-5 S Ravi Teja (AP), Linda Rangarajan (Puducherry), M Muthu Alagappan (SRM Eswari Engg College, Chennai), J Nishvin (Kanyakumari) and Ja Gireman (Coimbatore) 10.5 pts, 6-12 Ramesh Shanmugasundaram, M B Muralidharan, S Prasannaa, C S Rajesh, M Hariharasudan, K Gopalakrishnan, C Sai Viswesh 10 pts, 13-20 Thanki Hemal Karsanji, K G Chaitanyaa, M Paramasivam, R Ganesh, T R Shanmuganathan, Saimeera Ravi, Naren Swaminathan, V R Aravindh Chithambaram 9.5pts
Important Results (Round 13)
Linda Rangarajan (10.5) beat S Ravi Teja (10.5), M Muthu Alagappan (10.5) drew with J Nishvin (10.5), C Sai Viswesh (10) drew with Ramesh Shanmugasundaram (10), K G Chaitanyaa (9.5) lost to Ja Gireman (10.5), M B Muralidharan (10) beat Naren Swaminathan (9.5), R Ganesh (9.5) drew with T R Shanmuganathan (9.5), D K Chopra (9) lost to K Gopalakrishnan (10).
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Ram S Krishnan of BSNL won the 15th TN State Rapid Chess Tournament held at Coimbatore from 3rd to 5th December,2010. Around 115 players have participated in this event and P Maheswaran was the top seed followed by Phoobalan of ICF , Syed Anwar Shazuli of Kanchi & Ram S Krishnan of Chennai. A horde of young players including National U11 Champion Arvind Chithambaram were challenging the title.
The tournament was inaugurated by the President of CDCA Shri P K Selvamurugesan. Ram took the lead with 6 points by outplaying Phoobalan meanwhile Maheswaran had to split point with Syed Anwar Shazuli. Ram shed out three draws to Arul Senthil, Maheswaran & Arvind Chithambaram , but was never in danger. In the end he finished with 9.5 points to lift the title , a full point ahead of runner up Phoobalan.
On the final day prizes were distributed by Shri Arangagopal, Director of Shibi IAS Academy , alongwith Ln SK Vijhaya Kumhar, Partner , Sudha Gardens . Category prizes were distributed by Shri Vijayakumar, Proprietor, Nishanth Sewing Machines. Vijayaraghavan , Secretary , delivered the vote of thanks.
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Kids from Tamil Nadu took three top spots in the recently concluded National Under 7 chess championships at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. L N Ram Aravind, the top seed, emerged champion in the Boys section with 9.5/11 performance. S Sai Krishna (9.0) also of TN tied for the second place with West Bengal lad Ritam Nag and was placed third on account of tie-break.
Chennai girl C Lakshmi (9.5) clinched the runner-up spot in the Girls section finishing half a point behind the winner Salonika Saina (Orissa). A defeat in the sixth round and a draw with the eventual winner Saina pulled the Chennai girl down. Training with T Nagar Chess Academy, Chennai this talented girl is bound to go far.
An early defeat in the second round to Orissa boy Pranab Kumar Patra didnt deter Ram Aravind, who won eight games in a row. Holding Ritam Nag to a draw in the final round Ram brought the title to Tamil Nadu. With opportunities to play for the country in the Asian and World Championships, these talented kids are a sure bet to glory. Seedings had worked perfectly for Ram Aravind and C Lakshmi as they finished as per seedings in their respective groups.
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Chennai based International Master SP Sethuraman (ELO 2547) completed his third and final Grandmaster Norm at Poland, becoming India's latest Grandmaster. Sethu, as he is popularly known, already has the requisite 2500+ ELO rating and will be ratified as a Grandmaster at the next FIDE Congress. Sethuraman had trained with Grandmasters Alexander Goloshchapov & R B Ramesh in the past.
Sethuraman's first and second GM Norms came at New Delhi and Paris in the last two years. His sound showing in Poland shows that Sethu has clearly come out of his moderate show in the World Youth Chess at Greece. With the National Premier Championship coming in a week's time at New Delhi, much can be expected from India's latest teenaged Grandmaster.
The Grandmaster title puts this talented boy in a selective league, and Sethuraman's steady and consistent play is bound to face sterner tests in the days to come.
26th Voivoda's Cup - Final Placings
1 IM SETHURAMAN, SP 2547 7.0
2 GM Sergeev, Vladimir 2474 6.0
3 SIECIECHOWICZ IM, Martin 2446 5.5
4 GM Maksimenko, Andrei 2540 5.0
5 IM Bulski, Christopher 2470 4.5
6 GM TALLA, Vladimir 2452 4.0
7 IM LUCH, Michael 2387 4.0
8 IM Dragun, Kamil 2407 3.5
9 IM Pieniazek, Artur 2366 3.0
10 m Butkiewicz, Luke 2408 2.5
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he FIDE was awarding FIDE arbiters title for arbiters who had the requisite number of norms. But, as per the new regulations of FIDE, it is mandatory for all FIDE Arbiter title seekers to attend a Arbiters Seminar conducted by the FIDE and to pass the exam. Therefore, the All India Chess Federation has been receiving requests from various States to conduct FIDE Arbiters Seminar in India. The reason
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12 year old R V Adith, a seventh standard student of Sri Lathangi Vidya Mandir, Pollachi emerged champion the 1st KCF International FIDE Rating chess tournament (for below 1800 rating) at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Following the winner was Sagaya Rabin with 9 points, with Mohamed Ibrahim, L Sheshadri and K K Gowtham sharing the third spot. Sagaya Rabin along with Sivaji Baskar, completed their FIDE rating requirement of playing nine rated players in a single tournament.
Leading from start fo finish, Adith began with nine wins in a row, before splitting the points in the final round. Adith who trains under Mr A Balasubramaniam, takes home the winner's cash award of Rs. 25000-00. Starting as the 68th seed with ELO 1731 Adith excelled in tough conditions to emerge a deserving winner. In the crucial final round, Adith fought his way to a draw against Mohamed Ibrahim and stands to gain around 50 ELO points for his performance.
With more than 100 prizes in the offering, the fight was tough right from the word go. Prizes other than main cash prizes, were awarded to best women players, best veteran and for various age categories. 345 FIDE Rated players made up for the grand occasion of this event, which had more than half of the players as FIDE Rated players. In a first in Indian chess, possibly in world chess too, the tournament organisers King Chess Foundation sent individual SMS to all participants their pairings which include their opponent, color, board number along with their respective rating from the second round onwards.
The final day's event also witnessed the lecture-cum- emonstration by two Masters - Grandmaster R B Ramesh and International Master V.Saravanan, who later distributed the prizes.
Important Results (Round 10)
U Mohamed Ibrahim (8.5) drew with R V Adith (9.5), Kumar Gaurav (8) lost to Sagaya Rabin M (9), K Venkatesan (7.5) lost to) K K Gowtham (8.5), Rakesh Chakravorty (8) drew with Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand (8), L Sheshadri (8.5) beat I Praveen Kumar (8.5), K Ravikumar (8) beat R V Prabhu (7), T V Subramaniam (7) lost to V Sadashiva (8), M G Rajendran (7) lost to M Sabhareesh (8), V P Anirudh Kannan (7) lost to Adi Ratna Kumar (8).
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Tamil Nadu girl A Akshaya clinched the National Under 17 champion title with a 9.5/11 score at Heritage School, Sector - D, Sainik Colony, Jammu here today. Tamil Nadu girls dominated the championship taking the 1-2-3 spots. Finishing behind the champion Akshaya, were top seed Woman FIDE Master J Saranya (9.0) and eighth seed R Visalatchi (8.5) respectively.
Akshaya suffered a lone defeated in the hands of Saranya in the seventh round. But, a loss to Visalatchi coupled with two draws pulled the favorite and top seed Saranya to the second spot. The Tamil Nadu trio traded a loss among themselves, while extra draws pushed Saranya and Visalatchi to the second and third places.
Rising Karnataka star G A Stany matched top seed International Master Debashis Das of Orissa in the home run clinching the National Under 17 boys title with a superior tie-break score. Both the lads scored 9.0 points from eleven rounds, while Chandigarh boy Gusain Himal took the clear third spot with 8.5 points.
Tamil Nadu boys Narayanan Srinath and S S Manigandan took the 7th and 8th places with 7.5 points. Srinath with bright medal prospects, was trifle unlucky to lose the final round to Debashis Das.
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World chess champion Viswanathan Anand is back at No.1 in the FIDE World Ranking Elo rating list as on Nov 1, 2010.
His immediate rivals, Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov lost Elo points. Anand won points from Bilbao and raced ahead back to the No.1 rank in the World.
The four-time World Champion had been World No.1 many times and has won all the major chess events in the World. From January 2011 he will go to Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands to play in the Tata Steel Grand Master Group A event. His main rivals Kramnik and Carlsen are present there.
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Tamil Nadu girls P V Nandhidhaa (Under 14 Girls) & M Mahalakshmi (Under 12 Girls) secured bronze medals in their respective categories in the World Youth Chess Championships that concluded at Greece today. Both scored 8.5 points from 11 rounds. Mahalakshmi playing in the top board on the final round, was trifle unlucky, as she lost to fellow Indian Ivana Maria Furtado, who fetched the silver medal for the country.
In addition to Goan girl Ivana, two more Indian boys fetched the silver medal for their solid show. Shiven Khosla in the Under 14 Boys category and Rudraksh Parida in the Under 8 Boys category added two more silver medals to the country. Three silver and three bronze medals took the tally of Indian medal winners to six.
Complete list of Indian medal winners are :
Boys
Under 8 Silver Rudraksh Parida 9/11
Under 10 Bronze Abhimanyu Puranik 8.5/11
Under 14 Silver Shiven Khosla 8.5/11
Girls
Under 12 Silver Ivana Maria Furtado 9/11
Under 12 Bronze M Mahalakshmi 8.5/11
Under 14 Bronze P V Nandhidhaa 8.5/11
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Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Villupuram District Chess Association jointly organised a four day camp, spread over two weekends (9,10,16,17 October, 2010) at Ramakrishna Vidya Mandir Matric Higher Secondrary School, Villupuram.
The camp was conducted by former Commonwealth Champion and International Master P.Mithrakanth. Open for all ages, five kids and several adults participated and made the camp a successful one.
President of Villupuram District Chess Association, Mr R.Arulmozhi, welcomed the gathering, while the Head Master of the Ramakrishna Vidya Mandir Matric Higher Secondrary School, Mr S.Chandrasekar and Villupuram Chairman, Mr Janakaraj presided over the inauguration function.
The concluding day of the camp saw the participation of Secretary, Villupuram District Chess Association, Mr K Kannan and other office bearers viz., S Stephen Xavier, R Sampath, A Absalam, J Narasimhalu, A Alandey, V Kannan and L Balaji Singh. Certificates were distributed to all the participants by International Master P.Mithrakanth.
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Chennai boy S Prasannaa (DOB 30.Sep.1997) took the first spot with an impressive 8.5/9 score, while top seed International Karthikeyan Murali finished 4th in the recently concluded 2nd KPK FIDE Rated Chess tournament at Tirupur. A student of 7th standard at the Velammal School, Mugappair, Chennai this 13-year-old exceeded expectations, delivering an above par performance.
Seeded third behind Karthikeyan Murali and Ja Gireman, Prasannaa scored seven straight wins before shedding half a point to Ja Gireman. Wrapping up the final round against R Muralidharan, the champion from Chennai logged 8.5 points, gaining 26 ELOs in the process. Starting with a modest ELO of 1770 in October 2008, Prasannaa who trains with Chess Gurukul, is now placed at ELO 2014 in the September 2010 FIDE Rating list, with considerable gains to come. Much can be expected from this promising youngster in future.
Ja Gireman took the second place with 7.5 points, while seven players shared the third spot with 7.0 points including top seed Karthikeyan Murali. The tournament was smoothly conducted by International Arbiter M Ephrame and his team.
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Reigning Asian Junior Champion and International Master M Shyam Sundar from Chennai shared the top spot with 8.5 points in the 40th National Junior (Under-19) Chess Championship-2010, that concluded at Puri, Orissa recently. The national qualifier ran from 1st to 10th October, 2010 and second seed Andhra lad M R Lalith Babu, also with an 8.5/11 score, emerged champion on a better tie-break. Lalith went through the event undefeated, while Shyam Sundar suffered a lone defeat in the hands of Swayams Mishra. Seven wins, three draws and a single defeat sums up Shyam Sundar's ELO 2452 perfomance & he stands to gain 8.5 ELO points for his show.
Adding up to Shyam Sundar's silver medal show, were the twin talents from Tamil Nadu, International Master Shyam Nikhil and Woman FIDE Master J Saranya. Picking up the bronze in the boys and girls section respectively, Shyam Nikhil and J Saranya duo did themselves proud with some steady show.
Nagercoil boy Shyam Nikhil logged in 8.0 points, half a point shy of the top two finishers, but gains a hefty 16.4 ELO for his strong showing here. Making it to the top ten was the talented lad K Priyadharshan with 7.5 points. The Madurai boy was placed 9th tying for the 7-10 places.
Fifth seed J Saranya (8.0) finished behind the Gold & Silver medal winners Padmini Rout (9.5) and Ch.Divyasri (9.0) and picks up the bronze and a possible exposure trip abroad next year. It is a good come back for Saranya, who started as top seed in the recently concluded National Sub Junior (Under 15) Girls Championship and tied for the 10-18 places with 7.0 points from eleven rounds.
Commendable performances also came from Woman FIDE Masters R Bharathi and Pon N Krithika who took the 4th and 6th places with 7.5 and 7.0 points respectively.
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TNSCA General Secretary K. Muralimohan offered a shawl and bouquet to the newly elected Vice-President of FIDE Mr. D.V. Sundar, Also seen in the picture is FIDE Arbiter Mr. R. Ramakrishnan.
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Noted Sports Administrator, the former Secretary of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association (1990-1994) and Honorary Secretary of All India Chess Federation Mr. D V Sundar was elected Vice President in FIDE.
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Top seed P Phoobalan of ICF, Chennai clinched the clear first spot with a 9/11 performance in the 23rd SPIC Open FIDE Rating Chess tournament at Community Hall, SPIC Nagar, Tuticorin. Sharing the second spot half a point behind at 8.5 points were Majumdar Shankar (West Bengal), Ramalingam Karthik, Ram S Krishnan (both Tamil Nadu) and FIDE Master M B Muralidharan (Kerala).
Seven wins and four draws were enough to secure Phoobalan the title. Credit goes to Phoobalan's spurt of three wins - against R Ganesh, C V Raghuraman Balaji and Ram S Krishnan - in the last three rounds. An year back, this talented ICF player secured his first major title winning the Citadel FIDE Rated Open 2009 title at Chennai.
Former TN State Champion Ram S Krishnan, suffered defeats in the fourth and final round, and the twin losses kept him away from the title hunt. Experienced Kerala player and FIDE Master M B Muralidharan went down to S S Manigandan, losing his chances for a higher placing. Youngsters S Prasannaa, V R Aravindh Chithambaram and J Nishvin impressed scoroing 8.0 points from eleven rounds, sharing the 6-18 places.
The non-medalist section was conquered by Keerthivasan of Kanchi District who scored 10.0 points from 11 rounds. The event which ran from 26th Sep, 2010 to 2nd Oct, 2010 was smoothly conducted by the team of Arbiters led by International Arbiter M Ephrame.
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Ramaravind and Lakshmi Triumphs
LN Ramaravind of Trichy clinch the title with 9.5 points out of 10 rounds. He drew with Suraj Jegadeesan of Tiruppur and won all the remaining rounds.
C.Lakshmi of Chennai got 100% score out of 10 rounds. She met 9 players in the prize list. She defeated 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed players. These statistics show the over- power geared-up by the champion
The Total Cash Prize was sponsored by Mr. B. Murugavel, Vice- President of Chennai District Chess Association and co- sponsored by URC Palaniammal Mat. Hr.Sec.School, Erode.
S.Dhanusha from Nagarcoil of Kanyakumari District unexpectedly got total fracture in her left leg during the second round play . But she has continued her game and won. Normally other people discontinued the tournament. But she didn't give up her heart, instead she played with courage and bandage and finished second place. Every one in the tournament hall has congratulated for her courage and exemplary show.
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23rd Tamilnadu State , U7 Chess Championship ( Boys & Girls) for Dolphin Trophies was a grand success in all ways amidst so many pit falls. Organized by TNSCA and as a special attention, conducted at URC Palaniammal Mat. Hr.Sec.School, Erode.
Peaceful place makes the people in peace of mind and success in every angle. It is true about our venue at Erode. In simple word venue with a variety of gardens and natural green carpets. School Management has given their full swing of shoulder- support in conducting this tournament. They arranged a separate Rotary CD Hall for the stay and paid the charges.
Inaugural function was presided over by Mr. K.Muralimohan, General Secretary, TNSCA and opened by Mr. G.V. Thannasi, Anaithy Vidhyalaya Alumini Association, Erode Chapter.
The Total Cash Prize was sponsored by Mr. B. Murugavel, Vice- President of Chennai District Chess Association and co- sponsored by URC Palaniammal Mat. Hr.Sec.School, Erode.
This tournament was attracted by 119 players in total, Boys section - 74 players including 3 rated players and Girls section- 45 players including only one rated player. There were two important changes in the schedule. Of course no notable incident has been occurred after releasing the critical Allahabad High Court Judgment at about 3.30 P.M on 30th Sep. 2010 against Ayothi issue. Before releasing the judgment, we were in a position to safe guard our players and others against any unwanted incidents. Therefore we changed the 8th round starting time as 9.00 A.M. instead of 9.30 AM. and 9th round as 1.00 P.M instead of 2.30 P.M. Also, we changed the duration of play for the 9th round as 60 minutes +30 seconds instead of 90 minutes + 30 seconds, so that it was possible to finish the round before 3.00 P.M and to dispatch every one to their lodges before 3.30 P.M.
In Boys section, all 3 rated players got their compartments within 4 places. The champion LN Ramaravind, Trichy has no trouble to clinch the title with 9.5 points out of 10 rounds. He drew with Suraj Jegadeesan, Tiruppur and won all the remaining rounds.
In Girls section, the only rated player C.Lakshmi, Chennai got 100% score out of 10 rounds. She met 9 players in the prize list. She defeated 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed players. These statistics show the over- power geared-up by the champion.
S.Dhanusha from Nagarcoil, Kanyakumari District. Unexpectedly she got total fracture in her left leg during the second round play. But she has continued her game and won. Normally other people discontinued the tournament. But she didn't give up her heart, instead she played with courage and bandage and finished second place . Every one in the tournamnet hall has congratulated for her courage and exemplary show.
Prize Distribution function was presided over by Mr. C.D. Kabilan URC Educational Trust Erode. Chief Guests Mr. Suresh Kumar, DSP , Crime Branch, Erode and Mr.T.Stalin Gunasekaran President, Makkal Sinthanai Peravai, Erode have distributed the prizes. Felicitation by Mr.G.V.Thannasi, Anaithu Vidhyalaya Alumini Association Erode chaper. Before that welcome address by Mr. R.Ganesh Kumar, Tournament Co-ordinator. Vote of thanks by Mr. K.Muralimohan, General Secretary, TNSCA. Tournament report submitted by Mr. R.Gurusamy, Chief Arbiter.
Finally special thanks to Mr. R.Ganesh Kumar who had acted as a single- man army throughout the tournament.
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International Master M R Venkatesh, of Tamil Nadu emerged champion in a three way tie at the 48th National Challengers Chess Championship at Bhiwani, Haryana. Venkatesh along with fellow International Masters M S Thej Kumar and M Shyam Sundar scored 10.0 points from 13 rounds, taking the title with superior tie-break. With seven wins and six draws, Venkatesh coasted to his latest title. This mega event ran for 13 rounds and concluded on Sunday, 26th September, 2010.
Eyeing for the long missing GM title, this talented Chennai lad came up with a rating performance of ELO 2531 and more can be expected from him in the National Premier Championships slated to be held in the month of December at New Delhi. Venkatesh stands to gain 22 Elos and would need to work industriously towards the magical ELO mark of 2500. Having become an IM in 2004, Venkatesh holds a GM Norm and has been in contention for the Grandmaster title for the past few years.
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Tamil Nadu's Ten Players Qualified for the forthcoming National Premier Chess Championship to be held at Delhi from 08th December to 22nd December 2010.
IM Venkatesh M R (PSPB), IM Shyam Sundar M, Navin Kanna T U, FM Vishnu Prasanna V,
IM Konguvel P (PSPB), IM Shyam Nikhil P, IM Priyadharshan K, IM Singh D P (Railways),
FM Rajesh V A V and IM Karthikeyan P
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TN girls P V Nandhidhaa and Bala Kannamma brought glory to their home state winning the title and the third spot in the just concluded 36th National Sub Junior Chess Championship at New Delhi. Undefeated Nandhidhaa won eight games and drew three, logging 9.5 points from eleven rounds. Nandhidhaa, the third seed from Chennai defeated both the top two seeds, WFM J Saranya (TN) and Bodda Prathyusha (AP) on way to the title. Ten titled players and 272 participants completed the impressive line up, despite the deluge of rain and flooding of New Delhi by Yamuna river.
Third placed Bala Kannamma has been a steady performer in recent times and she put behind her lone defeat in the fifth round to Sonakshi Rathore, scoring 8.5 points. Bala shared the 3-4 places with Sonakshi, and a better tie-break score gave the TN girl her third place. WFM Srija Seshadri of Neyveli entered the top ten with her 7.5 points performance. Srija tied for the 6-9 spots and the tie-break score placed her on the seventh position.
TN boys Mugil Jayavel and Tejas Ravichandran (both 8.0 points) finished 8th and 10th respectively in the Boys section. Three TN boys playing at 7.5 points viz., G Akash, D S Shashank and J Nishvin went down to their higher rated opponents in the final round. A positive result for the trio would have put them in medal contention. The tournament was smoothly conducted by FIDE Arbiter R Srivatsan.
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S.P.Sethuraman, international master, current world u-16 champion tied for the first place and fininshed third in the Malaysia open 2010 held from 1september to 7th september in Kulalumpur. He scored 7 points out of 9 rounds.
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Tamil Nadu's Seven Players Qualified for the forthcoming National Premier Women Chess Championship to be held at Orissa from 25th December to 5th January 2011.
Harini S
Bharathi R
Saranya J
Mohana Priya J
Sithalatchumi A
A Akshaya
Preethi R
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Velammal won the 11th Amutha Educational Trust ever rolling trophy
The Inter School Team Chess Championship for Amutha Educational Trust Ever Rolling Trophy was held at Amutha Matric. Hr. Sec. School, Mugappair West, Chennai – 37. It attracted 23 teams from all over Schools of Tamilnadu.
Thiru Ramesh Kanna, Tamil Film actor and Director was the Chief guest and presided the function and gave away the Rolling Trophy and prizes.
Mrs. Christy James, Correspondent, Amutha Matric. Hr. Sec. School Welcomed the gathering. Mr. ‘Amutha’ B. Balakrishnan, Chairman of Amutha Educational Trust deliverd the special address. Thiru Ramesh Kanna, Tamil Flim actor and Director gave encouraging messages and appreciated the students. Mr. S. Balaraman, Secretary of Thiruvallur Chess Association proposed the Vote of Thanks.
Final standing of top four teams and Board prize winners:
1. Velammal Matric. Hr. Sec. School ‘A’ ( P. Lokesh 4/6; S. Jitendriavel (4/6); KG.Chaithanya (5/6); S.Prasannaa (5/6)) with 18/24 clinched the title.
2. Modern Senior Hr. Sec. School with 17.5/24 points got the second place (Akash P.C. Iyer (5.5/6), K.Abshuman (5/6), V.Shvetha (3/6), T.Vishwanath (4/6)).
3. Velammal Matric. Hr. Sec. School B team with 16 points secured the third place. (L.Barath (4/6), A.R.Osama Salim (3½), P.Ganesh (4), J.Janani (4½).
4. Velammal Matric Hr. Sec. School C team with 16 points got the fourth place. (M.Mahalakshmi (4/6), V.Janu (4). V.Varshini (4½), R.Vaishali (3½).
Board Prize winners:
Girls: M.Mahalakshmi (Velammal Matric.Hr. Sec. School) (4/6); V.Janu (Velammal MHSS) (4/6); V. Varshini (Velammal MHSS) (4.5/6); J. Janani (Velammal MHSS) (4.5/6); S. Suchithra ( Lady Mat.M.Girls HSS) (4/6).
Boys: Akash P. C. Iyer (Modern Senior Hr. Sec. School) (5.5/6); K. Abshuman (Modern Senior Hr. Sec. School)(5/6); N. R. Vignesh (Maharishi Hr. Sec. School) (5.5/6); S. Prasanna (Velammal Matric. Hr. Sec. School) (5/6); S. Darwin (Maharishi Hr. Sec. School) (3/6).
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9 year old Nishit Mohanty from Orissa surprised the lot of 753 players emerging champion on a rainy Sunday in the 1st Homeland International FIDE Rating Chess tournament (below 1600 rating) being organized by King Chess Foundation at Hall of Chess at Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Seeded fifteenth with an ELO rating of 1587 Nishit (born 12th March 2001) scored eight straight wins and drew the final round to clinch the title with 8.5 points.
In the crucial final round, Nishit found himself in a clear minus position against the only blind player in the event M Bharat. But the Orissa lad hung on grimly and bailed himself out with an all important draw that fetched him the title.
Unrated Shyam S Krishnan (City Union Bank) along with the quartet M Bharat (Bloom Chess Academy), R Boopathi, B Balaguru, V Thiagarajan shared the second spot with 8.0 points. Three unrated players obtained their FIDE ratings playing nine Rated players from this tournament. This mega tournament was smoothly conducted by the team of volunteers and arbiters under the able leadership of Chief Arbiter R Srivatsan.
In a well attended ceremony prizes were distributed by Mrs Vasumathi Marimuthu and Rotarian Marimuthu of Rotary Club of Madras Mount.
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Kerala veteran O T Anilkumar surprised himself and others with a stunning show of 8/9 in the S K Narasimhan Memorial FIDE Rated Open at Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Four International Masters, two FIDE Masters and a lone Woman International Master could not stop the Kerala Express.
10th seeded Anil Kumar derailed top seed International Master Rahul Sangma, second seed Grandmaster Norm holder G B Prakash and sixth seed T U Navin Kanna on way to his eight wins. Finishing in the second spot were International Masters P Shyam Nikhil and N Sudhakar Babu at 7.5 points. 257 players participated in this nine round Swiss event.
The tournament was smoothly conducted by FIDE Arbiter R Srivatsan and his team. Prizes were distributed by 18 year old Grandmaster Elect and India's latest Grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran, in the presence of Shri D V Sundar, Hon Secy, AICF and Shri K Murali Mohan, Hon Secy, TNSCA.
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International Master Rahul Sangma (2397) became the first person from outside Tamil Nadu to win the coveted Adyar Times trophy. The top seed from New Delhi logged in 7.5/9 winning with ease, the 1.2 lakh prize money 10th Adyar Times New Millennium FIDE Rated Open chess tournament. Rahul was never seriously tested and got his tally from six wins and three draws. With the winner's pay check of Rs. 25000 and the trophy, Rahul now proceeds to S K Narasimhan Memorial FIDE rated Open, also at Chennai. Back-to-back chess events bring in more participants, as well offer better chances to obtain and improve the elusive Elo ratings for aspiring players.
With the average playing strength remaining on the higher side, seeded players found it tough to garner easy points. Second seed and GM Norm holder G B Prakash finished 13th with 6.5 points, while fifth seed and International Master Sudhakar Babu finished a shade higher at fourth spot with 7.0 points. Junior stars G A Stany (Karnataka), S Ravi Teja (AP) and P Bala Kannamma (TN) impressed finishing in the top ten.
The tournament was smoothly conducted by International Arbiter S Paul Arokiaraj and his team. Prizes were distributed by Shri. S.P. Ambrose, IAS (Retd.), Managing Editor, Adyar Times.
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The 3rdModern School International Fide Rating Chess Championship for School students was held at Modern Senior Secondary School from 02nd to 07th August 2010 for a prize pool of Rs.1, 00,000/-
This Rating Chess Championship was organized very well by Modern Senior Secondary School, under the auspices of Tamilnadu State Chess Association and All India Chess Federation The venue of the tournament is “Sankara Hall, Modern Senior Secondary School, AG’S colony, Nanganallur, Chennai-61.
Main sponsor for this event was Modern Senior Secondary School, Chennai and they provided free lodging and Boarding to all players, free hospitality to officials, arbiters etc and also sponsored the entire prize money of Rs.1,00,000/-
This event will attract 312 participants from various States like Andhra, Kerala, Karnataka, Pondichery, WestBengal, Maharastra, Orissa, Uttarpradesh, Delhi, MP and also from all over districts in Tamilnadu like Chennai, Kanchi, Madurai, Tiruvellor, Salem, Virudunagar, Villupuram, Tiruvarur,Thanjavur,Vellore,Coimbatore Trichy, Dindigul etc.,
Participation of nearly 153 International rated players including top players like International Master K Priyadarshan(2363), Fide Master VAV Rajesh(2331), Asian Youth Under14 Gold medalist WFM Srija Sheshadri, World Under14 Bronze medalist WFM J.Saranya,Asian Youth Under16 silver medalist A.Akshaya, Commonwealth Under10 silver medalist Iniyan, Commonwealth under 16 silver medalist R.Bharathy, World under10 Silver medalist Karthikeyan Murali, National Under11 champion Aravind Chidambaram,Defending Champion P.Lokesh, International players like P V Nandhitaha, G.Akash, Haihara Sudan etc., made the event stronger and so colourful.
This was the 3rd time the School students Tournament being organized as a FIDE Rated event in Tamilnadu and this event conducted as 10 round Swiss format
WGM Vijayalakshmi, Arjuna Awardee was the chief guest and inaugurated the championship in the presence of Shri D V Sundar, Secretary, All India Chess Federation and Smt Mohana, Principal; host Modern School on 2nd August at 02:00pm.
At the end of the Fifth Round four players S.Kaushik, Chennai, D.S Shashank of Chennai, Woman FIDE Master J.Saranya and S.S.Manigandan were jointly leading the table with 5 points
At the end of the Sixth Round Manigandan of Madurai defeated S.Kaushik of Chennai and jumped in to sole lead with 6 points
In the Seventh round G.Akash of Jawahar vidyalaya,Chennai defeated Manigandan S and shared the lead with National Under13 champion PV Nandithaa of Namakkal.
G.Akash, PV Nandithaa of Namakkal and Fide Master V A V Rajesh were leading the table with 7 points at the end of Eighth round.
G.Akash, Chennai became a sole leader with 8 points at the end of the Ninth Round after had comfortable win against Fide Master V A V Rajesh in an exciting game in 37moves. Three players P.Lokesh, IM Priyadharshan and P V Nandhithaa were on second place with 7.5 points each.
In the final Round Top seed IM Priyadharshan proved his class in the final round and defeated overnight leader G.Akash of Jawahar vidyalaya in a Marathon game after 71 moves and got richer by Rs25000 and a glittering trophy. G.Akash finished second place on superior Buchholz tie break.
G.Akash Chennai, FM VAV Rajesh, Chennai, PV Nandhithaa Namakal, S SManigandan Madurai, P Lokesh Chennai, Jitenravel Tiruvellor, D S Shashank Chennai and WFM J Saranya Tiruvellor were scored 8points each and placed second to Ninth place on Buchholz tie break.
On the Prize giving ceremony Dr Mohana, Principal, Modern Senior Secondary School welcomed the gathering, Grandmaster R B Ramesh was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes and Shri K Muralimohan General Secretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Assn felicitated the winners.
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B. Adhiban earned his Grand Master Title by winning his third and final GM Norm, as he had won the at Olomouc Chess Summer International Chess Tournament at Czech.
He earned his first norm in National A 2009 at Mumbai and Second norm in SCS International Tournament at Orissa.
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Sethuraman S.P. finished Third in Czech Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament in Pardubice , Czech Republic held from 23-31 July 2010 .
He scored 7 points out of possible 9 points. GM Korobov Anton ,Ukraine finished Second and IM Tikkanen Hans of Sweden finished Second. Sethuraman's rating performace is 2649.
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The IOB 39th and 24th Tamilnadu State Junior (Under-19) and State Junior Girls Chess Championship was organized by Chennai District Chess Association from 24th July 2010 to 30th July 2010 at Golden Paradise Thirumanakoodam, Saligramam, Chennai.
This event attracted a total number of 180 participants (108 in junior and 62 in junior girls section) from 17 districts and 8 chess academies. We had 11 round swiss system. One round on 24th, 27th and 30th and all the other days two rounds. Grace time of “ZERO” minutes was followed throughout the event.
In the girls section there was a keen contest between J. Mohana Priya of Kanchi and J. Saranya of Thiruvallur District. The game between them ended in a draw in the 6th round and they were winning their 7th,8th and 9th round. At one stage their title was in the hands of their opponents. But in the 10th round Michelle Catherina of Chennai defeated J. Mohana Priya and that gave a turn to the event. In the final round J. Saranya and J.G.Nivedhitha drew their game and World under-14 champion J. Saranya became the Champion in the girls section.
In the Boys section the battle was very stiff. Till the end the winner could not be judged. In the final round Bavankumar was leading with 8.5 points. Even after losing the final game against V.A.V. Rajesh he became the Champion and a better tie-break score.
On the final day Mr. Vaidyanathan, General Manager, Indian Overseas Bank was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes. Mr. D.V. Sundar, Secretary, All India Chess Federation and Mr. K. Muralimohan, Secretary, TNSCA were also attended the function. Mr. Prakash, Vice-president, CDCA welcomed the gathering and Mr. Murugavel, Vice-president, CDCA proposed vote of thanks.
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Defending Champion G Akash of Jawahar Vidyalaya retained the Annapragadha Trophy when he scored a fluent win against P Uma Maheswaran of Madurai in the final round. In the 9th Tamilnadu State Women Under 25 Chess Championship, P K Jayashree of Salem annexed the Nivarthi Trophy.
The Tennetti Venugopala Rao Trophy for the Best game of the Championship was bagged by K Jennitha Anto of Trichy for her beautiful win against Varshini in the earlier round.
Shri K S Viswanathan, Hon Secretary, Tamilnadu Cricket Association distributed the prizes to the winners in a grand function at the Mahodaya Hall, Jawahar Vidyalaya, Ashok Nagar, Chennai. Shri J C D Prabhakar, Vice President, Tamilnadu State Chess Association, Shri K Murali Mohan, Secretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Association and Shri D V Sundar felicitated the winners.
FINAL RANKINGS (OPEN CATEGORY)
1 G Akash 8 pts
2 J Nishvin 7.5 pts
3 S Ganesh Babu 7 pts
4 K C Krishna Prasad 7 pts
5 P Uma Maheswaran 6.5 pts
6 G Jaswanth 6.5 pts
7 S Harini 6.5 pts
8 Jitendra Vels 6.5 pts
9 K Sai Prahalad 6 pts
10 K G Chaitanya 6 pts
WOMEN
1 P K Jayashree 7.5 pts
2 J Mohana Priya 7 pts
3 P Michelle Catherina 7 pts
4 N Hema Priya 6.5 pts
5 K Jennitha Anto 6 pts
6 J G Niveditha 6 pts
7 D Trishla 6 pts
8 R Bhuvaneswari 5.5 pts
9 U Ashwini 5.5 pts
10 V Varshini 5.5 pts
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TN girls Srija Seshadri from Neyveli and A Akshaya from Tiruvallur did us proud winning the GOLD and SILVER medals in the Under 14 Girls and Under 16 Girls section at the Asian Youth Chess Championship that concluded last week in Beijing, China.
Seeded tenth with an ELO rating of 1811, Srija scored 7.0 points from nine rounds comprising of six wins (including wins against the top three seeds), two draws and a lone defeat in the hands of fellow TN player Bala Kannamma. A crucial win the final round, coupled with a superior tie-break gave the Neyveli girl GOLD medal in the Under 14 section ahead of second seed Lie Tingjie of China. Srija trains under FIDE Master A Pavanasam.
Eleventh seed A Akshaya came up with an impressive show in the Girls Under 16 section taking the silver medal with a steady show. Akshaya secured the silver medal with a better tie-break against fellow Indian WFM Rucha Pujari. Both scored 6.5 points, a full point behind the winner WIM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung of Vietnam.
India dominated the show winning 14 medals comprising of four GOLD, seven SILVER and three BRONZE medals.
Final Placings :
18 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Li HanbinCHN2317743.53934.75
2 Anwesh UpadhyayaIND24126.5464134
3FMPour Ramezanali AmirrezaIRI23146.54338.533
16 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Liu GuanchuCHN2177744.54036.25
2 Hosseini Pour MehdiIRI22707444034.5
3 Ankit R. RajparaIND23626.5464134.75
14 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Sahoo Utkal RanjanIND21937.5454140.5
2 Girish A. KoushikIND234574642.535.5
3 Fang YanCHN22156.547.54335.5
12 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Wei YiCHN22407.5444037.5
2 Ghosh DiptayanIND2174745.541.537.25
3 Bersamina PauloPHI198474339.534
10 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1CMTabatabaei M.aminIRI17617474336.75
2 Zhuang KailaiCHN074742.535.75
3 Igonin TimurUZB1826746.541.539.5
8 Under
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Nguyen Anh KhoiVIE19857.544.54039
2 Rudraksh ParidaIND15527454133
3 Yakubboev NodirbekUZB074540.534.5
Girls 18
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1WCMBhakti KulkarniIND22497.5464141
2WFMHejazipour MitraIRI223374440.535
3WFMHoang Thi Nhu YVIE21876.5474236.25
Girls 16
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1WIMNguyen Thi Mai HungVIE22407.542.53837.5
2 A AkshayaIND19816.544.540.535.5
3WFMPujari RuchaIND20746.54238.528
Girls 14
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Srija SeshadriIND1811745.540.538
2 Lei TingjieCHN19847413731.25
3 Nie xinCHN19636.542.538.532.25
Girls 12
Rank NameFEDRtgPtsBH.
1WCMVu Thi Dieu AiVIE1707 845
2 Ivana Maria FurtadoIND1889 6½46½
3 Liu KexinCHN0 6½43
Girls 10
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Nominerdene DavaademberelMGL17497464136.25
2 Savant RiyaIND15636.54540.534.75
3 Tejaswini SagarIND16376.5423833
Girls 8
Rk. NameFEDRtgPts.TB1TB2TB3
1 Li YunshanCHN0944.54049
2 Zhu JinerCHN074641.536
3 Zantye Riddhi PravinIND0744.54033
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Chennai duo International Masters SP Sethuraman and Adbihan Baskaran cornered glory in the recently concluded Paris Open at Paris, France. World Under 16 Champion Sethuraman finished third in a strong field with a score of 6.5 points from nine rounds. In the process, Sethuraman made his second GM Norm and gains 18 ELO points. A crucial win over Ukraine Grandmaster Yuri Solodovnichenko (2553) paved way for Sethu's second GM Norm. With confirmed participation in the Czech Open, Pardubice and World Juniors, Poland Sethuraman could well complete his GM title requirement in a jiffy.
The second player from Tamil Nadu, National Champion Adhiban Baskaran was trifle unlucky to miss out his third and final GM Norm by half a point. Adhiban took the fourth spot with 6.0 points, the same as fellow Indians Abhijit Kunte and Eesha Karavade.
GM Yuri Solodovnichenko - IM SP Sethuraman
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qb6 8. Na4 Qa5+ 9. c3 cxd4 10. b4 Nxb4 11. cxb4 Bxb4+ 12. Bd2 Bxd2+ 13. Nxd2 O-O 14. Bd3 b5 15. Nb2 Nb6 16. O-O Nc4 17. Nbxc4 bxc4 18. Bxh7+ Kxh7 19. Qh5+ Kg8 20. Nf3 g6 21. Qh4 Kg7 22. Qf6+ Kg8 23. Qh4 Kg7 24. Nxd4 Qb6 25. Qf2 Rb8 26. Qe3 Bd7 27. Kh1 Rfc8 28. g4 Rh8 29. Rad1 Rh4 30. f5 Rbh8 31. Rd2 exf5 32. e6 Bxe6 33. gxf5 Qb8 34. Qg1 Bd7 35. fxg6 f6 36. Nf3 Re4 37. Qc5 Bg4 38. Nd4 Qe5 39. Qxa7+ Kxg6 40. Rg1 Rxd4 0-1
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D.S.Shashaank and N.Akshaya are the new state U 15 chess Champions. The penultimate round leaders G. Akash, D.S.Shashaank of Chennai and J.Nishvin of Kanyakumari easily won against S.S.Manigandan, G.Yogesh of Madurai and L.Barath of Bloom chess Academy respectively in the last round and got 9 points each. The better tiebreak score made Shashaank became the Under 15 champion. G.Akash and J.Nishvin placed second and third in order. On the fourth board Srikanth Ajay of Chennai beat his team mate Mugil Jayavel and got selection along with the above three in the Tamil Nadu U 15 team for the forth coming National chess championship will be held at Delhi during September 2010.
In girls section the previous round leader N.Akshaya of Coimbatore won her game against Casmier Leeth of Kanyakumari and clinches the U 15 Girls title. Aarudhra Ganesh who is also from Coimbatore won against G.Susmitha of Chennai and finished second in this event. On the third board V.Varshini of bloom chess academy drew with K. Varshcine of Madurai while P.Michelle Catherina of Chennai won her game against V.Janu of Tiruvallur and finished third place due to better tiebreak score than V.Varshini. Varshini got fourth place. These four girls got selection for the National championship.
Mr.R.Kalai selvan District Revenew Officer Kanyakumari and Mr. Pon Robertsingh Chirman, Ponjesly college of Engineering Nagercoil distributed the prizes.
Top Standings: Boys
1 Shashaank D S CHE 9
2 G Akash CHE 9
3 Nishvin J KKI 9
4 Srikanth Ajay CHE 8.5
5 Ganesh R CBE 8
6 Shyam Sundar R CHE 7.5
7 Mugil Jayavel CHE 7
8 Manigandan S S MDU 7
9 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J KKI 7
10 G Yogesh MDU 7
Top Standings: Girls
1 Akshaya N CBE 9
2 Aarudhra Ganesh CBE 8.5
3 Michelle Catherina P CHE 8
4 Varshini V BLOOM 8
5 Priyadharshni KGI 7.5
6 Varshcine K MDU 7
7 Sushmitha G CHE 7
8 Aarthi G BCA 7
9 Vaisalie K MDU 7
10 Casmier Leeth A KKI 6.5
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TN girls Monnisha and Mahalakshmi won the gold and bronze medals, while Karthikeyan Murali narrowly missed the third spot on tie-breaks.
Woman FIDE Master G.K. Monnisha of Chennai won the National Under-13 Chess title at Pondicherry with a whopping 9.5/11 score. With nine wins a lone defeat in the fifth round to the second seeded Goli Lasya of AP, Monnisha showed good fighting skills pressing for win in all the games. Starting as the fifth seed with an ELO 1808, Monnisha started with a 4/4 score. A defeat in the fifth round, only pushed her harder, as she won the next five games in a row to clinch the title with a big margin.
Earlier last year Monnisha won the Under-12 Girls title at Asian Youth Chess Championship held at New Delhi. Monnisha is a student of seventh standard the Velammal Matriculation School, Mugappair, Chennai. In addition, she has Asian Championship Bronze and Commonwealth silver medals to her credit. Monnisha is trained by Grandmaster R.B.Ramesh at Chess Gurukul.
Another talented Chennai girl M Mahalakshmi finished third in the Girls section, taking Tamil Nadu's medals tally to two.
Undefeated Karthikeyan Murali of Tamil Nadu tied for the third spot with 8.5 points and was trifle unlucky to miss the medal spot in tie-break. Six wins and five draws showed the solid strength of the Chennai boy. Karthikeyan Murali made the world notice him last year winning the silver medal at World Youth Chess, Turkey in the Under 10 category. FIDE Master Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal, took the winner's cup logging 9.5, ahead of top seed Girish Koushik who finished second at 9.0 points.
The event was smoothly organised by JCA Pondicherry MidTown on behalf of the Pondicherry State Chess Association under the Chief Arbiter Udyan Kanti Ghosh.
The crucial game where the champion from TN, Monnisha defeated second placed Maharashtra girl Bakshi Rutuja :
1.d4 Nf6 2.e3 e6 3.f4 c5 4.c3 cxd4 5.cxd4 Be7 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bd3 Ba6 8.O-O Bxd3 9.Qxd3 O-O 10.Nc3 Qc8 11.Bd2 Qa6 12.Qc2 Nc6 13.a3 Rac8 14.b4 Qc4 15.Qb2 Nd5 16.Rac1 Nxc3 17.Rxc3 Qd5 18.Rfc1 b5 19.Ne5 Nxe5 20.dxe5 Rc6 21.Rxc6 dxc6 22.Bc3 c5 23.bxc5 Qxc5 24.Bd2 Qxa3 25.Qxa3 Bxa3 26.Rc7 Rb8 27.Rxa7 b4 28.Bxb4 Bxb4 29.Kf2 h6 30.Rc7 Ba5 31.Rc6 Rb2 32.Kf3 Rb3 33.Ke2 Bb6 34.e4 Rb2 35.Kf3 Bg1 36.h3 Rf2 37.Kg3 Re2 38.Rc1 Re3 39.Kg4 Bf2 40.Rf1 Rg3 41.Kh5 Rxg2 42.Rd1 Kh7 43.f5 Rg5 0-1
Final Ranking (Boys)
Rk.NameFEDRtgClub/CityPts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1FMGhosh DiptayanIND2133Wb9,574,068,565,0
2FMGirish A KoushikIND2276Kar9,075,069,065,5
3Rakesh Kumar NayakIND1970Ori8,575,569,566,0
4Sreyan BhowmickIND1877Wb8,569,564,560,0
5Karthikeyan MuraliIND2011Tn8,568,062,060,5
6Mohammad Nubairshah ShaikhIND2050Mah8,074,068,064,5
7Vignesh NrIND1848Tn8,066,061,058,0
8Rakesh Kumar JenaIND1735Ori8,065,560,557,5
9Aravindh chithambaram VrIND2014Tn7,576,570,067,0
10K Praneeth SuryaIND1831Ap7,576,069,566,5
11Rishi SardanaIND1753Del7,573,066,565,0
12Narayanan S LIND1964Ker7,571,065,562,5
13Vasantha Ruba VarmanIND1996Tn7,569,063,560,0
14G YogeshIND2002Tn7,569,063,060,5
15Tamhankar VirajIND1860Mah7,567,061,558,0
16Ayush JugeleIND1912Mah7,566,561,058,0
17Rohan AhujaIND1755Goa7,565,060,056,0
18Aditya ChakrabortyIND1967WB7,565,059,557,5
19Kumaran BIND1901Tn7,564,559,556,5
20Gajwa AnkitIND1892MP7,561,557,053,0
Final Ranking (Girls)
Rk.NameFEDRtgClub/CityPts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1WFMMonnisha GkIND1808Tn9,571,571,563,0
2Bakshi RutujaIND1729Mah8,575,575,566,0
3WFMMahalakshmi MIND1836Tn8,570,070,061,5
4Sunyasakta SatpathyIND1846Ori8,075,075,065,5
5Shoumi MukerjeeIND1766Wb8,065,565,558,0
Gangamma b NIND1669Kar8,065,565,558,0
7Parnali S DhariaIND1658Mah8,064,064,056,0
8Lasya GIND1839Ap7,577,577,568,0
9Salini RIND1617Ap7,567,067,058,5
10Ashwini UIND1838Tn7,566,566,558,0
11Aarthi GIND1602Tn7,565,065,056,5
12Varshini VIND1525Tn7,074,574,565,0
13Andria L D`souzaIND1691Kar7,071,571,562,0
14Deodhar vrushali UmeshIND1587Mah7,071,071,062,5
15Manjula RIND1563Tn7,069,569,561,0
16Dharani Sree RIND1672Tn7,068,068,060,0
17Priyamvada KaramchetiIND1615Ap7,066,066,056,5
18Sradhanjali JenaIND1712Ori7,065,565,558,0
19Soneji JanhaviIND1660Mah7,065,065,057,0
20Varsha c KIND1640Tn7,064,064,054,5
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Viswanathan Anand's success has galvanised a generation of young chess stars in the country, said P.R. Venketrama Raja, President of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, in a felicitation function for the World champion.
Our President said, with no controversy in his career, Anand stood out as the greatest Indian sportsperson.
In a crowded felicitation organised by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at the Nesam Hall of Hotel Vijay Park, the event also featured the closing ceremony of the Asian junior championship.
Welcoming the gathering, D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the AICF, said officials from Chennai District, Tamil Nadu State, AICF, Asian Chess Federation and FIDE were present here to felicitate the World champion.
Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifah Al-Nehyan, President of the Asian Chess Federation, said, “we are happy that Anand, an Asian, has won the world title for the fourth time.” Later, he and Venketrama Raja presented Anand a memento on the occasion. A galaxy of chess personalities felicitated Anand.
In his keynote address, Ignatius Leong, Secretary General of FIDE said, “first time at Chennai I feel like being at the home of Indian chess."
Replying to felicitations, Anand said before game 10 of the match, his second Rustam Kasimdzhanov told him that he was thinking longer and Topalov was feeling comfortable on that account. He said from moves 38 to 48 he played fast in that game and his opponent's advantage suddenly disappeared. Speed was and is his strength.
Anand thanked the fans who came to the airport on May 23 when he landed in Chennai. He also thanked the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association for all the arrangements at the airport and for this felicitation. Chess in Tamil Nadu is ahead of all other Indian States and wished that they maintain the momentum.
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International Master Shyam Sundar of Chennai won the Stree Seva Mandir Asian Junior Chess Championship. He got his 1st GM Norm in this Championship.
FIDE Master S. Nitin of Salem became International Master by winning the bronze medal.
On the final round Shyam Sundar edged out IM Vidit Santosh Gujrati to win the Asian Junior Chess Championship. In a tense middle game from the Moscow attack Shyam allowed Nitin gain some initiative on the king side. In unclear position, unwilling to take risks the players signed a truce in 25 moves. Shyam scored 7 points and won the gold medal.
In a three way tie on 7 points, Shyam Sundar, Vidyut Santhosh Gujarathi (Maharashtra) and S. Nitin were placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their order.
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The Stree Seva Mandir Asian Junior & Asian Junior Girls Chess Championship 2010 was inaugurated today at the Hotel Vijay Park, Chennai. The Championships have attracted 74 boys and 53 girls respectively. The male section is stronger with the participation of 12 International Master s headed by our National Premier Champion IM B.Adhiban of Chennai followed by IM Vidit Santhosh Gujrati of Pune. The female section consists of 2 Women International Masters headed Padmini Rout of Orissa. Players from 9 Federations India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Srilanka and Vietnam are vying for the top honours. The winner in the Boys Section gets a GM norm along with an IM title and the winner in Girls section gets a WGM norm and the title of WIM.
The Championship was inaugurated by P R Venketrama Raja, President TNSCA & Managing Director, Ramco Systems in the presence of IM Manuel Aaron, Arjuna Awardee & Govt. Observer for Chess and S Ganesan , Chairman of Organising Committee. D V Sundar, Hon. Secretary , All India Chess Federation welcome the gathering. K Muralimohan , Gen Secretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Association delivered the vote of Thanks. International Arbiter and Member (Pairing Commission- FIDE) will be the Chief Arbiter of the event.
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King’s Matriculation Hr.Sec.School has put first step forward by conducting 23rd TN State U-13 Boys and Girls Chess Championship The 11 round Swiss format event was held from 2nd June to 8thJune 2010 here at King’s Matriculation Hr.Sec.School,Madipakkam.
This tournament has attracted 135 boys and 75 girls from 15 districts and registered acadamies.It is interesting to note that 72 boys and 36 girls are rated players. World Silver medalist Karthikeyan Murali and Current U-11 National Champion Aravind Chidambaram in boys section and Asian gold medalists G.K.Monnisha and Srija Seshadri and Mahalakshmi in girls section participated and added beauty to this tournament.
11 years old boy Aravind Chidambaram maintained his sole lead with full points from 5th round to 7th round.Akash P.C.Iyer of Chennai was joint lead with aravind in round 8 and 9. At the end of 10 th round Karthikeyan Murali, Sai Vishwesh and S.Kaushik were the leaders with 8 points.In final round karthikeyan Murali beat Sai Vishwesh of Chennai and won the championship with 9 points.Current U-11 National Champion is the runner of this tournament.
In the gilrs section M.Mahalakshmi of Chennai was the sole leader at the end of 6th round with 5.5 points.After 7th round Srija Seshadri of Neyveli joint lead with mahalakshmi with 6 points. In final round U.Ashwini and mahalakshmi lead with 8.5 points. At the end of the final round M.Mahalakshmi won the girls championship with 9 points. U.Ashwini(Che),G.K.Monnisha(Che) and Srija Seshadri (NSCB) are in 2nd,3rd,and 4th place respectively. Top 2 boys and these 4 girls are going to participate in forthcoming U-13 National Champoinship which is going to be held in Pondicherry from June 26th to July 5th. Congratulations to these players.
Shri.Ranganathan Ex.Panchayat President gave away the prizes to the winners in the presence of Shri.D.V.Sundar,Hon.Secretary,AICF,Shri.K.Muralimohan,General Secretary,TNSCA and Shri.Kothandan,Principal,King’s Matriculation Hr.Sec.School.
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58th TN State Chess Championship was organized by the Thiruvarur District Chess Association on behalf of TNSCA from 22-05-2010 to 29-05-2010 at Dharani Matriculation School, Mannargudi.
Mrs. Karthiga Uthaman, Chairman, Mannargudi inaugurated the 58th TN State Chess Championship in the presence of Mr. Rm.N.Karuppaih, President, Sivganaga DCA, Mr. N. Shanthakumar President, Thiruvarur DCA, Selvi T. Flomina, Principal, Dharani Mat. School, Mr. Sridharan VP, Thiruvarur DCA, Mr. Illayaraja, Chairman, Organizing Committee, Dharani Mat. School and Mr. JC S. Rajagopal VP, Thiruvarur DCA.
137 Players from 23 Districts and 10 Academies took part in this Championship. All the rounds were played as per the schedule and throughout the tournament no dispute arose. The players and the managers co-operated to ensure a smooth run of the Championship.
Among 137 players 55 players registered with TNSCA AND 49 players registered with AICF. All others were already registered with TNSCA & AICF.
M. Kunal tied for the fist place with four others but had the better tie-break score to end a deserving winner. In the nail biting finish, Arunkarthick R (Chennai), Maheswaran P (Viridhunagar), Navin Kanna TU (Chennai) and VinothKumar M (Chennai) along with Kunal M (Trichy) tied for the championship with 8.5 points from 11Rounds. But better Buchholz tiebreak score helped Kunal M to secure the title (Prize Rs. 30,000/-) while Vinothkumar M stood Second (Prize Rs. 20,000/-), Maheswaran P stood third (Prize Rs. 15,000/-), Arunkarthick R stood fourth (Prize Rs. 10,000/-) and Navin Kanna TU (Prize Rs. 7,000/-) satisfied with fifth place.
Prizes were distributed by Mrs. Kamaraj, Chairman, Dharani Groups in the Presence of Mr. Rm.N.Karuppaih, President, Sivganaga DCA, Mr. N. Shanthakumar President, Thiiruvaru DCA, Selvi T. Flomina, Principal, Dharani Mat. School, Mr. R. Sridharan VP, Thiruvarur DCA, Mr. M. Illayaraja, Chairman, Organizing Committee, Dharani Mat. School, Mr. JC. S. Rajagopalan VP, Thiruvarur DCA, Mr. R.K. Balagunasekarn, Secretary, Thiruvarur DCA and Mr. P. Gandhi, District Sports Officer.
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World chess champion Viswanathan Anand was given a jubilant reception on 23-5-2010 when he returned home to Chennai after winning the World Chess title bout at Sofia.
Anand and his wife Aruna returned at 11:45 pm in the night by flight from Frankfurt on May 23.
A gathering of over 100 children, and an equal number of fans came despite the midnight arrival.
D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the All India Chess Federation, K. Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr.K.Thirukkalathy, Asst.Treasurer, TNSCA, Mr.S.Balaraman, Secretary Thiruvellur District Chess Association and Mr.M.Muthu Kumar, Secretary Kachi District Chess Association and other chess officials were present.
D.V.Sundar garlanded Anand and Muralimohan offered a shawl.
Despite pressure from media persons and T.V. Crew some children managed to get near there hero and Anand exchanged pleasantries with them.
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Grandmaster R R Laxman won the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship at Clarks Inn, Pacific Mall, Anand Vihar, NCR, New Delhi on 19th MAY 2010
He scored 9 points out of a possible eleven. The event has incorporated with International Open and 311 players from 15 countries including 20 Grandmasters in action.
In the Women Section Woman Grandmaster S Meenakshi got the Silver, with 7.5 points.
The Other medal Winners are as follows:
IM Ashwin Jayaram Bronze Under-20 Open
R. Preethi Silver Under-20 Girls
A. Sithalatchumi Bronze Under-20 Girls
FM S. Nitin Gold Under-18 Open
IM M. Shyam Sundar Silver Under-18 Open
WFM J. Saranya Silver Under- 18 Girls
CH. Savetha Bronze Under-18 Girls
IM N. Srinath Bronze Under-16 Open
P.V. Nandhidhaa Silver Under-14 Girls
P. Michelle Catherina Bronze Under-14 Girls
G. K. Monnisha Bronze Under-12 Girls
P. Iniyan Silver Under-8 Open
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Palghat Chess Academy, had put one more step forward by conducting the 4thInternational FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at, Palghat generally known as the hub of South Indian Culture. The 10 round Swiss format event was held from 7th May to 12th May 2010 here at Sithara Mahal.
The main prize fund of around Rs.92, 500/- and other special prizes saw the players in a happy mood. Especially the special bonanza prizes which offered Rs.100/ each to the winners of round 6 onwards and from the 16th board to the last board.
Players from 9 states and one affiliated unit (ICF) have participated in this event. Players from Goa, Maharastra, Orissa and Jammu and Kashmir had traveled all the way to test their playing strength. Out of 219 players, 111 players were rated. It is interesting to note that 110 players were lesser than 14yrs of age out of the 219 entries making it 50 percent. Despite their vacation, their eagerness to participate in chess events, gives a better perspective of the growth of chess in India. Earlier the inauguration was presided by Shri .T.R.Ajayan Director,Sports Council of Palghat. Sri.Sashidharan, Director of FCRI, Kanchikode initiated the event by making the first move against R. Abhijit of Palakkad in the presence of SBI Regional Manager Shri.N.Neelakandan and Shri.P.Venugopal,Secretary,Chess Association of Kerala.
The top billing was given to Sharma R Preetham TN, followed by Phoobalan ICF, O.T.Anilkumar KER,M. Kunal TN and Fide Master M.B. Muralidharan KER . The youngsters Mohit Shenvi MAH, S. Prasanna TN, Augustin KAR and Akhilesh T.Rai GOA were impressive. In final round the games were fiercely fought with the players on top 2 boards. In the end it was M. Kunal of TN who won the tournament with a score of 8.5 pts. He received Rs.20, 000/- cash award. Preetham Sharma was the runner of this tournament and received Rs.15, 000/-
On the concluding day MLA Shri. Diwakaran was the chief guest who distributed the prizes in the presence of SBI Regional Manager Shri. N. Neelakandan, Shri. P.Venugopal, Secretary of Kerala Chess Association and Shri.Manoj. R.Menon, President, Palghat Chess Association. Free hotel accommodation for the players and special bonanza prizes will attract more number of entries in future.
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S.S. Manniganadan of Madurai and A. Akshaya of Thiruvallur clinches the titles in the 21st Tamilnadu State Under 17 Boys & Girls Chess Championship held at Tirupur.
S.S. Manniganadan took 7.5 out of nine rounds and A. Akshaya took 8.5 points out of nine rounds.
The Championship was Organised by Tirupur District Chess Association at Vivekananda Vidyalaya Mat Hr Sec School and inaugurated by Mr Murali – ( Vice President –Coimbatore) and Mr Siva Shanmugam ( President Tirupur District Chess Association)
Totally 110 Players Participated ( Boys 67,Girls 43) in this 9 Round Swiss Championship.
Chief Guestk.P.K.Selvaraj(Patron And Advisor Of Tdca), Mr Prohit (Secretary Tirupur District Table Tennis Association) , Mr P.K.Selvamurugesan (Secretary Coimbatore District Chess Association), Mr Saravana Bhavan And Mr Viswanathan ,of Vellakovil were distributed the Prizes to the Prize Winners in the prize Distribution Function.
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Viswanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov in the 12th game of the 12-round match to retain his World Chess title in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He won despite playing with black in the 12th and final game of the clash. Anand won in 56 moves. This is Anand's fourth World Chess title. He had previously won the title in 2000, 2007 and 2008.
The scores were level before this game but experts say that Anand played an agressive match to negate Topalov's advantage with white. They also called this match as one of the most entertaining World Championship finals in a long while after the two were tied at 5.5-5.5 points each at the end of the 11th game. Anand won the title 6.5 to 5.5.
After losing the first game and winning the second and fourth thereafter, Anand's best chance was in game nine when he missed multiple winning opportunities. But the Indian ace found him in a situation where Topalov held the edge with his white pieces in the final game. But with his exceptional gameplay, Anand clinched the title.
Anand's Achievements
4 World titles: 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010
5 time winner of Chess Oscar
World Junior Champion, 1987
1st recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
1st to have won a title at each each of the Chess Supertournaments
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World champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Veselin Topalov are into the last two games of the World Championship match with a level 5-5 score at Sofia on May 7.
Game 10 ended in a 60-move draw after they reached a dead level minor piece ending. Anand was left with a knight and two pawns against Topalov's bishop and lone pawn. Saturday is a rest day and the eleventh match game will be played on Sunday.
The tenth game saw Anand adopt a different line with the black pieces. He returned to the Grunfeld defence which he used in the first match game. A positional 10th move by the Indian took the game away from the opening encounter.
Topalov did not have much with the white pieces and the game was always near the balance. Topalov had a central passed pawn that was well blocked by the black knight, then black bishop and later by the black king. In the ending, which featured Anand's bishop and knight versus two bishops of Topalov, the players drew as there was no opportunity for either to risk.
Topalov looked for minor advantage and Anand sat solid in defence in the ending. Anand had played the Slav defence in the previous encounters and a defeat in game 8 possibly made Anand to change the opening strategy.
With two games to decide the champion in this 2 million Euro series, nerves and reflexes will decide who will be champion. Anand is the defending champion. He had been champion in 2000, 2007 and 2008. Topalov was champion in 2005.
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Asian Under-14 Gold Medalist and FIDE Master, J.Saranya of Thiruvallur accepted the draw offer of R.Visalatchi (Virudhunagar) in the final round and won the title of 38th Tamil Nadu State Women FIDE Chess Championship for Paruben Manila Mehta Trophy scoring 8.0 points from 9 rounds.
Mr.V.Srinivasan, General Manager(Human Resources), CPCL, R.Gnanasekar, Chairman, Manali Municipality and M.S.Nagalingam, President, Parents & Teachers Association,Govt.Hr.Sec.School, Manali gave away the prizes to the winners of the tournament.
Top four rankers of this tournament will represent Tamilnadu in the forthcoming National Women Challenger Chess Championship.
Final Ranking :J.Saranya (TVLR) 8,0; C.H.Savetha (CHE) 7,5; A Akshaya (TVLR) 7,0; J.Mohana Priya (KAN0 7,0; N.Akshaya (CBE) 6,5; P.Michelle Catherina (CHE) 6,5; J.G.Nivedhitha (CHE) 6,5; Aarudhra Ganesh (CBE) 6,5; J.Janani (TVLR) 6,0; R.Visalatchi (VIR) 6,0; S Aarthysri (TVLR) 6,0; M.Poojakanth (NLC) 6,0; P.Sangeetha (TRY) 6,0; R.Nanduja (VIR) 6,0; M.Mahalakshmi (CHE) 5,5;
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11 year old Arvindh Chithambaram from Dolphin School, Madurai did his home state Tamil Nadu proud clinching the National title in the boys section in the RMK Residential Sr. Sec. School 24th National Under 11(B&G) Chess Championship 2010 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Third seeded Arvindh needed a draw in the final round against Delhi boy Harshal Shahi and will composed and cool play, he held the fifith seeded Shahi to a draw. Arvindh finished clear first with 9.5 points from eleven rounds, followed by seven others at 8.5 points. Hetul Shah of Gujarat and Harshal Shahi of Delhi took the second and third spot respectively with high tie-break scores.
The girls section, saw the fight on for the second spot onwards, thanks to Priyamvada winning the title with a round to spare. Ivana Maria Furtada (Goa) and Tejaswini Sagar (Maharashtra) took the second and third place respectively. Priyamvada tallied a whopping 10.0 points from eleven rounds, while Ivana and Tejaswini finished 1.5 points behind at 8.5 points.
The champions were awarded cash prizes of Rs. 10000 (Rupees ten thousand only) each, which came from a prize fund of Rs.55000 sponsored by RMK Group. The prizes were distributed by title sponsor Shri. R S Munirathinam, Chairman, RMK Residential Sr. Sec School and RMK Group in the presence of Shri. P R Venketrama Raja, President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. Also present in the prize function were Shri JCD Prabhakar, Chairman, Organizing Committee and Vice President, TNSCA, Shri D V Sundar, Secy, All India Chess Federation and Shri Y Pradeep, Secy, RMK Residential Sr Sec School.
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Former Olympian and Indian Railway’s star Diwakar Prasad Singh won the 2nd Manali international chess tournament sponsored by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd., and organized by Thiruvallur District Chess Association, today, collecting 9.0 points from 10 rounds and conceding only two draws with T.Gowtham and M.Vijay Anand. His title fetched him a cash prize of twenty five thousand with Manli Rolling Trophy. M.C.Praveen Kumar of ICF and R.Bharathi of Tamilnadu are tied for the second and third places scoring 8.5 points each.
Mr.V.Srinivasan, General Manager(Human Resources), CPCL, R.Gnanasekar, Chairman, Manali Municipality and M.S.Nagalingam, President, Parents & Teachers Association,Govt.Hr.Sec.School, Manali gave away the prizes to the winners of the tournament.
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The fourth game, with Anand in fantastic form, is bound to be a turning point for the whole match. The queen pawn opening was what the world got to see in all the four games.
Topalov had a dream start, when he won the first Grunfeld game against Anand with relative ease. 30 moves was all it took for Topalov to take 1-0 lead. Anand, who won the world titles at Tehran 2000, Mexico City 2007 and Bonn 2008 showed what mettle he is made of.
The second game with Anand starting with 1.d4 saw Topalov going in for Catalan. An unusual queen sortie that resulted in early exchange of queens, saw the game going into a technical middle game. Showing his prowess with adroit piece maneuvers Anand had Topalov in all knots. The game concluded when Anand’s king and rook penetration ended Topalov’s challenge.
Shifting from Grunfeld to Slav defence, Anand held Topalov to a comfortable draw after four hours of play.
It was déjà vu for Anand in the fourth game, where he outplayed Topalov, for the second time in Catalan. A knight sacrifice on the 23rd move ripped open Topalov’s kingside. Following it with a brilliant intervening pawn sacrifice Anand sewed up the game in 32 moves, as the Bulgarian resigned facing checkmate.
Viswanathan Anand – Veselin Topalov (Game 4)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 a5 7. Qc2 Bxd2+ 8. Qxd2 c6 9. a4 b5 10. Na3 Bd7 11. Ne5 Nd5 12. e4 Nb4 13. O-O O-O 14. Rfd1 Be8 15. d5 Qd6 16. Ng4 Qc5 17. Ne3 N8a6 18. dxc6 bxa4 19. Naxc4 Bxc6 20. Rac1 h6 21. Nd6 Qa7 22. Ng4 Rad8 23. Nxh6+ gxh6 24. Qxh6 f6 25. e5 Bxg2 26. exf6 Rxd6 27. Rxd6 Be4 28. Rxe6 Nd3 29. Rc2 Qh7 30. f7+ Qxf7 31. Rxe4 Qf5 32. Re7 1-0
After a day of rest, the fifth game resumes on Friday, 30th April, 2010 with Topalov playing white.
Photo Courtesy: http://www.chessdom.com/
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Venue of RMK Residential Senior Secondary School 24th National Under-11 Chess Championship shifted to Media Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Tamil Nadu State Chess Association!
We are happy to inform you that the preparations for the conduct of R.M.K. Residential Senior Secondary School 24th National Under-11 Boys and Girls Chess Championship are being done in full swing.
Owing to unavoidable circumstances the venue of the above championship has been shifted to Media Centre, J N Stadium, at Chennai itself, which is at walk-able distance from Chennai Central Railway Station.
Fee dormitory type of lodging will be provided to all selected / seeded players (normal entries) plus one official manager nominated by the concerned state association. The donor entries and other accompanying persons will have to make their own arrangements.
Since the championship is shifted to Chennai City we are unable to provide accommodation and food to everybody.
The amount of Rs.1, 000/- already remitted by players / parents towards boarding and lodging at the earlier venue, will be refunded.
The revised prospectus is published in both our website: www.tamilchess.com and AICF’s website: www.indianchessfed.org
To facilitate your hotel booking, we have given the new list of hotels nearby J N Stadium, in the revised prospectus.
We regret the inconvenience, if any, caused to you in this matter.
Soliciting your utmost cooperation for the smooth and successful conduct of the above National Under-11 Chess Championship,
Yours Sincerely,
K.Muralimohan
General Secretary
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
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Tamil Nadu players are requested to register themselves with Tamil Nadu State Chess Association for the year 2010-11 from 1st April 2010 onwards by paying Rs.70/- in cash or by Demand Draft payable at Chennai / Chennai Cheque favouring Tamil Nadu State Chess Association along with duly filled and signed TNSCA player's registration form and a date of birth certificate. A Color passport size photo should be enclosed. The TNSCA player's registration form can be download from our website www.tamilchess.com.
Note: Kindly mention the previous (2009-10) registration number. This number is permanent registration number.
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The 14th TN State U12 and U14 Rapid Chess Championship for boys and girls was held at Saranathan College of Engineering from 12th to 14th February. The 3 day event had attracted around 250 entries from various districts of Tamilnadu. The college had a serene atmosphere and the games were held in the Principal Thothathri Iyengar Seminar Hall.
The tournament was conducted in a 11 round Swiss format with a time control of 25 minutes each and an increment of 5 sec per move. Participation of Top players like Srija Seshadri of Neyveli , former Asian Champion u12 category, B Kumaran of Chennai a former
U9 and U11 state champion, R Vaishali of Tiruvallur , a former under 9 state champion alongwith strong contenders like Akash PC Iyer of Chennai , L Barath of Tiruvallur, Arvind Chidambaram of Madurai had made the event a competitive one.
Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by Shri Ravi Murugaiah , Vice President of TDCA in the presence of Shri Venkatramani, Director – Academic, Saranathan College of Engg.
Shri G G Anandharaja, President TDCA, presided over the function. On the games part
Nr Vignesh took the title in U12 Boys section comfortably after beating his twin brother Visakh in the 8th round. Visakh took the sole second spot .Dharani Shree of Chennai won the U12 Girls category after overcoming the challenge of CK Varsha of Coimbatore in the 5th round. Varsha took the runner up spot. The 14 boys section with 20 rated players offered a plenty of fight with good games. L Barath of Bloom Chess Academy, the 4th seed shot into lead with a lucky win over Akash PC Iyer in the 4th round. Though he suffered a setback in losing to TKS Arjun of Trichy in the 7th round, he regained his lead and title with steady play. In the girls section of U14 Srija started with a shocking loss to Meenakshi of Vellore . Further loss to Sangeetha of Salem threatened her title , but exposure in the international and national matches helped her to overcome the challenges to win the championshiop by scoring 9 wins.
Sri S Ravindran, Secretary – Saranathan College of Engg., distributed the prizes for the winners in Closing ceremony. Shri K.Muralimohan , Gen Secretary , TNSCA in his special address stressed the passion towards the game and Dr Kalaiselvan , Dist Sports Officer, Trichy felicitated the players. Trichy District Chess Association, under the leadership of Shri G K Irudayaraj has added another feather in the cap. The speciality of the PD function was the first prize winners were presented with a gold coin embedded in a laminated certificate.
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Round 11: Turov wins title
Maxim Turov of Russia won the Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament sponsored by LIC & ONGC and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation, today, collecting 9.5 points from 11 rounds and conceding only three draws. His title fetched him a cash prize of two lakh rupees. GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh, R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu and national junior champion M.R. Lalith Babu of Andhra Pradesh, tied for the second to fourth places scoring 9 points each. They were placed in that order based on the Buchholz tiebreak.
Maxim had a formal seventeen move draw against Ziaur and Lalith Babu could not make any headway in his game against the fellow IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines and settled for a draw.
R. Siddharth extended his good show, carving out a nice win over Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram, also of Tamil Nadu. He mopped up Ashwin’s king side pawns completely and Ashwin resigned when his queen was trapped by Siddharth’s aggressive rook.
After winning a knight for two pawns, Pavel Kptsur of Kazakhstan tried in vain to win against Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways. Kamble stoutly defended the position and agreed for a draw in a king vs and king and pawn position.
Six times national woman champion S. Vijayalakshmi of Indian Airlines found her rhythm against former under 25 national champion B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways. By splitting the point with GM Alexander Zubarev of Ukriane, Anwesh Upadhyaya of Oriss lost his chances to obtain the GM norm, in addition to the IM norm already earned. Combining his queen and knight beautifully, GM Sundaarajan Kidambi checkmated former national champion P. Konguvel.
Shri. Y. Pradeep, Secretary, RMK Residential School was the chief guest for the prize distribution function. Shri. R. Ganesan, Chairman of the organizing committee presided, Mr. Nagesh, Regional Manager, LIC of India was the Guest of Honour. Shri A. Surya Narayana Rao, Correspondent, Jawahar Vidyalaya and Shri. J.C.D. Prabhakar, Vice President, TN State Chess Association offered felicitations.
Round 10: Maxim Turov maintains lead
Maxim Turov of Russia increased his chances to clinch the title in the Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament, sponsored by LIC & ONGC and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation, Chennai. In the tenth and penultimate round today, he had a safe 41 move draw against Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways. Maxim is on 9 points and closely on his heels are former national champion M.R. Lalith Babu of A.P. and Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman on 8.5 points. Lalith Babu had a well deserved victory over GM Dmitry Ktyakvin of Russia. Maxim has been pitted against Ziaur and Lalith Babu crosses swords with the Filippino IM Richard Bitoon. A pyrotechnic display is expected on the top board, as Ziaur also has chances to win the title, if he beats Maxim.
Barring the first board, the other top boards went into full distance, as players fought for supremacy.
Dmitry sacrificed his knight by playing Nh4 on the 17th move, to open the castled king side against Lalith Babu. Thogh there were less pices on the board, the game became complicated and Lalith managed to maintain the upper hand. After exchanging the queens, Lalith grabbed another knight on the 67th move forcing a win. With this win, Lalith also earned his second GM norm.
Ziaur Rahman sacrificed his knight for two pawns against Rinat Jhumabyev to get an attacking position. Though Rinat was a piece up, Ziaur’s queen and rook combined beautifully to grab Rinat’s rook. Immediately Rinat surrendered. This is the first loss to Rinat in this tournament.
Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram also had a convincing victory over GM Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in a Pirc defence game, with an onslaught right from the start. He faces Siddharth tomorrow and interestingly there are three Indian IMs and untitled Siddharth among the eight players on the top four boards of the final round. Former Commonwealth champion RB. Ramesh of Tamil Nadu made an exchange sacrifice to create a passer pawn on the 27th move against former under 25 national champion B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways. When he realized that there was no compensation later, he gave up the fight.
Round 9: Seven Indians get norms
Russian grandmaster Maxim Turov enhanced his lead by a full point over IM M.R. Lalith Babu of A.P., Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways, Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan and Ziaur Rahman of Bangladsh in the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 International chess tournament organized by Sports Promotion Foundation today. At the end of the ninth round, Maxim has scored 8.5 points, an amazing run in such a kind of tournament. The notable feature of the ninth round is that R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu achieved his maiden GM norm and six other Indians – P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu, Anwesh Upadyaya and Swayams Mishra of Orissa, Vaibhav Suri of Delhi and Fenil Shah and Ankit Rajpara of Gujarat secured IM norms.
Maxim played a solid game again using his favourite Caro Kann defence against Marat Dzhimaev of Uzbekistan. His pawn capture using the rook on two consecutive moves (33 and 34) sealed the game in his favour. The hitherto unbeaten Anwesh Upadyaya met his waterloo at the hands of Rinat. Rinat controlled the e- file with his rook and his e4 move paved way for a checkmate or queen loss with Bh3, a move later.
In an exchange down position Manik Mikulas of Slovekia had a plenty of compensation in the form three extra Pawns against Ziaur Rahman. But, he had to give up his knight to prevent Ziaur’s centre pawn reaching the eighth rank. With two rooks acting in tandem, Ziaur snatched the game away from Manik in 64 moves.
In an absorbing game between Lalith Babu and Shyam Nikil, there were attacks and counter attacks. In the process, Shyam lost the exchange, losing his queen for a rook and bishop. He fought valiantly but Lalith Babu kept the pressure on to gain a point on the 33rd move. The Sicilian defence played by the top seed Eshan Ghaem Maghami against Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram went against Maghami. After exchanging all the pieces, Ashwin had a pawn at the end and with his king ahead, it was not a problem for him to win.
Vikramaditya Kamble felled another grandmaster S. Arun Prasad in a semi Slav defence, launching a heavy attack on the king side. Siddharth quelled the challenge of GM Martyn Kravysiv of Ukraine in an aggressive game comprising 53 moves. The win earned him his maiden GM norm. Another GM victim is the national Blitz champion R.R. Laxman of ICF at the hands of Somak Palit of Railways.
Round 8: Maxim maitains lead
Russian grandmaster Maxim Turov (7.5 points) maintained his half point lead over Uzbek GM Marat Dzhumaev and unstoppable Anwesh Upadyaya of Orissa at the end of the eighth round of the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament organised by Sports promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor stadium, Chennai today. Six players among whom three are Indians – P. Shyam Nikil, M.R. Lalith Babu of A.P. and Vikramaditya Kamble of Railways have scored 6.5 points each.
Anwesh again played a sensational game and his fine run continued, the victim in the eighth round being Ukraine GM Martyn Kravtsiv. Playing Petroff defence, Anwesh sacrificed his knight for two central pawns on the 17th move. He again sacrificed his rook two moves later but got it back soon. When the result was clear on the wall by move 35, Anwesh was up by four pawns. By the end of the eighth round and after making the ninth round pairing, Anwesh has secured his IM norm and set to make his GM norm also, if the trend continues.
Maxim and Lalith Babu played the Caro kann defence very fast, with plenty of time left on the clock. Maxim played a strong Nf5 on move 15, which almost decided the game in his favour. The grandmaster’s vast experience helped him later to pocket the point in a bishop Vs knight ending with an extra pawn.
In a Ruy Lopez opening by Shyam Nikil, his opponent R.B. Ramesh, former Commonwealth and British champion overlooked an in between Qb3 move by Shyam. Shyam gained a minor piece in exchange for his two pawns and kept the tempo to earn a point and his final IM norm.
In a classical Sicilian defence, Marat was involved in a long drawn battle before securing a full point against Dimtry Kryakvin of Russia. Marat marched his pawn towards the eighth rank and Dmitry had to forego his knight to eliminate the pawn from the board. The rest was mere technique and Marat won in 83 moves.
Irespective of losing the queen for rook, Vikramdit Kamble brilliantly defended his position to force a draw in a French classical exchange game against Maniuk Mikulas the GM from Slovekia. After agreeing to a well fought draw in 30 moves with J. Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB, R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu obtained his IM norm, with a round to spare.
Round 7: Lalith Babu shares the lead
M.R. Lalith Babu of Andra Pradesh joined the overnight leader GM Maxim Turov of Russia at the top with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round of the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 Chess international tournament, organized by Sports Promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai, today. Russian GM Dmitry Kryakvin, Uzbek GM Marat Dzhumaev, Slovekian GM Manik Mikulas, Ukraine GM Martyn Kravtsiv, IM VIkramaditya Kamble of Railways and Anwesh Upadyaya of Orissa are on the second spot with 6 points each.
Lalith Babu subdued former Asian Junior champion Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB in a Grunfeld defence. Deepan lost a pawn on the 13th move and both exchanged the pieces in a fast pace. Both had a pawn at the centre each, but Lalith babu effectively controlled the back rank. Deepan resigned when his d- pawn was almost trapped on the 30th move. On the top board, Turov Maxim of Russia dropped half a point for the first time in the tournament to his compatriot Dmitry Kryakvin in a Ruy Lopez game lasting just 12 moves.
In another Ruy Lopez game followed by the Asian Junior champion Ashwin Jayaram of Tamil Nadu, his opponent Martyn Kravtsiv grabbed a knight in exchange for a seventh rank pawn and won easily. Orissa youngsters were on the rampage today, as Swayam Mishra outwitted GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan in 75 moves. After exchanging the queens on the 57th move, Swayams was in a good position with connected pawns on the c- and d- files. His additional g- pawn threatened promotion with the support of the king and Saidali gave up the fight.
Anwesh played a swashbuckling game, offering sacrifices at will to demolish IM Bitoon Richard of Philippines in 28 moves of a Sicilian Keres attack. Former bronze medalist in the world under 10 championship M.R. Venkatesh of PSPB drew with GM Ziaur rahman of Bangladesh R. Siddharth, the erstwhile leader from Tamil Nadu also forced a draw against Rinat Jumabaev. Fenil Sha, the Gujarat youngster had a good day defeating Saptarshi Roy of Railways.
Round 6: IM Lalith Babu shocks GM Zubarev, Maxim Turov in sole lead
On a day with mixed results on the top boards IM Norm aspirant R Siddharth lost his game against Russian GM Maxim Turov in the 6th round of Chennai Open 2010 an International Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament , being held at the Multipurpose Indoor stadium at Chennai. The ten days mega event is organized by the Sports Promotion Foundation. Playing the white side Siddharth chose an offbeat line and castled on the longside to attack. Turov exploited the weak pawns of white and exchanged pieces at regular intervals to enter a favourable rook ending. The game ended in Turov’s favour in 58 moves. Turov takes the sole lead with 6.0 pts followed by GM’s Kryakvin of Russia & Deepan Chakkravarthy of India, IM Lalith Babu with 5.5 pts apiece are in the joint second spot.
In a game between Russian GM’s Kryakvin and Gutov, the better rated Kryakvin played a powerful game from Bishop opening to outplay his team mate. Kryakvin threatened black’s king with his Queen and rook. Further array of the minor pieces focussing the f6 and h6 squares resulted in white’ win in 33 moves.
IM Lalith Babu was impeccable in his victory over GM Alexander Zhubarev of Russia . From the white side of the Semi Slav variation Lalith won a pawn on the 34th move to get a comfortable position. In time pressure the Grandmaster tried to complicate the position by sacrificing a pawn on 38th move. Unperturbed Lalith neutralized threats and threatened to promote his b and h pawns simultaneously, to force resignation in 54 moves.
Orissa’s top youngster Anwesh Upadyaya held GM Kidambi to a creditable draw from the white side of the Caro Kann defense in 26 moves. GM Deepan Chakkravarthy joined the second spot with a facile win over IM Swapnil Dhopade in 31 moves. A local youngster by name M.Siddarth caused a mild flutter by beating IM Lim Yee Weng of Malaysia. With 5 more rounds to go the event is interestingly poised. Triple IM Norm Holder Arun Karthik held experienced Uzbek GM Iuldachev despite a piece down, but having extra pawns to show far. The game was so interesting with both players entering into acute time pressure. Arun a piece down scored a valuable half point with a tactical stalemate pattern in 77 moves.
Round 5: R. Siddharth of Tamil Nadu on song
Former under age category national champion R. Sidharth of Tamil Nadu displayed a giant killing act defeating Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh in the fifth round of the Chennai Open 2010 International chess tournament sponsored by LIC of India and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation and organised by Sports Promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai today. He and the second seeded grandmaster Maxim Turov of Russia are leading with a cent per cent score. Thirteen players are trailing behind with 4.5 points each. Six more rounds remain to be played.
Siddharth today proved that his increase in rating by 105 points in three months last year was not a flash in the pan. The engineering student pursuing his MS degree in US played a patient waiting game and overcame Ziaur by positional play. His pair of knights played havoc to rattle the opponent and in the end, he had three pawns, of which two were connected, in comparison to the isolated pawns of Ziaur. Siddharth won the game in 49 moves.
Maxim won the English opening comfortably against Oliver Dimakiling of Philippines using his powerful connected pawns at the centre. Mehar Chenna Reddy claimed honours when he won the queen and pawn ending against experienced R.R. Laxman, the grandmaster representing ICF. The national Blitz champion Lakshman lost a pawn first and another pawn later. When Mehar was about to queen his pawn, Laxman resigned. Overnight joint leaders Anwesh Upadyaya of Orissa and Ankit Rajpara of Gujarat were content with draws against grandmaster Marat Azhumaev of Uzbekistan and IM Richard Bitoon of Philippines to stay in contention for their IM norms.
Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran, the top seed had his third draw in five rounds, this time against former under 14 national champion T.U. Navin Kanna of Tamil Nadu. Grandmasters Dmitry Kryakvin of Russia, Alexander Zubraev of Ukraine, Sundarrajan Kidambi and Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB, Andrey Gutov of Russia and Manik Mikulas had a field day today, scoring easy win. G.V. Sai Krishna, under 13 national champion in 2008 caused a flutter by defeating former national champion P. Konguvel of PSPB. Six times national woman champion S. Vijayalaksmi settled for a draw with T.J. Suresh Kumar of ICF.
Round 4: Eight players share lead
Untitled Indians are in the forefront, as three of them R. Sidharth of Tamil Nadu, Ankit Rajpara of Maharashtra and Anwesh Upadyaya of Orissa lead with four points each, along with three foreign grandmasters and two Philippino international masters at the end of the fourth round of the LIC & ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 international chess tournament, organized by Sports Promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai today. Ankit Rajpara continued his good show beating M.S. Thej Kumar, international master from Karnataka and Anwesh accounted for another IM Anup Deshmukh of LIC.
On the top board, Maxim Turov employed his favourite Caro Kann defence against P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu, a former under 17 national champion. Maxim gained a pawn on the 17th move and capitalized an unnecessary knight sacrifice by Shyam on the 23rd move. Shyam resigned fourteen moves later. In an equal position arising from a Queens Gambit Declined game, former under 25 national champion B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways played a weak f3 move against Ziaur Rehman of Bangladesh on the second board. Eleven moves later, Murali lost a pawn and soon the game also.
Delhi youngster Vaibhav Suri upset the apple cart of GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan in a French defence game by handling his knight and rook well.
Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan played a steady game against Vikramaditye Kamble of Railways and gained a minor piece in the process. Both marched their pawn to the seventh rank, but Marat’s rook was better placed and Kamble’s rook could not prevent his opponent’s pawn from promotion. Marat won in 43 moves.
The day belonged to Ankit Rajpara again. In a queen and equal pawn ending, Ankit’s b- pawn raced towards the eighth rank, when Thej surrendered. Anwesh forced Anup to lose his knight and threatened to queen the pawn. Anup resigned when he was about to lose one more pawn. Top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran again conceded a draw to Arun Karthik of Chennai to reach 3 points. Highly rated GM, S. Arun Prasad of PSPB had to be content with a draw against Chennai’s young player S. Kaushik.
Round 3: Ankit Rajpara upsets Saidali
Ankit Rajpara of Maharashtra shocked grandmaster Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan to be among the leaders with 3 points at the end of the third round of the LIC and ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 chess tournament organized by Sports Promotion Foundation here today.
Twenty three players including second seeded Maxim Turov of Russia, Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan, Manik Mikulas of Slovekia, Ankit Rajapara, Anup Deshmukh of Maharashtra, Saptarshi Roy Choudhury and B.T. Muralikrishnan of Railways and P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu have scored a centum score.
Ankit chose the exchange variation of Ruy Lopez opening and positioned his pieces well. In the end game, he had a good active knight against bad bishop of Saidali to post a fluent win.
Adopting Nimzo Indian defence, Udeshi Aditya attacked Maxim’s king side, but the latter defended well to maintain parity. He slowly developed his pieces and gained the exchange. As game went by, Maxim maximized the pressure with his queen and rook and set to win a piece, when Aditya resign
Round 2:Sayantan shocks Arun Prasad
Former world under 10 champion 2008 Sayantan Das of West Bengal achieved the biggest victory of his career by stunning the in form grand master S. Arun Prasad of PSPB in the second round of the LIC and ONGC sponsored Chennai Open 2010 chess tournament organized by Sports Promotion Foundation at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, here today. Four grandmasters Zubraev Alexander of Ukraine, Andrey Gutov of Russia, R.R. Laxman of ICF and Deepan Chakkaravarthy of PSPB shed half a point each, four international masters lost and four more drew their games today.
Sayantan placed 365 points below Arun Prasad in the international Elo ratings did not bother about it and played a solid game. He did not try to recover the pawn he gave up in the opening phase until the end of the middle game. He controlled the e-file beautifully with his rook and Arun had to forego his rook and a pawn to Sayantan’s bishop. This paved the way for his memorable victory in 37 moves.
On the top board, second seeded Maxim Turov of Russia outwitted Fenil Shah of Gujatat in a Caro Kann game extending to 38 moves. Maxim extricated a pawn from his opponent on the 22nd move and played a positional game steadily. After exchanging the queens, Fenil resigned immediately when his rook was forked.
S. Vijayalakshmi, the first woman grandmaster from India and six times national woman champion blundered a piece and lost the game to J. Malleswar Rao of A.P. K. Rathnakaran of Railways, unexpectedly lost to the upcoming fourteen year old G. Akash, the TN state under 25 champion. Another international master Himanshu Sharma of Haryana was a casualty at the hands of Vinod Bhagwat.
Pavel Kotsur, playing black anchored his bishop at e3 and his queen penetrated into the seventh rank to make a terrific attack on Tejas Ravichandran’s (Chennai) king. It resulted in a loss of material and Tejas resigned without any hesitation. With exchange and two pawns up, Ziaur Rehman, the grandmaster from Bangladesh wrapped up the game in style in 50 moves against C.R.G. Krishna, winner of the N. Prasad memorial FIDE rated tournament in Visakhapatnam. R.R. Laxman, who represented India in the Asian Indoor Games had to agree for a draw against the Commonwealth Under 18 girls’ champion Pon N Krithika of Chennai, after losing the exchange. Local lad Ajay Srikanth forced a draw against former national champion P. Knguvel of ONGC.
Former Asian Junior champion Deepan Chakkravarthy had to sweat it out before securing a draw against C. Natarajan of ICF, by perpetual checks.
Round 1:Top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran held to a draw
The 2nd Chennai International Open Chess tournament sponsored by LIC and ONGC, supported by government of India and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation got off with a bang, three youngsters forcing experienced grandmaster opponents to creditable draw. Thirteen year old unheralded WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama of Andhra Pradesh held the top seeded Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran, fourteen year old Osama Salim of Chennai split the point with third seeded Kryakvin Dmitry of Russia and 1998 born B. Kumaran of Chennai let India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua off the hook.
Sai Nirupama opted for the Reti Opening with white pieces and both chose the main line of play. Maghami played a safe game, exchanging the queens on 20th move, thus trying to outwit his opponent through a simple end game. Once Sai Nirupama grabbed the c- pawn, the game looked heading towards a draw and Maghami could not make any breakthrough in a knight and pawn ending. Maghami had to settle for the draw after 42 moves.
In a transposed Caro Kann game, Osama Salim defended well to Dmitry’s attack and exchanged the queens on 23rd move. In the end game, Dmitry had two advantageous connected pawns on the e- and f- files in comparison to Osama’s h- pawn. Dmitry missed some winning chances and allowed Osama to escape with a draw.
Kumaran, thiry six years younger to the seasoned grandmaster Barua handled his knight very well, exchanging it later for a rook and pawn. Barua managed to get back the exchange but was left with a pawn down and he had to use all his resources to repeat the position and extract half a point. Second seeded Maxim Turov of Russia had it easy against Shiv Shankar Dave of Rajasthan and Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan posted a comfortable victory over S.L. Narayanan of Kerala. Arun Prasad, who is in good nick accounted for S. Sathyanarayanan and the Ukraine grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn did not sweat much to dispose V.S. Sakthivel Pandian of Tamil Nadu.
Inauguration:CHENNAI OPEN INAUGURATED
The Chennai Open 2010, the prestigious international grandmaster chess tournament sponsored by LIC and ONGC, supported by Government of India and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation was inaugurated at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium today. With 19 GMs and 27 IMs in the fray, the number of players in the tournament has crossed the magic figure of 400. In addition to the GMs and IMs, 13 FMs, three WGMs, 14 WIMs and 5 WFMs have confirmed their participation.
Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran, winner of the Parsvnath International Open tournament in Delhi, two days back, with an international rating of 2589 is the top seeded player, followed by Maxim Turov of Russia. The Indian challenge is spearheaded by grandmaster S. Arun Prasad, a member of the Indian team which won the bronze medal in the recently concluded World Team Chess Championship at Turkey. Former Asian Junior champion Deepan Chakkaravarthy, India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua, former Commonwelath champion Abhijit Kunte, Sundarrajan Kidambi, former British champion R.B. Ramesh and national Blitz champion R.R. Laxman complete the list of grandmasters. India’s first woman grandmaster S. Vijayalaksmi, winner of many medals in the Women Olympiad is playing after a long lay off for about two years.
The tournament will be played under Swiss system with a time control of 90 minutes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds for each move.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Satyabrata Sahoo IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and Mr. V.K. Sharma, Zonal Manager, LIC of India. Mr.P.R. Venketrama Raja, Managing Director, Ramco Industries and President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr. Manuel Aaron, first international master and nine times national champion offered felicitations to Sasikiran, Arun Prasad and Adhiban, players from Tamil Nadu who were members of the Indian team, which won the bronze medal in the World Team championship. Sasikiran replied to the felicitation on behalf of the trio. The first round starts tomorrow morning.
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Rathanvel VS of Coimbatore and Priyanka K of Tirupur were emerged champions in
23rd TN State Under-9 Boys and Girls Chess Championship held at Hosur from 17th to 23rd January 2010. The Kovai lad scored 9.5 points out of 11 rounds while priyanka K of Tirupur scored 10 points out of possible 11 rounds. This championship has attracted more than 140 entries from various districts of Tamil Nadu. The top two players from this championship will represent the state in forthcoming National Under-9 Chess Championship.
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The National Team Chess Championship to be held at Haryana from 21st to 28th February, 2010 will henceforth be called “NATIONAL CLUB TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP”
The FIDE has introduced World club team chess championship to be held at Abu Dhabi, UAE from 11th to 28th July, 2010. The All India Chess Federation will recommend the team on the basis of Ranking obtained from this National Club Team Chess Championship.
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The Chennai Open 2010, the prestigious international grandmaster chess tournament sponsored by LIC and ONGC, supported by Government of India and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and organized by Sports Promotion Foundation was inaugurated at the Multipurpose Indoor Stadium today. With 19 GMs and 27 IMs in the fray, the number of players in the tournament has crossed the magic figure of 400. In addition to the GMs and IMs, 13 FMs, three WGMs, 14 WIMs and 5 WFMs have confirmed their participation.
Eshan Ghaem Maghami of Iran, winner of the Parsvnath International Open tournament in Delhi, two days back, with an international rating of 2589 is the top seeded player, followed by Maxim Turov of Russia. The Indian challenge is spearheaded by grandmaster S. Arun Prasad and national champion B. Adhiban, both of whom were members of the Indian team which won the bronze medal in the recently concluded World Team Chess Championship at Turkey. Former Asian Junior champion Deepan Chakkaravarthy, India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua, former Commonwelath champion Abhijit Kunte, Sundarrajan Kidambi, former Brirish champion R.B. Ramesh and national Blitz champion R.R. Laxman complete the list of grandmasters. India’s first woman grandmaster S. Vijayalaksmi, winner of many medals in the Women Olympiad is playing after a long lay off for about two years.
The tournament will be played under Swiss system with a time control of 90 minutes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds for each move.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Satyabrata Sahoo IAS, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and Mr. V.K. Sharma, Zonal Manager, LIC of India. Mr.P.R. Venketrama Raja, Managing Director, Ramco Industries and President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Mr. Manuel Aaron, first international master and nine times national champion offered felicitations to Sasikiran, Arun Prasad and Adhiban, players from Tamil Nadu who were members of the Indian team, which won the bronze medal in the World Team championship. Sasikiran replied to the felicitation on behalf of the trio. The first round starts tomorrow morning.
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Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Sports Promotion Foundation will jointly organize a Blitz Chess Tournament on 24-01-2010 from 3 P.M onwards at Jawaharlal Nehru Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai-3. Each player will be alloted 5 mins on the chess clock to complete all the moves of his/her game. The total Cash Prize fund is Rs.5,000/- and the Winner will be awarded Rs.2,000/-. Special Prizes will be awarded to the Toppers in under - 8, 10, 12, 14 & 16 age groups. The entry fee is Rs.50/- per player. For entries contact Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Hall No. 75, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai-3. Tel. 2538 4477 / 2536 6464. Mobile: 96770 42717 email: tnchess64@gmail.com
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World champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign in Wijk aan Zee quietly with two draws against Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine with the black pieces and against Nigel Short with the white pieces.
Anand's 2000 World Championship finalist, 1972-born Alexei Shirov is leading with two full points. Hikaru Nakamura and Magnus Carlsen are in the second-third places with 1.5 points.
Anand is in a large group of players (incl Kramnik, Ivanchuk etc) tied with one point from two games. It is a 14-player all-play-all and runs until Jan 31, 2010.
Grand Master Group B
Third seed P. Harikrishna drew with Emil Sutovsky in the second round and recovered from the opening round defeat he suffered from Anish Giri of the Netherlands. Harikrishna is on 0.5/2 along with V. Akobian who also played at Bursa in Turkey. Anish Giri leads with 2/2. Negi is on one point after making draws with Howell and Anna Muzuchuk.
Grand Master Group C
In this group, Soumya Swaminathan recovered from round one defeat with a draw draw against Swinkels in round two. She is on 0.5/2. Adhijeet Gupta is on one point after two draws. Robson who beat Soumya in the first round leads with 2/2.
The Corus Chess Tournament is one of the longest running chess events in the world after the Hastings Tournament.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand is back at Wijk aan Zee to participate in the Corus Chess Tournament. Anand, the five-time record holder of this event is ahead of Max Euwe (Dutch World Champion), Viktor Korchnoi and Lajos Portisch all of whom won it four times. Anand will be looking for his sixth title.
The field has a strong category 19 line up with many young rising players who are probably worth more than their rating. World No.1 Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk are among the 14 players for an all-play-all. The event starts January 16 and runs until Jan 31 with a full three free days.
Besides the honour of having won this tournament the most number of times, Anand also has other good memories of Wijk aan Zee which includes in defeating Artur Yusupov in the World Championship Candidates match in 1994. Anand takes on Sergey Karjakin in the opener with the black pieces. The pairing has been good to Anand. He gets white against archrival Kramnik and also youngsters Carlsen and Nakamura.
Two Indians, Pentala Harikrishna and Parimarjan Negi are in the Grand Master Group B which has a category 16 field. Germany's Arkady Naiditch is the top seed and Nisipeanu of Romania is the second seed ahead of Harikrishna the third seed. Harikrishna takes on 1994-born Anish Giri, in the opening round. Anish Giri is an emerging Dutch grandmaster with a rating of 2588.
India has two more players but in the Grand Master group C. World Junior champion of 2008 Abhijeet Gupta and World Junior girls champion of 2009 Soumya Swaminathan find a place in this category 9 grandmaster tournament. Soumya takes on 16-year old Dutch boy Robson in the opening round.
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India finished with three victories in a row to win the bronze medal on maiden appearance in the World Team Championship that came to a close at Turkey on Jan 13.
India humbled Brazil 3.5-0.5, also by the biggest margin achieved in this event by all teams. India was the most impressive of all teams. India won the last three matches in a row to keep the nerve and win the bronze medal.
Total Team Effort: Sundar
D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the All India Chess Federation said it was a total team effort and all the six players pulled up their weight in the crucial moments of each round to achieve this feat. The All India Chess Federation announced a cash award of Rs.25,000 for each of the six players.
India scored six wins, and drew Olympiad champions Armenia, and lost to Russia and USA. This display was spirited and led by Krishnan Sasikiran at the top and later Ganguly joined in the scoring in the second half.
India had upset Israel, Azerbaijan and drawn Armenia and certainly send a message of our big progress in chess in the last few years.
India Thrash Brazil
In the final round, India did not let go the leg from the pedal and won their third straight match. It was Ganguly who took the advantage and send the Brazilians in the backfoot on the third board. Gopal scored using his passed central pawn to give India the lead. Harikrishna added to the lead by winning a pawn and entering a won ending.
With two wins in the bag, Sasikiran drew with black to help India win the bronze medal. Later, Ganguly added to the tally by rolling his queen bishop pawn to glory. An excellent performance by a team coached by Grand Master Lev Psakhis of Israel.
India was robbed of the silver had USA and Azerbaijan fought their match. They went for four draws on 30 moves and later to follow the rules of the competition which forbids agreed draw in under 30 moves.
Indian results: India beat Greece 2.5-1.5, lost to USA 1-3, beat Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5, beat Turkey 3-1, drew Armenia 2-2, lost to Russia 1.5-2.5, beat Egypt 2.5-1.5, beat Israel 2.5-1.5, beat Brazil 3.5-0.5. India scores: Sasikiran 5.5/9, Harikrishna 4/8, Ganguly 5/7, Gopal 3/5, Arun Prasad 2.5/5, Adhiban 1/2.
The results (round nine): Egypt (3) lost to Armenia (12) 1-3, Israel (7) lost to Russia (15) 1-3, Brazil (4) lost to India (13) (Rafael Leitao drew with K. Sasikiran, Alexandr Fier lost to P. Harikrishna, G. Milos lost to S.S. Ganguly, Andre Diamant lost to G.N. Gopal) 0.5-3.5, Greece (8) bt Turkey (3) 2.5-1.5, USA (13) drew with Azerbaijan (12) 2-2.
Final placings (tie-break order): 1 Russia 15, 2 USA 13, 3 India 13, 4 Azerbaijan 12, 5 Armenia 12, 6 Greece 8, 7 Israel 7, 8 Brazil 4, 9 Egypt 3, 10 Turkey 3.
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A. Akshaya of Velaiyan Chettiar MHSS clinched the Rachel Paranjothy Memorial Trophy in the RAMCO 28th Rachel Paranjothy Women Chess Tournament being organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at Ethiraj College here today.
A. Akshaya and J. Saranya tied for the first place, based on the Progressive tie-break system A.Akshaya declared as a Champion.J. Saranya of Velammal MHS School won the runner up with 6.5 points. G. Apurva of Kanchi scored 6 points and secured third place.
The Chief Guest Dr. Swarnalatha Joseph (Former Tamil Nadu State Women Champion and an Old student of the Ethiraj College gave away the prizes to the winners.
3 players namely, Charvi Nangia, Hinu Kauser and K. Lavanya of Ethiraj College got the special prizes.
Final Standings:
A. Akshaya (Velaiyan Chettiar MHSS) (6.5) Rs. 5000/- ;
J. Saranya (Velammal MHSS) (6.5) Rs. 3000/- ;
G. Apurva (KAN) (6) Rs.2000/-;
G.K. Monnisha (Velammal MHSS) (6) Rs.1200/-;
S. Harini (SRM Arts & Science College) (6) Rs.800/-;
V. Shvetha (Modern SSS) (6) Rs.600/-;
B. Jeyassri (Amirtha Vidyalaya) (6) Rs.500/-;
M. Mahalakshmi (Velammal MHSS) (5.5) Rs.400/-;
G. Sushmitha (Jawahar Vidyalaya) (5.5) Rs.300/-;
J. Janani (Velammal MHSS) (5) Rs.300/-;
R. Dharani Sree (Chettinad Vidyashram) (5) Rs.300/-;
J.G. Nivedhitha (Everwin MHSS) (5) Rs.300/-;
R.Abirami (Velammal MHSS) (5) Rs.300/-;
N.Hemapriya (Velammal MHSS) (5) Rs.300/-;
R. Manjula (Sabastian) (5) Rs. 300/-;
S. Balambika (Alagappa Mat, Karaikudi) (5) Rs.300/-;
R. Divyalakshmi (Leo MHSS) (5) Rs.300/-;
Final round Results:
A. Akshaya (Velaiyan Chettiar MHSS) (6.5) lost to S. Harini (SRM Arts & Science
College) 6;
J. Saranya (Velammal MHSS) (6.5) bt G. Apurva (KAN) (6);
G.K. Monnisha (Velammal MHSS) (6) bt J.G. Nivedhitha (Everwin MHSS) (5);
M. Mahalakshmi (Velammal MHSS) (5.5) drew with G. Sushmitha (Jawahar
Vidyalaya) (5.5);
V. Shvetha (Modern SSS) (6) bt R. Dharani Sree (Chettinad) (5);
B. Jeyassri (Amirtha Vidyalaya) (6) bt T.R. Nandhini (Karur) (4.5);
S. Manasa (Chettinad Vidyashram) (4) lost to J. Janani (Velammal) (5);
N.Hemapriya (Velammal) (5) bt S. Mohanapriya (KCF) (4);
R.Abirami (Velammal MHSS) (5) bt R. Akshaya (SBMS) (4);
R. Vaishali (Velammal MHSS) (4) lost to R. Manjula (Sabastian) (5);
S. Balambika (Alagappa Mat, Karaikudi) (5) bt Y. Saranya (Velammal MHSS) (4);
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India shocked second seed Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5 to move into joint lead at the end of the third round in the world Team Championship that is taking place at Bursa in Turkey on January 7, 2010. Birthday Boy Krishnan Sashikiran lead India to this memorable win. Sasikiran celebrated his 29th birthday on January 7. India could not have asked for more from this 1981-born player from Chennai. His parents worked in banks and his father S.Krishnan was also a chess player representing Reserve Bank of India.
Six teams are leading with four points and it includes India, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, USA and Israel. Each team which wins 2.5-1.5 or 4-0 get two match points and one match point for 2-2 draw and zero points for a defeat. Six rounds remain to be played. India faces Turkey on January 8 and Adhiban might get to replace G.N. Gopal from the last team.
Round three was eventful as both the overnight leaders were felled. India came from behind to defeat Azerbaijan while Russia proved what top class chess was in inflicting 3-1 defeat on the United States.
Indians pulled up after Gopal lost on the fourth board in a remarkable way. Mamedyarov was too strong for Gopal and his king side offensive saw no stopping. Harikrishna was in trouble but Radjabov's time trouble and poor knight placing came as a silver lining for India. Finally, Radjabov took a draw by perpetual checks. Azerbaijan were ahead 1.5-0.5 on their white boards.
India made a 2-0 sweep in our white boards and wins were provided by Krishnan Sasikiran and Surya Shekhar Ganguly. On the third board, Ganguly had Gadir Guseinov under the pedal for long with the white pieces and would not take his pressure off even after winning a pawn. Guseinov levelled pawns but Ganguly's queen and rook combined for a mating net. scores were level 1.5-1.5.
Sasikiran is an excellent team man. He sacrificed two pawns in the Nimzo-Indian defence opening with the white pieces. Gashimov returned the material to enter what seemed a level rook and opposite colour bishop ending. Sasikiran trooped in with his rook to win a pawn and created chances. Gashimov blundered a bishop and Sasikiran converted the material for India's memorable triumph.
India is playing the World Team Championship for the first time. In short time, the team was selected and the coach from Israel (Lev Psakhis) was flown to Bursa in Turkey. India's rating average was 2646 and Azerbaijan was 2715. Sasikiran and Ganguly have played a crucial role in our splendid showing so far. It is hard to believe that India is in lead. But that is the fact.
The results (round three): Turkey (0) lost to Armenia (4) 0.5-3.5, India (4) bt Azerbaijan (4) (K. Sasikiran bt Vugar Gashimov, P. Harikrishna drew with Teimour Radjabov, S.S. Ganguly bt Gadir Guseinov, G.N. Gopal lost to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov) 2.5-1.5, Russia (4) bt USA (4) 3-1, Egypt (2) bt Greece (2) 2.5-1.5, Israel (4) bt Brazil (2) 2.5-1.5.
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Salem Grand Master S. Arun Prasad defeated Grand Master S. Halkias to help India score a round one victory over Greece in the World Team Chess Championship at Bursa in Turkey on January 5.
India won this fourth board encounter to win the match 2.5-1.5 and take two match points from this opening match. India is making a debut in this World Team Chess Championship.
India was lucky in the end as G.N. Gopal who was down by two pawns pulled ahead and made a draw with H. Banikas with the white pieces.
Earlier, K. Sasikiran had drawn the experienced V. Kotronias on the top table from a Tarrasch defence. Sasikiran recovered from the opening to fight and make a draw in 33 moves with the white pieces.
On board two, Ganguly drew Papaioannou with comfort with the black pieces in 37 moves after he accepted the queen's gambit.
P. Harikrishna (second board) who joined the team a day late was rested in the opening match. National champion B.Adhiban (sixth board) was also rested in round one.
The results (round one): Azerbaijan bt Armenia 2.5-1.5, Turkey lost to USA 1-3, India bt Greece 2.5-1.5, Russia bt Brazil 2.5-1.5, Egypt lost to Israel 1-3.
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The Rotary club of Madras Mount 1st KCF International Rating Chess Tournament was conducted from 26th Dec. 2009 to 31.12.2009 at Jubilee Building, Loyola College, Nungambakkam, Chennai – 34.
This event was inaugurated by Rtn. Mrs. Vasumathi Marimuthu on 26.12.2009.
This Tournament attracted a record number of 680 participants from 14 states including 280 FIDE rated players. We had 11 round swiss system with a time control of one hour each with an increment of 30 sec. from move one.
Mr. V. Haribalu a student of St. Joseph Engg. College dominated till the end of 9th round and he was defeated by Mr. Kunal on the 10th round. On the final round Haribalu defeated Master Vasantha Ruba Varman of Tamilnadu and became the Champion of this mega event.
On the concluding day Rtn. Olivannan, was the Chief Guest and gave away the prizes.
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While India A men met with little resistance in capturing the Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship, their B team women counterparts were instrumental in Vietnam clinching the women championship. The tournament was well organized by Dibyendu Barua, the second grandmaster from India after Anand, under the banner of Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy at the Town hall, Kokata, the most populous city in India.
The A team was represented by grandmasters P. Harikrishna, Sasikiran, S.S. Ganguly, Parimarjan Negi and Deepan Chakkaravarthy. They defeated the B team in the second round 3.5-0, the only consolation draw coming from the national champion IM B. Adhiban holding the top ranked player of the tournament P. Harikrishna. Iran drew with the strong Vietnam team, GM Ghaem Maghami doing a favour to Iran by beating the in form GM Le Quang Liem, the winner of the recent Kolkata open.
India A beat Indonesia convincingly 3.5-0.5 in the third round. Iran and Vietnam also registered facile wins in this round, predicting a 1-2-3 finish among these three teams. In the crucial fourth round tie with Vietnam, Harikrishna surrendered to Le Quang, but Sasikiran and Ganguly came to India’s rescue with full points. Parimarjan Negi drew with Nguyen Anh Dung to make the score 2.5-1.5 in India’s favour. After beating Iran comfortably by a margin of 3.5-0.5 in the fifth round, India did not sweat much to claim the title with 14 match points. Vietnam and Iran were placed second and third
The story was different in the women section. In the third round, India A was forced to split the points with the Vietnam team. Former and current world junior champions D. Harika and Soumya Swaminathan scored over their opponents, whereas Eesha Karavade and Sowmya Swaminathan fumbled at the post to lose their games. To make things worse for the A team, the India B team inflicted a defeat on them, Bhakti Kulkarni defeating Kruttika Nadig and the other three games were drawn. This brightened the chances of the Vietnam team to win the title. Vietnam continued their good run until the final round to lift the title. Anyhow, there was a tense battle in the second match of the final round between India B and Iran to decide the medalists.
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Iniyan. P and Sadhu S. Adithya of Tamil Nadu finished second and third respectively in the National Under-7 Chess Championship concluded at Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 24/12/2009.
Iniyan scored 9.5 points and Sadhu S Adithya scored 8.5 points out of 11 rounds.
M. Tejasvi of Tamil Nadu finished third in girls category of National Under-7 Chess Championship. She scored 8.5 points out of eleven rounds followed by C.R. Reshma with 8 points in the fourth place.
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The 3rd National Veteran Chess Championship at Nagpur from 2nd t0 8th January 2010 is called Off. However the veterans All India Open tournament may be rescheduled by them some where in February or March 2010.
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Our TN players IM Ashwin Jayaram, IM S.P. Sethuraman, Im M. Shyam Sundar, IM N. Srinath Ramnath Bhuvanesh, C.H. Savetha, R. Bharathi, R. Preethi, P.V. Nandhidhaa, J. Saranya and A. Akshaya were provisionally selected for Aero float Chess tournament to be held at Moscow from 08 -19, February, 2010 as exposure trip.
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21 GM's confirmed their participation in 2nd Chennai International Open Chess Tournament to orgnised by our special unit Sports Promotion Foundation at Jawaharlal Nehru Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai from 25th January to 3rd February 2010.
1. Rimat Jumabaev; 2. Kotsur Pavel; 3. Manik Mikulas; 4. Iskusnykh Sergey; 5. Marat Dzhumaev; 6. Dmitry Kryakvin; 7.Saidali yuldashev; 8. Andrey Gutov;9. Maxim Turov; 10. Mr.Martyn Kravtsiv; 11. Mr.Anuar Ismagambetov; 12. Women International Master Nafisa Muminova ; 13. Mr.Ziaur Rahman ; 14. Mr.Arun Prasad; 15. Abhijit Kunte; 16. Mr.Deepan Chakkravarthy ; 17. Mr.R.R.Laxman; 18. Mr.Sundarajan Kidambi; 19. Mr.R.B.Ramesh; 20. Mr.D.Barua; 21. Mr.Sriram Jha
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Bala Kannamma of Tamilnadu and top seed Cholleti Sahajasri were tied for the second spot with 8.5 points but the later have to content with third spot as Bala had better tie break score to finish second.
In the eventful eleventh and final round in the open category, top three boards produced decisive results as all the overnight leaders tried to get results in their favour to notch up the pole position. while Girish got better of G Akash of Tamilnadu.
All India Chess Federation Secretary DV Sundar give away the prizes in presence of International Master Tania Sachdev and Bharat Singh, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.
Important Results (Girls) Round-11:-
Rutuja Bakshi of Maharashtra (8) lost to Bala Kannamma of Tamilnadu (8.5);
Nandhidhaa PV of Tamilnadu (8) drew with Sonakashi Rathore of Rajasthan (8);
Shweta Gole of Maharashtra (7.5) drew with Meenu Priya of Tamilnadu (7.5); Ashwini U of Tamilnadu (8) beat Janhavi Soneji of Maharashtra (7); Nisha N Patkar of Karnataka (7) lost to Monnisha GK of Tamilnadu (7.5); Michelle Catherina of Tamilnadu (7.5) beat Arunima Goyal of Chandigarh (6.5);
Akshaya N of Tamilnadu (6.5) lost to Madhurima Shekhar of Delhi (7.5); Sradhanjali Jena of Orissa (7.5) beat G Uma Bharathi of Tamilnadu (6.5);
TN Players Standings (Open):-
(7) G Akash of Tamilnadu with 9 points & 80.5 Bucholz tie break score
(9) Akash PC Iyer of Tamilnadu with 9 points & 78 Bucholz tie break score
TN Players Final Standings (Girls):-
(2) Bala Kannamma P of Tamilnadu with 8.5 points & 76.5 Bucholz tie break score
(4) Nandhidhaa PV of Tamilnadu with 8 points & 78.5 Bucholz tie break score
(7) Ashwini U of Tamilnadu with 8 points & 66.5 Bucholz tie break score
(8) Meenu Priya of Tamilnadu with 7.5 points & 81 Bucholz tie break score
(9) Michelle Catherina of Tamilnadu with 7.5 points & 77 Bucholz tie break score
(10) Monnisha GK of Tamilnadu with 7.5 points & 76.5 Bucholz tie break score
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Chessdom.com website reports that the World Championship match between titleholder Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov is to start from April 23 (game one) and end May 12 (is there are tie-breaks). The prize money on the table is Rs.14 Crores or 2 Milliion Euros for the match. The website reports that Silvio Danailov and Aruna Anand have made this agreement after meeting in Athens recently.
It will be a 12-game match and the winner is the first player to reach 6.5 points. In case of a 6-6 tie, there will be four rapid games to decide the deadlock. The opening ceremony will be on April 21 and the first game on April 23. There will be two games followed by a rest day and this patter will follow.
The FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that Sofia is a good choice for WCC 2010, as Bulgaria has great traditions in chess and has produced champions as Topalov and Stefanova. Mr. Ilyumzhinov was also happy that the Topalov - Anand match and chess in Bulgaria receive strong governmental and social support.
A few minutes after the signing of the contract for the Topalov - Anand match, the Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said, "For the last 140 years there have been 19 such matches and all of them are of great importance in history. For us it is very important that Sofia was chosen for this event. If we compare the 8 million population of Bulgaria with the 1 billion population of India, it is an honor to be the center of the world's attention in April."
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The FIDE Titles office has confirmed that 3 Tamil Nadu players are eligible for Woman FIDE Master Title in an official communication. These selections of players for medals are based on their performances in the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2009. Those who have not yet applied for the title may kindly do so immediately through Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
J. Saranya (Tiruvallur)
Srija Seshadri (Cuddalore)
Gk. Monnisha (Chennai)
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The 47th National Premier Chess Championship (formerly known as National A) organized by Venus Chess Academy under the auspices of the Bombay Chess Association and Maharashtra Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation was held at the Goregaon Sports Club, Mumbai from 1st to 14th December 2009. It turned out to be the strongest ever National Premier championship played under Swiss system. Participation of 10 GMs and 20 IMs is an unprecedented one in the annals of the national championship.
A galaxy of world champions - World Under 16 champion S.P. Sethuraman of Tamil Nadu, former world under 16 champion B. Adhiban of Tamil Nadu, playing for PSPB, former world under 14 champion Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of the host Maharashtra, former world under 14 girls’ champion Padmini Rout of Orissa and former under 12 world champion Deep Sengupta of PSPB was the special feature of the tournament.
G.N. Gopal, the grandmaster from Kerala, representing Petroleum Sports Board was the top seed, followed by Abhijeet Gupta, world junior champion 2008. But, Adhiban (tenth seed). S.P. Sethuramn made mockery of the seeding by grabbing the
Swapnil Dhopade of the host Maharashtra Association started splendidly by holding the top seed Gopal in the very first round. S. Arun Prasad of PSPB and Jha led with 3.5 points each defeating their fourth round rivals Himanshu Sharma of Haryana and Sundarrajan Kidambi of PSPB respectively. Jha continued his fine run to outwit Abhjeet Gupta, whereas Arun Prasad was subdued by Gopal. Jha maintained the sole lead for one more round but lost to Adhiban in the seventh round, who joined him in the lead. Adhiban had an exemplary performance from fifth to ninth round defeating all the opponents who came in his way. Five consecutive wins in National Premier championship might have never been heard of. In the process, he secured his maiden GM norm also.
Adhiban drew his eleventh round game against Gopal. In the twelfth round, he capitalized on the mistakes of Abhijeet Gupta to play a bold and patient game to clinch victory from a slightly inferior position. His tally of 9.5 points fetched him the title in the penultimate round itself. Sethuraman overcame Sriram Jha in the twelfth round to stay in contention for one of the top slots. He missed his maiden GM norm in the final round, but had the consolation of securing the runner up spot. Sundarrajan Kidambi had a steady rise in the second half of the tournament to finish third. Vidit also missed his GM norm chances and obtained the fourth position. Jha lost his last round game to Abhijit Kunte to be ranked sixth behind Kunte. Adhiban earned one lakh rupees for his effort and Sethuraman received seventy five thousand rupees.
The tournament was well organized under the guidance of Mr. Ravindra Dongre, Vice President of AICF.
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Mr.C.Lesunathan, the Secretary of Trichy District Chess Association passed away this morning at CMC Hospital, Vellore, where he was undergoing treatment for advanced cancer.
His funeral rites will be performed at Trichy home tomorrow (13/12/2009)
May His Soul Rest in Peace!
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The top seed IM Dronavalli Harika of Airport Authority of India, AP proved her supremacy by winning the 36th National Women Premier Chess Championship which has concluded here today at the St.Joseph’s College of Engineering. Harika has been trailing behind Meenakshi till the 9th round but the last round was interestingly poised with both going for the title and Harika having the better Tiebreak score.
From the English opening on the top board Meenakshi of Air India maintained slight advantage in the opening, but not enough to score over. Her opponent WGM Mary Ann Gomes , former Asian Junior Champion attacked the weakness on c4 square. Meenakshi went for king side attack despite her own king side defense proved to be quite insufficient. Meenakshi overlooked a tactics in the resulting in an inevitable mate and take the runner up positon with 8 pts.
WGM Aarthie chose the closed Guioco Piano against Harika on the 2nd board. Aarthie sacrificed a knight on the 22nd move when Harika held some initiative . Aarthie had some compensation in pawns and conducted the middle game well with Harika’s king being insecure. But when things were heating up the players drew the game seeing the top board results which ensured Harika’s title with 8 ½ pts .
WGM Eesha Karavade had a quick draw against Priya in 19 moves to move on to 7 pts and confirm her qualification . Meanwhile IM Tania came better against WGM Nisha from the black side of the Nimzo Indian defense in 43 moves. On the 6th board WIM elect Bhakti Kulkarni beat Amrutha Mokal to stay in contention with qualification berth for future exposure trips thro the Federation.
The last game of the tournament to finish was between WIM Kiran Monisha Mohanty of Orissa and World Junior Champion Soumya Swaminathan. The fight was immense with either player having chances to get into top 6. Soumya had to part with her Queen for two rooks in the middle game but had a strong “B” pawn roll. A Knight move by Soumya on the 47th move turned out to be a mistake which ended up in a weaker coordination and lead to loss of a rook . Kiran won the game in 52 moves and in the process completed her WGM Norm. Kiran is an Engineering student from the KIIT’s College of Bhubaneswar and her earlier norm was made in 2007 National Women A in Pune.
Dr.P.Mannar Jawahar,Vice-Chancellor,Anna University distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Dr.B.Babu Manoharan,Director,St.Joseph’s College of Engineering,WGM S.Vijayalakshmi and Shri DV Sundar,Secretary,All India Chess Federation
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A group of disgruntled elements has indigenously announcing the formation of Chess Association of India (an un-authorized body of FIDE) assuming themselves a rival body for the All India Chess Federation which is a recognized body of the FIDE, has announced an open tournament at Delhi from 23rd December with a Prize fund of Rs.15Lakh
The All India Chess Federation has cautioned all its registered players not to take part in such tournaments or any other competitions organised by the a false-body Chess Association of India as it is neither recognized nor authorized by our parent body All India Chess Federation.
Thus TNSCA cautions all its registered players to stay away from such tournaments conducted by unauthorized body, failing which the players will have to face disciplinary action from the AICF/TNSCA.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand was given a big welcome when he turned up this morning to visit the National Premier Women Chess Championship at the St Joseph's College of Engineering on December 8.
Dr Babu Manoharan, Director, St Joseph's College of Engineering, welcomed him with a "ponadai", and greeted him to watch the games. Later, he offered him coffee and introduced the chess players of his institution to the world champ.
Anand was riddled with questions one after the other by P. Karthikeyan, who is a student at this college and an International Master. Anand replied and appreciated his curiosity in wanting to know "many things".
Anand also briefly spoke to the press. Is playing in Sofia a disadvantage? Anand disagreed and said he would be looking at the 64 squares of the board and playing chess and did not seem to be disturbed playing at his opponent's backyard.
Anand will be playing next at Wijk aan Zee in Holland from Jaunary 2010 and the world title match at Sofia from April 5-25. It will be a Topalov versus Anand match. Anand is a three time champion and will be defending the title.
The champion watched the position on the board closely and also enquired who is in third place behind Meenakshi and Harika. Muthukumar, Secretary of the Kanchipuram District Chess Association presented him a memento inside the playing hall while Dr Babu Manoharan presented him a memento at his reception area.
College students greeted the world championship by forming a long road for him from the moment he got out of his car to the venue of the National Championship.
It was a memorable day for the St Joseph's College students to have a world chess champion visit their campus.
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Two brilliant games and wins have pushed Meenakshi Subbaraman of Air India, Chennai into sole lead in the 36th National Women Premier Chess Championship being sponsored and held at St Joseph's College of Engineering in Chennai on December 6.
In round four, Meenakshi beat the defending champion Kruttika Nadig and in round five she powered over two-time former champion Tania Sachdev to swing into sole lead with 4.5/5. Six rounds are still to be played.
Meenakshi lost a pawn but kept the pressure on the black king and her attack won her an exchange. Her 40th move should be seen on the chess board and is hard to explain in words. It was a brilliant rook sacrifice. Meenakshi, 28, has not won the National Women so far. Her sister Vijayalakshmi has won the title six times which is a record.
Top seed Dronavalli Harika of Andhra Pradesh is in clear second place on four points. She was held to a fighting draw by Kiran Manisha Mohanty of Orissa. Four players share the third place on 3.5 points and it includes: P. Priya (TN),
Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa), Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ori) and Mary Ann Gomes (WB).
Bhakti Kulkarni shocked Soumya Swaminathan after the latter accepted a dangerous pawn and faced the consequences of a discovered attack which resulted in loss of a queen for a rook and knight. Competition in chess is high in India and only
here our national junior champion can defeat the world junior champion.
The results (round five): Kiran Mohanty (Ori) 3.5 drew with D. Harika (AP) 4, S. Meenakshi (AI) 4.5 bt Tania Sachdev (Del) 3, Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 3.5 bt Soumya Swaminathan (Mah) 3, Eesha Karavade (Mah) 3 drew with Kruttika Nadig (Mah) 3, Mary Ann Gomes (WB) 3.5 bt Sai Meera (IB) 2.5, Pon N. Krithikha (TN) 2 lost to P. Priya (TN) 3.5, Swati Mohota (WB) 2.5 drew with Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) 2.5, Amruta Mokal (Mah) 2 drew with Bindu Saritha (LIC) 2.5, C.H. Savetha (TN) 2 drew with Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 2, A. Sithalatchumi (TN) 1.5 lost to Supriya Maji (WB) 2.5, J. Saranya (TN) 2 bt Pallabi Roy (WB) 1.5, C. Sahajasri (AP) 1.5 drew with A. Akshaya (TN) 1.5, R. Bharathi (TN) 2 - bye
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IM B Adhiban leads the tally with 6.5 points at the end of 8th round of the 47th Premier National Chess Championship 09 sponsored and organized by Venus Chess Academy and hosted by Goregaon Sports Club. He is closely followed by IM Sriram Jha with 6 points, who joins the elite band of 20 grandmasters in India.
The top board game between the joint leader IM Sriram Jha (ELO 2497) of Delhi and GM Neelotpal Das (ELO 2440) of PSPB started with Slav defense and the position was equal. There was a repetition of position on 33, 35, 37 moves but none of them claimed the same. The game ended in a draw with a different position repeating three times on 68th move and both agreed for a draw. With this half point Sriram has completed his third and final GM norm.
The game between GM Tejas Bakre (ELO 2470) of Indian Airlines and IM B Adhiban ( ELO 2486), former world Under 16 champion from Tamil Nadu and now playing for PSPB started in English opening. Adhiban exchanged his knight and bishop for rook and 2 pawns on the 13th move, but Tejas had to give his bishop back for 2 pawns after ten more moves. In the end game, Adhiban got an extra pawn and after exchanging the rooks he won the game comfortably in 62 moves to achieve a nine game GM norm.
GM Gopal G N (ELO 2593) started his game with world under 16 champion IM S P Sethuraman (ELO 2447) with Modern Benoni. Both the players settled for a draw with regular exchange of pieces in 2 bishop vs bishop and knight endgame.
Swapnil Dhopade of Maharashtra drew the game with GM S Kidambi which started in Slav defense to complete his IM norm requirements.
The game between GM R R laxman and IM Vidit Gujrathi ended in a draw after a fierce battle on the board. The game started with Queens Gambit accepted and Vidit got a slight advantage on 21st move but not able to capitalize on it. In the endgame although Laxman was having an extra pawn, he could not do much but to agree for a draw.
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C.H. Savetha of Tamil Nadu shocked former champion Aarthie Ramaswamy of Air India in the opening round of the 36th St Joseph's National Premier Women Chess Championship at the St Joseph's College of Engineering near Chennai on
December 2.
This edition is a 25-player eleven round Swiss to be held from December 2-12. K. Muralimohan of Chennai is the chief arbiter. It is believed many will made WGM and WIM norms in this event which carries a prize fund of Rs.250,000. The sponsors are St Joseph's College of Engineering. The college is also the venue. They are offering free stay and food for all players and their accompanying persons. Dr Babu Manoharan, Director, St Joseph's College of Engineering made the symbolic opening move against top seed Dronavalli Harika. D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary, AICF, K. Murali Mohan, General Secretary, TNSCA, Muthukumar, Secretary, Kanchi District and N. Vijayan, President, Kanchi District participated in the opening ceremony while V. Ravichandran of Mount Chess Academy welcomed one and all.
There are three former National champions. Two-time champion Tania Sachdev of Delhi was one of the winners who had an easy game against R. Bharathi of Chennai. Another former champion Nisha Mohota of Kolkata had a major escape when Supriya Maji accepted a draw offer while in a clearly superior position. Former champion Aarthie was defeated by Savetha when the former dropped a piece in the ending.
Defending champion Kruttika Nadig recovered in the middlegame and won the rook and minor piece ending against Sahajasri. She was one of the five Woman Grand Masters who won out of the nine.
The all time record cant be broken in this event. It is six times and held by S. Vijayalakshmi of Air India, Chennai. She had a baby son recently and is not played since. Swati Ghate is the other Woman Grand Master who is also in the same
state. Koneru Humpy is rated very high and is not required to play in the National Premier Women Championship.
The oldest player is Bindu Saritha of LIC, Kozhikode who is 1966-born. The youngest is Cholleti Sahajasri of Karimnagar who is 1996-born. Both of them lost round one with white to higher rated opponents.
The results (round one): P. Priya (TN) lost to D. Harika (AP), Eesha Karavade (Mah) drew with Kiran Mohanty (Ori), R. Bharathi (TN) lost to Tania Sachdev (Del), Mary Ann Gomes (WB) bt J. Saranya (TN), Supriya Maji (WB) drew with Nisha Mohota (PSPB), S. Meenakshi (AI) bt Amruta Mokal (Mah), Swati Mohota (WB) drew with Soumya Swaminathan
(Mah), Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) bt Pallabi Roy (WB), C. Sahajasri (AP) lost to Kruttika Nadig (Mah), Aarthie Ramaswamy (AI) lost to C.H. Savetha (TN), Bindu Saritha (LIC) lost to Sai Meera (IB), Pon N. Krithikha (TN) bt A. Akshaya (TN), A. Sithalatchumi (TN) - bye
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A warm reception was given to the new World Under-16 Champion International Master S.P. Sethuraman, when he landed at Chennai Airport, this afternoon.
He won the Title at the World Youth Under-16 Chess Championship held at Turkey.
Murali Karthkeyan, who won the Silver Medal in the World U-10 category and J. Saranya the Bronze Medallist in the World Under-14 Girls Category accompanied by the official Coaches Grand Master R.B. Ramesh, International Master K. Murugan and Woman Grand Master Aarthie Ramasawamy were also received with garlands and bouquets.
Many Chess enthusiasts, players and parents were at the Airport to greet the medalists.
India won 6 medals at World youth Chess Championship held at Turkey out of which 3 were won by the Tamil Nadu players.
Arjuna Awardee and former Secretary of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association (TNSCA) International Master Manuel Aaron. India’s first International Arbiter V. Kameswaran, TNSCA’s General Secretary Mr. K. Muralimohan, TNSCA’s Joint Secretaries Mr. V. Ravichandran and Mr. S. Balaraman and Kanchi District Chess Association Secretary Mr. M. Muthukumar greeted the above Medal Winners.
As the above medal winners are from Velammal Group of Schools, scores of students and officials of Velammal Group of Schools cheered the above three medal winners on their arrival.
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International Master S.P. Sethuraman of TN won the world U-16 chess championship 2009 held at Turkey, National Under U-11 champion Karthikeyan Murali of TN got Silver medal in the Under10 Boys Category and Asian Under-14 girls champion J. Saranya of TN won the Bronze Medal in the Under 14 girls section.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand leads the World Blitz Chess Championship at Moscow with 12 points after the first 14 rounds on Nov 16. There are still two days left and 28 rounds still to be played. It is a 22-player double all-play-all. This event is part of the Tal Memorial happening at Moscow.
In the opening three rounds, Anand drew Peter Leko (Hun) with black and beat Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) with white and drew Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) with the black pieces. In the next four rounds he beat Vugar Gashimov (Az), world women's champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus) and Evgeny Bareev (Rus) and then drew Alexander Morozevich (Rus).
Then he beat Peter Svidler (Rus) and drew Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr).
There followed a winning streak, he won the next five games against Alexander Grischuk (Rus), Shakriyar Mamedyarov (Az), Vladislav Tkachiev (Fra), Leinier Dominguez (Cub), Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) to lead the table with 12 points from 14 games.
Teenaged star Magnus Carlsen of Norway is in clear second position on ten points. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia is on nine points. Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk are on 8.5 points.
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Soumya Swaminathan achieved what only five other Indians have achieved in world chess. She won the World Junior girls chess championship at Puerto Madryn in Argentina on November 3, 2009.
In the thirteenth and final round, Soumya, defeated Kubra Ozturk of Turkey with the white pieces for a place in world history. She became the third Indian girl after Koneru Humpy (2002) and Dronavalli Harika (2008) to win the World Junior Girls championship. The World Junior had been won by V. Anand (1987), P. Harikrishna (2004) and Abhijeet Gupta (2008) also. India is retaining the girls title.
"Great news Magesh, congratulations to her and to the entire team. Our president Mr N.Srinivasan and myself convey our hearty thanks for having kept the Indian flag flying high," said D.V. Sundar in an official comminique from Vietnam to the Indian coach GM P. Magesh Chandran in Argentina.
Soumya tied for the first place with two others but had the better tie-break score to end a deserving winner. All of them scored 9.5 points from 13 games. In the final round, Soumya started on 8.5 points and Cori Tello (Per) was also on 8.5. But Betul Yildiz of Turkey was better placed on nine points. While leader Yildiz only drew against Orissa's Kiran Mohanty, Soumya and Cori Tello won to tie for the first place on 9.5 points. When the official results were out, Soumya had the higher tie-break score of 27314, higher than Cori Tello's 27250 and Yildiz's 27052.
Soumya was in command in the event but a penultimate round defeat pushed her down from which she rose to win the tournament. She speaks English, Hindi, Marathi and fluent Tamil.
Soumya was born in Palakkad in 1989 and their family moved to Pune. Both her parents worked in a bank. When she was about to represent India in the World Under-10 championship her mother died in a road accident. Soumya recovered from that blow and has achieved plenty in chess.
"In her trip to Europe last year, she made five norms in one and a half months," said Joseph D'Souza, a chess administrator in Pune. Soumya is hard working and is a Commerce Student from the BMCC College he said. She is under the scholarship of a Petroleum company, he said.
Soumya had won several National titles: National U-17 in 2004, National Junior in 2005 and 2008. Her rating is 2297 and she played at 2433 Elo and would be gaining about ten Elo points from this event. Soumya won eight games, lost two to the two players she tied on points and drew three games for the title.The highest rated player she defeated was second seed Xiaowen Zhang of China. She did not face the top seed Mary Ann Gomes of Kolkata.
Medal winners and Indians in tie-break order:
Boys: 1-2 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra), Sergei Zhigalko (Blr) 10.5/13; 3 GM Michal Olszewski (Pol) 9; 20 IM M.R. Lalith Babu (Ind) 7.5; 22 IM P. Karthikeyan (Ind) 7.5; 24 IM Ashwin Jayaram (Ind) 7.5; 40 IM B. Adhiban (Ind) 6.5; 41 IM M. Shyam Sundar (Ind) 6.5; 44 FM Vishnu Prasanna (Ind) 6.5...82 players.
Girls: 1-3. WGM Soumya Swaminathan (Ind), WIM Deysi Cori Tello (Per), Betul Yildiz (Tur) 9.5/13 each; 8 WIM Padmini Rout (Ind) 8; 10 WIM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (Ind) 8; 19 WGM Mary Ann Gomes (Ind) 7; 34 S. Harini (Ind) 5.5...45 players
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand tamed former World Champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in successive two encounters to win the rapid four-game chess series 3.5-0.5 here.
The Indian, who was leading the series 1.5-0.5 after winning the first game and drawing the second with the Russian at Bastia, beat Karpov in both the remaining games to ensure a spectacular victory.
It was a Queen’s gambit declined by Karpov in the first game and Anand got an opening advantage after Karpov did not place his queen properly.
The match lasted 30 moves
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TOURNAMENT REPORT
The 1st Citadel International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament was organized by the Citadel Chess World under the aegis of AICF and TNSCA from 24th to 30th October 2009 at the Panigraha Hall in West Mambalam, Chennai. The tournament had attracted around 370 players from all over the country with top billing given to IM M.S.Thejkumar of SW Rlys. 6 IM’s and 6 FM’s hotly contested for the top honours in this one week event.
The prize pool was about Rs.2 lakh rupees in 25 main prizes with the winner richer by Rs.50,000/- plus a glittering trophy. Kaligi Ammal Ranganathan Chettiar Educational Trust had sponsored around Rs.30,000/- for category and special prizes. Phoobalan won the tournament after a nervous last round when three players tied for the first spot. Phoobalan, Praveen Kumar and IM M.R. Venkatesh were tied at the end of the last round. The tie was broken utilizing Buchholtz method.
As expected the games were quite competitive with seasoned players finding it tough to put across the lesser seeds. Top seed IM Thejkumar was held to draw by Sohan Padke of Maharashtra in the 4th round and leaders were changing frequently. Phoobalan of ICF and Ram S Krishnan of BSNL were toppers briefly with 6.5 pts during the 8th round. In between Vinothkumar of Chennai shocked IM Rathnakaran of Railways in a short game in the 7th round and VAV Rajesh held the higher rated IM Thejkumar to a draw in the 9th round.C. Praveen Kumar the recent winner at Trivandrum Open FIDE Chess tournament took the lead in the penultimate round with an emphatic victory over Ram S Krishnan.
Junior players who stole the limelight include Arvind Chidambaram of Madurai, L.Bharath and G. Akash of Chennai and Augustine of Karnataka. Arvind beat Dinesh Kumar and drew with former National A player M B Muralidharan of Kerala . On the other hand Augustin beat T J Suresh Kumar in the 5th round and drew former state champion Gunasekaran in the 9th round.
The organizing secretary and founder of Citadel Chess World, Mr R V.Sathiyanarayanan, was keen on organizing the event in a smooth manner. His family members and friends were totally committed to make this event a grand success. True to its motto “Chess for Everyone” the organizer arranged a simultaneous display by GM R.B.Ramesh on one of the free days. The GM took on 52 players with a lot of rated players given a chance to challenge the GM. The GM endured a marathon 6 hrs of play and few players were able to score at the last hour. The Grandmaster gave an inspiring speech on “Chess Improvement for Youngsters” before the start of the display.
The other free half day was utilized for a blitz tournament with a participation of 70 players. Ramnath Bhuvanesh of SBOA with 7pts won the event ahead of Ram S Krishnan with a better tie break score.
The prize distribution ceremony was a grand success with Chief Guests D.V. Sundar - General Secretary All India Chess Federation, Mr. Sriramulu – Founding Secretary TNSCA, Mr. Dakshinamurty – pillar of chess for Chennai players and Mr. V. Kameswaran gracing the occasion with their presence. The chief guests gave away prizes to the deserving winners.
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36th National Premier women ( National Women "A") will be held at Chennai from 02 - 12 Dec, 2009 , Arrival date is 1st December, 2009. Players can book their journey accordingly. List of Eligible players : All Woman Grandmasters, Top 06 (including WGMs) from Previous National Woman ‘A’, top 20 from Current National ‘B’ held at Nagpur, the current National Junior Girls Champion and two nominees of AICF Secretary. Prospectus available @ indianchessfed.org 2
List of Qualifiers from TamilNadu
1. Bharathi.R.
2. Saranya.J.
3. Priya.P.
4. Nandhidhaa.P.V.
5. Sithalatchumi.A.
6. Akshaya.A
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K. Priyadarshan became International Master
FIDE confirmed the International Master title of K. Priyadarshan in the 80th FIDE Congress which was held 11-17 October 2009 in Kallithea Halkidike, Greece.
Final GM Norm For Ashwin Jayaram
The All India Chess Federation protested and got the Grand Master norm of Ashwin Jayaram of Chennai through. He had won the Asian Junior in Sri Lanka and his norm was held back on technical grounds based on a recent ruling that one third (total 16) of the 48 Asian Nations should play. Eleven nations played and though it was high, it did not meet the new requirement of 16.
"Thanks for the good news," said Ashwin Jayaram who added, "now I have to work on the rating requirement of 2500." Ashwin Jayaram had made the first GM norm at Spain and the second in the Asian Junior held at Chennai in 2008. He completed the final norm earlier this year at Sri Lanka.
Four Arbiters from Tamil Nadu got the FIDE Arbiter Titles as follows.
1. R. Ramakrishnan;
2. K. Thirukkalathy;
3. R.K. Balagunasekaran and
4. T.H. Senthilkumaran.
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India had been allotted the right to organise the World Junior Chess Championship and World Junior Girls Championship of 2011 and the venue will be Chennai, said Mr.D.V.Sundar, Hon.Secretary of the All India Chess Federation and Member Executive Board - FIDE, who attended the FIDE congress which was held in Halkidiki, Greece from 11- 18, Oct, 2009.
The last time a World Chess event took place in Chennai was in 1991 when Viswanathan Anand and Alexey Dreev of Russia played the Candidates Match here. India is doing well in Junior chess and our players Abhijeet Gupta and Dronavalli Harika are the World Junior and Girls champions. No country has won both titles at the same time in world chess.
Final GM Norm For Ashwin Jayaram
In another move, the All India Chess Federation protested and got the Grand Master norm of Ashwin Jayaram of Chennai through. He had won the Asian Junior in Sri Lanka and his norm was held back on technical grounds based on a recent ruling that one third (total 16) of the 48 Asian Nations should play. Eleven nations played and though it was high, it did not meet the new requirement of 16.
"Thanks for the good news," said Ashwin Jayaram who added, "now I have to work on the rating requirement of 2500." Ashwin Jayaram had made the first GM norm at Spain and the second in the Asian Junior held at Chennai in 2008. He completed the final norm earlier this year at Sri Lanka.
Anand v Topalov In Sofia From April 5, 2010
Among the other interesting decisions at the 80th FIDE Congress at Halkidiki in Greece, FIDE allotted the Viswanathan Anand v Veselin Topalov match to Sofia and the likely dates are April 5-24, 2010 which will confirm after consulting both the concerned players. It will be a 12-game match and in case of a 6-6 tie, there will be a four game rapid playoff to decide the title. Other bids came from Singapore and Turkey. The letter from the Bulgarian Prime Minister sealed the deal in favour of Sofia and the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov accepted it.
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J. Saranya won the National Under – 17 Chess Championship a with 10 points at Chakradharpur. Saranya, a ninth standard student from Velammal Matriculation school has so far won three National chess titles.
Saranya beat the top three seeds: Bhakthi Kulkarni, National Junior Girls Champion, the subjunior champion R. Bharathi and second seed Devangi Patankar.
In the eleventh round she drew with shetye siddhali of Maharashtra
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C. Praveen Kumar of Chennai won the 1st Trivandrum FIDE Rating Open Tournament that concluded at the Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on October 8.
In a 129-player ten round Swiss, Praveen Kumar scored 8.5 points to win State Bank of India sponsored 1 lakh prize money tournament. Praveen Kumar and top seed IM K. Ratnakaran of Kozhikode remained undefeated. Ratnakaran and Lokesh of Chennai finished second-third on eight points.
The event attracted four IMs and all of them lost rating except D.P. Singh who gained Elo. Organisers were happy with the titled players but the entry numbers expected was in the 175 range and it fell short. Players from nine states participated. "People from Nepal also enquired," said the organiser.
This was the first time that a FIDE Rated Tournament took place in Thiruvananthapuram and that is significant. "Our city is very small comparing Kochi or Kozhikode," said Hari T Pillai, President of the Chess Association Trivandrum. Bharat Chougule of Kolhapur (Mah) was the chief arbiter.
The Secretary of the Chess Association of Kerala, P. Venugopal from Kozhikode was personally present to cheer up the first time organisers. The tournament had the Kerala Sports and Youth Affairs Minister B. Vijaya Kumar to inaugurate. It is likely to be on the annual calendar of Kerala and Indian chess year after year.
Final placings: 1 C. Praveen Kumar (TN) 8.5/10; 2-3. IM K. Ratnakaran (Ker), P. Lokesh (TN) 8 each; 4-7. IM B.T. Muralikrishnan (TN), P. Phoobalan (TN), IM D.P. Singh (TN), M.A. Joy Lazar (Ker) 7.5 each; 8-15. FM M.B. Muralidharan (Ker), A. Shankar (TN), Pv. Nandhidhaa (TN), O.T. Anilkumar (Ker), IM R. Balasubramaniam (TN), V. Ranjith (Ker), Linda Rangarajan (Pon), Malla Nooka Raju (AP) 7 each...129 players.
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22nd Tamil Nadu State Under 7 (Boys & Girls) Chess Championship, Karaikudi
Dileep Kumar and Tejaswi emerge champions
Chennai kids Dileep Kumar and Tejaswi Murugavel emerged champions in the 22nd TN State Under 7 (B & G) Chess Championship held at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi for the Dolphin trophies. iBoth the champs scored easy final round victories emerging clear winners. The top two on the boys and girls section will represent Tamil Nadu in the National Under 7 Championship scheduled to be held at Ahmedabad during December 2009. More than two hundred children participated in this week long event.
The prizes were distributed by Mr Sekaran, Principal, Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Mr Suresh, Asst. Exe Engineer, Karaikudi, Mr K Murali Mohan,Gen Secretary, Tamil
Nadu State Chess Association, Mr Karuppiah, President, Sivaganga Dist Chess Association, Dr Viswalingam, Physical Director, Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology.
PRIZE WINNERS (BOYS)
1 DILEEP KUMAR.R, T NAGAR 10 83.0
2 INIYAN.P, ERODE 9.5 82.5
3-4 ADITHYA S.SADHU, CHENNAI 8.5 79.0
MUTHU HAREESWARAN.S, ERODE 8.5 75.5
5-6 RAHUL.S, TVLR 8 78.5
CHARAN BHARDHWAJ.R, CHENNAI 8 75.5
7-10 ASHWATH.C.S, CHENNAI 7.5 82.0
RAM ARAVIND.L.N, TRICHY 7.5 77.5
ASWIN.S, CHENNAI 7.5 73.5
ANUP SHANKAR.R, TRICHY 7.5 70.5
PRIZE WINNERS (GIRLS)
1 TEJASVI.M, CHENNAI 9.5 70.5
2-3 LAKSHMI.C, CHENNAI 9 78.5
SNEKHA.S, VELLORE 9 77.0
4 KEERTHI.V, CHENNAI 8 72.0
5-9 ELAKKEYA., CBE 7 76.0
KIRUTHIKA.B, TVLR 7 72.0
NITIKA, CHENNAI 7 68.5
PREETHIKA.B, KANCHI 7 66.5
APARNAA RAVEENDRAN, TRICHY 7 66.0
10 RESHMA.C.R, KANCHI 6.5 75.5
BEST PERFORMANCE SIVAGANGA DIST
JOAN JEREMIAH SVG 6.0
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The 22nd SPIC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament had attracted 255 players in medallist section from 6 states, 1 special unit (Railways) and a union territory (Puducherry) and 169 players in Non medallist section. This event was sponsored by SPIC Central Sports Council and conducted by Tuticorin District Chess Association, offered a prize fund more than 87,000 for both sections. There are 25 main prizes in medallist and 15 main prizes in non-medallist sections. In addition, category prizes as special prizes were given. The winner in medallist section bagged Rs.25, 000/- as the first prize along with a glittering trophy. The winner in non-medallist section got Rs.2, 000 as the first prize. As usual the Playing hall and nice accommodation made the players to get interest to come again and again.
The event was declared open by the inaugural move made by Sri K S Gnanasekar IRS Assistant Commissioner customs Tuticorin. Mr.Muthumanokaran VP of Spic who is the president of Tuticorin District Chess Association presided over the function.
Top seed, Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF emerged sole lead from 7th round to 11th round and won the Championship with 10 points. He took the cash prize of 25,000 thousand with trophy. In non-medallist section P.Vijay of Erode was the sole leader from 6th to 9th round. At the end of the 10th round R.S.Subramanian of Tirunelveli stopped his race and won the championship with 9.5 points. He got Rs.2, 000 as first prize.
The organising team of Mr.V.S.Narasimhan,Organizing secretary , the treasurer TDCA Mr.D.Jeyaseelan Rathinam, Mr.John BS Demel tournament committee member, Advisory committee members Sri R.Muthu Manoharan VP of Spic also president of TDCA and Sri.S.Nallamuthu president, Spic central sports council made the tournament in grand manner.
The team of arbiters Mrs. Bhuvana FA, A.C.Siva, K. Boobalan Parthasarathy and Mrs.Vijayalakshmi helped me to conduct and conclude this tournament in a well manner without any single dispute.
The PD function was graced by Sri S.Paramasivam, officer on special duty (HWP) who distributed the prizes. The special invitee International Master, Arjuna awardee Manuel Aaron, native of Tuticorin District by birth, suggested raising the prize amount into one lakh in next year. Sri Jayaseelan Rathinam, treasurer TDCA delivered the vote of thanks.
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Top seed Russia pipped defending champions India by winning the gold medal in the World Youth (Under-16) Chess Olympiad that concluded at Turkey on October 2, 2009.
India won the silver medal for the team event. In the board prizes, Debashis Das of Cuttack won the gold medal for best performance in the second board while Deepathamsh Reddy of Hyderabad took the silver for second best performance in the reserve board.
Russia beat South Africa 4-0 to reach 30 points and win the title by a good two point margin. Second seed India finished second beating Turkish Girls 4-0 for the second place. In the third place was Armenia who also blanked Turkey Red 4-0.
Indian score of 28 points came from: (in board order) K. Priyadarshan (Madurai, 6.5/10), Debashis Das (Cuttack, 7.5/9), Aditya Udeshi (Mumbai, 4.5/8), Girish Koushik (Mysore, 5/7), Deepthamsh Reddy (Hyderabad, 4.5/6).
India won against Sri Lanka, England 4-0, beat Georgia 3-1, beat Turkey-T 2.5-1.5, lost to Russia 1-3, beat Uzbekistan 3-1, beat Azerbaijan, Hungary 2.5-1.5, lost to Armenia 1.5-2.5, beat Turkey-G 4-0.
India was in lead for most of the tournament. Russians caught up in round eight and our defeat in round nine made things easier for the Russians who swung into a 2-point lead. India started well, Russia finished well. Our 1-3 defeat to Russia made the difference between the teams in the end.
India had won the 2007 edition at Singapore and 2008 edition at Turkey and were looking for a hat-trick. Russia dashed our hopes by fielding a strong team and also by playing well.
Final placings: 1 Russia 30/40; 2 India 28; 3 Armenia 27; 4 Georgia 25.5; 5 Turkey-T 24; 6-7. Uzbekistan, South Africa-B 23 each; 8-10 Hungary, Azerbaijan, Turkey-G 22.5...22 teams.
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International Master S P Sethuraman of Tamilnadu annexed the title at the end of the final round of the Stree Seva Mandir Diamond Jubilee National Junior Chess Championships being organized by Sports Promotion Foundation under the aegis of Tamilnadu State Chess Association.
In a dramatic final round played today, Sethuraman outplayed GM norm holder R Arun Karthik of Tamilnadu, while the two overnight leaders Anwesh Upadhyaya of Orissa and Swapnil Dhopade of Maharashtra drew against each other in this round. Though all the three scored 8.5 points in 11 rounds, Sethuraman was adjudged winner, while Swapnil Dhopade was placed second and Anwesh third.
List of Prize winners - Boys
Rank Title Name IRtg Club Pts
1 IM Sethuraman S P 2443 TN 8½
2 Swapnil S Dhopade 2407 MAH 8½
3 Anwesh Upadhyaya 2339 ORI 8½
4 IM Shyam Sundar M 2403 TN 8
5 IM Narayanan Srinath 2388 TN 8
6 IM Ashwin Jayaram 2451 TN 8
7 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2357 TN 8
8 Kulkarni Chinmay 2322 MAH 8
9 Stany G A 2325 KAR 8
10 Arun Karthik R 2303 TN 7½
11 Bitan Banerjee 2306 WB 7½
12 Saravana Krishnan P 2302 AICF 7½
13 Swayams Mishra 2259 ORI 7½
14 Pradeep Kumar R A 2177 TN 7½
15 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 2217 ORI 7½
16 IM Lalith Babu M R 2477 AP 7
17 FM Shyam Nikil P 2410 TN 7
18 IM Adhiban B 2490 TN 7
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Mr. M.V. Muthuramalingam, Chairman Velammal Educational Trust and Patron, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association was Chief Guest and he distributed the Cash Awards to the Tamil Nadu Achievers.
Mr. D.V. Sundar, Hon. Secretary, All India Chess Federation, Mr. J.C.D. Prabhakar, Vice-President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, and Mr. Manuel Aaron, Arjuna Awardee and Govt. Observer for Chess were felicitated the players. Mr. K. Muralimohan. General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association proposed the vote of Thanks.
Grandmasters S.Arun Prasad and Sundararajan Kidambi received Rs.50,000/- each. International Masters S.P.Sethuraman, Ashwin Jayaram, B.Adhiban, P.Karthikeyan, N.Srinath and B.T.Muralikrishnan were awarded with Rs.30,000/- each. Woman International Masters Sai Meera Ravi and P.Priya received Rs.20,000/- each. Members of the Gold Medal winning Indian Team in World Youth Olympiad 2007 S.Nitin, and R.Ashwath, and the members of the Gold Medal winning Indian Team in World Youth Olympiad, 2008: IM Shyam Sundar and FM K.Priyadharshan rewarded with Rs.7, 500/- each. Asian Gold Medallists K.Sasikiran (Asian Indoor Games), P.Uthra (Asian Under-18 Girls) and M.Mahalakshmi (Asian Under-10 Girls) got Rs.20,000/- each. National Championship Gold Medal Winners G.K.Monnisha (Under-9 Girls-2007), P.V.Nandhitha (Under-11 Girls-2007), P.Saravanakrishnan (Under-17 Boys-2007), R.Preethi (Under-17 Girls -2007), Srija Seshadri (Under-11 Girls – 2008), J.Saranya (Under-13 Girls – 2008), R.Bharathi (Under-15 Girls – 2008), P.Shyam Nikhil (Under-17 Boys-2008),
Pon N.Krithika (Under-17 Girls – 2008) and R.R.Laxman (Under-25, 2008) were awarded with Rs.10,000/- each. R.Ramnath Bhuvanesh, Gold Medal Winner in IV Asian Sports and Games, 2008 got Rs.5, 000/-.
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association also honoured the following coaches:
Grand Master R.B. Ramesh, V. Hariharan, V. Vishweswaran, V. Ravichandran, A.L. Kasi, K. Ganesan and M.A. Veleyudham.
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Seven Tamil Nadu Women qualify for National Women Premier Chess Championship.
1. Bharathi. R; 2. Saranya. J; 3. Saimeera Ravi; 4. Priya. P; 5. Nandhidhaa. P.V; 6. Sithalatchumi. A and Akshaya. A
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Alpha Arts and Science College emerges winner in the final of the Indian Oil Corporation Golden Jubilee celebrations 2nd Alpha Arts & Science College TN State Level College, School and Seniors Open Chess Championship organized by Thiruvallur District Chess Association here at Alpha Arts & Science College, Chennai.
We wish to thank the press for the excellent coverage of the above Chess tournament.
Mr.J.Paul Janakan, Deputy General Manager (Consumer Sales), Indian oil corporation Limited, Chief Guest of the tournament gave away the prizes to the Winning players.
Top three overall Champions: Alpha Arts & Science College, 22.5 Points; New College,22; Annai Violet College,18
Seniors open: P.Phoobalan (ICF, 7.5/8); P.Lokesh (Velammal, Mugappair, 6.5); B.Sekar (St. Joseph College, 6.5); Ram S Krishnan (BSNL, 6.5); K.Gunasekaran (ICF,6.0)
College Boys: V.Sanjeev (KR Jay Hind Hr.Sec.School, 6.5/8); K.M.Muzhammil Ahamed (New College 6.5); D.Manoj Krishna (Veltech Engg. College, 6.5). Girls: M.Padma Shree (Anna Adarsh College, 5.0; L.Nivedha (MOP Vaishnav College, 5.0); M.Aruthi (Anna Adarsh College,5.0).
U-16 Boys: Kalyana Raghavan (Velammal Mat. Hr.Sec.S , 5.0); Sriram (MKaligi Ranganathan Montford, 4.0); M.Sidhartha (4.0). Girls: JG.Nivedhita (Ever Win Mat. Hr. Sec. S, 5.5); S.Aarthy Sri (SRDK Vivekananda Vidyalaya, 5.0); P.Bala Kannamma (Velammal Mat. Hr.Sec.S, 4.5).
U-12 Boys: T.Viswanath (Modern Senior Sec. School, 7.0/8; Madhan Babu (N.S.N. Mat. School, 6.0); M.Barath Kalyan, (M.M.S. Kandiyan St.,6.0). Girls: Thamarai Selvi (Velammal Mat. Hr.Sec.S, 6.5); A.Prakruthi (B.S.Motha Girls Sen.Sec.Sc., 6.0);CS Kharunya (DAV Public Velachery, 5.5).
U-8 Boys: M.Aravind (P.S.B.B. 7.0/8); Gorak Rajesh (P.S.B.B., 7.0); CS.Aswath ( Chinmaya Vidyalaya, 7.0). Girls: RArthika (Jawahar Vidyalaya, 5.0); R.Vaishali ( Velammal, 5.0); B.Kiruthika (S.B.Vijaya Reddiar Avadi, 5.0).
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Shyam Nikhil of Chennai got his second International Master Norm in the 4th Kolkatta Open Tournament - 2009.
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National Junior & National Junior Girls championships - 2009 at Chennai
Further to the eligible players listed in the prospectus, all IM's are seeded to play in the open section and all WIM's are seeded to play in the girls section subject to age limit. All Players are requested to report at Tamilnadu State Chess Association office, Room.No.75, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai - 600 003. which is adjacent to The Chennai Central Railway Station for accommodation.
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N.V. Padsalgikar, the celebrated chess organiser from Sangli in south Maharashtra passed away this morning at Sangli in Maharashtra. He was 90.
Padsalgikar was noticed dead at 6.30 a.m. on Sep 7, 2009. His doctor told Manuel Aaron that he should have passed away at about 4 a,m in the morning. In the last one year he was not keeping very good health and was using the services of a Pace Maker.
Padsalgikar was a chess player, born in a chess family. He started many new tournaments in Sangli which had an existing chess culture. His father was a chess player and also organiser. Every chess player from India including Viswanathan Anand had visited Sangli for chess. Padsalgikar singled out in his humbleness and simplicity. In the 1977 event I saw him riding a bicycle around in Sangli and to the chess venues.
Joseph D'Souza, Chairman of Central Maharashtra Chess Association said he was the only organiser in any sport to receive all the three awards of Jeevan Gaurav, Dadoji Konddev and Shiv Chhatrapati from the Government of Maharashtra.
Padsalgikar is called Bhausaheb. He had encouraged Bhagyashree Sathe (later Bhagyashree Thipsay), Swati Ghate, Ashwini Pachapurkar and the Jahagirdars all who came from Sangli before making it well known. Padsalgikar was one of the founders of the Maharashtra Chess Association and also served as its Secretary sometime.
All the FIDE Rated events of Sangli were organised by Padsalgikar. In the last ten years, in addition to the summer events of Sangli they also had the winter events which did plenty of service for Indian chess and chessplayers.
He is survived by his son Dr Krishna Padsalgikar, a pharmacist and four daughters. Dr Mali, the medical doctor of Nutan Buddhibal Mandal said that his family members are unlikely to continue the chess work which Padsalgikar and his father did in the the last century
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20th International Festival of Chess and Games, Czech open 2009 was held from 25.7.2009 to 2.8.2009. The Tournament was held under 5 main chess tournament groups. They are A, B, C, D, and E. A for Grandmasters Tournament, B for International Masters Tournament. C for Below 2200 Fide Rated players, D for Below 2000 Rated players and E for Below 1800 Rated players. Nearly 1350 players participated in these 5 main groups. Nearly 58 countries participated.
Jennitha Anto participated in the C group and a lone entry from India. She Secured 4.5 points out of nine rounds. 2 Wins, 5 Drawn and two lose. She met 2 German players, 1 Slovakia, I Latvia, I Armenia and 4 Czech players and the player She met are all gents. In group C nearly 238 players participated among them nearly 30 players are ladies. On the whole the tournament and the playing hall are very fine.
They introduced the prizes for the disabled men and women. These prizes were given from the A to E Groups according to their points and their progressive scores.
Among the gents, these prize were given to the three IM’s who played in the A group. But for the ladies, The Gold Medal goes to Russian player Zykina Nadezhda secured 5.5 point from C group. Second and Third prizes were tied Between Melnik Galina of Russia and K.Jennitha Anto of India. Better progressive score decided and award Silver Medal to Melnik Galina of Russia and the Bronze Medal to K.Jennitha Anto.
Nearly 95 players of Handicapped participated from the above 5 groups. The top four players were selected from each group according to their points. Finally the best three were awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
The Prize List:
Gold Medal: WFM Zykina Nadezhd Russia 5.5 points
Silver Medal: WFM Melnik Galina Russia 4.5 points
Bronze Medal: K.Jennitha Anto India 4.5 points
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International Master B.Adhiban of Tamil Nadu retained the National ‘B’ chess title by beating Mary Ann Gomes in the final round of the National ‘B’ Chess Championship held at Kolkatta on 24/08/2209.
Adhiban, who became the youngest player when he won the event last year in Goa and still continues to hold that honour at 17, came up with a consistent show that saw him net 10.5 points from 13 rounds.
There was a four-way tie for the second position with Himanshu Sharma (Haryana), Deep Sengupta (Petroleum), Mary Ann Gomes (Bengal) and M.S. Thejkumar (Railways) tallying 9.5 points each.
Sharma took the runner-up position in the Buchholz system which was applied to break the tie.
Sengupta, the sole leader till the 11th round, had to be content with the third spot while Mary Ann became the best woman player taking the overall fourth position.
Thejkumar came fifth.
Adhiban, who is also the World under-16 champion, showed poise and class, and came up with his best in the last two rounds where he played flawlessly to pick up crucial points.
Playing against Mary Ann, with whom he shared the top spot in the penultimate round, Adhiban went for the kill with a strong attack while Mary Ann, with her French defence, struggled to contain him.
Adibhan opted for the Tarrasch Variation on the kingside and made quick inroads.
Mary Ann lost a pawn on the kingside on the 26th move and also the game as Adhiban’s pieces penetrated her weakened back rank.
“I had some frustrating draws in the earlier rounds but once Deep (Sengupta) lost in the 11th round cutting the lead to half a point, I knew I would do it,” said Adhiban.
“I had the advantage of playing with white and knowing Mary’s game I went all out and succeeded,” he added.
Mary Ann, who had won four games on the trot to share the leadership overnight, remained a win short of creating history as the first woman National ‘B’ champion.
For his efforts, Adhiban received a cash award of Rs. 60,000 while Sharma got Rs. 35,000.
The top 30 players of the tournament have qualified for the National ‘A’ tournament.
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The 22nd TN State Under 13 Boys and Girls chess championship was held at Hindusthan College Arts & Science from 9th of Aug to 15th of August under the aegis of TN State Chess Association and organized by the Coimbatore District Chess Association. The one week event had attracted around 220 entries in both the sections. G Akash of Chennai, the reigning under 25 champion and Michelle Catherina of Chennai , the current under 25 girls champion were the top seeds in their respective sections. Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by
Dr. Murugavel, Physical Director of Bharathiar University , Coimbatore.
A total number of 52 rated players competed in this challenging event.Particpants from around 19 districts and 9 affiliated units were vying for the honours. In the girls section Michelle won the event comfortably, unchallenged and lead the event throughout. In the boys section the leads changed hands when Osama Salim of Chennai lost to Mugil Jayavel of Chennai in the 7th round. Subsequently Kaushik took the lead from Mugil and Vasantha Ruba Varman joined Kaushik by beating Osama. In the 9th round Kaushik overcame Vasanth’s challenge , but the top seed G Akash was closely following the leader. Akash justified his billing , putting his nose near the winning post by beating both Kaushik and Vasanth Ruba Varman in the 10th and 11th rounds to clinch the title.
The Management of Hindusthan Educational Institutions extended their support in all possible manners , despite being the host of first chess event in this campus. The organizers Coimbatore Dt Chess Assn. made the players happy by increasing the number of prizes to 20 in boys section and 15 in the girls section, higher than the previous editions. The players had the glimpse of former President of India Shri A P J Abdul Kalam , who visited the campus on 13.08.2009 to honour the scholars of the institutions.
The Prize distribution function was graced by the presence of Dy.Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore Mrs Kamini IPS and Shri K Muralimohan, Gen.Secy, TNSCA and Mrs.Sarasuwathy Kannaiyan , the Secretary of Institutions. Mr. Karunanidhi , Physical Director and the co-ordinator of the event proposed the vote of thanks.
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1st KPK International FIDE rated open chess tournament
Tirupur District Chess Association the recently formed body joined hands with KPK Chess academy to organise the first ever FIDE rated chess tournament in Tirupur. The prize pool of around 1 lakh rupees has attracted around 219 entries from different parts of our country. The winner takes the first prize of Rs.25000/- followed by Rs.15000/- for the runner up in the first 25 main prizes and various category prizes were also offered. C Praveen Kumar of Chennai was the top seed , with T U Navin Khanna of Chennai and P.Phoobalan of ICF & Vijay Keerthi of Karnataka following the suit. Earlier the the tournament was inaugurated by the Chief guest Shri Sudhanand, Correspondent of Erode Sengunthar Engg College.
S.Ganesh Babu of Madurai defeated C Praveen Kumar in the 3rd round and at the end of the 5th round joined the lead with Vijay Keerthi of Karnataka , Dr Linda Rangarajan of Puduchery and M.V.Lakshmi Narayanan of TN. Linda took lead in the 6th round only to hand over to Vijay Keerthi who was either sole in the leader or among the joint leaders till the end. At the end of 10th round 5 players including the top 4 seeds C Praveen Kumar , Navin Khanna , Phoobalan , Vijay Keerthi alongwith Lakshmi Narayanan were jointly leading the table with 8 pts apiece. The top board games in the final round was a treat to watch with all the players displaying their level best and try to win their respective games.
VijayKeerthi of Karnataka won the title with 9 pts , half a point ahead of 7 players headed by C Praveen Kumar who took the runner up spot.
The tournament was conducted in a excellent manner and the organizer Shri KPK Selvaraj took a keen interest in providing good playing conditions for the players. A vending machine was procured to provide Tea, Coffee and Lemon tea for players at free of cost on all days. Also he opined the second edition of the event will be conducted in a far better manner.
The prize distribution function was graced by the presence of Shri Chola Appukutti, President of TN Spinning Mills Association and the Chief guest of the day . Shri Muralimohan , Gen Secy of TNSCA distributed the prizes. Shri KPK Balasubramaniam , Vice President KPK Chess Academy delivered the vote of thanks.
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A warm reception was given by Tamil NAdu State Chess Association for Asian Gold Medal Winners (J. Saranya, Srija Seshadri and G.K. Monnisha) were arrived Chennai Central today (10/08/2009) by Tamil Nadu Express.
Tamil Nadu General Secretary Mr. K. Muralimohan presented the garlands to the winners and distribute the sweets to all chess friends and parents of the winners, who were joined the reception.
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K. Priyadarshan (Madurai), J. Saranya (Tiruvallur), Srija Sershadri (Cuddalore) and G.K. Monnisha (Chennai) emerged as Champions in Under -16 Open, Under -14 Girls and Under -12 Girls categories respectively.
K. Priyadarshan got 6.5 points out of 9 rounds to win the title in the under -16 category. Ramnath Bhuvanesh finished fourth in the same category with 6 points.
J. Saranya secured 8 points out of 9 rounds to emerge as a champion in the under -14 girls section.
Srija Seshadri and G.K. Monnisha were both awarded gold medals in the under -12 Girls category, as they tied with each other on 6.5 points. Mahalakshmi (Chennai) finished fourth with 6 points.
Pon. N. Krithka (Kanchi) added another feather to Tamil Nadu camp by winning Silver medal in the under -18 g category.
India reasserted his supremacy in Asian Youth by winning 23 out of 36 medals: 8 Gold; 7 Silver and 8 Bronze.
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The second Modern School International Fide Rating Chess Championship held
at Modern Senior Secondary School, from 04th to 8th August 2009 for a prize
pool of Rs.1, 00,000/-
Sri D.V. Sundar, Secretary, All India Chess Federation inaugurated the Second
Modern School International Fide Rating Chess Championship for School
students at Modern Senior Secondary School, Chennai 600 061 on 4th August 2009
at 9am. Shri D V Sundar,Secretary,AICF appreciated the Modern senior
Secondary School especially Shri PC Vaidyanathan, Secretary Modern school for
organizing the unique FIDE Rated school children event for a second year in a row
and asked the organisers to fix up a date well in advance to enable many players
from India to take part in this event.
This Rating Chess Championship was organized by Modern Senior
Secondary School,Nanganallur,Chennai-61 under the auspices of Tamilnadu
State Chess Association and All India Chess Federation .
Main sponsor for this event was Modern Senior Secondary School, Chennai and they
proved free lodging and Boarding to all players, free hospitality to officials, arbiters
etc and also sponsoring the entire prize money of Rs.1,00,000/-
Master P.Lokesh of Velammal Matriculation school, won the championship with
8points received the cash prize of Rs 25000 along with a Trophy. The top twelve
were given the cash prizes in the main list and six special cash prizes for
each category in Under8/10/12/14
This event attracted 250 participants from various States like Andhra, Karnataka, Pondichery, Orissa, WestBengal, Maharastra and also from all over districts in Tamilnadu like Chennai, Kanchi, Madurai, Tiruvellor, Kanyakumari,Salem,Tiruvarur,Thanjavur,Vellore,Coimbatore Trichy, etc.,
Participation of nearly 74 rated players including top players like top seeded TN State sub-junior champion Ajay Srikanth,TN Under 25 state champion G.Akash,P.Lokesh,Savetha,Akash PC Iyer etc., made the event so competitive.
This event was 9 round Swiss format FIDE rating chess tournament. This was a unique School students Rating chess Tournament is being organized as a FIDE Rated event in India and many unrated players got opportunity to get ratings.
The players exhibited high standards of fighting spirit as a sole leader emerged at the end of the 8th round only.
At the end of the 5th round two players Ajay Srikanth & Kaushik of Jawahar Vidyalaya were in lead with 5 points each.
At the end of 6th round 2 more players Anandraj & Akash joined the leaders with 5.5 points each.
In the 7th round the top seeded Ajay Srikanth suffered defeats at the hands of S.Anandraj, two players – Anandraj & Kaushik emerged leaders at the end of this round.
In the 8th round S.Anandraj of SRDK Vivekananda Vidyalaya,emerged sole leader with 7.5 points. He was closely followed by P.Lokesh of Velammal with 7 points.
In the 9th and final round of the event which decided the winner, Lokesh outwitted Anandraj in a tense battle to clinch the title with 8 points.
On the colourful Prize distribution function Shri J C D Prabakaran,Vice President,Tamilnadu State Chess Association presided over the function, Ln N Vijayan,President,Kanchi Dist chess assn distributed the prizes and Shri K Muralimohan,General Secretary,TNSCA felicitated the winners
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Former Olympian and Indian Railway’s star Diwakar Prasad Singh lifted the glittering Adyar Times trophy when he signed a peace treaty in five moves against Tamil Nadu state Junior champion M.Muthu Alagappa in the tenth and the final round of the ninth Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess tournament which got concluded today morning in Chennai. The 31 year old Jharkhand born D.P.Singh who has migrated to Chennai choosing his career with Southern Railway has usurped this coveted title in the year 2006 too. By winning this prestigious Adyar Trophy D.P.Singh is becoming richer by Rupees twenty five thousand. D.P.Singh with an ELO rating of 2286 was seeded fourth in this tournament remained undefeated in the championship. He notched up a total of 9 points from ten rounds. Taking up sole lead in the seventh round he conceded only two draws against Jitendra Vel S in the fifth round and Muthu Alagappan in the final round D.P. Singh came to limelight when he got qualified in the National ‘A’ Championship to find a berth in the six member Indian squad which represented the country in the Greece Olympiad.
T.U.Naveen Kanna of Anna University with 8.5 points was the runner up with 8.5 points. He carried home a cash prize of Fifteen thousand rupees. In a four way tie for the third place M.V.Lakshmi Narayana of Kodaikanal with 8 points was adjudged third on account of his higher Buchholz score. He was rewarded with 9000 rupees.
India’s First International Master & Arjuna Awardee Manuel Aaron and Lion P.N. Bhavani Shankar, Chairman, Madras South Lions Charitable Trust gave away the Prizes to the winners.
Important Results of Final Round
Bo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name
1 Singh D P 9 Drew with 8 Muthu Alagappan M
2 Navin Kanna T U 8.5 beat 7 Ramnathan Balasubramaniam
3 Ganesh Babu S 8 beat 7 Srinivasa Rao M
4 Krishnan Varun 7 Lost to 8 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv
5 K. Praneeth Surya 7 Lost to 8 Lokesh P
6 Vasantha Ruba Varman 7.5 beat 6.5 Ram S Krishnan
7 Tejas Ravichandran 7.5 beat 6.5 Mohana Priya J
8 Vinoth Kumar M 7.5 beat 6.5 Saket Kumar
9 Suresh K 7 Drew with 7 Sivasankar B
10 Sharath E 7.5 beat 6.5 Ranjith R K
Prize Winners List:
Rank Name FED Club Pts BH.
1 IM Singh D P IND Kanchi 9 68
2 Navin Kanna T U IND Tlr 8½ 65½
3 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 8 72½
4 Lokesh P IND Che 8 65
5 Ganesh Babu S IND Mdu 8 64
6 Muthu Alagappan M IND Tlr 8 63½
7 FM Vinoth Kumar M IND Che 7½ 66
8 Tejas Ravichandran IND Che 7½ 63½
9 Vasantha Ruba Varman IND Che 7½ 60
10 Sharath E IND Che 7½ 59
11 IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam IND Kan 7 68½
12 Vijay Anand M IND Che 7 68
13 Krishnan Varun USA 7 66
14 FM Srinivasa Rao M IND A.P 7 64½
15 Dk Chopra IND delhi 7 63½
16 Linda Rangarajan IND Pon 7 61
17 Cheniram Pegu IND nil 7 60½
18 Sa Kannan IND Siv 7 60
19 K. Praneeth Surya IND Che 7 57½
20 Suresh K IND Trr 7 56½
Category Prizes:
group 8
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
Boys 102 Arvind M 1545 8 5 56
Girls 205 Vaishali R w 0 8 5 48½
group 10
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
Boys 98 Jayesh M 1558 10 6½ 56
Girls 185 Saughanthika As w 0 10 5½ 48
group 12
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
Boys 51 Prasannaa S 1810 12 7 56
Girls 82 Ashwini U w 1659 12 5 56
group 14
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
Boys 67 Sai Kiran S 1736 14 6½ 52
Girls 44 Michelle Catherina P 1845 IND Che 6½ 61
Best woman
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
28 18 Mohana Priya J 2060 IND Tlr 6½ 61½
Best Unrated
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
45 109 Abirami R w 0 6 57½
48 207 Venkatesan N 0 6 56½
59 122 Arun M 0 6 48
Best Under 1700
Category SNo. Name Rtg Gr Pts BH.
46 90 Sabhareesh M 1607 10 6 56½
Best Player 1700 - 2000
Category 30 Jaswant G 1914 IND Che 7 55
Best Player 2001 - 2300
Category 11 Sivasankar B 2109 IND Kan 7 52
Best Veteran
Category 34 Subramanian T V IND Try 6½ 59
Best Game
Krishnan Varun of USA for the win against Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL in the 8th Round.
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Sri D.V. Sundar, Secretary, All India Chess Federation inaugurated the Second Modern School International Fide Rating Chess Championship for School students at Modern Senior Secondary School, Chennai 600 061 on 4th August 2009
This Rating Chess Championship is being organized by Modern Senior Secondary School, under the auspices of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and All India Chess Federation
The Total Prize Fund is Rs.1,00,000 and the winner will get the cash prize of Rs 25000 along with a Trophy. The top twelve gets the prizes in the main list and six special cash prizes for each category in Under14/12/10/8 will also be awarded.
Main sponsor for this event is Modern Senior Secondary School, Chennai and they are providing free Lodging and Boarding to all players, free hospitality to officials, arbiters etc and also sponsoring the entire prize money of Rs.1,00,000/-
This event attracted 250 participants from various States like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Pondicherry, Orissa, Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra and also from all over districts in Tamil Nadu.
Participation of 75 International rated players including top players like International Players Ajay Srikanth, G.Akash, P.Lokesh, Harihara Sudan etc., will make the event stronger and so colorful.
This event is 9 round Swiss format FIDE rating chess tournament. This is the 2nd time the School students Tournament is being organized as a FIDE Rated event in Tamil Nadu and many unrated players will get opportunity to get ratings and also rated players can increase their ratings from this event.
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Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL, Chennai emerged as Champion in the 4th S.K. Narasimhan FIDE Rated open chess Tournament which concluded here today. He drew the eleventh and final round with Tamil Nadu State Junior Champion M. Muthu Algappan of Easwari Engineering College to take his tally to 9 points.
Ram. S. Krishnan awarded with S.K. Narasimhan Memorial Trophy and Rs. 15,000/- as cash prize.
Six players namely top seed International Master N. Srinath, M. Muthu Algappan Venkat Sundaram, Senthil Kumaran R.P, Ganesh Babu . S and Krishnan Varun tied on 8.5 points each and were placed second to seventh in that order.
Mr. N. Tamilselvan, IG (Operations) gave away the prizes to the winners.
Final Placings:
Rank Name Club Pts
1 Ram S Krishnan BSNL 9
2 Narayanan Srinath Chennai 8½
3 Muthu Alagappan M Easwari Engg College 8½
4 Venkat Sundaram SRM 8½
5 Senthil Kumaran R P KQ Chess 8½
6 Ganesh Babu S Madurai 8½
7 Krishnan Varun USA 8½
8 Vinoth Kumar M KQ Chess 8
9 Harihara Sudan M T. Nagar Chess 8
10 Singh D P S.Rly 7½
11 Arun J Jeppiar Engg College 7½
12 Raju S Anita Methodis School 7½
Category Prizes:
A. Ra. Harikrishnan, Sethu Bhaskara Mat School Best Under – 8 player
Vishak Nr, Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Best Under – 10 player.
G.K. Monnisha, Velammal MHS, Mugappair Best Under – 12 player
P. Blakannamma, Velammal MHS, Surapet Best Under – 14 player
J. Mohanapriya, Velammal MHS, Mugappair Best Woman player
Abdul Azeem, Chennai Best Unrated player -1
Kandari Sasidar Kartheek, Andhra Pradesh Best Unrated player -2
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38th Tamil Nadu State Junior (Under – 19) Chess Championship for the was started on 15th of July 2009 and finished on 21st of July 2009
The inauguration function was held on 15th July 2009 by 2 pm Mr G E Babu Nethaji Hon. Sec. Krishnagiri Dist. Chess Association gave the welcome address, Presidential address was given by Mr. K. V. Sreekanth Hon. President. Krishnagiri Dist. Chess Association, Felicitation addressed by Mr. Jayapala Chandady, Mr. Nitin Sheshadri, Mr. Arul Kumar, Mr. Venkataramana and Mr. Ravichandran, Guests lighted the kuthuvilaku.
Players from all over Tamil Nadu were participated in this event, 50 players and 26 were rated, only one girl D Priyadharshini from Krishnagiri Dist. played in this open category, R. A. Pradeep Kumar of (Che) was the top seed, First round started on 15th July 2009, the eleven round events finished smoothly.
8th seeded player M Muthu Alagappan (Tvlr) won the top seeded in seventh round, started sole lead and he maintain it till round 10, he became share lead with J Arun (Che) at the end of the tournament.
M Muthu Alagappan (Tvlr) takes the Championship by tie break, top four player were eligible for forth coming National Junior Chess Champioship 2009.
The prize distribution function was held on 21th July 2009 by 3.30 pm Dr.Kalimuthu.,Ph.D.,I.R.S (Asst. Comm. of Central Excise) is the Chief Guest, Mr. Jayapala Chandady., founder president Krishnagiri Dist. Chess Association gave the presidential address, felicitated by Mr.C.Kirupa., (District Sports Officer), Mr.Alphonse.,(Titan Industries), Mr.R.G.Periyaswamy., (TVS Motors Company Ltd), Mr. M G Shridhar., (Exide Industries Ltd), and Mr. MVN Kutty., (Supreme Industries), Guests gave the prizes to the winners, vote of thanks was given by Mr. K. V. Sreekanth Hon. President. Krishnagiri Dist. Chess Association
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J. Mohana Priya of Kanchi District won the 23rd State junior (under-19) girls’ FIDE-rated chess championship conducted by Solar Chess Club, a part of the D.S.K.S. Subramania Iyer Trust, at the SDAT Tennis Stadium.
Mohana, who was the sole leader after nine rounds, drew with N. Akshaya and R. Preethi in Tuesday’s rounds. She secured nine points out of a possible 11 to claim victory.
Chennai’s Michelle Catherina drew with the top-seeded R. Preethi to finish second with eight points. A. Akshaya of Tiruvallur held S. Athirai of Dindigul to a draw to bag the third prize.
Apart from the V.V. Rajamani Trophy and the K.S. Ramani Trophy, Mohana received a cash award of Rs. 5,000. Final standings: 1. J. Mohana Priya (9); 2. Michelle Catherina (8); 3. A. Akshaya (7.5); 4. N. Akshaya (7.5); 5. J. Janani (7).
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Indian Grand Master S. Arun Prasad won the 116th Scottish Chess Championship that concluded at the Edinburg City Chambers on July 19. The grandmaster from Salem, defeated Madurai grandmaster Magesh Chandran in the final round to clinch the title with 7.5/9.
When the two Tamil speaking Arun Prasad and Magesh Chandran sat they knew that they have to win for the title. Magesh blundered a rook for minor piece in an opening trap and Arun Prasad won the battle in a dozen moves but converted the advantage on move 64.
Arun Prasad works for Bharat Petroleum at Chennai and works with many Indian players. He had a great run last year to become a Grand Master.
A total of 89 players from India, Slovakia, England, Germany, Iceland besides Scotland took park in this event that ran from July 11-19. Iain was the best Scot in the field scoring 6.5 points.
The idea to open up events like the Scottish Championship, Canadian Open etc to players from other nations offers colour to host sponsors and norm possibilities for home players. Some years back England closed the British Championship for outsiders after Indians not only took the title but also bulk of the top places.
Final placings: 1 S. Arun Prasad (Ind) 7.5/9; 2-3. Jan Markos (Slo), Mark Hebden (Eng) 7 each; 4-8. P. Magesh Chandran (Ind), Aaron Summerscale (Eng), Andrew Greet (Eng), K. Gudmundur (Ice), Gourlay Iain (Sco) 6.5 each...89 players.
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Karthikeyan Murali of Tamil Nadu won the TMPL Ranjit Patkar 23rd National Under 11 Boys Chess Championship, PESITM Auditorium, Sagar Road, Shivamogga, Karnataka
He got 9.5 points out of 11 rounds.
G.K. Monnisha of Chennai District got the second place with 9 points out of 11 rounds.
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Report by V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter
The 57th TN State FIDE Rated Chess Championship was held at Karaikudi, the largest city in Sivagangai district . Our State’s prestigious event , was organised by Castles Chess Academy at Rm V Kalyanamandapam from 7th July to 14th July 2009. Two International Masters R.Balasubramaniam of ICF and DP Singh of Southern Railway alongwith Three FIDE Master Shyam Nikil & Vinoth Kumar of Chennai and Maheswaran of Virudunagar were vying for the coveted V J Brahmaiah Rolling Shield. The prize fund of 1 lakh rupees and the first prize of Rs.30000/- had assured a good standard of play. A total number of 120 players have participated from 24 districts and 8 affiliated units. Earlier The tournament was inaugurated by philanthropist Rtn. PHF Sri Rm N Karuppiah , President, SiDCA.
Ramnath Bhuvanesh , a 11th standard student of SBOA school took the lead at the end of 7th round by beating the fancied Shyam Nikhil of Chennai and Maheswaran of Virudhunagar in successive rounds. Ramnath lost a crucial round to Premnath of Mount Chess Academy in a time scramble. Meanwhile top seed Shyam Nikhil was cruising thro and won the championship with 8.5 pts despite losing to Premnath in the last round who had the same score of 8.5pts . Shyam was placed first ahead of Premnath by virtue of Buchholz tiebreaking score. Ramnath Bhuvanesh was placed third and lead a contingent with 8pts.
Karaikudi , is known as capital of Chettinad region which is the homeland of Nagarathars, a prosperous banking and business community. Notable is the educational institutions developed by Alagapar , the founder of Alagappa University. Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology (Accet),Alagappa Polytechnic located in Karaikudi, . Dr. Alagappa Chettiar is also responsible for establishment of Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CECRI) in this place.
All the players and parents were overwhelmed by the hospitality of the organisers,which is a special quality of people in this region. A dinner was hosted by Sri Rm N Karuppiah for a happy gathering on Sunday during the tournament. The PD function was graced by Shri CT Chockalingam, RM, IOB Karaikudi . Felicitations was offered by RM Rajamanickam, Correspondent, Leader’s Matriculation School and K N Saravanan , Shri Lakshmi Printers. John Kennedy of Matha Electricals welcomed the gathering and S.Athulan , Secretary Castle Chess Academy delivered the vote of thanks.
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XIV International Open Chess tournament of Balaguer , Spain
All the boys of our sub junior team have won their games against the lower rated opponents in the inaugural round of the XIV International open chess tournament at Balaguer ,Spain. The total participation in this tournament is 84 with 33 titled players which includes 10 grandmasters and 11 international masters. GM Kiril Georgiev from Bulgaria is the top seed.
K.Priyadharshan opened his game from the white side with the interesting 1.d3 followed by 2. a3 and comfortably scored their full point.
The other girls had to fight hard against the GMs and IMs. R.Bharathi was outplayed in the Sicilian Boleslavsky variation by the Azerbaijian. J.Saranya who had employed the Rossolimo variation, lost her game against the Spanish IM Ipatov Alexander .
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Tamil Nadu’s International Master Shyam Sundar (2415) was in the joint lead with three other Grand masters at the end of the 3rd round of the Leiden International Open tournament being held at Leiden, Holland.
It was in all, a good day for the Indian players as most of them got fairly lower rated opponents and won their games quickly and convincingly. Tamil Nadu girl Harini(1986) went from strength to strength by defeating higher rated FM Erwich, Frank (2319) of Netherlands and has shown a rating performance of 2529 so far having remained undefeated. Playing the white side of Ruy Lopez, Harini got a comfortable position from the opening and saw a little bit more than her opponent in the ensuing complications and won a pawn in the middlegame. She ruthlessly pushed the pawn ahead and won the game to be in the reckoning for a WGM norm or possibly more .
Harini along with Adhiban, VAV Rajesh, Lalith Babu and Karthikeyan are in the joint second position with 2.5 points from 3 rounds.
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Congrats Mr. B.T. Sethuraman, Ms. R. Bhuvana for become FIDE Arbiters awarded by FIDE.
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Ashwin Jayaram of Chennai won the Asian Junior Chess Championship, held at Srilanka. This is his Consecutive win. Last year he won at Chennai in 2008.
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Ajay Srikanth, Mohana Priya bags the Title
At end of the 11th round Ajay Srikanth (9) of Chennai Dist., J Monaha Priya (9.5) of Kanchi Dist. bagged the title respectively, in Tamil Nadu State Sub – Junior Chess Champion 2009 organised by Bloom Chess Academy, the runners are G Akash (Chennai) (9) and P V Nandhidhaa (Namakkal)
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Fide Arbiter Seminar at Chennai from 24th to 27th June, 2009
Report - R.Anantharam
The First FIDE Arbiter's seminar in India was held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai - 600 003. from 24th to 27th June, 2009. Mr.Casto Abundo, Deputy President of Asian Chess Federation was the resource person and lecturer and he was ably assisted by Prof.R.Anantharam, International Arbiter and member of the Swiss Pairing Programs Commission, FIDE.
Mr.Abundo lectured in detail of Laws of Chess, Rating and Title regulations and Tournament regulations and the classes were very interactive. Mr.R.Anantharam explained the salient features of Swiss Pairings with example and he also dealt with case studies on all the topics. All the participants were supplied with course materials and power point presentations of the lectures. The classes extended to late evenings, as the aspiring and ambitious arbiters were interested to participants were also equally enthusiastic.
On the final day of the Seminar, Mr.Abundo and Mr.Anantharam gave a review on what the arbiters learnt on the previous three days. At the end of the session, the participants attended the examination, which, consisted of objective multiple choice questions.
The successful examinees from Tamil Nadu are :
S.No. Name of the Participant
1 Mr.B.Sakthi Prabhakar
2 Mrs..Aarthie Ramaswamy, Women Grand Master
3. Mr.R.Balasubramanian
4. Mr.K.Ganesan
5. Mr.A.Suresh Kumar
6. Mr.A.L.Kasi
7. Mrs.T.T.Lakshmi Priyaa..
8. Mr.M.R.Senthil Kumar
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Chennai’s Ram S. Krishnan won his maiden Cusat Open all-India FIDE-rated chess title at the Cochin University campus.
The 26-year-old, who has no formal training in the game, was surprised with the victory which fetched him the top prize of Rs. 15,000.
“Till last (Monday) morning, I was not in contention,” said Ram, the only one among the four overnight leaders who won the final round on Tuesday.
Ram, who defeated his State-mate J. Sridhar in the last round, finished with 8.5 points in the 10-round event, while Andhra Pradesh’s M. Srinivasa Rao and Kerala’s Joy Lazar took the second and third positions.
Prof. Godfrey Louis, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Cusat, gave away the prizes.
The results (10th round): J. Sridhar lost to Ram S. Krishnan; C.R.G. Krishna drew with M.A. Joy Lazar; M. Srinivasa Rao bt Binju Oommen, J. Arun lost to O.T. Anilkumar; Hemant Kumar Singh drew with Uttam Sharma; S. Ganesh Babu bt Uttam Sarkar; T.H. Senthil Kumaran bt U.C. Mohanan; Malla Nooka Raju drew with T.U. Navin Kanna; M.B. Muralidharan drew with V.M. Jishore, M.V. Ratheesh lost to P.V. Gireesh.
Final placings: 1. Ram S. Krishnan (TN, 8.5 pts), 2. M. Srinivasa Rao (AP, 8), 3. M.A. Joy Lazar (Ker, 8), 4. C.R.G. Krishna (AP, 8), 5. O.T. Anilkumar (Ker, 8), 6. S. Ganesh Babu (TN, 7.5), 7. J. Sridhar (TN, 7.5), 8. Linda Rangarajan (Pud, 7.5), 9. T.H. Senthil Kumaran (TN, 7.5), 10. Uttam Sharma (TN, 7).
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Grahesh and Bansi Prathima emerged champions
Grahesh and Bansi Prathima emerged champions making it a grand double for Andhra Pradesh as they clinched the Boys and Girls title in the RMK Residential School 23rd National Under 9 (Boys & Girls) Chess Championship at Nehru Stadium,Chennai on 23rd June, 2009.
In the crucial final round, Grahesh showed maturity beyond his age, defeating Rakesh Kumar Jena of Orissa in 43 moves. Grahesh finished with 10/11 score. The runner up spot went to Chennai lad M Sabhareesh (9.0) who scored a fighting victory over Mitrabha Guha of West Bengal in the second board. Guha had the consolation of finishing on the shared third spot, along with V S Rathanvel (TN) and Bhaskar Gupta (Maharashtra) at 8.5 points.
Overnight leader Bansi Prathima faced the wall against Bengal girl Arpita Mukherjee in a Kings Indian game. She lost the exchange in the middle game, but luck smiled on her as her opponent misplayed the resulting ending and lost in 35 moves. The all important win gave the Andhra girl the Championship with a 9.5/11 score. The runner up spot went to Savant Riya of Goa who stood half a point behind. A clear third spot went to Tejaswini Sagar of Maharashtra who finished with 8.5 points.
The tournament had fifteen FIDE Rated players in the boys section and four FIDE Rated players in girls section. The eleven round Swiss System events had participation from 19 states. The boys section had 165 entries, while the girls section garnered 86 entries. The winners qualify to represent the country in the Asian and the World Championships to be held during 2010.
The panel of Arbiters include, Pranesh Yadav (Chief Arbiter), R Srivatsan and R R Vasudevan (Deputy Chief Arbiters), R Balasubramanian, B Sakthi Prabhakar, V Vijayaraghavan, Rajashree, Sunitha, Anusuya, Visalakshi and Banumathi (all Arbiters).
Earlier, the event was inaugurated by Shri N Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu at the RMK Residential School, Chennai on 15th June, 2009.
On the final day, the prizes were awarded by Shri R S Munirathnam, Chairman, RMK Group in the presence of Shri Y. Pradeep, Secretary, Lakshmikanthamma Educational Trust, Shri D V Sundar, Hon Secretary, AICF, Shri Peter Long (Malaysia), Shri V Kameswaran, Shri Pradeep, Shri K Murali Mohan, Hon Secretary, TNSCA and Shri JCD Prabhakaran, Chairman, Organising Committee.
The prize winners : (Boys)
1.Y Grahesh (AP) 10, 2.M Sabhareesh (TN) 9, 3-5. Mitrabha Guha (WB), V S Rathanvel (TN), Bhaskar Gupta (Maharashtra) 8.5, 6-12.Abhimanyu Puranik (Maharashtra), Rakesh Kumar Jena (Orissa), Jay Shah (Maharashtra), Adarsh Shrivastava (UP), Aryan Chopra (Delhi), S Adithya (TN), A Vaibhav (TN) 8 points.
The prize winners : (Girls)
1.Bansi Prathima M (AP) 9.5, 2.Savant Riya (Goa) 9, 3.Tejaswini Sagar (Maharashtra) 8.5, 4-7.Arpita Mukherjee (WB), Vaishali.R (TN), Aakanksha Hagwane (Maharashtra), Hilmi Parveen (Kerala) 8, 8-12. Khushi Dharewa (WB), Anjali Manoj (Kerala), Tulsi M (Karnataka), Sovna Sonali Jena (Orissa), Adyasa Patnaik (Orissa) 7.5 points.
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M. M. Muthu Kumar of Kanchi District and Mr. R. Guruswamy of Virudhunagar become FIDE Arbiters
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B. Adhiban, the under 16 world champion caused the major upset of the tournament, crushing the top seeded European champion Sergei Tiviakov in the ninth and penultimate round of the 1st SCS International Open GM Chess tournament at Swosti Plaza, Bhubaneswar, today. With 7.5 points, second seeded Igor Kurnosov of Russia continued to maintain his half point lead over Adhiban, Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB, M.S. Thej Kuamr of Karnataka and seven other foreign grandmasters.
Adhiban was well prepared to the rarely played Steinitz variation of Ruy Lopez game by Tiviakov and sacrificed his bishop on the 12th move, based on theoretical lines. Two move later, Adhiban made another stunning knight sacrifice, going for an all out attack. Again on move 22, Adhiban exchanged his rook for a knight foreseeing a checkmate or pawn promotion to a queen. Tiviakov surrendered after three more moves.
Igor Kurnosov had a formal 14 move draw with the Ukraine GM Zinchenko Yaroslav on the top board in a Sicilian defence game adopted by the former. Similarly Ismagambetov Anuar of Kazakhstan agreed for a quick 12 move draw with world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of PSPB. In an equal rook and pawn endings, Thejkumar had better preparation to defeat the Russian GM Vokarev Sergey. K. Rathnakaran of Railways lost his GM norm chances by losing to Russian grandmaster Rychagov Andrey.
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The FIDE was awarding FIDE arbiters title for arbiters who had the requisite number of norms. But, as per the new regulations of FIDE to come into force from 01st July 2009, it is mandatory for all FIDE Arbiter title seekers to attend a Arbiters Seminar conducted by the FIDE and to pass the exam. Therefore, the All India Chess Federation has been receiving requests from various States to conduct FIDE Arbiters Seminar in India. The reason being, it is difficult for many to spend money on Airfare, Boarding & Lodging and course fee if it is held abroad. In view of the above requests, it has been decided to conduct an Arbiters Seminar at Chennai from 24th to 28th June, 2009. Further, those who pass the exam will get FIDE Arbiter title directly, as they do not require any International Tournament Norm Certificate. In other words, any body who has basic knowledge about the game can appear for the Seminar.
We expect Mr.Casto Abundo of FIDE to conduct the Seminar and he will be assisted by Prof.R.Anantharam. All those who are interested in attending the course are requested to send the filled application form attached along with Demand Draft favouring All India Chess Federation, payable at Chennai for Rs.18,000/- towards FIDE Fee, Exam fee, Lodging, Materials and other expenses connected with the seminar. The form may be sent through the respective State Chess Associations so as to reach AICF before 12th June, 2009
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N. Surendran of Bloom Chess Academy and J. Saranya of Tiruvallur won the Arasan Fireworks Trophy for boys and N.R. Krishnama Raja Trophy for girls respectively in the Sri Kaliswari State under-17 chess championship.
Both Surendran and Saranya settled for draws in their final round games to finish half-a-point ahead of their rivals.Both Surendran.N and Saranya.J are from Bloom Chess Academy
Final standings: Boys: 1. Surendran (8); 2. S.S. Manigandan (7.5); 3. Aravindh Chithambaram (6.5).
Girls: 1. Saranya (7.5); 2. C.H. Savetha (7); 3. Michelle Catherina (6.5).
Important results: Final round: Bavankumar (6) drew with Surendran (8); Aravindh Chithambaram (6.5) drew with Manigandan (6.5); A. Nagaarjuna (6) drew with G. Santhosh Kumar (6); Ramalingam Karthik (6) drew with G. Jaswant (6); N. Lokesh (6) drew with P. Lokesh (6); S. Anandraj (6) bt P. Krishnakumar (5).
Girls: Saranya (7.5) drew with Michelle Catherina (6.5); Savetha (7) bt R. Karthikeyioni (5.5); M. Poojakanth (6) bt A. Akshaya (5.5); G. Amirthavalli (6) bt S.V. Sathya Priya (5); R. Visalatchi (5.5) drew with S. Aarthysri (5.5); S. Anushya (5) drew with M. Nandini (5.5).
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Krishna Sasikiran from Chennai qualified from the Asian Individual Championship for the World Cup in Russia later this year.
Among women, WGM S Meenakshi of Chennai qualified for the World Women's Chempionship of 2010 at Turkey.
Other Indians who qualified for World Cup are Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda and Abhijit Kunte in mens category.
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FIDE Trainer Mr.Peter long, will be conducting an orientation workshop at Chennai for coaches who mostly coach school children. This workshop will be held from 20th to 22nd June, 2009 concurrently along with the National Under – 9 Chess Championship to be held at Chennai. Admission to the workshop will be free for all coaches to be nominated by their respective State Chess Associations. However, the participants will have to make their own arrangements for board and lodge. The workshop will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium itself. Those interested in participating may kindly send their names with biodata to the All India Chess Federation before 15th June, 2009.
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57th TN State FIDE Rated Chess Championship For BRAHMIAH Rolling Shield Will be organised by CASTLE CHESS ACADEMY From 7th July to 14th July 2009 at Karaikudi
The total prize fund is Rs.1,00,000/- The top FOUR rankers from this Championship will be selected to represent Tamil Nadu State in the forthcoming National 'B' Chess championship to be held at Kolkota later this year.
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G Akash of Jawahar Vidyalaya, Chennai and P Michelle Catherina of Good Shepherd School, Chennai annexed the Annapragada Trophy and Nivarthi Trophy respectively at the end of the final round of the Jawahar Vidyalaya Tamilnadu State Under 25 Chess Championships organized here by Sports Promotion Foundation and Tamilnadu State Chess Association.
The Tennetti Venigopal Trophy for the Best played game of the Tournament was awarded to G Akash for his bold and inventive play against R A Pradeep Kumar.
Mr Manuel Aaron, Arjuna Awardee & International Master and Observer for Chess, Government of India was the Chief Guest and Shri A. Surya Narayana Rao Secretary & Correspondent- Jawahar Vidyalaya presided over the function.
Final Standings
Open Category
RankNameClubPts
1Akash GChe8
2Lakshmi Narayanan MVdindigul7
3Shashank DSChe7
4Arun JChe7
5Siddarth, MChe7
6Ajay SrikanthChe6½
7Bavan KumarTlr6½
8Muthu Alagappan MTlr6½
9Kaushik Sche6½
10Srinivas VKgi6½
11Dharmaraj Ptut6½
12Jitendriavel SChe6½
Women
RankNameClubPts
1Michelle Catherina PChe7½
2Janu. VTlr7
3Sathya Priya S VSlm6½
4Monnisha GKChe6½
5Khushboo MTlr6
6Savetha CHChe6
7Visalatchi RVnr6
8Uma Bharathi GChe6
9Sithalatchumi AMdu6
10Bhuvaneswari.RTry6
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IM S.P.Sethuraman finished third in the Interantional FIDE Rating touranment in Sagli which concluded on 17/5/2009
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At the end of the final day of the First JHA Agarsen College Tamilnadu State Level Open Chess Championship C. Praveen Kumar of Chennai won the Rolling Trophy with 7 points being held at JHA Agarsen College, Madhavaram, Chennai.
At the Prize distribution function Shri K. Muralimohan, Secretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Association was the Chief Guest, India’s Latest Chess Grand Master Shri. Sundarrajan Kidambi and Shri Goverdhan Agarwal, Secretary, Agarsen College were the Guest of Honour. Earlier Mr. T. Jagadeesh, Secretary, Kings Chess Foundation welcomed the gathering and Mr. U. Jayavelan, Treasurer, Kings Chess Foundation proposed vote of thanks.
Prize Winners. Under 8 Girls: 1. Vaishali.R(Velammal ) 6, 2. Prianka.K(Bharathi Kids)5, 3. Krithigga.K(Ashram)5; Under 8 Boys: 1.Harikrishna.A.Ra(Sethu Baskara)8,2. Hirthickkesh.P.R.(Jawahar mat.)7,3. Kasthuri Mahalingam(St.Teresa Nursery)6.5; Under 10 Girls: 1.Saughantika A.S(Chettinad)5,2. Madhumita.R(Velammal)5,3. Rohini.G(G.K.Shetty Vivekanda)4.5; Under 10 Boys:1. Sabhareesh.M(Hindu Sr.Sec)7.5,2. Bhuvan.R(Jawahar Vidyalaya)6.5,3.Mytherayan.P(Adarsh Vidyalaya) 6.5;Under 12 Girls:Manasvini Murali(Vidya Mandir)6,2. Thegesvi.J.G.(Everwin)5,3. Varshini.V(Velammal)5; Under 12 Boys:Viswanath.T(Modern Sr.Sec)7,2. Loknath.S.(Vanavi mat)6.5,3.Dinesh.B.V(Shrine Velanganni Sr.sec) 6.5;Under 14 Girls:1.Balakannamma.P.(Kaligi Ranganathan Montford)5.5,2. Aarthi.G(GK Shetty VV)5.5,3. Madhana.B(st.Kevins) 4;Under 14 Boys:1.Chaithanyaa.KG(Velammal)7,2.Sabaragirivashan.S.(Kalaimagal Vidyalaya)6, 3.KalyanaRaghavan(Kaligi Ranganathan Montford)6; OPen:1. Praveen Kumar(Chennai)7, 2. PradeepKumar.RA(Velammal)7, 3. Sekar.B(Bloom Chess)7,4.Ram.S.Krishnan(BSNL)6.5, 5.Singh.DP(Southern Railway)6.5
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FIDE World Beats Azerbaijan Easily In Baku
Led by Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik the FIDE World Team scored an easy 21.5-10.5 win over Azerbaijan in a four a team eight round rapid match that took place from May 7-9 at Baku.
World champion Viswanathan Anand scored three wins and drew five to end on 5.5/8 and help his team win with relative ease. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia playing for the world team scored 6.5/8 and was impressive. Both remained undefeated. For the world team, other two scorers were Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine who made 5/8 and Alexei Shirov who scored 4.5/8. Both of them lost one game apiece.
At the losing end of the Scheveningen format was Azerbaijan. For them Radjabov scored 4/8, Mamedyarov 3/8, Vugar Gashimov 2/8, Gadir Gashimov 1/6 and Rauf Mamedov 0.5/2. Azerbaijan started with a stunning 2.5-1.5 win in round one but lost the remaining seven rounds.
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Ram S Krishnan of BSNL achieved his 2nd IM norm in 2nd Mumbai Mayor's International Tournament in Mumbai from 1st May to 10th May. He has scored 7.5 points in eleven rounds to achieve the 2nd IM norm.
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FIDE President Praised Vishy Anand and Indian Chess Players
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GM P.Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu bagged the fourth prize in the 2nd Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament which concluded in Mumbai today. GM Alexander Areshchenko(Ukraine), GM Koneru Humpy(India) , GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko (Ukraine) and GM P.Magesh Chandran tied with each other with nine points each at the end of the eleventh and final round and finished in that order.
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand was awarded the Chess Oscar by the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at Baku. Anand, born December 11, 1969 at Chennai wins this prestigious award for the sixth time, the highest won by a non-Russian. Robert James Fischer had won this thrice.
Anand who won the World Title at Bonn last year by defeating Vladimir Kramnik 6.5-4.5 in a match was expected to pick this award which is run by the Russian Chess Magazine, 64 Chess Review. It was after a massive poll exercise for which journalists around the world cast their votes.
The AICF President N. Srinivasan and Honorary Secretary D.V. Sundar have congratulated Anand on his latest achievement. This news will naturally make Anand's fans around the world and particularly at hometown Chennai very happy and excited.
Anand is in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, competing in the President's Cup playing for the FIDE World Team against Azerbaijan in a four a side rapid match. FIDE World is leading the 8-round contest by 4.5-3.5 after two rounds. Six rounds are still to be played. Anand drew Radjabov in the opener and defeated Vugar Gashimov in the second round to help his team move into lead.
The Chess Oscar comes in the form of a statuette also called the "Fascinated Wanderer". Anand is enjoying chess and also excelling in it. He had won the world Chess title under three formats, knock out, double all-play-all tournament format and finally the match format. The Oscar award is a true confirmation of chess excellence. Anand had won this first in 1997 and 1998 through his tremendous performance in tournament play.
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R Ramnath Bhuvanesh Student of XI Stadard from SBOA CBSE School acheived his Maiden IM norm at 11th Dubai Open 2009.
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S. Harini of Kanchi won the 37th TN State Women FIDE Rated Championship was held at Thiruthuraipoondi. She has scored 8.5 points out of possible 11 rounds to emerge as a champion. In the last the round Harini beat Sathya Priya of Salem to clinch the title. R. Bharathi of Chennai beat Poojakanth of Neyveli to become runnerup with 8.5 points.
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An IM since 2000, Kidambi has achieved all the 3 norms to become 19th GM of India. Kidambi achieved 6th position in recently concluded Dubai Open Chess Tournament. Having reached a rating of 2501 in October 2008, the 26 year-old has already met all technical requirements to become a GM.
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GM P.Magesh Chandran of Tamil Nadu has won the Rotary Federal Bank All India FIDE Rated Tournament by Defeating Kerala's IM K.Ratnakaran in the 10th and final round held on 28th april 09 at KODUNGALLUR and bagged the Ist prize amount Rs.50,000. He scored 9 points out of 10 round tournament.
The other TN players who finished top 10 are
4th place V. Vishnu Prasanna with 8 points
and 5th place IM M. Shyam Sundar also with 8 points.
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B. Kumaran and U. Ashwini both from Chennai won the 22nd TN under11 Championship for Dolphin Trophies and Rs.2000/- each as cash prize. In the boys section Kumaran scored 10.5 points and Ashwini scored 9.5 points respectively. In the last round Kumaran beat Karthikeyan M of Coimbatore and Ashwini drew with Oviyanila M of Chennai to clinch the title.
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S. Raguraman of TCS won the TAK Memorial Problem Solving Contest by solving all six chess problems given. The contest was organised by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association as part of its 62nd Anniversary Celebrations at Hall of Chess, J N Stadium, Chennai-3. International Problemist C.G.S. Narayanan, the coordinator of the contest gave away the prizes.
The other prize winners were:
II J.Saranya (Velammal MHS School)
III L.Bharath (Velammal MHS School)
IV A.Akshaya (Vellayan Chettiar H.S.School)
V J.G.Nivedhitha (Everwin MHS School)
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47th edition of the Doebral Cup International Chess Tournament concluded at Canberra, Australia on 13th April 2009.
Both Deep Sengupta and and Deepan Chakravarthy got AUD 2700 each.
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47th edition of the Doebral Cup International Chess Tournament concluded at Canberra, Australia on 13th April 2009.
A strong Indian contingent of 15 players participated in this tournament. WFM Pon.N.Krittika scored her
3rd and final IWM norm.
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Velammal Won the B.J. Expo Ever Rolling Trophy for 5th Vishy Andnd - Hero Cycles TN State level Schools and Colleges Chess Championship fifth time in succession 19 April 2009.-
This Tournament attracted 550 participants from various districts of Tamilnadu including Asian gold Medalist and many more Current National, State Champions and 67 FIDE rated players. Overall this is one of the strongest Children Chess Championship organized in recent times.
The Chief Guests of the function Mr.V.Kameshwaran, Honorary Member of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Mr.R.Ananthram, FIDE Committee Member, gave away the prizes to the winning Children.
Hero Cycles and Cup winners among 140 prize winners:
U – 25 Boys & Girls: (Cycle Winner)R.A.Pradeep Kumar, Velammal (7.5 / 8); S.Kaushik, Jawahar Vidyalaya SSS (7); J.Mohana Priya , Velammal (6). Boys: U – 18 : (Cycle Winner) N.Surendran, Velammal (7.5); VAV.Rajesh, Velammal (7.5); M.C.Praveen Kumar, SDA MHSS, Vellore (6). U–14: (Cycle Winner)D.S.Shashank, Jawahar Vidyalaya (7.5); A.R.Osama Salim, Velammal, (7.5); G.Akash, Jawahar Vidyalaya (6.5). U – 12 : (Cycle Winner)M.Siddarth, Maharishi Vidya Mandir (7); S.Yogit, Maharishi Vidya Mandir (7); B.Kumaran, Sankara Sr. Sec(7). U – 10 : (Cycle Winner)Karthikeyan Murali, Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Vallur (7.5); F.Clifford Flair, St. Paul MHSS (7); Pranav Vijay, Chettinad Vidyashram (6.5). U-8 : (Cycle Winner) M.Arvind, PSBB (8/8); Adhithya S Sadhu, Pon Vidhyashram (7); S.JayaKumar, Velammal (7). Girls: (Cycle Winner) R.Visalatchi, Vinayagar Mat School (5.5); J.Janani, Velammal (5); P.Akshathaa, SRV Hr Sec School (4.5); U – 14: (Cycle Winner) J.Saranya, Velammal (6); N.Hema Priya, Vidyodaya (4.5); V.Janu, Velammal (4). U – 12: (Cycle Winner) Srija Seshadri, Jawahar Hr Sec School, Neyveli (6); M.Mahalakshmi, Velammal (5); Varshini, Velammal (5). U – 10: (Cycle Winner) M.A.Latheckasai, Vidyamandir (6); CMN, Sunyuktha, Bethel Mat Hr Sec School (5) R.Manjula, St Marine Primary School (5). U – 8 : (Cycle Winner) R.Vaishali, Velammal (6); Hashini SS, St Joseph, Trichy (5); P.R. Kaviya PR, Velammal (5)
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The Coaching Camp is held at YMCA, Nilgiris and inaugurated by Mr. T. Rangaiah, President NDCA. The Classes were taken from 23rd to 27th of February 2009. Grand Master taught about end game and middle game strategies and tactics. He had given a lot of questions and problems to the students. 25 players benefited from these classes. Last day he played Simul against 30 players, he won 29 games and drew one, and he distributed the certificate to all the participants in Valedictory function.
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Congratulations to:
Messrs:
M.Ephrame (KKI)
V.Hariharan (CHE)
N.K.Nanda Kumar (CHE)
M.Senthilvel (SLM)
D.Soundaramoorthy (VEL)
R.Srivatsan (TLR)
R.R.Vasudevan (CHE)
And V.Vijayaraghavan (CBE)
On being awarded FIDE Arbiter titles.
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Congratulations to International Arbiter Prof.R.Anantharam (VNR) on being appointed as a Member of Swiss Pairings Programs Commission (one of the FIDE’s commissions).
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Ram S Krisnan of Chennai won the 2nd Avadi State level Open Chess Championship being played at Christ School, Preshitha Nagar, Senneerkuppam, Chennai-56 on February 22.
The former TN State Champion Ram S Krishnan of BSNL, Chennai drawn with International Master R.Balasubramaniam of ICF at the final round to score 7.5 / 8 and tied with two time State Champion K.Gunasekaran has won the event with better progressive point.
The event has attracted 215 players of which two IMs and 47 are rated players , mostly from Chennai and Kanchi districts.
Chief Guests of the function Mr.K.Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Mr.Vijay Barath. Founder CEO Yahoo, India, Guest of Honour jointly gave away the prizes to the winners.
Cash Prize Winners: Ram S Krisnan (BSNL, Chennai) 7.5/8, K.Gunasekaran (ICF) 7.5; R.Balasubramaniam (ICF) 7; M.Vijay Anand 7; P.Naren Swaminathan (T.Nagar Chess Academy) 7; Y.Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF) 6.5; HariharaSudhan (T.Nagar Chess Academy) 6.5; P.Balaji (TPI) 6.5; B.Kumaran (T.Nagar Chess Academy) 6.5; M.Vijay (T.Nagar Chess Academy) 6.5.
Category winners:
U-8 Boys: Adhitya S.Sadhu (5.5/7); M.Arvind (5.5); A.Ra.Harikrishnan (5.0). Girls: Bharathi (4.0); Vaishali (3.5); Lakshitha (3.0).
U-10 Boys: Karthikeyan Murali (6.0); M.Sabhareesh (6.0); Sai Visvesh (5.0). Girls: Thamarai Selvi (4.5); Sunyuktha (4.0); Harivardhini (4.0);
U-12Boys: Yogit (6.0); N.R.Vignesh (5.5); Pradeepkumar (5.0). Girls: U.Ashwini (6.0); S.Abinaya Sen (5.0); Manasvini Murali (5.0).
U-14 Boys: K.G.Chaitanya(5.5); M.Swaroop (5.0); R.K.Vishnu (5.0). Girls: B.Jeyassri (5); Sushmitha(5.0); R.Madumitha (5.0)
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FIDE Master M.Vinoth Kumar emerged as champion in the Chennai District Open Chess Championship with a score of 6 points out of seven rounds. He was awarded a cash prize of Rs.2, 000/- along with A.N.Parasuram Memorial Rolling Trophy.
While former TN State Women's champion S.Nabeela Farheen won the Chennai District Chess Championship for Women, the Chennai District Under-7 Chess Championship titles for Boys and Girls were won by C.S.Ashwath and V.Keertyhi. The Under-11 titles were won by Naren Swaminathan (Boys) and R.Dharanisree(Girls).
Mr.S.Balaraman, Joint Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Mrs.AfrozeAhmed, Joint Secretary, Chennai District Chess Association gave away the prizes to the winners
Final placings:
Senior Open:
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Vinoth Kumar, FIDE Master 6 27.0
2 Noohu MJ, 6 25.0
3 Navin Kanna TU, Anna University 6 24.5
4 Ram S Krishnan, BSNL 6 24.0
5 Anand Sivasankar A, ECC 5.5 25.5
6 Praveen Kumar C, 5.5 24.5
7 Vasanth Ruba Varman M, MAK 5.5 24.5
8 Hari Hara Sudan M, MAK 5.5 24.0
9 Ajay Srikanth, Jawahar 5.5 23.5
10 Akash G, Jawahar 5.5 22.5
11 Kaushik S, J awahar 5.5 22.5
12 Karthikeyan Murali, Vivekananda Vidyalaya 5.5 22.5
13 Ganesh P, JRM 5.5 21.5
14 Vishnu Prasanna, Loyala College 5.5 20.0
15 Bala Subramanian R, 5 23.0
Senior Women:
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Nabeela Farheen S, IREVNA 6 25.5
2 Michelle Catherina, Good Shepred 5.5 23.0
3 Ashwini U, Sacred Heart 5 20.0
Under-7 Boys
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Ashwath CS, Chinmaya Vidyalaya 7 28.0
2 Aswin S, Sir Sivasamy Kalalaya 5.5 22.5
3 Sai Krishna S, Chinmaya Vidyalaya 5.5 19.5
4 Dileep Kumar R, Union Christian School 5 23.0
5 Aditya S Sadhu, PON Vidyashram 5 22.0
6 Charan Bhardhwaj R P S B B 5 22.0
7 Deepak K, P S B B 5 22.0
8 Shreyas NK, D A V 5 19.0
Under-7 Girls
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Keerthi V, D A V Mogappair 6.5 27.5
2 Nitika, Gateway The C School 5 23.0
3 Lakshmi C, CSI Bain Mat . 5 20.0
4 Saanya R Katariya, Bhavan's Rajai Vidyashram 5 17.0
Under-11 Boys
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Naren Swaminathan, Jawahar Vidyalaya 6 27.0
2 Pranav Vijay, Chettinad 6 26.0
3 Jayesh M, St. John's 6 24.0
4 Kumaran B, Sri Sankara S S 6 23.5
5 Sai Vishwesh C, National Public 6 22.0
6 Kumar S, Anitha Mat 5.5 23.0
7 Jerome Jorge Ebenezer G, Don Bosco 5.5 22.5
8 Niranjan Natarjan, PSS 5.5 21.5
9 Sabhareesh M, Hindu Sr 5 24.0
10 Srivatsav Shrikanth, Vidya Mandir 5 23.5
Under-11 Girls
Place Name Club Score Progr.
1 Dharani Sree R, Chettinad 6.5 25.0
2 Latheckasai MA, Vidya Mandir 6 26.0
3 Divya Lalitha KS, Adarsh Vidyayala 5 22.0
4 Oviyanila M, Akshyah Mat 5 21.0
5 Manasvini Murali, Vidya Mandir 5 21.0
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IM Shyam Sundar emerged as Champion in the first ESIC TN State Level Open Chess Tournament organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at Hall of Chess in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on 07/02/2009. He drew with IM P. Karthikeyan in the ninth and final round to take his tally to 8 points. In all, 3 players namely IM M. Shyam Sundar ( Velammal School), P. Saravana Krishnan (St. Joseph's College) and V. Vishnu Prasanna (Loyola College) tied with 8 points each and M. Shyam Sundar was declared as Winner on account of better score. M. Shyam Sundar was awarded a cash prize of Rs.3,700 and the ESIC Rolling Trophy.
In all 245 players including 1GM and 5 IM's. The Prizes were awarded given to the winners by Mr. D.V. Sundar, Hon. Secretary, All India Chess Federation and Mrs. Sara Thomas Assistant Commissioner of ESI Corporation.
Important ninth and final round results and the prize winners' list are given below.
Important Results: 9th and final round.
1 Shyam Sundar M (IM), [8] drew with IM Karthikeyan P, [7.5]
2 Saravanakrishnan P [8] bt Sethuraman SP, [7]
3 Haribalu V, [7] lost to Vishnu Prasanna, [8]
4 Syed Anwar Shazuli [7] drew with Magesh Chandran P, [7]
5 Kiran Y, [6.5] lost to Ram S Krishnan, [7.5]
6 Laxman RR, [7] bt Noohu MJ, [6]
7 Srinath N, [7] bt Siddarth M, [6]
8 Harihara Sudhan M [6] lost to Praveen Kumar C, 2360 [7]
9 Navin Kanna TU, [7] bt Vijay M [6]
10 Abhay T, [7] bt Mugilan S, [6]
List of Prize Winners.:
1 IM SHYAM SUNDAR, M (Velammal) 8
2 SARAVANA KRISHNAN P (St, Joseph) 8
3 VISHNU PRASANNA (Loyola) 8
4 RAM S KRISHNAN (BSNL) 7.5
5 KARTHIKEYAN, P (St, Joseph) 7.5
6 SETHURAMAN SP (Velammal) 7
7 NAVIN KANNA T U 7
8 HARI BALU V (St, Joseph) 7
9 GM MAHESH CHANDRAN, P(CHE) 7
10 ABHAY, T (SSN) 7
11 PRAVEEN KUMAR, C (CHE) 7
12 IM SRNINATH, N (CHE) 7
13 IM RR LAXMAN (ICF) 7
14 SYED ANWAR SHAZULLI (ICF) 7
15 LOKESH P (SBOA) 7
16 VIJAY ANAND (CHE) 7
UNDER 8 CATEGORY
1 VAISHALI, R (Velammal) 5.5
2 JANANI, H.D 5
3 HARI HARAN C.S 4.5
4 BALA KUMAR R 4.5
5 HARI BHASKAR, A 4
UNDER 10 CATEGORY
1 KARTHIKEYAN MURALI 7
2 SABAREESH, M (CHE) 6
3 SAI VISVESH 5.5
4 SRIVATSAV SHRIKANTH (Vidya Mandir) 5.5
5 SIDDHARTH SRIDHAR (Hari Sree Vidyalaya) 5.5
UNDER 12 CATEGORY
1 AKASH PC IYER 6.5
2 VASANTHA RUBA VARMAN, M 6.5
3 SIDDHARTH M 6
4 DHARINI SREE (Chettinad) 6
5 KUMARAN, B (Sri Sankara Matric) 6
UNDER 14 CATEGORY
1 CHAITHANYAA K G 6
2 BALA KANNAMA P (Kalgi Ranganathan) 6
3 JEYASSRI B 5.5
4 HEMA PRIYA, N (Vidyodhya) 5.5
5 SUSHMITHA G ( Jawahar Vidyalaya) 5.5
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1st Preshitha TN State level Children Chess Championship had attracted 445 players representing different parts of the Tamil Nadu, which included Asian Gold Medalist M.Mahalakshmi and Silver Medalist G.K.Monisha, Under -7 TN State Champion and youngest FIDE rated player of India R.Harikrishnan and TN State Under- 9 Champion Karthikeyan Muraliof Sethu Bhaskara MHSS was taken part in the tournament. The tournament was organised by Avadi Chess Centre sponsored by preshitha Educational Trust being held at Preshitha MHSS, Senneerkuppam, Poonamallee, Chennai-94.
Mr.Fr.Babu Thattil, Principal, Christ Matriculation School welcomed the gatherings, Mr.S.Balaraman, Jt. Secretary of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association presided over the function and the Chief Guests of the function Mr.S.Selva Arasu, Asst. Commissioner of police, Crime Branch, Chennai and Mrs.Aarthi Ramaswamy, Women Grand Master and Guest of Honour gave away the prizes to the winning Children.
U-8Boys:R.Dileepkumar(Union Christion Hss,7.5 / 8); N.Pawan Kumar,SBOAMHSS(6.5); R.Harikrishnan, Sethu Bhaskara MHSS (6); Karthick Raja, Chettinadu Vidyashram (6). Girs: R.Vaishali, Velammal (6 / 6); S.Monika, Velammal MHSS (5); K.Krithigga, The Ashram School (4 ½ ); Janani,Shristi Vidyashram.
U-10Boys:Karthikeyan Murali,Vivekananada Vidalaya(7.5 / 8 ); M.Sabhareesh.M,Hindu Sr.Sec.School (7); Pranav Vijay,Chettinadu Vidyashram (6.5); K.Sanjay, D.A.V(6). Girls: G.Rohini, G.K.Shetty Vivekananda (6 / 6); Krishalini, Avila Convent, Coimbatore, (5); Pooja Bharathi, Shirsty Vidalaya, Vellore (4); Varshini, Bharathi Vidya Bhavan,Erode (4).
U-12 Boys:G.K.Monisha, Velammal MHSS(7 / 8); S.Yogit,Maharishi Vidyamandhir (7); L.Barath, Velammal MHSS (6.5); N.Daniel Raja, Don Bosco (6.5).Girls: J.G.Thejesvi, Ever Win MHSS (5 / 5); P.Thamai Selvi, Auxinium School (5); Svetha, Modern Sr.Sec.School (5); B.Deepika, K.V.O.C.F, Avadi(5).
U-14 Boys:N.Raj Kumar, Velammal MHSS(7.5 / 8); K.G.Chaithanyaa, Velammal MHSS (7.5); A.R.Osama Salim, Velammal MHSS(7); I.Vinith Kumar, Preshitha MHSS (6.5). Girls: P.Balakannamma, Kaligi Rangnathan Mont Ford MHSS (6 / 6); V.Janu, Velammal MHSS (4.5); D.Akshita, St.Joseph, Perambur (4); G.Aarthi, G.K.Shetty Vivekananda, Ambattur (4).
U-20 Boys:Narendrakeeran, SAMS College of Engineering (8); N.Madan, K.V, Ashok Nagar (6.5); V.Sanjeev, Sindhu Modern HSS (6); Subir, Madras Christian College(6). Girls: J.G.Nivedhitha, Everwin MHSS (5.5 / 6); R.Aishwarya, PSBB School (5); I.Harivardhini, Preshitha MHSS (4); M.Abinya, Sethu Bhaskara MHSS(4)
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Boys –Haswanth wins title
Haswanth of Coimbatore won the 22nd Tamilnadu state under 9 Boys chess championship for the Dolphin Trophies, at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering & Technology, Karaikudi on 25th January 2009.
Haswanth and Adithya both scored 9.5points were declared as winner and Runner on Progressive Tiebreak. Prathish of Madurai finished third place with 9points.
P. Haswanth is a 3rd standard student of Suguna Pip School, Coimbatore. He is coached by K. Dhanasekar in Kovai Kids Chess Academy.
Girls –Vaishali Wins Girls title
Vaishalli of Bloom Chess Academy drew with Priyadharshini of Namakkal and won the girls 22nd Tamilnadu state under 9 Girls chess championship for the Dolphin Trophies title with 10 points out of the 11 rounds, at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering & Technology, Karaikudi.
Lathecka sai of Chennai had suffered a setback to the champion Vaishali in the 7th Round, has dominated the remaining rounds and finished Runner up with 9.5 points. Vaisalie K of Madurai finished third place with 8.5points.
Vaishali is coached by Mr.Velayudham of Bloom Chess Academy.
The 11 round Swiss format event concluded on 25th Jan2009.
Shri P L Padikasu and Rtn Rm N Karupaiah, President, Sivagangai Dist Chess Assn jointly distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Mr K Muralimohan ,General Secretary, TNSCA, Dr Vishwalingam. Physical Director, AC Tech. Karaikudi, Mr Athulan, Organising Secretary, and Mrs Bhuvana, Secretary Castle Chess Academy
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International Master P. Karthikeyan of Chennai got his Second GM norm in 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament at Newdelhi, He finished his first GM norm in Asin Junior Chess Championship at Mumbai last year. Another International Master S.P. Sethuraman got his first GM Norm, he is also from Chennai.
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Mr LS Subbarayan of RLO, former Secretary of Madras/TN chess association during the 50's and 60's passed away at Bangalore this evening of a massive heart attack.
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Tirunelveli or Nellai as it is referred , is a 2000 year old city located on the west bank of the only perennial river of the south, the Tamraparni. The crawling clouds on the Western Ghats, the picturesque Pothigai hills and the Courtallam water falls are the special features which make Tirunelveli unique. This time there is an addition to these specials in the form of the 1st FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament , here at Bell School Auditorium, Samathanapuram , Tirunelveli
The event has attracted 251 players of which 95 are rated players , mostly from southern districts with the top billing given to FIDE Master Shyam Nikhil of Madurai the National U-17 Champion.Following the order was the 2nd seed Ram S.Krishnan of BSNL , Chennai , the former TN State Champion. Two other FIDE Masters on the fray were C.J.Arvind of BirlaSoft , Chennai and M.B.Muralidharan of Kerala , the 3 rd 4th seeds respectively. With a prize fund of around One Lakh , including the special prizes the event has produced excellent games with good fighting qualities.
The District Coach and the Local challenger the 12th seed Merryston David Scanny shot into lead with 6pts from 6 rounds. Scanny winning spree was halted by the ultimate tournament winner Ram S Krishnan of BSNL ,Chennai in the 7th round. The eighth round individual encounter between the top two seeds Shyam Nikhil and Ram S Krishnan was a peaceful one, But Scanny was successful in holding the 3rd seed Arvind. Alex Thomas of Wynad was outplayed by Ram in the 9th round who took a slender lead. The penultimate round saw Shyam catching up with Ram after overcoming a stiff resistance from the youngster S.S.Manigandan of Madurai.The last round had a sudden twist when Ramalingam Karthik , the 14yr old School boy from Salem who defeated CJ Arvind , when latter blundered a piece in an equal ending. The steady performance of Ramalingam has earned him a creditable 3rd place. Many youngsters occupied the leading boards throughout at onetime or other. Apart from Ramalingam few to name are Dusthageer Ibrahim, S.S.Manigandan of Madurai, Harihara Sudan of Chennai & R.Ganesh of Coimbatore.
The prize distribution function was graced by the Chief Guest Thiru. K.Muthuramalingam,
The Deputy Mayor of Tirunelveli , who praised the efforts of chess playing children and also the commitment of parents towards the game .The Guest of Honor Shri K.Muralimohan , The General Secretary of TNSCA in his torrential speech remarked the responsibilities of the parent association and the unbiased support for the district associations representing the TN State Chess. He impressed the gathering by singing a line from a composing of famed poet Bharathi referring the tenacity of children , in compliance with sports.
Special mention for Mr.Godson and his officials for their splendid effort in conducting this tournament. A pleasant trip to Kanyakumari on the free day was organized by TDCA , which has left sweet memories , hoping to join for more in Tirunelveli in the years to come.
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Master R. Harikrishnan, A 2nd Standard Student of Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation School, Ambattur , Chennai has become the Youngest FIDE Rated Player In India With A Rating of 1519in January 2009 Frl ( FIDE Rating List). He is just 7 years and 3 months Old (D.O.B:22/09/2001). He is Being Coached by Mr. Thiagarajan and Mr.M.A. Velayudham, Bloom Chess Academy, Thiruvotriyur, Chennai. He is the Current TN State Under -7 Champion. He represents Tamil Nadu State in the ongoing National Under 7 Chess Championship, Nagpur.
His Parents Are Mr. V.Rangarajan, (Lucas, Padi) and Mrs. R Amirthavalli.
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IM R.R. Laxman of Chennai won the St Joseph's College of Engineering National Under-25 Chess Championship being played St Joseph's College of Engineering in the Old Mamallapuram Road in south Chennai on December 21.
Laxman, 1983-born, scored an important penultimate round win against V.A.V. Rajesh with the white pieces. Rajesh messed up the modern defence playing e6 instead of d6. Laxman wrested the initiative right from the opening. Rajesh gave two pawns to get life to his pieces, and Laxman won two pawns. The big-made Laxman was thus four pawns up when Rajesh resigned. Laxman won round right and the championship with a round to spare.
Laxman leads with 7.5/8 and has won the event with a round to spare. Five players are tied for the second place with six points. It includes Deep Sengupta, Arjun Tiwari, V.A.V. Rajesh, Ram S Krishnan and P. Karthikeyan. Laxman works for ICF in Chennai. This is his third National title. The day before this event he arrived from Singapore playing the Singapore Masters.
The day after this event he is travelling to Al-Ain via Dubai for the Asian Club Team Championship. It was a strong performance from the top seed who has won the event with a round to spare. In round nine, others can fight for the second place.
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Tamil Nadu's 12-year old Michelle Catherina held former champion Arjun Tiwari to a fighting draw in the opening round of the St Joseph's College of Engineering National Youth Under-25 Chess Championship at St Joseph's College of Engineering in south Chennai on December 16.
Michelle had two rooks and they were doubled on the seventh rank. Arjun Tiwari who is the 2006 winner of this event from Maharashtra perpetually checked the girl's king with his queen to draw in 52 moves.
The Rs.60,000 prize money tournament will be held over nine rounds. It is organised by the Mount Chess Academy for the Kanchi District Chess Association. The college is on the Old Mahamallapuram Road and is half an hour drive from Adyar in south Chennai.
Seventy one entries for the National Under-25 is a good number, observed organiser V. Ravichandran of the Mount Chess Academy.
The top seeds had a comfortable time. First seed Laxman picked up a rook with a backward tactic using the backrank weakness to win while Deep Sengupta arrested his opponent's king with his rook and queen. Prathamesh Mokal and P. Karthikeyan, the other two IMs also posted wins.
The event attracted 52 FIDE rated players of which four are IMs and 14 were women. FIDE Master S. Nitin of Salem won a level rook ending against Bala Kannamma. Another mild upset was V. Haribalu's defeat. Eight rounds remain to be played.
AICF's official site www.indianchessfed.org has made arrangements for live coverage of the top boards and the results can be checked on www.chess-results.com
Dr Babu Manoharan, Director, St Joseph's College of Engineering inaugurated the tournament in the presence of TNSCA President P.R. Venketrama Raja. D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the AICF participated in the opening ceremony.
Courtesy: AICF
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Ashwin Jayaram of Chennai won the Sri Sai Ram Engineering Asian Junior Chess Championship at Hotel Vijay Park at Koyambedu, Chennai on Dec 14.
In a grand closing ceremony, Mr Leo Muthu, Chairman, Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, said he would like to give free one acre land within Chennai city pincode to the All India Chess Federation. He also asked Viswanathan Anand to start an academy.
Ashwin Jayaram missed the title last year at Mumbai. He led by half a point and drew the last round last year but Karthikeyan of Chennai pipped him. This time around, the title break was different and he led by a half a point at the end of the penultimate round. But in the final round he played a nice combination and was close to defeating World Under-14 champion Vidit Gujrathi but missed his chance and drew.
This draw allowed, National champion M.R. Lalith Babu of Vijayawada to play catch up. They tied for the first place on 7.5 points. This time, Ashwin won the tie-break by a wide margin.
Ashwin Jayaram obtained his second GM norm. He had made his first GM norm at Sort, Spain last year. He will need another norm to complete the title. He had a 10-game and now a nine-game GM norm.
Ashwin Jayaram was previously coached by Manuel Aaron, D.Ganesh, G.B. Prakash. He works on his own now. He is a second PUC Student at Bengaluru but continues to represent Chennai and Tamil Nadu as his grandparents live in Mylapore, in the heart of Chennai.
M.R. Lalith Babu has a number of IM norms but this tied result gave him the IM title in one shot. He played well and also remained undefeated. He recovered from fever prior and could not prepare much for this event.
Second seed Adhiban finished third and easily will do well in the coming years. He is the current World Under-16 champion. He took risk and lost to the eventual champion after refusing to take two perpetuals.
Four players were undefeated. Ashwin Jayaram, Vidit Gujrathi and Lalith Babu were undefeated in boys.
In the colourful prize distribution, World Chess Champion Padma Vibhushan Viswanathan Anand distributed the prizes. The young chess players also saw their dream player and took autographs and pictures beside the world champion. The 10-day event was excellently organised by the Sports Promotion Foundation, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association on behalf of the AICF at Hotel Vijay Park at Koyambedu, Chennai.
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The greatest chess champion of the world, three time champion, Viswanathan Anand was felicitated by the All India Chess Federation in a manner nobody did before on his 39th birthday. In the ceremony that took place at the Ball Room of Taj Coromandel on Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai, on Dec 11, 2008, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, captain of the Indian cricket team gave Anand a diamond ring on behalf of the All India Chess Federation.
Huge crowds came for the ceremony and most of them were chess players and the Indian cricket test players led by Rahul Dravid also showed up. In this ceremony N. Srinivasan, President of the AICF, who presided said, "in a country which is ruled by cricket, on that day (when he beat Kramnik) the nation's attention was on you. We would love to relive that day. We are truly proud of you. In my short term (President of AICF since 2001) as President of the AICF you have won twice. We would be happy to do this felicitation over and over again." When Anand won the World Title in 2007 at Mexico, Rahul Dravid, captain of the Indian cricket team was the chief guest and handed a trophy to Anand.
When the Indian cricket team walked in, the media jumped to their feet. When Anand entered the hall, it became noisy and the 1000 audience clapped as he occupied his chair. When Anand and Dhoni greeted each other with a handshake, the flash lights were like lightning side the Taj. The ceremony was brief and complete by 40 minutes. The hall was full despite the short notice and all visitors were frisked and checked and had to go through the metal detector after what had happened in Mumbai on Nov 26.
"It is a happy moment not only for chess players but also for other sportsmen. I understand that the younger Indians are winning by drawing their inspiration from Anand. I am honoured to share the dais with you," said Dhoni about Anand. The diamond ring is said to be worth half a million Indian Rupees.
In his reply to felicitations, Anand said, he accepted the diamond ring from Dhoni is brotherhood. Anand thanked N. Srinivasan, President, AICF, for the active support for chess and this grand reception. D.V. Sundar welcomed the gathering and gave one of the most interesting speeches and introductions of chess players to the cricketers.
Later, the AICF arranged a dinner for the world champion and his family at Raintree Hotel in south Chennai. Here, many Indian age group champions and titled players got access to Anand. Among those who were present were GM Barua, GM Sasikiran, GM Ganguly, GM Ramesh, GM Deepan Chakravarthy, GM Arun Prasad, first IM Manuel Aaron, first IA V. Kameswaran etc. Officials and chess administrators, AICF Vice President Sameer Salgaocar, AICF Treasurer Bharat Singh Chauhan, AICF Secretary D.V. Sundar and officials from around India were present. From the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, President P.R. Venketrama Raja, Vice President J.C.D. Prabhakar, Secretary K. Muralimohan etc were present.
At the start of the dinner, Anand cut two cakes for his 39th birthday and certainly it was the most memorable birthday of his life. He also personally handed over cake slices to young talents like WGM Mary Ann Gomes, WIM Kruttika Nadig, World Under-12 champion Sayantan Das etc. December 11, 2008 will be one of the most memorable days in Indian chess for a long time to come.
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R. Bharathi (Chennai) of Tamil Nadu won the 25th National Sub junior Chess Championship held at Mangalore, Karnataka. She scored 8.5 points out of eleven rounds
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G.V. Sai Krishna of Andhra Pradesh and J. Saranya of Tamil Nadu won the VIT University National Under-13 Boys and Girls Chess Championships that was held from Nov 13-22 at the VIT University in Vellore.
It was the second title for both as Sai Krishna has won the National U-9 at Chennai in 2005 and Saranya had won the National U-7 at Lucknow in 2003. They received the trophy and Rs.10,000 each for scoring 9.5/11 each in their respective sections.
A record 410 players took part in this event. Each time Anand wins the World Title there is an entry record in the age group events in the coming months. On course to the title, third seed FIDE Master Sai Krishna scored wins against top seed Sahaj Grover of Delhi and Fenil Shah of Ahmedabad. He lost to Narayanan and drew one final round game against Shiven Khosla. Shiven of Mumbai remained undefeated.
J. Saranya overcame all players and had no problems in her games. In the final round, having won the title with a round to spare she lost to P.V. Nandhidhaa, her state mate. She started as the top seed.
The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association has coverage on our site at www.tamilchess.com including results on www.chess-results.com and games on www.monroi.com
Final placings (tie-break order):
Boys: 1. G.V. Sai Krishna (AP) 9.5/11, 2-3. U.R. Sahoo (Ori), Nihal Manjunath (Kar) 9 each, 4-9. Shiven Khosla (Mah), Sahaj Grover (Del), Karma Pandya (Guj), D. Yashas (Kar), S.S. Manigandan, Antonio Viani D'cunha (Kar) 8.5 each, 10. Fenil Shah (Guj) 8...279 players.
Girls: 1. J. Saranya (TN) 9.5/11, 2. P.V. Nandhidhaa (TN) 9, 3-4. Anjana Krishna (Ker), Priyanka Kumari (Jha) 8.5 each, 5-8. Vanessa D'souza (Kar), Srija Seshadri (TN), G. Lasya (AP), G.K. Monnisha (TN) 8 each, 9-10. V. Janu (TN), Soumya Shrivastava (Mah) 7.5 each...131 players.
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The world champion Viswanathan Anand was given a special hero's welcome on November 20 when he arrived at hometown Chennai from Frankfurt. Anand had defeated Vladimir Kramnik 6.5-4.5 on October 29. After armed policemen could not manage to control the crowd of onlookers, media, chess players pushing towards the champion, they escorted him to his car from the arrival gate directly sidestepping the area where he was supposed to be felicitated. So, there was no felicitation as such. Half the people who had come to greet him even did not manage a glimse of the champion.
There was the expected chaos that surrounded managing the super star's welcome. For example, the organiser of the reception International Arbiter K. Muralimohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association never got to see the champion! Earlier, prior to arrival, his parents and parents-in-law were waiting for the champion in the VIP lounge. There was three band teams and scores of banners from various chess clubs and NIIT his sponsor. The arrival gate was noisy after one year.
When the drums and band was on, it signalled that Lufthansa Jet had landed in Chennai. When lights and flashes lit up the midnight arrival gate, it meant Anand was at the arrival gate. Luckily there was no stampede. I saw Anand running with a ring of policemen around. They overshot the car and ran ahead and came back. It was more like kabbadi. Those who missed taking photos of Anand said next time we should "push" others and then take our photos.
India's greatest sporting star Vishy Anand gave chess the must needed boost and the public saw the interest for chess and the people around. Though many did not get to see or wish him. There was an air of disappointment when his car left since 99% of the people had not greeted him. Anand looked surprised at so many people around that when he sat inside his car there was some relief for him.
Over hundreds of garlands awaited the champion but the organisation was poor that only two or three people managed to garland Anand. "We will wait for December 11 when AICF felicitates him to garland," said IM Manuel Aaron. Many players, IM M.R. Vankatesh, IM B. Adhiban world U-16 champion, IM S.P. Sethuraman, IM M. Shyamsundar, IA V. Kameswaran and many many others were present. J.C.D. Prabhakaran, Vice President, TNSCA managed to greet Anand at the door of his car.
Among others, there were a huge presence of journalists. Notable among them was Hari Hara Nandanan of Times of India who said his newspaper is publishing four pages on Anand in tomorrow's Times Of India, Chennai edition.
After Anand left the airport, his wife Aruna Anand was talking to the media thanking all those who had come at the middle of the night to the airport to receive them. Aruna singled out Anand's winning with the black pieces as the high point of this match victory. When I was approaching to listen to Aruna's statements, one man asked me in Tamil, "is she an actress?" Aruna's parents Mr and Mrs Ananth and Anand's manager Kuri Abraham kept people away from getting any close to her.
Someone asked, "Where has Anand sir left?" Aruna Anand replied: "I myself do not know!" How can we get bytes from Anand sir? Aruna Anand: Call us tomorrow and the number is .. All media people were dialling that number already and Anand should be busy for some days now in Chennai.
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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. Another International Master M. Shyam Sundar of Tamil Nadu stands in fourth palce with 8 points.
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Plenty of chess officials and parents of the arriving players formed the 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.
Adhiban's mother offered sweets to all the chess connected people in the gathering while Sethuraman's mother offered candy. It was a nice gathering. Plenty of photos were taken. Adhiban was presented a flower crown.
All the four medal winners were garlanded. S.P. Sethuraman (silver medal in Boys U-16), R. Preethi (silver medal, Girls U-18), Bodda Pratyusha (bronze medal, Girls U-12) were received and honoured right at the arrival gate.
D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the AICF, offered a shawl to Adhiban and Mrs Sundar offered a shawl to Preethi. There was a photo session and the players spoke to the media.
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association officials led by Vice President V. Kameswaran, Asst Treasurer Thirukkalathy and Joint Secretary Balaraman were there to receive the stars who returned from Vietnam.
The three official coaches, IM Manuel Aaron, WGM Aarthie Ramesh, Sakthi Prabhakar were also honoured. K. Muralimohan, General Secretary of the TNSCA, also returned from Vietnam. "Organising at Vietnam was of a very high standard," said Muralimohan.
Adhiban said he has not visualised what his next target will be in chess. One can assume the Under-18 or Under-20 titles of the World. He had been part of the World Youth Olympiad gold medal winning team twice.
Pratyusha who missed the title in the last day and had to settle for bronze hoped she will do it better next time.
Many of the players including R. Preethi of Madurai are leaving for the National Junior at Tadepalligudem in Andhra from here directly.
Right from the World Junior of 1987 won by Vishy Anand, until Vietnam titles, India has won 27 World Chess titles. It should read 27 and counting since we are a dominating force in world chess.
India won four titles, and the next best was Croatia with two titles. Big nations like Russia, China, Georgia won only one each.
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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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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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P. Shyam Nikhil and Pon N Krithika won the National under 17 Chess Championship boys and girls titles held at Aurangabad, Both the players got eight points out of nine rounds. K. Priyadarshan finished third in the boys category. The last year Champions was also from Tamil Nadu.
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Sasikiran claimed a win against Mattamaros the same way that hosts China had claimed a win against India (Yifan against Tania) and USA claimed against India (again involving Sasikiran).
The video recording clearly showed that Matamarros had displaced his piece and then pressed the clock. However, the "Appeals Committee" decided that the Armageddon match had to be replayed and this was construed as a very strange decision by many of the people assembled there including a large contingent of the press. Clearly, many thought that India had been wronged and that Gold was rightfully ours.
However, Sasikiran in the spirit of sportsmanship played the rematch and lost. One must give credit to both Sasikiran
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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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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 of Tamil Nadu 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. With Girish Koushik already clinching the boys title on Saturday, the final round of the boys’ matches featured quick draws.
The prizes were given by Gujarat State Chess Association vice-president Mayur Patel, secretary Vinay Parikh, the tournament organisers Mind Games Association secretary, grandmaster Tejas Bakre and their officials Pratap Mohan, KK Chandak and the chief arbiter of the tournament, Bhagvatiprasad Sharma.
The first, second and third placed players received a trophy, cash awards and certificates. Fourth to tenth placed received cash prizes as per All India Chess Federation norms.
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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.
Sri Lankans and Bangladeshi player had to take the other places. It was a 12-player all-play-all. The details are on www.lankachess.com.
Final placings: 1 IM P. Karthikeyan 9/11, 2-4. FM Akshat Kamparia, IM D.K. Sharma, FM Shyam Nikhil 8 each, 5. IM R. Balasubramaniam 6.5, 6. M.K.A. Russell (Sri) 5.5, 7. G.C. Anuraddha (Sri) 4.5, 8. FM Nasir Ahmen (Ban) 4, 9-10. T.G.M. Peiris (Sri), W.G. Luxman (Sri) 3.5 each, 11. R. Weerawardane (Sri) 3, 12. R.M.C.M. Rajapakse (Sri) 2.5.
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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.
The five member Indian team along with R.B. Ramesh returned to Chennai from Turkey via Delhi this afternoon to a boisterous welcome. There was a band playing music from the Velammal School, sweets were distributed by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and the media were present. Prominent among those who came to receive the players were Vel Mohan, Correspondent, Velammal School, J.C.D. Prabhakaran, Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the All India Chess Federation, K. Murali Mohan, General Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Woman Grand Master Aarthie Ramaswamy and various others and relatives of players and friends
The Velammal School is taking keen interest and are known for giving huge size receptions after Viswanathan Anand's reception in October last year. Also, three of the five players, B. Adhiban, S.P. Sethuraman, M. Shyam Sundar come from that school in Chennai. The other two players are K. Priyadarshan of Madurai and Prasanna Rao of Mumbai
"I did not get to play much games and against higher rated players," said reserve player Priyadarshan who remained one of the two undefeated players in the Indian team. Our best player was also the National Sub-Junior champion S.P. Sethuraman who also remained undefeated. Two Indians got extra gold medals besides the team medals. They are Sethuraman and Shyam Sundar for best performances on the second and third boards. Only Adhiban had played in the previous gold medal winning team of 2007. The entire team, coach Ramesh and Trainer Mr.K.Visweswaran were presented flowers, garlands and sweets and the occasion was festive
Ramesh said the success was a collective team effort. His gamble to play on with Adhiban after four successive defeats seemed risky but worked well. "He was playing well and blundered after winning a piece and also had some health problems," said Ramesh
With momentum behind us, India should look for the third win next year and celebrate this big success until then.
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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. The first tie-break Buchholz "sum of opponents points" was level and the second tie-break MP "match points" was also level. Thus the third tie-break score Sonner-Berger was used and here India beat the Russians. India deserved the title as we had defeated them 3.5-0.5 in the second round and the S.B. score reflected this win.
The AICF President N. Srinivasan in a message congratulated the team for this outstanding performance and said "well done, keep it up". "This win will give a boost to team chess in our country as chess is always thought to an individual game," said D.V. Sundar, a delighted Honorary Secretary of the All India Chess Federation. At Chennai, International Master norm holder K. Visweswaran who trained the five boys for ten days in a pre-event camp said, "I am absolutely delighted."
In the 26-team 10-round contest, Russia started as top seed and India were the second seed. India suffered two defeats against Armenia and low rated Turkey-A. Our eight wins, mostly against the big names helped us win the competition which places India as the future of World Chess. Winning back-to-back World Youth Chess Olympiads confirms India's status as super power in world chess. We have the World Champion and World No.1 Viswanathan Anand and are also backed by a futuristic youngsters who did us proud at Mersin, in Turkey.
Winning second time is difficult since we are expected to do well at home and also by our opponents. Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan represent the best chess nations and to win ahead of them is an achievement said Visweswaran.
Grand Master R.B. Ramesh handled the team exceptionally well. He knew most of the players personally as well as trained some of them before on personal capacity. Initially Adhiban was sick and later Shyam Sundar fell sick and he had limited options in player fielding.
India Scores (round by round): Turkey-B 3-1, Russia 3.5-0.5, Azerbaijan 3-1, Armenia 1-3, Turkey-C 3-1, Philippines 2.5-1.5, Georgia 3.5-0.5, Turkey-A 1.5-
2.5, Switzerland 4-0, England 3.5-0.5.
Indian players individual score in board order: IM B. Adhiban (Chennai) 3/8, IM S.P. Sethuraman (Chennai) 8.5/10, IM M. Shyam Sundar (Chennai) 6.5/8, FM Prasanna Rao (Mumbai) 7/10, FM K. Priyadarshan (Madurai) 3.5/4.
As can be seen, Adhiban did not have a great event but won the key final round game in 24 moves with the white pieces against Zhou Yang Fan of England on the top board. Kilpatrick Callum lost to our best performer and National Sub-Junior champion Sethuraman in 56 moves. Shyam Sundar was sick and not fielded in the final tenth round. Like Sethuraman, Prasanna Rao was also fielded all rounds with rest and he made a 28-move draw after reaching a rooks and opposite colour bishop ending. Priyadarshan who was given few games rose to the big day to win his final round against Auckland Elliott.
We had the same excitement as last time said the team's Chennai based trainer. Ramesh at Turkey handled the team well and pushed India to a new level. When India won in 2007, the big nations in chess did not participate. This time they did and despite that we won. India is the new power in team chess.
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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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After a long Gap salem has witnessed state level children open chess tournament conducted by Utility Forum of Chess, this attracted 215 players from various districts of Tamilnadu. The winners are as follows in Various Categories.
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).
2nd Row:
Mr.M.Senthilvel, President, UFC, Mr.Rajasekar, Mrs.Rekha Piryadharshini, Worshipful Mayor, Salem Corporation, Mrs.Kala, S.Jaisankar, M.Com,M.Phil, Secretary, UFC, J.Balakrishnan, Vice-President, SDCA.
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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.
Our team lost the top board game when IM B Adhiban lost to higher rated GM Eltaj Safarli with the black pieces. However, Sethuraman, Shyam Sundar and Prasanna Rao scored wins on the bottom boards to see the defending champs in sweeping form.
Armenia is leading with 10.5/12 and India is in second place with 9.5 points. The Philippines and Georgia are on joint third place with nine points.
Seven rounds remain to be played in the team competition of four boards and one reserve. India face Armenia in the next round and should be able to defeat that team as they have just one FIDE Master in their ranks.
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India beats Top seeds Russia 3.5-0.5 in world youth chess olympiad in progress at Turkey...
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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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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. The Team consisting of IM Adhiban, IM.Sethuraman, IM.Shyam Sundar, FM Prasanna Rao and FM K.Priyadharshan was coached by FM K.Visweswaran and GM R.B.Ramesh. GM.Sasikiran came to the coaching camp on the concluding day, the 15th August, 2008 along with his wife. While introducing Gramdmaster Sasikiran to the players, Mr.D.V.Sundar, Hon.Secretary - AICF said that he found Mr.Sasikiran to be a total team man and prepared to put the Countries interest above him. As a captain of the Indian team at Doha Asian Games, Asian Team Championship at Vizag and Asian Indoor games at Maccau, he was a great inspiration to his fellow players and motivated them to bring out the best from all of them
Grand Master Krishnan Sasikiran gave a pep lecture for the Indian Youth Olympiad team at the academy run by International Master norm holder K. Visweswaran in Chennai on August 15. Sasikiran who is been playing team events right from the Elista Chess Olympiad of 1998 asked the boys to share ideas with each other and put the team's interest ahead of their own personal glory. Sasikiran asked players to share ideas, have food together and go through the pattern of defeats of their opponents. "If you go through 10-15 games, you can find a pattern and go for them," said Sasikiran.
A pleasant celebration was also held as International Master B.Adhiban who turned 16 on August 15 was greeted on this occasion by Sasikiran, and others. Local chess players WGM Aarthie, IM M.R. Venkatesh, IM R.R. Laxman were also present to greet him and also meet Sasikiran. During the celebrations, the gathering burst into a big applause when Mr.D.V.Sundar, Hon.Secretary – AICF broke the news that Abhijeet Gupta had won the Gold in the World Junior Chess Championship at Turkey – 2008. Earlier Harika had won the Gold in the Women Section with a round to spare.
Among Sasikiran's advice was to have lot of protein connected food and infact suggested to the vegetarians to consider eating non-vegetarian food after long tough games to balance the loss of protein in the body.
The Indian team for the World Youth Olympiad leaves Chennai this evening for Turkey. The team is: IM B. Adhiban, IM S.P.Sethuraman, IM M.Shyam Sundar, FM K. Priyadarshan (all TN), FM Prasanna Rao (Mah). The team will be accompanied by GM R.B. Ramesh as coach. India will be defending its title they won at Singapore in August 2007.
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Sree Jayajothi Cements 21st Tamil Nadu State U-13 Chess Championships, organized by Virudhunagar District Chess Association at Rajapalayam from 7th to 13th August attracted 115 boys and 53 girls from various districts and academies. Vasantha Ruba Varman of Chennai and J. Vaishnavi of Trichy annexed the Dolphin trophies for boys and girls respectively.
Top seeded Tejas Ravichandran of Chennai was on a winning spree to score four points in as many rounds to emerge sole leader. But, he succumbed to his ream mate D.S. Shashank in the fifth round. Vasantha Ruba Varman joined the lead in the sixth round, defeated Shashank in the seventh round and never looked back.
In a similar fashion, J. Saranya of Thiruvallur district looked like a run away winner, when she made 6/6. But Vaishnavi halted her march by subduing her in the seventh round. Vaishnavi posted a win in the eighth round whereas Saranya managed only a draw, which made the difference at the end.
The championship was well organised under the able guidance of the Tournament Director Mr.A. Gopalsamy, former Vice President of TNSCA. He also provided a sumptuous dinner to all the participants, besides mementos like Telephone index and towels to all players from Kumar Shirts. Sri.A.P. Selvarajan, Vice President, TNSCA presided the closing ceremony and T.R. Kannan, Chairman, Sri Jayajothi Groups distributed the prizes.
Final placings
Boys Name Dist. Pts Prize
1 Vasantha Ruba Varman CHE 9 1500
2 Akash G CHE 9 1200
3 Tejas Ravichandran CHE 8½ 1000
4 Shashaank D.S. CHE 8½ 800
5 Kaushik S CHE 8 700
6 Akash Pc Iyer CHE 8 500
7 Osama Salim CHE 8 400
8 Manigandan S S MDU 8 400
9 Srikanth Ajay CHE 7½ 300
10 Rajkumar N CHE 7½ 200
11 Rakesh Kanna CBE 7½ 200
12 Yogesh G MDU 7 100
13 Eshwanth Dev Kumar KK 7 100
14 Gireman Ja CBE 7 100
Girls
1 Vaishnavi J TRY 10 1300
2 Saranya J TLR 9½ 1000
3 Srija Seshadri CUD 8 800
4 Michelle Catherina P CHE 7½ 700
5 Meenupriya Se MDU 7½ 500
6 Bala Kannamma P CHE 7 450
7 Akshaya N CBE 7 400
8 Varshcine K MDU 7 350
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Players / District Chess Association
Selection Circular for 46th Nat 'B', Goa
We are glad to inform you that the following players have been selected (or kept on by) to represent Tamil Nadu in the 46th National 'B' Chess Championship to be held from 15-09-2008 to 25-09-2008 at Goa.
Seeded Players:
1. Ashwath R (CHE) (13th Place in 45th Nat 'B' at Dindigul, TN- 2007)
2. Arun Karthik R (CHE) (17th place in 45th Nat 'B' Dindigul, TN-2007)
3. Shyam Sundar M (IM)
4. Sethuraman SP (IM)
5. Ashwin Jayaram (IM)
6. Adhiban B (IM)
7. Karthikeyan P (IM)
Selected Players:
1. Maheswaran P (VNR)
2. Phoopalan P (CBE)
3. Narayanan K (SIV)
4. Pradeep Kumar RA (CHE)
Manager: yet to be nominated
All the above players, including associations, should inform us of their willingness by return e-mail or otherwise to participate. This should be received by us on or before 22-08-2008. If no information is received by the above date it will be presumed that the players are not able to participate and that place will be offered to the next player on the list. Those players who have been selected may straight away make their journey reservations by train.
The entry fees of players will be paid by our Association. A Daily allowance of Rs.60 per will be paid to those representing Tamil Nadu by the Manager of the team Players should send us photo copies of their concessional II class train tickets within two days of the end of their journey and obtain reimbursement from us for this trip.
For Tamil Nadu State Chess Association
K.Muralimohan, General Secretary
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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.
Sasikiran is clearly gaining some Elo from this contest as he won four games and drew five. His wins were recorded against GM Emanuel Berg (Swe), GM Eduardas Rozentalis (Ltu), GM Robert Kempinski (Pol) and IM Michal Olszewski (Pol). This is Sasikiran's best performance since slipping from a great position at Sofia last May and the Doha Asian Games success in Dec 2006.
Final placings: 1 GM K. Sasikiran (Ind) 6.5/9, 2-3. GM Emanuel Berg (Swe), GM Tomi Nyback (Fin) 5.5 each, 4-5. GM Bartosz Socko (Pol), GM Michal Krasenkow (Pol) 5 each, 6. GM Eduardos Rozentalis (Ltu) 4, 7-9. GM Bartlomiej Macieja (Pol), GM Csaba Balogh (Hun), GM Robert Kempinski (Pol) 3.5 each, 10 IM Michal Olszewski (Pol) 3.
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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. That is called 'rating performance'. If he maintains this playing level over all his games, he will be adding Elo for his October 2008 rating list.
The event is happening at Warsaw, the capital of Poland and is named after the Polish player Miguel Najdorf who went to Latin America to play in the Chess Olympiad at Argentina in 1939 and could not return due to the start of the second war. He later lived in Buenos Aires for the remainder of his life. He had helped Poland win a silver medal in that Olympiad, the first held outside of Europe.
With an average rating of 2608, this event qualifies for category 15 in strength and runs from August 2-10. Sasikiran is doing well and should win this event. He has a half point lead after five rounds with 4/5. Local boy Bartosz Socko is in second place with 3.5 points.
Sasikiran bt Michal Olszewski (Pol), Eduardas Rozentalis (Ltu), drew with Socko (Pol), bt Emmanuel Berg (Swe), drew with Csaba Balogh (Hun).
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World champion Viswanathan Anand won the Mainz Chess Classic rapid chess tournament by winning the 4-player rapid tournament on August 3, 2008.
Anand beat Magnus Carlsen (Nor) 3-1 after topping the all-play-all qualifier with 4/6.
Anand had defeated World No.2 Alexander Morozevich of Russia twice and drawn both games against Carlsen and Judit Polgar in the all-play-all.
The 1969-born Brand Ambassador of NIIT comes from Chennai and also lives in Madrid and Frankfurt. Anand had won this event eleven times. It is organised well by Hans Walter Schmitt of the Chess Tigers from Frankfurt.
Anand plays next in a classical chess tournament in Spain in September before defending his world title against Kramnik at Bonn from October 14.
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11th TI Cycles inter school chess tournament on 2nd 3rd August 2008 at Ebenezer Mat. School, Korattur, Chennai. In all 366 participants from various districts including one participant from USA .
On the final day Tiruvallur District Chess Association felicitated our district player Miss. P. Uthra for winning the Gold Medal in the Asian Youth Chess Championship.
In the Prize Distribution ceremony Shri. Mullai R.Gnanasekar, Chairman, Manali Municipality and Shri.S.Sukumar Jayasigh, C.E.O., Ebenezer Group of Schools gave away the prizes.
Velammal Matriculation won the 11th Turbo Drive- Kamalam John Samuel Ever Rolling Trophy for the six times in succession.
Cycle Winners and Special prize winners only:
Boys: Under-8, R.Hari Krishnan (Sethu Bhaskara MHSS, Pudur); V.R.Arvind Chidambaran (Dolphin MHSS); Under-12, G.Akash (Jawahar Vidalaya); Under-14, D.S.Shashnk (Jawahar Vidalaya); Under-18, R.A.Pradeep Kumar (Velammal MHSS).
Girls: Under-8 Girl:M.A.Latheckasai (Vidya Mandir Hr.Sec.School); Under-10: M.Mahalakshmi (Velammal MHSS); Under-12, Balakannamma (St.Anne’s Mat.Hr.Sec.School); Under-14, J.Saranya (Velammal MHSS); Under-18, S.Aarthy Sri.(S.R.D.K.Vivekananda).
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The traditional Adyar Times FIDE rated Open Chess Tournament was once again organised in Baplal Bhavan in the close vicinity of Tiruvanmiyur in South Chennai. Adyar Times is sponsoring this event for the 8th consecutive time. As many as 186 players which included 88 FIDE rated stars, one IM and Two FMs. The Sponsor Mr. A.D. Ranjan, Publisher, Adyar Times and Lion P.N. Bhavani Shankar distributed the prizes.
In a ten round swiss event was conducted from July 29 to August 3rd 2008.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.In the final round Nitin agreed for a friendly draw against C.Praveen Kumar of Chennai to set the winner's target of 9 points from ten rounds.The champion carried home winners prize of Rs.25000/- and a glittering Adyar Times trophy.
Final Standings:
Rank Name Rtg Club Pts Fide
1 FM Nitin S 2303 TN 9 53½
2 Arun Karthik R 2277 TN 8 47½
3 Praveen Kumar C 2302 TN 8 46½
4 Ramnath Bhuvanesh R 2239 TN 8 44
5 FM Shantharam K V 2178 IB 8 44
6 Ram S Krishnan 2300 TN 7½ 46½
7 Praveen Prasad P 2264 AP 7½ 46
8 Abhilash Reddy M L 2070 AP 7½ 44
9 Harihara Sudan M 2017 TN 7½ 42½
10 Pratik R Shriwas 2231 TN 7½ 42½
11 Gowtham, T. 2152 AP 7½ 42
12 Shanmuganathan T R 2123 TN 7 44
13 Arun Srinivaas R S 2045 TN 7 42
14 Maheswaran P 2241 TN 7 41½
15 Dusthageer Ibrahim M 2231 TN 7 41
16 Venkat Sundaram 2110 TN 7 41
17 Linda Rangarajan 2116 POND 7 40
18 Gopalakrishnan K 2064 IB 7 39
19 Raghuraman S 2083 TN 7 38
20 Saket Kumar 1939 DEL 6½ 40
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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. Those honoured with awards were Gold medallists P Uthra (12th Standard ) and M. Mahalakshmi (fifth standard), silver medallist International Master (IM) B Adhiban (11th standard), IM M Shyamsundar (11th standard) and Woman IM Mohana Priya (tenth standard), both finished fourth in the tournament. The school management represented by Velammal Group Chairman M V Muthuramalingam, School Correspondent MVM Velmohan and Principal P Prabakaran also honoured IM P Sethuraman (11th standard) for finishing fifth and RA.Pradeep Kumar (12th standard) for representing India in the prestigious event.
The young players were given cash award of Rs 50,000 each, while M.Mahalakshmi was given an additional educational scholarship of Rs 60,000. All India Chess Federation Secretary D V Sundar, Tamil Nadu State Chess Assocaition President P R Venkatrama Raja and Vice President J C D Prabhakaran lauded the efforts of the young students in bringing laurels to Tamil Nadu and India.
Mr Raja spoke about Vellamal's quest for excellence and hoped that some of the players from this group of seven would become among the top ten in the next five years.
Mr Sundar hailed Mahalakshmi as the teenage prodigy for winning the under-10 title in Teheran and said more feats could be expected from her in the future
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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. 12 year old boy S.Kaushik of JawaharVidyalaya was placed 4th with 8.5 points.
The winner was awarded a cash prize of Rs.15,000 and S.K.N Memorial Trophy.
Mr.V.G.Soma Sekhar, Hub Head (TN & Kerala) M/s.Reliance Communications gave away the prizes to the winners at Prize Distribution Function held here today.
Important Results:
1. S.Kaushik(Jawahar vidyalaya) 8.5 drew with P.Maheswaran (SRM University) 9
2. K.V.Shantharam (Indian Bank) 8 drew with R. Ashwath (Chennai) 9
3. Ram S Krishnan (BSNL) 9 beat Srikanth Ajay Jawahar vidyalaya) 7
4. GAkash (Jawahar vidyalaya) 7.5 drew with Venkat Sundaram (SRM University) 7.5
5. Abhilash Reddy (AP) 8 beat J.Saranya (Velammal School) 7
S.Bharath (Chennai) 8 beat N.Raj Kumar (Velammal School) 7
7 Samson J Austin (Chennai) 8 beat Dhamodharan (BSNL) 7
PRIZE WINNERS:
Rank Name Rtg Club Pts Fide
1 Ashwath R 2296 CHE 9 57
2 Maheswaran P 2241 SRM 9 56½
3 Ram S Krishnan 2300 BSNL 9 55
4 Kaushik S 1973 CHE 8½ 50
5 Shantharam K V 2178 IB 8 51
6 Abhilash, Reddy M.L. 2070 AP 8 50½
7 Bharath S 2047 CHE 8 50
8 Samson J Austin 2045 CHE 8 48½
9 Venkat Sundaram 2110 SRM 7½ 53
10 G Akash 1998 CHE 7½ 51½
11 Subramanian V 2148 CHE 7½ 51
12 Gopalakrishnan K 2064 IB 7½ 47½
Best Veteran : A.Vadivel (Dharmapuri) 5.5
Best Woman : J.Saranya (Velammal School) 7
Best Under 12: Akash PC Iyer (DAV School) 7
Best Unrated I : K.Venkatesan(Chennai) 7
Best Unrated II : Melvin Joel V (AP) 7
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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.
Three Indian girls and three Indian boys helped our nation to win half the titles on stake in the Asian Youth Chess Championship that concluded in Iran on July 21. Though fifty percent score is a massive performance by our tiny stars, we had done better when he hosted the same event in Delhi a couple of years before.
"Overall our score was six golds, five silver and ten bronze medals," announced a jubilant AICF Secretary D.V. Sundar. Though our young stars had a great
showing in Georgia 2006 for our best World Youth show, our Asian performances are facing greater resistance from Iran and others like Vietnam. China is making a big mistake by not encouraging age group chess and have not played in these events.
Indian show was headed by M. Mahalakshmi of Chennai who won with a round to spare in the Girls Under-10 section. We also took the podium completely and importantly took the fourth place as well. The World U-8 Girls Champion Ivana Furtado finished second for silver.
Top seed Padmini Rout of Orissa took the gold in the Girls Under-14 section while Priyanka Kumari of Jharkhand took the bronze.
Our best section in boys was the under-14 group where we completed the podium. Prasanna Rao of Dombivli in Maharashtra had the better tie-break score than his state mate Vidit Gujrathi of Nasik to win this section. Ankit Rajpara ensured the Indian sweep by taking the bronze.
Girish Koushik of Mysore won the Under-12 section and is back in winning business. He is a former world Under-10 champion and holds plenty of promise. Shardul Gagare of Shirdi, Maharashtra took the bronze.
Diptayan Ghosh a student of the Alekhine Chess Club, Kolkata won the boys Under-10 title on tie-break after figuring in a three-way tie. Sidhant Mahapatra took the bronze with the same 7.5 points as the winner.
Indians have continued by taking the 21 medals out of possible 36 and this is certainly yet another lion's share.
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The 37th Tamil Nadu State Fide Rated chess championship for Juniors and the
22nd Tamilnadu State Fide Rated chess championship for Junior Girls under 19
organized by Mount Chess Academy, Kanchi District Chess Association & Tamil Nadu State Chess Association from 15th to 21st July 2008 at SRM University at the Hall of Performing Arts SRM University, Kattankulathur 603 203. This event has attracted 102 Participants [68 Boys , 34 Girls] including 61 rated players from 12 districts. The total Prize money was Rs 40,000/- and prizes were given to top 12 players in both categories. The Entire Prize money was sponsored by SRM University.
This Championship was Inaugurated by Prof P. Sathyanarayanan Vice Chancellor of SRM University, Prof R.Venkataramani Director,(sports) SRM University welcomed the gathering and Prof N.Sethuraman, Registrar, SRM University and Mr.K.Muralimohan GeneralSecretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Association rendered special address.
Navin Khanna and J. Saranya, both representing Tiruvallur district won the Championship for boys and girls.respectively. The Top seeds Shyam Nikil (2364), second seeded Arun karthik.R, [SRM] finished second and third places. The fourthseeded R. Premnath [SRM] finished the fourth respectively . In 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 .This format is 11 round swiss system. Duration per Round 40 Move in 90 min + 15 min and 30 sec increment from 1st move.
On the concluding day i.e 21st July 2008, Former Indian cricketer . Mr. V.B.Chandrasekar gave away the S. Ramakrishnan Memorial Rolling Trophy for boys and V.V. Rajamani Memorial Trophy for girls and cash awards totaling Rs.40,000/-. Mr. V. Ravichandran, Organising Secretary rendered Vote of thanks.
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P. Uthra bagged the second gold for India with a safe draw in the last game of the Asian Youth Chess Championship at Tehran, Iran. 21 July, 2008
M. Mahalakshmi became the first golden girl 21 July, 2008
M. Mahalakshmi became the first golden girl of the Asian Youth chess championship, Tehran, when she won the U10 title for girls...........
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The month July 2008 appears to belong FIDE Master Narayanan Srinath of Chennai. Only last week he won an International Master Tournament at Czech Republic. From July 7-15 he played and won the 7th Dubai Junior Championship with an undefeated score of 8/9.
Sponsored by the Sun Group of Delhi, Srinath, a former World U-12 champion has an enviable record at Dubai in this event. He won the Under-10 section in 2004 and Under-12 section in 2006. In 2007 and now 2008 he won the main Dubai Junior event with seven wins and two draws and no losses.
Srinath started as the top seed and won seven games in a row and took two draws in the end to register a 8/9 win in a 136-player tournament. Among his wins were against WGM Mona Khaled (Egy), WFM Meri Arabidze (Geo). He drew FM Ulvi Bajarani (Aze) and Pouya Idani (Iri) in the last two rounds
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Ramnath Bhuvanesh wins GOLD and R.Bharathi settles for Bronze in the 04th Children Asia International Sports Games – 2008 held at Russia from 03rd to 14th July, 2008
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Tamil Nadu Junior Championship for 2008 will be FIDE rated in both boys and girls for the first time. Announcing this in a press conference at the TNCA Club, Chennai, Prof R. Venkatramani, Director, Faculty Affairs and Campus Life, SRM University said they have admitted over hundred sportsmen in the current year which includes four chess players and only R. Ashwath is yet to decide on the offer.
Tamil Nadu which is a forerunner having decided to FIDE rate its State Men Championship since 1997 has now decided to opt for Elo rating the Junior Championship, said K. Muralimohan, General Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. The State Under-25 and State Women Championships are also FIDE rated. He also said some states in India have followed Tamil Nadu by FIDE rating its State Championships.
"This move to FIDE rate the junior championships will benefit the large number of players in our state," said K. Muralimohan. Nearly half of India's FIDE rated players come from Tamil Nadu itself. Tamil Nadu on its own has more FIDE rated players than all Asian countries and that is significant.
Though rating effect is the high point of this SRM Tamil Nadu State Junior Championship to be held from July 15-21, the atmosphere will be air-conditioned. The 37th SRM Tamil Nadu State Junior (under-19) FIDE Rated Championship for the S. Ramakrishnan Memorial Rolling Trophy and the 22nd SRM Tamil Nadu State Junior Girls Championship for the V.V. Rajamani Memorial Trophy will be held at the SRM University for a prize fund of Rs.40,000.
Prominent among those who have won this event were GM V. Anand (1982), GM R.B. Ramesh (1991, 1992, 1993), GM Magesh Chandran (2001) and WGM S. Vijayalakshmi (1990), WGM S. Meenakshi (1992, 1995).
SRM University who are organising the show on behalf of Mount Chess Academy and Tamil Nadu State Chess Association are anticipating 100 boys and 50 girls to participate. The venue is 15 km from Tambaram, a southern hub of Chennai but it is likely to stimulate other college students to chess. International Arbiter M. Vijaykumar of Chennai will be the chief arbiter. The event will be played over eleven rounds. The event can be followed at www.tamilchess.com and also www.mountchess.com
Sponsors SRM University have a good chess team for the All India Inter-University this time and it is clear they are looking forward to wrest the title from seventeen-time champions University of Madras. Tamil Nadu is maintaining the high standards in chess organising and becomes the first state to FIDE rate its junior championship.
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FIDE Master Narayanan Srinath won the IM Dopravni Stavby Brno 2008 International Master Tournament by remaining undefeated at 8.5/11 in Czech Republic on July 6. It was a 12-player all-play-all.
Srinath who is 1994-born of Chennai also won a second IM norm in the process. In the final round, he drew FM Jakub Lahner of Czech Republic with the white pieces from a Two Knights opening in 14 moves.
Srinath, a former World U-12 champion from Chennai was impressive against the three International Masters. He scored two points from three games.
Final placings: 1 FM N. Srinath (Ind) 8.5/11, 2 IM Piotr Murdzia (Pol) 8, 3 IM Sergei Splosnov (Blr) 7.5, 4-5 FM Jakub Lahner (Cze), Zoltan Janko (Svk) 7 each, 6 FM David Holemar (Cze) 6.5, 7 IM Bogomil Andonov (Bul) 6, 8 Petr Skacelik (Cze) 5, 9 FM Milos Kozak (Cze) 4.5, 10 Michal Zavadil (Cze) 3, 11 Vadav Chladek (Cze) 2, 12 Jaromir Vesely (Cze) 1.
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34th TN State Sub Junior Chess Chp and 22nd TN State Sub Junior Girls Chess Championship
CSI College of Engineering, Ketti, Nilgris from 29th June to 5th of July , 2008.
The U15 State Chess Championship (B&G) had attracted around 120 players from 22 districts and affiliated academies,including 44 rated players 31 in boys section and 13 in girls section . The tournament was conducted in a 11 round , Swiss format and the top 4 qualifiers will represent TN State in the forthcoming National Sub Junior Chess Chp.
The tournament was inaugurated by Rt.Rev.Dr.M.Dorai , Chairman & Correspondent, CSI College of Engg., Ketti. Every round of this tournament was inaugurated by VIPs and chess enthusiasts of Nilgris District including J.M.Sivashankar, DSO,Nilgris dt., AL Palaniappan BSNL franchisee, Coonoor and A Devaraj SubDiv Engineer (Marketing) BSNL , Coonoor.
The games were played in the conference hall with comfortable and conducive environment. The climate was threatening in the beginning and later it was warm throughout the event. The boys category saw a neck to neck race between Lokesh of Chennai and Dinesh Kumar of Salem. Though Dinesh Kumar had a theoretical chance of winning the title , he lost to Jitendriavel in the final round to settle for the second place. Lokesh sturdier performance in the mid rounds saw him thro’. P.Lokesh is a student of SBOA Matriculation HSS, Chennai.
Asian silver medalist J.Mohanapriya of Velammal Hr Sec.School, Chennai won the tournament in the girls section with a round to spare. The serene atmosphere , playing condition has made this event a memorable one for both players as well as parent . All the kudos to the organizing team of Nilgris Dt Chess Association and CSI College of Engg., Ketti. We personally thank the management of the CSI College of Engg, to take interest in this wonderful sport and make it popular in academic circles also, in Nilgris district.
The Prize distribution function was presided over by Rev.Dr.M.Durai, Chairman CSI College of Engg., Ketti, & R.D.Nazeem , IAS, Exec.Director, Tea Board, Govt of India was the chief guest of the function and gave away the prizes.Other dignitaries were K.Muthuswamy, GM, BSNL,Nilgris & K.Muralimohan, General Secy, TN State Chess Assn , the Nilgris Dt Chess Association President T.Rangiah, Vice President J.P.Dhinakaran and Joint Secy Basheer Ahmed, Treasurer Ananthakrishnan The vote of thanks was proposed by G.Premanand, Secretary, Nilgris Dt Chess Assn,
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S. Arun Prasad of Salem who is employed with Bharat Petroleum, Chennai is India's eighteenth grand master and Tamil Nadu’s 6th grand master. He reached the 2500 rating mark during the Philadelphia Open last month.
Other grandmasters are from India are: V. Anand, Deepan Chakkaravarthy, P. Magesh Chandran, R.B. Ramesh, K. Sasikiran,
Tamil Nadu has other Grand Masters in waiting like G.B. Prakash. He had made five GM norms and is waiting for the 2500 rating requirement. He was listed as a GM recently in June and it was soon corrected!
Tamil Nadu has 24 International Masters, three Woman Grand Masters, four Woman International Masters as per the July 2008 rating list of FIDE. Vijayalakshmi listed as IM.
In the FIDE rating list file India has 8642 players as per the July 2008 rating list. Leading chessplaying nations are: France 18996, Spain 17672, Germany has 16527, Russia 13734. Prominent Asian countries: Iran 2095, Australia 1049, Philippines 691, China 532, Kazakhstan 502. Prominent English speaking countries: USA 4027, England 1827, Canada 986.
India is fertile for chess and these 8642 players in the file go to prove it. All Indian Chess Federation (AICF) is making things easier for the players to achieve. The men and women teams go for Chess Olympiads from 1980 regularly. Now, from 2006 Juniors, from 2008 Sub-Juniors play in overseas events at USA and Spain regularly and make norms and titles.
S. Arun Prasad hails originally from Salem completed his GM requirement of 2500 Elo in this event. He had already made three norms. He finished clear second and also remained undefeated like Negi.
The Philadelphia International started this evening with 43 players from 5 countries joining the mix. A large contingent of 14 players from India are competing this year.
15 year old Indian Grandmaster, Parimarjan Negi took clear first and $2,000 with 7-2.
IM and soon to be GM Arun Prasad scored 6.5 for clear second and $1,000
Taking home $450 was a group with 6-3: GM's Julio Becerra and GN Gopal, WGM Eesha Karavede and Gabriel Battaglini,
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World champion Viswanathan Anand retained the No.1 rank in the World in the latest July 2008 FIDE Rating List published by FIDE on July 1. When the Foros Tournament is rated, Magnus Carlsen is expected to climb to the second place. Alexander Morozevich replaced
Vladimir Kramnik as the second highest rated player.
Anand's lead over the rest is 10 Elo. The Chennai-born NIIT Brand Ambassador played just two rated games in this period from the German league and lost 4.90 Elo. He drew Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland and and also drew Luke McShane of England, both in the Bundesliga. His team, Baden Baden importantly won the title.
The top ten in the World on rankings are: 1 V. Anand (Ind) 2798, 2 A. Morozevich (Rus) 2788, 3 V. Kramnik (Rus) 2788, 4 V. Ivanchuk (Ukr) 2781, 5 V. Topalov (Bul) 2777, 6 Magnus Carlsen (Nor) 2775, 7 T. Radjabov (Aze) 2744, 8 S. Mamedyarov (Aze) 2742, 9 A. Shirov (Esp) 2741, 10 Peter Leko (Hun) 2741, 28 K. Sasikiran (Ind) 2684, 53 P.Harikrishna (Ind) 2668, 99-103 Surya S Ganguly (Ind) 2631.
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The 20th edition of CUSAT Chess has attracted 197 entries from all over India. Due to heavy rains in the north and few tournament in other states ,many players were unable to participate in this prestigious event . The prize pool is around 1.5 lakhs with the winner getting Rs.15000 plus a glittering trophy. CUSAT Chess determined to make chess players happy , as usual have announced, 30 main prizes , 13 special prizes(i.e best in each category) ,30 lucky prizes for non prize winners, 20 lucky prizes for well wishers and 2 runners up trophy from the
Main list . It is interesting to see that around 60 players less than 14 years are keenly participating despite their school reopen, this month. Yes , Chess has now become a subject.
This 10 round event was inaugurated by Prof (Dr) N.D.Inasu , Pro-Vice Chancellor CUSAT,when he made the first move against Meghna ,National U7 champion. In his brief address , the Pro VC , stressed the importance of Strategy not only in chess but throughout our career and life. Prof Dr. K.K.Muhammed Yusuff , Chairman , Organising Committee welcomed the gathering and rightly put in the request to Pro VC CUSAT for more fund to conduct this tournament . Dr.M.Jathavedan&Dr.K.R.Muralidharan Nair of CUSAT M.B.Muralidharan, President CAK offered felicitation.
Ram S.Krishnan of BSNL is the top seed followed by IM’s R.Balasubramaniam and Koshy , IM Norm holders Purushothaman of AP and Praveen Kumar of TN. Local challenge lead by M.B.Muralidharan, Nimmy George,Nirmal,O T Anilkumar alongwith juniors Meghna and Athul Krishna made the tournament an entertaining one .Other attraction being Sahajasri of AP, former World U-10 champion. Though there was no early hiccups E.P.Nirmal of Kerala was the first to call the shots when he beat Ram S Krishnan on the 1st board of the 4th round. On the 6th board Ganesh Babu of TN surprised the experienced Muralidharan of Kerala. In the 5th round when Stany and Arun Karthik beat Purusothaman and Nirmal respectively the lead narrowed. Arun Karthik of SRM College , TN took the lead in the 6th round when he beat Premnath of TN. In the 8th round Ram S Krishnan rejected Arun’s early draw offer to lose a crucial game, then he had some advantage. Though seeded players where busy with spate of draws , Arun Karthik’s determined draw against IM Balasubramaniam cleared his path towards the title in his maiden attempt.
The CUSAT Chess team guided by M.S.Ananthakrishnan , were superb in their task , as usual.
A memorandum was signed by the players and well wishers to the CUSAT committee mentioning , requesting to increase the fund, Since the future of CUSAT Chess looks bleak if the same trend continues.
An obituary was remembered with a silence mourn , for K V B Menon of Trivandrum , who passed away on 28th of June , an active organizer and player in Kerala.
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The 56th TN State chess championship, organized by Vishy Anand Chess Academy at Hall of Chess, Chennai was a strong FIDE rated event. 165 players including one GM elect, one IM elect, three IMs and one FM participated in the event. G.B. Prakash of Indian Bank was top seeded, followed by former U25 national champion B.T. Murali Krishnan of Southern Railways, World Youth Olympiad gold medalist P. Shyam Nikil of Madurai and international master D.P. Singh, employed in Southern Railways.
The inaugural round witnessed the upset defeat of two times champion K. Gunasekaran of Thiruvallur at the hands of K. Suresh of Thiruvarur district who is placed 520 Elo rating points below Guna. In round 2, Prakash was held to draw by Stanley Samson of Thoothukudi and B. Sekar of Thiruvallur district humiliated D.P. Singh. At the end of the fifth round, R. Arun Karthik of Chennai took the sole lead by defeating his team mate R. Siddharth. Prakash recovered from the second round lapse to beat Arun and regain the lead in the sixth round. He drew his seventh game against former state junior champion P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi, but maintained the half point lead, as all the top six games were drawn.
In the crucial eighth round, Murali Krishnan outwitted Prakash to lead jointly with Maheswaran, Siddharth and P. Phoobalan of Coimbatore. Maheswaran missed some winning advantages to lose to Murali and Siddharth accounted for Phoobalan to make it a two way tie. Prakash, Murali Krishnan and Siddharth led with 8 points at the end of the penultimate round, giving no clue about the final outcome. In the final round, Prakash defeated Siddharth and was waiting anxiously for the outcome of Murali’s match against Praveen Kumar. Murali made use of his extra pawn advantage to post a win, which helped him to regain the tile after one year, due to superior tie break
Final standings
No. Name Club Point Amount
1 Murali Krishnan B T SRLY 9 30000
2 Prakash G B IB 9 20000
3 Maheswaran P VNR 8 15000
4 Siddharth R CHE 8 10000
5 Arun Karthik R CHE 8 7000
6 Phoobalan P CBE 8 5000
7 Ashwath R CHE 8 3000
8 Narayanan K SIV 8 2000
9 Singh D P SRLY 8 1000
10 Pradeep Kumar R A CHE 8 1000
11 Syed Anwar Shazuli KAN 7½ 1000
12 Rajesh V A V CHE 7½ 1000
13 Navin Kanna T U TLR 7½ 1000
14 Premnath R KAN 7½ 1000
15 Ramanathan Balasubramaniam CHE 7½ 1000
16 Hariharan Venkatachalam IB 7½ 1000
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PSNA College of Engineering, Dindigul Offers Engineering seats to chess players, Those who are interested may kindly contact Mr. Murugavendan, Director of Physical Education, P.S.N.A. Engineering College, Dindigul Mob: 98424 43464.
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The Incoming General Secretart Mr. K. Muralimohan was gave a bouquet to the outgoing general secretary, India's first International Master and india's first Arjuna Awardee Mr. Manuel Aaron in the presence of Mr. J.C.D. Prabhakar, Vice President of Tamil Nadu state Chess Association.
Mr P.R.Venketrama Raja was re-elected unopposed as president of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at the once in three years Election.
The General Secretary Mr Manuel Aaron and the Treasurer Mr S.Ramaswamy however stepped down.
The new General Secretary is Mr K.Muralimohan of Chennai and the new Treasurer is Mr K.Gopalakrishnan of Indian Bank.
The complete list of office bearers:
President:
P.R.Venketrama Raja
Vice Presidents:
1. J.C.D.Prabhakar (CHE)
2. M.V.M.Velmurugan (TVLR)
3. S.Ramaswamy (CHE)
4. Anantharaja G.G (TRY)
5. A.P.Selvaraj (VNR)
6. N.K.Nallasamy (KAR)
General Secretary:
K.Muralimohan (CHE)
Joint Secretaries:
1 S.Balaraman (TVLR)
2. M.Senthilvel (SLM)
3 Abdul Nazer (DDL)
4. R.K.Balagunashekaran (TVR)
5. V.Ravichandran (KAN)
6. M.Ephrame
Treasurer:
K.Gopalakrishnan (IND BK) .
Asst Treasurer:
K.Thirukkalathy (KAN)
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Our Women FIDE Master Pon.N.Krithika of Kanchi Distict is the only player from Tamil Nadu to have qualified for the next 35th National Women ‘A’ Chess Championship to be held at Delhi form 1st to 11th September 2008.
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The chess fever in the summer vacation 2008 reached a record high, as 214 players with more than equal number of parents and coaches made their camp at Hosur, for the Tamil Nadu State U11 Chess Championship from 25th to 31st May. Under the guidance and supervision of Mr. Jayapal Chandady, the founder of Hosur Chess Academy, Mr. C. Ganesan the President Mr. S.R. Basker, the secretary and their team from Krishnagiri District Chess Association functioned like a well oiled machine to make the championship a grand success.
The major contribution to the success is owed to Adhiyaman Engineering College and its management for their generous support to host the tournament in their campus. The indoor hall was so big that only less than half the stadium was used to seat the players comfortably. The hostel accommodation and the canteen facilities were also good.
As regards the technical side, the games were fiercely competed, as 16 boys and 5 girls were rated. The top seeded S. Kumar of Chennai suffered a set back at the hands of M. Adhithya of Kanchi district in the third round and could not recover then. Second seeded S. Kaushik was the next casualty in the fourth round and L. Bharath of Thiruvallur district was the victor. Akash P.C. Iyer of Chennai emerged as the sole leader at the end of the seventh round by defeating his team mate Vasantha Ruba Varman, as the co-leader Bharath was beaten by Gireman Ja of Coimbatore. The tenth and penultimate round produced some hiccups, as the leader Akash lost to Gireman and Vasantha Ruba Varman snatched the lead by beating B. Kumaran. Karthikeyan Murali of Thiruvallur and Kaushik had a slow and steady rise to score 8 points at the end of the penultimate round, leading to an exciting climax in the final round.
When Akash P.C. Iyer conceded a draw to S. Lokknath of Chennai in the final round, Vasantha Ruba Varman needed just a draw to clinch the title. But, Karthikeyan Murali belied all the expectations by drubbing him on the top board. Kaushik was also equally impressive in his win over Gireman Ja to tie for the first place with Karthikeyan. The better progressive score favoured Karthikeyan Murali to win the title.
On the distaff side also, C.K. Varsha, the top seed from Coimbatore lost the reckoning due to an early loss to N.K. Bavithra Midhuna of Coimbatore in the third round. There was a three way tie between the three Chennai players M. Mahalakshmi, G.K. Monisha and U. Ashwini up to sixth round. Monisha defeated Ashwini in the seventh round to gain sole lead. She maintained it until the last round to lift the title without much ado. In addition to the cash prizes, many mementos from various industries were awarded to each prize winner.
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The top seed P Shyam Nikhil of Madurai annexed the Annapragada trophy in the 10th Jawahar Vidyalaya Tamilnadu State Under 25 FIDE Rated Chess Championship, while the State Women Champion and the top seed in women's category R Preethi, also of Madurai clinched the Nivarthi Trophy in the 7th Jawahar Vidyalaya Tamilnadu State Under 25 Women FID E Rated Chess Championship.
In the final round played here today, the two top seeds proved their billings right and won crucial encounters when it mattered most. While Shyam Nikhil accounted for R Arun Karthik, Preethi scored over Visalatchi. R Siddharth of Chennai, who was in the joint lead yesterday, had to be content with a draw against R A Pradeep Kumar and was placed second. In the women's category, J saranya earned a hard fought draw against J Vaishnavi for the second place.
The Tennetti Venugopal Trophy for the best game of the Championship was awarded to R Arun Karthik of Chennai for his fifth round game against V A V Rajesh.
In a glittering function, the trophies and prizes were awarded to the winners by Shri J C D Prabhakar, Vice President, Tamilnadu State Chess Association and Smt. Padma Yerra, Treasurer, Stree Seva Mandir.
Shri D V Sundar and Shri Manuel Aaron felicitated the winners in a well attended prize distribution ceremony.
Prize Winners Boys
Rank Name Club Pts
1 Shyam, Nikil P. MDU 8
2 Siddarth.R CHE 7½
3 Pradeep, Kumar R.A. CHE 7
4 Rajesh, V A V CHE 7
5 Maheswaran.P VNR 6½
6 Surendran.N BLOOM 6½
7 Stanley Samson.P TUT 6½
8 Ramesh Shanmugasundram CBE 6½
9 Arun Karthik.R CHE 6
10 Navin, Kanna T.u. TLR 6
11 Ram, S. Krishnan CHE 6
12 Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R CHE 6
Prize Winners Girls
Rank Name Club Pts
1 Preethi.R. MDU 7½
2 Saranya.J. TLR 6½
3 Visalatchi.R. VNR 6½
4 Syed, Nabeela Farheen CHE 6½
5 Harini.S. KAN 6½
6 Uthra.P. TLR 6½
7 Bharathi.R. CHE 6
8 Priya Sandhya.P. MOUNT 6
9 Akshaya.A. TLR 6
10 Vaishnavi.J. TRY 6
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The southern city of India, Madurai got an International Master when B.T. Muralikrishnan of Southern Railways completed his third and final norm in the Mayor's Cup International Open at Mumbai on May 20.
Born on April 26, 1974 in a chessplaying family, Muralikrishnan started chess late at the age of eleven and a half. His grandfather Hariram and his brother taught him the moves and he also learnt from them.
Muralikrishnan is helped by his employers, Railways who give him 120 days special leave and also other travel and higher class benefits. "I am not in the higher league of Madurai's GMs Magesh and Deepan," ceded Muralikrishnan.
Muralikrishnan, 34, still not married has won a dozen FIDE rated events and the prestigious one is the Tamil Nadu State Championship of 2006. His national title is the Under-25 title of 1995 at Secunderabad.
His three norms came from the Win TV Tournament at Chennai (6.5/9) during Feb 2004, International Open at Kolkata (6.5/10) 2008 and International Open at Mumbai (8/11) 2008. He is hot and you can count on him for more.
"I missed a GM norm in the International Open at Mumbai," said Muralikrishnan whose current ambition is to advance to the Grand Master title. He believes that by playing continuously he can achieve it.
Bathey Thulasiraman Muralikrishnan
Date of birth 26 April 1974
Accounts Clerk in Southern Railway, Madurai. The only sportsperson in S.Railway, Madurai.
The three IM norms:
First IM norm from Win TV tournament 2004
Second IM norm from Kolkata Open 2008
Third IM norm from Mumbai Open 2008.
Winner of FIDE Rated Opens :
Adyar Times Open 2001
Sri Mappillai Vinayagar Open 1993, 1999, 2000.
TN State Championships
State Senior Champion 2002
State U-25 Champion 1994
State Rapid Champion 1996
National Championship:
Naional Under-25 Champion at Secunderabad, 1995.
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Muthu Alagappan of Thiruvallur district and Pon N Krithika of Kanchi district clinched the boys and girls titles respectively, in the Tamil Nadu State U 17 Chess Championship, organized by Namakkal District Chess Foundation at S.K.V. School, Thiruchengode. In the final round, Muthu Alagappan had some anxious moments before settling for a draw against the local lad S. Vigneshwaran. Both Muthu and Ajay Srikanth of Chennai were on par with 7.5 points, but the progressive scores were in favour of Muthu.
As expected Pon N Krithika won the title without much ado, agreeing for a quick draw against P. Uthera of Thiruvallur. Saranya made short work of the runner up aspirant R. VIsalatchi of Sivakasi to claim the second position. Both Saranya and CH Savetha scored 7 points each and the latter had to be content with the third spot because of lower tie break score.
Final rank
1.Muthu Alagappan, M (Tlr) 7½ 2. Ajay Srikanth, (Chn) 7½
3.Pradeep Kumar, R.A. (Chn) 7 4.Vigneshwaran, S (Nam) 7
5.Arun, J (Chn) 7 6.Lokesh, P (Chn) 6½
7.Surendran, N (TlR) 6½ 8.Ramalingam Karthik, P Slm) 6½
9. Sekar, B (Bca) 6 10. Vigneshwara, J.B. (Slm) 6
Girls
1 Pon N Krithika (Kan) 8
2 Saranya, J (Tlr) 7
3 Savetha, C.H. (Chn) 7
4 Sithalatchumi Arunachalam (Mdu) 6½
5 Uthra, P (Tlr) 6
6 Bharathi, R (Chn) 6
7 Nandhithaa, P.V (Nam) 6
8 Abirami, R (Chn) 6
9 Visalatchi, R (Vnr) 5½
10 Sathya Priya, S.V. (Slm) 5½
11 Poojakanth, M (Nlc) 5½
12 Anushya, S (Nlc) 5½
13 Bhuvaneswari, R (Try) 5½
Important results
Muthu Alagappan, M (Tlr) 7.5 drew with Vigneshwaran, S (Nam) 7.0
Vigneshwara, J.B. (Slm) 6 lost to Ajay Srikanth, (Chn) 7.5
Lokesh, N (Kgi) 6 lost to Pradeep Kumar, R.A. (Chn) 7.0
Lokesh, P (Chn) 6.5 drew with Ramalingam Karthik, P (Slm) 6.5
Arun, J (Chn) 7.0 beat Jaswant, G (Chn) 5½
Sakthivel Pandian, V.S (Vnr) 5½ lost to Surendran, N (TlR) 6.5
Mohana Priya, J (Kan) 5.5 drew with Sekar, B (Bca) 6.0
Anandraj, S (Tlr) 5.5 drew with Krishnakumar, P (Ero) 5.5
Ganesh, R (Cbe) 5 lost to Bavan Kumar, J (TlR) 6.0
Abhinav, N.R (Chn) 6.0 beat Saravan Ganesh Pandian (Vnr) 5
Suresh, K (Trr) 6.0 beat Jitendriavel, S (Chn) 5
Atthicharan, T (Ero) 5 lost to Uma Maheswaran, P (Mdu) 6.0
Radhakrishnan, V (Kan) 4½ lost to Ganesh, P (Chn) 5.5
Boopeash, S (Ero) 5.5 beat George Michael Samson (Cud) 4½
Rajasekar, S.R (Vel) 4½ lost to Gowtham, K.K (Ero) 5.5
Subramaniam, R.M. (Mdu) 4½ lost to Vasanth, P (Nam) 5.5
Aravind Kumar, M (Vel) 5.0 drew with Shiva Gunal, S (Tnj) 5.0
Karthick, V (Mdu) 4.5 drew with Dipankar Sinha (Vel) 4.5
Naren Swaminathan, P (Chn) 4 lost to Kamal Shankar, K.S (Try) 5.0
Amalan, S.A (Trr) 4 lost to Srichand, T (Cud) 5.0
Suganthan, R (Vel) 4.5 drew with Anand, R (Vel) 4.5
Bhuvaneswaran, M (Nam) 4.5 drew with Vibushan, A (Kan) 4.5
Rajesh, K (Trr) 4 lost to Einthiresh, R.S (Ero) 5.0
Gauthaam, V (Mdu) 5.0 beat Praveen Kumar, S (Ero) 4
Results of final round - Girls
Pon N Krithika (Kan) 8.0 drew with Uthra, P (Tlr) 6.0
Sathya Priya, S.V. (Slm) 5½ lost to Savetha, C.H. (Chn) 7.0
Visalatchi, R (Vnr) 5½ lost to Saranya, J (Tlr) 7.0
Poojakanth, M (Nlc) 5½ lost to Sithalatchumi Arunachalam (Mdu) 6.5
Bharathi, R (Chn) 6.0 beat Priya Sandiya, P (Kan) 5
Nivedhitha, J.G (Bca) 5 lost to Abirami, R (Chn) 6.0
Nandhithaa, P.V (Nam) 6.0 beat Sujitha, P (Cbe) 4½
Amirthavalli, G (Chn) 4½ lost to Bhuvaneswari, R (Try) 5.5
Anushya, S (Nlc) 5.5 beat Uma Bharathi, G (Chn) 4
Akshaya, A (Tlr) 5.0 beat Karthikeyini, R (Mdu) 4
Varshini, P (Ero) 4 lost to Nanduja, R (Vnr) 5.0
Akshaya, N (Cbe) 5.0 beat Swetha (Nam) 4
Jeyassri, B (Chn) 5.0 beat Aarthi, S (Vel)) 4
Soundarya, R.S (Kar) 4 lost to Srinidhi Sridharan (Trr) 5.0
Vallikannu, M (Vnr) 4.0 drew with Bavithra Midhuna, N.K (Tnv) 4.0
Kiruthiga Janani, J (Nam) 4.0 beat Bala Bagavthi, R (Tnv) 3
Roshini, P (Kan) 4.0 beat Manimozhi (Nam) 3
Sowmiya, S (Try) 3 lost to Priyadharshini (Nam) 4.0
Harini, R.S (Vel) 2 lost to Revathi, S (Kar) 4.0
Pooja, J (Kan) 1 lost to Monica Baarathi, S (Ero) 3.0
Sri Rathi (Kar) 1 lost to Sudharshini, B (Kar) 3.0
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R. Preethi of Madurai claimed the Tamil Nadu State women title in the championship organized by Salem District Chess Association at St. John’s Matriculation School . She remained unbeaten through out the championship, scoring 9.5 points from 11 rounds. Pon N Krithika finished runner up, true to her seeding, scoring 9 points. R. Bharathi defeated the local girl S.V. Sathya Priya secured the third spot. Nabeela Farheen of Chennai and L. Iswarya Shobhana, another girl from the host district fought to the end to score 8 points each. They were paced fourth and fifth respectively, based on their progressive tie break score.
Fr. Arulappan, Principal, St. John’s Matric School presided over the meeting and nine times national champion Manuel Aaron, Secretary, TNSCA distributed the prizes.
Final ranking
1 R.Preethi, (Mdu) 9½
2 Pon N. Krithika (Kan) 9
3 R.Bharathi, (Chn) 8½
4 S.Nabeela Farheen, (Chn) 8
5 L.Iswarya Shobana, (Slm) 8
6 Sithalatchumi A (Mdu) 7½
7 P.V.Nandhidha (Nam) 7½
8 P.K.Jayashree, (Slm) 7
9 Priya Sandhiya (Kan) 7
10 R.Visalatchi, (Vnr) 7
11 M.Poojakanth, (Nlc) 7
12 J.Saranya, (Tlr) 6½
13 C.H.Savetha, (Chn) 6½
14 S.V.Sathya Priya, (Slm) 6½
15 A.Akshaya, (Tlr) 6½
Final round results
R.Preethi, (Mdu) 9.5 drew with R.Visalatchi, (Vnr) 7.0
Pon N. Krithika (Kan) 9.0 beat M.Jagadhambal, (Chn) 6½
L.Iswarya Shobana, (Slm) 8.0 drew with S.Nabeela Farheen, (Chn) 8.0
R.Bharathi, (Chn) 8.5 beat S.V.Sathya Priya, (Slm) 6½
C.H.Savetha, (Chn) 6½ lost to P.V.Nandhidha (Nam) 7.5
Sithalatchumi Arunachalam (Mdu) 7.5 beat J.Saranya, (Tlr) 6½
Priya Sandhiya (Kan) 7.0 beat M.R.Sangeetha, (Chn) 6
P.K.Jayashree, (Slm) 7.0 beat J.Janani, (Bca) 6
M.Poojakanth, (Nlc) 7.0 beat P. Sujitha (Cbe) 6
A.Akshaya, (Tlr) 6.5 beat T.R.Nandhini, (Kar) 5½
R.Abirami, (Chn) 6.0 drew with S.Anushya, (Nlc) 6.0
S.Sneha, (Cbe) 5½ lost to R.Nanduja, (Vnr) 6.5
G.Alagusala, (Chn) 6.5 beat J.G.Nivethitha, (Chn) 5½
R.S.Soundarya, (Kar) 6.5 beat U.Ashwini, (Chn) 5½
N.K. Bavithra Midhuna, (Tnv) 6.5 lost to S.Aarthysri, (Bca) 6.0
P.Malleswari, (Chn) 5 lost to M.Mahalakshmi, (Chn) 5
D.Akshita, (Chn) 6.0 beat R.Mohana sankari, (Ero) 5
S.Balambika, (SIV) 6.0 beat P.L.Kavitha, (Slm) 5
S.P.Rakshithasree, (Kan) 5 lost to G.Aarthi, (Tlr) 5.5
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The traditional Chess Oscar, which has been conducted (with a break) since 1967, is awarded on the basis of votes cast by chess journalists for the ten best player of the past year. World Champion Anand was selected by 130 experts. In second place was Vladimir Kramnik, and third was Gata Kamsky. This is Anand's fifth Chess Oscar – more than any other non-Russian player.
Having won both the Linares Tournament, the World Championship in 2007, Vishy Anand was a clear winner in the 2007 Chess Oscar race voted by chess journalists the world over. Anand had won this prestigious award in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004 before winning it now again in 2007.
The voting for the 2007 Chess Oscar will be officially notified on Sunday (May 11, 2008) though it was leaked to the press.
A total of 169 journalists from all over the world voted. Anand took 130 first votes which carried 13 points and was a clear winner with 2049 points. Vladimir Kramnik with 1531 points was clear second with eleven first votes while comeback man Gata Kamsky got 993 points for third place. Others: 4 Topalov, 5 Carlsen, 6 Ivanchuk, 7 Aronian, 8 Morozevich, 9 Gelfand, 10 Radjabov.
Considering that Anand wins it twice in a row, he should be a favourite for 2008 as well. He has won the Linares Tournament in 2008 already in the first quarter and what he does against Vladimir Kramnik at Bonn in the World Championship this October-November will decide that.
Reacting to this success, Anand said, "the fascinated wanderer will always be something I cherish and each of the Oscars hold a special significance."
The 1969-born NIIT Brand Ambassador lives in Chennai and Madrid if he is not at any chess venue. This award is a recognition for his hard work in 2007.
Anand, a true professional sportsman is now moving from world champion to an all-time great sporting star. His next tournament is at Leon, Spain in June.
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FIDE Master V. Hariharan (TN) and K. Visweswaran (TN) received the more prestigious FIDE Trainer title.
K. Muralimohan (TN), V. Ravichandran (TN), received the FIDE Instructor titles.
These courses opened our eyes," said K. Murali mohan, Secretary of the Chennai District Chess Association, who was a trainee himself.
Certificate for trainers will prove essential as sporting careers of young chess players are placed in their hands by hopeful parents. It is going to get popular in the days ahead.
The course was conducted by Senior Trainer and International Master Jovan Petronic of Belgrade, Serbia and Peter Long of Malaysia in a very professional manner. ever smiling FIDE Instructor Mr.Praful Zaveri was the Course Co-ordinator
The Results of the Seminar (TN)
SL Name Gender State Title Awarded
2 K.Visweswaran M Tamilnadu FIDE Trainer
4 V.Hariharan M Tamilnadu FIDE Trainer
7 V.Ravichandran M Tamilnadu FIDE Instructor
9 Muralimohan K. M Tamilnadu FIDE Instructor
13 K.Ganesan M Tamilnadu National Instructor
16 Sakthi Prabhakar M Tamilnadu Developmental Instructor
17 N.K.Nandakumar M Tamilnadu Developmental Instructor
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The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association celebrated its 61st birthday in pure chess style with Contests in Tactical Chess, a Lecture by Grandmaster R.B.Ramesh and four simultaneous, Simultaneous Displays by Super Grandmaster K.Sasikiran and three International Masters - M.R.Venkatesh, B.Adhiban and P.Karthikeyan. Sasikiran who was accompanied by his wife played the black pieces in all the games and took three hours and thirty minutes for 30 games.
Mr M.V.M.Velmurugan, the CEO of Velammal Educational Trust, extolled the heritage of the State Chess Association and the lead it has taken in organising non-stop chess activities all over the state and producing some of the best players in the world starting with Viswanathan Anand.
Results of the Simultaneous Displays:
Sasikiran: Played black in all the 30 games to win 24, draw four (M.Hariharasudan, Vasantha Ruba Varman, RM Ramanathan and G.Santhoshkumar) and lost to B.Kumaran and V.A.V.Rajesh.
M.R.Venkatesh: Won 25, lost to P.Michelle Catherina, drew none.
B.Adhiban: Won 14, lost to S.Raju and drew against Y.Kiran, S.Ragul, and S.Anand Raj
P.Karthikeyan: Won 11, lost to J.Bavan Kumar, J.Sharanya and J.G.Nivedia,
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The Rotary Club of Madras Metro 6th Tamil Nadu State Veterans’ Chess Championship held by the School of Chess and Anna Nagar Chess Academy at the Hall of Chess in Nehru Stadium was won by T.V.Subramaniam today.
T.V.Subramanian, 73, of Trichy, tied for first with K.N.Kalyanasundaram who had won the first four editions of this championship, but Subramanian was first on tie-break. He retained the title he won last year.
Rtn P.R.Sudesh, President of Rotary Club of Madras Metro distributed the prizes to the winners.
Top final standings:
1-2. T.V.Subramanian, K.N.Kalyanasundaram 5/6;
3. V.Radhakrishnan 4.5;
4. R.Ganapathy 4;
5-7. A.Malik Jan Mohamed (Virudhunagar), M.Veerattan (Thiruvallur), M.Velusamy, 3.5;
8-9. A.Shanmugam, B.Kumarachandran 3 each.
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For the third time in his career, Viswanathan Anand emerged as the winner in the city of Linares. His first tournament victory as a world champion was “very similar to last year”, he said.
During the press conference after his draw against Topalov, Anand pointed out how much his tournament looked like that of 2007. Then he also scored 8.5 out of 14 and then too he was chased by Carlsen (but of course there was also the amazing comeback by Morozevich). He also emphasized how interesting the tournament had been. “Not only as a player but also as chess fan I have really enjoyed looking at the games here.”
Against Radjabov, for quite a while Carlsen had been trying in vain to win a slightly better ending that was a dead draw according to the experts. But it was understandable, since a victory would have yielded a shared first place with Anand. (Also in this case, Anand would have been the tournament winner as he won his minimatch with Carlsen). But in any case Magnus can look back at another great tournament, that got him virtually into the world’s top 5.
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Surya Shekhar Ganguly equalized Manuel Aaron's record of fifth successive title in the Velammal National A Chess Championship organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, The proceedings took a dramatic turn in the final round, as the joint leader G.N. Goal of Kerala succumbed to S. Arun Prasad of Tamil Nadu, representing PSPB and K. Rathnakaran of Kerala won against Neelotpal Das of PSPB. Rathnakaran was on par with Ganguly with 9 points, but the tie break was in favour of Ganguly.
Once Ganguly understood that the Gopal would not be able to win against Arun Prasad, he offered draw to the Delhi grandmaster Parimarjan Negi.. When the game reached rook, knight and equal pawn ending, both signed the peace treaty.
With an extra pawn, Gopal unnecessarily went for a win against S. Arun Prasad ofor which he paid the penalty of losing the game. Arun played extremely well to finish fourth.
Former bronze medalist in the U10 World championship, grandmaster M.R. Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu defeated another Tamil Nadu player B. Adhiban by winning the exchange and a few pawns.
In the tussle between the oldest and youngest players of the championship, Pravin Thipsay, a former national champion from Maharashtra won against Vidit Gujrati from the same state.
P.R. Venketrama Raja, President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association presided over the function. M.V.M. Vel Murugan, C.E.O, Velammal Educational Trust, distributed the prizes. D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary, All India Chess Federation and J.C.D. Prabhakar, Chairman of the organizing committee offered felicitations. Manuel Aaron, Scretary, TNSCA proposed a vote of thanks.
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Leader Jerome Jorge Ebenezer and R.Abiramai was won the Victory Educational Trust 21st Tamil Nadu State Under – 9 Boys & Girls Chess Championship organized by Thiruvallur District Chess Association for Dolphin Trophies here at Hall of Chess, Chennai.
Final Standing:
Boys:
1.Jerome Jorge Ebenezer (Che) 9.5/ 11; 2.M Karthikeyan (Tvlr) 9.5; 3.M.Jayesh (Che)8.5; 4.VR.Arvind Chithambaram (Mdu) 8.5; 5.S.Sudarsan (Che) 8.5; 6.F.Clifford Flair (Cdur) 8.0; 7.C.Sai Vishvesh (Tngr) 8; 8.M.Sabhareesh(Che) 8.0, 9.S.Sriram (Kan) 7.5; 10.B.Vignesh (Capa) 7.5
1 Abirami R Tri 2 Manjula R Che 3 Varshini P Ero 4 Vaisalie K Mdu 5 Saughanthika A S Che 8 6 Nithila A Tri 7½
7 Samantha S Che 7 8 Niveditha K Nlc 7 9 Rakshana K Mee 710 Rohini G Blo 7
Top two players from each categorey will represent in the forthcoming Under -9 Nationals to be organised by All India Chess Federation.
Manuel Aaron, Scretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association presided over the function. Mr.Jaikumar, Vice Chairman, Victory Educational Trust, distributed the prizes. Dr.D.Ravi, Principal of Shri.Venkateswara Matric.Hr.Sec.School offered felicitations. Mr.S.Narayanaswamy , Vice President, Thiruvallur District Chess Association proposed a vote of thanks.
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Karthikeyan pipped his fellow Indian Ashwin Jayaram to win the Asian Junior Chess Championship at Goregaon Sports Club, Mumbai .
Karthikeyan and Jayaram both finished with seven points at the end of nine rounds, but Karthikeyan was declared champion as his progressive score was better than that of Jayaram.
The last round saw four players on the top two boards fighting for the title. On the first board, Jayaram was having half point lead but, still needed to win the game to emerge as winner as his progressive score was very low. Meanwhile, on the second board, Karthikeyan playing the white pieces won his game against Vishnu Prasanna (also of Tamil Nadu) to move to seven points.
Still, he was not sure that he will emerge winner as the game on the first table was on. Karthikeyan won the title when Jayaram drew his game against Shyam Sunder (also TN) and both finished on same seven points with the former winning on a better progressive score.
Top seed GM Parimarjan Negi could not find his form and finally finished fourth. Though Vishnu Prasanna, who was leading till round five was not able to come in the list, he managed to complete his maiden IM norm and Karthikeyan got IM title and GM norm by winning the competition.
In the girls section, Mary Ann Gomes, who was already sure of winning the title won her game with Kruttika Nadig to finish first with 8.5 points. On the second board, Padmini Rout defeated WIM Soumya Swaminathan to finish runner-up. WIM Kiran Manisha Mohanty defeated S Harini to finish third. Mary got her third WGM norm and hence got her WGM title by wining the championship.
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Grandmaster R B Ramesh of India was crowned as the new Commonwealth Chess Champion after the thrilling tenth and the final round of tournament in New Delhi on 10th December 2007.
Ramesh, a former British Open Champion, was in the lead at the halfway stage but lost his way after that. But he recovered the lost ground with a fantastic rear-guard charge to score 3-consecutive wins in the last three rounds and won the prize money of Rs 137,500.
In the final round Ramesh defeated the overnight joint leader Vikramaditya Kamble with a flawless display of high quality chess and ended the tournament with 8.5 points.
Top-seeded Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly scored a fine win against the joint overnight leader IM Rathnakaran to finish with an identical score of 8.5 points, but had to content with the second place due to an inferior tiebreak.
He however had the consolation of getting the same prize money of Rs.137,500.
Abhijeet Gupta, who became India's 17th Grandmaster in this tournament, clinched the bronze medal with a fantastic performance of eight points. He bagged the cash prize of Rs.75,000.
International Master Harika Dronavalli retained her women's title, which she had won at the last edition of this event at Mumbai. She finished seventh overall in this very strong combined event, which had 13 men Grandmasters.
By virtue of this performance she got the cash prize of Rs.40,000. WGM Tania Sachdev finished behind Harika while WGM Nisha Mohota was third.
The Indians also dominated the various age-groups categories as their players won 44 of the 45 medals available. GM Gawain Jones of England prevented the clean sweep by winning a bronze in the Under-20 category
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P.Karthikeyan of chennai finished his frist IM norm in Common welath Chess championship. He got gold medal in the Under 18 Category with seven points out of 10 rounds, followed by Ashwin Jayaran of Chennai, who took the silver medal for 2nd place with 7 points.S. Arun Prasad of Salem won the silver in Under 20 category. R.Ashwath of chennai got the silver medal and S.Nitin of Salem got the Bronze medal in the Under 16 category. K.Priya Darshan of Madurai won the gold in the Under 14 Category.
Pon.N.Krithika of Kanchi and R.Preethi of Madurai finishes their first WIM's norms in the championship. In the girls section Pon.N.Krithika won the gold medal in the Under 16 girls category with 6 points out of 10 rounds and R.Preethi of Madurai got the silver medal in the Under 18 girls category with 6.5 points. P.Priya of Chennai got her bronze medal in the Under 20 girls category.
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Indians took the lion's share of the medals in the chess competitions which formed part of the 2nd Asian Indoor Games that concluded at Macau on November 3. Overall, in the nine sections, Indians won five gold, two silver and one bronze. They did not make the podium only in men's classical individual section.
Our star Krishnan Sasikiran of ONGC, Chennai made most from the event taking three gold medals followed by Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika who took two each. Sasikiran called the AICF Press Officer Arvind Aaron by mistake from his mobile and said he won three gold medals and he would be returning to India on November 5.
India Slips To Silver In Blitz Team
After defeating main rivals China in the Blitz Team Championship, India lost unexpectedly to Kazakhstan in round six and then again to Malaysia in the final round to win the silver medal in the concluding day of the 2nd Asian Indoor Games being played at Macau on Nov 3. The gold went to China and the bronze to Kazakhstan.
Earlier, in the individual Blitz Championship, Krishnan Sasikiran won the title and gold with 6.5/9 after tying with Murtas Kazhgalyev of Kazakhstan and beating him. Bronze went to Bu Xiangzhi of China 6.
Koneru Humpy won the Blitz for women with 7.5/9 after she too tied for first place with Zhu Chen of Qatar. Phan Bich Ngoc of Vietnam finished third with six points.
Details of the eight medals won by Indians: Gold: India (Team, Rapid), Harika (Rapid, Individual, Women), Sasikiran (Rapid, Individual), Sasikiran (Blitz, Individual), Humpy (Blitz, Individual). Silver: India (Team, Classical), India (Team, Blitz). Bronze: Harika (Women, Classical, Individual
By Arvind Aaron
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P.V. Nandhidhaa of Tamil Nadu emerged as champion in the National under-11 chess championship. Nanditha scored nine points from 11 rounds in the girls’ section, half-a-point ahead of Navya Vyshnavi.
Girls: P.V. Nanditha 9 drew with Shweta Gole 7.5; Srishti Gautam 8 bt Navya Vyshnavi 8.5; Sonakshi Rathore 8 drew with G. Aiswarya 7.5; S.E. Meenu Priya 7.5 bt Nisha Patkar 6.5; Michelle Catherina 7 drew with G. Lasya 7; N. Akshaya 7.5 bt R. Maduravani 6; Sreeja Seshadri 6 lost to Sweety Patel 7; S.G. Archana 6 lost to Akanksha Gupta 7; Srishti Jain 6 lost to M. Priyadarshini 7; Sunyasakta Satpathy 7 bt G. Radhika 6.
Girls: 1. Nanditha 9; 2. Navya Vyshnavi 8.5; 3-4. Sonakshi & Srishti Guatam 8; 5-8. Aiswarya, Shweta, Meenu Priya & Akshaya 7.5; 9-15. Sunyasakta, Lasya, Michelle, T. Navya, Akanksha, Sweety & Priyadarshini 7.
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World Chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was conferred an honorary doctorate, the first for him, by the Sathyabama University in Chennai.
The doctorate was conferred upon at a special convocation of the University.
Accepting the degree, Anand said that the sole reason for his achievements was his determination to excel in the sport. He urged the students to pursue their education with zeal to reach great heights.
The university chancellor, Jeppiar, who also spoke, said it was a proud movement for the university, as it was the first in India to confer a doctorate on Anand, who had done the country proud.
"The union government should also honour the champion in a fitting manner," he added. Eminent Nanotechnologist Prof. Vijay Varadan was also conferred an honorary doctorate at the convocation.
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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi handed over a cheque for Rs. 25 lakh to World chess champion Viswanathan Anand at the Secretariat here on 24th October 2007.
A press release said that Anand, having won the title for a second time, had brought glory to India and Tamil Nadu. On learning about the victory, Mr. Karunanidhi had announced the reward of Rs.25 lakh.
When Anand won the World title for the first time in 2000, the State had felicitated him and allotted him a high income group apartment in the SAF Games Village in Koyambedu.
Ministers Arcot N. Veeraswami, M.K. Stalin, Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, T.P.M. Mohideen Khan, Suresh Rajan, K.P.P. Samy and U. Mathivanan were among those present.
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Anand Presented Rs.10 Lakh
"Anand is a fantastic role model not just for chess players but also for people in other sport to achieve excellence," said Rahul Dravid, former captain of the Indian cricket team while felicitating the world chess champion Viswanathan Anand at the Ball Room of Taj Connemara in Chennai on October 22.
The function got up by the All India Chess Federation also saw Dravid handover a cheque for Rs.10 lakh (Rupees one million) on behalf of N.Srinivasan to the 37-year old world chess champion. The function lasted only 45 minutes and had plenty of other sportsmen, former cricket captain K.Srikkanth of Chennai, former Olympic gold medal winning hockey captain V.Bhaskaran, table-tennis Arjuna Awardee S.Raman among others. Chess has a notable majority though, with GM Konery Humpy, Dibyendu Barua, S.S.Ganguly, Deepan Chakkaravarthy, Abhijit Kunte and others in the audience. Anand's family and friends were also in full attendance.
Dravid came late but compensated like his test innings. "It was a great honour to meet him." Dravid noted that Anand is a rare double world champion and is very special. He appreciated his determination and drive and also the hunger for success and not feeling satisfied with one title.
The programme started with Smt Nithyashree Mahadevan offering the prayers. N.Srinivasan, President, AICF welcomed the gathering and lauded Anand. "We are here to celebrate an outstanding achievement. Anand is a sportsman par excellence," observed Srinivasan.
D.V.Sundar, Honorary Secretary, AICF introduced seven age group world champions who offered flowers to Anand. Ivana Furtado (World Under-8 girls), C.H.Mohineesh (World Under-8), Sahaj Grover (World Under-10, former), Ch. Sahajasri (World Under-10 girls), N.Srinath (world under-12, former), Aarthie Ramaswamy (World Under-18, former) and Koneru Humpy (World No.2 women and World Junior Under-20, former). "Rahul, nobody knows these young champions since you and your friends (meaning cricketers!) take all the space in the newspapers," joked D.V.Sundar.
Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifah Al-nehyan, President of the Asian Chess Federation, congratulated Anand and reminded him that he was the pride of Asia when you look at the rating list or the world title. He also presented him a memento he brought from Al-Ain.
In replying to felicitations, Anand, dressed in tie and jacket thanked N.Srinivasan and said under him the AICF was taking the right direction. I hope to try and win more titles and come back for more events like this one, said Anand while replying to felicitations.
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GK Monisha of Tamil Nadu playing the Sicilian Pelikan defence notched up a brilliant win over Sunya Sakta Satpathy to emerge winner. Monisha captured Sunya Sakta’s queen on the 25th move and checkmated her opponent on the 28th move.
Monisha headed the table with 9.5 points out of a possible 11 to take the top spot.
The results:
Girls: Sunya Sakta Satpathy (8) lost to GK Monisha (9.5); Sweety Patel (8.5) bt M. Mahalakshmi (8); Shoumi Mukherjee (9) bt Akhankya Kabi (7); C.H. Meghana (8) bt Divya Garg (7); Ivana Maria Furtado (8) bt Gauri Keshav Hadondkar (7).
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Maharaja Agrasen Fide rated open chess tournament was held in Agarwal Vidyalaya, Vepery, Chennai from October 12 to 18,2007. The tournament attracted 104 players including 4 IMs and 40 rated players. The ten round Swiss tournament has players from states like Karnataka and Maharastra including D.P.Singh of Southern Railway and R.R.Laxman of Indian Bank.
The unique feature of the venue is that all boards were assigned independent table and that too in AC hall through out the tournament. A rare of its kind in Chennai that too for FIDE rated open tournament. The organizer Chanakya Chess Academy co-ordinated with the Co-Sponsors Agarwal Samaj (Madras) for arranging tastefull dishes for snacks through out the ten rounds free of cost. Originally the tournament was scheduled for 11 rounds since to participate in World Champions reception in Chennai one round had to be reduced on that day.
As young talents utilized this opportunity to punish the experienced players mistakes and blunders it become clear that young ones are really giving tough time to elders through out the tournament. Till the Second round it was a smooth sailing for the top seeded players except for for VinothKumar who was defeated by Youngster M.Swaroop.
The third round started with DP Singh losing to M.R.Sangeetha in the second board. In the eleventh board K.V.Santharam losing to R.Bharathi in the end game. By the end of Fifth round Ram S. Krishnan established a slender lead of half point with three other IMs, Laxman RR ,prakash G.B and Babu N.Sudhakar.
Ram S.Krishanan further increased his chances by defeating G.B.Prakash in the sixth round. In the seventh round D.P.Singh had further setback when he lost to lesser seeded Ganesh Babu.
In the eighth round Ram S.Krishnan has to settle for a draw with Maheswaran P. and Laxman RR also shared the lead in the top table.
In the tenth round R.R.Laxman was held to a draw by C.J.Arvind which helped Ram S.Krishnan to defeat Shyam Nikil in the second board. Thought RR Laxman and Ram S Krishnan scored 8.5 points the latter was declared with better progressive score. Ram S.Krishnan of BSL walked away with Twenty thousand cash and a beautiful trophy.
All the prize winners were presented a beautiful momento by the organizer.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Pradeep Jain IPS if Chairman and Managing Director, TN Police Housing Development Corporation. Mr. Manuel Aaron , India’s first IM graced the inaugural ceremony.
The prizes were distributed by Business man Suresh Sanghi who donated Prize worth Rs.50,000/- and balance prize money was sponsored by Chanakya Chess academy, Who took full care for players comfort through out the event. Mr. Harishankar of Agarwal Samaj (Madras) presided over the function and Mr. R.Govindarajan, Secretary of Chanakya Chess Acadmy delivered vote of Thanks.
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World Chess Champion Vishy Anand arrived to a tumultuous reception at Chennai on the afternoon of October 17.
At the airport, Velammal School led another 20 other schools in showing how warm the reception can be. There was loud music with drums and horns reducing the noise of the jets to nothing. The reception could not have been greater or noisier.
When Anand arrived at the make-shift reception area at the airport, the CEO of Velammal Educational Trust and Chairman of the Anand Reception Committee, Mr M.V.M.Velmuugan garlanded Anand first, followed by hundreds of others.
Talking to journalists, Anand said he was very happy to see so many children. “I am delighted by the grand reception”, said an elated Anand who was mobbed by an unmanageable number of Videographers and Photographers for full three hours right from the time he landed at Chennai at 1:50 P.M. till he went into his Besant Nagar residence. Jostling, pulling and elbowing each other these men with their expensive photographic equipment were in a frenzy to take as many shots of the World Champion as they could.
The reception and the procession, were organized by Velammal and Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. Mr M.V.M.Velmurugan and TNSCA’s Honorary Member Mr D.V.Sundar were the main architects of planning and execution of this whole show. The event was advertised in 8 leading English and Tamil newspapers on the 17th morning by Velammal.
More than a thousand school children had arrived in several buses and vans at the airport. Prominent among them were Velammal (6 buses!), Zion Matriculation, Modern Senior, Bloom Chess Academy, Britto Academy, Vishwa Bharathi, Kings Matriculation, New Prince, Vyasa Vidyalaya, G.K.Shetty Hindu, P.S.B.B.Matriculation, Jayagopal Garodia, S.S.Jain, Government High School Somangalam (outside Chennai!), etc. With the airport authorities denying us permission to erect a Pandal, the viewers were patiently standing in the open, under a 32 Celsius sun.
From the Airport, Anand and his entourage were taken by car to Kasturba Nagar, the starting point of the procession in Adyar. But the “paperazzi” were already there securing every high point which they could climb. From there, Anand was taken on a decorated, two-horse driven chariot along Kasturba Nagar, Indira Nagar, Shastri Nagar and finally to his parents residence at Besant Nagar, a distance of about 5 KMs. A professional band and four soldiers riding four horses preceded Anand’s chariot. All along the route, the Police provided excellent security. Busloads of children formed part of the procession.
Along the route when public transport buses came up on the other side of the road, passengers waved and cheered at Anand. In one case a bus came quite close to Anand’s chariot and the passengers on the window seats, complete strangers, extended their hand to Anand who gladly tapped each and every hand as the vehicles slowly went in opposite directions.
During the procession, Resident Welfare Associations in the neighbourhood as well as some commercial institutions presented him with shawls, bouquets and garlands.
A veteran organizer from Sangli in Maharashtra, N.V.Padsalgikar, now in his 90th year, drove all the way from Sangli in south Maharashtra some 1500 KM to be at the airport, greet Anand and give colour to the procession. When he saw the convoy moving quietly and in a very orderly fashion, he started dancing and others joined in. Bhausaheb, as he is fondly called, exclaimed: “Array! What is this? Anand is World Champion and you are walking quietly! You must jump, dance and shout! You come to Sangli and I will show you how this should be done!”
Of course, when the convoy finally reached Anand’s residence, the paperazzi were already perched atop the porch and patio, ready with their cameras!
Everybody from the chess world was present. Officials from the Chennai, Thiruvallur and Kanchi District Chess Associations, AICF Secretary D.V.Sundar, his staff, TNSCA's V.Kameswaran, Manuel Aaron, S.Ramaswamy and his friend Santhanam (“Bharat Mata ki Jai”), Grandmaster Sasikiran’s parents, Grandmaster R.B.Ramesh, his wife Aarthie and other family members, Patron of TNSCA Mr S.Ganesan and almost all the International Masters who live in Chennai were present
The TNSCA office bearers V.Kameswaran, V.Ravichandran, S.Balaraman, S.Ramaswamy, Manuel Aaron and K.Thirukkalathy did most of the preparatory leg work for this show.
The KM 5 procession was the most colourful as the Adyarites and Besantnagar citizens had a rare chance to see Vishy Anand and also get a picture of him. Some lucky ones even got his autograph.
At his residence a few ceremonies were observed like placing a lit camphor on a pumpkin, breaking a coconut by flinging it on the ground, etc. These are traditional South Indian customs aimed at warding off the ‘evil eye’.
It was a great reception for India's leading sport star. It will certainly be remembered for a very long time to come.
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In a big final twist to the Canara Bank 24th National Sub-junior Girls Chess Championship today at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Shalmali Gagare of Maharashtra overhauled leader A.Niji of Kerala and won the Championship through a higher tie-break score.
Needing a draw in the last round to win the national title, Niji with the white pieces apparently made the mistake of playing for a draw against Shalmali Gagare. Shalmali took good advantage of white’s passive play and proceeded to outplay the Kerala girl in the ending. White had a weak pawn on e4 which caused a lot of pain and eventually led to the loss of a pawn on the 33rd move. On the 47th move Niji lost a second pawn and then vainly played on till the 68th move before resigning.
Adhiban was unable to defeat Sethuraman on the top table. Sethuraman had already won the Championship yesterday with a round to spare. He ended the championship with a score of 9.5 points.
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Adhiban and International Master M.Shyam Sundar tied for the second to third places with 8.5 points each. Adhiban was placed second.
The top 20 games of each round can be seen on the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association website TamilChess.com.
The final standings, Boys:
1. S.P.Sethuraman (TN) 9.5
2-3.B.Adhiban (TN), M.Shyam Sundar (TN) 8.5;
4-8. Prasanna Rao (Mah), K.Priyadarshan (TN), S.Nitin (TN), Antonio Viani D’Cunha (Kar), Rakesh Kulkarni 8;
9-17. Aditya Udeshi (Mah), R.Bhuvanesh (TN), M.R.Lalith Babu (AP), Anurag Mhamal (Goa), N.Surendran (TN), Girish A Koushik (Kar), Swayams Mishra (Ori), N.Srinath (TN), M.L.Abhilash Reddy (AP) 7.5;
18-26. Fenil Shah (Guj), Abharantu Dutta (WB), Bitan Banerjee (WB), Sandipan Chatterjee (WB), Satyajit Kundu (WB), Debasish Das (OR), K.Vijaykanth (AP), G.A.Stany (Kar), B.Vinoth Kumar (Pon) 7.
The final standings, Girls:
Shalmali Gagare (Mah) 8.5;
A.Niji (Ker), Pon N Krithika (TN) 8.5;
4-6. Devangi Patankar (Mah), S.V.SathyaPriya (TN), C.P.Aatira (AP) 8
7-9. Pallabi Roy (WB), R.Bharathi (TN), B.Pratyusha (AP) 7;
10-19. J.Mohana Priya (TN), M.Khushboo (TN), K.Sai Nirupama (AP),
Shristi Shetty (Kar), Y.G.Sriharika (AP), A.Akshaya (TN),J.Vaishnavi (TN), J.Janani (TN), Sonakshi Rathore (Raj), J.Saranya (TN) 7;
20-24. M.Jagadambal (TN), Sukanya Dutta (WB), Supriya Joshi (Mah), Nandhini Saripalli (Goa), Agnihotri Ghosh (WB) 6.5.
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The Tamil Nadu Minister for Environment and Sports, Mr T.P.M.Mohideen Khan inaugurated both the Hall of Chess in the Nehru Stadium and the National Sub-junior Chaess Championship by moving the king pawn to the fourth rank. He said that Tamil Nadu Chess players have produced good results and the Sports Development Authority would encourage them further.
Mr D.V.Sundar who presided over the Inaugural function said that chess was the only sport in India which has produced many medals in the international arena and needed the support of the Government.
Mr R.Asokan, Assistant General Manager of Canara Bank praised the efforts of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association in organizing big chess tournaments.
Mr Kumarasamy, Vice President of the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu gave a witty speech in praise of chess.
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L to R : Mr. R.Asokan, Asst, General Manager, Canara Bank, Mr. T.P.M. Mohideen Khan, TN Minister for Environment and Sports making the first move, Mr. D.V.Sundar, Secreatary, All India Chess Federation.
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Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship to become the Unified World Chess Champion for the first time on September 29 when he drew the final round against Peter Leko of Hungary at Mexico City.
Earlier, in December 2000 at Tehran, Anand had won the FIDE World Title when there was a division in the chess world. This new title is certainly more creditable.
In the 8-player double all-play-all Anand scored four wins and drew ten games to remain the only undefeated player. Anand totalled nine points from 14 games to win by a clear one point margin. At best at one stage of the event he even enjoyed a 1.5-point lead.
Anand's triumph is also fitting for the system run by FIDE that the best player in ranking is also the World Champion. The Chennai-born, NIIT sponsored legend, has made the Indian chess tick in World Chess and he is leading the way for all Indians in the field of sport.
At Mexico City, Anand is accompanied by his wife Aruna Anand, trainer Nielsen and scores of fans from Mexico itself and other places. The World Title will be awarded on September 30 at Mexico.
Needing a draw for the title, Anand offered a draw on the 20th turn with the white pieces which Leko accepted. Leko, a former trainer of Anand (in 1998) was the first to congratulate Anand at the board itself.
Anand will receive 390,000 dollars (about Rs.1.50 Crores) in prize money. The championship had a prize fund of Rs.1.30 million dollars.
The results (round 14): Viswanathan Anand (Ind) drew Peter Leko (Hun), Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) bt Levon Aronian (Arm), Peter Svidler (Rus) bt Alexander Grischuk (Rus), Alexander Morozevich (Rus) drew Boris Gelfand (Isr).
The final placings: 1 Anand 9/14, 2-3 Kramnik, Gelfand 8 each, 4 Leko 7, 5 Svidler 6.5, 6-7 Morozevich, Aronian 6 each, 8 Grischuk 5.5.
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The SPIC 20th FIDE rated chess tournament was held at the SPIC premises, Tuticorin from 24th to 29th September. The medallist category attracted 185 players and 142 players participated in the non-medallist section. The ten round tournament had players from states like Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Pondy, besides players from Tamil Nadu. International master D.P. Singh of Southern Railways and IM R.R. Laxman of Chennai were seeded one and two respectively.
Thirteen year old S.S. Manigandan of Madurai was the first to upset a higher ranked player by defeating C. Praveen Kumar of Chennai in the second round. The SRM Arts College student S. Venkat Sundaram continued the trend in the fourth round by scalping D.P. Singh. M. Kunal of Neyveli came into lime light by overwhelming another SRM College student P. Maheswaran, a former state junior champion in the fifth round. Laxman and Kunal jointly led the table at the end of the 7th round with 6.5 points each. In the next round, Maheswaran held Laxman to a draw and Kunal was in good nick to outwit D.P. Singh to emerge as sole leader.
In the penultimate round, while Laxman prevailed over A. Shankar of Southern Railways, Kunal had to settle for a draw with another Railways player S. Mari Arul, a former state champion, leading to an interesting climax in the final round, with both Laxman and Kumal on par with 8 points each. Laxman pipped Kunal at the post by beating Vinoth Kumar of Chennai. Kunal had to be content with the runner up spot, as he succumbed to A. Nimmy George, a National Women A player. D.P. Singh suffered another set back at the hands of Maheswaran and the latter finished third.
In the non medallist section, V. Kannan of Viluppuram scored 6/6, only to lose the next two rounds, allowing a three way tie between V.S. Sakthivel Pandian of Sivakasi, T. Vishnu Priya of Nagercoil and T. Thiruvengadam of Chennai in the final round. Eleven year old Sakthivel, a student of Sivakasi Lions Matriculation School accounted for Vishnu Priya and Thiruvengadam lost to Jai Aravind Kumar of Namakal. This enabled Sakthivel to win the non medallist title comfortably.
For the first time in the history of chess tournaments in India, all the unrated players were assigned their FIDE Id and the same were informed to them before they left the tournament, thanks to the speedy action of AICF.
Originally, the tournament scheduled to be over on 30th September was supposed to have eleven rounds. But the statewide bandh to be organized on 1st October threw everything out of gear, forcing the organizers to advance the tournament by a day. It put all the players and parents into lot of difficulties in rescheduling their travel plan. The SPIC organizers were magnanimous in allowing the players to extend their stay for one more day. The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. R. Muthu Manoharan, Vice President, (Fertilisers Business) of SPIC and president of Thoothukudi District Chess Association Nine time National champion and Arjuna awardee Manuel Aaron offered feliciteions. Mr. K.S. Gopalakrishnan, General Manager SPIC Ltd and also the Vice president of the district chess association presided over the function and Mr. V.V.S. Rama Rao, General Manager, Heavy Water Plant, Tuticorin distributed the prizes. A total of Rs.48050 was distributed as prizes and the winner was richer by Rs.15000/-
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14 teams were participatedin the Rajalakshmi Engineering College 17th Tamilnadu State Team Chess Championship. Five District (Chennai, Dharmapuri, Kanchi, Thiruvallur & Thoothukudi), Velammal (3 teams), Indian Bank, Southern Railway, ICF, Alpha Arts & Science College, Bhajarang Engg. College and Rajalakshmi Engg. College. In total 69 participants took part. Except Dharmapuri District all the other teams fielded 5 players.
The above Championship started on 17th Sep. 07 and concluded on 20th Sep.07. Because of the less number of teams participation and number of rounds has been reduced from seven to five rounds.
Velammal A won the championship with 15 points, followed by Southern Railway and Indian Bank with 14 points. Southern Railway finished second because of better tiebreak score.
The Board Prizes were won by
1. IM G.B. Prakash of Indian Bank (4/5)
2. S. Balaraman, Secy., TDCA (4/4)
3. A. Sankar of Southern Railway (4/5)
4. R. A. Pradeep Kumar of Velammal A (5/5)
5. T.J. Suresh Kumar of ICF (2.5/3)
11th Tamilnadu State Blitz Chess Championship
We had the above even on the concluding day i.e. 20-9-2007 afternoon at 2.30 pm and concluded at 4.15 pm. A total of 35 participants took part. We had 7 round swiss system.
IM norm holder S.P. Sethuraman of Velammal won the event with 5.5 (25.5) points followed by R. Preetham Sharma of Southern Railway 5.5 (23), K. Gunasekaran of ICF 5.5 (23) and C. Praveen Kumar of Chennai 5.5 (21.5) points.
Both the events went on very well without any hitch. All the players co-operated very well.
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Palani Jyothi Chess Academy organized the 20th TN State U-13 Chess championship at Siddanathan Thirumana Mandapam, Palani from 8th to14th August 2007 on behalf of Dindigul District Chess Associaiton and Tamil Nadu State Chess Associaton.
This event was inaugurated by Dr Grace Nirmala, Physical Director, Gandigram University on 8th August 2007. It attracted 54 players in girls section and 108 players in Boys Section in which totally 43 FIDE rated players took part.
This Event was conducted in Swiss Format with 11 Rounds for the Total Prize fund of Rs.12,500/-. Players from all over Tamil Nadu like Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchi, Dindigul, Madurai, Trichy, Kanyakumari, Vellore, Erode, Karur, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Salem, Tiruvarur, and Nagapattinam etc and many affiliated academies are took part in this Event.
In the Boys Section Hariharasudan of T.Nagar Chess Academy surprised all top seeds and won the Championship with Nine points. Saimanivannan of Chennai finished runner up with Eight and half points. In the Girls Section J.Mohan Priya of Kanchi won the Championship, She scoring Ten points out of Eleven rounds . J.Saranya of Thiruvallur finished runner up with Eight and half points.
On the concluding day prizes were distributed by Chief Guest (leading Business Man), Shri Abdul Nazer (Secreatary DDCA) rendering the special address and Shri Durairaj (Secretary, Palanijyothi Chess Academy) rendered vote of thanks.
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India won the World Youth Chess Olympiad for a historic triumph at Singapore on August 11. In the final day, India scored a 3-1 win against Singapore and posted 28 points. Top seed Hungary could overtake us for the title had they won 4-0 against Indonesia. Woman FIDE Master Irine Sukandar shocked Tamas Fodor of Hungary and it helped India. Hungary could thus win only by 3-1 margin and finish second with 27.5 points.
India has never won any world level team medals in chess before. This time it was significant that we started well defeating the United States 4-0 and followed that up by defeating top seed Hungary 3.5-0.5. We had one bad moment when we lost 1-3 to the Philippines in the seventh round. Thereafter, the boys won the last three matches to win the title with 28/40. India won seven matches, drew two and lost one.
Indian scorers were: B.Adhiban 7.5/10, R.Ashwath 4.5/8, S.Nitin 7/10, Shyam Nikhil 5.5/7, Swayams Mishra 3.5/5. Besides the team gold and title, Adhiban of Chennai had the third best result of all players in the top board. Shyam Nikhil of Nagercoil had the second best result in the fourth board and Swayams Mishra had the second best score of all players in the reserve fifth board.
"After India defeated Hungary in the fifth round, we were certain of winning the title," said Baskaran, father of Adhiban in Chennai. Hungary made a serious comeback in the penultimate day and provided much excitement in an otherwise India dominated contest. The title race could not have been closer. India edged out Hungary in a well contested 10-round team event.
"We were sure of a medal from this competition this time but the boys did well for the gold," said D.V.Sundar, a delighted Secretary of the AICF. The success here reassures India's growing stature in chess and also in the Youth area. This event was for those Under-16 and India is the best team in the world. The training camp at Chennai provided the necessary chess food and unity for the players.
The team returns to Chennai on Sunday morning. B.Adhiban is going straight from Singapore to Abu Dhabi to compete in the Open Tournament where he will be seeking Grand Master norms and will not be returning home with the team. He is already an International Master. The team is accompanied by Raizada of Lucknow as coach. The team was trained by K.Visweswaran of Chennai prior to the contest for 10 days and he was also in touch with the team at Singapore on a daily basis over the internet from Chennai.
Final placings: 1 India (gold) 28/40, 2 Hungary (silver) 27.5, 3 Philippines (bronze) 25.5, 4 Uzbekistan 24.5..34 teams.
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Ram S Krishnan of BSNL maintained his half point lead at the end of the tenth and penultimate round of the 2nd S.K.Narasimhan Memorial FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament played at the Hall of Chess in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium this evening.
Ram had a facile 16 move victory in the ninth round this morning against C.Praveen Kumar who overlooked a surprise central pawn thrust on the 11th move and quickly went downhill. In the evening game he drew against P.Phoobalan.
Ram S Krishnan leads with 8.5 points. Half a point behind him are three players: M.V.Lakshminarayanan of Kodaikanal, International Master G.B.Prakash of Indian Bank and Velammal school student V.A.V.Rajesh.
The last round begins tomorrow at 9:30 A.M.
Mr S.Ganesan, President of the Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Associatin will be the Chief Guest at the closing ceremony to be held at 4 P.M. at the Hall of Chess, Nehru Stadium.
Top Boards Results
P. Phoobalan 7.5 drew Ram.S.Krishnan 8.5;
M.V.Lakshmi Narayanan 8 drew A.Nagarjuna 8;
J.Arun 7 lost to G.B.Prakash (Ind Bank) 8;
M.Vijay Anand 7 V.A.V.Rajesh (Velammal) 7;
N.Vigneshwaran 7 drew C.Praveen Kumar 7;
K.V.Shantharam (Ind Bank) 6.5 M.L.Abhilash Reddy (AP)6.5;
R.A.Pradeep Kumar 7 drew P.Jayakumar 7;
R.Ramnath Bhuvanesh 7 bt P.Maheswaran 6;
H.Venkatesh 7 bt M.K.A.Russell (Sri Lanka) 6;
Wijesurija .G,Laxman (Sri Lanka) 6 lost to Shravan Kumar Talwar 7;
J.Malleswara Rao (AP) 7 bt R.Bharthi 6;
Diptayan Ghosh (WB) 6 lost to N.Ramaruju 7;
M.R.Sangeetha 6 B.Sekar 6;
Sumit Kumar (WB) 6.5 drew Samson.J.Austin 6.5;
V.Venugopalan 6 drew M.Vinothkumar 6;
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The seventh edition of Adyar FIDE rated Open an annual feature in South Chennai attracted a record number of 228 entries covering nine states.A big contingent of 16 from Srilanka including its national champion was an added glory of this year’s event.There were five international masers and two FIDE masters in the fray and 100 participants were FIDE rated which provided good scope for the aspiring candidates to fulfill their rating requirement.A cream of young talents like P.Karthikeyan,Prasana Rao,P.Saravan Krishanan,J.Vaishnavi threw challenge to the experienced and veteran stars.
The ten round swiss was flagged off on the 31st July at Bapulal Bhavan near Thiruvanmiyur beach and the same came to an end on 5th August.Right from the beginning the championship was closely fought and the fact that no one maintain sole lead at any part of the tournament only reflected the strength and the fighting spirit of the participants.
Twenty six year old C.J.Arvind a former Madras University star who now works with Birla software emerged victorious as the outright champion with 8.5 points.In the tenth and the final round he carved out a neat victory over International Master R.Balasubramaniam of ICF.The shocking defeat of another IM R.R.Laxman who was sharing the lead with C.J.Arvind before the final round at the hands of P.Karthikeyan of St.Josheph’s college of Engineering helped C.J.Arvind to carry home the winner’s reward of Rs.20000/- and an attractive Adyar Times trophy.R.R.Laxman with 8 points and better progressive score was the runner up and the third place went to another Madras University player C.Praveen Kumar.
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FIDE Master S.Ganesan a chess recruit of Neyveli Lignite Corporation passed away suddenly on 21 July 2007 at Neyveli. He was 48.
A former National "A" player, he was a very quiet person He was part of the NLC team that won the 1987 National Team Championship at Bangalore.
NLC chess has suffered a grievous loss in the death of Ganesan.
Ganesan and his NLC team mate FM Pavanasam are both from Kanyakumari.
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Shri T.P. Textiles 36th TN State Junior Chess Championship and 21st TN State Junior Championship for girls, held at Kamarajar Kalyana Mandapam, Rajaplayam from 25th to 31st July, attracted 49 entries in the boys’ category and 26 in the girls section. Twenty five rated players participated in the open category, with former champion P. Karthikeyan of St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai getting the pride of top seed (2301). Pon N. Krithika of St. Joseph’s Engineering College was seeded numero uno in the girls’ section.
Karthikeyan suffered a set back early in the second round, when he was forced to share the point with G. Santhosh Kumar of Chennai. Second seeded T. Abhay of Kanchi also lost in this round to Muthu Alagappan of Thiruvallur. Sixth seeded R.A. Pradeep Kumar of Chennai emerged sole leader with a perfect score of 4 in as many rounds. K.V. Ven Prakash of Thiruvallur district joined him in the lead in the next round, but was beaten by Pradeep in the sixth round. A. Nagaarjuna of the host Virudhunagar district failed to materealise the winning chances against Pradeep in the seventh round and thereafter Pradeep Kumar never looked back. He was assured of the title, with one round to spare, scoring nine points. V.A.V. Rajesh of Thiruvallur district sprang a surprise, by beating Karthikeyan and National U17 champion P. Saravana Krishnan in ninth and tenth rounds and finished runner-up.
As Pon N. Krithika was held to a draw in the second round by S. Athirai of Dindigul, Harini of Chennai took an early lead. But, she was jolted by Athirai, who shared the lead with R. Preethi of Madurai in the fifth round. Lead changed hands frequently and there was no clear favourite until the seventh round. Eighth round witnessed the emergence of Krithika as the sole leader, as the co leader Athirai surrendered to P. Uthra of Thiruvallur. Thereafter, Pon N Krithika increased the margin of lead by successive victories and won the title comfortably, with one round to go. Though Athirai was trailing Krithika for many rounds, Harini pipped her at the post to wrest the second position and Athirai had to be content with third spot.
The tournament was well organized by Rajapalayam Chess Club, under the able guidance of A. Gopalsamy, Vice President of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Director of T.P. Textiles, the single sponsor of the championship.
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World No.1 Viswanathan Anand remained undefeated beating Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria 3-1 in the finals of the City of Leon Rapid Chess Tournament played at Leon in Spain in July. Clinical in his approach, like in the semifinals, Anand won both white games and drew both black games for his seventh title at Leon in north Spain.
In the best of four finals, Anand started with a draw with the black colour and won the second game to take a lead. In a Sicilian Najdorf, Topalov who played black was being outplayed on the queen side. He tried to hitback on the king side and sacrificed material. Anand won the material and defended as the point fell in his lap easily.
The second set of two games followed the same pattern. Anand drew again using a Ruy Lopez with black in the third game and won the fourth, though he was only required to draw it for the title. Anand sacrificed a knight for three pawns and won with crisp tactics at two different stages.
In his seventh title in 12 years. Anand had played several varieties of chess there. It started with a classical chess win against Miguel Illescas in 1997. Then, the advanced chess match win against Anatoly Karpov in 1999, advanced chess tournament win against Judit Polgar and Alexei Shirov in 2000, advanced chess tournament win against Peter Leko and Alexei Shirov in 2001. In rapid chess, Anand beat Carlsen and Kasimdzhanov in 2005 for the title. Last year, Anand won the 2006 edition beating Lazaro Bruzon and Veselin Topalov for the title. This year he kept the title again.
World No.1 in classical chess, Anand's lead over the rest should be huge when it comes to rapid chess. Rapid chess with his presence is making no contest these days. That the organisers in Mainz, Germany have now moved from match to tournament format and they have rapid chess and chess960 all-play-all in tournament format for next month's event involving Anand.
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The 33rd Tamil Nadu State sub Junior Chess Championship and 21st Tamil Nadu State Sub junior Chess Championship for girls were held at Ravi Sankar Kalyana Mahal, Salem from 1st to 7th July, 2007. 99 Boys and 42 Girls participated in the 11 round tournament, with the local boy Mathur Sathya and J.Mohana Priya of Kanchi District getting the top seed in the boys and girls section respectively. The eleven round championship witnessed fierce battles on top boards from day 1 of the championship. Salem fielded eighteen boys and seven girls, where as Chennai contributed seventeen boys and six girls.
Mathur Sathya was held to a draw in the third round by Bavan Kumar of Thiruvallur District. This enabled Ajay Srikanath and P.Lokesh, both from Chennai to share the lead with four points each at the end of the fourth round. Their lead was short lived, as Ajay was beaten by D.S.Shashaank, another Chennai boy in the sixth round. Surendran also joined him in the lead by holding Lokesh. Shashaank maintained the slender lead until the ninth round, where he was beaten by Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Chennai. But, Ramath lost in the tenth round, leading to a three way between Shashaank , Surendran and Tejas Ravichandran. In the Interesting final round, Shashaank was held to a draw by A.Nagaarjuna of sivakasi, Surendran lost to Krishna Prasad of Salem and Ramnath overwhelmed Teja Ravivhandran, Ramnath and Shashaank tied for the first place and Shashaank was declared winner, based on best progressive score. Besides these two players, Surendran and P.Lokesh qualified for the National Sub Junior Championship.
Irrespective of a draw against R.Visalatchi of Sivakasi, the top seed Mohana Priya maintained a slender lead over other players until the seventh round. In the eighth round, the second seeded R.Bharathi of Anna Nagar Chess Academy joined her in the lead by a convincing win over A.soumia of Thiruvallur district. Both recorded wins in the ninth and tenth rounds and in the deciding final round, Mohana Priya unexpectedly lost to A.Akshaya of Thiruvallur district, whereas Bharathi defeated
Visalatchi to emerge winner.
The championship was well organized by Salem District Chess Association and the special feature of the tournament was the provision of lunch to all players and parents.
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S.P.Sethuraman of Chennai became India's youngest International Master when his rating crossed 2400 at the Dindigul National "B" on June 20th.
Sethuraman, a quiet Chennai school boy got his first two IM norms from the Dubai Open in 2006 and the International Open at Andorra in Spain, also in 2006. After his third norm which he obtained from the International Open in Kolkatta this year, he had to wait till his rating crossed 2400. At the National B at Dindigul Sethuraman, one of the 30 qualifiers to the National "A" crossed 2400 and has applied for his International Master title.
Born on 25 Feb 1993, Sethuraman will be awarded the IM title by FIDE later. He is now 14 years and four months old.
Parimarjan Negi of Delhi, born on 5 Feb 1993 is already a Grandmaster.
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Chennai School boy B.Adhiban, 15, became an International Master when he won his third IM norm from the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A player who is hungry for points and titles, he nearly won the prestigiuous National "B" at Dindigul on June 20.
His first IM norm came from the Parsvnath International at Delhi this January and his second from the Dubai Junior Championship in April.
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Chennai youngster Vishnu Prasanna’s triumph, with a round to spare, in the 19th Cusat Open on Friday night seems to have inspired the rest of the Tamil Nadu players in a big way.
Seven of the top ten positions went to Tamil Nadu players in this all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament which concluded at the Cochin University’s SMS Hall on Saturday. Vishnu, the 17th seed, carried home his career-best purse of Rs. 15,000 while Tamil Nadu’s R. Sidharth and West Bengal’s top-seeded Saptarshi Roy finished second and third respectively.
Vishnu continued his good run in the final round today, jolting the seasoned fifth seed M.B. Muralidharan to finish with a lead of 1.5 points over the runner-up.
Final placings: 1. Vishnu Prasanna (TN, 10 pts from 11 rounds), 2. R. Sidharth (TN, 8.5), 3. Saptarshi Roy (WB, 8.5), 4. R.R. Laxman (TN, 8.5), 5. T.J. Suresh Kumar (ICF-TN 8), 6. M. Kunal (TN, 8), 7. V. Haribalu (TN, 8), 8. Vinoth Kum ar (TN, 8), 9. M.B. Muralidharan (Ker, 8), 10. Anurag Jaiswal (WB, 8).
The results (11th round):
M.B. Muralidharan lost to Vishnu Prasanna; Vinoth Kumar drew with R. Sidharth; Saptarshi Roy bt O.T. Anilkumar; M. Kunal drew with V. Haribalu; R.R. Laxman bt Naveen S. Hegde; Rupankar Nath drew with U.C. Mohanan; Anurag Jaiswal bt P.V. Gi reesh; M. Anandhraj drew with Santu Mondal; T.J. Suresh Kumar bt H. Venkatesh; T.R. Shanmuganathan drew with Avinash Sethi.
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P.Saravanakrishnan and R.Preethi, of Tamil Nadu, won the National Under-17 Boys & Girls Chess Championship held at Puri, Orissa on 26th June 2007 . Very creditably the silver medals were also won by Tamil Nadu stars, R.A.Pradeep Kumar and Pon N Kirthika..This championship attracted 154 players including 86 Fide Rated players from various parts of India .
In the Boys Section P.Saravanakrishnan of St Joseph’s College, Chennai beat R.A.Predeepkumar
of Chennai and won the title with 7 points in an 8-round Swiss..Predeepkumar, finished Runner-up with 6.5 points.
In the Girls section R.Preethi made an early draw against Pon N Krithika in the final round and bagged the Girls title with 6.5 points .Pon N Krithika finished second with 6.
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International Master R R Laxman of Chennai and P Sivasankari of Tiruvallur annexed the Annapragada & Nivarthi trophies in the Jawahar Vidyalaya Tamilnadu State Under 25 Chess Championships for men and women organized by Sports Promotion Foundation on behalf of Tamilnadu State Chess Association at Mahodaya Hall, Jawahar Vidyalaya, Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
In the final round Laxman drew with Shyam Nikhil of Madurai to clinch the Championship while on the second table, B Adhiban put it across R A Pradeep Kumar to settle for the runners’ spot.
In the womens’ section, the two overnight leaders, P Sivasankari and R Bharathi had a contrasting day. While Sivasankari had it easy against Kushboo, Bharathi could not make any headaway against J Vaishnavi and had to settle for a draw.
The TENNETTI VENUGOPAL Trophy for the Best game of the Championship was awarded to Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Chennai for his game against Ram S Krishnan.
IMPORTANT RESULTS FINAL ROUND
R R Laxman 7.5 drew with P Shyam NIkhil 7
R A Pradeep Kumar 6.5 lost to B Adhiban 7.5
Ram S Krishnan 7 beat Ashwin Jayaram 6
R Siddharth 7 beat T Abhay 5.5
C Praveen Kumar 6.5 beat Ramnath Bhuvanesh 5.5
WOMEN
M Kushboo 5.5 lost to P Sivasankari 7.5
R Bharathi 7 drew with J Vaishnavi 6
Pon N Krithika 6.5 drew with S Harini 6.5
P Uthra 6.5 beat G Apurva 5
G Sangeetha 6 drew with S Apoorva 5.5
In a grand Valedictory function of the Championship, Shri M V M Vel Murugan, CEO, Velammal Educational Trust was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri A Suryanarayana Rao, Secretary & Correspondent, Jawahar Vidyalaya, presided over the function. Shri Manuel Aaron, General Secretary, TN State Chess Association, Shri J C D Prabhakar, Vice-President, TN State Chess Association and Shri D V Sundar also attended the function. Shri K Murali Mohan, Secretary, Chennai District Chess Association proposed a vote of thanks.
The following are the prize winners:
1 R R Laxman Chennai 7.5
2 B Adhiban Chennai 7.5
3 P Shyam Nikhil Madurai 7
4 R Siddharth Kanchi 7
5 Ram S Krishnan (BSNL)Chennai 7
6 R A Pradeep Kumar Chennai 6.5
7 C Praveen Kumar Chennai 6.5
8 P Karthikeyan Chennai 6.5
9 Venkat Sundaram Kanchi 6.5
10 A Nagarjuna Sivakasi 6.5
11 Vishnu Prasanna Chennai 6.5
12 Ashwin Jayaram Chennai 6
WOMEN
1 P Sivasankari Tiruvallur 7.5
2 R Bharathi ACA 7
3 S Harini Kanchi 6.5
4 P Uthra Tiruvallur 6.5
5 Pon N Krithika Kanchi 6.5
6 G Sangeetha Chennai 6
7 V Janu MGP 6
8 J Vaishnavi VBS 6
9 J Shri Hamrudha Capa 6
10 S Apoorva Kanchi 5.5
Report by Mr.D.V.Sundar
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55th Tamilnadu State Fide Rated Chess Championship was jointly organized by Mount Chess Academy & Indian Chess School on behalf of Dindigul District Chess Association & Tamilnadu State Chess Association from 23rd to 30th May 2007 at Kodaikonal Institute of Technology, Machur, Kodaikonal sponsored by Kodaikonal Institute of Technology.
This event attracted more than 250 players including 4 International Masters, 2 Fide Masters and141FIDE rated players from various Districts like Coimbatore , Cuddalore, Dindigul, Dharmapuri, Erode, Houser, Kanayakumari, Kanchipuram , Chennai, Karur, Madurai, Nagai, Nammakkal, Nilgris, Pudukottai, Salem, Sivagangai, Thanjore, Theni, Tirunelveli, Thiruvarur, Thirchy, Tuticorin, Thirvullur, Virudhunagar, Vellore and academies like Annanagar, Bloom, Capa, Chrompet, Chozla, Dakshin Indian Bank, ICS, Jamalaia, Kovai Kids, Layal, Mount Chess, Mega, Mogappair, NLC Nova, Purasai, School of Chess, SAI, SPF, SUN, T.Nagar, VBS, Vel’s, Vijay Ananth, Vishy and TNSCA
This event was conducted in Swiss system with 11 rounds. The total prize money of Rs.1,00,000.00/- was given to top sixteen players. The entire prize money was sponsored by Kodaikonal Institute of Technology.
This championship was inaugurated by Shri. V.Thrunavukarasu, IFS Divisional Forest Officer in the presence of Mr.Krishna Rao, Principal, Kodai Tech, Mr.Axiom Abdul Nazar, Secretary Dindigul Chess Association and Mr.Ram Prasad Panda, Head Academics, Kodai Tech etc., on 23rd May 2007 at 12.00 noon.
Ram.S.Krishnan of BSNL, Chennai was leading the table with 7 pints out of 7 rounds and he was halted by GM elected G.B.Prakash in the eight round. 14 years old S.P.Sethuraman became sole lead at the end of the 10th round and made an early draw in the last round against Ram.S.Krishnan and clinched the State Title with 9 points. S.P.Sethuraman become the youngest among the Tamilnadu State champion.
The event Head Mr.Vijaya kumar, Chief Arbiter was assisted by the panel of National Arbiters.1. Mr.M.Muthukumar 2. K.Soundarmoorthy, 3.Mrs.Bhuvana 4. MrV Rajaram,
5,Mr Balagunasekan 6,Mr Jayaraj 7. Mr.Pandiyarajan, etc.,
On the concluding day i.e. 30th May 2007. Shri.Krishna Rao, Principal, Kodai Tech, Kodaikonal welcomed the gathering, Shri.D.V.Sundar,Hon.Secretary All India Chess Federation distributed the Prizes to the prize winners and Rtn.R.M.N.Karuppiah Vice President TNSCA and Shri.Axiom Abdul Nazer, Secretary Dindigul District Chess Association felicitate the winners, Shri.James Jayaraj, Director Indian Chess School. rendered Vote of thanks.
Report by V.Ravichandran – Tournnament Director.
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The 18th Tamilnadu State Under - 17 Boys & Girls Chess Championship had attracted 82 players from different parts of our State includes 57 boys and 25 girls with 29 internationally rated players in boys and 12 rated players in Girls section.. Participation including P. Saravana Krishnan of Kanchi the top seed, R.Premnath and P. Karthikeyan are the prominent players in boys section. R. Preethi of Madurai, Pon N Kirtika of Kanchi and P. Uthra of Thiruvallur District are the top seeded in girls section.. Players from Coimbatore, Chennai, Cuddalore, Erode, Kanchi, Karur, Madurai, Namakkal, Salem, Sivakangai, Thiruvallur, and Virudhunagar have participated in this event.
The third seeded P. Karthikeyan of Chennai won the boys under-17 chess championship 2007 with a clear ½ a point lead with his nearest rival R. Premnath of Kanchi district. P. Karthikeyan scored 7 ½ points out of the possible 9. N. Surendran finished third with 6 ½ points.
In girls section the third seeded P. Uthra of Thiuruvallur District enjoyed the earlier lead but failed to capture the crown. The top seed Preethi of Madurai won the championship with 6 ½ points with the better progressive score over J. Mohana Priya of Kanchi district who also scored 6 ½ points. P. Uthra of Thiruvallur District finished third with 6 points.
Report by M.Ephrame - Chief Arbiter.
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The 2nd Ramasamy Gounder Memorial FIDE Rated Chess Tournament had attracted 164 players from different parts of our country with 69 internationally rated players. Participation including Ratnakaran of Sourthern Railway the top seed, International Master
R. Balasubramanian, FM S.Nitin of Salem, former National A Player M.B. Muralidharan of
Kerala, sub junior Champion S. Aswath of Chennai, A.Shankar and Mari Arul of S. Rly and many others had made the event a noticeable one. Players from Orissa, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala have participated in this event.
With attractive prize pool of one lakh rupees, the first prize purse of 25000 rupees and a glittering star studded crown, the tournament was expected to be turbulent. In the 5th round when Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL lost the game to the Ashwath of Chennai forgetting the seconds ticking down, there was a message. Suddenly Nitin of Salem out played Ashwath
in the 7th round at the top. The 8th round saw some excellent games with Nitin giving a tough time to IM Balasubramanian, but the game ended in draw. But the ultimate winner Ashwath of Chennai was determined to take the lead after beating Premnath of Kanchi. In the
consecutive rounds he withstood the pressure and played some excellent games. In the last round top seed Ratnakaran could win the championship if he had beaten the ultimate winner, but the youngster kept his cool and proved his recent win in the Coimbatore FIDE
Rated Chess tournament was not a fluke
Report by : M.Ephrame - Chief Arbiter
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The WIN TV 35th TN state Fide Rated Chess Championship for Women was organized by us from 02nd May to 08th May 2007 at the A/c. Auditorium Hall of Shri B.S.Mootha Girls’ Sr. Sec School. This is the first time in the history of women's chess in Tamil Nadu this year’s Tamil Nadu State Chess Championship for Women has been made a Fide rated one.
In all, 91 players including 30 FIDE rated ones, from 11 districts took part. In this 11 round swiss system event.
Syed Nabeela Farheen (Chennai) surged into sole lead with 6.0 Point of out 6.0 rounds and she was stopped by Pon.N.Krithikka of Kanchi. Thereafter it was a see- saw battle between two. At the end of the 10th and penultimate round Pon.N.Krithika was leading by a half a point with a score of 8.5 points, In the 11th and final round Pon.N.krithika was held to a draw by M.Rajadharshini of Madurai while Syed Nabeela Farheen scored a creditable victory over a A.Sitalatchumi ( Madurai ). Both Nabeela and Pon.N.Krithika tied with 9 point each but Nabeela was declared the winner on account of better tie break score. S.Harini ( Kan ) with 8.5 points and P.Priya ( CHE ) with 8.0 points finished 3rd & 4th respectively.
In the Prize distribution function held on 08th May 2007 at the venue Mr.T.Dhevanathan, Chairman and Managing Director WINTV awarded Rs.10,000/- cash prize and the Paruben Manilal Mehta Rolling trophy. Mr.K.E.Raghunathan, President, Chennai District Chess Association presided over the Prize Distribution function. Mr.Uday Mehta, Secretary Shri.B.S.Mootha Girls’ Sr. Sec School was the Guest of honor.
Report by K.Muralimohan - Tournament Director.
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R.Ashwath is a Champion of LA Group FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Coimbatore.
The LA Group FIDE rated tournament attracting 155 players from various states, including Arunachal Pradesh was organized by Global Chess Academy, at Jenny Club, an affluent club, with five star hotel facilities in Coimbatore. Former president of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, Sri. G.K. Sundaram, an ardent chess lover even at the age of 93 inspired the younger generation at the inaugural function. K. Rathnakaran of Railways was top seeded, followed by P. Shyam Nikhil of Madurai, winner of the recent Pink City international rated tournament at Jaipur, IM R.R. Laxman, National A player Syed Anvar Sazuli and other galaxy of stars. The earlier rounds witnessed no hiccups, except the loss of WIM Laxmi Sahithi of A.P. to the local unrated player S. Selvarajan.
In the eleven round format, two upcoming youngsters V.A.V. Rajesh of A.P., a former Asian U11 champion and Vishnu Prasanna of Chennai stole the lime light, by scalping two experienced players IM R.R. Laxman and Syed Anvar respectively in the fourth round. They proved that it was not a flash in the pan, as they made short work of the two top seeds Shyam Nikhil and Rathnakaran in the next round. When the two met in the sixth round, Rajesh held the upper hand, to emerge as the sole leader, with a perfect 6/6, widening his lead by one full point over nine other players.
In the seventh round, former Tamil Nadu state champion, Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL outwitted Rajesh and five players led the field with 6 points each. Rajesh bounced back from the loss in the previous round to defeat S. Nitin, Asian U14 gold medalist from Salem. National Sub Junior champion R. Ashwath had a slow and steady rise to share the lead with Rajesh, by accounting for Vishnu Prasanna. Experienced players Rathnakaran and Syed Anvar also recovered to trail the leaders by half a point.
In the ninth round, Ashwath played a solid game to beat Rajesh in a crucial encounter to stretch his lead by a full point and maintained the lead in the penultimate round also by prevailing over Syed Anvar Shazuli. While Ashwath needed half a point to ensure the title, Rajesh had to win the last round. P. Shyam Nikhil refused to accept the draw offer from Ashwath and paid penalty for it by losing the game, enabling Ashwath to become the champion. The dreams of Rajesh were shattered by the top seeded player Rathnakaran and he had to be content with the fifth place. Vishnu Prasanna, who defeated Purushothaman of A.P. finished runner up, scoring 8.5 points. He was placed ahead of Ram S. Krishnan and Rathnakaran, with same points, because of better progressive score.
In total, 31 unrated players got rating performance.
Prizes were also awarded to different age category players, in addition to unrated and local players.
Tournament Report by : R. Anantharam - Chief Arbiter
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The Madurai District Chess Association on behalf of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association organized the 20th TN State U 11 Chess Championship from 24.04.2007 to 01.05.2007 at Velammal Matriculation School, Madurai
Mr.Chandrasekaran, Principal Velammal Matriculation School in the presence of Rev.Dr.Arul Arasu Israel, President, MDCA and Mr.Krishnamoorthy, A.O Velammal Matric School inaugurated the Championship
Manager’s meeting was held after inauguration. Member of Appeal committee and Reserve were appointed.
169 players (115 Boys + 54 Girls) from various districts and academy took part in the championship. All the rounds were played as per schedule and throughout the tournament no dispute arose. The players and the manager are co-operated to ensure a smooth run of the championship.
Among 169 players (Both Boys and Girls) 77 players registered with TNSCA. All other were already registered with TNSCA. Se. Meenupriya from Madurai beat Akshaya in the final round to become the 20th TN state Girls Champion.
S.Koushik from T.Nagar Chess academy drew with S.K.Somasundaram in the final round to become the 20th TN State Boys Chess Champion.
Dr.Kannan, Principal, Velammal Engineering College and Mr.Manuel Aaron, The General Secretary, TNSCA in the presence of Rev.Dr.Arul Arasu Israel, President, MDCA distributed the prizes.
Report by B.T.Muralikrishnan - Chief Arbiter
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Chennai schoolboy P.Karthikeyan won the 1st Thrissur International FIDE Rating Tournament that took place from April 15-20 in the cultural capital of Kerala.
In many ways Karthikeyan was destined to win, since though he offered draws, his opponents did not take them. They lost and paved the way for his splendid triumph. In the final round, he upset IM Saptarshi Roy of Kolkata to win the tourney with 8.5 points. The tournament was dominated by Ram S Krishnan, a former University of Madras player who led until the eighth round. Ram's defeat to Saptarshi Roy in the ninth round opened up the event. In the final round, Chennai players won the top four places with Ram playing a draw against B.S.Sivanandan and Konguvel taking the third place by defeating Kerala's second IM K.Ratnakaran.
Chennai players dominating the podium in Kerala is not new. In the previous Cusat FIDE Rating event at Kochi, three different Chennai players took the top three places. The younger brigade of Chennai players is certainly making its presence across India. This time they took the top four places.
The first edition of this event was announced four months prior and it benefited with a huge response of 214 players from all over India and also from Arunachal Pradesh. And a good 109 of them were rated. This was Thrissur's first FIDE Rating event. Dusthageer Ibrahim, the teenaged Madurai boy shocked top seed IM Saptarshi Roy in the fourth round. Dusthageer had won the SPIC FIDE Rated Tournament in Tuticorin last year and many would remember it.
Sreekumar, President of the Thrissur Jilla Panchayath distributed the prizes in the closing ceremony while K.Radhakrishnan, Hon. Speaker of the Kerala Assembly inaugurated the tournament. The show was organised by N.V.Balagopalan, Secretary, Chess Association of Thrissur with the help of various people including T.J.Suresh Kumar of ICF, Chennai. In the opening ceremony, the founder Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association, 83-year old A.V.Sriramulu was given a memento. He was one of the players and also travelled to Thrissur by an unreserved compartment in the train.
Final placings: 1 P.Karthikeyan 8.5/10, 2-4 Ram S Krishnan, P.Konguvel, Preetham Sharma 8 each, 5-8 B.S.Sivanandan, Saptarshi Roy, K.Priyadarshan, M.B.Muralidharan 7.5 each, 9-24 K.Ratnakaran, Anurag Jaiswal, Dusthageer Ibrahim, R.R.Laxman, Syed Anwar Shazuli, A.Sankar, E.P.Nirmal, T.J.Suresh Kumar, Alex Thomas, Nimmy George, Joydeep Dutta, Rupankar Nath, M.Paramasivam, P.K.Suresh, P.Gopalakrishna, A.K.Jagadeesh 7 each.
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The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association turned 60 on April 26. Two of the five founders - A.V.Sriramulu, P.S.Vaidhyanathan were felicitated at a grand ceremony held at the R.K.Swamy Auditorium in Mylapore, Chennai on April 26. "May the next 60 years be more brighter," blessed Vishy Anand, the chief guest. Anand was himself felicitated by the various informative speeches the 1 hour 55 minute show that attracted grandmasters from various parts of India and chess lovers from neighbouring Sri Lanka.
Cash prizes totalling Rs.4.50 lakhs were distributed on behalf of the sponsor P.R.Venketrama Raja, President of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association by Anand. Of this Rs.1 lakh was already paid to N.Srinath, the World Under-12 champion of 2005. All the Tamil Nadu players who won World, Asian and Nationals were showered with cash awards. Notable among the awardees were World No.25 Krishnan Sasikiran who led India to a gold medal win at the Asian Games at Doha last year.
In his felicitations to the TNSCA, D.V.sundar, Honorary Secretary of the AICF hailed it as the "Role-Model" Association. Tamil Nadu is at its peak because of Viswanathan Anand being the No.1 ranked player in the world he said. He asked the Tamil Nadu Government to do more for the game and personally appealed to the Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of TN, Atulya Misra, IAS, to adopt the game of chess. Sundar had made similar requests to the Government of India to adopt chess.
Dr M.Gopalakrishnan, former President, TNSCA, and ex-CMD of Indian Bank, who found the sponsors for the Anand-Dreev, Candidates match at Madras in 1991 said, TNSCA had become very successful because of right mix of players, patrons and organisers. V.R.Deenadayalu, retired Managing Director of Madras Refineries who was instrumental in sponsoring the 1st BHEL Sponsored GM Tournament at Trichy in 1978 and the 1st MRL WGM Tournament of Asia at Chennai in 1987 commended the TNSCA for its big leap in chess. People like Anand who is the World No.1 ranked chess player, should be felicitated by the President of India he remarked.
In his long and engaging speech, J.C.D.Prabhakaran, welcomed the gathering. IM Manuel Aaron, General Secretary of the TNSCA, read the achievements of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association right from 1947 to date with Anand being the No.1 ranked player in the world.
In his address, Misra, Member Secretary, SDAT said, they are handing over the Hall of Chess to the TNSCA for one year and are making several projects together with the TNSCA to popularise the game in the villages. P.R.Venketrama Raja, handed over a memento to Viswananathan Anand and garlanded the champion for becoming the No.1 ranked player. "I hope you will also win the world title later this year," he told Anand in his speech.
In replying to felicitations, Anand recalled occasions when his mother will look at the watch to inform him that his opponent had made his move. He also said how his father took him from Tumkur to Bangalore for dinner and icecream after losing to Neeraj Mishra in the National A that he won. "I am delighted at having met so many friends, from the past here," said Anand. His parents, relatives and besides chess friends were also present. Over 300 people mainly chess players were present. Tea and snacks were served. It was perhaps the most memorable day of the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association. International Arbiter V.Kameswaran had displayed historic photos as an exhibition. International Arbiter K.Muralimohan was hilarious as the Master of Ceremonies. Manuel Aaron proposed a vote of thanks. The Diamond Jubilee Celebrations could not have been done in a better way
Simultaneous chess at Diamond Jubilee Celebrations.
60 players were participated in the Simultaneous display.
GM Deepan Chakravarthy drew with Jaswant, G (Capa Chess Academy)
IM M R Venkatesh drew with Sai Manivannan
IM Saravanan lost to Tejas Ravichandran
B. Sakthi Prabhakar, Natinal Insurance Co Ltd.,
Chief Arbiter
Assistants: Santhosh, (Vivekandana College)--GM Deepan Chakravarthy
Sankaranarayanan (BSNL) -- IM MR Venkatesh
Ganesh (United India Insurance Co Ltd) -- IM Saravanan
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The 132 player strong TN State U16 and U18 championships organized by Pudukottai District Chess Association was star studded with players who had won FIDE rated tournaments (P. Shyam Nikhil and Dustagir Ibrahim) and Asian titles (S. Nitin). A.L. Palaniappan, the secretary of the district left no stone unturned in the successful organization of the championships.
The U16 boys category was a well contested one. Kunal of Cuddalore district was leading with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round. He was humbled by N. Surendran of Thiruvallur district in the eighth round and Dustagir defeated N. Lokesh of Krishnagiri district to emerge as the sole leader with 7 points and he needed a draw in the ninth and final round to win the title. But Dustagir was made to bite the dust by Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Chennai, the winner of the U12 Rapid title at Mannargudi. Kunal subdued A. Nagaarjuna of Sivakasi and equalled Ramnath by scoring 7.5 points. Better progressive score was in favour of Kunal to wrest the title.
Excitement was aplenty in the U18 boys event also. Arun Karthik of Chennai was leading with 6.5 points at the end of the eighth and penultimate round and four players were trailing behind by half a point. Arun had to settle for a draw, whereas three 6 pointers won, leading to a four way tie for the first place. Shyam Nikhil of Megha Chess Academy was declared as winner due to a better progression. Shyam, with a rating as high as 2375 had recently won a FIDE rated tournament at Jaipur, ahead of 10 IMs.
The U16 Girls tournament was also nothing short of excitement until the last round. At the end of the penultimate round, C.H. Savetha of Salem was on 6.5 points, whereas A. Sithalatchumi of Madurai and P. Uthra of Thiruvallur were on 6. R. Visalatchi of Sivakasi held Savetha to a draw and the other two players won their final games, resulting in a tie between the three players. Again progressive score was applied to resolve the tie, which was in favour of Sithalatchumi. Savetha and Uthra finished in that order.
J. Saranya, winner of the U12 Rapid title at Mannargudi added one more to her kit by winning the U18 Girls section. She and R. Preethi of Madurai had a neck-to-neck race until the final round and finished on par with 7.5 points. Preethi had to be satisfied with the second place because of a lower progressive score. S. Harini of Kanchi district scored 7 points to finish third.
Report by : R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
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TN State U12 and U14 Rapid Chess Championships for boys and girls were held at Mannargudi, for three days from 19th to 21st April, 2007. The tournament was well organized by Thiruvarur district under the able guidance of its secretary, Balagunasekaran, also Jt. Sec. of TNSCA. The participation of 167 players from 21 districts was the highlight of the championship.
The Under 12 category in the boys section attracted the largest number of participants, i.e. 69. In a dramatic final round, the top seed and the leader until the penultimate round D.S. Shashank of Chennai with 8.5 points was downed by Anurag Kashyap of Thanjavur. L. Bharath, an unrated player from Thiruvallur district, trailing Shashank by half a point outwitted Eshwant Devkumar of Nova Chess Academy, Salem to secure 9 points and also the title. Shashank had to be content with the runner–up spot. S.S. Manigandan of Madurai claimed the third position by beating Amish Kushal of Tirunelveli.
In the U14 section for boys, Ramnath Bhuvanesh of Chennai, the highest rated player in the tournament had only one loss to A. Nagaarjuna of Sivakasi to score 10 points in the 11 round format. Though Bavankumar of Bloom Chess Academy played equally well, collecting 10 points, better progressive score enabled Ramnath to win the title. P. Lokesh of Chennai was a distant third with 8 points in the 48-player championship.
J. Saranya of Thiruvallur and J. Vaishnavi of VBS Academy were assured of the first and second places respectively, in the penultimate round of the U12 Girls category. The former had a perfect ten and the latter was on 9 points at the end of the tenth round. While Saranya lost to M. Priyadharshini of Coimbatore in the final round, Vaishnavi scored over S.D.R.Induja of Sivakasi to be on par with Saranya with 10 points. Thirty players participated in this group.
R. Bharathi of Chennai gave away only half a point in the whole tournament to clinch the U14 girls title. Ch. Savetha of Salem and Arthi Sri of Mount Chess Academy scored 8.5 points to tie for the second and third places. Savetha pipped Arthi Sri at the post with a superior tie break. R. Visalatchi of Sivakasi was placed fourth with 8 points in a race of 20 players.
Report by : R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter.
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Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand has edged out Veslin Topalov from the World No 1 spot after winning the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
A final-round draw with Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine after 31 moves not only saw the Indian superstar regaining the trophy after nine years, but also becoming the FIDE Numero Uno for the first time in his illustrious career.
After notching up 8.5 points out of a possible 14, Anand ended a full point clear of his nearest rival, Norway's Magnus Carlsen, who lost to Peter Leko of Hungary to finish on 7.5 points.
Anand had little work to do in the final game against Ivanchuk as the latter could not get much with his white pieces in the Queen's Indian defence game. The queens got traded early in the middle game and even as Ivanchuk had an optical advantage, Anand was always within the boundary of a draw. The peace was signed after 31 moves.
Final results:
1. Viswanathan Anand (India) – 8,5 points
2. Alexander Morozevich (Russia) – 7,5 points
3. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) – 7,5 points
4. Peter Svidler – 7 points
5. Levon Aronian (Armenia) – 7 points
6. Vessily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) – 6,5 points
7. Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) – 6 points
8. Peter Leko (Hungary) – 6 points
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Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF won the Arasan Fire Works 13th TN State Rapid Chess Championship, organized by Sivakasi Chess Club at Sivakasi from 16th to 18th February, 2007. he and Kunal of Cuddalore district scored 8.5 points in the eleven round event, but the progressive score was in favour of Anwar. The top seed, P. Shyam Nikhil of Chrompet Chess Academy, who won the Pink City FIDE rating tournament at Jaipur recently, was leading until the sixth round, losing to Anwar in the seventh round. Thereafter, Anwar had some convincing victories over former state junior champion, P. Maheswaran of Sivakasi and veteran V. Subramanian of Chennai to consolidate his position.
Kunal came from behind to beat Anwar in the penultimate round and Maheswaran in the last round to finish runner-up. A win over Kunal would have given the host player Maheswaran, the title, but he finished only fourth.
Though the field was depleted by the last minute withdrawal of IM R.R. Laxman , IM R. Balasubramanian and former state champion Ram S. Krishnan in the 48 player event, tough fight was prevailing in all the rounds of the championship, carrying a cash prize of Rs.14000. G. Ramamoorthy, the sponsor and Patron of TN State Chess Association distributed the prizes.
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R. Arun Karthik, a 16-year old Plus One student of Velammal School achieved his first International Master Norm in Group II of the Aeroflot International Open Chess Tournament at Moscow.
In the final round, Arun Karthik defeated GM Hatan Baatar Bazar of Mongolia which paved the way for him to attain his International Master Norm. According to the coach of the Indian Junior Chess Team,
Mr Ebenezer Joseph at Moscow, the Chief Arbiter of the tournament had confirmed that Arun Karthik had over shot the requirement for the norm by a big 1.5 points.
Apart from the Mongolian Grandmaster Arun Karthik had also beaten IM Alexander Filipenko, Andrei Kuznetsov, Andrei Okarev (all Russia), Yu Lie of China and Florian Dinger of Germany. He had drawn with Michal Langer of USA, Vasif Durabeyli of Azerbaijan and IM Suvrajit Saha of India.
So far only senior teams were sent for such tournaments. The Government of India’s support to the AICF’s pioneering move in sending an additional youth team has produced quick dividends.
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Chennai "A" won the 10th National Cities team Chess Championship organised by T.Nagar Chess Academy at Chennai from Feb 11 to 15.
With a very keen fight, till the last round the destination of the first prize was uncertain.
Prize winners were:
01 Chennai "A" 23.5;
02 Calicut 23;
03 Chennai "B" 22.5;
04. Hyderabad 21.5;
05 Kanchi "A" 21;
;06. Chennai "E" 18;
07. Bangalore "B" 18;
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R. Adhithya of Kanchi district and M.A.Sai Lathecka of Chennai district won the boys and girls’ titles in the 20th State Under-7 Chess Championship organized by the Kanchi District Chess Association at Zion Matriculation School, Selaiyur. The tournament was inaugurated by Shri. M.S. Subramanian, Deputy Commissioner of Police, TN and presided over by Er.K.Parthasarathy, President, Kanchi District Chess Association.
The event attracted 75 players.
Both Adhithya and Sai Lathecka Sai won their titles by scoring 9.5 points in 11 rounds.
Aniruddh Aiyengar (CHE) and Sunyuktha.C.M.N (KAN) scoring 8.5 and 8 were second and the runner-up, followed by Ashwanth.S (CBE) and Nithila (TRY) with 8 each stood third.
At the closing ceremony of the event, IM P.Konguvel distributed the prizes and Dr. N. Vijayan, Vice-President, Kanchi District Chess Association presided.
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Ram.S.Krishnan won the title with 8.5 points at the end of the 11th round at the Gopalakrishna Naidu Kaveriammal Memorial FIDE Rated Tournament sponsored by P.S.N.A. Engineering College and Rotary Club of Dindigul West, organized by Dindigul District Chess Association was held at P.S.N.A. Mahal during the month of January.
The event was inaugurated by the National U-9 Champion Shardul Gagare by making the first move against Mr. Raja Ravi Sekar who was the guest of honour.
The event had 199 players out of which 29 players were from other states like Andhra Pradesh (10), Karnataka (13), Kerala (3) and Maharashtra (3) and the rest from Tamil Nadu. The strength of the players was also high in the sense that 85 players are rated, with two title holders. Forty eight players had attained their first FIDE Ratings and 16 players had an increase in their rating level in this event is an additional encouragement for the players from this tournament.
Some of the prominent players are International Master P. Mithrakanth (NLC), Asian U13 Silver Medalist S. Nitin (Slm), National A player Syed Anwar Shazuli (ICF), former TN State Champions Ram S. Krishnan and A. Shankar and Karnataka State Champion Y.G.Vijendra and U-7 National Champion Shardul.A.Gagare. Mr.R.Anantharam, International Arbiter was the Chief Arbiter of the event.
At the end of the tenth round, Ram S. Krishnan of BSNL led with 8.5 points and safely drew the next round to win the title. As five players tied for the second place, the tie break was resorted to P. Phoobalan of SRM College, Chennai was the runner-up, followed by M. Kunal of Madurai, Syed Anwar Shazuli, P. Mithrakanth and Y.G. Vijendra.
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B. Kumaran and G.K. Monisha of Chennai district won the 20th TN State Under-9 Chess Championship for Dolphin Trophies organized by Kanniyakumari District Chess Association at AST Kalyana Mandapam, Nagercoil.
Kumaran and Monisha won their titles by scoring 10 points each in 11-round Swiss. Cash prizes were awarded for top eight winners of the championship and special prizes went to top three players of the Kanniyakumari district. The event totally had 127 players out of which 82 were boys and 45 were girls.
Unfortunately a player named S.Srinivas of Salem whose date of birth certificate turned to be a bogus one was caught at the Championship. It was detected during cross checking with TNSCA by deputy arbiters Mrs. Bhuvana and Mr. Vijaraghavan and later it was confirmed by the chief arbiter. The chief arbiter and the committee had recommended three years ban for Srinivas.
Kanniyakumari district special prizes for boys went to V.Sathyagiri, C.P.Muthu Kumar, K.J.Kamsky and for girls S.Ram Priya, S.Bharkavi and S.Gopika Priya.
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Teenaged Shyam P Nikhil of Madurai won the 6th Pink City Open that took place at the Jaipur Club in Jaipur from Jan 24-31. He had the best tie-break score after three players tied for the first place with 9/11. K.Ratnakaran of Southern Railway, Kozhikode finished second and Roktim Bandyopadhyay of Kolkata took the third place.
The undefeated leader until the penultimate round, Sriram Jha of LIC, Delhi was tripped to defeat by Ratnakaran in the final round. This unexpected result opened up these possibilities and Shyam emerged champion picking up the trophy and Rs.70,000 cash. Over 240 players played in the three lakh prize money FIDE rating event.
On course to the title, Shyam beat Suvrajit Saha of Eastern Railway, Kolkata and Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury. He had lost to Saptarshi Roy. To win ahead of 10 IMs and Neelotpal Das and D.P.Singh is quite an achievement. Another Madurai teenager K.Priyadharshan (7.5) also impressed with wins over D.P.Singh and Neelotpal Das.
If Dustageer Ibrahim was the find of 2006 for beating D.P.Singh and winning the SPIC FIDE Rated Open, at Tuticorin it looks like another Madurai player is already out there to be the find of 2007. One is certain to read more about Shyam Nikhil.
The opening ceremony saw Member of Parliament, Girdhari Lal Bhargava, President of the Jaipur District Chess Association and A.K.Mittal, General Manager, GAIL as the chief guest. The chief guest in the closing ceremony was Jaipur Mayor Ashok Parnami. Also present were Meenakshi Mishra, Accountant General, Rajasthan and D.V.Sundar, Hon Secretary, AICF.
Final placings: 1-3 Shyam P Nikhil, K.Ratnakaran, Roktim Bandyopadhyay 9/11, 4-6 Saptarshi Roy, Sriram Jha, Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury 8.5 each, 7-15 Arghyadip Das, Rahul Sangma, Rahul Shetty, Akshat Kamparia, Laisram Imoc-ha, Suvrajit Saha, Sohel Chowdhury (Ban), R.Balasubramaniam, Somak Palit 8 each.
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Former world under-12 champion N.Srinath of Chennai obtained his maiden International Master norm when he completed the Hastings Tournament, Masters Section with a 5/9 score on January 5, 2007.
In the final round on Friday, Srinath played a draw against IM Gawain Jones to complete his first IM norm. Giving the news, his father said he is likely to increase his rating by about 50 points. Srinath had won the world Under-12 title at Belfort in France in July 2005 and is one of India's young achievers in chess. Srinath suffered two defeats, and finished in the top of the 92-player 9 round Swiss format event.
Srinath won three games, drew four and lost the first and fifth rounds to complete his mission of making the IM norm in the chilly English winter tournament.
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