PES Institute of Technology and Management, Shivamogga is conducting Karnataka State ( FIDE Rated )Chess Championship for the year 2009 from 21 Jan to 26 Jan 2009 at PESITM, Shimoga Prospectus.
46th NATIONAL 'A' CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
South Kanara District Chess Association is conducting National A Chess Championship for the year 2008 from 17 Dec. - 30 Dec. 2008 at Karnataka Bank Auditorium, Kodialbail, Mangalore-575 003. Prospectus.
S.Goutham of Geethanjali School won the State level NIIT Schools Chess Championship here at Bangalore on 13.12.2008 Organised by NIIT Mind Champion Academy. He will represent Karnataka in coming up Zonal level NIIT Schools chess championship.
Asian Schools Chess Championship 2008, Srilanka
Pranav G. Reddy of Bangalore has bagged gold with 9 points out of 9 rounds in Under 7 Asian Schools Chess Championship being held at Srilanka from 8th to 15th of December 2008.
Antonio Viani D'cunha of Mangalore has taken Silver with 5.5 points out of 6 rounds in under 13 age catagory.
State Level Under 25 Chess Championship 2008 was conducted by United Karnataka Chess Association on 9th and 10th of December 2008 at State Youth Center. P.P.Prachura of Bangalore won the event by scoring 5 out of 6 rounds. Sreeshan S of Shimoga was runner up with same points. But Prachura was declared Champion with better tie break. Click here for the final standings.
Asian Junior Boys & Girls Chess Championship 2008 @ Chennai from 5th to 14th December 2008. Please click here
CV Raman Chess Tournament
As usual CV Raman Chess Tournament will be conducted on 7.12.2008, Sunday for the month of December at KNI Art Gallary, Jayanagar, Bangalore. All are welcome.
South Kanara District Chess Association conducted National Boys and Girls Sub Junior Chess Championship from 25.11.2008 to 04.12.2008. Please click here.
Aditya Udeshi of Maharashtra bagged the Under 15 National Boys Chess Championship title when he defeated G.Akash of Tamil Nadu by securing 9.0 Points and on better Progressive score. Second place was secured by Priyadarshan K of Tamil Nadu with 9.0 Points when he defeated the over night leader Girish Koushik of Karnataka, who was placed third.
In Girls section Bharathi R of Tamil Nadu got the First place when she drew with Sukanya Dutta of WB with 8.5 Points. The second and third places were taken up by Pujan Rucha and Gagare Shalmali of Maharashtra.
Shristi J. Shetty of Karnataka was placed creditable fifth in the Girls Section. In the Boys section Gahan M.G, Antonio Viani D'cunha and Balkishan A. were placed creditable 9th to 11th places. UKCA Congradulates all the prize winners.
Three Karnataka players got into top 10 places. Nihal Manjunath of Mangalore gets third place with 9 points out of 11 rounds in National Under 13 Chess Championship just concluded at Vellore, TN. He also gains 37.5 ELO points in this tournament. Yashas D of Shimoga got 7th place and Antonio Viani D'cunha of Mangalore was placed 9th. Both made 8.5 Points out of 11 rounds. Girish A Koushik and Vigram M made 7.5 Points.
Vanessa D`souza of Mangalore was placed 5th in the Girls category by scoring 8 Points out of 11 rounds. Nisha N Patkar of Shimoga made 7.5 points and was placed 12th. Andria L D`souza, Gangamma B N and Chrisel Ann Pais made creditable 6.5 points.
Udupa at 13th Chess Olympiad for Blind and Visually Impaired gets top placing in board 5
Krishna Udupa of Shimoga gets Ist place in Board 5 by scoring 8 out of 9 rounds at 13th Chess Olympiad for Blind and Visually Impaired at Greece which concluded on 29th of October 2008. India was placed 19th with 4 wins, 4 loss and a draw (Matches).Click here for results and details. A breif biography about Mr.Udupa.
Open Chess tournament at Udupi
In Association With Udupi District Chess Association® & Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal University 8th Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Karnataka State Level & Lions District 324 D4 Level Open Chess Tournament-2008 will be conducted from 31st October to 2nd November, 2008 at Udupi. Click here for the prospectus.
World Youth Chess Championships, Vietnam 2008
70 federations have registered names of 842 players to the World Youth Chess Championship in Vung Tau, Vietnam as this webpage was updated. 63 players are registered on behalf of AICF. 8 of them are from Karnataka. They are Girish Koushik, Niranjan Navalgund,
Shristi J Shetty,
Akshay Bharadwaj, Satvik M, Arjun Bharath, Vigram M, Priyadarshini. UKCA Wishes all of them GOOD LUCK.
Manasa 3rd in the Under 17 Nationals
K Manasa of Mangalore representing Karnataka has won the third prize in the National Under 17 age group girls Chess Champoinship held at Kalash Mangal Hall Aurangabad in Maharashtra from 8th to 16th October 2008.This selection event for the next year's Indian Team for the Asian Youth Chess Events in the Boys and Girls sections was conducted by the Marathwada Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation (AICF). Click here for details.
COMMONWEALTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2008
Niranjan Navalgund Bagged second place in the below 2100 rating category and Girish.Koushik, Satvik.M bagged Silver in the Under 12 and Under 10 categories respectively in the CommonWealth Chess Championship 2008 held at Nagpur. Congratulations to Niranjan, Girish And Satvik.
The 20th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess Championship was held at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata between 2nd and 8th September 2008. Our Girish Koushik won the event with a round to spare. He made 9 Points out of 10 rounds. Click here for the details.
Girish Koushik proves once again
Under 11 National Chess Championship 2008 for Boys and Girls started at Ahmadabad from 23.08.2008. Girish Koushik of Karnataka proves once again that he his our most promising young player by winning Under 11 Nationals with a round to spare. He made 10 out of 11 points with an unbeaten record.
Akshay Bharadwaj and Satvik M were placed 13th and 18th respectively with 7.5 Points. In Girls section Priyadarshini of Bangalore was placed 14th quite above many rated players. This was a fantastic achievement on the part of Priyadarshini. Shalon Pais of Mangalore had a good run in the tournament but finished 23rd. Meghana TC also scored 6.0 points. Overall our boys also gave good performance, especially Amith N.Mahesh of Shimoga had a dream run against the rated players in the beginning of the tournament by scoring 2.5 points out 5 games against the rated players. Pranav and Shabdhik Verma scored 6.5 points. Naren Kumar and Goutham scored 5.5 points. Mayank Jain Scored 4.5 Points.
Karnataka's new world champion - Arjun Bharat
Nine year old Arjun Roshik Bharat of Trio World school, Bangalore became
Karnataka's newest world champion when he won the 4th World Schools
Championship title in the Under 9 category. He will also be awarded
the title of Candidate Master which is given to world champions and to
chess players with a rating 2200 or above.
Arjun's perfect score of 9 points also allowed the Indian Under 9 trio
consisting of Arjun, Anirudh Bhat and Jerome Ebenezer to take the
Under 9 team gold. In all India won 11 medals including 4 golds. Among the Karnataka
players, Pranav Reddy of Bangalore got the 8th position in the Under 7
category with 5 points from 9 rounds. Nihal Manjunath of Mangalore
helped his team to a silver medal in the Under 13 category.
In the 9 round swiss league tournament held in Singapore from July 22-July 30th, top seeded Arjun won all the 9 rounds securing the title. In the 4th round he defeated arch rival Derek Lim of Singapore and in the 5th round, he beat fellow Indian Anirudh Bhat from Goa. He followed that up with victories over an Indonesian player and other Singapore players.
Click on Recent and Monthly links at the top left of the web page for other tournaments.
The United Karnataka Chess Association was formed in February 2006 with the aim of developing chess talent in Karnataka and giving the top talent in the state a chance to improve and compete at a national and international level. The UKCA has been granted affiliation to the AICF (All India Chess Federation) and is the authorized body in the state of Karnataka to conduct state level selections and championships.
Our mission is to bring the districts in Karnataka together and we have already achieved significant progress towards this goal.
