Manigandan wins MDCA FIDE Rating Tournament
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“1st MDCA All India Open FIDE Rated chess tournament - 2011 (Below 2200)” was inaugurated by Dr C Krishna, Director, Department of Physical Education, University of Mysore, at Chamundivihar Indoor Stadium, Nazar Bad, Mysore , conducted by Mysore District Chess Association under the auspices of United Karnataka Chess Association and All India Chess Federation. Mr M S Gururaj, President United Karnataka Chess Association, Prof S K Ananda Thirtha, Hon.President of MDCA, Mr R Hanumantha, Vice President of UKCA, International Master Thej Kumar MS, Mr MM Biddappa, Mr A Krishnamurthy, Mr Vijendra Y G, Prof K R Prema Leela were the other dignitaries on the dais.
The 10 round tournament started on 29th Oct 2011 and concluded on 1st Nov 2011. A total of 456 players from different parts of the country had participated in this tournament out of which 245 were International FIDE Rated Players and contenders are vying for top place which carries a prize amount of Rs 25,000. The Total cash prize offered for the players in the tournament stand at Rs 1,40,000.
Mr Alex Thomas of Kerala was a top seed with 2180 ELO Rating, followed by Mr Vivek Nambiar (2177) of Karnataka and FM Vinoth Kumar M (2143) of Tamilnadu.
The venue was spacious and well maintained. Organizer provided delicious lunch, Coffee and Tea for all the players and accompanying persons on all the days.
After the final round, Manigandan, Karthkeyan Murali of Taminadu, Grahesh Y of Andra Pradesh, Manjunath J of Bangalore and Kumaran B of Tamilnadu scored 8.5 points each. Based on the better tie break score, Manigandan was adjudged as the champion. A twelve year boy, Karthikeyan Murali became the 1st runnerup and a eleven year boy Grahesh Y became the second runner up of the tournament.
IA Vasanth BH, IA Pranesh Yadav, IA Manjunatha M, Mr Promodraj Moree, Mrs Vidya Gururaj , Mr Arunachala HS, Mr B Lakshman Kumar and Mrs C Saritha were the team of arbiters.
Chief guest of the Prize distribution ceremony, Dr B G Sangameshwar, Principal of SJCE, Mysore distributed the prizes. Other dignitaries present on the dais were Prof Prema Leela, Prof S K Ananda Thirtha, Hon.President of MDCA, Mr N Prakash, Former Mayor of Mysore City Corporation, Mr R N Prathap, Hon.President of MDCA, Raghavendra V, Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association, Mr Shivanna, Mr Biddappa, Secretary, MDCA.
-Report by Vasanth B.H
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Akhilesh Rai (in pic) of Karnataka won the ACA FIDE Rating Chess Tournament (Below 1900) at Calicut in early October. The young lad scored 8 points out of 9 rounds and remained unbeaten.
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Sterling performances by Arjun Bharat in Europe
Spending a few weeks in summer playing four Grand Master level Chess
Tournaments in Europe during the month of July,
Candidate Master Arjun Bharat of TISB (The International School
Bangalore) has delivered a stunning performance in all the four events.
Trained by GM Tejas Bakre, Arjun has defeated some highly rated
International Masters and Fide Masters in these Events and held many other tough IMs to
creditable draws and as a result, has gained a whopping 190+ FIDE Rating
points. In one of the tournaments, Arjun
remained unbeaten after having played 6
international masters including one victory and 5 draws. He won several
international prizes on the way. He won the below 2000 rating category
multiple times on the trip amidst a very strong field. He finished as
the top junior at Dresden outperforming rivals rated more than 300
points above him.
The Rating Points gained by Arjun is the highest ever gained by
any player in Karnataka in a single Rating Period of two months. On
September 1st, Arjun saw his FIDE Rating shoot up from 1960 to over 2150
making him one of the top players in Karnataka State.
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Stany playing against GM
Abhijeet Gupta in 3rd Orissa
International GM Tournament
2011
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Stany G.A earns his second GM Norm
Stany who had his 1st
IM norm at National A Chess Championship
at the end of 2010,got his 2nd norm in the Orissa International GM
Tournament in may 2011 and thus making
his way to the International Masters.
In the Orissa international tournament, Stany played against 6 GM’s and 1 IM in which he
defeated 2 GM’s and drew against 3 GM’s. In this
tournament he won against GM Alexandrov Alksej(2628) of Belarus and GM Tejas
Bakre(2604) of India, he also drew with Rahman Ziaur(2534) of Bangladesh,Gm
Arun Prasad(2495) and GM Abhijeet
gupta(2604) of india respectively. A draw against GM Magesh Chandran would have brought stany a GM norm but that game was lost by stany for
which he had to settle for an IM norm only. Stany made 7 points out of 11 rounds in the
tournament with a Rating Performance of
2497.
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Medical Test for children
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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From Left (Pawan Dodeja, Vijendra and Santu Mondal)
Pawan Dodeja
clinch the title
A University player from Maharastra, Pawan
Dodeja won the final
round and became the champion of the 2nd DDCA All India
Open “SWARNAA
CUP” FIDE Rating Chess Tournament concluded
at Hebsur Bhavan, Green Garden,
Gokul Road, Hubli, conducted
by Dharwad District Chess Association under the
auspices of United Karnataka Chess Association.
Former Karnataka State Champion Vijendra Y G
of Mysore bagged the Ist Runnerup and The top seed of the tournament Santu
Mondal of West Bengal 2nd runner prize.
The Prize distribution function was held at
3:30 pm .
Dr K V Trilokachandra, IAS, Commissioner, Hubli Dharwad Municipal
Corporation, was the chief Guest of the function. Mr M S Gururaj, President, United Karnataka
Chess Association, Mr R Hanumantha, Vice President UKCA and Er Ch. V S V
Prasad, Managing Director, SWARNAA Group of Companies, Mr Mohan Chowshetty,
Member, Metcut Sports foundation, Mr Basavaraj Hebsur were on the dais to
distribute the prizes to the prize winners.
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Pavithra, Manasa and Anjali - Top 3 performers in State Under 19 Girls.
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From left: A.Amith, Girish, Kedar Umesh Vaze and Akshay Halagannavar
Amith A of Bangalore is the Karnataka State Under 19
Champion
Karnataka State Under 19 boys and girls chess
championship concluded
here at SRN Mehta School Gulbarga. The final results are
given here.
In the final round the top board saw a tough battle for
the 1st place. But the
game ended in a draw and Both Amith and Kedar Umesh tied
for the 1st place
with 6 points each. Amith of Bangalore won the 1st prize on
better tie break score. On the 2nd board Girish reddy of gulbarga Opted for the
torre attack and got
exchange up in the middle game later he won the game in 50
moves.
Top four boys will represent Karnataka in the forth
coming National Under 19 chess
championship at Goa from 5th of September. They
are Amith A of Bangalore,
Kedar Umesh Vaze of Shivamoga, Akshay Halganavar of
Dharwar and Girish
Reddy of Gulbarga.
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Final Ranking of Boys after 7th
Round
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Rank
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Name
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Club
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Pts
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1
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Amith A
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Bangalore
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6
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2
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Kedar
Umesh Vaze
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Shivmoga
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6
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3
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Akshay V
Halagannavar
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Dharwad
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5½
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4
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Girish B
Reddy
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Gulbarga
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5½
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5
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Siddhant
Dharwar
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Gulbarga
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5
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6
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Shyam
Gopal Karthik
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Bangalore
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5
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7
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Rajat
Mehta
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Gulbarga
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5
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8
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Veeresh
S Ramdase
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Bidar
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5
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9
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Anuroop
U Nair
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Gulbarga
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4½
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10
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Srinivas
T Kulkarni
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Gulbarga
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4½
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Abhishek Das wins Mangalore Open
Indian Overseas Bank 5th
Mangalore FIDE Rated Open International Chess
tournament 2011 concluded
at Radhakrishna Temple Hall, GT Road, Mangalore.
Abhishek Das of South
Western Railway leaped better in the last few rounds to
win the 5th Mangalore
FIDE Rated International Open held here at Radhakrishna
Temple Hall at Mangalore .
Das outplayed IM Konguvel in his pet variation of Sicilian
Pelikan defence. After a
tense middle game Das was able to threaten with his
passed pawn and to win the
game in 71 moves. Three players IM Suvrajit Saha of
WB, IM Shyam Nikhil of TN
& IM Thejkumar of Karnataka took the joint second
spot with 9 points apiece.
While Saha made a safe draw with Shyam on the top
board , Thejkumar beat
Saptarshi Roy from the black side of Colle Zukertort variation
in 41 moves.
Top seed GM Laxman , was
back into form by beating IM Ravi Hegde to score 8
points. GM Thipsay on the
other hand was stretched by Sriram Sarja before
winning the Rook and
Bishop ending with equal pawns. GM Sriram Jha of Delhi
drew with Hemant Sharma ,
also of Delhi.
Chief guest of the evening
M Narendra, CMD, IOB distributed the prizes. Other
dignitaries present on the
dais were Yogish Bhat , Dy Speaker , Karnataka
Legislative Assembly, Seemanth
Kumar Singh,IPS, Commissioner of Police,
Mangalore City, K T
Shailaja Bhat, President,Zilla Panchayat, Raghavendra
Shastry, Managing Trustee,
Sharavu Mahaganapathy Temple, Raghunatha
Somayaji, Builders &
Developers. MS Gururaj , President,UKCA , Organising
Secretary of the 5th
FIDE Chess Tmt welcomed the gathering. Ms Lydia
D’Cunha delivered the vote
of thanks.
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Gururaj creates history; gets elected to All India Chess Federation
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The President of UKCA, Shri M.S.Gururaj (standing at extreme left next to World Champion Vishwanathan Anand and UKCA Secretary Shri V Raghavendra), has created history by becoming the first ever person from Karnataka to be elected to hold a post in the All India Chess Federation (AICF). Mr Gururaj became the Joint Secretary of All India Chess Federation on June 30th at the Annual General Body Meeting Convened by AICF.
Bharat Singh and Mr Dongre were elected as the new Secretary and Treasurer of AICF respectively.
The election to the list of AICF office bearers is a recognition of the popularity Mr Gururaj has brought to the game in Karnataka today. The Karnataka Chess fraternity congratulates him on this historic achievement.
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Augustin retains Karnataka State U-25 Chess Championship
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Master Augustin A, a fourteen
year boy from kodagu retained the Karnataka State under 25 Chess Championship
for the second consecutive year. Augustin defeated top seeded Sriram Sarja in the sixth round and Balkishan A of Bangalore,
third seed of the tournament on the way to the title. He scored a full eight
points out of eight rounds. Sameer Ghotane of HDFC Bank scored six and half
points and finished second.
Augustin and Sameer Ghotane
will represent Karnataka State in the National Under 25 Chess Championship 2011 to
be held at Indore, Madhya Pradesh in August.
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