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Former National Junior Champion S.L. Narayanan has shown steady progress throughout his chess career. On Saturday, at the Philippine International Open, he crowned his forward march by taking his rating across the 2500 mark and earning a GM norm in the process – his third norm – which makes him India’s 41st grandmaster. A report on the tournament with a special focus on India's latest grandmaster.
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13th of November 2015 is an important day in Indian chess. The ChessBase India website has been launched. This article provides you with a brief summary of the things that ChessBase India would be indulging in, in order to promote chess in the country. Top class coverage of Indian events along with special prices of ChessBase products for Indian residents. Read the article for more details.
Nine grandmasters, four International Masters and one FIDE Master in a round robin with a rating average of 2500 – India’s strongest tournament for the year 2015 is here. The National Premier Championship will witness its 53rd edition when the Thiruvarur District Chess Association hosts the grand event at the Kasi’s Inn in Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu. The 13-round bonanza begins on 14 November 2015. ChessBase India brings you a detailed preview, with pre-tournament comments from the gladiators.
30 years ago on this very day Anatoly Karpov held out his hand in resignation, and thus was crowned the youngest World Champion ever in the history of the game - Garry Kasparov. We have for you the Facebook post made by Garry as well as the interesting points from this 24 game match. Fans of Garry will surely remember his brilliant move 8...d5?!!? which gave him one of the most beautiful victories of his career. Here's your chance to get acquainted with the drama of the 1985 match!
The National Women Premier 2015, will be held in Kolkata from the 12th to the 24th of November. In this article we get acquainted with the 12 different participants. The author also tries to find out who has the maximum chances to win the title. Will it be Padmini, Tania, Soumya, Vaishali or someone else?
Rotolawyer's Cup 2015 was a strong event held in Belthangady taluka in Karnataka. The tournament attracted two grandmasters and five International Masters. S.Nitin won the tournament with a score of 8.0/9. Our reporter Priyadarshan Banjan was at the venue and has sent us a illustrated report with pictures. We also have a game annotated by the winner.
Rajdeep Sarkar and Varshini emerged as the National under 17 champions held in Bangalore, Karnataka. While the open section was hard fought with all the top three places scoring 8.0/11, in the girls section V.Varishini won the tournament with great ease with a score of 10.0/11. One of the highlights of the tournament was R.Vaishali playing in the open section and finishing third. We have pictures and game annotations from the event.
As the Isle of Man tournament came to an end the tournament winner, Pentala Harikrishna, packed his bags to travel to the World Blitz Championships in Berlin. In between his travel and intense schedule he found time to give us a small interview. Apart from this we have a beautifully annotated game by one of the GM norm scorers from this tournament.
He played five opponents who had an Elo of 2700 and above, one of them was 2846! Showing some brilliant chess Vidit Gujrathi scored 4.0/5 (three wins and two draws). His performance is a mind boggling 2992 and he is already gaining 57 Elo points! Vishy Anand did not fare so well. In this report you can find analysis from the games of Vidit and Anand and some excellent pictures from the capital city of Germany
A boring mandatory visit to the UK embassy turned out to be the most interesting day in the lives of I Sagar Shah and his wife Amruta. They were sitting in the waiting area, biding their time and there she was wearing a pink t-shirt, long skirt and a pair of slippers. One of the greatest sporting champions our country has ever seen - MC Mary Kom, five time boxing World Champion! Read more about this amazing meet and also how a new emerging sport could be something that you would like to try out.
The year 2015 saw Delhi hosting numerous chess tournaments, making it an ideal hub for improving chess players. The Smt. Tara Devi Bagla Memorial tournament was an effort of a Foundation of chess parents to enable Delhi youngsters to have access to quality chess tournaments. T. Purushothaman won it with a score of 8.0/9 followed by Vinay Kumar Matta and Santu Mondal.
The Millionaire Chess is the highest prize money tournament currently in the world of chess by leaps and bounds. The style perfection and professionalism with which it is organized makes it a one of its kind event in the chess calendar. India number five IM Tania Sachdev will be the official commentator at the event. We catch up with her to know what she feels before the sin city adventure.
The 12th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open was a strong event with the participation of eight grandmasters and 27 International Masters. In the end there was a tie for the top spot between six players who scored 7.0/9. One amongst them was India's very own IM Padmini Rout who performed exceedingly well gaining 15 Elo points.
When top players like Anish Giri, Vladimir Kramnik, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin and other 2700+ guys play in a tournament, the best we can do is watch them in action. If you always wished to play in the same event and cross swords against them, then Qatar Masters Open 2015 is your chance. It is world’s strongest open with the first prize of US $27,000. Here’s all the information.
Over the years, India has witnessed a general increase in the standard of tournaments organized in the Open circuit. To give companionship to the bunch of norm events in the calendar are tournaments like the National Challengers Championship, the 2015 edition of which was widely accepted as one of the best organized. The 4th Keshabananda Memorial though is in a league of its own. IM Swapnil Dhopade of Maharashtra won this year’s fourth edition, his second straight tournament victory after winning the National Challengers barely a fortnight ago.
