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MPL 35th National U-9 Championships kick off in Indore

26/12/2022 -

The MPL National U-9 Chess Championship kicked off on Christmas day, 25th December in IPS Academy, Indore! A total of 309 players from all across India are participating in this mega event - 214 players in the Open section, and 105 in the girls category. The Inauguration ceremony took place at 2 PM, and the first round of the tournament started 3:00 PM. Indore's IAS Collector Dr. Iliyaraja T was invited as the Chief guest in the opening ceremony! This will be an 11-round classical event from 25th December to 2nd January. We at ChessBase India will bring you all the action live!

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MPL 59th National Senior R4: Abhijeet Gupta and Koustav Chatterjee emerge early coleaders

26/12/2022 -

GM Iniyan P (TN) drew with his statemate and top seed GM Sethuraman S P (PSPB) in the fourth round of MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. FM Vedant Panesar (MAH) also shared the point with IM Aronyak Ghosh (WB). GM Abhijeet Gupta (PSPB) defeated the reigning Asian Junior 2022 Open champion, IM Harshavardhan G B (TN) and IM Koustaav Chatterjee (WB) prevailed over IM Nitin S (TN). Abhijeet and Koustav will inevitably clash in the fifth round which starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. There are still nine rounds left. Will we see a sole leader at the conclusion of Round 5? Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

A glorious opening ceremony in Kazakh style at the World Rapid and Blitz 2022

26/12/2022 -

The World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2022 kick off in Almaty, Kazakhstan on the 26th of December 2022. On 25th of December, one day before the start of the event, there was an opening ceremony held at the venue. The first thing you notice when you enter the premises of the Baluan Sholak Sports Palace is how massive it is and how spacious it is going to be for the players. Next you get to see the Kazakh culture in the opening ceremony and the love for chess that the country possesses. Check out our pictorial report from the World Rapid and Blitz 2022.

Vantika Agrawal is the top seed at MPL 48th National Women Chess Championship 2022

26/12/2022 -

MPL 48th National Women Chess Championship starts today at Sanjay Ghodawat University in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. For the first time since 2019, it will be a full-fledged event, which means there will be 11 rounds instead of 9 like the previous edition held earlier this year. The time control is also back to 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1. The total prize fund has been increased by ₹500000, each prize got increased by ₹50000. WGM Vantika Agrawal is the top seed of the tournament, The defending champion, WGM Divya Deshmukh is the second seed and former National Women's champion, IM Soumya Swaminathan will be third seed. Round 1 starts today at 11:30 a.m. Who do you think will win this event? Photo: Chess Association Kolhapur

University of Calcutta reclaims East Zone Inter University Chess Championship 2022 after five years

25/12/2022 -

University of Calcutta Men's team have been making a second place finish for the past three editions from 2018 to 2021. That changed on 10th December. The team finally ended their chase and claimed the first place. Both University of Calcutta and the defending champions, Adamas University scored an unbeaten 11/12. The match between them also ended in a 2-2 draw with four decisive games in the penultimate round. However, the former won became champion due to having more game points than the latter. Subhabrata Roy and IM Utsab Chatterjee won the individual board prizes from the winning team. Three teams scored 9/11. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Vishwavidyalaya was adjudged third according to tie-breaks.

MPL 59th National Senior R3: The Systematic Pawn Structure Fragmentation

25/12/2022 -

IM Nitin S (RSPB) scored the biggest upset of the third round at MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. He defeated GM Leon Luke Mendonca (Goa) by systematically fragmenting his opponent pawn structure in a game arising out of Caro-Kann opening. 52-year-old Laishram Imocha (PSPB) won against GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) when the latter overloaded his rook in an already dwindling position. Shreyansh Daklia (CHT) scored an upset victory against 50th National Junior champion, IM Neelash Saha when the latter tried too hard in a drawn endgame. Eight players including top and third seed, GM Sethuraman S P and GM Abhijeet Gupta are at a perfect score 3/3. Round 4 starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

Test of Speed and Endurance: World Rapid and Blitz 2022 brings together the best in Almaty

24/12/2022 -

Each year ends for a professional chess player with the world rapid and blitz. The new year is spent on the flight back home! And this year is no different! The World Rapid and Blitz 2022 Championships are going to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. We have a total of 180 players in the open section, 100 in women. Out of which we have 22 Indians in all (15 in open and 7 in women). Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura will be the favourites to win the title, but the event will also witness young talents like Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin. A total of US $1 million at stake. We bring you a curtain raiser.

Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins 8th Gashimov Memorial 2022 with five rounds to spare

24/12/2022 -

What is the true sign of a champion? How you get back up from a forgettable event. The reigning World Rapid champion, Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) did just that. After a disappointing performance at the Tata Steel Chess India 2022 Rapid and Blitz, the 18-year-old regrouped himself and delivered a strong performance with an exact same format at the 8th Gashimov Memorial 2022. He scored 25.5/36 and won the tournament with five rounds to spare. That is undoubtedly a remarkable performance and a much needed one for him, just two days before he starts his World title defense. He has already had a fantastic year by winning Gold at the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022. Will he successfully defend his World Rapid title? We will know on 28th December 2022. Photo: Vugar Gashimov Memorial Chess fb

MPL 59th National Senior R2: The Deep Queen sac

24/12/2022 -

19-year-old Akshit Kumar J (AP) scored the first big upset of MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. He defeated GM-elect IM Arghyadip Das who could not find the best way to save his pinned knight. Multi-time Hastings Masters winner and Commonwealth Gold medalist, GM Deep Sengupta (PSPB) sacrificed his queen against the reigning National Under-17 Open champion, CM Mayank Chakraborty (ASM). While Deep did not follow through correctly and finish things off earlier, nevertheless he managed to score the full point. Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri (TEL), M Anees M (TN), Dhananjay S (CHT), Shreyansh Daklia (CHT), Kartavya Anadkat (GUJ), Grahesh Y (AP), Rupam Mukherjee (WB) and Tapan Badamundi (ODI) held their respective Grandmaster opponents to a draw each. Round 3 starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Kirill Alekseenko wins Chessable Sunway Sitges Open 2022

24/12/2022 -

Kirill Alekseenko drew with Hans Niemann (USA) to win Chessable Sunway Sitges Open 2022. He finished a half point ahead of the field 8.5/10 and did not require Playoffs. Hans defeated M Amin Tabatabaei (IRI) in Armageddon after they traded wins in their Playoff Blitz finals. Thus, Hans finished second and Tabatabaei third. GM Karthikeyan Murali defeated Turkish prodigy 11-year-old IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus to finish eighth after losing Playoffs against GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR). Karthikeyan became the sole Indian to make a top ten finish. Both Shantanu Bhambure and Ilamparthi A R scored their respective final IM-norms. Shantanu became India's latest International Master. Photo: Chessable

MPL 59th National Senior R1: Take my Queen if you can

23/12/2022 -

The top seeds avoided any major upset in the first round of MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship 2022. For the first time in National, there are 70 live boards. Thus, the propensity to find beautiful game(s) in each round increases by that much. It goes without saying that not only for the viewers, it helps the players also to see the current form in the tournament of their future opponents. Aarav Sinha (DEL) and Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy (UP) held GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (RSPB) and GM Sriram Jha (LIC) to a draw. If you have to pick some beautiful moves played by one person in the opening round, it has to be Santanu Borpatra Gohain (ASM) against IM Vignesh N R (RSPB). Round 2 starts today at 2 p.m. IST today. Photo: Aditya Sur Roy

New: The Super Solid Slav Defence by Sipke Ernst

23/12/2022 -

When you add the Slav to your repertoire, you get an opening with a solid foundation. However, that doesn’t mean you will get a boring game. On the contrary, this opening often leads to very dynamic play. Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of the world class players of today, including Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Alireza Firouzja have played it frequently, and used it to play for a win against their contemporaries. So grab this DVD and enrich your knowledge in the Solid Slav Defence to add a new opening to an ever-growing theoretical arsenal. Photo: ChessBase

Sharvaanica - The 7-year-old who wins all her tournaments with a 100% score

22/12/2022 -

Sharvaanica is just 7 years old, but whichever tournament she takes part in, she tends to win it with a score of 100%. Take for example the nationals under-7 championship that happened in 2022. Sharva (as her loved ones call her), won it with a score of 11.0/11. Then she played in Sri Lanka at the Asian School Championships 2022. She won the under-7 classical, rapid and blitz. But not only did she win, she won all three events with a 100% score. How does she manage to do that? We try to decode her play in this interview with the help of her coach GM Vishnu Prasanna. Sharvaanica is also awarded the March 2022 YouTube memberships from ChessBase India of Rs.53,365 so that she can continue growing in her chess career at a rapid pace.

The divine tournament - A flashback (Part 1)

22/12/2022 -

We are on the threshold of season 7 of 360 ONE (formerly, IIFL Wealth) Mumbai International Chess Festival. The festival comprises two events: Open & Junior (Under-13). While the staging of ‘Open’ event is common & understood, lots of questions were raised as regards to U13 – why an Under-13 event? What purpose will it serve? We get answers to these questions from none other than Praful Zaveri - the brainchild of this event! The first of this article is the flashback leading to the birth of this tournament (penned by him in 2016) while the 2nd part will answer as to what it has achieved during the past 6-seasons!

Shoot for the Moon, land among the Stars - The Story of Md. Imran

22/12/2022 -

Do you remember a time when you came so close to achieving something you worked very hard on, only for tragedy to befall you when you needed things to go your way the most? Something which distracts you from the task at hand, leaving you regretting that you couldn't give your best. Meet Mohd. Imran, who at the age of eight and half years first picked up chess with a humble 1035 Elo, and 4 years later is sitting at a rating of 2279. He has played around 24 tournaments since he started playing chess, with tremendous increases in rating more recently, sporting a 284 ELO gain in the last 3 months alone. Things are very promising for the boy, but lately, setbacks have been preventing him from crossing the 2400 ELO barrier, which he says is his current goal. The boy is supported by HelpChess Foundation for his laptop through the funds donated by Suhani Shah.

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