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S.L. Narayanan wins the 1st Elllobregat Open 2019

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The 1st Elllobregat Open 2019 held in Spain from the 3rd to 11th of December 2019 was a very successful one for India. S.L. Narayanan won the championship with a performance of 2712. Polish GM Mateusz Bartel finished second and the young Indian talent Arjun Erigaisi was third. Out of the top ten spots, six went to Indians! A total of 55 Indians played in the A-group and entire contingent gained a whopping 778.6 Elo points. Harshit Raja and Rithvik Raja both scored their maiden GM norms. In the B-group we had Gopal KN who finished first. We bring you a huge final report of the tournament before the focus shifts to the Sunway Sitges Chess Festival beginning from the 13th of December 2019.

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Monaco GP R8: Goryachkina takes sole lead

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Goryachkina scored a victory over Gunina and took sole lead with 6.0/8. Humpy drew her game with Harika and they are now at second and third place with a score of 5.5/8 and 5.0/8 respectively. Cramling recovered against Mariya after making a few mistakes and drew her game eventually in the longest game of the round. Kosteniuk beat Dzagnidze, Anna Muzychuk made a short draw with Elisabeth Paehtz, Kateryna Lagno had a fighting draw with Zhao Xue. Pia Cramling, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Kateryna Lagno and Anna Muzychuk are tied fourth place with a score of 4.5/8 each. Only three rounds left. Read a detailed report of Round 8 | Photo: Karol Bartnik / FIDE

Legend Vishy Anand turns 50!

11/12/2019 -

What a day it is for Indian chess! The Indian legend Vishy Anand turns 50! From being the first Indian GM to five-time World Champion, Anand has changed the landscape of the sport in the country. In this article IM Sagar Shah narrates to you an incident which shows what a gem of an individual Vishy Anand is. Along with it we have the Wish Vishy for his 50th birthday challenge where the best and the most creative wish will get a autographed ChessBase 15 from Vishy Anand! We have well over 500 wishes already! To celebrate Vishy's big day, ChessBase India has also launched a Vishy Anand limited edition t-shirt! You can order the t-shirt from this article with the special design made by our team of experts. Lastly, we bring you all the wishes sent to Vishy by the well-known personalities in the chess world and beyond. A huge Golden Jubilee article!

Stany wins Mandya Chess Academy All India Open Blitz 2019

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Karnataka's second GM in history and the top seed of the tournament Stany GA scored 10.0/11 and finished a half point ahead of the runner-up to win Mandya Chess Academy All India Open Blitz 2019. In the last round of the tournament, he beat Karnataka's first GM Thejkumar to clinch the championship. Stany's only blemish of the tournament was suffering a loss in the seventh round of the tournament. IM Nitin S scored 9.5/11 to secure runner-up position. Four players finished at 9.0/11, R Ashwath claimed the third place due to a better tie-break score. Total 326 players from eight different states across the nation participated in this tournament where the total prize fund was ₹200000 along with trophies. Photo: Mandya Chess Academy

Monaco GP R7: Goryachkina and Humpy stay ahead

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Both Goryachkina and Humpy won their respective games against Dzagnidze and Zhao respectively after fighting for over four and a half hours, to stay in the lead with 5.0/7. Meanwhile Harika trails behind the leaders by a half point. She made a short draw with Anna. Round 8 will witness India no.1 Humpy face India no.2 Harika. Pia Cramling, Kateryna Lagno and Anna Muzychuk are tied at the fourth spot with 4.0/7 each. Gunina terrible form continues as she again suffers another loss, this time against the legendary Pia Cramling after she blundered a knight. Find out all round 7 games annotated in this detailed report. Photo: Karol Bartnik / FIDE

Shaky first day for Abhijeet and Vaibhav

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The National Senior Championship 2019 started off yesterday at the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology in Majitar, Sikkim. It was far from smooth sailing for the top seeds in the first round of the event as players like Ayush Sharma and Sumeet Grover gave their Grandmaster opponents a good run for money. Ayush managed to seize a copious edge against top-seed Abhijeet Gupta, while Sumeet was beating GM Vaibhav Suri pretty one-sidedly. But finally Abhijeet's experience triumphed and Vaibhav managed to wriggle out with a draw. Read our detailed first round report to find out what happened exactly.

Over 1000 players participate in the biggest National Schools Championship

10/12/2019 -

The ninth edition of National Schools witnessed a total participation of 1007 players from 25 different states across the nation. Host state Maharashtra dominated the medal tally by winning the maximum number of golds and total number of medals among all states across the nation. National Schools is the biggest event of the country in terms of total number of players participation. The tournament was organized by Grandmaster Chess Foundation at Divisional Sports Complex, Aurangabad, Maharashtra from 27th November to 1st December 2019. This was the second National Schools event of the year. Read a detailed pictorial report of the tournament. Photo: Grandmaster Chess Foundation

Who will win the National Championship 2019?

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Starting from today, for the next ten days, Sikkim will be the most buzzing hub of chess activity in the country! The all important National Senior Championship 2019 begins at the Sikkim Manipal Institute of technology today and will continue till the 19th of this month. Featuring strong players like Abhijeet Gupta, Aravindh Chithambaram, Sandipan Chanda, Deepan Chakravarthy, and others, this is one of the most exciting national tournaments to follow. So who do you think will win the National Senior Championship this year and what do you think will be his/her score? Comment your guesses below this article and get a chance to win a special prize from ChessBase India!  

Announcing the winners of 3 ChessBase India contests

10/12/2019 -

One of the most important things that we like to do at ChessBase is to involve our viewers/readers. That's the reason why we have regular contests where we have attractive prizes. Three contests were held recently and we are revealing the winners of them in this article. ChessBase India YouTube Channel hit 200,000 subscribers and we had the "Why do you Love ChessBase India Youtube channel contest". Best three answers get the ChessBase India t-shirt. On the Children's day we had a contest to guess all the titled players in a photo. ChessBase India Elite pass was the prize of that contest. And finally the Tata Steel Chess India contest where the best answer for why did you enjoy Tata Steel Chess India won a ChessBase 15 DVD signed by 8 participants of the event! Check out the article where we have picked out the winners, after careful consideration.

Three days before his 50th birthday, Vishy is fighting it out in the German Bundesliga

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Just three days before his big day - his 50th birthday, Vishy Anand is busy in Germany playing at the Bundesliga for his team OSG Baden Baden for the 2019-20 season. These were rounds three and four and Vishy played some very interesting chess to score 1.5/2 and help his team score wins over Solingen and SV Mulheim Nord. Especially exciting was Anand's win against Thomas Beerdsen, the Dutch youngster rated 2482, nearly 300 Elo points lower than Vishy. In a Sicilian Taimanov we saw a full blooded fight where Anand with the white pieces sacrificed a pawn and accepted an inferior pawn structure to attack Black's king! The entire game has been deeply analyzed along with Vishy's short draw against Markus Ragger. 

Vishy's December #07 - From an 18-year-old talent to a 50-year-old legend!

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Vishy Anand is a legend today. He has not only achieved the highest honours in the game of chess but has also led the entire country to becoming one of the biggest chess superpowers in the world. But how was he when he was young? Frederic Friedel, the co-founder of ChessBase, has known Vishy for the last several decades and has also been a very close friend of his. He has seen him grow from a prodigiously talented teenager into a mature and highly accomplished man. In a recent interview with IM Sagar Shah, he related many of his interesting experiences with a young Vishy when he was still climbing the upper echelons of the chess world. Therefore friends, in Vishy's December #07 we wind back the clock and take you on a journey which is as nostalgic as it is insightful of the maestro's life and character.

Arjun Erigaisi and S.L.Narayanan lead Elllobregat Open

09/12/2019 -

Arjun Erigaisi and S.L.Narayanan lead the Elllobregat Open 2019 after the completion of six rounds here in Catalonia, Spain. The duo has remained unbeaten so far scoring an impressive 5.0/6 each to pull ahead of the rest of the field by half a point. The highlight of the event's sixth round however was GM Karthik Venkatraman beating the top-seeded Maxime Lagarde, while earlier in the fifth round it was IM Raja Harshit who grabbed all the eyeballs by stunning Karthikeyan Murali with black pieces. In this report we bring you a brief overview of the most important moments from rounds five and six.

Ding Liren wins Grand Chess Tour 2019

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Ding Liren won Sinquefield Cup 2019 earlier this year and finished as runner-up in FIDE World Cup 2019 couple of months ago. At Tata Steel Chess India Rapid and Blitz, he was only the player in the entire tournament who beat Magnus Carlsen twice. After winning the tournament, Ding Liren said, "When (I am in) my best shape, I can compete with anyone else." Actor Woody Harrelson made an inaugural move 1.d4 in an Aronian-Carlsen Rapid game. MVL secured the second position, Carlsen finished third and qualified for GCT 2020 and Aronian finished 4th. However Carlsen got the highest prize money as he had a better performance in all GCT events he participated. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour

Monaco GP R6: Goryachkina, Harika and Humpy lead

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Kosteniuk held Humpy to a draw after missing a half chance in the opening. Goryachkina and Harika scored fine victories against Pia Cramling and Mariya Muzychuk respectively to join Humpy in the lead with 4.0/6 before heading to the rest day of the tournament. Although Goryachkina did not have it easy in round 6 as Cramling missed an opportunity to seize decent amount of advantage against the World Championship Challenger. Anna Muzychuk used correct tactics to beat Zhao Xue and now she is just a half point behind the leaders along with Kosteniuk. World Blitz champion Kateryna Lagno made short work of Nana Dzagnidze in just 28 moves. Gunina's tough luck continues as she again misplayed and made errors against Elisabeth Paehtz | Photo: Karol Bartnik / FIDE

A thrilling experience at the Tata Steel Chess India 2019

09/12/2019 -

The Tata Steel Chess India 2019 was the biggest ever tournament organized not just in India, but Asian soil. Held at the National Library in Kolkata, you had a huge number of people visiting the venue on a daily basis. Of course, it was a delight for the chess fans living in the city. However, the fans were not just limited to Kolkata or West Bengal. Players from all across the country travelled to the city of joy to get a glimpse of their favourite players in action. One such individual is Lokesh Natoo. Lokesh is not a competitive chess player, he doesn't even have a rating. But he loves chess. He travelled from Mumbai to witness two days of the Tata Steel Chess India action. In this article he recounts his thrilling experience! Also in the article are the winners of the ChessBase India giveaway contest for Tata Steel Chess India 2019.

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