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Akash soars, Aravindh pulls off a brilliancy

12/12/2019 -

Only four rounds are over at the National Senior Championship 2019 and things already seem to be heating up as out of the nine players who were leading at the end of the third round, only three could maintain their spots. Aravindh Chithambaram, Sandipan Chanda, and Akash G are the current leaders after four rounds with perfect scores of 4.0/4. The National triple-crown winner and defending champion Aravindh played a brilliant game today to beat India's blitz king Laxman Rajaram, while Akash G too grabbed eyeballs by getting the better of Deep Sengupta who is more than a hundred points higher rated than him. In this report we bring you the glimpses of all the excitement.

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IA Amit Sharma wins C S Sharma Memorial Open Rating 2019

12/12/2019 -

Starting out as third seed, IA Amit Sharma scored 6.0/7, remained undefeated, finished a half point ahead of the field to become champion in C S Sharma Memorial Open Rating 2019. Three players finished at 5.5/7. Alok Priyadarshi and Vaibhav Gautam secured second and third position respectively as per their tie-break scores. Stuti Aishwary won the Best Woman prize with a score of 5.5/7. Best Veteran prize went to 62-year-old Bir Singh Raminder who scored 4.0/7. Total 54 players participated in this three-day event, organized by Botwinnik Chess Academy in memory of C S Sharma who established this academy in 1978. For him chess was his first love. A pictorial report of the tournament. Photo: IA Kaviraj Sawant

Harikrishna holds Karjakin to a draw at Jerusalem GP

12/12/2019 -

The fourth leg of the FIDE Grand Prix Series organized by World Chess started in the Notre Dame Center Jerusalem on December 11. All eight games finished in a draw and all players keep chances to win their matches if the second games have decisive results or go for tie-breaks in case of another draw. After three major tournaments in Moscow, Riga and Hamburg earlier this year, the Grandmasters have arrived in Jerusalem for taking part in the final leg. This part of the Series will determine two participants of the upcoming Candidates 2020. The prize fund in each leg of the Grand Prix amounts to €130000, with an additional €280000 for the top ten finishers in the overall standings. Thus, the total prize fund of the FIDE Grand Prix amounts for a total of €800000 euros. Photo: Niki Riga / World Chess

National Senior Championship R02+03: Nine players lead with perfect score

12/12/2019 -

A pack of nine players comprising seven GMs and two IMs is leading the National Senior Championship 2019 with perfect 3.0/3 score after three rounds. The event had double rounds yesterday but the players on the top showed no signs of slowing down and most of them clinched back-to-back victories to maintain their lead. They had a particularly smooth sailing in the second round with all of the first ten games ending in favour of the higher-rated candidates, while in round three IM Nitin S managed to pull off a mild upset by beating GM Visakh NR. In this illustrated report we bring you the games, analyses, photos, and more.

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

12/12/2019 -

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.

Monaco GP R8: Goryachkina takes sole lead

12/12/2019 -

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

11/12/2019 -

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

11/12/2019 -

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

11/12/2019 -

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?

10/12/2019 -

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

10/12/2019 -

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!

09/12/2019 -

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.

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