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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?
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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
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.
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 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.
Sethuraman speaks about his journey at the World Cup 2015, how he fought with the best players of the world on equal terms, how he learnt a lot of things which will be useful for him in the future and what are his future plans. An exclusive interview with ChessBase India by the top Indian performer at the World Cup 2015.
Sethuraman was the last Indian standing at the World Cup 2015. After he lost the first round against Mamedyarov he was surely under a lot of pressure. In the second game of the match, the Indian tried his best to put maximum pressure on his opponent, but Mamedyarov did not flinch, held on and made a draw to advance to the fourth round.
When a top player gets a position that he likes it is very difficult to stop him. This is something that Sethuraman experienced in his first game of the round three at the World Cup 2015 against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The Azeri player struck the first blow and now leads the two game match with a score of 1-0.
After an intense match against Harikrishna we contacted Sethuraman through Skype and sent him a few questions to be answered for our readers. The diligent man that he is, Sethuraman immediately sent us all his answers and explained about how he was able to beat one of the strongest chess players in the world.
