10 things that made the Super Juniors Cup 2020 special

by Sagar Shah - 18/12/2020

The Super Juniors Cup 2020 was held from the 6th to the 10th of December 2020. 32 of the most talented youngsters of Indian chess took part in it. The total prize disbursed at the end of the event was a massive Rs.567,224. GM Nihal Sarin won the tournament and went back home richer by Rs.135,494. This was one of the biggest events ever to be held online in Indian chess. IM Sagar Shah takes you through the 10 things that made the Super Juniors Cup 2020 special. It contains the description of all the ingredients that helped in making this tournament successful.

For many years now Indian youngsters have been dubbed as the next big thing in the world of chess! Some of them are very popular, some not so well-known, yet very talented. ChessBase India has always tried to identify the talents at a young age and hence, a tournament of the top 32 youngsters in Indian chess (born on or after 2000) was a very exciting one, not just for the viewers but for us as well! Who would win and claim the spot of the most talented junior in blitz? The Super Juniors Cup was organized from the 6th-10th of December 2020. It was a knockout tournament with all the matches being played at a different time and broadcast LIVE on the ChessBase India YouTube channel. The tournament was a huge success with GM Nihal Sarin edging out GM Arjun Erigaisi in the finals. We bring you the 10 most special things about the Super Juniors Cup 2020.

1. 32 of the most talented players

When we wrote to 27 of the top rated boys and top five girls, all of them accepted our invitation to play the event! Only IM Leon Mendonca could not be a part of the tournament as he was in Budapest preparing for the Sunway Sitges tournament to get his final GM norm.

All the 32 top players of the Super Juniors Cup 2020 in one frame

Nihal Sarin, Praggnanandhaa, Aryan Chopra, Abhimanyu Puranik, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Raunak Sadhwani are some of the most talented Indian juniors. One of them might well go on to become the next World Champion from Indian chess. It was wonderful to have them all playing together.

Participants of the Super Juniors Cup 2020

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	Club/City
1	GM	Nihal Sarin	25092340	IND	2620	nihalsarin2004
2	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	25059530	IND	2608	Praggnanandhaachess
3	GM	Aryan Chopra	5084423	IND	2585	AryanChopra
4	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	5061245	IND	2584	abhidabhi
5	GM	Gukesh D	46616543	IND	2563	guki1124
6	GM	Erigaisi Arjun	35009192	IND	2559	Inventing_Invention
7	GM	Sadhwani Raunak	35093487	IND	2545	Raunaksadhwani2005
8	GM	Harsha Bharathakoti	5078776	IND	2509	Harsha_Bharathakoti
9	GM	Iniyan P	25002767	IND	2506	superchess2002
10	IM	Saksham Rautela	35046977	IND	2480	Kcnock2004
11	IM	Arjun Kalyan	35018701	IND	2477	Arjun2002
12	GM	Prithu Gupta	46618546	IND	2472	elrey2004
13	IM	Raja Harshit	5089000	IND	2472	Johnking
14	IM	Rahul Srivatshav P	25059653	IND	2457	indianstar
15	IM	Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari	25004964	IND	2448	kaumandur01
16	IM	Mitrabha Guha	5057000	IND	2445	mitrabha
17	IM	Rathanvel V S	25002112	IND	2445	dieselbot
18	IM	Aditya Mittal	35042025	IND	2438	Thunderbolt1909
19	IM	Bharath Subramaniyam H	46634827	IND	2437	BHARATH_SUBRAMANIYAM
20	IM	Raja Rithvik R	35007394	IND	2408	Infinity-Stones
21	IM	Aronyak Ghosh	25072846	IND	2436	Aronyak1
22	IM	Koustav Chatterjee	25073060	IND	2431	BetterThanYou21
23	IM	Harikrishnan.A.Ra	5081483	IND	2429	hari2209
24	IM	Sankalp Gupta	5097010	IND	2429	Sankalp_Gupta
25	FM	Srihari L R	46617116	IND	2414	srihari241105
26	IM	Neelash Saha	5094160	IND	2413	Neelash
27	IM	Krishnater Kushager	25041142	IND	2410	kushu_attack
28	WGM	Vaishali R	5091756	IND	2393	vaishali2001
29	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	35006916	IND	2305	burning_phoenix
30	WIM	Vantika Agrawal	25050389	IND	2286	chiyabuddha
31	WIM	Sharma Isha	35006665	IND	2276	PHOENIXME
32	WFM	Savitha Shri B	35061887	IND	2261	savithashri

2. The unstoppable Nihal Sarin

Nihal Sarin was the top seed of the tournament and also one of the favourites, but there were so many other talented youngsters vying for the top spot. Nihal always makes you wonder - how does he manage to do this with such ease? Right from the first game Nihal kept complete control of the proceedings and managed to win the title by beating Arjun Erigaisi in the finals with a score of 4.5-1.5. If you are curious to know how Nihal was able to maintain control in many of the high pressure situations in different games, we recommend you checking out the interview below where IM Sagar Shah goes through all the important moments of the tournament with Nihal.

Interview with Nihal Sarin

Results of Round 1 (Format: 4 games of 3+1 and in case of a tie we go to an armageddon)

Results of the Round of 16 (Format: 4 games of 3+1 and in case of a tie we go to an armageddon)

Results of the Quarter Finals (Format: 2 games of 5+1, 4 games of 3+1 and in case of a tie we go to an armageddon)

In the Semi-Finals Arjun got the better of Raunak Sadhwani and Nihal Sarin managed to edge out Abhimanyu Puranik by a whisker. The time control in the semis was 2 games of 5+1 and four games of 3+1. The battle between Raunak and Abhimanyu ended in victory for the latter who finished third.

The top three finishers in the tournament. Fourth place went to GM Raunak Sadhwani

3. Prize money by the viewers

The inception of Super Juniors 2020 | Official Trailer

This was a tournament that happened because of the viewers! On the 57th episode of improving chess stream on ChessBase India, viewers contributed in a huge way via super chats. From that stream we raised Rs.5,23,345 with 492 individuals contributing. Because YouTube takes 30% of the revenue, the total amount that we received was Rs.3,66,342. Out of this ChessBase India had sponsored Rs.90,000 for Ilamparthi's training with Chuchelov in August. The remaining Rs.2,76,342 was to be utilized for this event. The shortfall of Rs. 23,658 (as the total prize fund we decided was Rs.3,00,000) was to be bridged by us (ChessBase India).

The major donors during the episode 57 of Improving Chess!

The above image may not be legible, but it just goes to show the enormous number of people who contributed towards the cause. You can find the names of all of the donors here.

Samay Raina and his Ambani OP members continue to power Indian chess and contributed Rs.2,00,000 towards the prize fund pushing it to Rs.5,00,000

Tania Sachdev also decided to contribute towards the event along with her subscribers. In a stream she raised Rs.60,000 via super chats. As YouTube takes 30% of the super chat amount, she contributed the remaining Rs.42,000. Out of this Rs. 20,000 was announced as the best female prize (won by Vantika Agrawal). Tania has also instituted two prizes of Rs.11,000 for two visually impaired girl chess players, which will be announced shortly

ChessBase India also launched their memberships (mentioned in a separate point below) and the total amount raised was Rs.47224. Hence in all the total prize fund disbursed during the Super Juniors Cup was Rs.567,224. Below is the break up of the prizes.

Rank	Name	Prize money	Spl. Prizes	Total
1	GM Nihal Sarin	125000	10494	135494
2	GM Arjun Erigaisi	75000	9182	84182
3	GM Abhimanyu Puranik	40000	7871	47871
4	GM Raunak Sadhwani	25000	6559	31559
5	GM Iniyan P	15000	5247	20247
6	GM Aryan Chopra	15000	3935	18935
7	IM Aronyak Ghosh	15000	7624	22624
8	GM Praggnanandhaa R	15000	1312	16312
R2	IM Rathanvel VS	10000		10000
R2	FM Srihari L R	10000	2500	12500
R2	GM Gukesh D	10000		10000
R2	IM Raja Rithvik R	10000		10000
R2	IM Aditya Mittal	10000	5000	15000
R2	IM Harikrishnan Ra	10000		10000
R2	IM Arjun Kalyan	10000		10000
R2	IM Rahul Srivasthav P	10000		10000
R1	WFM Savitha Shri B	5000		5000
R1	IM Mitrabha Guha	5000		5000
R1	GM Harsha Bharathakoti	5000	2500	7500
R1	GM Prithu Gupta	5000		5000
R1	WGM Vaishali R	5000		5000
R1	IM Raja Harshit	5000		5000
R1	WIM Divya Deshmukh	5000		5000
R1	WIM Isha Sharma	5000		5000
R1	IM Raghunandan K S	5000		5000
R1	IM Neelash Saha	5000		5000
R1	IM Saksham Rautela	5000		5000
R1	IM Krishnater Kushager	5000		5000
R1	IM Koustav Chatterjee	5000		5000
R1	IM Bharath Subramaniyam H	5000		5000
R1	WIM Vantika Agrawal	5000	20000	25000
R1	IM Sankalp Gupta	5000		5000
			Total	567224

4. Amazing plethora of commentators

When you are watching a tournament LIVE online, you are very much looking forward to good commentators. IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal were the hosts and were there throughout the duration of the event. Ilamparthi, the 11-year-old talent of Indian chess was present for almost 80% of the event. We had three of the best female players of India joining in - D. Harika, Tania Sachdev and Soumya Swaminathan. Youngsters Leon Mendonca, Aditya Mittal and Raunak Sadhwani also joined in. Surya Ganguly was impeccable with his commentary and it was amazing to have insights by GM Srinath Narayanan as well. Three of the top four in the tournament are players who are currently working with GM Srinath. GMs Karthikeyan Murali joined as a debutant commentator and it was wonderful to have Beast (Adhiban) sharing his thoughts from time to time. One of Nihal's initial trainers and a famous commentator Dmitri Komarov also joined in on the last day for a few minutes! The Wolfpack commentary during the finals was exhilarating as over 18,000 people joined in to watch Nihal and Arjun fight with comments by Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov and Vidit Gujrathi. We also had the legends Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand who joined in for the Raunak Sadhwani vs Arjun Erigaisi semi-finals. To have the 14th World Champion and a World Championship finalist comment on their games, is a huge boost to these youngsters!

5. Launch of ChessBase India Memberships

It's been almost a year since we thought about launching the ChessBase India memberships now. Our YouTube channel is one of the most active ones in the world of chess and a lot of people follow the content. Starting the YouTube Memberships would have been a sustainable source of income for the organization. However, the aim of ChessBase India has always been "Powering Chess in India". With so many people regularly asking us as to how they could support Indian chess, we decided to make available all the amount earned via memberships to Indian chess players. We started off with all the money raised via memberships from 6-10th December (the duration of the tournament) to be distributed in weighted average method to the top 8 players of the event. The details of all the people who have contributed are given below. We want to maintain the highest level of transparency so that you know that the amount you have donated has been used for the upliftment of Indian chess and Indian chess players.

Members of ChessBase India YouTube channel from 6th to 10th of December 2020

Member Name	Level Of Membership	Amount	After 30% deduction
TARUN CHOUDHURY	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Harjaap Singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Shobhit Behl	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Lovesh Tulsija	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Siddhant	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Hardik Rudani	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Abhishek Rai	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Nirupam Das	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Akshit Johry	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aseem Goel	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
sandeep pinjala	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Suvi xD	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Anusheela Das	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
vedaant rana	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Shabbir Ahamed	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
anoop sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
abhishek garg	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Pronoy Chatterjee	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Vishal patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Snehal Pathak	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Saurabh Sonawane	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Arun Jayendran	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Pranav Kulkarni	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Indian Gaming Community	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aranya Johar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Anant Joshi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Prathmesh Sakpal	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Vinit Raut	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aranala Sai Sharat Chandra	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aviral	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Pranav Seth	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
tejas4756	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
N M	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Akshay Kulkarni	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Harsh Rastogi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Suraj Shivshankar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
BeastStats	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Naveen Gupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mr Pink	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Tushar Pardeshi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
C.S.Dharma Rajan	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Neo0889	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aditya S	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
gobletFire	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Rahul Sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
vipin singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aryan Verma	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Kalpak Raut	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
GizmoGirl	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Chinmay Paranjpe	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Prerak Mehta	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Varshith D	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Abhinav raina	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Peeyush Pant	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Srinath Narayanan	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Nithish K Gnani	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aditya Bankar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
d s	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Abhishek R.S.	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Shreyas P Vasista	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Sv Scibi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Raj Agarwal	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Vinit Mamania	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Roshan Raj	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mayur Gondhalekar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Chandrasekhar S.	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Raghav Garg	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
DARIEN RODRIGUES	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Nikhil Goyal	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Yashaswi Sai	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Learn new things	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
rachit jain	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Ananya H	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Anish Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aryan	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Henal Merchant	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Karini Sandeep Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Pratyayan DasGupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Dev Prem	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Sharadhi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Shyamal patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mohit Bhatt	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Ravindra Diggi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Abhijeeth	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Saurabh Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mandar Bakshi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
cheezy_chiggy	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Thiedevil	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Raghuram prabhu	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Rahul Bora	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Naman Sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Suhit Bhoir	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Poker Player	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Kanwa Sengupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Shivam Bhandari	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Akshay Natu	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Rijoy Mukherjee	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Raunaq Vohra	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Sam Joseph	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Murali Phani	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Prajwal Rawat	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Vivaswan Damle	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Parul Batra	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Avinash Tripathi	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Gaurab Dutta	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Aditya Tiwari	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mouli	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
KP	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Kajal	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
abhiram karnam	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Kumar Roy	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Arpit Arora	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Sandeep Roy	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Siddhartha Misra	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Neel Patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
VishChess	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Sagar Chakraborty	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Hardik Chaudhari	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Mansi Nawlani	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Akshit	Backer of Indian Chess	89	62.3
Hemanth Reddy	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Abhishek Jain	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
rsjay1976	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Akshay Tiwary	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Anish Mathew	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Abhijeet Rawle	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Gokul	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Arka Ghosh	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
abhilaash darla	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Aviral Juneja	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Ritvik Ohri	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Manu Talwar	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Kumar Satyam	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Vineet Hariharan	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Suranjan	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Diljeet Singh Narwal	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Siddharth Sen	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Gaurav Shah	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Super Sayijin	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Akshit Sehgal	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Varad Wakodkar	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Anshul Walia	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Mahesh Parab	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Vipul Gupta	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Pratyush Sharma	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Anish Raina	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Abhi J	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
SUDARSHAN K M	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Pranavendra Vittal	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
avant jain	Booster of Indian Chess	199	139.3
Randy Alstone	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Omkar Shetye	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Goutam Murlidhar	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Visweswaran Kameswaran	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Arunava Bhattacharjee	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Arvind Ramnath	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
shrikant parab	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Eesha Dutta	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Sansar Singh	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Priyabrata Mallick	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
kshitiz lohani	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Lavish Goyal	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Suyash Swaroop	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Randy Alstone	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
ANAY KHANGAN	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Vishnu Vardhanan	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Ishan Joshi	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Jaimin Saheba	Supporter of Indian Chess	299	209.3
Subhrajoy Dutta	Promoter of Indian Chess	599	419.3
CA Mohit Singh	Promoter of Indian Chess	599	419.3
Manosij Basu	Promoter of Indian Chess	599	419.3
Shivam Upadhyay	Promoter of Indian Chess	599	419.3
Arjunlal B	Promoter of Indian Chess	599	419.3
Tejas Chitnis	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sparsh Nigam	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Charan Teja Kattumenu	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Harshal Pandya	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Nilesh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Anas Edacherry	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Kiran Iyer	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Ashwin Jayaram	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Shyammsm	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Chessmathician	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Dharmen Shah	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Aman Singh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Tapan Krishna	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Arjun N Bharadwaj	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Santosh Nene	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Fufoo Esports	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Nirvana Laha	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Devin anand	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Rohan Verma	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Asadullah Kamanger	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Zeus	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sujit Varghese	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Chess Puns	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
ANANYA TRIPATHY	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Abhijit Mishra	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sambit Ghosh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Mrityunjay Jalan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Pavan Yalamanchili	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Keith Mascarenhas	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Aditya Jitta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Siddharth Ranadive	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sudarshan Rangan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Pramod Menon	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Akshat Shenoy	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Jaydeep Chakrabarty	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sriraam Ramakrishnan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Mihir Kanani	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
vaibhav saraswat	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
akshay sharma	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Shrish Nagvekar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Vini Vedi Vici	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Ayushi Sharma	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Ajeet prsingh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
dhairya dave	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
vivek mady	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Just A Random Guy	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Ankita Kulkarni	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Sumeet Jain	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Subodh Patil	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Subhrajoy Dutta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Anuradha Ravi	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Rahul Malhotra	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
Dr. sminil mahajan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799	559.3
		67463	47224.1

The total amount raised is Rs.47224. This is divided in the top 8 players in a weighted average method and this is what each player will receive:

1. Nihal Sarin - Rs.10494

2. Arjun Erigaisi - Rs.9182

3. Abhimanyu Puranik - Rs.7871

4. Raunak Sadhwani - Rs.6559

5. P. Iniyan - Rs.5247

6. Aryan Chopra - Rs.3935

7. Aronyak Ghosh - Rs.2624

8. R. Praggnanandhaa - 1312

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6. Special prizes

Apart from the main prizes, the tournament also had a few special prizes. We are noting them down below:

Vantika Agrawal gets Rs.20,000 for the best female player of the event. She put GM Aryan Chopra under a lot of pressure in her match and lost it by a very thin margin of 1.5-2.5. This prize was sponsored by IM Tania Sachdev and her YouTube subscribers

The award for the most entertaining match goes to FM Srihari and GM Harsha Bharathakoti. From lagging internet to premove blunders, this match had just about everything that kept the viewers on the edge of their seats. Eventually Srihari created a huge upset by beating Harsha with a score of 2.5-1.5. The award goes to both of them - Rs.2500 each. This match can be seen here.

Definitely one of the biggest finds of the tournament. Aronyak Ghosh won his first round by beating GM Prithu Gupta and GM D. Gukesh. The boy and his family have faced many tough situations in the past and it quite amazing that they have kept the chess journey going. Aronyak wins Rs.5000 in addition to his prize money of Rs.17624. He takes home a total of Rs.22624 from the tournament (Rs.15,000 prize money, Rs.5000 for the fighter of the event prize, Rs.2624 YouTube memberships for finishing in top 8)

Aditya Mittal wins the best game prize of the event for his scintillating third game victory against R. Praggnanandhaa. What made the game special was not just the quality of moves, but the fact that Aditya was trailing 2-0 down in the match and in a must-win situation played a brilliant game of chess! You can watch the entire game here or you can check the video highlights here. Alternatively, you can replay it below.

7. Exhibition Matches

On the final day, we had two exhibition matches to bring a different flavour to the livestream. One of the matches that was planned was Samay Raina + Ilamparthi vs Vaibhav Sethia + Anuradha Beniwal in a hand and brain encounter. Samay and Vaibhav, two of India's finest stand-up comedians, were part of the Improving Chess series. Ilamparthi was present when the prize money of the event was raised during episode 57. And Anuradha Beniwal has been doing some fantastic work in empowering young girls across India with the help of chess!

Anuradha Beniwal empowering young girls through chess!

The hand and brain game was a laughter riot and very exciting!

The tournament was organized by ChessBase India Foundation. Today the foundation has been doing consistent work in order to promote the game. A couple of years when we began there were a couple of individuals who believed in us and started the first two ChessBase India scholarships - MKG Scholarship by Jagadeesh Balakrishnan and Pursue your chess scholarship by Ashwin Subramanian.

The two firm supporters in the initial days of ChessBase India Foundation. The game between both Ashwin and Jagadish can be replayed here.

8. Team effort

The entire event was a team effort by several individuals in the ChessBase India team.

Shahid Ahmed (top left) made sure that each and every player was contacted before the event and all the technical requirements with regards to anti-cheating and broadcast were taken care off. He also did daily detailed reports on ChessBase India newspage and coordinated with all the players to be on time for each of the encounters. Avathanshu Bhat (top right) is just 15 years old but is already a prolific writer. He contacted all the players and wrote a 200 word bio about them along with a unique nickname! Abhyudaya Ram (bottom left) was the creative designer for the event and prepared all the posters and thumbnails which made the event professional and interesting. Vivek Sohan (bottom right) was the chief arbiter of the event and ensured that all the rules were adhered to with regards to pairing as well as anti-cheating measures. A word of special mention to Prakhar P. who is a video editor and edited some of the videos of the Super Junior Cup which were loved by one and all.

How can we forget the efforts of Niklesh Jain who covered this event with great gusto and energy on the ChessBase India Hindi channel

9. Feedback from the players

The players enjoyed the tournament and the following is the feedback that we received from a few of them:

Thank you so much for conducting such an event and inviting us. It was a great tournament and good experience. Looking forward to more such tournaments in future. - P. Iniyan

You will be in the history for taking Indian Chess to the next level. Great work. Congratulations - Harishankkar Subramaniyam (father of Bharath Subramaniyam)

Thank you so much for organising Super Juniors Cup. It was a very thrilling tournament with sensational matches. Enjoyed every bit of it and looking forward to more such events! - Sankalp Gupta

Thanks a lot for this great initiative. It was an amazing experience with lots of interesting games. Enjoyed a lot and looking forward to more such events. - Arjun Kalyan

Was indeed a great tournament. This experience will surely help while playing in pressure situations! Thanks so much - Harshit Raja

Thank you so much Mr. & Mrs. Chessbase India for such a great event. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to play those intense Battles which will be very helpful to us in OTB as well as in Online chess. A wonderful initiative👏 looking forward for more. - Raunak Sadhwani

Thank you for this awesome initiative, I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot too. Waiting for more such events. - Abhimanyu Puranik

Thank you for the wonderful initiative. It was really fun and a great experience! Looking forward to more such events. - Arjun Erigaisi

Thank you Sagar and Amruta and Congratulations to you and your team for great work! - Divya Deshmukh

Fantastic tournament.. Chessbase India is doing a fabulous job in Unearthing talent and giving opportunities to players... We look forward to more such tournaments. Special mention should be made about the way you, Sagar, make each one of them important... From Ilamparithi to Kramnik... It is a joy to watch... Keep it going. - Srihari LR

Dear Sagar and Amruta, It was a great experience indeed! Shall look forward to more of such events. Keep up the good work towards promoting chess. - Aryan Chopra

Thank you for the great initiative for indian chess! Enjoyed a lot. - Nihal Sarin

Fantastic tournament! Thank you for organizing such a great event. Looking forward for more! - Rithvik Raja

Thanks a lot Sagar sir and Amruta ma'am for this lovely tournament...enjoyed playing it. - Vantika Agrawal

Thank you for the tournament! Was a nice experience - Raghunandan KS

10. Janta OP

None of this would have been possible without the support you have offered us, dear Janta. Thank you so much for supporting us in every possible way from sponsoring the event, to watching it LIVE for several hours. The total no. of views for the event has been over 1 million in the five days:

Days	Views
1	227173
2	188557
3	162121
4	173321
5	328541
	1079713

Definitely Janta OP! :)

Important Links:

Day 1 YouTube commentary

Day 2 YouTube commentary

Day 3 YouTube commentary

Day 4 YouTube commentary

Day 5 YouTube commentary

Super Juniors 2020 YouTube playlist

Commentary on Hindi ChessBase India

Announcement of Super Juniors 2020

Bio of all 32 players

Prize money enhanced

Chess-Results

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