Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy completes 12 years

On 5th September 2005, there was a dawn of a new era in the chess academies of Kolkata. The birth of Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy took place on this very day twelve years ago. GM Dibyendu Barua and his wife WIM Saheli Dhar Barua, gave a new home to the budding chess players of Kolkata to increase Chess literacy.

DBCA Co-Founders: GM Dibyendu Barua & WIM Saheli Dhar

GM Dibyendu Barua is the 2nd Grandmaster of the country and WIM Saheli Dhar Barua is the one of the strongest woman chess player of her time. They wanted to give a platform to the chess players to practice, hone their skills and get the best possible training for overall holistic development.

The premiere Chess Academy of Kolkata

Director’s Voice: “In the last few decades, chess has become very popular in India. It is mainly because of Viswanathan Anand’s excellent performances in the International Chess Arena. India has now been consistently performing well at World level in all categories and age-groups.

Chess, however, has become extremely competitive. Even if there is inborn talent in a player, but still, he needs to train constantly to develop qualities and skills to take correct decisions over the board. So intensive and scientific training from an early age has become a necessity in order to survive and excel in today’s fierce cut-throat competition. I also believe that in today’s context, it is imperative to develop a good chess culture among the young generation and to spread this game to the masses.

Keeping these in mind, I started this academy entirely on my own resources and initiative in September, 2005. We have an efficient and dedicated panel of coaches who work untiringly under my guidance to impart scientific and thematic coaching to the students according to their age-groups and standard. I strongly believe that West Bengal has immense potential in chess talent. And it is my cherished dream that with well-organized and strategized efforts to identify and groom these talents, we will be able to give the nation many world class chess champions.”

Visitors at DBCA:

Viswanathan Anand with DBCA Coaches in 2012

Notable Achievements by students:

• WFM Arpita Mukherjee won Gold Medal in Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017 in the Under 20 Girls Category

• Arpita won State Women’s Chess Championship for four consecutive years from 2014-2017

• Secured her WFM Title after becoming Asian Youth Chess Champion in Under 8 Girls category

• Won Bronze Medal for Bengal Chess Team in National Women Team Chess Championship 2017. She also won 1st prize in Board No.1

• Won Bronze Medal in both National Under 17 & Under 19 Chess Championship in 2016

• Multiple time State Sub Junior Champion (2013, 2015 & 2016)

• Multiple time State Junior Champion (2014 & 2016)

• WCM Chandreyee Hajra won Bronze Medal in Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017 in the Under 18 Girls Category

• Won Bronze Medal for Bengal Chess Team in National Women Team Chess Championship 2017

• Won Silver Medal in Asian Youth Chess Championship 2015 in Under 16 girls category

• National Amateur 2014 Champion in Women’s category

• Won Bronze medal in National Schools Chess Championship in 2014 in Under 15 Girls category

• Runner Up in State Junior Chess Championship in 2014

• Won Bronze medal in Asian Schools Under 13 Girls Blitz Chess Championship 2012

• Won State Women Chess Championship in 2012

• Won State Age Group Chess Championship in 2012 in Under 13 Girls category

• Won Asian Amateur Chess Championship in 2015 in Women’s category

• FM Mitrabha Guha won Bronze Medal in Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017 in the Under 16 Open Category

• Won Bronze Medal in CBSE National Under 19 Mixed Chess Tournament 2016 for South Point High School

• Secured 3rd position National Blitz Chess Championship 2017

• Secured 2nd position in National Youth Under 25 Chess Championship in 2017

• Won 2nd The Heritage Rapid Chess Championship 2017

• Secured 2nd position in The Heritage Blitz Chess Championship 2017

• Won 2nd The Heritage School Team Chess Championship 2017 for South Point High School

• Runner up in West Bengal State FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2017

• Won Kolkata District Chess Championship in 2017

• Won National Under 15 Chess Championship in 2016

• Won Silver Medal in Asian Youth Rapid Chess Championship in 2016 in Under 16 Open Category

• Secured 2nd position in National Sub Junior Chess Championship in 2015

• Secured 2nd position in West Bengal State FIDE Rated Blitz Chess Championship

• Won Gold Medal in Commonwealth Chess Championship in 2015 in Under 14 Open category

• Won West Bengal State Junior Chess Championship in 2015

• Won West Bengal State Under 17 Chess Championship in 2015

• Won Silver Medal in Asian Youth Chess Championship in 2014 in Under 14 Open category

• Won West Bengal State Age Group Chess Championships in Under 7,9,11 & 13 Open category (2007-2013)

Workshops organized by DBCA:

Times of India presents Simul for Kolkata kids by Dibyendu Barua

Events organized by DBCA:

DBCA Online blitz tournament:

In order to celebrate 12 years of DBCA's chess excellence, ChessBase India and Playchess have organized a blitz tournament in their honour on 10th of September 2017.

Details of the event: 

Date: Sunday, 10th September 2017

Time: 6.00 p.m. IST 

Time control: 3+1, 10 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 50,000, first prize Rs.12,500

Venue: Playchess

Eight grandmasters including National Challengers champion Deepan Chakkravarthy, national blitz champion Rajaram Laxman, GM Vishnu Prasanna, GM Diptayan Ghosh, GM Debashis Das, GM G.N. Gopal, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, defending champion GM Vaibhav Suri have confirmed their participation.

Four more Grandmasters have joined and they are Montcada Open 2017 winner GM M Shyam Sundar, Recently Qualified for National Premier 2017, GM Abhijit Kunte, GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and GM Ankit Rajpara

Confirmed participants:

The entry fee is Rs.400 until 26th of August. After that it will be Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here. The last date to pay entry is 9th of September 2017.

Once you have paid the entry fee, you will receive the one month serial key on the registered email address along with the procedure to extend your account.

Entry fee for students of Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy will be Rs.250 which will be paid directly at the academy.