2 days to go for India's strongest blitz event ever!
When you decide to play a tournament, you have leave a few hours, if not days in order to travel to an event, book a flight or a train ticket and hotel room! There are so many things to be. Come 30th April, 6 p.m. and all that you have to do is switch on your computer and login to the Playchess server in order to play the strongest online blitz tournament ever in India! Adhiban, Aravindh, Gopal, Lalith and so many strong players.
Here's the players list:
| Serial No. | Name | Playchess ID | Fide rating |
| 1 | GM B.Adhiban | phoenix92 | 2661 |
| 2 | GM Aravindh Chithambaram | 2588 | |
| 3 | GM G.N.Gopal | ilusionist16 | 2580 |
| 4 | GM Diptayan Ghosh | diptayan | 2572 |
| 5 | GM Lalith Babu | Anji | 2571 |
| 6 | GM Vaibhav Suri | 2558 | |
| 7 | GM Vishnu Prasanna | Fidodido | 2542 |
| 8 | GM Shyam Sundar | kereslover | 2535 |
| 9 | IM P Karthikeyan | Chennaikramnik | 2507 |
| 10 | GM Debashis Das | debashis das | 2501 |
| 11 | GM Magesh Chandran | gmmagesh | 2494 |
| 12 | GM Abhijit Kunte | 2491 | |
| 13 | IM Shyaam Nikhil | Pshyaamnikhil | 2454 |
| 14 | IM Swayams Mishra | Mr.bh6 | 2450 |
| 15 | IM R. Praggnanandhaa | rprag2005 | 2447 |
| 16 | GM Neelotpal Das | Mandrake | 2438 |
| 17 | IM Nihal Sarin | Nihalsarin | 2424 |
| 18 | GM R.R. Laxman | LAXMAN | 2403 |
| 19 | IM Padmini Rout | fawkes | 2400 |
| 20 | IM Abhishek Kelkar | livestrong_6 | 2398 |
| 21 | IM Anwesh Upadhyaya | Anwesh | 2385 |
| 22 | IM Akshat Khamparia | 2342 | |
| 23 | Sai Krishna GV | pennkrishna | 2339 |
| 24 | Aradhya Garg | Aradhya | 2315 |
| 25 | RAHUL SRIVATHSAV | RAHULSRIVATHSAV | 2303 |
| 26 | Sankalp gupta | Junior tyson | 2265 |
| 27 | WIM R. Vaishali | rvaishali2001 | 2259 |
| 28 | Maheswaran | Maheswara64 | 2254 |
| 29 | Fenil Shah | fenil_shah95 | 2252 |
| 30 | Sahil Tickoo | TheHope | 2222 |
| 31 | RAUNAK SADHWANI | devil1234 | 2218 |
| 32 | Snehal Bhosale | BurninggIce | 2211 |
| 33 | Mithil Ajgaonkar | Mithil | 2203 |
| 34 | Balasubramaniam H | Harishankkar | 2189 |
| 35 | IM Chakravarthi Reddy | Chakravarthi | 2189 |
| 36 | Pranav V | pranav_vip | 2149 |
| 37 | Kavitha JE | jekavitha | 2134 |
| 38 | Likhit Chilukuri | Jon Targaryen | 2125 |
| 39 | Joshi, Nikhil C. | NikhilJoshi2 | 2103 |
| 40 | Kannan Sa | NextWC | 2085 |
| 41 | Priyanka Nutakki | Chess Queen | 2084 |
| 42 | Pruthu Deshpande | GR8KNIGHT2001 | 2075 |
| 43 | L Mahendra Venkat | LMVenkat | 2064 |
| 44 | Kiran Panditrao | Kiran Panditrao | 2049 |
| 45 | Girish Chandanani | sanjanachandanani | 2040 |
| 46 | Vedant panesar | Brainboy123 | 2036 |
| 47 | Kushagra Mohan | kingfisher99 | 2031 |
| 48 | maulik rawal | maulik_rawal777 | 2016 |
| 49 | Dushyant sharma | Dushu2930 | 2013 |
| 50 | Vishal Didwania | dcmunpf | 2013 |
| 51 | GOPAL ASHOK RATHOD | chessworld36 | 2008 |
| 52 | Sanjeet Manohar | jimu9723 | 2007 |
| 53 | Vigneshwaran s | Bigbosschess | 1986 |
| 54 | Karthik Kumar Pradeep | darkknight | 1978 |
| 55 | Kotepalli Sai Nirupama | saraswathii | 1978 |
| 56 | Kushager krishnater | Kushager krishnater | 1953 |
| 57 | Siddharth Sabharishankar | sidduchessmaster | 1950 |
| 58 | L R Srihari | LSR | 1922 |
| 59 | PAVAN BNB | Loss2win | 1915 |
| 60 | sanchay dubey | sanchay | 1881 |
| 61 | Sk Shahid Ahmed | dnumber23 | 1862 |
| 62 | Aashna Makhija | Never say never | 1858 |
| 63 | Jay Pradhan | jptheking | 1840 |
| 64 | Ambarish Sharma | Unbeater | 1808 |
| 65 | Ishaan Bansal | ishu98 | 1729 |
| 66 | Harsh Kanoje | Masterwhiteking | 1738 |
| 67 | Sunil Vaidya | sunil vaidya | 1736 |
| 68 | R.Rathneesh | rathu | 1724 |
| 69 | Vignesh | vicky18 | 1613 |
| 70 | Mohammed Shamil | shamil | 1609 |
| 71 | Devanshi Rathi | devanshirathi | 1571 |
| 72 | Atharva Jaeel | atharvajaeel | 1568 |
| 73 | Chintha Ramu | ram_div | 1537 |
| 74 | DESHPANDE JATIN | SUPER_VIZARD | 1515 |
| 75 | Raghav Bansal | raghu_chess | 1508 |
| 76 | Soumyadipdeb | brandydam | 1497 |
| 77 | Abhinav Shetty | ahs1992 | 1491 |
| 78 | Vallabh Kavi | smartkid | 1402 |
| 79 | Yash Watarkar | ing3112 | 1396 |
| 80 | Garvit Kumar Kalra | Garv1811 | 1358 |
| 81 | Akshay Borgaonkar | chess2009 | 1240 |
| 82 | Satvik Kapoor | satvik_ygm | 1229 |
| 83 | Nilkant Shrey | gree_shrey | 1224 |
| 84 | Harshit Amarnani | Harshitamarnani | 1218 |
| 85 | Nishigandha Ramgude | Nishigandha Ramgude | 1209 |
| 86 | Saouhridya Pran Kashyap | sanu365 | 1138 |
| 87 | aryan khurana | Ak2003 | 1173 |
| 88 | Dakshayani Chavan | Barbie2008 | 1171 |
| 89 | Rohan Badera | ROHANBADERA | 1140 |
| 90 | Shreyas Purkar | shreyasp | 1124 |
| 91 | S.Vikraanth | Vikraanth | 1022 |
| 92 | Arjun Raje | Arjun Raje | - |
| 93 | Chetan Tyagi | CHETAN TYAGI | - |
| 94 | Laxmikant Sudhakar Bhole | bhole_laxmikant | - |
| 95 | Kimaya Bhole | bhole_kimaya | - |
| 96 | Ojas Khasgiwale | Ojas Khasgiwale | - |
| 97 | Purva Kulkarni | purvachess | - |
| 98 | Vihaan Dawda | Vihaandawda | - |
| 99 | Yashwardhan Agarwal | yash a2k | - |
13 grandmasters (can you recognize all of them in the picture above?) and 10 International Masters
We are extremely pleased that the three time reigning National Champion Padmini Rout will be playing at this event!
The super siblings Pragga and Vaishali are going to fly back to India from Reykjavik, take some rest and get ready for the tournament on 30th April!
Brief details:
Date: Sunday, 30th of April 2017
Time: 6.00 p.m. IST
Time control: 3+0, 11 rounds
Prize fund: Rs. 40,000, first prize Rs.11,111
Venue: Playchess
Prizes:
The total prize fund is Rs.40,000
Main Prize list:
| Place | Prize |
| 1st | 11,111 |
| 2nd | 7,500 |
| 3rd | 5,000 |
| 4th | 3,000 |
| 5th | 2,000 |
| 6th | 1,750 |
| 7th | 1,500 |
| 8th | 1,250 |
| 9th | 1,100 |
| 10th | 1,000 |
Lucky prizes:
There are six lucky prizes of Rs. 800 each. It will go to places 20,30,40,50,60 and 70. The condition to claim these prizes is that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way.
Join the party!
The entry fee is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125.
For all the details: