IIT Madras invites you to participate at 6th Shaastra Rapid Rating Open 2024

25 years of Shaastra

The 6th Shaastra Rapid FIDE Rating Open tournament will be held at IIT Madras in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 30th and 31st March 2024. With the prize fund of ₹500000, the event is scheduled for IIT Madras campus. The last date for registration for the event is 27th March. Play and enjoy the rapid tournament at the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras!

Invitation

Shaastra is the Technical Festival of IIT Madras, which is ranked No. 1 in India in Engineering Colleges under the MHRD rankings 2016. Shaastra is the first ISO certified student-run fest in India.

Schedule

There will be a total of nine rounds - five on Saturday 30th and four on Sunday 31st March 2024.

Prizes

There are various prizes in rating category, veteran, women, unrated and age group prizes in three different age group category besides 25 main prizes. Total prize fund is ₹500000 including first prize of ₹65000.

Rules and Regulations

The tournament will have nine rounds with a time control of 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment from move no.1. Chief Arbiter will be IA R Anantharam.

Entry fees

Entry is free and accommodation will be provided for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For all other rated and unrated players, the entry fee is ₹2300. For IIT Madras Students, Faculty and Staff Member, there is a discount. Check the image below to find out the details. Last date for submission of entry is 27th March 2023 5 p.m. IST. Spot registration will strictly not be entertained.

Confirmed titled players

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Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is a public engineering and research institute located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and is one of India's most prestigious universities. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

IIT Madras is a residential institute that occupies a 2.5 square kilometers campus that was formerly a part of the adjoining Guindy National Park. The institute has nearly 550-member faculty, 8,000 students, and 1,250 administrative and supporting staff. Growing ever since it obtained its charter from the Indian Parliament in 1961, much of the campus is a protected forest, carved out of the Guindy National Park, home to large numbers of...

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Venue

The main entrance of IIT Madras is on Chennai's Sardar Patel Road, flanked by the residential districts of Adyar and Velachery. The campus is close to the Raj Bhavan, the official seat of the Governor of Tamil Nadu. Other entrances are in Velachery (near Anna Garden MTC bus stop, Velachery Main Road) and Taramani gate (close to Ascendas Tech Park).

The campus is located 10 km from the Chennai Airport, 12 km from the Chennai Central Railway station, and is well-connected by city buses. Kasturba Nagar is the nearest station on the Chennai MRTS line.

Two parallel roads, Bonn Avenue and Delhi Avenue, cut through the faculty residential area before they meet at the Gajendra Circle, near the Administrative Block. Buses regularly ply between the Main Gate, Gajendra Circle, the Academic Zone, and the Hostel Zone.

Contact

Sai Teja – 8328609864 (English, Telugu)

Upendra – 9884297399 (English, Tamil)

Aditya S Sadhu - 9566129422 (English, Tamil)

Abhiram Pramod – 9948061005 (English, Hindi, Malayalam)

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Players list

Details

Links

Shaastra IIT Madras: Official site, facebook, instagram, twitter and youtube

About the Author

Veera Phani Sai Teja K is a 20-year-old Computer Science and Engineering student at IIT Madras. He is a passionate chess player and love playing tournaments. Whenever he is not coding or programming, he follows chess and whenever there is a long weekend or holiday, his first preference is to play a chess tournament in Chennai. He has played 10+ tournaments after joining IIT Madras. He manages to find a balance between academics and chess. He is the captain of the IIT Madras Chess team that won the Bronze medal at the recent Inter IIT chess tournament held at IIT Gandhinagar.

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