Top Indian players make their pledge for the martyrs of Pulwama terror attack

by Shahid Ahmed - 22/02/2019

GM Adhiban Baskaran is the first top player to make his pledge. India no.3 GM Vidit Gujrathi is the first titled player to announce his participation for this sunday's Pulwama Martyrs ChessBase Online Blitz Tournament at 8 p.m. IST. The tournament has no entry fee. All players can make a donation of any amount they want, minimum donation amount is ₹100. Among top women players of the country, WGM Bhakti Kulkarni and WGM Soumya Swaminathan have made their pledge. The entire proceedings will go to the family of the martyrs through 'Bharat Ke Veer' corpus fund. We request the chess community to join in and play this strong online blitz event. Photo: ChessBase India archives

Vidit, Adhiban, Soumya and Bhakti come forward to support the family of the martyrs

When India's top players show their support, you know chess is much bigger than just a sport

Vidit Gujrathi announced first that he would play in the tournament in a Facebook post:

Then GM Adhiban B, IM Eesha Karavade, WGM Bhakti Kulkarni and WGM Soumya Swaminathan made their donations of ₹5000 each. GM Laxman R R has made a pledge of ₹10000. Highest pledge has been made by GM Arjun Erigaisi of ₹15000.

Telangana's youngest GM Erigaisi Arjun made the biggest pledge of ₹15000 | Photo: ChessBase India archives

GM Laxman R R has pledged ₹10000 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Donate to the cause:

There is no entry fee for the tournament. However, only the people who donate will be allowed to play. It is requested to donate a minimum of Rs 100 for the Pulwama Terror Attack victims. There is no maximum limit. The entire proceedings will go to the victims' family via Bharat Ke Veer relief fund.

Entry is closed, however you can still donate via Bank Transfer.

All the money collected will be donated to Bharat Ke Veer Corpus Fund - homage and support to India's Bravehearts by Government of India.

The entire money collected will go to Bharat Ke Veer

We know that a lot of prominent individuals have come forward to give relief to the families of the victims. However, we at ChessBase India believe that we as chess players should do our bit. What we as chess players do over the 64 squared chess boards, our jawans do it on the borders, protecting us from any sort of danger. It is time to show that we stand for our brothers and contribute whatever little you can for this good cause. Each one of us can surely afford Rs.100.

It is our request to the players that once you make a donation, then give your 100% for the Online Blitz tournament. Play with aggression, play with passion and most of all play with the fearlessness that was shown by the jawans as they gave up their lives for the country.

You can also make a direct donation to the bank account of ChessBase India which will later be donated to the Bharat Ke Veer Fund:

Name :- CHESSBASE INDIA 64 SQUARES PVT LTD

A/C. No. :- 50200017108411

Bank Name: HDFC Bank.
Type of Account: Current Account
Branch Name :- GHATKOPAR EAST-TILAK ROAD
Branch Address :- 001 / 002, Samyak Darshan, Junction Of Tilak Road & Vallabh Baug Lane, Mumbai
IFSC CODE :- HDFC0000118

For Technical details on how to play the tournament, please refer to our previous article here.

Registered players along with their pledge amount:

1	GM Erigaisi Arjun	2526	Indian-Lion	15000
2	Param Dane	1079	GM_ParamDane	11111
3	GM Laxman R R	2417	LAXMAN	10000
4	WGM Soumya Swaminathan	2402	travellingknight	5000
5	WGM Bhakti Kulkarni	2348	bestluck	5000
6	Raghav Vaidya	1388	ragha_vaidya	5000
7	Rajesh Upadhyay	1948	rajuppi	2000
8	Ankit Dalal	1680	dalalankit84	2000
9	Vikrant Malvankar	1534	digupagal	2000
10	Arnav Nehete	1494	Annchess123	1001
11	IM Anwesh Upadhyaya	2372	Anwesh	1000
12	A.Anand Sivasankar	1853	anandfan	1000
13	Sourav Banerjee	1768	S_OU_RAV	1000
14	Arhan	1614	LegacyPlayer	1000
15	Rohithkrishna	1715	Srohithkrishna	1000
16	Girija Trehan	0	SAGARUKIN	1000
17	Mayur Gondhalekhar	0	gonda	1000
18	Vivaan Verma	0	vivaanverma	1000
19	Murugan	1542	Murugan_Shetty	800
20	Nitya Singhania	1296	NityaS	600
21	Satvik Kapoor	1558	Satvik_ygm	522
22	FM Kushager Krishnater	2329	kushu_attack	501
23	FM Arvinder Preet Singh	2102	Milkha	500
24	Jeet Shah	1965	Jeetshah123	500
25	Neel Shintre	1936	fishyvishy	500
26	Garv Gaur	1711	garvgaur7161	500
27	Swapnil Raj	1695	swap9059	500
28	Narayan Joshi	1531	Narayan1998	500
29	Mitul KH	1377	mitulkh	500
30	Rahul Sharma	1360	Rahul M Sharma	500
31	Siddhik Adanwale	1298	siddhik7	500
32	Sankaran.p.k	1250	Enthusiasm	500
33	Rahul Anil Bhagwat	0	mraa	500
34	Varnika Vashisht	0	varnikavashisht	500
35	Amit Soni	1821	amitaryan22	370
36	WIM Franco Valencia Angela	2144		250
37	Niklesh Jain	1995	Niklesh	250
38	Arjun Gupta	1818	Arjun Gupta	201
39	CM Shahil Dey	2041	Shahildey	200
40	Om Manish Kadam	1922	rajeshbb	200
41	Hariharan	1724	hariharansivaji9	200
42	Shriya	1616	shri28	200
43	Sehajdeep Singh	1463	sdsingh	200
44	Jani Kushal R	1444	Kushal Jani	200
45	Varad Deo	1341	Kaisar64	200
46	Pratyush Mohapatra	1280	jai jagannath	200
47	Amit Rajeshirke	0	AMITSHIRKE	200
48	Saurabh Anand	2363	Saurabh19	151
49	Rahil Babaria	1746	King222	111
50	Shejal Sahil Sanjay	1768	sahilwc04	101
51	Mithil Anande	1576	mithila32629	101
52	Pathak Rudra S	1552	RUDRAPATHAK	101
53	Rohit Kumar	1293	rojitdhiman06	101
54	Vishwas		VishyNotAnand	101
55	FM CJ Arvind	2200	Junosource	100
56	FM Dushyant Sharma	2157	Dushu2930	100
57	Bhavesh Mahajan	2051	MahajanBhavesh	100
58	Ameya Chavan	2048	ameyachess	100
59	Sa Kannan	1968	NextWC	100
60	Sourath Biswas	1870	Ironman3	100
61	Namitbir Singh Walia	1760	namitbir	100
62	Akshay Shegaonkar	1740	shegaonkar_ak	100
63	Bhoopnath	1649	Bhoopnath	100
64	Mukund H Agarwal	1387	Mukunda2507	100
65	Abhimanyu Singh	1360	TOUCHNDMOVE	100
66	Divya U	1290	divyakgf1211	100
67	Chinamy Ashish Kulkarni	1242	chinmaychess64	100
68	Manish Kumar	1212	Manishgarh	100
69	Vedant Panchal	1127	Ved2245	100
70	Aanya Chawat	1115	Achesschamp	100
71	Suryansh Verma	1077	Suryakhanal	100
72	Aaditya S P	0	Aadu2005	100
73	Akshita Mittal	0	Akshita mittal	100
74	Ashish Kulkarni	0	kulkashish	100
75	Deepak Bamne	0	956092018	100
76	Nikhil	0	Nikhili	100
77	Prashant Joshi	0	Klunger	100
78	Preksha Mahajan	0	PrekshaMahajan2021	100
79	GM Vidit Gujrathi	2711	evilgenius

Donors who are not playing:

Serial No.	Full name	Donation amount
1	GM Adhiban Baskaran	5000
2	GM G N Gopal	5000
3	IM Eesha Karavade	5000
4	CM Aditya Mittal	1000
5	Moksh Amit Doshi	750
6	Mahi Amit Doshi	750
7	Arshiya Das	500
8	Avatanshu Bhat	500
9	M K Chandrasekhar	500

The total amount collected is Rs.99,623. We look forward to your participation.