December 2021 YouTube funds will give wings to 12-year-old Daakshin's dream of becoming an IM this year

by Sagar Shah - 06/03/2022

Daakshin Arun is one of India's upcoming youngsters. The 12-year-old has a FIDE rating of 2173 and is ranked the highest in the country for kids born in 2009. Daakshin's father, Arun, had been working as a professor in an engineering college. In 2017 he gave up his job so that he could travel with Daakshin to tournaments all across India and the world. The boy has been progressing rapidly, but this has put a lot of financial pressure on the family. The boy and his family have an aim of becoming an IM in the year 2022 and in order to facilitate this dream, the ChessBase India YouTube memberships for the month of December 2021 of Rs.72,076 will be given to Daakshin.

Rs.72,076 December 2021 YouTube Membership Fund goes to 12-year-old Daakshin Arun

ChessBase India runs a YouTube channel which is frequented by millions of people each month. We have a membership program where the perk for the people is that the money they spend in buying the memberships is entirely used to help one talented chess player in need of these funds. Towards the end of the article you will find all the links of the previous months where the YouTube membership funds have been utilized.

Membership Tier	Amount per month
Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Promoter of Indian chess	599
Supporter of Indian chess	299
Booster of Indian chess	199
Backer of Indian chess	89

In the month of December 2021 we have had 230 members. We have 59 pillars, 1 promoters, 20 supporters, 28 boosters and 122 backers of Indian chess. These are the details of all of them:

Jay Khunt	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Just A Famous Guy	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Anondo Das Gupta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Kalpak Raut	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Mrityunjay Jalan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Tejas Chitnis	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Joy Dutta	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Vivaswan Damle	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Sambit Ghosh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Mr VG	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
chiranjibi sahoo	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Naveen Bharathwaj	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Vignesh Subramanian	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Abhishek Deshpande	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Ashwin S. Hebbar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Madhuchethan Rao	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Vishwajeet Dagar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Swapnil	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Mihir Sawant	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Shreyas Tawre	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Vamsi Chada	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Ravi Chan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Pranav Kulkarni	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Rohit Bhangale	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Naveen Kumar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
damnit	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
shreyas gokhale	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Manaswi Mishra	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Shashank Srikant	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Swehil	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
sanket panaskar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Saurabh Dhamnaskar	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
nishant panigrahi	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
nabh choudhary	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
nutan dutt	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Nitish	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Ajin Cherian	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Sriraam Ramakrishnan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Asim Khan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Aditya Desai	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Dan Ruparel	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
ruchir sutaria	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
RahulMukerji09	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Rohit Pareek	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Vini Vedi Vici	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Tony Dary	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Ankita Kulkarni	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Sminil Mahajan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Anas Edacherry	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Kiran Iyer	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
KolonNiki	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
shyammsm	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Dharmen Shah	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Zeus	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Sujit Varghese	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Keith Mascarenhas	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Siddharth Ranadive	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Sudarshan Rangan	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Ajeet prsingh	Pillar of Indian Chess	799
Eesha Dutta	Promoter of Indian chess	599
varun kamble	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Mohith T S	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Pratik Shetty	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Arvind Ramnath	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Manu Talwar	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Suyash Swaroop	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Murali Phani	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
LaKsHyA	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Arvind Raman	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Indian From South	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
rutvij bhavsar	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
hellking4u	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Rajeev Ranjan	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Nishaad Rao	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Sai Gudigundla	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Sanu Pillai Vlogs	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
kshitiz lohani	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Sachin Ranade	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Gokul Ramanathan	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Arunava Bhattacharjee	Supporter of Indian Chess	299
Mrinmay	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Sandeep Roy	Booster of Indian Chess	199
BHAGYASHREE KADUSKAR	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Gaurav Chandiramani	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Rakshank Savadatti	Booster of Indian Chess	199
SUDARSHAN K M	Booster of Indian Chess	199
avant jain	Booster of Indian Chess	199
FlashBin Gaming	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Shradhey Tripathi	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Diljeet Singh Narwal	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Ajit Gole	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Kappa 322	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Himanshu Bhasin	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Gaurav Mohta	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Mann Sareen	Booster of Indian Chess	199
SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Jai Pandit	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Prakhar Gupta	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Ankush Dhyani	Booster of Indian Chess	199
BunnyEatWorld	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Akshit Johry	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Tanmay Devi	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Yash	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Akshay Shenoy	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Tapan Krishna	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Mahesh Parab	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Abhishek Jain	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Siddharth Sen	Booster of Indian Chess	199
Hiren patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Suraj Ranawade	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Purva Sawant	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Abhinav Mittal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Dhairya Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sharat Goswami	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Amit Nakod	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sarvesh Deshpande	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Karini Sandeep Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Raj Agarwal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Harshil Mittal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Kashi Sah	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Ipw Law	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Soham Pandya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
shyam prasad	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Arun J	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Karthik Velturi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Vishal09	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Harsh Makharia	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Lovesh Tulsija	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Vinit Mamania	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Nikhil Goyal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Pratyayan DasGupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Akshay P	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sumedh Deshpande	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sreekar Aditya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sumalya Bhattacharya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Gourab Goswami	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Tanmay Buwa	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Chaliceter	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Pranshav Vyas	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Aditya Jadhav	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Gaurab	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Abhishek Rai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Arshad84	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rabia Singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Akshay Kulkarni	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Parth Thakkar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
harshit vora	Backer of Indian Chess	89
anmol welpulwar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Akshat	Backer of Indian Chess	89
agam dixit	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Srinivasan Gopalan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
sarat pavan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Deepesh Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Soumyaranjan Mishra	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Anirvan Sengupta	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Tube or Not Tube	Backer of Indian Chess	89
shas k	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Gunin Khanna	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rahul Arvind	Backer of Indian Chess	89
gobletFire	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Mihir Hasabnis	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Nitin Desai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Bhavik Makan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
franklin abraham	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Aravind Pathapati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Jalaj Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Anand C U	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rahul Ghosal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
David James	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Bhargav Srinivasan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sandeep Madheshiya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Nagesh Anthati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rajat Kamtekar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Chairab Madaan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
devan sra	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Krishna Char	Backer of Indian Chess	89
ScaleTale	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Muralikrishna Gangaraju	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Abhishek Desai	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Shaurya Mathur	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Naveen	Backer of Indian Chess	89
vedaant rana	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Gokul	Backer of Indian Chess	89
SANSAR RANA	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Shiva Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rut Madgeri	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Jay Dave	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Raghava Madhwapathi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Yash Tandon	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Pranti Bordoloi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Srinath Narayanan	Backer of Indian Chess	89
K.V.P.Varma Kuchelapaati	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Dhandeep Lodaya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Kartik	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Akshay Natu	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Swapan Karmakar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Smita Acharya	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Henal Merchant	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Sai Praveen Gummadi	Backer of Indian Chess	89
2856Rohit	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Swapnil Sen	Backer of Indian Chess	89
thiedevil	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Chandrasekhar S.	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Heman Kundu	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Abhishek Agarwal	Backer of Indian Chess	89
arun Taccode	Backer of Indian Chess	89
D SANDEEP	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Phani Varma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Raj S	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Pratip Rao	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Shubham Shah	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Chetan Suresh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Subodh Patil	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Kumar Roy	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Harjaap Singh	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Siddhant	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Hardik Rudani	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Aseem Goel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Anusheela Das	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Snehal Pathak	Backer of Indian Chess	89
N M	Backer of Indian Chess	89
BeastStats	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Neo0889	Backer of Indian Chess	89
GizmoGirl	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Aditya Bankar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Mayur Gondhalekar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Anish Kumar	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Shyamal patel	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Naman Sharma	Backer of Indian Chess	89
Rijoy Mukherjee	Backer of Indian Chess	89

The Total amount comes to Rs.49,105 after 30% deduction of YouTube charges. All of this amount will go to fund the chess journey of Daakshin Arun. Apart from the above amount, we also have two donations made by generous individuals Rahil Sheth (Rs.14,971) and Kishore Hazarika (Rs.8000). The total amount comes to Rs. 72,076.

Becoming an IM in 2022 is 12-year-old Daakshin's aim

Daakshin is born in 2009 and is one of India's brightest young talents. His current Elo is 2173

In November 2021, we wrote a detailed article on Daakshin Arun on the ChessBase India talking about how the youngster had managed to pump up his rating by 415 Elo points in just 2 months. We spoke to his father Arun about the financial difficulties that they were facing. He tells us, "I had been working as a Professor in an Engineering college and I had to give up my career in 2017 to take Daakshin regularly for tournaments. As a matter of fact, we have been travelling to all major tournaments in India almost every month which made it very difficult to continue my profession. From 2017 onwards we have been managing with single income and savings as I quit my job to accompany Daakshin for tournaments. Now our savings have been utilized taking him for all major tournaments in India, Asian championship in Sri Lanka, World Championship in China and the European trip to Hungary and Spain. Besides, a lot of money had been spent on coaching, hardware and software required for chess preparation. We desperately require funds to take him for further tournaments in India and Europe so that he can move towards his IM title."

Daakshin (right) and his brother Sukirthan with their trophies and Father Arun and Mother Kavitha

This entire amount of Rs.72,076 will be used towards the upcoming GM Open tournaments that will take place in India in the month of March. Apart from that Arun has the detailed plan chalked out. "Daakshin is planning to play a couple of GM tournaments in India, Nationals, besides two trips to Europe in the second half of the year depending upon fund availability." We hope that this support will help Daakshin play in more events and become a stronger chess player.

GM R.B. Ramesh mentions, "Before the pandemic related lockdown, many promising youngsters where growing in their strength very fast but all of a sudden they could not play in tournaments and lost 2 precious years in their young career. Same with Daakshin. He has very good analytical ability and practices long hours. Very ambitious and interested to learn all aspects of the game. He has recently increased his rating a lot and is a good prospect to become one of the youngest GMs in our country."

Daakshin receiving a memorable prize at the hands of the one and only Viswanathan Anand\

IM Sagar Shah analyzes one of Daakshin's excellent games with the boy himself

Some of Daakshin's major achievements:

Asian youth Chess Championship -Sri Lanka in 2019 –U10 Open
❖ Silver medal in Rapid format
❖ Two team Gold’s in Classic and Rapid formats.

West Asian youth and Junior Chess Championship - Delhi 2019 – U10 Open
❖ Silver Medal in Classical
❖ Bronze Medal in Rapid

National Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019, Delhi.
❖ 5 th Place International Tournaments 2021

❖ First Saturday Nadassy, held in Budapest , HUNGARY where he finished 2 nd overall and gained 204 ELO.
❖ 26th Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona Open, held In Barcelona, SPAIN – scored 5/9 and improved his rating by 155 ELO.
❖ San Cristobal De Laguna Open held in Tenerife, SPAIN – Won 2nd Place in U 12 Category. 2020
❖ Runner up in U-10 category in IIFL Mumbai International Juniors Chess Tournament 2019
❖ World Cadets Chess Championship – China – 24th Rank
❖ Common Wealth Chess Championship – Delhi – 14th Rank
❖ Vellamal International FIDE Rated Championship - 2 nd in rapid, 3rd in Blitz ( U-11)
❖ 19th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open tournament - 1 st U-11
❖ A.S Subbaraman Memorial Trophy FIDE Rated Blitz Championship - 2 nd U-11
❖ Thalavaipuram International FIDE Rated Tournament - 8 th in Open
❖ 1 st Goa international Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament - Category B - 3 rd in U - 11 2018
❖ 18th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open tournament - 2 nd in below 1400
❖ 1 st Goa international Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament – Category C - 1 st - U9
❖ Ramco institute of technology international FIDE rated Open chess tournament – 30th Open 2017
❖ CDCA FIDE Rapid Rating Chess tournament - 2 nd U-8
❖ 10th Modern International FIDE Rated tournament - 1 st U-8
❖ Raghavendra Open FIDE Rated tournament - 3 rd U-8
❖ 6 th M.S.V Memorial Open FIDE Rated tournament - 3 rd U-8
❖ 1 st SPIC FIDE Rated tournament – 4 th below 1400
❖ Dhakshinamoorthy Memorial Open Rapid FIDE Rated Chess Tournament - 4 th U-8 National and State Tournaments 2019
❖ National Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019 – 5 th Rank
❖ TN State Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019 – 4 th Rank
❖ TN State Under 13 Open Chess Championship 2019 - 2 nd - U - 11
❖ TN State Under 15 Open Chess Championship 2019 - 1 st - U - 11 2018
❖ 32nd National Under 9 Open Chess Championship – 11th Rank
❖ 22nd TN state Open Rapid Championship - 1 st - U – 11
❖ 31st TN State Under 9 Open Chess Championship – 3 rd Rank District Tournaments
❖ Chennai District Chess Champion- U-11 -2019
❖ Chennai district Chess Champion- U-9 -2018
❖ The Hindu in School Chess Champion- U-9- 2018

A big thanks to all our members for contributing regularly and helping to power chess in India. The dreams of these youngsters receive wings because of the money you spend and we are very grateful for your support. It's by these small gestures by each one of you that India is slowly and steadily becoming a super power in the world of chess!

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Previous articles on the YouTube Memberships funds ulitized

May 2021 fund for Savitha and Karthik Venkata Krishna

June 2021 fund for Pranav V.

July 2021 fund for Ilamparthi

August 2021 fund for Sanjay Sivakumar

September 2021 fund for K.Marimuthu

October 2021 fund for M. Pranesh

November 2021 fund for Shreya Hipparagi

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