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Monnisha from Chess Gurukul wins National Under 13

rbramesh — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:16:15 +0000

GK Monnisha from Chess Gurukul won the National Under 13 Championship which was held recently at Pondicherry. Monnisha lost one game in the process to second seed Lasya and won most of her remaining games to finish one point ahead of her nearest rivals showing her dominance over the rest in clear terms.
Chess Gurukul’s Mahalakshmi won her last round game against Lasya to finish with the bronze. Had Ashwini won her last round game against Rutuja Bakshi from a completely winning position Chess Gurukul would have sweeped the top 3 positions but unfortunately she lost the game in time trouble to finish 10th in the list.
It maybe remembered that these three girls won the top three places in the Tamil Nadu State Championship Under 13 held few weeks back.

Michelle and Mugil of Chess Gurukul leading in TN State Under 15

rbramesh — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:03:21 +0000

Chess Gurukul’s Michelle Catherina defeated Chess Gurukul’s G.Sushmitha in the 5th round to jointly lead the Tamil Nadu State Under 15 Girls Championship with 4.5 points after 5 rounds along with Priyadarshini.
In the boys section, Mugil Jayavel of Chess Gurukul is in joint lead with G Akash on full score of 5 points in 5 rounds. Chess Gurukul’s Aadityan and Sai Kiran are following the leaders on 4 points.
Rank after Round 5
Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Mugil Jayavel IND 1981 CHE 5,0 17,5 10,0 17,50
2 G Akash IND 2188 CHE 5,0 16,5 11,0 16,50
3 Nishvin J IND 2057 KKI 4,0 17,0 10,0 12,00
4 Aadityan N IND 1812 CHE 4,0 16,0 9,5 12,00
5 Shashaank D S IND 2160 CHE 4,0 15,5 10,0 11,50
6 Ganesh R IND 1959 CBE 4,0 15,0 9,0 10,00
7 Sai Kiran S IND 1797 CHE 4,0 14,5 8,5 9,50
8 Ramasubramanian V IND 0 TNY 4,0 13,0 9,0 10,00
9 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J IND 1924 KKI 4,0 13,0 7,5 9,50
10 Subramanian R M IND 1757 MDU 4,0 12,5 8,5 9,00

Rank after Round 5
Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 Priyadharshni IND 1726 KGI 4,5 15,5 12,0 11,0
2 Michelle Catherina P IND 1922 CHE 4,5 15,0 12,0 10,5
3 Varshini V IND 1572 BLOOM 4,0 13,5 10,5 9,0
4 Casmier Leeth A IND 0 KKI 4,0 12,5 10,5 8,0
5 Aarthi G IND 1617 BCA 4,0 12,5 9,5 9,0
6 Varshcine K IND 1461 MDU 4,0 11,5 9,5 8,0
7 Akshaya N IND 1796 CBE 3,5 15,0 12,0 10,5
8 Saroja K IND 1562 CHE 3,5 13,0 11,0 8,5
9 Sushmitha G IND 1630 CHE 3,5 13,0 10,5 8,5
10 Aarudhra Ganesh IND 1677 CBE 3,5 12,5 10,0 8,5

source: www.chess-results.com

Divyalakshmi of Chess Gurukul wins a cycle at PSBB tournament!

rbramesh — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:46:00 +0000

Chess Gurukul’s Divyalakshmi won the PSBB Tournment held at PSBB School, T. Nagar between 10th & 11th April 2010 in under-12 catagory. She scored 6.5 points out of 7 rounds and won the title.

She was given a Bicycle as the first prize. The prizes were distributed by International Master and current World Under 16 boys Champion SP Sethuraman and IM Manuel Aaron.

Chess Gurukul’s Monnisha in lead in National Under 13

rbramesh — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:48:02 +0000

Chess Gurukul’s GK Monnisha is leading with 8.0 points after 9 rounds in the National under 13 Girls Championship being held at Pondicherry. Bakshi Rutuja is closely following Monnisha with 7.5 points.
Bakshi has beaten the two top seeds in the event Lasya and Sunya Sakta Satpathy for a creditable show so far.
Lasya who was leading the tournament with full score after 6 rounds lost unfortunately in the 7th and 8th rounds to fall behind in the standings.
Monnisha is playing good quality chess so far and with 2 rounds remaining is well placed to go for the title.Mahalakshmi and Ashwini of Chess Gurukul are also in the top ten position with 6.5 points.
In the boys section Diptayan Ghosh is leading with 8.0 points closely follwed by top seed Girish Koushik from Karnataka on 7.5 points. Chess Gurukul’s M.Siddarth, Prasannaa and Pranav Vijay who were playing in the 6th, 7th and 8th board respectively lost from better positions to fall behind in the standings. A good finish in the last 2 rounds could improve their positions considerably.

Pairings/Results Boys
Round 9 on 2010/07/02 at 1500 hrs
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 4 Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh IND 2050 6½ 0 – 1 7 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2133 3
2 10 Rakesh Kumar Nayak IND 1970 7 0 – 1 6½ FM Girish A Koushik IND 2276 1
3 20 Sreyan Bhowmick IND 1877 6½ 1 – 0 6 G Yogesh IND 2002 8
4 6 Aravindh chithambaram Vr IND 2014 6 ½ – ½ 6 Debankan Dhara IND 1873 21
5 14 Ayush Jugele IND 1912 6 ½ – ½ 6 Narayanan S L IND 1964 12
6 27 K Praneeth Surya IND 1831 6 1 – 0 6 Siddarth M IND 1961 13
7 26 Prasannaa S IND 1844 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Karthikeyan Murali IND 2011 7
8 33 Pranav Vijay IND 1797 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Vasantha Ruba Varman IND 1996 9
9 11 Aditya Chakraborty IND 1967 5½ 1 – 0 5½ Satkar Chirag IND 1797 34
10 15 Manush Shah IND 1905 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Naren swaminathan P IND 1790 39
11 50 Rishi Sardana IND 1753 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Kumaran B IND 1901 17
12 18 Barath L IND 1892 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Akhilesh T Rai IND 1787 40
13 23 Tamhankar Viraj IND 1860 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Krishna Teja N IND 1777 42
14 55 Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 1735 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Vignesh Nr IND 1848 24
15 25 S Bhat Vaibhav IND 1845 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Kaushik Bhave IND 1769 46

Pairings/Results Girls
Round 9 on 2010/07/02 at 1500 hrs
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 5 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 1808 7 1 – 0 6½ Shvetha V IND 1583 32
2 9 Bakshi Rutuja IND 1729 6½ 1 – 0 6½ Sunyasakta Satpathy IND 1846 1
3 2 Lasya G IND 1839 6 1 – 0 6 Dharani Sree R IND 1672 16
4 6 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 1802 6 0 – 1 6 Varshini V IND 1525 44
5 31 Deodhar vrushali Umesh IND 1587 6 0 – 1 5½ Ashwini U IND 1838 3
6 4 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 1836 5½ 1 – 0 5½ Varsha c K IND 1640 22
7 8 Shoumi Mukerjee IND 1766 5½ ½ – ½ 5½ Salini R IND 1617 24
8 14 Andria L D`souza IND 1691 5½ 1 – 0 5½ WCM Tarini Goyal IND 1581 33
9 52 Mahika Mor IND 1489 5½ 0 – 1 5½ Parnali S Dharia IND 1658 19
10 7 Meenu Priya Se IND 1774 5 ½ – ½ 5 Aarthi G IND 1602 28
11 10 Meghna C H IND 1717 5 ½ – ½ 5 Manjula R IND 1563 39
12 50 Pritika D IND 1492 5 ½ – ½ 5 Akankhya Kabi IND 1713 11
13 13 Sradhanjali Jena IND 1712 5 1 – 0 5 Kelkar Devika IND 1579 35
14 34 Shiny Das IND 1580 5 0 – 1 5 Gangamma b N IND 1669 17
15 18 Soneji Janhavi IND 1660 5 1 – 0 5 Deekshidha P S IND 0 76

Source: www.chess-results.com

Shyam, Nitin lead after 8 rounds in Asian Juniors

rbramesh — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:01:21 +0000

14th seeded IM Shyam Sundar and 15th seeded FM Nitin are leading with 6.5 points at the end of the 8th round of the Asian Junior chess Championship being held at Hotel Vijay Park at Chennai. Final round will be played on Wednesday and World Champion GM Anand will be the chief guest for the prize awarding ceremony.

Three players, 2nd seeded IM Vidit Gujarathi, 3rd seeded IM Lallith Babu and 24th seeded Mehar Chinna Reddy are following the leaders with 6.0 points. A draw in the final round on top board should probably ensure Shyam his maiden Asian Junior title because of his superior tie break though we will have to see how things turn out in the end.

An interesting feature in this years event is that there are 3 above top 10 seeded seeded players in the top two tables in the final round which shows the intense competition prevailing in the tournament.

In the Girls section, WFM Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vietnam) and WFM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan (Kaz) are leading the table with 6.5 and as in boys section 3 players are trailing by half point at 6.0 that includes the top seed Padmini Rout from India.

Bharathi and Pratyusha among leaders

rbramesh — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:41:12 +0000

Four girls share lead after the third round in the ongoing Asian Junior girls chess Champonship here at Chennai.India’s
WFM R.Bharathi and Pratyusha Bodda are among the leaders along with WFM Tay Li Jin Jeslin of Singapore and WFM Vo Thi Kim Phung of VIetnam with full 3 pionts. Top seed Padmini Rout is close behind with 2.5 points along with 2 others in the second spot.

In the Boys Section, India’s Narayanan Srinath and K.Priyadharshan are leading with 3points. In the second spot there are 12 players including the tops 3 seeds.

Chessgurukul girls are doing well with Michelle Catherine with 2 points followed by Dharani Sree in 1.5 points, G.Sushmitha and Hemapriya in 1 point each.

Kokarev Dimitry Wins Mayor’s Cup

rbramesh — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:51:59 +0000

The third edition of Mumbai Mayor’s cup featured 41 Grandmasters from all over the world with a total entry of 353 players.
Apart from the 40 grandmasters,the tournament sported 253 fide rated players and 88 title players.
The number of title players has given good norm chances for aspiring youngsters.
It is becoming an annual event in Mumbai every summer,getting better year after year.

Kokarev Dimitry Elo 2612 of Russia emerged clear winner in the Mayor’s cup with 9 points out of 11 rounds.
Kokarev was in full swing,picking up the lead as early as 7th round and continued to maintain it till the end.
A group of six players tied for the second spot with 8.5 points.

Debasish Das,Ashwin Jayaram,Himanshu Sharma and Abhijit Kunte scored 8 points to share the best Indian performance.
Young Rakesh Kulkarni made his maiden IM norm over coming 2 grandmasters in the event.
M.Siddarth of Chessgurukul scored a creditable 6 points with a win over WGM Gara Ticia in round 2.

Photo Courtesy – Alexandra Kostinuk’s Blog

Chessgurukul Girls Sweep State U-13

rbramesh — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:06:41 +0000

Tamilnadu U-13 girls state championship was a complete sweep by Chessgurukul students.
Mahalakshimi piped top seed U.Ashwini on tie break to take the U-13 state title.In the last round Mahalakshmi faced a tough competition from M.Sandhya also of chessgurukul and had to split points.While U.Ashwini was held to a draw by G.Aarthi.
The third Board saw another Chessgurukul encounter with Divyalakshmi facing G.K.monnisha, this game also ended in a draw.
Chessgurukul girls showed domination through out the event, securing 4 out of the first 5 places.
Mahalakshmi,U.Ashwini,G.K.Monisha took the top three places while Divyalakshmi was declared 5th on better tie break.
The other Chessgurukul girls who did well are M.Sandhya 7points,Dharinishree 7points, Manjula 6.5points and Rakshithashree 5.5points.

While in the Boys section Karthikeyan Murali won the tournament with 9 points. Aravindh Chidambaram and Nr.Vignesh finished second and third with 8.5 points.
Pranav Vijaya and Prasannaa of Chessgurukul finished eighth and nineth with 8 points each.

The top 6 girls and top 2 boys are selected to represent Tamilnadu state in the upcoming National U-13 championship at Pondicherry.

While in the Boys section Karthikeyan murali won the title.The second and third spot was taken by Aravind Chidambaram of Madurai and Nr.Vignesh.

Anand to play in London Chess Classic 2010

vasu — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:40:16 +0000

World Champion Viswanathan Anand will be playing in the London Chess Classic 2010 to held in December this year in London. Other participants include World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen (Norway), former world champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (USA) and four GMs from UK.

Official Press release adds :

Viswanathan Anand will become the first reigning world chess champion to play in a major tournament in London since Anatoly Karpov in 1984 when he joins the eight-player field for the second London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December 2010 at the Olympia Conference Centre.

Vishy Anand is the one change from the stellar field which brought spectators flocking to London to watch elite chess in December 2009. The great Indian player, who will turn 41 during the tournament, recently retained his title as the undisputed champion of the world by defeating Veselin Topalov in the latter’s home city of Sofia, Bulgaria. In London he will meet his immediate predecessor as champion, Vladimir Kramnik, 36, of Russia, and also the young man who is currently riding high as the world’s highest rated player and widely tipped to be Anand’s next challenger – Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who will be 20 by the time the tournament starts.

London is thus privileged to witness a clash of the past, present and likely future chess champions. At the time of writing Carlsen is world number one on the FIDE (World Chess Federation) Rating List, Kramnik is number three and Anand number four. Looking forward, London is also bidding to host the 2012 World Championship title match, so Anand’s clashes with Carlsen and Kramnik could well be a preview of what happens in London’s Olympic year.

Five more players make up the field of eight, all of whom played in the exciting 2009 event. Each one earned his place for his fighting play last year. The fourth non-British player is Hikaru Nakamura, USA, who will turn 23 during the London event. The American is known as the ‘H-Bomb’ for his explosive and totally uncompromising style of play. He has won the US Championship twice and also won major events in San Sebastián and Gibraltar in the past couple of years. He is improving all the time and can be expected to press hard for wins against the leading trio of players.

England has an established quartet of elite players and all four will be playing in London. Michael Adams, 39, from Cornwall, has recently wrested back his position as England number one and he spent a number of years as the world number four. He is fresh from winning the prestigious Gibraltar International. Nigel Short, 45, became a chess legend when he broke the Kasparov-Karpov stranglehold on world title matches, beating Anatoly Karpov on the way to a title match with Garry Kasparov in 1993. He is still one of the most entertaining players on the circuit – and not to be missed in the commentary room after the game! Luke McShane, 26, started a financial career after university but couldn’t resist the lure of the international chess scene. He is now re-establishing his status as one of the most talented of the world’s young grandmasters. David Howell, 20 in November, had a sensational elite tournament debut in this event last year when he finished third behind Carlsen and Kramnik. He had recently won the British Championship by a handsome margin and has subsequently shared first at Hastings and won the British Rapidplay Championship for the second year in succession.

Official Site :

http://londonchessclassic.com/

Mahalakshmi and Ashwini in lead

rbramesh — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:44:31 +0000

WFM Mahalakshmi and U.Ashwinin of Chessgurukul are in lead with 7.5 points after the ninth round in the tamilnadu state U13 girls chess championship. Divyalakshmi and Monnisha share the second spot along with Srija Sheshadri with 7 points.

In the boys section Pranav Vijay and S.Prasannaa of Chessgurukul are in second spot with 7 points,along with 4 others. While Aravindh Chidambaram of Madurai and Akash pc Iyer of Chennai are leading with 7.5points.