Riverside Students at Chess Gurukul!

Students of Riverside Public School (http://www.riversidepublicschool.com), Kotagiri, Nilgiri district visited Chess Gurukul at Chennai on a 3-day exposure trip from 17th to 19th July, 2009.

Riverside’s 14-member chess team of young boys and girls by its coach Mr. M Vivek was part of 160 students and 14 staff member contingent, on visit to chennai for exposure to various sports that included Footbal, Hockey, Cricket, Chess, Basketball and Table Tennis. For Chess, the choice was Chess Gurukul.

On the first day of their visit Riverside students particpated in the Simulatenous chess by Woman Grandmaster Aarthie Ramesh

The boys and girls held out against the former National champion for close to three hours. In the afternoon session, they had an interactive lecture ” The Chess story” on application of chess fundamentals by K Visweswaran.

The second day’s schedule started with FIDE Master K V Shantharam giving two hour lecture on various nuances of chess play, and it was followed by a lecture by renowned Sports Psychologist Krishna Prasad. Then they students also attended Chess Gurukul’s group sessions where they took up challenging tasks set out by the Chess Gurukul trainers.

On the third day, came the session that held the children in keen interest, as the group from Kotagiri played with Chess Gurukul students.

Riverside vs Chess Gurukul:

Reshmi vs Anirudh Aiyengar
Gayathri vs Rahul Krishna
Surya vs Prasanna. S
Krishnakumar vs Saikiran
Gokul vs Pranav
Sriram vs Varun Krishnan (USA)
Keerthana vs Gorak
Swetha vs Adhithya Sadhu
Adit vs Saikrishna
Shanu vs Aadityan. N
Sarnish vs Anirudh
Niranjan vs Vikram Ganesh (USA)
Swathish vs Balaje
Vignesh vs Aakash

Their delight was doubled with the arrival of Chess Gurukul’s National Under-18 Champion Shyaam Nikhil who had come back with the glittering Tamil Nadu State Open Chess Championship trophy which he clinched at Karaikudi only a few days ago.

The Riverside Public School is known for its patronage of sports more so for field games like volleyball, basketball, cricket, football and indoor games like table tennis and chess. Under their chess program, all students attend chess sessions atleast once a week. The chess lessons are given to 3 levels of students grouped according to the class in which they are studying. Mr. Vivek who conducts the chess sessions for the various groups, is a avid player too and will be taking part in the forthcoming Srilankan Open chess tournament.

The Riverside Students have to select two sports to engage themselves in. The able support comes from Mr. Govindan, Head of the department, Sports, Mr Alridge, Principal and Dr. Suresh Belliraj, Correspondent who believe Sport too is an part of the young person’s learning and progress.

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The Program:
10.30 AM to 1.30 PM- Simul by R Aarthie
3.00 5.30 lecture by K Visweswaran

July 18th
2.30-4.30- lecture by KV Shantharam
4.45-5.15 – Lecture by Krishnaprasad, Sports Psychologist
5.30-7.30 Chess Gurukul Group lessons

July 19th
10.30-1.00- Playing session with CG students

What they say:

“It was a very amazing trip for us; it was very useful and we learnt a lot from you all.; it was a very proud for us to meet WGM Aarthie the former world U-18 champion and Trainer K Visweswaran. Only bad bad luck was, we were not able to meet GM RB Ramesh (he is currently with the Indian Junior team at Holland). It was a great exposure to us.” – Keerthanaa Shri

“It was beautiful trip for Riverside. We enjoyed a lot and it was vert useful for me and my friends. I enjoyed with my club friends and it was great exposure for us” – R Shriram.

” ‘Chess Gurukul’ has given me a chance to look at the better (maybe the best) world of Chess. In school I have been playing chess. Now, looking at the players here, I feel the need to make more efforts. This place, students and coaches have now made me say ‘I will do something great.’ I Thank ‘Chess Gurukul’ with all my heart.
May the swords stay sharp!
Thanking you! ”
Swetha, N

“I am Surya doing my 11th std. I have been playing chess since my 8th and have not learned so many thing that I leanrned in this short period of three days. It was a very easily learnable session. I did solve the puzzles which were very interesting and I do wanted to do more and more. Thank you all for giving us such a good teaching about chess.”

“It was a wonderful and an enjoyable experience. I learnt many things from the students. I knew the dedication they have for chess. When I asked a student what his ambition was, he said, ‘ I want to become a world champion in chess.’ I was shocked! I felt that if I can work hard in chess, I can also become a grandmaster one day. I am very thankful to the coach and trainers in chess gurukul. I came to know about the strengths and weaknesses in me when I played with the students. I will work hard same as the students here and will achieve something great in chess.” – Gayathri

“I learnt a lot from this academy, like solving puzzles and etc . I also played a simulatneous game with WGM and it was very nice.Thanking you” – G Niranjan

… to be continued.

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