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Under 2200 Online Blitz: Entries open until 4 PM Sunday

by Priyadarshan Banjan - 22/07/2017

Four days after announcing the Kasparov Returns! Under 2200 Online Blitz Tournament that is to be held tomorrow (July 23), the tournament has received 50 entries. The tournament is being held in cooperation between ChessMine and ChessBase India and will take place in the Vishy Anand Arena on Playchess download client. While the tournament will be held as scheduled, we have extended the last date of registration until 4 PM tomorrow. Find out who is playing.

Under 2200 Online Blitz: Entries open until 4 PM Sunday

Our understanding is that chess as a sport needs to be commercially more viable and financially more powerful than it is today. The way to do this is by fostering an ecosystem where chessplayers get to use their creativity to play fantastic games of chess, that are in turn rewarded with prizes to make a player's life economically sustainable.

 

Among the other things both ChessBase India and ChessMine do, this tournament is a step towards that day when chessplayers can lead a dignified life by being chessplayers. Of course, nothing happens in a day, and it will probably take years before we see this change materialise.

 

But we had to start. And we have.

 

The event is open for players rated 2200 or below, and is free for the competitors of the ChessMine Rapid and Blitz Open 2017 to be held in Bangalore on August 5, 6, 7.

 

If you are unable to play the main event, India's strongest open tournament in history, you can still play the Under-2200 Online Blitz for an entry fee of Rs. 500.

"Kasparov Returns!" Online Blitz Tournament (U2200)
on 23rd July 2017 

First prize: Rs 6000! 

Date: 23rd of July 2017

Time: 8.00 p.m. IST 

Time control: 3+0: 9 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 28,000

Venue: Playchess

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.28,000

 

Main Prize list:

Place Prize
1st 6,000
2nd 5,000
3rd 4,000
4th 3,000
5th 2,000
6th 1,000
7th 1,000
8th 1,000
9th 1,000
10th 1,000
Special prizes:
There are six prizes of Rs. 500 each. The condition to claim these prizes is that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way. 
Place Prize
20th 500
30th 500
40th 500
50th 500
60th 500
70th 500

Entries are closed!

Starting rank

No.   Name FideID FED Rtg
1   Dushyant Sharma 25065130 IND 2170
2   Chandanani Girish 5010411 IND 2169
3   Pranav V 25060783 IND 2158
4   Joshi Nikhil C. 5021111 IND 2103
5   Harini S. 5024919 IND 2089
6   Mahendra Venkat L. 5025052 IND 2064
7   Soham Datar 5097169 IND 2037
8   Venkat Sundaram 5015995 IND 2026
9   Kumar Gaurav 5085578 IND 2014
10   Vigneshwaran N. 5025567 IND 2014
11 AGM Sa Kannan 5018340 IND 1960
12   Gavi Siddayya 5032822 IND 1933
13 AGM Shubham Shukla 25061623 IND 1878
14 AGM Shahid Ahmed S.K. 5017378 IND 1876
15 AGM Karthikeyan J. 5026849 IND 1838
16   Rohan Bharat Joshi 5097134 IND 1822
17   Shreyas S Nikam 5053412 IND 1762
18   Duvvala Suresh 5071658 IND 1718
19   Hend Pravin 5088682 IND 1696
20   Anannth Varun R 45050112 IND 1667
21   Balachandar E 5046882 IND 1623
22   Saket Kumar 5018358 IND 1615
23   Audipudy Sitaram 25637665 IND 1610
24 AIM Debarghya Samanta 35076183 IND 1540
25   Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi 25033220 IND 1531
26 AGM Navodith V Bhat 46652140 IND 1508
27   Arhan Chethan Anand 45062510 IND 1460
28   Rajinesh Chintala 45065357 IND 1390
29   Anilkumar Reddy Kasireddy 45085188 IND 1383
30   Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 46677720 IND 1363
31   Spandan P Seth 25073443 IND 1357
32   Avathanshu Bhat 35062034 IND 1331
33   Vijay Chandran Bala 25654969 IND 1289
34   Vinayan M P 46654470 IND 1224
35   Vikas Saini 25713035 IND 1174
36   Siva Vamsikrishna 35037609 IND 1065
37   Sachith Katti 25633783 IND 1013
38 AFM Subramanian Ashwin 366130254 FID 0
39   amol   IND 0
40   atharva jaeel   IND 0
41   bharat singh rawat   IND 0
42   dhrupad kashyap   IND 0
43   gagan chitkara   IND 0
44   palak patel   IND 0
45   saketh pedagandham   IND 0
46   sandeep m naik   IND 0
47   sreejith g s   IND 0