Your chance to play blitz with the best in Indian chess!

by Sagar Shah - 09/03/2017

On 9th March 1943 Robert James Fischer was born. To celebrate the birthday of this great player ChessBase India has organized the first prize money blitz tournament on 12th of March 2017. With the first prize of Rs.10,000 at stake the tournament already has four grandmasters, six International Masters, two WGMs and a horde of young talents participating at the event. This is your chance to play blitz against some of the best chess players of the country. Don't miss out!

It's a huge day for chess fans all over the world. Exactly 74 years ago the greatest player who ever graced the chess board - Bobby Fischer was born. On 9th March 1943 at 2.39 p.m. after nine hours of labour, Regina gave birth to her first son.

From the young 11-year-old boy in Brooklyn, to the man who broke the Soviet dominance, to the veteran who almost went crazy, Fischer was a man comparable to none!

What is the best way to pay tribute to one of the finest players that the game of chess has seen? Well, the right thing to do would be to indulge in something that Bobby loved. And chess was surely right on top of his favourites list. It is with this intention that ChessBase India has organized an online blitz event on the 12th of March 2017 on Playchess at 6 p.m.

Bobby Fischer Online Tournament
on 12th March, 2017

First prize: Rs.10,000

Date: 12th of March 2017

Time: 6.00 p.m. IST

Time control: 3+0, 9 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 31,000

Venue: Playchess

The tournament will witness the participation of four grandmasters: Swapnil Dhopade (2542), Vishnu Prasanna (2534), Deepan Chakravarthy (2480) and R.R. Laxman (2409)

Strong IMs like Thejkumar, Swayams Mishra, C. Praveen Kumar, CRG Krishna, Ravi Teja will be seen in action

As a spectator I would be very inquisitive to see how these four kids would perform at the event - R. Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin, Raunak Sadhwani and Pranav. V.

Woman power: WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty and WGM Bhakti Kulkarni have will ensure that boys don't have all the fun!

Confirmed list of players:

Serial No.	Name	Fide rating	Playchess ID
1	GM Lalith Babu	2593	Anji
2	GM Swapnil Dhopade	2542	SwapnilSD
3	GM Vishnu Prasanna	2534	Fidodido
4	IM P. Karthikeyan	2507	Chennaikramnik
5	IM Thejkumar	2482	msthej
6	GM Deepan Chakravarthy	2480	j2d
7	IM N. Srinath	2472	NSRINATH
8	IM R. Praggnanandhaa	2455	rprag2005
9	IM Swayams Mishra	2450	Mr.bh6
10	IM Arghyadip Das	2418	casillas
11	GM R.R. Laxman	2409	LAXMAN
12	IM Nubairshah Shaikh	2408	NubairshahShaikh
13	GM M.R.Venkatesh	2396
14	IM CRG Krishna	2394	crg
15	FM Nihal Sarin	2386	nihalsarin
16	IM Anwesh Upadhyay	2385	Anwesh
17	IM Ravi Teja	2377	RaviTejaS
18	Niranjan Navalgund	2375	Twentrythreewins
19	Mitrabha Guha	2348	Babysnake
20	Sai Krishna G.V.	2339	Pennkrishna
21	Aradhya Garg	2315	Aradhya
22	Rahul Shrivastav	2303	Rahulsrivathsav
23	IM C Praveen Kumar	2294	Cholzan
24	WGM Bhakti Kulkarni	2286	bestluck
25	S Arjun Kalyan	2280	chesscounter
26	Sankalp Gupta	2265	Junior Tyson
27	Ritviz Parab	2235	TheNGUKnight
28	Raunak Sadhwani	2218	devil1234
29	Snehal Bhosale	2211	BurninggIce
30	Arvind CJ	2198	Junosource
31	IM Chakravarthi Reddy	2195	Chakravarthi
32	Sriram Sarja	2175	Indianquant
33	WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty	2160	Rojalin
34	Pranav V	2149	pranav_vip
35	Likhit Chilukuri	2125	Jon Targaryen
36	Niraj Saripalli	2125	gogolman96
37	Nikhil Joshi	2103	NikhilJoshi2
38	Nikhil Dixit	2101	nikhildixit98
39	Kannan Sa	2085	NextWC
40	Priyanka Nutakki	2084	Chess Queen
41	Nikhil Magizhnan	2077	Nikhilchess4
42	Kiran Panditrao	2049	Kiran Panditrao
43	Dushyant Sharma	2013	Dushu2930
44	Anuj Shivratri	1980	Anuj shivratri
45	K.Sai Nirupama	1978	saraswathii
46	Rahul Verma	1946	Rvlc
47	Sonakshi Rathore	1933	Sonakshi
48	L R Srihari	1922	lsr
49	Rajababu Gajengi	1907	PRAJAT
50	Shahid Ahmed	1862	dnumber23
51	Abhijith Pran	1847	pranabhijith
52	Gopal Rathod	1842	chessworld36
53	Jay Pradhan	1840	jptheking
54	Shanya Mishra	1821	shanya
55	Ambarish Sharma	1808	Ambar768
56	Akhilesh Nagare	1807	Nagareakhilesh
57	Shahil Dey	1774	shahildey
58	Kiran A	1753	creativedevil
59	R.Rathneesh	1735	rathu
60	Ishan Bansal	1729	ishu98
61	Thangraj Nadar	1728	e-player
62	K.Krithigga	1708	krithiggakasi
63	Falgun Purohit	1705	falgun_chess4192
64	Kashish Manoj Jain	1679	Kashishgreen
65	Nityata Jain	1654	IGM210104
66	Vignesh.N	1639	vicky18
67	Aditya S	1637	adityass
68	Ankit Bhattacharya	1615	ANKIT2002
69	Debarghya Samanta	1592	debarghya1972
70	S.Rohit	1589	rohit_arjun
71	Atharva Jaeel	1568	atharvajaeel
72	Jatin Deshpande	1515	JATIN45
73	Shubham Malani	1510	Mad
74	Raghav Bansal	1508	raghu_chess
75	Abhinav Shetty	1491	ahs1992
76	Krish Butala	1476	india_chess
77	Jaiswalprince	1468	Ganpatibappa
78	Arhan Chethan Anand	1422	LegacyPlayer
79	Badri Narayan B	1411	Indianmvl
80	Yash Watarkar	1396	ing3112
81	Vikrant Malvankar	1388	digupagal
82	Avathanshu Bhat	1361	sans360
83	Badri Narayanan	1343	badri0102
84	Shivakumar D M	1332	dmshivakumar
85	Yuvraj Punia	1313	yuvraj111
86	Ashwin Sairam	1291	ASHWIN123
87	sparsh shah	1277	sparsh2004
88	Arnav Nehete	1261	ANN212
89	Prakhar Bajaj	1172	Gaurav306
90	Prahathi Mohan Raj	1108	PrahathiMohanRaj
91	Vamsi Krishna	1065	Zener#123
92	Parth Thakkar	0	plawliet9
93	Purva Kulkarni	0	purvachess
94	Sankarshana G	0	sankarshana G
95	Shreejana Dash	0	sreejana

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.31,000

Main Prize list:

Place	Prize
1st	10,000
2nd	5,000
3rd	3,200
4th	2,000
5th	1,000
6th	1,000
7th	1,000
8th	1,000
9th	1,000
10th	1,000

Special prizes:

There are seven prizes of Rs. 800 each. The condition to claim these prizes are that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way.

Place	Prize
20th	800
30th	800
40th	800
50th	800
60th	800
70th	800

Entry fee:

The entry fee to the tournament is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here. The last date to pay entry is 10th of March 2017.

Once you have paid Rs.500, you will receive the one month serial key on the registered email address along with the procedure to extend your account.

All GMs, IMs and WGMs get free entry to our tournament. All you have to do is write a mail to us at chessbaseindia@gmail.com along with your name, FIDE ID and the playchess ID. If you do not have a playchess ID please create it from here and share with us.

Click here for the tournament rules, and to know more details about the event.

The tournament is powered by Playchess.com and will take place in the...

...newly launched Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room

See you all on 12th of March 2017 and let's enjoy a super strong blitz tournament!

The Fischer Fever Contest

The Fischer Fever contest is taking place on the ChessBase India Facebook page. Seven different questions like the one above are asked for seven days. You have to write the right answers in the comments section and share the posts to win a Fischer Master Class DVD. You can read the rules of the contest here.