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Nationals 2018 Round 10+11: Stany or Aravindh?

17/12/2018 -

Usually after achieving a norm or title, players lose their game. That's because they tend to get a bit relaxed after their achievement. However, that was not the case with Stany who played a fine game after becoming India's 58th GM to beat Deep Sengupta. Stany is now one of the leaders with 8.5/11. Aravindh Chithambaram played a good game to beat Vaibhav Suri in eleventh round and join Stany at the top. On 8.0/11, we have a group of five players which include Vaibhav Suri, Deepan Chakkravarthy, Tejas Bakre, Karthikeyan Murali and CRG Krishna. An illustrated report with some interesting games from round 10 and 11.

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Asian Continental Championship: Ganguly and Rout continue to lead

16/12/2018 -

GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly, following his loss in the previous round, came back with strongly with a win over the top seed of the tournament, Wang Hao, while the number of tournament leaders dropped from eight to two. The other leader to retain his lead going into the penultimate round was Iranian GM Amin Tabatabaei who defeated SP Sethuraman on board four. Meanwhile, Vidit Gujrathi agreed to a short draw against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov and slipped down a spot on the leaderboard. In the women's group, Padmini Rout continued her stronghold over the event despite her quick draw. With just two rounds to go, she continues to lead by a full point. Round 7 report.

Samriddhaa survives two massive scares at 27th The Telegraph Schools' 2018

16/12/2018 -

Reigning West Bengal State Women's champion and 6th seed of the tournament escaped from the brink of loss against Soumyajit Das of Aditya Academy school in round 5. In round 4 also she narrowly escaped a loss when she miscalculated a tactic. Top four seeds remained unscathed and they are in the lead along with six other players at 5.0/5. Biggest upset of round 4 was, former WB State sub-junior girls' champion Sudipa Haldar blundering a checkmate against Debargha Basu and Mortuza Mahathir Islam (BAN) lost against Srihaan Poddar (PHI). In the fifth round Srihaan caused another upset by defeating Soyamsree Mohanty of Odisha. The report contains photos, videos and games from round 4 and 5. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Asian Continentals: Vidit beats Ganguly to hop into the joint lead

16/12/2018 -

Vidit Gujrathi, after a rather disappointing start to the tournament, has come back with a bang after six rounds. In his sixth round game, he defeated the tournament leader, GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly to make dramatic changes on the leaderboard. After the sixth round, Ganguly, who was the overnight sole leader, is joined by Vidit and six others. SP Sethuraman also took this opportunity to step up and join tournament lead by defeating GM Wen Yang. In the women's group, IM Padmini Rout increased her tournament lead by a full point by defeating Singaporean WGM Gong Qianyun. With three rounds to go, she is now a hot favourite to clinch the title. Round 6 report. 

27th The Telegraph 2018 round 1-3: 37 players share lead with full point

15/12/2018 -

27th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess started 10 months after the previous edition concluded. This time over 425 children from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Philippines are participating. Youngest player of the meet Aayansh Burman of 4 years 9 months 0 days age made the inaugural move of the tournament. Top seeds had smooth sailing except a few upsets. Ninth seed of the tournament, Aditya Bikram Paul arrived late in the hall and he was shocked by unrated Agnivo Chakraborty in round 1, Shresth Mahapatra held Sadnan Hasan Dihan of Bangladesh to a draw in the 2nd round and Arunika Ghosh defeated Sambarta Banerjee in the 3rd round. In this report, we bring you photos, games and videos from round 1-3 of the tournament. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Asian Continentals: Indians lead both Open and Women's

15/12/2018 -

Indian players, GM Surya Ganguly and IM Padmini Rout, found themselves on top of the leaderboard in the Open and Women's segments respectively at the close of the fifth round of the Asian Continental Championship. On the top board in the open group, Ganguly steamrolled compatriot SP Sethuraman after the latter fumbled in the early stages of a Spanish Opening. Padmini Rout, who also had the whites in her game against WFM Munkhzul Turmunkh, pulled out a clean win in a Sicilian Najdorf to race ahead of her rivals. Round 5 report. | Thumbnail image: Genghis Imperial

India gets its 58th GM and Karnataka its 2nd - Stany GA

15/12/2018 -

He reached a rating of 2500 in July 2017. Since last one and a half year people have considered him as a GM title contender but his GM norms were just not coming. But when you have the strength, the results are bound to arrive. Stany scored his first GM norm at the Lucopen in Lille in 2016, the second GM norm at Gujarat GM Open 2018 and now the final one at National Championship 2018. The fact that he could achieve his final two norms in India speaks volumes about his strength as a chess player. Today, Stany becomes the 58th GM of India. In this report we tell you what Stany feels after becoming a GM, the people responsible for his success and last but not the least we show you one of his favourite games from his chess career till date.

Sunway Sitges 2018: 12-year-old Sreeshwan beats Vassily Ivanchuk!

14/12/2018 -

The Sunway Sitges 2018 is a tournament to follow. Indian GM Sasikiran Krishnan is the fourth seed. We have two young stars of Indian chess Nihal Sarin and Praggnanandhaa playing out there. As if all of this is not enough we have the young talent Gukesh looking to break Karjakin's record of youngest GM in the world. Also worth keeping an eye on is Raunak Sadhwani who recently gave Vishy Anand a scare at the Isle of Man International 2018. However, day one belonged to a 12-year-old from Hyderabad Sreeshwan Maralakshikari, the current under-12 Commonwealth gold medalist, who beat the great Vassily Ivanchuk in just 26 moves. We have the entire analysis of the game and post-game interview by Rupali Mullick.

Asian Continentals: Sethuraman, Ganguly lead alongside Wei Yi

14/12/2018 -

SP Sethuraman and Surya Ganguly have found themselves at the top of the leaderboard after four rounds at the 17th Asian Continental Championship in Makati City in Manila, Philippines. After a quick draw against Wei Yi in the third round, GM Ganguly defeated the reigning World Junior Champion, GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the fourth round to move up to the top spot. Wei Yi, the third co-leader after round four defeated Alireza Firouzja in a sharp Sicilian while Sethuraman got the better of compatriot Lalith Babu MR.  

Nationals 2018 Round 8: Vaibhav Suri's beautiful middlegame play

14/12/2018 -

The National Championship 2018 consists of such great players that there are beautiful games being played in each round. It's quite a difficult task to choose the best game of the day, but in the eighth round it was clearly GM Vaibhav Suri who took the honours with some fantastic middlegame play and showing great alertness to beat his strong opponent Swapnil Dhopade. We now have four players in the lead GM Vaibhav Suri, Aravindh Chithambaram, Stany GA and Deep Sengupta. They are followed by seven players on 6.0/8. Specially to note is the performance of veteran GM Pravin Thipsay. An illustrated report from Jammu on round 8 of the National Championship 2018.

It happens only with the Indian Tal

13/12/2018 -

Seven out of the thirteen rounds have been completed at the National Championship 2018 that is currently in progress at Jammu from 8th to 18th of December. We have two leaders Aravindh Chithambaram and Anurag Mhamal, both on 6.0/7. They are followed by a pack of players on 5.5/7 who include Deep Sengupta, Vaibhav Suri, Vishnu Prasanna, Stany G.A and Swapnil Dhopade. The two big surprise players of the tournament until now have been Sammed Shete and Harshavardhan G.B. who are on 5.5/7. Although there have been many beautiful games at this event, there was none as spectacular as the draw between Karthikeyan and Rathnakaran from the seventh round which we analyze in this report.  

Amonatov wins Triple C Chess Club November Online Blitz

12/12/2018 -

Farrukh Amonatov of Tajikistan won Triple C Chess Club November Online Blitz 2018 which was held on Playchess on 25th of November 2018. It was a strong Blitz tournament as it starred Idani Pouya, Haik Martirosyan, Lucas van Foreest, Nihal Sarin, R Praggnanandhaa, Debashis Das, Rakesh Kumar Jena, Anwesh Upadhyaya and Padmini Rout. Three players Amonatov, Idani and Praggnanandhaa ended up at 7.0/9. Due to Amonatov beating both Idani and Praggnanandhaa, he became champion. Padmini performed exceptionally well in the tournament and she had luck on her side too. Despite the tournament being a blitz event, we witnessed some fantastic games. Shahid Ahmed, the tournament director brings you a detailed report. Photo: Amruta Mokal

Indian grandmasters share Vishy Anand gems on his 49th birthday

12/12/2018 -

Everyone knows what a great player Vishy Anand is. Five-time World Champion, World Champion in all formats (knockout, round robin and match), India no.1 for over three decades, Madras Tiger, Lightning kid are some of the terms that we always append to Vishy Anand's name when we speak about him. But, the one thing that a chess player would definitely love to be remembered for are his games! And Vishy Anand has plenty of amazing games. On 11th of December 2018, Anand's 49th birthday we asked several GMs in Indian chess about their absolutely favourite Vishy Anand game. Through this article we hope that you are able to relive some of Anand's absolute gems and understand what a genius he is!  

Online blitz tournament to celebrate Vishy Anand's 49th birthday

12/12/2018 -

ChessBase India has organized many successful blitz events in the past. We are back with another one - this time to celebrate the 49th birthday of one of the greatest chess players that the chess world has ever seen - Viswanathan Anand. The total prize fund is Rs. 49,000 in cash and we have signed DVDs of Vishy Anand as prizes. Anand's birthday is on 11th of December 2018, but because the National Championship is in progress and also the Asian Championship 2018, we have decided to hold the tournament on 25th of December 2018. In this article you will get all the details about the tournament, and a special discount if you register today on Vishy Anand's birthday.

Asian Continental: Event opens with early upsets

11/12/2018 -

The Asian Continental Championship began with some startling results on the top boards. Top seeded GM Wang Hao and India's Vidit Gujrathi were both held to draws by much lower rated opponents on boards one and four respectively. But the biggest upset of the day was GM Le Quang Liem's loss to Paulo Bersamina. The 20-year-old Filipino IM found a brilliant queen sac towards the end of the game to bring down the Vietnamese number one. We have a report with games.

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