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A note to the Indian players - Honour your commitments

06/08/2018 -

Indian chess players travel to every corner of the world to play in chess tournaments. They are one of the biggest resources for any organizer in the world. But recently there has been a trend which needs to be changed. A lot of Indians, especially titled players, write to organizers to ask for an entry and conditions (free accommodation, food, appearance fee) and then cancel their participation even without informing them. This results in a big blow to the plans that the organizers have made and affects their relationship with Indian players in general. Something similar happened with the organizer of the 5th Porticcio Open 2018 Leo Battesti, and he wrote a mail to the All India Chess Federation which we reproduce here. 

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Your chance to train with Jacob Aagaard and Boris Gelfand

06/08/2018 -

Training with world class GMs is quite difficult on two counts - 1. It is extremely expensive and 2. The GMs are busy and don't often have the time to train others. However, things are going to change on that front. The Quality Chess Academy has been launched by GM Jacob Aagaard and it invites players from all over the world to its first training camp that will take place in Lyttos Beach Resort, Crete in Greece from 4th to 10th of November 2018. This coaches at the camp are GM Jacob Aagaard and GM Boris Gelfand (Yes! you heard that right!). This camp will be open to only players above 2300 Elo. The next camp is also scheduled from 8th to 14th May and this will be open to players of all ratings! Check out the article and get to know more about the Quality Chess Academy. 

The thrill, pressure and drama of a team competition

05/08/2018 -

A team event becomes exciting when the onus of making your team win is on multiple shoulders! This is what happened to team India at the 8th IBCA World Team Championships for the blind 2018. India was up against Venezuela in round 8 and an extremely tense scenario took place. From two boards India needed 1.5 points to win the round. Sagar Shah takes you through the high pressure situation and tells you exactly what transpired. India lost the last two rounds of the event against Venezuela and Romania but we won a lot of hearts and came back with some great experience. Indian blind chess is showing great promise and the future looks extremly bright! Don't miss this exciting final article by IM Sagar Shah! 

Lakshana Subramanian and Amogh Bisht are National under-7 Champions 2018!

04/08/2018 -

This year the National under-7 Chess Championship took place at Tumkur, Karnataka from 16-07-2018 to 24-07-2018. Amogh Bisht and Lakshana Subramanian became the champions in the open and girls section respectively. A total number of 362 players (214 boys and 148 girls) and about 600 parents from different states of India took part in the event with vigour and enthusiasm. If you think about it, many of the young talents in the world of chess become IMs and GMs by the age of 12 to 15. In that sense although the top seeds were just rated around 1200, we can already feel that the future grandmasters were taking part in this event! Chief Arbiter of the tournament IA Rathinam Anantharam sends us a detailed report of the event.

Hainan Danzhou Masters: Le Quang Liem beats Vidit in a complex battle; Yu Yangyi bags the title

03/08/2018 -

The final round of the Hainan Danzhou Masters saw the Indian number three, GM Vidit Gujrathi, finish at the bottom of the leaderboard. Playing against Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem, Vidit lost a pawn in the middle game and was unable to find his way through the ensuing complications. Meanwhile, Yu Yangyi won the race for the top spot after Bu Xiangzhi, the only other contender for the title lost to Vladimir Fedoseev. Yu was half a point ahead of the rest of the field and finished with a comfortable draw to bag the champion's trophy.

15 years ago Kunte won the British Championships

03/08/2018 -

The Hindu did a great service to chess in India by covering some of the most important and crucial events that took place in the 90s and early 2000s. One of them was GM Abhijit Kunte winning the British Championship in 2003. Today after 15 years we publish the Hindu article for you to relive those moments when one of India's best players in the early 2000s dominated a key event on the European soil. 15 years have passed since then and Abhijit Kunte still plays chess actively. He has been able to maintain his Elo above 2500 consistently, even though he is indulging in so many activities beyond the 64 squares. How does he manage to do it? How does he juggle so many hats at the same time? Well, we try to give you the answer in this article. 

Using ChessBase on your Mac computer

03/08/2018 -

ChessBase, Fritz & Co. are programs for Windows but they do also run on Mac computers if you install Windows, which is nowadays easy to do using, for instance, Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion. We compare these three alternatives and describe how you can use them to install ChessBase on your Mac. Having a Mac computer will no longer be a hindrance for you to work with ChessBase's powerful softwares like ChessBase 14, Mega Database, Fritz, Komodo and many others. A step by step in-depth tutorial. 

Hainan Danzhou Masters: storm after the calm

02/08/2018 -

Big changes occurred on the leaderboard at the conclusion of the penultimate round at the 9th Hainan Danzhou Masters. Tournament leader, Bu Xiangzhi lost his first game of the event to Jan-Krzysztof Duda. This allowed Yu Yangyi, Bu's closest rival to take over the lead after he won a fine attacking game against Vladimir Fedoseev. Le Quang Liem also scored his first win of the tournament in round six against Sam Shankland. Meanwhile, India's Vidit Gujrathi scored the only draw of the day against the young Chinese GM Wei Yi. Round 6 report.

Priyanka K wins the MKG Scholarship for Rs.50,000

02/08/2018 -

MKG Scholarship for a girl child below the age of 18 years was the first scholarship instituted under the HelpChess Initiative by ChessBase India Foundation. The scholarship has been started by the family of Anitha and Jagadeesh Balakrishnan in the memory of former's father Mr. MK Govindraj. The amount of scholarship is Rs.50,000. On 10th of July we released an article for the scholarship and in the next 15 days we received numerous applications. As per the decision of the sponsor and the ChessBase India Foundation team the winner of the scholarship is K. Priyanka. 17-year-old Priyanka is the current under-17 national champion of India, former under-16 Commonwealth gold medalist, 1 WIM norm holder, National A player and also two-time Tamil Nadu Junior State Champion. Here's her story and why she is the most deserving candidate for the scholarship.

Asian Nations Cup 2018: Indian men draw with China, Vietnam beat our women's team

02/08/2018 -

The Asian Nations Cup 2018 is just not going India's way. In the open section the men's team drew their match against China. Adhiban had excellent chances of winning the game, while Abhijeet Gupta was in a bad position within a few moves out of the opening. Both the games ended in a draw and India had to settle for 2-2 against China. In the women's section, after two wins against relatively weak opposition, we faced Vietnam. And although Harika scored a full point, the other two girls Akanksha Hagawane and R.Vaishali lost their games. India is now in sixth position in the open and fifth in the women's section. Iran Green leads with five victories in the open section while China is unstoppable in the women's section. 

Hainan Danzhou Masters: Vidit holds Bu Xiangzhi

02/08/2018 -

The antepenultimate round of the 9th Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament pitted the Indian number three, Vidit Gujrathi against the tournament leader and the lowest seed of the tournament, GM Bu Xiangzhi. In an open Catalan, Vidit was able to hold Bu quite comfortably. However, with this draw, Vidit has remained 1.5 points behind Xiangzhi on the leaderboard with only two rounds to go. In the final two rounds, Vidit will have to score as much as he can to improve his rank on the leaderboard.

Niraj Saripalli wins Goa State Championship 2018

01/08/2018 -

The Goa State Championship 2018 was held from the 8th to the 12th of July 2018. It was a strong event where there were four clear contenders for the title. Top seed Ameya Audi who has a rating of 2399, talented youngster Leon Mendonca (2241), Ritviz Parab (2235) and Niraj Saripalli (2179). It was an extremely hard fought event where in the end it was Niraj Saripalli who emerged victorious. In this article we tell you more about the event, but also have two deeply annotated games by the winner. Niraj shows us his wins over Ameya Audi and Ritviz Parab and also tells us his thought process behind the moves he had chosen. Checking these high intensity games with comments from the winner is sure to help you improve your chess understanding. 

Asian Nations Cup 2018: A pawn endgame that Sasikiran could not solve

01/08/2018 -

It was a mouth watering clash between the Indian team and the Iranian youngsters (Iran Green) in the fourth round of the Asian Nations Cup 2018. The match was evenly balanced with three games ending in a draw. It all depended now on Sasikiran's game against Tabatabaei. The Iranian player had liquidated the position into a pawn endgame which looked favourable for him. But in pawn endgame there is nothing like slight edge or a better position. It's either winning/losing or a draw! Sasikiran had a narrow path towards equality, but he missed it and in this article we show you this beautiful defence. The women team made short work of Syria with a score of 4-0 and moved to third position on the leaderboard. Thumbnail Image: David Llada.

ACL 1st Super League 2018: All Semi-finalists revealed

01/08/2018 -

ICA, MCA, DCA and TCAA are the semi-finalists in Rating 1000-1400 category. The semi-finalists for Rating 1400-1800 category are MCA, MCC, DBCA and ICA. In 1800-2200 category which contains IMs in various teams, the semi-finalists are, PKCCE, DBCA, dpCA and OCR. Reigning National Blitz Champion IM D K Sharma represented PKCCE, IM Abhishek Kelkar played for KCA, IM Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad was in SPACE and IM Swayams Mishra made his ACL debut to cover for his student Sankalp Gupta's absence as a wild card. In this report you will find games, positions and photos of the semi-finalists.

Asian Nations Cup: Indian men going strong, women stumble against China

31/07/2018 -

The Indian team has its work cut out at the Asian Nations Cup in both Open and Women's section. After a draw in the first round against Uzbekistan by both the Indian teams, the men's team has been working well in tandem to dispatch Iran Red and Kazakhstan. While Sethu and Sasi provided the wins against Iran Red, it was Adhiban and Ganguly who got the full points against Kazakhstan. Round four is the big challenge and India will face the in form young Iran Green Team. In the women's section, India lost in round two against China 3-1. They came back with 4-0 win against Iran Red and are currently in the fourth position. A special thanks to the coach of the Indian women's team Swapnil Dhopade for sending us pictures from the venue in Iran.

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