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The Mayor's Cup 2016 witnessed some heavyweight upsets in the fourth round, the most notable being the wins by two upcoming youngsters — K.S. Raghunandan, who is in red-hot form these days and Shailesh Dravid, who is making his occasional brilliance a more usual affair. Chessbase India brings you an illustrated report.
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Things looked slightly critical for Indians in the middle of the Asian Continental Championship 2016. With five places in the World Cup 2017 up for grabs in the Open, the competition was expectedly tough and two Indians made it. In the women's section, Bhakti Kulkarni delivered a regal performance to take home the gold. An illustrated report with analysis.
"The State Championship is something that every serious chess player has played once in his career", says Arjun Mohan who won the 54th Kerala State tournament held in the last week of May in Kannur. Arjun,who started the tournament as the second seed, won the event by a full poiny scoring 8.0/9. In this article he shares with us his favourite game from the event against the brother of the Indian Tal!
A super elite tournament has begun in Shamkir, Azerbaijan from the 26th of May. Indian interest is sparked by the participation of Pentala Harikrishna who will cross swords against wolrd class players like Caruana, Giri, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and others. We have set up a live game page for you to enjoy Hari's game with the help of live book, strong engine, let's check and other functionalities. Round begins at 4.30 p.m. IST.
The best part about the ChessBase Account is that it offers you a way to work on your own and become stronger at the game. Imagine playing online, then solving tactics, finetuning your opening reportoire, storing your analysis and games on cloud, watching videos by world renowned grandmasters, top notch engine analysis! All of this can be done with the ChessBase premium Account. All you need is a browser and an internet connection and you are good to go! This article explains all the features of the ChessBase Account to you.
Mumbai is more than just a city. The city is a story of epic proportions in terms of its financial and even emotional wealth. The Mumbai Mayor's Cup is into its ninth edition and it has been growing in size ever since its inception. For years now, it has been a reason behind the rise of many a talent in India. An illustrated report.
Indian youngsters coming up with impressive performances in strong international opens abroad is beginning to become a routine in recent times.In Zalakaros, Hungary, it is the turn of IM Aryan Chopra and IM Abhimanyu Puranik. At the end of seven rounds, both of them are placed on 5.0/7 and are just half a point away from making a GM Norm. Srinath Narayanan reports for ChessBase.
After seven rounds at the Shamkir Chess 2016 Harikrishna is on 3.5/7. His sixth round game against Hou Yifan was a solid draw with the black pieces. However, in the seventh round Hari had his back against the wall against Rauf Mamedov. It was only through highly resourceful play that he managed to hold a draw. With Radjabov and Safarli to go in the last two rounds, a win against them will ensure a good finish for the Indian. We have game analysis of rounds six and seven and some nice pictures of the free day.
The Asian Continental is one of the most important events of the calendar year. It gives an opportunity to our players to qualify for the next World Cup. Five players from the open section and the winner of the women's section will qualify for World Cup 2017. While India number two Harikrishna fights it out in Shamkir, just about everyone else is here in Tashkent. We have Adhiban, Vidit, Ganguly, Sethuraman, Abhijeet, Lalith and others. In the women's section Padmini, Soumya, Pratyusha and Vaishali are amongst the top seeds. We have setup a live games page for you to enjoy the live games of these top Indian players.
The annual KIIT International Festival was held from 23 May to 29 May in the KIIT University campus in Bhubaneswar. The tournament had a time control of 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move one and a rating average of 2050 — good my Indian standards. Russians GM Boris Grachev and GM Ivan Popov took the first and second place, but the Indian surprise was V.S. Rathanvel (2315), who had the tournament of his life! An illustrated report.
We were the first ones to report on R. Praggnanandhaa becoming the youngest International Master in the world at the age of ten years and ten months. Subsequently this news has spread like wild fire with many national and international newspapers and websites covering this amazing achievement. However, there have hardly been any pictures of little Praggu at the event, leave alone video footage. In this article we bring you an exclusive interview taken by Rupali Mullick minutes after Praggnanandhaa won his ninth round game and achieved his feat! And yes, you read it right! The little boy's aim is to reach 3000 Elo points!
In the fifth round of Shamkir Chess 2016, Hari was up against Pavel Eljanov. The Ukrainian grandmaster is famed for his solid play and theoretical knowledge. In order to negate that the Indian played a less known line and was ready to sacrifice pawns and pieces in order to complicate the battle! Although the attack wasn't theoretically winning, Pavel was walking on a thin rope. He had to be accurate on each and every move. Not an easy task. He blundered and the reward was a full point to Harikrishna!
The 44th West Bengal State Junior tournament was held from the 19th to the 22nd of May 2016. Quite a few strong juniors like Neelash Saha, Mitrabha Guha in the open section and Chandrayee Hajra, Arpita Mukherjee in the girls section took part. In the end Kaustav Kundu and Arpita Mukherjee emerged victorious. We have a short and crisp report sent to us from the city of joy.
After his debacle in the third round against Sergey Karjakin, the Indian fans were hoping for Harikrishna to make a comeback against Anish Giri. However, the Dutch grandmaster had come to the game in an inspired mood. He got an interesting position out of the opening and sacrificed a pawn to launch a strong attack against the black king. It was one those thematic pawn sacrifices which you should be aware of. Have a look at the game and learn how Harikrishna could have avoided such a swift defeat.
A. Rameshbabu's children Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa were giving him sleepless nights. The kids were so good at chess that they kept winning titles at state, national and international levels. Coming from a humble background, Rameshbabu was struggling to afford his children's leap to the higher planes of chess competition. Making decisions in such a situation of conflict due to the lack of resources is difficult. But what do they say about life balancing things out eventually? Praggnanandhaa R. just completed the requirements an hour back, and at the age of ten years and ten months, has become the youngest International Master of the world, ever!
