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Tech Mahindra GCL Day 2: Nihal Sarin shines, ensures Alaskan Knights' hat-trick, Firouzja flags Magnus

04/10/2024 -

PBG Alaskan Knights won both of their games on the second day of Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024. First they defeated American Gambits 3-0 (14-2). Then they won against upGrad Mumba Masters 3-0 (8-5). Nihal Sarin was undoubtedly the star player of the day as he not only won both game but also scored a crucial victory ensuring a hat-tric k, both for himself and the team. Magnus Carlsen lost a winning game against Alireza Firouzja as the latter flagged him. Some might call it 'dirty flagging'. The world no.7 just executed the rules to his advantage and won. The event is made for television broadcast and that certainly makes for good tv moment. But does that make Firouzja stronger rapid player than Carlsen? Well, for that just look at the World no.1's resume of World Rapid title wins. Tomorrow is the second of three days when four matches will be played, starting with Ganges Grandmasters and PBG Alaskan Knights from 1 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

ChessBase 18 and Mega 2025 are here

ChessBase 18 is an all-new program that helps you manage all your databases as an ambitious player. Mega Database 2025 has 11 million games with over 113,000 games annotated by masters. The cost of ChessBase 18 is Rs.4499/- and the cost of Mega Database 2025 is Rs.6499/- However, if you go for the combo the total amount comes to Rs.8999 (instead of 10,998/-) helping you save Rs. 1999/-.

ChessBase 18 + Mega 2025 Combo

KOC invites you to 1st Kingdom of Chess International Open Rating 2024 with a huge prize fund ₹15+ Lacs

04/10/2024 -

Kingdom of Chess invites you to 1st Kingdom of Chess International Open Rating Tournament 2024. The inaugural edition is offering a first prize of ₹111000 and a total prize fund of ₹1501000. A total of 178 prizes including 109 cash and 69 trophies are up for grabs. Entry is FREE for GM, IM, WGM, WIM and players rated above 2300. The tournament will take place from 23rd to 27th October at Solitaire Garden and Banquets in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Over 150 players including two IMs have already registered. Last date for registration is 21st October 2024. So hurry up and register if you haven't yet. All tournament info photos are from tournament circular.

Tech Mahindra GCL Day 1: PBG Alaskan Knights squash the defending champions, Triveni Continental Kings

03/10/2024 -

PBG Alaskan Knights made a fantastic start by defeating the defending champions, Triveni Continental Kings on the first day of Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024. The inaugural edition's bottom finisher made a roaring start by registering a 3-0 (15-3) win. Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Nihal Sarin ensured the team's success. American Gambits and Alpine SG Pipers also won their first matches respectively. The league CEO - Sameer Pathak made the inaugural first move. Tomorrow is the first of three days when four matches will be played, starting with upGrad Mumba Masters vs Ganges Grandmasters from 1 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024 starts with a grand opening ceremony

03/10/2024 -

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League started with a gala opening ceremony at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London, England. The opening ceremony had a lot of things happen - celebrated chess journalist, Peter Doggers revealed his new book - The Chess Revolution, Arjun Erigaisi and Anish Giri answered a few questions with him, Sameer Pathak, CEO of TMGCL announced that ChessBase India youtube channel reached 2 Million subscribers and congratulated the team for the contribution, special awards were given to the teams for making good moves both on and off the board, teams posed with the winner's trophy and an acapella performance to conclude the evening. Today there will be three matches - upGrad Mumba Masters vs American Gambits from 1 p.m. local time, 5:30 p.m. IST, Ganges Grandmasters vs Alpine SG Pipers from 3:30 p.m. local time, 8 p.m. IST and PBG Alaskan Knights vs Triveni Continental Kings from 4:45 p.m. local time, 9:15 p.m. IST. Photos: Shahid Ahmed

CircleChess becomes the Title Sponsor for Hikaru-led American Gambits at the Global Chess League 2024

03/10/2024 -

CircleChess, an innovative tech startup that fuses Chess with the power of Artificial Intelligence is on a mission to revolutionize the chess learning and gameplay experience and has been bringing revolutionary changes in the chess world lately. In an exciting development, CircleChess has partnered with the American Gambits team as a Title Sponsor, led by world no. 2 ranked Hikaru Nakamura, for the Tech Mahindra GCL S2. This article covers more details of their partnership with American Gambits. Photo: Circlechess

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024 teams and squads unveiled

02/10/2024 -

Tech Mahindra Global Chess League starts tomorrow in London, England. It will be a six-team double round-robin event. Six members will play in each team comprising an icon, two male, two female and one prodigy (Under-21) in each round. Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Anish Giri are the 'Icons' who will take part in this event. There will be various 'Superstars' and six 'Prodigies' who will also be part of the second edition. Triveni Continental Kings are the defending champions. The remaining five teams are - Alpine SG Pipers, PBG Alaskan Knights, American Gambits, Upgrad Mumba Masters and Ganges Grandmasters. The Indians apart from Anand taking part in this event are - Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, Raunak Sadhwani, Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli and R Vaishali. First match will take place on Thursday 3rd October 2024. Which team do you think will win? Photo: Official site

Evgeniy Podolchenko wins 27th Tamil Nadu IM-norm Closed Circuit 2024, Sriram Adarh Uppala third

02/10/2024 -

GM Evgeniy Podolchenko scored an unbeaten 6.5/9 to win 27th Tamil Nadu IM-norm Closed Circuit Chess Tournament 2024. He finished a half point ahead of the rest. GM Manik Mikulas (SVK) scored sole 6/9 to finish second. Sriram Adarsh Uppala and GM Tair Vahidov (UZB) scored 5.5/9 each. Sriram was placed third due to better tie-break score. The seven-day ten-player round-robin tournament was organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at Hotel Alankar Grande in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu from 7th to 13th September 2024. Tournament Coordinator and Chief Arbiter - IA V Vijayaraghavan writes the tournament report. Photo: IA V Vijayaraghavan

Your chance to get World Class training during World Championship 2024

01/10/2024 -

Singapore Chess Federation in association with FIDE are organizing a 'High Performance Masterclass' training camp from 25th November to 28th November. This four-day camp will provide training from world-class trainers like GM Jacob Aagaard, GM Thomas Luther, and GM Pavel Eljanov. Participants will also get an opportunity to compete in the Singapore International Open tournament which will take place from 29th November to 5th December. SCF will provide twin-sharing accommodation with meals to the participants as well as cover the tournament entry fees. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for chess players to witness the World Championship match closely and take their chess journey to the next level! Check out if you are eligible for this training camp.

Two Indians in World Top five for the first time ever - Arjun Erigaisi World #3, Gukesh #5

01/10/2024 -

India's historic performance at the 45th Chess Olympiad 2024 caused a lot of huge changes in the rating list. Arjun Erigaisi is now World no.3. He gained 19.2 Elo rating points for his stellar performance on Board no.3. The World Championship Challenger, D Gukesh is now World no.5. He gained a whopping 30.1 Elo rating points. Both Arjun and Gukesh won double Gold. Vidit Gujrathi gained 6 rating points, Harikrishna 2.1. Currently, there are four Indians in top 12, five in top 22, six in top 33, seven in top 42 and eleven in top 98. Among the Women, four Indians maintain their top 15 places. IM Divya Deshmukh moved up to World no.11 and India no.2 among women after her fantastic double Gold medal winning run at the Olympiad. She crossed 2500 and her rating is now 2501. Another double Gold winning - IM Vantika Agrawal gained 22.1 and IM Tania Sachdev increased her rating by 10.2 points. Photo: Maria Emelianova/chess.com

Garv Gaur wins SARK India - CPA Rajasthan Rapid Rating Open 2024

01/10/2024 -

FM Garv Gaur, IM Aaditya Dhingra and Kartavya Anadkat scored 8/9 each at SARK India - CPA Rajasthan Rapid Rating Open 2024. Garv won the tournament on tie-breaks, Aaditya and Kartavya were placed second and third respectively. The top two finishers remained undefeated. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹300000 + trophies. The top three prizes were ₹41100, ₹25000 and ₹20000 along with a trophy each respectively. The two-day rating tournament was organized by Chess Parents Association Rajasthan on 7th and 8th September 2024 at S M S Indoor Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan. This is Garv's first rating tournament triumph of the year. Photo: Rishi Kaushik/Chess Parents Association Rajasthan

Sharpen Your Strategic Skills with ChessNeurons - Episode 11

30/09/2024 -

Welcome back to the “Strategic Mastery” series, which was brought to you by the collaboration of ChessNeurons and ChessBase India. In this episode, Grandmaster Ankit Rajpara will lead you through the next step in your chess journey. Our goal is to deepen your positional and strategic understanding through a series of meticulously crafted puzzles and clear, insightful explanations. This time, we’ll reveal the solutions to the five puzzles from Episode 10 in which we discussed all the positions from the Indian Team’s Games at Chess Olympiad 2024. Following that, we’ll present five new positional puzzles, each more challenging than the last, to further sharpen your strategic thinking. All these puzzles are from the games of World Championship Challenger Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju.

Two ChessBase India Training Camps to Be Held in October: Registration Starts Now!

30/09/2024 -

If you have been waiting for the ChessBase India Training Camp, here's some good news! In the upcoming month of October, two training camps are going to be held. The 5th edition of the ChessBase India Training Camp will take place from October 8th to 13th, while the 6th camp will be held from October 19th to 23rd. As always, the camp will be limited to only 12 players, and it will be based entirely on a 'first-come, first-served' registration policy. Additionally, 2 spots in these camps are reserved for players from Madhya Pradesh. During the camp, participants will undergo about 8 hours of training per day, amounting to nearly 40 hours of rigorous training throughout the camp. At the end of the camp, participants will be awarded certificates. Upon the conclusion of the first camp, players will have the opportunity to participate in the Khelo Chess India Rapid and Blitz Tournament, while after the second camp, they will get to play in the Khelo Chess India Blitz Tournament. FIDE Instructor Niklesh Jain and Colombia’s former national champion, Woman International Master Angela Franco, will be the trainers for the camp. To register, read the full article.

Chaitanya V Gaonkar convincingly clinches 6th Marvel Below 1800 Rating 2024

30/09/2024 -

Chaitanya V Gaonkar scored an unbeaten 8.5/9 to win 6th Marvel Below 1800 Rating Tournament 2024. The teenager finished a half point ahead of the field and gained 126 Elo rating points. Seetasagar Konaparthi and Shubham Kumar scored 8/9 each. They secured second and third place respectively according to tie-breaks. The total prize fund of the tournament was ₹600000. The top three prizes were ₹75000, ₹50000 and ₹40000 along with a trophy each respectively. The three-day rating tournament was organized by Rajashekar Bhagavatula from 3rd to 5th September 2024 at Puchalapalli Leela Sundarayya Function Hall in Hyderabad, Telangana. This is Chaitanya's first-ever rating tournament triumph of his career. Photo: Marvel Chess Academy

Akshay Borgaonkar dominates 26th Tamil Nadu IM-norm CC 2024, Harshit Pawar second and Harshad third

30/09/2024 -

FM Akshay Borgaonkar scored an unbeaten 7/9 to win 26th Tamil Nadu IM-norm Closed Circuit Chess Tournament 2024. He finished a full point ahead of the competition and also scored an IM-norm. FM Harshit Pawar scored sole 6/9 to secure second place. Harshit's sole loss of the event was against the eventual champion, Akshay. IM-elect FM S Harshad scored 5.5/9 to finish third. His sole loss was against Harshit. The seven-day ten-player round-robin tournament was organized by Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at Hotel Alankar Grande in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu from 30th August to 5th September 2024. Tournament Coordinator and Chief Arbiter - IA V Vijayaraghavan writes the tournament report. Photo: IA V Vijayaraghavan

IM Jubin Jimmy and WCM Aaradhya Das win 5th Pursue Your Chess Scholarship of Rs.1,50,000

29/09/2024 -

The longest Scholarship under the HelpChess Foundation ‘Pursue Your Chess’ is back this year. This 5th edition of the Scholarship has the amount of Rs. 1,50,000. The person behind this scholarship, Ashwin Subramanian is now a well-known person in the chess world. He has provided financial and technical support to many chess players. Every year, he has increased the Scholarship amount by Rs. 25,000 showing his commitment to nurturing Indian talents. The winners of this year’s Scholarship are IM Jubin Jimmy from Kerala and WCM Aaradhya Das from Tripura. Out of the total amount, Jubin Jimmy won Rs. 1,25,000 and Aaradhya Das won Rs. 25,000.  

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