Six Indian juniors will feature in Julius Baer Challenge starting today
The Challengers Chess Tour 2022 season starts today with Julius Baer Challenge. 16-players including six Indians - GM Raunak Sadhwani, GM Leon Luke Mendonca, IM Aditya Mittal, IM Prraneeth Vuppala, WGM Savitha Shri B and WGM Vantika Agrawal will take part in the first tournament. The Total prize fund for each tournament is US$10,000. The format of the tournament has been changed from Rapid to Blitz. The total prize fund for the entire season will be $30000 + wildcard for Champions Chess Tour 2023 and a $10000 match against the previous season winner, GM Praggnanandhaa in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tournament will start at 11:30 p.m. IST tonight. Photo: Challengers Chess Tour
Challengers Chess Tour 2022: Promoting gender equality and talented juniors
Play Magnus Group’s ground-breaking Challengers Chess Tour will return today with a line-up of the world’s top juniors mentored by legend of the game Judit Polgar, it was announced on 30th August. The tour, which launched the career of Indian superstar Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and was shortlisted for a prestigious ESG Award for promoting gender equality, will start its first two-day event on 3rd September.
Sixteen of the world’s top Under 12, 14 and 16 age group players have been invited to take part in the first leg alongside Under 18 and 20 stars such as Raunak Sadhwani, Jonas Buhl Bjerre and Leon Mendonca.
The Julius Baer Challenge (September 3 to 4) will be followed by the Magnus Academy Challenge (October 8 to 9) before the overall winner is crowned at the Challengers Final Four on October 29 and 30. Each tournament will carry a prize pot of $10,000.
If that wasn’t all, in December the overall 2022 Tour Champion will go on to face 17-year-old Praggnanandhaa, the 2021 Tour Champion, in a finale to the season worth a further $10,000 in prize money. That match, named the Julius Baer Challenger Championship, will be held on site in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Julius Baer supported last year’s Challengers Chess Tour, a unique gender-balanced chess event designed to promote new talent. Julius Baer is also a title partner for this year’s Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, which features the world’s best players.
Pragg won the 2021 Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour and earned qualification for the senior Meltwater tour, where he hit the headlines immediately in January with a memorable win over World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
The series is part of a conscious effort by the Play Magnus Group and the Swiss private bank Julius Baer to develop young talent, advance gender equality in the sport and find the next big stars in the game.
GM Judit Polgar, the strongest female player in history, will return to the commentary box to give expert insights on their players. She will be joined by popular Spanish commentator, GM Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez, famously known as GM Pepe Cuenca.
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Praggnanandhaa wins Julius Baer Challenger Championship
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Julius Baer Challenger Championship: Praggnanandhaa takes 2-0 lead
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Julius Baer Challenger Championship: Praggnanandhaa wins Match 1
@ 12/12/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Astounding Pranav Venkatesh wins Challengers Final Four and Challengers Chess Tour 2022
@ 31/10/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Invincible Pranav Venkatesh wins Magnus Academy Challenge 2022, Bharath Subramaniyam third
@ 10/10/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Magnus Academy Challenge 2022 R1-8: Pranav, Ilamparthi and Bharath in a four-way lead
@ 09/10/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Five Indian juniors will feature in Magnus Chess Academy Challenge starting today
@ 08/10/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Raunak Sadhwani second at Julius Baer Challenge 2022, advances to the Tour Finals
@ 05/09/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Julius Baer Challenge 2022 R1-7: Prraneeth and Leon make an unbeaten start
@ 04/09/2022 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |