ChessBase India's year 2020 in rewind
What was the work done by the entire ChessBase India team in 2020? 750 articles were published on the website, 924 videos created on the YouTube channel, over 150 million views, 25 online tournaments with close to Rs.16,00,000 disbursed as prize money, over 32 lakh rupees raised for charity and hosting several events with an aim to empower chess professionals and enthusiasts. Over the board tournaments hardly happened during the year, however, each and every member of the ChessBase India team worked throughout 2020 to power chess in the country and the world! Here's a rewind of the entire year that gives you an overview of the work done by ChessBase India from the 1st of January to 31st of December 2020.
2020 statistics for ChessBase India at a glance
No. of articles published on chessbase.in website: 750
No. of videos published on the YouTube channel: 924
No. of online tournaments conducted on Playchess: 25
Amount of money disbursed as prize money: Rs.15,97,224
Amount of money raised for charity: Rs.32,29,264
Let's begin with some of the specifics:
Microsense Kramnik Gelfand Camp 2020
The year 2020 kicked off with one of the most unique events ever organized. 14 of the biggest talents in Indian chess got a chance to work with Kramnik and Gelfand in a 10-day chess camp sponsored by Microsense and organized by ChessBase India. For players like Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Raunak, Arjun Erigaisi, Iniyan, Prithu, Arjun Kalyan, Raahil, Vaishali, Aditya Mittal, Bharath, Sreeshwan, Rakshitta and Leon this was a great opportunity to get trained by two of the best minds in the world of chess!
The entire event was carefully documented. You can check out the Check out the final article with the links of articles for all the days in it and you can watch all the videos related to the camp over here.
Candidates 2020
Candidates 2020 was an event that we were greatly excited for. However, it could only be completed until the half way mark. Apart from covering it in the form of daily articles and special pieces, we also managed to work with India no.3 Vidit Gujrathi who gave daily round ups for the event. There were also small snippets by GM Vishnu Prasanna who simplified the most complex ideas at high level chess into digestible bites! Check out our Candidates 2020 articles (as always this is the final one with links to all others at the end of it) and the playlist on our YouTube channel.
Improve your chess with Sagar Shah
On 24th of March when the news of complete lockdown started to make rounds, I found it to be the best time to impart the secret sauce of my chess improvement in the form of 21 episodes. Yes, it was the method of Imbalances that I had learnt from Jeremy Silman's book Reassess Your Chess. It had transformed my understanding of the game. Through this series of Improve your chess you too can grasp the concepts of positional play, right exchanges, weaknesses, winning won positions, how to analyze your games and much more. Niklesh also began with his series on the Hindi ChessBase India channel and together we raised Rs.1,25,894 for the PM CARES Fund via Superchats. As YouTube keeps 30% of the amount received via superchats, I decided to chip in with that amount personally so that the entire amount would be donated.
Follow the entire 21 days of Improve your chess with Sagar Shah (This is one of the most popular playlists on the ChessBase India YouTube channel and has over 40,000 visits!
Follow improve your chess series of Niklesh Jain in Hindi
Improve your endgame
Following the success of the Improving Your chess, I decided to launch an ambitious series named improve your endgame. Now this series was much more complex than just the basic endgames that one would learn. Complicated endgames like Rook + bishop vs Rook or Queen vs Rook or Queen + pawn vs Queen were covered here. The aim was to do a 9-part series of videos, but it went on for 15 episodes. I would say this is one of the highest quality endgame learning resource out there on the internet.
Improve your openings
The aim of this series was to give you detailed insights into main lines of different openings. Considering the scope of work was too large, at some point this series discontinued. But it was after 22 videos had been made. You have an entire repertoire for Black against 1.d4 with the Nimzo India, Queen's Gambit and Bogo Indian systems. Also covered was the Benko Gambit by GM Swapnil Dhopade. After tackling 1.d4 with 12 videos, we move on to 1.e4 where I recommend the classical response with 1...e5. All the main lines including the Ruy Lopez, Italian, Scotch have been covered. You can check it out here. I had just begun with the introduction of Caro Kann and the Classical variation in the Caro Kann, when this series abruptly came to an end. I hope to resume it back soon. But even then it is quite a valuable playlist and can help you to improve your repertoire with Black against 1.e4 and 1.d4.
Improve your openings with IM Sagar Shah playlist
Improve your chess with Comedians
If you have time and energy and are keen on improving your chess, then Improving Chess with Comedians is the series you want to check. Four of India's top stand-up comedians - Samay Raina, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Vaibhav Sethia and Anirban Dasgupta, learn from IM Sagar Shah. It's not a structured series, but if you go over all the episodes, you will notice that your chess strength also increases along with the comedians. The titles of the videos let you know the topic that was covered in that episode. This can help you to navigate the 100-episode playlist. Just to let you know how loved this series was, you can check the article where the feedback of the viewers is published.
Check the Improve your chess with comedians Playlist (There are 101 episodes and the last 2 videos are compilation videos that give you feel of the entire series)
Chess Principles for Beginners with Amruta Mokal
If you have learnt how the chess pieces move and do not know what to do next, Chess Principles for Beginners will help you to take the next step in your chess journey. Although the series only has 4 videos until now, all of them have been very carefully created and edited and gives you just the right amount of information to chew as much as you can digest.
Chess Principles for Beginners by Amruta Mokal Playlist
Also applicable for this level is Midnight Chess with Kusha and Sapan - 16 videos
Mastering Chess with Sonali and Niveditha by Amruta Mokal - 12 videos
Grandmaster Chess with comedians
If you are looking for a series where the world of highest quality of chess meets the world of improving players, then Grandmaster Chess is the series you would like to look at! Top players like Anish Giri, Vidit Gujrathi, Boris Gelfand, Nigel Short, Surya Ganguly and many others show their best game of chess. But that is not all! They choose 10 moments from that game which are then posed as questions to the comedians. For every right answer you get a point and each wrong one earns you 0. At the end of every session we have a winner and at the end of the entire series (the final number is not known!) the winner will take home a beautiful DGT bluetooth chess set. This series helps you to understand how the best players in the world think. As the comedians try to grasp the nuances of the position, you too can do it from your end and improve your game in a huge way.
Grandmaster Chess with Comedians with 12 episodes till date
Basic Opening Chess Trap
The aim of this series was to show certain opening traps that are very basic in nature. In learning them, you understand the patterns and can avoid those same mistakes in your games. At the same time you can also trap an unsuspecting opponent! A total of 44 videos have been created in the series and is one of the most frequented Playlists on the ChessBase India YouTube channel.
Basic Opening Chess Trap Playlist
Chess Classics you must know
A key element of chess improvement is knowing some of the most famous games that have been played over the yeas. Learn from the Classics is a series to acquaint you with some of the most well-known games by the great masters of the past. I try to make the learning as interesting as possible by posing 10 questions and asking you to guess the moves. Until now 9 episodes have been completed. This is a series which I definitely would like to take to 100 episodes!
Learn from the Classics Playlist
Doctor Chess
While all the series involves people learning passively as viewers, Doctor Chess is where Sagar interacts with the audience in a closer environment. People queue up in the Appointment Lobby on ChessBase India's Discord. One person is allowed into the Doctor Chess room and he gets to ask questions to Sagar about how he can improve and work on his game. Sagar devotes anywhere from 10 minutes to 30 minutes to every individual and tries his best to solve their query. Just like how a doctor treats a patient, the aim here is to solve the chess problems of every patient and send them back in better chess health!
Doctor Chess Playlist (includes 1 episode by Adhiban Baskaran)
YouTube statistics
ChessBase India YouTube channel is one of the most popular chess YouTube channels out there. Here are some of the statistics that were sent to us by the YouTube team:
Fundraisers
There were several fundraisers that were conducted throughout the year. Some of them were done independently by ChessBase India, some of them in collaboration with different organizations. At the end of the year, the total amount that was raised was Rs.32,29,246. A detailed breakdown of it is given below.
Scholarships
The ChessBase India Foundation has scholarships that are disbursed every year. This year we had the Pursue Your Chess scholarship by Ashwin Subramanian worth Rs.75,000. This is the second year where Pursue your chess scholarship has continued. In 2019 it was Sammed Shete who won the scholarship of Rs.50,000 and went on to become an IM. This year the scholarship was enhanced to Rs.75,000.
Online tournaments
24 online tournaments were held on Playchess during the year. Adding the Super Juniors Cup 2020 makes it 25 events that ChessBase India has organized during the year. In all a total of Rs.15,97,224 have been disbursed in the form of prize money to the players. Each tournament would have an invitation article published on our newspage and a final report. We took extreme care to ensure anti-cheating measures and that the most deserving players would get the prizes.
Here are the list of the tournaments that were conducted during the year:
Five weekly Saturday blitz events with a total prize fund of Rs.50,000
March Masters Online Blitz with prize fund of Rs.50,000
Buddhibal Kreeda Trust online blitz on 14th of April with a prize fund of Rs.30,000
Checkmate Covid-19 by Chess Kerala with the prize fund of Rs.52,000
Sultan Khan Cup with a prize fund of Rs,1,01,000
Kings' Chess Academy online event with prize fund of Rs.34,000
Buddhibal Kreeda Trust Fischer Random Online event with prize fund of Rs.35,000
Late Shailesh Nerlikar Online Blitz with a prize fund of Rs.33,000
Knighthood online blitz sponsored by Sujit Varghese with a prize fund of Rs.1,50,000
Good Earth Online Blitz with a prize fund of Rs.50,000
Durgesh fundraiser online blitz with a prize fund of Rs.50,000 sponsored by Sushrutha Reddy
Make your move online blitz with a prize fund of Rs.1,00,000
Events
Apart from online tournaments, ChessBase India has also indulged in the organization of several events that have added value to the chess community. The FIDE Online Trainers Seminar helped in creating many more trainers in the country, petitions to make Sultan Khan a GM, Arjuna award for chess players of India, IOC simul, Chuchelov - Vidit training camp and Super Juniors Cup are some of the key events that ChessBase India organized during the year.
YouTube memberships:
The following people became members of the ChessBase India YouTube channel during the super Juniors Cup. Hence all the money that was collected (Rs.47,224) was distributed among the top 8 finishers of the event.
| Member Name | Level Of Membership | Amount | After 30% deduction |
| TARUN CHOUDHURY | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Harjaap Singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Shobhit Behl | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Lovesh Tulsija | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Siddhant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Hardik Rudani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Abhishek Rai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Nirupam Das | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Akshit Johry | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aseem Goel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| sandeep pinjala | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Suvi xD | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Anusheela Das | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| vedaant rana | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Shabbir Ahamed | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| anoop sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| abhishek garg | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Pronoy Chatterjee | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Vishal patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Snehal Pathak | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Saurabh Sonawane | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Arun Jayendran | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Pranav Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Indian Gaming Community | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aranya Johar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Anant Joshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Prathmesh Sakpal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Vinit Raut | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aranala Sai Sharat Chandra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aviral | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Pranav Seth | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| tejas4756 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| N M | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Akshay Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Harsh Rastogi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Suraj Shivshankar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| BeastStats | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Naveen Gupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mr Pink | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Tushar Pardeshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| C.S.Dharma Rajan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Neo0889 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aditya S | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| gobletFire | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Rahul Sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| vipin singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aryan Verma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Kalpak Raut | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| GizmoGirl | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Chinmay Paranjpe | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Prerak Mehta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Varshith D | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Abhinav raina | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Peeyush Pant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Srinath Narayanan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Nithish K Gnani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aditya Bankar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| d s | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Abhishek R.S. | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Shreyas P Vasista | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Sv Scibi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Raj Agarwal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Vinit Mamania | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Roshan Raj | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mayur Gondhalekar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Chandrasekhar S. | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Raghav Garg | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| DARIEN RODRIGUES | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Nikhil Goyal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Yashaswi Sai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Learn new things | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| rachit jain | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Ananya H | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Anish Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aryan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Henal Merchant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Karini Sandeep Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Pratyayan DasGupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Dev Prem | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Sharadhi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Shyamal patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mohit Bhatt | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Ravindra Diggi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Abhijeeth | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Saurabh Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mandar Bakshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| cheezy_chiggy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Thiedevil | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Raghuram prabhu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Rahul Bora | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Naman Sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Suhit Bhoir | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Poker Player | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Kanwa Sengupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Shivam Bhandari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Akshay Natu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Rijoy Mukherjee | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Raunaq Vohra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Sam Joseph | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Murali Phani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Prajwal Rawat | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Vivaswan Damle | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Parul Batra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Avinash Tripathi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Gaurab Dutta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Aditya Tiwari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mouli | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| KP | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Kajal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| abhiram karnam | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Kumar Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Arpit Arora | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Sandeep Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Siddhartha Misra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Neel Patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| VishChess | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Sagar Chakraborty | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Hardik Chaudhari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Mansi Nawlani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Akshit | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
| Hemanth Reddy | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Abhishek Jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| rsjay1976 | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Akshay Tiwary | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Anish Mathew | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Abhijeet Rawle | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Gokul | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Arka Ghosh | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| abhilaash darla | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Aviral Juneja | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Ritvik Ohri | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Manu Talwar | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Kumar Satyam | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Vineet Hariharan | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Suranjan | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Diljeet Singh Narwal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Siddharth Sen | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Gaurav Shah | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Super Sayijin | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Akshit Sehgal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Varad Wakodkar | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Anshul Walia | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Mahesh Parab | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Vipul Gupta | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Pratyush Sharma | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Anish Raina | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Abhi J | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| SUDARSHAN K M | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Pranavendra Vittal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| avant jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
| Randy Alstone | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Omkar Shetye | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Goutam Murlidhar | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Visweswaran Kameswaran | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Arunava Bhattacharjee | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Arvind Ramnath | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| shrikant parab | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Eesha Dutta | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Sansar Singh | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Priyabrata Mallick | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| kshitiz lohani | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Lavish Goyal | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Suyash Swaroop | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Randy Alstone | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| ANAY KHANGAN | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Vishnu Vardhanan | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Ishan Joshi | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Jaimin Saheba | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
| Subhrajoy Dutta | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
| CA Mohit Singh | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
| Manosij Basu | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
| Shivam Upadhyay | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
| Arjunlal B | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
| Tejas Chitnis | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sparsh Nigam | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Charan Teja Kattumenu | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Harshal Pandya | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Nilesh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Anas Edacherry | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Kiran Iyer | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Ashwin Jayaram | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Shyammsm | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Chessmathician | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Dharmen Shah | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Aman Singh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Tapan Krishna | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Arjun N Bharadwaj | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Santosh Nene | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Fufoo Esports | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Nirvana Laha | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Devin anand | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Rohan Verma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Asadullah Kamanger | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Zeus | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sujit Varghese | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Chess Puns | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| ANANYA TRIPATHY | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Abhijit Mishra | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sambit Ghosh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Mrityunjay Jalan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Pavan Yalamanchili | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Keith Mascarenhas | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Aditya Jitta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Siddharth Ranadive | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sudarshan Rangan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Pramod Menon | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Akshat Shenoy | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Jaydeep Chakrabarty | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sriraam Ramakrishnan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Mihir Kanani | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| vaibhav saraswat | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| akshay sharma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Shrish Nagvekar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Vini Vedi Vici | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Ayushi Sharma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Ajeet prsingh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| dhairya dave | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| vivek mady | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Just A Random Guy | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Ankita Kulkarni | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Sumeet Jain | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Subodh Patil | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Subhrajoy Dutta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Anuradha Ravi | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Rahul Malhotra | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| Dr. sminil mahajan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
| 67463 | 47224.1 |
After the tournament ended, we have the following people who are now members of the ChessBase India YouTube channel:
| Members after Super Juniors | Amount | |
| Gokul Ramanathan | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
| Sumedh Deshpande | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Ankush Dhyani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Avdhut | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Arkadeepta Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| hushaar oom | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
| Amey Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Raj S | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Bhagat Makhijani | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
| Mohit Manghnani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Srini | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Nilay Barve | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| SL | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| TECHY PrakHar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Russell Nurser | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| lovejot singh Aujla | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Sivakami Subbu | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
| Aman Gulati | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Pratip Rao | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Parth Shah | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| InFeRnO | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Dikshant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Shubham Shah | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Karan Mehta | Promoter of Indian chess | 599 |
| agam dixit | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Sowmya Kumari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| Girolamo Castaldo | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
| Chetan Suresh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
| 4452 |
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The position of the day feature:
The position of the day, featuring one chess composition daily, is something unique to ChessBase India. It was started in April-May 2019 and has continued to this day in a consistent manner. The idea behind sharing these positions is two-fold: firstly, we want to offer our audience top-notch mental exercises to work on every morning; and secondly, we want to introduce them to the very creative and fascinating but often overlooked world of chess problems and studies. To this day we have easily shared more than 700 positions accompanied with high-quality descriptions, pictures, and brief biographies of their creators. This is also a section which invites regular engagements, because the author, Satanick Mukhuty, makes sure to reply to as many comments as possible and initiates a stimulating dialogue or discussion. If you are someone looking to hone your logical and analytical skills, this is a section we can assure you will benefit from.
The way in which you can get the position of the day each day is by following us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or downloading the ChessBase India Android App. The benefits of viewing the position of the day in the app is that you also get the solution to it. Try to solve today's position of the day:
Some good articles to read from the ChessBase India website
Over the course of the year we have had 750 articles published on our newspage - www.chessbase.in. Each of the articles is carefully crafted with introduction, pictures, main text, captions and the main idea is to bring you interesting and engagin chess news. Below we have shortlisted 27 articles which we think were special during the year.
Life lessons from India's 39th GM - Ashwin Jayaram
10 masterpieces from top 10 women players of India
Interview with the youngest ever Aeroflot Open winner Aydin Suleymanli
Levon Aronian's wife Arianne Caoili is no more
April Fool's Prank - Adhiban to make debut in Big Boss
The best games of Garry Kasparov's chess career
The biggest rating gainers in Indian chess in the last year
How the stand-up comedians are popularizing the game of chess
The life of composer Steffen Nielsen
The best of Anish Giri interviews
India's 66th GM who balances chess and education - G. Akash
The Queen Bee of ChessBase India - Amruta Mokal
Independence Day Special - when the tricolour was unfurled
Nakamura signs with premier esports team TSM
Top Grandmasters of Indian pay homage to their coaches
The man with a golden heart - IM Anup Deshmukh
100 episodes of Improving Chess with Sagar and the comedians
The entire gold medal winning Indian Olympiad team interviewed by ChessBase India
Raja Ravisekhar, the man who played 16 consecutive national championships from 1975-1990
How Velammal Education Trust created 9 GM in Indian Chess
The true path to Chess Improvement
Grandmaster at the age of 36 - Kevin Goh Wei Ming
ChessBase India YouTube channel is now 500,000 subscribers big!
Leon Mendonca becomes India's 67th GM
The Christmas New Year puzzle solving competition
A vibrant social media
ChessBase India has a vibrant social media which is very active. Here are some of the numbers of the various platforms as on 31st of December 2020.
YouTube channel: 543k subscribers
Facebook: 103,589 likes and 141,559 Followers
Twitter: 19.9k followers
Instagram: 50.4k followers
ChessBase India App on Android: over 10,000 downloads with 4.6 rating and 252 reviews
Google reviews: 63 Google reviews with 4.9 rating
I would like to thank the entire team of ChessBase India for working hard day in and out with the single minded aim of powering chess in the country. None of what we have achieved would have been possible without your support, dear readers. A big thank you! 2020 was great, 2021 will be even better! We will work towards it.
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