Dibyendu Barua comes out of retirement!

by Shahid Ahmed - 13/09/2017

GM Dibyendu Barua comes out of retirement in DBCA Online Blitz Chess Tournament, scheduled to take place on 10th of September 2017 at 6 p.m. on Playchess server. The total count of GMs is 15. 11 IMs and 1 WGM are taking part at this event which has a total prize fund of Rs.50,000 and first prize of Rs.12,500. It's your final chance to play blitz against some of the best players of our country. Don't miss it!

GM Dibyendu Barua decided to come out of retirement in DBCA Online Blitz Chess Tournament. He had already made his over-the-board return early this summer in Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017

GM Dibyendu Barua decided to come out of retirement in DBCA Online Blitz Chess Tournament

Celebrating 12th anniversary

Date: Sunday, 10th September 2017

Time: 6.00 p.m. IST

Time control: 3+1, 10 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 50,000

Venue: Playchess

Total 15 GMs , 11 IMs and 1 WGM are participating in a 10-round Blitz Tournament with a time control of 3 mins + 1 sec increment. Total Prize Money is ₹50000 and 1st prize is ₹12500

The man who has been unbeaten on Playchess server for online prize money tournaments has confirmed his entry. GM Lalith Babu (Anji). He is the man to beat!

Eight grandmasters including National Challengers champion Deepan Chakkravarthy, national blitz champion Rajaram Laxman, GM Vishnu Prasanna, GM Diptayan Ghosh, GM Debashis Das, GM G.N. Gopal, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, defending champion GM Vaibhav Suri have confirmed their participation

Four more Grandmasters have joined and they are Montcada Open 2017 winner GM M Shyam Sundar, Recently Qualified for National Premier 2017, GM Abhijit Kunte, GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and GM Ankit Rajpara

Webster University student GM Priyadharshan Kannappan has confirmed his participation

WGM Soumya Swaminathan is one of the strongest woman chess player of the country has decided to play this tournament

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.50,000

Main Prize list:

Place	Prize
1st	12,500
2nd	9,000
3rd	7,500
4th	5,000
5th	3,000
6th	2,000
7th	1,750
8th	1,400
9th	1,250
10th	1,000

Special prizes:

There are seven prizes of Rs. 800 each. The condition to claim these prizes is that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way.

Place	Prize
20th	800
30th	800
40th	800
50th	800
60th	800
70th	800
80th	800

Entry fee:

The entry fee is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here. The last date to pay entry is 9th of September 2017.

Once you have paid the entry fee, you will receive the one month serial key on the registered email address along with the procedure to extend your account.

Entry fee for students of Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy will be Rs.250 which will be paid directly at the academy.

All GMs, IMs and WGMs get free entry to our tournament. All you have to do is write a mail to us at chessbaseindia@gmail.com along with your name, FIDE ID and the playchess ID. If you do not have a playchess ID please create it from here and share with us.

Contact:

For registration queries contact:

Mr. Shahid Ahmed - 9038139510 email - shahid.chess@gmail.com

The above number (9038139510) can also be used for payment of entry fee via paytm.

Tournament Rules:

All the games will be checked by the server engine and by a panel of experts and if any player is found guilty of cheating then the concerned player’s account will be suspended and will not be allowed to participate in any of the future playchess events. The prize in such case will move to the next rank.

The provisional standings will be displayed immediately after the end of the tournament but the final standings will be displayed within a week after all the games have been checked.

We request all the players to check your internet connection before the tournament. If poor internet connection is detected at the start of the tournament, then the concerned player will not be allowed to participate and the entry fee will be refunded after a minimal amount (around 3-5%) is deducted.

The Tournament Director will hold the right to reject any entry and entry fee will be refunded (after a minimal amount of around 3-5% is deducted) if the entry is rejected at the start of the tournament. The decision of the Tournament Director will be final.

After the tournament has started and your internet is disconnected or you exit the playing room, you will not be paired for the next rounds and your entry fee will not be refunded.

How to play in the tournament?

1. Download the free windows software of playchess

Firstly you have to download the free native Windows software from here.

Login or create an account

After you have installed the Playchess client. You must login.

Enter your playchess username and password if you have one. (Note, for all the ChessBase Account Premium members, your login credentials will work). If you do not have a Username, you must click on "Create New Player Name" and create a new account. Alternatively you can also create it from here. This is free of cost and gives you free access to Playchess for a few days. After you pay the entry fee mentioned above you will be given one month serial key on your registered email address along with the steps to make your account premium.

The tournament will take place in the newly created Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into playchess at least 45 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 10th of September.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. This is subject to the payment of entry fees.

Note: The Playchess id while paying the entry fee and while entering the playing arena on 10th September, should be the same.

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Player's list:

Serial No.	Name	Rating	Playchess ID
1	GM G.N.Gopal	2589	ilusionist60
2	GM Aravindh Chithambaram	2579	Refresh
3	GM Diptayan Ghosh	2562	diptayan
4	GM Vaibhav Suri	2560	irus1997
5	GM M Shyam Sundar	2547	kereslover
6	GM Lalith Babu	2525	Anji
7	GM Kannappan Priyadharshan	2515	slogger
8	GM Vishnu Prasanna	2538	Fidodido
9	IM Abhimanyu Puranik	2509	pabh
10	GM Abhijit Kunte	2505	Abhijit Kunte
11	IM P Karthikeyan	2497	Chennaikramnik
12	GM Debashis Das	2493	debashis das
13	IM Nihal Sarin	2485	nihalsarin
14	GM Deepan Chakkravarthy	2466	j2d
15	GM Ankit Rajpara	2465	twentyseven
16	GM Dibyendu Barua	2448
17	IM Swayams Mishra	2444	Mr bh6
18	IM Sayantan Das	2436	Ambitious
19	IM P.Shyaamnikhil	2434	Pshyaamnikhil
20	IM Nitin S	2423	snitin
21	IM Abhishek Kelkar	2403	livestrong_6
22	GM Rajaram Laxman	2397	Laxman
23	Akash PC Iyer	2390	Jaggi2106
24	IM S Ravi Teja	2383	Ravi Teja S
25	Rahul Srivathsav P	2373	rahulsrivathsav
26	FM Sai Krishna G.V	2369	Pennkrishna
27	FM Fenil Shah	2362	fenil_shah95
28	FM Raunak Sadhwani	2339	devil1234
29	IM M Chakravarthi Reddy	2329	Chakravarthi
30	IM Rathnakaran K	2326	RATHNAKARAN
31	FM Mitrabha Guha	2321	Babysnake
32	WGM Soumya Swaminathan	2320	Travellingknight
33	GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury	2317	Sevenstar
34	Niranjan Navalgund	2312	Twentythreewins
35	IM Rahul Sangma	2311	bittu
36	IM VAV Rajesh	2309	rajeshvav
37	CM Aditya Mittal	2289	vinniethepooh
38	FM Ankit Gajwa	2282	Ab de villiers
39	Gahan M G	2281	karnatakangahan
40	IM D.K. Sharma	2279	kakdela
41	R Ashwath	2258	csk
42	Pranav V	2248	pranav_vip
43	Dushyant Sharma	2222	Dushu2930
44	Snehal Vilas Bhosale	2211	BurninggIce
45	Moksh Amit Doshi	2197	MokCa2003
46	Amithpal Singh	2175	Amithpal15
47	Girish B Chandanani	2169	sanjanachandanani
48	FM C J Arvind	2156	junosource
49	Kushager Krishnater	2137	kushu_attack
50	Kavitha JE	2134	jekavitha
51	Priyanka Nutakki	2115	Chess Queen
52	Shantanu Bhambure	2052	Defence1234
53	S.Harini	2047	Hasaka
54	Aditya Samant	2046	adityass
55	Soham Datar	2037	sohamchess64
56	Aakash Dalvi	1969	aakash-dalvi
57	Sa Kannan	1960	NextWC
58	L R Srihari	1959	lsr
59	Kotepalli Sai Nirupama	1949	saraswathii
60	Sayan Bose	1948	bosesayan28
61	Panesar Vedant	1942	Brainboy123
62	Sanjeev Nair	1903	Attacker_97
63	Sandeep Chitkara	1878	sandy42
64	Madhusudan Iyer	1865	Hallabol
65	CM Shahil Dey	1810	Shahildey
66	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	1805	Chessmaster10
67	Rohan Nag Chowdhury	1708	rohannc
68	Sumit Roy	1723	Sumit19
69	Arunachalam	1699	Arunachalam m
70	Suganthan S	1697	sugananand
71	Spandan Seth	1634	Best Angel
72	Samrat Nandi	1631	Samratnandi
73	Debarghya Samanta	1563	tapa1964
74	Yukash Ram E	1553	Iceguardian_005
75	Mohit Swami	1549	mohitswami1022
76	Sanchit Mukherjee	1450	Sanchit
77	Aayush Bhattacherjee	1420	AAYUSH
78	Arnav Nehete	1392	ANN212
79	Aniruddh Chatterjee	1348	Omaniruddh
80	Aadrito Datta	1344	Aadrito
81	Shivam Garg	1309	mindhurter
82	Dhawal Arora	1226	dhawalarora15
83	Rakesh Kulkarni	1217	rakeshkul
84	Soham Mitra	1193	soham_hriddhi
85	K Venkatakrishna	1150	venkatakrishna
86	Antik Kumar	1067	antik2018
87	Abir Dhar Chowdhury	0	dcabir
88	Akbar Amir Ali Pirani	0	akbar_sh_007
89	Anshuman Chatterjee	0	Anshuman
90	Arinjoy Saha	0	Arinjoy
91	Kalpan Bhattacharya	0	Kalpan
92	Natarajan Raja Swaminathan	0	raja3652016
93	Maheshkumar Kudre	0	MDKUDRE
94	Oishik Mondal	0	Oishik
95	Pamir Dhar Chowdhury	0	IvantheTerrible
96	Prachurjo Dutta Roy	0	Prachurjo
97	Ritabrataa Roy	0	Ritabrataa
98	Sagnik Nandi	0	sagnik nandi
99	Satyaki Seth	0	Satyaki2005
100	Vishal Parbari	0	VISHALPABARI
101	Yashwardhan Agarwal	0	yash_a2k

Feedback for previous ChessBase India prize money tournaments:

Great management....First time played a tmt with no problems...This was my first online tournament.....And had a great experience hope you all organise this type of tournaments quite frequently.....Would love to participate in your future tournaments

-Ambarish Sharma

Thank you. It was really a nice and enjoyable tournament. Hope in future also ... If this kind of tournament once in a month happen it will be brilliant...

-Mithu Dey (on behalf of Shahil)

Although the tournament was organized well,I felt that that referee 1 was somehow inactive. Other than that everything was fine.

-Rahul Shrivatshav

The Fischer online blitz event on 12th March was organised in an exemplary manner. Hope we have more tournaments of this stature in future.

-GM R.R. Laxman

It was an awesome tournament. I look forward to playing more in such events.

-Snehal Bhosale

Thank you ChessBase India for arranging strongest online Fischer blitz event. I have played against high rated players including IMs and increased Playchess ELO from 1953 to 2008! There is nothing better than this a chess player can ask for. Seating at the home on perfect Sunday evening, sipping coffee and playing against famous players in India. Thank you so much for everything!

- Nikhil Joshi

I must congratulate ChessBase India for promoting events like this to encourage chess players on Online. Hope all the participants were able to enjoy playing this tournament without any glitch. The opportunity provided by ChessBase India is a welcome move.

- N.V.Nagesh (father of Badri Naryanan)

The tournament was very well conducted. I enjoyed playing the tournament. Maybe if possible next time you can use fide rating instead of the playchess rating as many new players started with low ratings. On the whole it was a very good tournament.

- Arjun Kalyan

Loved the tournament. Was fun playing against such a strong field without leaving the house. Everything went smoothly and there were no real problems once it began. The only issue I had was the 20 minute delay to start the round. But I guess it's OK since it's the first time. Overall, great experience and would definitely play again. Great work guys.

P. S-The bonus prizes are a nice incentive for players like me. :P

-Likhit Chilukuri

The tournament was well organised. I had a blast playing in this tournament :) It was a good experience playing without time increment.

-Aashna Makhija

Excellent start. Hope to play more events like this in future.

With warm regards...

-Nihal Sarin

The tournament was organized pretty well.. I liked this concept of online blitz tournament. Thank you for organizing this event.

-Akhilesh Nagare

I was very fascinated to play in an online blitz tournament for the first time! I did not play my best but I hope that from the next time, I expect more online tournaments from my own country, Chessbase India! I like everything of this tournament! But one thing the time control was without any increment. It ruined the quality of some games. But I hope Chessbase India will look after it and I am already excited to play in the next online blitz tournament!

-Rajdeep Sarkar

Thank you for your hard work!. Everything is just perfect for me.

-Priyanka Nutakki

It was a great initiative on the part of Chess base India. Hope you are able to do on a regular basis. It was a great opportunity n looking forward to many more.

-Hriday Bhuta

It's a pleasure to play in the ChessBase India online tournament. I never played on board match with an International Master in a tournament but here I got a chance to play against Ratnakaran sir.

What ChessBase India is doing to Indian chess is superb. Hope one day Anand also gets the same recognition like Sachin and Kohli .

My best wishes always with you.

-Harsh Kanoje, Nagpur

First of all I would like to say congratulations for organizing such a mammoth event smoothly without any delays/disturbances. It is really a great platform for the budding chess players and chess enthusiasts (who can't travel more often for the tournaments as players I'm one among them) Playing these tournaments with such a strong field always been a great experience. Especially when you are paired against titled players (one of the best players in the country) it gives lots of encouragement and inspiration! I really enjoyed my tournament session (played with GM Vaibhav Suri in the first round and he became the champion in the end also played with IM Padmini Rout in the 9th round and I drew with her) also lost some games because of time pressure etc. ChessBase India is doing a great job and looking forward to hear from you about the future events like 3rd online blitz and many more (I believe you won't stop this journey for sure.)

-Pavan BNB, Mumbai

Team DBCA welcomes you to take part in this online tournament and celebrate the occasion of their 12th anniversary!