DCA wins ACL 1st Super League 2018 in Unrated category

by Shahid Ahmed - 21/08/2018

Dynamic Chess Academy won ACL 1st Super League 2018 in Unrated category by winning the crucial tie-breaker against Kunte's Chess Academy. DCA won the first match in the final with a score of 2.5-1.5, however KCA bounced and DCA lost the second match by 1-3. Meet Parmar of DCA was nominated to play the tie-breaker. He continued his terrific form in the finals and outplayed Nikhil Chitale in the tie-breaker blitz match to secure the championship for DCA. Find out photos, games, positions from the final round of ACL 1st Super League 2018 in this report. Photo: DCA/Manish Parmar

DCA wins ACL 1st Super League 2018 in Unrated category

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Team DCA (Clockwise): Meet Parmar (top left), Kushal Radia, Riaan Shah, Vedansh Dattani, Heer Babariya P and Daksh Parmar | Photo: DCA/Manish Parmar

Tie-break rules: If both teams win a match each in the finals, then both team managers nominated a player of their choice to play the Blitz. Time control of Blitz was 3 minutes + 2 seconds each. Color was decided randomly.

Meet Parmar of DCA was the star player of the day as he not only won both of his games in the finals, but he also won the crucial tie-breaker.

White just played 18.Rb2. Find out why it is a mistake.

In the second game, Meet Parmar launched a devastating attack and finished off the game in just 23 moves.

White has a wonderful opportunity to attack. How do you plan on seizing it?

AtharvK found a brilliant attack for white here. Can you find it?

In the tie-breaker match, Nikhilchitale has just played 22...Qe7. ChessJini (Meet Parmar) exploited opponent's weakness perfectly. Find out how

Let's see how the players performed individually:

Meet Parmar - 5.0/6

Kushal Radia - 3.5/7

Riaan Shah - 2.0/5

Vedansh Dattani - 5.5/7

Heer Babariya P - 0.5/2

Daksh Parmar - 0.0/1

In the 3rd-4th place match, City Chess Club Bhuj defeated d'pawn Chess Academy by 3-1 in the first match drew their second match 2-2. City Chess Club Bhuj secured 3rd position and d'pawn Chess Academy secured 4th position ACL 1st Super League 2018 in Unrated category.

Aim of the Academy Chess League (ACL):

There are many chess academies all over the world. However, in terms of playing practice and partners they are bounded by geographical limitations. The Academy Chess League by ChessBase India wants to overcome these limitations and barriers and ensure that academies, schools and institutions situated in one part of the world can compete against teams anywhere on the planet. The aim is to play high quality chess and that's why the time control of 45 minutes + 10 seconds has been decided. ACL is an initiative by ChessBase India that will be played online on the Playchess platform. Over 300 players from 50 institutions have registered with us for the 1st Super League that has begun from the 1st of July. The second league will soon follow, so stayed tuned!