Indian chess has raised ₹37672 for Rafiq Khan with one day to go. Contribute now!

by Shahid Ahmed - 05/10/2019

Total 29 players including six GMs, seven IMs and a WGM have raised ₹37672 for Rafiq Khan Memorial ChessBase Online Blitz Tournament 2019. This is not the final amount, we hope it will increase since the tournament takes place tomorrow Sunday 6th October at 8 p.m. IST. Total Prize Fund is ₹51000 cash. Entry fee for the tournament is ₹500. The entire money received through entry fee and donation will be given to the wife of Late Rafiq Khan. The biggest contributor so far is IM P Konguvel. He has donated ₹10000. You can still register for the tournament and play against India's strongest, no matter wherever you are in the world. Find more details on how to register.

ChessBase Online Blitz is tomorrow Sunday 6th October

The third ChessBase Online Blitz tournament will take place on this Sunday 6th October 2019 at 8 p.m. IST in the memory of Late Rafiq Khan. Entry fee is ₹500, however there is no limit on how much a player can donate. The entire proceedings received via donation will be given to the wife of India's first Olympiad medal winner in chess history.

Date: Sunday, 6th October 2019

Time: 8.00 p.m. IST (tournament will get over by 9.30 p.m.)

Time control: 3+0

Number of rounds: 9

Total Prize fund: ₹51000

Venue: Vishy Anand Arena in Playchess

IM Konguvel P is the biggest contributor so far. He made a generous donation of ₹10000 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

FM Siddharth Jagadeesh has also donated ₹10000

Kheerthi Ganta has contributed ₹10000

GM Karthikeyan Murali one of the first GMs to confirm his participation. He won a blitz tournament last month | Photo: Amruta Mokal

National Triple Crown Champion Aravindh Chithambaram will be seen in action | Photo: Sagar Shah

World Junior Silver medalist GM Abhimanyu Puranik | Photo: Amruta Mokal

India's youngest GM Gukesh is a regular at ChessBase Online Blitz tournaments | Photo: Sagar Shah

Vishnu was the best Indian performer at Riga Technical University Open 2019 | Photo: Niklesh Jain

ChessBase India Blitz regular Laxman won a car recently at Hyderabad | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Raunak Sadhwani loves playing blitz | Photo: Amruta Mokal

IM Ravi Teja S who is a strong player has also been a very successful coach lately | Photo: ChessBase India archives

Shiv Chatrapati Shivaji Award winner IM Nubairshah | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Reigning National Women's Champion and one of the latest IM's of the country, Bhakti Kulkarni | Photo: Queens Chess Academy

Madhya Pradesh's latest International Master Anuj Shrivatri | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Reigning National under-17 champion IM Neelash Saha is in terrific form | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

Vaishali made her maiden GM norm at Xtracon Open 2019 | Photo: Rupali Mullick

Details of the online tournament:

Main Prize:

Place	Prize
1st	10000
2nd	8000
3rd	6000
4th	5000
5th	4000
6th	3000
7th	2000
8th	2000
9th	1500
10th	1500

Woman:

Place	Prize
1st	1400
2nd	1000

Special prizes:

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

In order to win a special prize you need to play all the rounds.

Note: Each player is eligible for one and higher prize only.

Donate to the cause:

Entry is closed. However you can still donate. It is our request to everyone to help the family of Rafiq Khan. As already mentioned, the entire amount will be donated to Zahida Khan, wife of Rafiq Khan.

If the above button doesn't work, you can contribute from here.

People who live outside India and would like to contribute, can do so from here: https://www.paypal.me/chessbaseindia

Contact:

For registration queries contact:

Mr. Shahid Ahmed (Tournament director) - 9038139510

Email - teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com

• We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. Minimum requirement should be at least 2 mbps. No phone calls/messages will be entertained once the tournament starts from 8 p.m. IST onwards. All queries must be resolved before the tournament.

List of players:

Donors who will play the tournament:

Serial No.	Full name	Rating	Playchess ID	Donation amount
1	GM Karthikeyan Murali	2617	fighter64	1000
2	GM Aravindh Chithambaram	2609	Refresh	1000
3	GM Abhimanyu Puranik	2571	pabh	1000
4	GM Arjun Erigaisi	2544	Indian-Lion	5000
5	GM Gukesh D	2520	gk06	0
6	GM Vishnu Prasanna V	2505	Fidodido	4000
7	IM Raunak Sadhwani	2479	devil1234	0
8	IM CRG Krishna	2459	crg	1000
9	IM Ravi Teja S	2455	Ravi Teja S	500
10	GM Laxman R R	2444	LAXMAN	1500
11	IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh	2420	NubairshahShaikh	1000
12	IM Bhakti Kulkarni	2418	bestluck	1000
13	IM Anuj Shrivatri	2390	ANUJ SHRIVATRI	1000
14	WGM Vaishali R	2385	rvaishali2001	1000
15	IM Konguvel P	2370	Konguvel	10000
16	IM Neelash Saha	2334	gamechanger	1000
17	FM Siddharth Jagadeesh	2331	siddharthjagadeesh	10000
18	IM Rathnakaran K	2325	RATHNAKARAN	1000
19	Kaustuv Kundu	2318	Kaustuv Kundu	500
20	WIM Priyanka Nutakki	2248	Chess Queen	500
21	Rohit S	2234	rohit2007	500
22	Gaurav Bakliwal	2219	thebiggb	500
23	Girish Chandanani	2169	sanjanachandanani	500
24	Aradhya Garg	2168	Aradhya	500
25	Sahil Tickoo	2167	TheHope	500
26	Sriram Sarja	2138	Indianquant	500
27	Sarvesh Kumar A	2115	Chessencounter	500
28	Amithpal Singh	2102	amithpal15	1064
29	Anusha NLV	2081	anushanlv	500
30	Siddharth Sabharishankar	1984	Siddharthsabharishankar	500
31	Sai Manivannan	1926	SAIMANIVANNAN	500
32	Honi Arora	1889	honi12	500
33	A.Anand Sivasankar	1853	anandfan	500
34	Sahil Dhawan	1849	Greatgatsby	500
35	Muthu P	1823	muthu2205	500
36	Sibi Srinivasa Einstein Reddy	1804	sibieinstein	500
37	Peter Anand A	1787	PeterAnand	500
38	Pradhyumna Kumar Kothapalli	1787	Pradhyu	567
39	Aaryan Singla	1541	chessmaster2009	500
40	Kheerthi Ganta	1520	Candybond11	10000
41	Aashish Reddy	1471	Aashish2003	500
42	Ankur Singh Thakur	1441	stuart1988	500
43	Raja Mohammad	1391	raza_shah	500
44	Sankaran P K	1251	Enthusiast	500
45	Abhishek D Chandra	1199	adchandra	500
46	Jaiveer Patil	1133	Jaiveerpatil	500
47	Akshaj Patil	1016	Akshaj patil	500
48	Parigyan Chakraborty	1010	Parigyan Chakraborty	1000
49	Rahul Anil Bhagwat			1500
50	Swayangsu Satyakam		FUTGEN	1000
51	Mayur Gondhalekar		gonda	708
52	Amit Mishra		AMITM55	500
53	Bharath R		Hockey07	500
54	Dakshesh Dutt		20505337	500
55	Lakshita Dutt		20505329	500
56	Skanda Subramanian		kramnikstudent	500
57	Somasundaran M			500
58	Suhas Murthy		Murthye4	500

Donors who will not play the tournament:

Serial No.	Full name	Donation amount
1	Ramesh Balasubramanian	6464
2	Sethuraman S P	5000
3	FM Akash Thakur	1000
4	Maruti Naik	1000
5	Mohammad Suleman	500

How to play tournament?

Please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here.

1. Download the free Windows software of Playchess

Firstly you have to download the free native Windows software from here. If you have Mac OS or Mac Computer, then you have to use some VMWare to run it as Playchess Desktop Client has native support on Windows OS only.

Login or Create account

After you have installed the 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 here. This is free of cost and gives you free access to Playchess for a few days.

The tournament will take place in the Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into Playchess at least 30 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 6th of October. 7.30 p.m. would be a good time.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. Only those who have donated the money will be allowed to play.

Note: The Playchess id, while donating the amount and playing the tournament should be the same.

Let us all do our bit as chess players and remember the legend - Rafiq Khan

About HelpChess

ChessBase India Foundation has indulged in raising funds not only for the talents of Indian chess but also on issues of national importance by galvanizing the chess community together.

₹174463 was raised for the floods that took place in Kerala

A ChessBase Online tournament was held for the matryrs of Pulwama and an amount of ₹101973 was raised

Chess players raised ₹33121 through Let's Rebuild Odisha ChessBase Online tournament

You can also make a direct donation to the bank account of ChessBase India Foundation which will be added to the amount of donation for Rafiq Khan:

Name :- ChessBase India Foundation
A/C. No. :- 50200031999591
Bank Name: HDFC Bank.
Type of Account: Current Account
Branch Name :- GHATKOPAR EAST-TILAK ROAD
Branch Address :- 001 / 002,Samyak Darshan,Junction Of Tilak Road& Vallabh Baug Lane,Mumbai,
IFSC CODE :- HDFC0000118

All the contributors will be mentioned in a separate article which will be published when the tournament ends and the donation is made.

About online tournaments on Playchess by ChessBase India:

ChessBase India has organized innumerable online events successfully. Here is some feedback about the quality of the events:

GM Vaibhav Suri, winner of 2nd ChessBase Online Blitz tournament

The tournament was conducted quite smoothly and a quite "fun Sunday" event. The participation of Adhiban & Sethuraman definitely added the spark to the event. I guess an Online Blitz Festival would be the next way to go (with different formats - Chess960, Bughouse, Bullet etc). Overall really happy with such events. Way to go!!

GM R R Laxman, reigning National Blitz Champion

I thank the Chessbase India team once more for their strenous and tireless endeavour to popularise blitz events in India. Considering the fact that the present day time control even in classical format ( unlike the yesteryears) demands quick reflexes and blitz skills , I feel that the entire Chessbase India team is doing an exemplary and praiseworthy job. A boon for Indian chess !!!. Though my performance this time was not satisfactory ,I hope to excel and cherish more pleasant memories from my side in the forthcoming editions of Chessbase India blitz events.

IM Ravi Teja S, former National Challengers Champion

We (Ravi Teja&Anusha NLV) thoroughly enjoyed the tournament.it was exciting!

Tushar Bohra, father of Kanishk Bohra

Thanks for enrolling Kanishk for the event. He had a great time playing the games. And a great overall experience.

D Gukesh

I am extremely happy to have participated in my first online blitz tmt conducted by ChessBase India and loved the experience and thrill. from the start to the finish its professionally conducted and got the rare opportunity to play several high-class players in a single event and looking forward for its next event

Priti Mahendru, mother of Jaiveer Mahendru

This was our second chessbase online blitz event. My son is 8 years and it was an absolute thrill for him to be playing against titled players ! Thanks a lot for organizing this. We look forward to more such events !

Kushagra Mohan

I was happy the way the tournament was conducted. No problems at all. You just keep increasing the prize money and that is a big improvement.Cannot hope for more.

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