Blind Premier 2018 R04: Kishan Gangolli gunning for his fifth straight title!

by Sagar Shah - 06/02/2018

These are the initial days of the National Premier Blind 2018. Just four rounds have been completed and we already have a sole leader - top seed Kishan Gangolli, who is on 4.0/4. You might think he is Bengali because of his surname, but the lad comes from Shimoga in Karnataka and is one of the most accomplished blind players that Indian chess has ever seen. We bring you some very interesting pictures and moments from the single round day. As the round ended in the morning, the players indulged in a blitz session as well! Blind players playing blitz is never easy, but we have found out that nothing is impossible for these 14 individuals! And yes, the total contribution for this event has reached Rs.429,053! Amazing indeed!

If there is one player out of the 14 who I think is extremely strong and competent to give even 2200+ visioned opponents a run for their money, it has to be Kishan Gangolli.

Kishan won his game against Diptyajeet De when in the middlegame, the Kolkata boy missed some tactics:

Aryan Joshi made a quick draw against Yudhajeet De. In the final position when the threefold repetition occurred Yudhajeet was clearly better, but he was satisfied with a draw.

Prachurya Kumar Pradhan is beating his opponents with minimal issues. In the fourth round he played an excellent game againstMari Muthu and emerged as the winner. This game should serve as a model one for all Bogo Indian aficionados.

Soundarya Kumar Pradhan lost his first game of the tournament, but since then has been in good form and won 3.0/4. He beat Shirish Patil in the fourth round

Father of Soundarya and Prachurya Rabi Ranjan Pradhan is taking care of the live broadcast by making the moves on the DGT boards

Subhendu Kumar Patra won the best game of the day prize after beating Gaurav Gadodia

Madhu Priyatam is doing an excellent job by scheduling shows on Radio Chess and taking care of the PR of the event

In the evening Amruta played a blitz event that was organized for fun. She played with a blindfold around her eyes. Just to give you an idea of the strength of the players - Amruta didn't win a single game. Although more than visualization her problem was putting the pieces in their appropriate holes on the braille board!

Niklesh Jain is ensuring that the tournament gets maximum eyeballs in the Hindi speaking audience

The food is free of cost for all players and is quite delicious

A lot like home made food!

One of the best ways to celebrate your fourth wedding anniversary!

You must just see the chief arbiter Manjunatha zooming around in time pressure telling the time that is left on the players' clock!

Ranking after round 4:

Rk.	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	14	Kishan Gangolli	IND	1996	KAR	4,0	0,0	4,50	4,0
2	5	Aryan B Joshi	IND	1813	MAH	3,5	0,0	4,50	3,0
3	7	Prachurya Kumar Pradhan	IND	1611	ODI	3,5	0,0	4,00	3,0
4	3	Soundarya Kumar Pradhan	IND	1753	ODI	3,0	0,0	4,00	3,0
5	6	Makwana Ashvin K	IND	1744	GUJ	3,0	0,0	3,25	2,0
6	13	Yudhajeet De	IND	1678	W B	2,0	0,0	2,75	1,0
7	12	Krishna Udupa	IND	1711	KAR	1,5	0,0	3,50	1,0
8	11	Marimuthu K	IND	1613	T N	1,5	0,0	2,50	1,0
9	1	Patra Subhendu Kumar	IND	1604	ODI	1,5	0,0	1,25	1,0
	8	Samant Milind	IND	1672	MAH	1,5	0,0	1,25	1,0
11	9	Deeptyajeet De	IND	1607	W B	1,0	0,0	3,25	0,0
12	4	Gaurav Gadodia	IND	1749	MAH	1,0	0,0	1,75	0,0
13	2	Patil Shirish	IND	1698	MAH	0,5	0,0	0,75	0,0
	10	Swapanil Shah	IND	1678	MAH	0,5	0,0	0,75	0,0

Pairings of round 5:

Bo.	No.	Rtg	Name	Result	Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	1753	Soundarya Kumar Pradhan		Kishan Gangolli	1996	14
2	4	1749	Gaurav Gadodia		Patil Shirish	1698	2
3	5	1813	Aryan B Joshi		Patra Subhendu Kumar	1604	1
4	6	1744	Makwana Ashvin K		Yudhajeet De	1678	13
5	7	1611	Prachurya Kumar Pradhan		Krishna Udupa	1711	12
6	8	1672	Samant Milind		Marimuthu K	1613	11
7	9	1607	Deeptyajeet De		Swapanil Shah	1678	10

Contribution towards the expenses of the tournament

The contribution towards the blind national premier has been steadily increasing. And now we are very close to the finishing line. We set out with the goal of Rs.5,12,000 and have reached nearly Rs.4,30,000!

We thank you all for your support. It means a lot to the blind chess players of India. You have truly powered chess in our country.

No.	Amount	Name
1	5000	Sachin Samant
2	2000	Rochelle D'souza
3	11000	Madhusudan Iyer
4	1000	Atul Dahale
5	10000	Ritu Mohit Bhandari
6	25000	Sainath Ramanathan
7	2000	Priti Mahendru
8	1000	Mamta wadhwa
9	5000	Shailesh Gadre
10	5000	Avathanshu Bhat
11	500	Rekha Raghavan
12	1000	Vikas Sharma
13	10800	Rekha Pinkesh Nahar
14	1000	Aditya Mukund Kulkarni
15	2100	V j gupta
16	500	Nishchint Sharma
17	1500	Jeet shah
18	5000	Swapnil Kothari
19	11000	Sanjoy Shome
20	1000	Sudhahar
21	1000	Giriappa T Amin
22	2000	Vanita Noronha
23	500	Rajesh gupta
24	1000	Tamojit Chakraborty
25	200	Devansh Singh
26	5000	Shubham Sanjiv Kumthekar
27	100	Harshal Pramod Patil
28	10000	Sushir Lohia
29	2000	PAVAN BNB
30	2000	Nitish Mittal
31	5000	Sudip Singh
32	2000	S C AGARWAL
33	1000	Deepak chavan
34	1500	sanjeev Tambe
35	2000	Laishram Imocha
36	1000	Niranjan Prasad
37	2000	Niranjan Prasad
38	500	Eshan Tilwani
39	10000	Vedaprakash PC
40	5000	Vivek Gupta
41	2000	Prathamesh Mokal
42	1000	Chaitanya Kulkarni
43	251	Aditya Vimal
44	1000	Mitul KH
45	1000	Aruna Shiv shankar Singare
46	2000	Sneha Ghatpande
47	2500	Abdesh Jha
48	10000	Anand Kashelkar
49	27000	Mullick Somnath Charitable trust
50	1001	Ramkrishna Kashelkar
51	2000	Aravind
52	2000	PR Krishna
53	1000	Aniruddha Deshpande
54	3000	Sundararajan Kidambi
55	2500	Rahul Anil Bhagwat
56	5000	Himanshu Kumar
57	500	Rohan Bharat Joshi
58	500	Yoges kumbhar and Deepak vaychal
59	5000	Romit
60	700	Vishal Sodani
61	2000	sankaran ponnada krishnaswamy
62	1000	Durgaprasad Mahapatra
63	1500	Priyanka Ved
64	1001	CMA (Dr.) Ashish Thatte
65	5000	BHAKTI PRADIP KULKARNI
66	500	VIMAL RAJ M
67	1000	Pankaj arora
68	2000	Vikrant Malvankar
69	1000	Satyajit Basak
70	2000	Sureshkumar .T.J
71	30000	Karthik Rangarajan
72	10000	Jayaram Swaminathan
73	1000	Bina Manoj Sanghvi
74	500	Suhas Murthy
75	500	Dinesh Prakash Gaikwad
76	5000	Tania Sachdev
77	2000	Kunal kochar
78	5000	Padmini Rout
79	5000	Seema Thukral
80	1000	Amit Sanjay Raje
81	2500	Roktim Bandyopadhyay
82	1000	Vedant panesar
83	7500	Nikhil And Dipika Joshi
84	10000	Amruta and Sagar
85	3000	Vasudevan RR
86	5000	Karthikeyan Sankaran
87	19400	Ramesh Balasubramanium
88	5000	Anjali patil
89	5000	Vandana Bhansali
90	1000	Abhinav Shetty
91	500	Sunita Prasad
92	10000	Ashutosh Datar
93	1000	Vidit
94	11000	Manoj Dengla
95	45000	Not to be disclosed
	429053	TOTAL

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All India Chess Federation For The Blind

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