Who do you think will win the 2nd ChessBase India online blitz?
Six hours left for the blitz bonanza! The huge favourite is definitely B. Adhiban. We have 14 grandmasters, 11 International Masters and 134 participants until now. It's last hour left to enroll for the tournament. It's your chance to play against the best players of our country. And when you participate in the event, you also have a chance to submit your interesting chess story and win exciting prizes including GM Abhijit Kunte analyzing your game.
14 grandmasters will battle it out at the 2nd Chessbase India online prize money blitz tournament held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Kunte Chess Academy.
It goes without saying that B.Adhiban (phoenix92) is the favourite to win the title
Lalith (Anji) will try and defend his title that he had won with a score of 9.0/9 in our first online blitz!
When it comes to blitz, Diptayan (Diptayan) is a tough nut to crack!
Vaibhav Suri hasn't really been active recently. It will be nice to see him in action at this blitz tournament.
No rest for this young boy. He will hop out of the flight from Reykjavik, run to his computer and fight it out for the top prize!
After Norway and Iceland, Nihal is landing in Thrissur today. He is extremely tired. But his father has ensured that if the boy is awake he would be blitzing it out!
Aravindh Chithambaram, according to me, is a huge favourite!
One of the top seeds at the event is G.N. Gopal
There are 11 rounds this time, so the chances of these players fighting out against each other are much more than the last time when there were only 9. The games begin at 6 p.m. IST in the Chessbase India room of the Playchess software.
Vishy Anand arena is where the action will take place
| Serial No. | Name | Playchess ID | Fide rating |
| 1 | GM B.Adhiban | phoenix92 | 2661 |
| 2 | GM Aravindh Chithambaram | Refresh | 2588 |
| 3 | GM G.N.Gopal | ilusionist16 | 2580 |
| 4 | GM Diptayan Ghosh | diptayan | 2572 |
| 5 | GM Lalith Babu | Anji | 2571 |
| 6 | GM Vaibhav Suri | irus1997 | 2558 |
| 7 | GM Vishnu Prasanna | Fidodido | 2542 |
| 8 | GM Shyam Sundar | kereslover | 2535 |
| 9 | IM P Karthikeyan | Chennaikramnik | 2507 |
| 10 | GM Debashis Das | debashis das | 2501 |
| 11 | GM Magesh Chandran | gmmagesh | 2494 |
| 12 | GM Abhijit Kunte | 2491 | |
| 13 | GM Srinath Narayanan | NSRINATH | 2491 |
| 14 | IM Shyaam Nikhil | Pshyaamnikhil | 2454 |
| 15 | IM Swayams Mishra | Mr.bh6 | 2450 |
| 16 | IM R. Praggnanandhaa | rprag2005 | 2447 |
| 17 | GM Neelotpal Das | Mandrake | 2438 |
| 18 | IM Nihal Sarin | Nihalsarin | 2424 |
| 19 | IM Nubairshah Shaikh | nubairshahshaikh | 2408 |
| 20 | N.Krishna Teja | man_hunter123 | 2406 |
| 21 | GM R.R. Laxman | LAXMAN | 2403 |
| 22 | IM Padmini Rout | fawkes | 2400 |
| 23 | IM Abhishek Kelkar | livestrong_6 | 2398 |
| 24 | IM Anwesh Upadhyaya | Anwesh | 2385 |
| 25 | Miranda Guha | Babysnake | 2348 |
| 26 | Sai Krishna GV | pennkrishna | 2339 |
| 27 | Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad | Samudragupta | 2337 |
| 28 | Harshit Raja | JohnKing3401 | 2334 |
| 29 | Karthik Venkatraman | Usainbolt | 2317 |
| 30 | IM Navin Kanna | Titanboa | 2317 |
| 31 | Aradhya Garg | Aradhya | 2315 |
| 32 | RAHUL SRIVATHSAV | RAHULSRIVATHSAV | 2303 |
| 33 | Sankalp gupta | Junior tyson | 2265 |
| 34 | WIM R. Vaishali | rvaishali2001 | 2259 |
| 35 | Akash PC Iyer | Jaggi 2106 | 2257 |
| 36 | Maheswaran | Maheswara64 | 2254 |
| 37 | Fenil Shah | fenil_shah95 | 2252 |
| 38 | R.Ashwath | Csk | 2242 |
| 39 | Sahil Tickoo | TheHope | 2222 |
| 40 | RAUNAK SADHWANI | devil1234 | 2218 |
| 41 | Snehal Bhosale | BurninggIce | 2211 |
| 42 | Mithil Ajgaonkar | Mithil | 2203 |
| 43 | Balasubramaniam H | Harishankkar | 2189 |
| 44 | IM Chakravarthi Reddy | Chakravarthi | 2189 |
| 45 | Raja Rithvik R | Chesswarrior | 2155 |
| 46 | Jeet jain | only chess | 2151 |
| 47 | Pranav V | pranav_vip | 2149 |
| 48 | Laishram Imocha | Athoibi | 2138 |
| 49 | Kavitha JE | jekavitha | 2134 |
| 50 | Likhit Chilukuri | Jon Targaryen | 2125 |
| 51 | Aniruddh Deshpande | Anichess89 | 2106 |
| 52 | Joshi, Nikhil C. | NikhilJoshi2 | 2103 |
| 53 | Kannan Sa | NextWC | 2085 |
| 54 | Priyanka Nutakki | Chess Queen | 2084 |
| 55 | Manu David Suthandram | Smart Dolphin | 2078 |
| 56 | Pruthu Deshpande | GR8KNIGHT2001 | 2075 |
| 57 | L Mahendra Venkat | LMVenkat | 2064 |
| 58 | Kiran Panditrao | Kiran Panditrao | 2049 |
| 59 | Venkat Sundaram | Venkatsundaram | 2049 |
| 60 | Girish Chandanani | sanjanachandanani | 2040 |
| 61 | Vedant panesar | Brainboy123 | 2036 |
| 62 | Kushagra Mohan | kingfisher99 | 2031 |
| 63 | maulik rawal | maulik_rawal777 | 2016 |
| 64 | Dushyant sharma | Dushu2930 | 2013 |
| 65 | Vishal Didwania | dcmunpf | 2013 |
| 66 | GOPAL ASHOK RATHOD | chessworld36 | 2008 |
| 67 | Sanjeet Manohar | jimu9723 | 2007 |
| 68 | Y.Venkata kalyana chakravarthy | Anjiaiah | 2005 |
| 69 | Toshali V | peace4ever | 1997 |
| 70 | Vigneshwaran s | Bigbosschess | 1986 |
| 71 | Karthik Kumar Pradeep | darkknight | 1978 |
| 72 | Kotepalli Sai Nirupama | saraswathii | 1978 |
| 73 | Sambit Panda | sambit_panda | 1959 |
| 74 | Kushager krishnater | Kushager krishnater | 1953 |
| 75 | Siddharth Sabharishankar | sidduchessmaster | 1950 |
| 76 | L R Srihari | LSR | 1922 |
| 77 | Aakash Dalvi | Aakashchess | 1919 |
| 78 | PAVAN BNB | Loss2win | 1915 |
| 79 | sanchay dubey | sanchay | 1881 |
| 80 | Ranjith Rk | Mike Ross | 1878 |
| 81 | Sk Shahid Ahmed | dnumber23 | 1862 |
| 82 | Aashna Makhija | Never say never | 1858 |
| 83 | Jay Pradhan | jptheking | 1840 |
| 84 | Ambarish Sharma | Unbeater | 1808 |
| 85 | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | Akhi | 1753 |
| 86 | Harsh Kanoje | Masterwhiteking | 1738 |
| 87 | Sunil Vaidya | sunil vaidya | 1736 |
| 88 | Ishaan Bansal | ishu98 | 1729 |
| 89 | RIDIT NIMDIA | king04 | 1729 |
| 90 | R.Rathneesh | rathu | 1724 |
| 91 | Dhrupad Kashyap | cyber11 | 1672 |
| 92 | Chilukuri Sai Varshith | varshith | 1641 |
| 93 | Aditya Samant | adityass | 1637 |
| 94 | Vignesh | vicky18 | 1613 |
| 95 | Avinash Prakash | avinash_prakash | 1612 |
| 96 | Mohammed Shamil | shamil | 1609 |
| 97 | Abhinav Chandra ,Kodali | chandra1234 | 1589 |
| 98 | Jainam Modi | olympic2012 | 1581 |
| 99 | Devanshi Rathi | devanshirathi | 1571 |
| 100 | Atharva Jaeel | atharvajaeel | 1568 |
| 101 | Harisurya Bharadwaj Gundepudi | hari123 | 1553 |
| 102 | Chintha Ramu | ram_div | 1537 |
| 103 | DESHPANDE JATIN | SUPER_WIZARD | 1515 |
| 104 | Raghav Bansal | raghu_chess | 1508 |
| 105 | Soumyadipdeb | brandydam | 1497 |
| 106 | Abhinav Shetty | ahs1992 | 1491 |
| 107 | Rohit Roy Choudhary | GMRohit | 1485 |
| 108 | Vallabh Kavi | smartkid | 1402 |
| 109 | Yash Watarkar | ing3112 | 1396 |
| 110 | Avathanshu Bhat | sans360 | 1361 |
| 111 | Garvit Kumar Kalra | Garv1811 | 1358 |
| 112 | Aavishkar Raghuraja | raghuraja | 1276 |
| 113 | Akshay Borgaonkar | chess2009 | 1240 |
| 114 | Satvik Kapoor | satvik_ygm | 1229 |
| 115 | Nilkant Shrey | gree_shrey | 1224 |
| 116 | shankar murthy | ravishankar | 1223 |
| 117 | Harshit Amarnani | Harshitamarnani | 1218 |
| 118 | Nishigandha Ramgude | Nishigandha Ramgude | 1209 |
| 119 | Saouhridya Pran Kashyap | sanu365 | 1138 |
| 120 | aryan khurana | Ak2003 | 1173 |
| 121 | Dakshayani Chavan | Barbie2008 | 1171 |
| 122 | Davuluri Vihar | Davuluri Vihar | 1158 |
| 123 | Rohan Badera | ROHANBADERA | 1140 |
| 124 | Shreyas Purkar | shreyasp | 1124 |
| 125 | S.Vikraanth | Vikraanth | 1022 |
| 126 | Arjun Raje | Arjun Raje | - |
| 127 | Chetan Tyagi | CHETAN TYAGI | - |
| 128 | Laxmikant Sudhakar Bhole | bhole_laxmikant | - |
| 129 | Kimaya Bhole | bhole_kimaya | - |
| 130 | Ojas Khasgiwale | Ojas Khasgiwale | - |
| 131 | Purva Kulkarni | purvachess | - |
| 132 | Siddhant Sathe | siddhant Sathe | - |
| 133 | Vihaan Dawda | Vihaandawda | - |
| 134 | Yashwardhan Agarwal | yash_a2k | - |
The entry is Rs.500 and includes one month ChessBase Account Premium membership.
One hour left in case you would like to participate. 1 p.m. is the deadline. Any entries after that will not be allowed to participate.
10 tales contest:
All the players participating in the online tournament might want to also be a part of the 10 tales contest. All you have to do is share with us an interesting chess story of yours with us.
Prizes for 10 tales contest:
The first three best stories get the following prizes:
1. Your game annotated by GM Abhijit Kunte + A Fritztrainer DVD of your choice from the ChessBase India shop worth Rs.999/-
2. A Fritztrainer DVD of your choice from ChessBase India shop worth Rs.999/-
3. Six months ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs. 750/-