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The strongest online blitz event of India is here!

by Sagar Shah - 12/03/2017

Playchess has been one of the world's oldest online playing platforms. A lot of Indians play on it since many years, but this is the first time that we are holding a tournament of such magnitude. ChessBase India has organized the first prize money online tournament in the memory of Bobby Fischer on Playchess. The event will take place on 12th March, Sunday at 6 p.m. IST. And we already have 148 entries with six grandmasters and 13 International Masters. The strongest blitz event ever in India!

When: 12th March at 6 p.m.

Where: Vishy Anand Arena, ChessBase India room on Playchess

List of Participants

Serial No. Name Fide rating Playchess ID
1 GM Lalith Babu 2593 Anji
2 GM Swapnil Dhopade 2542 SwapnilSD
3 GM Vishnu Prasanna 2534 Fidodido
4 IM P. Karthikeyan 2507 Chennaikramnik
5 IM Thejkumar 2482 msthej
6 GM Deepan Chakravarthy 2480 j2d
7 IM N. Srinath 2472 NSRINATH
8 IM R. Praggnanandhaa 2455 rprag2005
9 IM Swayams Mishra 2450 Mr.bh6
10 IM Arghyadip Das 2418 casillas
11 GM R.R. Laxman 2409 LAXMAN
12 IM Nubairshah Shaikh 2408 NubairshahShaikh
13 GM M.R.Venkatesh 2396 Sivaji
14 IM CRG Krishna 2394 crg
15 FM Nihal Sarin 2386 nihalsarin
16 IM Anwesh Upadhyay 2385 Anwesh
17 IM Ravi Teja 2377 RaviTejaS
18 Niranjan Navalgund 2375 Twentrythreewins
19 Akash Thakur 2363 Maharana
20 Mitrabha Guha 2348 Babysnake
21 Rakesh Kulkarni 2344 phoenix02
22 Sai Krishna G.V. 2339 Pennkrishna
23 IM Rajesh VAV 2324 Rajesh VAV
24 IM Navin Kanna 2317 Titanboa
25 Aradhya Garg 2315 Aradhya
26 Srinath Rao S V 2312 Mega_Charizard
27 Rahul Shrivastav 2303 Rahulsrivathsav
28 IM C Praveen Kumar 2294 Cholzan
29 WIM N. Raghavi 2290 Raghavi281
30 WGM Bhakti Kulkarni 2286 bestluck
31 Saurabh Anand 2284 Saurabh19
32 S Arjun Kalyan 2280 chesscounter
33 Rajdeep Sarkar 2273 Duh_backbencher
34 Sankalp Gupta 2265 Junior Tyson
35 Sammed Shete 2263 dabbang111
36 Fenil Shah 2252 fenil_shah95
37 Ritviz Parab 2235 TheNGUKnight
38 Raunak Sadhwani 2218 devil1234
39 Snehal Bhosale 2211 BurninggIce
40 Arvind CJ 2198 Junosource
41 IM Chakravarthi Reddy 2195 Chakravarthi
42 Aditya Mittal 2183 vinniethepooh
43 Fahad Rahman 2182 FahadRahman
44 Sriram Sarja 2175 Indianquant
45 Kumar Gaurav 2172 Kumar2017
46 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 2160 Rojalin
47 Pranav V 2149 pranav_vip
48 Likhit Chilukuri 2125 Jon Targaryen
49 Niraj Saripalli 2125 gogolman96
50 Sreeshwan Maralakhsikari 2109 Dmc39
51 Amithpal Singh 2107 amithpal15
52 Nikhil Joshi 2103 NikhilJoshi2
53 Nikhil Dixit 2101 nikhildixit98
54 Manigandan S S 2091 shansub94
55 Kannan Sa 2085 NextWC
56 Priyanka Nutakki 2084 Chess Queen
57 Ameya Kamli 2081 Ameya2189
58 Vaibhav Saxena 2080 vaibhavsaxena
59 Nikhil Magizhnan 2077 Nikhilchess4
60 Sreejith G S 2077 THRILLER
61 Kiran Panditrao 2049 Kiran Panditrao
62 Ganesh Babu S 2044 Lord Aragorn
63 Subhranshu Mohan Satpathy 2039 Subbu_57
64 Swayangsu Satyakam 2033 FUTGEN
65 Dushyant Sharma 2013 Dushu2930
66 Anuj Shivratri 1980 Anuj shivratri
67 K.Sai Nirupama 1978 saraswathii
68 Kushager Krishnater 1953 kushu_attack
69 Rahul Verma 1946 Rvlc
70 Sonakshi Rathore 1933 Sonakshi
71 L R Srihari 1922 lsr
72 Amogh Kamli 1920 Amogh3091
73 Rajababu Gajengi 1907 PRAJAT
74 Sanjeev Nair 1899 Attacker_97
75 Ranjith 1882 Mike Ross
76 Shahid Ahmed 1862 dnumber23
77 Tarun Kanyamarla 1860 username12345
78 Abhijith Pran  1847 pranabhijith
79 Gopal Rathod 1842 chessworld36
80 Mahitosh Dey 1841 Mahitosh
81 Jay Pradhan 1840 jptheking
82 Shanya Mishra 1821 shanya
83 Ambarish Sharma 1808 Ambar768
84 Akhilesh Nagare 1807 Nagareakhilesh
85 Shahil Dey 1774 shahildey
86 BENJAMIN VARGHESE ISAAC 1768 Benisaac
87 Raees Ahmed 1759 Raeesaq99
88 Kiran A 1753 creativedevil
89 R.Rathneesh 1735 rathu
90 Ishan Bansal 1729 ishu98
91 Thangraj Nadar 1728 e-player
92 Raahil Mullick 1710 raahi07
93 K.Krithigga 1708 krithiggakasi
94 Falgun Purohit 1705 falgun_chess4192
95 Kashish Manoj Jain 1679 King144
96 Nityata Jain 1654 IGM210104
97 Trisha Kanyamarala 1649 trishakan
98 Vignesh.N 1639 vicky18
99 Aditya S 1637 adityass
100 Ankit Bhattacharya 1615 ANKIT2002
101 Debarghya Samanta 1592 debarghya1972
102 S.Rohit 1589 rohit_arjun
103 Atharva Jaeel 1568 atharvajaeel
104 Jatin Deshpande 1515 JATIN45
105 Shubham Malani 1510 Mad
106 Raghav Bansal 1508 raghu_chess
107 Abhinav Shetty 1491 ahs1992
108 Vijaykumar reddy mallepalli 1481 Vijayreddy29
109 Aashna Makhija 1477 neversaynever
110 Jitendra Varma 1476 jitendravarma1738
111 Krish Butala 1476 india_chess
112 Jaiswalprince 1468 Ganpatibappa
113 Arhan Chethan Anand 1422 LegacyPlayer
114 Dilip kumar kaushik 1414 deepukaushik
115 Badri Narayan B 1411 Indianmvl
116 Aarav Sindhwad 1403 Aaravs
117 Yash Watarkar 1396 ing3112
118 Tanisha Boramanikar 1393 tanu2
119 Vikrant Malvankar 1388 digupagal
120 Avathanshu Bhat 1361 sans360
121 Badri Narayanan 1343 badri0102
122 Shivakumar D M 1332 dmshivakumar
123 Harshavardhini M S 1330 harshams
124 Yuvraj Punia 1313 yuvraj111
125 Rohnit Amin 1304 ROHNITAMIN
126 Ashwin Sairam 1291 ASHWIN123
127 Vedant Swamy 1288 VedantTheGreat
128 Narayan Sahu 1277 Narayan Sahu
129 sparsh shah 1277 sparsh2004
130 Arnav Nehete 1261 ANN212
131 Hriday Bhuta 1196 hridaybhuta
132 Prakhar Bajaj 1172 Gaurav306
133 Saouhridya pran kashyap 1138 sanu 365
134 Nithin Maghiznan 1122 nithinmagizhnan
135 Prahathi Mohan Raj 1108 PrahathiMohanRaj
136 Vamsi Krishna 1065 Zenex#123
137 Madhav Menon 1042 makku2000
138 Vikraanth s 1022 vikraanth
139 Tejas Keswani 1013 Deadpool Tejas
140 Kshaunish Harsha 0 kshaunish
141 Parth Thakkar 0 plawliet9
142 Piyush Bothra 0 piyushbothra250
143 Praveen B 0 mickeymouse1982
144 Purva Kulkarni 0 purvachess
145 Ravi Pal 0 ravi_pal
146 Sankarshana G 0 sankarshana G
147 Shreejana Dash 0 sreejana
148 Siya Kulkarni 0 siyamitra


What is really heartening to see is the depth of field. We have world class players like Lalith Babu, Swapnil Dhopade, Vishnu Prasanna at the top and then the young guns like Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin, Raunak Sadhwani who have not yet hit their teen ages!

Vishy Anand arena in ChessBase India room

This is where the tournament is going to be held

We are all set!

Please arrive 45 minutes before the start of the event, click on the players tab at the top and click on join event.

Halsagar from Bangalore will be the tournament director for the event. All decisions taken by him will be final.

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We wish the participants a very exciting tournament. Let's all play in the spirit of the game and may the best man win! :)


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