Your chance to play blitz with the best in Indian chess!
On 9th March 1943 Robert James Fischer was born. To celebrate the birthday of this great player ChessBase India has organized the first prize money blitz tournament on 12th of March 2017. With the first prize of Rs.10,000 at stake the tournament already has four grandmasters, six International Masters, two WGMs and a horde of young talents participating at the event. This is your chance to play blitz against some of the best chess players of the country. Don't miss out!
It's a huge day for chess fans all over the world. Exactly 74 years ago the greatest player who ever graced the chess board - Bobby Fischer was born. On 9th March 1943 at 2.39 p.m. after nine hours of labour, Regina gave birth to her first son.
Bobby Fischer Online Tournament
on 12th March, 2017
First prize: Rs.10,000
Date: 12th of March 2017
Time: 6.00 p.m. IST
Time control: 3+0, 9 rounds
Prize fund: Rs. 31,000
Venue: Playchess
Confirmed list of players:
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 | |
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 | Mitrabha Guha | 2348 | Babysnake |
20 | Sai Krishna G.V. | 2339 | Pennkrishna |
21 | Aradhya Garg | 2315 | Aradhya |
22 | Rahul Shrivastav | 2303 | Rahulsrivathsav |
23 | IM C Praveen Kumar | 2294 | Cholzan |
24 | WGM Bhakti Kulkarni | 2286 | bestluck |
25 | S Arjun Kalyan | 2280 | chesscounter |
26 | Sankalp Gupta | 2265 | Junior Tyson |
27 | Ritviz Parab | 2235 | TheNGUKnight |
28 | Raunak Sadhwani | 2218 | devil1234 |
29 | Snehal Bhosale | 2211 | BurninggIce |
30 | Arvind CJ | 2198 | Junosource |
31 | IM Chakravarthi Reddy | 2195 | Chakravarthi |
32 | Sriram Sarja | 2175 | Indianquant |
33 | WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty | 2160 | Rojalin |
34 | Pranav V | 2149 | pranav_vip |
35 | Likhit Chilukuri | 2125 | Jon Targaryen |
36 | Niraj Saripalli | 2125 | gogolman96 |
37 | Nikhil Joshi | 2103 | NikhilJoshi2 |
38 | Nikhil Dixit | 2101 | nikhildixit98 |
39 | Kannan Sa | 2085 | NextWC |
40 | Priyanka Nutakki | 2084 | Chess Queen |
41 | Nikhil Magizhnan | 2077 | Nikhilchess4 |
42 | Kiran Panditrao | 2049 | Kiran Panditrao |
43 | Dushyant Sharma | 2013 | Dushu2930 |
44 | Anuj Shivratri | 1980 | Anuj shivratri |
45 | K.Sai Nirupama | 1978 | saraswathii |
46 | Rahul Verma | 1946 | Rvlc |
47 | Sonakshi Rathore | 1933 | Sonakshi |
48 | L R Srihari | 1922 | lsr |
49 | Rajababu Gajengi | 1907 | PRAJAT |
50 | Shahid Ahmed | 1862 | dnumber23 |
51 | Abhijith Pran | 1847 | pranabhijith |
52 | Gopal Rathod | 1842 | chessworld36 |
53 | Jay Pradhan | 1840 | jptheking |
54 | Shanya Mishra | 1821 | shanya |
55 | Ambarish Sharma | 1808 | Ambar768 |
56 | Akhilesh Nagare | 1807 | Nagareakhilesh |
57 | Shahil Dey | 1774 | shahildey |
58 | Kiran A | 1753 | creativedevil |
59 | R.Rathneesh | 1735 | rathu |
60 | Ishan Bansal | 1729 | ishu98 |
61 | Thangraj Nadar | 1728 | e-player |
62 | K.Krithigga | 1708 | krithiggakasi |
63 | Falgun Purohit | 1705 | falgun_chess4192 |
64 | Kashish Manoj Jain | 1679 | Kashishgreen |
65 | Nityata Jain | 1654 | IGM210104 |
66 | Vignesh.N | 1639 | vicky18 |
67 | Aditya S | 1637 | adityass |
68 | Ankit Bhattacharya | 1615 | ANKIT2002 |
69 | Debarghya Samanta | 1592 | debarghya1972 |
70 | S.Rohit | 1589 | rohit_arjun |
71 | Atharva Jaeel | 1568 | atharvajaeel |
72 | Jatin Deshpande | 1515 | JATIN45 |
73 | Shubham Malani | 1510 | Mad |
74 | Raghav Bansal | 1508 | raghu_chess |
75 | Abhinav Shetty | 1491 | ahs1992 |
76 | Krish Butala | 1476 | india_chess |
77 | Jaiswalprince | 1468 | Ganpatibappa |
78 | Arhan Chethan Anand | 1422 | LegacyPlayer |
79 | Badri Narayan B | 1411 | Indianmvl |
80 | Yash Watarkar | 1396 | ing3112 |
81 | Vikrant Malvankar | 1388 | digupagal |
82 | Avathanshu Bhat | 1361 | sans360 |
83 | Badri Narayanan | 1343 | badri0102 |
84 | Shivakumar D M | 1332 | dmshivakumar |
85 | Yuvraj Punia | 1313 | yuvraj111 |
86 | Ashwin Sairam | 1291 | ASHWIN123 |
87 | sparsh shah | 1277 | sparsh2004 |
88 | Arnav Nehete | 1261 | ANN212 |
89 | Prakhar Bajaj | 1172 | Gaurav306 |
90 | Prahathi Mohan Raj | 1108 | PrahathiMohanRaj |
91 | Vamsi Krishna | 1065 | Zener#123 |
92 | Parth Thakkar | 0 | plawliet9 |
93 | Purva Kulkarni | 0 | purvachess |
94 | Sankarshana G | 0 | sankarshana G |
95 | Shreejana Dash | 0 | sreejana |
Prizes:
The total prize fund is Rs.31,000
Main Prize list:
Place | Prize |
1st | 10,000 |
2nd | 5,000 |
3rd | 3,200 |
4th | 2,000 |
5th | 1,000 |
6th | 1,000 |
7th | 1,000 |
8th | 1,000 |
9th | 1,000 |
10th | 1,000 |
Place | Prize |
20th | 800 |
30th | 800 |
40th | 800 |
50th | 800 |
60th | 800 |
70th | 800 |
Entry fee:
The entry fee to the tournament is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here. The last date to pay entry is 10th of March 2017.
The Fischer Fever Contest
The Fischer Fever contest is taking place on the ChessBase India Facebook page. Seven different questions like the one above are asked for seven days. You have to write the right answers in the comments section and share the posts to win a Fischer Master Class DVD. You can read the rules of the contest here.