MCL 2016: Team Compositions
The auctions for Maharashtra Chess League, one and only chess league of India, were held on 21st of May at 13.00 hours in Pune. Vishy Anand was the guest of honour. Playing for the first time Sasikiran Krishnan was the highest paid player for Rs. 1,70,000. We will have the complete report up on our website soon. As of now you can have a look at the team composition and the amount received by various players.
Ahmednagar Checkers
Amount spent: Rs. 3,93,000
GM Sasikiran Krishnan (1,70,000)
GM Shardul Gagare (72,000) (retained)
IM Sagar Shah (30,000)
IM Tania Sachdev (50,000)
WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (40,000)
Pawan Dodeja (10,000)
Sankarsh Shelke (10,000)
Shashikant Kutwal (11,000)
Pune Sangli Navigators
Amount spent: Rs. 4,03,000
GM Adhiban (1,50,000)
GM Abhijit Kunte (1,00,000)
IM Aditya Udeshi (30,000)
IM Sameer Kathmale (30,000)
IM Mary Ann Gomes (46,000)
V. Varshini (26,000)
Akash Thakur (10,000)
Ananya Gupta (11,000)
Mumbai Movers
Amount spent: 4,39,200
GM Abhijeet Gupta (1,40,000)
GM Diptayan Ghosh (60,000)
IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni (33,000) (Retained)
WGM Swati Ghate (70,000)
WFM R. Vaishali (1,03,000)
Rakesh Kulkarni (13,200) (Retained)
Raunak Sadhwani (10,000)
Saloni Sapale (10,000)
Jalgaon Battlers
Amount spent : Rs. 4,41,300
GM Koneru Humpy (1,38,000)
GM Swapnil Dhopade (1,20,000)
GM S. L Narayanan (75,000)
IM N. Srinath (30,000)
Nubairshah Shaikh (47,300)
Pratik Patil (10,000)
Akanksha Hagawane (10,000)
Rutuja Bakshi (11,000)
Pune TruMasters
Amount spent: Rs. 4,46,900
GM S.P. Sethuraman (1,08,900) (Retained)
GM Vishnu Prasanna (50,000)
IM Swayams Mishra (30,000)
IM Abhishek Kelkar (36,000) (Retained)
IM Eesha Karavade (1,58,000)
WFM Rucha Pujari (28,000)
Harshit Raja (36,000)
Thane Combatants
Amount spent: Rs. 4,43,500
GM Lalith Babu (65,000)
GM Aravindh Chithambaram (85,000)
IM Abhimanyu Puranik (36,000) (Retained)
IM Padmini Rout (1,61,000)
WGM Soumya Swaminathan (82,500) (Retained)
Aniruddha Deshpande (14,000)
All the teams were given Rs. 4,50,000 at the start of the auction to bid for players. All the amount that remained unused will go to MCA Chess in Schools Program. For eg. Ahmednagar Checkers spent only Rs. 3,93,000, so the remaining Rs. 57,000 will go towards the MCA-CIS program.