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Anup Deshmukh clinches Ghaziabad title
International
Master Anup Deshmukh of Life Insurance Corporation of India won
the tournament with a quick draw against International Master
Varugeese Koshy of ONGC..... |
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Paramasivam wins Pearl City title, Tuticorin
M Paramasivam of
Aruppukkottai won the fourth State level open chess tournament
conducted by the Pearl City Chess Association at Tuticorin.... |
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Satyapragyan wins Natl Under 25 title at Bangalore
Satyapragyan of
Indian Airlines won the U-25 National Chess Championship conducted
by Vara Chess Academy at Tuberculosis Research Institute,
Bangalore. RR Laxman of Tamil Nadu took the second spot... |
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Gobin makes it in style at Ahmedabad
Final day at 14th
National Children Chess Championship at Orient Club, Ahmedabad
organized by Gujarat Chess Academy was full of celebration for
Andhra Pradesh.... |
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Meenakshi emerges Natl Jr champion at Calicut
Meenakshi Subbaraman,
the top seed from Indian Airlines won the title in the 15th
National Junior Girls Chess Championship, with a score of 6.5 from
eight rounds..... |
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IOC champs, Inter Petroleum, Khandala
Indian Oil
Coporation clinched the winners trophy in the Inter-Petroleum
Championship held at Khandala recently. The star studded IOC team
comprising of GM Abhijit Kunte, IM D V Prasad (Captain), IM R B
Ramesh..... |
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Deepan, Anuradha crowned Champs at Mumbai
Deepan Chakravarthy
of Tamilnadu and Anuradha Beniwal of Haryana clinched the trophies
in the National Sub-Junior Chess Championships held at Andheri,
Mumbai...... |
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 Anand
is the world champion, brings the title to its birth place
Time stood still in the picturesque International Exhibition Hall, Tehran when Grandmaster Alexei Shirov of Spain shook hands with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of
India...
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Himanshu and Kavitha U 18 champs at
Chennai
In
the concluding day, most of the top board games in boys section
was a dull affair. Girls were more spirited and produced many
decisive results.... |
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Saumitra Mujumdar and Gurpreet Maras win at Thane
Overnight leader Rohil Bhat
was stunned by Vishal Shah in the ninth and final round of the
Rochess Maharashtra State U-12 & U-14 Boys & Girls Chess
Tournament, while Saumitra Mujumdar (2034) topped the U-12 group... |
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Bakre champion, maiden entry for Saptarshi Roy
IM Tejas
Bakre of Indian Airlines expectedly drew his last round game
against IM P Konguvel of PSCB and won the Tata Steel 38th National
‘B’ chess championship that got concluded here today... |
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Bakre and Humpy crowned Asian Junior Champions
Asia's
youngest IWM Koneru Humpy is now Asian Junior Champion and Tejas
Bakre has done it for second time. Humpy won the tournament by
half point margin and Bakre won it on tie-break... |
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Sasikiran
wins Pentamedia title
Chennai
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the Category XI Pentamedia
Grandmaster Chess tournament at Kelambakkam, Chennai. In the 13th
and final round Sasikiran survived a few anxious moments in
Yuldashev's Kings Gambit before winning the game... |
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Ram
S Krishnan takes the title in a tie-break
Ram S Krishnan of Chennai and M K Alaguraja of Madurai scored 7.5
points and the tie break favored the Chennai youngster who bagged
the first prize of Rs.3000/- and the rolling shield at Salem... |
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Suvrajit
Saha emerges winner
Suvrajit Saha of Railways won
the inaugural WBCA All India FIDE Rated Chess Tournament held from
22nd to 31st August 2000 at Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra, Calcutta... |
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Vishal
Sareen takes Modi title in a tie-break
Five players, Vishal Sareen, Sriram Jha, Dinesh Kumar Sharma (All
LIC), IM N S Babu (Indian Bank) and IM Lanka Ravi (ONGC) were
declared joint winners in the 21st edition of the Piloo Modi open
international rating chess tournament... |
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Venkatesh
and Sangeetha take home the State Title
15
year old M
R Venkatesh's consistent play won him the prestigious State Chess
title held at Mannargudi for the V J Brahmayya Trophy on the basis
of higher tie-break score... |
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Muralikrishnan
emerges champion
The defending champion, B T Murali Krishnan (Southern
Railways) retained the title with authority by making a short draw
against Sushant S Banerjee (Mah) and finished with 8.0 points
taking the winner's purse of Rs.10,000/-... |
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Srinath and Savetha champions
Srinath and Savetha won the Under 8 titles in the 13th T. N.
State U-8 & U-10 Boys and Girls Chess Championship held at
Devakottai from October 1, 2000... |
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Vedant
Goswami retains lead
Rajasthan's Vedant Goswami made good of his 4/4 start to take a
safe draw against Vishal Sareen in the fifth round of the closed
FIDE Rated tourney leading the pack with 4.5 points.... |
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Anandkumar
and Sathyapriya lift title
Anand Kumar and Sathypriya won the Salem District Chess
Association Under-19 Boys and Girls title at Oxford Matriculation
Hr. Sec. School on 19.8.2000 .... |
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Karthikeyan bags Chess title
T V Karthikeyan, a third year B.Com., student of Loyola College, regained the chess title he had last won in
1998... |
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Ashwani wins Punjab Chess Championship
Top seed and internationally rated Ashwani Tiwari(2300) of Jalandhar, won the Punjab State 'A' Chess Championship... |
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Suresh makes the right moves
T.J.Suresh Kumar (ICF), (with a rating of 2189), won the Thiruvallur District rapid Chess title... |
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Poobesh
Anand wins under-18 crown
Poobesh
Anand of Dolphin Public School, Madurai, with 7.5 points, won the
26th Tamil Nadu State sub junior chess championship for boys,
lifting the VL Ethiraj Trophy... |
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Arvind
wins title
C
J Arvind of Loyola College, Chennai drew his 13th round game with
P Rajesh of Law College, Chennai to clinch the ONGC sponsored FIDE
Rated Open Chess tourney at Kelambakkam, Chennai.... |
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Sanjay
Champion, Vikramjeet Singh finishes second
Having
won the FIDE Rated All India Open title with a round to spare, N
Sanjay of Mysore finishing with an impressive score of 8.5 points
received the A.N. Naik Memorial rolling trophy.... |
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 Vladimirov
champion, Vijayalakshmi becomes WGM
Top
seed Kazakh Grandmaster Vladimirov won the Category X tourney with
two rounds to spare, while Vijayalakshmi became India's first
Women Grandmaster at Hotel Taj Residency, Hyderabad...
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Saptarshi
Roy wins title, Sayantan Dutta finishes second
Saptarshi Roy
continued with his winning ways to score a record 9.5 points
at the end of the final round of The Telegraph Schools Chess Championship at
Gorky Sadan, Calcutta |
Sudhakar Babu pips Nassir Wajih for title
International Master N Sudhakar Babu of Indian Bank Chennai won the Chess for World Peace FIDE Rating tournament at Lucknow... |
Swapnil Shah wins
Blind "B" title
The tournament sponsored by the Global Telesystems Ltd saw a total of 84 players,
including 20 players from each zone who had topped the zonal tournaments, took part in
this first-ever National 'B' championship for the blind... |
Vijayalakshmi
takes the National title, Mumbai
In a sensational match underdog S Meenakshi defeated her elder sister, S Vijayalakshmi to tie for the
first place in the 13th and final round of the XXVI Women’s National "A" Chess Championship.... |
Ramesh
wins National Rapid title ,Jalandhar
International Master R B Ramesh of Indian Oil won the LML 7th National Rapid Chess Championship with a whopping tally of 10 points out of a possible 11, at the M G N Public School,
Jalandhar.... |
13 year old Deepan Chakravarthy wins Cyber trophy
"It's truly a dream come true," said the l3 year old Deepan Chakravarthy, a ninth standard student of Dolphin Matriculation School... |
Parag and
Amruta clinch sub junior titles, Pune
The final day of Maharashtra State sub-junior chess championship turned out to be
exactly as one had expected, with overnight leader Amruta Mokal walking in with no fear
having already confirmed the title yesterday.... |
Humpy,
Sengupta, Nabeela & Shobana triumph at Ahmedabad
Koneru Humpy created history winning the Under 14 Boys title in the National Children Chess Championship 2000
Under 12 & 14 Boys & Girls at Karnavati Club, Ahmedabad... |
Kunte champion, Ganguly &
Harikrishna in
The concluding day of the Reliance National "A" Chess Championship saw
debutantes S S Ganguly of GNCA and P Harikrishna sponsored by WIPRO, making their maiden entry in the Indian team for the Chess Olympiad.... |
Sudhakar Babu takes Sona trophy, Salem
IM Sudhakar Babu of Indian Bank, Chennai agreed for a short draw
with Tej Kumar of Mysore in the final round logging 9.5 points from 11 rounds, a clear one point ahead of the rest of the field... |
Maheshchandran & Kavitha script a twin triumph
for Tamil Nadu
It was a twin triumph
for Tamil Nadu with two of their established stars, P Maheshchandran, sposored by
Ramalinga Group...
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Indian Airlines lifts Trophy
Indian
Airlines team with its strong contingent won the 11th All India Public Sector Team Chess
Championship... |
Shariyazdanov wins, Sandipan becomes an IM at Guntur
Not many
things in life are short and sweet. For the Russian GM Andrey
Shariyazdanov his final round game with GM Leonid Yurtaev turned
out to be that way. Coasting to the final round on a comfortable
cushion of one point lead... |
ONGC lifts CRSB trophy, Chennai
Led
by Grandmaster Elect K Sasikiran, Oil and Natural Gas Commission the
top seed comfortably clinched the title scoring a resounding 4-0
victory over the hosts Central revenue Sports Board team... |
Dinesh
Sharma wins National U-25, Vijayawada
Topseed International Master-elect Dinesh Kumar Sharma of LIC clinched
his maiden National title with eight points in the National Under-25
chess tournament... |
Sasikiran Commonwealth Champion
GM Elect K
Sashikiran scored an emphatic final round win over compatriot GM
Thipsay in the final round claiming the coveted Commonwealth
Championship title... |
Madras clinches Inter University
title - Game Viewer
Madras University stood first among the Indian Universities,
comfortably lifting the Raja Karan Singh Trophy in the All India Inter
Universities Chess Championship held at Talod, North Gujarat... |
Nisha
retains Junior title
Playing
to her strength IWM Nisha Mohota of Bengal retained her Junior
National title with a round to spare... |
Goodricke International Open
GM
Gregory Kaidanov of USA clinched the 11th Goodricke International Open
title with a steady, yet powerful performance scoring 8.5 points from
11 rounds... |
Xu Jun, Hoang Thanh Trang crowned Asian
Playing
with black pieces, GM Xu Jun of China defeated Uzbek star GM Yuldashev
to take the Asian Men's crown and the winners purse of USD 1100... |
PSCB Champion in a triple tie
Petroleum Sports Control Board with 19 points
emerged champion in the BPCL 13th National Team Chess Championship at Nagpur
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Title for Koshy
In a dramatic turn of events,IM V Koshy of ONGC Chennai annexed the 4th Global Trust Bank Open Title, at the Arya Vysya Abhyudaya Sangham here in
Hyderabad... |
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