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 AICF
to conduct three-week coaching camp at Calicut
All-India Chess Federation will conduct a three-week coaching camp here from December 26, 2001 announced Mr P T Ummer Koya, Secretary, AICF and Vice President, FIDE. The panel of coaches include International Master Alexander Lyssenko (Russia), Grandmaster Maxim Sorokin (Argentina) and Grandmaster Andrey Shriyazdanov (Russia)...
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Sasikiran wins AICF Golden Jubilee title, Calicut
Grandmasters Krishnan Sasikiran of India and Takhir Vakhidov of Uzbekistan with 8.0 points each tied for the first place in the AICF Golden Jubilee Inter-National Open Chess Tournament today after the conclusion of the final round here at the Hotel Taj
Residency...
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 Balasubramaniam
Golden Squares Champion, Salem
Former National "B" Champion, R Balasubramaniam of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai clinched the Golden Squares International Open title
for the "Sona Trophy" with a whopping 10/11 score. "I am very happy with my show," said the modest champ from
Chennai...
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Pankaj Joshi wins
All
India FIDE Rated Open, Saharanpur
Top seeded Pankaj Joshi of Western Railways won the title in the 96 player, 2nd All India FIDE Rated Open held at Saharanpur from 16th to 20th December, 2001... |
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Indian Bank retains
title, Prakash Blitz Champion
Top seed and defending
champion Indian Bank, Chennai retained the TN State team title logging
18.0 points, a full point ahead of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai
while Indian Bank star GM Elect G B Prakash clinched the TN State
Blitz title...S
Nagarajan reports |
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Ramkrishna Kashelkar takes
Rochess title, Thane
University star Ramkrishna Kashelkar of Maharashtra, in an impressive show, took the title ahead of R R Laxman of Tamil
Nadu, in a tie break, scoring 9.0 points from ten rounds... |
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PSCB retains National team title, Vijayawada
Spearheaded by Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, top seeds Petroleum Sports Control Board
(PSCB) retained the title with a sweeping 4-0 win in the final round against
IAF... |
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Sridhar wins Dindigul Open
Former National "A" player C S Sridhar of Southern Railway, Chennai with 5.5 points out of seven rounds, won the 13th State Level Chess tournament at Dindigul recently... |
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Vaishali Salavkar wins GTL Championship for Blind
Maharashtra's Vaishali Salavkar has won the GTL Limited National
Women's Chess Championship for the Blind. Vaishali and three other
players will represent India in the Women's World Chess Championship
for the Visually Impaired in Spain... |
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Amruta Mokal and Somak Palit crowned champions, Raipur
Pune girl Amruta Mokal and
Bengal lad Somak Palit took the Boys and Girls crown, under tie
breaks, at Raipur here today. Sharing the top spot with equal points
were Eesha Karavade and Saptarshi Roy... |
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Vikas Sharma emerges champion,
Malerkotla
Top seeded Vikas Sharma & third seeded Arvinder Preet Singh both of Ludhiana repeated the history again and got first two positions respectively in 4th All INDIA OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP held here at
Malerkotla... |
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 Raghavi and Ishwarya Shobana
emerge champs
National Under 12 and 14 (Girls & Boys) Rapid Championships threw up new
champions with Raghavi, Gopal and Akshayraj Kore winning their maiden titles, while the
Salem girl Ishwaya Shobana took her second National title in two years...
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 Muralidharan edges out Venkatesh for title
M B Muralidharan of Kerala and M R Venkatesh of Wesley School, Chennai tied for the first place scoring 9.0 points each after the final round in the 14th SPIC Open FIDE Rated tournament for the Dr P R Sundaravadivelu trophy conducted by the Thoothukudi District Chess Association.....
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 Nabeela and Anand Kumar clinch titles
Nabeela S Farheen of Chennai and S Anand Kumar of Coimbatore clinched the titles in girls and boys section respectively in the 12th Sri Ramalinga Mills Tamil Nadu State Under-18 Chess Championships
at the Gandhi Vidyalayam, Aruppukkottai.....
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Vikas Sharma wins 2nd North India Open, Patiala
Top seed Vikas Sharma (Elo 2164) of Ludhiana bagged the title in the of 2nd North India Open Championship conducted by Nabha Chess Club here at Nabha Palace,
Nabha, Patiala, from 28th to 30th September 2001...... |
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Somak Palit emerges champion
Somak Palit of Mitra Institution emerged as the champion in 14th The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship at Alekhine Chess Club
at Calcutta recently...... |
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 Lanka Ravi National Rapid
Champion
International Master Lanka Ravi held M R Venkatesh and won the championship with 7.0 points after the final round of the 8th National Rapid Chess tournament being held at Tirur, Kerala......
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Santhosh and Krithika clinch titles
Santhosh and Krithika, both from Sri Vijay Vidhyalaya, Dharmapuri clinched titles in the Under - 14 Boys and Girls category respectively in the Dharmapuri District Children's tournament held at Shri Vishwa Bharathi Matriculation School, Dharmapuri recently.... |
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Jayashree and Savetha Champions
The Elite Club of Chess, Salem, an affiliate of Salem District Chess Association is conducting a number of Chess tournaments during the past few years ranging from the age group to seniors and from School Team events to closed invitation tournaments...... |
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Byomakesh Nayak bags 9th Orissa Sub Junior title
Byomakesh Nayak emerged as champion at the end of the seventh round of the 9th Orissa state Sub Junior championship being held here at the Indoor Stadium Baripada, when he drew his game against Arobindha Khuntia....... |
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Xu
Jun claims title, Ganguly, Barua and Harikrishna in
Top seed Grandmaster Xu Jun of China quickly drew his final round game
against Alexie Barsov to clinch the coveted title in the third Asian
Individual Chess Championship at the Gorky Sadan...... |
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Naveen
Kanna, Siddharth, Raghavi and Latha win titles
6th Tamil Nadu State Rapid Chess Championship 2001 was conducted by Golden Squares Womens Association Salem at TVN Kalyanamandapam from 13 08 2001 to 15 08 2001..... |
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Bhagyashree,
the National Women "B" champion
Five-time National champion Bhagyashree Thipsay won the 28th National
Women's 'B' chess championship which concluded at YMCA, Vizag. She
defeated Nisha Mohota of West Bengal and clinched the title....... |
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Yogesh Gore emerges champion
at Muzzafurpur
Yogesh Gore of Chattisgarh won the all India tournament organised by the UP Non Olympic Association and UP Chess Association at Muzzaffarnagar, recently..... |
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Arunprasad and L Sudarsana win titles
S Aruprasad and L Sudarsana bagged titles in the Under - 15 Boys and
Girls Championship respectively, conducted by Salem District Chess
Association on 21st and 22nd July, 2001, at Modern Matriculation
School, Salem.... |
Swati and Vijayalakshmi make
history, Jha wins National 'B' title, Nagpur
Double International Master norm holder Sriram Jha drew his final round game and won the G
H Raisoni Memorial 39th National "B" Chess Championship at Nagpur............ |
Six year old Khumchukcham
lifts Telegraph Schools, Guwahati
Khumchukcham Sanjoy Singh of Kairang Primary School, Imphal clinched the coveted
title with 8.0 points out of 9.0, by winning the penultimate and final round games, in the
Telegraph Schools Chess championship....... |
Prateek Sen
Gupta clinches Telegraph schools, Jamshedpur
Prateek Sen Gupta of South Eastern Railway
Mixed English School, Charadarpur with 10.0 points bagged the title at the end of the 11th
and final round of the Telegraph Inter Schools Chess Championship..... |
Sudarsana and
Kishore Kumar clinch titles
L Sudarsana and V Kishore Kumar bagged the 5th Salem Chess Trust District Level Children's
Chess tournament title in the U - 19, U - 12 Boys and Girls combined tournament held at
Oxford School, Salem on 23rd and 24th of June.... |
Karthikeyan and
Malarselvi win titles
T V Karthikeyan and P Malarselvi bagged titles in the men's and women's sections
respectively in the National 'B' selection tournament conducted by Chrompet Chess
Academy........ |
Savetha and
Sudharshana triumph
The first State Level Children’s Chess Tournament conducted by The Diamond Chess
Academy and sponsored by M/s Salem Stores & Jewelers and M/s Lakshmi Traders attracted
180 entries from different districts of Tamil Nadu...... |
Satyapragyan wins
Orissa State title
Top seed Satyapragyan drew his last round game
against Gourahari Mahapatra on the top board and clinched the title with a score of 9.5
points..... |
Barua pips
Sasikiran for his third National "A" title
Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua of TISCO piped top seed Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran in the
post to take the title in the final round. Both logged in 13.5 points, but a better
tie-break gave Barua his third National title...... |
Safira is
Champion
Hot favourite and International Woman Master
norm holder M Safira Shanaz claimed the Paruben Manilal Mehta Rolling Trophy in the 27th
Tamil Nadu state women's chess championship,.... |
Harkamal Singh Sandhu
emerges Punjab "A" Champion
Led Harkamal Singh Sandhu of Ludhiana played a blinder of a tournament to take the 3rd
Punjab 'A' Chess Championship held at R S Model School, Ludhiana from 8th June to 10th
June 2001...... |
Nishikanth
Mishra bags title
Nishikanth Mishra of BJB English medium
School Bhubaneshwar won the first leg of the Telegraph Schools chess championship 2001,
which concluded today............ |
Eesha,
Rajadarshini, Sunil and Vijaykeerthi champs
Eesha Karavade, Rajadarshini, Sunil
Rangarajan and Vijaykeerthi emerged champions in their respective categories at the
Koramangala Indoor Stadium, Bangalore..... |
Chandrasekar
Gokhale wins title
Chandra Shekhar Gokhale of Indian Airlines along with
IM S Kidambi of Chennai logged in 8.5 points after the final round, but took the title
with a better tie-break score having lead right through the event... |
Ram S Krishnan bags title
Ram S Krishnan of Avadi Chess Academy lost to A
Muthuswamy of Coimbatore, but still lead the table with 9.0 points and bagged the title,
after the final round in the 49th FIDE rated Tamil Nadu State Chess Championship....... |
Muralikrishnan emerges champion in a
tie break
The quiet Railways star and former National Under 25 Champion B T Muralikrishnan emerged
the champion with 7.5 points from nine rounds in the 195 player FIDE Rated tourney
sponsored by Adyar Times....... |
Sriram Jha wins
title and the purse of Rs. 50000
Double IM Norm holder Sriram Jha of LIC drew his game with Prathmesh Mokal of Pune,
and won the title with 9.0 points, in the 11th and final round of the NIIT All-India
Open...... |
R
Balasubramanian wins Tirupur Open
Twentieth Sri S P Gnanam memorial open chess tournament, conducted by Tirupur Chess
Association, was held from 19 04 2001 to 22 04 2001, at Kulalar Kalyana Mandapam,
Tirupur...... |
Rajalakshmi
wins title
C V Rajalakshmi of Kanchipuram won the title in the under - 18 section of a state-level
chess tournament conducted by the Vellore District Chess association and the Samaritan
Adventure sports Academy at Elagiri hills......... |
Laltu emerges Champion
Laltu Chatterjee today emerged champion with six points in the Hooghly District chess
championship, organised by Hind Motor Chess Club at the Dinen Smriti Bhavan..... |
Nitin and Jayashree
Champions
Led by Nitin and Jayashree, Salem players
dominated the State-level Children's Open Chess tournament conducted by Oscar Chess
Academy.... |
Karthikeyan
retains title
R Karthikeyan of Rajah Higher Secondary School
retained the under-14 boys title of the State chess tournament organised by the Calve
Bungalow Chess Club and Pondicherry Metro Junior Chamber...... |
Kasi Champion, Madhya
Pradesh bags team title
Madhya Pradesh bagged title in the 16th All
India Postal Chess tournament which concluded at the KGS Club Hall at Bangalore, on 11 03
2001...... |
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South Central Railways Victories
The team
consisting of FIDE Rated players, P D S Girinath, M Y Raju,
Keshavananda Krishna, C S Bharathi, and Ch Kavitha of South
Central Railway won the 13th All India Railway Chess Championship.... |
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Konguvel
wins State Rapid title
Former National Champion
and International Master Ponnuswamy Konguvel of ONGC, Chennai won
the 8th Tamil Nadu State Chess Championship at Chennai here today.
Konguvel took the winner's purse of Rs.3000/-...... |
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Arunprasad
wins
The Salem District Chess
Association conducted Open Senior Rapid Selection & Children
Tournament on 17th and 18th of February..... |
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Harika
in, Aarthie & Nisha join Swati on top
10 year old, Dronavalli
Harika, World U-10 girls silver medallist is the youngest player
in the Indian Chess history to qualify to the National ‘A’....... |
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Gallagher
edges out Kharlov for title
Joseph
Ghallager of Switzerland, came from behind to tie for the first
place along with Andrei Kharlov in the Goodricke International
Open Chess Tournament at Alekhine Chess Club, Gorky Sadan...... |
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Saheli Nath, Sandeep & Meenu bag gold at Asian Youth meet, Bikaner
Indian kids took
three of the six age group titles in the Asian Youth Chess
Championship (Boys and Girls U-10, U-12 and U-14) at Bikaner (Rajasthan)
from Jan. 07 to Jan. 17, 2001. In the earlier edition in Tehran.... |
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Magesh
Chandran wins National Junior title, Hyderabad
P Magesh Chandran of
Madurai, sponsored by Ramalinga, won the 30th National Junior
chess championship (under-19) with 7.5 points after a lucky escape
in the final round....... |
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PSCB
Retain Championship, Indian Airlines Runner-up
Defending champions and top
seed for the event, Petroleum Sports Control Board (PSCB), won the
championship for the fourth time in succession. In the seventh and
final round,... |
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Calcutta
lifts Dr Karan Singh trophy
University of
Calcutta won the All India Inter University Chess Championship,
organised by the Magadh University at Gaya, a Buddhist pilgrimage
center in the eastern part of Bihar from January 20 to 25 ,
2001.... |
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Prakash is Global Trust champion, Hyderabad
Grandmaster norm
holder G B Prakash of Indian Bank settled for a quick draw against
International Master Anup Deshmukh of LIC taking his maiden Global
Trust Bank title in Hyderabad today....... |
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