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A few days ago we published the first part of the philosophical side of chess written by IM Sagar Shah. People found it interesting and novel. We continue the trend with the second part. This time the author tries to explain the concept of love and relationship with the help of a chess board. Would you like to be a knight or a bishop, perhaps this article will help you decide!
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Chess for Youth is back, this time with its 12th edition. This tournament which was the brainchild of Dibyendu Barua, has had some illustrious names that participated in the past. This year more than 900 students will participate to win some exciting prizes, and in general enjoy the game of chess. The premium group (under-25) will witness one of India's top most youngster Diptayan Ghosh in action. ChessBase India author Shahid Ahmed takes you down the memory lane with this curtain raiser.
The 6th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament 2017 saw one grandmaster and three International Masters take part in a field of 255 players. IM M.Chakravarthi Reddy went back home with the first prize of Rs.50,000 along with winner's trophy. Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury finished second and Al.Muthaiah third. This tournament is one of the first ones that we reported about on our newspage back in 2015. Tournament director and secretary of Khorda District Subhasis Pattnaik sends us a pictorial report.
Himanshu Sharma recently became a grandmaster. In a felicitation ceremony that was held at St. Xavier's school, ChessBase India's Jitendra Choudhary caught up with the newly minted grandmaster and did a short interview. Himanshu speaks for only three and a half minutes, but in that time he already shares with you his journey of becoming a grandmaster, how ups and downs are a part of every chess player's life and his advice to all the ambitious chess players out there.
It's been nearly 15 years since Vishy Anand has been playing for the Baden Baden team in the German Bundesliga. Sixteen teams fight against each other in the strongest chess league event in a round robin format. Fifteen rounds are spread out over a period of seven months from October to April. Vishy Anand played only four games for Baden Baden this season. He scored 3.0/4. On 29th and 30th April rounds 13 and 14 were held and Vishy managed to score 1.5/2 with a draw against Robert Ruck and a win against Erwin l'Ami. Deep analysis of these highly interesting battles.
ChessBase India's youngest author 12-year-old Avathanshu Bhat has a quirky habit - he observes people closely. Being a chess player he meets at least ten new opponents in each tournament that he plays. Based on his examination, the boy has segregated chess players into seven different groups. Check out this hilarious article and see if you can place yourself in one of those categories.
It's a two day rapid event with a time control of 15 minutes and 10 seconds increment per move to be held in Kolkata. However, the prize money is as good as, or even better than a rating tournament! Players from all over India will fight for the top prize of Rs.50,000 and total pool of Rs. 6 lakhs. There is not much time left as the tournament is going to be held after 15 days, however, we at ChessBase India make your task easier by providing you with an option to book your accommodation and travel at highly affordable price.
The biggest open of Central India Syna Open 2017 began on the 1st of May 2017. The tournament has attracted 152 players. Although at the top we do not have many strong players, the fight for the first prize of Rs.1,00,000 is going to be intense. Niklesh Jain, our editor-in-chief for the Hindi newspage is the organizing secretary for the event, and has sent us some pictures. Have a look at them and check out the tournament that is so nicely organized.
When a chess camp is held the students are taught different strategies related to the game of chess. It could be how to handle an IQP position, or how Najdorf is played, or the secrets of rook endgames! However, former Commonwealth Champion IM Atanu Lahiri thinks that it is important to have a more holistic approach. Chess players are a part of the society, and so along with chess they should be taught a few more things. What exactly are those things? Read on to know more!
With 3.5/9 - seven draws and two losses, one might feel that Harikrishna had a dismal event at the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir. Yes, it's true that he finished at the bottom of the table. But have a look at this games. He drew all his games from round five to nine against world class opposition. And in some of the games Hari was very close to breaking through. And that's why the title of this article - in some other tournament and on some other day with the same level of play Hari would have finished much higher, but in Shamkir it was a share of the last spot.
Six hours left for the blitz bonanza! The huge favourite is definitely B. Adhiban. We have 14 grandmasters, 11 International Masters and 134 participants until now. It's last hour left to enroll for the tournament. It's your chance to play against the best players of our country. And when you participate in the event, you also have a chance to submit your interesting chess story and win exciting prizes including GM Abhijit Kunte analyzing your game.
You are a piece up and completely win. You not only throw away the win, but also lose the game! Such instances are common, but what is rare is the ability to fight back after such a disastrous first round. Sethuraman did exactly that. After a painful loss to Yu Yangyi at the start of the tournament, he steadied his ship and finished second at this strong BRICS Masters rapid event held in China. Yu Yangyi was the champion. Ganguly was the other Indian participant and in the combined standings India took the bronze.
Abhijeet Gupta played some inspired chess in the last round to beat Baadur Jobava and finish joint second at the super strong Reykjavik Open 2017. Anish Giri managed to win the event with a score on 8.5/10. In this report we not only cover the performances of almost all the Indian players, but also show you things you can learn from the champion Anish. You can also download the ChessBase India show with Abhijeet Gupta and we have the results of the caption contest which got an overwhelming response.
Preparing openings is an art. It is true that having a strong middlegame and endgame is extremely important, however without a strong base of a good opening position you would not be able to go far! ChessBase solves your problem with the Opening Encyclopaedia 2017, which has 1004 specialized theory articles from A00 to E99. In this article you get to know how to make use of this extremely useful resource in order to improve your tournament results.
When you decide to play a tournament, you have leave a few hours, if not days in order to travel to an event, book a flight or a train ticket and hotel room! There are so many things to be. Come 30th April, 6 p.m. and all that you have to do is switch on your computer and login to the Playchess server in order to play the strongest online blitz tournament ever in India! Adhiban, Aravindh, Gopal, Lalith and so many strong players.
