Sahaj won the National Junior Championship

Sahaj Grover

India’s newest Grandmaster Sahaj Grover of Delhi won the National Junior Chess Championship defeating overnight sole leader Debashish Das of Orissa in the 11th and final round that concluded at Ajmer.

Grover, who turned 17 during the course of the championship, delivered when it mattered the most as Das was no match for the wily ways of his younger opponent. This victory for Grover comes soon after the completion of his Grandmaster title at the World Junior chess championship at Athens in Greece.

For the records, Grover scored 8.5 points in all and ended up half a point ahead of nearest rivals N Srinath, Vidit Gujarathi, Debashish Das, Anurag Mahamal, Dipptayan Ghosh and G A Stany who all scored eight points in all.

Grover lost one game, won seven and drew the remaining three. The loss against International Master Aditya Udeshi was heartbreaking in the fourth round but the Delhi-boy staged a remarkable comeback upstaging Das in the last round.

It was the game of the tournament wherein Grover launched an offence very early from a queen pawn opening as white and ripped apart the centre with a brilliant knight sacrifice. Das was at sea trying to figure out an escape route but there was none as the postmortem of the game confirmed. Grover paralysed black’s forces in no time and forced Das to resign.

“This has been a decent result after I was going haywire midway through the tournament, even before the last round I was not sure if I would win the championship despite winning the last round, it was possible only thanks to some positive results for me on other boards”, said Grover matter-of-factly after winning the title.

The student of Kulachi Hansraj Model School singled out his game against Das as his best effort, “The way I had been playing before the last round I was not convinced with myself, but then I had analysed this line for some time and when Debashish (Das) went for it, I knew it would be at least a keen tussle. And then it just went my way”, Grover noted.

A former under-10 world champion, Grover is also a bronze medalist in the 2011 world junior championship.

10th Parsvnath International open 2012

One of the most popular tournaments in South Asia, it is the Parsvnath International Open that is developing into a strong chess event at the start of every year. The tenth edition of the tournament is going to be held from 14-23rd January at the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, New Delhi, India. Subject to FIDE approval, Accelerated Pairing will be employed for first two rounds of the event to increase norm chances of players.


Participants


1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 2626 BLR
2 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 2601 UKR
3 GM Ulibin Mikhail 2587 RUS
4 GM Deviatkin Andrei 2574 RUS
5 GM Barbosa Oliver 2571 PHI
6 GM Gleizerov Evgeny 2566 RUS
7 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo 2563 UKR
8 GM Kunte Abhijit 2548 IND
9 GM Simantsev Mikhail 2548 UKR
10 GM Sethuraman S P 2543 IND
11 GM Danielsen Henrik 2542 ISL
12 GM Paragua Mark 2522 PHI
13 GM Bitoon Richard 2515 PHI
14 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2513 IND
15 GM Gomez John Paul 2506 PHI
16 IM Kuderinov Kirill 2504 KAZ
17 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2492 IND
18 Yu Ruiyuan 2487 CHN
19 GM Dzhumaev Marat 2485 UZB
20 IM Lalith Babu M R 2484 IND
21 IM Shyam Nikil P 2482 IND
22 IM Ashwin Jayaram 2472 IND
23 GM Neelotpal Das 2471 IND
24 Ma Qun 2462 CHN
25 IM Thejkumar M S 2452 IND
26 GM Hoang Thanh Trang 2446 HUN
27 IM Vakhidov Jahongir 2437 UZB
28 GM Thipsay Praveen M 2435 IND
29 GM Laxman R R 2431 IND
30 GM Sriram Jha 2418 IND


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The 9th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament saw 25 Grandmasters in action in a field of around 400 players from more than 20 countries. The winner was Ukrainian Grandmaster Alexander Areshchenko.


Source:WWW.Chessblog.com

ONGC Asian Schools Chess Championship

New Delhi (15 December 2011): Riding on the success of World Champion Vishwanathan Anand, the Indian Chess is on an all-time high with its players tasting success regularly at the international chess events.

The chess fever is certain to grip the country as the ONGC Asian Schools Chess Championships 2011, which would be hosted by the Delhi Chess Association at ‘Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium’ from 17th to 23rd December 2011 has attracted a record 550 players till date with entries still pouring in.

Competitions will be held in six age groups separately for boys and girls in – U-15, U-13, U-11, U-9, U-7 and U-5, the newly introduced age group category in the competitive chess field. So far, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal and Chinese Taipei are among the nations who have confirmed the participation.

The strong Indian squad with more than 400 players is expected to reap a big harvest from the event that offers 36 medals. In the last edition at Colombo, India won 5 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze.

India is hoping clean sweep in some category but players from Iran, UAE and Sri Lanka can shatter Indian dreams as they fielded strong players. The Indian Challenge will be spear headed by national junior champion Aravindh Chithambaram, Diptayan Ghosh, Girish A Koushik and Nandhidha P V.

The championship will be inaugurated by Shri. Hisham Al-Taher General Secretary, Asian Chess Federation on 17 Dec 11 at 0900 hrs.

16th December 2011 : Arrival of Delegations
17th December 2011, 0830 hrs : Technical Meeting
17th December 2011, 0900 hrs : Inauguration
17th December 2011, 0930 hrs : Round-1
17th December 2011, 1630 hrs : Round-2
18th December 2011, 0930 hrs : Round-3
18th December 2011, 1630 hrs : Round-4
19th December 2011, 1000 hrs : Round-5
20th December 2011, 0930 hrs : Round-6
20th December 2011, 1630 hrs : Round-7
21st December 2011, 1000 hrs : Round-8
22nd December 2011, 1000 hrs : Round-9
22nd December 2011, 1630 hrs : Closing Ceremony


Source: http://www.delhichess.com/