Wa-Wa Anand ” Wish Anand :: Win Anand One Million Wishes for Our World Champion Campaign

As you are aware, the defending World Chess champion Vishy Anand , who has held the World Champion title since 2007 will be playing against Israel’s Boris Gelfand during May 2012 in Russia to defend his World Championship title. To commemorate this Historic occasion and to encourage and support Anand and to convey our wishes to him to successfully retain the World Championship title, the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association has decided to initiate “Wish Anand :: Win Anand
 (WAWA) campaign” and collect 1 million signatures from school children across the State wishing Anand for his success at the ensuing World Chess Championship match against Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel.


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RAMCO – TNSCA CASH AWARDS FUNCTION

The Biennial Ramco-TNSCA Cash Awards Function for the years 2009-10 and 2010-11 will be held on 25th February 2012 from 5.30 PM onwards. The venue of the function will be announced later.
These Cash Awards are to be given for Achievers from Tamil Nadu for the Gold medals/titles won in National/International Championships in the years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The entire amount of Rs.5, 10, 000/- (Rupess Five Lakh and Ten Thousand only) is donated by Ramco Group of Companies as a generous gesture by its Chairman Shri. P. R. Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha.
As a general rule, one player is awarded one cash award only– the maximum that is eligible to receive.

The details of cash awards to be distributed are given below:

S. No Name of the player Achievement Amount: Rs.

1. B.Adhiban Grandmaster 50,000/-
2. S.P.Sethuraman Grandmaster 50,000/-
3. M.Shyam Sundar Asian Jr. Champion, 2010 20,000/-
4. K. Priyadarshan International Master 30,000/-
5. Ashwin Jayaram International Master 30,000/-
6. J. Saranya Asian Champion U-14,2009 20,000/- 7. Srija Seshadri Asian Champion U-14, 2010 20,000/-
8. G.K.Monnisha National Champion U-13 10,000/-
9. Karthikeyan Murali National Champion U-11 10,000/-
10. R.R. Laxman Grandmaster 50,000/-
11. V.R.Aravindh 
Chithambaram National Champion U-11 10,000/-
12. P.V.Nandhidhaa National Champion U-15 10,000/-
13. M.R.Venkatesh National B Champion 10,000/-
14. A.Akshaya National Champion U-17 10,000/-
15. L.N. Ram Aavind National Champion U-7 10,000/-
16. Ramnath Bhuvanesh International Master 30,000/-
17. S.Nitin International Master 30,000/-
18. Siddarth Ravichandran International Master 30,000/-
19. V. Vishnuprasanna International Mater 30,000/-
20. P. Shyam Nikil International Master 30,000/-
21. C. Praveenkumar International Master 30,000/-


Source:www.tamilchess.com