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Negi and Saranya emerge Champs @ Lucknow
Young Parimarjan Negi of Amity International School, New Delhi scored 9.5 points out of possible 11 round to win the title of 16th National Under-9 Boys Chess Championship at Lucknow here today. |
Sriram Jha wins
Rochess title @ Thane
Delhi based International Master Sriram Jha of LIC of India triumphed
scoring 9.0 points in the Rochess International FIDE Rated tournament
at Sahyog Mandir Hall, Thane on Saturday 7th December, 2002. |
  Zhao,
Aronian Champs, silver for Humpy & bronze for Ganguly
Zhao Xue of China edged India's Koneru Humpy in the tie-breaks for the
Gold, while Grandmaster Levon Aronian (10.0) emerged the Champ in the
Boys section ahead of Luke McShane and S S Ganguly, here today... Photos |
 Himanshu
Sharma wins title
Former National Under 18
Champion Himanshu Sharma clinched the 3rd BHEL trophy for the All
India FIDE Rated tournament at Bhopal here today.... |
 Saurabh
Kherdeker wins title
Central Railway star Saurabh Kherdeker
with 7.5 points, emerged the Champion ahead Pratik Shriwas at
Robertson YMCA Hall, Civil Lines, here today... |
Madras wins
Inter-Varsity title @ Madurai
Madras won the Men's and Women's titles
in the All India Inter University chess championship organised by the
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai from November 14-19,2002. |
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Sriram Jha
wins Piloo Modi Open, Lucknow |
Adithya wins
title, Nagpur
B. Adithya of Saraswati Vidyalaya,
Nagpur emerged as Champion in the under 11 category of the Maharashtra
Mini-Chess (under 11 and under 13) championship, held in Pune during
29th October to 2nd November 2002 at Shiv Shankar Sabhagriha,
Maharishi Nagar, Pune. |
Praful Mehta wins
TCGL title, Baroda
Former National 'A' player & top-seeded Praful Mehta (ELO
2208) of Gujarat State Electricity Board edged Mumbai University Chess
team player and 4th seeded Prasanna Iyer (ELO 2046) on a better
tie-break to win the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited FIDE
Rating Chess Tournament, |
8th
Interschool Bournvita Chess, Mumbai
Filisha Shah of AVM, Juhu and Sharvari Desai of Navi Mumbai School won
the u-8 and u-12 girls titles at the Bournvita Inter Schools chess
tournament being organised by "Citizen" along with the
Bombay Chess Association at the Probhadonkar Sports Complex, Vile
Parle, here today. |
Anand &
Xu retain World Cup titles, Hyderabad
Reaffirming his supremacy in the world chess arena, India's
Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand successfully defended his crown
defeating Grandmaster Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan 1.5-0.5 in the
two game final, at Ramoji Film City, here today. |
Abhijit
Gupta wins National Juniors @ Nagpur
Thirteen year old FIDE Master Abhijit Gupta from Bhilwara,
Rajasthan clinched the title in the 32nd National Junior Chess
Championship 2002 held at Nagpur with 9 points in 11 rounds. |
Suvrajit
Saha wins National "B" title, Jalandhar
Suvrajit Saha of Bengal emerged the National
"B" with a 10/13 score ahead of IM Sundararajan
Kidambi, here today. |
Harika National
Junior Champion @ New Delhi
Showing maturity beyond her 11 years, Andhra's Harika Dronvalli
retained her National Junior Girls title at the Babu Samaj Kendra
Hall, New Delhi, here today. |
Suvrajit
Saha Champion, Kidambi finishes second
Suvrajit Saha deservedly clinched the title with 10.0 points
after thirteen rounds, while IM Sundararajan Kidambi took the
Runner-Up spot. The final two qualifying slots went to M R Venkatesh
and Satchitanand Soman respectively... |
Muralidharan
emerges Champion
Kerala veteran M B Muralidharan took the title in a tie-break,
with a final round victory over S Ravichandran of Neyveli, ahead of
Ram S Krishnan and M K Alaguraja, here today... |
Rohit &
Vinuthna Sub Junior Champs, Hyderabad
Sep 19
Continuing his fine form
Gogineni Rohit picked up his second gold in a fortnight at Hyderabad
here today. The National Sub Junior title sums up his second gold
after the first one at World Youth Chess at Kuala Lumpur, a short
while ago. |
Sriram Jha
wins Rajiv FIDE Rated, New Delhi
Sep 19
International Master Sriram Jha of LIC clinched the title
holding IM Rahul Shetty of Indian Airlines to a comfortable draw in
the final round here today. |
Dronavalli
Harika wins Women "B", Pune
The title clash between Eesha Karavade and No 2 Dronavalli Harika
lived up to its billing. But it was finally Harika who wore the crown
after a stiff battle on the final day of the 29th National Women’s B
Chess tournament. |
Kidambi
triumphs @ WBCA FIDE Rated, Calcutta
IM Sundararajan Kidambi of Vivekananda College, Chennai took his first All India Open title with a comfortable final round draw, and edged out top seed Grandmaster Elect G B Prakash (Indian Bank) with a superior tie-break. |
 Ravi wins Air Travel Trophy
IM Elect T S Ravi of Indian Oil Corporation drew his final round against local
star K Ratnakaran, taking the title with 8.5 points, ahead of Indian Airlines duo, Rahul
Shetty and G B Joshi, here today... |
Rathnakaran wins Kanadukathan Open
K Rathnakaran of Kerela won the first Kanadukathan FIDE Rated All India Open tournament
here at Annamalai Polytechnic, Chettinadu, today... |
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 Poobesh Anand edges Arun Prasad for the
title
National Under 18 Champion S Poobesh Anand (8/10) edged S Arun
Prasad (Salem) in the tie-break for the title, while B T Muralikrishnan, K Visweswaran and
A Sankar shared the 3-5 places with 7.5 points...
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Saptarshi Roy Choudhry Under 25 Champ @ Bangalore Jul
25
Bengal boy Saptarishi Roy Choudary of the Indian Railways
piped Kerala's K. Ratnakaran and fellow Calcuttan Neelotpal Das taking the National Under 25 title at Bangalore here today.
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Sanjoy Kr Singh retains Telegraph title @ Guwahati
Jul 21
Seven and half years old Sanjoy kr singh of Kaitaing Primary school,
Imphal, and last year's winner, retained the coveted title ,of the 3rd
edition of Telegraph Schools Chess championship Guwahati |
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Rohit
emerges Champion
June 15
Young Gogineni Rohith of AP emerged champion
with 9.5 points ahead of big names symbolizing the surge of youth
power in Indian chess, at Vijayawada here today... |
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Kunte Champion, Ganguly & Venkatesh share
the second spot May 30
Coming for behind with three successive wins in the last day, Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte of
IOC took the National Rapid title in his maiden attempt, with a final round win over R R
Laxman (7.0) of Tamil Nadu, here today... |
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Shivanand
Champion
May 18
B S Shivanand of Karnataka, won the S K Vaidya title with 8.0 points followed by
IM Neelotpal Das, Soman Satchidanand and IM Elect Gokhale Jayant here today... |
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Suvrajit
Saha Champ at HDCA FIDE Rated Open, Calcutta May
17
IM Norm holder Suvrajit Saha of
Railways sparkled along to clinch the title at the Second HDCA FIDE
Rated Open Chess Tournament arranged by Howrah District Chess
Association which concluded in West Bengal on May 8, 2002 |
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Vijayalakshmi champion, Aarthie finishes second
May 13
Women International Master Vijayalakshmi of Indian Airlines made
history winning her sixth National title with 9.5 points, ahead of
double WGM
Norm holder and WIPRO Ambassador Aarthie Ramaswamy who took the
second spot with 8.0 points,
here today...
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Sai
Srinivas leads Andhra's Rapid sweep, Bombay May
12
By now
the story of A.P. Children dominating the nationals has become
familiar and this trend continued here at the Ragsudha 7th National
Rapid Chess Championship 2002, which concluded here at Chandrakant
Patkar Vidyalalya, Dombivali, Mumbai on 11th May 2002. |
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Gunasekaran is the TN
State Champ, Pollachi May
11
K Gunasekaran of
Integral Coach Factory, Chennai won the coveted Golden Jubilee Tamil
Nadu FIDE rated chess championship after the 11th round at the Dr.
Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, here
today. |
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 Priya
and Poobesh Anand emerge Champions May
05
Chennai girl P Priya clinched the Girls title with 7.0
points ahead of Kerala's Sandhya, while Madurai star S Poobesh
Anand defeated GNCA lad Sayantan Dutta taking the Boys title with a
round to spare, here
today...
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Siddharth & Mahima emerge Champions, Dharmapuri April 27
Chennai star R Siddarth and
Mahima Rajmohan of Madurai clinched the Jayam College of Engineering
and Ramco Cements 28th Tamil Nadu State Sub-Junior chess championship
for the V.L. Ethiraj Trophy, here today. |
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Arghyadip Das Champion, Kid brigade rises
April 24
The West Bengal State Junior and
Sub-Junior Boys Chess Tournament 2002 was held recently at Kolkata
between April 17 to 24, 2002. |
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 Laxman Champion, Meenakshi second April 21
IM Norm holder R R Laxman of Annamalai University clinched the title
in style defeating B T Muralikrishnan of Southern Railways in the
final round. Laxman logged in a whopping 8.5/9 score while WIM
Meenakshi took the second spot with 7.5 points, here today...Photos
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Vikramaditya Kamble wins Pranlal Majlani FIDE Rated, Mumbai April 16
Third seed Vikramaditya Kamble of
Dombivli beat Yashraj Aidasani comprehensively from the white side of
Czech Benoni in just 25 moves to pip Ramkrishna Kashelkar by half a
point and clinch the title and cash prize of Rs. 10000. |
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Anup Deshmukh wins Global Network title, Delhi
Anup Deshmukh of Life Insurance
Corporation of India, Nagpur, won the Global Networks Ranking Chess
Tournament which concluded here on Wednesday. He won with an aggregate
of 10.5 points out of a maximum of 13 and received a cash prize of Rs
7,000. |
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 Sulskis
Champion, Sasikiran finishes on a high note Mar
27
Grandmaster Sarunas Sulskis of Lithuania clinched the title with a 8.5/11 score,
drawing with Grandmaster Alexei Kuzmin in the final round, while Indian
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran took the second spot with 8.0 points.
Sasikiran finished on a high note defeating Russian Grandmaster
Shariyazdanov in the final round, here today...Paritosh
Bhattacharyya reports
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 Sasikiran
beats Kotsur, makes it five-in-a-row
Mar 15
Second seed Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran defeated top seed Kazakh
Grandmaster Pavel Kotsur in the final round, taking the title with 8.5 points.
This gives Sasikiran his fifth straight title after Calicut, Hastings
(shared), Nagpur and Bikaner...
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Ramakrishna
edges Nikilesh for title Mar
09
Former Global Trust Bank Champion J Ramakrishna (2193) of Guntur,
took the title with 9.0 points ahead of Nikilesh Kumar at Andhra
Gymkhana here today...
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 Prakash
emerges Champion, Indian
Bank wins team title Mar
04
Indian Bank retained the title in a cliff hanger, finishing ahead of
hosts Union Bank of India in a tie break, while Grandmaster Elect
G B Prakash completed a double for Indian Bank, clinching the
individual title ahead of top seed Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay...
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Sandipan, Murali and Anup
share top honors-Hyderabad
Eighteen-year-old Sandipan Chanda of Goodricke National Chess Academy,
Calcutta emerged champion logging in 9.0 points along with B T
Muralikrishnan of Southern Railways and Anup Deshmukh of LIC, in the
sixth GTB All-India FIDE- rated chess tournament at Arya Vysya
Abhyudaya Bhavan here today.
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Kidambi
is the National Junior Champion
Second seeded International
Master Sundararajan Kidambi pocketed the second national title of his
career when he annexed the 31st National Junior Chess Championship
crown here today. Trailing Kidambi, who finished on nine points after
11 rounds, were R Preetham Sharma of Tamil Nadu and S Satyapragyan of
Indian Airlines on 8.5 points apiece.
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Madras wins Inter University
(Women) title, Hissar
Madras University led by Elo Rated International player, Y Prathiba, won the inaugural All-India Inter-University Chess Championship organized by the Guru Jambheswar University at
Hissar, Haryana recently...
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Sankar wins
Nanjundiah title, Mettupalayam
Experienced Southern Railway star A Sankar won the 102 player Swiss event, a clear half a point ahead of Ram S Krishnan and T Abhay who both finished with 7.0 points....S
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