Georgia: Led by former world champion Viswanathan Anand, the fifth-seeded Indian team in the open section in the Chess Olympiad in Georgia coasted to a comfortable victory against lowly rated Canada winning three games. On the top board, Anand playing black continued his winning streak with a 33-move victory over the 26-year-old Canadian Eric Hansen….
Former National U-8 girls champion, A.N. Shefali from Mandya, representing Karnataka in the 32nd National U-9 Girls Chess Championship-2018 at Ranchi recently, secured sixth place with 8.5 points from 9 rounds. Sneha Halder (WB-9 points) won the title, while WCM Suhaani Lohia (Mah-9 points) finished runner-up. Indira Priyadarshini Subbu (TN-8.5 points) secured the third place….
Mysuru: Following students of Acharya Vidya Kula, have secured prizes in the National Sports and Games 2018 (Regional Level) conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi: Prasiddhi Bhat (Class VII) – Second place in Chess Championship [U-17 Girls]; P. Akhil Kumar (Class X), V. Kshitij (Class VIII) and P. Sundresh…
Chess is a traditional sport and has been played in our country for a long time. Mysuru has been producing talented players from time to time who have gone on to represent the country in different levels. Mysuru’s former State champion Y.G. Vijayeendra did everyone proud by securing second place in the Bavaria Donna Cup,…
The NIE Women’s Chess team won the Runners-Up trophy in the VTU Inter-Collegiate Inter-Zone Chess Championships 2018-19 held at MVJCE, Bengaluru, by scoring 12 points out of possible 20 points from 5 rounds. Sitting from left: Sindhu S. Rao (Captain), Dr. G. Ravi, Principal, H. N. Shankaranarayana, PE Director and R. Kavya, Assistant PE Director;…
Seen in the picture are (from left) Hemadri Sathish (Mysuru – 7-52), K. Deepthi Lakshmi (Dakshina Kannada – 7.5-49.5), WCM A.N. Shefali (Mandya – 7.5-49.5) and Swara Lakshmi S. Nair (Bengaluru – 7.5-50.5), who won first four positions in the girls category of Karnataka State U-15 FIDE Rated U-15 Chess Championship conducted by Mysore Chess…
Jagadish (7.5 points) and Swara Lakshmi S. Nair (7.5 points), both from Bengaluru, emerged champions in the Karnataka State U-15 FIDE Rated Open and U-15 Girls section respectively, on the concluding day of the three-day Championship conducted by Mysore Chess Centre at the Paradise Hotel Hall here yesterday. In the Open section, four players, P….
Three players — Shree Krishna Pranama of Dakshina Kannada (Rating 1572), P. Jagadish (1894) and Arhan Chethan Anand (1526), both from Bengaluru — with five points from five rounds shared the lead in the Karnataka State FIDE Rating Open U-15 Chess Championship conducted by Mysore Chess Centre at the Paradise Hotel Hall here yesterday. Important…
Lowly ranked S. Abhi Nayak (1179) of Mysuru, playing with black pieces on the third board, scored an upset win over third seeded and highly ranked Chirag Mudraje (1641) of Dakshina Kannada and has secured two points from two rounds, in the inaugural day of the Karnataka State FIDE Rated U-15 Open Chess Championship 2018,…
Mysuru lad IM Girish A. Koushik (Rating 2401) playing with white pieces on the top board held GM M. S. Thejkumar of Mysuru in the 10th round, and tied with the latter with 9 points from 10 rounds, but clinched the title on the basis of his better progressive tie-break score of 74.5 to the…
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