Two Mysuru Deaf Chess players — K.M. Shashidhara and S. Adish — have been selected to represent the Indian Men’s Deaflympics Chess team in the 19th Winter Deaflympics 2019 Games to be held at Valtellina-Valchiavenna, Italy, from Dec.12 to 21. The two players have earned selection to the Indian Deaflympics Men’s Chess team on the…

Thejkumar of Mysuru placed fourth K. Senthil Maran (TN) held at Iman (Kerala) to a draw in the eighth and penultimate round and with 7 points, jointly leads to the points table with GM Deepan Chakravarthy (7 points) in the Kasavi School 1st International Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at Udupi on Sunday. Mysuru’s Grand…

Mysuru lad M.P. Ajith and Shivamogga’s S.M. Ajay tied with 5.5 points from seven rounds, but the former’s better tie-break score of 21.75 to the latter’s 19.50 helped Ajith to clinch the title in the Karnataka State Open Rapid Chess Tournament-2019 held at Chitradurga yesterday. Final Placings M.P. Ajith (5.5-21.75), 2. S.M. Ajay (5.5-19.50), 3….

A Open Chess Tournament will be conducted at the Rotary Club premises in Chamarajanagar by Chamarajanagar Chess Club on Sept. 8 at 9 am. Events will be conducted for Open, U-7, U-9, U-11, U-13 (boys & girls). Last date for entries is Sept.6 [e-mail: [email protected]]. For more details, contact Kishore on Mob: 97396-75477.

A Gowri-Ganesha Chess Tournament has been organised at Hotel Kumar’s The White House, Old Sujatha Hotel, near Highway Circle, Bannimantap, tomorrow (Sept.1), under the aegis of LIC, Rotary Vani Vilas Mysore and Rotary Palace Mysore. Reporting time is 9 am. A total of 5 to 7 rounds will be played with the first round starting…

FM M.G. Gahan with 8.5 points from nine rounds clinched the Karnataka State U-25 Chess title in the Championships which concluded in Kalaburagi on Sunday. Ithal H.L. Rajath of Shivamogga and L. Vivekananda of Mysuru tied with 7.5 points from nine rounds, but the former with a better progressive score of 57 to the later’s…