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….
32nd National U-9 Girls Chess: Mandya’s Shefali finishes sixth, Mysuru girls fare well
September 25, 2018Former 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….
Medal-winners in Chess, Yoga
September 3, 2018Mysuru: 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…
Talented chess player: Y.G. Vijayeendra
June 10, 2018Chess 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,…
NIE Women’s team Runners-Up in VTU Chess
May 4, 2018The 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;…
Winners of State U-15 FIDE Rated Chess
April 25, 2018Seen 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…
Karnataka State FIDE Rated U-15 Open and Girls Chess: Jagadish, Swara Lakshmi triumph
April 23, 2018Jagadish (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….
Karnataka State FIDE Rated U-15 Open and Girls Chess: Three players share lead
April 22, 2018Three 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…
Karnataka State FIDE Rated U-15 Open and Girls Chess: Abhi Nayak shocks Chirag
April 21, 2018Lowly 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,…
Akshayakalpa Karnataka State Open Chess: Girish Koushik triumphs
April 19, 2018Mysuru 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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