The 44th FIDE Rated National Women’s Challengers Chess Tournament 2017 organised by Mysore Chess Centre under the aegis of the UKCA and AICF began at Mysore Sports Club today. The championships will see some of the best women chess players in the country in action during the 9-day tournament. Among the top players are former…
Mysuru’s top women chess player H.R. Manasa (the former State Women’s Champion & the current Karnataka U-19 girls Champion), taking part in the 26th National Youth U-25 Chess Championship 2017 at Port Blair representing Karnataka, fared well by securing 5.5 points from nine rounds and finished 36th in the final placings. IM P. Shyamnikhil of…
The premier women’s chess event in the country, the 44th National Women’s Challengers Chess Tournament,conducted by the Mysore Chess Centre under the aegis of the UKCA & AICF will begin at the Mysore Sports Club tomorrow. Around 125 players will be seen in action. The nine day tournament comprising of 9 rounds will conclude on…
Aditya B. Kalyani with 8 points from 9 rounds won the title in Karnataka State U-15 Open Chess Tournament conducted by Mandya District Chess Association which concluded in Mandya yesterday. Deota Snehil and Pankaj Bhat were tied with 7.5 points each but based on the better tie-break score of 45 to the latter’s 44.5, Deota…
The Mysore Chess Centre under the aegis of the UKCA, will be conducting the 44th FIDE Rated National Women’s Challengers Chess Championship from July 21 to July 29 at the Mysore Sports Club in city. The top four players from each State will be taking part in the event. A total cash prize of Rs.3…
Mandya’s chess prodigy A.N. Shefali, a fourth standard student of Santhome Public School, representing India in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 won the gold in the U-8 Girls category on the concluding day of the championship in Delhi, yesterday. Shefali, who won her second successive gold in the Commonwealth Chess Championships, is also the reigning…
Mysuru’s chess players K.R. Yashaskara Jois scoring 7 points from 8 rounds and former State Women’s Chess Champion H.R. Manasa with 7 points from 8 rounds won the U-19 Open and U-19 Girls Chess titles respectively in the Karnataka State U19 Open & Girls Chess Tournament which concluded at Kalaburagi yesterday. Yashaskara Jois won his…
Mysuru’s chess players K.R. Yashaskara Jois and H.R. Manasa lead the field in the Open and Girls U-19 sections respectively with 5.5 points from 6 rounds, in the Karnataka State U-19 Open and Girls Chess Championships 2017 being held at Kalaburagi yesterday. In the open section, Yashaskara Jois (MYS) and Nitish Bhat (Sirsi) are tied…
Mysuru lad IM M.S. Thejkumar (Rating 2491), taking part in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 in Delhi, shocked GM Praveen Thipsay (Rating 2419) in the eighth and penultimate round of the championships yesterday. After eight rounds, Thejkumar has secured 6 points and is placed sixth in the rankings. Three players GM Abhijeet Gupta and GM…
Eight players- Niranjan V. Sangam (Kalburgi), Mysuru lad K.R. Yashaskara Jois, Sirsi’s Nitish Bhat, Bengaluru’s B.M. Sujay, AFM Srinidhi Kulkarni, G. Raghavendra, Sudharshan Bhat and M.D. Chiranth shared the lead with three points from three rounds in the Karnataka State U-19 chess championship 2017 being held at Gulbarga from 8-10th July 2017. The eight players…
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