Deep Winter in Hastings

Kolkata duo of Deep Sengupta and Arghyadip Das emerged joint winners in the Hastings Masters 2010-11.
Deep preserved his best for the last round where he overcame top seed Romain Edouard in a brilliant dispay of attacking chess in Sicilian Defence.
The tournament also witnessed a great show by younster Prasanna Rao who achieved his maiden Grandmaster norm.For full report see

 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6926

Soumya Swaminathan wins the National Women's Premier

WGM Soumya Swaminathan won the National Women’s Primier Chess Championship at Bhuvaneswar ahead of former Champion Swati Ghate and youngster Mary Ann Gomes.

For detailed results see http://chess-results.com/tnr42175.aspx?art=4&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000

Joydeep Dutta wins Pilloo Modi all India Open 2010

Joydeep Dutta of West Bengal won the Pilloo Modi Open Chess Tournament at Lucknow which had a record prize fund of 25 Lakhs with 9 points in 11 rounds.Other players to score 9 points were Harish Sharma of Delhi,S.K.Rathore of M.P. and Rohan Shandilya of Jharkhand.
This tournament was not rated or recognised by AICF.

Negi is the new India Champion

Arjun Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi  convincingly won the National Premier  Chess Championship a full point ahead of top seed G.N.Gopal,who finishes second.For detail results, see http://chess-results.com/tnr41417.aspx?art=1&rd=13&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000

1	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2603	PSPB	9,5	92,5	86,0	84,0
2	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2609	PSPB	8,5	93,5	87,0	84,0
3	GM	Adhiban B	IND	2515	PSPB	8,5	91,0	85,0	81,5
4	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2517	PSPB	8,5	87,5	81,5	79,0
5	IM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2489	MAH	8,0	91,5	86,0	82,0
6	IM	Lalith Babu M R	IND	2481	AP	8,0	90,0	84,5	80,5
7	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	IND	2465	MAH	8,0	89,5	84,5	80,0
8	GM	Arun Prasad S	IND	2519	PSPB	8,0	88,5	83,0	79,0
9	GM	Bakre Tejas	IND	2525	IA	8,0	86,0	80,0	76,5
10	IM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2418	DEL	8,0	85,0	79,0	76,5

Aronian wins World Blitz Championship

Levon Aronian today won the 2010 World Blitz Championship in Moscow, Russia. The Armenian scored 24.5 points out of 38 games and finished half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan. Third came Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who won the title in 2009. Read full story 

16th Asian Games - GM Kasimzhanov and Yifan win gold, IM Harika Dronavalli wins bronze in individual section

The 16th Asian Games are underway, not to be confuse with the Asian Championship. This is a full-fledged Olympic sport event, with two full chess competitions in it. The first is an individual rapid event, men's and women's sections, followed by a tournament control team event. Rustam Kazimdzhanov and Hou Yifan brought gold to their countries. Here are the individual competitions. Read more

STOP CHEATING...SAVE CHESS

The issue of  "techno cheating" in chess has come back to limelight after AICF lifted the ban on Uma Kant Sharma, so far the only player having been caught red handed with blue-tooth near his ears during a match.

While a former Gold Medallist in the Olympics was put behind bars in the U.S. after she admitted to doping for success, the suspected Indian chess players continue to reap rich dividends by getting top government awards and winning important titles. On the other hand, many young players, who toil hard for success are suspected to cheat. 

Why is the Federation deliberately soft on the subject? There are rumours that a whole "Cheating Industry" is operating in certain parts of India taking money from players to guarantee them success by unfair means.

Please let us know your opinions on this extremely sensitive subject.