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.

Tal Memorial: Aronian and Karjakin win the title

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov scored the same number of points as Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin, 5.5/9, but was relegated to third on tiebreak points. The other two appear to be absolutely equal. Three players had a 2800+ performance (one 2799), six gained between three and ten rating points (three lost 8, 12 and 18). We bring you all games, results, statistics and pictures.

Anand first on November rating list

Now FIDE will surely get complaints that even a two-month rating list is not frequent enough. On the 1 November list World Champion Viswanathan Anand is first and Magnus Carlsen second, because the Pearl Spring tournament wasn’t rated yet. Levon Aronian climbed to third place and Sergei Karjakin entered the top 10 for the first time. Read more

Grischuk replaces Carlsen; statement by Anand

Today in an official statement the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced that Alexander Grischuk will replace Magnus Carlsen in the 2011 Candidates matches. In a first reaction, Grischuk said: “It’s nice, I enjoyed his decision.” World Champion Viswanathan Anand called Carlsen’s decision “sad”. More details here

Anand and Obama meet in Delhi

He almost didn't make it – again. Just when Anand was about to board an aircraft from Chennai to New Delhi last Sunday, Cyclone Jal hit, bringing five days of torrential rain to Tamil Nadu. On that one day Chennai’s Nungambakkam received 47.3 mm rainfall, while the Airport observatory reported the figure at 44.8 mm, disrupting flight services. So, too, Anand's flight, scheduled for 09:00 a.m., which finally took off at 4:40 p.m., delivering the World Champion just in time for a dinner date. Details

Malleswar Rao wins the 1st M.G.R International FIDE Rated Chess League Tournament.

J Malleswara Rao won the  1st M.G.R International FIDE Rated Chess League Tournament held at Salem from 11th to 14th October 2010 by scoring 8.5 pts out of a possible 10.


The following players tied for the second spot by scoring 8 points: 

2 Dhar Rajib
3 Sahu Vikramaditya
4 Ravi Teja S
5 Prasannaa S
6 Linda Rangarajan

7 WIM Meera Sai
for details see the link below.
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr39100.aspx?ix=1&art=4&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000&turdet=YES

Hemant Sharma is the new National U-25 Champion.

Hemant Sharma of Delhi won the National U-25 Championship held at Chandigarh from 12th to 18th October 2010. For details see the link below.
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr39137.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000

Ukraine wins Chess Olympiad 2010

Silver medal for Russia, bronze for Israel
The national men team of Ukraine became gold medalist of the 39 th World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Eljanov, Efimenko, and Moiseenko won the gold medal in the open section. Second place is for Russia, third is for Israel. Read more

Russian women secure first gold in Khanty-Mansiysk

Winning their tenth match 4-0 against Bulgaria, the Russian women team have secured their first Olympic gold medal with a round to spare. In the open section Ukraine still leads by a point before the last round, which will be played on Sunday.Full story

B S Chauhan elected President of Commonwealth Chess Association

Noted International organiser and President of Delhi Chess Association Bharat Singh Chauhan was elected President of the Commonwealth Chess Association (CCA) in the FIDE election that are underway at Khanty Mansiysk in Russia. Details here

Ilyumzhinov wins FIDE election by 95 votes to 55

The vote took two hours, and the final count was 95 for the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 55 for the challenger Anatoly Karpov and three abstentions (four years ago Ilyumzhinov beat Bessel Kok by 96-54). The renewed victory was achieved mostly with votes from smaller federations in Asia, Africa and South America, while Karpov's votes came mainly from European countries. Read more here

IM M R Venkatesh wins 48th National Challengers 2010

Better tie-break score helped International Master M R Venkatesh of PSPB to clinch the 48th National Challengers Chess Championship after beating T U Navin Kanna of Tamilnadu in the final round here at Preksha Vihar on Sunday. Detailed report

GM Kateryna Lahno wins the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2010

GM Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine) won the 2010 Women's World Blitz Chess Championship. She finished with 20,0/30, a full point ahead of IM Tatiana Kosintseva (silver medal), and 1,5 points ahead of WGM Valentina Gunina (bronze medal). Read more

Timoshenko wins Himalayan chess with round to spare, 3 Indians in 2nd place

Ukraine´s Grand Master (GM) Georgy Timoshenko on Monday won the title of the Himalayan Grand Master International Chess Tournament being held in the capital with one more round match to spare.Full Story

Ukrainian GM Georgy Timoshenko takes sole lead in Himalayan Chess Tournament

Top seed Ukrainian Grand Master (GM) Georgy Timoshenko took sole lead in the Himalayan Grand Masters International Chess Tournament here today.Georg, Venkatesh, GM Sriram Jha, IMs Saptarshi Roy, Praveen Kumar and Atanu Lahiri, and FM Akshat Khamparia of India are third with 3.5 points apiece. Full story

Magnus pounds The World in RAW Chess Challenge

Magnus Carlsen beat The World, led by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura and Judit Polgar, in the G-Star RAW World Chess Challenge on Friday in New York. After reaching a positionally difficult position the World Team put up a stiff resistance but, in his aggressive but controlled style, Magnus emerged the winner in 44 moves and 2.5 hours.
More details

Corus to be renamed Tata Steel, top players in contention

The traditional Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee will have a different name starting next year Tata Steel Chess. The format of the event will be preserved and until now the tournament reveals 3 names - the current number 1 GM Magnus Carlsen, the World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand, and the 5th in the September FIDE rating list GM Vladimir Kramnik. More

Bent Larsen passes away

Denmark's greatest chess player ever, Bent Larsen, passed away Thursday evening, the 9th of September. Read more

Stage set for Nepal's first GM chess tourney

The preparations for Nepal’s first ever Grand Master (GM) Chess tournament, the Himalayan GM International Chess Tournament beginning here from Thursday is over. Details here

Bitan Banerjee tops fifth Tea Board of India Chess For Youth Championship

Bitan Banerjee finished on top with Grandmaster Deep Sengupta and denied the top seed a hat-trick of titles by emerging winner on the basis of tie-breaking points in the fifth Tea Board of India Chess For Youth Championship at Netaji Indoor Stadium. Read more

Chess for Youth Championship starts at Kolkata

Former cricketer Kapil Dev inaugurated  'Chess for Youth' Tournament in Kolkata on Thursday 02 September 2010. Newly crowned Grandmaster Deep Sengupta will be the star attraction in the fifth edition of the tournament to be held at Netaji Indoor Stadium here from September 2-5. More details

Carlsen beats Anand, wins Arctic Securities Rapid

It was a dream final: The World Champion vs the number one rated player in the world. Vishy Anand had scored a near-perfect 5.0/6 victory in the preliminaries, Magnus had finished at 3.5/6. But in the final the Norwegian worked over the Indian GM from the queenside to the kingside, winning the first game and the event. Jon Ludvig Hammer beat Judit Polgar to take Bronze. Final report

Sasikiran, Henrichs win Hogeschool Zeeland

This event took place in a very beautiful Dutch seafront location: in Vlissingen, historically known as Flushing, from where the Dutch Empire was built in the 17th century. Two players of a total of 250 scored 7.5/9, with top seed GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India beating German IM Thomas Henrichs on tie-break points. Five players followed half a point behind. Illustrated report.

Fantastic Atalik Wins Negroponte Open

GM Suat Atalik was unstoppable, scored seven victories and conceded only two draws, for a total of impressive 8.0 points from nine games in such a strong field with more than 30 Grandmasters. Read more

World Junior Titles for Andreikin & Muzychuk, India's Padmini Rout gets Bronze

Top seed Dmitry Andreikin won the World Junior Championship (under 20) in Chotowa, Poland. In girl's section, Padmini Rout of Orissa won the bronze medal , while Anna Muzychuk won gold with 11/13.For details, read here

Adhiban Becomes India's 23rd Grandmaster

Final norm at the Olomouc International tournament. Read more

Parimarjan Negi nominated for Arjuna Award 2010

The second youngest Grandmaster in the world, Parimarjan Negi figured in the list of Arjuna awardees this year.The selection committee will now submit the names to the government which will formally announce the list in the next few days

Korobov wins Czech Open, Sethuraman finishes third

Last year's winner GM Anton Korobov from Ukraine has won Main Grand Master Tournament PARDUBICE Open this year again. He was top seeded player and his victory was absolutely deserved. He is historically the first player who upheld the title. Five players shared the second place, but according to tie-breaks Swedish IM Hans Tikkanen took silver medal. He has achieved grand master norm after the eighth round. Bronze medal goes to young international master from India S.P. Sethuraman. The best Czech player GM Jiri Stocek placed the 10th position.
Czech Open results (tie-break order): 1 GM A. Korobov (Ukr) 8/9; 2-6. IM Hans Tikkanen (Swe), IM S.P. Sethuraman, GM Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr), GM Sergey Grigoriants (Rus), GM Artur Gabrielian (Rus) 7 each; 18 IM M.R. Lalith Babu 6.5; 30 Vidit Gujrathi,34-35 IM B. Adhiban, GM Abhijit Kunte, 38 Vaibhav Suri 6 each; 88 WGM Mary Ann Gomes 5; 112 GM Sriram Jha, 127 WGM S. Meenakshi 5; 151 WGM Kiran Mohanty 4.5, 168 IM Eesha Karavde, 179 WGM Swati Ghate 4.5; 206 IM Atanu Lahiri 4...310 players.

Dortmund 2010: Ponomariov wins, Le Quang takes sole second

Ruslan Ponomariov from the Ukraine Sunday won the 2010 Sparkassen Chess Meeting, keeping his full point margin and strengthening his return to the world’s elite. Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem finished on a splendid sole second place. Full Story

Biggest Prize Money Tournament in Nepal, Successfully Completed!

The biggest prize money tournament in the history of Nepal Chess is hosted recently in Lalitpur, Katmandu.

The NR 175000, tournament is organized by the Lalitpur sports club, in association with the District Chess Association, Lalitpur, under the supervision of Nepal Chess Association.

IM Roy, receiving the champions trophy from the chief guest

The said tournament is held from 11^th to 17^th July at the International Swimming Complex, Satdobato, Lalitpur, Katmandu.

IM Saptarshi Roy won the tournament scoring 8 points out of a possible 10. Trailokya Nanda from Assam came after him, also scoring 8 points.

In total a 110 players competed among themselves in this mega event, of which, 2 were from Bangladesh, 26 from India, and the rest 82 from Nepal.

For more details of the tournament results, please view the following link.

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr36230.aspx?art=1&lan=1&m=-1&wi=1000

Tough competition among the participants made it a memorable event in the history of Nepal chess.

IA Dharmendra Kumar led the arbiter’s team, along with other local Arbiters.

The chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony was Mr. Dhurba B Pradhan, President, Nepal Olympic Committee.

Mr. Rajesh Hari Joshi delivering his concluding speech.

Mr. Rajesh Hari Joshi, president, Nepal Chess Association, promised to organize some more mega events like this in the near future, including some Norm tournaments.

India Wins 14 Individual Medals at Asian Youth Championship 2010, Beijing

The Asian Youth Champiionships was held for the first time in Beijing, China. A record number of 428 chess players from 20 Asian countries are seeing action in the Under-8, 10, 12, 14, 16 an 18 age groups for boys and girls, and two categories of Challengers Championships. The large delegations are from India with 56 layers, China 44, Vietnam 34, Iran 33 and Mongalia 29. There are 3 individual gold medal winners in G-14,U-14 and G-18 section

A legal move from Karpov

The Karpov campaign for FIDE president has made good its promise to launch a court case against the FIDE administration of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is running to retain his post. The international law firm White & Case has sent out a terse statement declaring that it is initiating a request for arbitration. What does it all mean? The New York Times has some details.

Diptayan, Monnisha Win At Pondicherry

Diptayan Ghosh of Kolkata and G.K. Monnisha (inset) of Chennai won the National U-13 Titles at Pondicherry on July 4, 2010. Diptayan remained undefeated. Monnisha lost to 2009 champion Lasya. Top seeds Girish Koushik of Mysore and Sunyasakta Satpathy of Orissa did not win. Udayan Ghosh of Kolkata was the chief arbiter. The champions will represent India in the National U-14 in 2011. JCI Pondicherry Mid Town organised the event on behalf of the Pondicherry State Chess Association

Anand and Darpan – two champions meet

Both became national champions at the age of 16 – Vishy Anand in 1986, the youngest Indian player to win the title, and 2010 Darpan Inani, the youngest Indian to win the National Blind Chess Championship. A meeting between the two was arranged, and to Darpan's delight the World Champion spent some quality time with him. More details here

Magnus Carlsen starts fashion model career at G-Star

Next to his chess activities world’s number one Magnus Carlsen has started a fashion model career. The 19-year-old Norwegian was contracted by international clothing brand G-Star. In a campain launched today in Berlin, Carlsen stars together with world famous actress Liv Tyler. Read full story

Viktor Laznicka Wins World Open 2010

Viktor Laznicka won this year’s World Open in Philadelphia. The Czech grandmaster was the only player to finish at 7.5/9, half a point more than Harikrishna, Smirin and McShane, and a point more than Van Wely, Gustafsson, Potkin and Lenderman. For full story, visit website

CPAI is back with a New Website!

Dear chess friends,

We are back with a new look! Visit our new website at http://www.cpai.in.

To protect and promote the interest of chess players, we are starting a discussion forum in this blog. Please let us know the topics you want to discuss. Express your opinions freely on issues related to players' interests. We hope our feedback will help the officials and organizers perform better.

We also have a feature of Chess Tournament Calendar, listing all the important events under International, National and Regional categories. We invite you to advertise your tournaments in our calendar for free. We also need volunteers to help us update the local events in various parts of India. Hopefully our efforts will help all chess players to be informed of all chess activities in India.

In order to encourage the organizers give better conditions to the players, we plan to have a feature of  "Rating the Events". The tournaments will be judged by the participants by various criteria like venue, lodging facilities, prizes etc. We hope this will help the players to be better informed about the tournaments.

Please give us your feedbacks and suggestions about our site.