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.