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Abhijit Gupta of BPCL & Soumya Swaminathan of IOC wins the National Junior Chess Championship at Delhi.
  Abhijit Gupta Scored 8.5/10 points to win the Parsvnath National Junior Championship at Delhi. Soumya won her consecutive 2nd National Junior title. She tied with current India no. 2 WIM MaryAnn Gomes of WB with 7.5/9 points.

5th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament announced.
  Delhi chess association made an announcement of the ' 5th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament ' to be held at New Delhi between 14-22 January 2007. The tournament has a total prize money of Rs. 875,000/- ! You can download the circular to know more details.
 
'Online Chess Kingdoms' offers players to play chess with friends via the handheld’s wireless network.
  Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH will release its 'Online Chess Kingdoms' title for PSP (The PlayStation Portable, officially known as the PSP, is a handheld game console and a product of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan) in October. Online Chess Kingdoms includes a number of new gameplay modes in addition to its wireless connectivity which allowing users to play each. [ Read More ]

Chinese men's chess players trail Russia both technically and strategically.
  China beat Russia in the two-nation chess competition, despite winning a 10 round clash, Xie Jun still believes that Chinese men's chess players trail Russia both technically and strategically but the Chinese women's team remains one of the best in the world!

GM SS Ganguly gets Arjun Award !
  3 times national Champion GM SS Ganguly is awarded with a prestigious Arjun Award for the year 2005 - 2006 in the game of Chess, By the Centeral Government.


A new version of Yahoo!Chess is available live on Yahoo!Games.
  ‘Yahoo Games’ is one of the leading game portals in the world of computer games. Recently Zero G Games announced that they have completed development of Yahoo! Chess and is now live on Yahoo Games.
  Yahoo Chess is a multiplayer, cross-platform allowing players on either a PC or mobile phone. The large community of chess players on the Yahoo network will make it easy to find the perfect opponent, regardless of the player’s skill level or device used for access.

Akshayraj Kore wins the 2^nd Blitz tournament.
  The successive 2^nd Blitz Championship was held on 12^th August 2006 at Pune Club , Pune. Under the patronage of Pune Club & with the support from Pune District Chess Association, the Buddibal krida Trust organized the tournament. (CPAI is thankful to WGM Swati Ghate for this report)

1st Guwahati International Rating Chess Tournament.
  According to an email which CPAI got from Mr. Nayan Kr. Dutta, The 1st Guwahati International Rating Chess Tournament is scheduled from 28th September to 5th October 2006. [ Read More ]

Poona Club Blitz Chess Championship on 12th August.
 Poona Club Blitz Chess Championship is scheduled on 12th August at Pune. The tournament is Recognised by Pune District Chess Association and is Orgnised by Buddhibal Kreeda Trust. You can download the circular to know more details.

Harikrishna wins Marx Gyorgy chess tournament !
  Harikrishna won the third Marx Gyorgy International Chess tournament after settling for a draw with Hungarian Grandmaster Ferenc Berkes in the final round .
 This title will help Hari to regain his confidence level especially after Aerosvit Grandmasters tournament.


CHESS PLAYERS DONATES MORE THAN 1LAC !
  We, the Cpai family join the mourning at the sad demise of Mr. Yogesh Gore. He was suffering from the Jaundice during the tournament at Karwar & could not recover from it. We will miss this talented chess player from Madhya Pradesh who was working with P & T as a sports recruiter.


Hari beats Almasi with black pieces as well, inches closer to title.
  In the eighth round of the IV. György Marx Memorial, Harikrishna beats the second seed Hungarian GM  Almási Zoltan (ELO 2672). All other games drawn, Harikrishna now leads the tournament with full point. All the games in round 5, 6 and 7 drawn, Harikrishna succeeded in breaking the draw series in the eighth round.



GM Abhijit Kunte won the 1st Poona Club Blitz tournament !
  The 1st  Poona Club Blitz Event was organised by Buddhibal Krida Trust In Association with CPAI on 30th July 2006 at Poona Club, Pune.  Poona club has come up a big way & started a new tradition in the Indian chess history by sponsoring a series of blitz championships.

All games drawn again.
  In the sixth round of the IV. György Marx Memorial, Harikrishna drew with Hungarian GM  Acs Peter (ELO 2520). As all the games drawn in the sixth round, Harikrishna maintained the half point lead.

All games drawn, Hari maintains lead.
 In the fifth round of the IV. György Marx Memorial, Harikrishna drew with Chinese GM  Wang Yue (ELO 2626). As all the games drawn in the fifth round, Harikrishna maintained the half point lead.
 

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