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Mary needs a draw in the last round for Championship.
Written by content team on 14.11.2006
  In the girls' section of the Asian junior chess championships, Mary Ann Gomes beats Kruttika Nadig In the penultimate round, now she needs a draw with white pieces against P Lakshmi to claim the title. Mary is better with tie-break score compared to Lakshmi. [Read more]

Tejas Bakre Wins Poona Club Knockout Rapid Chess Championship
Written by content team on 07.11.2006
The Finals of the Poona Club Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament ended as a dramatic match as both the games turned out to be curious affairs at the end of which Tejas Bakre of Indian Airlines, Ahmedabad emerged as the winner of the event on the strength of his excellent nerves and ability to keep his cool under pressure. Surya Sekhar Ganguly (IOC, Kolkata) missed winning the title which seemed to be under his firm grasp at a certain point in the deciding 2^nd game. An elated Bakre dedicated his victory to his parents. [Read more]

Blunders at crucial time proved expensive for Kunte and Ramesh
Written by content team on 04.11.2006
In all-GM battle of the Semifinals, the tactical fights between Ganguly and Ramesh produced a surprisingly one-sided victory for the top seeded Ganguly while Kunte and Bakre fought out long positional games in the Semi-finals of the Poona Club Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament being held at here at Pune. Also what turned out to be a day of blunders saw players finally showing signs of tiredness from the exciting but stressful Knockout Rapid format, as Ramesh and Abhijit made uncharacteristically huge blunders to hand over victories to their opponents. [Read more]

No major upsets in Quarterfinals.
 Written by content team on 03.11.2006
   The local fans were delighted with the first round of the day, as their favourite Abhijit Kunte of IOC defeated the CPAI President and comrade Dibyendu Barua (TISCO) in the first game of their encounter. In a Cambridge Springs variation of the Queen’s Gambit declined, Barua was forced to part with an exchange in the middlegame, and was forced to defend the Bishop versus Rook endgame with a pawn each for both the sides. Barua missed drawing chances pointed out by IM Kidambi and resigned on 87th move when faced with material loss or checkmate.  [Read more]

Dark day for the white pieces
Written by content team on 02.11.2006
Most of the times its advantageous to play with white pieces however in round 3 of the Poona club knockout rapid chess championships, all the decisive wins of the match were scored by Black pieces.
  The dreaded Armageddon Tie-break appeared in the top board of the tournament involving GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of IOC and IM Lanka Ravi of ONGC, thus providing an exciting time for the spectators and the Internet audience, in the 3rd Round. [Read more]

CPAI – Chess Academy Joint Chess Program will be inaugurated by Dr. S.B.Mujumdar at the Symbiosis Institute.
Written by content team on 01.11.2006
The Chess Players Association of India is glad to announce that the CPAI – Chess Academy Joint Chess Program will be inaugurated by President & Founder Director, Symbiosis, Padmashree Dr S.B.Mujumdar at the Symbiosis Institute, Senapati Bapat Marg at 11 AM on 04^th Oct 2006. There will signing of Memorandum of Understanding between CPAI and Chess Academies who are joining hands with us in developing young talents across the country. [Read more]

Exciting and tense battles in round 2
Written by content team on 01.11.2006
  Grandmasters RB Ramesh and Deepan Chakravarthy (both Indian Oil) stormed into the 3rd round of the Poona Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament held at the Poona Club here at Pune. In the second round saw both of them outwit their opponents IM Anup Deshmukh and Arjun Tiwari with a clean 2 – 0 on the scoreboard respectively. Joining the youngsters were GM Pravin Thipsay who outwitted former National Women Champion and WGM Nisha Mohota to continue his solid run in the event. Sudhakar Babu with White pieces gifted the top seeded Ganguly a full Rook in the first game, which was enough for Ganguly who withstood some pressure in the Second Round to ultimately win the match 1.5 – 0.5. [Read more]
 

Barua, Ramesh Stretched at Poona Club Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament
  Grand Masters Dibeyendu Barua , RB ramesh went through a harrowing time before overcoming their opponents via tiebreakers, while wild card entrant youngster Krutikka nadig of Banglore scored the biggest upset of the day accounting for Woman Grand Master Swati Ghate to enter the second round of the Poona Club Knockout International Rapid Chess Championships being Conducted by Buddhibal Kreeda Trust and Poona Club in association with Chess Players Association of India in Pune. [ Visit knock-out website for pictorial report, games and results ]

Curtain Raiser
  Knockout Chess Tournaments almost never existed in India. For the earlier occasions that this format was followed in Tournaments in our country, the credit goes to … the World Chess Federation! Well, in 2002 we conducted the World Cup at Hyderabad, and in 2000, it was the World Championship at Delhi. While the former had Knockout rounds after the group stage, the latter was truly a complete Knockout event. If one has to rewind before that, we should go about 15 years ago to Chennai, and probably one has to desperately search for a statistician to find details of another before that! [Read more]

Poona Club Knockout tournament's Pairing and schedule
Written by content team on 30th Oct , 2006 (12:55 am)
  Please note that we have published the pairing as well as schedule for the  Poona Club Knock-Out Rapid Chess Championship on official tournament website. Visit the Pairings and Results section of the tournament to download the schedule and pairing.You can download it directly from here :- Download Pairing ,  Download Schedule

7 GM's , 5 WGM's and 17 IM's to vie for The Poona Club Knock-Out Rapid Chess Championship.
Written by content team on 29th Oct, 2006
  Seven Grand Masters, Five women Grandmasters, and Seventeen international Masters will be amongst the top 64 Indian chess players who will be seen in action in the first ever `Poona Club Knock -Out Rapid Chess Championship' to be played from October 30 to November 5, 2006.
  The tournament which will be hosted by the Poona Club and jointly organized with Buddhibal Kreeda Trust in association with Chess Players Association of India (CPAI) will offer a total prize money of Rs. 5,14,000 with the winner getting a purse of Rs. 1 lakh  and the first round looser getting Rs 2,500. [Read more]

CPAI Meetings and Functions
Written by content team on 28th Oct, 2006
  CPAI meeting and various functions are schedule in the first week of November. The schedule includes - CPAI Executive Committee Meeting, Felicitation to Dr. Nitin Kareer IAS for becoming the 1st Patron of CPAI, CPAI General Body Meeting, CPAI – Chess Academy Joint Chess Program inauguration. [Read more]

Final list of participants and schedule for knockout tournament is out
Written by content team on 27th Oct, 2006
  The final list of participants and the schedule for Knockout Pune chess tournament as well as Maheshwaranand rating tournament is out. You can download the schedule and view the participants list from official tournament website. If you have any questions then you can email your questions to knockout@lci.in .

School boy P. Karthikeyan wins the Chennai blitz chess tournament.
Written by content team on 26th Oct, 2006
  Young P.Karthikeyan of Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School  emerged winner of the Chess Players Association of India's Blitz Chess Tournament, held at the Red Cross Society, Egmore, Chennai. Event was sponsored by the Poona Club and ONGC with contribution from the Indian Oil. P.Karthikeyan, IM N.Sudhakar Babu and M.Shyam Sundar booked their seats for the Pune knockout tournament. [Read the pictorial report from knockout website] (CPAI is thankful to Mr. V. Saravanan for this report)

Updated List for Poona Club Knock-out rapid tournament is out
Written by content team on 25th Oct, 2006
  CPAI in association with local clubs and with its members has successfully organised 10 qualification tournaments at different locations. The Last Qualification tournament is scheduled on 29^th October 2006, Sunday at Poona club, Pune. This tournament will have three Qualification Seats. [Read more] [updated entry list for knockout tournament]

Games analysed by IM Roktim Bandopadhyay
Written by content team on 23rd Oct, 2006
  Our viewers must be impressed with the analysis done by IM Roktim Bandopadhyay during the World Championship matches.  
  Roktim was going through European Cup Championship tournament games and found few games interesting to do analysis, initially he analysed them for himself only but allowed us to publish it on our site. CPAI is thankful to IM Roktim Bandopadhyay for sharing his analysis with our viewers. [ View Game ]
 
Vladimir Berlinskiy wins the XI Individual World Chess Championship title for the Blind.
Written by content team on 23rd Oct, 2006
  It was the most exciting finish at the XI Individual World Chess Championships for the blind at Goa, probably more closer than a formula 1 finish, Russia’s Vladimir Berlinsky skittled out his dear friend, room mate and compatriot, Sergey Krylov to win his maiden title. (From AICFB press release) [ Read more ]

Twist in the Tale after round 6, Sergej Wassin beats the leader Sergey Kirlov.
Written by content team on 18th Oct, 2006
  Twist in the Tale after round 6 at the XI individual World chess championships for the blind. In a major upset Sergej Wassin(Ukraine) defeated the leader Sergey Kirlov(Russia). This could be a deciding factor in these championships which have already seen a lot of action till round 6. When the day started there was 1 Russian on each of the top 4 tables. (From AICFB press release) [ Read more ]
 

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