Lockdown: Teen chess wizards keep composure; stay busy with online events
Other Sports | April 07, 2020 12:26 ISTIndian teen chess players are taking it to online tournaments.
Indian teen chess players are taking it to online tournaments.
A former national Under-12 chess champion, India cricketer Chahal has the distinction of having represented the country at the World Youth Chess Championships, and is listed on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) website.
The AICF also asked the state associations to avoid any state-level events till April 15.
FIDE had recently recognised a new set of office-bearers of AICF after they were declared elected unopposed by the returning officer for the election.
If proven guilty, they may have to face imprisonment for two years for defaming the current Secretary of the BCA, who is also a member of the Education Commission of FIDE.
Indian chess grandmaster Konero Humpy won the Cairns Cup tournament to reclaim the world no. 2 rank.
Ajay Patel has been elected as president, Bharat Singh Chauhan as secretary, Naresh Sharma as treasurer, M Arun Singh as joint secretary and Vipnesh Bharadwaj as vice-president.
World Rapid Champion Koneru Humphy and Harika Dronavalli are ranked as world number three and nine respectively in the women's section.
The polls will be held to elect the president, six vice presidents, one honorary secretary, six joint secretaries and one treasurer.
Prithu Gupta, who picked up the sport as a nine-year-old, has achieved the sensational feat at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 10 days.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly met in Bangkok on March 3 and its president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad Al-Sabah officially confirmed the development to World Chess Federation (WCF) president Arkady Dvorkovich.
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) has removed the restrictive undertaking that players had to give while registering themselves with the body, which sought to comply with the Competition Commission of India's order.
Anand, the reigning world rapid chess champion, also said the constant zigzagging of the three formats was unhelpful.
The Indian women came almost close to beating sole leaders United States but eventually had to settle for a draw.
In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master at the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days.
It was on the eighth move that Anand was caught unaware. Aronian was following an earlier game by countryman Hrant Melkumyan and as Anand confided to him after the game, he had not paid enough attention to this move order.
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The Indian ace had scored an excellent victory over Caruana in the same opening a couple of days back but Wei Yi appeared better prepared.
Anand said there have been very few people who have finished on the podium in both formats, which made the achievement all the more sweet.
Anand will face Latvian grandmaster Shirov Alexei, while Harika will take on French Grandmaster Laurent Fressinet in the fourth round.
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