Stany GA of Karnataka remains unbeaten to clinch the Ist
Mastercom FIDE Open which attracted 205 players with 97 of them rated
including one International Master.
Karnataka's Arvind
Shastry(4th), Niranjan Navalgund(8th), Yashas D(9th), Manasa
K(16th), Sanjay N(17th), Darshan VPS(19th) got in to the Top 20
Price list.
Karnataka's GM
Elect MS Thejkumar has once again made us proud by slowly
positioning himself in to the elite group of Grand Masters by
finishing 5th in the International Open GM Chess Tournament,
Orissa. Started the Tournament as 36th seed in a pool of more than
25 GMs and more than 30 IMs finished the tournament in style by
defeatingVokarey Sergey(2521) of Russia and Abhijeet
Gupta(2570) of India.
Akshay Bharadwaj is the Boys Under 11 State Champion.
Akshay over came the resistance from second placed
Pangal Gopalkrishna Nayak and
11 other rated players to emerge as the champion. Akshay and
Pangal will represent Karanataka in the upcoming Under 11
Nationals.
Meghana TC is the Girls Under 11
State Champion. Meghana retains her crown for the consecutive
year. Meghana and second placed
Andria L D’Souza will represent Karnataka in the upcoming
Under 11 Nationals.
Shivananda B S asserts his supremacy in the State Rapid and
Blitz Championship winning both of them, closely followed by
Vijendra Y G in Rapid and Suraj M in Blitz.
Sharan Rao is the Under 9 BoysState Champion.
Sharan Rao came victorious in the state Under 9 Chess
Championship held at Udupi and will represent Karnataka in the
upcoming National along with Second Placed Shet Prajwal.
Tulsi M is the Under 9 Girls State Champion.
Tulsi M will represent Karnataka in the upcoming Nationals along
with Second Placed Swathi Bhat K M
Karnataka kids conquered prestigious Sangli Under 8
and Under 10 Age Category tournaments with Shet Prajwal
finishing First in Under 8 and Second in Under 10
Age Category Tournaments.
World Schools Chess
Championships 2009
The Indian team consisting of Bhakti Kulkarni, Arjun Bharat of
Karnataka, Ivana Furtado, Riddhi Zante, Riya Savant won the
Gold in the world schools team championship beating out 30
other teams including some very strong competition from Russia,
Azerbaijan and China
In the Individual Championships Arjun
Bharat in Under 11 Category and Vigram M in Under 13
Category came 6th with some good performances.
Arjun Bharat won the Gold in the Under 11 Blitz
Tournament
State
Level Active Open Chess Tournament - Mysore
Vijay Keerthi came out victorious in Mysore Active Open
Chess Tournament which had a record number 350+ Entries.
List of Prize winners
Mastercom FIDE Open -
Bangalore
Date: 16th June till 21st June 2009
Venue: CANARA
UNION Regd., # 42, 8th main road , Malleshwaram, Bangalore :
560003
C V Raman Monthly Tournament will not be held for the Month
of May due to Mysore Open Tournament
Kerala Fide Open Tournaments
In the recently concluded FIDE Open tournaments in
Thodupuzha, Idukki and Kodungallur, Trichur, Karnataka
players made their presence felt by a significant representation
and a good number of players starting of with their provisional
Rating by upsetting rated players.
The group was led by Gahan
MG who finished Third in Kodungallur, Trichur which had
11 International Masters and a Grand Master Magesh Chandran.
At Six year and Nine Months young Vasishta is on course to
become a Rated Player made multiple upsets over
rated players won the Under 7 and Under 8 age category prizes in
both the tournaments.
Asian Cities Championship
Team Bangalore representing Karnataka in the Asian
Cities Championship won the Silver Medal in Asian
Cities Championship held at Lebanon to add to their National
Championship Title
Bangalore Rural District Chess Association conducted State Open Rapid Chess Tournament on
11th and 12th of April 2009 at Govt. Junior College, Varthur,
Bangalore.
Arvind Shastry emerged the champion in the Open Category
section of the tournament which had around 160+ entries in
different age group Categories. Please click on the
following links for age group category results.
Under-8,
Under-10,
Under-12,
Under-16
Srilanka Open Chess Tournament
2009
Niranjan Completes his successful tour of Srilanka with
another Gold in Under 15 age Category in Srilanka Open
Chess Tournament with a Score of 7 out of 9. The tournament was
won by IM Dinesh Sharma of India and Niranjan finished 7th in the
Final Standings.
XI
National Cities Team Championship
Another Milestone in the History of
Karnataka Chess!!
M S Thej Kumar, Sanjay N, Arvind Shastry, Sriram Sarja,
Abhishek Das created history by winning the XI National Cities
Team Championship representing Bangalore City. Started as the
Second seeded Team they went on to win the top seeded Team of
Chennai led by IM RR Laxman in the fourth Round to get in to sole
lead and maintained the lead till 7th round to emerge as the
champions
Colombo International Open
Chess Tournament
Niranjan bags Gold Medal in the U-15
Age group Category at the 2nd Colombo International Open Chess
Championship-2009 held at Royal College Union Auditorium, Colombo
(Srilanka) from 19th Feb to 24th Feb 2009. He scored 6.5/9.
National School Team Championship
Karnataka Boys and Girls brought home a bagful of Medals in
the 54th National school chess championship 2008-09 organized by
department of education Andhra Pradesh, conducted by school
games federation of Guntur Dist. Held at Acharya Nagarjuna
University Guntur from 13th February till 17th February.
U17
Boys - GOLD Medal - Gahan MG, Nagesh R, Yashas D, Sreeshan
S, Sumith Bhat
U19 Boys - Silver Medal -
Kishan Gangolli, Anil S Shetty , Balkishan A, Sunil S Shetty,
Sameer Habib Ahamed
Ramakrishna Memorial and Rajanna Memorial
Tournaments in Bangalore
Rajanna Memorial Rapid
Chess Tournament on 14th and 15th of February in Bangalore,
Rajaji Nagar.
Rajanna Memorial handed out a new champion in
Abhishek Das. The tournament was well represented with 315
players participated in different categories from all over
Karnataka. The newly introduced Above 40 Years Category had a good
Competition and RaviPrakash emerged winner with Bharat
Vijay in Second Place.
Final Standings and
Photos.
Ramakrishna Memorial Rapid Chess Tournament 7th and 8th
of February in Bangalore Youth Center.
Sriram Sarja
Emerged as the Champion of the well contested Ramakrishna Memorial
Rapid Tournament. The Tournament had around 190 participants with
around 30 of them with FIDE rating. The scores of the opponents
decided the First and Second place of the tournament shows the
intensity of the tournament in which Arvind Shastry secured
the Second Place. Final
Standings
Guragon International Open Chess Tournament
B S
Shivananda defeated Indian Grandmaster Magesh Chandran in the
penultimate round and achieved his maiden Grand Master Norm and an
International Master Norm. Karnataka Chess family takes pride
in Congratulating Mr. Shivananda for his acheivement!!
Karnataka State FIDE Rated Championship Shimoga 2009
Goutham plays Vishy Anand after winning Zonal championship
The zonal level Chess championship of NIIT Mind Game Acadamy was held at Channai on 12th jan 2009. The zone comprises Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and Andra Pradesh. S Goutham of Geethanjali Vidyalaya, Bangalore emerged as the champion and also had the previlage to play with World Champion Vishwanathan Anand at the event.
National Under 7 All India 5th for Ashwin J
The 22nd National Under 7 boys and girls Chess championship was held at Nagpur from 31st December 2008 to 7th Jan 2009. 157 boys and 78 girls from all over India participated in the championship. Karnataka's boys performed well and 4 players secured position in the top 20. Ashwin J, a 2nd standard student of Atomic Energy Central School, Mysore, scored 8.5 points and secured 5th position. Shet Prajwal P of Tumkur, Pranav G Reddy and Vasishta S from Bangalore secured the 15th, 16th and 20th positions respectively.
In girls section, K M Swathi Bhat secured 10th place.
KARNATAKA STATE FIDE RATEDCHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
PES Institute of Technology and Management, Shivamogga is conducting Karnataka State ( FIDE Rated )Chess Championship for the year 2009 from 21 Jan to 26 Jan 2009 at PESITM, Shimoga Prospectus.
46th NATIONAL 'A' CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
South Kanara District Chess Association is conducting National A Chess Championship for the year 2008 from 17 Dec. - 30 Dec. 2008 at Karnataka Bank Auditorium, Kodialbail, Mangalore-575 003. Prospectus.
S.Goutham of Geethanjali School won the State level NIIT Schools Chess Championship here at Bangalore on 13.12.2008 Organised by NIIT Mind Champion Academy. He will represent Karnataka in coming up Zonal level NIIT Schools chess championship.
Asian Schools Chess Championship 2008, Srilanka
Pranav G. Reddy of Bangalore has bagged gold with 9 points out of 9 rounds in Under 7 Asian Schools Chess Championship being held at Srilanka from 8th to 15th of December 2008.
Antonio Viani D'cunha of Mangalore has taken Silver with 5.5 points out of 6 rounds in under 13 age catagory.
State Level Under 25 Chess Championship 2008 was conducted by United Karnataka Chess Association on 9th and 10th of December 2008 at State Youth Center. P.P.Prachura of Bangalore won the event by scoring 5 out of 6 rounds. Sreeshan S of Shimoga was runner up with same points. But Prachura was declared Champion with better tie break. Click here for the final standings.
Asian Junior Boys & Girls Chess Championship 2008 @ Chennai from 5th to 14th December 2008. Please click here
CV Raman Chess Tournament
As usual CV Raman Chess Tournament will be conducted on 7.12.2008, Sunday for the month of December at KNI Art Gallary, Jayanagar, Bangalore. All are welcome.
South Kanara District Chess Association conducted National Boys and Girls Sub Junior Chess Championship from 25.11.2008 to 04.12.2008. Please click here.
Aditya Udeshi of Maharashtra bagged the Under 15 National Boys Chess Championship title when he defeated G.Akash of Tamil Nadu by securing 9.0 Points and on better Progressive score. Second place was secured by Priyadarshan K of Tamil Nadu with 9.0 Points when he defeated the over night leader Girish Koushik of Karnataka, who was placed third.
In Girls section Bharathi R of Tamil Nadu got the First place when she drew with Sukanya Dutta of WB with 8.5 Points. The second and third places were taken up by Pujan Rucha and Gagare Shalmali of Maharashtra.
Shristi J. Shetty of Karnataka was placed creditable fifth in the Girls Section. In the Boys section Gahan M.G, Antonio Viani D'cunha and Balkishan A. were placed creditable 9th to 11th places. UKCA Congradulates all the prize winners.
Three Karnataka players got into top 10 places. Nihal Manjunath of Mangalore gets third place with 9 points out of 11 rounds in National Under 13 Chess Championship just concluded at Vellore, TN. He also gains 37.5 ELO points in this tournament. Yashas D of Shimoga got 7th place and Antonio Viani D'cunha of Mangalore was placed 9th. Both made 8.5 Points out of 11 rounds. Girish A Koushik and Vigram M made 7.5 Points.
Vanessa D`souza of Mangalore was placed 5th in the Girls category by scoring 8 Points out of 11 rounds. Nisha N Patkar of Shimoga made 7.5 points and was placed 12th. Andria L D`souza, Gangamma B N and Chrisel Ann Pais made creditable 6.5 points.
Udupa at 13th Chess Olympiad for Blind and Visually Impaired gets top placing in board 5
Krishna Udupa of Shimoga gets Ist place in Board 5 by scoring 8 out of 9 rounds at 13th Chess Olympiad for Blind and Visually Impaired at Greece which concluded on 29th of October 2008. India was placed 19th with 4 wins, 4 loss and a draw (Matches).Click here for results and details. A breif biography about Mr.Udupa.
Open Chess tournament at Udupi
In Association With Udupi District Chess Association® & Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal University 8th Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Karnataka State Level & Lions District 324 D4 Level Open Chess Tournament-2008 will be conducted from 31st October to 2nd November, 2008 at Udupi. Click here for the prospectus.
World Youth Chess Championships, Vietnam 2008
70 federations have registered names of 842 players to the World Youth Chess Championship in Vung Tau, Vietnam as this webpage was updated. 63 players are registered on behalf of AICF. 8 of them are from Karnataka. They are Girish Koushik, Niranjan Navalgund,
Shristi J Shetty,
Akshay Bharadwaj, Satvik M, Arjun Bharath, Vigram M, Priyadarshini. UKCA Wishes all of them GOOD LUCK.
Manasa 3rd in the Under 17 Nationals
K Manasa of Mangalore representing Karnataka has won the third prize in the National Under 17 age group girls Chess Champoinship held at Kalash Mangal Hall Aurangabad in Maharashtra from 8th to 16th October 2008.This selection event for the next year's Indian Team for the Asian Youth Chess Events in the Boys and Girls sections was conducted by the Marathwada Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation (AICF). Click here for details.
COMMONWEALTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2008
Niranjan Navalgund Bagged second place in the below 2100 rating category and Girish.Koushik, Satvik.M bagged Silver in the Under 12 and Under 10 categories respectively in the CommonWealth Chess Championship 2008 held at Nagpur. Congratulations to Niranjan, Girish And Satvik.
The 20th edition of The Telegraph Schools' Chess Championship was held at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata between 2nd and 8th September 2008. Our Girish Koushik won the event with a round to spare. He made 9 Points out of 10 rounds. Click here for the details.
Girish Koushik proves once again
Under 11 National Chess Championship 2008 for Boys and Girls started at Ahmadabad from 23.08.2008. Girish Koushik of Karnataka proves once again that he his our most promising young player by winning Under 11 Nationals with a round to spare. He made 10 out of 11 points with an unbeaten record.
Akshay Bharadwaj and Satvik M were placed 13th and 18th respectively with 7.5 Points. In Girls section Priyadarshini of Bangalore was placed 14th quite above many rated players. This was a fantastic achievement on the part of Priyadarshini. Shalon Pais of Mangalore had a good run in the tournament but finished 23rd. Meghana TC also scored 6.0 points. Overall our boys also gave good performance, especially Amith N.Mahesh of Shimoga had a dream run against the rated players in the beginning of the tournament by scoring 2.5 points out 5 games against the rated players. Pranav and Shabdhik Verma scored 6.5 points. Naren Kumar and Goutham scored 5.5 points. Mayank Jain Scored 4.5 Points.
Karnataka's new world champion - Arjun Bharat
Nine year old Arjun Roshik Bharat of Trio World school, Bangalore became
Karnataka's newest world champion when he won the 4th World Schools
Championship title in the Under 9 category. He will also be awarded
the title of Candidate Master which is given to world champions and to
chess players with a rating 2200 or above.
Arjun's perfect score of 9 points also allowed the Indian Under 9 trio
consisting of Arjun, Anirudh Bhat and Jerome Ebenezer to take the
Under 9 team gold. In all India won 11 medals including 4 golds. Among the Karnataka
players, Pranav Reddy of Bangalore got the 8th position in the Under 7
category with 5 points from 9 rounds. Nihal Manjunath of Mangalore
helped his team to a silver medal in the Under 13 category.
In the 9 round swiss league tournament held in Singapore from July 22-July 30th, top seeded Arjun won all the 9 rounds securing the title. In the 4th round he defeated arch rival Derek Lim of Singapore and in the 5th round, he beat fellow Indian Anirudh Bhat from Goa. He followed that up with victories over an Indonesian player and other Singapore players.
Click on Recent and Monthly links at the top left of the web page for other tournaments.
The United Karnataka Chess Association was formed in February 2006 with the aim of developing chess talent in Karnataka and giving the top talent in the state a chance to improve and compete at a national and international level. The UKCA has been granted affiliation to the AICF (All India Chess Federation) and is the authorized body in the state of Karnataka to conduct state level selections and championships.
Our mission is to bring the districts in Karnataka together and we have already achieved significant progress towards this goal.
