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First prize: Rs. 15,000 !!

South Mumbai Chess Academy online tournament on 3rd December, 2017

Brothers and Founders of SMCA G. Nagesh and G.Balaji with five-time World Champion Vishy Anand

Celebrating 21st anniversary

Date: Sunday, 3rd December 2017

Time: 10.00 a.m. IST

Time control: 3+1, 10 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 62,500

Venue: Playchess

Please note the time is 10 a.m. We have kept the tournament in the morning so that you can party in the evening!

Flamboyant GM Adhiban Baskaran will be the top seed of the tournament | Photo: Lennart Ootes

GM S.P. Sethuraman who almost sent Anish Giri home in the World Cup 2017, will raise the bar of the tournament with his participation

World Junior 2017 Bronze medal winner GM Aravindh Chithambaram will be seen in action

Two time National Premier Champion GM Murali Karthikeyan will make his debut in ChessBase Online Blitz tournament

Former Asian Junior Blitz Champion GM S L Narayanan will be among top seeds

GM Vaibhav Suri is familiar with the taste of championship in ChessBase Online Blitz tournament as he won the 2nd edition of it earlier this year

Newly crowned National Premier champion GM Lalith Babu will try to extend his domination in ChessBase Online Blitz tournaments

GM G N Gopal, reigning National Blitz Champion, GM R R Laxman and GM Dibyendu Barua will be in action

Pune's youngest and 3rd Grandmaster Abhimanyu Puranik will also participate

Former National Rapid and National Challengers GM Debashis Das will be among the top seeds

Karnataka's first and India's 50th Grandmaster M S Thejkumar will be one of the thirteen Grandmasters participating in the tournament

3 young IMs have confirmed their participation: Hemant Sharma, Swayams Mishra and Sidhant Mohapatra

IM Nitin S joins the list of other young IMs of the tournament

IM C R G Krishna has joined the strongest online blitz of the winter

National Challengers 2016 champion IM Ravi Teja S has also confirmed his participation

Odisha's youngest IM Rakesh Kumar Jena will join the strong line up

Andhra Pradesh IM Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad will be seen in action

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.62,500

(Introducing for the first time female as well as age category prizes!)

Main Prize list:

Place	Prize
1st	15,000
2nd	10,000
3rd	8,000
4th	5,000
5th	3,500
6th	2,500
7th	2,000
8th	1,700
9th	1,500
10th	1,200

Best female player: Rs.2,500

Age category prizes:

Best under-8 (born on or after 1/1/2009) - Rs.800

Best under-10 (born on or after 1/1/2007) - Rs.800

Best under-12 (born on or after 1/1/2005) - Rs.800

Best under-14 (born on or after 1/1/2003)- Rs.800

Best under-16 (born on or after 1/1/2001) - Rs.800

Special prizes:

Place	Prize
20th	800
30th	800
40th	800
50th	800
60th	800
70th	800
80th	800

The condition to claim all of these prizes is that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way.

Entry fee:

The entry fee is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one from here. The last date to pay entry is 2nd December 2017.

Once you have paid the entry fee, you will receive the one month serial key on the registered email address along with the procedure to extend your account.

Entry fee for students of South Mumbai Chess Academy (SMCA) will be Rs.250 which should be paid directly at the academy.

All GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs get free entry to our tournament. All you have to do is write a mail to us at chessbaseindia@gmail.com along with your name, FIDE ID, FIDE Rating and the Playchess ID. If you do not have a Playchess ID please create it from here and share with us.

Contact:

For registration queries contact:

Mr Shahid Ahmed - 9038139510 email - shahid.chess@gmail.com

The above number (9038139510) can also be used for payment of entry fee via Paytm.

Tournament Rules:

All the games will be checked by the server engine and by a panel of experts. If any player is found guilty of cheating, the concerned player’s account will be suspended and will not be allowed to participate in any of the future Playchess events. The prize in such cases will move to the next rank.

The provisional standings will be displayed immediately after the end of the tournament. However, the final standings will be displayed within a week after all the games have been checked.

We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. If poor internet connection is detected at the start of the tournament, the concerned player will not be allowed to participate and the entry fee will be refunded after a minimal amount (around 3-5%) is deducted.

The Tournament Director will hold the right to reject any entry and entry fee will be refunded (after a minimal amount of around 3-5% is deducted) if the entry is rejected at the start of the tournament. The decision of the Tournament Director will be final.

After the tournament has started and your internet is disconnected or you exit the playing room, you will not be paired for the next rounds and your entry fee will not be refunded.

How to play in the tournament?

1. Download the free Windows software of Playchess

Firstly you have to download the free native Windows software from here.

Login or create an account

After you have installed the Playchess client. You must login.

Enter your Playchess username and password if you have one. (Note, for all the ChessBase Account Premium members, your login credentials will work). If you do not have a Username, you must click on "Create New Player Name" and create a new account. Alternatively, you can also create it here. This is free of cost and gives you free access to Playchess for a few days. After you pay the aforementioned entry fee, you will be given one month serial key on your registered email address along with the steps to make your account premium.

The tournament will take place in the newly created Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into Playchess at least 45 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 3rd of December.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. This is subject to the payment of entry fees.

Note: The Playchess id, while paying the entry fee and while entering the playing arena on 3rd December, should be the same.

Registered Players:

Serial No.	Name	Rating	Playchess ID
1	GM B Adhiban	2655	phoenix92
2	GM S.P. Sethuraman	2638	Piscean
3	GM G.N.Gopal	2589	ilusionist60
4	GM Aravindh Chithambaram	2586	Refresh
5	GM Murali Karthikeyan	2580	fighter64
6	GM S L Narayanan	2573	Indianwonder
7	GM Vaibhav Suri	2560	irus1997
8	GM Swapnil S Dhopade	2533	simandhar90
9	GM Lalith Babu M R	2525	Anji
10	GM Abhimanyu Puranik	2521	pabh
11	GM Debashis Das	2501	debashis das
12	GM M S Thejkumar	2500	msthej
13	IM P Karthikeyan	2497	Chennaikramnik
14	IM Harsha Bharathakoti	2451	Target GM
15	GM Dibyendu Barua	2448	Dibyendu Barua
16	IM Swayams Mishra	2444	Mr bh6
17	IM Nitin S	2424	snitin
18	IM C R G Krishna	2421
19	GM Rajaram Laxman	2397	Laxman
20	IM Rakesh Kumar Jena	2394	Imrk_64
21	IM Sidhant Mohapatra	2371	Sidhant
22	IM Hemant Sharma	2348	Aru Baba
23	FM Sai Krishna G V	2370	pennkrishna
24	FM Arjun Erigaisi	2365	Indian-Lion
25	IM Ravi Teja S	2369	Ravi Teja S
26	D Gukesh	2362	gk06
27	P Saravana Krishnan	2350	Mbachez90
28	FM Raunak Sadhwani	2339	devil1234
29	IM Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	2334	Samudragupta
30	RAHUL SRIVATHSAV P	2331	rahulsrivathsav
31	FM Mitrabha Guha	2315	Babysnake
32	Gahan MG	2311	karnatakangahan
33	Koustav Chatterjee	2288	KoustavChatterjee1
34	FM Mehar Chinna Reddy C H	2287	mehar
35	Raja Rithvik Rajavaram	2241	chesswarrior
36	R.Ashwath	2239	Csk
37	Ajay Karthikeyan	2224	skkeyan
38	Dushyant Sharma	2219	Dushu2930
39	Kushagra Mohan	2174	bindusara
40	Girish B Chandanani	2169	sanjanachandanani
41	Wesley Falcao	2169	WesleyFalcao
42	FM Arvind C J	2166	Junosource
43	Panesar Vedant	2161	brainboy123
44	Anand Nadar	2158	Anand_Nadar
45	Yadlapalli Venkata Kalyana Chakravarthy	2148	Tarak jr
46	Sahil Tickoo	2131	Moonwalk
47	Priyanka Nutakki	2107	Chess Queen
48	Tarini Goyal	2071	Tan5
49	Swayangsu Satyakam	2033	FUTGEN
50	LAKSHMAN RAO D	2022	laxmi123
51	Kushager Krishnater	2021	kushu_attack
52	Siddarth	1985	Human1008
53	RISHAB SHAH	1973	DarkKnight8750
54	Aakash Dalvi	1969	aakash-dalvi
55	Kotepalli Sai Nirupama	1949	saraswathii
56	Hetul Shah	1943	Het1999
57	PAVAN BNB	1915	loss2win
58	Anusha N L V	1902	Anushanlv
59	Atharva Jaeel	1893	atharvajaeel
60	Shahid Ahmed	1876	dnumber23
61	SHOURYA JAIN	1871	chesscombat2237
62	Toshali V	1860	apocalypse1
63	Bommini Mounika Akshaya	1829	Akhi
64	MAHITOSH DEY	1820	mahitosh
65	Karthikeyan Jeyaprakasam	1811	chessmotives_com
66	Rohit.S	1808	rohit_arjun
67	KARTHIK GOPAL G	1784	amma_007
68	ARAVIND BABU L	1776	chessislife6
69	Raahil Mullick	1775	raahi07
70	Sibi Srinivasa Einstein Reddy	1763	Sibieinstein
71	Saketh Pedagandham	1762	Me N Chess
72	Vishvesh Kochrekar	1745	Vishvesh2017
73	Sunil Vaidya	1736	sunil vaidya
74	K.Sarath chandra	1711	Def987abc123
75	Rajesh Gupta	1706	chessbattle
76	BHAVEN JAY SHAH	1678	Darkrai7
77	Prateek Wadhwa	1659	prateek_1659
78	SIDDHANTH LOHIA	1675	SidTheGr8
79	Vishwa Vasnawala	1613	Vishwa78
80	ANIL SANDANSHI	1580	visit
81	Debarghya Samanta	1563	tapa1964
82	Mohit Swami	1549	mohitswami1022
83	Akavaram Ashish Reddy	1496	Aashish2003
84	Pratham Parikh	1491	Pratham1343
85	KONATHAM SNEHIL	1417	snehilindia
86	Jaiveer Mahendru	1413	diamond06
87	BHERI YASWANTH	1393	BHERIYASWANTH
88	KUSH BHAGAT	1392	secret superstar
89	Tanmay Ajmera	1390	Tanmanyo
90	Sankaran Ponnada Krishnaswamy	1312	enthusiast
91	Dhairya Ghelani	1300	queen25
92	Medhansh Saxena	1300	littlemedhansh
93	Aditya Dhananjay Kale	1266	adikale
94	Arueran Raghuraman	1158	arueran R
95	Gaurang Bagwe	1151	gau248
96	Aujsya Mohta	1110	aujsyamohta
97	Manpreeth Singh	1074	Manpreeth
98	Kanishk Bohra	0	kanishkbohra
99	Nandakumar Shroff	0	nksnks2011
100	ROUNAIV RANA	0	rocketspeed19
101	Sanditya Srivastava	0	Sanditya2510
102	Shorya Mohta	0	shoryamohta

Feedback for previous ChessBase India prize money tournaments:

Great management....First time played a tournamet with no problems...This was my first online tournament.....And had a great experience hope you all organise this type of tournaments quite frequently.....Would love to participate in your future tournaments

-Ambarish Sharma

Thank you. It was really a nice and enjoyable tournament. Hope in future also ... If this kind of tournament once in a month happen it will be brilliant...

-Mithu Dey (on behalf of Shahil)

Although the tournament was organized well, I felt that that referee 1 was somehow inactive. Other than that everything was fine.

-Rahul Shrivatshav

The Fischer online blitz event on 12th March was organised in an exemplary manner. Hope we have more tournaments of this stature in future.

-GM R.R. Laxman

It was an awesome tournament. I look forward to playing more in such events.

-Snehal Bhosale

Thank you, ChessBase India for arranging strongest online Fischer blitz event. I have played against high rated players including IMs and increased Playchess ELO from 1953 to 2008! There is nothing better than this a chess player can ask for. Seating at the home on perfect Sunday evening, sipping coffee and playing against famous players in India. Thank you so much for everything!

- Nikhil Joshi

I must congratulate ChessBase India for promoting events like this to encourage chess players on Online. Hope all the participants were able to enjoy playing this tournament without any glitch. The opportunity provided by ChessBase India is a welcome move.

- N.V.Nagesh (father of Badri Naryanan)

The tournament was very well conducted. I enjoyed playing the tournament. Maybe if possible next time you can use fide rating instead of the playchess rating as many new players started with low ratings. On the whole, it was a very good tournament.

- Arjun Kalyan

Loved the tournament. Was fun playing against such a strong field without leaving the house. Everything went smoothly and there were no real problems once it began. The only issue I had was the 20 minute delay to start the round. But I guess it's OK since it's the first time. Overall, great experience and would definitely play again. Great work guys.

P. S-The bonus prizes are a nice incentive for players like me. :P

-Likhit Chilukuri

The tournament was well organised. I had a blast playing in this tournament :) It was a good experience playing without time increment.

-Aashna Makhija

Excellent start. Hope to play more events like this in future.

With warm regards...

-Nihal Sarin

The tournament was organized pretty well.. I liked this concept of online blitz tournament. Thank you for organizing this event.

-Akhilesh Nagare

I was very fascinated to play in an online blitz tournament for the first time! I did not play my best but I hope that from the next time, I expect more online tournaments from my own country, Chessbase India! I like everything of this tournament! But one thing the time control was without any increment. It ruined the quality of some games. But I hope Chessbase India will look after it and I am already excited to play in the next online blitz tournament!

-Rajdeep Sarkar

Thank you for your hard work!. Everything is just perfect for me.

-Priyanka Nutakki

It was a great initiative on the part of Chess base India. Hope you are able to do on a regular basis. It was a great opportunity n looking forward to many more.

-Hriday Bhuta

It's a pleasure to play in the ChessBase India online tournament. I never played on board match with an International Master in a tournament but here I got a chance to play against Ratnakaran sir.

What ChessBase India is doing to Indian chess is superb. Hope one day Anand also gets the same recognition like Sachin and Kohli .

My best wishes always with you.

-Harsh Kanoje, Nagpur

First of all, I would like to say congratulations for organizing such a mammoth event smoothly without any delays/disturbances. It is really a great platform for the budding chess players and chess enthusiasts (who can't travel more often for the tournaments as players I'm one among them) Playing these tournaments with such a strong field always been a great experience. Especially when you are paired against titled players (one of the best players in the country) it gives lots of encouragement and inspiration! I really enjoyed my tournament session (played with GM Vaibhav Suri in the first round and he became the champion in the end also played with IM Padmini Rout in the 9th round and I drew with her) also lost some games because of time pressure etc. ChessBase India is doing a great job and looking forward to hear from you about the future events like 3rd online blitz and many more (I believe you won't stop this journey for sure.)

-Pavan BNB, Mumbai

Thank you so much for organising the tournament, along with cb india , Halsagar & Dbca. Really appreciate it ! It was my 1st online tournament, a very good experience overall. It was very smoothly conducted infact. The last round delay was a very minor one, maybe max 5 mins, so it was not an issue at all.

-WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Pune

SMCA welcomes you to take part in this online tournament and celebrate the occasion of their 21st anniversary!