Two budding players of chessgurukul have won the district U-9 Girls in Chennai and Thiruvallur district.
8 year old Bhavana won the Chennai district U-9 Girls Championship held in Jan 2012.Bhavana started playing chess at the age of 5 and joined Chessgurukul about 8months back.She is trained by coach D.Ganesan under the guidance of GM R.B.Ramesh.Our little champ studies in Padmasheshadri Bala Bavan K.K.Nagar.
Bhavana U-9 Girls Chennai district champion
Another promising student Kr.Kruthika won the Thiruvallur district U-9 Girls Championship also held in jan 2012.This is the second consecutive district title for Kruthika,who has a twin brother Krishna who finished runner up in the thiruvallur district U-9 Boys Championship.
Chessgurukul congratulates both out little champs.
Pranav Vijay of Cheegurukul won the 12th Shri Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial U2200 Fide Rated Chess Tournament held at Pune from 8th to 11th Dec’11.
He received a trophy and Rs 25000 as prize money, at 12 years Pranav might be one of the youngest to win a Fide Rated Open Tournament in India. Read more »
For the Second year in a row Chessgurukul students swept the national U-13 Girls chess championship held in New Delhi in early October.Second seed and defending champion G.K.Monnisha was clear champion ahead of others by a full point. Third seed M.Mahalakshmi finished second with a great come back after loosing the first round. U.Ashwini finished sixth on the placing list.Divyalakshmi and Manjula finished 10th and 15th.
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Honourable Chief Minister handed over financial assistance to a visually challenged Chess Player Saikrishna from Chessgurukul for taking part in World Chess Championship for the Visually Impaired.
The world championship for visually challenged was held at Greece in August.
Our Patron and well wisher Mr.Venkat Kumar was kind enough to sponsor Sai’s Air ticket from Chennai to Mumbai and back.
24th TN state U-13 Chess Championship Boys and Girls Tournament has been successfully conducted in August at Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem. U-13 Boys Chess Champion is Mr.B.Kumaran of Chennai, Girls Chess Champion is Ms.R.Dharani Shree of Chennai.The tournament saw a record number of 187 participants.
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Current National Under 13 girls Champion GK Monnisha of Chess Gurukul won the National Under 17 Girls Championship title by defeating G Lasya from Andhra Pradesh in the 11th and the final round held at Pondicherry.
Monnisha scored 9 points out of 11 rounds and was followed half a point behind by Tamil Nadu’s Saranya, Akshaya and Balakannamma on 8.5 points.
Rakshitta Ravi in lead in National under 7 Championship
Tamils Nadu’s Rakshitta Ravi is leading at the end of the 9th round with 8.5 points in the 4th National Under 7 Girls Chess Championship being conducted by Central Maharashtra Chess Association at Bharati Vidyapeeth, Engineering College Hall.
Rakshitta is the daughter of International Master T.S.Ravi and International Woman Master Saimeera Ravi from Tamil Nadu. A new star is in the making! Chess Gurukul wishes a bright future in Chess to Rakshitta Ravi!
Chess Gurukul’s G. Jaswant whose initial seeding was 14th is in joint lead with International Master N.Srinath of Tamil Nadu and Niranjan Navalgund who has recently shifted base from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu with 5.5 points after 7 rounds.
Jaswant created sensation by defeating 2nd seeded Ankit Rajpara of Gujarat who is rated some 300 elo points above Jaswant.
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India’s IM Ashwin Jayaram who trained in Chess Gurukul recently beat higher rated GM David Alberto (2609) of Luxembourg to move into joint second position in the 3rd Rethymno internation open 2011 being held at Greece. GM Sandipan Chanda also from India the top seed with a high FIDE rating of 2656 had an indifferent even so far with 4 draws also is on 6 points. Four players share the lead with 6.5 points from 8 rounds.
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Ninth seeded India held higher seeded Hungary to a fighting draw in the inaugural round of the World Team Championship held here at Ningbo , China. Chess Gurukul coach GM R.B.Ramesh is the coach for the Indian team.
Tournament news | aarthie | 
January 23, 2012 7:46 pm | 
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