Another Poem By Sumit Deshpande

We have received another poem by Sumit Deshpande whose interview we have published earlier.
     CARS
1-  Cars Cars Cars
     All full un jars
     They take us for a ride
     And keep to the side.
2-  Children play with cars
      While elders sit in the bars
      Cars drink diesel and petrol
      People drink beers and lose control.

     It seems our young poet is very fond of beer !! In both of his poems he talks about it. One very famous chess player used to visit bubs in London. He would offer a game for a mug of beer. By the time bar closed he already drank too much beer and could not walk but even then he could beat any player there !!  
      

UP State Chess Championship U-7 for 2010

This tournament in finished today in Lucknow. Last year's champion Shivang Joshi lost 2 of his matches to finish third while another favorite Swastik Dehran got a commanding position in a game against Jesica and was trying to finish off his opponent but left his queen on take to lose his game. Finally Jesica finished at first followed by Swastik Dehran and Shivang Joshi. Second girl in the team is Sunaina.

Poem by Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion

        Poem Fruits by Sumit Deshpande

Verse (1)- Fruits are my best food ,
                 I always think that they are very good,
                 Fruits come from trees,
                 And take in breeze .
Verse(2)    Fruits are fresh,
                 And given breath,
                 When they grow big,
                 They become fat as a pig.
Verse(3)    Some are bouncy,
                  And others like nancy,
                  Some have leaves,
                  And others are in greeze.
Verse(4)    Some are like socks,
                 And others are in blocks,
                 Some have tears,
                 Others drink beers.
Verse(5)    They are in basket,
                  All full of rockets,
                  Some have thorns,
                  And others have gowns.
           The End

            

Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion

We have earlier published a few articles about Kenya Under-8 Girls Champion. Now we are presenting you Sumit S Deshpande who is Kenya's National Champion in Under-8 Boys category. Unfortunately he could not play in WYCC-2010 due to some financial problems. He scored 5 / 7 points to win national title in May 2010. He parents shifted to Nairobi from Banglore when he was only 3 years old and he can speak only English now.

LCA - Did you miss WYCC ?
Sumit - Yes I was very keen to play in Greece .
LCA -  How you performed against 3 players representing Kenya in U-8 category.
Sumit -  I beat them all !
 ( Then whom he conceded those 2 points ? Perhaps to tail enders !)
LCA - Who else you can beat ?
Sumit - Every one, my team mates , my father.
LCA - What about your mother and sister ?
Sumit - My mother ? She can not play chess ! And I always beat my sister !
( His sister Sanjana who got 2nd position in U-14 Girls category in national championship was not ready to accept his claim but agreed that score is about 50% )
LCA- What about Sharanya Iyenger , who is your school mate ?
Sumit - Well some times I win some times she wins.
LCA - In which class you are studying  and how are you doing in studies.
Sumit - I am in 3rd standered and always get first position in the class.
LCA- Thats very good . What else you like to do?
Sumit - I like to dance ! And I like to play piano !
Sumit - I am a poet and write poems !
( Readers have to wait for some time before he writes short stories and a few novels ! )
( But for time being you can find one of his wonderful award winning poem else where. )
LCA- Will you like to play with students of LCA ?
Sumit - Yes I am ready to take on every body !
LCA- Thank you and we wish you success in all your activities.
Sumit - Thank You.

Youg Kids Scale Mountain Peaks

Some young kids of Lucknow achieved great success this week. Ayush Pandey an U-9 player got his maiden FIDE ranking of 1691 ! This indicates his bright future in chess. During state men's championship at Kanpur two young players of Lucknow performed very well. Akash Srivastava a ten year old boy scored credible 5.5/10 in that strong field . But most surprising performance was by our student Swastik Dehran who is still in U-7 category. He scored 6/10 points. In such a strong tournament he won 4 games drew another 4 and lost just 2 games. His last round draw was against a FIDE 1885 player !!
   We congratulate these boys on their performances and wish more success in future.

Match between UPState U-9 and Keny's U-7 National champion

A series of games were played by Ayush Pandey ( UP state U-9 Champ) and Sharanya Iyengar  U-7 girls national champion of Kenya last week. On Sunday Aug 8 Ayush played a mature game. First he shattered Sharnya's q-side pawns then captured one of them. He maintained this advantage inspite of some good dynamic defence by Sharanya and then converted it in a win . On Tuseday too he got advantage in both games ( was piece up in first game) but Sharanya fought well and counter attacked resolutely to win both of them. On Thurseday again Ayush handled opening much better than Sharanaya, who had several weaknesses in pawn structure etc. This time Ayush maintained advantages to win both matches. In another game Ayush lost his queen due to mouse slip. Final score 3-2 in favour of Ayush.
   One can easily draw some conclusions
1-Ayush had better opening preparation and positional understanding. What he lacked was killer stint and played some slopy chess to allowed opponent to get away from good positons in game 2 and 3. He needs to be more tough mentally to perform well at nationals.
2-Sharanya played opening badly and got in trouble in most of games. She must understand that isolated pawns are are too weak to defend in long run. And it is very difficult to create enough counter play tactically, against tough opponent , to neutralize positional weaknesses. But her temperament and fighting spirit were better than Ayush.

Can't I even sleep ?

There is no chess law to prevent me from sleeping !! 
( An exhausted player sleeping during a game at World School Chess )

World Schools Championship

Normally Indian players perform very well in age-group tournaments. But in Turkey we finished with just one bronze in under-7 boys category. Incidently Nimdia Ridit ( India) was youngest participant. He fell asleep after last round game was completed. Then he could not climb himself on victory stand as it was too high for him !!

All the winners got Note-Book computers. Under-7 girls champion found it too heavy to carry so rested a couple of times during long journey from victory stand to waiting parents !! Many players who were out of prize list got chess books. They all enjoyed this well organised tournament.

   

 Players from Russia, Iran and host Turkey dominated championship winning many medals.

Inter School Chess Championship - Lucknow

Modern Indian School Rajaji Puram organised this year's inter school with support of District Chess Sports Association Lucknow. In all 93 players participated in all 4 categories. Number is nothing considering population of city but it better to have something than total inactivity.
Ex-Miniseter Sri Rajesh Yadav and state chess secretary Sri Raizada distributed prizes to following players-
Primary School Section

1-SwastikDehran
2-Vatsal Vora
3-Ayush Pandey
Junior Section
1-Akash Srivastava
2-Vasu Bajpai
3-Bunty
High-School Section
1-Vibhu Bajpai
2-Mithesh Kaladi
3-Shivendra Singh
Intermidiate Section
1-Abhijeet Srivastava
2-Gangesh Tiwari
3-Shivam Shukla
Though many girls took part in this tournament but none could finish in top 3 in their category. It is shocking that organisers did not give any special prizes to girls. How we are going to make chess popular among girls?
    Some of my present and old students got prizes. Swastik won primary group with perfect 5/5 .Among the girls Rishika Bhattacharya with 3.5/5 in junior section and Adarshika Srivastava 3/5 in primary section did reasonably well. Mithesh Kaladi who was expected to win highschool could manage only II place.Ayush Pandey who was expeced to win primary group got IIIrd place with 4/4 points as he could join tournament late and missed first round.

Junior Chess Tournament Aliganj Lucknow

After a long lull July saw two inter-school chess tournaments.Black&White Chess Club became active after couple of years and organised a tournament at Modern World Scool Aliganj which was sponsored by Avadh Industrial Training Centre. This club is run by Junaid Ahemad ( ex-state champion). It used to publish a very good chess magazine Black&White also.
They gave Rs15000/ to winners in 2 catagories U-19 and U-13 as under :
 Under-19 :1-Shivam Shukla 2-Vibhu Bajpai 5 points
3-Shikhar Verma 4-Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar 5-Rajat Tiwari 6-Saad Baksh Siddiqui
7-Sachin Tandon 8-Harshit Agrawal 4-points
 Under - 13 : 1-Vasu Bajpai 5-ponts
2-Ayush Pandey 3-Akash Srivastav  4-points
One can hope that club remains active and contributes to development of chess in city.

National U-13 Puduchery

Final Standings
Boys: 1 Diptayan Ghosh (WB) 9.5/11; 2 Girish Koushik (Kar) 9; 3-5. Rakesh Kumar Nayak (Ori), Sreyan Bhowmick (WB), Karthikeyan Murali (TN) 8.5 each; 6-8. Mohd Nubairshah Shaikh (Mah), Vignesh Nr (TN),Rakesh Kumar Jena (Ori) 8 each; 9-10 Aravindh Chithambaram (TN), Praneeth Surya (AP) 7.5 each.




Girls: 1 G.K. Monnisha (TN) 9.5/11; 2-3. Bakshi Rutuja (Mah), M. Mahalakshmi (TN) 8.5 each; 4-7. Sunyasakta Satpathy (Ori), Shoumi Mukherjee (WB), B.N. Gangamma (Kar), Parnali Dharia (Mah) 8 each; 8-11. G. Lasya (AP), R. Salini (AP), U. Ashwini, G. Aarthi (both TN) 7.5 each

First Girl from Lucknow Gets FIDE Rating

One of our old student Rishika Bhattacharya ( Born 1998) became first girl of Lucknow city to get FIDE rating of 1338 in July 2010 list. She got that rating from Delhi Under-2200 tournament in June. Though her rating is very modest but it is a new beginning and we can hope that she will improve it in future and more girls will join her in rating list. 

Kenya Under-8 Champion Vs Students of Academy

On Saturday , June 12, Under-8 Chess Champion of Kenya Sharanya played 2 games against Adarshika ( U-9). In the first game Sharanya out played Adarshika but forgot about her queen which was attacked by a knight. After winning queen Adarshika captured several pawns and pieces and was trying to check-mate Sharanya with queen and knight . A desperate check from Sharanya and Adarshika put her king on same file as her queen and lost her queen but she had 2 extra knights so won the game .
   In the next game Adarshika handled opening better than first game but missed a mating threat and and was check-mated on 11th move !
   Conclusion ? Play badly to win game !!!

Kenya U-8 Sharanya In Action

Kenya Under-8 Chess Champion Talks to ICA

Sharanya Iyengar, Winner in Girls – Under 8 age category at
Kenya National Chess Championship 2010 held at Nairobi in May


ICA : Congratulation for winning national chess championship.
Sharanya : Hi, Thank you.

ICA : How many games you played in nationals ? Did you win all of them?
Sharanya : 6 games in first phase and 6 games in final phase. I won 4 games in first phase and all 6 games in final phase.

ICA : What prize did you get there?
Sharanya : Trophy and a certificate at each phase.

ICA : In which standard you study in school?
Sharanya : Standard 3

ICA : How your teachers and friends in school re-acted when you went back to school after tournament?
Sharanya : They congratulated me at the assembly event.

ICA : At what age did you start learning chess? Who taught you chess? Who is you present coach. How much time you give to chess?
Sharanya : 7 & ½ years, my grandmother first taught me chess. My present coach is Latha Sathya.
I play 3 games of chess everyday.

ICA : Do you have any other hobby? Do you play other games?
Sharanya : Yes, art and crafts. I love to play monopoly and uno cards.

ICA : Do you have elder brother or sister in your family? Can you win against you mother, father and siblings ? ( Most of my 7-year old students don't like to play chess with parents. Do you know why? Because they can beat parents too easily !!)
Sharanya : I am the only child, Yes, I can win in chess against my parents. I like to play chess with my parents as they also play tough and I always learn something, specially from my father.

ICA : Have you been to India ? If so,how do you like India?
Sharanya : Yes, I was born in India and I visit once every year. I love INDIA.

ICA : Will you like to play with my students of your age on net?
Sharanya : Sure, would love to play with them.

ICA : Now you have to play in much tougher tournaments in future so prepare well. Our academy wishes you very best in chess tournaments and life.
Sharanya : Thank you, I also wish good luck to the students at your academy.
 

Lucknow Distt Team for State Championship U-9 and U-19

25 /4 /2010 को उपरोक्त वर्गों के लिए टीमों का चुनाव हुआ. 19 वर्ष आयु वर्ग में आयुष पाण्डेय तथा वासु बाजपेई बालकों में और श्रेया श्रीवास्तव तथा सान्या बालिकाओं में लखनऊ का प्रतिनिधित्व करेंगे.  आयु वर्ग 9 में बालकों में स्वास्तिक देहरन तथा रोहन और बालिकाओं में नंदिनी चुनी गयी.
        राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर 19 वर्ष आयु वर्ग के बालक ही देश की टीम का आधार बनते हैं किन्तु स्थानीय स्तर पर इस वर्ग के खिलाडियों में कोई भी खिलाड़ी ऐसा नहीं दिखा जो प्रदेश स्तर पर भी कुछ कर पाने की क्षमता रखता हो.

पहली पंक्ति में विजेता आयुष, स्वास्तिक और नंदिनी,पीछे श्रेया (तीसरे स्थान पर) तथा लाल शर्ट में वासु दिखाई दे रहे हैं. 

Tiny Tot to represnt UP in U-11 National Chess

     This young kid Mafrooza Siddiqui who is still in Under -7 category qualified for UP Under-11 chess team recently. So we can hope that she can achieve good place at least in U-7 and U-9 groups at national level if not in U-11.
     Another young kid Swastik Dehran who is is to complete 6 years in August 2010 done very well to score 4.5/7 points in boys group.
     So there is still some hope for UP in chess at least in younger age groups.

U-16 and U-11 State Championship

आयु वर्ग 16 तथा 11  के लिए राज्य शतरंज प्रतियोगिता का आयोजन सनबीम स्कूल लहरतारा वाराणसी द्वारा अप्रैल 1 से 4 तक किया गया . जिसके परिणाम निम्नवत रहे
बालिकाएं 16 वर्ष
आयुषी जैसवाल (सनबीम लहरतारा वाराणसी) 4 .5 /5  प्रथम , आराधना तिवारी ( सोनभद्र ) 4 /5 द्वितीय , शिवांगी मिश्रा 4 /5 तृतीय
बालक 16 वर्ष
मनीष कुमार ( डीऐ वि मेरठ ) 7 /7  प्रथम , यश मिश्रा (लहरतारा सनबीम ) 6  द्वितीय , शहाब फारुखी  5 .5  तृतीय
बालिका 11 वर्ष
श्वेता प्रियदर्शिनी ( गाजियाबाद ) 4 .5 /5 प्रथम , मफरूज़ा फारूखी (वाराणसी) 4 द्वितीय, रुखसार बानो 3 .5 तृतीय
बालक 11 वर्ष
अतुल कुमार (सनबीम भगवानपुर) 6 .5 प्रथम , आदर्श श्रीवास्तव (वाराणसी) 5 .5 द्वितीय ,प्रद्युम्न साक्षी तृतीय
हमारी तरफ से विजेताओं को हार्दिक बधाई एवं राष्ट्रीय प्रतियोगिताओं के लिए शुभ कामनाएँ .
U-11 winners ......................................................................                        U-16 winners

Young GM

Richard Rapport of Hungary got third and final Grand Master norm at the age of 13 years and 11 months ! He is fifth youngest player to get highest chess title. Congratulations from our academy.

Under - 9 Asian School Chess

Aryan Sharma of Delhi won Silver medal in category U-9 in Asian School Chess Championship. Congratulations.

Interview With Youngest Chess Champion

  We are reprodusing exclusive interview of Rudraksh Parida Under-7 National Chess Champion from Orissa recently taken by us. Since he can not speak English or Hindi fluently his father helped us in it.
ICA - Congratulations for winning Nation Chess Championship. At what age you started playing chess? Who taught you chess ?
Rudraksh-  At the age of six I started learning as well as playing chess. Mr S R Pattnaik taught me the game.
ICA- How much time you devote to chess? Does it effects your studies ?
Rudraksh - On an average I used to give 3-4 hours on a daily basis. It does not effect my studies at all.
ICA - Who else in your family plays chess? Do you have any elder brother or sister who plays chess?
Rudraksh - My elder brother plays chess and he is also good at same.
ICA - Do you play any other game? If yes which one ?
Rudraksh - Yes I play cricket.
ICA - How your teachers and other students of your school reacted when you reached back after winning trophy at Ahemdabad.
Rudraksh - When I reached back at school my teachers and friends were overwhelmed with joy and greeted me like anything.
ICA - Who is your present coach ?
Rudraksh - My present coaches are Mr Satya Ranjan Pattnaik and Mr Arghya Arpana Parida.
ICA - Do you play chess on internet ?
Rudraksh - No, I don't play on net.
ICA - Would you like to say something to students of our Academy ?
Rudraksh - I would like to say that don't take chess or sport as joke but take it seriously and play it seriously and never under estimate your opponent.
ICA - Thanks Rudraksh. We wish you best for your forthcoming Asian and World chess championships.

Chess Games and matches for kids in age group 7-10 years

We are trying to put togather a group of chess players in age group of 7-10 years so that they can play with each other on internet. Presently they have to face much older players on net. When enough players got registered with us ( absolutely free ) then we will arrange matches ( and later tournaments) on some free sites at the time indicated by players.
  How will it work ?   You send the time you are going to be available to play next week or in general( Example  Mon to Friday 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.Saturday 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Sunaday 10:00am to 1:00pm) ( actual play will be limited to 1 hour a day only unless you want more. You can play just one day or every day). Now we will try to match your timings/ age with other available players. You can see these schedules on this site for next week. If for some reason you can not play send e-mail in advance so that other player do not have to wait. You can contact us on above e-mail address or using comments below it or on phone.
  We also request you to send e-mail addresses of other players so that we can request them to join it.
  When is it going to start ?  We will soon start it on trial basis. But it will start functioning on regular basis only after final exams of of most kids are over in India.

National U-7 Chess 2009

This championship at Ahmedabad was totally dominated by Rudraksh of Orisa who scored 10.5/11 points. He is said to be help by Russians in Rourkela steel plant. It the picture you see Tamil Nadu players Iniyan P. ( 9.5 second) , S.Adithya (8.5 third) and M.Tejasvi (8.5 third in girls section)

Inter School Chess Jalandher

Punjab Kesari News Paper group organised interschool chess tournament at DAV College in first week of January 2010 . Final results are as under

Primary           Junior           High School   Intermediate
Girls
1.Kanishka Chawla Apoorva Sharma   Ridam Bhatia  Gurupreet Kaur
2.Anukurti Singhla Manpreet Kaur   Tapsi         Deepika
3.Ayushi         Umisha Sharma    Ankita Jindal  Sharanjeet
Boys 
1.Mandeep Singh  Sahajdeep Singh  Akshaya Anand  Rajat Jatana
2.Himanshu      Apoorv Anand     Sushant Maurya  Manpal
3.Sudhir       Harjap Singh     Shomit Kapur     Mohit Verma
(as reported by a student)