10 year kid in Chess Olympics

Sharanya Iyengar at the age of 10 got selected in Kenya's women's team which recently participated in Chess Olympics in Istanbul . Such selection is in itself surprising but still more surprising was her performance as she scored 6/10 points. Maximum for any player from Kenya. She won 4 games ( including one walk over ) and drew 4 games losing only 2 games. Though most of time they were playing lower boards but she got 4 FIDE rated opponents and scored 1.5 / 4 with rating performance of around 1650.
                                                                       

You can find some articles about her by clicking old entries at the bottom of page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Budding Kids - Prabhanjan

Prabhanjan who is not yet 7 years old played in State Under - 11 tournament recently. Most of them were few years older and some of them already had FIDE ratings. But Prabhanjan played very well and scored 4 / 5 points ! Good effort by him. He finished fourth. He is improving quickly in spite of the fact that he rarely gets chance to play OTB chess and only playing chess on net.
       If he gets chance to play regularly he is sure to become a strong player in his age group.

My Chess Problem !!

I can see mate in three but how can I move these pieces. They are SO big. 

Bhavya Qualifies for state team

Our student Bhavya played in Faridabad district U-11 chess championship and won all her games to qualify for state tournament. Yesterday she finished second in state U-11 chess championship scoring 4 / 5 points . She has qualified for National U-11 and will be playing in Jamshedpur Nationals for U-11 from August 6, 2012.

      Best wishes to Bhavya Gupta for nationals.

First tournament of our youngest student

Our youngest player Prabhanjan or Prabhu as he is called and who is about 6-1/2 years old played in U-9 chess tournament in Nagpur. He won 3 games and lost 2. He got 22nd place out of 66 players. Good start for you Prabhu. Keep it up !