<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764</id><updated>2011-11-28T04:53:22.150+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Internet Chess Academy Lucknow</title><subtitle type='html'>Arun Kumar Singh                                       
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Phone 09839171721       email-coachchess@gmail.com</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>35</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-2839494889617119862</id><published>2011-07-16T12:07:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2011-07-16T12:14:16.040+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Story of Chess Playing Monkey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yiwPfSticvY/TiEslDMusfI/AAAAAAAAAE8/mZE5yHEfso4/s1600/pc12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yiwPfSticvY/TiEslDMusfI/AAAAAAAAAE8/mZE5yHEfso4/s320/pc12.jpg" width="196px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Every visitor wanted to play a game with first world champion Paul Morphy . So Morphy taught this monkey to to play with weaker players. Once an English player was playing chess with this monkey while Morphy was in an other room. Suddenly he heard&amp;nbsp; monkey screaming and rushed back to room. He saw that monkey was sitting on ceiling fan and was screaming. "&lt;em&gt;What's the matter&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;", he asked the player. " &lt;em&gt;I am really sorry&lt;/em&gt; ", said player "&lt;em&gt;He check-mated me&amp;nbsp;and I was so upset that&amp;nbsp;I hit him in anger&lt;/em&gt;". "&lt;em&gt;Please ask him to play another &amp;nbsp;game I promise not to touch him again&lt;/em&gt;", English man pleaded. Monkey was reluctant to&amp;nbsp;play with him but agreed to play when Morphy offered him a banana. After some time Morphy again heard monkey's shout and saw that he was again hanging from fan. Morphy turned to other player. "&lt;em&gt;I did not touch him and don't know what happened &lt;/em&gt;",&amp;nbsp;replied Englishman " &lt;em&gt;after making his last move he started screaming for no reason&lt;/em&gt;". Morphy&amp;nbsp;looked at the board and said "&lt;strong&gt;Oh, he saw this mate in three combination and was afraid you might hit him again&lt;/strong&gt;".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-2839494889617119862?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/2839494889617119862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/07/story-of-chess-playing-monkey.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2839494889617119862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2839494889617119862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/07/story-of-chess-playing-monkey.html' title='Story of Chess Playing Monkey'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yiwPfSticvY/TiEslDMusfI/AAAAAAAAAE8/mZE5yHEfso4/s72-c/pc12.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5387611431780881096</id><published>2011-06-02T19:53:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2011-06-02T20:16:47.975+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Youth Festival : Kenya</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkNJzrODUAA/TeebTz_BQxI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Bylto3J8pJg/s1600/Champions%2527+Photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkNJzrODUAA/TeebTz_BQxI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Bylto3J8pJg/s320/Champions%2527+Photo.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mrs Sandhya Deshpande from Kenya sent us some information and photographs about Kenya's national championship for youth. In under - 10 Girls category Sharanya Iyengar ( last year's U-8 champion ) won the title with 4.5/5 points. But last year's U-8 boy's champion Sumit could not retain first place and got only IV place. New champion is Ritvik. Sumit's elder sister Sanjana won a trophy in her category. Here we see young champions with their trophies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ISQmzKgPbu8/Teebb8a-EiI/AAAAAAAAAE4/4xRT_fXYQfY/s1600/Sanjana+Receiving++her+Trophy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ISQmzKgPbu8/Teebb8a-EiI/AAAAAAAAAE4/4xRT_fXYQfY/s200/Sanjana+Receiving++her+Trophy.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;And in picture below Sanjna Deshpande with her trophy. In most cases ( but not always ) boy's champion is about 100-200 points stronger compared to girl's champion in their age group. But Sharanya is at least &amp;nbsp;300 points ahead of Ritvik in U-10. In fact Ritvik keeps his game very simple and does not lose his pieces easily as you can see in case of Sumit or other players of his age. But he needs to play much stronger if he wants to compete in international tournaments. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5387611431780881096?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5387611431780881096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/06/youth-festival-kenya.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5387611431780881096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5387611431780881096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/06/youth-festival-kenya.html' title='Youth Festival : Kenya'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkNJzrODUAA/TeebTz_BQxI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Bylto3J8pJg/s72-c/Champions%2527+Photo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-4630825080329269286</id><published>2011-05-30T18:52:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2011-05-30T18:57:50.274+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Asian Youth Chess Festival - Philippines</title><content type='html'>Indian players who skipped World School Chess last month were present in full strength at Asian Youth Chess.They won 9 out of possible 18 medals in boys section including 4 golds. But in girls section their domination was complete. They won all 6 six gold medals ( in all 9 medals)!!&lt;br /&gt;Boys 18 under --  &lt;br /&gt;1. D. Debashis (India); 2.  G. Stany(India); 3.  J. Vakhidov (Uzbekistan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys 16 under &lt;br /&gt;1. J. Garcia (Philippines); 2. N. Jabanbakht  (Iran); 3.  R. Sahoo(India).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys 14 under &lt;br /&gt;1. K. Girish (India); 2.  Y. Xu  (China); 3. A. Azgarizadeh (Iran).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys 12 under &lt;br /&gt;1. S. Lorpanizangeneh (Iran); 2.  C. Aravindh (India); 3.  J. Tin (Singapore).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys 10 under &lt;br /&gt;1. B. Sankalph (India); 2. G. Mitrabah (India); 3. J. K. Rakesh (India).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys 8 under &lt;br /&gt;1. A. Ram (India); 2. D. Gutierrez III (Philippines); 3.  N. Abdulssatorov (Uzbekistan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 18 under &lt;br /&gt;1. R. Pujari (India); 2. J. Fronda (Philippines); 3.  A. Enkhtuul (Mongolia).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 16 under &lt;br /&gt;1. P. Nandhidhaa (India); 2.  Y. Xiao (China); 3.  C. Mejia (Philippines).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 14 under &lt;br /&gt;1. G. Monisha (India); 2.  D. Derakhshani (Iran); 3. M. Mahalkshimi (India).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 12 under &lt;br /&gt;1. I. Furtado (India); 2. S. Revita (Philippines); 3. A. San Diego  (Philippines).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 10 under &lt;br /&gt;1. R. Bidhar (India); 2.  G. Tanini (India); 3. P. Bansi(India).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls 8 under &lt;br /&gt;1. C. Lakshimi (India); 2.  X. Bai (China); 3. D. Khamroeva (Kazakhstan). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3hVw1kHMu4A/TeOaEsw7nvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/PtZuw7m9ZtY/s1600/asian_youth_2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3hVw1kHMu4A/TeOaEsw7nvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/PtZuw7m9ZtY/s320/asian_youth_2011.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Watch out for small young boy in first row Ram Arvind LN. He is going to be next youngest IM / GM.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-4630825080329269286?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/4630825080329269286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/asian-youth-chess-festival-philippines.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/4630825080329269286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/4630825080329269286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/asian-youth-chess-festival-philippines.html' title='Asian Youth Chess Festival - Philippines'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3hVw1kHMu4A/TeOaEsw7nvI/AAAAAAAAAEs/PtZuw7m9ZtY/s72-c/asian_youth_2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5717139290146930321</id><published>2011-05-23T21:51:00.008+05:30</published><updated>2011-05-23T22:36:40.890+05:30</updated><title type='text'>World Schools Chess 2011</title><content type='html'>These championships in age group U-7 to U-17 were held in Poland from April 30 to May 8. In these festival players from East Europe and CIS countries participated in large numbers. But there were few entries from India, China, Vietnam and Iran and USA. Still competetion was tough as usual at that level.Hosts won Gold medals in U-13 Girls and both U-17 events, boys and girls.In U-7 girls category Assubayeva Kazakistan won with 9/9 points,in U-8 boys gold and silver were won by boys from Romania and Turkey. In U-9 girls Kazak girl won with 8.5/9 points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0LQBpn0jg_c/TdqJaIaWF0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/MybrhA63hw4/s1600/012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0LQBpn0jg_c/TdqJaIaWF0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/MybrhA63hw4/s320/012.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If you look at older entries you can find a few articals about Kenya's U-8 girls champion Sharanya Iyengar. She played in U-9 girls and got 8th place with 5.5 points. It must be one of the best performance by an African chess player in any tournament at world level. This cute little girl has become a flag bearer of Kenya's chess team. &lt;br /&gt;Here is her seventh round game.Move no 6 -In french white prefers Bd3 to attack king side.Move no-18 black should play Rxf6. Move no-20 black should play Qxc3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe scrolling = "no" width = "400" frameborder = "0" height = "580" src="http://www.chessvideos.tv/replayer-insert.php?id=45088" style = "border: 1px solid black;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5717139290146930321?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5717139290146930321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/world-schools-chess-2011.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5717139290146930321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5717139290146930321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/world-schools-chess-2011.html' title='World Schools Chess 2011'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0LQBpn0jg_c/TdqJaIaWF0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/MybrhA63hw4/s72-c/012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-2042575759904684826</id><published>2011-05-05T16:18:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2011-05-05T16:32:32.503+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Attack is best means of defence</title><content type='html'>Our member Bhavya Gupta (age 9+) played in Delhi State Under - 13(Girls) championship &lt;br /&gt;and scored 3/5 point to finish at 9th position. In one of her games she blundered a piece early in opening. Then facing dangerous pin and likely loss of another piece went for attack in following position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href = "http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-diagram-generator.php?fen=4r1k1/1p3pp1/2pb4/p2p3p/4b3/P4PPr/1P4NP/R1BBR1K1"&gt;&lt;img src = "http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/17pirviqhvgg.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23...Bc5+ 24.Kh1 Bf2 25.Re2 Bxg3 26.Kg1 Bh2 27.Kf2 Rf3+ 28.Ke1 Bg3 29.Kd2 Rd3 30.Kc2 Ra3 31.Kd2 Ra1 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href = "http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-diagram-generator.php?fen=4r1k1/1p3pp1/2p5/p2p4/4b3/6b1/1P1KR1N1/r1BB4"&gt;&lt;img src = "http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/3gv3x9iy3yww8.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And went on to win.Just see how position is transformed from first diagram to second.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-2042575759904684826?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/2042575759904684826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/attack-is-best-means-of-defence.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2042575759904684826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2042575759904684826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/attack-is-best-means-of-defence.html' title='Attack is best means of defence'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-2995511326476414369</id><published>2011-05-05T15:49:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-05-05T15:49:28.578+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Grandma Saved The Day</title><content type='html'>Our member Sumit S Deshpande wrote a poem for commonwealth poetry competition which he wants to share with others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Grandma takes us to Mall&lt;br /&gt;And makes us to buy things&lt;br /&gt;once for all.&lt;br /&gt;She help us to buy things&lt;br /&gt;at the best&lt;br /&gt;So gets tired and takes rest.&lt;br /&gt;We bought cakes, chocolates and&lt;br /&gt;biscuits to eat.&lt;br /&gt;And forgot to buy meat.&lt;br /&gt;My sister bought lipsticks&lt;br /&gt;and nail polish.&lt;br /&gt;But forgot to buy shoe polish.&lt;br /&gt;My father was at till&lt;br /&gt;Ran out of cash to pay the bill.&lt;br /&gt;My Grandma helped us &lt;br /&gt;by paying balance money&lt;br /&gt;And saved the day.&lt;br /&gt;My Grandma is a Super Grandma.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-2995511326476414369?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/2995511326476414369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/grandma-saved-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2995511326476414369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2995511326476414369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/05/grandma-saved-day.html' title='Grandma Saved The Day'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-580555582248734145</id><published>2011-01-31T10:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-31T10:46:44.036+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Free Chess e-books</title><content type='html'>To prepare coaching material for our students we have collected several books in PDF format. We are willing to make them available to other chess players too. If you are interested you can contact us giving your area of interest like end-game, middle-game (tactics), middle-game(strategy), openings etc. Also if you indicate your present your chess standard then we will be able to select proper reading material for you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-580555582248734145?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/580555582248734145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/01/free-chess-e-books.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/580555582248734145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/580555582248734145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/01/free-chess-e-books.html' title='Free Chess e-books'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-803228248625618286</id><published>2011-01-16T20:33:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-16T21:34:36.479+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Avoid Such Mistakes</title><content type='html'>I only publish games of young players but I am publishing one of my games played on playchess.com against a fairly good player so that children can avoid mistake made by my opponent. Game started with 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Bc4 Ngf6 6.Neg5 e6 7.Qe2 . Look at the position after white's 7th move.White's knight is attacking f7 and Bc4 and Qe2 are attacking e6. Black should shut-out Bc4 by Nd5. Instead he played a very natural developing move 7...Be7 after which white simply finishes him off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src = "http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/1q0huow19vler.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.Nxf7 Kxf7 9.Qxe6 Kg6 10.Nh5 Kh6 11.d4+ g5 12.Nf5 Kg6 13.Qf7 Kxf5 14.Bd3+ Kg4 15.h3+ Kh4 16.g3 #&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Question&lt;/b&gt; There are two better ways to finish game instead of 10.Nh5. Can you find them ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-803228248625618286?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/803228248625618286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/01/aoid-such-mistakes_16.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/803228248625618286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/803228248625618286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2011/01/aoid-such-mistakes_16.html' title='Avoid Such Mistakes'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8250496387479703733</id><published>2010-11-13T21:31:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-11-13T21:43:31.788+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Another Poem By Sumit Deshpande</title><content type='html'>We have received another poem by Sumit Deshpande whose interview we have published earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;CARS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1- &amp;nbsp;Cars Cars Cars&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; All full un jars&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; They take us for a ride&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; And keep to the side.&lt;br /&gt;2- &amp;nbsp;Children play with cars&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;While elders sit in the bars&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Cars drink diesel and petrol&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;People drink beers and lose control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 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 !!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8250496387479703733?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8250496387479703733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-poem-by-sumit-deshpande.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8250496387479703733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8250496387479703733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-poem-by-sumit-deshpande.html' title='Another Poem By Sumit Deshpande'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-2195595033467101443</id><published>2010-11-13T20:52:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-11-13T21:06:19.463+05:30</updated><title type='text'>UP State Chess Championship U-7 for 2010</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-2195595033467101443?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/2195595033467101443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/11/up-state-chess-championship-u-7-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2195595033467101443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2195595033467101443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/11/up-state-chess-championship-u-7-for.html' title='UP State Chess Championship U-7 for 2010'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8572436713488844183</id><published>2010-10-30T21:00:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-30T21:00:39.243+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Poem by Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;Poem&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Fruits &lt;/b&gt;by Sumit Deshpande&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verse (1)- Fruits are my best food ,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; I always think that they are very good,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Fruits come from trees,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; And take in breeze .&lt;br /&gt;Verse(2) &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Fruits are fresh,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; And given breath,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; When they grow big,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; They become fat as a pig.&lt;br /&gt;Verse(3) &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Some are bouncy,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;And others like nancy,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Some have leaves,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;And others are in greeze.&lt;br /&gt;Verse(4) &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Some are like socks,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; And others are in blocks,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Some have tears,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Others drink beers.&lt;br /&gt;Verse(5) &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;They are in basket,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;All full of rockets,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Some have thorns,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;And others have gowns.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;The End&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8572436713488844183?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8572436713488844183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/10/poem-by-kenya-under-8-boys-champion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8572436713488844183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8572436713488844183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/10/poem-by-kenya-under-8-boys-champion.html' title='Poem by Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-7106322169616581000</id><published>2010-10-30T20:40:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-30T21:10:34.589+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TMwzz2Tm75I/AAAAAAAAAEY/7j0g2tr3MkI/s1600/DSC04051.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TMwzz2Tm75I/AAAAAAAAAEY/7j0g2tr3MkI/s320/DSC04051.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LCA - Did you miss WYCC ?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - Yes I was very keen to play in Greece .&lt;br /&gt;LCA - &amp;nbsp;How you performed against 3 players representing Kenya in U-8 category.&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - &amp;nbsp;I beat them all !&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;( Then whom he conceded those 2 points ? Perhaps to tail enders !)&lt;br /&gt;LCA - Who else you can beat ?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - Every one, my team mates , my father.&lt;br /&gt;LCA - What about your mother and sister ?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - My mother ? She can not play chess ! And I always beat my sister !&lt;br /&gt;( 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% )&lt;br /&gt;LCA- What about Sharanya Iyenger , who is your school mate ?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - Well some times I win some times she wins.&lt;br /&gt;LCA - In which class you are studying &amp;nbsp;and how are you doing in studies.&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - I am in 3rd standered and always get first position in the class.&lt;br /&gt;LCA- Thats very good . What else you like to do?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - I like to dance ! And I like to play piano !&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - I am a poet and write poems !&lt;br /&gt;( Readers have to wait for some time before he writes short stories and a few novels ! )&lt;br /&gt;( But for time being you can find one of his wonderful award winning poem else where. )&lt;br /&gt;LCA- Will you like to play with students of LCA ?&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - Yes I am ready to take on every body !&lt;br /&gt;LCA- Thank you and we wish you success in all your activities.&lt;br /&gt;Sumit - Thank You.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-7106322169616581000?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/7106322169616581000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/10/kenya-under-8-boys-champion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7106322169616581000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7106322169616581000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/10/kenya-under-8-boys-champion.html' title='Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TMwzz2Tm75I/AAAAAAAAAEY/7j0g2tr3MkI/s72-c/DSC04051.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-1301619828956180276</id><published>2010-09-02T15:22:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-02T15:23:49.259+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Youg Kids Scale Mountain Peaks</title><content type='html'>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 !!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We congratulate these boys on their performances and wish more success in future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-1301619828956180276?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/1301619828956180276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/09/youg-kids-scale-mountain-peaks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/1301619828956180276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/1301619828956180276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/09/youg-kids-scale-mountain-peaks.html' title='Youg Kids Scale Mountain Peaks'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5227520638561598219</id><published>2010-08-14T12:01:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-14T12:04:26.540+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Match between UPState U-9 and Keny's U-7 National champion</title><content type='html'>A series of games were played&amp;nbsp;by Ayush Pandey ( UP state U-9 Champ) and Sharanya Iyengar&amp;nbsp; U-7 girls national&amp;nbsp;champion of Kenya last week. On Sunday Aug 8 Ayush played a mature game.&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;and then converted it in a win . On Tuseday too he got advantage in both games ( was piece up in first game) but&amp;nbsp;Sharanya fought well and counter attacked resolutely to win both of them. On&amp;nbsp;Thurseday again Ayush handled opening much better than Sharanaya, who&amp;nbsp;had several weaknesses in pawn structure etc.&amp;nbsp;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.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One can easily draw some conclusions&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5227520638561598219?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5227520638561598219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/match-between-upstate-u-9-and-kenys-u-7.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5227520638561598219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5227520638561598219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/match-between-upstate-u-9-and-kenys-u-7.html' title='Match between UPState U-9 and Keny&apos;s U-7 National champion'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8414947961965386309</id><published>2010-08-07T21:42:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-07T21:46:19.595+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Can't I even sleep ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF2FKvLFmPI/AAAAAAAAAEI/suSss6axFyY/s1600/img_1175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" height="131" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF2FKvLFmPI/AAAAAAAAAEI/suSss6axFyY/s200/img_1175.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no chess&amp;nbsp;law to prevent me from sleeping !!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( An exhausted player sleeping during a game at World School Chess )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8414947961965386309?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8414947961965386309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/cant-i-sleep.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8414947961965386309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8414947961965386309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/cant-i-sleep.html' title='Can&apos;t I even sleep ?'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF2FKvLFmPI/AAAAAAAAAEI/suSss6axFyY/s72-c/img_1175.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-7381833472324086360</id><published>2010-08-07T21:18:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-07T21:18:16.748+05:30</updated><title type='text'>World Schools Championship</title><content type='html'>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&amp;nbsp;Nimdia Ridit ( India)&amp;nbsp;was youngest participant. He fell asleep after last round game was completed. Then he could not climb himself on victory stand&amp;nbsp;as it was too high for him !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF12QsS5J9I/AAAAAAAAAD4/Wg5sNKPkihk/s1600/tu7b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF12QsS5J9I/AAAAAAAAAD4/Wg5sNKPkihk/s320/tu7b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All the winners got&amp;nbsp;Note-Book computers. Under-7 girls champion found it too heavy to carry so rested&amp;nbsp;a couple of times&amp;nbsp;during long journey from victory stand to waiting parents !!&amp;nbsp;Many players who were out of prize list got chess books. They all enjoyed this well organised tournament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF1-sMTcarI/AAAAAAAAAEA/vHw-DJbUu_w/s1600/tu7g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF1-sMTcarI/AAAAAAAAAEA/vHw-DJbUu_w/s320/tu7g.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Players from Russia, Iran and host Turkey dominated championship winning many medals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-7381833472324086360?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/7381833472324086360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/world-schools-championship.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7381833472324086360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7381833472324086360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/world-schools-championship.html' title='World Schools Championship'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TF12QsS5J9I/AAAAAAAAAD4/Wg5sNKPkihk/s72-c/tu7b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-2104221092435352449</id><published>2010-08-04T16:19:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-07T13:25:45.426+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Inter School Chess Championship - Lucknow</title><content type='html'>Modern Indian School Rajaji Puram organised this year's inter school with support of&amp;nbsp;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.&lt;br /&gt;Ex-Miniseter Sri Rajesh Yadav and state chess secretary Sri Raizada distributed prizes to following players-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary School Section&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TFlCr0t71nI/AAAAAAAAADw/neeNobKY3uk/s1600/DSC00485.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" bx="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TFlCr0t71nI/AAAAAAAAADw/neeNobKY3uk/s320/DSC00485.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;1-SwastikDehran &lt;br /&gt;2-Vatsal Vora&lt;br /&gt;3-Ayush Pandey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Junior Section&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-Akash Srivastava&lt;br /&gt;2-Vasu Bajpai&lt;br /&gt;3-Bunty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High-School Section&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-Vibhu Bajpai&lt;br /&gt;2-Mithesh Kaladi&lt;br /&gt;3-Shivendra Singh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intermidiate Section&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-Abhijeet Srivastava&lt;br /&gt;2-Gangesh Tiwari&lt;br /&gt;3-Shivam Shukla&lt;br /&gt;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? &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;late and missed first round.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-2104221092435352449?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/2104221092435352449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/inter-school-chess-championship-lucknow.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2104221092435352449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/2104221092435352449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/inter-school-chess-championship-lucknow.html' title='Inter School Chess Championship - Lucknow'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TFlCr0t71nI/AAAAAAAAADw/neeNobKY3uk/s72-c/DSC00485.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-3741126823046394303</id><published>2010-08-04T14:19:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-07T13:05:05.243+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Junior Chess Tournament Aliganj Lucknow</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;After a long lull July saw two inter-school chess tournaments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Black&amp;amp;White Chess Club became active after couple of years and organised a tournament&amp;nbsp;at Modern World Scool&amp;nbsp;Aliganj which was sponsored by Avadh Industrial Training Centre. This club is run by Junaid Ahemad ( ex-state champion).&amp;nbsp;It used to publish a very good chess magazine Black&amp;amp;White also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;They gave Rs15000/ to winners in 2 catagories U-19 and U-13 as under :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Under-19 :1-Shivam Shukla 2-Vibhu Bajpai 5 points &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;3-Shikhar Verma 4-Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar 5-Rajat Tiwari 6-Saad Baksh Siddiqui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;7-Sachin Tandon 8-Harshit Agrawal 4-points&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Under - 13 : 1-Vasu Bajpai 5-ponts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;2-Ayush Pandey 3-Akash Srivastav&amp;nbsp; 4-points&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;One can hope that club remains active and contributes to development of chess in city.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-3741126823046394303?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/3741126823046394303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/inter-school-chess-in-aliganj-lucknow.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3741126823046394303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3741126823046394303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/08/inter-school-chess-in-aliganj-lucknow.html' title='Junior Chess Tournament Aliganj Lucknow'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5838534572578485892</id><published>2010-07-10T10:11:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-10T11:52:00.751+05:30</updated><title type='text'>National U-13 Puduchery</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Final Standings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="580" scrolling="no" src="http://www.chessvideos.tv/replayer-insert.php?id=31954" style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid;" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5838534572578485892?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5838534572578485892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/07/national-u-13-puduchery.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5838534572578485892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5838534572578485892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/07/national-u-13-puduchery.html' title='National U-13 Puduchery'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-6855312625201825011</id><published>2010-07-02T15:53:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-02T15:53:14.588+05:30</updated><title type='text'>First Girl from Lucknow Gets FIDE Rating</title><content type='html'>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.&amp;nbsp;She got that rating from Delhi Under-2200 tournament in June. Though her rating is very modest but it is a new beginning and&amp;nbsp;we can hope that she will improve it in future and more girls will join her in rating list.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-6855312625201825011?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/6855312625201825011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-girl-from-lucknow-gets-fide.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6855312625201825011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6855312625201825011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-girl-from-lucknow-gets-fide.html' title='First Girl from Lucknow Gets FIDE Rating'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8958523443678958531</id><published>2010-06-12T20:59:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-12T21:00:46.493+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Kenya Under-8 Champion Vs Students of Academy</title><content type='html'>On Saturday&amp;nbsp;, 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&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;and Adarshika put&amp;nbsp;her&amp;nbsp;king on same file as&amp;nbsp;her queen and lost her queen but&amp;nbsp;she had&amp;nbsp;2 extra knights so won the game&amp;nbsp;.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In the next game Adarshika handled opening better than first game but&amp;nbsp;missed a mating threat and and was check-mated on 11th move !&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;Conclusion ? Play badly to win game !!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8958523443678958531?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8958523443678958531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-under-8-champion-vs-students-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8958523443678958531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8958523443678958531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-under-8-champion-vs-students-of.html' title='Kenya Under-8 Champion Vs Students of Academy'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-61514157577226152</id><published>2010-06-07T21:38:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-07T21:38:19.492+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Kenya U-8 Sharanya In Action</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="580" scrolling="no" src="http://www.chessvideos.tv/replayer-insert.php?id=30717" style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid;" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-61514157577226152?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/61514157577226152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-u-8-sharanya-in-action.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/61514157577226152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/61514157577226152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-u-8-sharanya-in-action.html' title='Kenya U-8 Sharanya In Action'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-1456077488321827562</id><published>2010-06-07T21:09:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-07T21:13:56.616+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Kenya Under-8 Chess Champion Talks to ICA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TA0TFGBclzI/AAAAAAAAADo/ikGLrMhFr3M/s1600/Sharanya.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" qu="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TA0TFGBclzI/AAAAAAAAADo/ikGLrMhFr3M/s320/Sharanya.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sharanya Iyengar, Winner in Girls – Under 8 age category at &lt;br /&gt;Kenya National Chess Championship 2010 held at Nairobi in May&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : Congratulation for winning national chess championship. &lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Hi, Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : How many games you played in nationals ? Did you win all of them?&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : What prize did you get there?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Trophy and a certificate at each phase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : In which standard you study in school?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Standard 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : How your teachers and friends in school re-acted when you went back to school after tournament?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : They congratulated me at the assembly event. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : 7 &amp;amp; ½ years, my grandmother first taught me chess. My present coach is Latha Sathya.&lt;br /&gt;I play 3 games of chess everyday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : Do you have any other hobby? Do you play other games?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Yes, art and crafts. I love to play monopoly and uno cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 !!)&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : Have you been to India ? If so,how do you like India?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Yes, I was born in India and I visit once every year. I love INDIA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICA : Will you like to play with my students of your age on net?&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Sure, would love to play with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;Sharanya : Thank you, I also wish good luck to the students at your academy.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-1456077488321827562?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/1456077488321827562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-under-8-chess-champion-talks-to.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/1456077488321827562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/1456077488321827562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/06/kenya-under-8-chess-champion-talks-to.html' title='Kenya Under-8 Chess Champion Talks to ICA'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/TA0TFGBclzI/AAAAAAAAADo/ikGLrMhFr3M/s72-c/Sharanya.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-7122170107806532285</id><published>2010-04-26T08:45:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-26T08:45:19.734+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Lucknow Distt Team for State Championship U-9 and U-19</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;आयु वर्ग 9 में बालकों में स्वास्तिक देहरन तथा रोहन और बालिकाओं में नंदिनी चुनी गयी.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S9UD4x-IFRI/AAAAAAAAADY/Uo7xoQkVR5o/s1600/U9U19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S9UD4x-IFRI/AAAAAAAAADY/Uo7xoQkVR5o/s320/U9U19.jpg" tt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;पहली पंक्ति में विजेता आयुष, स्वास्तिक और नंदिनी,पीछे&amp;nbsp;श्रेया (तीसरे स्थान पर) तथा लाल&amp;nbsp;शर्ट&amp;nbsp;में वासु दिखाई&amp;nbsp;दे रहे हैं.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-7122170107806532285?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/7122170107806532285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/04/lucknow-distt-team-for-state.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7122170107806532285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/7122170107806532285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/04/lucknow-distt-team-for-state.html' title='Lucknow Distt Team for State Championship U-9 and U-19'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S9UD4x-IFRI/AAAAAAAAADY/Uo7xoQkVR5o/s72-c/U9U19.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-6098267350687398507</id><published>2010-04-08T21:26:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-08T22:21:31.552+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Tiny Tot to represnt UP in U-11 National Chess</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S735xJj7gFI/AAAAAAAAADQ/IJrFBQRYo3Y/s1600/Mafrooza.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S735xJj7gFI/AAAAAAAAADQ/IJrFBQRYo3Y/s320/Mafrooza.JPG" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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&amp;nbsp;at least in U-7 and U-9 groups at national level if not in U-11.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So there is still some hope for UP in chess at least in younger age groups.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-6098267350687398507?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/6098267350687398507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/04/tiny-tot-to-represnt-up-in-u-16.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6098267350687398507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6098267350687398507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/04/tiny-tot-to-represnt-up-in-u-16.html' title='Tiny Tot to represnt UP in U-11 National Chess'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S735xJj7gFI/AAAAAAAAADQ/IJrFBQRYo3Y/s72-c/Mafrooza.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-4971294380351757376</id><published>2010-04-05T12:23:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-05T21:22:31.217+05:30</updated><title type='text'>U-16 and U-11 State Championship</title><content type='html'>आयु वर्ग 16 तथा 11&amp;nbsp; के लिए राज्य शतरंज प्रतियोगिता का आयोजन सनबीम स्कूल लहरतारा वाराणसी द्वारा अप्रैल 1 से 4 तक किया गया . जिसके परिणाम निम्नवत रहे&lt;br /&gt;बालिकाएं 16 वर्ष&lt;br /&gt;आयुषी जैसवाल&amp;nbsp;(सनबीम लहरतारा वाराणसी) 4 .5 /5&amp;nbsp; प्रथम&amp;nbsp;, आराधना&amp;nbsp;तिवारी ( सोनभद्र&amp;nbsp;) 4 /5 द्वितीय&amp;nbsp;, शिवांगी&amp;nbsp;मिश्रा&amp;nbsp;4 /5 तृतीय&lt;br /&gt;बालक&amp;nbsp;16 वर्ष&lt;br /&gt;मनीष&amp;nbsp;कुमार&amp;nbsp;( डीऐ&amp;nbsp;वि&amp;nbsp;मेरठ&amp;nbsp;) 7 /7&amp;nbsp; प्रथम , यश&amp;nbsp;मिश्रा (लहरतारा सनबीम ) 6&amp;nbsp; द्वितीय , शहाब&amp;nbsp;फारुखी&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;5 .5&amp;nbsp; तृतीय&lt;br /&gt;बालिका 11 वर्ष&lt;br /&gt;श्वेता प्रियदर्शिनी (&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;गाजियाबाद&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;4 .5 /5 प्रथम , मफरूज़ा फारूखी&amp;nbsp;(वाराणसी) 4 द्वितीय, रुखसार&amp;nbsp;बानो 3 .5 तृतीय&lt;br /&gt;बालक 11 वर्ष&lt;br /&gt;अतुल कुमार (सनबीम भगवानपुर) 6 .5 प्रथम , आदर्श श्रीवास्तव (वाराणसी) 5 .5 द्वितीय ,प्रद्युम्न साक्षी तृतीय &lt;br /&gt;हमारी तरफ से विजेताओं को हार्दिक बधाई एवं राष्ट्रीय प्रतियोगिताओं के लिए शुभ कामनाएँ .&lt;br /&gt;U-11 winners&amp;nbsp;......................................................................&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5ObqufDrcI/AAAAAAAAACg/7JvzgokS6eM/s1600-h/RichardRapport.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5ObqufDrcI/AAAAAAAAACg/7JvzgokS6eM/s320/RichardRapport.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-3740106247087439264?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/3740106247087439264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/03/young-gm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3740106247087439264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3740106247087439264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/03/young-gm.html' title='Young GM'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5ObqufDrcI/AAAAAAAAACg/7JvzgokS6eM/s72-c/RichardRapport.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-540510216787694047</id><published>2010-03-07T16:26:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-07T16:26:25.052+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Under - 9 Asian School Chess</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5OF3YjVDaI/AAAAAAAAACY/5hUdkH8U9rM/s1600-h/AryanSharma.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5OF3YjVDaI/AAAAAAAAACY/5hUdkH8U9rM/s320/AryanSharma.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Aryan Sharma of Delhi won Silver medal in category U-9 in Asian School Chess Championship. Congratulations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-540510216787694047?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/540510216787694047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/03/under-9-asian-school-chess.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/540510216787694047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/540510216787694047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/03/under-9-asian-school-chess.html' title='Under - 9 Asian School Chess'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S5OF3YjVDaI/AAAAAAAAACY/5hUdkH8U9rM/s72-c/AryanSharma.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8062617778070441522</id><published>2010-02-04T10:21:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-02-04T10:26:27.926+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Interview With Youngest Chess Champion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S2pIkKckIXI/AAAAAAAAACQ/5EavrYacr7g/s1600-h/rudraksh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S2pIkKckIXI/AAAAAAAAACQ/5EavrYacr7g/s200/rudraksh.JPG" width="167" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Congratulations for winning Nation Chess Championship. At what age you started playing chess? Who taught you chess ?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh-&amp;nbsp; At the age of six I started learning as well as playing chess. Mr S R Pattnaik taught me the game.&lt;br /&gt;ICA- How much time you devote to chess? Does it effects your studies ?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh - On an average I used to give 3-4 hours on a daily basis. It does not effect my studies at all.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Who else in your family plays chess? Do you have any elder brother&amp;nbsp;or sister who plays chess?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh - My elder brother plays chess and he is also good at same.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Do you play any other game?&amp;nbsp;If yes which one ?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh -&amp;nbsp;Yes I play cricket.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - How your teachers&amp;nbsp;and other students of your school reacted when you reached back after winning trophy at Ahemdabad.&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh - When I reached back at school my teachers and friends were overwhelmed with joy and greeted me like anything.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Who is your present coach ?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh - My present coaches are Mr Satya Ranjan Pattnaik and Mr Arghya Arpana Parida.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Do you play chess on internet ?&lt;br /&gt;Rudraksh - No, I don't play on net.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Would you like to say something to students of our Academy ?&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;ICA - Thanks Rudraksh. We wish you best for your forthcoming&amp;nbsp;Asian and World chess championships.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8062617778070441522?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8062617778070441522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-with-youngest-chess-champion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8062617778070441522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8062617778070441522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-with-youngest-chess-champion.html' title='Interview With Youngest Chess Champion'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S2pIkKckIXI/AAAAAAAAACQ/5EavrYacr7g/s72-c/rudraksh.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-8869826320141186015</id><published>2010-01-15T18:44:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-15T19:13:32.151+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Chess Games and matches for kids in age group 7-10 years</title><content type='html'>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.&amp;nbsp;When enough players got registered with us ( &lt;strong&gt;absolutely free&lt;/strong&gt; ) then we will arrange matches ( and later tournaments) on some free sites at the time indicated by players.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;How will it work ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; You send the time you are going to be available to&amp;nbsp;play&amp;nbsp;next week or in general( Example &amp;nbsp;Mon to Friday 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.Saturday 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Sunaday 10:00am to&amp;nbsp;1:00pm) (&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;we will try to match your timings/ age&amp;nbsp;with other available players. You can see these schedules on this site&amp;nbsp;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.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; We also request you to send e-mail addresses of other players so that we can request them to join it.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;When&amp;nbsp;is it&amp;nbsp;going to start ?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;We will soon start it on trial basis. But it will start functioning on regular basis only after final exams of of most kids&amp;nbsp;are over in India.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-8869826320141186015?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/8869826320141186015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/chess-games-and-matches-for-kids-in-age.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8869826320141186015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/8869826320141186015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/chess-games-and-matches-for-kids-in-age.html' title='Chess Games and matches for kids in age group 7-10 years'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5735732590210010679</id><published>2010-01-15T10:03:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-15T10:04:47.693+05:30</updated><title type='text'>National U-7 Chess 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S0_uhbfaGfI/AAAAAAAAACA/Xd7BP4LbCY4/s1600-h/U-7.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S0_uhbfaGfI/AAAAAAAAACA/Xd7BP4LbCY4/s320/U-7.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5735732590210010679?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5735732590210010679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-u-7-chess-2009.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5735732590210010679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5735732590210010679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-u-7-chess-2009.html' title='National U-7 Chess 2009'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/S0_uhbfaGfI/AAAAAAAAACA/Xd7BP4LbCY4/s72-c/U-7.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-6292347257305152763</id><published>2010-01-12T15:15:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-12T15:34:11.280+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Inter School Chess Jalandher</title><content type='html'>Punjab Kesari News Paper group organised interschool chess tournament at DAV College in first week of January 2010 . Final results are as under&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;pre&gt;Primary&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Junior&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;High School&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Intermediate&lt;br /&gt;Girls&lt;br /&gt;1.Kanishka Chawla&amp;nbsp;Apoorva Sharma&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Ridam Bhatia&amp;nbsp; Gurupreet Kaur&lt;br /&gt;2.Anukurti Singhla&amp;nbsp;Manpreet Kaur&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Tapsi&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Deepika&lt;br /&gt;3.Ayushi&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Umisha Sharma&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ankita Jindal&amp;nbsp; Sharanjeet&lt;br /&gt;Boys &lt;br /&gt;1.Mandeep Singh&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Sahajdeep Singh&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Akshaya Anand&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Rajat Jatana&lt;br /&gt;2.Himanshu&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Apoorv Anand&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sushant Maurya&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Manpal&lt;br /&gt;3.Sudhir&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Harjap Singh&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Shomit Kapur&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Mohit Verma&lt;br /&gt;(as reported by a student)&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-6292347257305152763?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/6292347257305152763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/inter-school-chess-jalandher.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6292347257305152763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/6292347257305152763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2010/01/inter-school-chess-jalandher.html' title='Inter School Chess Jalandher'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-910460382132615570</id><published>2009-12-30T11:49:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-30T11:58:02.334+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Battle of Sexes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzrxHcl3eZI/AAAAAAAAAB4/onwPamoxi_k/s1600-h/juditpolgar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzrxHcl3eZI/AAAAAAAAAB4/onwPamoxi_k/s320/juditpolgar.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/Szrw0XHT8JI/AAAAAAAAABw/prXU2OS6TcM/s1600-h/gregkaidanov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/Szrw0XHT8JI/AAAAAAAAABw/prXU2OS6TcM/s320/gregkaidanov.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;विश्व की नम्बर एक महिला खिलाड़ी जुडिथ पोल्गर और अमेरिका के प्रमुख खिलाड़ी ग्रिगोरी कैदानोव के बीच 25 फरवरी 2010 से एक मैच होने जा रहा है जिसे महिलाओं और पुरुषों के मुकाबले के रूप में देखा जा रहा है.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-910460382132615570?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/910460382132615570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/battle-of-sexes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/910460382132615570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/910460382132615570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/battle-of-sexes.html' title='Battle of Sexes'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzrxHcl3eZI/AAAAAAAAAB4/onwPamoxi_k/s72-c/juditpolgar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-3802142129781270043</id><published>2009-12-29T21:46:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-30T11:06:38.151+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Eight Year Old Chess Master !</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzorHmaOzlI/AAAAAAAAABg/zb1OGIUMbdQ/s1600-h/Iranian8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzorHmaOzlI/AAAAAAAAABg/zb1OGIUMbdQ/s320/Iranian8.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;फिडे द्वारा इरान के 8 वर्षीय सैय्यद मोहम्मद अमीन तबताबाई को चेस मास्टर का ख़िताब उसके द्वारा 2009 में विश्व स्कूल खेलों में पहला और विश्व युवा शतरंज में कांस्य पदक जीतने पर दिया गया . हमारी एकेडेमी की तरफ से बधाई!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-3802142129781270043?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/3802142129781270043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/eight-year-old-chess-master.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3802142129781270043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/3802142129781270043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/eight-year-old-chess-master.html' title='Eight Year Old Chess Master !'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SzorHmaOzlI/AAAAAAAAABg/zb1OGIUMbdQ/s72-c/Iranian8.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580419743029313764.post-5717452361348674131</id><published>2009-12-11T14:47:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-15T12:16:40.302+05:30</updated><title type='text'>UP State Chess Under - 7, 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/Syb-m46BXLI/AAAAAAAAABI/EjfRBmBzGX4/s1600-h/shivangjoshi.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/Syb-m46BXLI/AAAAAAAAABI/EjfRBmBzGX4/s320/shivangjoshi.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is only category in which UP players are doing well.In last few years Shivam and Adarsh played well and qualified for national teams.UP state Chess Championship was organised by Mathura Distt association.&lt;br /&gt;Boys Section&lt;br /&gt;1.Shivang Joshi (Ghaziabad see photo)&lt;br /&gt;2.Rohit Kumar&lt;br /&gt;3.Amrendra Nath Dave&lt;br /&gt;Girls Section&lt;br /&gt;1.Km Mafrooza Farooqui&lt;br /&gt;2.Km Dhariya Garg&lt;br /&gt;3.Km Jesika Bhatnagar&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6580419743029313764-5717452361348674131?l=ustadchess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/feeds/5717452361348674131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/up-state-chess-under-7-2009.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5717452361348674131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6580419743029313764/posts/default/5717452361348674131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ustadchess.blogspot.com/2009/12/up-state-chess-under-7-2009.html' title='UP State Chess Under - 7, 2009'/><author><name>Arun_Singh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02018180786181576798</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/SiNwmoZRi8I/AAAAAAAAAAc/JfAEDBzXbz4/S220/Arun2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6aMghu08p_M/Syb-m46BXLI/AAAAAAAAABI/EjfRBmBzGX4/s72-c/shivangjoshi.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
