Interview With Youngest Chess Champion

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

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

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

National U-7 Chess 2009

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

Inter School Chess Jalandher

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

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

Battle of Sexes

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.

Eight Year Old Chess Master !

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!

UP State Chess Under - 7, 2009

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.
Boys Section
1.Shivang Joshi (Ghaziabad see photo)
2.Rohit Kumar
3.Amrendra Nath Dave
Girls Section
1.Km Mafrooza Farooqui
2.Km Dhariya Garg
3.Km Jesika Bhatnagar