All Rajputana Chess Association

Vishwanath Anand In Jaipur.

King of Chess, World Champion , Vishwanath Anand was in Jaipur on 16.01.2008. He spoke that in next few years India will be a Super Power in chess surpassing Russian Chess Supremacy. He had all praise for GM Abhijeet Gupta of Rajsthan. He described Abhijeet as future Player of India.

Sonakshi Rathore of Jaipur won Bronze Medal in National Under 11 Chess Championship [Girls] held at Calicutt on 31st Oct 2007 . She is First Girl of Rajasthan to win any Medal in any National Chess Championship. She will represent India in next Asian & world Chess Championship.

GM Abhijeet Gupta has Won The Strongest Chess Event on Indian Sub- Continent by half a point Margin when he defeated Uzbek GM Dzhumaev Marat in 10th Round. In penultimate round he defeated 3 time National champion Surya sekhar Ganguly.He won the First Prize of Rs 2.25 lacs.

GM Abhijeet Gupta has been selected for the forthcoming National A Chess Championship tobe held in Chennai in Feb. 2008.

Atishay Ajmera of Jaipur won Gold Medal in Under 15 Boys category. He is state level champion in open sub junior category and also past state level junior champion. This year he has equalled the game against former and current age group world champions and also against two IMs. He is receiving his Medal from His Excellency Mr. Tikiri Kobbekaduwa The Governor of Central Province of Sri Lanka. This year he has equalled the game against former and current age group world champions and also against WIM & FM.

Astha Gupta of Sri Ganganagar won Team-Silver Medal in Girls Under 15 category. She is past state level champion in Girls Under 17 and Under 13 category and also Open (Boys) Under 15 category. She is receiving Prize from Mr Harinlal Aturupane, The President of Sri Lankan Chess Federation.

Nishtha Gupta of Sri Ganganagar won Bronze Medal in Girls Under 11 Category. She is past state level champion in Under 11 Girls category and present state level champion in Under 17 and Under 19 category. She has won best women prizes in many international rating open chess tournaments. She is receiving his Medal from His Excellency Mr. Tikiri Kobbekaduwa The Governor of Central Province of Sri Lanka.

International Master Abhijeet Gupta of Rajasthan obtained his Grand Master Title when he won overall Bronze Medal and Junior Gold Medal in recently concluded comman wealth chess championship at New Delhi. He is first chess player of Rajasthan to obtained IM and GM Titles.

IM Sri Ram Jha won the Tournament & First Prize of Rs 50000/ . IM Saptrishi Roy was Runner up & won Prize of Rs 30000/ . Ram Prakash won Third Prize of Rs 20000/. WGM Esha Karwade was declared best women Player of The Tournament. Chief Guest of Prize Distribution Ceremony was Mr Ajaypal Singh, Chairman, Rajasthan Housing Board. AICF Secretary Mr D V Sundar, AICF Vice President Mr R M Dongre, AICF Vice President Mr Sameer Salgaonkar were Special Guests of Honor & Gave away the Prizes in Glittering & well attended Prize distribution Ceremony at Jaipur on 26.04.2008. Click Here For More Details...........

Young Rajasthan Chess Players making inroads

Jaipur International Rating Tournament @Jaipur

Most of Special Category & Tournament Best Age Group were won By Rajasthan Players. Bharat Gupta of Jaipur Stood overall 19th Best Player of Tournament. Devesh Mukharjee was 24th in Main Prize List & Best Player in Rating Category 1801 to 2000. Mukesh Mandloi was 30th & last in Main List. Akhilesh Jakhar was Declared Best Unrated Player. National Under 11, 2nd runner up Sonakashi Rathore was Tournament Best Under 12 Girl. Asian School chess Bronze Medalist Nishtha Gupta was Tournament Best under 16 Girls & also Best Player in Rating Category 1401 to 1800. Click Here For More Details...........

National Under 9 (Open & Girls) @ New Delhi

April 28 to May 06, 2008

Our 3 boys & 3 girls are taking part in this prestgious age group tournment. They are, Kushagra Sharma & Yashraj Purohit from Jaipur and Manthan Chittora from Udaipur in Open Section and Priyanka Kumawat from Jaipur, Shibani Kapoor from Udaipur and Kritica Sekhawat from Ajmer in Girls Section.

In 8th Round Kushagra Sharma defeted 3rd seed Kartikeyen (Rating 1754) of Tamilnadu & strongly put his claim for the championship as he has 6 points. In Girls section Kritica Sekhawat also won 8th Round & have 6 points. She has also put her candidature for championship. Manthan Chittora is on 5 points & Yashraj is on 3.5 points. Priyanka Kumawat & Shibani Kapoor are on 3 points each.

Sonakshi Rathore of Jaipur proved once again that youth brigade of Rajsthan chess is an emerging force on Indian Chess scenario . She won Silver Medal in under 12 Girls category at The Asian Youth Chess Championship at Tehran in Iran . She remain undefeated in the Tournament.

Pinnacle State Senior Rating Chess Championship

Devesh Mukharjee Champion Atishay Ajmera Runners Up.

First time in the Chess History of Rajasthan State Level Senior Tournament was organized as a Rating Tournament from July 1 to 5 at Jaipur. Out of 44 Players , 17 were Rated. Ex- National B Champion Kantilal Dave & 5 Ex State Champion were among Participants.

Devesh Mukharjee of Jaipur won the Championship where as Atishay Ajmera was Runners Up. Mukesh Mandloi was 3rd & Arpit saxena remained fourth.

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Tournament Report Final Standing

Tournament Performance

ASHOK BHARGAV SUSPENDED FROM ALL CHESS ACTIVITIES BY AICF

All India Chess Federation suspended Ashok Bhargav of Jaipur from all chess Activities. Mr Ashok Bhargav Conducted Inter State Chess Tournament without the permission of All India chess Federation.

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Rated Players in Rajasthan swell to 77 as per Fide Rating List of July 2008. Now more & more age group players are getting International rating. Kushagra Sharama of Jaipur become International Rated Player at the age of 9. He is now youngest Rated Player of Rajasthan.

AICF Coaching Camp for Rajasthan Players

First time in the Chess history of Rajasthan All India Chess Federation with the local help of All Rajputana Chess Association conducted advance coaching camp for young chess brigade of Rajasthan at Jaipur from June, 23 to 29, 2008.

AICF deputed senior most Hindi speaking coach FM Shantaram of Chennai who is Ex-National A player. 23 sub-junior chess players worked hard to get this training. Training was free of cost and all outstation players were provided with free lodging also.

Mr. Shantaram found that many of these young players have potential to sparkle at National and Inter-National level.

This is sixth International Rating Chess Tournament in Rajasthan Under the agies of All Rajputana Chess Association in less then two Years. This time Local chapter of world renowned Lions club has come forward for Rajasthan Chess Players. A This Rs One Lac Prize Money Tournament has witnessed record Entry of 197 players.

Results & Paring

Now Rajasthan has proud of having 84 International rated Players in the State. Octoober Rating List of FIDE[ world chess Federation] adds 7 more Players in this list. Two year ago only Two Juniors Players were among International Rated Players. Now Youth Brigade of Rajasthan is getting stronger day by day & number of youth international rated players have swelled to two dozens.

GM Abhijeet won World Junior title in recently concluded World Junior Chess Championship at Turkey. He is Third Indian to win this title after Vishwanath Anand & P Harikrishana. Abhijeet is First Player from Our State to have IM & GM Titles. D Harika of Andhra won Girls Junior Title.

On the occaision Our treasurer Mr Ajay Ajmera called on him & apprised him present development of Chess in Rajasthan . He was mesmerized by the progress of Chess in Rajasthan in last 2 & half year. He shown special interest in meeting with our child chess prodigies

Neelesh Kumawat, a 16-year-old boy from Udaipur, excelled in Studies & chess. He is also an International Rated Chess Player [1647]. He was honored by - Maharana Fateh singh award consisting A Commemorative Medal, A Merit Certificate & a Cash award of Rs. 751/-

All Rajputana Chess Association feel proud that its registered Chess Players won Prestigious Awards from Maharana Mewar Foundation in theirs 29th Annual Award2009 Ceremony held on Sunday the March 15th , 2009. Awrds were given away by HH Maharana shree ji Arvind Singh Ji Mewar. ARCA family congratulates these youngsters & wishes them a Very Bright & Sparkling career in Life & especially in Chess.

World Chess Federation has released latest List of rated Players. In the list as many as 95 Players from Rajasthan has got the berth. Three years ago it was only 40 & most of them were inactive. The latest entrant in this list are from Udaipur, which is now producing more rated players. Thanks to Lions club Maharana, who organized International rating Tournament which boosted the Chess of Udaipur.

1st Kota International Fide rating Chess tournament @Kota

May 24 to 30.

Kota witnessed its first International Rating chess Tournament . It was 7th rating Tournament

Under the aegis of All Rajputana chess Association.

First Prize of Rs 50000/ was won by 20 yr old boy of Delhi Rahul Sangama.

IM trio Saptarishiroy, Himanshu Sharama & Sri ram Jha stood 2nd ,3rd & 4th respectively & won Rs 30,000/ Rs 20000/ & Rs 10000/.

In all 153 players from 14 States, from all over India participated in the Tourney out of which 82 were International rated Players. Players from Rajasthan won Big haul of Prizes. 7 Rajasthani Players made it in Main Prize List. 6 Players will get full rating & Many others will get partial Ratings.

It was 2nd International Rating Tournament in Udaipur within Last 9 Months. Over all this was8th International rating Tournament under the agegis of All Rajputana Chess Association in a short span ofless then 30 months.

IM Sri ram Jha once again proved his superiority & bring home first prize of Rs 60000/. Swapnil Dhopade of maharashtra won second Prize of Rs 35000/. Ram Prakash recovered from the stunning defeat in 2nd round by the hand of 13 years old Boy Ayush garg of Jaipur & finally rose to claim

Third Prize of Rs 20000/.

In all 189 players out of which 81 were International rated Players from 12 States, from all over India participated in the Tourney. This Includes 5 Ims & one CM. Players from Rajasthan won Big haul of Prizes. 7 Rajasthani Players made it in Main Prize List. 7 Rajasthan Players will get full rating & Many others will get partial Ratings.

Sonakshi Rathore won State senior Chess Championship @ Udaipur

12 Year 8 Month Old Sonakshi Rathore Of Jaipur Created the History in Rajasthan Chess as well as in Indian Chess when she drew against Arpit Saxena & won the Dheeraj Muradia Memorial State Senior Open Chess Championship in Rajasthan held at Udaipur From July 19 to 23, 2009. Sonakshi ,Current Asian Under 12 Silver Medallist, started as 8th Seeded in the Tournament & crushed All the old Guards of Rajasthan chess who came in her way to Championship . This is First time in the Chess History of Rajasthan That any Female has risen to such a Coveted Position in Chess. She also become Youngest Player to win the championship. Earlier Record held By GM Abhijeet Gupta. She Lost only one game to her Coach Mr Devesh Mukarjee, who ultimately finished Third in the Tournament with 7 points.

Manoj Trivedi of Jodhpur Finished 2nd with 7.5 points. Another Star of The Tournament was 18 Yr Palash Shah of Udaipur who Started as 21st seed but defeated many a stalwart of Chess to grab 4th Position.

Devendra Kumar, Sunny Bedi, Atishay Ajmera are the Other youngsters of Young Brigade of Rajasthan who impressed with theirs Chess skill & has once again proved that they are the force of future to recon with !!

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Rajasthan Rated Players Crosses Magical 100 Figure. As on 1st sep Fide Releasedlatest list of International Rated Players. Now Rajasthan Has Total 114 International Rated Players.

There is Dramatic rise in the number of Junior Rated Players. Now it is 30. which was only 3 or 4 years Back. Our congratulations to the new entrants.

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