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CPAI |
Buddhibal Krida
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AICF |
Poona Club |
MCA |
Blunders at
crucial time proved expensive for Kunte and Ramesh
Written by content team on
04.11.2006
In all-GM battle of the Semifinals, the
tactical fights between Ganguly and Ramesh produced a surprisingly
one-sided victory for the top seeded Ganguly while Kunte and Bakre
fought out long positional games in the Semi-finals of the Poona Club
Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament being held at here at Pune. Also what
turned out to be a day of blunders saw players finally showing signs
of tiredness from the exciting but stressful Knockout Rapid format, as
Ramesh and Abhijit made uncharacteristically huge blunders to hand
over victories to their opponents. [Read
more]
 No
major upsets in Quarterfinals.
Written by content team on
03.11.2006
The local fans were delighted with the
first round of the day, as their favourite Abhijit Kunte of IOC
defeated the CPAI President and comrade Dibyendu Barua (TISCO) in the
first game of their encounter. In a Cambridge Springs variation of the
Queen’s Gambit declined, Barua was forced to part with an exchange in
the middlegame, and was forced to defend the Bishop versus Rook
endgame with a pawn each for both the sides. Barua missed drawing
chances pointed out by IM Kidambi and resigned on 87th move when faced
with material loss or checkmate. Thus under pressure, Barua still
preferred his favourite Guico Piano setup with White pieces in the
reverse game, and kept on pushing for a slight edge in a Queenless
middlegame. The game went into a Knight ending where Barua looked to
be pushing for an advantage but Kunte kept his nerves and defended
accurately to finally clinch the draw and win the match with a score
of 1.5 – 0.5. [Read
more]
 Dark
day for the white pieces
Written by content team on
02.11.2006
Most of the times its advantageous to play
with white pieces however in round 3 of the Poona club knockout rapid
chess championships,
all the decisive wins of the match were scored by Black
pieces.
The dreaded Armageddon Tie-break appeared in the top board of the
tournament involving GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of IOC and IM Lanka Ravi
of ONGC, thus providing an exciting time for the spectators and the
Internet audience, in the 3rd Round.
[Read
more]
Exciting and tense battles in
round 2
Written by content team on
31.10.2006
Grandmasters RB Ramesh and Deepan Chakravarthy (both Indian Oil) stormed
into the 3rd round of the Poona Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament held
at the Poona Club here at Pune. In the second round saw both of them
outwit their opponents IM Anup Deshmukh and Arjun Tiwari with a clean
2 – 0 on the scoreboard respectively. Joining the youngsters were GM
Pravin Thipsay who outwitted former National Women Champion and WGM
Nisha Mohota to continue his solid run in the event. Sudhakar Babu
with White pieces gifted the top seeded Ganguly a full Rook in the
first game, which was enough for Ganguly who withstood some pressure
in the Second Round to ultimately win the match 1.5 – 0.5. [Read
more]
 Barua,
Ramesh Stretched at Poona Club Knockout Rapid Chess Tournament
Written by content team on
30.10.2006
Grand Masters Dibeyendu Barua , RB
ramesh went through a harrowing time before overcoming their opponents via
tiebreakers, while wild card entrant youngster Krutikka nadig of Banglore
scored the biggest upset of the day accounting for Woman Grand Master
Swati Ghate to enter the second round of the Poona Club Knockout
International Rapid Chess Championships being Conducted by Buddhibal
Kreeda Trust and Poona Club in association with Chess Players Association
of India in Pune. [Read
more]
Poona Club Knockout tournament's
Pairing and schedule
Visit our
Pairings and Results section to download the pairing and schedule.
Written by content team
on 30th Oct , 2006 (12:55 am)
Schedules and final list of participants are out
The schedules are available for download.
Download - Scheduled of the
Poona Club Knock – Out Rapid Event
Download - Scheduled of the
Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial Open Tournament
Go to final list
of participants
Written by content team on 27.10.2006
School boy P. Karthikeyan wins the
Chennai blitz chess tournament.
 Young
P.Karthikeyan of Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School
emerged winner of the Chess Players Association of India's Blitz Chess
Tournament, held at the Red Cross Society, Egmore, Chennai. Event was
sponsored by the Poona Club and ONGC with contribution from the Indian
Oil. P.Karthikeyan, IM N.Sudhakar Babu and M.Shyam Sundar booked their
seats for the Pune knockout tournament. [Read
more]
Reported by Mr.
V. Sarvanan on 25.10.2006
Updated Entry List and Schedule
for the selection tournaments
Go to updated
Entry List
Go to updated
Selection tournaments schedule
Written by Content Team on 23.10.2006
Panditrao booked his seat for
Knockout tournament
 In the 3rd Poona Club Blitz Chess Championship organised by
Buddhibal Kreeda Trust, Top Seed Grand Master Tejas Bakre of Indian
Airlines won the 3rd leg of the Poona Club Blitz Chess Challenge held on
8th October 2006 at Pune. He won with a score of 8/9 tying with Kiran
Panditrao for 1st place but winning the title on a better progressive
score.
[
Read more ]
Written by Content Team on 10.10.2006
GM Tejas Bakre to play In
Pune Blitz.
GM Tejas Bakre, IM Prathmesh Mokal, IM CS Gokhale,
WGM Swati Ghate have already Confirmed their entry in Pune Blitz.
Scheduled to be held on sunday 8th October. It will be a 25000/- Rs
Prize Money event with 1st Prize of Rs. 5,000/- Champion of this
tournament will qualify to play in the Poona Club Knock-out event at
Pune from 30th october to 5th November. The event is orgenised by
Buddhibal kreeda Trust.
Written by Content Team
on 06.10.2006
List of qualifiers as per rating is out.
List of Qualifiers as per rating is being
published on the knockout.lci.in we request the selected players to
send their confirmation by 8th of October.
GM Pravin Thipsay confirmed his participation in Pune Rapid event. GM
Negi has opted out of the championship due to an Invitational
tournament abroad. [Check
the updated List]
7 GM's confirmed for the 1st Poona Club
Knock-Out rapid event.
7 GM's Namely National Champion SS Ganguly, Kolkata, GM Abhijit
Kunte, Pune, GM Negi Parimarjan,Delhi who is also currently the
youngest GM of the world, GM Deepan Chakravarthy, Madurai, GM RB
Ramesh, Chennai, GM Tejas bakre, Ahemdabad and CPAI president GM D.
Barua have confirmed their participation in the tournament.
Buddhibal Kreeda Trust will also be organizing the Maheshwaranand
Memorial rating tournament at Pune from 31st of October to 5th
November at poona Club. with prize fund of 1,25,000/-
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