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The successive 2nd Blitz Championship was held on 12th August 2006 at Pune Club , Pune. Under the patronage of Pune Club & with the support from Pune District Chess Association, the Buddibal krida Trust organized the tournament. (CPAI is thankful to Swati Ghate for this report)
The tournament is rapidly gaining the status as lot of rated player from Maharashtra participated in it. Total 150 players took part in this blitz tourney. Reputed player like IM Akskayraj Kore, WGM Swati Ghate (LIC of India), WGM Eesha Karawade, IM C.S.Gokhale (IA), IM Prathamesh Mokal , Vikramaditya Kambale ( Railways), Amardeep Bartake (Railways) , Kiran Panditrao (Central Excise), Hemant Mandhare, Soumya Swaminathan, Amruta Mokal, Devangi Patankar participated in the tournament. Lot of young talented players made their mark by upsetting seeded players.
Akshayraj Kore, who has recently made his third IM norm in the tournament at Ukraine finished first with 8 points. Vikramaditya Kamble beat Akshay in the last round but with the implementation of progressive score, had to satisfy with 2nd position. The tournament was lively with lot of interesting games, up & down results from the start. The budding player from Pune, Chaitanya Kulkarni started the sensation by beating Prathamesh Mokal in the second round. The next victim was Swati Ghate. Swati lost on time against Vinod Bhagwat in the 4th round. With the clock ticking away CS Gokhale could not cashed his advantage against Akshay in the fifth round & lost his way. Akshay was sole leader after 6th round & never looked back thereafter. Eesha karavade was trailing behind Akshay with half point till 7th round but couldn’t keep the momentum & lost the last two rounds. Another up-coming player Nikhil Joshi defeated Swati Ghate in the 8th round. Swati couldn’t handle the tension of running time & accepted the defeat with clock showing 00:00 timing. The spectators witnessed interesting struggle in the last round as Vikramaditya Kamble (Western Railways) won against unbeaten Kore. Amardeep Bartakke & Nikhil Joshi agreed a friendly draw & ensured the joint third placing with 7.5 points. Swati Ghate defeated CS Gokhale on the third board & was placed 5th with 7 points.
The prizes were given by Mr. Munit Chinoy, President Pune Club & Mr. Sayrus Patel, Secy, Pune Club. Mr. Chinoy appreciated the smooth & efficient conduct of this tournaments & on this occasion Mr. Prakash Kunte was also felicitated for his contribution for growth of chess atmosphere in Pune.
The Cpai takes this opportunity to thank the local press for promoting chess by giving coverage to this tournaments. The pune team of Cpai is planning to hold such activities in near future. Next blitz is announced to be held on 8th Oct 2006.

The Final Placing -

1. Akshayraj Kore
2. Vikramaditya kamble
3. Amardeep Bartakke
4. Nikhil Joshi
5. Swati Ghate.

 

- GM Abhijit Kunte won the 1st Poona Club Blitz tournament !

The 1st Poona Club Blitz Event was organised by Buddhibal Krida Trust In Association with CPAI on 30th July 2006 at Poona Club, Pune. Poona club has come up a big way & started a new tradition in the Indian chess history by sponsoring a series of blitz championship.
Poona Club will be sponsoring 6 Blitz events like this in Pune. The champions of this blitz tourneys will be selected to participate in the Rs.5 Lac prize money knock out championship to be held in the year end.
The first of this series was held on 30th July & grand success was attributed as total 194 players participated in this event. Mr. Munit Chinoy, President, Poona Club & Mr. Cyrus Patel inaugurated the event. On this occasion Mr.Chinoy of Poona club has promised to their full-fledged & long lasting support for Chess fraternity. Grand Master Abhijit Kunte, WGM Swati Ghate, WGM Eesha Karavade, IM C.S. Gokhale, & IM Prathamesh Mokal made the event prestigious. Several National talents like Soumya Swaminathan, Amruta Mokal & lot of local youngster also enjoyed the flavor of blitz tourney. Abhijit scored 8.5 points convincingly out of possible 9 rounds & claimed the title. He was awarded Rs. 5000/- as well as the trophy as the first prize. One of the Indian women talent Eesha Karavade, who recently achieved her maiden IM norm in the tournament at Spain showed the same form & finished 2nd with 8 points. Soumitra Mujumdar made the upset by defeating CS Gokhale in the 4th round & rightly claimed the 3rd Position. CS Gokhale defeated Swati Ghate in the last round & also tied to second position by scoring 8 points. Prathamesh Mokal struggling with his bad form could not finish in the top bracket. National Champion Swati Ghate was also out of form & by scoring 6.5 points could only claim Best ladies prize. Mr. S.K.Sharma, Chief Commissioner of Income tax gave away the prizes. Mr. Satish Desai, President of Pune District Chess Association was also present on the occasion & with a sense of humour remarked if the chief commissioner of Income tax extends his full support by captivating the black money from big buddies & sponsoring some chess event, it will be no longer that India can produce many more Vishwanathan Anand. Arbiter Joseph D'souza & his able team smoothly conducted the tournament. Total prize money for this tournament was 25,000/- Rs. and total 30 prizes were distributed.
 
Standings :-

1. Abhijit Kunte - 8.5
2. Eesha Karavade 8
3. Somitra Mujumdar 8
4. C.S. Gokhale 8
5. Amit Pal Singh 7.5

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