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First prize: Rs 11,111

Kunte chess Academy online tournament on 30th April, 2017 

Celebrating 10th anniversary

 

Date: Sunday, 30th of April 2017

Time: 6.00 p.m. IST 

Time control: 3+0, 11 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 40,000

Venue: Playchess

Breaking: India No.3 Adhiban will take part!

India number three B.Adhiban (phoenix92) has confirmed his participation!

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.40,000

 

Main Prize list:

Place Prize
1st 11,111
2nd 7,500
3rd 5,000
4th 3,000
5th 2,000
6th 1,750
7th 1,500
8th 1,250
9th 1,100
10th 1,000
Special prizes:
There are six prizes of Rs. 800 each. The condition to claim these prizes is that you have to play all the rounds of the tournament, and cannot leave it half-way. 
Place Prize
20th 800
30th 800
40th 800
50th 800
60th 800
70th 800

Entry fee:

The entry fee is Rs.500. In this fee you get one month of ChessBase Premium Account worth Rs.125. Before paying the entry fee of the tournament, please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here. The last date to pay entry is 29th of April 2017.

Once you have paid the entry fee, you will receive the one month serial key on the registered email address along with the procedure to extend your account.
All GMs, IMs and WGMs get free entry to our tournament. All you have to do is write a mail to us at chessbaseindia@gmail.com along with your name, FIDE ID and the playchess ID. If you do not have a playchess ID please create it from here and share with us.

Contact:

For registration queries contact:
Mr. Vishvesh Kochrekar - 9769872031 email: vishykoch@yahoo.com

The above number (9769872031) can also be used for payment of entry fee via paytm.

Tournament Rules:

  • All the games will be checked by the server engine and by a panel of experts and if any player is found guilty of cheating then the concerned player’s account will be suspended and will not be allowed to participate in any of the future playchess events. The prize in such case will move to the next rank.
  • The provisional standings will be displayed immediately after the end of the tournament but the final standings will be displayed within a week after all the games have been checked.
  • We request all the players to check your internet connection before the tournament. If poor internet connection is detected at the start of the tournament, then the concerned player will not be allowed to participate and the entry fee will be refunded after a minimal amount (around 3-5%) is deducted.
  •  The Tournament Director will hold the right to reject any entry and entry fee will be refunded (after a minimal amount of around 3-5% is deducted) if the entry is rejected at the start of the tournament. The decision of the Tournament Director will be final.
  • After the tournament has started and your internet is disconnected or you exit the playing room, you will not be paired for the next rounds and your entry fee will not be refunded.

How to play in the tournament?

1. Download the free windows software of playchess

Firstly you have to download the free native Windows software. You should go to play.chessbase.com and scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click on the Free Download button.

Login or create an account

After you have installed the Playchess client. You must login.

Enter your playchess username and password if you have one. (Note, for all the ChessBase Account Premium members, your login credentials will work). If you do not have a Username, you must click on "Create New Player Name" and create a new account. Alternatively you can also create it from here. This is free of cost and gives you free access to Playchess for a few days. After you pay the entry fee mentioned above you will be given one month serial key on your registered email address along with the steps to make your account premium.

The tournament will take place in the newly created Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into playchess at least 45 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 30th of April.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. This is subject to the payment of entry fees.

Note: The Playchess id while paying the entry fee and while entering the playing arena on 30th April, should be the same.

Official homepage of Kunte Chess Academy

 

Check out how the first ChessBase India prize money tournament was conducted.

Player's list:

Thirteen grandmasters are playing at the event! Such strength of an event has never been seen before!

Three time National Champion Padmini Rout (fawkes) will be playing at the event!

Here's the player's list:

Serial No. Name Playchess ID Fide rating
1 GM B.Adhiban phoenix92 2661
2 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Refresh 2588
3 GM G.N.Gopal ilusionist16 2580
4 GM Diptayan Ghosh diptayan 2572
5 GM Lalith Babu Anji 2571
6 GM Vaibhav Suri irus1997 2558
7 GM Vishnu Prasanna Fidodido 2542
8 GM Shyam Sundar kereslover 2535
9 IM P Karthikeyan Chennaikramnik 2507
10 GM Debashis Das debashis das 2501
11 GM Magesh Chandran gmmagesh 2494
12 GM Abhijit Kunte Abhijit Kunte 2491
13 GM Srinath Narayanan NSRINATH 2491
14 IM Shyaam Nikhil Pshyaamnikhil 2454
15 IM Swayams Mishra Mr.bh6 2450
16 IM R. Praggnanandhaa rprag2005 2447
17 GM Neelotpal Das Mandrake 2438
18 IM Nihal Sarin Nihalsarin 2424
19 IM Nubairshah Shaikh nubairshahshaikh 2408
20 N.Krishna Teja man_hunter123 2406
21 GM R.R. Laxman LAXMAN 2403
22 IM Padmini Rout fawkes 2400
23 IM Abhishek Kelkar livestrong_6 2398
24 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya Anwesh 2385
25 IM Rathnakaran Rathnakaran 2383
26 IM Ravi Teja S Ravi Teja S 2380
27 Miranda Guha Babysnake 2348
28 P SARAVANA KRISHNAN mbachez90 2347
29 Sai Krishna GV pennkrishna 2339
30 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad Samudragupta 2337
31 Harshit Raja JohnKing3401 2334
32 Karthik Venkatraman Usainbolt 2317
33 IM Navin Kanna Titanboa 2317
34 Aradhya Garg Aradhya 2315
35 RAHUL SRIVATHSAV RAHULSRIVATHSAV 2303
36 Sankalp gupta Junior tyson 2265
37 WIM R. Vaishali rvaishali2001 2259
38 Akash PC Iyer Jaggi 2106 2257
39 Maheswaran Maheswara64 2254
40 Fenil Shah fenil_shah95 2252
41 R.Ashwath Csk 2242
42 Sahil Tickoo TheHope 2222
43 RAUNAK SADHWANI devil1234 2218
44 Snehal Bhosale BurninggIce 2211
45 Mithil Ajgaonkar Mithil 2203
46 Balasubramaniam H Harishankkar 2189
47 IM Chakravarthi Reddy Chakravarthi 2189
48 Raja Rithvik R Chesswarrior 2155
49 Jeet jain only chess 2151
50 Pranav V pranav_vip 2149
51 Laishram Imocha Athoibi 2138
52 Kavitha JE jekavitha 2134
53 Likhit Chilukuri Jon Targaryen 2125
54 Aniruddh Deshpande Anichess89 2106
55 Joshi, Nikhil C. NikhilJoshi2 2103
56 Kannan Sa NextWC 2085
57 Priyanka Nutakki Chess Queen 2084
58 Manu David Suthandram Smart Dolphin 2078
59 Pruthu Deshpande GR8KNIGHT2001 2075
60 L Mahendra Venkat LMVenkat 2064
61 Kiran Panditrao Kiran Panditrao 2049
62 Venkat Sundaram Venkatsundaram 2049
63 Girish Chandanani sanjanachandanani 2040
64 Vedant panesar Brainboy123 2036
65 Swayangsu Satyakam futgen 2033
66 Kushagra Mohan kingfisher99 2031
67 maulik rawal maulik_rawal777 2016
68 Dushyant sharma Dushu2930 2013
69 Vishal Didwania dcmunpf 2013
70 GOPAL ASHOK RATHOD chessworld36 2008
71 Sanjeet Manohar jimu9723 2007
72 Y.Venkata kalyana chakravarthy Anjiaiah 2005
73 Toshali V peace4ever 1997
74 Vigneshwaran s Bigbosschess 1986
75 Karthik Kumar Pradeep darkknight 1978
76 Kotepalli Sai Nirupama saraswathii 1978
77 Sambit Panda sambit_panda 1959
78 Kushager krishnater Kushager krishnater 1953
79 Siddharth Sabharishankar sidduchessmaster 1950
80 Mrudul Dehankar chess_is_life3 1942
81 L R Srihari LSR 1922
82 Aakash Dalvi Aakashchess 1919
83 PAVAN BNB Loss2win 1915
84 Santhosh kumar G mgs1992 1915
85 Sanjeev Nair Attacker_97 1898
86 sanchay dubey sanchay 1881
87 Ranjith Rk Mike Ross 1878
88 Sk Shahid Ahmed dnumber23 1862
89 Aashna Makhija Never say never 1858
90 Jay Pradhan jptheking 1840
91 Ambarish Sharma jala123 1808
92 Vishvesh Kochrekar BossBaby 1801
93 Aryan Polakhare aryan7 1791
94 Bommini Mounika Akshaya Akhi 1753
95 Harsh Kanoje Masterwhiteking 1738
96 Sunil Vaidya sunil vaidya 1736
97 Ishaan Bansal ishu98 1729
98 RIDIT NIMDIA ridit123 1729
99 R.Rathneesh rathu 1724
100 Dhrupad Kashyap cyber11 1672
101 Chilukuri Sai Varshith varshith 1641
102 Aditya Samant adityass 1637
103 Vignesh vicky18 1613
104 Avinash Prakash avinash_prakash 1612
105 Mohammed Shamil shamil 1609
106 Abhinav Chandra ,Kodali chandra1234 1589
107 Jainam Modi olympic2012 1581
108 Devanshi Rathi devanshirathi 1571
109 Atharva Jaeel atharvajaeel 1568
110 Harisurya Bharadwaj Gundepudi hari123 1553
111 Chintha Ramu srams_chesslover 1537
112 DESHPANDE JATIN SUPER_WIZARD 1515
113 Raghav Bansal raghu_chess 1508
114 Soumyadipdeb brandydam 1497
115 Abhinav Shetty ahs1992 1491
116 Rohit Roy Choudhary GMRohit 1485
117 Vallabh Kavi smartkid 1402
118 Yash Watarkar ing3112 1396
119 Avathanshu Bhat sans360 1361
120 Garvit Kumar Kalra Garv1811 1358
121 Aavishkar Raghuraja raghuraja 1276
122 Akshay Borgaonkar chess2009 1240
123 Satvik Kapoor satvik_ygm 1229
124 Nilkant Shrey gree_shrey 1224
125 shankar murthy ravishankar 1223
126 Harshit Amarnani Harshitamarnani 1218
127 Nishigandha Ramgude Nishigandha Ramgude 1209
128 Saouhridya Pran Kashyap sanu365 1138
129 aryan khurana Ak2003 1173
130 Dakshayani Chavan Barbie2008 1171
131 Davuluri Vihar Davuluri Vihar 1158
132 Rohan Badera ROHANBADERA 1140
133 Shreyas Purkar shreyasp 1124
134 S.Vikraanth Vikraanth 1022
135 Arjun Raje Arjun Raje -
136 Chetan Tyagi CHETAN TYAGI -
137 Laxmikant Sudhakar Bhole bhole_laxmikant -
138 Kimaya Bhole bhole_kimaya -
139 Ojas Khasgiwale Ojas Khasgiwale -
140 Purva Kulkarni purvachess -
141 Siddhant Sathe siddhant Sathe -
142 Vihaan Dawda Vihaandawda -
143 Yashwardhan Agarwal yash_a2k -

Feedback for the first ChessBase India prize money tournament:

Great management....First time played a tmt with no problems...This was my first online tournament.....And had a great experience hope you all organise this type of tournaments quite frequently.....Would love to participate in your future tournaments

-Ambarish Sharma

 

Thank you. It was really a nice and enjoyable tournament. Hope in future also ... If this kind of tournament once in a month happen it will be brilliant... 
-Mithu Dey (on behalf of Shahil)

Although the tournament was organized well,I felt that that referee 1 was somehow inactive. Other than that everything was fine.

-Rahul Shrivatshav

 

The Fischer online blitz event on 12th March was organised in an exemplary manner. Hope we have more tournaments of this stature in future.

-GM R.R. Laxman
It was an awesome tournament. I look forward to playing more in such events.
-Snehal Bhosale
Thank you ChessBase India for arranging strongest online Fischer blitz event. I have played against high rated players including IMs and increased Playchess ELO from 1953 to 2008! There is nothing better than this a chess player can ask for. Seating at the home on perfect Sunday evening, sipping coffee and playing against famous players in India. Thank you so much for everything!
- Nikhil Joshi

I must congratulate ChessBase India for promoting events like this to encourage chess players on Online. Hope all the participants were able to enjoy playing this tournament without any glitch. The opportunity provided by ChessBase India is a welcome move.

- N.V.Nagesh (father of Badri Naryanan)

 

The tournament was very well conducted. I enjoyed playing the tournament. Maybe if possible next time you can use fide rating instead of the playchess rating as many new players started with low ratings. On the whole it was a very good tournament.
- Arjun Kalyan
Loved the tournament. Was fun playing against such a strong field without leaving the house. Everything went smoothly and there were no real problems once it began. The only issue I had was the 20 minute delay to start the round. But I guess it's OK since it's the first time. Overall, great experience and would definitely play again. Great work guys. 
P. S-The bonus prizes are a nice incentive for players like me. :P
-Likhit Chilukuri
The tournament was well organised. I had a blast playing in this tournament :) It was a good experience playing without time increment. 
-Aashna Makhija
Excellent start.  Hope to play more events like this in future.
With warm regards...
-Nihal Sarin
The tournament was organized pretty well.. I liked this concept of online blitz tournament. Thank you for organizing this event.
-Akhilesh Nagare
I was very fascinated to play in an online blitz tournament for the first time! I did not play my best but I hope that from the next time, I expect more online tournaments from my own country, Chessbase India! I like everything of this tournament! But one thing the time control was without any increment. It ruined the quality of some games. But I hope Chessbase India will look after it and I am already excited to play in the next online blitz tournament!
-Rajdeep Sarkar
Thank you for your hard work!. Everything is just perfect for me. 
-Priyanka Nutakki
It was a great initiative on the part of Chess base India. Hope you are able to do on a regular basis. It was a great opportunity n looking forward to many more.
-Hriday Bhuta