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First prize: Rs 12,500

Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy online tournament on 10th September, 2017

Celebrating 12th anniversary

Date: Sunday, 10th September 2017

Time: 6.00 p.m. IST

Time control: 3+1, 10 rounds

Prize fund: Rs. 50,000

Venue: Playchess

The man who has been unbeaten on Playchess server for online prize money tournaments has confirmed his entry. GM Lalith Babu (Anji). He is the man to beat!

Eight grandmasters including National Challengers champion Deepan Chakkravarthy, national blitz champion Rajaram Laxman, GM Vishnu Prasanna, GM Diptayan Ghosh, GM Debashis Das, GM G.N. Gopal, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, defending champion GM Vaibhav Suri have confirmed their participation.

Four more Grandmasters have joined and they are Montcada Open 2017 winner GM M Shyam Sundar, Recently Qualified for National Premier 2017, GM Abhijit Kunte, GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and GM Ankit Rajpara

Webster University student GM Priyadharshan Kannappan has confirmed his participation

WGM Soumya Swaminathan is one of the strongest woman chess player of the country has decided to play this tournament

Last but not the least GM Dibyendu Barua decided to come out of retirement in DBCA Online Blitz Chess Tournament

Prizes:

The total prize fund is Rs.50,000

Main Prize list:

Place	Prize
1st	12,500
2nd	9,000
3rd	7,500
4th	5,000
5th	3,000
6th	2,000
7th	1,750
8th	1,400
9th	1,250
10th	1,000

Special prizes:

There are seven 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
80th	800

Entry fee:

The entry fee is Rs.400 until 26th of August. After that it will be 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 9th of September 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.

Entry fee for students of Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy will be Rs.250 which will be paid directly at the academy.

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. Shahid Ahmed - 9038139510 email - shahid.chess@gmail.com

The above number (9038139510) 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 from here.

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 10th of September.

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 10th September, should be the same.

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Player's list:

Serial No.	Name	Rating	Playchess ID
1	GM G.N.Gopal	2589	ilusionist60
2	GM Aravindh Chithambaram	2579	Refresh
3	GM Diptayan Ghosh	2562	diptayan
4	GM Vaibhav Suri	2560	irus1997
5	GM M Shyam Sundar	2547	kereslover
6	GM Lalith Babu	2525	Anji
7	GM Kannappan Priyadharshan	2515	slogger
8	GM Vishnu Prasanna	2538	Fidodido
9	IM Abhimanyu Puranik	2509	pabh
10	GM Abhijit Kunte	2505	Abhijit Kunte
11	IM P Karthikeyan	2497	Chennaikramnik
12	GM Debashis Das	2493	debashis das
13	IM Nihal Sarin	2485	nihalsarin
14	GM Deepan Chakkravarthy	2466	j2d
15	GM Ankit Rajpara	2465	twentyseven
16	GM Dibyendu Barua	2448	Dibyendu Barua
17	IM Swayams Mishra	2444	Mr bh6
18	IM Sayantan Das	2436	Ambitious
19	IM P.Shyaamnikhil	2434	Pshyaamnikhil
20	IM Nitin S	2423	snitin
21	IM Abhishek Kelkar	2403	livestrong_6
22	GM Rajaram Laxman	2397	Laxman
23	Akash PC Iyer	2390	Jaggi2106
24	IM S Ravi Teja	2383	Ravi Teja S
25	Rahul Srivathsav P	2373	rahulsrivathsav
26	FM Sai Krishna G.V	2369	Pennkrishna
27	Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad	2349	Swarnapuri
28	FM Fenil Shah	2362	fenil_shah95
29	FM Raunak Sadhwani	2339	devil1234
30	IM M Chakravarthi Reddy	2329	Chakravarthi
31	IM Rathnakaran K	2326	RATHNAKARAN
32	FM Mitrabha Guha	2321	Babysnake
33	WGM Soumya Swaminathan	2320	Travellingknight
34	GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury	2317	Sevenstar
35	Niranjan Navalgund	2312	Twentythreewins
36	IM Rahul Sangma	2311	bittu
37	IM VAV Rajesh	2309	rajeshvav
38	CM Aditya Mittal	2289	vinniethepooh
39	FM Ankit Gajwa	2282	Ab de villiers
40	Gahan M G	2281	karnatakangahan
41	IM D.K. Sharma	2279	kakdela
42	R Ashwath	2258	csk
43	Pranav V	2248	pranav_vip
44	Dushyant Sharma	2222	Dushu2930
45	Snehal Vilas Bhosale	2211	BurninggIce
46	Moksh Amit Doshi	2197	MokCa2003
47	Amithpal Singh	2175	Amithpal15
48	Girish B Chandanani	2169	sanjanachandanani
49	Chakravarthy Y V K	2161	tarak jr
50	FM C J Arvind	2156	junosource
51	Kushager Krishnater	2137	kushu_attack
52	Kavitha JE	2134	jekavitha
53	Priyanka Nutakki	2115	Chess Queen
54	Rohit Singh Rana	2102	rohitbombay
55	Laishram Imocha	2098	Athoibi
56	Shantanu Bhambure	2052	Defence1234
57	S.Harini	2047	Hasaka
58	Aditya Samant	2046	adityass
59	Soham Datar	2037	sohamchess64
60	Aakash Dalvi	1969	aakash-dalvi
61	Sa Kannan	1960	NextWC
62	L R Srihari	1959	lsr
63	Kotepalli Sai Nirupama	1949	saraswathii
64	Sayan Bose	1948	bosesayan28
65	Panesar Vedant	1942	Brainboy123
66	Sanjeev Nair	1903	Attacker_97
67	Sandeep Chitkara	1878	sandy42
68	Madhusudan Iyer	1865	Hallabol
69	CM Shahil Dey	1810	Shahildey
70	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	1805	Chessmaster10
71	Rohan Nag Chowdhury	1708	rohannc
72	Sumit Roy	1723	Sumit19
73	Arunachalam	1699	Arunachalam m
74	Suganthan S	1697	sugananand
75	Saurabh Chaubey	1656	saurabhch
76	Spandan Seth	1634	Best Angel
77	Samrat Nandi	1631	Samratnandi
78	Debarghya Samanta	1563	tapa1964
79	Yukash Ram E	1553	Iceguardian_005
80	Mohit Swami	1549	mohitswami1022
81	Sanchit Mukherjee	1450	Sanchit
82	Aayush Bhattacherjee	1420	AAYUSH
83	Arnav Nehete	1392	ANN212
84	Aniruddh Chatterjee	1348	Omaniruddh
85	Aadrito Datta	1344	Aadrito
86	Shivam Garg	1309	mindhurter
87	Durga Prasad Gubbala	1294	prasaddg
88	Dhawal Arora	1226	dhawalarora15
89	Rakesh Kulkarni	1217	rakeshkul
90	Soham Mitra	1193	soham_hriddhi
91	K Venkatakrishna	1150	venkatakrishna
92	Jaiveer Mahendru	1149	diamond06
93	Antik Kumar	1067	antik2018
94	Abir Dhar Chowdhury	0	dcabir
95	Akbar Amir Ali Pirani	0	akbar_sh_007
96	Anshuman Chatterjee	0	Anshuman
97	Arinjoy Saha	0	Arinjoy
98	Kalpan Bhattacharya	0	Kalpan
99	Mehul Gupta	0	Mehul Gupta
100	Natarajan Raja Swaminathan	0	raja3652016
101	Maheshkumar Kudre	0	MDKUDRE
102	Oishik Mondal	0	Oishik
103	Pamir Dhar Chowdhury	0	IvantheTerrible
104	Prachurjo Dutta Roy	0	Prachurjo
105	Ritabrataa Roy	0	Ritabrataa
106	Sagnik Nandi	0	sagnik nandi
107	Satyaki Seth	0	Satyaki2005
108	Vishal Parbari	0	VISHALPABARI
109	Yashwardhan Agarwal	0	yash_a2k

Feedback for previous ChessBase India prize money tournaments:

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

It's a pleasure to play in the ChessBase India online tournament. I never played on board match with an International Master in a tournament but here I got a chance to play against Ratnakaran sir.

What ChessBase India is doing to Indian chess is superb. Hope one day Anand also gets the same recognition like Sachin and Kohli .

My best wishes always with you.

-Harsh Kanoje, Nagpur

First of all I would like to say congratulations for organizing such a mammoth event smoothly without any delays/disturbances. It is really a great platform for the budding chess players and chess enthusiasts (who can't travel more often for the tournaments as players I'm one among them) Playing these tournaments with such a strong field always been a great experience. Especially when you are paired against titled players (one of the best players in the country) it gives lots of encouragement and inspiration! I really enjoyed my tournament session (played with GM Vaibhav Suri in the first round and he became the champion in the end also played with IM Padmini Rout in the 9th round and I drew with her) also lost some games because of time pressure etc. ChessBase India is doing a great job and looking forward to hear from you about the future events like 3rd online blitz and many more (I believe you won't stop this journey for sure.)

-Pavan BNB, Mumbai

Team DBCA welcomes you to take part in this online tournament and celebrate the occasion of their 12th anniversary!