10 things that made the Super Juniors Cup 2020 special
The Super Juniors Cup 2020 was held from the 6th to the 10th of December 2020. 32 of the most talented youngsters of Indian chess took part in it. The total prize disbursed at the end of the event was a massive Rs.567,224. GM Nihal Sarin won the tournament and went back home richer by Rs.135,494. This was one of the biggest events ever to be held online in Indian chess. IM Sagar Shah takes you through the 10 things that made the Super Juniors Cup 2020 special. It contains the description of all the ingredients that helped in making this tournament successful.
For many years now Indian youngsters have been dubbed as the next big thing in the world of chess! Some of them are very popular, some not so well-known, yet very talented. ChessBase India has always tried to identify the talents at a young age and hence, a tournament of the top 32 youngsters in Indian chess (born on or after 2000) was a very exciting one, not just for the viewers but for us as well! Who would win and claim the spot of the most talented junior in blitz? The Super Juniors Cup was organized from the 6th-10th of December 2020. It was a knockout tournament with all the matches being played at a different time and broadcast LIVE on the ChessBase India YouTube channel. The tournament was a huge success with GM Nihal Sarin edging out GM Arjun Erigaisi in the finals. We bring you the 10 most special things about the Super Juniors Cup 2020.
1. 32 of the most talented players
When we wrote to 27 of the top rated boys and top five girls, all of them accepted our invitation to play the event! Only IM Leon Mendonca could not be a part of the tournament as he was in Budapest preparing for the Sunway Sitges tournament to get his final GM norm.
Nihal Sarin, Praggnanandhaa, Aryan Chopra, Abhimanyu Puranik, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Raunak Sadhwani are some of the most talented Indian juniors. One of them might well go on to become the next World Champion from Indian chess. It was wonderful to have them all playing together.
Participants of the Super Juniors Cup 2020
No. | Name | FideID | FED | Rtg | Club/City | ||
1 | GM | Nihal Sarin | 25092340 | IND | 2620 | nihalsarin2004 | |
2 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | 25059530 | IND | 2608 | Praggnanandhaachess | |
3 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 5084423 | IND | 2585 | AryanChopra | |
4 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 5061245 | IND | 2584 | abhidabhi | |
5 | GM | Gukesh D | 46616543 | IND | 2563 | guki1124 | |
6 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 35009192 | IND | 2559 | Inventing_Invention | |
7 | GM | Sadhwani Raunak | 35093487 | IND | 2545 | Raunaksadhwani2005 | |
8 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 5078776 | IND | 2509 | Harsha_Bharathakoti | |
9 | GM | Iniyan P | 25002767 | IND | 2506 | superchess2002 | |
10 | IM | Saksham Rautela | 35046977 | IND | 2480 | Kcnock2004 | |
11 | IM | Arjun Kalyan | 35018701 | IND | 2477 | Arjun2002 | |
12 | GM | Prithu Gupta | 46618546 | IND | 2472 | elrey2004 | |
13 | IM | Raja Harshit | 5089000 | IND | 2472 | Johnking | |
14 | IM | Rahul Srivatshav P | 25059653 | IND | 2457 | indianstar | |
15 | IM | Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari | 25004964 | IND | 2448 | kaumandur01 | |
16 | IM | Mitrabha Guha | 5057000 | IND | 2445 | mitrabha | |
17 | IM | Rathanvel V S | 25002112 | IND | 2445 | dieselbot | |
18 | IM | Aditya Mittal | 35042025 | IND | 2438 | Thunderbolt1909 | |
19 | IM | Bharath Subramaniyam H | 46634827 | IND | 2437 | BHARATH_SUBRAMANIYAM | |
20 | IM | Raja Rithvik R | 35007394 | IND | 2408 | Infinity-Stones | |
21 | IM | Aronyak Ghosh | 25072846 | IND | 2436 | Aronyak1 | |
22 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | 25073060 | IND | 2431 | BetterThanYou21 | |
23 | IM | Harikrishnan.A.Ra | 5081483 | IND | 2429 | hari2209 | |
24 | IM | Sankalp Gupta | 5097010 | IND | 2429 | Sankalp_Gupta | |
25 | FM | Srihari L R | 46617116 | IND | 2414 | srihari241105 | |
26 | IM | Neelash Saha | 5094160 | IND | 2413 | Neelash | |
27 | IM | Krishnater Kushager | 25041142 | IND | 2410 | kushu_attack | |
28 | WGM | Vaishali R | 5091756 | IND | 2393 | vaishali2001 | |
29 | WIM | Divya Deshmukh | 35006916 | IND | 2305 | burning_phoenix | |
30 | WIM | Vantika Agrawal | 25050389 | IND | 2286 | chiyabuddha | |
31 | WIM | Sharma Isha | 35006665 | IND | 2276 | PHOENIXME | |
32 | WFM | Savitha Shri B | 35061887 | IND | 2261 | savithashri |
2. The unstoppable Nihal Sarin
Nihal Sarin was the top seed of the tournament and also one of the favourites, but there were so many other talented youngsters vying for the top spot. Nihal always makes you wonder - how does he manage to do this with such ease? Right from the first game Nihal kept complete control of the proceedings and managed to win the title by beating Arjun Erigaisi in the finals with a score of 4.5-1.5. If you are curious to know how Nihal was able to maintain control in many of the high pressure situations in different games, we recommend you checking out the interview below where IM Sagar Shah goes through all the important moments of the tournament with Nihal.
In the Semi-Finals Arjun got the better of Raunak Sadhwani and Nihal Sarin managed to edge out Abhimanyu Puranik by a whisker. The time control in the semis was 2 games of 5+1 and four games of 3+1. The battle between Raunak and Abhimanyu ended in victory for the latter who finished third.
3. Prize money by the viewers
This was a tournament that happened because of the viewers! On the 57th episode of improving chess stream on ChessBase India, viewers contributed in a huge way via super chats. From that stream we raised Rs.5,23,345 with 492 individuals contributing. Because YouTube takes 30% of the revenue, the total amount that we received was Rs.3,66,342. Out of this ChessBase India had sponsored Rs.90,000 for Ilamparthi's training with Chuchelov in August. The remaining Rs.2,76,342 was to be utilized for this event. The shortfall of Rs. 23,658 (as the total prize fund we decided was Rs.3,00,000) was to be bridged by us (ChessBase India).
ChessBase India also launched their memberships (mentioned in a separate point below) and the total amount raised was Rs.47224. Hence in all the total prize fund disbursed during the Super Juniors Cup was Rs.567,224. Below is the break up of the prizes.
Rank | Name | Prize money | Spl. Prizes | Total |
1 | GM Nihal Sarin | 125000 | 10494 | 135494 |
2 | GM Arjun Erigaisi | 75000 | 9182 | 84182 |
3 | GM Abhimanyu Puranik | 40000 | 7871 | 47871 |
4 | GM Raunak Sadhwani | 25000 | 6559 | 31559 |
5 | GM Iniyan P | 15000 | 5247 | 20247 |
6 | GM Aryan Chopra | 15000 | 3935 | 18935 |
7 | IM Aronyak Ghosh | 15000 | 7624 | 22624 |
8 | GM Praggnanandhaa R | 15000 | 1312 | 16312 |
R2 | IM Rathanvel VS | 10000 | 10000 | |
R2 | FM Srihari L R | 10000 | 2500 | 12500 |
R2 | GM Gukesh D | 10000 | 10000 | |
R2 | IM Raja Rithvik R | 10000 | 10000 | |
R2 | IM Aditya Mittal | 10000 | 5000 | 15000 |
R2 | IM Harikrishnan Ra | 10000 | 10000 | |
R2 | IM Arjun Kalyan | 10000 | 10000 | |
R2 | IM Rahul Srivasthav P | 10000 | 10000 | |
R1 | WFM Savitha Shri B | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Mitrabha Guha | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | GM Harsha Bharathakoti | 5000 | 2500 | 7500 |
R1 | GM Prithu Gupta | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | WGM Vaishali R | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Raja Harshit | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | WIM Divya Deshmukh | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | WIM Isha Sharma | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Raghunandan K S | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Neelash Saha | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Saksham Rautela | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Krishnater Kushager | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Koustav Chatterjee | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | IM Bharath Subramaniyam H | 5000 | 5000 | |
R1 | WIM Vantika Agrawal | 5000 | 20000 | 25000 |
R1 | IM Sankalp Gupta | 5000 | 5000 | |
Total | 567224 |
4. Amazing plethora of commentators
When you are watching a tournament LIVE online, you are very much looking forward to good commentators. IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal were the hosts and were there throughout the duration of the event. Ilamparthi, the 11-year-old talent of Indian chess was present for almost 80% of the event. We had three of the best female players of India joining in - D. Harika, Tania Sachdev and Soumya Swaminathan. Youngsters Leon Mendonca, Aditya Mittal and Raunak Sadhwani also joined in. Surya Ganguly was impeccable with his commentary and it was amazing to have insights by GM Srinath Narayanan as well. Three of the top four in the tournament are players who are currently working with GM Srinath. GMs Karthikeyan Murali joined as a debutant commentator and it was wonderful to have Beast (Adhiban) sharing his thoughts from time to time. One of Nihal's initial trainers and a famous commentator Dmitri Komarov also joined in on the last day for a few minutes! The Wolfpack commentary during the finals was exhilarating as over 18,000 people joined in to watch Nihal and Arjun fight with comments by Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov and Vidit Gujrathi. We also had the legends Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand who joined in for the Raunak Sadhwani vs Arjun Erigaisi semi-finals. To have the 14th World Champion and a World Championship finalist comment on their games, is a huge boost to these youngsters!
5. Launch of ChessBase India Memberships
It's been almost a year since we thought about launching the ChessBase India memberships now. Our YouTube channel is one of the most active ones in the world of chess and a lot of people follow the content. Starting the YouTube Memberships would have been a sustainable source of income for the organization. However, the aim of ChessBase India has always been "Powering Chess in India". With so many people regularly asking us as to how they could support Indian chess, we decided to make available all the amount earned via memberships to Indian chess players. We started off with all the money raised via memberships from 6-10th December (the duration of the tournament) to be distributed in weighted average method to the top 8 players of the event. The details of all the people who have contributed are given below. We want to maintain the highest level of transparency so that you know that the amount you have donated has been used for the upliftment of Indian chess and Indian chess players.
Members of ChessBase India YouTube channel from 6th to 10th of December 2020
Member Name | Level Of Membership | Amount | After 30% deduction |
TARUN CHOUDHURY | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Harjaap Singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Shobhit Behl | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Lovesh Tulsija | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Siddhant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Hardik Rudani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Abhishek Rai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Nirupam Das | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Akshit Johry | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aseem Goel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
sandeep pinjala | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Suvi xD | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Anusheela Das | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
vedaant rana | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Shabbir Ahamed | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
anoop sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
abhishek garg | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Pronoy Chatterjee | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Vishal patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Snehal Pathak | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Saurabh Sonawane | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Arun Jayendran | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Pranav Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Indian Gaming Community | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aranya Johar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Anant Joshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Prathmesh Sakpal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Vinit Raut | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aranala Sai Sharat Chandra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aviral | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Pranav Seth | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
tejas4756 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
N M | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Akshay Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Harsh Rastogi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Suraj Shivshankar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
BeastStats | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Naveen Gupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mr Pink | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Tushar Pardeshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
C.S.Dharma Rajan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Neo0889 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aditya S | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
gobletFire | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Rahul Sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
vipin singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aryan Verma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Kalpak Raut | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
GizmoGirl | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Chinmay Paranjpe | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Prerak Mehta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Varshith D | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Abhinav raina | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Peeyush Pant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Srinath Narayanan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Nithish K Gnani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aditya Bankar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
d s | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Abhishek R.S. | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Shreyas P Vasista | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Sv Scibi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Raj Agarwal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Vinit Mamania | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Roshan Raj | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mayur Gondhalekar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Chandrasekhar S. | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Raghav Garg | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
DARIEN RODRIGUES | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Nikhil Goyal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Yashaswi Sai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Learn new things | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
rachit jain | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Ananya H | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Anish Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aryan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Henal Merchant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Karini Sandeep Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Pratyayan DasGupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Dev Prem | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Sharadhi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Shyamal patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mohit Bhatt | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Ravindra Diggi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Abhijeeth | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Saurabh Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mandar Bakshi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
cheezy_chiggy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Thiedevil | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Raghuram prabhu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Rahul Bora | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Naman Sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Suhit Bhoir | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Poker Player | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Kanwa Sengupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Shivam Bhandari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Akshay Natu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Rijoy Mukherjee | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Raunaq Vohra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Sam Joseph | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Murali Phani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Prajwal Rawat | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Vivaswan Damle | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Parul Batra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Avinash Tripathi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Gaurab Dutta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Aditya Tiwari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mouli | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
KP | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Kajal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
abhiram karnam | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Kumar Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Arpit Arora | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Sandeep Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Siddhartha Misra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Neel Patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
VishChess | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Sagar Chakraborty | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Hardik Chaudhari | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Mansi Nawlani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Akshit | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 | 62.3 |
Hemanth Reddy | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Abhishek Jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
rsjay1976 | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Akshay Tiwary | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Anish Mathew | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Abhijeet Rawle | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Gokul | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Arka Ghosh | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
abhilaash darla | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Aviral Juneja | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Ritvik Ohri | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Manu Talwar | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Kumar Satyam | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Vineet Hariharan | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Suranjan | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Diljeet Singh Narwal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Siddharth Sen | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Gaurav Shah | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Super Sayijin | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Akshit Sehgal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Varad Wakodkar | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Anshul Walia | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Mahesh Parab | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Vipul Gupta | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Pratyush Sharma | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Anish Raina | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Abhi J | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
SUDARSHAN K M | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Pranavendra Vittal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
avant jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 | 139.3 |
Randy Alstone | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Omkar Shetye | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Goutam Murlidhar | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Visweswaran Kameswaran | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Arunava Bhattacharjee | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Arvind Ramnath | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
shrikant parab | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Eesha Dutta | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Sansar Singh | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Priyabrata Mallick | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
kshitiz lohani | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Lavish Goyal | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Suyash Swaroop | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Randy Alstone | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
ANAY KHANGAN | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Vishnu Vardhanan | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Ishan Joshi | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Jaimin Saheba | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 | 209.3 |
Subhrajoy Dutta | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
CA Mohit Singh | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
Manosij Basu | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
Shivam Upadhyay | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
Arjunlal B | Promoter of Indian Chess | 599 | 419.3 |
Tejas Chitnis | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sparsh Nigam | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Charan Teja Kattumenu | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Harshal Pandya | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Nilesh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Anas Edacherry | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Kiran Iyer | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Ashwin Jayaram | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Shyammsm | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Chessmathician | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Dharmen Shah | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Aman Singh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Tapan Krishna | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Arjun N Bharadwaj | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Santosh Nene | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Fufoo Esports | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Nirvana Laha | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Devin anand | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Rohan Verma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Asadullah Kamanger | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Zeus | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sujit Varghese | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Chess Puns | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
ANANYA TRIPATHY | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Abhijit Mishra | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sambit Ghosh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Mrityunjay Jalan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Pavan Yalamanchili | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Keith Mascarenhas | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Aditya Jitta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Siddharth Ranadive | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sudarshan Rangan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Pramod Menon | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Akshat Shenoy | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Jaydeep Chakrabarty | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sriraam Ramakrishnan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Mihir Kanani | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
vaibhav saraswat | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
akshay sharma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Shrish Nagvekar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Vini Vedi Vici | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Ayushi Sharma | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Ajeet prsingh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
dhairya dave | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
vivek mady | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Just A Random Guy | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Ankita Kulkarni | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Sumeet Jain | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Subodh Patil | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Subhrajoy Dutta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Anuradha Ravi | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Rahul Malhotra | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
Dr. sminil mahajan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 | 559.3 |
67463 | 47224.1 |
The total amount raised is Rs.47224. This is divided in the top 8 players in a weighted average method and this is what each player will receive:
1. Nihal Sarin - Rs.10494
2. Arjun Erigaisi - Rs.9182
3. Abhimanyu Puranik - Rs.7871
4. Raunak Sadhwani - Rs.6559
5. P. Iniyan - Rs.5247
6. Aryan Chopra - Rs.3935
7. Aronyak Ghosh - Rs.2624
8. R. Praggnanandhaa - 1312
If you do become a member of ChessBase India YouTube channel, all of the amount will be utilized for scholarships, sponsorships, prize money, training to Indian chess players.
6. Special prizes
Apart from the main prizes, the tournament also had a few special prizes. We are noting them down below:
7. Exhibition Matches
On the final day, we had two exhibition matches to bring a different flavour to the livestream. One of the matches that was planned was Samay Raina + Ilamparthi vs Vaibhav Sethia + Anuradha Beniwal in a hand and brain encounter. Samay and Vaibhav, two of India's finest stand-up comedians, were part of the Improving Chess series. Ilamparthi was present when the prize money of the event was raised during episode 57. And Anuradha Beniwal has been doing some fantastic work in empowering young girls across India with the help of chess!
The tournament was organized by ChessBase India Foundation. Today the foundation has been doing consistent work in order to promote the game. A couple of years when we began there were a couple of individuals who believed in us and started the first two ChessBase India scholarships - MKG Scholarship by Jagadeesh Balakrishnan and Pursue your chess scholarship by Ashwin Subramanian.
8. Team effort
The entire event was a team effort by several individuals in the ChessBase India team.
Shahid Ahmed (top left) made sure that each and every player was contacted before the event and all the technical requirements with regards to anti-cheating and broadcast were taken care off. He also did daily detailed reports on ChessBase India newspage and coordinated with all the players to be on time for each of the encounters. Avathanshu Bhat (top right) is just 15 years old but is already a prolific writer. He contacted all the players and wrote a 200 word bio about them along with a unique nickname! Abhyudaya Ram (bottom left) was the creative designer for the event and prepared all the posters and thumbnails which made the event professional and interesting. Vivek Sohan (bottom right) was the chief arbiter of the event and ensured that all the rules were adhered to with regards to pairing as well as anti-cheating measures. A word of special mention to Prakhar P. who is a video editor and edited some of the videos of the Super Junior Cup which were loved by one and all.
9. Feedback from the players
The players enjoyed the tournament and the following is the feedback that we received from a few of them:
Thank you so much for conducting such an event and inviting us. It was a great tournament and good experience. Looking forward to more such tournaments in future. - P. Iniyan
You will be in the history for taking Indian Chess to the next level. Great work. Congratulations - Harishankkar Subramaniyam (father of Bharath Subramaniyam)
Thank you so much for organising Super Juniors Cup. It was a very thrilling tournament with sensational matches. Enjoyed every bit of it and looking forward to more such events! - Sankalp Gupta
Thanks a lot for this great initiative. It was an amazing experience with lots of interesting games. Enjoyed a lot and looking forward to more such events. - Arjun Kalyan
Was indeed a great tournament. This experience will surely help while playing in pressure situations! Thanks so much - Harshit Raja
Thank you so much Mr. & Mrs. Chessbase India for such a great event. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to play those intense Battles which will be very helpful to us in OTB as well as in Online chess. A wonderful initiativeЁЯСП looking forward for more. - Raunak Sadhwani
Thank you for this awesome initiative, I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot too. Waiting for more such events. - Abhimanyu Puranik
Thank you for the wonderful initiative. It was really fun and a great experience! Looking forward to more such events. - Arjun Erigaisi
Thank you Sagar and Amruta and Congratulations to you and your team for great work! - Divya Deshmukh
Fantastic tournament.. Chessbase India is doing a fabulous job in Unearthing talent and giving opportunities to players... We look forward to more such tournaments. Special mention should be made about the way you, Sagar, make each one of them important... From Ilamparithi to Kramnik... It is a joy to watch... Keep it going. - Srihari LR
Dear Sagar and Amruta, It was a great experience indeed! Shall look forward to more of such events. Keep up the good work towards promoting chess. - Aryan Chopra
Thank you for the great initiative for indian chess! Enjoyed a lot. - Nihal Sarin
Fantastic tournament! Thank you for organizing such a great event. Looking forward for more! - Rithvik Raja
Thanks a lot Sagar sir and Amruta ma'am for this lovely tournament...enjoyed playing it. - Vantika Agrawal
Thank you for the tournament! Was a nice experience - Raghunandan KS
10. Janta OP
None of this would have been possible without the support you have offered us, dear Janta. Thank you so much for supporting us in every possible way from sponsoring the event, to watching it LIVE for several hours. The total no. of views for the event has been over 1 million in the five days:
Days | Views |
1 | 227173 |
2 | 188557 |
3 | 162121 |
4 | 173321 |
5 | 328541 |
1079713 |
Definitely Janta OP! :)
Important Links:
Super Juniors 2020 YouTube playlist
Commentary on Hindi ChessBase India
Announcement of Super Juniors 2020