N L Pandiyar Memorial Rating Open is back after four years

by Shahid Ahmed - 01/10/2022

1st Bikaner GM Open is starting today. Rajasthan is going to host another strong rating open tournament in a week from 8th October 2022. The seventh edition of N L Pandiyar Memorial Rating Open will take place at Orbit Resort, Udaipur. This is one of the longest running Open Rating tournaments in the state. The first edition took place back in 2009. This edition offers a prize fund of ₹1501000. Total number of prizes are 173. There are three prizes worth ₹1 lac and more. Apart from that, there are five prizes worth over ₹50000. So far 309 players have registered from various parts of the country. Hurry up and register if you have not already. Photo: Tournament Circular/Chess in Lakecity

One of the longest running Rating Open tournament in Udaipur, Rajasthan

The first edition of N L Pandiyar Memorial took place back in 2009. The second and third edition was held in the following years 2010 and 2011. After a gap of five years, the next three editions happened between 2016 and 2018. There was a GM tournament in 2019. Thus, after a gap of almost four years, N L Pandiyar Memorial Rating Open tournament is back, starting next week 8th October 2022.

Championship history

The tournament is being organized in Udaipur, Rajasthan since 2009. The winner of the first edition, IM Sriram Jha went on to become a Grandmaster in the following year. Vignesh N R won the third edition when he was just 13-years-old. He became an International Master in 2015. Only the second and third edition were rating restricted events. From 2016 onwards, it once again became an Open tournament. Fourth to sixth edition took place consecutively between 2016 and 2018.

Winner of 1st N L Pandiyar Memorial Open - IM Sriram Jha 9/11 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Winner of 2nd N L Pandiyar Memorial Below 2200 - Nirav Y Rajasuba 8.5/10 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Winner of 3rd N L Pandiyar Memorial Below 2300 - Vignesh N R 8.5/10 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Winner of 4th N L Pandiyar Memorial Open - IM Akshat Khamparia 8.5/10 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Winner of 5th N L Pandiyar Memorial Open - Pranav Shetty 8/9 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Winner of 6th N L Pandiyar Memorial Open - IM Ramnathan Balasubramanian 7.5/8 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

FA NI Vikas Sahu giving a memento to GM Vidit Gujrathi, Chief Guest of the 6th N L Pandiyar Memorial Rating Open 2018 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy won the 1st Lakecity GM Open 2019 | Photo: Chess in Lakecity

Who will win the 7th edition? | Source: Tournament Circular

Schedule

Every day there is double round from 8th to 11th October 2022. Only the last round on 12th October 2022 is a single round.

Prizes

The tournament has a total prize fund of ₹1501000. The total number of prizes are 173. There are three prizes worth ₹1 lac and more. Apart from that there are five more prizes worth more than ₹50000. Two different rating categories have a combined total of 35 prizes which is besides the 35 main prizes. That's not all, there are ten prizes each for Veteran (Above 60) and Unrated players. Best Female, Best Rajasthan, Best lakecity and Best Physically Challenge have two prizes each. Six age group categories, starting from Under-5 to Under-15 have ten prizes for top ten in each category.

Entry and Eligibility

The tournament is open to all AICF registered players of the country. Check the table below for entry fee details:

How to Register

Players can only register by filling up the form here. For more details, please visit our calendar.

Starting list

No.		Name	ID	FideID	FED	Rtg	sex	Typ	Gr	Club/City
1	IM	Chakravarthi Reddy M	256712021	25009532	IND	2301				Telangana
2	FM	Thakur Akash	168032021	5008514	IND	2235				Maharashtra
3	WFM	Potluri Supreetha	534082021	25053094	IND	1872	w			Andra pradesh
4		Choudhary Jitendra Kumar	1181372022	5003024	IND	1828				Delhi
5		Raju S	7102021	5043735	IND	1828				Tamilnadu
6		Kherdekar Arnav	88492021	46646345	IND	1817				Maharashtra
7		Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan	134472021	46683526	IND	1811				Tamilnadu
8		Parekh Vishrut	323812021	25641190	IND	1801				Gujarat
9		Chaturvedi Narendranath	819052021	5023394	IND	1798		S60		Madhya Pradesh
10		Prithvvi Singh	519472021	25924397	IND	1796				Uttar Pradesh
11		Vishwanath Prasad	205552021	5030170	IND	1782				Telangana
12		Chudasama Ankit	848482021	45059144	IND	1780				Gujarat
13		Mhamane Sourabh	468492021	25778463	IND	1771				Maharashtra
14		Roneet Das	162802021	25097121	IND	1751				Maharashtra
15		Mohan Naithani	126052021	5027152	IND	1744		S60		Uttarakhand
16		Tuhin Kashyap	1336532022	46612637	IND	1726				Assam
17		Srinivasa Rao G.V.	127072021	5000602	IND	1704		S60		Andhra Pradesh
18		Sarvade Mihiir	343742021	25661841	IND	1701				Maharashtra
19		Anubhav Rawat	674212021	25154060	IND	1689		U15		Delhi
20		Kishore Kumar Jaganathan	134752021	46683801	IND	1686				Tamilnadu

Details

Links

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