Rs.4,62,734 raised for Indian chess in a four hour YouTube stream!
On 25th of July 2020 something unbelievable happened on ChessBase India's YouTube channel. Since last two months, we have been having the show "Improving Chess with the comedians" where IM Sagar Shah has been meticulously training three comedians - Samay Raina, Biswa Kalyan Rath and Vaibhav Sethia, along with the thousands of viewers who tune in to watch it each day. Today, was the 57th episode and it just looked like another day at business, when beautiful things began to happen! The entire community got together and guess what?! Before we knew it over Rs.4,62,734 were raised! Read on to know what happened!
451 viewers of ChessBase India YouTube channel come together to raise Rs.4,62,734
It was a morning just like any other. I woke up and switched on my laptop, set up my OBS, and sent the zoom links to all the three comedians (Samay Raina, Biswa Kalyan Rath and Vaibhav Sethia). It was the 57th episode of the Improving Chess series. 11-year-old super-talent Ilamparthi AR was going to be the guest. The idea was to show the chess world what a wonderful prodigious talent this young lad from Chennai is, and at the same time he could teach a trick or two to the comedians to get better at chess.
Improving Chess is a series I had begun along with Samay Raina, one of India's finest stand up comedians. We had started this initiative on 19th of May 2020 when Samay, who is thoroughly interested in chess, decided that he wants to make sure that he keeps improving at the game. The time decided was 8 a.m. in the morning and when we announced it a lot of people complained that they couldn't wake up so early in the morning. My thinking was pretty simple - if you want to get better at chess, the first thing you need to do is to fix your sleep. You cannot be sleeping at just about any time in the day and waking up at any time and expect to become a better player. Samay, who streamed a lot of chess on his channel, had built up a lot of fan following for himself and chess. The morning sessions of Improving chess were for those who wanted to go an extra mile and get better at the game!
Another big name in Indian stand-up comedy Biswa Kalyan Rath joined in from the fourth session and one of the coolest comedians Vaibhav Sethia joined in from eighth session onwards. An important thing I wanted to achieve with this series was consistency. It would not work out well if we streamed for a week and then took a break of three days and streamed again. Chess improvement is a tedious and long drawn out process and it is critical to work on your game each day. As you can see in the last 67 days we have had 57 streams! Samay, Biswa and Vaibhav would play games each day against the viewers and I would analyze them in great depth on the stream. Doing this over and over again helped to improve their chess understanding. In the process, the understanding of thousands of people who followed these episodes was also improving.
The streams continued each day and a lot of different topics were covered. Some of them were: Checks, Captures and Threats (Three golden rules), understanding tactical themes like pin, fork, double attack, x-ray etc., Endgames - Lucena, Philidor, opposition and much more. We also had guest lecturers joining in, the most prominent of them being GM Cemil Can Ali Marandi from Turkey, who now resides in the USA, India's finest chess trainer GM R.B. Ramesh, GM Magesh Chandran, IM Eric Rosen, IM Saravanan, cameo appearances by Vidit Gujrathi, B. Adhiban and many others.
Fast forward to 25th of July 2020 and the show began as promised at 8 a.m. in the morning. Ilamparthi joined in and so did Samay. Ilamparthi gave a glimpse of his brilliance as he solved tactics at the speed of lightning. At some point when we were analyzing the game between Ilamparthi and Samay, Anshuman Das, who is the biggest contributor through superchats on different chess channels (Samay's channel, Vidit's channel, Ganguly's channel etc.), decided to contribute Rs.10,000. A superchat is a way in which a viewer can contribute to a YouTube creator and his message would be highlighted in the chat for a few minutes. Now Rs.10,000 is a big amount and I felt that the best use of it would be to give it to Ilamparthi in the form of ChessBase softwares and chess books, so that he can use it to improve his game. This gesture was appreciated by other viewers watching the stream and very soon we had a huge number of people who began contributing via superchats! It was so overwhelming to see the support and I decided that all the money that we received on the stream today will be used to support talented and promising youngsters of Indian chess in need of the funds. And that is how it all began!
I assumed that a few more people would contribute and that would be the end of it. But I couldn't be more wrong! Seeing that the money was going to be used for a good cause, a lot of people came forward and contributed via superchat! But what does a lot mean? 50 superchats? 100? 200? Not really! A total of 556 superchats were received and combining the money received in Google Pay and PayPal a massive amount of Rs.4,62,734 was raised in 4 hours!
A note of appreciation:
Through YouTube streaming chess players have built a very closely knit community. The efforts of chess players like Vidit Gujrathi, Anish Giri, B. Adhiban (just launched his own channel), Teimour Radjabov, Surya Ganguly and ChessBase India have made a big impact. But it is amalgamation of chess with the comedians that has brought in the new people to follow the sport. Led by Samay Raina's love for the game and his constant innovative ideas has built up a new viewership for the sport who hitherto weren't aware of how cool chess was! Bringing massive YouTube stars like Tanmay Bhat, Flying Beast (Gaurav Taneja), Bhuvan Bam, and many others on his channel and making them play chess has definitely brought so many new followers to the sport. But Samay himself would not have been able to go on this journey if it were not for his friends - Biswa Kalyan Rath, Vaibhav Sethia, Anirban Dasgupta, Akash Mehta, Abhishek Upmanyu and many others! And how can we forget Agadmator, the man who instilled the love of chess in these comedians! As a chess promoter since over five years now, I am proud of this wonderful chess community that we have built up in this lockdown!
Total funds raised
Sr No | Donor's Name | Portal | Donation | Sum of Total INR |
1 | Ansuman Das | Superchat | INR 70000 | 70000 |
2 | Shrish Nagvekar | PayPal | USD 100 | 6847 |
Shrish Nagvekar | Superchat | USD 600 | 43200 | |
3 | Karthik Ram Srinivasan | Superchat | USD 500 | 36000 |
4 | Zeus | Superchat | USD 300 | 21600 |
5 | Mohan GG | Superchat | USD 215 | 15480 |
6 | Gaurav Gupte | Superchat | USD 150 | 10800 |
7 | KARTHIK B A | Gpay | INR 10000 | 10000 |
8 | Kishore Hazarika | Superchat | INR 8337.24 | 8337 |
9 | Ruchir Sutaria | Superchat | USD 104.99 | 7559 |
10 | Rahul Pawar | Superchat | USD 100 | 7200 |
11 | Dr. sminil mahajan | Superchat | USD 99.98 | 7199 |
12 | Amol Patil | Superchat | INR 5500 | 5500 |
13 | Ayushi Sharma | Superchat | INR 5200 | 5200 |
14 | Anuj Gupta | Superchat | INR 5000 | 5000 |
15 | Anchit Gupta | Superchat | INR 5000 | 5000 |
16 | rhishi24 | Superchat | USD 66.66 | 4800 |
17 | Keith Mascarenhas | Superchat | USD 66 | 4752 |
18 | CreativeNoob | Superchat | USD 61 | 4392 |
19 | Aman Singh | Superchat | USD 61 | 4392 |
20 | Namrata Vora | Superchat | USD 57 | 4104 |
21 | Jewel Guliani | Superchat | USD 57 | 4104 |
22 | Kaivalya K. S. | Superchat | INR 4100 | 4100 |
23 | Sushrut Puranik | Superchat | INR 4000 | 4000 |
24 | Tushar Sawant | Superchat | USD 55 | 3960 |
25 | Devin anand | Superchat | AUD 74.96 | 3823 |
26 | Shantanu Patel | Superchat | USD 50 | 3600 |
27 | Karthik Venkatesan | Superchat | USD 50 | 3600 |
28 | Akshat Shenoy | Superchat | USD 50 | 3600 |
29 | Hemant Kamath | Superchat | USD 50 | 3600 |
30 | Siddharth Ranadive | Superchat | USD 49.99 | 3599 |
31 | Abhijeet Rawle | Superchat | USD 49.99 | 3599 |
32 | Geek | Superchat | USD 49.99 | 3599 |
33 | Ishan Patel | PayPal | USD 50 | 3411 |
34 | Mayur Gondhalekar | PayPal | USD 50 | 3411 |
35 | Rakshit Singh | Superchat | INR 3200 | 3200 |
36 | rohan m r | Superchat | INR 3100 | 3100 |
37 | KC | Superchat | CAD 50 | 2685 |
38 | Chaitanya Singh | Superchat | USD 34.98 | 2519 |
39 | VINEET VIJAY MOGHE | Gpay | INR 2500 | 2500 |
40 | Sujit Varghese | Superchat | INR 2400 | 2400 |
41 | Shashank Shukla | Superchat | INR 2200 | 2200 |
42 | Aditya Somani | Superchat | INR 2100 | 2100 |
43 | Gopala Krishna Char Cheidu Raghavendrachar | PayPal | EUR 25 | 2086 |
44 | Dev Iyer | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
45 | Akhil Kulkarni | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
46 | Big Dawg | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
47 | ROHIT KAMLESH JAWAHA | Gpay | INR 2000 | 2000 |
48 | The VN Travelogues | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
49 | BANDARU NAVEEN KUMAR | Gpay | INR 2000 | 2000 |
50 | Yuvan Gupta | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
51 | Dr. Maan A. Yusuf | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
52 | jyoti prakash Mallick | Superchat | INR 2000 | 2000 |
53 | Arshabh Agarwal | Superchat | INR 1860 | 1860 |
54 | R Rao | Superchat | NZD 40 | 1840 |
55 | Ninad O | Superchat | USD 25 | 1800 |
56 | Shubhankar P | Superchat | USD 25 | 1800 |
57 | harshdubey007 | Superchat | USD 25 | 1800 |
58 | Arya Shah | Superchat | USD 24.99 | 1799 |
59 | Ram Rao | Superchat | USD 24 | 1728 |
60 | ADITYA PATANKAR | PayPal | USD 25 | 1692 |
61 | Urvish Patel | Superchat | EUR 20 | 1680 |
62 | Mihir K | Superchat | AUD 30 | 1530 |
63 | Nalin Bhan | Superchat | INR 1500 | 1500 |
64 | Shrinja Panesar | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
65 | Chaitanya Kulkarni | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
66 | himanshu sawant | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
67 | Sharan T | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
68 | sarthak303 | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
69 | GM Cemil Can Chess | Superchat | USD 20 | 1440 |
70 | Akshaya Ravichandran | Superchat | USD 19.99 | 1439 |
71 | Himanshu Phul | Superchat | USD 19.99 | 1439 |
72 | Monalisa Chowdhury | Superchat | INR 1400 | 1400 |
73 | Sharon Shaji | PayPal | USD 20 | 1349 |
74 | Vishnu Gulati | Superchat | INR 1180 | 1180 |
75 | Manu Gurtu | Superchat | INR 1100 | 1100 |
76 | Shashank Aswath | Superchat | USD 15 | 1080 |
77 | Abhishek Deshpande | Superchat | USD 14.96 | 1077 |
78 | MojoJojo | Superchat | CAD 20 | 1074 |
79 | Nikhil Aneja | Superchat | AUD 20 | 1020 |
80 | Kovid Rathee | Superchat | AUD 20 | 1020 |
81 | Scale Tale | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
82 | Uddhav Raj | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
83 | SAI THEJA ELAGANDULA | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
84 | YASH RAJESH SHAH | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
85 | Uday Patel | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
86 | nikhil goyal | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
87 | NEELKUMAR PATEL | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
88 | RITU BALA | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
89 | Hamza Imam | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
90 | ADITYA RAMKRISHNA | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
91 | vishal dandge | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
92 | MADHAV SUBODH SHARMA | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
93 | RAHUL SHARMA | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
94 | Akarsh Saxena | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
95 | Sandeep Hiremath | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
96 | Pawan Reddy | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
97 | Joy of Indie | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
98 | sushil dhote | Superchat | INR 1000 | 1000 |
99 | MAHESH DEVRANI | Gpay | INR 1000 | 1000 |
100 | Sachin Arora | Superchat | INR 900 | 900 |
101 | Kunal Pednekar | Superchat | INR 900 | 900 |
102 | Rohit Katta | Superchat | USD 12 | 864 |
103 | Jimit Patel | Superchat | EUR 10 | 840 |
104 | ankit yadav | Superchat | INR 800 | 800 |
105 | vivek mady | Superchat | SEK 100 | 800 |
106 | Solarchief Australia | Superchat | AUD 15 | 765 |
107 | nitish gawde | Superchat | INR 740 | 740 |
108 | ThroughLens Studios | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
109 | Manoj Chandra | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
110 | Ayush K | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
111 | Prathamesh Marathe | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
112 | Neeraj S | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
113 | AirRaidSiren12345 | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
114 | N M | Superchat | USD 10 | 720 |
115 | boogiewhacker | Superchat | INR 700 | 700 |
116 | Niket Mishra | Superchat | INR 700 | 700 |
117 | Durlove Mohanty | PayPal | USD 10 | 662 |
118 | E Varun Kumar | Superchat | INR 640 | 640 |
119 | sagar savaratkar | Superchat | INR 600 | 600 |
120 | Puneet yadav | Superchat | INR 600 | 600 |
121 | Shivam Singh | Superchat | INR 600 | 600 |
122 | Ankush Abbi | Superchat | CAD 10 | 537 |
123 | Waqar | Superchat | CAD 10 | 537 |
124 | Aneesh Bhat | Superchat | AUD 10 | 510 |
125 | Maulik Desai | Superchat | AUD 10 | 510 |
126 | Pavan Kamath | Superchat | USD 7 | 504 |
127 | ABHISHEK JAVALI | Gpay | INR 501 | 501 |
128 | ADVAIT SHEKHAR BAXI | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
129 | vipul kumar | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
130 | Shubham Kumar | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
131 | Balakrishna Kini Malpe | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
132 | Anuja Baxi | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
133 | ASHISH PANT | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
134 | Harsh Patel | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
135 | Devrath | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
136 | Sai Harshith | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
137 | SANJANA JOSHI | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
138 | PRANJAL CHATURVEDI | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
139 | ABHIGUAN JAIN | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
140 | Praveen Prabhakaran | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
141 | Ajay Iyer | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
142 | Jayant Sipani | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
143 | SUMIT VIJAY KHAIR | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
144 | Inchara s.b | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
145 | Bhavin Ved | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
146 | Mean Machine | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
147 | KAIVALYA SANDIP SHAH | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
148 | Samay Raina | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
149 | Shrushti Agrawal | Superchat | INR 500 | 500 |
150 | VISHAL ANIL DHULASAW | Gpay | INR 500 | 500 |
151 | Pratik Shete | PayPal | INR 500 | 487 |
152 | vicky patel | Superchat | NZD 10 | 460 |
153 | Rajesh Bejgam | Superchat | NZD 10 | 460 |
154 | yg97 | Superchat | GBP 5 | 450 |
155 | Anubhav nigam | Superchat | USD 5.97 | 430 |
156 | Darshan Ranp | Superchat | EUR 5 | 420 |
157 | Gaurab Dutta | Superchat | EUR 5 | 420 |
158 | Swaraj krishnan | Superchat | SEK 50 | 400 |
159 | Ashutosh Kapale | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
160 | Sameer Poduri | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
161 | AMRIT SARKAR | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
162 | rajvinder singh | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
163 | Nitin Markan | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
164 | Avish Kandi | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
165 | Rohan | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
166 | adithya udupa | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
167 | Daneesh Chandrakar | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
168 | Abhijeet Jaiwal | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
169 | Mudit Sinha | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
170 | Sagar Sonawadekar | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
171 | Bhrigu Baishya | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
172 | Shrinivas Kulkarni | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
173 | Jimmy Arora | Superchat | INR 400 | 400 |
174 | S U M I T S H A R M A | Superchat | CAD 6.99 | 375 |
175 | nikhil joshi | Superchat | CAD 6.99 | 375 |
176 | Krishna Deepak Maram | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
177 | Boo Radely | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
178 | Harshil Shah | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
179 | Mugdha Jain | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
180 | RishabhShah4848 | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
181 | Harshit Patel | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
182 | Ashish B | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
183 | Anav Malik | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
184 | Rahul Jain | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
185 | Raj Shah | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
186 | Chaitanya Rathi | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
187 | Kunj Ranpura | Superchat | USD 5 | 360 |
188 | Arpit | Superchat | USD 4.99 | 359 |
189 | Saransh Bansal | Superchat | USD 4.99 | 359 |
190 | Tanay Kumar Nath | Superchat | AUD 7 | 357 |
191 | viraj pandit | Superchat | INR 350 | 350 |
192 | Piyush | Superchat | USD 4 | 288 |
Piyush | INR 40 | 40 | ||
193 | Smeet Mehta | PayPal | USD 5 | 318 |
194 | SHARZAB AL HAQUE | Gpay | INR 314 | 314 |
195 | Corporate Chess India | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
196 | Mrityunjay Jalan | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
197 | Rohit Reddy | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
198 | Uday Mallikarjun | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
199 | Pramodh KP | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
200 | VAGHELA MEET | Gpay | INR 300 | 300 |
201 | Yogesh Pandey | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
202 | SIDDHARTH C | Gpay | INR 300 | 300 |
203 | Sumeet Jain | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
204 | Darshan Jain | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
205 | SAMIKSHA SUBHASH SHE | Gpay | INR 300 | 300 |
206 | KISHAN BHARTI | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
207 | rahul joshi | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
208 | Nirvana Laha | Superchat | INR 300 | 300 |
209 | Ashutosh Bondre | Superchat | USD 4 | 288 |
210 | Joshin | Superchat | CAD 5 | 269 |
211 | Madhav Rathod | Superchat | CAD 5 | 269 |
212 | Priyansh Patel | Superchat | CAD 5 | 269 |
213 | xception Handling | Superchat | INR 257 | 257 |
214 | Bikash Acharya | Superchat | AUD 5 | 255 |
215 | Swastik Singh | Superchat | INR 240 | 240 |
216 | __Anarkali__ | Superchat | INR 202 | 202 |
217 | Shivam Hou | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
218 | ayushi thakur | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
219 | Kartik Sekar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
220 | Ranjan K Ranjith | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
221 | Piyush Galphat | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
222 | Yash Shah | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
223 | Adarsh Kumar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
224 | Krutarth Dave | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
225 | Devyn Kumar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
226 | Devashish | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
227 | Akshay Lembhe | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
228 | Soham Datar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
229 | Kalpesh Mhase | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
230 | Siddhanth Natarajan | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
231 | Neeka Bachher | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
232 | NRG _sama_ | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
233 | Somnath Pahari | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
234 | Neeti Yadav | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
235 | Abhay Agarwal | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
236 | Saurabh Gurbhele | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
237 | life3168 | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
238 | Rohit Pareek | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
239 | Satyanand Subhash | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
240 | chetan khangar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
241 | manish baraskar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
242 | Aranala Sai Sharat Chandra | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
243 | sumit kumar yadav | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
244 | Pankaj Virmani | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
Pankaj Virmani | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 | |
245 | Akash Karekar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
246 | vinod choudhary | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
247 | Nikhil Indukumar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
248 | Shreyas Kokate | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
249 | Srinibas Mohapatra | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
Srinibas Mohapatra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 | |
250 | Surya Atrish | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
251 | Tricky Maths | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
252 | KAUSTUBH SHRIRANG PA | Gpay | INR 200 | 200 |
253 | Tathagat Kumar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
254 | srikar kumar | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
255 | Abhishek John Toppo | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
256 | JIGAR TULSIDAS BHADR | Gpay | INR 200 | 200 |
257 | Kurshit Kukreja | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
258 | Bharadwaj K | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
259 | Anilsinghvats007 | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
260 | Kaustubh Shamshery | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
261 | Anisha Nair | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
262 | Farhan Dhamani | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
263 | Arunabh Choudhury | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
264 | mithun vk | Superchat | INR 200 | 200 |
265 | Murali Phani | Superchat | INR 160 | 160 |
266 | Ranvir Desai | Superchat | INR 157 | 157 |
267 | Govind Rajendra | Superchat | CZK 50 | 150 |
268 | pajeet hunter | Superchat | INR 150 | 150 |
269 | MANAV CHAUDHARY | Gpay | INR 150 | 150 |
270 | HARSH SUNIL JOSHI | Gpay | INR 150 | 150 |
271 | Karthik K | Superchat | CAD 2.79 | 150 |
272 | Eashan Mahajan | Superchat | USD 2 | 144 |
273 | Akhil Dixit | Superchat | USD 2 | 144 |
274 | Shubham Shah | Superchat | USD 2 | 144 |
275 | _Deepesh _ | Superchat | USD 2 | 144 |
276 | chinmaya khismatrao | Superchat | USD 1.99 | 143 |
277 | Akshay More | Superchat | INR 140 | 140 |
278 | Ankush A | Superchat | INR 140 | 140 |
279 | kushAL SHAH | Superchat | INR 140 | 140 |
280 | Ashwin Suresh | Superchat | INR 140 | 140 |
281 | SAHIL MATHEW MISHRA | Gpay | INR 123 | 123 |
282 | Shivansh Chopra | Superchat | INR 120 | 120 |
283 | Vishnu Rathi | Superchat | INR 115 | 115 |
284 | Naveen b | Superchat | SGD 2 | 102 |
285 | Vijay raghavan Seshadri | Superchat | AUD 2 | 102 |
286 | VAIBHAV KUMAR NAIN S | Gpay | INR 101 | 101 |
287 | ANKITAA KRISHANCHAND | Gpay | INR 101 | 101 |
288 | AYUSHI DRAVID | Gpay | INR 101 | 101 |
289 | ABHIMANYU | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
290 | ANISH KUMAR | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
291 | naval pattar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
292 | Rajvir Parmar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
293 | Akarshan | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
294 | Rajat Chatterjee | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
295 | Ashish Dake | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
296 | Tanmay | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
297 | Saket Dewra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
298 | Hiren Gadhvi | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
299 | MOHNISH YOGESH GUJAR | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
300 | Rahul Menon | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
301 | vijay nagaraju | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
302 | Hemansh Cholera | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
303 | Shubham Sati | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
304 | Heman Kundu | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
305 | Kaivalya Shah | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
306 | Shreyas Prabhu | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
307 | ANUSKA DAS | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
308 | Harshit Kumar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
309 | Kaivalya Patkar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
310 | varad sorate | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
311 | Mouli | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
312 | Shreya Dholakia | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
313 | JustPhaniThings | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
314 | Harsh Thacker | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
315 | Advait Gogate | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
316 | ROHIT MAHESH KANADE | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
317 | Abhishek Sharma | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
318 | PUSHPANSHU SINGH KU | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
319 | kshitij Tomar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
320 | Harish Nair | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
321 | Sandeep Chavan | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
322 | Puru Goyal | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
323 | Aryan Gulati | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
324 | Vineet Joshi | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
325 | Ravi Kala | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
326 | SHOVANDIP KARAN | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
327 | Nandha Kishore | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
328 | Pulkit Gupta | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
329 | Sridhar SS | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
330 | Girisha Rao | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
331 | Anonymous | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
332 | Getting_Real24 | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
333 | MrShawnmicheals | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
334 | PRIYESH RAJENDRA JAD | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
335 | sparsh rana | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
336 | Gauthama Nair | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
337 | Anamol Bajpai | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
338 | Siba Prasad Tripathy | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
339 | Mohit yadav | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
340 | gandhar thanekar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
341 | Riya Bagdiya | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
342 | PRINCE VIKRAMJEET SI | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
343 | agam kumar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
344 | Sidharth Kumar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
345 | RUSHABH DEEPAKKUMAR | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
346 | Vamsi Varma | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
347 | Soham Pandya | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
348 | swapnil somkuwar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
349 | lucky dogra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
350 | Durgesh Kulkarni | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
351 | Leslie Sequeira | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
352 | pranjal gupta | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
353 | Aayush Kadu | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
354 | Divyansh singh | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
355 | NIKETH VENKAT RAJA | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
356 | Digant Patil | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
357 | ashish sharma | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
358 | Dhananjay Kharate | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
359 | Samoy Banerjee | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
360 | Pranay Sheshak | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
361 | Srikar Rao | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
362 | swaminadh nersu | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
363 | Arun Chhatwani | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
364 | PRAGJYOTISH NATH | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
365 | ARPIT SUDESH AGRAWAL | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
366 | Deepansh Bhargava | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
367 | Archana patil 1212 | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
368 | SWADEESH SRIVATSA M | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
369 | Anuvrat Srivastava | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
370 | Karthik Krishna | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
371 | Anurag Vasishta | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
372 | Vysakh A R | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
373 | Saket Shahare | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
374 | damini | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
375 | TEJA SURYA H | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
376 | Count On Account | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
377 | Anmol Srivastava | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
378 | suryansh mishra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
379 | Trevor Nadar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
380 | Clinton Senapati | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
381 | Anish Phule | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
382 | Rohit Sancheti | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
383 | Animesh Sahu | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
384 | Chinmay Katre | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
385 | Android 77 | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
386 | Karan Setia | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
387 | Sahil Mishra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
388 | SHAIK ROUF | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
389 | k.mohan gagarai | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
390 | Supreetha Shankar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
391 | Amit Singh | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
392 | ROHIT YASHWANT NAIK | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
393 | MOHIT GAUR | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
394 | Biswa Kalyan Rath | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
395 | Mohd Adeeb Siddiqui | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
396 | saurabh kathale | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
397 | Mihir Kavishwar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
398 | Nishan Panchal | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
399 | SouL NirbhaR | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
400 | Aakash Jaiswal | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
401 | Solanki_IITGN | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
402 | Kushal Jain | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
403 | Rwik Kamilya | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
404 | nilabh kumar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
405 | Aditya Pachori | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
406 | UDIT NARAYAN MOHANTY | Gpay | INR 100 | 100 |
407 | Adithya Eshwarla | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
408 | Vipul Khullar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
409 | Abhishek Singh | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
410 | Rithwik Shinkar | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
411 | Roshan Singh | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
412 | nikhil chavanke | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
413 | Abhishek Chandra | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
414 | Vipasha Jain | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
415 | Rohith B | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
416 | Avinash Thakur | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
417 | ABHAY BHARTEE | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
418 | Avi forever | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
419 | Aayush Khandelwal | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
420 | Attreya Bhatt | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
421 | Aalap Pandya | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
422 | Tarun Kaushik | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
423 | ashutosh ojha | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
424 | Niranjan S | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
425 | Vivek Mayank | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
426 | BOHRA LALIT | Superchat | INR 100 | 100 |
427 | CHESSEDIFY INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY PVT LTD | PayPal | INR 100 | 97 |
428 | Aprameya Lava | Superchat | INR 80 | 80 |
429 | Shubham Shelar | Superchat | INR 77 | 77 |
430 | Entertainment Tax | Superchat | INR 75.7 | 76 |
431 | Devanshu Save | Superchat | USD 1 | 72 |
432 | Saish Patil | Superchat | INR 70 | 70 |
433 | Pranav Sood | Superchat | INR 69 | 69 |
434 | SAGNIK SARKAR | Gpay | INR 57 | 57 |
435 | Jatan Sedani | Superchat | INR 57 | 57 |
436 | GOURAV KUMAR DESHMU | Gpay | INR 51 | 51 |
437 | depanshu gupta | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
438 | Omkar Chakradeo | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
439 | Samsul Alam | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
440 | Shiva | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
441 | jadeja vijaysinh | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
442 | Anirban Mandal | Superchat | INR 50 | 50 |
443 | rimpu ray | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
444 | SUNDEEP R | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
445 | gaurav mishra | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
446 | Akshay Achar | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
447 | Hamza Sayed | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
448 | Rishab Jain | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
449 | Chirag Birla | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
450 | ZEUSGOD GAMING | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
451 | RoninPaaji | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
452 | spidyy spiderman | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
453 | Kartik Gupta | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
454 | Akhil Biju | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
455 | Abhas Pradhan | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
456 | Shashwat Srivastava | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
457 | Himanshu Joshi | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
458 | Granthik De | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
459 | Jr. Mario | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
460 | Hrithik Mhatre | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
461 | Usha Prasad | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
462 | Ankush Chatterjee | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
463 | Ankit Joshi | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
464 | ATUL AGRAWAL | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
465 | Lo L | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
466 | Bharat Rajagopalan | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
467 | ANURAG DESHMUKH | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
468 | RAKESH BHUNESHWAR SI | Gpay | INR 40 | 40 |
469 | Cat Yt | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
470 | Aakash Kumar | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
471 | Pritesh Jagtap | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
472 | Rushi Bhatt | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
473 | Tarun | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
474 | PAVANI MANTHENA | Gpay | INR 40 | 40 |
475 | harsh lunagariya | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
476 | Aditya Shekhar | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
477 | Snehil Narahari | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
478 | Yash Vishnoi | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
479 | Trivikram Bhardwaj | Superchat | INR 40 | 40 |
480 | Anand Tharad | Superchat | INR 31.34 | 31 |
481 | HARSH CHETANKUMAR MO | Gpay | INR 21 | 21 |
482 | Tanmesh Shah | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
483 | historical funkier | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
484 | Yash Acharya | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
485 | ritika jain | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
486 | AdolphViL2 | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
487 | yadu mohurle | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
488 | MrCracker7 | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
489 | Pankaj Gehlot | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
490 | Akshit Gupta | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
491 | Rajesh Rakshit | Superchat | INR 20 | 20 |
492 | Talusani Madhuker | PayPal | INR 10 | 10 |
Grand Total | 523,345 |
*Please note: The funds were raised on 25th of July 2020 and the total amount was 4,62,734. On the next day when we had the stream, there were many people who said they too hadn't contributed. So we have included the superchats on 26th July as well in the list. The final amount is now 5,23,345. If you have contributed and your name is missing, please write to us at chessbaseindia@gmail.com
A big thanks to Dnyansagar Gadgil and Supriya Bhat from the ChessBase India team for putting this data together in a short time.
Some heart warming messages:
I started playing chess watching Samay's stream, and got introduced to Sagar Shah. Indians don't realise who Vidit is, and YouTube becoming such a great bridge to this genius. You are our honor young man! Keep going ЁЯЩВ - Amrit Sarkar
apart from reintroducing me to chess, these streams have got me through past 4 months. Thank you Samay , vidit, sagar, biswa and vaibhav ЁЯЩВ - Yg97
Thanks for making chess great again!!! I have been playing chess from my childhood finally feels to be great to be playing chess. #sagarop #viditop #samayop #biswaop - Aditya Udupa
thanks to you all guys .my best timepass in lockdown is writing poem and playing chess. my childhood love .trying to gain that streak ag.reaching1100 - Vivek Mayank
I was going through a serious clinical depression during the lockdown. All your guy's streams have actually helped me overcome it. Thanks! love y'all. - Rahul Jain
3rd Superchat Today: Proud to say that recently I have updated my resume and linked in profile with chess as a hobby. Thanks for existing you guys.тЭдя╕П - Shashank Shukla
Sagar and gang, you inspire me to work towards my all time dream of setting up a sports school in Assam. Hoping to see many more GMs from Assam and India! - Mrityunjay Jalan
LOVE FROM BITS HYDERABAD. My friends have started playing chess because of you all! You all made chess a movement! - Anamol Bajpai
These are extremely stressful past few months for all the doctors and other healthcare staff around the world. That includes my family. Have been watching your streams everyday every single one ! It really helped us get through these difficult times. - Dr. Sminil Mahajan
I forgot chess which my father first taught me. Now coz of you guys, it's my life. Thanks all and Love you Samay bro. Biswa my Fav. Sagar-Vidit Gr8Job - Nishan Panchal
Every night I unwind watching SagarтАЩs stream and when I wake up first thing I check is if Samay or Vidit is streaming. Thanks for making lockdown so much fun. - Chaitanya Singh
I've stopped playing PUBG, spend time watching chess playing thinking chess.. what have you done man!!! - Rajvinder Singh
This stream turned out so emotional.Special thanks to Samay for what u have done for ppl like me who were hunting for positivity for mental wellness during lockdown.Love u Samay тЭдя╕П - Monalisa Chowdhury
You guys are awesome тЩея╕П Streams have helped me survive this lockdown. I never knew I could be hooked to chess streams soo much. Samay thank you for introducing us to this beautiful game and community. - Anisha Nair
Sagar, in your video on why you did not become a GM, one point was sponsorship, this stream proves- Ilamparthi has been recognized by Ansuman and NRI community - Mohan GG
Amazing to see what you can do just by using a laptop and a good internet connection and change lives of so many people! You taught us in-spite all odds. Came every morning at odds hour, jis time pe watching bilkul milti hi nahi. Janta pyaar toh karegi hi! Nice Shirt! - Kishore Hazarika
I am getting emotional don't know why just pure connection I think with this community my first superchat but watching from day 1 ЁЯдЧ - Aayush Khandelwal
Mr. Sagar Shah - Dont have a single doubt that its a miracle! Have been following you since starting days and this day had to come. years of hardwork. Kudos to Samays dedication thruout. Btw, Kal ka game baki hai Samay bhai - Kunal Pednekar
How will the funds be utilized?
ChessBase India will recognize the best talents in the country who are in need of funds and will use them for their benefit. Please be rest assured that the funds will be utilized in the best possible way for the development of the sport. All of the updates will be shared with you on the ChessBase India website and also on our YouTube community page and social media.
Please note: YouTube takes away 30% of the amount contributed via Superchat. We have written to YouTube to not charge us this fee as it is all going to be used for a good cause. We will keep you updated regarding the same.