Last call to register for this Sunday's 16th Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial Online Blitz Open

by Shahid Ahmed - 20/11/2020

Buddhibal Kreeda Trust (BKT) under the mentorship of Prakash Kunte (father of GM Abhijit Kunte and WIM Mrunalini Kunte) has organized over 150 tournaments. After having three successful online events since April, they are be back with a bigger prize fund of ₹60000. The 16th edition of the tournament Shri Maheshwaranand Online Blitz Open will be held online this Sunday from 6 p.m. IST in Vishy Anand Arena of ChessBase India Room in Playchess. The tournament holds the first prize of ₹15000. With rating category prizes along with prizes for women, it's a tournament you cannot afford to miss. Just over a day left to register, so hurry up and register if you haven't yet. Entry is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For everyone else Entry fee is ₹300 for Indians and €5 for foreigners. Registration is open till 21st November 6 p.m. IST. Photo: Buddhibal Kreeda Trust

16th Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial Blitz Online this Sunday 22nd November at 6 p.m. IST

Late Shri Maheshwaranand Saraswati (left) and Late M N Hardikar (right) | Photo: Buddhibal Kreeda Trust

Buddhibal Kreeda Trust has been actively organizing online tournaments during this unprecedented pandemic situation. BKT has organized three events since April. An online Blitz on 14th April, two Fischer Random Blitz events on 23rd May and 18th July respectively. They will organize another Open Blitz event which will have a total prize fund of ₹60000 with the first prize being ₹15000. The entire prize fund is sponsored by Buddhibal Kreeda Trust. Entry is free for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For everyone else the entry fee is ₹300 and €5 for foreign participants. The event is open to players all over the world. Entry closes on Saturday 21st November 2020 at 6 p.m. IST.

Prakash Kunte, the man who started the Buddhibal Kreeda Trust, and his better half

Prakash has nurtured two of the finest talents of Indian chess - GM Abhijit Kunte and WIM Mrunalini Kunte. He is also the guiding force behind the Buddhibal Kreeda Trust (BKT).

Date: Sunday 22nd November 2020

Time: 6:00 p.m. IST

Time control: 5 mins + 2 sec increment

Number of rounds: 9

Total Prize fund: ₹60000

Venue: Vishy Anand Arena in Playchess under ChessBase India room

Chief Arbiter: IA Vivek Sohani

Details of the online tournament:

Main Prizes

Place	Prize
1st	15000
2nd	10000
3rd	7000
4th	5000
5th	3000
6th	2000
7th	1000
8th	1000
9th	1000
10th	1000
11th	800
12th	800
13th	800
14th	800
15th	800

Best Women

1st	1000
2nd	600
3rd	400

Rating Category: 1301-1500

1st	1000
2nd	600
3rd	400

Rating Category: 1101-1300

1st	1000
2nd	600
3rd	400

Rating Category: 1000-1100

1st	1000
2nd	600
3rd	400

Best Unrated

1st	1000
2nd	600
3rd	400

FIDE Standard Rating as on 1st November 2020 will be considered for Rating Category prizes, a player without a standard rating will be considered as an unrated player. One player will be eligible for one higher prize only.

Entry fees:

The entry fee for the event is ₹300. The tournament is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. The last date for entry is Saturday 21st of November 2020 6 p.m. IST. No entries will be accepted after that. Registration is CLOSED.

Foreign players can pay €5 via Paypal here as their entry fee. They must send an email mentioning their Name, FIDE ID, Playchess ID, Transaction ID along with a screenshot and send it to the below mentioned e-mail ID.

Titled players must write to us at teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com with their Playchess id to confirm their entry.

List of players

Sl.no.	Name	Playchess ID	Rating
1	GM Sunil Lyna Narayanan	Narayanansl	2618
2	GM Vugar Asadli	VugarAsadli	2572
3	GM Jakhongir Vakhidov	Uzbektiger95	2533
4	GM Visakh N R	Visakh	2516
5	GM Shardul Gagare	IndianKing97	2514
6	GM Bilel Bellahcene	Hetou	2510
7	GM Debashis Das	Debashis	2501
8	IM Arjun Kalyan S	Arjunkalyan	2477
9	IM Arghyadip Das	Arghyadip	2453
10	IM Mitrabha Guha	Babysnake	2445
11	IM Nubairshah Sheikh	CREATOR1198	2445
12	IM VS Rathanvel	vsr64	2445
13	IM Bala Chandra Prasad	Samudragupta	2441
14	IM Aditya Mittal	vinniethepooh	2438
15	IM Aronyak Ghosh	STRANGE	2436
16	IM Sayantan Das	Ambitious	2431
17	FM Srihari L R	lsr	2414
18	IM Neelash Saha	gamechanger	2413
19	IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete	Champion111	2412
20	GM Laxman R R	LAXMAN	2411
21	IM Raja Rithvik R	MasteredUI	2408
22	IM Viani Antonio Dcunha	Viani Dcunha	2397
23	IM Giuseppe Leiva	unico	2391
24	IM Raahil Mullick	Raahi07	2386
25	FM Pranav Anand	lightsaber	2381
26	CM Shahil Dey	ShahilDey	2376
27	WGM Nandhidhaa P V	Pavala	2365
28	IM Rajdeep Sarkar	ItsTime	2355
29	IM Anuj Shrivatri	Anuj Shrivatri	2350
30	IM PDS Girinath	girinathpds76	2335
31	WGM Pratyusha Bodda	Neverrrgiveup	2328
32	FM Ajay Karthikeyan	skkeyan	2315
33	Kaustuv Kundu	Kaustuv Kundu	2301
34	WIM Mrudul Dehankar	shiv01	2256
35	CM Dev Shah	toosieslide	2254
36	FM C J Arvind	JUNOSOURCE	2124
37	FM Ramu Kandi	Agasthya	2117
38	Soham Datar	Sohamchess64	2115
39	Alan Diviya Raj	Michaelraj_98	2033
40	IM Ravi Hegde	Ravihegde	2018
41	Arhan Chethan Anand	Legacyplayer	1979
42	Samriddhaa Ghosh	Samriddhaa	1910
43	Neel Shintre	fishyvishy	1896
44	Mahendra Teja Mekala	MMT2007	1892
45	Shubh	Shubh_2007	1849
46	Kaivalya Nagare	kaivalya2007	1845
47	Maxime Muller	maxmax673003	1840
48	Chirag Hosdurga	garihc	1838
49	Srithan Saypuri	thor_attack	1824
50	Aanjaneya Phatak	aanjaneya	1769
51	Shriya R Revankar	Shriya R	1751
52	Jain Adi	adijain	1748
53	Yash Laddha	Knowledge_gm	1748
54	Rahul Kadge	anandgary	1708
55	Debarghya Samanta	tapa1964	1698
56	Swayham P Das	swayham	1675
57	Arjun Sidharth S	Antman2007	1665
58	Prakhar Bajaj	gaurav306	1663
59	Arpith S Bijoy	ASB	1613
60	Ashvin Venkat	ashvin07	1609
61	Rahul N Kamath	Rambo1998	1601
62	Cera Dagaria	MaggiQueen	1597
63	Dhruv Haldankar	Haldankardhruv	1588
64	Vishvajeet Singh	Vishvajeet Singh	1572
65	Augustiya Negi	August1223	1555
66	Riyan Amit Shah	HackerRiyan	1555
67	Varad Athalye	Guico_942	1530
68	A C T Aravind Matthews	kalekine	1479
69	Mandar Bakshi	mandy64theking	1438
70	Rakesh Kulkarni	rakeshkul	1409
71	Vihaan Dawda	Vihaandawda	1369
72	Dakshita Kumawat	Lazy-Sleeper	1362
73	Mitul KH	mitulkh	1341
74	Jai Sankar	ssmanian2005	1329
75	Yusuf Faraz	yusuffaraz786	1321
76	Padmaesh M K	Padmaesh M K	1293
77	Srijak Sengupta	sansengu	1288
78	Daksh Goyal	dakshgoyal	1274
79	Sanjith S	Sanjith S	1272
80	Suhas Shrikrishna Marathe	Truewarrior1	1260
81	R Anirudh	anirudh2008	1226
82	Anmay V Chavan	Anmay23	1215
83	Suryansh Verma	Suryakhanal	1199
84	Manav Venkatachalam	Legandplayer	1174
85	Shah Purvaan	riyanshah	1152
86	Mrunmayee Bagve	BagvePMrun	1144
87	Agnim Dutta	WILDFLOWER	1135
88	Archit Saigal	architsaigal	1093
89	Damodar Kumar	DAMODAR_85589	1053
90	Sarthak Deshpande	sarthoba	1050
91	Abhay Chetty	Abhay Chetty	1047
92	Sankar Bhattacharya	Sanjay125	1043
93	Aneesh Krishna S	Aneeshkrishnas05	1032
94	Armaan Haider	ays020209	1027
95	Mandar Koranne	mandy18	1014
96	Rishabh Ratnalikar	Rishabh_Ratnalikar	1001
97	Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar	Abhijeet95	0
98	Akshat Gupta	akshat0	0
99	Amit Kumar Rajpal	AmitKumarRajpal	0
100	Anshuman Upadhyay	Anshuman Upadhyay	0
101	Aryan Nair	KINGOFKINGS07	0
102	Ashok Jasma Vollepore	AshokJV	0
103	Atharva Lathi	Atharva Lathi	0
104	Atharva Nasikkar	Atharva Nasikkar	0
105	Bhavesh Vyas	Bhaveshvyas_01	0
106	Dhiraj Kamble	Dhiraj18	0
107	Gurmannat Singh	MannatG	0
108	Ishwar Patel	Ishwar Lal Patel	0
109	M Suryadev	SURYADEV0812	0
110	Madhusudan GS	MadhuChaduranga	0
111	Mann Akbari	MannMongoose	0
112	Mayur Gondhalekar	gonda	0
113	Narendra Tumbekodige Manappa	ideanaren	0
114	Nikhil Kumar	swamiofhistoria	0
115	P Benny Joseph	bennyjoseph	0
116	Pon Subash Raj R	Subashraj	0
117	Rahul Anil Bhagwat	MRAA	0
118	Riya Rathi	Iameture123	0
119	Sachin Kher	sachinkher3	0
120	Saharsh Singh	saharshsingh02	0
121	Shashwat Gupta	Shashwat Gupta 3	0
122	Shikhar Karn	shikhar2009	0
123	Shriyaans Venkatachalam	manavshri	0
124	Soham Shirode	sohamshirode28	0
125	Subhash Jog	sjo1267	0
126	Tina Popli	tina popli	0
127	VGS Pranav	Smartpranav999	0
128	Veeresh Kumar Nayak	veeresh	0

Chess-results

Please check your Playchess ID carefully, last minute change of Playchess ID will NOT be allowed.

No draw before 30th move

In all events organized by us, 'Draw offer' before the completion of 30th move is not allowed. If a draw is agreed before the completion of 30th move, the player who offered the draw will be given a loss in that round irrespective of tournament situation. This rule has been enforced to see fighting games on all boards.

Mandatory Zoom Video Call

All players must remain on Zoom Video Call throughout the tournament from 5:15 p.m. IST till the end of the tournament. Players without having their camera turned on during all the games will NOT be eligible for a prize. All players must mention their full name on the Zoom display ID and share their entire screen (not just window only). Zoom link will be sent a day before the tournament, once the entry closes.

Contact:

Mr. Shahid Ahmed (Tournament director) - 9038139510 (Entry confirmations will be done via site only, no whatsapp/phone call confirmation of entries)

Email - teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com

• We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. Minimum requirement is at least 2 mbps wired broadband. No phone calls/messages will be entertained from 5 p.m. IST. All queries must be resolved before 5 p.m. Each player is responsible for their own connection, organizers are not responsible for a player's disconnection.

How to play tournament?

Please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here and make sure you are on the latest version of the Playchess Desktop Client.

1. Download the free Windows software of Playchess

Next you have to download the free native Windows software from here. If you have Mac OS or Mac Computer, then you have to use some VMWare to run it as Playchess Desktop Client has native support on Windows OS only. The tournament cannot be played via mobile or tablet device.

Login or Create account

After you have installed the Client. You must login.

Enter your Playchess/ChessBase Account username and password. Locate Vishy Anand Arena under Rooms on the bottom right of the screen.

The tournament will take place in the Vishy Anand Arena under 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 22nd November 2020. 5:15 p.m. IST would be a good time.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. If 'Join Event' button does not show and 'Unregistered' shows instead, it means you have been registered in the tournament. The Tournament Director will accept your entry. Only those who have registered for the event will be allowed to play.

Note: The Playchess id, while registering and playing the tournament should be the same.

For Mac OS users

Check out this tutorial here on how to install Windows 10 using VirtualBox. After installing Windows 10, check How to play tournament section to install Playchess Windows Desktop client and follow the steps.