December 2021 YouTube funds will give wings to 12-year-old Daakshin's dream of becoming an IM this year
Daakshin Arun is one of India's upcoming youngsters. The 12-year-old has a FIDE rating of 2173 and is ranked the highest in the country for kids born in 2009. Daakshin's father, Arun, had been working as a professor in an engineering college. In 2017 he gave up his job so that he could travel with Daakshin to tournaments all across India and the world. The boy has been progressing rapidly, but this has put a lot of financial pressure on the family. The boy and his family have an aim of becoming an IM in the year 2022 and in order to facilitate this dream, the ChessBase India YouTube memberships for the month of December 2021 of Rs.72,076 will be given to Daakshin.
Rs.72,076 December 2021 YouTube Membership Fund goes to 12-year-old Daakshin Arun
ChessBase India runs a YouTube channel which is frequented by millions of people each month. We have a membership program where the perk for the people is that the money they spend in buying the memberships is entirely used to help one talented chess player in need of these funds. Towards the end of the article you will find all the links of the previous months where the YouTube membership funds have been utilized.
In the month of December 2021 we have had 230 members. We have 59 pillars, 1 promoters, 20 supporters, 28 boosters and 122 backers of Indian chess. These are the details of all of them:
Jay Khunt | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Just A Famous Guy | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Anondo Das Gupta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Kalpak Raut | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Mrityunjay Jalan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Tejas Chitnis | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Joy Dutta | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Vivaswan Damle | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Sambit Ghosh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Mr VG | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
chiranjibi sahoo | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Naveen Bharathwaj | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Vignesh Subramanian | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Abhishek Deshpande | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Ashwin S. Hebbar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Madhuchethan Rao | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Vishwajeet Dagar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Swapnil | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Mihir Sawant | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Shreyas Tawre | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Vamsi Chada | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Ravi Chan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Pranav Kulkarni | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Rohit Bhangale | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Naveen Kumar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
damnit | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
shreyas gokhale | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Manaswi Mishra | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Shashank Srikant | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Swehil | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
sanket panaskar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Saurabh Dhamnaskar | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
nishant panigrahi | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
nabh choudhary | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
nutan dutt | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Nitish | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Ajin Cherian | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Sriraam Ramakrishnan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Asim Khan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Aditya Desai | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Dan Ruparel | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
ruchir sutaria | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
RahulMukerji09 | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Rohit Pareek | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Vini Vedi Vici | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Tony Dary | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Ankita Kulkarni | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Sminil Mahajan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Anas Edacherry | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Kiran Iyer | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
KolonNiki | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
shyammsm | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Dharmen Shah | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Zeus | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Sujit Varghese | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Keith Mascarenhas | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Siddharth Ranadive | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Sudarshan Rangan | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Ajeet prsingh | Pillar of Indian Chess | 799 |
Eesha Dutta | Promoter of Indian chess | 599 |
varun kamble | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Mohith T S | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Pratik Shetty | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Arvind Ramnath | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Manu Talwar | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Suyash Swaroop | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Murali Phani | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
LaKsHyA | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Arvind Raman | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Indian From South | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
rutvij bhavsar | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
hellking4u | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Rajeev Ranjan | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Nishaad Rao | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Sai Gudigundla | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Sanu Pillai Vlogs | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
kshitiz lohani | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Sachin Ranade | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Gokul Ramanathan | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Arunava Bhattacharjee | Supporter of Indian Chess | 299 |
Mrinmay | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Sandeep Roy | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
BHAGYASHREE KADUSKAR | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Gaurav Chandiramani | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Rakshank Savadatti | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
SUDARSHAN K M | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
avant jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
FlashBin Gaming | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Shradhey Tripathi | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Diljeet Singh Narwal | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Ajit Gole | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Kappa 322 | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Himanshu Bhasin | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Gaurav Mohta | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Mann Sareen | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Jai Pandit | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Prakhar Gupta | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Ankush Dhyani | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
BunnyEatWorld | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Akshit Johry | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Tanmay Devi | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Yash | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Akshay Shenoy | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Tapan Krishna | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Mahesh Parab | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Abhishek Jain | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Siddharth Sen | Booster of Indian Chess | 199 |
Hiren patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Suraj Ranawade | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Purva Sawant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Abhinav Mittal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Dhairya Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sharat Goswami | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Amit Nakod | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sarvesh Deshpande | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Karini Sandeep Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Raj Agarwal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Harshil Mittal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Kashi Sah | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Ipw Law | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Soham Pandya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
shyam prasad | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Arun J | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Karthik Velturi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Vishal09 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Harsh Makharia | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Lovesh Tulsija | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Vinit Mamania | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Nikhil Goyal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Pratyayan DasGupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Akshay P | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sumedh Deshpande | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sreekar Aditya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sumalya Bhattacharya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Gourab Goswami | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Tanmay Buwa | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Chaliceter | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Pranshav Vyas | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Aditya Jadhav | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Gaurab | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Abhishek Rai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Arshad84 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rabia Singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Akshay Kulkarni | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Parth Thakkar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
harshit vora | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
anmol welpulwar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Akshat | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
agam dixit | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Srinivasan Gopalan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
sarat pavan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Deepesh Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Soumyaranjan Mishra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Anirvan Sengupta | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Tube or Not Tube | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
shas k | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Gunin Khanna | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rahul Arvind | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
gobletFire | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Mihir Hasabnis | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Nitin Desai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Bhavik Makan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
franklin abraham | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Aravind Pathapati | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Jalaj Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Anand C U | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rahul Ghosal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
David James | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Bhargav Srinivasan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sandeep Madheshiya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Nagesh Anthati | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rajat Kamtekar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Chairab Madaan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
devan sra | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Krishna Char | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
ScaleTale | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Muralikrishna Gangaraju | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Abhishek Desai | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Shaurya Mathur | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Naveen | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
vedaant rana | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Gokul | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
SANSAR RANA | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Shiva Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rut Madgeri | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Jay Dave | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Raghava Madhwapathi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Yash Tandon | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Pranti Bordoloi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Srinath Narayanan | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
K.V.P.Varma Kuchelapaati | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Dhandeep Lodaya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Kartik | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Akshay Natu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Swapan Karmakar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Smita Acharya | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Henal Merchant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Sai Praveen Gummadi | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
2856Rohit | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Swapnil Sen | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
thiedevil | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Chandrasekhar S. | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Heman Kundu | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Abhishek Agarwal | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
arun Taccode | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
D SANDEEP | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Phani Varma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Raj S | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Pratip Rao | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Shubham Shah | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Chetan Suresh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Subodh Patil | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Kumar Roy | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Harjaap Singh | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Siddhant | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Hardik Rudani | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Aseem Goel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Anusheela Das | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Snehal Pathak | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
N M | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
BeastStats | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Neo0889 | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
GizmoGirl | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Aditya Bankar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Mayur Gondhalekar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Anish Kumar | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Shyamal patel | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Naman Sharma | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
Rijoy Mukherjee | Backer of Indian Chess | 89 |
The Total amount comes to Rs.49,105 after 30% deduction of YouTube charges. All of this amount will go to fund the chess journey of Daakshin Arun. Apart from the above amount, we also have two donations made by generous individuals Rahil Sheth (Rs.14,971) and Kishore Hazarika (Rs.8000). The total amount comes to Rs. 72,076.
Becoming an IM in 2022 is 12-year-old Daakshin's aim
In November 2021, we wrote a detailed article on Daakshin Arun on the ChessBase India talking about how the youngster had managed to pump up his rating by 415 Elo points in just 2 months. We spoke to his father Arun about the financial difficulties that they were facing. He tells us, "I had been working as a Professor in an Engineering college and I had to give up my career in 2017 to take Daakshin regularly for tournaments. As a matter of fact, we have been travelling to all major tournaments in India almost every month which made it very difficult to continue my profession. From 2017 onwards we have been managing with single income and savings as I quit my job to accompany Daakshin for tournaments. Now our savings have been utilized taking him for all major tournaments in India, Asian championship in Sri Lanka, World Championship in China and the European trip to Hungary and Spain. Besides, a lot of money had been spent on coaching, hardware and software required for chess preparation. We desperately require funds to take him for further tournaments in India and Europe so that he can move towards his IM title."
This entire amount of Rs.72,076 will be used towards the upcoming GM Open tournaments that will take place in India in the month of March. Apart from that Arun has the detailed plan chalked out. "Daakshin is planning to play a couple of GM tournaments in India, Nationals, besides two trips to Europe in the second half of the year depending upon fund availability." We hope that this support will help Daakshin play in more events and become a stronger chess player.
GM R.B. Ramesh mentions, "Before the pandemic related lockdown, many promising youngsters where growing in their strength very fast but all of a sudden they could not play in tournaments and lost 2 precious years in their young career. Same with Daakshin. He has very good analytical ability and practices long hours. Very ambitious and interested to learn all aspects of the game. He has recently increased his rating a lot and is a good prospect to become one of the youngest GMs in our country."
Some of Daakshin's major achievements:
Asian youth Chess Championship -Sri Lanka in 2019 –U10 Open
❖ Silver medal in Rapid format
❖ Two team Gold’s in Classic and Rapid formats.
West Asian youth and Junior Chess Championship - Delhi 2019 – U10 Open
❖ Silver Medal in Classical
❖ Bronze Medal in Rapid
National Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019, Delhi.
❖ 5
th Place
International Tournaments
2021
❖ First Saturday Nadassy, held in Budapest , HUNGARY where he finished 2
nd
overall and gained 204 ELO.
❖ 26th Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona Open, held In Barcelona, SPAIN – scored
5/9 and improved his rating by 155 ELO.
❖ San Cristobal De Laguna Open held in Tenerife, SPAIN – Won 2nd Place in U
12 Category.
2020
❖ Runner up in U-10 category in IIFL Mumbai International Juniors Chess
Tournament
2019
❖ World Cadets Chess Championship – China – 24th Rank
❖ Common Wealth Chess Championship – Delhi – 14th Rank
❖ Vellamal International FIDE Rated Championship - 2
nd in rapid, 3rd in Blitz (
U-11)
❖ 19th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open tournament - 1
st
U-11
❖ A.S Subbaraman Memorial Trophy FIDE Rated Blitz Championship - 2
nd U-11
❖ Thalavaipuram International FIDE Rated Tournament - 8
th in Open
❖ 1
st Goa international Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament - Category B - 3
rd
in U - 11
2018
❖ 18th Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open tournament - 2
nd in below 1400
❖ 1
st Goa international Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament – Category C - 1
st
- U9
❖ Ramco institute of technology international FIDE rated Open chess
tournament – 30th Open
2017
❖ CDCA FIDE Rapid Rating Chess tournament - 2
nd U-8
❖ 10th Modern International FIDE Rated tournament - 1
st U-8
❖ Raghavendra Open FIDE Rated tournament - 3
rd U-8
❖ 6
th M.S.V Memorial Open FIDE Rated tournament - 3
rd U-8
❖ 1
st SPIC FIDE Rated tournament – 4
th below 1400
❖ Dhakshinamoorthy Memorial Open Rapid FIDE Rated Chess Tournament - 4
th
U-8
National and State Tournaments
2019
❖ National Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019 – 5
th Rank
❖ TN State
Under 11 Open Chess Championship 2019 – 4
th Rank
❖ TN State Under 13 Open Chess Championship 2019 - 2
nd - U - 11
❖ TN State Under 15 Open Chess Championship 2019 - 1
st - U - 11
2018
❖ 32nd National Under 9 Open Chess Championship – 11th Rank
❖ 22nd TN state Open Rapid Championship - 1
st - U – 11
❖ 31st TN State Under 9 Open Chess Championship – 3
rd Rank
District Tournaments
❖ Chennai District Chess Champion- U-11 -2019
❖ Chennai district Chess Champion- U-9 -2018
❖ The Hindu in School Chess Champion- U-9- 2018
A big thanks to all our members for contributing regularly and helping to power chess in India. The dreams of these youngsters receive wings because of the money you spend and we are very grateful for your support. It's by these small gestures by each one of you that India is slowly and steadily becoming a super power in the world of chess!
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Previous articles on the YouTube Memberships funds ulitized
May 2021 fund for Savitha and Karthik Venkata Krishna
August 2021 fund for Sanjay Sivakumar
September 2021 fund for K.Marimuthu
October 2021 fund for M. Pranesh
November 2021 fund for Shreya Hipparagi
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