Tata Steel Chess India to Introduce Women’s Tournament in 4th Edition

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Tata Steel Chess India to Introduce Women’s Tournament in 4th Edition

World class chess came to Kolkata in the form of the first inaugural Tata Steel Chess India tournament in November 2018. The tournament witnessed participation of the world's top grandmasters, including Viswanathan Anand, in the Rapid and Blitz formats. In 2019, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won both Rapid and Blitz in his usual magnificent fashion, while the other super GMs wowed chess enthusiasts with their precision power play. Tata Steel has a long-standing association with chess and cherishes the global standing Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk Ann Zee has acquired over the years. In its previous editions, Tata Steel Chess India has already become a sought-after tournament in professional chess and the endeavour is to make this even bigger and better in the years to come.

PLAYERS OPEN TOURNAMENT

Hikaru Nakamura

Wesley So

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Gukesh Dommaraju

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Parham Maghsoodloo

Arjun Erigaisi

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (Blitz)

Nihal Sarin

SP Sethuraman (Rapid)

PLAYERS WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT

Humpy Koneru

Mariya Muzychuk

Anna Muzychuk

Nana Dzagnidze

Harika Dronavalli

Vaishali Rameshbabu

Anna Ushenina

Oliwia Kiolbasa

Vantika Agrawal (Rapid)

Bhakti Kulkarni (Blitz)

The 4th edition of Tata Steel Chess India was announced today with the introduction of a Women’s Edition of the tournament.  The open tournament has been on for three editions now and in its fourth edition, TSCI will have a women’s tournament with the same format – rapid and blitz. The tournament will take place from November 29 – December 4, 2022 in Kolkata.

Top International Grandmasters, top Indian men and women Grandmasters, young Indian talents and Viswanathan Anand as the ambassador and advisor of the tournament will enrich this year’s competition. For the first time in the history of the game, the prize fund for both the men’s and women’s category will be equal.

Women Grandmasters who have already confirmed their participation are Anna and Mariya Muzychuk from Ukraine, Nana Dzagnidze from Georgia and Alina Kashlinskaya from Poland. Indian chess superstars Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli will be joined by rising star Vaishali R – all of who were a part of the Bronze-winning team at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad in Chennai.

Mr. Viswanathan Anand, Ambassador of Tata Steel Chess India on the occasion said, “I am extremely delighted that today chess is considered as a mainstream sport. Tournaments like Tata Steel Chess India where our young players fight it out with International Grandmasters really helps the cause of producing newer champions. Today, India is considered as chess power-house with both men and women excelling in the sport. The introduction of the women’s tournament with equal prize money as the men category is a welcome move and an excellent initiative and we hope it is as well-received by the chess enthusiasts. Chess is and should be an equal sport.”

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel said, “We are delighted to announce that this year's edition of Tata Steel Chess India will witness the launch of a Women's Tournament as well. What better year to start this than FIDE’s ‘Year Of The Woman In Chess.’ The event will give young Indian talent the opportunity to play against top International Grandmasters. Tata Steel Chess India is part of Tata Steel’s continuous and conscious effort to build an equitable and diverse environment while engaging with communities through meaningful activities. We are encouraged by the enthusiasm and participation we have received over the past years and are determined to make this world class chess competition even better.”

Ms. Tania Sachdev expressed their happiness over the introduction of women category in Tata Steel Chess India. She echoed that the introduction of equality in the prize amount by Tata Steel Chess India will encourage more women to take up the sport as a profession.

Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF said, “We as a national body for promoting chess is extremely happy to witness resurgence and renewed interest towards this sport from the people of the country. The recently concluded Chess Olympiad is an example of the growing importance of chess in India. Over the past few years, Tata Steel Chess India is helping to popularize the sport and take the game to every corner of the country. And this year, the addition of the Women's tournament is a welcome development."

“Few years ago, Gameplan had taken the initiative of promoting chess by organizing a global chess tournament in India with support from Tata Steel. Today, we are extremely delighted we are able to add a women’s tournament as well to the TSCI event. It is encouraging to witness the increasing level of interest among the citizens of the country for chess. We are committed to the development of sports in the country by organizing such global tournaments.” said Mr. Jeet Banerjee, Director, Gameplan.

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There are various chess openings but the best opening is the one which you could play confidently. The very basic thing in improving your opening is first choosing the opening which suits your style.

If you like positional games – play the openings which are solid for both colors. If you like creating havoc in the position- play the openings which are aggressive in nature.

There are certain chess principles that you should follow no matter which openings you choose.

Only make pawn moves that help development

The basic fundamental idea of any chess opening is developing the pieces and getting your king to safety. In openings, you should only make the pawn moves that are helping your pieces develop.

Avoid playing any pawns moves on the side of the board eg. a,b file and g,h file as they are usually the ones that don’t help to develop pieces.

Too many pawn moves in the openings not only hampers the development but most of the time weakens the pawn structure. You should only move your pawns when your pieces are ideally developed and rooks are connected. Until then avoid making them.

Develop your pieces towards the center

To develop your pieces you need to move the pawns but where exactly to develop the pieces? While developing the pieces always develop them towards the center of the board these are e4-e5-d4-d5 squares.

Pieces are usually better placed when they are in contact with the center or are on the center squares. While developing your pieces remember to develop the Knight before the Bishop.

Since the knight is a short-range piece and the bishop is a long-range piece, the bishop can play from its initial position whereas the knight cannot.

Don’t bring the queen out early

When you are developing your pieces you should never bring your queen out in the opening.

I repeat, never bring your queen out early in the opening.

Most of the time the queen gets chased away like a dog by the opponent’s minor pieces.

This helps him complete his development with tempo and forces us to move queen over and over again, resulting in the loss of development.

Most of the time queen is flexible from its initial position. Develop your queen only when all the minor pieces are developed and your king has castled.

Each piece should be moved only once.

While developing your pieces make sure while placing them that they only move once. Never make the move with the pieces which are already developed. The golden rule over here is to develop each piece’s new move.

In the opening, time is of the essence and each move adds a considerable value to the whole game. Wasting time moving the same pieces most of the time is usually considered as a wastage of tempo.

Castle early in the opening

Now when the pieces are developed it’s time to castle and bring your king to safety. Since the pieces have started coming out the king tends to become vulnerable in the center of the board and might end up in a quick attack.

Preferably you should castle before the move ten. Castling helps you bring your king to safety and helps you bring one of your rooks towards the center, which is added benefit.

Connect your rooks

And the last part but also the most important- Connect your rooks! This is the moment when the opening part of the game is complete and we move toward the next part of the middlegame.

While connecting the rook you should make sure that the back rank the open and the rooks are connected in the center. Preferably they should be placed on the square of the e and d file. 

London System

London System: Ready to learn it? In a time when the opening phase has become extremely important, every chess player must give this phase its due attention. With various good books available, the quantity of information on the internet, and the powerful engines, it is no wonder that it is now very difficult to get a big advantage out of the opening, never mind win a game out of it.

Everybody knows a decent amount of theory, there is no doubt about that. However, not everybody has the time and energy to learn long and complicated lines and we’d even say that, depending on your level, it may even be completely unnecessary. Up to a certain level, it is more important to devote your energy to understanding the important concepts of the game than to learning moves by heart.

If you are one of these players, we can suggest you give the London System a look.

Here are a few reasons why this opening might suit you:

1. London System has no big amount of theory

This is perhaps the most important thing about London System. This is more of a system than an opening with long lines that involve remembering exact moves. Here the accent is more on knowing the plans, how to place your pieces, and understanding the arising pawn structures.

You will find that in the latest years many Grandmasters have included it in their repertoire with good results, with one of the most famous specialists being Gata Kamsky. Thanks to their games the theory of this opening has, of course, started to develop, but you can use it more as a guideline; it’s not a know-by-heart or get into a worse position kind of repertoire.

2. This opening is a solid option

As many 1.d4 openings are, the London System is a solid choice.

It is very difficult for black to break it, given that you face, for example, a stronger opponent. It can lead to long, strategic battles, but don’t be fooled.

Black has to be prepared to meet it otherwise things can easily go downhill for the second player, which leads us to the third reason why this is a resourceful opening choice.

3. London System has its poison

The games where white wins by incredible attacks on the kingside are not few. A quick search in the database will show that black must play with care and, most importantly, be aware of whites’ ideas.

As mentioned before, white has many resources and attacks can come out of the blue for the unprepared player.

There is an interesting idea where white doesn’t hurry to castle but instead tries to quickly install a knight on e5, but the bishop on g3 and continue with f4. In this case, the king can remain in the center, but white can even consider castling short at the right moment. As the center usually remains closed, the same idea can be used even after castling short in the first place.

4. London System can be played in different ways

As mentioned above, London System is a solid, but resourceful opening. That means that you can vary the plans; one day you can go for the attacking plans and another day play positionally.

There are different move orders and each has its ideas, giving you options inside the same system. It is important to avoid preparation and try to get your opponent on unknown territory and studying various plans can help you surprise your rivals.

5. It is an opening that allows you to improve your chess understanding

London is not an opening where you need to learn the moves by heart. It’s one where you need to study the games of the strong players. You also need to understand the plans in each type of structure.

This means that you won’t actually focus so much on the opening phase. But, on the middlegame one which will allow you to improve your positional play and attacking skills.

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The Chess Olympiad started grandly in Chennai. The event will include over 1700 participants, including 248 grandmasters, 157 international masters, 54 women grandmasters, and 99 women international masters.

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The youngest participant in the mega tournament is, Randa Sedar, who is just eight years from Hebron, Palestine. Her father began teaching her chess when she was five years old, and it quickly became her life. 

Randa has competed in several competitions. She finished second in the Palestine women's championship and earned a spot on the ChessOlympics team.  Randa's ultimate goal is to be a Woman Grandmaster. Her main goal for her trip to India is to see her idol, Grandmaster Judit Polgar.

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Why should you have a decent playing Style?

Most of the grandmasters throughout the decade are familiar with at least one opening style that allows them to stand out in the audience. A good playing style helps you in piece positioning, protect your King, and develop material to reach middle-game with an outstanding approach to either take advantage of the mistakes your opponent makes or advance for an attack.

Opening Styles:

Basically, there are two chess playing styles, tactical and positional. A tactical player is one who relies on tactics and tries to gain an advantage through tactical combinations, while a positional player is the one who is always looking to occupy important squares and gain a positional and space advantage.

Attacking style – as White:

The most popular opening for white is known as the King’s Pawn opening, where white plays e4 that has the best possible replies to the set of variations that black plays. The advantage of including this opening in your playing style is the high range of possibilities to attack and control the center, as well as the immediate development of the bishop and the queen.

Positional style – as White:

The second most popular opening is the d4 move which is also known as the Closed Game. It is a strong opening because the pawn immediately gets defended by the queen, controls the center, and avoids your opponent to play e4. The English Opening(1.c4)is also a good option to add to your style.

Attacking style - as Black

The best way to play with the Black side is to note the white's opening move. In the case of the King's Pawn, the frequently played move is c5 to bring out its queen’s side pawn, also known as the Sicilian Defense. It is the only opening in which you can play aggressively regardless of knowing it is the defensive side.

Positional style - as Black

The other openings for black most likely include the Open Game such as playing e5 which allows you to set up your opponent with Petrov’s Defense by responding to white's e4 with Nf3. Caro Kann and French are solid openings for positional style too.

How to Improve Your Playing Style

The fastest way to improve your chess opening skills is to think proactively about the openings you are working on. Do not try to switch to another opening unless you have mastered the first one as it helps in spotting the opening patterns and use the same tactic in the middle of the game. If you are playing with your style and you are confident, the best benefit you could get is you will end up in positions that match your strengths.

Conversely, if you are a good positional player but need to work on tactics and attack, create a tactical or dynamic opening repertoire which will force you to improve in that area. You might suffer for a while, but once you’ve gone through this “initiation by fire” you’ll find that you’ve suddenly become a balanced, well-rounded chess player who can do everything reasonably well.

Another way to improve your playing style is to keep on experimenting unless you find the style that suits you.

If you are an intermediate chess player, the first few moves in a chess game are considered the most crucial moves that most likely predict the middle game quickly as chances of making mistakes get limited. Over the last hundred years, thousands of chess openings have been discovered and studied all over the world. However, most of the time, players get tangled and are unable to decide which chess opening should be opted at different instances.

           

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44th Chess Olympiad: Women’s Team Brings India’s First-ever Medal .Curtains Drawn on 44th Chess Olympiad, Medals Rain for Indian Chess Players

 44th Chess Olympiad: Women’s Team Brings India’s First-ever Medal .Curtains Drawn on 44th Chess Olympiad, Medals Rain for Indian Chess Players

Indian women chess players who brought country's first-ever medal in the women's section at 44th Chess Olympiad (Photo credit: @ChennaiIPL)

As the 44th Chess Olympiad came to an end in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, the Indian women's team made history by winning the country's first-ever medal in the women's section. It was also the first time India hosted the Chess Olympiad in which nearly 350 teams in the open and women’s sections from 187 countries were competing.

The India A team, comprising Koneru Humpy, R Vaishali, Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni won the bronze medal in the women's section after losing to the USA by 1-3 in the final round match. The last time India won a bronze medal in the Olympiad was 2014. Ukraine team walked away with the gold medal while Georgia claimed the silver.

“The team has worked really hard in the last three or four months and this is India’s first-ever medal in the history of the Olympics. This should be the beginning of much better days for women’s chess in India,” Abhijit Kunte, the India A coach, said.

In the open section, India B team (men's team) claimed their second bronze medal in the prestigious event in Mamallapuram. India B team of D Gukesh, Nihal Sarin, R Praggnanandhaa and Raunak Sadhwani defeated Germany 3-1. Uzbekistan won the gold while Armenia bagged the silver medals. 

In addition to the two medals in the team events, India also won seven individual medals, including two gold, one silver and four bronze.  

Gukesh and Sarin were on the top and second board respectively, while Arjun Erigaisi secured a silver medal on the third board. R Praggnanandhaa (third board), R Vaishali (third board), Tania Sachdev (third board) and Divya Deshmukh (reserve board) claimed individual bronze medals.

“The team has worked really hard in the last three or four months and this is India’s first-ever medal in the history of the Olympics. This should be the beginning of much better days for women’s chess in India,” Abhijit Kunte, the India A coach, said.

In the open section, India B team (men's team) claimed their second bronze medal in the prestigious event in Mamallapuram. India B team of D Gukesh, Nihal Sarin, R Praggnanandhaa and Raunak Sadhwani defeated Germany 3-1. Uzbekistan won the gold while Armenia bagged the silver medals. 

In addition to the two medals in the team events, India also won seven individual medals, including two gold, one silver and four bronze.  

Gukesh and Sarin were on the top and second board respectively, while Arjun Erigaisi secured a silver medal on the third board. R Praggnanandhaa (third board), R Vaishali (third board), Tania Sachdev (third board) and Divya Deshmukh (reserve board) claimed individual bronze medals.

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Moves used in Viswanathan Anand vs praggnanandhaa Chess Tournament #Viswanathan Anand

 Moves used in Viswanathan Anand vs praggnanandhaa #Viswanathan Anand #praggnanandhaa

The world's second youngest Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa is keeping busy these days and it's not just attending felicitation events or entertaining incessant selfie requests or even an impromptu tete-a-tete with India allrounder R Ashwin. Just five days after winning his GM title, the 12-year-old took up his next challenge - the task of facing five-time champion Viswanathan Anand at the legend's residence on Thursday afternoon.

Although under simulated conditions, it was intriguing to see the two making their moves on the 64 squares and analyzing them. At the end of their two-hour interaction, Anand was impressed with the youngster's ability to grasp quickly. "I asked him to show me some of his games. Interestingly, one of his games reminded me about a game of mine 8 years ago. I compared my moves with his and we also tried to solve an endgame. He was able to pick everything instantly but again, that shouldn't come as a surprise because he is a Grandmaster.

White to move.

The inspiring journey of Chess prodigy Praggnanandhaa

India’s Chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is brilliant, hardworking and disciplined. To start off with, playing Chess was a mere hobby for him. But today, he is a grandmaster who has five wins, two draws and one loss against the world champion, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. His latest win against Carlsen came at the FTX Crypto Cup in the month of August. Praggnandhaa finished as the runner up in the tournament.

Road to glory

Praggnanandhaa started playing Chess at the age of 3 with his elder sister Vaishali. Their parents never really liked their kids spending too much time in front of the TV, hence introduced them to the game in their childhood. The boy from Chennai, who just turned 17 last month, is the next big thing in Indian Chess!

Praggu, as he is fondly called by his friends, had become the youngest International Master in the history of the game of Chess in 2016, at the age of 10. He is also the youngest player and the third Indian to defeat Norwegian superstar Magnus Carlsen. Legends Viswanathan Anand and P Harikrishna had achieved the feat earlier.

Life of a Chess wizard

Praggnanandhaa’s polio-afflicted bank employee father Rameshbabu and mother Nagalakshmi are very happy with the accomplishments of their children. It’s Praggnanandhaa’s mother who accompanies him and his sister to tournaments. She is always beside them cheering them on for achieving greater success. Praggu’s 19-year-old sister Vaishali is also a grandmaster and is pursuing chess with passion as well. 

Praggnanandhaa is a big fan of homely south Indian food. In an interview given to Mathrubhumi magazine, the Chess wizard’s mother says that “Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali watch television only when they are having meals.” She also said that the “kids always prefer a healthy diet and do not really follow movie stars/celebrities.”

The Chess maestro is unfazed by victory or loss, and that’s his biggest strength. Praggnanandhaa is the fifth youngest grandmaster of all time. When he achieved the prestigious title in 2018, he became India’s youngest grandmaster ever.

Praggnanandhaa has constant interactions with his sporting idol, the legendary Viswanathan Anand. The chess prodigy is an active member of the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy.  The Covid-19 pandemic affected the youngster’s momentum as several tournaments were called off or delayed. But Praggnanandhaa continued to dominate, making use of every opportunity that came his way.

His longtime coach and mentor, R B Ramesh feels that the latest victory against Carlsen will boost Praggnanandhaa’s confidence and will encourage him to do better.   

Other than Chess, Praggnanandhaa loves cycling and playing cricket. He regularly watches highlights of nail biting cricket matches. The Chess prodigy enjoys watching comedy films as well. Another favorite hobby of his is playing table tennis. The young boy has a calm and fun loving personality.

Supportive parents have always been the strength of Praggnanandhaa and his sister. Their father installed an inverter and two broadband connections at their home, so that the kids can play online Chess tournaments without any interruption.   

Praggnanandhaa goes to temple regularly and prays before making his first move on the Chess board.

Schooling

A class 11 student, due to his busy ‘Chess’ life, Praggnanandhaa finds it difficult to attend school regularly. He usually goes to school only once in three months to collect notes. The Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary school has been quite supportive in the prodigy’s journey. Praggnanandhaa and his sister only need to write their annual exams and the rest of the time they can focus on their ‘Chess’. 

So, this is the journey of the young chess superstar Pragnanandhaa so far! 

Young talents, if given the right kind of support and direction, can bring fame and glory to our nation!

Reference : 

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Why It’s A Must To Study Classical Chess Games

Why It’s A Must To Study Classical Chess Games

Nowadays many chess players concentrate mostly on openings and solving puzzles, thinking that it's the most important thing in chess. Well, that's, of course, important, but what about the strategy? 

Let me ask you a few questions

❓ You see a position, but you don't know whether to change that piece or not?

❓ Your opponent has weakness but you don’t know how to attack it?

❓ You look at the position and you don’t know what plan to choose?

Are these situations familiar to you? Well, such situations happen to everyone, to some very often, and to others quite rarely, but those, whom they happen rarely, have an advantage!

The same is in chess. The more classical-strategical games you know, the easier it's gonna be for you to orient in chess.

When you study famous games of the World Champions and grandmasters you see so many ideas and plans. You "install" in your mind so much new useful information.

But what about chess? You can’t take the phone to the game, and there is no map for chess! What’s the best way to learn “the streets” in chess? Classical Games!

Here I'll bring a few examples of the evident benefits of knowing classical chess games

Portisch L. – Kasparov G. 1989

 In this position, Kasparov played 1…Bd6! And after 2.Bd6 instead of 2…Qd6, he played 2…Nb5! His idea is to take the Bishop with Knight!

Now, although the position looks equal, Black has an advantage. White no longer can continue their typical Pawn majority attack in the queenside, because of the strong Knight on d6! If White continues 3.a4 then simple 3…a6. White's plan is stopped, while Black is going to create an attack on the kingside.

Well, it's good to have the skill to discover something incredible on the board, but it's also fine and even easier to learn all the incredible things that were already done by our great predecessors. 

Reference: GM Avetik Grigoryan via Chess Mood Dot Com.

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Top 10 Benefits of Chess, Chess brings people together!

Top 10 Benefits of Chess

Chess brings people together!

Chess is played everyday around the world and brings people of different cultures and backgrounds together. Let's take a look at the top 10 benefits of learning and playing chess!

Brings People Together

Teaches You How To Win And Lose

Helps Children Realize The Consequences Of Their Actions

Can Help You Focus

Chess Is An Educational Tool

Develops Creativity

Builds Confidence

Develops Problem-Solving Skills

Exercises The Brain

Chess Helps You To Remain Calm Under Pressure

1. Chess Brings People Together

Chess is one of the oldest games in the world dating back over 1500 years. The game of chess has evolved as it spread around the globe to the game we play today. As a result, this journey has brought people together from different cultures, ages, and backgrounds over a common bond and passion for the game.

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Chess brings all ages together!

2. Chess Teaches You How To Win And Lose

Of course, everyone likes to win, but it is just important to learn how to accept losing. As the saying goes—sometimes you give the lesson, and sometimes you receive the lesson! Most importantly, try to learn from those losses and come back as a better player. Just as in life, we need to get back up when confronted with failure and come back stronger and wiser. Winning with grace is an important character trait that chess can teach a person.

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If you lose a game of chess go back and learn from your mistakes.

3. Chess Helps Children Realize The Consequence Of Their Actions

The scholastic chess boom around the world has been on a steady rise over the last decade. More important than these children becoming great chess players or getting high ratings is that chess teaches children from an early age that their choices have consequences—both good and bad. Thinking your moves through and trying to play the best move that you can is rewarding while playing too quickly and rushing your decisions can have negative repercussions.

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Chess can help children develop important character traits.

4. Chess Helps You Focus

As Bobby Fischer said, "Chess demands total concentration." A chess player can make moves like a grandmaster for 30 moves and then get distracted on move 31 and make an elementary blunder that loses the game! This intense focus is useful in everyday life when confronted with school assignments, daily tasks, and deadlines.

chess helps discipline and focus

Chess can help a person develop discipline and focus.

5. Chess Is A Great Educational Tool For Schools

Before, during, and after-school programs are extremely popular, and for good reason. Chess is a low-cost activity for children to become involved with right at their own school. Children of different ages, backgrounds, and special needs can all take part in a chess class or club. 

chess and education

School chess programs create great opportunities for students socially, emotionally, and academically.

6. Chess Helps To Develop Creativity.

They say a persons' personality comes out in their chess game. A shy and passive person might play more reservedly while an outgoing and social person might be a bold attacker. The wonderful part of chess is that there is room for everyone's styles and personalities. In your own personal way, you can show your creativity in the type of moves, plans, and tactics that you come up with on the board. 

Chess creativity

The chessboard is your canvas to express your creativity!

7. Chess Build Confidence

Chess is all you—you put in the time studying, you put in the time competing in tournaments, you spend the time analyzing your losses and finding your weaknesses. With all this work a sense of confidence is developed. Even working through a tough period where you plateau in your chess development can help you build resilience and confidence.

Chess confidence

Working on your chess improvement can help to build confidence.

8. Chess Helps Develop Problem-Solving Skills

In every chess game, you are faced with challenges and problems that you have to solve in order to play your best game. Chess can help you to think ahead, not rush your decisions, and weigh the pluses and minuses of your choices. This correlates to challenges we face in everyday life, and just as in chess, we try to make the best choices to develop positive outcomes for our lives.

Problem solving

Every chess game proposes problems you have to solve.

9. Chess Exercises Both Sides Of The Brain

When playing chess, your brain will be challenged to exercise logic, develop pattern recognition, make decisions both visually and analytically, and test your memory. Chess can be enjoyed by any age—as a result, these brain exercises can be part of the health of your brain for your entire life! An active brain is a healthy brain!

Chess brain

Chess can keep your brain active and sharp throughout your life.

10. Chess Helps You Learn How To Be Calm Under Pressure

An intense game of chess where you have given everything, your time is running low, and you still have to make critical decisions to bring the point home teaches us to remain calm under pressure. You have to be intensely focused, while at the same time remaining calm so that your brain can work to its maximum. We are all faced with deadlines, presentations, interviews, and tests throughout our life. Just as in a chess game, we have to remain confident and calm to perform our best. 

Calm chess

Remaining calm and confident is the path to victory.

Reference: Chess.com

Top seed Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa R and Women Grandmaster Nandhidhaa P V became the Asian Champions in the Open and Women’s sections

Praggnanandhaa and Nandhidhaa becomes Asian Champions

Top seed Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa R and Women Grandmaster Nandhidhaa P V became the Asian Champions in the Open and Women’s sections respectively in the Asian Continental Chess Championship which concluded here at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Thursday.

Praggnanandhaa started the final round with a lead of half point over nearest contenders and drew his ninth-round encounter with compatriot B Adhiban in 63 moves to emerge as clear champion with seven points.

A six-way tie for the runner up position with six and half points was resolved by tie break score and Harsha Bharathakoti finished ahead of the rest while B Adhian completed the Indian domination with a third-place finish. Narayanan S L, Vokhidov Shamsiddin of Uzbekistan, Sethuraman S P and Karthik Venkataraman satisfied with fourth to seventh finish.

In the women’s category, Nandhidhaa drew her final round game against Divya Deshmukh to take her point tally to seven and half points to win the yellow metal.

Priyanka Nutakki, Divya Deshmukh and Thi Kim Phung Vo of Vietnam finished equal on six and half points but better tie break score helped Priyanka to finish as runner up. Divya finished third and Vo placed fourth.

Meanwhile Grandmaster Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan and Divya Deshmukh became the Asian Blitz champions in the open and women categories respectively.

In a befitting closing ceremony, Deputy President of Asian Chess Federation Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan and General Secretary Mr. Hisham Al-Taher gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the winners.

Top Ten (Open): 1. GM Praggnanandhaa R 2. GM Harsha Bharathakoti 3. GM Adhiban B  4. GM Narayanan S L 5. GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov of Uzbekistan 6. GM Sethuraman S P 7. Karthik Venkataraman 8. IM Pranesh M 9. IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 10. Pranav Anand.

Women : 1. WGM Nandhidhaa P V 2. WGM Priyanka Nutakki 3. WGM Divya Deshmukh 4. WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung of Vietnam 5. FM Kurmangaliyeva Liya of Kazakhstan 6. Nguyen Thi Mai Hung of Vietnam 7. IM Padmini Rout 8. WIM Aakanksha Hagawane  9. IM Nisha Mohota 10. WGM Vantika Agrawal.

Results Round-9 (Open) Indians otherwise stated :- GM Adhiban B (6.5) drew with GM Praggnanandhaa R (7); GM Narayanan S L (6.5) drew with GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov of Uzbekistan (6.5); GM Harsha Bharathakoti (6.5) drew with GM Karthik Venkataraman (6.5); GM Sethuraman S P (6.5) beat IM Koustav Chatterjee (5.5); IM Pranesh M (6) drew with GM Shyam Sundar M (6); GM Aravindh Chithambaram (6) beat GM Maksat Atabayev of Turkmenistan (5); GM Raja Rithvik R (5.5) drew with GM Karthikeyan Murali (5.5); GM Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan (5.5) drew with IM Samant Aditya S (5.5); GM Bilguun Sumiya of Mongolia (5) lost to GM Abhimanyu Puranik (6); IM Viani Antonio Dcunha (6) beat GM Leon Luke Mendonca (5).

Results Round-9 (Woman) :- WGM Divya Deshkumh (6.5) drew with WGM Nandhidhaa P V (7.5); WGM Priyanka Nutakki (6.5) beat IM Padmini Rout (6); IM Soumya Swaminathan (5) lost to WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung of Vietnam (6.5); WIM Rakshitta Ravi (5) lost to FM Liya Kurmangaliyeva of Kazakhstan (6); WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty (5) lost to WGM Thi Mai Hung Nguyen of Vietnam (6); IM Tania Sachdev (5) drew with WGM Vantika Agrawal (5.5); IM Nomin Erdene Davaademberel of Mongolia (5.5) beat WGM Srija Seshadri (4.5); WFM Munkhzul Davaakhuu of Mongolia (4.5) lost to IM Eesha Karavade (5.5); WGM Mary Ann Gomes (5.5) beat WIM Saina Salonika (4.5); WIM Cholleti Sahajasri (4.5) lost to WIM Aakanksha Hagawane (5.5).

Results Round-8 (Open) :- Koustav Chatterjee lost to Praggnanandhaa R; Shamsiddin Vokhidov drew with Harsha Bharathakoti; Saparmyrat Atabayev lost to Narayanan  S L; Leon Luke Mendonca lost to Adhiban B; Karthik Venkataraman beat Maksat Atabayev; Ayush Sharma lost to Sethuraman S P; Vignesh N R drew with Aravindh Chithamabaram; Karthikeyan Murali drew with Pranav Anand; Abhimanyu Puranik drew with Raja Rithvik; Pranv V lost to Pranesh M. 

Results Round-8 (Woman) :- Nandhidhaa P V beat Soumya Swaminathan; Priyanka Nutakki lost to Divya Deshmukh; Padmini Rout beat Mary Ann Gomes; Vantika Agrawal drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty; Vo Thi Kim Phung beat Cholleti Sahajasri; Thi Mai Hung Nguyen drew with Isha Sharma; Nisha Mohota drew with Tania Sachdev; Aakanksha Hagawane drew with Nomin Erdene Davaademberel; Eesha Karavade drew with Srija Seshadri; Enkhatuul Altan_Ulzii lost to Rakshitta Ravi.

Photo by Amit Sharma

Reference: All India Chess Federation.