World cup chess 2009

Sasikiran, Ganguli and Chanda have advanced to the second round but crashed out in this round of world cup chess 2009

WYCC-09, Sethuraman wins Gold

SP Sethuraman has won under 16 world youth chess 2009 gold, while Vidit Gujrathi has won silver in the same category.
Sai krishna and Saranya have won under 14 bronze medals
Murali karatikeyan and Ivana furtado have won under 10 silver medals
Congratulations to all....

Anand finishes 2nd in world blitz chess championship 09

Anand has finished on second position in 42 round world blitz chess championship 09.
This is still creditable considering he is almost 40 yrs old now.

Abhijit Gupta finished tied 1st in Bad Wiessee 09

Abhijit Gupta finished on tied first position in bavaria open chess tournament 2009 played at bad wiessee

Sasikiran and Harika win bronze in asian meet

Sasikiran and Harika have won individual bronze medals in asian indoor rapid chess tournament 2009.

Saumya wins World Junior Championship 2009!!!!

Saumya Swaminathan has won world junior chess championship 2009.
She has shown real courage in winning final round (which was required to win championship) which very few Indian sportpersons show. Congratulations!!!!!

Top rated chess players of India - pics

GM's Anand, Harikrishna, Sasikiran, Humpy, Ganguly, Chanda and Negi

Indian GrandMasters - Nov 2009 FIDE Rating

Indian Grandmasters as of today with current FIDE rating

GM's (19): Vishy Anand (2788), Sasikiran (2664), P. Harikrishna (2672), SS Ganguly (2654), Koneru Humpy (2603), Parimarjan Negi (2620), Abhijeet Gupta (2578), Sandipan Chanda (2623), Abhijjet Kunte (2522), Gopal (2593), Arun Prasad (2570), P. Magesh Chandran (2541), Deepan Chakravarty (2518), S. Kidambi (2516), Tejas Bakre (2474), Pravin Thipsay (2466) , D. Barua (2493), Ramesh (2482), Neelotpal Das (2440)
In addition to this, there are 61 IM's aspiring to become GM one day!!!

WGM's (11): D.Harika (IM-2467), S. Vijayalaxmi (IM-2464), Nisha Mohota (2351), Tania Sachdev ( IM-2399), S. Meenakshi (2324), Eesha Karawade (IM-2413), Saumya Swaminathan(2303), Swati Ghate (2323), Arti Ramesh (2213) , Mary Ann Gomes (2384), Krutika Nadig (2255)

In addition to this, there are 17 WIM's aspiring to become WGM one day!!!

World youth chess olympiad 2009- India wins silver

Indian team has won a silver medal in world youth chess olympiad.
Debashish das won gold medal on second board and Deep Reddy has won silver on reserve board

Sasikiran second in inventi chess 2009

Sasikiran finished on second position in Inventi GM chess tournament 2009

Esha Karawade wins silver at world team championship 2009

Esha Karawade has won a silver medal on third board in world women team championship 2009.
However overall it was a bad performance for team India which finished on 7th position.

Kolkata open 2009- Norms galore

In Kolkata open GM chess tournament 2009, many Indians have earned norms.
GM norm- Satyapragyan, RR Laxman, Sahaj Grover

IM norm- Nisha Mohota, Sayantan das, Vidit Gujrathi, Abhishek Das, Shyam Nikhil, Shiven Khosla, Ankit Rajpara, Anwesh Upadhyay, Shivananda,

RR Laxman became country's 20th GM

Summary of Anand's Major Achievements

In case anybody interested, here is the summary of Anand's major achievements...
Match format World Champion- 2008
Tournament format World Champion-2007
Knock out format World Champion- 2000
World rapid chess champion-2003
World number 1 rank - April 2007- Oct 2008
Chess Oscar- 5 times winner
World chess championship 2005- 2nd
Wijk Ann Zee Corus classic- 5 times winner
Linares Super GM classic- 3 times winner
Mainz chess classic- 11 times champion
Corsica masters rapid- 5 times champion
Dortmund classic-2 times winner
Melody Amber rapid- 5 times winner
World cup- 2 times champion
Eurotel 2002- champion
Leon chess rapid- 7 times winner
Reggio Emilia Super GM- winner 1991
Siemens-Frankfurt chess - 2 times winner
Tal Memorial Blitz - 1st
PCA world chess championship- challenger 1995
Padma Vibhshan-2008, Padma Bhushan - 2000, Padma Shri- 1987, Arjun award
Soviet Land Nehru award -1987
Rajiv Gandhi Khel-Ratna award- 1991- 1st recipient
Jameo De Oro- Spains highest civilian award
Book of the year award-BCF- 1998
Sportstar - Sportman of the Millinnium award

and champion of many other tournaments.........

Indian Chess Achievers (Other than Anand)

GM Sasikiran: Asian indoor rapid09- bronze, Inventi 2009-2nd, Pamplona 2008-1st, World mind sport rapid 2008-silver, Najdorf Memorial 08-1st, Kolkata open 08-1st, Asian indoor 07 rapid/blitz-Gold, classic-silver, Ordix open 07-1st tied, MTel 07- 2nd tied, Asian games 06-Gold, La-roche-sur-yon 06-1st, Aeroflot Open 06-tied 1st, Benasque open 05-1st, Sigeman 05-1st, Parsvanath International 05-1st, Biel 04-2nd, Hogeschool Zeeland open 04-1st, Canaria-enRed-Internet chess 04-1st, Dubai open 04-2nd, Politican Cup 03-1st, North Sea cup 03-1st, Asian champ 03-gold, TanChinNam 02-1st, Goodricke international-2nd, Hasting International 00,01-1st, Commonwealth 00-gold, 03-silver, National Champion-3 times, Arjun award-2002
GM Harikrishna: Nancy international 2009-1st, Spice cop USA2008-1st, Torre Memorial 07-2nd, Asian Games 06-Gold, Chess960 Jr rapid champion 06, Marks gyorgy memorial-Paks - 1st (06 & 07), Reykjavik open 06-tied 1st, Pamplona 05-2nd, Essent 05-1st, Sanjin hotel cup 05-1st, Bermuda International 05-1st, World Jr 04-gold, Dubai open 04-2nd, Hasting international 01-1st, Commonwealth 01-gold, World under 10-gold, 18-bronze, Arjun award-2006
GM Ganguly: Asian champ-09-Gold, Parsvanath open 2009-1st, Commonwealth champ 08-2nd, Sydney international 08-1st, Parsvanath international-2nd, Asian indoor 07 rapid team-gold, classic-silver, ONGC cup international 06-1st, United Insurance GM Open 05-1st, Kolkatta int. open 04- tied 1st, Gibtelecom chess 04- 2nd, World Jr 02-bronze, Asian champ 01-bronze, World under 10-bronze, National Champion-6 times, Arjun award- 2005
GM Sandipan Chanda: Kavala open 2009-2nd, Quebec open2007 -2nd tied, Canada open 07-2nd tied, World open 07-1st tied, Commonwealth 06-silver, Curacao 04- 1st, Benasque open 03- 1st tied, Schlosspark open 01-1st, Leinfeldener open 01-2nd
GM Abhijeet Kunte: Mayor's cup Mumbai 2008-1st tied, Asian individual 2007-bronze, Quebec open- 2nd tied, Canadian Open 2006- 1st, Parswanath int open 2005-2nd, British Champ 2003-1st, Kolkata int. open 2004- 1st, National Champion- 3 times
GM Koneru Humpy: Mayor's cup 2009-1st tied, Turkey GP2009-1st, Mayor's cup Mumbai 2008- 1st tied, Asian indoor 07 rapid/blitz-gold, classic-silver, European club cup 07/8-champion, Kaupthing open 07-1st, HSG open 07-1st, Padmashri award 07, Asian Games 06-2 Golds, North ural cup 05-1st, Win TV open 04-2nd, Asian Women 03-gold, British ladies champ 02-gold & 00-gold, World Jr 02-silver & 01-gold, Elekes Memorial GM 02-1st, Hotel cup GM 01-1st, First & Third sat 01-1st, World under 10,12,14-golds, National Champion, Arjun award- 2003
GM Ramesh: Commonwealth champ 2007-gold, British Champ 2002-gold, Parsvanath International 2003-1st
GM P.Magesh Chandran: Badalona open-3rd, Montcada open 2009-1st, World open 2005-1st, UTD invitational GM 2005-1st
GM Barua: United Insurance-2009-1st,Euwe Stimulans 2007-2nd, Olympiad-gold-1993, Tata International 2003-1st, National Champion- 3 times, Arjun award-1983
GM Gopal: Gjovic chess 2008-2nd, Gausdal classic 2008-2nd, Gibtelecom 2008-2nd tied, lake sevan round robin chess-2nd
GM Thipsay: Commonwealth 2004-bronze, National Champion- 7 times, Arjun award-1984
GM Neelotpal Das: San Sabastian international open 2006- 1st tied
GM Tejas Bakre: World under 16-Gold, First Saturday GM 2001-1st
GM Parimarjan Negi: Malaysian open-1st, Politiken cup 2009-1st, World Jr 2008-2nd, Kaupthing open 2008-1st tied, World Youth star 2007-1st tied, World under 12-bronze
IM Vijayalaxmi: Cutro open 2007-1st, Athens open 06-1st tied, Chess Olympiad 00, 02-silver, Asian women 01-silver, Commonwealth- gold,silver, National Champion-6 times, Arjun award-2000
GM Deepan Chakravarthy: ONGC cup 2006-1st tied, Piloo Modi open 2004-2nd tied
GM Abhijeet Gupta: Bad wiessee 09- tied 1st, Kavala open 2009-3rd, World Jr 2008-1st, Parsvanath international 2008-1st, Balaguer open 2007- 3rd tied, Andorra open 2006-2nd tied, Youth under 16 olympiad- 2 Silver
GM Arun Prasad: Scottish open 2009-1st
IM Harika: Asian indoor rapid09-bronze, World Jr 2008-1st, Asian indoor 2007 rapid-gold, classic-silver, World under 10,12-silvers, 14,18-golds, Asian Women 2003-silver, Commonwealth 2006,07-gold, Arjun award-2007
GM S.Kidambi: Badalona open 2008-1st, Open Olomouc 2004-1st
IM Saptharshi Roy: Canadian open 2005-1st
IM M.R.Venkatesh: Commonwealth 2006-bronze
IM Deep SenGupta: Canberra open 2009-1st, NK Schaken open 2007-1st tied, World under 12- Gold
IM Tania Sachdev: Arjun award 09, World mind sport08-silver, Asian Women 2007-gold, National Champion-2 times
IM MR Lalith Babu: Leiden open 2009-1st
IM Eesha Karawade: World Jr 2004-bronze, World team 2009-silver
WGM Saumya Swaminathan: World Jr 2009-Gold
WGM Meenakshi: Asian Women 2004-silver
WGM Nisha Mohota: Asian Women 2001-bronze, National Champion
WGM Arti Ramaswami: World under 18 girls-gold, National Champion
WGM Swati Ghate: National Champion
WGM Mary Ann Gomes - World under 18 girls - bronze, Olympiad 2008-silver-board 5
WGM Krutika Nadig- National Champion
IM D.V. Prasad: National Champion - 2 times
IM P. Konguwel- National Champion
IM Rohit G: World under 14-silver, Youth under 16 olympiad-silver
IM Adhiban: Wolrd under 16-gold
WIM Bhyagashri Thipse: Asian Women--1991-gold, National Champion - 5 times, Arjun award-1987
WIM Anupama Gokhale: Asian Women-1985,87- gold, National Champion- 5 times, Arjun award-1990
WIM Rohini Khadilkar - Asian Women - 1981,83 - gold, National Champion-5 times, Arjun award-1981
IM Manual Aron - National Champion - 9 times, Arjun award-1961
WIM Jayashri Khadilkar - National Champion - 4 times
WIM Vasanti Khadilkar - National Champion
Sayantan das- World under 12 - gold
WIM Padmini raut- World under 14 - gold
SP Sethuraman- World under 16-Gold
Vidit Gujrathi- World under 14-gold,under16-silver
Sahaj Grover: World under 10-gold
N. Srinath: World under 12-gold
Girish Kaushik: World under 10-gold
Moheneesh- World under 8- gold
Sahajasri - World under 10 girls-gold
Furtado Ivana - World under 8 girls-gold-2 times, under10-silver

Barua wins United insurance GM open 2009

Barua has won United Insurance and United leasing GM chess tournament 2009

Parimarjan Negi wins Arthur Tan Malaysian open 2009

Parimarjan Negi has won the strong Arthur Tan Malaysian open chess tournament 2009

Adhiban wins National B 2009

Adhiban has won recently conducted National B championship

Krutika Nadig and Sriram Zha have won subcontinent chess champ 2009

Krutika Nadig and Sriram Zha have won asian zone 3.2 i.e subcontinent chess championship 2009 for women and men's section respectively

Chanda and Abhijeet finishes at top in kavala open 2009

Sandipan Chanda and Abhijeet Gupta finished at creditable 2nd and third position at kavala international open tournament 2009
P Magesh Chandran finished on 3rd position in Badalona open, Spain

Tania Sachdev wins Arjuna award 2009

Tania Sachdev have been given this years arjuna award for her achievements in chess.
This is ok, however when Abhijeet Kunte is going to get it?Doesn't he deserve it?

Negi wins Politiken cup 2009

GM Parimarjan Negi has convincingly won the prestigious politiken cup 2009

Arun Prasad wins scottish chess open 2009

Arun Prasad has won the scottish chess open tournament 2009

MR Lalith Babu wins leiden open 2009

MR Lalith Babu has won the leiden open chess tournament 2009 played in Netherland

Magesh P wins Montcada open 2009

Magesh Panchnathan has won the Montcada international chess open 2009 tournament, spain.

GM Ganguly is new asian chess champion 2009

GM Ganguly has won the asian chess championship 2009. Congrats to him.
Sandipan chanda and Sasikiran also qualified for world cup