Saturday Show: Swathi Ghate

Chess. FM India Weekly Saturday show - Interview with WGM Swathi Ghate

Chess.FM India's Saturday Show presents an interview with WGM Swathi Ghate of Pune. The weekly Saturday show also features "India this Week", and Up coming tournaments across India. India this week brings an update on Viswanathan Anand at the World Chess championship in progress at Mexico city, the Asian Individual Championship at Cebu City, and the various events held recently across India.


You can listen to Chess.FM India directly heard through the web browsers at http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/India.asx or make a visit to www.chess.fm for much more shows and game videos too. The show will also be also be replayed right through the week at the above links.

Join the ICC Chess.FM World Championship team for a ringside seat of all the action from Mexico City! www.chessclub.com is providing some of the best coverage ever produced for a big event such as this - and not just restricted to members-only.

Free to non-members on ICC will be Mig's podcast on his spin of the days play along with a daily video diary from Macauley in Mexico. Do not miss the free 15-min Game of the Day video from one of ICC commentary team. As a special feature, we have round by round instructive analysis of GM Viswanathan Anand's games by GM R B Ramesh.
For members, there will be daily live commentary and board analyses with US Chess Journalist of the Year, Mig Greengard, and he'll be joined each day on the show by one of our crack GM commentary team of Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Jon Speelman, John Fedorowicz, Gregory Kaidanov and Nick De Firmian. Macauley Peterson will also have interviews and the latest news direct from the Mexico City press center. And for each round during the show, the famed New In Chess trivia contest will see a lucky winner receive a one-year subscription to the best chess magazine in the world.

ChessFM India, the exclusive India channel of Internet Chess Club's www.chess.fm was inaugurated during the Anand Charity Simul for Vidyasagar charity organisation. The previous Saturday show guests include various chess personalties, former World Junior champion GM Harikrishna, World's youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi, Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, Indian Women champion WGM Tania Sachdev, GM Dibyendu Barua, WGM Dronavalli Harika, IM Prathamesh, WGM S Vijayalakshmi, IM GN Gopal, WIM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, IM D V Prasad, R V Gokhale.

ChessFM India is a free service and apart from the Saturday weekly show, has broadcasts Grandmaster commentary and analysis of popular Chess tournaments such M Tel Super category tournament, Bulgaria and the Sparkassen Chess Festival, Dortmund and the recently concluded Mainz Rapid won by GM Viswanathan Anand.


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National Subjunior- Boys & Girls. Top 10 board pairings

Round 3 on 2007/10/04 at 9.00 a.m
Bo. Name IRtg Club Pts Res. Pts Name IRtg Club
1 Udeshi Aditya 2355 MAHA 2 2 Chatterjee Sandipan 2075 WB
2 FM Nitin S 2321 TN 2 2 Imtiaz Islam Bora 2043 ASSAM
3 Satyajit Kundu 2085 WB 2 2 FM Priyadharshan K 2298 TN
4 Debashis Das 2286 ORISSA 2 2 Srikanth Ajay 2028 TN
5 IM Shyam Sundar M 2241 TN 2 2 Nayak Biswajit 2024 ORISSA
6 Abhilash Reddy M L 2069 AP 2 2 FM Prasanna Rao 2228 MAHA
7 FM Narayanan Srinath 2201 TN 2 2 Abhratanu Dutta 2023 WB
8 Sri Harsha Lingala 2052 AP 2 2 Hemant Sharma 2193 DEL
9 Santhosh Kumar G 2024 TN 2 2 Bitan Banerjee 2149 WB
10 Surendran N 2126 TN 2 2 Lokesh P 2012 TN

Girls :
1 Shristi J Shetty 1916 KAR 2 2 WFM Pon N Krithika 2140 TN
2 Kanuri Tejaswi 2039 AP 2 2 Mohana Sengupta 1904 WB
3 Jagadambal M 1896 TN 2 2 Bharathi R 2017 TN
4 Sriharika Y G 1896 AP 2 2 Sukanya Dutta 1990 WB
5 Gagare Shalmali 1988 MAHA 2 2 Sahari J 1836 AP
6 Khushboo M 1754 TN 2 2 Mohana Priya J 1988 TN
7 Niji A 1925 KERALA 2 2 Gupta Astha 1800 RAJ
8 Pratyusha Bodda 1736 AP 2 2 Saranya J 1922 TN
9 Roy Pallabi 2032 WB 1½ 2 Nandhidhaa P V 1729 TN
10 Devangi Patankar 2021 MAHA 1½ 1½ Diotima Dutta Gupta 1670 WB

Also visit TNCA website for more information

Next year comes soon

Hours after winning the World Chess Championship, Viswanathan Anand, an Indian grandmaster, sat in his hotel in Mexico City on Saturday and groped for words to explain how he felt.


“You can imagine,” he said by telephone. “I don’t know how on an emotional level it affects me.”
Mr. Anand’s victory was not a surprise — he is ranked No.1 in the world — but it was a milestone. He is the first Asian to be the undisputed champion and only the second player from outside Eastern Europe in the last 60 years. (The other was the American Bobby Fischer, who held the title from 1972 to 1975.)
Mr. Anand will not have a lot of time to rest on his laurels. Under rules of the World Chess Federation, the organizers of the championship, he will have to play a match early next year against the Russian Vladimir Kramnik, the previous champion.
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KING OF CHESS -ANAND SHADOWED BY CRICKET?

King of chess
Business Standard / New Delhi October 03, 2007
After 14 days of hard work in Mexico City, chess maestro Viswanathan Anand is entitled to a certain satisfaction. He has been crowned world champion (and received the attached prize money, $390,000, or over Rs 1.5 crore). Across 121 years, only 17 men have won this title — of them, Anand is the only one born and bred outside Europe and the former USSR. In most of the 160-odd nations where this ancient game is played seriously, this achievement would confer automatic superstar status. Sadly, in his country of origin, where chess was invented, Anand’s achievement is overshadowed in the public consciousness by the performance of the national cricket team. In contrast to the cricketers, Anand won without fuss and bother. He entered Mexico as the top seed and duly dominated a field, which consisted of eight of the world’s best players, emerging the undefeated champion. Uniquely, the 37-year-old is the only one to have won the world title under two different formats, and he also holds the world rapid title.

To play tournament chess at any level requires natural talent, strong will, good nerves, physical fitness and the acquisition of a huge body of knowledge about the ways in which the pieces interact across the 64 squares. While the other qualities may be genetic, acquiring the theory requires hard work. The game is taught in schools across much of Western Europe and across all the former Soviet republics by top-class practitioners. It is an amazing act of self-pedagogy for somebody to consistently beat the best products off those assembly lines. It is roughly equivalent to learning a foreign language with enough fluency to write in it and win a Nobel.

Anand’s feats have inspired an entire generation of talented Indian players. The “Indian chess revolution”, if it may be so described, has produced a string of teenagers (Harikrishna, Humpy, Negi, Sachdeva) who compete and win at the highest levels. Sadly, most of this activity has taken place off the public radar and been driven by the efforts of a few dedicated souls.

Chess has many positive externalities. It helps practitioners learn the discipline and self-control required to calculate a mass of possibilities and make quick decisions against a ticking clock. It is a terrific training ground for visuo-spatial pattern recognition. Last but not least, some of the thorniest problems in mathematics and computer science revolve around the game and programming computers to play it well. Thus, it has obvious synergies with information technology and training — the fact that Anand is the NIIT brand ambassador is recognition of this.
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Watchout the Goans!!

Four more Goans - Agasti Tari, Brahmanand Kamat,
M. Harikrishnan and Rakshith Rai - made it to the FIDE rating list
which was released on October 1, 2007. This reflects the
growing popularity of chess with the youngsters in Goa
as they are now performing well in the Open tournaments
and earning a name for themselves and the State.

Goan chess also celebrated the success of Anurag Mhamal
and Umang Kaisary whose ratings improved by 33 points and
67 points respectively. Whereas Umang dazzled in Mangalore
with a 2093 performance, Anurag essayed a brilliant 2203 performance
in the National 'B' conducted at Dindigul, Tamil Nadu.

Among the active players the gap between Woman FIDE Master
Bhakti Kulkarni and Anurag Mhamal has narrowed to just
20 points though it must be mentioned that Bhakti will be gaining
61 ELO points for her performance in the National Junior Championship
which will be reflected in the January 2008 rating list.

Some of the important ratings are as follows -


J. Venkata Ramana 2168
Mandar Tahmankar 2141
Bhakti Kulkarni 2112
Swapnil Hobble 2105
Anurag Mhamal 2092
Suhas Asnodkar 2031
Shubham Pinge 2012
Sumit Asnodkar 1999
P.M. Kantak 1990
Niraj Saripalli 1967
Standrik Colaso 1957
Sanjay Kavlekar 1947
Celianne Carvalho 1926
A. Malwankar 1914
Umang Kaisary 1889
Prasanna Swamy 1884
Nandhini Saripalli 1876
Keegan Furtado 1870
Shradha Mohanan 1857
Cyrus Perreira 1845
V. Siva Swamy 1820
Pranav Zantye 1795
Anuradha Chavan 1766
Chinmay Patil 1725

New entrants
Agasti Tari 1875
Brahmanand Kamat 1747
M. Harikrishnan 1730
Rakshith Rai 1656

Recent top rating performances by Goan players

1. Commonwealth, November 2006 - 2328 Bhakti Kulkarni (9 games)
2. National Junior Girls 2007 - 2220 Bhakti Kulkarni (10 games)
3. National B 2006 - 2203 Anurag Mhamal (12 games)
4. Sangli, May 2007 - 2176 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
5. Rochess, December 2006 - 2162 Anurag Mhamal (7 games)
6. Sangli, December 2006 - 2157 Anurag Mhamal (8 games)
6. Mangalore 2007 - 2093 Umang Kaisary (7 games)

Advanced Electronic Chess Game

Want to take a break from the monotony of work and exercise those brain muscles (without using any of those Brain Training games)? The Advanced Robotic Chess Game could be a pretty interesting candidate.

This is the advanced electronic chess game that allows you to play against a robotic opponent that automatically recognizes and counters the movement of your chess pieces using the touch-sensitive chessboard. You can play against the computer or it can play itself, yet it provides beginners and experienced players appropriate challenges by offering 120 levels of play (16 levels of analysis), and gives instruction and counsel using voice prompts, while its LCD screen shows piece-movement text messages for additional help without audio commentary. The computer has an estimated U.S. Chess Federation Class A skill rating of 1900, and it will never accept an illegal move, and rates your skill after every match; a coaching and teaching mode provide hints and allows you to reconsider moves.

At $249.95 each, it certainly requires some thought before purchasing one. Casual chess players will probably avoid this, but the more serious aficionados would definitely love such a challenge!

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INNOVATIVE CM INAGURATES CHESS PARK

Honorable Chief Minister Sri Kumaraswami and Honorable Deputy Chief Minister Sri Yadiyurappa played symbolic chess moves on the board to inaugurate 'Mini Chess Park' in City's Tagore Park.

After the inauguration Chief Minister in his address praised the efforts to start Chess Park to popularize the intellectual game among public and wished all the success. District In charge Minister Sri Nagaraja Shetty; D.K District Deputy Commissioner Sri Maheshwara Rao; Sri Srinivas Nayak Indaje, Vice President, CADK; Sri Prasanna Rao, Secretary, CADK; Sri Deric Pinto, Administrator, Derik's Chess School were also present on the occasion.

After the inauguration young upcoming talents of the district- Adith jagadish, Nihal Manjunath, Anantharam R U, Sharan rao, Andrea D'souza and other players played chess games to enthrall the public.

D.K District Administration in association with Combined D.K District Chess Association (CADK) and Derik's Chess School has planned to arrange for the Mini Chess Park in Tagore Park to encourage public to learn and play this intellectual game and also planned to provide opportunities to talented players to display their skills.

As per the vision of Deputy Commissioner concrete chess boards will be constructed for the public to play chess. Also there will be weekend training sessions by Derik's Chess School exclusively for the public. The 'Mini Chess Park' will be first of its kind in India.

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