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Buddhibal Kreeda Trust Blitz on 14th April 2020

 

On 14th April 2020, Buddhibal Kreeda Trust will organize an open blitz event which will have a total prize fund of ₹30000 with the first prize of Rs.10,000. 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 ₹250. The event is open to players all over the world.

Prakash Kunte with 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).

When we spoke to Prakash Kunte, the guiding force behind the Buddhibal Kreeda Trust and he said, "Right now all the important tournaments across India are cancelled. Hence, we at Buddhibal Kreeda Trust want to provide players a chance to fight it out and also win prize money. At the same time we would like to contribute money to a good cause and hence all the entry fees will be donated to charity. 50% of the entry fee collected will go to PM CARES fund and the other 50% will go to CM relief fund."

Date: Tuesday 14th April 2020

Time: 8.00 p.m. IST

Time control: 3 mins each (no increment)

Number of rounds: 9

Total Prize fund: ₹30000

Venue: Vishy Anand Arena in Playchess under ChessBase India room

Details of the online tournament:

Main Prizes

1st 10000
2nd 5000
3rd 3000
4th 2000
5th 1500
6th 1000
7th 700
8th 500
9th 500
10th 500
11th 500
12th 500
13th 500
14th 500
15th 500

 

Best Below 1300

1st 400
2nd 300

Best Below 1200

1st 400
2nd 300

Best Below 1100

1st 400
2nd 300

Best Veterans

1st 400
2nd 300

Entry fees:

The entry fee for the event is ₹250The tournament is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. The last date for entry is 13th of March 2020 8 p.m. IST. Registration is Closed.

All the amount collected as entry fees will be donated to PM Cares and CM relief fund.

 

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

Confirmed Titled players

Germany no.3 GM Alexander Donchenko | Photo: John Saunders

Reigning National Triple Crown Champion GM Aravindh Chithambaram | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Argentina no.1 GM Alan Pichot

Peru no.3 GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Mikhail Kobalia - Coach of IM Volodar Murzin | Photo: Amruta Mokal

GM R Praggnanandhaa | Photo: Amruta Mokal

GM Karthikeyan Murali | Photo: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM Vaibhav Suri | Photo: Niki Riga

GM Abhimanyu Puranik | Photo: Amruta Mokal

The youngest GM of India - Gukesh D | Photo: John Saunders

GM Arjun Erigaisi

GM Elshan Moradiabadi

GM Raunak Sadhwani | Photo: Amruta Mokal

GM Diptayan Ghosh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Jakhongir Vakhidov of Uzbekistan | Photo: gamesmaven.io

GM Stany G A | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Visakh N R | Photo: Amruta Mokal

GM Shardul Gagare | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Iniyan P

GM Venkatesh M R | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Swayams Mishra | Photo: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

GM Vishnu Prasanna | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Ankit Rajpara

GM Thej Kumar MS | Photo: Niklesh Jain

GM Laxman R R | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Himanshu Sharma

IM Terry Renato | Photo: FIDE

IM Saksham Rautela

IM Krishna CRG | Photo: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IM Arjun Kalyan

IM Harshit Raja | Photo: Niki Riga

IM Ravi Teja S

Russian prodigy IM Volodar Murzin | Photo: Amruta Mokal

IM Arghyadip Das | Photo: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IM Leon Mendonca Luke | Photo: Niki Riga

Reigning 1st SAARC Open Champion IM Nubairshah Shaikh

IM Rathanvel V S | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Aditya Mittal | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Aronyak Ghosh | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Sankalp Gupta

IM Vignesh N R | Photo: Amruta Mokal

IM Himal Gusain | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Reigning National Under-17 Champion IM Neelash Saha | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Sammed Shete | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Kushager Krishnater

IM Raja Rithvik R | Photo: Niklesh Jain

IM Tania Sachdev | Photo: IA Gopakumar Sudhakaran

IM Giuseppe Leiva of Peru | Photo: FIDE

IM Konguvel P | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Rajdeep Sarkar | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM Soumya Swaminathan

IM Moksh Amit Doshi

IM Abhishek Kelkar

IM P Saravana Krishnan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

IM D K Sharma | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

WGM R Vaishali

WGM Beatriz Franco of Colombia

WIM Divya Deshmukh | Photo: John Saunders

WIM Vantika Agrawal

WIM Mrudul Dehankar

WIM Aakanksha Hagawane | Photo: Niklesh Jain

WIM Trisha Kanyamarala of Ireland

WIM Michelle Catherina P | Photo: Niklesh Jain

WIM Angela Franco | Photo: Niklesh Jain

About the organizer of the event - Buddhibal Kreeda Trust

The tournament is organized by Buddhibal Kreeda Trust (BKT). BKT is a well-known charitable trust which conducts regular Chess Tournaments and Chess Programs in Pune. It was founded in 1998 by Prakash Kunte, GM Abhijit Kunte, WIM Mrunalini Kunte-Aurangabadkar, Nityananand Mehendale (owner of Manohar Mangal Karyalay) and Raghuvir Apte. At the time of incorporation, the Kunte family had contributed Rs. 30,000 as corpus. Today, the corpus of the trust is more than Rs. 40 lakhs. The organization strives for promoting the game of chess not only in Pune, but also in Maharashtra and India. It also does its best to support talented players by providing financial help.

 

Since its inception, BKT has organized approximately 150 tournaments which include Women’s National B, National Team Championship, 4 National Championships, more than 10 State Selection Tournaments, more than 13 All India FIDE Rating Tournaments and more than 100 local Chess Tournaments. BKT has also organized India’s first ever knockout chess championship with a prize fund of Rs. 8,00,000 in 2006. In this tournament, most of the GMs from India had participated.

A huge rapid knockout event was held in Pune organized by Buddhibal Kreeda Trust

One of India's finest talents from a few years ago - GM Akshayraj Kore

Further, BKT also contributed towards the organization of the World Junior Chess Championship in 2014 and Maharashtra Chess League. BKT has so far distributed more than Rs. 30 lakhs in prize fund or in different types of sponsorships.

 

‘Laptop to Chess Players’ is an initiative of the BKT which helps in developing the budding chess players. Under this scheme, more than 20 laptops have been distributed to chess players between 2006 and 2014. Many prominent personalities and organizations contributed towards this initiative. In 2007, the program was for Pune Players only. Given below is the list of players:

In 2007, the program was for Pune players only. Swati Ghate, Kruttika Nadig, Abhijit Kunte, Amruta Mokal and Soumya Swaminathan were the players to be awarded laptops. | Photo: BKT archives

In 2008, the program was extended to CMCA Players. The awardees included Prathamesh Mokal, Vidit Gujrathi, Shardul Gagare, Akshyaraj Kore | Photo: BKT archives

In 2011, the program was extended to all players from Maharashtra. As many as 11 chess players were awarded laptops! Third from left in the front row is the little boy who won the silver medal at World Juniors 2018 a couple of days ago. It's acts like these seven years ago by trusts like BKT which may have pushed him to get better at chess!| Photo: BKT archives

2014 saw six players receive laptops from the BKT. While Vidit Gujrathi and Akshayraj Kore were awarded for acquiring the GM title, Shardul Gagare received a laptop for completing his IM title requirements. Besides, Aditya Mittal, Divya Deshmukh and Akanksha Hagwane were awarded for winning title prizes at the U-7 (Open), U-7 (Girls) and the U-13 (Girls) National Championships respectively. | Photo: BKT archives

Other than organising different types of chess tournaments, BKT has also supported many talented and upcoming players from Pune and Maharashtra by sponsoring them for international tournaments. Given below are the names of few players which BKT has sponsored:

1. IM Prathamesh Mokal

2. IM Abhishek Kelkar

3. WGM Soumya Swaminathan

4. Aniruddha Deshpande

5. Chinmay Kulkarni

6. Pruthu Deshpande

7. GM Abhimanyu Puranik

8. IM Harshit Raja

9. WIM Aakanksha Hagawane

10. Nikhil Dixit (Sponsorship for a tournament in India)

11. IM Rakesh Kulkarni (Accommodation sponsored by BKT in Dubai)

12. IM Sameer Kathmale (Accommodation sponsored by BKT in Dubai)

 

Buddhibal Kreeda Trust has also participated in various All India National Team Chess Championships by fully sponsoring a 5 player team in open and women’s categories. The BKT team won in the Women’s category at the 2004 National Team Chess Championship. In these teams many promising players were part of the team such as Amruta Mokal, WGM Soumya Swaminathan, Sneha Ghatpande, Anuprita Patil, Devangi Patankar, IM Abhishek Kelkar, Omkar Patwardhan, Sohan Phadke and Aniruddha Deshpande.

When Buddhibal Kreeda Trust team won the National Teams event in Pune!

Buddhibal Kreeda Trust has been providing sports scholarship to players of the Under-8 and Under-10 age categories of Rs. 6,000/- per year to the best player in Pune for last 6 years. The Trust also provided sponsorship to prominent players of Pune for their international open chess tournaments.

 

The current trustees of BKT are Mr. Prakash Kunte (Managing Trustee), Mrs. Mrunalini Kunte- Aurangabadkar, Mr. Chandrashekhar Nanivadekar, Mr. Ravindra Akolkar, Mr. Chandrakant Mokashi and Mr. Sanjay Adhav.

Prakash Kunte has worked tirelessly througout his life to ensure that chess in Pune and Maharashtra develops.

What Buddhibal Kreeda Trust (BKT) means to me?

By IM Abhishek Kelkar

 

"My chess career started in 1998! The trio Mrunalini Kunte Tai (coach), Abhijit Kunte dada (my childhood idol, mentor and inspiration), Kunte kaka (fatherly figure to me, my well wisher, supporter and financial source in my difficult times) whatever I am today is because of the existence of these 3 pillars in my life! They 3 formed Buddhibal Kreeda trust in 1998, in the same year when my chess kicked off. My 1st state championship U-7 catergory was organized by BKT. Since then I am following the fantastic journey of BKT. I have witnessed every initiative of BKT, whether it may felicitation functions or laptop distribution to chess players function.

 

Most of the tournaments organised by BKT I had participated; Lately I am assisting Kunte Kaka in the organization. I have won few of tournaments organized by BKT. I have participated in more than 10 editions of "Shri Mahaeshwaranand Saraswati Memorial" (a strong tournament) though never got chance to hold the trophy. Looking forward to change my luck in this year!

 

I thank BKT and Shri.Prakash Kunte Kaka for all his inputs and efforts, for spreading chess and supporting countless chess players, their families (psychologically and financially) in last 20 years. I pray to God his love and passion for chess may increase day by day as chess needs such an amazing person for its acceptance in the society on large scales. Kudos to Kaka. I request young generation to participate in this year's Mahaeshwaranand Saraswati All India Open tournament 2018". Wishing a grand success for the tournament & BKT in coming years."

IM Abhishek Kelkar is an IM and a Shiv Chatrapati award winner

 

Contact and registration queries:

Mr. Shahid Ahmed (Tournament director) - 9038139510

Email - teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com

• We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. Minimum requirement is at least 2 mbps. No phone calls/messages will be entertained once the tournament starts from 8 p.m. IST onwards. All queries must be resolved before the tournament.

List of players:

1 GM Alexander Donchenko Alex Donchenko 2646
2 GM Aravindh Chithambaram hitter1999 2641
3 GM Alan Pichot alanp 2630
4 GM Jose Martinez Alcantara Jospem31 2620
5 GM S L Narayanan Narayanansl 2618
6 GM Mikhail Kobalia Mikhail kobalia 2614
7 GM R Praggnanandhaa chessworld1 2608
8 GM Karthikeyan Murali fighter64 2606
9 GM Vaibhav Suri irus1997 2600
10 GM Abhimanyu Puranik pabh 2584
11 GM Gukesh D gk06 2563
12 GM Arjun Erigaisi Indian-Lion 2559
13 GM Elshan Moradiabadi GMAbadi 2555
14 GM Raunak Sadhwani devil1234 2545
15 GM Diptayan Ghosh Diptayan 2541
16 GM Jakhongir Vakhidov UzbekTiger95 2533
17 GM Stany G A Stany G A 2522
18 GM Visakh N R Visakh 2516
19 GM Shardul Gagare IndianKing97 2514
20 GM P Iniyan Superind2002 2506
21 IM Renato Terry TerryR 2504
22 GM Venkatesh M R Sivaji 2493
23 GM Swayams Mishra Mr bh6 2489
24 IM Saksham Rautela Kcnock 2480
25 IM Krishna CRG crg 2478
26 IM Arjun Kalyan Arjunkalyan 2477
27 GM Vishnu Prasanna fidodido 2476
28 IM Harshit Raja Johncking 2472
29 IM Ravi Teja S Ravi Teja S 2469
30 IM Volodar Murzin Murzin 2465
31 GM Abhijit Kunte Abhijit Kunte 2458
32 IM Arghyadip Das arghyadip 2453
33 GM Ankit Rajpara twentyseven 2452
34 IM Leon Mendonca Luke boobyfischer 2452
35 IM Nubairshah Shaikh CREATOR 1198 2445
36 IM Rathanvel V S vsr64 2445
37 IM Aditya Mittal vinniethepooh 2438
38 IM Aronyak Ghosh STRANGE 2436
39 GM Thej Kumar MS msthej 2433
40 IM Sankalp Gupta Gupta_Sankalp 2429
41 IM Vignesh N R Vignesh NR 2428
42 IM Himal Gusain rajdhani express 2414
43 FM Srihari L R lsr 2414
44 IM Neelash Saha gamechanger 2413
45 IM Sammed Shete champion111 2412
46 GM Laxman R R LAXMAN 2411
47 IM Kushager Krishnater kushu_attack 2410
48 IM Raja Rithvik R MasteredUI 2408
49 GM Himanshu Sharma MUSICALCHESS1009 2394
50 WGM R Vaishali rvaishali2001 2393
51 IM Tania Sachdev Tania Sachdev 2392
52 IM Giuseppe Leiva unico 2391
53 IM Konguvel P konguvel 2358
54 IM Rajdeep Sarkar RajdeepSarkar123456 2355
55 IM Soumya Swaminathan travellingknight 2351
56 IM P D S Girinath girinathpds76 2335
57 IM Moksh Doshi Mokshu16 2332
58 IM Abhishek Kelkar Livestrong_6 2320
59 FM Ajay Karthikeyan skkeyan 2315
60 IM P Saravana Krishnan mbachez90 2312
61 WIM Divya Deshmukh chessylife 2305
62 Balasubramaniam H BIGIL 2298
63 Aditya Samant adityass 2297
64 IM D K Sharma kakdela 2289
65 WIM Vantika Agrawal SHADOW_MASTER 2286
66 FM Mithil Ajgaonkar Mithil 2263
67 WFM Savithashri Baskar shavithashri 2261
68 FM Jubin Jimmy SAAKER 2259
69 WIM Mrudul Vilas Dehankar shiv01 2256
70 CM Prraneeth Vuppala Smart123 2253
71 FM Ankit Gajwa Ab de villiers 2245
72 WIM Aakanksha Hagawane Ash 2000 2238
73 Shiv Shome kingofall 2237
74 Avdhoot Lendhe eagle123 2217
75 WIM Trisha Kanyamarala trishakan 2201
76 Atharva Godbole Virat18 2201
77 Rohit S rohit2007 2189
78 WIM Michelle Catherina P zanta 2176
79 WIM Saloni Sapale Saloni1204 2147
80 FM Arvind C.J Junosource 2123
81 Soham Datar Sohamchess64 2115
82 Chandrasish Majumdar chandrasish96 2106
83 WGM Beatriz Franco IRENEFRANCO 2103
84 Thrish Karthik Thrish 2095
85 WIM Angela Franco angychess 2089
86 Milind Maiti Maitiboy 2068
87 Alan Diviya Raj Michaelraj_98 2033
88 Sravan Renjith sravanrenjith 2026
89 Kapil Lohana Bounceback123 2007
90 CM Vinod Bhagwat vkbchess 2002
91 Pruthu Deshpande GR8KNIGHT2001 2000
92 Arhan Anand legacyplayer 1979
93 Aditya Ramanathan darkknight0405 1950
94 Akshay Borgaonkar chess2009 1941
95 Arya Nirag Shah aryarsh 1909
96 Kiran Panditrao Kiran Panditrao 1898
97 Ganeshbabu Gnanagurusamy Adi2005 1896
98 Rishabh Gokhale GM34rish12gokh4 1852
99 Chia Yu Zhe Ashton AntiSocial 1812
100 Shree Ganesh Muthu Annamalai Shreeganesh 1803
101 Ramesh csrrao 1800
102 Daakshin Arun daaks2009 1758
103 Arsh Shah Arshsh123456789 1751
104 Satvik Kapoor Satvik_ygm 1741
105 Debarghya Samanta tapa1964 1698
106 Jaiveer Mahendru Diamond06 1695
107 Rupam Mukherjee HMSDREADNOUGHT1906 1689
108 Mohit Bayyarapu mohitbayya 1687
109 Prakhar Bajaj gaurav306 1663
110 Srujan Keerthan SrujanKeerthan 1647
111 Shriya Deshpande shri28 1616
112 Dhruv Swapnil Haldankar haldankardhruv 1588
113 Sirsat Shekhar V RD350 1581
114 Riyan Amit Shah Hacker123 1554
115 Raghav Vaidya raghav_vaidya 1524
116 Ankit Bhattacharya Ankit2002 1517
117 Mahi Doshi chess1311 1502
118 Devarsh M Borkhetriya Lightning McQueen 1482
119 Advait Ratnakar Vibhute advait30 1472
120 Amogh Kunte Moghu 1436
121 Kiran Vasishta T S Kiran Vasishta 1427
122 Ekantharaju Ekanth2020 1403
123 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy mvsr1234 1387
124 Vihaan Dawda vihaandawda 1369
125 B Gowtham Gowthamtrichy 1350
126 Kimaya Virle kimaya_virle#24 1349
127 Viraj Gogte virgog 1337
128 Akshit Bhatia Abjgamer 1332
129 Raja Sree Virinchi Vadali virinchi 1331
130 Anubhav Singhal Parul1978 1319
131 Padmaesh M.K. Padmaesh M K 1293
132 Vishwajith S gmkalbande 1292
133 Sachith Katti Shadow666 1265
134 Suhani Bhartiya
1265
135 Disha Dhore Knownunknown01 1257
136 Ashish Sehgal asehgal1987 1231
137 Lakshya Chauhan Lak_Champ 1225
138 Rajrajeshwari Yogesh Deshmukh Rajeshwari1208 1208
139 Saparya Ghosh dancingpawn 1196
140 Vedang Sapre Vedang06 1193
141 Saouhridya Pran Kashyap boardboy 1188
142 Ashok Turkia Phe32 1176
143 Shivam Shah S1h2i3v4 1172
144 Kuldeep Chotrani Kuldeep Chotrani 1164
145 Daksh Shinghal Dakshshinghalbly 1157
146 Aarush Dolas aarushdolas 1153
147 Shah Purvaan riyanshah 1152
148 Sujan Bharadwaj S Sujan bharadwaj 1129
149 Lakshmi Sai Bhargav Vemparala TacticalThor 1124
150 Ishan Warudkar ishanw 1117
151 Archit Saigal architsaigal 1093
152 Dhruv Joshi dhruvjoshi 1083
153 Dakhsha Rudra dakhsha2705 1076
154 Sree Hari Nathan K S sreeharia11 1069
155 Anushka Joshi anushkacjoshi 1056
156 Sarthak Deshpande sarthoba 1050
157 Sankar Bhattacharya Sanjay125 1043
158 Wadikar Arnav Arnavwadikar 1040
159 Nihira Koul Nkoul 1025
160 Shreyas G Kaushik Sgk 1003
161 Amit Mishra amitm55 0
162 Aneesh Adiga Aneesh009 0
163 Keshav N keshavthewinner 0
164 Mayur Gondhalekar gonda 0
165 Namratha Rao Namratha Rao 0
166 Paul KATTUKAREN 0
167 Piyush Kumar Jha piyush671504 0
168 Rahul Anil Bhagwat MRAA 0
169 Shabadjot Singh khalsa20 0
170 Srujan Deshpande
0
171 Yajurvedan Sogi yvedan29 0
172 Yamini Sriram yamini_r 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to play tournament?

Please ensure that you have a valid Playchess id. You can create one here and then buy the premium membership from the product embeds given above.

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. 

The tournament will take place in the Vishy Anand Arena in the ChessBase India room. Registered players should be online and logged into Playchess at least 30 minutes before the start of the tournament to confirm your entries on 14th of April 2020. 7:30 p.m. IST would be a good time.

Click on the ‘Players’ Tab and then click on ‘Join Event’. The Sysop (Tournament Director) will accept your entry. Only those who have paid the entry fee will be allowed to play.

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

About online tournaments on Playchess by ChessBase India:

ChessBase India has organized innumerable online events successfully. Here is some feedback about the quality of the events:

 

GM Vaibhav Suri, winner of 2nd ChessBase Online Blitz tournament

The tournament was conducted quite smoothly and a quite "fun Sunday" event. The participation of Adhiban & Sethuraman definitely added the spark to the event. I guess an Online Blitz Festival would be the next way to go (with different formats - Chess960, Bughouse, Bullet etc). Overall really happy with such events. Way to go!!

 

GM R R Laxman, former National Blitz Champion

I thank the  Chessbase India team once more for their strenous and tireless endeavour to popularise blitz events in India. Considering the fact that the present day time control  even in classical format ( unlike the yesteryears)  demands quick reflexes and blitz skills  , I feel that the entire Chessbase India team is doing an exemplary and praiseworthy job. A boon for Indian chess !!!. Though my performance this time was not satisfactory ,I hope to excel and cherish more pleasant memories from my side in the forthcoming editions of Chessbase India blitz events.

 

IM Ravi Teja S, former National Challengers Champion

We (Ravi Teja&Anusha NLV) thoroughly enjoyed the tournament.it was exciting!

 

Tushar Bohra, father of Kanishk Bohra

Thanks for enrolling Kanishk for the event. He had a great time playing the games. And a great overall experience.

 

D Gukesh, youngest GM of India

I am extremely happy to have participated in my first online blitz tmt conducted by ChessBase India and loved the experience and thrill. from the start to the finish its professionally conducted and got the rare opportunity to play several high-class players in a single event and looking forward for its next event

 

Priti Mahendru, mother of Jaiveer Mahendru

This was our second chessbase online blitz event. My son is 8 years and it was an absolute thrill for him to be playing against titled players ! Thanks a lot for organizing this. We look forward to more such events !

 

Kushagra Mohan

I was happy the way the tournament was conducted. No problems at all. You just keep increasing the prize money and that is a big improvement.Cannot hope for more.

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