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Nagpur Sports

Chess carnival to start from June 1

by TLN Team May 31, 2023June 1, 2023
written by TLN Team May 31, 2023June 1, 2023
Chess carnival to start from June 1

The rising Chess popularity in the Orange City Nagpur has resulted in a Chess Carnival which kicks off on 1st June 2023 and culminates on 9th June 2023 at Naivedhyam Northstar Koradi, Nagpur.  Four big events and Maharashtra Challenge an exhibition Tandem Simultaneous display are lined up together for the first time in Nagpur. 

Dr.Parinay Fuke – President – Maharashtra Chess Association & Chairman Organising Committee will address the press conference and queries of reporters.

The 2nd Maharashtra International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament will be played in a Swiss League format comprising of 11 rounds and will stretch from 1st June to 9th June. Players from 15 countries are expected for this event and  it will be a good opportunity for rising chess players to make their norms and titles.

In Grandmaster Tournament , Top Seed Player is Boris Savchenko with a Rating of 2529 and 2nd Seed is Viacheslav V. Zakhartsov having rating of 2514 and both of them represent Russia.

The Under Elo 2000 will be a 9 round Swiss League event and is scheduled from 1st to 4th June 2023.Total 290 players have confirmed their entry.  The Under 1600 event will also be a Swiss League event and will run through from 6th to 9th June 2023.

Around 800 plus participants across these 3 Tournaments are expected to participate.

This is also for the first time in India that a Maharashtra Challenge Match is scheduled between a former World Championship Challenger Nigel Short and local rising teenage star Raunak Sadhwani dubbed as an Invitational Match. Incidentally Short himself was a child prodigy and lost the World title Match against Garry Kasparov. In another Invitational Match India Number three Vidit Gujrathi will lock horns with former World Championship Candidate and eight time Russian Champion Peter Svidler and he is playing first time in India. During the press conference Color for the first game will be chosen by the players by drawing of colors. All these four players will be felicitated.

Both the Maharashtra Challenge Matches are scheduled from 1st June 2023 to 6th June 2023 and will comprise of four Classical Games, four Rapid Games and 8 Blitz games.

The total Prize Money across these 3 Tournaments and Maharashtra Challenge Match is Rs.66,00,000/- . The main Sponsor for this event is Maharashtra Government and associate Sponsor is Pune’s leading Jeweller PNG Jewellers Pvt Ltd. 

Total 135 Participants and Participants from 15 Countries have registered their entry in 2nd Maharashtra Grandmaster International Open Chess Tournament which is above 2000 rating.

Out of this 135 Participants, there are 16 Grandmasters , 1 Women Grandmaster, 6 Women International Masters, 20 International Masters.

Schedule for GM Tournament:

DateDayEventTime
1st JuneThursdayTechnical Meeting2:00 pm
1st JuneThursdayInauguration2:30 pm
1st JuneThursdayRound 13:00 pm
2nd JuneFridayRound 210:00 am
2nd JuneFridayRound 34:00 pm
3rd JuneSaturdayRound 43:00 pm
4th JuneSundayRound 510:00 am
4th JuneSundayRound 64:00 pm
5th JuneMondayRound 73:00 pm
6th JuneTuesdayRound 83:00 pm
7th JuneWednesdayRound 93:00 pm
8th JuneThursdayRound 103:00 pm
9th JuneFridayRound 1110:30 am
9th JuneFridayClosing Ceremony4:00 pm

Schedule of Below 2000 tournament:

DateDayEventTime
1st JuneThursdayTechnical Meeting10:00 am
1st JuneThursdayInauguration10:30 am
1st JuneThursdayRound 111:00 am
1st JuneThursdayRound 23:30 pm
2nd JuneFridayRound 39:30 am
2nd JuneFridayRound 42:00 pm
3rd JuneSaturdayRound 59:00 am
3rd JuneSaturdayRound 61:00 pm
3rd JuneSaturdayRound 75:00 pm
4th JuneSundayRound 89:00 am
4th JuneSundayRound 91:00 pm
4th JuneSundayClosing Ceremony5:00 pm

Schedule for Below 1600 tournament:

DateDayEventTime
6th JuneTuesdayInauguration10:00 am
6th JuneTuesdayRound 110:30 am
6th JuneTuesdayRound 23:30 pm
7th JuneWednesdayRound 39:00 am
7th JuneWednesdayRound 41:00 pm
7th JuneWednesdayRound 55:00 pm
8th JuneThursdayRound 61:00 pm
8th JuneThursdayRound 75:00 pm
9th JuneFridayRound 89:00 am
9th JuneFridayRound 91:00 pm
9th JuneFridayClosing Ceremony4:30 pm

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