Left to right - sitting, 1. Mr. Milind Gunjal         2. Mr. Prakash Kunte - 3. Dr. Nitin Kareer, IAS  4. Mr. Anand Deshpande Standing Left to right 1. WGM Swati Ghate, WIM Kruttika Nadig, GM Abhijit Kunte, Amruta Mokal, Soumya Swaminathan

Laptops For Six Pune Players
By Arvind Aaron

Six players from Pune, GM Abhijit Kunte, WGMs Swati Ghate, Eesha Karavade, WIM Kruttika Nadig, Amruta Mokal and Soumya Swaminathan were given laptop

computers and the vision was to make Pune the No.1 Chess city in India. It took place on April 20 in Council Hall and Dr Nitin Kareer, Pune Divisional

Commissioner and Patron, CPAI presided as Anand Deshpande, Managing Director, Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd sponsored the machines.

Leading players from the Pune Chess Circle were present in the show organised by the Buddhibal Kreeda Trust. Thanking the sponsors, former national champion

GM Kunte said that this effort will surely bring Pune from the current No.3 playing city in India (after Chennai, Kolkata) to No.1 in the near future. Dr

Karavade spoke on behalf of the parents of the players. Prakash Kunte, of the Buddhibal Kreeda Trust, thanked the sponsors and said now it is the turn of the

players now to perform and bring returns for the sponsors.

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Published on : 25th April, 2007