India versus Armenia Under-21 Match

By Arvind Aaron

Delhi will be the venue for the inaugural Under-21 India versus Armenia Friendship Chess Match from November 30 to December 2. The venue will be the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Delhi.

The team event will be played over four boards. India will be headed by World Junior champion Abhijeet Gupta, World Under-16 champion B. Adhiban, GM-elect S. Arun Prasad, former World Under-12 champion Deep Sengupta, IM Gogineni Rohith. Coach for the Indian team will be IM Vishal Sareen.

Armenia will be represented by GM Avetik Grigoryan, GM Zaven Adriasian, IM Hrant Melkumyan, FM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will be the sponsor and fund the event. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Treasurer, AICF and Secretary, Delhi Chess Association will organise the show. International Master G.B. Joshi will be the co-ordinator. Gopakumar of Delhi will be the chief arbiter.

India has not played such matches before. This is a new idea. It should help a great deal as team competitions are not popular in India. Armenia are serious opponents. They are for example, winners of the Chess Olympiad at Turin 2006. Armenia and India have hosted the World Juniors more times than others and a match between these nations will be interesting.

There will be three rounds and played on four boards. Colour will alternate in the first and second round. In the third round, there will be a colour toss. Colours wont matter since a team having white will play white on board one and three and black on boards two and four.

The time control will be 90 minutes and a 30 second increment per move. The winner of round one will get two points and loser zero. In case of a 2-2 draw, the score will be one each. After three matches if both teams had won one each and drawn the third one, the tie will be declared a draw

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