The Asian team chess championship is taking place 20-28th December in Kolkata, India. A total of 93 players from Vietnam, India, Iran, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Yemen, Sri Lanka, and Nepal will take part in the competition.

The championship scheduled to start on December 21, has been postponed by a day due to the late arrival of Bangladesh and Lanka teams. The Bangladesh captain, Niaz Murshed, however, arrived in the city earlier in the evening and attended the captains meeting. In the captains meeting held late in the evening it was agreed by all the teams that the tournament would start from Tuesday, December 22.

It was also decided in the captains meeting that no player can agree to a draw before 30 moves. The games will start from 2 p.m everyday.The time limit for each game will be 40 moves in the first one and half hours followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game. In addition there would be 30 seconds increment for each move.

India A teams start as the favourite in both the men's and women's sections in this 7 round Swiss league championship which will continue untill December 28. As the host country, India will be fielding 2 teams in each category.

Lighting the holy lamp

Tournament Director GM Dibyendu Barua presents a memento to Chief Guest Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Honourable Union Finance Minister of India at the opening ceremony. At left is Mr D.V.Sundar, Hony Secretary, All India Chess Federation

Indonesia, Vietnamese and other teams at the opening ceremony

Official site: http://www.asianteamchess09.com/index.asp

Participants men

1. INDIA A (RtgAvg:2653)

1 GM Harikrishna P 2672 IND
2 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2664 IND
3 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2654 IND
4 GM Negi Parimarjan 2620 IND
5 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 2518 IND

2. VIETNAM (RtgAvg:2563)

1 GM Le Quang Liem 2624 VIE
2 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2616 VIE
3 GM Bui Vinh 2488 VIE
4 GM Dao Thien Hai 2524 VIE
5 GM Nguyen Anh Dung 2447 VIE

3. IRAN (RtgAvg:2532)

1 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2603 IRI
2 GM Moradiabadi Elshan 2560 IRI
3 GM Mahjoob Morteza 2510 IRI
4 GM Bagheri Amir 2410 IRI
5 IM Toufighi Homayoon 2454 IRI

4. INDIA B (RtgAvg:2491)

1 IM Adhiban B 2486 IND
2 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 2480 IND
3 GM Laxman R R 2511 IND
4 IM Sengupta Deep 2488 IND
5 IM Himanshu Sharma 2469 IND

5. INDONESIA (RtgAvg:2382)

1 GM Megaranto Susanto 2522 INA
2 IM Purnama Tirta Chandra 2417 INA
3 FM Novita Anjas 2340 INA
4 Kaisar Jenius Hakiki 2227 INA
5 CM Farid Firman Syah 2249 INA

6. BANGLADESH (RtgAvg:2354)

1 GM Rahman Ziaur 2545 BAN
2 GM Murshed Niaz 2409 BAN
3 Md Jamal Uddin 2150 BAN
4 FM Mohammed Abdul Malek 2290 BAN
5 Ahmed Mahtabuddin 2171 BAN

7. SINGAPORE (RtgAvg:2263)

1 GM Wu Shaobin 2454 SIN
2 FM Chua Zheng Yuan Terry 2256 SIN
3 FM Lo Kin Mun Dominic 2174 SIN
4 Tan Weiliang 2168 SIN

8. YEMEN (RtgAvg:2217)

1 Abdullah Sonbul 0 YEM
2 FM Fouad Mofleh 2199 YEM
3 FM Faraj Yahya 2280 YEM
4 Al-Aqrabi Saleh 2201 YEM
5 CM Abdul Moula Sabri 2189 YEM

9. SRILANKA (RtgAvg:2130)

1 Hapuarachchi H L M 2019 SRI
2 Edirisinghe Dulan 2137 SRI
3 Kalugampitiya R S 2135 SRI
4 Anuruddha G C 2158 SRI
5 Wijesuriya G Luxman 2089 SRI

10. NEPAL (RtgAvg:2019)

1 Mahato Rajkishor 1994 NEP
2 Karmacharya Punya Man 2015 NEP
3 Pandey Sajan 0 NEP
4 Shrestha Rajendra Prasad 1982 NEP
5 Shrestha Sujendra Prasad 2084 NEP

Participants women

1. INDIA A (RtgAvg:2396)

1 IM Harika Dronavalli 2467
2 WGM Karavade Eesha 2413
3 IM Tania Sachdev 2399
4 WGM Soumya Swaminathan 2303
5 WGM Nadig Kruttika 2255

2. INDIA B (RtgAvg:2333)

1 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 2384
2 WGM Mohota Nisha 2351
3 WIM Padmini Rout 2334
4 CM Bhakti Kulkarni 2263
5 Nimmy A G 2224

3. VIETNAM (RtgAvg:2304)

1 WGM Le Thanh Tu 2344
2 WIM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2295
3 WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An 2334
4 WFM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung 2244
5 WFM Hoang Thi Nhu Y 2150

4. IRAN (RtgAvg:2228)

1 WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2306
2 WGM Paridar Shadi 2242
3 WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh 2187
4 WFM Hejazipour Mitra 2176
5 WFM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2020

5. INDONESIA (RtgAvg:2101)

1 WGM Sukandar Irine Kharisma 2304
2 Lestari Baiq Vina 2170
3 WFM Dewi Aa Ci Ra 1938
4 WCM Sihite Chelsie Monica 1971
5 WCM Medina Warda Ulia 1959

 6. SINGAPORE (RtgAvg:1972)

1 WFM Tay Li Jin Jeslin 2099
2 WFM Liu Yang 2066
3 WFM Chan Wei Yi Victoria 1924
4 Neo Xiuwen Christabel 1798

7. BANGLADESH (RtgAvg:1970)

1 Khan Nazrana 1985
2 Jahanara Haque 1548
3 WFM Sultana Zakia 1971
4 Begum Masuda 1872
5 WIM Hamid Rani 2051

8. SRILANKA (RtgAvg:1816)

1 Ranasinghe S D 1839
2 Premanath Dinushki 1819
3 WFM Thilakawardana Supeshala 1809
4 WCM Walallawita Lihini 1797
5 Udupitiya U G S S S 1760

9. NEPAL (RtgAvg:1200)

1 Khamboo Monalisa 0
2 Namrata Chudal 0
3 Adhikari Asmita 0
4 Ghale Tara 0
5 Jaiswal Bishekha 0 

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