India’s Young Grandmaster and Former World Junior Champion
Abhijeet Gupta sprang a surprise when he shocked Veteran
Grandmaster and Championship favourite Ivan Sokolov in the 8th
round to emerged Joint leader along with local hero GM Hannes
Stefansson, who beat French Grandmaster Igor Nataf in a
technically Superior game. Both Gupta and Stefansson are on 6.5
points each and will face each other in the Final round. Besides
these Two there are as many as 6 players on 6 points making the
championship title wide open.
In the Indian Squad Dronavalli Harika also won her 8th round
game and is just half a point away from achieving her GM norm.
Eesha Karwade , Tania Sachdev and Vishal Sareen drew their games
while Sahej Grover lost to a higher rated GM Heikki Westeriene.
July 07 2010 - This is to inform all chess
players / organisers / officials that any chess event organized
under the banner of "Chess Association of India" is not
recognized by the All India Chess Federation... more news
Kind Attention : Tournament Organizers / State
Associations
May 06 2010 - Please be informed that the FIDE has announced that, here after
all the rating tournaments should be registered 30 days in
advance. We therefore request all the organizers / State chess
associations to send their Bidform along with prescribed fee to
organize any FIDE rating events, 45 days in advance to All India
Chess Federation for onward submission to FIDE and enable us to
allot the FIDE / AICF event code for the event. Download the Bidform
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