Asian Academies Hybrid Chess Team Championship Starts

The Asian Academies Hybrid Chess Championship has started on Tornelo. The event is hosted by the Bangladesh Chess Federation under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE. Eight teams are playing a single round robin over four boards with board 4 reserved for girls. Teams are composed of players under-18 years of age. Games are played 10am daily (Dubai time) with time control of 60 minutes plus increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

In photo above, the Elegant International Chess Academy and Basir Memorial Chess Academy, both from Bangladesh, face each other over-the-board as allowed in hybrid chess.

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Pishgam Novi Academy of Iran

 

Aden Chess Academy of Yemen

National Chess Academy – Sri Lanka

Nur-Sultan Chess Academy of Kazakhstan

 

Laguna Heroes advance to north semis in PCAP playoffs


by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA—The Laguna Heroes continued their championship quest after dominating the Davao Chess Wizzards in a sweep, 16-5 and 14.5-6.5 to advance to the northern division semifinals of the third conference of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 virtually held at Chess.com Platform.
The Laguna Heroes totally outclassed their opponent as they just smashed the Chess Wizzards two matches in a row.
It was a fine start for Laguna as Davao fought hard in the Blitz category of the first match but yielded, 6-1. In the Rapid category, the Heroes won five out of the seven playing boards.
Grandmaster Rogelio “Banjo” Barcenilla Jr. toppled National Master Aglipay Oberio after 62 moves of Ruy Lopez Opening, Grandmaster John Paul Gomez subdued Arnel Aton after 46 moves of Benoni defense, Michella Concio defeated Woman National Master Ella Grace Moulic after 43 moves of London System Opening, Kimuel Aaron Lorenzo trounced Anthony Mosqueda after 56 moves of Sicilian defense and Candidate Master Arjie Bayangat beat Lydon Sombilon after 35 moves of Queens Gambit Declined.
Davao tried acting in a new way, especially more quickly than before in the second encounter but the experience and flawless performance of the Heroes allowed them to gain the edge to finish the game, 14.5-6.5.
“We are happy for having a fine start in the knock out stage. Beating Davao is a big motivation to us,” said Arena Grandmaster Dr. Fred Paez, one of the four co-team owner of the Laguna Heroes that include Mr. David Nithyananthan of KALARO, Engr. Benjamin Dy of SDC Global Choice and Engr. Jonathan Mamaril of Oregon, USA.
Backed up by KALARO, Greatech Philippines, Inc., SDC Global Choice, Jolly Smile Dental Clinic, and Rotary Club of Nuvali, the Laguna Heroes will take on the tough San Juan Predators in the semifinals who swept the Isabela’s Knights of Alexander, 15.5-5.5 and  18-3, earlier.
The other semis pairing in the Northern Division pit the Pasig City King Pirates and the Caloocan Loadmanna Knights, who posted contrasting wins.
Pasig dominated the Rizal Batch Towers, 16-5 and 17.5-3.5, while Caloocan survived the Armageddon duel against the Manila Indios Bravos, 0-3, 13-8, 2-1.
Iloilo, meanwhile, arranges a semis date with Lapu-Lapu City Naki Warrios, who bested Toledo City Trojans, 12-9 and 3-0. Lapu-Lapu City, on the other hand nipped Singapore, 9-12, 13.5-7.5 and 2-1.
Camarines Soaring Eagle edged Paralympics, 11-10 and 12-9, to clash with Penang (Malaysia) in the other Final Four pairing. Penang waylaid Negros, 10-11, 12-9 and 3-0

(Results)
1st set
Laguna Heroes vs Davao Chess Wizzards (16-5)
2nd set
Laguna Heroes vs Davao Chess Wizzards (14.5-6.5)
Games on Saturday (November 20, 2021)
(Northern Division)
Pasig vs Caloocan
Laguna vs San Juan
(Southern Division)
Camarines vs Penang (Malaysia)
Lapu-Lapu vs Iloilo

Sri Lanka National Online Major Division Chess Championship 2021

Central Province Open, Western 2 Open, Western 1 Women’s and Northern Women’s events

After a short pause, the Major Division event of the National Championship cycle has started with the participation of rated players and the players who performed well in the respective Novices events.

At the end of the day, Gunsekara W A N Senpathi (photo above) of St. Sylweater’s College was able to clinch the peak of the Central Open event while Wiratunga Jenith of Trinity College Kandy and Sithila Mithashana Gangewatte of St. Sylweater’s College followed him by winning 3.5 points out of the four rounds played today.

In the meantime, Gunathilake M D Vinuda Shenal (photo above) of Royal College, Colombo was able to assume the first place of the Western II open, which consists of Gampaha and Kaluthara Districts with a total of 4 points out of 4 games while due to the lack of half a point, Weerasinghe W Yasiru of Mahanama College and Amarathunga Kosala Sandeepa of JMC International School, Kaluthara had to placate with the second and third places respectively.

 

Concluding the first day of the Western 2 Women’s event, Devindya Oshini Gunawardhana (photo above left) of Pushpadana College, the newly Crowned under 10 Years Girls World Chess Champion and Haritha Shavina Thillainathan (above right) of Bishop’s College were able to step into the second day with the advantage of being having full points of 4 out of possible 4 games at the end of day 1. Also, Pallie Esha Mishela (Visakha Vidyalaya) and Thanujana D M Sinaly (Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo) placed as the third 3rd position with 3.5 points out of 4 games.

In the Northern Women’s event, P Thishanuga (photo above) of J/ Wembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to take the lead of the tournament by winning 4points out of 4 games while G H S Sanulya (Royal Primary School, Polonnaruwa), Sutheswaran Abinaya (Scorpian Chess Kindom), Narthavi S(J/ Wembady Girls High School, Jaffna), and Miruthy (Scorpian Chess Kindom) are following her by scoring 3 points out of the 4 games they played against their respective opponents.

The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid National Chess Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka started from the 1st week of June 2021. The 7 Novices Division events and 7 Women’s Novices Division events were finished on the 15th of August 2021 successfully.

This National Chess Championship Cycle is the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships in the future. The event will help all Chess players to stay at home at this difficult time with supporting to grow their Chess Strength. The event is being held on the Chess.com platform with he fair play regulations approved by FIDE.

The Time Control is 15 minutes + 10-second increment for each move played

.The Remaining Major Division events will be held in Next 2 Weeks ends:

9th & 10th October 2021 – Western I (Open), North Western & Uva with Rathnapura (Open), Western II (Women), and Southern (Women)

16th & 17th October 2021- Northern (Open), Southern Open, Central With Kegalle (Women), and North Western & Uva with Ratnapura (Women)

The Major Division event is scheduled in 6 regions:

  1. SL National Online Majors Division Chess Championships
  2. Western 1
  3. Western 2
  4. Central, Kegalle

4.North Western, Ratnapura

  1. Southern
  2. Northern

Eligibility – Rating Greater than 1199 and less than 1899 and selected players from relevant Novices Chess Championship for the Open Section.

Rating Greater than 1099 and less than 1599 for Women’s events and qualified players from Women Novices in the respective region.

The Qualification to Online National Premier is that for the first 20 players in the starting rank list 10 players will qualify and for every subsequent 5 players, an additional 1 player will qualify.

No of Qualifiers = 10 + {(T-20)/5} T-Total Players

f there are 50 players in an event 16 players are qualified.

Online SL National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021

The final Swiss System event of 11 rounds. All qualified from Major Division and players having more than 1900 (Women over 1600) rating are eligible to participate in the event. The first 16 players will be qualified for the Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

Online SL National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

Stage 1

A Round Robin Event of first 16 players of National B Chess Championships 2021

Stage 2

Knocked out Event among first 4 players as Semi-Finals and Finals/ Consolation Finals with Two games with playing tie breaks.

Awards

Trophies and Medals will be awarded to the winners in all events and the Championship title for the winner in the age group.

A total of Rs. 180,000/= will be awarded as the cash awards to National Finals stage II and National Premier Division as given Below:

SL Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

Open Women

Champion – Rs, 40,000/= Rs. 25,000/=

1st Runner Up – Rs. 25,000/= Rs. 15,000/=

2nd Runner Up – Rs. 12,000/= Rs. 8,000/=

4th Place – Rs. 7,000/= Rs. 4,000/=

SL Online National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

Open Women

Champion – Rs, 15,000/= Rs. 10,000/=

1st Runner Up – Rs. 10,000/= Rs. 5,000/=

2nd Runner Up – Rs. 5,000/= Rs. 3,000/=

 

 

11 year old Iranian Wins Asian Amateur Open Online Chess Championship

Eleven-year-old Sina Movahed of Iran won the Asian Amateur Open Online Chess Championship alone with 8 points out of 9 rounds in the tournament hosted by the Oman Chess Committee under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation 12-18 November 2021 on Tornelo. A total of 175 players from 22 countries competed in the 9-round Swiss. See results of women’s division.

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Thirteen-year-old Sai Surapaneni Chidvilash of India won the silver with 7.5 points, ahead by tie break over Allan Pason, 24, of the Philippines who won bronze.

Here are top placers:

Movahed Sina won last year the Under-10 division of the FIDE World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships 2020. At the age of 6, he saw a brochure of the Hamidavi Chess Schools and asked his father to enrol him. Hamidavi was his first coach. As he improved he was coached by FM Asgari who saw him become Asian Champion. Today he is coached by GM Darini and GM Idani and studies chess 6-7 hours a day and practices online. Here are some of his previous successes:
1- Best Under 14 player in International Paytakht Cup, Tehran 2018
2- Gold Medal Iran Championship Under 08 – Standard, Rapid & Blitz 2018
3- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship- Standard – Sri Lanka 2019
4- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship – Online 2020
5- Gold Medal Under 10 World Championship – Online 2020

Here is Movahed’s last round game with co-leader Tuguldur Soninbayar of Mongolia where Movahed unleashes 14… Ng4+! to emerge with the Bishop pair and win on move 52.

Movahed Sina of Iran, Sai Surapameri Chidvilash of India Lead Asian Amateur Chess Championship

Movahed Sina of Iran and Sai Surapameri Chidvilash of India remain unbeaten after six rounds of the Asian Amateur Chess Championship hosted by the Oman Chess Committee under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation. A total of 175 players from 22 countries are competing in the 9-round Swiss.

Sina defeated erstwhile co-leader CM Bhavesh Mahajan of India while Sai Surapameri Chidvilash won over 10th seed Amjad Fahmi of Yemen for his sixth point and a tie for the lead. The two leaders face each other in the seventh round.

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Eleven (11) players are on their tails with  5 points apiece in a tie for 3rd – 13th place.

Within striking distance at 4½ points each are ten players including top seed Gantumur Orgil of Mongolia. Here are the results of top boards in Wednesday’s 4th, 5th and 6th rounds.

 

Sri Lanka Inaugural Online Rapid National Chess Championship Cycle 2021 (Open/Women’s)


The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid Chess Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka which started from 1st week of June 2021. The 7 Novices Division events and 7 Women’s Novices Division event were finished on the 15th of August 2021 successfully. The 6 Major Division and the 6 Major Division Women events were also finished in October 2021. The highest Swiss System event the Inaugural Sri Lanka National Premier Divisions were also over in last week.

Now the time for the Round Robin Events. The Online National Chess Championships 2021 – Open & Girls Finals will be held as 15 round Round-Robin event on 13th, 14th and 18th November 2021 at Tornelo Platform. The top 14 players were taken from the National Premier Open Event to Play with Ranindu Liyanage & Susal De Silva. The first 16 players from the Women is selected from thw Women Premier event.

This event is the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships this year.  The Event will help all Chess players to stay at home at this difficult time with supporting to grow their Chess Strength. The event is be held on the Chess.com flat form with all the fair play regulations approved by FIDE. The Time Control will be 15 minutes + 10 second increment for each move played.

Stage 2 – Dates will be informed.

 Knock out Event among first 4 players as Semi Finals and Finals/ Consolation Finals with Two games with playing tie breaks.

Awards

Trophies and Medals will be awarded to the winners in all events and the Championship title for the winners.

A total of Rs. 146,000/= will be awarded as the cash awards to National Finals stage II  and National Premier Division as given Below:

SL Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals

                                    Open                              Women

Champion –                 Rs, 40,000/=                Rs. 25,000/=

1st Runner Up –          Rs. 25,000/=                Rs. 15,000/=

2nd Runner Up –          Rs. 12,000/=                Rs. 8,000/=

4th Place –                  Rs. 7,000/=                 Rs. 4,000/=

The deadline for Entries is on or before 12.00 noon of 12th November 2021. If the entry does not come at the deadline the opportunity will be given to the next player of Premier Division.

 Players can use only Laptops or Desktop with a webcam to play the games. In all times of play in progress, players should join in the zoom meeting with the screen and task Manager shared with the tournament arbiters. The Technical Regulations will be sent to the registered players individually. We use same regulations as the Novices, Major and Premier except 2 matters below.

  1. The Platform is changed to Tornelo
  2. A side, 2nd Camera is compulsory.

All fair play measures are taken during the event and the games after each round will be sent to the Chess.com and FIDE experts for fair play checking. If any player is found guilty in any form of these checking, he/ she will be banned from all types of Chess for 2 years.

We kindly request all Chess players to compete the event in true sportsmanship and develop you Chess skills even during this Pandemic situation. You may be a part of the Sri Lanka National Online Chess Teams as well.

16 Lead Asian Amateur Open Chess Championship After 3 Rounds

Sixteen players remain unbeaten after three rounds of the Asian Amateur Open Chess Championships, 16-18 November 2021 on Tornelo. A total of 175 players from 22 countries are competing in the 9-round Swiss System. The Women’s division was held 12-14 Nov.

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Surprisingly among the leaders, 10 players are aged 16 and under including the youngest 9 year old Darmen Dauren of Kazakhstan, 11 year old Sina Movahed of Iran, 12 year old Velavaa Rahavesh and Surapaneni Sai of India and Reynard Kristopher of Indonesia. both 14 years of age.

11 players drew tie for  one of their three games 17th – 27th place with 2 ½ points.

Du Yuxin of China Wins Asian Amateur Women’s Online Chess Championship

Twenty year old Du Yuxin of China (photo above) won the Asian Amateur Women’s Chess Championship with a convincing score of 8 points out of 9 rounds in the tournament held by the Asian Chess Federation in association with the Oman Chess Committee 12-14 November 2021 on Tornelo. Du pocketed the top prize of $500. A total of 57 women from 15 countries competed in the 9-round Swiss system.

   

Top seed compatriot Hu Yi, 34, trailed with 7.5 points for silver and $300 followed by Cecilia Natalie Liuviann, 16, of Indonesia with 6.5 points and the better tie break for the bronze and $200.

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Here are the top final standings until 6 points.

Arnash Bauyrzhan of Kazakhstan, 21, WCM Ning Isabelle Yixuan, 12, of New Zealand, Sun Jihanm, 16, of China and Siyahirah Quinsha Adinda, 12, of Indonesia won $100 each for the rating category prizes.,

The Open event of the Asian Amateur Chess Championship starts Tuesday 16 November 2021.