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Last call to register for this Thursday's 2nd Sultan Khan Cup 2021 Online Blitz Open

by Shahid Ahmed - 24/08/2021

Five GMs, 13 IMs, two WIMs from India, Canada, Georgia, Sri Lanka and USA have registered for IPS Academy presents 2nd Sultan Khan Cup Online Blitz Open 2021. It will take place this Thursday 26th August from 7:30 p.m. IST at Tornelo. The total prize fund is ₹100,000. The first prize will be ₹20,000. There are 30 main prizes, five prizes for Women and ten for Madhya Pradesh players as well. Total number of prizes is 97. Entry will be FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For everyone else, entry fee will be ₹500. Registration is CLOSED. Last date has been extended to Wednesday 25th August 7:30 p.m. IST. So hurry up, register now and be a part of this strong event.

2nd Sultan Khan Cup 2021 this Thursday 26th August at 7:30 p.m. IST

On Thursday 26th August 2021, IPS Academy will organize an Open Blitz event which will have a total prize fund of ₹100,000 with the first prize of ₹20000. Total cash prize fund is ₹92500 and the remaining ₹7500 is 50 annual subscription of hindi chess magazine 'Shatranj Samrat'. Entry is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. Entry fee for others is ₹500. The event is open to players all over the world. 50% of entry fee collected will go to the family of Late Mr. Swatantra Jain and the remaining 50% will go to ChessBase India Foundation.

IPS Academy presents 2nd Sultan Khan Cup 2021 with a total prize fund of ₹100000

The proceeds from the entire entry fee collected will go to charity. 50% of the amount will go to to the family of Late Mr. Swatantra Jain while the other 50% will be instituted as a scholarship for a deserving chess player under the ChessBase India Foundation.

Late Mr. Swatantra Jain

I am writing in reference to Late Swatantra Jain who was an active chess player and chess coach for beginner kids. We have been chess mates since childhood and have been playing chess together for more than couple of decade or so, and I have always known him to be a disciplined and sincere person. - IM Akshat Khamparia.

Achal Choudhary - President and founder of IPS Academy

Madhya Pradesh's first IM Akshat Khamparia

2nd Sultan Khan Cup Online Blitz Open

The tournament will take place on Tornelo

Date: Thursday 26th August 2021

Time: 7:30 p.m. IST

Time control: 3 mins each (no increment)

Number of rounds: 9

Total Prize fund: ₹100000

Venue: Tornelo

Chief Arbiter: IA Vivek Sohani

Deputy Arbiters: IA Jitendra Choudhary, IA Yashpal Arora and FA FI Ravi Kumar

Details of the online tournament:

Main Prizes

Rank Prize money
1 20000
2 10000
3 5000
4 4000
5 3000
6 1500
7 1500
8 1500
9 1500
10 1500
11 1000
12 1000
13 1000
14 1000
15 1000
16 1000
17 1000
18 1000
19 1000
20 1000
21 500
22 500
23 500
24 500
25 500
26 500
27 500
28 500
29 500
30 500

31st - 80th Annual subscription of hindi chess magazine - 'Shatranj Samrat'. This will be only for Indian participants.

 

Best Woman

1 5000
2 4000
3 3000
4 2000
5 1000

Best Madhya Pradesh Player

1 3000
2 2000
3 1000
4 1000
5 750
6 750
7 750
8 750
9 750
10 750

Lucky Prizes

100th and 150th will get ₹750 each.

 

Standard Rating will be considered for pairings, a player without a standard rating will be considered as an unrated player. To claim a Lucky Prize, a player must play all nine rounds. One player is eligible for one higher prize only. A player without a FIDE ID will be required to produce a photo ID while claiming the prize. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the prize.

Entry fees:

The entry fee for the event is ₹500.

 

The tournament is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. The last date for entry has been extended to 25th of August 2021, 7:30 p.m. IST. Tornelo link will close at 26th August 11:59:59 a.m. IST. Registration is CLOSED. 50% of the entry fees collected will go to the family of Late Mr. Swatantra Jain and the remaining 50% will go to a deserving candidate for a scholarship launched by the ChessBase India Foundation.

 

Entry CLOSED. Titled players must write to us at teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com with their FIDE and Tornelo ID to confirm their entry.

Players list

Sl.no. Name Rating Gender MP Player
1 GM Narayanan S L 2624 M No
2 GM Abhimanyu Puranik 2580 M No
3 GM Diptayan Ghosh 2541 M No
4 GM Harsha Bharathakoti 2509 M No
5 GM M R Venkatesh 2493 M No
6 IM Mitrabha Guha 2467 M No
7 IM Arghyadip Das 2453 M No
8 IM Sankalp Gupta 2433 M No
9 IM Nubairshah Shaikh 2432 M No
10 IM Sayantan Das 2431 M No
11 IM Harikrishnan A Ra 2429 M No
12 IM Bala Chandra Prasad 2425 M No
13 IM Neelash Saha 2418 M No
14 IM Shahil Dey 2414 M No
15 FM Srihari L R 2414 M No
16 IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete 2412 M No
17 GM Laxman Rajaram 2411 M No
18 IM Bhakti Kulkarni 2391 F No
19 IM Souhardo Basak 2382 M No
20 CM Kushagra Mohan 2351 M No
21 IM Anuj Shrivatri 2350 M No
22 IM PDS Girinath 2335 M No
23 FM Nikhil Dixit 2321 M No
24 Kaustuv Kundu 2311 M No
25 WIM Savitha Shri B 2281 F No
26 FM Jeet Jain 2279 M No
27 IM Maka Purtseladze 2274 F No
28 WIM Priyanka Nutakki 2263 F No
29 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 2253 M No
30 Shiv Shome 2237 M No
31 WGM Srija Seshadri 2219 F No
32 WIM Priyanka K 2218 F No
33 WIM Arpita Mukherjee 2206 F No
34 IM Suvrajit Saha 2198 M No
35 WIM P Michelle Catherina 2176 F No
36 Namitbir Singh Walia 2093 M No
37 Aditya Vikram Paul 2080 M No
38 Ayush Sharma 2072 M Yes
39 WIM Krithikha Pon Namasivayam 2052 F No
40 WFM Srishti Pandey 2026 F No
41 Ilamparthi A R 2000 M No
42 WFM Nityata Jain 1993 F Yes
43 Dhruv Khosla 1982 M No
44 Subramanian A/L Sivanesan 1977 M No
45 Yash Laddha 1944 M No
46 Akshay Borgaonkar 1941 M No
47 Arhan Chethan Anand 1915 M No
48 Samriddhaa Ghosh 1910 F No
49 Rakshith Srinivasan 1901 M No
50 James Windram 1879 M No
51 Karthikeyan Jeyaprakasam 1860 M No
52 Shivansh Tiwari 1835 M Yes
53 Ayush Pattanaik 1818 M Yes
54 Rosh Jain 1814 M No
55 Aman Sharma 1749 M No
56 Krishna Karthik N 1721 M No
57 Divitt Arora 1699 M No
58 Hruthik Lokesh Puppala 1677 M No
59 Swayham P Das 1675 M No
60 Ashwin Sairam 1670 M No
61 Prakhar Bajaj 1663 M Yes
62 Aakash G 1572 M No
63 Riyan Amit Shah 1555 M No
64 Aaron Mendes 1520 M No
65 Thirunarayanan Sampath Kumar 1518 M No
66 Marium Fatima 1511 F No
67 Abhyuday Santhosh 1474 M No
68 Chinmay Kowshik 1444 M No
69 Mandar Bakshi 1438 M No
70 Santosh Pal 1414 M Yes
71 Sathvik Adiga 1374 M No
72 Chandu Boddu 1369 M No
73 Abeer Manchanda 1344 M No
74 Yaksh Chopra 1335 M No
75 Anish Naik 1317 M No
76 Saksham Goyal 1296 M No
77 Chintan Mathukia 1295 M No
78 Vishwajith S 1292 M No
79 Medhansh Rathi 1276 M No
80 Daksh Goyal 1274 M No
81 Auditya Sharma 1243 M Yes
82 Paras Dilip Bhoir 1236 M No
83 Kiran Bemarkar 1215 M No
84 Ritwik Mallavarapu 1208 M No
85 Agnivo Chakraborty 1200 M No
86 Sriram Alwala 1196 M No
87 Pranav A J 1188 M No
88 Sevitha Viju 1184 F No
89 Shiven Garg 1175 M No
90 Sandipagu Sricharan 1172 M No
91 Raghavan 1171 M No
92 Avika Panwar 1165 F Yes
93 Neeraj Mehta 1161 M No
94 Ameya Nigudkar 1151 M Yes
95 Souryadipta Sarkar 1134 M No
96 Anant Joshi 1133 M Yes
97 Vayom Garg 1124 M No
98 Jaiveer Patil 1078 M No
99 Jayesh Sinha 1076 M No
100 Harinandan Sharath 1068 M No
101 R Mithun Ramalingam 1037 M No
102 Aneesh Krishna S 1032 M No
103 Aarav Sarbalia 0 M No
104 Abhishek Kumar Shrivastava 0 M No
105 Adithya Sakthimani 0 M No
106 Aditya Nirmale 0 M No
107 Advik Naveen 0 M No
108 Amay Deodhar 0 M No
109 Amit 0 M No
110 Amit Pagar 0 M No
111 Amit Singh 0 M No
112 Anand Roy 0 M No
113 Ananthakrishnan 0 M No
114 Arav Milind Surve 0 M No
115 Archan Dharmendra Pathak 0 M Yes
116 Arindam Mishra 0 M No
117 Arnav Sharma 0 M No
118 Arya Das Mahapatra 0 M No
119 Aryan Nair 0 M No
120 Ashley Sylvester 0 M No
121 Atreyu Sandilya 0 M No
122 B M Yishaanth Mukilan 0 M No
123 Bhabnish Kumar Bohidar 0 M No
124 Biswa Kalyan Rath 0 M No
125 Chaitanya Lele 0 M No
126 Chaitanya Yashwant Bansod 0 M No
127 Devendra Punyasi 0 M Yes
128 Devraj Karve 0 M No
129 Gautam Chintala 0 M No
130 Girish Ghugare 0 M No
131 Gopalakrishnan G 0 M No
132 Gopinath B L 0 M No
133 Hasitha Edirisinghe 0 M No
134 Hema Nageshwar 0 F No
135 Hitesh Netravali 0 M No
136 Hrishikesh Kulkarni 0 M No
137 Ishwar Patel 0 M No
138 Kapil Modem 0 M No
139 Karthik Shekar 0 M No
140 Kartik Verma 0 M No
141 Kishore Kumar V 0 M Yes
142 Kritan Boggarapu 0 M No
143 Kunal Trivedi 0 M Yes
144 Manjari Joshi 0 F Yes
145 Mayur Gondhalekar 0 M No
146 Megha Patra 0 F No
147 Midhun Krishnan 0 M No
148 Narayan Dutt Purohit 0 M No
149 Narendra Tumbekodige Manappa 0 M No
150 Nataraj 0 M No
151 Ohm Tejas Trivedi 0 M No
152 Omkar Bibikar 0 M No
153 Paresh Nevge 0 M No
154 Prateek Thakur 0 M No
155 Raghuram Vedula 0 M No
156 Rahul Anil Bhagwat 0 M No
157 Rajeshwari Dhruwanshi 0 F No
158 Reyansh Bansal 0 M No
159 Rishikesh KM 0 M No
160 Sai Nirmale 0 M No
161 Sampreeti Kundu 0 F No
162 Sathvik N 0 M No
163 Satvik Agrawal 0 M Yes
164 Shamina Nand 0 F No
165 Shantanu Shekhar 0 M No
166 Shikhar Karn 0 M No
167 Shivom Kashyap 0 M No
168 Shrutartha Maiti 0 M No
169 Sistla Pranav 0 M No
170 Soham Thombre 0 M No
171 Souvik Dutta 0 M No
172 Suprateek Baksi 0 M No
173 Tamaghna Chaudhuri 0 M No
174 Tanish Katariya 0 M No
175 Vaibhav Gupta 0 M No
176 Vaibhav Kotnis 0 M No
177 Vedant Shitole 0 M No
178 Vibhor Kulshreshtha 0 M Yes
179 Yogesh Maheta 0 M No
180 Yug Sonigara 0 M No

Note: The Tornelo id, while registering and playing the tournament should be the same.

How to play the tournament

Please check the following video by IA Vivek Sohani to learn how to create an account on Tornelo and how to register for a tournament

How to create an account on Tornelo and register for a tournament | Video: IA Vivek Sohani

No draw before 30th move

In all events organized by us, 'Draw offer' before the completion of 30th move is not allowed. If a draw is agreed before the completion of 30th move, the player who offered the draw will be given a loss in that round irrespective of tournament situation. This rule has been enforced to see fighting games on all boards.

Mandatory Zoom Video Call and Screen Sharing

All players must remain on Zoom Video Call throughout the tournament from 7:00 p.m. IST till the end of the tournament. Players without having their camera turned on during all the games will NOT be eligible for a prize. All players must mention their full name on the Zoom display ID and share their entire screen since the start of Zoom call (not just window only). No player will be allowed to enter the room if they do not use the registered player's name. Tornelo and Zoom link will be sent a day before the tournament, once the entry closes, which means after 7:30 p.m. IST on 25th August 2021.

Good camera angle

Alternate good camera angle

Bad camera angle

Players are not allowed to spam the chat in Zoom during and before tournament. Queries must be sent via direct message to the Arbiters. Players who disturb others during the tournament in chat will be removed from the tournament without any warning and will not be allowed in future tournaments.

Anti-Cheating measures

Use of engines is strictly prohibited. All games are being scanned, players are checked through video call. Anyone found adapting any unfair means will be removed from the tournament and all points scored in the tournament will be forfeited. We also have your details and hence you would not be allowed to participate in any future events organized by us.

Contact and registration queries for the tournament:

Mr. Shahid Ahmed (Tournament director) - 9038139510 (Entry confirmations will be done via site only, no whatsapp/phone call confirmation of entries)

Email - teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com

• We request all players to check their internet connection before the tournament. Minimum requirement is at least 2 mbps broadband. No phone calls/messages will be entertained once the tournament starts from 7:30 p.m. IST onwards. All queries must be resolved before the tournament. Each player is responsible for their internet connection, organizers will not be held responsible for any players connectivity issues.

Links

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Tournament announcement

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