Vishy Anand inaugurates Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Girls 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 07/09/2023

Vishy Anand inaugurated the Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Girls Chess Championship 2023 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. He declared the meet 'Open' in presence of Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President Corporate Services, Tata Steel and 'Hati', the official mascot. IM Srihari L R and WIM Saina Salonika are the highest rated Indians in Open and Girls category. The championships will start with Rapid event tomorrow, Friday 8th September from 9 a.m. IST at JFC Lounge, JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur. Tata Steel is synonymous with the chess universe since 1986. From 2018, Tata Steel Chess India, India's first super tournament started in Kolkata. For the first time, a chess tournament of this magnitude is taking place in Jamshedpur. This shows Tata's commitment to promoting chess in the region. Photos: Himank Ghosh

Srihari L R and Saina Salonika are the top Indians in Open and Girls

49 out of the 58 players in Classical Open section are from host country - India. In the Girls section, it is 44 Indians out of 52. Apart from India, players from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka are slated to take part in both Open and Girls section. Only Nepal will have one player taking part in the Open section.

Vishy Anand declares Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Girls Chess Championship 2023 Open in presence of Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President Corporate Services, Tata Steel and 'Hati', the official mascot

IM Srihari L R is the highest rated Indian in the Open category | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

WIM Saina Salonika is the highest rated Indian in the Girls category | Photo: Thailand Chess Association

Photo Gallery

Inauguration Ceremony

L to R: Naresh Sharma, Treasurer, AICF, Jeet Banerjee, Director, Gameplan, Jeron van den Berg, Director, Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands and Tata Steel Chess India, Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President Corporate Services, Tata Steel and the legend - Vishy Anand

Artistic perfomance at the inauguration ceremony

Arbiters' team

JRD Tata Sports Complex students, officials with guests in a group photo

'Hati' is the mascot of Tata Steel Asian Junior Open and Girls Chess Championship 2023

For more photos from the opening ceremony and draw of lots, please click here.

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Schedule

Rapid - Open and Girls from 9 a.m. IST on 8th September.

Classical - Open and Girls from 9 a.m. IST from 9th to 15th September. There are double rounds on 10th and 12th September.

Blitz - Open and Girls on 15th September 2023

Time Control

Rapid: 10 minutes + 10 seconds increment

Classical: 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment

Blitz: 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment

Players list in Open

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	sex	Typ	Club/City
1	IM	Grebnev, Aleksey	34189030	FID	2486		U18	FIDE
2	IM	Srihari, L R	46617116	IND	2444			India
3	IM	Rohith, Krishna S	46617051	IND	2429			India
4	CM	Daakshin, Arun	366195016	IND	2427			India
5	IM	Hari, Madhavan N B	25054309	IND	2425			India
6	IM	Kushagra, Mohan	25033638	IND	2410			India
7	FM	Liyanage, Ranindu Dilshan	9915834	SRI	2407		U20	Sri Lanka
8	IM	Harshavardhan, G B	25059009	IND	2397			India
9	IM	Panda, Sambit	25091794	IND	2395			India
10	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	25095927	IND	2372			India

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Players list in Girls

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg	sex	Typ
1	WIM	Nurgali, Nazerke	13711261	KAZ	2268	w	U20
2	WIM	Salonika, Saina	25013971	IND	2140	w	U20
3	WIM	Bommini, Mounika Akshaya	25019872	IND	2096	w	U20
4	WIM	Mrudul, Dehankar	25096990	IND	2059	w	U20
5		Mrittika, Mallick	25902997	IND	2059	w	U16
6	WIM	Sultanbek, Zeinep	13710419	KAZ	2022	w	U20
7	WFM	Jyothsna, L	35013220	IND	1940	w	U20
8	WCM	Ahmed, Walijah	2831193	BAN	1936	w	U20
9		Kaldarova, Ayaulym	13720503	KAZ	1933	w	U16
10		Rindhiya, V	25040529	IND	1918	w	U20

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