CONGRATULATIONS TO BELGAUM CHESS TALENTS !
Following players of Belgaum District participated in the FIDE rating Tournament held at Mangalore recently which was also a selection tournament for National "B". BELGAUM CHESS CONGRATULATE AND WISH THEM ALL THE BEST IN THEIR FUTURE TOURNAMENTS ALSO.
Final Ranking
Name Pts Prog
1 Pawashe Aniket R -----7/9 36 - Bagged 7th rank/placing.
2 Sameer Ghotane -------6/9 33
3 Abhijit D -------------6/9 30- Awarded Best Unrated player
4 Chincholimath Halsagar-- 5½ 33
5 Benadikar Shashank D ---5½ 31½-Awarded First Best U-15
6 Ninad V Prabhu Khanolkar --4½ 18½

CHESS TOURNAMENT FOR BELGAUM SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS:

BELGAUM CHESS(CLUB) ASSN,in association with Lions Club of Midtown,Belgaum is organising "Sardar V.G.Naik Bahaddur Desai Memorial Chess Tournament" for School Boys and Girls on 13th January, 2008 at Hotel Pai Hall, Nehru nagar Behind Ramdev Hotel ,Belgaum. The tournament will be on Swiss league basis. The FIRST category I to IV standard and SECOND category V to VII standard. The interested players are requested to register their names at the Belgaum Dist Chess(Club) Assn Playing hall, Rotary Corporation Swimming Corporation, Goaves, Belgaum between 6.30 pm to 9.00 pm before 12th January, 2007. The entries throug schools is requested. Entry fee for the Tournament is Rs. 50/- only.

Hello Everybody!
Belgaum chess and Chess India wishes its blog visitors Happy New Year 2008!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Belgaum Kids excel again...............................................
Shashank Benadikar of M V Herwadkar English Medium High School Belgaum achieves his rating of 1797. This is as on Jan 01 2008....
Belgaum chess and Chess India congratulates and wishes him best luck in the new year


Belgaum Chess also congratulates Navalgund Niranjan for his rating improvement and is now highest rated player of Belgaum District as on Jan 01 2008. His rating is 2065

Belgaum Chess Congratulates Shashank Benadikar of M V Herwadkar English Medium School Belgaum for winning the U-16 Rapid Chess Tournament held in Dharwad! The tournament attracted aroound 70 players! Abhijeet Devraj bagged 2nd place in the and Ninad v Prabhu Khanolkar of M V Herwadkar bagged 3rd in the same tournament!

Belgaum Chess Wishes All HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 :):):):):):)):):):):):):)):):)

Navalgund Niranjan with World's Youngest Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi. Also recieving prize from Asian Chess Champion Tania Sachdev

RESULTS OF 1 DAY RAPID CHESS TOURNAMENT:
One day Rapid Chess Tournament was sucessfully conducted by the BDCAssn @ Hotel Pai Party hall, Nehru nagar, Belagum on Sunday, 16/12/2007. The tourney attracted 42 players of various age category. The event was sponsoured by M/s. Sourabha Enterprises (Authorised dealer for TATA BP Solar I Ltd). The tournament was 6 rounds swiss league managed by Sri. D.R. Rao, Sri.P.K.Kulkarni, Sri. Prakash Desai, Sri. C.D.Navalgund, & Sri. Aniket Pawashe.
Prize distribution ceremony held @ 6.30 p.m. Sri . R.K.Desai , senior member and owner of M/s. India Motors , Belgaum and Smt. Jyotsna Pai, Partner, M./s. Pai foods, were chief guest and guest of honour on the occasion. RESULTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
OPEN CATEGORY : IST PRIZE - SRI. AMOD NADGOUDA
II SRI. RAJU SONACHE,
III. SRI. D.GAJANAN
IV. SRI. P.K. KULKARNI. & VTH. SRI. D..R. RAO.
AGE CATEGORY : KUM.. SHASHANK BENADIKAR,
KUM. AVADHOOT JADHAV,
KUMARI. POOJA MATTIKATTI & DIVYA MATTIKATTI
MASTER. MANOJ B KULKARNI (Youngest player )

ONE DAY RAPID TOURNAMENT-

Belgaum District Chess(club) Association,Belgaum, is organising ONE DAY OPEN RAPID CHESS TOURNAMENT on 16th December, 2007. Apart from main prizes different age category prizes will also be given. Interested players are requested to register their names/entries before 15.12.2007 . Players can contact between 7.00 pm to 9.00pm at Belgaum District Chess(club) Assn, Playing hall, Rotary Corporation Swimming Complex, Goaves, Belgaum-6. For more information Dr. S.P.Desai, President, B D C A, Belgalum. C.D.Navalgund, Jt. Secretary, BDCA,Belgaum. The event sponsoured by M/s. Sourabha Enterprises,(Tata BP Solar items Dealer) Belgaum.

Annual Gen.Meeting of the BDC(CLUB) Association is fixed on 9th December, 2007 at 10.30 a.m. in the newly occupied chess playing hall/premises of Rotary Corporation Swimming Complex, Goaves, Tilakwadi, Belagum-6. All the members and players are requested to attend the meeting.