2020:
2020: January: Pongal Open Rapid Tournament:
2020 New year Open Tournament: At our current space in Vysial Street!
2019:
Magic Show, Yoga and Food: Aspire Chess Center co-organized a special event for kids from Jaly Home, Pondicherry. We were so glad to see all the smiles at the end of the event!
Grandmaster Camp at Pondicherry with GM Priyadharshan: Aspire Chess Center organized Pondicherry’s first GM Camp in mid-2019.
Aspire Chess Center at Mission Street Pondicherry:
When we were at mission street, we had many practice sessions, tournaments and other activities like problem solving contests. Many results were lost when our old computer got drenched in the monsoon rains. But we saved some photos. Here they are!
Several Round robin and Open tournament were organized in our space. We later shifted to our current space in Vysial street, Pondicherry.
Aspire Problem Solving Rating, an experiment: 2019
2018:
Srihari (from Pondicherry) achieved several notable performances in 2018. The biggest of which is finishing joint fifth(joint second) in the national under 15 championship and getting selected to represent India in an Asian and World Youth team championship. Results below…
Mayor’s Cup International Group B – Runner.
Srihari also finished fifth (joint second) in the Under – 15 national, 2018 at Kolkata.
G.Gokul: National Under – 7: Seventh prize.
Aspire Chess Center, Pondicherry conducted its first open tournament on the 8th of July, 2018.
Tournament Average: 1332 (13 rated players and 7 unrated players averaged to 1000 elo). The average rating of the top five players is 1866!
[Above: Mission Street Space – Construction at the time of the tournament – July 16,2018]
Top five players/Results:
1. Peter Anand – 1815 – 4 points
2. Srihari – 1927 – 3.5 points.
3. Raman – 1630 – 3 points.
4. Naresh – 1423 – 3 points.
5. Farhaan – 1690 – 2.5 points.
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