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Why a Child Should Play in a National Chess Championship! by Shrikant Barve

National Chess Championships are held every year in eight different categories from Under-7 to Under-25. In each of these age groups there is a separate championship for girls, though they can also play in the open category. From this year all National age categories Chess Championship are notified as Rated chess tournaments. Besides this there are the National B and A, National Women’s B and A and some other categories.

Chess is a brain game. In a National Chess Championship the best of the nation’s young brains come to play. There are other means of singling out talented brains at a young age like the National Talent Search Examinations. But in an age-group chess competition, a child is actually playing against another fine brain of his age.

Chess Championships are usually played using the Swiss League System where in all the participants get a chance to play all the rounds. There will be some satisfaction for a child when he wins at least a few games. After losing a few games one may be out of the championship race but not out of the tournament. Not like in the knock out tournaments of other sports wherein if you lose, you are out of the tournament.

In National chess tournaments in India you are selected by qualifying at the State Selection tournament. His is called the Ordinary Entry. However it is a feature of our system it is possible to play the National level Age Category Chess tournament by what is known as the donor Entry. That is, talented chess players who may have missed qualifying because they had to miss the selection tournament for some reason, or who happened to be in bad form there, can get an opportunity to play by paying a higher special entry fee. This system works out to the benefit of both the host association and the talented chess player.

He will learn a vision of himself, where he stands and what he can achieve.

It is advisable for all children to know chess, to give good exercise to their brains. These children should also play few chess games in a week and at least two/three state level chess tournament every year. Wherever possible, good players should strive to take part in a national age group chess championship. There a child will play at least nine games and will know where he stands among best brains of his age in the country.

To get a rough idea of when the National (age category wise) tournaments are held given below are the dates of the tournaments held in 2007.

Tournaments Dates
National U - 7 Boys & Girls Oct 29 - 05 Nov
National U - 9 Boys & Girls Oct 12 -19 Oct  
National U - 11 Boys & Girls Oct 23 - 31 Oct  
National U - 13 Boys Dec 14 - 22 Dec
National U - 13 Girls Jan 10 - 20 Jan    
National U - 17 Boys & Girls Jun 22 - 26 Jun
National U - 19 Boys Sep 22 - 30 Sep  
National u - 19 Girls Chess  Sep 22 - 28 Sep
National Under - 25 July 01 - 08 July

National Team Championship Mar 09 - 15 Mar

National Women ‘B’ May 21 - 28 May
National ‘B’ Men Jun 10 - 20 Jun  
National ‘A’ Women Nov 5 - 15 Nov
National Cities Feb 11 - 15 Feb
Source:
http://www.indianchessfed.org/tournamentcalendar.asp

Players who top each age group category qualify for the Asian and World championships in the age group which is one year ahead. That is, top 2 players in the National Under – 7 championships, qualifies to play in the Asian and World Under - 8 for the next year and likewise for other age groups. G.S.C.A. has to schedule tournaments depending on the dates provided by the All India Chess Federation (A.I.C.F.). Perhaps the A.I.C.F. should consider making a National tournament calendar, so that State associations and in turn the affiliated clubs can follow suit.

If parents know the dates for National as well as State tournaments well in advance, then they as well as players can prepare themselves mentally, physically and financially for the event. Also AICF should fix schedules for National age category selection tournament taking into consideration factors such as exams, festivals, holidays etc. and allot it to state associations at the beginning of the year. With this in mind, GSCA should schedule the Goa team selection dates and allot them to clubs so that there should be at least two months advance notice to the participants.

To conclude, all serious chess players, and more pertinently their parents must make the National Age category tournament a part of their plans for our budding players.

Chess Tournaments By Augusto Pinto

People sometimes get puzzled when they read in the papers that a chess player has lost a game and then find the next day that the same player is still in the tournament and has won a game. The reason for this is that they are only familiar with the knock out type of tournament system.Well the fact is there are different types of tournaments for chess players. This article seeks to throw some light on them. It will look at 1) the Swiss system, 2) the round robin and 3) the knock out tournament and 4) the simultaneous exhibition.

   Swiss system
A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type of tournament in chess, bridge, Scrabble, squash and other games where players or teams need to be paired to face each other. This type of tournament was first used in a Zurich chess tournament in 1895, hence the name “Swiss”
The pairing procedure
The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself. The first round is either drawn at random or seeded according to rating.  In Goa the seeding procedure followed is as under - the Elo or FIDE Rated players are seeded first, and then the past performance of the player in All Goa Open State Selection Tournament and Age Category Selection tournaments is taken into consideration.
Players who win receive a point, those who draw receive half a point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round where winners are pitted against winners; losers are pitted against losers, and so on.
In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however. In chess it is also attempted to ensure that each player plays an equal number of games with white and black, alternate colors in each round being the most preferable, and a concerted effort is made not to assign the same color three times in a row.
The basic rule is that players with the same score are ranked according to rating. Then the top half is paired with the bottom half. For instance, if there are eight players in a score group, number 1 is paired with number 5, number 2 is paired with number 6 and so on. Modifications are then made to balance colors and prevent players from meeting each other twice.
The detailed rules of how to do the pairing are usually quite complicated and often the tournament organizer has access to a computer to do the pairing for him. If the rules are strictly adhered to, the organizer has no discretion in pairing the round.
The tournament lasts for a number of rounds announced before the tournament. After the last round players are ranked by their score, if this is tied a tie break score (such as the sum of all their opponents’ scores) or the Buchholz chess rating can be used: see Tie-breaking in Swiss system tournaments.

Tie-breaking in Swiss system tournaments
Tie-break systems are used in chess Swiss system tournaments to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round. If the players are still tied after one tie-break system is used, another system is used, and so on, until the tie is broken. The Cumulative  or Progressive Score, the Cut Progressive, Speed play-off games, single fast game and the coin flip are some of the methods commonly used to break a tie. 
 
 Cumulative or Progressive Score
To calculate this, sum the running score for each round. For example,if a player has (in order) a win, loss, win, draw, and a loss; his round-by-round score will be 1, 1, 2, 2.5, 2.5. The sum of these numbers is 9. This system places more weight on games won in the early rounds and the least weight on games won in the final rounds.
[edit] Speed play-off games The tie is broken by one or more games played with fast time control, or Fast chess.
 
Speed play-off games
The tie is broken by one or more games played with fast time control, or Fast chess.
Single fast game
FIDE rules provide for a single fast decisive game. Black gets five minutes on the clock whereas White gets six minutes but must win (i.e. a draw counts as a win for Black). The player who wins the draw of lots may choose which color he wants.
Coin flip
As a last resort, ties are broken by a random process such as a coin flip.
  But there are other methods like the  Median; Modified Median;  Solkoff; Result between tied players; Most games with the black pieces; Kashdan; Sonneborn-Berger; Opponent’s performance; and the Average rating of opposition. These could begin to be used as computer software can handle these systems quite easily.

Analysis, advantages, and disadvantages of the Swiss system
Determining a clear winner (and, incidentally, a clear loser) usually requires the same number of rounds as a knockout tournament, that is the square root of the  number of players rounded up plus one. Therefore three rounds can handle eight players, four rounds can handle sixteen  players and so on. However it is not uncommon to have more players than this, and, if fewer than the ideal number of rounds are played, it can happen that two or more players finish the tournament with a perfect score, having won all their games but never faced each other.
Compared to a knockout tournament the Swiss system has the inherent advantage of not eliminating anyone. That means that a player can enter such a tournament knowing that he will be able to play in all rounds, regardless of how well he does. The worst that can happen in this respect is being the player left over when there is an odd number of players. The player left over receives a bye, meaning he does not play that particular round but receives a full point as if he had won a game. He is reintroduced in the next round and will not receive another bye.
Another advantage compared to knockout tournaments is that the final ranking gives some indication of relative strength for all contestants, not just for the winner of the tournament. As an example, the losing finalist in a knockout tournament may not be the second best contestant; that might have been any of the contestants eliminated by the eventual tournament winner in earlier rounds.
A Swiss system tournament does not always end with the exciting climax of the knockout’s final however. Sometimes a player may have picked up such a great lead that by the last round he is assured of winning the tournament even if he loses the last game. One fairly common fix for this dilemma is to hold single elimination rounds among the top scorers.
Compared with a round-robin tournament, a Swiss can handle many players without requiring an impractical number of rounds. An elimination tournament is better suited to a situation in which only a limited number of games may be played at once, e.g. tennis. In a Swiss system, all players can be playing a round at the same time.

The Round Robin
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a double round-robin.
The term round-robin is derived from the French term ruban, meaning “ribbon”. Over a long period of time, the term was corrupted and idiomized to robin.
In sports with a large number of competitive matches per season, double round-robins are common.  There are also round-robin chess tournaments; the World Chess Championship was decided in 2005, and again in 2007, in an eight-player double round-robin tournament, where each player faces every other player once as white and once as black.
Evaluation
In a round-robin format, the element of luck is seen to be reduced, given that all competitors face the same opponents, and a few bad performances need not cripple a competitor’s chances of ultimate victory.
Disadvantages include the existence of games late in the competition between competitors with no remaining chance of success. Moreover, some later matches will pair one competitor who has something left to play for against another who does not. This asymmetry means that playing the same opponents is not necessarily equitable: the same opponents in a different order may play harder or easier matches. There is also no showcase final match. The ability to recover from defeats, while rewarding overall consistency, may also be seen as a crutch for competitors who lack the temperament to handle the pressure of a knockout tournament.
Further issues arise where a round-robin is used as a qualifying round within a larger tournament. A competitor already qualified for the next stage before its last game may either not try hard (in order to conserve resources for the next phase) or even deliberately lose (if the scheduled next-phase opponent for a lower-placed qualifier is perceived to be easier than for a higher-placed one).
Swiss system tournaments attempt to combine elements of the round-robin and elimination formats, to provide a reliable champion using fewer rounds than a round-robin, while allowing draws and losses.

Knock Out or Single-elimination tournament
Example of a single-elimination tournament bracket A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of tournament where the loser of each match is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event.
(However, it does not always mean that the defeated competitor will not participate further in the tournament (in some such tournaments, consolation or “classification” contests are subsequently held among those already defeated to determine the awarding of lesser places, for example, a Third place playoff.)

Seeding
Opponents may be allocated randomly; however, since the “luck of the draw” may result in the highest-rated competitors being scheduled to face each other early in the competition, seeding is often used to prevent this. Brackets are set up, so that the top two seeds could not possibly meet until the final round (should both advance that far), none of the top four can meet prior to the semifinals, and so on.


Evaluation
The single-elimination format enables a relatively large number of competitors to participate. There are no “dead” matches (perhaps excluding “classification” matches), and no matches where one competitor has more to play for than the other.
The format is less suited to games where draws are frequent. In chess, each fixture in a single-elimination tournament must be played over multiple matches, because draws are common, and because white has an advantage over black. In soccer, games ending in a draw may be settled in extra time and eventually by a penalty shootout, viewed by many fans as an unsatisfactory conclusion to a fixture, or by replaying the fixture.
Another perceived disadvantage is that most competitors are eliminated after relatively few games. Variations such as thedouble-elimination tournament allow competitors a single loss while remaining eligible for overall victory
Simultaneous Exhibitions

Finally we can take a look not at a tournament in the strict sense but a chess event where one player takes on a number of other opponents simultaneously. A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display (often abbreviated to “simul”) is an event where one player (commonly a chess master or grandmaster) plays multiple chess games at a time with selected players (usually below master strength).
In a regular simul, no chess clocks are used. The exhibitor walks from board to board in a fixed order. Usually the boards are arranged in a large circle or square. The opponents are expected to make a move when the exhibitor arrives at the board. The exhibitor may pause a little before responding, but too many long pauses will drag the exhibition out for too long. Regular simuls are often played with several games, often twenty or more. As games are finished off, they are usually not replaced, meaning that towards the end only a few games remain. At this point clocks are sometimes introduced with each side getting a fixed amount of time. In most, but not all simuls, the exhibitor plays white in all the games.
In clock simuls all the games are played as normal tournament games, timed by a clock, apart from the fact that the exhibitor is playing on all boards. Since time pressure can become quite severe in such simuls, they usually have fewer players than a regular simul.
Occasionally, grandmasters have given blindfold simultaneous displays. In such displays, the exhibitor does not look at any of the boards, but retains all the moves of the games in his or her head. The opponents are supplied with board and pieces in the usual way, but their moves are communicated verbally to the exhibitor by an arbiter or intermediary. To conclude I hope this article helps give you an overview of different types of chess competitions.
[This material was largely accessed and edited from wikipedia the free online encyclopedia]

Chess Tournaments By Augusto Pinto

People sometimes get puzzled when they read in the papers that a chess player has lost a game and then find the next day that the same player is still in the tournament and has won a game. The reason for this is that they are only familiar with the knock out type of tournament system.Well the fact is there are different types of tournaments for chess players. This article seeks to throw some light on them. It will look at 1) the Swiss system, 2) the round robin and 3) the knock out tournament and 4) the simultaneous exhibition.

   Swiss system
A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type of tournament in chess, bridge, Scrabble, squash and other games where players or teams need to be paired to face each other. This type of tournament was first used in a Zurich chess tournament in 1895, hence the name “Swiss”
The pairing procedure
The principle of a Swiss tournament is that each player will be pitted against another player who has done as well (or as poorly) as him or herself. The first round is either drawn at random or seeded according to rating.  In Goa the seeding procedure followed is as under - the Elo or FIDE Rated players are seeded first, and then the past performance of the player in All Goa Open State Selection Tournament and Age Category Selection tournaments is taken into consideration.
Players who win receive a point, those who draw receive half a point and losers receive no points. Win, lose, or draw, all players proceed to the next round where winners are pitted against winners; losers are pitted against losers, and so on.
In subsequent rounds, players face opponents with the same (or almost the same) score. No player is paired up against the same opponent twice however. In chess it is also attempted to ensure that each player plays an equal number of games with white and black, alternate colors in each round being the most preferable, and a concerted effort is made not to assign the same color three times in a row.
The basic rule is that players with the same score are ranked according to rating. Then the top half is paired with the bottom half. For instance, if there are eight players in a score group, number 1 is paired with number 5, number 2 is paired with number 6 and so on. Modifications are then made to balance colors and prevent players from meeting each other twice.
The detailed rules of how to do the pairing are usually quite complicated and often the tournament organizer has access to a computer to do the pairing for him. If the rules are strictly adhered to, the organizer has no discretion in pairing the round.
The tournament lasts for a number of rounds announced before the tournament. After the last round players are ranked by their score, if this is tied a tie break score (such as the sum of all their opponents’ scores) or the Buchholz chess rating can be used: see Tie-breaking in Swiss system tournaments.

Tie-breaking in Swiss system tournaments
Tie-break systems are used in chess Swiss system tournaments to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round. If the players are still tied after one tie-break system is used, another system is used, and so on, until the tie is broken. The Cumulative  or Progressive Score, the Cut Progressive, Speed play-off games, single fast game and the coin flip are some of the methods commonly used to break a tie. 
 
 Cumulative or Progressive Score
To calculate this, sum the running score for each round. For example,if a player has (in order) a win, loss, win, draw, and a loss; his round-by-round score will be 1, 1, 2, 2.5, 2.5. The sum of these numbers is 9. This system places more weight on games won in the early rounds and the least weight on games won in the final rounds.
[edit] Speed play-off games The tie is broken by one or more games played with fast time control, or Fast chess.
 
Speed play-off games
The tie is broken by one or more games played with fast time control, or Fast chess.
Single fast game
FIDE rules provide for a single fast decisive game. Black gets five minutes on the clock whereas White gets six minutes but must win (i.e. a draw counts as a win for Black). The player who wins the draw of lots may choose which color he wants.
Coin flip
As a last resort, ties are broken by a random process such as a coin flip.
  But there are other methods like the  Median; Modified Median;  Solkoff; Result between tied players; Most games with the black pieces; Kashdan; Sonneborn-Berger; Opponent’s performance; and the Average rating of opposition. These could begin to be used as computer software can handle these systems quite easily.

Analysis, advantages, and disadvantages of the Swiss system
Determining a clear winner (and, incidentally, a clear loser) usually requires the same number of rounds as a knockout tournament, that is the square root of the  number of players rounded up plus one. Therefore three rounds can handle eight players, four rounds can handle sixteen  players and so on. However it is not uncommon to have more players than this, and, if fewer than the ideal number of rounds are played, it can happen that two or more players finish the tournament with a perfect score, having won all their games but never faced each other.
Compared to a knockout tournament the Swiss system has the inherent advantage of not eliminating anyone. That means that a player can enter such a tournament knowing that he will be able to play in all rounds, regardless of how well he does. The worst that can happen in this respect is being the player left over when there is an odd number of players. The player left over receives a bye, meaning he does not play that particular round but receives a full point as if he had won a game. He is reintroduced in the next round and will not receive another bye.
Another advantage compared to knockout tournaments is that the final ranking gives some indication of relative strength for all contestants, not just for the winner of the tournament. As an example, the losing finalist in a knockout tournament may not be the second best contestant; that might have been any of the contestants eliminated by the eventual tournament winner in earlier rounds.
A Swiss system tournament does not always end with the exciting climax of the knockout’s final however. Sometimes a player may have picked up such a great lead that by the last round he is assured of winning the tournament even if he loses the last game. One fairly common fix for this dilemma is to hold single elimination rounds among the top scorers.
Compared with a round-robin tournament, a Swiss can handle many players without requiring an impractical number of rounds. An elimination tournament is better suited to a situation in which only a limited number of games may be played at once, e.g. tennis. In a Swiss system, all players can be playing a round at the same time.

The Round Robin
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. In a single round-robin schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a double round-robin.
The term round-robin is derived from the French term ruban, meaning “ribbon”. Over a long period of time, the term was corrupted and idiomized to robin.
In sports with a large number of competitive matches per season, double round-robins are common.  There are also round-robin chess tournaments; the World Chess Championship was decided in 2005, and again in 2007, in an eight-player double round-robin tournament, where each player faces every other player once as white and once as black.
Evaluation
In a round-robin format, the element of luck is seen to be reduced, given that all competitors face the same opponents, and a few bad performances need not cripple a competitor’s chances of ultimate victory.
Disadvantages include the existence of games late in the competition between competitors with no remaining chance of success. Moreover, some later matches will pair one competitor who has something left to play for against another who does not. This asymmetry means that playing the same opponents is not necessarily equitable: the same opponents in a different order may play harder or easier matches. There is also no showcase final match. The ability to recover from defeats, while rewarding overall consistency, may also be seen as a crutch for competitors who lack the temperament to handle the pressure of a knockout tournament.
Further issues arise where a round-robin is used as a qualifying round within a larger tournament. A competitor already qualified for the next stage before its last game may either not try hard (in order to conserve resources for the next phase) or even deliberately lose (if the scheduled next-phase opponent for a lower-placed qualifier is perceived to be easier than for a higher-placed one).
Swiss system tournaments attempt to combine elements of the round-robin and elimination formats, to provide a reliable champion using fewer rounds than a round-robin, while allowing draws and losses.

Knock Out or Single-elimination tournament
Example of a single-elimination tournament bracket A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of tournament where the loser of each match is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event.
(However, it does not always mean that the defeated competitor will not participate further in the tournament (in some such tournaments, consolation or “classification” contests are subsequently held among those already defeated to determine the awarding of lesser places, for example, a Third place playoff.)

Seeding
Opponents may be allocated randomly; however, since the “luck of the draw” may result in the highest-rated competitors being scheduled to face each other early in the competition, seeding is often used to prevent this. Brackets are set up, so that the top two seeds could not possibly meet until the final round (should both advance that far), none of the top four can meet prior to the semifinals, and so on.


Evaluation
The single-elimination format enables a relatively large number of competitors to participate. There are no “dead” matches (perhaps excluding “classification” matches), and no matches where one competitor has more to play for than the other.
The format is less suited to games where draws are frequent. In chess, each fixture in a single-elimination tournament must be played over multiple matches, because draws are common, and because white has an advantage over black. In soccer, games ending in a draw may be settled in extra time and eventually by a penalty shootout, viewed by many fans as an unsatisfactory conclusion to a fixture, or by replaying the fixture.
Another perceived disadvantage is that most competitors are eliminated after relatively few games. Variations such as thedouble-elimination tournament allow competitors a single loss while remaining eligible for overall victory
Simultaneous Exhibitions

Finally we can take a look not at a tournament in the strict sense but a chess event where one player takes on a number of other opponents simultaneously. A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display (often abbreviated to “simul”) is an event where one player (commonly a chess master or grandmaster) plays multiple chess games at a time with selected players (usually below master strength).
In a regular simul, no chess clocks are used. The exhibitor walks from board to board in a fixed order. Usually the boards are arranged in a large circle or square. The opponents are expected to make a move when the exhibitor arrives at the board. The exhibitor may pause a little before responding, but too many long pauses will drag the exhibition out for too long. Regular simuls are often played with several games, often twenty or more. As games are finished off, they are usually not replaced, meaning that towards the end only a few games remain. At this point clocks are sometimes introduced with each side getting a fixed amount of time. In most, but not all simuls, the exhibitor plays white in all the games.
In clock simuls all the games are played as normal tournament games, timed by a clock, apart from the fact that the exhibitor is playing on all boards. Since time pressure can become quite severe in such simuls, they usually have fewer players than a regular simul.
Occasionally, grandmasters have given blindfold simultaneous displays. In such displays, the exhibitor does not look at any of the boards, but retains all the moves of the games in his or her head. The opponents are supplied with board and pieces in the usual way, but their moves are communicated verbally to the exhibitor by an arbiter or intermediary. To conclude I hope this article helps give you an overview of different types of chess competitions.
[This material was largely accessed and edited from wikipedia the free online encyclopedia]

The Right Move

“The Right Move” released.
Bhismacharya in chess fraternity, 90-year-old Bahusaheb Padasalgikar from Nutan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli, inaugurated the 2-day Symposium on Pre-Primary & Primary School Education & Primary School Students Chess Festival At International Centre, Dona Paula on Republic day. There were street play, discussion on chess, sport, education as also different chess tournaments. This event was organised by Taleigao Chess Academy and International Centre Goa in association with Goa State Chess Association and Cortalim Chess Club International Centre Goa at Dona Paula on Republic Day January 26 & 27 2008.

Articles in the Book The Right Move

Page No
1) The Primary Stretagy 1
2) Let Kids Flourish 2
3) Using The Right side of your Brain
By Pravin Sabnis 4
4) How Rosy was my Schooling
By Arvind Naik 8
5) Syllabus in practice 9
6) Value Based Education
by G. S. Jayadev 11
7) Effective Mangement of Schools
by Sundaram Subbharatnam 14
8) Chase the chess to acquire knowledge
by Vasundara Varkhedkar 16
9) How to nurture, handle, retain a talent
like of Ivana 16
10) Our Role as Parents by Geetha Arvind 17
11) The number of Shannon 18
10) Prayer for Teachers 18
11) The beauty of maths By Lisa Jardine 19
12) Introduction of Chess at Primary School
level By Mrs. Mahima G. Manerkar 21
13) The Rules & Laws of Chess 25
14) Chess Opennings 29
15) Cortalim chess club, Past, Present,
Future By Dr. Peter Carvalho 30
16) Diploma in Chess- Dr.S.S.Thigale 31
17) Country’s rank by average rating of
top 10 players 33
18) India’s Top 100 Chess players 34
19) The Young Wonders Of Goan Chess
By Prof. Augusto Pinto 35
20) Ivana’s Game
Annotated by Shravan Barve 36
21) Wonderful Bhakti 38

22) Ivana and Bhakti at WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 2007 39
21) Chess Tournaments By Prof. Augusto Pinto 40
22) Four Steps to avail Railway concession
By Bhagawati Bhat 42
22) U 7 Chess Championship, Lucknow 07
- My thoughts and experiences
bySanjay Belurkar. 43
23) National Chess Tournament - an
Experience By Dr. Saidutt R. Sinai
Kuvelkar 44
24) VIDYA VIKAS ACADEMY 45
25) Why a child should play in a National
Chess Championship! By Shrikant Barve 46
26) LET YOUR CHILD ENJOY HIS CHESS
By Mrs. Bhagawati Bhat, C.A. 47
27) Use of Chess to search talent 48
28) Rating Norms Titles
By Prof. Augusto Pinto 49
29) ELO Rating System 50
30) FIDE Handbook Rating System 52
31) Chess for the Homeschooling family
by Nancy Sathre-Voge 54
32) International Centre 55
33) Goa Diaologue 56
34) Shri Bhaurao Padsalgikar 58
35) Invitation to Join Taleigao Chess Academy 60
36) Anurag Mhamal 62
37) Web Resources 63
38) List of Chess Terms 57

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