The Wonderkids of Samanvitha Chess Academy

Ishaan Gandhi

Ishan Gandhi

Ishaan Gandhi, the Cute boy from Himayatnagar is so accurate in his play that he has picked up the fundamentals that are taught by the academy rather very quickly. Give him 2 Rooks and a King against a lone King. He checkmates in less than 30 seconds. 

Anirudh playing with Pramod Nandan

Anirudh

 Anirudh, the smart boy from Kukatpally and a student of Divyanjali school is sharp at grasping things. He quickly understands whatever is taught and reproduces them instantly. Wait...He can tell you the names of capital cities of over 100 countries !!

 Satwik is a new entrant to the academy. He has the zeal to perform well on the board.

Pramod Nandan

 Pramod Nandan is tough at the board. He wants to win every game. He also has the zeal to learn things.

Satvik Gowra

 Satvik Gowra is a very plain boy who concentrates on opponents weaknesses. He has the ability to learn things quickly.

Cool games during the practice sessions at Samanvitha Chess Academy

Chanakya, No.2 Seed of the Academy

Today's session at the Academy had some surprises. Pawan drew with Aditya. Teja lost to Chaitanya. Karthik and Teja won a few blitz games. At Secunderabad branch, there was an interesting game between Mr.Shivaramakrishna and Satwik where the latter lost the game. At Begumpet, Jatin defeated Ayush Sharma. The real surprise today was the game between Kaushik and Vineeth. Kaushik drew with Vineeth in an interesting game. At one stage, Kaushik was winning but ultimately Vineeth, the No.3 seed of the academy managed to draw the game. The game between Anirudh and Satvik was funny. The session missed Chanakya and Supraja who were busy preparing for Exams.

Chess Olympiad 2010 starts at Khanty-Mansiysk

World Chess Olympiad, 2010

Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Judit Polgar, Karjakin, Alexandra koustenik, Nakamura, Gata Kamsky, Wesly So win their games at the opening day of Chess Olympiad at Khanty Mansiysk.Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy are not participating in the Tournament.

Activity on 19.9.2010 at Samanvitha Chess Academy, Hyderabad

Sri Shivaramakrishna, 68 Yrs

The academy heartily welcomes the new entrants into our academy, Sri.Shivaramakrishna, Satvik, Pavani, Aditya, Kartik, Kapil, Srinivas  It was an interesting day at Samanvitha Chess Academy. The games at New Nallakunta branch were quite impressive. Teja defeated Kaustubha in less than 20 moves. Pavan defeated Sreyamsh after material gain.  Chaitanya defeated Nikhila in a well fought game. The blitz game between Chaitanya and Aditya was quite interesting. Chaitanya played brilliantly to checkmate Aditya's King in the centre of the Board. There were couple of well fought blitz games. Kartik defeated Teja and Kaustubha defeated Aditya. The game between Pavani and Supraja was also well played. At our Secunderabad branch, Ritvik defeated Chanakya in a brilliant end game. The No.1 ranked player of the academy Mr.Vishnu Jatin scored a brilliant win over Vineeth, the No.3 ranked player of the academy. Vineeth, Jatin and Kaushik had King and Rook end game practice.

Very interesting games during the playing sessions on 12.9.2010

VINEETH GOWRA during playing session at the Samanvitha Chess Academy

Nikhila Vs Aditya game was very interesting. Nikhila was materially down but pulled off a brilliant win over Aditya. Chaitanya won over Sreyamsh in a tactical game. Sai Teja and Ritvik were taught about opening theory preparation. Vishnuram Jatin, the No.1 player of the Academy had a dull day where he lost 3 out of six games against Chanakya and Vineeth. The day belonged to Nikhila, Vineeth and Chanakya. Vineeth played a good tactical game to score a stunning victory against Jatin.Chanakya also played superbly against Vineeth in the opening game. At the end of the session all the top 3 players of the academy had 4 points each.

Srikar Varadaraj during training at Samanvitha Chess Academy

Sreyamsh, Samanvitha, SRIKAR VARADARAJ, Mahendrakumar,Sri Ram, Amulya, Sahithi

Srikar Varadaraj (14)  the boy who drew with the reigning World Chess Champion Vishwanathan Anand at Hitex Hyderabad on 24.8.2010 in simultaneous exhibition match, was trained in our academy during 2004-2005. He maintained the top rank in our academy through out his training period. Here he is seen with his fellow students.

Sreedhar explaining the opening strategies to students of Samanvitha Chess Academy

RUY LOPEZ - (1) e4 e5 (2) Nf3 Nc6 (3) Bb5

Games at the Academy

Ravichandran playing with Ritvik during one of the practice sessions at our Secunderabad branch.

Principles of our Academy

The academy has trained around 100 students till now. The basic principle on which the academy was established is to train young children in the game of chess and teach them the correct way of playing the game. How to study the positions, how to pursue winning lines etc.

Vishnu Jatin attains No.1 spot in August 2010 rating list of SCA

Master Vishnu Jatin is No.1 player of Samanvitha Chess Academy for the month of August, 2010. Chanakya is No.2 followed by Vineeth Gowra in No.3 position. The other players in the ranking list are 4. Teja 5.Nikhila 6.Kruttika 7.Ritvik 8.Pavan 9.Aditya 10.Sreyamsh 11.Chaitanya 12.Kaustubha. The Academy welcomes the new students.

Students of Samanvitha Chess Academy

Pavani, Nikhila, Teja, Kaustubha, Chaitanya, Srinivas, Pavan, Aditya, Kapil, Karthik and SREYAMSH