Vishnu Jatin escapes with a Draw against Vineeth Gowra

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Jatin escapes with a draw

Teja defeats Aditya:

TEJA

SUPRAJA, PAVANI AND SRINIVAS

ADITYA, PAVAN, KARTHIK AND KAUSTUBHA

CHANAKYA, RITVIK AND SAITEJA

Vineeth

JATIN (Kaushik watching the game)

ANIRUDH

Chanakya

 

Teja of New Nallakunta handed over a shock defeat on Aditya who had just won a tournament. Aditya played very fast and paid the penalty for that. Sreyamsh defeated Kartik in another interesting game. Chaitanya defeated Nikhila. Chaitanya played the game with his own clock and looked jubiliant throughout the session. Meanwhile Pavani, Srinivas and Supraja had rigorous practicing sessions. At Secunderabad branch, Chanakya and Ritvik had slav defence practice. At Begumpet branch, Jatin was very lucky to escape with a draw against Vineeth. However Vineeth played brilliant till that point putting Jatin under severe pressure. However Jatin threw a trap in which Vineeth fell and the game ended in a Stalemate. Anirudh played few games with Satvik and Vineeth. Anirudh reproduced some moves in Sicilian Defence much to the amusement of the trainer.

My Chess Guru Sri.Raja Lakshmanan

With My Chess Guru Sri.Raja Lakshmanan

The Chess Legend, Sri.Raja Lakshmanan

He appears old. But play a game of Chess with him. He will crush you in no time. He is Sri.Raja Lakshmanan from Hyderabad, my CHESS GURU. He has taught me many wonderful things about the game. A versatile genius of the game, he is always down to earth and very humble. At 75, he has perfect vision of the Chess Board which is amazing. He is a contemporary of Manuel Aaron, the Ist International Master of India. He has also played with Anand, the reigning world chess champion, when Anand was young. The Academy wishes him all the best.

New Batch on Thursdays from 6PM-8PM at Samanvithaa Chess Academy

MISS SUSHMITHA

The academy extends a warm welcome to the new Student Miss Sushmitha, an Engineering Ist Year Student from Hyderabad. With her joining, a new batch has started on Thursday. The session included games between Pavani and Sreyamsh.

Ishan learns to write notation...

The wonderboy from Himayatnagar, Master Ishan Gandhi displayed good skills during the practice session on 19.10.2010. This was the first time that he was taught how to write chess notation. Quite surprisingly Ishan could balance between writing and playing....congrats Ishan....

దసరా శుభాకాంక్షలు / Happy Dusserah

మీ అందరికి అకాడెమి తరపున హార్దిక దసరా శుభాకాంక్షలు. Hope this festival brings you lots of happiness and smiles. Every "move" of you has the guidance of Maa Durga. May the blessings of Maa durga be showered upon you for ever.

Aditya wins Chess Tournament

ADITYA

Aditya wins College Chess tournament at Aurora Engineering College, Hyderabad. A bright Chess student of Samanvitha Chess Academy, Aditya is an Engineering Student from Aurora Engineering College, Bandlaguda, Hyderabad. Samanvitha Chess Academy heartily congratulates Aditya on his superb performance.

Major upsets at Samanvitha Chess Academy on 10.10.10

pavani and Kapil watching games

Students immersed in a game analysis

Chaitanya posing for the camera

Aditya

CHAITANYA

KAUSTUBHA

TEJA

NIKHILA

PAVAN

PAVANI

KARTHIK

KAPIL CHAGANTI

Today is 10.10.10, a special day in terms of date. The activity in our academy was filled with upsets galore. Kaustubha started the show by upsetting Teja in less than 5 minutes. Teja played fast and had to pay for it. In another game, Chaitanya beat Kapil, Aditya beat Nikhila (Danish Gambit). Aditya is improving with each session and has bright chances of getting in to the top rank in future. Pavan beat Karthik comfortably. Karthik and Kapil are new entrants in to the academy. Both are promising. Pavan, Kaustubha and Chaitanya are players to watch. Pavani beat Supraja 2.5 - 0.5. In blitz game session, Kaustubha beat Teja 1.5 - 0.5. Pavan beat Karthik 3-0. Chanakya beat Sai Teja in a very interesting game.

White to move and WIN

White to move and win

 White to move and win Courtesy Susan polgar blogspot.com

White to move and win

White to move and win Courtesy Chessgames.com

Well fought games on 03.10.2010. Kaushik upsets Vineeth and Chanakya

New Nallakunta batch

Chaitan, pawn, Karthik, Nihila, Kautubha, Aditya, Sreyamsh

Chanakya with Ritvik. Mr.Sivaramakrishna and Satvik watch the game

Kaushik, Vineeth, Chanakya, Mahendrakumar, Anirudh, Jatin and Satvik

Chanakya, Jatin and Vineeth, The top 3 of Samanvitha Chess Academy

Today's session at New Nallakunta, Hyderabad was quite interesting. The games were well fought. Sreyamsh who was out of form came out with a brilliant performance to outwit Teja, the No.4 player of the academy in a brilliant end game. In the other games, Aditya defeated Kausutbha, Pawan defeated Chaitanya, Nikhila defeated Karthik, Kaustubha attained a good position against Aditya but made some weak moves to lose the end game.In another blitz games played between these two, Aditya defeated Kaustubha 2-1.Supraja, Pavani and Srinivas played out some practice games.At AMSRI court of our Secunderabad Branch, Chanakya defeated Ritvik in a brilliant game. Chanakya developed King side attack and Ritvik defended the position excellently and came out with a counter attack. But Ritvik had to surrender the game to a brilliant move by Chanakya. The surprise guest to the game sessions was Mahathi, the ex student of our academy. At Begumpet, a round robin tournament was conducted. Four players were involved. Jatin, Kaushik, Vineeth and Chanakya. The ever cool boy, master Jatin won the tournament comfortably. But there were big upsets. The unrated Kaushik defeated both Vineeth and Chanakya to clink 2nd position. Incidentally, Kaushik is the cousin of Master Srikar Varadaraj, the ex student of our academy who recently held Vishy Anand to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition match at Hitex, Hyderabad.  The academy congratulates Kaushik for his superb performance. Anirudh and Satvik were involved in an exercise "Attack the piece on files,ranks and diagonals" which they did very effectively.

Jatin maintains his No.1 status

Mahendrakumar with No.1 Jatin

Master Vishnu Jatin maintained his No.1 position in the academy with 1620 points. There was no change in position no.2 and 3. Chanakya and Vineeth retained their 2nd and 3rd rank positions comfortably. Teja and Nikhila maintained their 4th and 5th positions respectively. There was no major upsets in this rating list. Ishaan, Kaushik and Karthik entered the A group.