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The Maharashtra Chess Association was formed in 1921. Maharashtra is located in the western peninsular region of India and occupies a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. The state is the second-most populous in India, being home to 112 million people, including 18 million in the capital of Mumbai. The "chess city" of Pune is also located in Maharashtra.
Pratapgad fort on the Deccan Plateau in Mahashtra
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The LetsUp Online Grand Prix will run from June 3rd until July 1st, 2020. Here is the schedule:
The rounds start every Wednesday at 8 p.m. IST (5:30 p.m. Moscow, 4:30 p.m. in Europe, 10:30 a.m. New York) on Playchess. You can check the starting time at your location here. The tournament will have a total prize fund of Rs.155,000. Registration for each event will close on the previous day of each event, i.e. Tuesday at 8 p.m. IST.
Entry Fee: the tournament is open to everyone all across the world. The entry fee for each tournament is Rs.250 or Rs. 1000 for all five events. Players outside India who would like to participate can make the payment through this Paypal link by paying €5 for each event or €20 for all five events and write a mail to teamchessbaseindia@gmail.com mentioning their name, FIDE ID, Playchess ID and gender. Entry is free for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. Titled players must write to us (same address) with their Playchess id to confirm their entry.
There is a special PayPal service for foreign players.
You get GP Points for finishing in top ten in every event. At the end of five events all your points are added. However, only the score of best four events will be considered for the Grand Prix Prize money. E.g. if a player has finished first, second, third, fourth and fifth in the five events, then his/her score of only the first four events will be counted.
The main prizes are Rs. 6500 for first place, down to Rs. 300 for places 15-20. The best woman receives Rs. 700, the best unrated player Rs. 700 (runners up Rs. 500).
It's going to be a tough tournament. Portraits of the players on the CB.India tournament page.
In the meantime...
ChessBase India started its YouTube channel as a way to interview top players, coaches, parents, organizers, sponsors and all the people connected with the game of chess. Slowly it extended into showcasing games of players, top class analysis, live shows and much more. The main aim of the channel is to enrich and enlighten players and spectators and make chess one of the most followed sports in India and the world. At the beginning of the year we had around 250,000 subscribers, now after five months we have reached 350,000.
Did you know the channel has 17 videos with over a million views? The top five videos together total up to 100 million views! This is the right time to share with you our top ten videos!
You can see all the above videos with full transcripts of the games here.
