First Open Chess Tournament at Pimpale Saudagar - by Prerana Chess Academy, Pimple Saudagar, Pune.

Shatrughna Kate Social Foundation in Association with Prerana Chess Academy has Organized First Open Chess Tournament at Pimple Saudagar for Pimple Saudagar and Rahatani Residents.

This is One Day Rapid Chess Tournament and will be played in Swiss League Format.

There are various categories involved in this tournament
1. Veteran (Age about 60 years) - Best Veteran Trophy 2
2. Open - Winner / Runner for the tournament next 3 would get Medals
3. U-15 - First and Second would get Trophies next 3 would get Medals
5. U-10 - First and Second would get Trophies next 3 would get Medals
6. U-8 - First and Second would get Trophies next 3 would get Medals
7. Best Junior Player (Below 5 years) - Trophy 1
8. Best Ladies - Trophy

The prizes will be distributed accordingly.
Total Prizes = 12 Trophies and 12 Medals
No Entry Fees
No Cash Prizes

Venue - Club House of Atul Alcove Society, Pimple Saudagar.
Date - 16th April
Time - 9.00 AM

On occasion of Corporator Shatrughgna Kate's Birthday, Prerana Chess Academy in association with Shatrughna (Bapu) Kate social foundation successfully organized and conducted first Open One Day Rapid Chess Tournament at Pimple Saudagar for Pimple Saudagar and Rahatani residents.
Tournament Director and Founder of Prerana Chess Academy - Pradip Pate - provided more details about this event to Pune-Pulse.

The tournament started sharp at 9.30 AM and Last result was submitted by 5.00 PM.
Tournament Organizer and Tournament management took good care of all the participant and made sure that everyone enjoyed the games.

Total 7 rounds were played using Swiss-League system and Rigved Shenai from Open Age Category won the title of this tournament.

There were U-5, U-8, U-10, U-15, Open and Veteran Categories considered for Prizes and
Avaneesh Pate (U-5), Sharvil Suryawanshi (U-8), Prerana Pate(U-10), Sparsh Banerjee (U-15) and Senior Citizen Mr. Mohan Chandwani(Veteran) secured Winner Trophies in their respective Categories.

This event was very well organized and nicely executed. Every participant appreciated this event open heartedly and requested for more and more such tournaments in near future.

Good part of the tournament was, people of different age group ranging from 4.5 years to 72 years participated and enjoyed this full day event.

Prize Ceremony was held at Corporator Bapu Kate's Office on his birthday ie. 20th April.
Corporator Nirmalatai Kute was chief guest for Prize Distribution.

Girish Joshi Sir played role of an arbiter for this tournament.

Prerana Chess Academy organized this tournament with the intent of spreading awareness about chess and has decided to come up with more such touranments and free worksops in near future for 'Pimple-Saudagar' and 'Rahatani' Residents.

Different Societies or parents can reach out to Prerana Chess Academy at 9049159246 or can write at preranachessacademy@gmail.com
Details about the tournament, photos and other information can be found at http://preranachessacademy.blogspot.in/

Free Chess Workshop on May 1st

Prerana Chess Academy, Pimple Saudagar, Pune offers FREE CHESS WORKSHOP on May 1st - Maharashtra Diwas

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Contact - 9049159246, 8007390399

Celebrating Maharashtra's Chess Prerana Diwas at Prerana Chess Academy, Pune

Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - Maharashtra's Chess Inspiration Day was celebrated by 'Prerana Chess Academy' at Laxmi Aangan Co. Op. Society, Pimple Saudagar.
Free workshop was conducted by Pradip Pate, the founder and co-owner of 'Prerana Chess Academy', for the kids between age of 5 to 13 years.
During this one hour session, He covered Benefits of playing Chess, Basics of Chess and taught everything needed to start playing chess.
He also taught about the algebric notations for the chess which can be useful for writting chess game.
This session was quiet interesting and as small kids were involved in the session the coach made it interactive by asking them various questions and gave them different puzzles to solve for one move check-mate, two moves check-mate etc.

The objective for conducting free workshop was to spread awareness about Chess in the kids and the parents staying in Pimple Saduagar area.
Maharashtra's Chess Inspiration Day was celebrated all over Maharashtra, and Prerana Chess Academy thinks that, this small contribution made by them would surely help children to start playing chess and will create interest within them and may create future grand masters and international masters due to such activities.

'Prerana Chess Academy' has also shown interst that they are ready to conduct such free workshops in various societies within Pimpale Saudagar and nearby localities. Society management committee can approach to them by writting email at 'preranachessacademy@gmail.com' or alternatively can contact on 9049159246, 8007390399.

We wish all coaches, organizers and players best wishes on the 'Maharashtra Chess Inspiration Day'