Thursday, 13 April 2017

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/







1 comment:

  1. Thanks a lot for organizing a well planned chess tournament by Prerna Chess Academy. The name itself gave prerna(encourage) for us to participate in it. Hope to see more and more such events by you including other game events also.

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