28th State Under–17 Open & Girls Chess Championships-2017 (FIDE Rated)

AICF Event code: 160963 / 160964 / TN / 2017

TNSCA Approval No. S08/TNJ/17-18 Title Sponsor Kamala Subramaniam Matriculation Higher Secondary School & Lakshmi Ford Organised By Ancient Chess Academy

On behalf of District Chess Association & Tamil Nadu State Chess Association

Date: 08/05/2017 to 12/05/2017 Venue: Kamala Subramaniam Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Near New Bus Stand, Thanjavur

SCHEDULE Arrival 09.00 A.M. 08/05/2017 Inauguration & Players Meeting 10.00 A.M. Round 1 11.00 A.M. Round 2 04.00 P.M. Round 3 09.00 A.M. 09/05/2017 Round 4 02.30 P.M. Round 5 09.00 A.M. 10/05/2017 Round 6 02.30 P.M. Round 7 09.00 A.M. 11/05/2017 Round 8 02.30 P.M. Round 9 09.00 A.M. 12/05/2017 Prize Distribution 03.00 P.M.

Total Cash Prize Fund: Rs. 26,400/- Prize 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Open 3000+Title 2500 2000 1500 1000 800 600 600 600 600 Trophy Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. Girls 3000+Title 2500 2000 1500 1000 800 600 600 600 600 Trophy

Special Prizes :( Eligible only for players ranked after 10th position) Category Prizes

 U11 Boys -5 Prizes; U11 Girls - 5 Prizes  U13 Boys -5 Prizes; U13 Girls - 5 Prizes  U15 Boys -5 Prizes; U15 Girls - 5 Prizes Prizes for Thanjavur District Players

 Boy: 5 Prizes; Girls: 5 Prizes

Entry Fee: Normal: Rs. 400/- Special: Rs. 800/-

**Please note that only the players who take part in this State Championship will be permitted to represent Tamil Nadu as selected/special entries in the forth coming National U-17 Chess Championship. Hence participation in this State Championship is COMPULSORY.** Note to District Chess Associations: Hence advise all your U-17 players to take part in this State Championship.

Last date for entries: 4th May 2017

Rules and Regulations:

Age Eligibility Those who are born on or after 1.1.2000 are eligible to participate. Age proof is required. Certificate should be from the Panchayat/Municipality or corporation obtained soon after birth. Players without the date of birth certificate will not be allowed to participate. As per the rules of AICF, only players whose dates of birth are registered within one year of their birth are permitted to take part in respective age group state/nationals. Other country passport holders shall not be allowed to participate in the State Chess Championship. Only Tamil Nadu Players Can participate in this championship Lodging: Dormitory type will be provided to all participants. Players are requested to bring their own beddings. Registration of All the participants of TN State U-17 Chess Championship must be registered players of All Players with India Chess Federation. Those who are already registered with AICF must produce proof AICF: thereof. The AICF Player registration fee for the year 2017-2018 is Rs. 250/-. Entries without AICF registration fee will be rejected. Registration of All the participants at all TN State U-17 Chess Championships are required to register Participants with themselves with TNSCA by paying Rs. 150/- as player registration fee for the year 2017-2018, TNSCA: the players have to submit their Date of Birth Certificate copy and one passport size photo along with the duly signed TN Players' Registration Form. Those have already paid the TNSCA player registration should show the proof at the venue TDCA player Thanjavur District Player’s registration is compulsory for TDCA players. The fee for the year Registration 2017-2018 is Rs.50/- 0nly. Default Time Default time is 15 minutes. Players have to be at their boards within 15 minutes of start of the round. Rules: FIDE rules in force shall apply. System of play: The Tournament shall be conducted as Nine rounds Swiss System. Time Control: 90 minutes each plus 30 seconds increment from the move one. Tie-break Direct encounter, Buchholz Cut 1, Buchholz, Sonneborn Berger and number of wins (forfeit included) tie-break rules will be applied. In case of tie, prizes will not be shared. Chess Clocks: Each Association is requested to provide at least two chess clocks for every four players. An Appeals Committee comprising of three members plus two reserves will be formed at the Appeals managers meeting. All the members and reserves shall be from different districts. No member of Committee: committee can vote on dispute in which a player from his own district is involved and in such case(s), the reserve member takes his place. The decision of the appeals committee is final and binding on all players concerned. Tournament The tournament committee consisting of the General Secretary, TNSCA or his representative, Committee: The Secretary of Thanjavur District Chess Association or his representative and representative from another district to be nominated by the TNSCA shall decide on all emergency matters. Protest: Protest, if any against the decision of the Chief arbiter shall be made in writing with a protest fee of Rs.500/- within 15 minutes of the incident. The decisions of the appeals committee shall be final and binding on all concerned. The protest fee is refundable one if the protest is upheld. Withdrawals: A player may withdraw from the tournament at any stage after informing the Chief Arbiter in writing. Arrears: The players belonging to Districts which are in arrears to TNSCA will not be allowed to take part. Rights of The AICF/ TNSCA / Thanjavur District Chess Association/Ancient Chess Academy reserve the Admission: right to admit / reject any entry without assigning any reason thereof. The AICF/ TNSCA/ Thanjavur District Chess Association/Ancient Chess Academy reserve the rights of admission to the venue and lodging place. Instruction to the As per the rules of AICF only players whose dates of birth are registered within one year of District Chess their births are permitted to take part in respective age group Nationals. Hence Dist. Assns are Associations: directed hereby to forward the names of players whose birth registrations have been done within a year of their births for this TN State U-17 Chess Championship. Wherever discrepancies exist, the matter may taken up with AICF through TNSCA. This will avoid the inconvenience caused to such players when they appear in Nationals. While sending the Entries, District Chess Associations should certify that the players have been duly selected from the selection/District Chess Championship giving details of venue & Date. If such certificate is not sent the entries will be treated as special entries. While you are sending the entry the following details are compulsory: 1. Name with Correct Spelling 2. FIDE ID 3. FIDE Rating (If any) 4. Date of Birth Proof 5. Aicf Regn. Number/Proof 6. TNSCA Regn. Number/Proof 7. Valid Email Id 8. Normal or Special Entry Subject to Age Limit the following are eligible to play:

1 Only Indian Nationals are eligible to participate. 2 Two players in each category from the affiliated District Chess Associations / Special Units. 3 Top four rankers (Boys & Girls) from 2016 TN State U-17 Chess Championship. Boys: 1) Iniyan P (ERO), 2) Bharath Subramaniyam H (CHE), 3) Barath Kalyan M (TRR) Girls: 1) Neha Srinibash D(CHE), 2) Jegatha B (CHE), 4 Top four (Boys & Girls) from 2016 TN State U 19 Chess Championship Boys: 1) Hemanth Raam(CHE), 2) Selvamurugan B (MDU) Girls: 1) Priyanka K (CBE) 5 Top four (Boys & Girls) from 2016 TN State U-15 Chess Championship Boys: 1) Harshavardhan G B(CHE), 2) Hirthickkesh Pr(CUD), 3) Rathanvel V S(CBE), 4) Dileep Kumar R (CHE) Girls: 1) Lakshmi C(CHE), 2) Sneha G P S(CUD), 3) Rindhiya V (CHE), 4) Jegatha B(CHE) 6 Winners (Boys & Girls) from 2016 TN State U-13 Chess Championship Boys: 1) Harshavardhan G B(CHE) Girls: 1) Poorna Sri M.K (CHE) 7 The top two rankers from 2016 TN State U-15 & U-17 Girls can opt to play in Open Category. 8 Any player who has qualified to represent India in World /Asian Chess Championship. Subject to age stipulation 9 Any player who remits the prescribed special entry fee: : Rs.800/- but has to be recommended by the respective district association 10 TNSCA General Secretary can nominate one entry in each category. 11 Two players in each category, approved by TNSCA will be permitted from areas where no district association exists. 12 The Host Thanjavur District Chess Association is entitled to field one additional entry in each category. 13 If the number of participants at the start of the championship is an odd number, the host Thanjavur DCA can add one more entry to make it even. 14 In addition to the above the following districts can field additional entries by virtue of their Players finishing in top four in the previous TN State U-17 Chess Championships held in 2016 at Erode. Open: Erode - 1, Kanchipuram - 1, - 1, Tiruvarur - 1 Girls: Salem - 1, Chennai - 2, Kanyakumari – 1 15 All GMs, WGMs, IMs & WIMs are eligible to play as seeded subject to age limit.

Chief Arbiter: IA V S.Sriman Deputy Chief Arbiter: FA A. Amburose Arokyaraj ** Note: While sending the entries District Chess association should certify that their players have been selected from the selection/district Chess Championship. If such a certificate is not sent all their entries will be treated as donor entries. All entries be it normal or special should be routed through the respective District Association on or before 04.05.2017 Copy of the entries should be mailed to TNSCA ([email protected]) Entry fee Payment Mode

Demand Draft in favour of “Ancient chess Academy” Payable at Thanjavur and sent the DD along with Entry form to the below address M.Vinoth, 83/40 Vandikara Street,

No:1 Road Thanjavur -613 001 Mobile No: 99769 27910, E-mail: [email protected]

Further details contact: T.Shyam Sundar – 94875 52492, R.P.Senthil Kumaran -93643 36464 Last date for receipt of entries: 04-05-2017 No entry will permitted after the last date. For NEFT /Account Deposit (Email the payment proof and Entry details to [email protected] )

Account Name: Ancient Chess Academy Account Number: 6518645597 Account Type: Current Account Bank Name: Indian Bank Branch: Rahman Nagar, Thanjavur OrIFSC Code: IDIB000R095

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Entry Fees can also be paid at www.pay4chess.com but all entries should be routed through the respective district chess association. Previous Winners

YEAR PLACE WINNER BOYS/GIRLS YEAR PLACE WINNER BOYS/GIRLS B.Ravi (Che) R.Siddharth (Che) 1991 Chennai 2004 Rajapalayam M.Vinitha P.Sivasankari (Tlr) R.B Ramesh (Che) T.U.Navin Kanna (Tlr) 1992 Rajapalayam 2005 Chennai S.Vijayalakshmi (Che) P.Sivasankari (Tlr) R.B Ramesh (Che) R.Premnath(Kan) 1993 Madurai 2006 Chennai M.Safira Shanaz (Vnr) M.Rajadarshini (Mdu) R.B Ramesh(Che) P.Karthikeyan (Che) 1994 Madurai 2007 Karur S.Sasirekha R.Preethi (Mdu) V.Krishnakumar (Slm) M.Muthu Alagappan (Tlr) 1995 Tambaram 2008 Namakkal Saimeera (Che) Pon N.Krithika (Kan) R.Karthik (Cud) N. Surendran (Tlr) 1996 Salem 2009 Sivakasi S.Cynthia J. Saranya (Tlr) M.R.Venkatesh (Che ) S.S.Manigandan (Mdu) 1997 Salem 2010 Tirupur P.D. Deepika A.Akshaya (Tlr) .Kidambi(Che) S.S.Manigandan (Mdu) J. 1998 Chennai 2011 Rajapalayam M.R.Sangeetha (Che) Saranya (Tlr) S.Poobesh Anand (Che) S.S.Manigandan (Mdu) 1999 Karaikudi 2012 Erode B.Latha M. Sandya (Che) B.Sivashankar (Che) Nishvin J(Kki) 1999 Devakottai 2013 Hosur C.V.Rajalakshmi (Kan) Bala Kannamma P (Che) Coimbatore Preetham Sharma (Tlr) Vaishnav M(Tpr) 2000 2014 Rajapalayam M.Kasturi (Mdu) Srija Seshadri(Nlc) S.Anand Kumar Sai Vishwesh.C(Che) 2001 Aruppukottai 2015 Kanchipuram S.Nabeela Farheen (Che) Divya Lakshmi R(Che) R.Siddarth (Che) Iniyan P (Ero) 2002 Aruppukottai N.Raghavi (Che) 2016 Erode PL.Kavitha(Slm)

Mannargudi S.Venkat Sundaram (Kan) 2003 2017 Thanjavur ???? S.Harini (Kan)

List of Trains from Chennai to Thanjavur via Villupuram, Cuddalore, Myladuthurai,

Daily/ Chennai Train No Train Name Egmore Thanjavur Reaching Time Weekly Starting Time

16853 Trichy Express Daily 08:30 14:28

Chennai Egmore - 16105 Daily 16:05 21:45 Tiruchendur Express

Chennai - 16101 Rameswaram Daily 19:05 01:00 Express

16179 Mannai Express Daily 22:00 04:35

Madurai - Chennai Weekly 22623 22:45 04:53 Egmore Express Sunday

16183 Uzhavan Express Daily 23:30 06:45

Reaching Thanjavur from other Districts:

 Train from Tiruchendur to Thanjavur Via (Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar, Madurai, Dindigul) 16106 Tiruchendur - Chennai Egmore Express-Daily-At Tiruchendur 19:00 - Thanjavur reach-04:15

 Train from Madurai to Thanjavur Via (Dindigul, Trichy)

22624 Chennai Egmore - Madurai Express –(Weekly Sunday)-At Madurai 21:15-Thanjavur Reach-00:38

 Trains from Coimbatore to Thanjavur Via (Tiruppur, Erode, Karur, Trichy)

16616 Coimbatore - Chemmozhi Express-Daily-At Coimbatore 00:30-Thanjavur Reach -06:15

 16188 Ernakulam - Karaikal Express-Daily-At Coimbatore 03:10-Thanjavur Reach-08:45.

12084 Jan Shatabdi Express-Daily-At Coimbatore 07:10-Thanjavur Reach-11:45

 Trains from to Thanjavur Via (Hosur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Erode, Karur, Trichy)

16232 Mailaduturai Express-Daily –At Mysore 15:30-Thanjavur Reach-04:50. List of Hotels

Luxury Hotel

Hotel Raks- 73737 33014 - Near By Venue

Lakshmi Hotel-4 Star Hotel-04362 278 161-2.5 KM Distance from Venue

Hotel Sangam -3 Star Hotel- 04362-239451 -2 KM Distance from Venue

Hotel Gnanam-2 Star Hotel- 04362 278 503- 4 KM Distance from Venue

Hotel Sumi Palace- 04362 228 856- 1KM Distance from Venue

Budget Hotel

ASK Residency- 04362-228786- Walk able Distance from Venue

Sri Muthu Lodge- 04362-228833-Walkable Distance from Venue

Atchaya Rooms- 04362-226701- Walk able Distance from Venue

Hotel Ramnath- 04362-22618 - Walk able Distance from Venue.

Hotel Yagappa- 04362-230421- 3 KM Distance from Venue

Tournament Organising Committee Rtn.V.Subramaniam Rtn.R.K.Balagunashekaran Mr. A.Gerard Phingnora Raj Organising Chairman Tournament Co-ordinator President, TDCA KSMHSS Join Secretary, TNSCA Mr.R.P.Senthilkumaran Mr.M.Vinoth Mr.T.Shyam Sundar Secretary-TDCA Secretary-ACA Treasurer-ACA 93643 36464 99769 27910 94875 52492

Entry Form

Name (write in Capital) Gender Male/Female District FIDE ID FIDE rating Date of Birth Category Open/Girls AICF if paid Reg No TNSCA if paid Reg No Accommodation (Mention how many of them including parents) Address

Contact Number (Those who are staying) Email ID (Confirm need for new FIDE ID Players)

Entry fee Special :800 Normal:400 TDCA 50 TNSCA 150 AICF 250 Total

Date: signature:

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