National sub-juniors from today

By Our Sports Reporter

BANGALORE, MAY 14. The country's top sub-junior chess talent will assemble in the city to participate in the National tournament at the Tuberculosis Research Institute here from May 15 to 22.

The tournament will conducted in four groups - boys Under-12 & Under-14 and girls Under-12 and Under-14. The registration process was underway till Monday afternoon and about 400 entries had been received in the four categories.

The tournament is being played in the new format and matches will be of one and a half hour duration for the first 40 moves and after this, there will be only a half hour provision till the conclusion of the match.

There will be two rounds of matches every day. Given the large number of entries, the four groups would be split up for three groups to play two rounds and the fourth group to play only one round. The number of rounds will be changed according to rotation.

Some of the best talent in the country will present during the tournament. In the boys under -14 section Deepan Chakravarthy of Tamil Nadu, S. Dutta of Goodricke Academy (West Bengal), Prateek Sengupta of Jharkand, Sunil Rangarajan of Karnataka and R. Siddharth would be seen in action.

In the girls section, Kruthika Nadig of Maharashtra, Rashmi and Aishwarya Shobhana of Tamil Nadu, J. Megha of Karnataka and P. Priya would be participating.

In the boys under-12 section, G. Rohit of AP, Vijay Keerthi of Karnataka, S. Moujamdar and Vishal Shah of Maharashtra, Vijil Pujari of Gujarat and M. Suraj of Karnataka are among the entries received thus far.

D. Harita the world under-10 second seed has telephonically confirmed her entry. Others in the fray are Sowmya Swaminathan (Mah), Akshitha Bhat (Kar), Priyadarshni and V.K Sindhu (TN) and Mary Ann Gomes of Goodricke Academy. All these are among the talented and seeded players whose entries have been received.

Mr. Anthony, International Arbitrer, has been specially deputed by Mr. Ummer Koya for the tournament. Mr. Utarid will be the deputy arbitrer.

AICF to conduct enquiry

A message from the All India Chess Federation President, Mr. P.T Uomer Koya indicates that a four member committee from the AICF will be in the city during the tournament to conduct an enquiry into the alleged irregularities of the Karnataka Chess Association.

Mr. Koya said in a letter that Mr. V.K Rathi, Joint Secretary AICF, Sqn Ldr Rajendra, Air Force Sports Control Board, Mr. D.V Sundar, Vice President AICF and Soumen Majumdar, Treasurer, AICF will head an enquiry committee to hear evidence and complaints from players, office bearers of associations and organisers of events about problems with the Karnataka Chess Association.

This is being done to facilitate selection of players for major forthcoming events. The rift in the State chess had caused a number of problems and it was to quickly repair the damage that the enquiry committee was being set-up.

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