Mysuru :

IM M.S. Thejkumar of South Western Railways, Mysuru, the highest ranked chess player from Karnataka (Rating 2443), will be representing India in the Qatar Open International Chess Tournament to be held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Doha, Qatar, from Nov. 25 to Dec. 5.

A total of 156 players are taking part in the tournament including Grand Masters Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Anish Giri, Alexei Shirov, Gata Kamsky, Pentala Harikrishna and Pavel Eljanov.

Taking part in the tourney from India are a total of 22 players — GM P. Harikrishna, GM Abhijit Gupta, GM B. Adhiban, GM Surya Shekar Ganguly, GM Sandipan Chada, GM G.N. Gopal, IM Ghosh Diptyan, GM D. Harika, IM Karthikeyan, GM R.R. Ankit, IM C.V.R. Aravindh, GM Debashis Das, GM Shyam Sundar, IM Das Sayanthan, IM Thejkumar, GM Neelotpal Das, GM Sundarrajan Kidambi, IM S. Gagare, WGM Mary Ann Gomes, IM P. Konguvel, IM S. Vijayalakshmi and IM Kathmale Sameer.

The total prize money of the tourney is 89,300 US$. The winner gets 25,000 US$, runner-up 15,000 US $ and third place winner 10,000 US $. The top 20 players will get cash prizes. The tournament will be of 9 rounds.

Thejkumar is sponsored by Yashasvi Shankar of Saanvi Technologies, U.S.A. and www.mysoresport.com

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home>  Sports News  / Tuesday , November 25th, 2014