NDCA’s 7th online blitz chess tournament gets under way
   Date :06-Jul-2020

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WITH 35 participants, the seventh edition of NDCA Online Blitz Chess Tournament got under way on Sunday. The tournament is being held through the platform of Lichess.org and is conducted by Nagpur District Chess Association. In all nine rounds will be played with a time control of five minutes per player to finish the game.
 
The tournament is being held under the supervision of International Arbiter Swapnil Bansod, International Arbiter Pravin Pantawane and FA Umesh Panbude. In the last six editions, Ansh Dhanvij has won the title twice while the other winners were Spandan Seth, R Shiva Subramanian, Priyanshu Patil and Siddhant Gawai. Barring Subramanian none of the previous winner are participating in this edition. There was a rise in number of participants in the tournament this week. Last week there were 29 participants.
 
The list of participants for the seventh edition is as follows: Navinya Kamble, Naitik Panhekar, Ayush Ramteke, Sumedh Ramteke, Anirudha Meshram, Savinay Meshram, Nitish Rathi, Jairam Yugant Ramteke, Krupal Wanjari, Saksham Singh, Riddhi Makheja, Ashwin Gurbani, Abhishek Ikhar, Sakshi Ikhar, Sadanand Mahajan, Harsh Nachankar, Rishikesh Gaikwad, Aditya Bodkhe, R Shiva Subramanian, Ajinkya Vaidya, Prathamesh Kale, Krishna Taori, Pramod Ramteke, Shraddha Bajaj, Kanishq Dutta, Nilay Kulkarni, Mayank Ranade, Kaustav Barat, Arush Chitre, Anushka Kapse, Shaunak Badole, Mohak Bhagchandani, Hariom Bhagchandani, Sushant Jumde.