Sports Reporter :
THE second edition of Nagpur District Chess Association (NDCA) Weekend Online Rapid Chess Tournament got under way on Saturday. The event is being conducted through the ‘lichess.org’ platform. Total 48 players are participating in the two-day tournament. The time control given to all players is ten minutes with five seconds increments each to finish the game.
Four rounds will be played on each day. The tournament is conducted under the supervision of IA Swapnil Bansod, IA Pravin Pantawane and FA Umesh Panbude. Following players are taking part in the event: Bharat Arora, Pappu Kumar Singh, SK Laha, Sadanand Mahajan, Harsh Nachankar, Vishwajeeth Jaisinhrao Naik, T Chandran, Pramod Ramteke, Nilay Kulkarni, Ajinkya Vaidya, Yashwant Shamkuwar, Rishi Rukhiyana, Aparneeta Jagtap, Ramteke Ayush, Ramteke Sumedh, Meshram Aniruddha, Meshram Savinay, Shaun Geevarghese, Akshal Kamdar, Hrudaya Ambagade, Aditya Bodkhe, Viddesh Gharpure, Nitish Rathi, Pranav Wankhede, Pranav Khilnani, Kaustav Barat, Sagar Mate, Dikshaan Gupta, Aastha Turankar, Navinya Kamble, Krishna Taori, Nimish Soni, Sparsh Kumbhalkar, Pranavi Bhagat, Naitik Panhekar, Abhishek Sachin Ikhar, Atharva Aloni, Shrivastav VK, Vedika Pal, Deepak Gondhule, Shanaya Shailendra Shelkar, Aviraj Chalakh, Aarav Dharmik, Nishad Gore, Tanmay Karkar, Shivansh Rajurkar, Anushka Kapse and Yugant Ramteke.