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After a cutthroat battle that lasted for 5 Days, the All India Chess League 4.0 had a successful conclusion with IIT Bombay conquering the championship for the second consecutive time!

Whereas VIIT showcased some great play and dominated Tier 2. These 45+ colleges all over the country fought very hard during each stage which made it really tough for the winners to find their way.

IIT Bombay won by an appreciable lead with Atharva Tayade leading from the front. VJTI was the runner-up in the event thanks to their leader IM Nubair who ruthlessly played his games to secure overall first place in the individual standings. With many surprising upsets in the tournament here are the top 5 players in Tier 1:
1) IM Nubairshah Shaikh(VJTI)
2) Atharva Tayade(IITB)
3) Siddharth Sabhari Shankar(IIT Kgp)
4) Jatin Deshpande(IITB)
5) Aman Khanna(BITS Pilani)

This edition many new colleges competed with a really great spirit in the Tier 2 finals with VIIT winning and the top 5 colleges making their way straight into Tier 1 in the next edition. Here are the players who finished in the top 5:
1)Herschelle Gupta(IIIT Delhi)
2)Akhilan EM(NIT Raipur and IISER TVM)
3)Nameet Chavan(VIIT)
4)Rahul Sethi(IIIT Delhi)
5)Devanshu Mistry(MIT-WPU)

IIT Bombay congratulates all the winners and the teams for joining us in this festival and making this edition memorable for each one of us!

With the restarting of a new era in sports history after the drastic times of
pandemic, all sports have begun to be played in the conventional offline scenario, so has the most popular sport in pandemic, Chess also started.

India is priveleged to have so many
budding masters in chess. So with this new positive change we have organised a session with a upcoming stalwart of Indian chess, Grand Master Abhimanyu Puranik. He will share with us some of the best moments of the Candidates Tournament,
the biggest tournament of the year, as well as his predictions for upcoming Chess Olympiad, which is going to happen in India.

So what are you waiting for! Set a reminder for 5 PM today and do join the session!
We'll also be having a closing ceremony for the All India Chess League and announcing the winners.

The All India Chess League 4.0 got all of it's finalists yesterday and now is fully prepared for its finals with the top teams in each tier. All the teams showed immense grit and fighting spirit and the qualifying spots were unclear till the last moments of the semis.

Tier 1 finals are scheduled for tomorrow while Tier 2 finals begin today. With promotion at stake in tier 2, you surely don't want to miss out on the action!

All qualified teams will play 2 team battles with 3+0 and 2+0 time control format.
The blitz segment will be from 7-7:45 PM, and bullet will be from 8-8:45 PM.

All the best to all the finalists!

We are very happy to announce Paramount Dealz as our Associate Title Sponsor for the All India Chess League 4.0
With an extensive range of chess sets and other chess products in their repertoire, we hope that this partnership helps to expand our ever enthusiastic chess community and make AICL 4.0 a grand success.

Do check out their website(www.paramountdealz.com) for the extensive range of products they have to offer and register for AICL to receive discount coupon codes applicable to products on their site!

IIT Bombay is back with the most awaited inter-university event ALL INDIA CHESS LEAGUE 4.0 this International Chess Day, with our proud sponsors Paramount Dealz and Sao Foods.

The five-day long event with multiple battles between players from 45+ universities across the country divided into two tiers, with promotion and relegation at stake, will begin on *20th July*!

Each team will make an all-out effort for its vanity and try to conquer this contest where the stakes are higher with prizes worth INR 80,000 with coupon codes for all registered players! We even have sessions with renowned titled players during the course of the event.

So what are you waiting for! Let us cherish this chess day with AICL! Register and join the army to help IITB retain its supremacy. We will be contesting in Tier 1 of the event.

Registration Tier 1: https://tinyurl.com/AICL4RegTier1

Rulebook Tier 1:
https://tinyurl.com/AICL4RulebookTier1

Ian Nepomniachtchi won the Candidates 2022 for a second consecutive time with a round to spare! The 31-year-old Russian thus will now challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship Title. Nepo came-back stronger after his collapse in the World Championship match last year and scored a record-breaking 9.5/14.
Gary Kasparov, former World Champion, mentioned that Nepo’s preparation for World Championship played a key-role in his victory.
After a lot of speculations on whether Carlsen will play the next world championship match, the world champion commented in April 2022 that he is unlikely to play with no mention of a potential opponent.

It was interesting to see reaction of the champion as he stated- “I thought he was criminally underrated by the pundits and betting odds but I still thought that Ding and Fabiano were bigger favorites. But kudos, he has done very well." - Carlsen on Nepomniachtchi winning the Candidates 2022

With an undisputed winner who was the strongest player, it remains to see whether Carlsen would agree to face Nepo.
DKCC IIT Bombay wishes the Best of Luck to Ian Nepomniachtchi for the World Championship and his Chess career ahead!

The Sports Cup is on and the 6 best teams have qualified for finals after sailing through the qualifiers. While Groups A and B saw convincing victories by H6 and H5 respectively, Group C saw a thrilling finish with H9 edging out the favourites H2.

Today the teams will battle it out in a fierce finale team battle in two formats: 3+0 and 5+0.

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