Including Grand Masters, International Masters, around 400 players from across 22 states in the country are taking part in the tourney.
Inaugurating the tourney by moving a pawn, Karnataka Bank non Executive Chairman Ananthakrishna said chess has a glorious history compared to the games with modern origin. The history of chess begins from the period of Epics, he said.
Game of mind
Corporation Bank General Manager A Mohan Rao said chess is a game of mind and intellect. Mayor M Shankar Bhat said chess is both a game and an art. “There is both politics and a war strategy in it,” he added. He announced a contribution of Rs 50,000 for the tournament on behalf of Mangalore City Corporation.
United Karnataka Chess Association President Achutananda Reddy said the association would organise a State-level fide rated under-15 championship at Belgaum. M R Vasudev presided.
M S Thejakumar from Karnataka who was declared International Grand Master (IM) recently, was felicitated.
SKDCA President M S Gururaj, Secretary Lidiya D’Cunha, DK Union of Working Journalists’ President Harsha and others were present.
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