Students Achievements (Before May2023) - Arjun’s Chess Academy

Students Achievements

Before May 2022

Many Congratulations to Navaneet Sreekanth who bagged 1st position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Under 11 Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Joel Dilip who bagged 2nd position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Under 11 Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Sanjana Selvaraj who bagged 6th position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Under 11 Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Aaryan Sudheer Menon who bagged 7th position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Under 11 Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Aniruddh Anup who bagged 10th position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Under 11 Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Rudra Nikhil Kanhara who bagged 3rd Position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Open Category ) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Many Congratulations to Vismay Sachar who bagged 5th position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Open Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

June 2022

Many Congratulations to Rishi Nikhil Kanhara who bagged 10th position in Andalus Wiz Kids FIDE Rated Chess tournament (Open Category) held in Al Hekma Society Riffa.

Congratulations for getting into the World Chess Federations rating list♟🎉

Many congratulations to Achintyaa Sanker of Arjun’s Chess Academy for bagging the 2nd Runner up position in the Vancity Rapid Chess Tournament held at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Great to see my students from all over the world progressing well in the game ✨

Congratulations to Joel Dilip of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Navaneet Sreekanth of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Sanjana Selvaraj of Arjun’s Chess Academy for her fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Saksham Jain of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Gautham Sudheer of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Aniruddh Anup of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Saira Mahajan of Arjun’s Chess Academy for her fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Vismay Sachar of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Sai Akhilesh of Arjun’s Chess Academy for his fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to Chaarvi Jain of Arjun’s Chess Academy for her fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022 ♟✨

Congratulations to students of Arjun’s Chess Academy for their fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament June 2022

July 2022

Kudos to Tanya Singh for making it to the International Chess Federations Rating List.

Proud moment for all of us at Arjun’s
Chess Academy! ♟

ACA Summer Chess Classical Round Robin Group A.
🥇 Vismay Sachar

Proud moment for all of us at Arjun’s
Chess Academy! ♟

ACA Summer Chess Classical Round Robin Group A.
🥈Sai Akhilesh.

Proud moment for all of us at Arjun’s
Chess Academy! ♟

ACA Summer Chess Classical Round Robin Group A.
🥉 Navaneet Sreekanth

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group B 🥇Aniruddh Anup

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group B 🥉 Noel Abraham Punnoose

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group B 🥈Rishi Renjith

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group C🥇 Arnav Ajesh

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group C 🥈Eva Mary Paul

ACA Summer Chess Rapid Tournament Group C 🥉 Theerth P Rahul

Andaluz wiz kids tournament July 2022 - Under 11

Congratulations to the following students of Arjun’s Chess Academy for their fantastic performance in Andaluz wiz kids tournament July 2022 ✨♟

In the Under 11 category

1st Prize Hudson Antony
2nd Prize SanjanaSelvaraj
5th Prize Joel Dilip

In the Open category
2nd Prize Prithvi Raj Prajeesh
3rd Prize Vismay Sachar

Happy to share that our student Shuang Chen from Canada placed 2nd in U-10 Canada National Youth Girls Chess Championship, will be the official representative for North American Chess Championship in Calgary and World Cadet Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia.

All expenses for the event will be covered and sponsored by Chess Federation Canada ( CFC).

Kudos to this fantastic achievement ✨♟

All the very best to my Student Shuang Chen ( Canada 🇨🇦 ) who is currently participating at the FIDE World Cadets Chess Championship ( Under-10 Girls ) at Batumi, Georgia 🇬🇪.

Very happy to share that Aniruddh Anup of Arjun’s Chess Academy has won the 3rd position in the under 7 category of Byju’s Starwarz Fide Ratings Chess Tournament in Cochin, Kerala 🏆🏆

International Chess Classical Ratings

Very happy to inform you all that the following students from Arjun’s Chess Academy have entered into the world of International Chess Classical Ratings

Vismay Sachar won his FIDE rating from Abu Dhabi Open Tournament, UAE 🇦🇪

Rishi N won his FIDE rating from Udaipur FIDE Rated Tournament, Rajasthan India 🇮🇳

Navaneet Sreekanth won his FIDE rating 1st Cademic International Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament and 1st Starwarz Open FIDE Chess Tournament 2022
Kerala, India 🇮🇳

Big congratulations to everyone for your stellar performance, keep learning, playing and improving !! 👏🏻👏🏻

Also all 3 of the above students currently have FIDE rating in all the 3 formats namely Classical, Rapid and Blitz.

Winners of 1st BCC Rapid Chess Championship

Very happy to release the list of winners of 1st BCC Rapid Chess Championship which was held on 23rd September 2022 at Bahrain Chess Club Galali. ♟️ Congratulations to Shaker Musab for winning tournament.🏆

In the Open Category the following students from Arjun’s Chess Academy performed really well

Vismay Sachar won the 2nd prize 🥈and
Prithvi Raj Prajeesh won the 3rd prize 🥉

♟️Best Player Male Under-18 Rishi Nikhil Kanhara🥇

♟️Best Player Female Under -18 Tanya Singh🥇

♟️Best Player Male Under-12 Rudra Nikhil Kanhara 🥇

♟️Best Player Female Under- 12 Sanjana Selvaraj 🥇

Also many thanks to Bahrain Chess Club conducting tournament💐 @bhchess

Many Congratulations to all the prize winners !! 👏🏻

Very happy to share that Arjun’s Chess Academy student Hudson Antony won the best player award in the Under 18 category of 1st BCC Chess Classic Tournament 2022. 🏆

FIDE World Cadets Chess Championship

Super happy to announce that my student Shaung Chen came 10th in the FIDE World Cadets Chess Championship in Batumi, Georgia scoring 7.5 out of 11 rounds.
Kudos for this amazing achievement 🎉👏🏻👏🏻

Indian Club Rapid Rating chess tournament

Happy to inform you all that in the Indian Club Rapid Rating chess tournament, our students performed really well.

Out of 16 category prizes, 9 were won by our own current students!!

Congratulations for the stellar performance 👏🏻🎉🎉

Winners are
Under -12

🥇Rishi Kankhara
🥈Rudra Kankhara
🥉 Dhrupad Lohidas

Under -14
🥉 Pranav Bobby Sekhar

Women’s Category

🥈 Tanya Singh

Under -10

🥈Hudson Antony
🥉Joel Dilip

Under-8

🥈Aaryan Sudheer Menon
🥉Aniruddh Anup

Keep it up!! 👏🏻

Academy Students Achieve Fide Ratings

Thrilled to inform you all that the following students from Arjun’s Chess Academy have entered into the world of International Chess Ratings by acquiring their Fide Ratings

Hudson Antony
Rapid Rating – 1430
Blitz Rating – 1320
Rishi Renjith
Rapid Rating -1239
KurianPaul
Rapid Rating- 1146
Chaarvi Jain
Rapid Rating-1105
Saksham Jain
Rapid Rating -1021
Kanushi Kishore
Blitz Rating -1156

Congratulations for reaching this milestone !! 🎉
Many more to go !!♟️

Winners of the ACA INTRA TOURNAMENT 2022

We’re very happy to release the Top 10 list of winners of the ACA INTRA TOURNAMENT 2022 for Group A which was held on November 18, 2022 at Arjun’s Chess Academy. ♟️
Congratulations to Prithvi Raj Prajeesh for winning the 1st Place.🏆

🏆 1st Place – Prithvi Raj Prajeesh
🏆 2nd Place – Navaneeth Sreekanth
🏆 3rd Place – Rishi Kankhara
🏅 4th Place – Nirvaan Ashish Modi
🏅 5th Place – Rudra Kankhara
🏅 6th Place – Hudson Anthony
🏅 7th Place – Kanushi Kishore
🏅 8th Place – Ishaan Jinesh
🏅 9th Place – Preetham
🏅 10th Place – Joel Dilip

Congratulations 🎉

ACA INTRA TOURNAMENT 2022 - Group B & Group C

Very happy to release the Top 10 winners list of ACA INTRA TOURNAMENT 2022 for Group B which was held on November 19, 2022 at Arjun’s Chess Academy. ♟️
Congratulations to Noel Abraham Punnoose for winning the 1st Place in Group B.🏆
🏆 1st Place – Noel Abraham Punnoose
🏆 2nd Place – Norah Anna Punnoose
🏆 3rd Place – Sanjana Selvaraj
🏅 4th Place – Rakshith Mendon
🏅 5th Place – Gautham Sudheer
🏅 6th Place – Aaryan Sudheer Menon
🏅 7th Place – Kurian Paul
🏅 8th Place – Aniruddh Anup
🏅 9th Place – Arnav Ajesh
🏅 10th Place – Pranav Ajesh
Congratulations 🎉

Very happy to release the Top 10 winners list of ACA INTRA CHESS TOURNAMENT 2022 for Group C which was held on November 25, 2022 at Arjun’s Chess Academy. ♟️
Congratulations to Thanav Gopalakrishnan for winning the 1st Prize in Group C.🏆
🏆 1st Prize – Thanav Gopalakrishnan
🏆 2nd Prize – Saira Mahajan
🏆 3rd Prize – Vedant Makwana
🏅 4th Prize – Anshul Satheesh
🏅 5th Prize – Eva Mary Paul
🏅 6th Prize – Harsh Sai Vasudev
🏅 7th Prize – Mikhael Vivek Joseph
🏅 8th Prize – Jhanvi Jinesh
🏅 9th Prize – Gabriel Vivek Joseph
🏅 10th Prize – Jairam Kannappan Nagappan
Congratulations 🎉.

Very happy to release the Top 10 winners list of ACA INTRA ACADEMY CHESS TOURNAMENT 2022 for Group D which was held on November 26, 2022 at Arjun’s Chess Academy. ♟️
Congratulations to Nyrav Gopalakrishnan for winning the 1st Prize in Group D.🏆
🏆 1st Prize – Nyrav Gopalakrishnan
🏆 2nd Prize – Varunesh Mohanraj
🏆 3rd Prize – Jay Menon
🏅 4th Prize – Avyaktth Veeraragavan
🏅 5th Prize – Hansika Gurumurthy
🏅 6th Prize – Sharrvesh Selvaraj
🏅 7th Prize – Rudraprasad Bhure
🏅 8th Prize – Hrihaan Kunder
🏅 9th Prize – Arush Arun Nair
🏅 10th Prize – Aaryan Anil
Congratulations 🎉

Happy to inform you that the following students from Arjun’s Chess Academy acquired their Rapid & Blitz Fide Ratings♟️

Tanya Singh
Rapid Rating – 1157

Saksham Jain
Blitz Rating – 1053

Congratulations!🎉 Many more to go🙏🏼

Navaneeth and Hudson wins GOLD🏆Tanya wins BRONZE🥉
Manama : 300 Students from Public Schools as well as Private ones in 8 different categories participated in the “Sh.Khalid Bin Hamad Chess School Chess Championship” that was held on Bahrain on the 4th and 5th of December 2022 at SH Khalifa Sports City Hall.
4 Students from our Academy participated in the Chess Tournament and we’re very happy to share with you that all 4 students placed the Top 5 List in different Categories!
Navaneeth Sreekanth – CHAMPION🥇🏆 (Under-12 Boys Category)
Hudson Antony – CHAMPION🥇🏆 (Under-10 Boys Category)
Tanya Singh – 3rd Place 🥉(Under-12 Girls Category)
Hanna Rachel Tom – 5th Place ( Under-12 Girls Category)
The event was organized by Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Bahrain Chess Club and Bahrain Chess Federation and ACA director Mr. Arjun Kakkadath who was the Chief Arbiter of the event.
This event is sponsored by His Highness Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa attended the closing ceremony of “The Khalid Bin Hamad Chess School Chess Championship”
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this event and also to the students of our Academy who made in the Top 5 list! 👏🎉

Our ACA Students had a great performance in the Bahrain National Chess Festival 2022🇧🇭
Out of 45 Category Prizes, 25 were won by our current ACA Students in the Bahrain National Day Chess Festival that was held on 15th, 16th and 17th of December 2022 at Al Oruba Club, Juffair, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Congratulations for the astounding performance! Kuddos to our ACA Students!!! 👏♟️
Winners are:
♟️FIDE RATED CATEGORY♟️:
*TOP 10:
4th Place – Rishi N.
9th Place – Hudson Antony
10th Place – Navaneet Sreekanth
*SPECIAL AWARD:
Best Unrated Female – Norah Anna Punnoose
♟️JUNIORS CATEGORY♟️:
*UNDER – 14:
3rd – Navaneet Sreekanth
*UNDER – 11:
1st – Joel Dilip
2nd – Divit Purohit
3rd – Khush Dholaria
*UNDER – 9:
1st – Hudson Antony
2nd – Noel Abraham Punnoose
3rd – Yashvi Kausal Shah
*UNDER – 7:
1st – Anniruddh Anup
3rd – Varunesh Mohanraj
*GIRLS:
2nd – Kanushi Kishore
♟️AMATEUR CATEGORY♟️:
*TOP 3:
3rd – Noel Abraham Punnoose
*UNDER – 8:
1st – Aniruddh Anup
3rd – Samyak Anup Shah
*UNDER – 10:
1st – Yashvi Kausal Shah
2nd – Nathan Mathew Punnoose
3rd – Jairam Kannappan Nagappan
*UNDER – 12:
1st – Pranav Ajesh Nair
2nd – Mikael Vivek Joseph
3rd – Thanav Gopalakrishnan
*GIRLS:
2nd – Jhanvi Jinesh
3rd – Norah Anna Punnoose
Keep it up👏

✨️ACA Students Achievements✨️ January 2023

Happy to inform everyone that our student Nathan Mathew Punnoose acquired his new International FIDE Rapid Rating
& some of our students who also increased their Fide Rating in January 2023 are:
Rishi N = +73
Divit Purohit = +52
Navaneeth Sreekanth = +40
Preetham = +23
Prithvi Raj = +22
Ishaan Jinesh = +18

Congratulations!! 👏👏

✨️ACA Students Achievements✨️ January 2023

Palaash Mapara our student participated in the 360 ONE MUMBAI U-13 JUNIOR FIDE RATING CHESS TOURNAMENT 2022 that was held in Mumbai India 🇮🇳 and He placed 3rd in the Under-8 Category, he also got his Classical International Rating this event.
Congratulations Palaash 👏👏🎊

✨ACA Students Achievements✨ January 2023
Hudson Antony participated Blitz Marathon 2022 held in Bahrain and he got the First Prize in Under – 10 Category!

Congratulations Hudson !! 👏

14 feb

“CBSE NATIONALS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP – 2023”
Out of 4 Players who represented New Millenium School Bahrain in the CBSE Nationals Chess Championship – 2023 (that was held on 14th to 17th of January 2023 at Punjab,India), 3 of them are students from Arjun’s Chess Academy.
They were placed 5th out of 20 strong teams in the “Under – 14 Girls category”.
They won 3 and lost 2.
♟️ACA Students are:
▪️Tanya Singh (Captain) – 4/5 points
▪️Chaarvi Jain – 3/5 points
▪️ Kanushi Kishore – 2/5 points
CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉
The “Under-17 Boys Team” also performed well. Prithvi Raj Prajeesh represented New Millenium School Bahrain, he’s one of the top students of ACA. They performed really well as their team was placed 8th out of 19 strong teams.
▪️Prithvi Raj Prajeesh scored 3 points out of 5.
CONGRATULATIONS and Many more to go!♟️🎉

✨ACA Students Achievements ✨ 01-02-2023
Happy to inform you that the following students from Arjun’s Chess Academy acquired their International FIDE Ratings in Blitz category ♟️
Joel Dilip
Blitz Rating – 1229
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Sanjana Selvaraj
Blitz Rating – 1152
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Gabriel Vivek Joseph
Blitz Rating – 1008
Congratulations!🎉 Many more to go🙏🏼

ACA is proud to share with you that Navaneet Sreekanth recently joined the BCA Under-12 Chess Tournament that was held on February 04, 2023 in Bahrain and got the first prize 🥇🏆
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Congratulations Navaneet! Many more to go✨️♟️

We’re happy to share with you that AADYANSH ASHWIN our ACA Student got the first prize🥇 in the Under-18 Indoor Tournament that was held in Kannada Sangha here in Bahrain🇧🇭
Congratulations Aadyansh! Many more to go✨️

We’re very happy to share with you all that our ACA Student PALAASH MAPARA joined the MLA Chashak All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2023 that was held in Nagpur, India 🇮🇳 in which He won the 9th Place for the Best Unrated Player and placed 2nd🥈in Under 9 Category.
Congratulations Palaash! Many more to go✨️♟️

We’re very proud to inform you all that in the 2nd Indian Club Rapid Rating 2023 chess tournament our ACA students performed excellently👏
Out of 63 category prizes for Amateur and FIDE Rated, 23 were won by our own current students!!🔥
Congratulations for the superb performance 👏🔥
AMATEUR CATEGORY
AMATEUR TOP 10
🎖4th – Aaryan Sudheer Menon
AMATEUR Under – 08
🥇Vladislav Rogov
🥈Aniruddh Anup
🥉 Arnav, Ajesh Nair
AMATEUR Under -10
🥇Sriram Palaniappan
🥉 Ansh Bhandary
AMATEUR Under – 12
🥇Pranav Ajesh Nair
🥈Mikael Vivek Joseph
🥉 Jishnu Balajee Meenu
AMATEUR Under – 14
🥉Thanav Gopalakrishnan
AMATEUR Womens
🥇Yashvi Kaushal Shah
🥈Emilia Anoob
🥉Saira Mahajan
AMATEUR GCC
🥈Fahad Jsim Al Malki
FIDE RATED CATEGORY
FIDE Rated Under – 07
🥇Samyak Anup Shah
FIDE Rated Under – 09
🥇Noel Abraham Punnoose
🥉Vladislav Rogov
FIDE Rated Under – 11
🥇Navaneet Sreekanth
🥈Hudson Antony
🥉Joel Dilip
FIDE Rated Under – 13
🥈Rishi N.
🥉 Khush Dholaria
FIDE UNRATED
🥈Pranav, Ajesh Nair
CONGRATULATIONS! 👏🔥Keep it up!! 👏🏻

We’re very happy to share with you all that our ACA Student PALAASH MAPARA joined the 1st YMCA Age Group Chess Tournament on 19th of February 2023 that was held in Mumbai, India🇮🇳 in which He scored 4 out of 5 points and won the 3rd Place for the Under-11 Category✨️
Congratulations Palaash! Many more to go✨️♟️

✨️ACA STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS✨️March 2023 ♟️
We’re very proud to share with you that 9 of our Students acquired their new International FIDE Rating👏 Congratulations🎉
1. Tanya Singh = 1243 (Standard)
2. Palaash Mapara = 1168 (Standard )
3. Rudra N = 1166 (Standard)
4. Pranav Ajesh = 1227 (Rapid)
5. Yashvi Shah = 1217 (Rapid)
6. Devaj Prasanth = 1205 (Rapid)
7. Noel Punnoose = 1201 (Rapid)
8. Mikael Joseph = 1061 (Rapid)
9. Jishnu Balajee Meenu = 1012 (Rapid)
And 6 of our students who also increased their Fide Rating in March 2023 are:
1. Prithvi Raj Prajeesh = +158in blitz & +48 in Rapid
2. Navaneet Sreekanth = +70
3. Rudra N = +13
4. Khush Dholaria = +50
5. Uttam Baratam = +10
6. Gautham Sudheer = +10
Congratulations! Many more to go🎉🙏