{"id":1959,"date":"2012-01-13T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:28:05","slug":"chanda-gets-top-billing-in-parsvnath-open-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Chanda gets top billing in Parsvnath Open Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>The 10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath  International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament gets underway here at  Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines from Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event will see 20 Grandmasters and 32 International Masters in  action in a field of around 300 players from more than 14 countries.\u00a0  Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda will start as the rating favourite  while Belarusian Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov and Ukrainian  Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn have got the second and third seed  respectively in this eleven round Swiss system tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 The total  prize fund of the event is Rupees 15 lakhs out of which Rs. 3 lakhs is  reserved for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The event at the start of the New Year,  every year now, attracts big stars from across the world and this time,  Grandmaster duo from Russia, Mikhail Ulibin and Andrei Deviatkin along  with Oliver Barbosa of Philippines amongst those will be eying the  winner\u2019s purse apart from the top seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Ajay Maken, Hon\u2019ble Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports will inaugurate the event at 1800 hrs on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The  Parsvnath group has been sponsoring this tournament for the ninth time  running. The real estate majors are involved in almost all chess  activities in the National Capital and it is because Pradip Jain has  taken a stand to promote the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>The 10th edition of prestigious Parsvnath  International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament gets underway here at  Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines from Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chanda gets top billing in Parsvnath Open Chess - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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