GANGTOK,: Sikkim Chess Association (SCA), under the aegis of All India Chess
Federation, is geared to organize the first-of-its-kind Northeast Team Chess
Championship at Janta Bhawan here from October 20 to 23.
Sikkim
will be hosting the first Northeast-level team championship, and all eight
teams from the Northeast will be participating in the championship.
“The
championship will have a team of five chess players and will follow the
round-robin format that requires every player or team to face all the other
players or teams at least once. The winner or winners are those who have the
best overall performance during the entire tournament,” expressed SCA general
secretary Mahendra Dhakal at a press meet here on Wednesday.
With the
overall prize money of Rs 5 lakh, the top three winning teams will receive cash
prizes of Rs 2 lakh, Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 1 lakh respectively. The other
participating teams will also receive consolation cash prizes.
The Sikkim
Team are Thendup Tamang, Rohit Gurung, Rahul Gurung, Saurav Subba and Nirav
Dhakal.
