Delhi Dynamite
Delhi Dynamite is a professional chess team. It is a part of the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League by chess.com. The team was founded in October 2016 and took part in the inaugural league. The team won the eastern division and qualified for the divisional play-offs. The team was the only Indian team to be a part of the second round of qualifiers. It was only the second Indian team to win a place in the qualifiers.
The team is headed by International Master Vishal Sareen and has some of India's finest talents in its player pool. The team members are Grandmasters Abhijeet Gupta, Tejas Bakre, Vaibhav Suri, Sahaj Grover, Srinath Narayanan, Salem Saleh, Rohit Lalith, and International Masters Nihal Sarin and Tania Sachdev. The team also has a few local talents in its line-up like Aradhya Garg and Nishant Malhotra.
The team has won awards like the best social media for the seventh week and the qualifier rounds. The social media has been headed by AIM Devanshi Rathi. It was one of the few teams to qualify directly for the second season of the league to be held in early 2018.
The team also has its own non-profit initiatives, including partnering with a local chess project for the underprivileged and blind – Checkmate and organising a grandmaster coaching camp with world renowned trainer and author – Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard. The team also hosted a grandmaster simultaneous exhibition for ten blind players from the National Association of the Blind, New Delhi. It also got an official launch at the National Sub-Junior Championships in New Delhi in November 2016.
References
- https://twitter.com/delhidynamite64
- https://www.facebook.com/delhidynamite/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkgN5R9aTUPA5E1vXBeDJbw
- https://new.uschess.org/news/the-pro-chess-league-exciting-and-instructive-chess-every-week/
- http://chessbase.in/news/jacob-aagaard-delhi/
- http://sportscrunch.in/tag/delhi-dynamite/
- https://hunonchess.com/5-of-worlds-top-6-to-contest-pro-chess-sweet-16/
- https://medium.com/@support_91163/delhi-players-can-meet-21-chess-books-live-8a33dd6e560a
- http://epaper.business-standard.com/bsepaper/svww_zoomartfun.php?word=aagaard&Artname=pdf%2F2017%2F04%2F08%2F20170408b_006101002&ileft=240&itop=38&zoomRatio=130&AN=20170408b_006101002&path=0&flag=y
- http://www.1stmove.org/2017/03/10/march-madness-2/
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