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As the name suggests LatestChess, our aim is to keep our viewers updated with the latest trends in Chess world. Founded in 2006, LatestChess is a dedicated effort to provide latest news, articles by experts, interviews and much more. We, the team at atestChess, are in a continuous process to make chess and its related areas very simple and handy to the players all over the world. To begin with our striking idea, we are providing chess lovers to watch games of their favorite players LIVE ! We are the only company to provide this facility in India.

In addition to this chess players in India will pay tournament fees online and get rid off the troubles of rushing to the tournament hall and pay the fees on the eleventh hour.

LatestChess website has been created by expert software professionals with the help of top chess players like Grand Master Abhijit Kunte.

The former British and Canadian champion, Grand Master Abhijit Kunte helped us in understanding the needs of chess players and tournament organizers.

We are thankful to Grand Master Abhijit Kunte for guiding us.

LatestChess has a great collection of games that will be available soon to provide from beginners to experts, a considerable foundation of study material. Players will avail this facility totally FREE and you don't even need to register with us to access the games database !!

LatestChess also provides chess coaches, instructors a unique platform to advertise with us and benefit from various schemes. To know more details about the advertising on LatestChess please contact us at editor@latestchess.com.

We sincerely hope that you will find our site useful and enjoyable. If you have any questions or would like to provide feedback then please Contact Us.

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LatestChess, care of Mr. Sandeep Gohad,
Pratibha A, Flat no.11,
Karve nagar, Pune - 411052
Maharashtra, India.

Who are we?

GM Abhijit Kunte - Advisor for LatestChess

Name: Abhijit Kunte
Date of Birth: 3rd March 1977
Education: B.Com, Diploma in Business Management, Master in Management Sciences.
Current ELO Rating Points – 2524

Awards

1. Late Shri Raja Mantri Puraskar, as a Best Player of Pune City 1994-95, Awarded by Shahid Bhagatsing Mitra Mandal, Pune.

2. Late Shri Sunil Tambe Kreeda Puraskar, as a Best Player of Pune City 1994, Awarded by Navmaharashtra Sangh, Pune.

3. International Marathon Award as a Best Junior Player Of Pune City, 1993-94, Awarded by International Marathon, Pune.

4. Shri Shivchatrapati Award, 1998-99, Awarded by Maharashtra State Government.

He Started playing Chess at the age of 8.

• Became India’s 4th Grandmaster in the year 2000 and second from Maharashtra.
• Four Asian (Three Team and one Individual) medals (1 Gold ,2 silver, 1 bronze).
• Two Commonwealth (individual) medals. (1 silver, 1 Bronze).
• Member of Indian Team for past 10 years.
• Represented India in last consecutive four Chess Olympiads.
• Member of Indian Team which one Gold Medal at Asian Team Chess Championship at Iran. This is India’s 1st Gold Medal.
• Winner of Canadian Open at Kitchner 2006.
• British Champion 2003. (Became last Indian /foreigner to win the event as British Chess Federation stopped all foreign participation in this 83 year old tournament)
• One Gold and one Bronze medal at Junior level (Individual) .
• Two times National Champion .1997 and 2000
• Seven age group National Titles.
• National record of winning National Junior three times in a row. 1995-96-97.

Sandeep Gohad - Editor and developer for LatestChess

Name: Sandeep Gohad
Date of Birth: 9th September 1980
FIDE rated Chess player.

Working with SRC, LLC (Nashua, USA) as software programmer.

Working as editor for LatestChess.com, CPAI.in (Chess players association of India), PythonThreads.com (Python programming language)

Chess Performances
√ Represented Pune University in THE GRAND ASIAN CHESS CHALLENGE Tournament held at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
√ 3 Times CAPTAIN of Pune University Chess Team.
√ Won individual Gold Medal In the All India Inter-University Chess Tournament.
√ Winners of All India Inter-University Chess Tournament (* amongst 90 universities , 540 players)
√ Stood 2^nd in the Maharashtra State Open Chess Championships.
√ Represented Maharashtra in the National Level Chess Championships.

Saurabh Ambekar - Editor and developer for LatestChess

Name: Saurabh Ambekar
Date of Birth: 1st October 1981
Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)

He has Participated in many national level and rating tournaments.

Working with Sony (Tokyo, Japan) as Technical Analyst.

Contributing to LatestChess as main programmer and editor.