The 2010 Rajnesh Parmeshwar Memorial Open Chess Championships will be held on Sunday 11th July 2010 at the Fiji School of Medicine Pasifika Campus, Extension Street, Suva.
This eighth edition of the memorial event celebrates the chessing achievements of Fiji Chess prodigy Rajnesh Parmeshwar, a very promising dynamic young player, who was Fiji's first representative to the Oceania Zonal Chess Championships on Australia's Gold Coast in 1999 and was well on his way to a successful international career.
Fiji Times - 11/05/10
THE 23rd Mohammed Badshah Memorial Open Chess Championship will be played in Suva on May 22.
The tournament, to be held at the Fiji School of Medicine Pasifika Campus, is expected to see the best chess players from around the country converge in the capital.
Fiji Times 03/05/10
A NEW champion was unveiled in the secondary division of the Fiji Schools Chess Championship at Pasifika Campus in Suva yesterday.
Mahatma Gandhi High School (MGM) Form Six student Asrit Singh defeated top bet Hilda Areki of Saint Joseph's Secondary School to win top honours.
Tournament coordinator Manoj Kumar was happy with the turnout and the standard of competition during the annual event.
Fiji Times - 22/03/10
FIJI'S number one Manoj Kumar took out the 27th Brijlal Open Chess Championship at the Fiji Olympic House yesterday.
It was sweet revenge for Kumar, who dethroned defending champion and fellow candidate master Calvin Prasad after the latter took away the former's Kundan Singh Open title in a previous tournament last month.
Fiji Times - 23/02/10
CALVIN Prasad took out the 19th Kundan Singh Open Chess Championship on Sunday at the Fiji Olympic House.
Prasad finished unbeaten with 4.5points in the 12-player elite category following four wins and a draw.
He started with three convincing wins and had the championship title all but wrapped up by toppling fellow candidate master Manoj Kumar in round four.
Prasad kept his cool and battled to a draw against fellow championship title contender Goru Arvind, who needed to win the final round clash to force a three-way tie at the top of the standing with Prasad and Kumar.
Fiji Times - 01/02/10
HE is a man of great adventures. He would not be satisfied with what he had until he achieves and completes the course which he started, sixteen years ago. Fiji Chess Association committee member Krishneel Nair says playing chess is more of being a problem solver rather than being a sportsman.