GSCA to apply for clocks to AICF

Sameer A. Salgaocar, President of Goa
State Chess Association disclosed that
Goa State Chess Association will apply
to the All India Chess Federation to
purchase digital chess clocks at a
subsidised rate.

Under the new scheme, the Federation
can avail of clocks under the 75 percent
subsidy scheme and has applied for 1000
clocks. AICF will retain 200 clocks and
the balance clocks will be distributed to all
the member associations. 'Goa will try to
avail maximum clocks under this facility,'
Salgaocar said 'as we are a fledgeling
organisation and we want to ramp up our
logistics and infrastructure for successful
conduct of tournaments in the future'.

In another significant decision, the AICF
decided to strip last year's National Girls
Under 7 Champion N. Madhumita of Andhra
Pradesh of her title when she was found overage
in a subsequent Championship in New Delhi.
With this decision, the All India Chess
Federation has also decided to apply to SAI
for clearance for Goa's Riya Sawant who had
finished fourth for participation in the World
Youth Chess Championships in Vietnam.

Riya, will be only the third Goan player, after
Ivana Furtado and Bhakti Kulkarni to be selected
to represent the country in an international tournament.
Incidentally, Bhakti will be flying to Spain tomorrow
for participation in two Open events followed by a stint
in the Asian Youth Championships in Teheran where
she will be joined by double World Youth Girls Under 8
Champion Ivana Furtado.