The 38th RCA Chess championship was held on 17th September 2006 at the RCA Kaggadasapura premises from 330 pm to 5 pm - The event was a  4 round swiss among 8 participants and a progressive chess event on popular demand from the players - Raja Ravi Sekhar who is quite familiar with various other chess variants like Giveaway chess , Double move chess , Maya chess etc also took part in the event - Seedings were based on alphabetical order and a base rating of 1000 was given to all players making their expectancy exactly 2/4 ---Crosstable of the event below -

Player name--------------Rd-1-----Rd-2-----Rd3-----Rd4-----Points---SB---Rank

01. Atishay Samuel------B05L----W04W---B06L----W07L----1.0-----0.0--- 6th

02. Christ Bellarmine----W06L----B07L---W04W---W08L----1.0------0.0----7th

03. R.Harsha------------B07W---W06D---B05L----B04W----2.5-----04.25--3rd

04. D.Rahul-------------W08L----B01L----B02L----W03L----0.0------0.0----8th

05. Raja Ravi Sekhar----W01W---B08W--W03W---B06W----4.0-----8.00---1st

06. R.Sanjay-------------B02W---B03D---W01W---W05L----2.5----03.25---4th

07. Shah Rukh Sait------W03L----W02W--B08W---B01W----3.0----04.00---2nd

08. Vetrivel Natarajan---B04W----W05L---W07L----B02W---2.00 --01.00---5th

Trophies were given to the top 4 and also to the youngest  participants Rahul + Atishay as also one to Christ for his birthday 17-09-1992 -

RCA Progressive Chess Rating list as on 17-09-2006 after the RCA - 38 chess championship - :

1.Raja Ravi Sekhar---(Bangalore)---1050.00---4 games

2.Shah Rukh Sait---(Bangalore)-----1025.00---4 games

3.R.Harsha---(Bangalore)-----------1012.50---4 games

4.R.Sanjay---(Bangalore)-----------1012.50---4 games

5.Vetrivel Natarajan---(Bangalore)--1000.00---4 games

6.Atishay Samuel---(Bangalore)-----0975.00---4 games

7.Christ Bellarmine---(Bangalore)---0975.00---4 games

8.D.Rahul---(Tirupur)---------------0950.00---4 games

This was followed by a supply chess competition among 4 pairs - In the semifinal round the results were :

Shah Rukh + Siddharth lost to Sanjay + Harsha ---Vetrivel + Atishay lost to Rahul + Christ -

In the final round the result was : Rahul + Christ lost to Sanjay + Harsha

So R.Sanjay and R.Harsha walked away with a shield each as the supply chess master pair  -

Here are a few sample games from the progressive event of RCA-38

Game-1 Round-1 White - Raja Ravi Sekhar  Black - Atishay Samuel - 1.e3 2. e6 + Nh6 (guarding the weak f7 ) 3.Nh3 (guarding the weak f2)  + Nc3 + a4 (played to queen quickly later ) 4. a5 + Nc6 + d5 + Kd7 (so that the king will have more escape squares ) 5. d4 + Bb5 + e4 + Bg5 + Bd8 6. de4 + e3 + e2 + Kd8 + Ke7 + ed1=Q 7. Rd1 + Ke2 + d5 + dc6 + cb7 + ba8=Q + Qc8 8. c6 + cb5 + ba4 + a3 + a2 + a1=Q + Kf6 + Qd1 9. Rd1 + Qc6 + Rd5 + Rh5 + Nf4 + Ke1 + Ke2 + Ke1 + Nd5#