

Candidates tournament is the 2nd biggest chess tournament (of course after the World Chess Championship) that decides who will challenge the reigning World Champion! An extremely prestigious and important hurdle that a chess player has to win over if a player wishes to become World Champion! People go for win here, prepare for months to win this. Now, Anish has a unique record – drawing all 14 games of the Candidates Tournament in 2016!


A parallel in life, say for a student, isn’t it better to say I’ll never fall below say 70% on any given exam, for a corporate professional, it would be like I’ll always show consistency and is a backbone of any team I work with. It needs immense focus, hard work, patience and mental toughness to do so as you don’t know drift away.
Let’s see how Anish is different than his peers. Giri is fluent in Russian, English, Dutch and moderately proficient in Japanese, Nepali and German. He got married relatively at a younger age with Chess International Master (IM) Sopiko Guramishvili in 2015. They have a son named Daniel. Anish is seen spending a good amount of time happily. Being happy, isn’t it the most important thing in life? Anish has published a book in 2014. He has a YouTube channel and is consistently active on social media handles such as Tweeter, Instagram where you see a huge fan base of Anish across countries.

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The Golden jubilee chess tournament of VCA and Rotary Club was successfully conducted on Saturday, 14th December 2019 as an Open Rapid chess Tournament. The event was conducted as per the latest laws of FIDE.
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Victorious Chess Academy has completed 6 years successfully.
We would like to thank everyone for being part of this epic journey to spread the beautiful game of chess! -
The 1st War of Wits One day Rapid Chess Tournament organized and sponsored by e-Zest Solutions in association with Victorious Chess Academy was successfully conducted on Sunday, 13th October, 2019 at Hinjewadi, Pune.
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One of the Victorious Chess Academy student - Vedant Kale (age 6 years) won the first prize in the Under 6 category of the recently concluded One day Rapid Chess Tournament at Khadki.
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Victorious Chess Academy's online student Samarth Rao became champion of Physically Disabled section in recently concluded FIDE World Junior Chess Championship for disability players.
See what our online student says....

I'm very happy to have an opportunity to learn from Kapil Sir and being a part of the VCA family.
I would like to give Kapil Sir 9.5 out of 10 as He says "There is always room for improvement!"