Port Blair, Dec. 28: The 1st War of Kinghts Open International FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2022 begins yesterday the 26th December 2022 at Sonarpur, Kolkata, West Bengal.

Around 240 players across India & abroad are participating in the  event in which 2 young budding chess players, (one  Boy & one Girl) from Andaman & Nicobar Islands viz Shrihaan Karmarkar , a student of class III , KV-2  Port Blair, and Anuva Majumdar, a student of Carmel Sr. Sec. School Port Blair are taking part in the event.

The tournament will be held for 6 days over 9 rounds under Swiss System in Classical time control from 26th December  2022 to 31st December 2022.