Join the Divine Chess Gurukul Team in Japan Team Championship 2025 

Every year we send our teams for the National Team championship. We have done well and steadily risen in the National Rankings.

In 2023 Championship, one of our players Praveen Bhatia, also got the best board 2 player prize. 

Lets strive to achieve more this year. 

We have sent two teams of 4 each in previous years. This year also we intend to send teams in multiples of 4.

This year JCF has made two categories 

1. Average team rating below 1400 (Group A)
2. Average team rating above 1400 (Open Section)

We will decide the section based the registrations. Register fast to decide the composition of the team.  Preferences will be given to players learning with Divine Chess Gurukul. 

Please register before Oct 9, to help us meet the submission deadlines. 

Register at : 

1. URL for Play for Fun  team - https://www.sumpurn-ai.com/event/divine-chess-gurukul-team-for-japan-team-championship-2025-chunnu-munnu-u22-71/register

Captain for each of Diving Gurukul's Chess team

JCF requires a separate captain for each team.  A manager will be required for the club and/or team. In Gurukul's registration form please fill the captain's section if you or your child would like to be a Captain. Please fill in the volunteer section for helping the team management. Smaller children will also be consider for the Captain role if parent also helps.  This is a good learning ground for building future leaders !

Captain, apart from managing his team,  has following duties in brief-

• Member registration and fixed board order must be submitted separately from the Peatix application via Google Form by 23:59 on Sat, October 18.
• Players during games shall not talk to other members, members of other teams, or spectators during the match.
• It is prohibited to discuss the acceptance of a draw in advance of a match. If a player is found to have done so, the Chief Arbiter may disqualify the team from the round or take other disciplinary action.
• Captains are not allowed to talk with members about the contents of the game. The captain must not stand in a place where they can make eye contact with any other member of the team.
• The captain should confirm the results after the round and report any mistakes to the arbiter immediately.
• To avoid possible confusion, questions, etc., should be directed through the captains and not be made by individual players.
• Team captains of 5-player teams must submit the order sheets to the Chief Arbiter at least 10 minutes before the start of the next round. Teams that do not submit the order form will have the top 4 players of the fixed board order for the next round.
• A captains’ meeting will be held online prior to the tournament. The meeting will be held on Thu, October 30, from 21:00 to 22:00. Each team must have a captain or a proxy attend the meeting.
• Team pairings for R1 will be announced in the captains’ meeting. 
• One staff shall shall be sent to cooperate the organization of the tournament if 3 or more teams register from one club or circle.

Team formation - 

1. We will send two types of teams. "Competitive mixed team" 2) "Play for fun, Chunnu Munnu U22 team"
2. Registration pages for both are different. 
3. URL for competitive team - https://www.sumpurn-ai.com/event/divine-chess-gurukul-team-for-japan-team-championship-2025-70/register
4. URL for Play for Fun  team - https://www.sumpurn-ai.com/event/divine-chess-gurukul-team-for-japan-team-championship-2025-chunnu-munnu-u22-71/register
5. In the competitive section, we will distribute our strong players and choose appropriate  groups based on average ratings to maximize our winning chances. 

Fees  -

Fees will be approximately (JCF Group fees)/4*1.16/candidate to cover portion of  transactional charges (3%+3%), web design, portal efforts (5%) and other overheads (5%)