Jaigopal Garodia Memorial Chess Academy

Chess Carnival 2011 – 12

Jaigopal Garodia Memorial Chess Academy Organised a “Two Day” Open Rapid Chess Tournament on 5^th and 6^th November 2011 for category U.7, U.9 , U.11, U.13, U.17 both Boys and Girls in our school premises. (Smt.Durgadevi Choudhary Vivekananda Vidyalaya)

This academy was initiated by Shri. Jaigopal Garodia, founder and Chairman, JGVV Trust. The 2 day tournament was organized with the main objective to popularize the game and to expose the young champions to the state and national levels.   This was a wonderful opportunity for the chess aspirants from all over the state to participate and get a wide exposure.  

Attractive cups and certificates were awarded for the first eight places. The top three also received cash awards.

Valedictory Function of Jaigopal Garodia Open Rapid Chess Tournament – 2011

Jaigopal Garodia Memorial Chess Academy hosted a ‘Two day’ State Level Open Rapid Chess Tournament for school children on 5^th and 6^th November 2011 at Smt.Durgadevi Choudhary Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Sakthivel Nagar , Chennai

600 082.

The Inauguration of the tournament was held on 5^th Saturday at 9.30 a.m. It was inaugurated by Principal Shri.J.Thanukrishnan . The Valedictory function was held on 6^th Sunday at 3.30 p.m. Shri.C.G.S.Narayanan, International Chess Problemist and Former Captain – Second World Chess Compositions Tournament presided over the function.  About 560 contestants under category U.7 , U.9 , U.11, U.13 and U.17 took part in the tournament. The welcome address was rendered by the Principal Shri.J.Thanukrishnan, M.Sc.Ed.,D.C.O.,M.Phil.,DSM., The guest Shri.C.G.S.Narayanan addressed the audience and distributed the prizes to the winners. Cash awards were also given for the first three places of all the categories. The vote of thanks was proposed by Shri.Gnanaseharan, M.A., M.P.,Ed., Physical Director of the school.

The following students got the first place in this tournament.

	Girls	Boys
Under  7	N.Harshitha	R.Pragnandda
Under  9	V.Keerthi	G.B.Harshavarthan
Under  11	K.Krithiga	M.Aravind
Under  13	K.R.Shruthi Lekha	S.Ajay Krishnan
Under  17	D.Akshitha	L.Bharath

Voice Traditional Dances – Feast to our eyes

Village Traditional Dances must be saved              -              R. Saipriya, 10-A

                Many years before, the entertainment means traditional dances like Kummi, Karagam, Puppet show, silambam, Poikal Kudirai for the people. But now, the improvement in technology has changed to television, radio, computer and the traditional dances are not in custom.

Karagam :

                Karagam is a folk dance accompanied with musical instruments and balancing a pot on the head. Traditionally this dance is performed by the villagers in praise of the rain goddess.

Kummi:

                Kummi is one of the most important and ancient forms of village dances of Tamilnadu. It was originated when there was no musical instrument.  Mostly this is performed by women clapping their hands. They perform during temple festivals and Pongal. The first line of the song is sung by a lady, which is repeated by others.

Poikkal Kudirai Dance:

                The dummy horse dance is a dance where the dancers wear the figure of horse on their hips. This is made of light weight material. The dancer also wears wooden legs which seem like hooves of the horse. This dance needs much training and skill.

Silambattam :

                Silambattam is fighting with a long stick with opponent and each of them will show their power. Olden days, these fighting were considered as a self defence.

                Now, these dances and fighting are not known to our generations and these must be made to known to all the people. Last year 2010 Sangamam encouraged these dancers. And many folk dance programmes must be performed and we must save our traditional folk dances and dancers to protect our culture and traditions.

An eye opener

A GUEST LECTURE     S. Parasuraman, 8A

                  On July 2, 2011 (Saturday) our school principal Mr.J.Thanukrishnan had arranged a guest lecture by Mr.K.Srinivasan, Founder of Prime point foundation. The guest lecture started around 9.30 am with the prayers to God. At first, the guest Mr.K.Srinivasan showed us an interview (which was held on 60^th Independence Day) with former president of India ‘Dr.A.P.J.Abdul kalam’.  In that ‘Dr.A.P.J.Abdul kalam’ had given advice to the media and to the students.

Advice to the media:

1. Ensure accuracy of news reporting.                    

2. Reporting real time events.                                      

3. Describe the life of the rural.                                

4. Report progress and problems in our country.

 Advice to the students:                

1. Excel in education.                                                                

2. Plant 5 saplings and grow trees.                                     

3. Clean home to make the neighborhood clean.              

4. Meet great teachers and real life heroes.                                                            

5. Keep your mother happy.                                                   

6. Obey and take care of grandparents and elders.

                         Then he taught us how to write articles and what the basics are, for writing articles.

5 W & 1 H – are the basic things to write articles..

1. Who      2. What      3. Where        4. When     5. Why     6. How    

                    At last the guest lecturer finished the session by saying:

 I can do it                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             We can do it                        

India can do it