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Bharat Chess Rating System: Indian chess players and coaches have welcomed the All India Chess Federation’s (AICF) decision to have a National Rating System or ‘Bharat Chess Rating System’ as it would result in the emergence of large number of tournaments, enthuse chess masters to play in the strong domestic circuit, tingle the chess body’s cash chest amongst other benefits.

According to them, the casualty may be FIDE rated chess tournaments as the tournament organisers might opt for AICF rated tournaments and in the process save costs (FIDE fees) and may pass on the benefits to the players as prize money or lower entry fee, they added.

The international body, too, has no objection to AICF’s move.