United Karnataka Chess Association

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of our beloved secretary Shri Hanumantha today (15/04/2021) dues to Covid related issues. He was a great mentor to many of the chess champions of Karnataka. He showed Karnataka State Chess Association a right path and took Karnataka Chess to whole new level. We surely miss him and it is a great loss to the whole chess fraternity. Let us all keep him and his family in our thoughts and prayers. He will be always in our hearts - Team UKCA

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Happy to announce that back to back State Championship in January 2020(Under 17 Open Rated) and (Under 9)
Kindly visit our website for more details. Arvind Shastry Hanumantha Rajanna Anil NJ Nagendra Muralidhar

UKCA will be felicitating Karnataka's first Grand Master Thej Kumar with a cash of INR 100,000 on December 4th at Virginia Mall, Whitefield, Bangalore. Team UKCA welcomes all the chess players and parents to witness this historic event. Let's all get together and celebrate Chess!! Look forward to see you all on Dec 4th at the BRDCA Fide rated event at Virginia Mall. - Team UKCA

Chess tournament at BEL officers club. Please do participate and make the event a successful one.

BNCF is organising its 13th edition of monthly chess tournament on 17th September 2017.

Please participate in big numbers and make it a successful event.

Here is the tournament prospectus.

First ever Karnataka Grand Master Thej Kumar.

Thanks for making us proud!!

Times of India 12/07/2017

Congratulations to Ananya Arumbakkam for winning the National Schools 2017 Championships girls Under 11 event, Shriyana S Mallya for winning the girls Under 7 event and Arhan Chethan Anand for coming third in the Under 9 open event at Nagpur.

UKCA, the best Sports Association of the year 2016.