The Indian chess contingent could not travel to Serbia at the World Championship. (Instagram) New Delhi: Imagine spending weeks and months by preparing for a professional level. Imagine put in hard courts – physically and mentally. And all this effort, which eventually calculated, because you are bureaucratic for your dream. This was the case of 11 Indian athletes (and two officials) who were supposed to compete at the Chessboxing World Championship in Serbia.So instead of packing their bags and starting flight to represent India at a global event, young people took the steps of the embassy in the hope of approved their visas. Unfortunately, the day changed to night and night for the day, because their dream of playing the World Championship, from 23 to 29 September, was taken with visas that was not processed in Belgrade.Siddhant Nath Jha, a contingent member, asked for a short-term visa of August 27-Moon before the competition. With the 15-20 days needed to process it gave him enough time to return the pass in time and traveled on 23 September as planned. Instead, when the contingent got closer in Delhi 22. September, no one except one had a visa to fly.“We contacted the Ministry of external matters from India and contacted sports authorities, everything. Timesofindia.com.Watch: Chessboxing Athletes awaits the visa to play the World ChampionshipDespite the interviews between the global body of sport and the Serbian entity, the visas remain “in the process”. The situation was complicated when a contingent member had his visa approved, although he enrolled later than athletes.“We were ready to skip the one-two event of 30 events to compete. We just wanted to play, but it never came,” Jha explained.The World Championship is not one -time. In 2023, the members of the World Junior Chess championship could not travel because the visa for Mexico did not arrive. Serbia itself rejected the requests for chess players visa for other competitions.
Siddhant Nath Jha won three national medals in Chessboxing and three at the Asian level. (Instagram)
Siddhant admitted that these cases are rare, but it affects the career of athletes, especially in the competition for age levels.“I Won’t Say It’s Quite Regular, But We Do See Some Cases WHERE IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS ARE MISSED-Like the World Junior Championship, WHIC Level altheng it’s once in a while but the national champions are winning the World Stage But The Miss It It It Becomes Very Important These Things Don’t Happen, ““Focus on Chess”
Siddhant Nath Jha now moves the focus on chess, specifically a classic format. (Instagram)
For Siddhant, he now focuses on chess and returns to Chessboxing only next year for the Nationals, Asian competition and worlds. In 2005, an inactive standard evaluation of 1757, 1795 in Rapid and 1735 in Blitz was born.“This year I focused more on winning the World Chess Championship, so I dial my boxing training a little more and fast tournaments – this is happening only on Saturday, Sunday, so we can play these 2 -day events (regularly).Whenever there is an opportunity to return to Chessboxing, the y sho has a strong record that supports itself. Last year he introduced chess in 2012 and Chessboxing, won three medals (two gold and one silver) near Nationals. Later, at Asian championships, he won three medals again – two gold and silver.What is the chess?
Siddhant Nath Jha is a chess athlete for India. Sport (Instagram) was introduced in 2024
Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that combines a mental chess challenge with a physical request for boxing. Athletes alternate between speed chess and box wheels, starting with chess and switching between the two disciplines until one competitor prevails either checkmate or knockout. The game can also end if the player runs out of chess, loses a point decision in the box, or is announced by the winner in the case of a boxing draw.The standard chess match includes 11 alternating bikes of Blitz Chess and five bikes, each lasting three minutes, including one-minute break. The same chess game continues through the bikes and played with a quick format using 12 -minute hours per player. Fighters of competitions in different weight classes and victory are possible through knockouts, control, time punishment or decision of boxing judges if the chess game results in a draw.“One sport is the best of the best in the mental capacity. And the other is the most physically most amazing. The aim of this sport is to find the highest athlete who is good in physical and mental aspects,” Jha explained, who was introduced by watching videos on YouTube.
