Daily Archives: December 11, 2014

Hyderabadi chess player earns FIDE Trainer title

Records, All, Sports, World Opinion
Inaganti Amarnath (right), the FIDE arbiter from Hyderabad who officiated in the recent Chess Olympiad, seen with his favourite and former world champion Anatoly Karpov. - A file Photo.
Inaganti Amarnath (right), the FIDE arbiter from Hyderabad who officiated in the recent Chess Olympiad, seen with his favourite and former world champion Anatoly Karpov. – A file Photo.

He is out to challenge the best of the arbiters with his sheer passion and the keenness to keep increasing the vast base of chess knowledge. That is Inaganti Amarnath, who achieved a rare first for any chess player from both the Telugu-speaking States — Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — earning the FIDE Trainer title – a few weeks ago for you.

Inaganti Amarnath
Inaganti Amarnath

He and his brother Inaganti Ganesh set another record of sorts by being the first brother duo to officiate in the World Youth chess championship in South Africa. Amarnath, a physically challenged player, also provided a ‘silver’ lining by finishing second in the Commonwealth Championship (physically disabled category) in Glasgow (Scotland) three years ago in the 2011 World championship for disabled.

It fetched the 37-year-old a job in the South Central Railway. This time he became the only arbiter from Telangana to officiate in the Chess Olympiad (along with two other Indians – Anantharam and Gopa Kumar).

“It was a wonderful and unforgettable experience. A performance which also spurred me to do well in the Trainers’ Seminar in Norway where I earned the FIDE Trainer title,” says a delighted Amarnath, representing the All India Chess Federation (AICF). Though he managed to fund his own trip and is now hoping the Sports Authority of Telangana.

Amarnath has also been re-elected as the general secretary of the International Physically Disabled Chess Association during the Olympiad. “This provides me a rare platform to raise the issues faced by the physically challenged players and also find ways and means to resolve some of their pressing problems in pursuing their passion for chess,” he says.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by V.V. Subrahmanyam / Hyderabad – December 09th, 2014

Music Without Live Instruments

Arts, Culture & Entertainment

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Hyderabad :

Have you ever tried your hand at composition? What did you do with it? If it’s still lying in your store, it’s time to make it live like Nalinikanth Josyabhatla did in 2008 and reunited himself with music, his passion which he once had to part away with. In association with Hyderabad Western Music Foundation, he is on a quest to inform more and more people about it by conducting workshop, which was held during the weekend. “The participants included music lovers from the city from the age group of 10 to 55 who wanted learn how to produce music without having to hire the orchestra for it,” he informs.

During the two-hour workshop, the participants were taught about the concepts and elements involved in music production using computer softwares and were made to understand the music production process in general. “We can not say that the participants learnt the skills perfectly, but they did get encouragement and guidance,” he says. A live demo was held for the participants at the end of the workshop where the software used to give demo was harmony assistant, garritan personal orchestra (GPO) samples, cubase essential mixer and audacity editor. Apart from that, softwares like sibelius, finale, noteworthy, VSL can also be used, he informs.

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation and he are planning to come together again to conduct a series of workshops on compositions of Western classical music.

A mechanical engineer by education, producing music himself was not an easy task. “When I first started, I began by looking for softwares online. I first stumbled upon harmony assistant. After that though, I managed to find more softwares as I was not satisfied. I knew the sound can be made better so using various softwares to make the music sound real. I won’t say that the music sounds 100 per cent real, but I have managed to reach 70-80 per cent,” he admits.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Pratima Shantaveeresh / December 09th, 2014