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26 Apr 2020 shivani

MPL, Government of Karnataka Hosting Chess Tournament for COVID-19 Relief

Bangalore-based Mobile Premier League (MPL) is hosting a speed chess tournament called #CheckmateCovid for COVID-19 relief in association with Karnataka C🌟hess Association and Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports, Government of Karnataka. The tournament will be held from May 2-3, 2020.

The proceeds💙 of the chess tournament will be donated to the Karnataka Chief Minister’s COVID Relief Fund.

Sri CT Ravi, Minister of Youth Empowerment & Sports, Tourism⛎, Kannada & Culture, Government of Karnataka announced the tournament in a promotional video and asked users to play to contribute to the Karnataka CM’s relief fund.🐽 Here’s a tweet by MPL with the minister making the announcement in Kannada:

Players can register for this speedꦗ chess tourna꧂ment from 27th April onwards on the MPL app that can be downloaded from .

The chess tournament has an entry fee of Rs. 50. One winning player will get a prize of Rs. 1 Lakh, the second place player will get a prize of Rs. 50,000, and the third place player will win Rs. 20,000. The total p♏rizes to be given awayꦉ during the tournament will be worth Rs. 10 Lakhs. Here’s the breakup of the winnings that players can bag:

MPL hosts over 40+ games, fantasy sports and tournaments where players can win cash. Some of these games are Rummy, Poker, Ludo, PUBG, Chess, Pool, Fantasy Cricket, Quizzes, and Runner No.1. MPL alꩲso recently added WCC Riꦿvals to its collection of cricket games.

In a recently released Mobile Groove podcast, Sai Srinivas Kiran, Co-Founder and CEO at M🅷obile Premier League, spoke about the exponential growth of the platform in India and how it went on to gain 40 million users, raღise millions of dollars in funding and launch in Indonesia. Srinivas also talked about how MPL grew around 300-400% in the last few months due to the lockdown imposed to help curtail the spread of COVID-19 in India.

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