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While the HRD ministry made Vishwanathan Anand wait for his honorary PhD, we saw our very own Roshan Jha winning the IIM Rohtak Chess tournament with quite the same finesse as the master himself.

A total of 16 warriors locked their horns on the virtual battle field. The Chess tournament kicked off with two contrasting matches. At one end, Ashutosh played his aggressive game denying Vivek any opportunity to recover, leading to brutal killing on the chess board with almost the whole board cleaned up. At the other end, Prateek played a thoughtful game beating Priyabratha purely on strategic moves. Romesh used his mind games to get rid of his opponent, Kushal, in round 1.Roshan provided the spark by striking out Ankush Jain in three straight moves announcing his arrival.

Start round two, Ashutosh's "killer instinct" triumphed over Prateek's strategy-an indication that no matter how good your strategies might be, they are not a shield against everything. Ankush Garg fought till his last breath despite losing his Queen early in the match against Roshan. Romesh's mind games did not quite work here- Dheeraj pulling him into a draw. However, Dheeraj couldn't survive Romesh's moves in the re-match held and was knocked out of the tournament.

Come semi-finals, Ashutosh yet again showed that first draw of blood can make your opponent falter-that is what happened Romesh. After walking over Akshay and Thani, Kaustubh had a real tough match against Roshan- second draw of the tournament. It was quite an interesting battle between the "Marathi manoos" and the "Jharkhandi" in the sense that it lacked political ambitions and was friendly after all. Played at a neutral venue, the "Jharkhandi" survived this war (is MNS listening?).    

Roshan, our portable calculator, used his analytical ability well enough to predict Ashutosh's moves correctly and defeat him convincingly in the finale. As expected, some of us still wonder, "Why do grownups like fighting with bishops, knights and likes on a chequered floor, that too without weapons?”- Courtesy Amit Bansal (organizer of the tournament). 

Mrudul Kotia
IIM Rohtak

Counter Strike Tournament

Digidice started rolling here at IIM Rohtak at 10:00 pm, 18^th august 2010 with a tournament featuring every gaming freak’s favourite game “Counter Strike”. The organisers of the tournament, Amit Bansal and Vismay Agarwal had arranged a room exclusively for gaming competitions, a room which was big enough for 8 of countries future managers to dwell in virtual combat.

The tournament had the usual rules plus some additional ones like, automatic weapons were not allowed to make sure each player will have to earn his respect, no shields were not allowed to compel each player to be stealthy in the virtual battle field.

The following were the teams that had taken part in the competition:

Team 1
Abhishek Vaish	Ashutosh Kumar	Prince Kumar	Priyabrath Brahma

Team 2
Mohit Salyiva	Prateek Jain	Romesh Kumar	Tapojyotee

Team 3
Abhimanyu Sahai	Prashant Chourasia	Sourabh Modi	Vismay Agarwal

Team 4
Ankush Garg	Kushal Lokhande	Roshan Jha	Venkat Bhargav

Right from the beginning the experts stood apart from the novices, as most of the matches had winning margins that can be compared to the Grand Canyon in counter strike terms. Team 2 and Team 4 were almost equally matched, while Team 1 begged to be remembered Team 3 stood out, they were really a class apart, there were memorable moments, moments when the entire room went bursting into laughter, moments like when Sourabh Modi started hurling his knife to get Ankush Garg slayed and he managed to do that so regularly it kind of ended up being a ritual that has to be followed in every round.

There was this extremely close match between Team 2 and Team 4 which ended with a score of 16 – 14 to Team 2, the match had arguably the most exciting climax with Team 2 coming back from 12 – 14 to seal the deal by winning 4 consecutive games.

The other matches majorly saw Team 3 using their opponents to wipe the floor, these matches saw score lines like 16 – 0, 16 – 0 and a very interesting 16 – 9, in which Modi got a devilish idea, a deal that he struck with Team 1, the deal was that if they throw away 9 games and get Team 1 in the final, Team 1 should give the entire cash prize they win If they lose with a score below 16 – 3 in the final, which they eventually did (16 – 1) , which saw Team 3 running away with both the first and second prize.

Team 3 although playing together for the first time showed immense co ordination to wipe out their opposition, something which is really commendable. Hope these fine men will be able to convert their success into other fields as well, and keep expecting much more from Digidice.

The following were the score lines of the matches;

Match	Winner	Score
Team 1 vs. Team 2	Team 1	16 – 6
Team 3 vs. Team 4	Team 3	16 – 0
Team 1 vs. Team 4	Team 1	16 – 6
Team 3 vs. Team 2	Team 3	16 – 0
Team 2 vs. Team 4	Team 2	16 – 4
Team 3 vs. Team 1	Team 3	16 - 9
Finals
Team 3 vs. Team 1	Team 3	16 – 1

IIM Rohtak

Debate Competition

The venue was set for IIM Rohtak’s first ever verbal joust with six participants ready to tear each other apart, literally.

Thanigaivel Ravivarman initiated the debate proposing the topic “SEZ’s” by attempting to justify the government’s decision to implement the concept. His partner, Dheeraj Dinesh entered next and fired his points and completely nullified his stand. Dheeraj was impressive with the vast amount of points that he had to share and the brave face that he put up when the judges hurled tough questions at him.

Next to take the stage was Ritesh and Romesh to talk about women’s reservation in parliament. Both members had some interesting points to offer but they faltered when they had to face the questions put forth by the judges.

The final entrants were the eventual champions, Venkat Bhargava Sreedhara and Battaram Bharadwaj, who shared their views on the rather controversial topic -“Whether prostitution should be legalised in India”. They stole the show with their views as well as their vocal prowess.

Venkat Bhargava Sreedhara was chosen as the best individual speaker while his team won the Best team award.

The Literary club of IIM Rohtak has set in motion with this event and promises to bring in more such events to help students improve their communication skills and prepare them well for the corporate environment.

The Literary Club

IIM Rohtak

Life @ IIM Rohtak

5.25 credits in term 1, 6.25 credits in term 2 and 6 credits in term 3; that constitutes the division of credits in the first year of the two year PGPM at IIM Rohtak. Carrying the textbooks would equal lifting weights in a gym.

DigiDice - The LAN gaming tournament

Life at Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak is not just about putting in a large portion of the day for studies. We students here also take out time for other activities.

My Journey So Far

“You have been selected for the PGPM programme at Indian Institute of Management Rohtak”.

These were the magical words in the mail I received on 27th June 2010 while surfing on internet in a cyber cafe. My immediate reaction was of utter joy and disbelief at the same instant.

RUNsangram

The auction; where the game was redefined. The date was blah blahblah, the tension was palpable. On one side were the organizers of the event trying their hardest to make the right impression with the very first sports event at IIM Rohtak. On the other side, we had the tense faces of players and team owners who were keenly awaiting the auction.