64-square Fun Processing

Some say long journey starts with single step. The chess tournament organized by our team was a step forward in bringing some fun in our hectic working culture. When our team planned to organize the event we were not sure about the response from IT Wizards? The whooping response and interest from zensarians made us believe that we at Zensar mix Fun & work together. We not only use our intellect for coding our module but save ample talent to show our dexterity on 64 square chess board. The good thing about chess is that it has no age limits. May be because of this reason, the participant were from all level of our vertical organisation. In fact maximum participant were from level 3 and 4.

The battle was fought among 80 odd participants but this time for a change the battle field was not panipat but 64 squares of chess board. The protagonists were same King & Queen but the weapons used were not Guns & Swords but intellect. In the whole tourney we had our own Garry kasporov, Vishy, Kramnik, karpov, Bobby fisher & Judit.
Initially we had internal matches in the specific location i.e. Main building, Kharadi and Orion. From here we selected eight people in total and then had round robin matches between them to select the semifinalist. We selected the winner from them by having knock out matches between them.

In course of action, we saw some nail biting finishes, marathon runs and also some easy matches played between master and amateur. In mist of foray, one man who took all the challenges & pressure, stood against all odd like Rock of gibaltar and remained unconquered was eventual winner. Let us congratulate Sanjay Desai (Tournament Winner) for his superb performance. Also lets not take away due credit to Runner up i.e. Durgesh Singhal for showing consistent performance throughout the tournament, losing only to the winner. Sanjay proved that his hair is not white because of sunshine but have matured due to abundance of experienceJ. His neurons are still active and better than all the younger lads. we also included MT batch, who were slightly late to join the main course of tournament. The MT batch winner was Swarup. Unfortunately we were not able to include them in main stream of the tournament. I am sure there'll be next time.


Let me share some interesting observation with you all. If we look at the chess board and try to draw parallel lines with our industry we will realize its similarity with our corporate structure. The pawns on the chess board represent the management trainee. They are quite a lot out there and they are often sacrificed to save more valuable pieces. Their movements are restricted and controlled. Some of them do manage to reach the ultimate position and become queen i.e. CEO.The knight on the board represent the consultants. There purpose in the organization is to execute the strategy. The bishop is like technical leader of Zensar.They play very important role in shaping strategy and its execution. The elephant is like Program manager. They have a strong influence in the way organization functions and take critical decision. The queen is like CEO. She has sweeping power and her demise is doom for the organization, if not death. The tallest on the board
i.e. king can be known as managing director of the corporate world. He is more of a symbolic head but its surrender or death means the end of the game. Giving ample food of thought to think...