The Akshayam Inter School Children Chess Championship 2017 was organised  on 25th and 26th June 2017 at Akshayam’s Christianbasti Centre. Altogether 65 students from different partner schools  of Assam Chess Club which is an unit of Akshayam participated in this two day event.
Matches were held in 4 categories - class Nursery to class 1, class 2 to class 3, class 4 to class 6, class 7 to 9 respectively.
The tournament was organised to provide an platform to the upcoming amateur chess players of the city and also to mark the completion of 11 years of Assam Chess Club, the chess promotion unit of  Akshayam.

Following are the prize winners of the various category :

Nursery to Class 1
1st Aritra Choudhury
2nd Abhirup Saikia
3rd Suryaansh Choukhany

Class 2 to Class 3
1st Jaideep Kashyap
2nd Bigyan Cakma
3rd Sayam Dhirasaria

Class 4 to class 6
1st Gitartha Kaushik
2nd Satyam Jain
3rd Bhrignish Kalita

Class 7 to Class 9
1st Dhyan Oleymman
2nd Abhigyan Anubhab
3rd Pritom Talukdar

Special prizes
Poojan Sarma Bordoloi
Ekansh Bagaria
Sivanta Kaushik
Nibhriti Goswami

Best Girl prize
1st Susmita Deuri
2nd Maitrayee
3rd Shreyanshi Sikaria

Most Promising Player
Jinwoo Hong

Youngest player
Harshadeep Deka (4 years)