It has been a praiseworthy feature of Bihar Chess that it withstood splits on two occasions, but did not allow the game to suffer.
The tale of success of Bihar Chess continued. Small chess units like academies/club also contributed in holding national/All India level events for Bihar chess. All India Rating tournament under the banner of NLM Chess Academy, was conducted in Patna in 2001 by the sole efforts of Vijayesh Nandkeuliar, a reasonably good chess player. Chess Track, a chess club run by Dharmendra Kumar, an International Chess Arbiter with help & support of Anil Sulabh, a renowned social activists, organised National Under-25 Championship in 2003 at Patna. In recent years, Gayatri Devi Memorial All India FIDE rating tournament was organized by MDCA in 2011 in 2011 under the stewardship of its present office-holders GK Mallick and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava. The tournament was held in the memory of mother of Sanjeev Kumar. Sanjeev Kumar has been one of the strongest chess players of Bihar. In 2013 also, by the daring efforts of Abhash Kumar, Muzaffarpur Chess Club held an All India FIDE Rating Chess tournament. In 2014 too, Lord Buddha FIDE Rating Chess was successfully organized in Gaya by the efforts of Jay Prakash Sinha and Ved Prakash Sinha.
Studded with four National champions at junior level, PK Singh-U19, Dolan Champa Bose-U-14 (Jharkhand), Manishi Krishna-U-19, Rahul Sangma-U-10, Malviika Singh-U10(Jharkhand) Deep Sengupta-U10 (Jharkhand) and Saurabh Anand –U-9 in the past and a pool of over two dozen young prodigies at present, Bihar Chess is now marching ahead with distinct goals. Gradually, ABCA has been ableto have its Bye Laws, Financial Regulations, introduction of a systematic financial system, a PAN No, filing of Annual Return, a Website, a Training Centre allotted by Government of Bihar, patronage of powerful social elites and generous sponsors. Besides fulfilling its other obligations, ABCA has also organized an IM Coaching (V Koshy) in 2010 and a GM Coaching (PM Thipsay) in 2013. Introduction of chess in schools syllabus, searching sponsors for its talented chess players, strengthening and increasing number of active district units, enhancing their capacity to hold big events may be its future goals but what Bihar chess needs most at present is, conduction of a series of All India Open tournaments in different parts of Bihar and a National championship every year. Keeping this goal at fore, 25th National Under-17 Boys & Girls Chess Championship 2014 is being organized adding one more feather to its cap.