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AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 9
Issue : 2
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Augest 2015
PSNA 45th National Junior Chess Championship-2015 &
30th National Junior Girls Chess Championship-2015, Dindigul
GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr
Open Champion
WFM R.Vaishali
Girls Champion
29th National Under-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2015,Puducherry
Mrudul Dehankar
Girls Champion
FM Praggnanandha
Open Champion
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PSNA National Junior Chess Championships
Aravindh Chithambaram and Vaishali are Champions
by Dharmendra Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter
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29th National Under-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship
2015,Puducherry
Praggnanandha and Mrudul Dehankar win titles
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter
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Ram Ratna 42nd National Women Challengers Chess
Championship 2015
Vaishali wins title
Ambrish C Joshi, IA, Chief Arbiter
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GTC Classic Chess 2015, Guwahati….
Trailokya Nanda wins title
by Biswajit Bharadwaj
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1st NF Railway North East Open FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament 2015, Maligaon
Rajib Dhar wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter 15
5th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating
Chess Tournament 2015,Chennai
Saravana Krishnan Wins title
V.Ravichandran IA, Tournament Director 16
25th The Telegraph Schools FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament,Kolkata...
Diptayan Ghosh emerges Champion
Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
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All India Open Fide Rated Rapid Chess
Tournament , Hubballi
Rakesh Kulkarni wins
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
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All India Open FIDE rated Rapid Chess
Tournament , Bengaluru Nitin is champion
IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
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Experiences of a retired IA
IM Manuel Aaron
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Selected games from
Mumbai Mayor’s Cup
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
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S.Krishnan
Test your endgame
C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past-55 Reuben Fine AICF Calendar
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Tactics from master games
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From the Editor’s desk
There was a string of international
successes during the last two
months Indian chess can boast
of.The dominance of young Indian
brigade at the Asian Youth Chess
continued unabated at Suwon, Korea
with a rich haul of 17 medals-5
gold,5 silver and 7 bronze medals.
H.Barath Subramaniyam(U-8)
Divya Deshmukh(U-10) R.Vaishali (U-14),Aakanksha
Hagawane(U-16) and N.Krishna Teja(U-18) were the
gold medal winners.
GM Adhiban was on a roll winning the Benasque Open in
Spain and later finishing a close second at Biel Masters
Open in Switzerland. GM S.P.Sethuraman won the
Paris International Open and GM Mageshchandran tied
for the first place in the 3rd DC International Open in
Airlington,USA. Ashwin Jayaram who crossed 2500 in
the same tournament is all set to become the country’s
39th Grandmaster. Three Indians Surya Sekhar Ganguly,
Sethuraman and Vidit Gujrathi picked up slots for the
World Cup due to their good performance in the Asian
Continental Chess Championships. India outdid China
by bagging six out of the top ten places in this event.
Reports on all these events are featured in the centre
pages of this issue.
On the home front, National Women Challenger Chess
title was won by WFM R.Vaishali at Pune.This teenage
sensation scored an incredible treble adding National
Junior Girls title at Dindigul and the Under-14 gold at
the Asian Youth Chess. In the under-11 Nationals held
at Puducherry her younger sibling Praggnananda was
Open Champion while Mrudul Dehankar of Maharashtra
took the girls title. GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr was
National Junior Open Champion. Reports on these
events along with FIDE rated tournaments are presented
in this issue.
Veteran IM Manuel Aaron shares his interesting
experiences as Arbiter in the ‘Know your Arbiter’ series.
Reuben Fine, American Grandmaster and author of many
chess books on openings is featured in ‘Masters of the
past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
PSNA 45th National Junior (U-19) Chess Championship-2015 &
30th National Junior (U-19) Girls Chess Championship-2015
Aravindh Chithambaram and Vaishali are Champions
by Dharmendra Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter
45th National Junior (U-19) Chess Championship-2015 & 30th National Junior (U-19)
Girls Chess Championship-2015 was jointly
Organized by PSNA College of Engineering &
Technology & Golden Knights Chess Academy
in association with Dindigul District Chess Association and Under the aegis of Tamilnadu
State Chess Association and on behalf of All
India Chess Federation from July 23rd to
31st , 2015
2GM, 2 IM , 2FM and 1 CM . Except 3 , all
were rated players . GM Murali Karthikeyan
, 2509 was top seed in open category while
in Girls Category , 82 players from 19 State
unites participated in 30th National Junior (U19) Girls Chess Championship-2015 including 3 WIM , 9 WFM and 2 WCM . 71 Players
out 82 were rated. WFM G K Monnisha with
elo 2288 was the top seed player in Girls
Championship.
Dindigul is a city in the South of Tamil Nadu.
It is the administrative headquarters of the
Dindigul district located between the Palani
and Sirumalai Hills.The venue of the Championships was PSNA College of Engineering
& Technology (PSNA CET)which is situated
in Kothandaraman Nagar, Dindigul. The College was founded in 1984 by the late Thiru
R.S. Kothandaraman and functions under
the aegis of Sri Rangalatchumi Educational
Trust. The campus is situated near the village
Muthanampatti, about 12 kilometres from
Dindigul, along the National Highway, NH 83
towards Palani. It is spread over 45 hectares .
The Championship was formally inaugurated by Mr.Lakshamana Prabhu ,Co- Chairman ,PSNA CET . He made the customary
first moves against Grand Master Murali
Karthikeyan and GM Arvindh Chithambaram
Vr. in presence of Mr.V.Hariharan ,Hony Secretary ,AICF,Mr. K. Xavier Jothi Sargunam,
D.S.O., Dindigul , Mr. R. Ananthram, IA, and
Chairman , Arbiter Commission, AICF,. Abdul
Nadzer ,Hony Secretary ,Dindigul District
Chess Association and Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar welcomed the guest and players while IA Ganesh Babu , Org. Secretary
proposed the vote of thanks to one and all
for their presence and participation.
This institution is instrumental in chess organization for many years . By offering free
admission in college , no hostel charge no
mess charge everything is free for the chess
players studying in this college.On behalf of
Chess fraternity I thank the administration
of PSNA College of Engineering & Technology
(PSNA CET) for their support to Chess.
In open category , 116 players from 20 State
unite participated in 45th National Junior
(U-19) Chess Championship-2015 including
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As per AICF regulation for National championship , the “Zero tolerance” rules was applied. As accommodation and venue were in
the same campus it was convenient for all
the players.
It was single hall for both the event which
was really convenient for us to care and
control both side. Tournament hall was neat
and clean and hygienic . Separate toilets for
ladies and gents in tournament hall and it was
frequently cleaning up by cleaning staff. In
all , playing condition was good and comfortable for all the players During the rounds ,
free tea , coffee and snacks were provided to
all including parents and spectators . Drinking
water was available all the time in and out of
the tournament hall. First round started on
July 23rd and the last was played on 31st
. Two rounds were played on two days and
single round on the remaining days.
In Open category ,four players, including top
seed KarthikeyanMurali shared the lead with
four points each in the open category. Both
second seeds GM Aravindh Chithambaram
and R Vaishali of Tamil Nadu had further
setback to their title hunt, as their games
against Krishna Teja of AP and M Mahalakshmi of TN respectively were drawn. Former
National Premier Champions G Akash and
WIM Michelle Catherina took the sole lead
in the respective sections at the end of the
fifth round .
In the girls section WIM Michelle Catherina
of TN took the sole lead with 4.5 by winning
against overnight leader SrijaSeshadri of TN.
Top seeded GM Monnisha was held to draw
by G Lasya of AP in 55 moves.
At the end of 6th round , WFM R. Vaishali
and WFM G.K.Monnisha were jointly leading
with 5 points each in Girls Category Vaishali
, with white pieces defeated to sole leader
WIM Michelle Catherina while on board no. 2
, WFM G.K. Monnisha earn full point against
Isha Sharma. In Open category , board no
# 1 witnessed setback for top seed GM Murali Karthikeyan . He was defeated by sole
leader IM G. Akash . After beating to GM
Murali Kartikeyan , Akash maintained his lead
with full point ahead. Including GM Arvindh
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Chithamaram four players were on 2nd score
bracket .
Former national champion G Akash of Tamil
Nadu had a dream run in the Championship.
His seventh straight win in seven rounds
helped him to stay ahead by one point over
second seeded grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram of TN. In the Girls event GK Monnisha of TN emerged sole leader with 6 points
and WIM Mischelle Catherina, also of Tamil
Nadu was on second spot with 5.5 points.
Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram of
Tamil Nadu halted the winning spree of former national champion G. Akash also of TN
by beating him in the eighth round. Aravindh
and Akash share the lead with 7 points each
in the open section. The two grandmasters
Aravindh and KarthikeyanMurali are slated to
meet in the ninth round.
WIM Michelle Catherina of TN wrested the
lead from WFM GK Monnisha in a crucial encounter. Michelle has 6.5 points to her credit,
with five others on 6 points. WIM Michelle
Catherina used her favourite English opening
against top seeded GK Monnisha on the top
board. WFM SrijaSeshadri of Tamil Nadu got
the better of Kerala’s CH Megna in mere 24
moves in a Larsen’s attack game.
Runner up in World Under 16 championship
and grandmaster Aravindh was on cloud
nine at the end of the ninth round. He scored
8 points and had increased his lead by a
full point by defeating his co-grandmaster
karthikeyan Murali. The much awaited game
arising from Taimanov variation of Sicilian
defence between the top two grandmasters
KarthikeyanMurali and AravindhChithambaram of Tamil Nadu was a sort of pyrotech-
Ram Ratna 42nd National Women Challengers Chess Championship 2015
Winners Vaishali R of TN with dignitaries(L-R) Shri R.M.Dongre Treasurer, AICF, Shri D.V.Sundar Vice President,
FIDE, Shri Kabra, Shri Pruthviraj Chauhan, Former CM of Maharashtra, Champion R.Vaishali, Org.SecretaryShri.
Ashok Motwani & Kabra Family.
Vaishali (Winner) Chief Guest Shri.Prithviraj Chauhan,former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Runner
up WGM Sowmya Swaminathan and IM Tania Sachdev (Third).
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1st NF Railway North East Open FIDE Rating Tournament Maligaon
(L-R)A.K. Agarwal, CMO, NFRailway,
Anu Agarwal_Secretary, NFRWA,Rajib
Dhar, Champion
1st Medha All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament , Palakol….
(L-R)Sri Madasu Kishore, SecretaryWest Godavari District Chess Assn ; D
Srihari, Secretary-APCA;Sri Y D Rama
Rao, President-AP Chess Assn; N
Krishna Teja (1st Prize); Sri P Lakshmi
Narayana, President-Medha Chess
Assn; Sri Meka Seshubabu, MLC; D
Lakshmana Rao (3rd Prize); V Varun
(2nd Prize) ;Dr.Bobji, Ex-MLC; Sri Y
Praveen, Treasurer – APCA; : Sri M S
Vasu, Secretary & Correspondent of
Sri C V Raman Polytechnic
GTC Classic Chess 2015, Guwahati
Prize winners with guests
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nic display. Karthikeyan chose to remove Aravindh’s advanced pawn on d3, giving up his
rook for a bishop on 19th move. Two moves
later, Aravindh was adventurous enough to
castle his king on the queen side, which was
already ripped open by Karthikeyan. The
attacks and counter attacks by both players yielded two rooks to Karthikeyan and a
rook and bishop to Karthikeyan. Aravindh’s
powerful outside passer favoured him to win
the game.The second board game played by
international master G Akash and B Kumaran,
both hailing from Tamil Nadu was also a Sicilian defence, but with Rossolimo variation. He
resigned the game on 42nd move.
On the distaff side, Tamil Nadu’s WIM Michelle Catherina continued to hold her lead
of half a point over her nearest rivals, with
7.5 points. Michelle , in fine fettle, crushed
Kerala’s Hilmi Parveen, who opened with Ruy
Lopez game. Michelle shattered the pawn
structure of Hilmi and her pieces on the
seventh rank played havoc to post a win in
just 32 moves. WFM Srija Seshadri’s king’s
gambit did not produce a desired result for
her against former World Under 8 & 12 girls’
champion R. Vaishali. Vaishali’s superior end
game play helped her to get a full point and
to go up in the ladder to the second spot in
the leaders’ table.
GM Arvindh Chithambaram , sole leader with
8/9 , saved his energy for last round and
signed the peace treaty with B.Kumaran of
TN. While on the second board IM G,Akash
was in no mood to share or lose his point.
He played well and earned full point against
Harsha Bharatkoti of Telangana. It left Akash
on 2nd spot , just behind the Arvindh with
8 points.
In Girls Category, on board one, WIM Mi-
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chelle Catherina and WFM M Mahalakshmi’s
game ended in drew while WFM R. Vaishali
defeated to Priyanaka Nutakki . With this
results , Michelle and Vaishali both became
the joint leader with 8 points each.Finally,in
open category,last round produced strong
results.GM Arvindh Chithambaram defeated
to Dhullipala Bala Chandra Prasad of AP .
Dhullipala resigned the game when he was
about to lose his queen on 37th move. With
this victory, Arvindh had 9.5 /11,a remarkable performance ! On the second board Sai
Vishwesh and G. Akash agreed for draw after
playing 59 marathon moves on board.Third
board tie between GM Murali Karthikeyan and
B.Kumaran also ended in a draw. While the
fourth and fifth boards produced the results
in favor of Harsha Bharatkoti of Telangana
and Sammaed Jaykumar Shete of Maharashtra
In Girls category , WIM Michelle Catherina
was unfortunate that she could not even
manage a draw in the last round. She overlooked and simply lost her Knight in 22nd
move to Harshita Guddanti while on 2nd
board R. Vaishali played a long battle against
V.Varshini which ended in a draw. Three way
tie in Girls category and placing was decided
by Buccholze score.
On the last day,31st July 2015, prize distribution ceremony was held at 03:00 p.m.All the
winners were awarded with cash prizes, trophies & certificates. Chief guest of the function Mr. D.V.Sundar , Vice–President , FIDE
and Mrs. Dhanlakshmi , Chairman of PSNA
CET has gave away the prizes to the winners.
On this auspicious occasion , Dr. N. Mahendran Principal , PSNA CET , Mr. V.Hariharan,
Hony Secreatry , AICF , Jt. Secretaries of
TNCA M. Ephrem , Mr. Balagunasekaran , Mr.
V.Vijay raghavan were also present on the
dais . Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar
presented the tournament report and organizing secretary IA Ganesh Babu proposed
vote of thanks.
Five-member team of Arbiters was efficient
and conducted the tournament smoothly
without any protest and disturbance. I was
ably assisted by Dy. Chief IA R.R.Vasudevan
, IA V. Vijayaraghavan , IA Palaniappan P
and FA Shyam Sunder. Iam thankful to them
for their co-operation and understanding .In
my opinion , it was a successfully organized
championship as team of organizers lead by
IA S.Ganesh Babu was very efficient , young
and energetic .They were very helpful to the
players as well as parents .
Final standings: Open section
Rk
NameClub
Pts
1 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.
2 IM Akash G
3 GM Karthikeyan Murali
4 Sai Vishwesh.C
5 Harsha Bharathakoti
6 Kumaran B
7 Sammed Jaykumar Shete
8 D Bala Chandra Prasad
9 Krishna Teja N
10 Pranavananda V
11 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M
12 Gajwa Ankit
13 Akash Pc Iyer
14 Varun V
15 Abhilash Reddy M.L.
16 Hemanth Raam
17 Karthik V. Ap
18 Srijit Paul
19 Shailesh Dravid
20 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
21 Rakesh Kumar Nayak
22 Aaditya Jagadeesh
23 Arjun Kalyan
24 Satkar Chirag
25 Baivab Mishra
26 Prasannaa.S
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TN
TN
TN
TN
TEL
TN
MAH
AP
AP
AP
TEL
DEL
TN
TEL
AP
TN
AP
WB
MAH
TEL
ODI
TN
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27 Dave Sneh
28 Adhithya S
29 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan
30 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena
31 Subhayan Kundu
32 Barath L
33 Lawaniya Eshan
34 Barath Kalyan M
35 Ganesh R
36 Saurabh Anand
37 Abhishek T M
38 CM Nihal Sarin
39 Gandhi Anish
40 Aurangabadkar Prasad
41 Marthandan K U
42 Yogit S
43 Rahul Srivatshav P
44 Sadhu S Adithya
45 FM Harshal Shahi
46 Nayak Rajesh
47 Raghav Srivathsav V
48 Arjun Adappa
49 Subramanian R M
50 Sumit Kumar
51 Kamdar Udit
52 Vaisnav M
53 Hirthickkesh Pr
54 Kumar Gaurav
55 Prathish A
56 Selvabharathy T
57 Mahindrakar Indrajeet
58 Dhanush Bharadwaj
59 Jay Kundalia
60 Suyan Belurkar
61 Rohit Vassan S
62 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili
63 Harsh Himanshu
64 Tarun V Kanth
65 Barath M
66 Girinath B S
67 Srivastava Pratyush
68 Trivedi Karan R
69 Ayush Bhai Mehta
70 Prem Krishna N
71 Saksham Rautela
72 Sharma Suyash
73 Awadh Chaitanya
GUJ
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TN
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KER 5
75 Shyam Sundar M
TN 5
76 Pankaj Sindhu
HAR 5
77 Karthik Raj C
TN 4½
78 Advaith Rajendran I V
KER 4½
79 Jagadish P
KAR 4½
80 Dhanush Ragav
TN 4½
81 Babel T Divyanshu
RAJ 4½
82 Navnitan S V
TN 4½
83 Shashi Nand Kumar
BIH 4½
84 Arijith M
KER 4½
85 Samyak Jain
PUN 4½
86 Akshay R Kashyap
KAR 4½
87 Raja Bose
JHA 4½
88 Pavan Teja Medam
TEL 4½
89 Jatin S N
KAR 4½
90 Sahoo Auroshis Sudip KumarODI 4½
91 Susheel Reddy P
TEL 4½
92 Aravinth Shanmugam S
TN 4½
93 Naman Porwal
RAJ 4½
94 Ram Kailash Pl
TN 4
95 Nikhil Bansal
PUN 4
96 Dias Aston
GOA 4
97 Girish Reddy
KAR 4
98 Ankit Kumar Singh
JHA 4
99 Charan Krishn
UP
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MAH 3½
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Syam Peter
KER 3½
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Sanklecha Aadarsh
CHT 3½
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Nithin A V
TN 3½
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Lodha Vandan
RAJ 3½
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Shubham Shukla
PUN 3
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Gaha Narayan
UP
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107 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran PUD3
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Prajjwal
HAR 3
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Pradnesh A
TN 3
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Charumati K
AP
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Chhabra Kunal
RAJ 2½
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Ojas Kulkarni
KAR 1½
113
Milind Kaushik
HAR 1½
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Ashhwath C
TN 1
115
Sharma Vibhav
HAR 0
116 Akash Lal O
TN 0
Final standings: Girls section
Rk Name
Club Pts
1 WFM Vaishali R
TN 8½
2 WFM Monnisha G K
TN 8½
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Lasya.G WCM Sapale Saloni
Bala Kannamma.P
WFM Srija Seshadri
WFM Bidhar Rutumbara
Priyanka Nutakki
Harshini A
Akshaya Nandakumar
Smaraki Mohanty
Madhurima Shekhar
WCM Ananya Suresh
Divya Lakshmi R
WFM Hilmi Parveen
Priyanka K
Meghna C H
Sangeetha P
Krithigga K
Varsha C R
Sunyasakta Satpathy
Saranya Y
Priyamvada Karamcheti
WIM Chitlange Sakshi
Isha Sharma
Pooja S (2002)
Abirama Srinithi G
Senthamizh Yazhini S
WFM Potluri Supreetha
Parvathy S.L
Bhagya Jayesh
Shalon Joanne Pais
Sunyuktha C M N
Sanskriti Goyal
Shweta Gole
Thirtha Kanth.M
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Dakshinya T R S
Rindhiya V
Srimathi R
Ashwini U
Kavitha P L
Neela S
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29th National Under-11 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2015,Puducherry
Praggnanandha and Mrudul Dehankar win titles
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter
The 29th National Under – 11 Open & Girls
Chess Championships are held at Arumuga
Thirumana Nilayam, Pondicherry from 13th
July to 21st July 2015.The Managers’ meeting for both the events was held on 12th July
2015 at Arumuga Thirumananilayam at 7.
30 pm. It was decided that the latest Swiss
rules will be followed.
The Inaguration function was held at Arumuga Thirumana nilayam, Pondicherry on
13th July at 12.45 P.M. The Programme was
inaugurated by Thiru T. Thiagarajan Hon’ble
minister for sports & Electricity. Thiru A.
Bakthavachalam Vice- President, AICF and
President PSCA presided over the function.
Among other distinguished guests, there are
Thiru R. Devakumar Secretary, PSCA etc.
The number of participants in Open section
was 193 including 161 Fide rated players. The
number of participants in girls section was 99
including 73 Fide rated players. There were
11 rounds of play in both sections.
.
The playing venue was excellent with good
and comfortable table and seating arrangements, sufficient lighting, all necessary amenities like pure drinking water, sufficient
toilets etc.During the playing session, the
organisers provided refreshments to all
players. There was no major dispute/protest regarding the conduct of the tournament
In first two rounds there were no upsets in
both sections. In the round third the second
seed Praggnanandhaa , (2129) from TN
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drew with TEL player Karthik Kumar Pradeep
(1589).
After 3rd round in open section 11 players
with 3 point and in Girls section 10 players
with 3 pts. In 4th round open
section top boards draw their games Raja
Rithvik R became the sole leader with 4
points. Where as in the Girls section 4 player
lead with 4 points.5th Round open section
Raja Rithvik R defeated Dhanush Bharadwaj
and he maintained the lead with 5 points and
7 players with 3.5 in 2nd sport .Girls section
Mrudul Dehankar defeated the top seed Bristy
Mukherjee and became the joint leader with
Divya Deshmukh with full point.
In the 6th Round in the open section Leader
Raja Rithvik drew with Pragganandha and
thus Three players share lead with 5.5 points
and second place there were 5 players with
5 points. In the Girls section Mrudula defeated Divya Desmukh and she became sole
leader with full 6 points and in second place
Jyotsana with 5.5 points.
In the 7th round in the Open section Nihal
Sarin defeated the leader Raja Rathvik and
he became the sole leader with 6.5 points
and in the second place Two players with
6 points. In the girls section the Leader
Mrudual maintain her lead with 6.5 points
and drew with Jyotsana and Two players in
second place with 6 points.
In the 8th round the leader Nihal sarin drew
his game and maintain his lead with 7 points
and 7 players in second place with 6.5 points.
In the girls section Mrudula defeated Nityate
and she maintained her sole lead with 7.5
points and Divya Desmukh with 6.5 points
in second spot.
In the 9th Round the leader Nihal Sarin defeated by Pragganandha and in the second
board Kushagra Mohan beat sadhuwani
Raunak and in third board Sreeshunn Maralakshikari defeated Raja Rithvik and thus winners became joint lead with 7.5 points and
Five players with 7 points in second spot.
In the girls section Mrudula defeated Adane
Narayani and she maintained her sole lead
with 8.5 points and Divya Desmukh with 7.5
points in second spot.
In the 10th Round the leader Praggnanandha
defeated Kuhagara Mohan and he maintained
his sole lead with 8.5 points. In second place
there were 3 players with 8 points. In the
Girls section Mrudula and Divya Desmukh
won their games and the positions remains
unchanged.
In the final round open section Praggnanandhaa R (T N) won the game and became
the champion with 9.5 point and 3 players
in second sport with 8.5 poin but better tie
Nihal Sarin (Kerala) finished Second position. Girls section Mrudul Dehankar (MAH)
defeated her team mate Bhagyashree Patil
and became champion with 10.5 point.In
the second board Divya Deshmukh (MAH)
defeated Shivani Madhu (TN) and got the
second position with 9.5 point.
In the Prize Distribution function Mr. Bakthavachalam, President of PSCA was presided
over the function in the presence of Mr. D V
Sundar , Vice-President FIDE,Mr V Hariharan
Secretary, AICF and other distinguished
guests.
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The organizers, officials, arbiters and volunteers worked whole-heartedly and sincerely
to make the tournament successful. The
players and guardians also extended full
co-operation which attributed to the smooth
running of the tournament. In my opinion,
both the events were greatly successful.
Final ranking:Open
Rk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
FM
CM
CM
CM
CM
CM
Name
Praggnanandhaa R
Nihal Sarin
Karthik Kumar Pradeep
Sadhwani Raunak
Kushagra Mohan
Raja Rithvik R
Panda Sambit
Aditya Mittal
Dhanush Bharadwaj
Dharani Kumar M S
Arpan Das (jr)
S Maralakshikari
Prithu Gupta
Aswin Kumar B S
Ajay Karthikeyan
Mehta Naitik R
Manish A Cristiano F
Samip Roy
Abhiram Sudheesh
Sarvesh Kumar A
Mahitosh Dey
Balasubramaniam H
Arya Bhakta
Bharath Subramaniyam Srihari L R
Soumma Chakraborty
Chandrahaas M C J
Abinandhan R
M Kashyap Datta
Hiren K G
Ranadheer B J S K
Nitin Shankar Madhu
Vignesh R
Ghelani Dhairya
Baibhab Singh
Komal Srivatsav Sajja
Club
TN
KER
TEL
MAH
TEL
TEL
ODI
MAH
KAR
TN
WB
TEL
DEL
TN
TN
GUJ
TN
WB
KER
TN
ODI
TN
WB
TN
TN
WB
TEL
TN
ASM
TN
AP
TN
TN
MAH
ODI
KAR
Pts
9½
8½
8½
8½
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
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Adit Heerak Basu
Polakhare Aryan
Shyam Prasad Reddy K
Sriram B
Rohith Krishna S
Rithvik Raja M
Rathneesh R
Akilesh Viswaa
Abhinessh S
Samarateja K
B Varghees Issac
R Krishna Viswanathan
Gnanasabesan G
Banerjee Ashutosh
Ashmit Arunjay Kumar
Spandan P Seth
Kalur Nikhil
Jeswani Saransh
Pranav Anand
Gautham Prasanth
Nikam Sudhanshu
Samdani Sahil Sagar
Nimdia Ridit
Sushmit Banerjee
Rajarshi Mandal
Avinya Mohan Singh
Sanket Chakravarty
AnanthapadmanabhanV
Ruban Sanjay M
Suganthan S
Vrandesh Parekh
Mangaldeep Mitra
Soham Dey
Rishabh C Gokhale
Gavade Atharv
Mhatre Rahat Rahul
Shashwat Dubey
Joshi Kshitij D
Shanjay KSathiskumar
Swapnil Sen
Surya Prakash J
Ayush Sharma
Mukherjee Sanchit
Panwar Krish Navratan
Hirani Lakshya
Pratyay Chowdhury
Ayushh Ravikumar
MAH
MAH
AP
TN
TN
TEl
TN
TN
TN
TEL
KER
TN
TN
CHT
GOA
MAH
TEL
MAH
KAR
KER
MAH
GUJ
MAH
TN
WB
CHT
WB
KER
TN
TN
GUJ
WB
WB
MAH
MAH
MAH
UP
MAH
TN
WB
TN
MP
JHA
GUJ
MAH
WB
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6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6½
6
6
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6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
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6
6
6
5½
84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 Aravinth Shanmugam S
Vignesh N
Chiranjan Kumarr K S
Jain Kashish Manoj
Vraj N Shah
Sivashankar M
Venu Madhav P L
Kumar Utkarsh
Ruthvik Ponnapalli
Avathanshu Bhat
Rudranarayan
Rajbeer Ahmed
Kar Pratyanshu
Tejas Cavale
Dhrupad Kashyap
Shintre Neel
Arunava Bhattacharjee
A Chandra Kodali
Vidhyth Narain Selvam
Shree Krishna Pranama
Vraj Kayasth
A Sowmyanatha Reddy
Sai Raj Gopal K
Bokade Chinmay
Eesh Prabhudesai
Parikh Pratham
Saypuri Srithan
Jai Mehtani
Vedanta Hazra
Srihari L
Chockalingam P
Mazumdar Soubhanik
B Pranti Bordoloi
Aadrito Datta
Badri Narayan Balaji
Ved Shubham
Rishabh Singh
Anantha Sai S
Iniyan S
Taori Yash
Rishi Sanotra
Devabarenya Gogoi
Vishal Sharma
Sreekar J S S
Tathya Sheth
Santhosh Manikantan
Divyan T
TN
TN
KAR
MAH
GUJ
TN
KAR
JHA
TEL
MAH
ODI
TRI
ODI
KAR
ASM
MAH
WB
AP
TN
KAR
GUJ
TEL
AP
GUJ
Goa
GUJ
TEL
HAR
WB
PUD
TN
ODI
ASM
WB
TN
MAH
ASM
TN
TN
MAH
PUN
ASM
BIH
TEL
GUJ
AP
TN
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5½
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 11
Manooneeth B
Abel Saju Chazhoor
Arora Honi
Arjun Sidharth S
Aneesh Sri Raj N
Visesh Reddy Mandadi
Thakkar Aarav
Aayan Iqbal Hazarika
Gupta Utkarsh
Srikrishnan P
Yashwant Annamalai
Arut Prakasha Yarish S
Pati Spandan
Gupta Anshurup
Senthamizh Kumaran S
Sai Rohan Chowdary Sethi Ankit Kumar
Vishal P
Thrayambhakesh A
G Anjani Kumar
Abhinav Sai Ganti
Abhay Kumar
Kalki Eshwar D
Bhadra Sujatro
Siddhant Nath Jha
Abinash P Gogoi
Subhadip Som
Hemanathan C
Rao Akhil
Jayanth R J R
Vrishva Swaran M
Dheeraj A P
Mallick Saswat
DRoy Vinoth Kumar
Dhaanesh S
Nikhil Nihar V
Sirveshvaran J D
Patel Maharshi
Tarak B
Ethan V Johnson
Saksham Rautela
Adarsh Tripathi
Hariprasad S
Sitesh Gupta
Aaditya A
Lokesh Varmaa K
Praveen Saki
PUD
KER
RAJ
PUD
TN
TEL
GUJ
ASM
UP
TN
TN
TN
TEL
MAH
TN
TEL
ODI
TN
PUD
AP
AP
BIH
KAR
WB
HAR
ASM
TRI
PUD
MAH
TN
KAR
PUD
ODI
TN
TN
TN
TN
GUJ
TN
TN
UTT
DEL
PUD
RAJ
PUD
PUD
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5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4½
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
178 Yogesh S
179 Garvnit Shrivastava
180 Pranesh Kumar TR
181 Sudharsan R
182 Harshit Gupta
183 Kailash Rajasekaran
184 Dhineshwar R S
185 Kannish Varmaa K
186 Agrawal Aaryan
187 Hemachand S
188 Mouhurtik Ray
189 Grover Rudraksh
190 Rajesh Calaimani
191 Shashwat Thakur
192 Mathesh S
193 Jagannath S
Final standings:Girls
RkName
1 Mrudul Dehankar
2 Divya Deshmukh WFM
3 Jyothsna L
4 Rakshitta Ravi
5 Jain Nityata
6 Bristy Mukherjee
7 Bhagyashree Patil
8 Nidhi Shenoy
9 Garima Gaurav
10 Chandratreya Prachiti
11 Eesha Ajay Sarda
12 Tanvi V Hadkonkar
13 Chopdekar Gunjal WCM
14 Arushi Kotwal
15 Shivani Madhu
16 Dhyana Patel
17 Mehendi Sil
18 Rajarshi A
19 Ananya Rishi Gupta
20 Poorna Sri M.K
21 Alaina J J Pereira
22 Adane Narayani
23 Abhirami Madabushi
24 David Avril R
25 Ayantika Das
26 Mishra Riya
27 Yashavishree N
28 Savitha Shri B
29 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM
PUD
MP
PUD
PUD
HAR
PUD
PUD
PUD
MP
PUD
WB
MP
PUD
HP
TN
PUD
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3½
3
3
3
2½
2½
2½
2½
2½
2
Club Pts
Mah 10½
Mah 9½
TN 8
TN 8
MP 8
WB 7½
Mah 7½
Kar 7½
Bih 7½
Mah 7½
Mah 7
Goa 7
Goa 7
J&K 7
TN 7
Guj 7
WB 7
Tel 7
Mah 7
TN 7
Goa 6½
Mah 6½
AP
6½
Mah 6½
WB 6½
UP
6½
TN 6½
TN 6
AP
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Ram Ratna 42nd National Women Challengers Chess Championship 2015
Vaishali wins title
Ambrish C Joshi, IA, Chief Arbiter
Ram Ratna 42nd National Women Challengers Chess Championship 2015 was organized by Diaspora
Times conducted by Thane district Chess Association under the ageis of All India Chess Federation,
Maharashtra Chess Association from 02nd July to 11th July 2015 at Keshav Srushti RMP Complex,near
Essel world, Uttan, Bhayender, Mumbai from 2nd to 11th July 2015.This tournament carried out a prize
amount of Rs.3,00,000/- which was split into 20 cash prizes and the winner got the cash prize of
Rs.72,000/-. This 11 round Swiss format tournament had 104 players out of which 88 are rated and 16
are unrated players. The 2 IM, 5 WGM, 5WIM and 12 WFM participating in this event shows the good
strength of the tournament.
The tournament was inaugurated by Smt.Varsha Tai Tawde – Social worker in the presence Respected
Founder Member of Keshav Shrusti Shri Rameshwar lal Kabra , Shri.Bimal Kedia, Smt. Geeta Jain – Mayor
of Thane and Chief Arbiter Shri.A.C. Joshi.The Host Shri Kabraji and Org.Secretary Shri Ashok Motwani
had given the brief report and took the Chief Guest for Deep jyoti Prajwalan.
In the first round top seed players had an easy win over their lower rated opponents. Many Seeded
players upsets was observed after 2nd round as the very young players has tremendous talent and vision over the board but finally Experience took place and all seeded players back to the front line. The
tournament had 11 rounds, with one round a day, except two rounds on 2nd day. Hard fought victories
and some higher rated players draws were witnessed in the tournament, culminating in the emergence
of Vaishali R of Tamilnadu as the champion of this event, followed by Sowmya Swaminathan of PSCB
as Runner-up.
Top eight players who are qualified for participate in National Women’s Premier Chess Championship 2015
which will be held later this year.1)WFM Vaishali R(TN)9points, 2)WGM Soumya Swaminathan(PSPB) 9
points, 3)IM Tania Sachdev(Air India) 9 points, 4)WGM Bhakti Kulkarn (Goa) 8 points, 5)WFM Varshini
V (TN) 8 points, 6)Singh Neha (BIH) 8 points, 7)WIM Michelle Catherina P(TN) 7.5 points, 8)Priyanka
K (TN) 7.5 points.
Accommodation was available in the same campus so as even it rained, players reached at venue before
time & easily followed the Zero Tolerance Time. An air-condition tournament hall gave the great satisfaction to players. The Delicious food and excellent arrangement of Essel world tour was organized by
Organizer which was creditable to the host. TDCA & MCA had the privileges of conducting many reputed
events and under their guidance the Diaspora times hosted this event at Keshav Shrusti .Kudos to Mr.
Ashok Motvani (Organizing Secretary), who work hard and fulfil all the requirements of the players.
The Prizes were distributed by Ex.Chief Minister of Maharastra Shri Pruthviraj Chauhan in the presence
of Honorable FIDE Vice President Shri D.V.Sundar, commonwealth / AICF Trasurer Shri R.M.Dongre,
MD of R R Kabel Shri. Tribuhvan Kabra and Alka Kabra – Chair person of Keshav Shrusti.The Organisers had announced special scholarship for Age U-11 ( Narayani Adane), U-13 ( Priyanka Nutakki
& Vantika Agarwal) & U-15( Vaishali R) for Rs. 71000/- each. And had given youngest scholarship
to Siya Sagar For Rs. 11,000.
This tournament is the first tournament in Spiritual environment. The keen efforts of dedicated Organizer’s group and the Excellent Arbiter’s team was the key factor for organizing and smooth running of
tournament. I am very happy for not arising a single protest and smooth running of the tournament.
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Final standings:
Rk Name
1 WFM Vaishali R
2 WGM Soumya Swaminathan
3 IM Tania Sachdev
4 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti
5 WFM Varshini V
6 Singh Neha
7 WIM Michelle Catherina P
8 Priyanka K
9 WGM Swati Ghate
10 WIM Pratyusha Bodda
11 Priyanka Nutakki
12 WGM Gomes Mary Ann
13 Nimmy A.G.
14 IM Mohota Nisha
15 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado
16 WFM Pujari Rucha
17 WFM Mahalakshmi M
18 Lasya.G
19 Vantika Agrawal
20 WIM Parnali S Dharia
21 WFM Potluri Supreetha
22 WFM Saranya J
23 WFM Srija Seshadri
24 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty
25 WCM Tejaswini Sagar
26 Harshita Guddanti
27 Bala Kannamma.P
28 WFM Monnisha Gk
29 Priyamvada Karamcheti
30 Toshali V
31 Anjana Krishna S
32 Potluri Saye Srreezza
33 Kaur Palkin
34 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv
35 WCM Salonika Saina
36 WCM Ananya Suresh
37 Patil Samiksha
38 Alka Das
39 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar
40 WFM Tarini Goyal
41 Manasa K.
42 Nandhini Saripalli
43 Poojakanth M.
44 Vidhubala S Swaha
45 Makhija Aashna
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Club Pts
TN 9
PSPB 9
AI
9
GOA 8
TN 8
BIH 8
TN 7½
TN 7½
LIC 7½
AP
7½
AP
7½
WB 7½
KER 7
PSPB 7
GOA 7
MAH 7
PSPB 7
AP
7
DEL 7
MAH 7
AP
7
TN 6½
TN 6½
LIC 6½
MAH 6½
AP
6½
TN 6½
TN 6½
AP
6½
AP
6½
KER 6½
AP
6½
DEL 6½
TN 6
ODI 6
KAR 6
MAH 6
JHAR 6
MAH 6
CHAN6
KAR 6
GOA 6
TN 6
KER 6
MAH 6
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47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
Deodhar Vrushali Umesh
Isha Sharma
Ankitha Goud Palle
Shalon Joanne Pais
WCM Sapale Saloni
WFM Bidhar Rutumbara
Shinjini Sengupta
Jadhav Vaibhavi
Jishitha D
Tanvi Bhave
Chetana D
Shabreen T Khanam
Adane Narayani
Gupta Niti
Shweta
Raga Jyothsna R
Anjali R. Sagar
Bristy Mukherjee
Aditi Arya
Khandelwal Khushi
WCM Swera Ana Braganca
Sakshi Jha
Nagalakshmi R
Shrivastava Aditi
Gouthami Anthagiri
Khan Faiziya
Priyanka Bhatt
Shrivastava Savita
Begum Ashiya
Sakshi Naik Gaonkar
Versha Rani
Katlamudi Vinita
Akshitha Goud Pally
Garapati Sai Rishitha
Aditi Bajaj
Sagar Siya
Jayashree P Sankpal
Radhika Devi Chavali
Malika Handa
Pranjali Sharma
Sharanya Vinayak Adane
Amritpal Kaur Kang
Khandelwal Krisha
Singhi Priya
Varahalu B L N
Sai Divya M
Sahasra S
MAH 6
KAR 6
TEL 5½
KAR 5½
MAH 5½
ODI 5½
WB 5½
MAH 5½
AP
5½
MP 5½
TEL 5½
AP
5½
MAH 5½
MAH 5½
CHAN5½
AP
5
MAH 5
WB 5
BIH 5
MAH 5
GOA 5
BIH 5
MAH 5
MP 5
TEL 5
GOA 5
UP
5
MP 4½
MAH 4½
GOA 4½
JK
4½
TEL 4½
TEL 4½
AP
4½
MP 4½
MAH 4½
LIC 4
LIC 4
PUN 4
HP 4
MAH 4
PUN 4
MAH 4
CHAN4
AP
4
AP
3½
TN 3½
GTC Classic Chess 2015, Guwahati….
Trailokya Nanda wins title
by Biswajit Bharadwaj
The first edition of the GTC Classic Chess 2015, an
International Rating Chess tournament organised
by Guwahati Town Club to celebrate the completion of 5 years of its in house chess academy
"GTC Chess Foundation" came to a glittering end
here on Sunday evening.
Trailokya Nanda of Jorhat clinched the championship by scoring 8.5 points out of 10 rounds and
pocketed the winners cheque of Rs 25,000/- .
Rakesh Chakravorty of Jorhat who was leading the tournament until the 7th round had to
settle for the second position with 8 points and
received a cheque of Rs 20,000/-. Ankan Roy of
West Bengal secured the thrid position and went
home richer with a cheque of Rs 15,000/-.A total
Prize Money of Rs 1,50,000/- was distributed as
Cash Prize in this 5 day Swiss league event played
under Classical time control in which 166 players
from across the country including 3 players from
Nepal participated.
The closing Ceremony was conducted by Biswajit
Bharadwaj, Director GTC Chess foundation and
attended by International Master Atanu Lahiri
of West Bengal who is also the former Commonwealth Chess Champion and the Honorary
Secretary of West Bengal Chess Association,
Zerifa Wahid, renowned Assamese film actress
and Life member of Gauhati Town club, Mridul
Kumar Mahanta, President, Guwahati Chess
Association and member of All Assam Chess Association Adhoc Committee, Bibhuti Gogoi, Past
President, All Assam Chess Association, Jaideep
Barua, Working President, Gauhati Town club,
Devajit Saikia, General Secretary, Gauhati Town
club and host of other dignitaries.
In his welcome speech, Devajit Saikia, General
Secretary, Gauhati Town club assured his full
support to the game of chess and proposed to
make this tournament an annual event so that
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the local players get the benefit of playing quality
tournaments at home.
International master Atanu Lahiri lauded the efforts of Gauhati town Club to promote the game
of chess in the region and assured them his full
support in the future. He also expressed his joy
and satisfaction at the progress of Assam chess
in the last few months as more and more tournaments are being organised in the state under the
new leadership of the new appointed All Assam
Chess Association Adhoc committee.
The tournament was conducted by Bibhuti Gogoi
as the Chief Arbiter and he was assisted by M Arun
Singh, Manik Dutta, Swaraj Buragohain, Padma
gogoi and Ravikant Tiwari as Deputy Aribters.
Final ranking:GTC Classic2015
RkName
1 Trailokya Nanda
2 Rakesh Chakravorty
3 Ankan Roy
4 Debashish Dutta
5 Singh S. Vikramjit
6 Dhar Rajib
7 Nandan Buragohain
8 Bora Mahendra
9 Nath Rupankar
10 Singh Y. Dhanabir
11 Singh Soram Rahul
12 Madhab Sarma
13 Sayan Banik
14 Rishideep Bordoloi
15 Rai Rajendra
16 Rintu Brahma
17 Gillford Thangkhiew
18 Deep Das
19 Avijit Das
20 Nepal Prakash
21 Projit Phukon
22 Rajdip Das
23 Nitish Das
Pts
8½
8
8
8
8
7½
7½
7½
7½
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
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1st NF Railway North East Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Maligaon
Rajib Dhar wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA,Chief Arbiter
1st NF Railway North East Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2015 has been held at NF Railway
Indoor Stadium, Maligaon, Assam from 8th to 12th July 2015. Total 102 players including 61
rated are participated in this tournament. This tournament is reserved for north east players.
The tournament was inaugurated by lighting lamp and making first move in the chess board.
The venue was very comfortable with sufficient toilet facilities. The organizers provided mineral
water and tea to all players including guardians. The deputy arbiters and volunteers were very
helpful for conducting the tournament. No disputes arises during the whole tournament. At the
end of final round game Local hero Rajib Dhar of Maligaon clinched the Championship Title and
richer by Rs. 20000/-. In the last round Rajib Beat Madhab Shmarma Bikramjit Singh of Manipur
and Debasish Dutta of Assam got 2nd & 3rd places and richer by Rs. 15000/- & Rs. 10000/-respectively. In the prize distribution ceremony A. K. Agarwal, CMO, NFRSA Sugato Lahiri, Secretary,
NFRSA, S. Sengupta, Jt. Secretary, NFRSA were present and distributed the prizes.
RankName
Rtg
Club Pts
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Rajib Dhar
2137
ASM
7½
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Singh S. Vikramjit
2188
MANI
7
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Debashish Dutta
2111
ASM
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Trailokya Nanda
2030
ASM
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Santanu Borpatra Gohain
2061
ASM
6½
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Singh Soram Rahul
1862
ASM
6½
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Madhab Sarma
1919
ASM
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Cheniram Pegu
1904
ASM
6½
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Bipin Singhath.
1869
ASM
6½
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Bidyut Bikash Handique
2097
ASM
6
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Sasanka Shandilya
1586
ASM
6
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Khanindra Barman
1729
ASM
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Yengkhom Pritam Kumar Singh
1832
MANI
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Nitish Das
1638
ASM
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Huidrom Bhupendranath
2015
MANI
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Amlan Mahanta
1692
ASM
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Parag Dhar Goswami
0
ASM
6
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Ravi Kant Tiwari
1780
ASM
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Adnan Akhtar
1346
ASM
6
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Durlov Nanda
1757
ASM
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5th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Chennai
Saravana Krishnan Wins title
V.Ravichandran IA, Tournament Director
St.Joseph’s College Sponsored 5th St.
Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess
Tournament was organized by Mount Chess
Academy at St. Joseph’s college of Engineering, Old Mamallapuram Road, Jeppiaar Nagar,
Chennai- 119, from 3rd to 07th July 2015.
This event had attracted 677 players from 17
states which include 521 Fide rated players
took part in the 9 rounds Swiss tournament.
The total prize fund was Rs. 2, 00,000/- and
prizes were given to the top fifty players and
five prizes each in the 8 categories. The Entire prize money was sponsored by St. Joseph
College of Engineering, Chennai & St.Joseph’s
Institute of Technology, Chennai
This event was inaugurated by Dr.P.Seshagiri
Rao, Principal, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering in the presence of Shri.B.Jaikumar
Christhu Rajan, Director of St. Joseph’s College of Engineering on 03rd July 2015 at
10.00 A.M and he appreciated all players
for the record number of participation and
assured to host this International fide rated
event every year with the support of College
Management . St.Joseph’s College waived of
entry fees to all above 1400 rated players as
promised and this was the first time in India
players above 1400 Rating were given free
entry for a Swiss FIDE event. The first round
started at 10.30 A.M on 03rd July2015.
At the end of the 5th Round 9 players including few top seeded were leading with 5points
each.
In the sixth round Top seeded maneuvered
his pieces nicely against FM J Ramakrishna
of Andhra Bank and maintained his lead with
6points..Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka
outplayed seasoned player A S ankar of
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Southern Railway and jointly leading with
Sarvana Krishnan. Nine players were on
second spot with 5.5points each.
Overnight leaders P Saravanakrishnan and
Navalgund Niranjan made a peace treaty
in the 7th round and maintained the top
spot. Five players P Saravanakrishnan of
Kanchi, Navalgund Niranjan of Karnataka,
J.Arun of Chennai, S Prasanna of Kanchi and
AL.Muthaiah of Tiruvallur were leading with
6.5 points each. A bunch of 19players were
scored 6points each and trailing the leaders.
In a dramatic eighth and penultimate round
P. Saravanakrishnan outwitted young AL
Muthaiah In the complicated middle game. S
Prasanna shocked higher seeded Navalgund
Niranjan and maintained his lead. Three
players Saravanakrishnan ,Prasanna and
J.Arun of Chennai were leading the table
with 7.5 points. Six Players FM Ramakrishna,
K Gunasekaran(Tiruvallur), Phoobalan(ICF)
Sankar(SRly), R Ganesh of St.Joseph’s and
P.Lokesh of Anna University were on second
spot with 7points each.
In the final and 9th Round giant killer Arun
J stopped the winning streak of Top seeded
Saravanakrishna for a draw in an exciting
game. R Ganesh won against higher seeded
Navalgund Niranjan and shared the top honour with four others. Saravanakrishnan, Ramakrishna, J Arun Prasanna and R Ganesh
were scored 8 points and tied for the first
place and on tie break they finished FIRST
to FIFTH respectively.
Grandmaster R.B.Ramesh distributed the
prizes in the presence of Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Joseph’s College
and V Ravichandran ,Fide Trainer.Winner
P.Saravanakrishnan of Karur Vysya Bank got
richer by Rs 40000 along with a glittering
winner Trophy. FM Ramakrishna of Andhra
Bank came second and received Rs 30000
cash prize. J.Arun of Chennai finished third
place and got Rs 20000cash Prize.In total
67 unrated players played very well against
rated opponents and they will get Fide rating
in the coming list
Shri M Vijayakumar, Chief Arbiter and his
dedicated team organized this event very
well without any dispute. Our sincere thanks
to AICF, TNSCA & KDCA for the successful
conduct of this Annual this event.
Final standings:St.Josephs
Rank
NamePts
1 Saravana Krishnan P.
2 Ramakrishna J. FM
3 Arun J
4Prasannaa.S
5 Ganesh R
6 Hirthickkesh Pr
7 Venkat Sundaram
8 Lokesh P.
9 Muthaiah Al
10 Gowtham K K
11 Phoobalan P.
12 Shankar A.
13 Anilkumar O.T.
14 Uma Maheswaran P
15 Akil A S J
16 Siddarth M
17 Gunasekaran K.
18 Rao J. Malleswara
19 Ram S. Krishnan
20 Sandip Dey
21 Vishwa Anand V
22 Shakthi Vishal J
23 Aaditya Jagadeesh
24 Vinodh Kumar B.
25 Madhusoodanan K.R.
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Dangmei Bosco
Balkishan A.
Eshwanth Dev Kumar J
Sridharan Ramanathan
Singaram P.L.
Badrinath S.
Aadhityaa M
Kumar S.
Rohit Vassan S
Prathish A
Farhaan M
Aravindaswami T
Haldar Ajoy
D. Ashraf Subhani
Alaguraja M.A.
Shyam Sundar T.
Nanda Kumar T.S.
Shuban Saha
Jagadeesh A.K.
Ramayanam Chaitanya
Bathula Abhinav Reddy
Nitheesh Pothireddy
Upendra R
Verma Sanjay
Chakravarti K.
Chama Chanukya Krishna
Nikhil M
Jai Aditya D
Thiagarajan V N
Shanmukha Teja P
Venkatakrishnan R.V.
Anirban Basu
Sahoo Soumya Ranjan
Aasha.C R.
Keerthivasan K
Meruga Shanmukha R
Karan J P
Rajat Kumar Sahoo
Umashankar A
Manickavelu. A
Sooraj M R
Aakash G
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25th The Telegraph Schools FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,Kolkata...
Diptayan Ghosh emerges Champion
Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
The silver jubilee edition of 25th The Telegraph Schools Chess Tournament was organised by Alekhine
Chess Club, at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata from 3rd to 7th July 2015. 401 students from 199 schools took part
in the five days, nine round Swiss tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each with an increment
of 30 seconds from move 1. Twice gold medal winner in World Youth Olympiad and international master
Diptayan Ghosh of South Point High School, Kolkata was the top seed of the tournament, followed by
A Ra Harikrishnan of Sethu Baskara MHSS, Chennai, who achieved an IM norm in the recent Kolkata
International GM tournament. There were two more players with a rating above 2200 – former Asian
Under 8 champion MitrabhaGuhaof South Point HS and Rajdeep Sarkar of Bhavans GKV, Kolkata.
Seeded players did not face any difficulty until the third round and seventh seeded NeelashSaha of Kolkata was shocked by lowly rated SparshKhandelwal. Nineteen players led the field with 4 points each at
the end of the fourth round. Second seeded Harikrishnan had a slight drawback in the fifth round, when
he was held to a draw by Suvradeep Das of Aditya Academy and Soumma Chakraborty also extricated
half a point from WFM Arpita Mukherjee. There were a spate of draws on top boards in the sixth round,
except Diptayan and Hari, who won their respective games. Diptayan emerged sole leader and six players were half a point behind with 5.5 points each.
In the crucial seventh round encounter between the top two seeds, Diptayan held the upper hand to
score his seventh straight win in as many rounds. Diptayan was half a point ahead of Aranyak Ghosh of
DPS North Kolkata, who defeated Anustoop Biswas from MP Birla HS. On the second board, third and
fourth seeds MitrabhaGuha and Rajdeep Sarkar drew their Queens Indian defence game tamely, to raise
their tally to 6 points each. Besides Guha and Rajdeep, eight other players had scored 6 points each.
Diptayan stretched his lead by a full point over his nearest rivals, defeating Aronyak Ghosh in the eighth
and penultimate round and was poised to win the tournament comfortably. He did not relax himself and
posted a victory in the ninth round also to collect a record 9 points in nine rounds.MitrabhaGuha scored
8 points and finished runner up. Three players KaustuvKundu, Srijit Paul and Anustoop Biswas mustered
7.5 points and were declared third, fourth and fifth respectively based on tiebreak scores. Out of a total
of Rs.1,20,000/- prize money, Dipatayan received Rs.21000 for his first place.
International master Sayantan Das, gold medallist in the World Youth Olympiad and a product of the host
Alekhine Chess Club inaugurated the tournament on 3rd July. The cynosure of all eyes on the final day function
was Mr. SouravGanguly, former captain Indian cricket team, who distributed the prizes to the young children.
Besides him, Mr. Niswarrop De, President of Alekhine Chess Club was another guest of honour.
Final Ranking
1 Ghosh Diptayan
2 MitrabhaGuha
3 KaustuvKundu
4 Srijit Paul
5 Anustoop Biswas
6 Aronyak Ghosh
7 Rajdeep Sarkar
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Md. Fahad RahmanCamb.
Aditya Basu
Soumma Chakraborty
Ghosh Samriddhaa
Rounak Pathak
SubhayanKundu
Avijaan Roy Choudhury
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South Point
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All India Open Fide Rated Rapid Chess Tournament , Hubballi
Rakesh Kulkarni wins
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
The All India Rapid Rating tournament organized by Rotary Club of Hubli North in
association with KLE IT Engineering College
and Dharwad District Chess Association at
Auditorium, KLE Institute of Technology,
Hubballi from 25th to 26th July 2015 under
the auspices of United Karnataka Chess Association.
The tournament got to a colorful start with
the Chief Guest Shri. Rajendra Cholan IAS,
Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad District. He
appreciated the efforts to promote chess and
suggested to conduct such tournaments in
rural level to promote local talents. Shri.
Shankranna Munavalli – Director KLE Society graced the occasion and assured full
co-operation for success of the tournament.
Dr B S Anami Principal KLE – IT, Hubballi was
the Guest of Honour on the occasion who is
instrumental in providing infrastructure and
other arrangements for conducting this mega
event. Shri. R. Hanumanth Jt. Secretary –
All India Chess Federation and Dr. Arvind
Yeri Vice President – Dharwad District Chess
Association. Rtn. Dr. Nagaraj Shetty event
chairman who has meticulously planned and
executed the tournament explained the modalities of the tournament to the participants
and the gathering. Rt. Sunil Mirajkar – Secretary Rotary Club of Hubli North committed
to the gathering to conduct many such tournaments rurally and concluded the inaugural
session by proposing vote of thanks.
Total of 307 players from Karnataka, Kerala,
Andra Pradesh, Goa, Gujrat and Delhi participated in this tournament. GM Laxman
RR of ICF was top seed followed by IM Shyaamnikhil and IM Nitin S. GM Sriram Jha and
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WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman. Two GMs, five
IMs, four FMs participated. 103 trophies in
various categories and cash prize Rs. 1.35
lakhs were distributed.
Rakesh Kulkarni of Maharastra, GM Laxman
RR of ICF, GM Sriram Jha of Delhi and IM
Rajesh VAV of Tamilnadu scored 8 points each
and based on better tie break score Rakhesh
Kulkarni became winner and carried Rs 35000
cash prize and Trophy.
Mrs Ashwini Majjgi, Mayor, Hubli Dharwad
Municipal Corporation, Shri S C Metgud, Director, KLE Society, Prof B S Anami, Principal,
KLEIT, PDG Rtn Basil D’Souza, Rotary Club
Hubli North President Rtn Vijay Hattiholi, Mr
Aravind Shastry, Secretary, UKCA, Bangalore,
Mr Vinay Kurtkoti, Vice President, DDCA, Mr
Hanumantha R, Joint Secretary AICF Distributed the prizes.
Final standings ( first 110 placings only)
Rk
Name
Club Pts
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GM
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IM
IM
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IM
Kulkarni Rakesh
Laxman R.R.
Sriram Jha
Rajesh V A V
Nitin S.
Kulkarni Chinmay
Shyaamnikhil P
Senthil Maran K
Ram S. Krishnan
Kishan Gangolli
Srinath Rao S.V.
Matta Vinay Kumar
Balkishan A.
Pradeep Kumar R A
Sriram Sarja
Kathmale Sameer
MAH
ICF
LIC
TN
TN
MAH
TN
TN
TN
KAR
MAH
AP
KAR
TN
KAR
MAH
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Likhit Chilukuri
FM Sauravh Khherdekar
Yogeesh Bhat
Ajeesh Antony
Prachura P.P.
IM Shivananda B.S.
WGM Meenakshi S
Mari Arul S.
Abhijit Chutia
Sushrutha Reddy
Shashwat S Mudenagudi
FM Ramakrishna J.
Varma Shabdhik
Bachikar Girish
Abid Ali Mujawar
Sreedhara K T
Manjunath Jain
Vemuri Vihari
Aditya B Kalyani
Vinay Kurth Koti
Raju M.
Gavi Siddayya
Vasuki G Krishna
Shripad K V
Ankit Payal
Sami Mohd Abdul
Varun Anant
Krishna V Shinde
Harsh M Averi
Sharan R Setty
Naren N Kumar
Sugyan Prakash M
Basavaraj D N Dr.
Niranjan V Sangam
Hanumantha R.
Prajwal V S
Shubh Kapur
Vinay R Navali
Ithal H L Rajath
Ananda K R
Varun V Navali
Prajwalesh
Kruthik K S
Anand D B
Tarun Thiyagarajan
Shankar Kumar
Srinidhi B S
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KAR
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KAR
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KAR
DWD
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Rishabh Hangal
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Nagaraj Kulkarni
DWD
Aruna Dinakara
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Ramachandra Bhat
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Ravish A
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Vani S Indrali
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Gopal Shah
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Varun Yeri
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Khushi M Hombal
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Kevin Martin
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Rakesh N
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Manoj B Kulkarni
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Shashank M S Gowda
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Avinash C S
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Chaithanya Ganesh
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Pramod D Kayasth
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Dara Devadanam
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Sarfaraz Goodwala
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Sanjeev G Hammannavar KAR
Rishab Telisara
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Dharwad S M
DWD
Dinesh Rajachar
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Chandra Mohan B
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Vijay Kumar C Hallur
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Yash Anchaliya
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Pratham Ajay
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Rajannavar Ansh
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John L Timnal
DWD
Omkar Shetti
KAR
Shivaprasad V Tengli
KAR
Chandra Kumar C
KAR
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All India Open FIDE rated Rapid Chess Tournament , Bengaluru
Nitin is champion
IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
The All India Rapid Rating tournament is being organized at Karnataka Engineers Academy by Mysore Chess Centre and Karnataka
School of Chess under the auspices of United
Karnataka Chess Association.
The tournament got to a colorful start with
the Chief Guest Mr.Suresh Kumar, M.L.A
Government of Karnataka inaugurating the
event by lighting the lamp. The dignitaries
included Mr.Jayaramu, President of Engineers
Academy, Mr.Achutananda Reddy, Patron of
UKCA, Aravind Shastry, General Secretary
of UKCA, Nagendra, Director Mysore Chess
Centre and Raghavendra.V, Vice President
of UKCA.
Mr.Suresh Kumar addressing the gathering
said that Game of chess really helps the mind
to improve. He also said that he will put up
chess in schools models before the government of Karnataka. Currently Gujarat and
Tamil Nadu have started implementing the
chess in schools very successfully.
The tournament consists of 289 players
from all over the country. Grandmaster
R.R.Laxman being the top seed followed by
IM Karthikeyan.P GM Deepan Chakravarthy.
The tournament is considered as one of the
strongest ever open Rapid tournament being held in recent times. The tournament
had 3 Grand Masters, 11 International
Masters and one Fide Master.
IM Nitin S became the sole leader in the
seventh round by defeating IM Karthikeyan
P and drew with GM RR Laxman in final
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round to win the title.
Himanshu Sharma drew with Shabdhik
Varma in the 3rd round and IM Shyaamnikhil
in the sixth round.GM RR Laxman drew with
GM Srim Jha in sixth round, with GM Deepan
Chakkravarthy in seventh round well as in
final round with IM Nitin S
At the end of the final round, IM Nitin and
Himanshu Sharma scored eight points each
and based on better tie break score they are
placed winner and runner-up respectively.
Chief guest Mr Gopalakrishna, Director
Sports, Karnataka Engineers Academy, Bangalore distributes the prizes to winners. Other
dignitaries on the dais were Mrs Jayashri,
President Dubai Chess Center, IM Shivananda
BS, Co-Director, Karnataka School of Chess,
Mr Nagendra Muralidhar, Director, Mysore
Chess Center.
Final ranking (first 110 placings only)
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IM
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Nitin S.
Himanshu Sharma
Laxman R.R.
Deepan ChakkravarthyJ.
Ram S. Krishnan
Kulkarni Chinmay
Shyaamnikhil P
Karthikeyan P.
Shivananda B.S.
Sriram Jha
Sanjay N.
Vasli Aref
Prasannaa.S
Senthil Maran K
Abhishek Kelkar
Kathmale Sameer
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Devendra Kumar D.
Balkishan A.
WGM Meenakshi S
Suresh Kumar T.J.
Vivekananda L
IM Rajesh V A V
Yashas D.
Abhishek Das
IM Ravi T S
Vinodh Kumar B.
Kulkarni Vinayak
Chaithanya Ganesh
Kulkarni Rakesh
IM Stany G.A.
Prachura P.P.
Shet Prajwal P
Muthaiah Al
Kunal M.
Rohit Vassan S
Pradeep T S
Likhit Chilukuri
Darshan V P S
IM Vijayalakshmi S
Ram Vishwanathan
Ravi Kumar K
Reetish Padhi
Arjun Adappa
Lakshmi Praneetha K
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Adhiban wins Benasque Open
Chennai GM Baskaran Adhiban won the 35th edition
of the Benasque Open in Spain on July 11th, 2015.
Former Indian champion won this event in the 36
GM contest.
Significantly Adhiban won all five games with the
white pieces and also remained undefeated.He drew
Elizbar Ubilava of Georgia,GM Gretarsson (Israel) GM
Arribas (Spain) and beat the rest of the seven players.
His victims included top-seed Rodshtein of Israel
whom he beat with black pieces in the final round.
Adhiban started as the fourth seed and played at
2729 to gain over 16 elo from this one event.This
performance should help Adhiban gain confidence
and help his progress towards his 2700 rating goal.
The Chief Arbiter was IA Valerio de la Cruz and the
tournament director was WGM Crespo Deligado.
Final placings:1.GM B.Adhiban (Ind) 8.5/10 2-7 Granda Zuniga (Per) GM Cori Jorge(Per)
GM Daniel Naroditski (USA) GM Sergey Grigoriants GM Evgeny Romanov (both Russia) GM
Baron Tal (Israel) 8 each;8-16 GM Maxim Rodshtein (Israel) GM Alexandr Kharitonov (Rus)
GM Hjprvar Steinn Gretarsson (Israel) GM Krzysztof Jakubowski (Poland) GM Gergely Antal
(Hun) GM Ferenc Berkes (Hun) GM M.Shyam sundar Gm Roberto Mogranzini (Italy) GM
Avigdor Bykhovsky(Rus) 7.5 points 23 IM Shardul Gagare 7….361 players.
Sethuraman Wins Paris Open
National champion Grand Master S.P.Sethuraman
of Chennai won the Paris International open on
tie-break in July 2015.Sethuraman won five
games in a row and then drew three consecutive
games before demolishing International Master
Manel Valles of France to finish with 7.5 points
from nine rounds.Sethuraman and French Grand
Master Oliver Renet tied for the first place but
the Chennai born Grand Master with a rating of
2623 had the better tie-break score.The Indian
Champion played at 2706 and would be gaining
plenty of ELO rating in the next list.
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Mageshchandran tops in the third DC International
Two International Open tournaments were organized at
the Hyatt Regency in Arlington, Virginia, (USA) by the
Continental Chess Association one after the other. The 3rd
DC international Open held from 25th to 30the June was
won by a quartet of GMs – Luke McShane (Eng), Eshan
Maghami (Iran), Magesh Chandran Panchanathan (Ind)
and IM Andrey Gorovets of Belarus all scoring 7 points in
a 9 round Swiss.
Just half a point behind was Ashwin Jayaram with 6.5 points.
This performance enabled him to reach 2500 rating points
and become a GM.
Also playing in this tournament were GM S.Arun Prasad (just outside the prize list, 13th), FM
Gauri Shankar (2365) 5.5, FM Nikhilesh Kumar, WIM Prathiba Yuvarajan and many, many
Indians who no longer play in India as they have settled down in the US.
Ashwin Jayaram becomes GM
Ashwin Jayaram is now India’s 39th Grandmaster.Born August 14,1990
at Aluva, Kerala Ashwin made his first GM norm in Sort,Spain in 2007.He
won the Asian Junior at Chennai in 2008 and again in 2009 in Colombo
making two more norms in the process. But he had to wait for his 2500
rating mark which he crossed in the DC International Open,Airlington,
US in July 2015.
Bangalore Wins Dubai Cup
Bangalore won the Asian Cities Chess Championship that concluded at the beautiful Citrus Hotel
in Waskaduwa in Sri Lanka. This event is held once every year.
Fourteen nations (16 teams) took part in this event and it was a great success. Champions
Bangalore won the Dubai Cup with USD 3000 and gold medals. Two teams from Sri Lanka, Kandy,
Colombo and two from India, Bangalore and Calicut took part besides one from each other nation.
Bangalore had recently won the National Cities at Goa. The team comprising International Masters
Himanshu Sharma (8/9) and George Antony Stany (8.5/9), N Sanjay (7.5/9), K.S. Raghunandan
(6.5/8) and M Satvik (0.5/1) scored 17 out of 18 points in the nine round team event.
Qingdao of China finished second with 15 points and received USD 2000 and silver medals.
Bishkek of Kyrgyzstan scored 14 points and finished third and picked up bronze medals and
USD 1000. India’s other team Calicut finished fourth.
Calicut (12 points) scorers: Arjun Satheesh 5.5/9; Sanjid Latheef 5.5/9; Mohammed Dilshad
4.5/9; Arjun K 7/9
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Three Indians qualify for World Cup
The Asian Continental Chess Championships was a great success for Salem A R Saleh of United
Arab Emirates and wim Mitra Hejazipour of Iran. In men or open section, India recorded a big
success picking up three of the five World Cup qualifying slots.
Surya S Ganguly, Sethuraman and Vidit Gujrathi qualified while Abhijeet Gupta lost and missed
while Sasikiran drew top seed and missed qualifying.
GM Salem A R Saleh and Ganguly tied for first with 7/9 each. For the third place, Sethuraman,
Vidit and Jianchao (Chn) scored 6½ and qualified for the FIDE World Cup.
The Women’s section did not end well for the Indians. China’s Shen Yang spoilt Vijayalakshmi’s
event. Mitra Hejazipour and Shen Yang tied for first on 7/9.Of the three Indians in the top
three boards, Pratyusha drew Saduakassova (Kaz) while Mary Ann and Vijayalakshmi lost.
Vijayalakshmi and Pratyusha finished third and fourth with 6½. WIM Pratyusha had a better
rating performance than Mitra and made a WGM result.Champion Mitra Hejazipour lost two
games. Both were to Indians – Padmini Rout and Vijayalakshmi.
More Indians finished in the top at Al-Ain than the start rank and it was a success. We did better
than China taking six of the top ten places in men/open.
India’s rich haul at the Asian Youth
India impressed as was expected in the final day. India won more medals than all nations.
India took five gold, five silver and seven bronze medals in the Asian Youth Chess Championship
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that concluded at Suwon in South Korea on August 10, 2015.
Overall, India picked up 17 out of the 36 medals on the table that is very close to the 50%
mark. Iran took four gold, two silver and one bronze for a tally of seven medals. Vietnam won
four medals, one gold, two silver and one bronze.
China won two medals, one gold, one silver. Uzbekistan picked up two medals, one gold and
one bronze. Mongolia took three medals, two silver and once bronze. Kazakhstan won a solitary
bronze medal. The show was organised by the Korea Chess Federation.
Players like Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur, R Vaishali of Chennai have won both Asian and World
Age Group competitions. They are both hard and systematic workers. Vaishali won by the
widest of margins. Champions Bharath Subramaniyam (Open U-8), Aakanksha (Girls U-16)
and Krishna Teja (Open U-18) are names we are going to read more in the future.
Many Indians like Shahil Dey (Open U-8), Arjun Erigaisi (Open U-12), Chandreyee Hajra (Girls
U-16) tasted moments in the lead but could not win Gold this time. They are likely to make it
big in the future. India’s IA M.S. Gopakumar of Delhi was the Chief Arbiter.
Medal winners (Open section):
Open U-8: 1 H Bharath Subramaniyam (Ind) 8/9; 2-3. Shahil Dey, Prraneeth Vuppala (both
Ind) 6.5 each…26 players.
Open U-10: Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb) 8.5/9; 2 Aditya Mittal (Ind) 6.5; 3-5. Raunak Sadhwani,
R Praggnanandhaa, Mahitosh Dey (all Ind) 6 each…32 players.
Open U-12: 1 Alireza Firouzja (Iri) 8/9; 2 Arjun Erigaisi (Ind) 7; 3 G.B. Harshavardhan (Ind)
6.5…28 players.
Open U-14: 1 FM Aryan Gholami (Iri) 7.5/9; 2-3. FM Nguyen Anh Khoi (Vie), Nodirbek Yakubhoev
(Uzb) 7 each…24 players.
Open U-16: 1 IM Shahin Lorparizangeneh (Iri) 7/9 each; 2 Arash Tahbaz (Iri) 6.5; 3-4. FM Tran
Minh Thang (Vie), Harsha Bharathakoti (Ind) 6 each…22 players.
Open U-18: 1 N Krishna Teja (Ind) 5.5/7; 2-3. Mersad Khodashenas, Masoud Mosadeghpour
(both Iri) 5 each…16 players.
Girls Section:
Under-8: 1 Wei Yaqing (Chn) 8/9; 2 Nguyen Le Cam Hien (Vie) 7; 3 Prathivya Gupta (Ind) 6.5…25
players.
Under-10: 1-2. WFM Divya Deshmukh (Ind), WCM Mungunzul Bat-Erdene (Mgl) 7.5 each; 3
Rakshitta Ravi (Ind) 6.5…23 players.
Unde-12: 1-2. Tan Huynh Thanh Truc (Vie), Tamir Saruul (Mgl) 6.5/9 each; 3-5. WCM Nurgali
Nazerke (Kaz), WFM Bach Ngoc Thuy Duong (Vie), WCM Saina Salonika (Ind) 6 each…27 players.
Under-14: 1 WFM R Vaishali (Ind) 8/9; 2 WCM Yang Yijing (Chn) 6.5; 3-4. Nomindalai Tumurbaatar
(Mgl), Samriddhaa Ghosh (Ind) 6 each….25 players.
Under-16: 1 Aakanksha Hagawane (Ind) 7/9; 2 Chandreyee Hajra (Ind) 6.5; 3-5. Harshita Guddanti
(Ind), Alinasab Mohina (Iri), WCM Ananya Suresh (Ind) 6 each…22 players.
Under-18: 1 Anahita Gholami (Iri) 6/7; 2-3. G Lasya, WFM V Varshini (both Ind) 5 each…13 players.
Inputs: Arvind Aaron,Press Officer,AICF
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Experiences of a retired IA
IM Manuel Aaron
The title of International Arbiter (IA) was established by FIDE in 1951
at a period when many Asian chess federations did not exist. Nevertheless, International Chess tournaments were successfully organised
without any certified IA. When I became an International Master by
beating Suren Momo and C.J.S.Purdy in the Asian Zonal Championship
Matches in 1960 and 1961 the Tournament Directors (the title of Arbiter
was not in vogue then) were men like S.K.Tarapore, L.S.Subbarayan
and K.N.Kalyanasundaram - none of them an IA. FIDE accepted their
match results and reports without question.
Mark Nelson
I was not India’s first IA though younger people believe I was. The first IA title was offered
to Mark W Nelson of Bombay in the early 1980s following the 1979 Asian Junior in Sivakasi.
But he declined it as he had to pay a fee of about Rs 1000 to FIDE. Thirty five years ago
Rs 1000 was a huge amount. When Nelson was the Tournament Director at the 1979 Asian
Junior in Sivakasi, FIDE Vice President Florencio Campomanes was present there. Campo
saw the racking cough that the asthmatic Nelson suffered from. Mistakenly, Campo believed
that Nelson suffered from the infectious TB and told us, “Keep him off the tournament hall,
we will grant him the title!”
In hindsight, I think that Nelson would have half expected the AICF to offer the IA title to
him free considering the enormous services he had rendered to it as a celebrated TD and his
great reputation. But nobody thought of it. Nelson was a keen casual player as well. At the
end of the 1956 National Championship in Poona which was my first National and where I
finished second, Nelson, the Tournament Director, offered to play me blindfold. Innocently I
agreed thinking how could a tournament director and that too without sight of board, could
beat me, India’s No 2? But beat me, he did, in a rook ending!
India’s first IA
If I remember right, V.Kameswaran was the first International Arbiter. He was followed by
men like K.R.Seshadri, R.S.Tiwari who were all capable tournament directors. Campo, an
enthusiastic supporter of Asians and Asian Chess, wanted FIDE-certified arbiters in active
chess federations in Asia. Even thirty years after its founding in 1950, the AICF did not
have a single IA. Nevertheless, chess activities ran unabated. Campo recommended for
the IA title anybody he perceived to be active in tournament chess in an Asian country. In
1986 he asked me to apply for the IA title. I applied and got it, no examination, no nothing!
Perhaps in those pioneering days, FIDE (read Campomanes) honoured chess workers with
the IA title, not necessarily for their Arbiter’s skills. There was no other title or reward for
men who tirelessly worked for the uplift of chess in their region. So, the IA title also went
to some who were not really Arbiters but who did their bit to spread chess in their region.
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In chess history, quite a few grandmasters
have also served as distinguished Arbiters.
Yuri Averbakh (USSR), Gideon Stahlberg
(Sweden), Lothar Schmid (West Germany),
OKelly de Galway (Belgium), Zoltan Ribli
(Hungary), Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) are
some examples of famous GMs donning the
role of IAs. Having been intensely associated
with conduct of tournaments, I knew all about
them and had organised tournaments in
Tamil Nadu without the title of TD or IA. So,
I deserved the title of IA which I got in 1986.
Later, I had served as Chief Examiner at
Technical Conferences organised by the AICF
at Calicut, Kanpur, Bangalore, Calcutta and
Madras and certified successful candidates
as National Arbiters.
Leningrad 1986:
I had some good times abroad as an IA. I was
nominated by FIDE President Campomanes
to the Appeals Committee for the Leningrad
half of the 1986 Karpov-Kasparov World
Championship Match. Though conspiracy
theories were merrily floating in the press
after Kasparov sensationally lost three games
in a row to Karpov, the Appeals Committee
did not have to do anything as not a single
protest was made. FIDE paid me a neat sum
for my ‘work’ there. I got to meet and chat
with many historical men like David Bronstein
which widened my chess horizon.
I was also sending daily reports from Leningrad on the World Championship to The
Hindu in Madras. On one day my report was
published in The Hindu side by side with a
report from the Madras District Chess Association (MDCA) that I was expelled from the
MDCA for ‘corrupt practices’!! I learned of
my expulsion only on my landing in Delhi as
International phone calls were highly expensive and Emails had not come into existence.
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This expulsion had a big, positive impact on
Indian Chess as it made my colleague and
friend in Indian Bank, D.V.Sundar, enter
Chess administration. He rallied support for
me and organised the expulsion of the MDCA
itself from the TNCA under its president,
G.K.Sundaram. That launched Sundar on his
spectacular career as a chess administrator
which has finally made him an active and
successful Vice President of FIDE.
I was Deputy Arbiter (with Matsu Moto of
Japan as Chief) in the Asian Cities Team
Chess Championships of 1989 and 1996 in
Dubai. The work was tough as protests were
many and flag falls had to be watched with
an eagle’s eye.
In 1990 thanks to Campo, I was the Deputy
Chief Arbiter in the Karpov-Timman Candidates Final match in Kula Lumpur. This was
an incident free assignment which I enjoyed.
I was a conscientious IA and did my best to
be technically updated. For example when a
Round Robin tournament of which I was the
Chief Arbiter began, I used to read up the
Laws of Chess (LOC) afresh during Round
One, as one can easily forget some of the
complicated rules stipulated in the latter half
of the LOC. Sometimes we tend to mix up
the provisions of the old LOC with the new
LOC. An example of this happened in 1983.
Asian Team Championship, Delhi 1983
A famous dispute arose in the 1983 Asian
Team Championship in Delhi in the penultimate round game between Mahmood Lodhi
(Pakistan) and Jimmy Liew (Malaysia). Lodhi
had a Rook and Bishop against Liew’s lone
rook. Liew claimed a draw when 50 moves
had been made without a single capture or
a pawn move. The Chief Arbiter, Nasiruddin
Ghalib (1945-2012) was also the then AICF
Secretary. Correctly, he granted the draw.
How important this draw was could be seen
from the final result: 4thPakistan 21½; 5th
Malaysia 21. However, Lodhi contested the
draw saying he had a mate in six moves
at that stage and the game should be extended. Unwisely, Ghalib said that he had
the discretion to extend the game by five
moves, not six. Pakistan made a written
protest, quoting some out-dated FIDE law,
that the game could be extended even by
20 moves if a mate could be demonstrated.
It went to the Appeals Committee consisting of Eugene Torre (Phi), Pravin Thipsay
(Ind), Dr M.A.Hossein (Ban), Carpinter
(NZ), and Sun Lian Zhi (China). Unanimously, the Committee turned down the
appeal observing that the Chief Arbiter did
not have the discretion to extend the game
by even a single move! (See Indian Chess
History, page 449).
Asian Zonals, Madras 1995
The Asian Women’s Zonal was a Round
Robin from which both S.Vijayalakshmi and
Nisha Mohota became WIMs without a FIDE
rating. Remarkably, the pairing numbers for
the players were picked by a Parrot which
was trained to pick up ‘fortune’ cards! Such
parrots and their handlers could be seen
even today under shady trees on busy
streets of Chennai.
However, in The Men’s Zonal which was a
11-round Swiss for 22 players my computerised pairings went haywire in the
last round. Eleven rounds for 22 players
are too many! Even the computer finds it
difficult to make pairings for the last few
rounds. I am told that in a similar instance,
a computer just removed two tail enders
whom it could not pair according to its
programmed data! But FIDE regulations
said it must be 11 rounds and 11 rounds it
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was! After publishing and displaying the last
round pairing and returning home, I received
a phone call late in the night from the tournament hotel that the computer pairing was
wrong. The computer had paired a 5 pointer
with a 1½ pointer, or something ridiculous like
that, whereas a closer, more acceptable pairing was manually available. This was pointed
out by a foreign player. FIDE Regulations say
that a pairing once published should not be
changed. But fortunately, there was an exception! It could be changed for the last round,
and this wasthe last round. So I got on my
scooter, rushed back in the night to the hotel
and changed it.
Salem, 1997
I recall with horror my role as Chief Arbiter
in the 1997 Salem District Silver Jubilee FIDE
Rated Open Tournament. That was the first
time I was using a computer to make the pairing for a large Swiss tournament. There was a
choice of making the pairing either with DOS
or Windows at that time. In one middle round
I tried to be clever and changed the default
setting and published the resultant pairing. It
was all wrong on the lower boards with four
points paired against two points, and so on.
That round did not start till the pairing was set
right. Mentally, I was humiliated. I remember
that M.Senthilvel (father of IM Nitin), the Secretary of the Salem District Chess Association
at that time, helped me rectify the mess. In
another case in the same tournament, I gave
a wrong decision which was implemented in a
game. The affected player was a decent young
man and a strong player from Coimbatore. He
quietly accepted my Ruling. Later, after the
game, he showed me in private why my decision was wrong according to FIDE regulations
and the matter ended there without any bad
publicity for me. He was an angel who saved
my world!
In an early round of the same tournament,
the games were suddenly disrupted by the
Police! They had received a phone call that
a bomb had been planted in the tournament
hall. The hall had to be emptied in quick time,
with all chess clocks stopped and the pieces
left as they were on the board.We had to assure the police that the chess clocks on pause
could not hold any explosives as they were
in actual use and any meddling with them
could adversely affect the tournament. After
a massive search of the Hall, no explosives
were found. That phone call was a hoax!
My problems with that tournament persisted
even after it was over! As Secretary of the
TNSCA I had to send the results to the AICF
to be forwarded to FIDE for rating. I sent it
to the AICF in a floppy disc. The AICF, with
whose Secretary I was having a distressing relationship at that time, informed us
after much delay, and when the due date
for submission to FIDE was critically close,
that the floppy incorporating the tournament
results came blank! My overworked staff in
the TNSCA, then copied out the entire results manually and we sent it to the AICF by
Registered Post again. If the results had not
reached FIDE in time, the players concerned
would have blamed me.
Already a well-known active player and an
IM and Secretary of the AICF and TNCA at
different tumultuous times with political opponents from Delhi ready to pounce on me
for anything and everything, I could not keep
pace with the changing scenario in competitive chess to be a good Arbiter. If a player
asks why the computer made a certain Swiss
pairing the way it did, a good IA should be
able to explain it. I could not. After Salem
1997 I knew in my heart that I did not know
enough to be a good Arbiter and started
doubting my technical skills. It was time to
step down and let other, younger, more capable men take over.
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
This month’s puzzle is a fairly easy retro.
Mate in one by black Bb2 is staring in the
face but you have to find as to whose turn
it is to move, white or black.What was the
last move played precisely.
Niels Hoeg
Skakbladet1924
From these incidents I come to the belief
that the Secretary of a State/District Chess
Association or AICF should avoid burdening
himself with the Arbiters work in tournaments
in which he is involved as an organiser.
Conclusion
Being a successful IA requires constant updating of pairing techniques and the Laws of
Chess which changed rapidly in the 1980s
and 1990s with rapid chess, blitz chess and
the arbiter’s role when a claim for a draw
was made. It helps if he is a strong player.
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Last move?
( Solution on page 48)
Selected games from
Mumbai Mayor’s Cup
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Mahalakshmi,M (2117)
Pantsulaia,L (Geo) (2616) [A70]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5
5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.h3
0–0 9.Bd3 Re8 10.0–0 Nbd7 11.Re1
Nh5 12.Bg5 Bf6 13.Be3 [The game is
even. If 13.Bh6 Ne5 14.Rc1 a6 15.Be2
Ng7 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 17.Qd2 b5=] 13...Ne5
14.Be2 Nxf3+ 15.Bxf3 Ng7 16.Bf4 a6
Black wishes to prevent further exchange
of pieces that might result after 17 Nb5.
17.a4 Rb8 18.a5 [This does no really
curb black's queen-side expansion. Better was: 18.Qc2 Be5 19.Qd2 b6 20.Rab1
Re7 21.b4 cxb4 22.Rxb4 Rc7 23.Rc1 Black
has the problem of developing her Bc8 to
a satisfactory square.] 18...b5! 19.axb6
Rxb6 20.Qc2 h5?! In large Swiss system
tournaments the top players have to win
their first rounds against 'easy' opponents.
With a rating difference of 500 points, the
Georgian Grandmaster wants to complicate
the game, even at the cost of allowing his
opponent to gain some ascendancy. 21.Na4
Rb4 22.Bd2 a5?!
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The grandmaster takes a very big gamble,
a gamble he would not dream of against a
higher rated player. But such is Swiss life,
you have to risk a lot to win games from the
lower rated players and keep the draws for
his more famous adversaries in the future
rounds. 23.Bc3? [The respect that a grandmaster gets from his opponent is so great
that he is almost assured that his calculations would not be put to strict proof. Of
course this sacrifice is not based merely
on calculations but to a great extent on
intuition and experience. White can get
a great game by accepting the sacrifice:
23.Bxb4! axb4 24.Be2 Bd7! black must
keep white's pieces under threat of capture. 25.Bd3! White has to foresee that
black's counter-attack must come only
from f7-f5 and take steps to make it as
unpleasant as possible. 25...Bd4 This
planting of his bishop on d4 appears to
be black's only compensation for the exchange sacrifice. And it is not enough.
26.Qd2 this is to prevent black from playing Qg5 and creating threats against her
king. 26...f5 27.exf5 Rxe1+ 28.Qxe1
Nxf5 29.Bxf5! Bxf5 30.Nb6!+- and
white's rook decisively enters the black
territory. If now 30...Qxb6 31.Ra8+ Kf7
32.Qe8+ Kf6 33.Qf8+ Kg5 34.Qe7+
Kf4 35.Qe2! and black cannot escape
from the mating net lightly.] 23...Be5
24.Bxe5? [Again 24.Bxb4± ] 24...Rxe5
25.Qc3 [White plays for the tactic 25
Nxc5. But black deftly side-steps the
threat and improves his chances in the
game. Better was the simple 25.Nc3² ]
25...Qf6 26.b3 Diagram # [White had
the interesting option of sacrificing her
knight for three pawns with: 26.Nxc5
dxc5 27.Rxa5 Bd7 28.Rxc5 Qb6 29.Rc7
Re7= White cannot lose.]
Kh7= The young Indian plays calmly and
waits for the Grandmaster to reveal his plan
for the game. 19.bxc6 bxc6 20.Qa4 e4! Diagram # This dares White to enter into a wild
position sacrificing his knight for three pawns.
26...Bxh3!? 27.Nb2 [If 27.gxh3? Rxa4!
28.Bg2 (not 28.Rxa4?? Rg5+–+) ] 27...
Rd4 28.Rxa5 Rg5 29.Nc4!± Bg4 30.Kf1
[Stronger was: 30.Bxg4 Rxg4 31.f3 Rf4
32.Qe3 h4 33.e5! dxe5 34.Qxe5 Qxe5
35.Rxe5 h3 36.Rxc5!±] 30...h4 31.Bxg4
Rxg4 32.Ra6? [32.e5 dxe5 33.Nxe5 Rge4
34.Nf3 (34.Ra8+? Kh7 35.Nd7 Rxe1+
36.Qxe1 Qf5³) 34...Rxe1+ 35.Nxe1=] 32...
Qg5 33.Ra8+ Kh7 34.Nxd6 Qf6 [34...
Rxg2?? 35.Rh8+! Kxh8 36.Nxf7++-] 35.Nb5
h3 36.gxh3 Rf4 37.Nxd4?? [A blunder in
a winning position! White should win by defending the f2 pawn with the simple: 37.Ra2 ]
37...Rxf2+ 38.Kg1 Qf4! 39.Nf3 Qg3+ 0–1
Kokarev,Dmitry (UKR) (2639)
Arjun Erigaisi (2120) [A05]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.0–0
0–0 5.c4 d6 6.Nc3 e5 7.d3 Nc6 8.Rb1
Bf5 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.b4 Qd7
12.Nd5 Bg7 13.Nd2 [Diez Gonzales (2330)
vs D.Komljenovic (2499) in 1999 went: 13.b5
Nd8 14.Nd2 Bg4 15.Re1 f5= and black won.]
13...Nd8 14.Ne4 Bxe4 15.Bxe4 Ne6
16.Bg2 White senses that f7-f5 is imminent
and runs in advance. It is also possible that
white wanted to see how his 12-year old Indian opponent in the first round, rated more
than 500 points below him, would continue
the game in the absence of any hand-to-hand
combat, so to say. 16...c6= 17.Nc3 f5 18.b5
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21.dxe4! Bxc3 22.exf5 Nc5 23.fxg6+
Kg7 [23...Kxg6? 24.Qc2+ wins the bishop
and the game.] 24.Qa3 [If 24.Qxc6 Qxc6
25.Bxc6 Rac8 26.Bd5 Kxg6 The position is
equal with white having three pawns for his
knight.] 24...Bf6 25.Rbd1 Qc7µ Black has
an unshakable knight on c5. 26.Qf3 Rae8
27.e3 Ne4! Black's c6 pawn is masked from
capture. 28.Qg4 Nc3 29.Rd2 d5 [29...Re5
30.Rc1 h5 31.Qf4 (31.Qh3 Rc5 32.Rdc2 Rxc4
33.Qxh5 Rh8µ) 31...Ne4 32.Bxe4 Be7 33.Bf5
Rexf5µ] 30.cxd5 cxd5 31.h4 [White would
not do well to go for the win of one more pawn:
31.Bxd5 Rd8 32.e4 Qe5 33.Rc1 Nxe4 34.Re2
Rxd5 35.Rxe4 Qd6µ and black's chances are
real good.] 31...Qc8 32.Qb4 Qa6?! [32...
Re7! fortifying his defences was a good alternative for if now 33.Bxd5? Rd8 34.e4 Rxe4
35.Bxe4 Rxd2–+] 33.Rc2 Qd3! 34.Rfc1 d4
35.Kh2 Qxg6 36.exd4 Ne2 37.Rc7+ Rf7
38.R1c4 Ree7 39.R7c6 [If 39.Rxe7 Bxe7
40.Qe1 Qd3 41.Bd5 Rf5 42.Rc7 Kf6 43.Bg2=]
39...Qf5 40.d5 h5! [This prevents 41 Rg4+
winning. If 40...Qxf2? 41.Rg4+ Bg5 (41...
Kh7 42.Qb1+ Kh8 43.Rc8+ mates.) 42.Qb2+
Kg8 43.hxg5 h5 44.Rc8+ Rf8 45.Rxf8+ Qxf8
46.Rb4 Re8 47.Rb7+-] 41.Qc5 Be5! [If 41...
Qb1! 42.Re6 Qg1+ 43.Kh3 Qd1 44.Rxe7 Bxe7
45.d6! Bf6 (45...Qxd6? 46.Qxh5+-; 45...Bxd6
46.Qg5+ Kh8 47.Qxh5+ followed by Rc8+
wins.) 46.Qd5 (46.Qxh5?? Ng1+ 47.Kh2 Qxh5
wins the Queen.) 46...Nc3 47.Qxd1 Nxd1±]
42.d6 Re6 43.Rc7
43...Rxd6? [Tragically black falters near the
finish. He could hold the draw with: 43...Qg6
44.Rxf7+ Kxf7 45.Qxa7+ Kf6 46.Qa3 (46.d7
Bxg3+ 47.fxg3 (47.Kh1?? Qb1+ mates.) 47...
Qxg3+ 48.Kh1 Qe1+=) 46...Bxd6=] 44.f4!
Nxf4 45.Rxf7+ Kxf7 46.Rxf4!! Diagram #
Probably black missed this resource of white in
his calculations. The queen is pinned against the
king and the bishop is pinned against the queen.
46...Qxf4 47.gxf4 Bxf4+ 48.Kg1 1–0
Smirnov,P (Rus) (2588)
Vaishali,R (2256) [A57]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.e3
axb5 6.Bxb5 Bb7 7.Nc3 e6 8.e4 Qa5 9.Qe2
Be7= [9...Na6 10.Nf3 Nc7 11.Bc4 g6 12.0–0
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Qb6+- and black went on to win in A.Combie
T.Rym 2005] 10.Bd2! Qb6 11.Nf3 exd5 [If
11...0–0 12.d6 Bd8 (12...Bxd6 13.e5 Bxf3
14.gxf3+-) 13.e5±] 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.0–0
0–0 14.Bc4 Nxc3 15.Qxe7
[Better was: 15.Bxc3 Bf6 16.Rfd1 Bxc3 (16...
Ra4 17.Ne5 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 Qg6 19.Bg3 Ba6
20.Bxa6 Rxa6 21.Bxb8 Rxb8 22.Rxd7 Re6
23.Qf3 Ree8±) 17.bxc3 Ra7 18.Ne5 Ba6
19.Bxa6 Qxa6 20.Qxa6 Rxa6 21.Nxd7 Nxd7
22.Rxd7 Ra3 23.c4 Ra4] 15...Bxf3! 16.bxc3
Qg6= 17.Bxf7+ Qxf7 18.Qxf7+ Rxf7
19.gxf3 Nc6 [Also equalising was: 19...
Rxf3 20.Be3 Ra3 21.Bxc5 Raxc3 22.Be3 Ra3
23.Rfd1 Rf7 24.Rd2=] 20.Be3 Ra3! 21.Bxc5
Rxc3 22.Rfc1 Rfxf3 23.a4 Rxc1+ 24.Rxc1
Rf4 25.Ra1 Na5 26.Bb6 Nc4 27.Bc7 Rf6
28.Rb1 Ra6 [Slightly better was: 28...Rg6+
29.Bg3 (29.Kf1?? Nd2+ wins the rook.) 29...
Ra6 30.Rb4 d5=] 29.Rb4 d5 30.Kf1 [With
careful play by both sides, this ending should
be a draw. If 30.a5? Kf7 31.Kf1 Ke6 32.Rb7
g6] 30...Kf7 31.Ke2 Ke6 32.h4 g6 33.Bd8
Ra7 34.Bg5 Ke5 [Better was 34...Kd6
35.Bf6 Kc5 36.Rb5+ Kc6 37.Rb4 Rf7 38.Bc3
Rf4 39.h5 Re4+ 40.Kf3 gxh5] 35.Bh6 Ke4
[This is not black's best. Black's king is better placed than white's. Stronger was: 35...
Kd6 36.Be3 Re7 37.Kf3 Re4 38.Bf4+ Kc6!
Now black's threat is 39 Ne5+ Bxe5 40
Rxb4 winning the rook. 39.Rb8 Nd6 40.a5
Nf5; An awful blunder would be: 35...Kd4??
36.Be3+ Kc3 37.Rxc4+ dxc4 38.Bxa7+-]
36.f3+ Kf5 37.Bf8 Ke5= 38.Bc5 Ra5
39.Bg1 Kf5
[There are times during a game, like now, when
a player should keep his or her position intact
without allowing any good possibility for the opponent and at the same time, creating enticing
positions for the opposition to go astray. It may
not win the game, but it keeps the opponent
from dreaming of getting a superior position.
One could say that it is the art of making moves
without doing anything significant! Better was:
39...Ra6 40.Bc5 (40.Rb7? Rxa4 41.Rxh7 Ra2+
42.Kd3 Kf4!) 40...Rc6 41.Be3 Ra6=] 40.Bd4
Ra6 41.Bc3 Re6+ 42.Kf2 Ra6 43.Kg3 Ra7
44.a5! Nxa5? [Black fails to see the lurking danger in this position. Perhaps, she was
in time trouble? If she saw through white's
plan she could draw with: 44...Ke6 45.Rb5
Rc7 46.Bd4 Nd6 47.Rb6 Rc4 48.Bf2 d4 49.a6
Ra4=] 45.Rb6!!
Threatening the snap mate with 46
Rf6# 45...d4 [The only way for black
to prolong the game was by sacrificing
the Na5 with 45...Rf7 ] 46.Bxd4 If 46....
Rf7 47 Rb5+ wins the knight1–0
Debashis,Das (2508)
Ram,S Krishnan (2253) [E53]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3
0–0 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 c5 7.0–0 cxd4
8.exd4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b6 10.Bg5 Bb7
11.Re1 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Rc8 13.Qd3
Qc7 [J.Plaskett (2490) - J.Richardson
(2309) British Ch, Guildford, 2005
went: 13...Bxf3 14.gxf3 Be7 15.Be3
Qc7 16.Ba6 Rcd8 17.Nd5 Qd6 18.Nxe7+
Qxe7 19.Rc7 Qd6 20.Rxa7 Qb8 21.Rb7
Qa8 22.Qb5 Nb8 23.Rxb6 Rd5 24.Qe2
Qa7 25.Rb7 Qa8 26.Rb6 Qa7 and drawn
by repetition.] 14.Bb3 Qb8 15.Ne5 Qa8?
It was not worth cornering his own
queen for a temporary threat on g2.
Better was 15...a6 planning to deploy
his queen actively on d6. 16.Bc2! g6
17.Qh3 Nxe5 [A preliminary exchange
to reduce the ferocity of the threatened
attack by the white forces is not of much
use. For example, if 17...Bxc3 18.bxc3
Nxe5 19.dxe5 Nh5 20.Bd1±] 18.dxe5
Nd5
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[This move leads to a spectacular collapse. After 18...Nd7 (defending the key
f6 square) 19.Rcd1! Bxc3 20.bxc3 Bd5
21.Bb3 Qb7 22.Rd4 h5 23.c4 Bc6 white
has a winning mating attack. 24.Qg3]
19.Bxg6! fxg6 [If 19...hxg6 20.Nxd5!
Bxd5 21.Bf6 mates.] 20.Qxe6+! Kh8
[If 20...Rf7 21.Nxd5 Rxc1 22.Nf6+ Kg7
23.Rxc1+-] 21.Nxd5 Bxd5 [Or, if 21...
Rxc1 22.Bf6+ Rxf6 23.Qxf6+ Kg8 24.Qe6+
Kh8 25.Rxc1+-] 22.Bf6+! Diagram # The
target is black's rook on c8
22...Rxf6 23.Rxc8+! Qxc8 [If 23...Rf8
24.Qf6+! Kg8 25.Rxa8 Rxa8 26.Rd1+-]
24.Qxc8+ Rf8 25.Qc1! Bxe1 26.Qxe1
Kg7 27.Qd2 Rc8 28.h4! Be6 29.Qg5 Re8
30.h5 1–0
Abhilash Reddy,M.L (2225)
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Sivuk,Vitaly (Ukr) (2491) [A45]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.e3 c5 4.c3 Qb6
5.Qb3 c4 6.Qxb6 axb6 7.Nd2 b5 8.a3 Bf5
9.Rc1 Nbd7 10.Ngf3 h6 11.Bxf6 exf6!?
[Black has unusual ideas. With this move he
accepts the second set of doubled pawns!
He plans to use the semi-open e-file in the
further course of the game. But there was
nothing wrong with the natural recapture:
11...Nxf6 12.Be2 e6 13.Nf1 Bd6] 12.Be2
Nb6 13.Bd1 Na4 14.Bxa4 bxa4 Black has
straightened out his doubed pawns on the
b-file. His long term plan would be to try
to capture white's weak b2-pawn. 15.0–0
Bd3 16.Rfe1 Ra5!µ The threat is 17...Rb5
targeting b2. To save the b2 pawn, white
would have to bury his own rook on a2~!
17.Ra1 Rb5 18.Ra2
18...Kd7! This king's role is in the centre,
not on the king-side. 19.Rc1 g5! 20.Ne1
Bg6! 21.Nc2 h5 22.Nb4 Bh6! This bishop has got to a strategically important
square from where it will target white's
e3 pawn. It would not have performed
well had it been posted on its traditional
square - d6. 23.Re1 Re8! 24.Raa1
Ra5 25.Rad1 Re7 26.Kf1 Kd6 27.Nf3
Ra8 With nothing much achieved on the
blocked queen-side, this rook returns to
greener pastures on the e-file. 28.Ng1
Rae8 29.Nf3 h4 30.Ng1 White is marking time, waiting for white to reveal
where he is going to attack next. 30...Re6
31.Ra1 f5 32.Rad1 Re4! Black plans to
undouble his doubled f-pawns. He is in no
hurry. Meanwhile white has no move or
plan to lighten his poor position and has
to aimlessly shift a rook along the first
rank. 33.Ra1 f6 34.Rac1 Rh8 35.Ra1
f4 36.exf4 Rxf4 37.Nh3 Rf5 38.Ng1 g4
39.Re2 Re8 40.Rxe8 Bxe8 41.Re1 So,
white has the open file for himself. But except to e2 his rook cannot travel anywhere.
Both of his knights are also idling in their
corners of the board. White's prospects are
excelllent. 41...Bg6 42.Ke2
45...Re4 46.Nxf3 Rxe1 47.Kxe1 Bc1
48.Ng1 Bxb2 49.Kd2 The last attempt
to save his tottering queen-side. 49...Bf5
50.Nc2 Bg4‡ 51.Ne3 f5! This seals white's
game for good. 52.Nc2 Ke6 53.Ne2
53...Bxe2! As the white knight was threatening to become a nuisance, it was best
to destroy it now. 54.Kxe2 Bxc3 55.Kf3
b5 56.Kf4 Bd2+ 57.Kf3 Bc1! [After
57...Bc1 58.Ke2 f4 59.g4 Bxa3!! 60.Nxa3
b4 61.Nc2 b3 62.Na3 c3 white cannot
contend with the many black passed
pawns.] 0–1
[Most endings of this nature test the
patience of a player as slow, painful manoeuvring is involved. If here: 42.Re2 Rf4
43.g3 hxg3 44.hxg3 Re4 45.f4 gxf3 46.Rf2
Rg4 47.Rxf3 Ke6 48.Ne2 Be4 49.Rf2
Bd2 50.Nf4+ Bxf4 51.gxf4 Kf5–+] 42...
Rf4 43.f3 White has to prevent the
exchange of rooks. Without the rooks
on the board, black will win with ....
Bc1 knocking off the b2 pawn. 43...h3
44.g3 [If 44.Kf2 hxg2 45.Kxg2 gxf3+
46.Nxf3 Be4 47.Rf1 Rxf3 48.Rxf3 Bc1!–
+] 44...gxf3+ 45.Kf2 [If 45.Nxf3 Re4+
46.Kf2 Rxe1 47.Kxe1 Bc1 48.g4 Bxb2–+]
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Nguyen Duc Hoa,(Vie) (2487)
Ajay Krishna,S (2220) [B35]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 0–0
8.Bb3 d6 9.f3 Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Be6
11.Qd2 Qa5 12.0–0–0 Rfc8 13.Kb1
b5 14.Rhe1 b4 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.exd5
R c 7 1 7 . a 3 [A 1960 game between
V.Bagirov and E. Gufeld went: 17.a4 Bf8
18.h4 Rac8 19.Bxf6 exf6 20.Re4 Rb7
21.g4 Rbb8 22.Rde1± and white went on
to win.] 17...Rb8 18.Re2 Qb5 19.a4
Qb7 20.Rde1 Bf8 21.h4 Rbc8 [If 21...
Nxd5 22.Qg5 Nf6 23.Bxf6 exf6 24.Qxf6 d5
25.h5±] 22.g4 Nxd5 23.h5!
advantage but no clear win.] 31.Qxf4!
g5 [He will lose after: 31...fxe6 32.Bxe6+
Kh7 (32...Kh8 33.Rh1+ Qh5 34.gxh5+-)
33.Rh1+ Bh6 34.Qxh6#] 32.Re8+! Rxe8
33.Rxe8+ Kh7 34.Qe4+! [Driving the
king to a square where his bishop would not
be able to interpose for a vertical check. After
the obvious 34.Qh2+ Bh6 the win is there,
but rather unclear!] 34...Kh6 35.Qh1+!
Kg6 36.Qh5+! Kf6 37.Qxf7+!!
For his sacrificed pawn, white has lovely
attacking prospects. The attack down the
semi-open h-file will soon become terrifying. 23...e5 24.hxg6 hxg6 [24...
exd4? 25.Qg5! threatens the Nd5 as well
as several delightful discovered double
checks with his queen.] 25.Bxe5! dxe5
26.Bxd5 Qb6 27.Bb3 [Stronger was:
27.Rxe5!
Rxc2 28.Bxf7+! Kg7
(28...Kxf7 29.Qd5+! Kg7 30.Re7+! Bxe7
31.Rxe7+ Kh6 (31...Kh8?? 32.Qe5+
mates.) 32.g5+ Kh5 33.Rh7#) 29.Qd3
Qd6 30.Bxg6 Rd2 31.Qxd6 Bxd6 32.Re6+-]
27...Bg7 28.Re4 White has a well-masked
plan. His real target is not the b4 pawn.
28...a5 29.f4!! exf4 30.Re6!! Diagram #
Black would not have realised how quickly
he is going to be demolished after this
move! 30...Qc5 [30...fxe6 31.Rxe6 Qc5
32.Rc6+ Kh7 33.Rxc5 Rxc5 white has an
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If 37.. ..Rxf7 38 Re6+# is a delightful block
mate. 1–0
Rahman,Zia (Ban) (2500)
Puranik,Abhimanyu (2307) [A01]
1.b3 a5 2.Bb2 a4
3.b4 Nf6 4.c4 [Even a very bizarre opening like this has been played before. It
seems there is nothing new under the sun
as far as chess openings are concerned!
H.Franke(2370) vs R.Hubert, 1994 went:
4.a3 c5 5.bxc5 e6 6.e3 Bxc5 7.Nf3 Nc6²
though black won.] 4...g6 5.a3 Bg7 6.e4=
White does not do anything to prove black's
position as inferior on account of the crazy
opening. He enjoys a space advantage and he
is content to develop his pieces and be ready
for the middlegame. 6...d6 7.g3 e5 8.Bg2
Be6 9.d3 Qd7 10.Nc3 0–0 11.Nge2 Just
by developing his pieces normally, white has
achieved a quiet advantage. The simmering
question in the back of the mind for both players would be whether and when the black pawn
on a4 will turn into a liability. 11...Nc6 12.0–0
Nd4 13.Nxd4 exd4 14.Ne2 c5 15.Nf4 Ne8
16.Nxe6 fxe6 17.f4 e5 [Though white would
still be slightly better, black could have tried: 17...
cxb4 18.axb4 b5²] 18.f5 Bh6 [18...gxf5?
19.exf5 Rxf5 20.Rxf5 Qxf5 21.Bxb7±] 19.Bc1
[It was best to exchange off his inactive bishop. If 19.b5 Be3+ 20.Kh1 Nf6 21.Bc1=] 19...
Bxc1 20.Qxc1 b6 21.Rb1 White now has
the option of opening up the b-file whenever
he wants. 21...Kg7 22.h4 [Maybe a shade
better was: 22.Qg5 Rf6 23.Qh4 Qd8 24.Rf2
h6 25.Bf3 g5±] 22...Nf6 23.Bh3 [White
could have tried simultaneous attacks along
the b-file and the g-file with: 23.bxc5 bxc5
24.Qg5 Qc7 25.g4±] 23...h6 24.Kg2 gxf5
25.Bxf5 Qe7 26.Rb2 [26.Qc2 connecting
his two rooks and pinning one of the black
rooks to the defence of his a4 pawn was a bit
stronger.] 26...Rf7 27.bxc5 bxc5 28.Kh3
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White is preparing the promising attack with
g3-g4-g5. 28...Raf8 29.g4 Qc7 30.Rbf2
Qe7 Black has no plan of his own and is
bracing against the push of the g-pawn so
that g5 could be answered by Nh5. White
has all the options at this point in the game.
31.Rg1 Qd8 [Black's effort to get in his own
counter while the white rooks are no longer
doubled on the f-file, is fraught with risk: 31...
Rb8 32.g5 Nh5 33.gxh6+ Kh8 34.Qg5 Nf4+
35.Kh2 and if now 35...Nxd3 36.Rfg2 Qxg5
37.hxg5 Nf4 38.g6 Nxg2 39.Rxg2 Rfb7 40.g7+
Kg8 41.h7++-] 32.Rfg2 Qe7 33.Qd1
[Now white is threatening g4-g5 without
allowing ....Nh5. Only leading to a draw
would be the spectacular queen-sacrifice:
33.Qxh6+!? Kxh6 34.g5+ Kh5 (34...Kg7
35.gxf6+ Kxf6 36.Rg6#) 35.Bg6+! dragging the king into a discovered check 35...
Kxg6 36.gxf6+ Kh7 (36...Kxf6?? 37.Rg6#)
37.fxe7 Rxe7=] 33...Nh7 34.g5 hxg5
35.Rxg5+! Kh8 [If 35...Nxg5+ 36.Rxg5+
Kh8 37.Rh5+ Kg8 38.Rh6! (threat 39 Qh5)
38...Rxf5 39.exf5 Rxf5 40.Qg4+ Qg7 (or
the rook is lost.) 41.Rg6+-] 36.Qh5 Qc7
[Black hardly has an alternative. If 36...
Rb8 37.Rg6 Qc7 38.Qg4 Qd8 39.Be6+-]
37.Rg6 Qe7 38.Qg4! Qd8 39.Rg3 [39.
Rg7 is faster.] 39...Re7 40.Rg7 1–0
Zubov,Alexander (Ukr) (2612)
Ravi Teja,S (2403) [D12]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5
5.Nbd2 e6 6.Nh4 Be4 This is an unusual
variation in the Slav Defence. 7.Be2 Nbd7
8.0–0 Bd6 9.Nhf3 Bg6 10.b3 0–0
11.Bb2 Qb8 12.g3 This was unnecessary
as h2 is already adequately protected.
Probably white is mentally waving a red rag
to the bull - to incite him to wage an unwise
attack! 12...h6 13.Nh4 Bh7 14.Ndf3 b5
15.c5 Bc7 16.a4 a6 17.b4 Ne4 18.Bd3
bxa4 19.Qxa4 g5
20.Qxc6! [The alternative leads to equality after exciting play: 20.Ng2 g4 21.Nfh4
Nd2 22.Bxh7+ Kxh7 23.Rfd1 Nc4 24.Bc3
Qb5=] 20...gxh4 21.Nxh4 [If 21.Qxd7
hxg3 22.fxg3 Bxg3 23.Kg2 Bc7=] 21...
Ndf6 22.b5 Nd2 [If 22...axb5? 23.Rxa8
Qxa8 24.Qxc7 Qa2 25.Bc1 Nc3 26.Bxh7+
Kxh7 27.Kg2] 23.Bxh7+ Kxh7 24.Rfd1
Nc4 25.Bc3 Rg8 [More efficient was the
long and instructive variation: 25...Rc8!
Threatening a discovered attack on the
Qc6. 26.Rxa6 (the best) 26...Bxg3 27.Rxa8
Bxf2+ 28.Kh1 (28.Kxf2 Qxh2+–+) 28...
Qxa8 29.Qxa8 Rxa8 30.Ng2 Ne4 31.b6
Nxc3 32.Rc1 Ne4 33.b7 Rb8 34.c6 Ned6!
35.Rb1 Na5 36.Rb2 Nxc6 37.Rxf2 Rxb7–+]
26.Be1
26...Ne4? [Probably Black was so busy
scheming a king-side attack that he missed
winning on the spot with: 26...Bxg3! 27.hxg3
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Rc8 the black queen is trappped!] 27.Ng2
a5? [Again black misses 27...Bxg3! trapping
the queen as in the previous note. 28.hxg3
Rc8 29.Qd7 Ra7!–+] 28.b6 Bd8?! [This
gives equality, but it also gives white hopes
of victory with his passed pawns. Better was
to make white devoid of any chance of using
his passed pawns by continuing: 28...Bxb6
29.cxb6 Qd6 30.Qb5 (30.Qxd6 Nexd6³) 30...
Rgb8³] 29.Rdc1 Ng5 30.Rxc4! [White
makes the sacrifice of the exchange to get
a wave of passed pawns on the queen-side
and threatening black's remaining knight.
Safer was: 30.Nf4= ] 30...dxc4 31.h4 Qc8
[This was the only way to save his knight on
g5 which was under threat of capture. If 31...
Nh3+ 32.Kh2 and the knight is lost.] 32.Qxc8
Nf3+ 33.Kf1 Rxc8 34.Bxa5 Ra8 35.Ke2
c3! (See diagram) 36.Kxf3 [36.Bxc3 Rxa1
37.Bxa1 Ng1+ 38.Kf1 Nf3 39.Bc3! White has
4 pawns for a rook and two of his pawns on
the queen-side are dangerous passed pawns.
None of the black forces have any active role
to play. A sacrifice to break the queen-side
pawns should be expected or black would sink
without trace. 39...Bxb6! 40.cxb6 Rb8
41.Ba5 Ra8
(Position after 35…c3)
42.Bb4 Rb8 43.Bc5 Nd2+ 44.Ke2 Nc4
45.e4 Nxb6 46.Nf4± The situation has simplified with white having a bishop and two pawns
for the rook. But his passed pawns on the a- and
b-files have disappeared leading to a fresh battle
for superiority.] 36...c2 (Threat 37. ..Rxa5!)
37.Rc1 Rxa5 38.Rxc2 e5? [This leads to
an instrcutive game where white has winning
prospects, but black is still left with some
possibilities of saving, or even winning, the
game. 38...Rb5 39.Nf4 Kg7 40.d5 Be7! 41.d6
Bxd6 42.cxd6 Rxb6=] 39.dxe5 Bxb6? [This
takes black closer to defeat. In all likelihood
he did not like his rook on g8 denied a role in
the game because of being blocked out by his
own bishop on d8. Curiously here, if he did
not hurry to give back some material, he had
better chances of prolonging and surviving. He
should try: 39...Re8 40.Nf4 Rxe5 41.Rd2 Ra8
42.Nd5 Re6±] 40.cxb6 Rxe5 41.Nf4 Rb8
42.Rc7 White is willing to trade his b-pawn
for black's f-pawn because the resultant four
pawns on the king-side could victoriously
advance against against black's lone pawn
like a juggernaut. 42...Kg7 43.b7 Kf8 [It
is not possible to capture the dangerous bpawn, for example if 43...Rb5 44.Ne6+! Kf6
45.Nc5! (threat 46 Nd7+) 45...Kg7 46.g4!+] 44.Nd3 Re7 45.Rc8+ Re8 46.Rc6 Re6
47.Rc8+ Re8 48.Rc6 Re6 49.Rxe6 fxe6
50.Nc5! Amazingly, the white pieces arrive
at the right squares in the right time as in a
study. 50...Ke7 51.Ke4! Kd6 52.Kd4 e5+
53.Kc4 Kc6 54.f4 exf4 55.gxf4 Rg8 56.f5!
Rg4+ 57.e4! Kc7 58.f6!
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If 58...Rf4? 59 Ne6+ forks king and rook.
Or if 58... Rg1 59 f7! Rf1 60 f8=Q Rxf8 61
Ne6+ forks king and rook, yet again. The
knight has become almighty! 1–0
Smirnov,P (Rus) (2588)
Kravtsiv,Martyn (Ukr) (2589)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7
5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Be2 dxc4 8.0–0
c5 9.dxc5 Nxc5 10.Bxc4 a6 11.Ne5 Qxd1
12.Rfxd1 Nfd7 13.Rac1 [The preliminary
exchange on d7 was preferable. 13.Nxd7 Nxd7
14.Rac1] 13...Nb6 14.Be2 f6 15.Nc4 Nxc4
16.Bxc4 b5
17.Nd5?! [This is parried easily. Better was:
17.Bd5! Ra7 18.b4 Nb7 19.a3 exd5 20.Nxd5
Bd6 21.Nb6 Bg4 22.Bxd6 Rd8 23.f3 Rxd6
24.Rxd6 Nxd6 25.fxg4] 17...Bd8 18.Be2
Na4 19.Bf3! Nxb2 20.Nb4 Be7! With his
rook and bishop under fire, white decides to
sacrifice the exchange for a pawn and activity. 21.Bxa8 Bxb4 [21...Nxd1? 22.Nc6
wins a piece.] 22.Rf1! [22.Rd4 e5 23.Bd5+
Kh8 24.Rxb4 Nd3 25.Bxe5 fxe5 26.Rbb1
Nxc1 27.Rxc1 g5] 22...Nc4 23.e4 Kf7 The
king is a fighting piece in the endgame and
should be used accordingly. 24.Rfd1 Ke7
25.e5!? fxe5!? 26.Bg5+ Kf7 27.Be4 h6
28.Bh4 g5 29.Bg3 Ke7 30.Bd3? [Perhaps a momentary lapse in concentration
in his eagerness to get back the pawn he
sacrificed on e5. He has overlooked black's
reply. 30.f3 or 30 f3 was better.] 30...Nb2!
31.Rc7+ Kf6 32.Rdc1 Nxd3 33.R1c6 [He
does not get the Bc8 immediately. When he
gets it, he has to let black's rook get into the
game. He had probably calculated 33.Rxc8
Nxc1 34.Rxf8+ and overlooked that the Rf8
was protected by the Bb4. 34...Bxf8] 33...
Rd8! 34.Rxc8 Rd4 35.h3! With the black
rook on the loose, white has to watch out for
back rank mates! 35...h5!
36.Re8 Be7! 37.Rh8? h4 38.Rh6+ Kf5
39.Rhxe6 [Or, if 39.Bh2 Nb4 40.Rc1 Rd2
41.g4+ hxg3 42.Bxg3 Rxa2–+] 39...hxg3
40.Rxe7 gxf2+ 41.Kf1 Diagram #
41...Rb4! [41...Re4?? 42.Rf7#!] 42.Rf7+
Ke4 43.Rcf6 Rb1+ 44.Ke2 Re1+! 45.Kd2
Nf4! Rendering both white rooks absolutely
useless. 0–1
Nitin,S (2357)
Rahman,Zia (Ban) (2500) [B47]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2 h5 8.0–0
Nf6 9.Bf4 e5 10.Nd5? [This leads to the
loss of a pawn. Better was: 10.Nxc6 dxc6
11.Bg5 Bg4 12.Qc1 0–0–0=] 10...Nxd5
11.exd5 exf4! 12.dxc6 dxc6 13.Qf3 Rh6!
14.Rae1+ Be7 15.Re4 Bg4 16.Qb3!?
This was to persuade black that if he castled
now, he could be in trouble after Qxf7. And
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it succeeds! This was meant to persuade
black that now 0–0–0 could be hazardous after Qxf7. And it succeeds 16...Kf8?
[Black should have castled and kept his advantage: 16...0–0–0! 17.Qxf7 Bc5 18.Qc4
Qb6 19.Nb3 Bd6] 17.h3 Bd7 18.Rxf4
Now the game is equal. 18...Rf6 19.Re4!
Bc5 20.Qc4! Bd6 21.Qe2 g6?! [If 21...c5
22.Nf3 Bc6 23.Re3 Kg8²] 22.Re1 Kg8 23.c3
Bf8 24.Nf3 Be6 25.Nd4 Bd7 [If 25...Bd5
26.Re5 Bxg2 27.Kxg2 Rd8 28.a4 c5 29.Nf3
Rfd6=] 26.Nf3 a5 27.Qe3 Be6 28.c4 a4
[Better was: 28...Bf5 29.Qg5 Bxe4 30.Qxf6
Bf5=] 29.g4 hxg4 30.hxg4 Bd7 The black
pieces have been pushed back to inactivity.
31.Ne5 Ra5?
[This error costs him the game. 31...
Bc8 first was essential.] 32.Nxd7! Qxd7
33.Qc3! Black had not noticed that both of
his rooks were on dark squares and were
candidates for a double attack by the queen.
33...Raf5 [The best way to give up the rook
was to knock off a pawn which is close to the
king: 33...Rxf2 ] 34.gxf5 Qxf5 35.R1e2
Bc5 36.Re8+ Kg7 37.Qh3! Bxf2+
38.Rxf2! White has calculated that his opponent would not get perpetual check in this
position. 38...Qxf2+ 39.Kh1! Black has no
check! 39...g5 40.Qh8+ Kg6 41.Be4+! If
42...Rf5 43 Rg8# 1–0
Tactics from master games
S.Krishnan
1
White to play and win
White to play and win
5
White to play and win
2
4
6
White to play and win
White to play and win
Black to play and win
(solutions on p. 44 )
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Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Pogosjanc 1964
1.
Tjavlovski 1962
2.
Gorgiev 1963
3.
G.Kasparyan 1962
4.
L.Kopac 1964
5.
Jan Marwitz 1962
6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 44 )
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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1. Fedoseev,Vl3-Popov,Iv RUS Sochi RUS Sochi RUS
(4.8), 8.05.2015
Position after 20th move.White to play. 21.Rxg7!
Kxg7 [21...Qxg7 22.Rg1 Qf6 23.Bxe5 Qxe5
24.Qxe5+ Rxe5 25.Rg8#] 22.Rg1+ Kh6 [22...Kh8
23.Bxe5+ wins; 22...Kf8 23.Rg8#] 23.Bxe5 Qxe5
24.Qf2 [24.Qf2 Qf6 Preventing mate by25.Qh4#
25.Qf4+ Kh5 26.Bf3#]
2. Holst,C- Svensson,Anders Deltalift Open 2015
Tylosand SWE (6.20), 15.05.2015
Position after 18th move.White to play. 19.Qa3! [19.
Bxf7+ also wins.] 19...Qxa3 20.Rxd8+ [20.Rxd8+
Qf8 (20...Bf8 21.Nxa3+-) 21.Rxf8+ Kxf8 (21...Bxf8
22.Nc7 Rb8 23.Bxa7) 22.Nc7 b5 23.Re1+- Bd7
(23...Bf6 24.Re8+ Kg7 25.Nxa8+-) 24.Bc5+ Kg8
25.Bxf7+ Kxf7 26.Re7+ Kg8 27.Nxa8+-] 1–0
3. Bok,B-Commercon,S
9th BPB Limburg Open 2015 Maastricht NED (3.5),
23.05.2015
Position after 16th move.White to play. 17.Bc8! Na6
[17...a5 18.Ne7+ Kf8 19.Qxd6 Rxd6 20.Bxb7 Ra7
21.Nc8+-; 17...Qxd5 18.Qxd5 Rxd5 19.Bxb7+-;
17...Nc6 18.Bxb7 Rab8 19.Bxc6 Kf8 (19...Qxc6
20.Ne7++-) 20.Ba4+-] 18.Bxb7 Rab8 19.Ne7+
Kf8 [19...Kh8 20.Qxd6 Rxd6 21.Nc8+-] 20.Nc6!
Qc7 [20...Qxd1 21.Raxd1 Rxd1 22.Rxd1 Rxb7
23.Rd8#] 21.Nxd8 Rxd8 22.Qf3 Nb4 23.Be4 Bxb2
24.Rab1+- 1–0
4 . A b d u s a t t o r o v, N o d i r b e k ( 2 4 6 5 )
Vokhidov,Shamsiddin (2266) UZB 2015 Tashkent
UZB (1.1), 05.05.2015
Position after 29th move. White to play 30.Rxe6!
Rxe6 [30...Bxe6 31.Rxg7+ Kh8 32.Rg3+ Wins]
31.Rxg7+ Kh8 32.Rc7+! [32.Rc7+ Ref6 (32...Kg8
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33.Bh7#) 33.Bxf6+ Rxf6 34.Rxc8+ Kg7 35.Be2+] 1–0
5. Holmirzaev,B-Sattarov,B
ch-UZB 2015 Tashkent UZB (3.2)
Position after 41st move.White to play. 42.Nxb7!
Rxb7 43.Rxc6 Ke7 [43...Nd5 44.Rc8+ Ke7 45.c6
wins; 43...Ke8 44.Rxf6!] 44.Rxf6! gxf6 [44...Kxf6
45.c6+-] 45.c6 Rxb6 [45...Rb8 46.c7 Rc8 47.b7+-]
46.axb6 Kd6 47.b7 Kc7 48.Kf1!
6. Nastase,R-Lupulescu,C
Iasi Open 2015 Iasi ROU (7.10), 04.06.2015
Position after White's 30th move. Black to play.
30...Ne3! 31.Rxd7 Nxf1+ 32.Kh1 Qf2 [32...Qf2
33.Qf3 (33.Nd4 Ng3+ 34.Kh2 Qf1–+ threatening
35Qh1mate) 33...Qxe2 34.Qxe2 Ng3+–+] 0–1
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.Pogosjanc
1.Kf6 Kh6 2.d6 Ne8+ 3.Bxe8 e3 4.d7 e2 5.d8N
e1N 6.Nc6 Nf3 7.Ne7 Nh4 8.Ng8 #
2.Tjavlovski
1.c5 Nf1 2.Bd5 e5+ 3.Kxe5 Ne3 4.c6 g3 5.c7
Nc4+ 6.Bxc4 g2 7.c8R
3.Gorgiev
1.b7 Na6 2.Kc4 Kc7 3.Kb5 Kxb7 4.Nd6+ Kc7
5.Nde8+ Kb7 6.Ne6 Nb8 7.Nd6+ Ka8 8.Nc7#
4. Kasparyan G
1.Ba5+ Ke3 2.Bd5 Re8+ 3.Kb7 Re7+ 4.Kc6 Rg7
5.Bf7 Ke4 6.Bd2 Kf5 7.Kd5 Rxg6 8.Be6#
5.Kopac
1.Be4 Rf7 2.Bd5 Re7 3.Bc4 Re3 4.Ba6 Re7
5.Bb5 Rf7 6.Ba4 Rg7 7.Be8 Re7 8.Bh5 Rg7
9.Bf3
6.Marwitz
1.Bb5+ Kd8 2.Nc6+ Kc7 3.Nb4 Rb2 4.Rxf7 Kb6
5.Nd5+ Kc5 6.Ke5 Rxb5 7.Rc7+
All India Open FIDE rated Rapid Chess Tournament , Bengaluru
IM Shivananda BS,S.Nitin, Winner, receiving the trophy
from the Chief guest Mr Gopalakrishna, Director Sports,
Karnataka Engineers Academy, Bangalore.Also seen in
the centre are Mr Nagendra Muralidhar, Director, Mysore
Chess Center and Mrs Jayashri, President Dubai Chess
Center, Co-Director, Karnataka School of Chess
All India FIDE Rapid Chess Tournament, Hubli
Dr Nagraj Shetti, Rt. Sunil Mirajkar,
Dr B S Anami, PDG Rtn Basil
D’Souza, Shri S C Metgud, Rtn Vijay
Hattiholi, Mrs Ashwini Majjgi, Rakesh
Kulkarni(Winner), Arvind Shastry, R
Hanumantha, Vinay Kurtkoti.
2ndMineral Open Fide rating ChessTournament, Vadodara…
Prize Winners with dignitaries (Front row
left to right) Nirav Rajasuba(Fifth), Jwalin
Mehta (Second), Gusain Himal(First), Pankit
Mota(Third),Sanjeev Nair(Fourth)
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5th St.Joseph’s International FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
Sitting:- Dr V.Seshagiri Rao, Principal, St.Joseph’s
College of Engineering, ,Mr
Jaikumar
Christhurajan, Director, .St.Joseph’s College, Dr B
abu Manoharan, Managing Director, Top seed P
Saravana krishnan,Joseph’s College.
Standing:- Dr P Ravichandran, Principal,
St.Joseph’s Institute of Technology,Mrs Saranya,
Coordinator, Mr V Ravichandran,Fide Trainer
&Org Secretary and Mr M Vijayakumar, Chief
Arbiter(partially seen)
Dr P Ravichandran, Principal,
St.Joseph’s Institute of Technology,
Mrs Saranya,Coordinator, Mr Jaikumar
Christhurajan, Director, St.Joseph’s
College,GM R.B.Ramesh,Chief Guest,
Winner P Saravanakrishnan
Dr
Babu Manoharan, Managing Director,
.Joseph’s College & Mr V Ravichandran
,Fide Trainer
Telegraph Schools Chess, Kolkata
Winner Diptayan Ghosh receiving the prize from former Indian
Cricket captain Sourav Ganguly
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Masters of the past-55
Reuben Fine
Reuben Fine (October11,1914 –March26,1993) was an American chess
grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books
on both chess and psychology. He was one of the strongest chess players in
the world from the late 1930s into the early 1950s.
Fine won five medals (four gold) in three chess Olympiads. Fine won the U.S.
Open Chess Championship all seven times he entered (1932, 1933, 1934,
1935, 1939, 1940, 1941). He was the author of several chess books that are
still popular today, including important books on the endgame, opening, and
middlegame.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1932. After
World War II, he earned his doctorate in psychology from the University of Southern California.
He served as a university professor, and wrote many successful books on psychology.
Fine was regarded as a serious contender for the World Chess Championship. Initially accepting his invitation to participate in the six-player 1948 World Championship, which was
organized to determine the World Champion after the 1946 death of reigning champion
Alexander Alekhine, he withdrew on the eve of the tournament, citing professional commitments, and virtually retired from serious competition around that time.
At 17, Fine won his first of seven U.S. Open Chess Championships at Minneapolis 1932
with 9½/11, half a point ahead of Samuel Reshevsky; this tournament was known as the
Western Open at the time. Fine won the U.S. Team Selection tournament, New York 1933,
with 8/10. This earned him the first of three national team berths for the chess Olympiads.
Fine won five medals (including three team golds) representing the United States.
Fine's international tournament record in the 1930s was superior to Reshevsky's. Fine did
play many more top-class international events than Reshevsky during that period, and was
usually near the top of the table. By the end of 1937, Fine had won a string of strong European international tournaments, and was one of the most successful players in the world.
Although FIDE, the World Chess Federation, did not formally introduce chess ratings for
international play until 1970, it is nevertheless possible to retrospectively rate players' performances from before that time. The site chessmetrics.com, which specializes in historical
ratings throughout chess history, ranks Fine in the world's top ten players for more than
eight years, from March 1936 until October 1942, and then again from January 1949 until
December 1950. Fine was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. He continued his successful chess writing career for many years after he retired from competition.Fine founded
the Creative Living Center in New York City.
In 1939, Fine became the first grandmaster-class player to edit the classic opening guide
Modern Chess Openings.In 1941 he wrote Basic Chess Endings, a compendium of endgame
analysis which, some 70 years later, is still considered one of the best works on this subject. His The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, though now out of date, is still useful for
grasping the underlying ideas of many standard chess openings; it was revised in 1989.
Courtesy:Wikepedia
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16Aug15-27Aug15
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17Aug15-25Aug15
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21Aug15-23Aug15
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National Under-13 Boys & Girls Ch’ships
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World Junior Under 20 Championships
01Sep15-16Sep15
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04Sep15-06Sep15
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09Sep15-14Sep15
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Maharashtra State Under 25 Youth
09Sep15-13Sep15
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11Sep15-17Sep15
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 30 : It cannot be Black to move, any king move
or Bb2-c1 would have been from illegal positions. That leaves white to move and he must have
captured on b1(you might need a minute to realize why White had to capture and not just
move Ba2-b1), but what? Again, queen or rook would have been illegal checks (how did they
get there?) and a black bishop could not have gotten through the pawns, so the only possible
last move is Ba2x(N)b1!
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National Under-11 Chess Championships, Puducherry
Hon'ble Sports Minister T. Thiagarajan
making inaugural move on the chess board.
A.Bhaktavatchalam, Vice President, AICF &
Debashis Barua, Chief Arbiter look on.
(l-R)
Devakumar,
Secretary,
PSCA,
V. Hariharan, Secretary AICF, A. Bhaktava
chalam, President, PSCA, D.V. Sundar,
Vice President, FIDE, Debashis Barua,
Chief Arbiter (standing behind), Mrudula
Dehankar_(MAH), Champion U-11 Girls,
Pragganandhaa R(TN) Champion Under-11
Boys
Honourable Chief Minister of Pudhucherry, Shri.
N. Rangaswamy at the National Under - 11 chess
tournamnent
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National Junior Championships, Dindigul
Inaugural move by Mr.Lakshamana Prabhu ,Co- Chairman ,PSNA CET . (From left to right) GK Monnisha,
GM Arvindh Chithambaram, Grand Master Murali Karthikeyan, Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar,V.
Hariharan ,Hony Secretary ,AICF, K. Xavier Jothi Sargunam, D.S.O., Dindigul , AICF,. Abdul Nadzer ,Hony
Secretary ,Dindigul District Chess Association, R. Ananthram, IA, and Chairman , Arbiter Commission,
Laksshamana Prabhu ,Co- Chairman ,PSNA CET and R. Vaishali are also seen.
Winners with guests:(Sitting in front row) G.Akash , G.K.Monnisha , R. Viashali, Arvindh Chithamabaram, Harshita
Guddanti , Murali Karthikeyan (Sitting on chairs) : IA R.R. Vasudevan , IA K. Balagunasekaran ,IA M. Ephrame,
Mrs. Dhanlakshmi Amma , Chairman , PSNA CET , IA Dharmendra Kumar , N.Mahendran , Principal , PSNA CET,
D.V.Sundar , Vice-President , FIDE , V.Hariharan, Hony. Secretary, AICF. (Standing behind , from right): Uma
Maheswaran , Balasubrahmaniam , IA S. Ganesh Babu , S. Manikandan and Mr. V. Bhaskar and volunteer Girls
from college.