AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 2 Price Rs. 25 September 2017

National Challenger World Cadet Chess Championships

Chess Championship, Ahmedabad Under - 8, 10, 12, Brazil

GM Deepan Chakravarthy Divya Deshmukh

Winner Girls Under-12 Winner

18th National Cities Team Chess Championship -2017, Cuttack

Winner Team KiiT (Odisha)

(L-R) WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, WFM Saina Salonika, IM Swayams Mishra, FM Utkal Ranjan Sahoo
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55th National Challengers Championship,Ahmedabad
GM Deepan Chakravarthy wins title
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 1
18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017, Cuttack
Team KIIT Odisha is Champion
by R.C.Chatterjee, IA,Chief Arbiter 7
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE Rated Tmt,Siliguri
Mitrabha Guha clinches title
By FA Biswanath Banerjee Chief Arbiter 9
GMAX Album 1st Chess Beacon FIDE rated Tmt, Jaipur
Deepak Katiyar wins title
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam 11
Chess Mine Open Rapid and Blitz Open Tmt ,Bangalore
Abhijeet Gupta wins ChessMine Rapid in Playoff
Vidit Gujrathi bags the Blitz title
by IA VasanthBH , Chief Arbiter 13
1st GDCA All India open fide rating Rapid Tmt ,Gulbarga
Chinmay Kulkarni wins title
By Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 16
4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated (below 1500) Tmt, Karur
Gokula Kannan wins at Karur
by FA Dr.G.G.Satheish, Chief Arbiter 18
10th Modern School International Rating , Nanganallur
Hemant Raam wins title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 20
1st NITHM All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt, Hyderabad
Chakravarthy Reddy wins NITHM rated
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 22
5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Tmt,Udaipur
Pranav Shetty wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 28
1st Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Tmt,Pallikaranai
Ravichandran Siddharth clinches the title
by Buvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 30
Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below1500)
Dhiman Mitra wins at Trichy
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter 31
Selected games from 26th National Chships, Port Blair
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 33
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-80 Mark Dvoretsky 44
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From the desk
AICF brought home one more international
event, the Asian Cities Championships,
well organized by All Odisha Association
and KiiT University in Bubaneshwar.Top
seed Iran lifted the Dubai Cup and Indian
National Cities Champion, Bhubaneswar,
finished runner-up among the twelve
teams from eight countries which took part in the above
event.
Divya Deshmukh did India proud by winning the Gold in the
U-12 girls section at the World cadets chess championship
2017 in Brazil. Incidentally this talented girl from Nagpur
won bronze medals in the two previous editions. Reports
on these two events are presented in the centre pages of
this issue.
Perseverance paid at last for GM Deepan Chakravarthi
of Tamilnadu who bagged the National Challenger title at
Ahmedabad after an exciting endgame win over Swapnil
Dhopade of Maharashtra.
A record 31 teams from across the country took part in
the 18th National Cities Championships held at Cuttack
which won by team KiiT Odisha. Reports of these two
National events along with those of FIDE rated tournaments
are featured in this issue.Selected games from National
Under-25 and National Challenger are annotated by IM
Manuel Aaron. Ace Russian trainer Mark Dvoretsky is
featured in the Masters of the past series.
At Tbilisi, Georgia most of worlds elite playing in the World
Cup 2017, are vying for a spot in the forthcoming Candidates
in Berlin.The knock-out format witnessed so many of the
big names such as Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Caruana,
Nakamura tumbling out even before half the tournament is
done. The young Indian brigade of Vidith, Sethu and Adhiban
did exceptionally well getting vital wins against seasoned
opponents before bowing out in the third round. The semi-
finals is on as this goes to the press and who would emerge
as the winner is anybodys guess!
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com or cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
55th National Challengers Chess Championship 2017,Ahmedabad
GM Deepan Chakravarthy wins title
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
55
th National Challengers Chess
Championship-2017 was held at
Karnavati Club, Ahmedabad, Guja-
rat from 13th Aug 2017 to 23rd Aug 2017. A
total number of 258 players, which included
13 Grandmasters, 17 International Masters,
1 Women Grandmaster, 5 Fide Masters, 3
Women Fide Master and 245 International
rated players from 28 State Associations
and 11 Special Units participated in this
13 round event, played under FIDEs Swiss
System with a time control of 90 minutes
for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for all
moves with 30 second increment from move
1. Grandamster Aravindh Chithambaram of
Tamilnadu started as the top seed.
In a befitting opening ceremony, Indian Test
Cricketer Shri. Parthiv Patel inaugurated the
event in presence of Shri. Jayesh Modi, Vice
President Gujarat State Chess Association
and Shri. Bhavesh Patel, Secretary Gujarat
State Chess Association.
The championship saw lot of ups and downs
from the start itself but the final round of
National Challengers provided the best ad-
vertisement for the game as Deepan Chak-
kravarthy of Railways finished as champion
after beating teammate Swapnil Dhopade in
a fascinating encounter.
Dhopade who lead most part of the cham-
pionship, started the final round with a
half-point cushion but the never die attitude
of Deepan made the difference in the end.
Swapnil finished as first runner up while
Himanshu Sharma finished as second runner
up to make a clean sweep for railway men at
top three positions.
Deepan Chakkravarthy, Swapnil Dhopade,
Himanshu Sharma, Debashis Das, MR Lalith
Babu, Abhijit Kunte, SL Narayanan, S Nitin
and RR Laxman qualified for the National
Premier, scheduled to be held in Patna later
in November.
In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. DV
Sundar, Vice President FIDE and Shri. Ajay
Patel, President Gujarat State Chess Associ-
ation gave away the prizes and trophies to
the winners in presence of Shri. Jayesh Modi,
President Karnavati Club and Shri. Bhavesh
Patel, Secretary Gujarat State Chess Asso-
ciation.
Penultimate round
Deepan Chakravarthy and RR Laxman pro-
duced emphatic victories in the penultimate
round to pave the way for an exciting finish.
Playing with black pieces in Sicilian defense,
Deepan outsmarted his railway team mate
Himanshu Sharma in a sheer attacking game
in 32 moves. This victory enabled Deepan
to move to the second spot in the point-lad-
der to be at a striking distance with leader
Swapnil Dhopade. As expected playing safe,
overnight leader Dhopade settled for peace
treaty with his Odisha counterpart Debashis
Das in 25 moves and enjoyed a half-point
leader over Deepan. But the equations could
change, if Deepan secures a victory over him
in final round tomorrow.
In another exciting battle of the day, Grand-
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master RR Laxman outwitted third seed Lalith
Babu to take his tally to 9 points. Playing with
light colour pieces, the Chennai-based ICF
man Laxman did not give any breathing space
to his rival to seal the victory in 43 moves
as he took only 52 minutes on his clock
to clinch the encounter. Laxman and Das
are now at joint third spot with 9 points.12
players were at joint fifth place and eyeing
for the 9 qualification spots for the national
premier, scheduled in Novermber at Patna.
Eleventh round
With just two rounds remaining, overnight
leader Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of
Railways moved close to secure his sec-
ond national challenger title after splitting
the point with third seed Lalith Babu in the
eleventh round.
Playing with white pieces in Symmetrical
variation of English Opening, Lalith tried hard
to derail Dhopades march in the event but
the 2015 champion stood firm to make a
peace treaty to maintain his one-point
lead. The second board battle between
Himanshu Sharma and Aravindh Chitham-
baram also ended without decisive result
after 56 moves.
T h e t o p t w o b o a r d s r e s u l t s h e l p e d
Grandmasters Deepan Chakkravarthy of
Railways and Debashis Das of Odisha to
move to the joint second spot in the compa-
ny of Lalith and Himanshu after registering
resounding victories.. Deepan outwitted S
Satyapragyan of Air India while Das put it
across Arghyadip Das.
Eight players including top two seeds Aravin-
dh Chithamabram and S L Narayanan were
at joint sixth place with 8 points
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Tenth round Chess Mine Open Rapid and Blitz Open Tournament 2017, Bangalore
Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of Railways
maintained his stay at the top with one-point
difference at the end of tenth round.
Playing safe on the top board, Dhopade
signed the peace treaty with S Satyapragyan
of Air India after mandatory 25 moves and
took his tally to 9 points. The second board
encounter between railway men Himanshu
Sharma and S Ravi Teja also ended in same
fashion. Third seed M R Lalith Babu beat team
mate Mary Ann Gomes in long battle which
took more than five and half hour to finish.
This crucial victory took Lalith to second spot
with 8 points along with Himanshu Sharma.
A pack of seven players including top seed
Aravindh Chithambaram were at joint fourth
spot with seven and half points. Arvindh beat
Arvind Shastry, Hon Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association,Bharat Singh,Secretary, AICF
Fenil Shah of Gujarat and had the company Raju Chilkuri,Roopal Chilkuri, Winner of Rapid event GM Abhijeet Gupta
of Debashis Das, Arghyadip Das, Deepan
Chakkravarthy, S Satyapragyan, Nitin S and
S Ravi Teja at point table.
Final ranking
Rk Name Club Pts
1 GM Deepan C. J. RSPB 10
2 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade RSPB 10
3 GM Himanshu Sharma RSPB 9
4 GM Debashis Das ODI 9
5 GM Lalith Babu M R PSPB 9
6 GM Kunte Abhijit PSPB 9
7 GM Sunilduth Lyna N KER 9
8 IM Nitin S. RSPB 9
9 GM Laxman R.R. RSPB 9
10 GM Aravindh C Vr TN 9
11 IM Das Arghyadip RSPB 9
12 Sammed Jaykumar S MAH 9
13 IM Shyaamnikhil P RSPB 9
14 IM Padmini Rout PSPB 9
15 Surendran N TN 9
16 Nayak Rajesh ODI 9
17 Fenil Shah GUJ 8
Arvind Shastry, Hon Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association,Bharat Singh,Secretary, AICF
18 WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB 8 Raju Chilkuri,Roopal Chilkuri, Winner of Blitz event GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi
19 IM Ravi Teja S. RSPB 8
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(From Left: Dr. Achyuat Samanta, Founder KiiT, KiSS, Chief Arbiter Mr. R.C.Chatterjee, Mr. Sekhar
Chandra Sahoo, President AOCA, with other dignitaries and champion team KiiT, Bhubaneswar
1st Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Pallikaranai
IM Ravichandran Siddharth receiving the trophy from M.Muthukumar, Secretary,KDCA Joint Secretary,
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20 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 8 67 Pradip Tiwari DASC 7
21 Akash Pc Iyer TN 8 68 Audi Ameya GOA 7
22 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M TEL 8 69 Imocha Laishram PSPB 7
23 GM Roy Chowdhury S RSPB 8 70 FM Venkata Krishna K. K CFPD 7
24 Hemant Sharma (del) RSPB 8 71 Mandloi Mukesh RAJ 7
25 Wagh Suyog MAH 8 72 Vinay Thomas A. KER 7
26 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8 73 Vatsal Singhania JHAR 7
27 IM Krishna C R G RSPB 8 74 Akshay M. KER 7
28 IM Kathmale Sameer MAH 8 75 WIM Jennitha Anto K. TN 7
29 CM Raja Rithvik R TEL 8 76 Sudarshan Malga MP 7
30 Navalgund Niranjan TN 8 77 Neelash Saha WB 7
31 Dhananjay S CHAT 8 78 Tarun V Kanth TN 7
32 Kamdar Udit GUJ 8 79 Arpan Das (jr) WB 7
33 IM Satyapragyan S AI 8 80 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 7
34 IM Swayams Mishra AI 8 81 Polakhare Aryan MAH 7
35 FM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 8 82 Rajarshi Dutta WB 7
36 Sankalp Gupta MAH 8 83 WFM Lakshmi C TN 7
37 Baivab Mishra ODI 8 84 Shah Rutvi GUJ 7
38 Tiwari Arjun MP 8 85 Manush Shah GUJ 7
39 CM Kushagra Mohan TEL 8 86 Pranavananda V AP 7
40 IM Shashikant Kutwal MAH 8 87 Sachin Malik DEL 7
41 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 8 88 Arindam Mukherjee RSPB 7
42 Lokesh N. TN 8 89 Arun Rathi HAR 7
43 Deepthamsh Reddy. M TEL 8 90 Jubin Jimmy KER 7
44 Bhambure Shantanu MAH 8 91 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 7
45 IM Rathnakaran K. RSPB 8 92 Prudhvi Kumar V AP 7
46 IM Koshy Varugeese PSPB 8 93 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 7
47 Dixit Nikhil MAH 8 94 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7
48 Kaustuv Kundu WB 8 95 Sreeshwan M. TEL 7
49 Niraj Saripalli GOA 8 96 IM Shetty Rahul AI 7
50 Srihari L PUD 8 97 Rahul Kumar BIH 7
51 Vipul Subhashi BIH 8 98 CM Sharma Pankaj PUN 7
52 Nikhil M AP 8 99 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 7
53 Thanki Hemal Karsanji BSNL 8 100 Sinha Santosh Kumar GUJ 7
54 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 8 101 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 7
55 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 8 102 Huidrom B. MAN 7
56 Katiyar Prashant UP 8 103 Chandrajeet Singh R RAJ 7
57 Toshali V AP 8 104 Rishabh Nishad UP 7
58 Koustav Chatterjee WB 7 105 Mohith R TN 7
59 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 7 106 Shubham DEL 7
60 Jayakumaar S TN 7 107 Patil Ketan MAH 7
61 Joy Pankaj Shah GUJ 7 108 Sudhakar Prem Dutt BSNL 7
62 WFM Tarini Goyal CHAN 7 109 Priyanka Kumari JHAR 6
63 Samant Aditya S MAH 7 110 Sooraj M R KER 6
64 Panda Sambit ODI 7 111 Alka Das JHAR 6
65 Moksh Amit Doshi GUJ 7 112 Arya Bhakta WB 6
66 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 7 113 Chaitanya Sairam M AP 6
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114 Bhatt Jalpan GUJ 6 161 Abhay Bandewar MP 6 18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017, Cuttack
115 Santanu Borpatra G ASM 6 162 Verma Ashu UP 6
116 Nirav Y. Rajasuba GUJ 6 163 Bhrigu Suryanarayan GUJ 6 Team KIIT Odisha is Champion
117 Chauhan Joy GUJ 6 164 Rupesh Kumar Mishra CHAT 6 by R.C.Chatterjee, IA,Chief Arbiter
118 Anadkat Kartavya GUJ 6 165 Vikee Vishal BIH 6

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119 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 6 166 Arun Verma HP 6 he 18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017 was organised by Jagatsing-
120 Dave Sneh GUJ 6 167 Harsh Himanshu BIH 5 hpur District Chess Association in Association with KiiT University under the aegis of
121 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 6 168 Krishnater Kushager MAH 5 All Odisha Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 6th to 10th
122 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 6 169 Lalrinfela MIZ 5 August2017.
123 Akshay Anand DEL 6 170 Soundarya Kumar P AICF 5
124 Neelabh Jyoti B. ASM 6 171 Patel Riddhi R GUJ 5
On 6th August2017 at 12 noon Managers meeting was started at the tournament hall under
125 Negi Virender Singh AI 6 172 Devesh Anand Naik GOA 5
the chairmanship of R.C.Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. Sekhar Chandra Sahu, IM, Pres-
126 Khalid Amin J&K 6 173 Zala Akshar GUJ 5
ident, AOCA, Dr. Gaganendu Dash, Sports Director, KiiT, Mr. K.K.Sarma, Secretary, AOCA,
127 Panwar Krish Navratan GUJ 6 174 Parmod Kharbash HAR 5
128 Aravind P V S TEL 6 175 Harshit Arya HAR 5 Mr. Nihar Ranjan Sasmal, IA, Dy. Chief Arbiter & Mr.G.C Mohapatra, Treasurer, AOCA were
129 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan UP 6 176 Parikh Pratham GUJ 5 also present on the dais where all the necessary technical matters were discussed, settled
130 WFM Bommini Mounika A AP 6 177 Bhoopnath BIH 5 and Appeals committee formed.
131 Aryan DEL 6 178 Jayakumar P. BSNL 5
132 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 6 179 Shakil Ansari OFSP 5 A colourful inauguration ceremony was held on 6th Aug2017 by lighting the Pradeep
133 Banerjee Ashutosh CHAT 6 180 Shashi Nand Kumar BIH 5 where dignitaries like Dr. Achyuta Samanta, founder of KiiT & KiSS, Sekhar Chandra Sahu,
134 Rathore S.K. MP 6 181 Swaroop Kashyap KAR 5 IM, President, AOCA and others were present on the dais.
135 Ansh M Shah GUJ 6 182 Levanshu Khullar CHAN 5
136 Tarun Sharma RAJ 6 183 Arnab Kumar Mullick DEL 5 The first round started soon after the inauguration ceremony. A total no of 31 Teams from
137 Vikramaditya Mukhija RAJ 6 184 Bharadwaj Rallabandi TEL 5 different parts of the country participated in the championship which is a record. A total of
138 Chandan Palash N MAH 6 185 Kamdar Aparva GUJ 5
145 individual players took part of which 124 were Fide Rated players which included 2 IMs
139 Lalzawmliana MIZ 6 186 Patel Shlok K GUJ 5
, 1 WGM & 1WFM .Tournament hall was AC and good. All the boards provided DGT chess
140 Rajeev V M KER 6 187 Patel Maharshi GUJ 5
clocks. All players accommodation arranged by the organiser free in the Hostel nearby and
141 Aditya P Melani GUJ 6 188 Madhani Shilpee GUJ 5
142 Bhatt Swayam GUJ 6 189 Pathak Vivek Kumar OFSP 5 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner was also arranged at nominal cost in the canteen adjacent
143 Gautam Chakravarty MEG 6 190 Kandalgaonkar D.N MPSC 5 the tournament Hall.
144 Kant Rupesh MP 6 191 Adarsh Bhanot PUN 5
145 Aaryan Varshney DEL 6 192 Silseng N Marak MEG 5 Total seven rounds team games have been conducted as per Swiss system with a time con-
146 Sahil Dhawan HAR 6 193 Jain Adi GUJ 5 trol of 90 min with 30 sec increment from move no one. Latest Fide Tie Break rules applied
147 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 6 194 Ruthra Kumar M PUD 5 which come into force from July2017.
148 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 6 195 Panda Raj Santosh ODI 5
149 Nayandeep Dilip K DASC 6 196 Lakshminarashimhan V S MPSC 5 After a tough fight the team KiiT,Odisha became the Champion of this edition, team Puri
150 Ajay Kumar Rai DASC 6 197 FM Anand Nadar MAH 5 Senior secured 2nd place followed by teams Kolkata-2 finished third placing. First Board
151 Mahitosh Dey ODI 6 198 GMNarayanan Srinath AI 5 Prize winner V.K.Gangwani, Sonepat-Haryana followed by 2nd Board Prize goes to Sonkalan
152 Mokashi Rohit MAH 6 199 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 5
Bharati, Kol-2 & 3rd Board prize went to Smaraki Mohanty, JDCA,odisha, 4th board prize
153 Shah Jeet MAH 6 200 Thaker Kautilya P GUJ 5
went to WGM Kiran M Mohanty, KiiT, Odisha, 5th board prize goes to Ashish Raj, Patna-B.
154 Ahmed Sarfaraz UP 6 201 Mahajan Ayush MAH 5
155 Makwana Ashvin K (AICFB) AICF 6 202 Amanpreet Singh PUN 5
156 Diwan Rajesh OFSP 6 203 Uttam Prakash Sharma HAR 5 Team of Arbiters headed by the Chief Arbiter Mr. R.C.Chatterjee, IA, Dy Chief Arbiter Mr.
157 Agarwal Brajesh LIC 6 204 Savio P Rebello LIC 5 Nihar Ranjan Sasmal, IA, Tapas Mohanty, FA, Bhabesh Mohanty, NA, Santosh Mohapatra,
158 Himanshu Moudgil DASC 6 205 Appanna Pilla MPSC 5 NA, G.C.Mohapatra, NA and Miss Aparajita Gochhikar, NA conducted the championship
159 Rijied Katrai MEG 6 206 Adalja Vanssh A GUJ 5 smoothly without a single dispute.
160 Parth Arora HAR 6 207 Rajendra Singh Rana UTT 5

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Organiser, Jagatsinghpur District Chess Association leaded by the secretary Dr. Gaganendu 2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE Rated Chess tournament,Siliguri
Dash, Director Sports, KiiT, under the guidance of Dr. Achyuta Samanta, founder KiiT &
kiSS and Mr. Sekhar Chandra Sahu, IM, President AOCA, Dr. Itirani Samanta, President,
Mitrabha Guha clinches title
JDCA can do anything for Chess in this smart village of Cuttack,Odisha. A colourful Prize By FA Biswanath Banerjee Chief Arbiter

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Distribution Ceremony was held at open space outside the Tournament Hall.
Ranking(Top-10 teams) nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE 7.5 points. Guha suffered his first loss in the
Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. Rated Chess tournament, organised by tournament in the eighth round at the hands
1 KiiT(Odisha) 7 6 1 0 13 22 Marwari Yuva Manch, Siliguri Branch of 14 year-old Aronyak Ghosh. Experienced
2 Puri-Senior(Odisha) 7 5 1 1 11 18 attracted 148 players. Fide Master Mitrabha and Senior campaigner Santu Mondal and
3 Kolkata-2 7 4 2 1 10 19 Guha of Kolkata emerged as Champion with Tamal Chakraborty also scored 7.5 points to
4 KISS(Odisha) 7 5 0 2 10 18 7.5 points and took home the winners purse tie with Mitrabha and Aronyak for the top
5 Cuttack-Senior(Odisha) 7 4 2 1 10 17 of Rs. 41,000/- and a beautiful Trophy. Ear- honours. Tie-breaks favoured Mitrabha to bag
6 Bhubaneswar-1(Odisha) 7 4 1 2 9 18 lier the 2nd edition of Badal Bhattacharjee the title and Aronyak won the second place.
7 Kolkata-1 7 3 3 1 9 18 Memorial got under way at Uttarbanga Mar- Mitrabha received Rs.41000/- and Aronyak
8 ARA(Bihar) 7 3 3 1 9 16 wari Bhavan on 6th August,2017. The local Rs.25000/-.
9 MCF-1,Bhubaneswar(Odisha) 7 4 1 2 9 15
councillor and renowned political personality
10 Puri-Junior(Odisha) 7 3 2 2 8 17
Mr. Nantu Paul inaugurated the event in the Mr. Nantu Paul, local politician , Mr. Atanu
Board Prize-1
presence of Mr. Nitin Goyel President, Marwari Lahiri , Jt. Secretary of AICF , Mr. Kishore
Name Team % Games
1 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani Sonepat(Haryana) 78.6 7
Yuva Manch, Mr. Anand Agarwal, Organising/ Saha ,Bureau Chief of Ananda Bazar Patrika
2 Ganguly Ritabroto Kolkatta-2 71.4 7 Convenor of the event, Mr. Joydeep Bhat- Siliguri , and Smt. Dhira Bhattacharjee , Wife
3 Badamundi Tapan KISS(Odisha) 71.4 7 tacharjee, Main Sponsor and son of Late Bad- of Late Badal Bhattacharjee was the chief
al Bhattacharjee and Mr. Pralay Chakraborty, guest for the final day function. Many other
Board Prize-2 General Manager Uttarbanga Sanbad. Atanu dignitaries from Marwari Seva trust were also
Name Team % Games Lahiri, Joint Secretary AICF and Secretary present in this gorgeous function. They also
1 Sonkalan Bharati Kolkatta-2 92.9 7 BCA, was the guest of honour. gave away the prizes to the winners.
2 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan KiiT(Odisha) 85.7 7
3 Samal Ansuman Cuttack-Senior(Odisha) 85.7 7 95 rated and 53 unrated players participated We should appreciate the Trust authority for
in this event. The organisers arranged lodg- their wonderful support and also to the sup-
Board Prize-3 ing facility for all the players and for their porting staff who worked with us for the past
Name Team % Games accompanying persons inside the venue. The 7 days. A very good team of arbiters along
1 Smaraki Mohanty Jagatsinghpur(Odisha) 92.9 7 tournament was well organised by the Mar- with a group of dedicated officials made the
2 Johnson Sahoo MCF-2,Kendrapara(Odisha) 85.7 7
wari Yuva Manch in an air conditioned hall and tournament successful. Finally I must thank
3 Pattnaik Bishal Cuttack-2(Odisha) 85.7 7
quality food was provided at affordable rates. Mr. Anand Agarwal, the main organiser of

this tournament, Mr. Joydeep Bhattacharjee,
Board Prize-4
Name Team % Games
Digital Chess Clocks were used in all the main sponsor of this tournament and Mr. At-
1 WGM-Kiran Manisha Mohanty KiiT(Odisha) 100 7 bords.This tournament with a prize fund of anu Lahiri , Secretary of Bengal Chess Asso-
2 Sudhanshu Ranjan ARA(Bihar) 92.9 7 Rs.3,00,000 ended on 10th August 2017. ciation , for giving me the chance to work as
3 Rudranarayan Puri-Junior (Odisha) 85.7 7 The time format of the tournament was 90 a Chief arbiter for this wonderful tournament.
mins + 30 sec increment from move no. 1. Final ranking
Board Prize-5 FM Mitrabha Guha was the top seed player Rk Name Pts
Name Team % Games of this tournament with a rating of 2323 1 FM Mitrabha Guha 7
1 Ashish Raj Patna-B(Bihar) 100 5 followed by CM Aronyak Ghosh with a rating 2 CM Aronyak Ghosh 7
2 Krushna Mishra Jagatsinghpur(Odisha) 80 5 of 2170. After 9 nerve wracking rounds the 3 Santu Mondal 7
3 Shashi Nand Kumar Patna-A(Bihar) 66.7 6 top seed FM Mitrabha Guha won the title with

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Deepak Katiyar wins title
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he GMAX Album 1st Chess Beacon FIDE withdrawal of Prince) lost to ShivamVerma
8 Tamang Thendup 6 49 Shounak Mazumder 5 rated Chess Tournament organised at of Bihar and Devendra Kumar went down to
9 Basak Sajal 6 50 Swapan Kumar Das 5 Jaipur from 12th to 16th August 2017 Deepak Batra of Punjab.
10 Sanjit Saha 6 51 Sankalan Shah 5 gave a fillip to chess in Rajasthan. The tour-
11 Gurung Rahul 6 52 Utpal Biswas 5 nament was conducted at the World Trade Six players-Deepak Katiyar of Railways,
12 Madhusudan Sahu 6 53 Arbind Kumar Singh 5 Park, Jaipur, the best shopping mall in Jai- Souhardo Basak of WB, Ashish Kumar of
13 Aneek Das 6 54 Yash Jyoti Bir 5 pur. It is not only the flavour of the mall, but UP, Anil Shivpuri of Delhi, Sher Singh of Ra-
14 Shuvam Roy 6 55 Acharya Tapas 5 also the venue on the second floor which jasthan and Deepak Batra were leading with
15 Namish Sharma 6 56 Agrawal Rishab 5 was such a huge one that the half of the air five points each. Ashish Kumar defeated Anil
16 Aniket Mondal 6 57 Shyamal Kumar Saha 5 conditioned hall could accommodate around Shivpuri, which was the only decisive result
17 Meher Rudranshu Kumar 6 58 Ruchir Sengupta 5 600 players comfortably. The ambience was among the leaders. He maintained a clean
so good that the players enjoyed the tour- slate of 6 points in as many rounds. But,
18 Sudarshan Mitra 6 59 Rai Sejal 5
nament thoroughly. the lead changed hands to five other players
19 Akash Tiwari 6 60 Sayantan Das 5
after seven rounds. Punit Indora of Haryana
20 Hilal Mondal 6 61 Mahfuzur Rahman Saif 5
Prince Bajaj of Delhi was the top seed in the shocked the hitherto leader Ashsih, Deepak
21 Subba Saurab 6 62 Rounak Guha Roy 5
tournament (who, before withdrawing from Katiyar overwhelmed Deepak Batra, Sher
22 Praloy Sahoo 6 63 Uttam Kumar 5 the tournament, completed his IM norm re- Singh got the better of Souhardo, SM Umer
23 Sheik Md. Abdul Muttalib 6 64 Somnath Banerjee 5 quirements of reaching a live rating of 2400), of MP subdued Rathore Mahendra Singh of
24 Chhetri Priya 6 65 Priya Mondal 5 followed by Nassir Wajih of Railways. The Rajasthan and EsshanWadhawan of Delhi
25 Md. Tamizar Rahman 6 66 Saayan Dutta 4 tournament attracted about 460 players from overcame the resistance of Darji Giridharilal
26 Atri Chattopadhyay 6 67 Dipayan Das 4 many states like Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, of Jaipur.
27 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5 68 Sen Animesh Chandra 4 Punjab, UP, MP, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar,
28 Biswas Gopal Chandra 5 69 Anjishnu Mondal 4 Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, AP, Deepak Katiyar and Umer registered wins in
29 Subhrangsu Kundu 5 70 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 4 Tamil Nadu, Karnataka etc. The tournament the eighth round to share the lead with 7.5
30 Krish Kedia 5 71 Mayank Chakraborty 4 was a nine round Swiss format with a time points after eight rounds. Sher Singh, Ashish
31 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 5 72 Joydeep Barman 4 control of 90 minutes to each player with an Kumar, Esshaan Wadhawan and fide arbiter
increment of 30 seconds per move. RajendraTeli were trailing half a point behind.
32 Shreya Das 5 73 Ali Md. Kawsar 4
In the final round, Deepak Katiyar drew with
33 Sengdup Lama 5 74 Dugar Chetan 4
The important feature of the second round Umer and Esshan defeated Rajendra to pave
34 Soumen Mondal 5 75 Sushovan Chaudhury 4
was that the fifth seeded Feroz Ahmed of a way for a three way tie at the top. After
35 Sharma Durga Prasad 5 76 Roy Manoj Kumar 4
Bangladesh was held to a draw by Oshan applying tie breaks, Deepak Katiyar was de-
36 Pratyush Kumar 5 77 Pabitra Mukherjee 4 Modi of Haryana, rated about 800 points clared winner and Umer runner up. Deepak
37 Sougata Singha 5 78 Singh Vidya Bhushan 4 behind him. Likewise, third seeded Yunus received a cash prize of Rs.31000/- out of
38 Pintu Mondal 5 79 Anjistha Basak 4 Khan of MP had to split the point with Gau- the total prize fund of Rs. three lakhs.
39 Sanika Sengupta 5 80 Sankar Saha 4 tamKataria of Rajasthan in the next round.
40 Rajashekara N 5 81 Anutosh Mukherjee 4 There were upsets galore in the fourth round, Laxmi Narayan Dhamani, Managing Director,
41 Md. Shahidul Islam 5 82 Tripathy Manoj Ku 4 with four of the top five boards had the re- Dhamani Groups, Sri. Ashok Lahoti, Mayor
42 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 5 83 Gaurav Danu 4 sults in favour of the lower rated players. The of Jaipur, Sri. Piyush Garg, Sri. Tikriwal of
43 Swaraj Saha 5 84 Rai Supriya 4 numero uno player Nassir Wajih (after the GMax Album and Sri.Mukesh Mishra CEO of

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Jaipur Marathon were the chief guests in the 37 Abhirup Das 6 Chess Mine Open Rapid and Blitz Open Tournament 2017,Bangalore
prize distribution function. The category prize 38 AIM Kalur Nikhil 6
winners were awarded beautiful and elegant 39 Sanjay Sharma 6
Abhijeet Gupta wins ChessMine Rapid in Playoff
macro wooden chess pieces, which were very 40 Aashish Choudhary 6 Vidit Gujrathi bags the blitz title
unique in their appearance. 41 Aaditya Dhingra 6 by IA VasanthBH , Chief Arbiter
Final ranking 42 AFM Kukreja Sankalp 6

A
Rk Name Pts 43 Shami Vipin K. 6 bhijeet Gupta won ChessMine Rapid Krishna GV and Girish A Koushik, were tied
1 Deepak Katiyar 8 44 Anmol Sharma 6 in Playoff; Vidit Gujrathi took the blitz for the first place with 8.5/10. Lots were
2 Umer S.M 8 45 CM Tanmay Jain 6 title of ChessMine Open Rapid and drawn, and Abhijeet Gupta coasted to vic-
3 Esshan Wadhawan 8 46 Harshiel Sehgal 6 Blitz Chess tournament held at S G Marriage tory with a 2-0 victory over Girish, while GN
4 Sher Singh 7 47 Gautam Kataria 6 Hall, Magadi Road Bangalore from 5th to 7th Gopal bounced back from a first game defeat
5 Punit Indora 7 48 Kavya Aggarwal 6 August 2017. against GV Sai Krishna to equalize in the first
6 Souhardo Basak 7 49 Naman Porwal 6 tie-break. He beat Sai Krishna 2-0 in the
7 Dave Kantilal 7 50 Ananmay Sharma 6 Mr.Gopinath Naidu CG, Propriter, SG Marriage blitz to set up a thrilling final clash against
8 Ashish Kumar 7 51 Anil Shivpuri 6 Hall, Seegehalli, Magadi Road and Mrs.Sha- Abhijeet Gupta. He won the first game, but
9 Wajih Nassir 7 52 WFMTanishka Kotia 6 rada Gopinath inaugurated the FIDE Rated Abhijeet bounced back to equalize, and took
10 Ahmed Feroz 7 53 Sharma Varun 6 tournament by making the first move on the the trophy with a 1.5-0.5 win in the blitz tie-
11 Ayush Bhai Mehta 7 54 Manoj Sharma 6 chess board. breaks to win the 1st ChessMine Rapid Chess
12 Teli Rajendra 7 55 Tanmay Chopra 6 Championship.
13 Kumar Sanu 7 56 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6 A total of 466 players from different parts of
14 Garv Gaur 7 57 Yogesh Sharma 6 country were participated. 15 Grand Masters, Gopal was quite unfortunate to miss out on
15 Gavish Chotani 7 58 Bhanot Stuti 6 Two Women Grand Masters, 25 International the title despite being one of the best players
16 Gaha Narayan 7 59 Babel T Divyanshu 6 Masters and three Women International Mas- on display. The rapid tournament also showed
17 Devendra Kumar 7 60 Ritvik A Singh 6 ters were in the fray to win One lakh cash one of the hallmarks of the ChessMine Rapid,
18 Sanskriti Goyal 7 61 J M Baisakh 6 prize. Total prize money was 6 lakhs twenty where anyone can pit themselves against
19 Arun Kataria 7 62 Mihir Godawat 6 thousand. This was the strongest ever Rapid the best players in the world, challenge
20 Rathore Sonakshi 7 63 Piyush Sharma N C 6 Rated Chess tournament in India with 45 themselves, and even beat them to finish
21 Kapil Dadhich 7 64 Aman Sharma 6 titled players in the competition. on the top. Top seed Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
22 Yogesh Swami 7 65 Pawan Sain 6 finishing outside of the top 20 places was a
23 Daaevik Wadhawan 7 66 Balasubramanian A. 6 In the rapid, Abhijeet Gupta was held by surprise, standing testimony to how strong
24 Dinesh Sinha 7 67 Bhavyay Gupta 6 young FM Rathanvel VS of Tamilnadu in the the event was.
25 Darji Giridharilal 6 68 Yogender 6 fourth round, and suffered an unexpected
26 Shivam Verma 6 69 Arpan Gupta 6 upset at the hands of IM VAV Rajesh of Tamil- However, like Abhijeet Gupta, Vidit also
27 Aryan Ranjan 6 70 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 6 nadu. At 3.5/5, he looked pretty much out showcased one of the distinctive qualities of
28 Rathore Mahendra Singh 6 71 Ramandeep Singh Gill 6 of contention. However, this brought up the world class champions the ability to bounce
29 Yatin Kumar 6 72 Tejashwi Sharma 6 best in him, and he won the last 5 rounds on back. When the blitz tournament got under-
30 AFM Pawar Harshit 6 73 Bharadia Madhav 6 demand, among which three were IMs and way, he was different. While he was good
31 Verma H.S. 6 74 Pranav Aggarwal 6 one was against the prodigious Nihal Sarin during the rapids, he was almost possessed in
32 Khan Yunus 6 75 Amit Bhargava 6 to tie for the first place. the blitz event. He went through the field like
33 Karthik Sorikh 6 76 Narayan Joshi 6 a surgical knife would go through the flesh.
34 AFM Choubey Saurabh 6 77 Manish Makwana 6 It was reminiscent of Abhijeet Guptas World He played fantastic chess and hardly made
35 Aarush Gupta 6 78 AGM Sandeep Chitkara 6 Junior 2008 victory. At the end of 10 rounds, a blunder. He defeated 4 GMs, including
36 AGM Sikka Sumit 6 79 Sparsh Bordia 6 4 players, Abhijeet Gupta, GN Gopal, Sai the two other 2600s in the event, Abhijeet

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Gupta and S.P.Sethuraman, to finish with a 18 IM Puranik Abhimanyu 7 61 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 7 28 GM Neelotpal Das 7
commendable 10 points from 11 games. He 19 FM Sadhwani Raunak 7 62 IM Kathmale Sameer 6 29 GM Sengupta Deep 7
was metaphorically a mile ahead of the rest, 20 IM Swayams Mishra 7 63 Hemant Sharma (del) 6 30 Mohammed Dilshad 7
literally a point. 21 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 7 64 Santoshkashyap Hg 6 31 IM Rajesh V A V 7
22 IM Rajesh V A V 7 65 Gahan M G 6 32 CM Raja Rithvik R 7
The blitz tournament was an extremely 23 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 7 66 GM Grover Sahaj 6 33 Nirmal E P 7
strong event and the first 9 places were all 24 IM Abhishek Kelkar 7 67 GM Laxman R.R. 6 34 AGM Sa Kannan 7
taken by some of Indias strongest grandmas- 25 IM Rathnakaran K. 7 68 Kishan Gangolli 6 35 FM Sadhwani Raunak 7
ters. More than a handful of grandmasters 26 IM Shyaamnikhil P 7 69 Goswami Vedant 6 36 IM Nitin S. 7
finished outside of the top 20 in both the 27 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 7 70 AGM Sa Kannan 6 37 IM Abhishek Kelkar 7
events. While the blitz event was dominated 28 IM Krishna C R G 7 38 FM Rathanvel V S 7
by ViditGujrathi throughout, GN Gopal and 29 IM Ravi Teja S. 7 * The first four placings in the above 39 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 7
Abhijeet Gupta were consistent through both 30 IM Shetty Rahul 7 event were decided by play-off 40 Saravana Krishnan P. 7
the blitz and rapid, and several young talents 31 IM Prasad Devaki V 7 41 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 7
like Aravindh Chithambaram Vr, Karthikey- 32 IM Raghunandan K S 7 Final ranking: Blitz event 42 Arvind Shastry 7
an Murali, Nihal Sarin, Raunak Sadhwani 33 GM Neelotpal Das 7 Rk Name Pts 43 FM Sai Krishna G V 7
,Rathanvel exhibited flashes of great poten- 34 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya 7 1 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 10 44 IM Raghunandan K S 7
tial at occasional moments. 35 GM Gagare Shardul 7 2 GM Gagare Shardul 9 45 Hemant Sharma (del) 7
36 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7 3 GM Sethuraman S.P. 9 46 Nair Sanjeev 7
Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon Secretary, All 37 WGM Soumya Swaminathan 7 4 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J 9 47 IM Shetty Rahul 7
India Chess Federation, Mr. AravindShastry, 38 Mohammed Dilshad 7 5 GM Gopal G.N. 8 48 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 7
Hon Secretary, United Karnataka Chess As- 39 Saravana Krishnan P. 7 6 GM Karthikeyan Murali 8 49 GM Thipsay Praveen M 7
sociation, Mrs.Roopal Chilkuri and Mr Raju 40 Yashas D. 7 7 GM Kunte Abhijit 8 50 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7
Chilkuri distributed prizes to winners. 41 CM Kushagra Mohan 7 8 GM Gupta Abhijeet 8 51 GM Grover Sahaj 7
Final ranking: Rapid 42 Gavi Siddayya 7 9 GM Laxman R.R. 8 52 WGM Soumya Swaminathan 7
Rk Title Name Pts 43 Anandha Venkatesan 7 10 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya 8 53 Shankar A. 7
1* GM Gupta Abhijeet 8 44 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala 7 11 IM Stany G.A. 8 54 Gajanan D 7
2* GM Gopal G.N. 8 45 IM Navin Kanna T.U. 7 12 IM Navin Kanna T.U. 8 55 Arjun Satheesh 7
3* FM Sai Krishna G V 8 46 IM Babu N Sudhakar 7 13 Jayakumaar S 8 56 IM Kathmale Sameer 7
4* IM Girish A. Koushik 8 47 Shankar A. 7 14 IM Ravi Teja S. 8 57 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv 6
5 GM Sengupta Deep 8 48 Mahendra Venkat L. 7 15 AGM Shubham Shukla 8 58 Gahan M G 6
6 GM Sethuraman S.P. 8 49 FM Erigaisi Arjun 7 16 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 8 59 AIM Debarghya Samanta 6
7 GM Deepan ChakkravarthyJ 8 50 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 7 17 FM Nihal Sarin 7 60 Chittal Sairaj 6
8 GM Kunte Abhijit 8 51 Kulkarni Vinayak 7 18 IM Swayams Mishra 7 61 FM Dhanush Bharadwaj 6
9 GM Karthikeyan Murali 8 52 Chittal Sairaj 7 19 IM Krishna C R G 7 62 A Sharadchandra Dalvi 6
10 IM Stany G.A. 8 53 WIM T Bagyashree Sathe 7 20 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7 63 Sameer Ghotane 6
11 IM Nitin S. 8 54 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 7 21 IM Puranik Abhimanyu 7 64 Mari Arul S. 6
12 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 8 55 Goenka Saumya Sanjay 7 22 IM Karthikeyan P. 7 65 WIM T Bagyashree Sathe 6
13 IM Karthikeyan P. 8 56 CM Raja Rithvik R 7 23 IM Babu N Sudhakar 7 66 Pradhyumna Kumar K 6
14 FM Nihal Sarin 7 57 Sameer Ghotane 7 24 FM Erigaisi Arjun 7 67 Gavi Siddayya 6
15 FM Rathanvel V S 7 58 Arjun Satheesh 7 25 GM Sriram Jha 7 68 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala 6
16 GM Aravindh Chithambaram 7 59 Devangshu Datta 7 26 IM Rathnakaran K. 7 69 Kumar Gaurav 6
17 GM Sriram Jha 7 60 Keshav Kothari 7 27 GM Aravindh Chithambaram 7 70 Harini S. 6

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 1st GDCA All India open fide rating Rapid chess tournament 2017,Gulbarga
Chinmay Kulkarni wins title
By Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
1
st GDCA All India open fide rating Rapid
chess tournament 2017 was organized
for 2 days with 9 rounds at the Paul
Haris Auditorium, Rotary Club School, Public
Garden, Gulbarga. It was organized jointly
by Gulbarga district Chess Association, Pro-
mods chess Academy and Inner Wheel of
Rotary club sun city. This was the 1st Rating
tournament organized in Northen Karnata-
ka. The event attracted 209 Players from
all over India including major states like
Karnataka, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh,
Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and all parts of
Telangana. 60 Fide rated players participated
in this tournament. Top seed of the event
was Chinmay Kulkarni of Maharastra with elo
rating of 2295.
The Event was inaugurated on 12th August
2017 at 9.30 am. The Dignitaries present
on the occasion, were Mrs Sapna Loya, Sec-
retary Inner Wheel Club, Mrs Sapna Desh-
pande, President, Inner Wheel Club of Rotary.
Promod More, President, GDCA. The venue
was centrally located in the city with good
transport connections so that the player had
a comfortable stay during the event. The
weather which is generally supposed to be
hot in Gulbarga was good and it rained during
the two days.
The event was well contested between the
players of various states, after the 7th Round
Raghav Srivathsava of Telangana took the
lead. In the 8th and 9th round he was held
to draw by Darshan VPS of Karnataka and
Trisha Kanyamarala of Telangana. After the
final round there were three players who
tied for the 1st place with 8 points. Chinmay
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21 Anbazhagan 6
22 Qureshi Salahuddinkaleem 6
23 Vijay Chandran Bala 6
24 Robinson M G 6
Kulkarni of Maharastra, Raghav Srivathsava 25 Anilkumar Reddy K 6
and Swaraj Patil of Jharkhand. Chinmay 26 Manohar Kallappa 6
Kulkarni bagged the 1st place with a better 27 AFM Shivakumar D M 6
tie break score and twenty thousand cash 28 Aravinda B R 6
prize and trophy. 29 Alisher A Mulla 6
30 Kulkarni Varada 6
The Prize distribution function took place at 5 31 AFM Srinidhi Kulkarni 6
p.m on 13th August 2017. Dignitaries present 32 Maskepatil Kaustubh 6
on the occasion were, Dr. Anilkumar Kop- 33 Sanjeev Kumar Singh 6
palkar, Principal SS Margol College Kalaburgi, 34 Prasada Rao G 6
Prof. Narendra Badsheshi, Retired Principal 35 Avinash Choori 6
of MSI Pre university College, Kalaburgi, Ms 36 Sharanabasappa D H 6
Susheela Malu wife of late Ramgopalji Malu, 37 Rajashree S 6
(sponsor of the event),Sapna Deshpande, 38 Lakshita Anchaliya 6
President and Sapna Loya Secretary of Inner 39 Kiran Kumar A Simpi 6
Wheel club of Rotary Suncity, Kalaburgi. 40 ACM Anand Harjee Singh 6
41 Owais Md Q 6
Final ranking 42 Yash Anchaliya 6
Rk Name Pts 43 Vaibhav Solankar 6
1 Kulkarni Chinmay 8 44 Chetan Sharma 5
2 Raghav Srivathsav V 8 45 Srikant Nayak A 5
3 Swaraj Palit 8 46 Shakeebudin Kashif 5
4 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala 7 47 Shetti Ameya 5
5 Darshan V P S 7 48 Krishna Murthy 5
6 FM Ramakrishna J. 7 49 Jagadeesh Patnaik 5
7 Rajinesh Chintala 7 50 Santoshkumar B Nippani 5
8 Sameer Kumar Y 7 51 Shreyas Karigar 5
9 Venkatesh S 7 52 Dhaneshwar Akash 5
10 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 7 53 Deshpande Nimish 5
11 Balkishan A. 7 54 Abhishek Kallur 5
12 Naga Shashank D 7 55 Guruprasad Kulkarni 5
13 Ramachandra Bhat 7 56 Suraj B Kunte 5
14 Syed Akbar Jahangir 7 57 Kulkarni Shrikant 5
15 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala 6 58 Sriram P 5
16 Ajay S M 6 59 Vishweshwarayya Gurumath 5
17 Phani Kanuri 6 60 Araham Setiya 5
18 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 6 61 Saiteja V T 5
19 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 6 62 Asuri Srida 5
20 Sami M A 6 63 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 5
64 Harish S Pujari 5
65 Shiromani Bhole 5
66 Prateek Arvind Mali 5
67 Sudhakar Ganadinni 5
68 Niranjan V Sangam 5
69 Lahoti Jayanti 5
70 ACM Iyer Arvind 5
71 Ritik Kakeri 5
72 Manaswi M Swamy 5
73 Nagaraj Guntal 5
74 Arun Badiger G R 5
75 Sri Harini A 5
76 Dhembre Dinesh 5
77 Chayendra H R 5
78 Kulvinder Kaur Anand 5
79 Achyuth Duggal 5
80 Jairaj Shantappa 5
81 Shrinidhi A N 5
82 Abdul Rehman Yusuf 5
83 Shivaprasad V Tengli 5
84 Jagdishkumar 5
85 Anish Shekar Nagure 5
86 Piyush Prafulla Kulkarni 5
87 Adarsh A Toshniwal 5
88 Ruchi Toshniwal 5
89 Gayatri C Duggani 5
90 Tadwai Akshaya Reddy 5
91 Tejaswini M P 5
92 Tanush Gilda 5
93 Addala Venkata Alankrith 5
94 Vijaya Kumar 5
95 Basalingappa Maraddy 5
96 Aarush Raju Mahthena 5
97 Harender J 4
98 AFM Advaita Sharma K 4
99 Shriya M Jaju 4
100 Basavaraj Patil 4
101 Vijay Babu C 4
102 John Narasappa 4
103 Sai Vivek D 4
104 Shiva Prasad M 4
105 Arnav Yogesh Parsewar 4
106 Sanganna B Motgi 4
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 4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated (below 1500 rated) Chess Tournament, Karur
Gokula Kannan wins at Karur
by FA Dr.G.G.Satheish, Chief Arbiter
4
th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated BE-
LOW 1500 Chess Tournament, Karur
was held from 04th to 06th August
2017, organized by Kamaraj Memorial Chess
Club at Prem Mahal, Karur. The inauguration
function was held at 10.30 a.m on 4th Au-
gust 2017. The event started with the light-
ing of Kuthuvilakku by Karur Vasavi Mehila
Mandali and other dignitaries present on the
dais. Welcome address was delivered by Mr.
Tajmeera S. Thufail, President, Kamaraj Me-
morial Chess Club. The presidential address
was delivered by Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu,
President of Karur District Chess Associa-
tion. Chief Guest of the event was Sri.G.S.
Ananthakumar, Chief General Manager, Karur
Vysya Bank. The other dignitaries present
on the stage were V. Veerappan, Prem Tex,
K.R.S. Nagarajan,P.R. Gopal, Ex MC, Jupiter
M. Baskar and Dr. Sathiesh G G, FIDE Arbi-
ter and Chief Arbiter of this event. Vote of
thanks was delivered by M. Sekar, Treasurer,
Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club.
The valedictory function was held at 6.00
P.M on 6th August 2017. Welcome address
was delivered by Mr. Tajmeera S. Thufail,
President, Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club.
Chief Guest of the event was Sri. M. R. Vi-
jayabaskar, Tamilnadu Transport Minister.
Other dignitaries present on the dais were
Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu, President of Karur
District Chess Association, Mr. V. Veerappan,
Prem Tex, Dr. G. Subramanian, Mr. K.R.S.
Nagarajan, Mr. V. Neduchezian, Mr. K.N. An-
balagan, Mr. P.R. Gopal, Ex MC, Mr. Jupiter
M. Baskar, Ms. Bhuvana Sai, International
Arbiter and Dr. Sathiesh G G, FIDE Arbiter
and Chief Arbiter of this event. Vote of thanks
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was delivered by S. Raja.
The event was conducted by Chief Arbiter Dr.
Sathiesh GG, FIDE Arbiter from Coimbatore
along with Deputy Chief Arbiter NA Vinoth
M from Thanjavur.FA Silambarasan D, NA
Gobikrishnan, NA Marikkannu P, NA John
Ramesh S, NA Royston Santhana Kumar,
NA Parvathi R, NA Chitra R were the other
deputy arbiters.
302 players participated in the 4th Kamaraj
Memorial FIDE Rated BELOW 1500 Chess
Tournament, Karur. Out of 302 players, 189
were rated and rest participated to gain FIDE
ELO rating. Total amount of Rs. 2,00,000/-
were distributed as prizes.
Title winner of this tournament was Gokula
Kannan R.S. of Tamilnadu He remained un-
defeated scoring 8.5 points out of 9 and re-
ceived a cash award of Rs. 20,000/-. Suren S
of Tamilnadu who stood second in main prize
list after scoring 8 points was awarded first
prize of Rs. 15,000/- in the rating category
of 1201-1400 because of the higher prize
money criteria. Navyashree M K of Karnata-
ka scored 6 points to bag the best unrated
prize of Rs. 5000/-. Kavya. S of Tamilnadu,
the top seed of this tournament scored 6.5
points to bag the best women award. The
best veteran prize was bagged by. Ramesh
Kumar of the host city (Karur, Tamilnadu)
after scoring 6.5 points.
Besides the best hospitality provided by the
organizer Tajmeera S.Thufail, President,
Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club, the organizer
distributed attractive gift bags as comple-
mentary gift for all the players. I would like 34 Satyanarayana Raju D S 6
to thank AICF and TNSCA for providing me 35 Gopichand K 6
an opportunity to be the Chief Arbiter of this 36 Murugappan N 6
4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated BELOW 37 Binu Sebastian 6
1500 Chess Tournament, Karur and other 38 Rajesh L S 6
arbiters who worked along with me to make 39 Samson D Cruz J 6
this tournament highly successful. 40 Ilanchezhiyan M 6
41 Pandi Durai P 6
Final standings: 42 Naresh Krishna S 6
Rk. Name Pts. 43 Unnikrishnan Skunnel 6
1 Gokula Kannan R S 8.5 44 Varadharajan I. 6
2 Suren S 8 45 Adithya Ramesh 6
3 Gopinath P 7.5 46 Naveen K 6
4 Satheesh Kumar G 7.5 47 Perumal A 6
5 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 7.5 48 Jegadeesh G 6
6 Priyan R S 7 49 Arunkumar K S 6
7 Arunraj S 7 50 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 6
8 Hariharan Gandhi 7 51 Vinni Prabhu R 6
9 Umasankar S 7 52 Hemanathan C 6
10 Umeshwaran S A 7 53 Navyashree M K 6
11 Surya A C 7 54 Uthesh S 6
12 Binni Boyina P Pratap 7 55 Subramanian P V 6
13 Charan Madhuprakash 7 56 Sanjay Ram J 6
14 Rajkumar S 7 57 Raghavendra Naik 6
15 Sathyan P Muthukrishnan 6.5 58 Vijayakumar S 6
16 Arunkumar B Budihal 6.5 59 Karuppasamy C 6
17 Rathish R 6.5 60 Surya Prakash 6
18 Velavan S 6.5 61 Manikandan C 5.5
19 Karthikeyan G 6.5 62 Jayaprakash M 5.5
20 Mathavan T 6.5 63 Mithun P M 5.5
21 Ramajayam J 6.5 64 Taanya S S 5.5
22 Kathiravan S 6.5 65 Dhanush Karthik K R 5.5
23 Kavya. S 6.5 66 Srinivasan R 5.5
24 Ramesh Kumar N Pillai 6.5 67 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 5.5
25 Anandaraj L 6.5 68 Tamilarasan A 5.5
26 Gokul Pandiyan S 6.5 69 Veerakumar M 5.5
27 Shouvik Dutta 6.5 70 Gokulanathan S 5.5
28 Raghvendra Kumar 6.5 71 Balu P 5.5
29 Midhun Kumar M A 6.5 72 Sundararajan D S 5.5
30 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan 6.5 73 Ashok Kumar T D 5.5
31 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6 74 Ashok D 5.5
32 Ramanan M 6 75 Jaidambareesh N R 5.5
33 Gowri Karthikeyan 6 76 Venkata Jayanarayan R 5.5
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 10th Modern School International Rating Chess Championship, Nanganallur
Hemant Raam wins title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he 10th Modern School International
Fide Rating Chess Championship for
School students was held at Modern
Senior Secondary School from 03rd to 08th
August 2017 for a prize pool of Rs.1,20000/-.
This Rating Chess Championship was organ-
ized very well by Modern Senior Secondary
School, under the auspices of Tamilnadu
State Chess Association and All India Chess
Federation The venue of the tournament was
Sankara Hall, Modern Senior Secondary
School, AGS colony, Nanganallur, Chen-
nai-61.
Main sponsor for this event was Modern
Senior Secondary School, Chennai and
they provided free lodging to all players,
free hospitality to officials, arbiters etc and
also sponsored the entire prize money of
Rs.1,20,000/-.This event attracted 197 par-
ticipants from all over districts in Tamilnadu
like Chennai, Kanchi, Madurai, Thiruvallur
Salem, Villupuram, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur,
Vellore, Coimbatore Trichy etc.,
Participation of nearly 98 International rated
players including many National level play-
ers made the event stronger and colourful.
This was the 10th time the School students
Tournament was being organized as a FIDE
Rated event in Tamilnadu and this event was
conducted in a nine round Swiss format. Shri
M Vijayakumar, IA officiated as Chief Arbiter.
Dr.N.Kamakodi,M.D.,& C.E.O., City Union
Bank Ltd inaugurated the Championship by
making the inaugural move on th board on
03rd August 2017 in the presence Sri S.Pat-
tabiraman, Secretary, Modern School and
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8 points. Ilamparti outwitted E.Saibalaji of School welcomed the gathering and Grand-
Modern School in a miniature and main- master Karthikeyan Murali graced the occa-
tained second spot with seven points. Six sion as the Chief Guest and distributed the
players Nitin Shankar Madhu, R.Rathneesh, prizes.
R.Abinandhan, Vinay Jumani, Niteshpa and Final Ranking
Dr.K.Mohana, Principal, Modern School.Nine
Arputha Jasmine were on the third spot with Rk. Name Pts.
players including the top seeded Hemant
6.5 points. 1 Hemanth Raam 9.5
Raam of Velammal MHSS were leading the
table with four points each at the end of the 2 Ilamparthi A R 9
Hemant Raam of Velammal School main- 3 Pooja S (2002) 8
fourth round.
tained the lead with 9 points at the end of 4 Nitin Shankar Madhu 8
the 9th round. A.R.Ilamparti of Sree Sankara
Three players Hemant Raam, A.R.Ilamparti 5 Rathneesh R 7.5
Golden Jubilee School on second spot with
of Sree Sankara Golden Jubilee School 6 Kirtana S P 7.5
8 points. Nitin Shakar Madhu scored excel-
and Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi of Jeevavel 7 Arputha Jasmine B A 7.5
lent win over Niteshpa and on third place
International School were leading with 5 8 Vignesh N 7.5
with 7.5points.Six players Rathneesh.R,
points each at the end of the fifth round. 9 Srijan J 7.5
Abinandhan.R, Vignesh N, Srijan J, Pooja.S
Three players R.Rathneesh, R.Aaditya and 10 Nidheshpa S 7
and Rathinasabapathy are on Fourth spot
R.Abinandhan were on second spot with 11 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 7
with 7points each.
4.5points each.
12 Rathina Sabapathi A 7
In the tensed final & tenth round battle over- 13 Abinandhan R 7
Two players Hemant Raam and A.R.Ilamparti
night leader Hemant Raam was held to a 14 Srikrishnan P 7
were leading with 6points at the end of the
draw by Nitin Shankar Madhu in just 15 Raghul Saro S 7
sixth round. In the Top table Hemant raam
22moves and won the title with 9.5points.8 16 Sai Balaji E 7
played an aggressive game against Thi-
year old boy A.R.Ilamparti played an at- 17 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 7
yagarajan Tamilselvi and outwitted him in
tacking game against Rathinasabapathy in 18 Rohan Kailash B 7
55moves.8 year boy Ilamparti stunned expe-
the London system and won the game in
rienced opponent Abinandhan in the second 19 Varsha Ramesh 7
37moves and finished second place with
table and maintained the lead with Hemant 20 Gokula Vishnu R 7
9points. S.Pooja of Hindu Sr Sec School
Raam. R.Rathneesh of Vyasa Vidyalaya close- 21 Sham R 7
scored nicely against Abinandhan in a double
ly followed the leaders with 5.5points. 22 Vinay R Jumani 6.5
edged middle game and clinched third prize.
Top seeded Hemant Raam of Velammal School 23 Honnesh Sankaran 6.5
Nitin Shankar Madhu also scored 8.5points
jumped into sole lead with 7 points at the end 24 Prahalada Varadhan R 6.5
and on tie break he finished fourth place.
of the 7th round. Young Ilamparti mishandled 25 Shyaam M 6.5
the pieces in the Sicilian Dragon defence
Winner Hemant Raam of Velammal School, 26 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 6.5
against Hemat Raam in the top board and
Chennai received cash prize of Rs25000 and a 27 Arjun Vasudevan 6.5
surrendered his game in 33 moves.
Trophy. A.R.Ilamparti of Sree Sankara Golden 28 Divyan T 6.5
R.Rathneesh of Vyasa Vidyalaya was closely
Jubilee School,Kanchi won the runner up title 29 Shree G Muthu Annamalai 6.5
following the leader with 6.5points. Five play-
and received Rs18000 cash prize. S.Pooja of 30 Gokulvas M 6.5
ers Ilamparti, Srikrishnan, Nideshpa, Arputha
Hindu Sr Sec School bagged the third prize 31 Shivani Madhu 6.5
Jasmine and Saibalaji were on third spot
and got Rs12000. 32 Swethitha C 6.5
with 6points each.
33 Madhavan M 6.5
In the prize giving ceremony Prof.Veeraragha-
In the eighth round Hemant Raam crushed 34 Hiranmayi K 6.5
van, President, Modern Senior Secondary
R Rathneesh and maintained the lead with 35 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 6.5
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1st NITHM All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament 2017, Hyderabad
Chakravarthy Reddy wins NITHM rated
Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter.
N
ational Institute of Tourism & Hospital-
ity Management (NITHM), Gachibow-
li, Hyderabad along with Telangana
State Chess Association inagurated the 1st
NITHM All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tour-
nament 2017 on the 03rd Aug at the NITHM
campus. A total of 361 players participated
from Bangladesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bi-
har, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Kar-
nataka, Kerala, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Railways,
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Three Inter-
national Masters Rahul Sangma (Railways),
Chakravarthy Reddy (Telangana) and R. Bala
Subramaniam (Tamilnadu) participated in
this event along with five Fide Masters in-
cluding Top seed J Sai Agni Jeevitesh in this
six day event. The Highest prize money of
total Rs. 10,00,000 for the 1st time in the
Telangana State. The event was conducted
for six days with ten Rounds.
The Inauguration took place on 3rd August
at 3.30 pm, The Chief Guest of the event
was Shri.Venkateshwar Reddy, Chairman of
Sports Authority of Telangana State along
with guest of honor Shri. K.S. Prasad, Sec-
retary, TSCA Tournament Director, Major KA
Shiva Prasad, Vice President, TSCA and Mr.
M.Anjaiah, Treasurer, TSCA, Tournament
in- Charge.
NITHM campus is a very well maintained
venue with a pond view in front of the tourna-
ment hall and players had a comfortable at-
mosphere during the whole event. Free lunch
was provided by the organizers to all players
for all days of the event.IM M Chakravarthy
reddy (Telangana) & Muthaiah AL (Tamil-
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nadu) tied for first place with 9 points out of
10 rounds, in tie-break Chakravarthy reddy
was declared winner. He bagged a Prize
money of 1 Lakh and a Glittering Trophy
while Muthaiah got second place, Sekar B
(Tamilnadu) got third place with 8 points.
The Prize distribution function took place at
4pm on 8th August 2017. Dignitaries pres-
ent on the occasion were Mr K S Prasad,
Secretary, TSCA, Major Shivaprasad, Vice
President, TSCA, Mr Chinnam Reddy Direc-
tor, NITHM, and Mr Sheik Fayaz, Tournament
Director.
Final ranking Iranian team Rasht started as the top seed followed Indian national cities champions Bhubane-
Rk Title Name Pts
1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 9
2 Muthaiah Al 9
3 Sekar B 8
4 FM Srinivasa Rao M. 8
5 Dhananjay S 8
6 FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7
7 Balkishan A. 7
8 Mythireyan P 7
9 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 7
10 Singh S. Vikramjit 7
11 Bala Kannamma P 7
12 Lokesh N. 7
13 Senthil Maran K 7
14 Varun V 7
15 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7
16 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7
17 Ankan Roy 7
18 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7
19 IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam 7
20 Divya Lakshmi R 7
21 Venkata Ramana J 7
22 Rishabh Nishad 7
Cont.on p.27
Asian Cities Chess Championship 2017, Bhubaneswar
Iran lifts Dubai Cup
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
Asian Cities Chess Champi-
onship-2017 for Dubai Cup
organized by All Odisha Chess
Association and KiiT University
on behalf of All India Chess
Federation and Asian Chess
Federation was held at Kalinga
Institute of Industrial Technol-
ogy, Bhubaneswar from 26 Aug
17 to 01 Sep 17.
A total number of 12 teams
from 8 countries were partic-
ipated in this 9 round Swiss
system team championship.
swar and Dhaka from Bangladesh. Councilor of FIDE Arbiters Commission IA Abdulrahim Mahadi
of UAE officiated as Chief Arbiter of the event.
The championship was inaugurated by Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Registrar KIIT University in pres-
ence of Shri. SC Sahu, Vice President All India Chess Federation, Shri. KK Sarma, Secretary All
Odisha Chess Association and Shri. Abdulrahim Mahadi, the Chief Arbiter.
In the opening rounds, as expect-
ed top two sides marched ahead
without much struggle while late
arrival of players forced Dhaka
to settle for a peace treaty with
Alquds of Palestine in the first
round and suffered a shock defeat
from the hands of Kolkata in the
next round.
The fourth round victory over
Bhubaneswar almost sealed the
title for Rasht, but Dhaka came
back from their opening rounds
debacles to unsettle the top seeds
in the fifth round and provided
an interesting twist to the cham-
pionship.
Winner: Team Rasht, Iran
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 But there was no further stopping
for the top seeded Iranian outfit in
the next four rounds as they over-
come their rivals at ease and lifted
the Dubai cup with 16 match points
while Bhubaneswar finished as first
runner up with 14 points and Dhaka
completed the podium finish with
13 points. Rakesh Kumar Jena of
Bhuaneswar won Gold on second
board while Rasht team members
Arash Tahbaz, Faghirnavaz Ali, Sa-
deh Shahin and Soozankar A M won
Gold on First, Third, Fourth and Fifth
boards, respectively.
In a colourful closing ceremony,
Runner-up:Bhubaneswar, India Shri. Achuyuta Samanta, founder
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Tech-
nology and Kalinga Institute of Social Science gave away the medals and trophies to the winners
in presence of Shri. Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice President AICF, Shri. KK Sarma, Secretary All
Odisha Chess Association and Shri. Mahadi Abulrahim, Chief Arbiter.
Final standings of teams: 1.Rasht, Iran 16; 2.Bhubaneswar, India 14; 3.Dhaka, Bangladesh
13; 4.Penang, Malaysia 12;5.Kolkata, India 9; 6.Puri, India 8; 7.Dubai, UAE 7; 8.Muscat, Oman
7 ; 9. Alquds, Palestine 7; 10.Chinese Taipei 6; 11.Bhubaneswar A, India 5;12.Cuttack, India 4.
More Indian men in Elo list than Russians
by Arvind Aaron
There are more Indian men in the FIDE rating list than Russian men. In the latest, August 2017
rating list, there are 56497 Indian men, which is more than Russians who are 55946.
However, in the combined list of men and women together, Russia is ahead at 67976 to 66163.
In the events registered to be organised, Russia has 237 events to Indias 63. Scanning the
events, Russia has it evenly split among classical, rapid and blitz ratings while majority of the
Indian events are classical.
India has the most rated players among the English speaking nations for the past two decades.
India had more Grand Masters than China recently.
India top 10: Anand 2783, Harikrishna 2743, Vidit 2693, Sasikiran 2688, Adhiban 2677, Ganguly
2658, Negi 2656, Gupta 2639, Sethuraman 2618, Gopal 2589.
India women top 10: Humpy 2557, Harika 2526, Eesha 2397, Tania 2392, Vijayalakshmi 2370,
Mary Ann 2344, Aakanksha 2328, Padmini 2327, Vaishali 2327, Soumya 2320.
AICF Central Council 01.09.2017

World Cadet Chess Championships Under-8,10,12, Brazil

Divya Deshmukh bags the sole gold

by T.J. Suresh Kumar
Divya Deshmukh drew with top seeded Rakshitta Ravi in the eleventh and final
round to win the title in the U-12 girls section at the world cadets chess champi-
onship 2017 that concluded recently at Pocos de Caldas in Brazil.
Divya scored a total of 9.5 points to give India its only medal in the world cadets The AICF Central Council held on 01 September, 2017 took some administrative decisions some
chess championship this year. Rakshitta Ravi finished eighth with 7 points. Bhag- of the highlights of which is given below
yashree Patil finished 15th with 6.5 points. Dhayana Patil scored 6 points to finish
18th. 1. Women Players:
In the U-12 open section, M. Pranesh scored 7.5 points to finish 11th. S. Rohith
Krishna finished 16th with 7 points. Manish Anto Cristiano scored only 6 points to finish 32nd. (a) To identify talented Girl Children for special coaching. : It was decided to identify
In the U-10 girls section, M. Sahithi Varshini finished seventh with 7.5 points. B. Savitha Shri 10 talented young girls who will be put under foreign coach with support of Government of
scored 7 points to finish 10th. Rohilla Shivika finished 19th with six points. India to produce more number of titled women players in the country.
In the U-10 open section, H. Bharath Subramaniyam drew his game in the last round to finish (b) Round Robin tournaments for women players: It was decided to conduct round robin
fourth with 8 points. Dev Shah defeated Shahil Dey to finish sixth with 8 points. Shahil came international events exclusive for women with a prize fund of Rs.7.5 lakhs in each which will
13th with 7 points, while Praneeth Vuppala finished 21st with 6.5 points. be given by AICF.
In the U-8 girls category, A. N. Shefali finished 11th with 6.5 points. Sneha Halder and R. Saineha
(c) AICF Fee waiver for Women open events: There will be no AICF fee for Women
scored 6 points to finish 17th and 19th respectively.
exclusive open FIDE rated events in the country. The organisers will only pay the FIDE Fee
In the U-8 open section, A. R. Ilamparthi drew his final round game to finish fourth with 8 points.
as per regulations.
Priansh Das and Daaevik Wadhawan finished 10th and 11th with 7.5 and 7 points respectively.
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2. AICF to conduct the National Premier and National Women Premier: 23 Ahmed Feroz 7
24 Kumar S. 7
It was decided to conduct the National Premier and Nation Women Premier directly by AICF
from the year 2018. 25 Pradeep Kumar R A 7
26 Sai Krishna S. 7
3. More coaching camps in under-developed States: It was decided to conduct more
27 Saranya Y 7
GM/IM coaching camp in under-developed States (Chess) to bring more talents from these
28 Singaram P.L. 7
areas.
29 Subramanian R M 7
4. Coaching Camps for Indian probable: It was decided to conduct coaching camps for 30 Vaibhav Barahate 7
Indian teams prior to major international events starting from Asian Indoor Games-201 31 Khan S 7
5. Asian Indoor Games to be held at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 18thto 28th Sep 32 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7
2017 33 Duvvala Suresh 7
Coaching camp for the team will be conducted at Hotel Radisson Blu, Dawarka, New Delhi 34 Hermon Dain Saldanha 7
from 13-19 September 2017. 35 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 7
36 IM Sangma Rahul 7
6. Indian team for World Youth: It has been decided that two teams will be selected as
37 Vedadri K. 7
per 2016 National sub junior ranking. One more team will be selected on the basis of
38 Sahoo Dasharathi 7
highest rated titled players of India who are under the age of 16. The players identified
39 Krishna Raaju J 7
for this team are GM Aryan Chopra, IM Praggnanandhaa R, IM Nihal Sarin, IM P Iniyan
and WIM Vaishali R 40 Raghav Srivathsav V 7
41 Vigneshwaran S 6
7. National Trainer Seminars in various cities: It was decided to conduct 12 National 42 Manigandan S S 6
Trainer Seminars at various cities. Each seminar will be of three days duration with a
43 Dave Kantilal 6
written examination. Successful candidates will be given National Trainer Title along the
44 Kranthi Kumar B. 6
lines of FIDE Trainer titles. These seminars will be conducted by FIDE Senior trainers.
45 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 6
8. FIDE Arbiter Seminars in various cities: It was decided to conduct 4 FIDE Arbiter 46 Amitpal Singh 6
Seminars at various cities. These seminars will be conducted as per the regulations of 47 Kanishk S K 6
FIDE Arbiters Commission.
48 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6
9. Senior Arbiter Examination and Arbiter Refresher Course 49 Bhosale Shriraj 6
It was decided to conduct at least 4 Senior Arbiter Examinations at various cities to give 50 Thamaraiselvi P 6
opportunity to interested persons to qualify as National Arbiters. It was also decided to 51 Sathyanarayanan S. 6
conduct 4 Arbiter Refresher Courses at different cities to existing titled Arbiters to refresh 52 Aswin.P.G 6
and enhance their knowledge. Undergoing refresher course once in a year will be made 53 AIM Sudhir Kumar Behera 6
mandatory for all Arbiters to officiate in National/FIDE Rated events. 54 Anurag Kuruvada 6
10.StrictDress Code for Nationals: The house has decided to inform all the Arbiters/State 55 FM Ramakrishna J. 6
Associations/Players regarding mandatory rule of wearing the State/Affiliated unit uniform 56 Gaurav Das 6
in National Championships for all rounds. Arbiters are empowered to forfeit the game in 57 Sriram B 6
case the player does not wear the State/Affiliated unit colour. 58 Sinha Abhay Kumar 6
59 Raees Ahmed A Q 6
11.AICF Online Registration/Payment: It was decided to make all the AICF players
60 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6
registration only through online platform from 01 Sep 17. All the players playing in tour-
naments need to be compulsory registered with AICF through online before the start of 61 Vignesh Kasi P L 6
first round. 62 Shirodkar Aayush 6
63 Gopinath Parthasarathy 6
12. All AICF payments through online mode: It was decided to receive all the payments
64 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 6
to AICF through online mode: NEFT/RTGS etc.
65 Salman K 6
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66 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 6
67 Chouhan N.C. 6
68 Sanjay Chhabra 6
69 Harshavardhan Reddy G 6
70 Ayan Banerjee 6
71 Vishwanath Prasad 6
72 Himanshu S Chhabra 6
73 Subba Raju S. 6
74 Satyanarayana P. 6
75 Bhaskar Teja K V 6
76 AIM Pati Spandan 6
77 Ayushh Ravikumar 6
78 Vijay Anand M. 6
79 Sampath B 6
80 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 6
81 Anirban Basu 6
82 AIM Kalur Nikhil 6
83 Leeladhar Kachroo 6
84 Buxy Rajanikant 6
85 Aditya Varun Gampa 6
86 Badavath Anand 6
87 Arnav Maheshwari 6
88 Kabhilan S 6
89 Katiyar Prashant 6
90 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 6
91 Chandran T. 6
92 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 6
93 Narasimha Raveendra G 6
94 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar 6
95 Goguloth Malsur 6
96 Kumar A. 6
97 Sanjay Kumar Mittal 6
98 Niranjan Mocharla 6
99 Raju M.Y. 6
100 Hemanth Eswar G 6
101 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 6
102 Jadi Kishan 6
103 Muralinadh K. 6
104 Prasad J R C 6
105 Avinash Ramesh 6
106 Osman Bin Sayeed 6
107 AIM Laya M 6
108 Karthik Reddy P 6
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 5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Chess Tournament-2017,Udaipur
Pranav Shetty wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
5
th N L Pandiyar Memorial FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament 2017 was organized
by Chess In lake city under the aegis of
All Rajputana Chess Association, from 24th
to 29th August 2017, at Mahapragya Bhavan,
Udaipur. The earlier declared venue of the
tournament was Bhandari Darshak Mandap,
but later on the venue had to be shifted to
Mahapragya Bhavan due to Udaipur visit of
PM Shri Narendra Modi. The Total Number
of participants were 289 which included GM
Norm holder IM Wazir Ahmed Khan as one
of the participants. The total tally of rated
players were 188.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Shri.PramodJi Samar, BJP Lead-
er. Other guests present on the dais were
Shri. Vikas Sahu, Secretary CIL, Rajeev
Bhardwaj,President CIL, BJP Sec. Shri Prem
Singh Shaktawat, Shri DevendraSahu, Shri
Dineshji, CIL Patron & District Sports Council
Member and IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbi-
ter. After the inaugural function the technical
meeting was arranged. All the tournament
regulations were discussed and finalized in
the meeting.
Top Seed Pranav Shetty(2201)of MAH, lost to
Parmod Kharbansh of HAR in the 3rd round
game. While in 4th round 4th seed Santosh
Kumar Sinha of GUJ lost to Sri Sai Baswath P
of AP. At the end of 5th round Pushkar Dare of
MAH was leading the table by winning all the
five games i.e. with 5/5 score. He maintained
his lead till the end of 6th round, but at the
end of 7th round Ankit Sen of UP joined him
with 6.5 points, Later in last round game on
top board top seed Pranav Shetty made a
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fantastic comeback and beat the penultimate
round leader Ankit to emerge champion of
the tournament with a final tally of 8 points.
The prize distribution function of 5thNL Pandi-
yar Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
2017 was held on 29th August, 2017 at 3
pm at the venue.Shri. Rajesh Sharma, Shri.
VikasSahu, Mr. Shreechandji Jain, President
CIL Rajeev Bhardwaj, CIL Patron Shri C. P.
Bhatt, ARCA Secretary, Shri Y S Rathore
Sirand the Chief Arbiter, IA Swapnil Bansod
were present on the occasion.
I express my sincere thanks to my team of
arbiters consisting of FA Yashpal Arora, FA
MehmoodMohd., SNA PrathameshDharma-
dhikari, SNA Rajeet Kumar, SNA NeeleshKu-
mawat, SNA Manish Chandalia, SNA Chandan
Chawla, SNARaghavendra Shukla and lastly I
thank the organizers, SNA Vikas Sahu & Dy
Chief FA Rajendra Teli who worked hard to
make the event a grand success.
Final standings:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Pranav Shetty 8
2 Ankit Sen 7.5
3 Anadkat Kartavya 7.5
4 Dere Pushkar 7.5
5 Deepak Katiyar 7.5
6 Rishabh Nishad 7.5
7 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 7.5
8 Jaspreet Singh 7
9 Awadh Chaitanya 7
10 Om Kharola 7
11 Trivedi Karan R 7
12 Maulik Raval 7
13 Vikramaditya Mukhija 7
14 Roshan S 7
15 Sharma P L 6.5
16 Prashanth J Naik 6.5
17 Cheniram Pegu 6.5
18 Sumit Grover 6.5
19 Sher Singh 6.5
20 Babel T Divyanshu 6.5
21 Katiyar Prashant 6.5
22 Kapil Dadhich 6.5
23 Tanmay Jain CM 6.5
24 Rishi Sonker 6.5
25 Rawal Shailesh 6.5
26 Mraduhas Tripathi 6.5
27 Aashish Choudhary 6.5
28 Wazeer Ahmad Khan IM 6.5
29 Abhay Bandewar 6.5
30 Hilal Mondal 6.5
31 Rathore Sonakshi 6
32 Sahil Dhawan 6
33 Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay 6
34 Umer S.M 6
35 Jalap Indraj 6
36 Dave Sneh 6
37 Dave Kantilal 6
38 Shweta Priyadarshini 6
39 Aman Sharma 6
40 Bipin Dhingra 6
41 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6
42 Rishabh Jain 6
43 Chourasiya Hemant 6
44 Garv Gaur 6
45 Batham Avinash 6
46 Awasthi Balgovind 6
47 Manthan Kashyap Datta 6
48 Akshit Jha 6
49 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6
50 Sudhakar 6
51 Hamendra Singh Makwana 6
52 Choubey Saurabh AFM 6
53 Parmod Kharbash 5.5
54 Bharti Vishal 5.5
55 Madhav Mahere 5.5
56 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 5.5
57 Leeladhar Kachroo 5.5
58 Ravi Shanker 5.5
59 Mehak Jain 5.5
60 Mandloi Mukesh AIM 5.5
61 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5.5
62 Arun Kataria 5.5
63 Balasubramanian A. 5.5
64 Bhogal Rupesh AGM 5.5
65 Ayush Lodha 5.5
66 Bahadur Singh 5.5
67 Tanmay Chopra 5.5
68 Aneek Das 5.5
69 Bhat Sanjay 5.5
70 Bhuta Hriday 5.5
71 Dhruv Dak 5.5
72 Nitul Khare 5.5
73 Kanjar Kirtan Ketanbhai 5.5
74 Baij Nath Prasad 5.5
75 Gautam Kataria 5.5
76 Bhat Siddharth K 5.5
77 Namish Sharma 5.5
78 Kapil Kumar Khare 5.5
79 Shreyas Ghadi 5.5
80 Yung David 5.5
81 Deepak Raina 5.5
82 Yadav Ashindra 5.5
83 Mahabir Parshad Verma 5.5
84 Vikram 5.5
85 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5
86 Hariom Solanki 5
87 J M Baisakh 5
88 Nitin Rathore 5
89 Deshmukh Nachiket 5
90 Govind Kumar Chandel 5
91 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 5
92 Anirban Basu 5
93 Satinder Sharma 5
94 Mishra Sanjeev 5
95 Suryakant Verma 5
96 Bagwe Gaurang 5
97 Delwar Dharmesh 5
98 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 5
99 Tiwari O P 5
100 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 5
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 1st Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Pallikaranai
Ravichandran Siddharth clinches the title
by Buvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter
1
st Sri Raghavendra Open Fide Rated
Chess Tournament was organised by Sri
Raghavendra Chess Academy with the
support of Mastermind Chess Academy. It
was inaugurated by Shri Rangan here at Sri
Neelambal Mahal, Pallikaranai, Chennai on
12th August 2017. This event attracted 454
players from 5 federations (India, England,
Kenya, Maldives and USA) which included 1
IM, 1FM and 2 CMs. Seeded players sailed
smoothly up to 2 rounds. At the end of 3rd
round 60th seeded player 13 years old boy
Rathina Sabapathy, TN shocked 3rd seeded
player Syed Anwar Shazuli, ICF. 14 and 6
players shared the lead with full points after
the 4th & 5th round respectively. In 7th round
IM Siddharth Ravichandran and T.Selvabhar-
athy of TN played against each other with 6
points on the top table, the experienced IM
beat Selvabharathy and took sole lead with
the perfect score. Harikrishnan A. Ra (TN),
P.Phoobalan (ICF) and M.Vinothkumar (TN)
followed the leader with 6.5 points each.
Siddharth played with Harikrishnan and
Phoobalan played with Vinothkumar on top 2
tables respectively. But they ended in peace
with each other. IM Ravichandran Siddharth
clinched 1st Sri Raghavendra Open Fide Rat-
ed Chess Tournament title and bagged the
cash 35,000 with beautiful glittering trophy.
Harikrishnan, Vinothkumar, Phoobalan, Bhar-
ath Subramaniam and Chaithanyaa finished
with 7 points each and placed from 2nd to 6th
respectively. Mr. M. Muthukumar, Secretary,
KDCA, Joint Secretary, TNSCA and Mr. Ebe-
nesar Rajkumar, Treasurer, KDCA distributed
the prizes to the winners.
Final ranking (first 44 placings only)
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Rk Name Pts
1 IM Ravichandran Siddharth 7
2 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7
3 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7
4 Phoobalan P. 7
5 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7
6 Chaithanyaa K G 7
7 Hemanth Raam 6
8 Osama Salim 6
9 AGM Srihari L R 6
10 Chandak Shivam 6
11 Karthik P M 6
12 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6
13 Karthick Narayanan S 6
14 Sree Veeramani P 6
15 Rohit Vassan S 6
16 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6
17 Hiren K G 6
18 Harini S. 6
19 Yashwanth Raj S 6
20 Selvabharathy T 6
21 Ram Vishwanathan 6
22 Avinash Ramesh 6
23 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6
24 Thaga Sheriff M 6
25 Aasha C R 6
26 Satvik V 6
27 Narendra Pallavan S 6
28 Susarla Rishith 6
29 Rupak M 6
30 Kiruthika B 6
31 Abinandhan R 6
32 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6
33 Muralidharan P S 6
34 Krishna K R 6
35 AGM Rathneesh R 6
36 Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan 6
37 Sidharth P G 6
38 Domnic Xavier R S 6
Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below1500)
Dhiman Mitra wins at Trichy
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter
Dhiman Mitra of West Bengal became the
champion of Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess
Tournament (Below1500) which was held
from 25th to 27th August 2017 at Kongu-
nadu College of Engineering and Technology,
Trichy. He scored 8.5 out of 9 points and was
the sole leader. The second prize was bagged
by Satheesh Kumar G with 8/9 points, Third
prize went to Priyan R S Of Tamilnadu with
8/9 Points.
The event was inaugurated by Shri PSK
Periyasamy Founder and Chairman, Kongu-
nadu Engineering College with Aswin and
MS.Praveena of Trichy, , on 25th June in the
presence of MV Hariharan, Divisional Man-
ager, Canara Bank, Mr.N.Kannan, Andavar
Water, Trichy, R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint.
Secretary TNSCA, T.Sundarrajan, Secretary,
Trichy District Chess Association
This event was organized by Rockfort Chess
Academy and Saamrats Chess Academy.A
total of 442 Players (237 rated players, 205
unrated players) from nine States partici-
pated in this event. Ms V. Meenatchi Rajam
of Tamilnadu was the top seed of this event.
The youngest was a six year old boy and the
oldest was seventy year old man.
On 27th evening at 3.30 Pm the Prize Dis-
tribution function was held, the Chief Guests
were Mrs. Dr.Anitha, A. Amburose, Patron
Tanjore District Chess Association, All the
above Guests distributed 143 Prizes in total,
in the presence of P. Palaniappan IA, Dy.
Chief Arbiter of this Event and Jt.Sec.,SD-
CA, R.Selvam, President, Rockfort Chess
Academy, PL.Kannan, Mrs. K.Valliammai and
Arun Prasath, Saamrats Chess Academy.
Mr.M.Iravatham of Rockfort Chess Academy
welcomed the gathering.
The total Prize Money of the event was Rs.
2,00,000/- , The Organisers also gave addi-
tional special prize to all Under-7 Players. The
Tournament was conducted smoothly without
any protest and in a well-organized man-
ner. For this I have to thank the Kongunadu
College of Engineering and Technology Man-
agement, PD and all other Staff members for
providing Venue, food at concessional rates
and good accommodation to players. I must
also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches,
Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters
for their Kind Co-operation to conduct the
event successfully.I must thank AICF, TNSCA
& TDCA for giving me the chance to work
as a Chief Arbiter in this wonderful Chess
Tournament.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Dhiman Mitra 8
2 Satheesh Kumar G 8
3 Priyan R S 8
4 Mathavan T 7
5 Ashok D 7
6 Sathyaraj G 7
7 Karthikeyan G 7
8 Domnic Xavier R S 7
9 Puvaneswaran M 7
10 Vasudevan K 7
11 Midhun Kumar M A 7
12 Surya A C 7
13 Arun Prasath P 7
14 Ilanchezhiyan M 7
15 Arul Saravanan S 7
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16 Vishnu Sridhar
17 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran
7
7
59 Adireddy Tarun
60 Gowri Karthikeyan
6
6
Selected games from 26th National
18 Sathish Kumar K 7 61 Hari V P 6 Championships, Port Blair
19 Dharshan Venkatachalam 7 62 Taanya S S 6 Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
20 Keerthi Srinath K 7 63 Vinoth Naveen Jose R 6 Choubey,Saurabh (1800)
21 Muthu Paramaguru M 7 64 Infant Jose H 6 Shyaamnikhil,P (2450) [D50]
22 Ramajayam J 7 65 Akash S 6 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 e6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c5
23 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 7 66 Neha M B 6 5.cxd5 cxd4 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.Bg5 Be7 8.e3
24 Balaji S 7 67 Suthesan V J 6 Nc6 9.Qd2 00 10.Be2 Be6 11.00 h6
25 Binu Sebastian 6 68 Senthil Kumaran N.S 6 12.Bh4 Ne4 13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Bxe7 [Not
26 Rathish R 6 69 Binni Boyina P Pratap 6 14.Qxd8? Rfxd8 15.Bxe7 exf3! 16.Bxd8 fxe2
27 Kavya. S 6 70 Anandan Arunachalakani 6 17.Rfe1 Rxd8 18.Rxe2 Bxa2!+] 14...Qxe7 25...Rd3! 26.Rxd3 [Too late is 26.Red1
28 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 6 71 Subash R 6 15.Nd4 Rfd8 16.Rfd1 Nxd4?! Diagram # R5xd4! and black wins a pawn though it is not
29 Senthil Kumar N 6 72 Vinoth K 6 clear that he wins the game! 27.Rxd3 exd3
30 Varadharajan I. 6 73 Durairaj G 6 28.Kf1 b5 29.Ke1 Re4+ 30.Kf1 (30.Kd2?
31 Adithya Ramesh 6 74 Yesu Babuk 6 Re2+ 31.Kxd3 Rxf2+) 30...Re2 31.Rxd3
32 Gokula Kannan R S 6 75 Kottakadan Rafi 6 Rxa2 32.Rd5 b4 33.Rb5 a5 34.Rxf5 Ra3]
33 Karuturi Trivedh 6 76 Laxman Kumar Panda 6 26...exd3 27.Rd1 Rxd4 28.f4 planning to
34 Pragadesh P 6 77 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 6 play 29 Kf2, 30 Ke3 and capturing the d3
35 Ganesha Moorthy D 6 78 Jack Samuel 6 pawn with equality. 28...g5! 29.Kf2?! [Bet-
36 Meenatchi Rajam V 6 79 Magdalene Roy R 6 ter was: 29.fxg5 hxg5 30.Kf2 f4 31.gxf4 gxf4
37 Amarnath M 6 80 Rajendran Sambandam 6 32.Ke1 Kf7 33.Kd2 with drawing chances for
38 Pradeebarajan V 6 81 Vignesh R 6 white.] 29...gxf4 30.gxf4 Rxf4+ 31.Ke3
39 Gopinath M 6 82 Murugappan N 6 Rh4 32.Rd2 Kf7 33.Kxd3 Re4 Diagram #
40 Prawin K 6 83 Abinash Raj N 6
41 Arunkumar K S 6 84 Dhanasekar M 6
42 Umasankar S 6 85 Riya Shannon S 6 [This throws away the advantage. Better
43 Moses Nishanth D 6 86 Jegadeesh G 5 was: 16...Qf6! 17.Qc3 Nxd4 18.Rxd4 Rac8!
44 Arunkumar B Budihal 6 87 Sundararajan D S 5 19.Rxd8+ Qxd8 20.Qe1 Rc2 21.b3 Qf6!
45 Vignesh Murugan 6 88 Karthik Muruganantham 5 (threat 22...Rxe2!) 22.Rc1 Rxa2] 17.exd4
46 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 6 89 Bharathakoti Sneha 5 Rac8 18.b3= Qa3 19.Qf4?! [This presents
47 Ashvin Venkat G 6 90 Prem Kumar C 5 black with opportunities to get the advan-
48 Nagarajan P 6 91 Gopinath P 5 tage. Better was: 19.f3! Bd5 20.fxe4 Bxe4
49 Harish Kumar N 6 92 Vijayakumar J 5 21.Bc4=] 19...Bd5! 20.Bc4 Qd6 [This
50 Manojan Ravi 6 93 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 5 leads only to a slight advantage. Stronger
51 Subashree M 6 94 Jayaprakash M 5 was: 20...Bxc4! 21.bxc4 Rxc4 22.Qxe4 b6
52 Saraswathi P L 6 95 Sarveshwaran V 5 White's d4 pawn is isolated and he will need [After 33...Re4 34.Rc2 Kf6 35.Rc7 Re7 36.Rc4
53 Velavan S 6 96 Leela Maheswari B 5 to exert himself to protect it.] 21.Qxd6 Ke5 black has a winning advantage.] 01
54 Sanjay Sreekandan 6 97 Rakshitha P 5 Rxd6 22.Bxd5 Rxd5 23.Rd2 f5 24.g3 Rc3 Farhaan,M (1786) Gajwa,Ankit (2281)
55 Asain L 6 98 Rayudu Sai Charan Raj 5 25.Re1 Diagram # [25.Rad1! Overprotecting [E81]
56 Suresh Kumar Ashok 6 99 Thangapandian M 5 d4 would not have given scope for black's 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3
57 R Venkatasubramani 6 100 Lekshanth M 5 tactical twist that happens next move.] 00 6.Be3 a6 7.Nge2 Nbd7 8.Qd2 c5 9.Ng3
58 Bharanidharan N 6 Qa5 10.000 b5 11.Kb1 bxc4 12.Nd5?!

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A tempting move that seemingly puts black
on the back foot, but in reality hands over
the initiative to black. Equal was 12 dxc5.
12...Qd8! [If 12...Qxd2? 13.Nxe7+ Kh8
14.Rxd2] 13.Bxc4 Diagram # [M.Jarek
vs L. Descallar Australian Open, 2003 went:
13.dxc5 Nxd5 14.Qxd5 Rb8 15.Bd4 Bxd4
16.Qxd4 dxc5 17.Qxc4 Qb6 Black won in
42 moves after an enterprising queen-side
attack.; Better was: 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.Bxc4
Nb6 15.Be2= though black has a slight pull.]
13...Nxd5 14.Bxd5 Rb8 15.h4 Black seems
to be bent on a king-side attack, come what
may. 15...Nb6 16.h5 Nxd5 17.exd5 Qc7
18.Ne4? [White changes course and at-
tacks c5. He should continue with his orig-
inal plan: 18.hxg6 hxg6 19.b3 with equal
chances.] 18...Bf5 19.g4! Bxe4+ 20.fxe4
g5! 21.Bxg5 Bxd4= Diagram # Thus black
has activated his bishop, focusing it on b2
and gaining a slight initiative. But the game
is almost level throughout till the last move.
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22.b3 Kh8 23.Rc1 Rfc8 24.Rhf1 f6 The
game has been equal for some time now, but
now black falters. 25.Bf4 [Leading to a draw
would be: 25.Be3! Bxe3 (25...Be5 26.Bf4
Bxf4 27.Qxf4=) 26.Qxe3 Rg8 27.Rf4=]
25...Qd7 26.g5 [26.Qe2?! a5 and black is on
the attack.] 26...fxg5 27.Bxg5 Qg4 28.Rf4
Qg3!= [If 28...Qxh5? 29.Bxe7 Qg6 30.Qh2
Be5 31.Rg1! Bxf4 32.Rxg6 Bxh2 33.Bf6#;
or 28...Qxg5?? 29.Rf8+ wins the queen.]
29.Bxe7??
Diagram # [After playing so well and handling
all threats, white overlooks the deadly threat
that black is having all along. The only move
to stay alive was 29.Rcf1 which vacates c1
for the king so that the sacrifice in the game,
...Rxb3, does not win.] 29...Rxb3+! If now
30 ab3 Qxb3+ mates. Or, if 30 Kc2 Rb2+
wins. 01
Harikrishnan,A (kottayam) (1759) Jay-
akumaar,S (2173) [E16]
The king and pawn ending in this game
should be studied to learn about the 'op-
position'. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 Bb4+
4.Bd2 c5 5.Bxb4 cxb4 6.g3 b6 7.Bg2
Bb7 8.a3 Qe7 9.00 00 10.Nbd2 bxa3
11.Rxa3 d6 12.Qa1 a6 13.b4 Nbd7
14.Rc1 e5 15.Nxe5 dxe5?! [Better was:
15...Nxe5 16.dxe5 dxe5 17.Bxb7 Qxb7 18.c5
bxc5 19.bxc5 Qb5 20.Nf3] 16.Bxb7 Ra7!
17.dxe5 Nxe5 18.Nf3 Neg4 Diagram #
19.Bd5 [White gets only a slight advantage
after this. He could obtain a clear advantage
after: 19.Bxa6 Qxe2 (19...Qxb4 20.h3 Nh6
21.Ra4) 20.Qa2 Qe7 Obviously, white did
not favour this as he did not like his bish-
op getting out of play on a6.] 19...Qxb4
20.h3! Nxd5 21.cxd5 Nf6 22.Rxa6 Rxa6
23.Qxa6 Nxd5= 24.Qd3 Nf6 25.Rb1 Qc5
26.e4 h6 27.e5 Qd5 28.Qe2 Ne4 29.Qe3
Rc8 30.Rxb6 Rc2 31.Ne1 Rc3 [If 31...
Rxf2? 32.Rb4!+- and the knight cannot move
as the rook would be captured.] 32.Rb8+
Kh7 33.Qe2 Qxe5 34.Rb4 f5 35.Rb5 Qd4
36.Nf3 Qd7 37.Rb2 Qc6 38.h4
Diagram # [38.Nd4 Qd5 39.Nf3 Nxg3! as
in the game.] 38...Nxg3! 39.fxg3 Rxf3
40.Kh2 Rc3 41.Qg2 [If 41.h5 Qc7 42.Qf2
Qf7+] 41...Qg6 42.Rc2? Playing into
black's hands! Better was Rf2 42...Rxc2!
43.Qxc2 f4! Black steers the ending into a
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
king and pawn ending which wins for him.
44.Qf2 [44.Qxg6+ Kxg6 45.gxf4 Kf5 46.Kg3
h5 47.Kf3 g6 and the black king would make
a winning entry through e4 or g4.] 44...
fxg3+ 45.Qxg3 Qxg3+ 46.Kxg3 Kg6!
Diagram # Remember, in most King and
pawn endings, the king goes in advance of
his pawns. 47.Kg4 Kf7! [After 47...Kf6?
48.Kh5 Kf7 (48...Kf5 is stalemate!) 49.Kg4
g6 50.Kf3 Ke6 51.Ke4 Kd6 52.Kd4 it is diffi-
cult for black to win.] 48.Kf4 g6 49.Kf3 [If
49.Ke5 Ke7 50.Kd5 Kf6 51.Ke4 Ke6 52.Kf4
(52.Kd4 Kf5) 52...Kd5 53.Kf3 Ke5 54.Ke3 Kf5
55.Kf3 h5 56.Kg3 Ke4+] 49...Ke7 50.Ke3!
He is trying to keep the 'opposition'. 50...Kf8
[If 50...Ke6 51.Ke4; or 50...Kd6 51.Kd4 and
black cannot win.] 51.Ke4 Ke8 52.Ke3 [If
52.Ke5 Ke7! 53.Kf4 Kf6 54.Ke4 Ke6 55.Kf4
Kd5 56.Kf3 (diagonal opposition) 56...Ke5
57.Ke3 Kf5 58.Kf3 h5 59.Kg3 Ke4+] 52...
Ke7 53.Kf3 [After 53.Kd3 Kf6 54.Ke4 Ke6+
Black has the opposition.] 53...Kd6! 54.Kf4
Kd5! 55.Kf3 Ke5 56.Ke3 Kf5 57.Kf3 h5!
[57...h5 58.Kg3 Ke4 59.Kg2 Kf4 60.Kh3 Kf3
61.Kh2 Kg4 and black wins.] 01
Mitrabha,Guha (2301) Kushagra,Mohan
(2003) [A38]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 c5 5.Nf3
cxd4 6.Nxd4 00 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.00 d6
9.Nc2 Be6 10.b3 Qd7 11.e4
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Diagram # 11...Nxe4? [B.Tondivar 2300 vs
E. de Vries, 2200, Nederland Ch. 1996
went: 11...Bh3 12.Bd2 Bxg2 13.Kxg2 Rfc8
and was drawn after careful and patient
play on the 61st move.] 12.Nxe4 Bxa1
13.Nxa1 Bh3 14.Nc2 Bxg2 15.Kxg2
Rad8 Which is superior, a knight and Bish-
op or a Knight and Pawn? We are told that
they are roughly equal as they total up to
six pawns each. V.Venugopalan, a coach
in Aaron Chess Academy has an inter-
esting theory that shows why the knight
and bishop are superior to the rook and
pawn. He says, place a rook and a pawn
in the center of an empty board and cal-
culate how many squares they cover. This
comes to 14+2=16. Now place a bishop
and knight in an empty board and see how
many squares they cover.
They cover 14+8=22 squares. Therefore,
the knight and bishop are superior! This
game proves the Venugopalan theory!
16.Ne3 f5 17.Ng5 e6 18.Bb2 d5 19.cxd5
exd5 20.Nc2 d4 This move is kind of
forced as otherwise white would estab-
lish a blockade on d4 and throttle the
black forces. 21.Nf3! Rfe8 [If 21...d3?
22.Ncd4 and the d3 pawn turns into a
big liability for black.] 22.Re1
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Diagram # [White could have safely played:
22.Ncxd4 Re4 (22...Qd5 23.Qd2 Ne5 24.Qe3
Nc6 25.Qh6 Ne5 26.Rd1+-) 23.Qa1! Nxd4
24.Rd1+- and white has won the d-pawn
without giving black any counter play. Black's
problem is that his queen is in front of the
defence. If it had been on d8 and the rook
on d7, it would have been better for him.]
22...Rxe1 [If 22...d3 23.Ne3 h6 24.Qd2 Kh7
25.Qc3 Rg8 26.h4] 23.Qxe1 Qd5? [This
does not save his d-pawn. Though still los-
ing, better chances were offered by: 23...
Qe8 24.Qxe8+ Rxe8 25.Nfxd4 Nxd4 26.Nxd4
Re1+-] 24.Ncxd4 Qe4 25.Nxc6! Qxe1
26.Nxe1 bxc6 27.Nf3 Rd1 Now begins the
struggle between white's knight and bishop
on the one hand versus the rook. 28.Bd4 a6
29.Bc5 Rc1 30.Be3 Rc2 31.a4! c5 32.Nd2
White's forces are harmoniously supporting
each other denying the rook any breach to
penetrate. 32...Rc3 33.a5 White adopts a
strategy by which he exchanges off his b3
pawn for black's c5 so that his pieces have
the freedom of movement without being
tied to the defence of the pawn on c3. 33...
Kf7 Diagram # 34.Nc4 [After 34.h4 Ke6
35.Kf3 Ke5 36.Ke2 Kd5 37.Kd1 Ke6 38.Bg5
Kf7 white has not made any progress.] 34...
Rxb3 35.Bxc5 Rc3 36.Nd6+ Ke6 37.Nb7
Kd5 38.Bb6 g5 Black will have to keep pre-
venting white from targeting his a6 pawn by
Nc5. 39.Kh3 Rc6 40.Nd8 Rg6 41.g4! f4
42.Nb7 (threat 43 Nc5) 42...Rc6 43.Kg2 h6
44.h3 Rc3 45.Nd8 Rc2 46.Nf7 Rc6 47.h4
gxh4 [If 47...Rg6 48.hxg5 hxg5 49.Kf3! Ke6
50.Nd8+ (50.Nxg5+ Rxg5 51.Kxf4 Rb5 and
the win has become difficult.) 50...Kd5
51.Nb7 Rc6 52.Nc5 Rxc5 53.Bxc5 Kxc5
54.Ke4 Kb4 55.Kf5 Kxa5 56.Kxg5 Kb4
57.Kxf4 a5 58.Ke3 a4 (58...Kc3 59.g5 a4
60.g6 a3 61.g7 a2 62.g8Q a1Q 63.Qh8+
skewers the black queen.) 59.Kd2 Kb3
60.Kc1 a3 61.Kb1+-] 48.Kh3 Ke4 49.Kxh4
Rf6 50.Nd8 Rg6 51.Nf7 Rf6 (see dia-
gram) 52.Nh8! An unusual but excellent
idea to isolate and capture the h6 pawn
by K-h5, Ng6 and Kxh6. 52...Kf3 53.Kh5
Rf8 54.Ng6 Rf6 55.Nh4+ Ke4 56.Nf5!
Rc6 57.Nxh6 Rc1 58.g5 Rh1+ 59.Kg6 f3
60.Nf7 Kf4 61.Kf6 Rg1 62.g6 Ke4 63.g7
10
(Position after 51Rf6)
Grahesh,Y (2063)
Nirmalya,Bose (1661) [D35]
Grahesh had won the National Under-7 and
U-9 titles in 2007 and 2009 at Lucknow and
Chennai. After that, successes have eluded
him. 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.cxd5
exd5 5.d4 Be7 6.Bf4 00 7.e3 c6 8.Bd3
Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.00 Nbd7 11.a3 Nb6
[W.Koch vs R.Genne, Leukerbad Op, Switzer-
land, 1992, went: 11...Re8 12.b4 Nf8 13.Rc1
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Bg6 14.Ne5 Bxd3 15.Qxd3 Bd6 16.Bh2 N8d7
17.f4 Ne4 18.Nxe4 dxe4 19.Qb3 Qe7 and
black won an interesting game on move 36.]
12.Be2 Nc4 13.g4!? Bg6 14.Bxc4 dxc4
15.Ne5 Nd5 16.Bh2 [After 16.Nxc4 Nxf4
17.exf4 f6= White has an extra pawn but
his two knights must face the two bishops
on an open board.] 16...Nxc3 17.bxc3 Qd5
The rating and reputation of white does not
deter black from defending his pawn on c4.
18.Qe2 b5 19.Nxg6 fxg6 20.e4 Qd7 21.f4
(see diagram)White has an impressive array
of pawns which control important central
square. But the position is only equal as black
is not restricted in his activities. Black will try
to create a passed pawn on the queen-side
where he has a majority of pawns. 21...a5!
22.a4 Bd8 23.Rad1 Bb6 24.Kg2 Rae8
25.axb5 cxb5 26.d5 White has a slight ad-
vantage thanks to his two connected passed
pawns on the central files.
26...Qb7 [26...Rc8 supporting c4 and
planning the push b5-b4, creating a
queen-side passed pawn was to be consid-
ered here.] 27.e5 b4 28.Rf3 [If 28.Qxc4?!
Rc8 29.Qe4 Rxc3=] 28...b3? 29.Qxc4
Bc7 30.d6+ Kh8 31.dxc7 [Stronger was:
31.Qxc7 Qxc7 32.dxc7 Rc8 33.Ra1+-]
31...b2 32.Rb1 Rxe5!? The last hurrah
for black. But white does not respond the
best way. 33.Kg3!?
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Diagram # [Much stronger was: 33.c8Q
Rxc8 34.Qxc8+ Qxc8 35.fxe5 Qb7 36.e6 h6
37.c4 Qb4 38.Be5+-; However not 33.fxe5??
Qxf3+ 34.Kg1 Qf2+ 35.Kh1 Qf3+=] 33...
Re7 34.Rxb2 Rxc7 35.Rxb7 Rxc4 36.Bg1!
h5 37.Bd4 Black is now totally lost. 37...
Rg8 38.Ra7 a4 39.Re3 g5 40.fxg5 Rc6
41.gxh5 a3 42.Rxa3 Rgc8 43.Ra7 R6c7
44.Rxc7 Rxc7 45.Re8+ Kh7 46.g6+ Kh6
47.Kg4! Rc8
Diagram # 48.Be3# [48.Rxc8?? is stale-
mate!] 10
Selected games from National Challeng-
ers Championship, Ahmedabad
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Mohith,R(1832)Aravindh,Chithambaram
Vr (2579) [B08]
1.e4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6
5.Bc4 00 6.Bb3 Nc6 7.00 Bg4 8.Be3
e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Re1 Nh5 11.Bc4 Bxf3
12.gxf3 Qf6 13.Be2 Nf4 14.Bxf4? [A big
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positional mistake when he has doubled
pawns on the semi-open f-file. The best
defence against the ....Qg4+ mating threat
was: 14.Bf1 ] 14...Qxf4 15.Nb5 The only
way to challenge the dominating knight on
d4. 15...Qh4 16.c3 Bh6!? [Also good was:
16...Nxb5 17.Bxb5 Bh6 18.Bf1 f5] 17.Kg2
Diagram # [A big attack unfolds after:
17.cxd4 Bf4 18.Bd3 Qh3! (Black is threat-
ening 19....Bxh2+! 20 Kh1 Bg3+! 21 Kg1
Qh2+ 22 Kf1 Qxf2#) 19.Qc2 exd4! (Black
now plans to bring his Ra8 into the king-side
attack via, e8, e5 and g5.) 20.Nxd4 (20.
Nxc7 Rac8+) 20...Rae8]
17...Nxe2 18.Qxe2 a6! 19.Na3 [19.Nxc7?
Ra7! and the knight will be captured.] 19...
f5! 20.Qd3 [The knight is too far away from
the theatre of operations and cannot get back
into action: 20.Nc2 Rf7 21.Nb4 Bf4 22.h3
Raf8 23.Nd3 Qg5+ 24.Kf1 Bh2 25.Qe3 Qh5
26.Kg2 (26.Ke2 fxe4 27.Qxe4 Rxf3+) 26...
fxe4+] 20...Bf4 21.h3
move: 16...Re8 17.Bf3]
Diagram # 21...Rf6! Black builds up a pon-
derous attack with his rooks. This is slow,
but white cannot stop it in anyway! 22.Re2
Qg5+ 23.Kh1 Qh5! 24.Kg2 Raf8 25.Rf1
As the opening of the f-file with ...fxe4 is im-
minent, white over-protects his f2. 25...Bh6!
Diagram # 26.f4 This looks suicidal, but
white is forced to open up as Black threatens
a double attack after 26... fxe4 27 fe4 Rf3!
26...Bxf4 27.f3 Qg5+! 28.Kh1 Qg3 A deci-
sive penetration into white's camp. 29.Rg2
Qxh3+ 30.Kg1 fxe4! 31.Qxe4 [If 31.fxe4
Bh2+! mates in three.] 31...Bg3! Vacating f4
for his rook. 32.Qe2 Rf5 The threat is 33...
Rh5 mating. 01
Swapnil,S. Dhopade 2516 Deepan,Chak-
kravarthyJ2466[E92]
This was the title decider as the winner be-
came champion while the loser became No. 2.
1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nf3
00 6.Be2 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.Qxd8 Rxd8
9.Bg5 Na6 10.Nd5 Rd6 11.Bxf6 Bxf6
12.Nxf6+ Rxf6 13.Nxe5 Re6 14.Ng4 h5
15.Ne3 Rxe4 16.000 Bg4!N Diagram #
[Black must have put a lot of home prepara-
tion into this odd Novelty. Ofer Bruk 2435 vs
Stefan Kinderman 2580, Bern Zonal, 1990,
ended drawn abruptly after just one more
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
17.Bxg4 hxg4 This move is preparation
for h2-h3 which he cannot play immediate-
ly as it would be refuted by g4-g3! 18.g3
Kg7 19.h3 gxh3 20.Rxh3 Nc5 21.Kc2 a5
22.Rdh1 [Nothing much is achieved by the
doubling of rooks along the h-file, except
for the exchange of a pair of rooks. Better
was: 22.b3= c6 23.a3 Re7 24.Rdh1=] 22...
c6 23.Rh7+ Kf6 24.Rh8 Ree8 25.Rxe8
Rxe8 26.Kd2 Ne4+ 27.Ke2 Rd8 The game
is equal, but leaning towards black. White
has to be on his toes to keep the game level.
28.Kf3? Diagram #
[White falters. Slow and patient defence
was necessary to keep afloat. He should
try: 28.Rd1! Rxd1 29.Nxd1 Ke5 30.Ke3 f5
31.b3 b5 32.Nb2 Nc3 33.f4+ Ke6 34.a4=]
28...Rd4! 29.Rc1 [Now too late is 29.Rd1
Rxd1 30.Nxd1 Nd2+ wins a pawn.] 29...Ke6
30.Rc2 f5 31.b3 b6 32.Ke2 g5 33.Ng2
[White misses yet another opportunity to
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put up a tough resistance with: 33.g4! fxg4
(33...f4 34.Nf5 Rd7) 34.Nxg4 Nc5 35.f3
Kf5 36.Ne3+ Kf4 37.Rc1 Rd3 38.Ng2+ Kg3
39.Rg1 Kh2 40.Ne1!=] 33...Ke5 34.Ne1
Rd8 35.Nf3+ Kf6 36.Nd2 Nc5 37.Rc3
White has a slight advantage, but it is doubt-
ful whether it is enough to convert to a win.
37...Rh8 38.a3 Rh1 39.b4 Ne6 40.Rd3
[Better was 40.bxa5 bxa5 41.c5 when white's
drawing possibilities have increased. True,
the black rook is roaming free in white's
backyard, but it has no easy targets.] 40...
Ra1 41.Nf3 [If 41.Rd6? Rxa3 42.Rxc6 Ke5
43.Rxb6 Nd4+ 44.Kf1 Rd3! 45.Ke1 axb4! and
if now 46.Rxb4?? Nc2+ 47.Ke2 Nxb4 wins the
rook.] 41...Ra2+ 42.Kf1 g4 43.Nd4 Nxd4
44.Rxd4 Ke5! 45.c5? Diagram # [White
makes a risky move, trying to win. In fact it
should have led to his speedy downfall! The
alternative was to play a pawn down rook
ending as follows: 45.Rd3 axb4 46.axb4 Rc2
and black wins a crucial pawn. 47.b5 Rxc4
48.bxc6 Rxc6]
45...bxc5 [Probably both players thought at
the board that capturing the rook would lead
to black's defeat after 45...Kxd4 46.cxb6
and wrongly assumed that the b6 pawn
cannot be stopped from queening! However,
black has ... 46...Ra1+! 47.Ke2 (47.Kg2 Re1
and ...Re8.) 47...Rh1 48.bxa5 Rb1!] 46.Rc4
cxb4 47.axb4 Kd5 48.Rf4 axb4 49.Rxb4
c5 50.Rf4 c4 51.Ke1 [If 51.Rxf5+ Ke4!
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52.Rc5 Kd3! 53.Rd5+ Kc2 54.Rc5 c3+]
51...c3 52.Kd1 Ke5! 53.f3 Rd2+ 54.Kc1
Rd4! The rook is 'trapped'! To get out of
this position, he has to give up his last
pawn. 55.fxg4 fxg4 56.Rf8 Rd3 57.Kc2
Rxg3 Now black's win is simple. He uses
the Lucena Position in the end. 58.Re8+
Kf6 59.Rg8 Kf7 60.Rg5 Kf6 61.Rg8 Kf5
62.Rf8+ Ke4 63.Re8+ Kd4 64.Rd8+
Ke3 65.Re8+ Kf2 66.Rg8 Rg1 67.Kxc3
g3 68.Kd2 Rf1 69.Rf8+ Kg1 70.Rg8 g2
71.Ke2 Rf2+ 72.Ke1 Rf7 73.Rh8 Re7+
74.Kd2 Re5 75.Kd3 Kf2 01
Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2516)
S L.Narayanan (2564) [D45]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.e3
Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Be2 00 8.00 dxc4
9.a4 e5 10.Bxc4 a5 [Anish Giri 2790 vs
N.Grandelius 2649, Norway Chess, 2016
went: 10...exd4 11.exd4 Nb6 12.Bb3 Nbd5
13.Bg5 Be6 14.a5 h6 15.Bh4 Qc8 16.Rfe1
Re8 17.a6 Rb8 and drawn on move 29.]
11.Ba2 h6 This move, designed to prevent
Ng5, is not bad. But considering that other
useful moves like ...Qc7 and ...exd4 are
available, it need not have been played
now. 12.h3 Re8 13.dxe5 Nxe5 14.Nd4!
This move hinders the development of
black's pieces. For example, black cannot
play ...Be6 now. 14...Ned7 15.Nf5 Nc5
Diagram
16.Nxh6+! This is a fairly popular com-
bination at club level. It is amazing that
black, a grandmaster misses it. But in
this game he seems to be completely off
colour. 16...gxh6 17.Qg6+ Kh8 18.Bxf7
Bf8 [If 18...Rf8 19.Qxh6+ Nh7 20.Bg6
Qe7 21.Bxh7 Qxh7 22.Qxd6 and white
is simply three pawns up.] 19.e4?! [This
lets black back into the game. Better
was the straightforward: 19.Bxe8 Nxe8
20.e4 Be6 21.Bxh6 Qf6 22.Qxf6+ Nxf6] 35.Rb1! The mate threat with 36 Rb8 cannot
19...Be6? be parried. 10
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Luigi Ceriani is renowned for his retro
problems and for the theme that bears
his name, but he also composed self-
mates and directmates. More than 600
of his problems can be seen on the chess
problem database server.In the retro an-
alytical problem below solver has to find
This loses. Black could escape with the last move played. There is only one
a slight disadvantage from the mess unique solution to this retro.
with: 19...Re5! 20.Bxh6 Bxh6 21.Qxh6+ Ceriani Luigi
Nh7 22.Bg6 Re7 23.Rad1 Qf8 24.Qh5] I prize, Sahovski Vjesnik 1951
20.Bxe8 White is back on track! 20...
Nxe8 21.Bxh6 Qf6 22.Qxf6+ Nxf6
23.Bxf8 Rxf8+- White has the equiv-
alent of rook and three pawns for a
knight and bishop and should win in the
normal course. 24.f3 Nh5 25.Ne2 Nd3
[If 25...Bc4 26.Rfc1 Nb3 27.Rxc4 Nxa1
28.Rc5 Ng7 29.Rxa5 and now, white
has four pawns for his knight.] 26.Rfd1
Nxb2 27.Rdb1 Nc4 28.Rxb7 Rd8 29.Re7
Bg8 30.g4 Rd2 31.Re1 Nb2 32.gxh5 The
simplest! 32...Nd3 33.Kf1 Bc4 34.Rd7!
Shackling the marauding Nd3. 34...c5
Last move?
Diagram #
(Solution on page 48)
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Andre Cheron 1951 Kopajev 1951

1 2
White to play and win White to play and win 1. 2.

Dr Arthur Mandler 1952 A.Kantoroivic 1952

3 4 3. 4.
White to play and win Black to play and win

F.Richter 1959 A.Hilderband 1955

5 6 5. 6.
Black to play and win White to play and win
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 47)

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Masters of the past-80 Mark Dvoretsky
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE Rated tournament, Siliguri

Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky (December 9, 1947 September 26,

2016) was a Russian chess trainer, writer, and International Master.
Dvoretsky was born in Moscow in 1947. He was awarded the Inter-
national Master title in 1975 and for a time, was widely regarded as
the strongest IM in the world. This was due to a number of excellent Nantu Paul, local politician ,
results; he was Moscow Champion in 1973, finished equal fifth in a Champion Mitrabha Guha,
strong Soviet Championship in 1974 and won the Wijk aan Zee Masters Runner-up Aronyak Ghosh and
tournament of 1975 by a clear point and a half. Along with another Atanu Lahiri , Jt. Secretary,AICF
creditable finish at the USSR Championship of 1975, the results were
an indication that he was already of grandmaster strength.

However, for personal reasons he opted not to remain an active

player and instead followed his urge to become a chess trainer. This
GMAX Album 1st Chess Beacon FIDE rated Tournament, Jaipur
was something he had tried out and enjoyed while studying at Moscow University and he
quickly gained a reputation for transforming serious, hard-working 2200 (Elo) players into
grandmasters. Similarly, it was said that established grandmasters could become champi-
ons under his tutelage and his student register began to read like a 'who's who' of chess
greats. Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Evgeny Bareev, Jol Lautier
and Loek van Wely are among the players who benefited from his coaching. Four of his Winner Deepak Katiyar receving
students went on to become Junior World Champions. the trophy from Laxmi Narayan
Dhamani, Managing Director,
Dhamani Groups and Sri. Ashok
Equally noteworthy has been his long-time collaboration with fellow Muscovite Artur Yu- Lahoti, Mayor of Jaipur
supov. Yusupov attributes much of his chess success to Dvoretsky's training methods and
at his peak became number three in the world (behind Kasparov and Karpov) and reached
the semi-final of the World ChampionshipCandidates Tournament on no less than three
occasions. They have published books together and even established a chess school in the 10th Modern School International Rating Chess Championship, Nanganallur
1990s, turning out many of today's top-flight grandmasters.

Dvoretsky wrote a series of chess training books. The series commenced with Secrets of
Chess Training which won the BCF book of the year award in 1991. Secrets of Chess Tactics,
Opening Preparation, Technique for the Tournament Player and Attack and Defence followed
along. Some time later came his 'School of Chess Excellence' books, which were recently (L-R in the foreground)
Dr.Smt.K.Mohana,
revised and re-issued by Edition Olms, a Swiss publishing house. Numbered 1-4, they are
Principal, Modern Senior
in order, Endgame Analysis, Tactical Play, Strategic Play and Opening Developments. The Secondary School,
books are sometimes co-authored by star pupil Yusupov and many contain contributions Hemant Raam, Winner,
from a host of other grandmasters. He wrote Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, published in GM Karthikeyan Murali,
2003, a manual on the endgame. The fourth edition of this book was published in 2014. Chief Guest and Prof.
Veeraraghavan, President,
Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual was published in 2008. He died on September 26, 2016, at Modern Senior Secondary
the age of 68. School, Nanganallur
Courtesy:Wikepedia
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 Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below1500),Trichy Solutions to Tactics from master
games on page 42
by Srinivas Krishnan
1. Seo,Jung Min (2270)
Grueso Cordoba,Santiago (2108)
Stockholm SWE Stockholm SWE (3.1),
10.07.2017
White to play. 33.Be6! [Also playable is 33.Qe8
Qa2 34.Nd2! Rxb4 35.Nc4 Bxe4+ 36.dxe4 At-
tack on f7 cannot be avoided] 33...fxe6 34.Qe8
[34.Qe8 Kh8 35.Qf7 Wins] 10
2.Firat,B (2480)Bulmaga,I (2412)
6th MTS Logistics 2017 Izmir TUR (8.8),
11.07.2017
White to play 20.Nf6+! Qxf6 [20...Kf8 21.Nh7+
Kg8 (21...Ke8 22.Qxg7 Nd7 (22...Rd5 23.Rxd5
cxd5 24.Bxb5++-) 23.Qh8+ Nf8 24.Nxf8 Wins)
22.Qxe5 Qxe5 23.Rd8+ Kxh7 24.Bd3++-
] 21.Qxe5 Na6 [21...Qxe5 22.Rd8+ Kh7
(L-R) Dhakshinamoorthy, Nagapattinam Dist.Chess Association, Arun Prasad, PL.Kannan, Winner Mr.
Dhiman Mitra of West Bengal, A.Amburose, Patron, Tanjore Dist.Chess Association, M.Iravatham, 23.Bd3+ g6 24.Rxe5] 22.Qxf6 gxf6 23.Rd7
Rockfort Chess Academy, P.Palaniappan IA, Mr. Dhinakaran FA, Mrs. Dr. Anitha, Mrs. K. Valliammai Nc5 [23...Bc8 24.Rd8+ Kg7 25.Bg4+- Bb7
26.Rxa8 Bxa8 27.Re7+-] 24.Re7 Threatening
25.Bh5 as well as 25.Rc1 10
3. Brkic,Ante (2565) Bukal,Vladimir Jr
5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Chess Tournament-2017,Udaipur (2398)
28th Czech Open A 2017 Pardubice CZE (6.20),
26.07.2017
White to play. 21.Qh5! gxh5 [21...h6 22.Qxh6!
Bxh6 23.Rxh6 Wins; 21...Re8 22.Qxh7+ Kf8
23.Qh8+] 22.Rg3 [22.Rg3 Re8 23.Rxg7+ Kf8
(23...Kh8 24.Rg5#) 24.Bxh7 Now 25.Rg8 mate
cannot be avoided] 10
4. Harikrishna,Pentala (2737) Bacrot,E-
tienne (2715)
50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI (9.5), 02.08.2017
Black to play 21...Bxf5! 22.Nxf5 [22.Qxf5
Rd5+] 22...Qh2+ 23.Kf1 Rd2 24.f4 h5 25.Qf3
[25.Qg5 Bxf4; 25.Qg3 Qh1+ 26.Bg1 Bxf4]
Prize winners with dignitaries:(L-R) Front Row CIL Secretary Vikas sahu, Mr. Shree Chand ji Jain , President 25...Qh1+ 26.Bg1 Ba7 27.Re3 [27.Nd4 Bxd4
CIL Rajeev Bhardwaj, CIL Patron Shri C P Bhatt , Chief Guest Rajesh Sharma ,ARCA Sec. Shri Y S Rathore 28.cxd4 Nxf4+] 27...Bxe3 28.Nxe3 Re8 [28...
Sir, IA Swapnil Bansod
46
Nh4! 29.Qg3 Re8+] 29.Nc4 Rc2+ There
are multiple threats which white cannot cope
with. 01
5.Moise,O(2134)Petrisor,A (2372)
10th Arad Open 2017 Arad ROU (2.27),
07.08.2017
Black to play. 17...Rg5! 18.Qxf6 [18.Rab1]
18...Rxg2+ 19.Kh1 Rxe2+ [19...Rxe2+!
20.Kg1 Rg2+ 21.Kh1 Rg3+ Wins.; 19...Rg3+
20.Bf3 (20.Rf3 Bxf3+ (20...Rxf3 21.Bxf3 Bxf3+
22.Kg1 gxf6+) ) 20...Rxf3 Also wins] 01
6.Kveinys,A (2542)Capone,N
Pays de Charleroi Open Charleroi BEL (5.4),
01.08.2017 White to play. 26.Be6! [26.Be6
Rxd2 (26...Bd6 27.Bg5+-; 26...Rf8 27.Rd7
Nxd7 28.Rxd7+-) 27.Bxf7+ Kh8 28.Rxd2
Threatening 29.Be8 followed by 30. Qf7 28...
Na6 29.Qe6 Rd8 30.Be8 Rxe8 31.Rd7 Qb8
32.Qf7 Rg8 33.Rxe7 Wins] 10
Solutions to Test your endgame on
page 43
1.Cheron
1.Bf4 Ke2 2.Ba2 d3 3.Bc4 Kd1 4.Kf3 e2 5.Bb3+
Ke1 6.Kg2 d2 7.Bg3#
2.Kopajev
1.Rf5+ Ka4 2.Ra5+ Kb4 3.Rh5 Rd3 4.Kc7 Rc3+
5.Kb6 Rd3 6.Rh4+ Ka3 7.Kc7 Rc3+ 8.Kd8 Rc2
9.Ke7 Re2+ 10.Kd6 Rd2+ 11.Kc6 Rc2+ 12.Kb5
Rb2+ 13.Ka5 Rd2 14.Rh3+ Ka2 15.Rxh2
3.Dr Arthur Mandler
1.Re8 Ra7 2.Rf8 Ke3 3.Rf7 Ra5+ 4.Ke6 Ke4
5.Rb7
4.Kantorovic
1.g7 Rd8 2.Re6+ Kf3 3.Rf6+ Kg3 4.Rg6+ Kh3
5.Kg1 Rg8 6.Kf2 Kh2 7.Rg4 h3 8.Rg3
5.F.Richter
1.Ka4 Kc4 2.Ka5 Kc5 3.Ka6 Bb8 4.Rc1+ Kd5
5.Rc7 Kxd6 6.Rc8 Bc7 7.Kb5
6.A.Hilderband
1.Bd7+ Kc7 2.Bxe6 Kc6 3.Bd7+ Kc7 4.Bb5 Kc8
5.Ba6+ Kc7 6.Bb7
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30th FIDE Rating Open Chess Tmt Tuticorin Sep-24 to Sep-27
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3rd KCA FIDE Rating Kancheepuram Sep-27 to Oct-02
Dipak Ghatuar Memorial FIDE Rating Sivasagar,Assam Sep-28 to Oct02
KKCA First All India FIDE Rated Coimbatore Sep-29 to Oct-02
3rd Railwheel Factory FIDE Rated Open Bangalore Sep-29 to Oct-03
4th Sameen Singh Open FIDE Rating Tmt Amritsar Sep-29 to Oct-03
Chess Guru Academy Maharashtra Open Mulund, Mumbai Sep -30 to Oct 05
All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Hyderabad Sep-30 to Oct-02
St.Paul Public School CBSE FIDE rating Cuddalore Oct 01 to Oct 04
43rd National Sub Junior& 34th Sub Junior Girls Gujarat Oct-01 to Oct-09
World Junior 2017 Oct-01 to Oct-16
1st Nitai Ghosh Memorial FIDE Rated Jalpaiguri Oct-07 to Oct-11
Asian Senior 2017 Oct-09 to Oct-15
2nd Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated New Delhi Oct 11 to Oct 15
17 Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open Mylapore Oct 12 to Oct 15
1st Under - 19 Chhattisgarh State Open Raipur Oct 13 to Oct 15
National Under 17 Boys & Girls Championship Coimbatore Oct-24 to Nov-01
Smt.Suneeta Singh & sanjay Kashiwal rating Indore Oct 26 to Oct 31
4th Late Laxmikant V.Desai Mem.FIDE rating Goa Oct-26 to Oct-29
Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-31 Major Shivaprasad, Vice President, TSCA K S Prasad, Secretary, TSCA, ,Shri. Chinnam Reddy Director,
NITHM, Winner IM Chakravarthi Reddy and Sheik Fayaz, Tournament Director
55th National Premier Chess Championship Patna Oct 27 to Nov 10
1st Punjab State Amateur RatingChampionship Oct 27 to Oct 29
National Under 9 Gurgaon Nov-02 to Nov-10 National Challenger Chess Championship, Ahmedabad
Nanjil 1st All India FIDE Rated Open - 2017 03 Nov - 06 Nov
Chess in Lakecity winter Cup FIDE Rating 1600 Udaipur Nov-03 to Nov-05
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 National Challenger Chess Championship, Ahmedabad

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