AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 June 2018

National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, Ahmedabad

GM M.R.Lalith Babu IM K Dinesh Sharma

National Rapid Champion National Blitz Champion

11th KIIT International Chess Festival 2018, 3rd Kolkata Open International
Bhubaneshwar Grandmasters Tournament, Kolkata

IM Karthik Venkataraman GM Narayanan Srinath

Winner Winner
AICF CHRONICLE June 2018 From the Editor’s desk National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2018, Ahmedabad
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Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Blitz Chess former World Champion Lalith Babu wins National Rapid title
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Viswanathan Anand tied for the second Dinesh Sharma takes National Blitz title
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Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan The only national championship where more than ten grandmasters and fifteen international
It is interesting to note that in 2018 Indian players dominated masters participate is the National Rapid & Blitz Championships, the popularity of which is
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GM level tournaments. Grandmaster R R Laxman, Winner growing tremendously. Needless to say the 2018 edition of the championship is one among
Inside… of Chennai Open 2018 set the trend, GM Srinath Narayanan the best, as it was organised by Gujarat State Chess Association with very good infrastruc-
National Rapid & Blitz Championships , Ahmedabad followed it up clinching the Kolkata Open last month and Karthik
Lalith Babu wins National Rapid title tural facilities. The 2017 national champion and grandmaster MR Lalith Babu of PSPB had the
Venkataraman completed the hat-trick of GM tournament wins
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 1 privilege of heading the seeding list with a rating of 2535 in rapid rating. The strength of the
11th KIIT Intl.Chess Festival, Bubaneshwar for Indians at KIIT Chess Festival, Bhubaneswar.
Karthik Venkatraman is Champion
Railways players was felt in the championship, as four of its players – Sawpnil Dhopade,MS
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter 5 With the ever growing participation of GMs and IMs, 2018 Thej Kumar, Himanshu Sharma and RR Laxman were seeded from two to five. The local
3rd Kolkata Open Intl. Grandmasters Tmt,Kolkata
Srinath is Champion at Kolkata
edition of the National Rapid and Blitz championships organized star Tejas Bakre of Air India was behind them as the sixth seed. In all, ten GMs, 18 IMs and
by IA M.S.Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter 9 by Gujarat State Chess Association at Ahmedabad was a 2 WGMs took part in the event. The young grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram of Tamil
1st IGMSA All India Open Fide Rating Tmt, Hyderabad runaway success. 2017 National Champion GM M.R.Lalith Nadu was seeded eleventh due to his lower rating in Rapid format.
V A V Rajesh wins title
Babu of Andhra Pradesh justified his top billing winning the
by FA S.Subba Raju,Chief Arbiter 12
2nd IGMSA Fide Below 1500 Rating Tmt, Hyderabad Rapid event and Dinesh Kumar Sharma of Uttar Pradesh took Third seeded Thej Kumar suffered a setback, when he lost to Ojas Kulkarni from Karnataka,
K.Balakrishna wins title the National Blitz title. Reports on the above tournaments are
by FA S.Subba Raju, Chief Arbiter 14 his own state, the rating difference between them being about 470. Fourth seeded Himanshu
presented in this issue.
Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tmt, Thrissur was also beaten by Nitish Berlukar of Goa. IM Sameer Kathmale held the top seed Lalith
Prasath wins title at Thrissur
by Peter Joseph M,Chief Arbiter 16 ‘In his demise India has lost a chess warrior’ writes IM Manuel Babu to a draw in the third round and Sriram Jha of LIC lost to Santosh Kumar Sinha of
Late Bharatbai Halkude Mem.FIDE Rating Tmt, Pune Aaron in his memorable tribute to his contemporary Syed Nasir Gujarat in this round. In the fourth round, Ravi Teja of Railways drew with Tejas Bakre and
IM Rajesh VAV wins title
by IA Rajendra Shidore, Chief Arbiter 18
Ali, one of the great Indian players in the last century, which can Aravindh Chithambaram had to split the point with Ram S Krishnan, a former national blitz
Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Tmt(Below 1800),Udaipur be found in the centre pages of this issue. Selected games from champion from TamilNadu.
Murarilal Kori wins title the National Team Chess Championships with lucid annotations
by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter 20
Malka Lakshmi Memorial Fide Rating Tmt,Hyderabad
from IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this issue. In the fifth round, Swapnil defeated Railways’ IM P. Karthikeyan, RR Laxman subdued Puranik
Vikramjit Singh of South Central Railway wins Abhimanyu of AAI and SatyapragyanSwayansu of Air India beat his team mate TejasBakre to
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 22 Velammal School of Tamilnadu made a mark internationally
G H Raisoni Mem. All India Open Tournament, winning the gold at the 49th edition of Russian scholastic chess share the lead with five points at the end of the fifth round. Satyapragyan and Swapnil drew
Kaustav Kundu of West Bengal Wins
team event for schools ‘Belaya Ladya’ held in Russia recently their sixth round encounter whereas LalithBabu made short work of Puranik and Aravindh
by Pravin Pantawane, FA, Chief Arbiter 28
SBI All India Tmt for Visually Challenged,Hyderabad in which hundred teams participated defeated IM Rathnakaran of Railways. All the four players had 5.5 points out of six games to
Marimuthu wins title their credit. LalithBabu was in good form to outwit Satyapragyan and Aravindh utilised the
by IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter 30
47th TNState Junior (Open) Ch’ship
Viacheslav Ragozin, Soviet Grandmaster, International Arbiter, blunder by Swapnil of getting his queen forked, to post a win.In the crucial fight between
& 32nd TNState Junior (Girls) FIDE Rated Ch’ship World Correspondence Champion, chess writer and Editor all the top two grandmasters Lalith and Aravindh, the former clinched the issue in his favour
Rathnavel and Jyothsna emerge Junior Champions rolled in to one, is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’series.
by IA R.K.Balagunasekaran, Chief Arbiter 31
to emerge sole leader with 7.5 points. Laxman was in good nick to follow him with 7 points
29th Tamil Nadu State Under 17Championship, Nagercoil and four others Aravindh, Puranik, RaunakSadhwani of Maharashtra and Dinesh Kumar
Avinash Ramesh and Jyothsna clinch titles
by IA &FI S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter 33 C.G.S.Narayanan Sharma of LIC were on third position with 6.5 points each at the end of the eighth round.
30th WB State Age Gr. (U-13 ) Fide Rated ,Kolkata
Samip Roy and Ayantika Das Lalith Babu continued his winning spree to decimate RR Laxman to score 8.5 points from
by Debasish Barua, IA,Chief Arbiter 35
Selected games from NT Ch’ships,Bubaneshwar Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the nine rounds. Aravindh was back to form to defeat Puranik Abhimanyu and Dinesh K Shar-
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 37 regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are ma of LIC joined Aravind on the second spot with 7.5 points, with a win against Raunak
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42 also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
Test your endgame Sadhwani of Maharashtra. Dinesh K Sharma twisted the proceedings of the tournament by
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan defeating the leader Lalith Babu in the tenth and penultimate round. Lalith, Aravindh and
Masters of the past-89 Viacheslav Ragozin 44
AICF Calendar 48 @hotmail.com. Dinesh moved into final round with 8.5 points each. Aravindh defeated Dinesh and Lalith

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had no problem in beating Swapnil to tie for the first place with 9.5 points each. As Lalith 3rd Kolkata Open International Grandmasters Tournament, Kolkata
had beaten Aravindh, the direct encounter tie break helped Lalith Babu to become the na-
tional Rapid champion, in addition to the National Premier he won about five months back.
Blitz
RR Laxman of Railways had the highest rating of 2550 in the Blitz section and two more
players Lalith Babu and Aravindh Chithambaram had a rating of 2543 and 2519 respectively.
GM Swapnil Dhopade of Railways was shocked by SuyogWagh of Maharashtra and fourth
seeded Rathnakaran also of Railways was beaten by Virender Singh Negi of Delhi. Lalith
Babu was held to a draw by IM Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra in third round.

At the end of the fifth round, three players Aravindh Chithambaram, Erigaisi Arjun of Tel-
angana and Dinesh Sharma were leading with 5 points each. Arjun defeated his co-leader
Dinesh and emerged on top, as LalithBabu had a win over the other leader Aravindh. The
top seed was again held to a draw by IM Abhishek Kelkar in the sixth round, Lalith pre-
vailed over Arjun in the seventh round and five other players registered wins to reach six
points, half point behind Lalith. Arjun and Dinesh again joined Lalith in the lead by beating
Rathnakaran and Harsha Bharathakoti of Telangana, as Lalith conceded a draw to Laxman
in the eighth round. What Dinesh missed in the Rapid event, he accomplished in the Blitz
(left to right ) Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, Eminent Hockey player Mr.Gurbux Singh, Winner
– beating Lalith Babu in the ninth round and took the lead with eight points. Aravindh and
GM Narayan Srinath receiving trophy from Mr. Dinesh Bhagat (Zonal Manager, Eastern zone,
Arjun raised their tally to 7.5 points, breathing close to Dinesh. Dinesh was in fine fettle to LIC), Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Mr.Prabhakar from Hotel Novotel and Ms.Shatabdi
shock Aravindh also to continue his dominance and Arjun was on 8.5 points, half a point Bhattacharya, Principal New Town School.
behind Dinesh. Dinesh Sharma had a safe draw in the final round to win a national champi-
onship after 18 years. Lalith Babu and Arjun tied with 9 points each and Lalith had a better Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tournament, Thrissur
tiebreak ti be declared runner up.

Sri.Jayesh Modi, President of Karnavati Club which hosted the World Under 16 Olympiad in
December inaugurated the championship. Sri. Ajay Patel, President of Gujarat State Chess
Association and Chairman of GSC Bank which has been a regular venue for many national
events, distributed the prizes in the presence of Sri. Jayesh Modi.

Final Ranking – Rapid

1.GM LalithBabu M R 9½; 2.GM AravindhChithambaramVr. 9½; 3IM Sharma Dinesh K 8½;
4.IM Harsha Bharathakoti 8½; 5.GM Laxman R.R 8;6 6.IM Das Arghyadip 8; 7 IM
Karthikeyan P. 8.GM Thejkumar M. S 8; 9.FM SadhwaniRaunak 8;10 IMMohammad
Nubairshah Shaikh 8;11.Kulkarni Chinmay 8;12.GM Puranik Abhimanyu 7½;13
GM Swapnil S. Dhopade 7½;14.IMSatyapragyanSwayangsu 7½;15.IM Rathnakaran K 7½

Final Ranking - Blitz

1.IM Sharma Dinesh K LIC 9½;2.GM LalithBabu M R PSPB 9;3 FM Erigaisi Arjun
TEL 9;4.IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh MAH 8½; 5.FM SadhwaniRaunak DEL 8½;6.
IM Harsha Bharathakoti TEL 8;7.GM Puranik Abhimanyu AAI 8; 8.IM Abhishek Kelkar MAH 8;
9.IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI 8; 10. Ram S. Krishnan TN 8;11.GM AravindhChith- From left to right Shri M M Babu, K.R.Prasath (Winner) Shri Hameed, T.J. Sureshkumar Chief guest,
ambaramVr.TN 7½;12.IM Rathnakaran K. Rlys 7½;13.GM Neelotpal Das PSPB 7½;14.GM Peter Maliakal Chief arbiter , Shri Sethu , Circle Inspector of police Thrissur , Shri Safar Hussain , Shri
Swapnil S. Dhopade Rlys 7½;15.GM Laxman R.R Rlys 7½; Radhakrishnan . President chess association Thrissur
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 29th Tamil Nadu State Under 17 Open and Girls Championship, Nagercoil 11th KIIT International Chess Festival 2018, Bubaneshwar
Karthik Venkatraman is Champion
by Debasish Barua IA,Chief Arbiter
The much awaited KIIT International Chess
Festival 2018 was organized once again in
grandeur by All Odisha Chess Association.
Over the years, this event which was spon-
sored by KIIT, has become an important
event in both the Indian and International
calendars, where some of the top Grand-
masters from India as well as other countries
participate.
The opening ceremony got underway at the
KIIT International Chess Hall on May 25,2018
at 9 a.m. where Professor Hrushikesha Mo-
(Second from left) A.F.Rex, Secretary, KDCA, IA&FI S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter Avinash Ramesh hanty, Vice-Chancellor, KIIT University inau-
(U17 Open Winner) Dr.S.Sella Durai, Director of Sports, Anna University, Jyothsna L (U17 Girls gurated the event by making the first move.
Winner), Dr.T.V.S Pillai, Dean, University college of Engineering, Mr.A.Kulathooran Pillai, President Also present on the dias, were IM Sekhar
KDCA, M.Ephrame, Joint Secretary, TNSCA
Sahoo ,Vice-President of AICF, President
of AOCA; K.K.Sharma, secretary of AOCA
and Chief Arbiter Debasish Barua. At the
SBI All India FIDE Rated for visually challenged, Hyderabad
colourful opening ceremony, Professor Hru-
shikesha Mohanty welcomed all participants
and expressed hope that they would have a
memorable stay in Bhubaneswar.
The tournament was divided into 3 catego-
ries- Category A (with FIDE rating 2000 and
above) had a prize money of 12lakhs, Cat-
egory B (with FIDE rating 1900 and below)
and Category C (with FIDE rating 1600 and
below) had a prize money of 5 lakhs each.
Category A:-
The category had a total player of 293 from
13 countries among which 19 grandmas-
ters,23 International masters were compet-
ing for the title. In the first round, Sradhanjali
Jena from Odisha held Russian grandmaster
Vladimir Burmakin to a draw. GM Farrukh
(L-R) S Manikandan General Manager SBI, B Venkatesham IAS Secretary Telangana State, Amonatov of Tajikistan also shed half a point
Marimuthu K (Winner), Dr. A. Saibaba Goud, Shri Deepak Bhattacharya, in the second board against Indian junior Sibi
4
Visal R. All the other players had a smooth
sailing winning their first round games. At
the end of 4 rounds, Rozum Ivan lead the
category table with 4 out of 4 points. Sharing
the position with him was GM Laxman R R, IM
Karthik Venkataraman and Candidate Mas-
ter Gukesh D respectively. All three of them
where from India. The advent of the sixth
round saw a plethora of players in the lead-
ing position with 4.5 points. Chennai Open
2018 Champion GM Laxman R R snatched
his half point against higher rated third seed
GM Rozum Ivan of Russia in the top board.
Sharing the lead with Laxman and Rozum
were Deviatkin Andrei( Russia), Amonatov
Farrukh (Tajikistan), Debasish Das, Diptayan
Ghosh, Karthik Venkataraman, Sayantan Das
and Gukesh D ( all from India). Top seed GM
Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) remained half a
point behind the leaders at 4 points. The 6th
round ended with GM Rozum Ivan of Russia
and Diptayan Ghosh of India sharing the
lead with 5.5 points. Half a point behind the
leaders at 5.0 points were 13 players includ-
ing top seed Kravtsiv Martyn, Adam Tukhaev
(both Ukraine), Tran Tuan Minh (Vietnam),
Amonatov Farrukh (Tajikistan) and local
star Debashis Das among others. Top seed-
ed Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine)
joined the leader-board at 6.0 points after the
seventh round . Kravtsiv, playing with black
pieces, scored over Bangladesh GM Ziaur
Rahman in the second board. The top board
game between leaders Rozum Ivan (Russia)
and Diptayan Ghosh (India) ended in a draw.
Sharing the lead with Kravtsiv Martyn at 6.0
points were Rozum Ivan (Russia), Diptayan
Ghosh, Debashis Das and Karthik Venkata-
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raman (all India) respectively. Top seeded
Grandmaster Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine) and
International Master Karthik Venkataraman
(India) shared the lead with 7.0 points after
the eighth round .Kravtsiv, playing with white
pieces, stunned GM Rozum Ivan (Russia) in
a Caro Kann game that lasted 26 moves.
Sharing the lead with Kravtsiv Martyn at
7.0 points was International Master Karthik
Venkataraman (India) who accounted for
Grandmaster Tukhaev Adam (Ukraine) in the
third board.
In the crucial final round, Karthik showed
greater nerves to overcome the sturdy Vi-
etnamese GM Tran Tuan Minh in a Grunfeld
game that lasted 38 moves. Facing five
Grandmasters in the last five rounds, Karthik
came up with a whopping 4.5/5 in the home
run, that put him a clear point ahead of cel-
ebrated rest. Karthik receives the winner's
cheque of Rupees Two lakhs out of total prize
money of Rupees 12 lakhs.
Grandmaster R R Laxman winning the Chen-
nai Open 2018 set the trend, as GM Srinath
Narayanan followed it up clinching the Kolk-
ata Open 2018, with Karthik Venkataraman
completing the hat-trick of GM tournament
wins for Indians at KIIT Chess Festival, Bhu-
baneswar.Sharing the second spot with 8.0
points were GMs Rozum Ivan (Russia),Amon-
atovFarrukh (Tajikistan) and top seed Kravt-
siv Martyn (Ukraine) in that order. Further
underlining the success of this tournament,
is the achievement of two more Norms viz.,
WGM Norm for Varshini V and WIM Norm for
Arpita Mukherjee.
Category B-
Total number of participants was 477 and
players from 2 different countries was seen. It
was in 10 rounds following the Swiss League.
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Vijay Shreeram P emerged the champion with
9 points and was awarded with Rs. 60,000
and a trophy. Prashant Katiyar and Mushini
Ajay both scored 8 and half points. The for-
mer bagged the second position by better tie
and received Rs. 45,000 and a trophy and
the latter in the third position received Rs.
35,000 along with a trophy.
Category C-
Total participants in this category was 503
from 2 different countries. The tournament
was in 9 rounds under the Swiss League.
Sai Raj Gopal K was the champion with 9
points and Rs. 50,000 and a trophy as prize.
Murarilal Kori, Sham R, Soumen Mondal all
scored 8 points. But in the better tie, Murarilal
Kori came second and received Rs. 40,000
with a trophy. Sham R, in the third position,
received Rs. 30,000 and a trophy while Sou-
men Mondal in the foruth position received
Rs. 21,000 only.
The prize distribution ceremony was held on
June 1, 2018 at 4.30 p.m. where Dr Achuta
Samanta , founder KIIT and KISS was the
Chief Guest. Also present were IM Sekhar
Sahoo , President of AOCA and Vice-President
of AICF, Shri Abdul Ghani, Greenman Of India
and Shri Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter.
Dr Achuta Samanta , founder KIIT and KISS
and the visionary behind this mega event
lauded the efforts of AOCA and it's team led
by IM Sekhar Sahoo . And Mr. K.K.Sharma
proposed the vote of thanks.
The players and the guardians were all
pleased with the excellent boarding, air-con-
ditioned lodging arrangements, and delicious
food provided by KIIT. The tournament was
held in two A/c halls where tea and drinking
water was made available to all.
Final Ranking: Category A 44 Aaryan Varshney 6.5
Rk. title Name Pts 45 GM Manik Mikulas 6.5
1 IM Karthik Venkataraman 9 46 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 6.5
2 GM Rozum Ivan 8 47 FM Rahman Md. Taibur 6.5
3 GM Amonatov Farrukh 8 48 Shelke Sankarsha 6.5
4 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 8 49 WCM Mrudul Dehankar 6.5
5 GM Ghosh Diptayan 7.5 50 Senthil Maran K 6.5
6 GM Tran Tuan Minh 7.5 51 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6.5
7 GM Debashis Das 7.5 52 FM Rajdeep Sarkar 6
8 GM Laxman R.R 7.5 53 IM Das Sayantan 6
9 IM Nitin S 7.5 54 IM Akash Pc Iyer 6
10 GM Mozharov Mikhail 7.5 55 IM Ravi Teja S. 6
11 GM Deviatkin Andrei 7.5 56 Pranav V 6
12 IM Khusenkhojaev Md 7.5 57 FM Rathanvel V S 6
13 GM Neelotpal Das 7.5 58 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 6
14 IM Nguyen Van Huy 7.5 59 IM Raghunandan K S 6
15 Ram S. Krishnan 7.5 60 IM Tran Minh Thang 6
16 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 7 61 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6
17 GM Sandipan Chanda 7 62 CM Aditya Mittal 6
18 GM Rahman Ziaur 7 63 Sri Sai Baswanth P 6
19 IM Visakh N R 7 64 Nayak Rajesh 6
20 Dixit Nikhil 7 65 FM Ramakrishna J. 6
21 GM Burmakin Vladimir 7 66 Das Susobhit 6
22 GM Tukhaev Adam 7 67 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 6
23 IM Sidhant Mohapatra 7 68 Panda Sambit 6
24 Koustav Chatterjee 7 69 Sreeshwan M 6
25 FM Mitrabha Guha 7 70 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 6
26 GM Neverov Valeriy 7 71 Rajarshi Dutta 6
27 IM Iniyan P 7 72 Dileep Kumar R 6
28 GM Ziatdinov Raset 7 73 Kumar Gaurav 6
29 WFM Divya Deshmukh 7 74 Baivab Mishra 6
30 WFM Varshini V 6.5 75 Barath Kalyan M 6
31 IM Rathnakaran K. 6.5 76 CM Gukesh D 5.5
32 Wagh Suyog 6.5 77 Saurabh Anand 5.5
33 CM Aronyak Ghosh 6.5 78 Navalgund Niranjan 5.5
34 Surendran N 6.5 79 IM Shyaamnikhil P 5.5
35 Raahul V S 6.5 80 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 5.5
36 Patil Pratik 6.5 81 Srikrishnan P 5.5
37 Kaustuv Kundu 6.5 82 Jayakumaar S 5.5
38 AGM Srihari L R 6.5 83 Utsab Chatterjee 5.5
39 GM Pruijssers Roeland 6.5 84 Nagare Akhilesh 5.5
40 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 6.5 85 CM Rohith Krishna S 5.5
41 Ashutosh Kumar 6.5 86 WFM Salonika Saina 5.5
42 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 6.5 87 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 5.5
43 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6.5 88 Pruthu Deshpande 5.5
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89 Sekar B 5.5 31 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 7 3rd Kolkata Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament, Kolkata
90 Tiwari Arjun 5.5 32 Badamundi Tapan 7
91 WFM Saranya J 5.5 33 Aditya P Melani 7
Srinath is Champion at Kolkata
92 Nguyen Phuoc Tam 5.5 34 Abhirup Das 7 by IA M.S.Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter
93 AGM Rathneesh R 5.5 35 Rohit Ramanan T G 7
Grandmaster Srinath Narayanan won the sition.
94 Harshad S 5.5 36 Darshan V P S 7
95 Soham Datar 5.5 37 Karjee Manindra 7 3rd Kolkata Open International Grandmas-
ters Chess Tournament-2018 organized Women International Master Vaishali be-
96 Manu David Suthandram R 5.5 38 Nayak Sajan Kumar 7
by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy and came the best Women player of the tour-
97 Alan Diviya Raj 5.5 39 Mandloi Mukesh 7
98 Sai Vishwesh.C 5.5 40 Tirtha Sarkar 7 All Sports Foundation at The Newtown nament while with an impressive perfor-
99 Aryamann Sain 5.5 41 Debata Sarthak 7 School, Kolkata from 14th to 22nd May mance Erigaisi Arjun secured his maiden
100 Aradhya Garg 5.5 42 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 7 2018. Grandmaster Norm while Priyanka Nutaki
43 Sai Raj Gopal K 7 achieved her WIM Norm.
Final standinga: B Category 44 Nanditha V 7 The tournament attracted a total num-
Rk. Name Pts. 45 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 7 ber of 205 players which included 27 Final standings:
1 Vijay Shreeram P 9 46 Nirgun Keval 7 Grandmasters, 29 International Masters, Rk Name FED Pt
2 Katiyar Prashant 8.5 47 Shyam Sundar T. 7 1 GM Narayanan Srinath IND 7.5
02 Women Grandmasters and 07 Women
3 Mushini Ajay 8.5 48 Farhaan M 7 2 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 7.5
International Masters from 13 countries.
4 Samar Chatterjee 8 49 Swain Narayan 7 3 GM Short Nigel D ENG 7
Former World Championship challeng-
4 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 7
5 Nikhil M 8 50 Hariom Solanki 6.5 er Grandmaster Nigel Short started as 5 FM Erigaisi Arjun IND 7
6 Pawar Harshit 8 top seed in the nine round Swiss sys- 6 IM Harsha Bharathakoti IND 7
7 Nayak Sanjeeban 8 Final ranking:Category C tem tournament with a prize fund of Rs. 7 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 6.5
8 Hruthik Lokesh P 8 Rk Name Pts 15,00,000/-. 8 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 6.5
9 Heikrujam Jacky Singh 8 1 Sai Raj Gopal K 9
9 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 6.5
10 Aswin.P.G 7.5 2 Murarilal Kori 8
The tournament started in surprising 10 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 6.5
11 Akash Tiwari 7.5 3 Sham R 8 11 IM Nihal Sarin IND 6.5
note as untitled Senthil Maran scored a
12 Leeladhar Kachroo 7.5 4 Soumen Mondal 8 12 GM Karthikeyan Murali IND 6.5
shock victory over his fancied Tamilnadu
13 Ujjwal Deep 7.5 5 Singh A K 7½ 13 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6.5
colleague and Grandmaster Vishnu Pras-
14 Soham Dey 7.5 6 Sanjib Mali 7½ 14 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 6.5
anna, while Karnataka’s Vinayak Kulkarni
15 Sounak De (1) 7.5 7 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 7½ 15 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 6.5
defeated Ukranian Grandmaster Valeriy
16 Sudhir Kumar Behera 7.5 8 Ram Kumar R 7 16 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 6.5
17 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 7.5 9 Raghul Saro S 7
Neverov in the first round.
17 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 6.5
18 Susarla Rishith 7.5 10 Ujjwal Deep 7 18 IM Iniyan P IND 6.5
19 Vignesh B 7.5 11 Kar Satyabrata 7 The tournaments saw lot of ups and downs 19 GM Sengupta Deep IND 6
20 Kalyani B 7.5 12 Dayanidhi Rout 7 and provided exciting battles in entire 20 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 6
21 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur 7.5 13 Mallick Subham 7 nine rounds. At the end of ninth and fi- 21 GM Lalith Babu M R IND 6
22 Binayak Rath 7.5 14 Subhash Kumar M 7 nal round, Srinath tied with Grandmaster 22 IM Raghunandan K S IND 6
23 Sree Veeramani P 7.5 15 Saikat Nath 7 Deepan Chakkravarthy of ICF, who dis- 23 CM Gukesh D IND 6
24 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7.5 16 Prasath K R 7 played devastating attacking games to- 24 IM Vignesh N R IND 6
25 Aashish Choudhary 7.5 17 Neha Srinibash D 7 wards end of the tournament. But better 25 GM Tran Tuan Minh VIE 6
26 Paramasivam M. 7.5 18 Sumesh Kabeer 7 tie break score helped Srinath to clinch 26 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6
27 Sivasubramanian R 7 19 Sayandeep Roy 7 the title and got richer by Rs. 3,00,000/- 27 Nguyen Phuoc Tam VIE 6
28 Basant Khandelwal 7 20 Kheerthi Ganta 7 while Deepan content with first runner 28 Neelash Saha IND 6
29 GM Aravindh Chithambaram IND 6
29 Nagaraju J 7 21 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 7 up position. Top seed Grandmaster Nigel
30 Ravi Shanker 7 22 Bala Ganeshan 7 30 Kaustuv Kundu IND 6
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31 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 6
32 IM Das Sayantan IND 5.5
33 IM Nitin S. IND 5.5
34 GM Neelotpal Das IND 5.5
35 FM Rajdeep Sarkar IND 5.5
36 IM Sangma Rahul IND 5.5
37 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 5.5
38 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 5.5
39 Koustav Chatterjee IND 5.5
40 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 5.5
41 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 5.5
42 Manigandan S S IND 5.5
43 IM Rahul Srivatshav P IND 5.5
44 GM Laxman R.R. IND 5.5
45 GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 5.5
46 Jubin Jimmy IND 5.5
47 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 5.5
48 IM Tran Minh Thang VIE 5.5
49 IM Krishna C R G IND 5.5
50 Wagh Suyog IND 5.5
51 IM Sidhant Mohapatra IND 5.5
52 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 5.5
53 IM Rajesh V A V IND 5.5
54 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 5.5
55 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 5
56 Patil Pratik IND 5
57 Srijit Paul IND 5
58 CM Kushagra Mohan IND 5
59 Senthil Maran K IND 5
60 WIM Vaishali R IND 5
61 Aradhya Garg IND 5
62 Kulkarni Vinayak IND 5
63 Sekar B IND 5
64 Aaryan Varshney IND 5
65 Saurabh Anand IND 5
66 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 5
67 CM Mendonca Leon Luke IND 5
68 Navalgund Niranjan IND 5
69 Ajay Karthikeyan IND 5
70 FM Islam Kh. Aminul BAN 5
71 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 5
72 Alan Diviya Raj IND 5
73 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 5
74 CM Aditya Mittal IND 5
75 GM Thipsay Praveen M IND 5
76 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 5
77 Ashwath R. IND 5
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78 IM Abu Sufian Shakil BAN 5
79 Shelke Sankarsha IND 5
80 Arya Bhakta IND 5
81 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 5
82 IM D Bala Chandra Prasad IND 5
83 IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin BAN 5
84 FM Deshpande Aniruddha IND 5
85 Om Kharola IND 5
86 Ojas Kulkarni IND 4.5
87 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 4.5
88 Arjun Kalyan IND 4.5
89 IM Suvrajit Saha IND 4.5
90 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv IND 4.5
91 Balasubramaniam H IND 4.5
92 FM Gajwa Ankit IND 4.5
93 FM Raja Rithvik R IND 4.5
94 Subhayan Kundu IND 4.5
95 Priyanka Nutakki IND 4.5
96 Baivab Mishra IND 4.5
97 Dixit Nikhil IND 4.5
98 Lokesh N. IND 4.5
99 Jayakumaar S IND 4.5
100 IM Mohota Nisha IND 4.5
101 Tiwari Arjun IND 4.5
102 Kunal M. IND 4.5
103 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H IND 4.5
104 Harshavardhan G B IND 4.5
105 Arpan Das (Jr) IND 4.5
106 Santu Mondal IND 4.5
107 Bhambure Shantanu IND 4.5
108 Hari Madhavan N B IND 4.5
109 Panda Sambit IND 4.5
110 Pruthu Deshpande IND 4.5
111 Arindam Mukherjee IND 4.5
112 Rajarshi Dutta IND 4.5
113 Mohite Ranveer IND 4.5
114 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree S IND 4.5
115 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara IND 4.5
116 IM Gusain Himal IND 4.5
117 CM Mullick Raahil IND 4.5
118 Vatsal Singhania IND 4.5
119 Manish Anto Cristiano F IND 4.5
120 IM Prasad Devaki V IND 4
121 FM Anand Nadar IND 4
122 FM Rahman Syed Mahfuzur BAN 4
123 IM Siva Mahadevan IND 4
124 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 4
125 Krishnater Kushager IND 4
126 Pranav V IND 4
127 Samant Aditya S IND 4
128 Mahitosh Dey IND 4
129 Utsab Chatterjee IND 4
130 Goswami Vedant IND 4
131 Mahindrakar Indrajeet IND 4
132 Nayak Rajesh IND 4
133 Jain Nityata IND 4
134 Jaeel Atharva IND 4
135 FM Jeet Jain IND 4
136 Gandhi Anish IND 4
137 CM S M Sharon BAN 4
138 Rakshitta Ravi IND 4
139 Siddharth Sabharishankar IND 4
140 Dileep Kumar R IND 4
141 Makhija Aashna IND 4
142 Kumar Gaurav IND 4
143 WFM Lakshmi C IND 4
144 FM Md Fahad Rahman BAN 3.5
145 Anustoop Biswas IND 3.5
146 Nitin Shankar Madhu IND 3.5
147 Kishan Gangolli IND 3.5
148 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 3.5
149 Arpan Das IND 3.5
150 Kavinda Akila SRI 3.5
151 Soham Datar IND 3.5
152 FM Matta Vinay Kumar IND 3.5
153 FM Mehdi Hasan Parag BAN 3.5
154 Sonkalan Bharati IND 3.5
155 CM Chowdhury Sohel BAN 3.5
156 CM Shahil Dey IND 3.5
157 Shah Rishab IND 3.5
158 Suvradeepta Das IND 3.5
159 Harshita Guddanti IND 3.5
160 Didwania Vishal IND 3.5
161 Lama Surbir NEP 3.5
162 Sa Kannan IND 3.5
163 Khan Mokaddesur R BAN 3.5
164 Polakhare Aryan IND 3.5
165 WCM Mrudul Dehankar IND 3.5
166 Tarun V Kanth IND 3.5
167 Hari Suresh IND 3
168 WIM Jennitha Anto K. IND 3
169 Pranav Shetty IND 3
170 CM Ghosh Chanchal Kumer BAN 3
171 Anisuzzaman Jewel BAN 3
172 Rathore Sonakshi IND 3
173 Vinay Thomas Abraham IND 3
174 WIM Chandreyee Hajra IND 3
175 Soundarya K Pradhan IND 3
176 Souhardo Basak IND 3
177 WFM Harshini A IND 3
178 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 3
179 Wairagade Khush IND 3
180 Samrat Ghorai IND 3
181 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 3
182 WIM Vantika Agrawal IND 2.5
183 Krithigga K IND 2.5
184 AGM Arka Sengupta IND 2.5
185 Saksham Rautela IND 2.5
186 Deepthamsh Reddy. M IND 2.5
187 Aryan B Joshi IND 2.5
188 Makwana Ashvin K IND 2.5
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Philippe Schnoelen
US Problem Bulletin 1997
Can White castle?
White is staring at Qf1 mate by black. One
of the three BBs is a promoted one. Looking
at the structure of the seven black pawns
on board the solver has to work out the
number of captures made by them to arrive
at the answer to the logical question ‘Can
white escape the mate by castling?’
Solution on page 48
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 1st IGMSA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
V A V Rajesh wins title
by FA S.Subba Raju,Chief Arbiter
International Master V A V Rajesh of Tamil mundry and NA Narapuram VR Sreehari
Nadu won 1st IGMSA Fide Rating Chess (Madhya Pradesh).
Tournament, held at D A V Public School, Final ranking 43 Sambamurti P 6
Safilguda, Secunderabad from 29th April Rk Name Pts
to 4th May 2018 organized by Indian 1 IM Rajesh V A V 8
Grand Masters Sports Academy. In the 2 Rao J. Malleswara 8
final round he drew with J Malleswara Rao. 3 Singh S. Vikramjit 8
Five players tied with 8 points each from 4 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 8
10 rounds. With better tie break score 5 Mushini Ajay 8
Rajesh is declared winner. Malleswara 6 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 7½
Rao got runner up, followed by Vikramjit 7 Prakash Ram 7½
Singh, Bharath Kumar, Musiny Ajay are 8 Patil Pratik 7½
placed 3rd to 5th places. Winner got Rs. 9 Varun V 7½
50,000/- and Runner up got 35,000/- and 10 FM Ramakrishna J. 7½
3rd place Rs. 30,000/-. Total Rs. 6 lakh 11 Balkishan A. 7½
distributed among 70 prize winners. 12 Sai Krishna S. 7½
13 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 7
The event attracted 195 participants( 14 CM Gopal K.N. 7
Including 151 Fide Rated players from 15 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 7
Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, 16 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 7
Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, S 17 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 7
C Railway and Andhra Bank. 18 AIM Kalur Nikhil 7
19 Bhagyashree Patil 7
In the glittering prize distribution ceremo- 20 Saranya Y 7
ny Chief Guest Sri G Parthipan, Principal, 21 Rohith Yadav B R 7
DAV School, Safilguda gave away the 22 Aditya Varun Gampa 7
trophies and cash prizes to the winners. 23 Nanditha V 6½
In occasion Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice 24 WFM Bommini Mounika Akshaya 6½
President,Telangana State Chess Associa- 25 Aditya S S V 6½
tion (TSCA), Sri K S Prasad, Secretary,TS- 26 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan ) 6½
CA, Sri K N Gopal, Secretary,A P Chess 27 Sarath Chandra K 6½
Assn (APCA), Sri M Anjayya, Treasurer, 28 Hruthik Lokesh P 6½
TSCA, Sri P Kameswara Rao, Organizing 29 Leeladhar Kachroo 6½
Secretary of The Tournament & Managing 30 Atri Chattopadhyay 6½
Director, IGMSA (Indian Grand Master 31 Vijay Anand M. 6½
Sports Academy).The chief arbiter was FA 32 Dharani Kumar M S 6½
S Subba Raju, of Hyderabad, the deputy 33 Susarla Rishith 6½
chief arbiter was FA G V Kumar of Raja- 34 Sankalp Arora 6½
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35 Venugopalan Amayur P 6½
36 Prahalad B 6½
37 Duvvala Suresh 6½
38 AIM Vysetty Sahithi 6½
39 Karthik Sai Ch 6
40 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 6
41 Dileep Tripathi 6
42 Prudhvi Kumar V 6
44 Khan S 6
45 Saypuri Srithan 6
46 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6
47 Niharika Ch 6
48 Gudla Shanth Kumar 6
49 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 6
50 Bipin Raj S 6
51 Singh Satendra 6
52 Chetana D 6
53 Shaik Sumer Arsh 6
54 Rithvik Raja M 6
55 AIM Kandi Ravi 6
56 Keerthi Srinath K 6
57 Sai Raj Gopal K 6
58 Neeraj Anirudh K 6
59 Kumaran Charan 6
60 P Venkata Satyanarayana 6
61 AFM Advaita Sharma K 5½
62 Abhirami Madabushi 5½
63 Lamkane 0m 5½
64 Viswak Sen M 5½
65 Meghanshram B V 5½
66 Velpula Sarayu 5½
67 Shivani Madhu 5½
68 Shanmukha Pulli 5½
69 Vishvas Reddy K 5½
70 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 5½
71 Sreekar J S S 5½
72 Raja Sree Virinchi Vadali 5½
73 AFM Raivath Mallela 5½
74 Ranade Mayank 5½
75 Umesh Konduru 5½
76 Senthil Kumaran N.S 5½
77 Rupak M 5½
78 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 5½
79 Ojas Mehetre 5½
80 Gawde Prathmesh 5½
81 Kheerthi Ganta 5½
82 Viswa Teja G 5½
83 Rao K. Damodar 5
84 Natura Bethi 5
85 Praveen Saki 5
86 Arnav Kushwaha 5
87 Anirudh M 5
88 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 5
89 Goutham D 5
90 Dalli Shriya Reddy 5
91 Mangaldeep Mitra (PH) 5
92 Arnav Pradhan 5
93 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 5
94 AFM Sankarshana Goli 5
95 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 5
96 Uday Kiran Kumar P 5
97 Suhaas A 5
98 Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 5
99 Nikunj Buddhawar 5
100 Sai Atchyut B 5
101 AFM M ir Maahir Ali 5
102 Tanish Sai Kavuru 5
103 Srinivas Kamisetty 5
104 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 5
105 ACM Kapil Surya P 5
106 Lakshmi Sai Bhargav V 5
107 Sai Mahati A 5
108 Karthikeya Sambhangi 5
109 Asuri Srida 5
110 Sheetal Sonwane 5
111 Arueran Raghuraman 5
112 Kapadia Hrishita 5
113 Himesh Empally 5
114 Siddharth Vezzu 4½
115 Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam 4½
116 Srivatsa Ananth Kothagundla 4½
117 Manaswini Maheshweram 4½
118 Saxena Aniket 4½
119 Sushanth Kamabathula 4½
120 Durganath Chakravarthy 4½
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 2nd IGMSA Fide Below 1500 Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
K.Balakrishna wins title
by FA S.Subba Raju, Chief Arbiter
Kavatrapu Balakrishna won 2nd IGMSA
Fide Below 1500 Rating Chess Tourna-
ment, concluded on 7th May 2018 at the
Srinivasa Function Hall, Nagole, Hydera-
bad and organized by Indian Grand Mas-
ters Sports Academy. In the final round
he defeated Loka Prakash and tied with
two other players with 8 points each from
9 rounds. With better tie break score
Balakrishna was declared winner. Y Sai
Nikhil got runner up prize and K Gopichand
was placed third.
Winner got Rs. 50,000/- and Runner up
got 35,000/- and 3rd place Rs. 30,000/-
. The total prize fund of Rs. 6 lakh was
distributed among 70 prize winners. The
event attracted 443 participants ( Includ-
ing 244 Fide Rated players) from Telanga-
na, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar , Chattisgarh,
Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra,
Tamilnadu, Kerala, Karnataka , Madhya
Pradesh, Utterpradesh, and Pondichery.
The chief arbiter is FA S Subba Raju, of
Hyderabad, the deputies are FA G V Ku-
mar of Rajamundry (Andhra Pradesh), NA
Narapuram VR Sreehari (Madhya Pradesh),
FA Venugopalan Amayur Pisharam(Kerala)
and NA Rafiq S Md (Karnataka). The event
completed without single protest.
The event was a great success as Pro-
fessor P Kameswara Rao supported as
Honorary Advisor for 1st and 2nd IGMSA
Rating tournaments. IGMSA team mem-
bers Mr Kameswara, Organizing Secretary
worked with all
round performance and Mrs. Aruna Ku-
mari supported with her talented work
for both the tournaments.Special invitee
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20 Srikanth Myakala 7 63 Mangaldeep Mitra (PH) 6
21 Susheel Reddy P 7 64 Priyansh Sahu 6
22 Kavi Samrat P 7 65 Senthil Kumaran N.S 6
23 Lakkavarthi Vijay Kumar 7 66 Uday Kumar Tummagunta( PC ) 6
24 Md Bashiq Imrose 7 67 Mohan Sapa 6
wasf Telugu Film Star Madhu Salini, who 25 Arunkumar K S 7 68 Kushal O 6
took lucky dip for participants in the cere- 26 Praveen Saki 6½ 69 Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 6
mony organized by Chess Plug, the event 27 Bharathakoti Sneha 6½ 70 Siddharth Vezzu 6
organizer. This is one of innovative idea 28 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 6½ 71 P. Suresh Babu 6
in a Chess Event. Young girl participant 29 Karyasheel P 6½ 72 Dalli Shriya Reddy 6
Lagadapati Sri Harshitha of Badrachalam 30 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 6½ 73 Kumar Reddy M V 6
got Yamaha Bike in the lucky dip.In the 31 Raja N Pothineni 6½ 74 Ahirwar Aniket 6
Prize Distribution ceremony guest of hon- 32 Avhad Prajwal 6½ 75 Sheetal Sonwane 6
ours Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice Pres- 33 Patil Aditi G 6½ 76 Joshi Sunil 6
ident-Telangana State Chess Association 34 Siddik Akbar 6½ 77 Narayan Das 6
(TSCA), Sri K S Prasad, Secretary-TSCA, 35 Venkata Subbarao M 6½ 78 Suresh Babu T 6
P Kameswara Rao, Organizing Secretary 36 Rajinesh Chintala 6½ 79 Kumaran Charan 6
of The Tournament & Managing Direc- 37 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 6½ 80 Arueran Raghuraman 6
tor- IGMSA (Indian Grand Master Sports 38 Nagasri Saikanth 6½ 81 Sreenandan Babu J 6
Academy) and the special invitee Madhu 39 Shabreen T Khanam 6½ 82 Sreehith Reddy R 6
Salini, Film Actress and Karthik Reddy of 40 Walde Harshal 6½ 83 Surisetti Manikanta Rao 6
Chess Plug has gave away the prizes. 41 Satyanarayana Raju D S 6½ 84 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5½
42 Peddiraju Sri Rajendra 6½ 85 Siva Vamsikrishna 5½
Final ranking 43 Sattiveti Venkatesh 6½ 86 Dolisiyas Dash 5½
Rk Name Pts 44 Jayakumar P K 6½ 87 Keerthi Srinath K 5½
1 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 8 45 Manvith K 6 88 Namathabad Vinay 5½
2 Sai Nikhil Y 8 46 Kheerthi Ganta 6 89 Anirudh M 5½
3 Gopichand K 8 47 Kale Harshal V 6 90 Kotalwar Shubh 5½
4 Parekh Vishrut 7½ 48 Mohitha V 6 91 Pamarthi Audietya Aazadh (PH) 5½
5 Vivek Kumar 7½ 49 Mhadeshwar Nimish Prakash 6 92 Ojas Mehetre 5½
6 Thirupatha Chary Pusala 7½ 50 Kalgaonkar S 6 93 Yaganti Seyi Swathhy 5½
7 Tanish Sai Kavuru 7½ 51 Dharmik Banka 6 94 Natura Bethi 5½
8 Rishi R 7½ 52 Iyer Arvind 6 95 Vishwa Teja B 5½
9 Prateek Atluri 7 53 Jayanth R 6 96 Rathish R 5½
10 Satheesh Kumar G 7 54 Prerak Darvekar 6 97 Shivakumar D M 5½
11 Kukreja Kurashit 7 55 Sharma Rahul 6 98 Sankarshana Goli 5½
12 Manikandan Tayalan 7 56 Arnav Pradhan 6 99 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 5½
13 Rahul Prasad 7 57 Karthikeyan G 6 100 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 5½
14 Aman Kumar 7 58 Jaffar Vali S 6 101 Ranka Srushti 5½
15 Loka Prakash A S 7 59 Saurav Sharma 6 102 Vishvas Reddy K 5½
16 Anilkumar Reddy Kasireddy 7 60 Uma Harsha P 6 103 Chaitanya Kumar M 5½
17 Rao Pn 7 61 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 6 104 Peddinti Siva Vardhan 5½
18 Sanghavi Manoj (PH) 7 62 Rudra Rakshith 6 105 Uday Kiran Kumar P 5½
19 Ashok D 7
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 Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tournament, Thrissur
Prasath wins title at Thrissur
by Peter Joseph M,Chief Arbiter
Thrissur chess academy and the Kasparov
chess academy jointly organized the
first Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated
Chess Tournament from 12/05/2018 to
14/05/2018 at Paremakavu Devaswam
school. The tournament was inaugurated
by Sri. Vincent Kattookaran, President,
Sports Council, Thrissur. Sri. Sasidharan,
Secretary, Chess Association Thrissur,
Sri. Jayamohan, President Thrissur chess
academy, Sri. Vijayan, Executive member,
Paremakavu Devaswam, Sri. Peter Jo-
seph, Fide Arbiter, attended the inaugural
function.
Master Amal Roozi was the top seed with
an elo rating of 1585 and as usual tourna-
ment witnessed many upsets and thrilling
games. There were 320 fide rated players
out of 432 players who participated in
the three day nine round tournament
The eighth round sole leader was Sri.
Jagadheeswaran with7.5 points. In the
final round Sri. K R Prasath of Tamil Nadu
beat the leader and captured
the winner trophy and a prize amount
of Rs 30,000/- with eight points from 9
rounds. Master Nithyan.S from Kerala and
Mr. Sudeepan from Thrissur/Kerala also
got eight points but were placed second
and third spot respectively. Sri, Sethu,
Circle Inspector of Police, Thrissur were
gave away the prizes, Sri. T J SureshKu-
mar, Sri. Babu MM, Sri Safarhussain, Sri
Hameed, Sri Noushad K U attended the
prize distribution ceremony.
Organizers ensured that all the players
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24 Priyanka Bhatt 6½ 69 Justin Joseph 6
25 Gabriel B M 6½ 70 Dhineshwar R S 6
26 Gowrichander U 6½ 71 Nayan Megha K A 6
27 Sayu P S 6½ 72 Kamali B 6
28 Varun Rajesh Nandanam 6½ 73 Sibin Paul 6
returned from Thrissur with good memo-
29 Harshiv Adhithya P V 6½ 74 Raghavan R 6
ries of this tournament. I wish to extend
30 Syam Peter 6½ 75 Naveen Ramdas 6
my heartfelt thanks to Sri. Bharath Singh
31 John Veny Akkarakaran 6½ 76 Benny P C 6
Secretary, AICF, IAs Sri. Gopakumar, Sri.
32 Nykaj A K 6½ 77 Jegadeesh G 6
Srivatsan, Sri. Vijayaraghavan for their 33 Rahan Ramesh 6½ 78 Rahul Ravikumar 6
support towards the tournament. Chess 34 Amarnath Gupta 6½ 79 Hari K Mohanan 6
association Kerala and chess association 35 Neeraj Kumar 6½ 80 Shrishanth S Rao 6
thrissur were helped us and we are thank- 36 Dhanush Ram M 6½ 81 Safar Hussain 6
ful to them. We are always remember the 37 Jyothika U R 6½ 82 Antony Simethy 6
presence and advice of Sri. T J Sureshku- 38 Imran Hussain 6½ 83 Sidharth Rajeev 6
mar who is our patron. The arbiter team 39 Swaha V S 6½ 84 Raveendran T. 6
and volunteers done a wonderful job which 40 Anjitha Krishnakumar 6½ 85 Denny P K 5½
ensured smooth run of the event without 41 Hrishikesh A J 6½ 86 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 5½
any issues. 42 Chinnadurai S. 6½ 87 Sreenidhi C V 5½
43 Shiva Chethan Halamane 6½ 88 Bhagyashree G Patil 5½
Final ranking 44 Aryan Anand 6½ 89 Mithun Raj A 5½
Rk Name Pts 45 Mohammed Sudheer P P 6½ 90 Kaavyadharsini S 5½
1 Prasath K R 8 46 Arun D 6 91 Gavandi Sandesh 5½
2 Nithyan S 8 47 Paulson Frenchy 6 92 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 5½
3 Sudeepan K S 8 48 Sameer C 6 93 Adithya Sekar 5½
4 Jagatheeswaran G 7½ 49 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 94 Jojo P John 5½
5 Amal Roozi 7½ 50 S. Jeevanandam 6 95 Raman Trikazhipuram 5½
6 Shanmugasundaram G. 7½ 51 Kesavan G 6 96 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5½
7 Eldho Skaria 7½ 52 Rockson S Parayil 6 97 Vinod K Kuttappan 5½
8 Sumesh Kabeer 7½ 53 Rakesh N 6 98 Ssathyan S R 5½
9 Joju K V 7 54 Biju Kumar 6 99 Benson Baby 5½
10 Abdallah M Nisthar 7 55 Emmanuel Thomas 6 100 Ravendran KK 5½
11 Sidharth A Kumar 7 56 Jolly V P 6 101 Satheesh Arukety 5½
12 Vishnu Ram M 7 57 Mahesh K 6 102 Priyesh M J 5½
58 Gagan Bharadwaj K 6 103 Rohan Nachnani 5½
13 Azeef C A 7
14 Ashkar M M 7 59 Prawin K 6 104 Rohith C 5½
15 Santhosh V R 7 60 Rajeevan Puthiya Kunnummal 6 105 Benny Thomas 5½
16 Gopinath P 7 61 Vinod S 6 106 Sunny Varghese 5½
17 Gowri Shankar A 7 62 Kishore U R 6 107 Dharsan Venkatachalam 5½
18 Sai Krishnan R 7 63 Devanand B 6 108 Vijayakumar S 5½
19 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7 64 Aswin Biju 6 109 Tharshan M K 5½
20 Satheesh M 7 65 Sudheesh M A 6 110 Anantha Krishna Nayak M 5½
21 Samson D Cruz J 7 66 Shanoj T Syed Alavi 6 111 Raghuraj V.N. 5½
22 Bala Ganeshan 6½ 67 Sanjay Robin 6 112 Yahya Favaz C Abdulla 5½
23 Thomas Valiyaprambil 6½ 68 Arif A 6 113 Manoj N 5½
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 Late Bharatbai Halkude Mem.1st All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament,Pune
IM Rajesh VAV wins title
by IA Rajendra Shidore, Chief Arbiter
Late Bharatbai Halkude Memori-
al, 1st All India Open FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament was organised by Mr.Nagnath
Halkude and Jayant Gokhale Chess Insti-
tute(JGCI). GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhary,
IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya, IM Rajesh VAV,
IM Anup Deshmukh and IM Sharad Tilak
graced the event with their spontaneous
participation.The duration of the tourna-
ment was stretched over 6 days starting
from 5th of May and a total of 10 rounds
were conducted. Two rounds were played
for first five days and the last round con-
cluded on 10th of May followed by Prize
Distribution.
The opening ceremony witnessed the pres-
ence of Mr. Sanjay Kedge Secretary,AM-
CA,Mr.Rajendra Konde Secretary, PDCA,
Shiv Chhatrapati Awardees Mr.Jayant
Gokhale (Founder and Coach JGCI), GM
Saptarshi Roy, IM Sharad Tilak, IM Anup
Deshmukh. It was a colourful event where
the chief guests guided the players.
A total of 449 players with 22 Titled Play-
ers participated in this event out of which
310 were rated players. This tournament
holds a records for the highest number
of players in Open rating category Ma-
harashtra. An upcoming player Gaurav
Rajesh Zagade of Maharashtra with rating
of 1858 scored 4 out of 5 title holders.
He won against IM Anup Deshmukh, IM
Shashikant Kutwal, IM Kulkarni Vikrama-
ditya, and had a draw against IM Rajesh
VAV and IM R.Balsubramaniam. He stood
9th and won a prize of 8000 rupees.
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Fo r t h e c l o s i n g c e r e m o ny M r. Ra j e s h
Oza-International Blind Champion, Mr.Ra-
jendra Jagtap IAS Officer gave their bless-
ing to all the prize winners. Along with
them were Mr.Rajendra Konde, Secretary
of Pune District Chess Association and
Treasurer of All Marathi Chess Associa-
tion, Mr.Joseph D’souza,Chairman of Pune
District ChessAssociation,Mr.Harshad
Nimbalkar Senior Advocate, Debutant
organiser of the tournament Mr.Nagnath
Halkude and Mr.Jayant Gokhale Founder
and Coach of Jayant Gokhale Chess Insti-
tute(JGCI) who is also a Shiv Chhatrapti
Awardee.
The total prize fund of the tournament
was Six Lakh rupees.101 cash prizes and
121 trophies were awarded to the players
along with prizes is special categories like
Best Pune player, AMCA player, Handicap
Player. There were also age category
prizes divided among boys and girls sep-
arately. The event proved to be a colorful
event where all the players received par-
ticipation certificate as well.
The Arbiter team consisted of FA Pavan-
Rathi, FA VivekSohani, FA Gourav Ray, FA
Hemprakash Barsagade along with SNA
JuilyKulkarni, SNA Deepti Shidore, SNA
Suresh Borse, SNA Shreya Chitnis, SNA
Pornima Upalavikar.
I would like to thank All India Chess Fed-
eration and All Marathi Chess Asssociation
for nominating me and providing co-op-
eration throughout the tournament. Both
the Organizers Mr.NagnathHalkude and
Mr.Jayant Gokhale took great efforts to 40 Sreyans Jain 7
make the event a great one. 41 Shintre Neel 7
Final Ranking: 42 Sudarshan Bhat 7
Rk. Name Pts. 43 IM Tilak Sharad S 7
1 IM Rajesh V A V 9 44 Bhagyashree Patil 7
2 GM Roy Chowdhury S 8.5 45 Pawar Rahul 7
3 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 8.5 46 Deodhar Vrushali U 7
4 FM Phadke Sohan 8.5 47 Watarkar Yash 7
5 Shelke Sankarsha 8 48 Bhagwat Heramb 7
6 IM Deshmukh Anup 8 49 Kapadi Yash 7
7 Deota Snehil S 8 50 Joshi Girish 7
8 Satkar Chirag 8 51 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 7
9 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 7.5 52 Sunil Vaidya 7
10 Patil Pratik 7.5 53 Kherdekar Arnav 6.5
11 IM R Balasubramaniam 7.5 54 Mulay Pratik 6.5
12 Swaraj Palit 7.5 55 Tangsale Pranav Vijay 6.5
13 Kiran Panditrao 7.5 56 Kothari Pranit 6.5
14 Nagare Akhilesh 7.5 57 Shah Jeet 6.5
15 Gaikwad Siddhant 7.5 58 Sathya Naarayanan S 6.5
16 Nair Sanjeev 7.5 59 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 6.5
17 Prakash Ram 7.5 60 Aswin.P.G 6.5
18 Gaurav Das 7.5 61 Neha Srinibash D 6.5
19 Pimpalkhare Vedant 7.5 62 Nikam Sudhanshu 6.5
20 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7.5 63 Dhoot Vinit 6.5
21 Nirgun Keval 7.5 64 Kant Swapnil 6.5
22 Warude Satyam 7.5 65 Karthik Sai Ch 6.5
23 Bartakke Amardeep S. 7.5 66 Aryan B Joshi 6.5
24 Lund Rachit 7.5 67 Mhamane Sourabh 6.5
25 Kumthekar Shubham 7.5 68 Shah Devansh 6.5
26 FM Gajwa Ankit 7 69 Subramanian R M 6.5
27 IM Shashikant Kutwal 7 70 Mishra Sanjeev 6.5
28 Tanvi V Hadkonkar 7 71 Phatak Aanjaneya 6.5
29 Jain Kashish Manoj 7 72 Sarvade Mihiir 6.5
30 FM Joshi S G 7 73 Joshi Nikhil 6.5
31 Rahul Bharadwaj B 7 74 Pate Machindra 6.5
32 Vigneshwaran S 7 75 AIM Durgesh K 6.5
33 Akshit Jha 7 76 Emayasri S 6.5
34 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 7 77 Krishna Malay 6.5
35 Jail Digambar 7 78 Chulet Mayank L 6.5
36 Ajinkya Pingale 7 79 Wankhede Avishkar 6.5
37 Joshi Mihir 7 80 Yamijala Koulini 6.5
38 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 7 81 Swayam Naik 6.5
39 Kulkarni Saurabh P 7 82 Subramanian T.V. 6.5
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Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Fide Rating Tournament 2018(Below 1800),Udaipur
Murarilal Kori wins title
by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter
The Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Fide
Rating Chess Tournament 2018(Below
1700) at Bhandari Darshak Mandap, Che-
tak Circle, Udaipur, Organised by chess in
Lakecity from 8th to 10th May 2018 under
aegis of All Rajputana Chess Association
and All India Chess Federation. Managers
and players meetings was arranged just
before the starting of tournament the other
necessary technical matters were decided
and appeals committee was formed.
A total of 391 players including 224 Fide
rated players and 167 unrated players took
part in the prestigious chess tournament
from all over India. One player from neigh-
bouring country Nepal also participated .
Top seeded Babel T Divyanshu was held
to draw by a lower seeded Abhilash Ku-
mar during the 3rd Round.At the end of
6th round 2 players were sharing the lead
Gabbar of UP and Murarilal Kori of MP with
6 point .In 7th round Murarilal Kori of MP
to take the sole lead with 7 point. After 8th
round Murarilal Kori won the tournament
with 7.5 point out of possible 8.Hemant
Chaurasia, Gaurav Sharma, Soumen Man-
dal, Sheth Preet, Raj D Vyas, Naman Potr-
wal, Vikas Nishad, Ravi Shanker, Rajendra
Gupta stood 2nd to 10th resp.
The players and managers were very much
co-operative and all the arrangements
like venue, accommodation, food etc were
excellent The team of arbiter namely Dy.
Chief FA Vikas Sahu, FA Siddhesh Thik, SNA
Vivek Kumar Pathak, SNA Chandan Chawla
were very much competent and reacted in
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14 Ujjwal Deep 6½ 57 Divyanshu Sharma 5½
15 Gabbar 6 58 Sabiuddin Baig 5½
16 Singh Satendra 6 59 Sharma Bhagwat Prasad 5½
17 Babel T Divyanshu 6 60 Vasudeva Varun 5½
every condition with equipped technical 18 Love Jindal 6 61 Thaker Vishwam Jayesh 5½
knowledge. 19 Bhrigu Suryanarayan 6 62 Dhruv Dak 5½
20 Khandelwal Naman 6 63 Rakesh Gupta 5½
It is my duty to thank Mr. Rajeev Bharadwaj 21 Deepak Batra 6 64 Raj Prakhar 5½
tournament director of the event without 22 Dhiraj Patil 6 65 Abhishek Sharma 5½
him this event could not have been a grand 23 Joshi Nilesh 6 66 Shyam sunder singh c 5½
success. I take this opportunity to thank 24 Nitul Khare 6 67 Pawan Sain 5½
Mr. Vikas Sahu, Secretary, Chess in Lake- 25 Arun Kataria 6 68 Ramgopal Chaurasiya 5
city for their tireless work, dedication and 26 Neeraj Rawat 6 69 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 5
support to conclude this mega event with 27 Chauhan Narayan 6 70 Karthik Sorikh 5
grand success. 28 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6 71 Deep Dutta 5
29 Atma Prakash 6 72 Sankalp Arora 5
The prize distribution ceremony was or- 30 Tiwari O P 6 73 Agrawal Aanya 5
ganized in a grand manner at the hands 31 Parmar Jay 6 74 Soni Deepak R 5
of Shri Ravindra Shrimali, Chairman UIT, 32 Mathew Sunny 6 75 Sharma Ajay 5
Shri Pramod Samar, BJP Leader, Adv Bharat 33 Hariom Solanki 6 76 Babaria Rahil Pareshbhai 5
Joshi , President Bar Assocation Udaipur, 34 Neeraj Sah 6 77 Arpita Jain 5
Adv Manish Mogra and other guests present 35 Hamendra Singh Makwana 6 78 Panchal Tisha N 5
were Dr. Om Sahu, VP Chess in Lakecity, 36 Gurjeet Singh 6 79 Shubham Gupta 5
Mr.Shatrudhan Bandwal, President Buddhi- 37 Sharma Varun 5½ 80 Sudhakar 5
bal Seva sansthan, Mr. Rajeev Bhardwaj, 38 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 81 Mohit Joshi 5
President Chess in lakecity, Mr.Vikas sahu, 39 Rohan Pandey 5½ 82 Rohit vyas 5
Secretary, Chess in Lakecity. 40 Gaha Narayan 5½ 83 Imitiyaz Ahmad Lone 5
41 Bharadia Yash 5½ 84 Mahendra Singh Umat 5
Final ranking 42 Nirmal Lalit V 5½ 85 Aditya Chowdhry 5
Rk Name Pts 43 Hiridik Rajendran 5½ 86 Dharmendra Yadav 5
1 Murarilal Kori 7½ 44 Nakul Chaudhary 5½ 87 Chandra prakash 5
2 Chourasiya Hemant 7 45 Panchal Soham 5½ 88 Gajendra Kumar 5
3 Gaurav Sharma 7 46 Meher Rudranshu Kumar 5½ 89 Kholia Kishan 5
4 Soumen Mondal 7 47 Shami Vipin K. 5½ 90 Panchal Hiya 5
5 Sheth Preet 7 48 Shubham Singh 5½ 91 Monika Sahu 5
6 Raj D Vyas 6½ 49 Laheri Nitya 5½ 92 Shiva Meena 5
7 Naman Porwal 6½ 50 Ankur Khatri 5½ 93 Manodhya Prakrati 5
8 Vikash Nishad 6½ 51 Vraj Kayasth 5½ 94 Vijendra Victor 5
9 Ravi Shanker 6½ 52 Dabhi Geet H 5½ 95 Aditya Pant 5
10 Rajendra Gupta 6½ 53 Abhilash Kumar 5½ 96 Dinesh Sinha 5
11 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb 6½ 54 Adalja Vanssh A 5½ 97 Patel Riddhi R 5
12 Mohammad Zubar 6½ 55 Habib Qureshi Raaz 5½ 98 Krishna Kumar 5
13 Harminder Singh 6½ 56 Gautam Kataria 5½ 99 Nishtha Chandaliya 5
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 Malka Lakshmi Memorial All India Open Fide Rating Tournament,Hyderabad
Vikramjit Singh of South Central Railway wins
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter
S Vikramjit Singh of South Central Railway
won the Malka Lakshmi Memorial All India
Fide Rating Chess Tournament Organized by
Pallavi Chess Academy and held at Pallavi
International School, Gandipeta Campus,
Hyderabad from 10th to 14th May, 2018.In
the final round he defeated M Vinodh Kumar
of Tamil Nadu. Vikrakmjit got 8 points from
9 rounds. V Varun , J Sai Agni Jeevitesh,
J Ramakrishna all got 7.5points each and
placed 2nd to 4th in that order by tie break
score.The winner got Rs. 50,000/- ; 2nd
placed Rs. 30,000/- and 3rd placed received
Rs. 20,000/- Total Rs. 4,05,000/- amount
is distributed among 55 winners.
The event attracted 174 participants
(including 114 Fide Rated ) Telangana,
Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka,
Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajastan and Harya-
na States and a few from S C Railway and
Andhra Bank.
The tournament was inaugurated by lighting
of the lamp by Sri G. Vivekanand, Adviser
to Govt. of Telangana and Sri M. Komari-
ah, Chairman Pallavi Group of Schools. Sri
Srikanth, Director Operations, Mrs. Aro-
gya, Prinicipal, Pallavi Int School and Sri
K S Prasad, Secretary,TSCA also present.
Sri G Vivekananda, Adviser Government of
Telangana State and President-Hyderabad
Cricket Association made first move against
Sri Malka Komaraiah, Chairman, Pallavi
Group of Schools
In the prize distribution ceremony Chief
Guest Sri Venkateswara Reddy Chairman,
Sports Authority of Telangana State , Sri
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Indian School Team won Gold Medal at Russia
Chamundeshwari Nath, Vice President Tel-
angana Batminton Association, Pujya Mada-
van Ji, Founder Aware Group, M Komaraiah,
Sponsor of the event and Chairman Pallavi
& DPS Group of Schools, Mrs.Arogya, Prin-
cipal,Pallavi Int School,Gandipet, Major
K A Siva Prasad, Vice President,TSCA; K
S Prasad, Secretary,TSCA gave away the
cash awards and trophies.The chief arbiter
is FA S Subba Raju and deputies are FA K A
Shiva Prasad and FA Vijay Kumar Agarwal Velammal school team has won Gold Medal at the 49th edition of Russian scholastic chess
and NA Sampath B. team event “Belaya Ladya” in Sochi on Friday. The Indian team comprising – D Gukesh
Final anking (Captain), Leon Mendonca, Rakshitta Ravi and Savitha Shri defeated all their rivals in 9
Rk title Name Pts rounds to score 33.5 points.
1 Singh S. Vikramjit 8
2 Varun V 7½ This year, 100 teams – 79 Russian from 78 regions of Russia and also from Armenia,
3 FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½ Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Ka-
4 FM Ramakrishna J. 7½ zakhstan, Kenia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,
5 Saranya Y 7 Sweden, and Turkmenistan were taking part in the competition.
6 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 7
The winners are entitled to participate in the Aeroflot Open 2019.
7 Nanditha V 7
8 Ravi Kumar K 7
Final standings:1 India 33.5;2 Sverdlovsk region 25.5;3 St. Petersburg 24.0
9 Mushini Ajay 6½
4 Armenia 22.5; 5 The Republic of Buryatia 22.5
10 Vijay Anand M. 6½
11 Sai Krishna S. 6½
Altibox Norway Chess Blitz
12 Karthik Rajaa 6½
13 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6½ Anand tied for second place
14 Khan S 6½ The 6th edition of Altibox Norway Chess kicked off with
15 Dave Kantilal 6½ traditional Blitz Opener . GM Wesley So (U.S.A) emerged
16 Amitpal Singh 6½ as winner with impressive 6.0/9 points. Whereas, GM
17 Madkar Atharva 6 Hikaru Nakamura (U.S.A) and GM Viswanathan Anand tied
18 Leeladhar Kachroo 6 for second place at 5.5/9 points respectively.
19 Hemanth Sankar Reddy 6
20 Seshu P.V.V. 6 Final standings:1,GM Wesley So 6/9;2.GM Hikaru Naka-
21 Rohith Yadav B R 6 mura 5.5/9;3.GM Viswanathan Anand 5.5/9;4.GM Magnus
22 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 6 Carlsen 5/9;5.GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 4.5/9;6.GM
23 Anil M 6 Maxime Vachier Lagrave 4.5/9;7.GM Fabiano Caruana
24 Sai Raj Gopal K 6 4.5/9;8.GM Sergey Karjakin 3.5/9;9.GM Levon Aronian
25 Anurag Kuruvada 6 3/9;10.GM Ding Liren 3/9
Cont.on p.26 23
 Nasir Ali (1934-2018)
A tribute by IM Manuel Aaron
Syed Nasir Ali, born 26 June 1934, died 29 May
2018 in Kanpur, was one of the greatest Indian
chess players from the second half of the 20th Cen-
tury.He and I were contemporaries and considered
the leaders of Indian chess for about 25 years.
He was a year and a half older than me. Both of
us were loners without close friends among chess
players and over the board we were fierce rivals.
Nasir’s early chess life was based on chess played
with Indian rules as most of the best players of
Kanpur in the 1950s played chess only with Indian
Rules. Nasir was moulded by fellow Kanpur master, Ramdas Gupta (1917-1985), who
represented India at the 1956 Moscow Olympiad and became National Champion in 1957
in Poona. Ramdas himself had been taught the important aspects of the game by an
even older Kanpur resident, Munshi Abdul Aziz, who emigrated to Pakistan.
In 1967 the format of our National Championship was changed from one large Swiss to
a Swiss qualifier, known as the National “B” and then a Round Robin final known as the
National “A”. Nasir Ali had the distinction of winning both the very first National “B” and
its “A” in Poona, 1967. This feat of winning both the qualifier “B” and the final “A” in the
same year was only repeated in Tripura, 1982, by Dibyendu Barua.
Nasir Ali played in all the National Championships from Bombay 1963 (where he was
4th) till Ahmedabad 1984. His last National “A” appearance in 1984 happened to be the
first National “A” appearance of V.Anand who finished 4th.
After his 1967 victory in the Nationals, Nasir’s best was second place, behind me, in the
National “A” at Bangalore (1969) and Rourkela, 1975, though he almost always finished
in the prize list.
A prolific prize winner at Open Tournaments all over the country, he was first at the
S.P.Singh Memorial Open in Jalandhar, with Indian chess rules in 1965, and with Inter-
national rules in 1973. He was first at the Punjab State Open with native Indian Rules
in Jalandhar, 1970.Nasir beat me in the Final of the Emesor Chess Challenge Invitation
in Madras 1971 which was an 8-game Match. Remarkably, he won the Sri Mappillai
Vinayagar Open in Madurai three times, in 1977, 1978 and 1986. His other significant
tournament victories were, the All India Open in Vijayawada, 1972, the 1st Bhilwara
Tournament in Delhi, 1974, the Kidsons Trophy in Calicut, 1975, the Northern States
Quadrangular Open, Jalandhar, 1980, the Piloo Mody Open in Kanpur, 1980 and the
Pundit T.N.Mishra Memorial, in Gorakhpur 2004.
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At the 1982 Bhilwara Tournament in Delhi he drew with Soviet GM Mark Taimanov and
English IM William Hartston. He played on 4th Board for India at the 1983 Asian Team
Championship in Delhi where India was third behind China and the Philippines.
He played a lot of International Chess in 1983, in the British Championship in Southport,
The Benedictine Open in Manchester and the Lloyds Bank Open in London - in all of
which he had creditable victories. In the British Championship he drew GM Ian Rogers
and beat IM Paul Littlewood. In the Lloyds Bank Open he fought back and drew a losing
rook endgame against GM Raymond Keene.
Why Nasir did not become an IM
I think that the main reason he did not rise still higher in the chess world was his incli-
nation to accept any sacrifice that was offered, knowing fully well that it was dangerous.
He had a supreme belief in his ability to safely digest any sacrifice and emerge winner.
He also seemed to lack ambition. He was content with what he had achieved and never
thought of getting the IM title which was his, if he had only tried. Opportunities did not
come his way and he did not clamour for them as did his contemporaries from Mahar-
ashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Another possible reason could be that the U.P. Chess administration during Nasir’s heydays
was not really progressive and did not have a dream for the future of U.P. Chess. They
should have had a vision for Nasir’s future, just as S.K.Narasimhan (1918-1982) who
was AICF Secretary during 1958-62 had a vision for the top players of those times. In
the formative years of the AICF, Narasimhan pioneered, under great handicaps, National
Individual and Team Championships besides the National Students’ Championships (which
has been replaced by the current National Junior) and organized the Zonal Tournament
which gave me the opportunity to become India’s first IM in 1961.
Unfortunately for Nasir, at his peak the Uttar Pradesh Chess Association (UPCA) Sec-
retary was a fellow National “A” player, Kamal Kant Shukla (1922-2000) who was also
Vice President and Treasurer of the AICF for some time. A good friend of mine, Shuk-
laji was also from Kanpur and organized both the 1982 National “B” and “A” in Kanpur.
Shuklaji who represented India at the 1962 Tel Aviv Olympiad was a true chess lover
and an endgame artist. I feel that he was more interested in playing top level chess (he
played seven times in the National Championship Finals of 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965,
1967, 1969 and 1974) and in remaining the President of the UPCA for Life (!) than in
trying to advance the prospects of his star player, Nasir Ali and other talents. And Nasir
never grumbled, never complained. Unlike me and other top players in our youth, he
never rebelled.
Sometimes in tense moments, Nasir had a unique way of making a move. He would
hoist his piece, about a foot over the board, pause for several seconds (maybe 20 to 30
seconds) and then lower the piece down in slow motion! But as it neared the destination
25

square he quickened the motion of the piece but always landed it softly, without a bang.
Om Prakash Kakra, a family friend of Nasir for 50 years from Kanpur, says Nasir Ali was
always ready to give his great chess knowledge to each and everyone who approached
him. “Nasir Sir often looked at other games, even those played by unknown players. He
was such a great human being that if he noticed that either player in a game had missed
some tactic or technical point, he would voluntarily explain the points.”
When Kakra trained 12-year old Swapnil Dhopade in Amravati, Maharashtra, he rec-
ommended to the Dhopade family that they get Nasir Ali to come personally to train
Swapnil for two weeks. Nasir agreed and came. The training was so successful that the
two weeks stretched to a month and the trainee was greatly benefitted.
Dhopade narrates: Our main way of working on chess was to play a lot of practice
games and then analyze them. He would often give me positions in which I would have
a positional advantage or material superiority. Many times he would be completely lost,
but defended tenaciously with all his might. I would not be able to breakthrough and
win and used to get really frustrated. In all of this I learnt two very important lessons:
1. How to analyze a game and, 2. Never give up! I think these two qualities are seen in
me in ample measure as a chess player. He had a strong intuition and used to play fast.”
During 1982 to 1986, he was in the CRPF Camp in Mount Abu thanks to his stint with
the CRPF under B.Varma (1929-2013) a chess lover. Varmaji was the boss of the Inter-
nal Security Academy in Mount Abu and it turned into a chess camp with a large chess
library and training facilities. Like Varmaji who was a fitness freak, Nasir regularly did
yoga, walked, jogged and performed simple stretching exercises. However, Nasir’s ultra
slow-motion jogging was a curious sight! Nasir’s acquisition of chess theory was also
from his CRPF days as the CRPF Library had every available chess literature.
Nasir Ali’s most successful student has been Delhi based GM Sriram Jha. When Sriram
was 12 his father took him to Nasir Ali who, at that time, was posted as a Pharmacist
in the CRPF camp in Delhi.In an interview to ChessBase India, Jha said of Nasir: “He
was the most passionate chess player that I have ever known. He was most gentle and
soft-spoken at all times. I have never seen him talking in a high pitched voice. He had
the most ideal temperament for a great chess player, almost like a Saint. He will never
ever bang his pieces or clock and played his moves in the calmest manner. If you offer
him a pawn he will always take it and will defend his position with all his might. He was
playing very actively till the very last days of his life. I lost to him quite recently in a
FIDE Rated tournament in Allahabad in 2013 without getting any chance throughout
the game!”
Nasir is known only as a great player, not as a Trainer. Probably he is the only player in
India who has coached two boys at different times from different places when they were
only 12 years old, who both turned out to be Grandmasters, and who acknowledge his
contribution to their chess careers.
India has lost a real chess Warrior.
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Cont.from p.22
26 Velpula Sarayu 6 69 Chaitanya V. 5
27 Unnikrishnan M A 6 70 Himesh Empally 5
28 Hruthik Lokesh P 6 71 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5
29 Stanley Samson P. 6 72 Siddarth Sankeerth S 5
30 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 6 73 Domala Bharath Kumar 5
31 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi 6 74 Ravi Madduru 5
32 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6 75 AFM D hanush Reddy A 5
33 Aditya Varun Gampa 6 76 Dhanala Abhinav 5
34 Bipin Raj S 6 77 Pritam Panda 4½
35 AIM Kandi Ravi 6 78 Suhrud Sudheer A K 4½
36 Vinay R Jumani 5½ 79 Srikanth Myakala 4½
37 Duvvala Suresh 5½ 80 Viswa Teja G 4½
38 Rithvik Raja M 5½ 81 Anirudh M 4½
39 AIM Kalur Nikhil 5½ 82 Sri Chandana G 4½
40 Sai Kiran Y 5½ 83 Sreenandan Babu J 4½
41 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 5½ 84 AFM R aivath Mallela 4½
42 Theju K V 5½ 85 Ankur Roy 4½
43 Praveen Saki 5½ 86 Mythri Maddisetty 4½
44 Shaik Fayaz 5½ 87 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 4½
45 Anandha Venkatesan 5½ 88 Abhinav Sattaru 4½
46 Adithya A Chullikkad 5½ 89 Shaileshwar V 4½
47 Gokul Ravichandran 5½ 90 Komarajula Sai Anirudh 4½
48 Muppiri Nirmal Reddy 5½ 91 A Kovidh Kushal Reddy 4½
49 Rachita Sabbathi 5½ 92 Pranay Reddy B 4½
50 Srinivasa Raju S 5½ 93 Prashanth Kumar T 4½
51 Meghanshram B V 5 94 Srishanthi G 4½
52 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 5 95 Vignesh Ramaswamy 4½
53 Divya Teja P 5 96 Subhash Kumar M 4
54 Prasad N 5 97 Kumaran Charan 4
55 AFM A dvaita Sharma K 5 98 Harshavardhan G 4
56 Syed Tarannum 5 99 Vishvas Reddy K 4
57 Aji Kumar A 5 100 Dalipartihi S B 4
58 Sanjay Srinivasan R 5 101 Ashmita Reddy N 4
59 Goutham D 5 102 Pranav Sai K 4
60 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 5 103 Mahith Greesham Goud M 4
61 Krishna Kalyan 5 104 Dutt B.S. 4
62 Murali Mohan Y 5 105 Kapavarapu Varun 4
63 Jaswanth Prasanna V 5 106 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 4
64 Karishma T 5 107 Sahejdeep Kaur 4
65 AFM H ima Surya K 5 108 Shruthik Sarvagni P 4
66 Saypuri Srithan 5 109 Jeswanth Sai Niketh C H 4
67 Sai Mahati A 5 110 Jayasree Tarini Priya T 4
68 Ojas Mehetre 5 111 Vishnu Karthikeya D 4
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 Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tournament, Thrissur
Prasath wins title at Thrissur
by Peter Joseph M,Chief Arbiter
Thrissur chess academy and the Kasparov
chess academy jointly organized the first
Kasparov below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tour-
nament from 12/05/2018 to 14/05/2018 at
Paremakavu Devaswam school. The tourna-
ment was inaugurated by Sri. Vincent Kat-
tookaran, President, Sports Council, Thrissur.
Sri. Sasidharan, Secretary, Chess Association
Thrissur, Sri. Jayamohan, President Thris-
sur chess academy, Sri. Vijayan, Executive
member, Paremakavu Devaswam, Sri. Peter
Joseph, Fide Arbiter, attended the inaugural
function.
Master Amal Roozi was the top seed with an
elo rating of 1585 and as usual tournament
witnessed many upsets and thrilling games.
There were 320 fide rated players out of
432 players who participated in the three
day nine round tournament
The eighth round sole leader was Sri. Jagad-
heeswaran with7.5 points. In the final round
Sri. K R Prasath of Tamil Nadu beat the leader
and captured the winner trophy
and a prize amount of Rs 30,000/- with eight
points from 9 rounds. Master Nithyan.S from
Kerala and Mr. Sudeepan from Thrissur/Ker-
ala also got eight points but were placed sec-
ond and third spot respectively. Sri, Sethu,
Circle Inspector of Police, Thrissur were gave
away the prizes, Sri. T J SureshKumar, Sri.
Babu MM, Sri Safarhussain, Sri Hameed, Sri
Noushad K U attended the prize distribution
ceremony.
Organizers ensured that all the players re-
turned from Thrissur with good memories of
this tournament. I wish to extend my heart-
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28 Varun Rajesh Nandanam 6½ 75 Naveen Ramdas 6
29 Harshiv Adhithya P V 6½ 76 Benny P C 6
30 Syam Peter 6½ 77 Jegadeesh G 6
31 John Veny Akkarakaran 6½ 78 Rahul Ravikumar 6
32 Nykaj A K 6½ 79 Hari K Mohanan 6
felt thanks to Sri. Bharath Singh Secretary, 33 Rahan Ramesh 6½ 80 Shrishanth S Rao 6
AICF, IAs Sri. Gopakumar, Sri. Srivatsan, Sri. 34 Amarnath Gupta 6½ 81 Safar Hussain 6
Vijayaraghavan for their support towards the 35 Neeraj Kumar 6½ 82 Antony Simethy 6
tournament. Chess association Kerala and 36 Dhanush Ram M 6½ 83 Sidharth Rajeev 6
chess association thrissur were helped us 37 Jyothika U R 6½ 84 Raveendran T. 6
and we are thankful to them. We are always 38 Imran Hussain 6½ 85 Denny P K 5½
remember the presence and advice of Sri. T 39 Swaha V S 6½ 86 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 5½
J Sureshkumar who is our patron. The arbi- 40 Anjitha Krishnakumar 6½ 87 Sreenidhi C V 5½
41 Hrishikesh A J 6½ 88 Bhagyashree G Patil 5½
ter team and volunteers done a wonderful
42 Chinnadurai S. 6½ 89 Mithun Raj A 5½
job which ensured smooth run of the event
43 Shiva Chethan Halamane 6½ 90 Kaavyadharsini S 5½
without any issues. 44 Aryan Anand 6½ 91 Gavandi Sandesh 5½
45 Mohammed Sudheer P P 6½ 92 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 5½
Final ranking 46 Arun D 6 93 Adithya Sekar 5½
Rk Name Pts 47 Paulson Frenchy 6 94 Jojo P John 5½
1 Prasath K R 8 48 Sameer C 6 95 Raman Trikazhipuram 5½
2 Nithyan S 8 49 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 96 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5½
3 Sudeepan K S 8 50 S. Jeevanandam 6 97 Vinod K Kuttappan 5½
4 Jagatheeswaran G 7½ 51 Kesavan G 6 98 Ssathyan S R 5½
5 Amal Roozi 7½ 52 Rockson S Parayil 6 99 Benson Baby 5½
6 Shanmugasundaram G. 7½ 53 Rakesh N 6 100 Ravendran KK 5½
7 Eldho Skaria 7½ 54 Biju Kumar 6 101 S atheesh Arukety 5½
8 Sumesh Kabeer 7½ 55 Emmanuel Thomas 6 102 P riyesh M J 5½
9 Joju K V 7 56 Jolly V P 6 103 Rohan Nachnani 5½
10 Abdallah M Nisthar 7 57 Mahesh K 6 104 Rohith C 5½
11 Sidharth A Kumar 7 58 Gagan Bharadwaj K 6 105 B enny Thomas 5½
12 Vishnu Ram M 7 59 Prawin K 6 106 S unny Varghese 5½
13 Azeef C A 7 60 Rajeevan Puthiya Kunnummal 6 107 D harsan Venkatachalam 5½
14 Ashkar M M 7 61 Vinod S 6 108 V ijayakumar S 5½
15 Santhosh V R 7 62 Kishore U R 6 109 T harshan M K 5½
16 Gopinath P 7 63 Devanand B 6 110 A nantha Krishna Nayak M 5½
17 Gowri Shankar A 7 64 Aswin Biju 6 111 Raghuraj V.N. 5½
18 Sai Krishnan R 7 65 Sudheesh M A 6 112 Yahya Favaz C Abdulla 5½
19 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7 66 Shanoj T Syed Alavi 6 113 M anoj N 5½
20 Satheesh M 7 67 Sanjay Robin 6 114 U nnikrishnan Sasthamkunnel 5½
21 Samson D Cruz J 7 68 Arif A 6 115 A binesh T 5½
22 Bala Ganeshan 6½ 69 Justin Joseph 6 116 V iswajith P Gopinathan 5½
23 Thomas Valiyaprambil 6½ 70 Dhineshwar R S 6 117 V ipin Vijayan 5½
24 Priyanka Bhatt 6½ 71 Nayan Megha K A 6 118 S reerag Padman 5½
25 Gabriel B M 6½ 72 Kamali B 6 119 A hammed Lal P A 5½
26 Gowrichander U 6½ 73 Sibin Paul 6 120 B harath M 5
27 Sayu P S 6½ 74 Raghavan R 6 121 D ennis Moothedath 5
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 State Bank of India All India Chess Tournament for Visually Challenged,Hyderabad
Marimuthu wins title
by IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter
Devnar foundation for the Blind, Hyderabad
Telangana Organised All India open FIDE Rat-
ed Chess Tournament for visually challenged
from 2nd to 5th May 2018 under the aegis of
All India Chess Federation for the blind and
sponsored by State Bank of India Hyderabad.
The total Number of participants were 137
and among them 51 were FIDE rated players.
Players from 14 states represented. Organiz-
ers provided free boarding and lodging to all
the participants and escorts. The tournament
was conducted in Swiss league format with
9 rounds. Devnar Foundation for the blind
organized a one day sightseeing tour taking
all players and escorts to Husain Sagar Lake
for boating and all enjoyed lot.
At the end of sixth round Marimuthu K of
Tamilnadu lead the race with 6 points. On
seventh round he drew with Ashvin Makwana
K of Gujarat. On the eighth round he defeated
Balaraman K of Kerala and on the final round
he agreed for quick draw with Srikrishna Udu-
pa Of Kar. With 8 points Marimuthu clinched
the first place. Krishna Udupa of Karnataka
and Sujit Chudasama of Gujarat scored 7.5
points, on their best tie breaks secured 2nd
and 3rd place respectively.
The total cash prize of Rs.60, 000 was dis-
tributed to top 25 players. Chief Guest S
Manikandan General Manager SBI, B Ven-
katesham IAS Secretary Telangana State,
and Padmashri Awardee Dr. A. Saibaba Goud,
MS, Ph.D. Founder Chairman DFFB, distrib-
uted the prizes to prize winners.
Final ranking(first forty placings only)
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Rk Name Club Pts
1 Marimuthu K T N 8
2 Krishna Udupa KAR 7½
3 Sujit J Chudasama GUJ 7½
4 Makwana Ashvin K GUJ 7
5 Patil Shirish MAH 7
6 Somender B L DEL 7
7 Samant Milind MAH 7
8 Venkat Reddy S A P 7
9 Swapanil Shah MAH 6½
10 Balaraman P KER 6½
11 Hariharan Gandhi T N 6½
12 Akhilesh K. Srivastava DEL 6½
13 Thrijay Kumar Bhera A P 6½
14 Ramesha A R KAR 6
15 Mohammed Rahil KER 6
16 Amol Sakpal MAH 6
17 Shah Saiyam Kamleshbhai GUJ 6
18 Lokhande Shobha MAH 6
19 Prasanna Kumar M A P 6
20 Kartik Damle MAH 6
21 Chirantan C Mesariya GUJ 6
22 Viral Trivedi GUJ 6
23 Sathish M A P 6
24 Vasant D Patil MAH 6
25 Nagaraj Guntal KAR 6
26 Kiran Kumar A Simpi KAR 6
27 Megha Chakraborty W B 6
28 Vivek Kumar Srivastava DEL 6
29 Samuel Manoharan KAR 6
30 Vignesh R T N 5½
31 Solanki Pragnesh GUJ 5½
32 Bagayatkar Madan MAH 5½
33 Karthikeyan R Kasaragod KER 5½
34 Gopi R T N 5½
35 Pradeep K K KER 5½
36 Vibin Wilson C KER 5½
37 Vijay Yetre MAH 5½
38 Dharmaraj R T N 5½
39 Ajit Oran DEL 5½
40 Singh Surypratap M P 5½
47th Tamil Nadu State Junior (Open) FIDE Rated Championship & 32nd Tamil
Nadu State Junior (Girls) FIDE Rated Championship 2018
Rathnavel and Jyothsna emerge Junior Champions
by IA R.K.Balagunasekaran, Chief Arbiter
Rathanvel full point run was stopped by Manu
Tamil Nadu State Junior (Open & Girls)
David Suthandram of Chennai by a draw in
FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2018 was
7th round. In the final round Rathnavel from
successfully organized at GYM hall, PSNA
Coimbatore managed to beat Raahul and with
College of Engineering and Technology,
full point ahead of others, won the 47th Tamil
Kothandaraman, Dindigul from 11th to 15th
Nadu State Junior (Open) FIDE Rated Chess
May 2018. The Championships was inaugu-
Championship 2018
rated by Rtn., Major Donor.RSK Raguraam,
Pro-Chairman,PSNA CET in the presence of
In girls event L Jyothsna from NLC and I
Mr. Stephen Balasamy, General Secretary,Ta-
Harivardhini from Tiruvallur were leading
mil Nadu State Chess Association, Rtn., Major
the event till round 7, in round
Donor. G Sundararajan, President-Dindigul
8 harivardhini lost her game with Dhivyab-
District Chess Association, Dr.N Mahendran,
harathi Masanam from Chennai that makes
Principal,PSNA CET, Mr.S. Soundararajan,
Jyothsna joint lead with Dhivyabharathi. In
District Sports and Youth welfare officer,
the final round all top three boards ended in
Rtn.PP.P.Ramalingam, Vice President-DDCA,
draws. Jyothsna and dhivyabharathi tied for
Mr.Axiom.S.Abdul Nazer, Secretary, DDCA,
first, but through direct encounter Jyothsna,
Mr.J Vijay, Physical Director, PSNA CET and
who won her game with dhivya in the 3rd
International Arbiter RK Balagunashekaran,
round won the 32nd Tamil Nadu State Jun-
Chief Arbiter of this championships.
ior (Girls) FIDE Rated Chess Championship
2018.
The championship was in two categories Jun-
ior (U19) Open & Junior (U19) Girls. It was a
The PSNA College of Engineering and Tech-
nine round event. The championships attract-
nology gives a excellent hospitality for the
ed 151 participants in open and 73 partici-
players and their parents for all 5 days.
pants in girls from 27 districts all over from
Nutritious food and in between the round
Tamil Nadu. V S Rathanvel from Coimbatore
snacks were provided for both the players
and L Jyothsna from NLC were top seeds of
and parents. All of them were given accom-
open and girls events respectively. From this
modation inside the campus. With the college
top 4 players were to be selected for National
support, Dindigul District Chess Association
Junior Chess Championship 2018.
organized the championship in good manner,
all the organizing work were equally divided
In open event all top seeded players had
and given to all the association members, So
smooth run for two rounds, in the 3rd round
that all of them are contributed to make the
S Rohit Vassan from Vellore hold 2nd seeded
event successful. Apart from 10 main prizes
player VS Raahul and set a breakthrough for
in each event DDCA also gave 5 category
the event. But Rathanvel played some beau-
prize in U12, U15 in Open & girls event.
tiful chess and in the end of 5th round he
already a sole leader of the event with 5/5.
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The prizes were distributed by the Chief quest 35 Harshad S 5½ 29th Tamil Nadu State Under 17 Open and Girls Championship, Nagercoil
Mr.S.Balakumar, DSP Dindigul Town in the 36 Gugan G 5½
presence of Dr.N.Mahendran, Principal, PSNA 37 Tarun V 5½ Avinash Ramesh and Jyothsna clinch titles
CET, Mr.S.Soundararajan, District Sports and 38 Yutesh P 5½ by IA &FI S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter
Youth Welfare Officer, Rtn. G. Sundararajan, 39 Genish Prakash J 5½
40 Shyam Sundar M 5½ 188 in open and 92 in girls were in the fray nationals as the defending national champi-
President, DDCA, Rtn.PP.P.Ramalingam, in the 29th Tamil Nadu State Under 17 open on in this category hails from state of Tamil
Vice-President-DDCA, Mr.Axiom.S.Abdul and girls chess championship held at Nager- Nadu.
Final ranking (Girls)
Nazer, Secretary,DDCA, Mr.Vijay, Physical coil from May 16 to 20, 2018. Nagercoil is
Rk Name Pts
Director,PSNA CET and Mr.RK Balagunashe- 1 WCMJyothsna L 7 the head quarters of Kanyakumari district Though the month of May is a season of
karan, Chief Arbiter of the event. 2 Divyabharathi Masanam 7 which attracts lot of tourists for its famous scorching heat, sudden spell of rain in Nager-
Final ranking 3 Harivardhini I 6½ Triveni Sangam, the confluence of three sea coil brought down the temperature making
Rk Name Pts 4 Shrija K M 6½ namely the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and the environment very cool and conducive for
1 FM Rathanvel V S 8 5 Tejasvi M 6½ the Indian Ocean at the southern most end the match. This five day event was inaugurat-
2 Barath Kalyan M 7 6 Abirama Srinithi G 6½ of India.. ed by Dr.T.V.S Pillai, Dean, University college
3 Manu David Suthandram R 7 7 Rindhiya V 6½
4 Gokulraj K 7
of Engineering and the Chief Guest for the
8 Srimathi R 6
5 Raahul V S 6½ Conceding only two draws from nine games, the award giving ceremony on the final day
9 Savitha Shri B 6
6 Hemanth Raam 6½ Jyothsna of Sports Development Centre, Dr.S.Sella Durai, Director of Sports, Anna
10 Poorna Sri M.K 6
7 Rohit Vassan S 6½ 11 Reshma C R 6 Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited, University, Chennai felicitated the winners.
8 Prajesh R 6½ 12 Kavitha P L 6 Neyveli emerged as the State Under 17 girls Mr.M.Ephrame, Joint Secretary, TNSCA and
9 Mohamed Anees M 6½ 13 Benasir M 6 champion by targeting 8 points. Jyothsina is Mr. Rex, Secretary, Kanyakumari district
10 Pranesh M 6½ 14 Jegatha B 6 a silver medalist in the Asian Under 14 Girls chess Association also felicitated the winners.
11 CM Rohith Krishna S 6½ 15 Jaysree S 6 chess championship. Eventually she was the Final standings: Under 17 Open
12 Sanjay D G 6½ 16 Senthamizh Yazhini S 5½ Tamil Nadu state champion in the under 15 Rk Name Pts
13 AGM Rathneesh R 6 17 Srimozhi S 5½ and under 19 category. Therefore usurping 1 Avinash Ramesh 7½
14 Sibi Visal R 6 18 Mohana Praba R B 5½ the title in the middle order was not a big 2 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 7½
15 Thaga Sheriff M 6 19 Abinaya S 5½ 3 Sibi Visal R 7½
issue for her. One point behind the champion
16 Rathish T.J. 6 20 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5½ 4 Prajesh R 7
was Tejasvi M and third was Harshini B both
17 AGM Srihari L R 6 21 Nivetta T 5½ 5 Arjun C Krishnamachari 7
18 Godson Merlin E 6
from Chennai. There was a three way tie
22 Rebecca Jesumarian 5½ 6 Anup Shankar R 7
19 Selvamurugan B 6 for the championship in the open category.
23 Sanju Shree Murali 5½ 7 Kamalanathan R 7
20 Kabhilan S 6 Avinash Ramesh of Chennai with 7.5 points
24 Harshini B 5 8 Manu David Suthandram R 6½
21 Selvabharathy T 6 25 Ahalya A 5 on account of better tie break score relegat- 9 Gugan G 6½
22 Aswin Kumar B S 6 26 Indulekha K S 5 ed the others to second and third spot. The 10 Suganthan S 6½
23 Ayushh Ravikumar 6 27 Genita Gladys A 5 second and third place went to Arunachalam 11 Sivashankar M 6½
24 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6 28 Keerthana R 5 Shivva of Coimbatore and Sibi Visal R of 12 Senthamizh Kumaran S 6½
25 Dinesh Rajan M 6 29 Swethitha C 5 Mamakkal respectively. 13 Dharani Kumar M S 6½
26 Girinath B S 6 30 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 5 14 Arivu Selvan A S 6½
27 AGM Vignesh B 6 31 Thilakavathi B 5 The winner and runner of this championship 15 Nithish Muthukumaran 6½
28 Shreyas M 6 32 Dhanu Keerthana G 5 will represent State of Tamil Nadu in the Na- 16 Devaraja G 6½
29 Srijan J 6 33 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 4½ 17 Prahalad B 6
tional Under 17 championship to be held at
30 A P Santhana Prabu 6 34 Tina C 4½ 18 Ram Kumar G M 6
Sonipet, Haryana from September 3 to 10,
31 Avinash Ramesh 5½ 35 Jayalakshmi R K 4½ 19 Shyam Sundar M 6
32 Arul Anandh S P K 5½
2018. Apart from these two, an additional
36 Akashya Lakshmi P 4½ 20 Shriman K 6
33 Anup Shankar R 5½ number of three more players from girl’s
37 M Padma Pratibha 4½ 21 Suthershun A 6
34 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5½ category will also get a berth in the current
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23 Aravinth Shanmugam S 6 8 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 6 30th WB State Age Gr. (U-13 Boys & Girls) Fide Rated Chess Championship,Kolkata
24 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6 9 Abirami S 6
25 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 6 10 Jai Priya K 6 Samip Roy and Ayantika Das
26 Infant Jose H 6 11 Femil Chelladurai 6 by Debasish Barua, IA,Chief Arbiter
27 Mathavan T 6 12 Reshma C R 6
28 Rutherford S 6 13 Divyabharathi Masanam 6 The 30th WB State Age Gr. (U-13 Open & provided Breakfast and lunch packets to all
29 Nithin A V 6 14 Harsha R 6 Girls) Chess Championship 2018 organized the participants during the game. In the val-
30 Tarun V 6 15 Tejaswi R 6 by Kolkata District Chess Association held edictory ceremony Mr. Saikat Mitra, VC, WB
31 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6 16 Jaysree S 5½ at Sahid Smriti Sangha, Kolkata, from 4th Technical University, GM Sandipan Chanda,
32 Suudhan S 6 17 Jegatha B 5½ to 6th April 2018.The Tournament was inau- Mr. Atanu Lahiri were present and distributed
33 Antony Jesumarian Leslie 6 18 Pooja S (2002) 5½ gurated by Mr. Atin Sengupta, Secretary, the prizes.
34 Honnesh Sankaran 6 19 Kiruthika B 5½ Kolkata Dist. Chess Association.
35 Bhadrinathan A 6 20 Pavithra M 5½ Final ranking (first 60 placings only)
36 Aswath S 5½ 21 Dhanusha S 5½ Rk Name Pts
Total 319 players (239 for Open Category &
37 Sai Prasath A S 5½ 22 Anni Shayana Stephen 5½ 1 Samip Roy 7½
80 for Girls Category) from the various dis-
38 Gokulraj K 5½ 23 Amisha Sany M 5½ 2 Arya Bhakta 6½
39 Shreyas M 5½ 24 Arputha Jasmine B A 5 tricts from remote corner of the state have
3 Ayan Pal 6½
40 Evan Sanjoe 5½ 25 Subalakshmi M S 5 taken part in the tournament in which 96
4 Ayush Jha 6½
41 Siva Shanmugam S 5½ 26 Rebecca Jesumarian 5 rated in Open Section and 26 in Girls . The 5 Pratyay Chowdhury 6½
42 Shanthosh R 5½ 27 Soundariya Lakshmi G 5 playing hall was full Air conditioned and very 6 Aditya Bikram Paul 6½
43 Akash P 5½ 28 Subhiksha E 5 good atmosphere for the players with suffi- 7 Souhardo Basak 6½
44 Sreejith V S 5½ 29 Tina C 5 cient toilet facilities. As per AICF guidelines 8 Aniruddh Chatterjee 6
45 Ganesha Moorthy D 5½ 30 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 5 I have checked aicf registration and found 9 Debarghya Samanta 6
46 Jaidambareesh N R 5½ 31 Pushpa Angela V 5 all paid. 10 Soham Saha 6
47 Sriram S 5½ 32 Genita Gladys A 5 11 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 6
48 Suren S 5½ 33 Chandralekha G 5 The tournament was played under swiss sys- 12 Anish Rooj 6
49 Sanjeev M 5½ 34 Priya Varshini T 5 tem format eight rounds for the Open and 13 Soham Pal 6
50 Vigneshwaran K 5½ 35 Srimozhi S 5 14 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 6
seben rounds for girls section . International
51 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½ 36 Sivasri S 5 15 Aritrya Pal 6
chess sets were used and digital chess clocks
52 Tamizh Selvan Ganesan 5½ 37 Sanju Shree Murali 5 16 Dhritabrata Kundu 6
53 Nellaiappan V 5½ 38 Durga R 5 in every board. The organizers and players
17 Sayandeep Roy 6
54 Gokula Vishnu R 5½ 39 Keerthana R 5 were very supportive and cooperative
18 Rahul Krishna V. 6
55 Midhun Kumar M A 5½ 40 Shenbaga Meena T 5 19 Shankhodip De 6
56 Arul Anandh S P K 5½ 41 Stepheena S 5 At the end of final round games Samip Roy 20 Dhrubajyoti Barman 6
57 Manikandan Rangan 5½ 42 Sahasra S 5 (7)became champion in Open Section . Arya 21 Anjishnu Mondal 6
58 Bharathkumar E 5½ 43 M Padma Pratibha 4½ Bhakta (6.5) & Ayan Pal (6.5) placed second 22 Ujan Sarkar 5½
59 Baraneedharan S 5½ 44 Riya Shannon S 4½ and third respectively. In the girls section 23 Bhattacharyya Soham 5½
60 Nishan M 5 45 Pavithra I J 4½ Ayantika Das(6.5)became champion by bet- 24 Shounak Mazumder 5½
Final standings:Under 17 Girls 46 Hiranmayi K 4½ ter tie break. Where as Anushka Gupta(6.5) 25 Akshath Sinha 5½
Rk Name Pts 47 Karishma T 4½ & Annyatoma Das(5.5) placed second & third 26 Priyanshu Barua 5½
1 Jyothsna L WCM 8 48 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan 4½ respectively. The tournament was going on 27 Soumalya Mondol 5½
2 Tejasvi M 7 49 Kanirathinam A 4½ 28 Rupankar Kundu 5½
smoothly throughout . There were no dis-
3 Harshini B 7 50 Henishma A R 4½ 29 Ritwik Datta Gupta 5½
putes/protests placed before the Appeals’
4 Achaya Vijayan 6½ 51 Rakshitha P 4 30 Rachishnu Datta 5½
5 Benasir M 6½ 52 Leaha B 4 Committee. All deputy Arbiters worked hard
31 Atreya Nandy 5½
6 Srimathi R 6½ 53 Swethitha C 4 during the whole tournament and enabled
32 Aditya Prasad 5½
7 Abirama Srinithi G 6 54 Aishwariya Anand P 4 smooth run of the event. The Organizers 33 Tanishq Poddar 5½

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Siddhartha Sarkar
Sankalan Shah
5½
5½
18 Pranjoli Tambuli
19 Jagriti Agarwal
4½
4½
Selected games from Kolkata GM 42.Rd4 He is obliged to keep an eye on his
d5 pawn and keep it over-protected. 42...
36 Aditya Chatterjee 5½ 20 Samriddhi Das 4½ Tournament Qa1 43.Rb4 Rf5 44.Qg6??
37 Mayukh Chatterjee 5½ 21 Ankita Kundu 4½ Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
38 Oishik Kundu 5½ 22 Trishnika Sen 4½
Gupta,Abhijeet (2619)
39 Indrava Banik 5½ 23 Soumeli Das 4
Narayanan,Srinath (2525) [E04]
40 Subhankar Kar 5½ 24 Das Anissa 4
41 Soutrik Maitra 5 25 Juhi Parekh 4 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4
42 Hrittik Sarkar 5 26 Nishita Jha 4 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 a5 7.a3 Bd6 8.0–0
43 Sagnik Saha 5 27 Ishika Mondal 4 Nc6 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.Nc3 0–0
44 Eshan Bhattacharjee 5 28 Saparya Ghosh 4 12.e3 e5 13.d5 Na7 14.Nd2 b5 15.a4
45 Arghadeep Das 5 29 Shreshtha Surai 4 Bd7 16.Qc2 [or 16.axb5 Nxb5 17.Nce4 Qe7
46 Shresth Mahapatra 5 18.Nxc4=] 16...Qe7 17.Rfc1 f5 18.axb5
30 Ankana Ghosh Dastidar 4
47 Rishab Debsharma 5 Nxb5 19.Nxb5 Bxb5 20.Nxc4 a4 21.Nxd6
48 Soham Bhattacharyya 5 31 Adrija Paria 4
cxd6 22.Ra3 Bd7 23.Rc3 Ra7 24.Qe2
49 Ashutosh Padhi 5 32 Adrita Mitra 4 Diagram [This move, leaving his Rb4 unpro-
Qd8 25.R1c2 Qb6 26.Bh3 Rb7 27.Qd1
50 Srinjoy Sarkar 5 33 Taniska Sarkar 4 Qa5 28.Rc6?! tected on b4 costs white a pawn. Better was:
51 Sagnik Ray 5 34 Ritama Das 4 44.Qh4= ] 44...Rxf3!! 45.Rxf3 Rxf3!–+
52 Uddipan Roy 5 35 Arnabi Sen 3½ 46.Rb7 [Not 46.Kxf3? Qc3+! 47.Kg2
53 Archisman Patra 5 36 Urja Goyal 3½ Qxb4–+] 46...Rf6 47.Rb8+ Rf8 48.Rxf8+
54 Sohom Chatterjee 5
37 Anisha Ghosh 3½ Kxf8 49.Qxd6+ Ke8–+ White's only hope
55 Saptarshi Talukdar 5
38 Dhruvi Sha 3½ now lies in perpetual check. 50.Qg6+ Ke7!
56 Snehil Raj Singh 5
57 Aditya Bose 5 39 Prerana Ghosh 3½ 51.d6+
58 Somnath banerjee 5 40 Raina Das Gupta 3½
59 Ayush Das 5 41 Samiya Singh 3½
60 Debadrito Banerjee 5 42 Srijoni Sarkar 3½
43 Ayusmita Das 3½
Final ranking (first 60 placings only)
Rk Name Pts 44 Sumedha Das 3½
1 Ayantika Das 6½ 45 Shrestha Saha 3
Diagram 28...Rf6 [On the face of it, the ac-
2 Anushka Gupta 6½ 46 Prena Mukherjee 3
ceptance of the exchange sacrifice appears
3 Annyatoma Das 5½ 47 Arhashirsha Biswas 3 dangerous for black as he could be losing a
4 Vedika Agarwal 5 48 Himanshi Khandewal 3 couple of important pawns. But actual cal-
5 Kriti Mundhra 5 49 Krishna Anamithra S 3
6 Rajanya Datta 5 culation reveals that he could get an equal
50 Pratyasha Ghosh 3 game with: 28...Bxc6! 29.dxc6 Rc7 30.Qxd6 Diagram 51...Kf8! Amazingly, there is no
7 Yash Jyoti Bir 5
8 Sritama Sen 5 51 Nisha Bhushan 3 Rf6! 31.Qd8+ Kh7 32.Bf1 e4 33.Kg2=] check left for white and he has no possibility
9 Sinthia Sarkar 5 52 Mrigakshi Mazumder 3 29.R6c4 Rf8 30.Rc6 Rf6 [Again if 30... of saving the game. 52.g4 Qf6 53.Qxf6+
10 Prapti Moulik 5 53 Udita Nath 3 Bxc6 31.dxc6 Rc7 32.Qxd6 Rf6 33.Qd8+ [If 53.Qd3 Bxg4–+] 53...gxf6 54.Kg3 Kg7
11 Anwesha Saha 5 54 Srijita Saha 3 Kh7=] 31.Bg2 f4 32.exf4 exf4 33.Be4 55.Kh4 Kg6 56.f4 f5! 57.gxf5+ Bxf5
12 Shreya Shree Bansal 5 55 Yashita Choraria 3 Rf8 34.Kg2 a3 35.bxa3 Qxa3 36.R2c3 58.Kg3 Kh5! 0–1
13 Pragati Das 5 56 Sampurna Saha 3 [Over protecting f3. Better was: 36.Rc7!
14 Prachi Bhushan 5 57 Bidisha Karmakar 3 ] 36...Qb4 37.R6c4 Qa5 38.Qh5 Bf5! Khusenkhojaev,Muhammad (IM Tjk) (2456)
15 Mrittika Mallick 5 58 Shrestha Ghosh 3 39.Bf3 [If 39.Bxf5 Qxd5+ 40.Qf3 Rxf5=] Sengupta,Deep (GM) (2563) [D45]
16 Tanisha Chatterjee 4½ 59 Akshita Bose 3 39...fxg3 40.hxg3 Rbf7 41.Re3 Bd7 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 e6 3.c4 c6 4.Qc2 Nf6 5.e3
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Nbd7 6.Nc3 Bd6 7.b3 0–0 8.Be2 b6
9.Bb2 Bb7 10.0–0 Qe7 11.Rad1 Rad8
12.e4 Nxe4 13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.Qxe4 f5
15.Qc2 c5 16.Rfe1 Be4 17.Qc1 [D.Gurev-
ich 2518 vs A.Shabalov 2606, Stillwater,
USA Ch, 2007, went: 17.Qd2 cxd4 18.Bxd4
e5 19.Bc3 Nc5 20.Qb2 Bxf3 21.Bxf3 e4³
22.g3?! Qg5 23.h4 Qg6 24.h5 Qg5 25.Bg2
f4 26.Rd5 Qg4 27.Bxe4 Nxe4 28.Rxe4 Bc5
29.Qd2–+ Qxg3+ 30.Kf1 Qh4 31.Rxf4 Qh1+
32.Ke2 Rfe8+ 1–0] 17...cxd4 18.Nxd4
Bb4! 19.Rf1?! [Better was: 19.Bc3 Bxc3
20.Qxc3 e5 21.Nb5 a6 22.Nd6 Nc5=] 19...
Bc5 20.Bd3 Ne5! 21.Be2 [If 21.Bxe4 fxe4
22.Qe3 Nd3 White's Bb2 and Nd4 are both
in trouble.] 21...f4 22.Qc3 diagram
22...Bxg2!! With the mass concentration
of black forces on f3, this strike on g2 was
almost natural. 23.Kxg2 Bxd4 24.Rxd4
Rxd4 25.Qxd4 f3+–+ 26.Bxf3 Nxf3–+
27.Qg4 Rf5! Threat ....Rg5 pinning the
queen. 28.Kh1 Qb7! The discovered check
on the long white diagonal is now inevi-
table. But what can it fetch?! 29.Rd1 h5
30.Qh3 Kh7?! [This sudden defensive mode
dissipates a lot of his massive advantage.
Stronger was: 30...Qe4! 31.Bc1 Rf6! 32.Be3
Rg6 33.Qxh5 Ne5+! 34.f3 Qxe3–+] 31.Bc1
Qe4 32.Be3 Nh4+ 33.Kg1 Rf3! 34.Qf1
The only move! 34...Qg4+ 35.Kh1 e5 It is
almost impossible for white to find a mean-
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ingful move that does not lose material to a
tactical stroke or lose ground! 36.Rd5 Rf6
diagram [Another way to win was: 36...Qe4
37.Kg1 Qg6+ 38.Kh1 Rh3 39.Qd3! e4 40.Qf1
Qg4 41.Bg5 Nf3 42.Qg2 h4 43.Bd2 (43.
Qxg4 Rxh2#) 43...Qxg2+ 44.Kxg2 Rxh2+
45.Kf1 h3! wins.] 37.f4 exf4 38.Bd4 Re6
[38...Rg6 39.h3 Qg3 40.Rxh5+ Kg8 Threat
41.....Nf3! 41.Rxh4 (41.Qf2 Qxh3+) 41...
Qxh4–+] 39.h3 Qg6 40.Bf2 Qe4+ Again,
the same diagonal! 41.Kh2 Nf3+ 42.Kh1
Ne5+ 43.Qg2 [or 43.Kh2 Rg6 44.Rxe5
forced! 44...Qxe5–+] 43...Qb1+ 44.Qg1
Qe4+ 45.Qg2 Qb1+ He gains time on the
clock to think out his final attack! 46.Qg1
Qf5! 47.Qf1 [47.Qg2 Rg6 48.Rxe5 Qxe5–+]
47...Rg6!
diagram 48.Rd4 Nc6! [48...Nf3 49.Rd5!
and there is no check on e4.] 49.Rd5 Qe4+
50.Kh2 Ne5 There is no stopping the threat
of 51....Nf3+ and 52....Nd2+ 0–1
Prasad,Devaki V (2284)
Deepan,Chakkravarthy J (2516)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0
9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2
Bd7 13.Nf1 Nc4 14.d5 a5 15.a4 Nb6
16.axb5 Bxb5 17.Ne3N [Leko 2555 vs
Frolov 2540, Moscow Olympiad 1994 went:
17.Ng3 g6 18.Nh2 Rfe8 19.Ng4 Nxg4 diagram White has achieved his objective
20.hxg4 Qd8 ....38. Drawn] 17...g6 18.Nh2 of isolating and gobbling black's h-pawn.
h5 19.Qf3 Nh7 20.g4 diagram Now he will intensify his assault on the
king. 29...a4 30.Be3 Nbd7 31.Nd2 Nb6
32.Qf1 Nd3 33.Bxd3 cxd3 34.f4! Open-
ing up against the black king. White has
a clear advantage with none of the black
forces posing any threat to white. 34...Rf8
[Black realises that keeping his rook on h8
is no longer important and hurries back to
defence. The other alternative was also not
good. 34...Nc4 35.fxe5 Nxe5 36.c4 Bd7
37.c5! dxc5 38.Bf4 Rf8 39.Nc4+-] 35.fxe5
dxe5 36.Ng4 Rb8 [If 36...Nd7 37.c4 Ba6
38.Qxd3+-] 37.Nf6+ Bxf6 38.Qxf6 Nd7
20...h4? [This crucial pawn is controlled and [If 38...Qe7 39.Qxe7+ Kxe7 40.Bc5++-]
eventually captured. Better was 20...Ng5 39.Qg7! Qd6 40.c4 Ba6 41.Rxa4 Rxb2
21.Qg2 h4 22.Nf3 Nxf3+ 23.Qxf3 Rfb8=] 42.Rh8 [Simpler was: 42.c5! Nxc5 43.Bxc5
21.Qd1 Kg7 22.Nf3 Rh8 [The idea of Qxc5 44.Qxe5+ Kd7 45.Qxb2+-] 42...Rc2
getting his dark square bishop outside the
pawn chain is not successful: 22...Bg5 23.c4
Be8 24.Qe2 f6 25.Bd2 a4 26.Bd3±] 23.Kh1
Nf8 24.Rg1 Nfd7 25.g5 c4 26.Ng4² Nc5
27.Nh6! Blocking off the support of the
Rh8 to the h4 pawn. 27...Kf8 28.Rg4 [If
28.Nxh4? Rxh6 29.gxh6 Bxh4= and black
is a relieved person with some of white's
attacking forces having left the board.] 28...
Ke8 29.Rxh4±
Diagram 43.c5! Rxc5 44.Bxc5 Qxc5
45.Rxf8+! Nxf8 46.Qxe5+ Ne6 47.Qb8+!
Nd8 48.Qf4! This takes care of black's
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threat to give trouble with ....Qc1+ 48...
Bc8 49.Rc4! The bishop is lost. 1–0
Vantika,Agrawal (WIM) (2296)
Erigaisi,Arjun (FM) (2488) [E68]
Vantika Agrawal is a 16-year old WIM from
Delhi while Arjun Erigaisi is a FIDE Master
from Telengana. Both of these youngsters
have a great future. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6
3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4 0–0 5.0–0 d6 6.c4 Nbd7
7.Nc3 e5 8.e4 Re8 9.h3 exd4 10.Nxd4
Nc5 11.Re1 Bd7 12.Bf4 Qc8 13.Kh2 h5
14.b4 Ne6 15.Nxe6 Bxe6 16.Nd5 h4
17.Bh6? [17.g4 was ok.; R.Bator 2430 vs
M. Carlson 2295 1998 went: 17.Nxf6+ Bxf6
18.Rc1 Be5 19.Bxe5 dxe5 ...36. Drawn]
17...hxg3+ 18.fxg3 Nd7 19.Bxg7 Kxg7
20.c5 dxc5 21.bxc5 c6 [21...Nxc5??
22.Qd4+ wins the knight.] 22.Nf4 Ne5
23.Qd4 f6 24.Rad1 Bf7 25.a4 g5 26.Nd3
diagram [Somewhat better was: 26.Ne2
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Rh8³ 27.Qd6 Rd8 28.Qe7 Rd7 29.Rxd7 Qxd7
30.Qd6 Qxd6 31.cxd6 c5µ] 26...Qxh3+!! A
spectacular queen sacrifice! It wins only a
pawn, but it demoralises white in the ensuing
endgame. 27.Bxh3 [27.Kxh3?? Rh8#] 27...
Nf3+ 28.Kg2 Nxd4 29.Rb1 Re7 30.Rb2
Nb3! Black anticipates white's doubling of
rooks on the b-file to target his b-pawn and
is ready with a simple plan to neutralise it.
31.Reb1 Na5! Economy! This one knight,
from a5, is able to keep the doubled rooks
at bay. 32.Bf5 Rd8–+ Black has a strate-
gically won game. 33.Nf2 Bg6 34.Bxg6
Kxg6 35.Rf1 Nc4! The direct threat now
is ....Nxb2 while the concealed threat is
...Ne3+ winning the other rook! 36.Re2
Rd2 37.Rxd2 Nxd2 38.Re1 Nb3! 39.Nd3
Rd7 40.Re3 Nd4 41.g4 Ne6 42.Kg3 Rd4
43.e5!? diagram
43...f5! 44.gxf5+ Kxf5 45.a5 a6 46.Nf2
[White has hardly any good move. If
46.Rf3+ Ke4 47.Nf2+ Kxe5 48.Ng4+ Kd5
49.Rf5+ Kc4 50.Ne3+ Kb5–+] 46...Nxc5
47.Rc3 Ne4+ 48.Nxe4 Rxe4 49.Rb3
Rxe5 50.Rxb7 Rxa5 The rest is easy to un-
derstand. 51.Rb3 c5 52.Rc3 Rb5 53.Rc4
a5 54.Ra4 Ke5 55.Rg4 Rb4 56.Rxg5+
Kd4 57.Kf2 a4 58.Rg8 a3 59.Ra8 Rb2+
60.Kf3 a2 0–1
Shyam,Sundar M (Ind GM) (2518)
Rozum,Ivan (Rus GM) (2581) [B07]
1.Nf3 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.c3 Nf6 5.Bd3
0–0 6.0–0 Nc6 7.d5 Nb8 8.h3 e5 9.dxe6
Bxe6 10.c4N [Varying from Hramtsov 2350
vs Gorbatow 2415, Moscow 1996: 10.Nd4
Bc8 11.Re1 Nbd7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Bg5 h6
14.Bh4= and 28. Draw.] 10...Nc6 11.Nc3
Nd7 12.Bg5 f6 13.Be3 Nde5 14.Nd5
Nxd3 15.Qxd3 Ne5 16.Nxe5 dxe5 17.Bc5
Rf7 18.Rad1 Rd7 19.Qf3 Kf7 20.Qb3 b6
21.Ba3 Bh6 22.Qb5 Qc8 23.Qc6 Rb8
24.c5 bxc5 25.Qxc5 Qb7 (see diagram)
26.Nxf6!! Rd6 [If 26...Kxf6 27.Rxd7 Bxd7
28.Qe7#; or 26...Rxd1 27.Qe7#] 27.Ng4
Bxg4 28.hxg4 Qc6 [If 28...Re6 29.Rd7+
Kg8 30.Rfd1+-] 29.Qxe5 Re8 30.Rxd6
(position after 25….Qb7)
cxd6 31.Qd5+ [If 31.Qxd6 Qxd6 32.Bxd6
Rxe4 33.Rd1 Rxg4 34.Bc5±] 31...Qxd5
32.exd5 Re2 33.Rd1
diagram 33...Ke7 [33...Kf6? 34.Bxd6 Rxb2
35.g5+ Kxg5 (35...Bxg5? 36.f4! threat
37. Be5 winning the Rook.) 36.Be7+ Kf5
37.d6 Bf4 38.a3! Re2 39.d7+-] 34.Kf1
Rc2 35.Re1+ Kd7 36.Re6 Bf8 37.Re4
Bg7 38.Ra4 a5? 39.Ke1 [If 39.Rxa5 Bd4
40.f3 h6 (40...Rf2+ 41.Ke1 Rxg2 42.Ra6+-)
41.Ra4 Bf2 42.g5 h5 43.Ra6 Bg3±] 39...h5?
40.gxh5 [If 40.Rxa5 Bd4 41.Ra6 Kc7 (41...
Bc5 42.Bxc5 Rxc5 43.Ra7+ Kd8 44.Rg7+-)
42.gxh5 gxh5 43.Ra4 Bxb2 44.Bxb2 Rxb2+-
] 40...gxh5 41.Rxa5 Bd4 42.Ra6 Rxf2
43.Rxd6+ Kc7 44.Rc6+ Kb7 White is three
pawns up in this ending and should easily win.
Black's only compensation is that his rook is
on the 7th rank with the white king confined
to his base rank. 45.Rg6 Rc2 46.Kd1 Rf2
47.Ke1 Rc2 48.Rg5! Bxb2 49.Bxb2 Rxb2
Diagram 50.Kf1! White prefers to part
with his a-pawn instead of his g-pawn. In
all endings, the edge pawns on the a- and
h-files are least preferred by the superior
sides. 50...Rxa2 51.Rxh5 Kc7 52.Kg1 Kd6
53.Kh2! Thus the white king has dodged
the policing by the black rook and enters
the game. 53...Ra8 54.Rf5 Kc5 55.Kg3
Ra4 56.Kh3 Ra8 57.g4 Kd4 58.d6 Rd8
59.g5! White is not greedy to keep both
pawns. He will use his rook to shut out
the black king from reaching the queening
square of the g-pawn. 59...Rxd6 60.Kg4
Ke4 61.Ra5! Rc6 62.Kh5! Kf4 63.g6! A
rule of thumb in such “rook and pawn versus
rook” endings is that the defending side can
draw only if his king can reach the queening
square, here g8. The black king cannot get
to g8 and therefore he resigns. 1–0
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Dr.Alois Wotawa 1952 G.Kasparyan 1953

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

Jaroslov Pospisil 1954 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1954

3 4 3. 4.
Black to play and win Black to play and win
Vitaly Halberstadt 1954 Josef Moravec 1955

5. 6.
5 6
White to play and win Black to play and win White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solutions on page 47)
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Masters of the past-89 Viacheslav Ragozin
G H Raisoni Memorial All India FIDE Rating Tournament,Nagpur
Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet
chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter of chess, and a World Correspond-
ence Chess Champion. He was also a chess writer and editor.

Born in St. Petersburg, Ragozin's chess career first came to the fore with a se-
ries of excellent results in the 1930s. In the earliest of these, he defeated the
respected master Ilyin-Zhenevsky in a 1930 match and was himself awarded
the title of Soviet master. At Moscow 1935, he won the best game prize for his
victory against Lilienthal. At the very strong Moscow tournament of 1936, he beat Flohr and
Lasker and came very close to defeating Capablanca. There followed a victory at the Leningrad
championship of 1936 and second place shared with Konstantinopolsky(behind Levenfish) at
the Soviet Championship of 1937.

Success continued into the 1940s with first prize at Sverdlovsk in 1942 and a repeat triumph
at the Leningrad Championship of 1945. In 1946, he finished outright first at Helsinki and beat
Bondarevsky in a match. His greatest achievement in over-the-board chess then followed at Prize Distribution Photo Left to Right : Mr. Bhushan Shriwas, Organizing Chairman, Mr. Dilip
the Chigorin Memorial (Moscow) tournament of 1947, where he placed second, a half-point Kamdar,President, NDCA, Mr. Jaiprakash Gupta, Mr. Girish Vyas, MLC, Mr. Amit Gandhare,
behind Botvinnik, but notably ahead of such luminaries as Smyslov, Boleslavsky and Keres. His Raisoni Group, Mr. Pravin Pantawane, Chief Arbiter and Mr. Sushant Jumde, Organizing Secretary.
best result came at the 1956 Marianske-Lazne Steinitz Memorial tournament, where he finished Winners Standing Right to Left :Ku. SeeyaThakare, Spandan Seth, Priyanshu Patil, Vaibhav Jayant
second behind Filip, ahead of Flohr, Pachman, Stahlberg and a young Wolfgang Uhlmann. Raut, Jayant Katdare, Kaustav Kundu, Winner, Ayush Jugele, Pawan Dodeja, Ambarish Sharma,
Neel Shintre
For his over-the-board play, he became a grandmaster in 1950 and in 1951 he obtained the title
of international arbiter. From 1956–1958, his main focus switched to correspondence chess,
Malka Lakshmi Mem. Open Fide Rating Tournament,Hyderabad
where he showed that he was also an expert analyst and theoretician by becoming the second
ICCF World Correspondence Chess Champion in 1959 (winning 9 games, drawing 4 games,
and losing 1 game). His correspondence chess grandmaster title was awarded the same year.

With Ragozin's achievements coupled with his creative playing style, he attracted the attention
of then world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. They played many secret training matches, as Bot-
vinnik prepared for important world championship encounters. Accordingly, many historians
attribute Ragozin's contribution as a significant factor in Botvinnik's success.

From 1946 to 1955, Ragozin edited the magazine publication Shakhmaty v SSSR as well as
maintaining a career as a civil engineer. He was Vice-President of FIDE from 1950 through
1961.He died in Moscow while putting together a collection of his best games, which his friends
completed for publication in 1964, under the title Izbrannye Partii Ragozina (Ragozin's Selected
Games). It contains 74 games spanning his career.

His contributions to opening theory mainly concerned the development of systems by which
Black could achieve equality in the Queen's Gambit and Nimzo-Indian complexes.The QGD L to R : Mrs. Arogya, Principal,Pallavi Int School-Gandipet, Pujya Madavan Ji Founder Aware
Ragozin Defence, typically arrived at via the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 (or Group, Sri M Komaraiah, Sponsor of the event and Chairman Pallavi & DPS Group of Schools,
by transposition) offering Black active play from the start, has enjoyed a resurgence in recent Chief Guest Sri Venkateswara Reddy Chairman, Sports Authority of Telangana State, Major K A
times. Siva Prasad, Vice President,TSCA, K S Prasad, Secretary,TSCA. Front Row : Vikramjit Singh, Winner,
Courtesy:Wikepedia V Varun,Runner up, J Sai Agni Jeevitesh,Third prize
45
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 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’
1st IGMSA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
on page 42
1. Alekseev,Evgeny (2617) Mamedov,Rauf
(2709) [B06]
Batumi GEO Batumi GEO (11.14), 28.03.2018
Black to play. 36...Nxh3+! [36...Nxh3+ 37.gxh3
(37.Kh1 Qxf1#) 37...Bh2+ 38.Kxh2 (38.Kh1
Qxf1+ 39.Kxh2 Qg2#) 38...Qxf2+ 39.Kh1 Qxf1+
40.Kh2 Qg2#] 0–1
2. Shirov,Alexei (2651) Gulatz,Maurice
(2145) [D17]
GRENKE Chess Open 2018 Karlsruhe GER (1.8),
29.03.2018
White to play. 23.Re6! Rae8 [Lesser evil is 23...
Ne8 24.Bh6 Qh5 25.Bxf8 Qxe2 26.Rxe2 Bxf8;
23...fxe6 24.Bxe6++-] 24.Rxf6 [24.Rxf6 Rxe2
25.Rxf5 Rxb2 (25...Rc2 26.Bd3 Rxb2 27.Rf3+-)
26.Rf3+-] 1–0
K S Prasad, Secretary,TSCA,K N Gopal, Secretary,APCA, Vikramjith Singh (S C Rly) 3rd prize, Major K.A.Shiva 3. Papp,Gabor1 (2604) - Engel,Luis (2389)
Prasad,Vice President,TSCA, J.Malleswara Rao(Telangana), 2nd Prize, IM V A V Rajesh,Winner, Chief Guest Sri [B96]
G Parthipan Princpal, DAV Public School,Safilguda, M Anjayya, Treasurer,TSCA, P Kameswar Rao, Organizing GRENKE Chess Open 2018 Karlsruhe GER (3.11),
Secretary of the tournament and Director IGMSA
30.03.2018
2nd IGMSA Fide Below 1500 Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad Black to play 39...Qd5 40.Bxd5 [40.Be4 Rc1
41.Qc3+ (41.Qxc1 Qxe4+ 42.Rg2 Qxg2#;
41.Rxc1 Rxe4 42.Qc3+ f6 43.Qg3+ Rg4++-) ]
40...Bxd5+ 41.Rg2 Rcxg2 42.Qe5+ f6 43.Qe7+
[43.Qxd5 Rg1#] 43...Kg6 44.Qe8+ Bf7 45.Qe3
Rg1+ [45...Rg1+ 46.Qxg1 Bd5+ 47.Qg2 Rxg2+-
] 0–1
4. Bluebaum,Matthias (2631) Vitiugov,Niki-
ta (2735) [D12]
GRENKE Chess Classic 2018 Karlsruhe GER
(1.5), 31.03.2018
Black to play 24...Ne4+ 25.Kg1 [25.Bxe4 Rc7!
26.Qa8 White has to stop both 26... Qf6+ as
well as 26...Qd4 + (26.Qb6 Rc2+–+) 26...
Rc8 27.Qxc8! a) 27.Qb7 Qd4+ 28.Kg3 (28.Ke2
Re8–+) 28...Rc3+ 29.Bf3 Rc4–+ Threatens mate
with 30...Qh4 ch 30.Qb8+ (30.Qe7 Qxa1–+)
L to R : Back Row :P Kameswar Rao, Organizing Secretary of the tournament and Director IGMSA,K
S Prasad, Secretary,TSCA, Special invitee Madhu Salini, Film Actress, Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice 30...Kh7 31.h3 Qxa1–+; b) 27.Qd5 Qf6+–+;
Presdent,TSCA and Karthik Reddy of Chess Plug.Front Row: 2nd prize Y Sai Nikhil, Winner K 27...Qxc8–+] 25...Ra3! [25...Ra3 26.Rd1 (26.
Balakrishna,3rd Prize K Gopichand Qxa3 Qd4+ 27.Kh1 Qxa1+ wins) 26...Qxd1+
46
27.Bxd1 Rxa7–+] 0–1
5. Kratochvil,Vit1 (2239) Vorisek,Jakub
(2083) [B35]
Pobeskydi Open 2018 Frydek Mistek CZE (8),
01.04.2018
White to play. 22.Bd4! [%cal Gh2h8][22.Bd4
Bxd4 (22...f6 23.Rxg6; 22...e5 23.dxe6 fxe6
24.Rxg6 Wins) 23.Qh7#] 1–0
6. Iniyan,P (2466) - Zubov,Alexander
(2606) [D70]
20th Dubai Open 2018 Dubai UAE (3.11),
04.04.2018
Black to play 28...Qc2!! [28...Qa5!; 28...Qb4]
29.Qxc2 [29.Rc1 Rb1+ 30.Rxb1 Qxc3+–+] 29...
e4+ 30.Qb2 Bxb2+ 31.Kb1 e3 [31...Bd4+!–+;
31...e3 32.Bh4 (32.Bb3 exf2–+) 32...Bf5+
33.Bd3 Bxd3#] 0–1
Solution to ‘Test your endgame’on page 43
1.Dr.Alois Wotawa Schachzeitung 1952
1.Ba3 Bxa3 2.a7 Rh6+ 3.Kb5 Rh5+ 4.Ka4 Rh4+
5.Kb3 Rh3+ 6.Kc2 Rh2+ 7.Kd1 Rh1+ 8.Ke2
Rh2+ 9.Kf3 Rf2+ 10.Kg3 wins
2.G.Kasparyan I Pr, SVTVS 1953
1.e5 Nd3 2.Rb8 Bd7 3.b6 Nxe5 4.Rg8+ Kh4
5.b7 Nc6 6.Kg7 Kg5 7.Kf7+ Kf5 8.Rf8 Nb8
9.Ke7+ Ke5 10.Rc8 Ba4 11.Rc5+ Kd4 12.Kd6
Bb3 13.Ra5 wins
3.Jaroslov Pospisil ,Prace 1954
1.e4 dxe4 2.Kb2 f5 3.e3 Kd7 4.Kc3 Kd6 5.Kd4
Ke6 6.c3 Kf6 7.c4 Ke6 8.c5 Kf6 9.c6 Ke6 10.Kc5
wins
4.Dr Jindrich Fritz, II c,SVTVS 1954
1.Rb1 Ra8 2.Kf3 Ka4 3.Ke4 Ka5 4.Ke5 Kxa6
5.Kd6 Kxa7 6.Kc7 wins
5.Vitaly Halberstadt, 3 Pr, Rinck Mem.Ty,
1954
1.f4 g5 2.f5 Kd7 3.Kg2 e4 4.Kf1 Kc6 5.Ke1 Kc5
6.Kd1 Kc6 7.Kc2 Kc5 8.Kb3 Kd6 9.Kb4 Kd5
10.Kc3 Ke5 11.Kc4 wins
6.Josef Moravec Svobodne slovo 1955
1.Kc1 Ke7 2.Kb2 Kd7 3.Ka3 Kc7 4.Kb3 Kb6 5.Kc3
Ka5 6.Kd2 Ka4 7.Ke3 Kb4 8.Kd3 wins
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AICF Calendar June 2018 11th KIIT International Chess Festival 2018, Bubaneshwar
Chess in Lakecity FIDE Rating Rapid 23 Jun - 24 Jun Udaipur,RJ
Maharashtra State Under 15 Boys and Girls 24 Jun -28 Jun Satara, MH
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Solution to ‘puzzle of the month’ on page 11: Black’s promoted B is from h2xg1=B if we as-
sume Wh. may castle. Hence the Bl. pawns require the captures (e.g. with bxa, cxd, exfxgxhxg1,
fxg) of the seven missing Wh. units (not counting the two Wh. Bishops captured at home). So
that Black’s last move could not have been a capture and White last move just before must have Prashant Katiyar, Second place, Vijay Shreeram P, Champion Category B and Munshini Ajay, Third
been with his K or R: the O-O-O is not legal. place along with the other guests
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 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2018, Ahmedabad

GM M.R.Lalith Babu,Winner, National Rapid title, receiving the prize from the Chief Guest Ajay
Patel (President GSCA) Others in the photo from (R-L) Rathinam Anantharam (Chief Arbiter), Viral
Patel (Director, Karnavati Club) Bhavesh Patel (Secretary, GSCA), GM Tejas Bakre (Vice President,
GSCA) Jayesh Modi (Vice President, GSCA) Samir Shah (Treasurer, GSCA)

IM Dinesh Sharma, Winner, National Blitz event receiving the prize from Ajay Patel (President,GSCA)
Others in the photo from left to right: GM Tejas Bakre, Bavesh Patel (Secretary, GSCA) Viral Patel
(Director, Karnavati Club)and Prof.R.Anantharam (Chief Arbiter)