AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 13 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 June 2019

Asian Continental Chess Championships, National Rapid & Blitz Chess

Xingtai, China Championships, Jalandhar

GM Karthikeyan Murali GM S.P.Sethuraman GM Aravindh Chithambaram

Silver Bronze National Rapid & Blitz Champion

33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Visakhapatnam

FM M.Pranesh Velpula Sarayu

(TamilNadu) (Telangana)
Under-13 Open Champion Under-13 Girls Champion
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33rd VMRDA National U-13 Open & Girls Chess, Visakhapatnam
Pranesh and Velpula Sarayu are champions
by IA S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter 1
ARCA State U-15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated,Udaipur
Ujjwal Deep is Champion
by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter 9
52ndLate Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem.FIDE Rating,Sangli postponed the commencement of first round
Keval Nirgun Wins the Title
by FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter 10
30th TN U-17 Open & Girls Rated, Nagapattinam From a 13-year old prodigy who won Chennai Open
Ayushh Ravikumar and Divyabharathi clinch titles
by R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter 12
DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Tournament, New Delhi National Champion in all formats. His success at the
Aryan Garg wins title
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 14
Family chess Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament, Karur
Prasanna wins title
By N.K.Nandakumar IA , Chief Arbiter 16
1st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak FIDE Blitz Rating ,Raigad the chess board.
Dhulipalia Bala Chandra Prasad wins title
by IA, DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter 17
15thLate Meenatai Shirgaokar Mem.Women’s Ty,Sangli
WFM Cholleti Sahajasri wins title
by FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter 19
All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament , Belagavi
Chakravarthi Reddy wins title
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter 21
1st Unique below 1550 Open Fide Rating Ty, Quepem
Satheesh Kumar of Tamilnadu wins
by Sanjay Kavlekar IA, Chief Arbiter 27
Varadraj Mem.Open Rapid Fide rating ty.,Satara
Nikhil Dixit Wins Varadraj Memorial
by IA Kaviraj Sawant.Chief Arbiter 29
31st WB U-9(Open & Girls)Fide Rated Ch’ship,Kolkata Championships annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are
Aman Dhanuka and Saparya Ghosh are Champions
by Debasish Barua IA, Chief Arbiter 31
The 30th CUSAT Intl. Rating Chess Ty., Cochin
Ilamparithy wins Cusat Rating chess
by M.S.Ananthakrishnan,Tournament Director 32
4th IGMSA FIDE Rating Below-1500 Ty.,Hyderabad
Siddik Akbar of Tamil Nadu is the Champion
by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbite 34
Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry…
Nanmalar wins Smart Girl FIDE Rated
by FA J Narayanan, Chief Arbiter 36
Selected games from National Under-13,Vizag
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 37
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Naraynan 43
Masters of the past-100 Jose Capablanca 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Asian Continental Chess held in China
witnessed exceptional performances
from Indian Grandmasters. GM
Karthikeyan Murali’s fifth round game
with a stunning queen sacrifice to
outwit Iranian prodigy GM Alireza
Firouzja was the toast of the tournament. Karthikeyan
bagged silver and GM S.P.Sethuraman a bronze in
the classical format. In addition to the above two, GMs
S.L.Narayanan and Abhijeet Gupta also qualified for the
World Cup 2019.Nihal Sarin’s gold and S.L.Narayanan’s
bronze in the Blitz event were pleasant additions to the
medal tally.
in 2013, GM Aravind Chithambaram has now become
National Senior Championship last December is followed
by titles in National Rapid and Blitz he took at jalandhar
last month.These are featured in the centre colour
pages of this issue. In the National Under-13 Chess
Championships held at Visakhapatnam M.Pranesh
of Tamilnadu emerged champion in the Open event.
Telangana’s Velpula Sarayu, a girl from a village in
Warangal, improved upon her silver medal performance
in the Under-11 Championship in 2017 to win gold in
Visakhapatnam. Reports, final standings and photographs
of this event along with those of other FIDE rated events
held last month are presented in this issue.
Selected games from the National Under-13 Chess
presented elsewhere in this issue.Former World
Champion,Jose Capablanca, is featured in the ‘Masters
of the past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019,
Visakhapatnam
Pranesh and Velpula Sarayu are champions
by IA S.Paul Arokiaraj, Chief Arbiter
The threat posed by the cyclonic storm FANI
did not deter 392 players from all over India
in reaching Visakhapatinam on time to throw
their lot in the 33rd VMRDA national under 13
Open & Girls chess championship organized
by Visakha district chess Association from
May 4 to 12, 2019. Realising the gravity of
the situation due to rescheduling of flights
and trains the All India Chess Federation
by three hours to help all the players report
for the first round without any hiccup. In all,
245 boys and 147 girls representing 26 states
and union territories have entered the fray
in this eleven round swiss event which will
conclude on May 12. Earlier in a glittering
ceremony Shri. K,Bhaskar, I.A.S., District
collector, Visakhapatinam formally inaugu-
rated the event by moving the king pawn in
Curiously both the champions in Open and
Girls drew their final round, targeted 9 points
from eleven games and tied for the first place.
Both emerged as the Champions via first tie
break , the direct encounter (In a three way
in open and two way tie in girls) way tie .
Both champions were richer by Rs.27000/-.
As fortune favours the brave, cyclone FANI
spared the port city of Visakhapatinam where
392 courageous children converged for the
war of nerves over the 64 squares. It was a
blessing in disguise that the FANI effect had
lowered the
mercury level in Visakhapatnam with the
players enjoying a moderate temperature
during the tournament period The playing
venue was a centrally located Children Arena
in VMRDA Complex owned by the Govern-
ment of Andhra Pradesh. It is very hearten-
ing to note that the place is ear marked only
for the children activities. The two fully air
conditioned separate halls for Open and Girls
were spacious and elite looking. As the entire
complex had a centralized air condition even
the waiting persons did not feel the outside
temperature. The organisers namely VDCA
ensured that all the players and the accom-
panying persons get food inside the complex
itself on the first and last day plus two days
when there was double round by arranging
delicious lunch for all the people free of cost.
Now coming to the true picture of the games,
the cool temperature that was prevailing
inside the tournament hall did not deter the
players to generate heat and dust over the
sixty four squares in all the eleven rounds.
In the girls section the Top seed from Tel-
angana Velpula Sarayu started her dream
run from the fifth round notching up five
straight victories. However hot pursuit for
the title was halted by Boramanikar Tanisha
(Maharashrtra) when she held the top seed
to a creditable draw in the sixth round. This
helped WCM Kirti Mayur Patel also from Ma-
harashtra to catch up the overnight leader
with 6.5 points from seven rounds. The battle
line was drawn in the eighth round between
the top seed Velpula Sarayu and the 17th
seed Kirti Mayur Patil. The top seed justi-
fied her seeding by trouncing her opponent
with a brilliant mating net after trapping the
uncastled black’s king. At the beginning of
the ninth round Velpula had stretched her
sole lead by full point. However she conced-
ed two consecutive draws on Round 9 and
10 against her team mate Kheerti Gangta
and V.Renganayaki (Karnataka) respectively.
Curiously in both games her opponents were
maintaining a commanding position. Despite
dropping a point from two rounds Sarayu was
maintaining a slender half point lead with 8.5
points over her rivals Kirti Mayur Patel and
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the dark horse of the championship Pande
Miracle (Orsissa). Velpula continued her
drawing spree in the final round too against
WCM Wankhade Sanskrt (Maharashtra) to end
up with 9 points from eleven rounds with an
unbeaten record. Kirti Mayur Patel of Maha-
rashtra capitalized the opportunity to tie up
for the first place by inflicting a victory over
Pande Miracle in the final round. In a two way
tie for the title Velpula Sarayu was adjudged
as the champion via direct encounter, the
first para meter in the tie break system in the
indian national championships. The runner up
was Kirti Mayur Patel of Maharashtra. Ren-
ganayaki of Karnataka who outmaneuvered
Yash Jyoti Bir of West Bengal in this round
finished third with 8 points in a nine way tie
on account of higher buchholtz score.
But it was a different story in the Open cat-
egory which witnessed the change of guard
for the leadership in the successive rounds.
The top seed here FM C.Pranesh of Tamil Nadu
faced a shocking defeat at the hands of an
underdog Shaik Sumer Arsh of Telangana
as early as in the fourth round. With the
top seed out of contention, the second seed
Pranav and the third seed FM Jubin Jimmy
were the joint leaders at the end of the sixth
round with full score. On the seventh round
in a scintillating game Pranav overpowered
his rival Jubin Jimmy to sit pretty on the top
with 7 points as a sole leader. Although he
enjoyed a full point lead at this point of time
he slipped to joint lead when he lost a crucial
match against Pranesh in the eighth round.
Pranesh back to form did not leave his driver’s
seat when he tamed another rival Jubin Jimmy
in the ninth round to maintain half a point
lead with 8 points over Pranav who dropped
half a point against the fourth seed CM Nikhil
Magizhnan. In the crucial tenth and the penul-
timate Pranesh too settled for a draw against
his teammate Nikhil Magizhnan. At the same
time Pranav overcame stiff resistance offered
by Krishnan Rithvik (Maharashtra) and scored
a full point to join Pranesh for the leadership.
With the final round in the offing the line up
was that Pranesh and Pranav were sharing
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the joint lead with 8.5 points followed by four
others on 8 points. The top two tables was DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi
hassle free with the leaders drawing their
final round against their respective opponents
to target 9 points. FM Jubin Jimmy who was
also a hot contender for the title throughout
the championship capitalized this opportunity
to outwit Illampariti Another important feat
was in Open the top three seeds finished in
that order but in Girls only the top seed could
justify her seeding.
In a glittering Valedictory function Smt.G.Sri-
jana,I.A.S.,Joint Collector, Visakhaptnam Dis-
trict felicitated the winners in the presence of
Shri. D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE , Shri.
Bharath Singh Chauhan, Secretary, AICF,
APCA and VDCA officials
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 FM Pranesh M 9 Champion Aryan Garg receiving trophy. Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President Uttaranchal
2 Pranav V 9 Chess Association, Shri. Bharat Singh, Secretary All India Chess Federation, Shri. Uttam
Prakash, Provident Fund Commissioner, Shri. Chadha, Senior Advocate Supreme Court
3 FM Jubin Jimmy 9
and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary, Delhi Chess Association.
4 Manish Kumar (2006) 8.5
5 Aditya Varun Gampa 8.5 All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Tripurs
6 Krishnan Ritvik 8.5
7 Sreekar J S S 8.5
8 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 8
9 Harshad S 8
10 Ilamparthi A R 8
11 Koustuv Dash 8
12 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 8
13 Dhanvij Ansh 8
14 Shreyash Shuvam Patnaik 8
15 Mayank Chakraborty 8
16 Vinay R Jumani 8
17 Shounak Mazumder 8
18 Mohanty Soyamsree 8
19 Prithvvi Singh 7.5
20 Bhavyay Gupta 7.5
21 Bharadia Yash 7.5
22 Madhavan R Munjanattu 7.5
23 Paarth P Salvi 7.5
24 Md Bashiq Imrose 7.5
Prize winners with dignitaries
25 Md Imran 7.5
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 All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Belagavi
Dr Sashikant Y Kulgod, S G Sambargimath, Chakravarthireddy, Allum Veerabhadrappa,Shri
Shri Tontad Siddharam Mahaswamiji, Dr SP Desai,Prasanna Joshi
Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide rating tournament,Satara
Top three (L –R) Sammed Jayakumar Shette ,Third, Nikhil Dixit (Winner) and Ranveer
Mohite , Runner-up with their prizes
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26 Shah Jeet 7.5 69 Nihad Islam Hazarika 6.5
27 Shaik Sumer Arsh 7 70 Naveen Joel Chilaka 6.5
28 Aaditya Dhingra 7 71 Saravana Vel R 6.5
29 Jain Adi 7 72 Soham Nag 6.5
30 Aditya Bikram Paul 7 73 Nirnay Garg 6.5
31 Parth Kuntal Raval 7 74 Bhuvan Ghanesh A V 6.5
32 Rohith Yadav B R 7 75 Sathi Akshaj Mayank 6.5
33 Arjun Sidharth S 7 76 Adireddy Tarun 6
34 Sadbhav Rautela 7 77 Prabhav Aggarwal 6
35 Adithya Ramesh 7 78 Sooriya B Y 6
36 Sai Raj Gopal K 7 79 Agarwal Mukund H 6
37 Gokula Vishnu R 7 80 Shah Moxit J 6
38 AFM Aditya Prasad 7 81 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 6
39 Adireddy Arjun 7 82 Swayham P Das 6
40 Sreehith Reddy R 7 83 Gogte Soumil 6
41 Aritrya Pal 7 84 Pavan Anand S 6
42 Shrey Nilkant 7 85 Adharsh D P 6
43 Tejes Suresh Kumar 7 86 Shah Marmik 6
44 Tawade Arnav 7 87 Varshith Nela 6
45 Suhaas A 7 88 Karunya Shesha Sai Y 6
46 Sai Nikhil Y 7 89 Aakash K P 6
47 Shravan Swaminathan 7 90 Kinkhabwala Hrithik 6
48 Pranav K P 7 91 Vabesh Kumar Bardhan 6
49 Adalja Vanssh A 7 92 Sanjay Srinivasan R 6
50 Rachishnu Datta 7 93 Mummana Venkata Ruthvik 6
51 Borkhetariya Devarsh M 7 94 Rupesh Reddy Y 6
52 Arnav Pradhan 7 95 Simon Jacob 6
53 Vegi Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji 7 96 Bawangade Krish 6
54 Sanjay Sriram 6.5 97 Abhiram Vaddi 6
55 Pranay Garg 6.5 98 Teerthala Abhinav 6
56 Panda Hrishikesh 6.5 99 Ritobroto Sen 6
57 Utkarsh Bhatnagar 6.5 100 Talla Nischal 6
58 Jayakrishna H 6.5 101 Akshay Arivu 6
59 Tirth Shresth 6.5 102 Naga Akhil Charan B 6
60 Keshav Padmanabhan 6.5 103 Ishant Kumar 5.5
61 Bakrewal Vinamra 6.5 104 Shashank K 5.5
62 Mahajan Ayush 6.5 105 Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat 5.5
63 Atharva Tomar 6.5 106 Sri Harish J 5.5
64 Sushanth Kamabathula 6.5 107 Arnav Kushwaha 5.5
65 Karthik N 6.5 108 Kodela Keerthi Kanth 5.5
66 Jeevan Prakash N 6.5 109 Ch. Nanda Sai Vinesh 5.5
67 Gyana Sai Santhosh M 6.5 110 Hriday Nikshipt Adari 5.5
68 Saravanan J 6.5 111 Pritam Panda 5.5
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112 ACM Pradyumna Kanukollu 5.5 155 Burugupalli Jai Pranav Sri R 5 198 Karanam Vishwas 4 38 Sanikommu Manasvi 6.5
113 Abhiraj Nag 5.5 156 Raman Siddhardh B 5 199 Sreyanth Y 4 39 Vedika Agarwal 6.5
114 ACM Srivatsan Karthikeyan 5.5 157 Haritosh Jatin S 5 200 M Dhanush Srinivas Tej 4 40 Sritama Sen 6.5
115 Kandalam Sri Sai S R 5.5 158 Lanka Marthanda Kumar 5 41 Tanisha Chatterjee 6.5
116 Kabir Singh Ahuja 5.5 159 Dhiyaneshwaran V 5 Final Ranking:Girls 42 Sarvani Cheedella 6.5
117 Singh Shivesh 5.5 160 Sanjay Pradnesh G 5 Rk. Name 43 Aakanksha Patel 6.5
118 Uddhav Ajay Shenoy 5.5 161 Vihaan Chowdhary N 5 1 Velpula Sarayu 9 44 Nishanthini U 6.5
119 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 5.5 162 Rewansh Vaidya 4.5 2 WCM K riti Mayur Patel 9 45 Rajanya Datta 6.5
120 Susidharan J 5.5 163 Gade Vishal 4.5 3 AIM Renganayaki V 8 46 Nethra Chandupatla 6.5
121 Himesh Empally 5.5 164 Dhanush Netha 4.5 4 Boramanikar Tanisha S 8 47 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 6.5
122 Navin Ganesan S 5.5 165 Sai Akshar Tadimeti 4.5 5 Kheerthi Ganta 8 48 Smriti Prabhuraj 6.5
123 Felix Moothedath 5.5 166 Aruni Agrawal 4.5 6 Panda Miracle 8 49 Anya Seth Syed 6
124 Debaryo Basu 5.5 167 ACM Sriram Venkatesan 4.5 7 WCM Wankhade Sanskruti 8 50 Amrutha Varshini Damisetty 6
125 Redkar Yash 5.5 168 Hakesh K 4.5 8 Meenatchi Rajam V 8 51 Kashthuri Bhai R 6
126 Kanish Kumar R 5.5 169 Siva Shyam Kumar A 4.5 9 Akshaya Rajaraman 8 52 Behera Snehayukta 6
127 Gandi Juhee Pranav 5.5 170 Tummala Somanadh 4.5 10 Barik Bijayalaxmi 8 53 Arushi Srichandan 6
128 Nipun Dangche 5.5 171 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 4.5 11 WCM Patel Riddhi R 8 54 Sri Vidya Sambhavi R 6
129 Gagan P 5.5 172 Karthikeyan Sakthivel 4.5 12 Yash Jyoti Bir 7.5 55 Yachna Singh 6
130 Kudakala Sivaram 5.5 173 Dhruva Kumar D 4.5 13 Rout Yashita 7.5 56 Aarna Chugh 6
131 Sathwik Vemulapalli 5.5 174 Sri Akhil Prasad 4.5 14 Ratnapriya K 7.5 57 Winee Thengal 6
132 Rithwik Gandikota 5.5 175 Adidam Sampath Karthik 4.5 15 Agrawal Aanya 7.5 58 Varshini M 6
133 Doddi Bhaskara Sai Ganesh 5.5 176 Hrishith R 4.5 16 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 7.5 59 Kanishka S 6
134 Sai Rithvik M M 5.5 177 Kandimalla Praneeth C 4.5 17 Shah Kritee 7.5 60 Shreshtha Surai 6
135 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5.5 178 Varma G Y C 4.5 18 Anushka Gupta 7 61 Pasapula Teja Sree 6
136 Arhan Chethan Anand 5 179 Vivek Tribhuvan Ramam D 4.5 19 Yashavishree N 7 62 Vedalatha P 6
137 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 5 180 Sumanth P 4.5 20 Cera Dagaria 7 63 Shaik Julekha Bahaar 6
138 Adithya Vibhu S 5 181 Chitti Phani Bhushan K Y S M 4.5 21 Tejaswini G 7 64 Mishra Anjali 6
139 Bhargava Sai S 5 182 Soma Shankara Sharma B 4.5 22 Jena Suhana 7 65 Kudakala Venkata D 6
140 Naga Saketh Manukonda 5 183 Podilapu Rudrama Naidu 4.5 23 Ananya Arumbakkam 7 66 Chopra Syna 6
141 Patnana Kishore Rajan 5 184 Keerthan Reddy Anubotula 4.5 24 Prasiddhi Bhat 7 67 Bhillva Nilaya K E K 6
142 Sapre Vedang 5 185 Naman S Vora 4.5 25 Mahi Amit Doshi 7 68 Korukonda Rashmi 6
143 Vantakula Sujan Kumar 5 186 Jeswanth Sai Niketh C H 4.5 26 Dolisiyas Dash 7 69 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam 5.5
144 Manish Gwra Basumatary 5 187 Surada Yashaswi Satya G 4.5 27 Mythri Maddisetty 7 70 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5.5
145 V Sumant 5 188 Villuri Palgun 4.5 28 Tejaswi R 7 71 Prakash Vaishnavi 5.5
146 Srikar J V 5 189 Venkatesh K 4 29 Adreeja Sinha 7 72 Dharini R 5.5
147 Himanish Srivatsa A 5 190 Ayush Saha 4 30 Anupam M Sreekumar 7 73 Daranya S 5.5
148 K Bharath Bhushan 5 191 Lakshman Manchala 4 31 Adra P 6.5 74 Anishka Pandey 5.5
149 Kannuru Ananth Kumar 5 192 Vishnu Komanduri 4 32 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 6.5 75 Mishthy Khatwa 5.5
150 Gopala Krishnan M 5 193 Naga Sai Sarthak Karanam 4 33 Harshavardhini M.S. 6.5 76 Jethwani Himani 5.5
151 Rohith Mukthi Anand 5 194 Sai Charan Aditya M 4 34 Mohitha V 6.5 77 Aarushi Srivastava 5.5
152 Sunkara Krishna Prasad 5 195 Peela Vishnu Vardhan 4 35 Sri Anjana Sarvani M 6.5 78 Bhavishya Anubotula 5.5
153 Arham Anand Shah 5 196 Jaswanth Sai Vemuru 4 36 Hemakshi Chauhan 6.5 79 Rachita Sabbathi 5.5
154 Lokesh P 5 197 Challa Saharsha 4 37 Sai Mahati A 6.5 80 Joshita Neelam 5.5

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81 Hasini Kamabathula 5.5 ARCA State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur
82 Bonthula Roshini Sarayu 5 A minor change in the
83 Dhruthi Sriprada M 5 placing of the pieces Ujjwal Deep is Champion
84 Adrika Mishra 5 N.Elkies by IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter
85 Dhrithi Murgod 5 3 HM, czerniak Mem 1987
86 Errabelli Pranavi 5
87 Kadambinee Ghadai 5 The Chess in Lakecity organised its ARCA 15 Tanisha Bhagchandani 6
State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated 16 Khushi Mishra 5½
88 Sri Rashmika M 5
Chess Tournament at the beautiful Udaipur 17 Ashmil Saxena 5½
89 Bhavana N 5
city from 17-19 May 2019 . 139 players from 18 Pranay Chordia 5½
90 Eshanvi Satya Sai Ganta 5
91 Gauri Saraswat 5 ten districts including 40 Fide Rated Players 19 Aashi Upadhyay 5½
92 Korukonda Rishitha 5 20 Yatee Kothari 5½
from Lakecity, Jaipur, Jodhpur,Bhilwara, Ja-
93 Shreya Meenakshi 5 21 Madhav Ajmera 5½
lore, Chittorgarh Rajasamand , Jhalawar,Kota
94 Konalika Yumnam 5 22 Aditya Kumar Bhagora 5
95 Pedapudi Jaya Hari Chandana 5
and Ajmer participated in the three days 23 Chinmay Jain 5
96 Swathi A 5 eight round event. The time format of the 24 Jain Saumya 5
97 Shah Jiya 5 tournament was 60 minutes + 30 seconds 25 Rishabh Jaju 5
98 Gade Sharanya 5 White to play and win increment for each move to each player. 26 Rudradaman Mertia 5
99 Amulya Bhagavatula 5 The striking simplicity of the above study 27 Tanmay Nalwaya 5
100 Amrutha Bhagavatula 4.5 is misleading. In fact the utmost accu- 13 year old Honi Arora of Jaipur was the 28 Sameer Verma 5
101 Sevitha Viju M 4.5 racy is required here from both sides.
102 Nithya Sree Addagalla 4.5
top seeded player of the tournament. Ujjw- 29 Yuktartha 5
It is possible to predict with certainty al Deep of Jaipur bagged the title and Raj 30 Kavyansh Bagdi 5
103 Samhitha Thantarapalli 4.5
that the black knight will be sacrificed kumawat From Lakecity won the second 31 Kushagra Singh Deora 5
104 Pate Prerana 4.5
for the white h-pawn.The Black king will 32 Samrath Singh Chhabra 5
105 Garneni Meghasamhitha 4.5 place while Arun Kataria stood third. Ujjaw-
then move quickly over to the remaining 33 Tushar Damor 5
106 Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi 4.5 al received Rs.11111/- Trophy and Raj Re-
pawns. White will play c4-c5 in an attempt 34 Dhruv Kalani 5
107 Shah Pari Sachin 4.5 ceived Rs.9000/- trophy . And Arun Won Rs.
to promote one of his pawns.A race will 35 Hinger Swapnil 5
108 Deesha Mishra 4.5 develop in which white will promote when 7000/- and trophy.The tournament was well
36 Ankur Agarwal 5
109 Neelanjana Dey 4.5 black’s c-pawn reaches the seventh rank. organised by the Lakecity at Maa karma Sahu 37 Charvi Patidar 5
110 Pritilakshmi Kashyap 4.5 The result seems to be a theoretical draw. Dham in an air conditioned hall. 38 Jeetan Patel 5
111 M Surya Gayathri Sri Saranya 4 .5 39 Yashneil Maharia 5
112 Jyothi Jeevani Kollipara 4.5 Lets try: 1.Kg7 Nxh6 2.Kxh6 Ke3 3.c5 Final ranking 40 Deopurkar Atharv Hemant 5
113 Shreya S Pillai 4 bxc5 4.b6 c4 5.b7 c3 6.b8Q c2 7.Kg5 Rk Name Pts 41 Bhuvanshu Bhatnagar 5
Kd2! (not 7….c1Q?? 8.Qf4+) indeed, a 1 Ujjwal Deep 7 42 Bheshmaan sangwan 5
114 Naveena Sriram 4
draw. White though, has another possi- 2 Raj Kumawat 7 43 Doshi Diya 5
115 Tanishka Tripathi 4
bility on the first move.1.h7 Nf6+ 2.Kg7 3 Arun Kataria 7 44 Akshay Pratap Singh 5
116 Paladugu Yoga Harishini 4
Nxh7 3.Kxh7 Ke3 4.c5 bxc5 5.b6 c4 6.b7 4 Yajat Vyas 6½ 45 Prakhar Chaplot 5
117 Kumari Prasad Jagriti 4 5 Arora Honi 6½
c3 7.b8Q c2 We have reached the same 46 Gargi Khatri 5
118 Sloka Yukti I 4 position but instead of the WK being on 6 Raj Kapoor 6 47 Prakhar Maheswari 4½
119 Naga Unnathi Manukonda 4 h6 it is now on h7.It takes a really over- 7 Garg Shivam 6 48 Hitkaran Singh Rathore 4½
120 Krutika Kalicharan Shirodkar 4 flowing dose of imagination to grasp from 8 Vrashank Chouhan 6 49 Abhinav Shrimali 4½
121 Lalam Akshaya 4 the diagram position the significance of 9 Aniruddh Khandelwal 6 50 Kazmi Daanish Sheen 4½
122 Mahadev Rushita Haju 4 the difference: 8.Qh2!! c1Q 9.Qh6+ and 10 Aayush Bhojak 6 51 Ritik Shukla 4½
123 Sathi Sahitya Lahari 4 wins.Note that 8…Kd3 8.Qh6 Ke2 10.Qc1 11 Yashasvi Gupta 6 52 Hardik Dak 4½
124 Datti Dharmika 4 leads to the same result. 12 Elakshi Srivastava 6 53 Rajshree Lath 4½
125 Krishna Amitha B 4 From’Creative chess’ by Amatzia Avni 13 Himanshu Trivedi 6 54 Padmakshi Singh Solanki 4½
14 Dakshita Kumawat 6 55 Saatwik Jajoo 4

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 52ndLate Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem.FIDE Rating Tournament,Sangli
Keval Nirgun Wins the Title
by FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter
The Tournament was organized by Nutan
Buddhibal Mandal, one of the oldest organiz-
ers in India where 226 players played in this
event with Anish Gandhi of Kolhapur(MAH) as
top seed with ELO 2198 rating. IM Ramana-
than Balasubramaniam of Railways, Raghav
Srivathsav of Telangana, Kiran Pandit rao of
Customs & CGST, RaoMalleshwara of Andhra
Pradesh &NagareAkhilesh of Maharashtra
were amongst few highly rated players who
tried their best on top boards to clinch the
title.
Tournament was inaugurated by Shantikant
Kanthe, Chairman Latthe education Society,
a well known educational institute in this
area along with Mr.Chidambar Kotibhaskar,
Mr. Ramesh Charhate, Dr.Ulhas Mali and
Tournament director Mr.Chintamani Limaye
by lamp lighting ceremony followed by in-
augural move over chess board. A players
meet was conducted by Chief Arbiter where
Tournament rules were discussed with all the
players and parents to make them familiar
with recent upgradations in rules and special
regulations related to tournament.
151 Rated Players Participated in this event
while 31 Players out of total 75 Unrated
players managed to secure rating Perfor-
mance above 1000 and they are eligible for
FIDE Rating in Standard Chess in June 2019
Rating List. The tournament also witnessed
a noticeable participation from 36 Female
Players amongst total of 226 Players from
9 States viz. MAH, GUJ, GOA, KAR, RAJ, AP,
GUJ, MP, TEL, TN.A well ventilated hall with
proper lighting arrangements was provided
by organizers with excellent playing condi-
tions for players.
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Keval Nirgun from Pune(MAH) won 52nd Late
Babukaka Shirgaokar Memorial Open FIDE
rating Chess Tournament 2019 held at Sangli
(MAH). Keval in outstanding run at the tour-
nament, outplayed all his eight opponents
in first eight Rounds of the event. Gaining a
clear one point lead, he settled on draws in
penultimate and last rounds against Gopal
Rathod of Thane (MAH) &Akhilesh Nagare of
Nashik (MAH).
Top Seeded Anish Gandhi from Kolhapur
(MAH) managed to secure Second Position
with a spectacular win over Board No. 2
against Gopal Rathod while Raghav Srivast-
hav of Telangana held IM Ramanathan Balas-
ubramaniam of Railways to a draw on Board
No. 3. Anjaneya Phatak from Pune (MAH)
had a magnificent event where he scored 8
points out of best possible 10 and bagged a
huge rating gain of 100 ELO Points.
Total Cash Prizes worth Rs. 2,00,000/- were
distributed by the hands of Mr.Ramakant
Malu, Founder and Director-Samruddhi Plas-
tics Group, Nagnath Halkude (Aryan's Enter-
prises),Chandrakant Limaye (Tournament
Director) and Chidambar Kotibhaskar (Vice
President - NBM), Mrs.SmitaKelkar, Treasurer
- NBM & Chief Arbiter FA Vivek Sohani.
Little Champ Sani Deshpande from Aurang-
abad (MAH) gained a maximum 171 ELO
points and secured 3rd Place in ELO 1000
- 1300 Category.
Arbiter's Team Consisted of FA Deepak Vay-
chal as Deputy Chief Arbiter along with FA
MilindNaik, FA JayshreePatil, SNAPranav- 43 Aditya Savalkar 6
Tangsale as Assistant Arbiters. 44 Bapat Aniket 6
45 Borse Vaibhav 6
Final ranking 46 Kunnekar Vanshri 6
Rank Name Pts 47 Kadam Samarth Sachin 6
1 Nirgun Keval 9 48 Jagadale Ishwari 6
2 Gandhi Anish 8½ 49 Tikam Aradhya 6
3 Nagare Akhilesh 8 50 Bhatawdekar Ved 6
4 Phatak Aanjaneya 8 51 Purkar Shreyas 6
5 IM R Balasubramaniam 8 52 Khairmode Aditya 6
6 Bhosale Shriraj 7½ 53 Patil Sarang 6
7 Rao J. Malleswara 7½ 54 Walde Harshal 6
8 Gopal Rathod 7½ 55 Nikam Sudhanshu 6
9 Mishra Sanjeev 7½ 56 AFM Kumtakar Deepak 6
10 Shreyas Ghadi 7½ 57 Mhetre Prem 6
58 Muthu Rahul 6
11 Raghav Srivathsav V 7½
59 AIM Kulkarni Rakesh 6
12 Hitesh S. Jariya 7
60 Walimbe Jitendra 6
13 AGM Kiran Panditrao 7
61 AIM Shardul Manojkumar Tapase 6
14 Boramanikar Tanisha S 7
15 Bhagwat Heramb 7 62 Mahat Nihal 6
16 Bharsakale Rahul 7 63 Dandekar Amey 6
17 Rawal Shailesh 7 64 Malani Shubham 6
18 Shriya R Revankar 7 65 Harne Chinmay 6
19 Pise Prashant 7 66 Borate Tanvi 6
20 Apte Dhaivat 7 67 Pradeep Pandya 6
21 Hend Pravin 7 68 Sirsathe Prem 6
22 Shah Vishwa 7 69 Joshi Swarup 6
23 Dhoot Vinit 7 70 Kate Harshita 6
24 Mohitha V 7 71 Chothe Sadanand 6
72 Tamboli Sohel 5½
25 Mahajan Ayush 6½
73 Savdekar Akshay 5½
26 Patil Rohit R 6½
74 Walekar Parth 5½
27 Inamdar Sameer 6½
75 Nair Sharath 5½
28 Rajput Gayatri 6½
29 Patil Pranav Prafulla 6½ 76 Walde Varad 5½
30 Khasbardar Soham 6½ 77 Shreyas Ravindra Patil 5½
31 Dandawate Abhishek 6½ 78 ACM Rathi Anay Anup 5½
32 Joshi Nikhil 6½ 79 Magdum Mayuresh 5½
33 Sani Deshpande 6½ 80 Pardeshi Gayatri 5½
34 Dheeraj Dubey 6½ 81 Shinde Swapnil 5½
35 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 6½ 82 Pandharpure Yash 5½
36 Pawar Sohum 6½ 83 Atharv Pandharpure 5½
37 Patil Harshal U 6½ 84 Rane Yash 5½
38 Athalye Varad 6½ 85 Shinde Om 5½
86 Chalke Soham 5½
39 Naik B S 6½
87 Shantanu Sachin Kotekar 5½
40 Mayekar Ayush 6½
88 Deodhar Mudit 5½
41 Golvankar Dilip K 6½
89 Gogate Shirish 5½
42 Kher Akshay 6½
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 30th TN State Under-17 Open & Girls FIDE Rated Championship,Nagapattinam
Ayushh Ravikumar and Divyabharathi clinch titles
by R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter
The Championship was organized by Nagap-
attinam District Chess Association on behalf
of All India Chess Federation & Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association from 20th to 24th
May 2019 at EGS Pillay Engineering College,
Nagapattinam.
Chief Guests of the function were Shri.Man-
ishi Krishna/DGM, F&A (ONGC, Karaikal);
Shri B. Siva, District Sports & Youth Welfare
Officer, Nagapattinam; Alhaj. Kazi. S Shai-
kHassan Sahib/NagoreDurgha Hereditary
Trustee; Shri S. Shankar Ganesh/Trustee
Member, EGS Pillay Group of Institutions
inaugurated the event.
Overall 243 players were participated, among
them 75 Girls and 168 Boys contenstant.
There was a two-way tie between Ayush and
Arunachalam Shiva with 7.5 points in the
open section.But Ayush Ravikumar of Chen-
nai beat Arunachalam Shiva in the earlier
round and got the title in the open section
received the cash award of Rs.4000 & trophy.
In the Girls section there is a tie among five
players with 7 points. But the better buccholz
favoured Divyabharati M of Chennai to get the
title and cash award of Rs.4000 and trophy
The Championship was very well organized
by Nagapattinam District chess Association.
Each and every day, breakfast, lunch and
healthy food like, Nungu, cucumber,Veg.kanji
(specially brought from Nagore Dharga), ba-
nana, etc., were supplied free of cost to the
players by the Organizers. The Organizers
also gave steel plates(to avoid plastics) and
T-shirts to all the players freely. The Organ-
izers also provided many magazine books &
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15 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 7 Srimozhi S 6
16 Tarun V 6½ 8 Arputha Jasmine B A 6
17 Antony Jesumarian Leslie 6½ 9 Benasir M 6
18 Sibi Visal R 6 10 Kiruthika B 6
19 Rathina Sabapathi A 6 11 Femil Chelladurai 6
newspapers in the parents waiting area. 20 Abishek A 6 12 Akshaya Rajaraman 6
21 Mohamed Anees M 6 13 Rebecca Jesumarian 6
Also the organizers arranged holy trips to 22 Shyam Kumar M 6 14 Achaya Vijayan 6
Velankanni Church and Korakka Siddhar 23 Anup Shankar R 6 15 Kirtana S P 6
Peetam for 170 members of players & par- 24 Hiren K G 6 16 Harsha R 6
25 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 17 Harshini B 5½
ents were provided with dinner.Overall the
26 Bargava Narasimhan S 6 18 Leaha B 5½
players, parents & arbiters enjoyed a lot in
27 Arivu Selvan A S 6 19 Meenatchi Rajam V 5½
this Championship. 28 Ram Kumar G M 6 20 Porkalaivani N 5½
29 Manikandan Rangan 6 21 Tejaswini G 5½
In the Prize Distribution function, Chief Guests 30 Vignesh B 5½ 22 Tina C 5
Shri S Arul Prakasam/Managing Trustee &Shri 31 Sai Prasath A S 5½ 23 Sandhya S 5
B Siva/District Sports & Youth Welfare Officer, 32 Dinesh Rajan M 5½ 24 Sasvatha A 5
Nagapattinam gave away the prizes to the 33 Kabhilan S 5½ 25 Ahalya A 5
winners.The Organizers did a wonderful job 34 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 5½ 26 Padmini S 5
and conducted the event successfully. 35 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½ 27 Yashavishree N 5
36 Avinash Ramesh 5½ 28 Cuba Punitha Vilvam 5
I really thank the College Management, Shri R 37 Rohith S 5½ 29 Sanju Shree Murali 5
K Balagunasekaran, Joint Secretary TNSCA; 38 Mukhesh C 5½ 30 Abinaya H 5
39 Vishal Choudary B 5½ 31 Elakiya Settu 5
Retired Major Dr.V Govindarajalu,President,
NDCA;Shri S P Akilan, Secretary, NDCA, and 40 Srihari Satheeswaran 5½ 32 Rakshitha P 4½
Shri B Sundar Raj, Joint Secretary,NDCA, 41 Senguttuvan K P 5½ 33 Genita Gladys A 4½
Chairman Organizing Committee who helped 42 Sivashankar M 5½ 34 Kapila R 4½
conduct the event in a smooth manner. 43 Sai H Sai Jagadeesan 5½ 35 Kamali B 4½
44 Anantha Sai S 5½ 36 M Padma Pratibha 4½
Final ranking 45 Mathavan T 5½ 37 Riya Shannon S 4½
Rk Name Pts 38 Monisha S 4½
46 Yashwant Annamalai 5½
1 Ayushh Ravikumar 7½ 39 Roshini S 4½
2 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 7½ 47 Jeyanth R 5½
40 Stepheena S 4½
3 Genish Prakash J 7 48 Alagappan S 5½
4 Yutesh P 7 49 Deepak Raj R 5½ 41 Thrisha A 4½
42 Harsha Y 4½
5 Suganthan S 7 50 Praveen K B 5½
6 Nawin J J 7 43 Akshaya Balamurugan 4½
7 Nidheshpa S 7 Final ranking:Girls 44 Sandhiya Sri K 4½
8 Aravinth Shanmugam S 7 Rank Name Pts 45 Trisha B 4
9 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½ 1 Divyabharathi Masanam 7 46 Swethitha C 4
10 Gugan G 6½ 2 Annapurni S 7 47 Swapna C N 4
11 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 3 Poorna Sri M.K 7 48 Sathya Priya K 4
12 Shree Ganesh M Annamalai 6½ 4 Vijayasubhasri S 7 49 Sherlina S 4
13 Ayyappan P Santhana Prabu 6½ 5 Tejaswi R 7 50 Keerthana Venkatesan 4
14 Kanishk S K 6½ 6 Shrija K M 6
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 DCA below 1600 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi
Aryan Garg wins title
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
The Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated
Chess Tournament for Below 1600 rated play-
ers was held at Hotel Caspia, Shalimarbagh,
New Delhi from 18-20 May 2019.
A total number of 693 players which includes
485 International rated players from Turkey,
Canada, USA, Sri Lanka, Nepal and different
parts of India participated in the event which
were spread over 3 days with a time control
of 60 minutes and 30 seconds increment from
move 1. The total prize fund of the event was
Rs. 18,00,000.
The Tournament was played under Swiss
System with nine rounds and had 9 year old
Madhya Pradesh player Lakshyesh Mohan
Gupta with 1599 as top seed. All India Chess
Federation Secretary Shri. Bharat Singh
Chauhan inaugurated the event by making
the customary first move against senior In-
ternational Arbiter Shri. RS Tiwari.
The tournament progressed on expected
lines with lot of twists and turns. At the
end of eighth and penultimate round, Delhi
youngster Aryan Garg took the sole lead with
perfect score and enjoyed one point lead over
nearest contenders before the final round. In
the final round he not took any chances and
signed the peace treaty with Aniket Ahirwar
of Madhya Pradesh early to the game to finish
at top with unassailable 8.5 points to take
home one lakh rupees and winner’s trophy.
A two way tie for the second position between
Sanjib Mali of West Bengal and Sailesh R
of Tamilnadu was resolved by Buchholz tie
break score. Better tie break score helped
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6 Vatsal Makol 7½ 53 Pushkar Mehta 6½
7 Ahirwar Aniket 7½ 54 Mahendar B 6½
8 Tushar Banerjee 7½ 55 Ratnesh Singh 6½
9 Sachinder 7½ 56 Lalpekliana T 6½
10 Utkarsh Gupta 7½ 57 Kapil Panwar 6½
11 Vishwanath Kannam 7½ 58 Rajat Yadav 6½
Sanjib to finish at second position to secure 12 Manikya Negi 7½ 59 Nishchay Arora 6½
Rs. 70000/- as cash award while more de- 13 ChetanPratapS Rathor 7½ 60 Vatsal Shah 6½
lightful outcome was awaited for Sailesh as 14 Tripathi Skand 7½ 61 Sanse Niraj 6½
he finished at top of 1399 Below rating cate- 15 Vinod Verma 7 62 Aditya Pratap Singh 6½
gory to fetch Rs. 80000/- as cash prize. The 16 Sumesh Kabeer 7 63 Parthaprotim Gogoi 6½
category prize of Sailesh R helped his state 17 Abhinav Dubey 7 64 Arbind Kumar Singh 6½
mate Gopikrishnan S to finish at third in the 18 Kalbande Mayur 7 65 Archisman Patra 6½
main prize list. 19 Spandan Srivastava 7
20 Arshin Sikka 7
Saanya Mahesh of Delhi adjudged as best 21 Subhash Kumar M 7
Puzzle of the month
22 Ojasvi Khattar 7
female player while Fenil Piyush Shah of by C.G.S.Narayanan
23 Neeraj Kumar 7
Maharasthra become best among unrat-
24 Sheth Shemal Ketan 7
ed players. Aditya Pratap Singh of Uttar 25 Geetesh Mishra 7 In the proof game below solver has to ar-
Pradesh, Harshiel Sehgal of Delhi and Rosh 26 Abhinav Raj 7 rive at the diagram position in four moves
Jain of Delhi finished best among Under-15, 27 Dharmaveer Singh 7 from the initial game array position
Under-12 and Under-9 age categories respec- 28 Vangala Prashanth 7
tively. Pushkar Mehta and Khuanna Kapoor 29 Amit Dhoundiyal 7 Tibor Ornban
become Best Delhi player and Best Delhi girl 30 Bala Ganeshan 7 Die Sc hwalbe 1976
player respectively. Lalpekliana T of Mizoram 31 Kesavan G 7
and Murarilal Kori of Madhya Pradesh secured 32 Jojo P John 7
best players prizes in Divyang and Below 33 Poornima Gupta 7
Poverty Line categories respectively. 34 Soni Deepak R 7
In the closing ceremony, Shri. Uttam Praksh, 35 Suhaib Ahmad 6½
36 Aditya Rawat 6½
Commissioner Provident Fund; Shri. Bharat
37 Arbaz Shekh 6½
Singh Chauhan, Secretary AlCF; Shri.
38 Mrityunjay Kumar 6½
Chadha, Senior Advocate of Supreme Court 39 Satyam Prakash 6½
of India; Shri. Dhiraj Raghuvanshi, President 40 Shah Fenil Piyush 6½
Uttaranchal Chess Association and Shri. AK 41 Shaoni Mukherjee 6½
Verma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Associa- 42 Jagan V 6½
tion gave away the cash prizes and trophies 43 Gupta Nikunj 6½
to the winners. 44 Subhabrata Roy 6½
45 Deepender Sangwan 6½ PG 4.0 moves
Final ranking 46 Arshpreet Singh 6½ The above position can be arrived at in
Rank Name Pts 47 Vijendra Victor 6½ just three moves from the initial game
1 Aryan Garg 8½ 48 Bajpai Anil 6½
array. But the stipulation requires that
2 Sanjib Mali 8 49 Armaan Sinha 6½
the same position has to be reached in
3 Sailesh R 8 50 S. Jeevanandam 6½
four moves! How?
4 Gopikrishnan S 7½ 51 Rajendra Singh 6½
52 Harprab Singh Johar 6½ (solution on page 48)
5 Rakesh Bhatti 7½
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 Family chess Rapid FIDE Rating chess Tournament, Karur 1st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak All India Open FIDE Blitz Rating Tournament, Raigad
Prasanna wins title Dhulipalia Bala Chandra Prasad wins title
By N.K.Nandakumar IA , Chief Arbiter by IA, DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter
Family Chess Rapid FIDE rating chess tour- 19 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 5½
1st Kokan Pratishthan Chashak All India Sameer Paranjape, Tournament Director; Mr.
nament attracted 380 Players from Tamil- 20 Surendran N 5½
Open FIDE Blitz Rating Chess Tournament Chandrashekhar N. Patil, Secretary of Panvel
nadu, AP, Kerala, Karnataka and Jharkhand. 21 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5½
2019 was organized by Kokan Pratishthan Chess Association; IA, DI Mr. Prem Pandit,
This one day FIDE Rated event was held on 22 Raman D 5½
23 WFM Saranya J 5½ at K. A. Bhantia high school, near railway Chief Arbiter were present on the dais.
1st May 2019 at Shri Vijayalakshmi Vidhya- station, New Panvel, Raigad,Maharashtra. For the Closing ceremony Mr. Sanjay Kedge,
24 Gowtham K K 5½
layaa International School (ICSE Affiliated) The tournament was held on 26th May 2019 Hon. President of AMCA; Mr. Rajendra Konde,
25 Thanga Manickam M 5½
MGR Nagar, South Gandhigramam, Karur - in the air conditioned Hall. Hon. Treasurer of AMCA; Mr. Chandrashekhar
26 Alaguraja M.A. 5½
639004. The top Seed International Master 27 Arun Prasath P 5½ N. Patil, Secretary of Panvel Chess Associ-
S.Nitin scored 6 points and finished 9th place. 28 Arul Anandh S P K 5½ The tournament was played under the Swiss ation; Mr. Sameer Paranjape, Tournament
7th seeded Master S.Prasannaa won the title 29 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½ League Format. All the FIDE rules applicable Director; Mr. Dilip Naik, Hon. President of
with 7 / 7 and third seeded Syeed Anwar won 30 Selvamurugan B 5 were followed. All nine rounds were conduct- Kokan Pratishthan; IA, DI Mr. Prem Pandit,
the 2nd prize. 31 Aswath S 5 ed in a day 26th May 2019. 1st round was Chief Arbiter; were present on the dais.
32 Balaji P 5
started at 01:00 PM and the last day round
I thank the organizers and TNSCA for the 33 AGM Yuvan Bharathi K S 5
was at 05:00 PM. Deputy Chief Arbiter FA Pavan Rathi, IA Dilip-
appointed me as an Chief Arbiter to conduct 34 Murali. R 5
kumar Tribhovandas Rawal, IA Vinita Shrotri,
the one day Rapid event.We have used chess 35 Dinesh Rajan M 5
As per information given to parents reporting FA Rahul Joshi & SNA Shraddha Vinchwekar
clocks for all the boards and the time format 36 Arunkumar K S 5
37 Thirunaga Sundaram S 5 time was 12:00 PM. All players list was dis- worked as Assistant Arbiters. Without their
is 20Min + 5 sec inc from move one. Please played on notice board for claims of any omis- support it was not possible to conduct the
38 Vinoth M 5
note there was no protest received in this sion of entry or correction in date of birth, tournament smoothly. Miss Shraddha Vinch-
39 Srinadh Madhavarapu 5
event regarding decision of the arbiters. fide id, etc.. Players meeting was conducted wekar got FA1 norm certificate. I also thank
40 AravinthShanmugam S 5
Final ranking: 41 V Babu Sundaresan 5 at 12:30 PM and an appeals Committee was for the immense support of FIDE, AICF, AMCA
Rk Name Pts & Panvel Chess Association.All credit goes to
42 Arnav Maheshwari 5 formed thereafter. Time schedule for every
1 Prasannaa.S 7
43 Nandha Kumar K 5 round was put up on notice board and up- both AMCA & RAIGAD Chess Association for
2 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½
44 Kannan R 5 dated on chess-results.com. The first round the smooth conduct of the tournament.
3 Gunasekaran K. 6½
45 Ganesh Babu S 5 commenced at 01:30 PM
4 Vigneshwaran N. 6½
46 Ganesha Moorthy D 5 Final ranking:
5 Sekar B 6
47 Vel Vishwanathan G M 5 Rk Name Pts
6 Senthil Maran K 6 There were 185 players in which 118 players
48 Mugunth R B 5 1 IM D Bala Chandra Prasad 8½
7 Uma Maheswaran P 6 were rated, which included four International
49 Surya Thangavel 5 2 FM Wagh Suyog 8
8 Sibi Visal R 6
50 Sai Kiran G V 5 Masters, two FIDE Masters and one Candi-
9 IM Nitin S. 6 3 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 8
51 Sathyaraj G 5 date Master out of which International Master
10 Barath Kalyan M 6 4 FM Anand Nadar 7½
52 Sathya Giri V 5 Sadhwani Raunak with Rating of 2432 from
11 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6 5 IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh 7
53 Vikash K S 5 Nagpur, was the top seed. 6 Bhambure Shantanu 7
12 Manigandan S S 6
54 Rutherford S 5 7 Vikas R Sharma 7
13 Dhanush Ragav N S 6
55 Yaseen Sherif H 5 For the opening ceremony Mr. Manojkumar 8 Swaraj Palit 7
14 FM Pranesh M 5½
56 Gouthaman A M 5 Shinde, Hon. President of RDCC & Sport As- 9 Panesar Vedant 7
15 Aswin Kumar B S 5½
57 SureshKumar S 5 sociation Raigad; Mr. Rajendra Konde, Hon. 10 Shegaonkar Akshay 7
16 Ganesh R 5½
58 AFM Suriya S V 5 Treasurer AMCA & Chairman Tournaments & 11 Krishnan Ritvik 7
17 R Shanmugasundaram 5½
59 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5 Observer Committee of AMCA; Mr. Dilip Naik, 12 Balkishan A. 6½
18 Manoj B 5½
60 Badrinarayanan N 5 13 Boricha Ketan 6½
Hon. President of Kokan Pratishthan; Mr.

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14 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6½
15 Sawant Akshay 6½
16 AGM Kiran Panditrao 6½
17 Snehal Bhosale 6½
18 Shreyas Ghadi 6½
19 Bhoir Paras Dilip 6½
20 Trivedi Gaurav V 6½
21 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 6
22 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 6
23 Balkawade Sai 6
24 Jagesia Daksh 6
25 Prathamesh Santosh Gawade 6
26 Mishra Sanjeev 6
27 Waghmare Sagar 6
28 Lund Rachit 6
29 Darsh Shetty 6
30 Dhumal Amit 6
31 Iyer Aarav 6
32 Bagwe Gaurang 6
33 Jail Digambar 6
34 Adhikari Tanvi 6
35 Godse Anish 6
36 Boricha Yohan 6
37 ACM Pandit Harsh 6
38 Shah Devarsh 6
39 Gawande Vishal 5½
40 Hapse Shreyas 5½
41 Kadam Rishi R 5½
42 Anil Sandanshi 5½
43 Dalal Prathmesh 5½
44 AIM Markanday Amol 5½
45 Deshmukh Vinayak 5½
46 Chakradeo Shriram Vinit 5½
47 Chopra Syna 5½
48 Rahul Lamba 5
49 Niwate Jairaj Kishor 5
50 Saparia Jeel Bharat 5
51 AFM Nagarkatte Vedant 5
52 Raman Trikazhipuram 5
53 Sandip Ram Sawant 5
54 Sawant Ravi 5
55 Koyande Sahil 5
56 Balkawade Om 5
57 AFM Mota Khant 5
58 Venkatraman Satyamurthy 5
59 Soni Atharv 5
60 Shetti Ameya 5
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61 Satyabhan Soni 5
62 Pawar Sohum 5
63 Kshitij Dutta 5
64 Kakade Neil 5
65 Anaidaa Santosh 5
66 Tikam Aradhya 5
67 Patel Suyash 5
68 Nair Sreevaishnav 5
69 Naitik Y 5
70 Sudhakar 5
71 Aliporewala Priyank 5
72 Pawar Sagar 5
73 Pawar Gaurav 5
74 Chandak Anmol 5
75 Mayuresh Redkar 5
76 AFM Dey Jeet 5
77 Maind Aaditya 5
78 Jagdhane Sushant 5
79 Dabhade Arnav 5
80 Bhavsar Krishnom 5
81 Om Nilesh Deorukhakar 5
82 Mohite Ramesh 5
83 Sriram S N 5
84 Karambelkar Makarand 4½
85 Sawant Hirak Manohar 4½
86 Patkar Samarth 4½
87 Yash Satish Parab 4½
88 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 4½
89 Prathmesh M Dhapate 4½
90 Parkar Mayuresh 4½
91 Harsh Satish Parab 4½
92 ACM Varadkar Neel 4½
93 Apurv Wakchaure 4
94 Greeshma Anand Dhumal 4
95 Ganesh Babu .R.K 4
96 Shrey Nilkant 4
97 Chivukula Chandrasekar 4
98 Shah Dev Mehul 4
99 Chandi Sachin 4
100 Thakur Abhishek 4
101 Aditya Saxena 4
102 Bhatia Daksh 4
103 Bhatia Kiran 4
104 Swaroop Vinod Gilbile 4
105 Parte Shravan 4
106 Karve Sarthak Mandar 4
107 Pratik Shirke 4
15th Late Meenatai Shirgaokar Memorial Women’s Tournament,Sangli
WFM Cholleti Sahajasri wins title
by FA Vivek Sohani, Chief Arbiter
The Tournament was organized by Nutan
Buddhibal Mandal, one of the oldest Organiz-
ers in India, where 125 female Players played
in this event with WFM Cholleti Sahajasri
(TEL), Deodhar Vrushali Umesh(MAH), Rathi
Dhanashree(MAH), WCM Chopdekar Gunjal
(GOA), Shah Vishwawere amongst few high-
ly rated players who tried their best on top
boards to clinch the title.
This is a Special FIDE Rating Event only for
Women Players which is conducted for the
past 15 years and that too without charging a
single rupee towards entry Fee and accomo-
dation by NBM to encourage women players
to continue their passion towards this sport.
Tournament was inaugurated by Dr. Anushree
Choudhari a well known anaesthetist and
former Chess player along with Tournament
director Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mrs. Smita
Kelkar by Lamp lighting ceremony followed by
inaugural move over chess board. A Players
meet was conducted by Chief Arbiter where
Tournament rules were discussed with all the
players and parents to make them familiar
with recent upgradations in rules and special
regulations related to tournament.
58 Rated Players Participated in this event
while 28 Players out of total 67 Unrated play-
ers managed to secure rating Performance
above 1000 and they are eligible for FIDE
Rating in Standard Chess in June 2019 Rating
List. Also Tournament witnessed a noticeable
participation from 6 States viz. MAH, GUJ,
GOA, KAR, AP, TEL.A well ventilated hall with
proper lighting arrangements was provided
by organizers with excellent playing condi-
tions for players.
WFM Cholleti Sahajasri(TEL) with straight
win in first 5 games, played with a safe ap-
proach to maintain her lead in tournament
with draws in Sixth and Seventh Rounds.
Sahajsri demolished a very low rated Riya
Marathe of Maharashtra and Secured her
title with an easy win over at the top board
in the final round. In spite of having five
consecutive wins in the first five games and
a good position against Sahajsri in Round- 6
Vishwa didn’t take any risk against 600 ELO
higher opponent and agreed for a draw in
mere 18 moves. Vishwa Managed to win her
last round and confirmed her Runner-up po-
sition. Vrushali Deodhar(MAH) & Dhanashree
Rathi(MAH) also won their respective games
on Board 3 & 4 to secure Third and Fourth
Position in Standings.
Sani Deshpande of Maharashtra Continuing
her great run, Bagged a huge rating gain of
108 ELO Points while Devanshi Solanki gave
her best to get highest performance rating
of 1273 amongst all Unrated Players.
Total Cash Prizes & Trophies worth Rs.
1,00,000/- were distributed by the hands of
Mrs. Mousami Barde, Deputy Commissioner
Sangli-Miraj Municipal Corporation, Mr. Chin-
tamani Limaye, Tournament Director & Mrs.
Smita Kelkar Treasurer, NBM.
Arbiter’s Team Consisted of FA Deepak Vay-
chal as Deputy Chief Arbiter along with FA
Jayshree Patil, SNA Shardul Tapase as Assis-
tant Arbiters.
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Final standings: 43 Yadav Pallavi 4½ All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Belagavi
Rk Name Pts 44 Parmar Krivya 4½
1 Cholleti Sahajasri WFM 7 45 Shaikh Inas 4½
Chakravarthi Reddy wins title
2 Shah Vishwa 7 46 Chavan Dakshayani Tushar 4½ by Chief Arbiter IA Manjunatha M
3 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 6½ 47 Sapre Purva 4½
4 Rathi Dhanashree 6½ 48 Borate Tanvi 4½ All India open fide rated tournament was IM R Balasubramaniam and lost his only
5 Chopdekar Gunjal WCM 6 49 Jangam Rajpriya 4½ organized by Lions club of Belgaum Midtown game. He was tied along with IM R Balasu-
6 Rajput Gayatri 6 50 Pendhari Ayuti 4½ Belgaum, in association with Belgaum district bramaniam and Gandhi Anish for first place
7 Upase Riddhi 6 51 Hatvalne Swarali 4½ with 7.5points & clinched All India Open FIDE
Chess Association. The five days tournament
8 Riya Narendra Marathe 6 52 Dhanawade Prajakta 4½ from 01-05-2019 to 05-05-2019 attracted Rating tournament 2019 Belagavi Trophy on
9 Asmita Avijit Ray 6 53 Kothe Swarali 4 168 entries, including International masters better tie break.
10 Gotmare Mrinmayi 6 54 Kate Harshita 4
11 Sani Deshpande 6 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M (Tel) 2401, IM Ra-
55 Nakshi Vasnawala 4
12 Yadnya Rahul Chaudhari 5½ manathan Balasubramaniam of TN 2193, out Prize Distribution Function was presided over
56 Dey Madhabi 4
13 Pardeshi Gayatri 5½ of them 98 players were FIDE Rated, Gitesh by Shri Shri Dr Tontad Siddharam Mahaswa-
57 Shah Anila Kishorekumar 4
14 Bhosale Shruti 5½ 58 Asudani Ruhani Raj 4 Ram Sagekar 6year old was the youngest miji, Chief Guests Shri S G Sambargimath
15 Naik Sayuri 5½ 59 Shah Isha 4 player. Subramanian T V of TN was senior chairman governing council SGBIT Belagavi,
16 Khairmode Dhanashree 5½ 60 Gotmare Mrigaya 4 most born in the year 1934. Players from 8 Guest of Honour Shri Dignitaries Allum Veer-
17 Naik Snehal 5½ 61 Bhakti Rajai 4 states participated in this event. Tournament abhadrappa MLC, MJF Lion Monica Sawant,Dr
18 Kunnekar Vanshri 5½ 62 Srushti D Kulkarni 4 was conducted in a 9 round Swiss league, the Sashikant Y Kulgod. awarded prizes to win-
19 Jagadale Ishwari 5½ 63 Mali Riya 4 ners.
event carried a prize pool of 3 Lakhs rupees
20 Katkar Sai Arya 5½ 64 Jadhav Chaitrali 4 in total. Organiser provided afternoon lunch
21 Patil Disha 5½
65 Kimaya Ghadge 4 for all participants and parents all the days. Deputy Chief Arbiter FA Ravikiran D J worked
22 Patil Divya 5
23 Dey Keya D 5
66 Srushti G Hipparagi 4 hard to conduct this event very smoothly
67 Upadhye Shruti Bahubali 4 This event was inaugurated by Dr Siddar- without any appeal.I would like to thank AICF,
24 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5
68 Asmi Sachin Laddha 4 amappa ITTI principal SGBIT Belgaum by UKCA, BDCA and Lions Club of Belgaum and
25 Kirti Milind Suryarao 5
69 Harale Priti 4 moving the pawn, on 5th may 2019 at SG support to conduct this event successfully.
26 Undale Shravni 5
70 Shaikh Jiya 4 Balekundri Institute, Prabhudeva Hall. Guest midtown, Belgaum for giving me opportunity
27 Dhore Disha 5
71 Mohitha V 3½ of honor was Lion Anil Deshpande regional
28 Alka Narayan Wagh 5 Main prizes
72 Toraskar Archita 3½ chairman lions club and dignitaries present
29 Pawar Prerana 5
73 Rathi Tanishka 3½ on the dais Lion Vidyadhar Veergowdar Rk Name Pts
30 Shreya G Hipparagi 5 chairman, Shri PK Kulkarni founder member 1 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½
74 Shreya Umesh Daingade 3½
31 Sawant Sanskruti 5 BDCA, Shri Prasanna Joshi president BDCA, 2 R Balasubramaniam 7½
75 Jarag Rajnandini 3½
32 Mahajan Mokshada D 5 Shri B R Kulkarni tournament director, Lion 3 Gandhi Anish 7½
76 Kulkarni Manorama 3½ 4 Sharan Rao 7
33 Patil Anushka 5 Ravindra Chougle, Lion Dr SP Desai, Presi-
77 Lokhande Shobha 3½ 5 Parthasarathy R 7
34 Divya Sri M 5 dent,Lions club.
78 Kadam Shraddha 3½ 6 Sudarshan Bhat 7
35 Mhetre Shravani 5
79 Kulkarni Kirti 3½ 7 Likhit Chilukuri 7
36 Dhanawade Kirti 5 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M top seeded player
80 Bhere Krutika 3½ 8 Kulkarni Vinayak 7
37 Mahat Jiya 5 of the event played very nice game won 6 9 Dhanush Ram M 6½
81 Walvekar Vaishnavi 3½
38 Kulkarni Samruddhi 5 matches without much difficulty and lead the 10 Chopdekar Gunjal 6½
82 Wankhede Mridini 3½
39 Dakare Rucha 4½ race. In seventh round he faced Sharan Rao 11 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 6½
83 Bhadgave Rachna 3½
40 Devanshi Solanki 4½ 84 Yadav Mrunal 3½ of Kar and settled for draw. Eighth round he 12 Parsekar Anirudh 6
41 Thanekar Manasi 4½ 85 Srushti Sapkal 3½ defeated Vinayak Kulkarni of Kar. In the ninth 13 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6
and final round Chakravarthi fought against 14 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
42 Charuta J Shetye 4½

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15 Devi Das Suresh Pai 6 5 Shradha S Rai 4½ Asian Continental Chess Championships, China
16 Bhandari Nilesh 6
17 Narayan Iyengar
18 Rajath Gururaj
6
6
Senior 55
Serial No Name Pts
Karthikeyan Murali , Sethuraman win Silver and Bronze
19 Poornesh C Mogaveera 6 Bhave Ravi 6 Nihal wins Asian blitz
20 Niranjan Rajeev 6 Women A report by GM Srinath Narayanan
21 Abhay B Bhandarkar 6 Serial No Name Pts
22 Swayam Naik 5½ Shruti Munnoli 4 Asian Continental Chess Championship was held
23 Nihal N Shetty 5½
24 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 5½
Kar_ Bel at Xingtai, China from 06 to 16 June,2019.For-
Serial No Name Pts mer Asian Champion GM Sethuraman played a
25 Abhishek I Ganiger 5½
Sumedh S Parvatikar 5½ seamless event for the first 8 rounds and looked
26 Prajwal M Joshi 5½
27 Nagaraj A Patil 5½ U08 set to add another Asian Championship to his
28 Gopal Aravamuthan Iyengar 5½ Serial No Name Pts belt. However, winning in sports require more
29 Khan Raees Ahmed 5½ 1 Prathamesh S D 4 than just playing well and more often than not,
30 Shaikh Inas 5 2 Anirudh Dattatreyarao D 3 GM Murali Karthikeyan in the end it all comes down to who plays better
U10 in the final moment. GM Le Quang of Vietnam managed to breach Se- GM Sethuraman
Category prizes Serial No Name Pts thuraman’s Berlin wall to win the Asian Championship 2019. Despite a disappointing finish,
Below_1801 1 Amogh Reddy R 5 Sethuraman won the Bronze medal and sealed his qualification spot to the World Cup.
Serial No Name Pts 2 Shamanth B Shetty 4
1 Bachikar Girish 7
U12 GM Murali Karthikeyan overcame back to back
2 Vivekananda L 6½
Serial No Name Pts defeats to score a fine victory over GM Parham
3 Colaco Reuben 6½
1 Shrish S Amin 5 Maghsodloo of Iran in the final round to finish
4 Mokashi Rohit 6
2 Mahat Hadin 5 second. Although he didn’t win the tournament,
Below_1601 U14 the brilliant Qxc3+ against Iranian wunderkid
Serial No Name Pts Serial No Name Pts GM Alireza Firouzja headlined the tournament
1 Shriya R Revankar 6½ 1 Shirish Jayaprakash 5 and was definitely the game of the tournament,
2 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6½ 2 Nishanth Dsouza 5 and perhaps even the game of the year or more.
3 Shirodkar Aayush 6½ F08 GM S.L.Narayana GM Abhijeet Gupta
4 Pednekar Ayush 6 Serial No Name Pts GM S.L.Narayanan won an important game against the tournament’s top seed GM Vidit
5 Abhinav Bhatt 5½ 1 Rudra Rajeev 4½ Santosh Gujrathi. He then sealed his world cup qualification spot with a draw against GM
F10 Rinat Jumabayev of Kazakhstan. He finished 4th in the Classical event and finished very
Below_1301
Serial No Name Pts strongly in the blitz event to win the last six games, win a bronze medal and cap off a
Serial No Name Pts
1 Jagadale Ishwari 5 succesful event. GM Abhijeet Gupta was the 4th Indian to qualify for a
1 Kulkarni Vaibhav 6
2 Pushti Harshad Bhonsle 4 world cup with a well calculated quick draw against Chinese National
2 Raghavendra Bhandarkar B 6
3 Aryam Bhowmik 6 F12 Champion GM Lu Shanglei.
4 Karthik P 6 Serial No Name Pts
5 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 5½ 1 Anoushka Bhatt 4½ Young GM Nihal Sarin had half point too less for world cup qualification
2 Disha U A 4½ and finished in the 11th place, but played powerfully to win the blitz
Un-Rated F14 event. After a solid and smooth start with 3 points out of 4 games, he
Serial No Name Pts Serial No Name Pts took off to win the last 5 games with crucial wins over fellow prodigies
1 Shreyas K Patil 5 1 Hemadri Sathish 5 GM Praggnanandhaa and GM Alireza, among other strong GMs as well.
2 Shriya Patil 5 2 Saukhya Savant 5 This brought India’s overall medal tally apart from the 4 qualification
3 Arkojyoti Banerjee 4½ spots to the world cup. Karthikeyan Murali , Sethuraman, S.L.Narayanan
4 Sai Dheeraj Vadlamudi 4½ and Abhijeet Gupta qualified for the World Cup 2019.
GM Nihal Sarin 23
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Women keeps increasing his control of and utilizing the 28.gxf6 Bxf6 [28...Rxf6 29.Qg3 Bh6!? All
WGM Vaishali was India’s best performer in both the Classical and blitz with strong finishes weakened dark squares in the opponent's camp. Black's pieces are effectively placed and
in both the sections. She finished 5th in the classical section and 6th in the blitz respective- 15.Kc2 Nc6 16.h4 Bf4 f4 square becomes pose a dominating position!]
ly. WGM Bhakti was India’s best hope and contender for most of the tournament. She was a safe haven for Black's minor pieces.
leading halfway through the tournament, but like GM Karthikeyan in the open, Bhakti also 29.Rf1 Bxc3 [Perhaps even simpler was
lost the crucial rounds 7 and 8. In the end she had to settle for a disappointing 7th place. 29...Bg7!? 30.Qg1 Rxf1 Any capture on
However, she can take the solace in the fact that soon she will be addressed as IM Bhakti f1 leads to material losses. Quite ge-
Kulkarni, as she completed the rating requirements by crossing 2400 in the live ratings. ometric! 31.Bxf1 (31.Rxf1 Bxa4+) 31...
Bxe4+]

The game of the tournament!
Firouzja,Alireza (2682) - Karthikeyan,-
Murali (2593) [E90]
Asian Championship Playchess (5.1),
11.06.2019
[Kidambi, Sundararajan]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3
0–0 6.Be3 c5 7.Nf3 Qa5 8.Nd2 cxd4
9.Nb3 Qxc3+!
Position after 9.Nb3
A purely positional sacrifice of the Queen
after 21 minutes of thought. From this I
infer that this was an improvisation over
the board. The exclamation mark is for the
courage and imagination. I do not know or
even care about the objective assesment of
the position, but from the practical player's
point of view it is quite hard for White to
deal with this over the board. First White
has to overcome the psycological shock of
having to deal with the very rare Queen
sacrifice for a couple of minor pieces. And
secondly it is not at all easy to defend with
the Queen (It is a great attacking piece,
but not as good as a defender as the pieces
with lesser value will constantly harass it).
And finally there is this over estimation of
the position in the lines of "White should be
winning, I should be able to punish my op-
ponent for this travesty etc."10.bxc3 dxe3
11.f3 Ambitious, but a bit risky too. White
wants to keep his pawn structure intact and
hopes to encircle the e3–pawn in the long
run. Alas this does not happen in the game,
and the pawn on e3 turns out to be a thorn
in White's flesh. [11.Qc2 exf2+ 12.Kxf2 Nc6
Black has two minor pieces and a pawn for
the sacrificed Queen. But more importantly,
White's weak pawn strucure, and a slightly
weakened King and the lack of control of dark
squares from White's viewpoint give Black a
positional compensation for the Queen.
11...Nh5! [It is important to note that
White's pawn being placed on h3 is a key
aspect of Black's sacrifice. If the pawn were
on h2, White would have been able to play
g2–g3 and neutralise all Black's activity. But,
because of this little detail, Black now pursues
the weakened f4 square with full vigour!
12.Qc1 Bh6 13.g4 Nf4 14.Kd1 Ne6 With
the exception of the pawn on c3, all other
White's pawns stand on light squares. Coupled
with the fact that White misses his dark squared
Bishop clearly underline his helplessness on
the dark squares. From here on Black simply
(Position after 16..Bf4)
17.Qd1 Ne5! Note that Black's pieces are
protecting each other, and his pawn structure
is intact which is also protecting one another.
White's pieces and especially his Queen is help-
less without any targets to attack. On the other
hand Black mops up the weak pawns (c4,f3)
and relentlessly moves forward. 18.Nc1
Bd7 19.a4 Rac8 20.Ne2 Bh6 21.g5 Bg7
22.Bh3 Nxf3 23.Qd3 Ne5 24.Qxe3 Nxc4
25.Qf2 [If 25.Qxa7 Bc6 (25...Nc5 is possible
but not necessary 26.Bxd7 Ra8 27.Qxa8 Rxa8
28.Bb5) 26.Ng3 Ra8 27.Qf2 Bxa4+ White's
position collapses.] 25...Rc5 26.Rhb1 Bc6
27.Bg2 f5! [Opening up the f-file and acti-
vating the only dormant piece on f8 means
that its curtains for White.]
(Position after 27….f5)
30.Qxc5 Nxc5 31.Rxf8+ Kxf8 32.Kxc3
Ne5–+ [The position has transformed into
one where Black is an exchange down but
has three pawns in return. But more than
the material distribution, White's problem
lies in the fact that his remaining isolat-
ed pawns are also very weak and Black's
pawns are connected and well protected
by his pieces. So Black is slowly but surely
winning!]
33.a5 Nxe4+ 34.Bxe4 Bxe4 35.Nd4
Bd5 36.Nb5 a6 37.Nc7 Bc6 38.Rf1+
Kg7 39.Ne6+ Kh6 40.Rf8 Kh5 41.Rh8
h6 42.Rh7 Kxh4 43.Rxh6+ Kg4 44.Nd4
Kg5 45.Rh2 Bd5 46.Re2 Kf4 47.Rf2+
Nf3 48.Re2 e5 49.Nc2 Be4 50.Ne3 d5
51.Kb4 Nd4 52.Re1 Kf3
A wonderfully played game. A picture of
positional domination!
0–1

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 GM Aravindh Chithambaram wins National Rapid & Blitz 1st Unique below 1550 Open Fide Rating Tournament , Quepem, Goa
Satheesh Kumar of Tamilnadu wins
by Sanjay Kavlekar IA, Chief Arbiter
24-year-old Satheesh Kumar G frpm Tamil-
nadu who was forty fifthseed registered eight
wins from nine rounds to take lead by ½ point
from others.He saved his best for the last
to clinch the 1st Uniquebelow 1550 All India
open FIDE rating Chess Tournament 2019
after hestunned AFM Kuncolienkar Shivank
(1446) of Goa in the decisive roundwith white
pieces on the second board.
It was indeed a lucky day for Satheesh Kumar
G. as after Prajwal K M(1407) [runner up] of
Karnataka and Paulson Frenchy(1498) [3rd
place]of Kerala who were also jointly leading
till the penultimate round decided for peace
and drew meekly on the top board. Kanishka
Basu (1509) of Karnataka beat Somdeb Ma-
zumdar (1274) of West Bengal to finish 4th
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2019 was organized by Jalandhar Chess As-
sociation under the aegis of Punjab State Chess Association & All India Chess Federation. and Tushar Banerjee(1549) of West Bengal
beat ShelkeOmkar (1462) to finish 5th ac-
It was held from 25 to 27 May at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar.
cordingly, Whereas Goa players
Aryan Raikar beat Vengala Prashanth(1398)
More than 100 players from across 23 states competed for the coveted titles. Partic-
of Andhra Pradesh to finish 6th ,Kuncolien-
ipants included 7 Grand Masters; 3 Woman Grand Masters; 11 International Master; 1
kar Shivank secured 7th position , Ayush
Woman International Master; 6 FIDE Masters. In both Rapid and Blitz competitions of
Pednekar defeated Audi Saish (1356) of
the event, 11 rounds for each were played.
Goa to settle on 8th position and Kakodkar
Joy of Goa chess Association finished on
GM Aravindh Chithambaram became the first Indian player to hold national titles in all 10thposition. Total 257 players participated
three formats simultaneously. Aravindh- the reigning National Open Senior Champion from differentstates of india out of which 140
(in Classical format)- scored 10.5 points from 11 rounds to clinch the Rapid title. players were fide rated.
Followed by an impressive score of 10/11 points to clinch the Blitz championship.
The tournament ended peacefully under the
GM Visakh NR with 9 points, GM Laxman RR with remained at second, and third
guidance of Chief arbiter FA. Sanjay Kavlekar,
in Rapid respectively. Similarly, in Blitz, GM R.R.Laxman stood second while WGM Deputy chief FA Swapnil Honble, Deputy ar-
Bhakti Kulkarni bagged third place. The reigning National Women’s Champion Bhakti biter FA. GautamTari, asst. arbiter Nandhini
(Classical format) defeated India’s latest GM Swayams Mishra, IM Rahul Shetty, WGM Saripalli.The tournament was organized by
Meenakshi, WGM Swati Ghate before drawing with champion Aravindh in the final round Unique Chess academy and Quepem Chess
of Blitz Championship. association recognized by Goa chess associ-
ation and All India Chess federation in
26
the auditorium hall of Quepem government
college Quepem Goa, from 7th May to 9th
May 2019. The prizes were distributed at the
hands of Shree Deepak Pawaskar Honoura-
ble Minister for PWD Goa State in Presence
of Shree Kishor Bandekar GCA Secretary
and Treasurer of ALL India Chess Federation,
Chief Arbiter Shri Sanjay Kavlekar, President
Unique Chess Academy SMT. RasikaKavlekar,
executive Meber QTCA ShriAmrutNaik. MRS.
RASIKA Kavlekar welcomed the gathering
and ShriAmrut Naik proposed the vote of
thanks, Shri Sharendra Naik compared the
function.
Final standings :Main
Rk Name Pts
1 Satheesh Kumar G 8
2 Prajwal K M 7½
3 Paulson Frenchy 7½
4 Kanishka Basu 7½
5 Tushar Banerjee 7½
6 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7
7 Kuncolienkar Shivank 7
8 Pednekar Ayush 7
9 Kakodkar Joy 7
10 Abhishek I Ganiger 7
11 Lad Mandar Pradip 7
12 Chorge Mangesh 7
13 Somdeb Mazumder 6½
14 Shelke Omkar 6½
15 Pratik S Borkar 6½
16 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 6½
17 Aditya Tiwari 6½
18 Amuthan R 6½
19 Geetesh Mishra 6½
20 Vangala Prashanth 6
21 Kholia Kishan 6
22 Thakkar Jatan 6
23 Khandelwal Naman 6
24 Mahajan Vivek 6
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25 Amar Gohil 6 U06 Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide rating tournament, Satara
26 Nilanta Chanda 6 Rk Name
27 Sharath R Shanbhag 6 1 Aarav Ritesh Prabhu Gaonkar 4 Nikhil Dixit Wins Varadraj Memorial
28 Vijay Kumar Pakkurti 6 U07 by IA Kaviraj Sawant.Chief Arbiter
29 Sasmith A Suvarna 6 Rk Name
30 Satheesh M 6 1 Aansh Nandan Nerurkar 5
Varadraj Memorial All India Open Rapid Fide won against Snehal Bhosale to reach 3rd
Below_1400 2 Sairaj Narvenkar 5
Rk Name 3 Aarav Manche 4½ rating chess tournament, was held from 30th position in the final standing. Winner FM
1 Imran Hussain 7 U09 May 2019 to 31st May 2019, at Chhatrapati Nikhil Dixit won against the Shreyas Gadi
2 Sahil Dayanand Desai 7 Rk Name Shahu Stadium, Satara, This is the 1st All and clinched the title with better buchholz.
3 Binu Sebastian 7 1 Desai Dhruv Manjunath 5 India level Open Rapid rating event in Satara,
4 Mali Nilesh 7 2 Atharva Sawal 4½ Maharashtra by Varadraj Memorial group. Sa- The prizes were distributed at the hands of
5 Syam Sudhakar Rao R 7 3 Pagi Sarvang 4 tara District Chess Association and Varadraj Shri. Kiran Saymote CEO ZP Satara, The
6 Yash Manoj Upadhye 6½ U11 Memorial Trust organized the event jointly. other dignitaries present were Shri. Rajendra
7 Sachin Kakodkar 6 Rk Name The tournament attracted a total of 205 play- Konde Treasurer AMCA, Shri. Sanjay Shinde
8 Mahendar B 6 1 Ali Amanat 5½ ers from all over the India. There were in all Corporater Satara, Shri Jayant Uthale Presi-
9 Keshavendra Mishra 6 2 Atharv Sawant Dessai 5 95 international fide rated players among the dent Satara District Chess Association, Shri.
10 Sudhakar Patgar 6 3 Skandhaj Kotha 5
participants, which included 1 International Vishal Kanase Founder, Varadraj Memorial
Below_1200 U13
Master and 1 FIDE Master. Foundation, Satara, Shri. Prashant Shingate
Rk Name Rk Name
President Varadraj Foundation, Satara, and
1 Ethan Vaz 6 1 Nagvekar Sairudra 5½
2 Ishaan Singh Khanuja 6 2 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5½ After 2 days with 9 rounds of fighting chess IA Kaviraj Sawant Chief Arbiter.
3 Kakodkar Love 6 3 Ved Narvekar 5 at Open Rapid Fide rating chess tournament,
4 Raveesh Kote 5½ U15 which concluded at Chhatrapati Shahu Sta- The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief
5 Falak Joni Naik 5½ Rk Name dium, Satara, FM Nikhil Dixit of Maharashtra Arbiter IA Kaviraj Sawant and he was ably
6 Asmita Avijit Ray 5½ 1 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 6 won the tournament with 8 points out of assisted by SNA Pranav Tangsale, Dy. Chief
7 Sachin Pai 5½ 2 Parab Rishikesh 5 possible 9. At the end of 6th round 4 shared Arbiter, FA Chinmay Naik, SNA Shardul Ta-
8 Suhagh S Shetty 5½ 3 Tanishq Kavlekar 5 the lead with 5 points score i.e. Sammed pase. Mr. Rajendra Khonde Chairman AMCA
9 Shubha Shree K 5½ F06 Jaykumar Shete of MAH, Swaraj Palit of JHA, Tournament and Observer Committee was
10 Sequeira Alex 5½ Rk Name Anish Gandhi of MAH and FM Nikhil Dixit of the observer for the said event.
Un-Rated 1 Diya Digamber Sawal 3 MAH. Swaraj Palit lost his 6th round game to
Rk Name 2 Jensina Sequeira 3
Sammed Jaykumar Shete and Anish Gandhi Final standings:
1 Chavda Pankit 5½ 3 Pednekar Shreesha 2
lost to FM Nikhil Dixit. With a draw in 7th Rk Name Pts
2 Vicente Fernandes 5½ F07
round FM Nikhil Dixit and Sammed Jaykumar 1 FM Dixit Nikhil 8
3 Harsh Telang 5 Rk Name
4 Shetty Ankit 5 1 Shreyashi Suraj Fal Dessai 3 Shete took the joint lead with 6 ½ pts. After 2 Mohite Ranveer 8
5 Vernekar Shubham 5 2 Lyia Marysil Silveira 2½ the completion of round 8, total 4 players 3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7½
6 Vardha Raghuvir Dessai 5 3 Caroline Ivone Viegas 2½ were on joint lead with 7 points together i.e. 4 Nikam Ravindra 7½
S50 F09 FM Nikhil Dixit of MHA, Ranveer Mohite of 5 Shubham Lakudkar 7½
Rk Name Rk Name MAH, Shreyas Ghadi of MAH and Arvind Iyer 6 Gandhi Anish 7
1 Raghav H S 6 1 Shriya Patil 5 of MHA. At the end of penultimate round 2 7 Shreyas Ghadi 7
2 Rajeev Kumar K 6 2 Sequeira Jennica 4 shared the joint lead namely FM Nikhil Dixit 8 Gokhale R Chandrashekhar 7
3 Sami M A 6 3 Sayyed Maizah 4 and Ranveer Mohite with 8 points. Ranveer 9 Soni Deepak R 7
Women F11 Mohite won his penultimate round game
Rk Name Rk Name 10 Iyer Arvind 7
against Arvind Iyer and became the runner
1 Urvii Bandekar 5 1 Srilaxmi Kamat 5 11 Joshi Tejas 7
up in the event. Sammed Jaykumar Shete
2 Pradnya Kakodkar 5 2 Shourya Suraj Pednekar 4½ 12 Patil Harshal U 7
3 Sayyed Mahdiya 4½
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13 Swaraj Palit 6½ 55 Sachin Mohite 5½
14 Snehal Bhosale 6½
31st WB State U-9(Open & Girls)Fide Rated Championship 2019
56 Ghamande Kaustubh 5
15 Hariketan G. Chitale 6½ 57 Mane Pramod 5 Aman Dhanuka and Saparya Ghosh are Champions
16 Warude Satyam 6½ 58 Kulkarni Chinmay A 5 by Debasish Barua IA, Chief Arbiter
17 Sharan Rao 6½ 59 Pandharpure Yash 5
18 Kulkarni Rakesh 6½ 60 Nayak Gyananjay 5 31st WB State Rapid Fide Rating Chess 2 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 7
19 Ghadge Vinod 6½ 61 Pawar Yashwant 5 Championship 2019 was held at Vrindaban 3 Mudil Dharewa 7
20 Gote Kaustubh 6½ 62 Patil Omkar U 5 Banquet Hall, 26, Hindustan Park, Gariahat, 4 Mainak Naskar 7
21 Devi Das Suresh Pai 6½ 63 Narandekar Rajat 5 Kolkata, WB from 25th to 27th May 2019or- 5 Shreeyash Kejriwal 6½
22 Jadhav Jyotiraditya 6½ 64 Singh Anshu 5 ganized by Calcutta Chess Academy, Kol- 6 Archisman Patra 6½
23 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6 65 Koli Isha 5 kata. The tournament was inaugurated by 7 Soumick Bandopadhyay 6½
24 Golvankar Dilip K 6 66 Tanmay Raghunath Pawar 5 Mr. Swapan Bakshi, President, and IM Atanu 8 Saptarshi Talukdar 6½
25 Umesh M. Kulkarni 6 67 Patil Akshaj 5 Lahiri, Secretary, BCA, Debasish Barua, Chief 9 Yug Desai 6
26 Joshi Sunil 6 68 Shingate Ayush 5 Arbiter were also present in the inaugu- 10 Srijit Sardar 6
27 Hapse Shreyas 6 69 Patil Vishwanil 5 ration ceremony. Total 256 players(both 11 Rangeet Majumdar 6
28 Watarkar Yash 6 70 Mhetre Prem 5 open & Girls)played including 22 who were 12 Daiwik Jain 6
29 Priyadarshi Torne 6 71 Wagh Ayush 5 fide rated. Everyone came from different 13 Aayushman Jha 6
30 Kamble Dipankar 6 72 Jani Harsh 5 districts of West Bengal. The hall was 14 Wriddhish Chakraborty 6
31 Kher Akshay 6 73 Vishal Rajesh Shah 5
air-conditioned and spacious with sufficient
15 Mayanka Paul 6
32 Prathamesh Santosh Gawade 6 toilet facilities.
74 Bhosale Suresh Shankar 5 16 Ojash Jain 6
33 Pawar Sohum 6 75 Sonar Suraj Rajendra 5 17 Diproneel Barman 6
34 Greeshma Anand Dhumal 6 The organizers provided snacks/lunch
76 Shah Param J 5 18 Subid Pal 6
35 Patil Sharvil 6 packet to all the participants free of cost. In
77 Asanare Anish Harshad 5 19 Inoday Mitra 6
36 Athalye Varad 6 the boys section, the game took place in 8
78 Sandip Ram Sawant 5 20 Aditya Kayet 5½
37 Khairmode Aditya 6 rounds. 4 players scored 7 points each. Out
79 Sawant Sarvesh 5
38 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 6 of the better tie, Aman Dhanuka emerged
80 Jadhav Pratik 5 Final ranking (Girls)
39 Kurandale Kunal 6 champion, Hrishikesh Kumar Banik came
81 Kulkarni Arnav Ankur 5 second, Mridul Dharewa bagged the third Rk Name Pts
40 Pratik Togare 6 82 Shaikh Inas 5 position while Mainak Naskar came fourth. 1 Saparya Ghosh 6½
41 Chavan Atharva 6 83 Yadav Chandrakant 5 2 Vipassana Lama 5½
42 Khandelwal Naman 6 84 Varad Phalke 5 In the girls section, Saparya Ghosh scored 3 Arhashirsha Biswas 5½
43 Yogesh Dahale 6 85 Rakesh Ishwar Patil 5 6.5 points out of 7 which made her the
44 Geetesh Mishra 5½ 4 Ishani Chattopadhyay 5½
86 Atharv Pandharpure 5 champion even before the 7th round. Sec-
45 Jaiswal Prince 5½ 87 Jadhav Vinay 5 5 Suneli Bera 5½
ond position was taken by Vipasnana Lama,
46 Patil Pranav Prafulla 5½ 88 Sakhare Keyur 5 6 Sahana Chakraborty 5½
the Jalpaiguri girl, scoring 5.5 points out of
47 Khambe Santosh 5½ 89 Shreyash Gursale 5 7.Prize distribution saw Atanu Lahiri, Sec- 7 Kashvi Chitlangia 5
48 Patil Sarang 5½ 90 Khushalchand Dipak Hole 5 retary, Bengal Chess Association and Joint 8 Kanyoka Banerjee 5
49 Wadile Devendra 5½ 91 Shah Neel Prakash 5 Secretary of All India Chess Federation, as 9 Anindita Bhowmick 5
50 Sonar Rushikesh 5½ 92 Apurv Shekhar Desmukh 5 the Chief Guest. 10 Swastika Ghosh 5
51 Chalke Soham 5½ 93 Mehafuj Bashir Pathan 5 11 Mrigakshi Mazumder 5
52 Somaiya Ishan 5½ 94 Bagul Aditya 5 Final Ranking:Open
12 Daksha Rudra 4½
53 Nandale Milind 5½ 95 Abhijit Pandharpure 5 Rk Name Pts
54 Kazi Nazir 5½ 96 Sreerama Maruthy Mayur G 5 1 Dhanuka Aman 7

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 The 30th CUSAT International Rating Chess Tournament, Cochin 5 Ram S. Krishnan 6.5 48 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 5.5
6 Akhilan E M 6.5 49 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5.5
Ilamparithy wins Cusat Rating chess 7 Madhavan R Munjanattu 6.5 50 Ranjith Anand 5.5
by M.S.Ananthakrishnan, Tournament Director Cusat Chess 8 Manigandan S S 6.5 51 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5.5
9 Madhusoodanan K.R. 6.5 52 Roshan Hari 5.5
Nadu. Muthaiah alone could continue his win- 10 Sooraj M R 6.5 53 Aashish Niranjan B 5.5
The 30th CUSAT International Rating Chess
ning spree upto sixth round. In the seventh 11 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6.5 54 Prabhu R V 5.5
Tournament was conducted under the joint
round Ram S Krishnan unleashed a series of 12 Sanjay S Pillai 6.5 55 Muthu Rakesh Babu 5.5
auspices of Department of Physical Education
sacrifices to outwit the International Master 13 Manoj B 6 56 Swaroopa E T 5.5
and CUSAT Chess Club during 19th-22nd
in 31 moves, while young Ilamparthi defeated 14 Dhanasekar K. 6 57 Hrishikesh A J 5.5
May 2019. The CUSAT Seminar Complex
Senthil Maran with a beautiful finish . In the 15 Senthil Maran K 6 58 Vivek V Nambiar 5.5
air conditioned was the Tournament Venue.
pulsating finish of final round Ilamparthy got 16 Anilkumar O.T. 6 59 Dharani Srinivas K B 5.5
There were 350 participants from 9 states.
the better of Ram S Krishnan and won the 17 Aswath S 6 60 Abi A 5
The time control was the regular standard
the title with 7.5 points. 18 Vijay Anand M. 6 61 Maheshchandran R 5
format of 90 minutes to each player with an
The event was successfully conducted with 19 Balachandar E 6 62 Jayasangar T 5
increment of 30 seconds per move. It was
co-operation of All India Chess Federation 20 Sharsha Backer 6 63 Pranav Shridhar 5
conducted in an eight round Swiss system.
and Chess Association Kerala. M/s ORION 21 Anandha Venkatesan 6 64 Nithyan S 5
The Organizing Committee offered lunch at
,US TECHNOLOGIES and M/s CALPIN were 22 Raju O A 6 65 Karthik Raj 5
free of cost to all the participants.
co-sponsors of the event. 23 Vinoth M 6 66 Avinash Hari 5
On 19th May the tournament was inaugurat- 24 Nandha Kumar K 6 67 Raghu U V 5
A battery of 8 Arbiters headed by Prof.Anan-
ed by Dr.K.N.Madhusoodanan Vice-Chancel- 25 Gabriel B M 6 68 John Veny Akkarakaran 5
tharam Rathinam as Chief Arbiter conduct-
lor CUSAT the august presence of Dr.Ajitha 26 Eldho Skaria 6 69 Jolly V P 5
ed the event in a befitting manner leaving
the Registrar CUSAT ,Dr.K.R.Ajith Mohan 27 Mansoor C M 6 70 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 5
no room for any complaints from partici-
Head Deparment of Physical Education and 28 Rahul Krishna V 6 71 John Paul 5
pants.All players were provided free lunch
Organizing Secretary and Mr.R.Rajesh the 29 Bharkavi S 6 72 Ebin Benny 5
.Mr.A.L.Muthaiah International Master had
Secretary Chess Association Kerala .Dr.Sasi- 30 Adarsh P.B 6 73 Arjun Vasudevan 5
the privilege of being top seeded followed
gopalan Syndicate Member and the Chair- 31 Subramanian V 5.5 74 Siva A C 5
by Senthil Maran of Tamil Nadu the former
man of the Organizing Committee welcomed 32 Gnanasekar .G 5.5 75 Muralishankar J T 5
CUSAT Champion.Master Ilamparithy, 10
the gathering while Dr,A,M,Unni General Con- 33 Gowtham K K 5.5 76 Anjitha Krishnakumar 5
year old boy of Chennai had the honour of
vener conveyed vote of thanks. On 22nd May 34 Arul Anandh S P K 5.5 77 Sasikumar.S 5
winning the title and bagged Rs.25000/- Cash
2019 the prizes to the winners were given 35 Sidharth P G 5.5 78 Sidharth K 5
Award scoring 7.5 points from 8 rounds. It
away by Dr.P.G.Sankaran Pro-Vice-Chancellor 36 Gokul S 5.5 79 Goutham D 5
is his maiden FIDE Rated Tournament title.
CUSAT in the august presence of Dr.Sasi- 37 Rejith Babu C 5.5 80 Ganesh Aravind N 5
Ilamparthy is the youngest CUSAT Champion.
gopalan, Prof.Anantharam,Dr.Ajith Mohan, 38 Alex C Joy 5.5 81 Unnikrishnan S 5
In the Opening round second seed, Senthil
Dr.A.M.Unni ,Mr.Anson Antony, SajuManjaly, 39 Jaidambareesh N R 5.5 82 Aaryan Vinod 5
Maran was totally shocked and had to split
A.S.Sinesh and Mr.M.S.Ananthakrishnan. 40 Abhijith U 5.5 83 Varun Muralidharan 5
the point with Arjun.P.R of Kerala a low rated
41 Felix Moothedath 5.5 84 Narayan Iyengar 5
player . At the end of fifth round the number
Final standings: 42 Badrinarayanan N 5.5 85 Aadithya Pradeep 5
of players with 5 points reduced to five-
Rk. Name Pts. 43 Deepak K S 5.5 86 Nawin M S 5
1 Ilamparthi A R 7.5 44 Lakshmanan K A 5.5 87 Mishail Rashid 5
International Master A.L.Muthaiah, former
2 Muthaiah Al IM 7 45 Sidharth Balaji Sridharan 5.5 88 G Aravamuthan Iyengar 5
national Blitz Champion Ram S Krishnan
3 Abhinav Chakrapani S 7 46 Ashwin Sairam 5.5 89 Pournami S 5
Kerala State Champion O.T.Anilkumar,B.Sel-
4 Selvamurugan B 6.5 47 Rahan Ramesh 5.5 90 Sidharth Rajeev 5
vamurugan of Madurai and B.Manoj of Tamil

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 4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below-1500 Chess Tournament 2019, Hyderabad
Siddik Akbar of Tamil Nadu is the Champion
by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below 1500
chess tournament was conducted by Indian
Grand Master Sports Academy for 3 days
from 20th to 22nd May 2019. The event
attracted 403 entries from all over India
including major states like Karnataka, Maha-
rastra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Hariya-
na, Bihar, Chattisgadh, Orissa, West Bengal,
Telangana and two foreign federation players.
218 FIDE rated players participated in the
event.The event was inaugurated by Chief
Guest Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice President,
Telangana State Chess Association and Prof.
P Kameshwara Rao, Organizer- IGMSA.
The event was conducted at Oasis School,
Raidurg, Sheik Pet, Hyderabad. The venue
was in center of city and well ventilated
and the organizer took good care during
the event. Siddik Akbar of Tamilnadu won
4th IGMSA Below 1500 Fide Rating Chess
Tournament. In the final round he drew with
Varshith Nela (TEL). Total five players tied for
1st prize with 8 points each after 9 rounds.
After Tie break scores Nagasri Saikanth
(AP) was the runner up. S Krishna Murthy
of Tamilnadu got 3rd place. Winner Siddik
Akbar got winner trophy and cash prize of
Rs. 50,000/- and Runner up Nagasri Sai-
kanth got 35,000/- and 3rd placed Krishna
Murthy took Rs. 30,000/-. Total Rs. 6 lakh
distributed among 70 prize winners.
In the glittering prize distribution ceremo-
ny Chief Guest Sri Jaya Prakash, CEO of
Chezz64.com gave away the trophies and
cash prizes to the winners. K S Prasad
–Secretary ,Telangana State Chess Associa-
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tion (TSCA) , Major K A Shiva Prasad - Vice
President of TSCA ; Prof. P Kameswar Rao,
Organizing Secretary of the tournament
(IGMSA) and International Arbiter Promodraj
Moree – Chief Arbiter of the tournament also
graced the occasion.
I thank IGMSA and the tournament director
Mr Kameshwar Rao for providing me the op-
portunity to be Chief Arbiter for this event.
Also I thank the Deputy Arbiter FA Subba
Raju S ,FA GV Kumar, and Assistant arbiters
who worked along with me to make the event
the grand success.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Siddik Akbar 8
2 Nagasri Saikanth 8
3 Krishnamurthy S 8
4 Varshith Nela 8
5 Anil M 8
6 Mano Ranjith J 7½
7 Avhad Prajwal 7½
8 Setumadhav Yellumahanthi 7½
9 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 7½
10 Hemanth Eswar G 7½
11 Dinesh Babu G S 7
12 Sanjeewan Singh Sardar 7
13 Patil Abhishek 7
14 Srikanth Myakala 7
15 Satyanarayana Raju D S 7
16 Tyagi Raghubar Dayal 7
17 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 7
18 Srihari K R 7
19 Logesh V 7
20 Gyaneshwar B 7
21 Meet Puri 6½
22 P Venkata Satyanarayana 6½
23 Shivaiah Kopparthy 6½
24 Shailesh Bhate 6½
25 Sami M A 6½
26 Prasanth K V 6½
27 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 6½
28 Anand Babu P 6½
29 Vysetty Sahithi 6½
30 Ajitesh G 6½
31 Surya Alakanti 6½
32 Sreekanth Thimmugari 6½
33 Chincholkar Aditya 6½
34 Bharath Raj K 6½
35 Munna Das Bairagi 6½
36 Jagesia Daksh 6½
37 Rathish R 6½
38 Patil Shravani Arun 6½
39 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6½
40 Naresh Nidigonda 6½
41 Gopinath P 6
42 Gote Kaustubh 6
43 Mir Maahir Ali 6
44 Sheetal Sonwane 6
45 Arunkumar K S 6
46 Abishek K 6
47 Sayam Vishvesh 6
48 Rishi R 6
49 Adhvaith Kodam 6
50 Santosh Pal 6
51 Sreenandan Babu J 6
52 Bharathraj S 6
53 Thatavarthy Siva Suhas 6
54 Prajwal K M 6
55 Ravi Krishna G 6
56 Vamsi Krishna A 6
57 Gopichand K 6
58 Harini Narahari 6
59 Pavan Kumar Posa 6
60 Karthikeyan G 6
61 Raghava Madhavan 6
62 Aragonda Mohan 6
63 Arunachalam S 6
64 Uday Kiran Kumar P 6
65 Vegi Bhavishnu Sai Sivaji 6
66 Teerthala Abhinav 6
67 Dhanush Reddy A 6
68 Bhargava Sai S 6
69 Srikanth T J V K 6
70 Balaji S 6
71 Sachin Pai 6
72 Atharva Shirish Kawthale 6
73 Khandrika Aahlad Karthik 6
74 Rajini K 6
75 P. Suresh Babu 6
76 Pasapula Teja Sree 6
77 Gokul D 6
78 Chaitanya Kumar M 5½
79 Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni 5½
80 Shruthik Sarvagni P 5½
81 Vihith Advyith Reddy M 5½
82 Joshi Sunil 5½
83 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 5½
84 A Kovidh Kushal Reddy 5½
85 Pavan N 5½
86 Bharathakoti Sneha 5½
87 Jaffar Vali S 5½
88 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 5½
89 Sankaranarayanan B 5½
90 Venkata Krishna K 5½
91 Tendulkar Kruttika 5½
92 M Anantha Yatin Sharma 5½
93 Vishwa Teja B 5½
94 Sanchith Sundararam K 5½
95 Triddev Reddy K 5½
96 Ilanchezhiyan M 5½
97 Ch. Nanda Sai Vinesh 5½
98 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5½
99 Dhirendra Kumar Das 5½
100 Pidaparthi Suryaprabhath 5½
101 Manoj Reddy Maram 5½
102 Chanduri Varshith 5½
103 Narasimha Prasad S 5½
104 Srivatsa Ananth Kothagundla 5½
105 Thiyagarajan T 5½
106 Vadlakonda Rahul 5½
107 Srivardhan Reddy D 5½
108 Mathiyazhagan M 5½
109 Saisarath K 5½
110 Himanshu Agarwal 5½
111 Advay Koganti 5½
112 Kumar T V 5½
113 Sai Teja Sollate 5½
114 Bani Kanta Nath 5½
115 Aaryan Sharma 5½
116 Rahul Mayur Sharma 5½
117 Rachita Sabbathi 5½
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 Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry… Selected games from National
Nanmalar wins Smart Girl FIDE Rated Under-13 Championships, Vizag
by FA J Narayanan, Chief Arbiter
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Smart Girl FIDE Rated – Pondicherry 2019 16 Geethanjali S 6
was a 9-round Swiss tournament. Open for 17 Manickammal D 5½ Ilamparthi,A R. (TN) (2074) Jubin,-
female players only with trophies for top 10 18 Nehaa B 5½ Jimmy (KE) (2214) [A01]
places. It was held from 22 to 26 May at Aru- 19 Priyadharshini Karpagakumar 5½
muga Thirumana Mandapam, Pondicherry. 20 Varshaa M 5½ 1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 4.Bb5 Bd6
21 Bhathmalakshmi A 5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Nge7 8.c4
Players received 90 minutes for the entire
22 Hema Priya M 5 0–0 9.cxd5 Nb4 10.Na3 a6 11.Be2 f5
game, plus a 30-second increment starting
23 Kamalini Haradhana Nimban K 5 12.d3 b5 13.0–0 Nexd5 14.Rfc1? [#]
from move one. 25.Qd3?? [Leaving the black knight on
24 Sruthi R 5
g4 is a strategic mistake as the knight
25 Saralvarsha M 5
Nanmalar A. of Tamil Nadu became champion 26 Amritha Varshini A 5 threatens not only f2 but aids his queen
with 8.5 points after winning her final round 27 Mahalakshya H N 5 to attack his h2 via h4. Best was: 25.Bf3
game with Daranya S of Pondicherry. Second 28 Seermathi K 5 h5 26.Rf1=] 25...Qh5–+ 26.Bf3 Qh2+
place was bagged by top-seeded Subhiksha 29 Divya Lakshmi S 5 27.Kf1 h5! 28.Qb3+ Kh8 29.a4? Rf6
E, also from Tamil Nadu, with 6.5 points and 30 Poonguzhali N 4½ 30.Rd1 bxa4 31.Qc3 [#]
the third position was secured by Rakghitha 31 Sowmiya A 4½
S M R with 6.5 points.A total of 74 players 32 Kirushika Sri S 4½
participated in the tournament and 17 players 33 Sangamithraa K 4½
were FIDE rated. 34 Krishnapriya R 4½
35 Dheeptha B 4½
36 Mohana Priya Y 4½
Chief guest R. Sridharan, Deputy Commis-
37 Shresta D R 4½ [White does not realise the danger in
sioner of Income Tax, Puducherry gave away 38 Hiradhini L 4½
the prizes to all the winners. which his queen is on f3. He had a nice al-
39 Vishali S 4½
Final standings: ternative: 14.Nxb5 axb5 15.a3 c6 16.axb4
40 Sri Harsedha K 4½
Rk Name Pts Rxa1 17.Rxa1 Nxb4=] 14...Qh4! Black
41 Tarunika G 4½
1 Nanmalar A 8½ threatens 15....e4!! 16 de4 fe4 destroy-
42 Girubanathi C 4
2 Subhiksha E 6½ 43 Nirmala K V 4 ing f2. 15.g3 [If 15.Rf1 c6 16.Rac1 Qe7!
3 Rakghitha S M R 6½ 44 Kavimanjari L 4 (threatening ....e4 with greater vigour.) [Forced, for if 31.Qxa4 Rxf3!! 32.Qxe8+
4 Priyadharshni S 6½ 45 Vaishnavi B 4 17.Nb1 Nxa2 18.Rxc6 Ndb4 19.Rb6 e4 Kh7! and black cannot defend his key
5 Shreya Meenakshi 6½ 46 Shanmuga Priya M 4 20.dxe4 Bc5!µ This rook is trapped.] 15... f2 square from disaster!] 31...Bxb4!
6 Harini M C 6½ 47 Akshaya N 4 Qxh3 16.Bf1 Qh6 17.Nc2 Qe6 [Stronger 32.Qxb4 [If 32.Qd3 Ref8 wins along the
7 Daranya S 6 48 Avanthikaa K M 4 was: 17...Rae8 18.Nxb4 Nxb4 19.a3 e4 f-file.] 32...Rxf3 33.Qd2 Qh1+ 34.Ke2
8 Kanishka S 6 49 Iniyamathy V 4 20.Qg2 Nd5 21.Rc6 Nxe3 22.fxe3 Qxe3+
9 Kashthuri Bhai R 6
Rxf2+ 35.Kd3 Qf3+ 36.Kc4 Qb3+
50 Swathi 4 23.Qf2 Qg5µ] 18.Bg2 Rae8³ 19.Qe2
10 Jeevika S 6 37.Kc5 Qb5# 0–1
51 Puviya sureshkumar 4 Nxc2 20.Rxc2 Qf7? [20...Re7 for 21....
11 Dhaaniya T 6 52 Bala Soundari S 3½
12 Akshaya M 6
Ref7, doubling on the f-file was a strong Meenatchi,Rajam V (TN) (1714)
53 Preethi P 3½
13 Harshini S 6 plan.] 21.a3? [Better was 21.e4 Nb4 Jena,Suhana (OD) (1354)
54 Sudiksha S 3½
14 Rupashri S 6 22.Rc3 f4] 21...Nf6 22.b4 Qg6 23.e4!= Meenatchi Rajam from Tamil Nadu was
55 Himani J 3½
15 Yogavarthanee R 6 56 Harithra Karpagakumar 3½
fxe4 24.dxe4 Ng4 [#] the second seed in this event. She was

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in poor form to finish only 8th and lost
72.4 Elo. Suhana Jena of Odisha clever-
ly seized her chances in this game. She
was the 27th seed but finished 22nd and
gained 80.8 Elo.
27.Ne7+? [This is a faulty combination
which overlooks black's brilliant resource
just two moves later. Better was: 27.Nd4
Qg6 28.Qg3 Qxg3 29.hxg3] 27...Rxe7!
28.Rd4 [White sees too late that her in-
tended 'winning' move lost her queen in
a discovered attack: 28.Qxe7?? Qxe3+!
29.Kh1 (or 29. Kf1 makes no difference)
29...Bxg2+! 30.Kxg2 Qxe7 wins the
queen.] 28...Qe6 29.Qf4 Bg6 30.Rd8+
Kh7 31.Kf2 Qf5 32.Qxf5 Bxf5 0–1
Pranesh,M (FM TN) (2333) Adired-
dy,Tarun (TL) (1738) [B81]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Bg2
Nfd7 9.0–0 Nc6 10.Nce2 0–0 11.b3N
Nde5 12.Be3 Qc7 13.c4 Rd8 14.f4
Nxd4 [14...Ng6=] 15.Nxd4 Nc6 16.Qe2
Bf6 17.Nxc6 bxc6 18.Rad1 White's strat-
egy involves his expansion on the king-
side and hindrance of black's queen-side
development. 18...Be7 19.g5 e5 20.Qf2
Target: f7. 20...Rf8 21.f5 f6 22.g6 h6±
23.b4 [#]
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23...Bb7 24.Bb6 Qb8 25.c5+- a5
26.cxd6 [Much stronger was: 26.bxa5!
Ba6 27.Rfe1+- dxc5 28.Rd7 Re8 29.Red1
Qc8 30.Qc2 c4 31.Rc7! Bc5+ 32.Kh2
Qb8 33.Rdd7!+-] 26...Bxd6 27.bxa5
Ba6 28.Rfe1 Bb4 29.Re3 Bb5 30.Rb3
[30.a4! Bxa4 31.Rb1 (or 31.Qa2+ Kh8
32.Qxa4 Qxb6 33.axb6 Rxa4 34.Rb3 Kg8
35.Rd7 Bc5+ 36.Kh2 Rd4 37.Rc7+-) 31...
c5 32.Qa2+ Kh8 33.Qxa4+-] 30...Bxa5
31.Bxa5 Rxa5 (Threat 32....Qa7 ex-
changing queens.) 32.Kh2 [#]
32...Qa8? [He could draw with: 32...Qa7!
33.Qxa7 Rxa7 34.Rb2= Rfa8 35.Kg1 Kf8
36.Bf1 Bxf1 37.Kxf1=] 33.Rb2 Qa7 Now
he is late! 34.Qd2= Ra3 35.Qd6 Qe3
36.Rbd2!! Suddenly when black seems
to have equalised, white comes up with a
good mating idea. The threat now is 37.
Qxf8+!! Kxf8 38. Rd8+ Ke7 39. R1d7#
36...Raa8 37.Qe6+ Kh8 38.Rd7! Now
the threat is 39. Rxg7!! Kxg7 40. Qe7+
mating. 38...Rg8 39.Kh1 Qe2 Now the
threatened 40. Qxf6 does not work be-
cause of 40...Qxd1+ 41. Rxd1 gxf6 wins
for black. 40.R7d2 Qc4 41.Qe7 Rxa2??
[There was no need to panic and play
desperately. He could still draw with: 41...
c5! 42.Rd5 Bc6! 43.Rd8 (43.Rxc5? Qe2!!
44.Rg1 Bxe4–+) 43...Raxd8 44.Rxd8
Qc1+! 45.Kh2 Qf4+= Draw by perpetual
check.] 42.Rd8 Ra8
[#] [Now too late is: 42...c5 43.Rxg8+ Qxg8
44.Rd8 Bc4 45.Rxg8+ Bxg8 46.Qxc5+-
] 43.Qxg7+!! Kxg7 44.R1d7+ Qf7
45.Rxf7+ Kh8 46.Rh7#!! 1–0
Anushka,Gupta (WB) (1456) Velpu-
la,Sarayu (TL) (1768) [B20]
1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 Nc6
5.c3 e5 6.0–0 Nge7 7.f4 d6 8.d3 0–0
9.Be3 f5 10.Na3 Be6 11.Nc2N General-
ly, this knight looks for an opportunity to
enter the game aggressively through c4,
not c2. As this knight has currently noth-
ing important to do from c2, it was best
to leave it on a3, so that black fears that
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
it could harrass her by suddenly getting
to b5 or c4. A little bit of psychology helps
in chess! 11...fxe4 12.dxe4 b6 [#]
[Leading to incredible and unfathomable
complications was 12...Qb6! 13.Qxd6
(risk-free was: 13.Bc1 Rad8 14.Ne3=)
13...Bc4 14.Rf2 Rad8 15.Qxc5 Qxc5
16.Bxc5 Rd2 17.Bf1 Rxc2 18.Nd4 Bxf1
19.Nxc6 Nxc6 20.Rxc2 Bd3 21.Rd2 Bxe4
22.Bxf8 Bxf8± This analysis is by no
means exhaustive. The reader would do
well to analyse the various alternatives
and gain rich experience in the art of
calculation over the board.] 13.Qd2 Qc7
14.Rfd1 [After this move, the other rook
has no good square to go to. Therefore
better was 14.b3 preparing for the nat-
ural Rad1 which she plays three moves
later anyway.] 14...Rad8! 15.Qe1 Bf7?
[She can dispense with this preliminary
move and straightaway play 15...d5!µ
or 15....Rd7 with advantage.] 16.fxe5
dxe5 17.b3 Be6 18.Bg5 h6! [If 18...c4
19.Ne3 cxb3 20.Rxd8 Nxd8 (better 20...
Qxd8 ) 21.axb3 Bxb3 22.c4!µ this bishop
is trapped because of 22...Bxc4 23.Nxc4
Qxc4 24.Bxe7+-] 19.Be3 [Better was:
19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.Bd2 Qd7 21.Rd1 c4
22.b4³] 19...Bg4 20.Bf2 Bf3 21.Ne3
Bxg2 22.Kxg2 [#]
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
22...Nc8! From e7, this knight goes no-
where. Therefore black re-locates this
knight to play a major role in the dem-
olition of white. 23.Rxd8 Nxd8 24.Qd2
Qf7 25.Qd5 Ne6! With a bonanza waiting
for her queen on f2 and f3, black will not
think of exchanging queens. 26.Rf1 Ne7
27.Qc4 [#]
27...b5!! The sole purpose of this move
is to divert the queen away from the c4-
g8 diagonal so that her queen and knight
are free from the pin along the diagonal.
If 28.Qxb5 [or 28.Qd3 Qf3+ 29.Kg1 Ng5!!
30.h4 Nh3+ 31.Kh2 Nxf2–+] 28...Qf3+
29.Kg1 [29.Kh3?? Ng5+ 30.Kh4 Qh5#]
29...Ng5 (threat 30....Nh3#) 30.Qd7
Nf5!! Blocks the white queen's access to
h3 and renews the mate threat. 31.Qd5+
Kh7 [After 31...Kh7 32.h4 Nxe3 33.Bx-
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e3Qxf1+34.Kh2Nf3#] 0–1
Kriti,Mayur Patel (MH) (1449) Yas-
havishree,N (TN) (1422) [B21]
Yashavishree Neelakannan was the Na-
tional U-7 Girls Champion in 2014. She
shows her calibre in the first 30 moves of
this game, reaching a winning position.
But six moves after that, she is struggling
to save her game as she overlooked a
pin! Kriti from Maharashtra came from
behind in this game to prove her grit. In
the championship too, she came from be-
hind to tie for first with champion Velpula
Sarayu, one point ahead of a large bunch
of nine players. With two rounds to go,
Sarayu was leading by a point. But while
Kriti won her last two games, Sarayu only
drew both. This game is very interesting
and entertaining. Enjoy and learn from it!
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 d6
5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0–0 Nf6 8.Qe2
Be7 9.Rd1 e5 10.h3 a6 11.Be3 0–0
12.Rac1 Bd7 13.Qd2? [13.a3 is usual
here.] 13...Be6 14.Be2 h6= but with
an edge for black. 15.Qc2 Rc8 16.Qb1
Qa5 17.Bd2 Qc7 18.Be3 Qb8 19.b4
Rfd8 20.Bb6 Rf8 21.a4 Nd7 22.Be3
a5! 23.b5 Nb4 24.Qb2 Nc5 25.Ra1?
[As the knight on c5 is becoming very
threatening, it was best to exchange it off
with 25.Bxc5 dxc5 26.Nd5 Bxd5 27.exd5
e4 28.Nd2 Bg5] 25...Nxe4!! [#]
A deep sacrifice which must have taken
white by surprise. 26.Nxe4 Rc2! 27.Qb1
Rxe2 28.Ned2 White closes this rook's
exit and hopes to trap it. But having lost
two pawns already, she cannot gain much
even by winning the exchange. 28...d5
29.Kf1 Rxd2? [#] [With the white king
now on f1 instead of g1, the dynamics of
the position has changed and white could
win with: 29...Rxe3! 30.fxe3 e4! 31.Nxe4
31...dxe4 32.Qxe4 Re8!–+.]
30.Bxd2 d4? [Black is still winning but
she has to find the right continuation:
30...e4! this allows her queen to get to h2
and win. 31.Nd4 Qh2 32.Bxb4 axb4 She
does not recapture with her bishop as she
wants that bishop at h4, to intensify her
attack against the white king. 33.Qb3 Bh4
34.Qe3 Qh1+ 35.Ke2 Qxg2 36.Rh1 Qg6–+
For white's rook and knight, black has two
bishops and three pawns, a great material
advantage accentuated by white's wan-
dering king which has no safe haven.]
31.Qe4 Bd6 32.Kg1 White must have
worried sick about her wandering king
and one can understand her decision to
pull it back into her castled position at
the first chance. 32...f5 33.Qe2? [This
adds fuel to black's dwindling fire. Better
was 33.Qb1 Qa7 34.Bxb4 axb4 35.Qb2–+]
33...b6?? [#] [This does not have much
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
point, and blunders away her key pawn.
One must strike when it is hot. Black could
win with: 33...d3! 34.Qe3 e4 35.Nd4 Bd5
36.Bc3 Be5 37.Qd2 Rc8–+]
34.Nxd4! Black has missed the pin of her
e5 pawn! The pin is the most basic tac-
tical motif in chess. 34...Bd5? [Stunned
by white's plunder of her d4 pawn, black
makes another mistake, losing yet another
pawn! She should try the lesser evil: 34...
exd4 35.Qxe6+ Kh7 36.Rac1 Nd3 37.Rc6
Rf6±] 35.Bxb4! Bxb4 36.Nxf5! 36...
Be6 37.Ne3 Rc8 [The time for challeng-
ing open files is gone! Every exchange of
a piece would now take white closer to vic-
tory. Better was: 37...Bc5 ] 38.Rac1 Rd8
39.Rxd8+ Qxd8 40.Rc6 Bb3 41.Qb2!
[#] A double attack that should win the
e5 pawn, but in reality wins more!! 41...
Bxa4 42.Qa2+! Again, a double attack.
But now the target is the bishop, not a
pawn! 42...Kh8 43.Qxa4+- Bc5 44.Qc2
Qd7 A rook down for a pawn, black car-
ries on, hoping for a miracle which does
not occur. 45.Nc4 Qb7 46.Nxe5 Qb8
47.Nd7 Qb7 48.Nxc5 bxc5 49.Rxc5 a4
50.Rc8+ Qxc8 51.Qxc8+ Kh7 52.Qc2+
Kh8 53.b6 a3 54.b7 g6 55.b8Q+ Kg7
56.Qe5+ Kf7 57.Qcc7+ Kg8 58.Qeg7#
1–0
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Adolf Herberg 1955 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1951

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

Bondarenko 1947 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1947

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

Gurvic 1954 Julius Gunst 1951

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

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Masters of the past-100 Jose Capablanca
ARCA State Under 15 Boys & Girls FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur
José Raúl Capablanca (Havana, Cuba, 19 November 1888 –
New York, 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was
World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927.Capablanca was a
child prodigy with an astonishing natural talent for the game.
He grew up into a cultured and charming man, whom the
Cuban government made its roving ambassador-at-large. He
was a media celebrity and probably the Cuban best-known to
the rest of the world.

José Raúl Capablanca was the second surviving son of an

army officer learned the rules of the game at the age of four
by watching his father play. He was particularly dominant in
rapid chess, winning a tournament ahead of the reigning World
Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker, in 1906. San Sebastian tournament of 1911 was "one
of the strongest five tournaments held up to that time", as all the world's leading players
competed except the World Champion, Lasker, who was inactive in serious play at the time. Prize winners with dignitaries.Guest left to right Mukesh Mandloi, Shri Verma ji , Branch
Capablanca won brilliantly against Bernstein in the very first round, and more simply against Manager LIC, Rajeev Bhardwaj, President CIL, Advocate Manish Mogra, Kamlesh Choudhary,
Nimzowitsch. He astounded the chess world by taking first place, with a score of six wins, Dr.om Sahu and IA Rajendra Teli, Chief Arbiter
one loss and seven draws, ahead of Akiba Rubinstein, Milan Vidmar, Frank Marshall, Carl
Schlechter and Siegbert Tarrasch. His loss, against Rubinstein, was one of the most brilliant Smart Girl FIDE Rated Pondicherry 2019, Puducherry
achievements of the latter's career.Capablanca was now recognized as a serious contender
for the world championship.

In January 1920, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca signed an agreement to play a World
Championship match in 1921. The match was played in March–April 1921; Lasker resigned it
after just fourteen games, having lost four games and won none. Vladimir Kramnik thought
that Lasker played quite well and the match was an "even and fascinating fight" until Lasker
blundered in the last game. Kramnik's explanation was that Capablanca was twenty years
younger, a slightly stronger player, and had more recent competitive practice.

Since Capablanca had won the New York 1927 tournament overwhelmingly, and had never
lost a game to Alekhine, he was regarded by most pundits as the clear favorite in their 1927
World Chess Championship match. However, Alekhine won the match, played at Buenos
Aires, by 6 wins, 3 losses, and 25 draws – the longest World Championship match until the
World Chess Championship 1984–85 between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Alekh-
ine's victory surprised almost the entire chess world.

Capablanca finished fourth, one point behind the joint winners at Moscow in 1935.During
these triumphs Capablanca began to experience debilitating symptoms of hypertension.
and could only finish seventh of the eight players at the 1938 AVRO tournament, an élite Back row:(L-R) Mr, C Arulmozhi, Na & EC Member, Mr. S Nadaradjane, IA & EC Member, Mr. R
contest designed to select a challenger for Alekhine's world title. Capablanca's high blood Devakumar, Vice President,PSCA, Chief Guest R Sridharan, Deputy Commercial Tax Officer,
pressure was not correctly diagnosed and treated until after the AVRO tournament, and Pondicherry, Mr. G Sankar, Secretary, PSCA .Mr. J Ramesh, Treasurer, PSCA, Mr, A Sivagnanaganesan,
EC Member, Mr. J Narayanan, FA & Chief Arbiter Mr, V Venugopal, NA.Front row:Prize winners:Miss
caused him to lose his train of thought towards the end of playing sessions.
S Daranya(Pud)) Miss Jeevika(Pud) Miss R KashthuriBai(And) Miss Shreya Meenakshi(Pud), Miss A
Courtesy:Wikepedia Nanmalar(TN), Champion. Miss Rakghitha SMR(TN) Miss MC Harini(TN) Miss S Priyadharshini(Pud)
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 4th IGMSA Open FIDE Rating Below-1500 Chess Tournament 2019, Hyderabad Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1. Franco Valencia,B (2159) Rodriguez
Vila,A (2480) [A40]
Cartagena COL Cartagena COL (1.8),
22.04.2019
Black to play. 20...Rxe3! 21.fxe3 Qxe3+
22.Kh1 [22.Rf2 Ng4 23.Qf1 (23.Qe1 Qxd3)
23...Nxf2 24.Qxf2 Qxd3+-] 22...Qh3! 23.Be4
[23.Rg1 Ng4 Wins; 23.Rf2 Ng4] 23...Nxe4!
24.Qd1[24.gxh3,Nf2+25.Kg1Nxh3#;24.Qd1
Ng3+ 25.Kg1 Qxg2#] 0–1
2.Ranaivoharisoa,A(2203) Paiva,Donal-
do (2204) [B23]
Zone 4.3 2019 Antananarivo MAD (5.7),
01.05.2019
White to play 27.Qf4! f5 [27...Be8 28.Nc6!
Rdc8 (28...Bxc6 29.Qxf7#; 28...Qxc6 29.Qxe5
dxe5 30.Rh8+ Kg7 31.R1h7#) 29.Rh8+!
Left to Right : K S Prasad, Secretary, Telangana state Chess Association, Major K A Shivaprasad,
Vice President, TSCA, Sri Jaya Prakash, CEO of Chezz64.com, Prof. P Kameswar Rao, Organizing Bxh8 30.Ne7+ Kf8 31.Nxg6+ Kg8 32.Rxh8+
Kg7 33.Qf6#; 27...Rf8 28.Rh8+ (28.Qh4+-
Secretary of the tournament (IGMSA) and IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter.Prize winners with
) 28...Bxh8 29.Qh2 Wins] 28.gxf6 [28.gxf6
trophy(L-R)3rd prize winner Krishna Murthy (TN), 1st Prize winner Siddik Akbar of (TN), 2nd
Prize winner Nagasri Saikanth (AP) Bxd4 (28...Bxf6 29.Qxf6 Wins) 29.Rg7+ Kf8
30.Rh8#] 1–0
30th Cusat International Rating Chess Tournament, Cochin 3. Fernandez,Fr (2268)
Perez Feliz,Josue Enrique (1914)
ch-DOM 2019 Santo Domingo DOM (1.6),
26.04.2019
White to play. 26.Rxh7! d4 [26...Kxh7
27.Qh3+ Kg8 28.Nxg6 fxg6 29.Bxg6 Wins]
27.Qh3 Qg5 [27...f5 28.Nxg6+-] 28.Rh8+
Nxh8 29.Qh7# 1–0
4. Aoshima,Mirai (2313) - Nanjo,R
(2324) [D46]
52nd ch-JPN 2019 Tokyo JPN (8.1), 02.05.2019
White to play 27.Ne5! [Also 27.Ng5!+- Rf8 a)
27...fxg5 28.Qxg5+ Kf8 (28...Ke8 29.Rxd8+
Wins) 29.Rxd8+ Rxd8 30.Rxd8#; b) 27...
Rxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.Rxd4+ Kc6 30.Qxe6+
Kc7 31.Rd7+ Wins; 28.Nxe6 Bxd4 (28...fxe6
29.Rd7+ Qxd7 30.Qh7+; 28...Kxe6 29.Re1+
Wins) 29.Nxd4 Ke8 (29...Rad8 30.Nf5+ Ke6
(30...Ke8 31.Qe2+) 31.Ng7+ Ke7 32.Qe2+
Wins) 30.Qe2+ Qe7 31.Qf3] 27...Ke8 [27...
Bxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.c5+! Kxe5 30.Qxb7+-
IM Muthaiah AL, R Ilamparithi and Abhinav Chakrapani with dignitaries ; 27...Rxd4 28.Qxf7+ Kd6 29.Rxd4+; 27...
46
fxe5 28.Rxd8 Rxd8 29.Qh4+ f6 30.Qh7+ Ke8
31.Qg8+ Bf8 32.Rxd8+ Kxd8 33.Qxf8+ Kd7
34.Qf7+ Kc6 35.Qxb7+ Kxb7 36.h4 Wins]
28.Rxd8+ Rxd8 29.Qh8+ [29.Qh8+ Bf8
30.Rxd8+ Kxd8 31.Qxf8+ Kc7 32.Qxf7+ Kb8
33.Qxb7+ Kxb7 34.h4 Wins] 1–0
5. Ismagambetov,An (2545) - Sasikiran,K
(2678) [C84]
12th World Teams 2019 Astana KAZ (6.2),
11.03.2019
Black to play. 42...Nh4! 43.gxh4 [43.Ne1
Rxe1 44.gxh4 Re4 45.Qc2 (45.Qxd5 Rg4+–+)
45...f5–+] 43...Qxh3 44.f4 [44.Nf4 Nxf4
45.Bxf4 Rxf4 46.Qc2+ f5–+] 44...Qg3+
45.Kh1 Ne3 46.Bxe3 Rxe3 47.Ne1 [47.Qd5
Qh3+ 48.Kg1 Rg3+ 49.Kf2 Qh2+ 50.Ke1
Re3+ 51.Kd1 Rxd3+ 52.Kc1 Rc3+ 53.Kb1
Qc2+ Wins] 47...Qh3+ 48.Kg1 Rg3+ 49.Kf2
Qh2+ 50.Ng2 Qxg2+ 51.Ke1 Qb2 0–1
6. Postny,Evgeny (2619) - Beliavsky,Al-
exander G (2526) [D37]
20th ch-EUR Indiv 2019 Skopje MKD (7.37),
25.03.2019
White to play. 51.Nc8! [51.Nc8 Nxc8 (51...
Kf8 52.Nxe7 Kxe7 53.Qxc6+-; 51...Bxf3
52.Nxe7++-) 52.Qxc6 Ne7 53.Qe8++-] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.Adolf Herberg 1955
1.Rf7 Rd4 2.Rh1+ Kg8 3.Rhh7 Rh4 4.Rhg7+
Kh8 5.Rg5 Rd4 6.Rf8+ Rxf8 7.Kxd4 Rd8
8.Rd5 wins
2.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1955
1.Rd1+ Kc8 2.Kf7 Nc7 3.Rd8+ Kxd8 4.cxb7
Nd7 5.e7#
3.Bondarenko 1947
1.a7 Kb7 2.Kd1 Ka8 3.Kc1 Kb7 4.Kb1 Ka8
5.Ka1 Kb7 6.Qb1+ wins
4.Dr.Jindrich Fritz, 1947
1.Rh8 Kd7 2.Rh7+ Kc8 3.Rxa7 Nc7 4.Ndc4
Kb8 5.Rb7+ Nxb7 6.Nc6+ followed by mate
5.Gurvic 1948
1.Nf5 Ng3 2.Rxh4 Ng4 3.Nd4 Kxh4 4.Nf3+
Kh5 5.Kg7 Ne2 6.Kh7 wins
6.Julius Gunst 1951
1.Nc1+ Kb1 2.Bg7 Ne3+ 3.Nxe3 Bxe3 4.Ne2
followed by 5.Nc3
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AICF Calendar June 2019 15th Late Meenatai Shirgaokar Memorial Women’s Tournament, Sangli
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13th Chess Mate Inter School FIDE Rating team 28 Jun - 29 Jun Kolkata
National Under-17 Boys & Girls Ch’hip 29 Jun - 07 Jul Ernakulam
CommonwealthChampionship 30 Jun - 07 Jul New Delhi
Al India Open FIDE Rated Chess tmt 03 Jul - 07 Jul Joysagar
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3rd FIDE Rating Tournament 09 Jul - 14 Jul Guwahati
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6th Kurukshetra Open FIDE Rating 19 Jul - 24 Jul Dibrugarh
FIDE Rated Tournament ,Pondicherry 24 Jul - 28 Jul Puducherry
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National youth U-25 Championship 01 Aug - 07 Aug Jammu
12th Modern School FIDE Rating for children 02 Aug – 04 Aug Chennai WFM Cholleti Sahajasri of Telengana receiving Winner’s Trophy at the hands of Mrs.
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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’on page 15 : 1.e4 e6 2.Bb5 Ke7 3.Bxd7 c6 4.Be8 Kxe8 Top 3 Prize Winners (Left to Right) Anish Gandhi (Runner Up), Keval Nirgun (Winner), Akhilesh
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33rd VMRDA National Under 13 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Visakhapatnam

(L-R) S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, Y.D.Rama Rao, ex President Y.D.Rama Rao, Bharat Singh,
Hon.Secretary, AICF, D.V.Sundar, Hon.Vice-President, FIDE,Anand Reddy, Tournament Director
(partly seen) , M.Pranesh, National Under-13 Open Champion, A.Srinivasa Rao, Secretary
VMRDA

(L-R) S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, Y.D.Rama Rao, ex President Y.D.Rama Rao, Bharat Singh,
Hon.Secretary, AICF, Velpula Sarayu, National Under 13 Girls Champion, D.V.Sundar, Hon.
Vice-President, FIDE, Anand Reddy , Tournament Director, Smt.G.Srijana,I.A.S.,Joint Collector,
Visakhaptnam District ,A.Srinivasa Rao, Secretary VMRDA