AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 14 Issue : 1 Price Rs. 25 August 2019

30th National Under-17 Open &Girls Chess Championships, Ernakulam

46th National Women Chess

Championship, Karaikudi

Neelash Saha Ghosh Samriddhaa

(West Bengal) (West Bengal)
Open Champion Girls Champion

WGM Bakthi Kulkarni

(Air India)
Champion
45th National Under 15 Open
and 36th National Under-15 Girls
Championships, Tiruchengode

WIM Divya Deshmukh IM Raja Rithvik R

(Maharashtra) (Telangana)
Girls Champion Open Champion

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46th edition of National Women Chess,Karaikudi
Bakthi Kulkarni is Champion again
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 1
30th National Under-17 Open &Girls Chess Ernakulam
Neelash Saha and Samriddhaa Ghosh are Champions
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 5
National Under 15 Open and Girls Chess,Tiruchengode
Raja Rithvik and DivyaDeshmukh are National Champs
by S.Balaraman IA, Chief Arbiter 8
Amdar Chashak All India Open FIDE Rating Chess , Nagpur
IM Rajesh VAV Wins
by Swapnil Bansod IA, Chief Arbiter 13
1st International Open Rapid & Blitz Ty,, Trichy
AI Muthaiah and Lokesh win titles
by IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 15
12th BRDCA Fide Rating Rapid Chess ,Bangalore
Nitin S of Tamil Nadu is Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 18
3rd International FIDE Rating Chess Ty, Guwahati
AI Muthaiah wins at Guwahati
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter 20
Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Nagpur
Suhan Deshpande of Nagpur Wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 22
Kurukshetra Open Fide Rating Chess Ty, Assam
AI Muthaiah wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter 28
Smart Girl All India FIDE Rating Ty Guwahati
Sneha Halder clinches title
M Arun Singh FA,Chief Arbiter 30
Selected games from National Senior Women,Karaikudi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-102: Erich Eliskases 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the editor’s desk
There is plenty to report in this issue on
the recent Indian accomplishments in the
international arena. At the Paris Grand
Chess Tour 2019, former World Champion
GM Viswanatahan Anand was in his
elements and played sublime chess to
win the blitz event. He also finished second in blitz and rapid
combined in a very strong field.GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi
won the Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland in style with a
round to spare. GM Surya sekhar Ganguly had a fine run at
the Belt and Road Hunan Open in China forging ahead of six
2700 plus strong GMs to finish first. India’s precocious teen
chess talent GM Praggnanandhaa won Xtracon Chess Open
in Copenhagen,his first major tournament after becoming GM
last year.His elder sibling WGM Vaishali made her first GM
norm and also her second IM norm in the same tournament.
At the Asian Junior Chess Championships in Indonesia
K.S.Raghunandan of Karnataka and Vantika Agarwal of
Delhi bagged silver medals and Aakanshka Hegewane of
Maharashtra bronze in the classical format.In the third edition
of World Junior chess championships for the disabled held
in New Jersey, 19-year old Samarth J Rao did India proud
winning a silver.All these events are featured in the centre
pages of this issue.
On the home terrain, Tamilnadu hosted two Nationals.WGM
Bakthi Kulkarni of Air India won the National Senior Women
Championship held at Karaikudi. At Tiruchengode,IM Raja
Rithvik of Telangana and WIM Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra
emerged National Under-15 Champions. Neelesh Saha and
Samruddha Ghosh, both from West Bengal, took the Open and
Girls titles in the National Under-17 Championships held at
Ernakulam, Kerala.Reports, final standings and photographs
of these National events along with those of FIDE rated events
held during July 2019 are featured in this issue.
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor’s Cup annotated by IM
Manuel Aaron are presented elsewhere in this issue.GM Erich
Eliskases 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.
46th edition of National Women Chess Championship, Karaikudi
Bakthi Kulkarni is Champion again
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
The 46th edition of National Women Chess
Championship organized and sponsored by
Chettinad Public School,Karaikudi attracted a
total number of 106 players, which included
2 International Masters, 7 Women Grand-
masters, 13 Women International Masters,
8 Women Fide Masters and 97 International
Rated Chess players from 23 States/Affiliated
units.
In a colourful opening ceremony, Shri. San-
karanarayanan, RDO Sivagangai District along
with Shri. DV Sundar, Hony Vice President
FIDE and Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Sec-
retary All India Chess Federation inaugurated
the event in presence of Shri. RM Dongre,
President Asian Zone 3.7; Shri Balaji, Tehsil-
dar Karaikudi Town; Shri. Stephen Balasamy,
General Secretary Tamilnadu State Chess
Association; Shri SP Kumaresan, Chairman
Chettinad Public School and Shri K Arun Ku-
mar, Principal Chettinad Public School.
The championship was played under Swiss
system with eleven rounds and time control
of 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30
minutes for all moves with 30 second incre-
ment from move 1. Women Grandmaster
Soumya Swaminathan of Petroleum Sports
Promotion Board started as top seed while
presence of players like six times champion S
Vijayalakshmi of Air India, five times champi-
on Bagyashree Thipsay of Maharashtra, three
times champion Mary Ann Gomes of PSPB,
former champions Nisha Mohota of PSPB,
Swati Ghate of LIC and defending champion
Bhakti Kulkarni of Air India made it a com-
petitive field of players and youngsters like
Vantika Agrawal of Delhi, Divya Deshmukh
and Mrudual Dehankar of Maharashtra made
exciting battles throughout the championship.
The championship witnessed the superlative
performance of former Asian Champion WGM
Bhakti Kulkarni of Air India. She defended her
title in style with whopping score of ten points
out of possible eleven while Vantika Agrawal
of Delhi finished as First Runner up with eight
and half points while Divya Deshmukh of Ma-
harashtra scored identical score as Vantika
but finished as second runner up on inferior
tie break score.
It was a forgettable event for senior players
like Soumya Swaminathan and S Vijayalaksh-
mi but younger generation players like Van-
tika Agrawal, Divya Deshmukh and Mrudul
Dehankar of Maharashtra made their mark
in senior category. It’s pertinent to mention
that Vantika Agrawal achieved her second
WGM Norm in the championship while Mrudul
made her WIM Norm.
In the glittering closing ceremony Shri J Jay-
akanthan IAS, District Collector of Sivagangai
gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the
winners in presence of Shri. N Rameswaran,
Secretary APSA College Tiruppattur, Shri. R
Anantharam, Vice President Tamilnadu State
Chess Association, Shri. Balagunasekaran
RK, Joint Secretary Tamilnadu State Chess
Association, Shri. SP Kumaresan, Chairman
Chettinad Public School, Shri. K Arun Kumar,
Principal Chettinad Public School and Dr. Siva
Kumar of Chettinad Public School.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti AI 10
2 WIM Vantika Agrawal Del 8.5
3 WIM Divya Deshmukh Mah 8.5
4 WIM Pratyusha Bodda AP 8
5 WCM Mrudul Dehankar Mah 8
6 WIM Srija Seshadri TN 8
7 IM Mohota Nisha Pspb 8
8 WIM Nandhidhaa P V TN 7.5
9 WGM Meenakshi S AI 7.5
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10 W IM Harshita Guddanti AP 7.5 57 Shreya Shree B WB 5.5
11 W IM Chitlange Sakshi Mah 7.5 58 Potluri Saye S Tel 5 45th National Under 15 Open and 36th National Under-15 Girls
12 Priyanka K TN 7 59 W IM Priyanka Nutakki AP 5 Championships,Tiruchengode
13 I M Vijayalakshmi S AI 7 60 W FM Potluri Supreetha AP 5
14 W FM Jain Nityata MP 7 61 Mudaliar Nandini Guj 5
15 W GM Gomes Mary Ann Pspb 7 62 W CM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 5
16 W IM Varshini V TN 7 63 Yash Jyoti Bir WB 5
17 Bala Kannamma P TN 7 64 Sheena E. Ker 5
18 W GM Ramaswamy Aarthie AI 7 65 Aishwarya Del 5
19 W GM Swati Ghate Lic 7 66 Varshita Jain MP 5
20 W CM Sharma Isha Kar 7 67 Shrivastava Aditi MP 5
21 W GM Soumya S Pspb 6.5 68 Bharathakoti Sneha Tel 5
22 W IM Michelle Catherina P TN 6.5 69 Rajanya Datta WB 5
23 W GM Kiran Manisha M Lic 6.5 70 Yashita Dhawan Del 5
24 W IM Thipsay B S Mah 6.5 71 Kavitha P L TN 5
25 W CM Jyothsna L TN 6.5 72 Mishra Riya UP 5
26 Bakshi Rutuja Mah 6.5 73 Indira P S TN 5
27 Saranya Y TN 6.5 74 Vora Ananya Mah 5
28 W FM Meghna C H Rspb 6.5 75 Genita Gladys A TN 5
29 Singh Neha Bih 6.5 76 Anju Sarkar TRI 5
30 Sunyuktha C M N TN 6.5 77 Begum Ashiya Mah 4.5
31 W FM Dhyana Patel Guj 6.5 78 Anjitha K Ker 4.5
32 Shriya R Revankar Kar 6.5 79 Ayushi Gupta UP 4.5 Dr. M. Manickam, Chairman & MD, Sakthi Group of Industries & President, Tamil Nadu State Chess
33 Divyabharathi M TN 6.5 80 Adiba Ullah Bih 4.5 Association is making the inaugural move against WIM Divya Deshmukh
34 W FM Saranya J TN 6 81 Pinky Das Asm 4.5
35 Nandhini Saripalli Goa 6 82 Saradha M TN 4.5
36 W FM Sanskriti Goyal UP 6 83 Aparna Gogoi Asm 4.5
37 Pandey Srishti Mah 6 84 Arunika Ghosh TRI 4.5
38 Toshali V AP 6 85 W IM Mahalakshmi M Rspb 4
39 Panda Miracle Odi 6 86 Rachita Sabbathi TEL 4
40 Boramanikar T S Mah 6 87 Lakshana S TN 4
41 Sandhya G AP 6 88 Mandakani Mishra MP 4
42 Ananya Bothra WB 6 89 Stevlin S Stalin TN 4
43 Meenal Gupta JK 5.5 90 Kumari Prerna BIH 4
44 Rindhiya V TN 5.5 91 Dhaaniya T PUD 4
45 Abhirami Madabushi Tel 5.5 92 Tanuja Kansal LIC 4
46 Sunyasakta S Odi 5.5 93 Anagha Yardi LIC 4
47 Shetye Siddhali Mah 5.5 94 Charishma Yadav P AP 3½
48 W IM Parnali S Dharia Mah 5.5 95 Renuka Kumari B LIC 3½
49 W FM Bindu Saritha K. Lic 5.5 96 Manika Sharma HP 3½
50 Nisha N. Patkar Kar 5.5 97 Parismita Chutia ASM 3½
51 Ananya A Kar 5.5 98 Sikha Das Gupta TRI 3½
52 Nanditha V Tel 5.5 99 Thamaraiselvi P TN 3
53 Senthamizh Y S TN 5.5 100 Rout Niraja ODI 3
54 Shah Vishwa Mah 5.5 101 Keshavi HP 3 Top three in Open and Girls sections-(L-R) CM Rohit Krishna (Third) CM Kushagra Mohan (Runner-up) IM Raja
55 Smaraki Mohanty Odi 5.5 102 Akanksha Katoch HP 3 Rithvik (Winner) WIM Divya Deshmukh (Winner) WCM Mrudul Dehankar (Runner-up) L.Jyothsna (Third)
56 Renganayaki V Kar 5.5 103 Kumari Shristi BIH 2½
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 Amdar Chashak All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Nagpur 30th National Under-17 Open &Girls Chess Championships, Ernakulam
Neelash Saha and Samriddhaa Ghosh are Champions
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
30th 4 Queens National Under 17 Open &
Girls Chess Championship attracted 144 par-
ticipants from 16 States and 2 Union territo-
ries was held at Oberon mall, Palarivattam,
Ernakulam from 29th June 2019 to 7th July
2019. Tamilnadu& Kerala occupied highest
number of players. Tamilnadu fielded 34
& Kerala 33 together in both sections. The
threat triggered by Nippa Virus and also the
direct clash with commonwealth champion-
ship at the capital curtailed the number of
participants. Shri. Bharat Singh, the honorary
Secretary of All India Chess Federation in his
tight schedule came and formally inaugurated
the event by moving the King pawn.
The playing venue was located in the heart
Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter,K.K.Bharat, Secretary,NDCA, Vijay Laddha, Ex-Chairman Akola Janta Urban of the city of Ernakulam. A single air condi-
Co. Op. Bank,Hon.Shri. Girish Vyas, MLA, Rural Nagpur(making the inaugural move), SNA Sushant Jumde, tioned hall for both open and Girls section
Organising Secretary was arranged by the organizer 4 Queens
Chess Club in Oberon mall, a centralized
complex having given a good atmosphere to
the players and the accompanying persons.
Players as well as parents did not forget to
utilize the enjoyment of the food court and
the shopping inside the mall complex. The
south west monsoon gave additional support
to the players and the parents. The players
came from the north enjoyed the taste of the
South Indian vegetarian food in Kerala.
In the open section the second seeded
Neelash Saha of West Bengal after succeed-
ing 6 straight victories, drew his games in
round 7,8,9. Two creditable wins in the last
two rounds against Sibi Visal of Tamilnadu
in round10 and Aditya P Melani of Gujarat
earned the title with a clear half point ahead
of his nearest. Neelash became the 30th
National Under 17 open champion. The top
seeded Aronyak Ghosh scored 9 points be-
IM V.A.V. Rajesh, Winner, receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest Shri. Sudhakar Kohale, MLA, South
Nagpur.Others in the photo (L-R) are K.K.Barat, Secretary,NDCA, Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter and came the runner up. Utsab Chatterjee of West
Bengal and Arjun Gupta of Delhi scored 8
Sushant Jumde ,Organizing Secretary
4
points but better tie break helped Utsab for
bronze.
In the girls section, Samriddhaa Ghosh of
West Bengal, the 4th seeded after losing her
first game to 31st seeded Sneha Paul also
from her home state became the champion
with two praiseworthy wins in her last two
rounds against Jyothsna of Tamilnadu and
Kalyani of Andra Pradesh. Samriddhaa scored
8.5 points and became the champion. There
are three players got 8 points but the better
tie break helped Salonika Saina and Kalyani
finished second and third places respectively.
In the closing ceremony Shri. Joji john, Center
Manager, Oberon Mall distributed the prizes to
the winners. Shri. Rajesh Nattakom, Secre-
tary, Chess association Kerala presided over
the meeting. Shri. Rintu Marketing Manager
Oberon Mall and Shri. Arun Bose Secretary,
Ernakulam Chess association Felicitated the
event. Smt. Subha Rakesh President, Ernaku-
lam Chess Association delivered the vote of
thanks.
Final standings:Open
Rk Name Sta Pts
1 Neelash Saha WB 9½
2 Aronyak Ghosh CM WB 9
3 Utsab Chatterjee WB 8
4 Arjun Gupta Del 8
5 Nawin J J TN 7½
6 Jayachandra Srinivas V TN 7½
7 Vrandesh Parekh Guj 7½
8 Genish Prakash J TN 7½
9 Sibi Visal R TN 7
10 Mohamed Anees M TN 7
11 Rakshith Srinivasan Kar 7
12 Vaibhav Jayant Raut Mah 7
13 Ayush Sharma MP 7
14 Aditya P Melani Guj 7
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15 Rohith S TN 7 58 Niranjan Sreejithmon Ker 5 9 Kiruthika B TN 7 52 Dharsana P V Ker 3
16 Dhoot Vinit Mah 7 59 Mujhyaman Thakuria Asm 5 10 Anupam M Sreekumar Ker 7 53 Manodhya Prakrati MP 2½
17 Vatsal Singhania FM Jha 6½ 60 Kumaran Charan Tel 5 11 Poorna Sri M.K TN 7 54 Archana M E Ker 2½
18 Wairagade Khush Mah 6½ 61 Abhinav Dubey Asm 4½ 12 Swara Lakshmi S Nair Kar 6½ 55 Sejal Sharma HP 2
19 Wankhede Avishkar Mah 6½ 62 Avin T Sabu Ker 4½ 13 Diya Chowdhury WB 6½
20 Ananthapadmanabh D V Ker 6½ 63 Dugar Chetan Bih 4½ 14 Shah Vrushti Guj 6½
21 Sharsha Backer Ker 6½ 64 Modi Hirak Guj 4½ 15 Shanya Mishra Del 6½
22 Kishore Kumar J TN 6½ 65 Sayam Chakraborty Jha 4½ 16 Kriti Mayur Patel WCM Mah 6½
23 Hari R Chandran Ker 6½ 66 Arjav K K Ker 4½ 17 Riddhi Shah Guj 6½
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
24 Arunachalam Shivaa T V TN 6½ 67 Aagam Aditya E Guj 4½ 18 Annapurni S TN 6
page 43
25 Ayushh Ravikumar TN 6½ 68 Yashsva Anil Kanholkar Cht 4½ 19 Garima Gaurav Bih 6
1.P.Petkov, Platov Mem.Ty 1963
26 Shyam Kumar M TN 6½ 69 Basil Reji Ker 4½ 20 Nanditha V Tel 6 1.e8Q Bd4+ 2.Kg8 g1Q 3.Qe4+ Qg2 4.Qh4+
27 Karan J P Ker 6½ 70 Sreevathsan H TN 4½ 21 Yuti Mayur Patel Mah 6 Kg1 5.Qxd4+ Kh1 6.Qd1+ Qg1 7.Qh5+ Kg2
28 Kamdar Aparva Guj 6½ 71 Nihal Nithish Ker 4½ 22 Alekhya B AP 6 8.Qg4 Qh1 9.Bh4+ Kf1 10.Qd1+ Kg2 11.Qd5+
29 Antony Jesumarian Leslie TN 6½ 72 Yash Srivastava UP 4½ 23 Vijayasubhasri S TN 6 Kg1 12.Qd4+ Kh2 13.Qf4+ Kg1 14.Qf2#
30 Nithyan S Ker 6 73 Bandikatte Shubham Mah 4½ 24 Prasiddhi Bhat Kar 6
31 Kabhilan S TN 6 74 Bhavya Batra Chd 4 25 Shreya Das Bih 6 2.Dr.Hans Staudte 1963
32 Sai Prasath A S TN 6 75 Gouranga Sonowal Asm 4 26 Mishra Riya UP 6 1.Qe7 Qf3 2.Qd6 Ka5 3.Qc5+ Ka4 4.Qc4+
Ka5 5.Qa2+ Kb6 6.a8Q wins
33 Hruthik Lokesh P Tel 6 76 Sharan Arvind B Pon 4 27 Laheri Nitya Guj 6
34 Tanishq Gupta UP 6 77 Anubhav Sharma HP 4 28 Srimozhi S TN 5½
3. Nadareshvili 1964
35 Hiren K G TN 6 78 Amandeep Chandera HP 4 29 Rebecca Jesumarian TN 5½ 1.a5 Kb4 2.a6 Kb5 3.a7 Bc6 4.Bxc6+ Kb6
36 Piyush Kumar Bih 6 79 Madhav Krishna B Ker 4 30 Leaha B TN 5½ 5.a8N+ wins
37 Nidheshpa S TN 6 80 Ameen Akbar T A Ker 3½ 31 Adra P Ker 5½
38 Garvit Kumar Kalra UP 6 81 Aubrey Armstrong A TN 3½ 32 Arputha Jasmine B A TN 5½ 4.Gorgiev 1963
39 Neeraj Anirudh K Tel 5½ 82 Neo Binu Ker 3½ 33 Aneri Ketan Kanjar Guj 5 1.b7 Na6 2.Kc4 Kc7 3.Kb5 Kxb7 4.Nd6+ Kc7
40 Saketh B AP 5½ 83 Yugal Gireesh Ker 3½ 34 Anjitha Krishnakumar Ker 5 5.Nde8+ Kb7 6.Ne6 Nb8 7.Nd6+ Ka8 8.Nc7#
41 Ajmera Tanmay Guj 5½ 84 Ebrahim Akbar Ker 3½ 35 Harsha R TN 5
42 Abhinav C Santhalayan Ker 5½ 85 Naman S Vora Ker 3½ 36 Shambhavi Srivastava UP 5 5.Jan Marwitz 1962
1.Bb5+ Kd8 2.Nc6+ Kc7 3.Nb4 Rb2 4.Rxf7+
43 Santhosh Manikantan AP 5½ 86 Ishaan K Sibin Ker 3 37 Anaidaa Santosh Mah 5
Kb6 5.Nd5+ Kc5 6.Ke5 Rxb5 7.Rc7#
44 Anubrata Priyadarshan S Ori 5½ 87 Navaneeth Krishna P Ker 2½ 38 Nayan Megha K A Ker 5
45 Sarath Chandra K Tel 5½ 88 Das Devanssh Arav Ori 1½ 39 Wairagade Rashi Mah 5 6.Genrykh Kasparyan 1964
46 Shejal Sahil Sanjay Mah 5½ 89 Sharan R S Tel 1 40 Harshini A Kar 5 1.Bg7+ Bd4 2.h6 Kd3+ 3.Kb1 Rb8+ 4.Ka2
47 Sanjeev M TN 5½ 41 M Padma Pratibha TN 5 Rh8 5.Bf7 Ra8+ 6.Kb3 Rb8+ 7.Ka4 Rh8
48 Shah Devansh Mah 5½ Final standings:Girls 42 Sneha Paul WB 4½ 8.Ba2 Kc3 9.Bg8 Kd3 10.Kb5 Ke4 11.Kc6 Be5
49 Bilpe Abhijeet Mah 5½ Rk Name Club Pts 43 Gurjar Aarya MP 4½ 12.Kd7 Kf5 13.Ke7 wins
50 Mukherjee Sanchit Jha 5½ 1 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 8½ 44 Mayoogha N Ker 4½
51 Shrivastava Kushagra MP 5½ 2 Salonika Saina WFM Ori 8 45 Laxmi Rakesh Ker 4½
No fantasy, however rich, no technique,
52 Parekh Vishrut Guj 5½ 3 Kalyani B AP 8 46 Sneha Verma Jha 4½ however masterly, no penetration into
53 Jeyanth R TN 5½ 4 Jyothsna L WCM TN 8 47 Twinkle Riju Ker 4 the psychology of the opponent, how-
54 Shyam Sundar M TN 5 5 Bharathakoti Sneha Tel 7½ 48 Shifna P Ker 4 ever deep, can make a chess game a
55 Mihir A K Ker 5 6 Divyabharathi Masanam TN 7½ 49 Harshita Bharadwaj Asm 4 work of art, if these qualities do not lead
56 Rahan Ramesh Ker 5 7 Kaur Palkin Del 7 50 Jayitha Jojo Kottalappilly Ker 3½ to the main goal - the search for truth
57 Abel Saju Chazhoor Ker 5 8 Benasir M TN 7 51 Keshavikka G K TN 3 -GM Vasily Smyslov

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 45th National Under 15 Open and 36th National
Under-15Girls Championships,Tiruchengode
IM Raja Rithvik and Divya Deshmukh are National Champs
by S.Balaraman IA, Chief Arbiter
The 45th National Under-15 Chess Champion- 17 titles in the same year 2017 and Woman
ship and 36th National Under 15 Girls Chess International master Divya Deshmukh of
Championship were held at KSR Educational Nagpur, Maharashtra were the cynosure of
Institutions, Tiruchengode, under the aegis all eyes in the entire tournament. Both top
of Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and All seeded players proved their worth by winning
India Chess Federation supported by Ministry the titles.
of Youth Affairs & Sports, Sports Autority of
India and Sports Development Authority of Dr. M. Manickam, Chairman & MD – Sakthi
Tamil Nadu from 9th to 17th July 2019. Group of Industries & President, Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association was the Chief Guest
of the tournament who inaugurated the tour-
The championship attracted a total of 345
players (222 boys and 123 girls) from 25 nament Lion Dr. K. S. Rangasamy, MJF, Chair-
states and All India Chess Federation for man &Founder, KSR Educational Institutions
Blind. Tamil Nadu has the largest number of presided over the function, Mr.Venkatesan,
contingent with 182 players. Besides, Ma- Principal, ITI, KSR Educational Institution
harashtra was represented by 20 players, welcomed the gathering, Dr. V. S. Ramesh,
President, Namakkal District Chess Foun-
while Telangana and Karnataka contributed
19 players each. The total prize money for dation proposed the vote of thanks. Sri. R.
the tournament was Rs.2.5 lakhs. Srinivasan, Vice Chairman, KSR Educational
Institutions, grandmaster RB Ramesh, mem-
The event was jointly organised by Namakkal ber, Trainers’ Commission, FIDE & Indian
District Chess Foundation and Sivakasi Chess team Coach for several Olympiads, Sri. P.
Stephen Balasamy General Secretary, Tamil
Club. The Venue Sponsor KSR Educational
Institutions made elaborate arrangements for Nadu State Chess Association and Sri C.T.
the success of the mega event. The tourna- Periya Karuppan, District Sports Officer, Nam-
ment was conducted in air conditioned halls. akkal were the guests of honour.
Fifteen digital chess boards were used for the
live display of the top board games on in-
The weeklong National Sub Junior Champi-
ternet. Leading international chess websites
like chessbase.com, chessbomb.com, chess onship saw the emergence of new champion
24.com, aicf.in etc. broadcast the games live. Raja Rithvik from Telengana, who scored an
impressive 9.5/11. Among the girls, WIM
For the first time in the history of the Sub Divya Deshmukh of Maharashra came out on
Junior chess championships an international top with 9.0/11 and won a hat trick of Under
15 national titles, a very rare achievement in
master and a woman international master
were competing in the event. IM R Raja the age category nationals.
Rithvik of Hyderabad holds the unique record
of winning the national under 13 and under The top seed Raja Rithvik suffered a minor
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setback in the second round, when he drew
with Chauhan Narayan from Uttar Pradesh.
But he recovered and surged into the lead
by winning four games. In the final round,
he defeated the defending champion Ajay
Karthikeyan of Tamil Nadu and clinched the
title.
In the girls section, WIM Divya Deshmukh
of Maharashtra shot into the lead with four
straight wins in the first four games. She
played safely to maintain her lead in tourna-
ment with draws in 5th, 6th and 7th rounds.
After two wins against low rated players Ga-
rima Gaurav of Bihar and Bhagyashree Patil
of Maharashtra, she managed a draw in 28
moves with Mrudul Dehankar in the 9th and
crucial round. Divya demolished a Nayanikaa
Muralidharan of Tamil Nadu and secured her
title with an easy win in the final round.
In spite of having five consecutive wins
Mrudul Dehankar from Maharashtra didn’t
take any risk and played it safe with many
draws Another three draws. She collected
nine points to confirm her runner-up position.
Jyothsna L of Tamil Nadu & Jain Nityata of
Madhya Pradesh also won their respective
games.The winners of the tournament in
open and girls categories will represent India
in the World Under 16 championships to be
held at Romania in 2020.
Shri. D.V. Sundar, Hon. Vice President, World
Chess Federation and Vice President, All
India Chess Federation, Shri.Bharat Singh
Chauhan, Chairman, Commonwealth Chess
Association, Deputy President, Asian Chess
Federation and General Secretary, All India
Chess Federation, Sri. R. Srinivasan, Vice
Chairman of KSR Educational Institutions and
Shri. P. Stephen Balasamy General Secretary,
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association made
their august presence at the prize distribution
function and distributed the prizes.
Tiruchengode is a municipality located in the
southern state of Tamil Nadu. It is famous for
the ancient hilltop temple of Arthanareesh-
wara, dedicated to the uniquely combined
male-female form of Lord Shiva and God-
dess Parvathi. KSR Educational Institutions
is one of the oldest educational institutions
in Tiruchengode.
Final ranking: Open
Rk. Name Pts.
1 IM Raja Rithvik R 9.5
2 CM Kushagra Mohan 9
3 CM Rohith Krishna S 8.5
4 Pranav V 8.5
5 FM Aaryan Varshney 8.5
6 Anadkat Kartavya 8.5
7 Samant Aditya S 8
8 Soham Kamotra 8
9 Mahitosh Dey 8
10 Aditya Varun Gampa 8
11 Sanket Chakravarty 7.5
12 Praloy Sahoo 7.5
13 FM Ajay Karthikeyan 7.5
14 Srihari L 7.5
15 FM Pranesh M 7.5
16 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 7.5
17 Srikrishnan P 7.5
18 Ayushh Ravikumar 7.5
19 Arjun Gupta 7.5
20 Devesh Anand Naik 7.5
21 Soham Dey 7.5
22 Jain Kashish Manoj 7.5
23 Vignesh B 7.5
24 Ayush Sharma 7.5
25 Colaco Reuben 7.5
26 Rathneesh R 7
27 Suganthan S 7
28 Ilamparthi A R 7
29 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 7
30 Vignesh N 7
31 Potawad Anirudhha 7
32 Chauhan Narayan 7
33 Rahul Krishna Viswanathan 7
34 Aditya Bikram Paul 7
35 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 7
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36 Rathina Sabapathi A 7 87 B Nedunchezian 6 138 Saravana Vel R 5 189 Sheik Syed K 4
37 Ayush Jha 7 88 Rohnit G Amin 6 139 Ethan V Johnson 5 190 Srinivasaraj S 4
38 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 7 89 Prawin K 6 140 Harinandha L 5 191 Shivanga V 4
39 Tanishq Gupta 7 90 Jani Kushal R 6 141 Anurag Banerjee 5 192 Rohith Prabakar A R 4
40 Ruban Sanjai M 7 91 Mitul K H 6 142 Sathwik D S S U 5 193 Soma Shankara Sharma B 4
41 Rakshith Srinivasan 7 92 Midilesh Ms 6 143 Achitanga Kashyap 5 194 Adithya Sivesh B 4
42 Bhrigu Suryanarayan 7 93 Aashish Niranjan B 6 144 Aman Prakash 5 195 Vikraanth S 4
43 Mihir A K 7 94 Praveen K B 6 145 Ramakrishnan M R 5 196 Balaji Karthic R S 3.5
44 Krishnan Ritvik 7 95 Nachiketh Adiga 6 146 Karan Nilesh V B 5 197 Hem Harsanth 3.5
45 Aniruddh Chatterjee 7 96 Agarwal Mukund H 6 147 Prawin Kumar S 5 198 Roshan K 3.5
46 Sanjay Ganesh Pandi 7 97 Vibhaan 6 148 Darell Walldo Jude H 5 199 Raghav Mahajan 3.5
47 Zala Akshar 7 98 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 6 149 Aravinth N 5 200 Aaryan Goklaney 3.5
48 Arpan Das (Jr) 6.5 99 Gugan G 5.5 150 Abhinessh S 4.5 201 Uvaraj Kumaran M 3.5
49 Gokula Vishnu R 6.5 100 Karandeep Singh 5.5 151 Vihith Advyith Reddy M 4.5 202 Madhan Kumar Srijai 3.5
50 Ayyappan P Santhana P 6.5 101 Manikya Negi 5.5 152 Divin S V 4.5 203 Santhosh R 3.5
51 Shreyas Ghadi 6.5 102 Krishan A 5.5 153 San Hariharan 4.5 204 Aswin V 3.5
52 Banerjee Ashutosh 6.5 103 Hariharan Vinayagamurthy 5.5 154 Jatin Kumar 4.5 205 Ragesh S 3.5
53 Avinash Ramesh 6.5 104 Raaghav Rajesh 5.5 155 Naveen Prakash S 4.5 206 Palaniappan S 3.5
54 Dinesh Rajan M 6.5 105 Prithvvi Singh 5.5 156 Sri Surya Bharathi S 4.5 207 Jawahar P S 3.5
55 Aswath S 6.5 106 Vikash K S 5.5 157 Manan Goyal 4.5 208 Sarthak Kapil 3.5
56 Shaswata Paul 6.5 107 Nitin Kumar 5.5 158 Jayanth R J R 4.5 209 Nishant G 3
57 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6.5 108 Rohith S 5.5 159 Tawade Arnav 4.5 210 Pranav K 3
58 Soumyajit Das (Jr) 6.5 109 Singh Ojasva 5.5 160 Harshit Vij 4.5 211 Radha Krishnan S 3
59 Roshan S 6.5 110 Charan K 5.5 161 Aryan Jaiswal 4.5 212 Tejas Joshi 3
60 Anantha Sai S 6.5 111 Thrayambhakesh A 5.5 162 Harish Venugopal 4.5 213 Thanvanth V 3
61 Adireddy Arjun 6.5 112 Yashwant Annamalai 5.5 163 Vignesh Advaith Vemula 4.5 214 Sriram Kumar V 3
62 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 6.5 113 Jeeva K 5.5 164 Yajat Vyas 4.5 215 Nanthabalan V B 2.5
63 Aditya Rawat 6.5 114 Sivaneshan V 5.5 165 Verma Balkrishn 4.5 216 Mukesh Anand R B 2.5
64 Pradhyumna Kumar K 6.5 115 Vakeesh S 5.5 166 Kamalnath Dv 4.5 217 Kavinsrijit 2.5
65 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6.5 116 Abinandhan R 5.5 167 Arshdeep Singh 4.5 218 Aditya Narayanan S 2
66 Tarun V 6.5 117 Divekar Prathamesh 5.5 168 Abimanyu M 4.5 219 Paryekar Saish 2
67 Aakash G 6.5 118 Mukherjee Sanchit 5.5 169 Sarvad Senthil 4.5 220 Omkar Sameer Talwalkar 1
68 Sarveshwaran V 6.5 119 Chandra Prakash Sankar 5.5 170 Shyam Sundar S 4.5 221 Adithya Vibhu S 0
69 Tamizh Selvan Ganesan 6 120 Adireddy Tarun 5.5 171 Bharath Mathiazhagan 4.5 222 Nikhil Dhyan R 0
70 Muralishankar J T 6 121 Piyush Kumar 5.5 172 Karthikeyan M 4.5
71 Rithvik Raja M 6 122 Nizsaanth Nobel Antony 5.5 173 Harish K B 4.5 Final rfanking:Girls
72 Nikam Sudhanshu 6 123 Midhun Kumar M A 5.5 174 Nithish Jaisarun A 4.5 Rk. Name Pts.
73 Konatham Snehil 6 124 Aaditya Ranjan 5.5 175 Narenraj R S 4.5 1 WIM Divya Deshmukh 9.5
74 Ashvin Venkat G 6 125 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 5.5 176 Pranav Gopu 4.5 2 WCM Mrudul Dehankar 9
75 John Veny Akkarakaran 6 126 Vengatesh Krishnan C 5 177 Deeksith Kasthuri Rajan 4.5 3 WCM Jyothsna L 8.5
76 Anil Thungesh 6 127 Arjun Sidharth S 5 178 Shree Hari S L 4.5 4 WCM Bristy Mukherjee 8
77 Shaik Sumer Arsh 6 128 Surya Alakanti 5 179 Porwal Dhruv 4.5 5 Sai Divya M 8
78 Shivanth M 6 129 Aman Kumar 5 180 Madhesh R 4 6 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 8
79 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6 130 Vishal Choudary B 5 181 Rishabh Jaju 4 7 Bhagyashree Patil 7.5
80 Deepak Raj R 6 131 Sreevathsan H 5 182 Shiva Sabhari Pg 4 8 WFM Jain Nityata 7.5
81 Lad Mandar Pradip 6 132 Mishra Kamad 5 183 Asapu Aaseesh Sreemaan 4 9 WCM Arushi Kotwal 7.5
82 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 6 133 Manikandan C 5 184 Jagendran Kamak N 4 10 Poorna Sri M.K 7.5
83 Raghul Saro S 6 134 Jayakrishna H 5 185 Jeevaa A S 4 11 Tarunika P 7.5
84 Keshav Padmanabhan 6 135 Adhvaith Kodam 5 186 Azton Femro Ebenesh R S 4 12 Shrija K M 7.5
85 Kushal O 6 136 Alfien Jessurun 5 187 Ayushman Bhatt 4 13 WFM Dhyana Patel 7.5
86 Yukash Ram E 6 137 Suvibhu Sharma 5 188 Bhavay Mahajan 4 14 Divyabharathi Masanam 7

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15 Rindhiya V 7 61 Swapna C N 5.5 Amdar Chashak All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Nagpur
16 Garima Gaurav 7 62 Shreya Das 5.5
17 Meenatchi Rajam V 7 63 Swati M 5.5 IM Rajesh VAV Wins
18 Velpula Sarayu 7 64 Mandakani Mishra 5.5
19 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 7 65 Anchu G 5.5
by Swapnil Bansod IA, Chief Arbiter
20 Mishra Riya 7 66 Yagna Priya Polisetty 5.5 Amdar Chashak All India Open FIDE Rating indian game to become sole leader with 8
21 Tina C 7 67 Anagha K G R 5
Chess Tournament commenced from 9th July points. 3rd seed FM Shailesh Dravid lost his
22 Trisha B 7 68 Vaishnavi Badasheshi 5
2019 at Dr. Hedgewar Smarak Samiti Hall, game in a French defence to Karan Trivedi of
23 Vijayasubhasri S 7 69 Yamijala Koulini 5
24 Ahalya A 7 70 Rhythm Singhal 5 Reshimbagh, Nagpur. The event was organized Gujarat Karan used his center pawns to trap
25 Kheerthi Ganta 7 71 Kapila R 5 by Jai Sai Welfare Foundation, under aegis of Shailesh’s queen. IM Rajesh drew his last
26 Sanjana Raghunath 7 72 Rakghitha S M R 5 Nagpur District Chess Association, All Marathi round game against Karan Trivedi of Gujarat
27 Azal Nasir 7 73 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 5 Chess Association and All India Chess Feder- to remain unbeaten and became the winner
28 Varsha Ramesh 6.5 74 Shanjula Senthil 5 ation. with 8.5 points. Bharat Kumar Reddy drew his
29 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi 6.5 75 Keerthana B 5 game with Sanjeet Manohar on 2nd board,
30 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6.5 76 Sherlina S 5 Technical meeting was held just before the start while 3rd board also settle for peace between
77 Kaniskka M S 5 of the tournament. The necessary technical Prassanna S and Balkishan A in a hard fought
31 Marium Fatima 6.5
78 Sarumathi S 5 matters were decided and an appeals commit- rook ending battle. Total 5 players tied for 2nd
32 Chandni R Y 6.5 79 Luckshikaa S 5 tee was formed in the meeting. This event was place with 7.5 points each, but tiebreak score
33 Harshini B 6.5 80 Dipnalisha Borah 5
inaugurated at the hands of Shri. Girish Vyas, decided the positions of Bharat Kumar Reddy
34 Femil Chelladurai 6.5 81 Kanishri R P 5
MLA, Rural Nagpur. Other dignitaries present of AP, PrassannaS (TN), IM R.Balasubramanian
35 Adhikari Tanvi 6.5 82 Prakash Aleentra 5
were Shri. Manoj Itkelwar, Vice President All (TN), Sanjeet Manohar and Karan Trivedi both
36 Prasiddhi Bhat 6.5 83 Pranitha Priya Polisetty 4.5 India Chess Federation, Shri. Vijay Laddha, Gujarat from 2nd to 6th respectively. This mega
37 Varshita Jain 6.5 84 Harini Sukumar 4.5 Ex-Chairman Akola Janta Urban Co. Op. Bank, event has been completed successfully without
38 Sahanaa S M 6.5 85 Swarnika S 4.5 Shri. K K Barat, Secretary, Nagpur District a single dispute. The players and the managers
39 Rebecca Jesumarian 6 86 Bhavana Priyadharshini G 4.5 Chess Association, SNA Sushant Jumde, Or- were very co-operative. All the arrangements
40 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi 6 87 Sasmitha Sree B S 4.5 ganising Secretary & IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief made such as venue, accommodation, food etc.
41 Rakshitha P 6 88 Sharadhi Shastry 4.5 Arbiter. Among the 247 players those took part were excellent.
42 Anya Seth Syed 6 89 Ananya Jain 4.5 from 14 different States, 1 affiliated special
43 Vora Ananya 6 90 Rakshana C N 4.5 unit, in this prestigious tournament were FIDE The team of arbiter’s namely Dy Chief : FA
44 Sasvatha A 6 91 Priyadharshini J 4.5 title holders 2 IM, 1 FM, 185 fide rated players Deepak Chavan, IA Pravin Pantawane, FA
45 Koli Isha 6 92 Harini K 4.5 and 62 unrated players and above all 1 player Umesh Panbude, SNA Shubham Soni, and
46 Jaiswal Kritika 6 from Tanzania. SNA Swati Kumbhalkar, were very competent
93 Stuti Rajesh Pai 4.5
47 Sanju Shree Murali 6 and reacted in every condition with equipped
94 Harini M 4.5
48 Cuba Punitha Vilvam 6 The tournament began with IM Rajesh VAV as technical knowledge.I must thank, as a part of
95 Ashikha Shree K 4.5 the top seed. In Round four 5th seed Pawan my duty, Mr. Sushant Jumde, the tournament
49 Kunnekar Vanshri 6
96 Jayarathi Kamak N 4.5 Dodeja of MAH and 6th seed IM Ramanathan Organizing Secretary, without whom this mega
50 Harini Narahari 6
97 Shamyuktha S 4.5 Balasubramaniam of TN were held by players event would not have been a grand success.
51 Varshini M 6
98 Tejaswi R 4 rated lower to them namely Ganesh Tajane of The tournament concluded in a very peaceful
52 Kanishka S 6
99 Saivarshini A S 4 MAH & Jatindar Kapoor of DEL. IM Ramana- manner without any dispute.
53 Riya Shannon S 6 than B of TN lost to lower rated veteran player
100 Samhita Kolluri 4 The closing ceremony was organized in a grand
54 Gopika Veeraselvam 6 Kantilal Dave of RAJ in a 5th Round game. The manner. Prizes were distributed at the hands
101 Anushga S 4
55 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 5.5 players seeded Top 3 namely IM Rajesh VAV, of Shri. Sudhakar Kohale, MLA, South Nag-
102 Nivashiha D 4
56 Sandhya S 5.5 Bharat Kumar Reddy and FM Shailesh Dravid pur. The other guests present were Shri. Dilip
103 Ishita Gupta 4
57 K Venkata Drakshanya 5.5 were leading the tournament at the end of Kamdar, President NDCA, Shri. K K Barat, Sec-
58 Stepheena S 5.5 104 Dristi Pradhan 4
6th round with full score. In the penultimate retary NDCA, SNA Sushant Jumde, Organising
59 Pasapula Teja Sree 5.5 105 Hemalakshme A 4 round IM Rajesh VAV of TN beat joint leader Secretary & IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter
60 Swethitha C 5.5 106 Thanushree D U 4 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri of AP in a Nimzo on the occasion.

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Final ranking 54 Sonal Mandhana 5½ 1st International Open Rapid & Blitz Tournaments, Trichy
Rk Name Pts 55 Chandrani Shlok 5½
1 IM
2
Rajesh V A V
Bharat Kumar Reddy P
8½
7½
56
57
Sreenandan Babu J
Natarajan M
5½
5½
AI Muthaiah and Lokesh win titles
3 Prasannaa.S 7½ 58 Sourjya Mukherjee 5½ by IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
4 IM R Balasubramaniam 7½ 59 Sawalakhe Jay 5½
The 1st International Open Rapid & Blitz his game on the second board. Muthaiah
5 Sanjeet Manohar 7½ 60 Shamkuwar Y. M. 5½
6 Trivedi Karan R 7½ 61 Bodkhe Aditya 5½ Tournaments were organised by Star continued his winning streak in the sev-
7 Balkishan A. 7 62 Gaurav Sharma 5½ Chess Academy at K Ramakrishnan Col- enth round also and Lokesh was the only
8 Gajanan Vijay Jayade 7 63 Rajagopalan 5½ lege of Engineering Trichy on 6th and 7th player to follow him half a point behind.
9 Dodeja Pawan 7 64 Chepte Dilip 5½
10 FM Shailesh Dravid 7 65 Lonkar Parth 5½ July 2019.Two hundred eighty four players Nine players were on the third spot with
11 Dhanvij Ansh 7 66 Jaivardhan Raj 5½ participated in the Rapid tournament and six points each. In the final round, Muthai-
12 Sa Kannan 7 67 Vinay V. Barhanpure 5½ the number is one less in the Blitz. Several ah drew with Lokesh to win the title and
13 Deshpande Suhan 7 68 Kulkarni Nilay 5½ IM norms holder Ram S Krishnan of BSNL a cash prize of Rs.15000/-.Five players
14 Krishna Karthik N 6½ 69 Dishank Sachin Bajaj 5½
15 Vigneshwaran S 6½ 70 Kulmulkar Shivam 5½ headed the seeding list in both rapid and Lokesh, Senthil Maran, Gunasekaran and
16 Gawai Siddhant 6½ 71 Dr Sanjay Date 5½ blitz tournaments. International masters Prasanna tied for the second to sixth place
17 Sanchit Anand 6½ 72 Jethwani Himani 5½ AL Muthaiah and R Balasubramanian add- with seven points each and they finished
18 Jatinder Kapoor 6½ 73 Suhrud Sudheer A K 5
ed strength to the tournament. The time in that order.
19 Tajane Ganesh 6½ 74 Katiyar Prashant 5
20 Shinde Kunal 6½ 75 Wairagade Khush 5 control for the rapid tournament was 15
21 Arul Prakash N 6½ 76 Kavyansh Agrawal 5 minutes to each player with an increment Blitz:
22 Nichat Ajinkya 6½ 77 Medhansh Rathi 5 of 10 seconds per move and it was 3 min- Fourth round of the blitz event had many
23 Manthan Vijayrao Kale 6½ 78 Mandal Abhijit 5
24 Juare Deep 6½ 79 Kalbende Vedant 5 utes plus 2 seconds in blitz. Both events upsets – the top seed Ram S Krishnan
25 Pawar Sohum 6½ 80 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5 had eight rounds each. losing to Sharan Rao of Karnataka and IM
26 Dave Kantilal 6 81 Apte Dhaivat 5 Muthaiah AL losing Dhanush Raghav of TN.
27 Hend Pravin 6 82 Deshpande Omkar 5 Rapid: IM R Balasubramanian, IA Ganesh Babu S
28 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 6 83 Patil Harshal U 5
29 Kabhilan S 6 84 Divyansh Pandey 5 A minor upset in the tournament was cre- and Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri of AP led
30 Herschelle Gupta 6 85 Bakshi Mandar 5 ated in the first round by C Karuppasamy the fied with six points each at the end of
31 Vishwanath Kannam 6 86 Rathi Anay Anup 5 of Tamil Nadu rated 1066, defeated K the sixth round. Bala defeated Bharat to
32 Nirgun Keval 6 87 Bawangade Krish 5
Bharathyraja of Puducherry with a rating keep his winning record and score seven
33 Akira Sowmyanath 6 88 Sayam Vishvesh 5
34 Giri Abhishek 6 89 Shivam Panchal 5 of 1845. Similarly, third seeded Karthik points. Hirthickkesh Pr of TN and N Lokesh
35 Gahine Ashish 6 90 Patil Durgesh 5 Rajaa of TN had to split the point with had 6.5 points in their kitty by beating
36 Kulkarni Satish 6 91 Pise Prashant 5 S Karthik of TN, rated 800 points below Ganesh Babu and SS Manigandan in the
37 Johney Mandal 6 92 Gotmare Anant 5
38 Khandelwal Naman 6 93 Anshul Mishra 5 him. Third round witnessed the defeat of seventh round. Lokesh outwitted Balasu-
39 Koli Akash 6 94 Aarshiya Biswas 5 P. Phoobalan of ICF at the hands of San- bramanian and Hirthickkesh got the better
40 Phatak Aanjaneya 6 95 Durgesh Sharma 5 jay Thiruvengadam on the third board. In of Phoobalan to tie for the first place with
41 Prerak Jayant Darvekar 6 96 Kale Amol 5 the major upset of the tournament, Ram 7.5 points each. Lokesh had the better
42 Saksham Omer 6 97 Chouhan N.C. 5
43 Palash Nagdevte 6 98 Aastha Turankar 5 S Krishnan was beaten by A Peter Anand tiebreak to win the tile and a cash prize
44 Kant Swapnil 6 99 Raut Prakash 5 of Puducherry. Top players like Lokesh, of Rs.10000/-.
45 Wanjari Krupal 6 100 Gupta R K 5 Senthil Maran and IM R Balasubramanian
46 Menon Padmanand 6 101 Wadia Kiran 5 Final ranking : Rapid
were also held to draw by their opponents
47 Sibi Srinivas Einstein 5½ 102 Godhani Maharth 5
in this round. At the end of the fifth round, Rk Name Pts
48 Borse Pankaj 5½ 103 Chhabda Soham 5
1 IM Muthaiah Al 7½
49 Buxy Rajanikant 5½ 104 Jha Kushagra 5 AL Muthaiah, S Prasanna of TN and K Gu-
50 Prathamesh Santosh G 5½ 105 Aniket Thakur 5 2 Lokesh N. 7
nasekaran of ICF had five victories each. 3 Senthil Maran K 7
51 Vivaan Vijay Saraogi 5½ 106 Thakur Aarit 5
52 Chincholkar Aditya 5½ 107 Borkar Shyamsundar 5 Muthaiah emerged sole leader after six 4 Gunasekaran K. 7
53 D Pandu Rangareddi V 5½ 108 Dhruva Thota 4½ rounds, beating Prasanna and Guna drew 5 Prasannaa.S 7

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6 Ram S. Krishnan 7 57 Hiridik Rajendran 5 108 Mano Ranjith J 4½ 36 Dharma Surendar Raj A 5½
7 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 6½ 58 Chandra Sekharan A P 5 109 Dakshayani Ganesan 4½ 37 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½
8 Neil Franclin S 6½ 59 Shaktivel Selvaraj 5 110 Sakthi Vaishnavi A K 4½ 38 Raman R. 5½
9 Karthick Narayanan S 6½ 60 Sathyaraj G 5 111 Indumathi R 4½ 39 Bharathyraja K 5½
10 Hirthickkesh Pr 6½ 61 Yaseen Sherif H 5 112 Dharma Surendar Raj A 4½ 40 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 5½
11 Karthik Rajaa 6½ 62 Lathecka Sai M.A. 5 113 Keshavardhan P 4½ 41 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5½
12 Peter Anand A 6 63 Anannth Varun R 5 114 Ranjith A S 4½ 42 Aswin Babu J 5½
13 Manigandan S S 6 64 Vengatesh Krishnan C 5 115 Nithish M 4½ 43 Unnikrishnan M A 5½
14 Barath Kalyan M 6 65 Arun Prasath P 5 116 Selvasaravanan R 4½ 44 Yaseen Sherif H 5½
15 IM R Balasubramaniam 6 66 Shiva Sabhari Pg 5 117 Inban Sivakumar 4½ 45 Vignesh S 5½
16 Alaguraja M.A. 6 67 Subramanian A 5 118 Akkshat N 4 46 Jayesh Kavin 5½
17 Balkishan A. 6 68 Raman R. 5 119 Jom Jinu 4 47 Vinith Kumar Ramesh K 5½
18 Sharan Rao 6 69 Rathish T.J. 5 120 Karuppasamy C 4 48 Karthick Narayanan S 5
19 Arnav Maheshwari 6 70 Afinu Shifan M 5 49 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 5
20 Dhanush Ragav N S 6 71 Niranjana P R 5 Final ranking:Blitz 50 Manoj B 5
21 Manikanda Prabhu B V 6 72 Kesavan G 5 Rk Name Pts 51 Anup Shankar R 5
22 Aaditya Jagadeesh 6 73 Balamurugan S 5 1 Lokesh N. 7½ 52 Anannth Varun R 5
23 Vikash K S 6 74 Irulappan G 5 2 Hirthickkesh Pr 7½ 53 Sourav S 5
24 Ananth R. 6 75 Ashil A J 5 3 IM R Balasubramaniam 7 54 Sivanandha V 5
25 Sujith K J 6 76 Sathya Moorthy 5 4 Ganesh Babu S 7 55 Alaguraja M.A. 5
26 Sukesh R K 6 77 Benno Rufin S 5 5 IM Muthaiah Al 7 56 Chandra Sekharan A P 5
27 Venkatesh Babu S 6 78 Lokesh Varmaa K 5 6 Balkishan A. 7 57 Sumith K S 5
28 Anup Shankar R 5½ 79 Premshankar B U 5 7 Senthil Maran K 7 58 Arnav Maheshwari 5
29 Selvamurugan B 5½ 80 Bala Lakshmanan 5 8 Manigandan S S 6½ 59 Sattiveti Venkatesh 5
30 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5½ 81 Kannish Varmaa K 5 9 Karthik Rajaa 6½ 60 Akash Sivaram D 5
31 Manoj B 5½ 82 Mani Rathinam R 5 10 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6½ 61 Balaguru T 5
32 Farhaan M 5½ 83 Sugumar Baburaj 5 11 Selvamurugan B 6½ 62 Kesavan G 5
33 Prawin K 5½ 84 Kaarthik S 4½ 12 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 6 63 Prawin K 5
34 Sam Jebadurai 5½ 85 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 4½ 13 Dhanush Ragav N S 6 64 Marikani Kandasamy 5
35 Vivek Ramanathan V 5½ 86 Varunsatyaa P 4½ 14 Abhinessh S 6 65 Iniyan Sivakumar 5
36 Balaguru T 5½ 87 Jai Krishnan S K 4½ 15 Sharan Rao 6 66 Farhaan M 5
37 Sriram B 5½ 88 Divin S V 4½ 16 Prasannaa.S 6 67 Karuppasamy C 5
38 Infant Jose H 5½ 89 Haresh Nandan C 4½ 17 Rathish T.J. 6 68 Santhosh Varma S 5
39 Unnikrishnan M A 5½ 90 Sivanesh S 4½ 18 Sridharan Ramanathan 6 69 Vignesh Murugan 5
40 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½ 91 Soundararajan K 4½ 19 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 6 70 Vebudesh S S 5
41 Abhinessh S 5½ 92 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 4½ 20 Gunasekaran K. 6 71 Sriram B 5
42 Phoobalan P. 5½ 93 Balu Karthick 4½ 21 Ram S. Krishnan 6 72 Lakshman Yogeshl 5
43 Sai Alagappan S 5½ 94 Jagendran Kamak N 4½ 22 Vaisnav M 6 73 Logesh Sanmugam S 5
44 Bharathyraja K 5½ 95 Sivaraman G 4½ 23 Peter Anand A 6 74 Dakshayani Ganesan 5
45 Aswin Babu J 5½ 96 Gowtham B 4½ 24 Phoobalan P. 6 75 Niranjana P R 5
46 Iniyan Sivakumar 5½ 97 Thiyagarajan T 4½ 25 Divin S V 6 76 Inban Sivakumar 5
47 Lakshman Yogeshl 5½ 98 Hemanathan C 4½ 26 Aaditya Jagadeesh 6 77 Shiva Sabhari Pg 5
48 Sivanandha V 5½ 99 Anguselvam A 4½ 27 Mano Ranjith J 6 78 Jagendran Kamak N 5
49 Sridharan Ramanathan 5½ 100 Hareesh Ponnappan 4½ 28 Lokesh Varmaa K 6 79 Suriya S V 5
50 Subramanian T.V. 5½ 101 Marikani Kandasamy 4½ 29 Sujith K J 6 80 Kannish Varmaa K 5
51 Suriya S V 5½ 102 Porkalaivani N 4½ 30 Hiridik Rajendran 6 81 Infant Jose H 5
52 Pradhyumna Kumar K 5 103 Sreehari S 4½ 31 Barath Kalyan M 6 82 Manikandan C 5
53 Kanish Vikraman Adithan 5 104 Raja C 4½ 32 Ethan V Johnson 6 83 Ajjesh J R 5
54 Nanthakumar Kanna P R 5 105 Karpagakumar S V S 4½ 33 Pradhyumna Kumar K 6 84 Akkshat N 5
55 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 5 106 Naveen Kumar K 4½ 34 Ananth R. 5½ 85 Afinu Shifan M 5
56 Pandiyan J 5 107 Athira A J 4½ 35 Neil Franclin S 5½

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 12th BRDCA All India Open Fide Rating Rapid Chess Tournament 2019,Bangalore
Nitin S of Tamil Nadu is Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
12th BRDCA All India Open Fide Rating
Rapid chess tournament was organized by
Bangalore Rural district chess association
for 2 days. The event stared on 27th of
July at Virgina Mall. It attracted 449 play-
ers from all over India, including major
states like Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal,
Telangana, Andhra Padesh and all parts of
Karnataka. Sixteen states participated in
the event. A total of 236 Fide rated play-
ers took part in this tournament includ-
ing 2 Grandmasters and 3 International
Masters. Top seed of the event was Grand
Master Kannappan Priyadharshan from
Tamil Nadu with Rating of 2503.
Virgina Mall is one of the best suited venue
for conducting chess tournament. It has
centralized AC Hall and has good parking
facility for the players and accompany-
ing persons. On the first day top seeded
players had a smooth sail in the first few
rounds of the tournament. On the 2nd day
there was a tough struggle for first place
on the top boards. In final round Nitin S
of Tamil Nadu defeated Grandmaster RR
Laxman of Railways to secure 8.5 points
to clinch the first Prize. He bagged prize
money of Rs 23500 along with a glittering
trophy. Muthaiah Al of Tamil Nadu drew
his game with Lokesh N of Tamil Nadu to
secure 8 points and bagged the 2nd prize
on better tie break score. 3rd Prize was
secured by Bharat Kumar Reddy Polluri of
Andhra Pradesh with 8 points.
Prize Distribution function took place at
6 pm on 28th July 2019. Mr Hanumantha
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R, Joint secretary AICF, Secretary UKCA,
Grandmaster K Priyadarshan, Grand-
master R R Laxman and Mr Chidananda
A, Organizing Secretary, Vice President,
UKCA were present in the prize distribu-
tion function. They distributed the prizes
to winners. For the event Mr Murugasun-
daram K was Deputy Arbiter and Assis-
tant arbiters FA Somnath Krishna Rao ,
FA Ravi Kiran D J and FA Sreedhara Raju
worked along with me to make the event
the grand success.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 IM Nitin S. 8½ Schwezeriche Scahchzeitung 1987
2 IM Muthaiah Al 8
3 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 8
4 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 8
5 Prasannaa.S 8
6 Lokesh N. 7½
7 Senthil Maran K 7½
8 FM Gahan M G 7½
9 Nirgun Keval 7½
10 GM Kannappan Priyadharshan 7
11 Santoshkashyap Hg 7
12 FM Yashas D. 7
13 Majumdar Chandrasish 7
14 Ithal H L Rajath 7
15 GM Laxman R.R. 7
16 Varun Anant 7
17 Balkishan A. 7
18 Ajith Chandy Jose 7 a)Diagram b) Remove BQd8
19 Sudarshan Bhat 7
20 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7
21 Vivekananda L 7
22 Arunava Bhattacharjee 7 the initial game array to reach the above
23 AIM Kaushik G Iyer 7 diagrammed position b) After solving a)
24 Shanmukha Pulli 7
25 Yogesh Bharat Mahamuni 7 again to reach the above position without
26 Aman Chandra 7
27 Abhyuday Santhosh 7
28 Felix Moothedath 7
29 Karthik Sai Ch 7 80 Ancil Pinto 6
30 Femil Chelladurai 7 81 Hari Prasad P 6
31 Nishanth Hn 6½ 82 Srihari Padmanabhan 6
32 AGM Sagar Praveen 6½ 83 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 6
33 Binu Sebastian 6½ 84 Shreesuday Behera 6
34 Avinash Hari 6½ 85 Mitul K H 6
35 Dilip Kumar Pedda 6½ 86 Amogh Bisht 6
36 Saket Kumar 6½ 87 Halkude Nagnath 6
37 ACM Anil Thungesh 6½ 88 Shashank 6
38 Samith Reddy I 6½ 89 Sridhar R 6
39 Karthik S 6½ 90 Abhay B Bhandarkar 6
40 Abhinav Banerjee 6½ 91 Balaji P 6
41 Subash Anand R 6½ 92 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6
42 Tapovrata Handique 6½ 93 Sidharth Suryan 6
43 Ajay Krishna D 6½ 94 Sachith Katti 5½
44 Bhat K R 6½ 95 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5½
45 Ravikumar Avuti 6½
46 Sameer Kumar Y 6½
47 AFM Abhinav Karthik M 6 Puzzle of the month
48 Sangvikar Rahul 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan
49 Pereira Asim Anthony 6
50 Roshan Hari 6 Martin Wolfgang Hoffmann
51 Gavi Siddayya 6
52 Srinadh Madhavarapu 6
53 Kiruba Hari P 6
54 Rishabh Kumara 6
55 Swarnamala B 6
56 Apoorv Kamble 6
57 Parthasarathy R 6
58 Ravi Kumar K 6
59 Nithinpal 6
60 Pradeep Sagar 6
61 Nitish Bhat 6
62 Shibin K Benny 6
63 Ridhyan Gupta 6
64 Arpith S Bijoy 6
65 Aarthi G 6
66 Varun Mundale 6
67 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 6
SPG 4.0
68 Sanjana Raghunath 6
69 Aarush Rajesh 6
70 Lakshman K R 6
71 Manikandan J 6 Solver has to find the four moves from
72 Ritwik Mallavarapu 6
73 Meghana S 6
74 Sandip Kumar Rath 6
remove BQd8 and find the first four moves
75 Thejas M U 6
76 AFM Nirupam Gogoi 6
77 Nagvekar Sairudra 6 black queen.
78 Shravan Kumar 6 (Solution on page 48)
79 Zoya Nizar 6
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 3rd International FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2019, Guwahati
AI Muthaiah wins at Guwahati
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter
3rd International FIDE Rating Chess Tour-
nament 2019 was held at Down Town Uni-
versity, Assam from 9th to 14th July 2018.
The event was organized by Chess Players
Parents’ Forum, Guwahati. Total number of
participants was 236 including 145 rated
players and two players from Bangladesh.
One GMs and three title holders played in
this International Rating Chess tournament.
The tournament was inaugurated by Prof.
Dr. Amar Jyoti Chowdhury, VC , Assam Down
Town University, Prof. Bandana Dutta, Dean
of Studies, Assam Down Town University,
Mr. Nandan Pratim Sharma Bordoloi, News
Editor, News Live, Dr. Siven Dutta, President,
Organising Committee, Mr. Lachit Barman,
Secretary, Organising Committee were pres-
ent in the inauguration ceremony.
The Tournament Hall was air conditioned
with sufficient toilet facilities. The Organiser
provided lunch to all participants throughout
the tournament at subsidised rates.
In the third Round Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
of Railways was forced to a draw with Raunak
Pathak of Bengal. In the 4th round Aronyak
Ghosh of Bengal beat local boy Ravikant Ti-
wary of Guwahati in the 2nd board also beat
Dhrupad Kashyap of Assam in the 5th round.
In the 6th round top 3 boards made easy
draw. In the 8th round seeded AI Muthaiah
of Tamilnadu beat Dhrupad Kashyap . In the
final round game on top board Al Muthaiah
drew with Joydeep Dutta and in the second
board Aronyak & Saptarshi shared the point.
At the end of final round games AI Muthaiah
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23 Ashvin Sharma 7 70 Rishabh Singh 6
24 Elangbam Shashikanta Singh 7 71 Karnav P Deka 6
25 Arindam Mukherjee 6.5 72 Nishanta Das 6
26 Manthan Kashyap Datta 6.5 73 Dutta Pehlaj 6
27 Anurag Pritam Medhi 6.5 74 Ikshita Barman 6
of Tamilnadu scored 8.5 points and bagged 28 Sharma Aribam M. 6.5 75 AIM Aditya Prasad 5.5
the Championship title with Cash Rs. 50000/- 29 Mayank Chakraborty 6.5 76 Puskar Basak 5.5
. Aronyak Ghosh of WB (8pts) & Saptarshi 30 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur 6.5 77 Aarohon Bharadwaj 5.5
Roy Chowdhury(8 pts) were placed second 31 Vivek Rajkumar 6.5 78 Dutta Samaritan 5.5
32 Madhab Sarma 6.5 79 Sahjahan Ali 5.5
and third with cash prizes of Rs. 30000/- and
33 Amlan Mahanta 6.5 80 Abdul Suleman 5.5
20000/- respectively with better tie break.
34 Chiraranjan Bhuyan 6.5 81 Snehasish Das 5.5
All Assistant Arbiters did their job very well 35 Dutta Umashankar 6.5 82 Mridumoloy Das 5.5
till last round games. Not a single dispute 36 Anish Rooj 6.5 83 Prachi Bhushan 5.5
arose during the tournament . 37 Sujay Kumar Dam 6.5 84 Deboushnik De 5.5
38 Abhinav Dubey 6.5 85 Abhrojyoty Nath 5.5
In the Prize distribution ceremony Dr. N N 39 Manish Gwra Basumatary 6.5 86 Sankar Sarma 5.5
Dutta , Chancellor of Assam Down Universi- 40 Akash Tiwari 6.5 87 Nisha Bhushan 5.5
ty, J P Rajkhowa, Ex-Governor of Arunachal 41 Rintu Brahma 6.5 88 AFM Bir Singh Raminder 5.5
Pradesh were present and distributed the 42 Writabrata Roy 6.5 89 Pathikrit Deb Purakaystha 5.5
prizes to all the prize winners. 43 Sutnga H.D. 6.5 90 Ballyr Sinha 5.5
44 Barnil Kumar Das 6.5 91 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa 5.5
Final Ranking: 45 Adreeja Sinha 6.5 92 Tripartha Saikia 5.5
46 Mukul Borah 6.5 93 Abhiraj Banerjee 5.5
Rk. Name Pts.
1 IM Muthaiah Al 8.5 47 Padma Gogoi 6.5 94 Bhringish Kalita 5.5
2 CM Aronyak Ghosh 8 48 AFM Basukinath Banerjee 6.5 95 Shrestha Saha 5.5
3 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 8 49 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. 6 96 Moharnab Das 5.5
50 Singh Th. Nabachandra 6 97 Gautam Chakravarty 5.5
4 Himanshu Ranjan 8
51 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 6 98 Srinivas Asapu 5.5
5 Apollosana Mangang Rajkumar 8
52 Pran G P Kashyap 6 99 Aishiki Das 5.5
6 Khanindra Barman 8
53 Aarohan Saikia 6 100 Sulab Rai 5.5
7 FM Dutta Joydeep 7.5
8 Dhrupad Kashyap 7.5 54 Aslesha Talukdar 6 101 Jayanta Chutia 5
9 Singh Y. Dhanabir 7.5 55 Nihad Islam Hazarika 6 102 Arunit Dey 5
10 Debankan Dhara 7.5 56 Srijak Sengupta 6 103 Soumyadeep Raha 5
11 Nitish Das 7.5 57 Rajbeer Ahmed 6 104 Rituraj Tamuli 5
12 Rounak Pathak 7.5 58 Chandan Kumar Das 6 105 Anirban Basu 5
13 Gias Uddin Ahmed 7.5 59 Dhrubajyoti Barman 6 106 Gairick Saha 5
60 Surja Enghi 6 107 Mackgroland N Marak 5
14 Sudhanshu Ranjan 7
15 Suvankar Maity 7 61 Rajashekara N 6 108 Ronit Raj Chetia 5
16 Rijied Katrai 7 62 Kishor Shazzad 6 109 Saptak Chakraborty 5
17 Ravi Kant Tiwari 7 63 Avigyan Ghosh 6 110 Abhraneel Buragohain 5
64 Rishita Sinha 6 111 Jyotshnav Talukdar 5
18 Shuvam Roy 7
65 Jitabrata Nath 6 112 Saouhridya Pran Kashyap 5
19 Sanjit Saha 7
66 Prandeep Bhattacharjya 6 113 Debarup Saha 5
20 Dhar Manodip 7
67 Unmilita Pathak 6 114 Sakib Alam 5
21 Das Monaj 7
22 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar 7 68 Rishith Gupta 6 115 Aditya Datta 5
69 Sougaijam Priyokumar Meitei 6 116 Pallab Bhattacharjee 5
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 Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Nagpur
Suhan Deshpande of Nagpur Wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter
The Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess Tourna-
ment commenced from 26th July 2019 at
Naivedhyam North Star, Nagpur. The event
was organized by Jai Sai Welfare Foundation,
under aegis of Nagpur District Chess Associ-
ation, All Marathi Chess Association and All
India Chess Federation.
Technical meeting was held just before the
start of the tournament. The necessary tech-
nical matters were decided and an appeals
committee was formed in the meeting.
This event was inaugurated at the hands of
Shri. Mohan Mate, Ex-MLA, Central Nagpur.
Other dignitaries present were Shri. Dilip
Kamdar, President Nagpur District Chess
Association, Shri. K K Barat, Secretary, Nag-
pur District Chess Association, SNA Sushant
Jumde, Organising Secretary & IA Swapnil
Bansod, Chief Arbiter.
Among the 403 players those who took part
from 18 different States, 1 affiliated special
unit (SSCB), in this prestigious tournament
were 246 fide rated players and above all 2
players from Ghana & Nederland respectively.
The tournament began with Dipankar Sen-
gupta of CG as the top seed. In Round four
top seed Dipankar Sengupta of CG lost to
Shravani Patil of MAH. Piyush Narsekar of
MAH, Das Jitendar Kumar of ODI and Qureshi
A S of CG were leading the tournament at
the end of 6th round with full score. In the
penultimate round sole leader after 7th
round, Piyush Narsekar committed a blunder
with his queen in opening and lost his game
to Kshitij Mudliyar, both of them were from
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MAH. Kshitij Mudliyar of MAH took the lead
at the end of penultimate round with 7.5 pts,
followed by 4 rivals on 7 points namely Suhan
Deshpande, Piyush Narsekar, Prathamesh
Dharmadhikar, and Ajinkya Nichat. In the
last round game Suhan Deshpande beat
Kshitij Mudliyar on top board while on 2nd
board Piyush Narsekar lost his game against
Ajinkya Nichat. Gokula Ramesh of TN failed
to handle the attack of Prathamesh Dhar-
madhakari and lost his game on 3rd board.
Three players, Suhan Deshpande, Ajinkya
Nichat & Prathamesh Dharmadhakari tied
for 1st place with 8 points each, but tie-
break score helped Suhan Deshpande to
become the winner. While Ajinkya Nichat and
Prathamesh Dharmadhakari stood second
and third respectively.
This mega event has been completed suc-
cessfully without a single dispute. The players
and the managers were very co-operative.
All the arrangements made such as venue,
accommodation, food etc. were excellent.
The tournament concluded in a very peaceful
manner without any dispute.
The team of arbiter’s namely Deputy Chief,
FA Deepak Chavan, IA Pravin Pantawane,
FA Umesh Panbude, FA Abhijit Vaishnav,
FA Deepti Shidore, FA Shubham Soni, SNA
Shital Panbude , SNA Vishal Kumar Minz
and SNA Swati Kumbhalkar, were very much
competent and responded to every condition
with equipped technical knowledge.Before
concluding the report I must thank Shri.
Sushant Jumde, the tournament Organizing
Secretary, without whom this mega event
would not have been a grand success.
Paris Grand Chess Tour blitz
Anand finishes second
Vishy Anand was in his elements on the final day of the Paris
Grand Chess Tour 2019. He played sublime chess, won four
games against strong opponents, won the blitz tournament and
finished second in blitz + rapid combined. For the 49-year-old
Vishy, this was a tremendous performance as he edged out
many of his speed specialist rivals like Grischuk, Nakamura,
Nepomniactchi and others. Anand also gained 60 Elo points,
which takes his blitz rating to 2790. He is now 11th in the
world rankings.
With passage of time The five-time World Champion’s under-
standing of his opponents keeps getting better. His ability to
read any situation and find a solution had made him a relevant
top player even at the age of 49 years. At the Paris Grand
Chess Tour Vishy showed some high class chess to become
the joint winner of the blitz event and finish second overall in
the rapid + blitz combined.
1.Maxime vacher-lagrave 21;2.Viswanathan Anand 20.5; 3.Alexander Grischuk 20;4.Ian Nep-
omniachtchi 20;5.Jan-Krzysztof Duda 19.5;6.Fabiano Caruana 19;
7.Kiharu Nakamura 18.5;8.Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 5; 9.Danil Dubov 14;10.Anish Giri 12.5
Anand was the most consistent player of the tournament as he scored 10 points in rapid and
10.5 in blitz.On the last day of the blitz Anand played some phenomenal bit of chess and beat
three blitz experts - Nakamura, Grichuk and Nepomniactchi.
Courtesy : Chesbase india
Biel International Chess Festival, Switzerland
Vidit wins 1st Biel Title with a round to spare
After winning a tournament, players usually take a quick draw in the last
round to go and celebrate. But Vidit fought tooth and nail and managed
to outplay Maghsoodloo in a Reversed King’s Indian as black to end the
tournament a whopping 6 points, clear of his nearest competitor. Sam
Shankland was lost for the majority of an exchange up endgame against
Leko, but somehow survived to take 2nd and restrain Leko to 3rd.
Georgiadis thumped Jorge Cori’s indecisive play with a piece sacrifice
and won an attacking beauty, while Bogner and Abdusattorov played
‘correct’ chess throughout the game to end their tournament peacefully.
The novel idea of including all 3 chess formats to determine the winner
is definitely one for the future, and the field this year didn’t disappoint us
when it came to fighting chess - more than once all games ended with
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a decisive result. This wonderful tournament was dominated by the Indian No.3 Vidit Gujarathi,
who finished with a bang by outcalculating Maghsoodloo in a reversed King’s Indian Defence.
Sam Shankland finished 2nd, but had to stall and survive repeated attempts by Peter Leko’s
to claim a tense draw. Nico Georgiadis destroyed Jorge Cori’s kingside with an inspired attack
in the Tarrasch, while Sebastian Bogner’s amazing opening preparation meant Abdusattorov
couldn’t get much out of his last game.
Belt and Road Hunan International Open, Tongguanyao town, China
Ganguly wins Belt and Road 2019
Surya Sekhar Ganguly won the super strong Belt and Road Hunan In-
ternational Open, bagging home the first prize of a whopping 50,000 US
Dollars Finishing ahead of six strong 2700+ Grandmasters with a score
of 7.0/9, this is certainly the greatest tournament victory of Ganguly’s
chess career and arguably one of the greatest in Indian Chess.
Two of the four players that Surya Shekhar Ganguly had to face in the
last four rounds were 2700+ super GMs Bassem Amin and Wang Hao. The
other two were the in-form Ivan Cheparinov, who in fact was the leader
of the tournament till round six, and the Spanish no.1 Francisco Vallejo
Pons. Ganguly’s phenomenal score of 3.0/4 against such a stupendous
opposition ensured a sparkling 2850+ rating performance and enabled
him to gain 27.5 Elo points. After the individual gold in the World Teams
2019, this is the 36-year-old’s second power-packed performance this
year.
Xtracon Chess Open, Copenhagen
Praggnanandhaa wins Xtracon Chess Open
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa won the Xtracon Chess Open in Copen-
hagen on Sunday. This is Praggu’s first tournament win since becoming
a Grandmaster in June last year. The 13-year-old - with 8.5 points from
10 rounds in the tournament - gained 28.5 ELO points for his efforts.
Praggnaananda who drew his final round game against GM Sevian
Samuel of USA - was on the backfoot for a major portion of the game.
“It was a tough match for me but I was able to defend well. I knew a
draw would be good enough for me to win the competition and wanted
to hang in there till the end. I am happy with the way I played in this
tournament and - in recent times - this had been my best performance,”
said Praggu.
GM R. Praggnaananda
Praggu - who registered seven victories and three draws in the tourna-
ment - rated his seventh round win against Italian GM Daniele Vocaturo as the most satisfying
one. “Things went as per plan against Daniele. He is a higher-rated player and to be able to defeat
him was a special feeling,” Praggu added. Praggu’s coach RB Ramesh felt his ward’s never-say-
die attitude came to the fore during the final round. “It was a richly-deserved win for Praggu.
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Despite facing a tough position in the 10thround, Praggu battled it out without losing his focus.
I believe his victory over Karthikeyan Murali in the 9th round gave him enormous amount of
confidence which he carried to his game against Sevian,” said Ramesh.
Just before heading into the tournament, Praggu - along with his
sister R Vaishali and Karthikeyan - attended a week-long camp in
Scotland. “We got a chance to interact with Scottish GM Jacob Aa-
gaard which was a great experience. In such camps, you get to know
new perspectives about the game,” Praggu said. In mid-August,
Praggu will have the chance to be part of a camp under former world
champion Vladimir Kramnik in Switzerland. “I am sure it will be a
great experience and I am eagerly looking forward to it,” he said.
Vaishali bags maiden GM norm: Vaishali got her maiden GM norm
and her second IM norm after defeating GM Jonny Hector in the
final round on Sunday. The event saw Vaishali beat higher-rated
WGM R.Vaishali
opponents such as Sevian and Johan Salomon. “She is reaping the
rewards for her hard work,” said Ramesh. Vaishali finished the tournament in 15th spot with 7.5
points. Bharath Subramaniyam and Karthikeyan ended 16th and 17th respectively.
Asian Junior Chess Championship, Solo,Indonesia
Raghunandan and Vantika Agarwal clinch
Silver medals in Asian Juniors
International Master Raghunandan K S of Karna-
taka had clinched the Silver medal in classical and
Bronze Medal in rapid format in the Asian Junior
Chess Championship 2019 held at Solo, Indonesia
from June 30 to July 9.A total of 71 players from
9 Asian counties participated in Standard, Rapid &
Blitz categories.
Raghunandan secured 7 points out of 9 rounds in
the classical format. He started his campaign with
a victory over Morado Jeth Romy (2219) of In-
donesia in the second round. He also won against
Gholami Orimi, Mahdi (2444) of Iran in the seventh
round. He suffered the only loss to the top seed and the Champion IM Nguyen Anh Khoi (2516)
of Vietnam in the 5th round.
In rapid format, Raghunandan scored 5.5 points out of 7. He was seeded eighth with an Elo rapid
rating of 2093. He lost to the top seed and the Silver medallist IM Priasmoro Novendra (2263)
of Indonesia in the 4th round and drew with 4th seed and the champion IM Nguyen Anh Khoi
(2516) of Vietnam in the last round.
Meanwhile, FIDE Master Nitish Belurkar of Goa scored 5 points out of 7 rounds to clinch a Bronze
medal in Blitz format.
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(L to R): Bronze: WIM Aakanksha Hagawane (IND), Gold : WFM Assel Serikbay (KAZ) and
Silver: WIM Vantika Agrawal (IND) (courtesy Photo: Mulyadi R)
In the girl’s division, Woman International Master Vantika Agarwal (2243) of New Delhi bagged
Silver Medal in Classical as well as Rapid format.
Tournament’s top-seeded player, WIM Akanksha Hagawane (2246) of Maharastra secured Bronze
in Classical format and Silver medal in Blitz format.
World Junior Chess Championship for the disabled, New Jersey, USA
Samarth Rao wins silver at the World Junior for disabled
The 3rd edition of FIDE World Junior Chess
Championship for the disabled took place from
July 9th to 15th in Cherry Hill of New Jersey,
USA. Sixteen players from eight different coun-
tries under the age of 20 had taken part in
the event. Among them India’s Samarth J Rao
secured an overall second place with a score of
5.5/7 and won the physically disabled section of
the tournament. 19 years old Samarth is more
than 75% disabled and is fully dependent on
others for his day to day life activities. But over
the years, despite having such impossible limi-
tations, he has trained hard in chess to become
one of country’s strongest disabled players. He
is bound to become an inspiration to countless
chess aspirants of the country.
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SThe closing ceremony was organized in a 33 Nilesh Wasnik 6½
grand manner.Prizes were distributed at the 34 Vikas Bhatia 6½
hands of Chief Guest Shri. Anup Deshmukh, 35 Rishi Kumar Pandey 6½
International Master, Nagpur. The other 36 Vangala Prashanth 6½
guests present were Shri. Ravish Kale, Man- 37 Chandrani Shlok 6½
38 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6½
ager, Naivedhyam North Star, Shri. Manish
39 Darshan Kumar 6½
Tiwari, Operations In charge Naivedhyan
40 Chhabda Soham 6½
Group, Shri. Umesh Panbude, Tournament 41 Sunil Chelani 6½
Secretary NDCA, SNA Sushant Jumde, Or- 42 Sushant Tiwari 6½
ganising Secretary & IA Swapnil Bansod Chief 43 Agasti Harihar 6
Arbiter on the occasion. 44 Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy 6
45 Manish Thadhani 6
Final ranking 46 Gotmare Anant 6
Rk Name Pts 47 Dande Vyankatesh S 6
1 Deshpande Suhan 8 48 Koli Akash 6
2 Nichat Ajinkya 8 49 Devansh Panthi 6
3 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 8 50 Dishank Sachin Bajaj 6
4 Vishwanath Kannam 7½ 51 Sengupta Dipankar 6
5 Bodkhe Aditya 7½ 52 Pavan Anand S 6
6 Mudliyar Kshitij 7½ 53 Tiwari O P 6
7 Raut Kailash 7½ 54 Ganesh K N 6
8 Satyam Prakash 7 55 Vamsi Krishna A 6
9 Qureshi A S 7 56 Subramanian T.V. 6
10 Das Jitendra Kumar 7 57 Nilesh Baldaniya 6
11 Piyush Narsikar 7 58 Chandran T. 6
12 Siddik Akbar 7 59 K Venkata Lakshmi Narayana 6
13 Gahine Ashish 7 60 Kulmulkar Shivam 6
14 Iyer Arvind 7 61 Dhanush Reddy A 6
15 Bakshi Mandar 7 62 Shirbhate Suryansh 6
16 Murarilal Kori 7 63 Ankur Khatri 6
17 Sanjib Mali 7 64 Thakkar Riya Bharat 6
18 Prerak Jayant Darvekar 7 65 Vishvajeet Singh 6
19 Khandelwal Naman 7 66 Rishi R 6
20 Mohammad Mudassir 7 67 Chincholkar Aditya 6
21 Prakhar Gupta (Mp) 7 68 Naresh Kantode 6
22 Haridev S 7 69 Sarth Sachin Padghan 6
23 Osman Bin Sayeed 7 70 Chepte Dilip 6
24 Mahendar B 6½ 71 Patil Akshaj 6
25 Bala Ganeshan 6½ 72 Sen Animesh Chandra 6
26 Gokula Vishnu R 6½ 73 Vishnu Sharma 6
27 Pawar Sohum 6½ 74 Nethra Chandupatla 6
28 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 6½ 75 Girdhar Lal Deshmukh 6
29 Gopinath P 6½ 76 Juare Deep 6
30 Saksham Omer 6½ 77 Riya Tewari 5½
31 Rakesh Kumar Kesherwani 6½ 78 Aditya Tiwari 5½
32 Manthan Vijayrao Kale 6½ 79 Deogade Aryan 5½
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 Kurukshetra Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2019, Assam
AI Muthaiah wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter
The 6th edition of Kurukshetra Open Fide
Rating Chess Tournament 2019 organized
by ‘Guardians of Greater Dibrugarh Chess
Players’ was held at DHSK College, from 19th
to 24th July 2019.
The Tournament was inaugurated by Chief
Guest Dr. Nagen Saikia, Ex-President, Asom
Sahitya Sabha, by making the first move on
the board.The dignitaries present on the dais
were Dr. Intikabur Rahman, President, Tour-
nament Committee, Dr. Sashi Kanta Saikia
Principal, DSHK College, Mr. Sudhir Nath,
Ex-President All Assam Chess Association,
Shri Bipul Das, Secretary, Dibrugarh Dist.
Chess Association, Mr. Biren Baruah, Prof.
Dibrugarh College and Asit Baran Choudhury,
IA, Chief Arbiter of the tournament..
Players meeting was arranged just before the
starting of tournament. The other necessary
technical matters were decided and appeals
committee was formed. A total of 207 play-
ers (133 Rated players) from 2 Federations
(India & Bangladesh) with including 1 GM
and 4 IMs took part in the tournament. The
venue was very beautiful and all amenities
were extended to all the players as well as
guardians.The tournament was played under
a 9-round Swiss system format.International
chess sets and digital chess clocks were used
in every board.
Till the 4th round all the seeded players sailed
smoothly. In the 5th round on top board IM
Neeraj Mishra lost to AI Muthaiah, of Tamil-
nadu and in the 2nd board R Balasubrama-
niam beat IM Somak Palit of Railways.In the
6th round on top board shared the points.
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On the 2nd board Rakesh Chakravorty lost
to GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury. In the 7th
round on top board GM Saptarshi beat R
Balasubramanian of Tamilnadu whereas on
2nd board Al Muthaiah beat Santu Mondal.
The final round game on the third board
ended in draw whereas on the 4th board IM
Neeraj Mishra beat Rakesh Chakravarty. At
the end of final round games Al Muthaiah of
Tamilnadu clinched the Championship title
and was richer by Rs.40000/-. R. Balasubra-
maniam of Tamilnadu and Saptarshi Roy
Choudhury of Rlys placed 2nd position & 3rd
Position and took home Rs. 30000/-.and Rs.
20000/-respectively.
All the organizer and players were very sup-
portive and cooperative. The tournament
went smoothly throughout all the rounds
There were no disputes/protests placed
before the Appeals’ Committee. All deputy
Arbiters were worked hard during the whole
tournament. The Organisers provided tea and
snacks to all the participants.
In the valedictory ceremony Mr. Narendra
Mahila, Vice President , DHSK College, Dr.
Intikabur Rahaman, President, Org. Commit-
tee, Mr. Prabin Gogoi, President, Dibrugarh
Dist. Chess Association, Mr. Sudhir Nath,
Ex-Secretary, AACA were present and dis-
tributed the prizes.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts 93 Das Monaj 5
1 IM Muthaiah Al 8 47 Bijit Chetia 6
2 IM R Balasubramaniam 8
3 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 8
4 IM Palit Somak 8
5 FM Dutta Joydeep 8
6 IM Mishra Neeraj-Kumar 8 52 Ashvin Sharma 6
7 Santu Mondal 7½ 53 Abhrojyoty Nath 6
8 Amlan Mahanta 7½ 54 Tinku Moni Das 6
9 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar 7½ 55 Winee Thengal 6
10 Himanshu Moudgil 7½ 56 Vivek Rajkumar 6
11 Rakesh Chakravorty 7 57 Jutiaditya Kakoti 6
58 Aarshiya Biswas 6
12 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur 7
13 Cheniram Pegu 7 59 Rajbir Singh 6
14 Tuhin Kashyap 7 60 Abhraneel Buragohain 6
61 Abhishek Borthakur 6
15 Rintu Brahma 7
16 Elangbam S Singh 7 62 Jogen Kaman 6
17 Akash Tiwari 7 63 Soni Ram 6
18 Suvankar Maity 7 64 Gohain Promod B. 6
65 Dhrubajyoti Borpatra 5½
19 Subhajit Dhar 7
20 Srivastav J.P 7 66 Abinash P Gogoi 5½
67 Jayanta Chutia 5½
21 Swapnaneel Dowerah 7
68 Lakhyajit Sonowal 5½
22 Abhash Roimya Saikia 7
23 Sudhirsana Singh R.K. 7 69 Deboushnik De 5½
24 Padma Gogoi 7 70 Jitabrata Nath 5½
25 Rajbeer Ahmed 7 71 Dutta Pehlaj 5½
72 Mukul Borah 5½
26 Rajashekara N 7
27 Sneha Halder 6½ 73 Ranjan Changmai 5½
28 Abhilash Dutta 6½ 74 Rituraj Saikia 5½
75 Nabajyoti Saikia 5½
29 Abhinav Dubey 6½
30 Nihad Islam Hazarika 6½ 76 Jadav Gogoi 5½
31 Anirban Basu 6½ 77 Mishra Anjali 5½
32 Mridumoloy Das 6½ 78 Twinkle Patgiri 5½
79 Tarun Saikia 5½
33 Puskar Basak 6½
34 Tanisha A R Som 6½ 80 Bhargav Gogoi 5½
81 Sumangal Borgohain 5½
35 Soni Krishan 6
82 Rai Ganesh 5½
36 Dutta Samaritan 6
37 Dhruv Phukan 6 83 Devabarenya Gogoi 5½
38 Uddipta Gogoi 6 84 Manuj Kumar Gohain 5½
39 Nawab Mukril Zadeed 6 85 Biswajit Phukan 5½
86 Atul Mishra 5½
40 Aarohan Saikia 6
41 Pulakesh Sahu 6 87 Jagadish Gogoi 5½
42 Rajesh Kumar 6 88 Purbahna Lakhya Kalita 5½
89 Kishan Kumar 5
43 Bipul Das 6
44 Pratyush Kiran Borgohain 6 90 Bitupon Saika 5
45 Gouranga Sonowal 6 91 Anuraag Saikia 5
46 Rajnish Verma 6 92 Shivangshu Sarma 5
48 Bikram Chetry 6 94 Khagen Hazarika 5
49 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa 6 95 Pathikrit Deb Purakaystha 5
50 Chiraranjan Bhuyan 6 96 Anubrat Barthakur 5
51 Yuwan Das 6 97 Saraswat Raj Rythm 5
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 Smart Girl All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2019, Guwahati
Sneha Halder clinches title
by M Arun Singh FA,Chief Arbiter
Smart Girl All India FIDE Rating Chess Tour-
nament 2019 (only for female) was held
from 27th July to 31st July, 2019 at South
Point School, Barsapara, Guwahati, Assam.
The event was organized very smoothly and
efficiently by Guwahati Chess Association
under the aegis of All Assam Chess Associ-
ation. The tournament was inaugurated by
Mr.Lachit Barman, General Secretary, Chess
Players Parent Forum, Guwahati. hriMano-
ranjan Basumatary, President, Guwahati
Chess Association and Mr RajibSahu, Prin-
cipal, Gyan Vigyan Academy, Dibriugarhw-
ereb were also present during the opening
ceremony. Immediately after the opening
ceremony the players’ meet was held and a
five member appeal committee was formed.
First round was held from 3 pm on 27th
July, 2019. Altogether 78 players including
22 Fide rated players from different districts
from Assam and also Jharkhand, Odisha,
West Bengal and Tripura participated in the
event. Sneha Haldar of West Bengal took
the sole lead on 7th and penultimate round.
In the final round though she was joined by
Tanisha A R Som with 7 points each, Sneha
clinched the title on the basis of tie-break
score. TanishaA R Som of Assam got second
position while AdreejaSinha got third position
with 6.5 points.
A total of Rs 22,000 (RupeesTwenty Two
Thousand ) was distributed as cash prizes to
the winners. The Champions get richer by Rs.
5,000 whereas runners up got Rs 4,000 and
third position holders got Rs 3,000.
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The tournament hall was excellent. Or-
ganizers provided the players cold drinks.
There were sufficient room for parents and
guardians and other accompanying persons.
Organizers provided digital clock in all the
boards. Organizers were very cooperative
and helpful. They provided excellent playing
conditions to players.
In the closing ceremony Mr.Manoranjan
Basumatary, President Guwahati Chess As-
sociation, Mrs Salina Masum, Fide Arbiter,
Mr.Lachit Boro, General Secretary and Mrs
Jubin Sultana, Executive Member of Guwahati
Chess Association were present in the prize
distribution ceremony.
All arbiters and deputy arbiter performed
their duty diligently and efficiently. I am
very thankful to Mr. Lachit Boro, General
Secretary, Guwahati Chess Association and
Mr.Manoranjan Basumatary President for
giving me this wonderful opportunity to
officiate as Chief Arbiter in this prestigious
tournament. Also I would also like to offer my
special thanks to Mr. Khanindra Barman, Th,
BipinSingha, MrPranab Kumar Nathwithout
whose help I would not have been able to
discharge my duty smoothly.
Final ranking: 36 Hridika Das ASSAM 4
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Sneha Halder WBl 7
2 Tanisha A R Som ASSAM 7
3 Adreeja Sinha ASSAM 6½
4 Rishita Sinha ASSAM 6
5 Ikshita Barman ASSAM 6
6 Dyuti Chakraborty JHAR 6
7 Sritama Sen WBl 5½
8 Junmoni Gogoi ASSAM 5½
9 Winee Thengal ASSAM 5½
10 Sukla Sen (Dey) TRIPU 5½
11 Twinkle Patgiri ASSAM 5½
12 Aslesha Talukdar ASSAM 5½
13 Nandika Sahu ASSAM 5½
14 Bidisha Sarma Assam 5
15 Alpana Gogoi C ASSAM 5
16 Unmilita Pathak ASSAM 5
17 Sanghamitra H ASSAM 5
18 Dipnalisha Borah ASSAM 5
19 Urja Hazarika ASSAM 5
20 Medha Barooah ASSAM 5
21 Anchita Sharma ASSAM 5
22 Moitrayee Borah ASSAM 5
23 Ishani Das Odisha 5
24 Emon Nag ASSAM 5
25 Debolina Bora ASSAM 5
26 Afsheen Afsha Z ASSAM 4½
27 Jyoti Rekha S Kr ASSAM 4½
28 Kabyashree S S ASSAM 4½
29 Baibhabi Baruah ASSAM 4½
30 Pritilakshmi K ASSAM 4½
31 Mishra Anjali Odisha 4½
32 Baishali Debnath TRIPU 4½
33 Tanishka B ASSAM 4½
34 Monmoyuri Chutia ASSAM 4½
35 Anannya Deka ASSAM 4
37 Khyati Kashyap ASSAM 4
38 Pritishna Saikia ASSAM 4
39 Akansha Shandilya ASSAM 4
40 Mahilakshi Paul ASSAM 4
41 Samriddhi Ghosh TRIPU 4
42 Sayashree Sharma ASSAM 4
43 Yati Agarwal ASSAM 4
44 Chaarvi Choudhury ASSAM 4
45 Yashvi Khemani ASSAM 3½
46 Shivangi Priya K ASSAM 3½
47 Samkalpa S ASSAM 3½
48 Ayushi Sarkar ASSAM 3½
49 Swarnika Biswas ASSAM 3½
50 Sneha Narzari ASSAM 3½
51 Kristi Thakuria Assam 3½
52 Ankita Bharali ASSAM 3½
53 Lulaksi K Mahanta ASSAM 3
54 Risha Bujarbaruah ASSAM 3
55 Kalikanjali Paul ASSAM 3
56 Daisy Dutta ASSAM 3
57 Nabarajita C ASSAM 3
58 Atreyee Talukdar ASSAM 3
59 Alankrita Deb ASSAM 3
60 Nibhriti Goswami ASSAM 3
61 Kreesha Jain Assam 3
62 Banti Devi ASSAM 3
63 Jahnabi Boro ASSAM 2½
64 Apsara Bayan ASSAM 2½
65 Rubeda Begum ASSAM 2½
66 Riya Deka ASSAM 2½
67 Anwesha Gohain ASSAM 2½
68 Kritika Thakuria ASSAM 2
69 Syeda Rebina A ASSAM 2
70 Ipsita Gogoi ASSAM 2
71 Prishita Goenka ASSAM 2
72 Srishti Rupa Roy ASSAM 1½
73 Tamanna Sarma ASSAM 1½
74 Apeksha Kashyap ASSAM 1
75 Risha Kashyap ASSAM 0
76 Sharmistha Saha ASSAM 0
77 Upasana Mahanta ASSAM 0
78 Sonakshi Basnet ASSAM 0
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Selected games from 12th
Mumbai Mayor Cup, Mumbai
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (2436)
- Deepan Chakkravarthy J. (2557)
[A17]
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0–0
5.a3 Bxc3 6.Qxc3 d6 7.g3 b6 8.Bg2 Bb7
9.0–0 Nbd7 10.b4 c5 11.Rd1 Rc8 12.b5
d5 13.d3 d4 14.Qe1? [This 'humble' move
seems to indicate that white is not happy
with the way the opening has developed.
Better was: 14.Qc2 ] 14...Ba8?! [Over
cautious! Black makes sure that his unsup-
ported bishop on b7 is not subject to some
unpleasant discovered attack from the Bg2.
Better was: 14...Re8 ] 15.a4!± e5 16.e4
The best way to prevent black from playing
e5-e4! 16...dxe3 17.Qxe3 Re8 18.Bb2
[To exploit the self-cornered bishop on
a8, white should press on with: 18.a5 Qc7
19.Qd2 Bb7 20.Qc3] 18...Qc7 19.a5 h6
20.axb6 axb6 21.Nh4 [He could control
the game better by strengthening his grip
over the e4 square: 21.Nd2 Bxg2 22.Kxg2
Rcd8 23.Ra6 Re6 24.Rda1±] 21...Bxg2
22.Kxg2 Nh7 23.Nf3 [If as originally in-
tended 23.Nf5 Ndf6 24.h4 h5 25.Ra6 Ng4
26.Qf3] 23...Re6 24.Re1 Rce8 25.h3 [#]
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25...f5?! [With his forces massed on the
central squares, this move was natural.
However it presents white with objects of
attack. Better was 25...Qb7 26.Kg1 Ndf6
27.h4=] 26.Nh4! Rf8 [Better was: 26...
Qb7+ 27.Qf3 e4 28.dxe4 Ng5 29.Qxf5
Ne5 30.f4 Rf6 31.Qxe5 Rxe5 32.Bxe5
Re6=] 27.f4 g5 Black is in such a situa-
tion that he has to make this move as the
e5 pawn which is pinned against his rook
on e6 is under threat of capture.. 28.Nf3
gxf4 29.gxf4 Rg6+ 30.Kf2! [If 30.Kh2?!
exf4 31.Qe7 Rf7 32.Qe8+ Nhf8 33.Rg1
Rg3! 34.Qe1!=] 30...exf4 31.Qe7 Rf7
32.Qe8+ Nhf8 33.Be5! Qb7 34.Bxf4 Nf6
Black has defended well and denied the
white forces any points of entry into his
backyard. 35.Qa8! This is a very interesting
position with both kings having lost their
pawn cover. White is slightly better as his
rooks are better placed on open files and
he has an active bishop. 35...Qd7 36.Rg1
Kh7 37.Ke2 Re7+ 38.Kd2 Ne4+ 39.Kc2
Rxg1 40.Rxg1 Nf2
[#] 41.d4? [Bold but unwise, this throws
away the win. The winning continua-
tion was giving up d3 with check. It re-
quires calculation and guts! 41.Ne5! Rxe5
42.Bxe5 Qxd3+ 43.Kb2 Qe2+ 44.Kb3 Qxe5
45.Qxf8+- and black does not have per-
petual checks.] 41...Qe6 [He can equalise
with: 41...Nxh3! 42.Qxf8 Qe6! (threaten-
ing the deadly 23.Qxc4+) 43.Ne5 (if 43.d5
Qe4+ 44.Kb2 Nxg1 45.Qxh6+=) 43...Nxg1
44.d5 Re8 45.dxe6 Rxf8 46.Nd7 Rg8=]
42.Ne5 Nxh3 43.Qxf8 Nxg1 44.d5!
Qd6+- This queen has lost its freedom
of movement as it must keep protecting
his Re7, and pwns on f5 and h6. Also, the
rook is pinned against the queen. 45.Qxf5+
[Stronger was 45.Kb3! paralysing black for
if now 45...Ne2 46.Qxf5+ Kg8 47.Qg4+ Rg7
48.Qxe2+-] 45...Kg8 [#]
46.Ng4! Re2+ 47.Kb3 [After 47.Kb3 Qf8
48.Nxh6+ Kg7 49.Qg5+ Kh8 50.Nf5! Nf3
51.Qh5+ Kg8 52.Nh6+! Kh7 53.Qxf3+-]
1–0
Vantika Agrawal,(WIM Ind) (2223)
- Lugovskoy,Maxim (GM Rus) (2451)
[A06]
Mostly we give games with rich tactical
content. But we make an exception with
this game as the 17-year old WIM from
Delhi plays excellent positional chess to
force victory over the young Russian GM.
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4 Nf6
5.0–0 0–0 6.c4 dxc4 7.Na3 c3 8.bxc3
c5 9.Ne5 Nbd7 10.Nd3 cxd4 11.cxd4
Nb6 12.Bb2 Rb8 13.e4 Bg4 14.f3 Bd7
15.Nc5 Ne8 [Better was to discourage
white from playing d4-d5 in the future with:
15...e6 16.Rc1 Bc6]16.Qb3 h5 17.Rac1 h4?!
[17...e6] 18.d5 [Stronger was: 18.gxh4!
Nc7 19.d5 Na6 20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Nxd7
Nxd7 22.Qb2+ Kh7 23.Rfd1±] 18...hxg3
19.hxg3 Nf6 20.f4 Bg4 [#]
21.Nc2 [Nearly winning was: 21.Be5! Nfd7
22.Nxd7 Nxd7 23.Bxg7 (23.Bxb8? Bd4+!
24.Kh1 Kg7! 25.Rf2!=) 23...Kxg7 24.Nc4
Rh8 25.Ne3 Bh3 26.Rfd1 Nb6 27.Qb2+ f6
28.Bf3±] 21...Be2 22.Rfe1 Bc4 23.Qa3
Nbd7 [If 23...Nfd7 24.Bxg7 Kxg7 25.Nxd7
Qxd7 26.Qxa7 Qc7 27.Rb1 Nd7 28.Ne3
Ba6 29.Qd4+ f6 30.Rec1+-] 24.Ne3
Nxc5 25.Rxc4! b6 26.e5 Nfd7 27.Nc2
It is headed for c6. 27...Rc8 28.Nb4 Nb8
29.Bd4 [After 29.Qxa7 Qd7 30.Qxd7 Nbxd7
31.Rc2+- White is not only a pawn up, but
his position presents a picture of great har-
mony with complete centre-control backed
by two sweeping bishops and active rooks.]
29...a5 30.Nd3 Nba6 31.Rec1 White has
five attacking units against c5 whereas
black has only three defending units. It
is time for black to play inspired chess to
save his game 31...Qd7 [Somewhat better
was: 31...f6 32.exf6 exf6 33.Nxc5 Nxc5
34.Bxc5 bxc5 35.Rxc5 Rxc5 36.Qxc5 Rf7
37.Qc8 Qxc8 38.Rxc8+ Rf8 39.Rc6 Rb8±
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The presence of opposite coloured bish-
ops on the board will make white's task of
exploiting his extra pawn very difficult.]
32.Nxc5 Nxc5 33.Bxc5 bxc5 34.Rxc5
Rxc5 35.Qxc5 Qg4 [35...g5!± Though
white still has an advantage it is much re-
duced. In such endings the reduction in the
number of pawns on the board significantly
reduces the winning chances of the superior
side.] 36.Qf2 Rb8 37.Bf3 [#]
37...Qd7? [Better was active defence keep-
ing the option of counter-attack with g6-g5
as follows: 37...Qf5 38.Kg2 g5² 39.Qd4
gxf4 40.gxf4 f6! 41.d6 fxe5 42.Qc4+! e6
43.d7 Rd8 44.Qc7 Bf6 45.fxe5 Qg5+ 46.Kf2
Bxe5=] 38.Kg2 a4 39.Rc2 a3 40.Qd4
Qb5 [Again, better was: 40...g5 41.Qe4
Rb2 42.Kh2 gxf4 43.gxf4 Qc7 44.Rg2±]
41.Be2 Qb1 42.Qd1 Qb4? [Better was:
42...Qxd1 43.Bxd1 Rb2 And the opposite
colour bishop ending will be most difficult
to win for white.] 43.Bc4 Qb6 44.Bb3 Qe3
45.Qe2 Qa7 46.Qf2 Qd7 47.Qc5 Qf5 [#]
[47...g5 48.Qc7 Rb7 49.Qxd7 Rxd7 50.Rc6
gxf4 51.gxf4 Kh7 (51...f6? 52.Rc7!! and
if now 52...Rxc7 53.d6+ Kh7 54.dxc7+-
) 52.Kf3 Ra7 53.Bc2+ Kg8 54.Rc8+ Bf8
55.Ke4+-]
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48.Qc7! A double attack that nets the
e-pawn for if now 48....Re8, 49.Ba4 wins.
48...Rf8 49.Qxe7 Rb8 (Threat 50....Rxb3
51. axb3 Qxc2+) 50.Qc7 Rf8 51.d6 Qe4+
52.Kh2 g5 53.Qc6 Qh7+ 54.Kg1 Qd3 [If
54...gxf4 55.gxf4 Qd3 56.Kg2 Bh6 57.Qf3
Qd4 58.Qg4+ Kh8 59.d7+-] 55.Qc3 Qg6
56.Kf2 g4? [This further reduces black's
winning chances. Also, if 56...gxf4 57.gxf4
Qe4 58.Qf3 Qh7 59.Qg4 Qe4 60.d7+-]
57.d7 Qa6 58.Qe3 Qh6 59.Kg1 Giving
black no chance at all. 59...Qg6! 60.e6
Rb8 [60...Bf6 61.e7 Bxe7 62.Qxe7 Qb6+
63.Rc5 Kg7 64.Kf1 Qa6+ 65.Bc4+-] 61.e7
Rxb3 62.d8Q+ Kh7 63.Qxb3 1–0
Navalgund,Niranjan (IM Ind) (2326)
- Malakhatko,Vadim (GM Bel) (2505)
[D02]
GM Vadim Malakhatko is a Ukrainian GM
who emigrated to Belgium in 2007. He has
won several medals playing for the Ukrain-
ian team in the Olympiads and World Team
Championships. IM Navalgund Niranjan is
from Karnataka who once won the Tamil
Nadu State Championship! He now plays for
Karnataka and has two GM norms. 1.d4 d5
2.Nf3 a6 3.Bf4 e6 4.Nbd2 [Many many
games have played here with 4.e3 as every
player wants to retain the option of playing
this knight to c3, a better square for the
knight.] 4...c5 5.c3 Nf6 6.e3 Bd6 7.Bg3
0–0 8.Bd3 Qc7 9.Ne5 Nc6 10.f4 By a cu-
rious order of moves, white has achieved
a Stonewall set-up with his dark-square
bishop active outside the pawn chain. 10...
Ne7 11.0–0 b6 12.Qf3 Nf5 13.Bf2 Be7?
[Why 'undevelop' this bishop. Better was to
complete his development with 13...Bb7=
] 14.Qh3 Nd6 Now we see the purpose
of 13....Be7. He was vacating d6 for his
knight, to eventually strongly blockade the
e4 wauare. 15.Bh4 Nfe4 16.Bxe7 Qxe7
17.dxc5 bxc5 18.Nxe4 dxe4 19.Be2
a5 20.Rfd1 Ba6 21.Bxa6 Rxa6 22.Qh5
f6 23.Qe2 Qb7 24.Nc4 Qb5 25.b3 a4
[If 25...Nxc4 26.bxc4! Qc6 27.Rab1 Raa8
28.Rb5 Qc7 29.f5! exf5 30.Rd5 g6 31.Rbxc5
Qb6 32.Rb5 Qc6 33.a4] 26.Kf2 Nf5 27.g4
Ne7 28.Nd6 Qxe2+ 29.Kxe2 f5 30.gxf5
exf5 31.b4 cxb4 32.cxb4 [#]
32...Rf6? [A wild variation is: 32...Nc8
33.Nc4 Rh6 34.Kf2 Rxh2+ 35.Kg3 Rc2
36.Rac1! Rxa2 37.b5! a3 38.Rc3 (not
38.b6? Nxb6 39.Nxb6 Re2 40.Nd5 Ra8
41.Ne7+ Kf8! 42.Nxf5³) 38...Rf6 39.Rd8+
Rf8 40.Rd1 Rf6=] 33.Nc4 Rh6 34.Rd8+!
Kf7 35.Rh1 a3 36.b5 Ra4 37.Rd4 Kf8
38.Rd8+ Kf7 39.Ne5+ Ke6 40.Re8 Ra7
[40...Rb4! 41.Kf2 Rxb5 42.Kg3 Rc5 (42...
Rb2 43.Rc1 (43.Ra8 Nd5=) 43...Kf6 44.Rd1
Ke6 45.h4±) 43.Rb1 Rc8=] 41.Kf2 g5
[41...Rb7 42.Kg3 Rxb5 43.Rd1± Threat
44. Rd7 winning the knight.] 42.Kg3
gxf4+ 43.exf4 [If 43.Kxf4 Rb7 44.Nc6
Kf6 45.Nxe7 Rxe7=] 43...Rc7 44.b6
Rc3+ 45.Kf2 Rc2+ 46.Kg3 Rc3+ 47.Kf2
Rc2+ 48.Ke3 Rb2 [Leading only to a
draw was: 48...Rxa2? 49.b7 Rh3+ 50.Kd4
Rd2+ 51.Kc5 Rc2+ 52.Nc4! (52.Kb6??
Rb3+ 53.Ka6 Rcb2!–+) 52...Rhc3 53.b8Q
Rxc4+ 54.Kb5 Rc5+ 55.Kb4 R5c4+ 56.Kxa3
R4c3+ 57.Ka4 Rc4+ 58.Kb5 Rc5+ 59.Kb4=]
49.Rc1 Rh3+ 50.Kd4 Kd6 51.Rd8+ Ke6
52.Re8 Rd2+ [52...Rxb6? 53.Rc7! and the
black knight is lost.] 53.Kc4 Rb2 54.Kc5
Rhxh2 55.Nc6? Rhc2+ 56.Rxc2 Rxc2+
57.Kb5 Rxc6 [#]
58.b7 [The only reasonable attempt to
win. If 58.Rxe7+ Kxe7 59.Kxc6 e3 60.b7
e2 61.b8Q e1Q 62.Qa7+ Ke6 63.Qxa3
Qe4+µ] 58...Rc1 59.b8Q Rb1+ 60.Kc5
Rxb8 61.Rxb8 Ng6= 62.Rb6+ Kf7
63.Ra6 Nxf4 64.Rxa3 Kf6 65.Rb3 Ke5
66.a4 Ne6+ 67.Kb6 f4 68.a5 f3 69.a6 f2
70.Rb1 e3 71.a7 e2 72.a8Q Nd4 73.Qh1
Kf4 [#] 74.Kc5 [74.Rb4! f1Q 75.Rxd4+
Ke3 76.Qe4+ Kf2 77.Qf5+ Ke1 78.Qa5+!
Kf2 79.Rf4+ Kg3 (or 79...Ke3 80.Qe5+ Kd2
81.Qd5+ Ke1 82.Qa5+ Kd1 83.Qa1+ Kd2
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
84.Rxf1+-) 80.Qg5++-]
(Position after 73…Kf4)
74...Nf3 75.Qh6+ Kg3 76.Qg7+ Kh2
77.Qxh7+ Kg2 78.Qg7+ Kh2 79.Qh7+
Kg2 80.Qg6+ Kh2 81.Qh5+ Kg3
82.Qg6+ Kh2 83.Rb8!! Despite the two
black passed pawns ready to be promoted,
white conceives a mating attack along the
g- and h-files. 83...Ng1 [#]
84.Rg8! The simplest way to win. The
threat is now Qg2# 84...f1Q 85.Qg3+!
Kh1 86.Rh8+ 1–0
Kostenko,Petr (GM Kaz) (2473)
Wagh,Suyog (FM Mah) (2250)
Probably afraid of what new opening the
19-year old Indian might try, the 43-year
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old Kazakh Grandmaster tries a 7th move
novelty only to get enmeshed in a maze of
complications on the queen-side in which
his opponent revels. FM Wagh, 19, played
against four GMs in this tournament and got
two points from them - one win, one loss
and two draws. He increases his rating by
21.2 points. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7
4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.0–0 Bg7 7.Rb1?!N
[7.Re1 and 7 d4 are normal here.] 7...0–0
8.b4 Bxb5 9.cxb5 Nbd7 [#]
10.bxc5? [This capture was best delayed
as much as possible so that the Nbd7 does
not get to an active post quickly. Better
was 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.bxc5 Nxc5 12.d4 Ne6
13.Qd3=] 10...Nxc5 11.Qe2 Qa5! 12.a3?
[This move does nothing except free his Nc3
from the need to protectng his pawn on a2.
Better was to complete his development
with the useful move: 12.Bb2 ] 12...Rac8
13.Rb4 e5 [A better try for an advantage
was: 13...Ne6 14.g3 Rc5 15.Bb2 Rfc8=
The white rook on b4 looks funny!] 14.Bb2
Rfe8 15.Rd1 d5! 16.d3 d4 17.Nb1? [Less
painful for white would be: 17.Na2 Na4
18.Bc1 Bf8 19.Rb1 Kg7] 17...Na4 18.Nbd2
[#] 18...Rc2!–+ White's position is getting
worse, move by move. He is also threatened
with ...Bf8! 19.Rb1 Nc3! 20.Bxc3 dxc3
21.Nc4 This is the resource that white has
relied on to get out of the mess that he is
in. But as a result of this tactic, white saves
immediate material loss but black's rook
remains in white's
(Position after 18.Nbd2)
backyard, creating havoc. 21...Rxe2
22.Nxa5 Rc8 23.Rc4 The only move to
fight back. 23...Rxc4 24.Nxc4 [#]
24...Bh6!! Preparing to make the winning
advance c3-c2! 25.Ra1 [If 25.Ne3 Rxe3
26.fxe3 Bxe3+ 27.Kf1 c2–+] 25...Ng4
26.h3 c2 27.hxg4 [After 27.hxg4 c1Q+
28.Rxc1 Bxc1 29.Nfxe5 Ra2 30.d4 Bxa3–+]
0–1
Phadke,Sohan (FM Mah) (2228) - Nev-
erov,Valeriy(GM Ukr) (2470)
Fifty five year old GM Valeriy Neverov of
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Ukraine would never have expected to lose
to an unknown FIDE Master in the 7th round
of the Open. And, in all likelihood, 34-year
olf FM Sohan Phadke has no illusions of
even becoming an IM ! But he obviously
enjoys out thinking his opponents strategi-
cally. This is an enjoyable game, especially
the latter part where White's king walks to
the queen-side to capture a checking black
rook and then walks back to the safety of
the king-side chased all the way by the
black queen in search of a possible perpetu-
al check. I enjoyed this game, Probably this
is an example of how our ancestors played
chess a hundred years ago! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
Nc6 3.Nc3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7
6.g3 a6 7.Bg2 Nf6 8.0–0 d6 9.a4 Be7
10.Kh1 Nxd4 [10...0–0 is usual here. As a
general rule one must avoid exchanges that
would bring the opponents' pieces to the
centre.] 11.Qxd4 Bd7 12.f4 Bc6 13.Be3
0–0 14.a5 Rae8 15.Qd1 [15.Qd2 is good
enough, but white has a plan to attack with
g3-g4.] 15...Nd7 16.g4 Bf6 17.Qd2 Bxc3
18.Qxc3 Nf6 19.Bb6 Qd7 20.Rae1 [#]
[White cheerfully gambits his g-pawn as
he is confident of utilising the half-open
g-file against the black king. If 20.Bd4?
e5 21.fxe5 dxe5 22.Bxe5 Nxe4–+] 20...
Nxg4 21.h3 [If 21.Rg1 f5! (an important
defensive move for black ) 22.exf5 Bxg2+
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23.Rxg2 exf5 24.Rxe8 Rxe8 25.Bd4
g6] 21...Nh6 22.Rg1 f5 23.Bd4 Rf7
24.e5 Rc8 25.Qg3 Bxg2+ 26.Rxg2 d5
The Ukraine GM has successfully blunted
white's bishop on the long black diago-
nal, but only temporarily as it transpires!
27.Qh4 Kh8 28.Reg1 Qe7 Black wants to
exchange off queens as he has an extra
pawn and the white bishop is walled in
by his own pawns. 29.Qh5 Qe8 30.c3
Rd7 31.Qh4 Qd8 32.Qh5 Qe8 33.Qh4
Qe7 34.Qh5 Qf7 35.Qh4 Rg8!? Being a
GM with an extra pawn, black decides to
play for a win and changes the sequence
of repetitive moves. But this move allows
white's bishop to slip out of his pawn wall
and play a decisive role in the ensuing at-
tack.[#]
36.Bc5! Qe8 37.b4 Nf7 38.Rg6 Rc7
39.R1g3 Qd8 40.Qh5 Rc6 41.Bb6 Qe8
42.Qh4 Qf8 43.Bc5! Qe8? [Probably black
was unaware of the danger creeping on him.
Best here was: 43...Qc8! 44.Rxg7 Rxg7
45.Rxg7 Kxg7 46.Qg3+ Ng5 (the only move
for if 46...Kh8?? 47.Be7!) 47.Qxg5+ Kf7
48.Qf6+ Kg8 49.Qg5+ Kf7=] 44.Be7! d4
45.Bf6! Rxc3 46.Bxg7+ Rxg7 47.Rxg7
Rc1+ [#]
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48.Kh2! [One has to be careful at every
stage of the game. If 48.Kg2?? Qc6+! and
black wins!] 48...Rc2+ 49.Kg1 Having
won the exchange and with a mate threat
hanging over h7 the white king journeys
towards the checking rook! 49...Rc1+
50.Kf2 Rc2+ 51.Ke1 Rc1+ 52.Kd2 Rc2+
53.Kxc2 Qa4+ 54.Kc1 Qa1+ 55.Kd2
Now the king zig zags back to the safety
of the kingside. 55...Qb2+ 56.Ke1 Qc1+
57.Kf2 Qd2+ 58.Kg1 Qe1+ 59.Kh2 Qf2+
60.Rg2! If 60....Qxh4 61. Rg8# 1–0
Aleksandrov,Aleksej (GM Blr) (2588)
Shyaamnikhil P,(IM TN) (2434) [D11]
Aleksandrov is a 46-year old GM from Be-
larus who is not new to India as he has
played in quite a few International Opens
here in recent years. On the other hand
Shyaamnikhil is a 28-year old IM from the
southern most corner of India in Kanyaku-
mari District. A year ago he was recruited
by the Railways to play chess. He is hungry
for GM norms. In this game, he plays the
middle-game where the players castle on
opposite sides with great skill. His king was
never under serious attack. 1.d4 d5 2.c4
c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Nbd2 e6 6.h3
Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Nbd7 8.a3 [8.Bd3 is usual
here. White wants to avoid Black playing ....
Bb4 and exchanging off the Nd2. White has
a plan to castle long and launch an attack on
the kingside.] 8...Bd6 9.g4 h6 10.b4 e5!
This move is generally not easy to make in
d4 Openings. But with the knight on d2 and
not on c3, there is no pressure on d5 and
enables black to play aggressively in the
centre. 11.c5 Bc7 12.Bb2 Qe7 [a better
plan was: 12...0–0 13.Bg2 exd4 14.Bxd4
Be5³] 13.0–0–0 e4 14.Qg2 b6 15.h4! h5
16.gxh5 a5?! [#]
17.Nb3?! [With the black offensive on the
queen-side about to take off and with the
black king still in the centre, this was the
time to strike out and force black to take
hard strategic decisions., Therefore to be
tried was: 17.Qxg7! 0–0–0 (or 17...Rg8
18.Qh6 axb4 19.axb4 bxc5 20.bxc5 0–0–0
21.Kc2!±) 18.Qg2 axb4 19.axb4 Rdg8
20.Ba6+ Kb8 21.Qf1 Qe6 22.Be2±] 17...
Nxh5 18.b5 a4 19.bxc6 Ndf6? [He can
obtain a slight advantage with: 19...axb3!
20.cxd7+ Qxd7 21.Bc4 Rb8! (21...dxc4??
22.Qxe4++-) 22.Be2 Rh6!? 23.Bxh5 Rxh5
24.Qxg7 Ke7] 20.cxb6 Bxb6 21.Nc5
0–0= With the players having castled on
opposite sides and both sides having tanta-
lising possibilites of attack and counter-at-
tack, the position is equal but unclear! We
can look forward to some cut-throat chess,
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
not positional masterpieces! 22.Kb1 Bxc5
23.dxc5 Qxc5 24.Rc1 Qb6 25.Qh2 Rab8
26.Rc2 [#] 26...d4! Though white has two
bishops against two knights it is black who
tries to open up the game! Actually, with
this move, black vacates the d5 square for
his knight in its bid to get at the white king!
(Position after 26.Rc2)
27.exd4 Nd5 28.c7 Rbc8 29.Bc4 Ndf4!
[The only move to keep the advantage.
If 29...Nxc7 30.Qe5! g6 31.d5±; or 29...
Rxc7 30.Bxd5 Rxc2 31.Kxc2 Qb5!! 32.Ba2
Qd3++-] 30.Re1 [30.Be2 Rxc7 31.Rxc7
Qxc7 32.Bxh5 Rb8 (Threat 33...Rxb2+
34. Kxb2 Nd3+ winning.) 33.f3 (33.Rc1?
Rxb2+!! 34.Kxb2 Nd3+ 35.Ka2 Nxc1+
36.Kb1 Qxh2–+) 33...e3 34.Rc1 Qb7 to
be followed by ...e2! cutting off the white
queen's defence to the Bb2.] 30...Rxc7
31.Rxe4 Rfc8 32.Rxf4 Nxf4 [#]
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33.Bxf7+ [If 33.Qxf4 Rxc4 34.Rxc4 Qg6+!
35.Ka1 Rxc4 36.Qe5 Rc2 37.Qe8+ Kh7
38.Qxa4 Rxf2 39.Qc4 f5! Black can success-
fully promote this passed pawn while taking
care of white's pawns. 40.d5 f4 41.Qd4
Rf1+ 42.Ka2 f3 43.h5 (43.d6?? Qe6+)
43...Qb1+ 44.Kb3 Rg1 45.d6 Rg3! 46.Qc3
Qd1+ 47.Ka2 Qd5+ 48.Ka1 Rg1+ 49.Bc1
Rg2! 50.Bb2 f2–+] 33...Kh8! [After 33...
Kxf7?! 34.Qxf4+ Kg8 35.Rxc7 Qxc7µ black
will have to struggle to win.] 34.Bc4 Qg6
35.h5 Qf5 Black's pins on the Rc2 and the
Bc4 are decisive. 0–1
Amonatov,Farrukh (GM Tjk) (2624)
Schroeder,Rodrigo (GM Chi) (2476)
[B77]
This is a delightful thunder and lightning
game with an uncommon opening Novel-
ty. It was played in the last round of the
Mumbai Mayors Cup tournament and by
winning this game, the Tajik GM Farrukh
Amonatov, born 1978, tied for first with
Armenian GM Manuel Petrosyan on 8/10
and won the Mumbai Mayor's Cup for the
second time. He had won this tournament
in 2018 too and considers Mumbai to be
his lucky city. He is Tajikistan's only GM.
However, he lives and trains in Moscow.
Tajikistan is one of the Republics born on
the break-up of the USSR. Its capital is
Dushanbe. Vasquez Schroeder, born 1969
is a 3-time Champion of Chile which is on
the western coast of South America along
the Pacific ocean. Santiago is the capital
of Chile. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3
0–0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.h4 Rc8
11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h5 Nxh5 13.Bh6 Bxh6
14.Qxh6 Rxc3! This exchange sacrifice is
known for ages. However, the other two
sacrifices of the exchange by black that
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follow later on are the invention of white.
15.bxc3 Qa5 16.Ne2 Rc8 [#] 17.Rd1!?
[White has invented a new strategy of de-
liberately keeping his king in the centre,
uncastled! This must have hit black like a
ton of bricks. You can put
(Position after 16….Rc8)
this down as Shock No. 1 as more surpris-
es follow! 17.0–0–0 is usual here.] 17...
Bb5 18.Rd5! [Another possibility was:
18.Rxh5!? gxh5 19.Qg5+ Kf8 20.Qxh5
Bxe2 21.Kxe2=] 18...e6 19.Rxh5! This
must have been Shock No 2 for black. 19...
gxh5 [#]
20.Rxe5!! Again, sacrificing his remaining
rook for a knight to lay bare the black's
king's position! Count this as Shock No.
3. Simply amazing! 20...dxe5 21.Qg5+
Kf8 22.Qxe5! Threat: 23.Qh8+ and Qxc8
winning. 22...Rd8 23.Qc5+! Kg8? [23...Ke8
was safer.] 24.Bc4 a6 25.a4!! White is
making good moves one after the other like
a magician pulling out rabbits from a box!.
25...h6 [If 25...Qxa4?? 26.Qg5+ (Now,
black might have wished that he had played
23...Ke8! instead of 23.....Kg8?) 26...Kf8
27.Qxd8+ Kg7 28.Nf4!! Qxc4 29.Nxh5+ Kg6
30.Qf6+ Kxh5 31.g4#!] 26.axb5+- Qa1+
Black seeks to escape defeat by combining
his queen and rook to get perpetual checks.
27.Kf2 Rd1 What mischief is black planning
along white's first rank? White sees none
and goes pawn hunting! 28.Qc8+ Kg7
29.Qxb7! White correctly estimates that
black's queen and rook cannot combine well
enough to trouble him. 29...Rf1+ 30.Ke3
Re1 Black pins the knight to cripple it, but
white is not impressed![#]
31.bxa6!! White is daring black to do his
best against his king as he is confident
that he can overcome the counter-attack.
31...Qxc3+ Thanks to his efforts black has
captured one of white's doubled pawns.
But the knight remains a great defender
of the white king preventing the queen
from getting closer.. 32.Kf2 Qd2 33.a7!
White laughs at the black forces, still try-
ing to get some check in, but in vain. 33...
Rd1 Now black threatens ....Qe1+, Ke3,
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
...Qd2+ checking perpetually. White cannot
ignore this threat. 34.Qb2+! Kh7 35.Qc3!
this squashes black's dreams of perpetual
check. 35...Qd8 36.Bd3 Qb6+ 37.Qd4!
Qa5 38.f4 Ra1 [Unable to get perpetual
checks, black goes on the defensive and it
is time for white to resume his attack on
the black king. If 38...Qe1+ 39.Kf3! Qf1+
40.Ke3 and again, thanks to the knight
the queen has no further check!] 39.e5+
Kg7 40.f5! Ra4 [If 40...Qxa7 41.fxe6 fxe6
42.Kf3 Rf1+ 43.Ke3 Qxd4+ 44.Nxd4 Re1+
45.Kf4+- Black has nothing left to attack!]
41.c4! [#]
41...Qc7 42.fxe6 fxe6 43.Nf4 Kf7
44.Be2! Qxa7 [44...Rxa7 45.Bxh5+ Ke7
46.Bg4 Ra2+ 47.Kg3 Ra5 48.Ng6+ Kf7
49.Bh5 Kg8 50.Qd6!!+-] 45.Bxh5+ Ke7
46.Qxa7+ Rxa7 47.Bg4 This hits at
black's remaining key pawn, the one on
e6. 47...Ra2+ 48.Kg3 Ra3+ 49.Kh4 An
extraordinary game, worthy of study.
Capablanca’s play produced and still
produces an irresistable artistic ef-
fect. In his games a tendency towards
simplicity predominated, and in this
simplicity there was a unique beauty of
genuine depth.
-GM Mikhail Botvinnik
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

P.Petkov 1963 Dr.Hans Staudte 1963

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

1. 2.

Nadereshvili 1964 Gorgiev 1963

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

Jan Marwitz 1963 G.Kasparyan 1964

5 6
White to play and win White to play and win 5. 6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 7)

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Masters of the past-102 Erich Gottlieb Eliskases
FIDE rating Tournament, Pondicherry
Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was
a chess grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented
Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition.
He had many successes and in the late 1930s was considered a
potential contender for the World Championship.

Born in Innsbruck, Austro-Hungarian Empire, he learned chess

at the age of twelve and quickly displayed an aptitude for the
game, winning the Schlechter chess club championship in his
first year at the club, aged just fourteen. At fifteen, he was the
Tyrolean Champion and at sixteen, joint winner of the Austrian
Championship.

His college education in Innsbruck and Vienna centred on business

studies; it was chess, though, that captured his imagination and
he had exceptional results at the Olympiads of 1930, 1933 and
1935. After the Anschluss of March 1938, he won the German national championship at
Bad Oeynhausen in 1938 and 1939. He played under the German flag at the 1939 Buenos
Aires Olympiad, during which World War II began, when Eliskases (along with many other
players) decided to stay in Argentina (and for a while in Brazil) rather than return to the
scene of the conflict. Brazilian authorities threatened to intern and expel Eliskases as they
had severed all links with Nazi Germany. Some Brazilian chess enthusiasts helped Eliskases
avoid that fate by hiring him as a chess teacher. After some years in the wilderness, when
he struggled to make a living, he eventually became a naturalized Argentine citizen and
represented his new country at the Olympiads of 1952, 1958, 1960 and 1964.
(L-R)I Arokiaraj, Deputy Commercial Tax Officer, Govt of Pondicherry Mr.J. Narayanan, Chief Arbiter and Vice
President, PSCA ,MrC Arulmozhi, NA and EC Member, PSCA. Mr.RDevakumar, Vice President, PSCA.Mr.S
Nadaradjane, IA and EC Member , PSCA. Champion of this tournament Mr. SwarajPalit, Jharkhand Chief Guest Mr
RSridharan, Deputy Commissioner, Commercial Tax Department, Govt of Pondicherry Mr. G Sankar, Secretary,
PSCA Mr.J Ramesh, Treasurer, PSCA, Mr. A Bakthavatsalam, President, PSCA, Mr.ARajendiran, Joint Secretary,
PSCA. Mr. S Kannappan, Assistant Treasurer, PSCA.(Photo above attached).
1st International Open Rapid & Blitz Tournaments, Trichy

FIDE awarded Eliskases the titles of International Master and Grandmaster in 1950 and
1952, respectively. He had many fine tournament results, including outright or joint first
place at Budapest 1934 ( the Hungarian Championship), Linz 1934, Zürich 1935, Milan 1937,
Noordwijk 1938 (his greatest success, ahead of Max Euwe and Paul Keres), Krefeld 1938,
Bad Harzburg 1939, Bad Elster1939, Vienna 1939, Águas de São Pedro/São Paulo 1941,
São Paulo 1947, Mar del Plata 1948, Punta del Este 1951 and Córdoba1959. His victory in
Noordwijk began a streak of eight consecutive tournaments in which he was undefeated.

He won matches against Efim Bogoljubov (1939) and Rudolf Spielmann (in 1932, 1936
and 1937).Towards the end of the 1930s, along with Keres and Capablanca, Eliskases was
regarded as a potential contender for a World Championship encounter with Alexander Al-
ekhine. Indeed, Alekhine spoke out in favour of a match with the Austrian, who had acted
as a second during his successful attempt to regain the title from Euwe in 1937.

Eliskases was also a strong correspondence player and his notes showed that he scored
over 75 percent during his most active period.He was considered an expert in the endgame
at Semmering 1937, he outplayed and beat Capablanca in this phase, despite this being
the forte of the Cuban ex-world champion. Dutch grandmaster Hans Ree observes that
Eliskases is one of only four players (along with Keres, Reshevsky and Euwe) to beat both
Capablanca and Fischer. Courtesy:Wikepedia IM AL Muthaiah, Winner receiving the prize from Chief Arbiter Prof.R.Anantharam
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 Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Nagpur Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
by S.Krishnan
1. Eden,J (2346) - Ali Marandi,C (2520)
[D13]
Teplice CZE Teplice CZE (5.15), 19.06.2019
Black to play 17…Nf3+! 18.gxf3 forced [18.Kh1
Qxh2#] 18...Be5 19.Rfc1 [19.f4 Qg4+ 20.Kh1
Qf3+ 21.Kg1 Bh3 Wins] 19...Bh3 20.e4 [20.
f4 Qg4+] 20...Bxh2+ 21.Kh1 [21.Kxh2 Bg4+
22.Kg2 (22.Kg1 Bxf3 mate with 23....Qh1 can-
not be avoided) 22...Qh3+ 23.Kg1 Bxf3 Wins]
21...Bg4 [21...Bg4 22.fxg4 (22.Be1 Bxf3#)
22...Bg3+ 23.Kg1 Qh2+ 24.Kf1 Qxf2#] 0–1
2. Xie Jianjun (2427) - Song,Yuchen
(1512) [C07]
CHN League Men 2019 Daqing CHN (6.9),
24.06.2019
White to play 21.Bxh6 Rd8 [21...gxh6 22.Rh4!
Nh7 (22...Rd8 23.Qg3+ Kf8 24.Rxh6 Ke8
25.Rh8+ Kd7 26.Bb5#) 23.Rxh6 f6 24.Qg3+
Ng5 25.h4 wins; 21...Ne8 22.Qe4 f5 23.Qxa8+-
(L-R) Shri. K K Barat, Secretary NDCA, Shri Dilip Kamdar, President NDCA, Shri. Mohan Mate, Ex-MLA,
; 21...g6 22.Rg4 Bd7 (22...Kh7 23.Bxf8; 22...
Central Nagpur, SNA Sushant Jumde, Organising Secretary, Young girl from Nagpur Anika Gupta
Re8 23.Bxg6 fxg6 24.Rxg6++-) 23.Bxg6 fxg6
24.Rxg6+ Kh7 (24...Kf7 25.Rg7++-) 25.Bxf8
Rxf8 26.Qg5 Kh8 (26...Ng8 27.Qh5+) 27.Re4
wins] 22.Qg5 g6 [22...Qf8 23.Qxg7+! Qxg7
24.Rxd8+ Wins] 23.Bxg6 fxg6 [23...Kh8
24.Rxd8+ Qxd8 25.Bxf7 Wins] 24.Qxg6+ Kh8
25.Rxd8+ Qxd8 26.Qg7# 1–0
3. Murariu,A (2512) - Groapa,Aurelian
(1767) [C41]
FISCA Open 2019 Jupiter ROU (1.1), 22.06.2019
. White to play. 15.Qd4 f6 16.Rg1! Bc8 [16...
g6 17.Re1! Re8 a) 17...Nxd5 18.Bc4; b) 17...
Nc8 18.Bd3! Ba6 b1) 18...Rf7 Black has no
good moves 19.Nh6+; b2) 18...Re8 19.Nh6+
Kg7 (19...Kh8 20.gxf6 Bxf6 21.Qxf6+ Qxf6
22.Rxe8+ Kg7 23.Rg8#) 20.Re6‚; 19.Nxe7+
Nxe7 20.gxf6 Nc8 21.Bxg6 with winning attack;
18.Rxe7 Rxe7 19.Nh6+ Kh8 (19...Kf8 20.Qxf6+
Ke8 21.Qh8+ Kd7 22.Bh3+ Re6 23.Bxe6+
Ke7 24.Qf6+ Ke8 25.Qf7#) 20.Qxf6+ Rg7
21.Nf7+ Kg8 22.Nxd8 Wins; 16...Nd7 17.g6
(L-R) SNA Sushant Jumde, Organising Secretary, Chief Guest, International Master, Anup
Deshmukh of LIC, Mr. Manish Tiwari, Operation Manager, Naivedhyam North Star (Venue), Ne5 (17...h6 18.Bxh6‚) 18.gxh7+ Kh8
19.Rxg7‚] 17.Nxg7! Kxg7 [17...fxg5 18.Nh5
Winner Mr. Suhan Deshpande, Nagpur, Mr. Ravish Kale, Naivedhyam Group, FA Umesh
Panbude, Tournament Secretary NDCA and IA Swapnil Bansod Cheif Arbiter. Bf6 19.Rxg5+ Kh8 20.Nxf6 Qxf6 21.Be3+-;
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17...Kh8 18.g6‚] 18.gxf6+ Kh8 19.fxe7+ 1–0
4. Dvoirys,S (2502) - Globus,Or (2352)
[B19]
Netanya Open 2019 Netanya ISR (6.13),
28.06.2019
White to play 17.Ng6! fxg6 [17...exf5
18.Qxe7#] 18.Nxg7+ Kf7 [18...Kf8 19.Nxe6+
wins] 19.Nxe6 gxh5 [19...Rde8 20.Qc4‚;
19...Nf8 20.Nxd8+ Qxd8 21.Bc3 Bc5 22.b4
Bb6 23.a4 a6 (23...Qc7 24.Bb2‚) 24.a5 Ba7
25.Bxd4 Bxd4 26.Qc4++-; 19...Kg8 20.Qd3‚]
20.Qc4! Rdg8 21.Nxd4+ [21.Ng5+!] 21...Kf8
22.Rxe7 Kxe7 23.Re1+ [23.Bb4+!] 23...Kd8
24.Ne6+ Ke8 25.Nc5+ Kd8 26.Ba5 [26.Ba5
Qxa5 27.Nxb7#] 1–0
5.McShane,L (2688) - Dominguez Perez,L
(2760) [C67]
Netanya Masters 2019 Netanya ISR (7.1),
30.06.2019
25.Bxh6 gxh6 [25...Kg8 26.Bg5] 26.Qxh6+
Kg8 27.Qg6+ Kh8 28.Rb4 Ne4 29.Bxe4 dxe4
30.Rb3! e3 31.Rb4 Bd7 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.Rh4
Qxh4 [33...Qe7 34.Qh8+ Kf7 35.Qh7+ Kf8
(35...Ke8 36.Qg8+ Qf8 37.Re4+ Be6 (37...
Kd8 38.Qxf8+) 38.Qxe6+ Kd8 39.Rxe3+-
) 36.Rf4+ Ke8 37.Qg8+ Wins; 33...Be8
34.Qh7+ Kf8 35.Rf4+ Wins] 34.Qxh4 Re8
35.Kf1 White won 1–0
6.Tifferet,Shaked (2249) - Hasidovsky,M
(2135) [E09]
Netanya Open 2019 Netanya ISR (7.30),
30.06.2019
22.Nd6! Bxd6 23.cxd6 Qxd6 24.Rad1 Qc7
[24...Nf7 25.Qb2 Qc7 (25...Qf8 26.b5+-
If 26...Rac8 27.bxc6 Bxc6 28.Bb4 Wins)
26.Bxg7+-] 25.Rfe1 Nd7 [25...Rad8 26.Rxd8
Qxd8 27.Bxe5+-] 26.Qc4+ Kf8 [26...Kh8
27.Qf7; 26...Kh7 27.Qf7] 27.Re6 c5 [27...Nf6
28.Bxf6 gxf6 29.Rxf6+ Kg7 30.Rdd6+-; 27...
Rxe6 28.Qxe6 Rd8 29.Bxg7+! Kxg7 30.Qg6+
Kh8 (30...Kf8 31.Qxf5+ Kg7 (31...Kg8 32.Qg6+
Kf8 33.Qxh6+ Kg8 34.Qe6+ Kf8 35.Rd6) )
31.Qxh6+ Kg8 32.Qe6+ Kh8 33.Rd6 with a
winning attack] 28.Bxg7+! Kxg7 [28...Kf7
29.Rg6+ Wins; 28...Kg8 29.Rxe8+ Kxg7
30.Qg8+ Kf6 31.Re6#] 29.Rg6+ Kh8 30.Qf7
1–0
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AICF Calendar Aug 2019 30th National Under-17 Open and Girls Chess Championships, Ernakulam
45th Tripura State Fide Rating 23 Aug - 27 Aug Belonia , South Tripura
1st Courtalam Saaral FIDE rated open - 29 Aug - 02 Sep Courtalam,TN
Western Asia Youth and Junior Rapid Chess 05 Sep - 05 Sep Delhi
Pearl City All India Open FIDE Rating 06 Sep - 11 Sep Hyderabad
Western Asia Youth and Junior 06 Sep - 10 Sep Delhi
Maharashtra State U11 open & Girls Fide rating 08 Sep - 11 Sep Akola, Mah
Western Asia Youth and Junior Blitz 10 Sep - 10 Sep Delhi
National Junior & Sub-Junior Coaching Camp 10 Sep - 24 Sep Delhi
57th Kerala State Senior FIDE Rated - 12 Sep - 16 Sep Calicut, Ker
1st Lakecity International Open GM 13 Sep - 20 Sep Udaipur,Raj
Chess in Lake city open FIDE Rating Rapid 14 Sep - 15 Sep Udaipur,Raj
Smart Girl FIDE Rating Chess Tmt Bihar 14 Sep - 18 Sep Patna
Chess in Lakecity open FIDE Rating Blitz 16 Sep - 16 Sep Udaipur, Raj
2nd Gujarat International Open GM 22 Sep - 29 Sep Ahmedabad,
Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial All India FIDE 27 Sep - 01 Oct Patna
15th KCM Open FIDE Rated Chess 28 Sep - 02 Oct ,Coimbatore ,TN
1st Nellai below 1600 FIDE Rated 28 Sep - 30 Sep Courtalam, TN
World Youth Chess Championship 14, 16 and 18 01 Oct - 13 Oct Mumbai
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess 02 Oct - 06 Oct Bangalore (L- R) M Ephrame Chief Arbiter, Shri. Joji John Center Manager, Oberon Mall, Rajesh Nattakom, Secretary Chess
Association Kerala, Neelash Saha Champion ,Saju Manjalee, Kerala Team Manager
19th Adyar Times Open FIDE Rating 03 Oct - 06 Oct Adyar, TN
Don Bosco FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2019 04 Oct - 08 Oct Irinjalakuda,KL
Hatsun & Idhayam 5th FIDE Rated open 05 Oct - 08 Oct Virudhunagar.
RGS India Open Rating 06 Oct - 12 Oct Guwahati
Kurnool District Open FIDE Rating 09 Oct - 13 Oct Kurnool dist. AP
Kashvi Chess School 1st FIDE rated 10 Oct - 14 Oct Udupi ,KAR.
U.P.State smart Girls FIDE Rated 14 Oct - 18 Oct Lucknow,UP
World Junior & Girls Chess Championship 2019 14 Oct - 26 Oct New Delhi, India
Kashvi Chess School open Below 1600 15 Oct - 17 Oct Udupi ,Kar.
Women Coaching Camp at Delhi 17 Oct - 27 Oct Delhi
Talent Chess Academy's 2nd below 1600 Open 18 Oct - 20 Oct Chennai
1st Cooch Bihar Open Rating 19 Oct - 24 Oct Cooch Behar
4th Roto Lawyers Cup 24 Oct - 28 Oct Belthangady
National Junior boys & girls chess 01 Nov - 09 Nov Gurugram, Haryana

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 46th National Women Chess Championship, Karaikudi

(L-R) Lighting of lamp during

inauguration. ShriBalaji,
TehsildarKaraikudi Town;Shri.
Sankaranarayanan, RDO
Sivagangai District; Shri.RM
Dongre, President Asian Zone
3.7;Shri.Bharat Singh Chauhan,
Secretary All India Chess
Federation; Shri.DV Sundar,
Hony Vice President FIDE; Shri.
Stephen Balasamy, General
Secretary Tamilnadu State Chess
Association;Shri K Arun Kumar,
Principal Chettinad Public School;
Shri SP Kumaresan, Chairman
Chettinad Public School.

Inaugural move by
Chief Guest Shri.
Sankaranarayanan, RDO
Sivagangai District.

(L-R) Mr.Balagunasekaran, Jt.Secy

TNSCA; Mr.Gopakumar MS, Chief
Arbiter; Mr. R Anantharam, VP
TNSCA; WIM Divya Deshmukh,
Second Runner Up; WGM
Bhakti Kulkarani, Champion;
Mr.N Rameswaran, Secretary
APSA College Tiruppattur; Mr.J
Jayakanthan IAS, District Collector
of Sivagangai; Shri. SP Kumaresan,
Chairman Chettinad Public School;
Ms.VantikaAgrawal, First Runner
Up;Mr. K Arun Kumar, Principal
Chettinad Public School and Dr. Siva
Kumar of Chettinad Public School