India’s spectacular performance at the World Youth Chess Championships at Greece dwarfed the rest of the chess playing nations including the formidable Russia.The rich haul of eleven medals included five golds, three silver and three bronzes is a clear indicator of the rising young talent
in the country. Due credit must also go to AICF for this huge achievement whose selection policies and training techniques are reaping the benefits.
M.Mahalakshmi,R.Vaishali ,her younger sibl ing R.Praggnanandhaa, Rakshi t ta Ravi , Bharath Subramanian, all from Chennai, won golds. Report on this event with photographs and the report on Asian Youth Championhips are featured in the centre pages of this issue.
V.Varshini of Tamilnadu and Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal won National Under-17 titles in Bangalore. In the Under-25 National Championship held at Patna Krishna Teja emerged winner.Reports on these National events along with those of FIDE rated tournaments held during October 2015 are presented in this issue.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from National Women Challenger and National Challenger Championships. GM Vladimir Alatortsev 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 ‘[email protected]’ or ‘[email protected].
26th National Under 17 Open and Girls Chess Championship was organized by United Kar-nataka Chess Association in Association with Bharath Electronic Officers Club, Bangalore and under the auspices of All India Chess Federation started at the Bharath Electronic Officers Club, Bangalore.
The championship was inaugurated by Sri Sri Sri Chandrashekara Swamiji, “The game of chess will help to improve the ability to think and definitely will guide you to become good citizen”, he said in his inaugural speech.Chief Guest of the inauguration function, Sri Manmohan Handa, Director, Bangalore Complex, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore said “BEL is promoting sports, culture and strong presence in corporate social responsibility in the rural area, predominantly in Education, Medical and Environment sustainability”. Sri K S Krishna, Hon President- BEOC in his guest speech said “We in BEL believe in upbringing of future generation socially and culturally as good citizen. Chess game will help in inculcat-ing patience, harmony which is need of hour”.
Sri D V Sundar, Vice President FIDE expressed his happiness and said “It is not who does the event, it is important to note with whom we align with in pursuit of popularizing the sport.” He congratulated UKCA in getting a top corporate House,Bharath Electronics to support chess in Karnataka state.
Sri D P Anantha, President, United Karnataka Chess Association thanked Sri DV Sundar,
Vice President, FIDE for providing necessary support and motivation for chess in the state
Earlier in the final round WFM Vaishali and Rajdeep Sarkar succumbed to defeat on top two boards thereby enabling other 4 players to tie for the top spot resulting in a six-way tie between Rajdeep Sarkar, Krishna Teja N, WFM Vaishali, Dhananjay, Karthik V and Kumar B for the first place. Based on better tie break score Rajdeep Sarkar emerged as champion, Krishna Teja N first runner up and WFM Vaishali second runner up. Kumaran B of Tamilnadu defeated overnight joint leader WFM Vaishali R of Tamilnadu in 44 moves on top board. They opted four knights game.Karthik V of AP defeated Rajdeep Sarkar of West Bengal on second board. They played Ruy Lopez game and played 57 moves.Dhananjay of Chattisgarh lost to Al Muthaiah of Tamilnadu on third board while playing Sicilion Accelerated dragon variation in 57 moves. Krishna Teja of AP defeated Harikrishna A Ra of Tamilnadu in 60 moves on 4th board. Defending National Under 17 Girls Champion WFM Varshini V (2105) of Tamilnadu retained the title. WFM Varshini V and Divya Lakshmi of Tamilnadu played out sicilion Nojdorf game on top board. Higher ranked Varshini drew the game on 27th move to score 10 points.Vishwa Shah of Maharastra lost to higher ranked WFM Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu while playing Kings Indian Attack on second board.
26th National Under 17 Open and Girls Chess Championship, Bangalore…
Rajdeep Sarkar and Varshini win titlesby IA B.H.Vasanth, Chief Arbiter
Inside….National Under-17 Chess Championships,BangaloreRajdeep Sarkar and Varshini win titlesby IA Vasanth B H, Chief Arbiter 1
8th RSC rating Open Ty, Ernakulam
Inian triumphs at Ernakulam
by IA M.Ephrame,Chief Arbiter 6
RGS Intl.Open FIDE Rating Ty,Guwahati Narayan Srinath wins title
by IA Debashis Barua, Chief Arbiter 8
4th MSV Memorial FIDE Rating Ty,Chennai
Praveen Kumar is Champion
by IA M.Muthukumar,Chief Arbiter 10
Smt.Taradevi Bagla Mem.Open, New Delhi
Purushothaman wins title
by IA M.S.Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter 13
9th KCA rated Open Tournament,Ernakulam
Shyam Nikhil wins title
by IA M.Ephrame, Chief Arbiter 16
7th KCM FIDE rated Open Ty, Coimbatore
Balasubramanian wins title
by IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter 19
1st Mastermind FIDE rated Ty,Chennai
R.R.Laxman wins title
by IA K.Thirukkalathy, Chief Arbiter 21
LNJ Bhilwara Group FIDE rating, Udaipur
R.R.Laxman triumphs
by IA Tiwari Radhe Shyam,Chief Arbiter 27
24th National Youth (U-25) Chess Ch,Patna
Krishna Teja is Champion
by IA R.C.Chatterjee, Chief Arbiter 29
Selected games annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 30Tactics from master gameby S.Krishnan 42Test Your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-58Vladimir Alatortsev 44
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Know your arbiter Udayan Kanti Ghosh
Shri Udayan Kanti Ghosh, aged 63 yrs (DOB 02.12.1952) is an International Arbiter. AICF awarded him National arbiter title in 1999 and FIDE awarded him the International Arbiter title in 2002. He is a commerce graduate with Llb from Calcutta university, West Bengal. His credentials are listed below.
Udayan Kanti Ghosh served as Chief Arbiter in four National chess championships, sixteen FIDE rated Tournament and over fifty State chess championships besides several open rapid chess tournaments. He was Deputy chief arbiter in National A National B and Asian Team Championships in 2009. He served as Arbiter in five Grandmaster open tournaments.
Besides being an IA he was also into chess administration. He was organising Secretary of West Bengal Chess Association from 1995 to 2011. He was Indian team manager World Open Chess championship, Philadelphia in 2005He was organising Secretary of Commonwealth chess championship in 1996. He also organised four National Chess championships,20 FIDE rated chess tournaments and over 75 state championships.
He was a chess player and his chess skills stays undiminished as he emerged champion in the ‘2nd Innings Tournament’ at Kolkata in 2014.He has authored a popular book on chess in Bengali titled ‘64’ White and Black.
Among his activities other than chess, he was associated with famous East Bengal Club. He is joint Secretary of 'Pather Panchali' (a social organisation) and also founder Secretary of Bengal Non-Olympic Association. As a creative artist, he has also penned several poems in his book 'naba basanta'.
LNJ Bhilwara Group Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2015,Udaipur…
The game ended in 31 moves.Varsha CR of Tamilnadu drew with Toshali V of AP in 41 moves on third board.
At the end of 5th round, Rajdeep Sarkar of west Bengal maintained the lead by scor-ing perfect 5 points. Pranavananda V of AP in second spot with 4.5 points. Eight play-ers namely, Karthik V and Krishna Teja of AP, Vaishali R, Kumaran B, Jaykumaar S, Al Muthaah of Tamilnadu and Athul Krishnan of Kerala are in third spot by scoring 4 each. Dhananjay (2187) of Chhattisgarh and Karthik V (2264) of AP agreed for draw at 23rd move on the second board.Pranava-nanda V (2174) of AP and Harikrishna A Ra (2166) of Tamilnadu played out Queen Gambit declined variation on the third board. Equal middle game turned into Bishop verses Knight ending. Pranavananda managed to promote his pawn. Harikrishna resigned at 69th move. In girls section, WFM Varshini V and WFM Mahalakshmi duo from Tamilnadu maintained the lead after they drew against each other on the top board to tie for the lead spot with 4.5 points each. They palyed out slav Defense and agreed draw on 77th move. Vantika Agrawal of Delhi, Priyanka Nutakki, Toshali V, Potluri Supreetha of AP, Potluri Saye Srreezza and Ankitha Goud Palle of Telangana and Vaibhavi Jadhav of Maharas-tra are in second spot with 4 points each.Vantika Agrawal and Priyanka Nuttaki played out Queen’s Indian Defense on second board and agreed for a draw in 43 moves.
In the valedictory funct ion Bharat Singh,CEO,AICF distributed the prizes in the presence of Mr K S Krishna, President,
BEOC, Hariharan V,Gen Secretary, AICF, Vaishali, Mr Veeresh Bevinamarad, GM, HR, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore Complex, Mr Jayasimha, Chairman, Jungle Lodge and Resorts, Govt of Karnataka and Dr Shyma-raju, Chairman, Reva Group of Institutions, Bangalore
Final ranking:Open Rk. Name Pts. 1 Rajdeep Sarkar FM WB 82 Krishna Teja N AP 83 Vaishali R WFM TN 84 Dhananjay CHT 85 Karthik V. Ap AP 86 Kumaran B TN 87 Pranavananda V AP 7½8 Shailesh Dravid MAH 7½9 Sanjeet Manohar GUJ 7½10 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 711 Muthaiah Al TN 712 Adhithya S TN 713 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J TEL 714 Rahul Srivatshav P TEL 715 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 716 Elancheralathan P TN 717 Erigaisi Arjun TEL 6½18 Rajarishi Karthi TN 6½19 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 6½20 Vaisnav M TN 6½21 Raghav Srivathsav V TEL 6½22 Ojas Kulkarni KAR 6½23 Arka Sengupta WB 6½24 Lawaniya Eshan UP 6½25 Likhit Chilukuri KAR 6½26 Saumil Nair GUJ 6½27 Athul Krishna S KER 628 Barath Kalyan M TN 629 Jayakumaar S TN 630 Grahesh Y AP 631 Dhanush Bharadwaj KAR 632 Shet Prajwal P KAR 633 Selvabharathy T TN 6
Kuwar Lakshay Raj Singh,Mewar of Udaipur giving away ‘A’category Champions trophy to GM R.R.Laxman of ICF in presence of Shri.Narendra Mudgal,Secretary NCTI & Executive Seccretary to founder Chairman, IA R.S.Tiwari, Chief rbiter.Shri.Y.S.Rathore,Secretary ARCA, Shri.Prakash Maheshwari, CEO,RWSM Ltd and Shei.K.B.Khatoo, CCO,RWSM Ltd.
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1st Master Mind FIDE rated Tournament, Chennai…
7th KCM FIDE Open Rated Chess Tournament,Coimbatore
(L-R) Venkatachalapathy, Joint Secretary, KCM,R Ramakrishna, Secretary, kCM, V Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter,Murugesan, Padmanaban, Winner IM R.Balasubramanian
(L-R)Mr.Chandrasekar, Mrs.Hamsavalli Chandrasekar, Mrs.Punitha Yusuff,Dr.Md.Yusuff,Cardiologist,GM R.R.Laxman(Winner),Advocate.,Dilipkumar,and Advocate Dhineshkumar,K.Thirukkalathy,Mr.Mohankumar and .Mr.C.Natarajan
34 Chandar Raju KER 635 Shane A Braganca GOA 636 Teja Suresh M AP 637 Jagadish P KAR 5½38 Arijith M KER 5½39 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 5½40 Das Susobhit ODI 5½41 Chavan Nameet MAH 5½42 Shyam Prasad Reddy K AP 5½43 Sharma Vibhav HAR 5½44 Ithal H L Rajath KAR 5½45 Kalki Eshwar D KAR 5½46 Bright L M Sunilkumar KER 5½47 Shivam Verma BIH 548 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 549 Aryan J&K 550 Shree Krishna P KAR 551 Prem Krishna N KER 552 Komal Srivatsav Sajja KAR 553 Arnav Muralidhar KAR 554 Pinak HAR 555 Karthikay C KAR 556 Aryagopal KAR 557 Vasishta S KAR 4½58 Vaghmarey Nikhil MP 4½59 Gokhale Hrishikesh MAH 4½60 Shirodkar Aayush GOA 4½61 Prajwal Gupta C R KAR 4½62 Yash Fadnavis MP 4½63 Anirudh B S KAR 4½64 Yashasvi J KAR 4½65 Maulik Uniyal UTTK 4½66 Sangam Kumar Singh BIH 467 Shubh Kapur KAR 468 Shanmukha K Nayak KAR 469 Ankit Loni KAR 470 A Prasanna Kumar KAR 471 Rithvik N Swamy KAR 472 Keshav Kothari KAR 3½73 Sumukha K Nayak KAR 3½74 Pratham Ajay KAR 3½75 Daksh N Sharma HP 376 Sri Shakti G L AP 2½
77 Satvik M. KAR 178 Suryansh Pajiala HP 179 Jairam Prabhu KAR 180 Subhash K V AP 081 Deepanshu Dhall PUN 0
Final ranking :Girls Rk. Name Club Pts. 1 Varshini V WFM TN 102 Mahalakshmi M WFM TN 8.53 Toshali V AP 84 Vantika Agrawal DEL 7.55 Divya Lakshmi R TN 7.56 Thamaraiselvi P TN 7.57 Smaraki Mohanty ODI 7.58 Potluri Supreetha WFM AP 79 Isha Sharma WCM KAR 710 Varsha C R TN 711 Abirama Srinithi G TN 712 Kavitha P L TN 713 P Aditee Aman GOA 6.514 Jadhav Vaibhavi MAH 6.515 Shah Vishwa MAH 6.516 Ankitha Goud Palle TEL 6.517 Jegatha B TN 6.518 Dhanashree Pandit MAH 6.519 Potluri Saye Srreezza TEL 620 Kavya Srishti K TEL 621 Sreelakshmi M S KER 622 Bidhar Rutumbara WFM ODI 623 Shah Rutvi GUJ 624 Manasa H R KAR 625 Priyanka S AP 626 Senthamizh Yazhini S TN 627 Niharika Ch AP 628 Jasper Jothi P TN 629 Mudaliar Nandini GUJ 630 Swera Ana Braganca WCM GOA 5.531 Dakshinya T R S TN 5.532 Devanshi Rathi DEL 5.533 Supraja Mahadevaswamy KAR 5.534 Abhirami Madabushi AP 5.535 Shah Akanksha GUJ 5.5
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Top seeded and current Under 15 National Champion, P.Iniyan of Tamilnadu won the title in 8th RSC FIDE Rating Open Chess tournament at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium Kadavanthara, Ernakulam. He remained undefeated with a score of 8 points in nine rounds having seven wins and two draws and lifted the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash prize of thirty thousand rupees.
The chief guest of the function, Shri. M G Rajamanickam IAS, the Dist. Collector of Ernakulam & Chairman of RSC gave away the prizes. The collector appreciated the RSC members for given the opportunity for the young kids who will be our country's asset in future. Shri. S A S Navaz, IRS(Retd.) Hony. Secretary RSC presided over the meeting. In his presidential address he promised to conduct the next year tournament inside the indoor stadium availing the whole area so as to accomodate more participants. Shri. M B Muralidharan President, Chess association Ernakulam welcomed the gathering. Shri. M Ephrame IA, the Chief Arbiter gave the tour-nament report. Shri. Vedanga Prabhu,FCA Hony. Treasurer, RSC, Shri. Manohar Prabhu former Secretary RSC, and Shri. Vijayaku-mar Observer CAK felicitated the function. Shri M Kannan Secretary Chess association Ernakulam, proposed the vote of thanks.
Earlier, the 8th RSC FIDE Rating Open Chess tournament got underway at Rajiv Ghandhi Indoor Stadium, Ernakulam, from 21st Oc-tober 2015.The event attracted 262 players out of which 177 players are Fide rated. Play-
ers from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and West Bengal participated. The current Under 15 National Champion P Iniyan of Tamilnadu was the top seed. The total prize fund of the event was two lakhs twenty two thousand , out of which Rs. 30,000/- was reserved to the winner.
The tournament was declared open by Dr. Sunil K Mathai, Vice president, RSC & President IMA, Cochin. Shri. S A S Navaz, IRS(Retd.) Hony. Secretary, RSC presided over the meeting. The president, Chess As-sociation Ernakulam, Shri. M B Muralidharan welcomed the gathering. Shri. Vijayakumar observer CAK and Shri M Kannan Secretary Chess association Ernakulam, felicitated the event. Smt. Roshini Abdeen organizing mem-ber RSC delivered the vote of thanks.
The 6th seeded, Ankan Roy of West Bengal hold the top seeded P Iniyan of Tamilnadu in round 5, where as the third seeded Alex Thomas of Kerala won all his game and the only sole leader with 5 points. Alex's win-ning streak continued in round 6, Alex beat the 2nd seeded Athul Krishna of Kerala and maintained the sole lead. The top seeded Iniyan out played Alex in round seven and takes the lead with 6.5 points along with the veteran U C Mohanan of Ernakulam, The leaders drew their games in the penultimate round and maintained the lead. In the final round, Iniyans quick win against Chandar Raju, gave pressure Mohanan against Alex and Alex did not allow Mohanan to pocket a full point, the game ended in a draw that
8th RSC FIDE Rating Open Chess tournament, Ernakulam
Iniyan triumphs at Ernakulamby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
helped Iniyan won the title with 1/2 point ahead of his nearest rival.
The tournament was organized in a good manner provided with spacious hall at Rajiv Ghandhi Indoor stadium Ernakulam. It was organized with the help of Chess Association Ernakulam and guided by the State Chess Association Kerala. General Secretary Chess Association Kerala, Shri. R Rajesh personally visited during the tournament even though in his very tight schedule to go to Greece to work as an arbiter in the World Youth Chess Championship. Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Iniyan P 82 Mohanan U.C. 7½3 Alex Thomas K. 74 Ankan Roy 75 Marthandan K U 76 Arjun Satheesh 77 Ananya Suresh 78 Anilkumar O.T. 79 Chandar Raju 710 Abhishek T M 711 Sanjay S Pillai 712 Anjana Krishna S 713 Hilmi Parveen 714 Joy Lazar M.A. 715 Bindu Saritha K. 6½16 Athul Krishna S 6½17 Joy Antony 6½18 Unas K.A. 6½19 Harikrishnan A 6½20 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6½21 Gopakumar K S 6½22 Unnikrishnan V S 6½23 Martin Samuel 6½24 Meghna C H 6½25 Dhanasekar K. 6½26 Abhiram Sudheesh 627 Prabhu R V 6
28 Ajeesh Antony 629 A Madhusoodhanan 630 Mani Bharathy 631 Jayakrishnan P 632 Naveen Giri 633 Nithin Babu 634 Abhiram C Nath 635 Hari Suresh 636 Arijith M 637 Deepak Kumar R 638 Sreedharan.E 639 Kabhilan S 640 Lakshmanan K A 641 Sanjay Snehal M S 642 Vinayak S 643 Paul S M 644 Mansoor C M 645 Jai Aditya D 646 Paulson Frenchy 647 B Varghees Issac 648 Praveen Raj T 649 Soman C R 650 Bimal Joseph P 651 Mohith R 652 Advaith S B 5½53 Rejith Babu C 5½54 Jubin Jimmy 5½55 Vaishnav S 5½56 Yukash Ram E 5½57 Rajashree Rajeev 5½58 Paul C J 5½59 Vidhubala S Swaha 5½60 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 5½61 Shreyas M 5½62 Prem Krishna N 5½63 Shince Sebastian 5½64 Vijaya Kumar V 5½65 Abhilash G 5½66 Fathima Abdeen 5½67 Ebin Joseph 5½68 Antony Simethy 5½69 Seljan K V 5½70 Sujithraj U Mallan 5½
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was the Chief Guest of the closing ceremony while Dr Subhash Basumatary, Director, Sports Authority of India, Regional Centre Guwahati was the guest of honor. Also pres-ent as distinguished guests were Former General manager of Oil India Limited Sri D.D Khound, Sri Manoj Kumar Deka, Director As-sam Tourism, Mrs Ratna Sinha, Superiedent of Police, Special Branch, Assam police, A.K Pansari, Chairman Royal Global School, Mrs Anubha Goyal, Principal, Royal Global School and Mridul Kumar mahanta, Chairman, All Assam Chess Association Adhoc Committee.No disputes/complaints were placed before the Appeals’ Committee.
Rk Name Club Pts1 Narayanan Srinath IM TN 8½2 Himanshu Sharma IM HR 8½3 Saurabh Anand BIH 8½4 Kathmale Sameer IM MAH 85 Trailokya Nanda ASM 86 Avijit Das WB 87 Kulkarni Rakesh MAH 7½8 Kumar Gaurav BIH 7½9 Singh Bhogen Rk MAN 7½10 Biswajit Nag TRI 7½11 Ritam Nag WB 7½12 Taorem Chitaranjan DEL 7½13 Debashish Dutta ASM 7½14 Mughaho Awomi NGL 7½15 A K Kalshyan DEL 7½16 Soni Krishan DEL 717 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 718 Heikrujam Jacky Singh MAN 719 Ashutosh Kumar BIH 720 Bipin Singhath. ASM 721 Pranab Kumar Nath ASM 722 Saksham Rautela UTK 723 Kushal Bharat Bagadia ASM 724 Rajdip Das ASM 725 Madhab Sarma ASM 726 Chiraranjan Bhuyan ASM 7
27 Rintu Brahma ASM 728 Neelabh Jyoti B ASM 729 Rohan Nag C WB 730 Gillford Thangkhiew MEG 731 Amlan Mahanta ASM 732 Rakesh Chakravorty ASM 6½33 Ganguly Ritabroto WB 6½34 Ajay Kumar Rai DEL 6½35 Kakati Uddipta ASM 6½36 Singh Chingkhei ASM 6½37 Nripendra Kumar S ASM 6½38 Singh Nabachandra MAN 6½39 Ranjit Chutia ASM 6½40 Sayantan Mukherjee WB 6½41 Raju Gogoi ASM 6½42 Robi Singh Jeron ASM 6½43 Neeraj Pratap H ASM 6½44 Sahajahan Ali ASM 6½45 Nitish Das ASM 646 Khanindra Barman ASM 647 Kaustuv Lahiri ASM 648 Rishita Sinha ASM 649 Sonsing Terang ASM 650 Arunabh Gohain ASM 651 Durlov Nanda ASM 652 Tuhin Kashyap ASM 653 Sasanka Shandilya ASM 654 Srijit Datta WB 655 Goutam Das WB 656 Anuraag Saikia ASM 657 Iftikar Alom M ASM 658 Nirab Jyoti Bordoloi ASM 659 Aneek Das WB 660 Prasurjya Das ASM 661 Padma Gogoi ASM 662 Gunajit Khataniar ASM 663 Sutnga H.D. MEG 664 Sankar Sarma ASM 665 Dhruba Jyoti Deka ASM 666 Garima Gaurav BIH 667 Tridev Buragohain ASM 668 Prandeep B ASM 669 S Chandra Sinha ASM 6
The RGS International Open Rating Chess Tournament 2015 has been held at RGS Global School, Betkuchi, Guwahati from 18th to 23rd October 2015 organised by Assam Chess Club in association with All Assam Ad-hoc Committee . Total numbers of participants were 243 including 153 rated with 3 IMs. Two players from neighboring country Sri lanka, and 1 from Bhutan played in the tourna-ment. Tournament was inaugurated by Dr M Angamuthu, Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup Metro in the presence of Sri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Chairman, Commonwealth Chess Federation, Deputy President, Asian Chess Federation and CEO, All India Chess Federa-tion, Sri A.K Pansari, Chairman, Royal global School, Sri Mridul Kumar Mahanta, Chairman, All Assam Chess Association(Adhoc Commit-tee), Anjan Jyoti Das, President Assam Chess Club, Pallab Hazarika, Asst. Director, India Post, Dr Siben Dutta, President, Akshayam and Mrs Anubha Goyal, Principal, Royal Global School.
In his inaugural speech, Mr. Mridul Kumar Mahanta welcomed all the players who came from different parts of the country and thanked Royal Global School management for hosting the tournament. Mrs.Anubha Goyal, Principal, Royal Global School, informed the gathering about the initiative taken by the school to promote the game of chess among the children. One such step has been to make chess as a compulsory subject to children from class 1 to 5 .
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan, who came down all the way from
New Delhi to attend the opening ceremony, lauded the efforts of All Assam Chess As-sociation Adhoc committee to promote the game in the state by organizing numerous tournaments during its short span of holding office. He also appreciated the wonderful in-frastructure provided by Royal Global School and hoped they will continue the patronage to chess in the future.
The tournament hall was air conditioned and sufficient toilet was over there. All the players feel comfort to play in the hall and enjoyed the game. Ample space was provided to the parents and accompanying person to wait during the matches and also for the players to rest between the rounds. Good quality vegetarian food was made available within the campus at nominal rates. Complimentary tea and biscuits was served to all players between the rounds. Leading Energy Drink giants Red Bull provided free drinks to all the participants.International Master and GM elect Narayan Srinath of Tamil Nadu, International master Himangshu Sharma of Haryana and Saurabh Anand of Bihar tied for the top spot after the completion of the final round by scoring 8.5 points. However Narayan was declared the champion based on better tie break score and bagged Rs. 100000/-. IM Himanshu Sharma of Haryana and Saurabh Anand from Bihar placed 2nd & 3rd, also bagged Rs. 50000/- & Rs. 30000/- respectively. Total Prize fund was Rs. 5 lakhs which were distributed to the prize owners.
In the closing ceremony former Governor of Meghalaya Sri Ranjit Shekhar Moosahari
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4th MSV Memorial International open Fide Rating Chess Tournament organized by Mount Chess Academy at the Spacious Narayan Rao Diamond Jubilee Auditorium in Jaigopal Garodia National Higher Secondary School, East Tambaram,Chennai.59.
This Tournament was inaugurated by Shri. S.Rajendran Joint secretary Jaigopal Garodia National Hr Sec School in the presence of Shri. K .Thirukalathy, Asst Treasurer, TNSCA. This event attracted 346 players from which including 2IMs,1FM and 243 rated players took part. The total prize fund was Rs. 1, 60,000/- and prizes were given to the top thirty players and Ten prizes each for all 10 categories. Paychessentry.com sponsored lucky draw prizes for three players in every Round.
This event was conducted in Eight round Fide Swiss event with time control of 90 min per player with 30 sec increments. In the initial rounds almost all the high rated players registered victories and the process of elimination of contestants took place after three rounds.
In the fourth round lesser seeded Vivek Ramanathan of MCA outplayed top seeded FM P.Maheswaran of Postal and was jointly leading with 11 others.At the end of the 5th Round four players IM Praveenkumar of ICF,,IM Balasubramaniam, of ICF, Ram S Krishnan of BSNL and V.S.Raahul of Chennai were leading the table with 5points each.
At the end of the 6th Round V.S Raahul became the sole leader with 6 points after had a fluent victory over IM R.Balasubramaniam. Four players Praveen Kumar,Ram S Krishnan,M.
Aadhityaa of Sankara School and Arvind of Chennai were on second spot with 5.5 points each.
In the Seventh Round and penultimate round overnight leader V.S Raahul was held to a draw by Ram S Krishnan in an well fought game. On the second board Praveenkumar was got a walkover point from Arvind of Chennai.Both Praveen Kumar and Raahul were leading with 6.5points
In the dramatic final round both leaders top seeded IM Praveen Kumar and V.S Raahul made an early peace treaty and split the points in the top board. .Ram S Krishnan defeated N.D.Rakshith of Chennai in an interesting battle and shared the top spot.
Five layers, IM Praveen Kumar, Ram S Krishnan of BSNL, M.Aadhityaa of Sankara School, V.S.Raahul of Chennai and K.Keerthivasan of NSN School were scored 7points out of possible 8rounds and tied for the First place and on tie break they finished first to fifth respectively. Praveen Kumar clinched title with cash prize of Rs25000.Ram S Krishnan came second and received Rs15000. M. Aadhiyaa of Sankara school came third got Rs12000.
Prof.K.Namasivayam, Gurunanak College was the chief guest and distributed the prizes in the presence of Shri M Muthukumar, Joint Secretary, Tamilnadu State Chess Association in the valedictory function.
Shri C G S Narayanan, FIDE Master of Chess Composition organsied Problem solving contests on 23rd and 24th October at the same venue in which more than 100
players took part. On the Technical part IA M.Muthukumar and team of experienced Arbiters conducted the tournament very well without any dispute.
Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Praveen Kumar C 72 Ram S. Krishnan 73 Aadhityaa M 74 Raahul V S 75 Keerthivasan K 76 Upendra R 6½7 Thamaraiselvi P 6½8 Tarun V Kanth 6½9 Venkat Sundaram 6½10 Maheswaran P. 6½11 Mythireyan P 6½12 R Balasubramaniam 613 Rathneesh R 614 Prasant N Nayagam 615 Vijay Shreeram P 616 Ram Vishwanathan 617 Mohan Kumar 618 Rakshith N D 619 Azeezuddin H. 620 Bharath Ravikumar 621 Rohith Krishna S 622 Siddarth M 623 Santhosh K V 624 Manish Anto Cristiano F 625 Vignesh R 626 Abdul Azeem R 627 Karthikeyan 628 Sai Krishnan R 629 Dheekshith Kumar R 630 Narendra Pallavan S 631 Arivu Selvan A S 632 Aravind K 5½33 Vivek Ramanathan V 5½34 Balasubramaniam H 5½35 Yutesh P 5½36 Tejasvi M 5½
37 Ravi Kumar K 5½38 Jyothsna L 5½39 Balachandar E 5½40 Naresh Kumar B G 5½41 Krishna K R 5½42 Alan Diviya Raj 5½43 Rangesh N D 5½44 Hiren K G 5½45 Srihari L R 5½46 Gokul Sathyan 5½47 Sneha G P S 5½48 Kruthika K R 5½49 Krishna Raaju J 5½50 Prahalada Varadhan R 5½51 George Daniel 5½52 Venkataramanan C 5½53 Sai Balaji E 5½54 Yashwanth Raj S 5½55 Suudhan S 5½56 S P Krishnamurthy 5½57 Hiranmayi K 5½58 Sivaji Baskar S 559 Kishore Kumar J 560 Swarnamala B 561 Sundar Chokkalingam 562 Srihari L 563 Arjun C Krishnamachari 564 Prithvi Rajan 565 Sakthi Subash A S 566 Rohan Kailash 567 Nidheshpa S 568 Dinesh Kumar J 569 Arun Kumar A 570 Shyaam M 571 Satvik V 572 Prahalad B 573 Rahul Bharadwaj B 574 Vignesh N 575 Surya Prakash M 576 Arvind A.R 577 Aadith R 578 Dawood.K 579 Dinesh Maran T 5
4th MSV Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai
Praveen Kumar is ChampionIA M.Muthukumar, Chief Arbiter
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80 Narendran Gouthaman 581 Sai Kiran G V 582 Sathiyaraj S 583 Anirudh D Venkat 584 Niteesh S R 585 Aravindan S 586 Shravan R 587 Vamsi Krishna B 588 Aghilan A 589 Sathish Sudalai Mani 590 Aringar Anna V 591 Murali R Krishnan 592 Dhanaviswanathan C T 593 Harsh R Shah 594 Jayachandra Srinivas V 595 Keerthana Maran T 596 Neha Srinibash D 597 Murugan V 598 Pranav Ram Hariharan 4½99 Aasha.C R. 4½100 Jegatha B 4½101 Adithya C J 4½102 Hrishikesan S 4½103 Sushmit Banerjee 4½104 Pranav Senthil Kumar 4½105 Suresh Agarwal 4½106 Sukumar.S 4½107 Tharshan M K 4½108 Arputha Jasmine B A 4½109 Rajendran P. 4½110 Murali Krishna 4½111 Sai Lokesh 4½112 A P Santhana Prabu 4½113 Jagadeesh B 4½114 Aishwariya J 4½115 Navaneeth B 4½116 Manooneeth B 4½117 Kannan Hemavati 4½118 Sidharth P G 4½119 Sivashankar M 4½120 Gowtham T S 4½121 Aishwarya Natarajan 4½122 Sridaar Ks 4½
123 Raja Sekar N 4½124 Murali Ranganathan 4½125 Paul I. Sumi 4½126 Srijan J 4½127 Darshana Balakrishnan 4½128 Anjana Devi G 4½129 Jagendran Kamak N 4½130 Shree Ganesh Muthu A 4½131 Syed Ibrahim Shah Jalal 4½132 Shreya Lakshmi R D 4½133 Sriram E 4½134 Srikanth V 4½135 Bharath Venugopal 4½136 V Bala Kumaran M 4½137 Balakrishnan V 4½138 Vijayaragavan A R 4139 Svnh Aditya 4140 Sarvadh Sathiaram 4141 Karthikeyan G 4142 Sanjay Srinivasan R 4143 Jayakrishna H 4
Smt. Tara Devi Bagla Memorial Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2015 was organised by Parents Chess Promotion Foundation at Adhyatama Sadhana Kendra, Chattarpur, New Delhi from 01-05 Oct 15.
A total number of 214 players which includes 142 International rated players from different parts of India and one player each from Singapore and USA participated in the event which were spread over five days with a time control of 90 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 4,00,000. In a brief opening ceremony, Shri. O P Bagla, Social Activist along with Shri. Radhakrishnan Saraf, Social Worker inaugurated the event by lighting the holy lamp in presence of members of organising committee. The Tournament was played under Swiss System with nine rounds and had Santu Modal of Income Tax Office Delhi as top seed. The tournament progressed on expected lines as seeded players registered comfortable victories on first two rounds. In the third round, ten year old Srihari L R of Tamilnadu stunned fourth seed Purushothman T in a well fought match while in the fourth round second seed Matta Vinay Kumar forced to sign the peace treaty with Kairav Parikh of Gujarat. In the fifth round it was the turn of West Bengal youngster Ritam Nag, who outwitted seasoned campaigner O T Anilkumar of Kerala. Meanwhile top seed Santu Mondal and K Srikanth of Indian Air Force registered five wins on the trot to lead the point table along with Ritam Nag of West Bengal at the end of fifth round matches.
But peace treaty in top boards in sixth and seventh round helped Matta Vinay Kumar
of Andhra Bank and T Purushothaman of Andhra Pradesh to catch up with the leaders and exciting results in the eighth round made the tournament wide open. At the end of penultimate round, three players namely; Santu Mondal, Matta Vinay Kumar and T Purushothaman occupied the pole position with seven points. Purushothaman, set aside his third round debacle and registered five wins on the trot to catch up the leaders before the final round.
In the final round playing safely, the top board battle between Matta Vinay Kumar and Santu Mondal ended without decisive result while Purushothaman registered his eighth win in the tournament against Jitender Kapoor of Delhi to lift the winner’s trophy along with Rs. 35000/- as cash prize. With seven and half points in the kitty Santu Mondal and Matta Vinay Kumar tied for the runner-up position but better Buchholz Tie-Break score helped Vinay to secure the First Runner-Up position. Haryana youngster Arjun Singh Puri clinched the best player trophy along with cash award of Rs. 30,000/- among 1600 below elo category while Tanishka Kotia of Haryana and H S Verma of Delhi become Best Female player and Veteran player respectively.
Sparsh Khandelwal of Chattisgarh, Shuban Saha of West Bengal, Srihari L R of Tamilnadu and Garv Rai of Delhi finished best among Under-14, Under-12, Under-10 and Under-8 Boys categories respectively. Archi Agarwal of Delhi, Bhushita Ahuja of Delhi, Trisha Kanyamarala of Andhra Pradesh and Ridhika Kotia of Haryana secured the honours in the same age group categories for girls.
In a befitting closing ceremony, International
Smt. Tara Devi Bagla Memorial Open FIDE Rated Tournament, New Delhi
Purushothaman wins titleby IA Gopakumar M S
Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan
Karl Fabel (1905 - 1975) German composer and International Master is well known for his retro analytical work. He wrote several books on this genre including"Introduction to Retrograde Analysis" in 1974. Here is a simple one not exactly a retro but rather a compositional exercise.
In an empty chess board place two white rooks and the two kings so that white can deliver ‘mate in one’ on the black king in four different ways.
Give it a try before looking at the solution on page 18
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Master Atanu Lahiri along with Shri. O P Bagla and Mr. Rajendra Gupta, Social Activist gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners. Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Purushothaman T 82 Matta Vinay Kumar 7½3 Santu Mondal 7½4 Srikanth K. 75 Ritam Nag 7
6 Anilkumar O.T. 77 Arpan Das 78 Alok Sinha 79 Baivab Mishra 710 Aan Sikka 711 Abhinav Gola 712 Haque Minhajul 713 Jatinder Kapoor 6½14 Sanchit Anand 6½15 Aneek Das 6½
Rating category prizes(below 1600)Rank Name State Point 1 Arjun Singh Puri Har 6 2 Varma Vikrant Har 6 3 Akhilesh K Srivastava Del 6 Category prize listBest Veteran Verma H S Del 6Best Female 1st Tanishka Kotia Har 6Best Female 2nd Gloria Deepti S TN 4Best Female 3rd Priyanka Bhatt UP 3 ½ Best Under-14 Boy 1st Sparsh Khandelwal Cht 6Best Under-14 Boy 2nd Rounak Pathak WB 6Best Under-14 Boy 3rd Lokesh Hans Har 6Best Under-14 Girl 1st Archi Agarwal Del 5Best Under-14 Girl 2nd Bhavi Bhansali Cht 5Best Under-14 Girl 3rd Sanya Dewan Del 3Best Under-12 Boy 1st Shuban Saha WB 6Best Under-12 Boy 2nd Parikh Kairav Guj 6Best Under-12 Boy 3rd Shah Rishabh Mah 5 ½ Best Under-12 Girl 1st Bhushita Ahuja Del 4 ½ Best Under-12 Girl 2nd Arya Ranjan Del 4Best Under-12 Girl 3rd Udisha Del 3 ½ Best Under-10 Boy 1st Srihari L R TN 5 ½ Best Under-10 Boy 2nd Mayank Pal Del 5Best Under-10 Boy 3rd Advait Bagri Sin 5Best Under-10 Girl 1st Trisha Kanyamarala AP 5 ½ Best Under-10 Girl 2nd Aarna Chugh Mah 4Best Under-10 Girl 3rd Ishita Kothari Cht 3Best Under-8 Boy 1st Garv Rai Del 5 ½ Best Under-8 Boy 2nd Arora Honi Raj 5Best Under-8 Boy 3rd Vidit Jain Pun 5Best Under-8 Girl 1st Riddhika Kotia Haryana 4 ½ Best Under-8 Girl 2nd Sara Gupta Maharashtra 4Best Under-8 Girl 3rd Dishita Negi Delhi 2Best Delhi Female 1st Kaamya Negi Delhi 5Best Delhi Female 2nd Kritika Pal Delhi 4 ½ Best Delhi Female 3rd Nimorika Sekhari Delhi 3 ½ Youngest Player Aarav Dengla Maharashtra 25/07/2009
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Secretary Chess Association Kerala, having taken a bold decision to close the entry one day before. This may well be the guidance to all organizers, players and parents. Kottayam Chess Academy is the one which is organizing all type of tournaments including the National premier. Having a good experience, now it has shared with members, particularly a team of parents involved in this tournament, which created a milestone.
Final rankings: Rk Name Pts1 Shyaamnikhil P IM 62 Marthandan K U 63 Arjun Satheesh 5½4 Ajeesh Antony 5½5 Mani Bharathy 56 Joy Lazar M.A. 57 Kannan R. 58 Yashwanth Babu P 59 Vijin Babu S 510 Madhusoodanan K.R. 511 Mohanan U.C. 512 Paul C J 513 Mansoor C M 514 Benjamin Varghees Issac 515 Vincent Dave 516 Rejith Babu C 517 Gopakumar K S 518 Mohanan C S 519 Sumesh Kabeer 520 Alex Thomas K. 521 Joy Antony 522 Joseph S A 4½23 Martin Samuel 4½24 Thulaseedharan K 4½25 Muralidharan M.B IM 4½26 Mohan Kumar K 4½27 Jithu Sajeevan 4½28 Suresh K.G. 4½
29 Abhiram C Nath 4½30 Vaishnav S 4½31 Sreehari G 4½32 Rajashree Rajeev 4½33 Harikrishnan A (kottayam) 4½34 Sanjay S Pillai 4½35 Genish Prakash J 4½36 Gautham B 437 Paulson Frenchy 438 Ajesh Kumar A 439 Abdul Raheem K A 440 Advaith S B 441 Meenu Rajendran 442 Anwin Jojo 443 Soman C R 444 Arun S 445 Adwait Meethal 446 Hariharan G 447 Jubin Jimmy 448 Ershad P 449 Francis N. P. 450 Ramakrishnan V 451 Justin Joseph 452 Prince K V 453 Kutty T P C 454 Aadhil Biju 455 Jolly V P 456 Raveendran C.R. 457 Unni Krishnan Pg 458 Rejith Kumar T N 459 John Paul 460 Sai Kiran K V 461 Abhilash G 462 Bindu Saritha K WFM 463 Salim Yoosuf 464 Prathapachandran K P 465 Aji Kumar A 466 Radhakrishnan N 467 Shyama Krishna S 468 Shanmuga Kumar A 469 Surya Jaya 4
F i rst seeded Internat ional Master, Shyaamnikhil, of Tamilnadu won the title in 9th KCA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament at Oberon Mall, Ernakulam. He collected 6 points in six rounds and won the Winner’s trophy pocketing a cash prize of thirty thousand rupees. Along with him, K.U.Marthandan from Ernakulam also collected 6 points but better tie break score helped Shyaam winning the title.
The chief guest of the function, Shri. Skaria Joseph, the president of Cochin Parents Chess Academy gave away the prizes. Shri. R. Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala presided over the meeting. Shri. M. S. Ananthakrishnan, former Secretary, Chess Association Ernakulam felicitated the function and Shri. Saju Varghese, member of Cochin Parents Chess Academy proposed the vote of thanks.
Earlier, the 9th KCA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament got underway at Oberon Mall, Ernakulam, from 2nd October 2015. The event attracted 271 players out of which 168 players are Fide rated. Players from Karnataka, Goa, Kerala and Tamilnadu participated.
International Master Shyam Nikhil of Tamilnadu was the top seed. The total prize fund of the event was two lakh, out of which Rs. 30,000/- was reserved to the winner.
The tournament was declared open by Shri. Venugopal, Director, GCDA Cochin. The Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation, Shri Venugopalan presided over the meeting. The Cochin Parents Chess Academy president, Shri. Skaria Joseph welcomed the gathering.
Shri. R. Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala gave the tournament report. Shri. N. A. Rasheed, Joint Secretary, All Kerala Chess Association and Shri. N. T. Suresh Kumar Secretary, Chess Association Iddukki District felicitated the event.Smt. T. M. Stella, Secretary, Cochin Parents Chess Academy delivered the vote of thanks.
The 3rd seeded, K. Alex Thomas of Wynad, Kerala was beaten by 78th seeded B. Gautham of Kerala and the 81st seeded Ruhaan Mahindru shocked 8th seeded Joy Antony of Kerala are the two upsets in round two. In round four, 27th seeded P. Vijin Babu caused a major upset shocking the 2nd seeded FIDE Master M. B. Muralidharan of Ernakulam. IM Shayam Nikhil and R. Kannan from Tamilnadu, U. C. Mohanan and K. U. Marthandan from Kerala got 5 points out of the possible 5 at the end of round five. In the final round, IM Shyaam beat Mohanan and Marthandan beat Kannan. Both Shyaam and Marthandan scored 6 points and tied for the first place but better tie break helped the IM Shyaamnikhil won the tournament.
For the first time in the Kerala’s chess history, a tournament was being organized with the help of chess parents. The tournament was organized in a good manner provided with air-conditioned hall (which was not mentioned in the prospectus) at a famous mall called Oberon Mall in the heart of the city of Cochin. The participation entries were closed one day before the start of the game which was appreciated by the parents as well as the players. But it was as a disappointment for some players who were regular late comers in tournaments. Thanks to Mr. Rajesh, General
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Shyam Nikhil wins title by IA M.Ephrame, Chief Arbiter
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IM R Balasubramaniam of Kanchi District won the 7th KCM FIDE open with a score of 7.5 from 8 rounds and a first prize of Rs.30,000. IM DP Singh took the runner up spot with 7 points. The tournament which had a prize pool of Rs 1.75 lakh was conducted in 8 round Swiss format.The event was organized by Kovai Chess Mates from 1st to 4th October at Krishna Gounder Kalyana Mandapam, Ganapathy, Coimbatore.
The tournament was inaugurated by N Jayabal, President of Coimbatore District Chess Association. The event had attracted 235 players from different parts. Half the way 9 players including the two IMs’, local challenge Dhanasekar and Pondi’sVinodh Kumar were leading the pack with 4 points. In their individual encounter in 7th round the IMs played it safe and drew to move on top with 6.5 pts. Meanwhile Vinodh beat Muralidharan to move onto 2nd spot with 6 points. In the 8th and final round Bala outplayed Sathiyanarayanan, but D P Singh was unable to do the same against Vinodh on the 2nd board. Singh had to settle for 2nd position and Vinodh for the 3rd slot. Dhanasekar of Coimbatore beat his compatriot Nandhakumar to finish on fourth .
The prize distribution function was as usual simple and quick, much to the liking of the players who were anxious to return to their destinations. The category prizes were distributed by the IM’s Balasubramaniam and D P Singh. Main prizes were distributed by R Ramakrishnan, Secretary of KCM and other office bearers.
Final standings:Rk. Name Pts. 1 R Balasubramaniam IM 7.52 Singh D.P IM 73 Vinodh Kumar B. 6.54 Dhanasekar K. 6.55 Raja A 6.56 Rajashakkthivel K K 6.57 Muthuswamy A. 6.58 Navnitan S V 6.59 Bharath Subramaniyam 6.510 Sathiyanarayanan R V 611 Dave Sneh 612 Sabarish V 613 Balasubramaniam H 614 Alan Diviya Raj 615 Thirumurugan R 616 Siddharth M 617 Shreyas M 618 Sa Kannan 619 Athish S 620 Ruban Sanjay M 621 Koushik Muthesh P 622 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 623 Thanga Manickam M 5.524 Vinod Kumar M. 5.525 Haricharann D V 5.526 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5.527 Prathish A 5.528 Meenakshi Sundaram 5.529 Narendran V 5.530 Arun Kumar P 5.531 Dhanush Ragav 5.532 Mohith R 5.533 John Christopher 5.534 Vijay Shreeram P 5.5
7th KCM FIDE Open Rated Chess Tournament,Coimbatore
Balasubramanian wins titleIA V Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter
70 Govind A.R 471 Steve Jero Nelson P 472 Jibi Kallingalpadem 473 Gabriel B M 474 Shibin K Benny 475 John P N 476 Akash Thomas 477 Radhakrishnan.K.S 3½78 Aswin P R 3½79 Mohammed Fasal V U 3½80 Pramod K K 3½81 Prabhu R V 3½82 Suresh Kumar N.T. 3½83 Unnikrishnan S 3½84 Adhidev K P 3½85 Sriram Udhayakumar 3½86 Fathima Abdeen 3½87 Vinodkumar K V 3½88 Lakshmanan K A 3½89 Devathma D 3½90 Devika P 3½91 John Veny Akkarakarn 3½92 Vikumar P K 3½93 Sanjeev M 3½94 Adarsh P.B 3½95 Rajeeb Mk 3½96 Prajwal V P 3½97 Sidharth D 3½98 Abhinav Chakrapani S 3½99 Ambareesh R 3½100 Sabu Joseph 3½101 Devanand S Pai 3½102 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 3½103 Manilal K.R 3½104 Adithya Sankar 3½105 Vivek P S 3106 Ebin Joseph 3107 Prasanna Swamy 3108 Rijo Mathew 3109 Vishal Raja 3110 Askkar Ali P 3111 Anil Kumar S 3
112 Suganthan S 3113 Nithyan S 3114 Sneha Merin Shaji 3115 Ashly Thasneem M 3116 Shine S J 3117 Krishnadev S Nair 3118 Vishnu Namboothiri M V 3119 Senbabu M B 3120 Nived Sreesobh 3121 Joyan Mathew 3122 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 3123 Prasath K R 3124 Nishad A 3125 Abhiramakrishnan K R 3126 Ashish Thomas Alex 3127 Aswin Biju 3128 Sasankan M Surendran 3129 Benny Paul P 3130 Arun Joseph 3131 Lakshmi Akshara Raj 3132 Valsaraju V 3
Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’on page12 Karl Fabel
Die Schwalbe 1937
Mate one!
1.Kd2! 1.Ke2! 1.Kf2 1.0-0!
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GM R R Laxman who is an officer in ICF won the title in the 1st Master Mind Chess Tournament.270 rated players out of 319 in total were participated.Vels University authorities provided their spacious auditorium to conduct this event.
Dr.Krishnamurthy, Registrar, Vels University inaugurated the event in the presence of GM Lakshman, Mr.Ajeeth and Baby Swapna.The real heroes are B.Sekar and Rajarishi karthi.
In round 5, Rajarishi won his game against Adyar Times winner IM Balasubramaniam.In round 7, B.Sekar beat the only Grand master Laxman.But in the final round they missed the bus. After 7th round they were paired against each other.Having 6.5 points each ,if any one of them won his game , he could be the champion.Sekar had an slight advantage of rook against bishop.But he could not stop the Rajarishi’s pawn promotion.They agreed for a draw and the title went to GM Laksman who was having better tie break score.
Dr.Md Yusuff Cardiologist and his wife Mrs.Punitha Yusuff were the chief guests and they distributed the prizes.M r. Chand ra s eka r, M r s .Hamsava l l i Chandrasekar, Advocate.Dilipkumar,and Advocate Dhineshkumar, felicitated the winners. Mr.Palaniappan,International Arbiter,and Mr.Sriman International Arbiter helped me to run the event suucessfully. Main prizes Rk Name Pts 1 Laxman R.R. 7 2 Sekar B 7 3 Rajarishi Karthi 7 4 Ashwath R. 7
5 Vinoth Kumar M. 7 6 Arun J 6½ 7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6½ 8 Siddarth M 6½ 9 Praveen Kumar C 6 10 Raahul V S 6 11 R Balasubramaniam 6 12 Mohan Kumar 6 13 Prajesh R 6 14 Prasannaa.S 6 15 Hemanth Raam 6 16 Vinodh Kumar B. 6 17 Keerthivasan K 6 18 Kumar S. 6 19 Gokul Sathyan 6 20 Tejasvi M 6 21 Chopon Babu .R.K 5½ 22 Upendra R 5½ 23 Umashankar A 5½ 24 Dharani Kumar M S 5½ 25 Ajay Karthikeyan 5½ Rating 1501 to 1800 1 Thamaraiselvi P 6 2 Yutesh P 6 3 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 4 Alan Diviya Raj 6 5 Rohith Krishna S 6 6 Manish Anto Cristiano 6
Below 1500 rating 1 Venkatesh K 6½ 2 D Kumar Jaganathan 6½ 3 Subramanian T.V. 6 4 Shyam Kumar M 5½ 5 Ruban Sanjay M 5½ 6 Sai Krishna S 5½
35 Deepak Kumar R 5.536 Nandha Kumar K 5.537 Haris N K 5.538 Subash Mathivanan 5.539 Ram Vishwanathan 540 Muralidharan R. 541 Kanishk S K 542 Sethuram S 543 Kathir Balaji K 544 Sathish Chandra G 545 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 546 Kishore Dev S. 547 Vishwak S 548 Balaji S 549 Prithvi Rajan 550 Surya Prakash J 551 Vaishak B 552 Harshad S 553 Surya Kumar S A 554 Edwin Dorairaj J 555 Swarnamala B 556 Swaminathan K 557 Mirza Ahamed Z 558 Pranav Hariraja D 559 Sai Prasath A S 560 Vijairam M. 561 Senguttuvan K P 562 Sukumar M 563 Sasikumar.S 564 Suriya Prakash S K 565 Anantha Sai S 566 Murali. R 567 Divyabharathi Masanam 568 Adithyan G 569 Tamilarasan B 570 Harish S 571 Genita Gladys A 572 Harsath S 573 Mohamed Ashef Noor 4.574 Pranav Anand 4.575 Rahul Bharadwaj B 4.576 Roshan S 4.577 Vaishag P V 4.5
78 Kabhilan S 4.579 Sanjay Snehal M S 4.580 S Gurukrishnan 4.581 Vignesh Srinivasan 4.582 Midhru Jayan K 4.583 Abhishek S 4.584 Sudarsan P 4.585 Ajay B 4.586 Elankumaran R 4.587 Sishir B 4.588 Siva Shanmugam S 4.589 Ashok Kumar T D 4.590 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4.591 Nishanth K 4.592 Subramanian P V 4.593 Honnesh Sankaran 4.594 Abinands R 4.595 Abinaya S 4.596 Rajan P 4.597 Vivek.M. 498 Adithya Krishna H R 499 Sajan J 4100 Jayaprakash M 4101 Subhash P M 4102 Sivashankar M 4103 Naveen K 4104 Jeyasurya Umashankar 4105 Nirmal L 4106 Evan Sanjoe 4107 Nawin J J 4108 Rohith N D 4 109 Punit Easwar S 4110 Tarunika P 4111 Prakalya Nithish S 4112 Jefrey J 4113 Aravindh Prasanna P 4114 Aakash Rajan 4115 Shanmuga Sundaram K 4116 Darsana M S 4117 Selvam D 4118 Umeshwaran S A 4119 Kaushik K 4120 Balasubramanian V 4
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World Youth & Cadet Chess Championship 2015,Haldiki,Greece…
India wins eleven medals5 Golds, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze
India gave out a strong historic performance in the World Youth Chess Championship that concluded at Porto Carras in Greece on November 5, 2015.The Indian number of 2015 equalled the titles won in 2006 but in fact this one at Greece should be weighed higher since Russia did not participate in Batumi 2006.
Titles were won by R Praggnanandhaa (Open U-10), Bharath Subramaniyam H (Open U-8), M Mahalakshmi (Girls U-18), R Vaishali (Girls U-14) and Rakshitta Ravi (Girls U-10).
Mahalakshmi was previously Under-14 champion in 2012, Vaishali was previously Under-10 champion in 2012 and Praggnanandhaa was previously Under-8 champion. Bharath and Rakshitta are tasting their maiden titles. Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa was sister and brother
while Rakshitta is daughter of IM T.S. Ravi and WIM Sai Meera Ravi.
India could have got more but Nihal Sarin figured in a tie for the first place but was pushed to silver in the Open Under-12 section. Last year, Nihal had won the Under-10 title. In the medals statistics chart, India won five gold, three silver and three bronze while no other nation won more than one gold. India by its tall performance has completely dwarfed the rest of the chess world. On the back of such a strong performance, the 2016 event will be partly held in Batumi and Indians are going to make another medal killing there!FM R.Praggnanandaa
Best unrated 1 Karn Rohit 5 2 Sri Ram E 5 3 Vanmathi 5 4 Venkatachalam S 4½ 5 Rangan Kumar 4½ 6 Sai Kishore K 4 Best female Harivardhini I 5½ Best veteran Dawood.K 5 Under 8-Girls 1 Savitha Shri B 4 2 Ratnapriya K 4 3 Keerthana Easwar 2 4 Harini K S 2 5 Pragnya H G 1½ 6 Daksha S 1½ 7 Rakshana R 0 Open Under 8 1 Ilamparthi A R 5 2 Muthu P 4½ 3 Harsh Suresh 4 4 Sarvesh Hinduja S A 4 5 Ashwin Sairam 4 6 Arjun Sidharth S 4 7 M Mahadevan 4 8 Badrinarayanan Nagesh 3½ 9 Rohit S 3½ 10 Adithya Verman K M 3 11 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 3 12 Tarun Krishna S 3 13 Sanjeev Raj K 3 14 Yogeswaran, V 2½ 15 Sahithyan D 2½ 16 Lalith R S 2 17 Vengatesh Krishnan C 2 Under 10-Girls 1 Mohana R 4½ 2 Shreya Lakshmi R D 4½ 3 Anjana Devi G 4 4 Subashree Ranganathan 4 5 Tina C 4
6 Meenatchi Rajam V 4 7 Akshaya G 4 8 Peshane S 3½ 9 Akshaya J 3½ 10 Varnikha Sre M D 3½ Open Under 10 1 Vedant P Kumbakonam 5½ 2 Srihari L R 5 3 Divyan T 5 4 Srikrishnan P 5 5 Gowtham T S 5 6 Samyak L 4½ 7 Surya Prakash J 4½ 8 Harsh R Shah 4½ 9 Rakesh P V 4½ 10 Anirud M 4½ Under12-Girls 1 Arputha Jasmine B A 5 2 Abishna Anojan 5 3 Rindhiya V 4½ 4 Divyabharathi Masanam 4½ 5 Kruthika Sre M D 4 6 Harini S 3½ 7 Aishwarya S 3½ 8 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 3 9 Tejaswini Sunkara 3 10 Avanthika R P 3 Open Under12 1 Rathneesh R 5½ 2 Krishna K R 5½ 3 Sakthi Subash A S 5½ 4 Vijay Shreeram P 5 5 Abishek A 5 6 Avinash Ramesh 5 7 Aadith R 5 8 Jayachandra Srinivas V 5 9 Rohan Kailash 4½ 10 Rathina Sabapathi A 4½ Under14-Girls 1 Keerthi V 5 2 Reshma C R 4½ 3 Benasir M 4½ 4 Shivani, S 4½
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Silver medals were won by Nihal Sarin (Open U-12), Dev Shah (Open U-8) and V Varshini (Girls U-18). Bronze medals went to Vantika Agrawal (Girls U-14), Saina Salonika (Girls U-12), Divya Deshmukh (Girls U-10).Eleven medals by a 50-player contingent is an excellent showing by the Indians. This is celebration time for Indian chess and the AICF needs to be congratulated for this huge achievement. Our selection policies and training techniques are working well. It is a reward for our coaches and clubs and chess organisers of events for nurturing the talent of the Indian chess players. Repeated success over the years means now the Russians and Georgians have to look at our system to be successful in chess.
Our youngsters have done extraordinarily well and there can be no better Diwali gift than this showing at Greece for the chess fraternity. All five champions come from Tamil Nadu state.Along with medal winners, India’s Aradhya Garg got his first International Master norm in this world event.
The final round of the FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 was played on 5th November 2015 in Porto Carras, Halkidiki.The players from India dominated the event, winning as many as 11 medals, among them 5 gold. Russia and USA took 4 medals each, but none of them was gold. Iran, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Germany, Greece, Uzbekistan and Vietnam have one gold medal each. Full list of the winners below.Mosadeghpour Masoud cruised to the victory in the Open U18 leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. In the Girls U18 WFM Mahalakshmi M lost her game, but she already secured the gold medal with one round to spare.One of the most dramatic sections was Open U16. After the multiple change of the leaders throughout the event Vogel Roven emerged as the winner. The local hero WIM Tsolakidou Stavroula won five games in a row to claim the gold medal in Girls U16.Vokhidov Shamsiddin won the Open U14 on better tie-break. WFM Vaishali R was rather convincing in the Girls U14.The Open U12 finished in a three-way tie on the first place. CM Muradli Mahammad took the gold medal on best tie-break score. Among the Girls U12 WFM Salimova Nurgyul won the medal on the better tie-break. Both U10 sections ended in a two-way ties where the winners were to be decided on additional criteria. The Indians were the most successful – FM Praggnanandhaa R claimed the gold in Open, while Rakshitta Ravi was best among the Girls.As was expected, Bharath Subramaniyam H won the gold in the Open U8. After the dramatic finish in the Girls U8, WCM Nguyen Le Cam Hien took the gold medal on better tie-break.The penultimate round of the FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 was played on 4th November 2015.Mosadeghpour Masoud made a quick draw to reach 9,0 points and maintained the lead in the Open U18 section half a point ahead of GM Alekseenko Kirill.
In Girls U18 WFM Mahalakshmi M of India was already celebrating as she secured the title with one round to go with 9/10 points.In the Open U16 section there has been another change of the leaders. Agmanov Zhandos lost and now Vogel Roven (GER), FM Luca Jr Moroni (ITA) and FM Haik M. Martirosyan (ARM) are on top with 8 points each. The local star WIM Tsolakidou Stavroula defeated the co-leader WFM Kiolbasa
Oliwia in Girls U16 and now she is sharing the lead with WIM Bykovtsev Agata (USA) and WFM Sieber Fiona (GER) with 8 points each.In the Open U14 the overnight leaders Vokhidov Shamsiddin and FM Esipenko Andrey are now joined by FM Fakhrutdinov Timur. In Girls U14 WFM Vaishali R from India won another game and maintained the lead with 8,5 points.In the Open U12 section anything is possible as five players share the first place with 8 points each: CM Nihal Sarin (IND), CM Muradli Mahammad (AZE), Firouzja Alireza (IRI), Nesterov
Arseniy (RUS) and CM David T Peng (USA).In Girls U12 WFM Salimova Nurgyul (BUL) is on the winning row, holding the lead with 9,0 points, but Yip Carissa (USA) is following the pace and is only half a point behind. In the Open U10 FM Praggnanandhaa R. (IND) and Makoveev Ilya (RUS) enter the final round with equal number of the points – 8,5. In the respective Girls section Song Yuxin (CHN) lost her game but was still on the top together with WCM Mungunzul Bat-Erdene (MGL) and Rakshitta Ravi (IND).In Open U8 Subramaniyam H Bharath (IND) is the biggest candidate for the title, as he led with 9 points, full point ahead of the followers.
-Open U18:1. Mosadeghpour Masoud IRI 2420 9,52. GM Alekseenko Kirill RUS 2539 8,53. IM Yuffa Daniil RUS 2485 8,5Girls U18:1. WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 2019 9,02. WFM Varshini V IND 2105 8,53. WIM Blagojevic Tijana MNE 2315 8,0 (tie-break)Open U16: 1. Vogel Roven GER 2417 9,0
WFM M.Mahalakshmi
Bharat Subramanian (third from right) and Dev Shah third from left) won Gold and Silver respectively
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2. FM Moroni Luca Jr ITA 2460 8,53. FM Martirosyan Haik M. ARM 2366 8,5 (tie-break)Girls U16:1. WIM Tsolakidou Stavroula GRE 2279 9,02. WFM Gazikova Veronika SVK 2190 8,53. WIM Bykovtsev Agata USA 2117 8,0 (tie-break)Open U14:1.Vokhidov Shamsiddin UZB 2336 9,02. FM Esipenko Andrey RUS 2384 9,03. FM Gholami Aryan IRI 2400 8,5 (tie-break)Girls U14:1. WFM Vaishali R IND 2314 9,52. WFM Sliwicka Alicja POL 2129 8,53. Vantika Agrawal IND 2039 8,0 (tie-break)Open U12:1. CM Muradli Mahammad AZE 2121 9,02. CM Nihal Sarin IND 2096 9,03. CM Peng David T USA 2231 9,0
Girls U12:1. WFM Salimova Nurgyul BUL 2144 9,52. Yip Carissa USA 2007 9,53. WCM Salonika Saina IND 1858 8,5Open U10:1. FM Praggnanandhaa R IND 2077 9,02. Makoveev Ilya RUS 1982 9,03. Wang Justin USA 2046 8,5 (tie-break)Girls U10:1. Rakshitta Ravi IND 1516 9,02. Song Yuxin CHN 1700 9,03. WFM Divya Deshmukh IND 1772 8,5Open U8:1. Bharath Subramaniyam H IND 1602 9,52. Dev Shah IND 1521 9,03. Fiszer Bartosz POL 1443 8,5 (tie-break)Girls U8:1. WCM Nguyen Le Cam Hien VIE 1299 9,02. Gaal Zsoka HUN 1534 9,03. Ivanova Dilyana BUL 1369 8,5 (tie-break)
India top Asian Youth Chess Championship with 17 medals
India impressed with a rich haul of 17 medals to be declared overall winners in the Asian Youth Chess Championship that concluded here on 11th August 2015.Bagging 5 Gold, 5 Silver and 7 Bronze out of the available 36 medals, Indian juniors made their presence felt in the event organised by Korea Chess Federation.
Iran took four gold, two silver and one bronze for a tally of seven medals. Vietnam won four medals, one gold, two silver and one bronze, while strong contender China could win just two medals in one gold and one silver.nUzbekistan picked up two medals, one gold and one bronze.Mongolia took three medals, while Kazakhstan won a solitary bronze medal.
Players like Divya Deshmukh (Girls Under-10) of Nagpur, R Vaishali (Girls U-14) of Chennai have won both Asian and World Age Group competitions. Vaishali won by the widest of margins.Champions Bharath Subramaniyam (Open U-8), Aakanksha (Girls U-16) and Krishna Teja (Open U-18) are a few names we are going to read more in the future.
Many Indians like Shahil Dey (Open U-8), Arjun Erigaisi (Open U-12), Chandreyee Hajra (Girls U-16) tasted moments in the lead but could not win Gold this time. India's IA M.S Gopakumar of Delhi was the Chief Arbiter.
The LNJ Bhilwara Group Fide Rating Chess Tournament in category ‘A’ for Open & category’B’ for 1799 & below held at Bhandari Darshak Mandap,Udaipur, Rajasthan from 09/10/2015 to 13/10/2015.The tournament was organized the National Chess Trust of India & was sponsored by LNJ Bhilwara Group of Industries.
Total number of 483 players participated in both category. in ‘A’ category out of 85 players 78 were Fide rated players including GM R R Laxman of ICF & IM Kathmale Sameer of MAH. In ‘B’ category (Below 1799) total number of 398 players including 142 Fide rated players from across India participated in this 9 round event played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of in ‘A’ 90 minutes each with increment of 30 second from move 1 & in ‘B’ 60 minutes each with increment of 30 second from move 1. GM R R Laxman of ICF with a rating of 2436 started as the top seed for ‘A’ Rs. 2,80,000/- & In ‘B’ Parmar Vishal, Gujrat with a rating of 1763 started as the top seed for Rs. 2,20,000/- prize money tournament.
Mr. C S Bhandari, Mayor of Udaipur inaugurated the event on 09th Oct 2015 by making the customary first move against GM R R Laxman, ICF in presence of Mr William D’Souza, principal,St Anthoni School, Mr prakash Maheshwari, CEO RSWM Ltd. Mr B S Chauhan, CEO AICF, Mr Y S Rathore, Secy. ARCA, Mr K B Khatod, COO RWSM Ltd, IA R S Tiwari, Chief Arbiter & Mr Narender Mudgal, Secy. NCTI & Executive Secy. to founder chairman Mr L N Jhunjhunwala.Our Prime Minister Mr
Nrender Modi sent a warm congratulatory massage wishing the tournament success. Also Mr Riju Jhunjhunwala, grandson of LNJ & Chairman of RSWM who sponsored the tournament sent massage from abroad for the success of the tournament.
‘A’ Category tournament was won by GM R R Laxman, ICF who pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- along with coveted trophy. Second, Third & Fourth Prizes with trophies were bagged by IM Kathmale Sameer of Maharashtra home favorite Dave Kantilal Rajasthan & Santosh Sinha of Gujrat respectively.
In B category Umesh Lalwani of Maharashtra won First prize of Rs. 40,000/-plus handsome trophy while Second,Third & Fourth prizes with trophies were bagged by Pathak Anshu Kr. Of UP, Shushant Manuja of Punjab & Shatrughan Kaushik of Delhi respectively.
In the glittering prize distribution ceremony held in Bhandari Darshak Mandap Udaipur Rajasthan the prizes were distributed by Kunwar Lakshay Raj Singh, Scion of Mewar Dynesty.Players were provided free accommodation & delicious food at venue. Also medical facility & professional security was available at venue arrengrd by the LNJ Bhilwara group.
The tournament was well received by the chess players who participated in large number & made this tournament as the highest record entry in rating tournament ever organized in the state of Rajasthan. This indicates the popularity game of chess in
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R.R.Laxman wins at UdaipurIA, Tiwari Rade Shyam, Chief Arbiter
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24th National Youth (U-25) Chess Championship 2015, Patna....
Krishna Teja is Championby R.C.Chatterjee IA, Chief Arbiter
The 24th National Youth (U-25) Chess Championship 2015 was organised by All Bihar Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 12th to 19th October 2015 at Indoor Stadium, Patliputra Sports Complex, Kankarbagh, Patna.
The inaugural ceremony was held on 12th October 2015 at 1.30 p.m by lighting the traditional lamp with all the dignitaries on the dais participating. After this International Master Krishna Teja, N. of AP and Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Art, Culture & Youth,Govt. Of Bihar and President of All Bihar Chess Association inaugurated the Championship by making the customary first move on the board. Immediately after the inauguration ceremony Managers-cum-players meeting was arranged at the venue under the chairmanship of Mr. R.C. Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter., where all the necessary technical matters were discussed and the Appeals Committee was formed.
A total 63 players from 16 different states among which 46 Rated players including one IM participated in the championship. Time control 90 minutes with 30 sec. Increment from move one. All the boards were provided with DGT chess clock. Tournament Hall was very big and good but there were power cuts on few days, though protected by Generator. After well fought games International Master N Krishna Teja of Andhra Pradesh became the Champion, Runner up was Himal Gusain of Chandigarh and Sa Kannan of Tamilandu stood third.
Organisers provided lunch to all players, guardians, coaches and official free of cost on the days of double round. Arbiter’s team headed by Mr. R.C. Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Dy. Chief Arbiter and Mr. Anandh Babu V.L., FA, Live Game Operator conducted the championship successfully without a single Appeal and dispute. All the Arbiters performed their duty sincerely and satisfactorily.
All Bihar Chess Association, Organiser of the Championship has so many dedicated personalities like Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh, Working President, ABCA Mr. Dharmendra Kumar, IA, VP, ABCA, Mr. R. K. Hansdah, VP, ABCA, Mr. Biplav Randhir, VP, ABCA, Mr. Manoj Kumar Verma, Treasurer, ABCA, Mr. Deepak Kumar, Jt. Secretary, ABCA, Mr Sanjiv Kumar, Jt. Secretary, ABCA, under the leadership of Mr. Arvind Kumar Sinha, Secretary, ABCA and Mr. Vivek Kumar Singh, President of ABCA organised the championship in an exceptional manner.Prize Distribution Ceremony was held on 19th October 2015 at 4.30 p.m. at the venue. Final ranking(first 15 placings) 1.Krishna Teja N(AP)8½; 2.Gusain Himal(CHD)8; 3.Sa Kannan (TN) 6½; 4. Rajarshi Dutta (WB)6½; 5.Manigandan S S (TN)6; 6.Barath L(TN)6; 7.Shrutarshi Ray(WB) 6; 8.Vivekananda L(KAR) 6;9.Barath Kalyan M (TN)6;10.Anshul Nigam (JHA)6; 11.Bhatt Jalpan(GUJ)6;12.Rahul Kumar(BIH)5½;13. Pimpalkhare Vedant (MAH)5½;14.Sahil Dhawan(HAR)5½;15.Uma Maheswaran P(TN) 5½;
Rajasthan & adjoining states Unique feature of the tournament was the participation of school students (Aprox-200). The enrty fee of the students were paid by the respective Schools themselves and not by the individual students.
There was not a single dispute & the event was completed smoothly IA, Rajkumar, IA Nihar Ranjan Sasmal, FA Dilip Rawal, FA Rajender Teli, NA Sunil Soni, NA Vikram Singh were the arbiters of tournament with Mr R S Tiwari as Chief Arbiter.Final ranking: Bhilwara Rk Name Pts1 Laxman R.R GM 82 Kathmale Sameer IM 7½3 Dave Kantilal 74 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6½5 Kulkarni Rakesh 6½6 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 6½7 Bhogal Rupesh 6½8 Kumar Gaurav 69 Negi D.S. 610 Srikanth K. 611 Shuban Saha 612 Jeel Shah 613 Rajesh Kumar Nath 614 Mukund G. Bhatt 615 Wazeer Ahmad Khan 616 Rathore Sonakshi 5½17 Srija Seshadri WFM 5½18 Parikh Kairav 5½19 Anil Shivpuri 5½20 Sharma Avinash 5½21 Sanjay Sinha 5½22 Mehta Naitik R 5½23 Joy Pankaj Shah 5½24 Veer Bhan Harsh 5½25 Ahirwal Dinesh 526 Mishra Uttam 527 Batham Avinash 528 Verma H.S. 529 Dilip Pagay 5
30 Mukherjee S.K. 531 Makwana Ashvin K 532 Ansh M Shah 533 Nitul Khare 534 Krishnamoorthy K 535 Dave Shiv Shankar 536 Bhatt Pradip P. 537 Chhabra Kunal 538 Lokesh Hans 4½39 Anshul Kaushik 4½40 Patel Palak 4½41 Sparsh Khandelwal 4½42 Thaker Kautilya P 4½
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c4 g6 7.h3 Bg7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Be3 [9.Nc3 is more common here.]9...Nd7 [The main idea behind this move is to take the initiative after f7–f5.]10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.Nc3 c5[Diagram # Seeing far ahead, black plans to take her knight to d4 via b8 and c6. This also prevents d3–d4 which might give white some good chances]
12.Qc1 Nb8 [The knight looks to occupy the key square d4 via c6.]13.Bg5 f6 14.Bh6 Nc6 15.Rb1 Rb8 16.b3 f5! [Black has suc-cessflly achieved her strategic objectives of playing her knight to d4 and moving her pawn to f5.]17.exf5 Bxf5 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Qe3 Nd4 20.Ng5? [Diagram #]20...Bxd3! [This exploits white's necessity of guarding her pawn on d3 and knight on Ng5 with her queen. The white queen is overloaded.]21.Ne6+ Nxe6 22.Qxd3 Qg5 23.Ne4 [Had she re-positioned her rook with 23.Rbd1 the
(position after 20.Ng5)second blow from black would not have happened.]23...Qxg2+! 24.Kxg2 Nf4+ 25.Kg3 Nxd3 26.Rbd1 Nf4 27.Nc3?? [Dia-gram # When troubles come, they come not in single spies but in battalions, said Shake-speare. With this move white is asking to be hit, and black obliges!]
27...Nxh3! [And this is the final blow. Af-ter 28 Kxh3 Rf3+ wins a third pawn and completely wrecks white's confidence and happiness.]0–1
(2478) - Evgeny Agrest (2592) 2003 went: 9...Nd7 10.Rd1 c6 11.Bb3 Qc7 12.h4 0–0 13.Ng5 (13.Bg5 Bd6 14.Qe4 Re8 15.Rd3 h6 16.Re1 c5 17.Ba4 c4) ]10.Rd1 Nd7 11.Rd3 c5 [11...Nb6 (the natural con-tinuation) 12.Bb3 a5 13.Bc2 Nd5 14.Ne5 the natural and best square for the knight in most d4 openings. 14...Bd6 15.Rh3 g6 16.Qd2 Qf6 17.Qh6 Qh8 (17...Qg7? 18.Qxg7+ Kxg7 19.Bh6+±) 18.Bg5 (the threat is to chase away the knight on d5 with c3–c4 and then play Bg5–f6! winning) 18...b5 19.Be4 Ra6! 20.Bxd5 Bxe5 (20...exd5? 21.Bf6!+–) 21.dxe5 exd5 22.Rh4² (Not 22.Bf6? Rxf6! 23.exf6 Bxh3–+) ]12.d5 exd5 13.Rxd5 Bf6 14.Bf4 Qa5 [14...a6 15.Rad1 b5 16.Bb3 Re8 17.Qd2 Ra7= white's pin along the d-file is ineffective as black can play ....Qb6 next.]15.Bd6 Rd8 16.Rad1 b5!? [Boldly entering complica-tions. Safer was: 16...Nf8 17.Rxc5 Qb6 18.Bxf8 Rxd1+ 19.Qxd1 Kxf8 20.Rb5 Qc7 and black is slightly better with her two bishops against white's isolated pawn on the c-file.]17.Bxc5? [White plunges into even greater turmoil with this move. The critical move which is comparatively better for her is: 17.Bxb5! Bb7 18.Rf5 Re8 19.Qc4 Nb6 20.Qxc5 Rec8 21.Qb4 Qxa2³]17...bxc4!–+ 18.Be7 [this is what white had planned. But it gives away too many pieces for the queen - a rook and two bishops!]18...Qxd5 19.Rxd5 Re8 [the bishop on e7 is lost. White had probably miscalculated.]20.Qd2 Rxe7 21.h4 h6–+ [Both sides make emer-gency exits for their kings to avoid snap back rank mates.]22.Nd4 [Diagram #]22...Bxd4?! [This tame and expected move exchanging off her good bishop for the knight moves black away from a winning position to a strong position. Her best aggressive continuation was
(position after 22.Nd4)to energise her inactive pieces with: 22...Ne5! 23.Rd8+ Kh7 24.Nf5 Rb7! (simultane-ously attacks the Rd8 and the Nf5.) 25.Ne3 (25.Rxc8 Rxc8 26.Nd6 Rb1+ 27.Kh2 Rcb8) 25...Bxd8 26.Qxd8 Rab8! 27.Qd4 Nd3 (27...f6 was also good.) 28.Nxc4 Rd7 29.Nd6 (29.Qe4+ g6) 29...g6–+]23.Qxd4 Nb6µ 24.Rd8+ Kh7 25.Qc5!= Re1+ 26.Kh2 Be6 [In view of white's threat of Qf8, Black's concern is to save her f7 pawn. However, if 26...f6 27.Qf8 Bb7 28.Qg8+ Kg6 29.h5+ Kf5 30.Rxa8 Bxa8 31.Qxg7±]27.Rxa8 Nxa8 28.Qxa7 Bd5 29.a4!± [Though in material equivalence, black is ahead, her pieces are not well co-ordinated and white's a-pawn has become a big menace.]29...Re4 30.Kg3 h5 31.f3 Re2 32.Qc5 Rd2 33.a5 g6 [As long as the black rook is on d2, defending her Bd5 which is in turn compelled to defend her Na8 which has no move at all, black need not fear the a-pawn. But white now uses her king to try invade the black king-side and set up mating attacks.]34.Kf4 Be6 35.Ke5 Kg7 [Preventing the white king from getting to f6. A big er-ror would be: 35...Rd5+?? 36.Qxd5 Bxd5 37.Kxd5 Nc7+ 38.Kc6 Na6 39.Kb5 Nc7+ 40.Kxc4+– g5 41.Kc5 gxh4 42.c4 Kg6 43.Kb6 and white's a-pawn queens.]36.Qc6 Rd8 [Thus, the black forces are now tied to to-
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tal defence. 36...Bd5 37.Qxd5 f6+ 38.Kd6 Rxd5+ 39.Kxd5 would win for white as shown in the previous note.] 37.Qb7 Rc8 38.Kd6
38...Rd8+? [Black misses a wonderful oppor-tunity to turn the tables on white with: 38...Nc7! 39.a6? (39.Ke5=) 39...Kf6! 40.Qxc7 (40.a7?? Ne8#!) 40...Rxc7 41.Kxc7 Ke5! 42.a7 Bd5–+ While the bishop sacrifices itself for the a-pawn, the black king would be free to collect the defenceless white pawns.]39.Ke5 [If 39.Ke7 Rc8 40.a6 Rc7+! 41.Kd8 Kf8=]39...Rc8 40.Kd6 Nc7 41.a6 Na8 [Again black misses the stunning 41...Kf6 which threatens mate with...Ne8# and takes the upper hand as described in the note to black's 38th move.]42.a7 Rd8+ 43.Ke5 [If 43.Kc5 Kf6 44.Qe4 Ke7 and victory for white is elusive.]43...Rd5+ 44.Ke4 Rd8 45.Kf4 Rc8 46.g4 hxg4 47.fxg4 Rd8 48.h5 gxh5 49.gxh5 Rc8 50.Qe7 Kh7 51.Qd6 Rg8 [Though material equivalent is level, black's cornered knight gives white the initiative and black has to tread extremely cautiously.]52.Qc6 Rc8 53.Qd6 Rg8 54.Qb8 Rc8 55.Ke5 Kg7 56.h6+ Kh7 [Capturing the pawn was suicidal: 56...Kxh6? 57.Kf6 Kh7 (57...Kh5 58.Qg3 Rc5 59.Qf3+ wins the knight.) 58.Qh2+ Kg8 59.Qh6 mates.]57.Qb1+? [White sees a new diagonal for her queen to attack the black king, but it is not the best and she could lose her h6 pawn. Best
was to keep the pressure on black with: 57.Kf6!±]57...Kh8?
[Black lets go another equalising line. With the white queen on b1, she should now capture the h6 pawn and survive: 57...Kxh6 58.Kf6 Kh5 59.Qe4 Nc7 60.Qf3+ Kh4 61.Qf4+ Kh3 62.Qxc7 Rxc7 63.a8Q Rd7= All the black forces are proteced and she threatens ...Rd3. the white queen cannot find any weaknesses to attack.]58.Kf6 Rg8 59.Qb8 Kh7 60.Qb1+ Kh8 61.h7 [Stron-ger was: 61.Ke7 Nc7 62.Qe4 Nd5+ 63.Kd6 Rd8+ 64.Kc5 Nf6 65.Qh4 Rc8+ 66.Kb4 Nd5+ 67.Ka3 black cannot meet the winning threat of Qg5 as the passed a-pawn is no longer under control.]61...Rg6+ 62.Ke7 Bd5 [Not 62...Kxh7? 63.Qh1+ Kg7 64.Qxa8]63.Qf5!+– [Now white is winning as the black rook cannot get back to g8 to de-fend the cornered knight.]63...Nb6 64.Kf8 [With this move White is threatening 65 Qxd5! Nxd5 66 a8=Q]64...Be6 65.Qb5 Na8 66.Qb8 Kxh7 [Black has lost the battle and captures the h7 pawn. If 66...Bd5 67.Qe5+ wins the bishop.]67.Qh2+ Rh6 68.Qg2! [A double attack, mate or the knight on a8.]68...Rg6 69.Qh1+! [Vigilant, even at the time of victory. If immediately: 69.Qxa8 Rg8+ 70.Ke7 Rxa8 and black wins!]69...Rh6 70.Qxa8 1–0
Priyanka,K (2035)Mohanty,Kiran M (2146) [B56]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.h3 g6 7.Be3 Bg7 8.g4 d5 9.Bg2 [White treads a new path. H.Greiff vs S.Peterson (2162) 2000, went: 9.Bb5 0–0 10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.Nxc6 Qc7 12.exd5 Ba6 13.g5 Nh5 14.Qd2 e6 15.0–0–0 Bc4 16.Bd4±]9...dxe4 10.Nxc6 Qxd1+ 11.Rxd1 bxc6 12.Nxe4 Nd5 [After 12...Nxe4 13.Bxe4 Bd7 14.c3 a6² White is better as black has prob-lems in completing her development.]13.Bd4 f6? [A move like f7–f6 can very rarely be good and it is true here. Better was: 13...Bxd4 14.Rxd4 Rb8]14.c4!
(white is looking at a scenario where she captures Bxc6+)] 14...Nf4? [This loses. The lesser evil was: 14...Nb4 15.Rd2 Kf7 16.a3 Na6 17.Be3 and white has a clear advantage.]15.Nxf6+! Kf7! [Black makes the only move that would limit her disadvantage to just one pawn. If 15...Kf8 16.Bxc6 Rb8 17.Be5 Rb6 18.Nxh7+ Kg8 19.Bxf4 Rxc6 20.Ng5+–]16.Bxc6 Rb8 17.Ne4 Bxd4 18.Rxd4 Rxb2 19.Nc3 [Bet-ter was: 19.Ng5+ Kf6 20.Rxf4+ Kxg5 21.Rf7 Kh4™ 22.Rxe7]19...g5 20.h4 Rc2! 21.Nd1 Bxg4 22.hxg5 e5 [Though white has a pawn more, the position is level as black's pieces are more active.]23.Rd6? [Better was: 23.Rd2 Rxc4 24.Rh6 Kg7 25.f3 Bf5 26.Ne3 Rc1+
27.Rd1 (27.Kf2 Be6³) 27...Rxd1+ 28.Kxd1 Rd8+ 29.Ke1=]23...Re2+ 24.Kf1 Rxa2 [Black has not only recovered her pawn, but also has a sort of stranglehold over the white position.]25.Be4 Ke7 26.c5 [White has to keep this rook on the d-file to keep protecting her Nd1]26...Bh3+ 27.Kg1 Rg8! 28.Kh2 28...Rxg5 29.Rh6 Bf5 30.Re1 [Not 30.Bxf5?? Rg2#]30...Bg6 31.Rh4 Kf6! [Black is tight-ening the ring around the white position and should now win with careful play.]32.c6 Ra1! [White's only counter-play now rests on her passed c-pawn and black prepares to attack that passed pawn by the classical way - from the rear.] 33.Bxg6 hxg6 34.Rh8 Rc1 35.Rf8+ Kg7 36.Ra8 Nd3!
37.Re3?! [White has some obscure tactics in her mind for saving the game. Tempting, but losing, would be: 37.Rxa7+ Kh6 38.Re3 Rh5+ 39.Kg3 Rxd1 40.c7 Rg1+ 41.Kf3 Rf5+ 42.Ke2 Nc1+ 43.Kd2 Rxf2+–+]37...Rxd1 38.c7 Nf4! [Threatening mate in one with 39...Rg2#]39.Rg8+! [Only with this pos-sibility in her mind, white must have passed up 37 Rxa7+ earlier.]39...Kf7 40.Rf8+ Kg7 41.Rg8+ Kxg8 42.c8Q+ [Thus, white has queened her pawn with check. Still she is losing as the mating web around her king still remains.]42...Kg7 43.Qb7+ Kh6 44.Rh3+ [There is no meaningful check left. If 44.Rg3 (to stop 44...
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Rg2#) 44...Rh5+ 45.Rh3 Rxh3#]44...Nxh3
45.Qa8 [(Threat 46 Qh8#)]45...Rf5! 46.Kxh3 Rd3+ 47.Kg2 Rdf3! [After the fall of her f2 pawn, white has nothing left to play for.]48.Qxa7 Rxf2+ 49.Kg1 R2f4 50.Qe3 Rg5+! [An entertaining game!]0–1
Mahalakshmi,M (2149)Alka Das (1978) [D31]1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 f5 4.Bf4 c6 5.e3 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bd6 7.Bd3 Ne4 8.Qc2 0–0 9.0–0 Kh8 10.Rac1 [This rook has no role to play along the c-file. Better was 10.Ne2 with the idea of chasing the black Ne4 with an eventual f2–f3 was to be considered.]10...Be7 [This withdrawal of the bishop to e7 gives a clear signal of what black plans to do. She is going to attack with g7–g5. Naturally, black prepares herself for this assault.]11.h3 g5 12.Bh2 Nd7 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5+ Bf6 15.Bh2± [White could have also tried: 15.Bxf6+ Qxf6 16.b4 Bd7 17.Ne2±]15...Rg8 16.cxd5 [With this exchange, white's advan-tage has become less. Instead, 16.Ne2 with the idea of 17 f3 was worth consideration.]16...exd5 17.f3 Nd6 [White prefers to sacrifice her f-pawn for some freedom than to keep the pawn and suffer in the variation: 17...Nxc3 18.bxc3 Re8 19.Rce1 Qd7²]18.Bxd6 Qxd6 19.Bxf5 Bxf5 20.Qxf5 Raf8 21.Qd3 Bd8 [A pawn down, black hopes that her well placed rooks on the king-side will give
her enough counter-play for her lost f-pawn.] 22.e4!
22...Bc7?! [Rather than threaten a brazen mate in one with this move, it was better to deploy her bishop more actively with 22...Bb6 23.Rcd1 dxe4 24.fxe4 Rxf1+ 25.Kxf1 Rd8 and black has some counter-play for her pawn.]23.e5 Qe6 24.Ne2 Bb6 25.Kh1 h5 [This attack is repulsed imaginatively. But black' alternative was no better: 25...c5 26.f4 (26.dxc5 Bc7 27.b4 Qxe5 28.Qd4±) 26...cxd4 27.Nxd4 Qe8±]26.f4!–+ g4 [If 26...gxf4 27.Rxf4 Rxf4 28.Nxf4 Qh6 29.Rf1 h4 30.b4 (preventing c6–c5 for ever) 30...a5 31.b5 Rg3 32.Qe2 Bxd4 33.e6 Rg8 34.e7 Re8 35.Qg4 and white has a winning attack.]27.f5
27...gxh3?! [Black goes for a spectacular attempt to stem the tide. But she was lost anyway. For example, if 27...Qh6 28.h4 and white's central passed pawns would roll over
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronthe black forces.]28.gxh3 [Not 28.fxe6? hxg2+ 29.Kh2 gxf1Q 30.Rxf1 Rxf1 31.Qe3 Rg7 32.Nf4 Bd8 33.Nxh5 Rh7 34.Kg2 Rf5 35.Ng3 Rf8µ]28...Qh6 29.Nf4 Rf7 30.Ng6+ Kh7 31.Ne7! [This is the spectacular way to finish the game. 31.Rc2 is the no nonsense, or Petrosian style of play.]31...Rxe7 32.f6+ Qg6 33.Qxg6+ Kxg6 34.fxe7 Re8 35.Rf6+ Kh7 36.Rf7+! Kg6 37.Rcf1 Bxd4 [Diagram # Now there is no stopping white from a non-stop check mate sequence of moves.]
Monnisha,GK (2288)Toshali,V (1853) [A01]1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d6 4.Ne2 g6 5.d4 Bg7 6.Qd2 [In this off beat opening, 6.d5 has been tried without success in 1992 between V.Velikov (2420) and V.Zviaginsev (2415).] 6...exd4 7.Nxd4 Nf6 8.Nc3 Bd7 9.Be2 Nxd4 10.exd4 d5= 11.0–0–0 0–0 12.f3?! [Obviously, white is concerned about black's ....Ne4. Better was to go about the game boldly and hope to be able to handle moves like ....Ne4. A sample variation is: 12.h4! Ne4 13.Nxe4 dxe4 14.h5²] 12...a5 13.a4 [Rather than start her own king-side offensive with 13 g4, white prefers to block black's queen-side pawn storm. The game is equal.] 13...c6! 14.g4 b5 15.Rdg1?!
[White is obviously preparing for h2–h4–h5 and not for g4g5. After 15.g5 Nh5 16.f4 Bf5 17.Rhf1 b4 18.Na2 Rc8 black's chances are preferable.]15...Qb6 16.h4 Ne8! [Diagram # Takes advantage of 15 Rdg1 and attacks the d4 pawn twice.]
17.axb5 Bxd4 18.Na4 Bxb2+ 19.Kxb2 Qc7 20.Qd4 [An interesing game devel-ops after: 20.b6 Qd6 21.h5 Nf6 22.Rd1 Rfe8=]20...Qd6 21.Nb6?! [Better was: 21.Rd1 Nc7 22.h5 Ne6 23.Qf6 and white is ok.] 21...Rb8 22.Nxd7 Qxd7 23.Ra1! Nd6! 24.Rxa5 [At this square the rook becomes vulnerable to tactics.] 24...Nxb5?! [Much better was: 24...Qe6 25.Bd3 c5! 26.Qf4 (26.Qxc5? Nb7 wins the exchange.) 26...c4 27.Ra6 Rfd8 28.Rxd6 Rxd6 29.bxc4 Rc8 30.cxd5 Qxd5]25.Bxb5 Rxb5 26.Rxb5 cxb5 27.h5! [White has got back the initiative and does not let go.]27...Qd6 28.Re1 Ra8 29.h6 Qa3+ 30.Kc3 Rc8+ 31.Kd3 Qf8 32.g5
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[Diagram # After this, the black queen has lost much of its power as it has to guard against mate on g7.]32...Rd8 [Black could try 32...b4 in vain. 33.Re7! Rb8 34.Qf4! Rb6 35.Rc7+–]33.Re7! b4 [Black cannot even sacrifice her f-pawn for some freedom: 33...f6 34.gxf6 Rd6 35.f7+! Qxf7 36.Re8+ Qxe8 37.Qg7#] 34.Qf6 Rc8 35.f4 Rc3+ 36.Kd2 Rc8 [36...Rf3?? 37.Re8!+–]37.Kd1 Ra8 38.Rb7 d4 39.Rd7 Re8 [Diagram # Though white has a winning position, she needs to find out a knockout plan, and she finds it.]40.f5! d3 41.cxd3 gxf5 [Black cannot ignore white's f-pawn as an idle threat: 41...Ra8? 42.fxg6 hxg6 43.h7+! Kxh7 44.Rxf7+ as in the game.]42.g6! hxg6 43.h7+! Kxh7 44.Rxf7+ Qxf7 45.Qxf7+ [and won on move 56]1–0
(Position after 39…Re8)
Varun,V (2171)Sharma,Dinesh (2363) [A48]1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.e3 d6 5.h3 0–0 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.0–0 Qe8 8.c4 e5 9.Bh2 Qe7 10.Nc3 c6 11.b4 Rd8 12.Re1! Diagram # [This new move, with a deep strategic content appears to be an im-provement over: 12.Qb3 e4 13.Nd2 h5 14.c5 d5 15.b5 Ne8 16.bxc6 bxc6 17.Qa4 Qe6 18.Qa5 Bf6 19.Rab1± N. Spiridonov vs A.Lanc, 2002.]
12...c5? [This attempt to hit at white's cen-tre, exploiting the pin along the d-file, recoils on black. ¹12...a5 13.a3 h6²] 13.bxc5 dxc5 14.Nxe5! cxd4 [14...Nxe5 15.Bxe5 White has a pawn more giving him a big advan-tage.] 15.exd4 Nxe5 16.Bxe5 Ne4
[Black has relied on the pin along the d-file to get him counter-play but is met by an unexpected rejoinder. If 16...Qa3 17.Qb3 Qxb3 18.axb3 a6 19.Bf3+-] 17.Nd5! Qg5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron18.Bf4 Qh4 19.g3! Qxh3 20.Bf1 A double attack with both black's queen and knight under attack. The queen cannot get back to defend his knight but black thinks he could! 20...Qf5 21.Ne7+ 1–0
Kunte,Abhijit (2493)Sengupta,Deep (2594) [A07]1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bf5 4.c4 c6 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.d3 e6 7.Be3 dxc4 8.dxc4 Qxb3 9.axb3 Bxb1 [E.Mednis (2470) vs A.Blees (2360), 1986, went: 9...Nbd7 10.Nbd2 Ng4 11.Bd4 e5 12.Bc3 f6 13.b4 Be6 14.0–0 Nh6 15.b3 a6 16.Ne4 Be7= This game was drawn.] 10.Rxb1 Bb4+ 11.Bd2 Na6 12.Ne5 Rd8 13.Nd3 [13.Bc3=] 13...Bxd2+ 14.Kxd2 e5 15.Kc3 e4³ 16.Ne1 [16.Ne5 0–0 17.Ra1 (threat 18 Nxc6!) 17...Rd6 18.b4 Rfd8=] 16...Ng4 17.Nc2! Diagram # white is confident of getting back the f2 pawn.
17...Nxf2 18.Rhf1 Ng4 19.Rf4 Nf6! 20.Bxe4 Nc5 21.Bd3 0–0 22.b4 Ne6 23.Rf5 b6? 24.b3 [Another possibility to put black on the defensive was to apply pres-sure along the semi-open a-file: 24.Ra1 Rd7 25.Rff1=] 24...Rfe8 25.Rbf1 Re7 26.h3 h6 The position is equal but tends to slightly favour black as white has three pawn islands compared to black's two in this endgame. 27.Re5 Kf8 28.h4 Ng4 29.Re4 Nf6 30.Re5 Nd7 31.Re3
31...a5?! [After this move, the game tends to swing towards white's advantage as white's doubled b-pawns straighten out. Bet-ter was: 31...Rde8 ] 32.Bf5 Threat: win the knight with 33 Bxe6. 32...Rde8 33.bxa5 bxa5 34.Ra1! The winning prospects are now with white thanks to the attack on the a5 pawn. 34...Nec5 [The a5 pawn cannot be saved. If 34...Ra8 35.Bxe6 fxe6 36.Nd4 c5 37.Nc6 Ree8 38.Rxa5±] 35.Rxe7 Rxe7 36.Rxa5 Rxe2 37.b4 g6 [If 37...Re5 38.Ra8+ Ke7 39.Nd4± as the threats are both 40 bxc5 as well as 40 Nxc6+] 38.Bxd7?! [This leads to a minimum advantage only. White could win with: 38.bxc5! gxf5 39.Nd4 A key move in this variation which recurs in similar variations. 39...Re5 40.Kb4 Nf6 41.Ra6+-] 38...Nxd7 39.Ra7 Nf6?! [39...Ne5= protecting his c6 pawn was best. Once the c6-pawn falls, black loses because of white's connected queen-side passed pawns.] 40.Ra6 Rg2 41.Rxc6 Rxg3+ 42.Kd4 Rg4+(See diagram) 43.Ke5! In the endgame when most pieces have been exchanged off, the king is a fighting piece and one must use it aggressively to win. 43...Ne4 44.b5! Ke7 [Though losing, a better defence was: 44...Nd2 45.Kd5 Rxh4 46.b6 Rh5+ 47.Kd6 Ne4+ 48.Kd7+-] 45.Ne3 [A speedy finish was: 45.Rc7+! Kd8 46.b6 Rxh4 47.Nb4 with
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the threat of 48 Nc6+ wins.] 45...f6+ 46.Kd5 Nc3+ 47.Kc5 Ne4+ [If 47...Rxh4 48.Rc7+ Ke6 49.Nd5 Ne4+ 50.Kc6+-] 48.Kb6 Rxh4 49.Kc7! Paving the way for his b-pawn to advance. 49...Rh3 50.Nd5+ Kf7 51.b6 This pawn wins the game. 51...Rb3 52.b7 Rxb7+ 53.Kxb7 g5 54.Rc7+ Kg6 55.Kb6 h5 56.Re7 Nd6 57.c5 Nc4+ 58.Kb5 Na3+ 59.Kb4 Nc2+ 60.Kc3 Na3 61.Rb7! Immobilizing the knight prepara-tory to its capture. 61...h4 62.Rb3 h3 63.Rxa3 h2 64.Ra1 g4 65.c6 g3 66.c7 If 66.. .g2, 67 Nf4+ Kg5 68 Nxg2 wins. 1–0Karthikeyan,Murali (2510) - Himanshu,Sharma (2417) [B30]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bb5 Nge7 5.0–0 a6 6.Bxc6 Nxc6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Be7 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.e5 d5 11.exd6 Bxd6 12.Be3 [An earlier game went: 12.Ne4 Bxh2+ 13.Kxh2 Qh4+ 14.Kg1 Qxe4 15.Re1 Qb4 16.c3 Qh4 17.Qd6 Bb7 18.Be3= and white eventually won in A.Filippov (2481) vs V.Galyamov (2238) 2007.] 12...0–0 13.Qh5 Rb8 14.Rad1
4...Rb4! [If 14...Rxb2? 15.Ne4 Rb5 16.Qf3 Rd5 17.c4 Bxh2+ 18.Kxh2 Qh4+ 19.Qh3 Rh5 20.Kg1 White has a knight for two pawns and should win.] 15.g3! g6 16.Qf3 Qc7 17.Bh6!
17...f5 [17...Re8 18.Rxd6! Qxd6 19.Qf6 Qd4 20.Ne4 Rd8 21.c3 Qxf6 22.Nxf6+ Kh8 23.cxb4+-; or 17...Rd8 18.Qf6 Bf8 19.Rxd8+-; or 17...Be7 18.Bxf8 Kxf8 19.b3 white has won the exchange with a good position.] 18.Bxf8 Bxf8 19.b3 e5 20.a3 Rb8 21.Qd3
21...Be6? [Probably black feared 22 Qc4+ and prevents it. Capturing the a3 pawn to compensate for the loss of exchange would be tempting but it would plunge black into greater trouble: 21...Bxa3 22.Qc4+ Kg7 23.Nd5 Qb7 24.Ne3 (threat 25 Rd8) 24...Qc7 25.Rd3 Rb5 26.Rfd1±] 22.Qxa6+- h5?! [Black plans a king-side attack which opens
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronup his own king-side to his detriment. He could have tried: 22...Bf7 23.Rfe1 e4 24.a4 Bb4 25.Re3 Bc5 26.Re2 Qe5 27.Na2 f4] 23.Rfe1 h4 24.b4 e4 25.Ne2! Bf7 26.Qa5!
26...Qe7 [Exchanging off queens to win a pawn would lose to a quick endgame de-feat: 26...Qxa5 27.bxa5 Ra8 28.Nd4! hxg3 29.hxg3 Rxa5 (29...Ra6 30.Re3 c5 31.Ne2 Rxa5 32.Rd8 Kg7 33.g4±) 30.Nxc6 Rxa3 31.Rd8! white is going to use his rooks along black's first and second ranks with deadly effect. 31...Rc3 32.Ne5 Rxc2 33.Ra1!+-] 27.Nd4 hxg3 28.hxg3 Re8 29.Nxc6 Qf6 30.Nd8! with a huge material advantage, white goes for a direct attack to win the game. 30...Ba2 31.Qc7 Re7 32.Qc6 Qg5 33.Rd6! Rg7 34.Ne6! Bxe6 35.Rxe6 Qd2 36.Rf1 Qh6 [Black's position is in disarray. If now: 36...Kh7 37.Rf6 Be7 38.Kg2!! Bxf6 39.Rh1+ Kg8 40.Qe8#] 37.Qe8 Rf7 38.Rd1 e3 A desperate attempt to stem the tide. 39.Rxe3 f4 40.Rf3 Rh7 Now white parries the mate on h1 with three queen checks. 41.Qe6+ Kh8 42.Qe5+ Kg8 43.Qd5+ After 43....Kh8 44 Rxf4 the h1 square is under control and white wins. 1–0
5.c3 Nh6 6.Bd3 f6 7.0–0 0–0 8.Re1 Nf7 This strange set-up for black with the knight on f7 was adopted by me in the 1970s in ca-sual games. The difference was that black's pawn was not on d5 but on d6. With no black pawn crossing the third rank, I called it the Gandhi Defence as it was utterly pas-sive and infuriated white so much that he was inspired to go berserk and embark on a completely wild King-side attack. 9.h4?! [As I said in the note to the previous move, white believes that this weird black set-up should be destroyed by a no-holds barred attack. The game G. Cabrillo (2425) vs Z.Nikolic (2365) 1981 went, more soberly: 9.e5 fxe5 10.dxe5 e6 11.Nf1 Nd7 12.Bf4 Nh6 13.Qd2 Nc5 14.Be2 Nf5 15.Ng3 Qe8 and was eventu-ally drawn.] 9...e5!= This equalises. But it is not in the spirit of the Gandhi Defence where the black pawns do not go beyond the third rank! The objective of the Gandhi Defence is not to lose and not to attack, 'ahimsa'! But here in a tournament, the players want to win and cannot practice Ahimsa. 10.h5 gxh5= 11.Nh4 Bg4 12.Qc2 f5! the idea is to plant a black pawn on e4 and stymy the power of white's queen and bishop battery along the b1–h7 diagonal. 13.Nxf5 Bxf5 14.exf5 e4 15.Nxe4!? [Probably white thought that this was the time to go for the throat when both players have not fully de-veloped. After 15.Be2 Nd6 16.Nf1 Qh4 the position is approximately equal, but black has the freer game.] 15...dxe4 16.Rxe4 Nd7 White has in effect two pawns for his sacrificed knight. Both sides have a pair of doubled pawns which makes this game ex-citing. 17.Bf4 Diagram # [It is not yet clear which is the best square for this bishop. This bishop cannot stay on f4 for long as we see shortly. Perhaps 17 b3 for 18 Ba3 was bet-ter. After 17.Qe2 h4 18.Be3 h3! 19.gxh3 Nf6 20.Re6 black is still slightly better.]
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17...Nf6 18.Re6 Nd5 19.Bd2 [White can-not afford to quit the c1–h6 diagonal for if: 19.Bh2 Ng5 20.Re2 h4 21.Qb3 b6 22.Qc4 Qd7 and black's advantage is more pro-nounced.] 19...Ng5 20.Re2 h4 21.Rae1 Bf6 22.c4?! [This move presents the black forces with objectives for attack, especially his d4. Better was: 22.Bc4 would have kept the status quo.] 22...Nc7 23.d5 This loosen-ing of his centre is forced as the d4 pawn is attacked twice. 23...Kh8?! 24.f4?! [Better was: 24.Bxg5 Bxg5 25.dxc6 bxc6 26.Be4 Rf6 27.Qc3 Kg8 and black is only slightly better.] 24...Nf7 25.Bb4 Bd4+ 26.Kh1 c5 27.Bxc5? Bxc5 28.Qc3+ Kg8 29.f6 Qd6
[An alternative variation is: 29...Re8 30.Re5 Bd6 31.Re6 Bxf4 32.Rxe8+ Nxe8 33.Re7 Bd6 34.Bxh7+ Kf8 35.Re6 Ng5 36.f7 Nxe6 37.fx-e8Q+ Qxe8 and white has nothing to show for his huge material deficit.] 30.Bxh7+ White sacrifices his third minor piece to fuel his at-
tack. If this succeeds this game would have become a celebrated example of attacking play. 30...Kh8 [30...Kxh7? would lose after 31.Qd3+ Kh6 (31...Kh8? 32.Qg6+-) 32.Qf5 (32.Re7 Qxf4–+) 32...Ne8 33.Re6+-] 31.Bg6 [If 31.Bb1 Qxf4 32.Qd3 Qh6 Black has de-fended mate and remains two knights up for three pawns. He should win.] 31...Qxf4–+ 32.Re4 Qg3 33.Qxg3 hxg3 34.Rh4+
34...Nh6! If black does not give back a knight, white will draw by perpetual check. 35.Rxh6+ Kg8 36.Rh7 Rxf6 37.Rxc7? [More stubborn, but still losing, would be: 37.Bd3 Bd6 38.Kg1 Re8–+] 37...Raf8 38.Bh7+ Kh8 Black is threatening mate in two differ-ent ways: .Rh6+ and Rf1+ 0–1Satyapragyan,S (2397) Neelotpal,Das (2448) [C84]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.a3 d6 9.Re1 Be6 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.c3 [An entirely new strategy was seen in E. L'Ami (2448) A.Zajogin (2398), 2002, which went: 11.Nbd2 Qe8 12.Nf1 Qg6 13.Ng3 Ng4 14.Be3 d5 15.b4 Nxe3 16.fxe3 h5 17.exd5 exd5 18.e4 h4 19.exd5² White eventually won.] 11...d5 12.Qe2 [12.exd5 Qxd5 13.Be3 Rad8 14.c4 Qxd3 15.Qxd3 Rxd3 16.cxb5 axb5 17.Nc3 b4 18.axb4 Bxb4 19.Rec1 Nd4³] 12...Qd7 13.Nbd2= Bc5 14.Nb3 [14.exd5 exd5 15.Nb3 (15.Nxe5? Nxe5 16.d4 (16.Qxe5?? Bxf2+!) 16...Rae8 17.Qf1 Nfg4–+) 15...Bd6=]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron14...Bd6 15.Bg5 Nh5 16.d4 [A better try was: 16.a4 bxa4 17.Rxa4 h6 18.Bc1 Nd4? The lure of the unprotected Ra4 is great! 19.Nbxd4 Qxa4 20.Nxe6 Rfe8 21.exd5±] 16...exd4 17.cxd4 e5? Black had two moves which did not lead to a losing position: 17....h6 or 17....Nf4. 1 18.Qe3?
[White misses two winning possibilities that fall into his lap: 18.Nxe5! Bxe5 19.dxe5 Nf4 (19...g6? 20.Nc5 Qf7 21.e6+-) 20.Bxf4 Rxf4 21.Qd2+-; or 18.exd5! Nxd4 19.Nfxd4 exd4 20.Qxh5 Qf5 21.Qh4+-] 18...Nf4 19.Bxf4 exd4! 20.Nbxd4 Bxf4 21.Qb3 Nxd4 22.Nxd4 c5! Suddenly, black has gained the upper hand. 23.Nf3 c4 24.Qd1 d4! 25.e5 [25.Qxd4 Qxd4 26.Nxd4 Be5 27.Nc6 Bxb2 28.Ra2 c3 Black has a clear advantage thanks to the white rook locked up on a2.] 25...d3± 26.Re4 Bh6 27.Qe1 Qd5 28.e6 [Better was: 28.Rd4 Qc5 29.Qe4 Rae8 30.Rd7 Kh8 31.Re1 Re6 32.Qb7 Rfe8] 28...Rae8 29.Re5 Qd6 30.a4 b4 31.Rd1 g6
Diagram # 32.e7?! [An improvement would be: 32.Re4 Rf4 33.e7 Rxe4 34.Qxe4 Qc5 35.Ne5 Rxe7 36.Qxc4+ Qxc4 37.Nxc4 Re2 38.Kf1 Rc2 39.Ne5 d2 40.Nd3 b3 41.Ke2 Rc4 42.a5 Re4+ 43.Kf1 Ra4 44.Ke2 Rxa5 45.f4 It will be extremely difficult for black to win this endgame.] 32...Rf7 33.Qe4 Rf4 34.Qe1 Bg7 35.Re6 Qd7 36.h4? [White is desperate. If 36.Re4 Rxf3! 37.gxf3 c3 38.bxc3 bxc3 39.Qe3 c2 40.Rf1 Bf6! (Not immediately 40...d2? 41.Qb3+ Kh8 42.Qxc2+-) 41.Qd2 Rxe7–+] 36...c3!? [36...Bxb2 was much stronger.] 37.bxc3 bxc3 38.Qe3 c2 39.Rxd3 [Forced, for if 39.Rf1 Rxf3! 40.gxf3 d2 41.Qb3 Kh8 42.Qxc2 Qxe6–+] 39...Rxf3! 40.gxf3 Qxd3 [40...Qc8! was another way to win without allowing white to wriggle.] 41.Qxd3 c1Q+ 42.Kg2 Qf4 43.Qd7 Qf7 44.h5 gxh5! 45.f4 Kh8 46.f5 Bb2 47.f6 (See diagram) 47...Bxf6! Black must have calculated this till mate. Try to calculate this yourself! 48.Rxf6 Rg8+ 49.Kf1 Qc4+ 50.Ke1 Rg1+ 51.Kd2 Qc1+ 52.Ke2 Qe1+ 53.Kd3 Qd1+ 54.Kc4 Qxd7 55.Rf8+ Kg7 56.e8Q Rc1+ 57.Kb3 [57.Kb3 Qd3+ 58.Kb2 (58.Kb4 Qc3#!) 58. . .Rc2+ 59.Kb1 Qd1#] 0–1
(Position after 47.f6 )
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1 2 Black to play and win White to play and win
3 4 White to play and win White to play and win
5 6 Black to play and win White to play and win
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Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan
Genrykh Kasparyan1959 A.Kopnin 1959
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Roger Misiaen 1959 Genrykh Kasparyan 1959
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Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1961 A.Gurvich 1960
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White to play and win in all the six endings above (Solution on page ) 47 47
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Masters of the past-58 Vladimir Alatortsev
Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev ((1909-1987) was a Rus-sian chess grandmaster, organizer, teacher, author, and administrator. During his career, he became champion of both Leningrad and Moscow, and played in the Soviet Chess Championship finals nine times, with his best competitive results in the 1930s. He placed clear second in the 1933 Soviet final. He retired from most competitive play in the early 1950s, moving into roles as a chess organizer, teacher, and coach. He served as Chairman of the All-Union chess section from 1954 to 1959 and as chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1959 to 1961. By profession, he was a hydraulics engineer.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Alatortsev was an early Leningrad chess rival of Mikhail Botvinnik, who later became World Champion. However, Botvinnik, who was two years younger, established complete dominance over Alatortsev right from the start, and wound up with a 9-0 lifetime won-loss score with two games drawn.
Alatortsev shared the Leningrad title in 1933–34 with Georgy Lisitsin on 11/15. He earned a place in the 1935 Moscow International tournament, the strongest Soviet event since 1925, and finished with a very good even score of 9.5/19, as Botvinnik and Salo Flohr won.
It was clear that the new generation of Soviet players was taking over the top places in tour-naments. Players such as Alexander Kotov, Isaac Boleslavsky, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Yuri Averbakh, Tigran Petrosian, and Mark Taimanov were all younger and had the benefits of organized Soviet training, so they surpassed the older generation in their achievements. Alatortsev moved into a training role in the late 1940s, assisting the rising star Vasily Smys-lov. He also became involved in tournament organization and administration. Alatortsev was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, in 1950, when this title was introduced officially.
He served as head of the Soviet Chess Federation from 1954 to 1961, during a time when there were about three million registered Soviet players. From 1943 to 1974, he was the edi-tor of a chess column in the newspaper Vechernaya Moskva. In 1960, he published the book Modern Chess Theory. His final strong tournament was Tbilisi 1965, where at age 56 he made a respectable 8/17. He was awarded an Honorary Emeritus Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1983. This was clearly well deserved, since his win at Leningrad 1938 and his second place in the Soviet Championship 1933 were definitely strong Grandmaster results. Alatortsev died at age 77, on January 13, 1987.
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9th KCA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Ernakulam….
9th KCA Fide Rated Chess Tournament inaugurated by GCDA Chairman Shri. Venugopalwith the International Master Shayaamnikhil at Oberon Mall Ernakulam. Mr. R Rajesh Secretary, Chess association Kerala is nearby.
International Master Shayaamnikhil is receiving the Winner's trophy from the chief guestShri. Skaria Joseph The Cochin Parents Chess Academy president,Others L -R Shri. Govindan Kutty Fide Arbiter, Shri.M S Ananthakrishnan, former Secretary Chess Association Ernakulam, Shri. Kannan Secretary Chess association Ernakulam, Shri. M Ephrame IA Chief Arbiter,Shri. P S Ameer NA arbiter, Shri. R Rajesh Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, Shri. Rijo Organizer, Kottayam Chess Academy.
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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on page 42
1.Jaracz,Pawel (2503)Cornette,Matthieu (2591) [E12]Bundesliga 2015–16 Schwaebisch Hall GER (2.4), 20.09.2015 [Position after White's28th move.Diagram [#] Black to play.] 28...Rxh2! 29.Kxh2 [29.Rc2 Rb3–+ Threatening 30....Nf3 ch 30.Kxh2 Qh6+ 31.Kg1 (31.Kg2 Qh3+ 32.Kg1 Nf3+ Wins) ]29...Qh6+ 30.Kg1 Nf3+ 31.Kf1 Qh1+ 32.Ke2 Ng1+ 33.Kd3 [33.Rxg1 Qxe4–+]33...Rb3+ 0–12.Mikhalevski,V (2536) Meijers,V (2463) [E02]Lev Gutman 70 GM 2015 Lingen GER (2.2), 23.09.2015 [Position after 17th move. Diagram [#] White to play] 18.Qa6! Rxd4 [18...0–0 19.Rab1+–; 18...Qb8 19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Qxc6+ Kf8 21.Rab1 Qc8 22.Rxd8+ Qxd8 23.Ne4+– idea 24.Rb7 Attack]19.Rxd4 [19.Rxd4 Qxd4 20.Rd1+– Qxc3 21.Qc8+ Bd8 22.Qxd8#] 1–03.Shirov,Alexei (2712) Laznicka,Viktor (2676) [C41]16th Karpov Poikovsky Poikovsky RUS (4.5), 01.10.2015 [Position after 35th move.Dia-gram [#] White to play.] 36.Rd8! Bxd8 37.Rxd8 [37.Rxd8 Rxd8 a) 37...Kf7 38.Qf3+! Kg8 39.Qf8+ Kh7 (39...Rxf8 40.Rxf8+ Kh7 41.Rh8#) 40.Qh8+ Rxh8 41.Rxh8#;b) 37...Kh7 38.Nxe5+–;38.Ne7++–]1–04.Naiditsch,Arkadij (2682)Koop,Thorben (2407) [B30]PokerStars IoM Masters Douglas ENG (1.5), 03.10.2015 34.Nd7! [Also 34.Nxe6 fxe6 35.Rg4 Qh7 36.Rxg6+ Kh8 37.Qg5+–; 34.Nd7 Qxd7 (34...f5 35.Nf6+ Kf7 36.Qh7+ Kf8 37.Qg8#) 35.Rh4 f6 36.Qh8+ Kf7 37.Rh7#]1–05.Mamedjarova,Z (2269)Cornette,M (2591) [E15]1st Colossus Cup 2015 Rhodes GRE (3.4), 02.09.2015 17...Nxf2! [17...Nxf2 18.Kxf2 Rxe2+ 19.Kg1 (19.Kf3 Qf6+ 20.Kg4 Bc8+ 21.Kh5 Qh6#; 19.Kf1 Rxd2+–+) 19...Nd3 20.Qb1 (20.Qc2 Qg5) 20...Qg5 21.Nc4 Rxg2+
8th RSC FIDE Rating Open Chess tournament, Ernakulam
P.Iniyan of Tamilnadu receiving the winners trophy from the Dist. Collector Shri. M G Rajamanickam IAS. L-R M B Muralidharan President, Chess association Ernakulam, Shri. Manohar Prabhu former Secretary RSC, Shri. S A S Navaz, IRS(Retd.) Hony. Secretary RSC, Shri. M G Rajamanickam IAS, Shri. Vijayakumar Observer CAK, Shaji Manjali National arbiter, M Ephrame IA, the Chief Arbiter, Shri M Kannan Secretary, Chess Association Ernakulam, Shri. Skaria Joseph, President CPCA.
L-r Shri.M B Muralidharan President, Chess association Ernakulam, Shri. Namboodhripad(veteran player), Shri. Vijayakumar Observer CAK, Shri. S A S Navaz, IRS(Retd.) Hony. Secretary RSC, Dr. Sunil K Mathai Vice president, RSC & President IMA, Cochin(Chief guest), Shri M Kannan Secretary Chess association Ernakulam, Shri. Skaria Joseph, President CPCA, Smt. Roshini Abdeen organizing member RSC.
Late S.N.Shrivatsava and Smt.Kalavatidevi MemorialMaharashtra State Open FIDE rating Dec 08 to Dec15 Nagpur5th JRD Tata All India FIDE Rating Dec 09 to Dec 15 Jamshedpur5th BBSR All India FIDE Rating for Girls and Women Dec 10 to Dec 15 BubhaneswarChess for Youth Dec 17 to Dec20 Kolkata2nd MCA FIDE Rated Bengal Junior Open Dec 20 to Dec 23 Hooghly8th AIM All India FIDE Rated below 1800 Dec 24 to Dec 27 Namakkal3rd Arvind Durga Open FIDE Rating Dec 24 to Dec 27 ChennaiManipal University 1st Open FIDE rating Dec 26 to Dec 30 ManipalNational “B”Ch,ship for the Blind Dec 26 to Dec 30 ManipalKCA 10th FIDE rating below 1500 Dec 26 to Dec 28 KottayamKarur Open FIDE Rated Dec 28 to Dec 31 Karur,TN5th WBCWS FIDE Rated oprn 2015 Dec 29 to Jan 02 Kolkata1st MCA Rating Chess Tournament below 1600 Jan 01 to Jan 03 Chennai8th KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Jan 01 to Jan 03 Coimbatore1st Chitkara International School All India Open FIDE rating Jan 02 to Jan 06 Chandigarh1st Chitkara International FIDE rating below 1600 Jan 02 to Jan 06 ChandigarhSenior National Arbiter Examination Jan 03 to Jan 03 NagpurSt.Teresa All India Open FIDE Rating Jan 03 to Jan 07 Ghaziabad1st Lions District 322F FIDE Rated Open Jan 04 to Jan 08 Siliguri5th National School Chess Championship Jan 05 to Jan 07 Nagpur14th Delhi International Open2016 Category A, B and C Jan 09 to Jan 16 New Delhi16th North East Chess Championship 2015 Jan 18 to Jan 23 Mizoram8th Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2016 Jan 18 to Jan 25 ChennaiChess Association Kerala’s Below 1600 FIDE Rating Jan 24 to Jan 26 Kerala1st FIDE Rated Open Jan 28 to Jan 31 AgartalaIIFL Wealth 1st Mumbai Junior FIDE Rating (U-13) Jan 28 to Feb 05 MumbaiIIFL Wealth 1st Mumbai Intl.Tournament(Open) Jan 28 to Feb 05 Mumbai 1st East Godavari Trophy All India (below 1500 rating) Feb 05 to Feb 07 Rajamundry9th ACA FIDE Rated below 1800 Feb 13 to Feb 15 PalakkadAll India FIDE rating tournament (below 1600) Feb 26 to Feb 28 Karur
26th National Under 17 Open Chess Championship 2015, Bangalore
Guest of honour D.V.Sundar,Vice-President, FIDE lighting the lamp during the inauguration.Others in the photo are (L-R) Chief Guest Manmohan Handa, DP Anantha, President UKCA Hanumantha and Sri Sri Sri Chandrashekara Swamiji
(L-R) Mr K S Krishna (partially seen), President, BEOC, Rajddep Sarkar, (Winner) Mr Veeresh Bevinamarad, GM, HR, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore Complex, Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO, AICF, Mr Jayasimha, Chairman, Jungle Lodge and Resorts, Govt of Karnataka
(L-R) Mr K S Krishna, President, BEOC, Hariharan V (partially seen), Gen Secretary, AICF, V.Varshini (Winner), Mr Veeresh Bevinamarad, GM, HR, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore Complex, Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO, AICF, Mr Jayasimha, Chairman, Jungle Lodge and Resorts, Govt of Karnataka, Dr Shymaraju, Chairman, Reva Group of Institutions, Bangalore
