AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 12 Price Rs. 25 July 2018

Commonwealth Chess 11th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup GM

Championships 2018, New Delhi Tournament 2018,Mumbai

GM Amonatov Farrukh
IM P Karthikeyan IM Tania Sachdev (Tajikistan)
Open Champion Women Champion Winner

National Under-13 Open & Girls Championships 2018, Ahmedabad

Aryan Varshney WFM Dhyana Patel

Open Champion Women Champion
AICF CHRONICLE July 2018 From the editor’s desk 11th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup GM Tournament 2018,Mumbai
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
For long Tamilnadu had been a veritable Amonatov Farrukh wins Mumbai Mayor Cup
Chennai - 600 003. breeding ground of chess talent in the by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 country. Young Praggnanandhaa is the
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com latest sensation from Chennai. Tamilnadu
Publisher: Bharat Singh Chouhan State Chess Association and Ramco
While more and more norm tournaments the fourth round, excepting Kravtsiv who won
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan Group of Companies, sponsor of master on the AICF Calendar, the Mumbai Mayor’s the game on the top board, the next three
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 Praggnanandhaa, felicitated the twelve-year old prodigy Cup GM tournament holds the rich tradition games were drawn, wherein the Indian tal-
on his becoming World’s second youngest Grandmaster since its inception eleven years ago. The ents split the points with their mighty oppo-
Inside…. in chess history after GM Karjakin of Russia. At a function 2018 edition is no exception, providing good nents – IM elect P Saravamakrishnan of Karur
11th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup GM Tmt ,Mumbai brought up at Hotel Crown Plaza,Chennai P.R.Venketrama playing facilities, which has attracted about Vysya Bank drew with the second seeded
Amonatov Farrukh wins Mumbai Mayor Cup Raja Chairman, Ramco Group of Companies and
by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 1 President, AICF graced the occasion.
50 foreign players from 17 countries. Kravtsiv Amonatov, IM Karthik V of AP, winner of the
National under-13 Open & Girls Ch’SHIP, Ahmedabad Martyn of Ukraine and Amonatov Farrukh of recent KIIT GM Open at Bhubaneswar held
Aryan Varshney and Dhyana Patel win titles Commonwealth Championships held in New Delhi was Tajikistan headed the seeding list and the Ivan Rozum of Russia and Kolkata teenager
by IA Swapnil Bansod , Chief Arbiter 7 a resounding success with Indian players dominating in Indian contingent was spearheaded by GM Neelash Saha forced his city mate and GM
3rd The Heritage Schools’ (U-15) Rated Ch’ship,Kolkata all the 15 categories of the event. International masters Sandipan Chanda of Kolkata. A total of 206 Sandipan Chanda to share the point. Kravtsiv,
Koustav Chatterjee and Bristy Mukherjee win titles P.Karthikeyan and Tania Sachdev emerged Champions in players participated in the ten round Swiss Erigaisi Arjun of Telangana and GM Tran Tuan
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 11 the Open and Women sections.
league tournament with a time control of 90 Minh of Vietnam led with four points each.
Khasdar Chasak Nagpur District Open FIDE Rating , Nagpur
AICF’s endeavour to promote women chess and also to minutes plus 30seconds increment per move.
IM Anup Deshmukh wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 13 enable them to obtain norms took off with the first AICF The B category attracted 369 players from 20 With the top two board games between the
56th Kerala State Open FIDE rated tmt, Ernakulam International Women’s Grandmaster Chess Tournament states and the number of players in C cate- leaders ending in draw, Amonatov and Raja
Anilkumar is the Winner sponsored by SBI Life in Mumbai. A total prize fund of gory was 558, making a total registration of Rithvik who defeated NeverovValeriy of
by Dr. Govindankutty Ms, IA, Chief Arbiter 15 Rs.7.50 lakhs was provided by AICF for this event. Top- 1133 players, a mammoth number indeed. Ukraine joined the leaders with 4.5 points
seeded IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul from Mongolia lived up
1st Bhagwan Mahaveer FIDE Rating Tmt, Kolhapur...
to her billing to claim the title. The report and photos of the
each at the end of the fifth round. Ivan Rozum
Ranveer Mohite wins title
above events are presented in the centre pages of this issue The biggest upset on the inaugural day was and four others joined the group of five lead-
by FA Bharat Chougule, Chief Arbiter 17
the shock defeat of GM Deepan Chakkravar- ers at the top with a convincing win over IM
1st All India Open fide Rating Below 1600 Tmt,Nagpur
Sanjib Mali is winner
Since its inception eleven years ago Mumbai Mayor Cup thy of ICF at the hands of former under 8 Rathnakaran of Railways in the sixth round.
by FA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter 19
had always been one of the popular GM events.This edition world champion Bharath Subramaniyam H The top two seeds Kravtsiv and Amonatov
attracted 1133 players in all the three categories. GM of Tamil Nadu. Aditya Mittal, the young boy proved their mettle by outwitting their oppo-
1st Pragatisheel Chhattisgarh Satnami samaj state open
Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistan who headed the seeding
Dhananjay wins at Chattisgarh
list won the Cup.
from Mumbai held the Russian grandmaster nents VS Raahul of Tamil Nadu and Erigaisi
by FA,Rao PN,Chief Arbiter
21 Mozharov Mikhail. WIM Rucha Pujari from Arjun respectively in the seventh round, to
TN State U -25 Open & Girls FIDE Rated Ch’ship ,Salem Maharashtra dealt a blow to the Netherlands share the lad jointly. Other games among the
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from GM Open,
Hemanth Raam and Thamaraiselvi win titles
Kolkata and KIIT Chess festival, Bubhaneshwar.In the grandmaster Pruijssers Roeland and the leaders were drawn.
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 27
‘Masters of the past series’ American Grandmaster Samuel Maharashtra wonder girl Divya Deshmukh, The two leaders Amonatov and Kravtsiv
1St State Level FIDE Rated Women Tmt,Kolkata
Reshevski is featured. the Under 12 world champion for girls drew drew their game, which enabled Pruijssers
Ananya Bothra wins title
by IA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter 30 with upcoming IM Harsha Bharathakoti of of Netherlands, VIkramaditya Kulkarni of
Selected games from Kolkata GM and KIIT Telangana. Maharashtra, NR Visakh of Tamil Nadu and
by IM Manuel Aaron
31 C.G.S.Narayanan Manik Mikulas of Slovakia to join them in
Tactics from master games by Srinivas Krishnan 42 Sohan Phadke of Maharashtra had no diffi- the lead with 6.5 points each, at the ned of
Test your endgame Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the culty in beating GM Ziaur Rahman of Bang- the eighth round. In the crucial penultimate
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are ladesh, in the second round. GM Diptayan round Pruijssers got the better of the top
Masters of the past -90 also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
Ghosh of Kolkata blundered his rook and lost seeded Kravtsiv and Amonatov had no diffi-
Samuel Reshevsky 44
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan the game to R Parthasarathy of Karnataka, culty in beating Vikramaditya. Both had 7.5
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Manikh drew with each other.
In the tenth and final round, Amonatov and
Pruijssers had a safe and quick draw, waiting
for the other results. On the other three top
boards, Diptayan held Manik Neverev drew
with Tran and the other contender Visakh
lost to Tukaev, making it to a two way tie
between Amonatov and Pruijssers for the
title. Amonatov had huge advantage in the
Buchholz Cut 1 tiebreak to emerge champion
and collect a cash prize of Rs.3.30,000/-.
Pruijssers received Rs.2,30,000/- for his
runner up finish. Nine players scored 7.5
points each vying the honours from 3rd to
11th place. Manik and Kravtsiv were placed
third and fourth respectively.
The tournament was a good opportunity for
many youngsters to grab norms. Raja Rithvik
of Maharashtra and Kiran Manisha Mohanty
of Odisha secured IM norms, world champion
in under 12 girls’ category, Divya Deshmukh
received the WIM norm.
The event was inaugurated by Shri. Harish
Mehta, President NASCOM, who was the
Chief Guest of the function, presided by Shri.
Dhananjay of LIC. Other dignitaries present
were Shri. R M Dongre, Chief organizer of the
Mumbai Mayors Cup, Shri. Manoj Itkelwar,
Vice President, AICF and Shri. Rahul Shah,
President, MCDCA. The prizes for the B cat-
egory were distributed by Shri. Arun Shah,
CEO, Ankit Gems,the chief guest. Other
guests present were Shri. Kishor Bandekar,
Treasurer, AICF, Shri. R M Dongre, Presi-
dent, Zone 3.7, Shri. Raghunandan Gokhale,
Dorncharya Awardee, Shri. Nitin Warde, Jt.
Secretary MSDCA.
Sri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Chairman, Tech-
nical Commission FIDE and Hon. Secretary
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of AICF was the chief guest and distributed 11th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup GM Tournament 2018,Mumbai
the prizes in the august presence of Sri.
RM. Dongre. A total of thirty five lakhs was
distributed asprize money for the three tour-
naments put together.
Mount Litera School has become a favourite
venue for international chess tournaments
with very good infrastructure and facilities.
Kudos to Venus Chess Academy, Sri. RM
Dongre, Treasurer of AICF, Mumbai Suburban
District Chess Association guided by Sri. Vit-
thal Madhav and their team for the excellent
arrangements.
Final ranking:Category A
Rk Name Club Pts
1 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8
2 GM Pruijssers Roeland NED 8
3 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 7½
4 GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 7½ (L-R)2nd From Left Shri Sanjay Kedge, Secretary All Marathi chess association master CM Aditya Mittal,
5 GM Tran Tuan Minh VIE 7½ Shri R M Dongre, Shri D V Sundar Vice President FIDE, Chief Guest Harish Mehta, Chairman NASSCOM,
6 IM Karthik Venkataraman AP 7½ Shri Rahul Shah Vice President AMCA
7 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 7½
8 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7½
9 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7½
10 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. TN 7½
11 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 7½
12 IM Visakh N R TN 7
13 FM Rathanvel V S TN 7
14 IM Harsha Bharathakoti TEL 7
15 GM Sandipan Chanda WB 7
16 FM Nitish Belurkar GOA 7
17 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7
18 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 7
19 Aaryan Varshney DEL 7
20 GM Neelotpal Das WB 7
21 IM Deshmukh Anup MAH 7
22 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 6½
23 FM Raja Rithvik R TEL 6½
24 Samant Aditya S MAH 6½
25 WGMKiran Manisha Mohanty ODI 6½
26 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya MAH 6½
GM Amanatov Farrukh with Vitthal Madhav, R M Dongre, Bharatsingh Chauhan, R Ananthram,
27 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 6½
Chief Arbiter and Nagesh
28 FM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 6½
29 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 6½
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 1st All India Open fide Rating Below 1600 Tournament,Nagpur
(L-R) Mr Milind Naik, Mr Dayashankar Tiwari (BJP Leader), Mr Sushant Jumade, Organizing
Secretary, Sajib Mali (winner), Mr Bhushan Shriwas (Secretary Kalpana Prakash Welfare Foundation
& Organizing Chairman)
3rd The Heritage Schools’ (U-15)Chess Fide Rated Championship,Kolkata
Prizewinners and dignitaries
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30 IM Rathnakaran K. KER 6½ 77 CM Tanmay Jain PUN 5½
31 CM Kushagra Mohan TEL 6½ 78 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 5½
32 IM Abu Sufian Shakil BAN 6½ 79 WIM Michelle Catherina P TN 5½
33 Surendran N TN 6½ 80 Shah Jeet MAH 5½
34 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6½ 81 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 5½
35 IM Sidhant Mohapatra ODI 6½ 82 AIM Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 5½
36 Tiwari Arjun RLY 6½ 83 Ayushh Ravikumar TN 5½
37 FM Mitrabha Guha WB 6½ 84 Joshi Abhijeet MAH 5½
38 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha KAR 6½ 85 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 5½
39 Pranavananda V AP 6½ 86 IM Koshy Varugeese PON 5½
40 Sankalp Gupta MAH 6½ 87 WIM Chandreyee Hajra WB 5½
41 FM Phadke Sohan MAH 6 88 Toshali V AP 5½
42 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 6 89 WFM L akshmi C TN 5½
43 CM Bharath SubramaniyamH TN 6 90 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 5½
44 IM Siva Mahadevan TN 6 91 Parthasarathy R KAR 5
45 WFM D ivya Deshmukh MAH 6 92 Navalgund Niranjan KAR 5
46 Pranav V TN 6 93 WCMMrudul Dehankar MAH 5
47 Raahul V S TN 6 94 Eesha Ajay Sarda MAH 5
48 WGMKulkarni Bhakti GOA 6 95 Nair Sanjeev MAH 5
49 WIM Pujari Rucha MAH 6 96 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5
50 IM Tran Minh Thang VIE 6 97 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 5
51 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 6 98 WFM S aranya J TN 5
52 IM Karthikeyan P. TN 6 99 Konatham Snehil AP 5
53 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6 100 Harini S. TN 5
54 CM Ghosh Chanchal Kumer BAN 6 Final standings: Category B
55 IM Navin Kanna T.U. TN 6 Rk Name Pts
56 Polakhare Aryan MAH 6 1 Pavan B N B 8½
57 FM Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6 2 Srihari L 8½
58 WIM Srija Seshadri DEL 6 3 Chavan Nameet 8½
59 Bhatt Jalpan GUJ 6 4 Mushini Ajay 8
60 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 5½ 5 Vaibhav Bhat 8
61 Satkar Chirag MAH 5½ 6 Vinodh Kumar B. 8
62 Neelash Saha WB 5½ 7 Vrandesh Parekh 8
63 Nguyen Phuoc Tam VIE 5½ 8 Dhanush Ragav 8
64 IM Meftahi Houssem TUN 5½ 9 Akshay Anand 8
65 Ajay Karthikeyan TN 5½ 10 Sourav Sahoo 7½
66 Manigandan S S TN 5½ 11 Debankan Dhara 7½
67 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 12 Ram Vishwanathan 7½
68 Barath Kalyan M TN 5½ 13 Patil Harshal 7½
69 Yash Dhoke MAH 5½ 14 Kadav Omkar 7½
70 Chittal Sairaj MAH 5½ 15 Sivasubramanian R 7½
71 Lokesh N. TN 5½ 16 Ravi Kumar K 7½
72 WFM Varshini V TN 5½ 17 Selvabharathy T 7½
73 CM Chowdhury Sohel BAN 5½ 18 Varun Bhatt 7½
74 IM Tilak Sharad S MAH 5½ 19 Sher Singh 7
75 Ilamparthi A R TN 5½ 20 Punit Indora 7
76 Aishwin Daniel MP 5½ 21 Kapadi Yash 7
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22 Chittari Abhishek Varma 7 7 Wagh Varun 8
23 Singh Soram Rahul 7 8 Sidharth A Kumar 8
24 Sharan Rao 7 9 Ahirwar Aniket 8
25 Mishra Sanjeev 7 10 Atul Kumar 8
26 Dave Kantilal 7 11 Shah Devansh 8
27 Dhoot Vinit 7 12 Parekh Vishrut 8
28 Shubham 7 13 Makone Kaustubh 8
29 Bardoliwala Nirmal 7 14 Murarilal Kori 8
30 Vijay Anand M. 7 15 Darshil K Desai 7½
31 Cheniram Pegu 7 16 Kesavan G 7½
32 Jenil Shah 7 17 Madhusudhan Reddy E 7½
33 Patil Ketan 7 18 Saikat Nath 7½
34 Nitul Khare 7 19 Abhinandan Mohan 7½
35 Deepak Rai 7 20 Gandhi Akash 7½
36 Dilip Das 7 21 S. Jeevanandam 7½
37 Abijit Mistry 7 22 Vinod S 7½
38 Devesh Anand Naik 6½ 23 Suman Yaddanapudi 7½
39 Naveen S Hegde 6½ 24 Bhanushali Kunj 7½
40 Biswal Sagar 6½ 25 Keshri Abhishek 7½
41 Joshi Tejas 6½ 26 Sumesh Kabeer 7½
42 Warude Satyam 6½ 27 Jaiswal Prince 7½
43 Sikka Sumit 6½ 28 Mahendar B 7½
44 Bhagyashree Patil 6½ 29 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 7½
45 Tanmay Chopra 6½ 30 Panigrahi Ajay 7½
46 Majumder Shrayan 6½ 31 Laddha Shubh Jayesh 7½
47 Uma Maheswaran P 6½ 32 Satheesh A S 7½
48 Subramanian R M 6½ 33 Thube Nimish 7½
49 Prabhu Anand 6½ 34 Vaidya Mihir 7½
50 Saumil Nair 6½ 35 Arunkumar K S 7
51 Rahul Krishna Viswanathan 6½ 36 Chinnam Kartik 7
52 Rawal Shailesh 6½ 37 Wankhade Sanskruti 7
53 Chudasama Ankit 6½ 38 Mishra Rahul 7
54 Ved Shubham 6½ 39 Gupta Shailendra 7
55 Hapse Shreyas 6½ 40 Saparia Jeel Bharat 7
56 Zala Akshar 6½ 41 Kherdekar Arnav 7
57 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 6½ 42 Boricha Yohan 7
58 Bhat Sanjay 6½ 43 Bala Ganeshan 7
59 Bhanushali Kunj 6½ 44 Ajmera Tanmay 7
60 Doshi Khush 6½ 45 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 7
Final ranking:Category C (below 1600) 46 Kamble Dipankar 7
Rk Name Pts 47 Mallikarjuna Raob 7
1 Sham R 9½ 48 Rishi R 7
2 Sivathanujan S 8½ 49 Kushal Kaushik Karelia 7
3 Satheesh Kumar G 8½ 50 Das Jitendra Kumar 7
4 Gopikrishnan S 8½ 51 Anupam Talukdar 7
5 Sheikh Jahan 8½ 52 Jha Kishor 7
6 Malvankar Vikrant 8 53 Bakshi Mandar 7
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National under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2018, Ahmedabad
Aryan Varshney and Dhyana Patel win titles
by IA Swapnil Bansod , Chief Arbiter
32nd National Under13 Chess Champi-
onship, 2018, was held from 14th June
to 22nd June, 2018, at Rajpath Club,
Ahmedabad. The event was organized by
Gujarat State Chess Association. The tour-
nament attracted total 471 players (314
in open section, and 157 in girl’s section)
from all over the India. There were in all
370 international fide rated players among
the participants which includes 3 CM, 1
WFM and 3 WCM.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Dr. Jaimin Vasa, President,
GCCI. The other dignitaries present were
Shri. Viral Patel, Shri. Paresh Patel,Chief
Coach, Sports Authority of Gujarat, GM
Tejas Bakre, Vice President, GSCA, Shri.
Jayesh Modi, Vice President, GSCA, Shri.
Mishal Patel, Secretary, Rajpath Club,
Shri. Dinesh Kapadia, Secretary, Sports
Authority of Gujarat, Shri. Bhavesh Pa-
tel, Secretary, GSCA, IM Sekhar Chandra
Sahu, Vice President, AICF, Shri. Mayur
Patel, Vice President, GSCA and IA Swap-
nil Bansod, Chief Arbiter. The inaugural
function, held at 12 Noon, was preceded
by Managers / players meeting. The other
necessary technical matters were decided
and appeals committee was formed in the
meeting.
After 9 grueling days of top notch chess
of 32nd National Under-13 Chess Champi-
onship 2018, which concluded at Rajpath
Club, Ahmedabad, observed many higher
rated players biting the dust and emer-
gence of some new talents.
In the open section top seed Pranav Anand
of Karnataka held for a draw by his state
mate 38th seed Srikrishnan P. At the end
of 6th round 5 of the participants share
the lead with 5.5 pts each namely Pranav
Anand, Pranav V, Manish Anto Christiano
F, Manish Kumar and Srihari L. 4th Seed
CM Aditya Mittal met with an accident just
before penultimate round and his oppo-
nent Aryan Varshney won by forfeit on 2nd
board in penultimate round. At the end of
penultimate round, Pranav V of TN, Aryan
Varshney of DEL and Sreeshwan Maralak-
shikari of TEL with 8.5 pts. each shared
the lead. In the last round game, Pranav
V of TN lost to Sreeshwan Maralakshikari
of TEL, while on 2nd board Aryan Varsh-
ney of DEL beat Rohith Krishna S of TN.
Both Aryan and Sreeshwan tied with 9.5
pts for 1st place but better tiebreak score
helped Aryan to clinch the championship.
Sreeshwan Maralakshikari finished 2nd,
Aditya Varun Gampa of TEL beat Sriha-
ri L R of TN on 3rd board to secure 3rd
place. 2nd seed Pranav V, top seed Pranav
Anand, Nikhil Magizhnan and Ayush Shar-
ma stood 4th to 7th respectively.
The Girls section, 44th seed from Ma-
harashtra Kirti Mayur Patel surprised
everyone by scoring perfect score in first
6 rounds to become sole leader. But later
she lost 2 rounds back to back. At the
end of 8th round Dhyana Patel of Gu-
jarat became sole leader with 7 points.
She maintained her lead till last round to
emerge champion with 9.5. She drew her
last round game against Gunjal Chopdekar
of Goa, on 2nd board in last round game
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Kirti Mayur Patel of MAH beat Mohana R
of TEL to take 2nd place in final standing.
Tanvi Hadonkar of GOA beat Chinnam
Vyshnavi of AP on 4th board. Both Tanvi
and Gunjal tied with 8.5 pts, but on better
buchhloz score placed them 3rd and 4th
respectively.
The prizes were distributed at the hands
of Shri. Ajay Patel, President, GSCA.
The other dignitaries present were Shri.
Jayesh Modi, President, Karnavati Club,
Shri. Mishal Patel, Secretary Rajpath Club,
IM Shekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice President
AICF, Shri. Bhavesh Patel, Secretary,
GSCA, Shri. Mayur Patel, Vice President
GSCA, and IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Ar-
biter. The tournament, organized by Gu-
jrat State Chess Association on behalf
of All India Chess Federation, concluded
smoothly.
The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief
Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod and he was
ably assisted by IA Nihar Ranjan Sasmal,
Dy. Chief Arbiter, IA Vijayaraghavan V, IA
Joshi Ambrish C, IA Parmar IG, IA Dilip
Raval and SNA Dharmendra Pandya.
Final sgtandings:Open
Rk Name Sta Pts
1 Aaryan Varshney Del 9½
2 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari Tel 9½
3 Aditya Varun Gampa Tel 9
4 Pranav V TN 8½
5 Pranav Anand Kar 8½
6 CM Nikhil Magizhnan TN 8½
7 Ayush Sharma MP 8½
8 AGM Srihari L R TN 8
9 CM Rohith Krishna S TN 8
10 Arya Bhakta WB 8
11 Samip Roy WB 8
12 AGM Jubin Jimmy Ker 8
13 Samant Aditya S Mah 8
14 Hari R Chandran Ker 8
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15 Mihir Godawat Har 8
16 Parth Kuntal Raval Guj 8
17 AIM Sahib Singh Del 8
18 Manish Kumar (2006) Odi 7½
19 Dhrupad Kashyap Asm 7½
20 Jain Kashish Manoj Mah 7½
21 CM Aditya Mittal Mah 7½
22 Vinay R Jumani TN 7½
23 Karthik Sai Ch Tel 7½
24 Pranesh M TN 7½
25 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja Kar 7½
26 Shah Moxit J Guj 7½
27 AGM Vignesh N TN 7½
28 Potawad Anirudhha Mah 7½
29 Mahendra Teja Mekala AP 7½
30 Ayan Pal WB 7½
31 Zala Akshar Guj 7½
32 Arhan Chethan Anand Kar 7½
33 Mahajan Ayush Mah 7½
34 Pasricha Jayan Pun 7½
35 Srujan Keerthan Solletti Tel 7½
36 Dadwani Sahil MP 7½
37 Manish Anto Cristiano F TN 7
38 Barde Om Goa 7
39 Srikrishnan P TN 7
40 Harshad S TN 7
41 Mukherjee Sanchit Jha 7
42 Saypuri Srithan Tel 7
43 Shah Jeet Mah 7
44 Sangoi Hriday Mah 7
45 Abinandhan R TN 7
46 Manthan Kashyap Datta Asm 7
47 Rudranarayan Odi 7
48 G Rishabh Chandrashekhar Mah 7
49 Surya Raghava I AP 7
50 Adireddy Tarun Tel 7
51 Mahitosh Dey Odi 7
52 Aniruddh Chatterjee WB 7
53 Anish Rooj WB 7
54 Jeeva K TN 7
55 Namitbir Singh Walia Pun 7
56 Roshan S TN 7
57 Chauhan Narayan UP 7
58 Sriram K TN 7
59 Yukash Ram E TN 7
60 Arun Kataria Raj 7
61 Akshit Jha Mah 7
62 Samith Reddy I Kar 7
63 Kothari Pranit Mah 6½
64 AFM Pawar Harshit Del 6½
65 Nirmal L TN 6½
66 Adarsh Tripathi Del 6½
67 Makwana Devam Guj 6½
68 Nikam Sudhanshu Mah 6½
69 Shaswata Paul Jha 6½
70 Swapnil Priyadarshi Odi 6½
71 Ananthapadmanabh D V Ker 6½
72 AIM Pati Spandan Tel 6½
73 AIM Kalur Nikhil Tel 6½
74 Devesh Anand Naik Goa 6½
75 Sarvade Mihiir Mah 6½
76 Satawase Abhay Mah 6½
77 Bhavesh Mahajan Pun 6½
78 Bajaj Prakhar MP 6½
79 Pranav Aggarwal UP 6½
80 Gupta Anshurup Kar 6½
81 Sriram B TN 6½
82 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 6½
83 Rohith S TN 6½
84 Santhosh Manikantan AP 6½
85 Dhanvij Ansh Mah 6½
86 Arjun Sidharth S Pon 6½
87 Yashas Pessi Del 6½
88 Shreyas Ghadi Mah 6½
89 Md Bashiq Imrose Tel 6½
90 AIM Pankaj Bhat Kar 6½
91 Anantha Sai S TN 6½
92 Sanjay Srinivasan R TN 6½
93 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D AP 6½
94 Vishal Sharma Bih 6½
95 Sparsh Bisht Har 6½
96 Swayam Naik Goa 6½
97 Tejes Suresh Kumar Kar 6½
98 Bhuta Hriday Mah 6
99 Garv Gaur Har 6
100 Muthu P TN 6
101 Nihad Islam Hazarika Asm 6
102 Arora Honi Raj 6
103 Kabir Singh Ahuja Har 6
104 Soham Nag Tri 6
105 Badri Narayan B TN 6
106 Rishabh Kumara Kar 6
107 Bhrigu Suryanarayan Guj 6
108 Jain Adi Guj 6
109 Bang Atharva Mah 6
110 Harshiel Sehgal Del 6
111 Barik Jagdish Odi 6
112 AFM Nehete Arnav Mah 6
113 Aditya Chatterjee WB 6
114 Aritrya Pal WB 6
115 Patel Suyogkumar M Guj 6
116 Karthik Raj Ker 6
117 Sai Nikhil Y AP 6
118 Goel Pratyaksh Chd 6
119 Krishna Bajaj Har 6
120 Saketh Kumar Reddy C AP 6
121 Utkarsh Bhatnagar UP 6
122 Arnav Kushwaha Chd 6
123 Chaudhari Tanmay Mah 6
124 AFM Sankarshana Goli Tel 6
125 Arjun Kumar S TN 6
126 Swayham P Das Guj 6
127 Adireddy Arjun Tel 6
128 Prithvvi Singh UP 6
129 AFM Ishan Garg HP 6
130 Durvish Khurana Pun 6
131 Bharadia Yash Raj 6
132 Bamboat Hrrehan Mah 6
133 Dande Vyankatesh S Mah 6
134 Aakash G TN 6
135 Sri Harish J TN 6
136 AFM Mota Khant Mah 6
137 Rohan Gupta Chd 6
138 Shah Krish G MP 6
139 Aaditya Dhingra Har 5½
140 Shah Marmik Guj 5½
141 Suhaas A Tel 5½
142 Kinkhabwala Hrithik Mah 5½
143 Ananth Ramdas TN 5½
144 Prabhav Aggarwal UP 5½
145 Pragatheesh M TN 5½
146 Ananmay Sharma Guj 5½
147 Siddhant Nath Jha Har 5½
148 Prakhar Gupta MP 5½
149 Adalja Vanssh A Guj 5½
150 Jeyasurya Umashankar R TN 5½
Final rankings:Girls Under-13
Rk Name Sta Pts
1 WFM Dhyana Patel Guj 9½
2 WCM Kriti Mayur Patel Mah 9
3 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar Goa 8½
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4 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal Goa 8½ 51 Jena Suhana Odi 6 3rd The Heritage Schools’ (U-15)Chess Fide Rated Championship,Kolkata
5 Bhagyashree Patil Mah 8 52 Keerthana B TN 6
6 Savitha Shri B TN 8 53 Prakash Vaishnavi UP 6 Koustav Chatterjee and Bristy Mukherjee win titles
7 WCM Vishwa Vasnawala Guj 8 54 AIM Naik Sayuri Goa 6 by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
8 Velpula Sarayu Tel 8 55 Stuti Aishwary Del 6
9 Boramanikar Tanisha S Mah 8 56 Choudki Khushi Mah 6 3rd The Heritage School’s (U-15 Boys & Open Section. Aronyak Ghosh & Arpan Das
10 Jesica Del 8 57 Ayyala Shriyatha AP 6 Girls) Chess Championship 2018 organ- (Jr.) placed second and third respectively.
11 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 7½ 58 Hema Keertana Vemuri Mah 6 ized by Global Chess Foundation held In the girls section Bristy Mukherjee(6.5)
12 Ratnapriya K TN 7½ 59 Anya Seth Syed Kar 6 at The Heritage School, Kolkata, 6th to became champion in girls section , Me-
13 Mohana R TN 7½ 60 Tejasvee Naresh Singh Raj 6
9th June 2018 . The Tournament was hendi Sil & Sudipa Halder placed second
14 AFM Renganayaki V Kar 7½ 61 Prasiddhi Bhat Kar 6
inaugurated by Mr. Prabir Roy, Director, & third respectively.The tournament was
15 Dalal Aashi Mah 7½ 62 Yashasvi Gupta Raj 6
16 Agrawal Aanya Guj 7½ 63 Hemadri Sathish Kar 6
Kalyan Bharti Trust by making his first going on smoothly throughout all the
17 Sathwika N AP 7½ 64 Shah Vrisha Parag Mah 6 move on the board and also present at the rounds . There were no disputes/protests
18 Natura Bethi Tel 7½ 65 Mohitha V AP 6 event were Mrs. Seema Sapru, Principal, placed before the Appeals’ Committee. All
19 Shrija K M TN 7 66 Cera Dagaria MP 6 The Heritage School, Commander S Set, deputy Arbiters worked hard during the
20 Ananya Arumbakkam Kar 7 67 Dyuti Chakraborty Jha 6 Campus Administrator, Mrs. Meenakshi whole tournament. The Organisers pro-
21 Femil Chelladurai TN 7 68 Rachita Sabbathi Tel 6 Atal, Vice Principal and IM Atanu Lahiri, vided lunch to all participants for four
22 Ahalya A TN 7 69 Aasta Joy Ker 5½ Secretary Bengal Chess Association. days and snacks for guardians and parents
23 Meenatchi Rajam V TN 7 70 Nitya Singhania Pun 5½ during the game.
24 Akshaya Rajaraman TN 7 71 Rout Yashita Odi 5½ Total 311 players (236 for Open Catego-
25 Rebecca Jesumarian TN 7 72 Panchal Hiya Guj 5½ ry & 75 for Girls Category)from various In the valedictory ceremony WGM IM Ni-
26 Dalli Shriya Reddy Tel 7 73 Bhagyashree G Patil Kar 5½ districts from remote corners of the State sha Mohta, Mr. Ramen Pandey, President,
27 Vijayasubhasri S TN 7 74 Parikh Urvi Guj 5½
took part in the tournament. The playing INTUC, WB, Mr. Ashim Bose, Councillor,
28 Anishka Vikram Del 7 75 Swara Hetal Shah Guj 5½
hall was fully air-conditioned and provid- KM(Wardno. 70), Mr. Santosh Rai, Dy. Ge-
29 Yash Jyoti Bir WB 7 76 Shivika Rohilla Del 5½
30 Sinthia Sarkar WB 7 77 Varshita Jain MP 5½
ed very good atmosphere for the players nereal Manager, Kalyan Bharti Trust & At-
31 Marium Fatima Bih 7 78 Sritama Sen WB 5½ with sufficient toilet facilities in addition anu Lahiri, Secretary BCA & Jt. Secretary,
32 AFM Advaita Sharma K Tel 6½ 79 Mahi Amit Doshi Guj 5½ to sitting arrangement for guardians AICF, and Souvik Chakraborty, Founder
33 Swara Lakshmi S Nair Kar 6½ 80 Yashika Singh Raj 5½ and parents with AC facility. As per AICF & Director, Global Chess Foundation were
34 Smriti Prabhuraj Kar 6½ 81 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam Man 5½ guideline. The entries were checked for present and distributed the prizes.
35 WCM Patel Riddhi R Guj 6½ 82 Riya Shannon S TN 5½ aicf registration and found all paid.
36 Hemakshi Chauhan Har 6½ 83 Tina C TN 5½ Final ranking:Boys
37 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia Mah 6½ 84 Yadnya Rahul Chaudhari Mah 5½ The tournament was played under swiss Rk Name Pts
38 Rhythm Singhal Cht 6½ 85 Desai Sailee Mah 5½ system format 8 rounds for Open and 1 Koustav Chatterjee 7½
39 Sagar Siya Guj 6½ 86 Vidhi Kaushikbhai Sheth Guj 5½ 7 rounds for girls section . International 2 Aronyak Ghosh 7
40 Sanjana Raghunath Kar 6½ 87 Elan Thendral A S TN 5½ chess set was used together with digital 3 Arpan Das (Jr) 6½
41 Kheerthi Ganta Tel 6½ 88 Shah Prisha S Guj 5½ 4 Sanket Chakravarty 6½
chess clocks in every board. The organ-
42 Rishita Sinha Asm 6½ 89 Devaanshee Agarwal Har 5½ 5 Utsab Chatterjee 6½
izers and players were very supportive
43 Diya Jain TN 6½ 90 Shaoni Mukherjee Har 5 6 Shuban Saha 6½
44 Anjitha Krishnakumar Ker 6½ 91 Ayantika Das WB 5
and co-operative. The total number of
7 Soham Dey 6½
45 Adreeja Sinha Asm 6½ 92 Shah Garvi Guj 5 participants was the higher than any of 8 Swarnava Biswas 6½
46 Ishvi Aggarwal Har 6½ 93 Aakanksha Patel Guj 5 the State chess championships held be- 9 Soumma Chakraborty 6½
47 Shah Kritee Guj 6½ 94 Zoya Nizar Kar 5 fore. 10 Ayan Pal 6½
48 Ananya D AP 6 95 Sai Janani Pothula Tel 5 11 Samip Roy 6
49 Ranka Srushti Mah 6 96 Dhanyatha Corry Kar 5 At the end of final round games Koustav 12 Souhardo Basak 6
50 Tanisha A R Som Asm 6 97 Shah Viha Mah 5 Chatterjee (7.5)) became champion in 13 Ayush Jha 6

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14 Praloy Sahoo 6 Final ranking:Girls Khasdar Chasak Nagpur District Open FIDE Rating Chess, Nagpur
15 Aditya Chatterjee 6 Rk Name Pts
16 Bhattacharyya Soham 6 1 Bristy Mukherjee 6½ IM Anup Deshmukh wins
17 Soumyajit Das (Jr) 6 2 Mehendi Sil 5½ by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
18 Soham Pal 6 3 Sudipa Haldar 5½
19 Pratyay Chowdhury 6 4 Sanika Sengupta 5½ The Khasdar Chasak Nagpur District open just before the starting of tournament.
20 Tejash Jain 6 5 Das Annika 5½ FIDE Rating Chess Tournament (only for The other necessary technical matters
21 Bhattacharya Arunava 5½ 6 Diya Chowdhury 5 Nagpur District Players), under the banner were decided and appeals committee was
22 Aditya Bikram Paul 5½ 7 Prateeti Gorai 5
of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav, commenced formed.
23 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 5½ 8 Anushka Gupta 5
on 17th May 2018 and continued till 22nd
24 Anish Rooj 5½ 9 Annyatoma Das 5
May, 2018 at Naivedhyam Estoria, Kal- 9th seed Yash Dhoke upset top seed FM
25 Shuvam Roy 5½ 10 Yash Jyoti Bir 4½
26 Subhabrata Roy 5½ 11 Rajanya Datta 4½ amna, Nagpur. The six day grand tour- Akash Thakur in the 5th round. At the end
27 Shounak Mazumder 5½ 12 Ishika Mondal 4½ nament was organized & conducted by of 6th round 7 players were sharing the
28 Atri Chattopadhyay 5½ 13 Sneha Halder 4½ Nagpur District Chess Association under lead, IM Anup Deshmukh, Gurpreet Sin-
29 Ritwick Pal 5½ 14 Sinthia Sarkar 4½ the aegis of All Marathi Chess Association gh Maras, Ayush Jugele, Pradeep Tiwari,
30 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 5½ 15 Debarpita Ghosh 4½ and All India Chess Federation. The first Shubham Lakudkar, Yash Dhoke, Ravi
31 Sankalan Shah 5½ 16 Tanisha Chatterjee 4½ ever district level FIDE Rating tournament Bhowte with 5.5 points each. In the penul-
32 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 5½ 17 Arhana Kundu 4½ by NDCA was having a total cash prize timate round Gurpreet Singh Maras beat
33 Atri Chakraborty 5½ 18 Aditi Saha 4½ fund of Rs. 3,00,000/-. The prizes were his opponent Ayush Jugele and became
34 Atreya Nandy 5½ 19 Shreya Shree Bansal 4½ sponsored by Organizers of Khasdar Krida the sole leader with 8pts. Gurpreet Singh
35 Suvojeet Dey 5½ 20 Srijita Sarkar 4½ Mahatsav, which is a brain child of Hon’ble Maras and FM Akash Thakur started their
36 Arijit Ghosh 5½ 21 Anwesha Saha 4½
Minister Nitin Gadkari.FIDE title holders 1 last round game with Vienna Gambit, later
37 Raunak Datta Nath 5 22 Saanvi Khanna 4½
IM, 1 FM, 111 fide rated players and 184 in the middle game Gurpreet sacrificed a
38 Dhritabrata Kundu 5 23 Prachi Bhushan 4½
unrated players which total to 295 took piece for counter play, Akash handled the
39 Aniket Narayan Biswas 5 24 Ayantika Das 4
40 Aritra Ganguly 5 25 Mrittika Mallick 4 part in the prestigious 10 round chess position very well and won the game in 27
41 Aritrya Pal 5 26 Urja Goyal 4 tournament. moves. On 2nd board IM Anup Deshmukh
42 Shankhodip De 5 27 Saparya Ghosh 4 won his game against AGM R Sivasubra-
43 Debaprabho Gorai 5 28 Chandrima Sarkar 4 This event was inaugurated at the hands manium. IM Anup Deshmukh, FM Akash
44 Ruchir Sengupta 5 29 Soumeli Das 4 of International Master, Anup Deshmukh, Thakur and Vaibhav Raut shared the top
45 Ujan Sarkar 5 30 Kriti Mundhra 4 who was the Chief guest of the function. place with 8.5 points each, but with bet-
46 Agniva Shee 5 31 Vedika Agarwal 4 Hon’ble Shri. Krishna Khopde, MLA, East ter buchholz score IM Anup Deshmukh
47 Tanishq Poddar 5 32 Tanvi Agarwal 3½ Nagpur, presided over the function. Other clinched the championship of the tour-
48 Soham Bhattacharyya 5 33 Gargee Bose 3½ dignitaries present were Shri. Sandeep nament and received a cash prize of Rs.
49 Priyanshu Barua 5 34 Raina Das Gupta 3½ Joshi, Chief organizer of the Khasdar 50000/-. Vaibhav Raut and Akash Thakur
50 Ujaan Bhattacharya 5 35 Shreshtha Surai 3½
Chasak and Corporator, Nagpur, Shri. were placed in 2nd and 3rd positions re-
51 Sayan Sarkar 5 36 Jhilam Ghosh 3½
Manoj Itkelwar, Vice President, AICF, spectively.
52 Ishan Das 5 37 Eka Narayan 3½
Shri. Dilip Kamdar, President, NDCA, Shri.
53 Saanket Das 5 38 Shrestha Saha 3½
54 Rachishnu Datta 5 39 Anisha Ghosh 3½ Manoj Chafle, coordinator, Shri. Piyush This Mega event under the banner Khas-
55 Samrik Chowdhury 5 40 Aarshiya Biswas 3½ Ambulkar, Secretary, Khasdar Chasak & IA dar Krida Mahotsav was completed suc-
56 Dhrubajyoti Barman 5 41 Jhinuk Dutta 3½ Swapnil Bansod, the Chief Arbiter. Mr. K. cessfully. The tournament was without any
57 Aniruddha Paul 5 42 Prapti Moulik 3½ K. Barat, Secretary, NDCA, conducted the dispute as the players and the parents
58 Anjishnu Mondal 5 43 Ishani Biswas 3½ function and Shri. Dilip Kamdar, President, were very much co-operative. The venue
59 Bratajit Mukherjee 5 44 Samriddhi Roy 3½ NDCA, proposed the vote of thanks. Man- was excellent and the related arrange-
60 Aditya Prasad 5 45 Kuhelika Das 3½ agers / players meeting were arranged ments like accommodation, food, waiting

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hall for accompanying persons etc. were
also equally excellent.
The team of arbiter’s namely Dy Chief FA
Pravin Pantawane, FA Deepak Chavan,
SNA Umesh Panbude, SNA Sheetal Pan-
bude, and SNA Simantini Adane, were
very much competent and reacted in every
condition with well equipped technical
knowledge.
It is my duty to thank Mr. Pravin Datke,
in-charge and Shri. Sandeep Joshi, Chief
Organiser, Khasdar Chashak, without
them this event could not have been a
grand success. I take this opportunity to
thank Mr. Dilip Kamdar, President NDCA,
for providing all facilities to officials,
players and accompanying persons along
with the hall and Mr. Umesh Panbude,
Tournament Secretary NDCA, for his tire
less work, dedication and support which
helped to conclude this mega event with a
grand success. The tournament ended in a
very peaceful mannr without any dispute.
The prize distribution ceremony was or-
ganized in a grand manner at the hands
o f M r s . C h a n d a t a i Ta n k , C o r p o ra t o r,
Lakadgand Prabhag, Nagpur, other guests
present were Shri. Manoj Itkelwar, Vice
President AICF, Shri. Manoj Chafle, Chess
Incharge, Khasdar Chashak, Shri. Dilip
Kamdar,.President NDCA, Shri Shreyansh
Kamdar, Vice President NDCA, Shri. R N
Shrivas, Secretary VCA., Shri. Amit Sam-
pat, Sports Reporter, Times of INDIA and
IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter.
Final standings:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Deshmukh Anup 8.5
2 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 8.5
3 Thakur Akash 8.5
4 Gurpreet Singh Maras 8
5 Ayush Jugele 8
6 Pradip Tiwari 8
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7 Shubham Lakudkar 8
8 Katdare Jayant C 8
9 Yash Dhoke 7.5
10 Swayam Uttam Aalewad 7.5
11 Sivasubramanian R 7.5
12 Atharva Rakesh Bhede 7.5
13 Deogade Salil 7.5
14 Marsattiwar Yash 7.5
15 Khamele Ojas 7.5
16 Roneet Das 7.5
17 Nilesh Wasnik 7.5
18 Lonkar Parth 7.5
19 Ranade Mayank 7.5
20 Pujjam Bansod 7
21 Gawai Siddhant 7
22 Nitin Ramteke 7
23 Sirsikar Shivam 7
24 Satawase Abhay 7
25 Saurabh Lokhande 7
26 Shinde Rujul 7
27 Dnynadha N Vitalkar 7
28 Suryavanshi B Mohan 7
29 Kakra Palav 7
30 Dishank Sachin Bajaj 7
31 Srivastava V.K. 7
32 Aditya Uday Kakpure 7
33 Dalal Aashi 7
34 Dande Vyankatesh S 7
35 Ravi L Bhowte 6.5
36 Govind Bhake 6.5
37 Atharva Aloni 6.5
38 Khobragade Adesh 6.5
39 Kohad Dipesh 6.5
40 Thakare Seeya 6.5
41 Rathi Nitish 6.5
42 Dhananjay SBhugaonkar 6.5
43 Vijay Thakur 6.5
44 Gajbhiye C D 6.5
45 Jain M.K. 6.5
46 Prerak Darvekar 6.5
47 Shreyas S Nikam 6.5
48 Sawalakhe Jay 6.5
49 Patel Devang 6.5
50 Mudliyar Kshitij 6.5
51 Patil T S 6.5
52 Chhabda Soham 6.5
53 Gaikwad Rishikesh 6.5
56th Kerala State Open FIDE rated chess tournament-2018, Ernakulam
Anilkumar is the Winner
by Dr. Govindankutty Ms, IA, Chief Arbiter
56th edition of Kerala State Open FIDE
Rated Chess Championahip-2018 was
held at Hotel Mermaid, Vytila, Ernakulam
from 30th May to 3rd June 2018. A total
number of 97 players which includes 87
International rated from across Kerala
participated in the championship and
served as selection event for Kerala team
for the forthcoming National Champion-
ships. The event which were spread over
five days and played under Swiss System
with 9 rounds with the time control of 90
minutes and 30 seconds increment from
move 1. The total prize fund of the cham-
pionship was Rs. 1,00,000/-.
Marthandan K U of Ernakulam started as
top seed and the event progressed on
expected lines. On eighth round, Athul
Krishna of Kozhikode took sole lead after
beating top seed. Athul was enjoying one
point lead over nearest rivals before the
final round and just required to sign the
peace treaty to become state champion.
But in a dramatic turn around, he lost his
final round against Jubin Jimmy of Kollam
which enabled five more players to join
him at top of point table.
Better tie break score helped six time state
champion O T Anilkumar of Kozhikode to
clinch the title while Jubin content with
first runner up position. Marthandan K
U becomes second runner up while Hari
Suresh of Ernakualam, Athul Krishna of
Kozhikode and Chandar Raju of Ernakulam
finished at fourth, fifth and sixth position
respectively.
Nithyan S of Thiruvananthapuram, Adithya
A Chullikkad of Ernakulam and Ishaan K
Sibin of Ernakulam becomes Best Boys
Players in Under-14, Under-11 and Un-
der-8 categories respectively while Anji-
tha Krishnakumar of Ernakulam, Anupam
Sreekumar of Thiruvananthapuram and
Vygaprabha of Palakkad won the best priz-
es in same age categories of girls section.
Sasidhara Kurup of Alapuzha adjudged as
Best Veteran Player.
In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri.
Jayashankar, MD Hotel Mermaid give
away the prizes in presence Shri. Kunhi
Moideen, President Chess Association
Kerala; Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary Chess
Association Kerala, Shri. VN Viswanathan,
CEO Chess Association Kerala and Shri. P
Sunil, Treasurer Chess Association Kerala.
final ranking
rk name pts
1 Anilkumar O.T 7
2 Jubin Jimmy 7
3 Marthandan K.U 7
4 Hari Suresh 7
5 Athul Krishna S 7
6 Chandar Raju 7
7 Avinash Hari 6½
8 Sooraj M R 6
9 Joy Antony 6
10 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
11 Sanjay S Pillai 6
12 Sumith Balan 6
13 Nijai Giri 6
14 Harikrishnan A 6
15 Mohanan U.C 6
16 Sharsha Backer 6
17 Unas K A 6
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18 Rajashree Rajeev 6 65 Pournami S 4 1st Bhagwan Mahaveer FIDE Rating Tournament, Kolhapur...
19 Mansoor C M 6 66 Vinod S 4
20 Jagadeesh A K 5½ 67 Ravisankar P 4 Ranveer Mohite wins title
21 Hari R Chandran 5½ 68 Dhanesh P M 3½ by FA Bharat Chougule, Chief Arbiter
22 Satheeshan U S 5½ 69 Sanil S 3½
23 Nitin M Pai 5½ 70 Aji kumar A 3½ 1st Bhagwan Mahaveer FIDE Rating Chess Sahil drawn his game against fifth seeded
24 Rajeev V M 5½ 71 Brahmaha V S 3½ Tournament was organised by Kolhapur Pimpalkhere Vedant of Maharashtra &Om
25 Jinan Jomon 5½ 72 Nasser N A 3½ Chess Academy under the auspices of lakmane also done the same with 222 ELO
26 Viswanathan V N 5½ 73 Viswajith P Gopinathan 3½ World Chess Federation, All India Chess higher Dewang Kalpesh. Phatak Anjaneya
27 Reneesh M P 5½ 74 Mahesh K 3½
Federation and All Marathi Chess Associ- of Maharashtra Stunned IM Balasubra-
28 Soman C R 5½ 75 Aasta Joy 3½
ation. A total of 178 players participated maniam. Anjaneya continued his form
29 Nishad A 5½ 76 Nihal Nithish 3
in this event out of which 109 were rated and drew his round 5 game with Mohite
30 Eldho Skaria 5 77 Ananthakrishnan B 3
31 Raju O A 5 78 Lakshmi Akshara Raj 3 players. IM Ramanathan Balasubrama- Ranveer on top board. Balasubramaniam
32 Raveendran C R 5 79 Hrishikesh A J 3 niam graced the event with his sponta- and Pimpalkhere Vedant bounced back
33 Nithyan S 5 80 Ishaan K Sibin 3 neous participation.The duration of the after slightly unfortunate performances
34 Karthik K 5 tournament was stretched over 5 days in earlier rounds and were paired on Top
35 Sandeep Santhosh 5 starting from 19th June and a total of 9 board in Final Round. Vedant managed
36 Sujithraj U Mallan 5 rounds were conducted. Two rounds were
37 Adithya A Chullikkad 5
Puzzle of the month to get IQP in early middle game but IM
by C.G.S.Narayanan played for the first four days and the last with his cool and calm composure used
38 Amal Roozi 5 round concluded on 23rdof June followed his vast experience to exploit its weak-
39 John Veny Akkarakaran 5 The puzzle this month is a retro where the by Prize Distribution. nesses to end the game in draw.Ranveer
40 Anupam M Sreekumar 5 solver has to find the last move of black Mohite and Mahindrakar Indrajit won their
41 Muhammed Reja C 5 before the white rook delivered the mate The opening ceremony witnessed the respective games but Ranveer managed
42 Sourav M S 5 W.Cross
presence of Ajitsinh Katkar BJP Speaker, to keep half point buchholz higher than
43 Sasidhara Kurup C 5 A Guide to Fairy Chess, 1967
Pravin Shah a well-known Tobacco Mer- IM Balasubramanian to clinch the victory.
44 Rahul Rajeev 4½
45 Vishnu Menon 4½ chant, Vishwavijay Khanvilkar, President IM Balasubramanian stood second and
46 Santhosh David 4½ Kolhapur District Chess Association along Mahindrakar Indrajit stood. The Arbiters
47 Roshan Hari 4½ with Chief Arbiter FA Bharat Chougule team was comprised of Chief Arbiter FA
48 Varun Rajesh Nandanam 4½ and Deputy Chief Arbiter FA Vivek So- Bharat Chougule, Dep. Chief Arbiter FA
49 Alex C Joy 4½ hani. Tournament was inaugurated by VivekSohani, SNA PornimaUpalavikar, SNA
50 Ismail.K P 4½ lamp lighting function followed by playing Pushkar Jadhav.
51 Gabriel B M 4½ moves on chessboard. Final standings:
52 Tito William V 4½ Rk. Name Pts.
53 Emmanuel Thomas 4½ First round undergone smooth start for 1 Mohite Ranveer 7.5
54 Salim Yoosuf 4½ tournament with no major upsets. Second 2 R Balasubramaniam 7.5
55 Vishnu Namboothiri M V 4½ 3 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7.5
round started crackers in heavy rain at the
56 Anjitha Krishnakumar 4 4 Bhosale Shriraj 7
venue when Chalke Soham of Maharash-
57 Swaha V S 4 5 Phatak Aanjaneya 7
58 Anil Kumar S 4
tra drew his game with 607 ELO higher
player Inamdar Sameer of Maharashtra; 6 Kapadi Yash 7
59 Lakshmanan K A 4 7 Pimpalkhare Vedant 7
60 Sreeraman Namboodiri P 4 also GoteKaustubh drawn his game with
8 Tajane Ganesh 7
61 Sreehari G 4 459 ELO higher Shriraj Bhosale of Mahar-
Last move? 9 Yashaskara Jois K.R 6.5
62 Jibi Kallingalpadem 4 ashtra. Pednekar Balkrishna won his game
(Solution on page 48) 10 Golvankar Dilip K 6.5
63 Sreerag M R 4 against 369 ELO higher Giri Abhishek. 11 Sharan Rao 6.5
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12 Gandhi Anish 6.5 59 Divyaansh Tandon 5 1st All India Open fide Rating Below 1600 Tournament,Nagpur
13 Singh Ojasva 6.5 60 Patil Aayush 5
14 Inamdar Sameer 6.5 61 Walekar Parth 5 Sanjib Mali is winner
15 Chavan Nameet 6.5 62 Tamboli Sohel 5 by FA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
16 Aditya Savalkar 6.5 63 Joshi Kedar 5
17 Narvekar Pruthviraj 6.5 64 Khasbage Shailesh 5 1st All Open Fide Rating Below 1600 Chess Prakash Welfare Foundation & Organizing
18 Singh Gursher 6.5 65 Mayekar Ayush 5 Tournament, conducted by Kalpana Wel- Chairman), Mr Promodraj Moree, Chief
19 Giri Abhishek 6.5 66 Divekar Prathamesh 5 fare Foundation & Vidarbha Chess Acad- Arbiter.
20 Pardeshi Ajay 6 67 Kotur Aryan 5 emy from 15th to 17th June 2018 in the
21 Naik B S 6 68 Velayutham S S 5 spacious Dr.Hedgewar Welfare Smatrak After 9 rounds Sajib Mali of West Bengal
22 Dewang Kalpesh 6 69 Kamble Santosh 5 Samiti, Reshimbagh, Nagpur for 3 days emerged the winner with 8.5 points, He
23 Dandekar Umesh 6 70 Joshi Swarup 5 with 9 rounds. The event attracted 499 drew his final round with Vangala Prashant
24 Om Nagnath Lamkane 6 71 Mahat Hadin 5 players from all over India including major of Telengana to emerge the sole leader.
25 Redij Aniket 6 72 Kate Harshita 5 states like Karnataka, Maharastra, Madhya He Received a Cash Prize of Rs 51000 with
26 Pednekar Balkrishna 6 73 Nair Sharath 5 Trophy. Two players tied with 8 points
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,
27 Pingale Shivraj 6 74 Sayed Mazhar Ayaz 5
Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, each on 2nd Place, Vishwanath Kannam
28 Patil Rohit R 6 75 Gatade Shreyas 5
Chattisgad, Assam,Delhi, Punjab, Telan- of Telangana secured 2nd place with a
29 Nargundkar Ravindra 6 76 Bhagwat Yash 5
gana etc. Total 19 states participated in better tie break score and Bala Ganeshan
30 Kumawat Ghanashyam 6 77 Sushant Madhukar Kamble 5
31 Khasbardar Soham 6 78 Vaidya Suraj 5 the event. 259 Fide rated players in this of Kerala secured the 3rd Place.
32 Gote Kaustubh 6 79 Kesare Ritesh 5 tournament. Top seed of the event was
33 Bapat Aniket 6 80 Chavan Sanjay 5 Ananda Kumar M S of Tamil Nadu with The Prize Distribution function took place
34 Magdum Mayuresh 6 81 Khan Raees Ahmed 5 rating of 1594 on 17th June at 6pm. The Chief Guest
35 Prabhu Trupti 6 82 Pranav Tukaram Gunake 5 was Mr Dyashankar Tiwari,BJP leader,who
36 Mudhale Prajwal 6 83 Sawardekar Omkar 4.5 The youngest player of the event was distributed the prizes to the winners.
37 Sawardekar Pravin 5.5 84 Sardar Surendra 4.5 Rane Viraj of Mumbai of 6 years and most
38 Ahirrao Vedant 5.5 85 Khanjire Yogesh 4.5 senior player of the event was Mr Ishwar Final ranking
39 Moghe Mayur 5.5 86 Kale Sawata 4.5 Ramteke of 80 years of Nagpur. Creditable Rk Name Pts
40 Khedkar Prasad 5.5 87 Pawar Prerana 4.5 1 Sanjib Mali 8½
performances in this event were done by
41 Khadilkar L.P. 5.5 88 Patil Shreyash 4.5 2 Vishwanath Kannam 8
many players. More than 30 players are
42 Bapat Snehankit 5.5 89 Kolpek Lalgovind 4.5 3 Bala Ganeshan 8
getting rating in this tournament itself.
43 Dongre Chandrakant 5.5 90 Swapnil Sambhaji Budake 4.5 4 Soumen Mondal 7½
44 Mutagi Darshan 5.5 91 Kadam Samarth Sachin 4.5 Mr wanjari Kripal is gaining round 170 elo 5 Dhoke Arnav 7½
45 Chavan Atharva 5.5 92 Katkar Sarvesh 4.5 points from this event itself. Also deogade 6 Jaiswal Prince 7½
46 Upase Riddhi 5.5 93 Srinivas Asapu 4.5 Aryan, Maheshwari Krishna and Atharva 7 Dhirendra Kumar Das 7½
47 Kulkarni Samruddhi 5.5 94 Tushar Tukaram Gunake 4.5 Tomar are securing more than 125 points. 8 Suhrud Sudheer Acharya 7½
48 Mhadeshwar Sanket 5.5 95 Mandlik Shivam 4.5 9 Sheth Shemal Ketan 7½
49 Jagadale Ishwari 5.5 96 Shete Soham 4.5 The Venue was spacious and well venti- 10 Vangala Prashanth 7½
50 Athalye Varad 5 97 Dangare Shubham 4.5 lated located in the heart of the city.The 11 Saikat Nath 7
51 Walde Harshal 5 98 Devendra Chanchani 4 event was inaugurated on 15th June at 12 Wanjari Krupal 7
52 Shejal Sahil Sanjay 5 99 Salunkhe Varad 4 10.30 am the Dignitaries present of the 13 Sparsh Yadav 7
53 Patil Sharvil 5 100 Kamble Swapnil 4 dias were Mr K K Barat (secretary NDCA), 14 Kalbande Mayur 7
54 Tekam Krunal 5 101 Chitalkar Nilesh 4 15 Rajat Yadav 7
Mr Sushant Jumade (Organizing Secre-
55 Chalke Soham 5 102 Bhoite Krishna 4 16 Lokendra Rohit 7
tary), Mr Sudhakar Kohale (BJP President,
56 Tyagi Raghubir 5 103 Piyush Tandon 4 17 Phani Kanuri 7
Nagpur), Mr Kartik Shukul (Advocate),
57 Pandey Arpit 5 104 Sawant Vaibhav 4 18 Aanandha Kumar M S 7
58 Chandurkar Bhalchandra 5 105 Dhamal Advait 4 Mr Bhushan Shriwas (Secretary Kalpana 19 Ahuja Kishan Jairamdas 7

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21 Suryavanshi Brijesh Mohan 7
22 Chepte Dilip 7
23 Wagh Varun 7
24 Kumar Puru 7
25 Rahul Yadav 7
26 Santosh Pal 7
27 Manpreeth Singh R 7
28 Hirani Lakshya 6½
29 Prasath K R 6½
30 Prerak Darvekar 6½
31 Bheri Yaswanth 6½
32 Bhajne Atharva 6½
33 Vinod S 6½
34 Shelke Omkar 6½
35 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 6½
36 Pawaar Sohum 6½
37 Sham R 6½
38 Ishwar Ramteke 6½
39 Nitin Dnyaneshwar Ramteke 6½
40 Ranade Mayank 6½
41 Alok Nagdev 6½
42 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 6½
43 Dhoke Manan 6½
44 Nilesh Wasnik 6½
45 Bapat Aniket 6½
46 Agasti Vaibhav 6½
47 Vaidya Dattatraya 6½
48 Subhash Kumar M 6½
49 Suhaib Ahmad 6½
50 Walde Harshal 6½
51 Shinde Rujul 6½
52 Nigudkar Ameya 6½
53 Patil Aditi G 6
54 Arvind Kumar Vishwakarma 6
55 Ghorghate Sahil 6
56 Sawalapurkar Parag 6
57 Lonkar Parth 6
58 Tiwari Shivansh 6
59 Rao Mahadev 6
60 Murarilal Kori 6
61 Jagtap Lokesh Vivek 6
62 Navvye Anand 6
63 Harsh Jethwani 6
64 Maheshwari Krishna 6
65 Deshpande Suhan 6
66 Ankur Khatri 6
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67 Chaitanya Bhaisare 6
68 Sarthak Singh Parihar 6
69 Pratyush Kumar 6
70 Aryan Khurana 6
71 Nichat Ajinkya 6
72 Lohit Rushikesh 6
73 Himanshu Jethwani 6
74 Priyanka Bhatt 6
75 Jadhav Aditya 6
76 Kagde Shushrut 6
77 Ravi Palsule 6
78 Vamsi Krishna R 6
79 Khuje Maithili 6
80 Tiwari O P 6
81 Bhoi Bastab Brajesh 6
82 Wadhwani Kapil 6
83 Jitendra Sharma 6
84 Pradip Dey 6
85 Satish Bele 6
86 Nayan Chandrabhan R 6
87 Gotmare Anant 6
88 Kohale Anushka 6
89 Pawar Bhushan (PC) 6
90 Rane Viraj 6
91 Bahadure Shreyas 6
92 Soni Ram 6
93 Akshay Pardeshi 6
94 Hiwse Rishabh 6
95 Vandit Behal 6
96 Sanskar G 6
97 Chincholkar Aditya 6
98 Savdekar Akshay 6
99 Navya Goyal 6
100 Patil Durgesh 6
101 Palaskar Rutwik 5½
102 Mudliyar Kshitij 5½
103 Sharma Sachin 5½
104 Chafle Prashant 5½
105 Ramteke Sumedh 5½
106 Palorkar Riddhi 5½
107 Juare Deep 5½
108 Atharva Tomar 5½
109 Rahul Singh 5½
110 Vinay Khobragade 5½
111 Gupta Niti 5½
112 Chandrashekhar Sable 5½
113 Yadav Ashindra 5½
1st Pragatisheel Chhattisgarh Satnami samaj state open FIDE rated Championship
Dhananjay wins at Chattisgarh
by FA,Rao PN,Chief Arbiter
1st Pragatisheel Chhattisgarh Satnami
S a m a j s t a t e o p e n F I D E ra t e d C h e s s
Championship-2018 was organized by
Pragatisheel Chhattisgarh Satnami Samaj,
Associated with Chhattisgarh Pradesh
Chess Association,and under the aegis of
All India Chess Federation at Sanskritik
Bhavan, New Rajendra Nagar, Raipur,Ch-
hattisgarh. The event was spread over
four days; daily two rounds (total eight
rounds) with a time frame of 90 minutes
and 30 seconds increment with move one.
Digital chess clocks were provided in all
the boards during championship.
The event attracted a total number of
148 players (including 17 female players)
from twelve districts of Chhattisgarh. The
average rating of the tournament was
1123. Total 59 players were rated out of
148 participants. The total prize fund of
the event was Rs. 1,00000/- along with
trophies and participation certificates to
all players. In opening ceremony on 27th
May 2018 at 10.30am. Mr Bhayya Lal
Rajwade, Sports Minister of Chhattisgarh
Government was the chief Guest, and
Secretary of Pragatisheel CG Satnami
Samaj Shri Ashwani Bablu Trivendra was
the special guest of the function.
S. Dhananjay has won the champion-
ship with scoring 7.5 points. The Chief
Guest of the closing ceremony was Shri
B Chandrashekhar Iyer, Secretary CPCA,
Shri Nand Kishor Joshi,Editor,Shatranj
Samrat(hindi chess magazine from Mand-
sor,MP) and Shri Ashwani Trivendra,Sec-
retary CG Satnami Samaj and Miss Anjali
Barmal, Dist Sports Officer(Education
Departmet).
The event was very well organized in
an air conditioned hall by Pragatisheel
Chhattisgarh Satnami Samaj. A very good
team of arbiters and official worked very
well and the event concluded without any
protest.
The organizers provided free accommoda-
tion to players and accompanying persons
of all out station players. I would like to
thank Chhattisgarh Pradesh Chess As-
sociation for appointing me as the Chief
Arbiter of this tournament and also Rai-
pur District Chess Association for their
support.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Dhananjay S 7.5
2 Vinod Kumar Sharma 6.5
3 Banerjee Ashutosh 6.5
4 Mishra Uttam 6.5
5 Dewangan Yogesh 6.5
6 Gautam Keshari 6.5
7 Shubham Singh 6.5
8 Buxy Rajanikant 6
9 Parakh Niyati 6
10 Mohan Prasad Tiwari 6
11 Mahendra Pal 6
12 Anil Pradhan 6
13 Uppal Anshul 5.5
14 Sharma Rahul 5.5
15 Rao Mahadev 5.5
16 Rakesh Kumar Kesherwani 5.5
17 Pandey Prashant 5.5
18 Sinha Shivam 5.5
19 Neeraj Kumar 5.5
20 Priyanshu Sekhar Swain 5.5
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21 Simon Jacob 5.5 68 Namit Kothari 4 Common wealth Chess Championships 2018, New Delhi
22 Ashish Kumar Soni 5.5 69 Akhilesh Kumar Kar 4
23 Soni Shubham 5.5 70 Pooja Saytonday 4 Karthikeyan and Tania Sachdev are Champions
24 Yashsva Anil Kanholkar 5.5 71 Amit Mathur 4 by IA Vasanth B.H, Chief Arbiter
25 Vishvajeet Singh 5.5 72 Faiz Aalam 4
Commonwealth Chess Championship 2018, organized by Delhi chess association on be-
26 Surendra Kumar Singh 5.5 73 Bipin Bihahi Prasad 4
half of All India Chess Federation and Commonwealth chess association inaugurated by
27 Sastry P L 5 74 Akshat Mahobiya 4
Commonwealth President and AICF Secretary Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan in a glittering
28 Agarwal Nitish 5 75 Yash Garg 4
29 Khilendra Sahu 5 76 Basant Patel 4 ceremony on 26th June 2018 at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, New Delhi.
30 Rhythm Singhal 5 77 Tanishka Tripathi 4
31 Sahu Raju Kumar 5 78 Sahu Nilkamal 4
32 Rushil Kumar Alluri 5 79 Arvind Dhiwar 4
33 Sahu Om Aditya 5 80 Chitlangia Paarth 4
34 Kishor Kumar Agrawal 5 81 Anshul Mishra 4
35 Kumar Prahlad 5 82 Parth Chandrakar 4
36 Tushar Khilwani 5 83 Raj Verma 4
37 Ravi Rochlani 5 84 Tiwari Arnav 4
38 Ritesh Yadav 5 85 Mehak Mathur 4
39 Ujjwal Kurre 5 86 Vishal Dwivedi 4
40 Yagyesh Ranjan 5 87 Arnab Ghosh 4
41 Prabhu Nandan Jha 5 88 Aarushi Srivastava 4
42 Sahu Girish 5 89 Arpit Agrawal 4
43 Rahul Saboo 5 90 Keshar Bhoi 3.5
44 Shubham Sharma 4.5 91 Ravish Kumar Pathak 3.5
45 Rohit Pandey 4.5 92 Prachi Yadav 3.5
46 Nirmal Kumar Sharma 4.5 93 Joshi Tushar 3.5
47 Rakesh Kumar Shee 4.5 94 Saumya Agrawal 3.5 (L-R)GM Debashis Das,GM Vaibhav Suri,Bharat Singh Chauhan,Secretary, AICF ,
48 Shiv Shankar Sharma 4.5 95 Tushar Gupta 3.5 GM Jacob Aagard, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE,IM P.Karthikeyan, Champion and
49 Jhasketan Sahu 4.5 96 Bindeshwar Kant 3.5 A.K.Verma,Secretary, DCA
50 Saksham Somwanshi 4.5 97 Vijay Kumar Kashyap 3.5
51 Chakradhari Rahul 4.5 98 Aditya Dubey 3.5 53 titled players from 11 federations comprising 13 grand Masters and 2 women par-
52 Aniruddha Ghosh 4.5 99 Pravin Vishwakarma 3.5 ticipated in the championship. A total of 742 played in all the categories. The Champi-
53 Agrawal Varun 4.5 100 George Inosen Almeida 3.5
onships have been split into 15 different categories. Apart from the open, there were
54 Agrawal Vansh 4.5 101 Gupta Oas 3.5
under-8,10,12,14,16,18 and 20 categories for boys and girls separately.
55 Raj Patel 4.5 102 Aditya Agrawal 3.5
56 Pramod Kumar Dubey 4.5 103 Shagunshrivastava 3.5
57 Abhay Sharma 4.5 104 Shivansh Agrawal 3.5 GM Deep Sengupta was top seed in the open category fol-
58 Aryan Goswami 4.5 105 Aman Kumar Garg 3 lowed by GM Vaibhav Suri, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy.The
59 Shashikant Banjare 4.5 106 Sawaiya Ramlal 3 championship was not an easy walk for top players. The
60 Agarwal Ashutosh 4.5 107 Aksh Chopda 3 youngsters displayed their best skill and held few top players
61 Aruni Agrawal 4.5 108 Gourav Prithyani 3 from marching ahead.
62 Bhatia Mananshrajsingh 4.5 109 Rudransh Khare 3 12th seed IM Karthikeyan P emerged as champion after
63 Himanshu Dhairya 4.5 110 Lokesh Mandle 3 scoring 7.5 points out of nine rounds. GM Vaibhav Suri,
64 Abhishek Yerpude 4 111 Chandan Vishwakarma 3 GM Debashis Das, GM Lalith Babu MR, Top seed GM Deep
65 Archit Jain 4 112 Divyansh Kankaria 3 Sengupta and GM Deepan Chakravarthy score 7 points each
66 Samar Singh 4 113 Manish Kumar 3 and place 2nd to 6th place.IM Tania Sachdev bagged Wom-
67 Marshal Reni Augur 4 114 Anurag Thakur 3
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en Commonwealth gold medal and in senior section Southey Andrew from South Africa
bagged the Gold medal.
In a colourful closing ceremony Mr. DV Sundar, Vice President FIDE, Mr. Bharat Sin-
gh Chauhan, President Commonwealth Chess Association & Secretary All India Chess
Federation, Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard, renowned Chess Trainer & Author and Mr. SK
Verma, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India gave away the cash prizes and medals.
Praggnanandhaa is the second youngest GM in the world
Shri..P.R.Venketrama Raja, Chairman Ramco Group of companies, GM elect R.Praggnanand-
haa, Dr.M.Manickam, President TNSCA, B.Murugavel, Vice President TNSCA and D.V.Sundar,
Vice President FIDE
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association & The Ramco Group of Companies who are the spon-
sors’ of master Praggnanandhaa jointly organised a felicitation function for the youngest
Grandmaster of India and second youngest GM in the world, at the Crown Plaza, Chennai
on 27th June 2018.
Earlier Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master in chess history
at the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days. He achieved his first GM Norm at the
FIDE World Junior Chess Championship in November 2017. He bagged his second GM
Norm at the Heraklion Fischer Memorial GM tournament in Greece in April 2018 and he
achieved his final GM Norm at the Gredine Open in Urtijel at the age of 12 years, 10
months and 13 days.
On the occasion, Praggnanandhaa, the 52nd Grandmaster of India, was felicitated with
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a memento and cheque of Rs.30,000/- by Shri. P.R.Venketrama Raja, Chairman, Ramco
Group of Companies & President, All India Chess Federation. Shri. M. Manickam, Chair-
man, Sakthi Group of Companies & President, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and
Shri. D.V. Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, India’s first IM and Arjuna awardee Shri.Manuel
Aaron felicitated the young prodigy.His coach GM R.B.Ramesh was also felicitated on
the occasion.
D.V.Sundar stressed on the role played by Ramco Group of Companies and its Chairman
P.R.Venkatrama Raja in helping the young GM and his sister R.Vaishali, who is a WIM
and two-time Wold Youth Champion, in pursuit of their goals by extending substantial
financial support. IM Manuel Aaron said that after Anand it is good to see the emergence
of yet another Grandmaster and that too a twelve-year old who would serve as an in-
spiration to aspiring young players. In reply to the felicitation Praggnanandaa thanked
the Ramco and his coach GM R.B.Ramesh for his achievements.
GM Harikrishna wins CEZ Chess Trophy
India number two Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna
took on Czech Grandmaster David Navara in a 12-
game rapid match in Prague, Czechia from 13-16
June 2018. The time control was 20 minutes for
all moves, with a 10-second increment from move
1.Harikrishna replaced Chinese grandmaster Ding
Liren who had to withdraw from the match due to
hip injury he suffered during Norway Open. This
left the Indian super grandmaster short time to
prepare against his Czech rival.
In the first round, Harikrishna gained a better po-
sition but he did not succeed to win, and Navara
was glad for the draw in the first game. The second game looked balanced but the white
pieces were in a much more comfortable situation. In the end, the black king got into a
very tight position, and even though he escaped from the checkmate network, Navara
finally fell into a tactical trap and lost the game.
AICF International Women’s Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Mumbai
Mongolia’s Batkhuyag Munguntuul becomes champion
Srija Seshadri finishes third
AICF International Women’s Grandmaster Chess Tournament sponsored by SBI Life got
off a great start at the Acres Club, Mumbai with a glittering opening ceremony. All the
players were felicitated in the great Indian tradition by the students of The Green Acres
Academy. The Saraswati Vandana and Bharatnatyam dance by the schools students de-
lighted not only the visiting foreign players but as also also the entire audience. There-
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after, the event was declared Open by Mrs. Neela Parikh, Director of the Acres Club and TN State U -25 Open & Girls FIDE Rated Championship 2018,Salem
Mr. AVS Sivaramakrishna, Regional Director of SBI Life in presence of Mr.R.M. Dongre,
the President of Asian Zone 3.7. This 12-player round-robin event is being organized
Hemanth Raam and Thamaraiselvi win titles
by Indian Chess School & South Mumbai Chess Academy under the aegis of All Marathi by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
Chess Association & Mumbai Suburban District Chess Association.
20th Tamilnadu State Under 25 Open Fide
Rated Chess Championship & 17th Tamilnadu
Top-seeded IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul from Mongolia lived up to her billing to claim the
State Under 25 Women Fide Rated Chess
top honors in the SBI Life-AICF Women Grandmaster Chess Championship . Thirty-year-
Championships got under way at Mahendra
old Batkhuyag who was in second position at the end of the 10th and penultimate round,
College of Engineering, Salem, a leading en-
scored a decisive win against Russian WIM Elena Tomilova in the final round to earn the
gineering college in Salem District, from 15th
full point and take her tally to eight from the 11-round competition.
June 2018 to 19th June 2018, organized by
Salem District Chess Association. The open
section attracted 137 participation from 22
Districts and Women section attracted 47
participants from 12 Districts in 9 round
Swiss league event.
Dr. N Shanmuga Sundara Raju, the Dean (Ac-
ademic), Mahendra College of Engineering,
inaugurated the event in the presence of Dr.
V Ponniyin Selvan, the Controller of Examni-
ation, Mahendra College of Engineering, Shri
J Balakrushnan, President, Salem District
Chess Association, Shri. M Ephrame IA, the
Overnight leader WGM Guliskhan Nakhbayeva from Kazakhstan slipped at the final hur- Chief Arbiter and Shri. P Satheesh, Physical
dle losing to talented Indian WIM Srija Seshadri, who churned out another impressive Education Director, Mahendra College of En-
performance against the higher rated Kazak player. Guliskhan with 7.5 points in the kitty gineering. Barath Kalyan of Thiruvarur was
had to settle for the second place, while the Tamil Nadu player Srija with a cumulative the top seeded followed by Mythireyan of
tally of seven points finished third. Chennai and Vaisnav of Tirupur. 90 minutes
plus 30 seconds increment per move was
Vietnam’s WGM Thi Kim Phung Vo, who was held to a draw by Indian WIM Vantika fixed for each player as time control.
Agrawal was placed fourth, also with 7 points.WIM Aakanksha Hagawane 6.5 points, WIM
Vantika Agrawal and Monnisha GK, both with 5.5 points each finished in fifth, sixth and The 69th seeded S Kaarthik, a local boy from
seventh positions respectively. The tournament was an initiative of the All India Chess Salem caused a major upset win against the
Federation to provide norm opportunities to the promising Indian players by inviting 6 top seeded M Barath Kanyan of Tiruvarur,
elite WGMs from across the world and have provided the entire prize fund of 7.5 Lakhs. attracted the crowd in the inaugural round
of this championship. Hemanth Raam and
Final standinga: 1.IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag (MGL)8,0; 2.WGM Nakhbayeva Gu- Sanjay of Chennai led the field with 5 points
liskhan (KAZ)7,5;3. WIM Srija Seshadri (IND) 7,0; 4. WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung (VIE)7,0;5. each at the end of the fifth round.
WIM Aakanksha Hagawane( IND)6,5;6. WIM Vantika Agrawal (IND) 5,5; 7.WIM Mon-
nisha G K (IND) 5,5;8.WGM Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim (UZB) 5,5. 9.WIM Tomilova The encounter between Sanjay and Hemanth
Elena (RUS) 5,0; 10.IM Zozulia Anna(BEL)4,5;11.WFM Divya Deshmukh (IND)3,5.12. Raam ended in favor of Hemanth Raam as
Rakshitta Ravi (IND)0,5 Sanjay lost to Hemanth which helped He-
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manth, the sole leader with 6 points at the
end of round 6. Hemanth winning strike con-
tinued in round 7 also, he out played Vaisnav
of Tripur and continued the lead with one full
point from his nearest rivals. The penultimate
round result was much interesting, Hemanth
Raam was held by his team mate Selva-
bharathi and Hemanth continued the lead
with half a point. Hemanth Raam needed a
draw in his final round game against K S
Yuvan Bharathi of Karur for the title and he
obtained the draw and won the championship
with 8 points. There are two players tied for
the second place with 7.5 points, Yuvan Bhar-
athi and Selvabharathy but better tie break
helped Yuvan Bharathi finish the second.
The women section Harivardhini of Thiruval-
lur District was the top seeded followed by P
Thamaraiselvi of Chennai and S Jayasree of
Salem. 11th seeded Leaha of Kanyakumari
shocked 4th seeded Jayasree of Salem en-
ticed the crowed in the third round. Top seed-
ed Harivardhini and second seeded Thamarai-
selvi joined the lead with 5 points at the end
of round 5. The encounter between these two
ended as draw in the 6th round and both of
them continued the lead with 5.5points. On
round seven Harivardhini was held by Genita
Gladys of Erode whereas Thamaraiselvi won
her game against S Jayasree of Salem and
took the lead with 6.5 points. Thamaraisel-
vi’s winning strike continued in round 8 and
maintain half a point lead with her nearest
rival Harivardhini. On seeing the draw oc-
curred in Harivardhini’s table in final round,
Thamaraiselvi also drew her game against
Genita Gladys which earned her the title.
Thamaraiselvi won the Championship with 8
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points. Harivardhani became the runner up. 22 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6 69 Suryanarayan B 4½ Final ranking:Women
The top two in the above two categories will 23 Arul Anandh S P K 6 70 Kausik Ragav S 4½ Rk Name Pts
represent Tamilnadu State for the ensuing 24 Balakowshi D S 6 71 Muralidharan U 4½ 1 Thamaraiselvi P 8
National Under 25 Open & Women Chess 25 Suganthan S 6 72 Girivishnu K V 4½ 2 Harivardhini I 7½
Championship. 26 Subramanian R P 6 73 Nishant G 4½ 3 Genita Gladys A 6½
27 Muthu Palaniappan P L 6 74 Gowtham Subramani 4 4 Jaysree S 6½
28 Kamalanathan R 6 75 Gokul Vairamuthu 4 5 Indulekha K S 6
The Chief guest of the prize distribution func-
29 Aasha C R 5½ 76 Karthick Gugan G 4 6 Leaha B 6
tion Shri.R.Sadheesh M.A,M.Phil, Corporation 30 Arivu Selvan A S 5½ 77 Saravana Kumar M 4 7 Srimozhi S 6
Commissioner, Salem District gave away 31 Vel Vishwanathan G M 5½ 78 Mithiran A 4 8 Kaavyadharsini S 6
the prizes. Rev. Br.John Joseph Superior 32 B Nedunchezian 5½ 79 Rishi Kumar P M 4 9 Sanju Shree Murali 6
General,Holy Cross Congregation, Salem 33 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5½ 80 Denzil Porus A 4 10 Keerthana R 5½
was the guest of honour. Rev.Br. Santhose, 34 Alagiri Sriram B 5½ 81 Kesavan G 4 11 Madhumida S 5½
Principal Holy Cross Matric. Hr.Sec School, 35 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½ 82 Neavil Porus A 4 12 Sahasra S 5½
Dr.N.Mohanasundararaju, Dean Academic, 36 Sai Prasath A S 5½ 83 Subash Balakrishnan 4 13 Sherlina S 5½
Mahendra College of Engineering Salem, Dr. 37 San Hariharan 5½ 84 Gokul Anand M 4 14 Aardritha P S 5½
V Ponniyin Selvan, the Controller of Examnia- 38 Vishalraam C S 5½ 85 Manoj R 4 15 Stepheena S 5
tion, Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem 39 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 5½ 86 Mukesh S 4 16 Kanishkaa C 5
and Mr.M. Senthilvel Joint Secretary, TNSCA 40 Ashwin Ravichandran 5½ 87 Raam Vignesh M K 4 17 Saravana Priya M 5
41 Venkatesan B 5 88 Barath M D 4 18 Sahanaa S M 5
felicitated the event. Mr. N. Arun, Secretary,
42 Tarun V 5 89 Pranesh Kumar M R 4 19 Prateeksha M K 5
Salem District Association welcomed the
43 Gokula Kannan G M 5 90 Saivarshan S P 4 20 Kanishka S 5
gathering Mr. Palaniappan IA proposed the 44 Kaarthik S 5 91 Naveen Prakash S 4 21 Sornamalya R 5
vote of thanks. 45 Emmanuel Austin B 5 92 Angu Hari Karthick M 4 22 Rithika M 5
Final ranking:Open 46 Iniyan I T 5 93 Gowthaman D 4 23 Thilakavathi B 4½
Rk Name Pts 47 Ssathyan S R 5 94 Ganeshmoorthy C 4 24 Rakshatha S A 4½
1 Hemanth Raam 8 48 Harshiv Adhithya P V 5 95 Vikas K 4 25 Akshaya B 4½
2 Yuvan Bharathi K S 7½ 49 Nishan M 5 96 Jayamurugan V M 4 26 Anandha Priya S 4½
3 Selvabharathy T 7½ 50 Gokul Prasad S 5 97 Mahizhnan E 4 27 Kaviarasi Kannan 4½
4 Sanjay D G 7 51 Lekshanth M 5 98 Dharanitharan D 4 28 Sahana Sk 4½
5 Mythireyan P 7 52 Vignesh G 5 99 Sarveshwar B S 4 29 Suvetha M 4
6 Sathya Giri V 7 53 Reeghan Allwin M 5 100 Aswin V 3½ 30 Tejasvi Suresh 4
7 Barath Kalyan M 7 54 Saravanan S 5 101 Aksayaraaj V L 3½ 31 Magizhini M 4
8 Elancheralathan P 6½ 55 Appas M 5 102 Rithik V S 3½ 32 Kokilavani T 4
9 Rohit Vassan S 6½ 56 Sri Hari S 5 103 Siranjeevi Sanjay S 3½ 33 Swetha Sri M S 4
10 Gugan G 6½ 57 Balaji Shanmugavel 5 104 Sundararaja Perumal S 3½ 34 Sai Aradhana R 4
11 Godson Merlin E 6½ 58 Venkat Ramana R 5 105 Karthikeyan M 3½ 35 Swarnika S 3½
12 Sathish Chandra G 6½ 59 Dheepak S 5 106 Suganth S A 3½ 36 Saivarshini A S 3½
13 Vaisnav M 6 60 Thanush B 5 107 Mouli M 3½ 37 Aathmika P S 3
14 Kabhilan S 6 61 Thooyavan R 5 108 Kiran Sekhar C 3½ 38 Sahana Selvamani 3
15 Dhanush Ragav 6 62 Naveen B 5 109 Reshe A B 3½ 39 Sahana S 3
16 Rathneesh R 6 63 Shreyas M 4½ 110 Venuvikaas P R 3½ 40 Janani J 3
17 Kishore V 6 64 Manojkumar R 4½ 111 Praveen B 3 41 Soundarya C 3
18 Rohit Ramanan T G 6 65 Aaditya R 4½ 112 Puviyarasu K C 3 42 Dhivya Bharathi S 3
19 Krishna Raaju J 6 66 Tamil Selvan S 4½ 113 Arun Prakash A 3 43 Harsikaa G 3
20 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 67 Eswar Raj G 4½ 114 Jeevaa A S 3 44 Sanjana Sri R 2
21 Sathya Naarayanan S 6 68 Kishore Vetrivel 4½ 115 Udayathkiran S 3 45 Kanishka N 1

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 1st State Level FIDE Rated Women Chess Tournament-2018,Kolkata
Ananya Bothra wins title
by IA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
Ananya Bothra won the 1St State Level FIDE
Rated Women Chess Tournament-2018 or-
ganized by Kolkata District Chess Association
at Kolkata from 27th June to 01st July 2018.
The tournament attracted a total number of
71 players which included 32 Rated Players
from different Districts. This is the first time
in West Bengal that an exclusive Women
Rating tournament was organised and the
total credit goes to KDCA, specially to Mr. Atin
Sengupta. Digital Chess Clock were provided
in all the boards.
Former Bengal campaigner Mrs. Mili Ghosh
started as top seed in the seven round Swiss
system tournament with a prize fund of Rs.
70,000/-. The tournament started in a befit-
ting manner. The tournaments saw lot of ups
and downs and provided exciting battles in
entire seven rounds. At the end of seventh
round, Ananya Bothra clinched the title with
clear 1 point lead from her rival Anushka
Gupta. Ananya bagged Rs. 8000/- and a
beautiful trophy while Anushka and Diya
bagged Rs. 6000/- & Rs. 4000/- for secur-
ing 2nd and 3rd spot. Top seed Mili Ghosh
secured the Eight Position .
Earlier on 27th Mr. Atin Sengupta, Secretary
KDCA , Mr. Atanu Lahiri, Secretary BCA and
Jt. Secretary AICF and eminent actress
Debashree Bhattacharyya, inaugurated the
tournament in a befitting matter.
In the glittering prize distribution ceremony
Chief Guest Renowned Sports Mental Tough-
ness Trainer Mr. Mrinal Chakraborty , Prof.
Ashtam Kr. Saw, Moonmoon Chakraborty,
Founder and CEO of Woman Times, Durba
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Selected games from Kolkata GM 400+ rating points more than him. But re-
ality is different. Here white could gain a
Open, Kolkata slight advantage with the obvious and be-
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron ginner's favourite: 9.Nb5! c6 10.Bc7 (10.
Aditya,Mittal (2199) Karthikeyan,Murali Nc7!? e5! 11.Nxa8 exf4³) 10...Qe8 11.Nd6
Mitra, Sr. Manager, Operations, 8 Tern Drive, (2617) [D37] Qg6 12.0–0²] 9...c6 10.b4 b6 11.0–0 a5
UK gave away the prizes among the winner. Aditya Mittal is a talented12-year old school 12.a3 g5 13.Bg3 Nxg3 14.Nxg3? [This
boy from Mumbai, with the FIDE Title of knight has no future from g3 and starts
Final ranking Candidate Master. Black is 19-year old GM white's downslide. Natural was: 14.hxg3!
Rk Name Pts Bb7 15.Qc2=] 14...g4 15.Nd2 Bg5 [15...
Karthikeyan Murali who has won the World
1 Ananya Bothra 6½ Nf6! with an edge for black.] 16.Qc2 [White
U–12 and U–16 Championships in 2011
2 Anushka Gupta 5½ could try to vindicate his 14th move recap-
and 2013 at Caldas Novas, Brasil and Al
3 Diya Chowdhury 5½ ture by contnuing 16.Nh5 e5 17.Qc2 Qe8
Ain, UAE, respectively. He won the National
4 Debarpita Ghosh 5½ 18.cxb6 Nxb6 19.bxa5 Rxa5 20.Rfb1 Bd8
Premier Championships in 2016 and 2017.
5 Vedika Agarwal 5½ 21.Nb3 Ra7 22.Ng3 f4 23.exf4 exf4 24.Re1
With a difference of over 400 rating points,
6 Tanisha Chatterjee 5½ Qf7 25.Nf1 Nc4³] 16...bxc5 17.bxc5 Nf6
this game should have been a walk through
7 Shinjini Sengupta 5 18.Rab1 f4 Black does not like white's
for the grandmaster but Mittal, not yet a
8 Mili Ghosh 5 initiative on the queen-side and starts his
teenager, puts up a plucky fight and made
9 Manabi Chouhan 5 own play on the king-side where he is bet-
his famous grandmaster opponent sweat
10 Prapti Moulik 5 ter placed. 19.exf4 Bxf4 20.Ne2 [Another
for the point! 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7
11 Das Annika 4½ unfortunate decision with the same knight!
4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bf4 0–0! 6.e3 Nbd7 7.c5 Ne4
12 Saanvi Khanna 4½ Better was 20.Rb6 Qc7 21.Re1 e5! 22.dxe5
8.Bd3 [An entirely different type of game
13 Prachi Bhushan 4½ Bxe5=] 20...Bc7 21.f4 Qe7 22.g3 [This
emerged in G.Forintos vs Istvan Csom in
14 Shreya Shree Bansal 4½ could wait. Better was to post his pieces
the 1968 Hungarian Ch: 8.Qc2 g5 9.Bg3 f5
15 Kriti Mundhra 4½ more aggressively while black cannot do
10.h3 Nxg3 11.fxg3 Nf6! 12.Bd3 Ne4 13.g4
16 Rajanya Datta 4½ much with his undeveloped bishop on c8.
Ng3 14.Rh2 c6 15.Ne2 Qa5+ 16.Kf2 Ne4+
17 Adrita Mitra 4½ White has made three questionable moves
17.Kg1 Qc7 18.Rf1 Bf6 19.h4! fxg4 20.Nxg5
18 Srijita Sarkar 4½ with his Nc3, moving it to e2, g3 and back
e5 21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.Nxe4 Qe7 23.g3 Be6
19 Samriddhi Roy 4½ to e2. Now it was time to bring it back to
24.Rhf2± ... and 35.1–0] 8...f5
20 Anwesha Saha 4 its natural square, c3. But psychologically
21 Shrestha Saha 4 many of us are reluctant to admit strategical
22 Jagriti Agarwal 4 errors and try to justify them. That is hu-
23 Sanika Sengupta 4 man nature!: 22.Nc3! Qg7 23.g3²] 22...h5
24 Saheli Mondal 4 23.Nc3 h4 24.Rf2 A defensive move which
25 Debapriya Manna 4 will put black at ease! Better were 24. Qa4!
26 Juhi Parekh 4 and 24. Rfe1. 24...Nh5 25.Nf1 Qf6 [Maybe,
27 Rupkatha Malakar 4 black can embark on an adventurous bishop
28 Ankana Ghosh Dastidar 4 sacrifice with good chances of success with:
29 Paramita De 4 25...Bxf4!? 26.gxf4 Nxf4 27.Kh1 e5 28.Re1
30 Ankita Bose 4 e4 29.Bxe4 dxe4 30.Rxe4 Qg5 31.Qd2µ]
9.Ne2?! [White probably thought that 26.Ne2? [White seems to be obsessed with
he could not get any advantage from the moving this knight to e2. This is the third
opening against a grandmaster who has questionable visit of this knight to e2! It was
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best to defend the threatened d4 pawn with:
26.Qa4! and, if now, 26...Bxf4 27.gxf4 Nxf4
28.Kh1 Qh6 29.Qxc6 Nxd3 30.Rxf8+ Qxf8
31.Nd2 Ra6=] 26...e5!? 27.dxe5 Bxe5
28.Qd2 Ra7 As his light square bishop
cannot be posted anywhere gainfully, the
Ra8 gets into the game by going around it!
29.Ne3 Raf7 30.Rg2 Bc7 31.Nc2
31...Re7 As white has provided adequate
defence to f4, black does not get any benefit
by having his rooks doubled on the f-file. So,
he decides to relocate them on the central,
open e-file. 32.Ncd4 Rfe8 33.Qc2 Ng7
[33...Kf7!] 34.Bh7+ [34.Bg6 Rf8 White
believes that the exchange of queens can
fetch him a draw which however becomes
elusive. He could gain equality by con-
trolling the b1–h7 diagonal preventing any
mischief by black. 35.Qd3 and if now 35...
Ba6 36.Qxa6 Qxg6 37.Rf1 Rf6 38.gxh4²
White has the threats of 39 Qg8+ and 40
Qxg4 as well as 39. h3.] 34...Kh8 35.Qg6
Rf8 36.Qxf6 Rxf6 37.Bd3 Re3 38.Rd1
h3 39.Rf2 Bb8! He wants to attack the
c5 pawn so that white is busy defending
it. 40.Rff1 Ba7 41.Kf2 Re8 42.Rc1 Ne6!
43.Nxe6 Rfxe6 44.Nd4 Re3 45.Rfd1² If
white is constrained to defend his c5 pawn,
so also is black who must watch over his
c6 pawn. 45...Bd7 [Not 45...Bb7? 46.Bg6
R8e7 47.Rd3 Rxd3 48.Bxd3±] 46.Be2??
[After playing so well till now, white sudden-
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ly hands over a pawn for no reason at all!
Better was 46.a4= ] 46...Rxa3–+ 47.Rd3
Ra4! 48.f5 This aims to capture the g4
pawn by blocking its supporter, the Bd7. But
Black is not obliged to part with his g4 pawn
yet. 48...Re4! 49.Ne6 [Black can no longer
protect his f5 pawn. If 49.Rcd1 Bxc5–+]
49...Bxe6 50.fxe6 Rxe6–+ 51.Rc2 Rae4
52.Rdd2 a4 53.Ke1 Bb8!! Threat is 54.....
Bxg3!! 55. hxg3 h2 winning. 54.Rc3
[54.Rd3] 54...Bc7! This pin along the a5-e1
diagonal ensures the win of the exchange.
55.Rb2 Ba5 56.Rb8+ Kg7 57.Rb7+ Kf6
0–1
Rahman,S Mahfuzur (Ban FM ) (2188) -
Sandipan,Chanda(Ind GM) (2573) [A83]
1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 g6
5.d5 Bg7 This is a rarely played variant in
the Dutch Defence which gives scope for
much inventive chess. 6.Qd2 0–0 7.0–0–0
d6 8.Re1 c6 9.Bxf6
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
9...exf6 [Better was 9...Bxf6 10.Nxe4 black king's life a misery. 25.Qb2
Be5! 11.Ne2 Qb6 12.b3 Bf5!µ] 10.Nxe4
c5 11.Nf3 h6! Black's idea is to play f6-
f5 without allowing Ng5! However, black's
king-side pawns resemble a position from
Indian Chess where the pawns move only
one square at a time and generally stay on
the third rank. 12.c4 b5!? A kind of 'Ben-
ko Gambit' in the Dutch Defence! 13.cxb5
f5 14.Nc3 a6 15.bxa6 Nxa6 16.h4 Nb4
17.a3? [This reveals white's inexperience.
He cannot in all seriousness expect a grand-
master to turn tail and run back with.... [Or if 25.Kc4 Rb8! 26.Bb5 (26.b5 Ra8!+-)
Na6. Better was: 17.Bc4 Qa5 18.Re6 Bxc3 26...Qf1+!–+] 25...c4+!! A beautiful mate
19.Rxg6+ Bg7 20.Qxh6 Rf7 21.Rxg7+ Rxg7 follows 26. Kc3 Qd3#!! Or, if 26. Ka3 Ra8+
22.Qxd6 Rg4µ; or 17.Kb1?? Bxc3 18.bxc3 27. Ba4 Rxa4+ wins. 0–1
Nxa2µ] 17...Bxc3!
Erigaisi,Arjun (FM Tel) (2488) Lalith
Babu,M R (GM AP) (2531)
M.R.Lalith Babu, 25, is the current Indian
National Champion and a grandmaster from
Vijayawada in Andhra. On the other hand,
white is Arjun Erigaisi, a 15-year old FIDE
Master from Telengana, who enjoys going
on the attack. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 c5 3.d5
Qb6 4.Nc3! h6 [If black accepts the pawn
offer he would come under pressure. And
if he survives the pressure, his extra pawn
would be decisive. But who would want to
18.bxc3 Rxa3!! The start of a winning and take chances with the black pieces against a
imaginative combination. 19.cxb4 Ra1+ 15-year old FIDE Master with a near grand-
20.Kb2 Qf6+! 21.Kb3 [If 21.Qc3? Ra2+! master rating! 4...Qxb2 5.Bd2 Qb4 6.Rb1
22.Kb3 Ra3+!–+] 21...Bd7! 22.Rxa1?! Qa5 7.e4 d6 8.f4 Nbd7 9.Nf3²] 5.Bd2! d6
[White's best defence also lost: 22.b5! Rfa8
23.Qb2 R8a3+ 24.Qxa3 Rxa3+ 25.Kxa3
Qc3+ 26.Ka2 f4!–+ This facilitates the
black bishop's entry into the attack via f5.
Black's queen and bishop would triumph
over white's undeveloped king-side.] 22...
Qxa1 23.Bb5 [23.Qa2? c4+!–+] 23...Qxh1
24.Bxd7 Qb1+! The queen in all its glory!
It attacks along the file as well as along the
diagonal and the horizontal, making the
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[For nearly 200 years the b2 pawn is known
as the 'poisoned pawn'. Generally, when
the queen captures the b2 pawn, the queen
gets out of play and in the worst case, gets
trapped. The following variation shows why
the b2 pawn has such an ominous name!
5...Qxb2? 6.Rb1 Qa3 7.Nb5 Qxa2 8.Nc7+
Kd8 9.Nxa8 Qxd5 10.c4! Qxc4 11.Ba5+!
Ke8 (or 11...b6 12.Nxb6 axb6 13.Rxb6
Qa2 14.Qd2+-) 12.Nc7+ Kd8 13.e3 Qe4
14.Nb5+ Ke8 15.Nf3+-] 6.e4 e5 7.dxe6N
[7.Nge2 as well as 7 a4 have been played
here. But we can understand that a 15-year
old who enjoys attacking play, would not
like to keep the centre closed.] 7...Bxe6=
8.Nge2 Nc6 9.Nf4 0–0–0 Black plans
d6-d5 to unmask his rook's power along
the d-file. 10.Bd3 g5 [After castling on
the queen-side black would do well not to
capture on b2. If 10...Qxb2 11.Nxe6 fxe6
12.a4 Qb6 13.a5 Qc7 14.a6 b6 15.0–0±]
11.Nfd5 Bxd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5 13.exd5
Re8+ 14.Be3= Ne7?! [This is passive!
Better was: 14...Ne5!? 15.Bf5+ Kb8 16.b3
Bg7 17.0–0 Ng6 18.Rb1=] 15.Qf3! Bg7
16.0–0 Rhf8
[Also possible was 16...Kb8 17.Rab1² threat
b2-b4; or, if 16...Qxb2 17.Rab1 Qf6 18.Qe4
Kc7 19.Qc4 (threat 20 Bxc5!) 19...b6
20.Qa6 Nc8 21.Bb5 Re7 22.Bc6±] 17.h4
f5 [17...gxh4?? 18.Qg4+ is a winning dou-
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ble attack.] 18.hxg5 hxg5 19.Bxg5 Qxb2
20.Rab1 Qc3 21.Rb3 Qe5 22.Bb5 [The
threat now is Re3 winning the knight. How-
ever, stronger was: 22.Rfb1! b6 23.Ba6+
Kd8 (23...Kb8 24.Re3!+-) 24.Re3 Qd4
25.Bb5+-] 22...f4
[This move is designed to prevent 23 Re3.
However, Black is totally lost! If 22...Qxd5
23.Bxe8 Rxe8 24.Re1 Be5 25.Bxe7 Qxf3
26.Rxf3 Rxe7 27.Rxf5+- for if now 27....
Bh2+ 28 Kf1! wins.; or 22...Rd8? 23.Re3+-
] 23.Qh3+! [After 23.Qh3+ Nf5 24.Bxe8
Rxe8 25.Rfb1 b6 26.Qd3! Kc7 27.Qa6 Qxd5
(27...Ra8 28.Rxb6!) 28.Qxa7++-]1–0
Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2597)
Gukesh,D (2426)
White is a famous Chennai grandmaster who
is only 19. He has won almost all age-cat-
egory national championship, became an
IM at 15 and a GM at 16. His opponent is
a 12-year old Andhra talent who schools in
Chennai and won the National U–11 Cham-
pionship last year. He has only the lowest
FIDE title of Candidate Master. But he is
sharp as nails and extremely strong as his
rating indicates. 56...Ng4
Black is threatening 57...Rxf2+ to recover
his lost pawn. White ignores that threat and
goes for the f7 pawn, but he goes about it
the wrong way overlooking black's second-
ary threat! Perhaps he was under tension
and in time trouble! 57.Bd5?? [The right
way was: 57.Bxg6! Rxf2+ 58.Kg1 Rxf4!
59.Bxf7! Rb4! 60.Rxb4 Kxf7 61.e4=; also
incorrect was: 57.Nh3? Nxe3+ 58.Kf3 Ng4=
Neither side has any weaknesses that could
be exploited.] 57...Nxe3+! White had over-
looked this secondary threat which now wins
the bishop. 0–1
Short,Nigel D (Eng GM) (2656)
Vaishali,R. (Ind WIM) (2316)
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 a6
5.cxd5 exd5 6.g3 Bd6 7.Bg2 0–0 8.0–0
Re8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Re1 h6? [This game is a
lesson that you should pay great attention
to development and not go after the idea
of gaining the dubious 'advantage of two
bishops'. A game from Troon, 1984, between
Colin McNab (2370) and Jim Plaskett (2470)
went: 10...Nbd7! 11.e4 dxe4 12.Nxe4 Be7
13.Qe2 Kf8 14.Qc2 Nxe4 15.Qxe4 Bxg5
16.Qxe8+ Qxe8 17.Rxe8+ Kxe8 18.Nxg5
Nf6 19.Rc1 Rb8= But after the exchange
of knights, white sacrificed his bishop for
black's three queen-side pawns and won
on move 56.] 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.e4! dxe4
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
13.Nxe4 Qd8
14.Qb3! White does not capture black's
Bd6 as he sees that black, if allowed, would
try to keep the perceived 'advantage of the
two bishops' and avoid its exchange. He lets
black waste time over protecting her Bd6 so
that he gets a big development advantage.
14...Bf8 [This is best. The alternative was:
14...Bc7 15.Rad1 Nd7 16.d5! Rb8 17.Qc2±
Black has severe problems completing her
development while white's forces are harmo-
niously developed.] 15.Rad1 [White plays
according to theory, completing his devel-
opment and bringing his rooks to the cen-
tral files. However, stronger was: 15.Ne5!
Qc7 16.Nc3± Be6 17.d5 cxd5 18.Nxd5 Qc8
19.Nb6! Bxb3 20.Nxc8 Nc6 (20...Rxc8?
21.Bxb7+-) 21.Nb6!+-] 15...Re7?! [This
move looks odd and it appears she is defend-
ing her f7 and b7 in advance, preparatory to
....Be6. Preferable was 15...Nd7± ] 16.Nc5!
Rxe1+ 17.Rxe1± b6?
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[This leads to a spectacular disintegra-
tion of her position. Her problem is the
development of her Bc8 as is common in
Queens Gambit games. Better was 17...
Bxc5 18.dxc5 Nd7 19.Qc3 Qf8 20.Rc1 (not
so good was: 20.b4 a5 21.a3 axb4 22.axb4
Nf6 23.Nd4) 20...Nf6 21.Nd4 Bg4 22.h3
Bd7²] 18.Ne5! Ra7 [If 18...bxc5? 19.Qxf7+
Kh8 (19...Kh7 20.Be4+ Kh8 21.Ng6+ mates
in two moves.) 20.Ng6++-; Or if 18...Qc7
19.Ncd7!! blocking her queen's defence of
f7 19...Nxd7 20.Qxf7+ Kh8 21.Ng6+ Kh7
22.Nxf8+ Kh8 23.Ng6+ Kh7 24.Re7 mates,]
19.Bxc6!+- Qxd4 [If 19...bxc5 20.Qxb8
Qc7 (20...Re7 21.d5!+-) 21.Qxc7 Rxc7
22.d5 White's passed d-pawn is a winning
advantage.] 20.Ncd7!!
An idea from chess problems! This blocks
out the black rook's defence of her f7. This
is known as the "interference" motif. 20...
Rxd7 21.Bxd7! There is no defence against
22. Qxf7+ winning.[After 21.Bxd7! Nxd7
22.Qxf7+ Kh7 23.Nxd7 Qxd7 24.Qxf8+-]
1–0
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Selected games from KIIT Chess
festival, Bubaneshwar
Tukhaev,Adam (GM Ukr) (2551)
Karthik,Venkataraman (IM) (2457)
[B90]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4
5.Nxd4 a6 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f4 Be7
[Varying from V.Anand 2779 vs Vachier-La-
grave 2804, London Classic, 2016, which
had a beautiful finish: 8...Nbd7 9.g4 Rc8
10.f5 Bxb3 11.axb3 d5 12.exd5 Bb4 13.Bg2
Qb6 14.Bd2 e4 15.Qe2 0–0 16.0–0–0 Nc5
17.Kb1 Rfd8 18.Rhe1 a5 19.Qf2 Qc7 20.Bf4!
Qb6 21.Be5 a4 22.bxa4 Bxc3 23.Bxc3 Nxd5
24.Rxd5! Rxd5 25.Bxe4 Rd6 (25...Rd7=)
26.a5 Qb5 27.Qe2 Qxe2 28.Rxe2 Rd1+
29.Ka2 Re8 30.Bf3 Rxe2 31.Bxe2 Rc1?
32.Bf3! Rxc2 33.Bxb7!!
[#] 1–0 because, after 33...Nxb7 34 a6!
the pawn queens by force!] 9.g3 b5 10.f5
Bc8! 11.a4 Bb7!= It is better to counter-at-
tack than to defend his b-pawn passively.
12.Bg2 [12.axb5 Nxe4 13.Qf3 Nc5 14.Nd5
e4 15.Qd1 0–0= Black's chances are slightly
better.] 12...Nbd7 13.Be3 0–0 14.0–0 b4
15.Nd5 a5 [15...Nxd5 16.exd5 a5! With
active possibilities for black and a sterile
position for white.] 16.Qd2 h6 17.Rfd1? [A
move without much point as black is going to
exchange on d5 leaving white with a blocked
pawn on d5 which has to be defended. Better
was: 17.Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.Nxa5! Bxe4 (18...
Rxa5 19.Qxb4 Raa8 20.Qxb7 Rfb8 21.Qc6
Rc8 22.Qb5 Rab8 23.Qd3 Rxb2 24.a5 Rcxc2
25.Rf2 Rxf2 26.Bxf2 Nc5 27.Bxc5 dxc5
28.Qc3 Rb8 29.a6±) 19.Nc6 Bxc6 20.Bxc6
Rad8 21.Qxb4²] 17...Nxd5 18.exd5 Bg5!
Thematic! He exchanges off his currently
dormant Be7 for white's active bishop, leav-
ing white with the ineffective white square
bishop. 19.Bxg5 Qxg5 20.Qxg5 hxg5
Black's slight advantage derives from a few
factors. The half-open c-file is good for black
to apply pressure. The pawn on d5 is an ob-
ject of attack for black and a headache for
white. Black is confident that he could not
lose this endgame and plays enterprisingly.
21.Nd2 Rfc8 22.Ne4! White leaves the c2
pawn to its fate and attacks d6. 22...Ra6
23.c3?! [This change of mind to protect
his c-pawn leads to a poor game. Better
was: 23.Nxg5! Rxc2 24.Rac1! Rxb2 25.Rc7
Nc5 26.Bf1 Ra8 27.Nxf7 Rc8 28.Rxc8+
Bxc8 29.Nxd6 Bd7 30.Nc4 Rb3=] 23...
bxc3 24.bxc3 Rc4 25.Nxg5 [Again, white
decides to abandon his c3. Better was to
hold it a little longer: 25.Rab1 Bc8 26.Nxg5
Rxa4 27.Bf1 Ra7 28.Bb5 Ra3=] 25...Rxc3
26.Rab1 Rc7 27.Rb5 Kf8 28.Rdb1 Bc8
[#]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
White's doubled rooks on the b-file have no
point of entry to cause any damage. 29.g4
Ke7 30.Bf1 Nf6 31.Rb8 Raa7 White's d5
pawn is under threat of capture. 32.Rd1
Bb7! 33.Bg2 Ra8! 34.Rxa8 Bxa8 35.Rb1
Bxd5 36.Bxd5 Nxd5 37.Rb5 Rc5 [Still
stronger was: 37...Nf4! (threat
f7-f6) 38.h4 f6 39.Nf3 e4 40.Nd4 d5!
41.Rxa5 e3!!–+ (The winning threat is 42....
Rc1+ 43 Kh2 Rc4 to advance his e-pawn
without any hindrance.)] 38.Rxc5? [It
must be remembered that exchanges do not
always lead to an easing of a difficult posi-
tion. With this exchange white plunges into
a pawn-down knight ending from which he
hopes to salvage a draw against his youthful,
inexperienced opponent. He could get a less
inferior game with: 38.Rb7+! Nc7 39.Kf1
Rc1+ 40.Ke2 d5 41.Kd2 Rc5 42.Ra7 Ke8!³]
38...dxc5 39.Ne4 c4 40.Kf2 c3 41.Ke2
Nf4+ 42.Ke3 Nxh3 43.Kd3 [43.Nxc3 If
43...Kd6 with excellent prospects for black
as his king advances to the centre.] 43...
Kd7 44.Kxc3 Kc6 45.Kc4 f6–+
[#] White is in zugzwang. If he moves his
king, he would be allowing the black king
to enter d5 and dominate the centre. And
if he moves his knigth, he would have to
allow the black knight to enter the game.
46.Nc5 Nf2 47.Ne6 Nxg4 48.Nxg7 Ne3+
49.Kd3 Nd5! Defending f6 and targeting
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the a4 pawn with ....Nb6. 50.Kc4 Nb6+!
51.Kb3 Kd5 52.Nh5 Nd7 53.Kc3 Ke4!
54.Kc4 Kxf5 55.Kb5 Kg4 [After 55...Kg4
56.Ng7 f5 black wins.] 0–1
Neelotpal,Das (WB) (2452) Sai,Viswesh
(TN) (2288) [A35]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 b6
5.Bg2 Bb7 6.0–0 g6 7.e3 Bg7 8.d4 cxd4
9.Nxd4 Qc8 10.Nxc6 [In a 1997 game
from Europe between unknown players,
black quickly lost after: 10.Nc2 Na5 11.b3
Bxg2 12.Kxg2 Ne4 13.Nxe4 Bxa1 14.Nxa1
Qc6 15.Qf3 and white went on to win.'] 10...
Bxc6 11.e4 d6 12.Bg5
[#] 12...Nd7? [This leads to black's eventu-
al defeat as his king is tied to the defence
of e7 and later suffers from a disastrous
pin on this knight. Better was: 12...0–0=
] 13.Rc1 Qa6 14.b4! Qa3 [14...Qxc4??
15.Nd5+-] 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.cxd5 Qxb4?
[16...Bf6 17.Bxf6 Nxf6 18.Qd2 0–0 19.Rc7
a5 20.b5 Qb4 21.Qc2 Qxb5 22.Rb1 Qe8]
17.Rc7 h6 18.Qc2! Rd8 19.Rb1 Qxb1+
[The only move, for if 19...Qd4? 20.Bc1!+-
Threat 21.Bb2 winning. If now 20...0–0?
21.Bb2+- Qb4 22.Bxg7+-] 20.Qxb1 hxg5
21.Qb5! Even after sacrificing his queen for
rook, knight and pawn, black is unable to
castle thanks to this pin. 21...a6
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[#] 22.Qc6! [22.Qxa6 0–0 and white is still
winning though it has become easier for
black.] 22...Be5 23.a4 [Equally strong was:
23.Bf1 b5 24.a4 b4 25.Bxa6+- and white
is threatening the winning 26 Bb5 and the
pinned knight is lost.] 23...e6 24.Bf1! exd5
[#] 25.Bxa6! White's message to black is
clear, take all the pawns that you want, but
let me play Bb5!" 25...dxe4 26.Rxd7 Rxd7
27.Bb5! 0–0 28.Qxd7 1–0
Karthik,Venkataraman (2457)
Sandipan,Chanda (2573) [B01]
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 c6
5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 Qxd4 8.Be3
Qd8 9.Bc4 e6 10.Rd1 Nd7 11.0–0 Ngf6
12.Qg3 Qa5 13.a3
[#] 13...Bxa3? [This thirst for adventure
and the expectation of an easy win over a
lower rated player lands black in deep trou-
ble. He walks into a naturally concealed trap
as 13 a3 is just the sort of move expected
of a weaker player. Better was 13...0–0–0
14.Rfe1 Rg8=] 14.Ra1! Qb4
[#] Black must have relied on this move,
attacking the Bc4 and getting out of the
pin along the a-file, but white has a nasty
surprise waiting for him. 15.Rxa3! Qxb2
[Amazingly, after 15...Qxc4?? 16.Ra4+-
the queen is trapped!] 16.Qd6!! Another
excellent move, defending his rook and oc-
cupying the key diagonal preventing black
from castling. Black's end is very near.
16...0–0–0 17.Rb1 Ne5 Black says, if you
take my queen, I will take your queen. But
.... 18.Bxe6+!!
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[#][After 18.Bxe6+ fxe6 19.Qxe6+ Nfd7
20.Rxb2 The white queen lives while black's,
dies!] 1–0
Kravtsiv,M. (GM Ukr) (2655) Rozum,I.
(GM Rus) (2581) [B12]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2
c5 6.Be3 Qb6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.0–0 Qxb2
9.Qe1 cxd4 10.Bxd4 Nxd4 11.Nxd4
Bb4 12.Ndb5 [C.Divyashree 2160 - M.
Mahalakshm 2041,National W Ch, Jalgaon
went: 12.Rb1 Qxc3 13.Rxb4 Qxe1 14.Rxe1
b6 drawn on the 55th move.] 12...Ba5
Guards against Nc7+ 13.Rb1 Qxc2
14.Rc1 Qb2 15.Na4 Bxe1 16.Nxb2 Ba5
17.Nd6+ Ke7 18.Nxb7 Bb6 19.Na4= [#]
White wants to destroy the Bb6 and get in
the dangerous Rc7+
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19...g5 [This anticipates the invasion of
his position by a white rook and provides a
safe square for his king on g7. If 19...Bd8
to make the Na4 look funny doing nothing
on a4, then 20.g4 Bg6 21.Rc6! to double
rooks on the open c-file 21...Nh6 22.Rfc1
Rb8±] 20.Nxb6 axb6 21.g4 Bg6 22.f4!
White perceives that doubling on the c-file
will not fetch much in the changed circum-
stances and decides to open up the f-file
for his rook on f1. The target is to start two
pincer movements from c7 on the 7th rank
and his Rf1 focussing on f7 along the f-file.
When you attack you must attack with all
your might, not sparing any of your pieces.
22...gxf4 23.Rxf4 Rxa2 24.Rc7+ Kf8
[#] 25.Nd8!! This is a daring double attack,
on f7 as well as on e6! And he is offering
his Be2 with a purpose, to decoy the black
rook away from the a-file. 25...Rxe2 [25...
Ne7 26.Nxe6+ Kg8 (26...Ke8?? 27.Bb5+
mates.) 27.Nd4!+-] 26.Nxe6+! Ke8 [black
resigns because, he sees that after 26...Ke8
27.Ra4 he cannot prevent the ensuing mate
with Ra8#] 1–0
Ghosh,Diptayan (GM Ind) (2536) De-
viatkin,Andrei (GM Rus) (2467) [D37]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7
5.Bf4 dxc4 6.e3 Nb6 7.Bxc4 Nxc4 8.Qa4+
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c6 9.Qxc4 Be7 10.0–0 Nd5 11.Bg3 0–0
12.Rad1 [Tartakower - Saemisch, Spa,
1926 went 12.e4 Nxc3 13.bxc3 Bd7 14.Qb3
b6 15.Rad1 Qc8 16.Ne5 Be8 17.c4 f6 18.Nd3
Bf7 .... Drawn after the 26th move.] 12...
Nxc3 13.Qxc3 Qd5 14.a3 b6 15.Rfe1
Bb7 16.Ne5 Rac8 17.e4 Qb5 18.h3 Rfe8
19.Qc2 Red8 20.a4 Qb4 21.Re3 Bf6
[Grabbing the pawn on d4 would be a gross
error because, after 21...Rxd4? 22.Rxd4
Qxd4 23.Rd3! Qc5± (the best) (or if 23...
Qb4 24.Rd7! Ba6 (the only move for if 24...
Ba8? (or Rb8?) 25.Nd3! and the Be7 is lost.)
25.Rxa7+-) 24.Qxc5 Bxc5 25.Rd7± White
is nearly winning with simultaneous attacks
on b7 and f7.] 22.Qe2 Qxa4? [The lure of
a pawn is attractive to all, including grand-
masters! This presents white with another
attacking opportunity via Ra3 and Rxa7 in
future variations. When your opponent's
knight is strongly posted on e5, it is best
to get rid of it on priority. Best was: 22...
Bxe5 23.Bxe5 f6 24.Bg3 Rxd4 25.Rxd4 Qxd4
26.Rd3 Ba6!=] 23.Qh5
[#] 23...Rf8? [Desperation or did he over-
look the immediate threat winning the ex-
change? Better was 23...g6 24.Qf3 Bxe5
25.Bxe5 f5 26.Ra3 Qc2 27.Rxa7 Rd7 28.exf5
exf5 29.b4² Black's king is exposed with a
dominant enemy bishop on e5. But we dont
see any dangerous threat against the black
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
king developing in the near future.; Another
defence is the risky 23...Rc7?! placing his
rook on the unprotected c7 square, under
the Xray scanner of the Bg3 and daring
white to exploit it! 24.Red3! Bxe5 25.Bxe5
Rcd7± 26.Bf6!! gxf6 27.Qh6!! (threat 28
Rg3+ mating) 27...Qxd1+ The only de-
fence against the mate threat. 28.Rxd1
Rxd4 29.Rxd4 Rxd4 30.Qxf6 Rd7 31.h4+-]
24.Nd7 of course! 24...Be7 [Black is tem-
porarily two pawns up after 24...Bxd4 but
after 25.Ra3! Qb4 26.Rxa7 Ba8 27.Nxf8
Rxf8 28.Rda1!+-] 25.Nxf8 Bxf8± 26.Kh2
[We can guess the reason white makes this
move is that in the next few moves he plans [#] [If 41...Bc8? 42.Rxg7+! Qxg7 43.Qxc8+
an attack, sacrificing his Rd1 and when he Qf8 44.Qe6+! Qf7 45.Qxb6+-; or, if 41...Qf7
allows ....Qxd1, he does not want it to go 42.e6! Qxd7 43.exd7 and the pawn queens.]
with a check. Better was 26.b3± ] 26...Qb4 42.e6!! Almost overnight, this pawn has
27.Rf3 Qe7 28.Bh4 Qc7+ 29.Kg1 a5 [If become a deadly advanced passed pawn and
29...c5 30.d5 exd5 31.exd5 c4 32.Bf6! threatens black's annihilation. 42...hxg5
Re8 (or if 32...gxf6 33.Rd4 Bd6 34.Qh6!+-) 43.e7! 1–0
33.Bc3 Qd7 34.Rg3 b5 35.Rd4 g6 36.Rh4 h6
37.Qxh6 Bxh6 38.Rxh6 f6 39.Rgxg6+ Qg7
40.Rxg7++-] 30.Rg3 [Also possible was the
strong 30.Qg4 g6 31.Bf6 Ba6 32.Rg3 Bd6
33.Qh4! a4 34.Qh6 Bf8 35.Qg5±] 30...Qf4
31.Rg4 Qd6 32.Bf6 c5 33.e5 Qd5
[#] 34.Bxg7!! f5 [34...Bxg7 35.Rd3! with
the winning threat of 36 Rdg3.] 35.Rg5!
Bxg7 36.dxc5! Move by move, white's ad-
vantage is snowballing. 36...Qc6 [Forced,
for if 36...Qxc5 37.Rxg7+! Kxg7 38.Rd7+
mates.] 37.Rd6 Qc7 38.Rxe6! [Threat 39.
Re8+ mating. However, 38.Qh6!! to capture
Qxe6 with check was even more devastat-
ing.] 38...Qxc5 39.Re8+! Rxe8 40.Qxe8+
Qf8 41.Qd7 h6
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 Test your endgame
Tactics from master games by C.G.S.Narayanan
by S.Krishnan
Petrov 1963 Pogosjanc 1964

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

Tjavlovski 1962 Nadareisvili 1964

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

Dr.Hans Staudte 1963 G.Kasparyan 1963

5 6
5. 6.
White to play and win White to play and win

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

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Masters of the past-90 Samuel Reshevsky Tamilnadu State Under-25 Chess Championships, Salem
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (November 26, 1911- April 4, 1992) was a
Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He
was a strong contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-
1930s to the mid-1960s: he tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess
Championship tournament, and tied for second in the 1953 Candidates
Tournament. He was an eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship.
An outstanding match player throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at
positional play, and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He was an
accountant by profession, and a well-regarded chess writer.He learned to
play chess at age four and was soon acclaimed as a child prodigy. At age
eight, he was beating many accomplished players with ease and giving simultaneous exhibitions.
Reshevsky won the US Open Chess Championship in 1931 at Tulsa; this event was known as
the Western Open at the time. He shared the 1934 US Open title with Reuben Fine at Chicago.
Reshevsky won the US Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, and 1969.
He also tied for first in 1972, but lost the playoff in 1973 to Robert Byrne.

Reshevsky was a serious contender for the World Championship from roughly 1935 to the
mid-1960s. He was one of the five chess grandmasters to compete in the World Championship Left to Right: Mr.M Ephrame IA the Chief Arbiter, Mr.N.Mohanasundararaju Dean Academic,
match tournament in The Hague/Moscow 1948 and finished in joint third place with Paul Keres, Mahendra College of Engineering, Mr.N.Arun, Secretary SDCA, Thamaraiselvi (Winner,U-25
behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov. Reshevsky qualified for one more Candidates' in State Women) Mr.J.Balakrushnun, President ,SDCA, Bro. John Joseph, Superior General of
1967, but lost the subsequent quarterfinal match to Viktor Korchnoi the following year. Holycross Congregation, Mr.R.Sadheesh, Commissioner Salem Corporation, Mr.M.Senthilvel,
Joint Secretary TNSCA,HemanthRaam(Winner, U-25 State Open)Bro.Santhosh, Principal,Holy
Reshevsky competed eight times for the US at the Chess Olympiads, six times on board one, Cross Mat.Hr.Sec.School Salem
over a 37-year span, helping the US team to win the gold in 1937 and bronze in 1974, and
winning an individual bronze medal for his performance on board one in 1950. 61st Kerala State Senior Chess Championships, Ernakulam
Reshevsky played on top board for the US in the 1955 team match against the USSR, held in
Moscow, and defeated World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik over four games, winning one and
drawing three.

Although Reshevsky and Fischer had one of the fiercest rivalries in chess history, Fischer greatly
respected the older champion, stating in the late 1960s that he thought Reshevsky was the
strongest player in the world in the mid-1950s. This was around the time when Reshevsky
defeated World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in their four-game mini-match, which was the top
board of the US vs. USSR team match held in Moscow.

During his long chess career, Reshevsky played eleven of the first twelve world champions, from
Emanuel Lasker to Anatoly Karpov, the only player to do so (he met Garry Kasparov but never
played him). He defeated seven world champions: Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander
Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Bobby Fischer.

Reshevsky's books include Reshevsky on Chess (1948), How Chess Games Are Won (1962),
Great Chess Upsets (1976), and The Art of Positional Play (1978), as well as an account of the
Shri. Jayashankar, MD Hotel Mermaid gives away the trophy to O.T.Anilk Kumar, Winner, in
1972 World Championship match between his great rival Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. presence Shri. Kunhi Moideen, President Chess Association Kerala; Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary
He was also a columnist in chess magazines, and wrote about chess for The New York Times. Chess Association Kerala, Shri. VN Viswanathan, CEO Chess Association Kerala and Shri. P Sunil,
Courtesy:Wikepedia Treasurer Chess Association Kerala.
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 Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on
1st Pragatisheel Chhattisgarh Satnami samaj state open FIDE rated Championship, Raipur
page 42
1. Sundararajan,K (2436)
Nikhil,Magizhnan (2105) [A46]
Sharjah UAE Sharjah UAE 15.04.2018
White to play 29.Re8! This rook is en prise. Black
can take it in three ways but then gets mated
on next move. Even if he does not take it gets
mated anyway. 29...Rxe8 [29...Qxe8 30.Qxf6+
Rg7 31.Qxg7#; 29...Nxe8 30.Qxh7#; 29...Qc7
30.Qxf6# (30.Qg7#) ] 30.Qg7# 1–0
2. Smirnov,Ant (2546)
Sukandar,I (2408) [C60]
18th BCC Open , 17.04.2018
White to play 23.Qb6 Be5 [23...Rdf8 24.Qa7 Kd8
(24...Qe8 25.Bxa6 Rf7 26.Qa8+ Kd7 27.Rxc7+
Kxc7 (27...Ke6 28.Bc4 Rxc7 29.Re5+ Kd7 30.Bb5+
Rc6 31.Qxb7+ Kd8 32.Bb6+ Rxb6 33.Rxe8+ Rxe8
34.Qd7#) 28.Qxb7+ Kd8 29.Bb6+ Wins) 25.Rxc7
Qxc7 26.Bb6+-] 24.Bxa6 c5 [24...bxa6 25.Qxa6+
Prize winners with dignitaries Kb8 26.Rb3+] 25.Bxc5 Bxc3 26.Bxd6 Bd4 27.Rc5+
1–0
3. Priasmoro,Novendra (2449)
1st BhagwanMahaveer FIDE Rating Tournament, Kolhapur Smirnov,Ant (2546) [C17]
18th BCC Open 2018 20.04.2018
White to play. 27.Rf7! Kxf7 [27...Nf5 28.Rxd7 Nxd4
29.Ne7+ Kf8 30.Nxc8+-] 28.Ne5+ Ke8 29.Nxd7
Kxd7 30.Qxg7 1–0
4. Saric,A (2535)
Safar,Sandro (2235) [A42]
Croatian Cup 2018 17.05.2018
White to play. 24.Bxf6+ Kxf6 [24...Kxf7 25.Nd6+
Kxf6 (25...Kf8 26.Qf7#) 26.Qf7+ Kg5 27.Qg7! Rf8
a) 27...h5 28.Nf7+ Kf4 29.g3+ Kf3 30.Re3#; b)
27...Qxd6 28.h4+ Kh5 (28...Kxh4 29.Qh6+ Kg4
30.f3+ Kg3 31.Ne2# (31.Qh2#) ) 29.Qxh7+ Kg4
30.f3+ Kf4 31.Qh6+ Wins; 28.Re3 Qxd6 29.Rg3+
Kf4 30.Qh6+ g5 31.Qxg5#; 24...Kf8 25.Qd1 Nc5
(25...Qxc3) 26.Rxa8 Rxa8 27.Nxe5 Bxe5 28.Bxe5
Kxf7 29.Qf3+ Ke8+- (29...Kg8 30.Qf6 Wins)
30.Bd6+-] 25.Nd5+ cxd5 [25...Kg7 26.Nxb4; 25...
Mohite Ranveer receiving the trophy from Chief guest Mr.&Mrs.Sanghvi, Satyen Shaha, Mr.& Mrs. Kxf7 26.Nxb4] 26.Rxa6+ Rxa6 27.Qxb4+- 1–0
Handur, Chief Arbiter FA Bharat Chougule, Chess Coach Manish Marulkar, Dep. Chief Arbiter FA Vivek 5. Deepan,Chakkravarthy J (2516)
Sohani
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Sengupta,Deep (2563) [A13]
Kolkata GM Open Kolkata 22.05.2018
White to play. 18.Qf5 Threatening 19.Rxe6 18...
Ng4? [18...Bxc6 19.Rxe6+ fxe6 20.Qxe6+; 18...
Qc8 19.Qc5 Wins; 18...Nh7 19.Nd5 hxg3 (19...
Nhf8 20.Nxc7+ Qxc7 21.Bxd7+ Nxd7 22.Qg5
Nb6 23.Qxg7 Wins) 20.hxg3 Bxc6 21.bxc6 Nb6
22.Nxc7+ Qxc7 23.d5‚ +-] 19.Qxg4+- hxg3
20.hxg3 g5 21.Nd5 Bxc6 22.bxc6 Nf8 23.Be7 Qc8
24.Qxg5 Rg6 25.Nf6+ Black resigned as after 25...
Kxe7 [25...Rxf6 26.Bxf6+-] 26.Ng8+ Ke8 [26...
Kd6 27.Qc5#] 27.Qe7# 1–0
6. Sevian,Samuel (2613)
Shetty,A (2373) [C11]
27th Chicago Open, 27.05.2018
White to play. 22.Ne7+ Kh8 23.Rf4! h6 [23...
Qb6 24.Nxc8 Rxc8 25.Qf2+-] 24.Rf6! [24.Nxc8
Qxc8] 24...Kh7 [24...Qxe7 25.Rxh6+] 25.Nf5 Ne6
26.Rxh6+ gxh6 27.Qxh6+ Kg8 28.Re3 Qg5 29.Rg3
Qxg3 30.Ne7# 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1.Petrov,4 pr,Platov Mem.Ty1963
1.Rh7 Qxh7 2.Rd7+ Ka8 3.Kc7 Qh6 4.Rd8+ Ka7
5.Kc6 Qg7 6.Rd7+ wins
2.Pogosjanc, 1964
1.a6+ Kxc8 2.b7+ Kb8 3.Ne5 Nc5+ 4.Kb5 Nxb7
5.Nc6+ Kc8 6.Nxa7+ Kb8 7.Nc6+ Kc8 8.Ne7+ Kb8
9.a7+ Kxa7 10.Nc6#
3.Tjavlovski, I prize, Problemista 1962
1.Re7 e2 2.Bxe2 Kd6 3.Re3 d4 4.cxd4 Nxe2 5.Rxe2
Kd5 6.Kc3 Ra3+ 7.Kb4 Rd3 8.Nf6+ Kxd4 9.Re4#
4.Nadareisvili ,Cs Sach 1964
1.a5 Kb4 2.a6 Kb5 3.a7 Bc6 4.Bxc6+ Kb6 5.a8N+
wins
5.Dr.Hans Staudte,
Sp.HM, Schachbullettinen 1963
1.Qe7 Qf3 2.Qd6 Ka5 3.Qc5+ Ka4 4.Qc4+ Ka5
5.Qa2+ Kb6 6.a8Q wins
6.Genryk Kasparyan, 2 Pr, Shakmati v CCCP
1962
1.Nc5+ Kc6 2.Nd3 Bg4+ 3.Kd2 Ba1 4.Rh1 Bg7
5.Rh7 Ba1 6.Ra7 Bh8 7.Ra8 Bg7 8.Ra6+ Kb5
9.Rg6 wins
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AICF Calendar July2018 National Under-13 Open & Girls Championships 2018, Ahmedabad
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L to R –Tejas Bakre (Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association), Jayesh Modi (President, Karnavati Club),
Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month on page 12 : As the black king is in check we can conclude quickly that Mishal Patel (Secretary, Rajpath Club), Dr. Jaimin Vasa (President, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry),
White made the last move. The bK is in double check and so the last move must have been Rg7x'Z'h7. A capture is Bhavesh Patel (Secretary, Gujarat State Chess Association), Dinesh Kapadia (Secretary, Sports Authority of Gujarat),
mandatory as without it Black has no previous move All we have to do is to identify the piece on h7. In fact, it can only Sekhar Chandra Sahu (Vice President, All India Chess Federation), Swapnil Bansod (Chief Arbiter) alongwith WFM
be a black bishop as any other choice leaves Black in retro stalemate. Dhyana Patel (Gujarat Player)
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JUly 2018
 National Under-13 Open & Girls Championships 2018, Ahmedabad

L to R –Jayesh Modi (President, Karnavati Club), Mishal Patel (Secretary, Rajpath Club), Ajay
Patel (President, Gujarat State Chess Association), Bhavesh Patel (Secretary, Gujarat State Chess
Association), Sekhar Chandra Sahu (Vice President, All India Chess Federation) and Shivarsh
Patel (Popular Group) alongwith Champion Aaryan Varshney

L to R – Mayur Patel (Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association), Jayesh Modi (President,
Karnavati Club), Mishal Patel (Secretary, Rajpath Club), Ajay Patel (President, Gujarat State Chess
Association) alongwith Champion girl Dhyana Patel