AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 5 Price Rs. 25 December 2016

43rd National Women Premier 54th National Premier Chess Championship

Chess Championship 2016, New Delhi 2016, Lucknow

WGM Padmini Rout GM Murali Karthikeyan

National Women Premier Champion National Premier Champion

42nd National Under-15 Open and 33rd Under-15 Girls Championships,Delhi

FM Mitraba Guha Harshita Guddanti

Under-15 Open Champion Under-15 Girls Champion

AICF CHRONICLE December 2016 From the Editor’s desk
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Magnus Carlsen has done it again!
Chennai - 600 003. the Norwegian celebrated his 26th
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 birthday in style at New York with
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com his third World title in three years.
Publisher: V. Hariharan In what was clearly his tough
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan
world chess championship thus
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 far he fought over a gritty rival in
Sergey Karjakin, who showed the
Inside…. resilience to match the Champion. The match went
54th National Premier Chess Championship, Lucknow
Karthikeyan Murali retains National Premier title
the distance in classical format and into the rapid
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter 1 games. After winning the third game in the rapid
43rd National Women Premier Chess Championship, Delhi format Magnus clinched the fourth and with it the title
Padmini Rout wins third title in a row in a problem like finesse, a lovely queen sacrifice
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 5
SBI Life 5th National Amateur Championship ,Kandivali
rarely seen in a title match. Report on this World title
Raahul and Smaraki Mohanty win titles match with photos and games are featured in the
by Praful Zaveri, FIDE Instructor 7 centre pages of this issue.
42nd National Under 15 Open &
33rd Under 15 Girls Championships,Delhi
Mitrabha Guha and Harshita Guddanti are Champions
On the home front too National Premier events
by IA Rajendra Shidore,Chief Arbiter 8 held last month witnessed Champions retain their
5th MSV Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai titles. GM Karthikeyan Murali of Tamilnadu won the
Saravanakrishnan wins National Premier Chess Championship at Lucknow
by IA Muthukumar M, Chief Arbiter 13
following his success in the same event last year
All India FIDE Rapid Rated Chess Tournament ,Chandrapur
Srinath Rao S V wins at Chandrapur in Chennai and WGM Padmini Rout of Odisha
by Pravin Pantawane, FA,Chief Abiter 15 completed a hat trick of titles at the National Women
Chaitanya International Fide Rating Tmt, Vijayawada Premier Chess Championship held in New Delhi. In
M Chakaravarthi Reddy of Telangana wins
the 42nd National Under-15 Open held at Delhi FM
by FA S.Subbaraju, Chief Arbiter 17
3rd Indiana FIDE Rating Chess Tournament , Nagpur
Mitraba Guha of West Bengal emerged Champion
VAV Rajesh of AAI wins and Harshita Guddanti of Andhra Pradesh won the
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 19 National Under-15 Girls title. Reports on these events
KD Pillai Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Tmt along with those FIDE rated tournaments organized
Prasannaa wins title
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief arbiter 21
last month are presented in this issue.
1st Koshal Rating (Below 1600) Tmt, Sambalpur,Odisha
Ashok Kumar Jaju is Champion IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter 27 National Women Premier Championships and in the
2nd BRDCA Intl. FIDE Rating Tmt , Bangalore
Lokesh of Tamil Nadu is the Champion
‘Masters of the past’ series well known Russian GM
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 29 Mark Taimanov,who passed away recently, is featured.
2nd Gayatri Devi Memorial Intl FIDE Rating Tmt
Sanjeev Kumar is Champion
by IA Asit Baran Choudhury,Chief Arbiter 31
GCAVC 2nd FIDE Rating Tmt for Visually Challenged
Ashwin Makwana wins title C.G.S.Narayanan
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter 32
Payyanur FIDE Rated below 1600 Trnt, Payyanur
Shanmukha Teja wins title
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 34
Selected games from National Women Premier, Delhi
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36 are also invited to send interesting articles,
Tactics from Master games by S.Krishnan 42 annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
Masters of the past-71
Mark Taimanov 44
‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
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54th National Premier Chess Championship 2016, Lucknow
Karthikeyan Murali retains National Premier title
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter
I
ndia’s Premier Chess Event, 54th National
Chess Championship was held in Lucknow
from 16th to 30th November. Organised
by the Lucknow District Chess Academy un-
der the aegis of UPCSA and AICF was a 14
player, round robin event with an average
of ELO of 2457. 8 GM's, 4 IM’s, 1 FM and 1
Untitled player were vying for the coveted
title of National Champion, A qualifier for the
World Cup slot and first prize of Rs.2.5 lakh
in total prize of Rs.10 Lakh . GM Vidit San-
tosh Gujrathi of PSPB was the top seed with
an ELO rating of 2689 followed by his team
mate B Adhiban with an Elo rating of 2666.
The inaugural round was postponed to 17th
instead of scheduled 16th, as the playing hall
in the Lucknow Public Schools & Colleges,
fell below the expectations of officials and
players. It was decided to extend the cham-
pionship by one day and the rest day date
not to be touched. The organizer’s were quick
enough to find a hall in the campus, much
to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.
The 1st round witnessed the experienced GM
Abhijit Kunte of PSPB losing to young GM Ar-
avindh Chithambaram. Kunte’s pawn sacrifice
didn’t work well and combined with a weaker
king position forced to him resign. Debutant
and Untitled Dhulipala raised a few eyebrows
after holding 2nd seeded Adhiban to a draw.
Dhulipala’s passed “a” pawn urged the twice
world cup player to repeat the moves and
save the day.
The loss of top seed GM Vidit to defending
champion GM Karthikeyan Murali in the
2nd round was quite unfortunate, despite
possessing a commanding position from his
Dragondorf as black. His delay in pressing the
clock after making the 38th move resulted
in a flag fall and loss due to incompletion of
40 moves.
The Chief Arbiter quoted the rule 6.9 & 6.10
and declared the game as lost for Vidit. Una-
ble to cope up with the loss, the grandmaster
went on to protest quoting, as clock faulty,
non observation of the arbiter etc. The pro-
test was set aside by the appeals committee,
headed by senior players like GM Sriram
Jha, GM Tejas Bakre in favour of the Chief
Arbiter. Meanwhile Dhulipala capitalized on
IM Neeraj Mishra’s queen side castling and
made short of work by tactical means. IM
Abhishek Kelkar of Maharashtra outplayed
IM Nitin of RSPB and joined the leader GM
Aravindh on 2 points.
In the 3rd round Vidit played it safe with his
team mate Adhiban after the symmetrical
play from the Slav exchange.But the day
belonged to IM Ravi Teja, National Chal-
lenger Champion who beat GM Aravindh
Chithambaram with black pieces and was
impressive in finding right tactics in severe
time pressure.
Few minutes after the 3rd round was over, Mr
A K Raizada, Organizing Secretary, dropped
a bomb quoting that the School Management
has informed the non availability of premises
for further rounds citing the reason that the
match disturbed the school atmosphere. An-
other playing hall was booked, nearby where
the players stayed as a stop gap arrange-
ment. Unhappy by the proceeding few players
felt even the new hall was not up to the mark
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and decided to withdraw from the tourna-
ment. GM’s Vidit, Bakre, Kunte, IM’s Neeraj
Mishra & Kelkar protested by sending a letter
to Organiser. Nine other players including
2nd seed GM Adhiban played the 4th round.
After the timely intervention by Shri Ven-
katrama Raja, President, AICF, things were
set right and the tournament was continued
in Executive Lounge of , Hotel Renaissance,
a 5 Star Hotel in Lucknow. It was decided to
use the rest day for the unplayed games of
the 4th round. The action didn’t stop here,
IM Neeraj Mishra decided to opt out from 4th
round onwards.
By the end of 5th round GM Arvind Chith-
ambaram and IM Ravi Teja were on 4/4 and
still some unplayed games were to be played
on rest day. When thing seem going smooth
Praneeth Surya withdrew after playing 5th
round due to health reason and problem
with eyes getting dry soon. Now the Cham-
pionship was reduced to 12 players and each
player received 2 free points.Arvind lead was
consolidated in the 6th round by a win over
Adhiban after unsound pawn sacrifices by
the latter. Meanwhile IM Nitin was dominant
in his against GM Vidit and let the win go to
draw the game. Karthikeyan beat Ravi Teja
to follow Aravind on the second spot.
IM Kelkar came close to beat overnight
leader GM Aravind Chithambaram in the 8th
round after he held a decisive advantage
throughout. The game ended in draw after
81 moves, with Kelkar unable to find the
winning continuations few times. Aravind
with 6.5 points was enjoying a half point lead
over Karthikeyan Murali on 6 points and GM’s
Tejas Bakre & Vidit on trail with 5.5 points.
Karthikeyan tied on top with Aravind in the
10th round with Vidit on the 3rd spot. A fine
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pawn sacrifice by GM Aravindh against GM
Tejas Bakre, fetched him a point in the 11th
round and put him on 8.5 points. Karthikeyan
was upto the challenge and outplayed Kelkar
to catch the leader with 8.5 points. Vidit drew
Kunte to trail behind on the 3rd place with 8
points. With 2 rounds to go the championship
was literally a race between the above three.A
scintillating win by GM Arvind Chithambaram
in the 12th and penultimate round against
GM Vidit confirmed his standing on top at
9.5 points. On his part GM Karthikeyan beat
IM Nitin to stay in contention by same point.
It was amazing to see these two youngster
have a 1.5 point lead to their nearest rivals
GM Adhiban & GM Vidit who stood 3rd & 4th
by the end of 12th round.
The podium finish between Aravindh & Karthi
was expected to be exciting. GM Laxman
carved out fine win against Aravindh while
Karthikeyan was able to turn the tables on
Dhulipala after playing out an inferior posi-
tion for some time. GM Karthikeyan Murali
successfully defended his title, which he won
in Tiruvarur last year.
Final ranking:
1.GM Karthikeyan Murali(TN) 10½;
2.GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr(TN) 9½;
3.GM Adhiban B(PSPB) 9;
4.GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi(PSPB) 9;
5.GM Laxman R.R(RSPB) 8;
6.GMBakre Tejas(IA) 8;
7.GM Kunte Abhijit(PSPB) 7½;
8.IM Ravi Teja S(RSPB) 7½;
9.IM Abhishek Kelkar(MAH) 6½;
10.IM Nitin (RSPB) 6½;
11.Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad(AP) 5;
12.GM Sriram Jha(LIC) 3;
13.IM Mishra Neeraj-Kumar(Jha) 0;
14.FM Praneeth Surya K(TEL) 0.
 54th National Premier Chess Championship 2016, Lucknow

Karthikeyan Murali receiving Winners Trophy from DG Vijay Gupta IPS in the presence of A.K.Raizada,
Secretary, UP Chess Sports Association and Bharat Singh, CEO,AICF

SBI Life 5th National Amateur Chess Championship 2016,Kandivali

(L to R): FI. Praful Zaveri, Shri. Pradeep Kumar, RSM of SBI Life, Chief Guest, Shri. Anand Pejawar (Executive
Director, Marketing of SBI Life), V S Raahul of Tamil Nadu - (Champion- Open), Smaraki Mohanty, Odisha
(Champion-Women), Shri. Santosh Chacko, Regional Director, SBI Life and the Chief Arbiter, IA I.G. Parmar
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 3rd Indiana FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Nagpur
Sitting(L-R)IA Swapnil Bansod
Chief Arbiter, MRs. Meenakshi
Thakkar, Mr. K K Barat,
Secretary NDCA, Mr. Dilip
Kamdar, President NDCA, Mr.
Shekhar Soni, Dr. Jayant Patil
Gangreddiwar, Dr. Usha Sakure
Standing(L-R) IM Rajesh V
A V(Winner)IM Krishna C R
G(Runner-up, FM Matta Vinay
Kumar (Third) and Sidhant
Mohapatra (Fourth)

GCAVC 2nd FIDE Rating Tournament for Visually Challenged, Ahmedabad

Winner Ashwin Makhwana

receiving the trophy from Chief
Guest Sri N Subramaniyan AGM,
Vijaya Bank

2nd Gayatri Devi Memorial International FIDE Rating Tournament,Muzaffarpur

Sanjeev Kumar of Bihar receiving the

trophy from Nilu Kumari President, GDMT

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 43rd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2016, Delhi….
Padmini Rout wins three in a row
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

T
he 43rd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2016 organized by Delhi Chess
Association on behalf of All India chess Federation at Punjab Bhawan, Copernicus
Marg, New Delhi was inaugurated on 3rd Nov 2016 by Shri K Siva Prasad, Resident
Commissioner, Government of Punjab, New Delhi.

It was a 12 player all play all event with 11 rounds with a time control of 90 minutes each
for first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the remaining game with an increment of 30 sec-
onds from move one. The defending Champion IM Padmini Rout was the top seed. The
average rating of this event is 2281. The total prize fund of Rs.600000/- with a First prize
of Rs.175000/- was awarded to the players.

In the first round, Top seed International Master Eesha Karavade of PSPB was held to a draw
by Mary Ann Gomesof PSPB in what was the shortest game of the day. Defending champi-
on Padmini Rout of PSPB laboured to a victory from a long drawn game against Pratyusha
Bodda of Andra Pradesh while M Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu proved superior to Swati Ghate
of LIC. Six times winner and with four Grandmaster norms, Vijayalakshmi of Air India won
against Kinran Manisha Mohanty of LIC.

In the decisive encounters of the second day, Asian continental bronze medallist Soumya
Swaminathan outclassed M Mahalakshmi of Tamil Nadu while Eesha scored her victory over
Pratyusha Bodda. P BalaKannamma continued with her fine run and held Kiran Manisha
Mohanty to a draw while Mary Ann Gomes and Nisha Mohota also drew the game. Vijay-
alakshmi who played some imaginative chess beat Swati Ghate. The Queen pawn opening
by the former was met by some irregular response and Vijayalakshmi was quick to seize the
initiative in the middle game. The game ended through a picturesque tactical trick resulting
in material gain for Vijayalakshmi. The game lasted 30 moves.

International Master Nisha Mohota of PSPB defeated former World Under-18 champion M
Mahalakshmi of Tamil Nadu in third round. As a result of the drawing melee on the remaining
five boards, S Vijayalakshmi and Padmini Rout continued to lead the tables despite drawing
their third round encounter.

International Master and defending champion Padmini Rout of PSPB remained on course
for another title triumph by settling for a draw with teammate SoumyaSwaminathan in
the fifth round after 59 moves. M Mahalakshmi of Tamil Nadu defeated S Vijalakshmi of
Air India in a fine display. Vijayalakshmi could have walked away with a draw in a routine
position but went for unwarranted complications that led to ruins of her position. The game
lasted 100 moves, but Mahalakshmi was on top for most of it once Vijayalakshmi decided
it was ‘game on’ instead of a draw. The biggest upset of the event thus far was recorded

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by Woman Grandmaster Swati Ghate of LIC who defeated her Pune city-mate and top seed
EeshaKaravade of PSPB in a thrilling game. Swati went for a king side attack from a Caro
Kann opening and for Eesha nothing worked right in the wild complexities that ensued.
Swati won in 44 moves. Nisha Mohota of LIC also fought for 141 moves but lowest ranked
P BalaKannamma denied her senior partner a full point. The players had reached a rook
versus Bishop end game in this duel.

In sixth round, Playing white side of a Caro-Kanndefence, Padmini used her Rook and Bish-
op combination to good effect in the end game to outwit Nisha in 62 moves. Playing with
black pieces in a Ruy Lopez game, Vijayalakshmi displayed great tactical skills to inflict first
defeat for Mary in the championship. Top seed EeshaKaravadedefeat SoumyaSwaminathan.
M Mahalakshmi of Tamil Nadu defeated her state-mate P BalaKannamma to also elevate
herself to 3.5 points. Andhra Pradesh girl PratyushaBodda registered her first win in the
championship over Swati Ghate while Kiran Manisha Mohanty and R Vaishali signed peace

In the seventh round IM Padmini Rout of PSPB was held to a draw by M Mahalakshmi of Tamil
Nadu. S Vijayalakshmi of Air India suffered a shock defeat at the hands of lowest ranked
P BalaKannamma of Tamil Nadu. EeshaKaravade also held to a draw by PSPB teammate
Nisha Mohota.

In the ninth round encounter, Playing with black pieces in a Sicilian Morra Gambit game,
Padmini survived some anxious moments in the middle game against Bala but managed
to draw the game after 46 moves. SoumyaSwaminathan occupies the lone second spot on
six points after splitting the point with Kiran Manisha Mohanty. Vijayalakshmi produced a
resounding victory over top seed EeshaKaravade in 52 moves. Swati Ghate of LIC defeat-
ed Mary Ann Gomes to register her fourth win in last five rounds while Nisha Mohota and
Pratyusha Bodda outwitted Tamilnadu duo of R Vaishali and M Mahalakshmi respectively.

The draw with black pieces against Mary Ann Gomes in the tenth round, took Padmini to
7.5 points out of a possible ten. Trailing Padmini a half point behind is SoumyaSwaminathan
of PSPB who remained within striking distance of the leader after defeating Swati Ghate of
LIC. It was a good day for the top two seeds too as Eesha defeated P BalaKannamma while
S Vijayalakshmi of Air India proved stronger than Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh.

International Master Padmini Rout draw with her PSPB teammate Eesha Karavade in the final
round and secured a hat-trick in the National Women premier chess championship 2016.
GM-elect S Vijayalakshmi of Air India ended her campaign on a positive note defeating R
Vaishali of Tamilnadu. The last game to end in the tournament took Vijayalakshmi to 7.5
points, that was enough for the silver medal ahead of Eesha who ended third. It was in fact
a two-way tie for the third place after SoumyaSwaminathan went down to Mary Ann Gomes.

Right from the beginning it was a race between Padmini, Vijayalakshmi, Eesha and Soumya
and this is how it ended. Mary Ann Gomes ended a distant fifth on 5.5 points despite beat-
ing Soumya in the final round. One of the other notable gainer in the championship was P

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BalaKannamma of Tamil Nadu who started as the lowest seed but troubled many of the top
stars. A last round victory over Andhra girl Pratyusha Bodda ensured a Women International
Master norm for BalaKannamma.
Group Captain J Rajendra, Indian Air force was the Chief Guest for the closing ceremony
and distributed the prizes. Mr Rakesh Rao, deputy Editor, The Hindu and Mr A K Verma,
Secretary Delhi chess Association were also present and distributed prizes.This event went
on very well with an excellent support of the players, Delhi Chess Asociation and Tourna-
ment Director MS Gopakumar IA from the day one till the end of the Championship.I was
assisted and supported by Deputy Chief Arbiter, RS Tiwari IA, Jitendra Choudhary FA and
volunteers Mr Shivakant Mishra and Rohit.

Final Ranking: 1. Padmini Rout of PSPB (8); 2. S Vijayalakshmi of Air India (7.5);3. Eesha-
Karavade of PSPB (7); 4.Soumya Swaminathan of PSPB (7); 5.Mary Ann Gomes of PSPB
(5.5);6. Mahalakshmi M of Tamilnadu (5); 7.Nisha Mohota of PSPB (5); 8. Bala Kannamma
P of Tamilnadu (5); 9. Swati Ghate of LIC (5); 10.Kiran Manisha Mohanty of LIC (4); 11.
Vaishali R of Tamilnadu (3.5); 12.Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh (3.5).

SBI Life 5th National Amateur Chess Championship 2016,Kandivali….

Raahul and Smaraki Mohanty win titles
by Praful Zaveri, FIDE Instructor

2 nd seeded V S Raahul of Tamil Nadu and Smaraki Mohanty of Odisha were crowned
Champions of SBI Life 5th National Amateur Chess Championship 2016, which
concluded here at Thakur College of Science & Commerce, Kandivali, Mumbai!
In an eventful last round, Raahul defeated top-seeded Ameya Audi of Goa to win the cham-
pionship with a score of 9.5/11. Raahul was not required to share the trophy as the game
between the overnight co-leaders, Chakravarthy and Omkar ended in a draw. Y Chakravarthy
secured 2nd position with a better tie-break while Omkar Kadav finished 3rd. Both scored
9/11. Meanwhile, the women's championship was won by Smaraki Mohanty of Odisha with
a score of 7.5/11 ahead of Greesham Dhumal who secured 2nd place.

Raahul and Smaraki became richer by Rs.21,000/- and Rs.10,000/- and will also get
opportunity to represent India in the forthcoming World Amateur Chess Championship at
Italy in April 2017. CM Aditya Mittal, who at one stage appeared to be running with title,
had to content with a 4th place with a score of 8.5/11 while 5-10 places was decided by
tie-break as all of them finished on 8/11.The prize distribution ceremony was presided over
by Shri Anand Pejawar, Executive Director (Marketing), Shri Santosh Chacko, Regional Di-
rector (Mumbai & Goa region) and Shri Pradeep Kumar, Regional Sales Manager from SBI
Life Insurance Company Limited.

Prize Winners:1 Raahul V (TN) 9½;2. Chakravarthy Y V K (AP) 9½; 3.Kadav Omkar (Mah)
9½; 4.CM Aditya Mittal (Mah) 8½; 5.CM Mullick Raahil (Mah) 8; 6.Devansh Ratti (Mah)8;7.
Audi Ameya (Goa) 8;8.Upadhyay R (Mah)8; 9.Panesar Vedant (Mah)8;10. Shah Jeet (Mah)8.

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 42nd National Under 15 Open and 33rd Under 15 Girls Championships,Delhi
Mitrabha Guha and Harshita Guddanti are Champions
by IA Rajendra Shidore, Chief Arbiter
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2nd National under 15 open and 33
rd National under 15 .Event code no
141213/141214 was organized by Delhi
chess federation under the aegis of All India
Chess Federation from 20 th Nov to 28 th
Nov 2016 at the prestigious Indira Gandhi
Indoor Stadium ,New Delhi. IA Biju Raj from
Delhi was Deputy Chief Arbiter who assisted
me in this prestigious event.
On 20th November2016 managers and
Players meeting was held at venue. All tour-
nament rules, tiebreak, schedule were dis-
cussed in the meeting. In a colorful opening
ceremony at about 1:30 PM the event was
declared open by Mr Atul Kumar Joint Sec-
retary AICF by making the customary first
move in the presence of Sh AK Verma Hon
Secretary Delhi Chess Association and Mr
Sudharshan Sharma, Secretary Himachal
Pradesh Chess Association . First round as
per schedule started at 2 pm sharp.
A total of 330 players from 24 States and 2
union territories participated in this prestig-
ious event which spread out for 9 days with
11 Rounds in Swiss system. In open event
witnessed 220 players including one IM and
other 13 title holders in action and in girls
section 110 players including 5 title holders.
IM Rughunandan and WFM Arpita Mukherjee
started as top seeds in open and girls section
respectively. The event witnessed lot of ups
and downs and was filled with excitement
till the end. At the end FM Mitrabha Guha
of West Bengal scored 9 ½ points out of a
possible 11 and stood as the winner in open
category. CM Erigaisi Arjun from Telungana
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and FM Rajdeep Sarkar scored 9 points.
When the equation was resolved by tie-break
CM Erigaise became Fist Runner- up and FM
Rajdeep Sarkar stood as second runner up.
In girls category WFM Arpita Mukherjee of
WB stated the event as top seed. When the
exciting event reached the final day Harishita
Guddanti of AP and Vantika Agrawal of Delhi
Scored 9 points each, But better tie-break
points helped Harshita Guddanti of AP to
become the winner and Vanitika Agrawal
satisfied with 1st runner-up position. Tosha-
li V of AP and WFM Lakshmi C of TN WFM
Arpita Mukherjee of WB and Tanya Pandey
of MAH scored 8 points but better tie-break
points helped Toshali V of AP to secure Sec-
ond Runner-up prize.
At the venue all arrangements were very
good.All players and parents were very happy
for such excellent event.Tournament director
was IA Gopakumar ,Delhi chess association
under the leadership of Bharat Singh and
A.K.Verma worked very hard for making the
event successful.
On 28th Nov 2016 in a colourful closing
ceremony Gp Capt R Rajendra VSM,Smt
Manjusree Roy Administrator Indira Gandhi
Stadium, Mr Fedrik Fidel, Chess base , Mr
Reghu Nandan Gokhale, Dronacharya Awar-
dee , WGM Tania Sachdev, Mr Bharat Singh
Chauhan, President Delhi Chess Association
and Mr AK Verma Hon Sec Delhi Chess Asso-
ciation gave away the prizes to the winners. .
Team of arbiters apart from Chief Arbiter IA
Rajendra Shidore include FA Jitendra Choud-
hary, NA Shivkanth Mishra, NA KS Kalsi, NA 35 Karan J P KER 7
Swati Bhatt, NA Amit Gangwar, NA Mrityun- 36 Shakthi Vishal J TN 7
jay Singh, NA RakeshChandel,NA Rajkumar 37 Vardan Nagpal DEL 7
Sharma did a perfect job in this successful 38 Utsab Chatterjee WB 7
event. 39 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai GUJ 7
Final ranking 40 Aswin Kumar B S TN 7
Rk Name Club Pts 41 Dushyant Sharma PUN 7
1 FM Mitrabha Guha WB 9½ 42 Aansh Gupta DEL 7
2 CM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 9 43 Joy Pankaj Shah GUJ 7
3 FM Rajdeep Sarkar WB 9 44 Sankalp Gupta MAH 7
4 Jayakumaar S TN 8½ 45 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 7
5 Rahul Srivatshav P TEL 8½ 46 Arivu Selvan A S TN 6½
6 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena ODI 8½ 47 Umashankar A PUD 6½
7 CM Aronyak Ghosh WB 8½ 48 S Maralakshikari TEL 6½
8 Iniyan P TN 8 49 Rounak Pathak WB 6½
9 CM Kushagra Mohan TEL 8 50 Devansh Ratti MAH 6½
10 Aditya B Kalyani KAR 8 51 Om Vinay Vitalkar MAH 6½
11 IM Raghunandan K S KAR 8 52 Roneet Das MAH 6½
12 FM Nitish Belurkar GOA 8 53 CM Bharath Subramaniyam TN 6½
13 CM Gukesh D AP 7½ 54 Aaryan Varshney DEL 6½
14 FM Rathanvel V S TN 7½ 55 Dileep Kumar R TN 6½
15 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 7½ 56 Tarun V Kanth TN 6½
16 Arjun Kalyan TN 7½ 57 Shashwat Chakraborty CHA 6½
17 Vatsal Singhania JHA 7½ 58 Dubey Sanchay UP 6½
18 Pruthu Deshpande MAH 7½ 59 Jaskeerat Singh CHD 6½
19 Arnav Tiwari DEL 7½ 60 WFM Tarini Goyal CHD 6½
20 CM Mendonca Leon Luke GOA 7½ 61 Panesar Vedant MAH 6½
21 Rajarshi Dutta WB 7½ 62 Prasant N Nayagam TN 6½
22 Bharambe Bhavik C MAH 7½ 63 Ithal H L Rajath KAR 6½
23 Saurabh Anand BIH 7½ 64 Aditya P Melani GUJ 6½
24 Neelash Saha WB 7 65 Debanga Kalita ASM 6½
25 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 7 66 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 6
26 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 7 67 Shyam Prasad Reddy AP 6
27 Samant Aditya S MAH 7 68 Mahitosh Dey ODI 6
28 Marthandan K U KER 7 69 Sparsh Khandelwal CHA 6
29 Subhayan Kundu WB 7 70 Rushil Gupta DEL 6
30 Abhishek T M KER 7 71 Ram Kumar G M TN 6
31 Alok Sinha DEL 7 72 Shuban Saha WB 6
32 Anshul Nigam JHA 7 73 Manish Kumar (2006) ODI 6
33 Manu David Suthandram TN 7 74 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 6
34 Harshavardhan G B TN 7 75 Patil Priyanshu MAH 6

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76 Sharan R S TEL 6 117 Ritvik Gupta DEL 5½
77 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 6 118 Barik Jagdish ODI 5½
78 Mumukshu Mittal PUN 6 119 Chaithanya Ganesh KAR 5½
79 Yutesh P TN 6 120 Aagam Aditya E GUJ 5½
80 Ishan Sanjay Pagi GOA 6 121 Mayank Dewangan CHA 5½
81 Garv Rai DEL 6 122 Harsh Singh Senger HAR 5½
82 Arunabh Gohain ASM 6 123 Kumar Utkarsh JHA 5½
83 Dhannawat Chakshu MAH 6 124 Dias Aston GOA 5
84 Dhruba Jyoti Deka ASM 6 125 Harisurya Bharadwaj AP 5
85 Vraj N Shah GUJ 6 126 Pagay Shail MAH 5
86 Bhavik Ahuja DEL 6 127 Naman Porwal RAJ 5
87 Thaga Sheriff M TN 6 128 Raghav Bansal PUN 5
88 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 6 129 Nithin A V TN 5
89 Rohnit G Amin MAH 6 130 Agastya Makkar DEL 5
90 Aadit Bhatia HAR 6 131 Dheekshith Kumar R TN 5
91 Swarnava Biswas WB 6 132 Harshit Arya HAR 5
92 Madkaikar Gaurav S GOA 6 133 Namish Sharma DEL 5
93 Sharma Vivek BIH 6 134 Shayanak Kundu DEL 5
94 Suriya S V TN 6 135 Aarohon Bharadwaj ASM 5
95 Krishnater Kushager MAH 6 136 Upadhyay Prince GUJ 5
96 Parikh Kairav GUJ 6 137 Mahek J Hinhoriya MAH 5
97 Anmol Bhagat PUN 6 138 Agrahri Satyam UP 5
98 Shyam Kumar M TN 5½ 139 Levanshu Khullar CHD 5
99 Anubhav Kumar Jha BIH 5½ 140 Bhavesh Mahajan PUN 5
100 Saksham Rautela UTT 5½ 141 Aniket Mondal WB 5
101 Uttam P Sharma HAR 5½ 142 Jatin Sharma HP 5
102 Abhinav Chauhan DEL 5½ 143 Pawar Harshit DEL 5
103 Dhruv Dak RAJ 5½ 144 Harshiel Sehgal DEL 5
104 Shrivastav Hritik MP 5½ 145 Samarth Mittal HAR 5
105 Dravv Jain DEL 5½ 146 Ayush Lodha RAJ 5
106 Saarthak Tuli DEL 5½ 147 Parikh Pratham GUJ 5
107 Dharani Srinivas K B AP 5½ 148 Yash Joshi UP 5
108 Panwar Krish Navratan GUJ 5½ 149 Pednekar Ayush GOA 5
109 Shyam Sundar M TN 5½ 150 Aryan Ranjan DEL 4½
110 Gunin Malik DEL 5½ 151 Ketan Kaushik UP 4½
111 Phadnis Adwait MAH 5½ 152 Saurav Agarwal DEL 4½
112 Hiren K G TN 5½ 153 Harprab Singh Johar DEL 4½
113 Raninga Aditya Himanshu GUJ 5½ 154 Bhattacharyya S WB 4½
114 Aadhisan Balakrishnan PUD 5½ 155 Gupta Tanish UP 4½
115 Anadkat Kartavya GUJ 5½ 156 Jai Mehtani HAR 4½
116 Ansh M Shah GUJ 5½

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157 Samyak Anand JHA 4½ 198 Atom Alex MAN 3½
158 Daaksh Jain DEL 4½ 199 Ishant Kumar JHA 3½
159 Raghuvarun Reddy TEL 4½ 200 Chavda Priyam B GUJ 3½
160 Shah Het D GUJ 4½ 201 Simarjiv Singh DEL 3½
161 Jayant Sai TEL 4½ 202 Aaromal R S TEL 3½
162 Vaibhav Tomar MP 4½ 203 Ayush Gupta J&K 3½
163 Aman Kumar BIH 4½ 204 Parthajit Saha TRI 3½
164 Aaryansh Bhartiya DEL 4½ 205 Aayush Y Charadva GUJ 3
165 Saumya Srivastava BIH 4½ 206 Daksh Sood HP 3
166 Chhabra Kunal RAJ 4½ 207 Hanzal Bashir J&K 3
167 Kalra Garv UP 4½ 208 Daksh Goel UTT 3
168 Bhatt Swayam GUJ 4½ 209 Thakkar Dhairya GUJ 3
169 Suresh Garg DEL 4½ 210 Richan CHD 3
170 Aryaman Bhatia DEL 4½ 211 Toshiet Daksh DEL 3
171 Patel Maharshi GUJ 4½ 212 Naman Gupta UTT 2½
172 Pranav Aggarwal UP 4½ 213 Amish Sood HP 2½
173 Soham Das WB 4 214 Sannidhya Rana DEL 2½
174 Aditya Varun Gampa AP 4 215 Adil Ahmad Mochi J&K 2
175 Medhansh Saxena UP 4 216 Aan Sikka DEL 1
176 Tarun Raj BIH 4 217 Bhat Tufail Nabi J&K 1
177 Daksh N Sharma HP 4 218 Ambarish Sharma WB 0
178 H Bahadur Singh UTT 4 219 Manoj B Kulkarni KAR 0
179 Praveen Saki TEL 4 220 Mishra Sumit UP 0
180 Kushagra Khurana DEL 4 Final ranking :Girls Under-15
181 Cyrus Chhikara HAR 4 Rk Name Club Pts
182 Eshaan Chandrol MP 4 1 Harshita Guddanti AP 9
183 Mantegh Singh DEL 4 2 Vantika Agrawal DEL 9
184 Vyas Tatva GUJ 4 3 Toshali V AP 8
185 Devashish Gupta DEL 4 4 WFM Lakshmi C TN 8
186 Harsh Vardhan Joshi DEL 4 5 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 8
187 Vraj Kayasth GUJ 4 6 Tanya Pandey MAH 8
188 Sahib Singh DEL 4 7 Shah Rutvi GUJ 7½
189 Kushagra Agrawal HAR 4 8 Abhirami Madabushi AP 7½
190 Chavda Kathan B GUJ 4 9 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 7½
191 Srri Ram E AP 4 10 WFM Bommini Mounika
192 Dhruv Munjal HAR 4 Akshaya AP 7½
193 Shishir Lamba CHD 4 11 Priyanka K TN 7½
194 Yogesh S PUD 4 12 Rajashree Rajeev KER 7½
195 Sarthak Rawat UTT 4 13 Sanskriti Goyal UP 7½
196 Bhavy Kapoor DEL 4 14 Abirama Srinithi G TN 7
197 Sadbhav Rautela UTT 3½ 15 Jain Nityata MP 7

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16 Shanya Mishra DEL 7 57 Lavanya Jain PUN 5½
17 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 7 58 Bhavya Gupta HAR 5½
18 Tejasvi M TN 7 59 Jesica DEL 5½
19 Priyanka Nutakki AP 7 60 Bhushita Ahuja DEL 5
20 Bhagyashree Patil MAH 7 61 Bhavya Verma BIH 5
21 Mishra Anisha ODI 7 62 Hiranmayi K TN 5
22 Krithigga K TN 7 63 Stuti Aishwary DEL 5
23 Makhija Aashna MAH 7 64 Yamijala Koulini JHA 5
24 Sovna Sonali Jena ODI 6½ 65 Shah Kritee GUJ 5
25 Sudipa Haldar WB 6½ 66 Mahi Amit Doshi GUJ 5
26 Rindhiya V TN 6½ 67 Yadav Sneha UP 5
27 Shah Vrushti GUJ 6½ 68 Aneri Ketan Kanjar GUJ 5
28 Yuti Mayur Patel MAH 6½ 69 M Padma Pratibha TN 5
29 Parakh Niyati CHA 6½ 70 Vavri PUN 5
30 Archi Agrawal DEL 6½ 71 Khushi M Hombal KAR 5
31 Benasir M TN 6½ 72 Sushma Reddy B TEL 5
32 Khushi Dharewa WB 6½ 73 Genita Gladys A TN 5
33 Kaur Palkin DEL 6½ 74 Subhasmitha Sahoo MAH 5
34 Srimathi R TN 6 75 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 5
35 Laheri Nitya GUJ 6 76 Sharanya V Adane MAH 5
36 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 6 77 Bhavi Bhansali CHA 4½
37 Agrawal Tanisha MP 6 78 Gupta Anika UP 4½
38 Sneha Paul WB 6 79 Ramyasree S PUD 4½
39 Laasya Priya P TEL 6 80 Vasundhara P. KER 4½
40 Sneha G P S TN 6 81 Shivika Rohilla DEL 4½
41 Garima Gaurav BIH 6 82 Sanya Dewan DEL 4½
42 Nivetta T TN 6 83 Kritika Pal DEL 4½
43 Pagay Shalaka MAH 6 84 Atushree Das JHA 4½
44 Arushi Kotwal J&K 6 85 Shivani Sutar GOA 4½
45 Jegatha B TN 6 86 Saini Mitali CHD 4
46 Vishwa Vasnawala GUJ 6 87 Shreetu B Nandi GUJ 4
47 Katkar Sai Arya MAH 6 88 Yashasvi Gupta RAJ 4
48 Sahithya G TEL 6 89 Savri PUN 4
49 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo GUJ 6 90 Sunidhi Goyal GUJ 4
50 Mudaliar Nandini GUJ 5½ 91 Harshana Pillai MP 4
51 Nanditha V TEL 5½ 92 Krutika Sahu MP 4
52 WCM Dhyana Patel GUJ 5½ 93 Anjitha Krishnakumar KER 4
53 Madhani Shilpee GUJ 5½ 94 Bhonsale G Harshad GOA 4
54 Dnynadha N Vitalkar MAH 5½ 95 Avni Gupta J&K 4
55 Agrawal Aanya GUJ 5½ 96 Arya Ranjan DEL 4
56 Adane Narayani MAH 5½ 97 Meenal Gupta J&K 3½

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 5th MSV Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai
Saravanakrishnan wins
by IA Muthukumar M, Chief Arbiter
5
th MSV Memorial International open Fide
Rating Chess Tournament organized by
Mount Chess Academy at the Spacious
Dr MGR Indoor Auditorium, Sathyabama
University, Sholinganallur, Chennai 600119
from 1st to 4th October2016.
This Tournament was inaugurated by
Shri.A.Veda Subramanian, Secretary cum
Correspondent, Sree Sankara Bala Vidyalaya,
Chennai on 1st October at 9.30am. This event
attracted 356 players from which including
2IMs, 1FM, 1WFM and 237 fide rated players
took part. The total prize fund was Rs. 3,
00,000/- and prizes were given to the top
Forty players and Ten prizes each for all 10
categories. Paychessentry.com sponsored
lucky draw prizes for three players in each
round before start of every round.
This event was conducted in eight round
Swiss event with time control of 90 minutes
per player with 30 sec increments. In the
initial rounds almost all the high rated play-
ers registered victories and the process of
elimination of contestants took place after
three rounds.
In the fourth round National Under11 cham-
pion Manish Anto Cristiano of Kanchi outwit-
ted second seeded IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh in
an interesting battle and jointly leading with
12 others.At the end of the 5th Round three
players FM Vinoth kumar, O.T.Anilkumar and
R.Venkatakrishna were leading the table with
5points each. Top seeded.Saravanakrishnan
was held to a draw by young CM Bharath
Subramaniaum in the top board.At the end
of the 6th Round six players namely Sarava-
nakrishnan, FM Vinoth kumar, O.T.Anilkumr,
H.Bharath Subramaniam, R.Ashwath and N
B HariMadhavan were on top spot with 5.5
points each.
In the Seventh Round and penultimate round
three players Saravakrishnan, Anilkumar and
Vinoth kumar defeated overnight leaders and
led the table with 6.5 points each. Six play-
ers IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh, IM Ramanathan
Balasuramaniam, WFM C.Lakshmi, Bavan-
kumar, Thamaraiselvi and CM Balasubrama-
niam were closely following the leaders with
6points each.
In the exciting final round top seeded P.Sara-
vanakrishnan of Karur Vysya Bank outplayed
FM Vinoth kumar in the irregular opening
and won the 5th MSV Fide rated trophy with
7.5points and get richer by Rs30000/-.Anoth-
er overnight leader Anilkumar was held to a
draw by IM R.Balasubramaniam in the double
edged middle game and clinched second prize
of Rs25000/-.Four players, O.T.Anilkumar of
Kerala,Bavankumar of Postal,WFM C.Lakshmi
of TNagar and IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh of
Chennai were scored 7points out of possible
8 rounds and tied for the second place and
on tie break they finished Second to Fourth
respectively.
Sathyabama University was the main spon-
sor for this event and they provided free
boardibng to all players & parents.Dr Abirami
Ramanathan, President, Tamilnadu Cine The-
atre Owner’s Federation was the chief guest
and distributed the prizes on 4th October in
the valedictory function.
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I thank the team of experienced Arbiters 32 Dharunkumar 6
conducted the tournament very well without 33 Arnav Agrawal 6
any dispute and also I thank Sri V.Ravichan- 34 Alan Diviya Raj 5½
dran, Organising Secretary for the successful 35 Srikanth K. 5½
organisation of this annual fide rated event. 36 AGM Sa Kannan 5½
My sincere thanks to AICF, TNSCA, KDCA for 37 Balachandar E 5½
the successful conduct of this event. 38 Rohith Krishna S 5½

39 Neela S 5½
Final ranking
40 Jayachandra Srinivas V 5½
Rk Name Pts
41 Sharan Sridhar 5½
1 Saravana Krishnan P. 7½
42 Jibin Varghese John 5½
2 Anilkumar O.T. 7
43 Shyam Kumar M 5½
3 Bavankumar 7
44 Sanjay D G 5½
4 WFM Lakshmi C 7
45 Satvik V 5½
5 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R 7
46 Sivaji Baskar S 5½
6 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6½
47 AIM Vignesh R 5½
7 IM R. Balasubramaniam 6½
48 Ilamparthi A R 5½
8 Hari Madhavan N B 6½
49 Gokulraj K 5½
9 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 6½
50 Arul Suresha G A 5½
10 Ashwath R. 6½
51 Aadith R 5½
11 Karthik P M 6½
52 Narendran Gouthaman 5½
12 Venkatakrishnan R.V. 6
53 AFM Sankaran P Krishnaswamy 5½
13 Vijay Shreeram P 6
54 Atul Bihari Sharan 5½
14 Balasubramaniam H 6
55 George Daniel 5½
15 Varsha C R 6
56 Janakiraman R 5½
16 Aasha C R 6
57 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 5
17 Vignesh V 6
58 Vivek Ramanathan V 5
18 Thamaraiselvi P 6
59 Arockkianathan M 5
19 AGM Rathneesh R 6
60 Sathyanarayanan S. 5
20 Arivu Selvan A S 6
61 Venkataraman R 5
21 Ajay Karthikeyan 6
62 Badri Narayan B 5
22 Hari Suresh 6
63 Rathina Sabapathi A 5
23 Karthik Rajaa 6
64 Benasir M 5
24 Avinash Ramesh 6
65 Rupak M 5
25 Aditya Varun Gampa 6
66 Honnesh Sankaran 5
26 Thaga Sheriff M 6
67 Pooja S (2002) 5
27 S Kalyan Lakshmi Narayana 6
68 Prahalada Varadhan R 5
28 Trinadh Virothi 6
69 Harish Babu K S 5
29 Krishna Raaju J 6
70 Vamsi Krishna B 5
30 Ayushh Ravikumar 6
71 Alagappan S 5
31 Shyam Kishore Prasad 6
72 Murali Krishna 5

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 All India FIDE Rapid Rated Chess Tournament 2016, Chandrapur
Srinath Rao wins at Chandrapur
by Pravin Pantawane, FA,Chief Abiter
C
handrapur district opened a new page
in their chess history by organizing,
for the first time,a FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament in the city of Chandrapur. All
India FIDE Rapid Rated Chess Tournament
2016 was organized jointly by Chandrapur
District Chess Association, Ballarpur Chess
Association and Master Chess Academy under
the aegis of Maharashtra Chess Association
from 3rd November, 2016 to 4th November,
2016 at Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering,
Research & Technology, Chandrapur (Maha-
rashtra). The total no of participants were
141 including 2 IM’s, 1 FM, 1 AGM, 1ACM and
also77 players were ELO rated. The tourna-
ment was over all successful.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr.
KishorJorgewar, Vice president (District),
Shiv-Sena, Chandrapur and Mr. Kirtivard-
hanDikshit, Principal, Rajiv Gandhi College of
Engg. Research & Tech.,Chandrapur. The oth-
er dignitaries present were Shankar Botla.
ParmeshwarBotla and FA PravinPantawane,
the chief Arbiter.
6th seed FM Srinath Rao S V of Mumbai,
Maharashtra, became the champion of the
tournament. Top seed IM Ramnathan Ba-
lasubramanian (TN) and FMSrinath Rao S V
(MAH) both lost their 5th round. But at the
end of final round no 9 they both were tallied
with 8 points each and with better buchholz
score FM Srinath Rao SV was declared the
champion. IM Ramnathan Balasubramanian
(TN) and Rao J Malleswara (AP) won the 2nd
and 3rd places with 8 and 7.5 points respec-
tively. Chandrapur District players,Sourav
Sahoo and Suraj Jaiswal put their best efforts
and secured 12th& 13th places respectively.
The prizes were distributed at the hands of
Mr. Sriniwas Parnandi, Corporator, Chan-
drapur. Other guests present were Mr. Balkis-
han Chintal, Mr. H P Chole, Bramhapuri Chess
Association, Mr. Shankar Botla, Secretary,
Ballarpur Chess Association, Mr. Isaac Arelli,
Mr. Deva Kunta and FA Pravin Pantawane,
Chief Arbiter.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 FM Srinath Rao S.V 8
2 IM R Balasubramaniam 8
3 Rao J. Malleswara 7½
4 AGM Mani Bharathy 7½
5 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
6 Tarun Kanyamarala 7
7 Prasannaa.S 7
8 Hend Pravin 7
9 Dhananjay S 7
10 Saurabh Lokhande 7
11 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6½
12 Sourav Sahoo 6½
13 Suraj Jaiswal 6½
14 Mayur S Shelke 6½
15 Buxy Rajanikant 6½
16 Balkishan A. 6
17 Sameer Kumar Y 6
18 Murali Mohan Y 6
19 Trisha Kanyamarala 6
20 Patil Priyanshu 6
21 Subhasmitha Sahoo 6
22 Kankam Kumar 6
23 Vikas Bhagat 6
24 Ajay Kumar Singh 6
25 Yash Dhoke 6
26 Kondawar Roshan M 6
27 Meshram Amol 6
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28 Sahare Umesh 6 68 Saha Probhatchandra 4½
29 Gouravkumar Nanwani 6 69 Bante Utkarsh 4½
30 Sudhir Vanarase 6 70 Ishwar Ramteke 4½
31 Anannya Menkudle 5½ 71 Babbar Narayan 4½
32 Rao Mahadev 5½ 72 Chole H P 4½
33 Patil Aditi G 5½ 73 Jethwani Himani 4½
34 Pujjam Bansod 5½ 74 Bhatia Ayushi 4½
35 Shinde Rujul 5½ 75 Neelkanth Meshram 4½
36 Vaishnav Paunikar 5½ 76 Sahare Roshan 4½
37 Prasada Rao G 5½ 77 Lakavath Suman 4½
38 Shendre Ajinkya S 5½ 78 Iyer Arvind 4
39 Vaidya Dattatraya 5½ 79 Chahande Vinayak 4
40 Shamkuwar Y. M. 5½ 80 Gawande Devanshi 4
41 Shrikant S Mogram 5½ 81 Lad Gayatri 4
42 Dhanvij Ansh 5 82 Mantute Umesh 4
43 Urkude Sunil 5 83 Paunikar Raju 4
44 Ghorghate Sahil 5 84 Juare Deep 4
45 Nilesh Wasnik 5 85 Urade Swapnil 4
46 Walimbe Jitendra 5 86 Keshkar Yash 4
47 Dande Pushpak 5 87 Basanwar Namrata 4
48 Sharma Kunal 5 88 Kasarlawar Sanjay 4
49 Mahale Pankaj 5 89 Gupta Ganesh 4
50 Bodkhe Aditya 5 90 Nichkol Rajesh 4
51 Sontakke Mahadev 5 91 Raiyyani Zuber 4
52 N Chandrabhan Ramteke 5 92 Dolika Annam 4
53 ACM Tushar V Thakker 5 93 Khanke Hemant 4
54 Bhande Vedant 5 94 Gedam Premsagar 4
55 Mangawar Suraj 5 95 Tirpude Saket Bala 4
56 Gupta Sumeet Kailash 5 96 Masram Shrikant 4
57 Kolhe Shruti 5 97 Dange Kushal 4
58 Subbarao T V 5 98 Moon Shubham 4
59 Nilesh Dashrath Bande 5 99 Madavi Ashay 4
60 Khobragade Nishad 5 100 Barsagade Kumudini 4
61 Firke Yash 5 101 Rasekar Ojas 4
62 Mukkawar Abhishek 5 102 Bhatia Jugal 3½
63 Waghmare Yash 5 103 Patil Pravartak 3½
64 Rasekar Omkar 5 104 Nair Sunil 3½
65 Venkatswami V 5 105 Basanwar Manav 3½
66 Abdul H Abdul Suttar 4½ 106 Nimkar Vinay 3½
107 Bhosale Tejaswi 3½
67 Kondagurle Maroti 4½ 108 Dhale Harshal 3

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Chaitanya International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Vijayawada….
M Chakaravarthi Reddy of Telangana wins
by FA S.Subbaraju, Chief Arbiter
I
nternational Master and Top Seed M
Chakraravrhi Reddy of Telangana won Sri
Chaitanya International Fide Rating Chess
Tournament, Organized by Global Chess
Academy in association with Andhra Pradesh
Chess Assn at Royal Green City, Vijayawada,
Andhra Pradesh from 25th November to 30th
November 2016. Tamil Nadu’s N Lokesh and
V Pranav are placed 2nd & 3rd.
Young boy V Pranav (TN) was in sensational
lead with 7 points till 7th round. Despite 2
consecutive losses in 8th and 9th rounds
against top two seeds( IM M Chakravarthi
Reddy and N Lokesh) Pranav recovered with
a win in 10th round and placed clear 3rd with
8 points from 10 rounds.
Winner got prize money of Rs. 35,000/-
where as Runner up arun received Rs.
25,000/- and 3rd placed got Rs. 10,000/-
Total Rs. 2 Lakh distributed among 45 prize
winners.The event attracted 174 participants
from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharash-
tra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Andhra Bank.
The event was inaugurated by former chess
player Chief Guest Sri T Kranthi Rana, IPS
(Deputy Commissioner of Police) and Sri Dr
B S Rao, Chairman, Sri Chaitanya Educational
Institutions. Sri Y D Rama Rao, President –
APCA , Sri D Srihari, Secretary-APCA ,Sri P
Sandesh, Director-Coolex World , Sri K Rajen-
dra, President, Global Chess Aacemy and Sri
Shaik Khasim, Secretary-GCA also present.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri
Bangaru Raju Vice Chairman,Managing Direc-
tor Sports Authority of AP, Guest of Honors
Grand Master Smt.Koneru Humpy, Sri Vijay
V Murar Sr .Regional Manager, Central Bank
of India Vijayawada Region, Donacharya
Mr.Koneru Ashok, Sri D. Sri Hari, Secretary
APCA, Sri K.Rajendra Chairman of ICON
Public School and Sri Sk.Khasim, Secretary
Global Chess Academy distributed prizes.
FA S Subba Raju Chief Arbiter was assisted
by FA G V Kumar and FA R Vamshi Krishna
as deputy arbiters in the event.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Chakravarthi Reddy M 9
2 Lokesh N. 8½
3 Pranav V 8
4 R Balasubramaniam 8
5 Sa Kannan 7½
6 Ramakrishna J. 7½
7 Chakravarthy Y V K 7½
8 Vinoth Kumar M. 7½
9 Vigneshwaran S 7½
10 Saranya Y 7½
11 Surendran N 7½
12 Rao J. Malleswara 7
13 Vijay Anand M. 7
14 Ranadheer B J S K 7
15 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 7
16 Sandhya G 7
17 Gopal K.N. 7
18 Akshit Kumar J 7
19 Karthik P M 7
20 Ankitha Goud Palle 6½
21 Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 6½
22 Niranjan Mocharla 6½
23 Rohith Yadav B R 6½
24 Nikhil M 6½
25 Sathwika N 6½
26 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6½
27 Gokulraj K 6½
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28 Ravindra Raju 6½ 69 Anirudh Venkat R Kumar 5½
29 Krishna Reddy Gurugu 6½ 70 Sarvani Cheedella 5½
30 Prudvi Raj Pasala 6½ 71 Bolisetty Lochana 5½
31 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 6½ 72 Deepakraj Raja 5½
32 Sathya Naarayanan S 6½ 73 Indukuri Gayatri 5½
33 Narasimha Raveendra G 6½ 74 Aravind Ganta 5½
34 Chandran T. 6½ 75 Datta Siva Teja R 5½
35 Durga Prasad G 6½ 76 Swetha Sree Lanka 5½
36 Krishna Kumar N 6½ 77 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5½
37 Neeraj Anirudh K 6½ 78 Ashish P 5½
38 Sarath Chandra K 6 79 Suprith A 5½
39 Sai Divya M 6 80 Manikandan Ramanayya 5½
40 Kabhilan S 6 81 Shaik Shabaaj 5
41 Mahendra Teja Mekala 6 82 Viswas Dinesh 5
42 Bonu Ravi Kumar 6 83 Manikandan Bharathiraj 5
43 Mukhesh C 6 84 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 5
44 Divyan T 6 85 Chaitanya Raju Ch 5
45 Srikrishnan P 6 86 Shaileshwar V 5
46 Bharath Venugopal 6 87 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 5
47 Mithilesh Krishnan Balagopalan 6 88 Subbarao T V 5
48 Dhulipalla Mohith Akhilesh 6 89 Ojas Mehetre 5
49 Tarun Vankadaru 6 90 Sankarshana Goli 5
50 Gopinath M 6 91 Rajkumar Duvvuri 5
51 Gowtham Sakthivel 6 92 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 5
52 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 6 93 Dhannussh R 5
53 Pasapula Teja Sree 6 94 Likhit Vardhan Reddy B 5
54 Parthiv K G K 6 95 Shankar P B 5
55 Niharika Ch 5½ 96 Charan Teja Sana 5
56 Sreekar J S S 5½ 97 Luxshana B K 5
57 Shanmukha Teja P 5½ 98 Sambamurthy P. 4½
58 Sai Sujan S 5½ 99 Seshagiri Rao P N 4½
59 Ishwar Ramteke 5½ 100 Deepak H 4½
60 Chanakya V B S L 5½ 101 Sasidhar P 4½
61 Konatham Snehil 5½ 102 Sai Aravindh Sridhar 4½
62 Pavan Kumar Posa 5½ 103 Vishnu Komanduri 4½
63 Hemanth Eswar G 5½ 104 Nikith Krishna P 4½
64 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 5½ 105 Hemanth Sankar Reddy Dandu 4½
65 Tanish Sai Kavuru 5½ 106 Pavani P Kodamanchili 4½
66 Adithya Sekar 5½ 107 Aaron Joel N 4½
67 Shiva Sai Boddu 5½ 108 Sai Mahati A 4½
68 Abhinav Karthik M 5½ 109 Manda Rama Mohan Rao 4½

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 3rd Indiana FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Nagpur
VAV Rajesh of AAI wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
3
rd Indiana FIDE Rating Chess Tourna-
ment 2016, organized by Central India
Institute of Education and Cultural,
under the aegis of Nagpur District Chess As-
sociation & Maharashtra Chess Association,
was held at Hedgewar Smarak Samiti, Re-
shimbagh, Nagpur, from 5th November, 2016
to 10th November, 2016. The Total Number
of participants were 113 which included 3
IM, 3 FM and 1 CM. The total tally of rated
players were 92.
The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. D
K Agrawal, Director, Nagpur University. The
other dignitaries present were Dr. Jayant Patil
Gangreddiwar, Chairman CIIEC, Mr. Manoj
Itkelwar, Vice President, MCA, Mr. Dilip Pagay,
Secretary MCA, Mr. Shekhar Soni, Hitwada
Group, SNA Sushant Jumde, Organising Sec-
retary, and IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter.
Second Seed, IM VAV Rajesh of AAI, clinched
the title of the tournament. He drew with CM
Rajrishi Karthi of TN in the last round of the
game to score 7.5 points out of 9. Rajesh
won 6 games and drew 3 games. At the end
of 5th round Rajesh VAV was leading the
tournament with 5 points. He maintained his
lead till last round and won the tournament.
Top seed, IM CRG Krishna of RLYS, FM Matta
Vinay Kumar of AB, Siddhanth Mohopatra of
Odissa, Arjun Tiwari of Rlys and Mani Bharthy
of TN secured 2nd to 6th positions respec-
tively. Veteran Player Nasir Ali Syed finished
11th in the final standing.
The prize distribution function of 3rd Indiana
FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016 was
held on 10th November, 2016 at 3 pm at Dr.
Hedgewar Smarak Samiti Bhavan, Reshim-
bagh, Nagpur. Mr. Dilip Kamdar, President
NDCA, was the Chief guest for the function,
other guests were Mrs. Meenakshi Thakkar,
Mr. K K Barat, Secretary NDCA, Mr. Shekhar
Soni, Dr. Jayant Patil Gangreddiwar, Chiar-
man, CIIEC, Dr. Usha Sakure and IA Swapnil
Bansod, Chief Arbiter, were present on the
occasion.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name
Pts.
1 IM Rajesh V A V 7.5
2 IM Krishna C R G 7
3 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 7
4 Sidhant Mohapatra 7
5 Tiwari Arjun 7
6 AGM Mani Bharathy 7
7 IM Chakravarthi Reddy 6.5
8 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 6.5
9 CM Rajarishi Karthi 6.5
10 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 6.5
11 Nasir Ali Syed 6.5
12 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6.5
13 Prasannaa.S 6
14 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6
15 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6
16 Sachin Malik 6
17 Awadh Chaitanya 6
18 Rao J. Malleswara 6
19 Ahmed Feroz 6
20 Tarun Kanyamarala 6
21 Joshi Kshitij D 6
22 Yash Dhoke 5.5
23 Chetan Sharma 5.5
24 Falgun D Purohit 5.5
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25 Parmod Kharbash 5.5
26 Prerak Darvekar 5.5
27 Trisha Kanyamarala 5.5
28 Pandey Srishti 5.5
29 Atharva Rakesh B 5.5
30 Wairagade Khush 5.5
31 Joshi Girish 5.5
32 Bokade Chinmay 5.5
33 Thakare Seeya 5.5
34 Yash Ingolikar 5
35 Sharma Kunal 5
36 Chandran T. 5
37 Swayam Uttam A 5
38 Vamsi Krishna R 5
39 Raunak Godbole 5
40 Dhanvij Ansh 5
41 Sanil Upasani 5
42 Umer S.M 5
43 Dalal Aashi 5
44 Kohad Dipesh 5
45 Shinde Rujul 5
46 Pagay Shalaka 5
47 Vijay Thakur 5
48 Shendre Ajinkya S 5
49 Ramteke Sumedh 5
50 Deogade Aryan 5
51 Pendsey Muktanand 5
52 Shamkuwar Y. M. 4.5
53 Pagay Shail 4.5
54 Bhoyar Shreerang 4.5
55 Mudliyar Kshitij 4.5
56 Ranade Mayank 4.5
57 Patil T S 4.5
58 Hirani Lakshya 4.5
59 Choudhary Sagar 4.5
60 Ekre Abhishek 4.5
61 Shiva Sai Boddu 4.5
62 Advait Prashant Patil 4.5
63 Aryan Khurana 4.5
64 Vekhande Shivam 4.5
65 Namish Sharma 4.5
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66 Gotmare Mrinmayi 4.5
67 Sudame Kunal R 4
68 Marasttiwar Yash 4
69 Chhabda Soham 4
70 Patki Lalit 4
71 Bhatt Shreyas 4
72 Moharir Aayush 4
73 Hari Krishna Reddy J 4
74 Gotmare Anant 4
75 Patil Siddhey 4
76 Kewalramani B 4
77 Lanjewar Sakshi 4
78 Nimbole Sarvesh 3.5
79 Agrawal Harsh 3.5
80 Wairagade Rashi 3.5
81 Dande Vyankatesh S 3.5
82 Rathi Nitish 3.5
83 Bodkhe Aditya 3.5
84 Harsh Sharad M 3.5
85 Himanshu Jethwani 3.5
86 Chhabda Aishita 3.5
87 Khobragade Shaurya 3.5
88 Yash H Trivedi 3.5
89 Sukhija Falgun 3.5
90 Bhosale Tejaswi 3.5
91 Patil Aditi G 3
92 Deoshatwar Ojas 3
93 Gawai Siddhant 3
94 Awakhare Sonu 3
95 Tembhurne Smit 3
96 Jethwani Himani 3
97 Sure Jayesh 3
98 Amitkumar Mukesh T 3
99 Manmode Ashwini 3
100 Bhosale Yashaswi 3
101 Dadlani Manan 3
102 Lonkar Parth 2.5
103 Jaisingh Naman 2.5
104 Gotmare Mrigaya 2.5
105 Deshkar C Jayant 2.5
106 Sushant Jumde 2
KD Pillai Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament
Prasannaa wins title
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief arbiter
K
D Pillai Memorial All India FIDE Rating
Open Chess Tournament 2016 was
organized by All Odiaha Association in
memory of late K.D. Pillai, who was 11 times
Champion of Odisha State & and also the
winner of Sangli All India Open in 1968 from
November 20 to 25th 2016 at the Indoor
stadium, KIIT University, Odisha.
The tournament concluded with Valedictory
ceremony-cum-Prize Distribution, at 03:00
P.M. on 25 Nov 2016.Champion S Prasan-
naa, of Tamil Nadu received the winner’s
prize from . Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Reg-
istrar, KIIT University.Runner-up Baivab
Mishra, ODI received the prize from Mrs.
Sarada Juardar, Sister of Late KD Pillai.
The following guests were present on the
dias.Chief Guest Prof.Sasmita Samanta,
Registrar, KIIT University.Guest of Honour
Sj. Arun Kumar Nayak, Dy Regional Head,
Union Bank, Bhubaneswar, IM Sekhar
Chandra Sahu, President, All Odisha Chess
Association, Mrs. Sarada Juardar, Sister of
Late KD Pillai, Mr. Chandresh Kakkad, Na-
tional Chess Instructor and Mr. KK Sarma,
Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association
A total of 40 students of Kalinga Institute
of Social Science (KISS), the largest resi-
dential Institute for the tribals in the world,
blessed by Prof. Achyuta Samanta, Founder
KIIT & KISS, participated and proved their
talents securing (7th) Tapan Badamundi,
(15th) Purno Khillo, (20th) Sajan Kumar Nay-
ak were in Main Prize List. in this tournament.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Prasannaa.S 10
2 Baivab Mishra 9
3 Nayak Rajesh 8.5
4 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 8.5
5 Nayak Biswajit 8
6 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra 7.5
7 Badamundi Tapan 7.5
8 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 7.5
9 AGM Rathneesh R 7.5
10 Lochan Kumar Das 7.5
11 Sahoo Dasharathi 7
12 Nayak Sanjeeban 7
13 Bhabesh Mohanty 7
14 Sai Shravan R 7
15 Khillo Purna 7
16 Goura Hari Mohapatra 7
17 Mohanty Soyamsree 7
18 Manikandaswamy S 7
19 AGM Mani Bharathy 7
20 Nayak Sajan Kumar 7
21 Sunyasakta Satpathy 7
22 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 7
23 Moharana Manas Ranjan 6.5
24 Rudranarayan 6.5
25 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6.5
26 Panda Miracle 6.5
27 Uttam Chhatria 6.5
28 Mohapatra S Kumar 6.5
29 Hariharan S Pillai 6.5
30 Routray Priyanka 6.5
31 Manoj Kumar Hota 6
32 Barik Siba Prasad 6
33 Kadraka Jogendra 6
34 Dharanidhar S. 6
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35 Ananya Anamika 6
36 Subrat Patra 6
37 Sanjoy Pattnaik 6
38 Ajizulla S K 6
39 Jakasika Rajesh 6
40 Sabar Akshaya 6
41 Karjee Manindra 6
42 Amit Kumar S 6
43 Raita Rajesh 6
44 Bidika Somi 6
45 Harshit Ranjan Sahu 6
46 Mohapatra G C 6
47 Binod Kanhar 6
48 Birendra Raita 5.5
49 Mohapatra Pratyush 5.5
50 Majhi Sakila 5.5
51 Bipin Mallick 5
52 Naik Dinabandhu 5
53 Anishka Pandey 5
54 Abhishek Nayak 5
55 Leli Jakaka 5
56 Majhi Fakir 5
57 Dalapati Uma 5
58 Nayak Narayan 5
59 Pidika Haresh 5
60 Singh Bapun 5
61 Babula Bhoi 5
62 Nayak Sunil Kumar 5
63 Guiya Ghasiram 5
64 Barik Bijayalaxmi 5
65 Tripathy Tanmaya 5
66 Rout Yashita 5
67 Priyanka Pattanaik 5
68 Mishra Anjali 5
69 Pratyusha Priyadarshini 5
70 Nilotpal Pradhan 5
71 Bikash Kumar Lenka 4.5
72 Padra Femas 4.5
73 Anuska P Mohanty 4.5
74 Rasmita Kumari Patro 4.5
75 Pradhan Pravina 4.5
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76 Pratyush Tripathy 4.5
77 Smaraki Mohanty 4
78 Soren Digij 4
79 Tudu Gopinath 4
80 Pradhan Chitralekha 4
81 Khillo Jagatray 4
82 Miniaka Jitu 4
83 Dash Suryakant 4
84 Aishwarya Samantaray 4
85 Nayak Samiran Sukumar 4
86 Tudu Kanhu 4
87 Munda Sachin Tamsoy 4
88 Badal Kumar Padhihari 4
89 Hansdah Namita 3.5
90 Juango Jogamaya 3.5
91 Nishant Mohanty 3.5
92 Majhi Bikram Kumar 3
93 Barik Jayashree 3
94 Dharua Kalpana 2.5
95 Majhi Durgi 2.5
96 AIM Kakkad Jeet 2
97 Nayak Dipika Dipanwita 2
98 Kulsika Sangita 1.5
99 Jani Rabindra 0
100 Kishor Keshav 0
101 Sabar Krushna 0
102 Rushav Prasad 0
When Grand Masters play, they see the
logic of their opponent's moves. One's
moves may be so powerful that the oth-
er may not be able to stop him, but the
plan behind the moves will be clear. Not
so with Fischer. His moves did not make
sense - at least to all the rest of us they
didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was
playing something else, call it what you
will. Naturally, there would come a time
when we finally would understand what
those moves had been about. But by then
it was too late. We were dead.
- Mark Taimanov
 Carlsen retains Title 3-1 in Rapid tie-break
by Arvind Aaron

M
agnus Carlsen of Norway retained his title when he
beat the Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin 6-6, 3-1
to win the FIDE World Chess Title for the third time at
New York on November 30, 2016.Carlsen celebrated his 26th
birthday in style, winning the four game rapid contest that
lasted 209 moves in all on the final day. This was the best the
spectators got in lower Manhattan venue of New York.After
game one and the exciting game two were drawn, Carlsen
won the last two to wrap up the tie-break at 3-1. Carlsen first
became champion in 2013 unseating Viswanathan Anand at
Chennai. He then retained his title in Sochi, Russia against
Anand yet again.

The New York match was thought to be the closest and indeed
it was. Both players born in 1990 contested the 12-match series that ended in a 6-6 tie.
Tie-breaks are unfortunate for world title events but matches cant be allowed to go end-
lessly like it happened in 1984-1985 when FIDE terminated the Karpov v Kasparov match
after 48 games due to the health of the players and the financial drain of the organisers!
The second rapid game saw Karjakin sacrifice material to get a sensational draw. There-
after, in the third game he could not be recognised. Carlsen sliced his way through with a
brilliant pawn sacrifice on move 30 to plant a knight and win the game. Karjakin lost the
fourth game playing the Sicilian defence.

After winning three world championship games at Leningrad 1986 in a row from 17-18-19,
team Karpov adopted a rare professional strategy and took a time out to cool his excite-
ment. After the long 84-move
stalemate, Karjakin required
that break. FIDE does not allow
time-outs now since 1997.

Carlsen had worked previous-

ly in Anand’s team. So facing
the Indian was a bit easier for
him. The eighth game defeat
rocked Carlsen in New York. He
sprang to life in game ten and
then banked his chances in the
tie-break and closed the door
in classical chess by drawing
game 12.
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The games that mattered... d3-d4 might make sense, but Black can takes
Tie break Rapid - third game
some precautions against it. 18...Qe8! Black
improves his queen. 19.Bb3 19...Qg6 20.f3
Karjakin,Sergey (2772) - Carlsen,Mag-
This move looks fairly natural to me. The
nus (2853)
threat of Nf5-h4 looked annoying. On the oth-
New York New York, 30.11.2016
er hand, now the e3-square becomes weak,
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0
which Black masterfully exploits later on.
Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a3 0–0 9.Nc3 Na5
20...Bh4 21.a4 [With hindsight 21.Bd2 looks
10.Ba2 Be6 The world champion repeats the
better here or on the next move.] 21...Nf6
continuation from the 2nd game. 11.b4 [The
[21...a5!?] 22.Qe2 22...a5! This push chang-
game 2 saw 11.d4 Bxa2 12.Rxa2 Re8 13.Ra1
es the character of the play. The d4-square
Nc4 and Magnus equalized.] 11...Nc6 12.Nd5
might become seriously weak. 23.a This was
Nd4 The position looks fairly symmetrical.
probably a correct decision. [23.bxa5 Rxa5
The only difference being the placement of
24.Ra2 looks safer at first sight, but 24...
the bishops. 13.Ng5 White tries to exploit
Rfa8 would be unpleasant for White anyway,
the vulnerability of black's bishop. [13.Nxd4
e.g. 25.Nxf6+ (25.axb5? Rxa2 26.Bxa2 Nxe4
exd4 14.Bb2 c5 brings White little, for in-
27.dxe4 Ng3! gives Black a decisive attack
stance 15.Nxe7+ Qxe7 16.c3 Bxa2 17.Rxa2
after 28.hxg3 Bxg3 29.Rd1 Qh5 .) 25...Qxf6
Qe6 18.Ra1 dxc3 19.Bxc3 Nd7!? (19...c4!?;
26.axb5? Rxa2 27.Bxa2 Ng3! and Black wins
19...Rac8) 20.f4 f5 . White's position looks
an exchange, as 28.hxg3 Bxg3 is just winning
more pleasant, but Black has no real prob-
for Black.] 23...axb4 24.Bd2 135 24...bxc3
lems.] 13...Bxd5 This was not forced, but
84 25.Bxc3 Ne3 Black could still wait with
the other moves were hardly better. 14.exd5
this move, as the knight also controlled d4
Nd7 15.Ne4 f5 16.Nd2 [My silicon friend also
and g3. 26.Rfc1 Rxa1 27.Rxa1 Qe8 28.Bc4
suggests an alternative 16.c3!? fxe4 17.cxd4
Kh8 29.Nxf6 29...Bxf6 [29...gxf6!? was a
exd3 18.Qxd3 exd4 19.Bb2 Bf6 20.Rae1 a5
serious option, but White's position would
(20...Ne5 21.Qd2) 21.Bb1 g6 22.f4 with
remain defensible after 30.Bd2! .] 30.Ra3
White's edge.] 16...f4 17.c3 136 17...Nf5
The position remained around equal. 30...e4!
18.Ne4

A great practical decision. Black exchanges

his bad bishop, activates his major pieces and
This move looks very natural, but it is hard to
fortifies his knight's outpost on e3. 31.dxe4
say where should the knight go. Computer's
Bxc3 32.Rxc3 Qe5 33.Rc1 Ra8 [33...Qd4!?
suggestion Nd2-b3-a5-c6 looks very opti-
was also an option. To prevent this, White
mistic to me, as White's king is not very well
could start with 33.Qd2. However, 34.Kh1
protected. Playing Re1, Nf3 and eventually
Ra8 35.Ba2! still maintains equality.] 34.h3
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[34.Qd2 Ra1 35.Be2 might have been more
circumspect.] 34...h6 84 [34...Ra1 35.Rxa1
Qxa1+ 36.Kh2 h6 looks more pleasant for
Black, but White's position is solid enough to
resist.] 35.Kh2 [35.Qd2!] 35...Qd4 36.Qe1?!
72 [36.e5! Qxe5 37.Bd3 or; 36.Ba2 might
still have sufficed for equality, but it is very
hard to keep one's cool with the clock tick-
ing.] 36...Qb2 37.Bf1 [Computers suggest
37.Be2! Ra2 38.e5!! , for instance: 38...
Qxe5 a) 38...Qxe2?! 39.Qxe2 Rxe2 40.b6!=
and the passed pawns save White.; b) 38...
dxe5?! 39.d6! cxd6 40.Rc8+ Kh7 41.Bd3+
g6 42.Rc2!! Qb3 (42...Nxc2?? even loses
to 43.Qe4!) 43.Qh4! Rxc2 44.Qe7+ Kg8
45.Qe8+ Kg7 46.Qxg6+ Kf8 47.Qxd6+
with a perpetual.; 39.b6! Qg5! (39...Nxg2
40.b7 Nxe1 41.b8Q+ Kh7 42.Qb1+) 40.Qf2
Qg3+! 41.Qxg3 fxg3+ 42.Kxg3 Rxe2 43.bxc7
Rxg2+ 44.Kf4 Nxd5+ 45.Ke4 Nxc7 46.Rxc7
with a drawish endgame. But this would be
extremely difficult to find even in a classical
game. We should not criticize Sergey for
missing this. After all, most of us prefer hu-
man games to computer encounters, which
might be far too incomprehensible for the
mortals.] 37...Ra2 38.Rxc7? 94 [38.Rb1! was
a must. Black's position looks dominant after
38...Qd4 , but White defends everything for
the time being.] 38...Ra1 Magnus played an
excellent game. He created such a strong
pressure, that even such a great defender
like Sergey failed to cope with it. 0–1: Notes
by David Navara
(Position after 38…Ra1)
Tie break rapid fourth game
Carlsen,Magnus (2853) - Karjakin,
Sergey (2772)
New York New York, 30.11.2016
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3
e5 6.Nb3 Be7 [6...d5 is a decent move, but
White should not have too many problems
after 7.Bg5 The main continuation 7...Be6
8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.exd5 Qxd5 10.Qxd5 Bxd5
11.Nc3 leads to an equal endgame which is
fairly safe for White.; There is a nice trap:
6...a5 7.c4?! (7.Bb5+ Nc6 8.Nc3) 7...Nxe4!
8.fxe4 Qh4+ 9.Kd2 a4 with Black's edge. To
be honest, I failed to find 7...Nxe4 myself
several years ago. But it would be too naive
to expect Magnus to miss it.] 7.c4 a5 Now
White's bishop cannot go to b5 anymore. Both
sides have created considerable weaknesses
in their camps, viz. the squares d4 (White)
or b5 and d5 (Black). 8.Be3 a4 9.Nc1 0–0 64
10.Nc3 Qa5 85 11.Qd2 99 11...Na6 296 [11...
Be6 might have been a bit more flexible. I
would like to play Be7-d8-b6 to exchange the
bad bishop, but White can probably prevent
it. Black should rather play Rc8, attacking
the c4-pawn. 12.b3!? axb3 13.Nxb3 might
well be critical from the theoretical point of
view.] 12.Be2 Nc5 13.0–0 Bd7 14.Rb1 Rfc8
113 15.b4!
It is important to protect the c4-pawn. White
opens the a-file, but Black's rook cannot
penetrate. 15...axb3 16.axb3 Qd8 17.Nd3
White achieved a pleasant position. His
pawn structure is better and Black has no
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adequate counterplay. 17...Ne6 18.Nb4 Bc6
[18...Nf4!? might have been an option, the
idea being 19.Bxf4 Qb6+ (or even 19...exf4
20.Nbd5 Nxd5 21.Nxd5 g5 Still, it is hard to
imagine Black winning such a position. The
text maintains more tension.) 20.Be3 Qxb4]
19.Rfd1 h5!
I like this decision. Black starts a counter-
play on the dark squares around White's
king. [19...Ne8 followed by Bg5 might have
been objectively better, but it lead to a
worse endgame after 20.Nbd5 Bg5 21.Nb6
Qxb6 22.Bxb6 Bxd2 23.Rxd2 .] 20.Bf1 258
20...h4 21.Qf2 [21.Nbd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 Nf4
might objectively be better for White, but
it looks unnecessary to give up the con-
trol of the d5-square.] 21...Nd7 [21...Nh5
allows both 22.Ncd5 (and 22.Nxc6 bxc6
23.c5) ] 22.g3 136 Computer dislikes this
move, but it is not easy to suggest anything
better. Komodo's suggestion 22.Kh1 is too
mysterious for me and [direct continua-
tions like 22.Nxc6 bxc6 23.b4 also have
their drawbacks, as the d4-square could
eventually become weak after something
like 23...c5!? .] 22...Ra3?! 286 [22...Bg5
might have been a better try. White had
better not take the d6-pawn: 23.Bxg5 (23.
Rxd6?! Qf8!) 23...Qxg5 24.Rxd6 (24.Nc2!²)
24...Qe7 25.Rbd1 Nd4 26.R6xd4! exd4
27.Ncd5÷] 23.Bh3 Rca8 24.Nc2 R3a6 25.Nb4
Ra5 Sergey bravely avoids the repetition, but
his position remains worse. 26.Nc2 b6 27.Rd2
136 27...Qc7 383 28.Rbd1 Bf8 71 29.gxh4!?
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A somewhat surprising decision. White
opens the kingside, as Black cannot exploit
the weakness of the f4-square. 29...Nf4
30.Bxf4 [Computer suggests 30.Bxd7
Qxd7 31.Kh1 and takes on f4 later, but
White's continuation is also fairly strong.]
30...exf4 31.Bxd7! Qxd7 32.Nb4 91 32...
Ra3 80 33.Nxc6 239 33...Qxc6 34.Nb5
Rxb3 [Black could hardly play for the win
after 34...Ra1 .] 35.Nd4 Qxc4 36.Nxb3
Qxb3
White has a material advantage. It is not
easy to convert, as his king is a bit ex-
posed. On the other hand, Black's bishop
is passive and his king is not safe, either.
37.Qe2 Be7 38.Kg2 Qe6 39.h5 Ra3 40.Rd3
Ra2 41.R3d2 Ra3 42.Rd3 Ra7 43.Rd5 Rc7
44.Qd2 Qf6 [44...Qh6 45.Rf5 Rc5 46.Qxf4
Qxf4 47.Rxf4 Rg5+ 48.Rg4 Rxh5 might
have been a bit more tenacious, but it
would have been equivalent to a resig-
nation in the match.] 45.Rf5 Qh4 46.Rc1
Ra7 47.Qxf4 61 47...Ra2+ 48.Kh1 Qf2
49.Rc8+ Kh7
It looks as if Black were suddenly winning,
but Magnus had foreseen everything and
finished the match in style. 50.Qh6+!! and
Black resigned before an inevitable mate.
It was a fascinating conclusion of a very
tense match. Sergey Karjakin deserves a
credit for his strong play. He and his team
prepared for the match excellently and
could have won it.
He showed that it is possible to play
against Magnus on equal terms and the
Norwegian's throne isn't unshakable. But
I also believe that Magnus deserves the
title. He has been the world's number 1
for many years and he is the strongest
player in the world. He did not lose in the
classical part of the match and eventually
prevailed in rapid chess. 1–0 :Notes by
David Navara
1st Koshal All India FIDE Rating (Below 1600) Tournament, Sambalpur,Odisha
Ashok Kumar Jaju is Champion
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
T
he 1st Koshal All India FIDE Rating (Be-
low 1600) Chess Tournament – 2016
was organized by All Odisha Chess
Association in association with Koshal Chess
Academy & Master Chess Foundation under
the guidance of All India Chess Federation
concluded on 21st October 2016. The ven-
ue was Panthanivas, Sambalpur in Odisha.
Overall the tournament was incredibly hard
fought, with battles, surprising blunders and
basically everything that fuels a fantastic all
India event in western Odisha for the first
time. Ashok Kumar Jaju of Balasore, Odisha
(6th seeded player) was a perfect winner
defeating his state opponent in the last round
to clinch the title.
The total prize fund for above captioned
event was ` 1,51,000/- (Rupees One lac
fifty one thousand only) The event attracted
190 participants from 15 States (Andhra
Pradesh-15, Chhatisgarh–10,Delhi-1,Guja-
rat-1,Karnataka-1,Maharashtra-1,Madhya
Pradesh-1,Odisha-107, Pondicherry-2, Ra-
jasthan1,Telengana-2,Tamil Nadu-11, Uttar
Pradesh-3, West Bengal-28) with the average
ELO 1182, No title players, 115 Rated & 22
Women have participated in the tournament.
Sanjib Mali, 1583 of West Bengal was the top
seed. The lower attendance was because of
examinations in many schools in Odisha.
Opening Ceremony was held at 11:30 A.M. on
18th October 2016 & Chief Guest was Sj. Ju-
dhisthir Nayak, Additional District Magistrate,
Sambalpur. Mr. G.C. Mohapatra, Treasurer,
All Odisha Chess Association, Mr. Bhabesh
Mohanty, Executive Member, All Odisha Chess
Association & Chairman Master Chess Foun-
dation were also present.
Ashok Kumar Jaju, Odisha (6th seed)
emerged champion by defeating Bishal Pat-
tnaik, Odisha in the 9th Round (FINAL) and
finished with 8 points took away the top prize
of ` 21,000/- (twenty one thousand). Soham
Dey, WB beat Anandha Kumar MS, TN in 2nd
board placed 1st runner-up with 15,000/-
and Rajat Yadav of MP beat, Tapas Acharya
of WB became 2nd runner-up position with
` 10,000/- ten thousand in the tournament.
Out of 75 unrated players 27 players will get
their Rating in the month of November. Eight
players Rowdrick, Saha Talukdar, 1144, WB
; Shoam Dey, 1455, WB; Anubhav Pradhan,
1149, Odisha; Saswat Mallick, 1382, ODI;
Rajat Yadav, 1384, MP; Prateeti Gorai, 1056,
WB; SK Ezaz Ahamed, 1229, ODI; Tanmay
Tripathy, 1021, 51 increased (more than 50
ELO) 142, 91, 84, 78, 63, 57, 52 & 51 in their
ratings respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief guest
was Sj. Bimalendu Roy, Commissioner, Sam-
balpur Municipal Corporation. Other digni-
taries who graced the occasion on the last
day were Sri Manoj Kumar Ram, Director,
I-tech Education, Sj. Deben Kishore Pati,
President, Koshal Chess Academy, Sj. Jagdish
Dubey, President, Sambalpur District Chess
Association, Mr G.C. Mohapatra, Treasurer,
All Odisha Chess Association, Sri Bhabesh
Mohanty, EC Member, All Odisha Chess Asso-
ciation & Chairman Master Chess Foundation,
Sj Manoj Kumar Dash, Secretary, Sambalpur
District Chess Association & Sj Bidhu Bhusan
Mishra, Secretary, Koshal Chess Academy.
The Press and Media covered the event very
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well. Without any dispute the tournament
ended successfully.
The Chief Arbiter for the Event was Inter-
national Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably
assisted by NA G.C. Mohapatra, NA Bhabesh
Mohanty, NA Santosh Kumar Mohapatra & NA
Sanjay Kumar Mohapatra of Odisha.
I take this Opportunity to thank the All Odisha
Chess Association Koshal Chess Academy,
Sambalpur District Chess Association and
Master Chess Foundation for making such
tournament a Grand success, which will go
a long way in creating awareness and popu-
larising Chess in western Odisha & for giving
chance to all top ranking players to show off
their talents.
Final ranking 40 Routray Priyanka 5½
Rk Name Pts
1 Ashok Kumar Jaju 8
2 Soham Dey 8
3 Rajat Yadav 7½
4 Raja V 7½
5 Aanandha Kumar M S 7
6 Mohanty Soyamsree 7
7 Pujari Kambupani 7
8 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 7
9 Pattnaik Bishal 7
10 Sarthak Singh Parihar 7
11 Purohit NK 7
12 Mallick Saswat 6½
13 Mohanty Rajesh 6½
14 Manabi Chouhan 6½
15 Acharya Tapas 6½
16 Tushar Banerjee 6½
17 Debata Sarthak 6½
18 Sahoo Biswahari 6½
19 Arun Mahana 6
20 Dhiman Mitra 6
21 Tripathy Sushil Kumar 6
22 Samal Kshirod 6
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23 Samal Aditya Ranjan 6
24 Santosh Kumar Sahu 6
25 Diya Chowdhury 6
26 Pradhan Anubhav 6
27 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 6
28 Mallick Ranjan 6
29 Pandey Bhaskar 6
30 Mrityunjay Choudhary 6
31 Manoj Kumar Hota 6
32 Sanjib Mali 6
33 Debiprasad Sarkar 6
34 Bhoi Swagat Nandan 6
35 Khan Almas 6
36 Mangaldeep Mitra 6
37 Biswal Rama Chandra 6
38 Samir Kumar Saha 6
39 Sahu Aswini Kumar 5½
41 Md. Shabbir Ali 5½
42 Binu Sebastian 5½
43 Anil Bhoi 5½
44 Saumya Srivastava 5½
45 Soumya Das 5½
46 Das Samarth 5½
47 Gyana Sai Santhosh M 5½
48 Debi Prasad Nayak 5½
49 Kar Debabrat 5½
50 Ezaz Ahamed S K 5½
51 Priyanka Bhatt 5½
52 Rowdrick Saha Talukdar 5½
53 Sagar CH 5½
54 Sen Animesh Chandra 5
55 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 5
56 Prusty Prabhat Kumar 5
57 Sahoo Bhagaban 5
58 Rohit Sahu 5
59 Subhas Das 5
60 Panda Miracle 5
61 Sanjay Kumar Das 5
62 Shiva Jadiya 5
63 Jayadeba Patel 5
 2nd BRDCA Intl. FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Bangalore…..
Lokesh of Tamil Nadu is the Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
2
nd BRDCA International Fide Rating
Chess Tournament was held at Hotel
City Centaur, Near Railway Station,
Bangalore, which is one of the prominent and
well maintained Hotels in the city. The Tour-
nament was organized by Bangalore Rural
District Chess Association. The Tournament
attracted 392 players from all over India, in-
cluding major states like Orissa, Tamil Nadu,
Goa, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashta
etc, with five International Masters, Ramnath
Bhuvanesh , Praveen Kumar C , Hedge Ravi
Gopa, Ramanathan Balasubramaniam, and D
P Singh. Top seed of the event was Saravana
Krishnan P of Tamil Nadu with rating of 2307.
The event started with first round at 11 am
on 10th November. This was a Swiss league
tournament with 9 rounds. Before the final
round two players Lokesh N of Tamil Nadu
and Sammed Jaykumar Shete of Maharastra
were leading with 7.5 points each. In the
final Round they both drew the game and
tied for the first place with 8 points each. On
the 2nd board Phadke Sohan Of Maharastra
defeated top Seed Saravana Kirshnan P of
Tamil Nadu to tie for the 1st Place.
Lokesh N from Tamil Nadu emerged as winner
and took away Rs.76000 and the winner tro-
phy. Lokesh was tied with Sammed Jaykumar
Shete and Phadke Sohan both from Mahar-
astra for top place by scoring 8 points each,
but due to better tie-break score Lokesh
bagged the winner title while the other two
stood second and third.
The organizer took good care of the all the
things related to event very well. The Prize
Distribution Function took place on 14th No-
vember after the final round at 3 pm. Cash
prize worth five lacs five thousand and more
than 60 trophies were awarded to the winners
in various categories. Six surprise Special
Prizes were given for best performing select-
ed players. For the Prize Distribution function
Mr. Anantha D P, President of UKCA, Mr.Arvind
Shastry, Secretary, UKCA, Mr. Hanumantha,
Vice-president, AICF, Mr. Chidananda, Sec-
retary, BRDCA, Mr.Promodraj Moree, Chief
arbiter of the tournament and Mr. Mukunda,
Treasurer, BRDCA, were present and they
distributed the prizes to the winners.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Lokesh N. 8
2 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 8
3 Phadke Sohan 8
4 Navalgund Niranjan 7½
5 CM Gukesh D 7½
6 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7½
7 Sekar B 7½
8 IM Praveen Kumar C 7
9 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R 7
10 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 7
11 S Sabharishankar 7
12 Ashwath R. 7
13 Anilkumar O.T. 7
14 Varma Shabdhik 7
15 Dhanush Ragav 7
16 Dhanasekar K. 7
17 Saravana Krishnan P. 6½
18 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri 6½
19 Uma Maheswaran P 6½
20 IM R.Balasubramaniam 6½
21 Sradhanjali Jena 6½
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22 Manigandan S S 6½
23 Shakthi Vishal J 6½
24 Parthasarathy R 6½
25 Sarbojit Paul 6½
26 Vijay Anand M. 6½
27 Balkishan A. 6½
28 Aswin Kumar B S 6½
29 Sarvesh Kumar A 6½
30 Vivekananda L 6½
31 Mohamed Anees M 6½
32 Rohith Krishna S 6½
33 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6½
34 Gavi Siddayya 6½
35 Manjunath J. 6½
36 Potluri Saye Srreezza 6½
37 Raghavendra V. 6½
38 Ram Vishwanathan 6½
39 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6½
40 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 6½
41 Shiva S 6½
42 Nandhini Saripalli 6½
43 Manu David Suthandram 6
44 Santoshkashyap Hg 6
45 AGM Sa Kannan 6
46 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 6
47 Raju M. 6
48 Sanjay D G 6
49 Subramanian V 6
50 Tulsi M 6
51 Shreyas Pavan 6
52 Sriram B 6
53 Srikrishnan P 6
54 Abhinessh S 6
55 Vathan P H 6
56 AIM Shashank Bhat G S 6
57 Ganesh Babu S 6
58 Suganthan S 6
59 Sibi Visal R 6
60 Shree Krishna Pranama 6
61 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6
62 Prithvi Rajan 6
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63 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 6
64 Madhavan G 6
65 Ilamparthi A R 6
66 Girish G 6
67 Savitha Shri B 6
68 Arjun Rao K 6
69 Sathya Naarayanan S 6
70 AIM Chirag Hirinja G J 5½
71 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 5½
72 Atul Srivatsa 5½
73 Ankit Payal 5½
74 Aravinda B R 5½
75 Naveen S Hegde 5½
76 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 5½
77 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5½
78 Karthikay C 5½
79 Gautham Prasanth 5½
80 Kohli Pranav 5½
81 Harshad S 5½
82 Sarath Chandra K 5½
83 Chaithanya Ganesh 5½
84 Ranadip Sarkar 5½
85 Manoj B Kulkarni 5½
86 Keshav Kothari 5½
87 Shirodkar Aayush 5½
88 Pushpalata Mangal 5½
89 Avinash Ramesh 5½
90 Abhiram Pramod K 5½
91 Narendran Gouthaman 5½
92 Chirag Mudraje 5½
93 Roshan S 5½
94 Praveen Kumar G 5½
95 Namboothiri K N 5½
96 Rajeev V M 5½
97 Krithigga K 5½
98 Sidharth P G 5½
99 Sreekar J S S 5½
100 Prabhakaran K 5½
101 Gugan G 5½
102 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5½
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Sanjeev Kumar is Champion
by IA Asit Baran Choudhury,Chief Arbiter
2
nd Gayatri Devi Memorial International
Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2016
was held at Farm Villa, Utsab Parish-
ar, NH-28, Muzaffarpur, Bihar organized by
Muzaffarpur District Chess Association from
9th to 14th November 2016. Over all, this
was the highest prize money International
Tournament held in Bihar with a total Prize
fund of Rs. 3,50,000/- with number of prizes
totaling to 80. It was a great effort to spread
and promote chess in Bihar.
Total number of participants,however, was
very less- only 74 including 53 rated play-
ers. A total of 9 round games was played.
Mr. A.K. Singh, Secretary, ABCA & Nilu
Kumari, President, GDMT inaugurated the
tournament by making the first move on
the chess board. At the end of final round
games local player Sanjeev Kumar was
crowned the Champion and bagged Rs.
60000/-. Bipul Subhashi and Sudhir Kua-
mr Sinha placed 2nd and 3rd and bagged
Rs. 40000/- & Rs. 25000/- respectively.
In the 8th round Sanjay Verma of Rly lost
to Sanjeev Kumar after a tough fight.
In the prize distribution ceremony Nilu
Kumari President, GDMT, Versha singh,
Mayor, & IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra were
present and gave away the prizes.
The Organizers provided tea, break fast,
lunch & dinner to the players and guard-
ians at minimum cost. All volunteers were
very supportive throughout the tournament.
The team of arbiters led by Chie Arbiter IA
Asit Baran Chaudhury ensured smooth con-
duct of the tournament.
Final standing:
Rank Name Pts
1 Sanjeev Kumar 7½
2 Vipul Subhashi 7
3 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7
4 Rahul Kumar 6½
5 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6½
6 Singh Neha 6½
7 Menhajul Hoda 6
8 Verma Sanjay 6
9 Chakrabarti Tamal 6
10 Ram Charan 6
11 Biswajit Chatterjee 6
12 Shiv Priya Bhardwaj 6
13 Raj Prakhar 6
14 Jitendra Kumar J 6
15 Shrivastav Hritik 6
16 Dilip Das 5½
17 Sharma Jay Bardhan 5½
18 Manish Kumar 5½
19 S Devendra Kumar 5
20 Ayush Jha 5
21 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 5
22 Manoj Choudhary 5
23 S Subhash Chandra 5
24 Saurabh Kumar 4½
25 Ayush Ranjan 4½
26 Mukesh Kumar 4½
27 Mohit Kumar Soni 4½
28 Anirudh Raj 4½
29 Mahto Braj Bihari 4
30 Pawan Singh 4
31 Pratyush Kumar 4
32 Keshavendra Mishra 4
33 Paul Ranjan Kumar 4
34 Rashmi Priya 4
35 Rajnish Kumar 4
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 GCAVC 2nd FIDE Rating Tournament for Visually Challenged 2016
Ashwin Makwana wins title
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter
G Final ranking
ujarat Chess Association organised 2nd fide
rating chess tournament for visually
challenged was held at the prayer hall
of Blind People’s Association, Ahmadabad
Gujarat, under the aegis of All India Chess
Federation for the Blind. The tournament
was inaugurated by Sri Bhaskar Mehta,
President of National Association for the
blind India. Bhushan Punani,Executive
Secretary BPA,B.J.Solanki,Trustee, Swam-
inaraya n Gadi Sanstan, Maninagar graced
the occasion on November 10,2016.
The total Number of participants was
90 including 10 female players, among
them 35 are FIDE rated players, Totally
9 states were represented by players,
the nine rounds tournament was con-
ducted in Swiss league system. Ashwin
Makwana K of Gujarat was top seed of
the tournament. Organiser provided food
and accommodation for all the players
and escorts.
The top seeded Ashvin Makwana out of 9
rounds scored 7.5points with six wins and
3 draws without much difficulty, fourth
seeded Yudhajeet DE of WB also scored
7.5 he drew with Ashvin, On better tie
break Ashvin was declared as winner of
GCAVC 2nd FIDE Rating Chess tourna-
ment. Yudhajeet De finished as runner-up.
The total cash prize was Rs 50,000 with
a total of 29 prizes which was distributed
by Chief Guest Sri N Subramaniyan AGM
Vijaya Bank, Futarmal Pourwal secretary
BPA, J T Panchal Vice president Lions
club Vastrapur,Ahamadbad. Sri Dhanaji
Kakade worked as Asst arbiter.
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Rank Name Pts
1 Makwana Ashvin K 7½
2 Yudhajeet D E 7½
3 Swapanil Shah 7
4 Aryan B Joshi 7
5 Chirantan C Mesariya 7
6 Venkat Reddy S 6½
7 Samant Milind 6½
8 Rajpurohit Dinesh 6½
9 Dipak Kumar Bhoi (blind) 6½
10 Manoj Kumar Reddy S 6½
11 Deeptyajeet De 6
12 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 6
13 Patel Darshan Blind 6
14 Sujit J Chudasama (blind) 6
15 Satya Praksah Shrivastava 6
16 Ashok M Shrimali 6
17 Viral Trivedi 6
18 Vikas Shitole 6
19 Jagadish Chhasatia 5½
20 Vankar Jitendra 5½
21 Zala Dinesh 5½
22 Mohan Narayan Pathode 5½
23 Kumar Raja C H 5½
24 Navnath S Bhogade 5½
25 Mercel Tomkinson 5½
26 Tijan Punaram Gawar 5½
27 Shivkumar Bankhede (blind) 5½
28 Madhukesh Ram 5½
29 Aniruddha Khunte 5
30 Barot Ashok 5
31 Ronak J Gohel 5
32 Kalpesh K Jogi 5
33 Vegad Manu Jivabhai 5
34 Patel Lav 5
35 Suresh Kaneriya 5 76 Chudasama Dharmishtha 3
36 Pankaj Bendre 5 77 Navalsingh Udaysingh Solanki 3
37 Solanki Pragnesh 5 78 Ajay Salve 3
38 Azhagukrishnan 5 79 Pandor Bharat 3
39 Chavda Vipul P 5 80 Dilip Dharia 2½
40 Rathi Himanshi 5 81 Falguni Takor 2½
41 Bhangi Jagadish R 4½ 82 Pradip K Patel 2½
42 Sathish M 4½ 83 Harshal P Parate 2½
43 Rathod Pravin 4½ 84 Sabreswar Vijay Kalmani 2½
44 Megha Chakraborty 4½ 85 Zakir Y Ghanchi 2½
45 Mesariya Shivani 4½ 86 Mohammed Shafi Shaikh 2½
46 Begda Vinod Mahendrabhai 4½ 87 Mansuri Saleha 2
47 Rajanikant U Tripathy (blind) 4½ 88 Vijay Chouhan 2
48 Dharmaraj R 4½ 89 Mukesh Jeevan Rupvate 1
49 Ganesh Sivalingam 4½ 90 Satyabhama Chavan 0
50 Bipin C Lunagariya 4½
51 Rahul Navghane 4
Puzzle of the month
52 Dhirubhai D Rojasara 4 by C.G.S.Narayanan
53 Nirav H Pandya 4
54 Gyaniram A Gokhale 4 The puzzle below requires helplay from
55 Satish Wahule 4 black. You have to find the shortest game
56 Doshi Kapil 4 to reach a mating position after 6.gxf8N.
57 Chirag Dabhi 4
58 Harish Sankar Kharat 4 Rösler, Peter
59 Dabhi Vikram S 4 Problemkiste, 08/1994
60 Kaushik H Akabari 4
61 Somnath Mistri 4
62 Vijay Arumugham 4
63 Rajamani R 4
64 Sourabh Usrete 4
65 Manoranjan Reddy V 3½
66 Malsingh Solanki 3½
67 Dwipal M Prajapati 3½
68 Kamlesh H Choudari 3½
69 Mehta Piyush 3
70 Mansuri Irshad 3
71 Nagin Vasava 3
72 Chavda Ashok Nanjibhai 3
73 Haresh R Chavda 3
74 Khorasiya Khushali 3 Find a game ending with gxf8N mate
75 Anil Kumar Malik 3

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 Payyanur FIDE Rated below 1600 Tournament, Payyanur
Shanmukha Teja wins title
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

`K
annur District Chess association 5 Binu Sebastian 7½
has added one more FIDE rated 6 Roshan Hari 7½
chess tournament in its activities, 7 Kukku Ramesh 7½
by organizing with Chess Players Parents 8 Wanjari Rajendra 7½
Academy Payyanur. The tournament offered 9 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 7
a prize fund of Rs,2,50,000/-. A total of 374 10 Paulson Frenchy 7
players participated in the event, out of them 11 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 7
253 players are Fide rated. Sharath Kumar
12 Porob Vraj 7
T P of Kannur District, Kerala was the top
13 Muhammed Musthafa 7
seeded. Players from Andhra Pradesh, Goa,
14 Aanandha Kumar M S 7
Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharastra,
Telungana, Tamilnadu, Utter Pradesh and 15 Surya Prakash J 7
Union territories Pondicherry & Diu Daman 16 Sreedeep C V 7
are participated. 17 Sakthi Subash A S 7
18 Kavi Samrat P 7
The tournament was inaugurated by Shri. 19 Denny V Davis 7
P. Karunakaran MP, Kannur District, in the 20 Pankaj Bhat 7
presence of Shri. AM Kunhimoideen the Pres- 21 Jha Kishor 6½
ident Chess Association Kerala and Shri. T I 22 Shashank Bhat G S 6½
Madhusoodhanan Secretary, Sports & cultural 23 Arputha Jasmine B A 6½
Development Association . 24 Gaurav Sharma 6½
25 Sudheer, M K 6½
Mr. Sasi Vattakovval, the Chairman, Payya-
26 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6½
nur Municipality distributed the prizes to the
27 Anurag V 6½
winners. Adv.PP sreekandan welcomed the
28 Sai Kiran K V 6½
gathering, Shri.Valsaraj, Treasurer, Players
Parents Chess Academy,Payyanur proposed 29 Mohamed Yousuff A 6½
the vote of thanks. 30 Sudheesh K G 6½
31 Soman C R 6½
Shanmukha Teja P of Telangana and Suhaib 32 Balakrishnan K P 6½
Ahmad of Uttar Pradesh scored 8 points out 33 Eswaran P 6½
of possible 9, but better tie break helped 34 Rajeev Kumar K 6½
Shanmukha Teja win the title. 35 Ashitha C C 6½
Final ranking 36 Manikanda Prabhu B V 6½
Rank Name Pts 37 Vishwanath Kannam 6½
1 Shanmukha Teja P 8 38 Unni Krishnan Pg 6½
2 Suhaib Ahmad 8 39 Swaha V S 6
3 Vikumar P K 7½ 40 Raghul Saro S 6
4 Alex C Joy 7½

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41 Vangala Prashanth 6 82 Gopichand K 5½
42 Raja V 6 83 Srikrishnan P 5½
43 A Veda Watson Solomon 6 84 Adithya Krishna H R 5½
44 Arun R 6 85 Sandeep T 5½
45 Indulekha K S 6 86 Aslam c 5½
46 Abdulla Ismail Kizhakkayil 6 87 Joseph S A 5½
47 Shibin K Benny 6 88 Dinesh Kumar M Velayutham 5½
48 Dharani Srinivas K B 6 89 Anandaraj L 5½
49 Kunhikrishna P. 6 90 Vijayan K C 5½
50 Sameer C 6 91 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5½
51 Mammen K 6 92 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5½
52 Dhamodharan R 6 93 Jayesh C 5½
53 Shashank S L 6 94 Ramakrishnan K K 5½
54 Habibur Rahman 6 95 Tanveer Monga 5½
55 Robinson M G 6 96 Sharan Krishnan 5½
56 Bipin Raj S 6 97 Ismail P 5½
57 Chirag Mudraje 6 98 Sreenidhi C V 5½
58 Priyanka Bhatt 6 99 Akash Thomas 5½
59 Amal Roozi 6 100 Aswini Balakrishnan 5½
60 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6 101 Krishna Murthy 5½
61 Sarvadh Sathiaram 6 102 Manoj Kumar J 5½
62 Anfas Muhammed 6 103 Darsan T I 5½
63 Ryan Priyank S 6 104 Shijo J Joy 5½
64 Sandeep R Bhide 6 105 Jojo K L 5½
65 Femil Chelladurai 6 106 Balakrishnan.K 5½
66 Vinodkumar K V 6 107 Devika P 5
67 Brahmaha V S 6 108 Sreyas Payyappat 5
68 Rajendra Prasad M 6 109 Chaubey Bharat 5
69 Renjith C P 6 110 Biju Kumar 5
70 Vallabhai S 6 111 Adhidev K P 5
71 Ramesh R 6 112 Arjun Rao K 5
72 Saffal Bhat S 6 113 Dhanush Ram M 5
73 Shriom Revankar 6 114 Sampati Rao Savara 5
74 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6 115 Nithyan S 5
75 Aravind Suresh 5½ 116 Lanka Sri K Durgapras 5
76 Evan Sanjoe 5½ 117 Viswajith P 5
77 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 5½ 118 Colaco Reuben 5
78 Shiva Chethan Halamane 5½ 119 Ratheesh P.K. 5
79 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 5½ 120 Somu 5
80 Vineesh P S 5½ 121 Swetha Sree Lanka 5
81 Sidharth P G 5½ 122 Nagasri Saikanth 5

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Selected games from National
Women Premier, Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Vaishali,R (2300) Bala,Kannamma P
(2073) [B43]
Note that every time white moved her g-pawn
in this game, it was a mistake! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Qf3
Nc6 7.Be3 Nf6 8.0–0–0 [8.h3 b5 9.Ndxb5
axb5 10.Nxb5 Qd8 11.e5 Nxe5 12.Qxa8
Be7 was played between unknown players
in a 1995 London game and won by white
in 22 moves.] 8...Bb4 9.Nxc6
9...Bxc3?! [Black seeks to fracture white's
castled position and create a favourable
attacking situation for herself. This could
boomerang. Better was: 9...bxc6 10.Bd4
Bd6 11.Bxf6 Bf4+ 12.Kb1 gxf6=] 10.Nd4!
Bb4 [Or 10...Ba5 11.Bg5 Qe5 12.Bxf6
Qxf6 13.Qxf6 gxf6 14.c3] 11.Bf4 Qa5 The
queen dodges the attack and sets up her
own threat of ....e6-e5 forking two piec-
es. 12.a3 [Rather than move the a-pawn
to defend it, best was to move the king:
12.Kb1 ] 12...Be7 13.Be2?! [Better and
more aggressive was: 13.Bd3 ] 13...d6
14.g4?! [This hands over the initiative
to black. As black was threatening to
play....e5 forking knight and bishop, it
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was best to stop that with the complicat-
ed: 14.e5! dxe5 15.Nc6! Qc5 (15...bxc6?
16.Qxc6++-) 16.Nxe5 0–0 17.Bc4 Rd8
18.Rxd8+ Bxd8 19.Rd1 Bc7 20.Kb1] 14...
e5 15.Bd2 Probably white had depended
on this move to get out of black's double
attack, but the black queen moves into a
more aggressive square, threatening d4
as well as e4. 15...Qa4
16.g5? [This leads to violent tactics and a
clear advantage to black. The lesser evil
was: 16.Nf5 Bxf5 17.exf5 Rc8 18.c3 (18.
c4 d5!) 18...Ne4 19.Be1 0–0] 16...Bg4
17.Qg3 Bxe2–+ 18.gxf6? [Again this
was a poor choice and this time the
consequences for white are very grave.
Better, though still on the back foot,
was: 18.Nxe2 Nxe4 19.Qg2 d5 20.Nc3
Nxc3 21.Bxc3 d4 22.Qxb7 Bxg5+ 23.Bd2
Bxd2+ 24.Rxd2 0–0 25.Qd5 Rfe8µ] 18...
exd4! 19.Qxg7 White has been basing her
hopes on this counter-attack, but black's
inspired and brilliant offensive carries
the day. 19...Rc8! Diagram # 20.Kb1 [If
20.Qxh8+ Bf8 21.Kb1 (21.c3 Bd3) 21...
Qxc2+ 22.Ka1 Bxd1 23.Bh6 Kd7! 24.Qxh7
Bxh6 25.Qxf7+ Kc6 26.Qd5+ Kc7 27.e5
Kb8 28.Qxd6+ Ka8 29.Qxd4 Qc1+ 30.Ka2
B b 3 + 3 1 . K x b 3 Q x h 1 – + ] 2 0 . . . Q xc 2 +
21.Ka1 Bf8!! While in the middle of a
raging attack

(position after 19…Rc8)
against the white king, black pauses to
make an important defensive move!
22.Qxh8 Bxd1 23.Bf4 Qb3 (Threat 24....
Rc2 for 25 Qxb2# and guarding f7 from
afar in some variations when white could
threaten Qxf7+) 24.Bh6 Kd7! 25.e5 Rc2
26.e6+ Kc7! 0–1
Vijayalakshmi,Subbaraman (2390)
Mohota,Nisha (2262) [D37]
This game is distinguished by a rook and
opposite colour bishop ending where black
has a passed pawn on d2 for long and then
white has a passed pawn on e6 threatening
to queen. Opposite colour bishops, espe-
cially when both sides have a rook each,
are difficult for both, the superior side and
the defending side. Finally white's determi-
nation and patience pay off. 1.d4 d5 2.c4
e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 b6
7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Nxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 c5 10.dxc5
bxc5 11.0–0 Be6 [11...Nc6 the natural de-
veloping move was the best here though
white would have some chances against
black's hanging pawns.] 12.Qc2 h6 13.Rfd1
Nc6 14.Qe2= Qb6 15.Rac1 Rfd8 16.Bb1 Di-
agram # 16...Bf8 [Black is concerened with
white's threat of Qc2. She could have coun-
tered it naturally with: 16...Rac8 17.Qc2 f5
18.b3! (18.a3 Bf6=) 18...c4= (threat 19....
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Ba3 winning the exchange)
(position after 16.Bb1)
19.bxc4 dxc4 20.Rxd8+ Rxd8 21.Qe2=]
17.Ne5 Nxe5 18.Bxe5 g6 19.f4 f5 20.g4
Bg7 21.gxf5! With this, the game enters
a violent phase. 21...Bxf5 22.Bxf5 Bxe5
[This is forced for if 22...gxf5 23.Qg2!
(a double attack threatening mate on g7
and the pawn on d5.) 23...Qb7 (23...Rd7
24.Rxd5+-) 24.Rxc5+-] 23.Qg4?
[Stronger was: 23.Bh3! Bg7 (23...Qxb2??
24.Rc2+-; 23...Bxb2 24.Rb1 Rab8 25.Rd2+-
) 24.Bg2 Kh7 25.b3 Rd6 26.Bxd5 Rad8
27.Bc4±] 23...h5? [After this, black's game
just goes to pieces. Here, she missed her
chance to equalise the game with: 23...Bxb2!
24.Be6+ (24.Rb1 Kf7!) 24...Kh8! 25.Rc2
(25.Qxg6?? Rg8 26.Bxg8 Rxg8–+) 25...
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Rd6 26.Bxd5 Re8 27.e4 Bd4+ 28.Kh1 The
game is lively but equal.] 24.Qxg6+ Qxg6+
25.Bxg6 Bxb2+- 26.Rxc5 d4 27.e4 Rac8 [If
27...d3 28.Kg2 h4 29.Rc7+- Black is on the
defensive.] 28.Rg5 [Another winning plan
for white runs: 28.Rxc8 Rxc8 29.e5 Kg7
30.Bxh5 Bc1 31.f5 Bf4 32.e6 Kf6 33.Bg6
Be3+ (33...Rc2? 34.e7 Bxh2+ 35.Kf1 Kxe7
36.f6+! Kxf6 37.Bxc2+-) 34.Kg2 Rc2+
35.Kf3 Rxh2 36.Rb1 Rf2+ 37.Ke4 Rxa2
38.Rb7 Bc1 (Black hopes to stop white's
e-pawn from advancing with the threat
of skewering it by ....Re2.) 39.Rf7+ Kg5 (position after 42.a3)
40.e7 Ba3 41.Kd3! (41.e8Q? Re2+ 42.Kxd4 43.Rxd2 Bxa3 44.Rf2+ Kg5 45.Ra2 Bc5 [Af-
Rxe8 and white's winning advantage has ter 45...Re3 46.Rc2 a5 47.Rc7 Bb4 48.Kf2
disappeared!) ] 28...Rc1 29.Bxh5+! Kh7 Re5 white has to create a winning plan as
30.e5 d3 31.Kg2 d2 32.e6 [Better was: she has the edge with her extra, advanced
32.Be2 Rd4 33.Kf3 Ba3 34.Rg3 Bc5 35.Kg4 pawn on e6.] 46.Ra5 Kf6 47.Kf3 Re3+ 48.Kf4
White's plan should be to use her king to Rc3 49.Ke4 Re3+ 50.Kd5 Bb6 51.Ra1 Rd3+
shepherd her passed pawns to queen. If 52.Kc4 Rd4+ 53.Kb5 Rd2 54.Rf1+ Rf2
now 35...Kg6 36.h4 Kh7 37.Kf5 Bf8 38.Re3 55.Rd1 Rc2 56.Rf1+ Rf2 57.Re1 Bd8 58.Ka6
Rc7 39.Kg4 Rf7 40.Rf1 and the battle go Ra2+ 59.Kb7 a5 60.Kc8 With her king closer
on.] 32...Bf6 33.Rg3 Rd6 34.Re3 Be7 35.f5 to her e-pawn, winning possibilities multiply.
Kg7 36.Be2 [After 36.Kf2 Kh6 37.Bf3 Kg5! 60...Rd2 61.Rf1+ Kg6 62.Rf8! Now the white
38.Ke2 Rxd1 39.Kxd1 Kf4! 40.Ra3 Kxf5 rook is able to work up a lot of aggression
41.Rxa7 Kxe6 White will find it very very and win the game. 62...Bf6 63.Rg8+ Kh7
difficult to win this rook and opposite col- 64.Rf8 Kg6 65.Kc7
our bishop ending.] 36...Kf6 37.Rf3 Rd5
38.h3 Rxd1? [This throws away the draw.
She should continue: 38...Bb4! 39.Rf2 Rxf5
40.Rxf5+ Kxf5 41.Rxd2 Bxd2 (41...Kxe6=)
42.e7 Rc8 43.Bg4+ Kf6! 44.Bxc8 Kxe7=]
39.Bxd1 Rxf5 40.Rd3! Re5 41.Bg4 Bb4
42.a3 Diagram # 42...Bc5? [This was a big
psychological mistake which immediately
makes the opponent comfortable and less
tense as it leads to the exchange of black's
far advanced and troublesome pawn on d2
for white's harmless and docile pawn on a3.
Better was: 42...Ba5 forcing at least one of
the two white forces to constantly monitor 65...Rd5 [If 65...a4 66.Bh5+! Kg5 67.h4+!
the d1 square.] Kxh5 68.Rxf6 a3 69.e7 Re2 70.Kd7 a2 71.Rf1
Rd2+ 72.Ke6 Re2+ 73.Kf7+-] 66.Rg8+

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Kh7 67.Ra8 Kg7 68.Kc6 Re5 69.Kd6! Black
will have to abandon her a-pawn now for if
69....Rb5 70 e7 wins. 69...Kh6 70.Rf8 Kg6
71.Bd1! (threat 72 Bc2+ winning) 71...Re3
[If 71...Rc5!? 72.e7+- (72.Kxc5?? Be7+=)
] 72.Bc2+ Kg5 [72...Kg7 73.Rf7+ and
74 Rxf6 wins.] 73.h4+! Kxh4 74.Rxf6 a4
75.Rf4+ Kg5 76.Rxa4 Re2 77.e7! Rd2+
78.Ke6! 1–0
Mohota,Nisha (2262)
Vaishali,R (2300) [A29]
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e5 3.Bg2 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.Nc3 Nb6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Rb1
a5 9 .d 3 0 –0 10. Be3 Be6 11.d4 Nd5
12.Nxd5 Bxd5 13.Nxe5 Bxg2 14.Kxg2
Qd5+ 15.Nf3 Qxa2 16.Bf4 Rfd8 17.e4
[White cannot gain a pawn by: 17.Bxc7
Rd7 18.Bf4 Qd5 19.Qd3 (19.e3? g5µ)
19...Nxd4 20.Rfd1 Rad8 21.Qxd4 Qxd4
22.Rxd4 Rxd4 23.Nxd4 Rxd4=] 17...Bd6
18.Be3 [If 18.e5?! Bc5 19.Be3 Qe6 20.Rc1
Bb6³] 18...f5 19.b3 fxe4 20.Ng5 Rf8 21.d5
Nb4 [The black queen is trapped after:
21...Ne5 22.Ra1 Qb2 23.Bd4] 22.Qh5 h6
23.Ne6 Rf7 Diagram #
24.Bxh6! A grievous blow after which it is
difficult for black to recover. 24...Nd3 [Ac-
cepting the bishop offer would lose: 24...
gxh6 25.Qg6+ Kh8 26.Qxf7 Rg8 27.Qf6+ Kh7
28.Qf5+ Kh8 29.Qxe4+-] 25.Be3 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
25...Rf3? [Already on the losing trail, black
tries a counter-attack which simply fails
and plunges her into disaster faster. But
other possibilities are also not encour-
aging. For example, if 25...Ne5 26.Ng5
g6 27.Qh6 Rg7 28.Bd4 Re8 (28...Qc2
29.Rbe1 (threat 30 Rxe4 and 31 Rh4
with mate on h8) 29...Qxb3 30.Rxe4
Qxd5 31.f3 c5 32.Rh4+-) 29.Rbe1 Qxb3
30.Rxe4 Qxd5 31.f3 Bf8 32.Rh4 Nf7
33.Nxf7 Re2+ 34.Kg1 Kxf7 35.Rf4+ Kg8
36.Rxf8+!+-] 26.Ng5! Rxe3 [Black has
been banking on this move. If 26...Qe2
27.Qh7+ Kf8 28.Ne6+ Ke7 29.Nd4+-]
27.Qh7+ Kf8 28.Qh8+ Ke7 29.Qxg7+ Kd8
30.Qg8+ Bf8 [If 30...Kd7 31.Qe6+ Kd8
32.Nf7#] 31.Qxf8+ Kd7 32.Qxa8 1–0
Padmini,Rout (2374) Vijayalaksh-
mi,Subbaraman (2390)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0–0 8.Re1 Bg4
9.h3 Bh5 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nf1 Nd7 12.Bc2
Nf8 13.Ng3 Bg6 14.d4 exd4 15.cxd4 d5
16.e5 Ne6 17.Be3 Na5 18.b3 b6 [If 18...Bxc2
19.Qxc2 Rc8 20.Nf5 Ba3=] 19.Nf5 Bf8 20.Bd2
Nc6 21.Bc3 Na7 Black intends playing c7-c5
and white counters that in the next move by
attacking the d5 pawn. 22.Ne3 Nb5 23.Bxg6
hxg6 24.Bb2 c5 [To be considered was: 24...
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Bb4 25.Rf1 c5 26.dxc5 d4 27.Nc4 bxc5 with
only a faint advantage for white as the
black bishop is actively placed on b4 in-
stead of on f8 as in the game.] 25.dxc5
d4 26.Nc4 bxc5 27.g3 This is a useful
move as the black knight might move to
f4 and the queen would like to move to
d3. 27...Nbc7 28.Nfd2 Nd5 29.Kg2 a5
30.a4 Qc7 The game is equal and the
players start manoeuvring their forces
for attack and defence. 31.Ba3 Reb8
[31...Red8 would have given a slight
inititative for black.] 32.h4
40...f5? [Black was probably overly im-
pressed by White's build-up against her king
and makes an unwise decision to get rid of
the h7 pawn, which is actually shielding the
black king. Black can be safe with: 40...g4!
41.Qxg4 Rxb3 42.Ned6 Bxd6 43.Nxd6 Qe7
44.Bc1 Nxc1 45.Rxc1= White's attack has
ended without causing any damage!] 41.exf6
Rxh7 [If 41...Rxb3? 42.Ne5! (threatening
43.Qxe6 Qxe6 44 Nxg6#) 42...Qe8 43.Qg4
R8b6 44.Nxg5!; Even the stubborn 41...Qd5
loses after 42.Ned2! Qxf3+ 43.Kxf3! Re8
44.Ne5! Rxh7 45.Nxg6+ Kg8 46.Rxh7 Kxh7
32...Ra7 [Better was 32...Qb7! which by 47.Rxe6!+-] 42.Ne5 Rbb7 43.Nd6! Bxd6
threatening a discovered check would
have sent the white king scurrying back
to g1 or h2 which would negate her plan
of Rh1 for attack down the h-file.] 33.Qf3
Qd8 [33...Qb7=] 34.Rh1 Rab7 35.Rae1
White reveals her intention of starting a
king-side attack. 35...Nc3 36.Bb2 Na2!?
[We are always adviced to keep the piec-
es in the centre of the board for max-
imum efficiency. Here Black places her
knight on a2, an obscure corner, where
nothing is going to happen. Better was:
36...Nd5 37.Rd1 Rd7] 37.h5 g5 38.h6
g6 [If 38...gxh6 39.Ne4 Bg7 (39...Rxb3 44.Qxb7!! 1–0
40.Nf6+ Kg7 41.Qf5 wins.) 40.Ncd6 Rc7 Karavade,Eesha (2425) Kiran,Manisha
41.Nf5±] 39.h7+ Kh8 40.Ne4 Mohanty (2117)

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5 5.cxd5
Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 cxd4 8.cxd4 Bb4+
9.Bd2 Bxd2+ 10.Qxd2 0–0 11.Rd1 b6 12.Bc4
Nc6 13.0–0 Bb7 14.Qe2N [14.Qf4 Rc8 15.d5
has been often met here, with mostly
white winning.] 14...Qe7 15.Ba6?! Bxa6
16.Qxa6 Rfd8 17.d5?! exd5 18.exd5

(position after 28…h5)

39.Nb7+-] 34.Qe2 Rc4 35.g3 Nd4 [If 35...
Rg4 36.Ne4 Qe7 37.Re1 Qe6 38.Qb2+ f6
39.Qxf6+! Qxf6 40.Nxf6 Kxf6 41.Re8+-]
36.Qd3 Nf5 37.Ne4 Qb2 38.Rd2 Qa1+ 39.Kg2
Rc1 40.Nd6

18...Na5?! [After this 'safe' and insip-

id move, the advantage slides over to
white. As white's d-pawn is insufficiently
supported, black should gain the advan-
tage by attacking it: 18...Nb4! 19.Qc4
Qc5! 20.Qxc5 bxc5 21.d6 Nxa2 22.Rfe1
f6 Black has an extra pawn and white's
d6 pawn is insufficiently backed up.]
19.Rfe1 Qc5 20.Qd3 h6 21.d6 Nc4
22.Rc1 b5 23.d7 Rab8 24.h3 a6 [24...
Rb7?? loses immediately to 25.Re8+]
2 5 . Re 4 Q d 6 2 6 . R d 4 Q f 6 2 7 . Re 1 g 6
28.h4 h5 Diagram # 29.Qe4± White
is in total command of the two central
files in game and h a s many threats.
29...Kg7 30.Red1 Rb6 31.Ng5 Nd6
32.Qc2 Nf5 [If 32...Rxd7 33.Qc5 Nb7
34.Qxb6 Qxb6 35.Rxd7+-] 33.Rd5 Rc6
[Not 33...Nxh4? 34.Ne4 (The black Q
cannot leave the long black diagonal)
34...Rc6 35.Qd2 Qe6 36.Qd4+ f6 37.Nc5
Qg4 38.Qxg4 hxg4
40...Ne7 [Or 40...Nxd6 41.Rxd6 b4 42.Qxa6
Rg1+ 43.Kf3 Qc3+ 44.Qd3+-] 41.Qd4+ Kf8
42.Nb7 Rg1+ The rest is slaughter. 43.Kf3
Rxg3+ 44.fxg3 Qf1+ 45.Rf2 Qh1+ 46.Ke2
Nxd5 47.Nxd8 Ke7 48.Qe5+ 1–0
Fortunately I've got a weak character,
so I never did decide to dedicate myself
to only one of my professions. And I'm
very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess
or music then my life wouldn't have been
two times, but a hundred times less in-
teresting.
- Mark Taimanov

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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p. 47 )
 

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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan

Jakimcik 1972 Kalandadze 1971

1. 2.

Paul Benko 1972 Kasparyan 1972

3. 4.

Jan Rusinek 1972 Bordenjuk 1973

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution on page 47 )

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Masters of the past-71 Mark Taimanov

Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016)

was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among
the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. He was also a world-
class concert pianist. Taimanov became a Grandmaster in 1952,
and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. He was a World
Championship Candidate twice, in 1953 and 1971. In 1971, how-
ever, Taimanov lost his Candidates match by 6–0 to Bobby Fischer.
Taimanov excelled in team play representing the USSR. Several
chess variations are named after him.

Taimanov was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to Jewish parents. His

mother, a piano teacher, introduced him to music. His family moved to Saint Petersburg
when he was six months old. When he was eleven years old, he played a young violinist
in the 1937 Soviet film "Beethoven Concerto".
He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952, and played in the Candidates
Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1950 to 1956, he
was among the world's top 10 players, and was regularly in the top 20 for over 25 years.
He played in 23 USSR Chess Championships (a record equalled by Efim Geller), tying for
first place twice. In 1952 he lost the playoff match to Mikhail Botvinnik, who was World
Champion at the time. In 1956, after finishing equal with Yuri Averbakh and Boris Spass-
ky in the tournament proper, he won a match-tournament ahead of them, for the title.
Taimanov is probably best known for his 6–0 loss to Bobby Fischer in the 1971 World
Championship Candidates match. However, few players have beaten six world champions
(Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Spassky, and Anatoly Karpov)
as Taimanov has. Taimanov considered this match "the culminating point" of his chess
career and later wrote a book about the match, titled How I Became Fischer's Victim.

Taimanov represented the USSR in international team play with enormous success. At
the 1956 Moscow Olympiad, as first reserve he scored (+6, =5, −0), winning team gold
and board bronze medals. Taimanov represented the USSR four times in the European
Team Championship. At Vienna 1957, he played board seven, scored (+2, =3, −0), win-
ning team and board gold medals. At Oberhausen 1961, he played board eight, scored
(+6, =3, −0), and won team and board gold medals. At Hamburg 1965, he played board
seven, scored (+3, =4, −1), and won team and board gold medals. At Kapfenberg 1970,
he played board six, scored (+4, =2, −0), and won team and board gold medals.
Opening variations are named after Taimanov in the Sicilian Defence, Modern Benoni
and Nimzo-Indian Defence. He wrote books on two of his named variations, as well as
an autobiographical best games collection. Taimanov's favorite chess players were Al-
exander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal and Garry Kasparov.

Taimanov was a top concert pianist in the Soviet Union. With his first wife, Lyubov Bruk,
he formed a piano duo, some of whose recordings were included in the Philips and Stein-
way series Great Pianists of the 20th Century. Taimanov died on November 28 2016 in
Saint Petersburg, at the age of 90, after a month and a half of medical treatment.
Courtesy:Wikepedia

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(L-R) Sammed Jaykumar Shete(Runner-up), N.Lokesh ( Winner)and Phadke Sohan(Third) with dignitaries

5th MSV Memorial Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai

Winner P.Saravanakrishnan,Shri V Ravichandran, Org Secretary, Dr Abirami Ramanathan,Chief Guest

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(L-R)Mr. Balkisan Chintal, Mr. Shankar Botla, Mr. Sriniwas Parnandi, Chief Guest of Prize Distribution,
Mr. H P Chole, Winner FM Shrinath Rao S V

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(L-R) N Lokesh(TN)2nd prize; Shaik Khasim,Secretary,GCA; Dronacharya Awardee Koneru Ashok;

V Pranav(TN), 3rd Prize; Grand Master Koneru Humpy, Sri Bangaru Raju Vice Chairman,Managing
Director Sports Authority of AP; Sri Vijay V Murar Sr Regional Manager, Central Bank of India
Vijayawada Region, IM M Chakravarthi Reddy(TS), Winner, Sri Devaram Srihari, Secretary,AP Chess
Assn and Sri K Rajendra, Chairman, Icon Public School.
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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1. Radivojevic,I (2390) - Arsovic,Z (2407)
[B52]
Kragujevac SRB Kragujevac SRB (7.3),
28.09.2016 Position after White's 28th move.
black to play 28...Qe4!! [Also winning is 28...
Rxd1+ 29.Qxd1 Qe4 30.Nc3 (30.h3 Qc4 31.Qb1
(31.Nc1 Qxc1) 31...Ra8 32.Nc1 Qxc1+) 30...
Qxb4 31.Ne2 Qxc5–+] 29.Qb1 [29.Qb3 Qc4
30.Qb1 (30.Rxd8+ Rxd8) 30...Ne2+–+] 29...
Ne2+ 30.Kf1 Qxg4–+ 0–1
2. Markovic,Miros1 (2459) - Bogosavlje-
vic,B (2523) [B22]
TCh-SRB Premier 2016 Kragujevac SRB (8.5),
29.09.2016
Position after 35th move.White to play
36.Bxg6+! [36.Bxg6+ fxg6 (36...Kg8 37.Qh8#)
37.Rd7+ Qxd7 (37...Kg8 38.Qh8#) 38.Qh8#]
1–0
3. Batsiashvili,Nino (2480) - Das,Arghyad-
ip (2400) [A40]
chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG (7.27),
07.10.2016
Position after 17th move. White to play.
18.Rh8+! [18.Rh8+ Kxh8 (18...Kg7 19.Qh6+
Kf6 20.e5#) 19.Qh6+ Kg8 20.Ng5 Re8 (20...
Nxd3+ 21.Kf1) 21.Qh7+ Kf8 22.Qxf7#] 1–0
4. Tiviakov,S (2590) - Kotanjian,T (2473)
[B23]
1st Yerevan Open 2016 Yerevan ARM (9.4),
10.10.2016
Position after23rd move. White to play. 24.Qb5!
Qxb5 [24...Qa8 25.Rxc8++- (25.Qxa4+-) ]
25.Rxc8+ Bf8 26.Bh6 Nd7 27.Rxe7 Qc5 [27...
Qb7 28.Rxf8+ Nxf8 29.Rxb7+-] 28.Rxf8+ [28.
Rxf8+ Nxf8 29.Re8 Wins] 1–0
5. Carlsson,P (2436) - Smid,M (2214) [B01]
Pankrac Cup 2016 Prague CZE (1.4), 20.09.2016
Position after 18th move. White to play. 19.Rg4!!
[19.Qd2+-; or 19.Qd3 Rd6,Re5][Gd4g4,Gg4g7]
wins too.] 19...Qxe2 20.Rxg7+ Kh8 21.Rg8+!
[21.Rg8+ Kxg8 22.Rg1+ Wins] 1–0
6. Matinian,N (2495) - Rozhko,D (2324
[C19]
TCh-RUS Rapid 2016 Sochi RUS (3.5),
Position after 32nd move.White to play.
32.R4xd5! exd5 33.Rxg6+! [Also winning is
33.e6! Rc7 (33...Rc6 34.Rd7) 34.Rd8 Rc8
(34...Re7 35.Rxf8+ Kxf8 36.Qf6+ Kg8 37.Bd6
Re8 38.e7 Wins) 35.Rxf8+ Rxf8 36.Bd6 Rc8
(36...d4 37.Bxf8 Kxf8 38.Qd8#) 37.Qf6 Re8
38.e7 Wins] 33...hxg6 [33...Kh8 34.Rf6 Rg8
(34...Rxf6 35.Qxf6+ Kg8 36.e6 Rc8 (36...Rxc2
37.Qd8#) 37.Be5 Wins) 35.Rf8 Rxf8 36.e6 Rc7
37.Be5+ Wins] 34.Qxg6+ Kh8 35.e6 [35.e6
Qc7 36.Bxc7 Rxc7 37.Qg5+- Re8 38.Qf6+ Kg8
39.Qg6+ Kf8 40.h7 Wins] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1. Jakimcik, I pr, 64, 1972
1.a7 d5 2.Kf2 Bb6+ 3.e3 Bxe3+ 4.KxB Kg1
5 Bg2 KxB 6.a8Q d4+ 7.Kf4 h1Q 8.Qa2+
Kh3 9.Qb3+ Kg2 10.Qc2+ Kf1 11.Qd1+ Kg2
12..Qe2+ Kg1 13.Kg3+
2. Kalandadze,Endgames 1971
1.a7 Bd1+ 2.Ke4 Bc2+ Kd5 Bb3+ 4.Kc6
Bc4+ 5. Kc5 Bb4 6.Kd5 Bb3+ 7.Kd4 Bc3+
8.Ke4 Bc2 9.Ke3 Bd2+ 10.Kf3 Bd1+
11.Kg2 h3+ 12.Kg3 Be1 13.Nf2+
3.Paul Benko,Pr,MagyarSakkelet 1972
1.Nb5 h2 2.Nac3 h1D 3.Nd4 Qc1+ 4.Kb3
Qb2+ 5.Kc4 b5+ 6.Kd3 Qf2 7.Nc2+ Kb2
8.Sd1 + + 1….Kb1 2.Nac3+ Kc2 3.Nd4+ KxN
4. Ne2+ Kc4 5.g4 h2 6.Ng3 Kc3 7.Ka4 Kc4
8.g5 b5+ 9.Ka5+
4..Kasparyan,IIpr.SachoveUmeni 972
1.Rh5 Bc4+ 2.Kb1 Ld3+ 3.Kb2 Bc4 4.Nf5
Bxe6 6.Nd4 Bg4 6.RxN Bg7 7.Rd5 Be6
8.Rd6 Be5 9.RXL LxN+ 10.Kb3 BxN 11.Kc3+
5. Jan Rusinek I pr, Scahch 1972
1. Nc3 Bd7+ 2.Kb8 Re8+ 3.Ka7 Nf5
4.b5+ Kc7 5.Nd5+ Kc8 6.Nb6+ Kc7
7.Bd8+ BxN 8.Nd5+ Kc8 9. Nd5+ NxN
10.Ne7+ Kc7 11.b6#
6. Bordenjuk, Shakmaty CCCP 1972
1.Ld5+ Ke5 2.Kd8 KxB 3.Kd7 Kd4 4.Kc8
Kd5 5.Kb7 Ke6 6.KxB Kd7 7.Kb7 d5 8.Ka7
Kc7 9.d4+ +
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AICF Calendar December 2016
Roto – Lawyer’s Cup Belthangady Dec24 to Dec28
2nd Karur FIDE Rating chess Tmt Karur Dec25 to Dec29
6th JRD Tata All India Open Chess tmt Jamshedpur Dec25 to Dec31
KCA’s 15th FIDE rating below 1500 Kottayam, Kerala Dec26 to Dec28
IIFL Wealth Mumbai Intl.& Mumbai Junior 2016 Bandra East, Mumbai Dec26 to Jan03
Bahadurgarh Chess Foundation FIDE Rated Jhajjar,Haryana Dec26 to Dec30
2nd Master Mind Open FIDE Rated Tmt Pammal, Chennai Dec27 to Dec30
10th KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Coimbatore Dec30 to Jan 01
National Schools 2017 Nagpur Jan-05 to Jan-07
15th Delhi GM International Open 2017 New Delhi Jan-09 to Jan-16
9th Chennai Open GM Chess tmt 2017 Chennai Jan-18 to Jan-25
17th North East Championship 2016 Agartala Jan-25 to Jan-29
AICFB National B Championship FIDE Rating for Visually challenged Kolkata Jan-26 to Jan-30
1st Salem FIDE Rating Salem Jan-26 to Jan-29
3rd BRDCA below 1600 FIDE rated Bangalore Jan-27 to Jan-29
AADI FIDE Rating Mandla 2017 Mandla Jan-27 to Feb-01
1st Kusiara & Longai Valley Open FIDE Rating Assam Jan-31 to Feb-05
Late Tirlochand Dhakal FIDE Rating Sikkim Feb-01 to Feb-06
8th State Level FIDE Rating tournament Itanagar Feb-02 to Feb-02
37th National Team & 15 National Team women Championship Bhopal Feb-02 to Feb-08
Thrissur Chess Academy below 1600 FIDE Rating Thrissur Feb-04 to Feb-06
2nd Karur FIDE Rating Chess Tmt below 1600 Karur Feb-24 to Feb-26

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42nd National Under 15 Open and 33rd Under 15 Girls Championships,Delhi

Winner Mitrabha Guha receiving trophy from Ms.Manjushree Roy,Administrator,IGIStadium.Others

present are A.K.Verma, Secretary,Delhi Chess Association, Bharat Singh, CEO, AICF, Gp.Captain
R..Rajendra,VSM and Mr Fredrik Friedel, Chessbase

Winner Harshta Guddanti receiving trophy from Gp.Captain J..Rajendra,VSM Bharat Singh, CEO, AICF
and Ms.Manjushree Roy,Administrator,IGIStadium are also seen.
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 43rd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2016, Delhi

WGM Padmini Rout receiving Winner’s trophy from the Chief Guest Group Captain J Rajendra, Indian
Air force.

IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman(Runner-up) WGM Padmini Rout(Winner) and IM Eesha Karvade(Third)