AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 8 Issue : 4 Price Rs. 25 October 2014

Divya Deshmukh Nihal Sarin

Under-10 Girls:Gold Under-10 Boys:Gold

Vr.Arvindh Chithambaram
Vaibhav Suri Under-16 Boys: Silver
Under-18 Boys: Silver

Mendonca Leon Luke R.Vaishali

Under-8 Boys: Bronze Under-14 Girls: Bronze

IM Nisha Mohota
Winner
41st National Women Chess Challenger
Championship, Goa

Shahil Dey Yashavishree

Under-7 Open Champion Under-7 Girls Champion
28th National Under-7 (Open & Girls) Chess Championship 2014, Kolkata
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28th National Under-7 Championship 2014,Kolkata
Shahil Dey and Yashavishree emerge Champions
M.S.Gopakumar IA, ChiefArbiter 1
41st National Women Challenger Ch’ship,Goa
Nisha Mohota clinches title
S,Paul Arokia Raj IA,Chief Arbiter 5
15th Late Maheswaranand Saraswati Memorial
All India FIDE Rated Ty,Pune
Thejkumar is Champion
Nitin Shenvi IA, Chief Arbiter 8
KCA’s 7th FIDE Rated (below 2200),Kottayam
Arjun wins at Kottayam
L.R.Bhuvana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 11
1st Prime squares Chess Academy
FIDE Rated (below 2000),Visakhapatnam
Sahoo Dasarathi wins title
IA Pranesh Yadav, Chief Arbiter 13
Fomento 3rd All India FIDE Rating Ty, Goa
Niraj Saripalli of Goa wins 14
SPIC FIDE Rated Ty (below 2200),Thoothukudi
Vignesh wins title
M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 15
Sunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating Ty
(below 2000),Indore
Aishwin Daniel wins title
F.Anil, Organizing Secretary 19
Brilliant trophy Open FIDE Rated,Hyderabad
Lakshman Rao is Champion
Pramodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 21
3rd Shankar Roy Mem.Rapid Rating Ty, Kolkata
Rupankar Nath wins round, Shahil Dey of Assam defeated Honi
Sumit Chatterjee FA, Chief Arbiter 27
Selected games from National Junior, Pune
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 30
Tactics from master games S,Krishnan 40
Test your endgame C.G.S.Narayanan 41
Masters of the past-45 Dev Shah as he was on sole at the end of
Alexander Konstantinopolsky 42
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Indian chess has lost a great patron
of the game in the demise of late
Dr.N.Mahalingam, former President of
TNSCA and AICF. He was a towering
personality and a rare breed of industri-
alist, who played a significant role in the
promotion of the game across the country. He was a great
visionary whose contribution to the society is unmatched,
be it in the field of education, literature, history, arts & culture
or sports. Dr NM along with Manuel Aaron set bench marks
in chess administration which are diligently followed to this
date. For all his wealth and fame, he was an embodiment
of humility. The way in which he treated people with dig-
nity spoke volumes of his personality. It is in the fitness of
things to reminisce here that the five-time World Champion
Vishy Anand became a Grandmaster at the tournament
sponsored by Mahalingam’s Sakthi Finance. His demise
has orphaned the entire chess fraternity and AICF deeply
mourns the death of its illustrious former President.
Moving on to the Indian chess scene, close on the heels
of the memorable Indian success at the Chess Olympiad
2014 our young Indian brigade continued to top the medal
tally for the third year in a row at the World Youth Chess
Championship at Durban with six medals- two gold, two
silver and two bronze
Viswanathan Anand continued his fine form winning the
Bilbao Masters which augurs well prior to his World title
match with Carlsen at Sochi, Russia in November 2014.
Reports on the above events together with photos are
presented in the centre pages.
Shahil Dey of Assam and Yashavishree of Tamilnadu
emerged champions at the National under-7 championship
held at Kolkata. International master Nisha Mohota won the
National Women Challenger title at Goa.
C.G.S.Narayanan
28thNational Under-7 Chess Championship 2014, Kolkata
Shahil Dey and Yashavishree win titles
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
28th National Under-7 (Open & Girls) Chess
Championship-2014 was held at East Met-
ropolitan Club, Jadhavpur Stadium, Kolkata
from 01 Sep 14 to 09 Sep 14.
A total of 138 participants, that include 24 In-
ternational rated players in the open category
and 67 in the girls section from 23 states of
the country were participated in this 11 round
events played under FIDE’s Swiss rules with
a time control of 90 Minutes with 30 second
increment from move 1. Dev Shah of Maha-
rashtra started as the top seed in the open
section while Sinthia Sarkar of West Bengal
got the top billing in the girl’s category.
Shri. Manish Gupta, Honourable Minister
for Power, Government of West Bengal in-
augurated the event in a colourful opening
ceremony on 01 Sep 13 in presence of GM
Dibeyandu Barua, Vice President All India
Chess Federation, Shri. Pradipta Roy and
Smt. Ruma Roy Choudhury, world famous
Takewondo players and IM Atanu Lahiri,
Secretary Bengal Chess Association on 1st
Sep 2014.
The entire championship in both categories
saw lots of ups and downs and provided much
excitement till the end. In the 11th and final
Arora of Rajasthan to emerge as the winner
with 9 ½ points while a shocking defeat in
the final round against Bharath Subrmanyam
of Tamilnadu shattered the hopes of top seed
penultimate round. Shah along with his team
mate Raahil Mullick tied for the runner-up
position with 9 points but better Buccholz
tie break score helped Shah to pip Raahil to
secure runners up position.
In the girls section Prathivya Gupta of Delhi
and Yashavashree of Tamilnadu tied for the
pole position with 9 ½ points but better tie-
break score helped Tamilnadu girl to finish
as first while Gupta satisfied with second
position. Savitha Shri of Tamilnadu finished
as third with 9 points.
In a befitting closing ceremony, Grandmaster
Dibeyandu Barua, Vice President All India
Chess Federation and Grandmaster Deep
Sengupta gave the prizes along with IM Atanu
Lahiri, Secretary Bengal Chess Association.
Final standings Open
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Shahil Dey ASM 9½
2 Dev Shah MAH 9
3 Mullick Raahil MAH 9
4 Garv Rai DEL 8½
5 Bharath Subramaniyam H TN 8½
6 Prraneeth Vuppala TEL 8
7 Ryan Priyank S TN 8
8 Thrish Karthik TN 8
9 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta ODI 8
10 Souhardo Basak WB 8
11 Maheswar S DEL 7½
12 Roshan S TN 7½
13 Nikilesh G K KAR 7½
14 Arora Honi RAJ 7½
15 Mohanty Soyamsree ODI 7½
16 Bhavik Ahuja DEL 7½
17 Chandrani Shlok MAH 7½
18 K Vikraman Adithan B TN 7½
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19 Ishant Kumar JHA 7
20 Jai Adithya S KAR 7
21 Singh Kartik Kumar MAH 7
22 Mackenzie Campbel B TN 7
23 Patnaik Shreyash Subham ODI 7
24 Tanmay Jain PUN 7
25 Khose Sahil MAH 7
26 Namish Sharma DEL 7
27 Pandhye Shriniket MAH 7
28 Ashwin Sairam TN 7
29 Vivek Rajkumar ASM 7
30 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar GOA 7
31 Krishnasanketh Reddi K AP 7
32 Sreyas Payyappat KER 7
33 Sahoo Annirudha ODI 6½
34 Avi Bhardwaj HAR 6½
35 Aditya Ramanathan MAH 6½
36 Arjun Sidharth S PUD 6½
37 Pratik S Borkar GOA 6½
38 Atreya Nandy WB 6½
39 Indrayudh Guha WB 6½
40 Parth Bhatnagar UP 6½
41 Ananmay Sharma GUJ 6½
42 Arnav Muralidhar KAR 6½
43 Sreekar J S S TEL 6½
44 Prerak Darvekar MAH 6½
45 Moghe Parth MAH 6½
46 Abhash Roimya Saikia ASM 6
47 Ayush Bhattacherjee WB 6
48 Kumar Sankalp JHAR 6
49 Neev M Shah MAH 6
50 Arnav Kushwaha CHD 6
51 Kadakia Veer MAH 6
52 Muthu P TN 6
53 M G Goud Malthakal TEL 6
54 Suryansu Das WB 6
55 Kavineash S TN 6
56 Ashvin Sharma ASM 6
57 Shresth Mahapatra WB 6
58 Durgesh Mohanty ODI 6
59 Aayushraj Sharma ASM 6
60 Madhu Daksh GUJ 6
61 Kailash Rajasekaran PUD 6
62 Jena Aditya Akash Titrha ODI 5½
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63 Aarsh Roongta RAJ 5½ Sunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating (Below 2000) Tournament, Indore
64 Anjishnu Mondal WB 5½
65 Aryaveer Saxena RAJ 5½
66 Judhajit Dutta Roy WB 5½
67 Pranay Venkatesh TEL 5½ Back row : From Left: Rajendra Chimnani,
68 Pal Abhinav ODI 5½ Bharat Chougule, Shailendra Pable , F. Anil ,
69 Patni Adeesh MAH 5½ Muktesh Singh, Dr. Ajit kumar Singh Kasliwal,
70 Hari Ramachandran S TN 5½ Vikas Jain , Piyush Zamindar
71 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai GOA 5½ Front row 2: From Left: Anchit Vyas, Aishwin
72 Yashsva Anil Kanholkar CHT 5½ Daniel, Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D, Vaibhav
73 Pal Rajveer B ODI 5½ Barahate, Atul Bihari Sharan
74 Sagnik Biswas WB 5½
75 Anirudhh M K KAR 5½
76 Atiksh Sharma MP 5½
77 Debjit Kali WB 5½ KCA’s 7th FIDE International Rating Tournament below 2200,Kottayam
78 Gowtham Reddy G AP 5
79 Rachishnu Datta WB 5
80 Pran G Parashar Kashyap ASM 5 (L-R) Dr. Varghese Joshua,Lecturer,CMS
81 Medhansh Saxena UP 5 college,Kottayam,. Mr.Rajesh,Secretary Chess
82 Aarush Shah MAH 5 Association Kerala, Chief guest Mr.Manoj
83 Y Yehamandram Sridhar TN 5 S,President ,Press Club, Kottayam distributing the
84 Sajal Saroj Lahkar ASM 5 prize to the Winner K.Arjun of Kerala, Prof.Joseph
85 Vora Arjun MAH 5 Thomas,Principal,Baker Vidhyapeedh,Kottayam,5.
86 Vishal Pydah AP 5 IM K Rathnakaran, Pramod K K, Chess coach,
87 Sanjeev Raj K TN 5 Kottayam Chess Academy.
88 Oishik Kundu WB 5
89 Swapneel Gupta WB 5
90 Garv Gaur HAR 5
91 Aditya T N V S AP 5 Fomento 3rd All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2014, Goa…
92 Praharsh Patel K TEL 5
93 Shaunak Chaudhury CHD 5
94 Vidit Jain PUN 5
From Left: Mr Arvind Mhamal, Mr Kishor
95 Sabarna Bandyopadhyay WB 5
Bandekar ( Secretary GCA & Jt Secretary
96 Akash K TN 5
AICF), Mr Dipak Amonkar ( President
97 Srijan Chatterjee WB 5
Rudreshwar Panaji), Mr Satish Shetye( Chief
98 Yuvraj Chandak WB 5
Guest & Vice Chancellor of Goa University), Mr
99 Sougata Ghosh WB 5
Shridhar Kamat( Fomento Representative),Mr
100 Soumyadeep Mitra WB 5
Sunil Naik ( Vice President Clube Tennis de
101 Mohanty Amrit Kumar ODI 4½
Gaspar Dias), Mr Dnyaneshwar Naik, while
102 Yajath Nair MAH 4½
103 Sayan Gain WB 4½ Niraj Saripalli, Champion receives the trophy.
104 Bang Atharva MAH 4
105 Kshirsagar Ojus MAH 4
106 Arka Mitra WB 4
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SPIC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament (Below 2200),Thoothukudi 107 Vishnu Koundinya KAR 4
108 Agnish Ray WB 4
109 Madhurjya Roy ASM 4
110 Kirishikesh V UP 4
111 Aarav Nanda UTT 4
112 Aarush Patel GUJ 4
113 Vedant Singh Tomar MP 4
114 Avyam Nanda UTT 4
115 Navoneel Choudhury ASM 4
116 Soham Nag TRI 4
117 Omkar Nath Dutta WB 4
118 Dhruv Rahul Vora WB 4
119 Kukreja Maan MAH 4
120 Moksh Iyer ASM 4
121 Kian Shah MAH 4
122 Taarush Mittal CHD 4
123 Vedang Avinash Kulkarani MAH 3½
124 Swarnoj Saha Talukdar WB 3½
125 Harsha Vardhan C WB 3½
Sitting (L-R) Mr. Manimaran Superintendent Engineer TNEB Tuticorin,Mr. S.R. Ramakrishanan 126 Devansh Porwal WB 3
Whole Time Director, Spic Ltd Standing (L-R) Palanisamy President Spic Sports Council,Ephrame 127 Adhiraj Pal JHAR 3
Chief Arbiter John Demel Secretary / TDCA,Jayaseelan Rathinam Treasurer/ TDCA 128 Arhaan Swaika WB 3
129 Anudan Chattopadhyay WB 3
130 Ishaan Poddar WB 3
131 Aryaman Agarwal WB 3
132 Jairam Prabhu KAR 3
133 Arghya Majumder WB 3
134 Verma Mannat BIH 2½
135 Lakshya Agiwal JHA 1½
136 Raghav Agarwal WB 1½
137 Aarya Vardhan Agarwala WB 1½
138 Siddarth Dehuri ODI 0
Final standings: Girls
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Yashavishree N TN 9½
2 Prathivya Gupta DEL 9½
3 Savitha Shri B TN 9
4 Sindhusree K TN 8
5 Sri Vidya Sambhavi R AP 8
(L-R)Palanisamy,President,SpicSportsCouncil,Ephrame, Chief Arbiter,Venkataraman S, GM Greenstar 6 Nungshithoi Ngairangbam MAN 7½
Fertilisers,Parent of the winner, Champion B. Vignesh of Chennai,Chief Guest Mr.S Natarajan, Deputy 7 Pretika M TN 7½
Chairman VOC Port Trust,IM Manuel Aaron,John Demel, Secretary /TDCA,Jayaseelan Rathinam
8 Sinthia Sarkar WB 7
Treasurer/TDCA
9 Harshavardhini M.S. PUD 7
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10 Tejaswi R TN 7
11 Tanisha Chatterjee WB 7
12 Sagar Siya MAH 7
13 Rout Prakruti ODI 7
14 Sneha Saha WB 7
15 Anagha K G R KAR 7
16 Gargee Bose WB 6½
17 Tiya Setia PUN 6½
18 Aakanksha Patel GUJ 6½
19 Rajanya Datta WB 6½
20 Auhona Chakraborty WB 6½
21 Naik Sayuri GOA 6
22 Shivika Rohilla DEL 6
23 D Souza Ynez MAH 6
24 Mohanty Siona ODI 6
25 Kangona Sinha WB 6
26 Anishka Vikram DEL 6
27 Bagve Mrunmayee MAH 6
28 Aslesha Talukdar ASM 6
29 Sevitha Viju M TEL 6
30 Anupam M Sreekumar KER 6
31 Manushri Deva TEL 6
32 Krittika Sinha WB 5½
33 Wairagade Rashi MAH 5½
34 Patil Saee MAH 5½
35 Karishma Agrawal MP 5½
36 Dipita Singh MAH 5
37 Miraya Chinai GUJ 5
38 Freeyah Golia MAH 5
39 Cera Dagaria MP 5
40 Prakash Vaishnavi UP 5
41 Anjistha Basak WB 5
42 Teebikaa S PUD 5
43 Rajanya Ray WB 5
44 Anubis Mrunal Bhagat MAH 5
45 Nitya Sravani TEL 5
46 Patel Riddhi R GUJ 4½
47 Stuti Aishwary DEL 4½
48 Aarna Chugh MAH 4½
49 Panchali Dutta WB 4½
50 Shefali A N KAR 4
51 Ambre Sayali MAH 4
52 Ankana Kabiraj JHAR 4
53 Neharika Rajesh MAH 4
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 41st National Women Chess Challenger Championship, Goa....
Nisha Mohota wins title
by S.Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter
As many as 131 players representing 21 the top with 8.5 points at the end of the tenth
states, 5 special units were in the fray in the and the penultimate round.Therefore before
41stnational women challengers chess cham- the start of the final round It was going to
pionship organised by Goa Chess Association be virtual photo finish for the title between
under the auspices of the All India Chess the two International Masters.As expected all
Federation from September 6 to 15,2014 the top games in this round was fought with
at the Pedam Sports Complex,Mapusa,Goa. great valour and determination for earning
Thevenue was a very big hall with a calm a berth in the top eight placing to qualify
atmosphere highly suiting the mood of for the National Premier.There was a clear
any woman chess player.6 Women Grand- cut result from the top seven tables.On the
masters,2 International Masters,1 Woman top table Vijayalakshmi made a short work
International Master and 8 Woman FIDE of Neha Singh of Bihar,followed by NIsha
Masters made this championship colourful Mota on the second table against Lakshmi
by their presence.The top twenty games in Praneetha of Andhra Pradesh.Both the win-
each round was transmitted as Live game ners were now sitting pretty with 9.5 point-
through Monroi device.The top seed of the sand were curiously watching the outcome
championship was WGM Padmini Rout of Air of the remaining matches for their bucholtz
Port Authority of India who kept the Indian score. At last it was WGM NishaMohota rep-
flag flying at the just concluded 2014 Chess resenting Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
Olympiad in Tromsko,Norway by winning a who clinched the title with 9.5 points after
Gold medal for India. relegating IM S.Vijayalakshmi of Air India
Fifth seed WGM MohotaNisha after nurtur- to the second spot on account of better bu-
ing 5 out of 5 emerged as the sole leader of choltzscore.In the third table untitled Hinduja
the championship.However in the very next Reddy of Andhra Pradesh defeated Nimmy
round fourth seed WGM S.Vijayalakshmi A George of Kerala in a scintillating game to
caught up the leader when Nishasplit the finish surprise third.In the previous round
point with PadminiRout.The seventh round only this unassuming girl from A.P. caused a
was very crucial as both the leaders signed biggest upset of the championship when she
a peace treaty in their individual encounter outmanouvered WGM SoumyaSwaminathan.
match.In the next two successive rounds The following eight players have qualified
Vijayalakshmi maintained her winning spree themselves from this National Women Chal-
when she edged out two WGMs KiranMon- lengers to move on to the National Premier.
ishaand PadminiRout. Meanwhile Nisha had This includes two untitled players from
dropped half point against WGM Swati Ghate Andhra Pradesh.
and this put Vijayalakshmi once again in the Honourable Shri.Wilfred D’Souza,Deputy Chief
sole lead after nine rounds.However in the Minister, Goa State flagged of this 10 days
tenth round Vijayalakshmi had split the point championship. Shri.Dilip Parulekar,Honourable
against Nimmy A Gerorge of Kerala.Nisha Minister for Tourism,Government of Goa fe-
capitalised this and caught up Vijalakshmi on licitated the winners and gave away the prize
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in a glittering prize distribution ceremony.The
Goa Chess Association did not miss this op-
portunity to honour all the young achievers
who made their state proud in the national
and the international events.
Final standings:
Rk Name Club Pts
1 IM Mohota Nisha PSPB 9½
2 IM S Vijayalakshmi AI 9½
3 Hinduja Reddy AP 8½
4 WGM Padmini Rout ODI 8
5 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti Goa 8
6 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado Goa 8
7 Pratyusha Bodda AP 8
8 WGM Ghate Swati LIC 7½
9 Lakshmi Praneetha K AP 7½
10 Nimmy A.G. Ker 7½
11 WFM Varshini V TN 7½
12 Mokal Amruta Sunil MAH 7½
13 Lasya.G AP 7½
14 Singh Neha Bih 7½
15 Sunyasakta Satpathy ODI 7½
16 WFM Savant Riya Goa 7½
17 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 7
18 WGM Soumya Swaminathan pspb 7
19 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie AI 7
20 Bala Kannamma P TN 7
21 Divya Lakshmi R TN 7
22 Sandya G AP 7
23 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 7
24 WFM Mahalakshmi M pspb 7
25 Smaraki Mohanty ODI 7
26 Supriya Joshi Mah 7
27 Parnali S Dharia Mah 7
28 WFM Tarini Goyal Chd 7
29 Patil Samiksha Mah 7
30 WFM Swati Mohota WB 7
31 Harini S. TN 6½
32 WFM Monnisha Gk TN 6½
33 Harshita Guddanti AP 6½
34 WFM Bindu Saritha K. LIC 6½
35 P Aditee Aman Goa 6½
36 Poojakanth M. TN 6½
37 Shalon Joanne Pais Kar 6½
38 Anjana Krishna S Ker 6½
39 Minki Sinha Bih 6½
40 Swera Ana Braganca Goa 6½
41 Pushpalata Mangal Mah 6½
42 Potluri Supreetha AP 6½
43 Nandhini Saripalli Goa 6
44 Ankitha Goud Palle Tel 6
45 Harshini A TN 6
46 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar Goa 6
47 Meghna C H Ker 6
48 Isha Sharma Kar 6
49 Toshali V AP 6
50 Hilmi Parveen Ker 6
51 Dhanashree Pandit Mah 6
52 Matta Theja Sahithi AP 6
53 Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar Goa 6
54 Sheena E. Ker 6
55 Thamaraiselvi P TN 6
56 Mili Ghosh WB 6
57 Alaina J J Pereira Goa 6
58 Riddhi Zantye Goa 6
59 Mehak Jain Del 5½
60 Shweta Chd 5½
61 Pammi Rani Bih 5½
62 Sreelakshmi M SunilkumarKer 5½
63 Smita Choudhary Bih 5½
64 Chopdekar Gunjal Goa 5½
65 Bommini M Akshaya AP 5½
66 Monika Sahu Raj 5½
67 Kavisha S Shah Guj 5½
68 Niharika Ch AP 5½
69 Gaayathri S Goa 5½
70 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar Goa 5½
71 Thorat Aishwarya Goa 5
72 S.Jayaseeli LIC 5
73 Urvi Bandekar Goa 5
74 Jagtap Vrushali Guj 5
75 Khushita Shah Guj 5
76 Naik Pranali M Goa 5
77 Pratiksha Pandey MP 5
78 Akshitha Goud Pally Tel 5
79 Alaya Vella D Cruz Goa 5
80 Malika Handa Pun 5
81 Naik Snehal Goa 5
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 15th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial All India FIDE Rating Open Tournament, Pune….
Thejkumar is Champion
by Nitin Shenvi IA, Chief Arbiter
The fifteenth edition of Late Shri Mahesh-
waranand Saraswati Memorial All India FIDE
Rating Open Tournament was held from 13th
to 17th September 2014 at the Manohar
Mangal Karyalaya, Erandawane, Pune.This
tournament was sponsored by M/s Srujnil
Chemo Industries, Pune and M/s Pravin
Masalewale, Pune. This tournament was
recognized by FIDE, AICF, MCA and PDCC
and this is the 15th Year of this event. The
inaugural function was chaired by Shri Girish
Chitale, who is a President MCA-CIS program,
& owner of M/s Chitale Milk, Bhilwadi, Sangli,
Maharashtra. The inaugural move was played
by Mr. Vishal Chordia, Proprietor, M/s Pravin
Masalewale, Pune. In inaugural function Shri
Girish Chitale enlightened audience by role of
CIS program to gathering. The other dignitar-
ies on dais were Shri Moreshwar Bhagwat,
Joint Secretary, Maharashtra Chess Associa-
tion, Shri Niranjan Godbole, Secretary, Pune
District Chess Circle, Shri Prakash Kunte,
Managing Trustee, Buddhibal Kreeda Trust,
Pune and Shri Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter of
this event. Shri Abhijit Kunte, Grand Master
thanked gathering whereas Shri Shenvi an-
chored this inaugural event.
In this tournament, IM Swapnil Dhopade, IM
Himanshu Sharma & IM Rahul Sangma, from
Railways IM Thejkumar M. S from Karnataka.
and IM Sameer Kathmale from Maharashtra
took part this prestigious FIDE Rating chess
tournament. Totally seven titled players took
part along with 145 rated players and 88
unrated players.
In first round all titled and FIDE rated play-
ers convincingly won first round resulting in
112 wins showing point tally as 1 point each.
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Grϋnfeld Defence to register a win against receipt and distributed to players along with
Manish Joshi of Madhya Pradesh. Pune lad kept eye on clocks.Everyday organizer of this
Abhishek Kelkar played out a creditable draw event provided breakfast and lunch to Arbi-
against IM Himanshu Sharma of railways in ters and volunteers. Seating arrangement
7th Round. for parents and coaches is good with enough
At the end of 2nd round 54 players scoring
chairs, tables and covered lounge. There was
2 points each and took half point lead on
After eighth round IM Thejkumar and IM Hi- ample parking space, good playing condi-
ten players.17 players broke away from the
manshu Sharma scoring 7 points each took tions, quiet ambience and the washrooms
crowd securing 3 points each. IM Sameer
marginal lead of half point on nearest rivals were also in good condition.
Kathmale led with nine other players from
IM Sameer Kathmale, IM Sangma Rahul,
the state which included Pranav Shetty, S.V ( first 120 placings only)
FM Sauravh Khherdekar, IM Swapnil S Dho- Final ranking
Shrinath Rao, Pratik Shenvi, Snehal Bhosale,
pade, Rakesh Kulkarni, & Pranav Shetty who Rk Name Pts
Debashri Mukherjee, Sankarsha Shelke, Ojas
scored 6.5 points each. IM Thejkumar won 1 IM Thejkumar M. S. 8.0
Kulkarni, Harshit Raja. The other players
final round scoring 8 points and became the 2 IM Himanshu Sharma 7.5
included IM Swapnil Dhopade and IM Himan-
undisputed Champion of this Year’s Event. 3 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 7.5
shu Sharma of Railways, IM M. S. Thejkumar, 4 IM Kathmale Sameer 7.0
IM Himanshu Sharma & IM Swapnil Dhopade
Akshay Halagannavar of Karnataka, Manish 5 Abhishek Kelkar 7.0
scored 7.5 points each bagging the 2nd and
Joshi (MP), K Niraj Saripalli (Goa) & Shashipal 6 Roshan Rangarajan. 7.0
3rd place respectively.
Sharma (CCS&SB), 3 points each. 7 Pranav Shetty 7.0
8 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7.0
The prizes were distributed by the hands of
In the fourth round IM Thejkumar opened 9 Phadke Sohan 7.0
Mr. Mehendale, Owner of Manohar Mangal
with the Queen’s Gambit Declined against 10 Kulkarni Rakesh 6.5
Karyalaya, Pune along with PDCC Secretary
Niraj Saripalli and scored a win in 44 moves 11 Debarshi Mukherjee 6.5
Shri Niranjan Godbole. Other dignitaries on
in a tie which lasted over 3 hours . At the 12 IM Sangma Rahul 6.5
dais were Shri Shekhar Jori, Member, PDCC,
end of fourth round only five players namely 13 Snehal Bhosale 6.5
Shri Prakash Kunte, MT, BKT, and Chief Arbi-
IM Thejkumar from Karnataka, IM Sameer 14 Wajih Nassir 6.5
ter IA Nitin Shenvi.NA Atharva Godbole acted
Kathmale from Maharashtra, IM Himanshu 15 Joshi Manish 6.5
as an Arbiter First time for this event and
Sharma from Railway, Mr. Rakesh Kulkarni 16 Bose Sayan 6.5
with the help of Shri Aniket Wagle and Shri
from Maharashta & Master Debarshi Mukher- 17 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6.5
Rohit Tembe ably completed AICF and MCA
jee from West Bengal scored four points each 18 Sumit Kumar 6.5
player registration within three days during
and had taken half point lead on 17 other 19 Soni Krishan 6.5
this event.
players. 20 Shashikant Kutwal 6.5
21 Raja Harshit 6.5
Mrs. Vinita Shrotri NA and Shri Suraj Mali NA
IM Thejkumar emerged sole leader after the 22 Ponkshe Sarang 6.5
acted in the interest of this tournament. Shri
fifth round at the event. Debarshi Mukherjee 23 Niraj Saripalli 6.5
Vivek Bhagwat and Shri Vikas Deshpande
and Sayan Bose of West Bengal, Abhishek 24 Dahale Atul 6.5
came every day from twenty five kilometers
Kelkar, S.V Srinath Rao, and Snehal Bhosale 25 Ojas Kulkarni 6.0
to help and conduct this event effectively.
of Maharashtra followed him with 4.5 pts 26 Maulik Raval 6.0
Fellow IA from Pune, Shri Rajendra Shidore
each. 27 Sahil Tickoo 6.0
did not miss the chance and visited the venue
28 Mulay Pratik 6.0
every day.
At the end of seventh round the tournament 29 Balkishan A. 6.0
was thrown wide open as 9 players shared 30 Shenvi Pratik 6.0
Mrs Aruna Mule collected AICF and MCA
the lead. Overnight leader IM Thejkumar 31 Aakanksha Hagawane 6.0
player registration form and also prepared
of Karnataka took 28moves deploying the 32 WFM Pujari Rucha 6.0
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33 Rawal Shailesh 6.0
34 Subramanian V 6.0
35 Gupta Atit 6.0
36 Dixit Nikhil 6.0
37 A K Kalshyan 6.0
38 Sirsat Shekhar V. 6.0
39 Modi Kunal 6.0
40 Kaushik Shubham 6.0
41 Avdhoot Lendhe 6.0
42 Deshpande Aniruddha 6.0
43 Lalit Karmarkar 6.0
44 Rajesh Kumar 6.0
45 Tamhankar Siddhant 6.0
46 Likhit Chilukuri 6.0
47 Nitin 6.0
48 Joshi Abhijeet M 6.0
49 Kiran Panditrao 6.0
50 Madkar Aditya 6.0
51 Shelke Sankarsha 5.5
52 Srinath Rao S.V. 5.5
53 Mota Pankit 5.5
54 Soham Datar 5.5
55 Sharma Shashi Pal 5.5
56 Shegaonkar Akshay 5.5
57 Aditya B Kalyani 5.5
58 Chaurasia Sanjiv 5.5
59 Mokashi Rohit 5.5
60 Vaidya Kaiwalya 5.5
61 Patwardhan Avdhut S 5.5
62 Praveen Veeramalla 5.5
63 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 5.5
64 Menon Padmanand 5.5
65 Kale Subhash 5.5
66 Roneet Das 5.5
67 Sahasrabudhe Uday 5.5
68 Behere Ravi 5.5
69 Bandekar Rajesh 5.0
70 Dongre Chandrakant 5.0
71 Om Kharola 5.0
72 Joshi Abhijeet 5.0
73 Anant Prabhudesai 5.0
74 Sumit Grover 5.0
75 Tajane Ganesh 5.0
76 Aditya Guhagarkar 5.0
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77 Sunil Vaidya 5.0
78 Surana K Shailendra 5.0
79 Rohan Bharat Joshi 5.0
80 Kadav Omkar 5.0
81 Samant Aditya S 5.0
82 Nirgun Keval 5.0
83 Kabir Belgikar 5.0
84 Patil Ketan Anil 5.0
85 Suresh Joshi 5.0
86 Ahirrao Vedant 5.0
87 S Manojkumar Tapase 5.0
88 Chaudhari Paresh 5.0
89 Nagare Akhilesh 5.0
90 Bhagwat Heramb 5.0
91 Shilimkar Avanish Anil 5.0
92 Joshi Pushpahas 5.0
93 Patil Ketan 5.0
94 Karmarkar Prakash 5.0
95 Joshi Avani 5.0
96 Deshpande Saurabh 5.0
97 Jagannathan Govind 5.0
98 Vibhushit Singh 5.0
99 Kambli Siddharth 5.0
100 Deshpande Suresh 5.0
101 Barde Om 5.0
102 T Ashiwini Kumar 5.0
103 Bhosale Vijay Y 5.0
104 Borse Pankaj 5.0
105 Mane Rajendra 4.5
106 Moghe Mayur 4.5
107 Supnekar Milind 4.5
108 Jain Kashish Manoj 4.5
109 Nargundkar Ravindra 4.5
110 Satbir Singh 4.5
111 Ankit Bhattacharya 4.5
112 Deshmukh Anurag 4.5
113 Pachwadkar Ansar 4.5
114 Vikram Mavlankar 4.5
115 Tekam Krunal 4.5
116 Shinde Kunal 4.5
117 Khanzode Ajinkya 4.5
118 Badve Aditya 4.5
119 Sapre Shreyas 4.5
120 Bafna Niyati 4.5
KCA’s 7th FIDE International Rating Tournament below 2200,Kottayam
Arjun wins at Kottayam
L.R.Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter
KCA’s 7th Fide International Rating Chess
Tournament was inaugurated by Sri. Sunny
Lukose Cherukara (Exe. Member Kerala
Press Academy) against the top seed K Ar-
jun of Calicut in the presence of Dr. Roy Sam
Daniel (Principal of CMS College,Kottayam.),
S h r i P. M S h a j i , S e c r e t a r y, A l a p p u z h a
District Chess Association,Dr.Vargese
Joshua,Lecturer CMS College, Kottayam
on 11th september 2014 at The Great Hall,
CMS College,Kottayam.
The 9 rounds swiss tournament attracted
184 players from 9 states of our country.
139 were rated players. The seeded players
sailed smoothly to the 2nd round. At the end
of 4th round Akhilan,Mohammed Dilshad of
Kerala,Cheniram Pegu of Assam,Gavi Sid-
daya of Karnataka and Aswin Kumar B S of
Tamilnadu Shared the lead with full points.
The top seed K Arjun who dropped half
a point is right behind the leaders at 3.5
points along with 11 other players.
In the next round Bavan kumar and Rathan-
vel of TN joined the previous round leaders
with 4.5 points each. After a battle between
these players Arjun, Pegu and Dilshad
shared the lead in round 6. The keralite
players Arjun and Dilshad maintained their
lead at 6.5 points after 7th round. Arjun beat
Dilshad and took the sole lead at the end of
the penultimate round. In final round Arjun
drew with Jayakumar and won the title at 8
points. Rathanvel and Cheniram Pegu are in
2nd 3rd spot respectively at 7.5 points.
Chess Association Kerala is going to conduct
the mega event national premier in Decem-
ber month in this college. Really our players
will enjoy this wonderful atmosphere. The
event concluded in a smooth manner with-
out any dispute. The chief guest Mr.Manoj,
President,Press club Kottayam distrib-
uted the prizes to the winners in the pres-
ence of Prof.Joseph Thomas,Principal,The
Baker Vidhyapeedh,Kottaym, IM Rath-
n a k a r a n K , D r. V a r g h e s e J o s h u a ,
Lecturer,CMS College,Kottayam, Mr.Rajesh
Nattakom,Secretary,Chess Association
Kerala.
Final Standings ( first 110 placings only)
Rk Name Pts
1 Arjun K. 8
2 Rathanvel V S 7½
3 Cheniram Pegu 7½
4 Bavankumar 7
5 Jayakumaar S 7
6 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7
7 Priyanka K 7
8 Marthandan K U 7
9 Vishwa Anand V 7
10 Mohammed Dilshad 6½
11 Chandar Raju 6½
12 Dhanasekar K. 6½
13 Akhilan E M 6½
14 Bharkavi S 6½
15 Girinath B S 6½
16 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½
17 Raveendran C.R. 6½
18 Harikrishnan A 6½
19 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6½
20 Gavi Siddayya 6
21 Aravind G 6
22 Subramanian R P 6
23 Aswin Kumar B S 6
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24 Barath M 6
25 Mansoor C M 6
26 Rejith Babu C 6
27 Rajeev V.M. 6
28 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6
29 Mithun Anand V 6
30 Pathrose C.T 6
31 Jibin Varghese John 6
32 Sudheer Babu Pai 6
33 Geetha Krishnan S 6
34 Jos Paul Davis 6
35 Abhiram C Nath 6
36 Pramod K K 6
37 Sooraj M R 5½
38 Sanil S 5½
39 Shakthi Vishal J 5½
40 Alwyn Roy Miranda 5½
41 Ajeesh Antony 5½
42 Vijaya Kumar V 5½
43 Senbabu M B 5½
44 Godson Merlin E 5½
45 Abhiram Sudheesh 5½
46 Pranav P 5½
47 Shah Rishab 5½
48 Sachin Pradeep 5½
49 Anil Kumar S 5½
50 Chandran T. 5½
51 Archana S.G. 5½
52 Anil Sharma 5½
53 Sanjay S Pillai 5
54 Ajith Kumar P N 5
55 Jagadeesh A.K. 5
56 Alan Diviya Raj 5
57 Thakur Ameya 5
58 Jai Aditya D 5
59 Prem Krishna N 5
60 Thomas M J 5
61 Harshad S 5
62 Raghuraj V.N. 5
63 Akhil Vijayakumar 5
64 Shourya Jain 5
65 Satheesh M 5
66 Dharshan P 5
67 Vishwak S 5
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68 Dhanush Ragav 5
69 Nandha Kumar K 5
70 Abirama Srinithi G 5
71 Durgesh K 5
72 Sushrutha Reddy 5
73 Unnikrishnan M A 5
74 Sanjay Snehal M S 5
75 Raguraman V 5
76 Swaroopa E T 5
77 Yadudev P Anil 5
78 Praveen Raj T 5
79 Megha K 5
80 Jibi Kallingalpadem 4½
81 Anfas Muhammed 4½
82 Prince Mundakayam 4½
83 Justin Tony John 4½
84 Cyriac Antony 4½
85 Shreyas M 4½
86 Antony Simethy 4½
87 Sajan V 4½
88 Benjamin Varghees Issac 4½
89 Jinan Jomon 4½
90 Abhinav C Santhalaya 4½
91 Swaha V S 4½
92 Siddhanth Lohia 4½
93 Eldho Skaria 4½
94 Agnal Saji Jacob 4½
95 Sarath Chandran P 4½
96 Hari Suresh 4½
97 Devika P 4½
98 Gunaseelan V A 4½
99 Sunildutt 4½
100 Prabhakar B 4½
101 Ananthapadmanabh D V 4½
102 Sanjay S 4½
103 Pranav Shridhar 4½
104 Sudil G Krishna 4½
105 Pramod Rajan 4½
106 Sreerag M R 4
107 Niranjan Rajeev 4
108 C N Krishna Pillai 4
109 Amal Roozi 4
110 Lakshmi Narayanan R 4
1st Prime Squares Chess Academy Fide rating below 2000 Tournament, Visakhapatnam….
Sahoo Dasharathi wins title
by IA Pranesh Yadav, Chief Arbiter
The 1st Prime Squares Chess Academy Fide
rating below 2000 Chess tournament was
inaugurated by Sri. Yuvraj IAS District Col-
lector on 5th September 2014. The following
dignitaries were present in the Inauguration.
Sri. M.P. Krishna Babu IAS Visakapatnam port
trust,Sri. A. Narasimha Reddy, Chairman Bar
Council of AP and Vice President AICF,Smt.
Lalam Bhavani, ZP Chairperson, Vizag, Sri.
GVS Kishor Kumar, Advocate, high Court of
AP and President Prime Square Chess Acad-
emy, Vizag.
The 9 round 2 lekh prize fund tournament
was well organized by ‘Prime Squares Chess
Academy’ of Vizag, at Swarna Bharathi Air
Conditioned Indore Stadium, Visakhapatnam,
Andhrapradesh from 5th to 8th September
2014.
Totally 170 participants from 10 states
were participated. Out of 170 participants
93 were FIDE Rated. Surprisingly the 31st
seeded Sahoo Dasharathi of Orissa (1635)
won this tournament by scoring 8 points and
Rs.30,000/- with a glittering Trophy. The top
rated player of this tournament Ankan Roy of
West Bengal (1916) was satisfied for second
place by losing the final round game against
Sahoo Dasharathi of orissa and bagged Rs.
20,000/- and a Trophy. Six players were tied
with 7 points each for the 3rd place but the
lucky one to break the 1st cut Buchholz tie
was 3rd seeded Harshavardhana Reddy G
(1835) from the new state Telangana and was
placed third with Rs. 12,000/- and a Trophy.
Sri. K. Acham Naidu Minister for sports and
labour, along with Sri. P. Vishnu Kumar Raju
MLA, Visakhapatnam (North ) distributed the
35 main cash prizes and several age group
prizes.
IA Pranesh Yadav K from Shimoga, Karnataka
was the Chief Arbiter of this tournament and
he was ably assisted by Deputy Arbiters Sri
Kumar G.V. Fide Arbiter, Subba Raju Fide
Arbiter, Phani Kumar National Arbiter, and as-
sisted by Chirangeevi G and Cheela Ramesh.
Final ranking ( first 30 placings only)
Rk Name Pts
1 Sahoo Dasharathi 8
2 Ankan Roy 7½
3 Harshavardhan Reddy G 7
4 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili 7
5 Balaga Ravi Kumar 7
6 Didwania Vishal 7
7 Nayak Rajesh 7
8 Cheela Naga Sampath 7
9 Teja Suresh M 6½
10 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6½
11 Pvs Aravind 6½
12 Erigaisi Arjun 6½
13 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 6½
14 Kuldeep Sharma 6½
15 Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 6½
16 Shrutarshi Ray 6½
17 Teja Kirthi 6½
18 Mohammed Fazal 6½
19 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan 6
20 Priyanka Nutakki 6
21 Vishwanath Vivek 6
22 My Aditya 6
23 Atul Bihari Sharan 6
24 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6
25 Rajarshi Dutta 6
26 Trinadh Virothi 5½
27 Erigaisi Arjun 5½
28 Arya Bhakta 5½
29 Balaga Ravi Kumar 5½
30 Shrutarshi Ray 5½
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 Fomento 3rd All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2014, Goa… SPIC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament (Below 2200),Thoothukudi
Niraj Saripalli of Goa wins Vignesh clinches title
Niraj Saripalli of Goa won the Fomento 3rd All India Fide Rating under 2200 Chess Tournament
M.Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter
organized by Rudreshwar Panaji which concluded at Club tennis de Gasper Dias Miramar,
Goa. Niraj scored 8.5 points out of 10 rounds . In the last round he played a fantastic game 10th seeded B Vignesh, PSBB School boy Earlier, the 27th edition, Spic FIDE Rated
to outplay Maulik Raval of Gujrat. Pradip Tiwari of DASCB too scored 8.5 points but on tie from Chennai ensured a thrilling end to the Chess Tournament (Below 2200) got under-
break finished 2nd .Santosh Kashyap of karnataka finished 3rd with the score of 8 points. 27th FIDE Rated Chess Tournament at Spic way at Community Hall, Spic Nagar, Thoothu-
Maulik Raval finished 4th with 8 points while CM Nitish Belurkar ( Goodwill Ambassador og Nagar, Thoothukudi by drawing the last round kudi from 27th September 2014. The event
Geno) finished 5th with 8 points.Shri Arvind Mhamal was felicitated by Rudreshwar Panaji game against Rajarishi Karthi of Chennai attracted 265 Fide rated Chess players in
for his contribution to chess during the PD function. in the ninth and final round at Community action in a field of 375 players from 4 states
Dr Satish Shetye ( Vice Chancellor of Goa University) was the Chief Guest of the function. Hall, Spic Nagar.PL Subramanian also scored and one Union territory Pondicherry. Balkis-
Other dignitaries present were, Shri Kishor Bandekar, Jt Secretary AICF & Secretary GCA, eight points and tied for the first place. Bet- han of Karnataka was the top seed in this nine
Shri Shridhar Kamat ( Fomento Representative), Shri Sunil Naik ( Vice President Clube Tennis ter tie break score helped Vignesh to lift the round Swiss system tournament. The total
de Gaspar Dias Miramar ), Shri Dipak Amonkar ( President Rudreshwar Panaji), Shri Satish Winner’s trophy and pocket a cash prize of prize fund of the event was Rs.1,25,000 out
Narvekar ( Secretary Rudrewshar), Shri Dnyaneshwar Naik ( Vice President Rudreshwar), Twenty Five Thousand Rupees. PL Subra- of which, Rs. 25000 thousand was reserved
Shri Nitesh Naik ( Secretary Sports Rudreshwar) and fly of Rudreshwar Panaji. manian became the runner-up of this event. to the winner. 290 players from all over
Sri S Natarajan, Deputy Chairman, VOC Port Tamilnadu participated in the non medalist
Rank Name Rtg Club Type Pts Trust, Tuticorin gave away the prizes to the section.
1 Niraj Saripalli 2061 Goa-Salcete 8½
winners in a peaceful closing ceremony. Shri. At a colourful opening ceremony, Shri. A.
2 Pradip Tiwari 1949 DASCB 8½
Santhosh Kumar Sahu, Secretary, Spic Sports Mani Maran SE-TEDC, TNEB Tuticorin, inau-
3 Santoshkashyap Hg 1959 Karnataka 8
Control Board welcomed the gathering and gurated the event by making the customary
4 Maulik Raval 2036 Gujrat 8
Mr. John B S Demel, Secretary, Thoothukudi first move.
5 D. Ashraf Subhani 1946 Andra Pradesh 8
District Chess Association proposed the Vote Shri. S R Ramakrishnan, President, Thoothu-
6 Nitish Belurkar 2022 Goa-Tiswadi U13 8
of thanks. Nine times national champion, In- kudi Dist. Chess Association, presided the
7 Raghav Srivathsav V 1939 Telangana 8
ternational Master Manuel Aaron, the author meeting. In round six 10th Seeded B Vignesh
8 Stanley Samson P. 1953 Tamil Nadu 8
of the new chess book ‘Indian chess History’, of Chennai and 8th seeded R.Prajesh also
9 Verma Rahul 1949 Maharashtra 8
basically hailed from Tuticorin District in his from Chennai took the lead with 6 points. In
10 Sumit Grover 2003 J & K 8
wonderful speech attracted the crowd with round 7 Vignesh beat Prajesh and took the
11 Gavi Siddayya 1910 Karnataka 7½
many information about Indian chess history. sole lead. Vignesh drew with PL Subramanian
12 Naik Rishubh Naresh 1995 Goa-Salcete U15 7½
He, along with the other chess activities in of Trichy and maintained the lead in the pen-
13 Kaushik Shubham 1875 Haryana 7½
Tuticorin district has formed a trust to help ultimate round with 7.5 points. In the final
14 Arjun K. 2076 Kerala 7½
15 Gupta Atit 1844 Maharashtra 7½
the chess players in Tuticorin District. The round Vignesh made a quick draw against
16 Sandeep Chitkara 1922 Delhi 7½
Arjuna award winner Mr. Manuel Aaron has Rajarishi Karthi where as PL Subramanian
17 Srikanth K. 2052 Air Force 7 contributed Rupees 50000/- to the above beat Cheniram Pegu of Assam and tied for
18 Ashutosh Kumar 1920 Bihar 7 trust and informed that the first Tuticorin In- the first place with Vignesh, both scored 8
19 Mohammed Dilshad 1918 Kerala 7 ternational Master will get Rupees 200000/- points each. But better tie break score helped
20 Roop Saurav 1908 Bihar 7 and the second IM will get Rs.150000/- and Vignesh won the championship. PL Subra-
21 Md Jamiruddin 1732 Air Force 7 the coach will also get Rs. 50000/-. This gave manian became the runner-up of this tourna-
22 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 1832 Andra Pradesh 7 a good boost to Tuticorin Dist. Chess play- ment.In Non Medallist Section G G Mugilan
23 Barath M 1830 Goa-Tiswadi U13 7 ers and no doubt that the other districts of of Viluppuram won the championship with 9
24 Shane Alvarin Braganca 1732 Goa-Tiswadi U15 7 Tamilnadu chess association will also follow points out the possible nine round. N Pon-
25 Sahil Tickoo 1905 Haryana 7 the same in their district. sekar of Thoothukudi became the runner up.

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Final standings: ( first 150 placings only) 43 Mythireyan P 6 87 Gayathri M 5.5 131 Kamali B 5
Rk. Name Pts. 44 Vaisnav A 6 88 Godson Merlin E 5.5 132 Abishek A 5
1 Vignesh B 8 45 Sundar Pranesh J S 6 89 Mariappan R 5.5 133 Anirudh D Venkat 5
2 Subramanian Pl 8 46 Suresh Krishna S 6 90 Sneha G P S 5.5 134 Achaya Vijayan 5
3 Prajesh R 7.5 47 Alan Diviya Raj 6 91 Muthu Rakesh Babu 5.5 135 Annamalai Raja C 5
4 Akil A S J 7.5 48 Arjun B 6 92 Sivasankar R 5.5 136 Achuthan K 5
5 Prakashram R 7.5 49 Karthick Babu R 6 93 Dilan Paul Roy J 5.5 137 Sudarsan P 5
6 Mohammed Shamil A 7.5 50 Prasant N Nayagam 6 94 Aravinth Shanmugam 5.5 138 Abhishek S 5
7 Rajarishi Karthi 7.5 51 Ram Kumar G M 6 95 J Suriyah Ayyappan 5.5 139 Suganthan S 5
8 Visveshwar A 7.5 52 Subramanian T.V. 6 96 Sundar Chokkalingam 5.5 140 Vishwa R 5
9 Rohit Vassan S 7 53 Gomathi Nayagam S 6 97 Mugesh B 5.5 141 Shalini R 5
10 Vishwa Anand V 7 54 Subramanian R P 6 98 Subalakshmi M S 5.5 142 Shyam Ramachandran 5
11 Arjun Kalyan 7 55 Abhishek V 6 99 Kumaresh A 5.5 143 Akash Sivaram D 5
12 Karthik Raj C 7 56 Murukaananth A 6 100 Rathneesh R 5.5 144 Nivash K 5
13 Sathya Giri V 7 57 Muthu PalaniappanPL 6 101 Kalidass C. 5.5 145 Mohana R 5
14 Clifford Flair 7 58 Yuva Sankar K 6 102 Pavithra M 5.5 146 Selvam D 5
15 Umashankar A 7 59 Srihari L R 6 103 Ragesh Sarma M 5.5 147 SK Satishkumar 5
16 Shakthi Vishal J 6.5 60 Aasha.C R. 6 104 Abirami S 5.5 148 Arun R Udhayakumar 5
17 Rajeev V.M. 6.5 61 Kamalanathan R 6 105 Balaji V 5.5 149 Aditya S Hariharan 5
18 Prathish A 6.5 62 Chinnadurai T. 6 106 Sheshathri 5.5 150 Arvind N 5
19 Bala Kannamma.P 6.5 63 Shyam Sundar M 6 107 ArunachalamShivaaTV 5.5 Naon-medallist ( first 110 placings only)
20 Barath Kalyan M 6.5 64 Rajashakkthivel K K 6 108 Rindhiya V 5.5 Rk. Name Pts.
21 Cheniram Pegu 6.5 65 Sarvesh Kumar A 6 109 Suryakanth C 5.5 1 Mugilan G G 9
22 Shankarasubbu B 6.5 66 Vishnu Ram M 6 110 Sivashankar M 5.5 2 Pon Sekar N 8
23 Priyanka K 6.5 67 Rowshith D 6 111 Abinandhan R 5.5 3 Rajkumar C 8
24 Paramasivam M. 6.5 68 Ravikumar A 6 112 Gowri M 5.5 4 Adhithya S Pandurangan V 7.5
25 Avi Jaiswal 6.5 69 Sanathanan N.R.S. 5.5 113 Gnanasekar .G 5 5 Freddie Paul C 7.5
26 Charles J 6.5 70 Bharkavi S 5.5 114 Vignesh R 5 6 Mani Kanda Prabhu B V 7.5
27 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6.5 71 Senbabu M B 5.5 115 Arun Prasad D 5 7 Vijaya Baskar V 7.5
28 Rohit Ramanan T G 6.5 72 S Sabharishankar 5.5 116 Dheekshith Kumar R 5 8 Binisya E L 7
29 Aswin Kumar B S 6.5 73 Yogesh Kumar A 5.5 117 Shreyanthi A 5 9 Valanarasu J 7
30 MDavid Suthandram 6.5 74 Krithigga K 5.5 118 Sathyanarayanan S. 5 10 Mano A 7
31 Thamaraiselvi P 6.5 75 Prakruthee A 5.5 119 Meyyappan M 5 11 Jerlif S 7
32 Raahul V S 6.5 76 Annie Gladys A 5.5 120 Pranav V 5 12 Rangesh V S 7
33 Navnitan S V 6.5 77 Jasper Jothi P 5.5 121 Shibin K Benny 5 13 Rithika R 7
34 V Thomas Abraham 6.5 78 Kavitha P L 5.5 122 Sundar Rajan M 5 14 Mesmin Jinu M 7
35 Guhan Ram Shankar 6.5 79 Balasankar M 5.5 123 Santhosh Kumar G 5 15 Jeshua Ernest C 7
36 Marthandan K U 6.5 80 Narayanan P 5.5 124 Dhanusha S 5 16 Shanjai M 7
37 Vaibhav A 6.5 81 Pranav Anand 5.5 125 Shriman K 5 17 Arun Sundar K 7
38 Mani Bharathy 6.5 82 Yashwanth Raj S 5.5 126 Meikkum Pugal A 5 18 Raja Nainar S 6.5
39 Balkishan A. 6 83 Gayetri R 5.5 127 D G Sam Emmanuel 5 19 Ahamed Kamal Imrankhan 6.5
40 Sa Kannan 6 84 Rathish T.J. 5.5 128 Nivetta T 5 20 Prince 6.5
41 Athish S 6 85 Senthilkumaran B 5.5 129 Genish Prakash J 5 21 A Shayana Stephen Sam 6.5
42 Kannan V 6 86 Dharani Kumar M S 5.5 130 Antony Kings As 5 22 Pavithra S 6.5

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23 Akash King D 6.5 67 Balakumar A 5.5 Sunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating (Below 2000) Chess Tournament, indore
24 Tharan Aditya M 6.5 68 Velavan S 5.5
25 Jeffer Peter P 6.5 69 Reshmi M 5.5 Aishwin Daniel wins title
26 Derin Patrick 6.5 70 Manoj M 5.5 F.Anil, Organizing Secretary
27 Binesh E Raj 6.5 71 Srivattsan S 5.5
28 Narenthiran M 6.5 72 Emmanuel Austin 5.5 Sunita Singh Memorial FIDE Rating (Below winners and wished for their bright future.
29 Amalraj J 6 73 Sri Hari S 5.5 2000) Chess Tournament was inaugurated Ms. Amisha Pable conducted the event and
30 Anandharaman M 6 74 Sylesh Viswanathan H 5.5 by Mr Sunil Somani (Director, Medicaps In- Mr F Anil proposed vote of thanks.
31 Rathisri S 6 75 Sethu Sivaram B 5.5 stitute of Technology ,Indore and Dr Ajit Final standings: ( first 122 placings only)
32 Arun Shangar P S 6 76 Sankar Ganesh 5.5 Kumar Singh Kasliwal ( Renowned Business- Rk. Name Pts.
33 Mathuriya Bharathi R S 6 77 Palanivel D 5.5 man) on 27 Sept 2014 at Emerald Heights 1 Aishwin Daniel 9
34 Manish Vatsan R 6 78 Nanthini M 5.5 International School,Indore. The tournament 2 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan 8.5
35 Athira J 6 79 Vibish Raj.M.N 5.5 would witness 180 players playing from all 3 Anchit Vyas 8
36 Vinoth Kumar A 6 80 Vishnu Prasad V 5.5 over India to win prize money of Rs 2 Lakhs 4 Vaibhav Barahate 8
37 Sofia M 6 81 Hari Sankar V 5 . Many International Rated Players are par- 5 Raghav Bagri 8
38 Amisha Sany.M 6 82 Kavineash S 5 ticipating in the tournament. 6 Atul Bihari Sharan 8
39 Sriman Prabhu M K 6 83 Victor Siddharthan J 5 7 Rahul Lamba 7.5
40 Nellaiappan V 6 84 Jeya Meshak 5 The tournament shall be played as per the 8 Malhotra Harsh 7.5
41 Srinivasaraj S 6 85 Shreya K 5 FIDE Rules. Mr Bharat Chougule will be the 9 Dishant Jain 7.5
42 Divin S V 6 86 Priyadharshini P 5 Chief Arbiter of the tournament. Mr. F Anil 10 Deogade Salil 7.5
43 Adithi R 6 87 Manikandaeswari J 5 (Organising Secretary) and renowned busi- 11 Sunil Vaidya 7.5
44 Rajkumar S 6 88 Ashvin Venkat G 5 nessman Mr Vikas Jain, Mr Bharat Chougule, 12 Ayush Bhai Mehta 7.5
45 Sancho Paul Dev S 6 89 Leo Aravinth M S 5 Mr Shailendra Pable were also present at the 13 Sudhakar 7.5
46 Pratyush J 6 90 Mahadev J A 5 event. The ceremony was conducted by Ms 14 Shashi Kant 7
47 Ramnath Dapoor 6 91 Kanmani Roja M 5 Amisha Pable and Mr. Rajendra Chimnani 15 Devang Bisani 7
48 Sanjay Kumar S 6 92 Dinesh Krishnan S 5 gave away the vote of thanks. 16 Satya Sekhar Mitra 7
49 Mohankumar R 6 93 Adlin Rishana 5 17 Vishwakarma Jaiprakash 7
50 Adlijohan J 6 94 Ramesh M 5 Aishwin Daniel the highest rated player of 18 Umesh S Lalwani 7
51 Akash R 6 95 Jerush Pasanna 5 the tournament won the Sunita Singh Me- 19 Mahendra Lakhyani 7
52 Ananth Nikhilesh 6 96 Bathraa R S 5 morial FIDE Rating ( Below 2000) Chess 20 Ahirwal Dinesh 7
53 Kanthan A 6 97 Athisubramanian V 5 Tournament organised by All Indore Chess 21 Thakur Ankur Singh 7
54 Dilshad B 6 98 Hemanth Kumar T R 5 Association And Sanjay Kasliwal Memorial 22 Bise Sailesh 7
55 Sripriya R 6 99 Antony Nelson V 5 Chess Academy Indore from 27 Sept to 30 23 Kumar Sanu 6.5
56 Preejesh S B 6 100 Vignesh Karthik 5 Sept 2014 held at The Emerald Heights In- 24 Rudraksh Agrawal 6.5
57 R Abendhra Ramesh 6 101 Riya Shannon S 5 25 Parvej Alam Ansari 6.5
ternational School, Indore. 180 Players from
58 Muneeswaran M 6 102 Authava V S 5 26 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6.5
all over India played in the tournament .A
59 Murukesh B 6 103 Vaishnavi G 5 27 Batham Avinash 6.5
prize money of Rs 2 Lakhs were distributed
60 Vasantha Kumaar G 6 104 Surain Muthukumar R 5 28 Vivek Prakash Mishra 6.5
among the winners. Mr Muktesh Singh and
61 Srimathi S 6 105 Aswath S 5 29 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6.5
Dr. Ajit Kumar Singh Kasliwal gave away the
62 Dhivesh Athithya S 6 106 Viswakanth S 5 30 Delwar Dharmesh 6.5
trophies to the winners. Mr F Anil (Organis-
63 Sriram.K.V 6 107 D Gifty Sam Emmanuel 5 31 Pandey Abhishek 6.5
ing Secretary) and renowned businessman
64 Hariharan A C G 6 108 Maathesh N 5 32 Prashant Salunke 6.5
Mr Vikas Jain were also present at the event.
65 Vasuntharan M 6 109 Karishma T 5 33 Kushwah Kishore M. 6.5
Mr Bharat Chougule was the chief Arbiter of
66 Rajkumar R 5.5 110 Rohit Surya 5 34 Golvankar Dilip K 6.5
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35 Tekam Krunal 6.5 79 Deshmukh Yatin 5 Brilliant Trophy Open Fide rating Chess Tournament,Hyderabad
36 Tanvi Bhave 6.5 80 Agarwal Ajay 5
37 Kanwal Om Prakash 6 81 Ayush Sharma 5 Lakshman Rao wins title
38 Jain Jitendra 6 82 Aashna Khan 5 by Pramodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter
39 Nema Anupam 6 83 Muskan Lamba 5
40 Jain Nityata 6 84 Sharma Suyash 5 Brilliant Trophy Open Fide rating Chess tour- District Chess Association and Major Shiva
41 Saxena Anshul 6 85 Vaishnav Durgesh Kumar 5 nament was held at the Brilliant Grammar Prasad, Vice President, Ranga Reddy Chess
42 Todwal Sudeep 6 86 Vaibhav Tiwari 5 School, Dilsukh Nagar Hyderabad. The event Association were present as Guest of Honour.
43 Patil Priyanshu 6 87 Abhin Parikh 5 was held for 5 days. Total 176 players from Total of 40 Cash Prizes and 60 Trophies for
44 Shukla Shishir 6 88 Bairagi Rajendra 5 all over India participated in the event. The children in various Categories were awarded.
45 Shrivastav Hritik 6 89 Khanzode Ajinkya 5 event attracted 1 International Master and Final standings: ( first 120 placings only)
46 Vineet Pandey 6 90 Aditi Bajaj 5 2 Fide masters and a Cadidate Master, Top Rk Name Pts
47 Sharma Varun 6 91 Devpura Kartik 5 seed of the event was IM Katmale Sameer, 1 Lakshmanrao D. 7½
48 Kori Jagdeesh 6 92 Vaghmarey Nikhil 5 with a Fide rating of 2314 Total of which 101 2 Matta Vinay Kumar FM 7
49 Saksham Rautela 6 93 Neeraj Kant Rathore 5 Fide rated players participated in the event. 3 Krishna Teja N 7
50 Tiwari O P 6 94 Rawat Rishabh 5 4 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
51 Archi Agrawal 6 95 Saluja Pavneet Singh 5 The event was organized by Brilliant Chess 5 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7
52 Malviya Mohit 6 96 Nandwal Ankit 5 Academy, in association with Hyderabad 6 Varun V 7
53 Sanse Niraj 6 97 Diva Zalani 5 District Chess Association. Brilliant Chess 7 Erigaisi Arjun 7
54 Solanki Narendra 6 98 Lahre V.P 5 Academy conducts open tournaments every 8 Hinduja Reddy 7
55 Seth Dev 6 99 Singh Jarj Sanjay 5 2nd Saturday and Sunday. This tournament 9 Raghav Srivathsav V 7
56 Meghna Upadhyay 6 100 Jati Manas 5 was conducted as the completion of 100 Bril- 10 Ramakrishna J. FM 6½
57 Chandwani Prateek 6 101 Sachin Saxena 5 liant Chess Academy open chess Tournament 11 Kulkarni Rakesh 6½
58 Bhise Shubham 6 102 Shah Sushrut 5 Century. Free lunch was provided to all the 12 Kulkarni Chinmay 6½
59 Jain Ajit 6 103 Malviya Aryaman 5 players and parents for all the days of the 13 Badavath Anand 6½
60 Sahil Tickoo 5.5 104 Yug Kataria 5 tournament. The Prize fund was of 2 lakhs 14 Vishwanath Vivek 6½
61 Thakur Ameya 5.5 105 Negi Dharamveer Singh 5 with 40,000 as the first prize. 15 Kvijaya Kanth 6½
62 Rajak Rajman 5.5 106 Nigam Sanya 5 16 Rajendra G 6½
63 Deshmukh Vasant 5.5 107 Jindal Akshat 4.5 The event was inaugurated on 27th Septem- 17 Rajashekar B 6½
64 Jain Abhinav 5.5 108 Gogvekar Om 4.5 ber at 11 am. Chief guest of the event was 18 Karthik J C 6½
65 Aaniq Kamani 5.5 109 Nishit Betala 4.5 Mr A Narasimha Reddy, Vice- President, AICF. 19 Karmukilan S 6½
66 Bhat Siddharth K 5.5 110 Jatav Vijay 4.5 Mr K Kanna Reddy, secretary Hyderabad 20 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6
67 Prakhar Gupta (mp) 5.5 111 Gupta Rohan 4.5 District Chess Association and Major Shiva 21 Kathmale Sameer IM 6
68 Ramesh Kumar Sonker 5.5 112 Bajaj Aditya 4.5 Prasad Vide President Ranga Reddy Chess 22 Mirashi Shantanu 6
69 Rajaram 5.5 113 Parmar Ankur 4.5 Association, were present as Guest of Honor 23 Singh S. Vikramjit 6
70 Soni Deep Narayan 5.5 114 Sharma Jyoti Prakash 4.5 24 Jayakumaar S 6
for the occasion.
71 Pradeep Reddy 5.5 115 Jain Pawanjay 4.5 25 Naga Shashank D 6
72 Koradia G V 5.5 116 Bansod Siddhi 4.5 26 Subba Raju S. 6
Mr Narasimha Reddy Inaugurated the event
73 Yatharth Joshi 5.5 117 Mishra Aditya 4.5 27 Aditya S S V 6
by making the 1st move. On the final day 1st
74 Nigam Tanya 5.5 118 Gupta Dinesh 4 28 Raja Rithvik R CM 6
of October the prize distribution took place
75 Asthana B.S. 5 119 Chandil Sandeep 4 29 Aphale Kanaad 6
at 6 pm in the evening. The chief Guest of
76 Ashutosh Kumar 5 120 Singh Vishnu Pratap 4 30 Prateek Srivastava 6
the event was Mr Gunna Rajendra Reddy,
77 Chatterjee Arindam 5 121 Dafal Aishwaryaditya 4 31 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6
National Secretary, Gandhi Global Family.
78 Padlikar Harsh 5 122 Chaoji Vikram 4 32 Rao C S 6
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37 Toshali V 5½
38 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili 5½
39 Tarun V Kanth 5½
40 Raju M.Y. 5½
41 Mohammad Fazal 5½
42 Subhash K V 5½
43 Prasad J R C 5½
44 Jishitha D 5½
45 Sri Santhosh D 5½
46 Gowtham Pollam 5½
47 Aryagopal 5½
48 Viswa Sudhakar Repalle 5½
49 Vardhan Adabala 5½
50 Viswanath Sandilya B. 5
51 Satyanarayana M 5
52 Chetana D 5
53 Maruthi Mohan 5
54 Patil Samiksha 5
55 Durga Prasad P V 5
56 Viswa Teja G 5
57 Nitheesh Pothireddy 5
58 Srikar Yerrabati 5
59 Sai Raj Gopal K 5
60 Murali Mohan Y 5
61 Shabaaj Sk 5
62 Saketh P 5
63 Biradavolu Asrith 5
64 Viswajith Aravind K 5
65 Sai Arun Challa 5
66 Sai Siddardha A 5
67 Kori Amitanand 5
68 Chandrashekar R 5
69 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 5
70 Suryanarayana Y N 5
71 Anurag Kuruvada 5
72 Niharika Ch 5
73 Vishwajeeth Reddy Adla 5
74 Sharan R S 5
75 Poojanjali B 5
76 Prateek Atluri 5
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78 Arputha Jasmine B A 5
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81 Chandra Hass M C J 4½
82 Ashwin Prakash Phatak 4½
83 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 4½
84 Katlamudi Vinita 4½
85 Rithvik Raja M 4½
86 B Sai Revanth Reddy 4½
87 Neeraj Anirudh K 4½
88 Ananya D 4½
89 Jagan Mohan Rao K 4½
90 Raviteja T V 4½
91 Vysetty Sahithi 4
92 Praneeth R 4
93 Abhinav Ganti 4
94 Sabbi Sree Rohitha 4
95 Vathsalya V 4
96 Rohith Yadav B R 4
97 Raivath Mallela 4
98 Midhush Sirigudi 4
99 Amulya D 4
100 Meghana Sirigudi 4
101 Laasya Priya P 4
102 Rama Devi P 4
103 Amanchi Umesh Chandra 4
104 Rohith A 4
105 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 4
106 Sasidhar P 4
107 Lasya Mayukha N 4
108 Sudershan Reddy Y V 4
109 Sai Amit K 4
110 Anand Miriyala 4
111 Koushik M 4
112 Avinash A Srinivasulu 4
113 Deepak Chowdry N 4
114 Vijay Sai D 4
115 Sai Yaswanth G V 4
116 Surya Raghava I 4
117 P Venkateshwara Rao 4
118 Subrahmanya Kumar K 4
119 Dutt B.S. 4
120 Ch Pradyumna Reddy 4
Dr.N.Mahalingam passes away
Dr.Pollachi N.Mahalingam was President of All India Chess Federation
between 1985 to 1989, President of Tamil Nadu Chess Association from
1975 to 1984 and later from 1999 to 2002. His singular contribution to
sports in general and chess in particular is overwhelming. Long before
the Government brought in a scheme of cash awards for Indians becom-
ing International Masters and Grandmasters Dr.Mahalingam already was
already having that in Tamil Nadu and when he became AICF President
he extended the same to the whole of India. He gave Rs.20,000 to any
one becoming IM and Rs.50,000 to any one becoming a GM. Dozens of
Indian players benefitted from this scheme. When TNCA organized the
Mariammal-Mahalingam FIDE Rating chess Tournament in 1983 one of
the players to get his first FIDE Rating was Viswanathan Aanand. It was in
the fitness of things that Anand accomplished his third and final norm at the Sakthi Finance GM
Tournament sponsored by Dr.Mahalingam at Coimbatore in 1987 and became a Grandmaster.
Apart from the tournament sponsorship he financially supported budding chess players when they
needed encouragement. His assistance was substantial, quiet and not publicized. Dr.Mahalingam
who moved with men who mattered-Governors, Presidents, Ministers and the elite in every
field but always treated ordinary people with extra-ordinary courtesy and warmth.
A renowned industrialist and a recipient of several awards including the ‘Padma Bhushan’
in 2007, he was elected to the state assembly from Pollachi constituency in 1952, 1957 and
1962 polls and had played a key role in development projects, including the Parambikulam-
Aliyar water project.He was a recipient of Indira Gandhi National Integration Award and
had been a member of the State Planning Commission for two terms. A staunch Gandhian,
educationist and philanthropist, 91-year-old Mahalingam’s end came on the Gandhi Jayanthi
Day. Indian chess is poorer in his demise. All India Chess Federation and Tamil Nadu State
Chess Association deeply mourn the death of their former President.
World Youth Chess Championships 2014, Durban
India tops in medal tally
Though our medals tally is only six compared to eight last year, this year also India is bag-
ging the Overall trophy for the best performing country for the third time in succession.Nihal
Sarin of Kottayam, Kerala and Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur, Maharashtra helped India win
more medals than other nations in the World Youth Chess Championships that concluded
at Durban in South Africa on September 29, 2014.India won six medals, comprising of two
gold, two silver and twobronze. Behind India on three medals was Russia and the rest had
just two medals or less.
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 Overall, Asia dominated the show winning Though our medals tally is only six com-
18 out of 36 medals. India and Asia's domi- pared to eight last year, this year also India
nance have been more or less continuing is bagging the Overall trophy for the best
over the years. The event was organised by performing country for the third time in
Logan Reddy of South Africa. Chief arbiter succession. The second best performing
was Gunther van den Bergh of South Africa. Federation was Russia with three medals,
India (51) had the second highest number while Kazakhstan bagged the third best
of entrants after hosts South Africa (162). Federation.
A total of 959 players from 87 nations took
part in this event that ran from Sep 20-29, The strong Indian Contingent in the World
2014. Youth Chess Championships 2014, being
held at Durban got a shot in its arm when
Indian medal winners:Mendonca Leon they were visited by the Consulate General
Luke, bronze in Under-8;Nihal Sarin, gold Mr. R Raghunathan.
in Under-10;Divya Deshmukh, gold in
Under-10 Girls;R Vaishali, bronze in Under-14 Girls;Vr Aravindh Chithambaram, silver in
Under-16;Vaibhav Suri, silver in Under-18. Anand Wins Bilbao Grand Slam Masters
by Arvind Aaron
Though our young star Nihal Sarin, who was leading the pack by a full point lost his final
round game, his nearest opponent was comfortably held to a draw by Kushagra Mohan World championship challenger Viswanathan Anand won
which sealed the Gold for Nihal Sarin in the Under 10 Boys Category. In the Under 10 Girls his last event before the World Championship match
Category, our other star, Divya Deshmukh, who was also leading all the way, was held to a against Magnus Carlsen starting in Sochi, Russia from
tense draw by her opponent on the top table, while her hot pursuer from Kazakhstan slowly Nov 7, 2014. The Chennai born Vishy Anand won with
but surely outplayed Mrudul Dehenkar on the second table. With both players tied on 10 a round to spare at Bilbao in Spain.
points each, the tie-breaks were applied and Divya Deshmukh edged out her Kazakh rival Anand beat Vallejo twice, then beat Ponomariov once
to emerge with the Gold. and drew him in another and had a defeat and draw
In the Under 16 Open category, GM Elect Aravindh Chidambaram scored a fluent win over against Aronian. Anand totalled 11 points to win this
Dragnev Valentin of Austria to Category 21 event. Anand lost the last round to Aronian
emerge with a Silver medal. Grand- but it did not damage his placing.
master Vaibhav Suri followed suit This event will go behind the Baden Baden success and
when he crushed Alekseenko Kirill the Candidates Match success achieved this year at Khanty Mansiysk.A victory earns three
of Russia to take his tally to 8.5 points, a draw one point and a defeat gets zero. This double all-play-all ran from September
points and bag the Silver medal. 14-20, 2014.
In the Under 8 Boys section, CM Final placings: 1 V Anand (Ind) 11; 2 L Aronian (Arm) 10; 3-4. R Ponomariov (Ukr), Vallejo
Luke Leon Mendonca struck a Pons (Esp) 5 each.
Bronze Medal when he drew his
game against much higher rated
opponent Guo Arthur from USA. In Harika gets bronze in Sharjah Leg
the Under-14 Girls section, Vaishali by Arvind Aaron
won her game against Ragozenco
Teodora of Germany to move to 8 It all happened well for Dronavalli Harika in the final two rounds of the FIDE Grand Prix at
points and win the Bronze medal Sharjah in the UAE on Sep 6, 2014. Harika defeated Danielian of Armenia in the penultimate
on tie break. round and then defeated Batchimeg in the final round as it helped her finish third in the

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 sixth Grand Prix leg with 6.5 points from eleven 3rd Shankar Roy Memorial Rapid Rating Tournament 2014, Kolkata
rounds. Harika had a good tie-break score and it
helped her push three players behind. Rupankar Nath wins
Humpy drew Ju Wenjun in the penultimate round
and then defeated Danielian in the final round to by Sumit Chatterjee FA ,Chief Arbiter
move up to seventh place. Ju Wenjun and Hou 3rd Shankar Roy Memorial Rapid Rating 3 Das Sayantan IM 7
Yifan tied for the first place with 8.5 points, fin- Chess Tournament 2014 was held at Alekh- 4 Swapnil S. Dhopade IM 6½
ishing two clear points of the next points group. ine Chess Club, Kolkata,(W.B) from 29th to 5 Debasish Mukherjee 6½
Ju Wenjun was champion and Hou Yifan was 31st August 2014 in befitting manner. The 6 Sarbojit Paul 6½
second in this leg. tournament was inaugurated by GM Deep 7 Kaustuv Kundu 6½
The Classic Jewelry House Lobortas has awarded Sengupta & IM Atanu Lahiri, Hon’ble Sec- 8 Samal Ansuman 6½
the winner of the Grand Prix series Hou Yifan retary BCA. 9 Majumdar Chandrasish 6
with a special cup which contains precious stones including silver, gold and diamonds. In
10 Bose Sayan 6
the Grand Prix, Hou Yifan won the overall series 2013-2014 while Humpy was second and No dispute, argument etc. arose during the 11 Subhajit Bhattacharyya 6
Anna Muzychuk was third. Humpy was leading until the last event by five points but had to tournament. It may be mentioned that no 12 Neelash Saha 6
score the same points as Hou Yifan. complaints was placed before the Appeals’ 13 Mitrabha Guha FM 6
It was an important slip for Humpy. Had she finished ahead or same points as Hou Yifan Committee. The tournament was played in
she would have earned a slot in the 10-game 2015 World Women’s Chess Championship 14 Debankan Dhara 6
8 round swiss league format. At the end 15 Subhayan Kundu 6
match. Now, Hou Yifan has obtained that slot. From October 11-31, 2014 there is a World of final round Rupankar Nath bagged the
Women’s Championship knock out and the winner of that will now play Hou Yifan for the 16 Chattarjee Laltu 6
Championship title by securing 7 points 17 Aronyak Ghosh CM 6
women’s title. in a better tie-breaking score. Arpan Das
The final leg had this placings: 1-2. Ju Wenjun, Hou Yifan (both Chn) 8.5/11 each; 3-6. 18 Aditya Basu 6
finsihed 2nd with 7 points and IM Sayantan
Dronavalli Harika (Ind), Zhao Xue (Chn), Anna Ushenina (Ukr), Tuvshintugs Batchimeg (Mgl) 19 Arpita Mukherjee WFM 6
Das, the 3rd prize with 7 points also.. Total
6.5 each; 7 Koneru Humpy (Ind) 5.5; 8 Elina Danielian (Arm) 5; 9 Tatiana Kosintseva (Rus) 20 Chandreyee Hajra 6
253 players ( 166 fide rated) players from
4.5; 10 Zhu Chen (Qat) 3.5; 11 Nafisa Muminova (Uzb) 3; 12 Alina L’Ami (Rom) 1.5 each. 21 Sayantan Mukherjee 6
different states of our country participated
22 B Niladri Shekhar 6
14thIPCA World Individual Chess Championship, Serbia.. in this all India Chess meet.
23 Debarshi Mukherjee 6

Jennitha wins Gold for the second time The prize distribution ceremony was held 24
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on 31/08/2014.Sri Arup Biswas Hon’ble
Minister,West Bengal, Mr. Srikanth Mohota 26 Verma Sanjay 6
K.Jennitha Anto won the Gold in the Women section of the 14thIPCA World Individual Chess
and GM Neelotpal Das distributed the priz- 27 Srijit Paul 6
Championship which was held in Serbia at Apatin – Banja Junakovic, 15 - 24 September
es. Total prize money of Rs. 1,10,000/- was 28 Soham Das 6
2014. She won the Gold Medal for the second time. The tournament attracted 33 physically
distributed amongst first 30 players. Sev- 29 Roy Prantik 5½
challenged chess players from 13 countries. Nearly 16 players use wheel chair.
eral special prizes were given for different 30 Mallick Anjan 5½
categories. Rupankar Nath was richer by Rs. 31 Dilip Das 5½
Jennitha being a wheel chair player participated in Fide A category and almost all the play-
25,000/- and a Trophy. Members of the family 32 Satya Sekhar Mitra 5½
ers were international rated players. Out of the 33 players, 9 were fide title holders added
more challenge to the championship, 4IM’s, one FM, 3WIM’s and one WFM. On the whole of late Shankar Roy were also present at the 33 Didwania Vishal 5½
the tournament was a tough one.Of the nine round Jennitha secured 5 points ending up Prize Distribution Ceremony. 34 Utsab Chatterjee 5½
winning three rounds, with four tie-ups and two losses. 35 Mukherjee Dyutimoy 5½
Final standings of Women: Final standings: ( first 181 placings only) 36 Ambarish Sharma 5½
Gold: WIM K.Jennitha Anto (India) – 5points Rk Name Pts 37 Koustav Chatterjee 5½
Silver: WFM Aleksandrova Aleksandra (Israel) – 5points 1 Nath Rupankar 7 38 Sumit Kumar 5½
Bronze: WIM Kaydanovich Marina (Russia) - 4.5points 2 Arpan Das 7 39 Saptorshi Gupta 5½

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41 Samar Chatterjee 5½
42 Arka Sengupta 5½
43 Sandip Dey 5½
44 Subhra Banerjee 5½
45 Sanjib Chatterjee 5½
46 Mohana Sengupta 5½
47 Soumik Datta 5½
48 Raunak Mondal 5½
49 Soumma Chakraborty 5
50 Khushi Dharewa 5
51 Dipanjan Chowdhury 5
52 Rajib Gharai 5
53 Ganguly Ritabroto 5
54 Tuhin Dutta 5
55 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 5
56 Aneek Das 5
57 Md. Kutubuddin 5
58 Abijit Mistry 5
59 Manideep Mukhi 5
60 Swapan Kumar Das 5
61 Arpan Das (jr) 5
62 Sayantan Kundu 5
63 Sudipa Haldar 5
64 Diya Chowdhury 5
65 Bristy Mukherjee 5
66 Arijit Mukherjee 5
67 Brajanath Samaddar 5
68 Mrinal Kakati 5
69 Shreyan Chakraborty 5
70 Sayanton Mazumder 5
71 Sonkalan Bharati 5
72 Syed Omar Zoran 5
73 Sayan Banik 5
74 Deshmukh Nachiket 5
75 Sagar Majumdar 5
76 Sambarta Banerjee 5
77 Chatterjee Sl 5
78 Swapnil Sen 5
79 Annyatoma Das 5
80 Basudeb Pal 5
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82 Nirmal Kumar Bose 5
83 Sagnik Chakraborty 5
84 Ghosh Samriddhaa 4½
85 Samir Kumar Saha 4½
86 Arya Bhakta 4½
87 Chatterjee K.K. 4½
88 Saikat Bose 4½
89 Apurba Chakraborty 4½
90 Pranab Chatterjee 4½
91 Shouvik Kar 4½
92 Samir Dhar 4½
93 Subhashis Ray Chowdhury 4½
94 Shyamol Ganguly 4½
95 Deep Dutta 4½
96 Soumyajit Das 4½
97 Prasanta Mondal 4½
98 Ayushman Majumdar 4½
99 Venkatesh H 4½
100 Saikat Saha 4½
101 Subhabrata Roy 4½
102 Vedanta Hazra 4½
103 Sudarshan Mitra 4½
104 Debraj Gangopadhyay 4½
105 Sayon Patra 4½
106 Sanglap Naha 4½
107 Chama Chanukya Krishna 4
108 Shrutarshi Ray 4
109 Suvojit Paul 4
110 Anuronan Das 4
111 Chandra Sekhar Rout 4
112 Debarghya Samanta 4
113 Shambo Dutta 4
114 Pousumi Maity 4
115 Arunava Bhattacharjee 4
116 Shuvam Roy 4
117 Pradip Bhowmick 4
118 Akshath Sinha 4
119 Pradip Kumar Nath 4
120 Avhra Biswas 4
121 Mehendi Sil 4
122 Sanket Chakravarty 4
123 Bidisha Roy 4
124 Saanvi Khanna 4
125 Soumita Das 4
126 Adrian Sajjan 4
127 Adrija Dawn 4
128 Barunangshu Roy 4
129 Debashis Majumder(irs) 4
130 Abhra Baran Kar 4
131 Shinjini Biswas 4
132 Pabitra Mukherjee 4
133 Bidhan Bhattacharjee 4
134 Sourath Biswas 4
135 Ishani Biswas 4
136 Abhinandan Ganguly 4
137 Sneha Paul 4
138 Bitan Chakraborty 4
139 Bani Kanta Nath 4
140 Souvick Pramanick 4
141 Swapan Kr Das Iol 4
142 Soumili Chandra 4
143 Ashutosh Biswas 4
144 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 4
145 Saptak Sanyal 4
146 Manash Bala 4
147 Biswas Sampurna 4
148 Aniruddh Chatterjee 4
149 Srijita Sarkar 4
150 Aditya Chatterjee 4
151 Dhruv Sadani 4
152 Ritam Banerjee 4
153 Madhu Sudan Mukherjee 4
154 Sankar Bhattacharya 4
155 Swarup Dey Sarkar 3½
156 Pratyay Chowdhury 3½
157 Rishiraj Baul 3½
158 Srijit Some 3½
159 Pal C.N. 3½
160 Sukumar Karmakar 3½
161 Arhan Boyd 3½
162 Santanu Roy 3½
163 Sneha Baidya 3½
164 Prem Krishan Mandal 3½
165 Anushka Ray 3½
166 Surjo Ghosh 3½
167 Arijit Saha 3½
168 Srijeet Mullick 3½
169 Saikat Paul 3½
170 Alap Roy 3½
171 Nishant Mohapatra 3½
172 Soumyadeep Majumder 3½
173 Sayak Banerjee 3½
174 Rithwik Raaj Anand 3
175 Debjyoti Das 3
176 Kiton Ghosh 3
177 Santanu Mukhopadhyay 3
178 Sneham Pal 3
179 Sayan Bid 3
180 Ashutosh Kumar Maurya 3
181 Dhritabrata Kundu 3
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
A fascinating helpmate
This week’s puzzle is a fine helpmate
by the American expert in this genre in
which black helps white to mate the black
king in two moves. Black commences
the play.If ‘a’ and ‘b’ are black’s first and
second moves and ‘A’ and ‘B’ those of
white then the solution runs thus: 1.a,A
2.b,B mate. Both the solution are totally
matched with great unity.
Toma Garai
2 Pr, Probleemblad 1989
Helpmate in two Two solutions
(solution on page 48)
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Selected games from National new problems.] 22.cxd3 [After 22.Bxd3 Bxd3 Saranya,J (2067)
23.cxd3 Rc2 24.Kf3 Rxb2= Though material Vaishali,R (2054) [C60]
Junior Ch, Pune is level the position is unclear and black has a 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7 4.c3 d6
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron slight edge.] 22...Rc2 23.Kf3 Bh4 24.Re2 5.d4 Bd7 6.Na3 This is a bizarre move. More
Rxe2 25.Kxe2 Rc8 26.Rg1+ Kf8 27.Nd1? common here are 6 Be3 and 6 Nbd2. 6...Ng6
Savant,Riya (1999)
7.Nc2 a6 8.Bc4 Be7² 9.Ne3?! Probably
Vaishali,R (2054) [A45]
Nf5 was planned, but it blocks the way of
1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 Be7 4.e4 d6
her bishop on c1. 9...exd4 10.Nxd4 Nxd4
5.Ne2 0–0 6.0–0 c5 [Usual here is 6...e5
11.cxd4 0–0 12.0–0 Bg5 13.g3 Prevent-
not allowing white a free hand in the centre.]
46.Kd2 [A better fight was offered by: 46.Nf4 ing the black knight from getting to h4 or
7.dxc5 dxc5 8.Qxd8?! [This early exchange
Bg3 47.Nd3 Ke6 48.Kd4 Bxd3 49.Kxd3 Kxe5 f4 and at the same time, threatening f2-f4.
of queens does not lead to easy equality.
50.Ke3 Though white is two pawns down she 13...b5 14.Bb3 Bxe3 [The white knight on
Better was: 8.e5 Ng4 9.f4 Qb6 10.c4=] 8...
could hold this position to a draw by placing e3 was not posing any immediate threat and
Rxd8= Black has a slight initiative. 9.Nbc3
her bishop on the f1–b5 diagonal controlling is blocking its own bishop from entering the
Nc6 threatening 10 Nb4 for Nxc2. Therefore
[Under pressure, many of us think of only the two black pawns on the queen-side and game. Therefore, better was: 14...Bf6 15.f4
white's next is forced. 10.a3 Nd4 11.Bg5
defence and not counter-attack. Here, white keeping her king on the h1 corner to stop the c5 16.e5 dxe5 17.dxe5 Be7 18.Bd5 Ra7=]
h6! [If 11...Nxc2 12.Rad1 Rxd1 13.Rxd1 h6=]
could turn the tables on her more fmous h-pawn from queening. It must be remem- 15.Bxe3² Qe7 16.Qc2 Rfe8 17.f4! [This is
12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.Nxd4 cxd4 Black's advan-
opponent with: 27.Ng4! Rc2+ 28.Kf3 Rxb2 bered that white can sacrifice her bishop for a tricky move with deep tactics into which the
tage is clear. When the knight goes back, the
29.Nxh6 Rf2+ 30.Ke3 Rxh2 31.Rg8+ Ke7 the last black pawn on the queen-side as the Former World U–12 Girls Champion slips. Bet-
Bc8 would come out completing development
32.Rb8 Ba6 33.Ng8+ Kd7 34.Rf8 and white position of black's dark square bishop and ter was 17.Qxc7 Rac8 18.Qb7 Bh3 19.Qxe7
ahead of white. 14.Nd1 Bd7 15.f4 Bb5!
could win.] 27...Rc2+ 28.Ke3 Rxh2 29.Rh1 h-pawn can only stalemate white.] 46...Bd4 Rxe7 20.Rfc1 Rxe4] 17...Bf5?
16.Re1 Rac8!
Rxh1 30.Bxh1 b6 31.Nc3 Bd7= 32.d4 f6!? 47.Nb4 Bxe5 48.Nc6 Kd6 49.Nxa7 Kc5
Black makes risky moves to wrest back the 50.Nc6 [If 50.Ke3 Bd4+ 51.Kd2 Bg6 52.Nc6
initiative. 33.d5 [By this move white opens h5 53.Ne7 Bf7 54.Nf5 Be5 55.Be2 Be6 and
up the game and lets the hitherto quiet dark gradually white would be pushed against the
square bishop of black enter the game with wall.] 50...Bf4+ 51.Ke1 Bd7 52.Be2 Bg5
unpleasant effect. Better was: 33.Ne4 a5 [52...Bxc6? 53.bxc6 Kxc6 54.Kf2 b5 55.Bxb5+
34.Bf3 Ke7 35.Nd6 a4 36.Nc4 fxe5 37.fxe5 is a draw as explained earlier.] 53.Kf2 Bf6
Bb5 38.Nxb6 Bg5+ 39.Ke4 Bc1=] 33...fxe5 54.Ke3 Be6 55.Nb8 Bc3 56.Kf4 Kd6 57.Nc6
34.fxe5 Bg5+! 35.Ke4 Bc1! 36.dxe6 Bxe6 Bd7 58.Nb8 Be8 59.Kf5 h5 60.Kg5 Bd2+
37.b4 [This keeps some chances of drawing 61.Kh4 Be1+ 62.Kh3 h4 63.Nc6 Bd7+ [Better was 17.. .Rac8, but not 17...Qxe4?
The black forces are in full flow, unlike
the game, for if 37.Nd1 Bb3 38.Bf3 a6 39.Kd3 64.Bg4 Be8 65.Nd4 Kc5 66.Ne6+ Kb4 18.Qxe4 Rxe4 19.Bd5 wins the exchange.]
white's which are still to develop. 17.e5
Bxd1 40.Bxd1 Bxb2 and white loses her second [66...Kxb5?? 67.Nc7+] 67.Nc7 Bf7 68.Be2 18.exf5! Qxe3+ 19.Kg2! Nf8 Probably
Be7 18.Be4 Rc7 19.Nf2 g5 [This could be
pawn and has no chances of saving the game Bg3 69.Na8 Kc5 70.Kg2 Be6 The knight is when black played her 17th move she
psychologically a good move to unnerve
though there be opposite colour bishops.] truly cornered and has no move. Black is threat- had overlooked that her knight would be
the opponent. Black has only a very slight
37...Bxa3 38.b5 [38.Nb5 Bxb4 39.Nxa7 h5 ening 71...Bd5+ The game is over. 71.Nxb6 'on take' on the 19th move. 20.Rad1! c5
advantage and white could neutralise it
and black's passed pawns on either wing Kxb6 72.Bd3 Kc5 73.Be2 Bc7 74.Bf3 21.dxc5 dxc5 [21...Qxc5 was equal. But
with careful play. If 19...Bc6 20.Bxc6 bxc6
and her two bishops would lead to victory. Kxb5 75.Kg1 h3 76.Kh1 Kc4 77.Kg1 black probably thought that her position
21.Re4 c5=] 20.Kg2 [20.f5 could lead to
The black knight also has to be careful lest Kd3 78.Kf2 Bb6+ 79.Kf1 [If 79.Kg3 Ke3 was fine.] 22.Rfe1! Black must give up
unclear play where black still has slightly
it be trapped by the bishop pair.] 38...Bc8 80.Bc6 Bf5 81.Kh2 Kf2 82.Bd5 Bc7+ 83.Kh1 her queen for two rooks, but the resultant
better chances because of her two bishops
39.Kd4 Bc5+ 40.Kc4 Ke7 41.Bf3 Be6+ Bd3 84.Bc6 Bf1 and mate in two.] 79...Ke3 position is favourable for white's queen.
and the vulnerability of white's e5 pawn.]
42.Nd5+ Kd7 43.Kc3 Bf5 44.Nf4 Be3 80.Bc6 Kf4 After the black king gets to g3, 22...Qxe1 23.Rxe1 Rxe1 24.Qxc5 Rd8
20...gxf4 21.gxf4 d3 [This is logical, but
45.Nd5 Bf2 there is no hope for white. 0–1 25.h4! Providing one more square for the
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king to escape possible perpetual check by
the rooks. 25...h5 and black does the same.
26.f6! g6 27.Bd5 Ne6 28.Qb4
28...Rd1? [The way to survive is with some
intricate tactics starting with: 28...Re2+!
29.Kf1 (29.Kf3? a5! 30.Qc3 (30.Qxb5??
Nd4#) 30...Rc2! 31.Qe5 Rc5 and black
wins.) 29...Rc2 30.Qb3 (30.Bxe6?? Rd1+–+)
30...Rc1+ 31.Kg2 Rd6=] 29.Bxe6 R8d2+
30.Kf3 Rd3+ 31.Ke4 fxe6 32.Qe7! Rd7
33.f7+! Kh7 34.f8Q+ Rxe7 35.Qxe7+
Kh6 36.Ke5! Rd5+ 37.Kxe6 Rf5 38.Qd8!
Kg7 39.Qc7+ Kh6 40.Qc8 Kg7 41.Qc3+
[41.Qxa6?? Rf6+ wins the queen.] 41...Kh7
42.b4 Kg8 43.Qc6 Kg7
44.Qb7+! Kh6 45.Qxa6 Kh7 46.Qa7+
Kh6 47.a4 bxa4 48.Qxa4 and won on the
70th move. 1–0
Patil,Pratik (2217)
Karthikeyan,Murali (2477) [B22]
1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4
5.Nf3 d6 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Bc4 e6 8.0–0
Be7 9.Qe2 0–0 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3
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d5 12.Bd3 Bd7 13.Rb1 [V.Afromeev vs
El Kalyouby, Tula- A, 2000 tried a new idea:
13.h4 Bxh4 14.g3 Be7 15.Kg2 Qc7 16.Rh1 h6
17.Bxh6 f5 18.exf6 gxh6 19.fxe7 Rf6 20.Ne5
Nxe7 21.Ng4 and white went on to win.] 13...
Na5 It is standard strategy to focus on a back-
ward pawn on a semi-open file as the white
pawn on c3 here. 14.Bc2 Rc8 15.Qd3 forc-
ing g7-g6 so that the dark squares around the
black king become weakened. 15...g6 16.Qe3
Re8 17.Rd1 Qc7 18.Rd3
18...f5?! [With white preparing for a mas-
sive king-side attack, it was prudent not to
willingly open up his castled position. He
should start operations in the sector where
he is superior and play: 18...Qc4 19.Qh6 Bf8
20.Qf4 (threat 21 Ng5 attacking f7) 20...h6
21.Ra1 Ba4 22.Nd2 Qc6 (22...Qa6? 23.Rf3
Bxc2 24.Qxf7+ Kh8 25.Ne4!! Bxe4 26.Bg5!)
23.Nb3² with attacking prospects for white.;
another idea, keeping his queen along the
second rank and activating his queen bishop,
which has no role in this locked position, is
also refuted: 18...a6 19.Qh6 Bb5 20.Ng5
Bxg5 21.Bxg5 f6 22.Rxb5 fxg5 23.Rb1 Rf8
24.Qxg5 b5 25.Rh3 Qf7 26.Qh4± White
is threatening 27 Bxg6!] 19.exf6 Prob-
ably black did not expect this e.p. capture
which leads to a very open game. 19...Bxf6
20.Qh6 e5? [One move, too early! Better
was to precede this by 20...Bg7! (taking the
bishop to a safer square before opening up.)
21.Qg5 e5 22.dxe5 Bf5 23.Rd2 Be4 24.Bxe4
dxe4 25.Nd4 Qxe5³] 21.dxe5 Bxe5? [Prob-
ably black had planned this a few moves ear-
lier but did not re-check it when the position
actually arose. Better was: 21...Bg7! 22.Qd2
Nc4 23.Qd1 Bxe5 (23...Nxe5 24.Bf4²)
24.Nxe5 Qxe5 25.Be3 Bf5 26.Rxd5 Bxc2
27.Rxe5 Bxd1 28.Rxe8+ Rxe8 29.Rxd1
Nxe3 30.Re1=] 22.Nxe5
[White misses the very strong move:
22.Rxd5! Bg7 23.Qg5 Qxc3 24.Bd3! (a
quiet move taking the bishop to a safer
square and to parry back rank mate threats
with Bf1) 24...Be6 25.Bd2 Bf6 (to save
his Na5) 26.Qf4+- The Bf6 is lost.] 22...
Qxe5 23.Re3 Qf6 24.h4! this secures
the white king an escape square at h2 and
at the same time hopes to provide a pro-
tected haven for his bishop on g5. 24...
Rxe3 25.Bxe3 Rxc3 26.Bd1 White plans
to target black's d5 pawn with Bf3. Though
black has a pawn more, he sorely misses
the absence of his dark square bishop on
g7. 26...b6 27.Bf3 Be6 28.Rd1 Rc4
29.h5 d4 30.hxg6 Qxg6 31.Qf4! [White
wants to keep the queens on the board to
form a devastating combination with his two
bishops and black's exposed king. If he re-
covers his lost pawn, he would get nothing:
31.Qxg6+ hxg6 32.Bxd4=] 31...d3 [If 31...
dxe3? 32.Rd8+ Kg7 33.Qf8#] 32.Qd6 Rc8
(See diagram) [If 32...Kf7 33.Bd5 Bxd5
34.Qd7+! Kf8 35.Qxd5 Rg4 36.Re1 Nc6
37.Bh6+ Qxh6 38.Qf5+ wins.] 33.Bh5!!
Nc4 [If 33...Qxh5 34.Qxe6+ Kg7 35.Bd4+
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and picks up the Rook on c8 with check.]
34.Qe7 Qf5 35.Bd4! Bf7 [Black can only
try in vain to block the white bishop's access
to g7 because after 35...Ne5 36.g4! Nf3+
37.Kg2 Rc7 38.Qe8+ wins easily.]
(Position after 32….Rc8)
36.Rxd3! the final blow. 36...Ne5 37.Bxe5
Rc1+ [If 37...Qxh5 38.Rg3+ Qg6 39.Rxg6+
hxg6 40.Qf6+-] 38.Rd1! A very well played
game by white. 1–0
Lendhe,Avdhoot (1827)
Mohapatra,Sidhant (2255) [D47]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6
5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3
Bd6 9.0–0 0–0 10.e4 e5 11.Bg5 exd4
12.Nxd4 Ne5 13.Bc2 Bg4 14.f3 Bc5!
15.Nce2 Bh5 16.Kh1 h6 17.Bf4 Nfd7
18.Bb3 Qb6 19.Nf5 Bg6 20.Neg3 Rad8
[An equalizing idea is: 20...a5 21.a3
a4 22.Ba2 b4 23.axb4 Qxb4=] 21.Qc2
Rfe8 22.Rac1 Bf8 23.Be3 c5 24.a4 a6
25.axb5 axb5 26.f4?! [This is prema-
turely aggressive. One should not change
the pawn structure when development of
the pieces is not complete. Better was to
place a rook on the central open file with:
26.Rfd1 ] 26...Nc6 [26...Ng4 27.Bg1 Qa5
unpinning the c5 pawn was a good alter-
native.] 27.e5?! After this move, black's
forces find more scope for aggressive activ-
ity. He could have tried 27 Qc3. 27...Nd4
28.Bxd4 cxd4 29.e6!?
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29...Nb8 [If 29...fxe6 30.Nxh6+ Kh7 31.f5
exf5 32.Nf7! f4 33.Nf5 Qf6 34.Nxd8 Bxf5
35.Qd1! and if now, 35...Rxd8 36.Qh5+ Qh6
37.Qxf5++-] 30.Rfe1 Kh7 31.exf7 Rxe1+
32.Rxe1 Qf6 33.Re6 [Stronger was: 33.Re8!
Nc6 (33...Rxe8 34.fxe8Q Bxe8 35.Nxd4+
g6 36.Ne6±) 34.Qd3 Rxe8 35.fxe8Q Bxe8
36.Qxb5+- Bg6 37.Qc4] 33...d3 34.Qd2 Qxf7
35.Nh4± With every move, white has been
edging closer to victory. 35...Bb4
36.Qxb4? [A great mistake. He could
win with a quiet withdrawal of the queen
followed by some tactically explosive
moves: 36.Qd1! Re8 37.Re4! Qd7 38.f5!
(this move is important as in the fol-
low up white has to bring his rook to f4
to defend ....Qe1+ mating.) 38...Bxf5
39.Rxb4 Qe7 40.Rf4 Qe1+ 41.Rf1 Qxd1
42.Rxd1+-] 36...d2! 37.f5? [Better was
to concede a slight advantage to black
with: 37.h3 d1Q+ 38.Bxd1 Qxe6 (38...
Rxd1+? 39.Re1=) 39.Bb3 Qd6 40.Qxb5]
37...Qxe6!!
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With this winning stroke black exposes
white's back-rank weakness. 38.fxg6+ [38.
fxe6? d1Q+ mates in three moves.] 38...
Kh8 39.h3 Qe1+ 40.Kh2 d1Q Now the
game is lost for white and in desperation,
he places his hope on obtaining a snap back
rank mate which is not there. Now ensues
a very rare game where one player plays
with two queens against one! 41.Qc5 Qxb3
42.Nf3 Qee6 43.Ne5 Nd7! 44.Qc7 Qxg3+!
If 45 Kxg3 Qxe5+ 46 Qxe5 Nxe5 and white
is left with nothing. 0–1
Kumaran,B (2283)
Krishna Teja,N (2222) [B41]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6
5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Bd3 Qc7 8.0–0
Nc6 9.Nxc6 dxc6 10.Be3 Bxc3 11.bxc3
c5 [On the surface, white's position looks
very good with his two bishops aimed at the
black king-side. However better for black
was to tackle the problem head-on and
continue with his development: 11...0–0
and if now, 12.f4 e5 13.f5 c5 14.Bg5 Qc6
black is even a shade better!] 12.Bg5 Nd7
13.f4 e5!= 14.f5
14...Nf6 [Though the position is approxi-
mately equal, white has greater space
advantage and black finds satisfactory con-
tinuations difficult to come by. If 14...Qa5
15.Qh5! Qxc3 (15...Nf6 16.Qh4 Nd7 17.f6
Nxf6 18.Bxf6 gxf6 19.Qxf6+-) 16.Rad1 Nf6
17.Qh4 Ke7 18.Be2 Bd7 19.Rd3! Qa5 20.Rfd1
Rad8 21.Rd5 Qc3 22.Rd6+-; however, after
14...f6 15.Qh5+ Kf8 16.Be3 Nb6 black is
ok.] 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Be2 Bd7 17.Bh5
Bc6 18.Qd3
18...b6? [Obviously, black is oblivious to
white's plan of attack on the king-side which
he probably thought was safe. With his king
in the centre black should try to get his pieces
into action instead of planning a slow attack on
e4 with ....Qb7. 18...Rd8 19.Qe3 Qa5 20.Rfd1
Ke7=] 19.Rad1 Ke7 20.Qe3 The purpose
of this move was probably lost on black who
prepares his own attack on e4. 20...Qb7
[Again 20...Rad8= challenging the open
d-file was important.] 21.Qh6!! This sur-
prising move sacrificing his e4 pawn and
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threatening an unforeseeable brilliant rook
sacrifice plunges black into difficulties. 21...
Rag8 [Black thinks that everything is un-
der control. He has seen that if 21...Bxe4
22.Rd6!! Kxd6 23.Qxf6+ Kc7 (or 23...Kd7
24.Rd1+ mates.) 24.Qxe5+! (this diagonal
check does not allow the king to escape
to safety via b8.) 24...Kd7 25.Rd1++-]
22.Bxf7!! this move is to deflect the black
king from d6 where he wants to plant his
rook and carry out a devastating attack on
f6. 22...Kxf7 23.Rd6 Qe7 24.Rxc6 White
has won a pawn through his 22 Bxf7 and
has got his rook planted in black's back-
yard. His pawn on b6 is threatened. 24...
Qd8 25.Qh5+! This move, gaining control
over d1, prepares the way for his other rook
to get into black's camp via d1. 25...Kf8
26.Rd1 Qe7 27.Qh6+ Kf7 28.Re6! Black
has been overpowered. 1–0
Nandhidhaa,Pv (2126)
Parnali,S Dharia (1952)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bd6
5.a3 h6 6.d3 a6 [All these moves look
strange and bizarre. But they were already
played in Keitlinghaus (2500) vs D.Pedersen
(2344), 2002 went: 6...b6 7.Bc4 Bb7 8.h3
Na5 9.Ba2 c5 10.Ne2 Qc7 11.Ng3 Bf8²
[%emt 0:00:40] and 1–0] 7.Bc4 0–0 8.g4!?
Declaring all out war on black! 8...Bc5
[Accepting the sacrifice was bad: 8...Nxg4
9.Rg1 h5 10.h3 Nf6 11.Qd2 Ne8 12.Qh6
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Be7 (12...Nd4 13.Rxg7+ Nxg7 14.Ng5+-)
13.Rxg7+ Nxg7 14.Ng5 Bxg5 15.Bxg5 Qe8
16.Bf6 mating.] 9.Rg1 d5?! [A wing attack
is best met with the opening of the centre is
a general, well-known, rule. But here, white
has enough resources to handle this central
thrust. Better was: 9...b5 10.Ba2 d6 11.g5 Ng4
12.Rg2 h5 13.h3 Nxf2 14.Rxf2 Bxf2+ 15.Kxf2
Bxh3 16.Bd5] 10.exd5 Nd4 11.g5 Bg4 [If
11...hxg5 12.Bxg5 Re8 13.Ne4 Be7 14.Bxf6
Bxf6 15.Nfg5± white has a fine attacking posi-
tion.] 12.Rxg4 Nxg4 13.Ne4
13...Nxf2?! [Adventurous, but leading to a
quick end. Better was: 13...Qd7 14.h3 b5
15.hxg4 bxc4 16.Nxc5 Qxd5 17.Ne4 hxg5
18.Bxg5 with a clear advantage to white.]
14.Nxf2 Nxf3+ 15.Qxf3 Bxf2+ Black
perceives that the white knight getting to
e4 would be a big problem for herself and
therefore exchanges it off. 16.Qxf2 hxg5 The
material equaltion is white has two bishops
for rook and pawn, approximately equal. But
the position is in favour of white as it would
take very long for the black rooks to get
into play. 17.Be3 Qf6 18.Qg2 b5 19.Bb3 a5
Black cannot save her g5 pawn. 20.0–0–0
a4 21.Ba2 Rfb8 Black plans to attack with
...b5-b4, but white is able to stop the plan
with ease. 22.Rf1 Qd6 23.Qf2 Qd7 [23...b4??
24.Bc5+-] 24.d6 Rf8 25.dxc7 b4 26.axb4
a3 27.bxa3 Rxa3 [27...Qxc7 was required
to remove one more potential danger for
black.] 28.Bxf7+! Kh8
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[If 28...Rxf7 29.Qxf7+! Qxf7 30.c8Q+ white
wins.] 29.Qf3 Threatening 30 Qh5# 29...g4
30.Qf5 Ra1+ 31.Kd2 Qxf5 32.Rxf5 g6 33.Rxe5!
White is able to do such tricks as she has a
pawn on c7 waiting to be promoted to queen.
33...Raa8 34.Bd5! Rac8 35.Re71–0
Michelle Catherina,P (2091)
Goyal,Tarini (1838) [B38]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6
5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 0–0 8.Be2 d6
9.0–0 Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6
12.f3 a5 13.b3 Nd7 14.Be3 Nc5 15.Rab1
Qb6 16.Rfc1 Rfc8 17.Rc2 Qd8 18.Bf1
h5 19.Kh1 Kh7 So far the players have fol-
lowed A Galkin (2600) - A Deszczynski (2361)
Warsaw Rapid 2006. That game ended drawn
after 40 moves. 20.a3 Qh8
This strange move, putting the queen in
a corner, was also played in the above
Warsaw game but in a different sequence
of moves. 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.Qxd5 Qe8
23.Qd1 [Better was: 23.b4 Na4 (or, if 23...
Qa4 24.Re2 Ne6 25.Qxb7 Bf6 26.b5±) 24.Qd2
Rc7 25.c5 axb4 26.axb4 Rac8 27.Rbc1±] 23...
Kg8 24.b4 axb4 25.axb4 Ne6 26.f4 Ra3
27.Bc1 Ra7 28.Rf2 Qa4 29.Qd3 White's
pawn formations, one on the king-side and the
other on the queen-side poised to advance but
with no object for attack, require that queens
be on board to stir up complications and cre-
ate tactical combinations. 29...Nf8 30.f5?!
[This is the critical position of the game.
The path chosen by white enhances the
powers of black's pieces and the exchange
of a pair of rooks which weakens the white
position with four pawns half flung in the air
and not connecting with the enemy pieces.
Better was: 30.e5! dxe5 31.f5 Qc6 32.Be3
Ra4 33.Qc2 and white's chances are bet-
ter.] 30...Nd7! 31.fxg6 fxg6 32.Qh3 Rf8!
33.Qe6+ Kh7 34.Rxf8 Nxf8 35.Qxe7?
[With this move, white has crossed the
point of safe return. It is like in a game of
Kabaddi where a raider has gone too far into
hostile territory and is trapped. Here, the
queen is not trapped, but is only suffering
a serious disconnect with her forces back
home. Here, she must fight for equality
with 35.Qh3 Qc2 36.Qd3 Qxd3 37.Bxd3 and
black has a slight edge.] 35...b6! [A good
move opening her rook's lateral defence
along the second rank. But still stronger
was: 35...b5! 36.Qxd6 Qa2! and the white
rook is defenceless as both 37 Bd3 and 37
Qd3 are answered by 37...bxc4.] 36.Qxd6
Rd7! From a 'nobody' on a7, this rook has
suddenly become a 'match winner'. 37.Qg3
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
37...Qc2! 38.Rb3 [She abandons her
queen's bishop. If she continues with her
planned defence against white's invasion of
her position with 38.Qb3 then 38...Rd1!! and
white loses at least one bishop.] 38...Qxc1
39.Rf3 Rd1 40.Qf2 Ne6 41.h3 Ng5!
42.Rf4 Nxe4! 43.Qf3 Rxf1+! 44.Qxf1
Ng3+ 0–1
Sunilduth Lyna,Narayanan (2409)
Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2443)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5
5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 c6 7.Qc2 Be7 8.Bd3 0–0
9.Nf3 Re8 10.0–0 Nf8 11.Rab1 a5 12.a3
g6 13.b4 Ne6 14.Bh4 Nh5 15.Bxe7 Qxe7
16.Na4 axb4 17.axb4 Ng5 [So far, it is
known. Here the common continuation has
been: 17...b5 18.Nb6] 18.Nd2 Nf6 19.Rfe1
Kg7 [After 19...Nge4 20.Nb6 Nxd2 21.Qxd2
Ra3 white is only slightly better.] 20.b5±
The so-called Minority Attack because on
the Q-side, white has one pawn against two
of black's. White will target black's weak
pawn on either c6 or b7. 20...h5 21.Nb6
[The c-pawn is immune. If 21.bxc6 bxc6
22.Qxc6?? Bd7 wins the knight on a4.] 21...
Ra3 22.bxc6 bxc6 23.f4
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
23...Rxd3? [This initiates complications
which turn out well for white. Better was
the straightforward: 23...Nge4 24.Nxe4
Nxe4 25.Bxe4 Qxe4 26.Qxe4 dxe4²]
24.fxg5! Bf5?! [This plunges black into
disaster. Better was: 24...Rxe3 25.gxf6+
Qxf6 26.Rxe3 Rxe3 27.Nf1 Bf5 28.Qf2²]
25.e4?! [This is adventurous, stronger
was the straightforward: 25.gxf6+ Qxf6
26.Nf3 Rdxe3 27.Qd2! and the counter-
attack on the Re3 puts white on the win-
ning track.] 25...Nxe4?! [It is now black's
turn to become adventurous! Better was:
25...dxe4 26.gxf6+ Qxf6 27.Nb3 e3 and
black, with two pawns for a knight, is even
a little better with his dangerous passed
pawn on e3.] 26.Qxd3!+- Qd8 27.Nxe4
Bxe4 28.Qe3 Re6 [If 28...Bxb1 29.Qxe8
Qxb6 30.Qe5+ Kg8 31.Rf1+-] 29.Qf4
Bxb1 30.Rxb1 Re4
31.Qf6+ [Stronger was: 31.Qd2 Rg4 32.h3
Rxg5 33.Nd7!+-] 31...Qxf6 32.gxf6+
Kxf6 33.Rd1 Now ensues a long endgame
where black has two pawns for his knight
deficit. White clearly has an advantage,
but with the reduced material remaining
on the board, the win for white is going to
be difficult. 33...Kf5 34.Rd2 Rf4 35.g3
Rf3 36.Nd7 Ke4 37.Ne5! Rf6 38.h4 Ke3
39.Rd3+ Ke4 40.Rd1 Ke3 41.Kg2 Rf2+
42.Kh3 Rf6 The white rook is tied to the
defence of his d4 pawn and his knight
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must remain on e5 to threaten the black
pawns on c5 and f7 and keep the black
rook tied down. But how could white make
any progress? 43.Rd3+ Ke4 44.Rd1 Ke3
45.g4! With his rook and knight occupied
in defending his d4 pawn and restraining
the black rook, white needs to use his
king to attack. In the endgame, when
dangers of snap mates are past, the king
becomes a fighting piece. 45...Ke2 [If
45...Rf4 46.gxh5 (46.Kg3 Rf6 47.g5+-
) 46...gxh5 47.Nxc6 Rf3+ 48.Kg2 Rf2+
49.Kg1 Rf4 50.Re1+ Kd3 51.Re5 Rxh4
52.Rxd5 Rg4+ 53.Kf2 h4 54.Rf5 and white
should win with careful play.] 46.Rc1
hxg4+ 47.Kxg4 Ke3 48.Nxc6 Rf4+
49.Kg5 Rf5+ 50.Kh6 Rh5+ 51.Kg7
Rxh4 52.Kxf7 g5 53.Kg6 Rg4 [53...g4?
54.Kg5 and the g-pawn falls.] 54.Re1+
Kd2 55.Re5 Rg1 56.Rxg5 Rc1 57.Ne7
Ke3 58.Rxd5 Ke4 59.Rd8 Rc7 60.Kf6!
Rc4 61.d5 1–0
Aravindh Chithambaram,Vr (2443)
Patil,Pratik (2217)
1.a3 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 This
is a new move here. 4...0–0 5.Bg2 d5
6.0–0 b6 7.Nbd2 Bb7 8.c4 c6 [This is
a purely passive continuation. Better was
to continue with his development with 8...
Nbd7 ] 9.b3 Nbd7 10.Bb2 Rc8 11.Rc1
c5 The players have reached a sym-
metrical position by different routes, the
only difference being white's pawn on a3.
12.dxc5 Nxc5 13.b4 Ncd7 14.Ne5 Ba8!?
15.Nxd7 Qxd7 In such positions Grand-
masters would shake hands and give up
the game as drawn. But ambitious junior
players are made of sterner stuff! 16.c5
bxc5 17.bxc5 Qb5 18.Bd4 Nd7 19.Bxg7
Kxg7 20.Nb3 e5! 21.Bxd5 Nxc5 (See
diagram) 22.Nd4?! An adventurous and
risky move that puts black on notice that
a draw is no easy matter and that he must
fight for it! 22...exd4 23.Bxa8 Rxa8?
[Black misses an excellent chance with:
23...d3! 24.Bf3 Rfd8 25.a4 Qxa4 26.Qxa4
Nxa4 27.Rxc8 Rxc8 28.exd3 Nb2 black has
a very slight edge thanks to his outside
passed a-pawn.]
(position after 21...Nxc5)
24.Qxd4+ Kg8 25.Qxc5 Qxe2 26.Rfe1
Qf3
Material is absolutely equal, but white has
the initiative with all of his pieces posted ac-
tively. Black needs to calculate well to keep
the position level. 27.Re7! Rac8? [This
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
leads to a losing position where white's
two rooks are superior to the black queen.
Leading to equality was: 27...Rfe8! 28.Rxa7
(28.Rxe8+ Rxe8 29.Qxa7 Ra8 leads to the
same.) 28...Rxa7 29.Qxa7 Ra8 30.Qe7
Qxa3 31.Rc8+ Kg7 32.Qe5+ Kh6 is abso-
lutely equal.] 28.Qxc8! Rxc8 29.Rxc8+
Kg7 30.Rcc7 White has calculated the
consequences of this endgame deeply. He
has an enormous advantage with his two
rooks doubled on the 7th rank and sitting
on black's neck. 30...Qd1+ 31.Kg2 Qd5+
32.f3! [When white gave up his queen
for the two rooks on move 28, he had to
foresee that this move would win for him
and not draw. If 32.Kh3? Qh5+ 33.Kg2
Qd5+ and white has made no prog-
ress.]32...Qd2+ 33.Kh3 Qh6+ 34.Kg4!
Qh5+ 35.Kf4 Qh6+ 36.Ke4! No check!
Now black has to face the murderous
power of the two rooks on his second rank.
36...Qxh2 37.Rxf7+ Kg8 38.Rg7+ Kf8
39.Rxh7 Qe2+ Again, black tries to get
perpetual checks, but white's two pawns
on the king-side thwart this attempt.
40.Kf4 Qd2+ 41.Kg4 Qd4+ 42.Kh3!
Black has no check and white resumes his
harassing checks with his rooks, leading
to victory. 42...Kg8 43.Rhg7+ Kf8 [The
lesser evil, taking longer to lose was: 43...
Qxg7 44.Rxg7+ Kxg7 45.Kg4 Kf6 46.a4 a6
47.a5 g5 48.Kh5 Kf5 49.g4+ Kf6 50.Kh6+-]
44.Rgd7 If 44....Qh8+ 45 Rh7 wins. 1–0
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by Srinivas Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Virgil Nestorescu 1973 A. Bor 1973

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

C.Cimedceren 1973 Dolgov 1973

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

Attila Koranyi 1973 C.M.Bent 1973

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

(Solution on page 43) White to play and win in all the above six endings
(Solutions on page 43)

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Masters of the past-45 Alexander Konstantinopolsky Solutions to ‘Tactics from to play. 33.Bg5! [33.Bg5! Rxc7 34.Bf6+ Kh7
Master games’ on page 40 (34...Rg7 35.Bxg7+ Kh7 36.Bf6+- Nc6 (36...
Kh6 37.Rh3+ Kg6 38.Bh5+ Kh7 39.Bf7#)
Alexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky (19.2.1910-21.9.1990) 1.Grischuk,Alexander (2795) 37.Rh3+ Kg8 38.Rh8+ Kf7 39.Bh5#)
was a Soviet International Master (IM) of chess, chess coach and Filippov,Anton (2615) [E11] 35.Rh3+ Kg8 36.Rh8+ Kf7 37.Bh5#] 1-0
trainer, and a chess author. He was a five-time Kiev champion,
6.Haddouche,M (2508)
and trained the world title challenger David Bronstein from a Position after 21st move. Diagram [#].
Oussedik,Mahfoud (2184) [B53]
young age. He earned the IM title in 1950, won the first Soviet White to play. 22.e6! Bxe6 23.Rxe6 gxf4
TCh-ALG 2014 Staoueli ALG (4.1),
Correspondence Chess Championship in 1951, earned the IM [23...g6 24.Bxg6 fxg6 25.Rxg6 gxf4 26.Qf5
Position after 30th move. Diagram [#] White
title at correspondence in 1966, and was awarded an Honorary Bf8 27.Rg8 Ke7 28.Qh7+ Kd6 (28...Kf6
to play. 31.Ne6+! [31.Ne6+! fxe6 32.Qg7+
Grandmaster title in 1983. 29.Rg6+ Ke5 30.Re1+ Kf5 31.Qf7#; 28...Ke8
Ke8 33.Qg6+ Kf8 34.Bg7+ Kg8 35.Bxh6+
29.Re1+) 29.Rg6+] 24.Bf5!+- g6 [24...Rd6
Kh8 36.Qg7#] 1–0
At the beginning of his career, Konstantinopolsky won the Kiev 25.Qh8+ Kd7 26.Re5+ Re6 27.Rxd5+ Kc7
championships five consecutive times from 1932 to 1936. He 28.Qxa8 Qxb2 29.Rb1+-] 25.Rxg6! Qc7
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 41
trained young players and amateurs in Kiev, at the Palace of Young 26.Re1! fxg6 27.Qh8+ Kf7 28.Be6# 1–0
1.Virgil Nestorescu
Pioneers. He was widely regarded as a friendly and kindly man. 2.Navara,David (2716)
IPr, Jubilee Romania 1973
His prize pupil was the young David Bronstein, who eventually Grischuk, Alexander (2795) [B81]
1.Qc1+ Kb7 2.Qc5 Ka6 3.Ke2 Ra2+ 4.Kf3
challenged for the World Championship title in 1951, drawing the Position after 29th move.Diagram [#] White
Ra3+ 5.Ke4 Ra4 6.Ke3 Na2 7.Kd3 Ra5
match against Mikhail Botvinnik. Konstantinopolsky and Bronstein were close friends, and to play. 30.Rxf4!+- Nxf6 [30...exf4 31.Nh6+
8.Qc8+ Ka7 9.Kc4 Ra6 10.Qc7+ Ka8
Konstantinopolsky served as Bronstein's second for the 1950 Candidates' playoff match in Kf8 32.g7#] 31.gxf7+ Kxf7 32.Nxd6+
11.Kb5 Ra7 12.Qc8#
Moscow, against Isaac Boleslavsky, which Bronstein won by 7.5-6.5. Ke7 33.Nxe8 [33.Rf5! Red8 34.Rxe5+ Kf8
2.A.Bor,Shakmati v CCCP 1973
35.Bh3 Bc8 (35...Bxe4 36.Re6+-) 36.Rg5+]
1.Bd5 c6 2.Be4 Ke3 3.Bxc6 bxc 4.a5 c5
He was one of the Ukrainian pioneers who developed the King's Indian Defence into promi- 33...exf4 34.Nxf6 Kxf6 35.Rd6+ Ke5
5.a6 c4 6.a7 c3 7.a8Q c2 8.Qg2 Kd3
nence, along with Boleslavsky and Bronstein. He also defended the Dutch Defence with 36.Rb6+- 1–0
9.Qg5 wins
success at a time when it was rarely played by top players. Konstantinopolsky had a very 3.Eljanov,Pavel (2723) Iotov,
3.C.Cimedceren,3 Pr, Shakmati 1973
wide opening repertoire with both colours, a very valuable attribute which he passed on to Valentin (2553) [D11]
1.Nb3 Kf5 2.Kg7 Ng6 3.Nxd4 Kg5 4.Nf3+
his prize pupil Bronstein. He was also a formidable strategist and tactician, as the games Position after 21st move.Diagram [#]
Kh5 5.Ne5 d2 6.NxN d1Q 7.h8Q Kg4
selection shows. White to play. 22.Rxd5!+- Qxb4 [22...
8.Qh4+ Kf5 9.Qf4+ Ke6 10.Qf6+ Kd7
Qxd5 23.Bxh7+ Kh8 (23...Nxh7 24.Qxd5+)
11.Ne5+ Kc7 12.Qc6+ Kd8 13.Nf7+ Ke7
So, his best results in the Soviet national championships, which during that period were 24.Be4++-; 22...Qc6 23.Rc1+-] 23.Bd4 [23.
14.Qf6+ wins
the strongest tournaments in the world, were four times in the top six (1937, 1945, 1948, Bxg7! Kxg7 24.f4+-] 23...Rad8 24.Rxd8
4.Dolgov 3 Pr, Szachy 1973
1950). In any virtually other nation in the world during that period, he would have been its Bxd8 25.Qg4 [25.Bd3 idea f4+-] 25...
1.Re6+ Kd7 2.Rd6+ Kc7 3.Rc6+ Kb7 4.Rb6+
national champion, and an almost certain Grandmaster. Because the Soviet chess talent was Qc4 26.h4 Qd5 27.Bxh7+ Kxh7 28.hxg5
Kc7 5.Rhc6+ Kd7 6.Rd6+ Ke7 7.Re6+ Kf7
so deep, he never earned the highest chess title. His best games show he could hold his own Qxg5 29.Qe4+ Qg6 [29...Qg6 30.Qh1+
8.Rf6+ Ke7 9.Rbe6+ Kd7 10.Rd6+ Kc7
with anyone in the USSR, with victories over Botvinnik, Keres, Kotov, Boleslavsky,Grigory Kg8 31.Qxb7+-]
11.Rc6+ Kd7 12.Rf7+ Ke8 13.Rg7 wins
Levenfish, Vasily Smyslov, Salo Flohr, Alexander Tolush, Viacheslav Ragozin, Andor Lilienthal, 4.Neiksans,Arturs (2572) -Brunello,
5.Attila Koranyi,Nepszava 1973
Viktor Korchnoi, Yuri Averbakh, Ratmir Kholmov, Boris Verlinsky, and others. Sabino (2560) [C84]
1.Kf6 Rb6+ 2.Ke5 Rb5+ 3.Ke5 Rb4+ 4.Ke3
Position after 37th move.Diagram [#] White
Rb3+ 5.Kf2 Rb2+ 6.Kg1 h3 7.Kh1 h2 8.Rg
In 1948–1951, Konstantinopolsky won the 1st Soviet Correspondence Chess Championship. to play. 38.Bxh7+! Kxh7 [38...Kh8 39.Rf8+
Kh4 9.Rg2 Rb1 10.Rxh2 Kg3 11.Rg2+ Kh3
He continued to work as one of the Soviet Union's most respected trainers well into his 70s. Kxh7 40.Qh5#] 39.Qh5+ Kg8 40.Rf8+!
12.Rfg1 a1Q 13.Rh2#
He introduced an opening which is named after him as the Konstantinopolsky Opening (1.e4 [40.Rf8+ Kxf8 41.Qf7#] 1–0
6.C.M.Bent ,I Pr, BCF 1973
e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3), against Viacheslav Ragozin at Moscow 1956. He published two chess 5.Vallejo Pons,F (2698)
1.Bf5 Bd8 2.Nd5+ Kf3 3.Nd4+ Kg3 4.Nc6
books after age 70.Konstantinopolsky died in Moscow, September 21, 1990, at age 80. Suarez Garcia,C (2400) [B09]
Nf7 5.Be6 Ng5 6.Bg8 wins
courtesy:Wikepedia Position after 32nd move. Diagram [#] White

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 15th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Saraswati Memorial
All India FIDE Rating Open Tournament, Pune….
Kottayam Chess Academy
in association with
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Presents
8th FIDE International Rating
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(Below 1600 rating)
On 1,2 and 3rd November 2014
at
Chief guest Mr. Vishal Chordia of Pravin Masalewale seen making first move against International
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Total prizes 77 Mr.Prakash Kunte, Trustee of BKT, GM Abhijit Kunte and Mr.Niranjan Godbole, Mr.Moreshwar
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 AICF Calendar October 2014 National Women Challenger Championship, Goa
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28thNational Under-7 Chess Championship 2014, Kolkata

Shri. Manish Gupta,

Honourable Minister for Power
Government of West Bengal
inaugurating the championship
with customary first move.
GM Dibeyandu Barua,
Vice President AICF and IA
Debashish Barua look on.

Top seed in the

girl’s section
Sinthia Sarkar in
action against
Harshavardhini of
Puducherry.

Winners of both
sections Shahil Dey of
Assam and Yashavishree
N of Tamilnadu with
IM Atanu Lahiri, GM
Dibyendu Barua,
GM Deep Sengupta
and Shri. Kamalesh
Sengupta.