SEPTEMBER 20131

SEPTEMBER 20132

September 2013

Magnus Calsen, the Norwegian prodigy, who had the fastest ascent to the highest ELO rating in chess history is now all set for the summit clash with the World Champion Vishy Anand for the World title in November. During his two-

day visit to Chennai last month The Challenger was immensely sat is f ied with the arrangements at Hyatt Regency, the venue for the World Championship Match.

Carlsen was given a rousing welcome by the chess loving public at the MOP Vaishnav College for Women where he gave a simul in which he had a taste of the high quality chess of Tamilnadu's youngsters.Later he interacted with press. He spoke highly of Anand whom he considered as one of the greats in the game and said he was looking forward to a very tough match.

Grandmaster B.Adhiban continued his good run in the World Cup at Tromway with a Title win at Barcelona Sants Open. India dominated the Asian Schools Chess Championships at Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka bagging eight golds and four silver in the classical format besides several medals in the rapid and blitz events. These events are covered in the centre pages of this issue.

On the home front Bengal hosted two Nationals last month. In the first, National WGM Mary Ann Gomes scored her third successive National Premier Women title. In the second, Karthikeyan Murali and G.K.Monnisha are the new National Sub-junior champs. Reports, photographs and final standings on these Nationals along with those on FIDE rated events organized last month are featured in this issue.

The chess composition which won your Editor his fourth Brian Harley Award of British Chess Problem Society for the best chess problem composed by a subject of Brit ish Commonwealth is also presented along with judge's comments.

C.G.S. Narayanan

United Bank of India 40th National Premier Chess Championship,

Kolkata....

Mary Ann Gomes scores a hat trick 01

39th National Sub Junior Open & 30th National Sub Juniors Girls

Chess Championship-2013, Kolkata….

Karthikeyan Murali and Monnishaare Champs 06IA Ambrish C Joshi,Chief Arbiter

4th KACC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Puducherry...

Sai Viswesh wins KACC FIDE rated Ty 09by IA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

4 Knights Chess Academy 1st All India Fide Rating Chess

Tournament-2013 (Below 2000),Trichy

Balakannamma wins at Trichy 12by V.L.Anandh Babu, Chief Arbiter

4th AIM FIDE rated tournament below 1800, Namakkal….

Venkataramana is champion 14IA S.Ganesh Babu,Chief Arbiter

3RD Saranya FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Chennai...

Gupta Rajesh wins title 16by IA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

Late A. N. Naik Memorial All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid

Tournament 2013, Goa

Thejkumar clinches title 18by Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter

1st JCA All India Fide Rating Tournament (Below 2000)

Vijayawada…

Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins 21by S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter

2nd KCM FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Coimbatore……

Saravanakrishnan wins title 27by IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter

Selected games from National Junior Lucknow 28Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Tactics from master games 38by S.Krishnan

Test your endgame 39by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Masters of the past -33 40Adolf Andersson

AICF Calendar 48

Publisher: V. HariharanEditor : C.G.S. Narayanan

SEPTEMBER 20131

Mary Ann Gomes of West Bengal won a hat trick of titles by capturing the coveted United Bank of India 40th National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy at The Spring Club, Kolkata from 25th August to 5th September 2013. The tournament has been given a new lease of life in the form of round robin format, with 12 strong players of the country.

The average rating was 2256, making it a Category nine tournament for women. International master Tania Sachdev of Airport Authority of India was the top rated player in the tournament, followed by the defending champion WGM Mar Ann Gomes of Kolkata.

Other attractions were former world junior girls champion WGM Soumya Swaminathan of PSPB, former champions WGM Swathi Ghate of LIC and IM Nisha Mohota of PSPB, besides former world Under 14 girls champion Padmini Rout of Orissa.

The time format for the championship was 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and remaining game in 30 moves, with an increment of 30 seconds from move 1. In the round robin format, a player’s lead can not be taken for granted, as it depends on the strength of the opponents, he or she had met in earlier rounds.

Tania and Swathi started with a bang, beating Padmini and Ivana Maria Furtado respectively, in the first round. In the explosive third round, the top two rated players of the tournament met each other,

United Bank of India 40th National Premier Chess Championship, Kolkata....

Mary Ann Gomes scores a hat trickby R.Anantharam

wherein, Tania was defeated by Mary Ann. GK Monnisha of Tamil Nadu dealt a blow to Nisha in this round. Tania’s woes did not stop here, as former world under 8 girls champion Ivana rubbed salt to the wounds, by beating her. By the end of the fourth round, the trio Swathi, Mary Ann and Soumya were leading with 3 points each.

The lead did not change in the fifth round, as the overnight leaders drew their gamesand Tania recovered mildly, with a win over Michelle Catherenia of TN. In an interesting duel of sixth round, Soumya was outwitted by Tania and Swathi emerged sole leader with 4.5 points, beating higher rated Padmini.

Mary Ann drew with Kiran Manisha Mohanty to trail the leader by half a point. seventh and eighth rounds went on expected lines, and Soumya joined Swathi at the top, with a fluent win over WGM Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa.

Things turned topsy turvy in the ninth round, as Swathi was stunned by the minnow GK Monnisha, allowing Soumya to move into sole lead, with a convincing win over Kiran. Mary Ann maintained her second spot by beating her city mate Nisha.

In the penultimate round, both Soumya and Mary Ann recorded victories, maintaining the lead position and Tania was also at a striking distance, with an outside chance to win the title. In the pulsating final round, Mary Ann was the first to draw

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her game against Ivana in an inferior position, waiting anxiously for Soumya’s result. Padmini had a steel of nerves to beat Soumya, paving the way for a three way tiebreak between Mary Ann, Soumya and Tania, each with 7.5 points. The first tiebreak of direct encounter was in favour of Mary Ann as she had 1.5 points from two games with the other two players, Tania having one point and Soumya half.

The tournament was well organised in a highly professional manner by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy, under the leadership of India’s second grandmaster Dibyendu Barua and his wife WIM Saheli Dhar Barua, with able support from IM Neeraj Kumar Mishra, the head coach of the academy.

Barua’s experience in organising big level tournaments like Asian Team Championship in 2009 and National Premier Championship in 2012, helped him for the successful conduct.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by the Bengali actress Ritupana Sengupta, a national awardee. Sports Hon. Minister of West Bengal Sri. Madan Mitra was the chief guest for the prize distribution function, in the presence of former foot ball Olympian Sri P.K. Bannejee.

Earlier……

In the ninth round…

Soumya Swaminathan (Petroleum) cruised to a third successive win to become the sole leader, with 6.5 points after nine rounds.Soumya beat Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC) to remain the most notable performer in the last three rounds.

With two more rounds to go, Soumya was leading by half-point over Mary Ann Gomes (Bengal) and Padmini Rout (Odisha).

Playing black, Soumya fractured her opponent’s pawn structure and clinically exploited her opponent’s weakness to win in a rook and bishop ending.The other overnight leader Swati Ghate (LIC) was upset by the National sub-junior champion G.K. Monnisha (TN) after the longest game of the tournament.

In a Sicilian Maroczy bind, Monnisha kept Swati on the defensive throughout the game and exploited her space advantage win a rook for knight. She later used her rook and passed pawns effectively on the queenside to win in 91 moves.Top-seeded Tania Sachdev (Air India) drew with Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa to shared the third spot with Swati

Defending champion Mary Ann kept her title hopes alive as she downed Nisha Mohota (Petroleum) by a queen sacrifice, the consequence of which was far from clear. With both players under time pressure, Nisha made more mistakes and lost her knight to let Mary Ann walk away with the win.

G.K. Monnisha (TN) 3 bt Swati Ghate (LIC) 5.5; Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 3.5 drew with Tania Sachdev (AI) 5.5; Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC) 3.5 lost to Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) 6.5; B. Pratyusha (AP) 4.5 bt Michelle Catherina (TN) 2; Padmini Rout (Odi) 6 bt Ivana Maria Furtado (Goa) 4.5; Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 3.5 lot to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 6.

In the tenth round….

Soumya Swaminathan (Petroleum) continued to show her class under pressure as she picked up a fourth consecutive win to lead the field with 7.5 points after the 10th and penultimate round of the UBI 40th National women’s premier chess championship here on Wednesday.

SEPTEMBER 20133

KNOW YOUR IM Stany. G.AStany. G.A (Born on 22.1.1993) learnt the game at the age of eight from his uncle. His first success was when he became Karnataka state Under-9 Champion in 2002 and since then he started winning many state level tournaments in different age categories. His first big breakthrough in National Level came when he won Thrissur Fide Rating Open Tournament in 2009 ahead of GMs and IMs. In the same year he also won Karnataka State Championship and was the youngest to do so. In 2010 he won Under-17 Nationals in Jammu and also got his First IM norm in National A, Delhi. He finished 2nd in Asian youth U-18 in Philippines and was 4th in World youth, Brazil in 2011. He got his Second IM Norm in Orissa international open where he was also

leading till 8th round but lost the next round missing GM norm. He completed his final IM Norm in Rethymno Open, Greece last year. His current Elo is 2449.In his younger days Sri Krishna Udupa was his first coach. He also had his coaching under IM Lanka Ravi, IM Shivananda. Recently he had training under GM R.B. Ramesh, GM Sriram Jha and GM Tejas Bakre. Currently he is under Scholarship with Airport Authority of India and is also helped by Department of Karnataka State Youth Services and Sports. He was given the prestigious Ekalavya Award by the Government of Karnataka last year for his achievements in 2011. His favorite Sports icons are Sachin Tendulkar and Vishwanth Anand.His immediate goal is to become GM. He is studying 2nd year B.com in PES College, Shimoga .His other interests are Table Tennis, Badminton, Watching Movies and Listening to Devotional Music.A list of his achievements is presented below.

2012 Rethymno Open Greece got 3rd IM Norm 2012 1st KSC Cup Fide Rating Open Bangalore 1st Place2012 Shimoga Fide Rating Open Shimoga 1st Place2012 Vizag International Open Vizag 7thPlace2011 World Youth Chess U-18 Brazil 4thPlace2011 Asian Youth Chess U-18 Philippines 2nd Place2011 Asian Cities Championship Indonesia 6th Place2011 Orissa International Open Orissa got 2nd IM Norm2011 National Cities Championship Nagpur 1st Place2011 Karnataka State Open Bangalore 1st Place2010 Asian Youth Chess U-18 China 5th Place2010 National U-17 Boys Ch’ship Jammu 1st Place2010 National Premier Ch’ship Delhi got 1st IM Norm2009 Mastercom Open Fide Rating Bangalore 1st Place2009 Karnataka State Open Ch’ship Shimoga 1st Place2009 Thrissur Open Fide Rating Thrissur 1st Place

SEPTEMBER 20134

4th KACC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Puducherry...

Standing L-R - C. Arulmozhi, EC Member, KACC, Selvaradjou-EC, KACC, A. Srikanth, Treasurer-KACC, Sivagnanaganesan, EC, KACC, R, Devakumar, Secretary, PSCA, Ganesan, Commercial Tax Officer-IAC & Karaikal (Chief Guest), P. Saravanan, Industrialist and Sponsor for I Prize and Pakkirisamy Memorial Rolling Trophy, J. Ramesh-Secretary, KACC, G. Sankar, Treasurer, PSCA, S. Nadaradjane, Dy.Arbiter, R. Srivatsan, IA - Chief Arbiter for the Tournament, Chandirasekaran - EC, KACC, Pakkirisamy-EC, KACC &

Soundirapandian-EC, KACC.

4th AIM FIDE Rated Chess Tournament Below 1800, Namakkal….

(L-R) S.Ganesh Babu,Chief Arbiter, Muthukumaraswamy, Joint Secretary, AIM Chess Academy, SV Iyyappan, Secretary AIM Chess Academy, Venkataramana (Winner) V Aathayam, President AIM Chess

Academy.)

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Half a point behind Soumya is the defending champion Mary Ann Gomes (Bengal), who also won her game to push the decision of the contest to the final round on Thursday.

Soumya bolstered the lead with a confident win against young B. Pratyusha (Andhra Pradesh).Playing white, Soumya exploited the weakness of Pratyusha’s position to win two pawns in a French Defence.Pratyusha tried to complicate matters by going into a combination and get some play but ended up losing a piece after which she resigned.

Soumya faces Padmini Rout (Odisha) in the final round with black, while Mary Ann is paired against National junior girls’ champion Ivana Furtado (Goa). In case of a tie, Mary Ann is better placed in the present tie-break score when compared to Soumya.

Looking for her third consecutive title, Mary Ann put up her case strongly as she outsmarted Swati Ghate (LIC) with black in a Sicilian Defence. Mary Ann was in total control of the position from the beginning as Swati, quite unexpectedly, blundered her rook for knight.

Encouraged by this error, Mary Ann effectively utilised the extra material to win.Michelle Catherina (Tamil Nadu), placed at the bottom of the table, stole the show by upsetting Rout in 86 moves.Top-seeded Tania Sachdev registered a fluent win over Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC) to remain in the third position with 6.5 points.

The results (10th round): Swati Ghate (LIC) 5.5 lost to Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) 7; Ivana Maria Furtado (Goa) 4.5 lost to Nisha Mohota (PSPB) 4.5; Michelle Catherina (TN) 3 bt Padmini Rout (Odi) 6; Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) 7.5 bt B. Pratyusha (AP) 4.5; Tania Sachdev (AI) 6.5 bt Kiran Manisha Mohanty (LIC) 3.5; G.K. Monnisha (TN) 3.5 drew Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 4.

Final Ranking

Rank Name IRtg Club Pts Res. SB1 WGM Gomes Mary Ann 2418 WB 7½ 1½ 40.502 IM Tania Sachdev 2430 AI 7½ 1 38.003 WGM Soumya Swaminathan 2318 PSPB 7½ ½ 34.504 WGM Padmini Rout 2332 ODI 7 0 36.505 WGM Swathi Ghate 2226 LIC 6 0 32.006 IM Mohota Nisha 2293 PSPB 5½ 0 27.507 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado 2116 Goa 5 0 25.008 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti 2302 Goa 4½ 1 23.759 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 2272 LIC 4½ 1 22.2510 Pratyusha Bodda 2159 AP 4½ 1 20.2511 WFM Monnisha Gk 2056 TN 3½ 0 17.7512 Michelle Catherina P 2152 TN 3 0 17.00

SEPTEMBER 20136

The 39th National Sub Junior Open & 30th National Sub Juniors Girls Chess Championship-2013 was held at the Bidhan Sishu Udyan, Kolkatta from 5th to 14th August, 2013. In Open, 149 players, comprising 2IM, 3 FMs, and 129 Rated And In girls 93 players comprising 4 WFM and 66 Rated players participated in the event, with a tournament total of 242 players.. The championship had 11 rounds, with one round a day, except on 07.08.13 & 09.08.13 (2 Round).

The presence of World Youth Olympiad Gold Medalist Diptyan Ghosh ,World Under-16 Champion Karthikeyein Murli, Asian Youth Gold medallist Arvindh Chidambaram, Limca & Ginus Book Record Holder Raghav, World youth U-14 Gold medallist M. Mahalaxmi , and World youth U-14 Bronze medallsit G.K.Monisha have added colour to the tournament .

Hard fought victories and some IM & FIDE Master draws were witnessed in the championship, culminating in the emergence of Master Karthikeyan Murli of Tamilnadu as the National Sub junior champion for the year 2013, followed by Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal, as runner-up. In Open Sub Junior Category.While in National Sub Junior Girls G K Monisha of Tamilnadu emerge the title of Natioal Sub Junior Girls champion and Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu as a runner up.

The participants were accommodated in nearby hotels so as even in Rainy Shower also the players reached at venue before time & easily followed the zero tolerance rule. I would like to place it on records,

39th National Sub Junior Open & 30th National Sub Juniors Girls Chess Championship-2013, Kolkata….

Karthikeyan Murali and Monnisha are ChampsIA Ambrish C Joshi,Chief Arbiter

the excellent arrangements made by Bengal Chess Association by providing Free Transportation to venue by two buses daily ,Glucon-D free of charge & coffee and tea was for players,parents and coaches /managers at minimum cost also. Not only but the organizer had also made the excellent trip of Nicco Park for outside players and parents for free of charge They also had the privilege of conducting the many National & International event here at Kolkatta.Kudos to Mr. Atanu Lahiri, Tournament Director & a keen lover of chess, who is the key person for the successful and smooth conduct of the championship.

Final standings: Sub Junior BoysRk Name Club Pts

1 Karthikeyan Murali I1M TN 92 Ghosh Diptayan IM WB 93 Kumaran B TN 8½4 Aravindh ChithambaramFM TN 85 Md Nubairshah Shaikh MAH 86 Naik Rishubh Naresh GOA 87 Sidhant Mohapatra ODI 7½8 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 7½9 Pranav Vijay TN 7½10 Vignesh Nr TN 7½11 Ritviz Parab GOA 7½12 Visakh Nr TN 7½13 Mitrabha Guha FM WB 7½14 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ODI 7½15 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 7½16 Aradhya Garg DEL 7½17 Rajdeep Sarkar WB 7½18 Anshuman K TN 7½19 Krishna Teja N AP 720 Muthaiah Al TN 721 Rohan Ahuja GOA 722 Ajay Krishna S TN 723 Karthik V. Ap AP 724 Kumar Gaurav BIH 7

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25 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 726 Vignesh B TN 727 Raghav Srivathsav V AP 728 Manan Rai DEL 729 Harsh Himanshu BIH 730 Saurabh Anand BIH 731 Satvik M. KAR 6½32 Neelash Saha WB 6½33 Abhishek A KER 6½34 Rohit Vassan S TN 6½35 Kaustav Bhattacharya WB 6½36 Koustav Chatterjee WB 6½37 Nishant Kumar JHA 6½38 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6½39 Hemanth Raam TN 6½40 Audi Ameya GOA 6½41 Arka Sengupta WB 6½42 Ayush Pandey UP 6½43 Rohan Sen WB 6½44 Aronyak Ghosh WB 6½45 Kaustuv Kundu WB 646 Anustoop Biswas WB 647 Eashwar.M TN 648 Erigaisi Arjun AP 649 Swain Ashirwad ODI 650 Subhasis Barik ODI 651 Sarthak Bansal DEL 652 Subhayan Kundu WB 653 Visveshwar A TN 654 Rahul Srivatshav P AP 655 Sarbojit Paul WB 656 Ishaan Bansal PUN 657 Parthasarathy R KAR 658 Karmalkar Deeptesh GOA 659 Awadh Chaitanya MP 660 Adithya S TN 661 Naga Shashank D AP 662 Rituraj Borghain ASM 663 Tamojit Poddar WB 664 Ritam Nag WB 665 Shuban Saha WB 666 G Khanglah Ropmay MEG 667 Narendran V TN 5½68 Ojas Kulkarni KAR 5½69 Aditya Basu WB 5½70 Dipanjan Chowdhury WB 5½71 Vishwanath Vivek AP 5½72 Ganguly Ritabroto WB 5½73 Arsh Verma DEL 5½74 Swapnaneel Dowerah ASM 5½75 Goel Ayush UP 5½76 Lawaniya Eshan UP 5½77 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 5½78 Abhirup Das WB 5½

79 Sayantan Chandra WB 5½80 Abhilash Dutta ASM 5½81 Abhiram T KER 5½82 Pranavananda V AP 583 Saumil Nair GUJ 584 Pratik Agarwal JHA 585 Shubham Srivastava JHA 586 Dishan Barua WB 587 Kshitij Sharma CHA 588 Soumma Chakraborty WB 589 Soham Das WB 590 Aneek Das WB 591 Dinesh Bhagat PUN 592 Rawat Abhishek UP 593 Goyal Sarthak UP 594 Divyam Kamra HAR 595 Audi Saiesh GOA 596 Anish Kayal WB 597 Sachet Garg HAR 598 Paul Writam WB 599 Deepanshu Dhall PUN 5100 Sounak De (1) WB 5101 Jagdeep Singh Sudan DEL 5102 Swapnanil Saikia ASM 5103 Suvradeepta Das WB 4½104 Arya Bhakta WB 4½105 Shrutarshi Ray WB 4½106 Amrit Verma BIH 4½107 Om Vinay Vitalkar MAH 4½108 Rajarshi Dutta WB 4½109 Hillol Debnath TRI 4½110 Souradip Deb TRI 4½111 Manish Kumar HAR 4½112 Sambarta Banerjee WB 4½113 Gore Sahil MAH 4½114 Aryan Haribhau Kawade MAH 4½115 Dibakar Banik TRI 4½116 Vivek Gupta WB 4117 Srijit Paul WB 4118 Soumik Datta WB 4119 Rithwik Raaj Anand WB 4120 Pradhyumna Kumar K KAR 4121 Shailesh Khanna PUN 4122 Anuj Shrivatri MP 4123 Abhirup Naskar WB 4124 Sruya Dhanush G AP 4125 Rishabh Kothary WB 4126 Pawan Shailesh Vernekar GOA 4127 Aryan PUN 4128 Sameer Bansode CHA 4129 Sartak Periwal WB 4130 Sanket Chakravarty WB 3½131 Kushagra Divyam BIH 3½132 Shreyan Chakraborty WB 3½

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133 Akash Dip Paik WB 3½134 Aratrick Maity WB 3½135 Krishna Kumar Sharma JHA 3½136 Saksham Rautela UTK 3½137 Hardik Medhi MEG 3½138 Debankan Dhara WB 3139 Bhatia Mananshrajsingh CHA 3140 Harshit Baid WB 3141 Srinjoy Banerjee WB 3142 Mihir Guddanti AP 3143 Arhan Boyd WB 2½144 Divyang Sawalka WB 2½145 Dhimant Maloo WB 2146 Rishab Debsharma WB 1½

Final standings: Sub Junior (Girls)Rk Name Club Pts

1 Monnisha Gk WFM TN 92 MahalakshmiM WFM TN 8½3 Varshini V TN 84 Meghna C H KER 85 Gayetri R TN 86 Vaishali R WFM TN 7½7 Savant Riya WCM GOA 7½8 Dhanashree Pandit MAH 7½9 Shiny Das TRI 7½10 Divya Garg MAH 711 Bakshi Rutuja MAH 712 Sunyasakta Satpathy ODI 713 Smaraki Mohanty ODI 714 Arpita Mukherjee WFM WB 715 Potluri Saye Srreezza AP 716 Sapale Saloni MAH 717 Ashwini U TN 718 Divya Lakshmi R TN 719 Meghna Upadhyay MP 720 Tejaswini Sagar WCM MAH 6½21 Toshali V AP 6½22 Hilmi Parveen KER 6½23 Dharani Sree R TN 6½24 Meera D TN 6½25 Chandreyee Hajra WB 6½26 Bhagya Jayesh KER 6½27 Thorat Aishwarya GOA 6½28 Khushi Dharewa WB 6½29 Angira Choudhuri WB 6½30 Anigani Kavya AP 631 Asmita Das WB 632 Harshita Guddanti AP 633 Thamaraiselvi P TN 634 Jasper Jothi P TN 635 Abirama Srinithi G TN 636 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 6

37 Radhika Garg UP 638 Sanskriti Goyal UP 639 Sharma Sharmishtha MP 640 Krithigga K TN 641 Kavya Srishti K AP 642 Kalyani B AP 643 Suneja Geetanjali MP 644 Shyamashree Sarkar WB 5½45 Shinjini Sengupta WB 5½46 Akankhya Dash JHA 5½47 Chavan Vishakha GUJ 5½48 Sudipa Haldar WB 5½49 Pousumi Maity WB 5½50 Lasya Mayuka N AP 5½51 Lasani H Kothari GUJ 5½52 Anjali Gogoi ASM 5½53 Ankitha Goud Palle AP 554 Naik Reema GOA 555 Taniya Acharya WB 556 Shradha Kucheria WB 557 Garima Gaurav BIH 558 Sakshi Jha BIH 559 Vigna Shree T AP 560 Shah Vrushti GUJ 561 Devika Bharany WB 562 Prajnya Saha WB 563 Jinal Yagnik GUJ 564 Manya Diptam BIH 565 Suryapriya Sengupta WB 4½66 Bharty PUN 4½67 Soumya Shrivastava CHA 4½68 Diksha Dhandhania WB 4½69 Garima Sarda WB 4½70 Sabhya Bhushan HAR 4½71 Pahul Kaur Chhabra PUN 4½72 Ashry Srivastava WB 473 Amritpal Kaur PUN 474 Stuti Rani Gogoi ASM 475 Aditi Saha WB 476 Sanika Sengupta WB 477 Debolina Bora ASM 478 Biswal Gitashree ODI 479 Dash Anannya JHA 480 Lina Biswas WB 481 Payal Dewangan CHA 482 Shristi Shrivastava CHA 483 Sagar Siya MAH 484 Adrija Dey WB 3½85 Reva PUN 3½86 Enaakshi Majumdar WB 387 Ashpriha Das WB 388 Devyanshi Kulkarni CHA 2½89 Rakshita Sekhar JHA 1zh

SEPTEMBER 20139

The 4th KACC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament organised by King Anand Chess Club, was held at Arumuga Thirumana Mandapam, Puducherry from 15.8.2013 to 18.8.2013.

A total of 250 participants from Thirteen states with 134 rated players. The top seed of this event is Akash P C Iyer of Tamilnadu. A total of 10 rounds swiss system was followed.

There was a keen fight till the end. Even though Akash lost to Sai Vishwesh in the fifth round, bouced back in the rest of the rounds and finally tied with him with 9 points. But with a better tie-break score Sai Vishwesh became the winner of this event.

The organisers gave special prize every round for a rated player defeating above 200 elo points. In all the 10 rounds around 40 to 50 players won this special prize. Lunch was provided by the organisers to all the players.

At the prize distribution function Mr. Ganesan, Commercial Tax Officer-IAC & Karaikal was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes. Mr.P. Saravanan, Industrialist and Sponsor for I Prize and Pakkirisamy Memorial Rolling Trophy, Mr. Devakumar, Secretary, Pondicherry State Chess Association were also present and distributed the prizes. Mr. Arokiaraj, President, KACC welcomed the gathering and J. Ramesh, Secretary, KACC Proposed vote of thanks.

4th KACC FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Puducherry...

Sai Viswesh wins KACC FIDE rated Tyby IA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

Final standings (216 placings only)Rk Name Pts

1 Sai Vishwesh.C 92 Akash Pc Iyer 93 Anurag Jaiswal 84 Subramanian V 85 Sriram Sarja 7½6 Vinoth Kumar M. FM 7½7 Prachura P.P. 7½8 Balkishan A. 7½9 Saxena Manav 7½10 Vasantha Ruba Varman 7½11 Narendiran P 7½12 Harihara Sudan M 7½13 Vijay Anand M. 7½14 Rajesh Kumar 7½15 Hirthickkesh Pr 7½16 Sree Veeramani P 7½17 Santoshkashyap Hg 718 Jayakumar S 719 Gavi Siddayya 720 Elancheralathan P 721 Devesh Mukherjee 722 Raman R. 723 Suresh Krishna S 724 Likhit Chilukuri 725 Sneha N.G. 726 Karmukilan S 727 Saranya Y 728 Clifford Flair 6½29 Reetish Padhi 6½30 Selvabharathy T 6½31 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½32 Sabarimuthu R. 6½33 Mythireyan P 6½34 Ambareesh. P 6½35 Senthil Maran K 6½36 Aman Chandra 6½

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37 Murugesh S 6½38 Siddharth .S 6½39 Kavitha P L 6½40 Sathyanarayanan S. 6½41 Harshita Guddanti 6½42 Mohan Ram Sridhar 6½43 Aaditya Jagadeesh 6½44 Saughanthika As 6½45 Subburayan V 6½46 Alan Diviya Raj 6½47 Thamizharasan J 6½48 Ganesh Chidambaram 6½49 Ananya Suresh WCM 650 Vasudevan S. 651 Priyanka K 652 Yashaskara Jois K.R 653 Karthik Raj C 654 Mohammed Shamil A 655 Ruthra Kumar M 656 Ayil Naidu K 657 Tiwari O P 658 Gokula Chandhiran A 659 Karthick Raja R 660 Avi Jaiswal 661 Varun Anant 662 Rao Mahadev 663 Priyamvadha Sundar 664 Bharath S 665 Jain Arnavv 666 Vishwak S 667 Jeevanandham 668 Pranav P 669 Debiprasad Sarkar 670 Dinesh Kumar S 671 Karpagakumar S V S 672 Dharshan P 673 Ajay Kumaar.S 674 Rohit S 675 Rajaganesh S K 676 Sarvesh Kumar A 677 Ajitha A 678 Revanth Prabu P 679 Ashok A (pud) 680 Kirupanidhi S 681 Prakashram R 5½

82 Tulsi M 5½83 Nandhagopal B 5½84 Harish Kumar V 5½85 Balaji.S 5½86 Jitender Rawat 5½87 Rakshitta Ravi 5½88 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5½89 Bagat Singh P 5½90 Umashankar A 5½91 Anish A 5½92 Ved Prakash 5½93 Dheepan G 5½94 Sai Sumedha S 5½95 Praveen Krishna T 5½96 Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5½97 Krishnan C S 5½98 Dwarka Prasad 5½99 Peter Anand A 5½100 Keshore G 5½101 Prahalad B 5½102 Madhan S 5½103 Sathyaraaj N G 5½104 Navaneeth B 5½105 A Antony Chandran 5½106 Ram Priya S 5½107 Kailash G M 5½108 Sudharshan T R 5½109 Chamundeswari B 5½110 Saumitra Verma 5111 Adishta Selvam S 5112 Harshavardhan K Iyer 5113 Manickammal D 5114 Dawood.K 5115 Soupraja S 5116 Malleswari P 5117 Akash S 5118 Shaik Pharuk 5119 Vamsri Krishna S 5120 Lydia, G 5121 Sriram S 5122 Suresh K 5123 Siddhalingam Pillai 5124 Giridharan P 5125 Praveen Narayan S 5126 Balaji B 5

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127 Aswin Chinnappan K 5128 Shreyas Pavan 5129 Tamil Vendan K 5130 Vishaal S 5131 Raguram, S Rajaram 5132 Navin Kumar U 5133 Hemanathan C 5134 B Chakra Narayanan K 5135 Aghilan A 5136 Rohan Jaggi 5137 Kavya S 5138 Peri Nikhil Chandra 5139 Niteesh S R 5140 Shravanadash M 5141 Vishal Shankar Pawar 5142 Praveen R 5143 Yazhini S 5144 Srikiran S 5145 Srihari L 5146 Vinothabharathi 4½147 Prahadheeshwar C M 4½148 Geethai Kannan R 4½149 Kella Venkata Ravi 4½150 Nikhil Magizhnan 4½151 Donald J Vishal 4½152 Tushar P 4½153 Rahul M 4½154 Sharan Arvind B 4½155 Namann D Jain 4½156 Naresh M 4½157 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 4½158 Hariharan S 4½159 Hariprasad S 4½160 Vignesh V 4½161 Arun G R 4½162 Srinath K C 4½163 Akashya Lakshmi P 4½164 Jeffrin Sam D 4½165 Suganya J 4½166 S Prakash Maharaj 4167 Kirubakaran R 4168 Krishnakumar M 4169 Hiranmayi K 4170 Akshayaram A 4171 Elankumaran R 4

172 Gajendran K 4173 Pavan Kumar R 4174 Arjun Sidharth S 4175 Thirumalai Nayagam 4176 Pritam Dash 4177 Ganesan M 4178 Jayanesh G 4179 Saran G 4180 Krishna R Ve 4181 Sivaram J 4182 Ilangkavi E 4183 Dheeraj A P 4184 Ajay Srinivas V 4185 Dhanush Ragav N 4186 Aravindan V 4187 Stavan Jain 4188 Nithin Magizhnan 4189 Vaishnavi S 4190 Sharane Sakthivel 4191 Raja S 4192 Aravindan B 4193 Arun Vaidya G 4194 Arjun S 4195 Pranav Guntupalli 4196 Shanmugam Pck 4197 Venkata Ramanan G 4198 Siva Prakash K C 4199 Indulekha K S 4200 Padmashri R 4201 Aditya Reddy 3½202 V Sampathkumar 3½203 Tarun Vignesh 3½204 Jaswanth R 3½205 Shubavadhi S K 3½206 Pranay Raj J 3½207 Aditya Narayanan S 3½208 Hariharan Saravanan 3½209 Buvaneswaran S 3½210 Rawat R S 3½211 Manooneeth B 3½212 Krishna Prasad S 3½213 A Udhaya Baskar 3½214 Nirubasri C 3½215 Suresh Krishna S (tn) 3½216 Yashwanth Krishnan A 3½

SEPTEMBER 201312

4 Knights Chess Academy 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2013 (Below 2000),Trichy

Balakannamma wins at Trichyby V.L.Anandh Babu, Chief Arbiter

4 Knights Chess Academy 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2013 h(Below 2000) was held at Pavendar Institutions PABCET, Opp to Bharathidasan University, Trichy from 15.08.2013(Thursday) to 18.08.2013.

The Hon’able Chairman of Pavendar Bharathidasan Institutions Mr. A M Ramen IAS (Retd) inaugurated the event at 10.30.A.M. on 15th August, 2013 Soon after the inauguration ceremony, Managers Meeting started at 11:30.A.M. technical matters discussed and settled, Appeals Committee was formed

Total Number of participants is 205 which include 82 Rated Players of 8 different States in this Event.All the Boards provided with DGT Clocks.

Time Control: 60min with 30 seconds increment from move No.1. After tuff fight in Top Seeded P Balakannama from Chennai won the Tournament with 8 points of 9 Rounds.

The team of Arbiters leaded by Chief Arbiter Mr.V.L.Anandh Babu FA, Deputy Arbiters are Mr.Dhenagaran B -NA, Mr.J Alexander-NA, Mr.S Vijayaraman-NA, Mr.SV Iyyappan-NA, Mr.Natarajan S-FA and volunteers are Mr.Iravatham, Mr.C.V Rajagopalan conducted the tournament without a single Dispute.

Prize Distribution ceremony held on 18th August , 2013 at 04.00.P.M. in the same venue, Chief Guest Mr.G A Rajkumar IAS (Retd), former Sports

Secretary, Govt of Tamilnadu in the presence of Mr.A M Ramen IAS (Retd) Chairman of Pavendar Bharathidasan Institutions and with Mrs. Uma Arun –Academic Director Pavendar Bharathidasan Institutions.

Final Ranking (150 placings)

Rk. Name Pts.

1 Bala Kannamma.P 82 Sa Kannan 83 Barath Kalyan M 7.54 Muralidharan R. 7.55 Abhinav Gola 76 Aravind G 77 Arul Senthil B 78 Akash R 79 Kannan R 710 Shanmugasundaram G. 711 Abhinessh S 712 Saket Kumar 6.513 Prathish A 6.514 Sangeetha P 6.515 Girinath B S 6.516 Anup Shankar R 6.517 Niranjan R 6.518 Dhanush Bharadwaj h 6.519 K. Dhinesh Babu 6.520 Ashhwath C 6.521 Harivardhini I 622 Balaji P. 623 Balaguru T 624 Hirthik Rajan B P 625 Subramanian T.V. 626 Saravanan A 627 Gokula Kannan Rs 628 Rajkumar N 629 Shyam Sundar M 630 Mohith Akash.S 631 Subalakshmi M S 632 Vaisalie K 6

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33 Sabarish R K 634 Dharani Kumar M S 635 M Niyasudeen S 636 Abirami S 637 Yuva Sankar B 638 Aravinth Shanmugam S 639 Dhivyashree J 640 Aswin Kumar B S 641 Karunakaran S 642 MChandra Kashyap V 5.543 Aswin Babu J 5.544 Nishanth V G 5.545 Akshita D 5.546 Isha Sharma 5.547 Lakshmanan V R 5.548 Sugumar Baburaj 5.549 Utham A 5.550 Hudson Samraj A 5.551 Sukirthi S 5.552 Bharath S 5.553 Ebnesar Anto A 5.554 Akkilesh P 5.555 Muthukumar K 5.556 Vijay Sivakumar 5.557 Pravin A. 5.558 Arputharaj D 5.559 Neela S 5.560 Sarfraz N M 5.561 Jayasangar T 562 Chandrasekar S. 563 Sriram B 564 Akilesh Viswaa 565 Kalangiam S 566 N Kumar Vetrivelkumar 567 Balakrishnan S. 568 Rohit Kumar 569 Ragav P S 570 Roopaverdhini P A 571 Sivaraman P L 572 Neyan G M 573 Edwin Nelson S 574 Mohamed Anees M 575 Nanda Gopal D R 576 Suresh C 577 Bargava Narasimhan S 578 Sundararajan D S 579 Agilan N 580 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 581 Jai Surya M P 5

82 Surya Prakash R 583 Palani Pranav S 584 Prashant Kumar 585 Madhanraj K 586 Manjunath Bhat 587 Suryanarayan B 588 Abiraman S 589 G Udhayakumar 590 Ranjan S 591 Mahadevan M 592 Yogaraj J 593 Arun Prasath. P 4.594 Ragesh Sarma.M 4.595 Thilakavathi B 4.596 Harish M 4.597 Pramesh P 4.598 Paripoornan Boopathi 4.599 R Chidambaram 4.5100 Swathiga V 4.5101 Harikrishna G K 4.5102 Leka R.B 4.5103 Dinesh Kumar M 4.5104 Murugan A 4.5105 Nandhakumar A Nadimuthu 4.5106 Sai Pravarthika S 4.5107 Joyal Victo Franklin J 4.5108 S Krishnaa Satishkumar 4.5109 Akash Roshan A 4.5110 Aswanth A J 4.5111 Akash M 4.5112 Ahalya A 4.5113 Meyyar M 4114 Karthikeyan Muthu 4115 Kishore Lal K K 4116 Karunakaran S 4117 AP Muruggappan 4118 Arul Tharmalingam 4119 Anthoni Samy A S 4120 J Banu Radhakrishna 4121 Charan M 4122 Logaprakash V 4123 Balavaseekaran T M 4124 Madan S 4125 Ussain R 4126 Jeffrey Sam Johnson 4127 M Padma Pratibha 4128 Shanmugam R 4129 Jeya Simma R 4 130 Krishnaa Guruprasath

SEPTEMBER 201314

4th AIM FIDE rated chess tournament below 1800, Namakkal….

Venkataramana is championIA S.Ganesh Babu,Chief Arbiter

P.Venkatramana of Andhra Pradhesh won the 4th AIM FIDE rated chess tournament below 1800 with 9.0 points out of possible 10 rounds organised by AIM chess academy, Namakkal. The 4 day event from August 24 to August 27 was held at Subulakshmi Mahal. The prize fund of 1,50,000 was split to 2 categories of rated 1451 – 1799 & unrated – 1450 with 35 main prizes and 37 special prizes, the winner gets Rs.25,000 in 1451 – 1799 category and Rs.10,000 in unrated – 1450 category.

The event attracted 150 Players from 6 states, 17 districts out of which 84 were internationally Rated Players.Top Seed K.Dhinesh Babu of Erode fell back in the race due to his loss in the Fourth round to K Murugesan of Namakkal. P.Venkatramana of AP, R.Kannan of Erode, K.Murugesan of Erode & Niranjan Nadarajan of TN share the lead with 4 points out of 4 rounds. In the Fifth Round P.Venkataramana of Andhra Pradesh emerged as sole leader with full score after winning his game against K.Murugesan .

Venkataramana continued his lead in the 6 th round by Outwitting Shyam Sundar of Tanjore, but was brought down to earth by Sathya Giri of Kanyakumari in the 7th round. Sathyagiri in turn, was beaten by Muthukumar of Kanyakumari to take the lead with 7.5 points at the end of 8th round.

Venkataramana was back in contention by beating the leader sathyagiri in the 9th round to take the lead with 8 points. Half a point lead over CP Muthukumar

should have made the leader a little bit overconfident when he lost to Dhinesh Babu in the 10th and final round. In the end it was a five way tie with 8 points by P Venkatramana, CP Muthukumar, Sathyagiri, Dinesh Babu and Karmukilan. Caissa smiled on Venkatramana and blessed him with better Buchholz to win the title. Bino Sebastin of Tamilnadu won the 1st Prize in Unrated-1450 rating category. Organizers SV Iyyeppan and V Aathayam distributed the Prizes.

Final Ranking: (135 placings only)

Rk. Name Pts.

1 Venkataramana P 82 Sathya Giri V 83 Muthukumar C P 84 K. Dhinesh Babu 85 Karmukilan S 86 Shyam Sundar T. 7.57 Sasikumar N 7.5\8 Mohammed Shamil A 7.59 Aravindkumar S 7.510 Niranjan Nadarajan 711 Kannan R. 712 Aswin Kumar B S 713 Gowtham K K 714 Balaguru T 715 Shanmugasundaram G. 716 Mohamed Anees M 717 Nishanth V G 718 Bagat Singh P 719 Sangeetha P 720 Murugesan K 6.521 Dhiraj Patil 6.522 K. Natarajan 6.523 Bino Sebastian 6.524 Dilan Paul Roy J 6.525 Vignesh V 6.526 Suryakanth C 6.5

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27 Tajmeera S Thufail 6.528 Bhaskar N S 629 Subramanian T.V. 630 Boobalan.K 631 Harish Bn 632 Sathyanarayanan S. 633 Dhivyashree J 634 Shabreen T Khanam 635 Mohamed Musthafa I 636 Shreyas Pavan 637 Narayanan P 638 Hirthik Rajan B P 639 Swaminathan A 640 Vinoth M 641 Priyadarshini V Dpi 642 Doraiswamy L 643 Arun P 644 Senthil Kumar V 645 Thilagavathi E 646 Aswat Narayanan R 647 Mohanavel S 648 Gowrichander U 5.549 Ashhwath C 5.550 Sudhir Vanarase 5.551 Muthu Muniyandi K 5.552 Sruthi S 5.553 Abdul Hameed 5.554 Velavan S 5.555 Abhinessh S 5.556 Chulet Mayank L 5.557 Gokula Kannan Rs 5.558 Arifulla Abdul Hameed 5.559 Balasubramaniam M 5.560 Isha Sharma 5.561 Naveen B 5.562 Gangadhar T 5.563 Mohamed Haris M 5.564 Muralidharan R. 565 Ramesh Kumar Sonker 566 Pravin A. 567 Praveen Srinivasan 568 Varadharajan S 569 Dawood.K 570 Hemanathan C 571 Srinivasan R 572 Kishore Kumar E 573 Hemadri T 574 Arumugam N 575 Santhosh Manikantan 5

76 Krishnamoorthi P K 577 D R Kalyana Raman 578 Sriram B 579 Srinivasa Suri H 580 Goguloth Malsur 581 Jaganathan P 582 Agilan N 583 Shreyas Kannan 584 Raja S 585 Yukeshan S 586 Arumugam V 4.587 Muthukumaran V 4.588 Barath B R 4.589 Ashok Kumar T D 4.590 Suudhan S 4.591 Vijaya Raman S 4.592 Karuppannan K 4.593 Mahendar B 4.594 Srinath K C 4.595 Arasappan T 4.596 Kalangiam S 4.597 Suvitha Sree K 4.598 Vignesh V 4.599 Sundararajan S 4.5100 Gnanasekar .G 4101 Moorthi M 4102 Aswanth A J 4103 Govinda Raj R 4104 Haritha B 4105 Dharshana Vijayan 4106 Gaurav Nanvani 4107 Meyyar M 4108 Sukesh Ragav H 4109 Ganesh N 4110 Siva Ramakrishnan R 4111 Sowbharnika Kumar.K. 4112 Bharani V 4113 Sasikumar T 4114 Sasikumar Manickkam 4115 Jafer Sheriff J 4116 Sai Pravarthika S 4117 Mahadevan M 4118 Shyam V S 4119 Subash M 4 120 Harshini Saravanna R 4121 Theodore Philip 4122 Eliyaz K L 3.5123 Suresh C 3.5 124 Belevandran A 3.5

SEPTEMBER 201316

3RD Saranya FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Chennai...

Gupta Rajesh wins titleby IA R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

The 3rd Saranya Fide Rated Chess Tournament organised by Saranya Chess Centre was held at J.N. Stadium from 8.8.2013 to 11.8.2013.

A total of 270 participants from four countries Viz. Singapore, Kenya, Germany and from various parts of our country 192 rated players participated in this event and a total of 10 rounds swiss system was followed. There was a keen fight till the end. Finally, R.S. Gupta Rajesh of Maharashtra tied with R. Ashwin of Tamilnadu with 8.5 points and with a better tie-break Gupta Rajesh was declared as winner in the above tournament.

At the prize distribution function Prof. D. Ponnusamy, Programme Director, Anna Institute of Management was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes. Mr. Kalatheeswaran, Secretary, A.K. Chess Academy welcomed the gathering and Mr. N.N. Sivagnanam, Secretary, Saranya Chess Centre proposed vote of thanks.

Final Ranking

Rk Nameh

1 Gupta Rajesh R.S.2 Ashwin R3 Hari Madhavan N B4 Saketh P5 Vignesh V6 Gnanasekar .G7 Duvvala Suresh8 Sameer Kumar Y9 Muralidharan R10 Vishwak S11 Vigneshwaran S12 Lakshmi C13 Karthick Narayanan S14 Sushrutha Reddy15 Venkataramana P16 Mythireyan P17 Bagat Singh P18 George Daniel

19 Bhaskar N S20 Amith A21 Dileep Kumar R22 Haricharann D V23 Vijayakumar.N.24 Magesh Babu Matapathy25 Aravindkumar S26 Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy27 Preneesh Kumar C. S.28 Sonumon P S29 Bino Sebastian30 Niranjan Nadarajan

Final Ranking-age category-wise

age group F07

Rk Name

1 Yashavishree N2 Ananya Arumbakkam3 Keerthana Easwar

age group U07

Rk Name

1 Rohit S2 Sreevijay Sunil3 Bharath Subramaniyam H4 Naanas Baghmaar5 Krishna Prasad S6 Jagannath S7 Ratan Gandhi S

age group F09

Rk Name

1 Rindhiya V2 Rakshitta Ravi3 Shivani Madhu4 Tina C5 Meenakshi K6 Mridula R7 Varnikha Sre M D8 Asmitaa S9 Priyadharshini M.

age group U09

Rk Name

1 Abinandhan R2 Balasubramaniam H

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3 Nitin Shankar Madhu4 Bragadeeshwaran Chidambaram.C5 Vignesh R6 Arya K7 Harsh R Shah8 Manish Anto Cristiano F9 Prajeet Singh Rawat10 Varun R S

age group F11

Rk Name

1 Tejasvi M2 Natha Mayil N3 Diya James4 Neha Srinibash D5 M Padma Pratibha6 Pooja V7 Mohithaa E8 Srilalitha R9 Nityashree D G10 Kamakshi K K

age group U11

Rk Name

1 Vijay Shreeram P2 Raahul V S3 Harshavardhan G B4 Mohamed Anees M5 Shyam Sundar M6 Yutesh P7 Rahul S8 Aswin S9 Jain Arnavv10 Jagadish P

age group F13

Rk Name

1 Tulsi M2 Nivetta T3 Soupraja S4 Jegatha B5 Aparnaa S6 Sahana Sivaramakrishnan7 Gloria Deepti S8 Janani Shree S9 Benitta Chandra S

age group U13

Rk Name

1 Sumit Samantray2 Navnitan S V3 Rakshith N D4 Sanjay Thiruvengadam

5 Karthikeyan L6 Arun M S7 Ithal H L Rajath8 Balaji P9 Tharun Pranav G B10 Vishwa R

Rk Name

1 Rohini T Usha2 Malleswari P3 Savitha Priyadarshini G

age group S60

Rk Name

1 Abdul Azeem R2 Subramanian T.V.3 Sundar Ram T

Rating between 0 and 999

Rk Name

1 Siddharth Sridhar2 Satyanarayana Rao K.3 Dilly Babu K4 Sasidhara Kurup C5 Ashish Kumar6 Siva Arunagirinathan S7 Neeraja J8 Ajay Krisshan N K9 Shriman K10 Hariharan S

Rating between 1000 and 1200

Rk Name

1 Deepak K R2 Hiren K G3 Preethika B4 Sarvesh Kumar A5 Satvik V

Rating between 1201 and 1400

Rk Name

1 Senthamizh Yazhini S2 Dharshan P3 Ajay Karthikeyan4 Digvijay Sunil5 Dharani Kumar M S

Rating between 1401 and 1600

Rk Name

1 Venkat Reddy S2 Vamsi Krishna B3 Arjun Kalyan4 Anuraag G Rajagopalan5 Lakshman K R

SEPTEMBER 201318

Late A. N. Naik Memorial All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament 2013, Goa

Thejkumar clinches titleby Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter

Mathagramsth Hindu Sabha & Salcete Taluka Chess Association, Goa, oraganised“Late A. N. Naik Memorial All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament 2013” at Babu Naik Hall, Near Maruthi Temple, Davorlim, Margao, GOA from 17th to 18th August.

The two day tournament attracted around 240 entries and was conducted in a 10- round Swiss format with 5 rounds a day. The event carried a prize money of Rs.50000/-.

The tournament was inaugurated on 17th August by Sri Vinay Tendulkar ,President, GCA. Of the 240 entries, 93 were FIDE rated players including 4 titled players, IMs Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi of WB and Thejkumar M. S of SWR. FM – Sauravh Khherdekar of MAH and CM Nitish Belurkar of GOA. Sairaj Dilip Vernekar of GOA was the youngest player and Ishwar Ramteke of MAH was the eldest player.

At the end of final round, three players, top seed Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi of W B, second seed Thejkumar M. S of SWR and third seed Kulkarni Chinmay scored 8.5 points out of 10 rounds.

On tie break ThejKumar M S Of SWR clinched the trophy and emerged the Champion. Budding talents of Goa, Nitish Belurkar and Audi Ameya performed well both scoring 8 points and secured 6th and 8th position.

H.H Shrimad Vidyadhiraj Teerth Shripad Vader Swamiji distributed 30 main prizes

and various category prizes to winners.The tournament hall was good and organizers provided hygienic snacks and lunch for players free of cost and supported very nicely to conduct tournament smoothly and successfully. Arbiters’ team worked hard but with smiling face!

Final standings: ( 215 placings only)Rk Name Pts

1 Thejkumar M. S. IM 8½2 Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IM 8½3 Kulkarni Chinmay 8½4 Anilkumar O.T. 85 Kathmale Sameer 86 Nitish Belurkar CM 87 Sanjay N. 88 Audi Ameya 89 Sauravh Khherdekar FM 7½10 Kishan Gangolli 7½11 Athish K 7½12 Arjun Satheesh 7½13 Shubham R Sawaikar 7½14 Suyan Belurkar 7½15 Suhas B. Asnodkar 7½16 Ajeesh Antony 717 Madhusoodanan K.R. 718 Anirudh V.Bhat 719 Kapil Pawse 720 Naik Rishubh Naresh 721 Niraj Saripalli 722 Cruz Wilson 723 Mulay Pratik 724 Arjun K. 725 Akshay V Halagannavar 726 Gandhi Anish 727 Barath M 728 Kantak Adv. P.M. 7

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29 Rajaryan Kuvelkar 730 Rajas Chari 731 Sirsat Shekhar V. 732 Ishwar Ramteke 733 Nelson Clement 734 Athul Krishna S 6½35 Jagadeesh A.K. 6½36 Varma Shabdhik 6½37 Verma Rahul 6½38 Charudutt R Desai 6½39 Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar 6½40 Premchand M 6½41 Amogh S Namshiker 6½42 Riddhi Zantye 6½43 Porob Vraj 6½44 Sachin P. Arolkar 6½45 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 6½46 Sawant Tatvesh Ramdas 6½47 Aman Singh Bais 648 Nikhilesh M Holla 649 Vasant Vishnu Naik 650 Kulkarni Pradip S 651 Errol Jaison 652 Tanad Anil Bandodkar 653 Audi Saiesh 654 Akash K A 655 Anant Prabhudesai 656 Ravi Kiran D J 657 Shrivastava Chitransh 658 Pai Sunay Pundalik 659 Supriya Shanbhaga 660 Dias Aston 661 Siddharth Murali 662 Kerkar Sonali 663 Parsekar Anirudh 664 Kambli Datta 665 Sahil Shetty 666 Prajwalesh 667 Leon Mendonca 668 Nandhini Saripalli 669 Milind Gauns 670 Harshavardhan B 671 Sreehari G 672 Anish Prabhudessai 673 Verenker Disha 674 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 6

75 Sumukh Pinge 676 Pranav Prakash Naik 677 Suresh Ganapati Kattige 678 Suyash Pai 679 Varun R Shastry 680 V Naresh Tarkar Pednekar 5½81 Dev Shah 5½82 Madkaikar Gaurav S 5½83 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 5½84 Shashank S Mayya 5½85 Bir Yogesh Pai 5½86 Brendan Peroz 5½87 Sandesh P Chodnekar 5½88 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5½89 Sanjay Belurkar 5½90 Urvi Bandekar 5½91 Tushar K 5½92 Nageshkar Sohan S 5½93 Prateek Garg 5½94 Colaso Vernon 5½95 Thorat Sanjay 5½96 Madhavan G 5½97 Pai Vithal 5½98 Pai Vishwesh 5½99 Varad Devari 5½100 Shreevatsa Acharya 5½101 Sanat Borkar 5½102 Shanmuk Baliga B 5½103 Chopdekar Gunjal 5104 Fadte Rudresh 5105 Goankar Shambhavi 5106 Kshamaa Acharya 5107 Bhobe Harsh 5108 Sharath Shambhag 5109 Swathi K Bhat 5110 Khan Faiziya 5111 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5112 Anurag S Adwalpalkar 5113 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5114 Raghuvendra J Gupta 5115 Khandeparkar Mohit 5116 Sanjeev Akash 5117 Anand Kurtiker 5118 Chodankar Akash 5119 Barde Om 5120 Shivananad S Khanappanavar 5

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121 Alaina J J Pereira 5122 Avvaru Rama Sirisha 5123 Ian Savio Rodrigues 5124 Naik Atharv 5125 Naik Kunal Ramnath 5126 Naik Shirodkar Prajay 5127 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 5128 Bhargava Rajesh Bhatkurse 5129 Prabhu Saurabh 5130 Shirodkar Adinath Jayant 5131 Madkaikar Sakshi 5132 Mahesh A Shetti 5133 Naroji Sanskriti 5134 Roland Cajetan Pereira 5135 Mayuri A Chari 5136 Anurag Ajay Chari 5137 Naik Snehal 5138 Nitin Waman Pai 5139 Naik Sadichchha 5140 Eesh Prabhudesai 5141 Sadiksha S Asnodkar 5142 Sumeet N Naique Gaunekar 5143 Tadam Dui 5144 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 4½145 Chavan Pankaj 4½146 Naik Vrunda V 4½147 Ghosarwadkar Vaishnavi 4½148 Neil Barreto 4½149 Ganpule Utkarsh 4½150 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 4½151 Ishan V S Kakodkar 4½152 Sawant Vignesh 4½153 Reagan Aaron Rodrigues 4½154 Bhavna Aggarwal 4½155 Sharma Jay 4½156 Palak Jain 4½157 Korgaonkar Arsh 4½158 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4½159 Rohit Simhadri Chelluru 4½160 Upasani Onkar 4161 Gaundalkar Aditya 4162 Madgaonkar Shriyash 4163 Morajkar Navin 4164 Alaya Vella Dcruz 4165 Pratik S Borkar 4166 Aldrige Diogo Luis 4167 Naik Mayuresh 4168 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 4

169 Naik Shvesh S 4170 Saraf Harsh 4171 Chodankar Sehal 4172 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 4173 Shriyal D Prabhudesai 4174 Thanishq Kavlekar 4175 Samavi Kumari 4176 Niraj Y Naik 4177 Parth Vishwajit Talkatkar 4178 Charuta J Shetye 4179 Priyanka S Mayya 4180 Pranav Santosh Nagarcekar 4181 Naik Saksham Sandesh 4182 Pandurang Kamat 4183 Adit Naik Kavlekar 4184 Valvaikar Deepti 4185 Pranav A Naik 4186 Sahil Pravin Prabhu 4187 Kedar Ramesh Joshi 4188 Sanish Laxman Pagui 4189 Siya Mani Devi 4190 Stuti Rajesh Pai 4191 Aryan Naik 4192 Trish Velan Dcruz 4193 Someya Kumari 4194 Divecha Ankur 3½195 Naik Swayan 3½196 Kaushal Mangaldas Naik 3½197 Ratan Prakash Shikhari 3½198 Vardhaman Ganpule 3½199 Divyanka K Borkar 3½200 Sarvesh S Konuri 3½201 Yashsai Ramakant Desai 3½202 Gordon Noel Pires 3203 Abhijit Ankush Gaunker 3204 Naik Pranali M 3205 Costa Diogo P 3206 Sahana R Goudar 3207 Joel Joshua Pires 3208 Vicky Fernandes 3209 Sherwin D’Costa 3210 Kantak Shivam 3211 Naik Sayuri 3212 Sainee N F Dessai 3213 Zikans Raj Singh 3214 Pratik K Borkar 3215 Vibhuti S Dessai 3

SEPTEMBER 201321

1st JCA All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000) Vijayawada…

Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins JCA FIDE Ratedby S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter

Top seeded, 15 year old boy, J Sai Agni Jeevitesh (ELO:1999) of Warangal (Andhra Pradesh) won the 1st Jitendra Chess Academy All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament (Below 2000) organized by Jitendhra Chess Academy, Under the auspices of Krishna District Chess Association & Andhra Pradesh Chess Association, held at D R R M C Indoor Stadium, Vijayawada from 31st July to 3rd August 2013.

He scored 8 points out of 9 rounds by just making two draws(in third round & final rounds) and winning remaining rounds to take the winner trophy with clear one point margin. Agni got Cash Award of Rs. 25,000/- as winner.

Seven players tied for 2nd spot with 7 points each. With better tie break (Buch Holz) Rupesh Ranjan of Bihar got runner up trophy, whereas S Shreeshan of Karnataka is placed 3rd. Rupesh got Rs. 20,000/- and Shreeshan received Rs. 15,000/- as their cash prizes. Total Rs. 1, 40,000/- is distributed among 40 cash prize winners.

In the inaugural function Chief Guest Regional Deputy Director,Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Sri G Chinnayya garu inaugurated the tournament by playing first move. Sri R D Prasad, EC Member, APOA; Sri P V Nagaeswararao, President, Krishna Dist Chess Assn, Mrs.P Tejomayee, Founder Director, Jithendra Chess Academy also graced the occasion.The event attracted 161 participants (including 90 rated players) from Andhra

Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka,Tamil Nadu , Bihar , Jammu Kasmir, Delhi, Goa and SSCB.Despite the local strike going on in the city, all the participants have enjoyed the stay as organizers arranged free lunch inside stadium.

In a glittering valedictory function Chief guest Honorable Smt. V B Nirmala Geetamba , Mahila Sessions Judge, Vijayawada distributed the prizes. Mr P Rama Krishna , DSDO, Krihna District ; Mrs. P Tejomayee, Founder Director, Jithendra Chess Academy; Mr. A Narasimha Rao, Vice President , A P Chess Assn; Mr Devaram Srihari, Secretary, Krishna Dist Chess Assn.; Mr. P V Nagaeswararao, President, Krishna Dist Chess Assn were also present in the occasion.

Final rankingRk Name Pts

1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 82 Rupesh Ranjan 73 Shreeshan S 74 Karthik Gopal G 75 Shailesh Dravid 76 Saket Kumar 77 Vishwanath Prasad 78 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 79 D. Ashraf Subhani 6½10 Lakshmi K Bhushan D 6½11 Vijay Anand M. 6½12 Rama Mohan Rao N 6½13 Senthil Maran K 6½14 Teja Suresh M 6½15 Prabhakaran K 6½16 Ashutosh Kumar 6½17 Rajendra G 6½

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18 Duvvala Suresh 6½19 Raghav Srivathsav V 6½20 Anand Naik B 621 Raja Rithvik R 622 Erigaisi Arjun 623 Sumit Grover 624 Dony K V 625 Saumitra Verma 626 Saranya Y 627 Sathyanarayanan S. 628 Aditya S S V 629 Dhiren T 630 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 631 My Aditya 632 Ch Gopalakrishna Rao 633 Srinivasulu V 634 Kuldeep Sharma 5½35 Chandran T. 5½36 Toshali V 5½37 Suriya Kumar V K 5½38 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili 5½39 Rohith Svs 5½40 Mythireyan P 5½41 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 5½42 Akshit Kumar J 5½43 Durga Prasad K 5½44 Ved Prakash 5½45 Susarla Rishith 5½46 Sunil Vaidya 5½47 Rama Rao T V 5½48 Ashish Mishra 5½49 Ravi Kumar K 550 Sruya Dhanush G 551 Kvijaya Kanth 552 Sampath Kumar M V 553 Swathi Y 554 Vara Prasad Ryali 555 Alexander Rahul M 556 Sudharma Jain G S 557 Bhaskar V 558 Gurromkonda Tarosh 559 Rajagopalan 560 Vishwanath Vivek 561 Kella Venkata Ravi 5

62 Ishwar Ramteke 563 Gowtham Pollam 564 Sandeep Kumar Namburi 565 Abhiram Sai V 566 H Bharadwaj Gundepudi 567 Meesala Vamsi Krishna 568 Vasudeva Murthy K 569 Abdul Rahman S 570 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai 571 Balasubramaniam M 572 Abdul Hameed 573 Jayanth C 574 Sai Akhila M 575 Satwik Seethamraju V S 576 Mahendra Kumar Parigi 4½77 Bhadrinarayana D 4½78 Raj A 4½79 Prasant N Nayagam 4½80 Malla Nooka Raju 4½81 Radhika Devi Chavali 4½82 Prasada Rao Kommuri 4½83 Anurag Kuruvada 4½84 Sai Kiran R 4½85 Chanakya V 4½86 Prasanna Arpita Ch. 4½87 Praneeth Gowd K 4½88 Prudhvi Krishna M 4½89 Sai Krishna A 4½90 Sai Krishna G.B.V. 4½91 Ashok Kumar T D 4½92 Naga Chaitanya 493 Chinnam Vyshnavi 494 Jagarapu Trilodhar 495 Keerthi B 496 Ansar Baksha K 497 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 498 Sai Naga Samhitha G 499 Naga Bhushan K 4100 Vamsi B 4101 Avvaru Rama Sirisha 4102 Abhiram Reddy K 4103 Nikhil Magizhnan 4104 Naga Vijaya Keerthi T 4105 Ranga Sai Deshmukh 4

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Kramnik wins FIDE World Cup 2013Vladimir Kramnik claimed victory in the FIDE World Cup in Tromso, Norway after he drew the fourth classical game in the final match against Dmitry Andreikin. The overall score in the match was 2.5:1.5 in Kramnik’s favor. The former World Champion won the first game of the final match while the other three games finished in a draw.

In the second game of the final Vladimir Kramnik made a draw with Black against Dmitry Andreikin and leads the match 1.5:0.5.

Despite the game finishing in a draw it was an exciting fight which started right in the opening.

Dmitry missed an interesting opportunity on the 15th move and later on didn’t get another chance to fight for more than a draw.

Adhiban bows out in the third roundGrandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban bowed out of the chess World Cup after losing his second game on the trot against higher-ranked Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the third round.

Losing the first game as white, Adhiban started the day in a must-win situation but his aspirations suffered setbacks as Nakamura scored another chance-less victory against the Indian.

Bu t Adh i ban r ema ined t he bes t - pe r f o rm ing I nd i an i n t he even t as compatriots G Akash and Parimarjan Negi had crashed out in the first round itself against Fabiano Caruana of Italy and Yuri Kryvoruchko of Ukraine. Krishnan Sasikiran found his nemesis in Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the second round of the 128-player knockout event.

Adhiban went for the King`s Indian defense against Nakamura but the American just went for an equal variation that involved trading of queens early in the opening.Seeking a victory desperately, Adhiban felt the heat and his attempts to complicate did not come good. Nakamura spotted an opportunity to sacrifice an exchange that sealed the fate of the game effectively and the American notched the victory in 40 moves.

Adhiban got USD 16,000 after his ouster out of which 20 per cent will be paid to FIDE as part of the regulations. The Indian had beaten Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the first round and Alexander Fier of Brazil in the second.

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Barcelona Sants Open chess tournament…..

Adhiban wins Barcelona Sants Openby Arvind Aaron

Former world under-16 champion B. Adhiban won the Barcelona Sants Open chess tournament that concluded at Barcelona on September 2, 2013. Adhiban was richer by Rs. 2.40 lakh after the triumph. Indian players have given a sterling display during the European summer as they won most of the top flight open competitions. P. Harikrishna won at Biel, Parimarjan Negi won at Copenhagen, S.P. Sethuraman triumphed at Leiden, and M.R. Lalith Babu took the title at Vlissingen, Deepan Chakravarthy in Vitoria Open in Basque, Spain.

Adhiban was the only titled Indian in the 298-player contest. The event is also part of the 10th Catalan Chess Circuit. In the final round, he scored a crushing 23-move victory over Vladimir Burmakin. The field consisted of 23 GMs and 28 IMs. Adhiban finished one point ahead of top seed Lazaro Bruzon of Cuba. Adhiban was very impressive and finished half-a-point ahead of others with 8.5 out of a possible 10. The second to fifth places were shared by Cori Jorge (Peru), Vladimir Potkin (Russia), Jan Gustafsson (Germany) and Firat Burak (Turkey) with eight points each.

Picture courtesy: www.cotxeres.org/open

Asian Schools Chess Championships, Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka

India wins eight Golds by Arvind Aaron

Indians won eight out of the 14 sections in the Asian School Chess Championships that concluded at Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka on September 5, 2013.Indians did not win many sections since we did not have players in all sections! This event attracted low attention from Asian nations and only have a dozen of them took part. Some sections had exclusively Sri Lankan players. Still, it was Asian Championship!Our tally in classical chess was 8 gold, four silver.

Hikkaduwa has a lovely beach on the Indian Ocean.The Sri Lankan Chess Federation is one of the active bodies after the All India Chess Federation in Asia. Further details can be had on this website or from www.chess-results.com http://www.cfslonline.comThe event followed the same pattern of the Asian Youth Chess Championship. First rapid event, then classical followed by blitz.

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Indian medal winners in classical:

Open Under-17: Akash PC Iyer (gold) 7/7. Under-15 Girls: V Varshini (gold) 8/9. Open Under-13: Siva Mahadevan (silver) 7/9. Under-13 Girls: Hilmi Parveen (gold) 8.5/9. Open Under-9: R Raja Rithvik (gold) 8/9. Open Under-9: Karthik Kumar Pradeep (silver) 7/9. Open Under-7: Nikhil Magizhnan (gold) 8/9. Under-7 Girls: Sanskruti Wankhade (gold) 9/9. Open Under-5: Nikhil Ramakrishnan (gold) 8.5/9. Open Under-5: Ananth Ramdas (silver) 7/9. Under-5 Girls: Saee Patil (gold) 5/7. Under-5 Girls: Shraddha Somanath (silver) 5/7.

Carlsen in Chennai ...The Chennai simul

World No.1 Magnus Carlsen took on twenty youngsters, aged 7 to 17 who have won medals in age group competitions, in a simultaneous display at the M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women, Nungambakkam, Chennai.It was estimated to last for two hours but it went on for two and a half hours.

Norwegian media might have expected a 20-0 sweep which was not to be.Four players defeated him. Six drew with him and Carlsen won just 10 games.In the end, while commending the playing strength of

the future champions Carlsen advised the children not to be modest offering draws in advantageous positions.G.Jaswant, Visakh Nr, Ram Arvind and Vaishali managed to defeat the World No1 ranked player. Six players also had the moment of their careers when they drew Carlsen.The players who held him to draws include: Pranav Vijay, Mitchelle Catherina, Arvindh Chidambaram, the 2012 World Under-14 Girl’s champion M.Mahalakshmi, U.Ashwini, Ja Gireman.

Prior to the simultaneous display Carlsen and his group were entertained with a “welcome

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to India’ song rendered by the students of M.O.P Vaishnav College.We loved this special welcome and the song very much said the Norwegian Counsel in Delhi.

Providing opposition to Grandmasters in Chennai simuls is nothing new.Fifteen years earlier in 1998, V.Anand gave a clock simul against six Tamilnadu youngsters (three boys and three girls) at the Soviet Cultural Centre.All six were National age group champions at that timeand all untitled.Anand drew against M.R.Venkatesh and beat P.Mageshchandran, Sundararajan Kidambi, Aarthie Ramasamy, K.Preethi and JE.Kavitha.All three boys became grandmasters while Aarthie became a WGM.

Excerpts from the Carlsen’s press meet…..On Anand:

He is one of the greats in the game. I have worked with him in 2007 and 2008.It was a great learning experience for me. But I am not scared of him. I have the advantage of being young and having more energy. If I concentrate well I have good chances against him.

Privileges of champion:

There is nothing much I can do about this.It is slightly unfair and I have nothing much to say.

Are you the greatest Norwegian Sportsman? Unfortunately not me!

What was the problem in Chennai being the venue?Norway argued on the bidding process and not against Chennai as venue.About the venue: Very satisfied so far.Do you have a girl friend? No.Only thinking about the World Championship matchOn trainer teams: Would not reveal now, may be at the end of the matchOn the simultaneous exhibition:The level of my opponents was good.Never played one so strong! Many of you gave draws in winning positions. Please do not be modest next time!Why this inspection trip?Mainly to rule out surprises during the match to familiarise myself with what to expect.About illness clause: I would not like to talk about the contract.On GM Peter H.Nielson who had been his trainer as well as Anand’s main trainer in the period after Elizbar Ubilava:For me, he is not going to be part of any teamOn his chances in the match:If I am in top shape, I have every chance to win.You should not go into a World Championship without a belief to win

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2nd KCM FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Coimbatore……

Saravanakrishnan wins Titleby IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter

P Saravanakrishnan of Kanchi won the 2nd edition of the KCM FIDE Rating Chess Tournament held at Coimbatore from 28th Aug to 1st September. In a field of 246 players consisting of 2 IM’s Nitin Senthilvel of AAI & C Praveen Kumar of ICF and 4 FMs , Saravana scored an impressive 8.5/9 to win the title. The former U25 State Champion shot into lead with 7/7 score. Former World U14 Silver Medallist FM Aravind Chithambaram scored 7.5/9 with a lone defeat at the hands of winner. The tournament was inaugrated by Sivashankaran, Regional Sports Officer, in presence of Mr Stanley Mathew, District Sports Officer and Ananthalakshmi, Dist Inspector, PEd and Office bearerers of the Association.

In an interesting final round games Saravana overcame IM Nitin on the first board Kunal holding to Aravind Chithambaram in knight against rook ending & SS Manigandan beat RA Pradeep Kumar in a tense middle game. The Prize distribution was a simple and quick one viewing the return of Participants to respective destinations and prizes were distributed by the office bearers of KCM and District Association.

Final Ranking: (first 50 placings only)

Rk. Name Pts.

1 Saravana Krishnan P. 8.52 Arvindh Chithambaram Vr FM 7.53 Maheswaran P. FM 7.54 Manigandan S S 7.55 Lakshmi Narayanan 7.56 Kunal M. 77 Surendran N. 7

8 Suresh Kumar T.J. 79 Prasannaa.S 710 Sekar B 711 Uma Maheswaran P 712 Pradeep Kumar R.A. 6.513 Nitin S. IM 6.514 Kishan Gangolli 6.515 Ramalingam Karthik 6.516 Ravi Teja S. 6.517 Yogit S 6.518 Praveen Kumar C. IM 6.519 Ganesh Babu S. 6.520 Kulkarni Vinayak 6.521 Chakravarthi Reddy M 6.522 Barath Kalyan M 6.523 Subramanian V 6.524 Cholleti Sahajasri 6.525 Phoobalan P. 6.526 Vaisnav A 6.527 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 628 Sa Kannan 629 Rathanvel V S CM 630 Shreeshan S 631 Divya Lakshmi R 632 Arjun Satheesh 633 Ojas Kulkarni 634 Raghunandan K S FM 635 Mohanan U.C. 636 Harshini A 637 Jai Aditya D 638 Subramanian Pl 639 Niranjan R 640 Sarveshwaran P 641 Yashaskara Jois K.R 642 Rajeev V.M. 643 Matta B Reddy 644 John Christopher 645 Vishwak S 646 Adithya S 647 Sanjay Snehal M S 648 Dhanasekar K. 649 Vetrivel P 650 Priyanka K 5.5

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Selected games from National Junior Championships, LucknowAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Das,Sayantan (2368) - Prasanna,Raghuram Rao (2396)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.a4 Rb8 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bb6 10.axb5 axb5 11.Qd3 0–0 12.Bg5 exd4 13.cxd4 h6 14.Bh4 Bg4 15.Nbd2 g5 16.Bg3 Ne7 [A Shabalov, 2602 vs J Rouleau, 2265 in 2007 went: 16...Bh5 17.d5 Ne7 18.Nd4 Nd7 19.Ba2 Bg6 20.Nf5 Kh7 21.b4 Re8 22.Kh1 Nf6 23.Nd4 Qd7 and white eventually won.] 17.h3 Bh5 18.Rfe1 Bg6 19.Qc3 [For a slight advantage, white does not wish to exchange pawns in the centre: 19.Qxb5 Bxd4 20.Qc4 Bc5 (20...Bxb2? 21.Ra2 Be5 22.Nxe5+-) 21.Qc3] 19...d5 20.Ne5 [With the threat of Nxg6, white’s prospects appear good after: 20.exd5 Nfxd5 21.Qc1 Ra8 22.Rxa8 Qxa8 23.Ne4] 20...dxe4?! [Best for black was: 20...Bxe4!= 21.h4 Bf5] 21.Nxg6 Nxg6 22.Nxe4 Bxd4

Diagram # 23.Qc2! [This keeps a slight advantage thanks to his compact castled position in contrast with black’s. Additionally, black has a backward c7 pawn

on white’s semi-open file. White is now threatening: 24 Nxg5! hxg5 25 Qxg6+ winning. If 23.Qxc7 Qxc7 24.Bxc7 Rbe8 25.Nxf6+ Bxf6 26.Red1 Re2 27.Ra5=] 23...Nxe4 24.Rxe4 White is threatening 25 Rxd4! Qxd4 26 Qxg6. 24...Bb6

25.Re6! Kg7 [25...fxe6?? 26.Qxg6+ Kh8 27.Be5+ Qf6 28.Bxe6! threatening Qxh6#] 26.Rc6! Rc8 [Black takes care of the obvious threat to c7. He overlooks the more subtle threat. 26...Nf4 taking care of both threats.] 27.Bxf7! Ne7 [If 27...Rxf7 28.Qxg6+ Kf8 29.Qxh6+ is killing.] 28.Bh5! In a good position like this, good moves come automatically. If now 28...Nxc6 29 Qg6+ Kh8 30 Bg4! wins for white. 28...Bd4 [If 28...Nxc6 29.Qg6+ Kh8 30.Qxh6+ Kg8 31.Bg4 Nd4 (to stop 32 Be6+) 32.Qg6+ Kh8 33.Be5+ wins.] 29.Rd1 Nf5 Diagram

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30.Be5+! Bxe5 [30...Rf6? 31.Qxf5! wins.] 31.Rxd8 Rcxd8 32.Rg6+ Kh8 33.g4! After this, the white queen is able to move about without fearing a back rank mate. 33...Rd6 34.gxf5 Rxg6 35.Bxg6 1–0

Das,Sayantan (2368) Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2306)

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0–0 Bg7 6.d3 Nf6 7.Nc3 Nd7 8.Be3 e5 9.Nd2 [The knight heads for c4 and strategic play against the black queen-side pawns. 9.Qd2 has been played here.] 9...0–0 10.a4 a5 11.Nc4 b6 12.Qd2 Ba6 13.b3 Re8 14.Ne2 Nf8 15.Bh6 Bh8 16.f4 exf4 17.Qxf4 Ra7 18.Rad1 Ne6 [A good idea was: 18...Bxc4 19.bxc4 (Black would shy away from this position as it saddles him with a backward pawn on the semi-open b-file. But there is no way for white to exploit it, especially when black generates counter-play on the f-file.) 19...f5! 20.Qf3 Rf7=] 19.Qg3 Nd4 20.Nxd4 Bxd4+ 21.Kh1 b5 Black trusts in the strength of his two bishops and loses a pawn. 22.Ne3 Be5 23.Bf4 Bg7 24.Bd6 bxa4 [24...Bf8 25.Bxf8 Kxf8 (25...Rxf8 26.Ng4 Qd4) 26.Ng4 The dark squares in black’s castled position are beckoning white to attack!] 25.Bxc5 Rb7 26.bxa4 Re5 27.Ba3 Qd4 28.Rb1! White must mount an attack before black seriously threatens his a4 pawn. 28...Rxb1 [If 28...Qxa4 29.Rxb7 Bxb7 30.Bb2 Re8 31.Bxg7 Kxg7 32.Nf5+ Kh8 33.Nd6+-] 29.Rxb1 Re8 30.Rf1! Qxa4 (See diagram)31.Qc7! f5 Black must have thought that this would hold the white forces away from the critical f7 square, but there is more trouble for him. 32.Qd7! Rc8 33.Nd5!! A beautiful and devastating move which utilises the black pinned pawn on c6.

(Position after 30…Qxa4)

33...Qd4! 34.Ne7+ Kf7 35.Qxd4 Bxd4 36.Nxc8 Bxc8 Black has averted serious damage at the cost of the exchange. 37.exf5 gxf5 38.Rb1 Ke6 39.Re1+ the white rook gets into black’s backyard with great effect. 39...Kf6 40.Re8 Be6 41.Ra8 Now white goes to work on black’s a-pawn. 41...Bc3 42.Bc5 Bd5 43.Bb6 f4 44.Bxa5 Bd4 Black hopes to obtain some counter-play with f4-f3. 45.c4! Be6 46.Rf8+ Kg5 47.Bd2 Bf5 (See diagram)[47...Be5 48.g3 white wins.] 48.h3

(position after 47….Bf5)

[Stronger seems to be: 48.g3 Kg6 (48...Bxd3? 49.Rxf4!+-) 49.Rxf5 Kxf5 50.Bxf4 and unlike in the actual game, white gets

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two extra pawns with bishops of the same colour.] 48...h5 49.Rg8+ Kf6 50.Rf8+ Ke5 51.Re8+ Kf6 52.Bxf4 Bxd3 53.Rc8 c5 54.Bd6 Ke6! Black takes advantage of the few available resources. 55.Bxc5 Kd7! 56.Bxd4 Kxc8 57.c5 Kd7 58.Kh2 Ke6 59.Be3 Be4 [59...Bf5 hindering the advance of the g-pawn, even temporarily, merits attention.] 60.g4 hxg4 61.hxg4 Ke5 62.Kg3 Bc6 63.Kh4 Be8 [Taking a lesson from rook endings where the general rule is that the rook belongs behind the passed pawn, here black could offer greater resistance by playing his bishop more actively from behind the passed pawns with: 63...Be4 64.Kg5 Bf3 65.Bf4+ Kd5 66.Bd6 Ke6 67.Kf4 Be2 68.Bb8 Kd5 69.Ba7 Ke6 70.Bb6 Bb5 71.Kg5 Kf7 72.Ba5 Bc6 73.Kh6 Bf3 74.g5 Be4] 64.Kg5 Bd7 65.Kh5 Kf6 66.g5+ Kf7 67.g6+ Kf6 [67...Kg8 68.Kg5 Bc6 69.Kf6 Bg2 70.g7 Bf3 71.Bd4 With the black king pinned down to the g7 pawn, white would now move his king to the d-file to shepherd his c-pawn to queen.] 68.Bd4+ Ke7 69.Kh6 Bf5 70.g7 Kf7 71.c6 Be4 72.c7 Bf5

73.c8Q!! Bxc8 74.Kh7 The struggle is over. 74...Bf5+ 75.Kh8 Bh7 76.Kxh7 1–0

Akash Pc,Iyer (2208) Chaithanyaa,K.G (2046) [A13]

1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.d3 0–0 6.Nbd2 b6 7.0–0 Bb7 8.Qc2 c5 9.a3 Nc6 10.e3 Qd7 [Here, 10...Rc8 is the natural move, bringing his rook into the same file as the white queen.] 11.Rd1 Rad8 12.b3 dxc4 [Better was: 12...d4 13.e4 Qc7] 13.Nxc4 b5= 14.Nce5 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 Qc7 16.Bxb7 Qxb7 17.Bb2 (See diagram)Black’s position is actually a shade better as white does not have the fianchettoed bishop in his castled position.

17...Bd6 [Almost level was: 17...Nd7 18.a4 Nxe5 19.Bxe5 b4=] 18.e4 Bxe5 19.Bxe5 Ng4 20.Bb2

20...f5?! [This is a gamble. Better was to accept a slightly inferior position with: 20...Rc8 21.f3 Nf6 22.Bxf6 gxf6] 21.h3 Nh6 [Somewhat better would have been: 21...Nf6 22.Qxc5 fxe4 23.Bxf6

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Rxf6 24.dxe4 Rdf8 25.Ra2²] 22.Qxc5 fxe4 23.dxe4 Rxd1+ 24.Rxd1 Qxe4 25.Qc3 Qg6 26.Re1 The obvious threat that black overlooks is Rxe6! as the black queen is overloaded with the mate on his g7 square. 26...Nf7? Diagram # [With 27 Rxe6!! imminent black should stay in the game with: 26...Nf5 ]

27.Rxe6 Qg5 28.f4! The black queen is forced off the g-file, allowing mate on g7. 1–0

Madhurima,Shekhar (1999) Mahalakshmi,M (2051) [B19]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.h4 h6 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 e6 11.Bd2 Qc7 12.0–0–0 Ngf6 13.Qe2 0–0–0 14.Ne5 Nxe5 15.dxe5 Nd5 16.f4 c5 17.Kb1 c4 18.Ne4 Kb8 19.g4 [Usual here is: 19.Rh3 Be7 20.Rg3 Rhg8 21.Nc3=] 19...Rc8 20.Rhf1 White has advanced her king-side pawns but has no aggressive plans with them. Now, she has to defend her pawns, especially the f4 pawn. 20...Qb6 The threat is 21...c3! 21.Ka1 Qa6 22.Rf3 [White is content to parry black’s threats. Instead, she should try to create her chances on the king-side with: 22.f5 Qa4 23.Kb1 Qc6 24.Nc3 Rd8 25.Nxd5 Rxd5 26.Bc3 Be7±] 22...Rc6 23.Kb1 Rb6 24.Be3 Rb5 25.Bc1 Be7 26.Nc3

Ra5 27.a3 Rc8 28.Qe4 [It was the right time for white to clear the third rank and strike at black’s centre with: 28.Nxd5 Rxd5 (or, if 28...exd5 29.f5 Rb5 30.Ka2±) 29.Rxd5 exd5 30.e6 fxe6 31.Qe5+ Qd6 32.Qxg7±] 28...Qc6 29.Qe1?! [As black is threatening to won the white queen with 29...Nxc3+, the queen scurries back to base. Better was: 29.Nxd5 Rxd5 30.Rdf1=] 29...Qb6

30.Ka1?! [It is not a good sign that white has been moving her king back and forth between a1 and b1. Even now she should play: 30.Nxd5 exd5 31.e6 fxe6 (31...Qxe6?? 32.Qxa5) 32.Qe5+ Ka8 33.f5 Bf6 34.Qxe6 Qc6 35.Re3] 30...Bb4 [Black wants to complicate the game and win as white has been playing cautiously and avoiding all risks. If now: 30...Nxc3 31.Qxc3 Bb4 32.Qe3 (32.Qd4 Qc6=) 32...Qc6=] 31.Nxd5! At last white captures on d5 and keeps a slight advantage! 31...exd5 32.Qf2 [32.c3!²] 32...Bc5 Probably the tension finally takes it toll on white and she suddenly walks into defeat. 33.Be3?? This was the only move that would leave to instant disaster. Almost any other move like 33 Qg3 or 33 Qg2 or Qh2 or Qd2 would have been level.

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33...c3!! The white bishop has got itself pinned against its own queen along the diagonal! 34.Rb1 Bxa3!!

35.Bxb6 Bxb2# Mate with double check! 0–1

Lasya.G (2024)

Pujari,Rucha (2156) [B07]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.h3 a6 5.a4 Bg7 6.g3 Five pawn moves in the first six moves of a game is seen in the Four Pawns attack of the King’s Indian, but not in the Pirc Defence 6...0–0 7.Bg2 e5 8.Nge2 Nc6 9.d5 Ne7 10.0–0 Nd7= The game has taken the contours of the Kings Indian defence with white having a pawn on c2 instead of c4. 11.g4 f5 12.exf5 gxf5 13.Ng3 f4 An original, complicated

position has arisen from a bizarre opening. 14.Nh5 Nf6 With her central pawns blocked on dark squares, black does not value her dark square bishop and lets it go. Probably for the same reason, white does not capture it! 15.Nxf6+ Rxf6= 16.Ne4 Rg6 17.Kh2 c6 18.c4 cxd5 19.cxd5 Bd7 20.b3 Be8 Black has a problem finding roles for her two bishops in this position. 21.Ra2 Bf7 22.Rd2 h5 23.gxh5?! [Probably white did not play: 23.g5 (as she feared that the black knight would get to f5 and d4 in the centre of the game. But the advantages of this move far outweighed the negative factors) 23...h4 24.Bf3 Nf5 25.Rg1 b5 26.Bh5!+-] 23...Rh6 24.Bf3 Nf5 25.Rg1 Nh4 26.Bg4 Kh8± 27.Ba3 Qe7 28.Rd3 [As her d5 pawn was no longer twice attacked, white could use the opportunity to start occupying the open c-file with: 28.Rc2 Qd8 29.Qd3 Qb6 30.Ng5±] 28...Rg8 29.f3?

Diagram # [With this move white surrenders her h5 pawn which was a thorn in black’s side. Of course, to capture on h5, black has to give up the base of her pawn chain, the pawn on d6. Better was to generate enough play on the queen-side so that black has take risks to capture h5, and so: 29.Rc3 Rd8 30.Bb4! and white is threatening the invasion of the queen-side with Ba5 and Rc7.] 29...Re8 30.Qe1

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[The best move in this position is 30.Qc2! which is nearly winning with its threat of entering the black camp through the c-file..] 30...Bxh5? [30...Bg8 31.Nxd6 Rxd6 32.Bxd6 Qxd6 33.Qxh4 e4 34.fxe4 f3+ 35.Kh1 Rxe4 36.Qg5 f2 (36...Re2 37.Qxg7+ Kxg7 38.Bxf3+ Kh7 39.Bxe2 Bxd5+ 40.Bf3 Bxf3+ 41.Rxf3 wins after a long fight.) 37.Rf1 Bh7 38.Bf5+-] 31.Bxh5 Rxh5 32.Rg5 [Leading to a win was the strong: 32.Nxd6 Rd8 33.Rg4 Bf6 34.Ne4+-] 32...Rh6 33.Bb2? [Strangely, white again misses a win. Inexplicably she is withdrawing her bishop from active duty. Probably she was in time trouble. Best here is: 33.Nxd6! Rd8 (33...Qxg5?? 34.Nf7+) 34.Rg4+-] 33...Rc8= 34.Qe2 Qd7?! [This presents white with a winning chance. Best was: 34...Qd8= ] 35.Rd2? [Better was: 35.Nxd6 Rxd6 36.Bxe5! Rg6 37.Rh5+ Kg8 38.Bxg7 Rg2+ (38...Qxg7 39.Rxh4 Qe7! 40.Qxe7 Rc2+ draws by perpetual check.) 39.Qxg2 Nxg2 40.Be5 Ne1 41.Rh8+ Kf7 42.Rh7+ Ke8 43.Rxd7 Kxd7 44.Rc3±]

35...Nf5 The tide has turned and white has to defend to keep his king safe. 36.Nf2 Bf6!–+ 37.Rxf5 [The only move. If 37.Rg1 Ne3 38.Qd3 Qf7 39.Qe4 Rg8–+] 37...Qxf5 38.Ng4 Rh5 39.Qg2 Bh4 40.Qe2 Rg8 Black has all the time in the world to prepare a mating web around the

white king. 41.Kg2 Bg3 42.Qe4? [This plunges white into irrecoverable damage. Best to prolong the game was: 42.Rd1 ] 42...Qxe4! 43.fxe4 Rxg4 If 44 hxg4 Rh2+ 45 Kf1 Rxd2. 0–1

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Which side is white?

The variety of questions that can be posed in retro analytical problems is remarkable and those who have very little interest in conventional problems are intrigued by such retros. To ‘reason backwards’ in studies of this sort give immense pleasure to solvers. In the retro below it is given that no piece was captured on the last move and the question is which side is white North or South!

Robert Smullyan 1991

Which side is white, North or south?

Solution on Page 42

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Selected games from National Challenger, ThrissurAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Bakshi,Rutuja (1880)Ivana Maria,Furtado (2080)

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e3 g6 4.Bd3 c5 5.c3 Nbd7 6.0–0 Bg7 7.Nbd2 0–0 8.e4 dxe4 9.Nxe4 cxd4 10.Nxf6+ Nxf6 11.Nxd4 e5 [11...Qb6 has been played here before. 12.Nb5 a6 13.Be3 Qa5 14.Nd4=] 12.Ne2 b6 13.Ng3 Bb7 14.Qe2 Qd5 15.f3 Rfd8 16.Bc4 Qc6 17.Be3 Nd5 18.Bb5 Qc7

Diagram # 19.Rfd1? A positional mistake! Allowing the dark square bishop to be exchanged off shows lack of experience. 19 Bg5 or 19 Bd2 should have been played. 19...a6 20.Ba4 Nxe3 21.Qxe3 f5 Now black has the superior game with her two bishops sweeping important parts of the board. 22.Qe2 h5 23.Nf1 b5 24.Bb3+ Kh7 25.Kh1 Bc6 26.Ne3 Qb7 27.Rxd8 Rxd8 28.Rd1 Rxd1+ 29.Nxd1 a5 30.Nf2 a4 31.Bc2 b4 32.cxb4 Qxb4 Move by move black has improved her space advantage. 33.Nd3 Qb5 34.b3 e4!µ 35.fxe4 fxe4 36.Nc1 Qg5! 37.Qf1 Diagram # With this she defends her knight and also g2 where

some mating threat could develop.

37...a3 [Stronger was: 37...Qd2 38.Qd1 Qf2 39.bxa4 Bd4 (A grievous blunder would be to try mate on g2 quickly with: 39...e3?? 40.Qxh5+! Kg8 41.Bb3+ Kf8 42.Qc5+ Ke8 43.Qxc6+ and white wins.) 40.Nb3 Bc3 41.Bb1 Be1 threatening 42 Qf1# mates.] 38.Ne2 Bb5! 39.Qe1 Qe3! 40.Bd1 Bd3 41.b4 Bh6 [Stronger was: 41...Bc4 which leads to the win of the a2 pawn and the creation of an advanced passed pawn for black on the a-file.] 42.h3 Qd2 [Again 42...Bc4!–+ ] 43.Qxd2 Bxd2 44.Kg1 Bxb4 45.Kf2 Bc4 46.Nc1 Bd2 Diagram #

47.Nb3 [Nothing can save white now. If 47.Bb3 e3+ 48.Kf3 e2 49.Nxe2 Bxb3 50.axb3 a2–+] 47...e3+! 48.Kf3 e2!

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49.Bxe2 Bxb3! 50.Bd3 Bxa2 51.Ke2 Bf7! 52.Bb1 [52.Kxd2 a2 and 53....a1=Q cannot be stopped.] 52...Bh6 53.g4 hxg4 54.hxg4 a2 55.Bxa2 Bxa2 and white played till mate on move 700–1

Mohota,Nisha (2293) Soumya,Swaminathan (2301)

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e3 0–0 6.Be2 c6 7.0–0 Bf5 8.h3?! h6 9.Nh4 Be6 10.f4 dxc4 11.e4 b5! 12.a3!? [If she does what she has set out to do, it will lead to equality as follows: 12.f5 gxf5 13.Nxf5 Bxf5 14.Rxf5 Nbd7=] 12...Nh7 [If 12...Nh5 13.Bxh5 Qxd4+ 14.Kh2 gxh5 15.Qxh5 Nd7 16.Nf3 Qc5 17.f5 Nf6 18.Qh4 Bc8±; However, 12...Bc8 gives black excellent chances.] 13.Be3 g5 [This move was best delayed. If 13...Bc8 14.Rc1 (14.f5 e5 15.Nf3 exd4 16.Nxd4 g5) ] 14.fxg5 hxg5 15.Nf3 g4 16.hxg4 Bxg4

Diagram # Thus black has solved the uneasy posting of her bishop on e6, but fresh trouble brews for her with one knight on h7 and the other one still on b8. 17.e5 f6? [This weakens her castled position without in anyway reducing her problems. Best was to relocate her white square bishop to take advantage of the strong square d5 recently

created by white’s advancing of the e-pawn. Best was:

17...Be6 18.a4 Qb6 19.Qd2 Qb7 when white has only a slight advantage.] 18.Qe1 Qe8 [Better was: 18...e6 19.Qg3 Bf5 20.Nh4 fxe5 (20...Bc2? 21.Rac1 Bb3 22.Ng6 Rf7 23.Ne4+-) 21.dxe5 Nd7=] 19.Qg3 Qh5 20.a4! Nd7 [20...b4? 21.Bxc4+ Kh8 22.Ne2 white should win.] 21.axb5 cxb5 22.Nd5! Black is now in danger of defeat. White is now threatening both Nxe7+ and Nf4 harassing the black queen. 22...fxe5 23.Nxe7+ Kh8 24.Nh4 threatening N4g6+ when black would have to give up her queen for a knight. 24...Rxf1+ 25.Rxf1 Nhf6 Diagram # Only now the two black knights are decently placed, but they are too late to save the game.

26.Rf5! Bxe2 [Now black is completely lost. If 26...Qxf5 27.Nhxf5 Bxe2? 28.Qxg7#] 27.Rxh5+ Nxh5 28.Qf2 Bg4 (See Diagram next column) [If 28...Bd3? 29.Qf3 is a double attack.; or if, 28...Bd1 29.Nhg6+ Kh7 30.Qf5 and white mates quickly.] 29.Nhg6+ Kh7 30.Qh4 [After 30.Qh4 Ndf6 31.dxe5! and being mated would be a relief for black.]1–0

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(Position after 28...Bg4)Diagram # this places the rook in a vulnerable square and black is quick to take advantage of it. Strangely, both white rooks are unprotected. 21...Nc3+!! 22.Qxc3 Nd5! 23.Qe1 [23.Qh3 Bxh4 24.Qxh4 Nc3+ 25.Ka1 Nxd1–+ and black has won both rooks for a bishop and knight.] 23...Bxh4 24.Bb2 c4–+ Now black has a winning positional and material advantage. 25.Ne3 cxb3 26.cxb3 a5! 27.g3 Bf6 28.N3g4 a4! Black pursues her attack with single minded devotion. 29.Nxf6+ Nxf6 30.Nd3 axb3 31.axb3 While white’s attack did not progress beyond 8 h5, black’s queen-side attack has started raging. 31...Qd5! A simple double attack. 32.Nc5 Qxh5 Black has a rook and pawn for white’s bishop. 33.Rc1 Qf5+ 34.Rc2 Nd5 35.Kc1 Without any pawn shield around him, the white king is feeling extremely exposed and ready for execution. 35...Rfc8 36.Kb1 Nf6 37.Qe2 Nd5 (See Diagram next column) 38.Qe1 [If 38.Qxb5 Rcb8 39.Qd3 Qxd3 40.Nxd3 Rxb3–+] 38...Ra7 39.Kc1 e5! 40.dxe5 Rac7 41.Bd4 b4! 42.Qe2 Nc3 The idea behind b5-b4. 43.Qc4 Rxc5 44.Bxc5 Qxe5 Black is totally lost. 45.Qxb4 Rxc5 0–1

R a m a s w a m y , A a r t h i e ( 2 0 9 1 ) Mahalakshmi,M (2051)

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Ngf6 11.Bd2 e6 12.0–0–0 Be7 13.Qe2 0–0 More popular nowadays is to castle on the queen-side. 14.Nf1 Nb6 [14...Qb6 has been played here before.] 15.Kb1 Diagram #

15...Na4!? A provocative move whose only purpose seems to be to unsettle white and create confusion. 16.Qd3 [If 16.Qc4 Nb6=] 16...b5 17.Ne5 Qd6 18.b3?! [18.Ng3 and 18 Rh3 were to be considered instead of creating a weakness in his castled position.] 18...Nc5 19.Qf3 Nce4 20.Bc1 c5! 21.Rh4?

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(Position after 37...Ng5)

23.Bxc5!? [Probably white fears a double piece sacrifice on b3 and nullifies it in advance. Without the clock ticking away, one could see in leisure, what would happen after: 23.h5 Bxb3 24.cxb3 Nxb3 25.axb3 Rxb3+ 26.Ka1 Rxe3 27.hxg6 hxg6 28.Bxa6 Kg7 and though white has a bishop for two pawns, the position is well balanced with chances for both sides.] 23...dxc5 24.h5 g5 25.c4 h6 26.Rd2 Qc7 27.Qxc7 Rxc7 28.Rd6 Ra8 29.Rhd1 Kg7= 30.Kc2 Raa7 [Black should try to liquidate her weak a pawn with 30...a5 for 31...a4. After the exchange of the a-pawn her rook would be free to roam as it pleases.] 31.Rb6 a5 32.a4 Avoiding the exchange of black’s weak pawns so that black has to be constantly defending it. 32...Rd7 33.Rc6 Rdc7 34.Rb6 Kf6 35.Rd8 Rd7 36.Rxd7 Rxd7 37.Rc6 g4± Typically, black prefers active, though risky, play to passive defence. 38.fxg4 Kg5 39.Rxc5 Kf4 40.Rxa5 Ke3 41.Bd1 Kxe4 42.Ra8 f5 43.gxf5 Bxf5 44.a5! White is not afraid of the discovered check. 44...Ke3+ 45.Kc1 Rd2 46.Re8 e4 47.Re5 Bh7 [The bishop must move supporting the e4 pawn for if 47...Bc8? 48.Rxe4+!+-] 48.Re7 Bf5Diagram # 49.Bc2! Rh2? 50.a6 Despite having her rook on the seventh rank and an advanced king, black is losing as white’s pawn on the sixth rank is too, too dangerous. If black captures the h5 pawn her rook would never be able to stop the a-pawn. 50...Rg2 51.a7 Rg8 52.Kb2 Kd4 53.b4! Ra8 [If 53...Kxc4 54.Bb3+ winning the rook.]54.b5 Kc5 She is desperate to prevent b5-b6 and loses her bishop to a rook fork. 55.Re5+ Kxc4 56.Rxf5 Rxa7 57.Bxe4 Re7 58.Bf3 Re3 59.Bc6 Rh3 60.Kc2 Rh2+ 61.Kd1 Kd3 62.b6 Rb2 63.Rb5! Ra2 64.Ke1 Ke3 65.Rb3+ Kf4 66.b7 1-0

Monnisha,GK (2051)Padmini,Rout (2332)

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Masters of the past-33 Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879) was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world’s leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s. He was “dethroned” temporarily in 1858 by Paul Morphy.After his defeat by Steinitz in 1866, Anderssen became the most successful tournament player in Europe, winning over half the events he entered—including the Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament. Anderssen achieved most of these successes when he was over the age of 50.

Anderssen is famous even today for his brilliant sacrificial attacking play, particularly in the “Immortal Game” (1851) and the “Evergreen Game” (1852). He was a very important figure in the development of chess problems, driving forward the transition from the “Old School” of problem composition to the elegance and complexity of modern compositions. He was also one of the most likeable of chess masters and became an “elder statesman” of the game, to whom others turned for advice or arbitration. Anderssen was born in Breslau (now called Wrocław), in the Prussian Province of Silesia, in 1818. After graduating in 1847 at the age of 29, he took a position at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium as an instructor and later as Professor of Mathematics. Anderssen lived a quiet, stable, responsible, respectable middle-class life. His career was teaching mathematics, while his hobby and passion was playing chess.

Anderssen first came to the attention of the chess world when he published Aufgabe für Schachspieler (literally “Task for chess player”), a collection of 60 chess problems, in 1842. He continued to publish problems for many years, both in magazines and as a second collection in 1852. In 1846, he became the editor of the magazine Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft (later called Deutsche Schachzeitung) when its founder Ludwig Bledow, one of the “Berlin Pleiades”, died. Anderssen held this post until 1865.

Anderssen compiled a very successful tournament record in the late stages of his career- five first places, two second places, two third places; and a sixth place in the final year of his life, when his health was failing. One of his first places was ahead of Steinitz, Gustav Neumann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Louis Paulsen and several other very strong players at the Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament. Shortly after the 1851 London International tournament, Anderssen played his two most famous games, both casual encounters which he won by combinations that involved several sacrifices. In the first, as Black, but moving first, against Lionel Kieseritzky in London just after the International tournament (1851) and now called the “Immortal Game”, he sacrificed a bishop, both rooks and finally his queen. In the second, played in Berlin in 1852 as white against Jean Dufresne and now called the “Evergreen Game”, the total sacrifice was more modest, but still exceeded a queen and a minor piece.

Anderssen has had a more enduring influence on chess problem composition. He started composing in the last years of the “Old School”, whose compositions were fairly similar to realistic over-the-board positions and featured spectacular “key” moves, multiple sacrifices and few variations. He was one of the most skilful composers of his time. Courtesy:Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 38

1.Giri,Anish (2730) - Naiditsch,Arkadij (2704) [E04]28th European Club Cup Eilat ISR (2.3), 12.10.2012

Position after White’s 34th move. Black to play. 34...Rd5! 35.Rd4 Ne4! 36.f3 [36.f4 Qxh3 37.Rd3 Qxg3+–+] 36...Qe5! [36...Qe5 37.Bc7 (37.Rxd5 Qxg3+ 38.Kh1 (38.Kf1 Qf2#) 38...Nf2#) 37...Rxd4 38.Bxe5 Rxd1+–+] 0–1

2. Dominguez Perez,Leinier (2734) - Maki,Veijo (2383) [B60]28th European Club Cup Eilat ISR (3.2), 13.10.2012

Position after 26th move Diagram # White to play. 27.Ne5! fxe5 [27...Be8 28.d7 Bxd7 29.Nxf7++-; 27...Kg8 28.Nxd7+-] 28.Qxe5+ f6 [28...Kg8 29.Ne7+ Bxe7 30.Qg7#] 29.Nxf6 Rc5 [29...Bxh6 30.Nxd7+ Bg7 31.f6 Qxd7 (31...Bf8 32.f7+ Bg7 33.Qe8++-) 32.fxg7+ Qxg7 33.Qe8+ Rxe8 34.Rxe8+ Qg8 35.d7+-] 30.Nd5+ Kg8 31.Ne7+ Bxe7 [31...Kf7 32.fxg6+ hxg6 33.Rf1+ Bf5 34.Qxc5] 32.Qg7# 1–0

3. Kasimdzhanov,R (2690) - Stojcevski,Z (2325) [D18]28th European Club Cup Eilat ISR (6), 16.10.2012

Position after 26th move Diagram #. White to play. 27.Rb7! Rd8 [27...Rg8 28.Rxc7 Qxc7 29.Rc1 Nxf3+ 30.gxf3 Qc8 31.Qd5+- Treatening 32.Bd2; 27...Qe8 28.Rxc7 Rxc7 29.Bxe5 Bxe5 30.Nxe5 fxe5 31.Qxe5 Rc8 32.Qxa5+-] 28.Rxd8+ Qxd8 29.Rxc7 Qxc7 30.Ng5! g6 [30...Kg8 31.Qe6++-] 31.Qxf6+ Qg7 [31...Kg8 32.Qe6+

Kg7 33.Qe8 Qc4 34.Qe7+ Kg8 35.Ne6+-] 32.Qd8+ Qg8 33.Qd6 [33.Qd6 Nc4 34.Qc7 h6 35.Nf7+ Kh7 36.Nxh6+ Qg7 37.Qxc4+-] 1–0

4. Gomez,John Paul (2523) - Ardiansyah,H (2371) [B23]2nd Indonesian Open Jakarta (9.17), 17.10.2012

Position after 35th move. Diagram # White to play. 36.Rxh6! Bxh6 37.Nf6+ Kf8 [37...Kg7 38.g5+-] 38.Qh2 Bg7 [38...Bxf4+ 39.Kxf4 Qd8 40.Ng5+- Ra3 a) 40...Qd4+ 41.Nfe4; b) 40...Qd1 41.Nxe6+ Ke7 (41...fxe6 42.Qh8+ Kf7 43.Qh7+ Kf8 44.Qg8+ Ke7 45.Qg7+ Kd8 46.Qf8+ Kc7 47.Qxa8+-) 42.Nxc5+-; 41.Nxe6+ fxe6 42.Qh8+ Ke7 43.Qg7#] 39.Ng5! [39.Ng5 Qd8 40.Qh7 Qd3+ 41.Kh4] 1–0

5. Volodin,Aleksandr (2509) - Popilsky,Gil (2475) [D85]28th European Club Cup Eilat ISR (7.2), 17.10.2012

Position after White’s 25th move. Diagram #. Black to play. 25...Bf6!–+ 26.Rd8 Bc3+ 27.Rd2 Bg4! 28.Bd4+ Bxd4 [28...Bxd4 29.Rxd4 Qc3+ 30.Rd2 Qc1+ 31.Rd1 Qxd1#] 0–1

6. Na id i tsch ,Arkadi j (2704) - Kopylov,Michael (2473) [D30]Bundesliga 2012–13 Hamburg GER (2.2), 21.10.2012

Position after 21st move. Diagram #White to play. 22.Nxd5! Bxd5 [22...Nxd5 23.Qh8+ Ke7 24.Qxa8+-] 23.Rc7 White threatens 24 Qh8 mate.[23.Rc7 f6 24.Qxg7+ Ke8 25.Qe7#] 1–0

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Solut ions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 39 1. Michael BentComm,diagrammes, 1994-95White to play and win1.Rd4+ Ke5 (Kc5;2.Nd7mate) 2.Nc6+ (Nd7/Ng6)+ Kf5;) Kf5 3.Ne7+ Ke5 4.eNg6+ Kf55.Nxh4+ (g4+? hxg3;) Ke5 6.hNg6+ Kf5 7.g4+ Bxg4 8.e4+ Nxe4 9.Rd5 mate.A logical study, based on the fact that White has to eliminate the bPh4 so that it cannot answer g4+. Following that, the b-Knight and black Bishop are lured into self-blocking positions. This is a forced mate in nine. Does this make in a study or a problem? 2. J. Hasek“Ceskoslovensky Sach” 1929White to move and draw1 a4 Rb2+ 2 Kc5 Ka3 3 e4!!/i and draws i/ 3 a5? Ka4 4 a6 Ka5 5 a7 Rc2+ 6 Kd6 Rc8 and wins3. Sergei Rumyantsev “Tidskrift for Schack” 1st PrizeWhite to play and draw1.e7! Nxe7 2.Rxb5 Qc2+ 3.Rbc5 Qh2 4.Kd7! Qd2+ 5.Kxe7 Ba36.Kf7 Qd7+ 7.Re7 Qg4. The chessmen are poised for the sparklingclimax. 8.Kf8+, and the two echoing finales: 8...Kh6 9.Re6+! Qxe6 stalemate or 8...Kh8 9.Rh5+! Qxh5 stalemate.4. A.Selivanovcomm Moravskoslezsky sach 1995-6White to play and draw 1.Kg6 (else 1...Kg5 wins) Nb4 2.f6 Nd5 3.f7 Nf4+ 4.Kh6/i Ne65.f8Q Nxf8. i) 4.Kh7? Ne6 5.Kg8 Bg7 6.f8Q Bxf8 7.Kf7 Kf5.

“A saving of one wP in an otherwise known setting.”

5. Y. Brenyov“64” 1931White to move and win1 h4 b5 2 Kd5 Kd3 3 h5 b4 4 h6 b3 5 h7 b2 6 h8Q b1Q 7 Qh7+and wins

6. Y. GruengardPalestine Post 1945; 3rd Honorable Mention,Israel Ring Tourney 1945-62White to play and win1 Bc6!/i Kg5/ii 2 Kf3 Kh6 3 Kg2 g5 4 Kh3 g4+ 5 Kh4 and wins.i) A delicate waiting move and the only winning plan. 1 Bd5?h4!=; 1 Bf3? Kg5 2 Kf2 Kh6 3 Kg2 g5 with 4...g4 and 5...h4 tofollow, =; 1 Bc8+? Kf6 2 Bd7 Kg7 3 Be8 Kh6=; 1 Be4+? Kf6! 2Bf3 Kg5 etc.; 1 Kf3? g5=.ii) 1...g5? 2 Be8! Kg4 3 Kf2 and wins.

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 33

The white rook at f2 must have checked the BK coming from d2,e2,g2 or h2 but then what could have been black’s previous move? The BK could not have come from e2 or e1 as it would have faced more than one piece checking it. Even the move from f2 seems impossible as WNd1 and WR on second rank would be checking it. But strangely there seems to be a distinct possibility here. If white is playing down with WR on d2 and BK on f2, a white pawn at e2 could have captured a piece at d1 and promoted to a WN resulting in double check! Smullyan uses Sherlock Holmes words here ‘When we have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains however improbable, must be the truth” So, North must be white.

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2nd Academy for Chess Education International FIDE Rated Chess

Tournament 2013Organized by

Chess Association AlappuzhaUnder the guidance of Chess Association of Kerala and AICF

Date

13th to 16th October 2013

VenueSt.Michael’s Church Parish Hall

Near Thathampally Church, Alappuzha, Kerala

Total cash prizes: Rs.2,00,000 (68 prizes)

The last date of entry : 1st October 2013 8.00 pm

Entries with late fee of 200/- : 13th October 2013 8.00 am

Entry Fee can be remitted to Academy for Chess Education, Vijaya Bank Alappuzha Branch, S.B. A/c. No.200101011001186 (IFSC Code : VIJB0002001) or by DD favoring “Academy for Chess Education” payable at Alappuzha. Address for sending the entries is Mr. CA. Sunil. P, Academy for Chess Education(ACE), Pranavam, Chandanakkavu, Alappuzha – 688011, Kerala. No request towards waiver of entry fee will be entertained.

Contact : CA. Sunil. P 9447111609, Vineeth Kumar. B 9446569048, D. Salil Kumar 9895033648 & 8438451070 (Tamil Nadu), Ajish Rahman 9961560580, Shaji.P.M 9495257277

Email: salild1979@gmail.com

For further details of entry fee and prize money visit

www.aicf.in

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1st CSCA FIDE Rating Chess Tournament(for players of 1899 and below ELO rating)

AICF Event code:84238/DEL/2013

Organized by

Centre Square Chess Academy

From 08 to11th October 2013

Arya Samaj Mandir, Rajendra NagarNear Rajendra Place Metro Station

New Delhi 110060

Total prize fund: Rs.3,00,000Last date for entry 30th September 2013

Entries with late fee of Rs.300 from 1st to 6th October 2013

Entries may be sent by DD(Delhi Cheques will also be accepted) favoring Centre Square Chess Academy, payable at Delhi.Address for sending the entries is Centre Square Chess Academy, IOS Maidan, Shivaji College Sports Complex, Raja garden, New Delhi-110027

For further details: Mr. Shatrudhan Kumar : +91-8802682458 Ms. Abhilasha Singh : +91-7827898856 Mr. K.Ganesh : +91-9899627003 E-mail: rahulchess90@gmail.com

Website: www.delhichess.com

For details of prize money and entry fee visit

www.aicf.in

SEPTEMBER 201345

1st JCA All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament

(below 2000) Vijayawada…(Right to left ) Winner J Sai Agni Jeevitesh(AP) ; Mr P Rama Krishna , DSDO, Krihna District ; Honourable Chief Guest - Mrs. V B Nirmala Geetamba , Mahila Sessions Judge, Vijayawada; Mrs. P Tejomayee, Founder Director, Jithendra Chess Academy; Mr. A Narasimha Rao, Vice President , A P Chess Assn; Mr Devaram Srihari, Secretary, Krishna Dist Chess Assn.; Mr. P V Nagaeswararao, President, Krishna Dist Chess Assn

Late A. N. Naik Memorial All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament

2013, GoaMr. M.S.Thejkumar receiving trophy from H.H Shrimad Vidyadhiraj Teerth Shripad Vader Swamiji in the presence of Shri Pandurang(Bhai) A.Naik , President Matagramsth Hindu Sabha,Ashesh Keni,Vice President ,Goa Chess Association , President Salcete Taluka Chess Asso. Damodar Zambaulikar,Secretary,Salcete Taluka Chess Association

4 Knights Chess Academy 1st All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2013

(Below 2000),TrichyMrs.Uma Arun, Academic Director, Mr.J.Alexander, President of 4 Kinghts ChessAcademy, Mr.GA Rajkumar IAS(Retd), former Chief Sports Secretary,Chief Guest, Mr.A M Raman IAS (Retd)Chairman Pavendar Bharathidasan group of Institution, Mr.M Govindaraj, Director of Physical Education.

SEPTEMBER 201346

Page 466th Mumbai Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2013, Mumbai..Shri.Jayantibhai Shah, President NSCI lighting the lamp.GM Abhijeet Kunte, D.V.Sundar, Vice President ,FIDE and D.M.Dongre, Treasurer AICF are also seen.The sprawling playing arenaWinner Levan Pantsulaia with Dr.Nichani, R.M.Dongre, Chief Guest Subash Desai,GM Abhijeet Kunte, Rakesh Mal-hotra , Atul Maroo and Jayantibhai Shah

Shri.Jayantibhai Shah, President NSCI lighting the lamp.GM Abhijeet Kunte, D.V.Sundar, Vice President ,FIDE and

D.M.Dongre, Treasurer AICF are also seen.

6th Mumbai Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2013, Mumbai..

Winner Levan Pantsulaia with Dr.Nichani, R.M.Dongre, Chief Guest Subash Desai,GM

Abhijeet Kunte, Rakesh Malhotra , Atul Maroo and Jayantibhai Shah

The sprawling playing arena

SEPTEMBER 201347

Vins Engineering International FIDE Rated Chess Tournament (Below 2000)

Organized by

Kanyakumari District Chess Association

AICF Event code: 83756/TN/2013

Date

18th to 21st October 2013

Venue

Vins Christian College of EngineeringVins Nagar,Chunkankadai,Nagercoil,Kanyakumari Dt

Total prize fund: Rs.1,00,000

Payment mode: DD in favour of Kanyakumari District Chess Association M.Ephrame, Secretary, KKDCA Rosemary Oil Mills Compound Asaripallam, Kanyakumari District,Tamilnadu-629201 Mob: 09994029796 and 09487826796

E-mail:kkdchess@gmail.com & ephrame@yahoo.com

For details of prize money and entry fee visit

www.aicf.in

SEPTEMBER 201348

Tariff for adverTisemenT :Back Cover (Colour)Inside Cover (Colour)Full Page Inside (Colour)Full Page Inside (Black & White)Half Page Inside (Black & White)

Monthly (in Rs.)15,00015,000 7,000 5,000 3,000

For more information, details, confirmation of dates refer to website:indianchessfed.orgAnnual (in Rs.)

1,20,0001,00,000

60,000 45,000 30,000

AICF Calendar - September 2013

2nd Malappuram Chess Foundation below 1600 Sep 27 – 29 Sep Malappuram,KeralaKolkata Autumn Rapid 2013 Oct 01 - 02 Oct Kolkata,WBNational Under-25 Championship Oct 01 – 08 Oct KeralaTirth Chess Club FIDE Rating below 2000 Oct 02 – 06 Oct AhmedabadMemory Max 1st FIDE rated Open below 2200 Oct 02 -05 Oct Chennai, TN1st Kashmir Open FIDE Rated below 2000 Oct 03 – 06 Oct J&KChess for Youth Oct 04 – 07 Oct Kolkata, WB1st CSCA FIDE rated below 1900 Oct 07 -11 Oct New Delhi07 KCF FIDE Rated below 1600 Oct 11 – 13 Oct Chennai, TN 51st National Challengers Championship Oct 12 - 22 Oct Bhopal, M.P2nd ACE FIDE Rated below 2000 Oct 13 – 16 Oct Alappuzha, Kerala1st Adam Chess Club below 1800 FIDE Rating Oct 14 – 16 Oct Madurai, TNSmt.Tara Devi Memorial FIDE Rating below 1600 Oct 17 – 20 Oct DelhiVins CCE Kanyakumari FIDE rated below 2000 Oct 18 – 21 Oct KanyakumariAllahabad Open All India FIDE Rated Oct 24 – 28 Oct Allahabad, UP6th edition of RSC FIDE Rating Oct 25 – 29 Oct Cochin, KeralaInternational GM Open for Women Nov 06 – 14 Nov Chennai, Tamilnadu National Under-9 (Open and girls) Ch’ship Nov 06 – 14 Nov Chennai, TNWorld Championship match-Anand vs Calsen Nov 07 – 28 Nov Chennai,TNLate Shanthi kumarji Firodia All Maharashtra Open FIDE Rating Nov 09 – 13 Nov Ahmednagar, MAHTirth Chess Club FIDE Rating below 2200 Nov 13 – 17 Nov AhmedabadInternational Open Chess Tournament Nov 15 – 23 Nov Chennai, TNFWCM 2013 All India FIDE Rating below 2100 Nov 19 – 22 Nov Chennai, TN2nd International GM Open Nov 25 – 03 Dec SecunderabadKolkata International GM Open Chess Ty Dec 05 – 14 Dec Kolkata25th Telegraph Schools Chess Tournament Dec 16 – 21 Dec KolkataAll India Open FIDE Rating Dec 16 – 21 Dec Dumka, Jharkand

United Bank of India 40th National Premier Chess Championship, Kolkata....

Padmini (left) helped Mary Ann to win the title, by beating the leader Soumya in the final round

Mary Ann receiving the trophy and cash prize from Mr. PK Bannerjee (centre with spectacles), football Olympian and Honourable minister for Sports Madhan Mitra

(next to him with yellow shirt)

39th National Sub Junior Open & 30th National Sub Juniors Girls Chess Championship-2013, Kolkata….

The playing arena of National Sub Junior Championships

Prize winners with dignitaries -Front row (L-R)M.Mahalakshmi

(Runner-up ,Girls) , IM Diptayan Ghosh (Runner-up NSJ), IM

Karthikeyan Murali (Winner) and G.K.Monnisha. IM Atanu Lahiri,

A.C.Joshi and GM Dibyendu Barua are also seen in the back row.

Standing (L-R) Chief Arbiter A.C.Joshi, Srenik Sett, Vice President, Bengal Chess Association, Sanjay Sureka, President, BCA watching the top seeds IM Karthikeyan Murali and IM Diptayan Ghosh in action