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A I C F C H R O N I C L Ethe official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Asian Continental Chess Championships, Tashkent

Asian Junior Champion 2016

GM Aravindh Chithamabaram

World’s youngest IM

R. Praggnanandhaa

Women ChampionWGM Bhakti Kulkarni

Open ChampionGM S.P. Sethuraman

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9th KIIT International Chess Festival 2016,Bubhanewar…. GM Grachev Boris emerges Elite champion by Debashis Barua IA, Chief Arbiter 1Hatsun – Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide Rated Saravana Krishnan emerges champion by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 7The Heritage Schools’ Rating Tmt, Kolkata Mitraba Guha emerges champion by Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter 9Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600 Tmt Chourasia Hemant is champion by Pruthviraj Leuva,Chief Arbiter 11Aditya Birla Mem.6th Jharkhand State Fide Rated ChampionshipSwaraj Palit wins .by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 13Sameer Kathmale wins at Sangliby IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 15Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open Tournament, Gulbarga Vinay Kumar is the Winner by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 172nd Don Bosco Fide Rated Open Tmt, Irinjilakuda Syed Anwar Shazuli wins title by Peter joseph M ,Chief Arbiter 19CAK 1st Fide Rating Tmt below 1500Komal Srivatsav Sajja is the winnerby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 2112th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Mem. FIDE Rating Women'sTmt SangliRucha Pujari wins title by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 27Mineral Open FIDE Rating Tmt Himanshu Sharma is champion by A.C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter 302nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Tmt,AligarhHimanshu Sharma retains titleby IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 32Selected games from Asian Junior Championships, New DelhiAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-Hermann Pilnik 44AICF Calendar 48

From the Editor’s deskIt was twin triumph at Tashkent as GM S.P.Sethuraman and WGM Bakthi Kulkarni emerged Asian Continental Champions in the Open and Women sect ions. Young Grandmaster Arvindh Chithambaram added one more feather to his cap winning Asian Junior Open title in New Delhi.

Chennai churns out champions galore and the latest is the child prodigy Praggnanandhaa who is all set to become world’s youngest IM at the age of 10 years and 9 months completing his third norm at the KIIT Chess festival, Bubaneshwar recently.AICF congratulates this talented boy on this stupendous achievement.

In the KIIT Chess Festival held in Bubaneshwar 13 Grandmasters and 15 IMs took part in the Elite category which was won by GM Grachev Boris.The three categories-Elite, Platinum and Premium drew nearly 670 entries. Reports and final standings on this event along with other FIDE Rated tournaments held in May 2016 are featured in this issue.

Eminent chess writer Leonard Barden rated Grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi who passed away recently as ‘the greatest player never to have been world champion’. Korchnoi was four-time Soviet Champion, a candidate for World Championships ten times and also won a whopping 21 medals representing USSR. He played top class chess through his life and his world ranking of 85 at the age of 75 was incredible. With his demise, an epoch of fighting chess has ended. AICF dips its flag in honour of this veritable Grandmaster.

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T he much awaited KIIT International Chess Festival 2016 was organized once again in all its grandeur by All

Odisha Chess Association. Over the years this event, which was sponsored by KIIT, has become an important event in both the Indian and International calendars, where some of the top Grandmasters from India as well as other countries partici-pate.

The opening ceremony got underway at the KIIT Auditorium on May 23, 2016 at 11a.m. where Dr.Achuta Samanta , found-er KIIT and KISS declared the meet open as a chief guest on the occasion. Senior IAS R.Srinivasan was the Guest of Honour. Also present on the dias were IM Sekhar Sahoo , President of AOCA and Vice-Pres-ident of AICF, K.K.Sharma, secretary of AOCA. At the colorful opening ceremony, DrAchuta Samanta who had extended all help and hospitality in bringing this In-ternational event to Odisha, welcomed all participants and expressed hope that they would have a memorable stay in Bhubane-swar.The tournament was divided into 3 groups- Elite Category for players above Elo 2000, Platinum Category for players with Elo1999 and below and Premium for players with Elo 1550 and below.

Elite Category :- In the Elite category 13 Grandmasters , 2 Women Grandmasters , 15 International Masters , 3 Women International Masters from 8 Federations and 16 states from India participated making it a very strong

field of 201 players. Those aspiring for GM and IM norms were'nt disappointed as they got enough opportunity to face Grandmasters and hope for the coveted GM norms.

In the 4th round, FM Praggnanandhaa R, National under 11 champion had an unpset victory over GM GrigoryanKareh H of Armenia. He shared the lead with five players at the end of this round. In the 5th round, FM Praggnanandhaa had a credit-able draw with GM SandipanChanda. After the 5th round, GM Grachev Boris and GM GleizerovEvgeny were the joint leaders. In the 6th round, GM Grachev Boris beat GM GleizerovEvgeny and was the sole leader with 6points. Praggnanandhaa had yet another creditable draw, this time with GM Popov Ivan, by which he had good chance of achieving grandmaster norm. At the end of the 7th round, GM Grachev Boris maintained his lead with securing a draw. In the 8th round he had a draw again with GM SandipanChanda and in the penultimate round he beat FM Raghunan-dan K S and became the sole leader with 8 points.In the second place there were 6 players with 7points.

In the final round, GM Grachev Boris had a draw with GM Mozharov Mikhail of Russia and confirmed his place as the champion of the tournament with 8.5points.He was richer by Rs. 2,00,000/- and received the glittering champion’s trophy.

CM Rathanvel VS had a draw with GM

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GM Grachev Boris emerges Elite championby Debashis Barua IA, Chief Arbiter

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Popov Ivan and CM Rathanvel VS secured the IM norm. Both had 7.5points. with the better tie, GM Popov Ivan gets the second position, with the prize money of Rs. 1,00,00/- and the trophy, while CM Rathanvel VS secures the third position with Rs. 80,000/- with a trophy.FM Pragg-nanandhaa had a draw with GM Debasish Das and got the IM norm and FM Pragg-nanandhaa thus became the youngest IM in the world at 10years and 10 months. FM Raghunandan K S who drew with Ravi Teja S also got an IM norm.Platinum Category:- The tournament was held from May 23 to May 26, 2016 in 9 rounds with 188 players.WFM Divya Deshmukh of Maha-rashtra top seed in this tournament. Af-ter the 5th round, Dasharati Sahoo and Sanjeeban Nayak lead with 5 points. In the 6th round, Sanjeeban Nayak beat Dasharati Sahoo and emerge as the sole leader with 6points. In the 7th round, Nayak had a draw with Subhasish Barik of Odisha and maintained his lead with 6.5points. in the 8th round, Nayak had a draw with Ambarish Sharma of West Bengal and Pranab Kumar Patra of Odisha beat SmarakiMohanty. Sanjeeban Nayak and Pranab Kumar Patra become the joint leaders with 7points. In the second place, Ambarish Sharma and Subhasish Barik stand with 6.5points. at the 9th round, Pranab Kumar Patra had a draw with San-jeeban Nayak and Subhasish Barik beat Ambarish Sharma. Sanjeeban Nayak,Sub-hasish Barik, Pranab Kumar Patra stand at 7.5points. in the better tie, Sanjeeban Nayak secured the first position with Rs. 50,000/- with a trophy,while Subhasish Barik secured the second position with Rs.40,000/- with a trophy, and Pranab Kumar Patra finished third with a prize

money of Rs. 30,000/- and a trophy. All the three were from Odisha.Premium Category:- The event took place from 27th May to 30th May,2016. There was a total of 288 players in this category. The game was in 9 rounds according to the Swiss League system. Harsh Srivastav of Gujrat(1547) top seeded the tournament. In the 9th round, HimanshuRanjan of Bihar and De-bata Sarthak of Odisha had a draw. Both completed with 8points. In the better tie, Himanshu Ranjan stood first with the prize money of Rs. 50,000/- and a trophy. De-bata Sarthak of Odissha stood second with a cash prize of Rs. 40,000/- and a trophy. Aditya Ranjan Samal with 7.5points came third with Rs. 30,000/- and a trophy. The Prize distribution ceremony was held on May 30, 2016 at 6.00 p.m. where DrAchuta Samanta , founder KIIT and KISS was the Chief Guest while IAS R.Srinivasan was the Guest of Honour. Also present were IM SekharSahoo , President of AOCA and Vice-President of AICF, K.K.Sharma, secretary of AOCA and G.C. Mahapatra, Treasurer of AOCA.Dr.Achuta Samanta , founder KIIT and KISS and the visionary behind this mega event lauded the efforts of AOCA and it's team led by IM Sekhar Sahoo . And Mr. K.K.Sharma proposed the vote of thanks.The players and the guardians were all pleased for the excellent boarding and A/c lodging arrangements provided by KIIT. The tournament was held in two A/c halls where tea and drinking water were made available to all. Final ranking:Elite categoryRk Name Club Pts1 GM Grachev Boris RUS 8½2 GM Popov Ivan RUS 7½

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2nd Pavna All India FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Aligarh

Brigadier Dr. P.S.Shiwas , Vice- Chancellor , Mangalayatan University , lighting the lamp during inauguration in presence of (from left) Anand Sadani, Chairman, Sadani Group of Industries , Pallavi Upadhyay, Principal , D.P.S. , Aligarh , Chandra Mohan Sadani , Hony. Sectretary , DSCA

Standing from left: Vinay Agrawal, Vijay K Pachisiya, IA Dharmendra Kumar, Guest of honour A.K.Raizada, Hony. Secretary,UPCSA, Navratn Aggrwal,Director, Bikanerwala food pvt.ltd., Chief Guest Vijay Bajaj, MD,Lockmaster India Pvt.Ltd., IM Himanshu Sharma ( Champion) , Ram kumar Sadani , Director , Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd, and Chandra Mohan Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA .

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Mineral Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016,Vadodara

Prize winners with officials

Prize winners with officials

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Cond. from p.23 CM Rathanvel V S TN 7½4 IM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7½5 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½6 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 7½7 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7½8 GM Gagare Shardul MAH 7½9 Sidhant Mohapatra ODI 7½10 GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 711 FM Raghunandan K S KAR 712 FM Praggnanandhaa R TN 713 GM Laxman R.R. ICF 714 Gusain Himal CHD 715 GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM 716 IM Ravi Teja S. RLY 717 IM Sharma Dinesh K. UP 718 IM Swayams Mishra AI 719 IM Krishna Teja N AP 720 CM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 721 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 722 Arjun Kalyan TN 723 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya RLYs 724 GM Sandipan Chanda WB 6½25 Harsha Bharathakoti TELN 6½26 GM Debashis Das ODI 6½27 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 6½28 FM Rajdeep Sarkar WB 6½29 IM Girish A. Koushik KAR 6½30 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 6½31 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan ODI 6½32 Dhananjay CHHT 6½33 IM Sangma Rahul RLYs 6½34 Lokesh N. TN 6½35 Shailesh Dravid MAH 6½36 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 6½37 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 638 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 639 Kulkarni Vinayak MAH 640 S Jaykumar Shete MAH 641 Barath Kalyan M TN 642 Prajesh R TN 643 Sekar B TN 644 GM Ulybin Mikhail RUS 645 FM Hamdani Rudin INA 6

46 Snehal Bhosale MAH 647 IM Rajesh V A V TN 648 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 649 Thanki Hemal Karsanji GUJ 650 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 651 Akash Pc Iyer TN 652 CM Aronyak Ghosh WB 653 Soham Datar MAH 654 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 655 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 656 Adhithya S TN 657 AGM Sa Kannan TN 658 Rakesh Kumar Nayak ODI 659 Samal Ansuman ODI 660 Ritam Nag WB 661 Iniyan P TN 5½62 Muthaiah Al TN 5½63 Sahu Rajendra Kumar ODI 5½64 Srijit Paul WB 5½65 Pruthu Deshpande MAH 5½66 Aradhya Garg DEL 5½67 Gandhi Anish MAH 5½68 FM Harshal Shahi DEL 5½69 Audi Ameya GOA 5½70 Kunal M. TN 5½71 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 5½72 Neelash Saha WB 5½73 FM Islam Kh. Aminul BAN 5½74 Bhatt Jalpan GUJ 5½75 IM Das Sayantan WB 5½76 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 5½77 WGM Swati Ghate MAH 5½78 Vignesh B TN 5½79 Koustav Chatterjee WB 5½80 CM Sadhwani Raunak MAH 5½81 Surendran N TN 5½82 Yogit S TN 5½83 Sankalp Gupta MAH 5½84 Singh Nishit MAH 585 Senthil Maran K TN 586 Wagh Suyog MAH 587 Jayakumaar S TN 588 Patil Pratik MAH 5

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89 WCM Salonika Saina ODI 590 IM Murali Krishnan B T RLYs 591 FM Matta Vinay Kumar AP 592 Subhayan Kundu WB 593 FM Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 594 Ajay Krishna S TN 595 Shah Rishab MAH 596 CM Gukesh D TN 597 Anustoop Biswas WB 598 IM Mohota Nisha WB 599 FM Purushothaman T AP 5100 Saurabh Anand BIH 5

Final standings KIIT Platinum 1 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 7½ 2 Subhasis Barik ODI 7½ 3 Pranab Kumar Patra ODI 7½ 4 Rakshitta Ravi TN 7 5 Arya Bhakta WB 7 6 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan ODI 77 Ambarish Sharma WB 6½8 Smaraki Mohanty KIIT 6½ 9 Mayank Pal DEL 6½ 10 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 6½ 11 Jishitha D AP 6½ 12 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 6½ 13 Pattnayak Nilsu ODI 6½ 14 Sudhir Kumar Behera ODI 6½ 15 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 6½ 16 Sonkalan Bharati WB 6½ 17 Mishra Srinibas ODI 6½ 18 Binayak Rath ODI 6 19 Rohan Nag Chowdhury WB 6 20 Subhra Banerjee WB 6 21 Akshit Kumar J AP 6 22 Banerjee Ashutosh CHHT6 23 Vatsal Singhania JHAR 6 24 Sourath Biswas WB 6 25 Souradip Deb TRIP 6 26 Balachandar E TN 6 27 Sahoo Ankush ODI 6 28 Bodhisatya Pal WB 6 29 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 6

30 Nayak Sajan Kumar KISS 6

Final ranking :Premium below 1550 1 Himanshu Ranjan BIH 8 2 Debata Sarthak ODI 8 3 Samal Aditya Ranjan ODI 7½ 4 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 7½ 5 Saketh B AP 7½ 6 Pattnaik Bishal ODI 7½ 7 Shriman K TN 7 8 Garima Gaurav BIH 7 9 Ranjith Kaliyarasan PON 7 10 Sathya Naarayanan S TN 7 11 Mohanty Binikesh ODI 7 12 Routray Priyanka ODI 7

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Determine the pieces!Andrey Frolkin

Super Problem 9.1.2016

Pieces of a particular type are designated by the same letter. Lower-case letters stand for pieces of one side; upper-case letters, for pieces of the other side. Determine the position. (solution on page 29)

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T he Hatsun – Idhayam 2nd SCS Fide Rated chess tournament, organised by Sivakasi Chess Sparklers received 527

entries, a record for Open rated tournaments in the recent past. The tournament offering a total prize of Rs.4,50,000/- (Rs. four lakh fifty thousand only) attracted grandmaster RR Laxman of ICF and five international mas-ters. The nine round Swiss tournament had a time control of 90 minutes to each player, with an increment of 30 minutes. Players hailed mainly from Tamil Nadu, apart from all South Indian states Karnataka, Kerala, A.P., Pudhucherry and Telangana.

Earlier rounds did not produce any hiccups, except the draw between former World Un-der 16 Olympiad gold medallist GiremanJa of Coimbatore and Kamalanathan of Tamil Nadu in the third round. IM VAV Rajesh of Chennai had to split the point with his city mate Pras-anth N Nayagam in the fourth round. Former state champion Navalgund Niranjan was also subdued by young LR Sri Hari in this round. International arbiter S. Ganesh Babu of Ma-durai held the top seed GM Laxman in fifth round, paving way for nine players, including four international masters and a fide master to share the lead with five points each.

Of the top six boards, only P. Saravana Krishnan of Karur Vysya Bank defeated IM R. Balasubramanian of ICF to emerge sole leader with six points and nine players trailed the leader by half a point. Saravana continued his winning spree with a win over IM M Nitin of Southern Railways to make it seven wins in a row. IM BT Muralikrishnan of Southern Railways, FM P. Maheswaran of

Indian Posts, Ram S Krishnan of BSNL were closely behind him. At the end of the eighth round, Saravana managed to cling on to the lead with a draw against BT Murali Krishnan and the second board game between Ram and Maheswaran also ended without any decisive result. GM RR Laxman, Manu David Suthandram and N Lokesh, both from Tamil Nadu joined the players on second spot with wins over IM RamnathBhuvanesh and B Se-kar respectively.

At the advent of ninth round, seven players on top four boards had chances to win the title. Ram S Krishnan shocked RR Laxman and Saravana Krishnan drew with Lokesh to tie for the first place with 8 points each. When tiebreaks were applied, Saravana Krishnan had a better score to clinch the title in his fa-vour and Ram secured second place. IM Nitin and five others scored 7.5 points and Nitin was declared third, followed by international arbiter S Ganesh Babu of Madurai. Saravana Krishnan bagged a cash prize of Rs.70,000/- and Ram received Rs.50,000. More than 200 prizes were distributed in the form of cash prizes and trophies.

Sri.C. Yogendran, President of SIPT Poly-technic inaugurated the tournament in the presence of Sri. Balasubramanian, former Correspondent of the college. On the final day, Sri. VR Muthu, CEO of Idhayam group of companies delivered an inspiring speech, before distributing the prizes. Mr. T.D. Rajen-dran, main sponsor of the Polytechnic, who recently won five gold medals and a silver medal in an international athletic meet for veterans in Singapore was felicitated.

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Saravana Krishnan emerges championIA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

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Attractive features of the tournament were that parents were entertained with fun games, a practice chess tournament etc. Sumptuous food at a nominal cost was pro-vided to players and parents. The organ-isers, Sivakasi Chess Sparklers have to be appreciated for their non=profit approach and involvement for the success of the tour-nament. Three players who predicted the correct champion, before the beginning of final round were awarded with books.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Saravana Krishnan P. 8 2 Ram S. Krishnan 8 3 IM Nitin S. 7½ 4 Ganesh Babu S 7½ 5 Manu David Suthandram 7½ 6 FM Maheswaran P. 7½ 7 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7½ 8 Lokesh N. 7½ 9 Paramasivam M. 7 10 Vignesh Kasi PL 7 11 Kumar S. 7 12 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R 7 13 GM Laxman R.R. 7 14 Gireman Ja 7 15 Prasannaa.S 7 16 Yuvan Bharathi K S 7 17 Navalgund Niranjan 7 18 Sekar B 7 19 Badrinath S. 7 20 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 7 21 Anilkumar O.T. 7 22 Prakashram R 7 23 Vaisnav M 7 24 Prathish A 7 25 Chandar Raju 7 26 Surendran N 7 27 IM Rajesh V A V 7 28 Shakthi Vishal J 7 29 Mohamed Anees M 6½ 30 Ram Kumar G M 6½

31 Raahul V S 6½ 32 Vijay Shreeram P 6½ 33 Abhinessh S 6½ 34 Harshavardhan G B 6½ 35 Sai Balaji E 6½ 36 Prajesh R 6½ 37 Alan Diviya Raj 6½ 38 Manigandan S S 6½ 39 Shyam Sundar M 6½ 40 Umashankar A 6½ 41 Sriram B 6½ 42 Arivu Selvan A S 6½ 43 Godson Merlin E 6½ 44 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 45 Aswin Kumar B S 6½ 46 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6½ 47 Dileep Kumar R 6½ 48 Peter Anand A 6½ 49 Sibi Visal R 6½ 50 IM R. Balasubramaniam 6 51 Uma Maheswaran P 6 52 Thanga Manickam M 6 53 Dhanasekar K. 6 54 Krishna K R 6 55 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6 56 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6 57 Gokul S 6 58 Unnikrishnan M A 6 59 Ruban Sanjay M 6 60 Amith A 6 61 Santhosh Kumar G 6 62 Merithraj M 6 63 Suriya S V 6 64 Shriman K 6 65 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 6 66 Sheik Saleem D 6 67 Yutesh P 6 68 Sathya Giri V 6 69 Srihari L R 6 70 Dhanush Ragav 6 71 Prasath K R 6 72 Subash Mathivanan 6

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T he Heritage Schools’ Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2016 organised by The Heritage School in association with

Bengal Chess Association has been held at The Heritage School, Kolkata from 14th to 18th May 2016. Total 276 participants where 155 were Fide Rated have come from different schools in India. In the inaugu-ral ceremony IM Atanu Lahiri, Beni Gopal Mundhra, Tournament Secretary , Amar Roy, Org. Secretary were present.

The Tournament was played under 9 rounds swiss league system. The venue was air con-ditioned and well decorated with sufficient toilet facilities. The organizer were provided foods to all participants with free of cost. Even they provide transport facilities to all the players/officials from nearest bus stoppage to venue. In the last round Mitrabha beat Neelash Saha on the 2nd Board where Srijit Paul drew with Aditya Basu on 1st board.

At the end of final round games Mitrabha Guha(8) of South Point School bagged the Championship Trophy and richer by Rs. 25000/- . Srijit Paul (7.5) of DPS, North Kolakta and Soham Das (7.5) of Oxford High School placed second and & third respectively by better tie-break score and richer by Rs. 20000/- & Rs. 15000/-. All the Deputy Arbi-ters’ worked very well to ensure no dispute arose during the whole tournament. FA Norm Certificate was given to Santanu Lahiri.

In the prize distribution ceremony GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly, WGM Padmini Rout gave away the prizes to all prize winners. Finally

IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, Bengal Chess Association proposed the vote of thanks.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Mitrabha Guha 8 2 Srijit Paul 7½ 3 Soham Das 7½ 4 Aditya Basu 7½ 5 Ghosh Samriddhaa 7½ 6 Ambarish Sharma 7½ 7 Aronyak Ghosh 7 8 Kaustuv Kundu 7 9 Suvradeepta Das 7 10 Shrutarshi Ray 7 11 Sayan Banik 7 12 Koustav Chatterjee 6½ 13 Neelash Saha 6½ 14 Gukesh D 6½ 15 Utsab Chatterjee 6½ 16 Avijaan Roy Choudhury 6½ 17 Sonkalan Bharati 6½ 18 Shuban Saha 6½ 19 Anustoop Biswas 6½ 20 Sonal Mandhana 6½ 21 Sambarta Banerjee 6½ 22 Arijit Mukherjee 6½ 23 Rounak Pathak 6½ 24 Sanket Chakravarty 6½ 25 Adrian Sajjan 6½ 26 Aneek Das 6 27 Sayantan Mukherjee 6 28 Arpita Mukherjee 6 29 Soumma Chakraborty 6 30 Souhardo Basak 6 31 Sourath Biswas 6 32 Bristy Mukherjee 6

The Heritage Schools’ Rating Chess Tournament2016, Kolkata

Mitraba Guha emerges championby Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter

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33 Dipanjan Chowdhury 6 34 Ayush Jha 6 35 Shuvam Roy 6 36 Rupam Mukherjee 6 37 Soumyajit Das 6 38 Soumyajit Das (jr) 6 39 Aviroop Bhattacharya 6 40 Sahoo Ankita 6 41 Saikat Saha 6 42 Debarghya Samanta 6 43 Aritra Ganguly 6 44 Soham Pal 6 45 Swapnil Sen 6 46 Debargha Basu 6 47 Arkish Chakraborty 6 48 Soham Dey 6 49 Bipra Nath 6 50 Rajarshi Dutta 5½ 51 Pratyay Chowdhury 5½ 52 Sudipa Haldar 5½ 53 Subhadip Seth 5½ 54 Arghadeep Das 5½ 55 Asmita Das 5½ 56 Ritwick Pal 5½ 57 Aniruddh Chatterjee 5½ 58 Aadrito Datta 5½ 59 Subhabrata Roy 5½ 60 Tuhin Saha 5½ 61 Ananya Bothra 5½ 62 Agrawal Rishab 5½ 63 Aarohon Bharadwaj 5½ 64 Arunava Bhattacharjee 5½ 65 Arindam Mitra 5½ 66 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 5½ 67 Romok Bhattacharjee 5½ 68 Akshath Sinha 5½ 69 Ayan Pal 5½ 70 Bhagat Kush 5½ 71 Syamantak Porel 5½ 72 Aditya Bikram Paul 5½ 73 Tanish Poddar 5½ 74 Shubham Chandak 5½ 75 Sanika Sengupta 5½

76 Basu Utkarsh 5½ 77 Tejash Jain 5½ 78 Mayank Chandak 5½ 79 Ruchir Sengupta 5½ 80 Ariya Roy 5½ 81 Aakash Poddar 5 82 Atri Chattopadhyay 5 83 Ankan Saha 5 84 Shreyan Chakraborty 5 85 Bihan Chowdhuri 5 86 Dhritabrata Kundu 5 87 Pranjal Sarkar 5 88 Abhirup Das 5 89 Nishant Mohapatra 5 90 Rupankar Kundu 5 91 Sandipan Paul 5 92 Pran Govinda Parashar 5 93 Aritrya Pal 5 94 Aayush Bhattacherjee 5 95 Aditya Chatterjee 5 96 Sayanton Mazumder 5 97 Das Annika 5 98 Sneha Baidya 5 99 Harshavardhan Roy 5 100 Saanvi Khanna 5 101 Saurya Sircar 5 102 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 5 103 Sayan Sarkar 5 104 Sharma Harsh 5 105 Pramit Chanda 5 106 Srijeet Mullick 5

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the criticspraise them. It is because com-binations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter”

- Reuben Fine

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T he Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600 Chess Tournament - 2016 is being held from 5thto 8th May at Hotel Surya,

Station Road , Vadodara, Gujarat by Gujarat State Chess Association Kalrav Group and Mineral Chess Academy.The tournament attracted total number of 222 entries all over state of India, major part of entries by Gujarat, followed by Maharashtra and Tamilnadu,in. The total number of fide Rat-ed players of the event is 152 players which compiles of33 female participants.

The event is been conducted by 9 Rounds Swiss league system, with the time control of 60 min plus 30 sec increment from move No.1, everyday 3 rounds.( Except 1 in first & 2 in Last Day)The Total prize money of the event is Rs.4,00,000/-(FourLakhs ) with First Prize of Rs.40,000/-(Rupees Forty Thousand ) for the winner of the event.The talented young players from all over India participated to snatch the total prize money of Rs.4,00,000/- .Hard fought victories and some interesting draws were witnessed in the tournament. At the end of the ninth round Mr. Chourasiya Hemant became the champion of this tournament with cash prize of Rs.40,000/- and the Runner Up of the event is Mr. Gohil Vishal of Mineral chess Academywith the cash prize of Rs.30,000/-.given by Chief Guest- Shri A.C.JOSHI, President-Sunil Manohar& CEO-Pruthviraj.

This is the 6th Tournament in a row by the Mineral Chess Academy. Kudos to Bhave-

shPatel,(Hon.Secretary-GSCA), Pruthivira jLeuva Anil Pandya(Kalrav Group) and his team for their dedicated efforts. The Kalrav group and Mineral chess Academy has done a wonderful work to fulfill all requirement by providing a fully Air-conditioned Tour-nament hall and a Free A/c Dormitory Accommodation. The Lunch and Dinner during Tournament was also arranged at subsidized rates for all in the same hotel.The Team of Arbiters were always on their feet to take care of the technical problems. Not a single dispute arose during the tour-nament.

Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 Chourasiya Hemant 8½2 Gohil Vishal 83 Kamdar Umang 7½4 Kushal Kaushik Karelia 7½5 Dhanesha Jignesh 76 Bhuta Hriday 77 Trivedi Jindal 78 Patil Harshal 79 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 710 Borse Vaibhav 711 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 712 Chudasama Ankit 6½13 Krishna Prabhakar 6½14 Jha Kishor 6½15 Vishal Vala 6½16 Lakhotiya Om 6½17 Gouravkumar N 6½18 Sadhu Bhagyesh 6½19 Zakir Hussain Janab 6½20 Yajnik Pranav 6½

Kalrav FIDE Rating Below 1600 Chess Tournament - 2016

Chourasia Hemant is championby Pruthviraj Leuva,Chief Arbiter

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21 Jadav Jayesh 622 Raval Dilipkumar T 623 Sarvaliya Niraj 624 Meet Puri 625 Totlani Varun 626 Joshi Deep 627 Dabhi Geet H 628 Krishna Malay 629 Vikram Mishra 630 Pandya Vandan Y 631 Ananmay Sharma 632 Sachin Kumar 633 Pandya Anilkumar M 634 Jain Adi 635 Aditya P Melani 636 Gohel Samarth Paras 637 Tiwari Gaurav 638 Panchal Parth 5½39 Sarthak Singh Parihar 5½40 Rajendra Gohil 5½41 Sanghavi Niraj 5½42 Dharamvir Ram 5½43 Rohan Nayan Shah 5½44 Parmar Jay 5½45 Varshil Yagnik 5½46 Savitha Shri B 5½47 Raval Mayur 5½48 Yatharth Joshi 5½49 Parikh Vivek Tarak 5½50 Panarwala Abdul K 5½51 Nanal Arnav 5½52 Goswami Sagargiri 5½53 Suryavanshi Brijesh M 5½54 Aghera Nayan 5½55 Shah Deep Ashokbhai 5½56 Dr. Amitkumar Patel 5½57 Damani Malay 5½58 Pandya Jayesh M 5½59 Bokade Chinmay 5½60 Chandrani Shlok 5½61 Rawal Ketankumar 5½62 Modi Bhavesh J 5½63 Mahi Amit Doshi 5½

64 Jinal Yagnik 5½65 Deshpande Omkar 566 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 567 Kapadia Harshad 568 Madhani Shilpee 569 Desai Hreeday 570 Rathod Harish Kumar 571 Laheri Nitya 572 Dabhi Sangeet H 573 Sharma Sachin 574 Parikh Pratham 575 Parekh Vishrut 576 Sangoi Hriday 577 Priyanka Bhatt 578 Bhatt Mit H 579 Panwar Krish N 580 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 581 Trivedi Pranshu Harit 582 Bagul Ravindra 583 Dhruvin Sajnani 584 Surana Aayush 585 Patil Aditi G 586 Sesha Giri Rao S.R. 587 Wadia Kiran 588 Ridikesh Dilip V 589 Harsh Trivedi 590 Devesh Anand Naik 591 Patel Maurya K 592 Dhruv G Kulkarni 4½93 Gupta Eshaan 4½94 Choksi Ashish 4½95 Trivedi Chintan Digant 4½96 Ravi K Purohit 4½97 Kiyarra Sunil Khaturia 4½98 Cyrus Chhikara 4½99 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay 4½100 Gala H D 4½101 Thakkar Vishal 4½102 Karan Shah 4½103 Makwana Devam 4½104 Mehta Rutvij 4½105 Gupta Anshurup 4½

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A ditya Birla Memorial 16th Jharkhand State Fide Rated Chess Champion-ship 2016 held at Sarala Birla School

Auditorium, Mahilong, Ranchi, Jharkhand from 15th to 18th May 2016 organized by All Jharkhand Chess Association. Total Par-ticipant was 109 including 58 players rat-ed. They have come from different remote districts of Jharkhand. The tournament was inaugurated by President of AJCA Pradip Ku-mar Varma and welcome to all participants.

The Tournament Hall was Full Air-condi-tioned, spacious and sufficient toilet facilities. The Organiser provided breakfast, lunch, & dinner to all participants at very minimum cost.It may be mentioned here that one player Advay Kumar excluded from the tour-nament in the first round as he suppressed his fide id. which he got from USA (USCF) in 2014. During enquiry his mother confessed and the matter was brought to AICF notice through mail.

At the end of final round games Swaraj Palit of Ranchi District scored 7.5 bagged the Championship Title with Cash Rs. 10000/- with better tie break . Pritam Singh(7.5 pts) and Vatsal Singhania(7 pts) secured second & third place and got Rs. 8000/- & Rs. 6000/- respectively. All the Asstt. Arbiters did their job very well till last round games. No single dispute occurred during the game in the tournament . Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Swaraj Palit 7½2 Singh Pritam 7½

3 Vatsal Singhania 74 Saikat Dutta 75 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 76 Sudhakar Prem Dutt 77 Anshul Nigam 6½8 Priyanka Kumari 6½9 Saurabh Mandal 6½10 Aayush Agarwal 6½11 Kumar Utkarsh 6½12 Manish Sharma 6½13 Kamal Kishore Debnath 614 Manideep Mukhi 615 Raja Bose 616 Atul Bihari Sharan 617 Ishant Kumar 618 Kundu Uttam 619 Biranchi Kumar Sinha 620 Bhupesh Balmuchu 621 Kumar Aswini 622 Alka Das 5½23 Lokesh Kumar 5½24 Ishan Gupta 5½25 Basant Khandelwal 5½26 Deepak Lal Saha 5½27 Sharma Prahlad 5½28 Prem Kumar 5½29 Mukherjee Sanchit 5½30 Bidisha Roy 5½31 Ankit Kumar Singh 5½32 Pracheta Agarwal 5½33 Vatsal Nagelia 5½34 Manisha Masi 535 Vikash Kumar Mehta 536 Hritik Verma 537 Umesh Sona Tanty 538 Binod Kumar Saw 539 Biplab Chandra Dalal 5

Aditya Birla Memorial 16th Jharkhand State Fide Rated Chess Championship

Swaraj Palit winsAsit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter

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40 Milan Kumar 541 Sunil Kumar Singh 542 Mukherjee Archit 543 Deobrat Singh 544 Dash Anannya 545 Ankush Kumar Singh 546 Ajay Kumar 547 Ram Krishna 548 Sahu Aniruddha Kumar 549 Akankhya Dash 4½50 Aman Choubey 4½51 Shaswata Paul 4½52 Kumar Amit 4½53 Purushottam Saraff 4½54 Shreya 4½55 Manmohan Jha 4½56 Kanhaiya Pandey 4½57 Agarwal Priyashi 4½58 Bhavesh Kumar Gupta 4½59 Arvind Kumar Verma 4½60 Suyash Patel 4½61 Mrityunjay Choudhary 462 Prabhat Ranjan Kumar 463 Prasad Babu Lal 464 Samarjit Pramanik 465 Suraj Das 466 Simran 467 Krishna Kumar Saw 468 Rahul Mukhi (jhar) 469 Kunal Choudhary 470 Sudarshan Tiwari 471 Aastha Rani Bhuyan 472 Om Narayan Bhuyan 473 Chakraborty Sucharita 474 Hembrom Baby 475 Bacchu Singh 476 Priyesh Gupta 477 Shubham Singh 478 Archit Mittal 479 Abhishek Kumar 480 Sandeep Singh 3½81 Rishav Kumar 3½82 Barnwal Dhriti 3½

83 Sneha Verma 3½84 Vishal Kumar Minz 3½85 Arpit Khirwal 3½86 Sayam Chakraborty 387 Harsh Raj Pandey 388 Shashank Raj 389 Soren Nikhil 390 Aryaman V Verma 391 Riddhi Jain 392 Aarav Sinha 393 Chelsea Mittal 394 Pranav Kumar Pandey 395 Pragati Pandey 396 Roshan Linda 397 Gajadhar Singh 2½98 Aditya Jhunjhunwala 2½99 Prerna Pandey 2½100 Rupa Rani 2½101 Armaan Sinha 2½102 Aayush Raj 2103 Soren Palton 2104 Tushar Singh 2105 Tirth Shresth 1½106 Satish Kumar 1107 Pranjal Kumar 1108 Advay Kumar 0109 Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava 0

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame”

- Jose Raul Capablanca

“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the princi-ple inherent in the position”

- Richard Reti

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N utan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli con-ducted the 49th Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaokar Memorial Open FIDE Rat-

ing Chess Tournament at Bapat Bal Shikshan Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra, which is one of the oldest organizer in India from 1941 conducting 49th FIDE rating event in the chess festival in Month of May. This event was organized by prominent chess players, key personalities (businessmen and indus-trialist) in Sangli, Maharashtra namely Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaokar President NBM, Mr. Er. Chidambar Kotibhaskar Vice President NBM, Mr. Ar. Pramod Chougule Vice President NBM, Mr. Dr. Ulhas Mali Working President NBM, Mr. Chintamani Limaye Secretary NBM, Mrs. Smita Kelkar Treasurer NBM, Mrs. Seema Kathmale, Mr. Girish Chitale, accompanied by other chess players and chess lovers like Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mr. Deepak Vaychal, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, etc. The event was organized and played from 6th to 11th May, 2016 and conducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 09 rounds, with two rounds only on three days else single round. The time control for the game was 90 min-utes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds per move from first move.

Shri Mahesh Zanwar one of the progressive Businessmen was the Chief Guest of this event. Along with him, Shri Satyanarayan Zanwar, Mrs. Uma Zanwar, Shri Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Chintamani Limaye, Shri Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Shri Vijay Apte, & Shri Kumar Mane were the dignitaries on dais of the inaugural function. The event was inau-gurated by Mahesh Zanwar. The ceremonial chess match was played between Uma Zan-

war & Mahesh Zanwar. Some of the important players namely IM Sameer Kathmale & FM Sauravh Khherdekar of Railway, WFM Rucha Pujari of Mah, WCM Chopdekar Gunjal of Goa, Jyoti Prakash Sharma & Prasad Govind of Rajsthan etc. took part in this event. In this event 180 players out of which 127 were rated having rating average of rated play-ers 1419, with players coming from nearly all parts of India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Madhya Pradesh, Dadar & Daman etc.). The championship was being led by an IM, one each FM, WFM & WCM including 14 players above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kath-male of Sangli, with a rating of 2345 was the top seed in this event.

At the end of fifth round IM Sameer Kathmale of Railway and Shubham Kumthekar of Mum-baiSub scored 5 points defeating their rivals and became joint leader of this event. They were closely followed by a margin of ½ points by seven players. In 6th round, on 1st board Sameer scored six points won against fort-night joint leader Shubham Kumthekar and became sole leader. He was nearly followed by Soham Datar scored 5½ points.

At the end of seventh round Sameer won against Soham increased his overall lead by one point scored 7 points. He is followed by five players namely Sauravh Khherdekar, Ru-cha Pujari, Omkar Kadav, Shubham Kumthek-ar & Ranveer Mohite scored six points each. In the penultimate round Sameer scored 7½ points drew with Sauravh with 6½ points. Omkar scored 7 points played marvelous game on 2nd board and forced Rucha to ac-

49th Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem. Open FIDE Rating Tournament,Sangli

Sameer Kathmale wins at Sangliby IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter

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cept defeat after lengthy game.

In final round Sameer scored 8 points drew with Omkar with 7½ points. Rucha escaped with draw against Suyog Wagh resulting in four plauers having 7½ points namely, Rucha Pujari, Sameer Kathmale, Soham Datar and Barath M. Tie breaker decided the champion of this event.The champion Sameer Kathmale received Rs. Fifty thousand and the runner up Omkar Kadav Rs. Twenty six thousand.

In this event out of 53 unrated participants, 35 participants became rated players.The tournament was completed in peaceful man-ner and no appeal arose. The championship was a real bonus for many players, as many of them gained considerable ELO rating of 70 or above. Special mention has to be made of Neha, Vinayak Mulye of Ratnagiri, Said Mahesh, Kher Siddharth, Anchal Rastogi and Pagay Shail of Nagpur increased their rating by 86, 77, 76, 75, 74 & 71 respectively.

The prize distribution function was chaired by Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr. Kathmale along with Mrs. Kelkar, Mrs. Kath-male, Mr. Apte, Mr. Limaye, & Dr. Mali along with Chief Arbiter IA Nitin Shenvi.Final Ranking List1 IM Kathmale Sameer 82 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7½3 Kadav Omkar 7½4 Mohite Ranveer 7½5 WFM Pujari Rucha 76 Patil Jitendra 77 Anchal Rastogi 78 Mulay Pratik 6½9 Kumthekar Shubham 6½10 Gadhiya Hrithvik 6½11 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6½12 Sahasrabudhe Uday 6½13 Soham Datar 6½

14 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 6½15 Dixit Nikhil 6½16 Bhosale Shruti 6½17 Mahajan Snehal 6½18 Aakash S Dalvi 619 Balwan Tejas 620 Shantharam K 621 Pendsey Muktanand 622 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 623 Utkarsh Lomate 624 Nikam Ravindra 625 Pogul Yuvraj 626 Giri Abhishek 627 Pagay Shail 628 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 629 Walvekar Praveen 630 Aditya S Hariharan 631 Bhagwat Heramb 632 Pradeep Pandya 633 Malpani Ashish 634 Bhosale Shriraj 5½35 Mulla Nihalahamad 5½36 Tanvi V Hadkonkar 5½37 Nargundkar Ravindra 5½38 Siddhant Gunwant D 5½39 Kher Akshay 5½40 C Bhalchandra 5½41 Omkar Paldhe 5½42 Mithil Anande P 5½43 Patil Pranav Prafulla 5½44 Rane Parnavi 5½45 Bhagyashree Patil 5½46 Soni Deepak R 5½47 Apte Dhaivat 5½48 Nirgun Keval 5½49 Naik B S 5½50 Narvekar Pruthviraj 5½

“That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one”

- Bobby Fischer

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T his was first tournament after the for-mation of the Telangana State Chess Association. The tournament was or-

ganized in for 6 days with 10 rounds, with one round on 1st and final day and other days 2 rounds each. This was 3rd rating chess tournament organized by Brilliant chess Academy at Brilliant Grammar School, Dilsukh Nagar, Gulbarga. The event attract-ed 225 Players from all over India Including major states like Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka and An-drapradesh and Goa 125 Fide rated players participated in this tournament, with 6 titled players, Including an Arena GM. Top seed of the event was Mr Varun V of Telengana.The event was inaugurated on 8th May by Shri Kasir eddy Narayana reddy, MLC, Sri A. Narasimha Reddy, Vice-president All In-dia Chess Federation & President, Telangana State Chess Association.

More than 35 players are getting partial or completing their rating performance in this event. Three players completed their rating by playing 9 and 10 rated players each in this tournament itself.

FIDE Master M. Vinay Kumar of Andhra Bank and Srinath Rao S.V of Maharastra tied for first place with 8.5 points out of 10 rounds, in tie-break FM M Vinay kumar won the event, Srinath Rao got second place; V. Varun & J Malleswara rao got third and fourth place with 8 points each.In the prize distribution ceremony which took place on 13th May 2016 the following dignitaries were present. Chief Guest Dr.K.V

Ramanachary, IAS Advisor - Culture, Tour-ism, Endowments, Youth and Media affairs Government of Telangana with Prize win-ners. President of the function Sri Kasireddy Narayana Reddy, MLC, Guests of Honor Dr. Ganta Jalandhar Reddy - President Telangana Basha Samskriti Mandali; Sri. Ch. Raghuram Retd. Joint Secretary. distributed the prizes to the winners.Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 Matta Vinay Kumar FM 8½ 2 Srinath Rao S.V. FM 8½ 3 Varun V 8 4 Rao J. Malleswara 8 5 Ramakrishna J. FM 7½ 6 Balkishan A. 7½ 7 Karthik K Pradeep CM 7½ 8 Ankitha Goud Palle 7½ 9 Prateek Srivastava 7½ 10 Aditya S S V 7½ 11 Ranadheer B J S K 7½ 12 Karthik J C 7½ 13 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 7 14 Satyanarayana P. 7 15 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7 16 Akshit Kumar J 7 17 Rajendra G 7 18 Srivastava Pratyush 7 19 Kandi Ravi 7 20 Shashwat Chakraborty 7 21 Jishitha D 7 22 Kanishk S K 7 23 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 7 24 Shanmukha Teja P 7 25 Sai Kiran Y 7 26 Rama Mohan Rao N 7

Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016, Gulbarga

Vinay Kumar is the WinnerPromodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter

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27 Tarun Kanyamarala 6½ 28 Cholleti Sahajasri 6½ 29 Nikhil M 6½ 30 Thirumurugan R 6½ 31 Deepak Kumar R 6½ 32 Bipin Raj S 6½ 33 Murali Mohan Y 6½ 34 Aravind P V S 6½ 35 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6½ 36 Srinivas Bangarapu 6½ 37 Sarath Chandra K 6½ 38 Khan S 6½ 39 Sahithya G 6½ 40 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6½ 41 Prateek Atluri 6½ 42 P Audietya Aazadh 6½ 43 Vasistha Ramana RaoK V 6½ 44 Jayanth R 6½ 45 Kalur Nikhil 6½ 46 Sreekar J S S 6½ 47 Nitheesh Pothireddy 6 48 Anurag Kuruvada 6 49 Abdul Azeez S.K. 6 50 Krishna Balaji 6 51 Trisha Kanyamarala 6 52 Velpula Sarayu 6 53 Sishir B 6 54 Neeraj Anirudh K 6 55 Subbarao T V 6 56 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 6 57 Pavan Kumar Posa 6 58 Chinthakayala Nagaraju 6 59 Goguloth Malsur 6 60 Saypuri Srithan 6 61 Vyahruth A S R P 6 62 Pati Spandan 6 63 Mihir Chandra, Loke 6 64 R Venkata Raghunandan 6 65 Vysetty Sahithi 6 66 Karthikeya Kasyap ACM 6 67 A Sowmyanatha Reddy 6 68 Kamleshwar Rao N 6 69 Sri Chandana G 6

70 Rajesh Ramachandran R 6 71 Udaybhaskar Shastri K 6 72 Adupa Sneha Shree 6 73 Sibi S Einstein Reddy 5½ 74 Sharan R S 5½ 75 Chetana D 5½ 76 A Aashish Reddy 5½ 77 Prasad J R C 5½ 78 G Sravan Kumar AIM 5½ 79 Manaswini M 5½ 80 Meghanshram B V 5½ 81 Bolisetty Lochana 5½ 82 Sangam Siddharth 5½ 83 Bharadwaja T 5½ 84 Sri Ram T 5½ 85 Rohith Yadav B R 5½ 86 Sevitha Viju M 5½ 87 Sai Nithin Allenki 5½ 88 Aaromal R S 5½ 89 Krishnasanketh Reddi K 5½ 90 Suryaprakash Reddy A 5½ 91 Shiva Sai Boddu 5½ 92 Farmana Raza 5½ 93 Saikrishna Acthutuni 5 94 Aditya Varun Gampa 5 95 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 5 96 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 5 97 Rithvik Raja M 5 98 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 5 99 Nikhil A Talagadadeevi 5 100 Sai Mahati A 5 101 Ramachandra Reddy T 5 102 Kapil Surya P 5 103 Bhuvanchand Chowdary 5 104 Raja Sree Virinchi Vadali 5 105 B Kishan 5 106 Karyasheel P 5 107 Vadlakonda Rahul 5 108 Kheerthi Ganta 5 109 Rithesh Kusuma 5 110 Srivatsa Ananth K 5 111 Pranav Mahaadev 5 112 Suraj Patnasetty 5

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T he second edition of Don Bosco Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament was inaugurated by Fr. Varghese Edathi-

chira, Principal, Don Bosco ICSE Institutions here at Irinjalakuda. The tournament were conducted jointly by Thrissur Chess Academy and Don Bosco Youth Centre. Sri. T J Suresh-kumar, Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, Sri TMS Namboothiripad, Patron, Chess Asso-ciation Thrissur, Sri Jayamohan.M, President, Thrissur Chess Academy, Sri. Radhakrishnan, Secretary, Thrissur Chess Academy, Sri. Peter Joseph,Secretary, Chess Association Thrissur were attended the inaugural ceremony. Fr. Francis Ponnath welcomed the players and guests and Sri. Alex Suresh delvered the word of thanks.

Inter National Master Sri. Praveenkumar of ICF 2254 was the top seed and 175 players were participated in the six day event. The rain in second day evening heals the heat in summer and bring a cool atmosphere. As usual many upsets happens through out the event. In the penultimate round four players lead with 7.5 points and equally strong for the title.

In the final round Syed Anwar Shazuli from ICF chennai beat top seed and his fellow ICF player IM Praveen Kumar C to lift the title with 30,000/- ruppees and trophy. Phoobalan from ICF ,M B Muraleedharan from Kerala And Sri. Gavi Siddayah from Banglore were the second,third and fourth places respec-tively. Master Goutham Sakthivel TN and Master Vivek P Thomas from Kerala are won the below 1500 and below 1300 category

respectively. All players are participated in this 6 day event in a great manner and the true spirit of chess.

AICF Joint Secretary. Sri P Venugopal, Fr, Martin, Prof. Arunan, and many diginitaries were visited the tournament hall in various days. Rev. Fr. Thomas poovelikkal, Rector, Don bosco Institutions, Sri. T J Sureshku-mar, Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, Fr. Varghese Edathichira, Principal, ICSE school, Sri. Jayamohan.M., President, Thrissur chess Academy, Sri. Peter Joseph, Secretary, Chess Association Thrissur were presented in the prize distribution function. I extending my thanks to almighty for the success of the tournament. I take this opportunity to thank All India Chess Federation,Chess association of Kerala and Chess Association Thrissur for the unconditional support, I remember the advices of Sri. Hariharan, Secretary,AICF, Sri. Rajesh, Secretary CAK, and Sri. T J Sureshkumar, Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, for the success of the tournament. My special thanks to the Don Bosco Youth centre director Fr. Francis Ponnath, Bro. Jithin, volunteer captian master Alex Suresh, and other members of youth centre made excellent arrangements.Final standings: Rk Name Pts 1 Syed Anwar Shazuli 8½ 2 Phoobalan P. 8 3 Muralidharan M.B FM 8 4 Gavi Siddayya 8 5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7½ 6 Augustin A 7½ 7 Joy Antony 7½

2nd Don Bosco Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament 2016, Irinjilakuda

Syed Anwar Shazuli wins titleby Peter joseph M ,Chief Arbiter

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8 Sooraj M R 7½ 9 Joy Lazar M.A. 7½ 10 Xavier P P 7½ 11 Nithin Babu 7½ 12 Shreyas M 7½ 13 Martin Samuel 7 14 Vivek P Thomas 7 15 Gowtham Sakthivel 7 16 Vinay Thomas Abraham 7 17 Sushrutha Reddy AIM 7 18 Ajeesh Antony 7 19 Rajashree Rajeev 7 20 Benjamin Varghees Issac 7 21 Sai Prasath A S 7 22 Abdulkhader A. 6½ 23 Harilal.P.P 6½ 24 Unas K.A. 6½ 25 Nijai Giri 6½ 26 Aswin.P.G 6½ 27 Karan J P 6½ 28 Alex C Joy 6½ 29 Satheesh A S 6½ 30 Raghavendra G 6½ 31 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6½ 32 Rejith Babu C 6½ 33 Amal Roozi 6½ 34 Hari Suresh 6½ 35 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 6½ 36 Sumesh Kabeer 6 37 Madhavan G 6 38 Jinan Jomon 6 39 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 40 Abhishek S 6 41 Mohammed Salih Pk 6 42 Rahul J Akkara 6 43 Hari K Mohanan 6 44 Santhosh P.V. 6 45 Jos Paul Davis 6 46 Mansoor C M 6 47 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6 48 Adarsh Narayanan 6 49 Vinod K Kuttappan 6 50 Anirudh B S 6

51 Safar Hussain 6 52 Antony Simethy 6 53 Adwait Meethal 6 54 Rockson S parayil 6 55 Prem Krishna N 6 56 Anfas Muhammed 6 57 Pathrose C.T 6 58 Avin T Sabu 6 59 Unnikrishnan T 6 60 Mukhesh C 5½ 61 Varun Agrawal 5½ 62 John Paul P J 5½ 63 Sajeev Pattath 5½ 64 Abhinav Bhatt 5½ 65 Thankachan K M 5½ 66 Raju O A 5½ 67 Ashish Thomas Alex 5½ 68 Deepak K S 5½ 69 Prabhu R V 5½ 70 Francis N. P. 5½ 71 Jaseel Badar 5½ 72 Gopal N Dinesh 5½ 73 Priyesh M J 5½ 74 Ranjith P B 5 75 Kutty T P C 5 76 Pratyush R 5 77 Raghuraj V.N. 5 78 Sreyas Payyappat 5 79 Ethan V Johnson 5 80 Sirdhiraj M 5 81 Arjun Manoj R 5 82 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5 83 Manuel M S 5 84 Rachana 5 85 Nandakumar Menon 5 86 Sreevatsa 5 87 Naveen Giri 5 88 Ambareesh R 5 89 Adithya Narayanan 5 90 Rajath Rajesh 5 91 Lakshmanan K A 5 92 Anton Rajeev 5 93 Jolly V P 5

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C hess Association Kottayam organized its 1st Fide Rating Chess Tournament below 1500 at Benjamin Baily hall,

Kottayam, a spacious and beautiful hall at the heart of the city. The tournament attracted a record number of entries of 522, out of which 367 players are FIDE rated chess players. The tournament was held from 6th May 2016 to 8th May 2016, offering a prize mon-ey of Rs,2,00,000/-. Sai Balaji from Tamil-nadu was the top seeded. Due to derailment of Chennai train many players from Chennai didnot turn up. However the experienced organizer, Mr. R. Rajesh did wonderful effort and started the tournament on time.

Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by former world under 18 Girls Chess Champi-on, WGM Arthi Ramaswamy from Chennai. She attracted the crowed in her inaugural speech by giving her experiences.

The top seeded Sai Balaji went down to K C Devanand of Kerala in round 2 was the major upset. Gopinath Parthasarathy from Tamil-nadu, Komal Srivatsav Sajja from Karnataka and Sanghavi Manaoj from Gujarat are the three leaders with 6 points at the end of round 6. on round 7 Gopinath and Komal en-counter ended in a draw where as Sanghavi lost in the hands of second seeded Aswin P R from Tamilnadu. Aswin, Jyothir from Kerala and Arputha Jasmine from Tamilnadu joined with Gopinath and Komal with 6.5points. Aswin, Komal and Gopinath won their games in round 8 and lead the tournament with 7.5 points at the end of the penultimate round. In the final round Aswin lost to Komal, where as Gopinath drew his game against Sanga-

vi. 11 years old boy Komal Srivatsav Sajja from Karnataka collected 8.5 points from 9 rounds and won the title. He lifted the win-ner's trophy and also received Rs.30000/- as cash prize.

Three players scored 8 points, Wanehswar Rao from Telungana, Shashank Butt from Karnataka and Gopinath Parthasarathy from Tamilnadu tied for the second prize but better tiebreak helped Waneshwar Rao became the runner up and Waneshwar Rao received Rs.20000/-.

Dr. Roy Sam Daniel Principal of CMS col-lege & Shri. A N Kunhi Moideen President of Chess Association Kerala gave the prizes to the winners and WGM Arthi Ramaswamy felicitated as the guest of honour. The Chess association Kerala General Secretary, Mr. R. Rajesh presided over the meeting.Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 8½2 Vaneshwar Rao K.V. 8 3 Shashank Bhat G S 8 4 Gopinath Parthasarathy 8 5 Arputha Jasmine B A 7½6 Aswin P R 7½ 7 Mubeen Yaseen Khan 7½ 8 Jyothir R 7½ 9 Sanghavi Manoj 7½ 10 Srivatsan Sekar 7½ 11 Sudheer M K 7 12 Naushad Vavachan 7 13 Rahul Krishna V 714 Senguttuvan K P 7 15 Shane V Jose 7

Chess Association Kottayam 1st Fide Rating Tournament below 1500

Komal Srivatsav Sajja is the winnerby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

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16 Benny Thomas 7 17 Aishwarya Natarajan 7 18 Amal Roozi 7 19 Roshan Hari 7 20 Mugunth R B 7 21 Nawin J J 7 22 Vengatesan B 7 23 Vishal Raja 7 24 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7 25 Chirag Mudraje 7 26 Habibur Rahman 7 27 Suresh Kumar M C 6½28 Nithish Muthukumaran 6½29 Sachjith M 6½30 Manojan Ravi 6½31 Avinash Hari 6½32 Rakshith Ashok Kumar 6½33 Hariharan S 6½34 Varun Suresh Roshan 6½35 Abdul Basheer K M 6½ 36 Harish Babu K S 6½ 37 Colaco Reuben 6½ 38 Sudeep S 6½ 39 Darsan T I 6½ 40 Aravind Suresh 6½ 41 Sai Balaji E 6½ 42 Sasikumar.S 6½ 43 Geetha Krishnan S 6½ 44 Tarun Thiyagarajan 6½ 45 Adithya E S 6½ 46 Harsh Suresh 6½ 47 Krishnamurthy T D 6½ 48 Surya Prakash J 6½ 49 Suresh Kumar Saravanan 6½ 50 Aji Kumar A 6½ 51 Vel Murugan B 6½ 52 Svatejas Shivakumar 6½ 53 Shiva Chethan Halamane 6 54 Syam Hari H V 6 55 Varun Sudarshan 6 56 Praveen B L 6 57 Dharshan Venkatachalam 6 58 Prakash C K 6

59 Mischel Capriatie B 6 60 Mahendar B 6 61 Alwin Biby 6 62 Arun S 6 63 Genita Gladys A 6 64 Sudheesh M A 6 65 Mohammed Sudheer P P 6 66 Muthukumar Thangapandian 6 67 Gobi Krishnaan S 6 68 Sathiraj S 6 69 Ebin Benny 6 70 Kumar T V 6 71 Seth Sitaram 6 72 Gowri Karthikeyan 6 73 Sathya Naarayanan S 6 74 Sathwika N 6 75 Harikrishnan S B 6 76 Sundararajan D S 6 77 R Venkatasubramani 6 78 Srijan J 6 79 Bolla Deepak 6 80 Harish B Menon 6 81 Krishnadev S Nair 6 82 Thanga Manickam M 6 83 Gopinath P 6 84 Senthil Kumar K 6 85 Shashank S L 6 86 Andrew Veda W Solomon 6 87 Alex C Joy 6 88 Shreyas P Vijay 6 89 Pavithra M 6 90 Tamizhanban N 6 91 Abel Saju Chazhoor 6 92 Raghavendra G 6 93 Karthikeyan G 6 94 Vivian Akshay J 6

“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be com-pletely superfluous. Unfortunately, no oneknows in advance which half”

- Jan Tinman

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Viktor Korchnoi Passes Awayby Arvind Aaron

Viktor Korchnoi, known more as a Soviet defector who played in two World Championship matches of 1978 and 1981 has passed away aged 85.

Born March 23, 1931 at St Petersburg (then known as Leningrad) in Russia died on June 6, 2016 at Wohlen, Switzerland. He is survived by his wife and son Igor.

Korchnoi was one of the strongest chess players who never won the world chess title. The 1974 Candidates Finals against Karpov became a title match as

Fischer refused to play the 1975 match. Korchnoi defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 while playing in a tournament in the Netherlands.

When he faced Anatoly Karpov, age was against him. He was 20 years older and lost the three matches by narrow margins. The 1981 margin (6-2 for Karpov) at Merano in Switzerland was the biggest Karpov could achieve. To come through the Candidates Cycle more than three times is already a big achievement.

In the next cycle, Korchnoi beat Kasparov in the very first game with black pieces in the Candidates Semifinals at London 1983 but lost the match overall and his opponent went on to unseat Karpov.

Korchnoi played two training matches against ‘friend’ David Bronstein in 1970 that was re-vealed in the book Secret Notes of Bronstein in 2007. Korchnoi also was close with Karpov and played such a match in 1971.

Here are the individual decisive career scores of Korchnoi (draws not counting) against world champions:Korchnoi beat Mikhail Tal 13-4;Korchnoi beat Tigran Petrosian 12-10;Korchnoi beat Magnus Carlsen 1-0;Korchnoi drew Mikhail Botvinnik 1-1;Korchnoi drew Robert James Fischer 2-2;Korchnoi lost to Anand 0-8;Korchnoi lost to Kramnik 0-6;Korchnoi lost to Kasparov 1-16;Ko-rchnoi lost to Vassily Smyslov 3-5;Korchnoi lost to Anatoly Karpov 14-31

Korchnoi was active even playing a veteran match against Uhlmann two years ago from a wheel chair. His peak rating was 2695. During early years of his defection, Soviet players avoided events in which he played. Korchnoi’s high rating was at risk and FIDE under its morally right President Max Euwe brought special laws to protect it. Under this, Korchnoi would not lose rating if he won a tournament clearly.

One of the world’s most interesting player is gone. Korchnoi was outspoken. He suffered

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the most from the USSR Chess Federation post defection. When he defected, they did not let his wife and son to join him. When he found another partner in Petra, then they let them go!

Korchnoi won six team gold medals in the Chess Olympiad for the USSR in 1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1974. He also won individual gold medals twice and individual bronze medals thrice. Later, he also played the Chess Olympiad for Switzerland.Korchnoi had been the World Senior Champion of 2006. He has played in the Goodricke Open, Kolkata in 2000.Korchnoi won the very tough Soviet Championship five times in 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1970. He has won almost every tournament in the West. The chess world has lost a great competitor.

Asian Continental Chess Championships,Tashkent…..Sethuraman, Bhakti win Asian Championships

By Arvind Aaron

India won the two titles on stake in the Asian Individual Chess Championships that concluded in Tashkent on June 3, 2016. Both S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai and Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa scored identical 7/9 scores to win by a half point margin.

Sethuraman, 23, lost to top seed Le Quang Liem (Vie), drew Aravindh, Gao Rui and beat the rest of the six players. His victims included third seed Wei Yi. Importantly, he won the last three rounds in a row. The top finishers will qualify for the World Chess Cup in 2017 at Batumi in Georgia. Se-

thuraman gains around 13.60 Elo and should be in the World Top 100 ratings in July.

Fifteenth seed Bhakti Kulkarni, 24, remained undefeated and won the women’s event. Bhakti gains 50.20 Elo from this single event. She was the lowest rated of the five Indians but sur-prised everyone by winning. In the fourth round, she recorded a win over top seed IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iran). The top finishers will qualify for the World Women’s championship.

Players from 19 nations in men and 15 in women took part in this event that was organised by the Uzbekistan Chess Federation.

Final placings (top and Indians): 1 GM S.P. Sethuraman (Ind) 7/9; 2-9. GM Le Quang Liem (Vie), GM Wei Yi (Chn), GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kaz), GM Deep Sengupta (Ind), GM Lu Shanglei (Chn), GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vie), GM Surya S Ganguly (Ind), GM Batchuluun Tsegmed (Mgl) 6.5 each; 11 GM B Adhiban 6; 15 GM Karthikeyan Murali 5.5; 17 GM Vidit Gujrathi 5.5; 18 GM Aravindh Chithambaram 5.5; 23 GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 5.5; 29 GM M.R. Lalith Babu 5; 30 GM Abhijeet Gupta 5…91 players.

Final placings (top and Indians): 1 WGM Bhakti Kulkarni (Ind) 7/9; 2-3. WGM Dinara Sadu-akassova (Kaz) WGM Soumya Swaminathan (Ind) 6.5 each; 4-6. WGM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie), WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie), WIM Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vie) 6 each; 10 WIM B Pratyusha 5; 15 IM Padmini Rout 5; 17 WGM Mary Ann Gomes 4.5; 20 WIM R Vaishali 4.5…35 players.

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Asian Junior Open and Girls Championship,New Delhi….Aravindh and Uurtsaikh are Asian Junior Champs

By GopakumarAsian Junior Open & Girls Chess Cham-

pionships-2016 got off to a rousing start here at Hotel Park Plaza on Tuesday. 103 players from 12 different countries are par-ticipating in this nine day long prestigious championship, which have three formats of Rapid, Standard and Blitz events. In the girl’s Rapid event, Tamilnadu youngster R Vaishali won the yellow metal with a perfect score of 9 points while Iranian International Mas-ter Masoud Mosadeghpur finished first with 8 points. Indian Grandmasters Aravindh Chithamabaram and S L Narayanan finished as first runner up and second runner up respec-tively in open section while Uuriintuya Uurtasaikh of Mongolia won Silver and Bala Kannamma of India finished third in girl’s category.

Earlier in a befitting opening ceremony, Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Shri. Bharat Singh inaugurated the championship by lighting the lamp and making the customary first move in presence of Shri. Jaidev Dutta, General Manager host Hotel Park Plaza and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Government of Delhi gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Hisham Al Taher, General Secretary Asian Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, Deputy President Asian Chess Federation; Group Captain J Rajendra, Deputy Judge Advocate General Indian Air Force; Shri. Luxman Wijesuriya, General Secretary Chess Federation of Sri Lanka; Shri. Narayan Das Gamal, Vice President Nepal Chess Association and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram of India and Uurinntuya Uurtsaikh of Mongolia became Champions in the Asian Junior Open and Girls Championship which concluded at Park Plaza in New Delhi.

In a pulsating final round, overnight sole leader Grandmaster S L Narayanan drew with Inter-national Master Mousavi Seyed Khalil and this result helped Aravindh to catch up with Narayanan after defeating Nima Javanbakht of Iran. Both players tied at seven points but direct encounter tie break helped Aravindh to clinch the title while Naryanan satisfied with runner-up position. Harsha Bharathakoti completed the all Indian podium finish after defeating International Master Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran in final round.

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Meanwhile the girls section had more dramas as Mongolian girl Uurinntuya Uurtsaikh pro-duced an emphatic victory over top seed Vaishali to lift the winner’s trophy while Nandhidhaa V finished as runner up after defeating overnight joint leader K Priyanka. R Vaishali not found a place in the podium as Ivana Maria Furtado won the bronze medal by securing final round victory over Bala Kannamma P.

In the Asian Junior Blitz Championship, S L Naryanan won the gold medal while Arjun Kalyan and Aravindh Chithambaram secured Silver and Bronze medals respectively. R Vaishali secured the yellow metal in girl’s category while Varshini finished second and Bala Kannamma won the Bronze medal.

In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Government of Delhi gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Hisham Al Taher, General Secretary Asian Chess Federation; Shri. Bharat Singh, Deputy President Asian Chess Federation; Group Captain J Rajendra, Deputy Judge Advocate General Indian Air Force; Shri. Luxman Wijesuriya, General Secretary Chess Federation of Sri Lanka; Shri. Narayan Das Gamal, Vice President Nepal Chess Association and Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess Association.

Praggnanandhaa set to become world’s youngest IM!

W, besides his share of youth medals, is in the process of rewriting history books.Praggnanandhaa equalled his sister Vaishali’s gold medals by winning the World under 8 boys in 2013 and the under 10 boys in 2015. By February 2016, at the age of ten years and seven months, he was already rated 2301.Then began a fairytale period as he reeled off norm performances one after another. He made a trip to the French city of Cannes in late February to play his first grandmaster open outside India. Praggnanandhaa played excellent chess in the tournament, made his maiden IM norm despite losing the last round.

In the strong open tournament in Moscow — Aeroflot B Open after three rounds, Praggu's score read just 0.5/3 but he just came back stronger, picking pace to score 3.5 points in the next four rounds, including a win against GM Levon Babujian (2491) of Armenia and Karachenko Boris in the last round to clinch his second IM-norm. And he did just that after his opponent, Karachenko Boris erroneously picked the c5 pawn with his knight.

The ten year-old from Chennai completed his third and final IM norm after beating a Grand-master and drawing with two others at the KIIT international Chess Festival in Bubaneshwar.In comparison Judit Polgar was the youngest IM till date did it only at 11-plus. Praggnanandhaa at 10 years and 10 months has thus become the youngest IM in the history of chess.

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T he ‘12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaon-kar Memorial International FIDE Rating Women's Chess Tournament’ was suc-

cessively organized by Nutan Buddhibal Man-dal, Sangli. This event is special, because it encourages Women players by giving entries without entry fee as well as free accommoda-tion provided. This event is unique in India. The event took place at Bapat Bal Shikshan Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra. The path shown by Late Shri Bhausaheb Padsalgikar to moti-vate parents and female players is now taken over by present members and office bearers. He had aimed to give full one month chess events in Sangli, and it is still continued. One way we can surely say that for Chess Sangli is a ‘Pandhari’.

The driving force behind new changes in conducting chess tournament is the effort taken by Shri Rajabhau Shirgaonkar, Presi-dent NBM. The other key personalities behind this event were Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mr. Girish Chitale, Mr. Pramod Chougule, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Mrs. Seema Kathmale, Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, Mr. Deepak Vaychal, etc. The event was or-ganized and played from 1st to 5th May, 2016 and conducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 09 rounds, with one round on last day else double rounds. The time control for the game was 90 minutes to each player

with an increment of 30 seconds per move from first move.

Mrs. Jayashreetai Madanrao Patil was the Chief Guest of inaugural function and by profession architect. Along with her Mr. Chin-tamani Limaye Sec, NBM, Mrs. Smita Kelkar Madam, Treasurer NBM Dr. Ulhas Mali and Shri Pramod Chougule Vice President NBM were the dignitaries on dais of the inaugural function. The event was inaugurated by Ms Jayashreetai Patil with lightening of devotion-al lamp and ceremonial match between Ms Jayashreetai Patil and Ms Smita Kelkar was played. Introduction of the Chief Guest was done by Dr. Ulhas Mali. The aim and motto of this event was explained by Chintamani Limaye to gathering.

Ms. Patil talked about the history of NBM and the way NBM is taking effort to encourage Women in chess of field at the same time given best wishes to participants and parents for participating in this event. Some of the important players who took part were-WFM Rucha Pujari Kolhapur, WCM Gunjal Chop-dekar of Goa, WCM Sanskruti Wankhade of Mumbai, Ms Rutuja Bakshi of Aurangabad, Ms Vrushali Deodhar of Mumbai suburban, Ms. Khushi Surana of Solapur, Ms Riya Lahoti of Satara, Meenakshi Bhoite of Pune, Bhag-yashree Patil of Jalgaon, Krishnaa Jahagirdar Sudhakar of TN, Ms. Gayatri Rajput of Sangli, Ms. Narayani Adane of Nagpur, Ms. Alaina Vincent of Mumbai, etc. In this event 63 players out of 137 were rated having rating average of rated players 1251, with players

12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Memorial International FIDE Rating

Women's Chess Tournament Sangli, May 2016

Rucha Pujari wins title by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter

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coming from nearly all parts of Maharashtra (Mubai suburban, Buldhana, Aurangabad, Solapur Nagpur, Jalgaon, Thane, Palghar, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune), Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Telangana, Gujrat. The championship was being led by one WFM and two WCM including 5 players above 1600 ELO rating. WFM Rucha Pujari of Kolhapur, with a rating of 2152 was the top seed in this event.

At the end of fifth round Rucha Pujari and Rutuja Bakshi became joint leader of this event won against their opponents and scored 5 points each followed by them Gunjal Chopdekar, Isha Koli, and Sanskruti Mahajan scored 4½ points each.

In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari won against joint leader Rutuja Bakshi and became sole leader of this event. Followed by her there are nine participants scored by 5 points.

At the end of seventh round unrated Raul Devika of Mumbai drew with rated Krishnaa Jahagirdar Sudhakar of TN. Lower rated Kapadia Hrishita of Mumbai Suburban won against Gouri Karamarkar of Sangli. Rucha Pujari scoring 7 points convincingly won against Bhagyashree Patil of Jalgaon and difference between top and others increased. She is followed by four players namely Shruti Bhosale of Kolhapur, Bakshi Rutuja, Narayani Adane & Vrushali Deodhar scored 6 points each.

In the penultimate round top seed Rucha Pujari, Rutuja Bakshi and Vrushali Deodhar managed to win their respective games and now Rucha lead with8 points closely followed by Rutuja Bakshi and Vrushali Deodhar with 7 points.

In final round top two boards drew. Rucha drew with Vrushali while Rutuja drew with Khushi. The champion Rucha Pujari received Rs. Seventeen thousand and the runner up Rutuja Bakshi Rs. twelve thousand. The rated players who got more than 100 ELO rating points namely Samruddhi Kulkarni of Kolhapur with 123 ELO points & Isha Koli of Satara with 115 ELO points.

In this event out of 72 unrated participants, only some of them managed to cross 1000 ELO points line. The tournament was com-pleted in peaceful manner and no appeal arose.

The prize distribution function chaired by Mrs. Chandana Shekhar Gaikwad wife Collector Mr. Shekhar Gaikwad of Sangli, Mother of Architect Shri Pramod Chougule Mrs. He-matai, Mrs. Laxmitai Shirgaokar Daughter in Law of Shri Rajabhau Shirgaonkar Presi-dent NBM and Treasurer, Saraswat Bramhan Mahila Mandal Kolhapur as well as Director SB Resellers Kolhapur and sponsorer for National Women Premier in Diwali 2014, Mrs. Shraddha Shirgaokar expert in many arts and skills, Mrs. Kanchan Pagay wife of Shri Dilip Pagay Hon. Secretary, MCA, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Treasurer NBM, Mr. Chintam-ani Limaye Secretary, NBM, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Vice President, NBM, Dr. Ulhas Mali Working President, NBM and Shri Nitin Shenvi Chief Arbiter were on dais.

Final Ranking ListRk Name Pts1 Pujari Rucha 8½2 Bakshi Rutuja 7½3 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 7½4 Bhagyashree Patil 75 Adane Narayani 76 Vincent Alaina 7

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7 Surana Khushi Shailendra 78 Mahajan Sanskruti 6½9 Chandratreya Prachiti 6½10 Ghadge Mrunalini 6½11 Lahoti Riya 6½12 Chopdekar Gunjal 6½13 Bhosale Shruti 614 Naik Snehal 615 Koli Esha 616 Wankhade Sanskruti 617 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 618 Kulkarni Samruddhi 619 Krishnaa Jahagirdar Sudhakar 620 Neha Vinayak Mulye 621 Rajput Gayatri 622 Kamarkar Gouri 623 Kunnekar Vanshri 624 Kruti G 625 Upase Riddhi 5½26 Pardeshi Gayatri 5½27 Adhawade Tanvi 5½28 Khushi M Hombal 5½29 Upalavikar Pornima 5½30 Dicholkar Diti 5½31 Dhuri Khushi 5½32 Tanuja Sudhakar Babu 5½33 Keerthi Bandlamudi 5½34 Gotmare Mrinmayi 5½35 Bhoite Meenakshi 5½36 Kapadia Hrishita 5½37 Khandagale Yashkirti 5½38 Joshi Siya 5½39 Deshmukh Gargi 5½40 Patil Sanskruti 5½41 Hetvi Pethad 542 Bondage Vaishnavi 543 Abhyankar Aishwarya 544 Patil Shreya C 545 Mohitha V 546 Rawal Madhura 547 Shraddha Somanath 548 Raul Devika 549 Naroji Sanskriti 5

50 Sharanya Vinayak Adane 551 Bondage Mayuri 552 Riya Narendra Marathe 553 Naik Sayuri 554 Chougule Samiksha 555 Choudki Khushi 556 Palakodeti Bhanumati 557 Nikam Akansha 558 Ghosarwadkar Vaishnavi 559 Patki Varudhini Sadananda 4½60 Mahajan Mokshada D 4½61 Bedwal Dhanashree 4½62 Patil Vaishnavi 4½63 Vaval Aaditi 4½64 Prabhu Trupti 4½65 Joshi Chaitali 4½66 Salunkhe Samruddha 4½67 Birajdar Anjali 4½68 Dhrithi Murgod 4½69 Patil Aarohee Bhaksar 4½70 Rekha Gudsoorkar 4½71 Dakshayani Tushar Chavan 4½72 Kulkarni Diksha 4½73 Vaibhavi Murali 4½74 Ranka Srushti 4½75 Patil Anushka 4½

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on p 4

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I n the Sanskar city Vadodara, the Miner-al Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament - 2016 was held from 1st to 5th May

atHotel Surya, Station Road , Vadodara, Gu-jarat by Gujarat State Chess Association and Mineral Chess Academy .

The tournament attracted total number of 152 entries all over state of India, major part of entries by Gujarat, followed by Mahar-ashtra and Tamilnadu,in. The total number of International fide Rated players of the event is 136 players which compiles of 1 GM, 3 IM .1 CM and25 female participants.

The event is been conducted by 9 Rounds Swiss league system, with the time control of 90 min plus 30 sec increment from move No.1, everyday 2 rounds.( Except Last Day)

The total prize money of the event was Rs.5,00,000/-(Five Lakhs ) with First Prize of Rs.50,000/-(Rupees Fifty Thousand ) for the winner of the event. Many talented young players from all over the country participated to win the coveted prizes .Hard fought victories and some draws were witnessed duing the tournament. At the end of the final round the ultimate winner was Mr. HimansuShema of Railways winning the cash prize of Rs.50,000/- and the Runner Up of the event was Mr. Atul Dahade of Maharashtra with the cash prize of Rs.40,000/-.This is the sixth tournament in a row by the Mineral Chess Academy. Kudos to Bhavesh Patel (Hon.Secretary-GSCA), PruthivirajLeu-va and his team for their dedicated efforts.

The Kalrav group and Mineral chess Acade-my has done a wonderful work to fulfill all requirement by providing a fully Air-con-ditioned Tournament hall and a Free A/c Dormitory Accommodation. The Lunch and Dinner during Tournament was also arranged at subsidised with a very discounted rate for all in the same hotel. The team of Arbiters headed by A.C.Joshi was efficient and took care of the technical problems. Thanks to all players for raising not even a single protest.

Final rankings: Rk Name Pts 1 Himanshu Sharma IM 8 2 Dahale Atul 7½ 3 Ravi Teja S. IM 7½ 4 Laxman R.R GM 7 5 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6½ 6 Pradeep Kumar R A 6½ 7 Audi Ameya 6½ 8 Jay Kundaliya 6½ 9 Pruthu Deshpande 6½ 10 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 6½ 11 Mraduhas Tripathi 6½ 12 Kulkarni Vikramaditya IM 6½ 13 Gukesh D CM 6 14 Maulik Raval 6 15 Vijay Anand M. 6 16 Dave Kantilal 6 17 Jeet Jain 6 18 Kamdar Udit 6 19 Vakil Akhtara 6 20 Joshi Abhijeet 6 21 Ashutosh Kumar 6 22 Panesar Vedant 6 23 Sanjeet Manohar 6

Mineral Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament - 2016

Himanshu Sharma is championby A.C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter

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24 Varun Bhatt 6 25 Bhatt Jalpan 6 26 Manish Anto Cristiano F 6 27 Phadke Sohan 6 28 Saranya Y 6 29 Avdhoot Lendhe 5½ 30 Rawal Shailesh 5½ 31 Bhogal Rupesh 5½ 32 Aditya Guhagarkar 5½ 33 Chauhan Ashvinkumar 5½ 34 Dhruvik Shah 5½ 35 Joy Pankaj Shah 5½ 36 Shah Rishab 5½ 37 Deepak Kumar R 5½ 38 Sparsh Khandelwal 5½ 39 Mehta Naitik R 5½ 40 Polakhare Aryan 5½ 41 Kamdar Aparva 5½ 42 Dere Pushkar 5½ 43 Madhavan G 5½ 44 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 5½ 45 Dhanesha Jignesh 5½ 46 Vikram Mukhija 5 47 Parikh Kairav 5 48 Abid Ali Mujawar 5 49 Vedant P Kumbakonam 5 50 Samant Aditya S 5 51 Trivedi Rushang 5 52 Ansh M Shah 5 53 Shah Rutvi 5 54 Samir Dilipkumar Desai 5 55 Srivastav Harsh 5 56 Shourya Jain 5 57 Mumukshu Mittal 5 58 Prajapati Ketan 5 59 Vrandesh Parekh 5 60 Chavda Suresh 5 61 Kulkarni Saurabh P 5 62 Mhatre Rahat Rahul 5 63 Raval Niraj 4½ 64 Mayank Pal 4½ 65 Dave Sneh 4½ 66 Kanishk S K 4½

67 Patel Vivek 4½ 68 Nitul Khare 4½ 69 Samdani Sahil Sagar 4½ 70 Dhyana Patel 4½ 71 Kavisha S Shah 4½ 72 Chandan Palash N 4½ 73 Anadkat Kartavya 4½ 74 Sachin Kumar 4½ 75 Bandekar Aditya 4½ 76 Ghelani Dhairya 4½ 77 Kumtakar Deepak AFM 4½ 78 Jaisingh Anugraha 4½ 79 Audi Saiesh 4½ 80 Menon Padmanand 4½ 81 Aditya P Melani 4½ 82 Bokade Chinmay 4½ 83 Krishna Malay 4½ 84 Ananmay Sharma 4½ 85 Neel Thomas 4½ 86 Lasani H Kothari 4½ 87 Doshi Krut Devang Kumar 4½ 88 Kushal Kaushik Karelia 4½ 89 Totlani Varun 4 90 Raninga Aditya Himanshu 4 91 Raj D Vyas 4 92 Anmol Sharma 4 93 S Brijesh Mohan 4 94 Gupta Shllok 4 95 Dhruv G Kulkarni 4 96 Bhuta Hriday 4 97 Narendran Gouthaman 4 98 Shah Nihar 4 99 Priyanshu Baid 4 100 Panchal Tisha N 4 101 Doshi Aakash 4 102 Sanjit Dutta 4 103 Ajinkya Pingale 3½ 104 Karthik Jagannath 3½ 105 Thrish Karthik 3½ 106 Kadakia Veer 3½ 107 Bhatt Palak K 3½ 108 Subodh Kumar Singh 3½ 109 Priyanka Bhatt 3½

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2 nd edition of Pavna Fide Rating Chess Tournament was formally inaugurated by Brigadier Dr. P.S.Shiwas , Vice-

Chancellor , Mangalayatan University .Other dignitaries present on the function were Rajiv Agrwal, well known industrialist of the city as well as country , Anand Sadani , Chairman, Sadani Group of Industries , Pallavi Upadhyay, Principal, D.P.S. , Aligarh , Chandra Mohan Sadani , Hony. Sectretary , DSCA , Vijay Kumar Pachisia , Treasurer, DCSA and IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter .All the dignitaries lit the traditional lamp and delivered their good wishes to all the participants . Chief guest cut the ribbon and declared the event open.

This year 155 players from various state in-cluding 86 fide rated players has participat-ed in 2nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament held Aligarh from 17 to 22 May , 2016. Tournament was organized by District Chess Sports Association , Aligarh in associ-ation with D.P.S. , Aligarh . Tournament was supported by Pavna Group of Industries and some other business houses and individuals of city. Organizing committee was lead by Chandra Mohan Sadani , Hony. Secreatry , D.S.C.A.

Month of May is usually hot but since tournament hall was airconditioned it was comfortable to all the participants . All the players were staying in the same premises of Mangalayatan , just in front of tournament hall. Everyone was happy to be there as part of this organization. 2nd edition of Pavna rating tournament was won by IM Himnashu Sharma who scored 8 point out of possible 9

round . He drew 2 and won 7 game in his way to retain title. Joydeep Dutta of West Bengal finished 2nd place while 3rd place went to Gajendra Singh of UP.

In a coulorful prize distribution function , chief guest Vijay Bajaj , MD, LockMaster India Pvt. Ltd. has gave away the prizes amongst the prize winners in the gracious presence of Ram kumar Sadani , Director , Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd ,Navratn Aggrawal ,Director, Bikanerwala food Pvt. Ltd., Shri A.K.Raizada, Hony. Secretary, UPCSA and Chandra Mohan Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA.Munesh Jain , Vice-president of DCSA , Aligarh welcomed the guest , Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar delivered the tournament report and Vijay Kumar Pachisia , Treasurer , DCSA delivered the vote of thanks.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 IM Himanshu Sharma 82 FM Dutta Joydeep 7½3 Gajendra Singh 7½4 Deepak Katiyar 75 Dubey Sanchay 76 Jaspreet Singh 77 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 78 Katiyar Prashant 79 Anuj Shrivatri 6½10 Lawaniya Eshan 6½11 Aditya S Hariharan 6½12 Deepak Kumar R 6½13 Deepak Rai 6½14 Aaryan Varshney 6½15 Diwan Rajesh 6

2nd Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Aligarh

Himanshu Sharma retains title IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter

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16 Tarun Kanyamarala 617 Himanshu Agarwal 618 Nakul Chaudhary 619 Tiwari O P 620 Yogi Anurag Upadhyay 621 Devansh Singh 622 Medha Chauhan 623 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 624 Asif Md Tayyeb 625 Raghav H S 626 Rishi Kumar Pandey 627 Sahithya G 628 Sushant Manuja 629 Sawyan Baran De 630 Kanishk S K 631 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5½32 Trisha Kanyamarala 5½33 Ashvani Saini 5½34 Om Chauhan 5½35 Deota Snehil S 5½36 Dhruv Dak 5½37 Kapil Dadhich 5½38 Shweta Priyadarshini 5½39 Hamendra Singh M 5½40 Bharadia Madhav 5½41 Vicky Jha 5½42 Himanshu Prakash 5½43 Garv Rai 5½44 Adithya Vishveshwaran 5½45 Thirumurugan R 5½46 Paras Vats 5½47 Arbaz Khan. 5½48 Gautam Kataria 5½49 Saini Ashutosh 550 Abhishek K Mishra 551 Rishabh Nishad 552 Rajat Pratap Singh 553 Varshney Roopak 554 Awasthi Balgovind 555 Arpit Rastogi 556 Bharadia Yash 557 Chauhan Narayan 558 Arunesh Narain Gaur 5

59 Arun Kumar Saxena 560 Kartikey Sharma 561 Choubey Saurabh 562 Bhawesh Pandiyar 563 Monika Sahu 564 Shamim Ahmad 565 Chechani Devansh 566 Ruchin Yadav 567 Ayush Lodha 568 Chhabra Kunal 569 Priyanka Bhatt 570 Aswin Biju 571 Munna Das Bairagi 572 Mishra Jayesh 4½73 Gupta Tanish 4½74 Saxena Anshul 4½75 Akhil Chaudhury 4½76 Asthana B.S. 4½77 Syed M Hussain Jafry 4½78 Prashant Salunke 4½79 Yashraj Singh Sandhu 4½80 Shrivatri Animesh 4½81 Parul Rathore 4½82 Chinmay Jain 4½83 Kaustubh Shukla 4½84 Uddin Imran 4½85 Tushar Chaudhary 4½86 Ajay Kumartripathi 487 Mayank Jain 488 Kranti Kumar Gupta 489 Deepak Atnere 490 Akshanshu Sharma 491 Mohd Faisal Azeem 492 Ramesh Kumar Sonker 493 Dipika Sahu 494 Aman Kumar 495 Lakshya Paurush 496 Ishika Garg 497 Maheshwari Pallavi 498 Sharma Aarav 499 Maulik Gupta 4100 Himanshu Jha 4

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Selected games from Asian Junior New DelhiAnnnotated by IM Manuel AaronHamedi Nia,Vesal (Iran) Nandhidhaa,Pv [D56]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Nxe4 dxe4 10.Nd2 e5 11.d5 Bf5 12.Be2 Qg5 13.g4 [This is new and permanently gives up his possibil-ity of castling on the king-side. A 1991 game between Alan Wortham and Nikki Kitaura played in the Japan Ch, in Tokyo went: 13.g3 Na6 14.0–0 Nc5 15.Rc1 Nd3 16.Bxd3 exd3 17.e4 Bh3 18.Re1 f5 19.Nf3 Qf6 20.Nd2 f4 21.f3 fxg3 22.hxg3³ 1–0 33]13...Bh7 14.h4 Qe7 15.Qc2 Na6 16.0–0–0 [The chances are equal.]16...c6 [The natural way to direct her at-tack against White's castled position.]17.dxc6 bxc6 18.Kb1 Rab8 19.Nb3

[The best attempt at getting counter play is: 19.g5 h5 (dangerous would be 19.. .hxg5? 20.hxg5 Rfd8 21.Rh4±) 20.Nb3= (20.Bxh5 Not 20...Nb4 21.Qc3 Nd3µ threatening both b2 and f2.) 20...Nb4 21.Qc3 Nd3 22.Rhf1=]19...Nb4 20.Qc3 Nd3 21.Rh2 a5 22.Rd2

[If 22.Bxd3 Rxb3! 23.Qxb3 exd3 24.f4 Qc5 25.f5 e4 26.Re1 Qe5 27.Rg2 Rb8 28.Qa3]22...a4 23.Nc1 Ne1 [White's forc-es are getting into a muddle.]24.Rd1 Nf3 25.Rh3 Nxh4 26.Rdh1?

This needlessly takes the rook away from the only open file on the board to the edge of the board. The natural move here was to move the king out of the potential attack down the b-file and the a1–h7 diagonal with: 26.Ka1]26...Nf3 27.Ka1 Rfd8 28.Rd1 Qe6?! [Also to be considered was: 28...Rxd1 29.Bxd1 Qd7 30.Bxa4 Qxg4 31.Rh1 Qg2 32.Rd1 Qxf2 33.Bxc6 Bf5]29.Rg3 [If 29.Rxd8+ Rxd8 30.Qa5 Rb8 31.Qa7 Rf8 32.Qxa4 Qxg4 33.Rg3 Qh4 Black has a winning advantage.]29...Rxd1 30.Bxd1 a3! 31.bxa3 [31.Qxa3 Qxc4 32.Qc3 Qf1 33.Bxf3 exf3 34.g5 h5 35.Qd2 Be4 36.b3 Rb5! Black is threatening 37...Rd5 38 Qb2 Rd1 winning.]31...Qd6 32.Bc2 Qf6 [The black queen is going to invade white's king-side.]33.Nb3 Qh4 34.Bb1 Qh1 35.Qc2 Bg6 36.a4 Qf1 37.a5 Nd4! [Diagram #]38.Nxd4 [After 38.Qb2 Nxb3+ (Black could lose a lot of her advantage by: 38...Ne2?! 39.Nd2! Rxb2 40.Nxf1 Rb4 41.Rh3 Rxc4 42.Rh1 Ra4) 39.axb3 Qe1! the a5 pawn is lost.

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(Position after 37….Nd4)38...exd4–+ [The Bb1 is fatally pinned while her rook is hopelessly out of play on g3.]39.a6 d3 40.a7 [If 40.Qb3 Rxb3 41.axb3 d2 42.a7 d1Q 43.a8Q+ Kh7 44.Qa2 Qfe1 45.Qb2 Qd8! mates.]40...dxc2! 41.axb8Q+ Kh7 42.Qb2 c1Q! 0–1

Uuriintuya,Uurtsaikh (Mgl)Priyanka,Nutakki [C04]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd7 6.Be2 f6 7.exf6 Qxf6 8.Nf1 Bd6 9.Ne3 0–0 10.0–0 Qf7 11.c4 Nf6 12.c5 Bf4 13.Bb5 [Nunn (2600) vs Landenbergue (2385) Nuremberg Rapid,1990, went: 13.g3 Bh6 14.a3 Bd7 15.b4 a6 16.Qb3 Be8 17.Ng2 Bxc1 18.Raxc1 Ne4 19.Qe3 Qf5 20.Nfh4 Qf6 21.f3 Nxg3 1–0 41]13...Ne4 [13...Bd7 might have been a little better.]14.Nc2 Qh5

Again black must try to complete her devel-opment with: 14...Bd7 denying white a clear advantage. This was black's last chance to develop her bishop. Black's misery and cause of defeat in this game is this passive bishop.]15.Bxf4!± Rxf4 16.Bxc6! bxc6 17.Nb4 Bb7 [Worse was: 17...Bd7 18.Ne5 Qe8 19.f3 Ng5 20.Qd2+–]18.Ne5 Qg5!

White is not anxious to trade her strong knight for the dummy bishop and a doubled c-pawn. Just the threat of capturing the c6 pawn is much strong-er than actually winning it.][Black is looking for some tactical counter-play. Bes t i n the c i r cumstances was to echange off queens and seek salvation in the endgame with 18...Qxd1 19.Raxd1 Nxc5 20.g3 Re4 21.Nbxc6 Bxc6 22.Nxc6 Nb7±]19.Nbd3! [Diagram # White is not anxious to trade her strong knight for the dummy bishop and a dou-bled c-pawn. Just the threat of capturing the c6 pawn is much stronger than actual-ly winning it.]19...Rf5 20.Qc1 Qh4 [Black threatens 21....Ba6!]21.f3 Ng5 22.Qe3 Qh6 [The attempt to challenge the strong Ne5 fails: 22...Nf7 23.Nxf7 Rxf7 24.Rf2 Raf8 25.Re1 Rf6 26.Ne5+– Black is totally paralysed.]

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(Position after 19,Nbd3)23.Rae1 Re8 [We all love pawns! Black's best was to activate her defending bishop by sacrificing her doubled c-pawn with: 23...Ba6 24.Nxc6 Rf6 25.Nce5 Qh4 26.g3 Qh5 though white is still on top.]24.Ng4 Qh5 25.Nf4 Qf7 26.Ne5 Qf8 27.Nfd3! [The threat is to drive away the Rf5 by g2–g4 and capture the knight.]27...h6 28.h4! Nf7? [As the black forces are huddled to-gether on the top right hand corner of the board black's end is imminent. It was better to lose the exchange as shown here than to get her queen mated as in the game! 28...Nh7 29.g4 Rf6 30.Nd7+–]29.Ng6

[Diagram # The queen is mated!]29...Bc8 1–0

Arjun,Kalyan Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr [B90]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 [Dzindzichashvili (2500) vs Rashkovksy (2430) USSR Ch, Baku, 1972 went: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Qd2 Be6 9.f3 0–0 10.0–0–0 Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.a3 Nb6 13.g5 Nh5 14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.exd5 Rc8 16.Na5 Nxd5 17.Qxd5 Qxa5 18.Bd3 g6 19.Kb1 Qc7 20.Be4³ and 1–0 47]7.Bc1 Nf6 8.Be3 [a draw with a grandmaster is ok for white. But black wants more!]8...e5 9.Nb3 Be7 10.f3 Be6 11.Qd2 Nbd7 12.g4 0–0 13.0–0–0= [The game is equal but with both players having castled on opposite sides, an exciting mid-dle-game is in the offing.]13...b5 14.Rg1? [The cause of white's downfall is this move. While other useful moves were available, it was premature to place the rook on g1. It is not clear now whether this rook was best on g1 or left alone on h1. As played, this unfor-tunate placement of the rook is the basis of black's combination on move 21. Better was either 14.Kb1 or launch his attack immedi-ately with 14 g5.]14...b4 15.Nd5= [15.Na4 Qb8 16.g5 Nh5=]15...Bxd5 16.exd5 Nb6 17.Na5 [There is some similarity between this game and the 1972 USSR Chp game quoted above.]21...Qa7!

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron22.Bd3 [The game becomes explosive and has a short life after white captures d6: 22.Qxd6 Nc8 23.Qc6 (23.Qxe5 Qxg1–+) 23...Qe3+! 24.Kb1 Na7! and the Rg1 is lost.]22...d5! 23.g5 Rfc8 [Combining defence with attack. It also vacates the f8 square for his knight in the event he has to defend h7 against white's queen and rook battery on the h-file.]24.Qh4³ g6 25.Rg3 Nd7 26.Re1 [If 26.Rh3 Nf8 27.Re1 Re8 28.c3 Rab8 Black has the upperhand as he has brought white's assault on the king-side to nought and is himself massing his forces on white's castled position.]26...Nc5 27.Bf1 [You will soon see that 27.f4 and 27 Be2 were better options.]27...Nb3+!!

28.Kd1 [If 28.axb3 Qf2! 29.Re2 Qxf1+ 30.Kd2 Rxc2+ 31.Kxc2 Qxe2+ 32.Kb1 Rb8 33.Ka2 Qc2 34.Qa4 Qxh2!–+]28...Qf2 29.Be2 [29.cxb3?? Qc2#]29...Rc4!! 30.Rg4 [The only move. If 30.Bxc4?? Qd2#]30...Qxh4! 31.Rxh4 Rxh4 32.axb3 Rxh2 33.Bd3 Re8 34.Bxa6 [Diagram #][Already an exchange and a pawn down, white desperately needs to complicate the game and recover some of the looted material. However, he should go about it with patience taking his king to b1 avoid-ing invasion along the a-file. He may try: 34.Kc1]

34...Ra8! 35.Be2 [The only move to avoid mate in one by 35.. .Ra1.]35...Ra1+ 36.Kd2 Rxe1 37.Kxe1 Kf8! [Excellent judgment! Black perceives that white's only counter-play will be his queen-side pawns. So he hurries his king there leaving alone white's g5 which could be consumed whenever he wanted!]38.c4 Ke7! 39.c5 Kd7 40.Bb5+ Kd8 [White could have been a bit more generous and allowed black some hopes and harmless fun with: 40...Kc7 41.Be8 Rxb2! 42.Bxf7 Kc6 43.Bg8 Rxb3 44.Bxh7 Rxf3 45.Bxg6 Rg3–+]41.Be2 Kc7 0–1

Divya,Lakshmi R Sanskriti,Goyal [C11]1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 9.Qd2 0–0 10.0–0–0 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 a6 12.g4 b5 [Brendan Purcell (1836) vs Peter Sherwood (1711) San Francisco, 2005 went: 12...Bxd4 13.Qxd4 f6 14.Nxd5 fxe5 15.fxe5 Qg5+ 16.Qe3 Qxe3+ 17.Nxe3 Nxe5 18.Bg2 Rf2 19.Rhf1 Rxf1 20.Rxf1 Rb8 21.h3 Bd7 22.Rd1 Kf8 and 1–0 49]13.f5 b4 14.Ne2 Qc7 15.Bxc5 Qxc5 16.f6?! [Diagram # White gambits a pawn for a dubious attack. She didnt like 16 Qf4 as black would reply 16...f6!]16...Nxe5 17.fxg7 Kxg7 18.Qg5+ Ng6 19.Ng3 Qe7 [Best was: 19...f6 20.Nh5+ Kh8 21.Qh6 (21.Nxf6? Qe7–+)

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21...Rf7 22.Bd3 Qf8]

(Position after 16.f6)20.Nh5+ Kh8 21.Qh6 Rg8 22.Bd3= e5 23.Rhf1 Be6 24.Bf5 [Black has sufficient resources to resist the attack after: 24.Nf6 Rg7 25.Bxg6 fxg6 26.Nxd5 Qb7 27.Ne3]24...Rac8 [With both players attacking and coun-ter-attacking, the game has been level.]25.Kb1 Rc6 26.Rf3 Bxf5 27.gxf5 Nh4?

[So far black has defended against white's at-tack skilfully. Now she allows white excellent play. She could be on the winning road with: 27...Qc5! (threatening mate, supporting her Rc6 rook and unpinning her Ng6) 28.Qd2 Ne7 29.f6 e4 30.Rf4 Ng6 31.Rf5 Rd8µ]28.Qxc6 Nxf3 29.Qxd5 [With the capture of this key central pawn, black's heart has been wounded and her advantage almost gone.]29...Nd4 30.f6 Qc7 [If 30...Qe6

31.Qxe6 Nxe6 32.a3 bxa3 33.bxa3=]31.Qe4 Rc8 32.Rd2 Qc4 33.Ng3 b3? [Diagram

[This is based on a miscalculation. She could still enjoy an advantage with: 33...a5 34.Rd1 Qe6 35.Ne2 Nxe2 36.Qxe2 Qxf6]34.axb3 Nxb3 35.Rd7! [White does not have to capture the black queen. Of course, if 35.Qxc4 Nxd2+ 36.Kc1 Nxc4]35...Qe6 [White gets a clear advantage after: 35...Nd4 36.Re7 h6 37.Rxe5±]36.Qb7 Rf8 37.Qb4! Re8 [If 37...Rg8 38.Rd6! and the Nb3 is lost.]38.Rd6! Qg4 [The game ended in this blunder after a tense battle. But black was anyway lost, for if: 38...Qh3 39.Qxb3 Rf8 40.Qxf7!!+–] 1–0Rajdeep,Sarkar Mosadeghpour,Masoud (Iran) [D02]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nbd2 d5 4.e3 Bg7 5.b4 0–0 6.c4 a5 7.b5 dxc4 [Tejas Bakre (2484) vs Ruslan Yandarbiev (2404) in Aer-oflot Op, Moscow 2004 went: 7...c5 8.Bb2 Nbd7 9.Be2 a4 10.Rc1 cxd4 11.Bxd4 Re8 12.cxd5 Nxd5 13.Nc4 N7f6 14.0–0 Bd7 and 34 drawn.]8.Bxc4 a4 9.Ba3 Nbd7 10.0–0 Nb6 11.Bd3 Bd7 12.Qc2 [White has been developing his pieces logically, without any turbulance. He controls great-er board space.]12...Nfd5 13.Rfc1 Rc8 14.Qb2! [As a matter of abundant caution, white moves his queen away from the c-file

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where black has just posted his rook.]14...c6 15.Rc5² cxb5 16.Bxb5 Bxb5 17.Qxb5 Rxc5 18.Bxc5±

White threatens 19 e4 undermining the Nb6.]18...Qe8 19.Rb1! [The pressure that white brings along the b-file, especially on the knight on b6 and the b7–pawn below it, is turning the game in white's favour.]19...Nd7 20.Qc4! [White cannot win a pawn with: 20.Qxb7? Nc3 21.Rb4 Nxc5 22.dxc5 Nxa2 23.Rc4 Qa8 24.c6 Nc3]20...Nxc5 21.Qxd5! Ne6 22.Qxb7+– Qc8? [Having lost a pawn and still in a hopeless position, black boldly tosses a second pawn in the hope of getting some counter-play!]23.Qxc8?! [White declines the second pawn as he looks for a safe, tension free victory. He could cap-ture the second pawn without giving black any counter-play: 23.Qxe7! Qc2 24.a3 Rc8 25.Rb7 black has nothing to show for being two pawns down.]23...Rxc8 24.Rb4!

After winning a pawn and exchanging off queens, white does not go easy on his op-ponent. Now the pressure is on the a4 pawn.]24...Ra8 25.Nc4 Nc7 26.Nb6 Rb8 27.a3! e6 28.Nxa4 Ra8 [Thus, black gets back one of his two pawns, but it leads to other advantages for white.]29.Nc5 [This gives back the second pawn with-out a fight. But it is stronger than 29.g4 Nd5 30.Rc4 Bf8 31.g5 Kg7 and black is ready to capture a3.]29...Rxa3 30.Rb8+ Bf8 31.g3 Ra8 32.Rb7! [White is aware that an extra pawn in an ending is not always a winning advantage and plays for more complications and an easier win. He has f7 as a potential target.]32...Rc8 [32...Na6 would lead to a much worse game: 33.Ne4! Bg7 34.Nfg5 f5 35.Nxe6 Bxd4 36.N4g5!+– Black's po-sition is in ruins.]33.Ne5 Bxc5 34.dxc5 Nd5 35.e4 [35.c6 also wins: 35...f6 36.Nd7 Rxc6 37.e4 Ne7 38.Nxf6+ Kg7 39.Nxh7!+–]35...Nc3 36.c6 Nxe4 37.c7 Nd6 38.Rb6! Nf5 39.Rb8 Ne7 [39...Nd6?? 40.Nc4!+–]40.Nc6! Kg7 [Black escapes the pin along the first rank by sacrificing his knight.]41.Nxe7 Rxc7 42.Nc8 Kf6?! [Diagram # Black has a pawn for white's knight. His strategy to draw would be to exchange off his four pawns for white's three pawns so that the resultant R+N versus R endgame is drawn. One idea would be to leave the king on g7 in the middle of his pawns, keep his rook along the 2nd rank guarding f7 and maybe move only one pawn, his g pawn to g5 and wait for the white pawns' assault. Here, the Iranian plays 'actively' and makes white's task easier. White's winning strategy would be to chip away at the black position with mating threats whenever possible and col-lecting pawns.]

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43.Nd6! Ke5? [43...Ke7 or ...Ra7 would not lose so quickly.]44.Ne8! [An excellent move preventing the black king from getting back into g7. Now he threatens 45 Rb5+ driving the king further into the middle of the board.]44...Rc5? [This natural move to guard against Rc5+ is unsound and loses a pawn. Best was to keep his rook along the second rank, guarding his f7 pawn. 44...Ra7]45.f4+ Ke4? [A more stubborn move which would also lose is: 45...Kd4 46.Nf6 h6 47.Rd8+ (White could also win with 47.Rb7 and 47 Rb4+. Check this out yourself and be personally ben-efited!) 47...Ke3 48.Ng4+ Ke4 (if 48...Kf3 49.Ne5+ Ke3 50.Nxf7 Rc1+ 51.Kg2 Rc2+ 52.Kh3) 49.Nxh6 Kf3 50.Rd3+ Ke2 51.Rb3+–]46.Nf6+ Kf5 47.Nxh7 Kg4 48.Nf6+ Kf5 [After 48...Kf3 49.Rb3+ Ke2 50.Kg2 white's win is certain.]49.Nd7 Rd5 50.Ne5 g5! [Black is doing his best to complicate the gameand survive.][If 50...f6 51.Nf3 Ke4 52.Kf2 Ra5 53.g4!? (a concealed, natural trap!) 53...Ra2+ (53...Kxf4?? 54.Rb4#) 54.Kg3 and white should win easily.]51.Nxf7 gxf4 5f4 Kxf4 53.Rb4+! Kf3 54.Rb3+ Kf4 55.Rg3 e5 56.Ng5 Rd1+ [If 56...e4 57.Nh3+ Ke5 58.Rg5+ Kd4 59.Rxd5+ Kxd5 and white wins comfortably.]57.Kg2 Rd2+ 58.Kh3 e4 59.Ne6+ Ke5 60.Nc5 Kf4

61.Ne6+ [61.Rg8 e3 62.Rf8+ Ke5 63.Re8+ Kf4 64.Ne6+ Kf3 65.Rf8+ Ke4 66.Kg3 e2 67.Ng5+ Kd3 68.Nf3+–]61...Ke5 62.Nf8 Kd4 63.Ng6 e3 64.Rg4+! Kc3 65.Re4 [Remember that a rook always belongs be-hind the passed pawn.]65...Kd3 66.Re8 Rf2 67.Kg3 Rf1 68.Ne5+ Ke2 69.Ng4 Rg1+ 70.Kf4 Rf1+ 71.Kg5 [White's h pawn is ready to role. He plans to sacrifice his knight for the e3 pawn.]1–0

Selected game from National Women Team Championships, BubaneshwarAnnotated by IN Manuel AaronAparajita,Gochhikar (1769)Srija,Seshadri (2145) [A00]

( Position after 27..... Bb8)28.Bb3? [White misses the winning var-iation: 28.Be4! Be5 29.Bxb7 Nc5 (29...Bxc3 30.Bf3! and black cannot stop b6-b7-b8=Q.) 30.Bc6 Nxd7 31.b7 Kf8 32.Rxd7 Rxd7 33.Bxd7 Ke7 34.Bc6 Kd8 35.Bd5 Kc7 36.c4± Though there are opposite colour bishop endings on the board, the black king is tied to the defence of the b8 square while the white king can move up and attack the black pawns. at will.] 28...Kg7 29.Rd5 Rc8 30.c4 Re8 [Now black is threatening 31....Nc5 and mate by 32 Re1# If 30...Rd8 31.Bd1 Rc8 32.Kf1+- The ;black rook must stay on the first rank,

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guarding his jailed bishoip.] 31.Kf1 f3 [Black's biggest problem is that her bishop is confined to b8 and cannot move to any square without being captured. If 31...g4 32.Bd1! g3 33.h4! Rc8 (33...Nf8 34.Nc5 Be5 35.Bf3 Bc3 36.Ne4 Bb4 37.fxg3 fxg3 38.Nxg3 Re6 39.Rb5 Nd7 40.Bg4! Re1+ 41.Kf2 Ne5 42.Bf5 Nxc4 43.Rxb4!) 34.Be2 Nd8 35.Rxa5 Bd6 36.Ra7 Bb4 37.a5 Nc6 38.a6?! Nxa7 (38...bxa6 39.Rc7!) 39.bxa7 bxa6 40.Nb6–+] 32.g3 g4 33.Nxb8? [With this hasty move, white converts her position from a winning one to an advantageous one. White inexplica-bly trades her dominating knight for the caged bishop to enable black to heave many sighs of relief. Better was: 33.Bc2 Rc8 34.Bd3 Ng5 35.Rd4 Rd8 36.Bf5 h5 37.Rd5 Ne6 38.h3 with a near winning advantage.] 33...Rxb8 34.Rxa5 Nd4 # White has won a pawn. But the black rook no longer has to support a pickled bishop on b8 and her knight is skipping around with a song in its heart. One can sense the tide is turning. 35.Ba2? [35.Bd1 Rc8 36.Ke1 Rc6 (36...Rxc4 37.Ra7 Ne6 38.Rxb7±) 37.Rd5 Rxc4 38.Rd7 Nc2+ 39.Kd2 Rd4+ 40.Rxd4 Nxd4] 35...Re8! 36.Rd5 Nc2 37.Rd1 Nb4 38.Bb3? [This gives opportunities for black to survive and even seize the advan-tage. A complicated and instructive varia-tion leading to a draw would be: 38.Bb1 h5 39.Rd7 Re2! 40.Rxb7 (40.a5 Rb2 41.Be4 Na6! 42.Rxb7 Ra2 43.Ke1 Re2+ 44.Kd1 Rxe4 45.Ra7 Nc5 46.b7 Rd4+ 47.Ke1 Rd8 48.a6 Nd3+ 49.Kd2 Nxf2+ 50.Kc2 Ne4 51.Ra8 Rd2+ 52.Kb3 f2! 53.b8Q (Not 53.Rg8+? Kf6 54.b8Q f1Q–+) 53...Nc5+ 54.Ka3 Rd3+ 55.Ka2 Rd2+ 56.Ka3 Rd3+ draw by repetition.) 40...Rb2 41.Bf5 Kf6! 42.Bh7 Kg7! draw by repetition. For if 43.Be4 Ra2 44.Ke1 Re2+ 45.Kd1 Rxe4 46.Rd7 Rxc4 47.b7 Na6=] 38...Re2

39.a5 [White is concerned about ...Rb2, eating the bishop alive. So she provides an escape square for her bishop at a4. If 39.Rd4 h5 40.c5 Rb2 41.Bd1 Rb1 42.h3 Kf6 43.hxg4 hxg4 44.Kg1 Ke5 45.Rd2] 39...Rb2 40.Ba4 Ra2 41.Bb3?

[This is too, too passive and loses. Better was to try to shatter black's pawn phalanx which is keeping her king a prisoner on the first rank with: 41.Bd7 Nd3! (41...h5 42.Bf5! Rxa5 43.Be4 and the ending is well balanced.) 42.Bxg4 Rxf2+ (42...Nxf2 43.Rd4 Nxg4 44.Rxg4+±) 43.Kg1 Rg2+ 44.Kf1 Rf2+ perpetual check draw.] 41...Ra3 42.Rb1 Rxa5 Thus black has got back her lost pawn and is keeping the upper hand in this end-ing. 43.Bd1 Nc6 44.Rb5? [This makes black's task easier. Stronger resistance, though futile, was offered by: 44.h3 f5 45.Ke1 Ne5 46.hxg4 fxg4 47.Bb3 Nd3+ 48.Kf1 Nc5 49.Bc2 Ra2 50.Bf5 h5 51.Ke1 Kf6 52.Rb5 (52.Bh7 Ra4 53.Bg8 Ne4µ 54.Bd5 Nc3 55.Rc1 Nxd5 56.cxd5 Ke5 57.Rc7 Ra1+ 58.Kd2 h4!–+) 52...Kxf5 53.Rxc5+ Ke4 54.Rxh5 Re2+ 55.Kd1 (55.Kf1 Rb2–+) 55...Rxf2 56.Rh7 Rf1+ 57.Kd2 Rg1!–+] 44...Ra1 45.Ke1 Rc1 46.c5 Nd4 47.Kd2?? [If 47.Ra5 Ne6µ] 47...Rxd1+ 0–1

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

5 6 Black to play and win Black to play and win

(solutions on p. )

 

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(Solutions on page )47

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Gurgenidze& Neidze 1973 Bondarenko&Kuznecov1973

1. 2.

Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1973 C.M.Bent 1973

3. 4.

Gurgenidze 1971 Neidze 1973

5. 6.

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

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Masters of the past-65 Hermann Pilnik

Hermann Pilnik (8 January 1914, Stuttgart, Germany – 12 November 1981, Caracas, Venezuela) was a German Argen-tine chess Grandmaster. In 1929, he won the championship of Stuttgart. Pilnik emigrated from Germany to Argentina in 1930. He first drew attention when he came in third (behind Alekhine and Najdorf) in a speed tournament in Buenos Aires in 1939. And, in the intervening years he improved greatly so that by the mid-1950s he was one of the ranking players in the world as evidenced by his qualifying for the Candidates Tournament in 1956.

He won the Argentine Championships in 1942, 1945 and 1958. Pilnik began his inter-national career in 1942, when he tied for 10-11th in New York, and tied for 2nd-3rd in Mar del Plata. In 1944, he tied for 1st with Miguel Najdorf in Mar del Plata. In July/August 1945, he took 3rd at the Hollywood Pan-American Tournament in Los Angeles. The event was won by Samuel Reshevsky. In 1951, he won in Beverwijk. In 1951/52, he won in Vienna. In 1952, he won in Belgrade. In 1954, he won in Stuttgart.

He played for Argentina in five Chess Olympiads. In 1950, he won individual gold medal playing at first reserve board (+6 −1 =3) and team silver medal at the 9th Chess Ol-ympiad in Dubrovnik. In 1952, he won team silver medal playing at fourth board (+6 −1 =7) at the 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki. In 1954, he won team silver medal playing at fourth board (+3 −2 =2) at the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam. In 1956, he played at fourth board (+7 −3 =3) at the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow. In 1958, he won team bronze medal playing at first board (+5 −2 =8) at the 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich.

He was awarded the IM title in 1950 and the GM title in 1952. Pilnik finished 10th (last place) at the Candidates Tournament at Amsterdam 1956 where he scored +1 -9 =8. His lone win was against Szabo who tied for third and he scored a draw and a loss against all the other players. The tournament was won by Smyslov. Chessmetrics assigned him his highest rating of 2670 in 1945. After FIDE ratings began to be published, Pilnik's rating hovered around the mid-2400s which put him about a hundred points below the world's best in those days. Pilnik eventually moved to Venezuela where he taught chess at the Caracas Military Academy. He passed away on November 12, 1981 at the age of 67 in Caracas.

Herman Pilnik - Miguel Najdorf [B15]Mar del Plata Mar del Plata (13), 19421.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.Qh5 g6 9.Qh4 c5 10.Ne2 Nc6 11.Bh6 f5 12.Bg5 Qb6 13.0–0 cxd4 14.cxd4 Re8 15.Bc4 h5 16.Rae1 Re4 17.Nf4 Qxd4 18.Rxe4 fxe4 19.Nxh5 gxh5 20.Bf6 Qc5 21.Rd1 Kf8 22.b4 Nxb4 23.Qg3 Bg4 24.Rxd6 Nd3 25.Bxd3 Qc1+ 26.Bf1 Rc8 27.h3 Qxf1+ 28.Kh2 Qc1 29.hxg4 hxg4 30.Qxg4 Qh6+ 31.Kg3 Rc3+ 32.f3 1–0

Courtesy: Wikipedia

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Brilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India Fide Rated Open Tournament, Gulbarga

Closing cermony: Chief Guest Dr.K V Ramanachari, IAS - Advisor - Culture, Edowments, Tourism, Youth and Media affairs - Telangana State Government gave away the prizes, Sri Kasireddy Narayana reddy, MLC & Correspondent - Brilliant Grammar high schools presided over the function. Dr. K Kanna reddy, secretary Hyderabad district chess association also sen in the picture. Matta Vinay kumar of Andhra Bank (in the center) won the event, S.V Srinatha rao of Maharastra (Left side) got second place and V Varun of Hyderabad (Right side) got third place.

Rapid eventBrilliant Trophy 1st Decade All India FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament was conducted from14th May-15th May 2016 at Brilliant Grammar high school, Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad.

Open event The event was inaugurated by Sri Kasireddy Narayana Reddy, MLC & Correspondent - Brilliant Grammar high schools. Sri A. Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President All India Chess Federation & President Telangana State Chess Association presided over the function. Dr. K Kanna reddy, secretary Hyderabad district chess association also sen in the picture.

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In photograph from Left to right: Mrs. Seema Kathmale, Mrs. Kanchan Pagay, Mrs. Laxmitai Shirgaokar, Mrs. Hematai Chougule, Mrs. Shraddha Shirgaokar, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Ms. Rucha Pujari (Champion receiving prize), Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar and Shri Nitin Shenvi.

12th Late Sou Meenatai Shirgaonkar Memorial International FIDE Rating Women's Chess Tournament, Sangli

49th Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaokar Mem. FIDE Rating Tmt,Sangli

Champion Sameer Kathmale received trophy by the hands of Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr. Kathmale.From Left to Right: Mrs. Kathmale, Mr. Nitin Shenvi, Dr. Kathmale, Dr. Prasad Kelkar, Dr. Santosh Kakade, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mr. Chintamani Limaye and Mrs. Kelkar.

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on p. 42

1.Paveto,K-Lagar,Valentin Alejo Mar del Plata ARG Mar del Plata ARG White to play. 16.Bb5+! axb5 [16...Bc6 17.Bxc6+ Qxc6 18.exf6 fxe6 (18...cxb2+ 19.Kb1+-) 19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.fxg7+-; 16...Qxb5 17.Nc7++-] 17.exf6 cxb2+ [17...Rxa2 18.Nc5+ Be7 19.Qd7+ Kf8 20.fxe7+ Kg8 21.e8Q+ Wins; 17...Bc8 18.Nxf8+ Kxf8 19.fxg7+ Kxg7 20.Qxc3+ Kh7 (20...Kg8 21.Re8+) 21.Qf6 Ra7 22.Rxd6+-] 18.Kb1 fxe6 19.Qxe6+ [19.Qxe6+ Kd8 20.fxg7+-] 1–0

2.Movsesian,S-Saltaev,M Bundesliga 2015–16 Muelheim GER (14.7), 23.04.2016White to play. 19.Rb8+! [19.Rb8+ Rxb8 (19...Kd7 20.Qb7#) 20.Qxb8+ Bxb8 (20...Kd7 21.Qb7+ Ke8 22.Qc8#) 21.Rd8#] 1–0

3.Jorgensen,D-Andersen,SoCopenhagen CC 2016 Ballerup DEN White to play. 25.Rxd6! [25.Bxf7 Qxf7 (25...Bf8 26.Bxe8 Bxh6 27.f7+ Bg7 28.Bxg7+ Kxg7 29.Rd7 Qxd7 30.fxg8Q+ Kxg8 31.Bxd7+-) 26.Rxd6+- Also wins] 25...Qxd6 26.Qg7+ Rxg7 27.fxg7+ [27.fxg7+ Kg8 28.Bxf7#] 1–0

4.Piorun,K-Boensch,UBundesliga 2015–16 Dresden GER White to play. 27.Bxb6! Rxb6 [27...Qb7 28.Na5! Qxb6 29.Bd5+ Be6 30.Bxe6+ Rxe6 31.Qf7+ Kh7 32.Rf3 g5 33.Qxe6 g4 34.Rf5 g6 35.Rf7+ Kh6 36.Qxg4+-; 27...Qxb6 28.Bd5+ Be6 29.Bxe6+ Rxe6 30.Qf7+ Kh7 31.Rf3+-] 28.Bd5+ Be6 29.Bxe6+ Rxe6 30.Qxf8+ Kh7 31.Rf7 1–0

5.Maiwald,JU-Mista,ABundesliga 2015–16 Dresden GER

Black to play 30...Nf3+! [Also winning is 30...Rh1+ 31.Nxh1 Nf3+ 32.gxf3 (32.Kf1 Rxh1+ 33.Ke2 Rxe1+ 34.Kd3 Ne5+ 35.Kc2 Nxc6–+) 32...Qh2+ 33.Kf1 gxf3 34.Ng3 Qh1+ 35.Nxh1 Rxh1#] 31.gxf3 [31.Kf1 Rh1+ 32.Nxh1 (32.Ke2 Rxe1+ 33.Kd3 Rxe3+–+) 32...Rxh1+–+] 31...Rh1+ [31...Rh1+ 32.Nxh1 (32.Kg2 R8h2#) 32...Qh2+–+] 0–16.Umarov,Rakhman - Kazhgaleyev,M 10th Agzamov Mem 2016 Tashkent Black to play. 39...Rxf5! 40.exf5 [40.Qb3+ c4! 41.Qxc4+ (41.Qa4 Rf6 42.Qxa7+ Ke6–+) 41...Ne6+–+] 40...Rxh3 [%csl Rg3][40...Rxh3 41.Qg1 (41.Qxg5 Rh1+ 42.Kf2 Nh3+–+) 41...Rxa3 Black threatens 42... Ra1+.The queen has no safe place to hide. 42.Kf2 (42.Qf2 Ra1+–+) 42...Nh3+–+] 0–1

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on p.43

1.Guegenidze and Neidze 19731.Nc1+ Kc4 2.Na3+ Kc3 3.Rxa2 Ra4,Rd1 4.Rxa1 Kb2 5.Rb1+, Ra2+ KxN 6.Rb3, Rc2 wins2.Bondarenko and Kuznecov 19721.Nb7 g1Q 2.Kxg1 Kg3 3.d8N h2+ 4.Kh1 Kg4 5.g6 Kh3 6.g7 h4 7.g8B wins

3.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 19731.Kd4 Nd2 2.Rd1 Nf3+ 3.Ke3 Kxg6 4.Bc2+ Kh5 5.Be4 Kg4 6.BxN BxB 7.Rg1+ wins

4.C.M.Bent 19731.Bf5 Bd8 2.Nd5+ Kf3 3.Nd4+ Kg3 4.Nc6 Nf7 5.Be6 Ng5 6.Bg8 wins

5.Gurgenidze 19731.Kf7 h2 2.g7 h1Q 3.g8N+ Kh5 4.Nf6+ Kh4 5.Be1+ Kh3 6.Nf4+ Kh2 7.Ng4+ Kg1 8.Bf2 mate

6. Neidze 19731.Qf2+ Ke6 2.Qxg2 Qe5+ 3.Kd3 Qxc5 4.Qg6+ Ke5 5.Qg5+ Kd6 6.Qf6# (4…Ke7 5.Qg7+ Ke6 6.Bd7+ Kd6 7.Qf8+ Kd5 8.Qf5 Kd6 9.Qe6#

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