Volume : 11 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 MAY 2016

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

Asian Youth Chess Championship, Mongolia

Harshita GuddantiUnder-15 Girls(Silver)

Iniyan PUnder-16(Silver)

Aaditya MittalUnder-10 (Bronze)

Khushi KandelwalUnder-14 Girls (Bronze)

R.Vaishali Under-16 Girls(Bronze)

Praggnanandhaa RUnder-12 (Gold)

Divya DeshmukhUnder-12 Girls (Gold)

Anwesha MishraUnder 14 Girls(Gold)

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From the Editor’s DeskOver the years India has been systematically producing an array of champions in youth events at National, Asian and World stages in both the girls and open sections. India’s latest haul of eight medals at the Asian Youth Chess Championships 2016 held in Mongolia last month included

three golds, two silver and three bronze medals. While Divya Deshmukh, Praggnanandhaa and Anwesh Mishra dominated their respective categories to win gold medals, Harshita Guddanti and Iniyan P bagged silver medals.Khushi Kandelwal, Aditya Mittal and Vaishali R won bronze in their categories. Considering the sterling performance earlier at the World Youth Championship last November this is slightly a below par performance largely due to crucial final round hiccups which cost us a few medals.

At the Hasselbacken Open, organized by one of the oldest chess clubs in the world founded in 1866 in Stockholm, Grandmaster Baskaran Adhiban tied for the first place with Andreikin Dmitry and was placed second on tie break. Reports on these events along with important decisions taken at the Central Council Meeting of the Federation held at Raipur on 9th April 2016 are featured in the centre pages of this issue.

From chess to cricket it is a unique sports journey for Yuzvendra Chahal, a thinking leg spinner and leading wicket taker for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL. Not many took notice when this Haryana youngster became under-12 National Champion at Kolkata way back in 2002 and went on to represent the country at the Asian and World Youth Chess an year later. His popularity soared after his recent exploits with the ball for RCB. Chess do help Chahal in plotting the downfall of many a batsman, it seems!

C.G.S.Narayanan

2nd Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, Puri Himal Gusain wins title by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter 1All India below 1800 FIDE Rating ChessTournament 2016, JalgaonVaibhav Raut of Nagpur Wins by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 6KC Sebastin Memorial 11th KCA FIDE Rated Tournament, Kottayam Saravanakrishnan wins title by IA R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 83rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial FIDE Rating Tmtl, Goa Ram S Krishnan wins at Goaby FA Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter 113rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Tmt (below 1800), PuriKatiyar Prashant is Champion by FA Anandh Babu VL IA, Chief Arbiter 14Maharashtra State Selection Women FIDE Rating Tmt, SangliRucha Pujari wins title by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 16Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open Rapid Fide Rating Tmt,GoaShyam Sundar winsby Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 19United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association Fide Rated Open Tmt, Calicut… Vinothkumar wins title by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 22Devnar Foundation for the Blind AICF B Open FIDE Rated National Tournament for the Blind, Hyderabad, Telangana Vijay Karia wins at Hyderabadby IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter 29More selected games from National Team Championships, BubaneshwarAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 31Two games from Asian Youth Chess ChampionshipsAnnotated by K.S.Raghunandan 38Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-64Filip Miroslav 44AICF Calendar 48

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T he 2nd Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, organ-ized by Triple’C’ Chess Club in asso-

ciation with District chess Association of Puri under the aegis of All Odisha Chess Association came to an end on 4th April 2016. Overall the tournament was incred-ibly hard fought, with battles, blunders, deep preparations, complete opening sur-prises and basically everything that fuels a fantastic event. Finally, Himal Gusain of Chandigarh was without a doubt the deserved winner.

The total prize fund for above captioned event was 5,05,050/- (Rupees Fivelacsfive thousand fifty only) which attracted 236 participants from 18 States& 3 Special Units(Andhra Pradesh-35, Assam – 3, Bihar-2, Chandigarh-1, Gujarat-1, Hary-ana-1, J&K-1, Jharkhand-10, Karnataka – 2, Kerala – 1, Maharshtra-11, Madhya Pradesh-1, Odisha-57, Punjab – 3, Telen-gana – 8, Tripura – 1, Uttar Pradesh -1), Telengana-5, Tamilnadu-14, WB-20) and 03 Special units (AIR ANDIA – 1, KIIT – 2, LIC – 2) with the average ELO 1606, one Women Grandmaster, 8 International Mas-ters, 1 FIDE Master, 1 Women FIDE Master, 1 Candidate Master & 1 Women Candidate Master with total 42 Women participated in the tournament. IM Dipatayan Ghosh, 2562 of West Bengal was the top seed.

Triple ‘C’ Chess Club, District Chess Association of Puri and All Odisha Chess Association made this tournament a grand success, which will go a long way in

creating awareness and popularising chess and for giving chance to all top ranking players to show off their talents without any sponsor.

The tournament’s inaugural Ceremony was held at 12:30 hrs on 2nd April ‘16 by Chief Guest :Sj. Pradyumna Mishra, Vice President, District Chess Association of Puri by moving the piece on top board. The entire team of Triple ‘C’ Chess Club-Sj. Kamalakanta Bisoi, President, Biswa-jit Ray, Vice President, Biranchi Narayan Sahoo, Secretary & Jt. Secretary) & District Chess Association of Puri-Sj. Pradyumna Mishra, Vice President, DCAP, PrabasiniRoutray, Jt. Secy, DCAP, other members of DCAP were Subhashree Das, UnmeshNandiniSahoo, Member, Swa-dhinMohanty, Parthasarathy Satpathy, Gagan Behari Routray, present.

Only three players were leading before the final round. Finally, HimalGusain, 2429 of Chandigarh emerged champion by defeating IM CRG Krishna of AP scor-ing 8 points (1 point lead) to took away the top prize of `50,000/-. In Board no. 2 IM Himanshu Sharma, 2384 of Haryana defeat IM Diptayan Ghosh and became the runner-up with 7.5 points. Abhishek Das, 2241 of Jharkhand grab the 3rd prize by defeating IM AnupDshmukh of LIC. Many upsets started from the 2nd Round onwards. Out of 26 unrated players 12 will get the new rating in the month of May. Six players’have increased more than 100 rating points.

2nd Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, Puri

Himal Gusain wins titleIA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter

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In the valedictory ceremony the Chief Guest was Sj. Uddhab Charan Majhi, ADM, Puri, Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on the last day were Sri Rabi Narayan Samantray, Proprietor, Rumani Hotel; Sri Kamalkanta Bisoi, President, Triple ‘C’ Chess Club; Sri Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Hony. Secy, District Chess Associ-ation of Puri, Sri Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Jt. Secy, All Odisha Chess Association; Sri Biswajit Ray, Vice President, Triple ‘C’ Chess Club; Sri Arghya Arpan Parida, Jt. Secy. Triple ‘C’ Chess Club.The Press and Media covered the event very well. With-out any dispute the tournament ended successfully.

The Chief Arbiter for the Event was In-ternational Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sa-hoo ably assisted by FA Anandh Babu VL, Tamilnadu, FA Biswanath Banerjee, WB and National Arbiter Bhabesh Mohanty of Odisha.

Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 Gusain Himal 82 IM Himanshu Sharma 7½3 Abhishek Das 7½4 IM Swayams Mishra 75 IM Krishna C R G 76 IM Ghosh Diptayan 77 Arpan Das 78 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 79 Kadav Omkar 710 Debarshi Mukherjee 711 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 712 IM Deshmukh Anup 6½13 Bhattacharya Niladri S 6½14 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 6½15 Rajarshi Dutta 6½16 Barath Kalyan M 6½17 Prasannaa.S 6½

18 Yohan J. 6½19 IM Suvrajit Saha 6½20 Lakshmi NarayananM V 6½21 Nath Rupankar 6½22 Nayak Rajesh 6½23 Santu Mondal 6½24 Lakshmanrao D. 6½25 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 626 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 627 Srijit Paul 628 Kaustuv Kundu 629 Panigrahi Manoj Kumar 630 CM Aronyak Ghosh 631 Harshini A 632 Pimpalkhare Vedant 633 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 634 Baivab Mishra 635 Soumma Chakraborty 636 Raghav Srivathsav V 637 Shubham Shukla 638 Dheekshith Kumar R 639 Sarbojit Paul 5½40 Soham Das 5½41 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 5½42 Saptorshi Gupta 5½43 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 5½44 Sharma Pankaj 5½45 Koustav Chatterjee 5½46 Sayan Banik 5½47 Sumit Grover 5½48 Smaraki Mohanty 5½49 Manish Kumar (2006) 5½50 Sumit Kumar 5½51 Shubham 5½52 Sayantan Chandra 5½53 Binayak Rath 5½54 Sunyasakta Satpathy 5½55 Ghosh Samriddhaa 5½56 Sayantan Mukherjee 5½57 Tarun V Kanth 5½58 Ajinkya Pingale 5½59 S Maralakshikari 5½60 Das Susobhit 5½

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Know your Arbiter Pranesh YadavPranesh Yadav, born on 18th April 1964, is an International Arbiter from Shimoga, Karnataka. He became National Arbiter after passing examination in 2003 held in Bangalore and took the title of International Arbiter in 2005 and since then he has worked as an Arbiter in many FIDE rated tournaments and State championships. He learnt chess at the age of 18 and started playing a few rated tournaments and is an Arena FIDE Master (AFM) with a FIDE rating of 1562. Srikrishna Udupa was his mentor in chess coaching and Pranesh later started his own institute “Yadava School of Chess” and is coaching in rural districts in Chikmagalore and Shimoga. He has authored three chess books for

beginners, namely, Basic Chess, Short Games and Check Mate in 2 to 3 moves and two more books in Kannada for school teachers titled ‘Pairing Method’ and ‘Chess Mar-gadarshi’. He holds a diploma in Pharmacy and was working as a paramedical worker in Health Department from 1990. The following is a list of tournaments he arbitrated

Arbiter Name of Event Year&month Chief 3rd National Amateur Championship,2014 Dec 2014 Chief National Cities July2012 Chief National Under - 25 Chess Championship Nov 2011 Chief 23rd National Under - 9 Open Championship Sep 2009 Deputy 46th National A Chess Championship, India Apr 2009 Chief XXIth National Under 11 Boys Championship Jan 2008 Chief XXIth National Under 11 Girls Championship Jan 2008 Chief Unique Chess Academy All India FIDE Rapid Rating Tmt Nov2014 Chief Prime Squares Chess Academy's FIDE rtg below 2000 Oct 2014 Chief Prime Squares Chess academy fide rating Oct2014 Chief Fomento All India Under 2200 FIDE Rating Chess Tmt Oct2014 Deputy Nalanda cup FIDE Rating below 2000 Jun2014 Chief QTCA FIDE Rated Rapid Chess tmt Feb2014 Chief 05th RSC International Rating Chess tmt Dec2012 Chief UKCA Cup All India FIde Rated Oct 2012 Chief All India Open FIDE Rated at Shivamoga Aug2012 Deputy 2nd MDCA All India Open FIDE Rated Jul 2012 Chief Ramit Memorial FIDE Rating All India Open May2012 Chief Curchorem Chess Club Fide Rating below 2000 Mar2012 Deputy Rated Tournament Below 2200 Rating Jan2012 Chief All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt(For Below 2000 Rtg) Jan2012 Deputy 05th Mangalore International FIDE Rating Sep2011 Chief PESITM, Shivamogga Karnataka Sep2011 Chief 1st DDCA All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt (Below 2200) Sep2010 Chief All India Open FIDE Rtg Tournament- Udhampur (J&K) Oct2008 Chief South Kanara District State Open FIDE Rated U-15 Ch Oct2008 Deputy Mangalore FIDE Rated All India Open Chess Tmt Oct2007 Chief 2nd Malleshwaram Association Karnataka State Ch’ship Jul2007 Chief 01st Calicut Chess Academy Apr2007 Chief 1st All India Open FIDE Rat. Tnmt R.9 Jan2007

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2nd Syna Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Katni

Niklesh Kumar Jain, the winner GM Swapnil Dhopade, IM Anup Deshmukh and Himal Gusain with the SYNA School principal.2nd Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, Puri

Tournament Hall

(L-R) Third place- Abhishek Das of Jharkand, Champion Himal Gusain of Chandigarh and Runner-up IM Himanshu Sharma of Haryana with Officials

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61 Sandip Dey 5½62 Rounak Pathak 5½63 Rohan Bharat Joshi 5½64 Subhasis Barik 5½65 Sanket Chakravarty 5½66 Parichha Sk 5½67 Biswajit Chatterjee 5½68 Souradip Deb 5½69 Panda Sambit 5½70 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 571 Mukherjee S.K. 572 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 573 Subba Raju S. 574 WCM Salonika Saina 575 Sradhanjali Jena 576 Kumari Rama 577 Mohite Ranveer 578 Anurag Jaiswal 579 Haldar Ajoy 580 Md Monir Hossain 581 Pattnayak Nilsu 582 Kar Satyabrata 583 Devansh Ratti 584 Roneet Das 585 Jishitha D 586 Sai Kiran Y 587 Rajesh Kumar 588 Sonkalan Bharati 589 Natarajan M 590 Subramanian V 591 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 592 Sandhya G 593 Balachandar E 594 Sounak De (1) 595 Arpan Das (jr) 596 Aasha C R 597 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 598 Ambarish Sharma 599 Sahoo Dasharathi 5100 Kumtakar Deepak 5101 Vallabh Kavi 5102 Lochan Kumar Das 5103 Tanya Pandey 5

104 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5105 Bose Sayan 4½106 Pankaj Sindhu 4½107 Karmakar Ramen 4½108 Keerthi Srinath K 4½109 Rindhiya V 4½110 Dikshant Dash 4½111 Mehendi Sil 4½112 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 4½113 Sudipta Chakraborty 4½114 Pranav Anand 4½115 Panda Raj Santosh 4½116 Vignesh R 4½117 Prasannakumar Nayak 4½118 Nilesh Jindal 4½119 Behera Biswaranjan 4½120 Mishra Anisha 4½121 Patra Subhendu Kumar 4½122 Avijaan Roy Choudhury 4½123 Megha Mondal 4½124 Bidisha Roy 4½125 Rudranarayan 4½126 Pabitra Mukherjee 4½127 Prasanta Mondal 4½128 Ashwani Kumar Grover 4129 Nitheesh Pothireddy 4130 Abhay Bandewar 4131 Manideep Mukhi 4132 MLakshminarayan 4133 Ifthikar Ahammad S 4134 Sambarta Banerjee 4135 Sahoo Ankush 4136 Sivasubramanian S 4137 Atul Bihari Sharan 4138 Swapan Kumar Das 4139 Samip Roy 4140 Mohanty Aditya A 4141 Bristy Mukherjee 4142 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 4143 Bisoi K.K. 4144 Arijit Mukherjee 4145 Barik Jagdish 4s

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A ll India below 1800 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016 was or-ganized byJalgaon District Chess

Association jointly with Jain Sports Acad-emy under the aegis ofMaharshtra Chess Association, from 17 th April to 22nd April, 2016. at ChatrapatiShivajiKridaSankul, Jalgaon. The Total Number of participants were 137 including 1 AIM. The total tally of rated players were 91.

Inauguration Function was skipped due to sudden demise in sponsor’s family.Tournament started at 11.30 am, on 17 th April 2016.

Third Seed Vaibhav Raut of Nagpur, clinched the title of the tournament. He beat Saumil Nair of Gujrat in the last round of the game to score 9 points out of 10. GajananJayade of Mumbai secured 2nd place with 8.5 points in the tourna-ment.Vaibhav won 9 games and tasted 1 defeat against 2nd seed and his nearest rivalGajananJayade in 6th round.At the end of 5th round GajananJayade and Vaib-hav Rout both leading thetournament with 5 points each. In 6th round Gajanan Beat Vaibhav to takethe sole lead. At the end of penultimate round both again sharedthe lead with 8 points each. In the last round Gajanan drew his game withKale Harshal and had to remain satisfied with 2nd po-sition. BimalGohel of Gujrat, Kale Harshal ofAurangabad, PatilKetan of Jalgaon and Akhilesh Nagare of Nashiksecured 3rd to 6th positionsrespectively.

The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shri. NitinLaddha, Mayor Jalgaon.Other guests present were, Shri. Faruk Shaikh, Jt. Secretary MCA, Shri. RajeshChaudhari, Shri. RajumamaBhole, MLA, Shri. N J Ga-diya, Secretary JDCA, Smt.SunandaPatil, DSO Jalgaon, Shri. PravinThakare, Organ-izing Secretary and IASwapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter.

Rk Name Pts1 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 92 Gajanan Jayde 8½3 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 7½4 Kale Harshal V 7½5 Patil Ketan Anil 7½6 Nagare Akhilesh 7½7 Saumil Nair 78 Thakare Seeya 79 Chavan Vivek 710 Rathi Dhanashree 711 Wankhede Avishkar 712 Deshpande Jatin N AIM 713 Venkatesan A N 714 Bhagyashree Patil 715 Dashputre Ravindra 716 Nikam Sudhanshu 717 Vamsi Krishna R 718 Phadnis Adwait 719 Pawar Rahul 6½20 Lakhotiya Om 6½21 Borse Pankaj 6½22 Dewang Kalpesh 6½23 Tanuj M. Meshran 6½24 Waikar Varun 6½25 Patil T S 6½26 Pitale Kiran 6½

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Vaibhav Raut of Nagpur WinsIA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter

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27 Pawar Pravin S. 6½28 Omkar Paldhe 6½29 Tayade Vivek 6½30 Spandan P Seth 631 Gouravkumar Nanwani 632 Pimpale Dhananjay 633 Kasar Prashant 634 Shantharam K 635 Tiwari Somdutt 636 Bhagare Abhishek 637 Karankar Padmakar 638 Pathe Sankalp 639 Suryawanshi Vijay 640 Kolambe Yash 641 Kothari Pranit 642 Vraj N Shah 643 Agrawal Uttaransh 644 Ladhe Mohit 6

45 Borase Manoj 5½46 Borse Ketan 5½47 Athalye Varad 5½48 Kotkar Sunil 5½49 Patil Rohit R 5½50 Soni Piyush 5½51 Dhangar Akash 5½52 Deshmukh Chandrashekar 5½53 Borse Umesh Suresh 5½54 Birla Sarvesh 5½55 Shaikh Sahil 5½56 Ankush Raktade 557 Kasar Gunvant 558 Firke Yash 559 Amale Bharat 560 Purkar Shreyas 561 Kagde Shushrut 562 Ashar Parth 563 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo 564 Dodeja Mann 565 Rajput Vilas 566 Badgujar Vaibhav 567 Naik Chinmay 568 Jain Nakul 5

69 Satra Devansh 570 Padave Rupesh 571 Mahajan Mokshada D 572 Milind B Naik 573 Amale Kalpesh 574 Rathi Anubha 575 Sani Deshpande 576 Tayade Arvind 4½77 Kishor Ril 4½78 Ishwar Ramteke 4½79 Avathanshu Bhat 4½80 Borade Sagar 4½81 Kant Swapnil 4½82 Chandurkar Bhalchandra 4½83 Kukreja Neelam 4½84 Binwani Tushar 4½85 Agrawal Mehul Anupkumar 4½86 Patil Parth 4½87 Ganesh A Wagh 4½88 Rathi Anay Anup 4½89 Pise Prashant 4½

90 Gunjalkar Vijay 4½91 Maheshwari Krishna 4½92 Kotkar Suhas 4½93 Bothara Navkaar 4½94 Bante Utkarsh 4½95 Biyani Pawan 496 Mahale Tanmay 497 Pawar Anjali 498 Jain Hemant 499 Bhatia Jugal 4100 Chaudhari Pragalbh 4101 Arjun J Chitlange 4102 Tare Mukul 4103 Sadafale Aaditya 4104 C Utkarsh Shailesh 4105 Sitlani Lokesh 4106 Bidkar Nikhil 3½107 Deshpande Ishan M 3½108 Vaishnav Abhijit 3½109 Himanshu Jethwani 3½110 Kolhe Shruti 3½

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K arippaparambil KC Sebastin Me-morial 11th KCA FIDE Rated Chess Tournament was organised by Kot-

tayam Chess Academy, in association with CMS College, Kottayam. CMS College, the oldest college in India, which is poised to celebrate bicentennial celebrations next year. It has also the distinction of organ-ising many chess tournaments, including National Premier championship in 2013. The tournament, with the distinction of providing the highest prize money (in fide rated tournaments) of rupees six and a half lakhs, attracted 386 players from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Goa, UP and Pondicherry. International mas-ter Kathmale Sameer of Central Railways headed the players list, followed by N. Lokesh of Tamil Nadu.

In the second round of the tournament, former national blitz champion Ram S Krishnan of BSNL was held to a draw by L Srihari of Pondicherry. Third round witnessed two more draws, IM R Balas-ubramanian of ICF conceding a draw to PL VIgnesh Kasi of TN and Godson Merl in E forcing a draw with highly rated Sammed Jayakumar Shete of Maharashtra. K Srikanth of Services Board drew with second seeded Lokesh in the fifth round, reducing the number of leaders to six – Kathmale, of ICF, Muraleedharan MB of Kerala, Saravana Krishnan P of TN, Arjun K of Kerala, Phoobalan P of ICF and Maheswaran P of Tamil Nadu.

Saravana Krishnan, working for KarurVy-sya Bank, defeated former Indian player MB Muralidharan of Kerala to emerge sole leader, as the other two top board games featuring the leaders were drawn.

He maintained his perfect score of 7 points from seven rounds by beating N. Lokesh of TN, followed by Sameer Kathmale and SammedJeyakumarShete of Maharashtra, with 6.5 points each. Results witnessed a topsyturvy, when hitherto leader Sar-avankrishnan was beaten by Kathamale Sameer, enabling the latter to snatch the leadwith 7.5 points and he was followed by five players with 7 points each at the end of the eighth and penultimate round. In the final round, Saravanakrishnan defeated Sammed Jayakumar Shete of Maharashtra and J Yohan of Kerala de-feated his state mate K. Arjun to tie for the first place, along with Kathmale, who was held to a draw by P. Maheswaran of Postal Services.

Tiebreak favoured Saravana Krishnan to clinch the tile and Kathmale finished sec-ond. A prize money of Rs.6,51,000, the highest prize for a rated tournament in South India was distributed to the partic-ipants, with a first prize of Rs.60,000/-. The tournament was well organised by Kottayam Chess Academy and CMS Col-lege. Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal of CMS College, KunhiMoideen, President of Chess Association Kerala were the chief guests for the final day function. Sri.Thiruvan-jurRadhakrishnan, Honourable Minister

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Saravanakrishnan wins titleby IA R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

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for Sports, Transport and Forest, Kerala Government inaugurated the tournament, in the presence of Joshi Mathew, Chari-chitra Academy Director.Rk Name Club Pts1 Saravana Krishnan P. KVB 82 Yohan J. KER 83 Kathmale Sameer CRLY 84 Ramakrishna J. AB 7½5 Raju O A KER 7½6 Maheswaran P. TN 7½7 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 7½8 Muralidharan M.B. KER 79 Nithin Babu KER 710 R Balasubramaniam ICF 711 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 712 Arjun K KER 713 Lokesh N. TN 714 Phoobalan P. ICF 715 Abhishek T M KER 716 Prasannaa.S TN 717 Kumar S. TN 718 Tarun Kanyamarala TEL 719 Sabarish V TN 720 Saranya J TN 6½21 Srikanth K. IAF 6½22 Dileep Kumar R TN 6½23 Manu David Suthandram R TN 6½24 Badrinath S. PON 6½25 Godson Merlin E TN 6½26 Balaji P TN 6½27 Madhusoodanan K.R. KER 6½28 Vijay Anand M. TN 6½29 Karthik P M TN 6½30 Chandar Raju KER 6½31 Patil Ketan MAH 6½32 Joy Lazar M.A. KER 6½33 Karan J P KER 6½34 Pramod K K KER 6½35 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 6½36 Alex Thomas K. KER 6½37 Sudipta Chakraborty WB 6½38 Bala Kannamma P TN 6½

39 Mohammed Dilshad KER 6½40 Sanjay S Pillai KER 6½41 Narendran V TN 6½42 Venkataramana P 643 Francis N. P. KER 644 Gowtham K K TN 645 Subramanian V TN 646 Prince Mundakayam KER 647 Lenin A G TN 648 Balasubramanian A. TN 649 Subash Mathivanan TN 650 Thomas Nidhin V V KER 651 Sachin Nayak K KAR 652 Raj Kamal S TN 653 Jinan Jomon KER 654 Aasha C R TN 655 Vignesh Kasi P L TN 656 Umashankar A 657 Arun J TN 658 Ithal H L Rajath 659 Sooraj M R KER 660 Akshay Madhusoodhanan KER 661 Vivekananda L KAR 662 Vignesh R TN 663 Dheekshith Kumar R TN 664 Yutesh P TN 665 Raju S TN 666 Mohanan U.C. KER 667 Subramanian T.V. TN 668 Vangala Prashanth TEL 669 Reetish Padhi KAR 670 Anwar N K KER 5½71 Nandhini Saripalli GOA 5½72 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 5½73 Balaji M TN 5½74 Aswin Kumar B S TN 5½75 Prasath K R TN 5½76 Abhiram Sudheesh KER 5½77 Thirunaga Sundaram S TN 5½78 Fathima Abdeen KER 5½79 Gautham B KER 5½80 Sathishkumar L TEL 5½81 Sibi Visal R TN 5½

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82 Kishore Dev S. KER 5½83 Dinesh K K KER 5½84 Amit Panchal MAH 5½85 Stephen Raj A KAR 5½86 Kabhilan S TN 5½87 Thaga Sheriff M TN 5½88 Benjamin Varghees Issac KER 5½89 Aryagopal KAR 5½90 Shalon Joanne Pais KAR 5½91 Suriya S V TN 5½92 Krishnamurthy S TN 5½93 Mansoor C M KER 5½94 Anirban Basu WB 5½95 Shine S J KER 5½96 Jadi Kishan TEL 5½97 Srihari L PUD 5½98 Menon Padmanand MAH 5½99 Ananthakrishnan B KER 5½100 Mythireyan P TN 5½101 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 5½102 Binoy Chacko KER 5½103 Rajith V. LIC 5½104 Vivek Vinod KER 5½105 Anil Kumar S KER 5½106 Gnanasabesan G TN 5½107 Shane V Jose KER 5½108 Sharath E. TN 5½109 Sahithya G TEL 5½110 Joseph T K KER 5½111 Bindu Saritha K. LIC 5½112 Ananthapadmanabh D V KER 5½113 Jos Paul Davis KER 5114 Chandra Sekharan A P AP 5115 Lakshmanan K A KER 5116 Unnikrishnan M A KER 5117 Arijith M KER 5118 Ismail P TN 5119 Aravindaswami T TN 5120 Rapalli Krishna IAF 5121 Prince K V KER 5122 Krishna Raaju J TN 5123 Gokulraj K TN 5124 Sumesh Kabeer KER 5

125 Ershad P KER 5126 Jayakumar P K KER 5127 Gunaseelan V A KER 5128 Shamkumar Malayil MAH 5129 Antony Simethy KER 5130 Sunildutt KER 5131 Aruna Dinakara KAR 5132 Shreyas P Vijay TN 5133 Sidharth A Kumar KER 5134 Marimuthu K TN 5135 Prabhu R V KER 5136 Roshan S TN 5137 Mohammed Fasal V U KER 5138 Ashish Thomas Alex KER 5139 Saket Kumar KAR 5140 Deota Snehil S KAR 5141 Karthik Shetty KAR 5142 Benasir M TN 5143 Hari Suresh KER 5144 Rejith Babu C KER 5145 Syed Sadathullah KER 5146 Tejasvi M TN 5147 Abhinessh S TN 5148 Gautham Prasanth KER 5149 Shiva Chethan Halamane KAR 5150 Naveen K TN 5151 Basant N MAH 5152 Athul Jyothish A KER 5153 Jolly V P KER 5154 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 5155 Gabriel B M KER 5156 Prem Krishna N KER 5157 Aravinth Shanmugam S TN 5158 Aji Kumar A KER 5159 Komal Srivatsav Sajja KAR 5160 Shanjay Krishnaa Sathiskumar TN 5161 Adhidev K P KER 5162 Nivekithan S TN 5163 Arnav Agrawal KAR 5164 Ahalya A TN 5165 Nandhini R TN 5166 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra TN 5167 Shankarasubbu B TN 5

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3 rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Me-morial FIDE Rating chess Tmt at Man-geshi, Mardol, Goa was conducted

from 25th to 28th April 2016. The 4 day tournament attracted 234 entries and was conducted in an 8 round Swiss format, with two rounds per day. The event carried a prize pool of Rs. 1,50,000/- in cash.

The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. Anil Desai and Rajendra Desai was the chief guest for the prize distribution Cer-emony. Rajendra Desai gave away the prizes.

GM Laxman RR was the top seed. IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam, FM Ram-akrishna J, WCM Swera Ana Braganca and WCM Chopdekar Gunjal were the other titled players who took part in this event. 150 players were FIDE Rated, 59 players were female and 3 players were above 60 years. 5 year old Miss Shriya Patil is the Youngest Player and 82 years old Mr. Subramanian T V is the oldest player of the tournament.

The event was organized by Ponda Taluka Chess Association, Ponda, Goa. The event attracted local players and benefited local talents. Players from 8 states (DEL, GUJ, GOA, KAR, KER, MAH, TEL AND TN) took part in this event.

There were 4 players (Ram S Krishnan, GM RR Laxman, Ramnathan Balasubramaniam and Mukund G Bhat) tied with 7 points at the end of 8 rounds and finally Ram S

Krishnan Emerged as the Champion of the tournament with a better tie break score. He lost GM RR Laxman in the 7th round.Final standings:Rk Name Pts1 Ram S. Krishnan 72 Laxman R.R GM 73 R Balasubramaniam IM 74 Mukund G. Bhatt 75 Ramakrishna J. FM 6½6 Gajanan Jayde 6½7 Ritviz Parab 68 Audi Ameya 69 Joshi Tejas 610 Chandar Raju 611 Bavankumar 612 Bachikar Girish 613 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 614 Parsekar Anirudh 615 Krishnamoorthy K 616 Ramesh Kumar N 617 Dias Aston 618 Gaude Sachin 619 Thaga Sheriff M 620 Subba Raju S. 5½21 Subramanian V 5½22 Benasir M 5½23 Ithal H L Rajath 5½24 Suriya S V 5½25 S Ana Braganca WCM 5½26 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 5½27 Aryagopal 5½28 Kartik Kumar Singh 5½29 Kuncolienkar Shivank 5½30 Madhavan G 5½31 Harish S 5½32 Kavish Gharse 5½33 Thorat Aishwarya 5½

3rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial FIDE Rating Tournament, Mardol, Goa

Ram S Krishnan wins at GoaFA Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter

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34 Shirodkar Aayush 5½35 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5½36 Prithvi Rajan 5½37 Chopdekar Gunjal 538 Madkaikar Gaurav S 539 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 540 Deepthi Lakshmi K 541 Morajkar Navin 542 Ayush Ramchandra S 543 Sawant Vignesh 544 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 545 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 546 Milind Gauns 547 Audi Saiesh 548 Prabhu Yash 549 Subramanian T.V. 550 Sahil Shetty 551 Urvi Bandekar 552 Arumugam N 553 Colaco Vernon Jesus 554 Pankaj Bhat 555 Nachiketh Adiga 556 Devaraja G 557 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 558 Eesh Prabhudesai 559 Mahesh A Shetti 560 Salunke Pramod 561 Shaik Faryaz 562 Ishani Bhat 563 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 564 Datta Bhika Naik 565 Wagle Aakash Abhay 4½66 Avaneeshwar Guin 4½67 Swayam Naik 4½68 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 4½69 Fadte Rudresh 4½70 Barde Om 4½71 Devesh Anand Naik 4½72 Thorat Sanjay 4½73 Sharath R Shanbhag 4½74 Tejas Cavale 4½75 Soham Naik 4½76 Alaya Vella D Cruz 4½

77 Sahil Dayanand Desai 4½78 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½79 Shridevi Kote 4½80 Keshavendra Mishra 4½81 Aniket Datta Prabhu 4½82 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 4½83 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 4½84 Kaushal Mangaldas Naik 4½85 Bhobe Harsh 4½86 Sangaokar Yogiraj 4½87 Kruti G 4½88 Abhisheki Shravani 4½89 Naroji Sanskriti 4½90 Parab Sneh 4½91 Ramesh Murugesan 4½92 Soundariya Lakshmi G 4½93 Colaco Reuben 4½94 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 4½95 Naik Snehal 4½96 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 4½97 Varun R Shastry 4½98 Yash Manoj Upadhye 4½99 Pai Vishwesh 4½100 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4½101 Panchami Sarpangala 4102 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 4103 Varad Devari 4104 Bir Yogesh Pai 4105 Gaayathri S 4106 Pednekar Sagar 4107 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 4108 Anvesh Bandekar 4109 Rutik Shanbhag 4110 Ved Gurudatt Patil 4111 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 4112 Bharadwaj Rahul 4113 Sanat Borkar 4114 Vishnu Sridhar 4115 Reagan Aaron Rodrigues 4116 Dhaimodkar Anish 4117 Prabhugaonkar Advika 4118 Naik Saish Harishchandra 4119 Ghosarwadkar Vaishnavi 4

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120 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 4121 Abhijit Datta Prabhu 4122 Vibhuti S Dessai 4123 Akhil K Savaikar 4124 Diukar Tushar 4125 Anchit Ajeet Naik 4126 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 4127 Soham Anil Dhuri 4128 Naik Sayuri 4129 Sushruth S Bhat 4130 Aakash Rajan 4131 Shubhang Hudekar 4132 Swayam Kamat B 4133 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 3½134 Saidas D Fotto 3½135 Akhil Naik 3½136 R Abendhra Ramesh 3½137 Yash Paul 3½138 Prashant Salvi 3½139 Vinayak Thevar 3½140 Nadkarni Saniya 3½141 Kakodkar Love 3½142 Charuta J Shetye 3½143 Saraf Harsh 3½144 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 3½145 Srilaxmi Kamat 3½146 Ammar Lashkarwale 3½147 Kakodkar Joy 3½148 Ameya Ashok Kamat 3½149 Parsekar Aditya 3½150 Vaibhav M N Gaunekar 3½151 Sainee N F Dessai 3½152 Nischal Parulekar 3½153 Dion Lourenco 3½154 Sathvik Ashok Kerkar 3½155 Naik Saksham Sandesh 3½156 Dhrithi Murgod 3½157 Maruti Ganesh Naik 3158 Bhargav Suraj Chari 3159 Kundaikar Rounak 3160 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 3161 Medhaj Amshekar 3162 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 3

163 Aishwarya Kadamb 3164 Cyrus Gomes 3165AsfiyaLashkarwale 3166 Divya Dinesh Gawde 3167 Calantha Gomes 3168 Ghatwal Tushar Samir 3169 Dhruv S Jalmi Velingkar 3170 Karmalkar Dipshika 3171 Patil Rohan 3172 Dharvatker Urja 3173 Bhat Sharmad 3174 Niraj Y Naik 3175 Naik Sarthak Shyam 3176 Parth Kamat 3177 Dion Fernandes 3178 Netra P Savaikar 3179 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 3180 Girija A Pednekar 3181 Caesarius Mario Vaz 3182 Bhakti S Prabhudesai 3183 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 3184 Ramkrishna Shinkre 3185 Parthiv Prakash 3186 Kamat Brahmanand 2½187 Dhruv Pravin Joshi 2½188 Gonsalves Jayden 2½189 Shlok Dhulapkar 2½190 Govardhan Palekar 2½191 Dessai Siya 2½192 Ramani Varad 2½193 Chaitanya M. Naik 2½194 Phadte Aradhya 2½195 Aditya Gaonkar 2½196 Anushka Arun Mardolkar 2½197 Rudraksh Rama Parab 2½198 Kavish Priolkar 2½199 Joshi Chinmay 2½200 Riva Ritesh Naik 2½201 Nidhi Gaude 2½202 Neha R Naik 2203 Soham Somesh Naik 2204 Harsh Khandeparkar 2205 Kunal B Bandolkar 2

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3 rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 (below 1800) was organized by Triple “C” Chess Club

at Hotel Rumani, Puri from 21st to 24th April-2016 under the agies of All Odisha Chess Association, District Chess Associ-ation of Puri, All India Chess Federation and FIDE.The Tournament was conducted in Swiss System with 9 Rounds Event, To-tal Participant of the Tournament is 287 which compiles of 239 Fide Rating Players and 48 Unrated Players .

The inauguration of the event was held at Hotel Rumani on 21st August 2016, at 01:00 PM, Chief Guest who inaugurated the Tournament is Mr.Rabi Narayanan Senapati, District Sports Officer,Puri, by making a 1st Move, Guests present on the dias where Shri Rabi Shankar Pratihari, Secretary ,Puri District Athletic Associa-tion, Shri.Kanduri Suar-Social Worker,Pu-ri,Shri Pradyumna Mishra , Vice Presisent , District Chess Association of Puri, Shri.Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Secretary , Dis-trict Chess Association of Puri, Shri Kamal kanta Bisoi,President , Triple C Chess Club, Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President, Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Biranchi Narayan Sahoo, Secretary, Triple C Chess Club. Katiyar Prashant of Uttar Pradesh won the tournament with scoring 8.5points/9 Rounds and won the one Lakh Rupees Prize Money, Followed Charles J of Tamil-nadu spotted his position to second spot with scoring 8.0pts/9.0 Rounds and gained Rs.60000/- and third position there were 4 players with 7.5 points/9 Rounds

3rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 (below 1800), Puri

Katiyar Prashant is ChampionFA Anandh Babu VL IA, Chief Arbiter

and in the Tie break points Aryan of Delhi Grabbed his position to third spot and won Rs.40000/-.

The Prize Distribution was held in the same hall at 12.01 pm on 24th April 2016, the Chief Guest was Shri.Nilu Sa-rangi- Chairman, Puri Municipality, Guest of Honor present in the Dias where Shri.Subash Chandra Sahoo, Secy,District Chess Association of Puri, Shri.Padyumnn Mishra-Vice President,DCAP,Puri, Shri.Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Asst Secy , All Odisha Chess Association, Shri.G C Mo-hapatra, Executive Member , All Odisha Chess Association , Shri Kamal Kantha Bi-soi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri, Organizer present where Shri.Sahoo BN –Secy Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Arghya Arpan Parida, Jt.Secy Triple C Chess Club and Shri.Biswajit Ray,Vice President,Triple C Chess Club.

Final standings:Rk Name Club Pt1 Katiyar Prashant UP 8½2 Charles J TN 83 Aryan DEL 7½4 Sai Kiran Y AP 7½5 Farhaan M PUD 7½6 Avijit Ghosh WB 7½7 Ravi Shanker UP 78 Jaspreet Singh PUN 79 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 710 Dev Shah CM MAH 711 Anwar N K KER 6½12 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 6½13 Mishra Srinibas ODI 6½

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14 Aryamann Sain WB 6½15 Sahoo Ankush ODI 6½16 Arunava Bhattacharjee WB 6½17 Sivasubramanian S TN 6½18 Sen Animesh Chandra WB 6½19 Haris N K KER 6½20 Dhrupad Kashyap ASM 6½21 Ashwani Kumar Grover PUN 6½22 Jishitha D AP 6½23 Sinha Rajesh Kumar BIH 6½24 Kaushik Nath WB 6½25 Gaurav Das WB 6½26 Madhav Mahere UP 6½27 Rath Hrusikesh ODI 628 Prudhvi Kumar V AP 629 Gabbar UP 630 Sugunesh Babu KER 631 Amitansu Priyadarsan ODI 632 Pratik Das WB 633 Mohapatra Sarat ODI 634 Prraneeth Vuppala CM AP 635 Sirsat Shekhar V. MAH 636 Sasikumar N TN 637 Mahender Marri TEL 638 Shouvik Kar WB 639 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 640 Vashishtha Martanda JHA 641 Shivam Verma BIH 642 Aasha C R TN 643 Souhardo Basak WB 644 Manoj R KAR 645 Vedant P Kumbakonam TN 646 Rupam Mukherjee WB 647 Sounak De (1) WB 648 Sudhir H Adalja GUJ 649 Tiwari O P MP 650 Sumit Roy WB 651 Gaurav Sharma UP 652 Animith Srimani WB 653 Debarghya Samanta WB 654 Sayantan Das WB 655 Sabat Prabhat Kiran ODI 656 Uppal Anshul CHA 5½

57 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 5½58 Tanishka Kotia WFM HAR 5½59 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan ODI 5½60 Sumesh Kabeer KER 5½61 Harshit Ranjan Sahu ODI 5½62 Venkat Reddy S AP 5½63 Pathak Rudra S GUJ 5½64 Pathak Vivek Kumar MP 5½65 Gugale Sunny MAH 5½66 Verma Manas CHA 5½67 Mohapatra Biswanath G ODI 5½68 Sandil Nirmal Chandra JHA 5½69 Deepak Singh DEL 5½70 Sahu Biswahari ODI 5½71 Shiek Fayaz TEL 5½72 Ashok Kumar Jaju ODI 5½73 Sai Shravan R MAH 5½74 Verma Vedansh CHA 5½75 Mishra Anisha ODI 5½76 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan ODI 5½77 Rajat Kumar Sahoo ODI 5½78 Nakul Chaudhary UP 5½79 Rao Mitta AP 5½80 Panda Raj Santosh ODI 5½81 Sai Sujan S TN 5½82 Sambarta Banerjee WB 5½83 Soham Dey WB 5½84 Aravind P V S AP 5½85 Adrian Sajjan WBl 5½86 Sai Balaji E TN 5½87 Sathishkumar L TEL 588 Gopal Ch Mahapatra ODI 589 Subba Surendra WB 590 Patel Vivek GUJ 591 Ankit Kumar Singh JHA 592 Soham Pal WB 593 Nayak Surajit ODI 594 Samantaray Aryan Arnav ODI 595 Patra Subhendu Kumar ODI 596 Tapas Mandal WB 597 Bhaskar N S TN 598 Anurag Medhi ASM 599 Kamma Surya Teja AP 5

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N utan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli conducted the Mahrashtra State Select ion Women FIDE Rating

Chess Tournament at Bapat Bal Shikshan Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra, which is one of the oldest organizer in India from 1941 conducting 49th chess festival in Month of April-May every year. This event was organized by prominent chess players and key personalities of various Chess activities and businesses in Sangli and Maharashtra viz. Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaon-kar, Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mr. Girish Chitale, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Mrs. See-ma Kathmale, Mrs. Apte 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 26th to 30th April, 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. Shri Nitin Prabhu, prominent business tycoon from Sangli district was the chair-man of Inaugural function. Along with him Mrs. Prabhu, Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaonkar President NBM, Chintamani Limaye Sec, NBM, Mrs. Kelkar Madam, Treasurer NBM and myself were the dignitaries on dais of the inaugural function. The event was in-augurated by Shri Nitin Prabhu with light-ing the devotional lamp and ceremonial match between Shri Nitin Prabhu and Mrs.

Maharashtra State Selection Women FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Sangli

Rucha Pujari wins titleIA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter

Prabhu . Introduction of the Chief Guests was done by the Rajabhau Shirgaonkar.The aim and motto of NBM was explained by Chintamani Limaye to the gathering. Nitin Prabhu wished the best of luck to the participants and their parents in Maharashtras 2nd highest event. Some of the important players namely WFM Rucha Pujari Kolhapur, WFM Mitali Patil Aurang-abad, Ms Rutuja Bakshi Aurangabad, Ms Vrushali Deodhar Mumbai suburban, Ms. Khushi Surana Solapur, Ms Dhanashree Rathi Nasik, Ms Riya Lahoti Satara etc. In this event 25 players out of which 45 were rated having rating average 1222, with players coming from nearly all parts of Maharashtra (Mubai suburban, Buldha-na, Aurangabad, Solapur Nagpur, Jalgaon, Thane, Palghar, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune). The championship was being led by two WFM including 6 players above 1600 ELO rating. WFM Rucha Pujari of Kolhapur, with a rating of 2152 was the top seed in this event.The first round went smoothly with higher rated won easily against their rivals. In 2nd round, the second seed of tourna-ment Ms Rutuja Bakshi Aurangabad was defeated by Ms. Chandratreya Prachiti of Nasik (nearly 500 ELO points difference). Ten players scored full points i.e. 2 points each.At the end of 3rd round, Rucha Pujari & Deodhar Vrushali became joint leader scoring 3 points each and took ½ points lead on nearest seven competitors. In the 4th round, Rucha Pujari & Deo-dhar Vrushali drew match between them resulted in five players taking joint lead

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namely Rucha Pujari, Deodhar Vrushali, Mitali Patil, Khushi Surana and Prachiti Chandratreya scored 3½ points each.At the end of fifth round Rucha Pujari and Mitali Patil won against their opponents and scored 4 ½ points each followed by them Prachiti Chandratreya, Rutuja Bak-shi & Tanvi Advade scored 4 points each. In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari won against joint leader Mitali Patil and in the race Prachiti Chandratreya and Rutuja Bakshi. At the end of seventh round Rucha Pujari playing with white stunned by Rutujas’ attack AND THE GAME resulted in draw. This result once again opened champion-ship chances amongst participants even though Rucha scored 6 points but she is tracked by Prachiti Chandratreya, Rutuja Bakshi & Dhanashree Rathi scored 5 ½ points each. In the penultimate round top seed Rucha Pujari, Rutuja Bakshi and Mitali Patil managed to won their respective games while Bhagyashree Patil Jalgaon outwitted Shruti Bhosale Kolhapur and now she was also in frame of selection.In the final round Rucha with her expe-rience managed a win from a drawish position against Bhagyashree Patil of Jalgaon. The champion Rucha Pujari re-ceived Rs. Seven thousand five hundred and the runner up Rutuja Bakshi Rs. Five thousand. In this event out of 20 unrated participants, 3 participants became rated players. The order of the players was de-termined according to number of points obtained. The tournament was completed in peace-ful manner and no appeal arose. The Appeals Committee members consisted of WFM Rucha Pujari of Kolhapur, WFM Mitali Patil of Aurangabad, and Ms. Uma

Kumbhar of Sangli as the main members and Ms. Prema Vincent of Mumbai Sub-urban & Ms. Mahavira Savla of Thane as reserve members.The prize distribution function chaired by Dr. Vasanti Paradkar, Director Sangli Ur-ban Bank, along with Mr. Govind Kulkarni, Director, NBM, Shri Chintamani Limaye Secretary NBM, Mrs. Smita Kelkar Treas-urer, and Shri Mangesh Gambhire CIS Instructor of Nasik.Final Ranking:Rk Name Pts1 Pujari Rucha WFM 7½2 Kathmale Sameer IM 7½3 Barath M 7½4 Soham Datar 7½5 Wagh Suyog 76 Ponkshe Sarang 77 Ajinkya Pingale 78 Pruthu Deshpande 79 Soneji Janhavi 710 Verma Rahul 711 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 712 Dixit Nikhil 6½13 Shelke Sankarsha 6½14 Audi Ameya 6½15 Kadav Omkar 6½16 Vigneshwaran S 6½17 Nikam Ravindra 6½18 Phadke Sohan 6½19 Singh Nishit 6½20 Joshi Tejas 6½21 Bakshi Rutuja 6½22 Joshi Nikhil 6½23 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6½24 Menon Padmanand 6½25 Bhandarkar Dinesh 6½26 Jain Kashish Manoj 6½27 Swati Mohota WFM 628 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 629 Inamdar Sameer 630 Gajanan Jayde 6

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31 Kulkarni Aakash 632 Shreyash A Kulkarni 633 Bhilare Rushikesh 634 Pogul Yuvraj 635 Pradeep Pandya 636 Telang Yashwant 637 Joshi Abhijeet M 638 Patil Ketan 639 Jadhav Vaibhavi 640 Lahoti Riya 641 Nirgun Keval 642 Raiker Shaunak 643 Shegaonkar Akshay 5½44 Abid Ali Mujawar 5½45 Surana Khushi Shailendra 5½46 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi 5½47 Ashar Grishma 5½48 Joshi Mihir 5½49 Joshi Abhijeet 5½50 Bhosale Shruti 5½51 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 5½52 Kapadi Yash 5½53 Patil Samiksha 5½54 Thorat Aishwarya 5½55 Balwan Tejas 5½56 Shelke Omkar 5½57 Sawardekar Pravin 5½58 Thorat Sanjay 5½59 Bandekar Aditya 5½60 Audi Saiesh 5½61 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5½62 Deshpande M.N. 5½63 Swera Ana Braganca WCM 5½64 Pendsey Muktanand 5½65 Magdum Sammed 5½66 Nankar Pranav 5½67 Wankhede Avishkar 568 Jenil Shah 569 Shijil K 570 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 571 Ian Savio Rodrigues 572 Pangshe Laukik 573 Rajput Gayatri 5

Solution to puzzle of the month on p. 30 After looking at the position that has just arisen after Black’s move at the nearest chess table, a player remarked that, according to the FIDE Laws of Chess the FIDE Laws of Chess , White now has an opportunity to mate in 1 move. Is the player right? The possible last moves by black are 0-0-0 or bxc3. bxc3 is not possible as the black pawn structure then necessitates 7 captures (e7-d6-c5-b4-c3 and f7-e6-d5-c4) and already there are 10 white men on board. So, the last move by black is 0-0-0. So now basically, the ques-tion translates to whether castling is possible by black or not. If it is possible, then there is no way to mate in 1. If it is not possible and black has castled wrongly, he should take the move back and because he has touched his king, he will be forced to move the king and that’s possible only to d8. Now white could mate with Qxd7#. To find if this is possible, we need some more retro analysis.The pawns at c3 & c4 necessitates 5 captures by them. Already there are 10 white men on board. So the black pawns at a6 must have come from a7 and b6 pawn must have come from b7 only. (a7-b6 and b7-a6 is not possible as there can’t be two more captures). There are two possible ways the white rook could have reached b7 – one is through entering 8th rank via e or f file (making castling illegal) or it should be a promoted one (making cas-tling viable still, if promoted at b8 without a check). And now the basic question translates to whether the b7 rook is a promoted one or not. We have to dig more to find this.If it is a promoted one, there must have been atleast 4 captures by white pawns. Already there are 11 black men on board. The captures by the black pawns (now at c3 & c4) cannot be the g or h white pawns. For this to hap-pen, the g pawn must have been promoted at f8 and the h pawn is captured as such. This accounts perfectly for all the captures made by both black and white. Promotion of g pawn at f8 means that the black king has moved earlier thus making castling illegal.So even if the rook at b7 is a promoted one, castling is illegal. So the correct answer is that there is a mate in 1!

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T op seeded GM Shyam Sunder (2488) of TN won the Hotel Calangute Tower All Rapid Rating Chess Tournament

organized by Mormugao Taluk Chess As-sociation, held at Centenary Hall, Baina, Vasco with 8 points at the end of 9 rounds and received prize money of Rs.25,000 and winners trophy. Master Ritviz Parab (2163) of Geno Pharma of Goa stood 2nd with 8 points on lower tie breaker. IM Abhimanyu Puranik (2208) of Maharashtra stood 3rd also with 8 points on lower tie breaker.

The two day event was Inaugurated on 23rd of April by Chief guest Mr Krishna (Daji) Salkar in the presence of Title Sponsorer and guest of Honor Mr Umesh Sinha CFO of Hotel Calagute Tower, Mr Kishore Bandekar Joint Secretary of AICF, Mr Pundalik Naik VP of MTCA, Sponsorer of Trophies Mr Vasant Naik sec of MTCA , GM Tejas Bakre, and GM Sham Sundar , Mr Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter of the Tournament, Mr Sanjay Kavlekar and Mr Swapnil Hoble

This was first Rapid rating chess tour-nament organized by Mormugao Taluka Chess Association in Vasco,Goa. The event attracted 266 Players from all over India Including major states like Gujrath, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Ker-ala, Pondichery and Karnataka. 139 Fide rated players participated in this tourna-ment, with 5 titled players. Top seed of the event was Mr Sham Sundar of Tamil

Nadu and 2nd Seed Grand master Tejas Bakre of Gujrath. Two International mas-ters Puranik Abhimanyu of Maharastra and Rohan Ahuja of Goa.

The Prize distribution function took place on 24th April at 6.00 Pm, The Trophies and Prizes were awarded by the Chief Guest Mrs. Alina Saldhana, Honourable Minis-ter of Goa for RDI, Science, Technology and Museum during the prize distribution function. The Chief Guest in her address expressed the role of children and ex-pressed satisfaction about parents taking keen interest in overall development of their children by devoting time as most of the participants were small children.Final standings:Rk Name Pts1 GM Shyam Sundar M. 82 Ritviz Parab 83 IM Puranik Abhimanyu 84 Gahan M G 7½5 Ram S. Krishnan 7½6 Mani Bharathy 7½7 Audi Ameya 78 IM Rohan Ahuja 79 Anant Prabhudesai 710 Niraj Saripalli 711 GM Bakre Tejas 712 Cruz Wilson 713 Sameer Ghotane 714 Verma Rahul 715 Bavankumar 716 FM Ramakrishna J. 6½17 Chandar Raju 6½18 Akshay V Halagannavar 6½

Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament

Shyam Sundar wins by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter

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19 Subramanian V 6½20 Nandhini Saripalli 6½21 Kambli Datta 6½22 Sneha Ghatpande 6½23 Nagaraj Naik 6½24 Siddhant Dharwar 6½25 Sahil Shetty 6½26 Tanvi Vasudev H 6½27 Kulkarni Ketaki 628 Snehil Shetty 629 Brendan Peroz 630 Kantak Adv. P.M. 631 Dias Aston 632 Shane Alvarin Braganca 633 Thorat Aishwarya 634 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 635 Subramanian T.V. 636 Harsh M Averi 637 Bhimappa Harijan 638 Parsekar Anirudh 639 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 640 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 641 Kiran Shantaram C 642 Sanjil Hoble 643 Barde Om 644 Sunad Govekar 645 Audi Saiesh 646 Thorat Sanjay 647 Bachikar Girish 648 Porob Vraj 649 P Aditee Aman 650 Gaude Sachin 651 Praveen Kamath 652 Pethe Suyash 653 Muraleedharan P G 654 Anurag Sandesh A 655 Colaco Vernon Jesus 656 Fadte Rudresh 657 Gaayathri S 658 Sawant Tatvesh R 5½59 Gajanan D 5½60 Abhishek Shastry 5½61 Nemlekar Suresh 5½

62 Sudhakar Patgar 5½63 Chokalingam P 5½64 Kavish Gharse 5½65 Sanat Borkar 5½66 Gangnaik Santosh 5½67 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5½68 Naik Vrunda V 5½69 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5½70 Viswajith P 5½71 Radhakrishna S K 5½72 Parab Sneh 5½73 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 574 Niranjan Raghu 575 Rajesh K 576 Akhilesh A Nigalye 577 Morajkar Navin 578 Nayaz Ahamad 579 Madhavan G 580 Shirodkar Aayush 581 Shenoy Siddharth 582 Puranik Parth 583 Aneesh Aparanji 584 Devesh Anand Naik 585 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 586 Naik Shvesh S 587 Sahil Dayanand Desai 588 Sami M A 589 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 590 Prabhu Yash 591 Nischal Parulekar 592 Gopal Shah 593 Bir Yogesh Pai 594 Prashant Salvi 595 Colaco Reuben 596 Swayam Naik 597 Yash Paul 598 Varun R Shastry 599 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5100 Eesh Prabhudesai 5101 Vasanth Pradeep V 5102 Khan Faiziya 5103 Soham Anil Dhuri 5104 S Gayle Fernandes 5

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105 Saidas D Fotto 5106 Vishnu Sridhar 5107 Akhil Naik 5108 Dhuri Khushi 5109 Kshaunish Naik 5110 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 5111 Kakodkar Joy 5112 Vinayak Thevar 5113 Dhrithi Murgod 5114 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 5115 Avaneeshwar Guin 5116 ARamchandra Shetkar 5117 Paarth P Salvi 5118 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 5119 Kakodkar Love 5120 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 5121 Advait Rajiv D 4½122 Arjun U Prabhu 4½123 Ved Gurudatt Patil 4½124 Ashesh Keni 4½125 Ridikesh Dilip V 4½126 Dhembre Dinesh 4½127 Roshan Abendhra R 4½128 Srilaxmi Kamat 4½129 Shivaprasad V Tengli 4½130 Pradnya Sachin K 4½131 Charuta J Shetye 4½132 Kshitij Mayenkar 4½133 Calantha Gomes 4½134 Pednekar Sagar 4½135 Sania Salvi 4½136 Saraf Harsh 4½137 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4½138 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4½139 Md Kassim Shaikh 4½140 Neeraj Krishna R 4½141 Allen Thomas Sunish 4½142 Singnapurkar Sanjyot 4½143 Sanjeev Parab 4144 Iyer Arvind 4145 Ammar Lashkarwale 4146 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 4147 Pethe Varad 4

148 Gonsalves Jayden 4149 Thanishq Kavlekar 4150 Krishnapriya Varma 4151 Cyrus Gomes 4152 Ashish Paingankar 4153 Naik Saksham S 4154 Mahesh A Shetti 4155 Sunish K Abraham 4156 Shubhang Hudekar 4157 Parth Kamat 4158 Prithiviraj M 4159 Costa Diogo P 4160 Rachana 4161 Saeesh Sadashiv K 4162 Shivam Kapdi 4163 Janavi Pawaskar 4164 Manoj Jagtap 4165 Vas Bryan 4166 Ghatwal Samir T 4167 AsfiyaLashkarwale 4168 Shreyash Naik 4169 Neha R Naik 4170 Aditya Gaonkar 4171 Yash Rawool 4172 Abhishek Velankar 4173 Basavaraj Patil 4174 Niranjan Babu 4175 Adarsh Pramod 4176 Shubham Laad 4177 Vernekar Sohum 4178 Rajadurai Nithish 4179 Harsh Khandeparkar 4180 Sawant Vignesh 3½181 Dhaneshwar Akash 3½182 Krishnaraj Patil 3½183 Rajdatta Timble 3½184 Avaneesh P Sawant 3½185 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 3½186 Swayam Kamat B 3½187 Antoniolee Peroz 3½188 Prabhugaonkar Advika 3½189 Kalagutkar Sai 3½190 Parsekar Aditya 3½

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U nited Kozhikode District Chess association has added one more FIDE rated chess tournament in

its activities, by organizing a Fide rated chess tournament in this summer holi-days. The tournament was held at spa-cious Jubilee hall which is situated at the heart of the city, from 29th April 2016 to 1st May 2016, offering a prize money of Rs,2,00,000/-. A total 301 players participated in the event, with 197 play-ers are Fide rated. International Master Ramanathan Balasubramanian was the top seeded.

Top seeded IM Balasubramanian, FM M Vinothkumar from Tamilnadu, Ram S Krishnan from BSNL and Kerala's former State champion O T Anilkumar form Cali-cut were the leaders with five points at end of round five.

In the final round, IM Balasubramanian did not take any risk and agreed a quick draw against O T Anilkumar whereas the FM Vinothkumar voluntarily entered into complication and won the game against Ram. This win earned Vinothkumar to win the title, a cash award of Rs.25000/- along with a beautiful trophy. He scored 6 points out of the possible six. 5 players scored 5.5 points but better tiebreak helped Alex Thomas to finish runner up and Alex received Rs.15000/-. along with trophy.

Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by the President Kozhikode Sports coun-cil Dr. Kunhalu. Nirmaldas, the Secretary

United Kozhikode District Chess Associa-tion distributed the prizes. Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 Vinoth Kumar M. FM 62 Alex Thomas K. 5½3 R.Balasubramaniam IM 5½4 Anilkumar O.T. 5½5 Vinay Thomas Abraham 5½6 Prasannaa.S 5½7 Ram S. Krishnan 58 Mohammed Dilshad 59 Chandar Raju 510 Joy Lazar M.A. 511 Rajith V. 512 Athul Krishna S 513 Sooraj M R 514 Jos Paul Davis 515 Muthu Palaniappan P L 516 Deepak K S 517 Muhammed Musthafa 518 Lakshimi Narayanan 519 Xavier P P 520 Badrinath S. 521 Jagadeesh A.K. 4½22 Sachin Pradeep 4½23 Arjun Satheesh 4½24 Satvik V 4½25 Santhosh Purushothaman 4½26 Anirban Basu 4½27 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 4½28 Kabhilan S 4½29 Benjamin Varghees Issac 4½30 Keerthi Srinath K 4½31 Ashish Thomas Alex 4½32 Akila Mahendran 4½33 Jyothir R 4½

United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016, Calicut…

Vinothkumar wins titleby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

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AICF Central Council Meeting on 09.04.2016 Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Important decisions:1. It was decided that henceforth

entry fees / forms for all the National Championships will be accepted only through online.

2. Asian Junior Chess Champion-ship will be held at New Delhi from 02nd to 11th May, 2016.

3. KIIT International Grandmas-ter tournament will be held at Bhuvaneshwar from 23rd to 30th May, 2016.

4. Mumbai Mayors Cup Interna-tional Grandmaster tourna-ment will be held at Mumbai from 01st to 08th June, 2016.

5. World Junior Chess Champion-ship sponsored by KIIT University will be held at Bhuvaneshwar from 07th to 21st August, 2016.

6. India will host World Youth (Under 16) Chess Olympiad in 2017.7. A FIDE Trainer Seminar will be organise at Bhubaneswar during the World Junior Chess

Championship 2016.8. A FIDE Arbiter Seminar will be organise at New Delhi during the Asian Junior Chess Cham-

pionship 2016.9. As per AICF Rules only those players who participate in the respective age group Nationals intheimmediatepastyearareeligibletoparticipateinthecurrentyearsofficialFIDEtour-

naments like Asian/World/Com-monwealth. However, the Central Council decided that exceptions will be extended, as detailed below, while India is the host for Asian / World / Commonwealth Championships in future. National Champions, Asian and World medal winners in two age categories below the intended International tournament can be permitted to participate as do-nor/special entries in age group

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International tournaments conducted in India subject to satisfying other conditions in force, even if they have not participated in the respective National age group championship, in the immediate past year.For example a player who has not participated in the National Junior (Under 19) Chess Champi-onship at Dindigul in 2015, will be allowed to participate in this year’s Asian Junior to be held at NewDelhiandWorldJuniortobeheldatBhubaneswarifhe/shesatisfiestheabovecondition.i.e. if he/she is a) National Champion in Under 15 and Under 17. b) if he/she has won a medal in Asian / World in Under 15 and Under 17 during 2015. Their participation, however, will be subject to FIDE Rules on number of participants from each country.10. Henceforth the National Challengers and the National Women Challengers will be a non rating event. i.e the results will not be sent to FIDE for the purpose of ELO rating.11. A new National Championship “National Schools Team Olympiad” will be introduced.12. The Under-6 Championship is not regularly organised by the Asian Chess Federation in Asian Schools and Asian Youth Chess Championships. In case such championships are announced by the Asian Chess Federation, the players who would like to participate as Special/Donor entries in Asian Schools / Asian Youth Championship will be selected based on ranking from the National School Under 7 / National Under-7 Chess Championship respectively, subject to their age.

Eight Medals for India in Asian Youthby Arvind Aaron

India won three titles in the Asian Youth Chess Championship that concluded in Mongolia on April 14, 2016. India won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

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R Praggnanandhaa (U-12, 7.5/9, unbeaten), Anwesha Mishra (U-14G, 8/9, unbeaten) Divya Deshmukh (U-12G, 8/9, unbeaten) won the gold medals in the Asian Classical Chess Champi-onships remaining undefeated.Silver medals were won by P Iniyan (U-16, 6.5/9), Harshita Guddanti (U-15G, 7/9). Bronze medals were won by Aditya Mittal (U-10, 7/9), Khushi Khandelwal (U-14G, 6.5/9), R Vaishali (U-16G, 7/9).ManyIndiansatthetopsufferedfinalrounddefeatsandthatledtothemodest3-2-3medalcount. Last round defeats were suffered by: Anagha (U-8G, eighth place), Kadakia Veer (U-8, seventhplace),BharathSubramaniyamH(U-10,fifth),LJyothsna(U-12G,fourth),RakshittaRavi(U-12G,fifth),KPriyanka(U-16G,sixth),RajdeepSarkar(U-18,fourth).

Adhiban ties for first place in Hasselbacken Open in Sweden

The tournament Hasselbacken Open commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Stockholm Chess Society, which is the oldest chess society in existence as well as the third oldest continuously running chess club in the world, running uninterrupted since 1866.TheclubwasfirstcreatedonDecember29,1866,atLa-gergrenCaféintheoldoperahouse.Thesociety'sfirstchairmanwas the famous explorer, Professor Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

At the end of six rounds, three Indians — Sasikiran, Vidit, and Adhiban were in close pursuit of the leaders, while Sethuraman had just lost to Andreikin. It is very interesting to note that in the aftermath of the splendid Asian Nations Cup victory in Abu Dhabi a month back, the trio of Vidit, Adhiban and Sethu have played in Dubai and Stockholm at present. They are also sched-uled to appear at the strong Zalakaros Open tournament at the

end of May.Coincidental or not, one would hope that a bit of bonding would only help India's cause at the upcoming Olympiad.

GM Vidit Gujrathi (2648) managed to defeat Icelandic GM Hannes Steffanson (2581) in the sev-enthroundbutthensettledfordrawswithAndreikin(2736)andZoltanAlmasi(2682)tofinishwith 7.0/9, eighth place. GM S.P. Sethuraman (2658) bounced back in the seventh round by beating Swedish GM Axel Smith (2503) after previously losing to Andreikin in the sixth round. He was held to a draw by American talent GM Samuel Sevian (2581) in the eighth round but finishedwithawinoverFrenchGMFabienLibiszewski(2520).

GM Adhiban B. (2663) settled for a draw with Israeli GM Ilia Smirin (2665) but beat GM Aleksey Goganov (2591) in the penultimate round. In the ninth round, he delivered a masterful perfor-mancetobeatGMViktorMikhalevski(2516)leavinghimtiedforthefirstplacewithAndreikin!He was second in the tiebreak.

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Final standings1.GM Andreikin Dmitry(Rus)7,5;2.GM Adhiban B(Ind)7,5;3 GM Smirin Ilia(Isr)7,0;4. GM Almasi Zoltan(Hun)7,0;5.GM Maze Sebastien(Fra)7,0;6. GM Tkachiev Vladislav (Fra)7,0;7.GM Sethuraman S.P (Ind)7,0;8.GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi(Ind)7,0;9.GM van Foreest Jor-den(Ned)7,0;10.GM Shirov Alexei(Lat)7,0 (courtesy: chessbase india)

FIDE Awards GM titles for two Indians

by Arvind AaronFIDEatitsPresidentialBoardMeetingsinMoscowconfirmedtheGrandMastertitlesofDiptayanGhosh (Elo 2562) of Kolkata and Shardul Gagare of Rahuri (Ahmednagar, Mah).

Diptayan, born in 1998 made his maiden GM norm in April 2013 at the Dubai Open, second normintheCzechOpenatPardubiceinJuly2015andthefinalGMnormattheHDBankOpenat Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in March 2016. He had become an International Master in 2013 and FIDE Master in 2009.

FIDE has made Shardul Gagare as GM, R Vaishali as WIM after seeking and getting norm in-formations. India added two International Masters in Prantik Roy and Siva Mahadevan.

Chess thinking helps in cricketIt’s a new innings for Yuzvendra Chahal who has been included in the Indian cricket squad for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour.The leg-spinner from Jind, Haryana, has another interesting story to tell apart from his cricket career. The 25-year-old was a top rated chess player as a teenager and had represented India in the Asian as well as world youth championships.“Chess helps me in plotting the opposition batsman’s dismissal. I try to be one step ahead of the batsman, especially in T20 where the bowler has to think on his feet,” Chahal told The Times of India.“When the batsman is going hard, I try to remain calm. My chess training helps me in staying focused with the job at hand,” he added.Chahal developed an interest in both chess and cricket simulta-neously when he was seven years old. Gradually, he concentrated on chess and won the under-12 national chess championship.He

represented India at the Asian Youth Championship held in Kozhikode, Kerala, and the World Youth Chess Championship in Greece.Chahal,whohadaFIDEratingof1946once,isstilllistedontheofficialwebsiteoftheWorldChess Federation.Chahal is leading the bowling charts of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this year with 19 wickets from 11 matches. The star player of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has an average of 23.27 and an economy of 7.75.HisperformanceintheChampionsLeagueT20finalof2013pavedhiswayintotheRCB.Chahaltook2for9injust3oversinthefinalagainstRCBleadingtothevictoryofMumbaiIndians.RCB roped him to their team. (courtesy: times of india)

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34 Sourav Suresh 4½35 Lakshmanan K A 4½36 Aswin.P.G 4½37 Ananthapadmanabh D V 4½38 Prasath K R 4½39 Ananthakrishnan B 4½40 Santhosh David 4½41 Aboobacker Chukkan Md 4½42 Bindu Saritha K. WFM 443 Madhusoodanan K.R. 444 Sharan Rao 445 Sanil S 446 Amal Roozi 447 Chandramohan K 448 Hari R Chandran 449 Shankarasubbu B 450 Abdul Nazar 451 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 452 Pradeesh Tk 453 Praveen Kamath 454 Sidharth P G 455 Jamal Muhammad M 456 Alex C Joy 457 Sanju Oommen 458 Sai Balaji E 459 Shaji T. L. 460 Anees V 461 Antony Simethy 462 Unnikrishnan V P 463 Swaha V S 464 Gopakumar P K 465 Rohit S 466 Syam Peter 467 Sanjay D G 468 Adithya Krishna H R 469 Rithwik Maya Rajesh 470 Abdurahiman Elangoli 471 Vinodan V P 472 Sumod M 473 Karan J P 474 Ayushh Ravikumar 475 Pranav Ram Hariharan 476 Aji Kumar A 4

77 Shine R S 478 Martin Samuel 479 Prem Krishna N 480 Anfas Muhammed 481 Aswin B S 482 Sreeraman NamboodiriP. 483 Vaibhav Kumar Karn 484 Devanand K C 485 Dhyaan S Nayak 486 Unas K.A. 487 Latha Vihar Shijith Lal 3½88 Digvijay Sunil 3½89 Randhir P. N. 3½90 Ashitha C C 3½91 Kishore Kumar J 3½92 Muralidharan Naniyate 3½93 Suriya S V AFM 3½94 Sreedeep C V 3½95 Sudheer M K 3½96 Abdul, Samad T K 3½97 Zain K Muhammed 3½98 Niranjan Rajeev 3½99 Sharsha Backer 3½100 Nithyan S 3½101 Abel Saju Chazhoor 3½102 Girish G 3½103 Denny V Davis 3½104 Nakul Ramaswamy 3½105 Vishnu Vinod 3½106 Sreevijay Sunil 3½107 Balakrishnan.K 3½108 Haniah Zainab Manipady 3½109 Sidharth Damodar 3½110 Viswajith Vinod 3½111 Mohammed Salih Pk 3½112 Divyan T 3½113 Sunil Kumar V T 3½114 Nasar C 3½115 Nanda Gopa Sachin 3½116 Abhinav Manoj 3½117 Basheer P V 3118 Pushpakumar P B 3119 Abhiram T 3

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120 Ameer K V Mohammed 3121 Jyothis R 3122 Prajwal V P 3123 Sidharth A Kumar 3124 Brahmaha V S 3125 Sameer C 3126 Nishad A 3127 Ahga Kumaran 3128 Ramakrishnan T V 3129 Nagaraj Naik 3130 Vishnudevanandan R P 3131 K Mundiyantharakkal 3132 Goutham Krishna G 3133 Kevin Martin 3134 Santhosh K P 3135 Dhanasekar M 3136 Akhila T M 3137 Rithunandan R 3138 Ethan V Johnson 3139 Anirudhan T.P 3140 Jafar V 3141 Devjit A S 3142 Ranji Philip Stephen 3143 Ummer Thayyil 3144 Bhuvaneshwaran R 3145 Thulaseedharan K 3146 Swaroopa E T 3147 Dhineshwar R S 3148 Murali N P 3149 Devanand B 3150 Sneha Haridas 3151 Padmanaban K 3152 Darsan T I 3153 Gautham Krishna P P 3154 Shreya K 3155 Prabeesh K 3156 Adam T 3157 Shanmugam Pck 3158 Vasundhara P. 3159 Harikumar K V 3160 Abhiram Vannadil 3161 Senbabu M B 3162 Edwin Dorairaj J 3

163 Rajeev K 3164 Aarushi Prashanth 3165 Arjun Manoj R 3166 Heera P 3167 Adithya A Chullikkad 3168 Manikanda Prabhu B V 3169 Dhrikshu K Vasant 3170 Anirudh Ra 3171 Arjun K P 3172 Adhidev K P 3173 Varsha T.P 3174 Yogesh Krishna Vijay 3175 Gautham Prasanth 3176 Parthiv M Jagannath 3177 John Veny Akkarakarn 3178 Sanjay Kumar Karn 3179 Badri Narayan Balaji 3180 Nived C 3181 Apoorva Prashanth 3182 Sanjay Kunthanthodikayal 3183 Pranjal Srivastava 2½184 Anupam M Sreekumar 2½185 Rijesh A V 2½186 Sreyas Payyappat 2½187 Sai Kiran K V 2½188 Sudheer K B 2½189 Rithesh Bhat 2½190 Aswin S 2½191 Kunhi Moideen Am 2½192 Muhammed MansoorP K 2½193 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 2½194 Aswanth S Kumar 2½195 Amal Noush C K 2½196 Abhijith U 2½197 Amil Shahul 2½198 Abhinand Manoj 2½199 Bhoomika K 2½200 Velayudhan Nair A. 2½201 Atul Jayesh 2½202 Husnul Nisam 2½203 Rajendran K S 2½204 Niranjan B 2½205 Ranjith Kumar K 2½

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D evnar-AICF B Open FIDE rated national chess tournament for the blind was held at Devnar founda-

tion for the Blind school, Hyderabad. This tournament was organized by All India Chess Federation for the Blind in associa-tion with Devnar foundation for the blind.The total Number of participants were 119 among them 45 are FIDE rated players. Players from 13 states took part in this event. Organizer provided free boarding and lodging to all the participants and escorts. The tournament was conducted in Swiss league format with 9 rounds. At the end of 7th round current National B champion for the blind Soundarya Ku-mar Pradhan of ODI was leading with 6.5 points, but in the 8th round, Marimuthu K of T N defeated him to share the lead with Sri Krishna Udupa with 7 points. In the final round, on the top board Marimuthu K and Sri Krishna Udupa agreed for early draw, Viajy Karia of GUJ beat Soundarya and Joined Udupa and Marimuthu with 7.5points. Vijay Karia with more number of victories secured 1st place and became the winner of 6th Hyderabad FIDE Rating Chess tournament for Visually Challenged. Sri Krishna Udupa and Marimuthu K se-cured 2nd and 3rd place respectively based on latest tie breaks.The total cash prize of Rs.50, 000 was distributed to top 30 players. Prof. Sridhar Murthy of Osamania University was the Chief Guest of the prize distribution cere-mony and he distributed the prizes along

with Sri Krishna Reddy, Sri Saibaba, Sri Daivjna Sharma and Dr. A. Saibaba Goud, MS, Ph.D Padmashri Awardee Founder Chairman DFFB.Dhanaji Kakade, Rabiran-jan Pradhan, Archana Joshi and Daviat Karia Worked as Asst Arbiters Final ranking:Rk Name Club Pts1 Vijay Karia GUJ 7½2 Krishna Udupa KAR 7½3 Marimuthu K T N 7½4 Swapanil Shah MAH 75 Prachurya Kumar Pradhan ORI 76 Patil Shirish MAH 77 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan ORI 6½8 Samant Milind MAH 6½9 Aryan B Joshi MAH 6½10 Yudhajeet D E W B 6½11 Ramesha A R KAR 6½12 Somender B L DEL 6½13 Venkat Reddy S A P 6½14 Rajesh Kumar Sahu U P 615 Vaishali Nrendra Salavkar MAH 616 Kiran Kumar A Simpi KAR 617 Hariharan Gandhi T N 618 Vijay Yetre MAH 619 Sujith M Unni KER 620 Ragupathi R T N 621 Shidad M KER 622 Narendra Salavkar MAH 623 Akediwala Prince D GUJ 624 Deeptyajeet De W B 625 Rajkumar B T N 5½26 Noushad E P Blind KER 5½27 Dipak Kumar Bhoi (blind) ORI 5½28 Mercel Tomkinson T N 5½

Devnar Foundation for the Blind AICF B Open FIDE Rated National Tournament for the Blind, Hyderabad, Telangana

Vijay Karia wins at Hyderabadby IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter

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29 Karthikeyan R Kasaragod KER 5½30 Manoranjan Reddy V A P 5½31 Vijay Arumugham PON 5½32 Muthuraman K. T N 5½33 Satya Praksah Shrivastava DEL 5½34 Lokhande Shobha MAH 5½35 Vasant D Patil MAH 5½36 Mahesh B A P 5½37 Mohammed Rahil KER 538 Navnath S Bhogade MAH 539 Atish Suresh Jagtap MAH 540 Prasanna Kumar M A P 541 Murugan K T N 542 Pavankumar Reddy C A P 543 Lokesh V T N 544 Ganesh Sivalingam T N 545 Debasish Halder W B 546 Shivanagouda N M KAR 547 Aniruddha Khunte MAH 548 Meghnath Mondal W B 549 Harish Sankar Kharat MAH 550 Megha Chakraborty W B 551 Chandru Sampath T N 552 Sathish Kumar Rajendran T N 553 Mohan Narayan Pathode MAH 554 Dileep K KER 555 Manoj Kumar Reddy S A P 556 Aboobacker Siddeeque KER 557 Dharavath Saleem A P 558 Sivasankar A A P 4½59 Kumar Raja C H A P 4½60 Gopi R T N 4½61 Vignesh R (blind) T N 4½62 Devender Kumar DEL 4½63 Biswanath Murmu W B 4½64 Tijan Punaram Gawar MAH 4½65 Kirti Karia GUJ 4½66 Nagarajan R T N 4½67 Satywan B Teli MAH 468 Sakthikumar V PON 469 Bhangi Jagadish R GUJ 470 Ningaraju S Kambali KAR 471 Azhagukrishnan PON 4

72 Mrunali Pande MAH 473 Laxmikant A Simpi KAR 474 Vijayakumar Kumbar KAR 475 Harshad Vijay Andurlekar MAH 476 Dharmaraj R T N 477 Vadlakoonda Venkatesh TEL 478 Arvind (DELHI) DEL 479 Rajan Kunnumpuram KER 480 Mehta Piyush GUJ 481 Seshaiah G A P 482 Narendra Kumar DEL 483 Manthesh Niralkeri KAR 484 Bhakiyaraj S T N 485 Vajire Vaibhav TEL 486 Venkateswararao A ORI 4

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Grigory Popov & Andrey FrolkinSuperProblem 30.4.2016

Was black’s last move an illegal one? After looking at the position above that has just arisen after Black’s move at the nearest chess table, a player remarked that, according to the FIDE Laws of Chess the FIDE Laws of Chess , White now has an opportunity to mate in 1 move. Is the player right?

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More selected games from National Team Championships, BubaneshwarAnnotated by IM Manuel AaronSharma,Dinesh K (2362)Das,Arghyadip (2442) [A00]1.d3 d5 2.e3 e5 3.d4? [This delib-erately 'loses' a move and leads to an unusual game. Probably white wanted to take his young opponent out of well an-alysed theoretical variations. The game becomes similar to a French Defence with reversed colours - a very, very rare set up!]3...e4 [Perhaps black would do well to develop the game classically with: 3...Nc6! 4.Nf3 (4.dxe5 Nxe5 5.Nd2 Bd6 6.Ngf3 Nf6 7.Nxe5 Bxe5 8.c4) 4...e4 5.Nfd2 Be6 6.c4 Nf6 7.Nc3 dxc4 8.Nxc4= black has an edge.]4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Qb3 a6 7.Nh3 [This is an idea bor-rowed from the black side of a French Defence where black plays ....Nh6.][Worth considering here was another black idea from the French Defence: 7.c5 Nbd7 8.f3 b6=]7...b5! 8.cxb5 cxb5 [Black should call white's bluff and smash the daring knight on h3 to get the upper hand. 8...Bxh3!? 9.gxh3 axb5 10.Rg1 Nbd7]9.Nf4 Be6 10.f3 [White follows the same strategy that black adopts in the Ad-vance Variation of the French when he attacks the apex pawn on e5 with ....f6.]10...exf3 11.gxf3 Bd6 12.Nxe6 fxe6 13.Bd2 [White prepares to castle on the queen-side as his king-side is no longer a safe position for his king. The king-side is better for launching an at-tack via the semi-open g-file.]13...0–0 14.0–0–0 Nc6 15.Kb1 Qe7 16.Be1 Kh8 17.Bh3 [White attacks the back-ward e6 pawn. This bishop was needed

at f1 to be able to control c4 as black's plan is Nc6–a5–c4. Here, it would have been better to make a central thrust with: 17.e4 dxe4 18.fxe4 e5 19.dxe5 Bxe5 20.Nd5 Qf7 21.Bg2³ Black has only a very small advantage.; or, if 17.Bg3 Na5 18.Qc2 Rfc8 19.Bxd6 Qxd6 20.Rg1 Rc7 21.Qg2 Rac8]17...Na5! 18.Qc2 Nc4 19.Qd3 Rab8 20.Rc1?

This puts the rook in the exact square that would make black's impending sacrif ice on b2 work! Better was to precede this move by: 20.Bg3 Rb6 21.Rc1]20...Nxb2!! 21.Kxb2 Ba3+ 22.Kc2 Bxc1 23.Kxc1 Qa3+ 24.Kd2 b4! 25 .Nb1 Qxa2+ 26.Kd1 [No t 26.Qc2?? b3! 27.Qxa2 bxa2 and the pawn queens!]26...Rb6!–+

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winning advantage. But white's inactive rook and bishops plus the king in the centre grant black a winning position.] 27.Bd2 Rc6 [He offers his b4 pawn as a bait for a quicker victory. It was not necessary. Both 27...Rc8 or 27...a5 would have showcased black's great superiority.]28.Ke2 [If 28.Bxb4?? Rb8 29.Nd2 Rxb4 30.Ke2 Rc2 31.Rd1 Rb3 and the white queen is trapped.]28...Rfc8 29.Rf1 Rc1!

[Diagram #][29...Rc1! 30.Rd1 (after 30.Rxc1 Rxc1 the white knight dies on b1.) 30...R8c2! The threat is 31....Rxd1 32 Kxd1 Qxb1+ winning. 31.Rxc1 Rxc1 and the white knight is lost.]0–1

Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2478) Agarwal,Brajesh (2023) [A00]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.e3 e6 5.Bd3 Nd7 6.Ne2 Ndf6 7.0–0 [Nikolay Legky (2540) - Peter de Jonghe (2245) Antwerp Op 1996 went: 7.f3 Nd6 8.g4 c5= 9.dxc5 Qa5+ 10.Nbc3 Qxc5 11.Nd4 Nd7 12.Qe2 a6 13.0–0–0 b5 14.Nb3 Qb6 15.Rhe1 b4 16.Nxd5!? exd5 17.e4 d4 18.e5 Nb5 19.Be4 Ra7 20.Bf5 Bc5? (20...Be7! 21.e6 fxe6 22.Bxe6 Rf8) 21.e6! 0–0 22.exd7 Bxd7 23.Nxc5 Qxc5 24.Qe7 Qd5? 25.Bxh7+! Kxh7 26.Qxf8

Qxa2 27.Be5 f6 28.Bxf6! Be6 29.Re5 1–0 But the result of this game can-not doom the opening played by black as white was 300+ rating points more than black.]7...Be7 8.c4 Nh5 [Black is anxious to get rid of white's dark square bishop. If he does not play ....Nh5 now, white could prevent that option with 8 Ng3.]9.Bxe4 dxe4 10.Nbc3 f5 11.Be5 0–0 12.d5?! [12.Nb5!? leads to some interesting and tricky play. 12...Bd6 13.c5 Bxe5 14.dxe5 Qe7 15.Rc1! (15.Ned4 a6 16.Qxh5 axb5 17.c6 b4!=) 15...a6 16.Nbd4 Rd8 17.Qb3±]12...Bd6 [A better alternative seems to be: 12...Bf6 13.Bxf6 Nxf6 14.Qb3 Qe7 15.Rad1 e5 16.Rd2 a6 17.Rc1 Kh8 18.c5 Qxc5 19.Nxe4 Qa5 20.N4c3 Rd8= 21.Qc4 Bd7 22.b4 Qb6=]13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Nd4 Nf6 15.dxe6 Qe5 [A blunder would be: 15...Bxe6? 16.Ncb5 Qe5 17.Nxe6 Qxe6 18.Nxc7–+]16.h3 c5 [The pawn on e6 could now be captured though white seems to have many attacking opportu-nities: 16...Bxe6! 17.Qb3 a6! 18.Nxe6 (18.Qxb7 The b7 pawns are often easy pickings, but sometimes poisoned. 18...Rfb8 19.Nc6 (19.Qc6?? Bd7 20.f4 Qa5 21.b4 Qa3 22.Qxc7 Qxc3–+) 19...Rxb7 20.Nxe5 Rxb2 21.Rfd1 Kf8=) 18...Qxe6 19.Nd5 Nxd5 20.cxd5 Qd6 21.Rac1 Rab8=]17.Ndb5 a6 18.Qd6 Qxe6 19.Qxe6+ Bxe6 20.Nd6 [20.Nc7? Bxc4]20...b6 21.Rfd1 Rfd8 22.Na4 Rab8 23.Rd2 Kf8 [It must be remem-bered that the king is a fighting piece in the endgame. Here he lends a hand to move to e7 and attack the knight on d6.]24.Rad1 Rd7 25.a3 Ke7 [As the Nd6 has no safe exit squares and the doubled white rooks on the d-file have no point of entry black could have safe-ly continued: 25...Rc7!?=]26.Nxb6!

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[Diagram # This looks like a winning sacrifice, but in fact it is the only move for white to stay alive!]

26...Rc7!= [26...Rxb6?? 27.Nc8++–]27.Na4 Rc6= [Despite white having won a pawn, he is far from victory be-cause: 1 the Nd6 cannot move anywhere without being captured; 2 the doubled white rooks on the d-file cannot leave the file as they have to keep protecting the Nd6.]28.f3 [28.Nc3 Rcb6!]28...exf3 29.gxf3 Nd7 30.Kf2 Nb6! 31.Nc3 [If 31.Nxb6? Rbxb6 and the Nd6 would be captured!]31...Nxc4 32.Nxc4 Bxc4 33.Rc1 Bf7 34.Na4 c4 [the game is level with black having some pressure along the b-file.]35.Rcd1 g5 [Black has become ambitious. If 35...Be6 36.h4 Rb3 37.Nc3 Rcb6 (37...g6 38.Kg3 Rcb6 39.Na4 Rc6) 38.Na4=]36.Rd7+ Ke6 37.Ra7 [This leads to an advantage for black. Better was: 37.f4!=]37...h5 38.Rd2 Be8 39.Rh7 Kf6 40.Ra7 Bf7 41.Rd4 Be6 42.Rd2 g4 43.h4 [Diagram #]43...gxf3 [Better was to attack white through the third rank: 43...Rb3! 44.Nc3 Rcb6 45.Na4 (45.fxg4 fxg4 46.Ke1 Rxb2 (46...g3 47.Ne4+ (not 47.Rg2? Rxc3 48.bxc3 Rb1+ 49.Ke2 Bg4+ 50.Kd2 Rb2+–+) 47. . .Kg6 48.Nxg3 Rxe3+ 49.Kf2 Reb3µ) 47.Rxb2 Rxb2 48.Rxa6

Rh2) 45...f4! 46.exf4 Rxf3+ 47.Kg2 Rc6]

(position after 43.h4)44.Kxf3 Rg8 [The attempt to deploy his bishop more aggressively does not amount to much. Better was: 44...Ke5 45.Kf2 Rg8 46.Rh7 Bd5 47.Rxh5 Rg2+ 48.Ke1 Rg1+ 49.Kf2 Rcg6 50.Rxd5+! Kxd5 51.Rxf5+ Kd6 (51...Ke4 52.Rf4+=) 52.Ra5 Ke7=]45.Nc3 Rg4 46.Ne2 Rxh4 47.Nf4 Rh1 48.Rd8? [Better was: 48.Rh7 h4 49.Rh6+ Kf7 50.Rh7+ Kf6=]48...Rf1+ 49.Kg3 Re1 50.Kf3 Rf1+ 51.Kg3 Re1 52.Rf8+ [White wants to win.]52...Ke5 53.Kf3 Rf1+ 54.Kg3 c3? [A better way to seek an advantage was: 54...Rb1! 55.Nxe6 (55.Rb7) 55...Rxe6 56.Rc7 Rxb2 57.Rxc4 Rb3 58.Rc5+ Ke4 59.Rcxf5 Rxe3+ 60.Kh4 Rxa3]55.bxc3 Rxc3 56.Kg2 Rxf4 [This is adventurous and very interesting. But a simpler winning attempt was: 56...Re1! 57.Nxe6 Re2+! 58.Kf1 Rb2 59.Rc7 Rxa3 60.Rc1 Kxe6–+]57.exf4+ Kxf4 58.Rxa6 Bd5+ 59.Kh2 Rc2+ 60.Kh3 [Diagram #]60...Bg2+?? [The losing move! Black is thinking of mating along the h-file through ....Rh2. If he had thought of mating by ...Rh1, he would have won: 60...Rc1!! 61.Ra4+ Be4 62.Rxe4+ Kxe4 63.Kh4 Ra1 64.Ra8 f4 65.Kxh5 f3 66.Rf8 Ke3 67.Re8+ Kd2 68.Rd8+ Ke2 69.Re8+ Kf1 70.Kg4 Rxa3 and

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(position after 60.Kh3)black has reached the winning Lucena position.]61.Kh4 Bc6 [61...Bf3 62.Ra4+ Be4 63.Kxh5±]62.Kxh5 1–0

Rajesh,V A V (2341) Himanshu,Sharma (2398) [A00]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.e3 b5 6.b3 Bg4 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.h3 Bh5 9.0–0 e6 10.Bb2 Bd6 11.c5 Bb8= 12.Ne5 Bxe2 13.Nxe2 Qc8 14.Nf4 0–0 15.Nfd3 a5 16.a3 Ne4 17.f4 Ra7 18.g4 f6 19.Nf3 a4 [This is what one may call an "Indian style" game where early hand to hand combat is avoided and players tend to block the game and manoeuvre for long. Black has gained a space ad-vantage and has his knight posted on the central e4 square. Of course, white could kick out that knight quickly if he wants to.]20.b4 Rf7 21.Rc1 [The idea behind bringing this rook to c1 is to transfer it to g2. But he could have done it more s imply by 21.Ra2]21...Nf8 22.Rc2 Ng3? [Better was to bring the queen's rook into the game first and then think about where to deploy his Nf8: 22...Rae7]23.Re1 Rae7 24.Rg2 Ne4 25.h4 Nd7 26.Rf1 Qe8 27.Qe1 Rf8 28.Ba1 [Diagram #][With this move black ac-knowledges that his bishop is bad as

it is hemmed in by its own pawns and does not have much of a role to play in this game. Black is slightly better. White should try here: 28.Qe2 Qg6 29.h5 Qe8 30.Nd2 f5 31.Nxe4 fxe4 32.Nf2 Nf6]

28...g5! [With all of his pieces placed satisfactorily, black attempts to start an attack.]29.Bb2 h6 [Black is waiting patiently for the right moment to attack. If here: 29...gxf4 30.exf4 Rg7 31.Nd2 f5 32.Nxe4 fxe4 33.Ne5 Nf6 34.Qe2=]30.Qe2 Rg7 31.Bc1 Rff7 32.Nf2 Nxf2 [Slowly the game is changing in favour of white. 32...gxh4 would have been better]33.Rfxf2 Qd8 34.hxg5 hxg5 35.fxg5 fxg5

36.e4! [After this move, White's 'bad' bishop turns into a good bishop.]36...Bf4 37.Bxf4 gxf4 38.g5!± Qe7 39.Rf1!

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[White re-positions his rook onto the e-file. Black is unable to take advantage of this slow manoeuvring because of the white pawn on g5.] 39...Rf8 40.Re1 Re8 41.Qf2 Qf7 42.Qh4 Nf8 43.exd5 exd5 44.Rxe8 Qxe8 45.Qxf4 Ng6 46.Qd2 Qe4 [With his queen well placed in the centre, black has some advan-tage now.]47.Qe2 Nf4! 48.Qxe4 dxe4 49.Rg4 [If 49.Ne5 Nxg2 50.Kxg2 Rxg5+ 51.Kf2 Rh5 52.Ke3 Rh3+ 53.Kxe4 Rxa3 54.Nxc6 Rh3–+]49...Ne2+ 50.Kf2 exf3 51.d5!? [With the tide going against him, white gambles! If 51.Kxf3 Nc3 and ....Nd5 wins for black.]51...cxd5 52.Kxf3 Re7 53.g6 d4? [It is necessary for a player to be careful at all times, especially when victory is within his grasp. He could now win with: 53...Kg7 54.c6 Nc3 55.Kf4 Rc7–+]54.Re4! Ng1+ 55.Kf4 Rd7 56.c6! Rc7 57.Re6 Kg7 58.Rd6µ Rc8 59.Ke4 Ne2 60.Kd3 Nc3

[If 60...Ng3 61.Kxd4! Nf5+ 62.Kc5 Nxd6 63.Kxd6 Kxg6 64.Kd7 Ra8 65.c7 Kf5 66.c8Q Rxc8 67.Kxc8 Ke6 68.Kc7 Kd5 69.Kb6 Kc4 70.Kc6 Kb3 71.Kxb5 Kxa3 72.Kc4 Kb2 73.b5 a3 74.b6 a2 75.b7 a1Q 76.b8Q+ Kc1 (76...Kc2 77.Qh2+ Kc1 78.Qg1+ Kb2 79.Qf2+ Kc1 (79...Ka3 80.Qe3+ Kb2 81.Qd2+ Ka3 82.Qb4+ Ka2 83.Qb3#) 80.Qe1+ Kb2 81.Qd2+ Kb1

82.Kb3!+–) 77.Qf4+ Kb1 78.Qf1+ Ka2 79.Qe2+ Qb2=]61.Kxd4 Nb1 62.Kc5 Nxa3 63.Rd3 Nb1 64.Rd1 Nc3 65.Rd3 Na2 66.Kxb5 Nxb4! 67.Rd7+ Kxg6? [67...Kh6! would have drawn as it does not allow white's Rd6 with check.]68.Rd6+ Kf7 69.Kxb4 Ke7 70.Rd7+ Ke6 71.Kc5 Ra8 72.Rd1 a3 73.c7 a2 74.Kc6 Ke5 [Not 74...a1Q 75.Rxa1 Rxa1 76.c8Q+ is check, and he has no time for 76...Rc1+]75.Ra1 [White played the ending very well to turn defeat into victory.]1–0

Muthaiah,Al (2301)Shyam,Sundar M (2512) [A00]

1.c4 e5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Ne7 5.e4 d6 6.Nge2 Bg4 [This is un-usual. Evidently, black wishes to take white out of the book.]7.d3 [7.f3 Be6 8.d4 exd4 9.Nxd4=]7...Qd7 8.Be3 0–0 9.Qd2 c5 [Black probably want-ed to rule out white ever playing d3–d4.]10.0–0 [A more aggressive plan was to castle long: 10.f3 Be6 11.h4 Nbc6 12.h5 Nd4 13.0–0–0]10...Nbc6 11.Nd5 Nd4 12.Bxd4 [12.Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.f3 Be6 14.f4 Rae8 Ex-pecting f4–f5, black prepares an am-bush down the e-file. If now 15.f5 gxf5 16.Bxd4 exd4 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.Rxf5 Qxe2]12...cxd4 13.f3 Nxd5 14.cxd5 Bh3 15.Rac1 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 h5 [Black intends to keep an eye on c1 to prevent white from doubling rooks along the open c-file.]17.Rc4 [Doubling along the only open file in the game was very tempting. As this is not allowed to happen, white cou ld have t r ied here: 17. f4 Rac8 18.h3 (18.Rxc8 Rxc8 19.f5 Kh7 20.fxg6+ fxg6 21.h3 Bh6 22.Qd1 Qc7 23.Rf6 Bg5 24.Rf2= Be3 25.Rf6 Qc2µ) 18...Rxc1

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19.Nxc1 f5 20.Ne2 Qe7=]17...Kh7 18.Qc2 Bh6! [Diag]Black has seen further into the game and allows an apparently dangerous incursion of a white rook into his camp.]

19.Rc7 [Had white foreseen what was coming, he would have played: 19.f4 Rac8=]19...Rac8! 20.Rc4 [If 20.Rxd7? Rxc2 The knight is pinned and threat-ened with capture, costing him a pawn. 21 .Re1 Rxb2]20. . .Be3 21. f4 Kg7 22.fxe5 dxe5 23.Ng1 h4 24.gxh4

24.Nf3 Rxc4 25.dxc4 hxg3 26.Nxe5 (26.h4 f5) 26...Qe7 27.Nf3 gxh2 28.Kh1 Rc8 29.b3 b5 White has a very difficult position to defend.]24...Rxc4 25.dxc4 Qg4+ 26.Kh1 f5 27.exf5 Rxf5 28.Qg2 Qxg2+ 29.Kxg2 d3! [Diagram #]

30.Rd1 [White is lost. If now: 30.Nh3 e4 31.Rd1 Bc5 32.a3 e3 33.Rxd3 e2 and the pawn cannot be stopped.]30...e4 0–1

Srinath,Narayanan (2469)Kumar, S (1782) [A00]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6 5.e5 Nc6 6.Qa4 Nd5 7.Qe4 [7.Qb3 would not have given all the play that black gets in this game]7...Nb6 8.Nc3 Bg7 9.Bf4 0–0 10.0–0–0 d5 11.Qe3 [This gives black lots of good play. Kateri-na Rohonyan 2316 vs Jerry Wheeler 2155, USA 2007 went: 11.exd6 Bf5 12.dxe7 Qxe7 13.Qxe7 Nxe7 14.Bd6 Rfe8 15.Bb5 Nc6 drawn on Move 33.]11...Bg4![So easily, black has achieved a better position. He has developed all his pieces at the right places and is threat-ening to seize white's pawn on e5 which will soon be without any defence.]12.h4? [Diagram #][This is just a hit in the air and does not do white any good. Better was to develop his unmoved bishop as shown. It is a very complicated variation and either player could slip before the queen sacrifices. The student would ad-vantageously explore the many unstated sub-variations that abound in this fas-cinating play.

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12...d4 13.Qe4 Bf5? [This should lead to equality. Stronger was: 13...Nd7 14.Nxd4 Bxd1 15.Nxc6 Bxc2 16.Kxc2 bxc6 17.Bc4 Nb6 18.Bb3 e6]14.Qe1 Rc8! [The position is equal but black's pressure along the c-file is worrisome.]15.Bb5 Nd5 16.Bxc6 Nxc3 17.bxc3 bxc6 [Material is even, but white's castled position looks ready to fall apart.]18.Nxd4 Qa5 19.Nxf5 Qa3+! 20.Kd2 gxf5 21.Rh3 Rfd8+ 22.Rd3 Qxa2 23.Rxd8+?

[It is natural to seek exchanges when under pressure. But here it only hastens the entry of black's dormant rook on c8 into the game. Better was 23.Qe3= Sometimes it takes many, many mistakes to lose a game!]23...Rxd8+ 24.Ke3 Rd5! 25.f3? [It was best to hurry his king to the safety of the king-side with: 25.Kf3 Now his king is stuck in a kind of traffic jam.]25...Qxc2 26.Rxd5 cxd5

27.Qa1? [Comparatively better was: 27.Qd2 Qxd2+ 28.Kxd2 e6 and the pawn down, same colour bishop endgame is lost for white.]27...Qxg2 28.Qa5 [With his previous move, white had probably hoped to capture the a7 pawn as compen-sation for his g2. Too late, he finds that if 28.Qxa7 Qg1+ skewers the queen. From now onwards the game is full of skewers!]28. . .Qc2 29.Qb4 [I f 29.Qd8+ Bf8 30.Qxd5 Qxc3+ 31.Kf2 e6 32.Qd8 Qc5+ 33.Kg3 h5 34.Bh6 Qxe5+!–+ 35.Kh3 Qd6]29...e6 30.Qb8+ Bf8 31.Bg5 [31.Bh6?? Qc1+! skewers the bishop!]31...Qxc3+ 32.Kf2 Qb4 33.Qd8 [33.Qxa7?? Bc5+]33...h6!

This clever move drags the white bish-op to a vulnerable square and ensures the exchange of queens and a winning bishop ending.]34.Bxh6 Qe7 35.Qxe7 [35.Qb8?? Qxh4+ 36.Kg2 Qxh6]35...Bxe7 36.h5 Bc5+ 37.Ke2 Bd4! [Whenever possi-ble, pin down your opponent's forces into defence! Then they cannot attack you.]38.Bf4 f6! 39.exf6 Bxf6 40.Kd3 a5 41.Kc2 a4 42.Bd6 Kh7 43.Kb1 [The poor king has to capture black's a4 pawn.]43...Kh6 44.Ka2 Kxh5 45.Ka3 Kg5 46.Kxa4 e5! [The king is planning Kf4 and Kxf3 becoming three pawns up.]0–1

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Two games from Asian Youth Chess ChampionshipAnnotated by Raghunandan K.S

Raghunandan,Kaumandur Srihari (2260) Tahbaz,Arash (2359) [D37][The following game was with the winner of the tournament]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bf4 0–0 6.Rc1 Nbd7 7.e3 c6 8.cxd5 Nxd5 [if 8...exd5 then after 9.h3 White would have a favourable version of the QGD Exchange and I would continue with Bd3 and 0–0 with a comfortable game]9.Bg3 [The capture 9.Nxd5?! is not so good because after 9...exd5 Black would move his knight to f6 and com-pared to the variation with 8...exd5 the f6–square is free for the d7–knight and Black could develop his light-squared bishop easily]9...Nxc3 [9...c5 10.Bd3 cxd4 (10...b6 11.0–0 Bb7 12.e4 Nxc3 13.bxc3²) 11.exd4 Nxc3?! (11...N7b6 12.0–0 Bd7 13.Qe2 with good attacking chances for white) 12.bxc3 b6 (12...Nf6 leads to 13.Ne5 b6 14.Nc6 Qe8 15.Nxe7+ Qxe7 16.Bh4! an important move, pin-ning the knight to the queen and white is better) 13.Be4 Ba6 14.Qa4!+– (14.Bxa8? Qxa8 15.c4 Ba3 16.Rc2 Bb4+ 17.Kf1 Rc8 18.Qc1 Qd5 Black would win the c4–pawn and have good compensation for the ex-change because of White's vulnerable king) ]10.bxc3 c5 11.Bd3 cxd4 [Black has to play this if he wants some sort of counter play][if 11...Nf6 then 12.0–0 b6 and here either 13.e4 (or 13.Ne5 Bb7 14.Qa4 threatening Nc6 14...Qc8 (if 14...Qd5 then 15.f3 is not good for Black) 15.f3 with a nice plus for White) 13...Bb7 14.Qe2 and white has a nice centre]

12.cxd4 [12.exd4 was also possible transposing to 9...c5]12...Bb4+ [for 12...Qa5+ 13.Nd2 and I don't mind giv-ing the a2–pawn for a huge compensa-tion for eg. after: 13...Qxa2 14.0–0 just look at the Black pieces and compare it to White's! who has dangerous threats like Nc4 and Ra1]13.Nd2 e5 [if 13...Qa5 14.Rc2 e5 (14...Nb6 15.0–0 Bd7 16.Nb3²; 14...Qa3?! 15.Qe2± and 0–0) 15.0–0 Bxd2 16.Rxd2 exd4 17.exd4 b6 (17...Nf6 18.Be5‚) 18.Re1 (18.Be4?! Ba6²) 18...Ba6 (18...Bb7 19.Re7±) 19.Bxa6 Qxa6 20.Re7± and d4–d5–d6]14.0–0 exd4 15.exd4 [15.Ne4!? I thought of this for some time but at last took back on d4 15...Nb6! Black wants to play ...Bf5 a) 15...Nf6 16.Nxf6+ Qxf6 17.exd4‚ and white has threats like Qh5 and Be5 and he can also play Rb1 to prevent the c8–bishop from coming out; b) 15...dxe3 16.fxe3‚ with Qh5 and Ng5 coming (16.Qh5 Qa5 17.Ng5 h6) ;16.Qh5 (16.exd4 Bf5) 16...f5! is a good defence for Black (16...h6 17.exd4 Be6 18.Rfd1² with Nc5 coming next) ]15...Nf6?! [15...Nb6! 16.Nc4 Be6 (16...Nxc4?! 17.Rxc4 Bd6 18.Be4² and atleast for some time white has prevented black from devel-oping his c8–bishop.) 17.Ne3 Nd5 was much better for Black although white has a small plus]16.Ne4

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[this move keeps Black's pieces tied down and also poses threats.][16.Rc4 Nd5; 16.Nc4 Be6; 16.Nb3 b6 (or 16...Be6 17.Nc5 Bd5) ; 16.Be5 Bg4! this is impor-tant to induce f3 first 17.f3 (17.Bxf6?! Qxf6 18.Qxg4 Bxd2) 17...Be6]16...Nd5 [16...Nxe4 17.Bxe4 Bd6 18.Re1² here white has a passed d-pawn and nice space whereas Black's pieces are tied down; 16...h6 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Be5 Qd8 19.Bb1‚ and Qd3 comes next; 16...Qxd4? loses 17.Rc4 Qb6 18.Nxf6+ gxf6 (18...Qxf6 19.Rxb4) 19.Qh5 f5 20.Rg4+! Kh8 21.Be5+ f6 22.Rh4+–]17.Qh5 h6 [17...g6? 18.Qxd5 Qxd5 19.Nf6++–; 17...f5 18.Bc4±]18.Rb1! [this prevents Black from developing his c8–bishop im-mediately and also prepares the rook lift Rb3–g3]18...b6 [18...Be7 19.Bc4 (19.Be5 f6 20.Bd6 now d5 is hanging 20...f5 21.Bc4 Bxd6 22.Bxd5+ Kh8 23.Nxd6 Qxd6 24.Qf3) 19...Nf6 20.Nxf6+ Bxf6 21.d5± and d6 comes next; 18...a5! 19.Be5! (19.a3?! Bxa3 20.Rb5 Be6 21.Rxb7 Be7÷ now Black has the passed a-pawn; 19.Bc4?! Be6 20.Nc5 Bxc5 21.dxc5 Nf4! 22.Bxf4 Bxc4=) 19...f6 (19...Be6 20.a3 Bxa3 21.Rxb7 Be7 22.Qf3!ƒ with threats like Qg3 or Nc5) 20.Bd6 Ne7 21.Bc5 with a plus for white (21.Bxb4?! axb4 22.Rxb4 Nc6=) ]19.Be5 Be7 20.Rb3 [20.Bc4

is also possible but I hesitated to play this as I wanted to keep my bishop on the b1–h7 diagonal 20...Be6 (20...Bb7 21.Rb3; 20...Nf6 21.Qf3) 21.Rb3 Nf4 22.Bxf4 Bxc4 23.Rg3 Qd5 (23...Bxf1 24.Rxg7+ Kxg7 25.Qxh6+ Kg8 26.Be5 f6 27.Qg6+ Kh8 28.Ng5+–; 23...Qxd4 24.Be5) 24.Qxh6 Qxd4 25.Be3 Qb2 26.Rd1 and Bd4 next wins]20...Be6 21.Bb1

[and surprisingly Black has no good de-fence!]21...Nf6 [21...f6 22.Rg3! (22.Ng5? fxg5 23.Bxg7 Rf6 24.Bxf6 Bxf6) 22...fxe5 (22...Rf7 23.Qxh6+–) 23.Nc5! (or 23.Qxh6 Bf6 24.dxe5+– Bxe5? 25.Qxe6+) 23...bxc5 24.Rxg7+ Kxg7 25.Qg6+ Kh8 26.Qh7#; 21...f5 22.Rg3 Bf6 23.Qxh6 fxe4? 24.Rxg7+ Bxg7 25.Qxg7#]22.Nxf6+ Bxf6 23.Rg3 Kh8 [23...Bxe5 24.Qxe5 and the g7–pawn cannot be defended without making con-cessions 24...g5 (24...g6 25.Bxg6+–) 25.Qe4 (25.f4+–) 25...Kg7 26.Qh7+ Kf6 27.Qxh6++–]24.d5! Bd7 [24...Qxd5 25.Qxh6+ gxh6 26.Bxf6#; 24...Bxd5 25.Bxf6 Qxf6 (25...gxf6 26.Qxh6#) 26.Qxd5]25.Bf4 [threatening Bxh6][25.Bd6? Bg4! (25...Rg8 26.Qxf7 Be8 27.Rxg7!+–) ]25...Qe7 26.d6! [26.Bxh6 g6 27.Bg7+ Kxg7 28.Bxg6 (28.Rxg6+?? fxg6 29.Qxg6+ Kh8–+) 28...

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Rh8 29.Bh7+ Kf8 30.Qh6+ also prob-ably wins]26...Qe6 [26...Qe8 27.Bxh6 g6 28.Bxg6 fxg6 29.Rxg6+–]27.Bxh6 g6 28.Bg7+! Kxg7 29.Rxg6+ fxg6 30.Qxg6+ [and Qh7 mate next]1–0

Tran,Minh Thang (2332) Raghunan-dan, Kaumandur Srihari (2260) [D47]Asian Youth Chess Championship Ulan Bator (5), 09.04.2016[This is the 5th round game and I had lost in the 4th round]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bd6 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Ne4?! [White wants to keep control on c5 or win a pawn][10.0–0 would be better]10...Nxe4 11.Bxe4 [now white threatens to win a pawn either on c6 or on h7]11...Rc8 [or 11...f5 12.Bxc6 Rc8 13.Bxd7+ Qxd7 14.Qe2 Be4 15.0–0 0–0° Black has the 2 bishops and the open c-file and white's dark squared bishop has no good squares]12.Bd2

[white wants to play b4 and stop any counterplay with ...c5 opening the a8–h1 diagonal for the bishop][now if 12.Bxh7 Black plays 12...c5 13.Be4 cxd4 14.Qd3 (14.Qb1? Rxc1+ 15.Qxc1 Bxe4–+) 14...

Bxe4 15.Qxe4 dxe3³]12...f5 [for fast development][12...Qe7 13.a3 f5 14.Bd3 0–0 (14...c5?! 15.Bxb5 cxd4 16.Qa4 dxe3 17.Bxe3) 15.b4 a5 16.Qb3 is ok for white]13.Bd3 0–0 [13...c5 14.Bxb5 cxd4 15.Qa4 dxe3 16.Bxe3 a6! 17.Be2 0–0 was also good for me but I liked to castle first; 13...Qe7 14.e4 fxe4 15.Bxe4 Nf6 16.Bg5 is good for White]14.b4 Qf6 [now Black is threatening both ...c5 and e5 which cannot be prevented]15.Rc1 [15.0–0? loses to 15...c5! 16.bxc5 Bxf3 17.gxf3 Bxh2+! 18.Kxh2 (18.Kh1 Qh4; 18.Kg2 Qg5+) 18...Qh4+ 19.Kg1 Qg5+ 20.Kh2 Rf6–+; 15.Bc3 preventing ...c5 and controlling the e5–square but Black has other ideas like 15...Qg6 16.Kf1 Nf6 17.a3 Nd5 now White's king might come under attack and also his h1–rook is out of the game and in the next move Black can play ...a5]15...Qg6 [15...e5 was playable but I didn't like this move because of the following variation 16.dxe5 Nxe5 17.Nxe5 Bxe5 18.0–0 now White is threatening to play f4, so 18...c5! 19.bxc5 Bxh2+ 20.Kxh2 Qh4+ 21.Kg1 Bxg2 22.f3! (22.Kxg2 Qg4+=) 22...Qh1+ 23.Kf2 Qh2 24.Ke1 Bxf1 25.Bxf1 Qg3+= with a perpetual, but I wanted to win the game at any cost]16.Kf1 [16.0–0 c5 17.Nh4 Qh5 18.g3 (18.dxc5 Bxh2+ 19.Kxh2 Qxh4+ 20.Kg1 Bxg2–+) 18...c4–+ and the d3–bishop is trapped; 16.Qb3 Rce8 17.Nh4 Qh5 (17...Qg4 18.g3 c5 19.bxc5 Bxh1 20.cxd6 a6 21.Be2 Qh3 22.Nf3) 18.Nf3 Nf6 with a good position for Black]16...e5 [16...a5 17.a3 axb4 18.axb4 Nf6 with ...Ne4/. ..Nd5 next is also good for Black]17.Nh4? [White was greedy][17.e4! was better although after 17...f4!ƒ Black has a good initiative (17...exd4?! 18.exf5 Qf7 (18...Qf6 19.Qb3+ Kh8 20.Bg5 and

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Nxd4) 19.Ng5² (19.Nxd4 Ne5 20.Ne6 Nxd3 21.Qxd3 Qxf5) ) ; 17.dxe5?! Nxe5 18.Nxe5 Bxe5 now Black is threatening ...c5 19.f3 Rcd8ƒ not only is White's king weak but even his bishops are very weak and other pieces passive]

17.. .Qf6 18.Nxf5 [18.dxe5? Nxe5 19.Nxf5 Nxd3–+; 18.Bxf5? Qxh4 19.g3 Qf6–+]18...g6 19.Nh6+? [19.dxe5! was better 19...Bxe5 20.f4 gxf5 21.fxe5 Nxe5‚ but even then Black has a great attack go-ing on as the white king is so weak]19...Kg7 20.Ng4 Qh4 21.h3 [21.f3 Qxg4–+; 21.Be2 h5 22.g3 Qh3+–+]21...h5 22.Bxg6 [22.g3 Qxg3–+]22...hxg4 23.Bf5 e4?! [23...Rcd8 24.g3 Qh5 25.Bxg4 Qf7; 23...c5! should have been played 24.dxc5 Nxc5 (24...e4? 25.Bc3+ Kh6 26.g3 Bxg3 27.fxg3 Rxf5+ 28.Kg2+–) 25.bxc5 (25.Bxc8 Qxf2#) 25...Rxc5 26.Qb1 (26.Qd3 Rd5 27.Qc2 Rxf5 28.Qxf5 Rxd2) 26...Rxc1+ 27.Bxc1 g3! 28.f3 Rxf5! 29.Qxf5 Qc4+–+ I saw this variation when I was analysing; 23...g3 also works 24.Bxd7 (24.f3 Rcd8–+; 24.Bc3 e4) 24...Rxf2+ 25.Kg1 (25.Ke1 Bxb4) 25...Bxb4 26.Rd1 c5 27.d5 Bxd5 Even after seeing this I was somehow not sure about 23...g3]24.Qxe4 [24.g3! Bxg3 25.Qxe4! (25.fxg3 Qxg3 26.hxg4 (26.Qxe4 Rxf5+ 27.Qxf5 Rf8) 26...Qf3+ (26...Qxg4 27.Rh7+ Kg8 28.Qb3++–) 27.Kg1 Rh8 28.Rh5 Rxh5

29.gxh5 Qxf5–+) 25...c5 26.Qxb7 Rxf5 27.f4!÷ I had missed this move during the game (27.Qxd7+ Rf7 28.Qxg4+ Qxg4 29.hxg4 Rxf2+ 30.Ke1 Rh2+–+) ]24...Nf6 25.Qd3 [25.Qe6 Rcd8 threatening ...Bc8 26.g3 Qh8–+ and ...Bc8 next; 25.Qc2 Rce8 threatening ...Ne4 26.g3 Bxg3 27.fxg3 Qxg3–+]25...c5!!

[25...Rce8 is also winning but is not so easy to declare 26.Be1 a) 26.e4 Nxe4; b) 26.g3 Qh5 27.e4 (27.Bc3 Nd5 and if the bishop moves then ...Bxg3) 27...c5–+;26...g3! 27.f3 Nd5 28.e4 Rxf5]26.dxc5 [26.Bxc8 Ne4 27.Be1 Rxf2+ 28.Kg1 Qg3 29.Bxf2 Qxf2#; 26.Qxb5 was a bit te-nacious 26...Rc7 27.Qe2 cxd4! (27...Ne4? 28.Qxg4+ Qxg4 29.hxg4 Nxd2+ 30.Ke2 Ne4 31.bxc5) 28.Rxc7+ Bxc7 29.exd4 Re8–+ and Black is winning]26...Ne4! [now f2 is under attack]27.Qd4+ [27.cxd6 Qxf2#; 27.Bxe4 Qxf2#]27...Kh6 28.g3 [28.Be1 Rxf5–+]28...Rxf5 [28...Nxg3+?? 29.fxg3 Rxf5+ 30.Ke2 and white escapes]29.gxh4 [29.Qxe4 Bxe4 30.gxh4 g3–+]29...Rxf2+ 30.Ke1 Bg3! [Impor-tant move][30...Rxd2? 31.Qxe4! Bxe4 32.Kxd2 Bxh1 33.cxd6= is a draw]31.Kd1 Rxd2+ 32.Qxd2 Nxd2 33.Kxd2 Rd8+ 34.Kc3 [34.Kc2 Be4+ 35.Kb3 (35.Kb2 Be5+ 36.Ka3 Rd3+) 35...Rd3+ 36.Kc2 Ra3+ 37.Kb2 Rxe3 and Be5+ on the next move wins]34...Be5+ 0–1

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

1 2

3 4

5 6

White to play and win in all the above six positions

(Solutions on page ) 47

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Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

White to play and win in all the above six endings (Solutions on page )47

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Masters of the past-64 Filip Miroslav

Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 – 27 April 2009) the Czech chess grandmaster, devoted his professional career to many aspects of the game, as player, author, journalist and arbiter. Filip was awarded the title of International Master in 1953, and the Grandmaster title in 1955. It was during the seven years from 1955 to 1962 that Filip twice achieved the arduous feat of qualifying for the Candidates Tourna-ments for the World Championship, at Amsterdam 1956 and again at Curacao, 1962. Thus Filip was automatically propelled into the upper echelons of the world elite. It was during this period that Filip inflict-ed defeat on no fewer than three world champions, Dr Max Euwe in 1955, Vassily Smyslov (the reigning champion) in 1957 and former world champion Mikhail Tal in 1962.

Filip also won the international tournaments at his home city of Prague in 1956, again at Marienbad 1960 and Buenos Aires 1961. In spite of his glittering achievements and wins against the world's best in individual encounters, Filip failed in his ultimate ambition to challenge for the world title. Indeed, in his second appearance in the candidates tourna-ment at Curacao 1962, despite scoring a fine counter-attacking victory against Mikhail Tal, he was generally outclassed, both by the established Soviet grandmasters and the new force represented by Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young American. Therafter, Filip grew less enthusiastic about tournament play, becoming more concerned with avoiding defeat, at which he was an adept, than in scoring wins. As a result he turned his profes-sional hand ever more to authorship, journalism and arbiting.

He was selected by the World Chess Federation to be arbiter for six subsequent world championship contests, including the controversial Karpov v Korchnoi match at Baguio 1978. He conducted the chess column in the Prague daily sports paper "Denik Sport" with great distinction, and wrote books on the candidates tournament of 1956, the world championship of 1978 and the Lucerne Chess Olympiad of 1982.

His prowess as a player was further confirmed by his results for Czechoslovakia in the Chess Olympiads , where he represented his country on a remarkable twelve occasions, three of those on top board, scoring 114 points from 194 games for a 58.76 percentage. In 1970 he won the individual gold medal for his performance in the Kapfenberg Euro-pean Team Championship.

Miroslav Filip was a worthy successor to the tradition of the Prague School, which numbered amongst its alumni Wilhelm Steinitz, the first "official" world champion, Richard Reti, the pioneeer of hypermodernism and Oldrich Duras , the great tournament competitor. Filip was born in Prague on October 27, 1928, and died there on April 27.

Tal–Filip, Candidates Tournament (round 12), Curacao 1962; Sicilian Defence (ECO B43)1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.f4 b5 7.a3 Bb7 8.Qf3 Nf6 9.Bd3 Bc5 10.Nb3 Be7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bd2 d6 13.g4 d5 14.e5 Nfd7 15.Qh3 g6 16.Nd4 Nc6 17.Nce2 Nxd4 18.Nxd4 Nc5 19.b4 Ne4 20.Be3 Rfe8 21.Rae1 Bf8 22.Nf3 a5 23.f5 exf5 24.gxf5 Rxe5 25.fxg6 hxg6 26.Nxe5 Qxe5 27.c3 axb4 28.Bd4 Bc8 29.Qg2 Qh5 30.Bxe4 dxe4 31.Qxe4 Qg5+ 32.Kh1 Be6 33.Be5 Rd8 34.h4 Qh5 35.Qf4 Rd3 36.Bf6 Qd5+ 37.Kg1 bxc3 38.Re4 Bc5+ 39.Kh2 Qa2+ 0–1 courtesy: Wikipeidia

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Winner Ram S Krishnan receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest Shri.Rajendra Desai.Kisor M Bandekar, Secretary, Goa Chess Association is to the right of the Chief Guest.

(Left to right) Mangesh Gambhire, Chintamani Limaye, Dr. Vasanti Paradkar, Shri Govind Kulkarni, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, IA Nitin Shenvi along with champion WFM Rucha Pujari.

3rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial FIDE Rating Tournament, Mardol, Goa

Maharashtra State Selection Women FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Sangli

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Fide Master M Vinoth Kumar Is receiving the winner trophy from Mr. E Nirmaldas, the secretary, United Kozhikode District chess association, Near- M Ephrame ,the chief arbiter, Jamal Mohaideen, Malapuram chess foundation, Shaji, Joint. Secretary,United Kozhikode District chess association

L to R- N J Gadia Secretary JDCA, Rajesh Chaudhari, Mayor Nitin Laddha, MLA Rajumama Bhole, Lalit Kolhe, DSO Sunanda Patil and Faruk Shaikh, Jt Secretary MCA

All India below 1800 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Jalgaon

United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016,Calicut…

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Solutions to Tactics from master games on p.421. Matthiesen,M (2370)Ovsejevitsch,S (2584) [D31]Aarhus Chess House GM Aarhus DEN (8.1), 20.02.2016 [Position after 21st move. White to play.]22.Rxd7! [22.Rxd7 Qxd7 (22...Qxe4 23.Qxf7+ Kh7 24.Qh5+ Kg8 (24...Nh6 25.Rxg7+ Kh8 26.Qxh6+) 25.Bxg7 Nxg7 (25...Qh4 26.Qf7+ Kh7 27.Bf6+ Kh6 28.Qh7#) 26.Qf7+ Kh8 27.Qxg7#) 23.Nf6+ gxf6 (23...Kf8 24.Nxd7++–) 24.Bxf6 Ng7 25.Qh6 Wins]1–02.Jumabayev,Rinat (2607)Igonin,Temur (2470) [D20]AeroflotOpenA2016MoscowRUS (6.25),06.03.2016 [Position after 23rd move.White to play.]24.Bd7! Qxd7 [24...Rxc1 25.Rxc1! Qxd7 26.e6+]25.e6+ Qd6 [25...Qc7 26.Bxc7+ Rxc7 27.Qg3 Nxe6 (27...Nc6 28.Rxf7+–) 28.Rxc7 Nxc7 29.Qxg4+–]26.Qa3! Nxe6 27.Bxd6+ Bxd6 28.Qxd6+ Ka8 29.Rxc8+ Rxc8 30.Rxf7 1–03.Goganov,Aleksey (2575)Jobava,Baadur (2676) [E11]Aeroflot Open A 2016 Moscow RUS (1.9),01.03.2016 [Position after 27th move. White to play.]28.Rg6! [28.Kxf2 Qxe6 (28...Rf8+ 29.Kg2 Qxe6 30.Rh1) 29.Rh1 Rf8+ 30.Kg2 wins too.]28...Qh3 [28...Bc5 29.Rxg4 Bxe3 30.Bxg7+ Kg8 31.Bd4+ Kf8 32.Bxe3+–]29.Bxg7+ Kg8 30.Bd5+ Rf7 31.Rg5 Be7 [31...Ne7 32.Bxf7+ Kxf7 33.Rf1+ Ke8 34.Rf8+ Kd7 35.Rxa8+–]32.Bxf7+ Kxf7 33.Rf1+ [33.Rf1+ Ke8 34.Rf8+ Kd7 35.Qd3+ Bd6 (35...Ke6 36.Qd5#) 36.Rxa8+–] 1–04.Stupak,K (2537)Santos Ruiz,Miguel (2418) [E17]VII Ciutat de Manacor Manacor ESP (7.5), 26.02.2016 [Position after 27th move.White to play]28.Nh6+! Kh8 [28...gxh6 29.Bxf6+–]29.Bxf6 [=29.Bxd8 gxh6 (29...Bxd8 30.Qxd8+) 30.Bxf6#; 29.Bxf6 gxf6 30.Qxd8+ Qxd8 31.Nxf7++–] 1–05.Vaicekauskas,G (2210)Mickevicius,J (2345) [B14]TCh-LTU 2016 Lithuania LTU (5.1), 07.02.2016[Position after 21st move: White to play.]22.

Bg5! [22.Nxg6 also wins 22...hxg6 (22...Bxg3 23.Ne7+ Kh8 (23...Rxe7 24.Qxg3+) 24.Nxd5+–) 23.Rg5 Bf4 (23...Qc6 24.Bxg6 fxg6 25.Rxg6++– Wins) 24.Rxd5 exd5 25.Rf1+–]22...Bxe5 [22...Be7 23.Nxf7 Kxf7 24.Bxf6 Bxf6 25.Qxh7++– Kf8 (25...Bg7 26.Bxg6+ Kf8 27.Bf7! Ke7 (27...Kxf7 28.Qxg7#) 28.Rxg7+–) 26.Rxg6 Wins] 23.dxe5 Nd7 24.Qh6 Kh8 25.Bf6+ Nxf6 26.exf6 Rg8 27.Qxh7+! [27.Qxh7+ Kxh7 28.Rh3+ Qh5 29.Rxh5#] 1–06.Kraemer,Mart (2570)Bosiocic,Mari (2559) [D45]TCh-AUT 2015–16 Austria AUT (5.1), 25.02.2016 [Position after 26th move: White to play.] 27.Qe2! Re5 [27...Qxe2 28.Rfxf7#]28.Rgxf7+ [28.Qxh5 Wins too 28...Rxh5 29.Rgxf7+ Kg8 (29...Ke8 30.Rf8++–) 30.Rg7+ Kh8 31.Bd4!+–]28...Kg8 [28...Ke8 29.Qxh5 Rxh5 30.Rf8+ Wins]29.Qg2+ [29.Qg2+ Ng5 a) 29...Rg5 30.Rg7+! Kh8 (30...Rxg7 31.Qxg7#) 31.Rxg5+ Wins; b) 29...Qg5 30.Bxe5+30.Bxe5+–]1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame on p.43

1.F.Lazard 19011.Be6+ Kh7 2.Bg8+ Kh8 3.Bb3+ Kh7 4.Rxb7+Kh8 5.Rb8+ Kh7 6.Bg8 wins2.V&M Platov 19111.f7 Qe5! 2.Ra8 Kb3 3.Ra3 KxR 4.f8Q Kb3 5.Qb4+! KxQ 6.d4+ wins3.H.Rinck 19031.Ra8 Qa2! 2.Rxa3 Qg8 3.Ra8 Qh7 4.Bg6+ wins4.K.A.L Kubbel 19281.f5 KxP 2.Bd7 Ke5 3.f4 Kd5 4.Bc6 Kc55.b4+ wins5.W.A.Korolkov 19301.h8Q Qxh8 2.Be5! Qxe5 3.Rg8 Kxf7 4.Bc4 Kf6 5.Rg6 Kxf5 6.Bd3 Kf4 7.Rg4 wins6.H.M.Lommer 19341.Rd8 Qg5 2.Ra8 Qg2 3.Rb8 h2 4.Rc8 Qh3 5.Rd8 Qh4 6.Re8 QxN 7.Ra8 wins

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AICF Calendar May 2016

Pavna All India FIDE Rated Tournament May-17 to May-22 Aligarh,UP

All India Open FIDE Rating May -17to May- 22 Nasik,Mah

TN State Under 25 Open & Girls Chess May-21to May-25 Kumbakonam

GM Tournament Odisha May-23 to May-30 Odisha

Asian Individual Championship (Men and Women) May-25 to Jun-05 Uzbekistan

Kerala State Senior FIDE Rated 2016 May 25 to May 29 Thalasseri

Maharashtra State selection FIDE Open Rating May 25 to May 29 Kolhapur

GM Tournament Mumbai Jun-02 to Jun-09 Mumbai

National A for visually challenged June 06 to June 14 Virar(West)

National Rapid and Blitz June-11 to June 14 Visakhapatnam

Maharashtra Chess League June 11 to June 15 Pune, Mah

1st Karmveer VT Randhir FIDE rating June 15 to June 20 Dhule, Mah

National Women Challenger Jun-17 to Jun-25 Chennai

Kasinadhuni Rajya Laxmi Mem.All India Open Jun-18 to Jun-22 Telangana

Late Rameshchandra Kotwal Mem.All India Rapid June-25 to June-26 Gondia, Mah

National U-11Boys & Girls Jun-28 to Jul-06 Chattisgarh

PCA FIDE Rating Open June-28 to Jul 03 Nagpur

Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 July 02 to July 06 Trivandrum

All India below 1600 tmt July-02 to July 04 Telengana

3rd Arvind Durga Open FIDE Rating Jul-06 to Jul-10 Tambaram,TN

Kalajyothi FIDE rating Open July-07 to July 10 Dharmavaram

1st Sivasagar CA rating Tmt July-08 to July 13 Joysagar, ASM

Asian Schools Championships 2016 Jul-09 to Jul-18

National Challenger Champonship Jul-09 to Jul-19 UP

World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016 Jul-21 to Jul-30 Slovakia

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Prize Distibution (Lto R)-Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President, Triple C Chess Club, Shri Kamal Kantha Bisoi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri, 2nd Runner Up :Aryan from Delhi,Shri Rabi Shankar Pratihari, Secretary ,Puri District Athletic Association.Champion of the tournamnent : Mr.Prashant Katiyar,Uttar Pradesh,Shri.Nilu Sarangi- Chairman, Puri Municipality,Shri.G C Mohapatra, Executive Member , All Odisha Chess Association, Shri Arghya Arpan Parida,Joint Secreatary, Triplce C Chess Club,1st Runner Up : J Charles from Tamilnadu, Shri.Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Asst Secy , All Odisha Chess Association

Inauguration Photo: (Lto R)-Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President, Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Secretary , District Chess Association of Puri, Shri.Rabi Narayanan Senapati, District Sports Officer,Puri, Shri Rabi Shankar Pratihari, Secretary ,Puri District Athletic Association,Shri.Kanduri Suar-Social Worker,Puri,Shri Pradyumna Mishra , Vice Presisent , District Chess Association of Puri,Shri Kamal Kantha Bisoi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri, Organizer

3rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 (below 1800), Puri

Mr Daji Salkar lighting the lamp along with Mr Kishor Bandekar, Umesh sinha, GM Tejas Bakre and Mr Vasant Naik

Winner GM Shyam Sundar (Centre) flanked by runner-up Ritviz Parab of Goa sitting on right and IM Puranik Abhimanyu with the Chief Guest Mrs. Alina Saldhana, Honourable Minister of Goa for RDI, Science, Technology (Back row centre) and officials

Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament,Vasco, Goa