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Priansh Das (Odisha)

Open Champion

Sai Viswesh C(Tamilnadu)

Open Champion

Aakanksha Hagawane(Maharashtra)

Girls Champion

WCM Shefali A N (Karnataka)

Girls Champion

27 th National Under-17 Chess Championships, Kolkata

Under-7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry…

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T he Under-7 National Chess Champi-onships, organized by Pondicherry State Chess Association at Arumuga

Kalyana Mandapam from 19th to 27th September 2016. The tournament held for boys and girls born on or after 1st January 2009 was an 11 round Swiss system attracting 182 boys and 119 girls from Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu,Maharash-tra,Delhi,Odisha,Madhya Pradesh,Telan-gana,Karnataka,Assam,Uttaranchall, West Bengal, AP, Jharkhand, Kerala, Goa, U.P., Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Manipur, Bihar and Har-yana. The time control for the tournament was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1 to each player. Ilamparithi AR and Aswinika Mani, both from Tamil Nadu were the top seeded players in the tournament. There were 41 rated players in the open section and 11 in the girls’ section.

First round itself witnessed a lot of upsets, the first victim being the second seed Borgoankar Akshay, falling to Kartheepan S of Tamil Nadu. Third seeded Daavevik Wadhawan of Delhi also lost to Kashelkar Atharv of Maharashtra in this round. Fifth seeded Priansh Das was beaten by Deos-hatwar Ojas of Maharashtra in the second round and higher rated Adireddy Arjun of Telanagana was felled by unrated Dutta Pehlaj of Assam. In a similar fashion, higher rated players fell like nine pins in the subsequent rounds also and there was one player who had a steady progress

He was the top seed Ilamparithi, who grew from strength to strength. Fourth and sixth seeds Aarav Lakhani of Maharashtra and Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta also were also forced to bite the dust by Abhinav raj of Delhi and Jaiveer Mahendru of Ma-harashtra respectively in the fifth round.

Sixth round was the turn for the sev-enth seed Bhagat Kush of Maharashtra to lose, leaving only Ilamparithi unde-feated among the top ten players. After nine rounds, Ilamparithi stood like a sol-id rock with 8 points, followed by Aryan Mohapatra of Odisha and Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande of Maharashtra with 7 points each. Ilamparithi dropped half a point for the first time in the championship to Delhi’s Daaveik Wadhawan reducing his lead to one point over Priansh Das of Odisha, who had scored 8.5 points until the tenth and penultimate round. In the final round climax, Ilamparithi needed a draw and Priansh had to defeat to win the title. Priansh played a superb game to beat Ilamparithi to tie with him on 9.5 points. Direct encounter being the first tiebreak, Priyansh picked up the tile and Ilamparithi, who was leading all the way from the start of the tournament had to be content with the runner up spot.

In the girls’ section, AN Shefali of Karna-taka, seeded fourth in the championship, lost to R Mahathi of Tamil Nadu in the first round and Sani Deshpande of Maharash-tra, the second best player in terms of rating was beaten by Anisha Kumbhalkar

Under 7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry…Priansh Das and Shefali win titles

by IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

From the Editor’s deskAfter the exceptional performance by India at the Baku Olympiad all eyes turned towards the World Youth Championships at Khanty Mansiysk for the age categories Under-14, Under-16 and Under-18. Compared to the four medals in the last edition at Halkidiki the performance here was below par with a lone gold medal

from the National Under-17 Girls Champion from Pune, Aakanksha Hagawane, in the Under-16 Girls category. Vantika Agarwal, bronze medallist in Greece, sadly missed out on a medal in the Under-14 Girls category after her loss in the final round. Report on this event along with that of World Cadet Chess Championship to be held at Bhatumi, Georgia later this month will be featured in the next issue. Report on Baku Olympiad with photographs is featured in the centre pages of this issue.

On the home front, three National Championships were organized during the month. National Under-7 Championships held at Puducherry Priansh Das of Odisha and Shefali of Karnataka won the titles. Sai Viswesh of Tamilnadu and Aakanksha Hagawane of Maharashtra emerged Open and Girl Champion in the 27th National Under-17 Championships held at Amity University, Kolkata. At the 25th National Under-25 Open Chess Championship organized in Guwahati Himal Gussain of Chandigarh took the title. Reports and photographs of these events along with those of FIDE rated events held during September 2016 are presented in this issue.

IM Manuel Aaron annotates interesting games from the World Junior held at Bubaneshwar.In the ‘Problem World’ your Editor dwells on Holst promotions in problem chess. Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Antoshin is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series

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Under 7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry…Priansh Das and Shefali win titlesby IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 127th National Under -17 Chess Championships, KolkataSai Vishwesh and Aakanksha win titles by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 725th National Youth (U-25) Open Championship 2016 Himal Gussain wins Under-25 titleby R.C.Chatterjee IA, Chief Arbiter 10KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Tmt,Kannur...Alex Thomas wins titleby M. Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter 115th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tmt, BubaneshwarShyamnikhil emerges Championby V.L.Anandh Babu, Chief Arbiter 1314th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Mem. Open FIDE Rated Shyaamnikhil emerges winnerby IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 154thN.L.Pandiyar Mem.Intl Open Fide Rated Tmt, JaipurAkshat Khamparia is Championby A.C.Joshi IA, Chief Arbiter 18South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016Raghav Srivathsav emerges winnerby R.Srivatsan IA , Chief Arbiter 20Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Tmt , DharmavaramShanmukha Teja wins titleby V.Srikanth FA , Chief Arbiter 2229th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Thoothukudi Hirthikkesh emerges Championby M Ephrame IA, C hief Arbiter 28Selected games from World Junior Championships,Bhubaneswar Annotated by Manuel Aaron 31Problem WorldHolst promotion by C.G.S.Narayanan 41Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test Your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-69 Vladimir Antoshin 44AICF Calendar 48

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of Maharashtra in the second round. Af-ter five rounds, Ishani Mondal and Sneha Haldar of West Bengal and Sainesha RM of Tamil Nadu were leading with 5 points each. Ishani was beaten by Sneha and Saineha cruised to a win over Kamalini Hardana of Pondicherry in the sixth round. Seventh round witnessed the emergence of Sneha Haldar as the sole leader as she defeated the co-leader Saineha. But, Sneha succumbed to Shafeli and Saineha bounced back to share the lead with 7 points each, at the end of eighth round. Sneha joined Shafeli as the latter over-whelmed Saineha. A climax was on the cards, as they continued to lead for the remaining rounds before going to the final round. Shefali defeated Ishani on the top board, but Sneha lost to Sarvani Cheedella of AP, allowing the Karnataka player She-fali to clinch the title.Sri. V. Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess Federation was the chief guest on the final day and he distributed the medals and certificates to the prize winners.Final ranking:Open Rk Name Club Pts 1 Priansh Das ODI 9½ 2 Ilamparthi A R TN 9½ 3 Daaevik Wadhawan DEL 9 4 Sriansh Das ODI 9 5 Sparsh Bisht HAR 8½ 6 Bhagat Kush MAH 8 7 Aarav Lakhani MAH 8 8 Jaiveer Mahendru MAH 8 9 Inban Sivakumar TN 8 10 Sai Rishiraj P TEL 8 11 Mitul K H KAR 8 12 Aryan Mohapatra ODI 8 13 Apoorv Kamble KAR 8 14 Abhyuday Santhosh KAR 8

15 Aakash G TN 8 16 Aarav Dengla MAH 8 17 Advait Prashant Patil MAH 7½ 18 Borgaonkar Akshay MAH 7½ 19 Srijan Chatterjee WB 7½ 20 Sadbhav Rautela UTT 7½ 21 Faheem N H Borah ASM 7½ 22 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S TEL 7½ 23 Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande MAH 7 24 Sonthalia Pratham GUJ 7 25 Arul Prakash N TN 7 26 Rupankar Kundu WB 7 27 Tanish Sai Kavuru AP 7 28 Rishikesh S A KER 7 29 Bikash Kumar Lenka ODI 7 30 Adireddy Arjun TEL 7 31 Kodela Keerthi Kanth AP 7 32 Iyer Aarav MAH 7 33 Krishna Kumar Saw JHA 7 34 Vishwajit S KAR 7 35 Jack Samuel TN 7 36 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta MP 7 37 Sarva Jayan J TN 7 38 Pranav K P TN 7 39 Abhiraaj Arora TEL 7 40 Nivaan Shah MAH 7 41 Naveen Kumar P TN 7 42 Vedant Behal DEL 7 43 Abhinav Raj DEL 6½ 44 Shreeyash Kejriwal WB 6½ 45 Ruthvik Srikanth KAR 6½ 46 Aujsya Mohta CHAT 6½ 47 Teshub Dinesh KAR 6½ 48 Bharadia Yash RAJ 6½ 49 Lanheiba Loitongbam MAN 6½ 50 Vaibhav Kalpaka KAR 6½ 51 Nihal Swarna AP 6½ 52 Suhaas A TEL 6½ 53 Vijay Adithya Muthu S TN 6½ 54 Parth Kamat GOA 6½ 55 Sujay Kishore Kanna TN 6½

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South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016, Jammu

Shri Sunil Kumar Sharma, Minister of State, Transport,Youth Services and Sports inaugurates the event flanked by Shri Danesh Rana, IGP Jammu and Shri Shiv Sharma, Joint Secretary J&K Sports

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25th National Under-25 Open Chess Championship 2016, Guwahati

14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Sangli

Himal Gussain of Chandigarh (Winner) receiving the trophy from Bharat Singh,CEO, AICF

Champions along with dignitaries on dais, IM Shyamnikhil (Winner) with the trophy, standing in the centre.

56 Sachith Katti KAR 6½ 57 Panda Hrishikesh ODI 6½ 58 Dutta Pehlaj ASM 6½ 59 Deoshatwar Ojas MAH 6 60 Nirnay Garg HAR 6 61 Luksh Jain TEL 6 62 Shankhodip De WB 6 63 Aryan Arora DEL 6 64 Vihaan Jain UP 6 65 Heman U Gowda KAR 6 66 Amogh Bisht KAR 6 67 Kartheepan S TN 6 68 Sourjya Mukherjee WB 6 69 Samyak Dharewa WB 6 70 Jatin Agarwalla WB 6 71 Kavin B TN 6 72 Siranjeevi Sanjay S TN 6 73 Keerthivasan P TN 6 74 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa ASM 6 75 Sanchith Sundarram K TN 6 76 Sakthivel Heamish Kanha TN 6 77 Wanjari Krupal MAH 6 78 Chaudhari Pragalbh MAH 6 79 Priyangshu Goswami ASM 6 80 Gireesh Vemarao AP 6 81 Arith Aggarwal DEL 5½ 82 Srihari R TN 5½ 83 Mohith G AP 5½ 84 Kaushik Srivatsa H KAR 5½ 85 Rajdeep Dutta WB 5½ 86 Maaz Iqubal UP 5½ 87 Preran M G KAR 5½ 88 Krishiv Agarwal CHA 5½ 89 Tuhin Subhra Das WB 5½ 90 Rohith Karthikeshwar N TEL 5½ 91 Madhavansh Mittal GUJ 5½ 92 Ganesh Naidu O K S S AP 5½ 93 Deepesh V PUD 5½ 94 Pradhan Priyanshu ODI 5½ 95 Parva B Thakkar GUJ 5½ 96 Bathri Narayana R V A TN 5½

97 Arjun Dube UP 5½ 98 Archit Mittal JHA 5½ 99 Shubh Kalangutkar GOA 5½ 100 Abhinavan Sharma ASM 5½ 101 Sujith R S TN 5½ 102 Raghav Bhargav MAH 5 103 Vibhor Jain UP 5 104 Patrick Shadrach N TN 5 105 Yuvan Kartik R TN 5 106 Charan Katyal PUN 5 107 Dawda Vihaan MAH 5 108 Samanwaya Kumar BIH 5 109 Mayank Chakraborty ASM 5 110 Sourabh BIH 5 111 Pratnesh Malvankar GOA 5 112 Shreyansh Bansal MP 5 113 Amey Goyal CHD 5 114 Vishwanath V TN 5 115 Shashindhar Kumar R TN 5 116 Divyansh Pandey UP 5 117 Rathi Ram MAH 5 118 Akansh Rajan DEL 5 119 Aditya Ranjan Das ODI 5 120 Laksheth R TN 5 121 Md. Kaif Ullah BIH 5 122 Aarav Nambiar T TEL 5 123 Utkrisht Tuli PUN 5 124 Uplenchwar Anay MAH 5 125 Godhani Maharth GUJ 5 126 Dheenram Shetty KAR 5 127 Saswata Majumder WB 5 128 Rupesh Sai S TN 5 129 Md Hasnain Siddiqui UP 4½ 130 Sai Ganesh D B AP 4½ 131 Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam TEL 4½ 132 M Venkata Ruthvik AP 4½ 133 Kiaan Agrawal CHA 4½ 134 Chinmoi Saikia ASM 4½ 135 Anirudh Rajeev KER 4½ 136 Devdarshan R B TN 4½ 137 Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar MAH 4½

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138 Nitin Kumar P TN 4½ 139 Anirudh Vignesh M PUD 4½ 140 Niranjan Karthi Y TN 4½ 141 Abeer Taneja RAJ 4½ 142 Kashelkar Atharv MAH 4 143 Kanishak Bhatt GUJ 4 144 Jai Karthik S TN 4 145 Shorya Mohta CHA 4 146 Aditya Tari GOA 4 147 Sagishnu Viyasan S TN 4 148 Santhosh S V PUD 4 149 Jiban Jyoti ODI 4 150 Nakulan Y TN 4 151 Avaneesh Handur MAH 4 152 Raghav Sankar S R TN 4 153 Adithya Vignesh M PUD 4 154 E Arivoli TN 4 155 Parmar Harmit Ashwinbhai GUJ 4 156 Lakshin Shrias B PUD 4 157 Vijayabaskaran R PUD 4 158 Sardar Shaunak MAH 3½ 159 Rishyendranath Reddy Ch AP 3½ 160 Joy Talreja GUJ 3½ 161 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish AP 3½ 162 Swaraj Jyoti Neog ASM 3½ 163 Sahu Mitansh RAJ 3½ 164 Yashvanth S PUD 3½ 165 Rishwant V P TN 3 166 Jervin Jeenon J PUD 3 167 Aditya Narain Mathur DEL 3 168 Devadarshan M TN 3 169 Dhakshine B PUD 3 170 Aaradhya Lad MAH 3 171 Kanaka Dinesh K M S S S AP 3 172 Vihaan Bhandari RAJ 3 173 Gokulramana G G PUD 3 174 Shashank V S TN 2 175 Marwin P Mariadassou PUD 2 176 Mithra Kumaran Jk TN 2 177 Ahuja Vyom UP 2 178 Jose Harry William P TN 2

179 Aditya Mandala TEL 2 180 Jeyadev S PUD 1 181 Nilayreddy Thalamarla TEL 0 182 Ashtosh A Wagh MAH 0 Final ranking:Girls Under-7 Rk Name Club Pts 1 Shefali A N WCM KAR 10 2 Sneha Halder WB 9 3 Suhaani Lohia MAH 8½ 4 Sarvani Cheedella AP 8½ 5 Sani Deshpande MAH 8½ 6 Ishani Mondal WB 8 7 Ray Sushree Ananya ODI 8 8 Sanjana Nagarajan TN 8 9 Arushi Srichandan ODI 8 10 Arshiya Das TRI 8 11 Aswinika Mani R TN 8 12 Saineha R M TN 7½ 13 Kamalini Haradhana N K PUD 7½ 14 Shriya Patil GOA 7½ 15 Shriyana S Mallya KAR 7½ 16 Ankita Sahoo ODI 7½ 17 Doyal Naidu R AP 7 18 Jayashri M TN 7 19 Jain Khyati MAH 7 20 Bhavya Narapuram MP 7 21 Kumbhalkar Anisha MAH 7 22 Patil Divya MAH 7 23 Jasmaira Gumber UTT 7 24 Patil Disha MAH 7 25 Trisha Jagtap MAH 726 Anishka Pandey ODI 727 Lakshana R TN 7 28 Vidula Anbuselvan TN 7 29 Tvisha Mangesh Shah MAH 7 30 Aishaani Durgaa S TN 6½ 31 Girija A Pednekar GOA 6½ 32 Hansika A S S S AP 6½ 33 Thapaswi Rajavarapu AP 6½ 34 J Faustina D Cruz TN 6½ 35 Asudani Ruhani Raj GUJ 6½

2 7th National Under - 17 Chess Cham-pionship 2016 was held from 9th September to 17th September 2016

at Amity University, Kolkata. The event was organized by Bengal Chess Associa-tion. The tournament attracted total 119 players (71in open section, and 48 in girls section.) from all over the India. There were in all 112 international fide rated players among the participants which includes 3 FM, 1 CM, 2 WIM, 4 WFM and 2 WCM.The tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS, Chair-man HIDCO. The other dignitaries present were Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Dr. Madhu-mita Roy, Director ASAP Amity University, IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, Bengal Chess Association, IA Debasish Barua, Treasur-er Bengal Chess Association, Shri. Atin Sengupta, Organising Secretary and IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter. Managers / players meeting were arranged just before the start of 1st round at 1pm. The other necessary technical matters were decided and appeals committee was formed.After 9 grueling days of top notch chess of 27th National Under-17 Chess Cham-pionship 2016, which concluded at Amity University campus, Kolkata, observed many decorated players biting the dust and emergence of some new talents.In the open section 8th seeded Sai Vish-wesh of Tamil Nadu emerged

champion with 9.5 points at the end of 11 rounds while state mate FM Venkata-raman Karthik secured the 2nd place with

9 points. Local lad Kaustuv Kundu and Mi-tarbha Guha both scored 8 points each but Kaustuv was placed 3rd while Mitarbha was placed 4th based on tie-break score in the final ranking list. Sai VIshwesh drew his last round game with Anustoop Biswas of WB to score 9.5 pts. At the end of penultimate round Sai VIshwesh was leading the open group with 9 points i.e. he was leading over his nearest rival FM Venkataraman Karthik of TN with ½ point.The Girls section witnessed a nail biting last round finish. Overnight leader Arpita Mukherjee of West Bengal faltered in the finishing line when she did a blunder in a complicated position against V Toshali of Andra Pradesh and finished by securing the 3rd, position. At the end of penulti-mate round both Aakanksha and Arpita were leading the table with 8.5 points each. In last round game Aakanksha Hagawane of MAH drew her game with Chandrayee Hajra of WB and Sakshi Chit-lange of MAH beat Isha Sharma of KAR to level the scores for the championship with 9 points each. However Aakansha emerged champion on basis of better tie break score. In last round on board no. 5 Ku. Harshita Guddanti of AP suddenly fall-en ill and expressed her inability to play.Due to Vishwakarma Pooja no vehicle was available and she could not be shifted to any clinic for treatment. Fortunately Dr. Vidya Sharma, mother of one of the participants, Isha Sharma, who was pres-ent at the venue examined Harshita and confirmed her illness & issued her with a certificate.Earlier in the morning the 11th and Final

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round was inaugurated by Ace Shooter and ex Olympian Joydeep Karmakar who spoke about the need of sheer concentra-tion, power in Chess as well as Shooting to excel at top level. He also emphasized on the need for physical fitness in both the games as both physical and mental health are correlated in sports. Organiz-ers provided with delicious snacks to the participants on the day of single round and Lunch on the day of double round and also a good accommodation in an area where no hotels were available.The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS, Chairman HID-CO, Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Dr. Madhu-mita Roy, Director ASAP Amity University, GM Dibyendu Barua, Arjuna Awadee, Shri. Pradipta Kumar Roy, Taekwondo Hall of Fame, Smt. Ruma Roy, Taekwondo Hall of Fame and IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter. The tournament was organized by Bengal Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation and hosted by Amity University, Kolkata.The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod and he was ably assisted by IA Asit Baran Choudhury Dy. Chief Arbiter, IA Palaniappan P, NA Swapan Adhikari and NA Goutam Bhattacharjee.

Final ranking:OpenRk Name St Pts 1 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 9½ 2 FM Karthik Venkataraman TN 9 3 Kaustuv Kundu WB 8 4 FM Mitrabha Guha WB 8 5 Jayakumaar S TN 7½ 6 FM Rajdeep Sarkar WB 7½ 7 Anustoop Biswas WB 7½ 8 Pranavananda V AP 7 9 Adhithya S TN 7

10 Barath Kalyan M TN 7 11 Subhayan Kundu WB 7 12 Hemanth Raam TN 7 13 Koustav Chatterjee WB 7 14 Saurabh Anand BIH 7 15 CM Aronyak Ghosh WB 7 16 Kamdar Udit GUJ 6½ 17 Audi Ameya GOA 6½ 18 Saksham Rautela UTT 6½ 19 Sarbojit Paul WB 6½ 20 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 6½ 21 Kumar Gaurav BIH 6½ 22 Ambarish Sharma WB 6½ 23 Shuban Saha WB 6½ 24 Gokulraj K TN 6 25 Saptorshi Gupta WB 6 26 Grahesh Y AP 6 27 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6 28 Samip Roy WB 6 29 Prathish A TN 6 30 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 6 31 Soham Das WB 6 32 Subhash K V AP 5½ 33 Sanket Chakravarty WB 5½ 34 Jyothir R KER 5½ 35 Rajarshi Dutta WB 5½ 36 Sourath Biswas WB 5½ 37 Debarghya Samanta WB 5½ 38 Sougata Halder WB 5½ 39 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar ASM 5 40 Swarnava Biswas WB 5 41 Swapnil Priyadarshi ORI 5 42 Vatsal Singhania JHA 5 43 Solanki Rutvik GUJ 5 44 Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary UP 5 45 Bipra Nath WB 5 46 Subhadip Seth WB 5 47 Jyothis R KER 5 48 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph TN 5 49 Aryamann Sain WB 5 50 Arijit Mukherjee WB 5

51 Mukherjee Sanchit JHA 5 52 Aritra Ganguly WB 4½ 53 Souradip Deb TRI 4½ 54 Ruchir Sengupta WB 4½ 55 Rupam Mukherjee WB 4½ 56 Tiwari Uddhav MP 4½ 57 Biswajit Changmai ASM 4 58 Sudheesh Karri AP 4 59 Mrityunjay Kumar BIH 4 60 Barik Jagdish ORI 4 61 Tushar Barua WB 4 62 Subhranil Majumder TRI 4 63 Meghanshram B V TEL 4 64 Rijoo Ghoshal WB 4 65 Neelash Saha WB 3½ 66 Sangam Kumar Singh BIH 3½ 67 Priyanshu Sekhar Swain CG 3½ 68 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 3½ 69 Arhan Boyd WB 3½ 70 Sorokhaibam Nikhilraj MAN 2½ 71 Sur Roychowdhury WB 1Final rankingLGirls Rk Name St Pts 1 Aakanksha Hagawane MAH 9 2 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 9 3 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 8½ 4 Toshali V AP 7½ 5 Vantika Agrawal DEL 7½ 6 WCM Ananya Suresh KAR 7 7 WFM Divya Deshmukh MAH 7 8 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 7 9 WIMI vana Maria Furtado GOA 7 10 Sunyuktha C M N TN 7 11 Krithigga K TN 6½ 12 WFM Lakshmi C TN 6½ 13 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 6½ 14 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 6½ 15 Harshita Guddanti AP 6 16 Swarnamala B TN 6 17 WFM Bommini M Akshaya AP 6 18 Abirama Srinithi G TN 6

19 Jegatha B TN 6 20 Potluri Saye Srreezza TEL 6 21 Kavitha P L TN 5½ 22 Poorna Sri M.K TN 5½ 23 Sudipa Haldar WB 5½ 24 Varsha C R TN 5½ 25 Sovna Sonali Jena ORI 5½ 26 Shanya Mishra DEL 5½ 27 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 5½ 28 Shinjini Sengupta WB 5½ 29 Kalyani B AP 5 30 Shweta Priyadarshini UP 5 31 Neha Srinibash D TN 5 32 Gujja Dheekshitha TEL 5 33 Alekhya B AP 5 34 Saheli Mondal WB 5 35 Akshatha Raju KAR 5 36 Sinthia Sarkar WB 4½ 37 Nizami Sada BIH 4½ 38 Niharika Ch AP 4½ 39 Debarpita Ghosh WB 4½ 40 Ayantika Das WB 4½ 41 Mehendi Sil WB 4 42 Aditi Bajaj MP 4 43 Mehak Khurana PUN 4 44 Meenal Sahu CG 4 45 Gujja Vaishnavi TEL 3½ 46 Manya Agrawal UTT 2 47 Megha Mondal WB 1½ 48 Shruthi P JHA 1

"At the Warsaw team tournament in 1935, the most surprising discovery was a gangling, shy, 19-year-old Estonian. Some had never heard of his country before, nobody had ever heard of Keres. But his play at top board was a wonder to behold. Not merely because he performed creditably in his first serious encounters with the world's greatest; others have done that too. It was his originality, verve, and brilliance which astounded and delighted the chess world."

– Grandmaster Reuben Fine

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T he 25th National Youth Under-25 Open Chess Championship 2016 organized by All Assam Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 20th to 26th September 2016 at Pragjyotish ITA Centre, MG Road, Machkhowa Guwahati Assam.

On 20th September Managers-cum players meeting was held under the chairmanship of Mr. R C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. B T Sethuraman, IA, Deputy Chief Arbiter, Mr. M Arun Singh, Vice President, All Assam Chess Association, Mr. BinodKhemka, Guest of Honour were present on the dais where all the necessary technical matters were discussed and settled & Appeals Committee was formed. Soon after the manager-cum players meet-ing inauguration ceremony started at 2.30 pm where Mr. Charlin Bhuyan, President, All Assam Chess Association preside over the function, Mr. Mukuta Deka, Chief Guest, Mr. R C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. BinodKhemka, guest of honour were present on the dais, after brief welcome address, Chief Guest and Master Himal Gussain of Chandigarh, top seeded player officially announcing the tournament open by making move on the chess board. Thereafter first round started at 4.20 pm.

Total 67 players from 17 different states among which 58FIDE rated players participated in the championship. Time control was 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move one. All the boards were provided with DGT Chess clock. Tournament hall was good and air-conditioned. After tough fight Master Himal Gussain of Chandigarh became the Cham-pion, Master Chaitanya Sairam Mogili of Andhra Pradesh Runners up and Master Bhatt Jalpan of Gujarat stood third. Organizers provided all the selected players , managers and parents free hotel accommodation, even those also who came to participate but could not be allowed to participate due to their birth certificate was not registered within one year of birth.

Arbiter team headed by Mr. R C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. BT Sethuraman, IA, Deputy Chief Arbiter, Mr. M Arun Singh, NA,Mr. Biswajit Bharadwaj, NA, Live game oper-ator conducted the championship successfully without single appeal and dispute.All The Arbiters performed their duties sincerely and satisfactorily. All Assam Chess Association, organizer of the championship has so many young dedicated personalities like Mr. Pranab Kumar Nath, Mr. Gaurav Roy, Mr.Trailokya Nanda Mr. Anup Roy under the leadership of Mr.RajibDhar, Honorary General Secretary of AACA and Mr. CharlinBhuyan, President AACA. Prize Distribution ceremony was held on 20th September 2016 at 3 pm at the venue. Mr. Bharat Singh Chouhan, CEO, AICF distributed the prizes.

Final standings: 1.Gusain Himal (CHD)8;2.Chaitanya Sairam Mogili(AP)7; 3.Bhatt Jalpan (GUJ)6½;4.Kumar S(TN)6½; 5.Prathish A(TN)6½; 6.Baivab Mishra(ODI)6½; 7.Nayak Ra-jesh(ODI)6½;8.Karthick Narayanan S(TN)6½; 9.Aryan (DEL)6; 10.Sahil Dhawan(HAR)6; 11.Manush Shah( GUJ)6; 12.Selvamurugan B(TN)5½; 13.Sathish Chandra G(TN)5½;14.Dave Sneh(GUJ)5½; 15.Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur(ASM)5½; 16.Ajinkya Pingale (MAH)5½; 17.Nitish Das(ASM) 5½;18.Harshit Sharma(RAJ)5½; 19.Ravi Kant Tiwari(ASM)5½;20.Rajdip Das(ASM)5½; 21.Amit Soman(MAH)5; 22.Sounak De (BEN)5; 23.Akash Tiwari(-BEN)5;24.Pavan Teja Medam(TEL)5; 25.Bikramjit Dhar(ASM)5

25th National Youth (U-25) Open Chess Championship 2016 Himal Gussain wins Under-25 title

by R.C.Chatterjee IA, Chief Arbiter

K annur Chess Academy, Kannur organized its 1st Fide rated open Chess Tournament at Sreepuram

English medium School & Junior College, Kannur. The tournament attracted 238 players from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry and Tamil-nadu. Out of which 144 players are FIDE rated chess players. More than 50% of the players are from Kannur, Kasarakode and Wayanad Districts. The tournament was held from 11th September 2016 to 13th September 2016, offering a prize fund of Rs,2,50,000/-. M Kunal from Tamilnadu was the top seeded.

Dr. Rajan Thomas, General Physician, President of Skyline Cliff Apartment Owners Association distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. Sachin Suryakant, Secretary, North Malabar Chamber of Commerce as the guest of Honour. Shri. Balaram, Secretary, Chess Association Kannur, presided over the meeting Shri. M Sumod General Convenor of the event welcomed the gathering and Shri Sudha-karan, gave the vote of thanks.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Shri. Ramachandran Kadannappally, Minister for Ports, Museums, Archaeology and Archives of Kerala, in the presence of Rev. Fr. Abraham Parambet and Shri. Gangadharan Meledath.

Major upset came from Avinash Hari of Kerala beat the top seeded M Kunal of Tamilnadu on round 3. Six players got four points at the end of round four. In

round five two draws came from top two boards which helped the third board play-er Nithin Babu's win over V S Unnikrishnan took the sole lead at the end of round five. In the final round Nithin Kumar failed to score against F M Vinothkumar and missed the title, he lost his game in the hands of F M Vinothkumar. Five players Alex Thomas, Akshay Madhusoodhanan, O T Anilkumar, Jubin Jimmy and Vinothkumar are with 5.5 points at the end of round six but better tie break helped Alex Thomas of Wayanad took the Winner's trophy and a cash prize of Rs.25000/- and Akshay Madhusoodhanan became the runner up. Kannur Chess academy is organising the event for the first time in Kannur. The parents, coaches and chess well wishers of Kannur together organized this event. The hard work of the organizers earned more than 50% of the local participants in this tournament really made a good awareness in Kannur District. Participation of former Kerala State Champion Shri. G N Viswanathan, the Superintendent of Police Kannur attracted the local crowd.A player lost his point by mobile phone who requested a selfie to his opponent on round 4 while playing the game!. Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Alex Thomas K. 5½ 2 Akshay Madhusoodhanan 5½ 3 Anilkumar O.T. 5½ 4 Jubin Jimmy 5½ 5 Vinoth Kumar M. 5½ 6 Nithin Babu 5

KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Tournament,Kannur...Alex Thomas wins title

by M. Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter

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7 Dhanush Ragav 5 8 Swera Ana Braganca 5 9 Roshan Hari 5 10 Kunal M. 5 11 Azeeb Sharafudeen 5 12 Magesh M 5 13 Hari R Chandran 5 14 Andrew Veda W Solomon 5 15 Abhiram Sudheesh 5 16 Avinash Hari 5 17 Joy Lazar M.A. 4½ 18 Sumesh Kabeer 4½ 19 Viswanathan V N 4½ 20 Abhiram C Nath 4½ 21 Muralidharan R. 4½ 22 Sojith E. 4½ 23 Nidhin Kumar S 4½ 24 Eswaran P 4½ 25 Digvijay Sunil 4½ 26 Alex C Joy 4½ 27 Manoj N 4½ 28 Hareendran V 4½ 29 Fathima Abdeen 4½ 30 Sheena E. 4½ 31 Ashish Thomas Alex 4 32 Unnikrishnan V S 4 33 Devadasan K.V. 4 34 Vaishnav S 4 35 Kannan.V 4 36 John P B 4 37 Karunakaran V 4 38 Chopdekar Gunjal 4 39 Devika P 4 40 Rajendra Prasad M 4 41 Ashitha C C 4 42 Sunil Kumar V T 4 43 Periyasamy N 4 44 Praveen Kumar G 4 45 Santhosh K P 4 46 K Panchapakesan 4 47 Jayesh C 4

48 Deepak Raju K 4 49 Aadithya Sumod 4 50 Raveendran P K 4 51 Akhil Chandran S 4 52 Hari Suresh 4 53 Sonumon P S 4 54 Jagadeesh A.K. 4 55 Sharsha Backer 4 56 Manojan Ravi 4 57 Ramachandran S M 4 58 Bindu Saritha K. 4 59 Sreedeep C V 4 60 Amal Roozi 4 61 Benni T K 4 62 Aringar Anna V 3½ 63 Sharath Kumar T P 3½ 64 Anfas Muhammed 3½ 65 Eldho Skaria 3½ 66 Kukku Ramesh 3½ 67 Sanjeev M 3½ 68 Rakesh N 3½ 69 Syam Peter 3½ 70 Shirodkar Aayush 3½ 71 Devanand B 3½ 72 Vishnu Menon 3½ 73 Sidharth D 3½ 74 Sanjeev Kumar 3½ 75 Vasundhara P. 3½ 76 Varadharajan S 3½ 77 Renjith C P 3½ 78 Sudheesh K G 3½ 79 Subramanian T.V. 3½ 80 Harijith A Manoj 3½ 81 Praveen Lawrence 3½ 82 Swaha V S 3½ 83 Deepak K S 3½ 84 Anand S 3½ 85 Sayooj P 3½ 86 Ankit KumarNand Kishore 3½ 87 Praveen Raj T 3½ 88 Asna Abdeen 3½

I nternational Master P. Shyamnikhil of Tamil Nadu clinched 5th Keshaba-nanda Das open 2016 by scoring 7.5

points & took home Rs.75,000/- (seventy five thousand only).International Master Swayams Mishra of Odisha became half point behind the champion by scoring 7 points & pocketed a cash prize of Rs. Fifty Thousand. IM VAV Rajesh of AAI became 2nd runners up by scoring 7 points & took away Rs. Thirty Five Thousand only. In top board IM P.Shyamnikhil drew with IM VAV Rajesh. In second board IM R. Ramnath Bhubnesh drew with IM Swayams Mishra. Odisha girl Smaraki Mohanty got 15th position & won cash prizes of Rs. Nine Thousand. Rakesh Ku. Nayak, Biswajit Nayak, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Ra-bindra Kumar Ojha got 15th, 23rd, 24th, 25th & 27th position in top merit thirty. All the winners collected cash prizes from Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra Misra, IPS(Retd.) , Former Director General of Police,Govt. of Odisha, Sri Subhasis Patnaik, Secy. Khordha District Chess Association & Sri Saroj Kishore Behera, Jt.Secy. Khordha District Chess Asso-ciation. Three arbiters VL Anand Babu, Tapas Mohanty & Santosh Mohapatra conducted the championship smoothly without any dispute.

GM Venkatesh M.R of Tamilnadu lost to IM Shyaamnikhil P of Tamilnadu FM Purush-othaman T, AP beat WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty. Muthaiah AI of Tamilnadu drew with IM Ramnath, Tamilnadu, Lokesh N, Tamilnadu drew with IM Anurag Mhamal, Chirag Satkar drew with IM Koshy Var-

gueese, ONGC, WFM Rutumbara Bidhar, odisha drew with Rajendra Kumar Sahu, Odisha & Smaraki Mohanty, of Odisha beat Ansuman Samal, Odisha.

After 8th Round IM Shyamnikhil P of Tamilnadu lead with 7 points, IM Swayms Mishra, IM Rajesh VAV in 2nd & 3rd spot with 6.5 points. 13th seed Sekar, B, IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R, IM Anurag Mha-mal, Goa & Muthaiah, AI of Tamilandu with 6 points.

In round seven, IM Anup Deshmukh, LIC drew with IM Swayams Mishra. GM Ven-katesh M.R, PSPB drew with Muthaiah AI, Tamilnadu and in IM Nurag Mhamal drew with IM Rajesh VAV.Rajsantosh Panda, Odisha beat Mahitosh Dey,, OdishaSibi, Visal R, Tamilnadu lost to Swapnil Sen, West Bengal

At the end of sixth round seven players were leading with 5 points each includ-ing top seed IM Swayams Mishra, GM M.R.Venkatesh, IM Anup Deshmukh, IM Anurag Mhamal, IM Shyamnikhil, IM VAV Rajesh & Al Muthaiah. Six players were in second spot by scoring 4.5 points each including IM R. Ramnath Bhubnesh, IM Suvrajit Saha, IM B.T.Murlikrishnan, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Biswajit Nayak, A.Harsini. Fifteen players were in 3rd spot by scoring 4 points each. In top board IM Swayams Mishra drew with IM Shyamnikhil, 2nd Board AI Muthaiah drew with IM Anurag Mhamal, Goa, 5th Board Biswajit Nayak, Odisha drew with IM BT Murali Krishnan of Railways.

5th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tournament, BubaneshwarShyamnikhil emerges Champion

by IM Anurag Mhamal,

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Final Ranking: Rk. Name State Pts.1 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 7.5 2 IM Swayams Mishra AI 7 3 IM Rajesh V A V AAI 7 4 Sekar B TN 6.55 GM Venkatesh M.R. pspb 6.5 6 Rao J. Malleswara AP 6.5 8 IM Murali Krishnan B T RLY 6.5 9 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 6.510 IM Anurag Mhamal Goa 6.511 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J Tel 6 12 IM Suvrajit Saha WB 6 13 Sa Kannan TN 6 14 Surendran N TN 6 15 Smaraki Mohanty Odi 6 16 Swaraj Palit Jha 6 17 IM Koshy Varugeese ongc 6 18 Satkar Chirag Mah 6 19 Muthaiah Al TN 6 20 Lokesh N. TN 6 21 IM Deshmukh Anup LIC 5.5 22 Harshini A TN 5.5 23 Rakesh Kumar Nayak Odi 5.5 24 Nayak Biswajit Odi 5.5 25 WGMKiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 5.5 26 Didwania Vishal WB 5.5 27 Rabindra Kumar Ojha Odi 5.5 28 Jishitha D AP 5.5 29 Arya Bhakta WB 5.5 30 Sankalp Gupta Mah 5.5 31 Panda Raj Santosh Odi 5 32 Ayushh Ravikumar TN 5 33 Sibi Visal R TN 5 34 Swapnil Sen WB 5 35 Aasha C R TN 5 36 Krishna Karthik N AP 5 37 Prajwalesh Kar 5 38 Sahu Rajendra Kumar Odi 5 39 Panda Sambit Odi 5 40 Samal Ansuman Odi 5

41 WFMBidhar Rutumbara Odi 5 42 CM Shahil Dey Asm 4.5 43 Behera Dillip Nalco 4.5 44 Samant Aditya S Mah 4.5 45 Jaeel Atharva Mah 4.5 46 Aparajita Gochhikar KIIT 4.5 47 Rajesh Kumar Nayak Odi 4.5 48 Harshit Ranjan Sahu Odi 4.5 49 Pati Spandan MP 4.5 50 Manish Kumar (2006) Odi 4.5 51 Priyamvada Karamcheti AP 4.5 52 Ananya Anamika Odi 4.5 53 Aryan Mohapatra Odi 4.5 54 Arpan Das (jr) WB 4.5 55 Rindhiya V TN 4.5 56 Behera Biswaranjan MCL 4 57 Lalitmohan Digal nalco 4 58 Mallick Ranjan Odi 4 59 Das Gaurab Odi 4 60 Rabindra Kumar Moharana Odi 4 61 Krishan A TN 4 62 Sasidhara Kurup C Pon 4 63 Jose John K ongc 4 64 Soumyajit Das WB 4 65 Bhoi Gunanidhi nalco 4 66 Panda Miracle Odi 3.5 67 Panda Chandra Sekhar nalco 3.5 68 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan Odi 3.5 69 Susovan Chowdhury WB 3.5 70 Ravi Kumar N nalco 3.5 71 Srikanta Charan Behera nalco 3.5 72 Mallick Saswat Odi 3.5 73 Sahu Tuna nalco 3.5 74 Chandra Mohan Munduri nalco 3.5 75 Arhan Chethan Anand Kar 3.5 76 Mahitosh Dey Odi 3 77 Koustuv Dash Odi 3 78 Panda R K nalco 3 79 Arushi Srichandan Odi 3 80 Rout Kandarpa nalco 3

T his is the 14th event in this series. The Buddhibal kreeda trust already con-ducted thirteen events, one per year.

For the inaugural function dignitaries on dais were Mr. Ashwin Trimal, Chief Guest, GM Abhijit Kunte, VP, MCA, Dr. Sanjay Karavade Secretary, PDCC and me. The anchouring is done by FA Vinita Shrotri. Along with Chief Guest, GM Swapnil Dhopade, GM Laxman R R and FA Vinita Shrotri were felicitated on this occasion with silver coin and bouquet. Trimalji also is one of the owner of MCL team and also active member of Lakshya foundation, who supports young players from different sports.

This championship attracted 230 Players from three countries out of which 158 rated play-ers took part and the average rating of rated players is 1597. The total representation of states are 10 & 3 special units, spearheaded by 2 GMs, 8 IMs, 1 FM, 2 WFMs, 4 CMs, 1 WCM, 2 AGMs and 1 AIM. Top seed of the Championship was GM Swapnil S Dhopade from Amravati representing Railway whose ELO rating is 2494. Oldest player in this event is Shri Narendra Savarkar (1938) of Pune, Maharashtra and youngest one are Ms. Iksha Soni Teebika & Aditya Kunal Patil of Mumbai Maharashtra (2010). This event has given chance for many young players to play, observed games of several strong players, boosted their confidence and given them inspiration.

Fierce fight was evinced until the end, as the winners would bag prize of Rs. 1,00,000/- and glittering trophy. In the 5th round, GM Swapnil Dhopade of Railway won against Sar-avana Krishnan P of Tamil Nadu and became

sole leader of contingent. In 7th round IM Shyaamnikhil P of Tamilnadu drew with GM Swapnil and tried to make field open for all, but on second board resulted in draw. There-fore, GM Swapnil continued to lead with 6½ points in his pocket. In the 8th round he was defeated by Mr. Rakesh Kulkarni of Mumbai Maharashtra and took joint lead with IM Shy-aamnikhil P of Railway scoring 7 points each. 9th round was crucial for every participant as well as chance to become Champion of this event was open for more than nine players. In the crucial match between IM Shyaamnikhil P of TN and Shri Rakesh Kulkarni of Mumbai Maharashtra, Shyaamnikhil demolished the defence of Rakesh since Rakesh did not cas-tle his king and on this weakness only Shy-aamnikhil concentrated his attack made field narrowed to him defeating Rakesh become champion of this event.

The glittering trophy along with cash of Rs. 1,00,000/- was won by IM Shyaamnikhil P while last time winner and completed re-quired live rating of 2500 to become GM Swapnil Dhopade stood second received Rs. 55,000/-.The tournament did not trouble the Appeals Committee consisting of GM Swapnil Dhopade of Railway, IM Abhishek Kelkar of CRSB and Mr. Kulkarni Rakesh of MAH as the main members and Mr. Saravana Krishnan P. of TN & IM Hegde Ravi Gopal of KAR as reserve members. The order of the players was determined according to number of points obtained.

The championship was a boon to many players, as many of them gained substantial confidence playing against higher ELO rated

14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating TournamentShyaamnikhil emerges winner

by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter

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players. Also, they gained knowledge, the calmness till end, desire to win games etc. CM Gukesh, D gained 77 ELO points from this event while around 35 players will get FIDE rating.

For the closing function Shri Chordia was Chief Guest, along with GM Abhijit Kunte, Shri Prakash Kunte, me and Shri Nitin Kelkar CAO PDCC were present on dais. The prizes were distributed by the hands of Chief Guest and dignitaries present on dais.

I also thank AICF, MCA, Arbiter Commission MCA, PDCC & BKT for giving me an oppor-tunity to work as Chief Arbiter in prestigious ‘14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament’ and excellent support offered by BKT during the event.

Final RankingRk Name Pts1 IM Shyaamnikhil P 82 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade 7½3 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 74 Bhambure Shantanu 75 Kulkarni Rakesh 76 IM Krishna C R G 77 Raja Harshit 78 Saravana Krishnan P. 79 IM Thejkumar M. S. 710 IM Abhishek Kelkar 711 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 712 Dodeja Pawan 713 Kunal M. 714 Navalgund Niranjan 715 Shashikant Kutwal 6½16 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri 6½17 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar 6½18 Saranya Y 6½19 Kiran Panditrao 6½

20 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 6½21 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R 6½22 AGM Sa Kannan 6½23 CM Gukesh D 6½24 IM R. Balasubramaniam 6½25 Prasannaa.S 626 Rao J. Malleswara 627 Dahale Atul 628 Jedhe Pinak 629 Gugale Sunny 630 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 631 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 632 Samant Aditya S 633 Aaryan Varshney 634 Kabir Belgikar 635 Gavade Atharv 636 Shelke Sankarsha 637 IM Kathmale Sameer 638 Mokal Amruta Sunil 639 Vijay Anand M. 640 CM Raja Rithvik R 641 Vigneshwaran S 642 Soham Datar 643 Patil Ketan 644 Sunil Vaidya 645 CM Mullick Raahil 646 Muthaiah Al 647 Golvankar Dilip K 5½48 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 5½49 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 5½50 Ghela Sameer 5½51 Jain Kashish Manoj 5½52 Anurag Jaiswal 5½53 Nagare Akhilesh 5½54 Agashe Balraj 5½55 Karthik Sai Ch 5½56 Sambamurthy P. 5½57 AGM Mani Bharathy 5½58 Polakhare Aryan 5½59 Bipin Raj S 5½60 Dongre Chandrakant 5½

61 Behere Ravi 5½62 Nitul Khare 5½63 Nargundkar Ravindra 5½64 AIM Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 5½65 Shintre Neel 5½66 Shubham Lakudkar 567 Phatak Aanjaneya 568 Ahirrao Vedant 569 Kavisha S Shah 570 Khadilkar L.P. 571 Ishwar Ramteke 572 Deshmukh Varun 573 Pranav Ram Hariharan 574 Watarkar Yash 575 Kant Swapnil 576 Gupta Ashish Bajaranglal 577 Wadodkar Amit 578 Moghe Mayur 579 Halkude Nagnath 580 Pardeshi Vivek 581 Prabhu Aaditya 582 Korde Kedar 583 Vashishtha Ankesh 584 Arijit Ghosh 585 Gupte Aradhya 586 Jadhav Rahul 587 Vallabh Kavi 588 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 589 Athalye Varad 590 Supnekar Milind 591 Shreyas Ghadi 592 Sachjith M 593 Kumar Sanu 594 Nirgun Keval 595 Boramanikar Tanisha S 596 Khude Laxman 597 Jail Digambar 598 Pandhare Swapnil 599 Chincholikar Suhas 5100 Wadile Devendra 5101 GM Laxman R.R. 4½

102 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 4½103 Krishna Malay 4½104 Pardeshi Ajay 4½105 Dandekar Umesh 4½106 Mahek J Hinhoriya 4½107 Mahamuni Yogesh 4½108 Tekam Krunal 4½109 Ayinala Shree 4½110 Bhange Anushka 4½111 Kulkarni Pawan 4½112 Chaudhari Tanmay 4½113 Kotasthane Sarang 4½114 Godbole Shardul 4½115 Pingale Shivraj 4½116 Moghe Rahul 4½117 Paturkar Manav 4½

Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan

In the retro below the black is in check. The solver has to find out the last move of white together with the black move prior to that.

Pavlovic BrancoSahovska vjesnik 1950

Last move?

(solution on page 48)

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4 thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial International Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament organized by Chess in Lake city, Under

the aegis of ARCA, AICF and FIDE held from 10th to 15th Sep 2016 at Bhandari Darshak Mandap, Gandhi Ground, Chetak Circle Udai-pur, Rajasthan.

In the Lake city Udaipur, the tournament attracted total number of 287 entries all over state of India and 4 other countries ( USA , Canada , Srilanka and Nepal also participat-ed) in which 5 International Master, 1 WFM , 1 AGM,1AFM, 211-Rated Players & 76 Unrated players & 31Girls players took part.

The event was conducted in a 10 Rounds Swiss league system, with the time control of 90 min plus 30 sec increment from move No.1, Daily two round ( Except 2 days 1 rounds).The total prize money of the event was Rs.6,00,000 with First Prize of Rs.60,000 for the winner of the tournament.

The talented young and senior players from all over India and 4 other countries had par-ticipated in the 4thN.L.Pandiyar fide rating tournament to snatch the total prize money of Rs.6,00,000/-.Hard fought victories and some draws were witnessed in the tournament. At the end of the 10 Round the ultimate winner was Akshat Khamparia of MP and the runner up was Avdhoot Lendhe of Maharastra.

This is the 4th Tournament in a row by the Chess In Lake City under the aegis of ARCA & AICF. Kudos to Vikas Sahu–(Org,.Secretary) for his excellent efforts and great vision. Also

a warm clapping for whole team of Chess in Lake city for their dedicated efforts. Chess in Lake city has done wonderful work under the leadership of Fide Arbiter and Convenor Sh. Rajendra Teli to fulfill all the requirements by providing a fully Air-conditioned Tournament hall. Free accommodation to all players with delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner during Tournament was arranged free of cost for at the venue.

Overall the experience of being in this tour-nament was overwhelming. The hospitality and the warmth of the organizers deserved appreciation.Last but not least the great sup-port of Lions club of Udaipur, Maharana was really a admirable.The team of Arbiters en-sured smooth conduct of the tournament and there was a not a single protest or appeal.

Final ranking: Rk Name State Pts 1 Akshat Khamparia MP 8½ 2 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 8½ 3 Soni Krishan DEL 8 4 Manigandan S S TN 8 5 Ankan Roy KOL 8 6 Prasad Devaki V MAH 8 7 Nasir Ali Syed UP 7½ 8 Jay Kundaliya GUJ 7½ 9 Santu Mondal DEL 7½ 10 Maulik Raval GUJ 7½ 11 Vinay Raj Bhatt UTT 7½ 12 Sachin Malik DEL 7½ 13 Nair Sanjeev MAH 7½ 14 Sumit Grover J&K 7½ 15 Samrat Ghorai KOL 7½

16 Sinha Santosh Kumar GUJ 7½ 17 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai GUJ 7 18 Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 7 19 Mishra Neeraj-Kumar JHA 7 20 Mani Bharathy TN 7 21 Aaryan Varshney DEL 7 22 Rishabh Nishad UP 7 23 Mandloi Mukesh RAJ 7 24 Ajay Kumar Rai DEL 7 25 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 7 26 Rathore Sonakshi RAJ 7 27 Dave Kantilal RAJ 7 28 Srikanth K. IAF 7 29 Wazeer Ahmad Khan IM 7 30 Sharma C.L. RAJ 7 31 Borse Pankaj MAH 7 32 Govind Kumar Chandel UDA 7 33 Uma Maheswaran P TN 7 34 Parmod Kharbash HAR 7 35 Verma Sanjay RLY 7 36 Narayan Joshi RAJ 7 37 A K Kalshyan DEL 6½ 38 Anuj Shrivatri MP 6½ 39 Biswajit Chatterjee RLY 6½ 40 Dishant Jain MP 6½ 41 Sher Singh RAJ 6½ 42 Himanshu Moudgil DEL 6½ 43 Vikram Mukhija RAJ 6½ 44 Abir Sinha DEL 6½ 45 Singh Jagpreet PUN 6½ 46 Nakul Chaudhary UP 6½ 47 Pratap Singh Solanki MP 6½ 48 Satyanarayana P. TEL 6½ 49 Negi Virender Singh AI 6½ 50 Tiwari O P MP 6½ 51 Nimdia Ridit MAH 6½ 52 Gautam Kataria UDA 6½ 53 Tanishka Kotia HAR 6½ 54 Maheshwari Prabhav UDA 6½ 55 Hend Pravin MAH 6 56 Sudipta Chakraborty KOL 6

57 Abhishek Pandey DEL 6 58 Katiyar Prashant UP 6 59 Karthik Sai Ch AP 6 60 Sharma Pankaj PUN 6 61 Sirsat Shekhar V. MAH 6 62 Vigneshwaran S TN 6 63 Rawal Shailesh GUJ 6 64 Basant Khandelwal JHA 6 65 Choubey Saurabh MP 6 66 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 6 67 Ajit Kotia HAR 6 68 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 6 69 Pritom Nath ASM 6 70 M Tulasi Ram Kumar TEL 6 71 Vikrant Jaglan HAR 6 72 Patil Ketan MAH 6 73 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 6 74 Raj Kumawat UDA 6 75 Bipul Kr. Naskar KOL 6 76 Sanku Mitra KOL 6 77 Aashish Choudhary RAJ 6 78 Ayan Banerjee KOL 6 79 Chaudhary Sushil NEP 6 80 Chaudhary Pallav UDA 6 81 Nandha Kumar K TN 6 82 Raghuveer Singh RAJ 6 83 Vibhav Pamecha UDA 6 84 Ishwar Ramteke MAH 6 85 Mehul Gupta RAJ 6 86 Arun Kataria UDA 6 87 Sangoi Hriday MAH 6 88 Mahesh Bhatnagar RAJ 6 89 Kashyap Tiwari RAJ 6 90 Saypuri Srithan TEL 6 91 Monika Sahu UDA 6 92 Dhruv Dak UDA 6 93 Chakravarthi S.V.C. TEL 5½ 94 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat UDA 5½ 95 Sunny Bedi UDA 5½ 96 Shuvam Roy KOL 5½ 97 Dave Shiv Shankar RAJ 5½

4thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial International Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament, JaipurAkshat Khamparia is Champion

by A.C.Joshi IA, Chief Arbiter

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T he South Asian Amateur Chess Cham-pionships 2016 for below 2000 ELO was organised by All Jammu & Kashmir

Chess Association at Gurjar Desh Charitable Trust, Bye Pass, Channi Himmat, Jammu Tawi, J&K, Sponsored by J&K State Sports Council from 1st to 6th September 2016. A total number of 420 players from three fed-erations, including 385 rated players took part in the mega event. The championship had only 4 players from abroad i.e. one from Bangladesh and three players from Nepal. Singh Soram Rahul from India was the top seed. The Championship was conducted 9 rounds swiss sytem with a time control of 90 mts. Each with 30 seconds increment from move one.In the third and fourth round top seed Singh Soram Rahul of Assam suffered a defeat in the hands of Subham Lakudkar and Pujjam Bansod both from Maharashtra and could not consolidate in the rest of the rounds. In the final round Rahul Srivatsav of Telen-gana with 7 points defeated the overnight leader Mohammed Fasal of Kerala with 7.5 points and joined with P.K. Suresh of Kerala who defeated Rishab Nishad of Uttar Pradesh. Both Rahul Srivathsav and P.K. Suresh scored 8 points and with a better tie break score Rahul Srivathsav was declared as Winner of the South Asian Amateur Chess Champion-ship 2016 and Suresh finished runner up and they bagged Rs.200000/- and Rs.125000/- respectively. Seven players tied for 3rd to 9th position and Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar of Delhi finished third.Earlier this championship was inaugurated by Shri Sunil Kumar Sharma M.O.S.Trans-port and youth services and sports declared

opened the event along with Shri Danesh Rana IGP Jammu . Shri Shiv Sharma Joint Secretary J&K Sports was also present as special guest at the inauguration. While ad-dressing the gathering Minister appreciated the efforts of All J&K Chess Association for organizing such a mega event in Jammu and kashmir and said it will go a along way in channelizing the energies of the youth in right direction. Mr.Atul Kumar Gupta President "All J&K Chess association" in his welcome address mentioned that due to kashmir un-rest about 50 Foreign players cancelled their plans to come for this first ever mega event. Also present on the occassion were asso-ciation office bearers Gen.Secretary Ashiq ahmad,Sr.vice president A.R.Wani,Vice pres-idents baldev Raj and Taranveer singh,Press secretary kuljeet jamwal, org. secretary Vikas Nanda,treasurer khalid amin,Advisor Dr.A.S.Bhatia and raj kumar.At the Prize Distribution on 6th September Shri. Bali Bhagat, Hon’ble Minister for Health & Medical Education was the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes. Shri Piyush Singla, IAS was the guest of honour and distributed the prizes. Mr. Atul Kumar Gupta, President, All J&K Chess Association welcomed the gath-ering and Mr. Taranvir Singh Gujral proposed vote of thanks.Final ranking: Rk Name St Pts1 Raghav Srivathsav V TEL 82 Suresh P K KER 83 Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar DEL 7½4 Mohammed Fasal V U KER 7½5 Rupesh Ranjan BIH 7½6 Mota Pankit MAH 7½

7 Joy Lazar M.A. KER 7½8 Panta Sumit NEP 7½9 Shet Prajwal P KAR 7½10 Arun Rathi HAR 711 Rishabh Nishad UP 712 Deepak Singh DEL 713 Mohite Ranveer MAH 714 Gavi Siddayya KAR 715 Mulla Nihalahamad MAH 716 Shubham Lakudkar MAH 717 Umashankar A PUD 718 Aishwin Daniel MP 719 Jeet Jain GUJ 6½20 Kadav Omkar MAH 6½21 Sayan Banik WB 6½22 Harsh Himanshu BIH 6½23 Santhosh Kumar G. TN 6½24 Mughaho Awomi NAG 6½25 Naveen Bansal CHAN 6½26 Vishwanath Prasad TEL 6½27 Ajith M.P. KAR 6½28 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 6½29 Sanjay Chhabra HAR 6½30 Janani J TN 6½31 Alka Das JHAR 6½32 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 6½33 Arijith M KER 6½34 Sandeep Chitkara DEL 6½35 Ajit Singh J&K 6½36 Sonkalan Bharati WB 637 Rajeev V M KER 638 Diwan Rajesh OFSPB 639 Sahil Dhawan HAR 640 Kumar Deepak BIH 641 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 642 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 643 Devansh Ratti MAH 644 Chaudhary Sushil NEP 645 Cheniram Pegu ASM 646 Singh Jagpreet PUN 647 Lekh Mithawala MAH 6

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48 Dave Shiv Shankar RAJ 649 Sachin Malik DEL 650 Nitish Das ASM 651 Rao Mitta TEL 652 Stephen Raj A TN 653 Punit Indora HAR 654 Sushrutha Reddy KAR 655 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 6

Category prizesage group F13 Rk Name Pts79 Arushi Kotwal 6age group F15 20 Meenal Gupta 7Best Veteran 22 Dilip Das 6½age group U13 40 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 6½age group U15 34 Manu David Suthandram 6½best female 16 Anjana Krishna S 7Best Unrated 156 Amit Sharma 5217 Bhavesh Mahajan 4½rating between 1000 and 1399 105 Uttam Kumar 5½rating between 1400 and 1599 32 Sudipta Chakraborty 6½rating between 1600 and 1699 41 Lochan Kumar Das 6½rating between 1700 and 1799 31 Sunny Bedi 6½

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without neces-sarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

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S ri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Dharmavaram was organized by the Singanamala Ramakr-

ishna and Your’s Foundation, Dharmavaram, Andhra Pradesh Chess Association.

9th to 11st Sep, 2016.Shanmukha Teja of Telangana emerged champion of Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tour-nament which concluded atAarya-vysya choultry,Dharmavaram, Andhra Pradesh. He scored 8.5 points from 9 rounds to claim winner trophy.

Winner Shanmukha Teja got prize money of Rs. 30,000/ plus Trophy- and Runner Up Salman K,Rs. 20,000/- . 3rd placed P. Pa-van Teja got 15,000/- .Total 2.20 lakh prize money is distributed among 64 players.The event attracted 350 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil-nadu, Karnataka, Odissa,West Bengal,UP.

FA V.Srikanth is the Chief Arbiter. FA G.Ven-kata Kumar arbiters for the event.The Tour-nament was inaugurated by Rupa Raja,D.Hemadri, Prasanna Kumar,Koti Laxmi Ven-kateswarulu,S.Ramakrishna, M.Rama Kr-ishna Reddy,Pola Prabhakar,C.Bheema Rao were the guests for the inaguration.In the valedictory function Chief Guests Y.K.Srini-vasulu(Secretary Your’s foundation),Singan-amala.Rama Krishna,Y.D.RamaRao(Presi-dentAPCA),Pola Prabhakar(Your’s foundation President)graced the occasion.

Final Ranking:Rk. Name Pts. 1 Shanmukha Teja P 9

2 Salman K 8 3 Pavan Teja Medam 8 4 Gaurav Sharma 8 5 Surya Prakash J 8 6 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 8 7 Sreesailam Chandra Mohan 8 8 Kabil S 8 9 Rajat Yadav 8 10 Vishwanath Kannam 7 11 Vaisakh R P 7 12 Srikanth Myakala 7 13 Chaubey Bharat 7 14 Shivaiah K 7 15 Rangarajan Srinivasan 7 16 Mogan Raj S 7 17 Sameer C 7 18 Ravindra P 7 19 Rathish R 7 20 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 7 21 Krishnan M S 7 22 Afreed T Khan 7 23 Mahesh Adra 7 24 Suhaib Ahmad 7 25 Mekala Negendra 7 26 Nagasri Saikanth 7 27 Tarun Vaibhav V 7 28 Abdul Nabi 7 29 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 7 30 Santhosh Manikantan 7 31 Sharma Vivek 7 32 Vinoth Kumar M 7 33 Rehaman Kotte 7 34 Jaffar Vali S 7 35 Madduri Satya Tejeswar 7 36 Narasimha Raveendra G 7 37 Aswat Narayanan R 7 38 Manraja A 6 39 Vangala Prashanth 6 40 Sudhakar Kancharla 6

Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Dharmavaram

Shanmukha Teja wins titleby V.Srikanth FA , Chief Arbiter

Fifth roundIndia beat Azerbaijan1 by 3-1

Hari's win over Mamedyarov with black in the top board opening the floodgates as Vidit Gujrathi too finished off GM Arkady Naiditsch (2697) with the black pieces. After Vidit had completed the win, Adhi-ban called it a day and settled for a draw with Teimour Radjabov. Sethuraman had a completely winning position on the fourth board but drew he game. The fifth round win of India over hosts Azerbaijan-1 by 3-1 is one of the biggest upsets recorded by the Indians in a Chess Olympiad. All four Indians had lower ratings and strangely our wins came on the black boards! Vidit was fielded in all five games by coach R.B.

Ramesh and he is sitting pretty on 5/5. Indian champion Karthikeyan Murali (2/2) started well but Harikrishna is fielded at the top from round three. Sixth roundIndia beat Netherlands 2.5 to 1.5Indians have wrested sole lead in the Chess Olympiad. The hero of India’s 2.5-1.5 win over the Netherlands was B Adhiban who beat Erwin L’Ami in the second board. Indian message is simple. Winning the bronze medal at Norway 2014 was no fluke.

42nd Chess Olympiad, Baku42nd Chess Olympiad concluded in Azerbaijan on 14th September 2016.180 countries in the men team event and 140 countries in the women team took partAICF congratulates Indian men team which finished 4th and the women team finished fifth at the Baku Chess Olympiad 2016! The team members were Grandmasters Harikrishna Pentala. Vidit Gujrathi. Adhiban Baskaran, Sethuraman SP, Karthikeyan Murali ably guided by GM R.B.Ramesh, the coach. India was leading the tournament for the most part and towards the end we missed some chances which dragged us away from the medal. The women team consisting of led by GM Hariks, IM Tania Sachdev, WGM Soumya Swaminathan, WGM Padmini Rout and Pratyusha Bodda was ably assisted by IM Vishal Sareen as coach.President Mr.Venketrama Raja, President of AICF, provided moral support to the players and encouraged the teams throughout with his presence. Overall, It was a very satisfying Olympiad for the teams.

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Between the Olympiads, India had beaten Olympiad champions China and won the Asian Team Champion-ship. Success belongs to our players and our AICF selection system which selects the players.After six rounds, ninth seeded India have recorded six wins and five rounds remained to be played..

Seventh roundIndia lost to US 0.5-3.5Almost amazing ly, the Ind ian team had not lost a single game, on all the boards, in the entire Olympiad until the sixth round. All of a

sudden, the whole world was doffing its hat to India, and heaping praises on our country. But then we faced the second seeded USA in the seventh round. Indians were crushed 3.5-0.5 by Caruana, Nakamura, Wesley So, and Sam Shankland, for a heart-wrenching loss. P. Harikrishna was a wee bit worse out of the opening, but he was having a fine position. Maybe, he was even better at some point, but that did not matter as Caruana was always in the game. It was a draw. The only draw for India in the seventh round. Adhiban landed in a bad position in the middle game, but Adhiban is known to fight back well in such pressure positions. But there was no coming back for him this time as Nakamura finished off without any troubles. Vidit too had an off-colour showing after a wrong choice of plans left him struggling to stay alive. Wesley So converted without any issues.Sethuraman was completely winning against Shankland until a sad blunder towards the time control left him in tears. Eighth roundIndia beat England 2.5-1.5In a must-win situation to stay in conten-tion for the medals. India took on England, who had shocked China in the previous match. Harikrishna and the legendary Michael Adams settled for a draw, and so did Adhiban against Howell, and Vidit against Jones. What about Sethuraman, who had missed many chances already in this Olympiad?

Of course, Sethu has a tangible advan-tage, just as he had in many of his previ-ous rounds. It is easy to be discouraged

and lose the thread, especially in pressure situations. But Sethuraman is Sethuraman. India took the match 2.5-1.5, and was back in the lead! And thus, with this timely resurgence, India joined the US and Ukraine at the top of the table with 14 points. Team India has already played the Americans, and in this crucial ninth round clash, will take on the Ukrainians. It is make or break now!Ninth roundIndia lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5P.Harikrishna drew his game with Pavel Eljanov. There was nothing notable in the offing really. Adhi-ban, who opened with the Italian game, was on the backfoot for most of the game against Ruslan Ponomariov, but he got away with a draw. Vidit Gujrathi chose to defend with the Berlin Defense and had a fairly equal position, that ended in a draw against Yuriy Kryvoruchko. In the ninth round, the story repeated. The top three boards drew/were drawing their games leaving Sethu to battle it out in the middle. He gained an upper hand late into the middlegame, and it looked like Sethuraman would lead us to another memorable victory. Just as in the seventh round game, he blundered away better position and lost.

Tenth roundIndia drew Russia 2-2India faced the top-seeded Russia in an all-important penultimate round clash. Russia's top board Sergey Karjakin is slated to take on the World Champion Magnus Carlsen for the title clash in New York in a few weeks from now. And Hari was tasked with taking on Karjakin with the white pieces. Fairly straightforward, one would assume, except that Adhiban was losing against Kramnik and oth-er boards were heading towards draws. Hari increased the pressure on Karjakin who began to go wrong and finally cracked. The third board game between Vidit and Ian Nepomniachtchi had ended in a draw. Sethuraman too held the fort with the black pieces against Alexander Grischuk. On top of that, Hari had another tension to take care of. Kramnik played beautifully, true to his stature, against Adhiban in a manner that has made him a treat to behold. Positional, dominating, smooth, effortless, and so on. Eleventh roundIndia drew Norway 2-2Sethu was thinking about his move against Norwegian GM Frode Urkedal. The last round of the Ol-ympiad was in progress. Sethu was on the fourth board. 'Should I go for the move that is naturally coming to me? Or should I be more cautious? How are my team-mates doing?' He thought for about five minutes and held his bishop and sacrificed it on e3. How sad would it have been had we lost to the Norwegians just before the finish line? The top two tables had ended in a draw. We were a point behind thanks to Sethu's loss. India was in trouble.Pentala Harikrishna had the onerous task of climbing Mt. Magnus. He had the advantage of the white pieces, yet Magnus managed to press him, even though just slightly. Hari managed to draw the game without many hiccups. Vidit Gujrathi, who had been down with fever since mid-way into the Olympiad, managed to get a quite advantageous position until he blundered as well!Luckily for Vidit, Aryan Tari missed his chance and played 27...Be6?, and Vidit got back his advantage, that he converted into a win. Vidit would have had to return crestfallen had Black found the simple saving resource 27...Qd3+!, when the game should have ended in a draw after 28.Ka1 Qxe2 29.Re1 Qxg2 30.Qxc4+ Kh7=. Team India had managed to hold Norway to a 2.0-2.0 draw.

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41 Veerabhadri K 6 42 Lokesh N 6 43 Prasanna Kumar G 6 44 Durga Surya Krishna Teja 6 45 Kavi Samrat P 6 46 Tarun Vankadaru 6 47 Somasekhar Prasad 6 48 Mahendra Teja Mekala 6 49 Harish G 6 50 Pavan Kumar 6 51 Shivakumar D M 6 52 Mallik M 6 53 Naga Seshu Kata 6 54 Shabreen T Khanam 6 55 Hemadri T 6 56 Bhaskar Teja K Venkata 6 57 Lasya Mayukha N 6 58 Sagar Ch 6 59 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6 60 Hemadri Dasari 6 61 Amarnath G 6 62 Arjun Lenkalapalli 6 63 Raval DTribhovandas 6 64 Nazeer Basha G 6 65 Vajrala Dinesh Reddy 6 66 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed 6 67 Jaganatham K 6 68 Nayak Maheswar 6 69 Gokul S 6 70 Samith Reddy I 6 71 Deena Dayalan S 6 72 Suresh Bondalapati 6 73 Shaik Shavali 6 74 Gugaray Manjunath 6 75 Wanjari Rajendra 6 76 Varadharajan I. 6 77 Gowri Shankar A 6 78 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 6 79 Uma Harsha P 6 80 Ramakrishna A 6 81 Ravikumar Avuti 6 82 Abdulh Rahaman K 6 83 Vijayakumar S 6

84 Rajinikanth G 6 85 Vincent Vakki 6 86 Sakthi Subash A S 6 87 C Naga Praveen Kumar 6 88 Muffasir Ahmed S 6 89 Akhil B V S 6 90 Govardhan Mitra P 6 91 Satish Valluri 6 92 Priyanka Bhatt 6 93 Shiva Sai Boddu 6 94 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6 95 Suresh Ramayanam 6 96 Guna Sekhar G 6 97 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 6 98 Manjunath Papireddy 6 99 Amit Kumar S 6 100 Theju K V 6 101 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 102 Jha Kishor 5 103 Kanthi Kiran Katarapu 5 104 Sami M A 5 105 Durga Prasad P V 5 106 Bhagyashree G Patil 5 107 Barath Kishan D 5 108 Hemanth Eswar G 5 109 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5 110 Satyanarayana Raju D S 5 111 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 5 112 Yatharth Jain 5 113 Chiranjan Kumarr K S 5 114 Afreen T Khanam 5 115 Saxena Prashant 5 116 Gopichand K 5 117 Sai Sabarish P 5 118 Purusotham Vardhi 5 119 Prashanth A 5 120 Sk Abdul Azam 5 121 Mitul K H 5 122 Kontham Sathish 5 123 Kranthi Kumar B 5 124 Suresh Kumar S 5 125 Moorthy T 5 126 Veerapathiran V 5

Indian women team at BakuTeam India began the women's section of Baku 2016 as the fifth seeds. We had won four games and drawn two. A fairly steady result, until disaster struck in the seventh round -- India lost 1.5-2.5 to the lower seeded Azer-baijani team. Harika suffered a shock defeat in a won posi-tion in the second round match. The shock loss affected her psychologically.IM Vishal Sareen, the coach of the women's team decided to give Tania a rest day and enlisted the services of the youngest member of the team -- Bodda Pratyusha -- in the eighth round. She did her job by drawing the game.

Harika won her seventh round game, leading India to a 2.5-1.5 victory over Uzbekistan, as all other games were drawn. Then, in the ninth round game against the Dutchwomen , she fired again, this time in a more stylish manner.Tania Sachdev, who had begun with a sterling 4.0/4, had lost three consecutive games from then on.Harika finished with two draws in the final two rounds to finish at 6.0/10. A fine comeback. In any case, Padmini was struggling with 4.5/10 in the event. In numerous cases, she had good positions, with an advantage even, but it just wasn't her tournament. She lost the final round game on the second board versus the US, and India was in deep trouble.

Harika had punched wins in the eighth and the ninth rounds, but she could only draw in the tenth and the eleventh. The in-form Soumya too suffered a jolt in the tenth round. An erratic Padmini meant that we were about to lose in the final round as well! Tania Sachdev came to India's rescue!The key differentiator was Team India's efforts on the third and the fourth boards. Tania Sachdev, after the rest on the eighth round, made amends for her mid-olympiad fiasco. She punched three back to back victories, all crucial, to take Team India forward.Despite her ill health, she played at her best and fought for Team India.

In the tenth round, India faced Ukraine, and since Soumya lost on the fourth board, it was up to Tania to beat Zhukova and save the team. And she did so with a beautifully played game in an un-balanced position.

The final round was crucial in determining the team's final position. India was facing the US, and the Americans had already taken the lead as Padmini had lost on the second board. It was on Tania's shoulders once again to take the team to safety. She did it to the T, with the black pieces against Anna Zatonskih on the third board. Soumya had held the advantage for the most part of the game, but it was long and tiring and Soumya could only draw.Thus, India and the USA settled for a 2.0-2.0 draw, with India taking the fifth place.

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“N ever miss the Spic Tournament" these were the words that we heard from the parents while the

Spic tournament was going on from 27th September to 2nd October 20016. Lovely appreciation from the parents!! Players and parents enjoyed the tournament during the half yearly vacation though it was conducted for six days. Mr Gnanasekaran from Chennai informed that he has been playing continu-ously for 19 years without any break. There are players like Mr. Gnanasekaran, regularly visiting the Spic tournament. For Some play-ers and parents it helped as pilgrimage to Thiruchendur. As the Spic is providing ac-commodation to the players and the parents, people are getting interest to participate in this tournament. Two days cinema program and one day Blitz tournament (120partici-pants) entertained the players and parents.

Top seeded Pr. Hirthikkesh of NLC won the title in 29th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament at Spic Nagar Thoothukudi, he collected 9 point in 10 rounds and won the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash prize of Thirty thousand Rupees. Sippora Paulin of Madurai became the champion in Non medalist section with 9 points.

The Chief guest of the function Shri. Manuel Aaron, India's first International Master, 9 times National champion, Arjuna award winner gave away the prizes. International Master Mr. Manuel Aaron advised the young players to create will power and give more concentration to the middle game, by refer-ring his own game against former National

'A' player Nasir Ali, who played energeti-cally. Mr. S R Ramakrishnan, WTD and the president of Thoothukudi District Chess As-sociation presided over the meeting , Mr. V Madhukar, The president, Spic Nagar Multi Activity Club(SMAC) welcomed the gathering and Mr. Gopalakrishnan Secretary, Thoothu-kudi District Chess Association proposed the vote of thanks.

Earlier, the 29th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament got underway at Spic Community Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi from 27th September 2016. The event attracted 257 players in Medalist section out of which 165 players are Fide rated. Players from Kerala, odhisa, Pondicherry and Tamilnadu participated. In Non-Medalist section there are 222 players. Spic is the only organization in Tamilnadu which is conducting chess tour-nament for Non- medalist players regularly. The total prize fund of the event was one lakh fifty thousand in medalist section, out of which Rs. 30000/- was reserved to the winner. The total prize fund for Non medalist was Rs.23100/- The tournament was de-clared open by Shri. Kannan DEE, Pollution control board.

Eleven-year old Thiruvarur boy Jeyadev R Balan's win against P Rajasekaran of Tho-othukudi and 10 years old Virudhunagar boy Jagendran Kamak's win against Godson Merlin of Kanyakumari are the two upset in round two. Hirthickkesh Pr of Neyveli and Shakthi Vishal of Thoothukudi shared the lead with 6 points at the end of round

six. In round seven Shakthi Vishal lost to the top seeded Hirthikkesh which helped Hirthikkesh to become the sole leader. Once again the winning strike continued on round eight as Hirthickkesh beat Godson Merlin of Kanyakumari and maintained the sole lead with 8 points. Hirthickkesh drew his game against the second seeded Barath Kalyan from Thanjavur in round nine and maintained one point lead at the end of the penultimate round. Hirthickkesh needed only a draw in the last round for his title and that came from the veteran player M J Noohu from Chennai. Hirthickkesh won the title with 9 points. Paramasivam of Virudhunagar and Balakannamma of Chennai scored 8 points each at the end of final round and tied for the second place, but better tie break helped Paramasivam became the runner up.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Hirthickkesh Pr 9 2 Paramasivam M. 8½ 3 Bala Kannamma P 8½ 4 Yuvan Bharathi K S 8 5 Noohu M.J. 8 6 Barath Kalyan M 7½ 7 Shakthi Vishal J 7½ 8 Godson Merlin E 7½ 9 Akash S 7½ 10 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 7½ 11 Saroj Naraynan K 7½ 12 Srihari L R 7½ 13 Sathya Giri V 7½ 14 Ruban Sanjay M 7½ 15 Manoj B 7½ 16 Murugappan S P 7½ 17 Kumaresh A 7 18 Meyyappan M 7 19 Murukaananth A 7 20 Gnanasekar .G 7 21 Antony Jesumarian Leslie 7

22 Mohana Praba R B 7 23 Ram Kumar G M 7 24 Kishore V 7 25 Suthershun A 7 26 Ananda Balaji S 7 27 Rooswelt 7 28 Solomon Rathna Sekaran 7 29 Yutesh P 7 30 Gokul S 6½ 31 Muthu Rakesh Babu 6½ 32 Achaya Vijayan 6½ 33 Subbhu Karthick S M 6½ 34 Yukash Ram E 6½ 35 Kalidass C. 6½ 36 Balaji V 6½ 37 Ebnesar Anto A 6½ 38 Thilakavathi B 6½ 39 Pramesh P 6½ 40 Karunakaran M 6½ 41 Divyabharathi Masanam 6½ 42 Venkatakrishnan R 6½ 43 Jayalakshmi R K 6½ 44 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6½ 45 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 6½ 46 Ramachandran S M 6½ 47 Rutherford S 6½ 48 Rowshith D 6½ 49 Ragesh Sarma.M 6½ 50 Rajasekaran P. 6½ 51 Arumugam N 6½ 52 Iniyan S 6½ 53 Ramachandran Narayanan 6½ 54 Magdalene Roy R 6½ 55 Anni Shayana Stephen 6 56 Yuva Sankar K 6 57 Marimuthu K 6 58 Madhan Kumar A 6 59 Santhosh Kumar G 6 60 Sanjay Sreekandan 6 61 Gokula Vishnu R 6 62 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6 63 Mathavan T 6 64 Vignesh Karthick 6

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108 Balakowshi D S 5½ 109 Aaditya A 5 110 Jayadev R Balan 5 111 Gowri M 5 112 S Priya Samuthira Pandi 5 113 Gokul Ravichandran 5 114 Sri Hari S 5 115 Bhuvaneshwaran R 5 116 Hariharan, Vishnuvardan 5 117 Thennarasu K 5 118 Ezhil Oviya J 5 119 Udhayan Jacob 5 120 Pon Perumal S 5 121 Tharan Adithya M 5 122 Rohan M 5 123 Jaiyaharrsanth S J 5 124 Santhakumar S 5 125 Amisha Sany M 5 126 Naveen Kumar P 5 127 Prawin K 5 128 Mithesh M 5 129 Dhilip Santhosh Kumar 5 130 Prasath K R 5 131 Senbabu M B 5 132 Amrutha A 5 133 Justin Raja P 5 134 Sushma R G 5 135 Bavan Kalyan S 5 136 Yuvasree S A 5 137 Nizsaanth Nobel Antony 5 138 Santhosh Kumar T 5 139 Sethusivaram B 5 140 Emmanuel Austin B 5 141 Ashwin Kumaar M 5 142 S. Jeevanandam 5 143 Nicknesar Anto A 5 144 Dhaanesh S 5 145 Sreevathsan H 5 146 Kishore Kumar T 5 147 Dhanabala Bhoopathy T V 5 148 Naveen Prasadh M 5 149 Kadhirvel M 4½ 150 Sriman Prabhu M K 4½

Selected games from World Junior Championships,Bhubaneswar Annotated by Manuel AaronAlekseenko,Kirill (Rus) (2582) Grandad-am,Patrik (Swz) (2325)[Alekseenko is an untitled 10–year old Russian with a huge, huge rating, and Grandadam is a 20–year old FIDE Master from Switzerland.]

24...d5 25.cxd6! Qxb6 26.Rxc8! Bd8 [26...Rxc8 27.Qxe6+ Kf8 28.Qxc8+ Qd8 29.d7! Rc6 30.Qxb7+–]27.Qxe6+ Kh8 28.Be3 Qb4 29.Qf7! Rg8 [29...Rxf7 30.Rxd8+ mates.]30.Bd41–0Nyamdorj,Davaaochir (Can) (2015) - Lokander,Martin (Swe) (2365) [C78]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Bb7 7.d3 Bd6 8.c3 0–0 9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Ng5 Rf8N 11.f4 Bc5+ 12.Kh1 d6 13.Ndf3 h6

[Diagram #]14.Nxf7!? Rxf7 15.Ng5 [A fine continuation to the attack! This opens up the black king-side for the white pieces.]15...hxg5 16.Bxf7+! Kxf7 17.fxg5 Qh8 [Bet-ter was 17...Qg8 18.Qf3 Ke8 19.gxf6 gxf6 20.Qxf6 d5]18.gxf6 g6 [Comparatively the best. If 18...gxf6 19.Bg5 Ke8 20.Rxf6+–]19.b4! Bb6 20.Qb3+ Kf8 21.f7! Ne7? [This does nothing about white's threatened 22 Qe6. Better was: 21...Bc8]22.Bg5+–

[Diagram #]22...Nf5?! [Black is desper-ate. But if 22...Qh5 23.Bf6 Qg4 24.h3 Qd7 25.Bg5 (threat Bh6#) 25...Kg7 26.f8Q+ Rxf8 27.Rxf8 Kxf8 28.Bh6+ Ke8 29.Rf1+–]23.Rxf5! [if 23.exf5 Qh3 24.Qc2 Kxf7 25.fxg6+ Kxg6 26.Be7! Rh8 27.d4+! Kg7 (27...e4?? 28.gxh3+–) 28.Bf6++–; After 23.Rxf5! gxf5 24.Qe6+–]1–0Tokhirjonova,Gulrukh. (WGM Uzb (2328) - Monnisha,G K (2101)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 Bc5 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Qe2 Bd6 [PDS Girinath 2298 vs SS Ganguly 2440, Goodricke Open, 2000 went: 7...Qe7 8.Nbd2 Ng4 9.0–0 Be6 10.Nb3 Ba7 11.Bd2 0–0–0 12.Bc3 c5 13.Nbd2 f6 14.a4 g5 15.Nc4 h5 16.Nfd2 Nh6 17.f3 Nf7 18.a5 Rh7 19.Kh1 Nh8 20.Rfb1 Ng6 21.b4 cxb4 22.Rxb4 Nf4 23.Qf1 h4 24.Rab1 Nh5 (threat 25...Ng3+! mating) 25.Nb6+

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Bxb6! 26.g4 (26.axb6 Ng3+ 27.hxg3 hxg3+ 28.Kg1 Rh1+ 29.Kxh1 Qh7+ 30.Kg1 Qh2#) 26...Ng3+! 0–1 for if 27 hxg3 hxg3+ 28 Kg1 (or 28 Kg2, Rh2+ 29 Kxg3 Qh7! with mate on h4.) Rh1+! 29 Kxh1 Qh7+ and mate by Qh7+ next move.]8.Nbd2 b5 9.a4 0–0 10.0–0 Nh5 11.Nb3 Qf6 12.h3 Nf4 13.Bxf4 Qxf4 14.Qd2 Qf6 15.Qe3 h6 16.c4 bxc4 17.dxc4 Re8 18.c5 Bf8 19.Nbd2 Rb8 20.Qc3 Qe7 21.Rac1 g6 22.b4 [In the fight between the two knights and two bishops, the knights are better, so far!]22...Bg7 23.Nc4 f5 24.Nfd2 f4 [If 24...Rd8 25.Rfe1 fxe4 26.Nxe4 Be6 27.Ne3 Qf7]25.Na5 Qf6 26.Rb1 Kh8 27.Ndc4 g5 [As black has two bishops, it was better to avoid closing the centre and keep her options open with: 27...Rd8 28.Rfd1 Bd7 29.Qf3 Be8 30.Rxd8 Rxd8 31.Rd1 Rb8 32.Qc3 f3! 33.gxf3 Qh4 34.Kg2 Qg5+ 35.Kf1 Qh5 36.Ke2 Qxh3 37.Nxe5 Kh7=]28.Na3 g4 29.hxg4 Bxg4 30.f3 Bd7? [30...Bc8]31.Rfd1 Re7 32.Qc4 Bf8 [If 32...Ra8 33.Rd2 Be6 34.Qc3 Rd7 35.Rxd7± (35.Nxc6 Rxd2 36.Qxd2 Bf7 37.Na5 Rd8 38.Qc3 Qg5 39.Nc6 Rg8 40.b5 axb5 41.Nxb5±) ]33.Qxa6 Rg7 34.Rd2?

[Diagram #][34.Qc4=]34...Rxb4! [With this blow, white's beautiful, apparent-ly strong build-up collapses and the two

bishops take over.]35.Rc1 [White is on the verge of collapse. If 35.Rxb4 Bxc5+ 36.Rf2 (36.Kf1 Bxb4 37.N5c4 Qh4–+) 36...Bxf2+ 37.Kxf2 Qh4+ 38.Ke2 Rxg2+ 39.Kd3 Qf2–+]35...Rxa4 36.Nb5 Qh4 [Probably in time trouble, black misses the brilliant coup: 36...Bxc5+!! 37.Rxc5 (37.Kf1 Qh4 38.Rcd1 Qh1+ 39.Ke2 Rxg2+ 40.Kd3 Rxd2+ 41.Rxd2 Qb1+ 42.Ke2 Rxe4+!! 43.fxe4 Bg4#) 37...Ra1+ 38.Kf2 Rxg2+ 39.Kxg2 Qg6+ 40.Kf2 Qg1+ 41.Ke2 Qf1#]37.Qa8 Rg8 38.Qa7 cxb5 39.Qxc7 Bh3 40.Nb3 [If 40.Qxe5+ Bg7 41.Qd5 Bd4+! 42.Rxd4 Rxg2+ 43.Kh1 Rh2+ 44.Kxh2 Qg3+ 45.Kh1 Qg2#]40...Qg5 41.Rcc2 Be6! 42.Nc1 Rc4 [Stronger was 42...Ra1 43.Qb6 Bh3! 44.Kf1 Bxg2+! 45.Rxg2 Rxc1+–+]43.Nd3 Bg7 44.Qb6 Rxc2 45.Rxc2! Bc4 46.Nb2 Ra8! 47.Rc1

[Diagram #]47...Qd8?! [With her extra bishop black is winning, but this move makes white breathe a lot freer. Quicker was: 47...Ra2! 48.Rb1 Be2 49.c6 Bxf3! 50.Qf2 Bxe4 51.c7 Qg4–+]48.Qxd8+ Rxd8 49.Nxc4 bxc4 50.Rxc4 Rc8 51.g3 Kg8 52.Kg2 Kf7 53.Kh3 Kg6 54.gxf4 exf4 55.c6 Bf6 [Also 55...Be5 56.Rc5 Bc7 57.Rd5 h5 58.Rd7 Be5 59.Rd5 Kf6 60.Rc5 Ke6 61.Kh4 Rh8 62.c7 Rc8 63.Kxh5 Rxc7 black should win comfortably.]56.Rc5 Bg5 57.Kg4 Kf6 58.e5+ Ke6 59.Kh5

59...Rg8? [59...Kf5! 60.c7 Be7 61.Rc4 Bf8 and black wins the e5 pawn.]60.c7 Kd7 61.e6+! Kc8 62.Rc6 Rg7 63.Rc4 Rxc7 64.e7 Bxe7 65.Rxf4 Rc5+ 66.Kg6 [66.Kxh6?? Bg5+]66...h5! 67.Rf7 Kd8 68.f4 h4 69.Rh7 Ke8 70.f5 Rc6+ 71.Kh5 Rc4 72.f6™ [If 72.Kg6 Rg4+! 73.Kh5 Rg5+! 74.Kxh4?? Rg7+!]72...Bxf6 73.Kg6 Be7 74.Kf5 Kd7 75.Ke5 Ra4 76.Kd5 Rg4 77.Ke5 Rg3 78.Kd5 [78.Kf4 Ke6 and black's win is closer.]78...h3 79.Ke5 Ke8 80.Ke6 Re3+ 81.Kf5 Bd6 82.Rh6 h2!0–1

Vaishali,R (2284) Leonardi,Caterina (Sl0) (2061) [B10]1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.0–0 e5 5.d3 Ne7 6.Nbd2 0–0 7.e4 c6 8.Re1 Qc7 9.Qe2 d4 10.c3 c5 11.cxd4 cxd4 12.b4!? [This is a little known opening variation with much scope for both play-ers to improvise and experiment.]12...a6 13.Bb2 Nbc6 14.Rec1 Bg4 [14...b5! This would take away the c4 square from white's knight and throw white's plans into confusion. 15.Nb3 Qd6 16.a3 a5]15.h3 Bxf3 16.Qxf3 Bh6 17.Qd1 Qb6 18.Ba3! Qb5 [18...Nxb4? 19.Nc4 Qb5 20.Bxb4 Qxb4 21.Rcb1²]19.Rc4 a5 20.bxa5 Rxa5 21.Rc5!± Qa6 22.Rxa5 Qxa5 23.Nc4 Qc7

24.Rb1! [It is always best to bring the opponent under intense attack with all of ones forces. Also gaining a clear ad-vantage was: 24.Bd6 Qd7 25.Rb1± (25.Bxe5?? b5!–+) ]24...Ra8 25.Bd6+– Qd8 26.Rxb7 Rxa2 27.Qb3! Ra1+ 28.Kh2 Na5 [This loses a knight straight-away. Comparatively better but still losing was: 28...Ra7 29.Rxa7 Nxa7 30.Nxe5 Qe8 31.Bc5!+–]29.Bxe7 Qxe7 30.Nxa5 Qf6 31.Rb8+ Kg7

32.Qb4! [A move whose purpose seems to be to save her knight, but in fact has a deadly threat!]32...Qxf2 [After this, black is lost. Her only move to keep mate away was: 32...g5 33.Qc5 Qe6 34.Nc6 and black is almost done.]33.Qf8+ Kf6 34.Qd6+ Kg7 [If 34...Kg5 35.Qxe5+ f5 36.Qe7+ Kh5 37.Qh4#]35.Qxe5+ Qf6 [35...f6 36.Qe7#]36.Rg8+1–0

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Rakesh,Kumar Jena (2161) Bas-so,Pier Luigi (Ita) (2455) [B10]1.e4 c6 2.Ne2 d5 3.e5 c5 4.d4 Bg4 5 . f3 Bf5 6 .dxc5 e6 7 .Nd4 Bxc5 8.Bb5+ Kf8 9.Be3 Qb6 10.Nc3 a6 11.Be2 Nc6 12.Na4 Qa5+ 13.c3 Bxd4 14.Bxd4 Nxd4 15.Qxd4 Ne7 16.Nb6 Nc6 17.Qf2 Rd8 18.0–0 d4 19.Nc4 Qd5 20.cxd4 Nxd4 21.Rfd1 Nxe2+ 22.Qxe2 Bd3 [Diagram # Is white losing his knight?]

23.Qe3 Qxc4 24.Rac1 Qb5 25.Rc3! [White gets back his piece!]25...Ke7 [Better was: 25...Qxb2 26.Rcxd3 Rxd3 27.Qc5+ Ke8 28.Qc8+ Ke7 29.Qc7+ Ke8=]26.Rb3! Qc4 27.Rbxd3 h6 28.Rd6! Qb4 [If 28...Rxd6 29.exd6+ Kd7 30.b3 Qc6 31.Qf4 Rf8 32.Kh1 f6 33.Qg4 g5 34.Qh3]29.a3 Qb5 30.Qd4 Rde8 [30...Qa5? 31.Rd7+!!+–; or 30...Rc8 31.Rd7+ Kf8 32.Qf4!+–]31.Rb6 Rd8

32.Rxb5! [After 32.Rxb5 Rxd4 33.Rxb7+ wins a rook.]1–0

Styazhkina,Anna (Rus) (2315) Nan-dhidhaa,Pv (2151) [B85]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Nf6 7.0–0 a6 8.a3 Be7 9.Be3 0–0 10.f4 d6 11.Qe1 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Qg3 Bb7 14.Bd3 Rad8 15.Rae1 Bc6 16.e5 dxe5 17.Bxe5 Qa7+ 18.Kh1 g6= [18...Nh5 has been tried successfully.]19.Nd1 Nd7 20.Nf2? [White is optimistic that her position would be good after the exchange on e5 and that her pawn on e5 would lord it over the black position. Black proves that perception to be faulty. Better was: 20.Bc3 Qc7 21.Nf2 Bf6 22.Be5 Bxe5 23.fxe5 f5 24.Nh3 Bd5=]20...Nxe5 21.fxe5 f5! 22.exf6 Bxf6 23.b3 Qe7 24.Bf5 Bd5 25.Ng4 [White thinks that she has seen further in the position and fatally opens up her position. Bet-ter, though still on the backfoot, would be: 25.Bg4 Bd4 26.Nh3 Rxf1+ 27.Rxf1 e5µ]25...Bh4! 26.Qe5? [Diagram # With her threat of 27 Nh6# white appears to have got out of her dilemma, but in fact, she has only managed to jump out of the frying pan onto the fire.]

26...h5! [Now, besides her Re1, both bishop

and knight are under simultaneous attack. White is bound to lose material.]27.Bxg6 hxg4 28.Rd1 Qg5! 29.Qxg5 [Forced, as oth-erwise she loses her Bg6 also.]29...Bxg5 30.Bh5 g3 [Diagram #][White could be brought under greater agony by: 30...Rxf1+ 31.Rxf1 Rc8 and if now 32.Rf2 Be3! 33.Re2 Rf8!–+]

31.hxg3 Rxf1+ 32.Rxf1 Rf8 [After the exchange of rooks, black's extra bishop would play havoc.]0–1

Maghsoodloo,Parham (Iran) (2576) - Xiong,Jeffery (USA) (2633) [A05]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Bg7 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.0–0 0–0 7.c4 c5 8.e3 d5 9.cxd5 Qxd5 10.Nc3 Qd7 11.d4 cxd4 12.Qxd4 Nc6 [Meyer 1930 vs Hellwe-ge 2041 played in the German Senior Ch in 2002 led to an immediate draw after: 12...Qxd4 13.Nxd4 Bxg2 14.Kxg2 Draw!!] 13.Qh4 The later course of this game shows white trying to exchange off all piec-es in an obvious attempt to draw against the leader of the tournament. Probably the 'draw' was a later thought because if he had wanted to somehow draw, now was the time to start by exchanging off queens. 13...Rad8 14.Rad1 Qc8= 15.Nb5!? Why? 15...a6 16.Nbd4?

[We can guess that this high rated Iranian IM must have planned something exciting with 15 Nb5 but on further examination found a 'hole' in his calculation and decided to play it safe. With Fritz, one cannot find a 'hole' in the following exciting variation. Probably the Iranian found some 'ghosts' in this variation! And perhaps he had taken a lot of time on his clock and was running short of time?! 16.Nd6! Rxd6 17.Rxd6 exd6 18.Bxf6 Ne5 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Qd4 Qc7 21.Rd1 f6] 16...Qa8 Now black has the edge with his Queen-Bishop battery on the long white diagonal exerting much pressure. 17.Nxc6? [This only helps black's grip over the long white diagonal to get stronger. Better was: 17.Nc2 h6 18.Rxd8 Nxd8] 17...Bxc6 18.Rxd8 [He cannot play the standard manoeuvre in such positions, 18 Ne1, as his Rook on d1 is on take. And if, 18.Qf4 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Nh5 loses his Bb2 at the least.] 18...Rxd8 19.Bxf6?! [Bettter was: 19.Ne1 Rd2 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Qb4 Rxa2 22.Qxb6 Bxg2 23.Nxg2 Kg7 24.Nf4 a5³] 19...Bxf6 20.Qf4 Kg7 21.Ne1 Rd2 22.Qb4 Rxa2 23.Qxb6 Bd5! 24.Qb4 [White is without a plan and keeps shifting his queen along the b-file. Better was: 24.h4 or 24 h3 giving his king an extra square to move to in an emer-gency though black has a clear advantage.] 24...Rb2 25.Qb6 a5 26.Qb5 e6!

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Diagram # 27.Bxd5 This move has to be played sooner or later though it entails losing his b-pawn. White is in a losing position. 27...Qxd5 28.Qxd5 exd5–+ 29.Nf3 Rxb3 30.Rd1 Rb5 31.Nd4 Rb6 32.Nc2 Rc6! It is such inter-mezzo moves that win a game instead of the immediate defence of the d-pawn with 32...Rc4. Whenever possible, put your opponent on the defensive! 33.Nd4 Ra6 34.Nb5 a4 35.Nc7 [35.Rxd5? a3! and the pawn cannot be stopped.] 35...Rc6 36.Ne8+ [If 36.Nxd5 Rd6 37.e4 a3 38.f4 a2 39.e5 Bxe5! 40.fxe5 Rxd5!©] 36...Kf8 37.Nxf6 Rxf6 38.Rxd5 Ra6!

39.Kf1 [White can also try to hold black's passed pawn on the third rank instead of on the 2nd rank: 39.Rd2 a3 40.Ra2 Ke7 41.Kf1 Kd6 42.Ke2 Kc5 43.Kd3 Kb4 44.Kc2 Rc6+ 45.Kb1 Rd6 46.Kc2 f5 47.h3 h6 48.h4 g5 49.hxg5 hxg5 50.Ra1 Rc6+ 51.Kd2 g4–+]

39...a3 40.Rd1 Ke7 41.Ke1 a2 42.Ra1 Kd6 With the threat of queening his a-pawn, black will force the white king and rook to be engaged on the queen side, while he mops up white's king-side pawns with his king. 43.Kd2 Kd5 44.Kd3 Ra3+! 45.Kd2 h5 46.h3 g5 47.g4 h4 48.Kd1 Ke4 49.Ke2 f6! 50.f3+ This is white's only move as otherwise the black king would enter f3. But now, black's new target is easy, its the e3 pawn. 50...Kd5 51.Kd2 Kc4 52.Kc2 [If 52.Ke2 Kc3 53.e4 Kb2–+] 52...Rxe3 0–1

Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2543) Menezes,Christoph (Austria) (2408) [B91]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 e5 7.Nde2 Be7 8.Bg2 b5 9.Nd5 Nbd7 10.Nec3 0–0 [Lutikov vs Magerramov, Spartakiad, USSR, 1983 went: 10...Bb7 11.a4 0–0 12.axb5 axb5 13.Rxa8 Bxa8 14.Nxb5 Bxd5 15.exd5 Qa5+ 16.Nc3 Rb8 17.0–0 Bd8 18.Kh1 but 77 0–1] 11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 Bb7 14.Ra1 Nb6 15.Nxe7+ Qxe7= Despite possessing the two bishops, white has only equality. 16.0–0 d5 [An alternative worth consideration was 16...f5 trying to ex-change off the white's white square bishop.] 17.exd5 Rfd8 18.Ra5 Diagram #

18...e4 [A major alternative is: 18...Nc4

19.Ra4 Nb6 (19...Rac8 20.b3 Nb6 21.Ra5 Qc7 22.Be3 Nxd5 (22...Nc4? 23.Rc5 Nxe3 24.Rxc7 Nxd1 25.Rxc8+-) 23.Rxd5 Bxd5 24.Bxd5 Qxc2 25.Qxc2+-) 20.Rh4 Nxd5 21.Bxd5 Rxd5 22.Qh5 h6 23.Bxh6! g6 24.Bg5 gxh5 25.Bxe7 Re8 26.Bg5 e4 27.Be3 Rb5 28.b3 Rc8 It is unclear if white's extra pawn can win this ending of oppposite colour bishops and double rooks.] 19.Qd4 Nxd5 20.Qxe4 Qc7 [If 20...Qxe4 21.Bxe4 Rd7 22.Rd1 Rad8 23.Rd4 the pin of the knight along the d-file as well as along the white diagonal is most unpleasant. For exam-ple, if 23...Nf6 24.Rxd7 Rxd7 25.Bxb7 Rxb7 26.Rxa6+-] 21.Ra4 Diagram # 21...Rab8 [Somewhat better was: 21...Rac8 22.Rd4 Qxc2 23.Rfd1 Qxe4 (Explore 23...Qxc1 your-self!) 24.Bxe4 Rc7 25.Bg5 f6 26.Bxf6 gxf6 27.Bxd5+ Bxd5 28.Rxd5 Rxd5 29.Rxd5 Kf7±] 22.Rc4 Qa5 23.Qe5

This game has revolved around black's cen-trally placed knight which gets unpleasantly pinned most of the time! 23...Re8 24.Qd4 Nf6 At last, the pin is broken but it must have cost black a lot of time on the clock and physical energy. 25.Bd2 Qf5 26.Rc5 Qd7 [Better was 26...Qe6 27.Re1 Qb6 28.Rxe8+ Nxe8 29.Bxb7 Qxb7 30.Bc3±] 27.Qxd7 Nxd7 28.Rc7 Bxg2 29.Kxg2 Nf6 30.b3 Re2 [Taking your rook into your opponnent's territory is no doubt an attrac-tive idea, but safer was 30...h6 as it rules out

any back rank combination.] 31.Rd1 A crafty move that has the sinister plan of trapping the Re2! 31...h5 32.Be3!!

[32.Be3 (the threat is to eat the rook with 33 Kf3) 32...Ng4 33.Ba7 Rbe8 34.h3 Nf6 35.Kf3 R2e5 36.c4+- Probably Black lost on time after 32 Be3!!] 1–0

Saduakassova,Dinara (WGM (2423) - Vaishali,R (2284) [E10]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Bd6 6.Nc3 0–0 7.Bg2 c6 8.b3 Ne4 9.0–0 f5 10.Rc1 Nd7 11.Bf4 Bxf4 12.gxf4 b6 [12...Qf6 or 12...Qe8 would all lead to equality.] 13.e3 Ba6 14.Ne2 Rc8 15.Ne5 c5! 16.cxd5 exd5 17.dxc5 Nxe5! 18.fxe5 bxc5 19.Re1 Bxe2?

Diagram # [Black has done well so far

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27.Rc1!+- Kf7 28.Rxg1 Rxg1 29.Rxe4 h5 30.f4 Ke6 31.f5+!! Kxf5 [This loses rapidly. If now 31...Kf7 32.Kh4 Rg2 33.Ra4 Rxh2+ 34.Kg5 h4 35.Rxh4! Rg2+ 36.Rg4 Rxa2 37.Ra4! Rg2+ 38.Kf4 Rf2+ 39.Kg4!+-] 32.e6! g5 [32...Kxe4 33.e7! and the pawn queens.] 33.e7 g4+ 34.Kh4 g3 35.e8Q [35.hxg3?? Rh1#] 1–0Tran,Tuan Minh (VN) (2473) Suni-lduth Lyna,Narayanan (2515) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.d4 c5 7.0–0 cxd4 8.Nxd4

d5 9.c4 dxc4 10.bxc4 Qb6 11.Qc1 Bd7 12.c5 [Dizdarevic 2520 vs Svidler 2690, Bled Oly, 2002 went: 12.Nd2 Nc6 13.c5 Qc7 14.Nb5 Qc8 15.Ne4 Nxe4 16.Bxe4 Ne5 17.Nd4 Rb8 18.Rb1 Qc7 19.Qc2 Rfc8 20.Rfc1 Qa5 21.Qc3 Qxc3 22.Rxc3 Nc6 23.Nxc6 Bxc6 24.Rc4 b5!

Diagram 0–1] 12...Qc7 13.Na3 Nc6 14.Ndb5 Qc8 15.Rd1 Bh3 16.Bh1 Qf5 17.Qc2 Qh5 18.Nd4 Bd7 19.Bf3 Ng4 20.h4 Bf6 [This has a vague threat of sacrificing his bishop on h4. Better was: 20...Rad8 ] 21.Qe4 Nce5 22.Bg2 [22.Qxb7?? Rab8 and the Bb2 is lost.] 22...Nc6 23.Bf3 Nce5 24.Bg2 Nc6 25.Qd5 White wants a f ight ! 25. . .Qxd5 26.Bxd5 Rac8 27.Rab1 Na5 28.Nf3 [28.Bc3? Rxc5 29.Bxa5 Rxd5µ] 28...Rc7 29.Bd4 Bxd4 30.Rxd4 [If 30.Nxd4 Nf6 31.Bg2 Rxc5 32.Nb3 Nxb3 33.axb3] 30...Nf6 31.Nc4 Diagram #

31...Rxc5! 32.Nxa5 Rxa5 33.Bxb7 Rxa2 34.e4 Be6 35.Ng5 White's com-pensation for his lost pawn is based on black's doubled pawns on the e-file. 35...Ra5 36.Kg2 Rb8 37.Nxe6 fxe6 38.Rdb4 Kg7 39.Bc6 Rxb4 40.Rxb4 Rc5 41.Ba4 a5 42.Rb7 Kf7 43.f3 Rc4 44.Bb3 [White cannot try to avoid the exchange of rooks for long. If 44.Bd1 Rb4 45.Ra7 Rb2+ 46.Kh3 Ra2 47.Ra6 Nd7! 48.Bb3 (48.Rxe6 Kxe6 49.Bb3+ Ke5 50.Bxa2 a4–+) 48...Nc5 49.Bxa2 Nxa6µ] 44 . . .Rb4 ! 45 .Rxb4 axb4 46.Kf2 Nd7 47.Ke3 Nc5 48.Bc4 b3! Black plays the ending extremely well. 49.Kd4 b2 50.Ba2 Nb3+! 51.Kc3 Nc1 52.Kxb2 Ne2 53.Kc2 [53.g4 Kf6 54.Bb3 Ke5 55.Bd1 Ng1 56.Kc3 Kf4 and the white king-side col lapses.] 53...Nxg3 54.Kd3 Kf6 55.Ke3 Nh5 [Also winning was: 55...e5 56.Kf2 Nh5 57.Kg2 g5 58.Kh3 Nf4+ 59.Kg4 h5+ 60.Kg3 Ne2+ 61.Kf2 Nd4 62.hxg5+ Kxg5 63.Bf7 h4 64.Kg2 Kf4 65.Bh5 Ne6 66 .Kh3 Ng5+ 67 .Kxh4 Nx f3+ w i n s . ] 5 6 . K f 2 e 5 5 7 . K g 2 N f 4 + 5 8 . K g 3 h 5 5 9 . B c 4 g 5 6 0 . B b 5 Ng6–+ White has a winning posit ion and makes no mistake in convert-ing i t into a win. 61.hxg5+ Kxg5 62.Bd7 Nf4 63.Bc8 Nd3 64.Ba6 h 4 + 6 5 . K g 2 N e 1 + 6 6 . K f 2 h 3 ! 67 .Kg3 h2 68.Kxh2 Kf4 69.Kg1 Ke3! 70.Kf1 Nxf3 71.Bb7 Nd2+ 72.Ke1 Nxe4 73.Bd5 Nd2 74.Bb7 N f 3 + 7 5 . K f 1 e 4 7 6 . B c 6 K d 3 77.Bb5+ Kd2 [77...Kd2 78.Bc6 Nh2+ 79.Kg2 e3! 80.Bb5 e2 81.Bxe2 Kxe2 82.Kxh2 e5 wins.] 0–1

Nandhidhaa,Pv Tokhirjonova,Gul-rukhbegim

One of the best games of WIM Nandhidhaa at the World Junior Girls was against the 17-year old Uzbek WGM Takhirjonova in the 7th round. A stunning rook sacrifice sets her on the road to an important victory. 29.Rf6!! The culmination of a determined middle-game. After this startling rook offer, black loses in all variations. 29...gxf6 [The other alternatives also lose: 29...Rf8 30.Qxg5 Rxb2 (30...Be8 31.Nxg7! (the key move in this at-tack) 31...Kxg7 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.h4!; or 30...Bc6 31.Nxg7 Kxg7 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.Rf4!+-) 31.Nxg7 Kxg7 32.Rxg6+ fxg6 33.Qxe7++-] 30.Ngxf6+ Kh8 31.Qxg5 Qf8 32.Nxd7 Rxd7 33.Nf6 (the threat is 34 Qh5+ and 35 Qh7#) 33...Kg7 34.Nxd7 White is two pawns up with a beautiful attack on hand. She should win. 34...Qh8 35.h4 Qh6 36.Qf6+ Kg8 37.Rc3 Qg7 [More stubborn but still losing was: 37...Re7 38.Nc5 Qd2 39.Rf3 Qxd4 40.h5! Nxe5 41.Rf4 Nf3+! 42.Rxf3 Qxf6 (42...Qxc5?? 43.h6) 43.Rxf6 Rc7 44.Na4 d4 45.Rf3 f5 46.Kf1 Kg7 47.Ke2! White should win though the black pawns look temporari ly danger-ous. For example, if 47...Kh6 48.Rf4 c3 49.bxc3 dxc3 50.Kd1+-] 38.Qg5 Rc8 39.h5 [Stronger was: 39.Nf6+! Kf8 40.b3!] 39...Nf8 40.Nf6+ Kh8 41.Qxg7+ The

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Problem Worldby C.G.S.Narayanan

Holst promotion

The promotions in problem chess, both by white and black, follow the general rules of the game but the choice of black promotion is only between a queen (which combines the powers of rook and bishop) and knight. On similar lines, promotions to WQ or WB after a black defence is not considered a dual. In Holst theme, a threat is defeated initially by a specific promotion of a black pawn. The fore-plan forces the promotion of this black Pawn to a different piece, so that the original defence is no longer available.The diagram below is a lucid example where an initial try 1.Rc3? inducing threat Ba7 is defeated by 1…a1=Q!

J.Fritz4 Pr, Praca 1950

Mate in three moves

After key 1.Rb3! white threatens discovered check 2.Ba5+ followed by 3.Bh3.Now the defence 1…a1=N controls the battery but lets in the original 2.Rc3! followed by 3.Ba7.

The classic miniature below doubles the Holst theme with ease. 1.Rc8?(2.Rc3 is met by 1…e1Q! and 1.Rd8?(2.Rd3) is countered by 1…e1N!. The key 1.Rg8!(2.Rg3) induces a knight

promotion on f1.After 1…f1N 2.Rd8 will now work as 2….e1N is followed by 3.Rc8 (4.Rc3).A logical problem with two consecutive foreplans after which the main line succeeds.

E.M.H.GuttmannMiniatures Startegiques 1935

Mate in four moves

In the problem below the white king while unpinning WNd5 has to decide on the square to which it has to move and BPb2 provides Holst interest.

G.ZahodjakinI Prize, Rochade(Miniatures)1980

Mate in three moves

Solution: 1. Kc3! threat 2. Nc7# 1...Qg7+ 2.Nf6+2....Qb7 3. Qb6xb7# 1....b2-b1=N+ 2. Kb4 threat 3. Sc7# 2. ... Qf8+ 3. Ne7# 2.... Qg8xd5 3. Be4xd5#The WK move into check by BQ met by the cross check 2.Nf6

ending is won without much trouble. 41...Kxg7 42.b3! Nh7 43.Nxh7 Kxh7 44.bxc4 dxc4 45.Kg2 a4 46.g4 Kh6 47.f3 Kg5 48.Kg3 Rc7 Black has little else to do except move her rook up and down, waiting for white to commit any mistake. 49.f4+ Kh6 50.Kh4! Rc8 51.g5+ Kg7 52.Kg4 Rc7 53.f5 Rc6 54.f6+ Kh7 55.Kf4 Rc8 56.Ke4 Rg8 57.Rg3 Rc8 58.g6+! fxg6 59.hxg6+ Kg8 60.Rc3 [Cautious to the very end and making the win absolutely safe. A brutal way to win was: 60.Rh3! c3 61.g7 Kf7 62.Rh8+-] 1–0Karthikeyan,Murali (2514) Henri-quez Villagra,Cristobal (Chi) (2520) [A06]1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4 Nf6 5.0–0 0–0 6.c4 dxc4 7.Na3 c3 8.bxc3 c5 9.Re1 Qa5= [Krieger 1821 vs Schnabel 2257, Greifswald Ryck, Germany, 2002, ended mysteriously, abruptly after: 9...Nc6 10.e4 Bg4 11.Nc2 Rc8 12.h3 Bxf3 13.Bxf3 Qd7 14.Bg2 Rfd8 15.Be3 Na5 16.Qe2 Qa4 1–0 Looks like premature resignation!] 10.Bb2 Nc6 11.e4 Nd7 This anticipates 12 e5 and plans to contest the control of the c4 square with this knight. Unfortunately, this plan impacts the well being of his queen. 12.Nc4 Qa6 [If 12...Qc7 13.Ne3² Black is far from solving the problem of developing his queen bishop.] 13.Ne3 13...cxd4 [If 13...Rb8 14.a4 (Makes the threatened 14...b5 risky.) 14...Nf6 (Trying to shift the focus on e4.) 15.Bf1 (the start of the manoeuvre that leads to material gain.) 15...Qb6 16.Rb1 Rd8 (16...Nxe4?? 17.Nc4 Qc7 18.Rxe4 Bf5 19.Qe2±) 17.Ba3 Qc7 18.Qc2 White's posi-tion is aggressive and threatening.] 14.cxd4 Nb6 15.a4! White is targeting the queen, con-trolling its escape squares before attacking it. 15...Rd8 16.Bc3! white's advantage is grow-ing move by move. 16...Be6 17.Bf1!± Nc4 18.Rc1 The battle wages around the key c4

square. 18...Nxe3 [Not 18...N6a5?? 19.Nxc4 Nxc4 20.d5 Bxc3 21.Rxc3+-] 19.Rxe3 Bc4 [Black's woes would be greater after: 19...Qb6 20.Rb1 Qc7 21.d5 Ne5 22.Nxe5 Bxe5 23.Bxe5 Qxe5 24.Rxb7+-] 20.Bxc4 Qxc4 21.Ba5 Rxd4 [Worse was: 21...Qxc1 22.Qxc1 Nxa5 23.Qc7 b6 24.Qxe7 Nc6 25.Qb7 Nxd4 26.Ng5!+-] 22.Nxd4 Qxd4 23.Bc3 Qb6 24.Bxg7 Kxg7 As compensation for the loss of the exchange, black has a pawn, but it soon proves to be grossly inadequate. 25.Rd3 Qb4 26.Qb3 a5 [More stubborn was: 26...Qxb3 27.Rxb3 The knight is a clever animal threatening 28...Ne2+ winning a whole un-wary rook. 27...Nd4! 28.Rb2 b6 But white's prospects of winning are good.] 27.Rc4 Qe1+ 28.Kg2 Ne5

Appears to be good for black, but with some clever counter-attack, white is on the road to victory. 29.Re3! Qa1 30.Rc7! Rd8 Black can-not save his second rank from the marauding rooks and looks for counter-attack. 31.Qc3! Qxc3 32.Rexc3 Kf6 33.Rxb7 Rd4 34.f4 Ng4 35.Rb2?! [White plays cautiously. Stronger was: 35.h3! Nh6 36.e5+ Ke6 37.Rc6+ Kd5 38.Rd7+ Kxc6 39.Rxd4+-] 35...Rxa4 36.h3 Nh6 37.Kf3 Ra1 38.g4! threatening to fork king and knight with g4-g5. 38...Kg7 39.g5! Ng8 40.Rb8! White's threat is 41 Rcc8, win-ning the knight. 1–0

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(Solutions on page )

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Alexey Troitsky 1934 L.I.Kubbel 1925

1. 2.

H.Rinck 1918 A.Alamamadov 1993

3. 4. A.Kotov 1945 V.Rudenko 1956

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution on page )   

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KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kannur

5th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tournament, Bubaneshwar

Masters of the past-69 Vladimir Antoshin

Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (14 May 1929 in Moscow - 13 May 1994) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess.As a young man, he was a high achiever, principally as part of the USSR's highly successful Student Olympiad team of 1954-56. The team won the silver medal at the first ever Student Olympiad in Oslo 1954 and then took gold medals at Lyons 1955 and at Uppsala 1956. His best performance probably occurred at Lyons, as the strength of the competition was far greater than at Oslo. Playing below world-class grandmasters Mark Taimanov and Boris Spassky, but above Alexey Suetin, his endeavors also earned him an individual gold medal for best score on board three. In all, he accumulated three gold and one silver medal, for a total score of 16/19. During this period of his career, FIDE awarded him the International Mas-

ter title (1963) and the Grandmaster title (1964). Making a limited number of international tournament appearances, he was successful at Ulan Bator (1965) and Zinnowitz (1966). The latter was probably his finest moment, scoring +8, =6, -1, to take first place among reason-ably strong opposition, including Victor Ciocaltea and Wolfgang Uhlmann.

Aside from Zinnowitz, Hartston notes that Antoshin's over-the-board results were never out-standing. His other results were nevertheless respectable; 2nd at Kienbaum (Berlin) 1959 (Uhlmann won), 5th at Moscow 1960 (ahead of Polugaevsky, Hort and Uhlmann), 4th at Sochi 1963, 4th at Moscow 1963 (ahead of Keres, Liberzon, Szabó and Hort), 6th= at Sochi 1964, 2nd at Venice 1966 (Ivkov won) and 4th at Havana 1968 (The Capablanca Memorial). He regularly played at Sochi, but finished lower on other occasions. His tournament appearances were less frequent in the 1970s. He did however share 3rd place at Sarajevo in 1970 and placed runner-up at Frunze in 1979.

A major reason for his limited progress as a player was his continued amateur status. He became a tournament organiser and trainer to the USSR Olympiad team, maintained a second career as a technical designer, and according to Cafferty & Taimanov, was also supposed to have strong links with the KGB. As a further distraction, he chose to play correspondence chess throughout the 1950s, although this notably culminated in him winning the USSR Correspondence Champion-ship in 1960. At the Soviet Championship, he had moderate results, participating in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1967 and 1970. His highest placing was a share of sixth in 1967.Antoshin is the eponym of two opening lines, one occurring in the Philidor Defence and the other in the Dutch Defence.

Philidor Defence In the Antoshin Variation, Black chooses to exchange central pawns and head for simple, rapid development of the kingside. After ... 0-0 and ... Re8, Black's cramped dark-square bishop is often reactivated by playing it to g7 via f8. Play commences,1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 and White usually chooses to develop one of his bishops, for example:6.Bf4 0-0 7.Qd2 c6 8.0-0-0 b5 9.f3 b4 10.Nb1! Qb6 11.g4 d5with a small advantage to White Dutch Defence Hort-Antoshin Variation, Dutch Defenceafter 5...Qc7 The Hort-Antoshin Variation was first discovered by Vlastimil Hort in 1960, when he was just sixteen; it was then further developed by Antoshin and consequently carries the names of both players. Black's idea is to omit the 'normal' e6 move and prepare a central break with e5 instead. The line may also be used with 'colours reversed' as a variant of Bird's Opening, where of course White is a move up. Play starts,1.d4 f52.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d6 4.c4 (Burgess gives the more modern alternative 4.Nc3 c6 5.e4 fxe4 6.Nxe4 Nxe4 7.Bxe4 Bf5 8.Qf3 Bxe4 9.Qxe4 Qa5+ 10.c3 as favouring White in Khenkin-Vasiukov, Voskresensk 1990) 4. ... c6 5.Nc3 Qc7 whereupon, one possible continuation is the direct:6.e4 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.exf5 Bxf5 9.Nf3 Nbd710.0-0 0-0-0 which ended in an early draw in Minev-Hort, Moscow 1960.

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(L-R) Subhojit, IM Swayams Mishra, IM Shyamnikhil P, IM Rajesh VAV, Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra Misra, IPS(Retd.), Former Director General of Police,Govt. of Odisha, Sri Subhasis Patnaik, Secy. KDCA & Sri Saroj Kishore Behera, KDCA

(L-R) Sri. Sachin Suryakant (Secretary, North Malabar Chamber of Commerce), Sri. Baby VP (Customs and Central Excise Superintendent), Sri. Govindan Kutty (Arbiter), Sri. V N Viswanathan DYSP (Member, Chess Association Kerala), Sri. V V Balaram (Organising Secretary, Kannur FIDE), Sri. Alex Thomas (Champion), Dr. Rajan Thomas (President, Skyline Cliffwaters Apartment Owners Association, Payyambalam, Kannur), Dr. KV Devadas (Professor, Mahatma College, Iritty), Sri. P P Karunan (Hall Arrangement Convener), Sri. Sumod M (General Convener, Kannur FIDE) and Sri. Sudhakaran M (Finance Convener, Kannur FIDE) at the background

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4thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial Open Fide Rated Tournament, Jaipur Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on pageby S.Krishnan1.Patil,Pr2-Villar,Ju 18th Sant Marti Open 2016 Barcelona White to play22.Nxf7! Kxf7 [22...Rf8 23.Nh6+ gxh6 24.Qxe7 Qxe7 25.Rxe7+–]23.Qe6+ Kf8 [23...Ke8 24.Rf3 (idea 25.Rf7) 24...Qd6 25.Qf7+ Kd7 26.Bb4+–]24.Rf3+ Bf6 [24...Ke8 25.Rf7+–]25.Bb4+ Nd6 26.Rc3 [26.Rc3 Qe7 (26...Qd7 27.Rxc8+–) 27.Rxc8 Qxe6 28.Rxd8+ Bxd8 29.Rxe6+–]1–02.Royset,P-Haria,R Xtracon Chess Open 2016 Helsingor Black to play26...Nd3! 27.Rxd3 [27.Bxd3 Qxe3+ 28.Kf1(28.Qf2 Qxf2+ 29.Kxf2 Rxc3) 28...Qxd4–+]27...Rxc1 28.Qd2 Ne4 [28...Rb1 29.Rc3 Rxc3 30.Qxc3 Nf5 31.Qc8+ Kg7 32.Nxf5+ gxf5–+]29.Qb2 [29.fxe4 dxe4 30.Ne2 Rxf1+ 31.Kxf1 exd3–+]29...R8c2 30.Qa3 Rxg2+ 31.Kxg2 [31.Kh1 Qxh2#]31...Qg5+ 32.Kh3 Nf20–13. Haldorsen,Benjamin- Brunello,S Xtracon Chess Open 2016 Helsingor DEN (3.15), 24.07.2016Black to play36...Rd2! 37.h4 [37.Qa1 Qg3 38.Nd1 Rxg2+; 37.Qxd2 Nxh3+ 38.Nxh3 Qxd2–+]37...Nh3+ [37...Nh3+ 38.Nxh3 (38.Kh2 Qf4+ 39.g3 Qe3–+; 38.Kh1 Nxf2+ 39.Kg1 Nh3+ 40.Kh1 Qe3–+) 38...Qe3+ 39.Kh2 Rxb2–+]0–14. Pakleza,Z (2495) - Sjodahl,P (2420) CellaVision Cup 2016 Lund SWE (8.6), 07.08.2016White to play22.Be4+! Kg8 [22...Bxe4 23.Qxe4+ Kg8 24.b4+–]23.b4! [23.b4 Bxb4 24.Bxb7+–]1–05. Agrest,Inna-Badelka,Olga Olympiad Women 2016 Baku AZE White to play21.Ra8! Qd7 [21...Qxa8 22.Ne7+ Kh8 23.Qxh7+ Kxh7 24.Rh4#]

22.Rh4 Rb1+ 23.Kh2 h6 24.Nf6+ [24.Nf6+ gxf6 25.Qxh6 Wins]1–06. Tsolakidou,Stavroula - Cmilyte,Vik-torijaOlympiad Women 2016 Baku AZE Black to play17...exf4! 18.Nc7+ [18.Qxf7+ Kxf7 19.Ba3 Nxf2 20.Nc7 Nxh1 21.Nxa8 Nf2–+]18...Kd8 19.Qxf7 Bxb2+ 20.Kb1 Nc3#0–1

Solution to ‘Test your endgame’ on page1.A.Troitsky1. Nd3 If Black play 1... Ba3 now, White win easily after 2. b4. So, Black have to play 1... Rxd3(1... Ba32. b4) 2. f7 Ba3 2... Rf3 will be met with 3. b7, and 3... Bf4 will block the rook's way. (2... Rf33. b7)3. b4 Bxb4 4. b7.

2.L.Kubbel1. Ne2 Kxe2 2. Bd1+ (2... Kxd1 3. b8=Q h1=Q 4. Qb1+.Geometrical motive on the rank) 1. Ne2 Kxe2 2. Bd1+2... Kxd1 3. b8=Q h1=Q 4. Qb1+. Geometrical motive on the rank. 2... Kf2 (2... Kxd13. b8=Qh1=Q4. Qb1+) 3. Bf3 Kxf3 4. b8=Qh1=Q 5. Qa8+ Geometrical motive on the diagonal3.H.Rinck1. Be3 Directly attacking g1. 1... Rf32. Bg5 After 2... fxg5, the pawn will not allow the Rook to attack the g6 pawn. And after 2... Rg3, the Bishop pins the Rook with 3. Bh44.A.Almamedov 19931.e4+ Kg4 2.f3+ Kxh5 3.b8Q Bh2+ 4.f4 Bxf4+ 5.e5 Bxe5+ 6.Ke6 Bxb8 7.Kf5 h2 8.Bf3 mate

5. A.Kotov 1945 1.f7 Rxa6+ 2.Nf6 Ra8 3.Ne8 Ra6+ 4.Kg5! [Ac-cording to the tablebases, 4.Kh5 also wins.] 4…Ra5+ 5.Kg4 Ra4+ 6.Kg3 [Or 6.Kf3.] 6…Ra3+ 7.Kf2 Ra2+ 8.Ke3 Ra3+ 9.Ke4 Ra4+ 10.Ke5 Ra5+ 11.Ke6 Ra6+ 12.Kd7 Ra7+ 13.Nc7 1-0

6. V.Rudenko 19561.a6 Bf4! 2.b6 cxb6 3.Kb5! [3.a7? b5+] 3…e4 4.a7 e3 5.Bh1! e2 6.a8Q e1Q 7.Qf3+ Kg1 8.Qg2#

Left to Right- IA Ambrish C Joshi ( Chief Arbiter), Mr. Rajesh Sharma (Org. Chairman), ShriPhool Singh Meena (MLA ), Champion AkshatKhamparia of MP, , Shri Dinesh Ji Bhatt, Shri Chandra Singh Kothari (Mayor Udaipur Nagar Nigam),VikasSahu – Org,Secretary ,Shri V K Lahadiya, William D’Souza (Principal St. Anthony’s School),Mr.RajeevBhardawaj (President Chess inLakecity)

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 17 :1….Rxh7 2.g6xh7+

Winner Shafeli of Karnataka wth Chief Guest V.Hariharan, Secretary, AICF (in the centre). Shri.A.Bakthavatchalam, Vice President AICF and Chief Arbiter IA R.Anantharam are also seen.

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