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

Volume : 11 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 June 2017

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

Asian Continental Chess Championships, Chengdu, China

GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi WFM R.Vaishali Bronze medal (Open) Bronze medal (Women) & Gold medal (Asian Women blitz)

17th IPCA World Chess Championships, Slovakia

Sashikant Kutwal WIM Jennitha Anto Sammarth J.Rao World Disabled Champion Gold medal (Women) Bronze medal (Junior) & Gold medal (Open) Gold medal (Junior Blitz)

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A s many as 1050 players from vari-ous federations and different states thronged the KIIT university campus,

Bhubaneswar, Odisha vying for the top hon-ors in the 10th KIIT international chess fes-tival, 2017 organised by Odisha State Chess Association. The event was categorized into Category A (GM open), Category B (below 1999) and Category C (below 1600) for a hefty cash prize of Rupees twenty lakhs in total.

Now we will have a short look at the Cate-gory A event held at the Sports and Fitness Center, Campus15,KIIT University from May 26 to June 02. The outcome of the tenth and the final round clash between the visiting GM from Vietnam Hoa Duc Nguyen and the local GM Debashis Das on June 2nd was keenly watched by chess fans across the country. GM Nguyen was the sole leader with 8 points before the start of this round and the only GM from Odisha Debashis Das was close on the heels of the leader with 7.5 points. Therefore a decisive result from this table was the deciding factor for the championship. However the former had everything under control as he played the exchange slav and drew the game in 25 moves, thus winning the title clearly with 8.5 points. The champion became richer by two lakhs rupees. Curiously the Vietnamese GM tasted his only loss at the hands of Vikramjit Singh of Manipur in the third round, Thereafter Nguyen had a dream run scoring straight five victories. Debashis Das by virtue of occupying the runner up po-sition with 8 points on account of his better tie break score pocketed one lakh rupees and the Kolkota collegian GM Diptayan Ghosh

finished third.This event one of the four GM events con-ducted annually in India was sponsored by the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. This was its 10th edition without any break and it was conducted between May 25 and June 2. With 251 players drawn from 13 national federations, the 15 GMs, 20 IMs and 1 WIM who were in the fray provided a good ground for the norm seekers. Earlier the 8 days event was formally inaugurated by Prof. A. Samanta, founder, KIIT & KIIS in a glittering opening ceremony. Category B and C were organized as the part of KIIT chess festival 2017 at the KIIT International School. A total of 375 players took part in this below 1999 rating event con-ducted from May 26 to 29. Niranjan Mocharla of Andhra Pradesh netted 9 points from ten rounds and stood clear first to carry home Rs.50000/- . In a two tie for the second place with 8.5 points Rishabh Nishad (UP) and Gaurav Das (WB) finished in that order.In the Category C event for below 1600 rating held from May 29 to June 2, in a four way tie for the title Vangala Prashant of Telengana emerged as the champion followed by Sanjib Mali (West Bengal) and Mohanty Soyamsree (Odisha). Here too the champion was award-ed Rs.50000/- as prize money.This eight days chess carnival provided a festive mood for the players who enjoyed the hospitality of the KIIT university. The organizers did a great job in transporting all the players every day from their place of stay to the tournament hall and back. On the penultimate round when it rained heavily just before the start of the game the organizers ensured the safe arrival of the

10th KIIT International Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Hoa Duc Nguyen of Vietnam wins titleby IA Paul Arokia Raj S, Chief Arbiter

From the Editor’s desk

There were many no tab le Ind ian successes in May 2017 at international events. Grandmaster Sasikiran has added to the a l ready long l i s t o f achievements his latest title win at the 52nd edition of the Capablanca Memoria in Cuba finishing ahead of the top seed

and seven time winner Vassily Ivanchuk.

In the Asian Continental Chess Championship in Chengdu, China GM Vidit Santhosh Gujarathi and WFM R.Vaishali won bronze medals. The latter also won gold in the Blitz event. At the 17th IPCA World Chess Championships Shashikant Kutwal became the World Disabled Champion 2017 and also became an International Master.Woman International Master Jenitha Anto of Tiruchi won her fifth world title for women in style with a round to spare. Sammarth J Rao who won bronze in the junior event bagged the gold in the blitz junior section. Reports and photos of these events are featured in the centre pages of this issue.

On the home front, the 10th KIIT International Chess festival at Bubaneshwar recorded a whopping 1050 entries in the three categories. Debashis Das and Diptayan Ghosh finished second and third in this tournament which was won by Vietnam GM Hoa Duc Nguyen.

A three-day chess training camp ‘Winning moves’ was successfully organized by Andaman and Nicobar Chess Association last month at TMG Emerald View,a star hotel in Port Blairwith 40 kids under the able guidance of IM Lanka Ravi, a FIDE Senior Trainer. Selected games from Asian Junior Girls are annotated by IM Manuel Aaron. Larry Evans, noted American chess grandmaster, author and journalist, is featured in the masters of the past series.

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Inside….10th KIIT Inter. Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha Hoa Duc Nguyen of Vietnam wins titleby IA Paul Arokia Raj S, Chief Arbiter 17th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tmt.,BangaloreKeshav Kothari is the winnerby FA Saleem Beig ,Chief Arbiter 61st Charminar All India open fide rating (below 2000) tmt 2017,HyderabadSri Sai Baswanth emerges Championby IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter 8DCA below 1600 fide rated tmt 2017Somakanta Singh wins DCA Below 1600by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 103rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rated Tmt, VirudhunagarKunal wins Hatsun Idhayam FIDE ratedby R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 12Karnataka State Open FIDE Rating Championship 2017,BangaloreViani Antonio D’Cunha winsby IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 141st Khammam All India FIDE rating open tournament 2017,KhammamVarun is the Championby Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 16All India FIDE Rating National Open Ty for the Visually Challenged,JharkandAshwin Makwana wins titleby FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter 183rd Pavna All India Fide rated Tmt,AligarhHimal Gusain wins Pavna Fide Ratedby IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 203rd SCS FIDE Rated Tmt, SivakasiKunal wins at Sivakasiby Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 22Late Shri Satyendra Pathak Mem.3rd SYNA Open Intl. Rating TmtChakravarthi Reddi wina Syna Openby IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter 281st St.Peters Fide Rating Tmt,KodaikanalSyed Anwar Shazuli of ICF wins titleby M.Vijayakumar,Chief Arbiter 3043rd Tripura State Chess Championship 2017,UdaipurBiswajit Nag wins titleby Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter 32Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Kolkata R.R.Laxman wins titleby Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 34Selected games from Asian Junior GirlsAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past Larry Evans 44AICF Calendar 48

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All India FIDE Rating National Open Tournament for the Visually Challenged, Jharkand

Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament,Kolkata

players to the playing hall. The tournament hall was elite looking one which also housed the World Junior chess championship, 2016. IM and FST S.C.Sahu coordinated the event in great style. Curiously he also participated in the Category A event winning the best veteran prize!

Final standings: Category ‘A’ Rk Name FED Pts 1 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 8½ 2 GM Debashis Das IND 8 3 GM Ghosh Diptayan IND 8 4 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 8 5 GM Grover Sahaj IND 8 6 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7½ 7 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½ 8 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7½ 9 IM Iniyan P IND 7½ 10 IM Raghunandan K.S IND 7½ 11 IM Nitin S. IND 7 12 IM Krishna C R G IND 7 13 GM Babujian Levon ARM 7 14 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7 15 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 7 16 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 7 17 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7 18 Saurabh Anand IND 7 19 FM Sai Krishna G V IND 7 20 FM Karthik Venkataraman IND 7 21 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 22 GM Reefat Bin-Sattar BAN 7 23 Arjun Kalyan IND 7 24 Muthaiah Al IND 7 25 CM Erigaisi Arjun IND 7 26 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 7 27 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 7 28 Navalgund Niranjan IND 6½ 29 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6½ 30 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 6½ 31 Akash Pc Iyer IND 6½ 32 Sammed Jaykumar S IND 6½ 33 Samal Ansuman IND 6½

34 FM Rathanvel V S IND 6½ 35 Kaustuv Kundu IND 6½ 36 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 6½ 37 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6½ 38 Dhananjay S IND 6½ 39 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 6½ 40 Kumar Gaurav IND 6½ 41 IM Rajesh V A V IND 6½ 42 IM Das Sayantan IND 6 43 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 6 44 Hari Madhavan N B IND 6 45 AGM Fenil Shah IND 6 46 Nayak Rajesh IND 6 47 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6 48 Srijit Paul IND 6 49 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 6 50 GM Roy C Saptarshi IND 6 51 Senthil Maran K IND 6 52 Dileep Kumar R IND 6 53 Dixit Nikhil IND 6 54 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra IND 6 55 IM Krishna Teja N IND 6 56 Jeet Jain IND 6 57 Subhayan Kundu IND 6 58 Raahul V S IND 6 59 Neelash Saha IND 6 60 Aradhya Garg IND 6 61 Jayakumaar S IND 6 62 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 6 63 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 6 64 CM Raja Rithvik R IND 6 65 Thanki Hemal K IND 6 66 WFMSalonika Saina IND 6 67 Saptorshi Gupta IND 6 68 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 6 69 IM Padmini Rout IND 6 70 Vignesh B IND 6 71 Pranavananda V IND 6 72 Wagh Suyog IND 5½ 73 CM Aditya Mittal IND 5½ 74 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari IND 5½ 75 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 5½ (L-R) Anilava Chatterjee, CEO_Xtra time,Sambaran Banerjee_ Cricketer, GM S. Roy Choudhury,

GM RR Laxman,Champion, GM Dibyendu Barua, GM Neelotpal Das

Ashwin Makhwana (Winner) receiving the prize from the Chief Guest Shri. Rai Mahimapat Ray (IPS),Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bokaro City, Mr. Vikram Shanan ,CEO Zaika is also seen.

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76 Harshavardhan G B IND 5½ 77 CM Karthik Kumar P IND 5½ 78 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai IND 5½79 CM Rohith Krishna S IND 5½ 80 Singh Y. Dhanabir IND 5½81 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri IND 5½82 WFMDivya Deshmukh IND 5 ½ 83 Yogit S IND 5 ½ 84 AGM Ritam Nag IND 5 ½ 85 Ajay Karthikeyan IND 5 ½ 86 Pruthu Deshpande IND 5 ½ 87 CM Lama Himal NEP 5 ½ 88 Soham Datar IND 5 ½ 89 Pranav Anand IND 5 ½ 90 Aaryan Varshney IND 5 ½ 91 IM Prasad Devaki V IND 5 ½ 92 Priyanka K IND 5 ½ 93 Sahu Rajendra Kumar IND 5 ½ 94 Arya Bhakta IND 5 ½ 95 Mahindrakar I IND 5½96 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 5 ½ 97 IM R. Balasubramaniam IND 5 ½ 98 FM Rahman Syed M BAN 5 ½ 99 Sayantan Chandra IND 5 ½ 100 Pandey Srishti IND 5½ Final standings:Category ‘B’ Rk Name Pts 1 Niranjan Mocharla 9 2 Rishabh Nishad 8½ 3 Gaurav Das 8½ 4 Leeladhar Kachroo 8 5 Chetan Sharma 8 6 Punit Indora 8 7 Sudhir Kumar Behera 8 8 Arijit Mukherjee 8 9 Nikhil M 7½ 10 AIM Aryan 7½ 11 Smaraki Mohanty 7½ 12 Ambarish Sharma 7½ 13 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 7½ 14 AGM Shubham Shukla 7½ 15 Kumud Kumar Nath 7½ 16 Mishra Anisha 7½

17 Bhagyashree Patil 7 18 Singh Soram Rahul 7 19 Cheniram Pegu 7 20 Sandip Dey 7 21 Bodhisatya Pal 7 22 Nayak Sanjeeban 7 23 Banerjee Ashutosh 7 24 Sooraj M R 7 25 Abijit Mistry 7 Final Ranking: Category ‘C’ Rk Name Pts 1 Vangala Prashanth 8 2 Sanjib Mali 8 3 Mohanty Soyamsree 8 4 Manas Kanti Mandal 8 5 Debata Sarthak 7½ 6 Shriman K 7½ 7 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 7½ 8 B Chidambaram.C 7½ 9 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi 7 10 Nagargoje Dhananjay 7 11 Vishwanath Kannam 7 12 Shounak Mazumder 7 13 Manas Singh 7 14 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 7 15 Mohanty Rajesh 7 16 Routray Priyanka 7 17 Sreekar J S S 7 18 Pujari Kambupani 7 19 Ritwick Pal 7 20 Gopikrishnan S 6½ 21 Sai Shravan R 6½ 22 Ashok Kumar Jaju 6½ 23 Arora Honi 6½ 24 Sahoo Auroshis Sudip Kumar 6½ 25 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 6½ 26 ACM Anirudh Venkat R Kumar 6½ 27 Karmakar Ramen 6½ 28 Kritika Pal 6½ 29 Karthik Reddy P 6½ 30 Aanandha Kumar M S 6½ 31 Manoj Kumar Hota 6½ 32 Sadbhav Rautela 6½

3rd SCS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Sivakasi

Karnataka State Open FIDE Rating Championship 2017,Bangalore

Sivakasi Chess Sparklers Secretary K.Kumar, Anandh, VDCA secreatary SR Rajan, AC Ganesh, former Vice President of TNSCA, Sri A. Gopalsamy, M Kunal (Winner), Sri. Nadakumar, Principal of Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic College, IA R. Anantharam, Narendran Kamak, IA V. Vijayaraghavan, and Ganesh Kumar

Prize winners: Yashas D (Third place) , IM Viani Antonio Dcunha(Winner), Nambiar Vivek(Runner-up) Gahan M G (Fourth place)

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7 th BRDCA International Fide Rating (Be-low 1600) Chess Tournament was held from 2nd May 2017 to 4th May 2017

at Hotel City Centaur, Near Railway Station Bengaluru, one of the prominent and well known Hotels in the city. The Tournament was organized by Bangalore Rural District Chess Association. The Tournament attracted 604 players from major states like AP, ASM, BIH, CHH, GOA, GUJ, HAR, KER, MAH, MP, ODI, PUD, PUN, RAJ, TEL and WB and was con-ducted in 9 round Swiss format. There were 2 players from neighboring federation, Sri Lanka. Top seed of the event was Sreelaksh-mi M Sunil Kumar of Tamil Nadu with a rat-ing of 1599. There were 378 rated players. Total cash prize was RS. 4Lakhs.There was no inauguration and the first round started as per schedule.

The final round started at 3.30 pm on 4th of May. On the top board Keshav Kothari(1583) U 13 Karnataka State Champion 2017 drew with Prasath K R(1489) of TN to secure the 1st prize with a better tie break in The 7th BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below 1600) chess tournament which concluded at Hotel City Centaur, Majestic Bangalore. He remained undefeated in the entire tourna-ment with 7 wins and 2 draws. Rakesh N of Karnataka Amal Roozi of Kerala and Prasath K R of Tamil Nadu secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th Places respectively based on better tie break.

The Prize Distribution Ceremony took place on 4th of May 2017 at 7.00 pm. Chief Guest was Mr. Hanumanta R Joint Secretary AICF. Other dignitaries who were present on the occasion were Mr. Durgesh K Treasurer UKCA,

Mr. Chidanand A Secretary BRDCA and Mr. Saleem Beig Chief Arbiter.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Keshav Kothari 8 2 Rakesh N 8 3 Amal Roozi 8 4 Prasath K R 8 5 Sharad Pandit 7½ 6 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7½ 7 Aanandha Kumar M S 7½ 8 Devaraja G 7½ 9 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 7½ 10 Kohli Pranav 7½ 11 Avinash Vaidyanathan 7½ 12 Nachiketh Adiga 7½ 13 Dhrikshu K Vasant 7 14 Sathya Naarayanan S 7 15 Vijay Raghav J S 7 16 Subash Anand R 7 17 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 7 18 Chirag Mudraje 7 19 Arun R 7 20 Mahamuni Yogesh 7 21 Radha Krishnan K 7 22 Muhammed Musthafa 7 23 Tejas Cavale 7 24 Vangala Prashanth 7 25 Sangvikar Rahul 7 26 Sanath K Jamadagni 7 27 Bhojwani Ravi 7 28 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 7 29 Arvind Kumar S 7 30 Suganthan R 7 31 Paulson Frenchy 7 32 Ravindran R 7 33 Anirudh B S 7

34 Vikumar P K 7 35 Theju K V 7 36 Apoorv Kamble 7 37 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 7 38 Chaithanya Ganesh 6½ 39 Lokesh N 6½ 40 Das Jitendra Kumar 6½ 41 Gopikrishnan S 6½ 42 Aruna Dinakara 6½ 43 Bargava Narasimhan S 6½ 44 Mahendra Teja Mekala 6½ 45 Ibrahim E 6½ 46 Antony Simethy 6½ 47 Biju Kumar 6½ 48 Pandhare Swapnil 6½ 49 Abdul Nabi 6½ 50 Imran Hussain 6½ 51 Shakthi P 6½ 52 Robinson M G 6½ 53 Shashidhar B Rai 6½ 54 Rama Rao T V 6½ 55 Muthukumar Thangapandian 6½ 56 Ramanan M 6½ 57 Srikar Yerrabati 6½ 58 Varun B S 6½ 59 Anya Seth Syed 6½ 60 Khude Laxman 6½ 61 Vineesh P S 6 62 Amaey Advait 6 63 Rakshith Srinivasan 6 64 Satyanarayana Raju D S 6 65 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6 66 Karpagakumar S V S 6 67 Srijan J 6 68 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 6 69 Vishwanath Kannam 6 70 Hemadri Sathish 6 71 Tanish Sai Kavuru 6 72 Alok Nagdev 6 73 Neha Srinibash D 6 74 Venkatesh K 6

75 Ayush J Yajaman 6 76 Sugunesh Babu 6 77 Sathyan S R 6 78 Anfas Muhammed 6 79 Shree G Muthu Annamalai 6 80 Ananya Arumbakkam 6 81 Ganesh Aravind N 6 82 Nithish M 6 83 Sanchith Sundararam K 6 84 Rohan Anand 6 85 Ramesh R 6 86 Dhanush Ram M 6 87 Sudhakar T 6 88 Kamatham Balaji 6 89 Karthik Reddy P 6 90 Bhaskar Teja K V 6 91 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 6 92 Bhaskara Rao Balaga 6 93 Raju G 6 94 Samith Reddy I 6 95 Aditya Somasundaram 6 96 Sai R. Arulmurugan 6 97 Prakhyath Kc 6 98 Sagar P 6 99 Tanav Sudarshan 6 100 Sankeerth. R 6 101 Soundariya Lakshmi G 6 102 Jadhav Rahul 6 103 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 6 104 Pavan Kumar Posa 6 105 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 6 106 Shreedhar Muchandikar 6 107 Vishwa Dheep D N 6 108 Jayaprakash M 6 109 Sai Nikhil Y 6 110 Abdul Hameed 6 111 Swaroop Kashyap 5½ 112 Halkude Nagnath 5½ 113 Prasanth A S 5½ 114 Ismail S K 5½ 115 Rohan Nachnani 5½

7th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tournament,Bangalore

Keshav Kothari is the winnerby FA Saleem Beig ,Chief Arbiter

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1 st Charminar All India fide rating chess tournament was organized for 6 days with 10 rounds. The event attracted 194

Players from all over India including major states like Karnataka, Kerala, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andrapradesh and all parts of Telangana. 101 Fide rated players participated in this tournament. Top seed of the event was Vedadri K of Telangana fide rating 1999.

The Event was inaugurated on 16th May 2017 at 2.30 pm. The Dignitaries present on the occasion, were Indo China Summit Manager Mr K S Prasad, Mr Anamchinni Venkatesh-wara Rao, Mr Srinivas Reddy, Tournament Director , Ijak Raj, Telanagana State BJP Leader and Chief Arbiter Promodraj Moree. On the 1st day one round was conducted and on the next four days we had two rounds per day and then final day last round with prize distribution in the evening. Sri Sai Baswanth (1707) of Andra Pradesh became the Champion of the 1st Charminar All India Fide Rating (Below 2000) Chess tournament and bagged a prize money of 20000 and a glittering Trophy. He secured 9 points of 10 rounds by winning 9 games and losing one game with Sai Akshay. 2nd place was bagged by Sheik Fayaz of Telangana who defeated S Khan on the 2nd board.

The Prize distribution function took place at 4pm on 21st May 2017. Dignitaries present on the occasion were Mr Taduri Srinivas, Chairman of Most Backward Classes Cor-poration, Ramana (SATS), Srinivas Reddy, Corporator Shanthi Saizen Shekar, Indo Chi-

na Summit Manager Mr K S Prasad and Mr A Venkateshwara Rao, Tournament Director.

Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Sri Sai Baswanth P 92 Shiek Fayaz 83 Duvvala Suresh 84 Khan S 7½5 Sai Akshay Y 7½6 Pati Spandan 7½7 Dharani Srinivas K B 7½8 Meghanshram B V 7½9 Amer Basha Sk 7½10 Narasimha Raveendra G 7½11 Anurag Kuruvada 712 Kalur Nikhil 713 Subba Raju S. 714 Sarath Chandra K 715 Vedadri K. 716 Naga Venkata Raju G 717 Amar C S 718 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 719 Susarla Rishith 720 Karthik Ganesh 721 Prateek Atluri 722 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 723 Sathwika N 724 Umesh S Lalwani 6½25 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6½26 Nanditha V 6½27 Sathishkumar L 6½28 Rohith Yadav B R 6½29 Krishna Karthik N 6½30 Aravind P V S 6½31 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 6½32 Perumallu K. 6½

33 Sreekar J S S 6½34 Osman Bin Sayeed 6½35 Raivath Mallela 6½36 Krishna Kalyan 6½37 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 6½38 Rao C S 6½39 Kandi Ravi 640 Ojas Mehetre 641 Rohit Yarakala 642 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 643 Mohan Sapa 644 Sheetal Sonwane 645 Rajesh Ekkaladevi 646 Subbarao T V 647 Satish Hegde 648 Velpula Sarayu 649 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 650 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 651 Kotalwar Shubh 652 Prasada Rao G 653 Umesh Konduru 654 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 655 Krishna Devarsh P 656 Viswanath Alur 657 Bharadwaj G V 658 Md Bashiq Imrose 5½59 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 5½60 Aditya Reddy K 5½61 Naman Mehrothra 5½62 Naga Chaitanya 5½63 Singh Arun Kumar 5½64 Manaswini Maheshweram 5½65 Karyasheel P 5½66 Pakashiva Prasad 5½67 Sai Atchyut B 5½68 Viswa Teja G 5½69 Hima Surya K 5½70 Karthikeya Sambhangi 5½71 Abhilash Raghusala 5½72 Himesh Empally 5½73 Sampat Kumar M V 5½

74 Karthikeya Sairam T 5½75 Sriram Devulapalli 5½76 Prashanth Kumar D 5½77 Sri Krishna Praneeth K 5½78 Anirudh M 5½79 Sanjana Ch 5½80 Ramadugu Akshay 5½81 Abdul Azeez S.K. 582 Nitish Bhat 583 B Kishan 584 Pasupulati Saphal 585 Dhanush Reddy A 586 Satya Vaishnavi Jami 587 Neeraj Anirudh K 588 Arueran Raghuraman 589 Vishvas Reddy K 590 Rachita Sabbathi 591 Kapil Surya P 592 Aarav Nambiar T 593 Sankarshana Goli 594 S Sri Subhash Bharadwaj 595 Boorla Vamshi Krishna 596 Bommidi Nithin Kumar 597 Anuraag Vidwan K 598 Nikunj Buddhawar 599 Vishnu, Vardhan 5100 Srivatsa Ananth K 5101 Nigamaa Sree D 5102 Madhu Karthik Ch 5103 Nair Devika 5104 Sushanth Kamabathula 5105 Asuri Srida 5106 Arnav Pradhan 5107 Jami Pranay Teja 5108 Mir Maahir Ali 5109 Sushma Reddy B 4½110 Lakshmi Sai Bhargav V 4½111 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 4½112 Gayapu Linga Reddy 4½113 Ravi Teja Macherla 4½114 Sai Sricharitha Varenya 4½

1st Charminar All India open fide rating (below 2000) chess tournament 2017,Hyderabad

Sri Sai Baswanth emerges Championby IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter

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T he Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated Chess Tournament for Below 1600 rated players was held at Jawaharlal Nehru

Stadium, New Delhi from 13-15 May 2017. A total number of 850 players which includes 604 International rated players from different parts of India, Nepal, Ireland and USA partic-ipated in the event which were spread over 3 days with a time control of 60 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 17,70,000.

The Tournament was played under Swiss System with nine rounds and had Bikash Chandra of West Bengal with 1599 rating as top seed. With Round one starting on time without any formal inauguration and the players went into their business mode from the start itself.

The tournament progressed on expected lines with lot of twists and turns. In the pe-nultimate round, Somakant Singh Haobam of Manipur defeated Harbib Qureshi Raaz of Madhya Pradesh to take sole lead and a quick draw in the final round against Abhinandan Mohan of Uttar Pradesh took his point tally to 8.5 points. Subhash Kumar of Telangana joined Somakanta at the pole position after a hard fought victory over Habib Qureshi Raaz in the final round. But better tie break score helped Somakanta to clinch the title along with cash prize of 1,51,000/-. Subhash Kumar satisfied with first runner position to secure cash award of Rs. 1,25,000/- while Ranjith Kalaiyarasan of Puducherry finished as second runner up with 8 points and be-come richer by one lakh rupees.

Manabi Chouhan of West Bengal adjudged as best female player while Ajay Narayan Trip-athi of Madhya Pradesh become best among unrated players. Arnal Nanal of Maharashtra, Sudhanshu Nikam of Maharashtra, Avinaya Mohan Singh of Chattisgarh and Qamar Naim of Uttar Pradesh finished best among Under-9, Under-12, Under-15 and Veteran respectively. Daaevik Wadhawan and Kritika Pal become Best Delhi player and Best Delhi girl player respectively.In the closing ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation gave away the cash prizes and trophies to the winners along with Shri. D Srihari, Secretary The Andhra Pradesh Chess Association and Shri. AK Ver-ma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Association.Final ranking (first 100 placings only) Rk Name Pts 1 Somakanta Singh Haobam 8½ 2 Subhash Kumar M 8½ 3 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 8 4 Kotha Surya N 8 5 Om Chauhan 8 6 Abhinandan Mohan 8 7 Ragesh Sarma.M 8 8 Soham Saha 7½ 9 Md. Furqan Khan 7½ 10 Bala Ganeshan 7½ 11 Bhawesh Pandiyar 7½ 12 Rajesh Kumar Shukla 7½ 13 Arun Kumar 7½ 14 Bhat Siddharth K 7½ 15 Satyam Prakash 7½ 16 Jayesh T A 7 17 Habib Qureshi Raaz 7 18 Jain J S 7

19 Dhruv Dak 7 20 Dinesh Pathak 7 21 Tejash Jain 7 22 Sachinder 7 23 Utkarsh Gupta 7 24 Devi Das Suresh Pai 7 25 Debata Sarthak 7 26 Sugunesh Babu 7 27 Jatinder Singh 7 28 Shivshankar Iyer S 7 29 Manikanta Singh T 7 30 Gaha Narayan 7 31 Kapil Sharma 7 32 Babel T Divyanshu 7 33 Vishal Thorat 7 34 Stephen Malsawmtluanga 7 35 Thakkar Romil J 7 36 Aashish Choudhary 7 37 Rohit Roy Chaudhary 7 38 Gursimar Singh Arneja 7 39 Anit Kumar Agarwal 7 40 Parth Arora 7 41 Mahendar B 7 42 Wairagade Khush 6½ 43 Gopikrishnan S 6½ 44 Vishwanath Kannam 6½ 45 Aarohon Bharadwaj 6½ 46 Paritosh Malvi 6½ 47 Dhanvij Ansh 6½ 48 Saurav Agarwal 6½ 49 Anirudh Jain 6½ 50 Atma Prakash 6½ 51 Manikandan Tayalan 6½ 52 Waikar Varun 6½ 53 Nikam Sudhanshu 6½ 54 Imran Hussain 6½ 55 Stephen Raj A 6½ 56 Daaevik Wadhawan 6½ 57 Gaurav Nishad 6½ 58 Phani Kanuri 6½ 59 Abeer Nandrajog 6½

60 Swayam Gupta 6½ 61 Patel Nishyank 6½ 62 Utkarsh Agrawal 6½ 63 Sanjib Mali 6½ 64 Avinya Mohan Singh 6½ 65 Murarilal Kori 6½ 66 Manabi Chouhan 6½ 67 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 6½ 68 Aanandha Kumar M S 6½ 69 Kritika Pal 6½ 70 Kumar Reddy M V 6½ 71 Dhimal Bharat 6½ 72 Qamar Naim 6½ 73 Kalpesh Dihora 6½ 74 Shrikant Bardiya 6½ 75 Lalfakmawia P C 6½ 76 Sharma Vaibhav 6½ 77 Aryan Pankaj Kasera 6½ 78 Nishant Vakani 6½ 79 Devansh Singh 6½ 80 Raj Kumar(up) 6½ 81 Raaj Bajaj 6½ 82 Mukeshkumar Parmar 6½ 83 Suthar Manish 6½ 84 Ullas Krishnan U B 6½ 85 Tohin Kumar Halder 6½ 86 Dabhi Sangeet H 6½ 87 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6½ 88 Debiprasad Sarkar 6½ 89 Mishra Jayesh 6½ 90 Vangala Prashanth 6½ 91 Singh Dinesh Pratap 6½ 92 Choudhary Pushpendra Kumar 6½ 93 Suman Yaddanapudi 6½ 94 Sanjib Chatterjee 6 95 Arbaz Shekh 6 96 Jagan V 6 97 Kirtana S P 6 98 Uttam Prakash Sharma 6 99 Shah Dhaval 6 100 Gupta Shailendra 6

DCA below 1600 fide rated chess tournament-2017, New Delhi

Somakanta Singh wins DCA Below 1600by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

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T he 3rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rat-ed Chess Tournament, organised by Virudhunagar Chess Club at VSVN Pol-

ytechnic, Virudhunagar attracted about 270 players from Tamil Nadu, AP, Telanagana, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, Maharash-tra and Jharkhand. International master P. Shyaamnikhil, international master elects Ara Harikrishnan and M. Kunal all from Ta-mil Nadu were the top three seeds, followed by Asian Under 9 champion D. Gukesh of AP. The tournament was of 9 round Swiss format, with a time control of 90 minutes to each player, with an increment of 30 seconds per move.In the inaugural round, former TN State women champion S. Harini was held to a draw by K. Yogaraj of TN. A similar result was on cards for the state women champion P. Bala Kannamma, when she met low rated Arjun Sidharth in the second round. Fourth round witnessed the Madurai talents B Selvamuru-gan, and TS Nandakumar extricating half a point each from the top two seeds Shyaam anf Hari respectively. Kunal emerged the sole leader at the end of the fifth round by beating former under 17 TN champion SS Manigandan of Madurai, as other top board games ended without any decisive result.

Tough fighting prevailed in the sixth round, as there were only two draws in the first fifteen games, leading to a six way share of the lead. Harikrishnan defeated Yogit of Chen-nai and Kunal got the better of Dusthageer of Madurai to seize the lead with 6.5 points each, with Shyaamnikhil, Gukesh, S Kumar and Manu David Suthanthiram of Chennai half a point behind the leaders. After a spate

of draws on top boards, Harikrishnan and Kunal continued to lead with 7 points each at the end of the eighth and penultimate round. The tournament was poised for an exciting finish, as nine others were breathing at the shoulders of the leaders with 6.5 points each. Kunal and Gukesh settled for an early draw. Shyaamnikhil used his vast resources to break open the sturdy defence of Harikrishnan to script a win. Manu David Suthanthiram, S Kumar and P. Mythireyan also recorded wins to scored 7.5 points to tie with Kunbal and Shyaam. When the tiebreaks were applied, Kunal was decalred winner followed by Shy-aamnikhil and others in the above order. Kunal received Rs.50,000/- and Shyaam got Rs.30000/-. A total cash prize of 4.5 lakhs was awarded in the form of about 230 prizes.

Sri. TKSPA Shanmugamoorthy, Secretary of VSVN Polytechnic inaugurated the tourna-ment in the presence of Sri. VMG. Rajaseka-ran industrialist and Vice President of VDCA. Sri. VVR Idhayam Muthu, one of the spon-sors of the tournament was the chief guest in the prize distribution function and Sri. S. Eswaran BE., of SPK Hotel, Madurai was the guest of honour.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Kunal M. 7½ 2 IM Shyaamnikhil P 7½ 3 Manu David Suthandram R 7½ 4 Kumar S. 7½ 5 Mythireyan P 7½ 6 CM Gukesh D 7 7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 8 Manigandan S S 7 9 Swaraj Palit 7

10 Alan Diviya Raj 7 11 Alaguraja M.A. 7 12 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 6½ 13 Paramasivam M. 6½ 14 Shakthi Vishal J 6½ 15 Gowtham K K 6½ 16 AGM Rathneesh R 6½ 17 Peter Anand A 6½ 18 Godson Merlin E 6½ 19 Anilkumar O.T. 6½ 20 Marimuthu K 6½ 21 Sreekumar P. 6½ 22 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 6½ 23 Subramanian V 6½ 24 Karuppasamy C 6½ 25 Anirudh D Venkat 6½ 26 Rajeev V M 6½ 27 Vijin Babu S 6½ 28 Badrinath S. 6 29 Yogit S 6 30 Selvamurugan B 6 31 Dharmaraj P. 6 32 Nanda Kumar T.S. 6 33 Kavitha P L 6 34 Jayasangar T 6 35 Prawin K 6 36 Vishnu Viswanathan P 6 37 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 38 Prashanth J Naik 6 39 Srihari L 6 40 Gokul S 6 41 Rathina Sabapathi A 6 42 Srivatsan Sekar 6 43 Shetty Murugan 6 44 Jayashri K K 6 45 Rathish T.J. 6 46 Jos Paul Davis 6 47 Lenin A G 6 48 Aravind Matthews A C T 6 49 Muthu P 6 50 Chandra Sekharan A P 6

51 Aasha C R 5½ 52 Avinash Ramesh 5½ 53 Yashwant Annamalai 5½ 54 Aravindaswami T 5½ 55 Harini S. 5½ 56 Suganthan S 5½ 57 Bala Kannamma P 5½ 58 Rooswelt 5½ 59 Srijan J 5½ 60 Hemachandran M 5½ 61 Jinan Jomon 5½ 62 Kumaresh A 5½ 63 Divyan T 5½ 64 Shadursshaan R 5½ 65 Kathiravan S 5½ 66 Shyaam M 5½ 67 AIM Mohammed Shamil A 5½ 68 Rajkumar N 5½ 69 Tarun Vaibhav V 5½ 70 Yashwanth Raj S 5½ 71 Vel Murugan B 5½ 72 Sivashankar M 5½ 73 Bhadrinathan A 5½ 74 Arjun Sidharth S 5½ 75 Muthu Jeyram M 5½ 76 Sivanandha V 5½ 77 Jagendran Kamak N 5½ 78 Vigneshwar D P 5½ 79 Sangeetha P 5 80 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5 81 Sivasubramanian Manoj 5 82 Lekshanth M 5 83 Unnikrishnan M A 5 84 Prithvi Rajan 5 85 Meenatchi Rajam V 5 86 Arun Prasad Raja V 5 87 Vigneshwaran K 5 88 Femil Chelladurai 5 89 Sriram K 5 90 Anandan Arunachalakani 5 91 Murugan M 5

3rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Virudhunagar

Kunal wins Hatson Idhayam titleby R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

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1 st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017 was organized by Chess Inlakecityunder the aegis of All

Rajputana Chess Association, from 30th-March to 4thApril, 2017. at Sahu Samudaik Bhavan, Udaipur. The Total Number of partici-pants were 330including 3 IM, a current Asian Senior Champion. GM Norm holder IM Wazir Ahmed Khan also one of the participants. The total tally of rated players were 226.The tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Shri. Chandra Singh Kothari, Mayor Udaipur. Other guests present on the dais were Prem Singh Shaktawat ,Shri. Pankaj Mangrudia,DevendraSahu, Rajendra Bordia, Narayan Lal Sharma ,Rajeev Bardwaj, Pres-ident Chess In lakecity and IA SwapnilBan-sod, Chief Arbiter. After the inaugural function thetechnical meeting was arranged. All the tournament regulations were discussed and finalized in the meeting, including the shifting of venue for all the remaining rounds after the round 1.Second SeedIM Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Rlys, clinched the title of the tournament. He beat Sing Soram Rahul of Assam in the last round of the tournament to score 9 points out of maximum 9.Vikramadityawon all his games and scored a perfect 9. At the end of 5th round Vikramaditya, IM Himanshu Shar-ma and AtulDahale leading the tournament with 5 points each.In6th round game Vikram-aditya beat Himanshu and crushed himan-shu’s 2500 live rating dream.IM Himanshu Sharma, the top seed of tournament, finished 2nd with 8 points.He lost his only game to IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni.Vinod Sharma of Rlys, Jay Kundaliya of GUJ and BhavdatAnand of AP scored 7.5 points each and finished in 3rd

to 5th. positions respectively.The prize distribution function of 1st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017 was held on 4thApril, 2017 at 3 pm at SahuSamudaikBhavan, Udaipur. Shri Deven-draSahu , Member District Sports Council, Dr. Om Sahu VP, Chess in lakecity, Shri Ravin-draShrimali, Chairman, UIT Udaipur, Shri Anil Sharma , Rt . Chief Engineer PWD, Rajasthan ,ShriDevnarayanDhabhai , VP District Sports Council , Shri ShatrudhanBandwal, President BuddhibalsevaSansthan , Udaipur, Shri Anil Mangrudiya , Org. Chairman and IA Swap-nilBansod Chief Arbiter were present on the occasion.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 9 2 IM Himanshu Sharma 8 3 Vinod R. Sharma 7½ 4 Jay Kundaliya 7½ 5 Badavath Anand 7½ 6 Dahale Atul 7 7 Sanjeet Manohar 7 8 Sumit Grover 7 9 Dere Pushkar 7 10 Sharma Vaibhav 7 11 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 7 12 Abhay Bandewar 7 13 Sher Singh 7 14 Rishabh Nishad 7 15 Suresh Kolavapalli 7 16 Mraduhas Tripathi 7 17 Esshan Wadhawan 718 Singh Soram Rahul 6½ 19 Sahil Dhawan 6½ 20 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6½ 21 Tamal Chakrabarty 6½ 22 Dilip Das 6½

1st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017, Udaipur

Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Railways winsby IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter

23 Akash Tiwari 6½ 24 Sunny Bedi 6½ 25 Prakash Yadav 6½ 26 Ashwani Kumar Grover 6½ 27 Sumit Roy 6½ 28 Satyanarayana P. 6½ 29 Nandha Kumar K 6½ 30 Srivastava Anurag 6½ 31 Dave Kantilal 6½ 32 Kadam Om Manish 6½ 33 Jaspreet Singh 6½ 34 Ankit Payal 6½ 35 Nand Kishore Chandel 6½ 36 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6½ 37 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 6½ 38 Niranjan Mocharla 6 39 Rathore Sonakshi 6 40 Rawat R.S. 6 41 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 6 42 AFM Choubey Saurabh 6 43 Arbaz Shekh 6 44 Roshan S 6 45 Ayan Banerjee 6 46 Gautam Kataria 6 47 Ansh M Shah 6 48 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 49 Katiyar Prashant 6 50 Dave Shiv Shankar 6 51 Vikramaditya Mukhija 6 52 AGM Rathneesh R 6 53 Bhogal Rupesh 6 54 Govind Kumar Chandel 6 55 Subhadip Seth 6 56 Gupta Dinesh 6 57 Deepak Batra 6 58 Rajendra Singh Rana 6 59 Ayush Lodha 6 60 Soham Kamotra 6 61 Arun Kataria 6 62 Purushotham Joshi 6 63 Aswin.P.G 6 64 Mumukshu Mittal 6 65 Srivatsan Sekar 6

66 Devendra Kumar 5½ 67 Shrivastav Hritik 5½ 68 Anadkat Kartavya 5½ 69 Panwar Krish Navratan 5½ 70 Sangeen Mandre 5½ 71 Chaudhary Pallav 5½ 72 Babel T Divyanshu 5½ 73 Jain Nityata 5½ 74 Leeladhar Kachroo 5½ 75 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 5½ 76 Nimdia Ridit 5½ 77 Ananmay Sharma 5½ 78 Agarwal Saket 5½ 79 Utkarsh Agrawal 5½ 80 Darsh Kansal 5½ 81 Golvankar Dilip K 5½ 82 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 5½ 83 Bonu Ravi Kumar 5½ 84 Raghav Srivathsav V 5½ 85 Dr Sanjay Date 5½ 86 Srikrishnan P 5½ 87 Yash Tulapurkar 5½ 88 Aayush Bhattacherjee 5½ 89 Bharadia Madhav 5½ 90 Sudhakar 5½ 91 Madhusudhan Reddy E 5½ 92 Rahul Dev Das 5½ 93 Kamdar Umang 5½ 94 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 5½ 95 Aanya Agarwal 5½ 96 Hamendra Singh Makwana 5½ 97 Johney Mandal 5½ 98 Saran Kumar Thakur 5½ 99 Thakkar Jatan 5½ 100 Sharma Avinash 5 101 Karthik P M 5 102 Gawade Milind 5 103 Jain Adi 5 104 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 5 105 Kamdar Aparva 5 106 Dhruv Dak 5 107 Sharma Vicky 5 108 Jadhav Rahul 5

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1st Khammam All India Fide Rating open Chess Tournament was held at Hotel Se-quel Resort, Khammam, Telangana, one

of the prominent and well known Hotels in the city from 5th May to 10th May 2017. The Tournament was organized by Anamchinni Foundation in association with Telangana State Chess Association. The Tournament attracted 165 players, with 37 rated players.

The event was inaugurated on 4th May with a grand function. The Dignitaries present on the inauguration were- Karnati Veerab-hadram (Tournament adviser), Anamchinni Venkateshwar Rao, Member chess in schools Committee, R V Nagendra Kumar (Chairman, resonance Educational Institutions, Rama Krishna Elluri, CEO, Sequel Resorts, Ramya Venkat, Chairperson, Telangana State Chess in Schools Foundation, Nagendra (HMTVE). The event started on 5th May 2017 with one round on 1st day. All the top seeded players sailed smoothly to win in the first round. On the next four days we had two rounds per day and then final day last round with prize distribution in the evening.

Important results of the Final 10th Round :Krishna Karthik N (7) lost to Varun V(9), Rao J Malleshwara (8) drew with Satyanarayana P (8), Badavath Anand(8.5) Beat Sri Sai Bas-wanth (7.5), Velupula Sarayu (7) lost to Joel Paul G(8), Sahik Gouse (8) beat chakravarthi S V C (6.5).

Varun V of Telangana became the Champion of the 1st Khammam All India Fide Rating

Open Chess tournament. He secured 9 points of 10 rounds by winning 8 games and drawing two games. The Prize distribution function took place at Hotel Sequel Resort at 4pm. The Chief guest of the event was MLA Mr Puvadda Ajay Kumar. Other dignitaries present on the occasion were, Indo China Summit Manager Mr K S Prasad, AICF Chess in Schools Member Mr A Venkateshwara Rao, Sequel CEO , Mr Ramakrishna, Resonance Info school Chairman, Mr R V Nagendra Kumar, Mr Murali, Anamchinni Foundation Member, Ms A Sai Ramya, Ms Aimavati , Ms Geeta, Mr Nagendra , Mr Ramu, Mr Promodraj Moree Chief Arbiter. The guests distributed the prizes to the winners.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Varun V 9 2 Badavath Anand 8½ 3 Satyanarayana P. 8 4 Rao J. Malleswara 8 5 Joel Paul G 8 6 Shaik Gouse 8 7 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7½ 8 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 7½ 9 Gopathi Yogi Yashwanth 7½ 10 Narasimha Rao Konda 7 11 Nanditha V 7 12 Sampat Kumar M V 7 13 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 7 14 Krishna Karthik N 7 15 Gorthi Madan Gopal 7 16 Ravikumar M 7 17 Velpula Sarayu 7 18 Dammalapati Sri Ram 7 19 Sai Suhash K V K 7 20 Md Bashiq Imrose 7

21 Abhilash Raghusala 7 22 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 6½ 23 Rama Mohan Rao N 6½ 24 Ojas Mehetre 6½ 25 Abhilash Varma A 6½ 26 Bommidi Nithin Kumar 6½ 27 Sai Dhanush V 6½ 28 Pavani Prasanth K 6½ 29 Mourya Manyam 6½ 30 Vangala Prashanth 6½ 31 Suryasumedh Behera 6½ 32 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 6 33 Varshith Nela 6 34 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 35 Rozer Samuel P A 6 36 Adhvaith Kodam 6 37 Ramesh Kumar Dontha 6 38 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 6 39 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 6 40 Navile Venkatamurali 6 41 Pokala Tarun Teja 6 42 Lakavath Nagesh 6 43 Davuluri Vihar 6 44 Vaibhav Ladda 6 45 Sanjana Ch 6 46 Bhavya Sree Yeramala 6 47 Samhitha Thantarapalli 6 48 Vishvas Reddy K 6 49 Parupalli ChandrashekarT G 6 50 Karthikeya Sambhangi 6 51 Bhaskar Bachala 6 52 Magam Vasista Sai 6 53 Kotha Bharath Reddy 6 54 Venkata Sai Madhav Varma 6 55 Sanjaychandra Samudrala 6 56 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 6 57 Charumati K 5½ 58 Pranay Reddy B 5½ 59 Pindiprolu Srinivas 5½ 60 Ramesh Kasani 5½ 61 Sai Janani Pothula 5½

62 Vishnu Vardhan 5½ 63 Md Noushad Ahmed 5½ 64 Sharang Polichetti 5½ 65 Mani Deepika M 5½ 66 Srilahari Mudumba 5½ 67 Sri Anjana Sarvani M 5½ 68 Shivas Reddy K 5½ 69 Karunya Shesha Sai Y 5½ 70 Varma G Y C 5½ 71 Vamsi Krishna Ratnakaram 5 72 Biswajith Krishna Ch 5 73 Vishnu Komanduri 5 74 Akkula Mahesh 5 75 Sriram Paramathma A 5 76 Satya Vaishnavi Jami 5 77 Yeramala Bharath 5 78 Sivaramakrishna Jampana 5 79 Shashi Prakash A 5 80 Aleti Tharun 5 81 George Burugumala 5 82 Shreeramchandra V 5 83 Sai Ganesh Mokkapati 5 84 Apurva Vanama 5 85 Abhiram Vaddi 5 86 Pindiprolu Vidya 5 87 Pinni Venkatanarayana 5 88 Sri Vishnu Shiva A 5 89 Talla Nischal 5 90 Uttham Naresh P 5 91 Krishna Sai Koushik P 5 92 Sai Satya Saketh Vudattu 5 93 Victor Joseph D 5 94 Raja Konjerla 5 95 Harsha Vardhan Gedhala 5 96 Meghana Pasam 5 97 Yata Manaswini 5 98 Nagendhraprasad P (VC) 5 99 Venukumar G 4½ 100 Bommidi Nikhitha 4½ 101 Dhruthi Sriprada M 4½ 102 Arush Srivatsa U S 4½

1st Khammam All India FIDE rating open tournament 2017,Khammam

Varun is the Championby Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter

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All India FIDE Rating National Open Chess Tournament for the Visually Challenged was inaugurated on 24th

July 2017 on 10.00 am at Asha Lata Vikal-anga Kendra , Sector V , Bokaro Steel City. This FIDE Rating Tournament for Visually Impaired persons is organised for the first time in Bokaro Steel City as well as in the entire Jharkhand State. This tournament was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Shri Paban Kumar Singh, CEO Bokaro Steel Plant. Many Officials and dignitaries of Bokaro Steel Plant and Asha Lata were present in this colourful ceremony. This tournament was organized by Asha-Lata under the Aegis of AICFB, AICF and FIDE. Zaika Resort , ONGC, SAIL , Hindusthan Copper Ltd, and BPACL extend their hands as a sponsor for this noble event.

Asha-Lata Institute is a registered NGO working for Education, Development and Rehabilitation of all categories of Divyang Children, such as hearing impaired, visually impaired, mentally retarded and orthope-dically impaired including autism, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities.

They provided a big AC hall for playing, with sufficient drinking water and washroom facil-ities. The organisers arranged an A.C Lodg-ing facilities for all the players, officials and parents. They provide a beautiful Cafeteria, from where all the participants , officials and others can get their breakfast , lunch , and dinner free of cost. There was no entry fee for all the participants.Digital Chess Clocks were provide in all the boards.

A total of 70 players from different States took part in this event. Out of these 70 players, 34 players were rated and 36 were unrated. Top seed was Makwana Ashvin K with a Irtg-1826 , Top seed Makwana Ashvin K clinched the Championship Title and be-came the Champion of “All India FIDE Rating National Open Chess Tournament for the Vis-ually Challenged” and was awarded a Cash Prize of Rs.8000/- along with Certificate. He scored 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. Sujit J Chudasama and Milind Samant became 2nd and 3rd respectively. The Total prize money of the entire tournament was Rs.52,000/-. Not a single protest/claim was there during that period. Tournament was smoothly conducted by me with the help of so many volunteers provided by the organiser.

The closing Ceremony was held in a befitting manner. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bokaro City, Mr. Rai Mahimapat Ray (IPS) , Mr. Vikram Shanan ,CEO Zaika were present in this ceremony & gave away the prizes to all the winners. Many players will get Elo rating and some players got partial rating from this event. I express my thanks to the organizing body for giving me an opportunity to under-take the responsibility as Chief Arbiter for this event. I express my special thanks to Asha Lata and their entire volunteer team for their immense support. Without their support this is not possible for anybody to make this event a grand success. The Press and Media covered the event well and we had consid-erably very good support from the parents and guardian of the participants.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Makwana Ashvin K 7½ 2 Sujit J Chudasama 7½ 3 Samant Milind 7 4 Akhilesh K. Srivastava 6½ 5 Yudhajeet De 6½ 6 Venkat Reddy S 6½ 7 Shambhu Kumar Roy(vc) 6½ 8 Nemai Das 6½ 9 Suman Kumar Blind 6½ 10 Viral Trivedi 6 11 Madan Jana 6 12 Chirantan C Mesariya 6 13 Madhukesh Ram 6 14 Hariharan Gandhi 5½ 15 Agesh Kumar A 5½ 16 Aniruddha Khunte 5½ 17 Sudhira Kumar Nayak (blind) 5½ 18 Dipak Kumar Bhoi 5½ 19 Subodh Rajvanshi 5½ 20 Vikas Shitole 5½ 21 Megha Chakraborty 5½ 22 Balaram Hansda 5½ 23 Mirjan Sekh 5½ 24 Pratima Ghosh 5½ 25 Mercel Tomkinson 5 26 Patel Lav 5 27 Rajkumar Bhagat 5 28 Prathap Reddy B 5 29 Vijay Arumugham 5 30 Shiv Kumar Sahu 5 31 Dharmaraj R 5 32 Mahesh Sudam Mhabdi 5 33 Milan Adhikari 5 34 Pradeep K K 5 35 Rathi Himanshi 4½ 36 Hemant Rao 4½ 37 Abhay Ram 4½ 38 Sidhanta Nayak 4½ 39 Rahul Navghane 4 40 Sankar Chakraborty (blind) 4 41 Raj Das 4

42 Sourav Ghosh 4 43 Anil Kumar Malik 4 44 Rajan Kunnumpuram 4 45 Singh Surypratap 4 46 Rajeev Ranjan Das 4 47 Rajapandian Vijay 4 48 Abhishek Kumar Shah 4 49 Md. Isrfin Baks 4 50 Meghnath Mondal 3½ 51 Rakesh Kumar 3½ 52 Subho Singh 3½ 53 Ajit Oran 3½ 54 Shahjada Salim 3½ 55 Vijay Kumar 3½ 56 Amar Kumar Sharma 3 57 Manoj Kumar 3 58 Ravinder Kumar 3 59 Bhawarlal Prajapat 3 60 Chandralesh Kumar 3 61 Sivadasan Madathil 3 62 Shahina Ibrahim 3 63 Ashis Biswas 2½ 64 Ajay Sahoo 2½ 65 Arindam Guchhait 2½ 66 Ramesh Kumar Singh 2½ 67 Kalu Charan Nayak 2½ 68 Amar Kanta Jhankar 2 69 Niranjan Swain 1 70 Subhash Shaw 0

All India FIDE Rating National Open Ty for the Visually Challenged,Jharkand

Ashwin Makwana wins title by FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter

When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the oth-er may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

- Mark Taimanov

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T hird Pavna All India Fide rated Chess Tournament was inaugurated on May 19, 2017 by Mr. Mukesh Jain , Executive

Director of Pavna Group. He made a ceremo-nial move on the Chess board and declare the tournament open. During his speech on occasion , Mr. Jain appreciated the effort of District Chess Association of Aligarh and its office bearer . He promised to continue his support to the game of Chess and this tour-nament. Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay, Principal , D.P.S. Agra road, Aligarh , was also present there as guest of honour . On behalf of organ-ization as well as District Chess Association , Chandramohan Sadani welcomed the guest and players while Mr. Vijay Kumar Pachisiya ,Treasurer deliver the vote of thanks. Soon after the inaugural ceremony , Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar conducted a players meeting to discuss and frame the necessary regulations for tournament.

3rd Pavna Open took off for 9 round tour-nament with 181 players including GM elect IM Himanshu Sharma on May 19, 2017 at 4 o’clock evening. Time control was 90 minute with 30 sec/move from move 1. However , top seed IM Himanshu Sharma missed his first round as couldn’t reached up the city within time . IM elect Himal Gusain of Chandigarh was in his full form and he just allowed to share half point with IM Himanshu Sharma. He scored 8.5/9 and clinch the title of 3rd Pavna Fide Rating Chess Tournament . Winner of last 2 edition IM Himanshu Shar-ma scored 7.5 point with Gajendra Singh of LIC (UP) but not lucky enough to secure 2nd position even. 2nd place went to Gajendra

Singh while IM Himanshu Sharma finished 3rd place.

In a clourful closing ceremony , Chief Guest Swapnil Jain , Pro Chairman of Pavna Group ,Guest of Honor Rajiv Agrwal , Chairman , Plus Point Ltd. and Special Guest Vijay Bajaj , Chairman , Lock Master of India gave away the prizes to all the winners in presence of Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay , Principal , D.P.S. , Agra Road , Aligarh . Chief Arbiter Dharmendra delivered the tournament report , Vijay Kumar Pachisiya , Treasurer , DCSA,Aligarh welcomed the gath-ering and Chandra Mohan Sadani Secretary , DCSA, Aligarh presented the vote of thanks.

Final rankingRk Name Pts1 Gusain Himal 8½2 Gajendra Singh 7½3 IM Himanshu Sharma 7½4 Anuj Shrivatri 75 Deepak Katiyar 76 Dubey Sanchay 77 Ankit Sen 78 Sharma Pankaj 79 Rishabh Nishad 6½10 Sumit Grover 6½11 Deepak Rai 6½12 Dave Kantilal 6½13 Esshan Wadhawan 6½14 Leeladhar Kachroo 6½15 Negi D.S. 6½16 Verma Ashu 6½17 Sharma Varun 6½18 Haribabu Sharma 6½

19 Bajpai Vasu 6½20 Sanskriti Goyal 621 AFM Choubey Saurabh 622 Om Chauhan 623 Aaryan Varshney 624 Katiyar Prashant 625 Saurav Agarwal 626 Shweta Priyadarshini 627 Nakul Chaudhary 628 Tripathi Skand 629 Rajat Pratap Singh 630 Sharma S K 631 Gabbar 632 Singh Amarjit 5½33 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5½34 Shankar Kuldeep 5½35 Kartikey Verma 5½36 Hariom Solanki 5½37 Himanshu Agarwal 5½38 Ayush Sharma 5½39 Arnav Maheshwari 5½40 Raghav H S 5½41 Awasthi Balgovind 5½42 Ashvani Saini 5½43 Daaevik Wadhawan 5½44 Shashi Nand Kumar 5½45 Kritika Pal 5½46 Gupta Tanish 5½47 Yung David 5½48 Himanshu Prakash 5½49 Atul Bihari Sharan 5½50 Jay Saxena 5½51 Vijay Kumar Agrawal 552 Neelesh Raj Singh 553 Medha Chauhan 554 Patil Priyanshu 555 Garv Rai 556 Tiwari O P 557 Singh Dinesh Pratap 558 Saini Ashutosh 559 Wais S M 5

60 Manikya Negi 561 Sankalp Arora 562 Rohit Gupta 563 Dutta Sarthak 564 Shivam Kumar 565 M Thangapandian 566 Aashman Gupta 567 Arnav Haldia 568 Varshney Roopak 569 Parth Bhatnagar 570 Vikram Vishwajeet 571 Yadav Narayan 572 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb 573 Divyanshu Sharma 574 Gaurav Varshney 575 Sahil Jamal Ansari 576 Rajesh Kumar Garg 577 Devansh Singh 578 Pramod Kumar Sharma 579 Saxena Vikash 580 Nitul Khare 4½81 Kranti Kumar Gupta 4½82 Raghuraman V 4½83 Munna Das Bairagi 4½84 Arnav Kushwaha 4½85 Tejas Gupta 4½86 Shambhavi Srivastava 4½87 Akhil Chaudhary 4½88 Kunal Kishore 4½89 Arunesh Narain Gaur 4½90 Shiva Garg 4½91 Aashi Upadhayay 4½92 Aditya Pratap Singh 4½93 Arun Kumar Saxena 4½94 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 4½95 Hemendra Singh Tomar 4½96 Parmod Kharbash 497 Vinayak Verma 498 Ashraf Ali 499 Sara Prakash 4100 Syed M Hussain Jafry 4

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Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championships, Chengdu,ChinaWei Yi, Vaishali win Asian Blitz 2017

By Arvind Aaron

Wei Yi of China and R Vaishali of India won the Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championships in China on May 21, 2017. Wei Yi who won the Chinese Championship recently tied for first place with former world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov scoring 7.5/9.

Vr Aravindh Chithambaram scored seven points and shared the third place with China’s Bai Jinshi. A total of 18 Indians played in this event, nine in Open and nine in the women sections.Vaishali won the Women’s section starting as the 16th seed. She remained undefeated drawing Khademalsharieh Sarasadat (Iri) and Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh (Mgl). India had a second member in the podium when Padmini Rout finished third

with seven points. Padmini played a shade below expectations, starting as third seed and finishing third. Top seed Khademalsharieh Sarasadat of Iran finished second.

The Asian Continental started with a one day blitz on May 21 at Chengdu City in Sichuan Province. The time control for blitz was 3 minutes for the whole game plus an increment of two seconds per move. It was organised by the Chinese Chess Association. Sixty-six players from 17 nations took part in this event.

Final placings: 1-2. Wei Yi (Chn), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 7.5/9 each; 3-4. Bai Jinshi (Chn), Vr Aravindh Chithambaram (Ind) 7 each; 5-8. Lu Shanglei (Chn), Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vie), M.R. Lalith Babu, Vidit Gujrathi (both Ind) 6.5 each; 9-11. Maghsood-loo Parham (Iri), B Adhiban (Ind), Wang Hao (Chn) 6 each; 22 Surya S Ganguly 5, 24-25 Sandipan Chanda, S.P. Sethuraman 5 each, 36 Deep Sengupta 4.5, 57 Karthikeyan Murali 3…66 players.

Final placings (women): 1 R Vaishali (Ind) 8/9; 2 Khademalsharieh Sarasadat (Iri) 7.5; 3 Padmini Rout (Ind) 7 each; 4-6. Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh (Mgl), Pham Le Thao Nguyen (Vie), Frayna Janelle Mae (Phi), Zhu Chen (Qat), Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie), Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie) 6 each; 12 Soumya Swaminathan 5.5, 16 Mary Ann Gomes 5, 26 Swati Ghate 4.5, 31 Bodda Pratyusha 4, 35 Nisha Mohota 3, 38 P.V. Nandhidhaa 3, 42 Kiran Mohanty 3…48 players

17th IPCA World Chess Championship,SlovakiaThree Golds for India

By Arvind AaronThree golds, one bronze for the Indians at Slovakia was on the back of a strong perormance in the 17th IPCA World Chess Championship.Woman International Master Jenitha Anto of Tiruchi won her fifth world title in style with

S ivakasi Chess Sparklers is organising a major fide rated tournament every year in Sivakasi, inviting strong players

from all over India. The third edition of the tournament conducted from 18.5.2017 to 22.5.2017 is no exception with about 325 players participating in the five days open tournament. The playing field included IM elects A Ra Harikrishnan and M. Kunal of Tamil Nadu as the top two seeds, IM Mura-likrishnan BT of Railways, IM Chakkravarthy Reddy of Telangana and Asian Under 9 cham-pion D. Gukesh of Andhra Pradesh.

In the first two rounds, seeded players had a smooth sailing. In the third round, PL Kavitha of Tamil Nadu, shocked S. Harini also of Tamil Nadu, who is rated about 500 points above the former. SS manigandan a former Tamil Nadu champion in the under 17 category held the top seed Harikrishnan to a draw in the fifth round. Similarly, fourth seeded Gulesh also had to be content with a draw against M. Barath Kalyan, a Commonwealth silver medallist in age category. Five players – M Kunal, AL Muthaiah, S Yogit of Chennai BT Muralikrishnan and Chakkravarthy Reedy led with five points in as many rounds. Kunal escaped from the clutches of defeat against international arbiter S Ganesh Babu, who blundered in the dyeing minutes.

Gukesh and Hrithikesh of Tamil Nadu defeat-ed BS Aswin Kumar and M. Barath Kalyan to join the five overnight leaders with 5.5 points each after six rounds. Top four boards of the seventh round ended in draw, resulting in a eleven way tie at the top, each with 6.5 points at the end of eighth round, leaving

nobody to guess or have a clue about the winner. The pattern did not change in the final round also. On the top boards IM Mu-ralikrishnan had to be content with a draw and on the second board, Muthaiah inflicted a defeat on Gukesh. While Kunal and IM Chakkravarthy Reddy overcame the stiff re-sistance from Harini and Manigandan. Kunal, Murali, Muthaiah, Chakkravarthy Reddy and RM Subramanian scored 7.5 points each ad tied for the first place. Kunal, fresh from his victory at Virudhunagar five days back, secured the first place, followed by Murali and Muthaiah. Kunal was awarded with a cash prize of Rs.70000/- and Murali received Rs.50000/- for his efforts. All the players were complimented with chess sets and free lunch on all days of the tournament.

The inauguration was a grand and elite function, with stalwarts from FIDE, AICF and TNSCA attending it. Vice President of FIDE Sri. DV. Sundar inaugurated the tournament in the august presence of Sri.V. Hariharan, secretary of AICF and General Secretary of TNSCA and Sri. B. Murugavel, Vice president of TNSCA. Sri. AMSG Asokan, industrialist and Correspondent of Arasan Ganesan Poly-technic College was the chief guest and other dignitaries present were Sri. A Gopalsamy, President of Virudhunagar District Chess As-sociation and Sri. G. Ramamoorthy, President of Sivakasi Chess Club.

Sivakasi has been the hub of chess activities for the past forty years, which includes Asian Junior Championships in 1979 (wherein GM Dibyendu Barua participated as a thirteen year old boy), several national and state

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a round to spare. Shashikant Kutwal became the World Disa-bled Champion 2017 and also became an International Master. Sammarth J Rao who won bronze in the junior got the gold in the blitz junior section.

Shashikant Kutwal was received at the Pune airport when he returned from Slovakia. Joseph D’Souza and R Konde, President and Secretary of the Pune District Chess Association felicitated Shashikant Kutwal at the airport.The last round was spectacular. Indians played on boards one, two and three! noted Kanickai Irudayaraj.

Sichuan Airlines Cup 2017 Asian Continental Chess Championship, Chengdu,ChinaIndians win Bronze Medal at Asian Continental

By Arvind Aaron

Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi of Nasik (Mah) and R Vaishali of Chennai won bronze medals in the Sichuan Airlines Cup 2017 Asian Continental Chess Championship that concluded recently at Chengdu in China.Sixth seed Wang Hao of China won the event after he and countryman Bu Xiangzhi scored the same seven points and remained undefeated to tie for first. Wang Hao had the better tie-break. Vidit Gujrathi lost to champion Wang Hao in the middle of the tournament and raced towards a 3.5/4 finish to win the bronze medal.

GM Vidit Santhosh GujrathiEighth seed Vo Thi Kim Phung (7.5/9) of Vietnam won the Asian Continental event for women remaining undefeated and also gaining a massive 54.6 Elo points. Ninth seed Nakhbayeva Guliskhan of Kazakhstan also remained undefeated to take the second place with seven points.Vaishali gained 40.2 points and scored 6.5/9 to take the third place after suffering two defeats to Mary Ann and the champion.

Final placings: (Open): 1-2. Wang Hao, Bu Xiangzhi (both Chn) 7/9; 3-4. Vidit Gujrathi, Yu Yangyi (Chn) 6.5 each; 5-9. Batchuluun Tsegmed (Mgl), Sadorra Julio Catalino (Phi), Wei Yi (Chn), B Adhiban (Ind), Surya S Ganguly (Ind) 6 each...11 S.P. Sethuraman 5.5, 13 Deep Sengupta 5.5, 17 Aravindh Chithambaram 5, 21 Karthikeyan Murali 5, 28 Sandipan Chanda 5, 32 M.R. Lalith Babu 4.5, 53 Sriram Jha 4...69 players.

Final placings: (Girls): 1 Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vie) 7.5/9; 2 Nakhbayeva Guliskhan (Kaz) 7; 3 R Vaishali (Ind) 6.5; 4-9. Mary Ann Gomes (Ind), Lei Tingjie (Chn), Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie), Padmini Rout (Ind), Swati Ghate (Ind), Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie) 6 each; 13-14. Nisha Mohota, Soumya Swaminathan 5.5 each; 15-16. Kiran Mohanty, P.V. Nandhidhaa 5 each; 34 Bodda Pratyusha 4 each...50 players.

Sasikiran wins Capablanca Memorial This prestigious tournament began in 1962, under the initiative of Commander Ernesto “Che” Guevara to remember the third world champion José Raúl Capablanca, who won the world title in 1921 in Cuba.The first edition of this tournament, was won by the famous Don Miguel Najdorf, who we all still remember today, thanks to the famous variation of the Sicilian. And of course in more recent times the Capablanca Memorial has been won by Ivanchuk multiple times! (2005,2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016. This tournament is famous for many reasons. The main one could be that Fischer played in it. Then of course, the best names of chess, have played in such tournament and won it, here we mention a few: Smyslov (in 1964, 1965, and 1973) Viktor Korchnoi (in 1963, 1969). Sasi can be billed as the Rahul Dravid of Indian chess.The un-sung hero, Sasikiran Krishnan, is truly one of the finest chess players that India has ever produced. He has a host of achievements to his credit, and now he adds another feather to his cap by winning the 52nd Capablanca Memorial 2017 ahead of Vasily Ivanchuk.Krishnan Sasikiran was also born in Chennai, just like five-time World Champion Vishy Anand. In fact he was Anand’s second during the 2013 World Championship. He has won multiple times the Indian Championship, and many international tournaments. Sasikiran reached a peak rating of 2720 in 2012. Sasikiran in round one crushed the Polish Champion GM Piorun, in just 28 moves. and out-witted GM Shankland from USA in an opposite coloured bishop ending generally considered drawish.Shankland last year worked with Carlsen in preparation for the world championship and is one of the top grandmasters of America. Courtesy:chessbase india

‘Winning moves’ Chess Training CampAndaman and Nicobar Chess Association or-ganised a Chess Training camp from 15th May 2017 to 19th May 2017 at one of the most sought after star hotels in Port Blair- TSG Emerald View. The camp was conducted under the able guidance of Mr Lanka Ravi, Inter-national Chess Master and FIDE Senior Trainer.The inaugural day kick

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started with a simultaneous display in which 40 students participated in the Si-multaneous Chess Game.During the chess training the students were taught on the “preparations for a tournament” as a refresher program. Opening preparation, Middle game Tatics, and End game prepa-ration were discussed at length using a power point presentation.Students were supported with the relevant material and books to be mastered for effective learning of chess game.During the chess training session students were given wide opportunity to participate in solving puzzles too. Students were guided on how puzzle solving will enhance hild’s

intellectual skill and problem solving abilities. On the valedictory day an open fo-rum was organised for parents and trainees.They utilised this oppor-tunity and discussed about various International chess tournaments and opportunities available for their wards. All the questions were an-swered by the team on the Dais and they also explained the measures and initiatives taken by ANCA and AICF in promoting Chess in All over India and incentives available from Government and various education-al institutions. Students were also informed of encouragement given to the high achievers and also job opportunities provided by the Government and various PSUs.

Andaman Chess Association President Shri. G.Bhaskar spoke on the valedictory function Bhaskar and assured his continuous support to all the budding stars of the Islands.Shri. H. Dinesh Secretary of ANCA said that ANCA shall organise Chess training programs like the one happened on regular basis to improve the game standards and help local talents to bring medals for Andaman and India.It may be noted that ANCA will organise National Under 25 Chess Championships from 13th July to 19thJuly, 2017.

championships, besides rating tournaments, all conducted by Sivakasi Chess Club. Now, Sivakasi Chess Sparklers has also joined hands with Sivakasi Chess Club to promote chess.Final ranking (first 90 placings only) Rk Name Pts 1 Kunal M. 7½ 2 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7½ 3 Muthaiah Al 7½ 4 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½ 5 Subramanian R M 7½ 6 Yogit S 7 7 CM Gukesh D 7 8 Ganesh Babu S 7 9 Manu David Suthandram R 7 10 Hirthickkesh Pr 7 11 Anilkumar O.T. 7 12 Bala Kannamma P 7 13 Alaguraja M.A. 7 14 Venkat Sundaram 7 15 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6½ 16 Manigandan S S 6½ 17 Harini S. 6½ 18 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 19 Sibi Visal R 6½ 20 Abhinessh S 6½ 21 Jagadish P 6½ 22 Ruban Sanjay M 6½ 23 Harsh Suresh 6½ 24 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6½ 25 Alan Diviya Raj 6½ 26 Girinath B S 6½ 27 Shakthi Vishal J 6½ 28 Vignesh Kasi P L 6½ 29 Prathish A 6½ 30 Rathina Sabapathi A 6½ 31 Subbhu Karthick S M 6 32 Sangeetha P 6 33 Paramasivam M. 6

34 Aswin Kumar B S 6 35 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6 36 Kavitha P L 6 37 Arun A. 6 38 Kabhilan S 6 39 Suthershun A 6 40 Subash Mathivanan 6 41 Kumaresh A 6 42 Arivu Selvan A S 6 43 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6 44 Suganthan S 6 45 Jagendran Kamak N 6 46 Siva Shanmugam S 6 47 Vinoth M 6 48 Mohana Praba R B 6 49 Narendra Pallavan S 6 50 Subramanian V 6 51 Senthamizh Kumaran S 6 52 Ulaganathan G 6 53 Unnikrishnan M A 6 54 AIM Navodith V Bhat 6 55 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6 56 Balakowshi D S 6 57 AIM Dharshan Venkatachalam 6 58 Kalidass C. 6 59 Harshad S 5½ 60 Marimuthu K 5½ 61 Sriram B 5½ 62 Sanil S 5½ 63 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½ 64 Aasha C R 5½ 65 Naveen K 5½ 66 Gokul S 5½ 67 Meenatchi Rajam V 5½ 68 Reshma C R 5½ 69 Rajeev V M 5½ 70 Mohana R 5½ 71 Mithesh M 5½ 72 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5½ 73 Prithvi Rajan 5½ 74 Vigneshwaran K 5½

Mr.Lanka Ravi International Master &Sr FIDE Trainer playing with local talents

Children receiving Merit Certificates from President G.Bhaskar, Sh Lanka Ravi and ShPrasad,Vice President ANCA

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T he much awaited SYNA Open 2017 was inaugurated in a grand ceremony at SYNA International school by the Chief

Guest MSME Minister Sanjay Satyendra Pathak, S.P. Katni Shashikant Shukla, was the guest of honour, other distinguished guests included the officials from Katni District Chess Association Vice President Mr. Deepak Jain and the Executive Member Mr. Sandeep Bajpaye and the International Arbiter Mr. Dharmendra Kumar. The pro-gram started with the lighting of lamp and a floral homage to Late Pandit Satyendra Pathak by the dignitaries.

The tournament began with SYNA’s Ayush Pattnaik, Captain of Indian team play-ing a move with the Chief Guest Sanjay Satyendra Pathak and Anuj Shrivatri, who will be leading the Indian team in Brazil later this year, playing another move with S.P. Katni, Shashikant Shukla

Principal Dr. Aditya Kumar Sharma wel-comed the guests, players and parents in his welcome speech. Dr. Sharma said that Chess is a part of curriculum at SYNA and the students have done wonders playing at all the levels.

Addressing the gathering on this occasion, the Chief Guest honourable Minister Sanjay Satyendra Pathak shared the vision of his father Late Pandit Satyendra Pathak, the founder of SYNA International School who conceived a dream of building a school where students would be nurtured with a vision of all round development. SYNA is the only school in central India and

M.P. which has led the Indian National Chess Team at the international level in Sochi, Russia earlier this year. It is the reali-zation of dream of Pandit Satyendra Pathak.

152 players from thirteen states of the country has participated in this tournament. Some of the prominent players include M. Chakravarty Reddy (IM) from Telangana, Vinod Sharma (Railways), Shrinath Rao (Ma-harashtra) The event last for six days and the last round was played

on the 6th of May. SYNA Open-2017 is cen-tral India's richest tournament with Rupees Five Lakh Fifty One Thousand prize fund. The opening ceremony ended with a brief on the tournament and proposal of Vote of Thanks by SYNA’ Chess Coach and International Chess player FI Niklesh Jain.

About the games & results :

In the 7th round all three top board ended in draws. IM Reddi with Dhananajay , Arvinder Preet with GB Joshi and Hemant Sharma with V S Negi signed their score sheet by sharing their score.

And the same history repeated in 8th round also when All three top board score shared by the players ! They preferred safe side and signed the peace treaty . All these last two round drew results favored to sole leader IM M Chakravarthi Reddi to maintain his sole lead with 7 point after 8th round. Meanwhile , some more joined the next group of leaders with 6.5 .

The 6-day long tournament saw many ups and downs on the top level but 2226 rated Chakarvarthi Reddy M. maintained his hold right from the first game and finally proved his mettle by emerging as the best out of 152 players participating in Central India’s biggest prize-money-tournament. Reddi started his game with white pieces against Arvinder preet Singh of Punjab. He opened his game in English opening variation and sacrificed his exchange to get better position. He later converted this position to win the game and the tournament as well.

Pandit Satyendra Pathak Memorial 3rd Syna Open International Rating Chess Tourna-ment-2017 came to a close on 6th of May with Chakravarthi Reddy M. from Telangana emerging as the winner with 8 points. Red-dy was awarded a cash prize of 1, 00,000 INR while Rs. 60,000/- & Rs. 30,000/- for S.Dhananjay and S . V. Srinath Rao as 1st & 2nd runners up respectively in the closing ceremony .

Chief Guest ShashankShrivastav, Mayor of Katni, Guest of honour Sanjay Gautam, Editor-in-Chief DainikBhaskar, Katni, Chief Arbiter of the tournament Dharmendra Ku-mar, Chairman of the organizing committee Dr. Aditya Kumar Sharma, Principal SYNA International School, Organizing Secretary Niklesh Jain were the prominent guests on stage for the closing ceremony.

The ceremony began with the lighting of lamp and floral homage to the founder of SYNA International School Late PanditSatyendraPa-thak by the Chief Guest and other dignitaries.

Final standings (first 54 placings only)Rk Name Pts1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 8

2 Dhananjay S 7½3 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 7½4 Hemant Sharma (del) 75 Sumit Grover 76 Joshi Govind Ballabh 77 Sharma Suyash 78 Vinod Kumar Sharma 6½9 Singh Arvinder Preet 6½10 Negi Virender Singh 6½11 Pandey Srishti 6½12 Anuj Shrivatri 6½13 Mishra Manoj 6½14 Ayush Bhai Mehta 6½15 Ayush Pattanaik 6½16 Shah Asif 6½17 Awadh Chaitanya 618 Kewat Subham Kumar 619 Sudhanshu Ranjan 620 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 621 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 622 Pardeshi Ajay 623 Karankar Padmakar 624 Himanshu Ranjan 625 Saurabh Lokhande 626 Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay 627 Bhat Siddharth K 628 Gourav Nigam 629 Kasar Prashant 630 Arora Honi 631 Rishabh Nishad 5½32 Nasir Ali Syed 5½33 Roneet Das 5½34 Umer S.M 5½35 Jagdish Narang 5½36 Tiwari Shivansh 5½37 Rishi Sonker 5½38 Tayade Vivek 5½39 Thakare Seeya 5½40 Tiwari O P 5½41 Eshaan Chandrol 5½42 Dhanvij Ansh 5½43 Swapnil Raj 5½44 Mishra Kamad 5½

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St Peter's School 1st All India Open FIDE Rated Chess tournament held at St Peter's International School, Golf

Club Road, Kodaikanal on 18.05.2017 to 21.05.2017. This event attracted 247 play-ers including 158 Rated Players. Many top players including International Master R Balasubramaniam, IM Norm holder Ram S Krishnan,Top seeded N.Lokesh,Former Na-tional youth Champion Syed Anwar Shazuly etc., made this event a stronger and colourful one. This 8round Swiss format Fide Rated event held at 7000 feet above sea level. Top seed N Lokesh (ELO 2211)

The tournament was inaugurated in a grand opening ceremony. Mr. J Sambabu, Corre-spondent, St Peter’s International School, Kodaikanal in his Presidential address wel-comed the gathering of players all over the country. Mr. S Ganapathi, IPS, Director General of Police (Retd.) made the first move with white pieces for which Dr R Murugan, IFS, District Forest Officer, Kodaikanal replied with black pieces.

Grandmaster Norm holder Ram S Krishnan of BSNL led the pack of leaders with 3/3 af-ter the third round of the Sharing the lead with Ram S Krishnan were 21 players viz., top seed N.Lokesh , International Master Balasubramaniam. R and local star Lakshmi Narayanan M V among others. Phoobalan P and Syed Anwar Shazuli (both ICF, Chennai) shared the lead with 5.0 points after the fifth round spot with 4.5 points were 9 players viz., top seed N.Lokesh, International Master Balasubramaniam R and local star Lakshmi Narayanan M. V among others.

Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF, Chennai emerged the champion on superior tie-breaks, with 7.0 points after the eighth and final round Shazuli takes home a handsome trophy and a cash prize of Rs 35,000 (Rupees Thirty five thou-sand only) Sharing the top spot with Shazuli were local star Lakshmi Narayanan M V and Ram S Krishnan (BSNL Chennai) at 7.0 points apiece. Half a point behind at 6.5 points were seven players viz., top seed N.Lokesh and IM Balasubramaniam R among others.

Chief Guest Dr G S Sameeran, IAS, Additional Director, Fisheries Department distributed the cash prizes worth Rs.3,10,000 (Rupees Three lakhs ten thousand only) in the Open section and for various age categories in the presence of Mr.Rohan Sambabu, Director, St Peter’s International School, Dr Lion Ravin-dran, Sun Builders, and Axiom Abdul Nazar, Secretary, Dindigul District Chess Associa-tion.The tournament was organized very well by Mount Chess Academy & ICS ,Dindigul under the supervision ofMr. V.Ravichandran and Mr.John Jayaraj.Our team of Arbiters conducted the tournament very well without any dispute.

Final Ranking crosstable after 8 Rounds Rk. Name Pts.1 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7 2 AGM Lakshmi Narayanan M V 7 3 Ram S. Krishnan 7 4 Lokesh N. 6.5 5 Kanishk S K 6.5 6 IM R Balasubramaniam 6.5 7 Anup Shankar R 6.5 8 Saranya Y 6.5 9 Gowtham K K 6.5

10 AGM Vignesh B 6.5 11 Phoobalan P. 6 12 AIM Mohammed Shamil A 6 13 Swarnamala B 6 14 Kannan.V 6 15 Rohit Ramanan T G 6 16 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6 17 Swaraj Palit 6 18 Aravindaswami T 6 19 Siva A C 6 20 Godson Merlin E 6 21 Gokula Chandhiran A 6 22 Karthik P M 5.5 23 AGM Mani Bharathy 5.5 24 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5.5 25 Sivakumar C. 5.5 26 AIM Durgesh K 5.5 27 Sakthi Subash A S 5.5 28 Jinan Jomon 5.5 29 Shanmugasundaram G. 5.5 30 Sathananthan I 5.5 31 Abinandhan R 5.5 32 Sathyanarayanan S. 5.5 33 Bharkavi S 5.5 34 Ramnath N 5.5 35 Vijayaragavan A R 5.5 36 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 5.5 37 Bagat Singh P 5.5 38 Prahalad B 5.5 39 Diwakar V U 5.5 40 Singaram P.L. 5.5 41 Subramanian T.V. 5.5 42 Sivaneshan V 5.5 43 Shankarasubbu B 5.5 44 Kalideva A 5.5 45 Rajkumar N 5 46 Janakiraman R 5 47 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 5 48 AFM Kaushik G Iyer 5 49 Srivatsan Sekar 5 50 Harish G 5 51 Bharath Raj K 5 52 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5

53 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 5 54 Venkatesan A N 5 55 Kharthikheyan B 5 56 AIM Chandni R Y 5 57 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5 58 Infant Jose H 5 59 Karthikeyan T 5 60 Nagarajan P 5 61 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 5 62 Anupam M Sreekumar 5 63 Guruprasadh K 5 64 John Christopher 5 65 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 5 66 Muthu Rakesh Babu 4.5 67 Jaidambareesh N R 4.5 68 Prathesh Kumar R 4.5 69 Arputha Jasmine B A 4.5 70 Sham R 4.5 71 Naveen Kumar T 4.5 72 Jayakrishna H 4.5 73 Amisha Sany M 4.5 74 Kumar T V 4.5 75 Mithilesh Krishnan 4.5 76 Subhransu Sekhar Dash 4.5 77 Shrija K M 4.5 78 Uthesh S 4.5 79 Swethitha C 4.5 80 Pragadesh P 4.5 81 AFM Shashidhar B Rai 4.5 82 Pratyush J 4.5 83 Vignesh Srinivasan 4.5 84 Subash R 4.5 85 Sanjay Sreekandan 4.5 86 Saadhana A 4.5 87 Anni Shayana Stephen 4.5 88 Aswath S 4.5 89 Reshap G 4.5 90 Kavin B 4.5 91 Emmanuel Austin B 4.5 92 Karpagakumar S V S 4.5 93 Shivashankaran R 4.5 94 Karthikeyan Panchapakesan 4.5 95 Kishore M 4.5

1st St.Peters Fide Rating Chess Tournament at KodaikanalSyed Anwar Shazuli of ICF wins title

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T his is the first time Tripura state chess championship was organized as a FIDE Rating Championship . The tournament

was held at Auditorium , Udaipur Girls’ HS School , Udaipur , Tripura from 13-17 th May 2017. Total prize fund was declared Rs 15000/ ( Fifteen thousands only) with 26 tro-phies in age group category . Total 116 (one hundred sixteen ) players were participated in this Tournament & 37 players were rated among them. Sri Madhab Saha ,hon’ble MLA of Tripura Legislative Assembly , Sri Subrata Deb , Hon’ble chairperson , Udaipur municipal council , Sri Salil Debbarma , President , All Tripura Chess Association ,Sri Pradip Kumar Choudhury , Secretary , All Tripura Chess As-sociation , Pradip Kumar Roy, Chief Arbiter of the tournament, , Members of Udaipur Chess Association and other dignitaries were present in the opening ceremony.

The overall standard of the tournament was good. At the end Mr. Biswajit Nag of Sadar subdivision stood Champion and awarded Rs 5000/- and a beautiful trophy. Bappi Deb of Teliamura and Anurag Debnath of Sadar subdivision stood 2nd & 3rd position re-spectively and awarded Rs 3500 & Rs 2000 with trophy .

The Prize distribution ceremony was attended by Mr Tarun Chakraborty , hon’ble chairman , Amarpur Nagar Panchayet , Sri Chanchal Majumder , Ex deputy Director of sports ,Go-mati district , Mr Priyabrata Baidya , hon’ble guardian and host of other dignitaries.The tournament was conducted by FIDE Arbiter Pradip Kumar Roy as the Chief Arbiter and he

is assisted by Swaraj Buragohain as Deputy Arbiter.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Biswajit Nag 7½ 2 Bappi Deb 7½ 3 Anurag Debnath 7½ 4 Dutta Umashankar 7 5 Dipak Chowhan 7 6 Abid Hossain 7 7 Arindam Biswas 6½ 8 Soham Chakraborty 6½ 9 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar 6½ 10 Nil Kumar Datta 6½ 11 Jadab Majumder 6½ 12 Shamik Saha 6 13 Abhijit Choudhury 6 14 Sangita Saha 6 15 Akashdeep Majumdar 6 16 Subhadip Som 6 17 Arun Chandra Das 6 18 Barnita Singha 6 19 Hillol Debnath 6 20 Parthajit Saha 6 21 Sushil Sutradhar 6 22 Rajbeer Ahmed 5½ 23 Mano Raj Sarkar 5½ 24 Goutam Sarkar 5½ 25 Arunika Ghosh 5½ 26 Debajit Sarkar 5½ 27 B Bhushan Chaudhuri 5½ 28 Abhinaba Roy 5½ 29 Binoy Singha 5½ 30 Gopal Tamang 5½ 31 Sudarsan Saha 5½ 32 Subhradeep Sengupta 5½ 33 Debalina Kundu 5

34 Das Debayan 5 35 Kundu Rajbir 5 36 Edmund Debbarma 5 37 Pradip Kumar Debnath 5 38 Arshiya Das 5 39 SriHari S Barman 5 40 Rakesh Paul 5 41 Saikat Biswas 5 42 Sourav Rabi Das 5 43 Rajdeep Das 5 44 Soumyadip Bhaumik 5 45 Rajanna Sharma 5 46 Bitan Chakraborty 5 47 Ratan Mani Banik 5 48 Pradip Debbarma 4½ 49 Rahul Kanti Nag 4½ 50 Goutam De 4½ 51 Hari Sadhan Banik 4½ 52 Deepraj Sarma 4½ 53 Joydeb Nandi 4½ 54 Dhanesh Debnath 4½ 55 Muskan Debnath 4½ 56 Tuton Datta 4½ 57 Sikha Das Gupta 4½ 58 Nishan Biswas 4½ 59 Ronit Roy 4½ 60 Sandip Som 4½ 61 Uttam Rabi Das 4½ 62 Subhrajit Sarkar 4½ 63 Bapu Debbarma 4 64 Deep Saha 4 65 Avigyan Ghosh 4 66 Dipak Das 4 67 Debadrita Debnath 4 68 Saurav Shil 4 69 Arnab Kumar Pal 4 70 Hrituraj Saha 4 71 Anish Das 4 72 Biprayan Choudhuri 4 73 Prishan Mani Banik 4 74 Tanveer Ahmed 4 75 Debjyoti Nandi 4

76 Soumyaditya C 4 77 Baishali Debnath 4 78 Diksha Saha 4 79 Deepjoy Das 4 80 Supratim Laskar 4 81 Samson Debbarma 3½ 82 AKBandyopadhyay 3½ 83 Dulal Banik 3½ 84 Debajit Paul 3½ 85 Subham Debnath 3½ 86 Ankita Tamang 3½ 87 Drishya Banik 3½ 88 Omkar Chakraborty 3½ 89 Arkajit Acharya 3 90 Akash Datta 3 91 Pritam Rabi Das 3 92 Anusree Nath 3 93 Swapan Debbarma 3 94 Pranjal Bhowmik 3 95 Eliza Deb Roy 3 96 Riya Das 3 97 Alaka Nanda Tamang 3 98 Pritanu Dey 3 99 Nabajit Pal 3 100 Amartyadeep Lodh 2½ 101 Mithan Das 2½ 102 Srijib Acharya 2½ 103 Arghyadeep Saha 2½ 104 Partha Sarathi Banik 2 105 Sahinoor Islam 2 106 Srijita Baidya 2 107 Manjistha Debnath 2 108 Rituraj Dey 2 109 Soumyadeep Saha 2 110 Rishan Roy Choudhury 1 111 Trishita Saha 1 112 Aaditri Singha Roy 1 113 Mithun Pal 0 114 Sulekha Das 0 115 Agrajit Paul 0 116 Snehalika Das 0

43rd Tripura State FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2017,Udaipur, Tripura

Biswajit Nag wins titleby Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter

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Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017 held at Khudiram anushilan Kendra, Kolkata, WB on 17th and 18th May 2017.Organized by CHESSPERT. The total number of participants was 159 including 142 rated players. They have come from different states. 4 GMs, 4 IMs and 3 Title holders took part in this highest ever prize money in Bengal in two days Rapid Rating Chess tournament. The tournament was inaugurated by Deep Dasgupta, former Indian Cricketer. Grandmasters were also present on the dias.

The Tournament Hall was air conditioned with sufficient toilet facilities. The Organiser provided lunch to all participants on both days. In the very first round GM Dibyendu Barua lost to local kid Agnivo Ghosh. After 3 years GM Barua played in any Chess Tourna-ment. Two other upsets in the first round were when Arghyadeep Das drew with Bristy Mukherjee and Arya Bhakta held IM Prantik Roy to a draw. But from the beginning GM RR Laxman sailed smoothly till last round. His only draw was with GM S. Roy Choudhury in the 4th round.

At the end of final round games GM RR Laxman scored 9.5 bagged the Champion-ship Title with Cash Rs. 50000/- . Mitrabha Guha(8.5) & Srijit Paul (8)placed second & third with bagged Rs. 35000/- & 25000/- respectively with better tie break. All Asstt. Arbiters did their job very well till last round games. No single dispute arose in the games during the entire tournament .

In the Prize distribution ceremony Eminent

Cricketer Sambaran Banerjee & Mr. Anilabha Chatterjee, CEO Xtra Time were present and distributed the prizes to the all prize winners. Final ranking Rk Tle Name Pts 1 GM Laxman R.R. 9½ 2 FM Mitrabha Guha 8½ 3 Srijit Paul 8 4 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 8 5 IM Palit Somak 7½ 6 Arya Bhakta 7½ 7 CM Aronyak Ghosh 7 8 IM Roy Prantik 7 9 GM Neelotpal Das 7 10 Kaustuv Kundu 7 11 Anurag Jaiswal 7 12 Arpan Das 7 13 Dilip Das 7 14 Anustoop Biswas 7 15 IM Das Arghyadip 7 16 Arindam Mukherjee 7 17 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7 18 IM Suvrajit Saha 7 19 GM Barua Dibyendu 7 20 Singh Soram Rahul 7 21 Koustav Chatterjee 6½ 22 Vipul Subhashi 6½ 23 Himanshu Ranjan 6½ 24 Neelash Saha 6½ 25 B Niladri Shekhar 6½ 26 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 6½ 27 Sourath Biswas 6½ 28 AGM Arka Sengupta 6½ 29 Bristy Mukherjee 6½ 30 Vikash Nishad 6½ 31 Subhajit Bhattacharyya 6 32 Tuhin Dutta 6

33 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6 34 Bose Sayan 6 35 AGM Sa Kannan 6 36 Shuban Saha 6 37 Ganguly Ritabroto 6 38 Soumma Chakraborty 6 39 Agnivo Ghosh 6 40 Rahul K Viswanathan 6 41 Shrutarshi Ray 6 42 Suvradeepta Das 6 43 Sandip Dey 6 44 Shuvam Roy 6 45 Verma Sanjay 6 46 Sayantan Mukherjee 6 47 Dipanjan Chowdhury 6 48 Abijit Mistry 6 49 Ambarish Sharma 6 50 WCM Chandreyee Hajra 6 51 Basak Bishal 6 52 Ritwick Pal 6 53 Ayan Pal 5½ 54 Arunava Bhattacharjee 5½ 55 IM Mishra Neeraj-Kumar 5½ 56 Devangshu Datta 5½ 57 Sudarshan Mitra 5½ 58 Chakrabarti Tamal 5½ 59 Ghosh Samriddhaa 5½ 60 Bheri Yaswanth 5½ 61 Vikesh Nandan Kumar 5½ 62 Baisakhi Das 5½ 63 Jimmy Zothanpuia 5½ 64 Ananya Bothra 5½ 65 Jayanta Kr. Sarkar 5½ 66 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 5½ 67 Rajarshi Dutta 5½ 68 Arijit Mukherjee 5½ 69 Soumik Datta 5½ 70 Akshath Sinha 5½ 71 Sounak De (1) 5½ 72 CM Bhagat Kush 5½ 73 Sonkalan Bharati 5 74 Kamal Kishore Debnath 5

75 Dhritabrata Kundu 5 76 Sanket Chakravarty 5 77 Chandrasekhar M K 5 78 Basant Khandelwal 5 79 Bodhisatya Pal 5 80 Rajat Kumar 5 81 Ankan Saha 5 82 Aditya Bikram Paul 5 83 Sneha Paul 5 84 Sk Riaz Uddin 5 85 Soham Dey 5 86 Diya Chowdhury 5 87 Pranjal Sarkar 5 88 Swapan Kumar Mitra 5 89 Bheri Chinna Rao 5

Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Kolkata

R.R.Laxman wins titleby Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter

Puzzle of the monthBy C.G.S.Narayanan

In the retro analytical problem below first the solver has to find out as to whose turn it is to play and then find the mate in one by the side which moves next.

N.NagnibidaThe Problemist,March 1998

Mate in one!(solution on p.48)

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Selected games from Asian Junior Girls, Shiraz, IranAnnotated by IM Manuel AaronManar,Khalil (Syr) (1894)Ivana Maria,F (2132) [B01]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 Black as well as white have many different possibilities in this opening variation. What black chooses now is new. 7...Bxf3 8.Bxf3 0–0–0 9.Ne2? [This unnecessary backward movement of the knight is the cause of all of white's problems that arise. An excellent alterna-tive was: 9.Qe2! Nb4 (9...Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Qxd4 11.Bxb7+! Kxb7 12.Rd1+-) 10.0–0 e6 11.Nb5 Qb6 12.d5 Bc5] 9...e5! 10.Bxc6 Qxc6 11.0–0 The only way to save the g2 pawn. 11...Ng4

Diagram # 12.Qc1? [White's anxiety to re-move his queen away from the d-file where a black rook is stationed is normal. However, she could have played: 12.Qd3 Bd6 13.h3 Nxe3 14.fxe3= though black has a slight edge.] 12...h5 13.c3 g5?! [Black is looking for adventure and an attacking win. Safer was: 13...Bd6 14.h3 Nxe3 15.Qxe3 Rhe8 16.Rad1 exd4 17.Nxd4 Qd5] 14.Bxg5 f6 Diagram #

15.f3? [This opens up her castled position, facilitating her opponent's attack. Better was: 15.Bd2 h4 16.Qb1 h3 17.Qf5+ Qd7 18.Qxd7+ Rxd7 19.g3² and white has a healthy extra pawn!] 15...Nxh2 16.Be3? [White loses her cool and sacrifices the ex-change. Best was: 16.Kxh2 fxg5 17.Qxg5 Re8 18.dxe5 Rxe5! 19.Qd2 (19.Qxe5?? Bd6 wins the queen.) 19...Bc5 Black is better, but only a little.] 16...Nxf1–+ 17.Kxf1 h4! After sacrificing the exchange, white has found no easing of the pressure as black continues her king-side assault. 18.Qc2 h3 19.Qf5+ Qd7!

Probably white had overlooked this in her

planning and now loses quickly. 20.Qxf6?? [She must play 20.Qxd7+ and bow to the inevitable.] 20...Be7 21.Qxe5 h2 22.Kf2 [if 22.Ng3 Bd6 wins on the spot.] 22...h1Q 23.Rxh1 Rxh1 24.Qa5 a6 25.c4 Re8! Black is preparing a clever ambush along the e-file. 26.Bf4 Bd6 27.Be3 [After 27.Bxd6 Qxd6 the game is of no further interest.] 27...c5 [27...Qh7 threatening 28....Qh4+ wins on the spot.] 28.dxc5 Qe7 29.cxd6 Qxe3+ 0–1

Mosadeghpour,Masoud (IRI) (2444) - Firouzja,Alireza (IRI) (2487) [B47]Masoud Mosadeghpour won the 2017 Asian Junior Championship. The top five in Shiraz were all Iranians, the Indians were far be-hind! The game below is probably the key game of the championship as Firouzja won the silver medal. 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.a3 a6 7.Be2 Nf6 8.Be3 d6 9.f4 Be7 10.g4 h6N 11.Nb3 b5 12.Bf3 Bb7 13.0–0 g5! 14.f5 exf5 [14...Ne5³] 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 Ne5 17.gxf5 Nxf3+ 18.Qxf3

Diagram # 18...Bf6 [18...Qxc2 19.Bd4 g4 20.Qxg4 h5! 21.Qg3 (21.Qg7 Qxb3 22.Qxh8+ Kd7 23.Qg7 Qxd5–+) 21...Bh4! 22.Qg7 Rf8

23.Rf3 Bxd5 24.Rc1 Qxc1+ 25.Nxc1 Bxf3 26.Bf2 Kd7!–+ 27.Bg3 Bxg3 28.hxg3 Bg4!–+ Black has two rooks and pawn for his queen and should win.] 19.Rae1 Kd7 20.c3 Rae8 21.Nd2 g4 22.Qg2 Rxe3 23.Rxe3 Qc5 24.Rfe1 Bg5 25.Nf1 Re8 26.b4 Bxe3+ 27.Rxe3 Qc4 28.Rxe8 Kxe8 29.Ne3 Qxc3 30.Qe4+ Kd8 31.Nxg4 h5 32.Ne3! The knight does a wonderful job throughout this game, keeping the bishop in chains. 32...Qe1+ 33.Kg2 Qe2+ 34.Kg3 Qe1+ 35.Kh3 Diagram #

Threatening 36 Qh4+ exchanging queens with a winning endgame. 35...Qc3? [An apparently aggressive defence, but white has a simple winning plan against it. Better was: 35...Bxd5! 36.Qf4! the last attempt to win. 36...Ba2! 37.Qxd6+ Ke8 38.Qc6+ Kd8 39.Qa8+ Kd7 40.Qa7+ Ke8 41.Qb8+ Ke7 42.Qe5+ Kd7 43.Qd4+ draw.] 36.Kh4! Qf6+ 37.Kxh5 Qh8+ 38.Kg5 Qxh2 39.f6! [The best try to win. 39.Kf6? looks like a winning try but ends in a forced draw: 39...Qh6+! 40.Kxf7 Qh7+ 41.Kf8 Qh8+ 42.Kf7 Qh7+ draw.] 39...Qg1+ 40.Kh6 Kc7 41.Ng2! This move blocks the black queen's control over the g-file and threatens to march his king to g7 and an easy win. This knight per-forms admirably in winning this game. 41...

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel AaronQd1 42.Qe7+ Kb6 [If 42...Kc8 43.Qe8+ Kc7 44.Qxf7+ Kb6 45.Ne3!] 43.Qxd6+ Ka7 44.Nf4 Qg4 45.Qe5 Qg8 [45...Bxd5 46.Qxd5 (46.Nxd5?? Qg6#) 46...Qxf4+ 47.Kg7+-] 46.d6! Qh8+ 47.Kg5 Qg8+ 48.Kh4 Qh8+

49.Nh5! The knight does the damage again! 49...Qc8 50.Qd4+ [After 50.Qd4+ Ka8 51.d7 Qd8 52.Qd6+-] 1–0

Firouzja,Alireza (IRI) (2487) Ghola-mi,Aryan (IRI) (2423) [B30]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0–0 Nge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 Bb7 8.Qe2 d5 9.e5 Qb6 10.Rd1 d4 11.Be4 Ng6 12.d3 Be7 13.a4N 0–0 14.h4! Diagram #

14...Qc7 [The pawn cannot be accepted for if 14...Nxh4 15.Nxh4 Bxh4 16.Qh5+- f5 17.exf6 Bxf2+! 18.Kh1 Rxf6 19.Qxh7+ Kf8 20.Bg5!+-] 15.g3 dxc3 16.bxc3 Rfd8 17.Na3 b4 18.cxb4 cxb4 19.Nc4 Na5 [Black gives up his dreams of capturing the pawn on e5. 19...Rab8 and 19 Nf8 were to be considered here.] 20.Bxb7 Nxb7 21.h5 [Better was: 21.Be3 to be followed by 22 Rac1.] 21...Nf8 22.h6 g6 23.Be3 Nc5 24.Nd6 Nb7?! [This is a very odd square for any knight! Better: 24...Ncd7 25.Rac1 Qb8 26.Nc4 Nc5 27.Nd4 Rxd4 28.Bxd4 Nb3 29.Qe4 Nxc1 30.Rxc1=] 25.Rac1! Qd7 26.Bb6 Nxd6 [If black tries to save the exchange 26...Rdb8 27.Rc7 White wins hands down.] 27.Bxd8 Rxd8 28.exd6 Diagram #

28...Bf6 [It is very dangerous to leave an opponent's passed pawn so deep in our ter-ritory. But black cannot capture it now. If 28...Qxd6 29.Ne5! Bg5 (29...Nd7 30.Nc6 Re8 31.Nxe7+ Qxe7 32.Rc7 Rd8 33.Qb2 e5 34.Rdc1 Qf8 35.Ra7 Qxh6 36.Rxd7 Rxd7 37.Rc8+ Kg7 38.Qxe5+ f6 39.Qe8 mates.) 30.Rc6 Qb8 31.Rxa6 Bxh6 32.Nc6 Qb7 33.d4 Ra8 34.Rxa8 Qxa8 35.Qb5+- black has no answer to the advance of white's a-pawn.; Even worse was: 28...Bxd6? 29.Qb2! threatening mate on g7, triggers

black's immediate collapse. 29...f5 30.Rc6! Qe7 31.Rxa6+-] 29.Nd2 Bd4 [29...Bg5? 30.Ne4! Bxc1 31.Nf6+ wins the queen.] 30.Ne4 f5 31.Rc7 Qxa4 32.Nc5 Bxc5 [If 32...Qb5 33.Nxe6 Re8 34.Re7! Qe5 35.Qxe5 Bxe5 36.Rxe8+-] 33.Rxc5 [33.Rg7+ Kh8 34.Qe5! Qxd1+ 35.Kg2 And black has no defence against the threat of 36 Rg8+!! and 37 Qg7#] 33...Rxd6 34.Rc8 Qb3 35.Qe5 Rd7 Diagram #

36.Qh8+!! [After 36.Qh8+ Kxh8 37.Rxf8#] 1–0

Bidhar,Rutumbara (1964) - Meghna,C (1915) [D35]1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 Be7 5.b3 0–0 6.Bd3 Nbd7 7.Nge2 white adopts an unusual pattern of development with her Bishop not developed outside the pawn chain and her king's knight on e2 instead of on its customary f3 square. 7...b6 8.0–0 Bb7 9.Bb2 c5 10.Rc1 Rc8 11.Ng3 Re8 [This move serves no purpose. Better was: 11...cxd4 12.exd4 Nb8 13.Re1 a6 14.Qe2 Nc6 15.cxd5 Nxd5 16.Nxd5 Qxd5= with slight-ly better prospects for black.] 12.f4 cxd4 13.exd4 Bd6 [In view of what follows it was better to precede this move with: 13...

a6 ] 14.Nb5 Bb8 15.Ba3 dxc4 16.bxc4 Diagram # 16...Nf8 Black has a positional advantage as she has no weak spots which white may target. On the other hand white's hanging pawns on c4 and d4 could turn out to be weaknesses. 17.c5 The problem with the hanging pawns is that if one of them advances, the other one is weak. Here the d5 square is available for the black forces.

17...Qd5 18.Qe2 Red8? [Black shifts her rook to a more active file. But she misses to take advantage of white's poorly positioned pieces all over the board. Better was: 18...a6! 19.Bc4 Qd7 20.Nd6 Bxd6 21.cxd6 Qa4! 22.Bb2 Qb4µ] 19.Bc4 Qd7 20.Nd6 Bxd6 21.cxd6

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron21...Ne8?! [This backward move is the im-mediate cause of black's defeat. Rather than attack the troublesome passed pawn on d6, black should go for the bishop that is supporting the d6 pawn. Therefore, best was: 21...Qa4! 22.Qd3 Qa5 23.Qb3 Bd5 24.Bxd5 Nxd5 25.f5 Rxc1 26.Rxc1 Qd2³] 22.Bb5 Bc6 23.Rxc6! Rxc6 24.d5! exd5 25.Qe7! The threat is 26 Qxd7 and 27 Bxc6 winning. 25...Rdc8™ 26.Qxd7 Nxd7 27.Nf5! This strong move ensures the win for white. He gets back his sac-rificed exchange with a great advantage. 27...Nxd6 [27...Kf8 28.Ne7 Rc3 29.Nxc8 Nef6 30.Rc1 Rxa3 31.Bxd7 Nxd7 32.Nxb6 Nxb6 33.Rc8+! Nxc8 34.d7 and the pawn queens on either c8 or d8.] 28.Bxd6 Rxd6 Diagram #

29.Ne7+! A brilliant finish.[After 29.Ne7+! Kf8 30.Nxc8 a6 31.Nxd6! axb5 32.Re1! Nf6 33.g4 wins.] 1–0

Moradi,A (IRI) (2218)Harsha,B (2413) [B48]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.a3 Nf6 8.f4 d6

9.Qf3 Be7 10.Bd3 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 0–0 [11...e5N or 11....b5 are met at this junc-ture.] 12.e5 Nd7 13.0–0–0 [Better was the immediate 13.Qe4 g6 14.exd6 Bxd6 15.0–0 Bc5 16.Bxc5 Qxc5+ 17.Kh1 White has a positional advantage thanks to the hole on f6 and black's incomplete development with a bishop on c8.] 13...dxe5! 14.fxe5 Bc5 [There are two alternatives, both demand-ing accurate play from both sides: 14...Nc5 15.Rhf1 Nxd3+ 16.Rxd3 Bd7 17.Bb6! Qc6=; or 14...Nxe5 15.Bxh7+ Kxh7 16.Qh5+ Kg8 17.Bxe5 Qc5=] 15.Qe4 g6 16.Rhe1 b5!? Diagram # Black comes up with some exciting play of his own. The stronger player should win this position in the normal course.

17.Bxc5 [If 17.Qxa8 Bxd4 (17...Bb7 18.Qxf8+ Bxf8=) 18.Qe4 Bxe5! 19.Ne2 Bb7 20.Qg4] 17...Nxc5 18.Qh4 [If 18.Qxa8 Bb7 19.Qa7 Ra8 20.Qxa8+ Bxa8 21.Rd2] 18...Bb7 19.Re3 Rfd8 [Black knows that the white attack down the h-file will happen sooner or later and prepares for it. Leading to equality is the immediate: 19...Bxg2 20.Rg3 Bb7 21.Rh3 Nxd3+ 22.Rdxd3 f5 23.exf6 Qf7=] 20.Rde1 [White builds his attack calmly as black's h-pawn is beyond

saving. If 20.Rh3 Qxe5 21.Qxh7+ Kf8 22.Rf1 Nxd3+ 23.Rxd3 Qg7 24.Rxd8+ Rxd8 25.Qh4 Ke8 26.Qg5 Rd7 and the game is absolutely level.] 20...Bxg2! 21.Rg1 Nxd3+ 22.cxd3 Qc5! 23.Kd2 [A sorry necessity! If 23.d4? Rxd4–+; or if: 23.Rge1 Rac8 White's attack has vanished and black's counter-attack is building up!] 23...Bc6 24.Rg4 Rd7 25.Rh3 Qxe5! 26.Qxh7+ Kf8 27.Qh6+ Ke7 28.Qh4+ Qf6–+ 29.Qe1 Rad8 30.Re3 Di-agram # 30...Qf5 [Black misses a nice, deep combination: 30...Rxd3+! 31.Rxd3 Rxd3+ 32.Kxd3 Qf3+ 33.Qe3 Qxg4 34.Qc5+ Kd7 35.Qa7+ Ke8 36.Qxa6 Qf5+ 37.Kd2 Qf2+ 38.Kd3 Kd7–+ indirectly protecting his b5 pawn through a skewer, Qf1+.]

(Position after 30.Re3)31.Qh4+ Qf6! [31...Kd6? 32.Qg3+! Ke7=] 32.Qg3 Ke8 [32...Rd4! 33.h3 R8d6 and black can coast to victory without much trouble.] 33.Rf4 Qe7 34.Qh3 Rd6 Af-ter winning a pawn, black is putting up an excellent defence to clinch the game without much trouble! 35.Qh8+ Kd7 36.Qg7 Rf8 37.Qe5 g5 [Black's main problem is to avert perpetual checks. Here he misses a strong, perhaps win-ning move: 37...f6! 38.Qc5 g5 39.Rd4

e5 40.Qa7+ Ke8 41.Qxa6 (or 41.Qb8+ Rd8 42.Rxd8+ Qxd8 43.Qa7 Rh8µ) 41...Rxd4 42.Qxc6+ Qd7 43.Qxb5 Rh4 44.Qxd7+ Kxd7 45.h3 f5 46.Rxe5 Rxh3 and black's pawns should win.] 38.Rf6 g4 39.Na2? Rd5 40.Qf4 a5?! [This pre-vents 41 Nb4. But better was: 40...Rh5 41.Rexe6 fxe6 42.Rxf8 Rxh2+ 43.Ke3 Rh7³] 41.Nc1?! [Leading to uneasy equality was: 41.Nc3! Rd6 42.Rf5 b4 43.axb4 axb4 44.Nb5 Bxb5 45.Rxb5 Rc8 46.Qxb4=] 41...b4 Diagram # 42.Nb3? [White misses: 42.Rexe6! fxe6 43.Rxf8 Qg5 44.axb4 axb4 45.Rf7+ Kd8 46.Ne2=] 42...bxa3 43.bxa3 Qxa3–+ 44.Rxf7+ Rxf7 45.Qxf7+ Qe7 46.Qxe7+ [White is forced to exchange queens for if 46.Qf4 a4 47.Nc1 Qg7 and black's a-pawn will advance victoriously.]

(Position after 41….b4)46.. .Kxe7 47.Kc3 a4 48.Nd4 Bd7 49.Re4 Kf6 50.Nc2 [50.Rxg4?? e5!–+ A winning double attack in the endgame!] 50...Rc5+ 51.Kb2 Rb5+ 52.Kc1 Rb3 53.Rxg4 Rxd3 54.Kb2 e5 55.Rg2 Rb3+ 56.Kc1 Bf5 57.Rf2 Rc3 58.Kb2 [After 58.Kb2 Rxc2+ 59.Rxc2 Bxc2 60.Kxc2 a3 61.Kb3 e4 black wins.] 0–1

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p.47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Belenki 1964 Evreinov 1962

1. 2.

Evreinov 1962 Dr Jindrich Fritz 1964

3. 4.

Kuznecov 1963 Pauli Perkonoja 1962

5. 6.

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

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2nd Balasore All India FIDE rated Championship 2017,Balasore

DCA below 1600 fide rated chess tournament-2017,New Delhi

(L-R) (back row) Sj. Pradipta Kumar Panda, C.A., Working President, Balasore District Chess Association; Sj. DebasisChakrabarty, President, Balasore District Chess Association;Chief Guest Sj. Ranjan Mohanty, Vice President, All Odisha Chess Association;Sj. Santosh Mohapatra, Dy Arbiter (front row) Champion IM SayantanDas, Chief Guest Er. Rabindra Kumar Jena, Hon’ble Member of Parliament, Balasore Sadar; Runner-up Arindam Mukherjee, WB; Sj. Manoranjan Panda, Jt. Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association & Secretary, Balasore District Chess Association)

Masters of the past- 77 Larry Evans

Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times. He wrote a long-running syndicated chess column and wrote or co-wrote more than twenty books on chess.

Evans was born in Manhattan on March 22, 1932, and learned much about the game by playing for ten cents an hour on 42nd Street in New York City, quickly becoming a rising star. At age 14, he tied for 4th–5th place in the Marshall Chess Club championship. The next year he won it outright, becoming the youngest Marshall champion at that time. He also finished equal second in the U.S. Junior Championship, which led to an article in the September 1947 issue of Chess Review. By age 18, he had won a New York State champion-ship as well as a gold medal in the Dubrovnik 1950 Chess Olympiad. In 1951, Evans first won the U.S. Championship, ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, who had tied for 3rd–4th in the 1948 World Championship match-tournament. Evans won his second championship the following year by winning a title match against Herman Steiner. He won the national championship three additional times: in 1961–62, 1967–68, and 1980, the last in a tie with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen.

FIDE awarded Evans the titles of International Master (1952) and International Grand-master (1957). In 1956 the U.S. State Department appointed him a "chess ambassador". He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1951, 1952, 1954 (he tied with Arturo Pomar but won the title on the tie-break) and tied with Walter Browne in 1971. Evans represented the U.S. in eight Chess Olympiads over a period of twenty-six years, winning gold (1950), silver (1958), and bronze (1976) medals for his play, and participating in team gold (1976) and silver (1966) medals. At his peak in October 1968 he was rated 2631 by the United States Chess Federation.

Evans had always been interested in writing as well as playing. By the age of eighteen, he had already published David Bronstein's Best Games of Chess, 1944–1949 and the Vienna International Tournament, 1922. His book New Ideas in Chess was published in 1958, and was later reprinted. He wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books on chess. He wrote the tenth edition of the important openings treatise Modern Chess Openings (1965), co-authored with editor Walter Korn. He also wrote the introductions to Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (1969) and urged the future World Champion to publish when he had initially been reluctant to do so. Some of Evans's other books are Modern Chess Brilliancies (1970), What's The Best Move (1973), and Test Your Chess I.Q. (2001).He was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.On November 15, 2010, Evans died in Reno, Nevada, from complications following gallbladder surgery.

Courtesy: Wikepedia

(L-R) AK Verma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Association, Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation, Somakanta Singh (Winner) and Shri. D Srihari, Secretary The Andhra Pradesh Chess Association

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games on page 421. Edvardsson,Kristjan (2228) - Friedel,-Joshua E (2524) [E04]Reykjavik ISL Reykjavik ISL (2.23), 20.04.2017Black to play 20...Bxf2+! 21.Rxf2 Qh1+! 22.Kxh1 Nxf2+ 23.Kg2 Nxd1 24.Nd2 [24.Bd2 Rc2 25.Bxb4 Rxe2+ 26.Kf1 Rxb2–+] 24...Nxb2 25.Be5 Rc2 26.Bxg7 Rh7 27.Bxb2 Rxb2 28.Ne4 Rg7–+ 0–12. Adamova,T (1984) - Guerrero Fuent-es,C (2073) [B27]World Amateur U2300 Spoleto ITA (8.18), 07.04.2017White to play. 25.Rxf7! dxe3 [25...Qh3 26.Ref3 Bxf3 27.Qe5+ Wins; 25...Qh6 26.Ref3 Bxf3 27.Qe5+ Rg7 (27...Qg7 28.Rxg7 Rxg7 29.Qxb8++-) 28.Qxb8+ Rg8 29.Qe5+ Wins; 25...Rg7 26.Rxg7 Kxg7 27.gxh4+-] 26.Qxe3 [%cal Ge3e5] 26...Qh5 [26...Rg5 27.Rxh7+ Qxh7 28.Bxh7+-; 26...Rxg3+ 27.hxg3 Qh1+ 28.Kf2+- Qh2+ 29.Ke1 Qh1+ 30.Rf1 Qh5] 27.Qd4+ [27.Qe5+!] 27...e5 28.Qxe5+ 1–03. Maghalashvili,Da (2469) - Duran,Es-ma Doga (1847) [A07]3rd Ordu Open 2017 Ordu TUR (1.12), White to play 32.Qxe5! [32.Qxe5 Qxe5 33.Rxe5 Rxe5 34.d7! Queens] 1–04. Langrock,H (2387) - Anagnostopou-los,Konstantinos (2201) [D45]1st Capablanca Mem IM Heraklion GRE (6.2), 21.04.2017White To play. 18.Bxh7+! Kxh7 [18...Qxh7 19.Rd8 Wins] 19.Qxf8 [19.Qxf8 Bg4 20.Qxb8 Bxd1 21.Qxb7+-] 1–05.Ledger,Andrew (2391) - Agdestein,Si-men (2626) [A20]London Classic rapid op 6th London (3),

06.12.2014Black to play 32...Ne1! 33.Qxc4+ [33.Bh3 Qf1+ 34.Bxf1 Rxf1#] 33...Kh8 34.Qa2 [34.Bh3 Nf3–+ Wins] 34...Qf1+! [34...Qf1+ 35.Bxf1 Rxf1#] 0–16.Gu,T (2212) - Xiao,Yiyi (2290) [C65]ch-CHN w 2017 Xinghua CHN (9.3), 02.05.2017White to play. 22.Nf6+! gxf6 23.Ne4 Qe7 [23...Bg7 24.Bxh6+- Qe7 (24...Kf8 25.Nxf6 Qe7 26.Bxg7+ Kxg7 27.Qg5+ Kf8 28.Qg8#) 25.Qg6 Qf8 26.Nxf6+ Kh8 27.Qh7#] 24.Bxh6 Bg7 25.Qg6 Kf8 [25...Qf8 26.Nxf6+] 26.Qxg7+ [26.Qxg7+ Ke8 27.Nxf6+ Kd8 28.Qg8+ Wins] 1–0

Solutions to Test your endgame on page 43

1.Belenki 19641.Bg6+ Ke3 2.Nh4 Qd7+ 3.Nf5+ Ke4 4.Nb5 Qxb5 5.Nd6+ Ke3 6.Bc2 2.Evreinov 19621.Rf7 Rhxf7 2.Ne7+ Rf3 3.Nc8 R8f5 4.Be4 Rf6 5.Nd6 R6f4 6.Bxf3+ Rxf3 7.Ne4 3.Evreinov 19621.c6 h2 2.b4 Kg1 3.Rxh2 Kxh2 4.b5 Kg3 5.Kf6 Kf4 6.Ke7 Ke5 7.bxa6 bxa6 8.Kd7 a5 9.Kxc7 a4 10.Kd7 a3 11.c7 a2 12.c8Q a1Q 13.Qh8+ 4.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 19641.e6+ Ke7 2.exd7 Rc7+ 3.Kd2 Rxd7 4.Kd1 Rd8 5.Ke2 Rd7 6.Kf3 Rd8 7.Ke4 Rd7 8.Kf5 5.Kuznecov 19631.Rg7 Nh8 2.Rg8+ Kxe7 3.Rxh8 d5+ 4.Kd3 Kd6 5.Kd4 b5 6.Ra8 Rxh7 7.Ra6+ 6.Pauli Perkonoja 19621.Kg2 Nb3 2.Nd2 Nd4 3.Nxd4 Kd1 4.Nc4 e1N+ 5.Kf2 Nxc2 6.Nb3 Ra2 7.Kf1

Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF receiving the Winner trophy fromChief Guest Dr G S Sameeran, IAS, Additional Director, Fisheries Department. Mr.Rohan Sambabu, Director, St Peter’s International School, Dr Lion Ravindran, Sun Builders, and Axiom Abdul Nazar, Secretary, Dindigul District Chess Association are also seen

7th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tournament, Bangalore

1st St.Peters Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Kodaikanal

1st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017, Udaipur

Prize winners : (L-R) Rakesh N (Runner-up) Keshav Kothari (Winner) Amal Roozi (Third place)

Back row (L-R) Swapnil Bansod, IA & Chief Arbiter, Shri Devendra Sahu Member District Sports Council, Dr. Om sahu VP, Chess in lakecity, Shri Ravindra Shrimali, Chairman, UIT Udaipur, Shri Anil Sharma , Rt . Chief Engineer PWD, Rajasthan Shri Devnarayan Dhabhai, VP District Sports Council Shri Shatrudhan Bandwal,President Buddhibal seva Sansthan, Udaipur, Shri Anil Mangrudiya, Org.Chairman.Front row: Sudhakar Shri Kailash Gulaniya, Legal Adviser, Chess in lakecity , Champion in below 1800 Dere Pushkar , Champion of Tournament, IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya , Champion in below 1500 , Sharma Vaibhav , Shri Vikas Sahu , Org. secretary

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3rd Pavna All India Fide rated Chess Tournament, Aligarh

Late Shri Satyendra Pathak Memorial 3rd SYNA Open Intl.Rating Tournament

Sitting:(from left to right) Anuj Shrivatri , Deepak Katiyar , Gusain Himal, Gajendra Singh , Himanshu Sharma. Standing: behind the winners (from left to right) Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar Vijay Kumar Chaurasiya, Treasurer , DCSA, Aligarh , Chandramohan Sadani, Hony. Secretary , DCSA, Aligarh , Chief Guest Swapnil Jain , Pro Chairman of Pavna Group ,Guest of Honor Rajiv Agrwal , Chairman , Plus Point Ltd. , Special Guest Vijay Bajaj , Chairman , Lock Master of India and Pallavi Upadhyay , Principal , D.P.S. , Agra Road , Aligarh

Prize Winners(L-R) S.V. Srinath Rao, IM M Chakravarthi Reddi and S.Dhananjay

AICF Calendar June 2017 Commonwealth Chess Championship New Delhi Jul-02 to Jul-10National Under-25 A&N islands Jul-13 to Jul-2012 KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Coimbatore Jul-14 to Jul-16National Women Challenger 2017 Karnataka Jul-21 to Jul-291st Dhakshinamoorthy Mem. Rapid Pammal Jul-22 to Jul-231st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-301st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31National Rapid & Blitz 2017 WB Aug-01 to Aug-04National Cities 2017 HP Aug-06 to Aug-10Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated Chess tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-151st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-1555th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-235th NL Pandiyar memorial Open FIDE Rated Udaipur Aug-24 to Aug-29Asian Cities 2017 Bhubaneshwar Aug-25 to Sep-021st Trichy All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Trichy Aug-25 to Aug-272nd Champions FIDE Rating below 1600 Salem Sep-01 to Sep-03National Junior 2017 Bihar Sep-03 to Sep-11National Under – 7 Andhra Pradesh Sep-03 to Sep-1130th FIDE Rating Open Chess tmt Tuticorin Sep-24 to Sep-27Hyderabad open All India FIDE Rating Hyderabad Sep-25 to Sep-293rd KCA FIDE Rating Kancheepuram Sep-27 to Oct-02KKCA First All India FIDE Rated Coimbatore Sep-29 to Oct-02All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Hyderabad Sep-30 to Oct-0243rd National Sub Junior& 34th national Sj Girls Gujarat Oct-01 to Oct-09National Under – 17 Coimbatore,TN Oct-20 to Oct-28Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-31National Premier 2017 Bihar Oct-31 to Nov-14

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 35: Black has no legal last move (f7xg8=B Kd5-c6 requires 11 captures, one too many). So the solution is:1. ... e5/e6/ed6/ef6/gf6 2. Na7/Qf3/Qc3/Nd4/Nd4

10th KIIT International Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Top three prize winners (L-R)GM Diptayan Ghosh (Third) GM Nguyen Duc Hoa (Winner) and GM Debashis Das (Runner-up) with dignitaries

(L-R) Ranjan Mohanty, VP, OSCA, IM S.C.Sahu, President, OSCA ,G.C.Mohopatra, Treasurer,OSCA, GM Hoa Duc Nguyen,Prof.P.P.Mathur, Cice Chancellor. KIIT University, Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Registrar, KIIT University, K.K. Sarma Secretary, OSCA and IA Paul Arokia Raj. S.Chief Arbiter