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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

31st National Under-7 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2017,Vijayawada

National Junior Under -19 Chess Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna

World Youth Chess Championships 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay

Shashank V S Open Champion

Harsha Bharathakoti Open Champion

Mahalakshmi M Girls Champion

Hatvalne Swarali Girls Champion

Saskshi Chitlange Silver (U18Girls)

Jishitha Gold(U14Girls)

Erigaisi Arjun Silver(U14 Open)

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The 47th open & 32nd Girls National Junior U-19 Chess Championship was held at the Historical place of Ancient

india in Patliputra Sports Complex ,Kankar-bagh , Patna from 3rd to 11th September, 2017.

In Open, 116 players, comprising 4 IM, 5FM, 2 CM with 98 Rated players And In girls 73 players comprising 3WIM,4WFM & 1WCM-with 65 Rated players were participated in the event, with a tournament total of 289 players from 24 State all around from India. In Both Category highest nos.of participants is from Bihar State. The championship had 11 rounds, with one round a day, except on 04.09.2017 & 06.09.2017 (2 Round).

Hard fought victories and some IM & FIDE Master draws were witnessed in the cham-pionship, culminating in the emergence of IM Harsha Bharathakoti of Telangana as the National Junior open Champion for the year 2017, followed by FM Karthik Venkat-araman of AP, as Runner-up. In Under-19 Open Category. While in Under-19 Girls ,WIM Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu emerge the title of National Junior Girls champion for the year 2017 and WIM Sakshi Chitlange of Mahara-stra as a Runner-up.

The participants were accommodated in the same campus hostels so as to enable the players to reach the venue before time and to easily follow the zero tolerance rule. I would like to place it on record the excellent arrangements made by All Bihar Chess Asso-ciation by providing beautiful air-conditioned

National Junior Under-19 Chess Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna

Harsha Bharathakoti and Mahalakshmi emerge Championsby Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter

hall with a single player table , View gallery & a coffee/tea free of charge to players, parents and managers also, They also had the privilege of conducting many National events here at Patliputra Sports complex. Kudos to FM Arvind kumar Sinha Hon.Sec-retary, & a keen lover of chess, who is the key person for the successful and smooth conduct of the championship.

I am also thankful to Mr.Dharmendra Kumar & Mr.Navin Upadhyay for their dedicated con-tribution towards the success of this event. I am very much thankful to all the players for maintaining sportsman’s spirit and discipline throughout the event. Last but not the least I can never forget my Arbiters and officials who were always helpful in regulating the rules. I would like to thank All India Chess Federation for giving me an opportunity to serve as Chief Arbiter of this event and I am also thankful to All Bihar Chess Association for their valuable support. Final Ranking:Open Rk. Name Pts. 1 IM Harsha Bharathakoti 9.52 FM Karthik Venkataraman 9.53 IM Krishna Teja N 84 Pranavananda V 85 CM Raja Rithvik R 86 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 87 Shailesh Dravid 88 Jayakumaar S 7.59 Dhananjay S 7.510 FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7.511 Muthaiah Al 7.512 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 713 FM Harshal Shahi 7

Inside…National Junior Under-19 Ch’hips, Patliputra, PatnaHarsha Bharathakoti and Mahalakshmi emerge Championsby Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter 1

31st National Under 7 Open &Girls Ch’ships ,VijayawadaShashank and Hatwalne Swarali win titlesby Devaram Srihari, Organizing Secretary 6

Hyderabad Open FIDE Rated Tmt (below 1500),HyderabadNagasri Saikanth wins titleby Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 11

30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Tmt, Tuticorin Barath Kalyan emerges Championby M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 14

Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tmt,Margao,GoaNitish Balurkar wins at Margaoby Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter 17

4th Sameen Singh FIDE rated tmt, Amritsar Dhanjay wins Sameen Singh FIDE RatedBy IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 19

Aadi Intl. Open Rating Rapid Tmt,MandlaR.R.Laxman of ICF Winsby IA Anurag Singh,Chief Arbiter 22

Fomento All India Fide Rating Tmt, Panaji,GoaSuaravh Khardekar wins titleby FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 27

3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament,KancheepuramMaheswarn wins titleby Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter 29

KKCA 1ST FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Coimbatore

Arunachalam Shivaa is Championby V Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 30Selected games Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 31Problem Worldby C.G.S.Narayanan 40Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-81 Vladimir Antoshin 44AICF Calendar 48

From the deskIn the World Cadets at Brazil, Divya Deshmukh made India proud winning India’s only medal, a gold. In the World Youth Championships at Montevideo, Uruguay, Indian youth did one better garnering three medals. Andhra girl Jishitha played near flawless chess in the final

rounds to clinch the gold in the Under-14 Girls category. Erigaisi Arjun and Sakshi Chitlange won silver medals in the under-14 Open and Under-18 Girls category.

In the 5th Asian indoor games at Turkmenistan GM Sasikirandid the country proud clinching a bronze medal in the classicalformat. In the rapid team category both Indian men and women secured bronze medals.

Putting his early exit in the World Cup in Georgia behind, GM Viswanathan Anand bounced back, finishing second behind the World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the Isle of man tournament at Douglas with a facile victory over Hou Yifan in the final round.

In the first Asian Chess Championships for the disabled at Kyrgyzstan all the three Indian players who took part won medals. IM Shashikant Kutwal won the Gold,WIM Jennitha Anto a sliver medal in the physically disabled category. Malika Handa secured Sliver Medal in the Deaf category. Reports and photographs of the above events are presented in the centre pages of this issue.

On the home front, there were two National events held last month. In the National Junior Championships held at Patna, Harsha Bharathakoti of Telangana and M.Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu, won the Open and Girls titles. National Under-7, Championships, the breeding ground for chess stars of the future, was held in Vijayawada. Shashank of Tamilnadu and Hatwalne Swarali of Maharashtra emerged Champions.

IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from National Challenger Championship. Soviet Chess Grandmaster Vladimir Antoshin is featured in the ‘Master of the past’ series.

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National Junior Under-19 Chess Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna

M.Mahalakshmi, Junior Girls winner receives prize from Sri V K Saxena, Chairman, Khadi &Village Industries Commission(KVIC), MSME Govt of India

14 FM Mitrabha Guha 715 IM Sidhant Mohapatra 716 Hemanth Raam 717 Kaustuv Kundu 718 CM Kushagra Mohan 719 Kumar Gaurav 720 Dixit Nikhil 721 FM Jeet Jain 722 Barath Kalyan M 723 Joy Pankaj Shah 724 Utsab Chatterjee 6.525 Saurabh Anand 6.526 Nagare Akhilesh 6.527 Saptorshi Gupta 6.528 Gokulraj K 6.529 Suvradeepta Das 6.530 Tarun V Kanth 6.531 Shrutarshi Ray 6.532 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 6.533 Rushil Gupta 6.534 Das Susobhit 635 Saksham Rautela 636 Wagh Suyog 637 Warude Satyam 638 Cheela Naga Sampath 639 Sharma Vivek 640 Prudhvi Kumar V 641 Raghav Srivathsav V 642 Gaikwad Siddhant 643 Harsh Himanshu 644 Barde Om 645 Gurung Rohit 646 Sanjay S Pillai 647 Pritam Bhattacharya 648 Shrivastav Hritik 649 Shivam Verma 650 Shanmukha Teja P 651 Ayush Bhai Mehta 5.552 Rounak Pathak 5.553 Divyanshu Gupta 5.554 Apte Dhaivat 5.555 Saumya Srivastava 5.556 Bhoopnath 5.557 Kartikey Verma 5.558 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5.5

59 Dias Aston Dave 5.560 Aryan 5.561 Eshaan Chandrol 5.562 Subba Saurab 5.563 Sujay B M 5.564 Kamalanathan R 5.565 Samarth Mittal 5.566 Kumar S. 567 Dubey Sanchay 568 Hari Suresh 569 Sankalp Arora 570 AFM Srinidhi Kulkarni 571 Dutta Sarthak 572 Bhagwat Heramb 573 Syed Hasan Musa 574 Rupesh B Ramchandra 575 Singh Satendra 576 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 577 Chettri Bhoj Bahadur 578 Aman Kumar 579 Karan Veer Singh 580 Vinayak Verma 581 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 4.582 Milind Kumar 4.583 Hritik Verma 4.584 Piyush Kumar 4.585 Ishant Kumar 4.586 Raghav Juneja 4.587 Shobhit Dhingra 4.588 Siddhesh D Pednekar 4.589 Aneesh Aparanji 4.590 Sahaj Poddar 4.591 Ajay Kumar Yadav 4.592 Mishra Ashish 493 Harsh R. Mehra 494 Vedant Joshi 495 Yashsva Anil Kanholkar 496 Amish Sood 497 Swapnil Goel 498 Maulik Uniyal 499 Shagun Mittal 4100 Rahul 4101 Vaibhav Solankar 4102 Palla Mohit Yadav 4103 Tushar Khilwani 3.5

Harsha Bharathakoti, Junior Open winner, receives prize from Bihar's Chief Minister Sri Nitish Kumar.Sri Krishna Kumar Rishi, Sports Minister Bihar is to the right of the Chief Minister

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Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tournament, Margao, Goa

Prize winners Niraj Saripalli (Third) Nitish Belurkar, winner, Audi Ameya (Runner-up) with dignitaries Kishor Bandekar, Treasurer AICF (eighth from left) Mr. Vallabh Desai President of Banavli Chess Club, Chief Arbiter Ashesh Keni ,Convener Sanjay Kavlekar,Secretary of Salcete Taluka Chess Association Damodar Zambaulikar, Dilip Vernekar Treasurer of Salcete Taluka Chess Association.

104 Shashwat Sharma 3.5105 Sparsh Prashar 3.5106 Rishav Kumar 3.5107 Daksh Sood 3108 Singh Angad 3109 Piyush Raj 3110 Abhirakshit 3111 Saksham Bhardwaj 1112 Neelash Saha 0113 Nitish Das 0114 Rishabh Jain 0115 Jail Digambar 0116 Aakashdeep Singh 0

Final standings:GirlsRk. Name Pts. 1 WIM Mahalakshmi M 9 2 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 8.5 3 WCM Isha Sharma 8.5 4 Sunyuktha C M N 8 5 Harshita Guddanti 7.5 6 Priyanka K 7.5 7 WFM Tarini Goyal 7.5 8 Meenal Gupta 7.5 9 Bakshi Rutuja 7 10 WFM Varshini V 7 11 WIM Tejaswini Sagar 7 12 Smaraki Mohanty 7 13 WFM Lakshmi C 7 14 Patel Aditi 7 15 Sunyasakta Satpathy 6.5 16 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6.5 17 Abhirami Madabushi 6.5 18 Divya Lakshmi R 6.5 19 Toshali V 6.5 20 Sanskriti Goyal 6.5 21 Thamaraiselvi P 6.5 22 Ankitha Goud Palle 6.5 23 WFM B Mounika Akshaya 6 24 Jain Nityata 6 25 Ashar Grishma 6 26 Shyamashree Sarkar 6 27 Fathima Abdeen 6 28 Shriya R Revankar 6 29 Niharika Ch 6

30 Diya Chowdhury 6 31 Shinjini Sengupta 6 32 Varsha C R 6 33 Shweta Priyadarshini 6 34 Indulekha K S 5.5 35 Garima Gaurav 5.5 36 Marium Fatima 5.5 37 Ashitha C C 5.5 38 Riya Narendra Marathe 5 39 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 5 40 Sinthia Sarkar 5 41 Swaha V S 5 42 Kohale Anushka 5 43 Sabbi Rohitha 5 44 Rajashree S 5 45 Tanisha Shital Gotadke 5 46 Kruti Gangadkar 5 47 Bhavya Verma 5 48 Rukhsar Bano 5 49 Heera P 5 50 Pandey Srishti 4.5 51 Lasani H Kothari 4.5 52 Prateeti Gorai 4.5 53 Sagar Siya 4.5 54 Snigdha Goel 4.5 55 Ankita Kumari 4.5 56 Vedanshi Chaudhary 4 57 Rashmi Priya 4 58 Nizami Sada 4 59 Chakraborty Sucharita 4 60 Adiba Ullah 4 61 Bhavya Narapuram 4 62 Naga Sahithi 4 63 Dubey Akshita 3.5 64 Mafruza Farooqui 3.5 65 Asna Abdeen 3.5 66 Vedushi Joshi 3 67 Swati Narapuram 1.5 68 Potluri Saye Srreezza 1 69 Soundharam L 1 70 Mehak Jain 0 71 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 0 72 Patil Aditi G 0 73 Kannan Jain 0

Brigadier S Harcharan Singh, Olympian and Arjuna Awardee giving away the trophy to Winner S.Dhananjay in presence of Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh, Charitable Society and M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter

4th Sameen Singh FIDE rated chess tournament-2017, Amritsar

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31st National Under 7 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2017,Vijayawada

Shashank and Hatwalne Swarali win titlesby Devaram Srihari, Organizing Secretary

The 31st National Under 7 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2017 was held at Andhra Motor Merchants Association

Hall A/C (AMMA Kalyana Mandapam) Mogal Raja Puram, Vijayawada, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh from 3rd to 12th September 2017. The Tournament was organized by The Krishna District Chess Association.

On 3rd September, 2017 at 11:00 a.m Man-agers meeting was organized by Organizing Secretary Mr. Devaram Srihari along with chief Arbiter Sri. Muthukumar I.A. At the Managers meeting only one change was taken i.e that is the round on 8th Sep 2017 Round was to be conducted at 9:00 a.m in-stead of at 3:00 p.m. An Appeals Committee was formed.

On 3rd September, 2017 3:00 a.m the Championship was Inaugurated by Hon’ Sri Kollu Ravindra, Minister for Law and Youth Affairs and Sports and Culture, Govt of AP and was attended by Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju, Vice-Chairman and Mangaing Director, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Sri YD Ramarao President APCA, & Sri D Srihari, General Secretary APCA and Sri K.P. Rao Chairman K.P.Rao Corporate consultants Pvt Ltd., Grand Master Mr. M.R. Lallit Babu, Sri.P.Rama Kr-ishna O.S.D SAAP, Sri P.V. Nageswara Rao President, Krishna District Chess Association.

320 participants from all over the country representing Assam, Andhra Pradesh,Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kash-mir, Jharkhand Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka Chattisgarh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha,

Punjab, Puducherry, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Uthar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal have participated in the tournament. The Chief Arbiter Sri Muthukumar IA successful-ly conducted the tournament following the FIDE Rules with the help of Deputy Arbiters, Sriman I.A. G.V.Kumar F.A., Ch.Ramesh F.A., which was appreciated by one and all. The Championship was conducted for 10 (including one rest day) days by providing all facilities to the players a good playing conditions spacious. All these organisers provided Break-fast and Lunch to all Players for free of cost. We think this the first time for under-7 Nationals. We also provided A/C Double/Triple shared star hotel range of ac-commodation for all the official players and Managers.

Competition went in such a way that expec-tations were at the peak from the seventh round of boys. After round six Bernil kumar Das and Aditya Kunal Patil met each other and Aditya Kunal Patil won the round.In round eight Aditya Kunal Patil became the sole leader and met with Kiaan Agarwal.They drew the match.Round nine witnessed Aditya kunal patil become sole leader with 7.5 points. The final Round Lakshyesh mohan gupta ½ point lead with shashankVS and Aditya kunal patil paired with Shashank.They were all in the race till the fiinal round and Shashank V.S of Tamilnadu won the title in Boys section after eleven rounds of tough competition. Shashank VS From TN won the final round and emerged Champion followed by Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta, Mrinmoy. Rajk-howa, Sadbhav Rautela ,Adireddy Arjun with 9 points each went with equal points.

In Girls Section After round no 6 Shreya G Hipparagi took sole lead and maintained upto the eighth round. In round nine even though Shreya G Hipparagi lost to Adarwal Tashna she still maintained the lead with Hatwalne Swarali. Hatwalne Swarali of Maharashtra became sole leader and maintained it till the end to win the title with 9.5 points after drawing with Saara jain.During the several rounds, as the Cham-pionships were in progress, there were inaugurations by Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju Vice-Chairman and Mangazing Director, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Sri. T. Kranthi Rana Deputy Commissioner of Po-lice, Vijayawada and former chess player. Sri. Devineni Avinash T.D.P Youth Leader is voluntarily visited championship and inau-gurated the 9th round of the Championship. On 12th September 2017, The Special Chief Secretary, Sri. L.V.Subrahmanyam I.A.S for Sports and Youth Affairs Govt of AP Visited the Championship in morning session and inaugurated final round of the Championship. Actually we invited him for P.D. Due to his very tight schedule and just because of his love for sports he came in the morning and gave massage to young players and par-ents.Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju Vice-Chairman and Mangazing Director, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, personally visited the venue during the championship and monitored ar-rangements made to players and parents and personally taken feedback from the parents and coaches. The valedictory function was held on 12th September, 2017 with Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju Vice-Chairman and Mangazing Direc-tor, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh,as Chief Guest along with Sri K.P. Rao Chairman K.P.Rao Corporate consultants Pvt Ltd The President APCA Sri YD Ramarao, Genaral Secretary,APCA Sri D Srihari, Sri P.V. Nag-

eswara Rao President, Krishna District Chess Association attended and distributed prizes & cash awards.

We are sincerely thankful to All India Chess Federation and to Sri. D.V.Sundar , Vice President FIDE and AICF and Sri Bharat Singh Chowhan, Hon’ble Secretary AICF. We per-sonally thank our Sponsors Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Ramco Cements, Mega Engineering and Infrastructures Limited, A.P. Tourism A.P. Prohibition and Exise, A.P. Panchayatiraj & Rural Development, A.P.Mi-naral Development Corporation, , G.M. Mod-ulars, Icon Public School, United Insurance Limited, Asthik Infra Developers and Andhra Motor Merchants Association and last but not the least Krishna District Police and Vijayawa-da Police for their valuable support. Final Ranking:Open Rk. Name Pts. 1 Shashank V S 9.5 2 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta 9 3 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa 9 4 Sadbhav Rautela 9 5 Adireddy Arjun 9 6 Jack Samuel 8.5 7 ACM Aarav Nambiar T 8.5 8 Aditya Kunal Patil 8.5 9 Kiaan Agrawal 8 10 Arjun Raje 8 11 Arjun Dube 8 12 Hruthvick R 8 13 Shreyansh Hota 8 14 Suhaas A 7.5 15 Barnil Kumar Das 7.5 16 Amogh Bisht 7.5 17 Abhinav Raj 7.5 18 Bhosale Saarth 7.5 19 Rangeet Majumdar 7.5 20 Yashwant B 7.5 21 Sawalakhe Jay 7.5 22 Shreeyash Kejriwal 7.5 23 Aakash G 7.5

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24 Deepan Madhuprakash 7.5 25 Aarush Rajesh 7.5 26 Rounaiv Rana 7.5 27 Talla Nischal 7.5 28 Dhayanand S 7 29 Srihari R 7 30 Devdarshan R B 7 31 Archisman Patra 7 32 Malik Dhairya 7 33 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 7 34 Vempati Harsha Sai 7 35 Sarthak Anand Devadiga 7 36 Arjun J Chitlange 7 37 Shashindhar Kumar R 7 38 Sathvik Adiga 7 39 Yug Desai 7 40 Varma G Y C 7 41 Jain Kushagra 7 42 Srijit Sardar 7 43 Tanush Ritesh 7 44 Avaneesh Handur 7 45 Rosh Jain 7 46 Mitul K H 6.5 47 Aswin A 6.5 48 Srinikesh Krishnakumar 6.5 49 Raj Jaivardhan 6.5 50 Aarya Satish Chikodi 6.5 51 Mavani Nimay Tehasbhai 6.5 52 Mahavir Patra 6.5 53 Yuvan Kartik R 6.5 54 Rudrasish Som 6.5 55 Varun Prabhakaran K S 6.5 56 Parab Ram Vishal 6.5 57 Sanskar G 6.5 58 Rajvarshan S B 6.5 59 Atharva Sawal 6 60 Arora Advay 6 61 Om Arya 6 62 Maaz Iqubal 6 63 Divitt Arora 6 64 Aaron Bhuimali 6 65 Kavin Satish 6 66 Rath Aadyan 6 67 Rohith Karthikeshwar N 6 68 Sai Dheeraj Vadlamudi 6

69 Swaraj Jyoti Neog 6 70 Vignesh Kannan P 6 71 Kudipudi S S Kishore 6 72 Stellferd S Stalin 6 73 Aahwan Hazari 6 74 Shreyas Ravindra Patil 6 75 Md. Kaif Ullah 6 76 Jivitesh Singh Sethi 6 77 Mahimithranarasu T I 6 78 Miglani Aarav 6 79 Dhanuka Aman 6 80 Aditya Maderana 6 81 Sadhwani Prince Kailash 6 82 Ojash Jain 6 83 Sahu Mitansh 6 84 Panigrahi Bivaya 6 85 Veer Gidwani 6 86 Sidharth Sreekumar 6 87 Ishaan K Sibin 6 88 Samradhh Singh Tomar 6 89 Ishaan Singh Khanuja 5.5 90 Md Hasnain Siddiqui 5.5 91 Khadilkar Shourya 5.5 92 Sohan Reddy V M 5.5 93 Krishna Sai Koushik P 5.5 94 Pradyumna Kanukollu 5.5 95 Mithra Kumaran J K 5.5 96 Aradhya Thantri 5.5 97 Naren Gupta 5.5 98 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 5.5 99 Subhodeep Sarkar 5.5 100 Aarav Mehta 5.5 101 Akula Sathvik 5.5 102 Himanish Kumar Sarma 5.5 103 Shah Purvaan 5.5 104 Ratnani Harshit 5.5 105 Gokul G 5 106 Arnav Bhushan 5 107 Godhani Maharth 5 108 Sanjay Senthilkumar 5 109 Rokade Ishwar 5 110 Avyakt Agarwal 5 111 Anirudh Satish 5 112 Iniyan R S 5 113 Sourabh 5

114 Aggarwal Aaryveer 5 115 Koneru Bhargav 5 116 Nanthabalan V B 5 117 Yajur Shikaram 5 118 Karthik G Iyer 5 119 Nikhil S Kamath 5 120 Priyansh Reddy Sankepally 5 121 Varun Sai N S 5 122 Kanaka Dinesh K M S S S 5 123 Vandan Rashmikant Thakar 5 124 Aadi Banthia 5 125 Siriki Yogesh 5 126 Suraj Kudlu 5 127 Thakur Aarit 5 128 Dolas Aarush 5 129 Anirban Mondal 5 130 Keertan Kalita 5 131 Ranade Soham Abhijit 5 132 Shiva Krishna Charan R 5 133 Vignesh Dey 5 134 Adithya D 4.5 135 Kanishk Goel 4.5 136 Aarav Kalra 4.5 137 Dharmaditya Sandeep Naik 4.5 138 Sreehas Raparla 4.5 139 Ishan Khandelwal 4.5 140 Singh Pravardhman 4.5 141 Sumedh Chawre 4.5 142 Nihal Parvathaneni 4.5 143 Mishra Shivansh 4 144 Mallick Rohit 4 145 Prabhu Varad 4 146 Mandula Babu Syamal 4 147 Amarjyoti Mishra 4 148 Ishant Singh 4 149 Siddharth P 4 150 Dev Sopanrao Phalke 4 151 Pratnesh Malvankar 4 152 Aditya Mandala 4 153 Kotha Santoosh 4 154 Shaik Arshad Baba 4 155 Jenil Parmar 4 156 Shishir B 4 157 Srinivas Tridham ASDSS 4 158 Angelo Lijo 4

159 Arnav Dawn 4 160 Pavan Karthikeya Varma Gi 4 161 Susanta Sarma HSVSKSH 4 162 Agrawal Prabhav 4 163 Amitanshu Das 4 164 Tongia Aahan 4 165 Borra CVenkata Mani Krish 4 166 Hardik Gouri 3.5 167 Yoshik Vihan E 3.5 168 Aarav Porwal 3.5 169 Thota Jovenkataraman 3.5 170 Dhanesh Alaparthi 3.5 171 Siddharth Singhvi 3.5 172 Sahu Anirudha 3 173 Md Abdul Khader Ayaan 3 174 Sri Rohith Sharma 3 175 Pranshu Pathak 3 176 Khandhadia Nivaan Rathin 3 177 Shivapradhan M 3 178 Ridam Nitin Agrawal 3 179 Yashvanth S 3 180 Raman Siddhardh B 3 181 Garv Jodhawat 3 182 Chiranth R Savak 3 183 Dayanand Thoudam 2.5 184 Dinesh Sai Venkat Krishna 2.5 185 Suryadevara Joshit 2.5 186 Adway A Khobragade 2.5 187 Vanavada Abhiramm 2 188 Tata Sai Murali Eshaan 2 189 Unnava Manvith Sai 1 190 Arjun Nair 0 191 Bhandari Arjun 0 192 Pavan Siddesh L 0Final standings:GirlsRk. Name Pts. 1 Hatvalne Swarali 9.5 2 Shreya G Hipparagi 9 3 Arshiya Das 8.5 4 Shriya Patil 8.5 5 Saara Jain 8.5 6 Shruti Snehi 8.5 7 Luxshana B K 8 8 Vidula Anbuselvan 8 9 WCM Shriyana S Mallya 8

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55 Ghanashree K R 6 56 Nagarkatte Saina 6 57 Muthya Manjari Ne 5.5 58 Saparya Ghosh 5.5 59 Naavya Rathi 5.5 60 Raikar Rivia R 5.5 61 Saanvi Sharma 5.5 62 Vipassana Lama 5.5 63 Ikra Sarfaraz 5.5 64 Spoorthi Reddy Gujjula 5.5 65 Kaavya G S 5.5 66 Aishani Pathak 5.5 67 Amaira Mittal 5.5 68 Nuka Laasya 5.5 69 Ahana Viral Shah 5 70 Suchitraa Viswanathan 5 71 Naik Drishti 5 72 Errabelli Pranavi 5 73 Shreya C Shah 5 74 Nivedita L 5 75 Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar 5 76 Das Shrutika 5 77 Jain Naisha 5 78 Amruta Jasti 5 79 Tanishka Jain 5 80 Sri Lakshmi Pranathi O 5 81 Akshara Anish 5 82 Samrutha M 5 83 Mahadev Rushita Haju 5 84 Angona J P Dutta 5 85 Yuvantikasri S.U. 5 86 Yashica Prerna Dadle 5 87 Aisha Wadhwani 5 88 Sherali Pattnaik 5 89 Alana Meenakshi K 5 90 Deekshaa S 4.5 91 Yadvithi M H 4.5 92 Bhoomika Singh 4.5 93 Jawahirani Aanya 4.5 94 Hasini Kamabathula 4.5 95 Bhimte Akshohini 4.5 96 Akshara P 4 97 Amrosha Krisshhna 4 98 Mahadi H 4 99 Aanya Sinwar 4

The Hyderabad Open All India FIDE Rated Chess Tournament (below 1500) was organised Czar Chess Academy, Hyder-

abad at St. Joseph’s Public School from 30th September to 2nd October 2017. A mammoth number of more than 990 players partici-pated in the event, almost from all states of India. The prize money also matched it equally with a huge amount of Rs.7,99,999. Ashok D of Tamil Nadu and Jagadeeshwari Yerupala of Andhra Pradesh were seeded 1 and 2 respectively. The tournament was a 9 round Swiss format, with a time control of 60 minutes to each player with 30 seconds increment for each move.

Jagadeeshwari was held to a draw by Shiva-kumar DM of Karnataka in the third round and the fifth and seventh seeds also had similar results. NagarjunGhatti of Karnataka split the point the top seed Ashok in the fourth round and seed no.142, Syed Jahan Hussain of As-sam defeated fourth seeded Dhiman Mithra in the fourth round. Thirty six players were leading with full four points at the end of the fourth round. Third seeded P KaviSamrat and 13th seeded Binu Sebastin were the only two players from the top 20 seeds to be among the 16 players with 5 points at the end of the fifth round.

Five players – Binu, B Venkatesan of TN, Swapnil Priyadharshi of Orissa, Aragonda Mohan and Shridhar Tawade were leading with a 100% score. Shridhar and Aragonda shared the lead with 7 points each with their victories at the end of the seventh round by beating Venkatesan and Kavi Samrat re-

Hyderabad Open All India FIDE Rated Tournament (below 1500),Hyderabad

Nagasri Saikanth wins titleby Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

spectively. The two players drew their eighth round encounter, allowing Shaik Sumer Arsh of AP, Karthik Kumar Singh and Shrudh Su-dhir Acharyaboth of Maharashtra, to join the lead before the final round. The top two boards ended in a draw and another leader Shridhar was defeated by Dhiman Mitra of West Bengal. Nagasri Saikanth of AP de-feated R Prabu of TN, P Susheel Reddy of AP defeated C Sameer of Karnataka, G Sathish Kumar of overwhelmed Balakrishna of AP and Prathamesh Dharmathikari of Maharashtra overcame the challenge of Romil Thakkar of Gujarat, resulting in an eight way tie for the first place. The tiebreaks favoured Nagasri to win the title, pushing Susheel Reddy to second and Dhiman Mitra to third place.

The cyclone predictions in Hyderabad had a telling effect on the tournament on the sec-ond and third days. The heavy rain for about four hours throwing everything into disaaray, as many buses were cancelled and no taxis available to catch the trains.Sri. KS. Prasad, Secretary, Telangana State Chess Association was the chief guest for the valedictory func-tion and distributed the prizes to the winners of various categories.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Nagasri Saikanth 8 2 Susheel Reddy P 8 3 Dhiman Mitra 8 4 Sharma Tushar B 8 5 Kartik Kumar Singh 8 6 Shaik Sumer Arsh 8 7 Aragonda Mohan 8 8 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 8 9 Suhrud Sudheer Acharya 8

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10 Satheesh Kumar G 8 11 Swapnil Priyadarshi 7½ 12 Tawade Shridhar 7½ 13 Lokaprakash A S 7½ 14 Karthikeyan G 7½ 15 Tiwari Shivansh 7½ 16 Rehaman Kotte 7½ 17 Abhinandan 7½ 18 Nilesh Wasnik 7½ 19 Prabu R 7 20 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 7 21 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 7 22 Manoj E T 7 23 Venkatesan B 7 24 Satyanarayana Raju D S 7 25 Rao Pn 7 26 Manikandan Tayalan 7 27 Priyansh Sahu 7 28 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 7 29 Johney Mandal 7 30 Sameer C 7 31 Deshpande Omkar 7 32 Sheth Shemal Ketan 7 33 Rajashree S 7 34 Syed Jahan Hussain 7 35 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 7 36 Vasistha Ramana RaoK V 7 37 Jampu Bharani Bharadwaj 7 38 Muhammed Musthafa 7 39 Nivedan Bhardwaj 7 40 Abhisek Nayak 7 41 Vaneshwar Rao K.V. 7 42 Prem Kumar S 7 43 Trivedi Gaurav V 7 44 Aditya Pattnaik 7 45 Joshi Tejas 7 46 Suresh Naidu 7 47 Anubhab Gupta 7 48 Ssathyan S R 7 49 Sharma Vicky 7 50 Manish Kumar 7 51 Yashavishree N 7 52 Varun Sudarshan 7 53 Damodar Kumar 7 54 Arun Prasath P 7

55 Bharath Kumar Jaladanki 7 56 Kapil Dahiya 7 57 Raj Kumar 7 58 Apurba Dhara 7 59 Meher Bhabanee Prasad 7 60 Vishwanath Purohit 7 61 Rishi Kumar Pandey 7 62 Binu Sebastian 6½ 63 Mane Pravin 6½ 64 Thakkar Romil J 6½ 65 Sahu Prakash 6½ 66 Tanveer Monga 6½ 67 Abhiram Pramod K 6½ 68 Ujjwal Deep 6½ 69 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6½ 70 Vashishtha Ankesh 6½ 71 Sarthak Singh Parihar 6½ 72 Kamdar Abhay 6½ 73 Anand Babu P 6½ 74 Mane Sandeep 6½ 75 Vincent Vakki 6½ 76 Muralidharan P S 6½ 77 Tekam Krunal 6½ 78 Pannada Pretipu Rao 6½ 79 Ghaneshyam Mandal 6½ 80 Raza Khan 6½ 81 Osman Bin Sayeed 6½ 82 K Aditya Krishna 6½ 83 Kommabathula Prakash 6½ 84 Ritik Kakeri 6½ 85 Trinadharao S 6½ 86 Sharath Chandra Ch 6½ 87 Rozer Samuel P A 6½ 88 Chandrashekar R 6½ 89 Gopichand K 6½ 90 Shivpratap Singh 6½ 91 Bharathakoti Sneha 6½ 92 Anandaraj L 6½ 93 Shubham Gupta 6½ 94 Shah Het D 6½ 95 Shankar Kopparthy 6½ 96 Sahroj Alam 6½ 97 Ashok D 6 98 Agil B Pukkunnel 6 99 Suren S 6

100 Gawande Vishal 6 101 Rajat Yadav 6 102 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 6 103 Anilkumar Reddy K 6 104 Sanath K Jamadagni 6 105 Shinde Kunal 6 106 Iyer Arvind 6 107 Nanal Arnav 6 108 Vijay Chandran Bala 6 109 Shardul Manojkumar T 6 110 Poornesh C Mogaveera 6 111 Kavya S 6 112 Sreenivasulu P V 6 113 Patra Anilkumar 6 114 Yadlapalli Akhil 6 115 Ved Prakash 6 116 Velpula Sarayu 6 117 Yadav Aakashkumar 6 118 Senthil K Kaliyaperumal 6 119 Arunkumar K S 6 120 Chanakya V B S L 6 121 Pradhan Ashok Kumar 6 122 Yuva Kishore Pilla 6 123 Jayakrishna H 6 124 Limaye Vedant 6 125 Verma Manshu 6 126 Abdul Nabi 6 127 Ravinder Reddy Karra 6 128 Sri Santhosh D 6 129 Harender J 6 130 Srri Ram E 6 131 Mahat Nihal 6 132 Juare Deep 6 133 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 6 134 Mekala Negendra 6 135 Jahnavi Sri Lalita M 6 136 Adireddy Tarun 6 137 Sharma Pramod Kumar 6 138 Mishra Prashant 6 139 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 140 Chaubey Bharat 6 141 Srikanth Myakala 6 142 BLakshmi Venkata Pratap 6 143 Anoop P 6 144 Afinu Shifan M 6

145 Shreekanth N 6 146 Nihaar L Akula 6 147 Bhargava P 6 148 Das Annika 6 149 Sumanth Mamidala 6 150 Midhun G 6 151 Thakkar Aniket 6 152 Aryan Anand 6 153 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula 6 154 Mangaldeep Mitra 6 155 Pradeep Sawant 6 156 Akash P 6 157 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 6 158 Hariharan Gandhi 6 159 Srikant Dronavalli 6 160 Biswal Rama Chandra 6 161 Nazeer Basha G 6 162 Priyanka Bhatt 6 163 Alexandar A 6 164 Naman Mehrothra 6 165 Jain Ajinkya 6 166 Dharmik Banka 6 167 Mallesh Beerla 6 168 Agrawal Bishnu Prasad 6 169 Dhanala Abhinav 6 170 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 6 171 Deepak Kumar Patel 6 172 Aryan Khurana 6 173 Narayana Sharma B L 6 174 Veerabhadri K 6 175 Manish Kumar Singh 6 176 Ravikumar K 6 177 Sushil Harishchandra Patel 6 178 Fulendra Kumar 6 179 Karunakaran V M 6 180 Rajesh Ramanbhai Vaza 6 181 Murugan V 6 182 Varun Kumar Sriram 6 183 Abdul Basheer K M 6 184 Rahul Tomar 6 185 Srinidhi Kulkarni 6 186 Amaranjay Kumar Dubey 6 187 Jagannathan Govind 6 188 Md. Shabbir Ali 6 189 Budh Deo Prasad 6

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30th episode of Spic FIDE rated chess tournament gave enjoyment to the participants and parents more than the

last year. Varieties of entertainment given by the organizer, felt the players and parents more happy. Children and parents enjoyed the campus during the half yearly vocation and also the program by Madurai Muthu and two cinemas in the open air theatre enter-tained the players and parents.

Mr Gnanasekaran from Chennai informed that he has been playing continuously for 20 years without any break. There are players like Mr. Gnanasekaran, regularly visiting the Spic tournament. For some players and par-ents it helped a pilgrimage to Thiruchendur. This year organizer has arranged transport facilities to Thiruchendur. Spic provided ac-commodation to the players and the parents who participated in this tournament.

5th seeded , 17 year old M. Barath Kalyan of Pattukottai won the title in 30th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament at Spic Nagar Thoothukudi.He collected 7 point in 8 rounds and won the Winner’s trophy pocketing a cash prize of thirty five thousand rupees. Pranatheeswar of Salem became the cham-pion in Non medalist section with 7.5 points.

The Chief guest of the function Shri. S. Sar-avanan IAS Deputy Collector Thoothukudi District gave away the prizes. Shri Manuel Aaron, India's first International Master, 9 times National champion, Arjuna award win-ner felicitated the event. Mr. Denim Mathew Executive Committee member Thoothukudi District Chess Association, welcomed the

gathering and Mr. AL Subramanian Secre-tary, Thoothukudi District Chess Association proposed the vote of thanks.

Earlier the 30th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament got underway at Spic Sil-ver Jubilee Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi from 24th September 2017. The event attracted 300 players in Medallist section out of which 199 players were Fide rated. Players from Kerala, Jharkhand, Pondicherry and Tamil-nadu took part.

In Non-Medalist section there were 242 play-ers. Spic is the only organization in Tamilnadu which is conducting chess tournament for Non- medalist players regularly. Kunal of Trichy was the top seed. Participa-tion of an International Master C Praveen Ku-mar of ICF gave glamour to the tournament. The total prize fund of the event was Two Lakhs in medalist section, out of which, Rs. 35000/- was reserved to the winner. The total prize fund for Non medalist was Rs.23000/- The tournament was declared open by Shri. S R Pattanayak,Harbour Master VOC Port.

Five players scored 7 points in eight rounds but better tie break helped M Barath Kalyan,the seventeen year old boy from Pattukottai won the title. M Kunal become the runner up in this tournament.Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 Barath Kalyan M 7 2 Kunal M. 7 3 Swaraj Palit 7 4 Bala Kannamma P 7

30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Tuticorin

Barath Kalyan emerges Championby M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7 6 Selvabharathy T 6½ 7 Sivakumar C. 6½ 8 Ram Kumar G M 6½ 9 Nanda Kumar T.S. 6½ 10 Rajasekaran P. 6½ 11 Thamaraiselvi P 6½ 12 Godson Merlin E 6 13 Sangeetha P 6 14 Sa Kannan 6 15 Gnanasekar .G 6 16 Bharkavi S 6 17 Alaguraja M.A. 6 18 Sathya Giri V 6 19 Aswin Kumar B S 6 20 Subbhu Karthick S M 6 21 Muralidharan R. 6 22 Anni Shayana Stephen 6 23 Iniyan Sivakumar 6 24 Kamalanathan R 6 25 Mohana R 6 26 Kanish V Adithan B 6 27 Ashok D 6 28 Genish Prakash J 5½ 29 Shanjay Krishnaa S 5½ 30 Kumaresh A 5½ 31 Chandra Sekharan A P 5½ 32 Merryston David Scanny 5½ 33 Jos Paul Davis 5½ 34 Mithesh M 5½ 35 Kathiravan S 5½ 36 Sanjeev M 5½ 37 Karthick Babu R 5½ 38 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 5½ 39 Athish S 5½ 40 Karunakaran V 5½ 41 Preejesh S B 5½ 42 Niranjana P R 5½ 43 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 5½ 44 Jayakrishna H 5½ 45 Adityan Kumar 5½ 46 Balu P 5½ 47 Manikandan C 5½

48 S. Jeevanandam 5 49 Sriram K 5 50 Aswath S 5 51 Murukaananth A 5 52 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5 53 Mathavan T 5 54 Sriram S 5 55 Karpagakumar S V S 5 56 Balasankar M 5 57 Krishan A 5 58 Abinaya S 5 59 Kannish Varmaa K 5 60 Jaiyaharrsanth S J 5 61 Shrija K M 5 62 Suresh Kumar Ashok 5 63 Sabhesan R 5 64 Reena K P 5 65 Haresh Nandan C 5 66 Harikrishna R 5 67 Natarajan M 5 68 Jesudoss S 5 69 Samson D Cruz J 5 70 Jagendran Kamak N 5 71 Achaya Vijayan 5 72 R Venkatasubramani 5 73 Leaha B 5 74 Alfien Jessurun 5 75 Jaidambareesh N R 5 76 Priya Varshini T 5 77 Neha M B 5 78 Sriman Prabhu M K 5 79 Nitish Mani S 5 80 Pon Perumal S 5 81 Thajol T J 5 82 Aravind S 5 83 Aaron P Michaelraj 5 84 Karuppasamy C 5 85 Shaktivel Selvaraj 4½ 86 Vinoth M 4½ 87 Roshan A Ramesh 4½ 88 Paramasivam M. 4½ 89 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4½ 90 Gopinath P 4½

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91 M Kesavamoorthy 4½ 92 Senthil Kumaran N.S 4½ 93 Sam Jebadurai 4½ 94 Arumugam N 4½ 95 Pratyush J 4½ 96 Infant Jose H 4½ 97 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 4½ 98 Krishna Prasath S 4½ 99 Surya Sathiaguru 4½ 100 Sivanandha V 4½ 101 Nicknesar Anto A 4½ 102 Kingston K J 4½ 103 Lekshanth M 4½ 104 Kamali B 4½ 105 Sivakumaran V 4½ 106 Kaviarasan K 4½ 107 Guruvignesh V 4½ 108 Joshua Sudhan S 4½ 109 Divyanshu Gupta 4½ 110 Vengatesh Krishnan C 4½ 111 Arul Prakash N 4½ 112 Krishna Prasad N 4½ 113 Udhayan Jacob 4½ 114 John Peter A 4½ 115 Kishore U R 4½ 116 Sundaralingam A 4½ 117 Nizsaanth Nobel Antony 4½ 118 Sivashankar G 4½ 119 Sreevathsan H 4½ 120 Dharanidharan M 4½ 121 Srivattsan S 4½ 122 Mohammed Ibrahim 4½ 123 D Kasthuri Rajan 4½ 124 Siva Rama Krishan B 4½ 125 Nithyanandam M 4½ 126 Vignesh Rajan 4½ 127 Sethusivaram B 4 128 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 4 129 Mridubashini S S 4 130 Gowtham S G 4 131 Vignesh S L 4 132 Raja Gopal P 4 133 Muthukumaran V 4

134 Naresh Krishna S 4 135 Magdalene Roy R 4 136 Ebnesar Anto A 4 137 Durairaj G 4 138 Divin S V 4 139 Kumar P R 4 140 Kaviyarasan T 4 141 Vel Aswin Saminathan 4 142 Steve Rohan S 4 143 Devin S V 4 144 Varrun Shanjjay A 4 145 Dhilip Santhosh Kumar 4 146 Arunachalam I 4 147 Lokesh Varmaa K 4 148 Hari Ramachandran S 4 149 Akash Sundar S 4 150 Anbu Selvan P 4 151 Riya Shannon S 4 152 Harini Shanmughavel 4 153 Srinivasaraj S 4 154 Thulashi Ram R 4 155 Santhosh Shenbagamuran 4 156 Antony Nelson V 4 157 Nabeel M Abubackar 4 158 Yoga Bharath S 4 159 Mohana Lakshmi Sekar 4 160 Arjunan A 4 161 Saai Aravindh R 4 162 Anish H 4 163 Subash N 4 164 Deephag J R S 4 165 Ajay Krishnan M 4 166 Moir Donald 3½ 167 Prasath K R 3½ 168 Abinaya H 3½ 169 Arul Jothi A 3½ 170 Swarna Priya R 3½ 171 Tharan Adithya M 3½ 172 Parthiban V 3½ 173 Sathyaseelan C 3½ 174 Vignesh G 3½ 175 Monish Kumar N 3½ 176 Rianna Netta B 3½

Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tournament 2017 was conducted on 16th & 17th September 2017 at Da-

modar Vidya Bhuvan,Comba Margao Goa. 171 players participated in the event ,the top seed bein Ameya Audi and out of which 71 were FIDE Rated players.The Tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Mr. Vallabh Desai President of Ba-navli Chess Club in the presence of Chief Arbiter Ashesh Keni Convener Sanjay Ka-vlekar,Secretary of Salcete Taluka Chess Association Damodar Zambaulikar,Dilip Vernekar Treasurer of Salcete Taluka Chess Association.

In the First round Ameya Audi beat Dipraj Sinari to maintain the lead,In the second round the seeded players continued to lead,in the 3rd round Wilson cruz was held to a draw by ayush shetkar ,In the fourth round Pratik Borkar managed to beat higher seeded Suyan Belurkar,In the Fifth round Sairaj Vernekar drew with AIM Wilson Cruz. At the end of 5 rounds Ameya Audi continued to lead along with Nitish Belurkar,Niraj Saripalli, Nandini Saripalli on 5 points followed closely by Sairaj vernekar & Sanjay Thorat. In the Sixth round FM Nitish Belurkar beat top speed Ameya Audi and Niraj Saripalli beat Sister Nandini Saripalli to take the lead.IN the Seventh round Niraj Saripalli drew with Nitish Belurkar & Ameya Audi won against Swera Ana Bra-ganza.In the Eighth round Ameya Audi beat Niraj Saripalli while Nitish Belurkar got the better of Wilson Cruz.In the Final round Nitish Belurkar won against WCM Gunjal Chopdekar while Ameya Audi beat Aryan Raikar to take

Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tournament,Margao,Goa

Nitish Belurkar wins at Margaoby Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter

the second spot,Top seed Nitish Belurkar gained 24 points .

At the Closing Ceremony Mr.KIshore Bandekar Treasurer of AICF & Secretary of Goa Chess Association gave away the prizes in the presence of of Mr. Vallabh Desai President of Banavli Chess Club Chief Arbiter Ashesh Keni ,Convener Sanjay Kavlekar,Secretary of Salcete Taluka Chess Association Damo-dar Zambaulikar, Dilip Vernekar Treasurerof Salcete Taluka Chess Association.The Chief Arbiter of the tournament was FA Ashesh Keni along with Dep. Chief Arbiter NA Sanjay Kavlekar & assisted by NA Swapnil Hoble,-NA Gautam Tari,NA Avinash Malvankar.The Tournament was recognized by ALL India Chess Federation & Goa Chess Association & Salcete Taluka Chess Association, The tour-nament was organized in a good Hall. Toilets and parking facilities were amply provided. Snacks and tea were provided to each player.The total Prize fund of the tournament was Rs.40000/- & Trophies worth Rs 10000/-.Final ranking Rank Name Pts 1 FM Nitish Belurkar 8½ 2 Audi Ameya 8 3 Niraj Saripalli 7½ 4 Parsekar Anirudh 7½ 5 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7 6 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 7 7 Nandhini Saripalli 7 8 Shenoy Siddharth 7 9 Sahil Dayanand Desai 7 10 AIM Cruz Wilson 6½ 11 Madhavan G 6½ 12 Brendan Peroz 6½

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13 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 6½ 14 Suyan Belurkar 6½ 15 Porob Vraj 6½ 16 Thorat Sanjay 6½ 17 Devesh Anand Naik 6½ 18 Paarth P Salvi 6½ 19 Anant Prabhudesai 6 20 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 21 Snehil Shetty 6 22 Pratik S Borkar 6 23 Gaude Sachin 6 24 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 6 25 Bhimappa Harijan 6 26 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 27 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6 28 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 6 29 Sachin Kakodkar 6 30 Vinayak Thevar 6 31 Netra P Savaikar 6 32 Kakodkar Joy 6 33 Sukhlecha Aditya 6 34 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 6 35 Charuta J Shetye 6 36 Yash Manoj Upadhye 6 37 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5½ 38 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5½ 39 Parab Rishikesh 5½ 40 Bir Yogesh Pai 5½ 41 Yash Paul 5½ 42 Kiran S Chopdekar 5½ 43 Pednekar Sagar 5½ 44 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 5½ 45 Kalparaj Ekavade 5½ 46 Parab Sneh 5½ 47 Aarush Pandey 5½ 48 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5 49 Avaneeshwar Guin 5 50 Bhat Pratham 5 51 Geetesh R Naik 5 52 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5 53 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5 54 Srilaxmi Kamat 5

55 Dyaneshwar Hawal 5 56 Vas Bryan 5 57 Katkar Prithviraj 5 58 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 5 59 Ved Narvekar 5 60 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5 61 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5 62 Katkar Atharv 5 63 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 5 64 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5 65 Hawal Shreyash 5 66 Ali Amanat 5 67 Dion Lourenco 5 68 Ananya Pandey 5 69 Sayyed Mahdiya 5 70 Soham Anil Dhuri 5 71 Cyrus Gomes 5 72 Chopdekar Aman 5 73 Dalvi Ishan 5 74 Angle Vedant 5 75 Sainee N F Dessai 5 76 Calantha Gomes 5 77 Chari Sairaj 5 78 Rudraksh Rama Parab 5 79 Kamat Aniket 5 80 Sequeira Alex 5 81 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 4½ 82 Kakodkar Love 4½ 83 Vicente Fernandes 4½ 84 Parth Kamat 4½ 85 Nagvekar Sairudra 4½ 86 Lad Mandar Pradip 4½ 87 Stuti Rajesh Pai 4½ 88 Cardozo Selvino 4½ 89 Punit Rahi 4½ 90 Shetty Ankit 4½ 91 Rane Saurabh 4½ 92 Desai Veer 4 93 Salunke Vinayak 4 94 Aarav Kamat 4 95 Zore Chinmay 4 96 Nayak Pavitra 4

The 4th Sameen Singh Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2017 was conducted by Sameen Singh Charitable Society

under the aegis of Punjab State Chess As-sociation at Amritsar from 29 Sep to 03 Oct 2017.The tournament was organized in the memory of Dr. Sameen Singh, a national level chess player who was five times CBSE North Zone-II champion from 2005 to 2009 and twice position holder at national level. On the dark day of 22nd March 2014, he met a fatal accident near Delhi NCR and took his last breath on 7th April 2014.

The event attracted a total number of 490 players including 297 international rated players from across the country. The tour-nament conducted under Swiss system with 9 rounds with a total prize fund of Rs. 5,00,000/-.

The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Mahel Singh, Principal Khalsa College Am-ritsar in presence of Shri. Narinder Singh, President Punjab State Chess Association and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable Society and father of Dr. Sameen Singh.

The event was played under the time control of 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move and players moved to business mode from the start itself and provided much excitement till the end.After the eighth and penultimate round three players namely Dhanjay S of Chattisgarh, Deepak Katiyar of Delhi and Sudhanshu Ranjan of Bihar were in joint lead with seven and half points. But in the final round, Dhanjay defeated Sudhanshu

Ranjan to take his point tally to eight and half points to finish as champion while Deepak Katiyar signed the peace treaty with top seed Shailesh Dravid to secure second position with eight points. Pardeep Arora of Punjab outwitted team mate Shubham Shukla to finish as second runner up. Dhanjay received winner’s trophy along with Rs. 81,000/- as cash award. Deepak and Pardeep pocketed cash prizes of Rs. 51,000/- and Rs. 25,000/- respectively.

Aditi Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh bagged the best women player trophy while Karan Veer Singh of Punjab adjudged as best unrat-ed player. Dave Kantilal becomes best veter-an player and Vikas Sharma finished as best Punjab player. Awadh Chaitanya of Madhya Pradesh, Bhavyay Gupta of Delhi, Daaevik Wadhawan of become the best boys players in Under-19, Under-14 and Under-9 age cat-egories respectively while Ishvi Aggarwal of Haryana, Aanya Agarwal of Delhi and Anahita Verma of Punjab won the same age catego-ry prizes in girls section. Sarthak Rawat of Uttarakhand, Pravin Hend of Maharashtra, Sudhanshu Ranjan of Bihar bagged the best player prizes trophy and Rs. 15000/- cash prizes each in Below Elo 1400, Elo 1700 and Elo 2000 categories respectively.

Brigadier S Harcharan Singh, Olympian and Arjuna Awardee gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the winners in presence of Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable Society in a glit-tering closing ceremony.Final ranking

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Dhananjay wins Sameen Singh FIDE RatedBy IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

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Rk Name Pts 1 Dhananjay S 8½ 2 Deepak Katiyar 8 3 Pardeep Arora 8 4 Gajwa Ankit 8 5 Shailesh Dravid 7½ 6 Sudhanshu Ranjan 7½ 7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7½ 8 Kant Rupesh 7½ 9 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7½ 10 Prakash Ram 7 11 Ankit Sen 7 12 Himanshu Ranjan 7 13 Singh Arvinder Preet 7 14 Esshan Wadhawan 7 15 Hend Pravin 7 16 Shubham Shukla 7 17 Khan Md. Raisudin 7 18 Sahil Dhawan 7 19 Akshay Anand 7 20 Kumar Sanu 7 21 Ashutosh Kumar 7 22 Vikrant Jaglan 7 23 Awadh Chaitanya 7 24 Lakshit Rana 7 25 Trivedi Karan R 7 26 Vinayak B Hariwal 7 27 Negi D.S. 6½ 28 Vikas Sharma 6½ 29 Dave Kantilal 6½ 30 Sharma Pankaj 6½ 31 Pankaj Verma 6½ 32 Punit Indora 6½ 33 Ajit Singh 6½ 34 Pardeshi Ajay 6½ 35 Ashutosh Kumar 6½ 36 Sudarshan Malga 6½ 37 Pukhraj Singh 6½ 38 Vipan Kumar 6½ 39 Umer S.M 6½ 40 Sarthak Rawat 6½ 41 Gupta Bhola Nath 6½ 42 Maxim Singh 6½

43 Yudhveer Singh 6½ 44 Vibhor Sharma 6½ 45 Soumen Mondal 6½ 46 Bipin Dhingra 6½ 47 Deepak Raina 6½ 48 Katiyar Prashant 6 49 Naveen Bansal 6 50 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 51 Sankit Swami 6 52 Suraj Dahiya 6 53 Gaurav Sharma 6 54 Bhavyay Gupta 6 55 Jaiswal Prashant S 6 56 Mohit Kumar Soni 6 57 Rishabh Nishad 6 58 Choubey Saurabh 6 59 Namitbir Singh Walia 6 60 Bhavesh Mahajan 6 61 Gaikwad Vishal 6 62 Bhavik Ahuja 6 63 Mohan Singh Dewat 6 64 Jindal Aman 6 65 Sanjeevan Sarswat 6 66 Ayush Sharma 6 67 Harshiel Sehgal 6 68 Aryan 6 69 Aman Kumar 6 70 Love Jindal 6 71 Karan Veer Singh 6 72 Govind Kumar 6 73 Lasaroda Prince 6 74 Vispute Mayur 6 75 Dinesh Sinha 6 76 Shrivastava Aditi 6 77 Sahil Bheron 6 78 Vikas Bhatia 6 79 Deepak Singh 6 80 Giri Abhishek 6 81 Daaevik Wadhawan 6 82 Harbir 6 83 Abhishek Kumar Mishra 6 84 Saran Kumar Thakur 6 85 Deena Nath Mishra 6

86 Dinesh Kumar 6 87 Chirag Arora 6 88 Jai Saxena 6 89 Sabiuddin Baig 6 90 Ishvi Aggarwal 6 91 Parmod Kharbash 5½ 92 Jaspreet Singh 5½ 93 Gautam Sharma 5½ 94 Amanpreet Singh 5½ 95 Gill Tejinder Pal Singh 5½ 96 Siddhant Nath Jha 5½ 97 Aryan Garg 5½ 98 Kant Swapnil 5½ 99 Sinha Abhay Kumar 5½ 100 Dave Shiv Shankar 5½ 101 Kasar Prashant 5½ 102 Ankur Mehta 5½ 103 Malik Rajat 5½ 104 Surinder Singh 5½ 105 Rawat R.S. 5½ 106 Aanya Agarwal 5½ 107 Rahul Yadav 5½ 108 Kirti Kumar 5½ 109 Shubham Bhardwaj 5½ 110 Saini Ashutosh 5½ 111 Shiba Prasad Chakraborty 5½ 112 Sumeet Chorghade 5½ 113 Manas Mahajan 5½ 114 Sanpreet Singh 5½ 115 Chirag Tayal 5½ 116 Kapil Pawar 5½ 117 Aman Prakash 5½ 118 Shivang Gupta 5½ 119 Navya Tayal 5½ 120 Singh Dinesh Pratap 5½ 121 Singla Utsav 5½ 122 Tiya Setia 5½ 123 Virendra Singh 5½ 124 Kunal Sharma 5½ 125 Singh Harsimranjeet 5½ 126 Rishabh Chawla 5½ 127 Rajan Dhiman 5½ 128 Madhav Sharma 5½

129 Dhruv Shingari 5½ 130 Pramit Chanda 5½ 131 Chhabra Divya 5½ 132 Surajbhansingh Chandel 5½ 133 Sharma Aayush 5½ 134 Atul Saxena 5½ 135 Arora Nitish 5½ 136 Sulekh Kumar Malik 5½ 137 Suthar Pradip 5½ 138 Girotra Shiv 5½ 139 Krishnam Trikha 5½ 140 Parus Banota 5½ 141 Sahil Tickoo 5 142 Shrivastava Kushagra 5 143 Sukhjeet Singh Sivia 5 144 Rishi Sanotra 5 145 Ankur Chopra 5 146 Sonu Kumar 5 147 Bhushita Ahuja 5 148 Pankaj Arora 5 149 Arun Kumar 5 150 Jatin Sharma 5 151 Mohd. Arshi Khan 5 152 Vandit Behal 5 153 Gaurav Tiwari 5 154 Arjun Veer Singh 5 155 Aditya Srivastava 5 156 Aditya Jain 5 157 Singh Gurneet 5 158 Harne Mahesh 5 159 Kataria Deepak 5 160 Kakra Palav 5 161 Gagan 5 162 Ramendra Ranjan 5 163 Sharma Manoj 5 164 Karan Bajoria 5 165 Arun Prakash Tiwari 5 166 Singh Jeet 5 167 Lasani H Kothari 5 168 Goel Pratyaksh 5 169 Vaibhav Tiwari 5 170 Akash Tiwari 5 171 Ravi Kumar V 5

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Aadi International Open Rating Rapid Tournament 2017 was organized by Mandla District Chess Association

under the aegis of Madhya Pradesh Chess Association and All India Chess Federation on 16th and 17thSeptember 2017 at Indoor Stadium, Mandla.

The Total Number of participants were 83 which included GM R RLaxman and GM Sriram Jha participating in the event. The total tally of rated players was 52.

The tournament was inaugurated at the hands ofMrs. Purnima Shukla, Nagarpalika Head, Mandla. Other guests present on the dais were GM R RLaxman, GM Sriram Jha and IA Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter. After the inaugural function theTechnical meeting was arranged. All the tournament regulations were discussed and finalized in the meeting.

At the end of the event GM R.R.Laxman Stood as the Champion and GM Sriram Jha finished as the runner-up. The tournament saw tough competition.

The prize distribution function of Aadi In-ternational Open Rating Rapid Tournament 2017 was held on 17th September, 2017 at 1 pm at the venue. The Chief Guest for the occasion was Mr. Irshadvali, DIG, Bhalaghat. Mrs. Sufiya Faruki, Collector, Mandla, GM R.R. RLaxman, GM Sriram Jha and the Chief Arbiter IA Anurag Singh were present on the occasion.Final ranking: Rk Name Pts 1 GM Laxman R.R. 8

2 GM Sriram Jha 8 3 Tiwari Arjun 7 4 Awadh Chaitanya 7 5 Shukla Shishir 7 6 FM Gajwa Ankit 6½ 7 Kant Rupesh 6½ 8 Aishwin Daniel 6½ 9 Mishra Manoj 6½ 10 Saurabh Lokhande 6 11 Niklesh Kumar Jain 6 12 Ramendra Ranjan 6 13 Batham Avinash 6 14 Gupta Bhola Nath 6 15 Rajendra Singh 6 16 Sharma Vicky 6 17 Mishra Kamad 6 18 Ankur Khatri 6 19 Raghunandan Rohit 6 20 Alim Khan 5½ 21 AGM Sikka Sumit 5½ 22 Aditya Uday Kakpure 5½ 23 Rahul Wahane 5½ 24 Tiwari Shivansh 5½ 25 Rajendra Dhote 5½ 26 Vivekanand Yadav 5 27 Swapnil Raj 5 28 K Subham Kumar 5 29 Mandakani Mishra 5 30 Nilesh D Bande 5 31 Johney Mandal 5 32 Sajal Patel 5 33 Prakash Banskar 5 34 Ahirwar Aniket 5 35 Aggarwal Siddharth 5 36 Banskar Puranlal 5 37 Paarth Mundhra 5 38 D Jageshwar Prasad 5 39 Sharma Varun 4½ 40 Vishal Yadav 4½

Aadi International Open Rating Rapid Tournament 2017,Mandla

R.R.Laxman of ICF Winsby IA Anurag Singh,Chief Arbiter

5th Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat, TurkmenistanSasikiran wins Bronze

Sasikiran Krishnan is the only Indian to have won a medal in the Standard format of 5th Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Among other Indians, Surya Sekhar Ganguly finished in 9th position among Men whereas Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman secured 7th place and her compatriot Tania Sa-chdev secured 11th among women. In the open section, Le Quang Liem was crowned champion with 5½/7 points. Lu Shanglei tied, but was behind on tiebreak score. China's Tan Zhongyi, the Women's World Champion, left with a final score of 6.0/7 points and was crowned champion of the women's section.In the final round, Sasikiran faced IM Annaberdiev Meilis of Turkmenistan.

In an Italian Opening, Meilis gave no chances to Sasi to gain a full point and maybe score a different medal.

Asian Indoor Rapid: Bronze for Indians

Rapid Team category of the Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games commenced in the Chess Arena on Tuesday September 26. and India secured Bronze Medals in Men’s and Women’s section.

GM Sasikiran Krishnan made the nation proud by clinch-ing the Bronze medal in the Asian Indoor Individual Chess Championship. The youngsters made their mark in the Men’s U-23 Rapid Team category. In the final round, India drew eventual Gold Medalist Turkmenistan Team to seize the third spot.Karthikeyan Murali and Diptayan Ghosh were members of the team. In the Women’s Rapid Team section, IM Tania Sachdev and IM Padmini Rout tallied points with Vietnam for the third spot. The Chess Arena will host four Blitz Team events for medals on Wednesday 27 September, the final day of competition. The men’s Blitz Team, women’s Blitz Team, men’s Blitz Team U23, and women’s Blitz Team U23 will feature five rounds of blitz games (three minutes for each player, plus two seconds added for each completed move).The top-four finishing teams in each of the four events will play finals with both losing semi-final teams to receive bronze medals. India did not finish in the top four teams in Blitz event.

At the World Youth 2017 held in Montevideo, Uruguay, Andhra girl Jishitha D started off not so well in the under-14 girls section with 4.0/6. To add to her woes Bibisara Assaubaye-va was in her group. Bibisara is rated 2421 and is one of the biggest talents in the world of chess. But little did Jishitha care about rankings and numbers. She played some sublime chess to win her last five games, just like Abhijeet Gupta in 2008 World Junior

World Youth Chess Championships 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay

Jishitha brings back gold, Arjun and Sakshi bag silver

Jishitha receiving the gold medal

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1st Asian Chess Championship for disabled, Kyrgyzstan

First Asian Chess Championship for Disabled was inaugurated by the Kyrgyzstan National State Minister in the presence of Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, Vice President of Asian Chess Association on 15.09.2017 morning 10.00 am and the first round started at 12.00 noon. In this Champion-ship for Disabled three players from India participated IM Shashikant Kutwal and WIM K.Jennitha Anto played for the Physically Disabled Category and Malika Handa played in Deaf Category.

In the fifth round Jennitha Anto drew with Ostry Irina and they were leading in the Physically Disabled category with 4.5 points, Shashikant Kutwal won and got 4 points. In the sixth round Jennitha Anto met Shashikant Kutwal and won the round. The two ladies were leading the Physically Disabled category In the Last round Shashikant Kutwal won and became Winner of the Men section Physically Disabled category, But Jennitha Anto lost to Kyrgyzstan player and She got second place. Malika Handa won the last round and she got second place in the Deaf category.

Shashikant Kutwal won the Gold Medal with 5 points. Jennitha Anto got Sliver Medal scoring 5.5 points in the Physically Disabled category. Malika Handa got 4.5 points and got Sliver Medal in the Deaf category. On the whole our Indian Disabled Team done a great job.

Courtesy:chessbaseindia.com

Isle of Man was held in Villa Marina Hall, Douglas from 23rd September to 1st October.This event had a total cash prize of 133,000 GBP (Rs.1,15,92,842/-). This 9-day event started off with the highest number of Indian contingent–thirty! Five-time World C hampion Viswanathan Anand was heading the Indian charge.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen finished clear first with 7.5 points, drawing his games against GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Indian number 3 Vidit Gujrathi, and GM Hikaru Nakamura. Magnus finished with a performance rating of more than 2900. He went home richer with a cheque for £50,000. Interestingly, this is his first classical tournament win in 435 days. Not too long ago, his 2nd round exit from World Cup caused a splutter among chess players. A few critics have broached the topic of his retirement.

After three rounds, Anand was with 2.5 points and in the later rounds, he showed his class with a steady performance. Silencing his critics with his pieces, he scored 7 points out of 9 rounds and finished second ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura due to the better tiebreak score.The final round game against GM Hou Yifan was a true master class. Anand clearly knows how to close a tournament on a high note. Just a half-point behind Anand, GM Vidit Gujrathi had a great tournament. He drew his final round game against GM Richard Rapport and settled at the 8th spot. Notably, he held World Champion

Magnus Carlsen to a draw in the 7th round. Due to his performance, Vidit’s live rating soared to Elo 2721!

GM Swapnil Dhopade was the find of the tournament scoring 6.5/9 to finish twelfth on the tie-break for the third place. He scored a mind-boggling 2768 and was clearly in the form of his life. IM Harsha Bharatakoti surprised everyone with his magnificent performance. With a rating performance of 2693, he deservedly scored a Grandmaster norm. He played 9 Grandmasters, scoring three wins, four draws and only two losses IM Praggnanandhaa R. scored 5.5/9 points. His most notable victory was against British GM David Howell. rated 2701, which brought him great chances to score his first GM norm. However, he could not continue the momentum and we have to wait for another day for history to occur.IM Nihal Sarin missed his second GM norm by a whisker. He had to win the final round against GM Gabriel Sargissian (2652) of Armenia and pushed hard with a blistering attack, even though unsound. Unfortunately for him, the Armenian liquidated into a better opposite colored bishop ending a pawn up that should have been a draw, but a tired Nihal ended up losing.

Isle of Man: Anand silences the Naysayers

and clinched the gold medal in the under-14 girls section. Bibisara couldn't keep pace with Jishitha and was left panting at 8.5/11. And the quality of Jishitha's games was very high! Her penultimate round victory over sec-ond seed Nurgyul Salimova (2329) was nearly flawless.Arjun Erigiasi won the silver medal in under-14 open.

Saskshi Chitlange was second at the event scoring 9.0/11 and gaining 116 Elo points. Thus India came back with three medals: one gold and two silvers. As compared to the World Ca-dets, this was a very positive performance as in Brazil we had won only one medal in under-12 girls section by Divya Deshmukh.

Erigaisi Arjun receiving the silver medalSaskshi Chitlange receiving the silver medal

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It gives me immense pleasure in present-ing this report of 6 th Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017

organized by Rudreshwar Panaji underthe ae-gis of All India Chess Federation, Goa Chess Association and TiswadiTaluka Chess Asso-ciation. The tournament was held from 6 th Sept to 10 th Sept2017 at Institute Menenzes Braganza Hall Panaji Goa. All together 189 participants took part in this tournament from Maharashtra, Karnataka, MadhyaPradesh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Andra Pradesh, Telan-gana, which had 2 IM’s 1FM, 1 CM, 1 AGM, 1 AIM, 1 AFM.There were all together 25 main prizes ,apart from category prizes from U-7 to U-15 Boys. Total prize fund was Rs 2 lacks.

FM Sauravh Khardekar of Maharashtra won the tournament by scoring 8.5points from 9 rounds, IM Ramnathan Balasubramanian of Tamil Nadu stood second with 7.5 points while Ameya Audi of Goa Stood 3 rd with 7.5 points.The conduct of all the players re-mained excellent throughout thetournament and there was no dispute or any protest. Tournament waswell organized. Organizers had provided AC tournament Hall to play. They provided tea , snacks and water to the players and parents during the rounds and proper sitting arrangements were done for parents too.

Shri Yatin Parekh ( Ex-Mayor Corporation of Panaji) , Chief Guest forthe Opening ceremo-ny inaugurated the tournament by lighting thetraditional lamp and making the 1 st move on the board with Shri AkashTimblo ( Execu-tive Director of Fomento Group of Company), Shri RajeshTarkar ( President Rudreshwar

Panaji),Shri Arvind Mhamal ( ChiefArbiter), Shri Sangam Chodankar ( Sports Secretary Rudreshwar Panaji)and other office bearers of Rudreshwar Panaji.At the closing ceremo-ny Dr Ashwini Kumar ( Scientist at Malaria ResearchCenter Panaji) was the Chief Guest and gave away the prizes in the presence of Mr Avduth Timblo ( Fomento Group of Com-panies) ,Shri Kishor Bandekar (Treasurer AICF & Secretary GCA), Dnyaneshwar Naik ( Tournament Director), Arvind Mhamal (Chief Arbiter) , Dipak Amonkar, Dattaram Pinge, Tanay Kaisary, Balakrishnan V, Satish Narvekar (Secretary Rudreshwar Panaji) ,Sangam Chodankar, and other office bearers of RudreshwarPanaji.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 8½ 2 IM R.Balasubramaniam 7½ 3 Audi Ameya 7½ 4 Verma Rahul 7 5 Sibi Visal R 7 6 Joy Lazar M.A. 7 7 Arvind Shastry 7 8 Anilkumar O.T. 7 9 Mraduhas Tripathi 7 10 Kochrekar Vishwesh 7 11 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 6½ 12 Marthandan K U 6½ 13 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 6½ 14 Kapadi Yash 6½ 15 Hari R Chandran 6½ 16 Habib Qureshi Raaz 6½ 17 Gaude Sachin 6½ 18 Mithil Anande P 6 19 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 6 20 Shree Krishna Pranama 6 21 Anvesh Bandekar 6

Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Panaji,Goa

Suaravh Khardekar wins titleby FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter

Carlsen,Magnus (2827)Vidit,Santosh Gujrathi (2702) [A07]

IoM Masters Douglas ENG (7.1), Annotated by Sagar Shah

1.Nf3 This move came as a bit of a surprise for Vidit, but in general he was expecting Magnus to play something off beat. 1...d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.0–0 [4.d4 In order to avoid what happened in the game, White players usually go for this move order.] 4...e5 I like Vidit's decision. He gets the centre and easy development. Magnus has to decide how he can make use of the extra tempo in this op-posite coloured King's Indian Defence. 5.d3 Ne7 6.e4 [6.c4 is another way to play the position.] 6...0–0 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Re1 Nc6

Black has excellent development and I would say has already equalized out of the open-ing. 9.Nc3 [9.Nbd2 with the idea of Nc4 to put more pressure on e5 is more logical it seems.] 9...Nde7 10.Rb1 a5 11.b3 Re8 12.Bb2 Nf5 13.Nb5 With this move Vidit got the counterplay flowing with the move a5-a4. [13.a4 could have been a slightly better possibility for White. Although Black seems to be perfectly fine here as well.] 13...a4 14.c4 [14.b4!? Nxb4 15.Bxe5!] 14...axb3 15.axb3 Nd6!

This was the move that Vidit liked very much and after this he did feel that Black had a very comfortable position. It is counter-in-tuitive that instead of using the d4 square from f5, the knight jumped back to d6. But the priority was to eliminate the knight from b5. 16.Ra1?! This move really gives Black a very pleasant position. [16.Nc3 Bg4 17.h3 Bxf3 18.Bxf3 Nd4= /=+] 16...Rxa1 17.Bxa1 Nxb5 18.cxb5 Nd4 White has nothing to show for his mangled pawn structure. 19.Bxd4 [19.Nxd4 exd4 20.Rxe8+ Qxe8] 19...exd4 20.Rxe8+ Qxe8 21.Qc1 Until now Vidit has played all the best moves but now starts going wrong. He feels that Bd7 is the best move and goes for it. But in that process he exchanges his pretty good c7 pawn with White's weak b5 pawn. White's disadvantage is reduced. 21...Bd7?! [21...Bf5! 21...Qe7!] 22.Qxc7 Bxb5 23.Bf1 Bc6 24.Qf4 Bxf3 [24...Qd8 Maybe on some other ambitious day Vidit would have played this way. But in general he saw that he could easily make a draw by taking on f3, and went for it.] 25.Qxf3= Qc6 26.Qd1 b6 27.Bg2 Qe6 28.Bb7 Bf8 29.Qf3 Kg7 30.Qf4 Qf6 31.Qxf6+ A draw against the World Champion and that took with the black pieces, is a great achievement. ½–½

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22 AGM Sikka Sumit 6 23 Jinan Jomon 6 24 Tanvi V Hadkonkar 6 25 Aswin.P.G 6 26 Shirodkar Aayush 6 27 Shalon Joanne Pais 6 28 Suhas B. Asnodkar 6 29 Afinu Shifan M 6 30 Thorat Sanjay 6 31 Priyanka Bhatt 6 32 Kevin Peter Gonsalves 6 33 Manodhya Prakrati 6 34 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6 35 Madhavan G 6 36 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 37 Konatham Snehil 5½ 38 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 5½ 39 Karthik Raj 5½ 40 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 5½ 41 Audi Saiesh 5½ 42 Sharath R Shanbhag 5½ 43 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5½ 44 AFM Naik Sayuri 5½ 45 Avaneeshwar Guin 5½ 46 Kakodkar Joy 5½ 47 Nikhil Murugkar 5½ 48 Jadhav Ravindranath 5½ 49 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5½ 50 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5½ 51 Chirag Mudraje 5 52 Vinod Verma 5 53 Roshan Abendhra R 5 54 Swayam Naik 5 55 Athalye Varad 5 56 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5 57 Sachin Kakodkar 5 58 Pratik S Borkar 5 59 Anupam M Sreekumar 5 60 Pednekar Balkrishna 5 61 Subramanian T.V. 5 62 Prasanna Swamy 5 63 Kulkarni Anandrao 5 64 Parab Sneh 5 65 Netra P Savaikar 5 66 Paarth P Salvi 5

67 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 5 68 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5 69 Shreyas Shashi Kumar 5 70 Mahith Greesham Goud 5 71 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5 72 Nagvekar Sairudra 5 73 Manchekar Ravindra 5 74 Avathanshu Bhat 5 75 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5 76 Kunal Naik 5 77 Charuta J Shetye 5 78 Pednekar Sagar 5 79 Girija A Pednekar 5 80 Prashant Salvi 5 81 Sawant Sanskruti 5 82 Sainee N F Dessai 5 83 Devesh Anand Naik 4½ 84 Bir Yogesh Pai 4½ 85 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4½ 86 Siva Swamy V. 4½ 87 Kakodkar Love 4½ 88 Naik Vedant Sabaji 4½ 89 Sankarshana Goli 4½ 90 Akhil Naik 4½ 91 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 4½ 92 Ashwini Koteshwara 4½ 93 Aarush Pandey 4½ 94 Taufeeq S. Mohammed 4½ 95 Namesh Milesh Churi 4½ 96 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 4½ 97 Ved Narvekar 4½ 98 Ramesh Murugesan 4½ 99 Saidas D Fotto 4½ 100 Dutt B.S. 4½ 101 Lad Mandar Pradip 4½ 102 Skandhaj Kotha 4½ 103 Shubh Kalangutkar 4½ 104 Tanay Agarwadekar 4½ 105 Asmita Avijit Ray 4½ 106 Ganesh Bhaskar Mhamal 4 107 Shetti Ameya 4 108 Porob Naguesh Rama 4 109 Shlok Dhulapkar 4 110 Pawan Kumar 4 111 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 4

3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tourna-ment was conducted from 27.09.2017 to 02.10.2017.Organizers provided

good playing Hall and accommodation fa-cilities to players. The tournament was inaugurated by PMJF LN Mr. Anbu. District Lions Club International.FM Maheswaran.P (2245) topped the starting list of 80 players of the tournament, The tournament went on smoothly without any complaints.

Maheswaran was on top of form right from the first round. He was unbeaten and drew in rounds 7 & 9 with mohankumar and sathiya-raj respectively. He maintained his sole lead from round 5 with a margin of 1 point ahead of the others. There was no notable play from any of the other players..Maheswaran won with 8 points became title holder followed by Mohankumar, Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi, Sathiyaraj, with 7 points.

Prize Distribution started by 4 p.m on 2nd Oc-tober 2017 .Guest of Honour Mr. Swamy Ln. Sudhagar Thichikar addressed the gathering along with Lions club members. Ln. T. Sun-dar Ganesh Prop. Pachaiyappas Silks,Ln. S. Magesh, President Kanchi Chess Acadamy,Ln. Kamal Kishore. DC,Ln. Club International Ln. Poornachandran Cab-inet Secretray gave away the prizes.I thank AICF for giving me an opportunity to serve as Chief Arbiter for the 3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Maheswaran P. 8 2 Mohan Kumar 7

3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kancheepuram

Maheswarn wins titleBy Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter

3 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 7 4 Sathiyaraj S 7 5 Raghul Saro S 6½ 6 George Daniel 6½ 7 Badrinarayanan N 6 8 Dharani Kumar M S 6 9 Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy 6 10 Sakthi Subash A S 6 11 Arjun Vasudevan 6 12 Kharunya C.S. 6 13 Shyam Ganesh R 6 14 Abinesh T 6 15 Subramanian T.V. 6 16 Madhavan M 6 17 Madhavan R Munjanattu 6 18 Gangasha H 6 19 Adithya Ramesh 5½ 20 Sivaprakasam V 5½ 21 Pon Balaji N 5½ 22 Jeevan Kumar S 5½ 23 Farris Mohammed S J 5 24 Midilesh Ms 5 25 Suthesan V J 5 26 Vikraanth S 5 27 Selvaraj Mahendran 5 28 Pragadeesh Kumar L D 5 29 Praveen Kumar Sentamilselvan 5 30 Srivat Raj R 5 31 Vasantha Rajan v 5 32 Mohana Priya V 5 33 Dhanabala Bhoopathy T V 5 34 Sudharsan Parthiban 5 35 Tamilarasi A 5 36 Dheepak S 5 37 Ratan Gandhi S 4½ 38 Hariharan N 4½ 39 Sabarish Parthiban 4½ 40 Thirupathyraj P 4½ 41 Srinath Ramakrishnan 4½

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T.V.Arunachalam Shivaa of Coimbatore won the KKCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament with a score of 7.0

points from 8 rounds. Around 260 entries mostly from Southern States have partici-pated in this event. A prize pool of Rs.3 lakh has been allotted for main prizes and various ELO categories. 60+ plus trophies were given to encourage young talents also.

Phoobalan of ICF was the top seed followed by S S Manigandan of Madurai and A Mu-thuswamy of Salzer Electronics Ltd, Coim-batore. When Phoobalan lost to Shreyas of Coimbatore in the 5th round the race for the standing became wide open. Shreyas drew with Manigandan in the 6th round,meanwhile Arunachalam Shivaa outplayed Mohith to take the sole lead with 5.5 points.

A win in the 7th round against Shreyas and safe draw in the 8th final round against Vi-gneshwaran S made Arunachalam Shivaa, champion of the event. In a eight way tie in 6.5 points Phoobalan finished runner up on better tie break scores followed by S S Manigandan on third spot. The prizes were distributed by Mr N Jayabal, President, CDCA, Owners of the Venue and Office bearers of Kovai Kids Chess Academy.Final Ranking: Rk. Name Pts. 1 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 72 Phoobalan P. 6.53 Manigandan S S 6.54 Uma Maheswaran P 6.55 Shreyas M 6.56 Anilkumar O.T. 6.57 Jinan Jomon 6.5

8 Vigneshwaran S 6.59 Aswin.P.G 6.510 Mani Bharathy 611 Roshan S 612 Harshad S 613 Joy Antony 614 Midhun Kumar M A 615 Siva Shanmugam S 616 Iniyan Sivakumar 617 Muthuswamy A. 618 Thoufeeq S 619 Nirmal L 620 Raman R. 621 Anand Selvarajan 622 Muthu P 623 Ajay D 624 Vinod Kumar M. 5.525 Rutherford S 5.526 Dhanasekar K. 5.527 Rohan Anand 5.528 Aji Kumar A 5.529 Kavin K 5.530 Sivashankar M 5.531 Emmanuel Austin B 5.532 Rajkumar S 5.533 Jayasangar T 5.534 Nived Sreesobh 5.535 Nithin A V 5.536 Sriram K 5.537 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 5.538 Jayaprakash M 5.539 Muthukrishnan S 5.540 S. Selvarajan 5.541 Muthu Palaniappan P L 542 Vishnu Ram M 543 John Veny Akkarakarn 544 Aakash G 545 Sivaa G M 546 Aadarsh Kumar M E 547 Sivaneshan V 5


Arunachalam Shivaa is Championby V Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter

55th National Challengers Ch. Ahmedabad Ahmedabad , 2017Annotated by IM Manuel AaronDas,Debashis (2493) Das,Arghyadip (2419) [B44]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Be7 9.Be2 b6 10.0–0 Bb7 11.Be3 0–0 12.Qd2 Ne5 13.f3 Qc7 14.Rac1 Rac8 15.Rfd1 Ned7 16.Bf1 Qb8 Black's strategy in this Opening would be to break out of white's grip on the centre by playing either ....b5 or ...d5. And naturally, white would try to thwart such black attempts. 17.Kh1 Rfe8 18.Nc2 h5 [M.Solleveld 2396 vs Sofia Polgar 2500, Dutch Championship, 2000, went: 18...d5 19.cxd5 exd5 20.Bf4 Bd6 21.Bxd6 Qxd6 22.Ne3 Rcd8 23.Ncxd5 Nxd5 24.Nxd5 Ne5 25.Qg5± [%emt 0:00:46] 1–0] 19.Bf2 Ne5 20.b3 Ba8 [Better was: 20...Nfd7 21.Be2 Red8=] 21.Nb4 Qb7 22.Nd3 Qb8?! [The idea of pulling back the queen immediately to where it was the previous move, is a bit jarring. Better was 22...Red8 ] 23.Nxe5 dxe5 24.Na4 Rcd8 [More logical was 24...Red8 as the Re8 has no future on the e-file.] 25.Qe1 Rxd1 26.Rxd1 b5 27.Nb6±

Diagram # White has a majority of pawns on the queen-side and aims to create a passed pawn to decide the game. Black on the other

hand has more pawns on the king-side but he has doubled pawns on the e-file which are not effective at all. 27...Bc6 28.cxb5 Bxb5 29.Bxb5 axb5 30.a4! bxa4 31.bxa4 Rd8 32.Rb1! Qc7 33.a5 Bc5 34.Qc1! At one stroke, white exchanges off the queens and bishops to reach a simple rook and knight ending with an outside passed pawn on the a-file. 34...Bxb6 35.Bxb6 Qxc1+ 36.Rxc1 Ra8 37.Rd1 Kh7 38.Rd8 Ra6

Diagram # [38...Rxd8 39.Bxd8 Nd7 (or 39...Ne8 40.a6 Nd6 41.a7 wins.) 40.a6 Nc5 41.a7+-] 39.Kg1! The white king is em-barking on a long journey to b5 to capture the black rook alive The king is embarking on a long journey to b5 to capture alive the imprisoned black rook on a6. 39...g5 40.Kf2 g4 41.Ke3 h4 42.fxg4 Obviously, white has calculated this extensively. 42...Nxg4+ 43.Kd3 Nxh2 44.Kc4 Ng4 45.Kb5+- Dia-gram # 1–0

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Deepan,Chakkravarthy J (2466) Sat-yapragyan,Swayangsu (2410) [C91]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0 9.d4 Bg4 10.d5 Na5 11.Bc2 Qc8 12.h3 Bd7 13.Nbd2 c6 14.b4 Nb7 15.dxc6 Qxc6 16.Bb2 a5 17.a3 Be6N 18.Bd3 Rfb8 19.Qe2 Nd8 20.Ng5 Bd7 21.Nb3 h6! 22.Nf3 a4 23.Na5 Qc8 24.c4! slowly white is coming out with his aggressive plans. 24...Ne6 25.Bc1 Preventing ....Nf4 is important. 25...Bd8 26.cxb5 Bxa5= 27.bxa5 Rxa5 28.Bd2 Diagram #

28...Raxb5! [Black is looking for adven-ture. Simpler was: 28...Raa8 29.Rab1 Nc5 30.Rb4=] 29.Bxb5 Bxb5 30.Qe3 Bc6 31.Rac1 Qa6 32.Bb4 Bxe4 33.Red1

33...Bd5?! This is an unusual way of defend-ing his d6 pawn by masking it. Better was the

simpler 33.. ..Rd8 34.Kh2 Rd8 35.Nxe5?! dxe5 36.Be7 Rd7 37.Bxf6 gxf6 38.Qxh6 Nf8 39.Rc3 Diagram #

39...Rd6? [This lands him in a deadly pin. He could get out of his difficulties with: 39...Ng6! 40.h4 Qa8! 41.Rg3 Qf8! 42.Qxf8+ Kxf8 43.h5 Nf4 44.h6 Ng6 45.Rgd3 Ne7 46.Rg3 Ng6=] 40.Rcd3! [After 40.Rcd3 Qc6 41.Qd2 the bishop is lost.] 1–0

Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2277)Nitin,S (2421) [E73]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Be3 Na6 7.g4 Such attacking play gets nowhere when black has cas-tled on the king-side and has no objects of attack. 7...c5 8.d5 e6 9.g5 Ne8 10.h4 exd5 11.cxd5 b5!? Diagram # [S. Wil-liams 2466 vs C.Hanley 2397 in the 2004 British Ch. took a spectacular course and ended in check mate in just 34 moves: 11...f5 12.gxf6 Nxf6 13.e5?! dxe5 14.d6 Bf5³ 15.Nf3 Nb4 16.Rc1 e4 17.Ne5?! Qe8µ 18.Nb5 Qxe5–+ 19.Rxc5 Nfd5 20.Bd4 Qe6 21.Rc7 Nd3+! 22.Qxd3 Nxc7 23.Qc2 Nxb5! 24.Bc4 Nxd4! 25.Bxe6+ Bxe6 26.Qxe4 Rae8 27.0–0 Rf4! 28.Qxb7 Rg4+ 29.Kh1 Rxh4+ 30.Kg2 Bh3+! 31.Kg3 Nf5+ 32.Kf3 Bh6! 33.d7 Rf4#]

12.Bxb5 Qa5 13.Nge2 Rb8 14.a4 There seems to be no alternative to White clinging on to his extra pawn. Unfortunately he has to castle on the king-side where he has advanced his pawns injudiciously and aggressively early in the game in a show of attack. 14...Bg4! 15.Bd2 Nb4 16.0–0 Bf3 17.Bf4 a6 18.Bc4 Qd8 19.Kh2 f6! This opening of the f-file for black gives his forces a great advantage in the assault on the white king. 20.Qd2 fxg5 21.Bxg5 Qd7 22.Rg1 Be5+ 23.Nf4 Nc2! This tactically exploits the need of the white queen to stay supporting his knight on f4. 24.Rac1 Nd4 25.Rg3 Diagram #

25...Ng7! Black is skilfully coordinating his pieces to dominate the white forces. 26.Rcg1 Qf7 27.Ne6 Nh5 28.Kh3 [If 28.Nxf8 Nxg3 29.Rxg3 Bxg3+ 30.Kxg3 Rxf8–+] 28...Nxg3 29.fxg3 Qd7 Maximises the powers of his queen and Rf8 and threatens his final inva-sion. 30.g4 Rf7 [30...h5 31.gxh5 Bxh5–+

for the killing 32....Nf3!] 31.Bxa6

(Position after 31….Nxe6)[White has run out of patience and captures an inconsequential pawn on the queen-side while the battle rages on in the king-side. Better, though still losing, was: 31.Bh6 Rb4 32.b3 Nxb3 33.Qd3 Na5 34.Bxa6 Qa7–+ threatening 35...c4! attacking the queen and the Rg1.] 31...Nxe6 Diagram #[After 31...Nxe6! 32.dxe6 Qxe6 33.Bh6 (to prevent 33...h5) 33...Bxg4+! 34.Rxg4 Rf3+! wins.]0–1

Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2579) Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2516) [E05]1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bg2 0–0 6.0–0 dxc4 7.Ne5 Nc6 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.Na3 Bxa3 10.bxa3 Nd5 11.Qa4 Nb6 12.Qa5 Bb7 [Earlier in a 1995 game from Europe, 12...Rb8 had been played, the game ending drawn. Significantly, in that game too, black did not part with the extra pawn on c4 without a fight!] 13.Rd1 Qc8 14.e4 Rd8 15.Be3 Ba6 Black emphazises that the c4 pawn will stay and be a constant pain for white! 16.a4 [To prevent .. .Bb5. After this, his a4 pawn requires protection. Better was 16.Rab1 Bb5 17.Rdc1 Though black is a pawn up, white is still slightly better. Keeping the black minor forces tied up on the queen-side, white should invent a plan using his two bishops to attack on the king-side where the black king is alone.] 16...Bb7 17.Rdc1 Rd7?! 18.Rab1 Qf8 19.h4 [White

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Annotated by IM Manuel AaronAnnotated by IM Manuel Aarongets a pronounced advantage after 19.Qc5! [%emt 0:00:20] to be followed by a5] 19...Qa3 20.h5 h6 Diagram #

21.Bf3? [He must go for an all-out attack with: 21.g4 Qxa2 22.g5 hxg5 23.Qxg5 Qxa4 24.h6 f6 25.Qg4 Re8 26.Qg6 Rde7 with a crushing attack.] 21...Bc8 22.Bd1 Qd6 23.Bc2 f6 24.Bf4! Qe7 [24...Qxd4?? 25.Rd1 traps the queen.] 25.Be3 Rd8 26.Rd1 [26.f4!? could either be the start of a grand and successful attacking plan or the opening up of his position for a black counter-attack. Such positions should be explored alone, at home.] 26...Re8 27.f4 f5 28.Re1! fxe4 29.Bxe4 Nd5 30.Bf2?! [Preserving his dark square bishop was not his best option. He should at-tack the c-pawn with: 30.Rbc1] 30...Rd8 [30...c3=] 31.Re2= [slightly better was 31.Rbc1 ] 31...Qa3! 32.Bg6= [Not 32.Bxd5? cxd5 33.Qxc7 Bd7µ Black has a more compact king position.] 32...Qf3 33.Rbe1 Bd7 34.Qc5 Qg4 Threat 35.... Nxf4. 35.Kh2 Diagram #

35...c3! This pawn on c3, in combination with its knight, is nearly winning the game for black. Though the pawn on c3 cannot further advance, black has the attacking possibility with Rd8-f8-xf4! We are told to avoid doubled pawns. But here we have a case where tripled pawns create so much havoc to the opposition. The two bishops of white are a sorry mess. One of them has to do nothing but defend the h5 pawn while the other, being a bad bishop hemmed in by its own pawns, has to defend itself. 36.Be4 White decides to exchange off his pawn on h5 for black's c3 as well as his active white square bishop for the dominating knight on d5. How-ever, this has a flip side. This operation unlocks the shackled black bishop on d7 which enters the game with deadly effect. 36...Qxh5+ 37.Kg2 Qg4 [A strong alternative was: 37...Rdb8 38.Bxd5 exd5 39.Qxc3 Bf5! is nearly winning for black.] 38.Bxd5 exd5 39.Qxc3 Bf5! 40.Qxc6 Be4+ 41.Rxe4 dxe4 42.Rxe4 Qd7! Having won the exchange, black would now try to simplify his winning process by exchanges. 43.Qc4+ Qd5! 44.Qxd5+ Rxd5 45.Re7 Rc8 46.Kf3 Ra5 47.g4 Rxa4 48.f5 Ra3+ 49.Kf4 Rxa2 50.Bh4 [If 50.Bg3 c5 51.d5 Rd8! wins the d-pawn.] 50...Ra5 51.Ke4 Ra2 52.Kf4 Ra5 53.Ke4 Ra2 54.Kf4 Rf8 55.Rxc7 Diagram #

[If 55.Ke3 Rf7! 56.Re8+ Kh7 White has no hopes left.] 55...g5+!! A neat fin-ishing touch! White's f-pawn is pinned. 56.Bxg5 hxg5+ 57.Kxg5 Ra6 [57...Rf7!] 58.d5 Rf7 59.Rc8+ Kg7 60.Rd8 Rff6 61.Rd7+ Rf7 62.Rd8 Rff6 63.Rd7+ Kf8! 64.Rc7 Rfd6! 65.Rc5 Ke7 66.Kf4 Ra4+ 67.Kg5 Rd4! 68.Rc7+ Rd7 69.Rc6 R7xd5 70.Re6+ Kf7 71.Rf6+ Kg7 72.Rg6+ Kf7 73.Rf6+ Ke7 74.Re6+ Kf8 75.Rf6+ Ke8 76.Re6+ Kd8 77.Ra6 Rd7 78.f6 Ke8 79.Kh5 R4d6! 0–1

Chakravarthi Reddy M (2277) Kunte Abhijit (2505) [A70]1.d4 c5 2.d5 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.e4 Nf6 6.Nc3 0–0 7.Bd3 Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Nbd7 10.Qe2 e6 11.0–0 exd5 12.cxd5 a6 13.a4 Re8 14.Bf4 Ne5 15.Bc2 Rc8N [In a 1998 Lvov CC game 15...Nfd7 was played and black won a nice game.] 16.Bh2 c4 17.a5 Rc5=

This is a good move, but not a winning move as black probably thought. The threat to his a5 pawn induces white to take an unwise decision that leads to his eventual defeat. Better was: 18.f4?! [18.Ra4! Rxa5 19.Bxe5 Rxe5 20.Rxa5 Qxa5 21.Qxc4=] 18...Ned7 19.Kh1 Diagram #

[The unfortunate position of the white queen on e2, in a semi-open file, under the X-ray effect of the Re8, is ready for exploitation by black. Both 19....Nxe4 and 19....Nxd5 are threatened. If here 19.Bg3 Nxe4 20.Bxe4 Bxc3 21.bxc3 f5³ 22.Qb2 Rb5 23.Qa3 fxe4 24.Qxd6 Nc5! leads to a winning endgame for black.]19...Nxe4! 20.Nxe4 f5 21.Bg1 Rc8! 22.Ra4 fxe4 23.f5! [The best way to fight back. If 23.Rxc4 Rxc4 24.Qxc4 Qxa5 25.b4 Qa3 26.Bxe4 (26.Bd4 Nf6 threat, 27....Nh5.) 26...Qc3! 27.Rc1 Qxc4 28.Rxc4 b5!] 23...Nf6 24.fxg6 hxg6 25.Bb6! Qe7 26.Rxc4= White has recovered his pawn to reach a fairly level game. 26...Nh5! Black finds ways to keep his initiative alive. 27.Bf2 The only move to stop to stop...Ng3 27...Rxc4 28.Qxc4 Qe5

Diagram # [The game has almost levelled out. If 28...Bxb2 29.Re1 Qf6 30.Kg1=] 29.Re1? [This loses quickly. A prolonged fight back

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronwas offered by: 29.Be1! Ng3+ 30.Bxg3 Qxg3 31.Qa4 Re7 32.Bxe4 Be5 33.Kg1 Qh2+ 34.Kf2 Bg3+ 35.Ke3 Qxg2! 36.Qc4 Qxb2µ and the signs are good for black.] 29...Qf4!–+ 30.Be3 [This leads to a quick finish. He could fight longer with: 30.Rxe4 Rxe4 31.Qxe4 Qxf2 32.Qe6+ Qf7 33.Bxg6 Ng3+ 34.Kh2 Nf1+ 35.Kg1 Bd4+ 36.Kh1 Qxe6 37.dxe6 Kf8=] 30...Qg3! 31.Qb4 Be5 32.Bg1 Qf4 [Stronger was: 32...Qh4! 33.Re3 Ng3+ 34.Rxg3 Bxg3 and black should win.] 33.Re3

Diagram # 33...Rc8! [White had been hoping to fight the game the exchange down with: 33...Ng3+ 34.Rxg3 Qxg3 35.Qxe4; however, after 33...Rc8! 34.Qxe4 Ng3+ 35.Rxg3 Qxe4 36.Bxe4 Bxg3 37.Bxg6 Rc1 the threat of 38...Bf2 wins an additional bishop.] 0–1

Gomes,Mary Ann (2344) Deepan,Chak-kravarthy J (2466) [A05]The champion of this tournament, GM Deepan Chakkravarthy, lost two games on the way to the title. One was to FM Fenil Shah of Gu-jarat and the other was to WGM Mary Ann Gomes of Kolkata. Gomes had continuously won the National Women's Championship three years in a row from 2011 to 2013. On the other hand Deepan is yet to win the National Premier though he came very very close to winning it on two occasions. This is a tenacious win by the Kolkata WGM. She

was lost in the opening, but gradually with a determined effort, turned the tables on her Tamil Nadu adversary. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5 3.Bg2 Bb7 4.c4 bxc4 5.Na3N [This does not seem to be an improvement over the old game, L.Smejkal 2130 vs D.Efler 2175, Czech Ch. 2000 which went: 5.Qa4 e6 6.Qxc4 c5 7.d3 d5 8.Qb3 Qb6 9.Qxb6 axb6 10.Bf4 Be7 .... Black won on move 51.] 5...e5! With this move, black proves that white's novelty is of dubious value. Just watch how he makes the white knights dance to his tune! 6.Nxc4 e4! 7.Nd4 [7.Nfe5 Qe7 8.0–0 d6 9.Qa4+ c6 10.Nxd6+ Qxd6 11.Nxf7 Kxf7 12.Qb3+ Nd5 13.Qxb7+ Nd7 14.Bxe4 (14.Qxa8?? Qc7! threatening to trap the queen with N7b6!) 14...Be7 15.Qb3³ Black has a knight for three pawns.] 7...c5 [To be considered was: 7...d5 ] 8.Nf5 d5 9.Qb3 Ba6 10.Qa4+ Qd7 [If 10...Nfd7 11.d3! dxc4 12.Bxe4!+- The almost mag-ical opening of the long white diagonal is devastating.] 11.Ncd6+ Bxd6 12.Nxd6+ Kf8 13.Qxd7 Nbxd7 14.a4 This is to block the black bishops control over e2. It is al-most forced as white cannot castle without losing her e-pawn. 14...Ne5 15.b3 Rb8 16.Ba3 [White opts for aggressive defence and places her bishop on the same diagonal as the black king. If 16.Rb1 Rb6 17.Nf5 Nc4 18.Rf1 g6 19.Ne3 Kg7 20.f3 Nxe3 21.dxe3 Rhb8µ] 16...Nfd7 17.d4 exd3 Diagram #

[If 17...cxd4?! 18.Nxe4+ Kg8 19.Nc5 Nxc5 20.Bxc5 Rxb3 21.Bxd5 Rb2 22.Bxd4 Rxe2+ 23.Kd1+- White's rooks are ready to spring into action at one move's notice whereas the Rh8 would take ages to see the light of day.] 18.Bxd5 dxe2 19.Nb5 Bxb5 20.axb5 Rxb5 21.Kxe2 Ke7= 22.f4! Nf6 [Better was: 22...Ng6 ] 23.Bc4! Nxc4 24.bxc4 Rb3? [This leads to a certain defeat. Bet-ter was: 24...Ra5 25.Bb4! Rxa1 26.Bxc5+ Ke6 27.Rxa1 Rc8 28.Ra6+ Kf5 29.Ra5 Kg4 30.Bxa7!±] 25.Bxc5+ Kd7 26.Rxa7+ Kc6 27.Bd4! Re8+ 28.Kd2 Ne4+ 29.Kc2 Rb4 Diagram

30.Rha1 [Still stronger was to force a de-cision with: 30.Rb1! Rxc4+ 31.Kd3 Kd5 32.Rb5+ Nc5+ 33.Rxc5+ Rxc5 34.Bxc5 Kxc5 35.Rxf7+-] 30...Nc5 31.Bxc5! Kxc5 32.Rc7+ Kb6 33.Raa7 [After 33.Rxf7 Rxc4+ 34.Kd3 Rc6 35.Rb1+ Ka6 36.Kd4 Ree6 37.Rxg7 Rcd6+ 38.Kc4 Rc6+ 39.Kb3 Rb6+ 40.Ka2 Re2+ 41.Ka1 Rxh2± with still a lot of play left.] 33...Rxc4+ 34.Rxc4 Kxa7 35.Rc7+ Kb6 36.Rxf7 g5!? 37.fxg5 Re2+ 38.Kd3 Rxh2 39.Ke3 Kc6 40.Rf8 Kd6 41.Re8! Rh1 42.Kf4 Kd7 43.Re3 Kd6 Diagram # 44.g6!! This quickly leads to the winning Lucena position for white. 44...hxg6 45.Kg5 Rh3 46.Kxg6 Kd7 47.Kf6 Kd8 48.Kf5 Kd7 49.Kf4 Rh8 50.Re5 Rf8+

51.Rf5 Rg8 52.g4 Ke7 53.g5 Rg7 54.Kg4 Rh7 55.g6 Rh1 56.Kg5 Rh2 57.g7 Rg2+ 58.Kh6 Rh2+ 59.Kg6 Rg2+ 60.Kh7 Rh2+ 61.Kg8

(Position after 43….Kd6)This is the Lucena position. 61...Rh1 62.Rf7+ Ke8 63.Rf4 Re1 64.Rh4 [64.Rh4 Rg1 65.Re4+ Kd7 66.Kf7 Rf1+ 67.Kg6 Rg1+ 68.Kf6 Rf1+ (68...Rg2 69.Re5!) 69.Kg5 Rg1+ 70.Rg4+-] 1–0

Lalith,Babu M R (2529) Himanshu,Shar-ma (2514) [D78]

This is one of the great games from this Championship in Ahmedabad. Almost from the opening, white's isolated a-pawn seems to be doomed and the black forces circle around it. By the 35th move, the pawn is completely encircled and attacked by a queen, rook, knight and bishop. White how-ever sees that while the entire black force is concentrated on the queen-side over a matter of a pawn, the black king was defenceless on the king-side. Like a vintage Marodona move forcing through the wings towards goal with a host of defenders left behind, the white queen moves to the king-side with the bulk of black defenders sitting hopelessly on the queen-side after consuming the a-pawn. Incredibly, it is all over in another six moves! The many mates that come up in the end are worth

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronsavoring and worth calculating for yourself! Enjoy this game! 1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 c6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 g6 5.d4 Bg7 6.0–0 0–0 7.Qb3 Qb6 8.c5 Qd8N [8...Qxb3 was played in the World Op 40' Rapid by G.Zaichik (2540) against E.McHugh in 1996.] 9.Bf4 Nbd7 10.Nc3 b6 11.cxb6 axb6 12.Rfc1 Ba6= 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 e6 Diagram #

[Black could unleash unbelievable compli-cations with: 14...Bh6!? 15.e3 Nd7! 16.Bf4 g5!? 17.Nxd5!? gxf4 18.Rxc6 Bg7 19.Nxf4 Bb7 20.Rc2 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 and an uneasy equality prevails with black having a bishop for three pawns. The outcome is unclear.] 15.e3 Nd7 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.a4 Qe7 18.Qd1 Qb4 19.b3 White methodically drives away the intruding queen. 19...Rfc8 20.Na2 Qd6 21.b4 Bc4 22.Rcb1 c5 23.bxc5 bxc5 24.Nc3 Ra5= The position is equal. Black has a strong centre and now proceeds to pressure white's passed a-pawn which does not appear to have a strong Life Line. 25.Rb2 cxd4 [To be considered was: 25...Qa6 26.Rc1 cxd4 27.Qxd4+ Kg8= with a faint edge for black.] 26.Qxd4+ Qe5 27.Qd2? [Better was: 27.Rb7 Qxd4 28.exd4 Nb8=] 27...Nc5 28.Ra3 Rca8 Black has taken over the initiative, focussing on white's a-pawn. 29.Rb4 Rb8 Obviously, black has run out of ideas for capturing the a4 pawn. 30.Rxb8 Qxb8 31.Ra1 Qa7 32.Qd4+ f6

33.Bf1 [33.Rb1 leads to a draw after 33...Nxa4 34.Qxa7+ Rxa7 35.Ra1 Bb3 36.Bf1 Ra8 37.Ra3 Bc2 38.Ra2 Bb3 39.Ra3=] 33...e5 After achieving this move, black must have thought that he had strategi-cally won the game, but he is in for an unpleasant surprise. 34.Qd1! Bb3 The encirclement of the a4 pawn is complete, but there is chess-board trickery in the air! 35.Qd2 Nxa4?

Diagram # [If 35...Bxa4 36.Qxd5=] 36.Nb5!! This throws the proverbial span-ner in black's works! The queen must move supporting his rook. The game has suddenly become unpleasant for black! 36...Qb6 37.Qb4!! A great move, defend-ing his knight, threatening the Bb3 and what is best, entering black's fortress with ....Qe7. 37...Bc4 38.Qe7+! Kh6 [If 38...Kg8 39.Bxc4! dxc4 40.Rd1!! (The black king is alone and helpless) 40...Ra8 41.Rd7! mates.] 39.Nd6! Ra6 [If 39...Ra7 40.Qxf6 (Threat Nf5+! mating) 40...Kh5 41.Qh4#] 40.Qf8+! Diagram # 40...Kh5 [More stubborn was: 40...Kg5 41.Nf7+ Kg4 42.Bg2! and white mates by force. Calculate this!] 41.Qxf6! [After 41.Qxf6 (threat 42 Qh4#) 41...g5 42.Qf7+! Kg4 (42...Kh6 43.Nf5#) 43.h3#!] 1–0

A study in bishop sacrificeWhite wins in the position below in a scintil-lating manner even though his king is pre-cariously placed.Steniczk H 1965

White to play and win1.Bd4+!!

[1.h8Q? Rxg4!.The newly born queen will be lost because of the threatened discovered check.Even 2.Bd4+ does not help because of (2.Kxh6 Rh4+ wins the queen and draws;2.Bg7 Rf4+ 3.Kg6 Bc2+ 4.Kh5 Bd1+=) 2…Kf1!=] 1….Rxd4 2.h8Q Rxg4 3.Qa1!!The bishop sacrifice on the first move was in-comprehensible initially. Now the smoke has cleared. The bishop has committed suicide to pave way for the new queen to reach a1,

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

This week’s puzzle is from Grigory Popov’s weekly superproblem which is not the usual chess problem but a kind of retro with helpful moves to arrive at the final position with the given clues from the initial game array.

There is a unique solution to the prob-lem which the solver has to unravel.I am giving a fairly simple one to solve here.

Zoltan Laborczi (Hungary)Superproblem 19.08.2017

The moves are made as follows1.move move2.capture move3.capture check move4.capture move5.move (Return)mate

(Solution on page 48)

the only square which saves the queen from otherwise a sure death.3…Ra4+ 4.Ne2++- wins(from ‘Zee Boom Bah!’ by K.Muralimohan)

(Position after 40.Qf8+)

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deliver mates. Pickaninny represents the four moves of a black pawn from its initial square as black defence. An Albino is a type of chess problem in which a white pawn, be-ginning on its starting square, makes each of its four possible moves. The first diagram below is a simple illustration of Albino in two-mover where the white pawn on f2 de-livers four distinct white mates..Key 1.Kg7!! waiting1…Re3 2.fxe3; 1…Rg3+ 2.fxg3; 1…Rf4 2.f3 and 1…Rxf5 2.f4

E.WoodardPittsburgh Gazette Times 1915

Mate in two movesThey can also be tries, moves which almost solve a problem but for a single black defence. The example below is a well known two-mover showing tries by the double albino.

1.dxc3? (2.Qxg4) b3! (Nxc3?)1.d3! (2.Qxg4) Ra6+!(Bxa6!)

1…dxe3? (2.Qxg4)gN any!(2.Qxe3?)1.f3?(2.Qc4) exd5! (2.Bxg4?)

1.fxe3?(2.Qc4)N(4)e5!(2.Qxe3?)1.f4? (2.Qc4)N(6)e5!(2.Nf4?)

1.fxg3? (2.Qc4) Bxg3+

H.Bartolovic & N.PetrovicI Prize,Problemas 1963

Mate in two movesKey 1.d4! (2.Qxg4)Seven tries by the albinosNow for an artistic exposition of the

Touw Hian BweeI prize, Die Schwalbe

Mate in two movesTry: 1.c3? Qb4! (2.Qxb4?)

Try :1.cxb3? Qc6! (2.Nxb3?)Try:1.c4? Qxb6! (2.Nc4?)

Try: 1.cxd3? Qa4! (2.Qxd3?)Key 1.Bf2! waiting

1…Qb4/Qc6/Qxb6/Qa42.Qxb4/Nxb3/Nc4/Qxd3

All the four moves of WPc2 are tries defeated by quiet moves of black queen. Albinos can be employed to deliver mates as in the first problem above and in the try play as in the next two problems.In three-movers they arise as second move continuations.

Problem WorldNational Champion wins honours in composing

by C.G.S.Narayanan

GM Karthikeyan MuraliMany players may not be aware that Grand-master Karthikeyan Murali the reigning National Champion, has a deep liking for chess compositions and is a rated solver who finished third in the International Solving Contest 2016 (Under-20 category) held un-der the aegis of World Federation for Chess Composition(WFCC).Recently he tried his hand at composing chess problems and his helpmate has won 2nd Honourable.Mention in the 2nd Youth Composing Challenge 2017 for composers under 20 years organized by Serbian Chess Problem Society recently. The contest was for Helpmates with the following theme.

“In H#2 there are two thematic pieces A&B of any colour.In one phase the piece A opens line for piece B.In the other phase piece A closes a line of piece B. Twins are not allowed”

What is a helpmate? Helpmate is the oldest form of chess problem in which black co-op-

erates with white to mate the black king and it is black which commences the play. If ‘A’ and ‘B’ are white’s first and second moves and ‘a’ and ‘b’ those of black then the solu-tion to a helpmate in two (denoted as H#2) is written as :1.a , A 2.b, B mate. Now let us look at the composer’s delineation of the theme.

Karthikeyan Murali (India)2nd Hon.Mention ,YCC 2017

H#2 2 solutions1.Bc5 Ba2 2.Kd4 Qa11.Kf6 Bf7 2.aRe5 Qg6

Valery Gurov, FIDE International Judge writes in his award:The theme presented in the play of pieces of different colours, with elements of correction. Spectacular mates by the white queen. Unfortunately in the second solution the bishop also controls g6 square. This could have been avoided with addition of material and correction of WB in both solutions. Con-gratulations to this budding composer on his maiden international award award!

Albino in direct matesby C.G.S.Narayanan

The pawns may be the humblest of chess men but the incisive attack and profound defence in a game largely depend on the structure of these pawns. In problem chess the pawns attack, defend, promote and also

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p.47)

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

G.Kasparyan 1960 Jan Marwitz 1959

1. 2.

V.Bron 1960 Gurvic & Pogosjanc 1961

3. 4.

Gurvic 1960 G.Kasparyan 1961

5. 6.

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

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3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Kancheepuram

Hyderabad Open FIDE Rated Tournament (below 1500),Hyderabad

Masters of the past-81 Vladimir AntoshinVladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (1929 - 1994) was a Soviet chess Grand-master, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess. As a young man, he was a high achiever, principally as part of the USSR's highly successful Student Olympiad team of 1954-56. The team won the silver medal at the first ever Student Olympiad in Oslo 1954 and then took gold medals at Lyons 1955 and at Uppsala 1956. His best perfor-mance probably occurred at Lyons, as the strength of the competition was far greater than at Oslo. Playing below world-class grandmasters Mark Taimanov and Boris Spassky, but above Alexey Suetin, his endeavors also earned him an individual gold medal for best score on board three. In all, he accumulated three gold and one silver medal.

During this period of his career, FIDE awarded him the International Master title in1963 and the Grandmaster title1964. Making a limited number of international tournament appearances, he was successful at Ulan Bator (1965) and Zinnowitz (1966). The latter was probably his finest moment, scoring +8, =6, -1, to take first place among reasonably strong opposition, including Victor Ciocaltea and Wolfgang Uhlmann.

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

A major reason for his limited progress as a player was his continued amateur status. He be-came a tournament organiser and trainer to the USSR Olympiad team,maintained a second career as a technical designer, and according to Cafferty & Taimanov, was also supposed to have strong links with the KGB. As a further distraction, he chose to play correspondence chess throughout the 1950s, although this notably culminated in him winning the USSR Correspond-ence Championship in 1960.

At the Soviet Championship, he had moderate results, participating in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1967 and 1970. His highest placing was a share of sixth in 1967.Antoshin is the eponym of two opening lines, one occurring in the Philidor Defence and the other in the Dutch Defence.In the Antoshin Variation in Philidor Defence black chooses to exchange central pawns and head for simple, rapid development of the kingside. After ... 0-0 and ... Re8, Black's cramped dark-square bishop is often reactivated by playing it to g7 via f8. Play commences:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 and White usually chooses to develop one of his bishops.

The Hort-Antoshin Variation in the Dutch defence was first discovered by Vlastimil Hort in 1960, when he was just sixteen; it was then further developed by Antoshin and consequently carries the names of both players. Black's idea is to omit the 'normal' e6 move and prepare a central break with e5 instead. Courtesy:Wikepedia

G.Nitiyanandam,Secretary,Kanchi chess academy,B. Haripriya,Treasurer,Kanchi Chess academy, Poorna Chandran, Cabinet Secretary Lions international, Sudagar Detchigar, Lions Club International, P. Maheshwaran (Winner), T. Sundarganesh, Prop. Pachaiyappa's silks, S. Magesh, President, Kanchi chess academy, Prabu, zone Chairman Lion Club International

Nagasri Saikanth receiving the trophy from K.S.Prasad, Secretary, Telangana Chess Association.Prof.R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter is on the right

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Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Panaji,Goa


(L-R) T D Krishnamurthy, Arunachalam Shivaa, N Jayabal,President,CDCA, Vidya, Organiser, KKCA & V Vijayaraghavan, Jt Secy, TNSCA

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 42By Srinivas Krishnan1.Boruchovsky,Avital (2556) Bogner,Se-bastian (2600) [B90]Riga LAT (8.4), 12.08.2017White to play 28.Qe7! Rxe7 [28...Qe8 29.Rd8 Rxe7 30.fxe7 Kh7 31.Rxb8 Qxe7 32.Rxb6+-; 28...Kh7 29.g6+ (29.Qxf7+-) 29...Kxg6 30.Rg1+ Kh7 (30...Kh5 31.Qxf7+ Wins) 31.Qxf7] 29.fxe7 Qe6 30.Rd8+ Kh7 31.Rxb8 Qxe7 32.Rxb6 1–02. Van Baar,Esper (2172) Warmerdam,-Max (2387) [B23]21st HZ Open 2017 Vlissingen NED Black tp play. 54...Ne4! 55.Rd7+ [55.Rxf3 Rxf3 56.Rd7+ Ke6 57.Kxf3 Ng5+! 58.Kg4 Kxd7 59.Kxg5 Ke6 Wins the ending] 55...Ke6 Now all rooks are hanging, but that suits only Black! 56.Rxf3 [56.Rxd3 Nxf2+ 57.Kxf3 Nxd3 58.Ke3 Nc5 Wins] 56...Rxf3 57.Kxf3 Ng5+ 58.Kg4 Kxd7 59.Kxg5 Ke6 60.Kg4 Kd5 Wins 0–13.Schneider,Ch1 (2215)Roth,Jos (2032) [B31]Lichtenberger Sommer 2017 Berlin White to play 23.Re6!! Bxe6 [23...b5 24.Ne5 Qg7 (24...Ra2 25.Rxc6; 24...Bxe6 25.Qxf8+) 25.Qxg7+ Kxg7 26.Rxc6+-; 23...Ra2 24.Rfe1+-] 24.Qxf8+! 1–04.Brown,Michael William (2499) Malob-erti,David (2132) [E92]chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG (2.50), 24.09.2017White to play 38.Bg8+! Kh8 [38...Rxg8 39.Qxd2+-; 38...Kh6 39.Qxd2 Rxd2 40.Bf8#] 39.Be7! [39.Be7 Qxe2 40.Bf6#] 1–05.Vasques,A (2272)Costa,Pa (2140) [B42]ch-POR 2017 Vila Nova de Gaia POR (9.2), 24.09.2017

Black to play. 17...Ng3+ 18.hxg3 hxg3+ 19.Kg1 [19.Nh2 Rxh2+ 20.Kg1 0–0–0–+] 19...Qc5+ 20.Nd4 [20.Be3 Qh5 Wins; 20.Qe3 Qh5] 20...Qxd4+ 21.Qe3 Rh1+! [21...Rh1+ 22.Kxh1 Qh8+ 23.Kg1 Qh2#] 0–16. Babar,Michael (2130) Eggleston,David J (2400) [A47]chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG (4.59), 26.09.2017Black to play. 22...Bxe2+! 23.Kxe2 [23.Ke1 Bxd1 24.Rxd1 e2 25.Rxd8 Bb4+ 26.Rd2 Bxd2+ 27.Kxd2 e1Q+ 28.Qxe1 Rd8+ Wins; 23.Kg1 Rxd1+ 24.Rxd1 Bxd1 25.Qxd1 e2+–+] 23...Rd2+! [23...Rd2+ 24.Rxd2 exd2+ 25.Kxd2 Qe3+ 26.Kc2 (26.Kd1 Rd8+) 26...Rd8 mate is threatened on d3 and d2 27.Rd1 Qf2+ 28.Kc3 (28.Kc1 Be3+) 28...Bb4+! 29.Kxb4 (29.Kc4 Qc5#) 29...Qc5+ 30.Ka4 Qa5#] 0–1

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431.G.Kasparyan, 3 Pl, Problem 19601.Ne7+ Kf8 2.g7+ Kxg7 3.Rg2+ Kh7 4.Bg6+ Kh8 5.Rf2 Bg5 6.Rf8+ Kg7 7.Rg8+ Kf6 8.Nf5 Rxg6 9.Rf8#2.Jan Marwitz, II n,Problem 19591.a5 d3 2.Rxd3 Kb5 3.Rf3 f6 4.Kb7 Kxa5 5.Rf5 wins3.V.Bron, 2n, Szachy 19691.Rg5+ d5 2.Rxd5+ Kc6 3.Be4 Qb2 4.c3 Qb3 5.c4 Qxe3 6.Bh1 Qc5 7.Rxd7+wins4.Gurvic& Pogosjanc 19611.d4 Ba4+ 2.Kc1 Bxd1 3.Kxd1 Ke3 4.Kc2 Ke4 5.Nf6+ Kxd4 6.Bb8 Be3 7.Ba7+ Ke5 8.Ng4+wins5.Gurvic, Ceskolovenski Sach 19601.Rh4+ Ng4 2.Rxg4+ e4 3.Rxd5+ Kxd5 4.Ne3+ Ke5 5.f4+ Kf6 6.Nd5+ Kf5 7.Rg5# 6.G.Kasparyan,I Pr, Tidskrift for Schack 19611.Bf7 Rb8+ 2.Ka7 Bd4+ 3.b6 Bxb6+ 4.Ka6 Bd8 5.Rxc6+ dxc6 6.Be6+ Kc7 7.e8N#

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30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Tuticorin

Inauguration of 31st National Under -7 Chess Championship by Sri Kollu Ravindra Minister Law and youth affairs and sports with Grand master M.R. Lalith Babu.Others in the photo from (L-R) are Sri. K.P.Rao, Chairman,Corporate consultants PVT. Ltd, Sri. Devaram Srihari Gen. Secretary APCA, V. Srinivasulu P.Rama Krishan O.S.D. SAAP Sri. PV. Nageswara Rao, Sri. Dr.N. Bangaru Raju VC&MD Sports Authority of AP Sri Y.D Rama Rao, President APCA

AICF Calendar October 2017National Under – 17 Boys & Girls Championship Coimbatore Oct-24 to Nov-01Smt.Suneeta Singh & sanjay Kashiwal rating Indore Oct 26 to Oct 314th Late Laxmikant V.Desai Mem.FIDE rating Goa Oct-26 to Oct-29Young Star Trust Maharashtra State Amateur FIDE Rating Palghar Oct 26 to Oct 30Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-3155th National Premier Chess Championship Patna Oct 27 to Nov 101st Tetrasoft Open FIDE rating Secunderabad Oct 28 to Nov 02National Under – 9 Gurgaon Nov-02 to Nov-10Nanjil 1st All India FIDE Rated Open - 2017 Nov 03 – Nov 06Chess in Lakecity winter Cup FIDE Rating 1600 Udaipur Nov-03 to Nov-051st Ekam Rapid rating Maharashtra State Open Shrirampur Nov04 to Nov 05National Amateur 2017 Delhi Nov-05 to Nov-11World Senior 2017 Nagercoil Nov-06 to Nov-19Athens of the East 2nd FIDE rating bel1500 Madurai Nov-10 to Nov-122nd Delhi Chess Association below 1600 New Delhi Nov -12 to Nov 14 2nd Asom FIDE Rating Open Guwahati Nov-14 to Nov-19 1st Namkeen City All India Open Rating Ratlam,M.P Nov-15 to Nov 20FIDE Grand Prix Series – 2017 Nov-15 to Nov-26BCF 2nd FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament jajjhar,Hryana Nov -15 to Nov 19PRO Chess 1st FIDE Rated Open Erode.TN Nov-16 to Nov 19 2nd R.K.Chess Club Rating Rapid Tmt Mandya Nov- 18 to Nov-19 Asian Amateur 2017 Nov-18 to Nov-25National Under – 11 Nov-22 to Nov-301st All India FIDE rating Open Pune Nov 22 to Nov 2844th National Women Premier-2017 Gujarat Nov-24 to Dec-061st All India FIDE rating Open below 1600 Pune Nov 25 to Nov 28CSIR-CMRI Diamond Jubilee All India FIDE Rated Burdwan Nov 29 to Dec 033rd Karur FIDE rated Open Karur Nov 30 to Dec 032nd Bramhapuri Educational City Trophy FIDE Rating Chandrapur Dec 01 to Dec 062nd All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Secunderabad Dec 01 to Dec 03SPIC 1st ALL India FIDE rated below 1600 Tuticorin Dec-02 to Dec-046th Sou.Nirmala Vaze memorial Open Rapid Mulund, Mumbai Dec -09 to Dec 10

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month on page 39 : 1.e4 f5 2.exf5 h5 3.Qxh5+ g6 4.Qxh8 g5 5.Qh5 mate Barath Kalyan, Winner, receiving the trophy from IM Manuel Aaron


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