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AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 11 Issue : 12 Price Rs. 25 July 2017
Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017,New Delhi
WGM Swathi Ghate GM Abhijeet Gupta

Women Champion Open Champion
10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open 31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess
Tournament 2017 Championship 2017,Jalandhar
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vietnam) Jyothsna Raja Rithvik

Winner Girls Champion Open Champion
AICF CHRONICLE July 2017 From the Editor’s desk Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017,New Delhi
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, A t t h e W o r l d Te a m C h e s s Abhijeet completes a hat-trick of titles
Chennai - 600 003. Championships at Khanty Mansysik Swathi Ghate bags Women title
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 India gave it all but missed out on
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com a podium finish. After nine grueling
G
Publisher: Bharat Singh Chouhan rounds India finished a creditable randmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta came up with an inspired
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan
fourth both in the Open and the performance in the final round to crush Aleksander Wohl of Australia and annexed
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 Women's section.GM Shyam Sundar the gold medal in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017. The Delhi-based
won the Montcada Open in Spain which witnessed
large Indian participation.IM P.Iniyan finished third stretched his total Commonwealth titles to four in the last five years and completed a hat-
Index…. trick of titles. In 2015, he had won the title in Delhi and had won the 2016 edition at Sri
Commonwealth Chess Championship,New Delhi
in this event and also won a GM norm.
Abhijeet completes a hat-trick of titles 1 Lanka. Gupta was in his elements in the final round as Wohl found no defense. Playing white,
10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Intl. Open 2017
For GM Abhijeet Gupta winning Commonwealth it was a queen pawn game by the Indian and Wohl chose an off-beat system that soon spelt
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa emerges Champion chess has already become a habit as he stretched doom. The middle game was one sided as Wohl struggled on all parts of the board and it
by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 5 his total Commonwealth titles to five incidentally took just 24 moves for Gupta to wrap the issues.
31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship completing a hat-trick of titles. WGM Swathi Ghate is
2017,Jalandhar the new Commonwealth Women Champion. Reports “Every championship or tournament is special but somehow I am able to bring out good
Raja Rithvik Jyothsna emerge Champions and photographs of these events are featured in the chess playing especially the Commonwealth in last few years”, said Gupta after the game.
by Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter 9
centre pages of this issue The four times champion pointed out that he played decently right through. “I was better
Nainital Open Fide Rated,Nainital in most of the games I won but I was worse against Tejas (Bakre) especially in the penul-
Nazir Wajih is Champion
The two popular GM Opens in the AICF calendar, timate round, generally I am satisfied about my play here and hope to take this forward in
by R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter 13
10th KIIT International Chess festival held in the next few events”, he said.
‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior
Bubaneshwar and the 10th Mumbai Mayor Cup in
Rating Chess Tournament
Mumbai, were organized successfully.GM Nguyen For the records, Vaibhav Suri won the silver while the bronze medal went to Tejas Bakre.
Anshul Nigam bags title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 15 Duc Hoa of Vietnam continued from where he left off Vaibhav Suri played out a draw with fellow GM Abhijeet Kunte, who finished fourth, while
Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Fide .Rated Tmnt,Udaipur
at Bubaneshwar GM Open by winning the Mumbai Bakre played well in a difficult position to beat M S Thej Kumar. The Women’s Championship
Ankit Chudasama emerges Champion Mayor’s Cup as well. 31st National Under-13 Open & was won by Swati Ghate who got rewarded for some excellent play in the early phase of
By Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 16 Girls Chess Championships held at Jalandhar Raja the event. In the final round Ghate defeated Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav. The
1stFIDE Rated Punjab Championship Rithvik of Telangana and Jyothsna of Tamilnadu Silver here went to Mary Ann Gomes while last year’s champion Tania Sachdev had to be
Pardeep Arora wins title emerged Champions.Reports on these events along
by Varun Kumar, Chief Arbiter 18 with those of FIDE rated tournements held during content with the bronze.
7th St.Joseph’s International Fide June 2017.
Rating Tournament, Chennai Results final round: Abhijeet Gupta (7.5) beat Aleksandar Wohl (6.5); Abhijit Kunte (6.5)
Al. Muthaiah wins Title
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor GM Open drew with Vaibhav Suri (7); M S Thejkumar (6) lost to Tejas Bakre (7); Erigaisi Arjun (6.5)
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 22
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this drew with P Shyaamnikhil (6.5); Shardul Gagare (6) drew with Ziaur Rahman (6); Swapnil
4thTrichy Open Fide Rated Tmt,Trichy
issue. GM Georgy Agzamov of Uzbekistan is featured S. Dhopade (6) drew with Tania Sachdev (6); Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib (6) drew with C R G
Hirthickkesh wins title
in the ‘Masters of the past series’
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA,Chief Arbiter 28 Krishna (6); Ankit Rajpara (6) Rishi Sardana (6); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (6) drew
45th WB State Junior Fide Rating Championship,Jalpaiguri with Praveen Thipsay (6); Deepan Chakkravarthy (5.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (6)
Koustuv Kundu and Shyamashree Sarkar win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 30 C.G.S.Narayanan
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor Cup Earlier….
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32 Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta came roaring back in contention with back-to-back
Tactics from master games Readers are invited to offer their feedback on victories in the fourth and fifth round of Commonwealth Chess Championship now under-
by S.Krishnan 42 the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and way here.After a rather easy draw with Nubairshah Sheikh in the third round, Gupta came
Test your endgame are also invited to send interesting articles,
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 up with some outstanding performance on the fourth day that had double rounds. In the
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Masters of the past
Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or morning, Grandmaster Niaz Murshed did not prove a match for the wily Indian while the
Georgy Agzamov 44
‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com. peaceful intentions of GM Ankit Rajpara also received a jolt in the fifth round.
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Grandmasters Swapnil Dhopade and Vaibhav Suri played out a draw on the top board and
31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,Jalandhar
these two were joined by Gupta, Aravindh Chithambaram and Tejas Bakre in the lead on
4.5 points out of a possible five.Chithambaram was in his elements as he halted the dream
run of K Priyanka while Tejas Bakre played a fine game with black pieces to beat fellow
Indian GM Sahaj Grover.
Gupta was up against the Fianchetto variation in the Grunfeld defense and chose a solid
setup giving little away to Rajpara. The opening saw repetition of moves in the early phase
of the game saw Gupta spurning an unconditional draw offer and the defending champion
was in full flow on the queen side to hand Rajpara his first defeat in the event.Chithambar-
am went for the Sicilian Dragon as black and was in top shape while Bakre capitalised on
some middle game errors from Grover to register his fourth victory.
Among the women players, former Asian champion Bhakti Kulkarni and Swati Ghate re-
mained on course for a podium finish with another impressive show after losing fourth
round games. Bhakti proved superior to International Master Rishi Sardana of Australia
while Ghate outwitted higher rated Erigaisi Arjun. Both Kulkarni and Ghate are leading the
women’s section on four points apiece
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Grandmaster and defending champion Abhijeet Gupta was the top seed in the Common-
wealth Chess Championship which began Leela Ambience and Convention centre, New Delhi.
The tournament was inaugurated by Honourable Sports Minister Shri.Vijay Goel.The cham- (L-R) Sh Muneesh Thaper, Secretary, Jyothsna L (TN), Champion Girls, JS Chemma, Secretary,
pionship had over 550 registered players in various categories spanning from under-8 till JCA,_Bharat S. Chouhan, Secretary, AICF, Divya Deshmukh_(Girls 2nd)
open. There were 16 Grandmasters and 13 International Masters in the fray apart from five
more Woman Grandmasters.
The open section was really strong this time with over 50 titled players out of around 120
participants. The event provided opportunities for the norm seekers from the host country.
The women challenge was spearheaded by defending champion Tania Sachdev but she was
expected to get stiff resistance from the likes of national champion Padmini Rout.Players
from 15 countries including some from South Africa and Kenya registered for the nine-day
long events that would decide the medallists of this year’s championship.
This was the first time ever that the championships was to be played in 15 different catego-
ries. While the Indian players were likely to dominate there was stiff challenge coming from
Bangladesh in the open section wherein they have fielded as many as four Grandmasters.
The championships carried a total prize fund of Rs. 10 Lacs.
Newly elected AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chuahan organized this championship in Delhi
and every time the event has seen an unprecedented uplift when organised in the national
capital. This is the first time ever in India that the championships was held in a certified
five star deluxe hotel.
(L-R)JS Cheema, Secretary, JCA Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF,_Raja Rithvik R(Telangana),
Champion (Open) Rajinder Sharma_D.Barua, Chief Arbiter
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1stFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship 2017, Punjab 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2017
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam emerges Champion
By M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
10
th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Internation- 203 players having 15 GM, 2 WGM,12 IM
al Open Chess Tournament 2017, and 6 WIM in its credit, started on 4th July
organized by Venus Chess Acade- 2017 at Mount Litera International School,
my attracted 203 players in Category A, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra east, Mumbai
334 players in Category B and 569 players . Players from 12 Federations participated in
in Category C. The tournament offering a this tournament. The accelerated pairing was
total prize amount of Rs.2900000/-(Rupees adapted for the first two rounds.GM Amon-
Twenty nine Lakhs).GM NguyenDuc Hoa of atov Farrukh of Tajikistan was on top by
Vietnam emerged as clear champion with 8.5 seeding. Makhramov Bakhzod from Uzbeki-
points, and taken home the winner purse of stan was the only unrated player in this mega
Rs.300000/-. event. Manon Reja Neer from Bangladesh
having the age of 7 years was the youngest
Earlier 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Interna- participant in this tournament. Organizer
tional Open Chess Tournament 2017, got provided very good playing conditions with
under way at Mount Litera International a live coverage of 40 games for all rounds.
(L-R)Rajinder Sharma,Secretary,Punjab State Chess Association,S.Bikramjit Singh Sandhu,
President,Punjab State Chess Association ,Winner Pradeep Arora with trophy,Muneesh Thapar, School, near UTI Building, Bandra- Kurla
Vice President,Punjab State Chess Association,Vinod Sharma,Oragnizer Complex, Bandra(East), Mumbai on 4th The A Category 10 rounds swiss tourna-
June 2017. The Mayor of Mumbai City Shri. ment ended on 11th June in the Mount
4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Trichy Vishwanath Mohadishwar inaugurated the Literal International School of Bandra –
event in the presence of Mr. David Udrythe Kurla Complex, Bandra Mumbai. The tour-
head of the institution, the Mount Litera In- nament offering a total prize amount of
ternational School, AICF treasurer Rabindra Rs.1100000/-(Rupees eleven Lakhs). the GM
Dongre& the organizing Secretary delivered NguyenDuc Hoa of Vietnam emerged as the
the vote of thanks. Fide Vice President Shri. clear champion with 8.5 points,and taken
D V Sundar, AICF CEO Shri. Bharat Singh home the winner purse of Rs.300000/-.The
Chauhan, Shri.Arun Sha of Ankit Germs, Shri. GM Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistanwho stood
Kirat Bhansali were the guests of honour . second with 8 points.
Shri.Jayraj Phatak IAS Ex Municipal Corpo- The category ‘B’ tournament conducted for
ration Commissioner Mumbai, distributed the 1999 & below rated players,started on 4th
prizes to the winners. Shri.Kamal Preetsingh June 2017 with 334 players all over from
Member of Mount Litera School and Shri. India,out of them 293 players are Fide rat-
VGokhale Raghunandan the Dronacharya ed. The 4 days tournament ended on 7th
awardee were felicitated at the event. Shri. June. Thiscategory offered a prize fund of
Dongre the organizing Secretary and also the Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine Lakhs). The 20th
Prize Distribution Function (L-R) Natarajan FA, Mr.Palaniappan,IA, Dy.Chief Arbiter,
Iravathama, Sec.Rockfort Chess Academy, Arun & Kannan, Samraats Chess Academy, Mr.RK treasurer of AICF gave the vote of thanks. seeded B Vinoth Kumar of Pondicherry won
Balagunashekaran, Hirthickkesh Pr (winner) Jt.Sec.TNSCA ,Mr.Nallusamy, Chairman, Cauvery The 10th Mumbai Mayor’s cup chess festival the title with 8.5 points out of the possible
Engg. College, Mr.Dr.Senthilkumar, Vice Chairman, Cauvery Engg.college. Mr. Selvam, President, conducted in three different groups. The 10.He received a cash prize of Rs. 110000/-
Rock Fort Chess Academy, Mr.Sundarrajan, Trichy Dist.Chess Association. prestigious category ‘A’ tournament with
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and lifted the winners trophy. Vaibahve Butt 9 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7 50 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6 91 Shubham Lakudkar MAH 5
of Mumbai became the runner up. 10 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7 51 Senthil Maran K TN 6 92 CM Nikhil Magizhnan TN 5
The category ‘C’ tournament for players 11 GM Grover Sahaj DEL 7 52 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 6 93 Parthasarathy R KAR 5
having the Fide ratings 1599 and below at- 12 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 7 53 Priyanka K TN 6 94 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree MAH 5
tracted 569 players all over from India, out of 13 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 7 54 Anisuzzaman Jewel BAN 6 95 Eesha Ajay Sarda MAH 5
them 387 are Fide rated chess players. The 14 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 55 Satkar Chirag MAH 6 96 Jaeel Atharva MAH 5
tournament started on 8th June and finished 15 GM MAbdullah Al Rakib BAN 7 56 WFM Tarini Goyal CHA 6 97 Mohith R TN 5
on 11th June. This category also offered
16 IM Nitin S. TN 7 57 Rohnit G Amin MAH 6 98 Viswanath Sandilya B. AP 5
a prize fund of Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine
17 FM Rathanvel V S TN 7 58 Bartakke Amardeep S. MAH 6 99 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 5
Lakhs). The 37th seeded Ranjith Kalaiyarasan
18 Saurabh Anand BIH 7 59 FM Md Fahad Rahman BAN 5½ 100 Samant Aditya S MAH 5
of Pondicherry won the title with 9.5 points
out of the possible 10. He received a cash 19 IM Rathnakaran K. KER 7 60 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 5½ 101 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 5
prize of Rs. 145000/- and lifted the winners 20 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. TN 6½ 61 CM Aditya Mittal MAH 5½ 102 WIM Gokhale Anupama MAH 5
trophy. K Bhat Siddharth of Delhi became 21 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 6½ 62 Shrutarshi Ray WB 5½ 103 Deota Snehil S KAR 5
the runner up in five way tie up. He received 22 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 6½ 63 WCM Mrudul Dehankar MAH 5½ 104 Kumar Gaurav BIH 5
the cash prize of Rs. 91000/- 23 IM Das Sayantan WB 6½ 64 Badrinath S. PON 5½ 105 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 5
24 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6½ 65 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 5½ 106 Kanishk S K TN 5
The Mount Litera International School has 25 WFM Jishitha D AP 6½ 66 Pranav Anand KAR 5½ 107 Aan Sikka DEL 5
provided beautiful air conditioned spacious 26 FM Karthik Venkataraman TN 6½ 67 ASharadchandra Dalvi MAH 5½ 108 Phuyal Aashish NEP 5
playing halls. Players enjoyed the playing 27 Arvind Shastry KAR 6½ 68 Pranav Shetty MAH 5½ 109 Aditya P Melani GUJ 5
hall. We should appreciate the School au- 28 IM Raghunandan K.S KAR 6½ 69 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 5½ 110 AGM Krishnater Kushager MAH 4½
thority for their wonderful support and also 29 IM Iniyan P TN 6½ 70 IM Krishna Teja N AP 5½ 111 FM Anand Nadar MAH 4½
to the the school staff who worked with us
30 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6½ 71 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 112 Shetye Siddhali MAH 4½
for the past 8 days.
31 Ajay Karthikeyan TN 6½ 72 Dixit Nikhil MAH 5½ 113 Sreeshwan M TEL 4½
32 Navalgund Niranjan TN 6½ 73 Pranavananda V AP 5½ 114 Polakhare Aryan MAH 4½
A very good team of arbiters along with a
group of dedicated officials made the tour- 33 Moksh Amit Doshi GUJ 6½ 74 Wagh Suyog MAH 5½ 115 Barath Kalyan M TN 4½
naments successful. Finally I must thank Mr. 34 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6½ 75 Meruga Shanmukha USA 5½ 116 Yash Dhoke MAH 4½
Dongre the Director of Venus Chess Academy 35 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti GOA 6½ 76 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 5½ 117 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala AP 4½
, and also AICF for given me the chance to 36 Pradeep Kumar R A TN 6½ 77 Vijay Anand M. TN 5½ 118 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 4½
work as a Chief arbiter for this wonderful 37 Nayak Rajesh ODI 6½ 78 Kamdar Udit GUJ 5½ 119 Srihari L PON 4½
tournament. 38 Jayakumaar S TN 6½ 79 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 5½ 120 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 4½
39 GM Laxman R.R. TN 6½ 80 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5½ 121 Raghav Srivathsav V AP 4½
Final ranking-Category A 40 Yogit S TN 6½ 81 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 5½ 122 Shanmukha Teja P AP 4½
Rk Name Club Pts 41 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 6 82 Harshavardhan G B TN 5½ 123 WFM Lakshmi C TN 4½
1 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 8½ 42 Sekar B TN 6 83 CM Karthik Kumar P TEL 5 124 Kabir Md Sherajul BAN 4½
2 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8 43 Muthaiah Al TN 6 84 Aaryan Varshney DEL 5 125 Kadam Nikhil MAH 4½
3 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7½ 44 FM Nitish Belurkar GOA 6 85 Chittal Sairaj MAH 5 126 Patil Ketan MAH 4½
4 GM Neelotpal Das WB 7½ 45 Dileep Kumar R TN 6 86 FM Ramakrishna J. AB 5 127 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 4½
5 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½ 46 Raahul V S TN 6 87 CM Lama Himal NEP 5 128 Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 4½
6 IM Karthikeyan P. TN 7½ 47 Sanjeev Kumar MAH 6 88 WFM Salonika Saina ODI 5 129 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 4½
7 GM Babujian Levon ARM 7½ 48 CM Raja Rithvik R TEL 6 89 IM Singh D.P. TN 5 130 AFM Choubey Saurabh MP 4½
8 FM Sai Krishna G V AP 7½ 49 Dahale Atul MAH 6 90 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala AP 5 131 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 4½
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132 Rohit S TN 4½ 6 Sourav Sahoo MAH 8 44 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 6½ 20 Hirani Raj MAH 7½
133 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 4½ 7 Aravind K TN 8 45 Aswin.P.G KER 6½ 21 Meet Puri MAH 7½
134 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 4 8 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade MAH 8 46 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½ 22 Bhagwat Heramb MAH 7½
135 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 4 9 Aravindaswami T TN 8 47 Verma Rahul MAH 6½ 23 Gaikwad Vishal MAH 7½
136 FM Rahman Syed M BAN 4 10 Deshpande Abhishek GUJ 8 48 Sivasubramanian R MAH 6½ 24 Naik Amit MAH 7½
137 Sai Krishna S. AP 4 11 Joshi Abhijeet M MAH 7½ 49 Ravi Kumar K AP 6½ 25 Sangvikar Rahul MAH 7½
138 Mohite Ranveer MAH 4 12 Dilip Das WB 7½ 50 Sudarshan Bhat KAR 6½ 26 Shelke Omkar MAH 7½
139 Saranya Y TN 4 13 Dere Pushkar MAH 7½ 51 Gadekar Sagar MAH 6½ 27 Sugunesh Babu KER 7½
140 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 4 14 Varun Bhatt MAH 7½ 28 Jayesh T A KER 7½
52 Gurumukhani Mohit J GUJ 6½
141 Manush Shah GUJ 4 15 Tajane Ganesh MAH 7½ 29 Akshit Jha DEL 7½
53 Deepak Rai DEL 6½
142 Vishwanath Prasad AP 4 30 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 7½
16 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 7½ 54 Saurav Agarwal DEL 6½
143 Shubham DEL 4 31 Das Jitendra Kumar ODI 7½
17 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7 55 Souhardo Basak WB 6½
144 Singh Neha BIH 4 32 Praveen Kumar G PON 7½
18 Kumthekar Shubham MAH 7 56 Nair Sanjeev MAH 6½
145 Sarvesh Kumar A TN 4 33 Qadri Zakir MAH 7½
146 Akshay Anand PUN 4 19 Pawar Rahul MAH 7 57 Shiek Fayaz AP 6½ 34 Potawad Anirudhha MAH 7½
147 WIM Ranasinghe S D SRI 4 20 Mota Pankit MAH 7 58 Narayan Joshi RAJ 6½ 35 Jagan V TN 7½
148 Nagare Akhilesh MAH 4 21 Niranjan Mocharla AP 7 36 B Chidambaram.C TN 7
59 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 6½
149 Patil Harshal MAH 4 22 Sahil Dhawan HAR 7 37 Basant N MAH 7
60 Batham Avinash MP 6½
150 Malla Nooka Raju AP 4 38 Gupta Sandeep Kumar MAH 7
23 Pranesh M TN 7 Final ranking:Category C
151 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 4 39 Lokendra Rohit MP 7
24 Kadav Omkar MAH 7 Rk Name C lub Pts
152 Harsh Suresh TN 4 40 Arora Honi RAJ 7
25 Gowtham K K TN 7 1 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan PON 9½
153 Mezanur Rahman BAN 4 41 Ulaganathan G TN 7
154 Thrish Karthik TN 4 26 Vignesh Kasi P L TN 7 2 Bhat Siddharth K DEL 8½ 42 Badoni Nitin MAH 7
155 Jain Kashish Manoj MAH 4 27 Cheniram Pegu ASM 7 3 Parekh Vishrut GUJ 8½ 43 Bartakke Aditya MAH 7
156 Karthik Sai Ch AP 4 28 Souradip Deb TRI 7 4 Nandu Amar MAH 8½ 44 Zala Akshar GUJ 7
157 Arvind Ramnath Iyer KAR 4 29 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 7 45 Mahale Tanmay MAH 7
5 Redij Aniket MAH 8½
158 Chandratreya Prachiti MAH 4 30 Sikka Sumit MP 7 46 Gengaje Pratik MAH 7
6 Vishwanath Kannam AP 8½
159 Morvekar Kedar MAH 3½ 47 Shinde Rujul MAH 7
31 Rawal Shailesh GUJ 7 7 Atri Chattopadhyay WB 8
160 Karthik Gopal G AP 3½ 48 Korde Kedar MAH 7
32 Sai Kiran Y AP 7
161 Patil Priyanshu MAH 3½ 8 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 8 49 Malik Rajat UP 7
33 Kochrekar Vishwesh MAH 7
162 Srimathi R TN 3½ 9 Subhash Kumar M TEL 8 50 Deshpande Jatin N MAH 7
34 Dhanush Ragav TN 7
163 Shah Jeet MAH 3½ 10 Phatak Aanjaneya MAH 8 51 Dharia Vishal MAH 7
35 Balaga Ravi Kumar AP 7
164 CM Shahil Dey ASS 3½ 11 Nitish Bhat KAR 8 52 Shenoy Siddharth MAH 7
36 Dinesh Rajan M TN 7
165 Manon Reja Neer BAN 3½ 12 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 7½ 53 Gupta Tanish UP 7
37 Nirgun Keval MAH 7
Final ranking:Category B 13 Joshi Tejas MAH 7½ 54 Shendre Prajapal MAH 7
38 Abijit Mistry WB 7
Rk Name Club Pts 14 Wairagade Khush MAH 7½ 55 Prasath K R TN 7
39 Amarasinghe A A C B SRI 7
1 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 8½ 15 Ananmay Sharma GUJ 7½ 56 Hadkar Sanman MAH 7
40 Dhoot Vinit MAH 6½
2 Vaibhav Bhat MAH 8 16 Kohli Pranav MAH 7½ 57 Shreyas Ghadi MAH 7
41 Shejwalkar Saurabha MAH 6½
3 Chittari Abhishek Varma MAH 8 17 Ved Shubham MAH 7½ 58 Deshmukh Varun MAH 7
42 Srinath K MAH 6½
4 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 8 18 Bhanushali Kunj MAH 7½ 59 Mahajan Akash MAH 7
43 Kadam Om Manish MAH 6½
5 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U AP 8 19 Garv Rai DEL 7½ 60 Shivika Rohilla DEL 7

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31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,Jalandhar In the girls section WFM Divya Deshmukh and in the second position was CM Kushagra
(7) drew with Nityata Jain (6) Of MP and Mohan of Tel. 8.5 pts. with better tie. Third
Raja Rithvik and Jyothsna emerge Champions second boars WCM Jyothsna L (7) of TN position Srihari L R of TN 8.5 pts and fourth
by Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter beat Abhirami Madabushi (6) of AP and WCM position Samant Aditya S of Mah. with 8.5
T
he 31st National Under – 13 Open & In the 7th round in the Open section Kusha- Jyothsna L of TN sole lead with 8 points and pts.Girls section board no. 1) WCM Jyothsna
Girls Chess Championships were held gra Mohan (5.5) of Tel defeated Sreeshwan Divya Desmukh of Mah. with 7.5 points in L ( 9) of TN beat Jain Nityata ( 7.5 ) of MP
at Cambridge International School For Maralakshikari (5) of Tel and he became the second spot and WCM Jyothsna L become Champion with
Girls Urban Estate Phase-II, Jalandhar, Pun- sole leader with 6.5 points . Mehta Naitik 10 pts. Boars no. 2) WFM Divya Deshmukh
jab from 21st June to 29th June 2017. (5) of Guj defeated Rathneesh (5) of TN and In the 10th Round Board No. 1 CM Raja ( 8.5 ) of Mah. beat Mehendi Sil ( 7.5 ) of
second place with 6 points. Rithvik R (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra West Bengal and WFM Divya Deshmukh of
The Managers’ meeting for both the events In the girls section the Leader WFM Divya Mohan (8.5) of Tel. Board No. 2 Sreeshwan Mah. 2nd position with 9.5 pts. Board no. 3)
was held on 21th June 2017 at Cambridge Deshmukh (5.5) of Mah beat Ananya Rishi Maralakshikari (7) of Tel drew with Srihari L WCM Mrudul Dehankar ( 8 ) of Mah. defeat-
International School, Jalandhar on 12pm. It Gupta ( 5) of Mah and sole lead with 6.5 R (7) of TN. Board no 4 Arnav Tiwari (6.5) ed Mishra Riya ( 7.5 ) of UP. WCM Mrudul
was decided that the latest Swiss rules will points. board no 2 WCM Mrudul Dehankar (5) of Delhi beat Pranesh M (6.5) of TN.And Dehankar of Mah. 3rd position.
be followed. of Mah drew with Jyothsna L (5.5) of TN. and board no. 5th Mehta Naitik R (6.5) of Guj
board no 3 Savitha B (5) of TN beat WCM beat Samip Roy (6.5) of WB. Board no 7th In the Prize Distribution function Dr. J.S.
The Inaguration function was held at Cam- Dhyana Patal (5) of Guj and Two players in . Samant Aditya beat (6.5) beat Daaewik Cheema President of JCA presided over the
bridge International School on 21th June , second place with 6 points. Wadhawan (6.5) of Delhi.And board no 8th function in the presence of Chief Guest Mr.
2017. At 01:00 P.M. The Programme was Soham Kamotra (6.5) of J & K beat Baner- Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary AICF and
inaugurated by Sh. Sudarshan Kumar Sec- In the 8th round the leader Kushagra Mohan jee Ashutosh (6.5) of Chhattisgarh. After 10 other distinguished guests.The organizers,
retary, Himachal Pradesh Chess Association (6.5) of Tel defeated Mehta Naitik (6)of Guj Round Two joint Leader CM Raja Rithvik R officials, arbiters and volunteers worked
by making the customary first move in the and maintain his lead with 7.5 points. and 4 (8.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra Mohan wholeheartedly and sincerely to make the
presence of Sh. Rajinder Sharma Secretary, players in second place with 6.5 points. 1) (8.5).And Second Spot (7.5) six Players. tournament successful. The players and
Punjab State Chess Association, Sh. Muneesh CM Rohith Krishna S 2) CM Raja Rithvik R 3) guardians also extended full co-operation
Thapar Secretary Jalandhar Chess Associ- Arnav Tiwari & 4) Srihari L R In Girls Section Board No. 1 WCM Jyothsna which attributed to the smooth running of the
ation and Sh. Dr. J.S. Cheema , President L (8) of TN beat Ananya Rishi Gupta (6.5) tournament. In my opinion, both the events
Jalandhar Chess Association. In the girls section board no 1. Bristy Muk- of Mah and maintain sole lead. WFM Divya were very successful.
herjee(5.5) of WB drew with WFM Divya Deshmukh ( 7.5) of Mah beat Routry Priyanka
The number of participants in Open section Deshmukh (6.5)of Mah. And board no 2 WCM (6.5) of Odisha. WCM Divya Deshmukhof sec- Final ranking:Open
was 167 including 136 Fide rated players. The Jyothsna L ( 6 ) of TN beat Savitha B (6 ) ond spot and board no 3. Mrudul Dehankar Rk Name St Pts
number of participants in girls section was join lead with 7 points and WCM Mrudul De- (7) of Mah beat Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 1 CM Raja Rithvik R Tel 9
110 including 76 Fide rated players. There hankar (5.5) of Mah beat Sahithya G (6) of Tel (6.5) of Goa. Mrudul Dehankar of tird Spot. 2 CM Kushagra Mohan Tel 8½
were 11 rounds of play in both sections. and Mrudula with 6.5 points in second spot. 3 AGM Srihari L R TN 8½
. In the final round In the Open section board
4 Samant Aditya S Mah 8½
The playing venue was excellent with good In the 9th Round the leader CM Kushagra no. 1) CM Raja Rithvik R ( 8.5) of Tel. draw
5 Arnav Tiwari Del 8
and comfortable table and seating arrange- Mohan (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Rohith Kr- with Mehta Naitik R ( 7.5 ) of Guj. Board no.
6 Mehta Naitik R Guj 8
ments, sufficient lighting, all necessary ishna(6.5) of TN and in the second board CM 2) Samant Aditya S ( 7.5 ) of Mah. beat CM
7 S Maralakshikari Tel 8
amenities like pure drinking water, sufficient Raja Rithvik (6.5) of Tel beat Arnav Tiwari Kushagra Mohan ( 8.5 ) of Tel. board no. 3)
Sreeshwan M (7.5) of Tel. draw with Arnav 8 Shyam Prasad Reddy K AP 8
toilets etc.During the playing session, the (6.5) of Delhi and in third board Srihari L R
Tiwari ( 7.5 )of Del. and board no.4) Srihari 9 Aryan Abhijeet Shah Mah 8
Organizers provided refreshments to all (6.5) of TN drew with Shyam Prasad Reddy
L R ( 7.5 0 of TN beat Soham Kamotra ( 7.5 10 Saksham Rautela Utt 8
players. There was no major dispute/protest (6) of AP. CM Kushagra Mohan become sole
)of J&K. In open section CM Raja Rithvik R 11 Aaryan Varshney Del 7½
regarding the conduct of the tournament leader with 8.5 points and CM Raja Rithvik
with 7.5 points in second spot. of Telangana was Champion with 9 points 12 Soham Kamotra J&K 7½

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July 2017 July 2017
13 Arya Bhakta WB 7½ 54 Mhatre Rahat Rahul Mah 6 94 Singh Ojasva MP 5½ 135 Agrim Jain Pun 4½
14 CM Rohith Krishna S TN 7½ 55 Rohnit G Amin Mah 6 95 Mihir Godawat Har 5½ 136 Devansh Ajay Sarda Mah 4½
15 Daaevik Wadhawan Del 7½ 56 Bhavesh Mahajan Pun 6 96 Gupta Tanish UP 5½ 137 Shabd Gupta Pun 4½
16 Samip Roy WB 7½ 57 Rahul K Viswanathan WB 6 97 Aditya Mukherjee Cha 5½ 138 Dhairya Aggarwal Pun 4½
17 Vrandesh Parekh Guj 7½ 58 Srikrishnan P TN 6 98 Patel Suyogkumar M Guj 5½ 139 Herald K A TN 4
18 Soham Saha WB 7½ 59 CM Tanmay Jain Pun 6 99 Patel Maharshi Guj 5 140 Amish Sood HP 4
19 Saypuri Srithan Tel 7½ 60 Bharadia Madhav Raj 6 100 Zala Akshar Guj 5 141 Rishav Sarkar Asm 4
20 AGM Rathneesh R TN 7 61 Mahendra Teja Mekala AP 6 101 Rakshith Srinivasan Kar 5 142 Suvibhu Sharma Pun 4
21 Barde Om Goa 7 62 Aman Sharma Del 6 102 Piyush Kumar Bih 5 143 Shaurya Chopra Chd 4
22 Dhrupad Kashyap Asm 7 63 AFM Bhavik Ahuja Del 6 103 Avathanshu Bhat Mah 5 144 Ronak Mahajan Pun 4
23 Samal Aditya Ranjan Odi 7 64 Shintre Neel Mah 6 104 Goel Pratyaksh Chd 5 145 Tirth Shresth Jha 4
24 Jain Kashish Manoj Mah 7 65 Anadkat Kartavya Guj 6 105 Krishna Bajaj Har 5 146 Nikunj Aggarwal Pun 4
25 Manish Kumar (2006) Odi 7 66 Kale Harshal V Mah 6 106 Adalja Vanssh A Guj 5 147 Archit Sehgal Pun 4
26 Mahitosh Dey Odi 7 67 Vishalraam C S TN 6 107 Rupesh B Ramchandra Bih 5 148 Wadhwa Rehan Pun 4
27 Keshav Kothari Kar 7 68 Konatham Snehil AP 6 108 Aryan Anand Kar 5 149 Kartik Juneja Pun 4
28 Panda Sambit Odi 7 69 Arun Kataria Raj 6 109 Vraj N Shah Guj 5 150 Makul Singal Pun 3½
29 Sanket Chakravarty WB 7 70 Panchal Soham Guj 6 110 Rishabh Singh Asm 5 151 Mukul Rana Pun 3½
30 Esshan Wadhawan Del 7 71 Pasricha Jayan Pun 6 111 Dhineshwar R S Pon 5 152 Shiv Jindal Pun 3½
31 Namitbir Singh Walia Pun 7 72 Avinash Ramesh TN 6 112 Vibhaan Har 5 153 Utkrisht Tuli Pun 3½
32 Jaeel Atharva Mah 7 73 Bhattacharyya Soham WB 6 113 Adalja Samarth Guj 5 154 Rehaan Arora Pun 3½
33 Shah Jeet Mah 7 74 Ashvin Sharma Asm 6 114 Mayukh Abhigyan Das Asm 5 155 Aggarwal Aayush Pun 3½
34 Pranesh M TN 6½ 75 Ayush Sharma MP 5½ 115 Manthan Arora Pun 5 156 Ishaan Narang Chd 3½
35 Hiren K G TN 6½ 76 Chilukuri Sai Varshith Tel 5½ 116 Kushagra Agrawal Har 5 157 Prabhpreet Singh L Pun 3½
36 AIM Pati Spandan Tel 6½ 77 AFM Kaushik G Iyer Kar 5½ 117 Singla Utsav Pun 5 158 Gunjit Singh Pun 3½
37 AIM Kalur Nikhil Tel 6½ 78 Manthan Kashyap D Asm 5½ 118 Shishir Lamba Chd 5 159 Mahajan Samin Pun 3½
38 Sourath Biswas WB 6½ 79 Nikam Sudhanshu Mah 5½ 119 Shirodkar Aayush Goa 5 160 Om Arya Pun 3½
39 Krishna Raaju J TN 6½ 80 Mahek J Hinhoriya Mah 5½ 120 Ayaan Sabharwal Pun 5 161 Zorawar Singh Pun 3
40 Ranadheer B J S K AP 6½ 81 Darsh Kansal MP 5½ 121 Harshit Amarnani UP 4½ 162 Aditya Garg HP 3
41 Karthik Sai Ch Tel 6½ 82 Gupta Anshurup Kar 5½ 122 Dev Raj Bih 4½ 163 Utkarsh Aggarwal Pun 3
42 Samdani Sahil Sagar Guj 6½ 83 Dadwani Sahil MP 5½ 123 Vidit Jain Pun 4½ 164 Neil Nanak Singh Pun 3
43 Abinandhan R TN 6½ 84 Ishan Sanjay Pagi Goa 5½ 124 Sahu Om Aditya Cha 4½ 165 Shreyas Arora Pun 2½
44 Aviral Jaiswal UP 6½ 85 Arora Honi Raj 5½ 125 Aditya Jain Pun 4½ 166 Krishna Jindal Pun 2
45 Panwar Krish Navratan Guj 6½ 86 Tejas Cavale Kar 5½ 126 Sadbhav Rautela Utt 4½ 167 Aabid Sheeraz J&K 1½
46 Vallabh Kavi Mah 6½ 87 Siddhant Nath Jha Har 5½ 127 Anhat Singh Chd 4½ Final ranking:Girls
47 Manish Anto Cristiano TN 6 88 Jai Mehtani Har 5½ 128 Patel Jaymin J Guj 4½ Rk Name St Pts
48 Abhinessh S TN 6 89 Priyansh Sahu Cha 5½ 129 Ayushpreet Singh Pun 4½ 1 WCM Jyothsna L TN 10
49 Ruban Sanjay M TN 6 90 Rishi Sanotra Pun 5½ 130 Durvish Khurana Pun 4½ 2 WFM Divya Deshmukh Mah 9½
50 Debata Sarthak Odi 6 91 Manikya Negi UP 5½ 131 Yugraj Pun 4½ 3 WCM Mrudul Dehankar Mah 9
51 Anirudh Jain Del 6 92 Parikh Pratham Guj 5½ 132 Parmarth Pun 4½ 4 Rindhiya V TN 8
52 Tanmay Chopra Del 6 93 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Ds AP 133 Divyam Puri Pun 4½ 5 Bristy Mukherjee WB 7½
53 Banerjee Ashutosh Cha 6 5½ 134 Singh Dimpalvir Pun 4½ 6 Jain Nityata MP 7½

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July 2017 July 2017
7 Mehendi Sil WB 7½ 48 Anahita Verma Pun 6 Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, Nainital
8 Mishra Riya UP 7½ 49 Parikh Urvi Guj 5½
9 Tanvi Vasudev H Goa 7½ 50 Sreenidhi C V Ker 5½
Nazir Wajih is Champion
by R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter
10 Nayanikaa Muralidharan TN 7½ 51 Manodhya Prakrati MP 5½
T
11 Eesha Ajay Sarda Mah 7½ 52 Velpula Sarayu Tel 5½
he Nainital open fide rated chess tour- below 1400-1599 category. Ravi Mathur of
12 Savitha Shri B TN 7 53 Sinthia Sarkar WB 5½
namen-2017 held at The Zoom Land, UP secured first position , while Joshi J C of
13 Routray Priyanka Odi 7 54 Shivika Rohilla Del 5½
Nainital from 20th to 25th May 2017.A Delhi secured second position in best unrated
14 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal Goa 7 55 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo Guj 5½ total number of 144 players which included category, Chetan Sharma & Hemant Kr Pan-
15 Arushi Kotwal J&K 7 56 Yashika Singh Raj 5½ 100 rated players from across India partici- dey of UTT got first & second position in best
16 Adane Narayani Mah 7 57 Kapadia Hrishita Mah 5½ pated in this nine round event played under UTT male player, Ayushi Kandpal of UTT got
17 Aanya Agarwal Del 7 58 Varshini M AP 5½ FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of 90 first prize in best UTT female player, Neeraj
18 Sai Divya M AP 7 59 Paridhi Shrivastava MP 5½ minutes each with increment of 30 second Sah & Mohhamad Wasim got first & second
19 Samyukta Banthia Mah 7 60 Adreeja Sinha Asm 5½ from move 1. Mr. Nasir Wajih of Rly. Delhi in best nainital male players Dinesh Sinha of
20 Swara Hetal Shah Guj 7 61 Yamijala Koulini Jha 5½ with a rating of 2185 started as the top seed UP received prize of veteran category. Best
21 Ananya Rishi Gupta Mah 6½ 62 Nitya Singhania Pun 5½ for this Rs.2,00,000 prize money tourna- School Trophy first position Hold by Presidium
22 Abhirami Madabushi AP 6½ 63 Sharanya Vinayak A Mah 5 ment. Indipuram 2nd Sunbeam Suncity Varanasi,
23 WCM Dhyana Patel Guj 6½ 64 Pranitha S R Kar 5 3rd DPS Varanasi. Also all players get gift
Shri. S N Babul Kar, Adv. General of UTT & hamper from Mohini Tea. There was no pro-
24 Garima Gaurav Bih 6½ 65 Praneeta Tanwar Har 5
Syyed Nadeem “Moon” President of High test & players showed great sportsmanship.
25 Bhagyashree Patil Mah 6½ 66 Swetha Sree Lanka AP 5
Court Bar Association inaugurated the event
26 Sathwika N AP 6½ 67 Nimorika Sekhari Del 5
on 20th June 2017 by making the customary The highlight of the tournament was the se-
27 Divyabharathi M TN 6½ 68 Sivasri S TN 5
first move in presence of Mr R S Tiwari, IA Mr rene environment surrounding the hall on the
28 Navya Tayal Har 6½ 69 Kaushika Kumari Jha 5 D K Joshi Patron NDCA Mr. I D Tewari, Sec. bank of nainital lake nestled in the mountain
29 David Avril R Mah 6½ 70 Arunika Ghosh Tri 5 NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita Patel. peaks of Himalyas. The players were unani-
30 Bhushita Ahuja Del 6½ 71 Yukti Goswami Kar 5 mous in praise of hill station of Nainital & the
31 AIM Vysetty Sahithi Tel 6½ 72 Viswanathan Pavithra TN 5 The tournament saw the surge of famous organization of the tournament under the
32 Shah Jiya Mah 6½ 73 Vanshika Sachdeva Raj 5 player of Railways Mr Nasir Wajih as he re- NDCA & Chess Association of UTT.
33 Juhi Bajaj Har 6½ 74 Yashika Bansal Pun 5 corded eight point from possible nine rounds
34 AIM Sahithya G Tel 6 75 Rabhya Chhabra Pun 5 and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 41,000/- Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA NTL, Guest
35 Cera Dagaria MP 6 76 Mannat Aggarwal Pun 5 along with coveted trophy. While Two play- of Honour Adv Vijay Bhatt, Mrs Shanti Meh-
36 Deepthi Lakshmi K Kar 6 77 Jesica Del 4½ ers with seven and half points tied for the ra,Ex. State Minister, Rajeev Lochan Sah
37 Shreetu Bhavikbhai N Guj 6 78 Anchita Sharma Asm 4½ second spot but better buchholz tie break Journalist, Mr D K Joshi, Patron NDCA, Mr I
score helped Ajay Kr Rai of Delhi finished D tewari sec NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita
38 Yashasvi Gupta Raj 6 79 AFM Advaita Sharma K Tel 4½
as runner-up while Sudhir Kr Sinha of Bihar Patel jointly distributed prizes among winners
39 Vijayasubhasri S TN 6 80 Kannan Jain Pun 4½
finished third. Himanshu Moudgil of Delhi in a befitting closing ceremony.
40 Charishma Yadav Palla AP 6 81 Tvisha Mangesh Shah Mah 4½
satisfied with fourth. Final ranking
41 Tanisha A R Som Asm 6 82 Tushita Chopra Pun 4½
Rk Name Pts
42 Ishvi Aggarwal Har 6 83 Kapadia Prisha Mah 4½ D S Negi of Delhi secured First position, while 1 Wajih Nassir 8
43 Kaamyaa Negi Del 6 84 Gunjan Kanda Pun 4½ Bhandari Jitendra Singh of Delhi secured 2 Ajay Kumar Rai 7½
44 Shah Kritee Guj 6 85 Aggarwal Anushka Pun 4½ second position, in best below 1600-2000 3 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7½
45 Aditi Mukherjee Cht 6 86 Pearl Pun 4½ category. Sharma Vaibhav of Delhi caught 4 Himanshu Moudgil 7
46 Tiya Setia Pun 6 87 Manmeet Kaur Pun 4½ first position while Singh Ambesh Pratap of
5 Anil Shivpuri 7
47 Shreya Das Bih 6 88 Bhavya Rai Pun 4½ Delhi satisfied with second position, Best

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July 2017 July 2017
6 Soni Krishan 7 47 Neeraj Sah 5 ‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior Rating Chess Tournament 2017
7 Jatinder Kapoor 6½ 48 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5
8 Rishabh Nishad 6½ 49 Chirag Tayal 5
Anshul Nigam bags title
9 A K Kalshyan 6½ 50 Rakesh Khugsal 5 Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
17
10 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6½ 51 Anshul Bathla 5 th Jharkhand State Senior Fide 4 Nishant Kumar 6½
11 Deepak Rai 6½ 52 Kushagra Sharma 5 Rated Chess Championship 2017 5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 6½
12 Shami Vipin K. 6½ 53 Kabir Anand 5 held at Sarala Birala School Audi- 7 Kumar Utkarsh 6
13 Garv Rai 6½ 54 Yogesh Sharma 5 torium, Ranchi Jharkhand from 1st to 4th 8 Shubham Srivastava 6
14 Sanjay Sharma 6½ 55 Raghuraman V 5 June 2017 Organized by All Jharkhand 9 Ankit Kumar Singh 6
15 Rawat Abhishek 6½ Chess Association. Total Participant was 115 11 Kumar Sanu 5½
16 Mohammad Zubar 6½ Puzzle of the month including 67 players rated. They have come 12 Basant Khandelwal 5½
17 Katiyar Prashant 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan from different remote districts of Jharkhand.
13 Ashish Kumar Singh 5½
18 Rawat R.S. 6 The tournament was inaugurated by Mrs.
15 Pracheta Agarwal 5½
The retro this month is from one of the Richa Sanchita, Exe. President, AJCA. Mr.
19 Kartikey Verma 6 16 Saikat Dutta 5½
finest books ever written on retroana- S.K. Sinha, Secretary, BDCA, Mr. Himangshu
20 Suryakant Verma 6 17 Aman Choubey 5½
lytical problems’The chess mysteries of B. Chakraborty, Jt. Secretary, AJCA & Mr.
21 Sharma Vaibhav 6 19 Shaswata Paul 5½
Sherlock Holmes’ with lucid narratives Pritam Singh, CEO, AJCA, were also present.
22 Singh Ambesh Pratap 6 20 Prem Kumar 5½
by its author Raymond Smullyan, an
23 Chetan Sharma 6 American The Tournament Hall was air conditioned, 21 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
24 Dinesh Sinha 6 mathematician, a concert pianist, logi- spacious with sufficient toilet facilities. The 22 Ishant Kumar 5
25 Levanshu Khullar 6 cian and philosopher.In the puzzle below Organizers provided breakfast, lunch, & din- 23 Raja Bose 5
26 Negi D.S. 5½ it is black’s turn to move.The question is ner to all participants at very minimum cost. 25 Lokesh Kumar 5
27 Ashfaq Ahmad 5½ whether he can castle or not. Solution 27 Milan Kumar 5
28 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 5½ on page At the end of final round games Anshul Nigam
rating between 1001 and 1200
29 Kunal Kanchan 5½ Raymond Smullyan (7) bagged the Championship title with Cash
Rank Name Pts
30 Sharma Avinash 5½ The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Rs. 10000/- . Priyanka Kumar (7) & Alka
Das (6.5) secured second & third place and 1 Prem Kumar 5½
31 Sandeep Kumar 5½ 1979
bagged Rs. 8000/- & Rs. 6000/- respectively 2 Sunil Kumar Singh 5
32 Bhavnesh Taneja 5½
with better tie-break. In the Prize Distribution rating between 1201 and 1400
33 Hariom Solanki 5½
ceremony Mr. Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA, Mr. Rank Name Pts
34 Raj Prakhar 5½
Bhor singh Yadav, SDM, Ranchi, Mr. Pradip 1 Shaswata Paul 5½
35 Aditya Vaidya 5½
Kumar Verma, President, AJCA, & Mr. Pritam 2 Ishant Kumar 5
36 Bhandari Jitendra S 5½
Singh, CEO, AJCA were present and distrib-
37 Satvik Sharma 5½ uted the prizes to all prize winners. All Asstt. rating between 1401 and 1600
38 Hemant Kumar Pande 5 Arbiters did their job very well till last round Rank Name Pts
39 WFM Tanishka Kotia 5 games. NA Deepak Kumar and NA Prabhat 1 Aman Choubey 5½
40 Mohan Virwani 5 Ranjan Kumar get FA Norm Certificate from 2 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
41 Biswas M B 5 this tournament.
rating between 1601 and 1800
42 Malik Rajat 5 CATEGORY PRIZE LIST
Rank Name Pts
43 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 5 age group U25
Black to move 1 Kumar Sanu 5½
44 Cyrus Chhikara 5 Can black castle? Rk Name Pts
2 Manideep Mukhi 5
45 Parth Arora 5 1 Anshul Nigam 7
Solution On page 48
46 Ved Prakash 5 2 Priyanka Kumari 7

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July 2017 July 2017
Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur 10 Shrivastav Hritik 7 51 Arbaz Shekh 6½
11 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7 52 Narayan Joshi 6½
Ankit Chudasama emerges Champion 12 Vishal Vala 7 53 Polavaram Harsha 6
Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
13 Tohin Kumar Halder 7 54 Raval Mayur 6
T
he Chess in Lakecity club organised its third position after the completion of seven 14 Gaurav Jain 7 55 Nilesh Baldaniya 6
Summer Cup fide rated tournament rounds. In the penultimate round, Ankit 15 Kapil Sharma 7 56 Patil Aditi G 6
(below 1600 category) at the beautiful Chudasama continued his relentless march 16 Srivastav Harsh 7 57 Yogesh Sharma 6
Udaipur city from 13th to 15th June 2017. to record one more win to score 8/8. Seven 17 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 7 58 Walde Harshal 6
More than 475 players from Rajasthan, MP, players - Babel T Divyanshu and Norman 18 Badoni Nitin 7 59 Chauhan Narayan 6
Delhi, Punjab, UP, Haryana, Gujarat, Maha- Porwal of Rajasthan, Hritik Shrivatsav and 19 Pawar Harshit 7 60 Gupte Aradhya 6
rashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Eshaan Chandrol of MP, Amar Joyti Kakoti of 20 Bhawesh Pandiyar 7 61 Harsh Singh Senger 6
Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka Assam, Jitendra Mahale of Maharashtra and 21 Rohit Parmar 7 62 Rajagopalan 6
and West Bengal besides Singapore partic- Tarun Kumar Singh of UP were behind him 22 Singh Tarun Kumar 7 63 Senger Dharmender Singh 6
ipated in the three days nine round event. by one full point.
23 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 7 64 Vivek Kumar Singh Nanhe 6
The time format of the tournament was 30
24 Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary 7 65 Suryavanshi B L 6
minutes + 30 seconds increment for each Chudasama Ankit suffered his first loss in the
25 Suhaib Ahmad 7 66 Monika Sahu 6
move to each player. tournament at the hands of fifteen year old
26 Vijendra Kumar 7 67 Akshita Jain 6
Babel. Eshaan, Tarun Kumar and Naman also
Fifteen year old Dhruv Dak of the host club scored victories to tie with Ankit and Babel 27 Sheth Shemal Ketan 6½ 68 Sharma Kunal 6
Lakecity was the top seeded player of the for the top honours with 8 points each. Tie- 28 Barsaiya Aryan 6½ 69 Sahu M L 6
tournament with a rating of 1594, followed by breaks favoured Ankit Chudasama to bag the 29 Karthik Sorikh 6½ 70 Shashi Raj Saxena 6
Arun Kumar of Punjab. The second round saw title and Babel won the second place. Ankit 30 Swayam Gupta 6½ 71 Chhabra Kunal 6
the tumbling of the top seed at the hands of received Rs.30000/- and Babel Rs.20000/-. 31 Arun Kumar 6½ 72 Kanjar Kirtan Ketanbhai 6
Suryavanshi BL and fifth seed Gaha Narayan Sri. Chandra Singh Kotari, Mayor of Udai- 32 Udit Gupta 6½ 73 Parth Arora 6
of UP was held to a draw by young Deepak pur City was the chief guest for the final 33 Imran Hussain 6½ 74 Sahani Ram Prasad 6
Kataria of Rajasthan. Young players had no day function. Sri. Pramod Ji Samar and Sri. 34 Devansh Singh 6½ 75 Dheeraj Nihalani 6
respect for (higher rated) seniors and there Sanchal Agarwal were the guests of honour. 35 Depender Sangwan 6½ 76 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6
were upset galore in each and every round. The tournament was well organised by the 36 Bardoliwala Nirmal 6½ 77 Sanghavi Manoj 6
Sixteen players led with four points each at Lakecity Club in an air conditioned hall and
37 Rakesh Bhatti 6½ 78 Yadav Bateshwar Singh 6
the end of the fourth round. quality food was provided at an affordable
38 Maheshwari Prabhav 6½ 79 Srivastav Trisha 6
rate.
39 Arun Kataria 6½ 80 Chandwani Prateek 6
The lead was narrowed down to four players Final ranking
40 Sharma Vaibhav 6½ 81 Vraj Kayasth 6
after five rounds – Arun Kumar, Ankit Chu- Rk Name Pts
dasama of Gujarat, Gaurav Jain of Rajasthan 41 Vijay Jhanwar 6½ 82 Gourav Nigam 6
1 Chudasama Ankit 8
and Shrivstav Hritik of MP. In the sixth round, 42 Ashok Kumar Shukla 6½ 83 Rajkotia Shyam P 6
2 Babel T Divyanshu 8
Ankit accounted for Arun and Gaurav beat 43 Saurabh Jain 6½ 84 Jani Kushal R 6
3 Mahale Jitendra 8
Hritik, to share the lead with full 6 points. 44 Gautam Kataria 6½ 85 Varun Gera 6
4 Naman Porwal 8
Four new players were trailing the leaders by 45 Pandya Anilkumar M 6½ 86 Nimit Jain 6
5 Eshaan Chandrol 8
half point. Ankit defeated Gaurav and was the 46 Tekwani Jay Anilbhai 6½ 87 Ujjwal Deep 6
6 Raj Prakhar 7½
only player to register seven wins in a row. 47 Mishra Ashish 6½ 88 Harvinder Singh 6
7 Bhat Siddharth K 7½
Sheth Shemal Ketan of Gujarat prevailed over 48 Rishi Kumar Pandey 6½ 89 Aarush Gupta 5½
8 Utkarsh Agrawal 7½
Arun Kumar to move into sole second spot 49 Nitin Kumar Pandey 6½ 90 Abhishek Kumar Mishra 5½
with 6.5 points. Sixteen players were on the 9 Dinesh Pathak 7½
50 Kiaan Agrawal 6½ 91 Gaha Narayan 5½

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July 2017 July 2017
1stFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship 2017, Punjab 12 Joshi Gagan Deep 6½ 53 Mittal Tanmay 5
Pardeep Arora wins title 13

14
Chetan Bansal
Arjun Veer Singh
6½
6½
54
55
Jindal Panshul
Singh Ayushpreet
5
5
Varun Kumar, Chief Arbiter
15 Shubham Bhardwaj 6½ 56 Abhishek Bhargav 5
T
he 1rdFIDE Rated Punjab Chess 16 Marwaha Surinder 6½ 57 Rachit Kansal 5
Championship -2017 was held at the Priyanka From Ludhiana finished as best In 17 Love Verma 6½ 58 Divedi Chetan 5
Cambridge International School, Kot- women category, Bhaveshmahajan From Am- 18 Dhirain Vij 6 59 Amit Singh 5
kapura Bye Pass Moga (Punjab) from 08th ritsar was best player In U-11 Open, Dhirain 19 Jatinder Singh 6 60 Kirti Kumar 5
to 11thJune 2017. Vij From Jalandhar was best player In U-15 20 Pankaj Arora 6 61 Kansal Rajeev 5
Open, Shubham Bhardwaj From Ferozpur- 21 Ishaan Bansal 6 62 Arun Kumar 5
A total number of 161 Players which include was best player In U-19 Open, Tejinder Pal
22 Bhavesh Mahajan 6 63 Singla Manav 5
59 rated players from 14 Different Districts Singh Gill. From Ferozpur became the Best
23 Singla Utsav 6 64 Ravinder Singh 5
of Punjab participated in this 09 round event Unrated pPlayer in the championship,Utsav
24 Yudhveer Singh 6 65 Savi Julka 5
played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time Singla was best player In U-15 Open of Moga
25 Ramandeep Singh Gill 6 66 Kishore Nand 5
control of 60 minutes each with increment of District Prize,AbhaevPratap Singh Sodhi From
30 second from move 1. Mr.Arvinder Preet Moga was best player In U-19 Open Moga 26 Singh Himmat 6 67 Singh Sukhdeep 5
Singh of Ludhianawith a rating of 2108 start- District Prize 27 Bipin Dhingra 6 68 Davinder Singh 5
ed as the top seed for this Championship.With 28 Harshit Dhingra 6 69 Aastha Kapoor 5
Rs.23,900 Prize money of the tournament. Chief Guest Dr.Harjot Kamal (MLA Moga 29 Adarsh Bhanot 6 70 Goyal Saksham 5
Court) Guest of Honor Dr. Iqbal Singh (MD 30 Priyanka Vashisht 6 71 Kaur Parminder 5
Sh. Maheshinder Singh EX- MLA Chief Guest of Cambridge International School Moga),- 31 Rajan Dhiman 5½ 72 Datta Vani 5
(inaugurated the event on 08th June 2017 by Satwinder Kaur (Principal Cambridge Inter- 32 Aditya Jain 5½ 73 Bharat Khanna 5
making the customary first move in presence national School ),S. Bikramjit Singh Sandhu 33 Sharma Radhey Mohan 5½ 74 Laksh Bansal 4½
of Advocate RajanAggarwal, Mr.RaviPandit (President of Punjab State Chess Association) 34 Manthan Arora 5½ 75 Dhaliwal Tanish 4½
(EX-Director of Central Co-Operative Bank Rajinder Sharma (Secretary of Punjab State 35 Shobhit Dhingra 5½ 76 Bir Singh Raminder 4½
Moga) Mr.Vinod Sharma (Distt Secretary-Mo- Chess Association)Vinod Sharma, FA Varun
36 Ayaan Sabharwal 5½ 77 Akul Goel 4½
ga)& Chief Arbiter FA Varun Kumar. Kumar,NA Anuj Shingari jointly distributed
37 Raghav Bansal 5½ 78 Divyam Puri 4½
prizes among winners in a befitting closing
38 Singh Harsimranjeet 5½ 79 Singh Amritpal(1998) 4½
The tournament saw the surge of Amritsar ceremony.
39 Arjun Bhaskar 5½ 80 Abhaev Pratap Singh Sodhi 4½
Champion Mr.Pardeep Arora as he recorded Final ranking
eight points from nine rounds and pocketed 40 Rishabh Chawla 5½ 81 Gupta Deepit 4½
Rk Name Pts
a cash prize of Rs. 4,000/- along with cov- 41 Devang Singla 5½ 82 Gupta Prajwal 4½
1 Pardeep Arora 8
eted trophy. 42 Kapoor Divye 5½ 83 Neelam Bansal 4½
2 Shubham Shukla 7½
43 Rohit Kumar 5 84 Arora Nitish 4
3 Ashwani Kumar Grover 7
While AGM Shubham Shukla from Ludhiana 4 Singh Arvinder Preet 7
44 Tiya Setia 5 85 Paramraj Singh 4
with seven and half points secured the sec- 45 Rakesh Gupta 5 86 Paras Narang 4
5 Sharma Pankaj 7
ond postion. Better Buchholz tie break score 46 Lohia Rajat 5 87 Talwar Chander Shekhar 4
6 Love Jindal 7
helped Ashwani Kumar Grover FromMoga 47 Malika Handa 5 88 Bajaj Rahul 4
7 Amanpreet Singh 7
finished at Third Position.While Arvinder Preet 48 Samneet Munde 5 89 Singh Rajinder 4
8 Sukhjeet Singh Sivia 7
Singh from Ludhiana finished with fourth. 49 Durvish Khurana 5 90 Chehal Nikhil 4
They All are selected for 55th National Chal- 9 Gill Tejinder Pal Singh 7
50 Chandan Kapahi 5 91 Harmanpreet Singh Sandhu 4
lenger 2017 at Gujarat From 13th to 23rd 10 Singh Tejinder 7
51 Parmarth 2007 5 92 Mehak Khurana 4
August, 2017. 11 Singh Jagpreet 6½
52 Jindal Paarth 5

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July 2017 July 2017
7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai World Team Chess Championships 2017, Khanty Mansiysk,Russia
Al. Muthaiah wins Title Indian men and women finish fourth
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
The Indian men and women missed out on the podium by a whisker as they finished fourth
S
t.Joseph’s College Sponsored 7th St. in both the categories at the World Team Chess Championships.
Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess In the seventh round overnight leaders held The last round went well for both Indian men and women as they scored fine victories over
Tournament was organized by Mount to draw in a well fought game.Veteran Joy Norway and Azerbaijan respectively.However, the men lost the penultimate round against
Chess Academy at St. Joseph’s college of En- Lazer utilized his experience and hold higher Russia by 1.5-2.5 that cost them a medal.
gineering, Old Mamallapuram Road, Jeppiaar seeded Muthaiah.Vikramjit singh outwitted
Nagar, Chennai- 119, from 24th to 29thJune young Vinesh and joined the leaders with
2017. 6.5points.11players FM Karthik Vekatara-
man, Hemantraam, Ram S Krishnan, Vijay
This event had attracted 548 players from 13 Sreeram, Vaisnav, Selvamurugan, Vignesh,
states which includes 375 Fide rated players Balakannama, Tarunkanth, Alan Divya raj
took part in the 9 rounds Swiss tournament. and Vinodkumar were half point behind the
The total prize fund was Rs. 2, 00,000/- and leaders with 6points each.
prizes were given to the top fifty players and In the penultimate round Al.Muthaiah and Joy
five prizes each in the 8 categories. The En- Lazer jointly lead with 7.5ponts each. Muthai-
tire prize money was sponsored by St. Joseph ah showed his skill and defeated well experi-
Group of Institutions, Chennai enced Vikram Jit Singh of Manipur. Joy lazer
outplayed unfancied Vaisnav in one sided
This event was inaugurated by Dr.B.Babu battle. Three players Ram S Krishnan,Karthik
Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Joseph’s Venkatraman and Hemant Raam on second
group of educations on 24th June 2017 at spot with 7points each.
3.00P.M and he welcomed all players for the
7th Annual chess event and assured to host In the final and 9th round on the top table
this International fide rated event every year. AL.Muthaiah employed Caro-Kann against
The first round started at 3.30 P.M on 24th top seeded Fide Master Karthik Venkatara-
June2017. man and forced opponent to split point in
33moves.On the second board veteran player
At the end of the 5th Round 4 players includ- Joy Lazer was held to a draw by young He- The crucial match with Russia that changed Indian fortunesd
ing top seeded Tarunkanth, Muthaiah, Joy mant Raam in the Tarrash defence, Queens
Lazer and Vinothkumar of Pondy were lead- gambit in 24moves.On the third board IM The women were quite lucky to win the penultimate round against Vietnam as both D Hari-
ing with 5points each. Bunch of 14players norm holder Ram s Krishnan crushed S.Pras- ka and Tania Sachdev fought back from nearly lost positions to save the day for their side.
were trailing the leaders with 4.5points each. anna of Tamilnadu in 40moves.Ram S Kr-
ishnan opted centre counter gambit against Though Harika took a rest against Azerbaijan, it did not deter the Indian women from win-
At the end of the sixth round Muthaiah and Prasanna and went on to complicate middle ning comprehensively for a fourth place finish. This was a repeat of their performance in
Joy Lazer defeated overnight leaders Tarun game and checkmated the opponent. the previous edition of the championship held in China in 2015.
Kanth and Vinothkumar respectively and
jumped in to lead with 6points each.AGM Seven players FM Karthik Venkataraman,- China won the championship in the open section with 16 points while Russia finished second
Vignesh,Vikramjit Singh and Roshan were Vikramjit ingh,Hemant Raam, Alan Divya on 15 points. Poland snatched the bronze on 12 points, a point clear of the Indian men.
closely following the leaders with 5.5points Raj, BalaKannamma, Anilkumar and Akil The Indian men had also finished fourth in the last Chess Olympiad held in Azerbaijan in
each. were scored 7.5points each and they finished 2016.
Cont.on p.27 23
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The Chinese were clinical in the last round as they scored a 2.5-1.5 victory over Poland,
thanks to a fine victory by Li Chao on the fourth board. The Russians were ferocious as they
Shyam Sundar Wins Title
Maiden GM Norm For Iniyan
handed out a 4-0 defeat to the United States. By Arvind Aaron
For India, Grandmaster B Adhiban yet again shone and scored a fine victory with white
pieces against Johan Soloman while National champion Murali Karthikeyan proved too strong Teenaged and Erode’s only International Mas-
for Frode Elsness.On the other boards Vidit Gujarathi played out a draw against Aryan Tari ter P Iniyan started as seed 19 and finished
while Krishnan Sasikiran signed peace with Lars Oskar Hauge.In the women's section, the third and on course completed his maiden
Russians proved their supremacy over Ukraine defeating their neighbours 3-1. Grand Master norm at Montcada Open held
near Barcelona, Spain on July 3, 2017.
Trained by International Master norm holder K

Visweswaran of Chennai, Iniyan, born 2002,
completed his nine game GM norm in the
Barcelona Region of Spain.
Iniyan faced four GMs, and scored 2.5/4 beat-
ing top seed GM Evgeny Vorobiov of Russia.
and the second seed GM Fernando Peralta of
Argentina. He drew GM Shyam Sundar (Chennai) and lost to GM Burmakin (Rus). Iniyan
gains 27.4 Elo for his 6.5/9. He played at a stunning 2615, his career best result. Iniyan
is sponsored by “Olirum Erodu Foundation” , his school “The Indian Public School Erode”.
In the final round, Iniyan needed a draw for the norm while his opponent needed a win for
his norm. Many Indians thought Iniyan was losing but he managed to pull back and draw
for his maiden norm. He will need two more norms to complete the title requirement. Sig-
The Indian women's team: From left to Right - Three times National Champion Padmini nificantly, he became an International Master only this year.
Rout, First WGM of India S. Vijayalakshmi, one of the best women players India has ever Grand Master M Shyam Sundar of Chennai started as fourth seed and won the event re-
produced D. Harika, opening expert Eesha Karavade, and one of the most famous faces of maining undefeated on 7/9. He shared the first place with Russian Grand Master Vladimir
Indian chess Tania Sachdev. Burmakin. The players drew their mutual encounter. Iniyan was third on tie-break with 6.5
points. Former Indian champion P Konguvel finished ninth, further below on six points.
The Russian team won gold with 16 points, while the Chinese bagged silver with 13 points.
It was a three-way tie for the third spot with Georgia, India and Ukraine and as the tie The event attracted 109 players. Hosts, Spain with 42 players had more numbers than the
was resolved, the Georgians came out on third spot, thanks to 1.5 game points more than large number of 30 Indians. However, Indians took two thirds of the podium in this 19-nation
India. Ukraine finished fifth. event. This event had 10 Grand Masters, 15 International Masters and 64 titled players.
Results after Round 9 open: Norway (2) lost to India (11) 1-3 (Aryan Tari drew with Vidit Untitled B.C.P. Prasad, 21-year old, impressed with 6/9 and played at 2471 Elo, good for
Gujarathi; B Adhiban beat Johan Soloman; Frode Elsness lost to Murali Karthikeyan; Krishnan the International Master norm. Prasad gained 30.80 Elo.
Sasikiran drew with Lars Oskar Hauge); Ukraine (6) beat Egypt (0) 2.5-1.5; Turkey (10) Leading Indian rating gainers: Anuj Shrivatri (+116.80), Vardan Nagpal (+101.60), Jijo Joy
lost to Belarus (8); Russia (15) beat USA (8) 4-0; China (16) beat Poland (12) 2.5 -1.5. (+98.80), Avdhoot Lendhe (+98.40), Sapale Saloni (+83.20), M.L. Abhilash Reddy (+53.60).
Women: Azerbaijan (5) lost to India (12) 1-3 (Gunay Mammadzada beat Tania Sach- Final placings (top 10): 1-2. GM M Shyam Sundar, GM Vladimir Burmakin (Rus) 7/9 each;
dev; Eesha Karavade beat Gulnar Mammadova; Ulviyya Fataliyeva lost to Padmini Rout; 3-8. IM P Iniyan, IM Asis Gargatagli (Esp), GM Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus), IM Miguel Santos
S Vijayalakshmi beat Khanim Balajayeva); Russia (16) beat Ukraine (12) 3-1; Vietnam (Esp), GM Cristobal Henriquez (Chi), IM Kevel Olivia (Cub) 6.5 each; 9-10. IM P Konguvel,
(5) lost to Poland (9); Georgia (12) beat USA (6) 3-1; China (13) beat Egypt (0) 3-1. FM Dmitriy Volkov (USA) and others 6 each.
Photos:courtesy chessbase india
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Wesley So Beats Anand for Leon title fourth to tenth respectively on tie break. 28 Selvamurugan B 6½
Wesley So, formerly of the Philippines beat many time champion Viswanathan Anand by Shri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee, Weight lifter 29 Gowtham K K 6½
3.5-2.5 to win the City of Leon Chess Tournament in northern Spain on July 10. and Dr B.Babu Manoharan, Chairman & Man- 30 Vijay Shreeram P 6½
Wesley So has great amount of respect for Vishy Anand. He has said this openly in the past aging Director, St.Joseph’s Group of Institu- 31 Ayushh Ravikumar 6½
that he has learnt a lot from the five-time World Champion and his games. That's why the tions distributed the prizes to the winners. 32 Vigneshwaran S 6½
youth versus experience battle between So and Anand in the finals of the 30th Leon Masters I thank all my fellow Arbiters for their ded- 33 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½
2017 was looked forward to with great interest by chess fans all over the world. The rapid icated team who helped in organized this 34 Sanjay D G 6½
section of four games ended with a 2-2 tie. However, Wesley managed to win the match by event very well without any dispute. My
35 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 6½
scoring a win in the blitz. In his first appearance at the Leon Masters, Wesley So goes back sincere thanks to AICF, TNSCA & KDCA and
36 Mohan Ram Sridhar 6½
home with the winner's trophy! V.Ravichandran, Secretary, Mount Chess
37 Abishek A 6½
Wesley So, living in the USA with a huge scholarship won the fifth game and drew the rest Academy for the successful conduct of this
Annual event. 38 Godson Merlin E 6½
for the title. In the all decisive game, So won a crucial
Final ranking 39 Nikhil M 6½
pawn and Anand resigned early by move 23.
Rk Name Pts 40 Aswin Kumar B S 6½
In the earlier rounds, Anand beat 20-year old Spainish
IM Jaime Santos by coming from behind. In the other 1 Muthaiah Al 8 41 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6½
semifinals, So beat Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland. 2 Joy Lazar M.A. 8 42 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½
World No.2 Wesley So (born Oct 9, 1993) won the 3 Ram S. Krishnan 8 43 Subash Mathivanan 6½
event representing the United States. Anand, 47, has 4 Karthik Venkataraman 7½ 44 Badavath Anand 6½
won the Torneo de Magistral most number of times. 5 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½ 45 Singaram P.L. 6½
In 2016, Anand had beaten Chinese prodigy Wei Yi for 6 Hemanth Raam 7½ 46 Thamizharasan J 6½
his ninth title. 7 Alan Diviya Raj 7½ 47 Kabhilan S 6½
8 Bala Kannamma P 7½ 48 Rohit Vassan S 6½
P.R.Venketrama Raja elected as President of All India Chess Federation
9 Anilkumar O.T. 7½ 49 Nandha Visakan 6½
Shri.P.R.Venketrama Raja was unanimously re-elected as President of the All
10 Akil A S J 7½ 50 Anurag Jaiswal 6½
India Chess Federation for the term 2017 - 2020 during the Annual General
Body Meeting held at Chennai on 25.6.2017. 11 Aravindaswami T 7 51 Shvetha V 6½
12 Roshan S 7 52 Ranjith R.K. 6½
The list of other office bearers elected unopposed is given below:
13 Shakthi Vishal J 7 53 Aasha C R 6½
Hon.Secretary Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan Delhi 54 Subash Sanker D M 6½
14 Vignesh B 7
Treasurer Mr.Kishor M.Bandekar Goa 55 Shyam Kumar M 6½
15 Manu David Suthandram R 7
Vice Presidents Mr.D.V.Sundar Tamilnadu 16 Thamaraiselvi P 7 56 Gugan G 6½
Mr.A.Bhakthavatchalam Pondicherry 17 Kanishk S K 7 57 Akash Lal O 6½
Mr.A.Narasimha Reddy Telangana 18 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 7 58 Kannan.V 6½
Mr.Sekhar Chandra Sahu Orissa 19 Anup Shankar R 7 59 Raj Kamal S 6½
Mr.G.Bhasker Andaman 20 Anandha Venkatesan 7 60 Shaktivel Selvaraj 6½
Mr.Manoj Itkelwar Maharashtra 21 Watson Solomon Nathaniel 7 61 Arun R 6½
Joint Secretaries Mr.R.Hanumantha Karanataka 22 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½ 62 Vignesh N 6
23 Tarun V Kanth 6½ 63 Harsh Suresh 6
Mr.Kapil Saxena Madhya Pradesh
24 Vaisnav M 6½ 64 Bhaskar Teja K V 6
Mr.Atanu Lahiri Bengal
25 Bipin Raj S 6½ 65 Gokulraj K 6
Mr.Th.B.Singh Meghalaya
26 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6½ 66 Subham Saha 6
Mr.Naresh Sharma Haryana
27 Prasannaa.S 6½ 67 Aravind Matthews A C T 6
Mr.Bhavesh Patel Gujarat
68 Sivakumar C. 6
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4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Trichy 5 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6½ 46 Preejesh S B 5½
6 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 47 Raghavendra G 5½
Hirthickkesh wins title 7 Kamalanathan R 6½ 48 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5½
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter
8 Sathya Giri V 6½ 49 Punit Easwar S 5½
H
irthickkesh PR of Neyveli, Tamilnadu On 29th evening at 6.30 Pm the Prize Dis- 9 Harshad S 6½ 50 Thoufeeq S 5½
became the champion of 4thTrichy All tribution function was held, the Chief Guests 10 Kumar S. 6½ 51 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½
India Open Fide Rated Chess Tourna- are Mr.N.Nallusamy Chairman, Cauvery Engg. 11 Dhanasekar K. 6½ 52 R Venkatasubramani 5½
ment, with 7/8 points on better tie-break. College, Ex.Minister, Governmant of Tamil- 12 Alaguraja M.A. 6 53 Srimozhi S 5½
Mr .PR. Hirthickkesh, 1st Prize, Mr. S.S. nadu Mr. Dr. N. Senthikumar, Vice Chair- 13 Shyam Sundar M 6 54 Sangeetha P 5½
Manikandan, 2nd Prize, Mr. N. Surendran, man, Cauvery Engg.College, All the above 14 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6 55 Muthu Paramaguru M 5½
3rd Prize, Mr. S.P.K .Arul Anandh, 4t Prize Guests distributed 136 Prizes in total, in the 15 Abhijith M 6 56 Kanish Vikraman Adithan B 5½
all form Tamilnadu, were tied for the 1st presence of Mr.T.Sundarrajan, Secretary, 16 Mohith R 6 57 Iniyan Sivakumar 5½
Place with 7/8 points but on better tie-break Trichy District Chess Association &Mr.R.K.
17 Rajasekaran P. 6 58 Gopinath P 5½
Hirthickkesh became the Champion of this Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter of this
18 Shanmugasundaram G. 6 59 Balu P 5½
Tournament, which was held from 23rd to Event and Jt.Sec.,TNSCA, Mr.R.Selvam,
19 Aswin Babu J 6 60 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½
26th June 2017 at Cauvery College of Engi- Presedient, Rockfort Chess Academy, Mr.PL.
neering & Technology, Trichy. Kannan, Jt.Sec., Saamrats Chess Academy. 20 Kiruthika B 6 61 Shreevathsan B S 5½
Mr.M.Iravatham of Rockfort Chess Academy 21 Nirmal L 6 62 Saravanan R 5½
The event was inaugurated by Dr.Mrs. Welcomes the gathering. 22 Vaisalie K 6 63 Aadarsh Sridharan 5½
RameswariNallusamy, Founder & Trustee, The total Prize Money of the Event is Rs. 23 Gokul S 6 64 Nikhil K 5½
Cauvery Engg.College with Mr. Yogit of 2,00,000/- , The Organisers also gave ad- 24 Balaji P 6 65 Kharunya C.S. 5½
Chennai, the top seed of this event, on 23rd ditional special prize to all Under-7 Players. 25 Kumaresh A 6 66 Keerthivasan P 5½
June at 10.00 AM, Mr.N.Nallusamy Chair- 26 Govindarajan Suganthi 6 67 Kamarajan B 5½
man, Cauvery Engg.College, Ex.Minister, The Tournament was conducted smoothly 27 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 6 68 Gayathri M 5
Governmant of Tamilnadu Presides over the without any protest in a well-organized man- 28 Shri Bharath B 6 69 Abhinav Bhatt 5
Inaugural Function. The Guests were Mr. Dr. ner and for this I have to thank the Cauvery 29 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6 70 Chandra Sekharan A P 5
N. Senthikumar, Vice Chairman, Dr. N. Arun- College of Engineering & Technology Manage- 30 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6 71 Ram Kailash Pl 5
kumar, Secretary, Cauvery Engg.College, Mr. ment, AO, PD & all other Staff members for
31 Priya Varshini T 6 72 Sharan Krishnan 5
MV Hariharan, Divisional Manager, Canara providing Venue, food at concessional rates
32 Sriram B 6 73 Kumaran Sachidhanandam 5
Bank, Mr.N.Kannan, Andavar Water, Trichy, and good accommodation to players. I must
33 Saravanan A 6 74 Aakash G 5
R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint Secretary TN- also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches,
SCA, T.Sundarrajan, Secretary,Trichy District Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters for 34 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 75 Soundariya Lakshmi G 5
Chess Association their Kind Co-operation to conduct the event 35 Sreenivasan N 6 76 Bargava Narasimhan S 5
successfully. I must thank AICF, TNSCA & 36 Anselm Flavian Paul 6 77 Leaha B 5
This event was organized by Rockfort Chess TDCA for giving me the chance to work as a 37 Sathyanarayanan S. 5½ 78 Mohana Praba R B 5
Academy & Saamrats Chess Academy, Total Chief Arbiter in this wonderful Chess Tour- 38 Balaguru B 5½ 79 Sivasubramanian S 5
401 Players (246 rated players, 155 unrated nament. 39 Siva A C 5½ 80 Prawin K 5
players) from 6 States participated in this Final ranking 40 Suganthan S 5½ 81 Sivaa G M 5
event. Mr. S.Yogit of Tamilnadu was the top Rk Name Pts 41 Mukhesh C 5½ 82 Adithya A Chullikkad 5
seed of this event. The youngest player was 1 Hirthickkesh Pr 7 42 Devaraja G 5½ 83 Subash R 5
six Year old girl and the oldest was aged 2 Manigandan S S 7 43 Nitin M Pai 5½ 84 Balakowshi D S 5
seventy. 3 Surendran N 7 44 Vinay R Jumani 5½ 85 Aswath S 5
4 Arul Anandh S P K 7 45 Sreejith V S 5½

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45th WB State Junior(U-19) Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017 35 Aditya Datta 5 76 Kingsuk Dey Sarkar 3½
36 Saptorshi Gupta 4½ 77 Sagar Das 3½
Koustuv Kundu and Shyamashree Sarkar win titles 37 Sougata Singha 4½ 78 Raj Ghosh 3½
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
38 Arman Siddique 4½ 79 Aranya Lala 3½
T
39 Anutosh Mukherjee 4½ 80 Snigdharup Bagchi 3½
he 45th State Junior (Boys & Girls) Final ranking: Boys
Fide Rated Chess Championship 2017 40 Rounak Guha Roy 4½ 81 Abhirup Das 3½
Rk Name P ts
organized by Jalpaiguri District Chess 41 Debaprabho Gorai 4½ 82 Aditya Pan 3
1 Kaustuv Kundu 7½
Association under auspices of Bengal Chess 42 Soham Roy 4½ 83 Subham Chaudhuri 3
2 Rounak Pathak 6½
Association, was held at ‘Town Hall Audito- 43 Agrawal Rishab 4½ 84 Pramit Sarkar 3
3 Pritam Bhattacharya 6½
rium, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, from 24th 44 Subhadeep Das Burman 4½ 85 Rounak Malakar 3
4 Utsab Chatterjee 6
to 27th June 2017 with 143 players (119 in 45 Mouhurtik Ray 4½ 86 Nabarka Das 3
5 Sambarta Banerjee 6
Boys section and 24 in Girls section). In the 46 Nairwit Roy 4½ 87 Saptak Chakraborty 3
6 Neelash Saha 6
inauguration ceremony IM Atanu Lahiri, Sec- 47 Yudhajit Saha 4½ 88 Kritartha Barman 3
7 Ganguly Ritabroto 6
retary, BCA ,Mr. Nantu Paul, Secretary, Dar- 48 Samyak Dharewa 4½ 89 Samadarshi Pramanik 3
jeeling District Chess Association, Mr. Anand 8 Praloy Sahoo 6
49 Shourya Roy 4½ 90 Kingshuk Roy 3
Rai, Secretary, Jalpaiguri District Chess 9 Sarbojit Paul 6
50 Srinjoy Sarkar 4 91 Biraj Paul 3
Association, Chief Arbiter of the tournament 10 Anustoop Biswas 5½
51 Sourjya Mukherjee 4 92 Devraj Chakraborty 3
Mr. Asit Baran Choudhury, I.A. were present. 11 Souhardo Basak 5½
52 Sayan Biswas 4 93 Aritra Roy Prodhan 3
12 Ritwick Pal 5½
53 Diptam Roy 4 94 Nilarnab Barman 3
The tournament was played in 8 round Swiss 13 Shrutarshi Ray 5½
league format. DGT chess clocks were pro- 54 Jit Modak 4 95 Saraswat Roy 3
14 Sounak De (1) 5½
vided to all the chess boards in both Boys 55 Manish Mandal 4 Final ranking:Girls
15 Soham Dey 5½
and Girls section. All the Arbiters & volun- 56 Arkaprava Das 4 Rk Name Pts
16 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5½
teers performed their duties sincerely and 57 Arrya Das 4 1 Shyamashree Sarkar 6
17 Krish Kedia 5½
satisfactorily. 58 Subhankar Kar 4 2 Shinjini Sengupta 6
18 Hrithik Chatterjee 5½
59 Sugato Chakraborty 4 3 Sudipa Haldar 5
19 Aritra Ganguly 5½
At the end of the final round Koustuv Kundu 60 Avigyan Ghosh 4 4 Prateeti Gorai 5
20 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 5½
(7.5) clinched the Championship title in Boys 61 Srijit Saha 4 5 Diya Chowdhury 5
21 Bipra Nath 5½
Section, Rounak Pathak (6.5) & Pritam Bhat- 62 Zeeshanur Rahaman 4 6 Anushka Gupta 4
tacharya (6.5) placed 2nd & 3rd respectively 22 Prabuddha Sarkar 5
63 Dhrubajyoti Barman 4 7 Kriti Mundhra 4
on better tie break). In the Girls Section 23 Dhritabrata Kundu 5
64 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 4 8 Rupkatha Malakar 4
local girl Shyamashree Sarkar(6) placed 1st 24 Sayantan Das 5
65 Buddhadipta Ghosh 4 9 Srijana Bhowmik 4
position on better tie break. 1st Runner up 25 Rajarshi Mandal 5
66 Priyangshu Karmakar 4 10 Manidipa Roy 3½
Shinjini Sengupta(6) & Sudipa Halder(5) on 26 Tarafder Arghadeep 5
67 Soumya Ranjan Sarkar 4 11 Shaoni Mukherjee 3½
3rd spot 27 Debanjan Ghosh 5
68 Arion Singha 4 12 Trisha Bhattacharyya 3½
28 Saayan Dutta 5
In the Prize distribution ceremony, prizes 69 Deboushnik De 4 13 Priya Mondal 3½
29 Soumyadip Deb 5
were distributed by Swami Shibpremanan- 70 Ariya Roy 4 14 Shiny Ghosh 3½
30 Akshit Bose 5
da, Pride of Northbengal Padmasree Karimul 71 Soumyadeep Raha 4 15 Shinjini Biswas 3
31 Sayan Sarkar 5
Haque.The organizers were very active dur- 72 Tanishq Majumder 4 16 Raina Das Gupta 3
32 Anjishnu Mondal 5
ing the whole tournament. They provided 73 Sourav Saha 4 17 Shreyashi Mukherjee 3
33 Aahwan Paul 5
food, tea & snacks to all the participant & 74 Soumajit Singha 4 18 Debadrita Dutta 3
34 Subhrajit Saha 5
guardians at very cheap cost. 75 Rajdeep Dutta 3½ 19 Sumedha Das 3

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Selected games from 10th Mumbai 28.Bd2 Nf4 29.Bxf4 exf4 30.Nbd2 Qd5
31.Qb6 Qc5 32.Qxc5 Rxc5 33.Re7 Bd5µ]
19.Re2 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Bd6 21.Rec2
Qg5 22.Qf3 Re4 Black has the freer posi-
Mayor GM Open 27...Nxd3 A nasty surprise which takes tion. 23.Rxc7?
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron advantage of the awkwardly huddled
white forces. 28.Qxd3 e4 29.Qb3 exf3
Hossain,Enamul (Ban) (2464) Ra- 30.gxf3
ja,Rithvik R (2155) [B50]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 g6

5.0–0 Bg7 6.Re1 0–0 7.Bf1 Nc6 8.h3
e5 9.a3 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Bb5 35...Ba4!! This vacates the long white diag-
Nde7 12.d3 h6 13.Be3 b6 14.b4 cxb4 onal for his 'Nimzowitsch' queen to capture on
15.axb4 Bb7 16.Ra2 a6 17.Ba4 Nd5 f3 and mate on g2. 36.Bxc7 [White's position
18.Bc1 b5 19.Bb3 Kh7 20.Rae2 f5 has become hopeless. If 36.Qxa4 Qxf3 (the
21.Bd2 Rc8 22.c4? [White has allowed mate on g2 cannot be averted.) 37.Ne3 [Probably, white under-estimated his 17-
black to develop aggressively. Now he Nxh3+ 38.Kh2 Be5+] 36...Bxc2 37.Bxf4 year old WIM opponent. Better was 23.b4 a6
must try to equalise the position by Bd3? [Best was the obvious: 37...Qxf3 24.Rc6 f5 25.a4 Rf8 26.Kh1 making black's
solving the problem of his backward c- 38.Rxc2 Qxf4 39.Ra2 Bc3 40.Re3 Rd1+ plan of f5-f4 very difficult.] 23...Bxc7
and d-pawns. 22.Na3 Nc7 23.Qc2 Qd7 Diagram # 30...Qa8?! [This is a Nimzow- 41.Kg2 Bd4 42.Rf3 Qc1!] 38.Re3 Rd4 24.Rxc7 Qg6 25.Ba3 f5 26.Qe2 [This
24.Nb1 Rfd8 25.Qa2!? Qxd3 26.Bg5! itschian move! Probably, black has been 39.Nb6 Qb7 40.Be5? Bxe5 41.Rxe5 plans to attack the d5 pawn with Qb5. After
e4 (26...hxg5 27.Nxg5+ Kh6 28.Nf7+ looking up games by Nimzowitsch who Qxb6 42.Bd5 h5! 43.Re7+ Kh6 44.Bf7 26.Rd7 Qe6 27.Rd6 Qf7µ Black not only has a
Kh7 29.Rd2+-) 27.Bxd8 (27.Rd2 Qxd2 liked to place his queen on a1 with the Bc4 This makes absolutely sure that white rook for bishop and pawn but also a very firm
28.Nbxd2 Rd3 29.Be6 Rf8 30.Bf4 exf3 white pieces and attack the centre. Here, does not get to play R1e6. 0–1 control over the centre.] 26...a6!? [Black
31.Bxc7 Bxc3 32.Qb3 Nd4 33.Bg8+ Rxg8 this idea was not necessary. He could Laxman,R.R (2421) Chitlange,Sak- can brilliantly win with: 26...f4! 27.Qb5
34.Re7+ Rg7 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Be5+ gain an advantage by continuing nor- shi (2096) [E17] Rd8 28.exf4 Rxf4 29.Be7 a6! 30.Qxa6 Re8
Kf8 37.Bxd4+-) 27...Qxd8= 28.Rd2 mally: 30...Re8 31.h4!? (for 32 h5) 31... When Sakshi Chitlange won the World 31.Bb4 Qg4 32.Qb5 Qf3+ 33.Kh3 Qe4! (This
Qe7 29.Kh1=] 22...bxc4 23.Bxc4 Rxe6 32.Rxe6 Qxh4 33.Rc1 Rd7 34.Rc4 Women's Amateur Championship (open to not only defends her Re8, but also threatens
Nb6 24.Be6 Rc7 25.Be3 Nd5 26.Qb3 Qh3–+ Black's pieces are all well posted players rated Under 2300) in Singapore, a deadly, and surprising, mate in two with
Ncxb4 27.Bd2? and bristling with threats. One idea would 2014, she was automatically made a Wom- 34...Rh4+!! 35 gxh4 Qf3#!!) 34.Rc3 Qf5+
be for his Nd5 to vacate that square so an International Master. Born in 2000, she 35.Kg2 Rxf2+ mates.] 27.Qc2 Re6 [27...
that Bxf3 is possible. White's main draw- was only 14 at that time. Now at 17, she is Ree8!³] 28.Bb4 Diagram # [White should
back is his Nb1 which is not contributing to half the age of the Tamil Nadu Grandmaster have tried: 28.Rd7!? which would have pre-
his defence.] 31.Na3 [White's position is R.R.Laxman who was himself a child prodigy. sented both sides with attractive ways of
so bad that it is difficult to suggest a better This instructive and impressive game demon- both winning and losing! 28...Rc6 29.Qe2 f4!
move. For example, if: 31.Ba5 Rc5 32.Qa3 strates the enormous chess strength of Sakshi 30.exf4 (30.Rxd5? Rc2 31.Qf3 fxe3 32.Rd6
Rxa5 33.Qxa5 Nf4 34.Rd2 Re8–+] 31...Rb8 Chitlange. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 e6 3.Bb2 b6 Qe8 33.Qd5+ Kh8 34.Re6 Rxf2+ 35.Kh3 Qc8
32.Nc4 Bc6 33.Qd3 (white wants to be 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0–0 0–0 7.c4 36.Qe5 Rf6 37.d5 Rh6+ 38.Kg4 Rxh2–+)
in touch with his weak f3 pawn.) 33...Rd8! d5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.d4 Nbd7 10.Nc3 30...Rc2 31.Qf3 (31.Qe5? Qe4+ 32.Kh3 Qxe5
34.Ba5 [Perhaps a little better was 34.Bxd5 Re8 11.e3 Ne4 12.Rc1 Ndf6 13.Nd2 33.fxe5 Rxa2 34.Be7 Rxf2 35.Rxd5 Rf3 36.Rd7
Bxd5 35.Nb6 Qc6 36.Nxd5 Rxd5 37.Qa3 Rcd7 Nxc3 14.Rxc3 Bb4 15.Rc2? [15.Rc1 gave (Protecting the b-pawn would allow black to
38.Re6 Qc4–+ Black will welcome entering a black only a negligible advantage.] 15...Ba6 take the initiative on the queen-side: 36.b4? a5
pawn up, rook and bishop endgame.] 34... 16.Re1 Bd3 17.Rc1 Ne4! 18.Nxe4 Bxe4 37.bxa5 bxa5 38.Kg4 Re3 39.Kf4 Re2 40.Rc5
Diagram # [Better was: 27.Bxd5 Nxd5 Nf4 35.Qc2 Diagram # [Better was: 18...dxe4 19.Bc3 Ba3 20.Ra1 a4µ) 36...Rxb3 37.d5 Re3 38.e6 Re5 (38...b5?
Qd6 and black has a promising advantage.] 39.Bc5!± Re4 40.e7 Re8 41.d6+-) 39.Ba3

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Re8 40.Bb2 Rg5=) 31...Qe4 32.Rxd5 Qxf3+ Black prevents the white king from crossing 14.Bxe6!?N [This launches the game into his resources into the attack to clinch the
33.Kxf3 Rxa2 34.Bd6 Rd8!] over to the queen-side to prevent her b-pawn extreme complications. 14.Bc3 has been tried game effortlessly. 25...Qf7 26.Qd6! In
from queening. Premature would be: 52... here earlier in M.Raeber vs H.Hugo in the such a situation, with two extra pawns, a
Rc4+?! 53.Rxc4 bxc4 54.Kd4 Rc7 55.e4 c3 Canarias in 2004. White won in 28 violent beginner would tend to exchange off queens
56.h5 c2 57.Bc1 Rc8 58.Kd3 and black will moves!] 14...fxe6 15.Qxe6 Qd7?! [The and simplify. But a good player would try to
find it very difficult to win.] 53.Kf3 Kd5 best defence for black is: 15...Rf8 16.Bb4 Rf7 find the quickest way to execute mate. Now
54.Rb2 [If 54.Rd4+ Kc6 55.Re4 Rb7 56.Rb4 17.Re3 Na6 18.Bxe7 (18.Ba3 Kf8–+) 18... the threat is 27 Qd8# 26...Nd7
Rc2 57.Bf4 Kc5 and black is ready to victori- Rxe7 19.Qg8+ Kd7 20.Rxe7+ Kxe7 (20...
ously push her b-pawn without any further hin- Qxe7? 21.Qxa8+-) 21.Qg7+ Kd6 22.Qxb7
drance.] 54...Kc4 Further play is easy to un- Nc7 23.Qb4+ Kd7 24.Re1 Rb8µ] 16.Qxf6
derstand. 55.Ke2 b4 56.Rc2+ Kb5 57.Rb2 Rf8 17.Qg7 Rf7 18.Qg8+ Rf8 So far,
Ka4 58.Ra2+ Kb3 59.Ra8 Kc2 60.Ra2+ black has done well to survive, putting up a
Kb1 61.Ra4 b3 62.e4 b2 63.Be3 Rc2+ dogged resistance. White has a slight advan-
28...Rae8 29.Qd3 Qg4 30.h3 [If 30.Qxa6 64.Ke1 Rc6 65.Bd4 Kc2 66.Bxb2 Kxb2 tage as he has two pawns for his sacrificed
f4! 31.exf4 Rh6 32.h4 Rxh4 33.Re7 Qh3+ 34.Kf3 67.Ke2 Kb3 68.Ra5 Rf7 69.Rg5 Rc2+ bishop. However, Black is uncomfortable
Rxe7 35.Bxe7 Qh1+! 36.Ke2 Qe4+ 37.Kd2 70.Ke3 Rcxf2 71.Rxg7 Rxg7 72.Kxf2 as her king is caught in the centre and her
Qxd4+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Kd2 Rh6³ Now, it is Rg4! 73.Ke3 Kc4! The h-pawn can wait as it queen-side yet to be developed. 19.Qb3!
easier than before for black to attack the white cannot get away. First, black frustrates white Kd8? Diagram # [This immediately loses to a
king which has been smoked out of its castled by not allowing him any play. 74.h5 Rh4 0–1 short brilliant attack. Somewhat better was:
position.] 30...Qe4+ 31.Qxe4 fxe4 32.Rd7 Karthik,Venkataraman (2317) Pri- 19...Bf7 20.Qc3 Rg8 (20...Bd5 21.Bg5 Rf7 27.Bf4! [The game has a beautiful finish after:
Rc8 Black prepares to invade the white po- yanka,K (2067) [B01] 22.Ne5+-) 21.Bg5 Rxg5 22.Nxg5 Bd5 27.Bf4 Nb6 28.Re8+!! Qxe8 29.Qc7#] 1–0
sition through ...Rc2. 33.Bd6 Rf6 34.Be5 1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 dxe4 3.Nxe4 Qd5 4.Nc3 23.Qe3 Kd8 24.Nxh7 Qd6± Neelotpal,Das (2438) Singh,Neha
Rf7 35.Rxd5 Rc2 36.Bf4 Rxa2 37.g4 Qa5 5.d4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Bc4 c6 8.Bd2 (1922) [E60]
Rb2 38.b4 h6 39.Rd8+ Rf8 40.Rd7 Rf7 e6 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.Nxf6+ gxf6 [10...Qxf6 So far, black has played well to hold the
41.Rd8+ Kh7 42.Ra8 Rxb4 43.Rxa6 11.Bc3=] 11.Qe2 This is a well-known pawn Grandmaster to equality. But now she errs,
Rb7! The rook belongs behind the passed offer in the Centre Counter Defence which though the error is difficult to spot. But the
pawn is a general endgame rule which should is known in Europe as the Scandinavian Grandmaster saw further.
not be forgotten. 44.d5 [To be considered Defence. For the pawn, white gets a lot of
here was: 44.f3 exf3+ 45.Kxf3 b5 46.Ra1 attacking chances. 11...Bxc2 One has to
Ra4³] 44...Rb5 45.Ra4 Rxd5 46.Rxe4 live dangerously after grabbing the pawn and
b5 47.Rb4 Rc5 48.Kf3 Kg6 49.h4 Kf6 lagging behind in development. But the lure
50.g5+ hxg5 51.Bxg5+ Ke6 52.Ke4 of a pawn is always very tempting! 12.0–0
Be7 13.Rfe1 Bg6
White's rook and three pawns are not nec-

essarily superior to black's two bishops but
Black's real problem is her uncastled king and
her non-performing rook on a8.]20.Rxe7!!
Kxe7 [20...Qxe7?? 21.Bg5+-] 21.Bg5+! Kd6 32...e4? [Leading to equality was: 32...Rxa4
22.Qb4+ Kc7 23.Qxf8 Qe8 [If 23...b6 24.Re1 33.Rxa4 e4] 33.Rxa8! Rxa8 34.Bxg7
for 25 Re7 wins.] 24.Qf4+ Kc8 [More stub- Kxg7 35.Rxa8 Qxa8 36.Bxe4! This
born but still losing was: 24...Kb6 25.Qd6 is what Black had not foreseen when
Na6 26.Ne5+-] 25.Re1! White throws all she played32...e4? 36...Qb7 [36...dxe4
Diagram # 52...Rd7! [Excellent strategy!

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37.Qxd7+-] 37.Qd4+ f6 38.Bd3± Nf8 queen in the centre where its power is at its white's woes, he has a backward pawn on e3 Diagram # 35...d3! [35...d3 36.Rb3 (36.
39.h4 Ne6 40.Qc3 Kf7 most awful. 53...cxd5 54.Qxd5 Qa4 55.Qe6+ which soon becomes a target. 25.Nd2 g4!? Rd1 Qe3+–+; 36.b5 Bxf3 37.gxf3 d2! fol-
White perceives that it would be more prof- The critical point of the game. Depending on lowed by 38...Qh2+ ] 0–1
itable to attack the King and its ill-placed what white does now, he would either go up
knight, than to push his passed pawns to or go down. 26.hxg4?! Mahindrakar,Indrajeet (1977)
victory. 55...Kg7 56.Qe7+ Kh6 57.Qf8+ Ng7 Nguyen,Duc Hoa(Vie) (2477)
[57...Kg6?? 58.Bf7+ Kf6 59.Bb3+ wins the Indrajeet Mahindrakar, 17, is one of the many
queen.] 58.Qf6+ Kh5 59.Be2+ [59.g4+!! untitled Indian teenagers who are becoming
will check-mate in five moves. Check this out terrors to visiting grandmasters in Interna-
yourself!] 59...g4 60.Qf7+ Kh6 61.Qf6+ tional Tournaments in India. Nguyen duc
Kh5 62.Bc4 Threat 63 Bf7# 1–0 Hoa, 28, became an IM in 2011 and a
GM in 2014. Currently, he is ranked 4th
Deviatkin,Andrei (Rus) (2481) Amon- in Vietnam. 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5
atov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2635) 4.g3 d6 5.exd6 e6 6.Bg2 Bxd6 7.Nf3 0–0
41.Be2 [Played with great caution. He could 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2 8.0–0 Nc6 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.Nf3
play on both wings and bring black into a 0–0 5.c3 d5 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Be2 Re8 8.0– [Z.Bogut 2454 vs A.Kovacevic, BIH Ch.,
big crisis]41...Nc7 42.Qa3 Kg7 43.Qa5 Ne6 0 h6 9.Bh4 e5 [M.Bezold 2490 vs O.Cvitan [White chooses the wrong way. It was best Vogosca, 2007, went: 11.c4 Nde7 12.Nc3
Black appears to have a solid defensive po- 2570, Makarska, 1997 went: 9...c6 10.Rc1 to exchange off the dominating black knight Be5 13.Be3 Qc8 14.Rc1 Drawn on the 89th
sition. 44.Bg4 [44.Qb6! Qd7 45.b5 cxb5 e5 11.Nb3 exd4 12.cxd4 ...and drawn on the on e4: 26.Nxe4! Rxe4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.Qf2 move.] 11...Qc7 12.Nbd2 Ne5 13.Nxe5
46.Bxb5 Qe7 47.c6 Nc7 48.Kf1+-] 44...f5 15th move.] 10.h3 c5 11.Bg3 [The bishop Qh6 29.g3 Be5 30.Rbd1 Qh3 31.Ne2 Bc6 Bxe5 14.Qe2 Bc6 15.Re1 Bd6 16.Ne4
[44...Nf8? 45.Qb6!+-] 45.Be2 Kf7 46.h5 was pinning the Nf6 and it was best to leave 32.Rf1 f6²] 26...Nxc3!! 27.Qxc3 Rxe3!! Be7 17.c4 Nb6 18.b3 [ P l a y i n g i n t o
[After 46.Ba6 Qd7 47.b5 cxb5 48.Bxb5 Qc7 it on h4 and play: 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.b4 Ncd7 The white position collapses with this second black's hands would be: 18.Bf4 e5!]
49.Qxc7+ Nxc7 50.Bc6± white will have 13.c4 dxc4 14.Nxc4=] 11...exd4 12.exd4 thunderbolt in a row. 28.Qxe3 [If 28.Rxe3 18...Rae8 When a player makes such a
some technical problems in converting his Ne4 13.Bf4 Qb6! 14.Rb1 Ndf6 15.dxc5 Bxd4 29.Kh1 Bxc3 30.Rxc3 hxg4 31.Nf1 Bf5 move, leaving his other rook on f8 with-
extra pawn to a win.] 46...g5 47.Bd3 Kf6 Nxc5 16.Nd4 Bd7 17.N2f3 [17.Be3 for 32.Rd1 Be4–+] 28...Bxd4 29.Nf1 hxg4! out any options, one can guess black's
48.Qa1+ d4 49.Qb2 [Also winning was: a veiled attack on the Qb6 or,; 17.Re1 were The white queen can be captured leisurely, strategy - he is going to push ....f5, ....
49.exd4 Qxb4 50.Qa8 Qxd4 51.Qh8+ Ke7 better.] 17...Nfe4 18.Be3 there is no hurry! 30.a3 Bxe3+ 31.Nxe3 e5. 19.Bb2 e5 20.Rad1 f5 21.Nc3 e4
52.Qxh7+ Ke8 53.Qg6+ Ke7 54.Bxf5+-] d4! 32.Nc4 Qh6 33.Ne5 [33.Rb3? Be6–+] 22.Bc1 [It is understood that the bish-
49...Qd7 50.Bc4 Ng7 51.exd4 Nxh5 33...g3 34.Nf3 [If 34.Nxd7 d3! the key move op plans to get to f4 attacking the black
52.d5+ Kg6 Diagram # in the attack, which closes the escape route of queen. Instead of this 'undeveloping' move,
the white king via e2. 35.Nf6+ Qxf6 36.Rec1 he should have tried either 22.Qe3 ; or
Qd4+ 37.Kh1 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 Qh2+ 39.Kf1 22.a3 ] 22...Qe5 23.Qc2 Bb4 24.Bb2
Qh1#] 34...Bc6 35.Rb2 This return of the bishop to b2 is a kind
of morale booster for black. 24...Qe7
25.Qc1 Bc5 26.a3 a5 27.Re2 Rd8
Diagram # 28.Rde1!? [This second with-
drawal of a white piece would would be a
loss of face for White, but he is playing
18...Ng3! The start of black's stunning what is required on the board and is not
moves. 19.Re1 Rxe3! A stunning but looking for public adulation. Most players
risky follow-up! 20.fxe3 Re8 21.Bd3± h5 would go for 28.Rxd8? Rxd8 29.g4 e3
22.b4 Nce4 23.Qc2 g5 24.Bxe4 Nxe4² 30.fxe3 Rd3 31.Bxc6 bxc6 32.Qc2 Rxe3
53.Qe5! In most endgames where queens For his rook and knight, black has two bishops 33.Kg2 fxg4µ] 28...h5 [This move is to
figure, it would be advisable to station the and aggressively posted pieces. To add to

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demonstrate his complete control over turned his world upside down. Till now, Kf7 52.Rf8+ Kg7 53.Qe5+ Kg6 54.h5+ Kh7 11...f5 ] 12.Ne5 [Better was: 12.Qb1 h6
he had probably anticipated an easy and 55.Qh8#; or if 46...fxg3 47.Bh3+ mates.] 13.Rc1 Ba3 14.Rc2 Qe7 15.c4 Ba6 16.Ne5²]
early victory over Mahindrakar, and a nice 47.Bxd3 exd3 48.Rc3 Qg6 49.Qd4+ Nd5 12...Nd7 13.Rc1 Rc8 14.Qe2 Nxe5 15.dxe5?
dinner in a cozy restaurant. He could draw 50.Rxd3 fxg3 51.Qg4+ Kc7 52.Qxg3+! [Better was: 15.Bxe5! Bd6 16.Bxd6 Qxd6
easily by accepting the bishop, but he Kc8 53.Qg4+ Rd7 [If now 53...Kc7 17.Rc2 Rc7=] 15...Rc7?! [Better 15...Rc5]
wants more! Which grandmaster would 54.Bd8+ Kxd8 55.Qxg6+-] 54.Ra3 b6 16.Qg4 Re8 17.Bb5 Bc6 18.Bd3= It is
agree to a draw with an untitled teen- 55.Qe6 [Stronger was: 55.h5 Qf7 56.h6 equal but with an edge for black. 18...Qa8
ager! If 33...Kxg7 34.Qg5+ Kf7 (34... Kb7 57.Rea1+-] 55...Qxe6 56.Rxe6 Kb7 The influence of Nimzowitsch still prevails
Kh7 35.Qxh5+ Kg7 36.Qg5+ Kh7 is a 57.Re8 b5 58.Rd8 Exchange everything! in our country! 19.h4 Rec8 20.Bh6 Bf8
quiet draw.) 35.Qxf5+ Ke8 36.Qxh5+ Kd8 Perhaps this is white's first GM scalp and he 21.h5 Kh8 22.Bg5 h6 23.Bh4 Bb7! The
37.Bxe4 Bxe4 38.Rxe4 Nd7 39.Re8+ Rxe8 wants to make sure there are no hiccups! c3 pawn falls, but white thinks she can save
40.Rxe8+ Kc7 41.Qh4 with chances for both 58...Rg7 59.Rd3 Nc7 60.Re3 Rg6 61.Kh2 it! 24.Qd4?? [Better was: 24.Rfd1] 24...
sides.] 34.Be5! This bishop plays a great Kb6 62.f4 Bd5 63.h5 Rc6 64.h6 Rc2+ 65.Kg3 Rc4!!–+ 25.Bxc4 Rxc4 26.Qd3 Rxh4
(Position after 27…Rd8) role in white's victory. 34...Nxc4 35.Qg5+ Rg2+ 66.Kh4 Be6 67.Rd6+! Kc5 68.Rdxe6 27.f4 d4 28.Qe2 d3! 29.Qd2 Rg4 30.Rf2
the game and to squash whatever dreams Kf8 36.Qh6+ Ke7 37.Bf4² White enjoys Nxe6 69.Rxe6 b4 70.Kh3 1–0 Be7 The bishop is headed for h4 attacking
white may have of busting white's centre attacking play and plays powerful moves the Rf2.31.Qb2 Bxg2[White prepares for the
with g3-g4. Maybe he also plans h5-h4 in targetting the king. 37...Kd7 38.Qxh5 Gokhale,Anupama (2047) Mahalaksh- knock out combination, though she is aware
some variations? But it does not aid in his Qe7 39.Bh3 Qf6 Unfortunately, black has mi,M (2180) [A47] of the quick win with: 31...Ba3!! 32.Qd2 Bxc1
overall plan of crushing white in the cen- to defend his once mighty position with Anupama Abhyankar startled the chess world 33.Qxc1 Bxg2] 32.Rxg2 Ba3!! 0–1
tre. 28...Rd3 was to be considered here.] such moves. 40.Rc2 Nb6 41.Bg5 Qe6 by winning the male-dominated Maharashtra
29.Na2 White quietly prepares his own in- 42.Qh8 (This threatens 43 Qd8#) 42...Qe8 Championship in 1988. In 1985 she became Sai,Krishna G V (2339) Deepan,Chak-
genious counter attack which black has no a WIM by winning the inaugural Asian Jun- kravarthy J (2480) [B42]
inkling off! 29...Rd3?! [This is a wee bit ior Girls Championship in Adelaide. She got One of the many mysteries of the chess world
late. He could keep his advantage with dy- the Padmashri and Arjuna Awards in 1987 is why 21–year old FIDE Master G. V.Sai Kr-
namic play: 29...e3! 30.fxe3 Bxg2 31.Kxg2 and 1990. She won the National Women's ishna of Andhra is still only an FM. After his
Qe4+ 32.Kg1 f4] 30.b4! The start of white's Championship five times. She is married to winning the National Under-9 and Under–15
counter-attack. 30...axb4 31.axb4 Bxb4 the famous coach, Raghunandan Gokhale. championships and his many superb victories
32.Nxb4 Qxb4 Diagram # On the other hand, M.Mahalakshmi who is over famous players one expected greater
19 now, was not even born when Anupama deeds from this great 'thinker'. In this thrilling
was ruling Indian women's chess with all her game he defeats the 30–year old Tamil Nadu
glory. Mahalakshmi's best result is winning GM who has himself come close to winning
the World U–14 Girls Championship in 2012. the prestigious Indian Championship a few
Hailing from a very humble background, the times, but never did! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4
Diagram # 43.Qb2! This queen flies from only national title she has won is the National cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7
flank to flank, threatening the black forces U-7 Girls in 2005. But in recent years she has 7.0–0 d6 8.f4 Nd7 9.Qe1 Ngf6 10.Nc3
with different threats. 43...Nd5 44.Bf1 Qg8 been performing consistently well. 1.d4 Nf6 Qc7 11.a4 b6 12.Qg3 [E.Raaste 2328 vs S.
45.h4 f4? Diagram # [Black gambles, trying 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.Bd3 c5 Nyysti 2284, Finland, 2001 went: 12.Bd2 Bb7
to startle white into errors. But it only 6.c3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Be7 8.h3 0–0 9.0–0 13.Qg3 h5 14.Rae1 h4 15.Qf3 g5 16.fxg5 Ne5
speeds up his end. Better though still losing Ne4 [B.McCarthy 2245 vs T.Tolnai 2500, New 17.Qe2 Nfd7 18.h3 Qd8 19.Be3 Bxg5 20.Bd4
would be: 45...Qg7 46.Bxd3 exd3 47.Qxg7 York Open, 1993, went: 9...Nc6 10.Nc3 Rc8 white won on the 53rd move.] 12...g6 13.e5
33.Bxg7!! this guarantees white a draw by Rxg7 48.Rb2+-] 46.Qe5! Ne7 [If 46... 11.Bh2 a6 12.e4 d5 13.e5 Nd7 Black won on dxe5 14.fxe5 Nh5 [If 14...Qxe5 15.Bf4
perpetual check. 33...Rf7? [Probably this Re7 47.Bxe7 Rxg3+ 48.fxg3 Qxg3+ 49.Rg2 move 41.] 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 d5 [To Qh5 16.a5! b5 17.Be2 Qf5 18.Bh6! (18.Bf3
bishop offer stunned the Vietnamese and Qxe1 50.Qd6+ Ke8 51.Rg8+ mates. 51... be considered here were both 11...d6 ; and Nh5 19.Qe1 Ra7 20.Be3 Rc7 21.Nd4+-) 18...

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Nh5 19.Qe3 Qe5 20.Qxe5 Nxe5 21.Bxh5 Karnataka's K.S.Raghunandan (16) is 22.Kg1
gxh5 22.Bg7±] 15.Qf3 0–0± 34.d4!? White plans to deflect the knight among the young crop of ambitious Indian
from the defence of f7 so that he can win by IMs one sees frequenting most Interna-
capturing f7 with check. But he might have tional Opens in the country. The 30–year
overlooked the damage that the deflected old Tajik GM, Farrukh Amonatov is a
knight can do from d4! 34...Nxd4 35.Qb7 strong GM with an attractive, attacking
Qf4 36.Qxf7+ Kh6 37.Rc3 Ne2+ 38.Kg2 style of play. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4
Qe4+ 39.Kf2 Nf4 40.h4! Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 Nbd7
7.0–0 e5 8.Be3 Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1
c6 11.Qc2 Qe7 12.Rd1 exd4 [12...f5
was unsuccessfully tried in Tom Wiley
vs P.Hanko in Bled, 1999: 13.h3 Nh6
14.Bg5 Qe8 15.exf5 gxf5 16.d5 c5
17.Nb5 Qg6 18.Be7 Rf7 19.Nh4! 1–0] Diagram # 22...Bxd4+! 23.Rxd4 Qe3+
16.Bh6? [Better was to take the proffered 13.Nxd4 f5 14.g3 Nc5 15.exf5 gxf5 24.Kh1 Qxd4 We must take stock of the
rook and dare black's minor pieces and 16.h3= Diagram # position now. Black has an extra pawn but
queen! 16.Qxa8 Bb7 17.Qa7 Ra8 18.Qxb7 lags in development though his bishop is
Qxb7 19.Be4 Qc8 20.Bxa8 Qxa8 21.Be3=] ready to enter the game. However, both
16...Nxe5 17.Qe2 [17.Qxa8? Bb7³] 17... kings lack shelter, the black king having
Nxd3 18.cxd3 Bd6! 19.g4 Ng7 20.Rac1 just one pawn to hide behind while the
Qd8! A deeply thought out strategical move Diagram # 40...Qg2+? [Black could win white king has none. Black's chances are
by black! He threatens ...Qh4 and ....Bb7 with Qe2!+, the vital difference between better. 25.Rg1+ Kh8 26.b4 Diagram #
to take advantage of white's 'airy' castled the two checks being that black is un- [A better plan was: 26.Rg5 Qxf4 27.Rh5
king-side with his two bishops. 21.g5 Bb7 able to grab the h4 pawn with check Qf7µ] 26...Qxf4!! 27.bxc5 [After this
22.Ne4 Be7 23.Nf6+ Bxf6 24.gxf6= after he gives 40...Qg2+? The capture capture, five forceful moves force white's
Nf5 25.Bxf8 Qxf8 26.Rc7 Bd5 27.Nd2 of the h4 pawn releases the black king resignation. A slower defeat followed:
Qd6 Threat 28....Ng3!! winning. 28.Rfc1 from the white queen's mate threat 27.Bf1 Bf5 28.Qh2 Qf3+ 29.Qg2 Qxc3
h5 29.Ne4 Bxe4 [The white knight can be on g7 as the king could escape to g5. 30.bxc5 dxc5–+] 27..Qh4+! 28.Kg2
very troublesome. If 29...Qe5?? 30.Rc8+ Therefore black could win with: 40... Bh3+! 29.Kf3 Rf8+ 30.Ke3 Qf4+31.Kd3
Kh7 31.Ng5+ wins the queen.] 30.Qxe4! Qe2+! 41.Kg3 Qg4+ 42.Kf2 Qxh4+ 16...Nxf2?! [16...Ne5 or 16...Nf6 would Bf5+0–1
Rf8 31.R1c3 a5? [Slightly better was: 31... 4 3 . Ke 3 K g 5 ! a n d b l a c k ' s q u e e n a n d have kept the balance. But the Tajik-
Nd4 32.Re7 e5!? 33.Kg2²] 32.Rc8 Rxc8 knight would combine for a victorious istan GM wants adventure and excite-
33.Rxc8+ Kh7 Diagram # a t t a c k . ] 41.Ke3 Nd5+ 42.Kd4 Qg4+ ment!] 17.Kxf2 f4!? After investing a
43.Ke5 Qf5+ [If now 43...Qxh4 44.Qg7+ knight in an attack, black has to go
Kg5 45.f7 Qf4+ 46.Kxe6 Qf5+ 47.Kd6+-] full throttle or be drowned. 18.Bxf4
44.Kd6 (Now the threat of 45 Qg7# calls Rxf4+! 19.gxf4 Qh4+ 20.Kg1 [With an
for giving up more material.) 44...Qf4+ extra rook, white has only a very slight
45.Kxe6 Qf5+ 46.Kd6 Qxf6+ Forced advantage as his king is bereft of cover.
move. 47.Qxf6 Nxf6 48.Rb3! 1–0 Here instead of passively going back
to g1, he should boldly try to escape
Raghunandan,Kaumandur Srihari to the queen-side with: 20.Ke3 Bxh3
(2410) - Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) 21.Rg1 Rf8 22.Nf3 Qxf4+ 23.Kf2 Qh2+
(2635) [E94] 24.Ke3 Qf4+=] 20...Qg3+ 21.Kh1 Qxh3+ (Position after 26.b4)

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Test your endgame
Tactics from master games by C.G.S.Narayanan
by S.Krishnan
Pogosjanc 1964 Bron & Kuznecov 1964
1 2 1. 2.
White to play and win White to play and win
Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1962 Kalandadze & Neidze 1963
3 4 3. 4.
White to play and win Black to play and win
Koroljkov 1964 Perkonoja 1963
5 6 5. 6.
White to play and win White to play and win
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 47 )

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Masters of the past-78 Georgy Agzamov Aditya Birla 17th Jharkand Senior State Chess Tournament
Georgy Tadzhikanovich Agzamov (1954-1986) was the first Uzbeki-
stan Grandmaster (thus, the first Asian grandmaster). He was born
in Almalyk in the province of Tashkent of central Uzbekistan, into
a family of medical doctors on September 6, 1954. In 1966, at the
age of 12, he was the chess champion of his town. In 1971, he took
2nd place in the USSR Junior Championship, held in Riga. In 1973,
he played in his first Uzbekistan championship. He took 1st place in
the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1976 and 1981. In 1982, he
was awarded the International Master title. In 1984, he was awarded
the Grandmaster title.
His highest Elo rating was 2590 on the January 1, 1985 FIDE rating
list. Chessmetrics has him rated #8 in the world in 1984 with a
2728 rating. His best individual performance was Sochi, 1984, with
a performance rating of 2761. He won Belgrade 1982, Vrsac 1983, Sochi 1984 (defeating
Tal and scoring +7=7-0), Tashkent 1984, and Calcutta June 1986 (the strongest chess
tournament ever held in India up to that time – Niaz Murshed took 2nd and Anand took
3rd place).
In 1980, he played in the Championship of the USSR (1 League) in Tashkent. He took
11th-12th place (won by Beliavsky). In 1981, he took 1st place in the semifinal of the
USSR championship, held in Cheliabinsk. He played in the 49th USSR championship at (L-R) Dipak Kumar, Richa Sanchita, Executive-President, Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA RDCA Anshul Nigam,
Frunze in 1981 and tied for 6th-7th place (won by Kasparov and Psakhis). In 1982, he Champion, Pradip Verma, President AJCA
tied for 3rd-5th in the semifinal USSR championship, held in Pavlodar (won by Azmaipar-
ashvili). In 1982, he took 2nd in the 50th USSR Championship (1 League), held in Telavi
(won by Vaganian). He played in the 50th USSR championship at Moscow in 1983 (won Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur
by Karpov), and tied for 10th-13th place. In 1984, he took 1st place in the USSR Cham-
pionship (1 League), held in Tashkent. His rating was 2570. He played in the 52nd USSR
championship at Riga in 1985 and tied for 7th-8th place (won by Gavrikov, M Gurevich,
and Chernin). The Agzamov variation in the Alekhine is 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3
Bg4 5.Be2 c6.
At the age of 32, just in the heyday of his glory, Georgy died on August 27, 1986 in a
mountaineering accident in Cremia. Agzamov studied English and literature at the univ-
eristy. A memoriam in Russian appeared in Chess Informant 42.
The Agzamov Memorial took place in March 2007 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It was the first
international tournament to commemorate Georgy Agzamov – the first ever Uzbek, and
arguably the first Asian Grandmaster. Not only was he a very strong player, nicknamed
“the nightmare of top GMs” in the Soviet Union, he also did a lot to promote chess in his
native Uzbekistan and beyond, in such remote locations as Cuba, United Arab Emirates,
India and many other countries where he worked or volunteered as a chess coach and
tournament organizer. Tied for 1st place were GM Leonid Yurtaev, GM Marat Dzhumaev,
and IM Sergey Kayumov.The 2008 Agzamov Memorial had 73 players from 9 countries.
Ties for 1st place were Farrukh Amonatov, Anton Filippov, and Vitaly Tseshkovsky. The
2009 Agzamov Memorial was won by GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky, age 64.
Champion Ankit receives the prize from IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Sri. Pramod Samar and Sri Sanchal
Courtesy:Chess.com Agarwal
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Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, Nainital Solutions to ‘Tactics from master 25.Qxe8++-) 25.Qxe6+ Kf8 26.Rxc8++-;
games’ on page 42 Equally good is 24.Qxe6+! Rxe6 25.Bd5
1.Shimanov,Aleksandr (2642) Stu- Kf8 (25...Rc6 26.Bxe6+ Kf8 27.Rxc6 bxc6
kopin,Andrey (2586) [E10] 28.Rxc6 Qb7 29.Rxd6 Ke8 30.Bd5 Qc8
Saint Louis USA (6.3), 20.05.2017 31.Bxa8 Wins; 25...Qe8 26.Rc8) 26.Bxe6
White to play. 51.e6+! Kxd6 52.e7! Nxe7 Rc6 27.Rxc6 bxc6 28.Rxc6+-] 1–0
[52...Nxh4+ 53.Kh3 g2 54.Kh2 Wins] 6.Kunin,Vitaly (2551) - Sjugirov,Sanan
53.Rb4! Nd5 [53...Nd3 54.Rd4++-; 53...Nd1 (2654) [E12]
54.Rd4++-] 54.Rxb2 Nxf4+ 55.Kxg3 Ke5 18th ch-EUR Indiv (9.35),08.06.2017
56.Kf3 Nd5 57.Rg2 Nf6 58.Rg5+ Ke6 59.Ra5 White to play. 27.Nf6+! Kf8 [27...gxf6 28.exf6
White King gets access to g5 and wins 1–0 Red7 29.Qh6 Wins] 28.R3d2 Qa6 [28...Qc4
2.Shyam,Sundar M (2535) Faizra- 29.d5 gxf6 a) 29...exd5 30.Rxd5 gxf6 (30...
khmanov,Ramil (2439) 39th Nezhmetdi- Rc8 31.Rd8+ Re8 32.Nxe8+-) 31.Qh6+ Kg8
nov Mem Kazan RUS (8.7), 07.06.2017 32.Rd8+ Wins; b) 29...Rc5 30.d6 Rb7 (30...
White to play. 21.Qb3+ Kg7 22.Bc5! Re8 31.Nxe8 Kxe8 32.d7++-) 31.d7 Rxd7
23.Ne6++- is simple (More enterprising Wins; 30.Qh6+ Ke8 31.d6+-] 29.d5 1-0
is 23.Qf7+ Kh6 24.Qxh7+ Kxg5 25.g3 Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
fxe4 (25...Kg4 26.Kg2 fxe4 27.Qxg6+ Bg5 1.Pogosjanc 1964
Vijay Bhatt, Guest of Honour, Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA, Sudhir Kr Sinha (Third place) Mrs.Shanti
Mehra, Ex Cabinet Minister, Ajay Kr Rai (Runner-up) I D Yewari, Secretary NDCA,Rajiv Lochan Sah, 28.h3#; 25...Rh8 26.h4+ Kg4 27.Qxg6+ 1.Qf7 Qh8+ 2.Kxh8 a1Q+ 3.Kg8 Qh8+
Champion Nassir Wajih,Wariyal, ED Mohini Tea and others Kf3 28.Qxf5+ Ke2 29.Qg4#) 26.h4+ Kg4 4.Kxh8 Ng6+ 5.Kg8 Be6 6.Ng5 Bxf7+ 7.Nxf7
27.Qxg6+ Kf3 28.Qf5+) ] 1–0 mate
7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai 3.Iljiushenok,Ilia (2489) Andriasian,Za- 2.Bron & Kuznecov 1964
ven (2622) [B07] 1.Bc3+ Kd6 2.Ra5 Rh2 3.h6 Bc1 4.Bg7 Bxh6
18th ch-EUR Indiv 2017 Minsk BLR (7.60), 5.Bxh6 Rh5 6.Ra6+ Kd7 7.d6 Rh4 8.Rb6 Ke6
06.06.2017 9.Kg8 Rg4+ 10.Kf8 Rd4 11.Bf4 Rxf4 12.Ke8
Whitetoplay56.Qa1! Bxa2 57.Rxc8+ Kxc8 Rd4 13.d7+ Ke5 14.Rb5+ Ke4 15.Rb4 wins
58.Qh8+ Kd7 59.Qg7+ Ke8 [59...Kc8 3.Jindrich Fritz 1962
60.Qf8+ Kd7 61.Qf7+ Kc8 62.Qe8+ Wins] 1.Nd4+ Kf6 2.Nd7+ Ke7 3.Rxa3 Nc7+ 4.Kc5
60.Qf8+ 1–0 Rxd4 5.Re3+ Ne6+ 6.Rxe6+ Kxd7 7.Bh3 wins
4.Das,Say (2396) - Rahman,Zia (2526) 4.Kalandadze & Neidze 1963
[B06] 1.c6 Be5 2.gxh7 f2 3.h8Q Bxh8 4.c7 f1Q
10th KIIT Elite Open 2017 Bhubaneswar 5.c8Q+ Kg7 6.Qc3+ Kg6 7.Qc2+ Kg7 8.Qh7+
IND (6.1), 29.05.2017 Kf8 9.Qh6+ Ke7 10.Qg5+ Kf8 11.Qd8+ Kg7
Black to play 16...Bh6! 17.Qxh6 [17.Qf2 Qb4– 12.f8Q+ Qxf8 13.Qg5 mate
+] 17...Qxd4+ 18.Kh1 Nxe5! 19.Bxg6?! [19. 5.Koroljkov 1964
Qg5 Nxd3 20.cxd3 Qxa4µ] 19...Nxg6 20.Nc3 1.Rf5+ Kxg4 2.Rf1 exf1Q+ 3.Bxf1 d5 4.Be2+
Qf2 21.h3 Qxc2 22.Qe3 e5–+ 0–1 Kf5 5.b6 a3 6.Bd3+ Ke6 7.b7 a2 8.b8Q a1Q
5.Jimenez Fraga,P (2432) Lorenzana,W 9.Qb6+ Ke5 10.Qc7+ Ke6 11.Qe7 mate
(L-R) M.Vijayakumar (Chief Arbiter), Ravichandran V,Organizing Secretary,Sri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee (2330) [A49] 6.Perkonoja
(Weightlifting) Winner Muthaiah and Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director ,St.Joseph’s group & Guillermo Garcia Premier 21.05.2017 1.Rg3+ Kh4 2.Rxa8 Be5+ 3.Kg6 Rg7+ 4.Kf5
Principal, St.Joseph’s College Rg5+ 5.Ke4 Bxg3 6.Rh8+ Kxg4 7.h3 mate
White to play. 24.Rc8! [24.Rc8 Rxc8 (24...Bxc8
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AICF Calendar July 2017 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament
1st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-30
1st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31
National Rapid & Blitz 2017 Kolkata Aug-01 to Aug-04
Western Asian Youth 2017 Aug-01 to Aug-07
Maharashtra State Open 2017 East, Mumbai Aug-02 to Aug-06
10th Modern School FIDE Rated for school, Chennai Aug-03 to Aug-08
3rd Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated open Karur Aug-03 to Aug-06
1st Nithim All India Open FIDE rated Hyderabad Aug-03 to Aug-08
4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated below 1500 Karur Aug-04 to Aug-06
Chess Mine Rapid Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-05 to Aug-06
18th National Cities Team Championship 2017 Raghunathpur Aug-06 to Aug-10
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial All India FIDE Rating Siliguri Aug-06 to Aug-11
Chess Mine Blitz Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-07 to Aug-07
2nd Telangana All India below 1600 Khammam Aug-10 to Aug-15
Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16
Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-15
1st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-15
1st GDCA Open FIDE Rating Rapid open Gulbarga Aug-12 to Aug-13
Maharashtra State Under 15 Open & Girls selection Akola Aug-12 to Aug-16
55th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-23
The Mayor of Mumbai Shri.Vishwanath inaugurating the 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup in the
2nd vithabai memorial Maharashtra State Open FIDE Rated tmt Pune Aug-17 to Aug-20 presence of D.V. Sundar ,Vice President FIDE, and Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF
World Cadet U 8,10,12 Aug-21 to Aug-31
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 16: Given it’s Black to move in the diagram position,
is it legal for that player to castle? To answer this, we try to determine what occurred in the last few
moves. White made the last move and it was Pa3, and just before that Black must have made a cap-
ture, because otherwise White would have no free unit with which to make a further retraction. The
captured piece was one of the knights, since the only other missing white units are the rooks which
couldn’t have escaped from the first rank. This white knight wasn’t captured by any of the pawns
(none of which has a legal diagonal retraction), so it was captured by one of the four black pieces
on the top rank. The a8-rook couldn’t have made this capture, however, because the uncaptured
white knight on a8 would have no possible prior move. Likewise, if it were the c8-bishop which had
captured the knight, then the latter on c8 could only have just come from the empty square d6, but
such a retraction would be impossible because it implies that Black was in check by the knight on d6
while it was White’s turn to play. Therefore only the black king or the h8-rook could have captured (L-R) M Ephrame ( Chief Arbiter), Ravindra Dongre ( organizing Secretary) Jayraj Phatak IAS,
the knight, which had come from d6 (to e8) or g6/f7 (to h8). That proves Black had previously moved Ex Municipal Corporation Commissioner Mumbai (Chief Guest) Gokhale, Raghunandan V
the king or the h8-rook in the game, and now cannot castle. (Dronacharya Awadee)Kamal Preetsingh (Member of Zee learn)
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Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017, New Delhi
Shri.Vijay Goel, Hon’ble

Minister for Sports, lighting
the lamp. Bharat Singh
Chouhan, Secretary,AICF and
D.V.Sundar, Vice President,
FIDE look on.
The top three finishers:

(L-R) Abhijeet Gupta (Gold),
Vaibhav Suri (Runner-up)
Abhijeet Gupta (Champion)
and Tejas Bakre (Third place)
Swati Ghate (Champion)

flanked by Mary Ann Gomes
(left) Runner-up and Tania
Sachdev (right) Third place

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