2015 June Chronicle AICF

AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

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CARUANA WINS FIDE GRAND PRIX SERIES
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AICF CHRONICLE JUNE 2015 From the Editor’s desk 1st SCS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015, Sivakasi
Deepan Chakravarthy clinches title
Room No. 70,
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
Chennai - 600 003.
The city of Khanty-Mansiysk
Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121 has become the hub of chess by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com activity of the world hosting many
Publisher: V. Hariharan prestigious chess events of FIDE in
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan The 1st SCS FIDE Rated chess tournament, Deepan cruised to a win over Shyam in the fi-
the past, such as Chess Olympiad
organised by Sivakasi Chess Sparklers was nal round to score 8 points. Rajesh and Kunal
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 2010,World Rapid and Blitz 2013,
held at Sivakasi Institute of Printing Technol- also registered wins over BalaKannamma and
Inside…. and Candidates Tournament 2014
ogy, Sivakasi from 17th to 21st May 2015. Phoobalan respectively to tie with Deepan,
1st SCS FIDE Rated Ty, Sivakasi besides several World Cups in the last decade.
Deepan Chakravarthy clinches title
The latest in this long list of premier events was the True to its name, the tournament, with a but better tiebreak helped Deepan to clinch
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 1
1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Ty,Goa fourth and final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix which prize money of three lakhs rupees, sparkled the title. Rajesh and Kunal finished second
Thejkumar wins TTCA FIDE Rated
concluded on 26th May 2015 at Ugra. The event with vibrant colours in the form of former and third respectively.
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 5
Pavna All India Fide Rated Ty,Aligarh witnessed keenly fought games among dozen top world under 16 champion and India’s latest
Himanshu Sharma wins
rung Grandmasters and the result was unpredictable GM KarthikeyanMurali, former Asian Junior Sri TD Rajendran, Proprietor, Herbs India
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 7
Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial until the last round. Fabiano Caruana finished first, champion DeepanChakkravarthy of ICF, for- and Balasubramanian, Secretary, SIvakasi
All India FIDE Rating Ty, Ponda, Goa
and Hikaru Nakamura second in the overall Grand mer Commonwealth champion RR Laxman Institute of Printing Technology were the
Ritviz Parab is winner
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 9 Prix standings and both have qualified for the 2016 of ICF, former under 17 national champion chief guests in the prize distribution function.
Royal Chess Challenge Open ,New Delhi
CRG Krishna wins Royal Chess Challenge
Candidates Tournament. A brief report on this event P. ShyamNikil of Chennai and a host of other Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 11 is presented in the centre pages of this issue. IMs and FMs. A record total of 493 players Sri. A. Gopalsamy, President, Virudhunagar
Ln Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi
district Ist National Open FIDE Rating Ty, Udupi
from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, District Chess Association in the presence
Girinath is Champion On the home front, there was a surfeit of FIDE Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, of Sri Raja Sankar, Treasurer, SIPT.Top four
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 13
3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Ty, Tirupur
rating tournaments during the month that passed Pondicherry and Bihar participated in the 9 boards of each round were podcast live us-
Lakshminarayanan wins title by. The reports, final standings and photographs of round Swiss format tournament, with a time ing DGT boards on prominent and popular
by G.G.Sathiesh FA, Chief Arbiter
2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated
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these events are presented in this issue. Selected control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per websites like aicf.in, chessbomb.com and
Chess Tournament,New Delhi games from National Team Chess and Kolkata Open move. chessdom.com. Sumptuous unlimited food
IM Somak Palit wins Imperia Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are also presented was provided to the participants at a very
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 17
3rd One Goal Chess Academy in this issue. ‘Puzzle of the month’ features yet Things went on the expected lines until fifth nominal cost. Games were conducted for
Rapid Fide Rating TY, Hyderabad
C R G Krishna is the winner
another short proof game to sharpen your solving round and there were no hiccups. The four parents to while away the time and prizes
S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter 19 skills.‘Masters of the past’ series features American top seeds Karthikeyan, Deepan, Laxman and were distributed to them. In all, the tourna-
Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Ty
Phoobalan is Champion
Grandmaster Herman Reshevsky, a positional player ShyamNikil led the field with six points in ment was a very enjoyable one to both the
Peter Joseph M, FA, Chief Arbiter 21 par excellence, who in his long career played twelve as many rounds, culminating in a semi final players and parents.
6th KCM International FIDE Rated Open , Coimbatore
World Champions and beat seven of them!
Priyanka wins KCM FIDE rated Open like clash in the seventh round. Shyam upset
V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 27
Karthikeyan on the top board, which helped Final ranking:
All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum
It is sad news that Smt.Susheela Viswanathan, Rk Name Pts
Shivananda is Champion Shyam to seize the lead, as the other game
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 28 mother of five-time World Champion Vishy Anand, 1 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 8
between Deepan and Laxman ended in a
Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memorial who nurtured the chess talents and motivated the 2 IM Rajesh V A V 8
Open FIDE Rating Ty,Rucha Pujari wins title
champion in the early years of his chess, passed draw. In the eighth and penultimate round,
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 30
Shyam and Laxman shared the point, same 3 Kunal M. 8
Selected games annotated by away on 26th last month. AICF and its office bearers 4 GM Laxman R.R. 7½
IM Manuel Aaron 33
offer their condolences to Anand and the rest of the as the result between Karthikeyan and Dee-
Tactics from master games 5 IM Shyam Nikil P. 7½
by S. Krishnan 41 bereaved family. pan.Shyam enjoyed the lead with 7.5 points
6 Hemanth Raam 7½
Test your endgame andseven players were trailing him by half a
by C.G.S.Narayanan 42 7 FM Maheswaran P. 7½
Masters of the past-Herman Reshevsky 43 point, resulting in a tough fight on top boards 8 GM Karthikeyan Murali 7½
AICF Calendar 48
C.G.S.Narayanan in the final round. 9 IM Praveen Kumar C 7½
10 Shakthi Vishal J 7½
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11 Phoobalan P. 7 58
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Siddharth M
Suresh Kumar G
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6
Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2015, Aligarh
12 Prajesh R 7
13 Barath L 7 60 Subramanian V 6
14 Bala Kannamma.P 7 61 Anup Shankar R 6
15 Dileep Kumar R 7 62 Vijay Shreeram P 6
16 Subramanian Pl 7 63 Gnanasekar .G 6
17 Karmukilan S 7 64 Aasha.C R. 6
18 Varsha C R 7 65 Aravindaswami T 6
19 Nanda Kumar T.S. 7 66 Dhanasekar K. 6
20 Divya Lakshmi R 7 67 Vishwak S 6
21 Girinath B S 7 68 Thamaraiselvi P 6
22 Hari Madhavan N B 7 69 Baskar P 6
23 Lokesh P. 6½ 70 Kannan.V 6
24 Prasath K R 6½ 71 WCM Ananya Suresh 6
25 Prakashram R 6½ 72 Selvamurugan B 6
26 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½ 73 Muniraj K 6
27 Uma Maheswaran P 6½ 74 Sowjanya Sowrirajan 6
28 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 75 Hirthik Rajan B P 6
29 Clifford Flair 6½ 76 Ram Kumar G M 6
30 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6½ 77 Sai Krishna S 6
31 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½ 78 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y 6 Shri Pavan Jain , Chairman , Pavna Group and Shri Mahendra Bahadur Singh , C.D.O ,Aligarh lighting
32 Akil A S J 6½ 79 Reshma C R 6 the lamp during inauguration .
33 Prathish A 6½ 80 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6
34 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½ 81 Shreyas M 6
35 Dhanush Ragav 6½ 82 Vijay Raghav J S 6
36 Balachandar E 6½ 83 Shivani Madhu 6
37 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6½ 84 Sandeep Santhosh 6
38 Karthick Narayanan S 6½ 85 Aditya Somasundaram 6
39 Prasant N Nayagam 6½ 86 Surya Thangavel 6
40 Ashwin R 6½ 87 Pranav Ram Hariharan 6
41 Dheekshith Kumar R 6½ 88 Gowthaman Alagar 6
42 Dharani Sree R 6½ 89 Sa Kannan 5½
43 Jai Aditya D 6½ 90 Saughanthika As 5½
44 Natarajan M 6½ 91 Poojakanth M. 5½
45 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6½ 92 Haricharann D V 5½
46 Arjun Kalyan 6½ 93 Rajashakkthivel K K 5½
47 Bhuvaneshwari.R 6½ 94 Mugesh B 5½
48 Merryston David Scanny 6½ 95 Suryakanth C 5½
49 Aravind S 6½ 96 Santhosh Kumar G 5½
50 Vadivel A 6½ 97 Suganthan S 5½
51 Yutesh P 6 98 Aswin Kumar B S 5½
52 Poluri Kumaraswamy 6 99 Rathish T.J. 5½
Standing from left: Prize-winnners: Deepak Katiyar , Prince Bajaj , IM Himanshu Sharma (Champion),Gajendra Singh,
53 Prakash V R 6 100 Jayasangar T 5½
Naveen Hegde and Prafful Sharma. Sitting from left : Vijay K Pachisiya, IA Dharmendra Kumar , Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay,
54 Shankarasubbu B 6 101 Balaji Narayanan 5½ Principal, D.P.S. , Mr. Balkar Singh , I.A.S. , D.M. , Aligarh , Mukesh Jain , Ex. Director , Pavna Group of Industries , Ram
55 Mohamed Anees M 6 102 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar 5½ kumar Sadani , Director , Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd, Rajkumar Agrawal , MD , Spider Metal Product Pvt Ltd and Chandra Mohan
56 Bharkavi S 6 103 Yashwanth Babu P 5½ Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA.
57 Palani Kumar D. 6 104 Krithigga K 5½
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3rd One Goal Chess Academy Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Hyderabad 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Goa
Thejkumar wins TTCA FIDE Rated
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter
The 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Pinge (NA), MrTanay Kaisary, Mr.Madhan ,
Winner C R G Krishna receiving prize from Chief Guest Tournament 2015 was organized by Tiswa- Mrs. Sarika Chopdekar, MrsVishlakshi Shetty,
Sri M Ramesh Reddy, Asst IG , Law & Order,Telangana.
diTaluka Chess Association under the aegis Balakrishnan V and other office bearers of
of Goa Chess Association and All India Chess Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association.
Federation. The tournament was held from
18th to 22ndMay 2015 at Institute Mene- The tournament was inaugurated at the
zes Braganza Hall, Panaji Goa . All together hands of Shri Shubham Chodankar( Mayor
225participants took part in this tournament of Panaji) in the presence of Shri Kishor
which had 4 IM’s and other title players Bandekar (Jt Secretary AICF and Secretary
from different parts of India. I would like to GCA) , Shri Mahesh Candolkar (Tournament
2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi congratulate the organizers for successfully Director &President TTCA), Shri SagarSa-
conducting this tournament. The response of kordekar ( Vice President GCA) , Shri Sanjay
Chess players for this tournament was very Belurkar (Organizing Secretary TTCA) and
good in spite of so many tournament taking other members of the organizing Committee
Shri. Manish Sisodia, Hon'ble Deputy place at the same time in different parts of and TTCA.The conduct of all the players re-
CM of Delhi inaugurating the event India. Organizers took utmost care by pro- mained excellent throughout the tournament
by lighting of holy lamp
viding International standard AC playing Hall and there was no dispute or any protest.
which players enjoyed during this summer
season. They also provided tea and snacks At the closing ceremony Shri Dilip Parulekar(
to the players and parents during the rounds. Minister for Tourism Govt of Goa ) was the
chief Guest and Shri Suraj Morajkar
IM M.S. ThejKumar of Railways won the (main Sponsor of the tournament) was the
tournament with the score of 8.5 points. He Guest of Honor. Prizes where given at the
remained undefeated in the tournament. 2nd hands of the guest in the presence of Shri
place went to IM AkshatKamparia of Madya Vinay Tendulkar ( President GCA & BJP Goa),
Pradesh while NiranjanNavalgund of Tamil Shri Sanjay Harmalkar ( Chairman IMB)
Nadu stood 3rd . Both players scored 7.5 Shri Kishor Bandekar (Jt Secretary AICF and
points each. There were all together 30 main Secretary GCA) , Shri Mahesh Candolkar
prizes ,apart from category prizes from U-7 ( Tournament Director & President TTCA),
to U-15 Boys & Girls and Rating Category Shri Sanjay Belurkar ( Organizing Secretary
IM SomatPalik, Winner with trophy
prizes. Total prize fund was Rs 3.50 Lakhs. TTCA), MrBalakrishnanV. (Treasurer TTCA),
Members MrMadhan R., Sarvanand Shirodkar,
As a tournament Director Shri Mahesh Can- Dnyaneshwar Naik, Shri Chetan Tarkar, Shri
dolkar and his team had taken good care of Prakash Sawant and Shri Shekhar Degvekar
arrangements at Hall for the smooth conduct (Corporator,PanajiMunicipality).Souvenir was
of tournament . I was assisted by Dy Arbi- also released during the Prize Distribution
ter, MrPramodraj More ( FA), Mr.Dattaram function.
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Final Ranking:TTCA 46 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 5.5 Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament – 2015,Aligarh
Rk. Name Pts. 47 Kambli Datta 5.5
1 IM
2 IM
Thejkumar M. S.
Akshat Khamparia
8.5
7.5
48
49

Sourav Raj K K
More Amit
5.5
5.5
Himanshu Sharma wins
3 Navalgund Niranjan 7.5 50 Vivek Gajanan Joshi 5.5 by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
4 Vijay Anand M. 7.5 51 Riddhi Zantye 5.5
5 FM Ramakrishna J. 7 52 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5.5 Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tourna- Champion lost again . He was defeated by
6 Hapse Shreyas 7 53 Vanjale Prasad Prakash 5.5 ment – 2015 was held from 18th to 22nd Ashu Verma with a rating 1611.CM Prince
7 Panesar Vedant 7 54 Kulkarni Aakash 5.5 May 2015 at the Delhi Public School, Aligarh. Bajaj maintained his lead with 5.5/6 where
8 Shane Alvarin Braganca 7 55 Sachin Kakodkar 5.5 The tournament was formally inaugurated 9 others had 5 points.
9 Rohan Ahuja 6.5 56 Bhobe Harsh 5.5 by Mahendra Bahadur Singh , I.A.S. C.D.O.,
10 IM Kathmale Sameer 6.5 57 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 5.5 Aligarh and Pawan Jain , Chairman , Pavna In the seventh round , Rajesh Kumar of
11 Prasannaa.S 6.5 58 Vinay Kamath 5.5 Group of Industries. Other dignitaries pres- Kanpur , U.P. played extremely well against
12 Stanley Samson P. 6.5 59 Aniketh Datta Prabhu 5.5 ent on the functionwere Rajiv Agrwal , well sole leader Prince Bajaj and forced him to
13 IM Shivananda B.S. 6.5 60 Madhavan G 5.5
known industrialist of the city as well as share the score. It was close symmetrical
14 Audi Ameya 6.5 61 Naravankar Milind 5
country , Anand Sadani , Chairman, Sadani queen ending of Catalan opening , in which
15 Barath M 6.5 62 Prashant Salunke 5
63 Suhas B. Asnodkar 5
Group of Industries , Pallavi Singh, Principal, Prince agreed for drew. On board # 2-4 IM
16 Saranya Y 6.5
17 Pruthu Deshpande 6.5 64 Antre Ayush 5 D.P.S. , Aligarh , ChandraMohan Sadani , Himanshu Sharam, Deepak Katiyar , Gajen-
18 Sunny Renju 6.5 65 Parsekar Anirudh 5 Hony. Sectretary , DSCA Vijay Kumar Pa- dra Singh and Alok Kumar Gupta defeated
19 Dhanush Bharadwaj 6.5 66 Sudarshan Bhat 5 chisia , Treasurer DCSA and IADharmendra Saket Kumar , Dr. Somnath Narang, Milind
20 Rohit Vassan S 6.5 67 Sachin P Arolkar 5 Kumar , Chief Arbiter. All the dignitaries parle and Ashu Verma respectively. And the
21 Cruz Wilson 6.5 68 Bhoite Krishna 5 lighted the traditional lamp and delivered final results after 7th round left 5 leaders
22 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6.5 69 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 5 their good wishes to all the participants . with 6 point each.
23 Raghavendra V. 6 70 Kori Amitanand 5 Chiefguest Mahendra Bahadur Singh played
24 Ojas Kulkarni 6 71 Barde Om 5 a friendely game with IM Himanshu Sharma In the penultimate round , on board one , IM
25 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6 72 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 5 anddeclared the event open. Himanshu Sharma couldn’t convert his game
26 Anant Prabhudesai 6 73 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 5
in full point against Gajendra Singh while on
27 Naik Rishubh Naresh 6 74 Bhat K R 5
First four round results was usual as all board #2 , Prince Bajaj defeated to Deepak
28 Verma Rahul 6 75 Vaibhav NT Pednekar 5
seeded players on first 8-10 board won their Katiyar and became sole leader once again.
29 Krishnamoorthy K 6 76 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 5
77 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 5
games . Intersting results started from round Another leader Alok Kumar Gupta , drew his
30 Siddhant Dharwar 6
31 Sirsat Shekhar V. 6 78 Porob Vraj 5 5th onward . In 5th round , IM Himanshu game against Rajesh Kumar on board no.
32 Sahil Shetty 6 79 Audi Saiesh 5 Sharma was held by Deepak Katiyar on board # 3 . But the most interesting thing , a cli-
33 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6 80 Eesh Prabhudesai 5 no. 1 while on board 2 & 3 Prince Bajaj and max of the tournament was still awaiting to
34 Manoj B Kulkarni 6 81 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5 Gajendra Singh of LIC defeated to Rajat Prat- come ! In last round , CM Prince Bajaj drew
35 Suyan Belurkar 6 82 Naresh M 5 ap Singh and Syed Nassir Ali respectively. At his game against Gajendra Singh but IM Hi-
36 Ayush R Shetkar 6 83 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj 5 the end of 5th round CM Prince Bajaj was manshu Sharma played with killing instinct
37 Arjun Adappa 5.5 84 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5 sole leader with 5 point. 3 others were on and defeated to his opponent Alok Kumar
38 Gandhi Anish 5.5 85 Shreyas Kannan 5 2nd spot with 4.5 point. In round no. 6th , Gupta of U.P. And with 7.5 point each for
39 Vakil Akhtara 5.5 86 Sharath R Shanbhag 5 all four top players paired themselves . On IM Himanshu Sharma and CM Prince Bajaj ,
40 Milind Gauns 5.5 87 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5 board no. #1 , CM Prince Bajaj was playing winner was decided by tie-break score which
41 Anandha Venkatesan 5.5 88 Khan Faiziya 5
with IM Himanshu Sharma while on board favoured IM Himanshu Sharma ! Leader of
42 Madkaikar Gaurav S 5.5 89 Colaso Vernon 5
#2, Deepak Katiyar was paired with Gajendra the tournament CM Prince Bajaj placed 2nd
43 Kabir Belgikar 5.5 90 Amit Panchal 5
91 Morajkar Navin 5
Singh and both the game ended in drew. On while 3rd place went to Gajendra Singh.
44 Nandhini Saripalli 5.5
45 Kochrekar Vishwesh 5.5 92 Shirodkar Aayush 5 third board , Syed Nasir Ali , Ex- National At a colourful prize distribution function, Chief
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guest Dr. Balkar Singh ,I.A.S,D.M., Aligarh 17
18
Saxena Anshul
Hitesh Kumar
6
6
Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating
gave away the prizes amongst the prize win-
ners in the graciouspresence of Mukesh Jain 19 Varshney Roopak 6 Chess Tournament, Ponda, Goa
, Ex. Director , Pavna Group of Industries ,
RajkumarAgrawal , MD , Spider Metal Product
20
21
Vipul Singh
Goyal Sarthak
6
6 Ritviz Parab is winner
Pvt Ltd , Vijay Bajaj of MD , Lock MasterIn-
22 Srivastava Rajesh K. 6 Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
23 Vishnu Singh 6
dia (P) Ltd Ram kumar Sadani Director , 2nd Desai Pratishthan's Late Laxmikant V. 107 were rated players.IM Anurag Mhamal
24 Daleep Singh 5.5
Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd and Chandra Mohan 25 Gaurav Sharma 5.5 Desai Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating ( ELO Rating 2402) of Goa was top seed
Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA. Munesh Jain 26 Das Anindo Kumar 5.5 Chess Tournament was inaugurated at the followed by Ritviz Parab (2305) of Goa and
, Vice-president of DCSA Aligarh welcomed 27 Himanshu Prakash 5.5 hands of Rajendra Desai, Trustee of Desai Soni Krishan (2023) of Delhi.The tournament
the guest , Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar 28 Manoj Kumar Singh 5.5 Pratishthan on 6th May 2015 at Wagle High was organized in a very spacious and well
delivered the tournament report and Vijay 29 Tarun Ratn 5.5 School, Mangeshi. ventilated hall. Every day organiser provided
Kumar Pachisia ,Treasurer , DCSA delivered 30 Rajat Pratap Singh 5 cool drinks to all the players and high tea on
the vote of thanks. 31 Rajendra Singh 5 This tournament was organized by Ponda the last day.
32 Divyanshu Sharma 5 Taluka Chess Association and Wagle High
Overall it was a well organized tournament 33 Krishan Kumar Baghel 5
School Golden Jubilee Celebration commit- At the end of 4th day, Ritviz Parab of Goa
as every individual was happy and enjoyed 34 Divya Mohan Verma 5
tee. Also present at the inauguration were was leading with seven and half points fol-
his stay. Organisers were very supportive 35 Arun Kumar Saxena 5
36 Vikas Saxena 5
Vinay Tendulkar (President, Goa Chess lowed by Barat M of Goa and Arjun Adappa
and helpful to all the players , parents and Association), Kumar Jambhale (Trustee, of Mangalore with seven points each. IM
37 S.M. Mustafa Zaidi 5
officials . All basic requirement was available Desai Prathishthan), Sagar Sakordekar Anurag Mhamal of Goa and Rajesh kumar
38 Vijay Kumar Agrawal 5
there .Hygienic and neat and clean toilet , air- 39 Akhil Chaudhury 5 (President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association of Delhi with six and half points.After the
conditioned tournament hall dining on ground 40 Shiva Garg 5 and Vice-President, Goa Chess Association), final round second seed Ritviz Parab and M
floor and accommodation in same premises. 41 Harsh Sharma 5 Amogh Namshiker (Secretary, Ponda Taluka Barath both from Goa scored 8 points each,
The Arbiters team consisted of Chief Arbiter: 42 Neeraj Kumar Sharma 5 Chess Association), Damodar Naik (Sarpanch, based on tie break score, Ritviz Parab was
IA Dharmendra Kumar,Deputy Chief Arbiter 43 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 5 Veling-Priol-Kuncoliem Panchayat), Avdhut declared as winner and bagged Rs 35000
FA A.K.Raizada, FA Raval Dilipkumar Trib- 44 Aman Verma 5 Kamat (Vice-chairman, Manguirish Vidyadini prize money and Trophy, Barath M as Run-
hovandas, NA Kavita Patel 45 Aastha Singh 5 Saunstha) and members of Wagle High nerup and bagged Rs 25000 and Trophy. IM
Final placings: 46 Sarwar Ahmad 5 School Golden Jubilee Celebration committee. Anurag Mhamal of Goa and Arjun Adappa
Rk. Name Pts. 47 Ishika Garg 5
scored seven point five and placed third and
1 Himanshu Sharma IM 7.5 48 Satyadev Kumar 5
Mr. Rajendra Desai appreciated the efforts of fourth respectively.
2 Prince Bajaj CM 7.5 49 Ruchin Yadav 4.5
50 Abhishek Vaidhy 4.5
Ponda Taluka Chess Association for organiz-
3 Gajendra Singh 7
51 Paras Vats 4.5 ing the tournament and said that Desai Chief guest, Mr Arun Desai, Trustee of Desai
4 Deepak Katiyar 7
5 Naveen S Hegde 7 52 Dharmendra Jain 4.5 Pratishthan is conducting this tournament Pratishthan distributed the prizes to winners.
6 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 7 53 Chinmay Jain 4.5 for the 2nd year in successioin. Anirudh Other dignitaries on the dais were, Mr Vinay
7 Gupta Alok Kumar 6.5 54 Harshit Jain 4 Borkar (Secretary, Wagle High School Golden Tendulkar, President, Goa Chess Association,
8 Nasir Ali Syed 6.5 Jubilee Celebration committee) said that Mr Kishor Bandekar, Joint secretary, AICF and
9 Kuldeep Srivastava 6.5 he is proud to be associated with this Secretary Goa Chess Association, Rajendra
10 Sanskriti Goyal 6.5 It is well known phenomenon that the same tournament. Desai, Trustee of Desai Pratishthan, Sagar
11 Himanshu Agarwal 6.5 amateur who can conduct the middle game quite Sakordekar (President, Ponda Taluka Chess
12 Saket Kumar 6 creditably is usually perfectly helpless in the end Total of 211 players from Goa, Maharash- Association and Vice-President, Goa Chess
13 Milind Parle 6 game.One of the principal requisites of good tra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Association), Amogh Namshiker (Secretary,
14 Verma Ashu 6 chess is the ability to treat both the middle and
Delhi, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh Ponda Taluka Chess Association) and Mr
15 Dr.Somnath Narang 6 end game equally well
participated in this tournament out of which Gaurish Abhisheki (Vice Chairman, Wagle
16 S.M. Wais 6 - Aaron Nimzowich

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High School Golden Jubilee Celebration Com- 44 Sawant Vignesh 5½ Royal Chess Challenge Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi
mittee. 45 Eesh Prabhudesai 5½
Final ranking: 46
47
Sakordekar Nandan Sagar
Naroji Sanskriti
5½
5½
CRG Krishna wins Royal Chess Challenge
Rk Name Pts
48 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5½
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
1 Ritviz Parab 8
2 Barath M 8 49 Hetvi Pethad 5½ The Royal Chess Challenge Open Fide Rated Krishna and Wajih signed the peace treaty
3 Arjun Adappa 7½ 50 Kaushik M Khedekar 5½
Chess Tournament was conducted by Royal in the penultimate round, which made the
4 Anurag Mhamal IM 7½ 51 Aniket Datta Prabhu 5½
Chess Academy and Bishop Lovers Academy tournament wide open.
5 Soni Krishan 7 52 Pai Sunay Pundalik 5½
53 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5½
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
6 Kambli Datta 7
54 Satbir Singh 5½ from 20-23 May 2015. A total number of In the final round, CRG Krishna drew with
7 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 7
55 Fadte Rudresh 5½ 104 players which included five International Ram S Krishnan to take his point tally to
8 Yuti Mayur Patel 7
9 Ajay Kumar Rai 6½ 56 Bhobe Harsh 5½ Masters and 94 International rated players six points while International Master Rahul
10 Raahul V S 6½ 57 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 5½ from different parts of India and Singapore Sangma defeated Nassir Wajih to register his
11 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6½ 58 Sawant Varad 5½ participated in the event which were spread sixth win on the trot after first round debacle
12 Gopal Shah 6½ 59 Shijil K 5½ over four days with a time control of 90 min- to occupy the pole position along with CRG
13 Sudhakar Patgar 6½ 60 Naik Shvesh S 5½ utes and 30 seconds increment from move Krishna. But better tie break score helped
14 Rajesh Kumar 6½ 61 A K Kalshyan 5 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. Krishna to lift the winner’s trophy along with
15 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6½ 62 Nandhini Saripalli 5 2,60,000. cash prize of Rupees forty thousand while
16 Parsekar Anirudh 6½ 63 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 5 Rahul finished as first runner up and pocketed
17 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 6½ 64 Khan Faiziya 5
The Tournament was played under Swiss Rupees thirty thousand as cash award and a
18 Dias Aston 6½ 65 Kavish Gharse 5
System with seven rounds and had Interna- glittering trophy.
19 Pawar Rahul 6½ 66 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5
67 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5
tional Master S Ravi Teja as top seed. There
20 Soham Naik 6½
68 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5 was no opening ceremony for the event and Vantika Agrawal of Delhi was adjudged
21 Kuncolienkar Shivank 6½
69 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5 the tournament started on surprising note best women player and H S Verma of Delhi
22 Naik Rishubh Naresh 6
23 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 6 70 Antonio A J D 5 as fourth seed International Master Rahul adjudged as best Veteran player. Moksh
24 Thorat Aishwarya 6 71 Yash Paul 5 Sangma suffered a shock defeat by the hands Amitbhai Doshi of Gujarat, Vikrant Jaglan
25 Kriti Mayur Patel 6 72 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5 of unheralded Sanjeevan Saraswat of Him- of Haryana and Aaryan Varsheny of Delhi
26 Barde Om 6 73 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 5 achal Pradesh. finished best among Under-20, Under-15
27 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6 74 Arun S 5 and Under-10 age categories respectively.
28 Sunad Govekar 6 75 Kumar Prasanna 5 The entire seven rounds saw lots of up and Manoj Sharma becomes best Delhi player and
29 Madhavan G 6 76 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5 downs and produced exciting games in pur- Ayush Ranjan of Bihar secured best unrated
30 Milind Gauns 6 77 Chavan Abhijit 5 suit. In second and third round, Asian Youth prize. In the closing ceremony, members of
31 Morajkar Navin 6 78 Adelkar Shrikrishna 5
Gold Medalist International Master Chakkra- Organising Committee gave away the cash
32 Urvi Bandekar 6 79 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5
varthy Reddy tasted defeat from lower rated prizes and trophies to the winners.
33 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 6 80 Chodankar Akash 5
81 Parab Sneh 5
Likhit Chilukari of Karnataka and Sarthak Final ranking:
34 Thorat Sanjay 6 Rk Name Pts
82 Jagannathan Govind 5 Kapoor of Delhi respectively while in fourth
35 Alaina J J Pereira 6 1 Krishna C.R.G. 6
83 Dhaimodkar Anish 5 round, Vishal Didwania of West Bengal held
36 Gaayathri S 6 2 Sangma Rahul 6
37 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 84 Gaude Sumesh 5 top seed S Ravi Teja to a creditable draw.
After this minor setback, top seed withdrawn 3 Wajih Nassir 5½
38 Vaibhav N Tarkar Pednekar 5½ 85 Swayam Naik 5
4 Srinath Rao S.V. 5½
39 Siddhartha Sarkar 5½ 86 Chandil Sandeep 5 from the event due to personal reasons.
5 Ram S. Krishnan 5½
40 Khandeparkar Mohit 5½ 87 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 5 Second seed IM CRG Krishna and seasoned
6 Senthil Maran K 5½
41 Naik Snehal 5½ 88 Pratik S Borkar 5 campaigner Nassir Wajih of Delhi took joint
7 Harshal Shahi 5½
42 Shirodkar Aayush 5½ 89 Sainee N F Dessai 5 lead after defeating Tamilnadu duo Senthil 8 Vinoth Kumar M. 5½
43 Colaso Vernon 5½ 90 Poorvi Adappa 5 Maran and Vinoth Kumar M in fifth round.

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9 Arpan Das 5½ 56 Mehta Naitik R 3
10 Aansh Gupta 5 57 Shatrughan Kaushik 3
Ln Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi district Ist National Open
11 Badavath Anand 5 58 Shounak Ghatak 3 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Udupi
12 Chakravarthi Reddy M 5 59 Rajarishi Karthi 3
13 Sanchit Anand 5 60 Tanuj M. Meshran 3 Girinath is Champion
14 Negi D.S. 5 61 Deepak Singh 3 by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
15 Santu Mondal 4½ 62 Tushar Anand 3
16 Likhit Chilukuri 4½ 63 Vardan Nagpal 3
Ln. Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi on tie break score, Girinath was adjudged
17 Didwania Vishal 4½ 64 Aaryan Varshney 3
District Ist National Open FIDE Rated Chess as winner and won Rs 30000 cash prize and
18 Khan S 4½ 65 Sarthak Gupta 3
19 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 4½ 66 Aryan Ranjan 3
Tournament 2015 orgaised by Udupi Dis- trophy. IM Shivananda as runner up and
20 Shrutarshi Ray 4½ 67 Sharma Avinash 3 trict Chess Association was inaugurated by won Rs 20000 and trophy.. Arvind Shastry
21 Deepak Rai 4½ 68 Ruhaan Mahindru 3 Dr Vishal Ravi, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, and Dhanush Bharadwaj scored seven point
22 Nath Rupankar 4½ 69 Ayush Ranjan 3 Udupi District, at KK Pai Block, T A Pai Man- five each and placed third and fouth place.
23 Sahil Dhawan 4½ 70 Tatparya Shankar 3 agement Institute, Manipal, Udupi District on
24 Vantika Agrawal 4½ 71 Jalap Indraj 3 13th May 2015. Chief guest of the valedictory function, Dr
25 Sumit Grover 4½ 72 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 3 Vinod Bhat, Pro Vice Chancellor, Manipal Uni-
26 Sahil Tickoo 4½ 73 Ravi Teja S. 2½ Chief Guest, Dr H S Ballal, Pro Chancellor, versity handed over Kallya Devaraya Shenoy
27 Sarthak Kapoor 4 74 Joy Pankaj Shah 2½ Manipal University, Manipal, Guest of Honour, Memorial Trophy to the winner along with
28 Palit Somak 4 75 Sumay Mishra 2½ PMJF Lion K Suresh Prabhu, District Governor, Rs Thirty Thousand Cash Prize. The other
29 Dave Kantilal 4 76 Trivedi Karan R 2½ Lion District317C, Dr R C Natarajan, Direc- guests were Sri K P Achanrya, Chairman,
30 Manoj Sharma 4 77 Hari P. Nambiar 2½
tor, TAPMI, MJF Lion Shridhar Shenava, Vice Vidyanikethan Group of Institution Kaup,
31 Ashutosh Kumar 4 78 Gurveer Singh 2½
District Goovernor, Lion District 317 C, Ln Dr R C Natarajan, Director TAPMI, Sri Ln
32 Cheniram Pegu 4 79 Abhinav Gola 2
33 Baig Akram 4 80 Jaspal Singh Bhati 2
Keshavaraya Pai, Ln Dr K Rajgopal Shenoy, Nagesh Kamath, Vice President, Manipal
34 Pereira Johnharry 4 81 Khakhai Zou 2 Shri Babu Poojary were on the dais of inau- Technologies, Dr Rajgopal Shenoy, President,
35 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 4 82 Kumar Prashant 2 guration function. Udupi District Chess Association, Sri Arvind
36 Vikrant Jaglan 4 83 Shashwat Chakraborty 2 Shastry, Secretary, United Karnataka Chess
37 Aditya S Hariharan 4 84 Kapil Gupta 2 A total of 297 players from Goa, Gujrat, Association.
38 Soham Das 4 85 Gupta Aashita 2 Karnataka, Kerala, Maharastra and Tamilnadu
39 Ritwan Sauntra 4 86 Bhavyay Gupta 2 participated. Out of which 154 were fide rated Final ranking:
40 Sanjeevan Sarswat 3½ 87 Vedanth Reddy 2 players. Rk Name Pts
41 Suraj Dahiya 3½ 88 Mouhurtik Ray 2 1 Girinath P.D.S IM 8
42 Rajesh Kumar Nath 3½ 89 Ajitpal Singh Bhati 1½ International Master Girinath PDS (ELO Rat- 2 Shivananda B.S IM 8
43 Sanjib Ghosh 3½ 90 Shami Vipin K. 1 ing 2328) of South Central Railways is a top 3 Arvind Shastry 7½
44 Rishabh Jain 3½ 91 Sandeep Chitkara 1 4 Dhanush Bharadwaj 7½
seed followed by International Master Shiva-
45 Lawaniya Eshan 3½ 92 Tauqeer Ahmad 1 5 Sharan Rao 7
nanda BS (ELO Rating 2301), Arvind Shatry
46 Kaushik Shubham 3½ 93 Harshit Jindal 1 6 Arjun Adappa 7
47 Saksham Rautela 3½ 94 Shourya Jain ½
(2247), Santoshkashyap HG (1976).The
7 Stanley Samson P. 7
48 Tarun Kanyamarala 3½ 95 Sankalp Gupta ½ tournament was conducted in Air-conditioned 8 Santoshkashyap Hg 7
49 Om Kharola 3½ Hall, Vegetarian food and tea/coffee was pro- 9 Raahul V S 7
50 Shankar Kuldeep 3½ You must be able to handle a variety of vided to all the participants and accompany- 10 Vivekraj 7
51 Avi Jaiswal 3½ move orders during the first 5-6 moves - ing persons, air-conditioned accommodation 11 Nikhilesh M Holla 7
52 Verma H.S. 3½ otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time was provided for the players. 12 Shalon Joanne Pais 7
53 Alok Sinha 3½ and time again. 13 Joshi Omkar 7
54 L Raju Mangang 3½ - Edmar Mednis At the end of final round IM Girinath PDS, IM 14 Vinay Thomas Abraham 7
55 Shuban Saha 3½ Shivananda BS scored 8 point each, based 15 Andria L D`souza 7

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16 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 6½ 63 Shivanth M 5½ 3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Tirupur
17 Varma Shabdhik 6½ 64 Vathan P H 5½
18 Kshitij R
19 Jagadish P
6½
6½
65 Vedamurthy S M
66 Dhyaan S Nayak
5½
5½
Lakshminarayanan wins title
20 Aditya B Kalyani 6½ 67 Gowri Shankar A 5½ by G.G.Sathiesh FA, Chief Arbiter
21 Ajay Sm 6½ 68 Chaithanya Shyam D 5½
22 Panchami Shenoy K 6½ 69 Aditya S Hariharan 5½ The 3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess a FIDE rated event. Lakshmi Narayanan MV
23 Niranjan Rajeev 6½ 70 Navodith V Bhat 5½ Tournament was held from 6th to 10th scored 8 points to clinch the first place worth
24 Gopal Shah 6½ 71 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5½ May 2015 at Sri Kamatchiamman Kalyana Rs. 20,000/- and the prestigious KPK Rolling
25 Harish Kumar 6½ 72 Shashank S L 5½ Mandapam,Tirupur organized by KPK Chess Trophy. B Sree Nithish an unrated player from
26 Sushrutha Reddy 6½ 73 Avathanshu Bhat 5½ Academy, Tirupur. V.T. Subramaniam, Presi- Coimbatore received the first prize of Rs.
27 Dhrikshu K Vasant 6½ 74 Rohnit G Amin 5½ dent of Tamil Kalai Illakiya Mandram and Mr. 5000/- in ‘Unrated to Below 1600’ category.
28 Pranav Anand 6½ 75 Manish Sherigar 5½ Easwaran of Tamilnadu Murpokku Ezhuthaalar
29 Sathya Prasad K. 6½ 76 Suhas A 5½ Sangam inaugurated the event in the pres- Best veteran prize was given to TV Subra-
30 Avi Jaiswal 6½ 77 Sudeep S 5½
ence of KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess manian for scoring 6.5 points from 9 rounds.
31 Siddharth Murali 6½ 78 Siddharth Beedu 5½
Academy and Office Bearers of Tirupur District Best women prize was bagged by GPS Sneha
32 Chaithanya Ganesh 6½ 79 Shashank Bhat G S 5½
33 Ajith M.P. 6 80 R Bhandarkar B 5½
Chess Association headed by its Secretary, K. scoring 6.5 points from 9 rounds.Best Tirupur
34 Chirag Hirinja G J 6 81 Viola Lewis 5½ Lakshmanasami. District player prize of Rs. 2000/- was bagged
35 Sriram Udhayakumar 6 82 Anudeep K S 5½ by C Ashhwath for scoring 6.5 points from 9
36 Mahima Sherigar 6 83 Nidhi Shenoy 5½ G. Suresh Kumar, Lions District Governor, rounds.
37 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 6 84 Ashuthosh Srivatsa R 5½ Sulur, Managing Director, Renuka Spinning
38 Devi Das Suresh Pai 6 85 Prateek K 5½ Mills, A. Ranganathan, First Vice Governor N Arul Prakash and A Ilamparithi, both 2009
39 Shashank S Mayya 6 86 Prajwal M Joshi 5½ Elect, Simta Group of Companies, M. Varad- born, were the youngest participants and TV
40 Arun M S 6 87 Ananth B S 5½ harajan, Past President, Sulur Lions Club, Subramanian born in 1934 was the oldest
41 Krishnakanth S S 6 88 Deepak Pai 5 Andavar Ramasamy, Correspondent, Vikas player. I would like to thank AICF and TNSCA
42 Yuti Mayur Patel 6 89 Shreesha Bhat 5 Vidyala, Tirupur, KPK Selvaraj, President of for providing me an opportunity to be the
43 Govardhana C 6 90 Adithya J D Silva 5 KPK Chess Academy,S Pranesh, Treasurer Chief Arbiter of this rating tournament and
44 Chandan Sharma A S 6 91 Tarun Thiyagarajan 5
of KPK Chess Academy, K. Lakshmanasami, other arbiters who worked along with me to
45 Shreyas Pavan 6 92 Shridevi Kote 5
Secretary, TDCA were present on dais during make this tournament highly successful.
46 Ithal H L Rajath 6 93 Shriram 5
47 Shree Krishna Pranama 6 94 Amulya Shetty 5
the prize distribution.
48 Hariharan Subramony 6 95 Raghavendra G 5 Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
49 Muniraju Narayanappa 6 96 Chomal Amit B 5 The event was conducted by Chief Arbiter Rk. Name Pts.
50 Nagendra B 6 97 Prashanth J Naik 5 G.G.Sathiesh, FIDE Arbiter, from Coimbatore 1 Lakshmi Narayanan M V 8
51 Sheron Vishwas 6 98 Swathi Bhat 5 along with Deputy Chief Arbiter Ganesh, 2 Vaisnav M 7.5
52 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 6 99 Vradhika Shetty 5 Senior National Arbiter from Mettupalayam 3 Vigneshwaran N. 7.5
4 Aravindaswami T 7
53 Tejas Cavale 6 100 Samarth J Rao 5 who acted as Technical Arbiter (Systems).
54 Nachiketh Adiga 6 101 Ravi Prasad S N 5 5 Hirthickkesh Pr 7
R. Ganesh Kumar, Ms. Deepa Rani, Mani, Ra-
55 Mahalinga Gowthama 6 102 Pankaj Bhat 5 6 Sanathanan N.R.S. 7
malingam and Manohar, State Arbiters were
56 Vinayak B Hariwal 6 103 Vinaya Prakash Ashirwad 5 7 Sarveshwaran P 7
the deputies. 8 Raman D 7
57 Gopalkrishna.P 5½ 104 Prithvi Rajan 5
58 Madhavan G 5½ 105 Satwik M Hegde 5 9 Anandha Venkatesan 7
The event category attracted 280 players 10 Babu S. 7
59 Sakshath U K 5½ 106 Kriti Mayur Patel 5
comprised of 182 rated players and 98 unrat- 11 Solomon Rathna Sekaran 7
60 Sreedhara K T 5½ 107 Rajath Kumar 5
61 Sachin Nayak K 5½ 108 Aneesha Sathish 5
ed payers. Players from 9 states participated 12 Girinath B S 7
62 Shashidhar Rai B 5½ 109 Shalmika K Jain 5 in this event. 45 players were first timers for 13 Shalon Joanne Pais 6.5

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JUNE 2015 JUNE 2015
14 Mani Bharathy 6.5 61 Senguttuvan K P 5.5 2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi
15 Dileep Kumar R 6.5 62 Datta Ramakrishna J 5.5
16
17
Vijay Shreeram P
Sree Nithish B
6.5
6.5
63 Narendra Pallavan S
64 Jayanth Reddy K
5.5
5.5
Somak Palit wins Imperia Open
18 Arun M S 6.5 65 Sivamurugan N 5.5
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
19 Meenakshi Sundaram 6.5 66 Rajagopal A 5.5
20 Ashhwath C 6.5 67 Vivek Ramanathan V 5.5 The 2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated which helped International Master Somak
21 Arjun Kalyan 6.5 68 Jaya Surya G 5.5 Chess Tournament was conducted by Parents Palit of Railways, Abhishek Das of Railways
22 Aswin Kumar B S 6.5 69 Srijan J 5.5 Chess Promotion Foundation at the beautiful and Ram S Krishnan of Tamilnadu to catch up
23 Arjun B 6.5 70 Sudarsan P 5.5 Talkotara Indoor Stadium, New Delhi from the leader after beating Vinoth Kumar of Tam-
24 Yutesh P 6.5 71 Aadith R 5.5 16-20 May 2015. ilnadu, International Master CRG Krishna of
25 Tharanitharr P 6.5 72 Devaraj L 5.5
Andhra Pradesh and Hemant Sharma of Delhi
26 Shankarasubbu B 6.5 73 Abineshwar Gnanamurtthy 5.5
A total number of 215 players which in- respectively in the ninth and final round.
27 Prasant N Nayagam 6.5 74 Dinesh Maran T 5.5
28 Yashwanth Babu P 6.5 75 Swaminathan K 5.5
cludes one Grandmaster, five International
29 Sneha G P S 6.5 76 Rohit S 5.5 Masters and 146 International rated players Four-way tie for the pole position was re-
30 George Daniel 6.5 77 Suudhan S 5.5 from different parts of India and Singapore solved by buchholz system and better tie
31 Natarajan M 6.5 78 Nivetha Vijayakumar 5.5 participated in the event which were spread break score helped International Master
32 Subramanian T.V. 6.5 79 Srivatsan Sekar 5.5 over five days with a time control of 90 min- Somak Palit to clinch the title along with a
33 Kathir Balaji K 6.5 80 Anirudh D Venkat 5.5 utes and 30 seconds increment from move cash award of Rs. 75,000/- while Chakkra-
34 Murali. R 6.5 81 Ashwin K R 5.5 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. varthy Reddy finished as first runner up and
35 Manu David Suthandram R 6 82 Mugunth R B 5 4,00,000. pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- along
36 Sabarish V 6 83 Mugesh B 5 with coveted trophy. Ram S Krishnan and
37 Sarvesh Kumar A 6 84 Navnitan S V 5 In a colourful opening ceremony, Shri. Man- Abhishek Das satisfied with third and fourth
38 Jubin Jimmy 6 85 Digvijay Sunil 5 ish Sisodia, Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister of position respectively.
39 Umashankar A 6 86 Rohan Kailash 5
Delhi inaugurated the event in presence of
40 Dhanush Ragav 6 87 Shyam Kumar M 5
Brigadier D S Gill (Retd), Director Imperia Stuti Bhanot of Haryana adjudged as best
41 Vignesh R 6 88 Sreevijay Sunil 5
42 Domnic Xavier R S 6 89 Savitha Shri B 5
Structures. The Tournament was played un- women player while Manya Bagla become
43 Sakthinandhan S 6 90 Jeremiah S V 5 der Swiss System with nine rounds and had Best Delhi Girl player. Verma H S of Delhi
44 Atul Srivatsa 6 91 Sibi Visal R 5 Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury as bagged the best veteran prize and Ayush
45 Mano Ranjith J 6 92 Keerthana Maran T 5 top seed. Bhai Mehta of Madhya Pradesh, Dushyant
46 Qamar Naim 6 93 Lokesh R 5 Sharma of Punjab, Adarsh Tripathi of Delhi,
47 Kannan R 6 94 Rahul Krishna Viswanathan 5 The tournament progressed on expected lines Garv Rai of Delhi finished best among Un-
48 Yashwanth Raj S 6 95 Chinnadurai S. 5 as seeded players registered comfortable der-14, Under-12, Under-10 and Under-8
49 Vignesh Shiva Ram M 6 96 Keerthi Srinath K 5 victories on first two rounds but in the third Boys categories respectively. Tarini Goyal
50 Alexander P 6 97 Prahalada Varadhan R 5 round unheralded Maharasthra youngster of Chandigarh, Tanishka Kotia of Haryana,
51 Priyan R S 6 98 Thanga Manickam M 5 Sankalp Gupta held top seed Saptarshi Roy Kiyaara Sunil Kathuria of Maharashtra and
52 Shreyas M 5.5 99 Punit Easwar S 5 Chowdhury of Railways to a creditable draw. Prathviya Gupta of Delhi become best among
53 Shyaam M 5.5 100 Vignesh N 5
Asian Youth Gold medalist International Mas- girls in same age group categories. Visually
54 S. Jeevanandam 5.5 101 Shenthil A A 5
ter Chakkravarthy Reddy of Telangana took Challenged Somender of Delhi becomes best
55 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 5.5 102 Srikrishnan P 5
56 Rathneesh R 5.5 103 Mohan Sundar S 5
the sole lead at the end of seventh round unrated player.
57 Kanishk S K 5.5 104 Sathya Naarayanan S 5 and enjoyed the slender half point lead over
58 Sai Balaji E 5.5 105 Gowtham T S 5 nearest rivals till last round. He signed the In a brief closing ceremony, International
59 Kavya Srishti K 5.5 106 Anirud M 5 peace treaty with compatriot International Master and Arjuna Awardee Tania Sachdev,
60 Vikhram R 5.5 107 Chitrarasu C 5 Master Ravi Teja of Railways in the final round Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess

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Association, Brigadier D S Gill (Retd), Di- 40 Sarthak Mahajan 5½ 3rd One Goal Chess Academy Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Hyderabad
rector Imperia Structures and Mrs. D G Gill 41 Suraj Dahiya 5½
gave away the cash prizes and trophies to 42
43
Thaker Kautilya P
Likhit Chilukuri
5½
5½
C R G Krishna is the winner
the winners. S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter
44 Vardan Nagpal 5½
45 Adarsh Tripathi 5½
Final ranking:
Rank Name Pts
46 Soumik Datta 5½ Top Seed and International Master Elect C R Final ranking
47 Sanjib Ghosh 5½ G Krishna of Hyderabad won 3rd One Goal Rk Name Pts
1 Palit Somak 7½
48 Awadh Chaitanya 5½ Chess Academy All India FIDE Rapid Rat- 1 Krishna C.R.G. 8½
2 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½
49 Khan S 5½ ing Chess Tournament held at Delhi Public 2 Kranti Kumar P. 8½
3 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
50 Dubey Sanchay 5½ School, Nacharam, Hyderabad on 2nd and 3 Erigaisi Arjun 8
4 Abhishek Das 7½
51 Daksh Jain 5½ 4 Ramakrishna J. 8
5 Sangma Rahul 7 3rd May 2015. In the final round on top board
52 Adethya R 5½ 5 Varun V 8
6 Ravi Teja S. 7 C R G Krishna defeated J K Raju (7.5). He got
53 Dushyant Sharma 5½ 6 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 8
7 Arpan Das 7 8.5 points from 10 rounds. On second board
54 Tarini Goyal 5½ 7 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½
8 Dhananjay 7 P Kranthi Kumar (8.5) defeated Vikramjit
55 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 5½ 8 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 7½
9 Rajarishi Karthi 7 Singh (7.5). Both Krishna and Kranthi tied for
56 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad 5½ 9 Raju J.K. 7½
10 Krishna C.R.G. 6½ first place with equal score. After applying tie
57 Tushar Anand 5½ 10 Ramakrishna Perumalla 7
11 Vinoth Kumar M. 6½
58 Pereira Johnharry 5½ break (Buchholz) C R G Krishna and P Kranthi 11 Badavath Anand 7
12 Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½
59 Shuban Saha 5½ Kumar were placed in that order. Krishna got 12 Khan S 7
13 Santu Mondal 6½
14 Abhinav Gola 6½
60 Shashwat Chakraborty 5½ prize money of Rs. 15,000/- and winner’s 13 Rohith Svs 7
61 Saksham Rautela 5½ trophy. Kranthi received Rs. 10,000/- with 14 Rao J. Malleswara 7
15 Joshi Govind Ballabh 6½
62 Dharmpal Khari 5½ runner up trophy. Total prize money of Rs. 15 Saket Kumar 7
16 Kranti Kumar P. 6½
63 Alok Sinha 5 1,00,000/- was distributed among 35 top 16 Murthy V S N 7
17 Deepak Rai 6½
64 J M Baisakh 5 rankers.The event attracted 160 participants 17 Harshavardhan B 7
18 Sumit Grover 6½
65 Aansh Gupta 5 18 Subhash Kumar M 7
19 Nath Rupankar 6½ from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
66 Pavit Singh 5 19 Prateek Srivastava 7
20 S Mithilesh Kumar 6½ Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal.
67 Prithu Gupta 5 20 Raja Rithvik R 7
21 Kaushik Shubham 6½
68 Hitesh S. Jariya 5 21 Pvs Aravind 7
22 Hemant Sharma (del) 6 On the inaugural day Smt T Sudha, Director of
69 Rajagopalan 5 22 Kumar A. 6½
23 Srinath Rao S.V. 6 the Delhi Public School, Nacharam declared
70 L Raju Mangang 5 23 Raju M.Y. 6½
24 Senthil Maran K 6
71 Sneha Paul 5 open the event by playing the customary first 24 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 6½
25 Shrutarshi Ray 6
72 Ambarish Sharma 5 move on the board. Sri A Narasimha Rao, 25 Sri Sai Baswanth P 6½
26 Sankalp Gupta 6
73 Aaryan Varshney 5 Advocate, Member-Adhoc Body, Telangana 26 Srivastava Pratyush 6½
27 Vantika Agrawal 6
28 Ayush Bhai Mehta 6
74 Anshul Mehta 5 Chess Association also spoke on the occa- 27 Ramanujacharyulu N C 6½
75 Jatinder Kapoor 5 sion. Sri I J Ganesh of OGCA, Tournament 28 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 6½
29 Ashutosh Kumar 6
76 Aan Sikka 5 convenor was also present on the occasion. 29 Praveen Veeramalla 6½
30 Lawaniya Eshan 6
77 Aryan Ranjan 5 30 M Vijaya Kumar Reddy 6½
31 Dave Kantilal 6
78 Manoj Sharma 5 In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri 31 M K Shaji 6½
32 Soham Das 6
79 Manya Bagla 5 32 Vishwanath Kannam 6½
33 Didwania Vishal 6 M Ramesh Reddy, Asst Inspector General,
80 Om Kharola 5 33 Narayana Rao M 6½
34 Bhanot Stuti 6 Law & Order – Telangana State distributed
81 Kaur Palkin 5 34 Sudheesh Karri 6½
35 Om Batra 6 the prizes. Sri Bhaskar, Director of Physical
82 Shashi Raj Saxena 5 35 Suresh Babu T 6
36 Verma H.S. 6 Education, Delhi Public School and I Ama-
83 Somender B L (blind) 5 36 Aditya S S V 6
37 Shatrughan Kaushik 6 rnadh of One Goal Chess Academy graced
84 Khakhai Zou 5 37 Ankit Payal 6
38 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5½
85 Narender Kumar 5 the occasion. 38 Kandi Ravi 6
39 Lokesh Hans 5½
86 Aneek Das 5 39 Rajasekhar K 6

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40 Bipin Raj S 6 87 Chandrahas Reddy V 5 Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015
41 Abhijit Chutia 6 88 Yashwanth Reddy K 5
42 R Venkata Raghunandan 6 89 Shaik Sumer Arsh 5 Phoobalan is Champion
43 Krishna G M 6 90 Vignesh Ramaswamy 5
Peter Joseph M, FA, Chief Arbiter
44 Veldandi Shivaji 6 91 Sriharinadha S 5
45 Shanmukha Teja P 6 92 Harender J 4½ The first edition of Don Bosco Birth Bi- Cen- shared with 7.5 points but better tie break
46 Viswa Sudhakar Repalle 6 93 Rajinesh Chintala 4½ points helped Mr. Phoobalan of ICF to picked
tenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament con-
47 Gyaneshwar B 6 94 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 4½
ducted by Don Bosco youth center from May up the first prize of the Don Bosco Birth Bi-
48 Laxmana Chary M 6 95 Krishna Balaji 4½
1st to May 5th 2015. The organizers planned Centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament and
49 Mangaldeep Mitra 6 96 Akhil Madhav 4½
a ten rounds Swiss format tournament, with a bagged Rs. 25000/- .Mr. Syed Anwershasuli
50 Sudhir Vanarase 6 97 Akarsh Reddy Ch 4½
51 Perumallu K. 5½ 98 Muralikrishna Mandarapu 4½ time control of 90 minutes each with an incre- ICF, and Mr. Joy Lazar from Thrissur, Kerala
52 Naga Chaitanya 5½ 99 Visesh Reddy Mandadi 4½ ment of30 seconds per move. Unfortunately were claimed the second and third spots
53 Srinivasa Rao Puppala 5½ 100 Vedanth Chinta 4½ the shortfalls of participants the organizers respectively. Grand Master Laxman ICF turn
54 Satyanarayana M 5½ 101 Pradeep Kumar V 4½ were forced to reduce one round as opined out to be the fourth prize winner.
55 David Vargheese 5½ 102 Venkateswara Rao R 4½ by players in the players meeting.
56 Arthi Sampreet 5½ 103 Saranya Kaghitha 4½ The tournament was inaugurated by
57 Sathwika N 5½ 104 Kagitha Jahnavi 4 Grandmaster Rajaram Laxman with a rat- Hon’bleChief Whip of Kerala, . Thomas Un-
58 Indukuri Gayatri 5½ 105 Varshini Chinta 4 ing of 2424 was the top seed and the main niyaden in the presence of dignitaries like
59 Pati Spandan 5½ 106 Maanas Jitendra Vennekanti 4 attraction of the five day tournament.The Mrs. Marykutty joy,Chair person, Irinjalakuda
60 Murali Mohan Y 5½ 107 Prashanth Kumar D 4 Municipality, Fr. Thomas Poovelikkal, Rector,
tournament organized in a small town like
61 Vysetty Sahithi 5½ 108 Mihir Chandra Loke 4
Irinjalakuda attracted 186 players from six Don Bosco Institutions, Fr. Varghese Edathi-
62 Sudeep S 5½ 109 Mallesh Beerla 4
states, Tamil nadu, Karnataka, west Bengal, chira, Principal, Don BoscoSchool,Sri.T.J.Su
63 Naveen Kumar V 5½ 110 Devivaraprasad M 4
Andaman, Maharashtra and Kerala. 126 reshKumar,
64 Srihari Padmanabhan 5½ 111 Shruthik Sarvagni P 4
65 Suribabu Kommireddi 5½ 112 Krishna Sanketh K 4 players are elo rated players and many of the
66 Nithish Chilakalaraju 5½ 113 Ojas Mehetre 4 unrated players get eligibility to get rating. Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, Sri.T M
67 Venkat Vemparala 5½ 114 Shaan Rai 4 S Namboothiripad, Patron, Chess Association
68 Naga Srinish K 5½ 115 Mukesh Varma Gangaraju 4 As usual the lower rated players produced Thrissur, Mr. M M Babu, President, Chess As-
69 Anirudh R S 5 116 Bhuvanendra Sivan Reddy 4 many upsets throughout the tournament. sociation, Thrissur. Mr. Kuriyan Joseph, Presi-
70 Bharat Goel 5 117 Pittampally Sai Rohan 4 Master Nithin Babu of Kerala with rating of dent, PTA, Don boscoschool. Mr. Unniyaden
71 Suhrit Padakanti 5 118 Anvay Maramreddy 4 1679 beat second seed Sri.Phoobalan with made a customary first move against Sri R R
72 Erigaisi Keerthana 5 119 Rithika Reddy N G 4 a rating of 2258. Mr.Sreekumar 2127, Mr. Laxman in the first board and flagged off the
73 Raghuvarun Reddy K 5 120 Sravya Sridevi Y 4 JoyLazar 1919, and Master Chandar Raju prestigious chess tournament in the history
74 Karthik Sai Ch 5 121 Padma Priya P 4 of Irinjalakuda Town.
1911 were forced the Grand master Raja
75 Lochana B 5 122 Ravi Kumar Ganji 4
ram Laxman to a draw. The thrilling uncer-
76 Srinadh Madhavarapu 5 123 Aaromal R S 3½
tainty was projected in the eighth round In the closing ceremony Mr.Sinoj, Circle
77 Durga Prasad P V 5 124 Mourya Manyam 3½
pairing with 6 players- Mr. R Laxman,Mr. Inspector of Police was the chief guest, Fr.
78 Jayant Sai 5 125 Tarun Lakshman Nagineni 3½
79 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 5 126 Sri Chandana G 3½ Syed Anwar shasuli,Mr. Phoobalan,Master Thomas Poovelikkal, FR. VargheseEdathi-
80 Midhush Sirigudi 5 127 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 3½ Chanderraju,Mr. Joy Lazar and Master Ab- chira, T J Sureshkumar BrotherJith, brother
81 Ved Prakash 5 128 Tejasree P 3½ hishek T M were shared six points .Iin the jithin are lead the programmes. Chief Arbi-
82 Anilkumar Reddy Kasireddy 5 129 Viswa Teja G 3 beginning of the ultimate round Mr. Syed ter Peter Joseph Presented the tournament
83 Abbas S 5 130 Vegolapu Anush Kumar 3 AnwerShasuli was the sole leader. report. Complementary T-shirts distributed
84 Karthikeya Sai Ram T 5 131 Raghav Sai T 3 to all participants by the chief sponsor Mr.
85 Manmadha Rao L 5 132 Jayanth E 3 At the end of the tournament Mr. Phoobalan Rafi Ponnari.
86 Abhinay Basvoju 5 133 Rohith Babu P 3 ICF and his colleague Syed Anwar Shasuli

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29 Lakshmanan K A 6
On behalf chess fraternity of Thrissur I would FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk
30 Hari Suresh 6
like to congratulate the Salesians Don Bosco
missionaries for their true efforts to make
31 Jibi Kallingalpadem
32 Sriram Udhayakumar
6
6
Caruana and Nakamura qualify for FIDE Candidates 2016
the tournament a grand success. I wish 33 Nandan Hegde 6
to convey my thanks to Chess association 34 Harilal.P.P 6
Kerala especially Sri. T.J Sureshkumar for 35 Naveen Giri 6
the co-operation and support for the event. 36 Rajashree Rajeev 6
I wish to appreciate the other arbiters Mr. 37 Prasad Subramanian 6
Govindankutty,FA, Mr.Kumaran.K V, NA,Mr. 38 Benjamin Varghees Issac 5.5
Sa ju Manjali, NA Mr. Noushad K U. NA.for 39 Jolly V P 5.5
contolling the event in a smooth way. I wish 40 Jos Paul Davis 5.5
to salute the youth center members volun- 41 Prem Krishna N 5.5
teer team and NCC cadets for their hard work 42 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 5.5
43 Karthik Shetty 5.5
throughout the day without any rest.
44 Hariharan Subramony 5.5
45 Satheesh A S 5.5
Final standing:
46 Avi Jaiswal 5.5
Rk. Name Pts.
47 Prasanna Venkatesh B 5.5
1 Phoobalan P. 7.5
48 Syam Peter 5.5
In the final round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru
2 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7.5 Nakamura drew their respective games to take the top two spots in the overall Grand Prix
49 Abhiram C Nath 5.5
3 Joy Lazar M.A. 7 standings and qualify for the 2016 FIDE Candidates Tournament.The Ugra nominee Dmitry
50 Mohanan A K 5.5
4 Laxman R.R. GM 7 Jakovenko was in position to fight for qualification in the direct duel against Nakamura, but
51 Sishir B 5.5
5 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7 he couldn’t achieve more than a draw with black pieces.Eventually, Caruana, Jakovenko and
52 Sibin Paul 5.5
6 Nair Sanjeev 7
53 Anugrah Nair 5.5 Nakamura shared the first place in the last Grand Prix tournament with 6,5/11 points each.
7 Mohanan U.C. 7
54 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5.5
8 Rajith V. 7
55 Amal Roozi 5.5 A short unofficial ceremony preceded the start of the last round: FIDE President Kirsan
9 Sooraj M R 7
56 Abhinav Chakrapani S 5.5 Ilyumzhinov, his adviser Berik Balgabaev, and RCF Executive Director Mark Glukhovsky planted
10 Chandar Raju 6.5
57 Jubin Jimmy 5 a lilac tree in the Honor Alley near the Ugra Chess Academy. Now they will have an extra
11 Manikandan K.K. 6.5
58 Harish B Menon 5 incentive to visit the Ugra capital.The tournament intrigue lived until the last day, but the last
12 Aditya Mittal CM 6.5
59 Amal Raj N R 5
13 Abdulkhader A. 6.5 round did not bring any major changes. Five games ended in a draw, and only Peter Svidler
60 Raghavendra G 5
14 Suresh P.K. 6.5 slightly improved his position by winning against Baadur Jobava.
61 Santhosh P.V. 5
15 Raghuraj V.N. 6.5
62 B Lee M Sunilkumar 5
16 Raju O A 6.5
63 Radhakrishnan.K.S 5
17 Raahul V S 6.5
64 Fathima Abdeen 5
18 Karan J P 6.5
65 Sruthi P.S 5
19 Marthandan K U 6.5
66 Nijai Giri 5
20 Sreekumar P. 6
67 Jaseel Badar 5
21 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
68 Vinayak Mittal 5
22 Nithin Babu 6
69 Jyothir R 5
23 Karmukilan S 6
70 Yukash Ram E 5
24 Rajeev V.M. 6
71 Antony Simethy 5
25 Unas K.A. 6
72 Sujith Kumar K V 5
26 Sushrutha Reddy 6
73 Senbabu M B 5
27 Abhishek T M 6 Fabiano Caruana received the Grand Prix winner’s Cup from FIDE President and Ugra Governor.
74 Aji Kumar A 5
28 Francis N. P. 6 During the series he collected 370 points. Hikaru Nakamura finished second overall. Thus, these
75 Abhinav Bhatt 5
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two players qualified for the Candidates Tournament.
Final standings:4th leg of Grand Prix 1st SCS FIDE Rated Chess
1.GM Jakovenko Dmitry (RUS)6½; 2.GM Nakamura Hikaru(USA) 6½; Tournament 2015, Sivakasi
3.GM Caruana Fabiano(ITA)6½;4.GM Dominguez Perez Leinier(CUB)6;
Deepan with trophy: Ponraj, Committee
5.GM Gelfand Boris (ISR)6;6.GM Svidler Peter (RUS)5½; member, Narendran Kamak Treasurer, SCS,
7.GM Grischuk Alexander(RUS)5½;8 GM Giri Anish (NED)5½; R. Anantharam Chief arbiter, TD Rajendran
9.GM Karjakin Sergey(RUS)5½;10.GM Tomashevsky Evgeny(RUS)5; Industrialist, Deepan Chakkravarthy,
11.GM Jobava Baadur(GEO)4;12.GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime(FRA)3½ Balasubramanian, Secretary, SIPT College,
Asan Badhrudeen, SMPA, SR Rajan Secretary
Virudhunagar DCA, Prabakaran President
Hungarian Chess Championship, Zalakaros SMPA and Kumaresan Secretary, Sivakasi
Chess Sparklers
Igor Kovalenko wins again
The 34th edition of the Zalakaros Chess Festival took place from 14 May to 21 May 2015. At the
Hotel Karos Spa, in Gala Hall the traditional Festival was held, which determines the Hungarian
Open Championship title too. The second highest rated Latvian player, GM Igor Kovalenko 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Goa
repeated his success from last year. Kovalenko started with a loss against IM Kantor Gergely
(HUN), a promising talent of Hungarian chess, but in the next 8 games he won 6 drawing two. IM Thejkumar receiving the 1st
In the 8th round he defeated the player at first place at the time, GM Avital Boruchovsky (ISR). prize winner trophy. From Left :
In the last game a 122-move draw was fought successfully. He held his position with a rook Arvind Mhamal ( Chief Arbiter), Shri
against Austrian Markus Ragger’s rook and knight. Ragger started with three from three, but Mahesh Candolkar ( Tournament
Director & President TTCA) , Shri
in the later rounds only won one game. The Indian Adhiban was left unbeaten.
Sanjay Harmalkar, Shri Vinay
Tendulkar ( President GCA & BJP Goa
State), MR Suraj Morajkar ( Guest of
Honor), Shri Dilip Parulekar ( Chief
Guest, Minister of Tourism Goa
State) Shri Kishor Bandekar ( Joint
Secretary AICF & Secretary GCA) and
Sanjay Belurkar ( Secretary TTCA).
6th KCM International FIDE Rated Open , Coimbatore
The title of Hungarian Champion was won by GM Horvath Adam, player of Zalaegerszeg Csuti-
Hydrocomp team. Horvath started with a draw, lost twice, being forced to surrender against Priyanka receiving the 1st prize
Adhiban B. (IND) and against Matthias Bluebaum (GER), with six won games he won the title from Mr Jayabal, Executive
with 6.5 Pts. On the last day he defeated Ukrainian Olympic champion Zahar Efimenko. He also Director of Salzer Limited,
Coimbatore and the newly
won 15 Rating points.
elected President of CDCA
Final placings: 1.GM Kovalenko Igor (Latvia) 2.GM Boruchovsky Avital (Israel) 3.GM Ragger
Markus(Austria) 4.GM B.Adhiban (India) 5.Horvath Adam(Hungary) 6.Papp Gabor (Hungary)
7.IM Bluebaum Matthias (Germany) 8.GM Berkes Ferenc(Hungary) 9.GM Prohaszka Peter
(Hungary) 10.IM Raznikov Danny (Israel)
(Courtesy : fide.com)
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Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015 All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum
Shivananda wins at Belgaum
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
Adv.thomasunniyaden,chief whip,
Kerala making the inaugural move All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament or- In the final round, fourth seed, FM Raghu-
against Grand Master Rajaram Laxman ganized by Lions Club of Belgaum Midtown nanadan KS of Bangalore played Queens
Belgaum in association with Belgaum District pawn and third seed, IM Shivananda BS re-
Chess Association under the auspices of plied Modern Benoni. Shivanada’s inaccuracy
United Karnataka Chess Association was in- in the 23rd move landed him in a pawn down
augurated by Honorable Principal District and position. On the 29th move Shivananda lost
Sessions Judge, Belagavi Shri P Krishan Bhat, a pawn. Raghunandan cashed in on this op-
on 1st May 2015 at Advocates Samuday Bha- portunity and won the game in 39 moves.
All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum van, New Court Complex, near Chennamma
Circle, Belgaum, Karnataka. Lion Adv. Bhas- In the 3rd round, Aditee Prabhugaonkar
kar Patil, President, Lions Club of Belgaum (1628) drew with the second seed IM TS Ravi
Shri S Ravi, IPS, Commissioner of
Midtown, MJF Lion Shrinivas Shivangi, Past (2317) in the second board and on 3rd Board,
Police, Belagavi, Lion Adv. Bhaskar
Patil, President, Lions Club of District Governor, Lions Club International Ritesh Dharmatti (1616) of Karnataka held
Belgaum Midtown, Lion Arvindrao A Dist 317-b, Mr B R Kulkarni, President, Bel- 3rd seed IM Shivananda BS (2307) to draw.
Deshpande, Past District Governor, gaum District Chess Association also shared
Lions Club International, the dais at the inaugural function. Shri S Ravi, IPS, Commissioner of Police,
Winner IM Shivananda Belagavi was the chief guest for the prize
A Total of 159 players from different parts distribution ceremony. Guest of Honour, Shri
of India played in this tournament. Interna- Vinay Manglekar, President Velagavi Bar As-
Sushila Viswanathan passed away tional Master Sameer Kathmale (ELO Rating sociation, Lion Arvindrao A Deshpande, Past
By Arvind Aaron 2327) of Maharastra was top seed, followed District Governor, Lions Club, International
by International Master T S Ravi(2317) of Dist. 317-b, MJF Lion Dr. Vijay Gramopad-
Sushila Viswanathan, the mother of five-time world chess champion Tamilnadu, International Master Shivananda hye, Past District Governor, Lions Club In-
Viswanathan Anand passed away on May 26. She was 79. Sushila hailed
BS (2307) of Karnataka, FIDE Master Rag- ternational Dist 317-b. MJF Lion Shrinivas
from a family of lawyers who played chess. Her contribution towards the
hunanadan KS (2291) of Karnataka, FIDE Shivangi, Past District Governor, Lions Club
success of Anand was immense. Besides teaching him the basic moves,
she played and nurtured him into a champion. Clearly she was a role model Master Joydeep Dutta (2241) of Karnataka International Dist 317-b, MJF Lion Shrikant
parent for the present generation. were stars of attraction of the tournament. Shanbag, Past District Governor, Lions Club
There are 98 rated players playing in this International Dist 317-b, Lion Rammohan
“We recognised his talent at the right time,” said Sushila Viswanathan when tournament. Naik, Lion Adv. Bhaskar Patil, President, Lions
Anand won the World Title for the first time in Tehran 2000. At that time Club of Belgaum Midtown, Mr B R Kulkarni,
she was 64. “Thrilled. Anand’s triumph did not come as a surprise for us.” IM Shivananda BS of Karnataka, IM Sameer President, Belgaum District Chess Association
She was sure that one day he is going to win the world title. She leaves behind her husband K Kathmale, OT Anil Kumar and FM Raghu- were the other dignitaries on the dais.
Viswanathan, daughter and two sons of whom Anand is the youngest. AICF fraternity mourns nanadan KS scored seven and half points but Final ranking
her death. based on better tie break Shivanand, Sameer Rk Name Pts
Kathmale, Anil kumar and Raghunanadan 1 IM Shivananda B.S. 7½
P.R Venketrama Raja, President Al India Chess Federation and Vice Chairman Ramco group, declared 1st to 4th place respectively. The 2 IM Kathmale Sameer 7½
who was the main sponsor during Anand’s formative years, expressed his heartfelt condolences 3 Anilkumar O.T. 7½
winner bagged Rs 35000 plus Trophy.
on the demise of Sushila Viswanathan. He recalled her dedicated efforts in making Anand a 4 FM Raghunandan K S 7½
Champion chess player.
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5 IM Ravi T S 7 52
53

Vinuth Sajjan
K R Bhat
5
5
Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memorial Open FIDE Rating
6 FM Dutta Joydeep 7
7 Raghavendra V. 7 54 Bachalkar Sadanand 5 Chess Tournament
8
9
WFM

Pujari Rucha
Bachikar Girish
7
7
55
56

Nagaraj Naik
Prajwal M Joshi
5
5 Rucha Pujari wins title
10 Dhanush Bharadwaj 6½ 57 Prajwal V S 5 IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
11 Meet Puri 6½ 58 Niranjan V Sangam 5 introduced guests and participants the aim
Nutan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli conducted
12 Ritesh Dharmatti 6½ 59 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5 and moto of NBM. Dilip Sawant Sir, in his
the Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memo-
13 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 6½ 60 Ithal H L Rahul 5 speech talked about importance of chess,
rial Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at
14 Ajay Sm 6½ 61 Abhisheka K Sadashiva 5
Bapat Bal Shikshan Mandir, Sangli, Maha- and opportunity given by NBM by conduct-
15 Rao Vishal 6½ 62 Diya James 5
rashtra, which is one of the oldest organizer ing month long Buddhibal Festival. Some of
16 Aditya B Kalyani 6½ 63 Ajay A Raikar 5
in India from 1941 conducting 48th chess the important players who took part were IM
17 Abid Ali Mujawar 6½ 64 Dhruva 5
18 Sameer Ghotane 6 65 Swayam Naik 5 festival in Month of May every year. Sameer Kathmale (Sangli), WFM Swati Mo-
19 Vatsal Singhania 6 66 Kulkarni Anandrao 5 hota WB, WFM Rucha Pujari (Kolhapur), WCM
20 Sathya Prasad K. 6 67 Harsh M Averi 5 This event was organized by prominent chess Swera Ana Bragansa (Goa), Jyoti Prakash
21 Ithal H L Rajath 6 68 Suhas P Nidoni 4½ players and key personalities of various Sharma (Rajasthan), Suyog Wagh (Ahmed-
22 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 6 69 Belgundkar Raghavendra 4½ Chess activities in Sangli and Maharashtra nagar), Barath M (Goa), and Vigneshwaran
23 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 6 70 Shashank Bhat G S 4½ viz. Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaonkar, Mr. Chinta- S (Tamil Nadu).The Inaugural Match between
24 Chirag Hirinja G J 6 71 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 4½ mani Limaye, Mr. Girish Chitale, Mr. Chidam- SP Dilip Sawant and IM Sameer Kathmale
25 Vinay R Navali 6 72 Colaso Vernon 4½ ended in draw. In this event 225 players
bar Kotibhaskar, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita
26 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 6 73 Kavish Gharse 4½ out of which 163 were rated having rating
Kelkar, Mrs. Seema Kathmale accompanied
27 Thorat Sanjay 6 74 Yashukiran N 4½ average 1480, with players coming from
by other chess players and chess lovers like
28 Thorat Aishwarya 5½ 75 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 4½
Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mr. Deepak nearly all parts of India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
29 Walvekar Praveen 5½ 76 Khan Faiziya 4½
Vaychal, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, etc. Goa, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Mad-
30 Vathan P H 5½ 77 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½
78 Aakash G Madiwalar 4½
hya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh,
31 Sudarshan Bhat 5½
32 Manoj B Kulkarni 5½ 79 Meghanshram B V 4½ The event was organized and played from Telangana). The championship was being led
33 Naik B S 5½ 80 Gargare Prathmesh 4½ 11th to 17th May, 2015 and conducted in by a IM, two WFM & a WCM including 23 play-
34 Akash Kulgod 5½ 81 Rajannavar Ansh 4½ the Swiss League format, comprising nine ers above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kathmale
35 Gajanan D 5½ 82 Patole Bharat 4½ rounds, with two rounds only on two days of Sangli, with a rating of 2327 was the top
36 Gowtham Pollam 5½ 83 Dattatray Tulajappa S 4½ else single round to give enough rest and seed in this event.
37 Shashwat S Mudenagudi 5½ 84 Mulla N J 4½ preparation time for participants to improve
38 Dinamani S Dixith 5½ 85 Shriram 4½ their skills and of course score. The time The upset started right from the first round,
39 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5½ 86 Shubham B Choudhari 4½ as the unrated Dhananjay Thakur of Thane
control for the game was 90 minutes to each
40 Muaz Bin Abdullah 5½ 87 Shriya M Jaju 4½ Chodankar Sehal of Goa and Ghorpade Yash
player with an increment of 30 seconds per
41 Pawar Rahul 5½ 88 Barath M 4 of Kolhapur outwitted Bhoite Krishna of Pune,
move from first move.
42 Anvekar Prashant 5½ 89 Dara Devadanam 4
Sharma Jyoti Prakash of Rajsthan and Khad-
43 Urvi Bandekar 5½ 90 Bhagwat S.M. 4
SP Dilip Sawant, Chintamani Limaye Sec, ilkar LP of Pune respectively whereas lower
44 Suhas A 5½ 91 Suhrith K 4
92 Vineeth Sakaria 4 NBM, Shri Ulhas Mali, PSI More and Shri Vijay rated Phadnis Adwait of Nashik, Pendsey
45 Prachi Bharti 5½
46 Kulkarni Prakash 5½ 93 Prajwalesh 4 Apte were the dignitaries on dais of the in- Muktanand of Nagpur and Atharv Gavade
47 Nachiketh Adiga 5½ 94 Pauskar Siddesh 4 augural function. The event was inaugurated of Thane drew with Shane Alvarin Braganca
48 Shreyash A Kulkarni 5 95 Gangadharaiah S Salimath 4 by Superintendent of Police Shri Dilip Sawant of Goa, Kolhatkar Rajeev of Sangli (Canara
49 Rakshitta Ravi 5 96 Abhishek Jain Ananthkumar 4 and ceremonial match between IM Sameer Bank), Bhandarkar Dinesh of Mumbai re-
50 Kulkarni Aakash 5 97 Rishab Telisara 4 Kathmale. Introduction of the Guests was spectively.
51 Navodith V Bhat 5 98 Vinit Nandkumar Khatore 4 done by the Ulhas Mali. Chintamani Limaye

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At the end of fifth round Singh Nishit be- The tournament was completed in peaceful 15 Kadav Omkar 6½ 62 Deshpande M.N. 5½
came sole leader beating WFM Swati Mohota manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals 16 Vigneshwaran S 6½ 63 Swera Ana Braganca WCM 5½
of WB with 5 points in his pocket followed Committee members consisted of IM Sameer 17 Nikam Ravindra 6½ 64 Pendsey Muktanand 5½
by six players with 4½ points each. In this Kathmale of Maharashtra, WFM Swati Mohota 18 Phadke Sohan 6½ 65 Magdum Sammed 5½
round Kulkarni Aakash of Pune outwitted of West Bengal, and Mr. Jyoti Prakash Sharma 19 Singh Nishit 6½ 66 Nankar Pranav 5½
Indrajeet Mahindrikar of Aurangabad hav- of Rajsthan as the main members and Mr. 20 Joshi Tejas 6½
21 Bakshi Rutuja 6½
ing ELO difference of more than 200 points. Vigneshwaran S of Tamil Nadu & Mr. Pradeep
In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari Pandya of Gujrat as reserve members.
22 Joshi Nikhil 6½ Puzzle of the month
23 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6½
won against fortnight leader Nishit Singh. by C.G.S.Narayanan
24 Menon Padmanand 6½
Khushi Surana and Omkar Shelke outwitted The championship was a real bonus for many 25 Bhandarkar Dinesh 6½ SPG (Short proof game) is a type of
Dinesh Bhandarkar and Pravin Sawardekar players, as many of them gained consider- 26 Jain Kashish Manoj 6½ problem in which the task is to recon-
respectively (the rating difference is nearly able ELO rating of 100 or above. Special 27 Swati Mohota WFM 6 struct a legal game. Starting from the
200 ELO points). mention has to be made of Abid Ali Mujawar 28 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 6 opening array, the solver has to find the
(Karnataka), Muktanand Pendsey (Nagpur, 29 Inamdar Sameer 6 shortest possible game that leads to the
At the end of end seventh round Rucha Pujari Maharashtra), Pruthu Deshpande (Pune, Ma- 30 Gajanan Jayde 6
diagram position. White and Black thus
playing with black forced Kathmale Sameer harashtra) and Avishkar Wankhde (Nashik, 31 Kulkarni Aakash 6
32 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6 effectively cooperate to achieve this, and
to take draw. At the end of this round four Maharashtra) increased their rating by 109,
players namely Rucha Pujari, Soham Datar, 106, 102 and 101 points respectively. In open 33 Bhilare Rushikesh 6 that the moves would not be sensible
WFM Swati Mohota and Nikhil dixit managed section out of 25 unrated participants, 15 34 Pogul Yuvraj 6 in a competitive game is considered ir-
35 Pradeep Pandya 6 relevant. SPGs are also characterized by
to score 6 points each and became leaders. participants became rated players & in the
36 Telang Yashwant 6 their exact play – the move order in each
This elite group was followed by fifteen play- Girl section out of 16 unrated, 5 participants
37 Joshi Abhijeet M 6
ers scoring 5½ points. Total thirty unrated became rated players. solution is unique. Separate section for
38 Patil Ketan 6
managed to cross 1000 ELO point mark. In 39 Jadhav Vaibhavi 6
retros and proof games is introduced in
the eighth round WFM Swati Mohota and The prize distribution function chaired by Mr. 40 Lahoti Riya 6 the latest 10th WCCT announced.
WFM Rucha Pujari played with each other. Gadgil of PNGadgil Jwellers, accompanied by 41 Nirgun Keval 6
In history of this event two women were his wife Mrs. Gadgil, NBM President Rajabhau 42 Raiker Shaunak 6 Michael Caillaud
fighting on first board to clinch champion- shirgaonkar, Mrs. Bapat, Mrs. Joshi and Mrs. 43 Shegaonkar Akshay 5½ Probleemblad May/June 1999
ship. Rucha managed to win whereas the Dalvi along with Mr. Joshi and Nippani busi- 44 Abid Ali Mujawar 5½
game on the second board ended in draw. nessman Shri Pravin Bhai Shah. 45 Surana Khushi Shailendra 5½
This made Rucha sole leader with 7 points Final standings: 46 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi 5½
followed by seven players with 6½ points. Rk Name Pts 47 Ashar Grishma 5½
Inthe final round Rucha escaped with draw 1 Pujari Rucha WFM 7½ 48 Joshi Mihir 5½
2 Kathmale Sameer IM 7½ 49 Joshi Abhijeet 5½
against Suyog Wagh resulting in four play-
3 Barath M 7½ 50 Bhosale Shruti 5½
ers having 7½ points namely, Rucha Pujari,
4 Soham Datar 7½ 51 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 5½
Sameer Kathmale, Soham Datar and Barath
5 Wagh Suyog 7 52 Kapadi Yash 5½
M. Tie breaker decided the champion of this 53 Patil Samiksha 5½
6 Ponkshe Sarang 7
event. 54 Thorat Aishwarya 5½
7 Ajinkya Pingale 7
8 Pruthu Deshpande 7 55 Balwan Tejas 5½
The champion Rucha Pujari received Rs. 9 Soneji Janhavi 7 56 Shelke Omkar 5½
Thirty thousand and the runner up Sameer 10 Verma Rahul 7 57 Sawardekar Pravin 5½
Kathmale Rs. Twenty thousand. In this event 11 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7 58 Thorat Sanjay 5½
out of 62 unrated participants, 35 partici- 12 Dixit Nikhil 6½ 59 Bandekar Aditya 5½ SPG in 7 moves:2 solutions
pants became rated players. 13 Shelke Sankarsha 6½ 60 Audi Saiesh 5½ (Solution on page 48)
14 Audi Ameya 6½ 61 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5½

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Selected games from KolkataOpen tacking the g-pawn to win.] 48.h5 Ra1 The same black going wrong could be found in the varia-
idea as in the notes to the previous move. 49.Kf4 tion with: 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Qc7 (19...Qg5
Swapnil,Dhopade (2450) Vignesh,Nr a4 50.Ke5 a3 51.Kxe6 Kg8! 20.Rac1 h5µ) 20.Rac1 Bxe5 21.Qa3]
(2365) [E11]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ A varia-
tion invented by Bogoljubov, now known as
Bogo-Indian Defence. 4.Nbd2 d5 5.e3 0–0
6.a3 Be7 7.Bd3 c5 8.dxc5 a5 9.cxd5 Qxd5
10.Qe2 Rd8 11.Bc4 Qh5 [11...Qxc5 is usual
here. Black deliberately delays this, probably
trying to get the white pieces into an ineffec-
tive tangle.] 12.Nf1 Qxc5 13.Ng3 e5 14.Ng5 (Position after 23.Nb5)
Rf8= 15.0–0 h6 16.N5e4 Nxe4 17.Nxe4 leads to a clear advantage for black. Better
Qc6 18.Nc3 Be6= 19.Bxe6 fxe6? was to be slightly worse off with 28.Bc3 e4!]
28...Bxf2+ 29.Kh1 Be3 30.Bxe3 Qxe3
Must be careful at all times. White was threaten-
31.Qxe3 Rxf1+ 32.Rxf1 Nxe3 33.Re1 Rd8!
ing 52 Ra8#! 52.g5 hxg5 53.Kf5 Kh7! [Well 18...gxf3 19.Bxf3 Bxf3 20.gxf3 [White has
Probably white missed this back-rank tactic
played! Black denies the white king a vantage only two pawns for his sacrificed bishop. And
in his calculations. 34.Kg1 [34.Rxe3?? Rd1+
square on g6. With the careless 53...a2? white those two pawns pose no threats to black. If
mates.] 34...Rd3 Thus black has reached the
will come under unpleasant pressure and cede 20.Nxf3 Nb8! 21.Rfd1 Nc6µ] 20...0–0 21.Ne4
endgame with a healthy passed pawn on e6.
a draw after 54.Kg6! Kf8 55.Rf7+ Ke8 56.Rf2 Nb6! A cheeky way to get to the strong square
35.Kf2? [More stubborn was: 35.Re2 Kf7 36.h3 g4! 57.Kxg7 Rh1 58.Rxa2=] 0–1 d5. 22.Nd6 Nd5µ With this beautifully planted
e5 37.Kf2 Nd1+ 38.Ke1 Kf6µ] 35...Nd1+–+ Sriram,J (2409) - Rahman,Ziaur (Ban) knight on d5, black has the superior position.
36.Ke2 Nxb2 This leads to a pin that had to (2496) [D02] 23.Qb3 Rc7 24.f4 Kh8 [A good way to un-
be calculated precisely. 37.Rb1 Rb3 38.Nc3 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c6 4.Qc2 dxc4 5.Qxc4 dermine the Nd6 would be: 24...f6 25.Rae1 f5
[38.Kd2 Nc4+ 39.Kc2 Rxb5! 40.Rxb5 Na3+ Nf6 6.Bg5 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.e4 26.Kg2 Qd7 27.Rh1 b4 28.Rc1 a5 29.Qd1 Rb8
41.Kb3 Nxb5 42.axb5 e5! Black wins with his a6 10.Be2= [If 10.e5 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Nxg5 The position is clearly better for black as his
[Black goes out of his way to willingly suffer two passed pawns on the a- and e- files.] 38... (or 12.Bg3 Nh5 13.Qe4 Nxg3 14.hxg3 Rb8³) queen-side offensive is about to take off while
ugly isolated doubled pawns on the e-file. Rxc3 39.Rxb2 Ra3! 40.Rxb7 Rxa4 41.Ra7 12...hxg5 13.Bxg5 c5 14.exf6 cxd4 when black it is not clear how white can continue making
Probably this puts the onus on white to win Re4+ Generally, the best position for a rook in has better prospects.] 10...h6 11.Bh4 Rc8 aggressive moves on the king-side.] 25.f5
against this pawn structure. 19...Qxe6 20.e4 a rook and pawn ending is behind the passed 12.0–0 g5 13.Bg3 Nh5 14.Qc3 [As black has Rg8µ 26.Qf3
was simple and equal.] 20.e4 Nd7 21.Be3 pawn. Here it is not possible. Therefore black made his intention of playing c6-c5 with 11...
Nc5 22.Qc4 Qa6!? 23.Nb5? Diagram # opts for the second best, placing the rook on the Rc8, to be considered was 14.a4 making ....c5
[Black's ugly doubled pawns lulls white into same rank as his passed pawn. However one risky.] 14...Nxg3 15.hxg3 Bg7 16.b4 [No
complacense. He over looks a small combi- must note that we have to change our plans better was: 16.a4 g4 17.Nh4 Nb6 18.e5 Nxa4
nation. 23.Qxa6 Rxa6 24.Rad1 Rc6] 23... according to the needs of the position. 42.Kf3 with an advantage that is threatening to snow-
Nxe4!= With this easy combination, black Re5 43.Kf4 Rf5+ 44.Ke3 Kf8 To prevent the ball.] 16...c5! Probably white thought that this
equalises the game. But this must have come white rook from getting to e7 in some variations. move was impossible, overlooking the dragon
as a shock to white. 24.Rac1 Nf6 25.a4 [If 45.g4 Rb5 46.h4 Rb4 47.Kf3 Ra4 [47...a4 on g7! 17.bxc5 g4 [Black wants to hit at the
25.Nc7 Qxc4 26.Rxc4 Rac8= and the doubled 48.h5 Rd4 49.Rc7 Rd1 50.Ra7 Ra1!–+ Black's heart of the white pawn phalanx, the d4 pawn.
pawns are safe!] 25...Nd5 26.Bd2 Qb6 27.Qe2 a-pawn would advance to a2 and when the However, stronger was: 17...Nxc5 18.Qe3 g4µ
Bc5 Black's focus is on f2. 28.Qxe5? [This white king comes over for the defence to the as the d4 pawn is still pinned, now against the
queen-side, the black rook would go to Rb1 at- Ra1.] 18.e5 Diagram # [Greater chances of

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26...Qg5?! [Black probably did not want to 30...Rf8 31.Qb7 Qf3?! [The simple attack with
the h-pawn was stronger: 31...h5 32.Qxa6 h4
Selected games from
get his queen locked out of the king-side with
f5-f6. By the text he gets his queen onto g5, 33.Qxb5 Rf3 34.Rd3 Nf4 35.Rxf3 Qxf3 36.gxf4 National Team Championship,Goa
but he has to lose the exchange. Better was to h3–+] 32.Rb1 Qe4 [Black should press ahead
plan queen-side play with: 26...Qd7 27.f6 Bf8 regardless of the Rb3 threat. 32...Rf5 33.Rb3
28.Rac1 Rg6µ] 27.fxe6 [Worth consideration Qe4 34.Qc8+ Kh7 35.Qxe6 Rh5 36.f3 Qe2
Adhiban,B (PSPB) (2630) - Sriram,Jha (29.h5 Bh7 30.f4 Re8 is good for black.) 29...
was 27.f6 leading to a blocked position and 37.Rf2 Qe1+ 38.Rf1 Qxg3#] 33.Rb3 Rf5
(LIC) (2413) [C77] hxg5 30.hxg5 Nh5 31.Nxh5 Bxh5 32.Nf1 f6!
a game of long drawn manoeuvres difficult 34.g4 [White is desperate. If 34.Re3 Qxd4
35.Ra3 b4 36.Rxa6 (or 36.Rb3 Qxc5 and black's 33.Ng3 Bg6 34.f4 exf4 35.Qxf4 fxg5 36.Qe3
to fathom. 27...Bf8 28.Ne4 Qh4 29.Rfc1 Qh3
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 g4!± With the white king exposed, black's at-
30.Nc3 Nb4 31.Ne2 Nc6 32.Rd1 Rg5 33.Rac1 attack continues unabated.) 36...Rg5 37.Kg2
5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0–0 8.Nbd2 tacking prospects are excellent.] 28.h5 Bh7
Despite black's marginal material superiority, no Qe4+ 38.Kg1 Rh5–+] 34...Rf8!? [More force-
ful was: 34...Rg5 35.Rg3 Qxd4 36.Qc8+ Kh7 Nd7 9.Re1 Nc5 10.Bc2 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 29.a3 Nf6 [A much better way for taking
clear plan has emerged for either side.] 27...
37.Qxe6 Nf4 38.Qd6 Ne2+ 39.Kh2 Qe4 when 12.g4!? [A game L.Fressinet (2646) vs Y. advantage of white's pawn advances on the
fxe6 28.Nf7+ Rxf7 29.Qxf7 Qg4 The ma-
all the important white pawns on g4 and e5 Salun (2328), 2007 went: 12.Nf1 Ne6 13.g4 king-side would be: 29...Qh4 30.b4 Nd7
terial equation is white's rook and two pawns
against a knight and bishop. Maybe it is a slight are ready for capture with disastrous effects.] Bg6 14.Ng3 Ng5 15.Kg2 Nxf3 16.Qxf3 Bg5 31.Ba4 Nef6 32.Bxd7 Nxd7 33.bxa5 Nc5]
plus for white, but the dynamics of the position 35.Rg3 Qxd4 36.Qxa6 Qxc5 37.Qd6 [If 17.Be3 f6 18.d4= and white went on to win.] 30.f3 Qb6 31.Rab1 Rfc8 32.Nhf1 Ncd7
decides whose chances are better. Compara- 37.Qxe6 Nf4 38.Qb3 Ne2+ 39.Kg2 Nxg3–+ 12...Bg6 13.d4 Nd7 14.d5 Ncb8 15.Nf1 33.Ne3 Qd4 [Played with the idea that the
tively the white king has better pawn cover than 40.Qxg3 Bxe5–+] 37...Qc8 38.g5 h5 [Prob- c6= 16.c4 [this leads to a solid equal middle- exchange of queens would cost white his
its counter part. The black queen cannot capture ably in time trouble, black misses the quick fin- game. Worth trying here was: 16.dxc6 bxc6 Bc2 after 34 Qxd4 exd4 and the Ne3 has
d4 as he would lose his e6 and the white queen ish with 38...Rf5 ] 39.g6 Nf4 [Again, the same 17.Ng3= with flexible options.] 16...cxd5 to move abandoning his bishop. If 33...Rc7
could do a lot of damage from e6.. 30.Rad1? rook move wins for black very easily: 39...Rf5 17.cxd5 a5 Black plans to plant a knight on with the idea of doubling rooks on the c-
Diagram # [White should use his passed pawn 40.Qa3 Bxe5 41.Qa7 Qg8 42.Rg2 Nf4] 40.Qd1 c5 as in some variations of the Kings Indian file is thwarted by 34.Bd3 Nc5 35.Rec1=]
and throw black on the defensive. As explained Rf5 41.Re1 Qa8 [A simple win was: 41...Bxe5 Defence. 18.Bd2 Nc5 19.Ng3 Nbd7 20.b3 34.Rbd1 Qxd2+ [Black has a slight edge
in the notes to the previous move, the d4 pawn ] 42.Kh2 Nd5 43.Qd2 Qf8! 44.Kg1 Kg8 Sure Nf6 21.Nh2 Ne8 22.Kg2 Bg5 23.Bxg5 Qxg5 and nothing more after: 34...Qc5 35.a4
was not under threat and did not need to be of victory, black is finessing and enjoying the 24.Nf3 Qc7 36.Rc1 Nc5] 35.Rxd2 Nb6 [If 35...Rc3
defended. This is a very interesting position. winning of a won game. 45.Rg5 Nf4 46.Rxf5 36.Nc4! Nxd5 (36...Rc8 37.a4 Threat 38 Ne2,
If you have a sparring partner, try playing this Qxf5 47.Qd8+ Bf8 48.Qh4 Be7! 49.Qg3 [49. trapping the Rook.) 37.Rxd5 Rxc2+ 38.Re2
position with white against him (her) and then, Qxe7?? Qg4+ and mate next move by 50 Qg2.] Rc3 39.Rxd6 Nc5 40.Red2 Ne6 41.Nxe5
reverse, play the black side. It would increase 49...Bb4 50.Re3 Bd2! 51.Qh4 [If 51.Ra3 Rxb3 42.a4 Rb4 43.Rd7 f6 44.Ng6 and white
your strength in analysing practical games. Ne2+ wins the Queen.] 51...Bxe3 52.Qd8+ is nearly winning.] 36.Ngf5² Bxf5 Black is
30.c6! ] Qf8 [52...Kg7! 53.Qd7+ Kxg6 54.Qe8+ Qf7 and
happy to exchange off his bishop which, in
the game is over.] 53.Qd7 Ne2+! 0–1
some variations, was aiding white to mate
by blocking his king's freedom. 37.Nxf5
Chess strategy as such today is still in its Rd8 38.Bd3 g6 [Black sacrifices a pawn
diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We for some freedom. If he plans to achieve
g7-g6 without sacrificing a pawn, white
live today in a beautiful time of progress in
24...Qd8 [This leads to equality as does 24... shifts his focus to the c-file as follows:
all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has Qe7. But not 24...Qf4?? 25.g5! as the threat 38...Kh7 39.Rc1 Ne8 40.Bb5 Nd7 41.Rdc2
been made to explore and formulate the of 26 Ne2! traps the queen and black would g6 42.hxg6+ fxg6 43.Ne3 Nc5 44.Bxe8
laws of chess strategy. - 1925 have to sacrifice a knight to take his queen to Rxe8 45.b4±] 39.hxg6 fxg6 40.Nxh6+
- Aron Nimzowitsch safety: 25...Nxe4 26.Bxe4 f5 27.gxf6+-] Kg7 41.Rh1 Rh8 42.g5 Nh7± White
25.h4 h6 26.Qd2 Nf6 27.Nh2 Ne8 [More loses his g-pawn, but he finds other re-
aggressive was: 27...b5! 28.Rac1 b4 29.g5 sources for attack. 43.Rc2! Rac8 [If 43...
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Nxg5 44.Rc7+ Kf8 (44...Kf6?? 45.Ng4#) 19.Bg1 Rfc8 The doubled rooks on the
45.Rxb7 Nc8 46.Rd7! Rh7 47.Rd8+ Kg7 semi-open c-file appears to give the initiative
48.Rg8+ Kf6 49.Bb5+- Black is paralysed!] to black, but white has adequate resources.
44.Rxc8 Rxc8 45.Nf7! Rc3 46.Bb5 Rxb3 20.Be4 [Solid play with equal chances would
47.Nxd6 Nxg5 follow: 20.Bd1 R3c7 21.Re1 Kf8=] 20...Rb8
21.Rf3 Rc7 22.h3 f5 23.Bd3 Rc5?
(position after 65….Kg7) [Here, white resigned, a case of premature

Dongre,R.M. (AICF) (2103) resignation! Probably white was short of
Akshat Khamparia,Rlys (2415) time or was over impressed by black's two
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bg7 bishops. He could have forgotten that he is
5.f4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 d6 8.Be2 0–0 the exchange up and has the option of giv-
9.0–0 Bd7 10.Kh1 a6 11.Bf3 Na5 12.b3 ing it back at the right time. Though black's
Black has restored material balance in the Rc8 13.Qd2 [13.Nde2 has been played [The rook goes to a square where white's position looks threatening, white could save
game and is probably heaving a sigh of relief. here. White tries to bolster his weak c3 knight and bishop battery could do him the game with: 31...Bb5 32.Rf2! threatening
But.... 48.Rc1!! a very fine move, renewing square, but that weakness lives till the end.] harm. Better was to relocate his Na5 and Bxe5 winning. 32...e4 33.Nd4! e3 34.Rf3
the attack through the queen-side. 48... 13...b5 [This allows the equalising 14 a4. make it more effective: 23...Nb7 for 24.... Re8 (34...e2? 35.Re6!²) 35.c4 bxc3 36.Bxa3
Rxa3 [The knight on Nb6 is in fear of being To be considered was the immediate 13... Nc5 was better.] 24.Ne2? [White misses: e2 37.Nxe2 Bxe2 (37...Rxe2 38.Rd8+ Kf7
trapped. If 48...Rxf3 49.Rc7+ Kh6 50.Rxb7 Qc7 14.Nde2 b5 15.a3= with chances for 24.Ne6! Bxe6 (Worse was: 24...Rxd5 25.Nc7 39.Rc8 c2 40.Rc7+ Ke6 41.Kh2) 38.Rxc3
Na8 51.Ra7 Rf6 52.Nc4+-] 49.Rc7+ Kh6 black along the long dark diagonal.] 14.a3 and the Rd5 is captured!) 25.dxe6 Rc3 26.g4 Bf8 (38...Bxf4 39.Rd4 Be3 40.Rd7²) 39.Rc7
50.Rxb7 Na4 51.Nc4 Ra2+ [Or, if 51... [After the aggressive 14.a4! b4 15.Na2 e5 fxg4 27.hxg4² White has the initiative.] Bxd6 40.Bxd6=] 0–1
Nc5 52.Nxa3 Nxb7 53.Nc4 Nf7 54.Bc6+-] 16.fxe5 dxe5 17.Ne2 white's chances are 24...Rxd5 25.Bc4 This is the move that Rupesh,Ranjan (Bihar) (1873) - Nitin,S
52.Kg3 Nc5 53.Rc7 Nd3 54.Ne3! Ne1 better.] 14...Qc7 white had relied on to win the exchange. (Airport Authority (2357) [C41]
[54...Nf2 denying white the use of the But he gets the exchange at the cost of two 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4
g4 square would not have lost so fast.] pawns, a heavy price! [25.c4 Nxb3 (or 25... Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.f3 0–0 8.Be3
55.Ng4+ Kh5 56.Nxe5 Rg2+ 57.Kf4 bxc4 26.Bxc4 Nxc4 27.Rxd5 Nxa3 28.Ra5 c6 9.Qd2 [9.Bb3 to brace against black's
Nc2 Threatening 58.....Nh3#! 58.Ng4 Nc2 and if now 29.Rxa6? Bb5–+) 26.Rc2 threatened d6-d5 has been played here.]
Nd4 59.Bf1 Rg1 60.Rc8 Threat: 61 Rh8+ Rxd3! 27.Rxd3 Na1! 28.Rc1 bxc4±] 25... 9...b5 10.Ndxb5! Diagram # Obviously,
mating. 60...Nf7 61.Bd3 Re1 This controls Nxc4 26.Rxd5 Nxa3 27.Rd2 Bc6 28.Rf1 white had planned this sacrifice. He gets
the e3 square and threatens mate after b4 [Also winning was: 28...Be4 29.c3 Nb1!] two pawns straightaway and one more
....Kh4 with ....g5#! 62.Rf8 g5+ 63.Kg3 29.Bd4 Bh6 Black's bishops are threatening after some struggle. 10...d5 [Or if 10...
Kg6 64.Kf2 Rd1 black puts up some clever the white forces from different angles and cxb5 11.Nxb5 Nc6 12.Qxd6 a6 13.Qxc6 Bd7
resistance, but it does not help. 65.Ke3 could not be neutralised. 30.Bb2 e5 [The 14.Qc5 Bxb5³] 11.exd5 cxb5 12.Bxb5
Kg7 (See diagram next column) 66.Rb8! preliminary 30...Nb5 defending his d6 pawn Bd7 13.Bc4 Qc8 14.Bb3 [This retreat in-
[A clever retreat, cutting off the black 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 The pawn on c2 is in preparation for e7-e5 was to be preferred. vites the pawn assault by a7-a5-a4. Better
knight's access to the b3 square. After immune from capture as the Na5 is hanging. 31.Kg1 e5] 31.Rxd6 Bb5 was: 14.b3 Ne8 15.Bd4=] 14...a5 15.Na4
66.Rb8 Rxd3+ (or 66...Nxf3 67.Be2!+-) 16...Qc3 17.Rad1 Qxd2 18.Rxd2 Rc3=
67.Kxd3 Nxf3 68.Ra8 white wins.]1–0

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leads a charmed life as nothing could capture Problem World Example 2
it! 28.Qc1 Nd3+! 29.Bxd3 Bxd4+ 30.Ke2 Themes of 10th WCCT Vladimir Tikhankov
[If 30.cxd4 Qxd3 31.Rd1 Qf5 32.Qb1 Qxb1 The World Chess Composition Tournament is 3 HM Odessa 1989
33.Rxb1 Rxd4–+]30...Qg4+ 31.Kd2 Bf2! a long-established team event enabling com-
This move gets the Bd3 into a deadly pin. posers from all over the world to compete at
32.Kc2 [If 32.Re2 Rxd3+! 33.Kxd3 Rd8+ international level with new chess problems
34.Kc2 Qf5+! mates! In all these variations, and studies on set themes. Nine such tourna-
the white queen helps the black attack by ments have been held to date, with enthusiastic
blocking the exit hatch for his own king.] 32... worldwide participation. The 10th WCCT themes
Bxe1 [This wins. However, again the same for the different sections have been announced
32...Rxd3! leads to a crisp mate: 33.Kxd3 recently. The WCCT includes the following sec-
(position after 10.Ndxb5) Rd8+ 34.Kc2 Qf5+! 35.Re4 Qxe4#] 33.Qxe1 tions: A) Twomovers, B) Threemovers, C) More-
[If 15.a4 Na6 16.0–0 Nc5 17.Bc4] 15... movers, D) Endgame studies, E) Helpmates, F)
Bxa4 White has 3 pawns for his knight, but Selfmates, G) Fairies, H) Retros.The themes for Mate in two moves
none of them pose a threat to black who now two-movers and three-movers with examples 1.Bd4? [2.Qe2‡] 1…Qe4 2.Qf1‡ 1…Ke4
pins the black king to the centre. Black has are given below. 2.R×f4‡ but 1…Qa6!
a slight advantage. 16.Bxa4 Qc4! 17.Bb3 Key:1.Qf1! [2.R×f4]
Qh4+ 18.g3 Qh3 19.Kf2 [Probably, best Section A: Two-movers 1…Ke4 2.Qe2‡ 1…Qe4+ 2.Bd4‡
was: 19.0–0–0 Nbd7 20.Ba4 Rac8 21.Rhe1 Theme: Anticipatory unpin of a white piece. Example 3
(21.Qxa5 Ra8 22.Qb4 Rfb8+-) 21...Ne5 In the diagram position a white piece A is not Thomas Maeder
22.Qf2 Qf5] 19...Nbd7 20.Rae1 a4! He pinned. The first move of a try and/or solution Reto Aschwanden
wants his Nd7 to come to life with a tempo. ensures that this white piece A is not pinned 3 Pr The Problemist 1993-I
21.Bc4 Ne5 22.Bb5 Rab8 23.Bf1 [Black's later, in order to provide a mate.
attack rages after: 23.Bxa4 Neg4+ 24.Kg1 33...Qf3 [Yet again, the same sacrifice Example 1
Nxe3 25.Rxe3 Rxb2 26.Re1 Rd8–+] 23... discussed in the previous moves, wins al- Francisco Salazar
Qh5 24.Be2 Nxd5! 25.Bd4 beit with added frills: 33...Rxd3!! 34.Kxd3 6 HM Probleemblad 1976
Qf3+ 35.Kc2 (35.Qe3?? Rd8+–+) 35...Nc4
36.b3 Qg2+ 37.Kd3 (A sad necessity. The
king must come out into the open for if
37.Kc1 Qb2+ 38.Kd1 Rd8+–+) 37...Rd8+!
38.Kxc4 Qd5+! 39.Kb4 Rb8+ 40.Ka3 (40.
Kxa4?? Qa8#) 40...Rxb3+! 41.axb3 Qxb3#]
34.Be4 Qh5 35.b3 axb3+ 36.axb3 Re8 Mate in two moves
37.Qe3 Qa5! [37...Qa5 38.Rb1 Nc4 39.bxc4? 1.Bd4? [2.Q×e5 A,Q×e4‡ B]
Qa2+–+] 0–1
1…b2 a 2.B×e5‡ but 1…Bc4! b
1.Rd4? [2.Q×e5 A,Q×e4‡ B]
“The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should
be kept under lock and key. Mate in two moves 1…Bc4 b 2.Rxe4‡ but 1…b2! a
[25.Qxd5?? Ng4+ 26.fxg4 Qxd5 wins the Mild measures, such as police surveillance, 1.Rb4? [2.Qf6‡] 1…B×e4 2.Nd3‡ 1…Q×e4 Key: 1.Kg7! [2.Qf7‡]
queen.] 25...Rfd8! Black brings all of his are not sufficient” 2.Ng2‡ but 1…Bd4! 1.Rb7! [2.Rf7‡] 1…B×e4 1…b2 a 2.Q×e5‡ A1…Bc4 b 2.Q×e4 B
forces into the attack to ensure victory. -Aaron Nimzovich 2.Qc1‡ 1…Q×e4 2.Q×h6‡ 1…Ra6 2.Q×e4‡ 1…Se3 2.B×e3‡ 1…e×f3
26.c3 Nb6 27.f4 Qf5! The knight on e5 2.Q×f3

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Tactics from master games
Example 4 Mate in three moves S.Krishnan
I.N. Gazhimon Solution: 1.Rd3! [2.Rb3‡] 1…Kc2+ 2.Rd4+
Sinfonie Scacchistiche 1969 Kb2 3.Rb4‡ 1…K×b1+ 2.Rc3+ Kb2 3.Rb3‡
Here battery check by black is parried by bat-
tery check by white.
Alexandre Kuzovkov
1 Pr Probleemblad 1991
1 2
White to play and win White to play and win
Mate in two moves

1…N4 any a 2.Bc4‡ A 1…Ne4 b 2.Rf3‡ B
1.Qf6! [2.R×d4,Q×d4‡]
1…N4 any a 2.Rf3‡ B
1…Ne4 b 2.Bc4‡ A Mate in three moves
1…Re5,Rd5 2.N×b4 1.Rg5! [2.N×e3+ K×d6/Kd4 3.Q×d8/N×d1‡]
Section B: Three-movers 1…e6+ 2.Nd7+ Rb5/c5 3.c4/R×c5‡ 1…e5+
Theme: In a directmate in 3 moves in the 2.Nb7+ Rb5/c5 3.c4/R×c5‡ 1…e×d6+ 2.Ng7+
same variation the black defensive motif and Kd4 3.Q×d6‡ 1…e×f6+ 2.Ne7+ K×d6/Kd4
the white response are of the same tactical na- 3.Q×d8/Q×f6‡ battery check vs battery check
ture. For example, if Black is making a square Jean-Marc Loustau 3 4
evacuation defense then White is making a 1 Pr Phenix 1995-96 (v) White to play and win White to play and win
square evacuation on second move. Black
unpin is replied by white unpin, black flight
provision (unblock, capture or interference)
is replied by a flight provision on W2 move.
Otto Wurzburg
The Minneapolis Journal 1934
Mate in three moves

5 6
Key:1.Bh6! [2.Rg3+ h×g3 3.Q×g3‡] 1…Be5
2.Rd5 [3.N×e5,B×e6‡] B×f6+ 3.N×f6‡ 1… White to play and win White to play and win
Re5 2.Rd4+ R×d4/B×d4 3.N×e5/Rf4
Interference vs interference (solutions on p. 44 )

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Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past-53 Herman Reshevsky
Nadereshvili1964 Dr.Hans Staudte 1963
Herman Samuel Reshevsky (November 26, 1911 – April
4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading
American chess grandmaster. He was a strong contender for
the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the
mid-1960s: he came equal third in the 1948 World Chess
Championship tournament, and equal second in the 1953
Candidates Tournament. He was an eight-time winner of
the U.S Chess Championship. An outstanding match player
throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at positional play,
1 2
and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He was an
accountant by profession, and a well-regarded chess writer.
Reshevsky learned to play chess at age four, and was soon
G Kasparyan 1962 Petrov 1964 acclaimed as a child prodigy. At age eight he was beating
accomplished players with ease, and giving simultaneous
exhibitions. Reshevsky won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1931 at Tulsa;
this event was known as the Western Open at the time. He shared the 1934 U.S.
Open title with Reuben Fine at Chicago.
Reshevsky won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942,
1946, and 1969. He also tied for first in 1972, but lost the playoff in 1973 to Robert
Byrne. Reshevsky was a serious contender for the World Championship from roughly
1935 to the mid-1960s. He was one of the five chess grandmasters to compete in
the World Championship match tournament in The Hague/Moscow 1948 and finished
3 4 in joint third place with Paul Keres, behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov.
In 1950, Reshevsky was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE,
the World Chess Federation, on its inaugural list. Reshevsky competed eight times
Dr.W.Speckmann&.HStaudte 1963 A.Hilderband 1968 for the USA at the Chess Olympiads, six times on board one, over a 37-year span,
helping the U.S. team to win the gold in 1937 and bronze in 1974, and winning an
individual bronze medal for his performance on board one in 1950.
During his long chess career, Reshevsky played eleven of the first twelve World
Champions, from Emanuel Lasker to Anatoly Karpov, the only player to do so (he
met Garry Kasparov but never played him). He defeated seven World Champions:
Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik,
Vasily Smyslov, and Bobby Fischer.
Reshevsky's books include Reshevsky on Chess (1948), How Chess Games Are Won
(1962), Great Chess Upsets (1976), and The Art of Positional Play (1978), as well
5. 6 as an account of the 1972 World Championship match between his great rival Bobby
Fischer and Boris Spassky. He was also a columnist in chess magazines, and wrote
White to play and win in all the above six endings about chess for The New York Times.
(Solutions on page 44 ) Courtesy:Wikepedia

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Solution to ‘Tactics from master games’ Dimov,Di (2340) [A15] 3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Tirupur
79th ch-BUL 2015 Pleven BUL (1.4), 18.04.2015
on page 41
Position after 25th move. White to play. 26.Rd6!
1. Agdestein,S (2620) - Graf,F (2478) [A10] Qa8 [26...Bxd6 27.Nf6+ Kf7 28.Qxc6 Re6 29.Qb7+
Fagernes NOR Fagernes NOR (3.7), 31.03.2015 Kxf6 30.Qxa7+-] 27.Rg6+ [27.Rg6+ Kh7 (27...
Position after 33rd move.White to play. 33.Bxb6+! Kh8 28.Qf7 Wins) 28.Qf7+ Kh8 29.Rxh6#] 1–0
Kxb6 34.Rxd6+ Rxd6 35.Rxd6+ Rxd6 36.c5+ 6. Gustafsson,J (2639) Kongsee,U (2304)
Kc6 37.cxd6 Kxd6 38.Kxh4 [38.Kxh4 Kd5 [A81]
39.Kh5 Kc4 40.Kxh6 Kxb4 41.Kg6 Wins] 1–0 15th BCC Open 2015 Pattaya THA (2.4), 13.04.2015
2. Ezat,M (2479) - Mammadzada,G (2336) Position after 22nd move.White to play. 23.Rxe8+!
[A04] [23.Rxe8+ Qxe8 (23...Rxe8 24.Ne6+ Kf7 25.Qg7+
17th Dubai Chess Open Dubai UAE (5.26), 11.04.2015 Kxe6 26.Qf6#) 24.Nxh7+ Kxh7 (24...Kf7 25.Qf5+
Position after 39th move. White to play. 40.Rh8+! Ke7 (25...Kg8 26.Qg5+ Kf7 27.Qf6+ Kg8 28.Qg7#)
Kxh8 [40...Kg7 41.Ne6+ Kxh8 42.Nxg5+-] 41.Nf7+ 26.Bf6+ Kf7 (26...Kd6 27.Qd5# (Also 27.c5# ) ) )
Kg7 42.Nxg5 Kf6 43.Nf3 [43.Nf3 Nxf3 44.Kxf3 Kf5 25.Qg7#] 1–0
45.h4 The outside passer ensures win] 1–0 Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42
3. Cornette,M (2548) - Zaragatski,I (2472) 1.Nadershveli,Cs Sach 1964 Inauguration photo Mr. V.T. Subramaniam, President of Tamil Kalai Illakiya Mandram and Mr. Easwaran of Tamilnadu
[C10] 1.a5 Kb4 2.a6 Kb5 3.a7 Bc6 4.Bxc6 Kb6 5.a8N+ Murpoku Ezhuthaalar Sangam inaugurated the event in the presence of Mr. KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess
Bundesliga 2014–15 Schwaebisch Hall GER (14.3), wins Academy and Office Bearers of Tirupur District Chess Association headed by its Secretary, Mr. K. Lakshmanasami and
G.G.Sathiesh, Chief Arbiter.
11.04.2015 2.Dr.Hans Staudte
Position after 23rd move. White to play. 24.Ne5! Sp.Hm Schachbulletinen 1963
fxe5? [24...Qxg2 25.Nf7 Qg4 26.Nxh8 Rxh8 1.Qe7 Qf3 2.Qd6 Ka5 3.Qc5+ Ka4 4.Qc4+ Ka5
27.Qg3++-] 25.Qxe5+ Kb7 26.Rxa7+ Kxa7 5.Qa2+ Kb6 6.a8Q wins
27.Qc7+ Ka6 [27...Ka8 28.Re3 Wins] 28.Re3 3.Kasparyan
Qh5 29.Ra3+ Qa5 30.c5! Kb5 31.Rxa5+ 2nd prize,Shamati v CCCP 1962
bxa5 [31...Kb4 32.Ra4+ Kxa4 33.Qxb6 Idea 1.Nc5+ Kc6 2.Nd3 Bg4 3.Kd2 Ba1 4.Rh1 Bg7
34.b3...35Qa5#] 32.b3 Kb4 33.Kb2 Ba6 5.Rh7 Ba1 6.Ra7 Bh8 7. Ra8 Bg7 8.Ra6+ Kb5
34.Qb6+ Bb5 35.a3# 1–0 9.Rg6
4. Zaragatski,I (2472) 4.Petrov 1964
Meister,P (2411) [A10] 1.h5 Kg2 2.h6 Rc6+ 3.Ke5 Kh3 4.Kf5 Kh4 5.h7
Bundesliga 2014–15 Schwaebisch Hall GER (15.4), Rh6 6.Re8 Rxh7 7.Kg6 Rh5 8.Re4+ wins
12.04.2015 5.W.Speckmann& Staudte 1963
Position fter 17th move. White to play. 18.Nd5! cxd5 1.Bg4 Ng6 2.Nf3+ Kd1 3.Ne5+ wins 1…Ng2+
[18...Qxb3 19.Ne7#; 18...Nxd5 19.Qxf3] 19.Qxf3 2.Kf3 Nh4+ 3.Kg3 Ng2 4.Nf3+ Kf1 5.Bf5
e4 20.Qf4 dxc4 21.Bxf6 Bxf6 22.Qxe4+- White 6.A.Hilderband G. Suresh Kumar, Lions District Governor, Sulur, Managing Director, Renuka Spinning Mills, Mr. A. Ranganathan, First Vice
won in 33 moves. 1–0 I Pr, Schachbulletinen 1962 Governor Elect, Simta Group of Companies, Mr. M. Varadharajan, Past President, Sulur Lions Club, Lakshmi Narayanan
1.Rf2 gxf2 2.b5 e4 3.b6 e3 4.b7 f3 5.b8R MV (Winner), Mr. KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess Academy, Mr. Andavar Ramasamy, Correspondent, Vikas Vidyala,
5. Georgiev,Ki (2623)
Tirupur, Mr. K. Lakshmanasami, Secretary, TDCA.
AICF CHRONICLE 45
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Late Babukaka Shirgaokar Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Sangli Modern Senior Secondary School
8th international Rating Chess Tournament 2015
(For school students only)
AICF Event code 115226 TN/2015
Organized by
Modern Senior Secondary School
Under the aegis of
AICF,TNSCA,KDCA&MCA

From 1st August to 5th August 2015

At
Modern Senior Secondary School
Modern School Road,AG’sOffice Colony
Late Babukaka Shirgaokar Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Sangli Nanganallur, Chennai 600 061
DSP Mr.Dili Sawant & IM Sameer Kathmale.Others in the picture are Dr. Ulhas Mali,
Chintamani Limaye & Smita Kelkar, Vijay Apte
Total prize fund: Rs.1.20 Lakh
School trophy for maximum entries-Top three schools
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Parents will be provided only dormitory type at Rs.100-.per day per head
Last date for entry: 27tht July 2015:No spot entries
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Rucha Pujari. www.aicf.in
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AICF Calendar June 2015
1st N.L.Pandiyar Mem.Lake city FIDE Rating 21Jun15-24 Jun15 Udaipur
Ln. Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi district Ist National Open FIDE
Commonwealth Chess 22 Jun15- 30 Jun15 Delhi
Late Ramesh Vinayakrao Kotwal Mem.Rapid 27Jun15-28Jun 15 Maharashtra
Rating Chess Tournament, Udupi
National Women Challenger 02 Jul15-11 Jul15 Delhi
5th St.Joseph’s FIDE Rating Open 03 Jul15-07Jul15 Chennai
25th The Telegraph Schools Chess 03Jul15-07Jul15 Kolkata
Maharashtra State Under13-Open & Girls 04Jul15-08Jul15 Pune
All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid chess 11Jul15-12Jul15 Bangalore
National Under 11 Boys&Girls 13 Jul15-21Jul15 Puducherry
GM Chess Tournament 13 Jul15-20 Jul15 Hyderabad,AP
Maharaja Institutions State Under-25 15Jul15-19Jul15 Coimbatore
Brahmapuri Educational City Trophy 18Jul15-19Jul15 handrapuri,Mah.
GTC Chess Classic 2015 22Jul15-26Jul15 Guwahati,Assam
National Junior Boys & Girls Championships 23 Jul15-31 Jul15 Tamilnadu
All India Open FIDE Rating 25Jun15-29Jun15 Nasik, Maharashtra
All India Open FIDE Rated Rapid 25Jul15-26Jul15 Hubli
Laxmikant ItkelwarMem.U-15 Open &Girls 01Aug15-05Aug15 Nagpur
Asian Continental Championship 01Aug15-13Aug15 Al Ain, UAE (L-R) Shi Babu Poojary, Dr Rajgopal Sheny, Dr HS Ballal, Dr. Vishal Ravi, K Suresh
8th Modern FIDE FRating for School children 01Aug15-05Aug15 Nanganallur, Chennai Prabhu, Shridhar Shenava, Prakash Bhat
1st Ratanlal Kedia Mem.FIDE Rated Open 02Aug15-06Jun15 Siliguri,Assam
Asian Youth U-8.10,12,14,16,18 Chess 03Aug15-11Aug15 Seoul, South Korea
1st KCA FIDE rating 12Aug15-16Aug15 Kanchipuram
3rd Window Open below 1600 15Aug15-17Jun15 Kerala
National Challenger Chess 16Aug15-27Aug15 Nagpur
National Under-7 Boys&Girls 17Aug15-25Aug15 Chennai
World Youth Under-16 Olympiad 19Aug15-29Aug15 Mongolia
National Under-13 Boys & Girls Ch’ships 30Aug15-07 Sep 15 Gurgaon,Haryana
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 34: 1. b4 h5 2. b5 Rh6 3. b6 Rc6 4. bxc7 Rxc2 5. (L-R) Dr Prakash Shenoy K, Prakash Bhat Uppunda, Dr Rajgopal Shenoy, Sri Amit
cxb8=Q Rxd2 6. Qd6 Rxd1 7. Qxd1 and 3. ... Rd6 4. bxc7 Rxd2 5. cxb8=B Rxc2 6. Bbf4 Rxc1 Shetty, , Dr R C Natarajan, Dt Vinod Bhat, Sri KP Acharya, Dr Suresh Shenoy K, Girinath
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Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,
Ponda, Goa
(L-R standing) Kumar Jambhale, Amogh Namshiker, Sagar Sakordekar, Vinay

Tendulkar(Sitting) Mr Rajendra Desai and IM Anurag Mhamal
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Ritviz Parab receiving winner's trophy from Chief Guest Arun Desai in presence
of Vinay Tendulkar (President, Goa Chess Association); Gaurish Abhisheki (Vice-
chairman, Wagle High School Golden Jubilee Celebration committee), Rajendra Desai,
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