2016 Oct Chronicle AICF

AICF CHRONICLE
the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation
Volume : 11 Issue : 3
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October 2016
Under-7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry
Priansh Das
WCM Shefali A N
Open Champion
Girls Champion
(Odisha)
(Karnataka)
27 th National Under-17 Chess Championships, Kolkata
Sai Viswesh C
Aakanksha Hagawane
Open Champion
Girls Champion
(Tamilnadu)
(Maharashtra)
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Under 7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry
Priansh Das and Shefali win titles
by IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
27th National Under -17 Chess Championships, Kolkata

Sai Vishwesh and Aakanksha win titles
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
25th National Youth (U-25) Open Championship 2016

Himal Gussain wins Under-25 title
by R.C.Chatterjee IA, Chief Arbiter
10
KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Tmt,Kannur...

Alex Thomas wins title
by M. Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter
11
5th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tmt,

Bubaneshwar
Shyamnikhil emerges Champion
by V.L.Anandh Babu, Chief Arbiter
13
14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Mem. Open FIDE Rated

Shyaamnikhil emerges winner
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
15
4thN.L.Pandiyar Mem.Intl Open Fide Rated Tmt, Jaipur

Akshat Khamparia is Champion
by A.C.Joshi IA, Chief Arbiter
18
South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016

Raghav Srivathsav emerges winner
by R.Srivatsan IA , Chief Arbiter
20
Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Tmt ,

Dharmavaram
Shanmukha Teja wins title
by V.Srikanth FA , Chief Arbiter
22
29th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,
From the Editors desk

After the exceptional performance
by India at the Baku Olympiad all
eyes turned towards the World Youth
Championships at Khanty Mansiysk
for the age categories Under-14,
Under-16 and Under-18. Compared
to the four medals in the last edition
at Halkidiki the performance here
was below par with a lone gold medal
from the National Under-17 Girls Champion from Pune,
Aakanksha Hagawane, in the Under-16 Girls category.
Vantika Agarwal, bronze medallist in Greece, sadly
missed out on a medal in the Under-14 Girls category
after her loss in the final round. Report on this event
along with that of World Cadet Chess Championship
to be held at Bhatumi, Georgia later this month will be
featured in the next issue. Report on Baku Olympiad with
photographs is featured in the centre pages of this issue.
On the home front, three National Championships

were organized during the month. National Under-7
Championships held at Puducherry Priansh Das of
Odisha and Shefali of Karnataka won the titles. Sai
Viswesh of Tamilnadu and Aakanksha Hagawane of
Maharashtra emerged Open and Girl Champion in the
27th National Under-17 Championships held at Amity
University, Kolkata. At the 25th National Under-25
Open Chess Championship organized in Guwahati
Himal Gussain of Chandigarh took the title. Reports and
photographs of these events along with those of FIDE
rated events held during September 2016 are presented
in this issue.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates interesting games from the
World Junior held at Bubaneshwar.In the Problem World
your Editor dwells on Holst promotions in problem chess.
Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Antoshin is featured in the
Masters of the past series
Thoothukudi
Hirthikkesh emerges Champion
by M Ephrame IA, C hief Arbiter
28
C.G.S.Narayanan
Selected games from World Junior Championships,

Bhubaneswar
Annotated by Manuel Aaron
31
Problem World
Holst promotion by C.G.S.Narayanan
41
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42

Test Your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-69
AICF Calendar
Vladimir Antoshin 44
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Readers are invited to offer their feedback on

the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
Under 7 National Chess Championships 2016, Puducherry
Priansh Das and Shefali win titles

by IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
he Under-7 National Chess Championships, organized by Pondicherry

State Chess Association at Arumuga
Kalyana Mandapam from 19th to 27th
September 2016. The tournament held
for boys and girls born on or after 1st
January 2009 was an 11 round Swiss
system attracting 182 boys and 119 girls
from Pudhucherry, Tamil Nadu,Maharashtra,Delhi,Odisha,Madhya Pradesh,Telangana,Karnataka,Assam,Uttaranchall, West
Bengal, AP, Jharkhand, Kerala, Goa, U.P.,
Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan,
Punjab, Gujarat, Manipur, Bihar and Haryana. The time control for the tournament
was 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment
from move 1 to each player. Ilamparithi
AR and Aswinika Mani, both from Tamil
Nadu were the top seeded players in the
tournament. There were 41 rated players
in the open section and 11 in the girls
section.
First round itself witnessed a lot of upsets,
the first victim being the second seed
Borgoankar Akshay, falling to Kartheepan
S of Tamil Nadu. Third seeded Daavevik
Wadhawan of Delhi also lost to Kashelkar
Atharv of Maharashtra in this round. Fifth
seeded Priansh Das was beaten by Deoshatwar Ojas of Maharashtra in the second
round and higher rated Adireddy Arjun of
Telanagana was felled by unrated Dutta
Pehlaj of Assam. In a similar fashion,
higher rated players fell like nine pins in
the subsequent rounds also and there was
one player who had a steady progress
He was the top seed Ilamparithi, who grew

from strength to strength. Fourth and
sixth seeds Aarav Lakhani of Maharashtra
and Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta also were
also forced to bite the dust by Abhinav
raj of Delhi and Jaiveer Mahendru of Maharashtra respectively in the fifth round.
Sixth round was the turn for the seventh seed Bhagat Kush of Maharashtra
to lose, leaving only Ilamparithi undefeated among the top ten players. After
nine rounds, Ilamparithi stood like a solid rock with 8 points, followed by Aryan
Mohapatra of Odisha and Kshatriya Nitin
Vekhande of Maharashtra with 7 points
each. Ilamparithi dropped half a point
for the first time in the championship to
Delhis Daaveik Wadhawan reducing his
lead to one point over Priansh Das of
Odisha, who had scored 8.5 points until
the tenth and penultimate round. In the
final round climax, Ilamparithi needed a
draw and Priansh had to defeat to win
the title. Priansh played a superb game
to beat Ilamparithi to tie with him on 9.5
points. Direct encounter being the first
tiebreak, Priyansh picked up the tile and
Ilamparithi, who was leading all the way
from the start of the tournament had to
be content with the runner up spot.
In the girls section, AN Shefali of Karnataka, seeded fourth in the championship,
lost to R Mahathi of Tamil Nadu in the first
round and Sani Deshpande of Maharashtra, the second best player in terms of
rating was beaten by Anisha Kumbhalkar
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of Maharashtra in the second round. After five rounds, Ishani Mondal and Sneha
Haldar of West Bengal and Sainesha RM
of Tamil Nadu were leading with 5 points
each. Ishani was beaten by Sneha and
Saineha cruised to a win over Kamalini
Hardana of Pondicherry in the sixth round.
Seventh round witnessed the emergence
of Sneha Haldar as the sole leader as
she defeated the co-leader Saineha. But,
Sneha succumbed to Shafeli and Saineha
bounced back to share the lead with 7
points each, at the end of eighth round.
Sneha joined Shafeli as the latter overwhelmed Saineha. A climax was on the
cards, as they continued to lead for the
remaining rounds before going to the final
round. Shefali defeated Ishani on the top
board, but Sneha lost to Sarvani Cheedella
of AP, allowing the Karnataka player Shefali to clinch the title.Sri. V. Hariharan,
Secretary, All India Chess Federation was
the chief guest on the final day and he
distributed the medals and certificates to
the prize winners.
Final ranking:Open

Rk Name
1 Priansh Das
2 Ilamparthi A R
3 Daaevik Wadhawan
4 Sriansh Das
5 Sparsh Bisht
6 Bhagat Kush
7 Aarav Lakhani
8 Jaiveer Mahendru
9 Inban Sivakumar
10 Sai Rishiraj P
11 Mitul K H
12 Aryan Mohapatra
13 Apoorv Kamble
14 Abhyuday Santhosh
Club
ODI
TN
DEL
ODI
HAR
MAH
MAH
MAH
TN
TEL
KAR
ODI
KAR
KAR
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Pts
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
15 Aakash G
16 Aarav Dengla
17 Advait Prashant Patil
18 Borgaonkar Akshay
19 Srijan Chatterjee
20 Sadbhav Rautela
21 Faheem N H Borah
22 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S
23 Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande
24 Sonthalia Pratham
25 Arul Prakash N
26 Rupankar Kundu
27 Tanish Sai Kavuru
TN
MAH
MAH
MAH
WB
UTT
ASM
TEL
MAH
GUJ
TN
WB
AP
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
28 Rishikesh S A
29 Bikash Kumar Lenka
30 Adireddy Arjun
31 Kodela Keerthi Kanth
32 Iyer Aarav
33 Krishna Kumar Saw
34 Vishwajit S
35 Jack Samuel
36 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta
37 Sarva Jayan J
38 Pranav K P
39 Abhiraaj Arora
40 Nivaan Shah
41 Naveen Kumar P
42 Vedant Behal
43 Abhinav Raj
44 Shreeyash Kejriwal
45 Ruthvik Srikanth
46 Aujsya Mohta
47 Teshub Dinesh
48 Bharadia Yash
49 Lanheiba Loitongbam
50 Vaibhav Kalpaka
51 Nihal Swarna
52 Suhaas A
53 Vijay Adithya Muthu S
54 Parth Kamat
55 Sujay Kishore Kanna
KER 7
ODI 7
TEL 7
AP
7
MAH 7
JHA 7
KAR 7
TN
7
MP 7
TN
7
TN
7
TEL 7
MAH 7
TN
7
DEL 7
DEL 6
WB 6
KAR 6
CHAT 6
KAR 6
RAJ 6
MAN 6
KAR 6
AP
6
TEL 6
TN
6
GOA 6
TN
6
contd on page 5
South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016, Jammu
Shri Sunil Kumar Sharma, Minister of State, Transport,Youth Services and Sports inaugurates the
event flanked by Shri Danesh Rana, IGP Jammu and Shri Shiv Sharma, Joint Secretary J&K Sports
to R: P.K. Suresh (runner-up), Atul Kumar Gupta, Rahul Srivathsav (Winner), Shri. Bali Bhagat
L(Chief
guest), Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar
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25th National Under-25 Open Chess Championship 2016, Guwahati
Himal Gussain of Chandigarh (Winner) receiving the trophy from Bharat Singh,CEO, AICF
14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament, Sangli
Champions along with dignitaries on dais,

IM Shyamnikhil (Winner) with the trophy, standing in the centre.
56 Sachith Katti
57 Panda Hrishikesh
58 Dutta Pehlaj
59 Deoshatwar Ojas
60 Nirnay Garg
61 Luksh Jain
62 Shankhodip De
63 Aryan Arora
64 Vihaan Jain
65 Heman U Gowda
66 Amogh Bisht
67 Kartheepan S
68 Sourjya Mukherjee
69 Samyak Dharewa
70 Jatin Agarwalla
71 Kavin B
72 Siranjeevi Sanjay S
73 Keerthivasan P
74 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa
75 Sanchith Sundarram K
76 Sakthivel Heamish Kanha
77 Wanjari Krupal
78 Chaudhari Pragalbh
79 Priyangshu Goswami
80 Gireesh Vemarao
81 Arith Aggarwal
82 Srihari R
83 Mohith G
84 Kaushik Srivatsa H
85 Rajdeep Dutta
86 Maaz Iqubal
87 Preran M G
88 Krishiv Agarwal
89 Tuhin Subhra Das
90 Rohith Karthikeshwar N
91 Madhavansh Mittal
92 Ganesh Naidu O K S S
93 Deepesh V
94 Pradhan Priyanshu
95 Parva B Thakkar
96 Bathri Narayana R V A
KAR
ODI
ASM
MAH
HAR
TEL
WB
DEL
UP
KAR
KAR
TN
WB
WB
WB
TN
TN
TN
ASM
TN
TN
MAH
MAH
ASM
AP
DEL
TN
AP
KAR
WB
UP
KAR
CHA
WB
TEL
GUJ
AP
PUD
ODI
GUJ
TN
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
97 Arjun Dube
UP
5
98 Archit Mittal
JHA 5
99 Shubh Kalangutkar
GOA 5
100
Abhinavan Sharma
ASM 5
101
Sujith R S
TN
5
102
Raghav Bhargav
MAH 5
103
Vibhor Jain
UP
5
104
Patrick Shadrach N
TN
5
105
Yuvan Kartik R
TN
5
106
Charan Katyal
PUN 5
107
Dawda Vihaan
MAH 5
108
Samanwaya Kumar
BIH 5
109
Mayank Chakraborty
ASM 5
110 Sourabh
BIH 5
111
Pratnesh Malvankar
GOA 5
112
Shreyansh Bansal
MP 5
113
Amey Goyal
CHD 5
114
Vishwanath V
TN
5
115
Shashindhar Kumar R
TN
5
116
Divyansh Pandey
UP
5
117
Rathi Ram
MAH 5
118
Akansh Rajan
DEL 5
119
Aditya Ranjan Das
ODI 5
120
Laksheth R
TN
5
121
Md. Kaif Ullah
BIH 5
122
Aarav Nambiar T
TEL 5
123
Utkrisht Tuli
PUN 5
124
Uplenchwar Anay
MAH 5
125
Godhani Maharth
GUJ 5
126
Dheenram Shetty
KAR 5
127
Saswata Majumder
WB 5
128
Rupesh Sai S
TN
5
129
Md Hasnain Siddiqui
UP
4
130
Sai Ganesh D B
AP
4
131
Raghu Ram Reddy Seelam TEL 4
132
M Venkata Ruthvik
AP
4
133
Kiaan Agrawal
CHA 4
134
Chinmoi Saikia
ASM 4
135
Anirudh Rajeev
KER 4
136
Devdarshan R B
TN
4
137
Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar
MAH 4
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139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
6
Nitin Kumar P
TN
Anirudh Vignesh M
PUD
Niranjan Karthi Y
TN
Abeer Taneja
RAJ
Kashelkar Atharv
MAH
Kanishak Bhatt
GUJ
Jai Karthik S
TN
Shorya Mohta
CHA
Aditya Tari
GOA
Sagishnu Viyasan S
TN
Santhosh S V
PUD
Jiban Jyoti
ODI
Nakulan Y
TN
Avaneesh Handur
MAH
Raghav Sankar S R
TN
Adithya Vignesh M
PUD
E Arivoli
TN
Parmar Harmit Ashwinbhai GUJ
Lakshin Shrias B
PUD
Vijayabaskaran R
PUD
Sardar Shaunak
MAH
Rishyendranath Reddy Ch AP
Joy Talreja
GUJ
Vittanala Shanmuk Saish AP
Swaraj Jyoti Neog
ASM
Sahu Mitansh
RAJ
Yashvanth S
PUD
Rishwant V P
TN
Jervin Jeenon J
PUD
Aditya Narain Mathur
DEL
Devadarshan M
TN
Dhakshine B
PUD
Aaradhya Lad
MAH
Kanaka Dinesh K M S S S AP
Vihaan Bhandari
RAJ
Gokulramana G G
PUD
Shashank V S
TN
Marwin P Mariadassou
PUD
Mithra Kumaran Jk
TN
Ahuja Vyom
UP
Jose Harry William P
TN
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4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
179
Aditya Mandala
TEL 2
180
Jeyadev S
PUD 1
181
Nilayreddy Thalamarla
TEL 0
182
Ashtosh A Wagh
MAH 0
Final ranking:Girls Under-7
Rk Name
Club Pts
1 Shefali A N WCM
KAR 10
2 Sneha Halder
WB 9
3 Suhaani Lohia
MAH 8
4 Sarvani Cheedella
AP
8
5 Sani Deshpande
MAH 8
6 Ishani Mondal
WB 8
7 Ray Sushree Ananya
ODI 8
8 Sanjana Nagarajan
TN
8
9 Arushi Srichandan
ODI 8
10 Arshiya Das
TRI 8
11 Aswinika Mani R
TN
8
12 Saineha R M
TN
7
13 Kamalini Haradhana N K
PUD 7
14 Shriya Patil
GOA 7
15 Shriyana S Mallya
KAR 7
16 Ankita Sahoo
ODI 7
17 Doyal Naidu R
AP
7
18 Jayashri M
TN
7
19 Jain Khyati
MAH 7
20 Bhavya Narapuram
MP 7
21 Kumbhalkar Anisha
MAH 7
22 Patil Divya
MAH 7
23 Jasmaira Gumber
UTT 7
24 Patil Disha
MAH 7
25 Trisha Jagtap
MAH 7
26 Anishka Pandey
ODI 7
27 Lakshana R
TN
7
28 Vidula Anbuselvan
TN
7
29 Tvisha Mangesh Shah
MAH 7
30 Aishaani Durgaa S
TN
6
31 Girija A Pednekar
GOA 6
32 Hansika A S S S
AP
6
33 Thapaswi Rajavarapu
AP
6
34 J Faustina D Cruz
TN
6
35 Asudani Ruhani Raj
GUJ 6
27th National Under -17 Chess Championships, Kolkata
Sai Vishwesh and Aakanksha win titles
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
7th National Under - 17 Chess Championship 2016 was held from 9th
September to 17th September 2016
at Amity University, Kolkata. The event
was organized by Bengal Chess Association. The tournament attracted total 119
players (71in open section, and 48 in girls
section.) from all over the India. There
were in all 112 international fide rated
players among the participants which
includes 3 FM, 1 CM, 2 WIM, 4 WFM and
2 WCM.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS, Chairman HIDCO. The other dignitaries present
were Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice
Chancellor, Amity University, Dr. Madhumita Roy, Director ASAP Amity University,
IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, Bengal Chess
Association, IA Debasish Barua, Treasurer Bengal Chess Association, Shri. Atin
Sengupta, Organising Secretary and IA
Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter. Managers /
players meeting were arranged just before
the start of 1st round at 1pm. The other
necessary technical matters were decided
and appeals committee was formed.
After 9 grueling days of top notch chess
of 27th National Under-17 Chess Championship 2016, which concluded at Amity
University campus, Kolkata, observed
many decorated players biting the dust
and emergence of some new talents.
In the open section 8th seeded Sai Vishwesh of Tamil Nadu emerged
champion with 9.5 points at the end of
11 rounds while state mate FM Venkataraman Karthik secured the 2nd place with
9 points. Local lad Kaustuv Kundu and Mitarbha Guha both scored 8 points each but
Kaustuv was placed 3rd while Mitarbha
was placed 4th based on tie-break score
in the final ranking list. Sai VIshwesh
drew his last round game with Anustoop
Biswas of WB to score 9.5 pts. At the end
of penultimate round Sai VIshwesh was
leading the open group with 9 points i.e.
he was leading over his nearest rival FM
Venkataraman Karthik of TN with point.
The Girls section witnessed a nail biting
last round finish. Overnight leader Arpita
Mukherjee of West Bengal faltered in the
finishing line when she did a blunder in a
complicated position against V Toshali of
Andra Pradesh and finished by securing
the 3rd, position. At the end of penultimate round both Aakanksha and Arpita
were leading the table with 8.5 points
each. In last round game Aakanksha
Hagawane of MAH drew her game with
Chandrayee Hajra of WB and Sakshi Chitlange of MAH beat Isha Sharma of KAR
to level the scores for the championship
with 9 points each. However Aakansha
emerged champion on basis of better tie
break score. In last round on board no. 5
Ku. Harshita Guddanti of AP suddenly fallen ill and expressed her inability to play.
Due to Vishwakarma Pooja no vehicle was
available and she could not be shifted
to any clinic for treatment. Fortunately
Dr. Vidya Sharma, mother of one of the
participants, Isha Sharma, who was present at the venue examined Harshita and
confirmed her illness & issued her with a
certificate.
Earlier in the morning the 11th and Final
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round was inaugurated by Ace Shooter

and ex Olympian Joydeep Karmakar who
spoke about the need of sheer concentration, power in Chess as well as Shooting
to excel at top level. He also emphasized
on the need for physical fitness in both
the games as both physical and mental
health are correlated in sports. Organizers provided with delicious snacks to the
participants on the day of single round and
Lunch on the day of double round and also
a good accommodation in an area where
no hotels were available.
The prizes were distributed at the hands
of Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS, Chairman HIDCO, Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice
Chancellor, Amity University, Dr. Madhumita Roy, Director ASAP Amity University,
GM Dibyendu Barua, Arjuna Awadee, Shri.
Pradipta Kumar Roy, Taekwondo Hall of
Fame, Smt. Ruma Roy, Taekwondo Hall of
Fame and IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter.
The tournament was organized by Bengal
Chess Association on behalf of All India
Chess Federation and hosted by Amity
University, Kolkata.
The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief
Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod and he was ably
assisted by IA Asit Baran Choudhury Dy.
Chief Arbiter, IA Palaniappan P, NA Swapan
Adhikari and NA Goutam Bhattacharjee.
Final ranking:Open
Rk Name
1 Sai Vishwesh.C
2 FM Karthik Venkataraman
3 Kaustuv Kundu
4 FM Mitrabha Guha
5 Jayakumaar S
6 FM Rajdeep Sarkar
7 Anustoop Biswas
8 Pranavananda V
9 Adhithya S
8
St
TN
TN
WB
WB
TN
WB
WB
AP
TN
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Pts
9
9
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
10 Barath Kalyan M
11 Subhayan Kundu
12 Hemanth Raam
13 Koustav Chatterjee
14 Saurabh Anand
15 CM Aronyak Ghosh
16 Kamdar Udit
17 Audi Ameya
18 Saksham Rautela
19 Sarbojit Paul
20 Sammed Jaykumar Shete
21 Kumar Gaurav
22 Ambarish Sharma
TN
WB
TN
WB
BIH
WB
GUJ
GOA
UTT
WB
MAH
BIH
WB
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
Mukherjee Sanchit
Aritra Ganguly
Souradip Deb
Ruchir Sengupta
Rupam Mukherjee
Tiwari Uddhav
Biswajit Changmai
Sudheesh Karri
Mrityunjay Kumar
Barik Jagdish
Tushar Barua
Subhranil Majumder
Meghanshram B V
JHA
WB
TRI
WB
WB
MP
ASM
AP
BIH
ORI
WB
TRI
TEL
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Jegatha B
Potluri Saye Srreezza
Kavitha P L
Poorna Sri M.K
Sudipa Haldar
Varsha C R
Sovna Sonali Jena
Shanya Mishra
Pracheta Agarwal
Shinjini Sengupta
Kalyani B
Shweta Priyadarshini
Neha Srinibash D
TN
TEL
TN
TN
WB
TN
ORI
DEL
JHA
WB
AP
UP
TN
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Shuban Saha
Gokulraj K
Saptorshi Gupta
Grahesh Y
Cheela Naga Sampath
Samip Roy
Prathish A
Harikrishnan.A.Ra
Soham Das
Subhash K V
Sanket Chakravarty
Jyothir R
Rajarshi Dutta
Sourath Biswas
Debarghya Samanta
Sougata Halder
Iftikar Alom Mazumdar
Swarnava Biswas
Swapnil Priyadarshi
Vatsal Singhania
Solanki Rutvik
Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary
Bipra Nath
Subhadip Seth
Jyothis R
Mckenzie Lionel Joseph
WB
TN
WB
AP
AP
WB
TN
TN
WB
AP
WB
KER
WB
WB
WB
WB
ASM
WB
ORI
JHA
GUJ
UP
WB
WB
KER
TN
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
64 Rijoo Ghoshal
WB 4
65 Neelash Saha
WB 3
66 Sangam Kumar Singh
BIH 3
67 Priyanshu Sekhar Swain CG 3
68 Sai Raj Gopal K
AP
3
69 Arhan Boyd
WB 3
70 Sorokhaibam Nikhilraj
MAN 2
71 Sur Roychowdhury
WB 1
Final rankingLGirls
Rk Name
St
Pts
1
Aakanksha Hagawane MAH 9
2 WIM Chitlange Sakshi
MAH 9
3 WFM Arpita Mukherjee
WB 8
4
Toshali V
AP
7
5
Vantika Agrawal
DEL 7
6 WCM Ananya Suresh
KAR 7
7 WFM Divya Deshmukh
MAH 7
8 WCM Chandreyee Hajra
WB 7
9 WIMI vana Maria Furtado
GOA 7
10
Sunyuktha C M N
TN
7
11
Krithigga K
TN
6
12 WFM Lakshmi C
TN
6
13
Ghosh Samriddhaa
WB 6
14 WCM Isha Sharma
KAR 6
15
Harshita Guddanti
AP
6
16
Swarnamala B
TN
6
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
Gujja Dheekshitha
Alekhya B
Saheli Mondal
Akshatha Raju
Sinthia Sarkar
Nizami Sada
Niharika Ch
Debarpita Ghosh
Ayantika Das
Mehendi Sil
Aditi Bajaj
Mehak Khurana
Meenal Sahu
Gujja Vaishnavi
Manya Agrawal
Megha Mondal
Shruthi P
TEL
AP
WB
KAR
WB
BIH
AP
WB
WB
WB
MP
PUN
CG
TEL
UTT
WB
JHA
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
1
1
49
50
Aryamann Sain
Arijit Mukherjee
WB
WB
5
5
17 WFM Bommini M Akshaya

18
Abirama Srinithi G
AP
TN
6
6
"At the Warsaw team tournament in 1935, the

most surprising discovery was a gangling, shy,
19-year-old Estonian. Some had never heard of
his country before, nobody had ever heard of
Keres. But his play at top board was a wonder
to behold. Not merely because he performed
creditably in his first serious encounters with
the world's greatest; others have done that too.
It was his originality, verve, and brilliance which
astounded and delighted the chess world."
Grandmaster Reuben Fine
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25th National Youth (U-25) Open Chess Championship 2016
KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Tournament,Kannur...
by R.C.Chatterjee IA, Chief Arbiter
by M. Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter
Himal Gussain wins Under-25 title
he 25th National Youth Under-25 Open Chess Championship 2016 organized by All
Assam Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 20th to 26th
September 2016 at Pragjyotish ITA Centre, MG Road, Machkhowa Guwahati Assam.
On 20th September Managers-cum players meeting was held under the chairmanship of
Mr. R C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. B T Sethuraman, IA, Deputy Chief Arbiter, Mr.
M Arun Singh, Vice President, All Assam Chess Association, Mr. BinodKhemka, Guest of
Honour were present on the dais where all the necessary technical matters were discussed
and settled & Appeals Committee was formed. Soon after the manager-cum players meeting inauguration ceremony started at 2.30 pm where Mr. Charlin Bhuyan, President, All
Assam Chess Association preside over the function, Mr. Mukuta Deka, Chief Guest, Mr. R
C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. BinodKhemka, guest of honour were present on the
dais, after brief welcome address, Chief Guest and Master Himal Gussain of Chandigarh,
top seeded player officially announcing the tournament open by making move on the
chess board. Thereafter first round started at 4.20 pm.
Total 67 players from 17 different states among which 58FIDE rated players participated
in the championship. Time control was 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move
one. All the boards were provided with DGT Chess clock. Tournament hall was good and
air-conditioned. After tough fight Master Himal Gussain of Chandigarh became the Champion, Master Chaitanya Sairam Mogili of Andhra Pradesh Runners up and Master Bhatt
Jalpan of Gujarat stood third. Organizers provided all the selected players , managers
and parents free hotel accommodation, even those also who came to participate but
could not be allowed to participate due to their birth certificate was not registered within
one year of birth.
Arbiter team headed by Mr. R C Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. BT Sethuraman, IA,
Deputy Chief Arbiter, Mr. M Arun Singh, NA,Mr. Biswajit Bharadwaj, NA, Live game operator conducted the championship successfully without single appeal and dispute.All The
Arbiters performed their duties sincerely and satisfactorily. All Assam Chess Association,
organizer of the championship has so many young dedicated personalities like Mr. Pranab
Kumar Nath, Mr. Gaurav Roy, Mr.Trailokya Nanda Mr. Anup Roy under the leadership of
Mr.RajibDhar, Honorary General Secretary of AACA and Mr. CharlinBhuyan, President AACA.
Prize Distribution ceremony was held on 20th September 2016 at 3 pm at the venue. Mr.
Bharat Singh Chouhan, CEO, AICF distributed the prizes.
Final standings: 1.Gusain Himal (CHD)8;2.Chaitanya Sairam Mogili(AP)7; 3.Bhatt Jalpan
(GUJ)6;4.Kumar S(TN)6; 5.Prathish A(TN)6; 6.Baivab Mishra(ODI)6; 7.Nayak Rajesh(ODI)6;8.Karthick Narayanan S(TN)6; 9.Aryan (DEL)6; 10.Sahil Dhawan(HAR)6;
11.Manush Shah( GUJ)6; 12.Selvamurugan B(TN)5; 13.Sathish Chandra G(TN)5;14.
Dave Sneh(GUJ)5; 15.Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur(ASM)5; 16.Ajinkya Pingale (MAH)5;
17.Nitish Das(ASM) 5;18.Harshit Sharma(RAJ)5; 19.Ravi Kant Tiwari(ASM)5;20.
Rajdip Das(ASM)5; 21.Amit Soman(MAH)5; 22.Sounak De (BEN)5; 23.Akash Tiwari(BEN)5;24.Pavan Teja Medam(TEL)5; 25.Bikramjit Dhar(ASM)5
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Alex Thomas wins title
a n n u r C h e s s A c a d e m y, Ka n n u r
organized its 1st Fide rated open
Chess Tournament at Sreepuram
English medium School & Junior College,
Kannur. The tournament attracted 238
players from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Goa,
Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry and Tamilnadu. Out of which 144 players are FIDE
rated chess players. More than 50% of the
players are from Kannur, Kasarakode and
Wayanad Districts. The tournament was
held from 11th September 2016 to 13th
September 2016, offering a prize fund of
Rs,2,50,000/-. M Kunal from Tamilnadu
was the top seeded.
Dr. Rajan Thomas, General Physician,
President of Skyline Cliff Apartment
Owners Association distributed the prizes
to the winners. Shri. Sachin Suryakant,
Secretary, North Malabar Chamber of
Commerce as the guest of Honour. Shri.
Balaram, Secretary, Chess Association
Kannur, presided over the meeting Shri.
M Sumod General Convenor of the event
welcomed the gathering and Shri Sudhakaran, gave the vote of thanks.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated
by Shri. Ramachandran Kadannappally,
Minister for Ports, Museums, Archaeology
and Archives of Kerala, in the presence
of Rev. Fr. Abraham Parambet and Shri.
Gangadharan Meledath.
Major upset came from Avinash Hari of
Kerala beat the top seeded M Kunal of
Tamilnadu on round 3. Six players got
four points at the end of round four. In
round five two draws came from top two

boards which helped the third board player Nithin Babu's win over V S Unnikrishnan
took the sole lead at the end of round five.
In the final round Nithin Kumar failed to
score against F M Vinothkumar and missed
the title, he lost his game in the hands
of F M Vinothkumar. Five players Alex
Thomas, Akshay Madhusoodhanan, O T
Anilkumar, Jubin Jimmy and Vinothkumar
are with 5.5 points at the end of round six
but better tie break helped Alex Thomas
of Wayanad took the Winner's trophy and
a cash prize of Rs.25000/- and Akshay
Madhusoodhanan became the runner up.
Kannur Chess academy is organising the
event for the first time in Kannur. The
parents, coaches and chess well wishers
of Kannur together organized this event.
The hard work of the organizers earned
more than 50% of the local participants
in this tournament really made a good
awareness in Kannur District. Participation
of former Kerala State Champion Shri. G
N Viswanathan, the Superintendent
of
Police Kannur attracted the local crowd.A
player lost his point by mobile phone who
requested a selfie to his opponent on
round 4 while playing the game!.
Final ranking
Rk Name
1 Alex Thomas K.
2 Akshay Madhusoodhanan
3 Anilkumar O.T.
4 Jubin Jimmy
5 Vinoth Kumar M.
6 Nithin Babu
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Pts
5
5
5
5
5
5
11
7 Dhanush Ragav
8 Swera Ana Braganca
9 Roshan Hari
10 Kunal M.
11 Azeeb Sharafudeen
12 Magesh M
13 Hari R Chandran
14 Andrew Veda W Solomon
15 Abhiram Sudheesh
16 Avinash Hari
17 Joy Lazar M.A.
18 Sumesh Kabeer
19 Viswanathan V N
20 Abhiram C Nath
21 Muralidharan R.
22 Sojith E.
23 Nidhin Kumar S
24 Eswaran P
25 Digvijay Sunil
26 Alex C Joy
27 Manoj N
28 Hareendran V
29 Fathima Abdeen
30 Sheena E.
31 Ashish Thomas Alex
32 Unnikrishnan V S
33 Devadasan K.V.
34 Vaishnav S
35 Kannan.V
36 John P B
37 Karunakaran V
38 Chopdekar Gunjal
39 Devika P
40 Rajendra Prasad M
41 Ashitha C C
42 Sunil Kumar V T
43 Periyasamy N
44 Praveen Kumar G
45 Santhosh K P
46 K Panchapakesan
47 Jayesh C
12
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
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48 Deepak Raju K
49 Aadithya Sumod
50 Raveendran P K
51 Akhil Chandran S
52 Hari Suresh
53 Sonumon P S
54 Jagadeesh A.K.
55 Sharsha Backer
56 Manojan Ravi
57 Ramachandran S M
58 Bindu Saritha K.
59 Sreedeep C V
60 Amal Roozi
61 Benni T K
62 Aringar Anna V
63 Sharath Kumar T P
64 Anfas Muhammed
65 Eldho Skaria
66 Kukku Ramesh
67 Sanjeev M
68 Rakesh N
69 Syam Peter
70 Shirodkar Aayush
71 Devanand B
72 Vishnu Menon
73 Sidharth D
74 Sanjeev Kumar
75 Vasundhara P.
76 Varadharajan S
77 Renjith C P
78 Sudheesh K G
79 Subramanian T.V.
80 Harijith A Manoj
81 Praveen Lawrence
82 Swaha V S
83 Deepak K S
84 Anand S
85 Sayooj P
86 Ankit KumarNand Kishore
87 Praveen Raj T
88 Asna Abdeen
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
5th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tournament, Bubaneshwar
Shyamnikhil emerges Champion
by IM Anurag Mhamal,
nternational Master P. Shyamnikhil

of Tamil Nadu clinched 5th Keshabananda Das open 2016 by scoring 7.5
points & took home Rs.75,000/- (seventy
five thousand only).International Master
Swayams Mishra of Odisha became half
point behind the champion by scoring 7
points & pocketed a cash prize of Rs. Fifty
Thousand. IM VAV Rajesh of AAI became
2nd runners up by scoring 7 points & took
away Rs. Thirty Five Thousand only. In top
board IM P.Shyamnikhil drew with IM VAV
Rajesh. In second board IM R. Ramnath
Bhubnesh drew with IM Swayams Mishra.
Odisha girl Smaraki Mohanty got 15th
position & won cash prizes of Rs. Nine
Thousand. Rakesh Ku. Nayak, Biswajit
Nayak, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Rabindra Kumar Ojha got 15th, 23rd, 24th,
25th & 27th position in top merit thirty.
All the winners collected cash prizes from
Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra Misra,
IPS(Retd.) , Former Director General
of Police,Govt. of Odisha, Sri Subhasis
Patnaik, Secy. Khordha District Chess
Association & Sri Saroj Kishore Behera,
Jt.Secy. Khordha District Chess Association. Three arbiters VL Anand Babu,
Tapas Mohanty & Santosh Mohapatra
conducted the championship smoothly
without any dispute.
GM Venkatesh M.R of Tamilnadu lost to IM
Shyaamnikhil P of Tamilnadu FM Purushothaman T, AP beat WGM Kiran Manisha
Mohanty. Muthaiah AI of Tamilnadu drew
with IM Ramnath, Tamilnadu, Lokesh N,
Tamilnadu drew with IM Anurag Mhamal,
Chirag Satkar drew with IM Koshy Var-
gueese, ONGC, WFM Rutumbara Bidhar,

odisha drew with Rajendra Kumar Sahu,
Odisha & Smaraki Mohanty, of Odisha
beat Ansuman Samal, Odisha.
After 8th Round IM Shyamnikhil P of
Tamilnadu lead with 7 points, IM Swayms
Mishra, IM Rajesh VAV in 2nd & 3rd spot
with 6.5 points. 13th seed Sekar, B, IM
Ramnath Bhuvanesh R, IM Anurag Mhamal, Goa & Muthaiah, AI of Tamilandu
with 6 points.
In round seven, IM Anup Deshmukh, LIC
drew with IM Swayams Mishra. GM Venkatesh M.R, PSPB drew with Muthaiah AI,
Tamilnadu and in IM Nurag Mhamal drew
with IM Rajesh VAV.Rajsantosh Panda,
Odisha beat Mahitosh Dey,, Odisha
Sibi, Visal R, Tamilnadu lost to Swapnil
Sen, West Bengal
At the end of sixth round seven players
were leading with 5 points each including top seed IM Swayams Mishra, GM
M.R.Venkatesh, IM Anup Deshmukh, IM
Anurag Mhamal, IM Shyamnikhil, IM VAV
Rajesh & Al Muthaiah. Six players were
in second spot by scoring 4.5 points
each including IM R. Ramnath Bhubnesh,
IM Suvrajit Saha, IM B.T.Murlikrishnan,
WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Biswajit
Nayak, A.Harsini. Fifteen players were
in 3rd spot by scoring 4 points each. In
top board IM Swayams Mishra drew with
IM Shyamnikhil, 2nd Board AI Muthaiah
drew with IM Anurag Mhamal, Goa, 5th
Board Biswajit Nayak, Odisha drew with
IM BT Murali Krishnan of Railways.
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Final Ranking:
Rk.
Name
State Pts.
1 IM Shyaamnikhil P
TN
7.5
2 IM Swayams Mishra
AI
7
3 IM Rajesh V A V
AAI 7
4 Sekar B
TN 6.5
5 GM Venkatesh M.R.
pspb 6.5
6 Rao J. Malleswara
AP
6.5
8 IM Murali Krishnan B T
RLY 6.5
9 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R
TN
6.5
10 IM Anurag Mhamal
Goa 6.5
11 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
Tel 6
12 IM Suvrajit Saha
WB 6
13 Sa Kannan
TN
6
14 Surendran N
TN
6
15 Smaraki Mohanty
Odi 6
16 Swaraj Palit
Jha 6
17 IM Koshy Varugeese
ongc 6
18 Satkar Chirag
Mah 6
19 Muthaiah Al
TN
6
20 Lokesh N.
TN
6
21 IM Deshmukh Anup
LIC 5.5
22 Harshini A
TN
5.5
23 Rakesh Kumar Nayak
Odi 5.5
24 Nayak Biswajit
Odi 5.5
25 WGMKiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 5.5
26 Didwania Vishal
WB 5.5
27 Rabindra Kumar Ojha
Odi 5.5
28 Jishitha D
AP
5.5
29 Arya Bhakta
WB 5.5
30 Sankalp Gupta
Mah 5.5
31 Panda Raj Santosh
Odi 5
32 Ayushh Ravikumar
TN
5
33 Sibi Visal R
TN
5
34 Swapnil Sen
WB 5
35 Aasha C R
TN
5
36 Krishna Karthik N
AP
5
37 Prajwalesh
Kar 5
38 Sahu Rajendra Kumar
Odi 5
39 Panda Sambit
Odi 5
40 Samal Ansuman
Odi 5
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41 WFMBidhar Rutumbara
42 CM Shahil Dey
43 Behera Dillip
44 Samant Aditya S
45 Jaeel Atharva
46 Aparajita Gochhikar
47 Rajesh Kumar Nayak
48 Harshit Ranjan Sahu
49 Pati Spandan
50 Manish Kumar (2006)
51 Priyamvada Karamcheti
52 Ananya Anamika
53 Aryan Mohapatra
54 Arpan Das (jr)
55 Rindhiya V
56 Behera Biswaranjan
57 Lalitmohan Digal
58 Mallick Ranjan
59 Das Gaurab
60 Rabindra Kumar Moharana
61 Krishan A
62 Sasidhara Kurup C
63 Jose John K
64 Soumyajit Das
65 Bhoi Gunanidhi
66 Panda Miracle
67 Panda Chandra Sekhar
68 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan
69 Susovan Chowdhury
70 Ravi Kumar N
71 Srikanta Charan Behera
72 Mallick Saswat
73 Sahu Tuna
74 Chandra Mohan Munduri
75 Arhan Chethan Anand
76 Mahitosh Dey
77 Koustuv Dash
78 Panda R K
79 Arushi Srichandan
80 Rout Kandarpa
Odi 5
Asm 4.5
Nalco 4.5
Mah 4.5
Mah 4.5
KIIT 4.5
Odi 4.5
Odi 4.5
MP 4.5
Odi 4.5
AP
4.5
Odi 4.5
Odi 4.5
WB 4.5
TN
4.5
MCL 4
nalco 4
Odi 4
Odi 4
Odi 4
TN
4
Pon 4
ongc 4
WB 4
nalco 4
Odi 3.5
nalco 3.5
Odi 3.5
WB 3.5
nalco 3.5
nalco 3.5
Odi 3.5
nalco 3.5
nalco 3.5
Kar 3.5
Odi 3
Odi 3
nalco 3
Odi 3
nalco 3
14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament
Shyaamnikhil emerges winner

by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
his is the 14th event in this series. The

Buddhibal kreeda trust already conducted thirteen events, one per year.
For the inaugural function dignitaries on dais
were Mr. Ashwin Trimal, Chief Guest, GM
Abhijit Kunte, VP, MCA, Dr. Sanjay Karavade
Secretary, PDCC and me. The anchouring is
done by FA Vinita Shrotri. Along with Chief
Guest, GM Swapnil Dhopade, GM Laxman R R
and FA Vinita Shrotri were felicitated on this
occasion with silver coin and bouquet. Trimalji
also is one of the owner of MCL team and also
active member of Lakshya foundation, who
supports young players from different sports.
This championship attracted 230 Players from
three countries out of which 158 rated players took part and the average rating of rated
players is 1597. The total representation of
states are 10 & 3 special units, spearheaded
by 2 GMs, 8 IMs, 1 FM, 2 WFMs, 4 CMs, 1
WCM, 2 AGMs and 1 AIM. Top seed of the
Championship was GM Swapnil S Dhopade
from Amravati representing Railway whose
ELO rating is 2494. Oldest player in this
event is Shri Narendra Savarkar (1938) of
Pune, Maharashtra and youngest one are
Ms. Iksha Soni Teebika & Aditya Kunal Patil
of Mumbai Maharashtra (2010). This event
has given chance for many young players
to play, observed games of several strong
players, boosted their confidence and given
them inspiration.
Fierce fight was evinced until the end, as the
winners would bag prize of Rs. 1,00,000/and glittering trophy. In the 5th round, GM
Swapnil Dhopade of Railway won against Saravana Krishnan P of Tamil Nadu and became
sole leader of contingent. In 7th round IM

Shyaamnikhil P of Tamilnadu drew with GM
Swapnil and tried to make field open for all,
but on second board resulted in draw. Therefore, GM Swapnil continued to lead with 6
points in his pocket. In the 8th round he was
defeated by Mr. Rakesh Kulkarni of Mumbai
Maharashtra and took joint lead with IM Shyaamnikhil P of Railway scoring 7 points each.
9th round was crucial for every participant as
well as chance to become Champion of this
event was open for more than nine players. In
the crucial match between IM Shyaamnikhil
P of TN and Shri Rakesh Kulkarni of Mumbai
Maharashtra, Shyaamnikhil demolished the
defence of Rakesh since Rakesh did not castle his king and on this weakness only Shyaamnikhil concentrated his attack made field
narrowed to him defeating Rakesh become
champion of this event.
The glittering trophy along with cash of Rs.
1,00,000/- was won by IM Shyaamnikhil P
while last time winner and completed required live rating of 2500 to become GM
Swapnil Dhopade stood second received Rs.
55,000/-.The tournament did not trouble the
Appeals Committee consisting of GM Swapnil
Dhopade of Railway, IM Abhishek Kelkar of
CRSB and Mr. Kulkarni Rakesh of MAH as the
main members and Mr. Saravana Krishnan
P. of TN & IM Hegde Ravi Gopal of KAR as
reserve members. The order of the players
was determined according to number of
points obtained.
The championship was a boon to many
players, as many of them gained substantial
confidence playing against higher ELO rated
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players. Also, they gained knowledge, the

calmness till end, desire to win games etc.
CM Gukesh, D gained 77 ELO points from
this event while around 35 players will get
FIDE rating.
For the closing function Shri Chordia was
Chief Guest, along with GM Abhijit Kunte,
Shri Prakash Kunte, me and Shri Nitin Kelkar
CAO PDCC were present on dais. The prizes
were distributed by the hands of Chief Guest
and dignitaries present on dais.
I also thank AICF, MCA, Arbiter Commission
MCA, PDCC & BKT for giving me an opportunity to work as Chief Arbiter in prestigious
14th Late Shri Maheshwaranand Memorial All
India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
and excellent support offered by BKT during
the event.
Final Ranking
Rk Name
1 IM
Shyaamnikhil P
2 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade
3
Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
4
Bhambure Shantanu
5
Kulkarni Rakesh
6 IM
Krishna C R G
7
Raja Harshit
8
Saravana Krishnan P.
9 IM
Thejkumar M. S.
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Hegde Ravi Gopal
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Dodeja Pawan
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Kunal M.
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Gukesh D
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Rao J. Malleswara
Dahale Atul
Jedhe Pinak
Gugale Sunny
Deodhar Vrushali Umesh
Gaurav Rajesh Zagade
Samant Aditya S
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Behere Ravi
Nitul Khare
Nargundkar Ravindra
Kandari Sasidar Kartheek
Shintre Neel
Shubham Lakudkar
Phatak Aanjaneya
Ahirrao Vedant
Kavisha S Shah
Khadilkar L.P.
Ishwar Ramteke
Deshmukh Varun
Pranav Ram Hariharan
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Krishna Malay
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Pardeshi Ajay
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Dandekar Umesh
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Mahek J Hinhoriya
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Mahamuni Yogesh
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Tekam Krunal
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Ayinala Shree
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Bhange Anushka
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Kulkarni Pawan
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Chaudhari Tanmay
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Kotasthane Sarang
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Godbole Shardul
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Gavade Atharv
Shelke Sankarsha
Kathmale Sameer
Mokal Amruta Sunil
Vijay Anand M.
Raja Rithvik R
Vigneshwaran S
Soham Datar
Patil Ketan
Sunil Vaidya
Mullick Raahil
Muthaiah Al
Golvankar Dilip K
Doshi Moksh Amitbhai
Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U
Ghela Sameer
Jain Kashish Manoj
Anurag Jaiswal
Nagare Akhilesh
Agashe Balraj
Karthik Sai Ch
Sambamurthy P.
Mani Bharathy
Polakhare Aryan
Bipin Raj S
Dongre Chandrakant
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Watarkar Yash
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Kant Swapnil
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Gupta Ashish Bajaranglal
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Wadodkar Amit
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Moghe Mayur
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Halkude Nagnath
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Pardeshi Vivek
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Prabhu Aaditya
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Korde Kedar
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Vashishtha Ankesh
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Arijit Ghosh
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Gupte Aradhya
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Jadhav Rahul
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Vallabh Kavi
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Athalye Varad
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Supnekar Milind
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Shreyas Ghadi
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Sachjith M
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Kumar Sanu
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Nirgun Keval
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Boramanikar Tanisha S
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Khude Laxman
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Jail Digambar
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Pandhare Swapnil
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Chincholikar Suhas
100 Wadile Devendra
101 GM Laxman R.R.
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Moghe Rahul
Paturkar Manav
Puzzle of the month

by C.G.S.Narayanan
In the retro below the black is in check. The

solver has to find out the last move of white
together with the black move prior to that.
Pavlovic Branco
Sahovska vjesnik 1950
Last move?
(solution on page 48)
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4thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial International Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament, Jaipur
Akshat Khamparia is Champion

by A.C.Joshi IA, Chief Arbiter
thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial International

Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament
organized by Chess in Lake city, Under
the aegis of ARCA, AICF and FIDE held from
10th to 15th Sep 2016 at Bhandari Darshak
Mandap, Gandhi Ground, Chetak Circle Udaipur, Rajasthan.
In the Lake city Udaipur, the tournament
attracted total number of 287 entries all over
state of India and 4 other countries ( USA ,
Canada , Srilanka and Nepal also participated) in which 5 International Master, 1 WFM , 1
AGM,1AFM, 211-Rated Players & 76 Unrated
players & 31Girls players took part.
The event was conducted in a 10 Rounds
Swiss league system, with the time control
of 90 min plus 30 sec increment from move
No.1, Daily two round ( Except 2 days 1
rounds).The total prize money of the event
was Rs.6,00,000 with First Prize of Rs.60,000
for the winner of the tournament.
The talented young and senior players from
all over India and 4 other countries had participated in the 4thN.L.Pandiyar fide rating
tournament to snatch the total prize money of
Rs.6,00,000/-.Hard fought victories and some
draws were witnessed in the tournament. At
the end of the 10 Round the ultimate winner
was Akshat Khamparia of MP and the runner
up was Avdhoot Lendhe of Maharastra.
This is the 4th Tournament in a row by the
Chess In Lake City under the aegis of ARCA &
AICF. Kudos to Vikas Sahu(Org,.Secretary)
for his excellent efforts and great vision. Also
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a warm clapping for whole team of Chess in

Lake city for their dedicated efforts. Chess in
Lake city has done wonderful work under the
leadership of Fide Arbiter and Convenor Sh.
Rajendra Teli to fulfill all the requirements by
providing a fully Air-conditioned Tournament
hall. Free accommodation to all players with
delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner during
Tournament was arranged free of cost for at
the venue.
Overall the experience of being in this tournament was overwhelming. The hospitality
and the warmth of the organizers deserved
appreciation.Last but not least the great support of Lions club of Udaipur, Maharana was
really a admirable.The team of Arbiters ensured smooth conduct of the tournament and
there was a not a single protest or appeal.
Final ranking:
Rk Name
1 Akshat Khamparia
2 Avdhoot Lendhe
3 Soni Krishan
4 Manigandan S S
5 Ankan Roy
6 Prasad Devaki V
7 Nasir Ali Syed
8 Jay Kundaliya
9 Santu Mondal
10 Maulik Raval
11 Vinay Raj Bhatt
12 Sachin Malik
13 Nair Sanjeev
14 Sumit Grover
15 Samrat Ghorai
State
MP
MAH
DEL
TN
KOL
MAH
UP
GUJ
DEL
GUJ
UTT
DEL
MAH
J&K
KOL
Pts
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16 Sinha Santosh Kumar

17 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai
18 Sharma Dinesh K.
19 Mishra Neeraj-Kumar
20 Mani Bharathy
21 Aaryan Varshney
22 Rishabh Nishad
23 Mandloi Mukesh
24 Ajay Kumar Rai
25 Trivedi Karan R
26 Rathore Sonakshi
27 Dave Kantilal
28 Srikanth K.
29 Wazeer Ahmad Khan
30 Sharma C.L.
31 Borse Pankaj
32 Govind Kumar Chandel
33 Uma Maheswaran P
34 Parmod Kharbash
35 Verma Sanjay
36 Narayan Joshi
37 A K Kalshyan
38 Anuj Shrivatri
39 Biswajit Chatterjee
40 Dishant Jain
41 Sher Singh
42 Himanshu Moudgil
43 Vikram Mukhija
44 Abir Sinha
45 Singh Jagpreet
46 Nakul Chaudhary
47 Pratap Singh Solanki
48 Satyanarayana P.
49 Negi Virender Singh
50 Tiwari O P
51 Nimdia Ridit
52 Gautam Kataria
53 Tanishka Kotia
54 Maheshwari Prabhav
55 Hend Pravin
56 Sudipta Chakraborty
GUJ
GUJ
LIC
JHA
TN
DEL
UP
RAJ
DEL
GUJ
RAJ
RAJ
IAF
IM
RAJ
MAH
UDA
TN
HAR
RLY
RAJ
DEL
MP
RLY
MP
RAJ
DEL
RAJ
DEL
PUN
UP
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TEL
AI
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MAH
UDA
HAR
UDA
MAH
KOL
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57 Abhishek Pandey
DEL
58 Katiyar Prashant
UP
59 Karthik Sai Ch
AP
60 Sharma Pankaj
PUN
61 Sirsat Shekhar V.
MAH
62 Vigneshwaran S
TN
63 Rawal Shailesh
GUJ
64 Basant Khandelwal
JHA
65 Choubey Saurabh
MP
66 Joglekar Abhijit
MAH
67 Ajit Kotia
HAR
68 Sri Sai Baswanth P
AP
69 Pritom Nath
ASM
70 M Tulasi Ram Kumar
TEL
71 Vikrant Jaglan
HAR
72 Patil Ketan
MAH
73 Ghelani Dhairya
MAH
74 Raj Kumawat
UDA
75 Bipul Kr. Naskar
KOL
76 Sanku Mitra
KOL
77 Aashish Choudhary
RAJ
78 Ayan Banerjee
KOL
79 Chaudhary Sushil
NEP
80 Chaudhary Pallav
UDA
81 Nandha Kumar K
TN
82 Raghuveer Singh
RAJ
83 Vibhav Pamecha
UDA
84 Ishwar Ramteke
MAH
85 Mehul Gupta
RAJ
86 Arun Kataria
UDA
87 Sangoi Hriday
MAH
88 Mahesh Bhatnagar
RAJ
89 Kashyap Tiwari
RAJ
90 Saypuri Srithan
TEL
91 Monika Sahu
UDA
92 Dhruv Dak
UDA
93 Chakravarthi S.V.C.
TEL
94 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat UDA
95 Sunny Bedi
UDA
96 Shuvam Roy
KOL
97 Dave Shiv Shankar
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South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016
Raghav Srivathsav emerges winner
by R.Srivatsan IA , Chief Arbiter
he South Asian Amateur Chess Championships 2016 for below 2000 ELO
was organised by All Jammu & Kashmir
Chess Association at Gurjar Desh Charitable
Trust, Bye Pass, Channi Himmat, Jammu
Tawi, J&K, Sponsored by J&K State Sports
Council from 1st to 6th September 2016. A
total number of 420 players from three federations, including 385 rated players took
part in the mega event. The championship
had only 4 players from abroad i.e. one from
Bangladesh and three players from Nepal.
Singh Soram Rahul from India was the top
seed. The Championship was conducted 9
rounds swiss sytem with a time control of 90
mts. Each with 30 seconds increment from
move one.
In the third and fourth round top seed Singh
Soram Rahul of Assam suffered a defeat in
the hands of Subham Lakudkar and Pujjam
Bansod both from Maharashtra and could not
consolidate in the rest of the rounds.
In the final round Rahul Srivatsav of Telengana with 7 points defeated the overnight
leader Mohammed Fasal of Kerala with 7.5
points and joined with P.K. Suresh of Kerala
who defeated Rishab Nishad of Uttar Pradesh.
Both Rahul Srivathsav and P.K. Suresh scored
8 points and with a better tie break score
Rahul Srivathsav was declared as Winner of
the South Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2016 and Suresh finished runner up and
they bagged Rs.200000/- and Rs.125000/respectively. Seven players tied for 3rd to
9th position and Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar
of Delhi finished third.
Earlier this championship was inaugurated
by Shri Sunil Kumar Sharma M.O.S.Transport and youth services and sports declared
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opened the event along with Shri Danesh

Rana IGP Jammu . Shri Shiv Sharma Joint
Secretary J&K Sports was also present as
special guest at the inauguration. While addressing the gathering Minister appreciated
the efforts of All J&K Chess Association for
organizing such a mega event in Jammu and
kashmir and said it will go a along way in
channelizing the energies of the youth in right
direction. Mr.Atul Kumar Gupta President
"All J&K Chess association" in his welcome
address mentioned that due to kashmir unrest about 50 Foreign players cancelled their
plans to come for this first ever mega event.
Also present on the occassion were association office bearers Gen.Secretary Ashiq
ahmad,Sr.vice president A.R.Wani,Vice presidents baldev Raj and Taranveer singh,Press
secretary kuljeet jamwal, org. secretary
Vikas Nanda,treasurer khalid amin,Advisor
Dr.A.S.Bhatia and raj kumar.
At the Prize Distribution on 6th September
Shri. Bali Bhagat, Honble Minister for Health
& Medical Education was the Chief Guest and
distributed the prizes. Shri Piyush Singla, IAS
was the guest of honour and distributed the
prizes. Mr. Atul Kumar Gupta, President, All
J&K Chess Association welcomed the gathering and Mr. Taranvir Singh Gujral proposed
vote of thanks.
Final ranking:
Rk Name
St
1 Raghav Srivathsav V
TEL
2 Suresh P K
KER
3 Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar DEL
4 Mohammed Fasal V U
KER
5 Rupesh Ranjan
BIH
6 Mota Pankit
MAH
Pts
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7
7
7
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7 Joy Lazar M.A.

8 Panta Sumit
9 Shet Prajwal P
10 Arun Rathi
11 Rishabh Nishad
12 Deepak Singh
13 Mohite Ranveer
14 Gavi Siddayya
15 Mulla Nihalahamad
16 Shubham Lakudkar
17 Umashankar A
18 Aishwin Daniel
19 Jeet Jain
20 Kadav Omkar
21 Sayan Banik
22 Harsh Himanshu
23 Santhosh Kumar G.
KER
NEP
KAR
HAR
UP
DEL
MAH
KAR
MAH
MAH
PUD
MP
GUJ
MAH
WB
BIH
TN
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24 Mughaho Awomi
25 Naveen Bansal
26 Vishwanath Prasad
27 Ajith M.P.
28 Nayak Sanjeeban
29 Sanjay Chhabra
30 Janani J
31 Alka Das
32 Vinodh Kumar B.
33 Arijith M
34 Sandeep Chitkara
35 Ajit Singh
36 Sonkalan Bharati
37 Rajeev V M
38 Diwan Rajesh
39 Sahil Dhawan
40 Kumar Deepak
41 Adarsh Tripathi
42 Singh Soram Rahul
43 Devansh Ratti
44 Chaudhary Sushil
45 Cheniram Pegu
46 Singh Jagpreet
47 Lekh Mithawala
NAG
CHAN
TEL
KAR
ODI
HAR
TN
JHAR
PUD
KER
DEL
J&K
WB
KER
OFSPB
HAR
BIH
DEL
ASM
MAH
NEP
ASM
PUN
MAH
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48 Dave Shiv Shankar

49 Sachin Malik
50 Nitish Das
51 Rao Mitta
52 Stephen Raj A
53 Punit Indora
54 Sushrutha Reddy
55 Rohan Bharat Joshi
RAJ
DEL
ASM
TEL
TN
HAR
KAR
MAH
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Category prizes
age group F13
Rk
Name
Pts
79 Arushi Kotwal
6
age group F15
20 Meenal Gupta
7
Best Veteran
22 Dilip Das
6
age group U13
40 Shyam Prasad Reddy K
6
age group U15
34 Manu David Suthandram
6
best female
16 Anjana Krishna S
7
Best Unrated
156 Amit Sharma
5
217 Bhavesh Mahajan
4
rating between 1000 and 1399
105 Uttam Kumar
5
32 Sudipta Chakraborty
6
41 Lochan Kumar Das
6
31 Sunny Bedi
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A player can sometimes afford the luxury of
an inaccurate move, or even a definite error,
in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame
... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely
presented with a second chance.
- Paul Keres
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42nd Chess Olympiad, Baku
Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Dharmavaram
Shanmukha Teja wins title

by V.Srikanth FA , Chief Arbiter
ri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating

Chess Tournament,Dharmavaram was
organized by the Singanamala Ramakrishna and Yours Foundation, Dharmavaram,
Andhra Pradesh Chess Association.
9th to 11st Sep, 2016.Shanmukha Teja of
Telangana emerged champion of Sri Sathya
Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament which concluded atAarya-vysya
choultry,Dharmavaram, Andhra Pradesh. He
scored 8.5 points from 9 rounds to claim
winner trophy.
Winner Shanmukha Teja got prize money
of Rs. 30,000/ plus Trophy- and Runner Up
Salman K,Rs. 20,000/- . 3rd placed P. Pavan Teja got 15,000/- .Total 2.20 lakh prize
money is distributed among 64 players.The
event attracted 350 participants from Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Odissa,West Bengal,UP.
FA V.Srikanth is the Chief Arbiter. FA G.Venkata Kumar arbiters for the event.The Tournament was inaugurated by Rupa Raja,D.
Hemadri, Prasanna Kumar,Koti Laxmi Venkateswarulu,S.Ramakrishna, M.Rama Krishna Reddy,Pola Prabhakar,C.Bheema Rao
were the guests for the inaguration.In the
valedictory function Chief Guests Y.K.Srinivasulu(Secretary Yours foundation),Singanamala.Rama Krishna,Y.D.RamaRao(PresidentAPCA),Pola Prabhakar(Yours foundation
President)graced the occasion.
Final Ranking:
Rk.
Name
1 Shanmukha Teja P
Pts.
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2 Salman K
3 Pavan Teja Medam
4 Gaurav Sharma
5 Surya Prakash J
6 Ranjith Kaliyarasan
7 Sreesailam Chandra Mohan
8 Kabil S
9 Rajat Yadav
10 Vishwanath Kannam
11 Vaisakh R P
12 Srikanth Myakala
13 Chaubey Bharat
14 Shivaiah K
15 Rangarajan Srinivasan
16 Mogan Raj S
17 Sameer C
18 Ravindra P
19 Rathish R
20 Balakrishna Kavatrapu
21 Krishnan M S
22 Afreed T Khan
23 Mahesh Adra
24 Suhaib Ahmad
25 Mekala Negendra
26 Nagasri Saikanth
27 Tarun Vaibhav V
28 Abdul Nabi
29 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy
30 Santhosh Manikantan
31 Sharma Vivek
32 Vinoth Kumar M
33 Rehaman Kotte
34 Jaffar Vali S
35 Madduri Satya Tejeswar
36 Narasimha Raveendra G
37 Aswat Narayanan R
38 Manraja A
39 Vangala Prashanth
40 Sudhakar Kancharla
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42nd Chess Olympiad concluded in Azerbaijan on

14th September 2016.180 countries in the men
team event and 140 countries in the women team
took part
AICF congratulates Indian men team which finished
4th and the women team finished fifth at the Baku
Chess Olympiad 2016! The team members were
Grandmasters Harikrishna Pentala. Vidit Gujrathi.
Adhiban Baskaran, Sethuraman SP, Karthikeyan
Murali ably guided by GM R.B.Ramesh, the coach.
India was leading the tournament for the most part
and towards the end we missed some chances which
dragged us away from the medal. The women team
consisting of led by GM Hariks, IM Tania Sachdev,
WGM Soumya Swaminathan, WGM Padmini Rout and Pratyusha Bodda was ably assisted by IM Vishal
Sareen as coach.President Mr.Venketrama Raja, President of AICF, provided moral support to the
players and encouraged the teams throughout with his presence. Overall, It was a very satisfying
Olympiad for the teams.
Fifth round
India beat Azerbaijan1 by 3-1
Hari's win over Mamedyarov with black in

the top board opening the floodgates as
Vidit Gujrathi too finished off GM Arkady
Naiditsch (2697) with the black pieces.
After Vidit had completed the win, Adhiban called it a day and settled for a draw
with Teimour Radjabov. Sethuraman had a
completely winning position on the fourth
board but drew he game. The fifth round
win of India over hosts Azerbaijan-1 by 3-1
is one of the biggest upsets recorded by
the Indians in a Chess Olympiad. All four
Indians had lower ratings and strangely
our wins came on the black boards! Vidit
was fielded in all five games by coach R.B.
Ramesh and he is sitting pretty on 5/5. Indian champion Karthikeyan Murali (2/2) started well but
Harikrishna is fielded at the top from round three.
Sixth round
India beat Netherlands 2.5 to 1.5
Indians have wrested sole lead in the Chess Olympiad. The hero of Indias 2.5-1.5 win over the
Netherlands was B Adhiban who beat Erwin LAmi in the second board. Indian message is simple.
Winning the bronze medal at Norway 2014 was no fluke.
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Between the Olympiads, India had
beaten Olympiad champions China
and won the Asian Team Championship. Success belongs to our players
and our AICF selection system which
selects the players.After six rounds,
ninth seeded India have recorded six
wins and five rounds remained to be
played..
Seventh round
India lost to US 0.5-3.5
A l m o s t a m a z i n g l y, t h e I n d i a n
team had not lost a single game,
on all the boards, in the entire
Olympiad until the sixth round. All of a
sudden, the whole world was doffing its hat to India, and heaping praises on our country. But then
we faced the second seeded USA in the seventh round. Indians were crushed 3.5-0.5 by Caruana,
Nakamura, Wesley So, and Sam Shankland, for a heart-wrenching loss.
P. Harikrishna was a wee bit worse out of the opening, but he was having a fine position. Maybe, he
was even better at some point, but that did not matter as Caruana was always in the game. It was
a draw. The only draw for India in the seventh round. Adhiban landed in a bad position in the middle
game, but Adhiban is known to fight back well in such pressure positions. But there was no coming
back for him this time as Nakamura finished off without any troubles. Vidit too had an off-colour
showing after a wrong choice of plans left him struggling to stay alive. Wesley So converted without
any issues.Sethuraman was completely winning against Shankland until a sad blunder towards the
time control left him in tears.
Eighth round
India beat England 2.5-1.5
In a must-win situation to stay in contention for the medals. India took on England,
who had shocked China in the previous
match. Harikrishna and the legendary
Michael Adams settled for a draw, and
so did Adhiban against Howell, and Vidit
against Jones. What about Sethuraman,
who had missed many chances already in
this Olympiad?
Of course, Sethu has a tangible advantage, just as he had in many of his previous rounds. It is easy to be discouraged
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At the lunch hosted by President, AICF.

and lose the thread, especially in pressure situations. But Sethuraman is Sethuraman. India took
the match 2.5-1.5, and was back in the lead! And thus, with this timely resurgence, India joined the
US and Ukraine at the top of the table with 14 points. Team India has already played the Americans,
and in this crucial ninth round clash, will take on the Ukrainians. It is make or break now!
Ninth round
India lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5
P.Harikrishna drew his game with Pavel Eljanov. There was nothing notable in the offing really. Adhiban, who opened with the Italian game, was on the backfoot for most of the game against Ruslan
Ponomariov, but he got away with a draw. Vidit Gujrathi chose to defend with the Berlin Defense and
had a fairly equal position, that ended in a draw against Yuriy Kryvoruchko. In the ninth round, the
story repeated. The top three boards drew/were drawing their games leaving Sethu to battle it out
in the middle. He gained an upper hand late into the middlegame, and it looked like Sethuraman
would lead us to another memorable victory. Just as in the seventh round game, he blundered away
better position and lost.
Tenth round
India drew Russia 2-2
India faced the top-seeded Russia in an all-important penultimate round clash. Russia's top board
Sergey Karjakin is slated to take on the World Champion Magnus Carlsen for the title clash in New
York in a few weeks from now. And Hari was tasked with taking on Karjakin with the white pieces.
Fairly straightforward, one would assume, except that Adhiban was losing against Kramnik and other boards were heading towards draws. Hari increased the pressure on Karjakin who began to go
wrong and finally cracked. The third board game between Vidit and Ian Nepomniachtchi had ended
in a draw. Sethuraman too held the fort with the black pieces against Alexander Grischuk. On top
of that, Hari had another tension to take care of. Kramnik played beautifully, true to his stature,
against Adhiban in a manner that has made him a treat to behold. Positional, dominating, smooth,
effortless, and so on.
Eleventh round
India drew Norway 2-2
Sethu was thinking about his move against Norwegian GM Frode Urkedal. The last round of the Olympiad was in progress. Sethu was on the fourth board. 'Should I go for the move that is naturally
coming to me? Or should I be more cautious? How are my team-mates doing?' He thought for about
five minutes and held his bishop and sacrificed it on e3. How sad would it have been had we lost to
the Norwegians just before the finish line? The top two tables had ended in a draw. We were a point
behind thanks to Sethu's loss. India was in trouble.
Pentala Harikrishna had the onerous task of climbing Mt. Magnus. He had the advantage of the white
pieces, yet Magnus managed to press him, even though just slightly. Hari managed to draw the
game without many hiccups. Vidit Gujrathi, who had been down with fever since mid-way into the
Olympiad, managed to get a quite advantageous position until he blundered as well!
Luckily for Vidit, Aryan Tari missed his chance and played 27...Be6?, and Vidit got back his advantage,
that he converted into a win. Vidit would have had to return crestfallen had Black found the simple
saving resource 27...Qd3+!, when the game should have ended in a draw after 28.Ka1 Qxe2 29.Re1
Qxg2 30.Qxc4+ Kh7=. Team India had managed to hold Norway to a 2.0-2.0 draw.
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Indian women team at Baku
Team India began the women's section of
Baku 2016 as the fifth seeds. We had won four
games and drawn two. A fairly steady result,
until disaster struck in the seventh round -India lost 1.5-2.5 to the lower seeded Azerbaijani team.
Harika suffered a shock defeat in a won position in the second round match. The shock loss
affected her psychologically.IM Vishal Sareen,
the coach of the women's team decided to give
Tania a rest day and enlisted the services of
the youngest member of the team -- Bodda
Pratyusha -- in the eighth round. She did her
job by drawing the game.
Harika won her seventh round game, leading India to a 2.5-1.5 victory over Uzbekistan, as all other
games were drawn. Then, in the ninth round game against the Dutchwomen , she fired again, this
time in a more stylish manner.Tania Sachdev, who had begun with a sterling 4.0/4, had lost three
consecutive games from then on.Harika finished with two draws in the final two rounds to finish at
6.0/10. A fine comeback. In any case, Padmini was struggling with 4.5/10 in the event. In numerous
cases, she had good positions, with an advantage even, but it just wasn't her tournament. She lost
the final round game on the second board versus the US, and India was in deep trouble.
Harika had punched wins in the eighth and the ninth rounds, but she could only draw in the tenth and
the eleventh. The in-form Soumya too suffered a jolt in the tenth round. An erratic Padmini meant
that we were about to lose in the final round as well! Tania Sachdev came to India's rescue!The key
differentiator was Team India's efforts on the third and the fourth boards. Tania Sachdev, after the
rest on the eighth round, made amends for her mid-olympiad fiasco. She punched three back to
back victories, all crucial, to take Team India forward.Despite her ill health, she played at her best
and fought for Team India.
In the tenth round, India faced Ukraine, and since Soumya lost on the fourth board, it was up to
Tania to beat Zhukova and save the team. And she did so with a beautifully played game in an unbalanced position.
The final round was crucial in determining the team's final position. India was facing the US, and the
Americans had already taken the lead as Padmini had lost on the second board. It was on Tania's
shoulders once again to take the team to safety. She did it to the T, with the black pieces against
Anna Zatonskih on the third board. Soumya had held the advantage for the most part of the game,
but it was long and tiring and Soumya could only draw.Thus, India and the USA settled for a 2.0-2.0
draw, with India taking the fifth place.
photos: courtesy chessbase india
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29th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Thoothukudi
Hirthikkesh emerges Champion

by M Ephrame IA, C hief Arbiter
ever miss the Spic Tournament"

these were the words that we
heard from the parents while the
Spic tournament was going on from 27th
September to 2nd October 20016. Lovely
appreciation from the parents!! Players and
parents enjoyed the tournament during the
half yearly vacation though it was conducted
for six days. Mr Gnanasekaran from Chennai
informed that he has been playing continuously for 19 years without any break. There
are players like Mr. Gnanasekaran, regularly
visiting the Spic tournament. For Some players and parents it helped as pilgrimage to
Thiruchendur. As the Spic is providing accommodation to the players and the parents,
people are getting interest to participate in
this tournament. Two days cinema program
and one day Blitz tournament (120participants) entertained the players and parents.
Top seeded Pr. Hirthikkesh of NLC won the
title in 29th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess
tournament at Spic Nagar Thoothukudi, he
collected 9 point in 10 rounds and won the
Winners trophy and pocketing a cash prize
of Thirty thousand Rupees. Sippora Paulin
of Madurai became the champion in Non
medalist section with 9 points.
The Chief guest of the function Shri. Manuel
Aaron, India's first International Master,
9 times National champion, Arjuna award
winner gave away the prizes. International
Master Mr. Manuel Aaron advised the young
players to create will power and give more
concentration to the middle game, by referring his own game against former National
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'A' player Nasir Ali, who played energetically. Mr. S R Ramakrishnan, WTD and the
president of Thoothukudi District Chess Association presided over the meeting , Mr. V
Madhukar, The president, Spic Nagar Multi
Activity Club(SMAC) welcomed the gathering
and Mr. Gopalakrishnan Secretary, Thoothukudi District Chess Association proposed the
vote of thanks.
Earlier, the 29th SPIC FIDE Rated
Open
Chess tournament got underway at Spic
Community Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi from
27th September 2016. The event attracted
257 players in Medalist section out of which
165 players are Fide rated. Players from
Kerala, odhisa, Pondicherry and Tamilnadu
participated. In Non-Medalist section there
are 222 players. Spic is the only organization
in Tamilnadu which is conducting chess tournament for Non- medalist players regularly.
The total prize fund of the event was one
lakh fifty thousand in medalist section, out
of which Rs. 30000/- was reserved to the
winner. The total prize fund for Non medalist
was Rs.23100/- The tournament was declared open by Shri. Kannan DEE, Pollution
control board.
Eleven-year old Thiruvarur boy Jeyadev R
Balan's win against P Rajasekaran of Thoothukudi and 10 years old Virudhunagar
boy Jagendran Kamak's win against Godson
Merlin of Kanyakumari are the two upset
in round two. Hirthickkesh Pr of Neyveli
and Shakthi Vishal of Thoothukudi shared
the lead with 6 points at the end of round
six. In round seven Shakthi Vishal lost to

the top seeded Hirthikkesh which helped
Hirthikkesh to become the sole leader. Once
again the winning strike continued on round
eight as Hirthickkesh beat Godson Merlin of
Kanyakumari and maintained the sole lead
with 8 points. Hirthickkesh drew his game
against the second seeded Barath Kalyan
from Thanjavur in round nine and maintained
one point lead at the end of the penultimate
round. Hirthickkesh needed only a draw in
the last round for his title and that came
from the veteran player M J Noohu from
Chennai. Hirthickkesh won the title with 9
points. Paramasivam of Virudhunagar and
Balakannamma of Chennai scored 8 points
each at the end of final round and tied for
the second place, but better tie break helped
Paramasivam became the runner up.
Final ranking
Rk Name
1 Hirthickkesh Pr
2 Paramasivam M.
3 Bala Kannamma P
4 Yuvan Bharathi K S
5 Noohu M.J.
6 Barath Kalyan M
7 Shakthi Vishal J
8 Godson Merlin E
9 Akash S
10 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh
11 Saroj Naraynan K
12 Srihari L R
13 Sathya Giri V
14 Ruban Sanjay M
15 Manoj B
16 Murugappan S P
17 Kumaresh A
18 Meyyappan M
19 Murukaananth A
20 Gnanasekar .G
21 Antony Jesumarian Leslie
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23 Ram Kumar G M
24 Kishore V
25 Suthershun A
26 Ananda Balaji S
27 Rooswelt
28 Solomon Rathna Sekaran
29 Yutesh P
30 Gokul S
31 Muthu Rakesh Babu
32 Achaya Vijayan
33 Subbhu Karthick S M
34 Yukash Ram E
35 Kalidass C.
36 Balaji V
37 Ebnesar Anto A
38 Thilakavathi B
39 Pramesh P
40 Karunakaran M
41 Divyabharathi Masanam
42 Venkatakrishnan R
43 Jayalakshmi R K
44 Shanjay K Sathiskumar
45 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph
46 Ramachandran S M
47 Rutherford S
48 Rowshith D
49 Ragesh Sarma.M
50 Rajasekaran P.
51 Arumugam N
52 Iniyan S
53 Ramachandran Narayanan
54 Magdalene Roy R
55 Anni Shayana Stephen
56 Yuva Sankar K
57 Marimuthu K
58 Madhan Kumar A
59 Santhosh Kumar G
60 Sanjay Sreekandan
61 Gokula Vishnu R
62 Vengatesh Krishnan C
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78 Jai Priya K
79 Suresh Kumar Ashok
80 Nellaiappan V
81 Ramakrishnan S
82 Periya Samy S Pandi
83 Alfien Jessurun
84 Sivanandha V
85 Vigneshwaran K
86 Nijalin Nixon
87 Giridhar S
88 Guru Sabari Thirumalai
89 Karuppasamy C
90 Abinaya S
91 Stanley Blessing J V
92 Suryanarayan B
93 Adithya V K Murugesan
94 Dhanisha Ramjothi K
95 Vanathithendral A V
96 Andrew Saffrin J
97 Jagendran Kamak N
98 Hemahruthik A
99 Jeswin Titus J V
100 Aswath S
101 Venkadeswaran I
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115 Bhuvaneshwaran R
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119 Udhayan Jacob
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121 Tharan Adithya M
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125 Amisha Sany M
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128 Mithesh M
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130 Prasath K R
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132 Amrutha A
133 Justin Raja P
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Selected games from World Junior

Championships,Bhubaneswar
Annotated by Manuel Aaron
Alekseenko,Kirill (Rus) (2582) Grandadam,Patrik (Swz) (2325)
[Alekseenko is an untitled 10year old Russian
with a huge, huge rating, and Grandadam is
a 20year old FIDE Master from Switzerland.]
24...d5 25.cxd6! Qxb6 26.Rxc8! Bd8 [26...

Rxc8 27.Qxe6+ Kf8 28.Qxc8+ Qd8 29.d7!
Rc6 30.Qxb7+]27.Qxe6+ Kh8 28.Be3
Qb4 29.Qf7! Rg8 [29...Rxf7 30.Rxd8+
mates.]30.Bd410
Nyamdorj,Davaaochir (Can) (2015) Lokander,Martin (Swe) (2365) [C78]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.00 b5 6.Bb3 Bb7 7.d3 Bd6 8.c3 00
9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Ng5 Rf8N 11.f4 Bc5+
12.Kh1 d6 13.Ndf3 h6
[Diagram #]14.Nxf7!? Rxf7 15.Ng5 [A fine

continuation to the attack! This opens up the
black king-side for the white pieces.]15...
hxg5 16.Bxf7+! Kxf7 17.fxg5 Qh8 [Better was 17...Qg8 18.Qf3 Ke8 19.gxf6 gxf6
20.Qxf6 d5]18.gxf6 g6 [Comparatively the
best. If 18...gxf6 19.Bg5 Ke8 20.Rxf6+]19.
b4! Bb6 20.Qb3+ Kf8 21.f7! Ne7? [This
does nothing about white's threatened 22
Qe6. Better was: 21...Bc8]22.Bg5+
[Diagram #]22...Nf5?! [Black is desperate. But if 22...Qh5 23.Bf6 Qg4 24.h3 Qd7
25.Bg5 (threat Bh6#) 25...Kg7 26.f8Q+ Rxf8
27.Rxf8 Kxf8 28.Bh6+ Ke8 29.Rf1+]23.
Rxf5! [if 23.exf5 Qh3 24.Qc2 Kxf7 25.fxg6+
Kxg6 26.Be7! Rh8 27.d4+! Kg7 (27...e4??
28.gxh3+) 28.Bf6++; After 23.Rxf5! gxf5
24.Qe6+]10
Tokhirjonova,Gulrukh. (WGM Uzb (2328)
- Monnisha,G K (2101)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.d3 Bc5 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.Qe2 Bd6 [PDS
Girinath 2298 vs SS Ganguly 2440, Goodricke
Open, 2000 went: 7...Qe7 8.Nbd2 Ng4 9.00
Be6 10.Nb3 Ba7 11.Bd2 000 12.Bc3 c5
13.Nbd2 f6 14.a4 g5 15.Nc4 h5 16.Nfd2 Nh6
17.f3 Nf7 18.a5 Rh7 19.Kh1 Nh8 20.Rfb1 Ng6
21.b4 cxb4 22.Rxb4 Nf4 23.Qf1 h4 24.Rab1
Nh5 (threat 25...Ng3+! mating) 25.Nb6+
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Bxb6! 26.g4 (26.axb6 Ng3+ 27.hxg3 hxg3+
28.Kg1 Rh1+ 29.Kxh1 Qh7+ 30.Kg1 Qh2#)
26...Ng3+! 01 for if 27 hxg3 hxg3+ 28 Kg1
(or 28 Kg2, Rh2+ 29 Kxg3 Qh7! with mate
on h4.) Rh1+! 29 Kxh1 Qh7+ and mate by
Qh7+ next move.]8.Nbd2 b5 9.a4 00
10.00 Nh5 11.Nb3 Qf6 12.h3 Nf4
13.Bxf4 Qxf4 14.Qd2 Qf6 15.Qe3 h6
16.c4 bxc4 17.dxc4 Re8 18.c5 Bf8
19.Nbd2 Rb8 20.Qc3 Qe7 21.Rac1
g6 22.b4 [In the fight between the two
knights and two bishops, the knights
are better, so far!]22...Bg7 23.Nc4 f5
24.Nfd2 f4 [If 24...Rd8 25.Rfe1 fxe4
26.Nxe4 Be6 27.Ne3 Qf7]25.Na5 Qf6
26.Rb1 Kh8 27.Ndc4 g5 [As bla c k
has two bishops, it was better to avoid
closing the centre and keep her options
open with: 27...Rd8 28.Rfd1 Bd7 29.Qf3
Be8 30.Rxd8 Rxd8 31.Rd1 Rb8 32.Qc3
f3! 33.gxf3 Qh4 34.Kg2 Qg5+ 35.Kf1
Qh5 36.Ke2 Qxh3 37.Nxe5 Kh7=]28.Na3
g4 29.hxg4 Bxg4 30.f3 Bd7? [30...
Bc8]31.Rfd1 Re7 32.Qc4 Bf8 [If 32...
Ra8 33.Rd2 Be6 34.Qc3 Rd7 35.Rxd7
( 3 5 . N x c 6 R x d 2 3 6 . Qxd2 Bf7 37.Na5
Rd8 38.Qc3 Qg5 39.Nc6 Rg8 40.b5 axb5
41.Nxb5) ]33.Qxa6 Rg7 34.Rd2?
[Diagram #][34.Qc4=]34...Rxb4! [With

this blow, white's beautiful, apparently strong build-up collapses and the two
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bishops take over.]35.Rc1 [White is on

the verge of collapse. If 35.Rxb4 Bxc5+
36.Rf2 (36.Kf1 Bxb4 37.N5c4 Qh4+)
36...Bxf2+ 37.Kxf2 Qh4+ 38.Ke2 Rxg2+
39.Kd3 Qf2+]35...Rxa4 36.Nb5 Qh4
[Probably in time trouble, black misses
the brilliant coup: 36...Bxc5+!! 37.Rxc5
(37.Kf1 Qh4 38.Rcd1 Qh1+ 39.Ke2 Rxg2+
40.Kd3 Rxd2+ 41.Rxd2 Qb1+ 42.Ke2
Rxe4+!! 43.fxe4 Bg4#) 37...Ra1+ 38.Kf2
Rxg2+ 39.Kxg2 Qg6+ 40.Kf2 Qg1+
41.Ke2 Qf1#]37.Qa8 Rg8 38.Qa7 cxb5
39.Qxc7 Bh3 40.Nb3 [If 40.Qxe5+ Bg7
41.Qd5 Bd4+! 42.Rxd4 Rxg2+ 43.Kh1
Rh2+ 44.Kxh2 Qg3+ 45.Kh1 Qg2#]40...
Qg5 41.Rcc2 Be6! 42.Nc1 Rc4 [Stronger
was 42...Ra1 43.Qb6 Bh3! 44.Kf1 Bxg2+!
45.Rxg2 Rxc1++]43.Nd3 Bg7 44.Qb6
Rxc2 45.Rxc2! Bc4 46.Nb2 Ra8! 47.Rc1
[Diagram #]47...Qd8?! [With her extra

bishop black is winning, but this move makes
white breathe a lot freer. Quicker was: 47...
Ra2! 48.Rb1 Be2 49.c6 Bxf3! 50.Qf2 Bxe4
51.c7 Qg4+]48.Qxd8+ Rxd8 49.Nxc4
bxc4 50.Rxc4 Rc8 51.g3 Kg8 52.Kg2
Kf7 53.Kh3 Kg6 54.gxf4 exf4 55.c6
Bf6 [Also 55...Be5 56.Rc5 Bc7 57.Rd5 h5
58.Rd7 Be5 59.Rd5 Kf6 60.Rc5 Ke6 61.Kh4
Rh8 62.c7 Rc8 63.Kxh5 Rxc7 black should
win comfortably.]56.Rc5 Bg5 57.Kg4 Kf6
58.e5+ Ke6 59.Kh5
59...Rg8? [59...Kf5! 60.c7 Be7 61.Rc4

Bf8 and black wins the e5 pawn.]60.
c7 Kd7 61.e6+! Kc8 62.Rc6 Rg7
63.Rc4 Rxc7 64.e7 Bxe7 65.Rxf4
Rc5+ 66.Kg6 [66.Kxh6?? Bg5+]66...
h5! 67.Rf7 Kd8 68.f4 h4 69.Rh7 Ke8
70.f5 Rc6+ 71.Kh5 Rc4 72.f6 [If
72.Kg6 Rg4+! 73.Kh5 Rg5+! 74.Kxh4??
Rg7+!]72...Bxf6 73.Kg6 Be7 74.Kf5
Kd7 75.Ke5 Ra4 76.Kd5 Rg4 77.Ke5
Rg3 78.Kd5 [78.Kf4 Ke6 and black's win
is closer.]78...h3 79.Ke5 Ke8 80.Ke6
Re3+ 81.Kf5 Bd6 82.Rh6 h2!01
Vaishali,R (2284) Leonardi,Caterina
(Sl0) (2061) [B10]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.00 e5
5.d3 Ne7 6.Nbd2 00 7.e4 c6 8.Re1
Qc7 9.Qe2 d4 10.c3 c5 11.cxd4 cxd4
12.b4!? [This is a little known opening
variation with much scope for both players to improvise and experiment.]12...
a6 13.Bb2 Nbc6 14.Rec1 Bg4 [14...b5!
This would take away the c4 square
from white's knight and throw white's
plans into confusion. 15.Nb3 Qd6 16.a3
a5]15.h3 Bxf3 16.Qxf3 Bh6 17.Qd1
Qb6 18.Ba3! Qb5 [18...Nxb4? 19.Nc4
Qb5 20.Bxb4 Qxb4 21.Rcb1]19.Rc4 a5
20.bxa5 Rxa5 21.Rc5! Qa6 22.Rxa5
Qxa5 23.Nc4 Qc7
24.Rb1! [It is always best to bring the

opponent under intense attack with all
of ones forces. Also gaining a clear advantage was: 24.Bd6 Qd7 25.Rb1 (25.
Bxe5?? b5!+) ]24...Ra8 25.Bd6+
Qd8 26.Rxb7 Rxa2 27.Qb3! Ra1+
28.Kh2 Na5 [This loses a knight straightaway. Comparatively better but still losing
was: 28...Ra7 29.Rxa7 Nxa7 30.Nxe5 Qe8
31.Bc5!+]29.Bxe7 Qxe7 30.Nxa5 Qf6
31.Rb8+ Kg7
32.Qb4! [A move whose purpose seems

to be to save her knight, but in fact has
a deadly threat!]32...Qxf2 [After this,
black is lost. Her only move to keep mate
away was: 32...g5 33.Qc5 Qe6 34.Nc6
and black is almost done.]33.Qf8+ Kf6
34.Qd6+ Kg7 [If 34...Kg5 35.Qxe5+ f5
36.Qe7+ Kh5 37.Qh4#]35.Qxe5+ Qf6
[35...f6 36.Qe7#]36.Rg8+10
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Rakesh,Kumar Jena (2161) Basso,Pier Luigi (Ita) (2455) [B10]
1.e4 c6 2.Ne2 d5 3.e5 c5 4.d4 Bg4
5.f3 Bf5 6.dxc5 e6 7.Nd4 Bxc5
8.Bb5+ Kf8 9.Be3 Qb6 10.Nc3 a6
11.Be2 Nc6 12.Na4 Qa5+ 13.c3 Bxd4
14.Bxd4 Nxd4 15.Qxd4 Ne7 16.Nb6
Nc6 17.Qf2 Rd8 18.00 d4 19.Nc4
Qd5 20.cxd4 Nxd4 21.Rfd1 Nxe2+
22.Qxe2 Bd3 [Diagram # Is white losing
his knight?]
23.Qe3 Qxc4 24.Rac1 Qb5 25.Rc3!

[White gets back his piece!]25...Ke7 [Better
was: 25...Qxb2 26.Rcxd3 Rxd3 27.Qc5+ Ke8
28.Qc8+ Ke7 29.Qc7+ Ke8=]26.Rb3! Qc4
27.Rbxd3 h6 28.Rd6! Qb4 [If 28...Rxd6
29.exd6+ Kd7 30.b3 Qc6 31.Qf4 Rf8 32.Kh1
f6 33.Qg4 g5 34.Qh3]29.a3 Qb5 30.Qd4
Rde8 [30...Qa5? 31.Rd7+!!+; or 30...
Rc8 31.Rd7+ Kf8 32.Qf4!+]31.Rb6 Rd8
32.Rxb5! [After 32.Rxb5 Rxd4 33.Rxb7+

wins a rook.]10
Styazhkina,Anna (Rus) (2315) Nandhidhaa,Pv (2151) [B85]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 Nf6 7.00
a6 8.a3 Be7 9.Be3 00 10.f4 d6
11.Qe1 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Qg3
Bb7 14.Bd3 Rad8 15.Rae1 Bc6 16.e5
dxe5 17.Bxe5 Qa7+ 18.Kh1 g6= [18...
Nh5 has been tried successfully.]1 9 .
Nd1 Nd7 20.Nf2? [White is optimistic
that her position would be good after the
exchange on e5 and that her pawn on
e5 would lord it over the black position.
Black proves that perception to be faulty.
Better was: 20.Bc3 Qc7 21.Nf2 Bf6 22.Be5
Bxe5 23.fxe5 f5 24.Nh3 Bd5=] 2 0 . . .
Nxe5 21.fxe5 f5! 22.exf6 Bxf6 23.b3
Qe7 24.Bf5 Bd5 25.Ng4 [White thinks
that she has seen further in the position
and fatally opens up her position. Better, though still on the backfoot, would
be: 25.Bg4 Bd4 26.Nh3 Rxf1+ 27.Rxf1
e5]25...Bh4! 26.Qe5? [Diagram # With
her threat of 27 Nh6# white appears to
have got out of her dilemma, but in fact,
she has only managed to jump out of the
frying pan onto the fire.]
26...h5! [Now, besides her Re1, both bishop
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and knight are under simultaneous attack.

White is bound to lose material.]27.Bxg6
hxg4 28.Rd1 Qg5! 29.Qxg5 [Forced, as otherwise she loses her Bg6 also.]29...Bxg5
30.Bh5 g3 [Diagram #][White could be
brought under greater agony by: 30...Rxf1+
31.Rxf1 Rc8 and if now 32.Rf2 Be3! 33.Re2
Rf8!+]
31.hxg3 Rxf1+ 32.Rxf1 Rf8 [After the

exchange of rooks, black's extra bishop would
play havoc.]01
Maghsoodloo,Parham (Iran) (2576)
- Xiong,Jeffery (USA) (2633) [A05]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Bg7 4.g3 b6
5.Bg2 Bb7 6.00 00 7.c4 c5 8.e3 d5
9.cxd5 Qxd5 10.Nc3 Qd7 11.d4 cxd4
12.Qxd4 Nc6 [Meyer 1930 vs Hellwege 2041 played in the German Senior Ch
in 2002 led to an immediate draw after:
12...Qxd4 13.Nxd4 Bxg2 14.Kxg2 Draw!!]
13.Qh4 The later course of this game
shows white trying to exchange off all pieces in an obvious attempt to draw against
the leader of the tournament. Probably the
'draw' was a later thought because if he
had wanted to somehow draw, now was
the time to start by exchanging off queens.
13...Rad8 14.Rad1 Qc8= 15.Nb5!?
Why? 15...a6 16.Nbd4?
[We can guess that this high rated Iranian

IM must have planned something exciting
with 15 Nb5 but on further examination
found a 'hole' in his calculation and decided
to play it safe. With Fritz, one cannot find
a 'hole' in the following exciting variation.
Probably the Iranian found some 'ghosts' in
this variation! And perhaps he had taken
a lot of time on his clock and was running
short of time?! 16.Nd6! Rxd6 17.Rxd6 exd6
18.Bxf6 Ne5 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Qd4 Qc7
21.Rd1 f6] 16...Qa8 Now black has the
edge with his Queen-Bishop battery on the
long white diagonal exerting much pressure.
17.Nxc6? [This only helps black's grip over
the long white diagonal to get stronger. Better
was: 17.Nc2 h6 18.Rxd8 Nxd8] 17...Bxc6
18.Rxd8 [He cannot play the standard
manoeuvre in such positions, 18 Ne1, as his
Rook on d1 is on take. And if, 18.Qf4 Rxd1
19.Rxd1 Nh5 loses his Bb2 at the least.]
18...Rxd8 19.Bxf6?! [Bettter was: 19.Ne1
Rd2 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Qb4 Rxa2 22.Qxb6
Bxg2 23.Nxg2 Kg7 24.Nf4 a5] 19...Bxf6
20.Qf4 Kg7 21.Ne1 Rd2 22.Qb4 Rxa2
23.Qxb6 Bd5! 24.Qb4 [White is without
a plan and keeps shifting his queen along the
b-file. Better was: 24.h4 or 24 h3 giving his
king an extra square to move to in an emergency though black has a clear advantage.]
24...Rb2 25.Qb6 a5 26.Qb5 e6!
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Diagram # 27.Bxd5 This move has to be

played sooner or later though it entails losing
his b-pawn. White is in a losing position. 27...
Qxd5 28.Qxd5 exd5+ 29.Nf3 Rxb3 30.Rd1
Rb5 31.Nd4 Rb6 32.Nc2 Rc6! It is such intermezzo moves that win a game instead of the
immediate defence of the d-pawn with 32...
Rc4. Whenever possible, put your opponent
on the defensive! 33.Nd4 Ra6 34.Nb5
a4 35.Nc7 [35.Rxd5? a3! and the pawn
cannot be stopped.] 35...Rc6 36.Ne8+ [If
36.Nxd5 Rd6 37.e4 a3 38.f4 a2 39.e5 Bxe5!
40.fxe5 Rxd5!] 36...Kf8 37.Nxf6 Rxf6
38.Rxd5 Ra6!
39.Kf1 [White can also try to hold black's

passed pawn on the third rank instead of on
the 2nd rank: 39.Rd2 a3 40.Ra2 Ke7 41.Kf1
Kd6 42.Ke2 Kc5 43.Kd3 Kb4 44.Kc2 Rc6+
45.Kb1 Rd6 46.Kc2 f5 47.h3 h6 48.h4 g5
49.hxg5 hxg5 50.Ra1 Rc6+ 51.Kd2 g4+]
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39...a3 40.Rd1 Ke7 41.Ke1 a2 42.Ra1

Kd6 With the threat of queening his a-pawn,
black will force the white king and rook to be
engaged on the queen side, while he mops
up white's king-side pawns with his king.
43.Kd2 Kd5 44.Kd3 Ra3+! 45.Kd2
h5 46.h3 g5 47.g4 h4 48.Kd1 Ke4
49.Ke2 f6! 50.f3+ This is white's only
move as otherwise the black king would enter
f3. But now, black's new target is easy, its
the e3 pawn. 50...Kd5 51.Kd2 Kc4 52.Kc2 [If
52.Ke2 Kc3 53.e4 Kb2+] 52...Rxe3 01
Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2543)
Menezes,Christoph (Austria) (2408)
[B91]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.g3 e5 7.Nde2 Be7
8.Bg2 b5 9.Nd5 Nbd7 10.Nec3 00
[Lutikov vs Magerramov, Spartakiad, USSR,
1983 went: 10...Bb7 11.a4 00 12.axb5 axb5
13.Rxa8 Bxa8 14.Nxb5 Bxd5 15.exd5 Qa5+
16.Nc3 Rb8 17.00 Bd8 18.Kh1 but 77 01]
11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 Nxd5 13.Nxd5
Bb7 14.Ra1 Nb6 15.Nxe7+ Qxe7=
Despite possessing the two bishops, white
has only equality. 16.00 d5 [An alternative
worth consideration was 16...f5 trying to exchange off the white's white square bishop.]
17.exd5 Rfd8 18.Ra5 Diagram #
18...e4 [A major alternative is: 18...Nc4
19.Ra4 Nb6 (19...Rac8 20.b3 Nb6 21.Ra5

Qc7 22.Be3 Nxd5 (22...Nc4? 23.Rc5 Nxe3
24.Rxc7 Nxd1 25.Rxc8+-) 23.Rxd5 Bxd5
24.Bxd5 Qxc2 25.Qxc2+-) 20.Rh4 Nxd5
21.Bxd5 Rxd5 22.Qh5 h6 23.Bxh6!
g6 24.Bg5 gxh5 25.Bxe7 Re8 26.Bg5
e4 27.Be3 Rb5 28.b3 Rc8 It is unclear
if white's extra pawn can win this ending of
oppposite colour bishops and double rooks.]
19.Qd4 Nxd5 20.Qxe4 Qc7 [If 20...Qxe4
21.Bxe4 Rd7 22.Rd1 Rad8 23.Rd4 the pin of
the knight along the d-file as well as along the
white diagonal is most unpleasant. For example, if 23...Nf6 24.Rxd7 Rxd7 25.Bxb7 Rxb7
26.Rxa6+-] 21.Ra4 Diagram # 21...Rab8
[Somewhat better was: 21...Rac8 22.Rd4
Qxc2 23.Rfd1 Qxe4 (Explore 23...Qxc1 yourself!) 24.Bxe4 Rc7 25.Bg5 f6 26.Bxf6
gxf6 27.Bxd5+ Bxd5 28.Rxd5 Rxd5
29.Rxd5 Kf7] 22.Rc4 Qa5 23.Qe5
any back rank combination.] 31.Rd1 A crafty

move that has the sinister plan of trapping
the Re2! 31...h5 32.Be3!!
[32.Be3 (the threat is to eat the rook with 33

Kf3) 32...Ng4 33.Ba7 Rbe8 34.h3 Nf6 35.Kf3
R2e5 36.c4+- Probably Black lost on time
after 32 Be3!!] 10
Saduakassova,Dinara (WGM (2423)
- Vaishali,R (2284) [E10]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+
5.Bd2 Bd6 6.Nc3 00 7.Bg2 c6 8.b3
Ne4 9.00 f5 10.Rc1 Nd7 11.Bf4 Bxf4
12.gxf4 b6 [12...Qf6 or 12...Qe8 would all
lead to equality.] 13.e3 Ba6 14.Ne2 Rc8
15.Ne5 c5! 16.cxd5 exd5 17.dxc5
Nxe5! 18.fxe5 bxc5 19.Re1 Bxe2?
This game has revolved around black's centrally placed knight which gets unpleasantly
pinned most of the time! 23...Re8 24.Qd4
Nf6 At last, the pin is broken but it must
have cost black a lot of time on the clock
and physical energy. 25.Bd2 Qf5 26.Rc5
Qd7 [Better was 26...Qe6 27.Re1 Qb6
28.Rxe8+ Nxe8 29.Bxb7 Qxb7 30.Bc3]
27.Qxd7 Nxd7 28.Rc7 Bxg2 29.Kxg2
Nf6 30.b3 Re2 [Taking your rook into your
opponnent's territory is no doubt an attractive idea, but safer was 30...h6 as it rules out
Diagram # [Black has done well so far
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and has the freer game. But giving away
this bishop is of dubious merit. Better
was: 19...Qd7 20.Nf4 Bb7 21.Qd3 g5
22.Nh5 Qf7 23.Nf6+ Kh8 24.Red1
Qe6= though most players would hate
having their opponent plant a knight on f6.]
20.Rxe2 [20.Rxe2 Rf7] 20...f4? [Probably,
black was trying to forestall white from
playing f2-f4. More cautious was: 20...
Qd7 21.f3 Ng5 22.f4 Ne4 23.Rec2 Rfd8
24.Bxe4 fxe4 (24...dxe4 25.Qxd7 Rxd7
26.Rxc5 Rxc5 27.Rxc5 Rd1+ 28.Kg2
Rd2+ 29.Kg3 Rxa2 30.e6!) 25.Rxc5
Rxc5 26.Rxc5 Qh3 27.Qe2] 21.exf4
Rxf4 22.Bxe4 dxe4 23.Qxd8+ Rxd8
24.Rxc5 Rd1+ [A little better was: 24...
Rg4+ 25.Kf1 Kf7 26.Rc6 Re8 27.Ra6]
25.Kg2 Rg4+ 26.Kh3 Rdg1
27.Rc1!+- Kf7 28.Rxg1 Rxg1 29.Rxe4

h5 30.f4 Ke6 31.f5+!! Kxf5 [This
loses rapidly. If now 31...Kf7 32.Kh4
Rg2 33.Ra4 Rxh2+ 34.Kg5 h4 35.Rxh4!
Rg2+ 36.Rg4 Rxa2 37.Ra4! Rg2+ 38.Kf4
Rf2+ 39.Kg4!+-] 32.e6! g5 [32...Kxe4
33.e7! and the pawn queens.] 33.e7
g4+ 34.Kh4 g3 35.e8Q [35.hxg3??
Rh1#] 10
Tran,Tuan Minh (VN) (2473) Sunilduth Lyna,Narayanan (2515)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Bg7 4.g3 00
5.Bg2 d6 6.d4 c5 7.00 cxd4 8.Nxd4
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d5 9.c4 dxc4 10.bxc4 Qb6 11.Qc1
Bd7 12.c5 [Dizdarevic 2520 vs Svidler
2690, Bled Oly, 2002 went: 12.Nd2 Nc6
13.c5 Qc7 14.Nb5 Qc8 15.Ne4 Nxe4
16.Bxe4 Ne5 17.Nd4 Rb8 18.Rb1
Qc7 19.Qc2 Rfc8 20.Rfc1 Qa5 21.Qc3
Qxc3 22.Rxc3 Nc6 23.Nxc6 Bxc6
24.Rc4 b5!
Diagram 01] 12...Qc7 13.Na3 Nc6

14.Ndb5 Qc8 15.Rd1 Bh3 16.Bh1 Qf5
17.Qc2 Qh5 18.Nd4 Bd7 19.Bf3 Ng4
20.h4 Bf6 [This has a vague threat of
sacrificing his bishop on h4. Better was:
20...Rad8 ] 21.Qe4 Nce5 22.Bg2 [22.
Qxb7?? Rab8 and the Bb2 is lost.] 22...
Nc6 23.Bf3 Nce5 24.Bg2 Nc6 25.Qd5
White wants a fight! 25...Qxd5
26.Bxd5 Rac8 27.Rab1 Na5 28.Nf3
[28.Bc3? Rxc5 29.Bxa5 Rxd5] 28...Rc7
29.Bd4 Bxd4 30.Rxd4 [If 30.Nxd4 Nf6
31.Bg2 Rxc5 32.Nb3 Nxb3 33.axb3] 30...
Nf6 31.Nc4 Diagram #
31...Rxc5! 32.Nxa5 Rxa5 33.Bxb7

Rxa2 34.e4 Be6 35.Ng5 White's compensation for his lost pawn is based on
black's doubled pawns on the e-file.
35...Ra5 36.Kg2 Rb8 37.Nxe6 fxe6
38.Rdb 4 K g 7 3 9 . B c 6 R x b 4 4 0 . R x b 4
Rc5 41.Ba4 a5 42.Rb7 Kf7 43.f3
R c 4 4 4 . B b 3 [White cannot try to avoid
the exchange of rooks for long. If 44.Bd1
Rb4 45.Ra7 Rb 2 + 4 6 . Kh 3 Ra2 4 7 . Ra6
N d 7 ! 4 8 .Bb3 (48.Rxe6 Kxe6 49.Bb3+
Ke5 50.Bxa2 a4+) 48...Nc5 49.Bxa2
Nxa6] 4 4 . . . R b 4 ! 4 5 . R x b 4 a x b 4
46.Kf2 Nd7 47.Ke3 Nc5 48.Bc4 b3!
Black plays the ending extremely well.
49.Kd4 b2 50.Ba2 Nb3+! 51.Kc3
Nc1 52.Kxb2 Ne2 53.Kc2 [53.g4 Kf6
5 4 . B b 3 Ke 5 5 5 . B d 1 N g 1 5 6 . K c 3 K f 4
and the white king-side collapses.]
53...Nxg3 54.Kd3 Kf6 55.Ke3 Nh5
[Also winning was: 55...e5 56.Kf2 N h 5
57.Kg2 g5 58.Kh3 Nf4+ 59.Kg4 h5+
60.Kg3 Ne2+ 61.Kf2 Nd4 62.hxg5+
Kxg5 63.Bf7 h4 64.Kg2 Kf4 65.Bh5
Ne6 66.Kh3 Ng5+ 67.Kxh4 Nxf3+
wins.] 56.Kf2 e5 57.Kg2 Nf4+
58.Kg3 h5 59.Bc4 g5 60.Bb5
Ng6+ White has a winning position
and makes no mistake in converting it into a win. 61.hxg5+ Kxg5
62.Bd7 Nf4 63.Bc8 Nd3 64.Ba6
h4+ 65.Kg2 Ne1+ 66.Kf2 h3!
67.Kg3 h2 68.Kxh2 Kf4 69.Kg1
Ke3! 70.Kf1 Nxf3 71.Bb7 Nd2+
72.Ke1 Nxe4 73.Bd5 Nd2 74.Bb7
Nf3+ 75.Kf1 e4 76.Bc6 Kd3
7 7 . B b 5 + K d 2 [77...Kd2 78.Bc6 Nh2+
7 9 . K g 2 e3! 80.Bb5 e2 81.Bxe2 Kxe2
82.Kxh2 e5 wins.] 0 1
Nandhidhaa,Pv Tokhirjonova,Gulrukhbegim
One of the best games of WIM Nandhidhaa at

the World Junior Girls was against the 17year old Uzbek WGM Takhirjonova in the
7th round. A stunning rook sacrifice sets
her on the road to an important victory.
29.Rf6!! The culmination of a determined
middle-game. After this startling rook
offer, black loses in all variations. 29...
gxf6 [The other alternatives also
lose: 29...Rf8 30.Qxg5 Rxb2 (30...
Be8 31.Nxg7! (the key move in this attack) 31...Kxg7 32.Qh6+ Kg8 33.h4!;
or 30...Bc6 31.Nxg7 Kxg7 32.Qh6+ Kg8
33.Rf4!+-) 31.Nxg7 Kxg7 32.Rxg6+ fxg6
33.Qxe7++-] 30.Ngxf6+ Kh8 31.Qxg5
Qf8 32.Nxd7 Rxd7 33.Nf6 (the threat
is 34 Qh5+ and 35 Qh7#) 33...Kg7
34.Nxd7 White is two pawns up with a
beautiful attack on hand. She should
win. 34...Qh8 35.h4 Qh6 36.Qf6+ Kg8
37.Rc3 Qg7 [More stubborn but still
losing was: 37...Re7 38.Nc5 Qd2 39.Rf3
Qxd4 40.h5! Nxe5 41.Rf4 Nf3+! 42.Rxf3
Qxf6 (42...Qxc5?? 43.h6) 43.Rxf6 Rc7
44.Na4 d4 45.Rf3 f5 46.Kf1 Kg7
47.Ke2! White should win though the
black pawns l o ok tem po rar i l y dan gero u s . Fo r ex a m pl e, i f 47. . . Kh 6 48. Rf4
c3 49.bxc3 dxc3 50.Kd1+-] 38.Qg5 Rc8
39.h5 [Stronger was: 39.Nf6+! Kf8 40.b3!]
39...Nf8 40.Nf6+ Kh8 41.Qxg7+ The
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ending is won without much trouble. 41...
Kxg7 42.b3! Nh7 43.Nxh7 Kxh7 44.bxc4
dxc4 45.Kg2 a4 46.g4 Kh6 47.f3 Kg5 48.Kg3
Rc7 Black has little else to do except move
her rook up and down, waiting for white to
commit any mistake. 49.f4+ Kh6 50.Kh4!
Rc8 51.g5+ Kg7 52.Kg4 Rc7 53.f5
Rc6 54.f6+ Kh7 55.Kf4 Rc8 56.Ke4 Rg8
57.Rg3 Rc8 58.g6+! fxg6 59.hxg6+
Kg8 60.Rc3 [Cautious to the very end and
making the win absolutely safe. A brutal way
to win was: 60.Rh3! c3 61.g7 Kf7 62.Rh8+] 10
Karthikeyan,Murali (2514) Henriquez Villagra,Cristobal (Chi) (2520)
[A06]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4
Nf6 5.00 00 6.c4 dxc4 7.Na3 c3
8.bxc3 c5 9.Re1 Qa5= [Krieger 1821 vs
Schnabel 2257, Greifswald Ryck, Germany,
2002, ended mysteriously, abruptly after:
9...Nc6 10.e4 Bg4 11.Nc2 Rc8 12.h3 Bxf3
13.Bxf3 Qd7 14.Bg2 Rfd8 15.Be3 Na5 16.Qe2
Qa4 10 Looks like premature resignation!]
10.Bb2 Nc6 11.e4 Nd7 This anticipates
12 e5 and plans to contest the control of the
c4 square with this knight. Unfortunately,
this plan impacts the well being of his queen.
12.Nc4 Qa6 [If 12...Qc7 13.Ne3 Black is
far from solving the problem of developing
his queen bishop.] 13.Ne3 13...cxd4 [If
13...Rb8 14.a4 (Makes the threatened 14...
b5 risky.) 14...Nf6 (Trying to shift the focus
on e4.) 15.Bf1 (the start of the manoeuvre
that leads to material gain.) 15...Qb6 16.Rb1
Rd8 (16...Nxe4?? 17.Nc4 Qc7 18.Rxe4 Bf5
19.Qe2) 17.Ba3 Qc7 18.Qc2 White's position is aggressive and threatening.] 14.cxd4
Nb6 15.a4! White is targeting the queen, controlling its escape squares before attacking it.
15...Rd8 16.Bc3! white's advantage is growing move by move. 16...Be6 17.Bf1! Nc4
18.Rc1 The battle wages around the key c4
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square. 18...Nxe3 [Not 18...N6a5?? 19.Nxc4

Nxc4 20.d5 Bxc3 21.Rxc3+-] 19.Rxe3 Bc4
[Black's woes would be greater after: 19...
Qb6 20.Rb1 Qc7 21.d5 Ne5 22.Nxe5 Bxe5
23.Bxe5 Qxe5 24.Rxb7+-] 20.Bxc4 Qxc4
21.Ba5 Rxd4 [Worse was: 21...Qxc1 22.Qxc1
Nxa5 23.Qc7 b6 24.Qxe7 Nc6 25.Qb7 Nxd4
26.Ng5!+-] 22.Nxd4 Qxd4 23.Bc3 Qb6
24.Bxg7 Kxg7 As compensation for the loss
of the exchange, black has a pawn, but it
soon proves to be grossly inadequate. 25.Rd3
Qb4 26.Qb3 a5 [More stubborn was: 26...
Qxb3 27.Rxb3 The knight is a clever animal
threatening 28...Ne2+ winning a whole unwary rook. 27...Nd4! 28.Rb2 b6 But white's
prospects of winning are good.] 27.Rc4 Qe1+
28.Kg2 Ne5
Appears to be good for black, but with some

clever counter-attack, white is on the road to
victory. 29.Re3! Qa1 30.Rc7! Rd8 Black cannot save his second rank from the marauding
rooks and looks for counter-attack. 31.Qc3!
Qxc3 32.Rexc3 Kf6 33.Rxb7 Rd4 34.f4 Ng4
35.Rb2?! [White plays cautiously. Stronger
was: 35.h3! Nh6 36.e5+ Ke6 37.Rc6+ Kd5
38.Rd7+ Kxc6 39.Rxd4+-] 35...Rxa4 36.h3
Nh6 37.Kf3 Ra1 38.g4! threatening to fork
king and knight with g4-g5. 38...Kg7 39.g5!
Ng8 40.Rb8! White's threat is 41 Rcc8, winning the knight. 10
Problem World
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Holst promotion
The promotions in problem chess, both by
white and black, follow the general rules of
the game but the choice of black promotion
is only between a queen (which combines the
powers of rook and bishop) and knight. On
similar lines, promotions to WQ or WB after
a black defence is not considered a dual. In
Holst theme, a threat is defeated initially by a
specific promotion of a black pawn. The foreplan forces the promotion of this black Pawn to
a different piece, so that the original defence is
no longer available.The diagram below is a lucid
example where an initial try 1.Rc3? inducing
threat Ba7 is defeated by 1a1=Q!
J.Fritz
4 Pr, Praca 1950
promotion on f1.After
1f1N 2.Rd8 will now work as 2.e1N is
followed by 3.Rc8 (4.Rc3).A logical problem
with two consecutive foreplans after which
the main line succeeds.
E.M.H.Guttmann
Miniatures Startegiques 1935
Mate in four moves

In the problem below the white king while
unpinning WNd5 has to decide on the square
to which it has to move and BPb2 provides
Holst interest.
G.Zahodjakin
I Prize, Rochade(Miniatures)1980
Mate in three moves

After key 1.Rb3! white threatens discovered
check 2.Ba5+ followed by 3.Bh3.Now the
defence 1a1=N controls the battery but
lets in the original 2.Rc3! followed by 3.Ba7.
The classic miniature below doubles the Holst
theme with ease. 1.Rc8?(2.Rc3 is met by 1
e1Q! and 1.Rd8?(2.Rd3) is countered by 1
e1N!. The key 1.Rg8!(2.Rg3) induces a knight
Mate in three moves

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

by S.Krishnan
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Alexey Troitsky 1934
White to play and win
Black to play and win
1.
L.I.Kubbel 1925
2.
H.Rinck 1918
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4.
A.Kotov 1945
5.
V.Rudenko 1956
6.
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solutions on page 47)

42
3.
A.Alamamadov 1993
(Solution on page 47 )
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Masters of the past-69
Vladimir Antoshin
KCA 1st FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kannur
V ladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (14 May 1929 in Moscow - 13 May 1994)

was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of
correspondence chess.As a young man, he was a high achiever, principally
as part of the USSR's highly successful Student Olympiad team of 1954-56.
The team won the silver medal at the first ever Student Olympiad in Oslo
1954 and then took gold medals at Lyons 1955 and at Uppsala 1956. His best
performance probably occurred at Lyons, as the strength of the competition
was far greater than at Oslo. Playing below world-class grandmasters Mark
Taimanov and Boris Spassky, but above Alexey Suetin, his endeavors also
earned him an individual gold medal for best score on board three. In all,
he accumulated three gold and one silver medal, for a total score of 16/19.
During this period of his career, FIDE awarded him the International Master title (1963) and the Grandmaster title (1964). Making a limited number of international
tournament appearances, he was successful at Ulan Bator (1965) and Zinnowitz (1966). The
latter was probably his finest moment, scoring +8, =6, -1, to take first place among reasonably strong opposition, including Victor Ciocaltea and Wolfgang Uhlmann.
Aside from Zinnowitz, Hartston notes that Antoshin's over-the-board results were never outstanding. His other results were nevertheless respectable; 2nd at Kienbaum (Berlin) 1959
(Uhlmann won), 5th at Moscow 1960 (ahead of Polugaevsky, Hort and Uhlmann), 4th at Sochi
1963, 4th at Moscow 1963 (ahead of Keres, Liberzon, Szab and Hort), 6th= at Sochi 1964, 2nd
at Venice 1966 (Ivkov won) and 4th at Havana 1968 (The Capablanca Memorial). He regularly
played at Sochi, but finished lower on other occasions. His tournament appearances were less
frequent in the 1970s. He did however share 3rd place at Sarajevo in 1970 and placed runner-up
at Frunze in 1979.
A major reason for his limited progress as a player was his continued amateur status. He became
a tournament organiser and trainer to the USSR Olympiad team, maintained a second career as
a technical designer, and according to Cafferty & Taimanov, was also supposed to have strong
links with the KGB. As a further distraction, he chose to play correspondence chess throughout
the 1950s, although this notably culminated in him winning the USSR Correspondence Championship in 1960. At the Soviet Championship, he had moderate results, participating in 1955, 1956,
1957, 1967 and 1970. His highest placing was a share of sixth in 1967.Antoshin is the eponym
of two opening lines, one occurring in the Philidor Defence and the other in the Dutch Defence.
Philidor Defence In the Antoshin Variation, Black chooses to exchange central pawns and head
for simple, rapid development of the kingside. After ... 0-0 and ... Re8, Black's cramped darksquare bishop is often reactivated by playing it to g7 via f8. Play commences,1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 and White usually chooses to develop one of his bishops, for
example:6.Bf4 0-0 7.Qd2 c6 8.0-0-0 b5 9.f3 b4 10.Nb1! Qb6 11.g4 d5with a small advantage
to White Dutch Defence Hort-Antoshin Variation, Dutch Defenceafter 5...Qc7 The Hort-Antoshin
Variation was first discovered by Vlastimil Hort in 1960, when he was just sixteen; it was then
further developed by Antoshin and consequently carries the names of both players. Black's
idea is to omit the 'normal' e6 move and prepare a central break with e5 instead. The line
may also be used with 'colours reversed' as a variant of Bird's Opening, where of course White
is a move up. Play starts,1.d4 f52.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d6 4.c4 (Burgess gives the more modern
alternative 4.Nc3 c6 5.e4 fxe4 6.Nxe4 Nxe4 7.Bxe4 Bf5 8.Qf3 Bxe4 9.Qxe4 Qa5+ 10.c3 as
favouring White in Khenkin-Vasiukov, Voskresensk 1990) 4. ... c6 5.Nc3 Qc7 whereupon, one
possible continuation is the direct:6.e4 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5 8.exf5 Bxf5 9.Nf3 Nbd710.0-0 0-0-0
which ended in an early draw in Minev-Hort, Moscow 1960.
courtesy: Wikepedia
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Sri. Sachin Suryakant (Secretary, North Malabar Chamber of Commerce), Sri. Baby VP (Customs
(L-R)
and Central Excise Superintendent), Sri. Govindan Kutty (Arbiter), Sri. V N Viswanathan DYSP
(Member, Chess Association Kerala), Sri. V V Balaram (Organising Secretary, Kannur FIDE), Sri. Alex
Thomas (Champion), Dr. Rajan Thomas (President, Skyline Cliffwaters Apartment Owners Association,
Payyambalam, Kannur), Dr. KV Devadas (Professor, Mahatma College, Iritty), Sri. P P Karunan (Hall
Arrangement Convener), Sri. Sumod M (General Convener, Kannur FIDE) and Sri. Sudhakaran M
(Finance Convener, Kannur FIDE) at the background
5th Keshabananda Das Memorial FIDE Open Tournament, Bubaneshwar
Subhojit, IM Swayams Mishra, IM Shyamnikhil P, IM Rajesh VAV, Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra
(L-R)
Misra, IPS(Retd.), Former Director General of Police,Govt. of Odisha, Sri Subhasis Patnaik, Secy.
KDCA & Sri Saroj Kishore Behera, KDCA
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4thN.L.Pandiyar Memorial Open Fide Rated Tournament, Jaipur
Left to Right Mr. Rajesh Sharma (Org. Chairman), Lion ArvindChatur (Governor Lions Club )
ShriArjunMeena (M P Lokshabha Udaipur), Mr. Sunder Bhanawat , Lion Prem Singh Shakatawat ,
Mr. Rajeev Bhardawaj (President Chess in Lakecity). Mr. AC Joshi (Chief Arbiter) ,Shri C P Bhatt (Patron
Chess in lakecity) are sitting behind.
to Right- IA Ambrish C Joshi ( Chief Arbiter), Mr. Rajesh Sharma (Org. Chairman), ShriPhool Singh
Left
Meena (MLA ), Champion AkshatKhamparia of MP, , Shri Dinesh Ji Bhatt, Shri Chandra Singh Kothari
(Mayor Udaipur Nagar Nigam),VikasSahu Org,Secretary ,Shri V K Lahadiya, William DSouza (Principal
St. Anthonys School),Mr.RajeevBhardawaj (President Chess inLakecity)
Solutions to Tactics from master gameson

page
by S.Krishnan
1.Patil,Pr2-Villar,Ju
18th Sant Marti Open 2016 Barcelona White
to play
22.Nxf7! Kxf7 [22...Rf8 23.Nh6+ gxh6 24.Qxe7
Qxe7 25.Rxe7+]23.Qe6+ Kf8 [23...Ke8
24.Rf3 (idea 25.Rf7) 24...Qd6 25.Qf7+ Kd7
26.Bb4+]24.Rf3+ Bf6 [24...Ke8 25.Rf7+]25.
Bb4+ Nd6 26.Rc3 [26.Rc3 Qe7 (26...Qd7
27.Rxc8+) 27.Rxc8 Qxe6 28.Rxd8+ Bxd8
29.Rxe6+]10
2.Royset,P-Haria,R
Xtracon Chess Open 2016 Helsingor Black
to play
26...Nd3! 27.Rxd3 [27.Bxd3 Qxe3+ 28.Kf1(28.
Qf2 Qxf2+ 29.Kxf2 Rxc3) 28...Qxd4+]27...
Rxc1 28.Qd2 Ne4 [28...Rb1 29.Rc3 Rxc3
30.Qxc3 Nf5 31.Qc8+ Kg7 32.Nxf5+ gxf5
+]29.Qb2 [29.fxe4 dxe4 30.Ne2 Rxf1+
31.Kxf1 exd3+]
29...R8c2 30.Qa3 Rxg2+ 31.Kxg2 [31.Kh1
Qxh2#]31...Qg5+ 32.Kh3 Nf201
3. Haldorsen,Benjamin- Brunello,S
Xtracon Chess Open 2016 Helsingor DEN
(3.15), 24.07.2016
Black to play
36...Rd2! 37.h4 [37.Qa1 Qg3 38.Nd1 Rxg2+;
37.Qxd2 Nxh3+ 38.Nxh3 Qxd2+]37...Nh3+
[37...Nh3+ 38.Nxh3 (38.Kh2 Qf4+ 39.g3
Qe3+; 38.Kh1 Nxf2+ 39.Kg1 Nh3+ 40.Kh1
Qe3+) 38...Qe3+ 39.Kh2 Rxb2+]01
4. Pakleza,Z (2495) - Sjodahl,P (2420)
CellaVision Cup 2016 Lund SWE (8.6),
07.08.2016
White to play
22.Be4+! Kg8 [22...Bxe4 23.Qxe4+ Kg8
24.b4+]23.b4! [23.b4 Bxb4 24.Bxb7+]10
5. Agrest,Inna-Badelka,Olga
Olympiad Women 2016 Baku AZE
White to play
21.Ra8! Qd7 [21...Qxa8 22.Ne7+ Kh8
23.Qxh7+ Kxh7 24.Rh4#]
22.Rh4 Rb1+ 23.Kh2 h6 24.Nf6+ [24.Nf6+

gxf6 25.Qxh6 Wins]10
6. Tsolakidou,Stavroula - Cmilyte,Viktorija
Olympiad Women 2016 Baku AZE
Black to play
17...exf4! 18.Nc7+ [18.Qxf7+ Kxf7 19.Ba3
Nxf2 20.Nc7 Nxh1 21.Nxa8 Nf2+]18...Kd8
19.Qxf7 Bxb2+ 20.Kb1 Nc3#01
Solution to Test your endgame on page

1.A.Troitsky
1. Nd3 If Black play 1... Ba3 now, White win
easily after 2. b4. So, Black have to play 1...
Rxd3(1... Ba32. b4) 2. f7 Ba3 2... Rf3 will
be met with 3. b7, and 3... Bf4 will block the
rook's way. (2... Rf33. b7)3. b4 Bxb4 4. b7.
2.L.Kubbel
1. Ne2 Kxe2 2. Bd1+ (2... Kxd1 3. b8=Q h1=Q
4. Qb1+.Geometrical motive on the rank) 1.
Ne2 Kxe2 2. Bd1+2... Kxd1 3. b8=Q h1=Q
4. Qb1+. Geometrical motive on the rank.
2... Kf2 (2... Kxd13. b8=Qh1=Q4. Qb1+) 3.
Bf3 Kxf3 4. b8=Qh1=Q 5. Qa8+ Geometrical
motive on the diagonal
3.H.Rinck
1. Be3 Directly attacking g1. 1... Rf32. Bg5
After 2... fxg5, the pawn will not allow the Rook
to attack the g6 pawn. And after 2... Rg3, the
Bishop pins the Rook with 3. Bh4
4.A.Almamedov 1993
1.e4+ Kg4 2.f3+ Kxh5 3.b8Q Bh2+ 4.f4 Bxf4+
5.e5 Bxe5+ 6.Ke6 Bxb8 7.Kf5 h2 8.Bf3 mate
5. A.Kotov 1945
1.f7 Rxa6+ 2.Nf6 Ra8 3.Ne8 Ra6+ 4.Kg5! [According to the tablebases, 4.Kh5 also wins.] 4
Ra5+ 5.Kg4 Ra4+ 6.Kg3 [Or 6.Kf3.] 6Ra3+
7.Kf2 Ra2+ 8.Ke3 Ra3+ 9.Ke4 Ra4+ 10.Ke5
Ra5+ 11.Ke6 Ra6+ 12.Kd7 Ra7+ 13.Nc7 1-0
6. V.Rudenko 1956
1.a6 Bf4! 2.b6 cxb6 3.Kb5! [3.a7? b5+] 3
e4 4.a7 e3 5.Bh1! e2 6.a8Q e1Q 7.Qf3+ Kg1
8.Qg2#
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AICF Calendar
October 2016
Chess For Youth
Kolkata
Oct21 to Oct24
C.P.P.A. FIDE rating below 1600 Payyanur
Oct29 to Oct31
National Women Premier 2016
Delhi
Nov02 to Nov14
All India Open Fide Rated Rapid 2016 Mah
Nov03 to Nov04
National Amateur 2016 below 2300
East Mumbai
Nov05 to Nov11
TN State Team Chess Championship
Tirunelveli
Nov05 to Nov08
3rd indiana FIDE Rating Chess Tmt
Nagpur
Nov05 to Nov10
2nd Gayatri Devi Memorial FIDE Rating Muzaffarur
Nov09 to Nov14
FIDE Rating tournament for the blind Ahmedabad
Nov10 to Nov13
2nd BRDCA International FIDE Rated Tournament
Bangalore
Nov10 to Nov14
Morphy FIDE Rating Open Nashik
Nov12 to Nov17
Maharashtra Selection U15 Open and Girls below 2200
Amravati
Nov13 to Nov15
National Premier Uttar Pradesh
Nov15 to Nov29
National Under 15 Open & Girls Delhi
Nov20 to Nov28
8th State Level FIDE Rating tournament Itanagar
Dec01 to Dec05
5th Sou Nirmal Vaze Mem.FIDE Rating open rapid
Mumbai
Dec 10 to Dec11
All India Rating Tournament Kolkata
Dec13 to Dec18
4th Bhopal FIDE Rating Tournament 2016 Bhopal
Dec19 to Dec24
27th Cusat FIDE Rating 2016 Cochin, Kerala
Dec21 to Dec24
Roto Lawyers Cup
Belthangady
Dec24 to Dec28
2nd Karur FIDE Rating chess Tmt
Karur
Dec25 to Dec29
6th JRD Tata All India Open Chess tmt
Jamshedpur
Dec25 to Dec31
KCAs 15th FIDE rating below 1500 Kottayam, Kerala
Dec26 to Dec28
IIFL Wealth Mumbai Intl.& Mumbai Junior 2016

Bandra East, Mumbai
2nd Master Mind Open FIDE Rated Tmt Pammal, Chennai
Dec26 to Jan03
Dec27 to Dec30
10th KCM FIDE Rated below 1600 Coimbatore
Dec30 to Jan 01
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:1.Rxh7 2.g6xh7+
National Under-7 Chess Championships, Puducherry
Priansh Das of Odisha wth Chief Guest V.Hariharan, Secretary, AICF (in the
Winner
centre).A.Bakthavatchalam, Vice President AICF and Chief Arbiter IA R.Anantharam are also
seen.
Shafeli of Karnataka wth Chief Guest V.Hariharan, Secretary, AICF (in the centre).
Winner
Shri.A.Bakthavatchalam, Vice President AICF and Chief Arbiter IA R.Anantharam are also seen.
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27th National Under-17 Chess Championships, Kolkata
L to R- Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS, GM
Dibyendu Barua, Aakanksha Hagawane (Winner), Shri. Pradipta Kumar Roy, Dr. Madhumita Roy
to R - Dy Chief Asit Baron Choudhary , Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhay, Vice Chancellor, Amity
LUniversity,
Shri. Debasish Sen, IAS,GM Dibyendu Barua, Shri. Pradipta Kumar Roy (partly seen)
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