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October 2016
Priansh Das
WCM Shefali A N
Open Champion
Girls Champion
(Odisha)
(Karnataka)
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
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Thoothukudi
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C.G.S.Narayanan
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Problem World
Holst promotion by C.G.S.Narayanan
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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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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
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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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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
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
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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
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Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar
MAH 4
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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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3
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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
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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
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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TN
TN
WB
WB
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WB
WB
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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
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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
AP
TN
6
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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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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
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5
5
5
5
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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
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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
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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
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Pts
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7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
20
21 IM
22 AGM
23 CM
24 IM
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
61
62
63
64 AIM
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
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
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
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4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
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4
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34
35
36
37 IM
38
39
40 CM
41
42
43
44
45 CM
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57 AGM
58
59
60
Aaryan Varshney
Kabir Belgikar
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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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
74
Watarkar Yash
75
Kant Swapnil
76
Gupta Ashish Bajaranglal
77
Wadodkar Amit
78
Moghe Mayur
79
Halkude Nagnath
80
Pardeshi Vivek
81
Prabhu Aaditya
82
Korde Kedar
83
Vashishtha Ankesh
84
Arijit Ghosh
85
Gupte Aradhya
86
Jadhav Rahul
87
Vallabh Kavi
88 CM Prraneeth Vuppala
89
Athalye Varad
90
Supnekar Milind
91
Shreyas Ghadi
92
Sachjith M
93
Kumar Sanu
94
Nirgun Keval
95
Boramanikar Tanisha S
96
Khude Laxman
97
Jail Digambar
98
Pandhare Swapnil
99
Chincholikar Suhas
100 Wadile Devendra
101 GM Laxman R.R.
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115
116
117
4
4
4
Pingale Shivraj
Moghe Rahul
Paturkar Manav
Last move?
(solution on page 48)
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State
MP
MAH
DEL
TN
KOL
MAH
UP
GUJ
DEL
GUJ
UTT
DEL
MAH
J&K
KOL
Pts
8
8
8
8
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
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
MP
TEL
AI
MP
MAH
UDA
HAR
UDA
MAH
KOL
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7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
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
RAJ
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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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Pts
8
8
7
7
7
7
KER
NEP
KAR
HAR
UP
DEL
MAH
KAR
MAH
MAH
PUD
MP
GUJ
MAH
WB
BIH
TN
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
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
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
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6
6
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6
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RAJ
DEL
ASM
TEL
TN
HAR
KAR
MAH
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6
6
6
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
rating between 1400 and 1599
32 Sudipta Chakraborty
6
rating between 1600 and 1699
41 Lochan Kumar Das
6
rating between 1700 and 1799
31 Sunny Bedi
6
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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Sri Sathya Sai Below 1600 Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Dharmavaram
Pts.
9
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
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
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7
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7
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contd on page 27
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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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41 Veerabhadri K
42 Lokesh N
43 Prasanna Kumar G
44 Durga Surya Krishna Teja
45 Kavi Samrat P
46 Tarun Vankadaru
47 Somasekhar Prasad
48 Mahendra Teja Mekala
49 Harish G
50 Pavan Kumar
51 Shivakumar D M
52 Mallik M
53 Naga Seshu Kata
54 Shabreen T Khanam
55 Hemadri T
56 Bhaskar Teja K Venkata
57 Lasya Mayukha N
58 Sagar Ch
59 Veeresh Bharamasagara T
60 Hemadri Dasari
61 Amarnath G
62 Arjun Lenkalapalli
63 Raval DTribhovandas
64 Nazeer Basha G
65 Vajrala Dinesh Reddy
66 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed
67 Jaganatham K
68 Nayak Maheswar
69 Gokul S
70 Samith Reddy I
71 Deena Dayalan S
72 Suresh Bondalapati
73 Shaik Shavali
74 Gugaray Manjunath
75 Wanjari Rajendra
76 Varadharajan I.
77 Gowri Shankar A
78 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy
79 Uma Harsha P
80 Ramakrishna A
81 Ravikumar Avuti
82 Abdulh Rahaman K
83 Vijayakumar S
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6
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84 Rajinikanth G
85 Vincent Vakki
86 Sakthi Subash A S
87 C Naga Praveen Kumar
88 Muffasir Ahmed S
89 Akhil B V S
90 Govardhan Mitra P
91 Satish Valluri
92 Priyanka Bhatt
93 Shiva Sai Boddu
94 Amitesh Kumar Sinha
95 Suresh Ramayanam
96 Guna Sekhar G
97 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam
98 Manjunath Papireddy
99 Amit Kumar S
100 Theju K V
101 Srinivas Bangarapu
102 Jha Kishor
103 Kanthi Kiran Katarapu
104 Sami M A
105 Durga Prasad P V
106 Bhagyashree G Patil
107 Barath Kishan D
108 Hemanth Eswar G
109 Sanketh Reddi K R K K
110 Satyanarayana Raju D S
111 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D
112 Yatharth Jain
113 Chiranjan Kumarr K S
114 Afreen T Khanam
115 Saxena Prashant
116 Gopichand K
117 Sai Sabarish P
118 Purusotham Vardhi
119 Prashanth A
120 Sk Abdul Azam
121 Mitul K H
122 Kontham Sathish
123 Kranthi Kumar B
124 Suresh Kumar S
125 Moorthy T
126 Veerapathiran V
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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
Pts
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22 Mohana Praba R B
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
63 Mathavan T
64 Vignesh Karthick
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65 Manikanda Prabhu B V
66 Santhosh K V
67 Nakshathra Karthikeyan
68 Rebecca Jesumarian
69 Joshua Sudhan S
70 Nabeel M Abubackar
71 Goutham D
72 Rishi Kalyan S
73 Gowrichander U
74 Sivaprakash N
75 Sundaralingam A
76 Karunakaran V
77 Viswa B
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
102 Srinivasaraj S
103 Rajesh L S
104 Sriram S
105 Chockalingam, Balaji U
106 Karthi Ganes M
107 Surya Sathiaguru
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108 Balakowshi D S
109 Aaditya A
110 Jayadev R Balan
111 Gowri M
112 S Priya Samuthira Pandi
113 Gokul Ravichandran
114 Sri Hari S
115 Bhuvaneshwaran R
116 Hariharan, Vishnuvardan
117 Thennarasu K
118 Ezhil Oviya J
119 Udhayan Jacob
120 Pon Perumal S
121 Tharan Adithya M
122 Rohan M
123 Jaiyaharrsanth S J
124 Santhakumar S
125 Amisha Sany M
126 Naveen Kumar P
127 Prawin K
128 Mithesh M
129 Dhilip Santhosh Kumar
130 Prasath K R
131 Senbabu M B
132 Amrutha A
133 Justin Raja P
134 Sushma R G
135 Bavan Kalyan S
136 Yuvasree S A
137 Nizsaanth Nobel Antony
138 Santhosh Kumar T
139 Sethusivaram B
140 Emmanuel Austin B
141 Ashwin Kumaar M
142 S. Jeevanandam
143 Nicknesar Anto A
144 Dhaanesh S
145 Sreevathsan H
146 Kishore Kumar T
147 Dhanabala Bhoopathy T V
148 Naveen Prasadh M
149 Kadhirvel M
150 Sriman Prabhu M K
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[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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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
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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
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by C.G.S.Narayanan
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
3.
A.Alamamadov 1993
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Vladimir Antoshin
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
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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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)
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#]
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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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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)
Sai Vishvesh (Winner) Dr. Madhumita Roy