AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 3 Price Rs. 25 October 2017

31st National Under-7 Open &Girls Chess National Junior Under -19 Chess
Championships 2017,Vijayawada Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna

Shashank V S Hatvalne Swarali Harsha Bharathakoti Mahalakshmi M

Open Champion Girls Champion Open Champion Girls Champion

World Youth Chess Championships 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay

Saskshi Chitlange Jishitha Erigaisi Arjun

Silver (U18Girls) Gold(U14Girls) Silver(U14 Open)
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Inside
National Junior Under-19 Chhips, Patliputra, Patna
Harsha Bharathakoti and Mahalakshmi emerge Champions
by Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter 1 did the country proud clinching a bronze medal in the classical
31st National Under 7 Open &Girls Chships ,Vijayawada
Shashank and Hatwalne Swarali win titles
by Devaram Srihari, Organizing Secretary 6
Hyderabad Open FIDE Rated Tmt (below 1500),Hyderabad
Nagasri Saikanth wins title
by Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 11
30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Tmt, Tuticorin
Barath Kalyan emerges Champion
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 14
Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tmt,Margao,Goa
Nitish Balurkar wins at Margao
by Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter 17
4th Sameen Singh FIDE rated tmt, Amritsar
Dhanjay wins Sameen Singh FIDE Rated
By IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 19
Aadi Intl. Open Rating Rapid Tmt,Mandla
R.R.Laxman of ICF Wins
by IA Anurag Singh,Chief Arbiter 22
Fomento All India Fide Rating Tmt, Panaji,Goa
Suaravh Khardekar wins title
by FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 27
3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kancheepuram
Maheswarn wins title
by Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter 29
KKCA 1ST FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Coimbatore
Arunachalam Shivaa is Champion
by V Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 30
Selected games
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 31
Problem World
by C.G.S.Narayanan 40
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-81 Vladimir Antoshin 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the desk
In the World Cadets at Brazil, Divya
Deshmukh made India proud winning
Indias only medal, a gold. In the World
Youth Championships at Montevideo,
Uruguay, Indian youth did one better
garnering three medals. Andhra girl Jishitha
played near flawless chess in the final
rounds to clinch the gold in the Under-14 Girls category. Erigaisi
Arjun and Sakshi Chitlange won silver medals in the under-14
Open and Under-18 Girls category.
In the 5th Asian indoor games at Turkmenistan GM Sasikiran
format. In the rapid team category both Indian men and women
secured bronze medals.
Putting his early exit in the World Cup in Georgia behind, GM
Viswanathan Anand bounced back, finishing second behind the
World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the Isle of man tournament
at Douglas with a facile victory over Hou Yifan in the final round.
In the first Asian Chess Championships for the disabled at
Kyrgyzstan all the three Indian players who took part won
medals. IM Shashikant Kutwal won the Gold,WIM Jennitha
Anto a sliver medal in the physically disabled category. Malika
Handa secured Sliver Medal in the Deaf category. Reports and
photographs of the above events are presented in the centre
pages of this issue.
On the home front, there were two National events held last
month. In the National Junior Championships held at Patna,
Harsha Bharathakoti of Telangana and M.Mahalakshmi of
Tamilnadu, won the Open and Girls titles. National Under-7,
Championships, the breeding ground for chess stars of the
future, was held in Vijayawada. Shashank of Tamilnadu and
Hatwalne Swarali of Maharashtra emerged Champions.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from National
Challenger Championship. Soviet Chess Grandmaster
Vladimir Antoshin is featured in the Master of the past series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
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.
National Junior Under-19 Chess Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna
Harsha Bharathakoti and Mahalakshmi emerge Champions
by Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter
T
he 47th open & 32nd Girls National
Junior U-19 Chess Championship was
held at the Historical place of Ancient
india in Patliputra Sports Complex ,Kankar-
bagh , Patna from 3rd to 11th September,
2017.
In Open, 116 players, comprising 4 IM, 5FM,
2 CM with 98 Rated players And In girls 73
players comprising 3WIM,4WFM & 1WCM-
with 65 Rated players were participated in
the event, with a tournament total of 289
players from 24 State all around from India.
In Both Category highest nos.of participants
is from Bihar State. The championship had
11 rounds, with one round a day, except on
04.09.2017 & 06.09.2017 (2 Round).
Hard fought victories and some IM & FIDE
Master draws were witnessed in the cham-
pionship, culminating in the emergence of
IM Harsha Bharathakoti of Telangana as
the National Junior open Champion for the
year 2017, followed by FM Karthik Venkat-
araman of AP, as Runner-up. In Under-19
Open Category. While in Under-19 Girls ,WIM
Mahalakshmi of Tamilnadu emerge the title of
National Junior Girls champion for the year
2017 and WIM Sakshi Chitlange of Mahara-
stra as a Runner-up.
The participants were accommodated in the
same campus hostels so as to enable the
players to reach the venue before time and
to easily follow the zero tolerance rule. I
would like to place it on record the excellent
arrangements made by All Bihar Chess Asso-
ciation by providing beautiful air-conditioned
hall with a single player table , View gallery
& a coffee/tea free of charge to players,
parents and managers also, They also had
the privilege of conducting many National
events here at Patliputra Sports complex.
Kudos to FM Arvind kumar Sinha Hon.Sec-
retary, & a keen lover of chess, who is the
key person for the successful and smooth
conduct of the championship.
I am also thankful to Mr.Dharmendra Kumar
& Mr.Navin Upadhyay for their dedicated con-
tribution towards the success of this event. I
am very much thankful to all the players for
maintaining sportsmans spirit and discipline
throughout the event. Last but not the least
I can never forget my Arbiters and officials
who were always helpful in regulating the
rules. I would like to thank All India Chess
Federation for giving me an opportunity to
serve as Chief Arbiter of this event and I am
also thankful to All Bihar Chess Association
for their valuable support.
Final Ranking:Open
Rk. Name Pts.
1 IM Harsha Bharathakoti 9.5
2 FM Karthik Venkataraman 9.5
3 IM Krishna Teja N 8
4 Pranavananda V 8
5 CM Raja Rithvik R 8
6 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 8
7 Shailesh Dravid 8
8 Jayakumaar S 7.5
9 Dhananjay S 7.5
10 FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7.5
11 Muthaiah Al 7.5
12 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 7
13 FM Harshal Shahi 7
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14 FM Mitrabha Guha 7
15 IM Sidhant Mohapatra 7
16 Hemanth Raam 7
17 Kaustuv Kundu 7
18 CM Kushagra Mohan 7
19 Kumar Gaurav 7
20 Dixit Nikhil 7
21 FM Jeet Jain 7
22 Barath Kalyan M 7
23 Joy Pankaj Shah 7
24 Utsab Chatterjee 6.5
25 Saurabh Anand 6.5
26 Nagare Akhilesh 6.5
27 Saptorshi Gupta 6.5
28 Gokulraj K 6.5
29 Suvradeepta Das 6.5
30 Tarun V Kanth 6.5
31 Shrutarshi Ray 6.5
32 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 6.5
33 Rushil Gupta 6.5
34 Das Susobhit 6
35 Saksham Rautela 6
36 Wagh Suyog 6
37 Warude Satyam 6
38 Cheela Naga Sampath 6
39 Sharma Vivek 6
40 Prudhvi Kumar V 6
41 Raghav Srivathsav V 6
42 Gaikwad Siddhant 6
43 Harsh Himanshu 6
44 Barde Om 6
45 Gurung Rohit 6
46 Sanjay S Pillai 6
47 Pritam Bhattacharya 6
48 Shrivastav Hritik 6
49 Shivam Verma 6
50 Shanmukha Teja P 6
51 Ayush Bhai Mehta 5.5
52 Rounak Pathak 5.5
53 Divyanshu Gupta 5.5
54 Apte Dhaivat 5.5
55 Saumya Srivastava 5.5
56 Bhoopnath 5.5
57 Kartikey Verma 5.5
58 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5.5
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59 Dias Aston Dave 5.5
60 Aryan 5.5
National Junior Under-19 Chess Championship-2017, Patliputra, Patna
61 Eshaan Chandrol 5.5
62 Subba Saurab 5.5
63 Sujay B M 5.5
64 Kamalanathan R 5.5
65 Samarth Mittal 5.5
66 Kumar S. 5
67 Dubey Sanchay 5
68 Hari Suresh 5
69 Sankalp Arora 5
70 AFM Srinidhi Kulkarni 5
71 Dutta Sarthak 5
72 Bhagwat Heramb 5
73 Syed Hasan Musa 5
74 Rupesh B Ramchandra 5
75 Singh Satendra 5
76 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5
77 Chettri Bhoj Bahadur 5
78 Aman Kumar 5
79 Karan Veer Singh 5 Harsha Bharathakoti, Junior Open winner, receives prize from Bihar's Chief Minister Sri Nitish Kumar.
80 Vinayak Verma 5 Sri Krishna Kumar Rishi, Sports Minister Bihar is to the right of the Chief Minister
81 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 4.5
82 Milind Kumar 4.5
83 Hritik Verma 4.5
84 Piyush Kumar 4.5
85 Ishant Kumar 4.5
86 Raghav Juneja 4.5
87 Shobhit Dhingra 4.5
88 Siddhesh D Pednekar 4.5
89 Aneesh Aparanji 4.5
90 Sahaj Poddar 4.5
91 Ajay Kumar Yadav 4.5
92 Mishra Ashish 4
93 Harsh R. Mehra 4
94 Vedant Joshi 4
95 Yashsva Anil Kanholkar 4
96 Amish Sood 4
97 Swapnil Goel 4
98 Maulik Uniyal 4
99 Shagun Mittal 4
100 Rahul 4
101 Vaibhav Solankar 4
M.Mahalakshmi, Junior Girls winner receives prize from Sri V K Saxena, Chairman, Khadi &Village
102 Palla Mohit Yadav 4 Industries Commission(KVIC), MSME Govt of India
103 Tushar Khilwani 3.5
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 4th Sameen Singh FIDE rated chess tournament-2017, Amritsar 104 Shashwat Sharma 3.5 30 Diya Chowdhury 6
105 Sparsh Prashar 3.5 31 Shinjini Sengupta 6
106 Rishav Kumar 3.5 32 Varsha C R 6
107 Daksh Sood 3 33 Shweta Priyadarshini 6
108 Singh Angad 3 34 Indulekha K S 5.5
109 Piyush Raj 3 35 Garima Gaurav 5.5
110 Abhirakshit 3 36 Marium Fatima 5.5
111 Saksham Bhardwaj 1 37 Ashitha C C 5.5
112 Neelash Saha 0 38 Riya Narendra Marathe 5
113 Nitish Das 0 39 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 5
114 Rishabh Jain 0 40 Sinthia Sarkar 5
115 Jail Digambar 0 41 Swaha V S 5
116 Aakashdeep Singh 0 42 Kohale Anushka 5
43 Sabbi Rohitha 5
Final standings:Girls 44 Rajashree S 5
Rk. Name Pts. 45 Tanisha Shital Gotadke 5
1 WIM Mahalakshmi M 9 46 Kruti Gangadkar 5
2 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 8.5 47 Bhavya Verma 5
Brigadier S Harcharan Singh, Olympian and Arjuna Awardee giving away the trophy to Winner 3 WCM Isha Sharma 8.5 48 Rukhsar Bano 5
S.Dhananjay in presence of Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School and Dr. Gurvinder 4 Sunyuktha C M N 8 49 Heera P 5
Singh, President Sameen Singh, Charitable Society and M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 5 Harshita Guddanti 7.5 50 Pandey Srishti 4.5
6 Priyanka K 7.5 51 Lasani H Kothari 4.5
7 WFM Tarini Goyal 7.5 52 Prateeti Gorai 4.5
Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tournament, Margao, Goa 8 Meenal Gupta 7.5 53 Sagar Siya 4.5
9 Bakshi Rutuja 7 54 Snigdha Goel 4.5
10 WFM Varshini V 7 55 Ankita Kumari 4.5
11 WIM Tejaswini Sagar 7 56 Vedanshi Chaudhary 4
12 Smaraki Mohanty 7 57 Rashmi Priya 4
13 WFM L akshmi C 7 58 Nizami Sada 4
14 Patel Aditi 7 59 Chakraborty Sucharita 4
15 Sunyasakta Satpathy 6.5 60 Adiba Ullah 4
16 Priyamvada Karamcheti 6.5 61 Bhavya Narapuram 4
17 Abhirami Madabushi 6.5 62 Naga Sahithi 4
18 Divya Lakshmi R 6.5 63 Dubey Akshita 3.5
19 Toshali V 6.5 64 Mafruza Farooqui 3.5
20 Sanskriti Goyal 6.5 65 Asna Abdeen 3.5
21 Thamaraiselvi P 6.5 66 Vedushi Joshi 3
22 Ankitha Goud Palle 6.5 67 Swati Narapuram 1.5
23 WFM B Mounika Akshaya 6 68 Potluri Saye Srreezza 1
24 Jain Nityata 6 69 Soundharam L 1
25 Ashar Grishma 6 70 Mehak Jain 0
Prize winners Niraj Saripalli (Third) Nitish Belurkar, winner, Audi Ameya (Runner-up) with dignitaries 26 Shyamashree Sarkar 6 71 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 0
Kishor Bandekar, Treasurer AICF (eighth from left) Mr. Vallabh Desai President of Banavli Chess Club, 27 Fathima Abdeen 6 72 Patil Aditi G 0
Chief Arbiter Ashesh Keni ,Convener Sanjay Kavlekar,Secretary of Salcete Taluka Chess Association 28 Shriya R Revankar 6 73 Kannan Jain 0
Damodar Zambaulikar, Dilip Vernekar Treasurer of Salcete Taluka Chess Association. 29 Niharika Ch 6
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 31st National Under 7 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2017,Vijayawada
Shashank and Hatwalne Swarali win titles
by Devaram Srihari, Organizing Secretary
T
he 31st National Under 7 Open & Girls
Chess Championships 2017 was held
at Andhra Motor Merchants Association
Hall A/C (AMMA Kalyana Mandapam) Mogal
Raja Puram, Vijayawada, Krishna District,
Andhra Pradesh from 3rd to 12th September
2017. The Tournament was organized by The
Krishna District Chess Association.
On 3rd September, 2017 at 11:00 a.m Man-
agers meeting was organized by Organizing
Secretary Mr. Devaram Srihari along with
chief Arbiter Sri. Muthukumar I.A. At the
Managers meeting only one change was
taken i.e that is the round on 8th Sep 2017
Round was to be conducted at 9:00 a.m in-
stead of at 3:00 p.m. An Appeals Committee
was formed.
On 3rd September, 2017 3:00 a.m the
Championship was Inaugurated by Hon Sri
Kollu Ravindra, Minister for Law and Youth
Affairs and Sports and Culture, Govt of AP
and was attended by Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju,
Vice-Chairman and Mangaing Director, Sports
Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Sri YD Ramarao
President APCA, & Sri D Srihari, General
Secretary APCA and Sri K.P. Rao Chairman
K.P.Rao Corporate consultants Pvt Ltd., Grand
Master Mr. M.R. Lallit Babu, Sri.P.Rama Kr-
ishna O.S.D SAAP, Sri P.V. Nageswara Rao
President, Krishna District Chess Association.
320 participants from all over the country
representing Assam, Andhra Pradesh,Bihar,
Chandigarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kash-
mir, Jharkhand Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,
Karnataka Chattisgarh, Kerala, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha,
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In Girls Section After round no 6 Shreya G eswara Rao President, Krishna District Chess
Hipparagi took sole lead and maintained upto Association attended and distributed prizes
the eighth round. In round nine even though & cash awards.
Shreya G Hipparagi lost to Adarwal Tashna
she still maintained the lead with Hatwalne We are sincerely thankful to All India Chess
Punjab, Puducherry, Tamilnadu, Telangana,
Swarali. Hatwalne Swarali of Maharashtra Federation and to Sri. D.V.Sundar , Vice
Uthar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal
became sole leader and maintained it till the President FIDE and AICF and Sri Bharat Singh
have participated in the tournament. The
end to win the title with 9.5 points after Chowhan, Honble Secretary AICF. We per-
Chief Arbiter Sri Muthukumar IA successful-
drawing with Saara jain. sonally thank our Sponsors Sports Authority
ly conducted the tournament following the
During the several rounds, as the Cham- of Andhra Pradesh, Ramco Cements, Mega
FIDE Rules with the help of Deputy Arbiters,
pionships were in progress, there were Engineering and Infrastructures Limited,
Sriman I.A. G.V.Kumar F.A., Ch.Ramesh
inaugurations by Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju A.P. Tourism A.P. Prohibition and Exise, A.P.
F.A., which was appreciated by one and all.
Vice-Chairman and Mangazing Director, Panchayatiraj & Rural Development, A.P.Mi-
The Championship was conducted for 10
Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, Sri. T. naral Development Corporation, , G.M. Mod-
(including one rest day) days by providing
Kranthi Rana Deputy Commissioner of Po- ulars, Icon Public School, United Insurance
all facilities to the players a good playing
lice, Vijayawada and former chess player. Limited, Asthik Infra Developers and Andhra
conditions spacious. All these organisers
Sri. Devineni Avinash T.D.P Youth Leader is Motor Merchants Association and last but not
provided Break-fast and Lunch to all Players
voluntarily visited championship and inau- the least Krishna District Police and Vijayawa-
for free of cost. We think this the first time
gurated the 9th round of the Championship. da Police for their valuable support.
for under-7 Nationals. We also provided A/C
On 12th September 2017, The Special Chief Final Ranking:Open
Double/Triple shared star hotel range of ac-
Secretary, Sri. L.V.Subrahmanyam I.A.S for Rk. Name Pts.
commodation for all the official players and
Sports and Youth Affairs Govt of AP Visited 1 Shashank V S 9.5
Managers.
the Championship in morning session and 2 Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta 9
inaugurated final round of the Championship. 3 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa 9
Competition went in such a way that expec- 4 Sadbhav Rautela 9
Actually we invited him for P.D. Due to his
tations were at the peak from the seventh 5 Adireddy Arjun 9
very tight schedule and just because of his
round of boys. After round six Bernil kumar 6 Jack Samuel 8.5
love for sports he came in the morning and
Das and Aditya Kunal Patil met each other 7 ACM Aarav Nambiar T 8.5
gave massage to young players and par-
and Aditya Kunal Patil won the round.In 8 Aditya Kunal Patil 8.5
ents.Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru Raju Vice-Chairman
round eight Aditya Kunal Patil became the 9 Kiaan Agrawal 8
and Mangazing Director, Sports Authority of
sole leader and met with Kiaan Agarwal. 10 Arjun Raje 8
Andhra Pradesh, personally visited the venue
They drew the match.Round nine witnessed 11 Arjun Dube 8
during the championship and monitored ar-
Aditya kunal patil become sole leader with 12 Hruthvick R 8
rangements made to players and parents and
7.5 points. The final Round Lakshyesh mohan 13 Shreyansh Hota 8
personally taken feedback from the parents
gupta point lead with shashankVS and 14 Suhaas A 7.5
and coaches.
Aditya kunal patil paired with Shashank.They 15 Barnil Kumar Das 7.5
The valedictory function was held on 12th
were all in the race till the fiinal round and 16 Amogh Bisht 7.5
September, 2017 with Sri. Dr.N.Bangaru
Shashank V.S of Tamilnadu won the title in 17 Abhinav Raj 7.5
Raju Vice-Chairman and Mangazing Direc-
Boys section after eleven rounds of tough 18 Bhosale Saarth 7.5
tor, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh,as 19 Rangeet Majumdar 7.5
competition. Shashank VS From TN won the
Chief Guest along with Sri K.P. Rao Chairman 20 Yashwant B 7.5
final round and emerged Champion followed
K.P.Rao Corporate consultants Pvt Ltd The 21 Sawalakhe Jay 7.5
by Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta, Mrinmoy. Rajk-
President APCA Sri YD Ramarao, Genaral 22 Shreeyash Kejriwal 7.5
howa, Sadbhav Rautela ,Adireddy Arjun with
Secretary,APCA Sri D Srihari, Sri P.V. Nag- 23 Aakash G 7.5
9 points each went with equal points.
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24 Deepan Madhuprakash 7.5 69 Swaraj Jyoti Neog 6 114 Aggarwal Aaryveer 5 159 Arnav Dawn 4
25 Aarush Rajesh 7.5 70 Vignesh Kannan P 6 115 Koneru Bhargav 5 160 Pavan Karthikeya Varma Gi 4
26 Rounaiv Rana 7.5 71 Kudipudi S S Kishore 6 116 Nanthabalan V B 5 161 Susanta Sarma HSVSKSH 4
27 Talla Nischal 7.5 72 Stellferd S Stalin 6 117 Yajur Shikaram 5 162 Agrawal Prabhav 4
28 Dhayanand S 7 73 Aahwan Hazari 6 118 Karthik G Iyer 5 163 Amitanshu Das 4
29 Srihari R 7 74 Shreyas Ravindra Patil 6 119 Nikhil S Kamath 5 164 Tongia Aahan 4
30 Devdarshan R B 7 75 Md. Kaif Ullah 6 120 Priyansh Reddy Sankepally 5 165 Borra CVenkata Mani Krish 4
31 Archisman Patra 7 76 Jivitesh Singh Sethi 6 121 Varun Sai N S 5 166 Hardik Gouri 3.5
32 Malik Dhairya 7 77 Mahimithranarasu T I 6 122 Kanaka Dinesh K M S S S 5 167 Yoshik Vihan E 3.5
33 Vittanala Shanmuk Saish 7 78 Miglani Aarav 6 123 Vandan Rashmikant Thakar 5 168 Aarav Porwal 3.5
34 Vempati Harsha Sai 7 79 Dhanuka Aman 6 124 Aadi Banthia 5 169 Thota Jovenkataraman 3.5
35 Sarthak Anand Devadiga 7 80 Aditya Maderana 6 125 Siriki Yogesh 5 170 Dhanesh Alaparthi 3.5
36 Arjun J Chitlange 7 81 Sadhwani Prince Kailash 6 126 Suraj Kudlu 5 171 Siddharth Singhvi 3.5
37 Shashindhar Kumar R 7 82 Ojash Jain 6 127 Thakur Aarit 5 172 Sahu Anirudha 3
38 Sathvik Adiga 7 83 Sahu Mitansh 6 128 Dolas Aarush 5 173 Md Abdul Khader Ayaan 3
39 Yug Desai 7 84 Panigrahi Bivaya 6 129 Anirban Mondal 5 174 Sri Rohith Sharma 3
40 Varma G Y C 7 85 Veer Gidwani 6 130 Keertan Kalita 5 175 Pranshu Pathak 3
41 Jain Kushagra 7 86 Sidharth Sreekumar 6 131 Ranade Soham Abhijit 5 176 Khandhadia Nivaan Rathin 3
42 Srijit Sardar 7 87 Ishaan K Sibin 6 132 Shiva Krishna Charan R 5 177 Shivapradhan M 3
43 Tanush Ritesh 7 88 Samradhh Singh Tomar 6 133 Vignesh Dey 5 178 Ridam Nitin Agrawal 3
44 Avaneesh Handur 7 89 Ishaan Singh Khanuja 5.5 134 Adithya D 4.5 179 Yashvanth S 3
45 Rosh Jain 7 90 Md Hasnain Siddiqui 5.5 135 Kanishk Goel 4.5 180 Raman Siddhardh B 3
46 Mitul K H 6.5 91 Khadilkar Shourya 5.5 136 Aarav Kalra 4.5 181 Garv Jodhawat 3
47 Aswin A 6.5 92 Sohan Reddy V M 5.5 137 Dharmaditya Sandeep Naik 4.5 182 Chiranth R Savak 3
48 Srinikesh Krishnakumar 6.5 93 Krishna Sai Koushik P 5.5 138 Sreehas Raparla 4.5 183 Dayanand Thoudam 2.5
49 Raj Jaivardhan 6.5 94 Pradyumna Kanukollu 5.5 139 Ishan Khandelwal 4.5 184 Dinesh Sai Venkat Krishna 2.5
50 Aarya Satish Chikodi 6.5 95 Mithra Kumaran J K 5.5 140 Singh Pravardhman 4.5 185 Suryadevara Joshit 2.5
51 Mavani Nimay Tehasbhai 6.5 96 Aradhya Thantri 5.5 141 Sumedh Chawre 4.5 186 Adway A Khobragade 2.5
52 Mahavir Patra 6.5 97 Naren Gupta 5.5 142 Nihal Parvathaneni 4.5 187 Vanavada Abhiramm 2
53 Yuvan Kartik R 6.5 98 Banik Hrishikesh Kumar 5.5 143 Mishra Shivansh 4 188 Tata Sai Murali Eshaan 2
54 Rudrasish Som 6.5 99 Subhodeep Sarkar 5.5 144 Mallick Rohit 4 189 Unnava Manvith Sai 1
55 Varun Prabhakaran K S 6.5 100 Aarav Mehta 5.5 145 Prabhu Varad 4 190 Arjun Nair 0
56 Parab Ram Vishal 6.5 101 Akula Sathvik 5.5 146 Mandula Babu Syamal 4 191 Bhandari Arjun 0
57 Sanskar G 6.5 102 Himanish Kumar Sarma 5.5 147 Amarjyoti Mishra 4 192 Pavan Siddesh L 0
58 Rajvarshan S B 6.5 103 Shah Purvaan 5.5 148 Ishant Singh 4 Final standings:Girls
59 Atharva Sawal 6 104 Ratnani Harshit 5.5 149 Siddharth P 4 Rk. Name Pts.
60 Arora Advay 6 105 Gokul G 5 150 Dev Sopanrao Phalke 4 1 Hatvalne Swarali 9.5
61 Om Arya 6 106 Arnav Bhushan 5 151 Pratnesh Malvankar 4 2 Shreya G Hipparagi 9
62 Maaz Iqubal 6 107 Godhani Maharth 5 152 Aditya Mandala 4 3 Arshiya Das 8.5
63 Divitt Arora 6 108 Sanjay Senthilkumar 5 153 Kotha Santoosh 4 4 Shriya Patil 8.5
64 Aaron Bhuimali 6 109 Rokade Ishwar 5 154 Shaik Arshad Baba 4 5 Saara Jain 8.5
65 Kavin Satish 6 110 Avyakt Agarwal 5 155 Jenil Parmar 4 6 Shruti Snehi 8.5
66 Rath Aadyan 6 111 Anirudh Satish 5 156 Shishir B 4 7 Luxshana B K 8
67 Rohith Karthikeshwar N 6 112 Iniyan R S 5 157 Srinivas Tridham ASDSS 4 8 Vidula Anbuselvan 8
68 Sai Dheeraj Vadlamudi 6 113 Sourabh 5 158 Angelo Lijo 4 9 WCM Shriyana S Mallya 8

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10 Aggarwal Tashna 7.5 55 Ghanashree K R 6 Hyderabad Open All India FIDE Rated Tournament (below 1500),Hyderabad
11 Devaki Nandana 7.5 56 Nagarkatte Saina 6
12 Shah Hiya 7.5 57 Muthya Manjari Ne 5.5
Nagasri Saikanth wins title
13 Sahana Mathivanan 7.5 58 Saparya Ghosh 5.5 by Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
14 Arpitha Kothagundla 7.5 59 Naavya Rathi 5.5

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15 Nysha K Vhatwar 7.5 60 Raikar Rivia R 5.5
he Hyderabad Open All India FIDE Rated spectively. The two players drew their eighth
16 Sai Samprada Mohanty 7.5 61 Saanvi Sharma 5.5
Chess Tournament (below 1500) was round encounter, allowing Shaik Sumer Arsh
17 Negi Agriti 7.5 62 Vipassana Lama 5.5
organised Czar Chess Academy, Hyder- of AP, Karthik Kumar Singh and Shrudh Su-
18 Shresthi Gupta 7.5 63 Ikra Sarfaraz 5.5
abad at St. Josephs Public School from 30th dhir Acharyaboth of Maharashtra, to join
19 Barik Jayashree 7 64 Spoorthi Reddy Gujjula 5.5
20 Ambilwade Ojal 7 65 Kaavya G S 5.5
September to 2nd October 2017. A mammoth the lead before the final round. The top two
21 Kukreja Suguna 7 66 Aishani Pathak 5.5 number of more than 990 players partici- boards ended in a draw and another leader
22 Ananya Manisundaram 7 67 Amaira Mittal 5.5 pated in the event, almost from all states Shridhar was defeated by Dhiman Mitra of
23 Lakshana S 7 68 Nuka Laasya 5.5 of India. The prize money also matched it West Bengal. Nagasri Saikanth of AP de-
24 Vasumathi K 7 69 Ahana Viral Shah 5 equally with a huge amount of Rs.7,99,999. feated R Prabu of TN, P Susheel Reddy of AP
25 Asudani Ruhani Raj 7 70 Suchitraa Viswanathan 5 Ashok D of Tamil Nadu and Jagadeeshwari defeated C Sameer of Karnataka, G Sathish
26 Sandeepa P Sahoo 7 71 Naik Drishti 5 Yerupala of Andhra Pradesh were seeded 1 Kumar of overwhelmed Balakrishna of AP and
27 Vaishnavi L 7 72 Errabelli Pranavi 5 and 2 respectively. The tournament was a 9 Prathamesh Dharmathikari of Maharashtra
28 Afsheen Afsha Zaman 7 73 Shreya C Shah 5 round Swiss format, with a time control of overcame the challenge of Romil Thakkar of
29 Sashya Singareddy 7 74 Nivedita L 5 60 minutes to each player with 30 seconds Gujarat, resulting in an eight way tie for the
30 Kamalini Haradhana N K 6.5 75 Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar 5 increment for each move. first place. The tiebreaks favoured Nagasri
31 Trisha Jagtap 6.5 76 Das Shrutika 5 to win the title, pushing Susheel Reddy to
32 Hridika Das 6.5 77 Jain Naisha 5 Jagadeeshwari was held to a draw by Shiva- second and Dhiman Mitra to third place.
33 Shivani Agarwal 6.5 78 Amruta Jasti 5 kumar DM of Karnataka in the third round and
34 Jesslyn Jinisha J 6.5 79 Tanishka Jain 5 the fifth and seventh seeds also had similar The cyclone predictions in Hyderabad had a
35 Stevlin S Stalin 6.5 80 Sri Lakshmi Pranathi O 5 results. NagarjunGhatti of Karnataka split the telling effect on the tournament on the sec-
36 Sradha Mishra 6.5 81 Akshara Anish 5 point the top seed Ashok in the fourth round ond and third days. The heavy rain for about
37 Sri Harini A 6.5 82 Samrutha M 5 and seed no.142, Syed Jahan Hussain of As- four hours throwing everything into disaaray,
38 Abhishree Deepu 6.5 83 Mahadev Rushita Haju 5 sam defeated fourth seeded Dhiman Mithra as many buses were cancelled and no taxis
39 Gifty R S 6.5 84 Angona J P Dutta 5 in the fourth round. Thirty six players were available to catch the trains.Sri. KS. Prasad,
40 Krishaa Jodhawat 6.5 85 Yuvantikasri S.U. 5 leading with full four points at the end of the Secretary, Telangana State Chess Association
41 Yashica Mohanraj 6.5 86 Yashica Prerna Dadle 5
fourth round. Third seeded P KaviSamrat and was the chief guest for the valedictory func-
42 Sandra Nair 6 87 Aisha Wadhwani 5
13th seeded Binu Sebastin were the only two tion and distributed the prizes to the winners
43 Jahnvi Ashok 6 88 Sherali Pattnaik 5
players from the top 20 seeds to be among of various categories.
44 Potluri Gulshan 6 89 Alana Meenakshi K 5
the 16 players with 5 points at the end of Final ranking
45 Avishi Gupta 6 90 Deekshaa S 4.5
the fifth round. Rk Name Pts
46 Das Niharika 6 91 Yadvithi M H 4.5
1 Nagasri Saikanth 8
47 Ramanathan Ragini 6 92 Bhoomika Singh 4.5
Five players Binu, B Venkatesan of TN, 2 Susheel Reddy P 8
48 Anandhi P 6 93 Jawahirani Aanya 4.5
Swapnil Priyadharshi of Orissa, Aragonda 3 Dhiman Mitra 8
49 Sahejdeep Kaur 6 94 Hasini Kamabathula 4.5
Mohan and Shridhar Tawade were leading 4 Sharma Tushar B 8
50 Suneli Bera 6 95 Bhimte Akshohini 4.5
with a 100% score. Shridhar and Aragonda 5 Kartik Kumar Singh 8
51 Thamada Mounisha 6 96 Akshara P 4
shared the lead with 7 points each with their 6 Shaik Sumer Arsh 8
52 Bhakti Rajai 6 97 Amrosha Krisshhna 4
victories at the end of the seventh round 7 Aragonda Mohan 8
53 Kanyoka Banerjee 6 98 Mahadi H 4
by beating Venkatesan and Kavi Samrat re- 8 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 8
54 Jenisha Khattar 6 99 Aanya Sinwar 4
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10 Satheesh Kumar G 8 55 Bharath Kumar Jaladanki 7 100 Gawande Vishal 6 145 Shreekanth N 6
11 Swapnil Priyadarshi 7 56 Kapil Dahiya 7 101 Rajat Yadav 6 146 Nihaar L Akula 6
12 Tawade Shridhar 7 57 Raj Kumar 7 102 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 6 147 Bhargava P 6
13 Lokaprakash A S 7 58 Apurba Dhara 7 103 Anilkumar Reddy K 6 148 Das Annika 6
14 Karthikeyan G 7 59 Meher Bhabanee Prasad 7 104 Sanath K Jamadagni 6 149 Sumanth Mamidala 6
15 Tiwari Shivansh 7 60 Vishwanath Purohit 7 105 Shinde Kunal 6 150 Midhun G 6
16 Rehaman Kotte 7 61 Rishi Kumar Pandey 7 106 Iyer Arvind 6 151 Thakkar Aniket 6
17 Abhinandan 7 62 Binu Sebastian 6 107 Nanal Arnav 6 152 Aryan Anand 6
18 Nilesh Wasnik 7 63 Mane Pravin 6 108 Vijay Chandran Bala 6 153 Jagadeeshwar Yerupula 6
19 Prabu R 7 64 Thakkar Romil J 6 109 Shardul Manojkumar T 6 154 Mangaldeep Mitra 6
20 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 7 65 Sahu Prakash 6 110 Poornesh C Mogaveera 6 155 Pradeep Sawant 6
21 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 7 66 Tanveer Monga 6 111 Kavya S 6 156 Akash P 6
22 Manoj E T 7 67 Abhiram Pramod K 6 112 Sreenivasulu P V 6 157 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 6
23 Venkatesan B 7 68 Ujjwal Deep 6 113 Patra Anilkumar 6 158 Hariharan Gandhi 6
24 Satyanarayana Raju D S 7 69 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6 114 Yadlapalli Akhil 6 159 Srikant Dronavalli 6
25 Rao Pn 7 70 Vashishtha Ankesh 6 115 Ved Prakash 6 160 Biswal Rama Chandra 6
26 Manikandan Tayalan 7 71 Sarthak Singh Parihar 6 116 Velpula Sarayu 6 161 Nazeer Basha G 6
27 Priyansh Sahu 7 72 Kamdar Abhay 6 117 Yadav Aakashkumar 6 162 Priyanka Bhatt 6
28 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 7 73 Anand Babu P 6 118 Senthil K Kaliyaperumal 6 163 Alexandar A 6
29 Johney Mandal 7 74 Mane Sandeep 6 119 Arunkumar K S 6 164 Naman Mehrothra 6
30 Sameer C 7 75 Vincent Vakki 6 120 Chanakya V B S L 6 165 Jain Ajinkya 6
31 Deshpande Omkar 7 76 Muralidharan P S 6 121 Pradhan Ashok Kumar 6 166 Dharmik Banka 6
32 Sheth Shemal Ketan 7 77 Tekam Krunal 6 122 Yuva Kishore Pilla 6 167 Mallesh Beerla 6
33 Rajashree S 7 78 Pannada Pretipu Rao 6 123 Jayakrishna H 6 168 Agrawal Bishnu Prasad 6
34 Syed Jahan Hussain 7 79 Ghaneshyam Mandal 6 124 Limaye Vedant 6 169 Dhanala Abhinav 6
35 Balakrishna Kavatrapu 7 80 Raza Khan 6 125 Verma Manshu 6 170 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 6
36 Vasistha Ramana RaoK V 7 81 Osman Bin Sayeed 6 126 Abdul Nabi 6 171 Deepak Kumar Patel 6
37 Jampu Bharani Bharadwaj 7 82 K Aditya Krishna 6 127 Ravinder Reddy Karra 6 172 Aryan Khurana 6
38 Muhammed Musthafa 7 83 Kommabathula Prakash 6 128 Sri Santhosh D 6 173 Narayana Sharma B L 6
39 Nivedan Bhardwaj 7 84 Ritik Kakeri 6 129 Harender J 6 174 Veerabhadri K 6
40 Abhisek Nayak 7 85 Trinadharao S 6 130 Srri Ram E 6 175 Manish Kumar Singh 6
41 Vaneshwar Rao K.V. 7 86 Sharath Chandra Ch 6 131 Mahat Nihal 6 176 Ravikumar K 6
42 Prem Kumar S 7 87 Rozer Samuel P A 6 132 Juare Deep 6 177 Sushil Harishchandra Patel 6
43 Trivedi Gaurav V 7 88 Chandrashekar R 6 133 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 6 178 Fulendra Kumar 6
44 Aditya Pattnaik 7 89 Gopichand K 6 134 Mekala Negendra 6 179 Karunakaran V M 6
45 Joshi Tejas 7 90 Shivpratap Singh 6 135 Jahnavi Sri Lalita M 6 180 Rajesh Ramanbhai Vaza 6
46 Suresh Naidu 7 91 Bharathakoti Sneha 6 136 Adireddy Tarun 6 181 Murugan V 6
47 Anubhab Gupta 7 92 Anandaraj L 6 137 Sharma Pramod Kumar 6 182 Varun Kumar Sriram 6
48 Ssathyan S R 7 93 Shubham Gupta 6 138 Mishra Prashant 6 183 Abdul Basheer K M 6
49 Sharma Vicky 7 94 Shah Het D 6 139 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 184 Rahul Tomar 6
50 Manish Kumar 7 95 Shankar Kopparthy 6 140 Chaubey Bharat 6 185 Srinidhi Kulkarni 6
51 Yashavishree N 7 96 Sahroj Alam 6 141 Srikanth Myakala 6 186 Amaranjay Kumar Dubey 6
52 Varun Sudarshan 7 97 Ashok D 6 142 BLakshmi Venkata Pratap 6 187 Jagannathan Govind 6
53 Damodar Kumar 7 98 Agil B Pukkunnel 6 143 Anoop P 6 188 Md. Shabbir Ali 6
54 Arun Prasath P 7 99 Suren S 6 144 Afinu Shifan M 6 189 Budh Deo Prasad 6

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 30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Tuticorin 5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7 48 S. Jeevanandam 5
6 Selvabharathy T 6 49 Sriram K 5
Barath Kalyan emerges Champion 7 Sivakumar C. 6 50 Aswath S 5
by M Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 8 Ram Kumar G M 6 51 Murukaananth A 5

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gathering and Mr. AL Subramanian Secre- 9 Nanda Kumar T.S. 6 52 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5
0th episode of Spic FIDE rated chess
tary, Thoothukudi District Chess Association 10 Rajasekaran P. 6 53 Mathavan T 5
tournament gave enjoyment to the
proposed the vote of thanks. 11 Thamaraiselvi P 6 54 Sriram S 5
participants and parents more than the
12 Godson Merlin E 6 55 Karpagakumar S V S 5
last year. Varieties of entertainment given
Earlier the 30th SPIC FIDE Rated Open 13 Sangeetha P 6 56 Balasankar M 5
by the organizer, felt the players and parents
Chess tournament got underway at Spic Sil- 14 Sa Kannan 6 57 Krishan A 5
more happy. Children and parents enjoyed
ver Jubilee Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi from 15 Gnanasekar .G 6 58 Abinaya S 5
the campus during the half yearly vocation
24th September 2017. The event attracted 16 Bharkavi S 6 59 Kannish Varmaa K 5
and also the program by Madurai Muthu and
300 players in Medallist section out of which 17 Alaguraja M.A. 6 60 Jaiyaharrsanth S J 5
two cinemas in the open air theatre enter-
199 players were Fide rated. Players from 18 Sathya Giri V 6 61 Shrija K M 5
tained the players and parents.
Kerala, Jharkhand, Pondicherry and Tamil- 19 Aswin Kumar B S 6 62 Suresh Kumar Ashok 5
nadu took part. 20 Subbhu Karthick S M 6 63 Sabhesan R 5
Mr Gnanasekaran from Chennai informed
21 Muralidharan R. 6 64 Reena K P 5
that he has been playing continuously for 20
In Non-Medalist section there were 242 play- 22 Anni Shayana Stephen 6 65 Haresh Nandan C 5
years without any break. There are players
ers. Spic is the only organization in Tamilnadu 23 Iniyan Sivakumar 6 66 Harikrishna R 5
like Mr. Gnanasekaran, regularly visiting the
which is conducting chess tournament for 24 Kamalanathan R 6 67 Natarajan M 5
Spic tournament. For some players and par-
Non- medalist players regularly. 25 Mohana R 6 68 Jesudoss S 5
ents it helped a pilgrimage to Thiruchendur.
26 Kanish V Adithan B 6 69 Samson D Cruz J 5
This year organizer has arranged transport
Kunal of Trichy was the top seed. Participa- 27 Ashok D 6 70 Jagendran Kamak N 5
facilities to Thiruchendur. Spic provided ac-
tion of an International Master C Praveen Ku- 28 Genish Prakash J 5 71 Achaya Vijayan 5
commodation to the players and the parents
mar of ICF gave glamour to the tournament. 29 Shanjay Krishnaa S 5 72 R Venkatasubramani 5
who participated in this tournament.
The total prize fund of the event was Two 30 Kumaresh A 5 73 Leaha B 5
Lakhs in medalist section, out of which, Rs. 31 Chandra Sekharan A P 5 74 Alfien Jessurun 5
5th seeded , 17 year old M. Barath Kalyan
35000/- was reserved to the winner. The total 32 Merryston David Scanny 5 75 Jaidambareesh N R 5
of Pattukottai won the title in 30th SPIC FIDE
prize fund for Non medalist was Rs.23000/- 33 Jos Paul Davis 5 76 Priya Varshini T 5
Rated Open Chess tournament at Spic Nagar
The tournament was declared open by Shri. 34 Mithesh M 5 77 Neha M B 5
Thoothukudi.He collected 7 point in 8 rounds
S R Pattanayak,Harbour Master VOC Port. 35 Kathiravan S 5 78 Sriman Prabhu M K 5
and won the Winners trophy pocketing a
36 Sanjeev M 5 79 Nitish Mani S 5
cash prize of thirty five thousand rupees.
Five players scored 7 points in eight rounds 37 Karthick Babu R 5 80 Pon Perumal S 5
Pranatheeswar of Salem became the cham-
but better tie break helped M Barath 38 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 5 81 Thajol T J 5
pion in Non medalist section with 7.5 points.
Kalyan,the seventeen year old boy from 39 Athish S 5 82 Aravind S 5
Pattukottai won the title. M Kunal become 40 Karunakaran V 5 83 Aaron P Michaelraj 5
The Chief guest of the function Shri. S. Sar-
the runner up in this tournament. 41 Preejesh S B 5 84 Karuppasamy C 5
avanan IAS Deputy Collector Thoothukudi
Final standings: 42 Niranjana P R 5 85 Shaktivel Selvaraj 4
District gave away the prizes. Shri Manuel
Rk Name Pts 43 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 5 86 Vinoth M 4
Aaron, India's first International Master, 9
1 Barath Kalyan M 7 44 Jayakrishna H 5 87 Roshan A Ramesh 4
times National champion, Arjuna award win-
2 Kunal M. 7 45 Adityan Kumar 5 88 Paramasivam M. 4
ner felicitated the event. Mr. Denim Mathew
3 Swaraj Palit 7 46 Balu P 5 89 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4
Executive Committee member Thoothukudi
4 Bala Kannamma P 7 47 Manikandan C 5 90 Gopinath P 4
District Chess Association, welcomed the

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91 M Kesavamoorthy 4 134 Naresh Krishna S 4 Unique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating Tournament,Margao,Goa
92 Senthil Kumaran N.S 4 135 Magdalene Roy R 4
93 Sam Jebadurai 4 136 Ebnesar Anto A 4
Nitish Belurkar wins at Margao
94 Arumugam N 4 137 Durairaj G 4 by Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter
95 Pratyush J 4 138 Divin S V 4

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96 Infant Jose H 4 139 Kumar P R 4 nique All India Open FIDE Rapid Rating the second spot,Top seed Nitish Belurkar
97 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 4 140 Kaviyarasan T 4 Tournament 2017 was conducted on gained 24 points .
98 Krishna Prasath S 4 141 Vel Aswin Saminathan 4 16th & 17th September 2017 at Da-
99 Surya Sathiaguru 4 142 Steve Rohan S 4 modar Vidya Bhuvan,Comba Margao Goa. At the Closing Ceremony Mr.KIshore Bandekar
100 Sivanandha V 4 143 Devin S V 4 171 players participated in the event ,the top Treasurer of AICF & Secretary of Goa Chess
101 Nicknesar Anto A 4 144 Varrun Shanjjay A 4 seed bein Ameya Audi and out of which 71 Association gave away the prizes in the
102 Kingston K J 4 145 Dhilip Santhosh Kumar 4 were FIDE Rated players. presence of of Mr. Vallabh Desai President
103 Lekshanth M 4 146 Arunachalam I 4 The Tournament was inaugurated at the of Banavli Chess Club Chief Arbiter Ashesh
104 Kamali B 4 147 Lokesh Varmaa K 4 hands of Mr. Vallabh Desai President of Ba- Keni ,Convener Sanjay Kavlekar,Secretary
105 Sivakumaran V 4 148 Hari Ramachandran S 4 navli Chess Club in the presence of Chief of Salcete Taluka Chess Association Damo-
106 Kaviarasan K 4 149 Akash Sundar S 4 Arbiter Ashesh Keni Convener Sanjay Ka- dar Zambaulikar, Dilip Vernekar Treasurerof
107 Guruvignesh V 4 150 Anbu Selvan P 4 vlekar,Secretary of Salcete Taluka Chess Salcete Taluka Chess Association.The Chief
108 Joshua Sudhan S 4 151 Riya Shannon S 4 Association Damodar Zambaulikar,Dilip Arbiter of the tournament was FA Ashesh
109 Divyanshu Gupta 4 152 Harini Shanmughavel 4 Vernekar Treasurer of Salcete Taluka Chess Keni along with Dep. Chief Arbiter NA Sanjay
110 Vengatesh Krishnan C 4 153 Srinivasaraj S 4 Association. Kavlekar & assisted by NA Swapnil Hoble,-
111 Arul Prakash N 4 154 Thulashi Ram R 4 NA Gautam Tari,NA Avinash Malvankar.The
112 Krishna Prasad N 4 155 Santhosh Shenbagamuran 4 In the First round Ameya Audi beat Dipraj Tournament was recognized by ALL India
113 Udhayan Jacob 4 156 Antony Nelson V 4 Sinari to maintain the lead,In the second Chess Federation & Goa Chess Association &
114 John Peter A 4 157 Nabeel M Abubackar 4 round the seeded players continued to lead,in Salcete Taluka Chess Association, The tour-
115 Kishore U R 4 158 Yoga Bharath S 4 the 3rd round Wilson cruz was held to a draw nament was organized in a good Hall. Toilets
116 Sundaralingam A 4 159 Mohana Lakshmi Sekar 4 by ayush shetkar ,In the fourth round Pratik and parking facilities were amply provided.
117 Nizsaanth Nobel Antony 4 160 Arjunan A 4 Borkar managed to beat higher seeded Suyan Snacks and tea were provided to each player.
118 Sivashankar G 4 161 Saai Aravindh R 4 Belurkar,In the Fifth round Sairaj Vernekar The total Prize fund of the tournament was
119 Sreevathsan H 4 162 Anish H 4 drew with AIM Wilson Cruz. At the end of 5 Rs.40000/- & Trophies worth Rs 10000/-.
120 Dharanidharan M 4 163 Subash N 4 rounds Ameya Audi continued to lead along Final ranking
121 Srivattsan S 4 164 Deephag J R S 4 with Nitish Belurkar,Niraj Saripalli, Nandini Rank Name Pts
122 Mohammed Ibrahim 4 165 Ajay Krishnan M 4 Saripalli on 5 points followed closely by Sairaj 1 FM Nitish Belurkar 8
123 D Kasthuri Rajan 4 166 Moir Donald 3 vernekar & Sanjay Thorat. In the Sixth round 2 Audi Ameya 8
124 Siva Rama Krishan B 4 167 Prasath K R 3 FM Nitish Belurkar beat top speed Ameya 3 Niraj Saripalli 7
125 Nithyanandam M 4 168 Abinaya H 3 Audi and Niraj Saripalli beat Sister Nandini 4 Parsekar Anirudh 7
126 Vignesh Rajan 4 169 Arul Jothi A 3 Saripalli to take the lead.IN the Seventh 5 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7
127 Sethusivaram B 4 170 Swarna Priya R 3 round Niraj Saripalli drew with Nitish Belurkar 6 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 7
128 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 4 171 Tharan Adithya M 3 & Ameya Audi won against Swera Ana Bra- 7 Nandhini Saripalli 7
129 Mridubashini S S 4 172 Parthiban V 3 ganza.In the Eighth round Ameya Audi beat 8 Shenoy Siddharth 7
130 Gowtham S G 4 173 Sathyaseelan C 3 Niraj Saripalli while Nitish Belurkar got the 9 Sahil Dayanand Desai 7
131 Vignesh S L 4 174 Vignesh G 3 better of Wilson Cruz.In the Final round Nitish 10 AIM Cruz Wilson 6
132 Raja Gopal P 4 175 Monish Kumar N 3 Belurkar won against WCM Gunjal Chopdekar 11 Madhavan G 6
133 Muthukumaran V 4 176 Rianna Netta B 3 while Ameya Audi beat Aryan Raikar to take 12 Brendan Peroz 6

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13 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 6 55 Dyaneshwar Hawal 5 4th Sameen Singh FIDE rated chess tournament-2017, Amritsar
14 Suyan Belurkar 6 56 Vas Bryan 5
15 Porob Vraj 6 57 Katkar Prithviraj 5
Dhananjay wins Sameen Singh FIDE Rated
16 Thorat Sanjay 6 58 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 5 By IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

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17 Devesh Anand Naik 6 59 Ved Narvekar 5
18 Paarth P Salvi 6 60 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5 he 4th Sameen Singh Open FIDE Rated Ranjan to take his point tally to eight and half
19 Anant Prabhudesai 6 61 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5 Chess Tournament-2017 was conducted points to finish as champion while Deepak
20 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 62 Katkar Atharv 5 by Sameen Singh Charitable Society Katiyar signed the peace treaty with top seed
21 Snehil Shetty 6 63 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 5 under the aegis of Punjab State Chess As- Shailesh Dravid to secure second position
22 Pratik S Borkar 6 64 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5 sociation at Amritsar from 29 Sep to 03 Oct with eight points. Pardeep Arora of Punjab
23 Gaude Sachin 6 65 Hawal Shreyash 5 2017.The tournament was organized in the outwitted team mate Shubham Shukla to
24 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 6 66 Ali Amanat 5 memory of Dr. Sameen Singh, a national finish as second runner up. Dhanjay received
25 Bhimappa Harijan 6 67 Dion Lourenco 5 level chess player who was five times CBSE winners trophy along with Rs. 81,000/- as
26 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 68 Ananya Pandey 5 North Zone-II champion from 2005 to 2009 cash award. Deepak and Pardeep pocketed
27 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6 69 Sayyed Mahdiya 5 and twice position holder at national level. cash prizes of Rs. 51,000/- and Rs. 25,000/-
28 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 6 70 Soham Anil Dhuri 5 On the dark day of 22nd March 2014, he met respectively.
29 Sachin Kakodkar 6 71 Cyrus Gomes 5 a fatal accident near Delhi NCR and took his
30 Vinayak Thevar 6 72 Chopdekar Aman 5 last breath on 7th April 2014. Aditi Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh bagged
31 Netra P Savaikar 6 73 Dalvi Ishan 5 the best women player trophy while Karan
32 Kakodkar Joy 6 74 Angle Vedant 5 The event attracted a total number of 490 Veer Singh of Punjab adjudged as best unrat-
33 Sukhlecha Aditya 6 75 Sainee N F Dessai 5 players including 297 international rated ed player. Dave Kantilal becomes best veter-
34 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 6 76 Calantha Gomes 5 players from across the country. The tour- an player and Vikas Sharma finished as best
35 Charuta J Shetye 77 6 Chari Sairaj 5 nament conducted under Swiss system Punjab player. Awadh Chaitanya of Madhya
36 Yash Manoj Upadhye 6 78 Rudraksh Rama Parab 5
with 9 rounds with a total prize fund of Rs. Pradesh, Bhavyay Gupta of Delhi, Daaevik
37 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5
5,00,000/-. Wadhawan of become the best boys players
79 Kamat Aniket 5
in Under-19, Under-14 and Under-9 age cat-
38 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5 80 Sequeira Alex 5 The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. egories respectively while Ishvi Aggarwal of
39 Parab Rishikesh 5 81 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 4 Mahel Singh, Principal Khalsa College Am- Haryana, Aanya Agarwal of Delhi and Anahita
40 Bir Yogesh Pai 5 82 Kakodkar Love 4 ritsar in presence of Shri. Narinder Singh, Verma of Punjab won the same age catego-
41 Yash Paul 5 83 Vicente Fernandes 4 President Punjab State Chess Association ry prizes in girls section. Sarthak Rawat of
42 Kiran S Chopdekar 5
84 Parth Kamat 4 and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Uttarakhand, Pravin Hend of Maharashtra,
43 Pednekar Sagar 5 85 Nagvekar Sairudra 4
Singh Charitable Society and father of Dr. Sudhanshu Ranjan of Bihar bagged the best
44 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 5 Sameen Singh. player prizes trophy and Rs. 15000/- cash
86 Lad Mandar Pradip 4
45 Kalparaj Ekavade 5 prizes each in Below Elo 1400, Elo 1700 and
87 Stuti Rajesh Pai 4 The event was played under the time control Elo 2000 categories respectively.
46 Parab Sneh 5
88 Cardozo Selvino 4 of 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment
47 Aarush Pandey 5
89 Punit Rahi 4 from move and players moved to business Brigadier S Harcharan Singh, Olympian and
48 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5
90 Shetty Ankit 4 mode from the start itself and provided much Arjuna Awardee gave away the trophies and
49 Avaneeshwar Guin 5
91 Rane Saurabh 4 excitement till the end.After the eighth and cash prizes to the winners in presence of Smt.
50 Bhat Pratham 5
92 Desai Veer 4 penultimate round three players namely Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International
51 Geetesh R Naik 5
93 Salunke Vinayak 4 Dhanjay S of Chattisgarh, Deepak Katiyar of School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President
52 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5
94 Aarav Kamat 4 Delhi and Sudhanshu Ranjan of Bihar were in Sameen Singh Charitable Society in a glit-
53 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5
95 Zore Chinmay 4 joint lead with seven and half points. But in tering closing ceremony.
54 Srilaxmi Kamat 5
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Rk Name Pts 43 Yudhveer Singh 6 86 Dinesh Kumar 6 129 Dhruv Shingari 5
1 Dhananjay S 8 44 Vibhor Sharma 6 87 Chirag Arora 6 130 Pramit Chanda 5
2 Deepak Katiyar 8 45 Soumen Mondal 6 88 Jai Saxena 6 131 Chhabra Divya 5
3 Pardeep Arora 8 46 Bipin Dhingra 6 89 Sabiuddin Baig 6 132 Surajbhansingh Chandel 5
4 Gajwa Ankit 8 47 Deepak Raina 6 90 Ishvi Aggarwal 6 133 Sharma Aayush 5
5 Shailesh Dravid 7 48 Katiyar Prashant 6 91 Parmod Kharbash 5 134 Atul Saxena 5
6 Sudhanshu Ranjan 7 49 Naveen Bansal 6 92 Jaspreet Singh 5 135 Arora Nitish 5
7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 50 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 93 Gautam Sharma 5 136 Sulekh Kumar Malik 5
8 Kant Rupesh 7 51 Sankit Swami 6 94 Amanpreet Singh 5 137 Suthar Pradip 5
9 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7 52 Suraj Dahiya 6 95 Gill Tejinder Pal Singh 5 138 Girotra Shiv 5
10 Prakash Ram 7 53 Gaurav Sharma 6 96 Siddhant Nath Jha 5 139 Krishnam Trikha 5
11 Ankit Sen 7 54 Bhavyay Gupta 6 97 Aryan Garg 5 140 Parus Banota 5
12 Himanshu Ranjan 7 55 Jaiswal Prashant S 6 98 Kant Swapnil 5 141 Sahil Tickoo 5
13 Singh Arvinder Preet 7 56 Mohit Kumar Soni 6 99 Sinha Abhay Kumar 5 142 Shrivastava Kushagra 5
14 Esshan Wadhawan 7 57 Rishabh Nishad 6 100 Dave Shiv Shankar 5 143 Sukhjeet Singh Sivia 5
15 Hend Pravin 7 58 Choubey Saurabh 6 101 Kasar Prashant 5 144 Rishi Sanotra 5
16 Shubham Shukla 7 59 Namitbir Singh Walia 6 102 Ankur Mehta 5 145 Ankur Chopra 5
17 Khan Md. Raisudin 7 60 Bhavesh Mahajan 6 103 Malik Rajat 5 146 Sonu Kumar 5
18 Sahil Dhawan 7 61 Gaikwad Vishal 6 104 Surinder Singh 5 147 Bhushita Ahuja 5
19 Akshay Anand 7 62 Bhavik Ahuja 6 105 Rawat R.S. 5 148 Pankaj Arora 5
20 Kumar Sanu 7 63 Mohan Singh Dewat 6 106 Aanya Agarwal 5 149 Arun Kumar 5
21 Ashutosh Kumar 7 64 Jindal Aman 6 107 Rahul Yadav 5 150 Jatin Sharma 5
22 Vikrant Jaglan 7 65 Sanjeevan Sarswat 6 108 Kirti Kumar 5 151 Mohd. Arshi Khan 5
23 Awadh Chaitanya 7 66 Ayush Sharma 6 109 Shubham Bhardwaj 5 152 Vandit Behal 5
24 Lakshit Rana 7 67 Harshiel Sehgal 6 110 Saini Ashutosh 5 153 Gaurav Tiwari 5
25 Trivedi Karan R 7 68 Aryan 6 111 Shiba Prasad Chakraborty 5 154 Arjun Veer Singh 5
26 Vinayak B Hariwal 7 69 Aman Kumar 6 112 Sumeet Chorghade 5 155 Aditya Srivastava 5
27 Negi D.S. 6 70 Love Jindal 6 113 Manas Mahajan 5 156 Aditya Jain 5
28 Vikas Sharma 6 71 Karan Veer Singh 6 114 Sanpreet Singh 5 157 Singh Gurneet 5
29 Dave Kantilal 6 72 Govind Kumar 6 115 Chirag Tayal 5 158 Harne Mahesh 5
30 Sharma Pankaj 6 73 Lasaroda Prince 6 116 Kapil Pawar 5 159 Kataria Deepak 5
31 Pankaj Verma 6 74 Vispute Mayur 6 117 Aman Prakash 5 160 Kakra Palav 5
32 Punit Indora 6 75 Dinesh Sinha 6 118 Shivang Gupta 5 161 Gagan 5
33 Ajit Singh 6 76 Shrivastava Aditi 6 119 Navya Tayal 5 162 Ramendra Ranjan 5
34 Pardeshi Ajay 6 77 Sahil Bheron 6 120 Singh Dinesh Pratap 5 163 Sharma Manoj 5
35 Ashutosh Kumar 6 78 Vikas Bhatia 6 121 Singla Utsav 5 164 Karan Bajoria 5
36 Sudarshan Malga 6 79 Deepak Singh 6 122 Tiya Setia 5 165 Arun Prakash Tiwari 5
37 Pukhraj Singh 6 80 Giri Abhishek 6 123 Virendra Singh 5 166 Singh Jeet 5
38 Vipan Kumar 6 81 Daaevik Wadhawan 6 124 Kunal Sharma 5 167 Lasani H Kothari 5
39 Umer S.M 6 82 Harbir 6 125 Singh Harsimranjeet 5 168 Goel Pratyaksh 5
40 Sarthak Rawat 6 83 Abhishek Kumar Mishra 6 126 Rishabh Chawla 5 169 Vaibhav Tiwari 5
41 Gupta Bhola Nath 6 84 Saran Kumar Thakur 6 127 Rajan Dhiman 5 170 Akash Tiwari 5
42 Maxim Singh 6 85 Deena Nath Mishra 6 128 Madhav Sharma 5 171 Ravi Kumar V 5

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 Aadi International Open Rating Rapid Tournament 2017,Mandla
R.R.Laxman of ICF Wins
by IA Anurag Singh,Chief Arbiter
A
adi International Open Rating Rapid
Tournament 2017 was organized by
Mandla District Chess Association
under the aegis of Madhya Pradesh Chess
Association and All India Chess Federation
on 16th and 17thSeptember 2017 at Indoor
Stadium, Mandla.
The Total Number of participants were 83
which included GM R RLaxman and GM Sriram
Jha participating in the event. The total tally
of rated players was 52.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands ofMrs. Purnima Shukla, Nagarpalika
Head, Mandla. Other guests present on the
dais were GM R RLaxman, GM Sriram Jha
and IA Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter. After
the inaugural function theTechnical meeting
was arranged. All the tournament regulations
were discussed and finalized in the meeting.
At the end of the event GM R.R.Laxman Stood
as the Champion and GM Sriram Jha finished
as the runner-up. The tournament saw tough
competition.
The prize distribution function of Aadi In-
ternational Open Rating Rapid Tournament
2017 was held on 17th September, 2017 at
1 pm at the venue. The Chief Guest for the
occasion was Mr. Irshadvali, DIG, Bhalaghat.
Mrs. Sufiya Faruki, Collector, Mandla, GM
R.R. RLaxman, GM Sriram Jha and the Chief
Arbiter IA Anurag Singh were present on the
occasion.
Final ranking: 38 D Jageshwar Prasad 5 of chess. But little did Jishitha care about
Rk Name Pts 39 Sharma Varun 4 rankings and numbers. She played some
1 GM Laxman R.R. 8
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5th Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Sasikiran wins Bronze
Sasikiran Krishnan is the only Indian to have won a medal in the Standard
format of 5th Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Among other
2 GM Sriram Jha 8 Indians, Surya Sekhar Ganguly finished in 9th position among Men whereas
3 Tiwari Arjun 7 Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman secured 7th place and her compatriot Tania Sa-
4 Awadh Chaitanya 7 chdev secured 11th among women. In the open section, Le Quang Liem was
5 Shukla Shishir 7 crowned champion with 5/7 points. Lu Shanglei tied, but was behind on
6 FM Gajwa Ankit 6 tiebreak score. China's Tan Zhongyi, the Women's World Champion, left with a
7 Kant Rupesh 6 final score of 6.0/7 points and was crowned champion of the women's section.
8 Aishwin Daniel 6 In the final round, Sasikiran faced IM Annaberdiev Meilis of Turkmenistan.
9 Mishra Manoj 6 In an Italian Opening, Meilis gave no chances to Sasi to gain a full point and maybe score a
different medal.
10 Saurabh Lokhande 6
11 Niklesh Kumar Jain 6 Asian Indoor Rapid: Bronze for Indians
12 Ramendra Ranjan 6 Rapid Team category of the Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor
13 Batham Avinash 6 and Martial Arts Games commenced in the Chess Arena on
14 Gupta Bhola Nath 6 Tuesday September 26. and India secured Bronze Medals
15 Rajendra Singh 6 in Mens and Womens section.
16 Sharma Vicky 6
17 Mishra Kamad 6 GM Sasikiran Krishnan made the nation proud by clinch-
18 Ankur Khatri 6 ing the Bronze medal in the Asian Indoor Individual Chess
19 Raghunandan Rohit 6 Championship. The youngsters made their mark in the Mens
20 Alim Khan 5 U-23 Rapid Team category. In the final round, India drew
eventual Gold Medalist Turkmenistan Team to seize the third
21 AGM Sikka Sumit 5
spot.Karthikeyan Murali and Diptayan Ghosh were members of the team. In the Womens Rapid
22 Aditya Uday Kakpure 5
Team section, IM Tania Sachdev and IM Padmini Rout tallied points with Vietnam for the third
23 Rahul Wahane 5
spot. The Chess Arena will host four Blitz Team events for medals on Wednesday 27 September,
24 Tiwari Shivansh 5
the final day of competition. The mens Blitz Team, womens Blitz Team, mens Blitz Team U23,
25 Rajendra Dhote 5 and womens Blitz Team U23 will feature five rounds of blitz games (three minutes for each
26 Vivekanand Yadav 5 player, plus two seconds added for each completed move).The top-four finishing teams in each
27 Swapnil Raj 5 of the four events will play finals with both losing semi-final teams to receive bronze medals.
28 K Subham Kumar 5 India did not finish in the top four teams in Blitz event.
29 Mandakani Mishra 5
30 Nilesh D Bande 5 World Youth Chess Championships 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay
31 Johney Mandal 5 Jishitha brings back gold, Arjun and Sakshi bag silver
32 Sajal Patel 5 At the World Youth 2017 held in Montevideo,
33 Prakash Banskar 5 Uruguay, Andhra girl Jishitha D started off
34 Ahirwar Aniket 5 not so well in the under-14 girls section with
35 Aggarwal Siddharth 5 4.0/6. To add to her woes Bibisara Assaubaye-
36 Banskar Puranlal 5 va was in her group. Bibisara is rated 2421
37 Paarth Mundhra 5 and is one of the biggest talents in the world
40 Vishal Yadav 4 sublime chess to win her last five games,
just like Abhijeet Gupta in 2008 World Junior Jishitha receiving the gold medal
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 Isle of Man: Anand silences the Naysayers

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

World Champion Magnus Carlsen finished clear first with 7.5

Saskshi Chitlange receiving the silver medal Erigaisi Arjun receiving the silver medal points, drawing his games against GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Indian number 3 Vidit Gujrathi, and GM Hikaru Nakamura.
and clinched the gold medal in the under-14 Saskshi Chitlange was second at the event Magnus finished with a performance rating of more than 2900.
girls section. Bibisara couldn't keep pace scoring 9.0/11 and gaining 116 Elo points. Thus He went home richer with a cheque for 50,000. Interestingly,
with Jishitha and was left panting at 8.5/11. India came back with three medals: one gold this is his first classical tournament win in 435 days. Not too
And the quality of Jishitha's games was very and two silvers. As compared to the World Ca- long ago, his 2nd round exit from World Cup caused a splutter
high! Her penultimate round victory over sec- dets, this was a very positive performance as in among chess players. A few critics have broached the topic of
ond seed Nurgyul Salimova (2329) was nearly Brazil we had won only one medal in under-12 his retirement.
flawless.Arjun Erigiasi won the silver medal in girls section by Divya Deshmukh.
under-14 open. After three rounds, Anand was with 2.5 points
and in the later rounds, he showed his class with
1st Asian Chess Championship for disabled, Kyrgyzstan a steady performance. Silencing his critics with
his pieces, he scored 7 points out of 9 rounds and
First Asian Chess Championship for Disabled was inaugurated by the Kyrgyzstan National State
finished second ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura
Minister in the presence of Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan, Vice President of Asian Chess Association
due to the better tiebreak score.
on 15.09.2017 morning 10.00 am and the first round started at 12.00 noon. In this Champion-
The final round game against GM Hou Yifan was
ship for Disabled three players from India participated IM Shashikant Kutwal and WIM K.Jennitha
a true master class. Anand clearly knows how to
Anto played for the Physically Disabled Category and Malika Handa played in Deaf Category.
close a tournament on a high note.
Just a half-point behind Anand, GM Vidit Gujrathi
In the fifth round Jennitha Anto drew with Ostry Irina and they were leading in the Physically
had a great tournament. He drew his final round
Disabled category with 4.5 points, Shashikant Kutwal won and got 4 points. In the sixth round
game against GM Richard Rapport and settled at
Jennitha Anto met Shashikant Kutwal and won
the 8th spot. Notably, he held World Champion
the round. The two ladies were leading the
Magnus Carlsen to a draw in the 7th round. Due to his performance, Vidits live rating soared
Physically Disabled category In the Last round
to Elo 2721!
Shashikant Kutwal won and became Winner of
the Men section Physically Disabled category,
GM Swapnil Dhopade was the find of the tournament scoring 6.5/9 to finish twelfth on the tie-
But Jennitha Anto lost to Kyrgyzstan player
break for the third place. He scored a mind-boggling 2768 and was clearly in the form of his
and She got second place. Malika Handa won
life. IM Harsha Bharatakoti surprised everyone with his magnificent performance. With a rating
the last round and she got second place in the
performance of 2693, he deservedly scored a Grandmaster norm. He played 9 Grandmasters,
Deaf category.
scoring three wins, four draws and only two losses IM Praggnanandhaa R. scored 5.5/9 points.
His most notable victory was against British GM David Howell. rated 2701, which brought him
Shashikant Kutwal won the Gold Medal with 5
great chances to score his first GM norm. However, he could not continue the momentum and
points. Jennitha Anto got Sliver Medal scoring
we have to wait for another day for history to occur.
5.5 points in the Physically Disabled category.
IM Nihal Sarin missed his second GM norm by a whisker. He had to win the final round against
Malika Handa got 4.5 points and got Sliver
GM Gabriel Sargissian (2652) of Armenia and pushed hard with a blistering attack, even though
Medal in the Deaf category. On the whole our
unsound. Unfortunately for him, the Armenian liquidated into a better opposite colored bishop
Indian Disabled Team done a great job.
ending a pawn up that should have been a draw, but a tired Nihal ended up losing.
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Carlsen,Magnus (2827)
Vidit,Santosh Gujrathi (2702) [A07]
IoM Masters Douglas ENG (7.1),
Annotated by Sagar Shah
1.Nf3 This move came as a bit of a surprise for
Vidit, but in general he was expecting Magnus
to play something off beat. 1...d5 2.g3 g6
3.Bg2 Bg7 4.00 [4.d4 In order to avoid
what happened in the game, White players
usually go for this move order.] 4...e5 I like
Vidit's decision. He gets the centre and easy
development. Magnus has to decide how he
can make use of the extra tempo in this op-
posite coloured King's Indian Defence. 5.d3
Ne7 6.e4 [6.c4 is another way to play the
position.] 6...00 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Re1 Nc6
Black has excellent development and I would
say has already equalized out of the open-
ing. 9.Nc3 [9.Nbd2 with the idea of Nc4 to
put more pressure on e5 is more logical it
seems.] 9...Nde7 10.Rb1 a5 11.b3 Re8
12.Bb2 Nf5 13.Nb5 With this move Vidit got
the counterplay flowing with the move a5-
a4. [13.a4 could have been a slightly better
possibility for White. Although Black seems
to be perfectly fine here as well.] 13...a4
14.c4 [14.b4!? Nxb4 15.Bxe5!] 14...axb3
15.axb3 Nd6!
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gis of All India Chess Federation, Goa Chess
This was the move that Vidit liked very much
and after this he did feel that Black had a
very comfortable position. It is counter-in-
tuitive that instead of using the d4 square
from f5, the knight jumped back to d6. But
the priority was to eliminate the knight
from b5. 16.Ra1?! This move really gives
Black a very pleasant position. [16.Nc3
Bg4 17.h3 Bxf3 18.Bxf3 Nd4= /=+] 16...
Rxa1 17.Bxa1 Nxb5 18.cxb5 Nd4 White
has nothing to show for his mangled pawn
structure. 19.Bxd4 [19.Nxd4 exd4 20.Rxe8+
Qxe8] 19...exd4 20.Rxe8+ Qxe8 21.Qc1
Until now Vidit has played all the best moves
but now starts going wrong. He feels that
Bd7 is the best move and goes for it. But in
that process he exchanges his pretty good
c7 pawn with White's weak b5 pawn. White's
disadvantage is reduced. 21...Bd7?! [21...
Bf5! 21...Qe7!] 22.Qxc7 Bxb5 23.Bf1 Bc6
24.Qf4 Bxf3 [24...Qd8 Maybe on some
other ambitious day Vidit would have played
this way. But in general he saw that he
could easily make a draw by taking on f3,
and went for it.] 25.Qxf3= Qc6 26.Qd1
b6 27.Bg2 Qe6 28.Bb7 Bf8 29.Qf3 Kg7
30.Qf4 Qf6 31.Qxf6+ A draw against the
World Champion and that took with the black
pieces, is a great achievement.
Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Panaji,Goa
Suaravh Khardekar wins title
by FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter
I
t gives me immense pleasure in present-
ing this report of 6 th Fomento All India
Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017
organized by Rudreshwar Panaji underthe ae-
Association and TiswadiTaluka Chess Asso-
ciation. The tournament was held from 6 th
Sept to 10 th Sept2017 at Institute Menenzes
Braganza Hall Panaji Goa. All together 189
participants took part in this tournament from
Maharashtra, Karnataka, MadhyaPradesh,
Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Andra Pradesh, Telan-
gana, which had 2 IMs 1FM, 1 CM, 1 AGM, 1
AIM, 1 AFM.There were all together 25 main
prizes ,apart from category prizes from U-7
to U-15 Boys. Total prize fund was Rs 2 lacks.
FM Sauravh Khardekar of Maharashtra won
the tournament by scoring 8.5points from
9 rounds, IM Ramnathan Balasubramanian
of Tamil Nadu stood second with 7.5 points
while Ameya Audi of Goa Stood 3 rd with
7.5 points.The conduct of all the players re-
mained excellent throughout thetournament
and there was no dispute or any protest.
Tournament waswell organized. Organizers
had provided AC tournament Hall to play.
They provided tea , snacks and water to the
players and parents during the rounds and
proper sitting arrangements were done for
parents too.
Shri Yatin Parekh ( Ex-Mayor Corporation of
Panaji) , Chief Guest forthe Opening ceremo-
ny inaugurated the tournament by lighting
thetraditional lamp and making the 1 st move
on the board with Shri AkashTimblo ( Execu-
tive Director of Fomento Group of Company),
Shri RajeshTarkar ( President Rudreshwar
Panaji),Shri Arvind Mhamal ( ChiefArbiter),
Shri Sangam Chodankar ( Sports Secretary
Rudreshwar Panaji)and other office bearers
of Rudreshwar Panaji.At the closing ceremo-
ny Dr Ashwini Kumar ( Scientist at Malaria
ResearchCenter Panaji) was the Chief Guest
and gave away the prizes in the presence of
Mr Avduth Timblo ( Fomento Group of Com-
panies) ,Shri Kishor Bandekar (Treasurer
AICF & Secretary GCA), Dnyaneshwar
Naik ( Tournament Director), Arvind Mhamal
(Chief Arbiter) , Dipak Amonkar, Dattaram
Pinge, Tanay Kaisary, Balakrishnan V, Satish
Narvekar (Secretary Rudreshwar Panaji)
,Sangam Chodankar, and other office bearers
of RudreshwarPanaji.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 8
2 IM R.Balasubramaniam 7
3 Audi Ameya 7
4 Verma Rahul 7
5 Sibi Visal R 7
6 Joy Lazar M.A. 7
7 Arvind Shastry 7
8 Anilkumar O.T. 7
9 Mraduhas Tripathi 7
10 Kochrekar Vishwesh 7
11 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 6
12 Marthandan K U 6
13 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 6
14 Kapadi Yash 6
15 Hari R Chandran 6
16 Habib Qureshi Raaz 6
17 Gaude Sachin 6
18 Mithil Anande P 6
19 Ashish Madhusoodhanan 6
20 Shree Krishna Pranama 6
21 Anvesh Bandekar 6
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22 AGM Sikka Sumit 6 67 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 5 3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament,Kancheepuram
23 Jinan Jomon 6 68 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5
24 Tanvi V Hadkonkar 6 69 Shreyas Shashi Kumar 5 Maheswarn wins title
25 Aswin.P.G 6 70 Mahith Greesham Goud 5 By Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter

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26 Shirodkar Aayush 6 71 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5
27 Shalon Joanne Pais 6 72 Nagvekar Sairudra 5 rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tourna- 3 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 7
28 Suhas B. Asnodkar 6 73 Manchekar Ravindra 5 ment was conducted from 27.09.2017 4 Sathiyaraj S 7
29 Afinu Shifan M 6 74 Avathanshu Bhat 5 to 02.10.2017.Organizers provided 5 Raghul Saro S 6
30 Thorat Sanjay 6 75 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5 good playing Hall and accommodation fa- 6 George Daniel 6
31 Priyanka Bhatt 6 76 Kunal Naik 5 cilities to players. The tournament was 7 Badrinarayanan N 6
32 Kevin Peter Gonsalves 6 77 Charuta J Shetye 5 inaugurated by PMJF LN Mr. Anbu. District 8 Dharani Kumar M S 6
33 Manodhya Prakrati 6 78 Pednekar Sagar 5 Lions Club International.FM Maheswaran.P 9 Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy 6
34 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6 79 Girija A Pednekar 5 (2245) topped the starting list of 80 players 10 Sakthi Subash A S 6
35 Madhavan G 6 80 Prashant Salvi 5 of the tournament, The tournament went on 11 Arjun Vasudevan 6
36 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 81 Sawant Sanskruti 5 smoothly without any complaints. 12 Kharunya C.S. 6
37 Konatham Snehil 5 82 Sainee N F Dessai 5 13 Shyam Ganesh R 6
38 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 5 83 Devesh Anand Naik 4 Maheswaran was on top of form right from 14 Abinesh T 6
39 Karthik Raj 5 84 Bir Yogesh Pai 4 the first round. He was unbeaten and drew in 15 Subramanian T.V. 6
40 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 5 85 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4 rounds 7 & 9 with mohankumar and sathiya- 16 Madhavan M 6
41 Audi Saiesh 5 86 Siva Swamy V. 4
raj respectively. He maintained his sole lead 17 Madhavan R Munjanattu 6
42 Sharath R Shanbhag 5 87 Kakodkar Love 4
from round 5 with a margin of 1 point ahead 18 Gangasha H 6
43 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5 88 Naik Vedant Sabaji 4
of the others. There was no notable play from 19 Adithya Ramesh 5
44 AFM Naik Sayuri 5 89 Sankarshana Goli 4
any of the other players..Maheswaran won 20 Sivaprakasam V 5
45 Avaneeshwar Guin 5 90 Akhil Naik 4
with 8 points became title holder followed 21 Pon Balaji N 5
46 Kakodkar Joy 5 91 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 4
47 Nikhil Murugkar 5 92 Ashwini Koteshwara 4
by Mohankumar, Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi, 22 Jeevan Kumar S 5
48 Jadhav Ravindranath 5 93 Aarush Pandey 4 Sathiyaraj, with 7 points. 23 Farris Mohammed S J 5
24 Midilesh Ms 5
49 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5 94 Taufeeq S. Mohammed 4
50 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5 95 Namesh Milesh Churi 4 Prize Distribution started by 4 p.m on 2nd Oc- 25 Suthesan V J 5
51 Chirag Mudraje 5 96 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 4 tober 2017 .Guest of Honour Mr. Swamy Ln. 26 Vikraanth S 5
52 Vinod Verma 5 97 Ved Narvekar 4 Sudhagar Thichikar addressed the gathering 27 Selvaraj Mahendran 5
53 Roshan Abendhra R 5 98 Ramesh Murugesan 4 along with Lions club members. Ln. T. Sun- 28 Pragadeesh Kumar L D 5
54 Swayam Naik 5 99 Saidas D Fotto 4 dar Ganesh Prop. Pachaiyappas Silks,Ln. S. 29 Praveen Kumar Sentamilselvan 5
55 Athalye Varad 5 100 Dutt B.S. 4 Magesh, President Kanchi Chess Acadamy,Ln. 30 Srivat Raj R 5
56 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5 101 Lad Mandar Pradip 4 Kamal Kishore. DC,Ln. 31 Vasantha Rajan v 5
57 Sachin Kakodkar 5 102 Skandhaj Kotha 4 Club International Ln. Poornachandran Cab- 32 Mohana Priya V 5
58 Pratik S Borkar 5 103 Shubh Kalangutkar 4 inet Secretray gave away the prizes. 33 Dhanabala Bhoopathy T V 5
59 Anupam M Sreekumar 5 104 Tanay Agarwadekar 4 I thank AICF for giving me an opportunity 34 Sudharsan Parthiban 5
60 Pednekar Balkrishna 5 105 Asmita Avijit Ray 4 to serve as Chief Arbiter for the 3rd KCA Fide 35 Tamilarasi A 5
61 Subramanian T.V. 5 106 Ganesh Bhaskar Mhamal 4 Rated Open Chess Tournament. 36 Dheepak S 5
62 Prasanna Swamy 5 107 Shetti Ameya 4 37 Ratan Gandhi S 4
63 Kulkarni Anandrao 5 108 Porob Naguesh Rama 4 Final ranking 38 Hariharan N 4
64 Parab Sneh 5 109 Shlok Dhulapkar 4 Rk Name Pts 39 Sabarish Parthiban 4
65 Netra P Savaikar 5 110 Pawan Kumar 4 1 Maheswaran P. 8 40 Thirupathyraj P 4
66 Paarth P Salvi 5 111 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 4 2 Mohan Kumar 7 41 Srinath Ramakrishnan 4

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 KKCA 1ST FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Coimbatore
Arunachalam Shivaa is Champion
by V Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter
T
.V.Arunachalam Shivaa of Coimbatore
won the KKCA 1st FIDE Rated Open
Chess Tournament with a score of 7.0
points from 8 rounds. Around 260 entries
mostly from Southern States have partici-
pated in this event. A prize pool of Rs.3 lakh
has been allotted for main prizes and various
ELO categories. 60+ plus trophies were given
to encourage young talents also.
Phoobalan of ICF was the top seed followed
by S S Manigandan of Madurai and A Mu-
thuswamy of Salzer Electronics Ltd, Coim-
batore. When Phoobalan lost to Shreyas of
Coimbatore in the 5th round the race for the
standing became wide open. Shreyas drew
with Manigandan in the 6th round,meanwhile
Arunachalam Shivaa outplayed Mohith to
take the sole lead with 5.5 points.
A win in the 7th round against Shreyas and
safe draw in the 8th final round against Vi-
gneshwaran S made Arunachalam Shivaa,
champion of the event. In a eight way tie
in 6.5 points Phoobalan finished runner up
on better tie break scores followed by S S
Manigandan on third spot. The prizes were
distributed by Mr N Jayabal, President, CDCA,
Owners of the Venue and Office bearers of
Kovai Kids Chess Academy.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 7
2 Phoobalan P. 6.5
3 Manigandan S S 6.5
4 Uma Maheswaran P 6.5
5 Shreyas M 6.5
6 Anilkumar O.T. 6.5
7 Jinan Jomon 6.5
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8 Vigneshwaran S 6.5
9 Aswin.P.G 6.5
10 Mani Bharathy 6
11 Roshan S 6
12 Harshad S 6
13 Joy Antony 6
14 Midhun Kumar M A 6
15 Siva Shanmugam S 6
16 Iniyan Sivakumar 6
17 Muthuswamy A. 6
18 Thoufeeq S 6
19 Nirmal L 6
20 Raman R. 6
21 Anand Selvarajan 6
22 Muthu P 6
23 Ajay D 6
24 Vinod Kumar M. 5.5
25 Rutherford S 5.5
26 Dhanasekar K. 5.5
27 Rohan Anand 5.5
28 Aji Kumar A 5.5
29 Kavin K 5.5
30 Sivashankar M 5.5
31 Emmanuel Austin B 5.5
32 Rajkumar S 5.5
33 Jayasangar T 5.5
34 Nived Sreesobh 5.5
35 Nithin A V 5.5
36 Sriram K 5.5
37 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 5.5
38 Jayaprakash M 5.5
39 Muthukrishnan S 5.5
40 S. Selvarajan 5.5
41 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5
42 Vishnu Ram M 5
43 John Veny Akkarakarn 5
44 Aakash G 5
45 Sivaa G M 5
46 Aadarsh Kumar M E 5
47 Sivaneshan V 5
55th National Challengers Ch.
Ahmedabad Ahmedabad , 2017
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Das,Debashis (2493) Das,
Arghyadip (2419) [B44]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Be7
9.Be2 b6 10.00 Bb7 11.Be3 00 12.Qd2
Ne5 13.f3 Qc7 14.Rac1 Rac8 15.Rfd1
Ned7 16.Bf1 Qb8 Black's strategy in this
Opening would be to break out of white's
grip on the centre by playing either ....b5 or
...d5. And naturally, white would try to thwart
such black attempts. 17.Kh1 Rfe8 18.Nc2
h5 [M.Solleveld 2396 vs Sofia Polgar 2500,
Dutch Championship, 2000, went: 18...d5
19.cxd5 exd5 20.Bf4 Bd6 21.Bxd6 Qxd6
22.Ne3 Rcd8 23.Ncxd5 Nxd5 24.Nxd5 Ne5
25.Qg5 [%emt 0:00:46] 10] 19.Bf2 Ne5
20.b3 Ba8 [Better was: 20...Nfd7 21.Be2
Red8=] 21.Nb4 Qb7 22.Nd3 Qb8?! [The
idea of pulling back the queen immediately
to where it was the previous move, is a bit
jarring. Better was 22...Red8 ] 23.Nxe5
dxe5 24.Na4 Rcd8 [More logical was 24...
Red8 as the Re8 has no future on the e-file.]
25.Qe1 Rxd1 26.Rxd1 b5 27.Nb6
Diagram # White has a majority of pawns on
the queen-side and aims to create a passed
pawn to decide the game. Black on the other
hand has more pawns on the king-side but
he has doubled pawns on the e-file which are
not effective at all. 27...Bc6 28.cxb5 Bxb5
29.Bxb5 axb5 30.a4! bxa4 31.bxa4 Rd8
32.Rb1! Qc7 33.a5 Bc5 34.Qc1! At one
stroke, white exchanges off the queens and
bishops to reach a simple rook and knight
ending with an outside passed pawn on the
a-file. 34...Bxb6 35.Bxb6 Qxc1+ 36.Rxc1
Ra8 37.Rd1 Kh7 38.Rd8 Ra6
Diagram # [38...Rxd8 39.Bxd8 Nd7 (or
39...Ne8 40.a6 Nd6 41.a7 wins.) 40.a6 Nc5
41.a7+-] 39.Kg1! The white king is em-
barking on a long journey to b5 to capture
the black rook alive The king is embarking
on a long journey to b5 to capture alive the
imprisoned black rook on a6. 39...g5 40.Kf2
g4 41.Ke3 h4 42.fxg4 Obviously, white
has calculated this extensively. 42...Nxg4+
43.Kd3 Nxh2 44.Kc4 Ng4 45.Kb5+- Dia-
gram # 10
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Deepan,Chakkravarthy J (2466) Sat-
yapragyan,Swayangsu (2410) [C91]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.00 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 00
9.d4 Bg4 10.d5 Na5 11.Bc2 Qc8 12.h3
Bd7 13.Nbd2 c6 14.b4 Nb7 15.dxc6
Qxc6 16.Bb2 a5 17.a3 Be6N 18.Bd3
Rfb8 19.Qe2 Nd8 20.Ng5 Bd7 21.Nb3 h6!
22.Nf3 a4 23.Na5 Qc8 24.c4! slowly white
is coming out with his aggressive plans. 24...
Ne6 25.Bc1 Preventing ....Nf4 is important.
25...Bd8 26.cxb5 Bxa5= 27.bxa5 Rxa5
28.Bd2 Diagram #
28...Raxb5! [Black is looking for adven-
ture. Simpler was: 28...Raa8 29.Rab1 Nc5
30.Rb4=] 29.Bxb5 Bxb5 30.Qe3 Bc6
31.Rac1 Qa6 32.Bb4 Bxe4 33.Red1
33...Bd5?! This is an unusual way of defend-
ing his d6 pawn by masking it. Better was the
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simpler 33.. ..Rd8 34.Kh2 Rd8 35.Nxe5?!
dxe5 36.Be7 Rd7 37.Bxf6 gxf6 38.Qxh6
Nf8 39.Rc3 Diagram #
39...Rd6? [This lands him in a deadly pin.
He could get out of his difficulties with: 39...
Ng6! 40.h4 Qa8! 41.Rg3 Qf8! 42.Qxf8+
Kxf8 43.h5 Nf4 44.h6 Ng6 45.Rgd3 Ne7
46.Rg3 Ng6=] 40.Rcd3! [After 40.Rcd3
Qc6 41.Qd2 the bishop is lost.] 10
Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2277)
Nitin,S (2421) [E73]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.Be2 00 6.Be3 Na6 7.g4 Such attacking
play gets nowhere when black has cas-
tled on the king-side and has no objects
of attack. 7...c5 8.d5 e6 9.g5 Ne8 10.h4
exd5 11.cxd5 b5!? Diagram # [S. Wil-
liams 2466 vs C.Hanley 2397 in the 2004
British Ch. took a spectacular course and
ended in check mate in just 34 moves:
11...f5 12.gxf6 Nxf6 13.e5?! dxe5 14.d6
Bf5 15.Nf3 Nb4 16.Rc1 e4 17.Ne5?! Qe8
18.Nb5 Qxe5+ 19.Rxc5 Nfd5 20.Bd4
Qe6 21.Rc7 Nd3+! 22.Qxd3 Nxc7 23.Qc2
N x b 5 ! 2 4 . B c 4 N x d 4 ! 2 5 . Bxe6+ Bxe6
26.Qxe4 Rae8 27.00 Rf4! 28.Qxb7 Rg4+
29.Kh1 Rxh4+ 30.Kg2 Bh3+! 31.Kg3 Nf5+
32.Kf3 Bh6! 33.d7 Rf4#]
12.Bxb5 Qa5 13.Nge2 Rb8 14.a4 There
seems to be no alternative to White clinging
on to his extra pawn. Unfortunately he has to
castle on the king-side where he has advanced
his pawns injudiciously and aggressively early
in the game in a show of attack. 14...Bg4!
15.Bd2 Nb4 16.00 Bf3 17.Bf4 a6 18.Bc4
Qd8 19.Kh2 f6! This opening of the f-file for
black gives his forces a great advantage in
the assault on the white king. 20.Qd2 fxg5
21.Bxg5 Qd7 22.Rg1 Be5+ 23.Nf4 Nc2!
This tactically exploits the need of the white
queen to stay supporting his knight on f4.
24.Rac1 Nd4 25.Rg3 Diagram #
for white! 16.a4 [To prevent .. .Bb5. After
25...Ng7! Black is skilfully coordinating his
pieces to dominate the white forces. 26.Rcg1
Qf7 27.Ne6 Nh5 28.Kh3 [If 28.Nxf8 Nxg3
29.Rxg3 Bxg3+ 30.Kxg3 Rxf8+] 28...Nxg3
29.fxg3 Qd7 Maximises the powers of his
queen and Rf8 and threatens his final inva-
sion. 30.g4 Rf7 [30...h5 31.gxh5 Bxh5+
for the killing 32....Nf3!] 31.Bxa6
(Position after 31.Nxe6)
[White has run out of patience and captures
an inconsequential pawn on the queen-side
while the battle rages on in the king-side.
Better, though still losing, was: 31.Bh6 Rb4
32.b3 Nxb3 33.Qd3 Na5 34.Bxa6 Qa7+
threatening 35...c4! attacking the queen and
the Rg1.] 31...Nxe6 Diagram #[After 31...
Nxe6! 32.dxe6 Qxe6 33.Bh6 (to prevent 33...
h5) 33...Bxg4+! 34.Rxg4 Rf3+! wins.]01
Aravindh,Chithambaram Vr (2579)
Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2516) [E05]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bg2
00 6.00 dxc4 7.Ne5 Nc6 8.Nxc6 bxc6
9.Na3 Bxa3 10.bxa3 Nd5 11.Qa4 Nb6
12.Qa5 Bb7 [Earlier in a 1995 game from
Europe, 12...Rb8 had been played, the game
ending drawn. Significantly, in that game
too, black did not part with the extra pawn
on c4 without a fight!] 13.Rd1 Qc8 14.e4
Rd8 15.Be3 Ba6 Black emphazises that
the c4 pawn will stay and be a constant pain
this, his a4 pawn requires protection. Better
was 16.Rab1 Bb5 17.Rdc1 Though black
is a pawn up, white is still slightly better.
Keeping the black minor forces tied up on
the queen-side, white should invent a plan
using his two bishops to attack on the king-
side where the black king is alone.] 16...Bb7
17.Rdc1 Rd7?! 18.Rab1 Qf8 19.h4 [White
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gets a pronounced advantage after 19.Qc5!
[%emt 0:00:20] to be followed by a5] 19...
Qa3 20.h5 h6 Diagram #
21.Bf3? [He must go for an all-out attack
with: 21.g4 Qxa2 22.g5 hxg5 23.Qxg5 Qxa4
24.h6 f6 25.Qg4 Re8 26.Qg6 Rde7 with
a crushing attack.] 21...Bc8 22.Bd1 Qd6
23.Bc2 f6 24.Bf4! Qe7 [24...Qxd4?? 25.Rd1
traps the queen.] 25.Be3 Rd8 26.Rd1 [26.
f4!? could either be the start of a grand and
successful attacking plan or the opening up of
his position for a black counter-attack. Such
positions should be explored alone, at home.]
26...Re8 27.f4 f5 28.Re1! fxe4 29.Bxe4
Nd5 30.Bf2?! [Preserving his dark square
bishop was not his best option. He should at-
tack the c-pawn with: 30.Rbc1] 30...Rd8 [30...
c3=] 31.Re2= [slightly better was 31.Rbc1
] 31...Qa3! 32.Bg6= [Not 32.Bxd5? cxd5
33.Qxc7 Bd7 Black has a more compact king
position.] 32...Qf3 33.Rbe1 Bd7 34.Qc5
Qg4 Threat 35.... Nxf4. 35.Kh2 Diagram #
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35...c3! This pawn on c3, in combination
with its knight, is nearly winning the game
for black. Though the pawn on c3 cannot
further advance, black has the attacking
possibility with Rd8-f8-xf4! We are told
to avoid doubled pawns. But here we
have a case where tripled pawns create
so much havoc to the opposition. The two
bishops of white are a sorry mess. One
of them has to do nothing but defend
the h5 pawn while the other, being a bad
bishop hemmed in by its own pawns, has
to defend itself. 36.Be4 White decides to
exchange off his pawn on h5 for black's c3
as well as his active white square bishop
for the dominating knight on d5. How-
ever, this has a flip side. This operation
unlocks the shackled black bishop on
d7 which enters the game with deadly
effect. 36...Qxh5+ 37.Kg2 Qg4 [A strong
a l t e r n a t i ve wa s : 3 7 . . . R d b 8 3 8 . B x d 5
exd5 39.Qxc3 Bf5! is nearly winning
for black.] 38.Bxd5 exd5 39.Qxc3 Bf5!
40.Qxc6 Be4+ 41.Rxe4 dxe4 42.Rxe4
Qd7! Having won the exchange, black
would now try to simplify his winning
process by exchanges. 43.Qc4+ Qd5!
44.Qxd5+ Rxd5 45.Re7 Rc8 46.Kf3
Ra5 47.g4 Rxa4 48.f5 Ra3+ 49.Kf4
Rxa2 50.Bh4 [If 50.Bg3 c5 51.d5 Rd8!
wins the d-pawn.] 50...Ra5 51.Ke4 Ra2
52.Kf4 Ra5 53.Ke4 Ra2 54.Kf4 Rf8
55.Rxc7 Diagram #
[If 55.Ke3 Rf7! 56.Re8+ Kh7 White has
no hopes left.] 55...g5+!! A neat fin-
ishing touch! White's f-pawn is pinned.
56.Bxg5 hxg5+ 57.Kxg5 Ra6 [57...Rf7!]
58.d5 Rf7 59.Rc8+ Kg7 60.Rd8 Rff6
61.Rd7+ Rf7 62.Rd8 Rff6 63.Rd7+ Kf8!
64.Rc7 Rfd6! 65.Rc5 Ke7 66.Kf4 Ra4+
67.Kg5 Rd4! 68.Rc7+ Rd7 69.Rc6 R7xd5
70.Re6+ Kf7 71.Rf6+ Kg7 72.Rg6+ Kf7
73.Rf6+ Ke7 74.Re6+ Kf8 75.Rf6+ Ke8
76.Re6+ Kd8 77.Ra6 Rd7 78.f6 Ke8
79.Kh5 R4d6! 01
Chakravarthi Reddy M (2277) Kunte
Abhijit (2505) [A70]
1.d4 c5 2.d5 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.e4
Nf6 6.Nc3 00 7.Bd3 Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3
9.Qxf3 Nbd7 10.Qe2 e6 11.00 exd5
12.cxd5 a6 13.a4 Re8 14.Bf4 Ne5 15.Bc2
Rc8N [In a 1998 Lvov CC game 15...Nfd7
was played and black won a nice game.]
16.Bh2 c4 17.a5 Rc5=
This is a good move, but not a winning
move as black probably thought. The
threat to his a5 pawn induces white to
take an unwise decision that leads to his
eventual defeat. Better was: 18.f4?! [18.
Ra4! Rxa5 19.Bxe5 Rxe5 20.Rxa5 Qxa5
21.Qxc4=] 18...Ned7 19.Kh1 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[The unfortunate position of the white queen
on e2, in a semi-open file, under the X-ray
effect of the Re8, is ready for exploitation by
black. Both 19....Nxe4 and 19....Nxd5 are
threatened. If here 19.Bg3 Nxe4 20.Bxe4
Bxc3 21.bxc3 f5 22.Qb2 Rb5 23.Qa3 fxe4
24.Qxd6 Nc5! leads to a winning endgame
for black.]19...Nxe4! 20.Nxe4 f5 21.Bg1
Rc8! 22.Ra4 fxe4 23.f5! [The best way to
fight back. If 23.Rxc4 Rxc4 24.Qxc4 Qxa5
25.b4 Qa3 26.Bxe4 (26.Bd4 Nf6 threat,
27....Nh5.) 26...Qc3! 27.Rc1 Qxc4 28.Rxc4
b5!] 23...Nf6 24.fxg6 hxg6 25.Bb6! Qe7
26.Rxc4= White has recovered his pawn to
reach a fairly level game. 26...Nh5! Black
finds ways to keep his initiative alive. 27.Bf2
The only move to stop to stop...Ng3 27...
Rxc4 28.Qxc4 Qe5
Diagram # [The game has almost levelled out.
If 28...Bxb2 29.Re1 Qf6 30.Kg1=] 29.Re1?
[This loses quickly. A prolonged fight back
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was offered by: 29.Be1! Ng3+ 30.Bxg3
Qxg3 31.Qa4 Re7 32.Bxe4 Be5 33.Kg1 Qh2+
34.Kf2 Bg3+ 35.Ke3 Qxg2! 36.Qc4 Qxb2 and
the signs are good for black.] 29...Qf4!+
30.Be3 [This leads to a quick finish. He could
fight longer with: 30.Rxe4 Rxe4 31.Qxe4
Qxf2 32.Qe6+ Qf7 33.Bxg6 Ng3+ 34.Kh2
Nf1+ 35.Kg1 Bd4+ 36.Kh1 Qxe6 37.dxe6
Kf8=] 30...Qg3! 31.Qb4 Be5 32.Bg1 Qf4
[Stronger was: 32...Qh4! 33.Re3 Ng3+
34.Rxg3 Bxg3 and black should win.] 33.Re3
Diagram # 33...Rc8! [White had been hoping
to fight the game the exchange down with:
33...Ng3+ 34.Rxg3 Qxg3
35.Qxe4; however, after 33...Rc8! 34.Qxe4
Ng3+ 35.Rxg3 Qxe4 36.Bxe4 Bxg3 37.Bxg6
Rc1 the threat of 38...Bf2 wins an additional
bishop.] 01
Gomes,Mary Ann (2344) Deepan,Chak-
kravarthy J (2466) [A05]
The champion of this tournament, GM Deepan
Chakkravarthy, lost two games on the way
to the title. One was to FM Fenil Shah of Gu-
jarat and the other was to WGM Mary Ann
Gomes of Kolkata. Gomes had continuously
won the National Women's Championship
three years in a row from 2011 to 2013.
On the other hand Deepan is yet to win the
National Premier though he came very very
close to winning it on two occasions. This is
a tenacious win by the Kolkata WGM. She
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was lost in the opening, but gradually with a
determined effort, turned the tables on her
Tamil Nadu adversary. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5
3.Bg2 Bb7 4.c4 bxc4 5.Na3N [This does
not seem to be an improvement over the old
game, L.Smejkal 2130 vs D.Efler 2175, Czech
Ch. 2000 which went: 5.Qa4 e6 6.Qxc4 c5
7.d3 d5 8.Qb3 Qb6 9.Qxb6 axb6 10.Bf4 Be7
.... Black won on move 51.] 5...e5! With this
move, black proves that white's novelty is of
dubious value. Just watch how he makes
the white knights dance to his tune!
6.Nxc4 e4! 7.Nd4 [7.Nfe5 Qe7 8.00 d6
9.Qa4+ c6 10.Nxd6+ Qxd6 11.Nxf7 Kxf7
12.Qb3+ Nd5 13.Qxb7+ Nd7 14.Bxe4
(14.Qxa8?? Qc7! threatening to trap the
queen with N7b6!) 14...Be7 15.Qb3
Black has a knight for three pawns.] 7...
c5 [To be considered was: 7...d5 ] 8.Nf5
d5 9.Qb3 Ba6 10.Qa4+ Qd7 [If 10...Nfd7
11.d3! dxc4 12.Bxe4!+- The almost mag-
ical opening of the long white diagonal is
devastating.] 11.Ncd6+ Bxd6 12.Nxd6+
Kf8 13.Qxd7 Nbxd7 14.a4 This is to block
the black bishops control over e2. It is al-
most forced as white cannot castle without
losing her e-pawn. 14...Ne5 15.b3 Rb8
16.Ba3 [White opts for aggressive defence
and places her bishop on the same diagonal
as the black king. If 16.Rb1 Rb6 17.Nf5 Nc4
18.Rf1 g6 19.Ne3 Kg7 20.f3 Nxe3 21.dxe3
Rhb8] 16...Nfd7 17.d4 exd3 Diagram #
[If 17...cxd4?! 18.Nxe4+ Kg8 19.Nc5 Nxc5
20.Bxc5 Rxb3 21.Bxd5 Rb2 22.Bxd4 Rxe2+
23.Kd1+- White's rooks are ready to spring
into action at one move's notice whereas
the Rh8 would take ages to see the light of
day.] 18.Bxd5 dxe2 19.Nb5 Bxb5 20.axb5
Rxb5 21.Kxe2 Ke7= 22.f4! Nf6 [Better
was: 22...Ng6 ] 23.Bc4! Nxc4 24.bxc4
Rb3? [This leads to a certain defeat. Bet-
ter was: 24...Ra5 25.Bb4! Rxa1 26.Bxc5+
Ke6 27.Rxa1 Rc8 28.Ra6+ Kf5 29.Ra5 Kg4
30.Bxa7!] 25.Bxc5+ Kd7 26.Rxa7+ Kc6
27.Bd4! Re8+ 28.Kd2 Ne4+ 29.Kc2 Rb4
Diagram
30.Rha1 [Still stronger was to force a de-
cision with: 30.Rb1! Rxc4+ 31.Kd3 Kd5
32.Rb5+ Nc5+ 33.Rxc5+ Rxc5 34.Bxc5
Kxc5 35.Rxf7+-] 30...Nc5 31.Bxc5! Kxc5
32.Rc7+ Kb6 33.Raa7 [After 33.Rxf7
Rxc4+ 34.Kd3 Rc6 35.Rb1+ Ka6 36.Kd4
Ree6 37.Rxg7 Rcd6+ 38.Kc4 Rc6+ 39.Kb3
Rb6+ 40.Ka2 Re2+ 41.Ka1 Rxh2 with still
a lot of play left.] 33...Rxc4+ 34.Rxc4
Kxa7 35.Rc7+ Kb6 36.Rxf7 g5!? 37.fxg5
Re2+ 38.Kd3 Rxh2 39.Ke3 Kc6 40.Rf8
Kd6 41.Re8! Rh1 42.Kf4 Kd7 43.Re3
Kd6 Diagram # 44.g6!! This quickly leads to
the winning Lucena position for white. 44...
hxg6 45.Kg5 Rh3 46.Kxg6 Kd7 47.Kf6
Kd8 48.Kf5 Kd7 49.Kf4 Rh8 50.Re5 Rf8+
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
51.Rf5 Rg8 52.g4 Ke7 53.g5 Rg7 54.Kg4
Rh7 55.g6 Rh1 56.Kg5 Rh2 57.g7 Rg2+
58.Kh6 Rh2+ 59.Kg6 Rg2+ 60.Kh7 Rh2+
61.Kg8
(Position after 43.Kd6)
This is the Lucena position. 61...Rh1
62.Rf7+ Ke8 63.Rf4 Re1 64.Rh4 [64.Rh4
Rg1 65.Re4+ Kd7 66.Kf7 Rf1+ 67.Kg6 Rg1+
68.Kf6 Rf1+ (68...Rg2 69.Re5!) 69.Kg5 Rg1+
70.Rg4+-] 10
Lalith,Babu M R (2529) Himanshu,Shar-
ma (2514) [D78]
This is one of the great games from this
Championship in Ahmedabad. Almost from
the opening, white's isolated a-pawn seems
to be doomed and the black forces circle
around it. By the 35th move, the pawn is
completely encircled and attacked by a
queen, rook, knight and bishop. White how-
ever sees that while the entire black force is
concentrated on the queen-side over a matter
of a pawn, the black king was defenceless on
the king-side. Like a vintage Marodona move
forcing through the wings towards goal with a
host of defenders left behind, the white queen
moves to the king-side with the bulk of black
defenders sitting hopelessly on the queen-
side after consuming the a-pawn. Incredibly,
it is all over in another six moves! The many
mates that come up in the end are worth
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savoring and worth calculating for yourself!
Enjoy this game! 1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 c6 3.Bg2
d5 4.Nf3 g6 5.d4 Bg7 6.00 00 7.Qb3
Qb6 8.c5 Qd8N [8...Qxb3 was played in
the World Op 40' Rapid by G.Zaichik (2540)
against E.McHugh in 1996.] 9.Bf4 Nbd7
10.Nc3 b6 11.cxb6 axb6 12.Rfc1 Ba6=
13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 e6 Diagram #
33.Bf1 [33.Rb1 leads to a draw after 33... the only square which saves the queen from
Nxa4 34.Qxa7+ Rxa7 35.Ra1 Bb3 36.Bf1 otherwise a sure death.
Ra8 37.Ra3 Bc2 38.Ra2 Bb3 39.Ra3=] 3Ra4+
33...e5 After achieving this move, black 4.Ne2++- wins
must have thought that he had strategi- (from Zee Boom Bah! by K.Muralimohan)
cally won the game, but he is in for an
unpleasant surprise. 34.Qd1! Bb3 The
encirclement of the a4 pawn is complete,
but there is chess-board trickery in the Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
air! 35.Qd2 Nxa4?

This weeks puzzle is from Grigory Popovs

[Black could unleash unbelievable compli-
cations with: 14...Bh6!? 15.e3 Nd7! 16.Bf4
g5!? 17.Nxd5!? gxf4 18.Rxc6 Bg7 19.Nxf4
Bb7 20.Rc2 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 and an uneasy
equality prevails with black having a bishop
for three pawns. The outcome is unclear.]
15.e3 Nd7 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.a4 Qe7
18.Qd1 Qb4 19.b3 White methodically
drives away the intruding queen. 19...
Rfc8 20.Na2 Qd6 21.b4 Bc4 22.Rcb1 c5
23.bxc5 bxc5 24.Nc3 Ra5= The position
is equal. Black has a strong centre and
now proceeds to pressure white's passed
a-pawn which does not appear to have
a strong Life Line. 25.Rb2 cxd4 [To be
considered was: 25...Qa6 26.Rc1 cxd4
27.Qxd4+ Kg8= with a faint edge for
black.] 26.Qxd4+ Qe5 27.Qd2? [Better
was: 27.Rb7 Qxd4 28.exd4 Nb8=] 27...
Nc5 28.Ra3 Rca8 Black has taken over the
initiative, focussing on white's a-pawn.
29.Rb4 Rb8 Obviously, black has run
out of ideas for capturing the a4 pawn.
30.Rxb8 Qxb8 31.Ra1 Qa7 32.Qd4+ f6
D i a gra m # [ I f 3 5 ...B x a 4 3 6 .Qxd 5 = ]
36.Nb5!! This throws the proverbial span-
ner in black's works! The queen must
move supporting his rook. The game has
suddenly become unpleasant for black!
36...Qb6 37.Qb4!! A great move, defend-
ing his knight, threatening the Bb3 and
what is best, entering black's fortress
with ....Qe7. 37...Bc4 38.Qe7+! Kh6 [If
38...Kg8 39.Bxc4! dxc4 40.Rd1!! (The
black king is alone and helpless) 40...
Ra8 41.Rd7! mates.] 39.Nd6! Ra6 [If
39...Ra7 40.Qxf6 (Threat Nf5+! mating)
40...Kh5 41.Qh4#] 40.Qf8+! Diagram
# 40...Kh5 [More stubborn was: 40...
Kg5 41.Nf7+ Kg4 42.Bg2! and white
mates by force. Calculate this!] 41.Qxf6!
[After 41.Qxf6 (threat 42 Qh4#) 41...
g5 42.Qf7+! Kg4 (42...Kh6 43.Nf5#)
43.h3#!] 10
(Position after 40.Qf8+)
A study in bishop sacrifice
White wins in the position below in a scintil-
lating manner even though his king is pre-
cariously placed.
Steniczk H 1965
White to play and win
1.Bd4+!!
[1.h8Q? Rxg4!.The newly born queen will be
lost because of the threatened discovered
check.Even 2.Bd4+ does not help because of
(2.Kxh6 Rh4+ wins the queen and draws;2.
Bg7 Rf4+ 3.Kg6 Bc2+ 4.Kh5 Bd1+=) 2
Kf1!=] 1.Rxd4
2.h8Q Rxg4
3.Qa1!!
The bishop sacrifice on the first move was in-
comprehensible initially. Now the smoke has
cleared. The bishop has committed suicide
to pave way for the new queen to reach a1,
weekly superproblem which is not the
usual chess problem but a kind of retro
with helpful moves to arrive at the final
position with the given clues from the
initial game array.
There is a unique solution to the prob-
lem which the solver has to unravel.I am
giving a fairly simple one to solve here.
Zoltan Laborczi (Hungary)
Superproblem 19.08.2017
The moves are made as follows
1.move move
2.capture move
3.capture check move
4.capture move
5.move (Return)mate
(Solution on page 48)

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Problem World erates with white to mate the black king and
National Champion wins it is black which commences the play. If A
honours in composing and B are whites first and second moves
by C.G.S.Narayanan and a and b those of black then the solu-
tion to a helpmate in two (denoted as H#2)
is written as :1.a , A 2.b, B mate.
Now let us look at the composers delineation
of the theme.
Karthikeyan Murali (India)
2nd Hon.Mention ,YCC 2017
deliver mates. Pickaninny represents the
four moves of a black pawn from its initial
square as black defence. An Albino is a type
of chess problem in which a white pawn, be-
ginning on its starting square, makes each
of its four possible moves. The first diagram
below is a simple illustration of Albino in
two-mover where the white pawn on f2 de-
livers four distinct white mates..Key 1.Kg7!!
waiting1Re3 2.fxe3; 1Rg3+ 2.fxg3;
1Rf4 2.f3 and 1Rxf5 2.f4
Mate in two moves
E.Woodard Key 1.d4! (2.Qxg4)
Pittsburgh Gazette Times 1915 Seven tries by the albinos
Now for an artistic exposition of the
Touw Hian Bwee
I prize, Die Schwalbe

GM Karthikeyan Murali
Many players may not be aware that Grand-
master Karthikeyan Murali the reigning
National Champion, has a deep liking for
chess compositions and is a rated solver who
finished third in the International Solving
Contest 2016 (Under-20 category) held un-
der the aegis of World Federation for Chess
Composition(WFCC).Recently he tried his
hand at composing chess problems and his
helpmate has won 2nd Honourable.Mention
in the 2nd Youth Composing Challenge 2017
for composers under 20 years organized by
Serbian Chess Problem Society recently. The
contest was for Helpmates with the following
theme.
In H#2 there are two thematic pieces A&B
of any colour.In one phase the piece A opens
line for piece B.In the other phase piece A
closes a line of piece B. Twins are not allowed
What is a helpmate? Helpmate is the oldest
form of chess problem in which black co-op-
H#2 2 solutions
1.Bc5 Ba2 2.Kd4 Qa1
1.Kf6 Bf7 2.aRe5 Qg6
Valery Gurov, FIDE International Judge writes
in his award:The theme presented in the play
of pieces of different colours, with elements
of correction. Spectacular mates by the white
queen. Unfortunately in the second solution
the bishop also controls g6 square. This could
have been avoided with addition of material
and correction of WB in both solutions. Con-
gratulations to this budding composer on his
maiden international award award!
Albino in direct mates
by C.G.S.Narayanan
The pawns may be the humblest of chess
men but the incisive attack and profound
defence in a game largely depend on the
structure of these pawns. In problem chess
the pawns attack, defend, promote and also
Mate in two moves
They can also be tries, moves which almost
solve a problem but for a single black defence.
The example below is a well known two-mover
showing tries by the double albino.
1.dxc3? (2.Qxg4) b3! (Nxc3?)
1.d3! (2.Qxg4) Ra6+!(Bxa6!)
1dxe3? (2.Qxg4)gN any!(2.Qxe3?)
1.f3?(2.Qc4) exd5! (2.Bxg4?)
1.fxe3?(2.Qc4)N(4)e5!(2.Qxe3?)
1.f4? (2.Qc4)N(6)e5!(2.Nf4?)
1.fxg3? (2.Qc4) Bxg3+
in the first problem above and in the try play
H.Bartolovic & N.Petrovic
I Prize,Problemas 1963
Mate in two moves
Try: 1.c3? Qb4! (2.Qxb4?)
Try :1.cxb3? Qc6! (2.Nxb3?)
Try:1.c4? Qxb6! (2.Nc4?)
Try: 1.cxd3? Qa4! (2.Qxd3?)
Key 1.Bf2! waiting
1Qb4/Qc6/Qxb6/Qa4
2.Qxb4/Nxb3/Nc4/Qxd3
All the four moves of WPc2 are tries defeated
by quiet moves of black queen.
Albinos can be employed to deliver mates as
as in the next two problems.In three-movers
they arise as second move continuations.

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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

G.Kasparyan 1960 Jan Marwitz 1959

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

V.Bron 1960 Gurvic & Pogosjanc 1961

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

Gurvic 1960 G.Kasparyan 1961

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

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

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Masters of the past-81 Vladimir Antoshin 3rd KCA Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Kancheepuram
Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin (1929 - 1994) was a Soviet chess Grand-
master, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess.
As a young man, he was a high achiever, principally as part of the USSR's
highly successful Student Olympiad team of 1954-56. The team won the
silver medal at the first ever Student Olympiad in Oslo 1954 and then
took gold medals at Lyons 1955 and at Uppsala 1956. His best perfor-
mance probably occurred at Lyons, as the strength of the competition was
far greater than at Oslo. Playing below world-class grandmasters Mark
Taimanov and Boris Spassky, but above Alexey Suetin, his endeavors also
earned him an individual gold medal for best score on board three. In all,
he accumulated three gold and one silver medal.

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

Aside from Zinnowitz, Hartston notes that Antoshin's over-the-board results were never out-
standing. His other results were nevertheless respectable; 2nd at Kienbaum (Berlin) 1959
(Uhlmann won), 5th at Moscow 1960 (ahead of Polugaevsky, Hort and Uhlmann), 4th at Sochi
1963, 4th at Moscow 1963 (ahead of Keres, Liberzon, 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 Sarajevoin 1970 and placed
runner-up at Frunze in 1979.
G.Nitiyanandam,Secretary,Kanchi chess academy,B. Haripriya,Treasurer,Kanchi Chess
academy, Poorna Chandran, Cabinet Secretary Lions international, Sudagar Detchigar, Lions
Club International, P. Maheshwaran (Winner), T. Sundarganesh, Prop. Pachaiyappa's silks, S.
Magesh, President, Kanchi chess academy, Prabu, zone Chairman Lion Club International
Hyderabad Open FIDE Rated Tournament (below 1500),Hyderabad

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

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

The Hort-Antoshin Variation in the Dutch defence was first discovered by Vlastimil Hort in 1960,
when he was just sixteen; it was then further developed by Antoshin and consequently carries Nagasri Saikanth receiving the trophy from K.S.Prasad, Secretary, Telangana Chess Association.
the names of both players. Black's idea is to omit the 'normal' e6 move and prepare a central Prof.R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter is on the right
break with e5 instead. Courtesy:Wikepedia
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 Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Panaji,Goa Solutions to Tactics from master
games on page 42
By Srinivas Krishnan
1.Boruchovsky,Avital (2556) Bogner,Se-
bastian (2600) [B90]
Riga LAT (8.4), 12.08.2017
White to play 28.Qe7! Rxe7 [28...Qe8 29.Rd8
Rxe7 30.fxe7 Kh7 31.Rxb8 Qxe7 32.Rxb6+-
; 28...Kh7 29.g6+ (29.Qxf7+-) 29...Kxg6
30.Rg1+ Kh7 (30...Kh5 31.Qxf7+ Wins)
31.Qxf7] 29.fxe7 Qe6 30.Rd8+ Kh7 31.Rxb8
Qxe7 32.Rxb6 10
2. Van Baar,Esper (2172) Warmerdam,-
Max (2387) [B23]
21st HZ Open 2017 Vlissingen NED
Black tp play. 54...Ne4! 55.Rd7+ [55.Rxf3 Rxf3
56.Rd7+ Ke6 57.Kxf3 Ng5+! 58.Kg4 Kxd7
(L-R) Arvind Mhamal, Dnyaneshwar Naik, Ameya Audi (Third) WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, Shri Avduth 59.Kxg5 Ke6 Wins the ending] 55...Ke6 Now
Timblo, FM Sauravh Kherdekar( Winner),, IM R.Balasubramanian (Runner-up), Dr.Ashwini Kumar,
Kishor Bandekar,Treasurer AICF and Shri Satish Narvekar.
all rooks are hanging, but that suits only Black!
56.Rxf3 [56.Rxd3 Nxf2+ 57.Kxf3 Nxd3 58.Ke3
Nc5 Wins] 56...Rxf3 57.Kxf3 Ng5+ 58.Kg4
KKCA 1ST FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Coimbatore Kxd7 59.Kxg5 Ke6 60.Kg4 Kd5 Wins 01
3.Schneider,Ch1 (2215)
Roth,Jos (2032) [B31]
Lichtenberger Sommer 2017 Berlin
White to play 23.Re6!! Bxe6 [23...b5 24.Ne5
Qg7 (24...Ra2 25.Rxc6; 24...Bxe6 25.Qxf8+)
25.Qxg7+ Kxg7 26.Rxc6+-; 23...Ra2 24.Rfe1+-
] 24.Qxf8+! 10
4.Brown,Michael William (2499) Malob-
erti,David (2132) [E92]
chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG (2.50),
24.09.2017
White to play 38.Bg8+! Kh8 [38...Rxg8
39.Qxd2+-; 38...Kh6 39.Qxd2 Rxd2 40.Bf8#]
39.Be7! [39.Be7 Qxe2 40.Bf6#] 10
5.Vasques,A (2272)
Costa,Pa (2140) [B42]
(L-R) T D Krishnamurthy, Arunachalam Shivaa, N Jayabal,President,CDCA, Vidya, Organiser, KKCA & ch-POR 2017 Vila Nova de Gaia POR (9.2),
V Vijayaraghavan, Jt Secy, TNSCA 24.09.2017
46
Black to play. 17...Ng3+ 18.hxg3 hxg3+
19.Kg1 [19.Nh2 Rxh2+ 20.Kg1 000+] 19...
Qc5+ 20.Nd4 [20.Be3 Qh5 Wins; 20.Qe3 Qh5]
20...Qxd4+ 21.Qe3 Rh1+! [21...Rh1+ 22.Kxh1
Qh8+ 23.Kg1 Qh2#] 01
6. Babar,Michael (2130) Eggleston,David
J (2400) [A47]
chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG (4.59),
26.09.2017
Black to play. 22...Bxe2+! 23.Kxe2 [23.Ke1
Bxd1 24.Rxd1 e2 25.Rxd8 Bb4+ 26.Rd2 Bxd2+
27.Kxd2 e1Q+ 28.Qxe1 Rd8+ Wins; 23.Kg1
Rxd1+ 24.Rxd1 Bxd1 25.Qxd1 e2++] 23...
Rd2+! [23...Rd2+ 24.Rxd2 exd2+ 25.Kxd2
Qe3+ 26.Kc2 (26.Kd1 Rd8+) 26...Rd8 mate is
threatened on d3 and d2 27.Rd1 Qf2+ 28.Kc3
(28.Kc1 Be3+) 28...Bb4+! 29.Kxb4 (29.Kc4
Qc5#) 29...Qc5+ 30.Ka4 Qa5#] 01
Solutions to Test your endgame on page 43
1.G.Kasparyan, 3 Pl, Problem 1960
1.Ne7+ Kf8 2.g7+ Kxg7 3.Rg2+ Kh7 4.Bg6+
Kh8 5.Rf2 Bg5 6.Rf8+ Kg7 7.Rg8+ Kf6 8.Nf5
Rxg6 9.Rf8#
2.Jan Marwitz, II n,Problem 1959
1.a5 d3 2.Rxd3 Kb5 3.Rf3 f6 4.Kb7 Kxa5 5.Rf5
wins
3.V.Bron, 2n, Szachy 1969
1.Rg5+ d5 2.Rxd5+ Kc6 3.Be4 Qb2 4.c3 Qb3
5.c4 Qxe3 6.Bh1 Qc5 7.Rxd7+wins
4.Gurvic& Pogosjanc 1961
1.d4 Ba4+ 2.Kc1 Bxd1 3.Kxd1 Ke3 4.Kc2
Ke4 5.Nf6+ Kxd4 6.Bb8 Be3 7.Ba7+ Ke5
8.Ng4+wins
5.Gurvic, Ceskolovenski Sach 1960
1.Rh4+ Ng4 2.Rxg4+ e4 3.Rxd5+ Kxd5
4.Ne3+ Ke5 5.f4+ Kf6 6.Nd5+ Kf5 7.Rg5#
6.G.Kasparyan,I Pr, Tidskrift for Schack
1961
1.Bf7 Rb8+ 2.Ka7 Bd4+ 3.b6 Bxb6+ 4.Ka6 Bd8
5.Rxc6+ dxc6 6.Be6+ Kc7 7.e8N#
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AICF Calendar October 2017 31st National Under 7 Open &Girls Chess Championships 2017,Vijayawada
National Under 17 Boys & Girls Championship Coimbatore Oct-24 to Nov-01
Smt.Suneeta Singh & sanjay Kashiwal rating Indore Oct 26 to Oct 31
4th Late Laxmikant V.Desai Mem.FIDE rating Goa Oct-26 to Oct-29
Young Star Trust Maharashtra
State Amateur FIDE Rating Palghar Oct 26 to Oct 30
Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-31
55th National Premier Chess Championship Patna Oct 27 to Nov 10
1st Tetrasoft Open FIDE rating Secunderabad Oct 28 to Nov 02
National Under 9 Gurgaon Nov-02 to Nov-10
Nanjil 1st All India FIDE Rated Open - 2017 Nov 03 Nov 06
Chess in Lakecity winter Cup FIDE Rating 1600 Udaipur Nov-03 to Nov-05
1st Ekam Rapid rating Maharashtra State Open Shrirampur Nov04 to Nov 05
National Amateur 2017 Delhi Nov-05 to Nov-11
World Senior 2017 Nagercoil Nov-06 to Nov-19
Athens of the East 2nd FIDE rating bel1500 Madurai Nov-10 to Nov-12
2nd Delhi Chess Association below 1600 New Delhi Nov -12 to Nov 14
2nd Asom FIDE Rating Open Guwahati Nov-14 to Nov-19
1st Namkeen City All India Open Rating Ratlam,M.P Nov-15 to Nov 20
Inauguration of 31st National Under -7 Chess Championship by Sri Kollu Ravindra
FIDE Grand Prix Series 2017 Nov-15 to Nov-26 Minister Law and youth affairs and sports with Grand master M.R. Lalith Babu.
BCF 2nd FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament jajjhar,Hryana Nov -15 to Nov 19 Others in the photo from (L-R) are Sri. K.P.Rao, Chairman,Corporate consultants PVT.
PRO Chess 1st FIDE Rated Open Erode.TN Nov-16 to Nov 19 Ltd, Sri. Devaram Srihari Gen. Secretary APCA, V. Srinivasulu P.Rama Krishan O.S.D.
2nd R.K.Chess Club Rating Rapid Tmt Mandya Nov- 18 to Nov-19 SAAP Sri. PV. Nageswara Rao, Sri. Dr.N. Bangaru Raju VC&MD Sports Authority of AP
Asian Amateur 2017 Nov-18 to Nov-25 Sri Y.D Rama Rao, President APCA
National Under 11 Nov-22 to Nov-30
1st All India FIDE rating Open Pune Nov 22 to Nov 28 30th Spic FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Tuticorin
44th National Women Premier-2017 Gujarat Nov-24 to Dec-06
1st All India FIDE rating Open below 1600 Pune Nov 25 to Nov 28
CSIR-CMRI Diamond Jubilee All India FIDE Rated Burdwan Nov 29 to Dec 03
3rd Karur FIDE rated Open Karur Nov 30 to Dec 03
2nd Bramhapuri Educational City Trophy FIDE Rating Chandrapur Dec 01 to Dec 06
2nd All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Secunderabad Dec 01 to Dec 03
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Solution to Puzzle of the month on page 39 : 1.e4 f5 2.exf5 h5 3.Qxh5+ g6 4.Qxh8

g5 5.Qh5 mate Barath Kalyan, Winner, receiving the trophy from IM Manuel Aaron
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consultants PVT. Ltd, Sri Y.D Rama Rao, President APCA, Hatvalne Swarali, Under-7 Girls Champion, Sri.
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