AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 8 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 May 2015

National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, Rourkela

GM Debashis Das
National Rapid Champion

IM K.Ratnakaran
National Blitz Champion
AICF CHRONICLE MAY 2015 From the Editor’s desk 1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015,Trichy
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It is delightful news for Indian
chess fans that Vishy Anand
Jennitha and Karthik win titles
E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter
Publisher: V. Hariharan has broken into 2800 elo yet
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan again after 2011 and has also Physically Disabled National Individual Chess Championship 2015, first of its kind in In-
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 climbed to the spot in ranking dia was organised by Trichy District Physically Disabled Chess Association at Pavendhar
Inside... behind World Champion Magnus Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy from 16th to 19th April 2015.
1st Physically Disabled National Individual Chess
Championship 2015,Trichy Carlsen after a four-year hiatus. His impressive The seven round Swiss format tournament, with a time control of 90 minutes each and 30
Jennitha and Karthik win titles
IA Anantharam R, Chief Arbiter 1 performance at the Gashimov Memorial Tourney seconds increment from move 1 was attended by 26 participants from five states – Tamil
Nadu, AP, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Maharashtra. Fide Master Venkata Krishna Karthik of
2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open , Calicut…
Shyam Nikhil wins last month outclassing most of the young guns
AP was the top seed followed by WIM and women world champion for physically disabled
by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter 2
speaks volumes about the resilience of this five- person JennithaAnto of the host association.The tournament is of special importance, as
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated …
Shivananda is Champion time World Champion. the physically disabled players exhibited their prowess. ShaileshNerlikar’s both legs are im-
by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 7
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated
mobilised; he cannot even sit and has to play only by lying on the table. He has a rating of
Aditya Kalyani wins title Our women team though missing out on a medal 1565! Many players needed assistants to record the moves and operate the clock.
FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter 9 finished a creditable fourth at the World Women
Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Nagpur
Team Chess Championship at Chengdu,China. In the inaugural round, top seed Venkata Krishna Karthik, who defeated a grandmaster
Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win
and many IMs in Serbia recently was stretched to the full distance by unrated Gunasek-
IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 11 Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy bagged
aran of TN before emerging victorious. In the second round, Annadurai of TN, rated 1572
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela
Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles
individual silver and bronze medals for their was beaten by young Karnataka boy Samarth J Rao, who has to be carried by his father
by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter 14 performances on second and top boards everywhere and could not sit for a long time properly. At the end of fourth round, Karthik
56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating,Puri… respectively. Our men team disappointed with a had four points and JennithaAntohad 3.5 points.In the crucial clash between the top two
Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title
Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 16 lowly ninth placing. Reports on the World team seeds, Jennitha subdued Karthik to surge ahead with 4.5 points, along with SathyaMoorthy
Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Ahmednagar chess Championships with photographs are of Pondicherry. Jennitha had no difficulty in beating unrated Senthil Kumar in the sixth and
Sameer Kathmale is champion
featured in the centre pages of this isue. penultimate round, to emerge sole leader with 5.5 points, with Karthik on 5 points. Both
by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter 18
Jennitha and Karthik won their final round encounters with their respective opponents;
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated, New Delhi
thus Jennitha winning the women title and Venkata Krishna Karthik, the men title and they
Pravin Thipsay wins title
Debashis Das won the rapid title and Ratnakaran received Rs.10000 each. Samarth J Rao and Shailesh Nerlikar scored five points each and
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter 22
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating
the Blitz at the National Rapid and Blitz better tiebreak score helped Samarth to finish second in the men section.Senthil Kumar has
Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner
IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter 30
Championships held at the steel city,Rourkela. secured rating in this tournament, and two others opened their account. The credit goes to
Selected games from National Team Chess Report on this National along with FIDE rated Samarth, who has earned about 115 rating points in this tournament.
Championships,Goa & Kolkata GM Open
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32
tournaments held in April 2015 are presented
Tactics from master games in this issue. Selected games are from National Mr.V. Hariharan, General Secretary of TN State Chess Association and Secretary of AICF
distributed the prizes in the august presence of Dr.Arun MBBS., Managing Trustee, Pavendar
By Srinivas Krishnan 41
Team Chess Championship and Kolkata GM
AICF Calendar 48 Bharathidasan Institutions and President of Tamil Nadu Physically Disabled Chess Associa-
Open annotated by IM Manuel Aaron. GM Ludek tion. Earlier on the first day, Dr.Arun inaugurated the tournament, in the presence of Mrs.
Pachman is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ Uma Arun, Director of PBI and Mrs. MP Aamenabi, Vice President, TNPDCA.
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the regular
features in the AICF Chronicle and are also invited to
series. Final placings:
send interesting articles, annotated games and chess
anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.
1. Jennitha Anto K., 2.Venkata Krishna Karthik K , 3.Samarth J Rao, 4.Nerlikar Shailesh,
com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com. 5. Sathya Moorthy, 6.Yesu Babuk, 7. Manikandan Rajangam, 8.Jahir Hussain.A,
C.G.S.Narayanan 9. Senthil Kumar Sundaram, 10. Uday Kumar Tummagunta.

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 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Calicut…
Shyam Nikhil wins
by L.R. Bhuvanaa Sai, IA, Chief Arbiter
The 2nd ACCF FIDE Rated Open Chess Tour-
nament was inaugurated by Shri Purushan
Kadalundi, MLA,Kerala against the interna-
tional master Shyam Nikhil of Tamilnadu at
New Nalanda hotel on 3rd April at 11 am.
Mr. Nirmal Das secretary of ACCF delivered
Welcome Address in the presence of the
chief guest shri Kamal Varadhu, president of
press club and Shri Preman, the president of
Anand Chess and Cultural Forum. With the
total prize fund of 1, 63,500 this event at-
tracted 331 participants from 2 federations,
(India and England) 8 states, union terri-
tory (Pondicherry), special units like BSNL,
ICF and LIC which includes 3 International
Masters, a Fide master, a women fide master
and 2 candidate masters.
Top seed players sailed smoothly to the
2nd round. In 2nd round 15 years old boy
Narendran of TN drew with IM Ramanathan
Balasubramanian. 11 players shared their
lead with full points at the end of 4th round.
During 7thround 7 players led the top tables
with 5.5 points each. After this round IM
Shyam Nikhil took sole lead and maintained
in the next round also. At the end of pen-
ultimate round Shyam, IM Praveen Kumar
and Phoobalan of ICF and Fide Master Ma-
heswaran of TN were the joint leaders with
7 points each. In final round Shyam Nikhil
beat Phooblan of ICF and won the 2nd ACCF
Open fide rating chess tournament title with
8 points. The champion bagged Rs. 25,000
cash award with trophy. Praveen Kumar of
ICF and Maheswaran of TN drew with each
other with 7.5 points each. Better tie break
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1st Physically Disabled National Individual Championship 2015,Trichy
helped Maheswaran to finish 2nd place and
received 15,000 cash award with trophy.
Ram S Krishnan of BSNL beat Gavi Siddaya
of Karnataka and finished 3rd spot with 7.5
points and received 10,000 cash award with
trophy. T.J Suresh Kumar, treasurer, Chess
Association Kerala distributed the prizes to
the winners.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Shyam Nikil P IM 8
2 Maheswaran P FM 7½
3 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
4 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv 7½
5 Praveen Kumar C IM 7½
Champion Venkata Krishna Karthik receives prize from Mr. V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF
6 Visveshwar A 7½
7 Subramanian Pl 7
8 Prakashram R 7
9 Arjun Satheesh 7
10 Kunal M. 7
11 Mohammed Dilshad 7
12 Phoobalan P. 7
13 Iniyan P 7
14 Anilkumar O.T. 7
15 Jos Paul Davis 7
16 Chandar Raju 6½
17 Akhilan E M 6½
18 Prasannaa.S 6½
19 Arjun K. 6½
20 Varma Shabdhik 6½
21 Athul Krishna S 6½
22 Sreekumar P. 6½
23 RBalasubramaniam IM 6½
24 Raju O A 6½
25 Subramanian R M 6½
26 Arjun Kalyan 6½
27 Arjun Adappa 6½
28 Gavi Siddayya 6½
29 Santoshkashyap Hg 6½ Women champion WIM Jennitha Anto receives the trophy from Mr.V. Hariharan,Secretary, AICF
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Gukesh D
Sanjay S Pillai
6½
6½
32 Balasubramanian A. 6½
33 Bindu Saritha K WFM 6½
34 Dheekshith Kumar R 6½
35 Vincent Dave 6½
36 Mohanan U.C. 6
37 Jagadeesh A.K. 6
38 Anand Nadar 6
39 Sriram B 6
40 Marthandan K U 6
41 Meghna C H 6
42 Banjan Priyadarshan 6
43 Bhagya Jayesh 6
44 Likhit Chilukuri 6
45 Jai Aditya D 6
46 Krithigga K 6
47 ManuDavid Suthandram 6
48 Muthukumar C P 6
49 Aji Kumar A 6
50 Harshavardhan G B 6
51 Sreeraman Namboodiri 6
(from left to right) Prabhat Kumar of Prabhat Publication Delhi , Chief Guest Gen. V.K.Singh 52 Thorat Aishwarya 6
, MoS EA Simmy Jain , Chairman , Org. Committee and Wg. Comr. J. Rajendra 53 Selvamurugan B 6
54 Rajeev V.M. 6
55 Arijith M 6
56 Harikrishnan A 6
57 Martin Samuel 6
58 Sishir B 6
59 Santhosh David 6
60 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6
61 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
62 Dhanasekar K. 6
63 Sachin Pradeep 6
64 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5½
65 Ajeesh Antony 5½
66 Srihari L R 5½
67 Nithin Babu 5½
68 Karan J P 5½
69 Muhammed Shibily N 5½
70 Poojakanth M. 5½
71 Deepak K 5½
72 Isha Sharma 5½
73 Sreehari G 5½
74 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5½
(From left to right) Vijay Kumar , DD Sports , Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter, Shweta Bahal,
Deepa, Prabhat Kumar, Arun Jain, Winner GM Pravin Thipsay, Simmy Jain, Shirish Jain, Pammi 75 John P B 5½
Jain, Purnima Goel, A.K. Verma, Secretary, DCA 76 Narendhiran R 5½
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78 Nitin Shankar Madhu
5½
5½
79 Akash K A 5½
80 Abhiram Sudheesh 5½
81 Eswar Theagarajan 5½
82 Panaiappan S 5½
83 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 5½
84 Rajashakkthivel K K 5½
85 Subramanian V 5½
86 Vaishnav S 5½
87 Adhi Dev K P 5½
88 Dev Shah CM 5½
89 Shah Rishab 5½
90 Prem Krishna N 5½
91 Naveen Kumar T 5½
92 Jibin Varghese John 5½
93 Gautham B 5½
94 Thorat Sanjay 5½
95 Varadharajan S 5½
96 Sibi Visal R 5½
97 Pranav V 5½
98 Jain Aum 5
99 V Sankaran Brahmaha 5
100 S. Jeevanandam 5
101 Vishnu Ram M 5
102 Shourya Jain 5
103 Avi Jaiswal 5
104 Vathan P H 5
105 Eldho Skaria 5
106 Ithal H L Rajath 5
107 Chandran T. 5
108 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5
109 Krishna M K Ramanatha 5
110 Swarnamala B 5
111 Neeraj Kumar 5
112 Shreyas Pavan 5
113 Sudheer K B 5
114 Aswin B S 5
115 Ruhaan Mahindru 5
116 Pooja S (2002) 5
117 Senbabu M B 5
118 A C Santhalaya 5
119 Abhiram T 5
120 Subramanian T.V. 5
121 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 5
122 Patil Ketan 5
123 Praveen Kumar G 5
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124 Rohit Sasidharan 5
125 Nachiketh Adiga 5
126 Adwait Meethal 5
127 Arunachalam Shivaa T 5
128 Swaroopa E T 5
129 Megha K 5
130 Chandramohan K 5
131 Shirodkar Aayush 5
132 Sarath K 5
133 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5
134 Sujithraj U Mallan 5
135 Gowtham T S 5
136 Shivani Madhu 5
137 Harshad S 5
138 Afinu Shifan M 5
139 Rakshitta Ravi 5
140 Dawood.K 5
141 Rohit S 5
142 Muralidharan M 5
143 Manika Kesavan 5
144 Niranjan Rajeev 5
145 Gokul N 5
146 Abdul Nazer K 5
147 Ramakrishnan T V 5
148 Razan P 5
149 Denil James 5
150 Manoranjan Kelad 5
151 Govindarajan Suganthi 4½
152 Abhiram C Nath 4½
153 Murugappan S P 4½
154 Shane V Jose 4½
155 Jamal Muhammad M 4½
156 Mohammed Salih Pk 4½
157 Pranav Anand 4½
158 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 4½
159 Digvijay Sunil 4½
160 V Sankaran Swaha 4½
161 Gowrichander U 4½
162 Vaheeb Shafi Hassan K 4½
163 K N Nidhin 4½
164 Chirag Mudraje 4½
165 Madhavan G 4½
166 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½
167 Gautham Prasanth 4½
168 Tejas Cavale 4½
169 John Veny Akkarakarn 4½
170 Vasundhara P. 4½
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171 Rithunandan R 4½
172 Jayanth R J R 4½
173 Hiranmayi K 4½
174 Dhanesh P H 4½
175 Jacob Ragland A 4½
176 Guruprasad Gopinath 4½
177 Karunakara Menon K 4½
178 B Gayatri Harshad 4½
179 P Krishna Mukkolath 4½
180 Sidharthan C P 4½
181 Satheesh A S 4
182 Sreevijay Sunil 4
183 Fathima Abdeen 4
184 Vivekraj 4
185 Rethish Puthanpurayil 4
186 Santhosh S 4
187 Saraf T M 4
188 Abdurahiman Elangoli 4
189 Abhishek T M 4
190 Adhithya C K 4
191 Jithu S Nair 4
192 Moir Donald 4
193 Kamalakannan S 4
194 Murali N P 4
195 Prabhakaran K 4
196 Devathma D 4
197 Rithwik Maya Rajesh 4
198 Subash Aravind B 4
199 Ridhan M Feroz 4
200 Vinothkumar R 4
201 Narendran Gouthaman 4
202 Aswin S 4
203 Goutham Krishna G 4
204 Swetha K 4
205 Mohana R 4
206 Revathi Jyothish 4
207 Harikrishnan S B 4
208 Sharsha Backer 4
209 Shashank S L 4
210 Krishnakumar Arulraj 4
211 Sidharth D 4
212 Aswanth S Kumar 4
213 Deepthi Lakshmi K 4
214 Rao Harsh 4
215 Adeena Arjun 4
216 Dhruv Easwar 4
217 Siri Sharma 4
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015…
Shivananda is Champion
by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championship 2015 was organised by Kar-
nataka School of Chess, Bangalore, under
the auspices of United Karnataka Chess As-
sociation at Kempegowda Hall, Malleswaram
Association, Malleswaram Bangalore from
15-19th April 2015. The championship was
inaugurated by great chess lover and Patron
of United Karnataka Chess Association Mr
Achuthananda Reddy.
A total of 260 players from different parts of
Karnataka participated in this championship,
out of which 135 were International rated
player. International Master Shivananda BS
(ELO Rating 2302) was top seed followed by
FIDE Master Raghunandan K S (2301), San-
jay N (2298), Arvind Shastry (2235), Sriram
Sarja (2169).
At the end of the championship, IM Shiva-
nanda BS and Mr N Sanjay scored 7 points
each. Based on better tie break score, IM
Shivananda was adjudged as Champion and
Sanjay was declared second. Mr Arvind Shas-
try, Prachura PP and other six players score
five and half points out of maximum possible
8 points. Bansed the tie break, Arvind Shas-
try was third and Prachura PP was place 4th
place respectively.
Mr Arvind Shastry, Secretary, United Kar-
nataka Chess Association, Mr Nagendra
Muralidhar, Secretary, Mysore District Chess
Association, Mr Raghavendra Founder Direc-
tor, Karnataka School of Chess, International
Master Shivananda B S distributed the prizes.
Final standings: 39 Iyengar Sharanya WCM 5½
Rk Name Pts
1 Shivananda B.S IM 7
2 Sanjay N. 7
3 Arvind Shastry 6½
4 Prachura P.P. 6½
5 Sriram Sarja 6½
6 Manjunath J. 6½
7 Shreeshan S 6½
8 Aditya Chakraborty 6½
9 Varma Shabdhik 6½
10 Darshan V P S 6½
11 Raghunandan K S FM 6
12 Kishan Gangolli 6
13 Santoshkashyap Hg 6
14 Raghavendra V. 6
15 Arjun Adappa 6
16 Parthasarathy R 6
17 Yashaskara Jois K.R 6
18 Ojas Kulkarni 6
19 Raju M. 6
20 Jagadish P 6
21 Likhit Chilukuri 6
22 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 6
23 Dhrikshu K Vasant 6
24 Varun Anant 6
25 Andria L D`souza 5½
26 Gavi Siddayya 5½
27 Sushrutha Reddy 5½
28 Manasa H R 5½
29 Aman Chandra 5½
30 Vivekraj 5½
31 Shyama Krishna S 5½
32 Sriram Udhayakumar 5½
33 Sharan Rao 5½
34 Hariharan Subramony 5½
35 Shalon Joanne Pais 5½
36 Aravinda B R 5½
37 Yajaman Aditya 5½
38 Saket Kumar 5½
40 Shashank S Mayya 5½
41 Nandan Hegde 5½
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43 Ankit Payal 5½
44 Thyagaraj M T 5½
45 Pereira Asim Anthony 5½
46 Siddharth Murali 5½
47 Tulsi M 5½
48 Raghavendra K T 5
49 Dubey Amit Kumar 5
50 Harish Bn 5
51 Muniraju Narayanappa 5
52 Ithal H L Rajath 5
53 K R Bhat 5
54 Chaithanya Ganesh 5
55 Nikhilesh Prabhakar 5
56 Karthikay C 5
57 Abhinav Bhatt 5
58 Svatejas Shivakumar 5
59 Pranav Anand 5
60 Nachiketh Adiga 5
61 Venu Madhav P L 5
62 Shree Krishna Pranama 5
63 Ruthvik R 5
64 Ananya Arumbakkam 5
65 Amaey Advait 5
66 Raghuraman N. R. 5
67 Adithya Narayanan 5
68 Pramod D Kayasth 5
69 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 5
70 Karthik Jagannath 5
71 Banthiya Rishabh 5
72 Yogesha K S 5
73 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5
74 Shreyas Pavan 4½
75 Kanishka Basu 4½
76 Navodith V Bhat 4½
77 Gaurav Sharma 4½
78 Bal Govind 4½
79 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 4½
80 Shashidhar Rai B 4½
81 Sudarshan Bhat 4½
82 Shivanth M 4½
83 Sheshashayan M V 4½
84 Sreedhara K T 4½
85 Ritesh Dharmatti 4½
86 Shyam Sunder H S 4½
87 Mahalinga Gowthama 4½
88 Sathish Hemant 4½
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89 Shalmika K Jain 4½
90 Akshat Shisodia 4½
91 Shaunak Geetprasad 4½
92 Nidhi Shenoy 4½
93 Shreekanth N 4½
94 Chirag S Agile 4½
95 Adarsh Narayanan 4½
96 Srinivas Murthy N 4½
97 Aryan Rajesh Jain 4½
98 Kaushik J 4½
99 Aravindakshan Su 4½
100 Panchami Shenoy K 4½
101 Satvik Tripathi 4½
102 Chiranjan Kumarr K S 4½
103 Lakshvant B 4½
104 Prajwal M Joshi 4½
105 Harishankar S 4½
106 Kaushik G Iyer 4½
107 Vedanth Reddy 4½
108 Anmol S 4½
109 Raghav Srinivas 4½
110 Khandelwal Anshul 4½
111 Manya Hegde 4½
112 Bhagyashree G Patil 4½
113 Preetham Gangadhar 4½
114 Tejas Cavale 4
115 Rohit Kamath S 4
116 Umesh K M 4
117 Vishwas Jamadagni 4
118 Tanmay Srinath 4
119 Shripad K V 4
120 Varun A Bharadwaj 4
121 Sheshadri L 4
122 Achal P Shetty 4
123 Aakash Rajan 4
124 Saathvick R Shankar 4
125 Chinua Pailoor 4
126 Anjaneyulu Movva 4
127 Agrawal Arnav 4
128 Anudeep K S 4
129 Anjali G Malali 4
130 Kalki Eshwar D 4
131 Prajwal Gupta C R 4
132 Anusha T 4
133 Bhoomish P 4
134 Abhay B Bhandarkar 4
135 Shivshankar B Anehosur 4
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015….
Aditya Kalyani wins title
FASaleem Beig,Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State U 13 Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championship 2015 was conducted from 20th
to 23rd April 2015. The 4 day tournament at-
tracted 174 entries and was conducted in a 9
round Swiss format, with two rounds on day
1, 3 rounds on day 2 and day 3 and 1 round
on day 4. The event carried a prize pool of
Rs.34, 500 in cash. And lunch provided two
days for children ,Certificates given for all
Participants. Guests are mr.Aravind Shasthri
secretary of Karnataka UKCA, And Gurukul’S
Sports Manager with A.Chidanand BRDCA
Secretary given the Prizes to Prize Winners
60 players were FIDE Rated and 14 players
were female. The event was organized by
BRDCA talents. Aditya B Kalyani scored 7½
points out of 9 and clinched the championship
with a better buccholz, Bangalore, Karna-
taka. The event attracted local players and
benefited local.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Aditya B Kalyani 7½
2 Jagadish P 7½
3 Manoj B Kulkarni 7½
4 Shreyash A Kulkarni 7½
5 Pankaj Bhat 7
6 Aryan Rajesh Jain 7
7 Shreyas Pavan 7
8 Nachiketh Adiga 7
9 Pranav Anand 6½
10 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6½
11 Shree Krishna Pranama 6½
12 Agrawal Arnav 6½
13 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 6½
14 Niranjan Rajeev 6½
15 Karthik Muruganantham 6½
16 Venu Madhav P L 6
17 Pranav Kumar 6
18 Chaithanya Ganesh 6
19 Karthikay C 6
20 Preetham Gangadhar 6
21 Anirudh B S 6
22 Shreyas V.S. 6
23 Lakshvant B 6
24 Rithesh Bhat 6
25 Chiranjan Kumarr K S 6
26 Kruthik K S 6
27 Darshan J 6
28 Nikilesh G K 6
29 Kaushik G Iyer 6
30 Aneesh Aparanji 6
31 Tejas Cavale 6
32 Abhinav Bhatt 6
33 Deepthi Lakshmi K 6
34 Chirag Mudraje 5½
35 Adithya Narayanan 5½
36 Amaey Advait 5½
37 Kalki Eshwar D 5½
38 Vineeth Vishwanath 5½
39 Karthik Sivaram Jasti 5½
40 Aditya Somasundaram 5½
41 Sumukha K Nayak 5½
42 Jai Adithya S 5½
43 Akash Somasundaram 5½
44 Tusshar N B 5½
45 Chinua Pailoor 5½
46 Anmol S 5½
47 Tejas Varma 5½
48 H Rupesh Raghuvaran 5½
49 Chava Govardhan 5½
50 Chetan Prashanth 5½
51 Anirudhh M K 5½
52 Tanav Sudarshan 5
53 Aakash Rajan 5
54 Peter M Jose 5
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56 Srikant Nayak A 5
57 Ajitesh Kumara 5
58 Naidhruva S Bettadapur 5
59 Abhay B Bhandarkar 5
60 Rakesh N 5
61 Khandelwal Anshul 5
62 Prajwal P 5
63 Apoorv Indrajit Belgundi 5
64 P Surya Prasad Bhat 5
65 Kshitij Manjappa 5
66 Adarsh Narayanan 5
67 Vishruth U 5
68 Saathvick R Shankar 5
69 Aneesh Kiran 5
70 Rithvik M P 5
71 Ankit Loni 5
72 Pragy Narayan 5
73 Saigal Archit 5
74 Mohit Madiraju 5
75 Prajwal K M 5
76 Monosij Roy 4½
77 Raju Prasad R 4½
78 Panchami Sarpangala 4½
79 Sriram Badrinarayan 4½
80 Prajwal S 4½
81 Anya Seth Syed 4½
82 Poorvik M P 4½
83 Rishabh Kumara 4½
84 Akash I R 4½
85 Satyendra G 4½
86 Shefali A N 4½
87 Pranitha S R 4½
88 Shreyas Kannan 4½
89 Tarun Varadharajan 4½
90 Ayush J Yajaman 4½
91 Keshav Malik Kapoor 4½
92 Meghana S 4½
93 Navodith V Bhat 4
94 Keshav Gorur Sriram 4
95 Pranava Shrisai Gande 4
96 Peeyush Rampal 4
97 Tharun B S 4
98 Sasmith A Suvarna 4
99 Preetham B S 4
100 Nishanth Sathish 4
101 Pratham Ajay 4
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102 Shivaprasad V Tengli 4
103 Krishna K Ravi 4
104 Krishnaraj Patil 4
105 Shivshankar B Anehosur 4
106 Shanmukha K Nayak 4
107 Rajath Menon 4
108 Shashank J 4
109 Megha M Hegde 4
110 Aryan Surya S A 4
111 Ruthvik Srikanth 4
112 Swaroop B V 4
113 Shraddha Somanath 4
114 Tejas C K 4
115 Niranjan Babu 4
116 Ganapathi R Mysore 4
117 Hriday Bhutada 4
118 Vishal B Anehosur 4
119 Aditya Prasanna Kumar 4
120 Arhan Chethan Anand 3½
121 Bharath Kumar 3½
122 Patki Varudhini Sadananda 3½
123 Rishi Baskaran 3½
124 Bhanu Prakash H S 3½
125 Aditya E 3½
126 Sriram Balaji S 3½
127 Mohith V 3½
128 Chakravorty Soham 3½
129 Neeraj Kumar 3½
130 Anoushka Bhatt 3½
131 Akash M H 3½
132 Suchit Chebolu 3
133 Eshan Bhatta 3
134 Harsh Srivastava 3
135 Ghanashyam M V 3
136 Yuvan K 3
137 Adityaa R 3
138 Rithyu Ravindra 3
139 Gagan C 3
140 Shravani T R 3
141 Shaamik A R 3
142 Samrudh B S 3
143 Pervaje Arjun Prasad Bhat 3
144 Teshub Dinesh 3
145 Adarsh A Toshniwal 3
146 Kalyan Krishnappa 3
147 Manasa Narayan 3
148 Siddhant Vasan 3
Maharashtra State Open & Women FIDE Rating Tournament 2015,Nagpur
Pruthu Deshpande and Tejaswini Sagar win
IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
Maharashtra State Open and Women Fide
Rating Chess Tournament 2015 was orga-
nized by Nagpur Taluka Chess Association
under the aegis of Maharashtra Chess As-
sociation & Nagpur District Chess Associa-
tion from 28th April to 2nd May 2015 at Dr.
Ambedkar College, Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur.
The total number of participants were 173
which included 138 players in open section
and 35 players in women section. There were
total 118 rated players including 1 FM, 1
WFM, 1 WCM. The venue was very good.
The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. P
C Pawar, Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College &
Institute of Research and Management. The
other dignitaries present were Shri. Manoj
Itkelwar, Vice President, Maharshtra Chess
Association, Shri. Dilip Pagay, Secretary Ma-
harashtra Chess Association, Shri. K K Barat,
Secretary Nagpur District Chess Association,
IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter.
In Open Section
16th Seed Pruthu Deshpande of Pune won
the tournament with ½ point margin over
his nearest rival Shailesh Dravid of Nagpur.
He already showed his determination to win
the tournament by beating the top seed FM
Saurabh Kherdekar of Nagpur in 5th Round,
later in last round he beat Sankalp Gupta of
Nagpur and remained unbeaten in the tour-
nament and won the championship. Other
Upsets of the tournament were top seed FM
Saurabh Kherdekar held by local boy Saurabh
Lokhande in 3rd round game, while 2nd seed
Dilip Pagay of Nagpur lost to 8th seed Nishit
Singh of Aurangabad in 4th round.
In Women’s Section
Top seed WCM Tejaswini Sagar of Aurang-
abad won the tournament on better buch-
cholz score. She tied on 8 points with her
city mate WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg
of Nagpur. WFM Mitali Patil and Divya Garg
stood 2nd and 3rd respectively. All the top
3 players sharing the lead with each other
from round 7th to last round. In last round
game Tejaswini beat her opponent Eesha
Sarda while Mitali Patil and Divya Garg beat
Sonal Mandhana, Tanya Pande respectively.
Top 4 players from both group selected for
forthcoming National Challenger and National
Women Challenger. The total prize fund for
the event was Rs. 75000/-, in which Rs.
50000/- for open group and Rs. 25000/- for
women group.
The prizes were distributed at the hands of
Shri. Sandeep Joshi, Corporator Nagpur, in
the presence of Shri. Sudhir Fulzele, Director
Dr. Ambedkar College , Ms. Rajashree Datta,
Principal Somalwar School, Shri. A P Joshi,
Vice Principal, Dr. Ambedkar College, Shri.
Dilip Pagay, Secretary MCA, Shri. Swapnil
Bansod, Chief Arbiter and Shri. Sushant
Jumde, Organising Secretary.
Final ranking: Maharashtra State Open
Rk Name Pts
1 Pruthu Deshpande 8
2 Shailesh Dravid 7½
3 Sauravh Khherdekar FM 7½
4 Patil Ketan 7
5 Gandhi Anish 6½
6 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 6½
7 Saurabh Lokhande 6½
8 Sankalp Gupta 6½
9 Dilip Pagay 6½
10 Singh Nishit 6½
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11 Patil Priyanshu 6½
12 Sadhwani Raunak 6½
13 Om Vinay Vitalkar 6½
14 Sivasubramanian R 6½
15 Dahale Atul 6
16 Roneet Das 6
17 Patil Kiran 6
18 Krishnater Kushager 6
19 Gouravkumar Nanwani 6
20 Devansh Ratti 6
21 Palaskar Rutwik 6
22 Nahar Anish 6
23 Yash Ingolikar 6
24 Nagare Akhilesh 6
25 Raunak Godbole 6
26 Atharva Rakesh Bhede 6
27 Ghorghate Sahil 6
28 Satkar Chirag 5½
29 Patil Mayur 5½
30 Rohan Bharat Joshi 5½
31 Shamkuwar Y. M. 5½
32 Deogade Salil 5½
33 Naresh Kantode 5½
34 Vinay V. Barhanpure 5½
35 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 5½
36 Patil Rohit R 5½
37 Sanil Upasani 5½
38 Patil T S 5½
39 Jeswani Saransh 5½
40 Sapre Shreyas 5½
41 Dewang Kalpesh 5½
42 Swayam Uttam Aalewad 5
43 Dhanvij Ansh 5
44 Spandan P Seth 5
45 Yadav Satendrakumar 5
46 Nilesh Kevaldas Bankar 5
47 Deshmukh Nachiket 5
48 Tanuj M. Meshran 5
49 Pendsey Muktanand 5
50 Chandran T. 5
51 Vaishnav Paunikar 5
52 Laha S K 5
53 Deshpande Ishan M 5
54 Ramachandran. V 5
55 Saurav L Tembhare 5
56 Kohad Dipesh 5
57 Ahire Vaibhav 5
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58 Shintre Neel 5
59 Dange Atharva 5
60 Sangai Samkit 5
61 Khopey Jay 5
62 Pophali Aryan S 5
63 Kushal R Karwa 5
64 Hardas Akhilesh 4½
65 Chaoji Vikram 4½
66 Zambad Aman 4½
67 Borkar B C 4½
68 K.K. Pandey 4½
69 Pagay Shail 4½
70 Dnyandeep Jadhav 4½
71 Joshi Ved 4½
72 Lonkar Parth 4½
73 Joshi Kshitij D 4½
74 Goyal Devansh 4½
75 Aryan Khurana 4½
76 Raut Rutvij 4½
77 Dodeja Mann 4½
78 Madke Viraj 4½
79 Hirani Lakshya 4
80 Bhoyar Shreerang 4
81 Awghad Shyam 4
82 Kherdekar Arnav 4
83 Chandrani Shlok 4
84 Kalgaonkar S 4
85 Lohit Rushikesh 4
86 Moharir Aayush 4
87 Khan H K 4
88 Patil Siddhey 4
89 Chourasiya Sumukh 4
90 Shende Manthan 4
91 Suchak Adarsh 4
92 Javkhedkar Sarang 4
93 Gorghate Rushabh 4
94 Deogade Aryan 4
95 Demetrius D Souza 4
96 Borkar Nikhilanand 4
97 Yash Dhoke 3½
98 Nirwan Saurabh 3½
99 Shinde Rujul 3½
100 Bharadkar Shashwat 3½
101 Taori Yash 3½
102 Wairagade Khush 3½
103 Vekhande Shivam 3½
104 Mahore Archis 3½
105 Chaoji Parth 3½
106 Ayalwar Manthan 3½ Puzzle of the month
107 Juare Deep 3½
by C.G.S.Narayanan
108 Sonkusre Om Sanjay 3½
SPG (Short proof game) is a type of prob-
109 Honmane Suyog 3½
lem in which the task is to reconstruct a le-
110 Moholkar Amogh 3½
gal game. Starting from the opening array,
the solver has to find the shortest possible
Maharashtra FIDE Women game that leads to the diagram position.
Final placings: White and Black thus effectively cooperate
Rk Name Pts to achieve this, and that the moves would
1 Tejaswini Sagar WCM 8 not be sensible in a competitive game is
2 Patil Mitali Madhukar WFM 8 considered irrelevant. SPGs are also char-
3 Divya Garg 8 acterised by their exact play – the move
4 Adane Narayani 6 order in each solution is unique.Separate
5 Patil Samiksha 6 section for retros and proof games is intro-
6 Nagalakshmi R 5½ duced in the latest 10th WCCT announced.
7 Anjali R. Sagar 5½ Here is a position in which every piece
8 Eesha Ajay Sarda 5½ stands on its game array square. The main
9 Pagay Shalaka 5 point of this short proof game is the visual
10 Sonal Mandhana 5 effect and a kind of deceptive symmetry.
11 Tanya Pandey 5 In spite of White and Black’s symmetrical
12 Saloni Patel 5 arrangement in the final position, the play
13 Chansoriya Ketki 5 leading to it is non-symmetrical.
14 Dnynadha N Vitalkar 5
15 Thakare Seeya 4½ Joost de Heer
16 Subhasmitha Sahoo 4½ Probleemblad 2001
17 Palorkar Riddhi 4½
18 Sagar Siya 4½
19 Ismat Chimthanwala 4½
20 Nusrat Chimtanawala 4½
21 Gupta Niti 4
22 Gudsurkar Rekha 4
23 Patil Aditi G 4
24 Jhawar Preksha 4
25 Wairagade Rashi 4
26 Sharanya Vinayak Adane 4
27 Verma Riya 4
28 Belpande Shalaka 3½
29 Maheshwari Krishna 3
30 Harde Sharyu 3
31 Deshmukh Keshar 3
32 Kumbhalkar Anisha 2
33 Deshmukh Kasturi 1 SPG in 6 moves
34 Gotefode Sneha 0 Find the six moves from the game array
35 Anushka Heda 0 to reach this position.
(Solution on page 48)
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National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship-2015,Rourkela
Debashis Das and Ratnakaran win titles
by Rajendra Shidore,IA,Chief Arbiter
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Champi-
onship-2015 was inaugurated by Hon-
o ra b l e C h i e f G u e s t S r i P K P ra d h a n
GM(P&A),Rourkela Steel Plant, Mr.Raheman
Khan, GM(TS),RSP in the presence of Mrs.
Minati Mohapatra,DGM(sports),SAIL,RSP on
dated 26th April’2015 at the Rourkela Club,
Rourkela, Odisha.Rourkela is known as a
Steel City of India as well as of Odisha. This
city is 14TH green city of India when one &
only in Odisha.
This prestigious National Rating event was
successfully organized by Rourkela Steel
Plant, Rourkela under the aegis of All Odisha
Chess Association under the strong supervi-
sion of Mrs. Minati Mohapatra DGM(sports)
SAIL,RSP and other officials of All Odisha
Chess Association under the AICF event code
111535,111536/ODI/2015 and was recog-
nized by AICF and FIDE.
In this event in-spite of less no of entry this
is strongest ever rapid & blitz chess event
held in India. Including 2 GM & 9 IM total 52
players from 9 states were participated in
this well organised event. At the end in Rapid
section top seed GM Debashis Das,Odisha &
in blitz section IM K Ratnakaran, of Kerala
became the champion of this national event.
1st time the new time control was introduced
in the National Rapid chess as 15 mints with
10 sec increment(world Rapid format) as
suggested by all the majority players & title
holders. We are thankful to AICF for sending
us new FIDE ids in time.
Top seed GM Debashis Das got champions
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trophy with a prize money of Rs.50,000/- fol-
lowed by Runners up IM Diptayan Ghosh a
Total Cash Prizes of Rs.25,000/-. In the blitz
section IM Ratnakaran K,Ker got the champi-
ons trophy with a total cash of Rs.20,000/-.
Total cash prizes was Rs.1,75,000/- in Rapid
section with Rs.75,000/- in Blitz section.
In the closing ceremony the Chief Guest was
Mr.G.S.Prasad,CEO, SAIL,RSP with Guest
of Honor Dr.A.K.Singh,Director i-c(M&HS)
SAIL,RSP, Mr.PK pradhan,GM i-c(P&A)
SAIL,RSP, Mr. R Khan GM (TS), Mr. Sita-
ram Pradahan GM(F & A) RSP, Mrs. Minati
mohapatra,DGM sports,RSP and respected
Mr Ranjan Mohanty, vice president AOCA.
Also I am very thankful to AICF for nominat-
ing me as Chief Arbiter and Mr Nihar Ranjan
Sasmal,IA of Odisha as Dy. Chief Arbiter
for this prestigious event. Organizers had
provided very good lodging, boarding and
transport facilities for all the players & offi-
cials. Weather condition during the event was
good for the players also the playing venue
was a A/C hall.No protest was lodged during
the entire tournament and tournament was
held in very smooth manner.
National Rapid: Final standings
Rk Name Pts
1 GM Debashis Das 9½
2 IM Ghosh Diptayan 8½
3 GM Neelotpal Das 8
4 IM Rathnakaran K. 8
5 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½
6 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. 7
7 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 7
8 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 7
9 IM Das Arghyadip 7
10 D Bala Chandra Prasad 7
11 IM Deshmukh Anup 6½
12 IM Suvrajit Saha 6½
13 Srinath Rao S.V. 6½
14 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 6½
15 Muthukumar C P 6½
16 Debarshi Mukherjee 6½
17 Mari Arul S. 6
18 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 6
19 Sa Kannan 6
20 Singh Pritam 6
21 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6
22 Rahul Srivatshav P 6
23 Bose Sayan 6
24 Rajdeep Sarkar 6
25 Saurabh Mandal 6
26 Ram Charan 6
27 Das Susobhit 6
28 Bihari P.K. 5½
29 Parichha Sk 5½
30 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 5
31 Pvs Aravind 5
32 N.N.Behera 5
33 Samal Ansuman 5
34 Varma Vikrant 5
35 Mohanty Binikesh 5
36 Shashi Nand Kumar 5
37 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 4½
38 Valsan Kanavath 4½
39 Atul Bihari Sharan 4½
40 Routray Priyanka 4½
41 Gobardhan Behera 4½
42 Debata Sarthak 4½
43 Panda Sidhanta 4½
44 Mohanty Soyamsree 4
45 Dash Biswaswarup 4
46 Samal Aditya Ranjan 3½
47 Das Samarth 3½
48 Milind Kaushik 3
49 Basil Gouda 3
50 Sarthak Pujari 3
51 Panda Hrishikesh 2½
52 Satwik Patnaik ½
National Blitz: Final standings
Rk Name Pt
1 IM Rathnakaran K. 8½
2 GM Neelotpal Das 8
3 IM Ghosh Diptayan 8
4 GM Debashis Das 7½
5 D Bala Chandra Prasad 7½
6 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu 7½
7 Srinath Rao S.V. 7
8 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 7
9 IM Suvrajit Saha 7
10 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6½
11 Debarshi Mukherjee 6½
12 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 6½
13 Bose Sayan 6½
14 Rajdeep Sarkar 6½
15 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 6
16 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. 6
17 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 6
18 Singh Pritam 6
19 Srivastava Pratyush 6
20 Rahul Srivatshav P 5½
21 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 5½
22 Ram Charan 5½
23 Pvs Aravind 5½
24 Swaraj Palit 5½
25 IM Deshmukh Anup 5
26 Das Susobhit 5
27 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 5
28 Saurabh Mandal 5
29 Bihari P.K. 5
30 Mohanty Soyamsree 5
31 Panda Sidhanta 5
32 Valsan Kanavath 4
33 Ranjan Mohanty 4
34 Varma Vikrant 4
35 Routray Priyanka 4
36 Shashi Nand Kumar 3½
37 Sandeepta Kumar Dash 3
38 Milind Kaushik 2½
39 Basil Gouda 2
Chess is like a language, the top players
are very fluent at it. Talent can be
developed scientifically but you have to
find first what you are good at.
by.Anand
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The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rating Chess Championship,Puri…
Rakesh Kumar Nayak wins title 2 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM 7½ 49 Prasannakumar Nayak 5
Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
The 56th Odisha State Senior FIDE Rat-
ing Chess Championship was organized by
District Chess Association of Puri from 8th
to 12th April 2015 at Gopandhu Ayurveda
Mahavidyalaya, Puri.The tournament was
inaugurated by Sj. Jayanta Kumar Sarangi,
Chairman, Puri Municipality., other dignitar-
ies were Sj. Rabi Narayan Senapati, Sports
Officer, Puri, Sj. Gouri Shankar Singhari,
Social Worker, Puri, Sj. Pradyumna Mishra,
Vice-President, Dist. Chess Association of
Puri and Sj. Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Hony.
Secretary, Dist Chess Association of Puri
were present on the dias. With the total prize
fund of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand
only) of the event attracted 142 participants
from 18 Districts (Angul–8, Bolangir–2,
Balasore-3, Cuttack–15, Dhenkanal-5, Gan-
jam-7, Jajpur-4, Jharsuguda-2, Khordha-25,
Kalahandi-2, Kendrapara-2, Koraput-6, Nua-
para-2, Nayagarh-1, Puri-43, Sambalpur-2,
Subarnapur-1, Sundargarh-9) with two spe-
cial units (KIIT – 02 & POSTAL - 02 ) with
Two FIDE Master &, one Women Candidate
Master, FIDE Master Rakesh Kumar Jena,
2292 (Jajpur) was the top seed. A total
of 105 Rated players participated.
Five players shared their lead with full
points at the end of 4th round and after
6th round only 2 players Baivab Mishra,
1999 & Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2079 were
leading with (5.5), while only 7 players
led the top tables with 5 points. After 7th
Round Rakesh Kumar Nayak was the so
leader with 6.5 points & only 3 players were
leading WITH 6 points. At the end of round 9,
a 17 year boy (3rd in National U-13 in 2012)
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Rakesh Kumar Nayak drew with FIDE Mas-
ter Soumyaranjan Mishra and clinched the
Championship with a cash prize of `10,000/-.
FIDE Master Rakesh Jena became Runner-up
& ` 7,000/- & local boy Baivab Mishra, stood
3rd with ` 5,000/-.There were many upsets
started from the third round onwards.Out of
35 unrated players 17 players will get the
Rating in the month of May. Three players
Dikshant Das, 1358, Jagdish Barik, 1130 and
Nilsu Pattnaik, 1743, increased 151, 1112 &
105 in their rating respectively.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief Guest
was Sj. Vivek Kumar Tibarewal, Hony. Secre-
tary, All Odisha Chess Assocoiation, Other
dignitaries who graced the occasion on the
last day were Sri Ramesh Chandra Mo-
hapatra, (Title Sponsor) Son of Late Laxmi
Priya Mohapatra, Sri Pradyumna Mishra,
Vice President, District Chess Associa-
tion of Puri, Sri Manoj Kumar Panigrahi,
Jt Secy. District Chess Association & All
Odisha Chess Association, Sri Subhash
C h a n d r a S a h o o , S e c r e t a r y, D i s t r i c t
Chess Association of Puri. The Press
and Media covered the event very well.
Without any dispute the tournament
ended successfully.
I take this opportunity to thank District
Chess Association of Puri and All Odi-
sha Chess Association for making such
tournament a Grand success, which will
go a long way in creating awareness
and popularising Chess in our State & for
giving a chance to play in Open FIDE Rating
tournament by paying a minimum of Rs.500.
Final ranking: 46 Pattnaik Bishal 5
Rk Name Pts 47 Gobardhan Behera 5
1 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 7½ 48 Sudhir Kumar Behera 5
3 Baivab Mishra 7½ 50 Biswal Gitashree 5
4 Mishra Soumyaranjan FM 7½ 51 Lalitmohan Digal 5
5 Nayak Rajesh 7 52 Patro Yasoman 5
6 Bhaskar Sri Viswaroopanand 7 53 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 5
7 Mahesh Prasad Sethi 7 54 Choudhuri Kumar Naik 5
8 Swain Ashirwad 6½ 55 Barik Jagdish 5
9 Das Susobhit 6½ 56 Dash Shrimay 5
10 Samal Ansuman 6½ 57 Sahu Bibek Kumar 5
11 Padhi Kamal Lochan 6½ 58 Sahoo Sangram Keshari 5
12 Johnson Sahoo 6½ 59 Jayadeba Patel 5
60 Bag G 5
13 Salonika Saina WCM 6½
61 Sahoo Dasharathi 4½
14 Guruprasad Bhatta 6½
15 Panigrahi Manoj Kumar 6 62 Sourav Mohanty 4½
16 Pattnayak Nilsu 6 63 Mishra Abinash 4½
17 Pranab Kumar Patra 6 64 Lochan Kumar Das 4½
18 Sumit Kumar Banerjee 6 65 Sahu Aswini Kumar 4½
19 Rath Hrusikesh 6 66 Mohanty Swaraj Sanket 4½
20 Panda Sambit 6 67 Sahu Ajay Kumar 4½
21 Behera Dillip 6 68 Sahu Susant Kumar 4½
22 Rudranarayan 6 69 Parichha Sk 4½
23 Smaraki Mohanty 6 70 Narayan Das 4½
24 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 6 71 Rout Kandarpa 4½
25 Jena Binayak 6 72 Ezaz Ahamed S K 4½
26 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6 73 Panda Chandra Sekhar 4½
74 Panda Raj Santosh 4
27 Patra Subhendu Kumar 6
75 Manish Kumar (2006) 4
28 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 5½
29 N.N.Behera 5½ 76 Mishra Anisha 4
30 Dikshant Dash 5½ 77 Bhoi Gunanidhi 4
31 Mishra Srinibas 5½ 78 Dash Gagan Behari 4
32 Sahoo Ankush 5½ 79 Sethi Ankit Kumar 4
33 Sradhanjali Jena 5½ 80 Pradhan Guru Nath 4
34 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 5½ 81 Mohanty Anoushkaa 4
35 Pradhan Mohan Das 5½ 82 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 4
36 Prachurya Kumar Pradhan 5½ 83 Jyotsna M 4
37 Mishra Om 5½ 84 Biswal Subhradeep 4
38 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 5½ 85 Atanu Panda 4
39 Mishra Anwesha 5½ 86 Mishra Siddharth 4
40 Mohapatra G.C. 5½ 87 Anil Bhoi 4
88 Mandal Dillip Kumar 4
41 Sahoo A Sudip Kumar 5½
89 Guru Nirmal Chandra 4
42 Kar Satyabrata 5½
43 Mahitosh Dey 5 90 Ravi Kumar N 4
44 Pradip Kumar Bisoyi 5 91 Das Bighnesh 4
45 Nayak Biswajit 5 92 Sahoo Sudeep Kumar 4
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Late Motilalji Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Ahmednagar
Sameer Kathmale is champion
by IA Nitin Shenvi
D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas Pratishthan,
Ahmednagar conducted the Late Motilalji
Firodia Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tourna-
ment at Saptak Sadan, Near Pankaj Lodge,
Khist Lane, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, which
is one of the central place in Kapadbazar area
in Ahmednagar. This event was organized by
prominent chess players and key personali-
ties of various Chess activities in Ahmednagar
viz. Mr. Yashwant Bapat, Dr. Gagare, Mr.
Firodia accompanied by other chess players
like Y. M. Kamble, etc. The event was played
from 22nd to 26th April, 2015 and conducted
in the Swiss League format, comprising 10
rounds, with two rounds on every day. The
time control for the game was 90 minutes to
each player with an increment of 30 seconds
per move from first move.
The event was inaugurated by Ukranian GM
Alexander Goloschopo accompanied by other
dignitaries on dais local favorite IM Shardul
Gagare, Shri Narendra firodia President
Ahmednagar District Chess Circle (ADCC)
& Shantikumarji Firodia Memorial Founda-
tion, Shri Yashwant Bapat Secretary ADCC
& President D.L.B. Bahuuddeshiya Vikas
Pratishthan and myself Chief Arbiter of this
event. Inaugeral match between Shri Na-
rendra Firodia and GM Alexander ended in
draw. In this event 222 players out of which
118 were rated having rating average 1452,
with players coming from nearly all parts of
Maharashtra. The championship was being
led by a IM & a WCM including eleven play-
ers above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kathmale
of Sangli, with a rating of 2289 was the top
seeds in this event.The upset started right
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In 3rd round, Gugale Sunny of Ahmednagar Kulkarni Purva completed five rated players
lost with Kulkarni Aakash of pune, Nagar- with rating average and rating performance
goje Dhananjay of Pune defeated Banjan above 1000 ELO points.
Priyadarshan of Mumbai Suburban, Pawar
Rahul of Thane outwitted Tanuj M. Meshran In 6th round, on 2nd board Jaiswar Shailesh
of Bhandara, Nankar Pranav of Aurangabad outwitted Kulkarni Chinmay and forced him
from the first round, as the unrated Chhallani
won against Shirke Pradeep of Raigad, Gupta to resign the game in 52 moves eventhough
Abhishek of Nashik outwitted Bhogal Rupesh
Shllok of Pune prevailed Kamble Balbhim of tha rating difference is nearly 200 ELO points.
of Mumbai. Similarly, unrated Jadhav Omkar
Ahmednagar with nearly 300 ELO points dif- Sameer Kathmale became the sole leader
S of Pune defeated More
ference, unrated Chhabra Aakash of Thane with six points in pocket beating Omkar Ka-
defeated Shinde Nitin of Pune, unrated Don- dav. Sameer is followed by Jaiswar Shailesh,
Amit of Raigad, unrated Patil Harshal of Na-
gaonkar Indraneel of mravati won against Wagh Suyog and Verma Rahul with 5½ points
shik won against Bhoite Krishna of Pune, un-
Bhoite Krishna of Pune, unrated Halkude each. Seven unrated participants other than
rated Rathod Abha of Pune earned one point
Nagnath of Pune won against Kulkarni Ayush above eight players able to cross 1000 ELO
from Kothari Pranit of Ahmednagar, Rohra
A of Beed, unrated Godbole Gautam of Pune point mark.
Harsh of Thane defeated Modak Mangesh of
won against Hurkude Shrinath of Aurang-
Ratnagiri,
abad, unrated Nair Prajit of pune won against At the end of 7th round Kathmale Sameer
Kale Sujal of Aurangabad, unrated Wankhade played against Verma Rahul on first board
unrated Salve Siddhant outwitted WCM
Bharati of Akola won against Dhamane Yash which ended in draw, while Wagh Suyog
Wankhade Sanskruti of Akola, unrated
of Nashik, unrated Tolani Diksha, Wangikar played against Jaiswar Shailesh on second
Samplewala Ebrahim of Palghar won against
Aashay, Wankhade Sanghadas won against board and in crucial position, Suyog lost
Mane Shreyanshu of Satara, unrated Shelke
Raul Sumit, Killedar Nirav, Phadnis Adwait in calculation game resulted in favour of
Sanket of Ahmednagar defeated Dhumal
respectively. At the end of 3rd round 20 play- Shailesh. After this round Sameer KAthmale
Amit of Pune, unrated Tolani Diksha of Thane
ers scoring 3 points each took ½ points lead and Shailesh Jaiswar took joint lead scoring
outwitted Torvekar Girish of Ahmednagar,
on nearest rivals. 6½ points each with ½ point lead on nearest
unrated Vikam Chintan of Pune won against
rivals namely Verma Rahul, Kulkarni Chin-
Kalkar Anurag of Nashik, unrated Wangikar
In 4th round, Kathmale Sameer, Kulkarni may, Gandhi Anish, and Sankarsh Shelke
Aashay of Pune scored win against Aryan
Chinmay, Verma Rahul, Gandhi Anish, Mulay local favourite. Total Eighteen unrated man-
Khurana of Nagpur.
Pratik, Soham Datar and Kadav Omkar were aged to cross 1000 ELO point mark.
leading with four points each. In this round,
In 2nd round, Somvanshi Prashant of Pune
Joshi Nikhil, Menon Padmanand & Pawar Ra- At the end of quarter final round Kathmale
outwitted Nishant Deoram Wanjari of Bhan-
hul drew with ELO difference of more than Sameer played against Shailesh Jaiswar on
dara, Dange Atharva of Aurangabad defeated
300 points Jaiswar Shailesh, Wagh Suyog & first board which ended in draw, while Chin-
Joshi Sunil of Ahmednagar, Kherdekar Arnav
Patil Jitendra respectively. may Kulkarni played against Verma Rahul
of Nagpur won against Limaye Vedant of Pune
At the end of fifth round Kathmale Sameer, on second board game resulted in favour of
all with nearly 300 points ELO difference,
Kulkarni Chinmay & Kadav Omkar took joint Chinmay. After this round Sameer Kathmale,
unrated Jadhav Omkar S of Pune earned one
lead of ½ point with individual score of five Chinmay Kulkarni and Shailesh Jaiswar took
point from Kamble Balbhim of Ahmednagar,
points. Kadav Omkar of Satara won against joint lead scoring 7 points each with ½ point
unrated Hurkude Shrinath of Aurangabad
Dahale Atul of Pune having ELO difference lead on nearest rivals viz. Gandhi Anish,
outwitted Modak Mangesh of Ratnagiri, un-
of around 200 points. The unrated players Sankarsh Shelke, Atul Dahale, Wagh Suyog,
rated Jadhav Viraj of Pune defeated Torvekar
namely Jadhav Omkar S, Wangikar Aashay, Mulay Pratik, Soham Datar, and Nagare Akh-
Girish of Ahmednagar, and unrated Kulkarni
Chhallani Abhishek, Patil Harshal, Vikam ilesh. Total Twenty-three managed to cross
Purva of Thane defeated Sarang Nair of Pune.
Chintan, Hurkude Shrinath, Tolani Diksha, & over 1000 ELO point mark.
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 In penultimate round (9th) Sameer won
against Chinmay while on 2nd board Pratik
Mulay won against Shailesh made Sameer
the sole leader. Final round in this event on
first board Suyog drew with Sameer even
though this result does not affect the Cham-
pion of the event.
The tournament was completed in peaceful
manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals
Committee members consisting of IM Sameer
Kathmale of Sangli, Chinmay Kulkarni of
Pune, Jitendra Patil of Nandurbar as the main
members and Sunny Gugale of Ahmednagar
& Mohit Ladhe of Thane as reserve members.
The championship was a real boon for many
players, as many of them gained consider-
able ELO rating of 100 or above. Special
mention has to be made of Pranav Nankar
(Aurangabad) & Rushikesh Oke (Aurangabad)
increased their rating by 124 and 110 points
respectively. In open section out of 104 un-
rated participants, 32 participants became
rated players.
Final Ranking :
Rk Name Pts
1 Kathmale Sameer IM 8½
2 Jaiswar Shailesh 8
3 Shelke Sankarsha 8
4 Wagh Suyog 8
5 Gandhi Anish 8
6 Mulay Pratik 8
7 Soham Datar 7½
8 Kulkarni Chinmay 7½
9 Nagare Akhilesh 7½
10 Patil Jitendra 7½
11 Menon Padmanand 7½
12 Dahale Atul 7½
13 Joshi Mihir 7½
14 Verma Rahul 7
15 Pate Machindra 7
16 Gugale Sunny 7
17 Patil Samiksha 7
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18 Vaidya Kaiwalya 7
19 Sourabh Bhange 7
20 Giri Abhishek 7
21 Kulkarni Aakash 7
22 Telang Yashwant 7
23 Vikam Chintan 7
24 Jaiswal Prince 7
25 Pogul Yuvraj 7
26 Kadav Omkar 6½
27 Nirgun Keval 6½
28 Nagargoje Dhananjay 6½
29 Chandran T. 6½
30 Joshi Nikhil 6½
31 Ladhe Mohit 6½
32 Dhagdhage Shashank 6½
33 Pawar Rahul 6½
34 Gorde Dattatray 6½
35 Borse Pankaj 6½
36 Roneet Das 6½
37 Siddha Suyash 6½
38 Kapadi Yash 6½
39 Limaye Vedant 6½
40 Shelke Omkar 6½
41 Chhallani Abhishek 6½
42 Ghumare Anil P 6½
43 Soman Saharsha 6½
44 Borase Manoj 6
45 Joshi Abhijeet M 6
46 Banjan Priyadarshan 6
47 Tanuj M. Meshran 6
48 Bilpe Abhijeet 6
49 Chavan Nameet 6
50 Shimpi Rushikesh 6
51 Bhogal Rupesh 6
52 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 6
53 Spandan P Seth 6
54 Sarvankar Girish 6
55 Vijay Jhanwar 6
56 Muchandikar Shrikant 6
57 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 6
58 Wagh Varun 6
59 Awade Pradeep 6
60 Bhatawdekar Ved 6
61 Chothe Sadanand 6
62 Wagh Shubham 6
63 Basant N 6
64 Phadnis Adwait 6
65 Jain Kashish Manoj 6
66 Shirke Pradeep 6
67 Kulkarni Ayush A 6
68 Adam Rajat 6
69 Nankar Pranav 5½
70 Thakare Seeya 5½
71 Gouravkumar Nanwani 5½
72 Nikam Sudhanshu 5½
73 Patodi Samyak 5½
74 Satbhai Mohanish 5½
75 Datar Amogh 5½
76 Boramanikar Tanisha S 5½
77 Raktade Rohan 5½
78 Oke Rushikesh 5½
79 Chhabra Aakash 5½
80 Somvanshi Prashant 5½
81 Kandi Utkarsh 5½
82 Godambe Ritesh 5½
83 Shinde Kunal 5½
84 Deshmukh Varun 5½
85 Killedar Nirav 5½
86 Halkude Nagnath 5½
87 Aum Chordia 5½
88 Mane Shreyanshu 5½
89 Kulkarni Purva 5½
90 Dhamane Yash 5½
91 Mrunal Manish Lalwani 5½
92 Raul Sumit 5½
93 Soni Piyush 5½
94 Bhoite Krishna 5½
95 Chandurkar Bhalchandra 5
96 Makone Kaustubh 5
97 Siddhesh Kitkaru 5
98 Kothari Pranit 5
99 Bendre Aman 5
100 Dhadge Yash 5
101 Shinde Nitin 5
102 Wangikar Aashay 5
103 D Souza Ynez 5
104 Deshpande Jatin N 5
105 Mungase Amol 5
106 Jaiswal Shubham Rajendra 5
107 More Amit 5
108 Somwanshi Nathu 5
109 Kale Sujal 5
110 Wankhade Bharati 5
111 Ahale Saurabh 5
112 Dange Atharva 5
113 Patil Harshal 5
114 Modak Mangesh 5
115 Samplewala Ebrahim 5
116 Kalkar Anurag 5
117 Bothikar Tegas 5
118 Pawar Harish 5
119 Dagadkhair Saurav 5
120 Subramanian Shreyas 5
121 Rudrapratap Satish Ghatge 5
122 Sheth Siddhi 5
123 Tandale Pravin 5
124 Dhumal Amit 4½
125 Sasne Ashok 4½
126 Apte Dhaivat 4½
127 Lasaroda Prince 4½
128 Saurav L Tembhare 4½
129 Gupta Shllok 4½
130 Nair Prajit 4½
131 Godbole Gautam 4½
132 Ghanwat Abhaysinh 4½
133 Aryan Khurana 4½
134 Hurkude Shrinath 4½
135 Joshi Sunil 4½
136 Wankhade Sanskruti 4½
137 Jagdale Shivendra 4½
138 Mahale Tanmay 4½
139 Kunte Amogh 4½
140 Prerana Gholap 4½
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Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tournament, New Delhi
Pravin Thipsay wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
Dr. Hedgewar Fide Rated Chess Tourna-
ment was organized this time in Thya-
graj Stadium New Delhi. The spacious
venue was well decorated and furnished.
Analysis room media room , lounge for V.I.P.
and refreshment area were available.
251 players including 155 rated players par-
ticipated in this tournament 20 title players
were appeared in this tournament Including
4 GM and 8 IM The Tournament schedule
was slightly change as decided in players
meeting Total no. of round was 9 and except
last day everyday double round.Tournament
was played on open Swiss system format.
Program used for the pairing was Swiss
manager and time control was 90 minutes
with 30 sec. increment from move 1.It was
decided during the technical meeting that
default time will be 30 minutes . During the
technical Meeting, it was decided and confirm
to use following tiebreak , The Buchholz 1 )
Cut1, 2) Cut2 3) SB 4)Median Buchholz 5)
Sum of Buchholz.
On April 27th , the first round commenced
. Separate seating gallery for all the par-
ents and spectators were provided. All basic
facilities were provided by the Organizers in
the playing venue i.e. water, coffee and tea
for the players and officials, W.C., smoking
area, analysis area.
Grand colourful opening ceremony was held
on April 27th . Tournament was Inaugurated
by Gen. V.K.Singh , Minister of state for Ex-
ternal affair , Govt. of India In presence of
Wing Comdr. J. Rajendra , Prabhat Kumar and
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Mrs. Simmy Jain , Chairman Org . Commit-
tee . Mr. Singh made an inaugural move and
declared tournament formally open . During
his speech , he appreciated a lot to organi-
zation . Other dignitaries presents on the
occasion was A.K.Verma , Hony. Secreatry ,
DCA , R. S. Tiwari , Org. Secreatry , Shirish
Jain,co-coordinator of the tournament. First
round results were on the expected lines and
nothing special to be mention.
Second round had something that Ankit sen
(1735) of U.P. and Mendonca Leon Luke
(1699) OF Goa held IM elect Ravi Teja and
National U-17 Champion Aradhya Garg re-
spectively.
Third round of course had big news for media
when Arpan Das of W.B. defeated GM Sahaj
Grover. In other hand , GM Sriram Jha , IM
Himanshu Sharma and IM Rahul Sangma
were forced to draw their games against An-
urag Jaiswal(WB) , Sumit Grover(J&K) and K.
Arvind(TN) respectively. After 3rd round , 22
players joined the top score bracket as 3/3.
Fourth round:Rating difference of first 10
board was around 200 and results was al-
most expected , either win or drew for higher
rated player. But board # 11 had news which
may not as much big but it was notable that
Abhishek Das, An IM elect of Jharkhand , lost
his 3rd round game against Dhruv Kakkar , a
player who had 741 less Elo points than him !!
At the end of 4th round , there were 6 play-
ers with 4/4. On board # 1 , IM Somak Palit
defeated to Sai Agni Jeevitesh while board
# 2 ended in drew where IM Chakravarthi
( contd on p.27 )
World Women’s Team Chess Championship, Chengdu
Georgia wins Women’s World Team Chess Championship
Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015
was held in Chengdu,China from 16th April
2015 to 28th April 2015. Georgia won Women’s
World Team Chess Championship 2015. Georgia
concluded the event in style, by defeating the
host country and three-times world champions
China. The decisive game of the match was Meri
Arabidze’s fine victory on the second board. From
the early opening stage the Georgian put a strong
pressure on her opponent Shen Yang, won a
pawn and went on to convert into full point. The
remaining three games were drawn.
Georgia took the gold medal with 17 match points,
conceding only one tie to Russia. Bela Khotenashvili was by far the best top board, scoring
7,5/9 points for a 2699-elo performance. Meri Arabidze was the best 3rd board with 6/7. China
is third with 11 match points, claiming the bronze.
Still holding a hope for the gold medal in case of Georgia’s failure in the final round, Russia
put up a powerful performance against USA, convincingly winning the match 3,5-0,5.Katerina
Nemcova was the only to hold a draw, against the world championship finalist Natalija Pogonina.
Olga Girya, playing as the 5th board, was the top performer of the event with 6,5/7 points or
92,9%.
Russia won the silver medal, with equal sum of individual points as Georgia, 25 each, but only
15 match points, having conceded ties to Kazakhstan and Armenia.
Ukraine won 3,5-0,5 against Egypt, but Shrook Wafa, earning on the experience of participating in
recent Women’s World Championship in Sochi, played an inspired game against Inna Gaponenko
and nearly defeated the much higher rated opponent. Gaponenko managed to salvage a draw.
Armenia started the match against India without its top player Elina Danielian. Nevertheless, her
replacement Lilit Mkrtchian won a fine game against the top rated player in the championship
Humpy Koneru.
However, India showed strength on the lower boards and emerged victorious 3-1. Poland
and Kazakhstan exchanged blows to finish their match in a 2-2 tie. The top two boards were
drawn. Kazakhstan assumed the lead after Gulmira Dauletova won against the World University
Champion Klaudia Kulon. Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska leveled the score by defeating
Guliskhan Nakhbayeva.
Final placings: 1.Georgia 2.Russia 3.China 4.India 5.Ukraine 6.Kazakhstan 7.Armenia 8.Poland
9.United States 10.Egypt.
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The opening ceremony of the Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015 took place in the
hall of the Wang Jiang Hotel on the 18th of April.The ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor of
Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin, the director of Chengdu sports bureau, Ms.Tan Xuejun,
Deputy Director of Chengdu Sports Bureau, Mr. Gao Wei, General secretary of CCA, Mr. Ye
Jiangchuan, FIDE Vice President and Chairman of Appeals Committee, D.V. Sundar, President
of Georgian Chess Federation and member of Appeals Commitee, Giya Giorgadze, players,
captains and other guests.

At the start of the ceremony Vice Mayor of Chengdu Government, Mr. Fu.Yonglin welcomed all
players and team leaders in Chengdu.FIDE Vice-President D.V. Sundar expresses his gratitude
to the organizers for hosting the WWTCC and FIDE Presidential Board Meeting in Chengdu and
wished good luck to all players. IM Shen Yang delivered her speech on behalf of the Women’s
National Team of China. The Chief Arbiter of the tournament Panagiotis Nikolopoulos conducted
the ceremony of drawing of lots. The top players from each team were invited to the stage and
proposed to choose a toy of panda, one of the most recognized animals from China, regarded
as a symbol for friendship and peace.

Harika and Humpy win medals

The Indian women team just missed out
on a podium finish and finished fourth with
ten points, one point behind the bronze
medal winner,China,after their final round
win over Armenia. Considering that India
entered as a wild card entry it is a decent
show by the Indian women. Dronavalli
Harika and Koneru Humpy clinched came
up with fine individual performances to
win silver and bronze (on second and top
board) respectively.
An amazing mime show, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide,
was performed for the guests of the championship urging the entire world to never repeat such
an immense crime and live in peace and solidarity
Olympiad champions China defeated India 3-1 in the final round to win the World Team Chess
Championship that concluded at Armenia on April 28, 2015.India suffered defeats on the white
boards of Sethuraman and Deep Sengupta. Harikrishnan and Sasikiran drew with the black
pieces in the top and third boards.
Two defeats in the last two rounds cost India dearly in the placings scale. India stayed on seven
points and were pushed to ninth place. India had finished third at best in this edition many
years back when China withdrew in the last moment and India was given their slot.

This win for China is a confirmation of the new super power in team chess. They had won the
World Team Chess Championship, Armenia Chess Olympiad for the first time in August 2014 at Tromso, Norway.
China is the World Champion Ukraine was in the title race but defeat to low rated USA cost them the gold medals. Ukraine
scored 12 match points, three points behind China. China remained undefeated, winning six

F
rom 18-29th April, 2015 The Armenian Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE hosted
The World Team Chess Championship in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor. The tournament
was held at Golden Palace Hotel Resort & Spa where on 18th April at 19:00 (local time)
the opening ceremony of the championship took place. According to FIDE Regulations and the
decision of FIDE President the following Federations participated in the championship: Russia,
China, Hungary, India, USA, Egypt, Ukraine, Armenia, Cuba, Israel. The ceremony was honored
by the presence of President of the Republic of Armenia, who doubles as the President of the
Armenian Chess Federation, Serzh Sargsyan, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a number of
state officials and the delegates of 10 participant countries.
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matches and drawing three for the maiden title.
India won three matches, lost five and drew one for seven points. Three players, Sethuraman
(-16.5), Sasikiran (-7.9) and Deep Sengupta (-4.9) are losing while Harikrishna (+2.2) and
Vidit Gujrathi (+13) are gaining Elo.
The scores: Harikrishna 5/9, Sethuraman 2.5/9, Sasikiran 3/8, Vidit Gujrathi 4.5/7 and Deep
Sengupta 1/3. Four defeats in the last five games should be a shock to coach Grand Master
R.B. Ramesh. India had finished with the bronze medal at Tromso 2014.
The results (round 8): India lost to Armenia 1.5-2.5; Egypt lost to Russia 0.5-3.5; Israel drew
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Hungary 2-2; Ukraine lost to USA 1.5-2.5; Cuba lost to China 1-3. Reddy and GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury
The results (round 9): China beat India 3-1; USA beat Cuba 3-1; Hungary drew Ukraine 2-2; signed the peace treaty. Board # 3 was a big
Russia beat Israel 2.5-1.5; Armenia beat Egypt 2.5-1.5. upset when GM Thipsay resigned his game
against Dhruv Kakkar in 87 moves but this
Final placings:1.China2.Ukraine3.Armenia 4.Russia 5.USA 6.Hungary 7.Israel 8.Cuba 9.India game was under complain as Dhruv was us-
10.Egypt ing electronic device and after the game com-
plain was found correct and point awarded
The Ukrainian team ended its match with Hungary in a draw and took the 2nd place. In order to GM Pravin thipsay.
to get bronze medals the Armenian team should win the Egyptians and they fulfilled their task
defeating the opponent with the score 2.5 : 1.5. The team of the USA showing successful game at Sixth round: At the start of 6th round , only
the end of the tournament ended the match with Cuba with victory . The Americans took victory two players were jointly leading the tourna-
with the score 3 : 1 and sharing the 4 - 5th places with the Russian team with additional indexes
ment , GM Pravin Thipsay and IM Somak
took the 5th place. The team of Russia taken the 4th place took victory over Israel with the score
Palit, as they both had 5/5 . They paired
2.5 : 1.5.
together in round no. 6 . A 56 year veteran
Earlier in the seventh round Vidit Gujrathi scored an important victory over Ortiz Suarez on the fourth
GM from Mumbai finally defeated to Somak
board to help India defeat Cuba 2.5-1.5 . In the match featuring the leaders, Vassily Ivanchuk's
and became sole leader with 6/6/ at the end
win for Ukraine was neutralised by Bu's win for China in the third board. China and Ukraine drew
2-2 to stay way ahead of the rest in this 10-team contest. They were leading with 11 points. India of round . On the board # 2 and #3 , IM Sap-
and other teams were sharing the third place with seven match points.India won three matches tarishi Roy and IM Elect Ravi Teja defeated to
and lost three and drew one. India had at best won the bronze medal in this event. Grand Master IM V.A.V. Rajesh and IM Himanshu Sharma
R.B. Ramesh is the coach of the Indian team. respectively and joined the 2nd top score
Deep Sengupta is likely to be rested for the last bracket as they both had 5.5/6 . blindfold chess exhibition in reverse order
few games.
Seventh round: As sole leader , GM
The only undefeated team is Olympiad Thipsay preferred to preserve his energy for
champions China. Four of their five players are evening round and agreed for drew with IM
undefeated. They have given a solid display. Saptarshi Roy on board # 1 . At the same
Sunday was a decisive round and saw many time , GM Sahaj Grover , playing on board
narrow 2.5-1.5 margin scores. Russia was #2, tried to get full point against Ravi Teja but
beaten by Armenia, Hungary beat Egypt position over the board was not good enough
and USA beat Israel by the narrow 2.5-1.5 to do so and decided to share the point. But
margins. the board #3 had interesting result of course
where young talent from Bihar Kumar Gaurav
Standings after round seven: 1-2. China, Ukraine 11 each; 3-7 India, Cuba, Israel, Armenia, defeated to IM Somak Palit and join the 2nd
Hungary 7 each; 8-9. Russia, USA 6 each; 10 Egypt 1. top score bracket 6/7 along with 5 others.
India made a comeback to defeat Hungary 2.5-1.5 in the fourth round of the World Team Chess Eighth round: With 6.5 point , GM Pravin
Championship on April 22, 2015.Vidit Gujrathi gave India the full points in the fourth board Thipsay was sole leader and on 2nd spot 6
when he beat Richard Rapport with the black pieces. Harikrishna, Sethuraman and Sasikiran others players were ready to challenge him.
played draws against Leko, Erdos and Almasi. Cuba leads with seven match points and are
But the 1st board between GM Thipsay and
followed by China on six points. India is in third place along with Israel on five points. In the
Ravi Teja ended in drew , finally. While on
four rounds, India won two matches, lost one and drew one.
board #2 & #3 IM Saptarshi Roy and Himal
The results (round four): India beat Hungary 2.5-1.5; Russia drew USA 2-2; Armenia lost to
Gussain defeated IM Chakravarthi Reddy
China 0.5-3.5; Egypt lost to Cuba 1-3; Israel lost to Ukraine 1.5-2.5.
and Kumar Gaurav respectively which helped
them to join elite class with Thipsay as they
all had 7 point.
Ninth round: First three board ended in drew
while on board #4 GM Sahaj Grover defeated
IM V.A.V. Rajesh and all these results pro-
duced four players with 7.5 point each.
Ram Madhav, Rashtriya Mahasachiv, Bhartiya
Janta Party was the Chief guest in closing
ceremony . He attended the function and
spent an hour with players and officials. He
appreciated a lot to organization and offered
his support to chess at any time. “ In my
opinion ,chess is the best mental instrument
and all the students must play this game ”,
said Madhab in his speech during the game.
He congratulated to all the winners and ap-
preciated all the participants for their pres-
ence in this tournament named Dr. Hedgewar
Fide Rated Chess Tournament. He witnessed
performed by Raghav Srivatsava of Telanga-
na and wished him bright future in the game
of Chess. Other dignitaries presents on this
auspicious occasion were Arun Jain, Prabhat
Kumar, MD Prabhat Publication , Simmy Jain,
Chairperson , Org. Committee , A,K,Verma,
Hony Secretary , DCA, R.S.Tiwari, Org.
Secretary ,Purnima Goel, Secretary, BRICS
Forum, India , IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief
Arbiter.
Finally my special thanks are due to all the
arbiters who assisted me to conduct this
event successfully.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 GM Thipsay Praveen M 7½
2 IM Saptarshi Roy 7½
3 Gusain Himal 7½
4 GM Grover Sahaj 7½
5 Ravi Teja S. 7
6 IM Himanshu Sharma 7
7 IM Lahiri Atanu 7

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8 IM Palit Somak 7
9 FM Thakur Akash 7
10 GM Sriram Jha 7
11 IM Sangma Rahul 7
12 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 6½
13 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½
14 CM Prince Bajaj 6½
15 Kumar Gaurav 6½
16 Kaustuv Kundu 6½
17 Patil Pratik 6½
18 FM Mitrabha Guha 6½
19 Aradhya Garg 6½
20 Pradip Ghosh 6½
21 Raghav Srivathsav V 6½
22 Diwan Rajesh 6½
23 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6
24 Arpan Das 6
25 IM Rajesh V A V 6
26 Hemant Sharma (del) 6
27 Joshi Govind Ballabh 6
28 Singh Arvinder Preet 6
29 Nishant Malhotra 6
30 Santu Mondal 6
31 Sumit Grover 6
32 Anurag Jaiswal 6
33 Shubham Shukla 6
34 Deepak Katiyar 6
35 Abhishek Das 6
36 Vantika Agrawal 6
37 Verma H.S. 6
38 Ojas Kulkarni 6
39 Arindam Mukherjee 6
40 Kaushik Shubham 6
41 Sanskriti Goyal 6
42 Lawaniya Eshan 6
43 Soham Das 6
44 Sonkalan Bharati 6
45 Ashutosh Kumar 6
46 Chandreyee Hajra 6
47 Mahitosh Dey 6
48 Raghav Bagri 6
49 Aneek Das 6
50 Dubey Sanchay 5½
51 Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar 5½
52 Aansh Gupta 5½
53 Dony K V 5½
54 WFM Tarini Goyal 5½
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55 Akash Lal O 5½
56 Saranya Y 5½
57 Saurabh Anand 5½
58 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 5½
59 Abhay Bandewar 5½
60 Vijay Anand M. 5½
61 Saptorshi Gupta 5½
62 Deepak Rai 5½
63 Avhra Biswas 5½
64 Arvind Kumar Mishra 5½
65 Samant Aditya S 5½
66 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 5½
67 Arun Wahi 5½
68 Aravind K 5
69 Roop Saurav 5
70 Ankit Sen 5
71 Ganguly Ritabroto 5
72 Sudarshan Mitra 5
73 Raunak Mondal 5
74 Vikrant Jaglan 5
75 Jatinder Kapoor 5
76 Aan Sikka 5
77 Saksham Rautela 5
78 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 5
79 Shashi Raj Saxena 5
80 Vardan Nagpal 5
81 Dave Shiv Shankar 5
82 Bhagyashree Patil 5
83 Sunil Vaidya 5
84 Kaur Palkin 5
85 Rajarshi Dutta 5
86 Domnic Xavier R S 5
87 Bhavyay Gupta 5
88 Anshul Mehta 5
89 Garima Gaurav 5
90 CM Dev Shah 5
91 Afaq Haider 5
92 Mayank Soni 5
93 Nitheesh Pothireddy 5
94 Tayyeb Asif Mohmamad 5
95 Shatrughan Kaushik 5
96 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep 5
97 Pradeep Kumar Nag 5
98 Sandeep Kumar 5
99 Kush Kalra 5
100 Archi Agrawal 5
101 Oshan Modi 5
102 Rishit Thakur 5
103 Vijay Yadav 5
104 Simrandeep Singh 5
105 Om Batra 4½
106 Rajesh Kumar Nath 4½
107 Jaskeerat Singh 4½
108 Chitrang Natu 4½
109 Garv Rai 4½
110 Nithish Kumar S 4½
111 Vivek Prakash Mishra 4½
112 Manya Bagla 4½
113 Ritvik Gupta 4½
114 Negi Virender Singh 4½
115 Somdatt 4½
116 Tiwari O P 4½
117 Aaryan Varshney 4½
118 Prithu Gupta 4½
119 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 4½
120 Shanya Mishra 4½
121 Jain Piyush 4½
122 Anmol Singh Kohli 4½
123 Fulzale Shrushti 4½
124 Manjali Bhardwaj 4½
125 Dhruv Kakkar 4
126 Sachinder 4
127 Rushil Gupta 4
128 Mishra Ravi Pratap 4
129 Devanshi Rathi 4
130 Anish Srivastava 4
131 Kapil Gupta 4
132 Sonu Kumar 4
133 Swayam Gupta 4
134 Agastya Makkar 4
135 Jyoti Kumar 4
136 Raghul Adhitya Pj 4
137 Amritansh Saraf 4
138 Sarvadh Sathiaram 4
139 Shetye Shyam 4
140 Gaurang Hari singh 4
141 Rajagopalan 4
142 Shubham Rastogi 4
143 Rajan BL 4
144 Akshat Jha 4
145 Avi Walia 4
146 Rahul Yadav 4
147 Palak Jain 4
148 Ashish Kumar Dahiya 4
149 Manish Thapa 4
150 Ankur Rajvanshi 4
151 Saurabh Singh 4
152 D Krishnasri 4
153 D Kavyasri 4
154 Shivom Sood 4
155 Akshay Panchal 4
156 Rahul Phull 4
157 Shyam sundar 4
158 Rishab Goel 4
159 Vishesh Agrawal 3½
160 Shashank Gupta Blind 3½
161 Utsab Chatterjee 3½
162 Dipu Jacob 3½
163 Somender BL 3½
164 Ankit Naudiyal 3½
165 Satvik Kalra 3½
166 Haleshwarayya H.M. 3½
167 Bhupender Bharti 3½
168 Satyaprakash Shrivatsava 3½
169 Balaji D 3½
170 Pasupulati Saphal 3½
171 Rajveer Singh Kochar 3½
172 Rakesh 3½
173 Chaitanya Kumar 3½
174 Vairavan N 3½
175 Yudhisthir Singh 3
176 Atul Kumar 3
177 Jagdish Chander 3
178 Ajay KumarTripathi 3
179 Bhumi 3
180 Kumar Gaurav Makhnotra 3
181 Krish Aggarwal 3
182 Arjun 3
183 Shashidharan Sharma 3
184 Parth 3
185 Narendra Kumar 3
186 Ajay 3
187 Rajan GLT 3
188 Sandeep Kumar 3
189 Yashavijain 3
190 Navdeep Rinwa 3
191 Surya Bhushan Kumar 3
192 Naba Kamal Bhuyan 3
193 Vishal Tripathi 3
194 Varun 3
195 Rajaram 3
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1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament – 2015 10 Rawal Shailesh 7 57 Kohle Anushka 5.5
Sinha Santosh Kumar is the winner
IA I G Parmar,Chief Arbiter
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament 2015 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat
had a colourful start at the sprawling lawns
of Rifle Clubin Ahmedabad on Saturday, 25th
April, 2015. Prominent dignitaries includ-
ing Mr. Sunil Bohara, President,Thali Yuva
Sangh, Bhavesh Patel Hon. Secretary GSCA,
Mayur Patel [Vice-President GSCA], Joy
Chauhan (Managaing Director, Tirth Chess
Club) Prakash Baid, President of Chanakya
Chess Academy, IA Indubhai Parmar (Chief
Arbter), Vimal Srivastava were present on
inauguration function. This event was well
organized by Tirth Chess Club and Chanakya
Chess Academy & Co-Sponsor Rifle Club of
Ahmedabad, on behalf of Gujarat State Chess
Association under the aegis of All India Chess
Federation.
1st Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament will be remembered in
more than one way.For the first time 98
rated players, two blind players, one handi-
cap player and 80 below 13 Category players
were in action in this tournament.
The Tournament attracted a number of 230
players aged between seven to 68 years old,
from all over India, namely Maharashtra,
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, M.P. & Guja-
rat. The event was conducted in 9 round
Swiss format with a total Cash Prize of Rs
1,00,000 & Trophy including 80 Children
Consolation Trophies.Based on the BH score
Sinha Santosh Kumar (Elo Rating 2099)of
Gujarat emerged winner with a better BH
score of 50.5 with 8 points, while Thanki
Hemal Karsanji (Elo rating 2119) of BSNL,
Gujarat was placed second with a score of
7.5 BH Score [54] points. Badavath Anand
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11 Chandrajeet Singh R 7 58 Agrawal Anay 5.5
12 Makhija Aashna 7 59 Sanjay Davda 5.5
13 Pathan Zafar 7 60 Shah Mihir 5.5
14 Falgun D Purohit 6.5 61 Prajapati Manish 5.5
15 Dr Hitesh Vasanwala 6.5 62 Agrawal Vaibhav 5.5
(Ele Rating 1882) of Rly emerged on third 16 Prajapati Rakesh 6.5 63 Bhawesh Pandiyar 5.5
position with 7.5 BH Score 51.5 points. 68 17 Dinesh Sinha 6.5 64 Shah Het D 5.5
year old Veterans’ player Mr. S.R.Narayanan 18 Pradeep Pandya 6.5 65 Laheri Nitya 5
of Gujarat displayed excellent skills against 19 Koradia G V 6.5 66 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5
his rated opponents and secured 6 points out 20 Dave Kantilal 6 67 Shriom Revankar 5
21 Deota Snehil S 6 68 Bhagat Rajesh J 5
of 9 rounds.
22 Jigna Joshi 6 69 Aditya P Melani 5
The organizer Joy Chauhan Managing Direc-
23 Dutta Debarghya 6 70 Thakkar Dipen 5
tor (TCC) and Prakash Baid, President (CCA) 24 Mayurdhwajsinh A Jadav 6 71 Shah Saumya 5
did an excellent job in making this event a 25 Chudasama Ankit 6 72 Shah Manav Hiren 5
memorable one. About 24 players from Raj- 26 Vrandesh Parekh 6 73 Kartik Bhandari 5
asthan participated in this tournament which 27 P Abdul Karimbahi 6 74 Vishwa Vasnawala 5
included Rajendra Teli and Rachit Jain. 28 Shah Dilip 6 75 Priyanshu Baid 5
Mr. Bhavesh Patel (Hon.Secretary – GSCA), 29 Parikh Kairav 6
Executive Committee member of Rifle Club 30 Dhruv Dak 6
Mr. Barotji, Sponsor of Thali Yuva Sangh 31 Mulherkar Siddharth 6
Secretary of Vijay Nahata, Joy Chauhan 32
33
Sanghavi Naitik
Narayanan S.R
6
6
L.K.Ganga Bai
(MD – TCC), President of CCA Mr. Prakash
Baid, Dipak Vyas (CCA), Rajeshkumar Trivedi 34 Dabhi Sangeet H 6 passes away
35 Gourav Barik 6 Tamil Nadu's pioneering
(CCA) awarded the Cash prizes & trophy in
36 Chauhan P M 6 woman chess player L.K.
the Valedictory function. My sincere thanks
37 Babel T Divyanshu 6
goes to my Dy Arbiters Mr. Dilip Raval from Ganga Bai died in Chennai on 14th May
38 Panchal Tisha N 6
Mumbai, & Mr.Rajendra Teli from Rajasthan 2015. She was 92.Bai, retired school
39 Chavada Rajendrasinh 6
and other arbiters/official Mr. Vimal Srivas- 40 Parth A Raval 6
headmistress, had won the Tamil
tava, for their excellent co-operation and 41 Bhatt Palak K 6 Nadu State Women's Championship
skilful handling of the disputes and made 42 Shah Akanksha 6 three times in 1970, 1974 and 1977,
this event a grand success.I also thank All 43 Raj D Vyas 6 said the Tamil Nadu Chess Associa-
India Chess Federation for giving me an op- 44 Jain Adi 6 tion. She played in several National
portunity to serve as Chief Arbiter. 45 Samdani Sahil Sagar 5.5 Women's championships including
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds 46 Joshi Deep 5.5 one hosted in then Madras for the first
Rk. Name Pts. 47 Dabhi Geet H 5.5 time in March 1979 at the Integral
1 Sinha Santosh Kumar 8 48 S Brijesh Mohan 5.5 Coach Factory. Ganga Bai comes from
2 Thanki Hemal Karsanji 7.5 49 Shah Ashok Hiralal 5.5 a family of chess players.Her brother
3 Badavath Anand 7.5 50 Gajjar Jaswant G 5.5 L.K. Ramachandran was also a promi-
4 Mraduhas Tripathi 7.5 51 Totlani Varun 5.5
nent National player of the 1960s and
5 Chauhan Joy 7.5 52 Bhatt Swayam 5.5
1970s. She had received the Best
6 Maulik Raval 7 53 Shah Riddhesh 5.5
54 Chinmay Jain 5.5
Teacher Award from Chief Minister
7 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 7
55 Arun Kataria 5.5 M.G.Ramachandran.
8 Sadhu N Vishal 7
9 Riyazkhan 7 56 Agrawal Uttaransh 5.5
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Selected games from National Team
Chess Championships,Goa
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B)
Dodeja,Pawan (MCA Senior) [C54]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6
5.d3 a6 6.Bb3 Ba7 7.0–0 d6 8.Nbd2 Ne7
9.Re1 Ng6 10.Nf1 0–0 11.h3 Be6 12.d4
Qc8 13.Ng3 h6 14.Bc2 c5 15.d5 [This
closing of the centre is a big change from ac-
cepted strategy in this position. 15.Be3 and
15 Qd3 have been seen here.] 15...Bd7=
16.c4 b5 17.Be3
17...Nf4?! [Black misses white's idea behind
17 Be3 which is, if 17...bxc4 18.Nd2 to capture
19 Nxc4 next move with a good position where
the two black bishops have no play; Black
should therefore refuse to have his bishop
buried on a7 and play 17...Bb6 18.Bd3 Ba5
19.Nd2 Re8 with an equal game.] 18.Bxf4
exf4 19.Nf1 bxc4 20.Qd2 [This offers
black some chances of counter-play which he
misses. After 20.N3d2 intending to capture on
c4 with his knight, white has a fine game.]
20...c3 [20...Bb6 21.Qxf4 Ba5 22.Rec1 c3
23.b3 Re8 would have put some more life into
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black's game.] 21.bxc3 c4 [Another possibility
was: 21...Nh5 22.e5 c4 23.exd6 Bc5 24.Rad1±]
22.Qxf4 Qc5 23.Qd2 There were other ways to
defend f2 like, 23 Ne3 and 23 Ned2. But white
already has a plan of advancing e4-e5 and there-
fore protects d5 in advance with his queen. 23...
Rfe8 24.Ng3 Rab8 25.Rab1 Bb6
[Better was: 25...Qa3 26.Rxb8 Bxb8 27.Rb1
Bc7 (27...Qxa2?? 28.e5! dxe5 29.Bh7+ Kxh7
30.Qxa2 white wins the queen.) 28.Nd4 Ba5 and
white's advantage is small.] 26.e5!! this plunges
the game into intense tactical play where white
has the upperhand. 26...dxe5 27.Nxe5 white's
d5 pawn is immune from capture by the Nf6 as
black's Bd7 will be without support. 27...Bb5
28.Ne4! Nxe4 [28...Qxd5?? 29.Nxf6+ gxf6
30.Qxd5+-] 29.Rxe4 Rbd8 30.Ng4 [Still stron-
ger was: 30.Qf4! Qxd5 31.Rd1] 30...Rxd5?
Diagram # [30...Qd6] 31.Rxb5!! A winning
sacrifice which has been well calculated to the
end. 31...Rxe4 [If 31...Rxd2? 32.Rxe8+ Qf8
33.Rxf8+ Kxf8 34.Rxb6 Rxc2 35.Rxa6 Rxc3
36.Ne3+-] 32.Rxc5 Rxd2 33.Rc8+ Kh7
34.Bxe4+ g6
[Black challenges the white queen. He has faith
in the ensuing ending. If 14...Nxd4?! 15.0–0–0
Nf5 16.Bh3 The fight for control over the d6
square intensifies and ends in white's favour.
16...Qe7 17.Qf3 Nd7 18.Bxf5 gxf5 19.Nd6+]
15.Qxe7+ Kxe7 16.0–0–0² Nd7 17.Bg2
35.Rc6! [One must be very careful at all times, Rac8 18.Rhe1 Rhd8 19.c3 b6 20.Re2
especially while winning. If 35.Rb8?? Rd1+ Nf6 21.Ng5 Rd6 22.Nf3 c5 23.dxc5 Rxc5
36.Kh2 Bc7+ 37.g3 Bxb8 and it is black who 24.Ne5 Nd4!? After a long manoeuvring
wins!] 35...Ba5 36.Nf6+ Kg7 37.Nd5 Rxa2 phase where no player improved his prospects
38.Rxa6 Ra1+ 39.Kh2 Bxc3 [39...Bc7+ significantly, black initiates some tactics into
40.Nxc7 and the Ra6 is protected by his knight.] the game. 25.Rxd4?! [25.Ree1! would have
40.Rxa1 Bxa1 41.Kg3 f5 42.Bb1 Be5+ kept the small advantage that he has.] 25...
43.f4 Bd4 44.Kf3 Kf7 45.Ba2! A clever move Rxd4 26.Nc6+ Rxc6 27.Bxc6 Rc4 28.Bf3
that wins the c4 pawn. for if 46 c3 Nxc3+ 1–0 Rc5= 29.Kc2 g5 30.hxg5 Rxg5 31.a4 Rf5
32.Bg2 g5 33.b4 g4 34.Kd3 Nd7 35.Kd4
Nitin,S (AAI) (2357) Kd6 36.Rd2 Re5 37.Kc4+ Kc7 38.Ra2 f5
Swapnil,Dhopade (Rly B) (2438) 39.a5?
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5
5.Ng3 Bg6 6.N1e2 e6 7.Nf4 Bd6 8.h4
Qc7 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Ne4 Bf4 11.g3 Bxc1
12.Qxc1 Ne7 13.Qe3 [At first sight this looks
illogical, playing the queen to a square where it
would immediately come under attack. But he
has an idea of playing along the a3-f8 diago-
nal. 13.Qd2 is usually played here.] 13...Nf5
14.Qa3 Qe7
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Diagram # With the approach of the time control
on the 40th move, white makes an error, hand-
ing over the initiative to black. Any pawn move
was bad for white. He should play 39 Kd1 and it
would be difficult for black to achieve anything.
39...b5+! 40.Kd3 Re1 41.a6?! [This idea is
to isolate black's e5 pawn and attack it later
is faulty. White is still thinking of winning this
game. Better was to strive for equality with:
41.Re2 Ne5+ 42.Kd2 Rxe2+ 43.Kxe2 Nc4
44.Kd3=] 41...Ne5+!µ 42.Kd2 Rg1 43.Bb7
Nc4+ 44.Ke2? [White can put up a better
fight with: 44.Kc2 Re1 45.Kb3 Rd1 46.Re2 e5
47.Kc2±] 44...Rc1! 45.Kd3 e5 46.Re2 Kd6
47.Ra2 [47.Bc8? e4+ 48.Kd4 Rd1+ mates.]
47...e4+ 48.Ke2 [48.Kd4?? Rd1+] 48...Rxc3
Black's victory is certain. 49.Bc8 Rf3! 50.Ra1
e3! A beautiful and clever way to demolish
white's king-side pawns. 51.fxe3
51...Kc7! A fine move, taking advantage
of the smallest tactical possibilities. 52.Bb7
[The only move. 52.Be6?? Rxe3+ wins the
bishop.] 52...Rxg3! Capturing g3 was best as
the e3 pawn cannot run away without causing
greater problems. 53.e4 f4! 54.Rh1 Re3+
55.Kf2 g3+ 56.Kg2 Re2+ 57.Kf3 [57.Kh3 g2
58.Rc1 Rc2! 59.Rb1 Ne5 60.Rg1 f3 61.Kg3 Kb6
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and black is poised to make the winning push
f3-f2!] 57...Rf2+ 58.Kg4 g2 59.Rh7+ Kd8!
Black's message is clear, for every rook check,
the king is going to move toward the rook on
the h-file. 0–1
Gupta,Abhijeet (PSPB) (2622)
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (Rly B) (2426)
[D56]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3
h6 6.Bh4 0–0 7.Nf3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7
9.Rc1 c6 10.Qc2 Nxc3 11.Qxc3 Nd7 12.Be2
dxc4 13.Qxc4 [This is new. F.Berkes 2613 vs
D.Korneev 2573 in 2004 went: 13.0–0 b5 14.b3
c5 15.Qa5 cxb3 16.axb3 Bb7 17.Qc7 Rab8
Draw agreed.] 13...e5 14.0–0 Re8 [14...exd4
15.Nxd4 Nb6 16.Qc2 is also equal.] 15.Rfd1
e4= 16.Nd2 Nb6 17.Qc5 Qf6 18.b4
18...Bd7 [Black's pawn on e4 indicates that
black's chances are on the king-side. As white
has already initiated the minority attack on the
queen-side (his a and b- pawns versus the black
a, b and c-pawns, Black is on the horns of a
dilemma. He is yet to develop his queen-side.
His bishop cannot both attack on the king-side
and defend on the queen-side. Maybe, a little
better was: 18...Qg6 19.Bh5 Qf6 20.b5 cxb5
21.Qxb5 Bd7 22.Qa5 Bc6 with chances of position. 32...Kh7 33.Qxc4 [33.Nc5! was
equality.] 19.b5 cxb5 20.Bxb5 Rac8 21.Qb4 stronger.] 33...Qg6
Bxb5 22.Qxb5 Qe6 23.Nb3 f5? [This is only
an attacking gesture and not a serious move to
challenge white's castled position. Better was:
23...a6 24.Qb4 Nd5 25.Qxb7 Nc3 26.Re1 Rb8
27.Nc5 Rxb7 28.Nxe6 Nxa2 29.Rc7! and white's
game is most promising.] 24.h3 Qf7 25.Rc5
Rf8 26.Rxc8 Rxc8 27.d5 The game is still
equal. With this passed pawn advancing down
the board, black has to worry about its 'lust to
expand' by Nimzowitsch. 27...Rd8 28.d6
(position after 31…Rd7)
34.g4 Rxb7 35.d7 Rb1+ 36.Kh2 Qf6 Threat:
37...Qe5# 37.Qd5! 1–0
Thejkumar,M. S (Rly A) (2438) Lahiri,Atanu
(LIC) (2308) [E73]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2
0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 Nc5 9.f3 a5
10.h4 c6 11.g4 cxd5 12.cxd5 Bd7 13.Nh3
Qb8 [This is new. 13...b5!? 14.Nf2 (14.Bxb5
28...f4? [This weakens black's position fur- Bxb5 15.Nxb5 Rb8=) 14...b4 15.Ncd1= was
ther without giving him any chances of attack. seen in Pellicer vs Andreu Sin, 2006.] 14.Nf2
He could have played: 28...Nc4 29.d7 Nb6 b5 15.h5 b4 16.Ncd1 Bb5 17.Ne3 h6? [17...
30.Nc5 Qxa2 31.Nxb7 Qc2 32.Rd6 Qc1+ Bxe2 18.Qxe2 b3 19.Nc4 bxa2 20.Be3 Qb4+
33.Kh2 (33.Qf1 Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Rxd7µ) 33... 21.Bd2=] 18.Bxf6 Bxf6 19.hxg6 fxg6
Qc7=] 29.Nc5 f3 30.Qb3! after this move, the
black pawn on f3 turns into an additional liability
for black. 30...Nc4 The exchange of the queens
would result in the black pawns on e4, f3 and
b7 becoming very very weak. 31.Nxb7 Rd7
Diagram # 32.Rd4! Enjoying the advantage of
an extra pawn on d6, white nips any attack on
his king-side by the black forces and simplifies.
He wants to exchange off black's queen
which alone can try some tricks on his castled
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20.Nf5!! An excellent combination which takes
advantage of the unprotected h6 pawn and
the black queen's need to keep protecting his
bishop on b5. 20...gxf5 21.Qxh6 [21.Bxb5?
Qxb5 22.Qxh6 Rf7 23.gxf5 Bg7 24.Qxd6 Nd3+
25.Nxd3 Qxd3 26.Rh3 Qe3+ 27.Kf1 Rc8] 21...
Ra7? [Black's best which would have left white
with no advantage was: 21...Rf7 22.gxf5 Bg7
23.Rg1 Nd7 24.Bxb5 Qxb5 25.Qxd6 Rc8=]
22.g5
# 22...Bxg5? [Panic. He could get an equal
game with: 22...Bg7! 23.Qh7+ Kf7 24.exf5
Ke8 25.Bxb5+ Qxb5 26.f6 Qb7 27.Ne4 Nxe4
28.fxg7 Qxg7 29.Qh5+ Qf7 30.fxe4 Qxh5
31.Rxh5 Rc7=] 23.Rg1 Rg7 24.Rxg5 Rff7
25.Kd2 Rxg5
26.Rh1!! An amazing move! White does not
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even stop to capture the rook on g5 as he is
going for mate on h8. Black 's best is to give
up his queen: 26...Rfg7 27 Qh8+ Kf7 28 Qxb8
though he would still lose1–0
Vidit,Gujrathi (PSPB) (2617) Abhilash
Reddy,M.L (2236) [A55]
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d6 4.d4 Nbd7
5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Be7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Be3 Re8
9.Qc2 Qc7 10.Rac1 Nf8 11.d5 [Here, 11.h3
is white's favourite move, limiting black's options
by preventing both Bg4 and Ng4.] 11...Rd8?!
[If 11...Ng4 12.Bd2 Nf6 13.b4 Bg4 14.h3 Bd7
15.Rfd1²; or, best seems to be to clear his first
rank of pieces and aim for king-side activity with:
11...Ng6 12.Rcd1 c5 13.a3 Bd7] 12.Ne1 c5
13.Nd3 Ng4 14.Bd2 f5 15.f4! Generally, in
the Indian Defences, white's chances lie on the
queen-side and black's on the king-side. But
here, with a black rook on d8 instead of on f8,
white feels that he has better chances on the
king-side. 15...fxe4 16.Nxe4 Diagram # 16...
Nf6 [If 16...Bf5 17.Ng3 Bc8 (17...Bxd3 18.Qxd3
Qd7 19.Nf5! Nf6 20.fxe5 dxe5 21.Bg5 and white
is nearly winning.) 18.Bxg4 Bxg4 19.Rce1! exf4
20.Rxf4 Bc8 21.Rfe4 Ng6 22.Nf4±] 17.Nxf6+
Bxf6 [If 17...gxf6 18.fxe5 dxe5 19.Bh5 Ng6
20.Nf2 Kg7 21.Ng4!± Black is nearly winning.]
18.fxe5 Bxe5 19.Nxe5
dxe5 With his queen-side still remaining non-
functional, black is losing. His king's only defen-
sive piece is the knight on f8 which will become
white's next target. 20.Qe4 The first move in
creating a queen and bishop battery against
black's castled position. 20...Qd6 [20...Qe7
21.Rce1 Re8 22.Bc3+- and black's pain is grow-
ing move by move.] 21.Bd3 Qg6?
[21...Ng6 22.Bg5 Rf8 (22...Rd7 23.Rce1 b5
24.cxb5 Bb7 25.Bc4 Bxd5 26.Rd1!) 23.h4!+-
with a standard winning attack.] 22.Qh4! [22.
Qh4! A double attack! 22...Qd6 23.Rxf8+! Kxf8
(23...Rxf8 24.Qxh7+ Kf7 25.Bg5!) 24.Qxh7+-
Ke8 25.Bg5! and black cannot cope with the
threat of 26 Bg6+ Kd7 27 Qxg7+ mating.] 1–0
Selected games from Kolkata GM Open
Ganguly,S (2603) - Ortiz Suarez,I (CUB)
(2625) [B92]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0–0 0–0
9.Be3 Be6 10.Qd3 Nbd7 11.Nd5 Bxd5
12.exd5 h6 [E.Szalanzy 2370 vs V. Loginov
2540, 1992 went: 12...Ne8 13.Bg4 Ndf6 14.Bf3
g6 15.a4 Ng7 16.a5 Nd7 17.c4 f5 black won
eventually.] 13.c4 a5 14.Rad1 Ne8 This move
had to be played sooner or later as the pawn
structure indicates that the black forces could
achieve activity only after f7-f5. 15.Bg4 a4
16.Nd2 Nc5 17.Qc2
17...Nf6? [A better idea might be to get rid of
his inactive bishop with: 17...Bg5 18.Bxc5 dxc5
19.Rfe1 (19.Ne4 f5 20.Nxc5 fxg4 21.Ne6 Qc8
22.Nxf8 Kxf8 23.Qc3²) 19...Bxd2 20.Rxd2 Qg5
21.Bd7 Nd6 the ideal square for the knight.
22.Rde2 Qf4 23.b4 axb3 24.axb3 Qd4 and if now
25.Rxe5?? Qxe5 26.Rxe5 Ra1+ mates.] 18.Bh3
Qa5 19.Nb1 Nfd7 20.Bd2 Qd8 21.b4 axb3
22.axb3 Bg5 23.b4 Na6 24.Bc3 g6 25.Nd2
f5 26.g3 Bf6 [Better was: 26...e4 27.Rfe1 Bf6
with an equal game.] 27.g4! Bg7! [Indirectly
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defending his f5 pawn. 27...fxg4 28.Qxg6++-]
28.gxf5 Qh4 [If 28...gxf5 29.Kh1! (29.Bxf5??
Qg5+! this double attack wins.) 29...Qg5 30.Rg1
Qh5 31.Rg3±] 29.Qd3 gxf5 30.Kh1 e4
31.Rg1! Nf6 [31...exd3? 32.Rxg7+ Kh8
33.Rxd7+ Rf6 (33...Kg8 34.Rg7+ Kh8 35.Rdg1!
Rf6 36.Bxf5) 34.Bxf5 Kg8 35.Rg1+ Kf8 36.Bxf6
Qxf6 37.Be6 Qg5 38.Ne4 Qxg1+ 39.Kxg1
and white mates with 40 Nf6 and 41 Rf7#]
32.Qg3 Qxg3 33.Rxg3 Nh5 34.Rxg7+ Nxg7
35.Rg1 Rf7 Another brilliant move, exploit-
ing the mess into which the black forces have
sunk. 36.Nxe4! Nxb4 [If 36...fxe4 37.Be6 Kf8
38.Bxf7 Ne8 39.Bh5 b5 40.Rg4!+-] 37.Nxd6
Ra3 38.Bxb4 Rxh3 39.Nxf7 Kxf7 40.Re1
Rh4 [An interesting piece of play emerges after:
40...b5 41.c5! Rb3 42.d6! Rxb4 43.Re7+! Kf6
44.Rxg7! white's two connected passed pawns
win. 44...Kxg7 45.c6! Rd4 46.c7! Rc4 47.d7!]
41.Re7+ Kf6 42.Rc7! This defends his vital
c4 pawn and simultaneously threatens to win
the rook with 43 Be7+ 42...Kg6 Diagram #
43.d6! Ne6 44.Re7 [Also winning was: 44.d7
Rd4 45.Rxb7 Nd8 46.Rb6+ Kf7 47.Rxh6
Rxd7 48.Rh7+ Ke6 49.Rxd7 Kxd7 50.h4
black cannot cope with white's two extra passed
pawns on c4 and h4.] 44...Nd8 45.d7
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(Position after 42…Kg6)
Rd4 46.Ba5 Rd1+ 47.Kg2 b6 48.Bxb6 Nb7
49.c5! Nxc5 50.d8Q 1–0
Sengupta,D (2567) -
Stupak,K (BLR) (2567) [C16]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Qd7 5.a3
Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 b6 7.Qg4 f5 8.Qg3 Ba6
9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Ne2 Qf7 11.Qd3 Nb8 12.c4
Ne7 13.cxd5 exd5 14.h4 [14.0–0 would be
normal here. But obviously white wants a lot
of excitement.] 14...Nbc6 15.h5 Nd8 black
wants to set up a classical blockade with his
knight on e6. 16.Bg5 Ne6 17.Bxe7 Kxe7
[17...Qxe7? 18.Qxf5±] 18.a4 a5 19.Qa3+!
White is making sure that the black rooks do
not connect with each other. 19...Ke8 20.Rb1
Qd7 21.Rb5 Qc6 22.Kd2 Qc4
23.Qa1!? [This is a deep strategic move. Look-
ing solid is: 23.c3 but white is deprived of using
the c3 square for his rook to infiltrate the black
position.] 23...Rd8 This is a necessary move
as it would free the queen from the defence
of his d5 pawn. 24.Rhb1 f4 25.R1b3 This
looks like a move to prevent f4-f3, but in
fact it threatens to trap the black queen with
26 Rc3! 25...Qc6 26.Qh1 Qc4! Attacking a4
and forcing the white queen to get back to
a1. 27.Qa1 again threatening to trap the
queen. 27...Qc6 28.Rc3 Qd7 29.Rd3 Qc6
30.Qa2 Qc4 31.Qa3 [Not 31.Qxc4? dxc4
32.Rh3 Nxd4 33.Nxd4 Rxd4+ 34.Kc3 Re4
and black has a clear advantage.] 31...Qc6
32.Qb3 Qc4 33.Qa3 Qc6! 34.Rc3 Qd7 35.Rf3
Rf8 36.Qd3 Threatening Qxh7. You have to
keep on harrassing your opponent so that
he finally misses a trick and crumbles. 36...
Qf7! Black sets up his own counter, offering
the h7 pawn as bait. 37.Qb3 [White wants to
trade his h-pawn for black’s d5. Not 37.Qxh7??
Ng5 forks queen and rook.] 37...Qd7 38.Rd3
Planning 39 Nc3 winning the d5 pawn. 38...
Rf5 unable to defend d5, black counter-attacks
on the king-side. 39.Nc3 c5! A good tactical
defence. 40.dxc5 Nxc5
41.Rxc5 bxc5 42.Nxd5 Qc6 [The only
move to avert immediate defeat. 42...Rxe5??
43.Nxf4! (with the winning threat of 44
Qg8+ winning material, and if now) 43...
Qf7 44.Rxd8+ Kxd8 45.Qxf7+-] 43.Nf6+!
Ke7 [If 43...gxf6 44.Qg8+ Ke7 45.Qxd8+
wins.; or, if 43...Rxf6 44.Qg8+ Rf8 45.Rxd8+
Kxd8 46.Qxf8+ Qe8 47.Qxe8+! Kxe8 48.Kd3
and the white king captures the f4 pawn.]
44.Rxd8 Rxe5 [If 44...Kxd8 45.Qd3+ Ke7
46.Qxf5 gxf6 47.Qxh7+ Ke6 48.exf6+-]
45.Rd7+ Kxf6 46.Qf7+ Kg5 47.Qxg7+
Kh4 48.Rd3 Rg5 [To prevent the mate
with 49 Rh3, if 48...Rd5 49.Qe7+ (49.g3+
Kh3 50.gxf4+ Rxd3+ 51.cxd3 Kh2 52.Qxh7
Qxa4 53.Qe4 Qa2+ 54.Ke3 and white would
win.) 49...Kg4 50.Qxh7 wins.] 49.Rh3+ Kg4
50.f3+ Kf5 51.Qxh7+ Ke5 52.Qe7+! simpli-
fying to a won rook ending. 52...Kf5 53.Qe4+!
Qxe4 54.fxe4+ Kxe4
55.Rh2!! A totally unexpected move that
wins without any problems. Soon, black will
be in zugzwang trying to hold the h-pawn.
55...Rd5+ 56.Ke2 Rd7 57.h6 Rh7 58.Rh4
c4 59.c3 [59.g3!] 59...Kf5 60.Kf3 Kg5
61.Rh1 [61.Rh1 Kf5 62.Rh5+ Kg6 63.Kg4!]
1–0
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Kostenko,Petr (Kaz) (2466)
Roy,Pr (2300) [A15]
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4
d6 6.Nge2 Nc6 7.d3 e5 8.0–0 Ne8 9.Be3
f5 10.Qd2 Nf6 11.Nd5 Be6 [The immediate
11...Ne7 has been seen in practice.] 12.Rac1
Qd7 13.f3
[This is not at all an impressive move. Better
was: 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.f4=] 13...Ne7 14.Bg5
c6 15.Nxf6+ Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Rxf6 17.f4 fxe4
[It was better to play the natural developing
move in this position and wait for white's further
plans. So, 17...Raf8= ] 18.dxe4 Raf8= 19.b3
Bg4 20.Nc3 Bh3 21.Ne2 By reversing his
move, the Kazakh GM admits that his opening
has not gone as planned or desired. 21...Bg4
22.Rce1 Bxe2 23.Rxe2 Qe6 24.Ref2 Kg7
25.Qa5 a6 26.a4 R8f7 27.Qb4 exf4 28.gxf4
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Here, the white pawns on e4 and f4 could be Tactics from master games
S.Krishnan
termed hanging pawns though that term is used
for c- and d-pawns (for both white and black)
when they do not have pawns on the adjacent
b- and e-files. Here the white pawns are weak
as will be seen soon. 28...Qg4 29.c5 [It was
better to wait for black to reveal his plans and
play: 29.a5 ; or just defend the threatened
pawn with 29.Qd2= and wait for black's next
move was advisable.; However, not 29.Qxb7?
Nd5! 30.h3 (30.Qxc6 Nxf4 31.Rxf4 Rxf4 32.Rxf4
Qxf4µ) 30...Qxg2+ 31.Kxg2 Ne3+! 32.Kf3 1 2
White to play and win White to play and win
Rxb7 33.Kxe3 Rxb3+µ] 29...d5 30.e5 Re6
31.Qxb7 Nf5 32.Qxa6 Suddenly black is two
pawns down, but the venom in his pieces has
not lessened! 32...Ne3 33.h3 Qg3 34.Qc8
Ree7 35.Qxc6 Nxf1 36.Rxf1= Qxb3 37.e6?
3 4
White to play and win White to play and win
[White's best was to draw with: 37.Bxd5 Qe3+
38.Kg2 Rxf4 39.Rxf4 Qxf4 40.e6 Qd2+ 41.Kf3
with draw by perpetual check.] 37...Qe3+
38.Kh2 Rxe6 39.Qxd5 Rxf4! 40.Ra1 Rd4
41.Qb7+ Re7 42.Qb2
[This is hardly a pin. 42.Qb8 would not have
led to a sudden, total collapse.] 42...Qe5+!
This check unpins the rook and wherever the 5 6
king goes, the rook would go Rd1+ and capture White to play and win White to play and win
Qxb2. 0–1
(solutions on p. 44 )
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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan Masters of the past-52 Ludek Pachman
Gorgiev 1967 G.Kasparyan 1962-64
Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924, Bělá
pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003, Passau,
Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess
writer, and political activist. In 1972 he emigrated to West Germany.
He lived the remainder of his life there, and resumed his chess ca-
reer with considerable success, including playing in the Interzonal
in 1976 and winning the West German Championship in 1978.
Pachman's first chess championship came in 1940, when he became
champion of the nearby village of Cista (population 900). The first
break in his chess career came in 1943, when he was invited to
1. 2. an international tournament in Prague. World Champion Alekhine
dominated the event, with Keres taking second place. Pachman
finished ninth in the nineteen-player tournament. Alekhine paid
Kuznetsov&Kralin 1965-66 Neidze 1966 him a compliment in an article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and from the fifth round
on, invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. "I don't have
to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time", Pachman wrote.
Pachman went on to become one of the world's leading players. He won fifteen interna-
tional tournaments, but considered sharing second place in Havana 1963, with Mikhail
Tal and Efim Geller, behind Viktor Korchnoi, his best tournament result. Pachman won
the Czechoslovak championship seven times between 1946 and 1966. He became the
champion of West Germany in 1978. He played in six Interzonal tournaments between
Saltsjöbaden 1948 and Manila 1976. He represented Czechoslovakia in eight consecu-
tive Chess Olympiads from 1952 through 1966, usually playing first board.
The most successful year of his career was 1959. After winning the Czechoslovakian
3. 4. championship he went on a South American tour, winning tournaments in Mar del Plata
(tied with Miguel Najdorf), Santiago, Chile (tied with Borislav Ivkov) and Lima, Peru
(again tied with Ivkov). On this tour he beat the 16-year-old Bobby Fischer twice. Pach-
Harold Lommer 1966 Visas Kivi 1965
man made an even lifetime score against Fischer, +2 −2 =4.
Pachman was also a prolific author, publishing eighty books in five languages. In the
1950s, he became the world's leading opening expert with the publication of his four-
volume opus, Theory of Modern Chess. Pachman considered Modern Chess Strategy,
published in 1959, to be his best book. His book Checkmate in Prague recounts his
treatment at the hands of the Communist authorities.

Ludek Pachman - Oleg Neikirch [D41]

Portoroz Interzonal Portoroz SVN (13), 27.08.1958
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.d4 c5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Be7
9.0–0 0–0 10.Qe2 b6 11.Rd1 cxd4 12.exd4 Na5 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Bf4 Qd5 15.Rab1 Rac8
5. 6.
16.Rb5 Qd8 17.Ng5 Bxg5 18.Bxg5 Qd6 19.Bf6 Qf4 20.Be5 Qg5 21.f4 Qe7 22.Bxh7+
White to play and win in all the six endings above Kxh7 23.Qh5+ Kg8 24.Bxg7 f5 25.Be5 Nc4 26.Qg6+ 1–0
(Solution on page 44) Courtesy:Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 41
1. Gao,Rui (2533) - Shen,Victor C (2401)
[C99]
White to play. 64.Qh6+! Kg8 [64...Bxh6
65.Ng5+ Kh8 66.Rh7#] 65.Qh8+ Bxh8
66.Nh6# 1–0
2. Semcesen,D (2471) - Norberg,J (2305)
[A41]
Position after 24th move.White to play. 25.Qxc5!
dxc5 26.Rxd8 Nc8 27.R1d7+ Kh6 28.Rh8
[28.Rh8 f5 (28...Kg5 29.Rhxh7 f5 (29...Rb6
30.h4+ Kg4 31.f3#) 30.Rdf7 fxe4 31.Nbc3 idea
32.Ne4+ 31...Rf6 32.Nxe4+ Kf5 33.N2g3+ Kg4
34.h3+ Kf4 35.Rxf6#) 29.Rhxh7+ Kg5 30.h4+
Kf6 (30...Kg4 31.f3#) 31.Rdf7+ Ke6 32.Nec3 idea
33.Nd5-34.Rf6#] 1–0
3.Muzychuk,Mariya(2526) Koneru,Humpy
(2581) [C45]
Position after 25th move. White to play. 26.Qd2!
Rf8 [26...Rxd2 27.Re8#; 26...Rb8 27.Bd5+ Bxd5
28.Qxd5+ Kh8 (28...Kf8 29.Qf7#) 29.Nf7+ Kh7
(29...Kg8 30.Nd8+ Kh8 31.Qh5+ Kg8 32.Re8#)
30.Qh5+ Kg8 31.Nh6+ gxh6 32.Qg6+ Kh8
33.Qxf6+ Kg8 34.Kh1 Idea 35.Rg1+] 27.Bd5+!
Bxd5 28.Qxd5+ Kh8 29.Qf7! [29.Qf7 fxg5
30.Qxf8+ Kh7 31.Qf5+ mates in three] 1–0
4.Zvjaginsev,Vadim(2658) Bok,Benjamin
(2587) [C44]
Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (3.11),
29.03.2015
Position after 21st move. White to play. 22.Nb6!
axb6 23.axb6 Na6 [23...Rxa1 24.bxc7+-]
24.dxc6! [24.bxc7 also wins] 24...bxc6 [24...
Rxc6 25.Bxc6 bxc6 26.Rfb1!+-] 25.Rxa6
[25.Rxa6 Rcc8 (25...Rac8 26.bxc7; 25...Rxa6
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26.bxc7+-) 26.b7 Rab8 27.bxc8Q++-] 1–0
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championship 2015, Bangalore…
5.Khismatullin,Denis(2650)
Mamedov,Rauf (2658) [E73]
Aeroflot Open A 2015 Moscow RUS (9.7),
04.04.2015
Position after 25th move.White to play. 26.Bf6+!
Kg8 [26...Kxf6 27.Rf3+ [%cal Gc2a4]]
27.Qd2 [27.Qd2 g5 (27...Kh7 28.Qxh6+! Kxh6
29.Rh3+ Rh5 30.Bxh5 gxh5 (30...Kh7 31.Bg4+
Kg8 32.Rh8#) 31.Bg7+ Kh7 32.Rxh5+ Kg8
33.Rh8#) 28.Rh3+- Nh7 29.Bxe5 dxe5 30.Rxh6
wins] 1–0
6. Pap,M (2459) - Buiza Prieto,Eihartze
(2107) [B22]
38th San Sebastian Open Donostia ESP (5.8),
31.03.2015
Achuthananda Reddy makes the inaugural move against K.S.Raghunandan
Position after 19th move. White to play. 20.Nd5!
exd5? [20...fxg5 21.Nxc7 gxf4 22.Nxe8+-]
21.Bxd5+ Kh8 22.Nf7+ Kg8 23.Nd8+ Kh8
[23...Ne6 24.Nxe6 Qd7 25.exf6 Bf8 26.f7+ Wins;
23...Be6 24.Nxe6+-] 24.exf6 Qxf4 [24...Bd6
25.Rxe8+ Wins] 25.Bg7# 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42
1.Gorgiev,I Pr,Shakmati 1967
1.e7 Bxe7 2.Re6+ Kd2 3.Rxe7 Rxf7 4.Rxf7 e1Q
5.Rd7+ Kc3 6.Rc7+ Kb3 7.Kc6+ Kc4 8.Kb7+
Kb5 9.Ka8+ Ka6 10.Ra7#
2.G.Kasparyan, 1963-64
1.Nf6+ Kf7 2.Nxg4 Ne6+ 3.Kf5 Be1 4.Ne5+
Ke7 5.Nc6+ Kd6 6.c4 Bc3 7.Na7 Nd4+ 8.Ke4
Nxb3 9.Nb5+ Kc5 10.Bf8+ Kxc4 11.Na3#
3.Kuznecov and Kralin,4 Pr,65-66
1.Bf3 a1Q 2.a8Q h1Q+ 3.Bxh1 Qxa1 4.Re1+
Kh2 5.Be4 Qa1 6.Rb1 wins
4.Neidze,2 Pl.Isenegger Mem.Ty, 1966
1.h8Q Bf5+ 2.Kg2 Be4+ 3.Kf1 Bd3+ 4.Ke1 Sanjay N (Runner-up),IM Shivananda B.S (Champion), Arvind_Shastry(third) and
Prachura P.P(fourth)
Bb4+ 5.Nc3 Rxh8 6.Bc7#
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