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25 December 2012

Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth

Chess Championships 2012,Chennai….

GM M.R.Lalith Babu WGM Sowmya Swaminathan

Commonwealth Champion Commonwealth WomenChampion

GM Sergei Tiviakov
International Open Champion
 December 2012

Numero Uno, Magnus

Carlsen, dominated the
international chess scene with
an amazing run at the London
Chess Classic. This eclectic
Norwegian created history
sinking the 23 year old World
record rating of Kasparov with a performance
of 2861and at this rate even touching 2900
Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess
Championships 2012, Chennai…. barrier could be a distinct possibility for this
Tiviakov wins title young chess genius. Harika's fine run at the
Lalith Babu is Commonwealth Champion 01 World Women Chess Championship was halted
By IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
by former Champion Stefanova of Bulgaria in
1st Gurgson All India Open FIDE Rating Chess the semi-finals and Anna Ushenina of Ukraine
Championship 2012,Gurgaon… who outplayed the latter became the new
Himanshu Sharma wins title 10
Champion. The reports on these two events
2nd Legend's FIDE rated chess tournament, Tirupur……. are featured in the centre colour pages.
M.Jayesh wins Legend's FIDE rated 12
A keenly fought Commonwealth Chess
GVM HSS PTA All India Open FIDE Championship, which was hosted by
Rating Tournament 2012…..
Tamilnadu State Chess Association at Chennai
Maheswaran is Champion 14
for the first time, drew a mammoth 455
Selected games from players from fifteen Federations. The lone
National Premier Chess, Kolkata 16 entrant from Netherlands, GM Tiviakov won
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
the Open event and G.Lalith Babu was the new
Puzzle of the month 27 Commonwealth Champion.WGM Sowmya
Swaminathan won the women ttile. The Indian
Delhi hosts strongest ever chess meet 28 medallists at the World Youth Chess
Selected games from Champioonship held at Slovenia were given a
National Women Premier Chess, Jalgaon 33 rousing reception at the Chennai Airport by
chess fraternity in the city and Tamilnadu
Tactics from master games 40
State Chess Association. Detailed reports and
by S.Krishnan
photographs of these events are presented in
Test your endgame 41 this issue.
by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games
Masters of the past-24 42 from National Premier and Women premier
Harry Nelson Pillsbury
events. Pillsbury, the American master who
Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games 43 popularized Queen's gambit and is also well
known for his blindfold play, is featured in the
AICF Calendar 48
'Masters of the past' series.
 Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012,Chennai….
Tiviakov wins title
Lalith Babu is Commonwealth Champion
By IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
The Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth
Chess Championships returned to India after a
gap of one year and it was organised at Chennai
for the first time by Tamil Nadu state Chess
Association. A mammoth total of 455 players
from fifteen federations, including seventeen
GMs, 25 IMs, seven WGMS, 4 WIMs and ten
FMS and WFMs each took part in the mega event
with zeal and enthusiasm. The championship,
incorporated with an international open
tournament had Sergei Tiviakov from Netherlands
as the top seed and grandmaster Ahmed Adly
of Egypt as second seed. The large Indian was
contingent was spearheaded by former national
champion B. Adhiban of PSPB and former Asian
Junior runner up M. Lalith Babu of AP. The
tournament was conducted as 11 round Swiss
system with a time control of 90 minutes for the
game with an increment of 30 seconds per move.
In the tenth and penultimate round, Karthikeyan
continued his brilliant run to extricate half point
from Tiviakov, SL Narayanan's giant killing act
continued, when he outwitted Venkatesh and Lalith
Babu dealt a blow to Akash and the quartet led
with 8.5 points. While Lalith Babu defeated
Karthikeyan, Tiviakov met little resistance from
Narayanan in the final round. The duo contended
for the title with 9.5 points each and the tiebreak
decided Lalith Babu as the Commonwealth
champion and Tiviakov as the international open
champion. The silver and bronze medals in the
Commonwealth Open section were won by M.
Shyam Sundar and SP Sethuraman of
PSPB. WGM Soumya Swaminathan of
India won the Commonwealth Women
champion title. Ram S Krishnan of Tamil
Nadu, had rich dividends in the
tournament by earning both GM and IM norms.
SL Narayanan of Kerala and Kathmale Sameer
of Maharashtra secured IM norms and Chandrika
Divyasree obtained a WIM norm
Earlier making a symbolic first move against
Grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran the President of
All India Chess Federation Shri JCD Prabhakar
inaugurated the Apollo Engineering College
Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 at
Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai.Speaking
on the occasion, Shri JCD Prabhakar, President,
All India Chess Federation extolled the efforts of
the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in introducing
chess in schools from 7 to 17 years of age. He
welcomed all the players to the Mecca of chess,
Chennai and added they can enjoy the great
hospitality of Tamil Nadu.
Speaking on behalf of the sponsors, Dr V
Natarajan, Principal, Apollo Engineering College said
they were happy to enter the field of sports,
especially the cerebral game chess, which has
the world champion and several age group
champion among our ranks.In the eleven round
swiss sytem tournament nearly 450 players from
18 countries Participated.The top seed was
Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov of the Netherlands.
A total cash prize of Rs. 10,00,000 (Rupees Ten
Lakh only) was at stake along with Grandmaster
Norm and International Master Norms. The event
concludes on 1st December, 2012.On the final
day, Sri Sivapathy, Honourable Minister for Sports
& Youth Affairs, TN Government, Sri.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth, former captain Indian
Cricket team and former chairman of the Selection
Committee of Board of Cricket Control of India,
Sri. S. Priyadarshan, Vice Chairman and CEO of
Apollo Group of Colleges distributed the prizes in
the august presence of Sri DV Sundar and Sri. S.
Ganesan, Chairman of the Organising Committee.
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Earlier round reports:Inputs R.R.Vasudevan
Ninth round:
Top seed Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov of The
Netherlands moved into joint lead scoring over
second seed Grandmaster Ahmed Adly of Egypt
in the ninth round of the Apollo Engineering College
Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 at
SDAT Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai here
today. Tiviakov and Karthikeyan jointly lead the
pack with 8.0 points, followed half a point behind
at 7.5 points by M R Venkatesh, M R Lalith Babu,
S L Narayanan, G Akash (all India) respectively.
The top board game was fought on even keel,
before Venkatesh gave back his exchange and
picked up the half point against in-form
tournament leader P Karthikeyan. The second
board game against top two seeds saw Sergei
Tiviakov firing on all cylinders against Ahmed Adly.
The closed Sicilian game went in favor of Tiviakov
after 49 moves.
Young S L Narayanan kept his good form scoring
an upset win over Ukraine Grandmaster
Oleksienko Mikhailo in 39 moves. India's Kathmale
Sameer made his International Master Norm
holding Grandmaster Arun Prasad to a draw. The
nine game IM Norm is the second Norm in the
event, adding to the one Ram S Krishnan made
in the previous round.Earlier the round was
inaugurated by Captain Ramaswamy, CEO, Sea
Team Management (Frontline Group of
Companies) who made the symbolic first move
1.Nf3 in the Venkatesh - Karthikeyan game.
Eighth round:
Joint leader P Karthikeyan moved into sole lead
with 7.5 points as second seed Grandmaster
Ahmed Adly of Egypt, citing illness, failed to turn
up for the eighth round. Following Karthikeyan at
7.0 points were Grandmasters Sergei Tiviakov
(The Netherlands) and M R Venkatesh (India).
In the top board, Tiviakov faced the advanced
French defence from Rathnakaran, and started
pressing for the initiative from the word go.
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Tiviakov further made in-roads as the Indian failed
to see the intervening bishop check on the 19th
move losing a pawn. Moving the black king out of
its shelter, Tiviakov went all out to corner the black
king and forced the game in his favor after 33
moves.Chennai based Ram S Krishnan made his
third and final International Master Norm scoring
over two time National Premier Champion Tania
Sachdev. Logging in 6.5 points Ram completed the
requirement for a nine game International Master
Norm. The Nimzo Indian game saw Tania going
along the theoretical lines, before she threw in a
knight sacrifice on the black monarch. Ram kept
the material, defended accurately and clinched the
crucial win after 31 moves.
Seventh round:
Former Asian Junior Champion P Karthikeyan
defeated fellow Indian Grandmaster SP
Sethuraman and moved into joint lead at 6.5
points after the seventh round.
Grandmaster Ahmed Adly of Egypt maintained
his grip on the top accounting for giant-killer Ram
S Krishnan in the second board. Adly and
Karthikeyan lead the Championship with 6.5 points
followed by top seed Sergei Tiviakov (The
Netherlands), Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine),
Alexander Fominyh (Rus), M R Venkatesh, M R
Lalith Babu, M Shyam Sundar, K Rathnakaran, G
Akash, Kathmale Sameer (all India) at 6 points.
While the top board game between Lalith Babu
and Sergei Tiviakov was a relatively quiet draw,
in the upset of the day, Chennai based
International Master P Karthikeyan brought down
Grandmaster SP Sethuraman. The Slav game
saw Sethuraman sacrificing a pawn and going for
the initiative. Karthikeyan gave his rook for bishop
and kept his chances going. Sethurman pressed
for the win, and missed out on tactics as white's
queen, knight and bishop battery decided the
issue in favor of Karthikeyan. With two
Grandmaster Norms to his credit Karthikeyan
should now be eyeing to complete his GM title in
his home town Chennai.
Continued on Page 5
KNOW YOUR IM Debashis Das
Debashis Das (born on 27TH June 1993) learnt the game
from his father Dr. Dillip Kumar Das and started playing chess
from 2002. He is the second youngest international master from
Odisha who has succeeded to acquire a brilliant national and
international track record at an early age He became youngest
rated player of Odisha State in the year 2003. Among the
prominent achievements amongst his several wins, Das had won a
bronze medal at the World Youth Championship held in Caldas
Novas (Brazil) in November 2011 and a gold medal as member of
the winning team at the Asian Youth (Under-18) Chess
Championship 2010 held in Beijing. He won gold in World Youth
Under-16 category in Vietnam in 2008 and was a member of World Youth Under-16
Olympiad which won gold in Turkey in 2009. He won the 50th National Challenger
Championship at Tirupati in May 2012. He was awarded IM Title in January 2010. He is
a positional player. His favourite players are Capablanca, Tal and Spassky. His first
Coach was Sri Satya Ranjan Patnaik and he is recently working with GM
R.B.Ramesh of Chennai. His other hobbies are playing table tennis, reading and listening
to music.
A list of his significant achievements is given below:
6th Parsvnath Intl Open New Delhi Jan 2008 1st IM Norm
Asian Youth ChessU-18 Tehran, Iran July 2008 Bronze Medal
World Youth Chess U-16 Vietnam Oct 2008 Gold& 2nd IM Norm
11th Dubai Open Dubai Apr 2009 3rd IM Norm.
XIV Obert Ciutat de balaguer Spain July 2009 4th IM Norm.
Asian Youth U-18 New Delhi Aug 2009 Bronze Medal
World Youth U-16 Olympiad Turkey Sep 2009 Gold 2nd Board,
Silver (Team)
3rd Jugal Kishore Newatia Mem. Guwahati Dec 2009 2nd
Commonwealth Championship New Delhi May2010 U-18 Boys Silver l
Asian Youth Championship Beijing (China) July 2010 4th & Gold Medal (Team)
MP Reykjavik Intl Open Reykjavik, Iceland Mar 2011 Best Junior
Asian Youth (U-18) Subic, Philippines May 2011 Champion & Gold
World Youth U-18 Championship Caldas Novas, Brazil Nov 2011 Bronze
World Junior Chess Greece Aug 2012 Ist GM Norm
National events:
National Challenger Tirupati May 2012 Winner
34th National Sub junior Mangalore Dec 2008 4th
National U-17 Championship Jammu Nov 2010 2nd
Telegraph School Ch., Kolkata Nov 2005 Champion
 2nd Legend's FIDE rated chess tournament,Tirupur…….

M.Jayesh, Winner, receiving trophy

from the Chief Guest KPK Selvaraj

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1 Gurgaon All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2012,Gurgaon…

Chief Guest Mr. H.P.Yadav alongwith

Mr. Naresh Garg, Naresh Sharma & Raju
Verma giving away Prize to the Winner
IM Himanshu Sharma of Railways.JPG

Inaugural move by Chief Guest

Mr. Jeetendra Bhardwaj with IM
Himanshu Sharma & IM Argyadip Dass.
Others present are Mr. Naresh Sharma,
P r a d e e p G u p t a , R a j u Ve r m a ,
Sharmendra Singh
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Sixth round Final standings:

Rk. Name FED Pts.
Indian Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu drew his top 1 GM Tiviakov Sergei NED 9½
board game against GM Oleksienko Mikhalio of 2 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 9½
Ukraine and moved in shared lead with 5.5 points 3 IM Shyam Sundar M. IND 9
after the sixth round. Joining the duo on top of the 4 GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 9
points table at 5.5 points were top seed Sergei 5 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 8½
Tiviakov (The Netherlands), Adly Ahmed (Egypt), 6 Ram S. Krishnan IND 8½
7 Narayanan.S.L IND 8½
M R Venkatesh, P Karthikeyan, Ram S Krishnan
8 IM Akshayraj Kore IND 8½
(all India) respectively.Further half a point behind 9 GM Adhiban B. IND 8½
at 5.0 points were Lintchevski Daniil, Alexander 10 GM Lintchevski Daniil RUS 8½
Fominyh (both Russia), Marat Dzhumaev 11 GM Arun Prasad S. IND 8
(Uzbekistan), Mark Paragua (Philippines) SP 12 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 8
Sethuraman, Sahaj Grover, M Shyam Sundar, G 13 Krishna C.R.G. IND 8
Akash, Kathmale Sameer, K Rathnakaran, R Arun 14 GM Fominyh Alexander RUS 8
Karthik and Ankit R Rajpara (all India). 15 GM Venkatesh M.R. IND 8
16 IM Nolte Rolando PHI 8
The advanced Caro Kann top board game 17 IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel PHI 8
between Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) and M R 18 GM Paragua Mark PHI 8
Lalith Babu saw the higher rated Ukraine 19 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 8
Grandmaster playing for the initiative. His 20 G. Akash IND 8
unorthodox style was well handled by Lalith Babu 21 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 8
22 WGM Padmini Rout IND 8
who snatched a perpetual check from a queen
23 IM Swayams Mishra IND 8
and double rook middle game.In the second 24 GM Neelotpal Das IND 8
board, joint leader Indian Grandmaster SP 25 IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 8
Sethuraman missed on an intervening combination 26 Rishi Sardana IND 8
that spelt his loss against former World Junior 27 Navin Kanna T.U. IND 8
Champion Adly Ahmed of Egypt. Following the 28 GM Adly Ahmed EGY 7½
Caro Kann, as in the top board, albeit a different 29 GM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 7½
line, Sethuraman appeared to be better out of 30 FM Aravindh Chithambaram IND 7½
the opening. White's advanced pawns were 31 GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 7½
32 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 7½
pressing against Adly's center, posing disturbing
33 IM Nitin S. IND 7½
threats. But the deft handling of double bishops 34 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 7½
coupled with an exchange sacrifice on the 30th 35 Krishna Teja N IND 7½
move tilted the game in favor of the Egyptian. 36 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 7½
Sethuraman gave up faced with the loss of bishop 37 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 7½
or queen on the 39th move.Chennai based Ram 38 Karthikeyan Murali IND 7½
S Krishnan brought down GM Norm holder 39 IM Mohota Nisha IND 7½
Akshayraj kore in miniature game that lasted 21 40 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 7½
41 FM Ikeda Junta AUS 7½
moves. The Grunfeld game moved on theoretical
42 IM Vijayalakshmi S IND 7½
lines, before the players went into the middle 43 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti IND 7½
game. Saddled with isolated pawns on the 44 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 7½
kingside, Ram went for maintaining his extra pawn. 45 GM Grover Sahaj IND 7½
In what turned out to be a case of chess blindness, 46 IM Prakash G B IND 7½
Akshayraj missed Ram's penetrating rook check 47 WIM Priya P. IND 7½
and resigned faced with heavy loss of material. 48 Ritviz Parab IND 7½

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49 Navalgund Niranjan IND 7½ 99 WFM Chandika Divyasree IND 6½
50 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 7½ 100 Michelle Catherina P IND 6½
51 Jaswant G IND 7½ 101 CM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 6½
52 Kathmale Sameer IND 7 102 Karma Pandya IND 6½
53 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7 103 Dhulipala BC Prasad IND 6½
54 IM Senador Emmanuel PHI 7 104 Pranavananda V IND 6½
55 FM Rajesh V A V IND 7 105 Abhishek Kelkar IND 6½
56 Visakh Nr IND 7 106 Mohana Priya J. IND 6½
57 FM Das Sayantan IND 7 107 Dheeraj Kumar Reddy.T IND 6½
58 Purushothaman T IND 7 108 Mulay Pratik IND 6½
59 IM Ravichandran Siddharth IND 7 109 Bala Kannamma.P IND 6½
60 Kumaran B IND 7 110 Harihara Sudan M IND 6½
61 CM Prince Bajaj IND 7 111 Anuprita Patil IND 6½
62 Padhya Saumil IND 7 112 FM Ram Aravind L N IND 6½
63 Abhilash Reddy M.L. IND 7 113 Madhurima Shekhar IND 6½
64 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 7 114 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 6½
65 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 7 115 Nishvin.J IND 6½
66 Chakravarthi Reddy M IND 7 116 Elancheralathan P IND 6½
67 WFM Saranya J IND 7 117 Prathish A IND 6½
68 IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 7 118 Vasantha Ruba Varman IND 6½
69 Harsha Bharathakoti IND 7 119 Prasannaa.S IND 6½
70 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 7 120 Rajarishi Karthi IND 6½
71 Ramalingam Karthik IND 7 121 Karthik V. Ap IND 6½
72 K. Praneeth Surya IND 7 122 Shashaank D.S. IND 6½
73 Dahale Atul IND 7 123 Iskandar Bin Abdullah SIN 6½
74 IM Dimakiling Oliver PHI 7 124 Gajwa Ankit IND 6½
75 Arjun Satheesh IND 7 125 CM Nitish Belurkar IND 6½
76 Harini S. IND 7 126 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 6½
77 Manigandan S S IND 7 127 Rohan Ahuja IND 6½
78 WFM Raghavi N. IND 7 128 Akshay V Halagannavar IND 6½
79 Deepthamsh Reddy. M IND 7 129 Sumit Grover IND 6½
80 Pratyusha Bodda IND 7 130 Aniruddh Aiyengar IND 6½
81 WFM Monnisha Gk IND 7 131 Lakshmi KBhushan D IND 6½
82 Chaithanyaa K.G. IND 7 132 Augustin A IND 6½
83 Nanda Kumar T.S. IND 7 133 Saurabh Anand IND 6½
84 Nandhidhaa Pv IND 7 134 J V Sai Kiran IND 6½
85 Vaishali R IND 7 135 Gandhi Anish IND 6½
86 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 7 136 Yogesh Gautam IND 6½
87 Muthaiah Al IND 7 137 Saranya Y IND 6½
88 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J IND 7 138 WCM Savant Riya IND 6½
89 Sai Krishna S. IND 7 139 Sai Vishwesh.C IND 6½
90 Yogit S IND 7 140 CM Govindasamy Nashlen RSA 6½
91 Aparajita Gochhikar IND 7 141 Audi Ameya IND 6½
92 Sanjid Latheef IND 7 142 Preethi R. IND 6½
93 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie IND 7 143 Subramanian R M IND 6½
94 IM Tania Sachdev IND 6½ 144 Satvik M. IND 6½
95 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv IND 6½ 145 Abhishek A IND 6½
96 Anilkumar O.T. IND 6½ 146 Aurangabadkar Prasad IND 6½
97 Deepak Katiyar IND 6½ 147 Kunal M. IND 6
98 Patil Pratik IND 6½ 148 Rajaryan Kuvelkar IND 6

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149 FM Harshal Shahi IND 6 199 Anshuman K IND 5½
150 Grahesh Y IND 6 200 WFM Mahalakshmi M IND 5½
151 WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman IND 6 201 Arjun K. IND 5½
152 Vignesh Nr IND 6 202 Anirudh V.Bhat IND 5½
153 Shetye Siddhali IND 6 203 Senthil Maran K IND 5½
154 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 6 204 WFM Srija Seshadri IND 5½
155 FM Shantharam K.V. IND 6 205 Akshaya Nandakumar IND 5½
156 Harikrishna. S. R. IND 6 206 Sa Kannan IND 5½
157 IM Babu N Sudhakar IND 6 207 Raghav Srivathsav V IND 5½
158 Nimmy A.G. IND 6 208 Kranti Kumar P. IND 5½
159 Mokal Amruta Sunil IND 6 209 CM Ebenezer Joseph IND 5½
160 WCM Tejaswini Sagar IND 6 210 Aarthi G IND 5½
161 Adarsh Shrivastava IND 6 211 Salil Kumar D. IND 5½
162 Gopalakrishnan K. IND 6 212 Karthik K IND 5½
163 Sadhu S Adithya IND 6 213 Salini R IND 5½
164 Lasya.G IND 6 214 Sai Prahlad K IND 5½
165 Singh Soram Rahul IND 6 215 Selvabharathy T IND 5½
166 Arul Senthil B IND 6 216 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama IND 5½
167 Rajeev V.M. IND 6 217 CM Teh De Juan MAS 5½
168 Varshini V IND 6 218 Rohit Vassan S IND 5½
169 Pranav Vijay IND 6 219 Aaditya Jagadeesh IND 5½
170 GHemachandra Mouli IND 6 220 Cyrus Pereira IND 5½
171 Siva Mahadevan IND 6 221 Visveshwar A IND 5½
172 Ajay Krishna S IND 6 222 Aansh Gupta IND 5½
173 Naren Swaminathan P IND 6 223 Prajesh R IND 5½
174 Naik Rishubh Naresh IND 6 224 Ashwini U IND 5½
175 Shiny Das IND 6 225 Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar IND 5½
176 Aradhya Garg IND 6 226 Rajkumar Shrinjan Singha IND 5½
177 Sathyanarayanan S. IND 6 227 WIM Hamid Rani BAN 5½
178 Ponkshe Sarang IND 6 228 Shane Alvarin Braganza IND 5½
179 Ganesh R IND 6 229 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 5½
180 Shweta Gole IND 6 230 Anant Prabhudesai IND 5½
181 Matta Besh Vignesh Reddy IND 6 231 Jahir Hussain A IND 5½
182 Iniyan P IND 6 232 Rahul Srivatshav P IND 5½
183 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J IND 6 233 Aditya S S V IND 5½
184 WIM Meera Sai IND 6 234 Jayesh M IND 5½
185 Rahul S IND 6 235 Shvetha V IND 5½
186 Vishnu Surendran IND 6 236 Kumar Sanu IND 5½
187 Meghna C H IND 6 237 Potluri Saye Srreezza IND 5½
188 Satra Hardik IND 6 238 Venkateshwara Reddy M IND 5½
189 Marthandan K U IND 6 239 Berman Jacob RSA 5½
190 Ananya S IND 6 240 Supriya Joshi IND 5½
191 Rudraksh Parida IND 6 241 Thookivakam P Reddy IND 5½
192 Sandya M IND 6 242 Sreejith.A.S IND 5½
193 Jayakumar S IND 6 243 WCM Salonika Saina IND 5½
194 Aadhityaa M IND 6 244 Mohammed Fasal V U IND 5½
195 Radha S. R. IND 6 245 Sunyuktha C M N IND 5½
196 Harikrishnan.A.Ra IND 6 246 Jain Y.D. IND 5½
197 Annie Gladys A IND 6 247 Dharani Sree R IND 5½
198 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 5½ 248 Sushmitha.G. IND 5½

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249 Vishnu Prasad S IND 5½ 298 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman IND 5
250 Sivadas T N IND 5½ 299 Jayesh Kumar C H IND 5
251 Bodke Sharmad S IND 5½ 300 Tarun V Kanth IND 5
252 Gopikrishna N. IND 5½ 301 Nihaar L Akula IND 5
253 Chowdhury Mahmuda Hoque BAN 5½ 302 Hazarika Ankita IND 5
254 Vineeth Kumar B IND 5½ 303 Swera Ana Braganza IND 5
255 Rahul Sai P IND 5½ 304 Dinesh A IND 4½
256 Thomre Abhishek IND 5½ 305 Karthick Narayanan S IND 4½
257 Arun Karthik R. IND 5 306 Raghunandan K S IND 4½
258 Senbabu M B IND 5 307 Sahu Vikramaditya IND 4½
259 Chiffot Nicolas CAN 5 308 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi IND 4½
260 Dave Shiv Shankar IND 5 309 Muhammed Mueenudheen N IND 4½
261 Barath Kalyan M IND 5 310 Ding Tze How Dilwen MAS 4½
262 Harshini A IND 5 311 Matta Theja Sahhethhe IND 4½
263 Manasa H R IND 5 312 Karthik Raj C IND 4½
264 Sreejith G IND 5 313 Suyan Belurkar IND 4½
265 Aryan IND 5 314 Jatin S N IND 4½
266 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara IND 5 315 Ladhe Mohit IND 4½
267 Hilmi Parveen IND 5 316 Divya Lakshmi R IND 4½
268 Erigaisi Arjun IND 5 317 Viswanath. R IND 4½
269 Bhuvaneshwari.R IND 5 318 Subalakshmi IND 4½
270 Priyanka N IND 5 319 Priyanka K IND 4½
271 Praggnanandhaa R IND 5 320 Toshali V IND 4½
272 Saughanthika As IND 5 321 Muhammed Shuaau MDV 4½
273 Barath M IND 5 322 Rather Adil Ashraf IND 4½
274 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar IND 5 323 Pooja S (2002) IND 4½
275 Nikhil R. Umesh IND 5 324 Baibhab Singh IND 4½
276 Sachin Pradeep IND 5 325 WCM Voges Rachelle Mari RSA 4½
277 Sai Kiran Y IND 5 326 Gupta Niti IND 4½
278 Haricharann D V IND 5 327 Rooplal Desmond RSA 4½
279 Raja Rithvik R IND 5 328 Sneha N.G. IND 4½
280 Riddhi Zantye IND 5 329 Potluri Supreetha IND 4½
281 Avadhanulu ASMSS IND 5 330 Vamsi Manoj A IND 4½
282 Vigneshwaran S IND 5 331 Anigani Kavya IND 4½
283 WCM Teh De Zen MAS 5 332 Harish Kumar S IND 4½
284 Vivek.M. IND 5 333 Garima Gaurav IND 4½
285 Kumar Gaurav IND 5 334 BMounika Akshaya IND 4½
286 Subramanian R P IND 5 335 Arun M S IND 4½
287 J Akshith Kumar IND 5 336 Sarfraz N M IND 4½
288 Muhammed Shibily N IND 5 337 Peter Anand A IND 4½
289 Mythireyan P IND 5 338 Natha Mayil N IND 4½
290 Daniel Raja.N IND 5 339 Gurunathan Karthik AUS 4½
291 Dhanush Bharadwaj IND 5 340 Ibarhim Firaq MDV 4½
292 Nithya K IND 5 341 Roshan Antony C IND 4½
293 Srimathi R IND 5 342 Fernandes Krystal IND 4½
294 Gnana Mohan Reddy N IND 5 343 Varghese Chacko M IND 4½
295 WFM Lakshmi C IND 5 344 Vijay Shreeram P IND 4½
296 Adyasa Mahapatra IND 5 345 Kabir Sachdeva IND 4½
297 Rujok Najwa Jiahui SIN 5 346 Shruthileka K R IND 4½

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347 Bhuvaneash J J IND 4½ 396 Rajaganesh S K IND 3½
348 Fourie Louhan RSA 4½ 397 Rahul Rajan K IND 3½
349 Paras Kashwani K IND 4½ 398 Pradeep Kumar M V IND 3½
350 Shri Sai Pranav Thalla IND 4½ 399 Vishnu Prem Kumar IND 3½
351 Akilesh Viswaa IND 4½ 400 Leo Anand A IND 3½
352 Senthil Kumaran N.S IND 4½ 401 Challa Srinivasa Rao IND 3½
353 Bhagyashree Patil IND 4½ 402 Tushar K IND 3½
354 Joan Jeremiah J IND 4½ 403 Ananta reddy RSA 3½
355 Chopdekar Gunjal IND 4½ 404 Thulaseedharan K IND 3½
356 Maanas O T IND 4 405 Dhananjay Kumar IND 3½
357 Fahda P A IND 4 406 Pawan S Vernekar IND 3½
358 Kavisha S Shah IND 4 407 Kathiresan Amaresh BOT 3½
359 Srinath Chowdary A IND 4 408 Tharun P K IND 3½
360 Audi Saiesh IND 4 409 Pranesh M IND 3½
361 Priyamvadha Sundar IND 4 410 Purushoth G IND 3
362 Alan Diviya Raj IND 4 411 Akshita D IND 3
363 Prajwalesh IND 4 412 Alaina J J Pereira IND 3
364 Aparna Raja IND 4
413 Dinesh Rajan M IND 3
365 Marx Inge RSA 4
414 Kshitiz IND 3
366 Vinay Kamath IND 4
415 Khan Faiziya IND 3
367 Nivetta T IND 4
416 Naveen Kumar T IND 3
368 Arushi Kotwal IND 4
417 Ismail Zain Mohamed MDV 3
369 Engelbrecht Liezl RSA 4
418 Karthigesh R IND 3
370 Vignesh R IND 4
419 Prathivya Gupta IND 3
371 Ayush Bhai Mehta IND 4
372 Pratik Agarwal IND 4 420 Rama Devi P IND 3
373 Archi Agrawal IND 4 421 Mohithaa E IND 3
374 Shubhang Sourabh IND 4 422 Kok Yujie SIN 3
375 Ujjainee De IND 4 423 Athul Krishna A P IND 3
376 Panda Sambit IND 4 424 Shahudha Mohammed MDV 3
377 Rindhiya V IND 4 425 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch IND 3
378 Van Niekerk Cari RSA 4 426 Smith Elani RSA 3
379 Thorat Aishwarya IND 4 427 Jeevan Kumar J IND 3
380 Jack Vanzyl Rudd RSA 4 428 Mbewana Portia Asavela RSA 3
381 Johnitto Francis IND 4 429 Tejasvi M IND 2½
382 Janaki Devi M IND 4 430 Chowdhary Mehboob-Ul-HassanIND 2½
383 Joubert Dantelle RSA 4 431 Vinoth Kumar M IND 2½
384 Malleswari P IND 4 432 Ayebee P.A IND 2½
385 Urvi Bandekar IND 4 433 Jijo Jacob IND 2½
386 Mehta Naitik R IND 4 434 Ismail Yameen Ibrahim MDV 2½
387 Atharva M Parulekar IND 4 435 Aishath Janan Ahmed MDV 2½
388 Chamundeswari B IND 4 436 Mohamed Shinaaz MDV 2
389 Seshan Krishna P R IND 3½ 437 Mohamed Sajiu Ismail MDV 2
390 Vishwanath Vivek IND 3½ 438 Nikhil Nihar V IND 2
391 Bristy Mukherjee IND 3½ 439 Nihaya Ahmed MDV 2
392 Vibhav Gadwal IND 3½ 440 Chirumamilla Tara Samhitha IND 2
393 Abdul Hakkeem P M IND 3½ 441 Adam Raaif Nasheed MDV 1½
394 Ananya Rishi Gupta IND 3½ 442 Mariyam Shaya Ahmed MDV 1½
395 Manya Bagla IND 3½ 443 Aishath H Ibrahim Mujah MDV 1

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1st Gurgson All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2012,Gurgaon…

Himanshu Sharma wins title

The 1st Gurgaon All India Open Fide Rating Chess Mr. H.P.Yadav. Mr. Naresh Garg-President & Mr.
Championship 2012 was held at Rishi Public School Naresh Sharma-General Secretary of The
Sector 31 Gurgaon. The tournament started on Haryana Chess Association alongwith Mr. Pradeep
15th Nov, 2012 and concluded on 20th Nov, Gupta former General Secretary & other office
2012.A total of 102 players including 2 bearers of The Haryana Chess Association and
International Masters Arghyadip Das of West Distt. Chess Association were also present.
Bangal and Himanshu Sharma of Railways were A total of 103 players participated in this
participating in this 10 round tournament. championship which was organised by Distt. Chess
The tournament started smoothly and all the seeded Association Gurgaon. Sh. H.P.Yadav, noted
players won their games comfortably in first 2 Industrialist, Sh. Naresh Garg-President of The
rounds. In the 3rd round top seed Arghyadip Das Haryana Chess Association & Sh. Raju Verms-
of West Bengal was held to a draw by Sahil Tickoo Chairman of Distt. Association gave away prizes.
of Haryana and in the 4th round third seed Himal Other present includes: Mr. R.S.Chauha- Film Actor,
Gusain was shocked by K Srikanth of SSCB. After Mrs. Reena Sharma-Director of Euro International
round 5 IM Himanshu Sharma emerged as a sole School, Mr. H.L.Dang, Advocate-Chairman Lions
leader after scoring 5/5 points. He stretched his Public School, Mr. Akshay Parnami, Mr. S.M.Sharma,
lead to 1 point after 7th round and kept on Advocate, Mr. R.C.Pal-Chairman Rishi Public School,
maintaining this lead till the 10th and final round Sovendra Singh, Anil Parnami, Rajpal Chauhan,
and became a clear champion with 9/10 points. Desh Rattan Gulati, Mr. Virendra Sharma father of
Himanshu remained unbeaten through out the Himanshu Sharma, Satish Singla
tournament. On the 8th round he was held to a Final standings:
draw by top seed IM Arghyadip Das of West Bengal Rk. Name State Pts.
and in the final round he drew his game against 1 Himanshu Sharma Rlys 9
Himal Gusain of Chandigarh. 2 Das Arghyadip WB 8
The second position was bagged by International 3 Dave Kantilal Raj 7½
Master Das Arghyadip with 8/10 points from West 4 Gusain Himal CHD 7½
Bangal, who defeated Kantilal Dave of Rajasthan 5 Jaiswal Puneet Delhi 7½
in the last round. Arghyadip was also remained 6 Prince Bajaj Delhi 7½
unbeaten. Third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh 7 Yogesh Gautam Har 7½
positions went to Kantilal Dave of Rajasthan, Himal 8 Manish Uniyal Delhi 7
Gusain of Chandigarh, Puneet Jaiswal of Delhi, 9 Sarthak Bansal Delhi 7
Prince Bajaj of Delhi and Yogesh Gautam of 10 Rajesh Kumar Nath HP 7
Haryana respectively by scoring 7½/10 points . 11 Srikanth K SSCB 6½
12 Devesh Mukherjee Raj 6½
On 15th November 2012 the Tournament was
13 Manan Rai Delhi 6½
inaugurated by a Congress leader and a Social
14 Vikram Ranolia Har/Ggn 6½
Activist Mr. Jeetendra Bhardwaj and Prizes were
15 Raghav Bagri Raj 6½
given away by a noted Industrialist and President
16 Varma Vikrant Har/Ggn 6½
of Gurgaon chamber of Commerce & Industry

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17 Bharat Bhushan Har/Ggn 6½ 59 Kaur Palkin Delhi 4½
18 D K Chopra Delhi 6½ 60 Jaskeerat Singh CHD 4½
19 Kaushik Shubham Har 6½ 61 Manjeet Poonia Har/Ggn 4½
20 Parmod Kharbash Har 6½ 62 Jatin Bhardwaj Har/Ggn 4½
21 Bhanot Stuti Har/Ggn 6½ 63 Aniket Jain Raj 4½
22 R K Mishra SSCB 6 64 Sachet Garg Har/Ggn 4½
23 Tarini Goyal CHD 6 65 Yadav Manjeet Singh Har 4½
24 Divyanshu Hasija Har 6 66 Jain Arnavv Raj 4½
25 Sahil Tickoo Har 6 67 Himank Bansal Delhi 4½
26 Chetan Chauhan Har/Ggn 6 68 Chirag Tayal Har/Ggn 4½
27 Saxena Mausam Har/Ggn 6 69 Aashna Agarwal Har/Ggn 4½
28 Ayush Pandey Delhi 6 70 Kunal Verma Har/Ggn 4½
29 Aman Chahal Har/Ggn 5½ 71 Siddhant Nath Jha Har/Ggn 4½
30 Anshul Kaushik Har 5½ 72 Shreyas Rajesh Delhi 4½
31 Anurag Delhi 5½ 73 Surender Kumar Har 4
32 Sumit Grover J&K 5½ 74 Pratinav Pandey Delhi 4
33 Sharma Vibhav Har 5½ 75 Namann D Jain Raj 4
34 Vaibhavi Thakur Har/Ggn 5½ 76 Parikshit Singh Har/Ggn 4
35 Harmeet Thukran Har/Ggn 5½ 77 Navya Tayal Har/Ggn 4
36 Vaishnavi Thakur Har/Ggn 5½ 78 Nakul Hans Har/Ggn 4
37 Naveen Kumar Har/Ggn 5½ 79 Gauri Suri Har/Ggn 4
38 Goyal Arunima CHD 5½ 80 Cyrus Chhikara Har 4
39 Ishan Rastogi Raj 5½ 81 Tamanna Panwar Har 4
40 Puneet Manchanda Har/Ggn 5½ 82 Parth Arora Har/Ggn 4
41 Nilesh Jindal Har 5½ 83 Ravi Kumar Har 4
42 Jagdeep Singh Sudan Delhi 5½ 84 Agastya Makkar Har/Ggn 4
43 Jayant Chauhan Har/Ggn 5½ 85 Bhavya Gupta Har 3½
44 Girotra Shiv Har 5½ 86 Varun Inamdar Har/Ggn 3½
45 Rohit Sunil Adsule Har/Ggn 5½ 87 Kaamya Negi Delhi 3½
46 Rajagopalan Del 5½ 88 Chirag Agrawal Har/Ggn 3½
47 Siddharth Suri Har/Ggn 5½ 89 Aashreya Kodesia Har/Ggn 3
48 Chandra Akshat Delhi 5 90 Tushar Jangra Har 3
49 Shishir Kumar Delhi 5
The huge egos of great chess players are
50 Amit Dalal Har 5
legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by
51 Umang Gupta Har/Ggn 5
their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes
52 Lokesh Hans Har/Ggn 5 concerning it are abundant. But never before has
53 Kumar Rajeev UP 5 there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already
54 Projnabrata Seth Har/Ggn 5 he has managed to alienate and offend almost
55 Pawan Kumar Har 5 everybody in the chess world. That includes
56 Piyush Sharma Har/Ggn 5 officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and
57 Garvit Laddha Raj 5 anybody who might be in a position to help him
58 Arihant Lal Har/Ggn 5 in his career. -- Al Horowitz

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DECEMBER 2012
2nd Legend's FIDE rated chess tournament,Tirupur…….

M.Jayesh wins Legend's FIDE rated

M. Jayesh of Chennai won the 2nd Legend's FIDE Director Community services.Legends
rated chess tournament below2100 with 9.0 points Academy,President, Rajasekar, Secretary,
out of possible 10 rounds organised by Legends Chandramohan, Treasurer Muthukumar , Joint
chess academy,Tirupur.The 4 day event from Secretary Siva, and Rtn.Muruganandan were the
November 16 toNovember 19 was held at Rotary core executive members who arranged this
hall of Gandhi nagar.The prize fund of 1,33,000 Tournament successfully. T R Sivan Joint
was split to 30 main prizes and 19 special prize, the Secretary, LCA delivered the vote of thanks.
winner gets 25,000 and rolling legends trophy. Final standings: (first 120 only)
The tournament was inaugurated by KPKSelvaraj Rk. Name Pts.
along with Shri.Sivashanmugam, VicePresident, 1 Jayesh M 9
TNSCA and Bhoopathi, Secretary, Tirupur District 2 Rajesh C.S. 8½
Chess Association & other Rotary members of 3 Eashwar.M 8½
Gandhi nagar,Tirupur.The event attracted 184 4 Manigandan S S 8
Players from 10 states ,14 districts out of which 5 Vinodh Kumar B. 7½
102 were internationally Rated Players. 6 Vijay Anand M. 7½
C.S Rajesh of Coimbatore , the current runner 7 Ramakrishna Perumalla 7½
up in KIT & KIM FIDE Rated tournament (Below 8 Singh Soram Rahul 7½
2200) and S.S Manigandan of Madurai, the 9 Rajith V. 7½
current Champion in U17 state championship 10 Vaisnav M 7½
share the lead with 5 pts from 5 rounds.In the 11 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7
6th round Rajesh emerged as sole leader with 12 Ganesh R 7
full score after winning his game against 13 Vinoth M 7
Manigandan.Top Players Ramakrishna Perumalla 14 Hari Pragadish S.B. 7
of AP and R Ganesh of Coimbatore fell back in 15 R.V. Adith 7
the race due to their losses in the 6th round to B 16 Balaguru T 7
Vinodh Kumar of Puduchery and J Charles of
17 Karthick Narayanan S 7
Coimbatore respectively.Rajesh maintained the
18 Muralidharan R. 7
lead upto 8th round.M Jayesh of Chennai beat
19 Aravind K 7
the leader in the 9th round to join with Manigandan
20 Gayetri R 7
with 8 points each.In the final race to the
championship Manigandan lost the game against 21 Sasikumar N 6½
Eashwar, Jayesh won the Championship by 22 Subramanian R M 6½
winning the game against Adith. 23 K. Dhinesh Babu 6½
24 Mohamed Ibrahim U 6½
Chief guest of the prize distribution function KPK
25 Shet Prajwal P 6½
Selvaraj,President TDCA distributed the prizes.
26 Vignesh V 6½
Dignitaries present on the dais were Rotarian PHF.
27 Akash Lal O 6½
Ravindran President, Bhoopathi Secretary Tirupur
District Chess Association and Rtn.Chandran Dist 28 Vinith Kumar I. 6½

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29 Gowrichander U 6½ 74 Aswin Kumar B S 5½
30 Rajiv A 6½ 75 Abirama Srinithi G 5½
31 Harish Raghavendra 6½ 76 Mohan Ram Sridhar 5½
32 Magesh B Matapathy 6½ 77 Hirthik Rajan B P 5½
33 Tharanitharr P 6½ 78 Praveen Kumar B 5½
34 Gowtham K K 6½ 79 Jyothir R 5½
35 Dilan Paul Roy J 6½ 80 Vignesh S Ram M 5½
36 Charles J 6 81 S.A. Surya Kumar 5½
37 Barath Kalyan M 6 82 Elakkeya M 5½
38 Noohu M.J. 6 83 Mahadevan Aravind 5½
84 Subramanian P V 5
39 Sathyanarayanan S. 6
85 Koushik Muthesh P 5
40 Mani A 6
86 Ilamparithi Y 5
41 Haricharann D V 6
87 Ranjith Raj N M 5
42 George Daniel 6
88 Akash Raj S T 5
43 Vishnu R V 6
89 Priyadarshini V Dpi 5
44 Sundar Pranesh J S 6 90 Vijay Krishnaa S 5
45 D. Ashraf Subhani 6 91 Kathir Balaji K 5
46 Harivardhini I 6 92 Monish C S 5
47 Girinath B S 6 93 Suba Harini S S 5
48 Navnitan S V 6 94 P Vijay Kumar 5
49 Anandha Venkatesan 6 95 Muthu Hareeswaran 5
50 Aarudhra Ganesh 6 96 Hemalatha G 5
51 David Raja A 6 97 Thanoj Prasath M 5
52 Sanjay Snehal M S 6 98 Jafer Sheriff J 5
53 Satish Kumar D 6 99 Jasper Jothi P 5
54 Sarveshwaran P 6 100 Tanur Pranav 5
55 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 101 Rohith P 5
56 Ashhwath C 6 102 Veerakumar M 5
57 Arumugam N 6 103 Rahul Kumar K G 5
58 Karthik Raj C 6 104 Ramachandran S M 5
59 Dakshinya T R S 6 105 Rahul Adithya P J 5
60 Kannan R 5½ 106 Vinothkumar A 5
61 Subramanian T.V. 5½ 107 Ramesh Krishnan Ar 4½
62 Narendran V 5½ 108 Jeevanandham R 4½
63 Adethya R 5½ 109 Sai Krishna S 4½
110 Genita Gladys A 4½
64 Dhamodharan M. 5½
111 Ashok Kumar T D 4½
65 Nishanth V G 5½
112 Balasubramaniam.P. 4½
66 Sami Durai S 5½
113 Naresh M 4½
67 Rajendran M G 5½
114 Vishnu Ram M 4½
68 Jai Aditya D 5½
115 Naren Akash R J 4½
69 Karthick Raja R 5½
116 visalini S 4½
70 Sankar R 5½ 117 Seralathan M 4½
71 Prasant N Nayagam 5½ 118 Darsana M S 4½
72 Pawan Raghunathan 5½ 119 Karthikeyan M 4½
73 Senthil Maran K 5½ 120 Naveen R G 4½

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DECEMBER 2012
GVM HSS PTA All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament 2012, Goa…..

Maheswaran is Champion
Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal HSS PTA All India Open 5 Kunal M. 7½
FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2012 was 6 Naik Rishubh Naresh 7½
inaugurated on 15th November 2012 at the hands 7 Anilkumar O.T. 7½
of PWD & Transport Minister Shri. Sudin Dhawalikar 8 Cyrus Pereira 7½
at G.V.M.s S.N.J.A. Higher Secondary School, 9 Abhijit Manohar 7½
Farmagudi, Ponda Goa organized by GVM HSS 10 Audi Ameya 7½
Parent Teachers Association and the Past
11 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7
Students Association. Also present at the
12 Visveshwar A 7
inauguration were Mahesh Shetye, Ashesh Keni,
13 Anirudh V.Bhat 7
Bhaskar Khandeparkar, Krishna Shetye and
Principal A. K. Kamat.Sudin Dhawalikar appreciated 14 Shubham R Sawaikar 7
the efforts of GVM for organizing the tournament 15 Ajeesh Antony 7
for second successive year. Ashesh Keni 16 Karmalkar Deeptesh 7
congratulated the organizers for professionally 17 Nandhini Saripalli 7
organizing the event. 18 Rajaryan Kuvelkar 7
19 Anant Prabhudesai 6½
This tournament was held under the guidance of
Chief Arbiter Shri. Bharat Chougule assisted by 20 Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar 6½
Ravindra Patil, Sanjay Kavlekar, Swapnil Hoble, 21 Barath M 6½
Gautam Tari and Dattaram Pinge. Top seed 22 Cruz Wilson 6½
Maheswaran P. (Tamil Nadu.) won the event held 23 Vagesh Tendulkar 6½
at Farmagudi- Ponda organized by GVM H.S.S 24 Kerkar Sayani 6½
Parent Teachers Association and the Past 25 Bhimappa Harijan 6½
Students Association. Sauravh Kherdekar of 26 Fernandes Krystal 6½
Railways got the 2nd place and Santoshkashyap 27 Parag Ravindra Patil 6½
Hg of Karnataka 3rd place. 28 Apurva Naik 6½
Mr. Lavoo Mamledar, MLA Ponda Constituency 29 Rajas Chari 6½
was the Chief guest of at the Prize distribution 30 Riddhi Zantye 6
function. Also present at the function were Ashesh 31 Sachin Pradeep 6
Keni (President GCA), Bhaskar Khandeparkar 32 Suhas B. Asnodkar 6
(Chairman GVM), Krishna Shetye (Chairman, 33 Gandre Vibhav 6
GVM HSS PTA), Mr.Bharat Chougule (Chief 34 Avdhoot Lendhe 6
Arbiter) and Principal A. K. Kamat (GVM HSS). 35 Shaunak SKuncolienkar 6
Final standings: (First 125 placings only) 36 Tushar K 6
Rk. Name Pts. 37 Urvi Bandekar 6
1 Maheswaran P. FM 8 38 Sampada Barve 6
2 Sauravh Khherdekar FM 8 39 Telang Mrinal 6
3 Santoshkashyap Hg 8 40 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6
4 Gandhi Anish 8 41 Kerkar Sonali 6

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42 Thorat Aishwarya 6 84 Neil Barreto 5
43 Damle Omkar 6 85 Pranav Prakash Naik 5
44 Kiran Shantaram Chopdekar 6 86 Sahakari Virendra 5
45 Gaonkar Vaishnavi 6 87 Naik Reema 5
46 Bodke Sharmad S 6 88 Agnesh M Ghadi 5
47 Verenker Disha 5½ 89 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5
48 Parsekar Anirudh 5½ 90 Chodankar Akash 5
49 Prabhakar P. Insulkar 5½ 91 Kunal Naik 5
50 Rudresh G Naik 5½ 92 Prabhu Saurabh 5
51 Sawant Abhinav Ankush 5½ 93 Aayush Pinakin Barot 5
52 Dias Aston 5½ 94 Bhobe Ved 4½
53 Audi Saiesh 5½ 95 Sravan K Suresh 4½
54 Ujjwal Biswas 5½ 96 Sakordekar N Sagar 4½
55 Madkaikar Gaurav S 5½ 97 Naik Nivesh Manoj 4½
56 Preet Premanand Kada 5½ 98 Anand Kurtiker 4½
57 Tanad Anil Bandodkar 5½ 99 Shweta Sumant Koyande 4½
58 Madhavan G 5½ 100 Mahale Renukesh S 4½
59 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 5½ 101 Sawant Vignesh 4½
60 Supriya Shanbhaga 5½ 102 Talaulikar Vedang 4½
61 Kuncolienkar Shivank 5½ 103 Sanat Borkar 4½
62 Vaibhav N T Pednekar 5½ 104 Suyash Pai 4
63 Mendonca Rajiv 5½ 105 Naik Sadichchha 4
64 Barde Om 5½ 106 Bhave Pradyumn 4
65 Pai Vishwesh 5½ 107 Naik kunal Ramnath 4
66 Anish Prabhudessai 5½ 108 Patil Shivanagouda 4
67 Shreyas Pavan 5½ 109 Costa Diogo P 4
68 Chodankar Mitra 5 110 Chinchkar Kartik 4
69 Kudav Bansi Devidas 5 111 Korde Chaitanya 4
70 Porob Vraj 5 112 Naik Pranali M 4
71 Bir Yogesh Pai 5 113 Mahale Saish Hanuman 4
72 Shaikh Irshad 5 114 Varun R Shastry 4
73 Goankar Shambhavi 5 115 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 4
74 Anurag Ajay Chari 5 116 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj 4
75 Milind Gauns 5 117 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 4
76 Nageshkar Sohan S 5 118 Sanjeev Akash 4
77 Alaina J J Pereira 5 119 Dhaimodkar Anish 4
78 Thorat Sanjay 5 120 Avvaru Rama Sirisha 4
79 Bhobe Harsh 5 121 Shetty Ashray 4
80 Naik Siddhi 5 122 Naroji Sanskriti 4
81 Sharath Shambhag 5 123 Naik Aryan 4
82 Shirodkar Sanish 5 124 Bhamaikar Abhay 3½
83 Khandeparkar Mohit 5 125 Shetkar Siddhnath 3½

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Selected games from
National Premier Chess, Kolkata
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Thipsay,Praveen M (2418) -
Ghosh,Diptayan (2415) [A00]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4
Nge7 5.c3 g6 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 b5
8.Bb3 Bg7 9.Nc3 0–0 [Better was: 9...d6
] 10.0–0 Na5 11.d5 [After this move,
black is unlikely to capture the bishop on
b3 as it is blotted out of the king-side by
his pawn on d5. However, 11.Re1 d6
12.Bg5 merited attention.] 11...d6 12.Be3
Bg4 13.h3 Bxf3 14.Qxf3 f5 [This move
causes unpleasantness for white. Also
meriting attention was: 14...Nxb3 15.axb3
Qd7 planning f7-f5 gave black a
comfortable game.] 15.Qd1? fxe4
16.Bd4 [If 16.Nxe4 Nf5 17.Bc1 Nxb3
18.Qxb3 Nd4 19.Qd3 Rf5 and black has
the upper hand.] 16...Bxd4 [Another
option for black was: 16...Nxb3 17.axb3
Bh6] 17.Qxd4 Nf5 18.Qxe4 Nb7?! [After
this white can breathe a little easier. Better
was 18...Qf6 developing his queen and
preparing Rae8. Black’s plan for this knight
is to post it on the e5 square.] 19.Bc2
Qf6 20.Qg4 Nc5 21.Rac1 Nh6 22.Qe2
Rae8 23.Qd2 Qf4 24.Rfd1! [If 24.Qxf4
Rxf4 25.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 26.Rxe1 Rd4 27.a3
b4=] 24...Qxd2 25.Rxd2 Nd7 [25...Re7
26.b4 Nd7 27.Re2 Rfe8 (27...Rxe2
28.Nxe2 and white has several good plans
like posting his knight on c6 or e6 and his
rook threatening the c7 pawn.) 28.Rxe7
Rxe7 29.a4] 26.a4! b4 27.Ne4!±
(Seediagram) 27...Ne5 Black has put his
knight on the e5 square as planned.
Unfortunately, he cannot try to capture the
d5 pawn because the bishop will pin the
capturing piece with his bishop.
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(Position after 27.Ne4)
28.Bb3 Re7 From now onwards, black
is on the defensive and he has quite a
few pawns to defend! 29.Ng5! Nf5
30.Ne6 Rc8 31.a5! Excellent endgame
strategy! He is fixing the black a-pawn
on a6 so that it cannot advance to a5
and support his pawn on b4. Later, he
would attack black’s a- and b-pawns.
31...Ng7 32.Nd4 Nf5 33.Nc6 Nxc6
Unfortunately, black has to exchange off
his knight which he took so much pains
to establish on e5. After this exchange
white’s advantage has become greater.
34.Rxc6 Ra8 35.Kh2 As black cannot
improve his defensive position, white
takes his king forward and plans g2-g4,
driving the black knight from f5.
35...Re1? [Black believes that he has a
lost game. Yet he can fight on with
35...Ra7 36.Rc4 Rb7 37.Ba4 though
white has many good possibilities by
manoeuvring his bishop and rooks.]
36.Rxc7+- Ra1 37.Rc6 Rxa5 38.g4
Nh4 39.Kg3 g5 40.f4! the strongest
continuation. The d6 pawn cannot run
away. 40...Re8 41.fxg5 Ng6 42.Rd3
Ra1 [After 42...Ne5 43.Re3 Rd8 44.Rb6
black loses one more pawn.] 43.Rxd6
Rg1+ [43...a5? 44.Ra6!+-] 44.Kf2
(See Diagram) 44...Rb1 [If 44...Ree1
45.Rxg6+! hxg6 46.d6+ Kg7 47.d7
Rgf1+ 48.Kg3 Rf8 49.Bc4! (White will)

(Position after 44.Kf2)
make his task harder with 49.d8Q? Rxd8
50.Rxd8 Re3+ 51.Kg2 Rxb3) 49...Rd8
50.Bxa6 Kf7 51.Bb5 and black would win by
collecting black’s remaining pawns without
losing any of his own.] 45.Rd2 Nf4 46.Rf6?
[There were two good moves available for
white to advance rapidly to winning the
game, 46 Rh6 and 46 Rxa6. With the text
he gives away two pawns and makes his
task more difficult. Even winning was: 46.h4
Rh1 47.Kg3 Rf1 (threaterning mate with
....Re3+, Kh2 Rh3#) 48.Rf2!+-]
46...Nxh3+ 47.Kg2 Nxg5 48.d6+ Kg7
49.d7! Rd8 50.Rf4 [Second best! Better
was: 50.Rc6! Kf8 51.Rc8 Ke7 52.Re2+ Kxd7
53.Rc5 Ne4 54.Rc4 Nd6 (Or, if 54...Nc3
55.bxc3 Rxb3 56.Rd2+ Ke7 57.Re4++-)
55.Ba4+ Nb5 56.Bxb5+ axb5 57.Rd4+ Kc7
58.Rc2++] 50...a5 51.Rc4 Kf6 52.Rc8
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
52...Ke7? [Black misses a good defensive
possibility: 52...Rxd7! 53.Rxd7 Rxb2+
54.Bc2 b3 55.Rd2 Ne4 and black can still
fight on.] 53.Ba4 Ne6 54.b3 [Stronger
was: 54.Re2 Rxd7 55.Ra8 Rd6 56.Bb3 a4
57.Ba2 Rbd1 58.Ra7+ Kf6 59.Bxe6 Rxe6
60.g5+ Kf5 61.Ra5++-] 54...Re1 55.Kf3
[Clearer was: 55.Rxd8 Nxd8 (55...Kxd8
56.Rc2 Nc7 57.Rc5+-) 56.Rd5 Re6
57.Kg3+-] 55...Re5 56.Rh2 Nf8 57.Rh6
Rd5 58.Ke4 Rd1 59.Rc5 Re1+ 60.Kf3
Re6 61.Rhh5 Rf6+ 62.Kg3 h6
63.Rhe5+ [63.Rxa5 Nxd7 64.Rhb5±]
63...Re6 64.Rxa5 Nxd7 65.Rxe6+
Kxe6 As the pieces and pawns get
exchanged off the game is veering towards
a draw. 66.Rb5 [Not 66.Ra6+ Ke5
67.Rxh6 Nf6 68.g5 Ne4+=] 66...Nf6
67.Rxb4 Rd1 68.Rc4 Rg1+ 69.Kf3
Rf1+ 70.Kg2 Rb1 71.Rf4 Ke5 72.Rc4
Ke6 the game is equal. 73.Kf2 [73.b4 Kd5
74.Rf4 Ke5 75.Rf5+ Ke6 and white will lose
one of his two pawns.] 73...Ke5 74.Kf3
Rf1+ 75.Kg2 Rb1 76.Rb4 Rb2+? [this
move only pushes the white king to where
it wants to go. Black should keep his rook
along the first rank so that when the white
king moves to f3 or g3, he could give check
from the first rank. Therefore best here was
76...Rc1! 77.Rb5+ Nd5 and white cannot
make any headway for if, 78.b4 Rb1=]
77.Kf3 Rb1 78.Bc6 Rf1+ [With his king
on c1 he should attempt to give a check
from c3 so that the white king is pushed
down. Therefore, black should play here:
78...Rc1 79.Rb5+ Kd4 80.Bb7 Rf1+
81.Ke2 Rf4 82.Bf3 Kc3 and black can draw
this game.] 79.Kg3 Rg1+ 80.Bg2± Now
white is not exposed to any checks and he
could hope to push his b-pawn to queen.
80...Rc1 81.Rb5+ Ke6 82.Kf4 The king
could not be checked here! 82...Rc3
83.Rb6+ Ke7 84.Bf3 Nd7 85.Rb5 [If
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85.Rxh6 Rxb3 86.Bc6 Nf8 87.Bd5 Rb4+

88.Kf5 Rb5 89.Ke4 Rb4+ 90.Kf3 Rb5 and
white has a long way to go.] 85...Nc5
86.Bd5 Ne6+? [As the rook and pawn
ending is easily won for white, the exchange
of the knight for the bishop should not have
been offered. 86...Nd3+ 87.Kf5 Nf2 and
black could fight on.] 87.Bxe6 Kxe6+-
88.Rb6+ Kf7 89.b4 Kg7 90.Re6 Kf7
91.Re3 Rc4+ 92.Re4 Rc1 93.Ke5 Ke7
94.Kd5+ Kd7 95.b5 Rc2 96.b6 Rh2
[Black can try 96...Rd2+ 97.Rd4 Rc2
98.Rc4 Rg2 99.Rc7+ Kd8 100.Rg7 Kc8 21...b4?! [This was his original plan. But
nearer actually effecting it, it was worth re-
101.b7+ Kb8 but 102.Ke5! wins.] 97.Rc4
examining it and see if there was a better
h5 98.g5 Rg2 99.Rc7+! Kd8 100.Rg7
alternative. Here, better was 21...Nxe4
Rd2+ 101.Kc6 Rc2+ 102.Kb7 h4
22.Nxe4 Nf8 23.d6 Ne6µ as black has
103.Rh7 White heads for the simple threats like ...Nd4 and ....f5.] 22.Nd6 With
Lucena position. 103...Rg2 104.Rxh4 this move, white is back into the game.
Rxg5 105.Rd4+ 1–0 22...bxc3 23.Nxb7 Qc7 24.Na5 Qc8
25.bxc3² Rb5 [Again, the curious 25...Bh6!
S Kidambi (2450)
26.Bf2 e4 was playable.] 26.Ba4 [Better
K Praneeth Surya (2201) [A00] was 26.d6 Rd5 27.Qe2 Rxd6 28.Nxc4 Ra6
29.Rxa6 Qxa6 30.Bb3 when white’s two
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
bishops in this open position should have an
5.Bd3 0–0 6.Nge2 c5 7.d5 e6 8.h3
edge in the proceedings.] 26...Rxd5
exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 Nbd7 11.0–0
Re8 12.Ng3 Qc7 13.f4 Rb8 14.Be3 c4
15.Bc2 b5 16.axb5 axb5 17.Ra7 Qd8
18.e5? [Better was: 18.Qf3= and wait for
black’s plan in handling the white centre
pawns.] 18...dxe5 19.f5 Now there is no
turning back. He must go through with an
illusory king-side attack with his d5 pawn
under threat. 19...Bb7 [A stunning
alternative was: 19...Bh6 20.Bxh6 Qb6+
21.Kh2 Qxa7 22.Nce4 Nxe4 23.Nxe4 Bb7
24.Nd6 and black gets an equal game by
returning the exchange with 24...Qc5]
20.fxg6 hxg6 It is difficult to guess the 27.Qxd5?! [A bold queen sacrifice, but
life span of the d5 pawn. This game seems better was: 27.Qe2 Rd3 28.Bb5² when
to revolve around this pawn which should white has the better chances though he is
be a strong factor for white, but in fact a pawn down as his pieces are very active
and control more space.] 27...Nxd5
becomes a liability. 21.Nge4
28.Bxd7 Qb8! 29.Bxe8 Nxe3 30.Bxf7+

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[If 30.Rfxf7 Qb1+! 31.Kh2 Bh6–+ Black
has not only averted the capture of his
bishop on g7 but threatens the deadly
...Bf4+] 30...Kh7!
White has two rooks for a queen all right,
but both are under simultaneous attack.
31.Rb7 Qd8!–+ With double attacks, the
black queen is zigzagging its way to the
white king. White can no longer defend
himself. 32.Nc6 Qd2! 33.Rf2 Qe1+ 0–1
Swapnil Dhopade (2459)
Deepan Chakkravarthy (2523)
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Bd2 Bxd2+
4.Qxd2 f5 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.g3 0–0 7.Bg2
d5 8.Nf3 c6 9.0–0 Nbd7 10.Qc2
10...Qe7!? A new move in this position
which entails a pawn offer. Instead,
10...dxc4 and 10...Ne4 have been tried
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
earlier. 11.cxd5 exd5!? 12.Qxf5 True,
white has won a pawn, but the black forces
get a lot of play chasing the queen.
12...Ne4 13.Qh5 Ndf6 14.Qe5 Qb4
15.Nxe4 Nxe4 16.Ne1 [If 16.b3 Bg4
17.a3 Qb5 18.Ng5 Rae8 19.Bxe4 Rxe5
20.Bxh7+ Kh8 21.dxe5 black is clearly
better.] 16...Qxb2 17.Nd3 Qa3 [Also
good was: 17...Qxe2 18.Nf4 Qc4 19.Bxe4
dxe4 20.Qxe4 Bf5 21.Qe7 Qxd4 22.Qxb7
Qb6] 18.Bxe4 dxe4 19.Nf4 [This is better
than: 19.Nc5 Bh3 20.Rfe1 Rae8 21.Qh5
e3!µ and black’s attack is in full flow.]
19...Bg4 20.Rfb1 [Best was: 20.Qxe4
Rae8 21.Qc2 g5 22.Ng6=] 20...Rae8
21.Qg5 Bc8
Very neat! 22.Ng2 [It is not good for white
to try to block the advance of black’s e4-e3
with: 22.e3 Rf5 23.Qh4 g5 24.Qh5 Qe7
25.Nh3 Rd5–+] 22...e3 23.Nxe3 [If
23.fxe3 Rf5 24.Qh4 Rxe3 25.Nxe3 Qxe3+
26.Kh1 Be6 and black wins.] 23...h6! This
drives the queen away from his Ne3 where
black is threatening a winning exchange
sacrifice. 24.Nc4 [He has to resort to this
unsatisfactory transaction for if 24.Qc5 Rxe3
25.fxe3 Qxe3+ 26.Kh1 Be6 and white has
no answer to the threat ...Bd5+] 24...hxg5
25.Nxa3 Rxe2 26.Re1 Rexf2 27.Nc4
Bh3!–+ 28.Ne3 Rd2–+ Black’s position is
so good that he can do anything at will in
white’s camp. 29.Red1 Rff2 30.Rxd2
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Rxd2 31.Rb1 White seeks some counter
play and escape with his king from the corner.
But it is not to be. 31...Re2!
The start of the ‘wheel’ with the rook and
bishop battery. 32.Nc4 Rg2+! 33.Kh1
Rxa2 34.Kg1 Rg2+ 35.Kh1 Rc2! with
the threat of mate along white’s first rank,
black milks the position to the maximum.
36.Ne3 Re2 37.Nc4 b5 38.Ne5 a5! His
c6 pawn is indirectly defended by ...Bg2+
39.Kg1 Rg2+ 40.Kh1 Rc2 41.Kg1 a4!
[Till the end the white king remains
cornered in g1 and h1 by the bishop on
h3. 41...a4 42.d5 cxd5 43.Rxb5 Rg2+
44.Kh1 Rf2 45.Rb1 a3] 0–1
K Praneeth Surya (2201) -
Grover,Sahaj (2516) [A00]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7
5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Qg4 cxd4
8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 Qc7 10.Ne2 dxc3
11.f4 Nbc6 12.Qd3 d4 13.Nxd4 Nxd4
14.Qxd4 Bd7 15.Rg1 Nf5 16.Qf2 Qc6
17.Bd3 Qd5 18.Rb1 Bc6 19.Rb3 0–0–
0 20.Rxc3 Kb8 21.g3
It was simple. Bobby hadn't played in a long time.
He knew Spassky was a much more dangerous
opponent for him than Petrosian and he got to
save all his preparation for another day. -- Ron Gross
(on why Fischer agreed to play second board in
the 1970 USSR vs. The World match)
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[Remarkably so far the game has followed
known paths of the French Defence. Usual
here is the aggressive: 21.g4 Nd4 22.Rg3
Qh1+ 23.Bf1 Rh8 24.h3 and white has a
near winning advantage.] 21...Nd4 22.Rf1
Qa2 23.Be3 Nb5 24.Rb3 [24.Bxb5?
Qa1+ 25.Ke2 Bxb5+ 26.Rd3 Qb2
27.Bxa7+ Ka8 28.Kf3 Bxd3 29.cxd3
Rxd3+ 30.Be3 Qb3 and white is in grave
trouble.] 24...Nxa3 25.Qd2 [Even though
white has an extra pawn, he needs to
secure the safety of his shaky king and not
capture yet another pawn: 25.Bxa7+ Ka8
26.Bd4 Bb5 27.Rb2 Qd5 28.Bc5 Bxd3
29.cxd3 Qxd3–+] 25...Nc4 26.Qc1
Qa5+! 27.Ke2 Qd5 28.Rf2 Rh8! 29.h4
[29.Rc3 Bb5 30.Qa1 a6 31.Bc1 Qd4=
Though white has an extra pawn his pieces
are tied up in defence of his king in the
centre.] 29...Rhg8 The g3 pawn appears
to be indefensible but there is a defence
through counter-attack. 30.Rb4 Bb5
31.Rf3= (See diagram next column)
So, white has managed to defend his
g-pawn. But the white king could not live
in peace in such an open position for long.
31...a5! 32.Rb1 [Also insufficient was:
32.Rb3 Bc6 33.Rf1 Rxg3 34.Bf2 Rh3
35.Ke1 a4! 36.Rb4 Qa5 37.Bc5! a3!–+]
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43.Rxb6+ Ka7 44.Rb5 Ka6 45.Rc5 Kb6

46.Rc4 Ra7! 47.Ra4 Kb5 48.Ra2 a4!
49.f5 a3 50.f6 Kc4 51.Kg4 Rb8 52.Kg5
Kd4 [52...Kd4 53.Kf4 Rb2 54.Ra1 a2
55.Bh7 Kc3! to be followed by Rb1.] 0–1

Karthikeyan Murali (2299)

S Satyapragyan (2456) [A00]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4

Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2 Be7
8.0–0 0–0 9.Kh1 a6 10.f4 Bd7 11.Bf3
Rc8 12.a4
(Position after 31.Rf3)

So, white has managed to defend his g-

pawn. But the white king could not live in
peace in such an open position for long.
31...a5! 32.Rb1 [Also insufficient was:
32.Rb3 Bc6 33.Rf1 Rxg3 34.Bf2 Rh3
35.Ke1 a4! 36.Rb4 Qa5 37.Bc5! a3!–+]
32...Bc6 The Rf3 is beyond saving. 33.Qf1
Qxf3+ 34.Qxf3 Bxf3+ 35.Kxf3 Nxe3
36.Kxe3 Rxg3+ 37.Kf2 Rh3 Now the
outcome of the game is beyond any doubt.
Enjoy the efficiency with which black wraps
up the game. 38.Be4 Rd2+ 39.Kg1 Rd7
40.Kg2 Rxh4 41.Kg3 Rh8 42.Rb5 Usually 12 Qe1 is played here, preparing the
queen for king-side attack. 12...Nxd4?
[Exchanges that bring the opponent’s pieces
into the centre should be avoided. Better
was: 12...Na5 13.e5 Ne8 14.Qd3 Kh8
15.Rad1=] 13.Bxd4 Bc6 14.Qe1 Nd7
15.Rd1 Bh4?! [This excursion by the bishop
does not gain anything for black. A lone
unsupported piece in the opponent’s territory
always need to be secured against double
attacks. 15...Qc7 ] 16.Qe2 Qc7 17.f5 e5
[Better was: 17...exf5 18.exf5 Rfe8 19.Qd2
Bxf3 20.Rxf3 Ne5 21.Rff1=] 18.Be3 Be7
With nothing to do and white’s king-side
attack with g2-g4-g5 imminent, this bishop
42...b6! [He decides on keeping his a-pawn
felt insecure at h4. 19.g4 b5 [19...h6!= can
which promotes on a dark square. The
seriously impede white’s proposed attack.]
other alternative also wins, but takes
20.axb5 axb5 21.b4 A bold move, daring
longer: 42...a4 43.Rb4 a3 44.Ra4 and
black to do his worst along the semi-open
black has no clear plan for winning.]
c-file. 21...Qb8 22.g5! Rfd8

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23.f6!! A fine pawn sacrifice which tears
open black’s castled position. 23...gxf6
24.gxf6 Nxf6 25.Bg5 Ba8 [Better was:
25...Rc7 26.Bxf6 Bxf6 27.Nd5 Bxd5
28.Rxd5 Bg7 29.Rxb5] 26.Rd3 Rc4
27.Bg2!+- Clearing the way for the Rd3
to get to g3 and at the same time
threatening the Nf6. 27...Qc8 28.Qf3 This
defends the Nc3 a second time and
threatens the Nf6 yet again. Black cannot
defend his knight any more. 28...Rf8
29.Bxf6 Bxf6 30.Qxf6 Rxc3
31.Rf5! the threat of Rg5# cannot be
stopped. If 31...h6, 32.Qxh6 and again 33
Rg5# is threatened. 1–0
G.Akash (2343)
Swapnil Dhopade (2459)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0–0
8.Qd2 Nc6 9.g4 Be6 10.Nxe6 fxe6
11.0–0–0 Ne5 12.Be2 Qc8 13.h4 Nc4
14.Bxc4 Qxc4 15.h5 Nd7 16.hxg6
hxg6 17.f4 This has not been played
before. Young blood is often impatient.
More conservative moves like 17 Kb1,
17 Rh3, 17 Qg2, etc. have been tries in
this position. 17...Bxc3 18.bxc3 Qxe4
[If 18...Qxa2 19.Qh2 Kf7 20.Qh7+ Ke8
21.Qxg6+ Kd8 22.Qg7] 19.Bd4
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19...e5 [19...Kf7 is a complicated
variation where white tries hard to win
and black tries hard to defend himself with
an inactive rook on a8. 20.Rde1 Qf3
21.Rh7+ Ke8 22.Rxe6 Rf7 23.Rh8+ Nf8
24.Rxg6 Rxf4 25.Rgg8 Kd7] 20.fxe5
dxe5 21.Rde1 Qf3 [Better was:
21...Qxg4 22.Bxe5 Nxe5 23.Rxe5 Rae8
24.Kb2 Qf4=] 22.Be3 Nf6 23.Qh2
Qxg4 24.Qxe5 Qd7 25.Bd4 Rf7
26.Rh6?! [Quite good was: 26.Qg5 Qf5
27.Qg2 Raf8 28.Rhg1 Rg7 29.Qxb7 with
a great advantage to white.] 26...Rg7
27.Rf1 Qc6 28.Qg5 Kf7 With a solid
defence black is a shade better. 29.Rh2
Rf8 30.Re2 Kg8! [White is not without
a threat. A careless move like 30...a6?
will be immediately punished by 31.Bxf6!
exf6 32.Rxf6+!! Qxf6 33.Qd5+ and a
beautiful block mate next move.]
31.Rg1 Qd7 32.Qh6 Kf7 33.Rge1
Kg8= 34.Rg1 Kf7 35.Rf2 Qe6 36.Kb2
b6 37.Rgf1 Kg8 38.Rg1 Kf7 39.Rg3
Qc6 40.Re3 Kg8 41.Qg5 Rff7 42.Ref3
Ne4 43.Rxf7 Rxf7 44.Rh2
Only the young generation of fearless fighters can
destroy the Fischer myth. You must not let him
impose on you his style, which is like snake poison.
The old- fashioned way, heavy with security devices,
incessant tiptoeing on shallow waters of draws,
offers no hope against Fischer. -- Henrique Mecking
Continued on Page 29
International news
Carlsen wins London Chess Classic
World No.1 ranked Magnus Carlsen of Norway
achieved a new milestone in chess when he won the
London Chess Classic on December 10, 2012.After
repeating the position and drawing world champion
Anand in 61 moves, Carlsen sailed into unchartered
rating territory, clocking a historic 2861 rating. Carlsen
won the event while Anand finished in the middle.
This victory was secured before his draw with Vishy
Anand, as Kramnik was unable to make anything of
his position against Mickey Adams. Round 9 saw
surprisingly insipid play from the former World
Champion, who essayed a line of his favourite
Berlin Defence that left Black without any
aggressive options. A draw was agreed on move 38. Carlsen might have been doing fairly
poorly against Vishy Anand out of the opening (Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik had
differing perspectives), but the Norwegian managed to turn the tables on his opponent
after 28…c5. Despite being a pawn up for much of the middlegame he was unable to
obtain a serious advantage, and a draw was eventually agreed after a perpetual.
Nakamura – McShane capped off a frustrating tournament for the UK number one.
Despite having some problems in the opening, he came up with an interesting exchange
sacrifice that compelled the commentary room to suggest that he could play for a win.
Unfortunately he simply blundered a piece on move 32, and had to resign. Polgar –
Aronian was an uninspiring draw; Aronian's Marshall led to mass exchanges and a
theoretically drawn rook and pawn ending soon followed.
Anand finished with six draws, one win and one defeat. He loses marginal rating for the
blunder against Adams. The biggest rating losers are McShane, Jones, Aronian and
Polgar.Carlsen took the first prize but Kramnik and Adams gained as much ratings.
Carlsen played at 2994, Kramnik at 2937, Nakamura at 2839 and Adams at 2845.
Carlsen has sunk Kasparov 2851 rating record during the course of this event. He has
also reached 2861, wiping out Kasparov's record which stood since 1999. In the
tournament points table, Carlsen had 18 points. Kramnik 16; Adams, Nakamura 13
each; Anand 9; Aronian 8; Polgar 6; McShane 5; G Jones 3. The 3 point for a win, 1 for a
draw and zero for defeat does not affect ratings and is more cosmetic in nature.In the 9-
player single round robin event, 19 games were decisive and 17 were drawn. High ratio of
decisive games was not because of the three point for a win but the difference between
the highest and lowest rated players were more than 200 Elo.
Final placings: 1 M Carlsen 6.5/8; 2 V Kramnik 6; 3-4. H Nakamura, M Adams 5 each; 5 V Anand
4; 6 L Aronian (Arm) 3.5; 7 Judit Polgar (Hun) 2.5; 8 Luke McShane 2; 9 Gawain Jones 1.5.
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 Ushenina is the new World Women's Champion
Ukraine's Anna Ushenina is the new world women's champion. In the finals at Khanty-
Mansiysk, Russia she scored 2-2 in classical chess and 1.5-0.5 in rapid chess for a well
deserved victory over former champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.Ushenina started
with a victory against the 2011 World Junior girls champion Cori Deysi by 1.5-0.5. Then,
she drew both games against Anna Muzychuk but won the tie-break 2-0. Thereafter she
moved into the Russian tunnel.
First she crushed Natalia Pogonina 1.5-0.5 and then
overcame Nadezhda Kosintseva 1.5-0.5 for a place in the
last four. In chess, you can not become world champion
without facing any Asian. Here, she drew Ju Wenjun 1-1 and
again prevailed in the tie-breaks by 1.5-0.5.
The finals was a best of four. This match started against
former champion Stefanova with two draws. Then,
Ushenina went ahead in the third only for Stefanova to
pull one back. The scores were level 2-2 and the title was
left to be decided in two rapid games.The first time rapid
chess was used to decide any world championship by FIDE
was in 1998 in Lausanne when Anand and Karpov
played.In the first tie-break game, Ushenina was a bishop
down but drew. Stefanova had two bishops and Ushenina
had one bishop. The draw resulted as no side had
pawns.In the reverse game, Ushenina nursed her two extra pawns in a rook ending to
win in 94 moves.Anna Ushenina, born August 30, 1985 is the new world women's
champion.She became richer by USD 60,000. She is 27 and comes from Kharkiv. She
learnt the moves at age seven from her mother. Her peak rating is 2502 achieved in July
2007.Ushenina played the key role in Ukraine winning the Women's Olympiad in 2006 at
Turin and she remained undefeated.In 2013 she will play the World Women's
Championship match against Hou Yifan of China. Courtesy:fide.com

Harika entered last four

Dronavalli Harika of Guntur recorded her best performance at the Women's Chess
Championship at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia reaching the semi-finals.She scored 1.5-0.5
against Soumya Swaminathan, 1.5-0.5 against Danielian (Arm), 1.5-0.5 against Lela
Javakashvili (Geo) and 1-1, 1.5-0.5 against Zhao Xue (Chn).After winning the tie-break
against Zhao Xue.
The other three players in the last four were A. Stefanova (Bul), Ushenina (Ukr) and Ju
Wenjun. Down by a game Harika Dronavalli (India) needed to win as White to tie the
semi-final match against Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria). In a slow maneuvering game
the Indian advanced her pawns on the queenside, and Stefanova pushed on the kingside.
 As the game got more open, Black
sacrificed a piece for White's three central
pawns and obtained a big advantage.
However, Stefanova did not try to win the
game outright and just forced a draw by
repetition, eventually securing the match
victory by 1.5-0.5.Harika led India to an
all-time best fourth place in the Istanbul
Olympiad. Though less experienced than
Humpy, she has a cool nerve to last such
bronze medals winners Harika Dronavalli (India) and Ju Wenjun
(China). The prizes were presented by the mayor Khanty-Mansiysk, knock out games. Harika has played in the
the President of Ugra Chess Federation Vassily Filipenko.
Chinese league and is a fearless customer.
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Decisions at the AICF Central Council Meet at Chennai
At the AICF Central Council meeting at Chennai on November 18, 2012 chaired by
Mr.J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF the following decisions were taken. Other important
dignitaries present were Bharat Singh,Hon.Secretary, AICF R.M.Dongre,Treasurer,AICF,
IM Sekar Sahu,A.Narasimha Reddy & A.Bhakthavatchalam Vice Presidents.
In a huge player friendly move, the All India Chess Federation decided tol pay Rs.1,000/-
per player as boarding charges Participating in all the National Championship like
National Under -7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25 and National Challengers for Men & Women.
This facility will be extended to seeded players and qualified players who play under
Normal entry.This scheme when implemented will cost the AICF Rs.10/- lakhs per year.
In another significant move, AICF will have a payment gateway on its website. Players will be
able to remit online instead of having to stand in queue at the banks for bank drafts.
It was also decided that henceforth all the State Associations should organise age
category and other selections (to represent the State in National Championships)
separately for each category and separately for boys and girls.
To create more technical persons the AICF has decided to conduct Senior Arbiter Examination in
5 centres namely Guwahati, Kolkata, Nagpur, Delhi and Chennai on 9th December, 2012.
It was decided to accept the report of the Enquiry Committee constituted to go into the
functioning of the Madhya Kshetra Shatranj Sangh. In its place the State Level Chess
Association, Madhya Pradesh was given affiliation.
Mr.Hari S Sharma President of Sikkim Chess Association was nominated as Joint
Secretary in place of Mr.Nand Kishor Joshi.
Mr.J.C.D.Prabhakar, President AICF was in the Chair and attended by other important
dignitaries like Bharat Singh(Hon.Secretary), R.M.Dongre(treasurer), IM Sekar
Sahu,A.Narasimha Reddy & A.Bhakthavatchalam Vice Presidents.
 Australian school boy makes history
11-year old school boy wrote a new chapter in
Australian Chess history. In just completed
Australasian Masters 2012 tournament the youngest
participant 11-year old Anton Smirnov became the
youngest ever winner of this traditional event. Anton
is #1 rated player in world in his age( born 2001) and
has been playing chess for nearly 8 years! In the last
round Anton met his toughest opponent in the
tournament - his dad, International Master Vladimir
Smirnov. After a big fight the game ended in a draw
allowing Anton to win the tournament, collecting
$600 for his effort, not bad for a Grade 5 student. The traditional International Master Norm
round robin event had been held in Melbourne for the last 24 years. Courtesy:fide.com
World Youth Chess Championship 2012, Maribor, Slovenia…..
India, Russia share honours with eight medals
By Arvind Aaron
Following the Under-10 Gold won by
N.Priyanka with a round to spare, Vaishali
and M Mahalakshmi, both of Chennai,
became World Under-12 and 14
Champions after an exciting final round at
Slovenia. India had its fair share of
excitement in the final round. R Vaishali
(Girls Under-12) and M Mahalakshmi (Girls
Under-14) became world champions in
their categories as the World Youth Chess
Championship came to a close at Maribor in
Gold Medal Winners
Slovenia on November 18, 2012. We had R. Vaishali (U-12), N. Priyanka (U-10) and M. Mahalakshmi (U-14)
some misses too.
Overall, India won three titles or gold medals, two silver and three bronze. We won a total
of eight medals, the most along with Russia. Russia also won three gold, two silver and
three bronze. Having won a gold medal in the Girls Under-10 (N Priyanka, 9.5/11) with a
round to spare, Indians looked for more on the final day. Our setback came in the Under-
14 section. Aravindh Chithambaram of Madurai who was leading by a full point lost and
his tie-break at 9/11 was good only for the silver medal. Girish Koushik of Mysore won a
silver medal in the Under-16 section with a last round victory to reach 8.5/11.Ivana
Furtado of Goa played the spoil sport when she beat Monnisha of Chennai in the final
round. But, M Mahalakshmi, also of Chennai played a great game to win the title in the
Girls Under-14 section.
Mahalakshmi's tie-break was better than the Mahalakshmi faces a Chinese opponent.L.N. Ram
Georgian player, both scoring 9/11. Monnisha got Aravind (Under-10), Girish Koushik and S.L.
the bronze medal on 8/11. Ivana finished fourth Narayanan (both U-16) are having medal
on eight points.L.N. Ram Aravind of Trichy finished chances in their sections. Ram lost the penultimate
third in the Under-10 section with 8.5 points with a round while Girish won and Narayanan only drew
final round victory.Our best section might have been the leader on the top board.
Girls Under-14 but the Girls Under-12 was not too
Round 9 : After nine rounds two players with
far behind. R Vaishali won the title and Riya Savant
the maximum number of points were left. Nguyen
won the bronze medal in the same section. India's
Anh Khoi from Vietnama (U10 open) beat
three gold, two silver and three bronze medals
Matviishen David from Ukraine today and was a
would be the best after Batumi 2006 and Vietnam
point and a half ahead. Now only a miracle can
2008.We did not win any title in Greece 2010 and
take away from him the title of the World youth
won only one title at Brazil last year. Thus, it is a
chess champion. There was similar story in the
marked improvement on that front by our players
girls U10 group, where Pariyanka (India) defeated
over recent performances.
Yu Jennifer (USA) today. Priyanka was also a
Round 10 : N Priyanka of Vijayawada won the point and a half ahead. In the U8 open group
World Under-10 Girls section with a round to spare Abdussatorrov (Uzbekistan) drew and was still a
at Maribor in Slovenia on Nov 17, 2012. With one point ahead.
title in the bag, Indians are looking for atleast
three more from Sunday's final round. Priyanka Puzzle of the month
is trained by Bobba and had impressed and won by C.G.S.Narayanan
all the Girls Under-10 events (classical, rapid and
In the diagram below where should the white
blitz) at the Asian Youth in Sri Lanka in June.
pawn which is hanging in between f4 and f5
Priyanka has scored 9.5/10 and is one and a half
points ahead of the rest.This is India's third World actually stand? This requires some retro-
Under-10 girls title. Koneru Humpy won it first at analytical study as to what piece has been
Cannes in 1997 and Cholleti Sahajasri won in captured, where was it captured and in what
Batumi (Georgia) in 2006. order.
Raymond Smullyan
Indians are looking for more titles at Maribor. Schach mit Sherlock Holmes 1979
Aravindh Chithambaram won the tenth round and
maintained his one point lead. He needed a draw
in the final round to clinch the title in the Under-
14 section.R Vaishali who impressed at Sri Lanka
in the Asian Youth was leading her Girls Under-12
section with 8.5 points. Three players including
our own Riya Savant were on eight points. She
needed a win to claim her maiden world title.
G.K. Monnisha and Mahalakshmi were in a three-
way lead in the World Under-14 championship
for girls with 8/10. Monnisha needed a win for
the title as her tie-break was the best. She faces
Is the pawn standing on f4 or f5?
top seed Ivana Furtado with the black pieces.
Ivana had lost title and medal chances. (Solution on page 48)

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 Delhi hosts strongest ever chess meet
Having successfully organised numerous national and international events in the past,
the national capital now plays host to the strongest ever chess event in the country –
the Rs 12 lakh prize money AICF-AAI Cup. The six-player double round-robin format
category-18 tournament is being played at the Airport Authority Club from December
20-30. All players, with an average rating of over 2675 ELO rating points, would play
each other twice – once with white pieces and once with black.“AAI spends annually 4cr
in promoting sports and supporting talents. This tournament is the maximum rated and
highest prize money tournament and we are proud to be associated with it,” said Mr. V.P
Agarwal, Chairman Airport Authority of India. This is the second edition of the AICF-AAI
Cup, which was a category-17 event last year. The tournament was won by Fabiano
Caruana of Italy in its inaugural edition and the player has subsequently moved into the
top-10 of the FIDE world ranking.

AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan said, “the list of players for this tournament is the
best line up India have ever seen and we are expecting very tough competition in the
ten days of the tournament.”This year's star attraction of the tournament would GM
Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland, who is better known among Indian chess circle as one
of the seconds of Viswanathan Anand in his two successful world championship campaign”
added Mr Bharat Sing Chauhan. Wojtaszek, himself a top-50 player in the world, would
be looking to add valuable rating points to his tally in New Delhi. Leading the charge of
challengers against him would be GM Anton Korobov of Ukraine, who boasts of a 2700+
rating and Russia's in-form player GM Evgeny Alekseev.Former national champion GM K
Sasikiran would lead the Indian challenge with 2008 World Junior champion GM Abhijeet
Gupa and world's second youngest Grandmaster and reigning Asian champion Parimarjan
Negi completing the line up.

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Continued from Page 22

64.Rd1+! [White avoids the fatal error

64.Kxa8? Kc6! and black wins with the
threat of ....Rg8+ mating.] 64...Ke6+
65.Kxa8 e3 66.Bxe3 1–0

Aravindh Chithambaram Vr (2276)

Ram S. Krishnan (2303)

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 b6 5.a3

Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qd7 7.a4 Ne7 8.Nf3 0–
0? [It is strange that a normal developing
move like 0–0 should prove to be inferior.
Best was the thematic 8...Ba6 which is the
44...Rg7 [Much better was the complicated purpose behind his 4...b6. In all likelihood black
variation: 44...Rf6! 45.Qh4 Qb5+ 46.Ka3 Nd6 had hoped to save a tempo by playing this
(Black could also opt for perpetual check with move (Ba6) only after white had committed
46...Qa5+ 47.Kb2 Qb5+ 48.Ka3 as the white Bd3.] 9.Bd3 Nf5 [Black probably realised
king cannot go the the first rank for fear of
too late that on 9...Ba6? (See diagram)
mate with ....Rf1#) 47.Qh8+ Kf7 48.Rh7+ Ke6
49.Rxe7+ Kxe7 50.Qxf6+ Kd7 51.Qg7+ Kc8
52.Qf8+ Kc7 53.Qe7+ Qd7µ White will now
have to struggle against the g-pawn.] 45.Qe5
Nf6 46.Qb8+ Kf7 47.Qxa7 With the capture
of this pawn, white’s prospects of winning the
game has improved. 47...Qb5+ 48.Ka3 g5
49.Qxb6 Qxb6 50.Bxb6 e5 51.c4 Ke6
52.Kb4 g4 53.a4 g3 54.Rg2 Nh5 55.a5
Nf4 56.Rg1 g2? [With the queening square
(g1) remote controlled by both the bihsop and
rook, it would have been good strategy to
move the king to the queen-side for defence
with 56...Kd7 57.Re1 Rg5 58.a6 Kc6²]
57.a6+- Kd7 58.a7! Rg8 59.Kb5 e4
comes the famous theoretical bishop
60.Be3 Ne6 [60...Nh3?? 61.Rxg2!] 61.Kb6
sacrifice 10.Bxh7+! Kxh7 11.Ng5+ Kg6
Nc7 62.Kb7 Rg7 63.Bb6 Na8
(11...Kg8 12.Qh5 Rd8 13.Qxf7+ Kh8
14.Qh5+ Kg8 15.Ba3 (White pins the Ne7
in advance so that he could mate in two by
Qh7+ Kf8 Qh8#). 15...c5 16.dxc5 Qc6
17.0–0–0 (After 17.cxb6 Qxc3+ white’s
win is unclear.) 17...Qxa4 18.Rd4 Qxa3+
19.Kd2 Nf5 20.Qf7+ Kh8 21.Rh4+ Nxh4
22.Qh5+ Kg8 23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ke7
25.Qxg7+ Ke8 26.Qf7#) 12.h4! Qc6
13.Qg4!! Qxc3+ 14.Kd1 f5 15.h5+! Kh6
16.Nxe6+ Kh7 17.Qxg7#] 10.g4 Ne7
11.Ng5 h6 12.Nh7 Re8 13.g5!? [White
finds his own way to win the game with

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some dramatic moves. Another way to win

was: 13.Qd2 Ng6 14.Nf6+! gxf6 15.Qxh6
fxe5 16.Bg5 Qd6 17.Bxg6 fxg6 18.Qxg6+
Kf8 19.Qh6+ Kg8 20.Bf6! and white mates
soon.] 13...Ng6 14.Nf6+! gxf6 15.gxf6

21...Rf7 [The position after 21...Rd2

22.Rc2 Rfd8 23.Rhc1 is slightly better for
white as black’s castled position has been
weakened by the advance of his g- and h-
pawns and they become comparatively
easy targets for attack, both in the middle-
Black cannot stop mate via Qd2, Qxh6 and game and end-game.] 22.Rhd1 Rfd7
Qg7# 1–0 23.Rxd7 Rxd7 24.Qc2! Kh7 25.Qc8
Qd3 [The rook cannot leave the second
Vidit Gujarathi (2501)
rank untended, for if 25...Rd2 26.Rc7 with
G N Gopal (2544)
the deadly threat of 27 Qf8] 26.Qe8 Qd5
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 27.Rc8 e5 The only way to stop 28 Qg8#
5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 c5 7.dxc5 Ne4 8.Rc1 [It 28.e4! This forces black to exchange
is too early to decide whether the rook should queens and lose a pawn as his queen
be placed defensively on c1 or more cannot guard both g8 and his Rd7.
aggressively on d1. Therefore, more 28...Qf7 29.Bxe5 Qxe8 30.Rxe8
common here is: 8.Qb3 ] 8...Nd7 9.cxd5 Bxe5+ 31.Rxe5
Qa5 10.Nd4 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Nxc5 12.Bc4
e5! Though after this black is able to restore
material equality, white always has some
unpleasant pressure. 13.dxe6 Bxe6
14.Bxe6 Nxe6 15.Nxe6 Bxc3+ 16.Kf1
The king is heading for the security of the h2
square. 16...fxe6 17.Qb3! A double attack,
on the Bc3 and the pawn on e6, but black
slides out of both. 17...Qa6+ 18.Kg1 Bg7
19.h3 h5 20.h4 Rad8 21.Kh2

Geniuses like Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci,

Shakespeare and Fischer come out of the head
of Zeus, seem to be genetically programmed, 31...Kg7 [If 31...Rd2 32.Ra5 a6 33.Kg3
know before instructed. -- John Collins Kg7 34.Kf3 Kf7 35.Ke3 Rb2 36.g3 Rc2
37.f3 Rc6 38.a4 Rc3+ 39.Kf4 Ra3 40.Rc5

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Rxa4 41.Rc7+ and white will win the ending
by pressuring the g6 pawn and advancing
his king.] 32.f3 Rd2 33.a4 Rb2 34.a5
Kf7 35.Kg3 b6 36.axb6 axb6 37.Rg5!
To win this ending, white must use his king
aggressively without losing any of his king-
side pawns. After this move, protecting his
g2 pawn with his rook, he is ready to
advance his king to f4, and onwards.
37...b5 38.Kf4 b4 39.g3 b3 40.Rb5
Rb1 41.Ke5 b2 42.Rb7+ In such rook
endings, the superior side should advance
whenever possible with a mating attack
so that the defender has no time for a
counter-attack. 42...Kg8 43.f4! Black’s
defence hangs on the fate of his passed
pawn on b2. White will exchange one of
his less important pawns for the b2 pawn
and win the ending without any trouble.
43...Rg1 44.Rxb2 Rxg3 45.Kf6 Rg4
46.Rf2! White would like to trade his h-
pawn for black’s g6. 46...Kf8 47.e5!
Rxh4 48.e6!
48...Ke8 [If 48...Rg4 49.f5! gxf5 Now that
the f-file can no longer be used by the black
rook to attack the white king along that
file, white completes his plan:. 50.e7+ Ke8
51.Rd2 wins.] 49.Kxg6 Ke7 50.Kf5
[50.f5!] 50...Rh1 51.Rd2 Now it is easy
for white. 51...h4 52.Rd7+ Ke8 53.Rh7
h3 54.Kf6! Kd8 55.Rh8+! Kc7 56.e7
Re1 57.e8Q 1–0
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
G Akash (2343)
M R Venkatesh (2511)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0–0 Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 Bg4
9.d3 0–0 10.h3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Na5
12.Bc2 b4 13.Be3 [A new idea in this
position. 13.Nd2 Rb8 14.Re1= has been
played before here.] 13...Bxe3 14.Qxe3
Rb8 15.f4 [This is the natural move in this
position. But it was better to get his pieces
out and complete development before
engaging a developed enemy. 15.Nd2= ]
15...Re8 16.fxe5 dxe5³ 17.Qc5 Nb7
18.Qe3 [Better was: 18.Qxb4 Nh5 19.Nd2
Nf4 20.Nf3 Nxd3 21.Qc4 Nxb2 22.Qxa6=]
18...Qd6 19.Nd2 Na5 20.d4 bxc3
21.bxc3 Rb2 22.dxe5? [22.Rac1 was
level though black has a slight pull.]
22...Qxe5 23.Qd3? [Again, better would
have been: 23.Rac1 ] 23...Qc5+ 24.Kh1
Nc6 25.Rfd1? Rd8! 26.Qc4
26...Qb6? [Black can win with: 26...Qxc4
27.Nxc4 Rxc2 28.Rxd8+ (28.Ne5 Nxe4!)
28...Nxd8 29.Rd1 (or 29.Rb1 Kf8!)
29...Ne6–+] 27.Nf3 Nh5 [If 27...Rxc2
28.Rxd8+ Nxd8 29.Qd3 Qc6 30.Qxc2
Nxe4±] 28.Kh2 Na5 [28...Rxc2 does not
win a bishop because of 29.Qxc6! Rc8=]
29.Rac1 Rxd1 30.Rxd1 g6 31.Qd3 Nf4
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32.Qd2 [Maybe the players were in time [Fleeing in advance does not always work.
trouble. But it was difficult to see the winning After this, white wins by non-stop check-
variation which starts with a bishop offer, mate. Again, as four moves earlier, black
then a rook sacrifice leading to mate with wins with: 38...Qf2 39.Qxf7+ Kh6
queen and rook. 32.Qd8+! Kg7 33.Rd7! 40.Qxh7+ Kxg5 41.Be4 Re2! and black
Rxc2 (33...Qf6 34.Qxf6+ Kxf6 35.e5+! Ke6 wins.] 39.Nxf7+ Kg7 [If 39...Kh5
36.Rxc7± Rxc2?? 37.Nd4+) 34.Rxf7+ Kxf7 40.Qg4#] 40.Ng5+! Kh6 41.h4! Kh5
35.Ng5+ Kg7 36.Qe7+ Kh6 37.Nf7+ Kg7 42.g4+! If 42...Kxh4 43 Nf3#! 1–0
38.Ne5+ Kh6 39.Ng4+ Kh5 40.Qxh7+ Kg5
41.Qh6#] 32...Ne6 33.e5? [White is Deepan Chakkravarthy (2523)
concerned about the inactivity of his bishop. S Arun Prasad (2510)
However, the best move here could be to
offer that bishop as a bait and launch an 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0–0
imaginative attack: 33.Qd7 Qc5! (Not 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 Qe8 7.Nf3 d6 8.g3
33...Rxc2? 34.Qe8+ Nf8 35.Rd8 Qc5 a5 9.b3 a4 10.b4 b5 11.c5 Bb7 12.Bg2
36.Ne5 Rf2 37.Nd3 white wins.) 34.Qd3³ Be4 13.0–0 Nd5 14.Qd2 f5
(34.Rf1!? with focus on f7 is another
complicated alternative that needs
consideration.) ] 33...Nc4 34.Qd3 Ne3?!
[With 34...Qf2!µ Black must take advantage
of his rook on b2 and, with multiple threats,
smash through white’s feeble second rank .
He is nearly winning.] 35.Rc1 Nf4?
[35...Nxg2!–+ must occur to a grandmaster
instantly. Probably, time trouble and the
memory of losing by forfeit to the same
opponent in the previous round by arriving
late at the tournament hall might have
clouded his thinking process.] 36.Qd8+ Kg7
37.Ng5 Ned5 [Black sees danger where 15.Ne1 [White is impressed by black’s
there is none. He should win comfortably bishop on e4 and is in a hurry to exchange
with: 37...Rxc2! 38.Rxc2 Nxc2 39.Qe7 Ne2
it off. He could have delayed this move by
40.Qxf7+ Kh6 and white has nothing to show
completing his development with 15.Bb2
for his knight] 38.Qd7 Kh6?

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Qh5 16.Rac1 and wait for black’s plan to
unfold as he has an edge.] 15...Bxg2
16.Nxg2 Nc6 17.Qd3 dxc5 18.dxc5 Ne5
19.Qc2 Nc4 20.Bb2?!
[White cannot expect black to exchange
his well posted knight on c4 for his bishop
which may, in the distant future, pose
some problems to g7. Better was: 20.e4
fxe4 21.Qxe4 Qf7] 20...e5! Black is clearly
better with his great control over the centre
and his well posted knights. 21.Rad1 c6
22.Nh4 Qh5 23.Bc1 Rae8 Black has a
classical attacking position which he has
achieved almost move by move. 24.Rd3
f4! 25.Ng2 [This does not put up a fight.
Though going down, white could try to
counter-attack with the exchange sacrifice
to impede black’s attack: 25.Rfd1 e4
26.Rd4 Qe5 27.Rxc4 bxc4 28.Qxc4 e3
29.Nf3 exf2+ 30.Kxf2 fxg3+ 31.hxg3 Kh8–
+] 25...Rf6 26.e4!? fxe3 27.Nxe3
Ndxe3 28.fxe3? [Chances for survival
were offered by 28.Bxe3µ ] 28...Rxf1+
29.Kxf1 Rf8+ 30.Kg1 e4! After this
strategic move vacating e5 for his knight,
white is doomed. 31.Rd4 Ne5! 32.Rxe4
After World War II, the chess scene was dominated
by the Soviet Union, or rather by the Russians.
The only exception, the only person who managed
to put an end to Russian dominance was Fischer,
which testifies to his genius. -- Zoltan Riblia
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
32...Rd8! With the white rook lured out
of the open d-file, black now controls that
important file. Of course, now 33 Rd4 is
met by 33....Nf3+ winning the exchange.
33.Qa2+ Kh8 34.Qf2 h6! After providing
this escape square for his king, black’s rook
is ready to invade the enfeebled white
position. 35.Rf4 [If 35.Bd2 (to prevent
...Rd1+) 35...Nf3+ wins the bishop.]
35...Rd1+ 36.Kg2 Rxc1 0–1
Selected games from
National Women Premier, Jalgaon
M Mahalakshmi (2041)
Bhakti Kulkarni (2196)
1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 e5
5.dxe5 dxe5 6.Qxd8+ This early
exchange of queens is not necessarily a
draw as this game shows. 6...Kxd8
7.Bg5+ f6 8.0–0–0+ Ke8 9.Nd5 [9.Be3
leading to equality is usual here.] 9...Na6
10.Be3 c6 11.Nc3 Bh6 12.Bxh6 Nxh6
13.a3 Ng4 14.Nh3 Nc5 This knight is
heading for the key d4 square. 15.b4
Nb3+ 16.Kb2 Nd4= 17.Bd3 [White must
immediately challenge black’s centrally
placed knight on d4 with: 17.Ne2 ]
17...Be6 18.Na4 b6 It is normal not to
allow the opponent’s pieces into your
position unless you have a plan to trap it.
19.Nc3 a5 20.b5 cxb5 21.Nxb5 Nxb5
22.cxb5
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22...Rc8 Black has reached an
advantageous endgame where white has
a bad bishop with her key pawns blocked
on white squares. 23.Be2 Ke7 24.Rc1
Rhd8 Unfortunately for white she has to
keep her rook on h1 to guard her h2 pawn.
25.Rhd1 Rxc1 26.Kxc1 Rxd1+ 27.Kxd1
Kd6 28.Kd2 [White cannot be relieved of
the burden of defending her h2 pawn by
exchanging: 28.Bxg4 Bxg4+ 29.Kc2 Bxh3
30.gxh3 Kc5 and white collapses.]
28...Kc5 29.Kc3 [If 29.f3 Nxh2 30.Kc3
(to prevent ...Bc4 winning white’s queen-
side pawns.) 30...h5 31.Nf2 g5 32.Nd3+
Kd6! 33.Nb2 g4! 34.Kd2 h4 (threat ...h4-
h3) 35.fxg4 Nxg4 36.Na4 Kc7 and black
could win.] 29...Nxh2 30.f3 Bxh3
31.gxh3 g5 32.a4 h6
Zugzwang! Black is a pawn up but her knight
cannot get out of h2. However, white has
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more serious problems. Her bishop cannot
move as Be2-d1 will let out the knight
through f1. And if the white king moves, it
would allow the black king into her camp
through either b4 or d4. White is in
Zugzwang. If she did not have to make a
move she is ok. But she has to, and she
loses. 33.Kd3 Kb4 34.Kc2 Kxa4 35.Kc3
Ka3 36.Kc4 Kb2 37.Kd5 this plan of trying
to queen her b-pawn is too, too slow, but
she has nothing better. 37...a4 38.Bc4 Nxf3
39.Kc6 Nd2 40.Bd5 Nb3 41.Kxb6 a3
42.Kc7 a2 43.b6 a1Q 44.b7 Qa5+
45.Kc8 Qc5+ 46.Kd8 Qb6+ 47.Kc8 h5!
Black lets her opponent have her dream of
queening her b-pawn as she has
unanswerable passed pawn on the king-side.
48.b8Q Qxb8+ 49.Kxb8 g4 50.hxg4
hxg4 51.Be6 g3 52.Bh3 Nc5 53.Bg2
53...Nxe4! 54.Bxe4 f5 55.Bg2 e4 56.Kc7
e3 57.Bf3 e2 58.Bxe2 g2 59.Bd3 g1Q
60.Bxf5 Qc5+ 61.Kd8 Qxf5 0–1
Divyasree,Chandika (2160)
Ghate,Swati (2263)
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Bc4 e6
5.Nge2 a6 6.a4 Nf6 7.0–0 Nc6 [This is
a new move here. Usual is to kick the Bc4
with ...d5. 7...d5 ] 8.Ba2 Be7 9.f4 d6
10.d3 0–0 11.f5 [11.Ng3=] 11...exf5!
12.exf5 d5 13.Ng3 b5

[This gives white a chance to equalise. The
general rule is one should not change the
pawn structure when development of all the
pieces is still incomplete. Better was 13...Re8
or 13...Nb4.] 14.Nce2? [If a bad position is
inevitable, it is better to have that bad
position with an extra pawn! Better was to
ask black to prove she has compensation
for her sacrificed pawn after 14.axb5 axb5
15.Nxb5 Qb6 16.Na3 c4+ 17.Kh1 cxd3
18.cxd3 Ba6=] 14...Bb7 15.Nf4 Nb4
16.Bb1 d4 17.c3?! [White is impatient to
remove the yoke that is pressing on her.
Better would have been 17.Re1 or 17 Bd2
waiting for black to reveal her plan.]
17...dxc3 18.bxc3 Nbd5µ 19.Nxd5? [As
this capture does not remove a black knight
from d5, it was best to ignore it and continue
to develop her pieces with: 19.Qc2 ]
19...Nxd5–+ 20.Bd2 b4 21.Ne4 bxc3
22.Nxc3 Bf6 23.Qc1 [It was best to wait
for a better square for her queen and move
her rook out of the pin: 23.Ra3 suggests
itself.] 23...Nb4 24.Ra3 Nxd3 25.Bxd3
Qxd3 26.Nd1 Bd4+ [This check could have
been kept in abeyance for a better
opportunity and threats of pin. 26...Qe4
27.Rf2 Bh4 winning.] 27.Be3 Qe4 28.Ra2
Rfe8 29.Bxd4 Qxd4+ 30.Raf2 f6
[Stronger was: 30...Re2 31.f6 (Or 31.Nc3
Rxf2 32.Rxf2 Re8 33.Qd2 f6–+) 31...Rxf2
32.Rxf2 Re8 33.Qd2 Qxa4 34.Qg5 (34.Ne3
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Qd4) 34...Qxd1+ 35.Rf1 Qd4+ 36.Kh1
Qxf6!] 31.Nb2 Rac8?! [This allows the
hapless knight to enter the game with a
couple of forking threats. 31...Rad8! would
have kept the winning advantage.] 32.Rd1
Qg4 33.Qc4+! Qxc4 34.Nxc4 White must
be happy to emerge from the cauldron with
just one pawn less. But the endgame is going
to be still difficult. 34...Bc6 35.Rc1?! [35.a5
would have made black’s task harder.]
35...Rb8 36.a5 h6 37.Nb6 Re5 38.Nc4
Re4 39.Nb6 White does not have anything
better with black having a powerful position
in an open board. 39...c4
40.Rfc2 [An horrible move would be:
40.Nxc4? Rxc4 41.Rxc4 Rb1+ 42.Rf1
Rxf1+ 43.Kxf1 Bb5 and black wins.]
40...Bb5 41.Nxc4?! [Better was: 41.h3
preparing to defend his f5 pawn with g2-
g4 and wait for black to reveal her plan
was worth consideration.] 41...Bxc4
42.Rxc4 Rxc4 43.Rxc4 Rb5 44.Rc8+
Kh7 45.g4 h5 46.h3 hxg4 47.hxg4
Rb4?! [Both 47...Rxa5 and Kh6 were
stronger than the text.] 48.Rc6 Rxg4+
49.Kh2 Rf4 50.Rxa6 Rxf5 51.Ra8 Rf3
White has a clear plan. She intends
attacking white’s a-pawn from the rear
while taking her king forward shielded by
her two pawns from checks from the back.
52.a6 Ra3 53.Kg2 Kg6 54.Kf2 Kf5
55.a7(See diagram next column)
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
55...Kf4! 56.Ke2 f5 57.Kd2 Kg4
58.Rb8 Rxa7 59.Rb4+ f4 60.Ke2
Ra2+ 61.Kf1 Kg3 62.Rb5 Ra1+
63.Ke2 f3+ 64.Ke3 Re1+ 65.Kd2 f2
66.Rg5+ Kh4 0–1
Nisha,Mohota (2323)
Aarthie,Ramaswamy (2148)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.0–0 b6
5.c4 Bb7 6.b3 Be7 7.Bb2 0–0 8.e3 c5
9.Nc3 Nc6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.d4 Re8
12.Ne5 Nxe5 13.dxe5 Ne4 14.Nxe4
dxe4 15.Qg4 Qc8?
[This is a new move. Better was: 15...Bf8=
] 16.e6! Bf8 [If 16...f6 17.Rad1 Qc6
18.Rd7 Rad8 19.Rfd1 and white has
excellent attacking chances.] 17.exf7+
Kxf7 18.Qh5+ Kg8 19.Rfd1! Qc6
20.Bf1 Bc8? [This ‘undeveloping’ move
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proves fatal as white cleverly contrives to
base a neat combination on the two
unsupported black rooks. Equal was:
20...b5= ] 21.a4! a6
[If black saw what was coming she would
have played 21...Be6 22.Bb5 Qc8 23.Qxe8
Qxe8 24.Bxe8 Rxe8 when the game is only
slightly better for black as b3 is under threat]
22.Bb5!! axb5 23.axb5 Black must now
decide which rook to abandon as both rooks
are under attack as well as the queen.
23...Qxb5 24.Rxa8 Qxb3 Black has
emerged with a bishop and pawn for her rook,
not satisfactory, but the best in the
circumstances. [24...Qc6 25.Ra7 Qg6
26.Qxg6 hxg6 27.Rd5 and white will gradually
penetrate the black position.] 25.Rd6!? [This
is spectacular, but not as powerful as: 25.Ra7!
Re7 26.Rxe7 Bxe7 27.Rd8+! Bf8 28.Qe5
crushing black.; However, 25.Qxe8? will lead
to a perpetual check after 25...Qxd1+ 26.Kg2
Qf3+ 27.Kf1 Qd1+] 25...Bxd6 [If 25...Qf7
26.Qxf7+ Kxf7 27.Rxb6 Bd7 28.Ra7 Rd8
29.Kg2+-] 26.Qxe8+ Bf8 27.Rxc8 Qd1+
28.Kg2 Qf3+ 29.Kh3 Qf5+ 30.Kh4 Qxf2
[If 30...g5+ 31.Kh5 g4+ 32.Kh4 and with
his king safe, white is winning.] 31.Qe6+ Kh8
32.Qe5! When making this move, white had
to calculate right up to the end of the game
as she is offering h2 with a check.
32...Qxh2+ 33.Kg5 Qh6+ 34.Kg4 Qg6+
35.Kh3 Qf7

[If 35...Qh6+ 36.Kg2 and black has not
check to keep the game going.]
36.Qxg7+! If 36...Qxg7 37 Rxf8# 1–0
Michelle Catherina (2109)
Kruttika Nadig (2173)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4
5.Nxd4 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2
0–0 9.g4 Be6 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.0–0–0
Rc8 12.Bc4 Qd7 13.Bb3 Ne5 14.Qe2
14...a5 [If 14...Ne8 15.f4 Nc6 16.e5
(16.f5 Nc7 17.Nb5 Na5 18.Nxa7±)
16...Na5 17.Ba4!±] 15.a4 Nf7 16.Nb5
Ne8 17.h4 While black regroups her
tangled pieces to attack on the queen-side,
white proceeds with her pawn storm on
black’s castled position. 17...Nc7 18.Nxc7
Rxc7 19.h5 g5 20.h6! This is more to
prevent black from playing h7-h6 after
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
which the black position would become
almost impregnable. 20...Be5 [If 20...Bxh6
21.Rh5 Bg7 22.Bxg5 Nxg5 (22...Rc5
23.Be3 Rxh5 24.gxh5+-) 23.Rxg5 Rf7
24.Rxa5 Qc8 25.Rh5+-] 21.Kb1 Rb8?!
[Black plans to attack with b7-b5. But
probably, she did not anticipate white’s
imaginative attack which unfolds. Better
was 21...Rc6 though white is still better.]
22.f4! The opening move in the fantastic
attack. 22...gxf4 23.Ba7! Ra8 24.g5!
b5 [If 24...Rxa7 25.Qh5 b5 26.g6 Nd8
27.gxh7+ Kxh7 28.Rdg1; or 24...Nxg5
25.Rhg1 Kh8 26.Rxg5 Bf6 27.Bd4! After
disrupting black’s attempt at queen-side
play, the bishop returns to the major task
on hand, the assault on the black king.
27...e5 28.Bxe5+-] 25.Qg4 bxa4 [If
25...Kh8 26.g6 hxg6 27.Qxg6 Ng5
28.Qxg5 bxa4 29.Bc4! Rg8 30.Qxe5+
dxe5 31.Rxd7 Rxd7 32.Bb6±] 26.Bxe6
Qc6 27.Rh2 Rcxa7 She cannot capture
with her other rook as it is required to
defend mate on g8. 28.g6! hxg6
29.Qxg6+ Kh8
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid
compared to men. They shouldn't play chess,
you know. They're like beginners. They lose every
single game against a man. There isn't a woman
player in the world I can't give knight-odds to
and still beat - Bobby Fischer
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
30.Rg1 The unavoidable mating threat is
31 Qg7+!! Bxg7 32 hxg7++ Kg8 33
Rh8#!! 1–0
Padmini Rout (2302)
Sahajasri,Cholleti (2026)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6
9.a3!
An old trap. 9...Be7 [9...Qxb2?? 10.Na4
traps the queen. The idea behind this trap
also occurs in other openings like the
French, Caro Kann, Queen’s Gambit, etc.]
10.Bf2 Qc7 11.Qf3 b5? [11...Bd7
followed by ...Nc6 and castle on either side
according to circumstances was best.
Generally, changing the pawn structure
when one is yet to complete development
should be avoided. This game is a good
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illustration of what happens when you delay
development for temporary fun!] 12.g4!?
[12.Bd3 is normal here, but white wants
to pursue her fancy.] 12...Bb7 13.g5
13...Nfd7 [Better was 13...hxg5 14.fxg5
Nfd7 15.g6! Bf6 16.gxf7+ (Exciting, but quite
dangerous for white would be the bishop
sacrifice: 16.Bxb5 axb5 17.Ncxb5 Qc5 when
both players have to tread very cautiously
in a double-edged position to stay alive.)
16...Kxf7 17.Bh3 Nf8 18.0–0–0=] 14.g6!
Bf6 15.gxf7+ Kxf7 16.Bh3 e5? [With this
move, black immediately gets into a very
inferior position. White was threatening to
capture the e6 square, and only incidentally,
the pawn on e6. Better defensive ideas were:
16...Nc5 17.Rg1 threatening 18 Qh5+; and
16...Nf8 17.0–0–0 and in both cases white
has a clear advantage and a beautiful
attacking position.] 17.Ne6 Qc4 18.0–0–
0 Ke7 19.Rhg1 Rg8
20.f5+- [White had an alternate move
which would have led to an overwhelming
attack: 20.b3 Qc8 21.Qd3 Qc6 22.Nd5+
Kf7 23.Qg3 g5 24.Qg4] 20...b4 [Black
cannot get her queen-side pieces working
for if: 20...Nc6 21.Nd5+ Kf7 when white
could either trap the queen with 22 c3 or
pursue a mating attack with 22 Qh5+]
21.axb4 Qxb4 22.Nc7 Threat is N7d5+
winning the queen. 22...Qa5 23.Nxa8
Bxa8 24.Kb1 Rc8 25.Nd5+ 1–0

Kiran M Mohanty (2179)
Bodda,P (2128)
14.Ng5! Though white has not castled she
sees that the black position is cramped and
her castled position is without sufficient
defenders. The only meaningful defender
for black is her dark square bishop. And if
Black wants to grab the offered pawn she
must part with her valuable bishop. Black
chooses the pawn and hopes her defensive
skills will see her through the white
offensive. 14...Bxg5 15.hxg5 Qxg5
16.Rh5! Qe7 17.Qh3 g5 18.Ng6! Black
probably overlooked the knight landing on
the empty g6 square. 18...hxg6 19.Rh8+
Kf7 20.Rh7+ Ke8 21.Rxe7+ Kxe7
22.Qh7+ Rf7 23.Qxg6 Rh8 [If black tries
to save her g-pawn she will only exclude
her queen rook from the game 23...g4
24.Qg5+ Ke8 25.0–0–0 with the threat of
26 Rh1 and Rh8 as black’s queen rook is
excluded from the game.] 24.Qxg5+ Ke8
25.0–0–0 Rff8 [25...Nc6 getting the
knight back into the game was better. But
white is all set to win.] 26.g4 Rfg8
27.Qd2! White saves her g-pawn with the
attack on black’s unsupported knight.
27...Nc6 28.gxf5 exf5 29.Bb5! In a
winning position, one must strive to win
by the shortest and easiest route. In this
position white is threatening to exchange
her bishop for the knight after which black
would be left with a sterile bishop allowing
white an easy victory. 1–0
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Rousing welcome to WYCC medallists
A rousing welcome awaited the medal
winners of the World Youth Chess
Championship held at Maribor, Slovenia
at the Anna International Airport, Chennai.
A festive mood prevailed among the vast
number of chess enthusiast who
assembled to receive their heroes. The
Indian team finished on par with Russia
by annexing 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze
medals thus creating a record of sorts.
USA finished third in the medals tally.
The 3 Gold medals were won by
R.Vaishali(TN) Under-12 Girls,
M.Mahalakshmi(TN) Under 14 Girls,
N.Priyanka(AP) Under 10 Gilrs, the 2
Silver medalists were Arvindh
Chidambaram(TN) Under 14 Boys and
Girish A Koushik(Karnataka) Under 16
Boys. The 3 Bronze medals won by
L.N.Ram Aravind(TN) Under 10 Boys,
Riya Sawant (GOA) Under 12 Girls and
G.K.Monnisha(TN) Under 14 Girls. Out of
the eight medals five went to Tamilnadu
Children and the three among them
belong to Velammal Schools. N.Priyanka
and Riya Sawant did not arrive at Chennai
as they went home from Dubai directly
to Hyderabad and Goa respectively.
A traditional welcome was accorded to
the medalists when they landed. They
were welcomed by Nathaswaram artists
arranged by the Velammal Schools and
were garlanded profusely by the
Tamilnadu Chess officials, Velammal
School authorities and the parents and
well-wishers. The Velammal School
Children in huge numbers were present
to wish and welcome their schoolmates
who brought laurels to the Country.
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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

1. 2.

White
Whitetotoplay
playand winwin
and White
Whitetotoplay and
play winwin
and

3. 4.
White
Black to
toplay
playand
andwin
win Black
Whitetoto
play andand
play winwin

5. 6.

Black to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and win
Solutions on page 43

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 Test your endgame
by K.Muralimohan

T.Kok , 1941 L.Salkind, 1928

1. 2.

J.Behting, 1927 A.Troitzky 1909

3. 4.

K.Arnstam, 1941 G.Van Altena 1940

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above Solutions on page 43

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Masters of the past-24 Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Pillsbury was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, moved to New York

City in 1894, then to Philadelphia in 1898.By 1890, having only played
chess for two years, he beat noted expert H. N. Stone. In April 1892,
Pillsbury won a match two games to one against World Champion Wilhelm
Steinitz, who gave him odds of a pawn. Pillsbury's rise was meteoric, and
there was soon no one to challenge him in the New York chess scene.
The Brooklyn chess club sponsored his journey to Europe to play in the
Hastings 1895 chess tournament, in which all the greatest players of the
time participated. The 22-year-old Pillsbury became a celebrity in the
United States and abroad by winning the tournament, finishing ahead of
reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker, former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz, recent
challengers Mikhail Chigorin and Isidor Gunsberg, and future challengers Siegbert Tarrasch, Carl
Schlechter and Dawid Janowski.The dynamic style that Pillsbury exhibited during the tournament
also helped to popularize the Queen's Gambit during the 1890s, including his famous win over
Siegbert Tarrasch. His next major tournament was in Saint Petersburg the same year, a six-
round round-robin tournament between four of the top five finishers at Hastings. Although he
was in the lead after the first half of the tournament he finised third. He lost a critical fourth
cycle encounter to Lasker, and Garry Kasparov has suggested that had he won, he could well
have won the tournament and forced a world championship match against Lasker.
Pillsbury had an even score against Steinitz but a slight minus against Chigorin, Tarrasch and
against Joseph Henry Blackburne , while he beat David Janowski and Géza Maróczy and had a
significant edge over Carl Schlechter.
In spite of his ill health, Pillsbury beat American champion Jackson Showalter in 1897 to win the
U.S. Chess Championship, a title he held until his death in 1906.Poor mental and physical health,
the result of his syphilis infection prevented him from realizing his full potential throughout the
rest of his life. He succumbed to the illness in a Philadelphia hospital in 1906.
Pillsbury was a very strong blindfold chess player, and could play checkers and chess
simultaneously while playing a hand of whist, and reciting a list of long words. His maximum was
22 simultaneous blindfold games at Moscow 1902. However, his greatest feat was 21 simultaneous
games against the players in the Hannover Hauptturnier of 1902. Edward Lasker in his' Chess
Secrets I learned from the Masters?' wrote:" Alekhine's world record performance at the Chicago
World's Fair, where he played 32 blindfold games simultaneously was quite an astounding
demonstration but Alekhine made quite a number of mistakes, and his performance did not
impress me half as much as Pillsbury's in Breslau".
Pillsbury wrote no chess books. He wrote occasional newspaper reports on tournaments and
matches and wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Although there are few known
correspondence games played by Pillsbury, one of the early correspondence chess organizations
in the US was named in his honor (Pillsbury National Correspondence Chess Association).

Courtesy : Wikepedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p40
1. Conquest,Stuart (2501) Adair,James
R (2262) [A01]
99th ch-GBR 2012 North Shields ENG (5.3),
27.07.2012
Position after 33rd move.White to play.
34.Nxf7!! Kxf7 35.Bh5! Ke7 [35...gxh5
36.Qh7+ Ke8 (36...Bg7 37.Qxg7+ Ke8 38.Bf6)
37.Qg6+ Ke7 38.Bf6#] 36.Qxc5+ Kf7
37.Qc2 [37.Qc2 Ke7 38.Qxg6 Wins] 1–0
2. Volokitin,Andrei (2704)
Miroshnichenko,Evgenij (2621) [C10]
81st ch-UKR 2012 Kiev UKR (4.4),
30.07.2012
Position after 33rd move. White to play.
34.Bf4! Rxe7 35.Qxb6+ Ka8 36.Qxa5+
Kb7 37.Qxc7+ [37.Qxc7+ Ka8 38.Qa5+
Kb7 39.Qb4+] 1–0
3. Ivanchuk,Vassily (2769)
Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2717) [E21]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (4.6),
31.08.2012
Position after 34th move. White to play.
35.Nf6+! gxf6 [35...Kh8 36.Ng6+ fxg6
37.Qxh6+ gxh6 38.Rh7#] 36.Qg3+ Kh7
37.Rxf7+ [37.Rxf7+ Rxf7 38.Qg6+ Kh8
39.Nxf7#] 1–0
4. Wang,Yue (2685)
Grischuk,Alexander (2763) [A37]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (4.2),
31.08.2012
Position after White’s 25th move. Diagram #
Black to play. 25...Rh2+! 26.Kf1 [26.Kxh2
Nf3+–+; 26.Kg1 Nf3+–+] 26...Rh1+
[26...Qh7!] 27.Kg2 Rh2+ 28.Kf1 Qh7! 0–1
5. Milos,Gilberto (2593) -
Carlsson,Pontus (2511) [D17]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (11.4),
09.09.2012
Position after White’s 25th move. Black to
play. 25...Qh1+! [25...Qh1+ 26.Bxh1 Nh2+
27.Ke1 Rg1#] 0–1
6. Topalov,Veselin (2752) -
Iturrizaga,Eduardo (2627) [E15]
40th Olympiad Open Istanbul TUR (11.1),
09.09.2012
Position after 42nd move. White to play.
43.Nd5!+- [43.Nd5 exd5 44.Ra7+- Idea
Rb8+] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 41
1. T.Kok, I Pr,Tidskrift KNSB 1941
1.Ra4+ Kb1 2.Kd2 Bg5+ 3.Kd1 Bc1 4.Ra8!
d2 5.Na7 Ka2 6.Nb5+ Kb3 7.Na3 wins
2. L.Salkind, I Pr, ‘64’ 1928
1.Bd2! b2 2.Bh7!! b1Q 3.Bc3+ Qb2 4.Ng6!
Kb1 5.Ne5+ Ka1 6.Nd3 Qxc3 7.Kxc3 wins
3. J.Behting, Latvia Ty, 1927
1.Rf1! g3 2.Nf5 Kg2 3.Ne3+ Kh1 4.Rc1 g2
5.Nd1 Ne2 6.Nf2#
4. A.Troitzky,Deutsche Schahzeitung 1909
1.Nc2+ Kb1 2.Na3+ Ka1 3.Bh6! a4 5.Bg7+
Nb2 6.Kf6 Nd3 7.Kf5+ Nb2 8.Ke5 Nd3+
9.Ke4+ Nb2 10.Kd4 Nd1 11.Kd3+ Nb2
12.Kc3 wins
5. K.Arnstam,3 Comm,Schachvarlden 1941
1.e7 Re3 (1…Ba4 2.dxc7 Rc3 3.Nc6! Bxc6
4.c8=Q) 2.dxc7 Bg4 3.Ne6! Rxe6 4.c8Q Rxe7
5.Qc5 wins
6. G.Van Altena, De Schahwerld 1940
1.Rb8 d2 2.Ba4 Bb3 3.Bxb3 b1Q 4.Bd5+ Kh2
5.Rh8+(5.Rxb1?d1Q+Rxd1=) Kg1 6.Rh1+
Kf2 7.Rxb1
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 11th Delhi International Chess Festival
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 Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth
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Grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran executing the symbolic first move against

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J.C.D.Prabhakar, President lighting the lamp during inauguration

 Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth
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 5th Chennai International
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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on page 27

There are eight pawns on either side and so only pieces must have been captured. White pawns on e2 and
f2 must have captured one piece each to come on to f and g files. Of the missing black pieces on board BBf8
must have been captured on its original square. That leaves BNb8 and BBc8 and the latter must have been
captured only on a white square. But was it captured on f3 or f5?. Black pawns c7 and d7 must have
moved to b6 and c6 capturing WNb1 and WBf1 as WBc1 must have been captured on it original square.
BBc8 must have come out only after WBf1 was captured at c6.This requires the WPe2 to move already to
e4 and so the BBc8 was captured on f5 where it should rightfully stand.

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 Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth
Chess Championships 2012,Chennai….

GM Lalith Babu, Commonwealth Champion, Tiviakov, International Open

Champion, IM S.Shyamsundar (Runner-up), IM S.P.Sethuraman(Third)

Prize winners with dignitaries

World Youth Chess Championship 2012, Maribor, Slovenia…
WYCC Medal Winners at the Chennai Airport

Medallists Arvind Chdambaram Vr, Girish Kaushik, L.N.Ram Arvind, R.Vaishali,

M.Mahalakshmi and G.K.Monnisha are seen with IM T.S.Ravi and Sai Meera Ravi
and head of the delegate B.Murugavel, Vice President, TNSCA
Inset: Riya Sawant (Goa) U-12 Bronze Medal Winner

Indian contingent at Slovenia