AICF CHRONICLE

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Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017,New Delhi

WGM Swathi Ghate GM Abhijeet Gupta

Women Champion Open Champion

10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open 31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess
Tournament 2017 Championship 2017,Jalandhar

GM Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vietnam) Jyothsna Raja Rithvik

Winner Girls Champion Open Champion
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Index….
Commonwealth Chess Championship,New Delhi
Abhijeet completes a hat-trick of titles 1
10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Intl. Open 2017
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa emerges Champion
by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 5
31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship
2017,Jalandhar
Raja Rithvik Jyothsna emerge Champions
by Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter 9
Nainital Open Fide Rated,Nainital
Nazir Wajih is Champion
by R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter 13
‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior
Rating Chess Tournament
Anshul Nigam bags title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter 15
Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup Fide .Rated Tmnt,Udaipur
Ankit Chudasama emerges Champion
By Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 16
1stFIDE Rated Punjab Championship
Pardeep Arora wins title
by Varun Kumar, Chief Arbiter 18
7th St.Joseph’s International Fide
Rating Tournament, Chennai
Al. Muthaiah wins Title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 22
4thTrichy Open Fide Rated Tmt,Trichy
Hirthickkesh wins title
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA,Chief Arbiter 28
45th WB State Junior Fide Rating Championship,Jalpaiguri
Koustuv Kundu and Shyamashree Sarkar win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 30
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor Cup
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 32
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past
Georgy Agzamov 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
A t t h e W o r l d Te a m C h e s s
Championships at Khanty Mansysik
India gave it all but missed out on
a podium finish. After nine grueling
rounds India finished a creditable
fourth both in the Open and the
Women's section.GM Shyam Sundar
won the Montcada Open in Spain which witnessed
large Indian participation.IM P.Iniyan finished third
in this event and also won a GM norm.
For GM Abhijeet Gupta winning Commonwealth
chess has already become a habit as he stretched
his total Commonwealth titles to five incidentally
completing a hat-trick of titles. WGM Swathi Ghate is
the new Commonwealth Women Champion. Reports
and photographs of these events are featured in the
centre pages of this issue
The two popular GM Opens in the AICF calendar,
10th KIIT International Chess festival held in
Bubaneshwar and the 10th Mumbai Mayor Cup in
Mumbai, were organized successfully.GM Nguyen
Duc Hoa of Vietnam continued from where he left off
at Bubaneshwar GM Open by winning the Mumbai
Mayor’s Cup as well. 31st National Under-13 Open &
Girls Chess Championships held at Jalandhar Raja
Rithvik of Telangana and Jyothsna of Tamilnadu
emerged Champions.Reports on these events along
with those of FIDE rated tournements held during
June 2017.
Selected games from Mumbai Mayor GM Open
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this
issue. GM Georgy Agzamov of Uzbekistan is featured
in the ‘Masters of the past series’
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017,New Delhi
Abhijeet completes a hat-trick of titles
Swathi Ghate bags Women title
G
randmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta came up with an inspired
performance in the final round to crush Aleksander Wohl of Australia and annexed
the gold medal in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017. The Delhi-based
stretched his total Commonwealth titles to four in the last five years and completed a hat-
trick of titles. In 2015, he had won the title in Delhi and had won the 2016 edition at Sri
Lanka. Gupta was in his elements in the final round as Wohl found no defense. Playing white,
it was a queen pawn game by the Indian and Wohl chose an off-beat system that soon spelt
doom. The middle game was one sided as Wohl struggled on all parts of the board and it
took just 24 moves for Gupta to wrap the issues.
“Every championship or tournament is special but somehow I am able to bring out good
chess playing especially the Commonwealth in last few years”, said Gupta after the game.
The four times champion pointed out that he played decently right through. “I was better
in most of the games I won but I was worse against Tejas (Bakre) especially in the penul-
timate round, generally I am satisfied about my play here and hope to take this forward in
the next few events”, he said.
For the records, Vaibhav Suri won the silver while the bronze medal went to Tejas Bakre.
Vaibhav Suri played out a draw with fellow GM Abhijeet Kunte, who finished fourth, while
Bakre played well in a difficult position to beat M S Thej Kumar. The Women’s Championship
was won by Swati Ghate who got rewarded for some excellent play in the early phase of
the event. In the final round Ghate defeated Indian junior champion Kumar Gaurav. The
Silver here went to Mary Ann Gomes while last year’s champion Tania Sachdev had to be
content with the bronze.
Results final round: Abhijeet Gupta (7.5) beat Aleksandar Wohl (6.5); Abhijit Kunte (6.5)
drew with Vaibhav Suri (7); M S Thejkumar (6) lost to Tejas Bakre (7); Erigaisi Arjun (6.5)
drew with P Shyaamnikhil (6.5); Shardul Gagare (6) drew with Ziaur Rahman (6); Swapnil
S. Dhopade (6) drew with Tania Sachdev (6); Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib (6) drew with C R G
Krishna (6); Ankit Rajpara (6) Rishi Sardana (6); Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh (6) drew
with Praveen Thipsay (6); Deepan Chakkravarthy (5.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (6)
Earlier….
Defending champion Abhijeet Gupta came roaring back in contention with back-to-back
victories in the fourth and fifth round of Commonwealth Chess Championship now under-
way here.After a rather easy draw with Nubairshah Sheikh in the third round, Gupta came
up with some outstanding performance on the fourth day that had double rounds. In the
morning, Grandmaster Niaz Murshed did not prove a match for the wily Indian while the
peaceful intentions of GM Ankit Rajpara also received a jolt in the fifth round.
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Grandmasters Swapnil Dhopade and Vaibhav Suri played out a draw on the top board and
31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,Jalandhar
these two were joined by Gupta, Aravindh Chithambaram and Tejas Bakre in the lead on
4.5 points out of a possible five.Chithambaram was in his elements as he halted the dream
run of K Priyanka while Tejas Bakre played a fine game with black pieces to beat fellow
Indian GM Sahaj Grover.

Gupta was up against the Fianchetto variation in the Grunfeld defense and chose a solid
setup giving little away to Rajpara. The opening saw repetition of moves in the early phase
of the game saw Gupta spurning an unconditional draw offer and the defending champion
was in full flow on the queen side to hand Rajpara his first defeat in the event.Chithambar-
am went for the Sicilian Dragon as black and was in top shape while Bakre capitalised on
some middle game errors from Grover to register his fourth victory.

Among the women players, former Asian champion Bhakti Kulkarni and Swati Ghate re-
mained on course for a podium finish with another impressive show after losing fourth
round games. Bhakti proved superior to International Master Rishi Sardana of Australia
while Ghate outwitted higher rated Erigaisi Arjun. Both Kulkarni and Ghate are leading the
women’s section on four points apiece
.
Grandmaster and defending champion Abhijeet Gupta was the top seed in the Common-
wealth Chess Championship which began Leela Ambience and Convention centre, New Delhi.
The tournament was inaugurated by Honourable Sports Minister Shri.Vijay Goel.The cham- (L-R) Sh Muneesh Thaper, Secretary, Jyothsna L (TN), Champion Girls, JS Chemma, Secretary,
pionship had over 550 registered players in various categories spanning from under-8 till JCA,_Bharat S. Chouhan, Secretary, AICF, Divya Deshmukh_(Girls 2nd)
open. There were 16 Grandmasters and 13 International Masters in the fray apart from five
more Woman Grandmasters.

The open section was really strong this time with over 50 titled players out of around 120
participants. The event provided opportunities for the norm seekers from the host country.
The women challenge was spearheaded by defending champion Tania Sachdev but she was
expected to get stiff resistance from the likes of national champion Padmini Rout.Players
from 15 countries including some from South Africa and Kenya registered for the nine-day
long events that would decide the medallists of this year’s championship.
This was the first time ever that the championships was to be played in 15 different catego-
ries. While the Indian players were likely to dominate there was stiff challenge coming from
Bangladesh in the open section wherein they have fielded as many as four Grandmasters.
The championships carried a total prize fund of Rs. 10 Lacs.

Newly elected AICF Secretary Bharat Singh Chuahan organized this championship in Delhi
and every time the event has seen an unprecedented uplift when organised in the national
capital. This is the first time ever in India that the championships was held in a certified
five star deluxe hotel.
(L-R)JS Cheema, Secretary, JCA Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF,_Raja Rithvik R(Telangana),
Champion (Open) Rajinder Sharma_D.Barua, Chief Arbiter
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 1stFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship 2017, Punjab 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2017
GM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam emerges Champion
By M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
10
th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Internation-
al Open Chess Tournament 2017,
organized by Venus Chess Acade-
my attracted 203 players in Category A,
334 players in Category B and 569 players
in Category C. The tournament offering a
total prize amount of Rs.2900000/-(Rupees
Twenty nine Lakhs).GM NguyenDuc Hoa of
Vietnam emerged as clear champion with 8.5
points, and taken home the winner purse of
Rs.300000/-.
Earlier 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Interna-
tional Open Chess Tournament 2017, got
under way at Mount Litera International
(L-R)Rajinder Sharma,Secretary,Punjab State Chess Association,S.Bikramjit Singh Sandhu,
President,Punjab State Chess Association ,Winner Pradeep Arora with trophy,Muneesh Thapar, School, near UTI Building, Bandra- Kurla
Vice President,Punjab State Chess Association,Vinod Sharma,Oragnizer Complex, Bandra(East), Mumbai on 4th
June 2017. The Mayor of Mumbai City Shri.
4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Trichy Vishwanath Mohadishwar inaugurated the
event in the presence of Mr. David Udrythe
head of the institution, the Mount Litera In-
ternational School, AICF treasurer Rabindra
Dongre& the organizing Secretary delivered
the vote of thanks. Fide Vice President Shri.
D V Sundar, AICF CEO Shri. Bharat Singh
Chauhan, Shri.Arun Sha of Ankit Germs, Shri.
Kirat Bhansali were the guests of honour .
Shri.Jayraj Phatak IAS Ex Municipal Corpo-
ration Commissioner Mumbai, distributed the
prizes to the winners. Shri.Kamal Preetsingh
Member of Mount Litera School and Shri.
VGokhale Raghunandan the Dronacharya
awardee were felicitated at the event. Shri.
Dongre the organizing Secretary and also the
Prize Distribution Function (L-R) Natarajan FA, Mr.Palaniappan,IA, Dy.Chief Arbiter,
Iravathama, Sec.Rockfort Chess Academy, Arun & Kannan, Samraats Chess Academy, Mr.RK treasurer of AICF gave the vote of thanks.
Balagunashekaran, Hirthickkesh Pr (winner) Jt.Sec.TNSCA ,Mr.Nallusamy, Chairman, Cauvery The 10th Mumbai Mayor’s cup chess festival
Engg. College, Mr.Dr.Senthilkumar, Vice Chairman, Cauvery Engg.college. Mr. Selvam, President, conducted in three different groups. The
Rock Fort Chess Academy, Mr.Sundarrajan, Trichy Dist.Chess Association. prestigious category ‘A’ tournament with
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203 players having 15 GM, 2 WGM,12 IM
and 6 WIM in its credit, started on 4th July
2017 at Mount Litera International School,
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra east, Mumbai
. Players from 12 Federations participated in
this tournament. The accelerated pairing was
adapted for the first two rounds.GM Amon-
atov Farrukh of Tajikistan was on top by
seeding. Makhramov Bakhzod from Uzbeki-
stan was the only unrated player in this mega
event. Manon Reja Neer from Bangladesh
having the age of 7 years was the youngest
participant in this tournament. Organizer
provided very good playing conditions with
a live coverage of 40 games for all rounds.
The A Category 10 rounds swiss tourna-
ment ended on 11th June in the Mount
Literal International School of Bandra –
Kurla Complex, Bandra Mumbai. The tour-
nament offering a total prize amount of
Rs.1100000/-(Rupees eleven Lakhs). the GM
NguyenDuc Hoa of Vietnam emerged as the
clear champion with 8.5 points,and taken
home the winner purse of Rs.300000/-.The
GM Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistanwho stood
second with 8 points.
The category ‘B’ tournament conducted for
1999 & below rated players,started on 4th
June 2017 with 334 players all over from
India,out of them 293 players are Fide rat-
ed. The 4 days tournament ended on 7th
June. Thiscategory offered a prize fund of
Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine Lakhs). The 20th
seeded B Vinoth Kumar of Pondicherry won
the title with 8.5 points out of the possible
10.He received a cash prize of Rs. 110000/-
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and lifted the winners trophy. Vaibahve Butt 9 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7 50 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6 91 Shubham Lakudkar MAH 5
of Mumbai became the runner up. 10 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7 51 Senthil Maran K TN 6 92 CM Nikhil Magizhnan TN 5
The category ‘C’ tournament for players 11 GM Grover Sahaj DEL 7 52 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 6 93 Parthasarathy R KAR 5
having the Fide ratings 1599 and below at- 12 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 7 53 Priyanka K TN 6 94 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree MAH 5
tracted 569 players all over from India, out of 13 Saravana Krishnan P. TN 7 54 Anisuzzaman Jewel BAN 6 95 Eesha Ajay Sarda MAH 5
them 387 are Fide rated chess players. The 14 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 55 Satkar Chirag MAH 6 96 Jaeel Atharva MAH 5
tournament started on 8th June and finished 15 GM MAbdullah Al Rakib BAN 7 56 WFM Tarini Goyal CHA 6 97 Mohith R TN 5
on 11th June. This category also offered
16 IM Nitin S. TN 7 57 Rohnit G Amin MAH 6 98 Viswanath Sandilya B. AP 5
a prize fund of Rs.900000/- (Rupees Nine
17 FM Rathanvel V S TN 7 58 Bartakke Amardeep S. MAH 6 99 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 5
Lakhs). The 37th seeded Ranjith Kalaiyarasan
18 Saurabh Anand BIH 7 59 FM Md Fahad Rahman BAN 5½ 100 Samant Aditya S MAH 5
of Pondicherry won the title with 9.5 points
out of the possible 10. He received a cash 19 IM Rathnakaran K. KER 7 60 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 5½ 101 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 5
prize of Rs. 145000/- and lifted the winners 20 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. TN 6½ 61 CM Aditya Mittal MAH 5½ 102 WIM Gokhale Anupama MAH 5
trophy. K Bhat Siddharth of Delhi became 21 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 6½ 62 Shrutarshi Ray WB 5½ 103 Deota Snehil S KAR 5
the runner up in five way tie up. He received 22 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 6½ 63 WCM Mrudul Dehankar MAH 5½ 104 Kumar Gaurav BIH 5
the cash prize of Rs. 91000/- 23 IM Das Sayantan WB 6½ 64 Badrinath S. PON 5½ 105 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 5
24 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6½ 65 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 5½ 106 Kanishk S K TN 5
The Mount Litera International School has 25 WFM Jishitha D AP 6½ 66 Pranav Anand KAR 5½ 107 Aan Sikka DEL 5
provided beautiful air conditioned spacious 26 FM Karthik Venkataraman TN 6½ 67 ASharadchandra Dalvi MAH 5½ 108 Phuyal Aashish NEP 5
playing halls. Players enjoyed the playing 27 Arvind Shastry KAR 6½ 68 Pranav Shetty MAH 5½ 109 Aditya P Melani GUJ 5
hall. We should appreciate the School au- 28 IM Raghunandan K.S KAR 6½ 69 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 5½ 110 AGM Krishnater Kushager MAH 4½
thority for their wonderful support and also 29 IM Iniyan P TN 6½ 70 IM Krishna Teja N AP 5½ 111 FM Anand Nadar MAH 4½
to the the school staff who worked with us
30 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6½ 71 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 112 Shetye Siddhali MAH 4½
for the past 8 days.
31 Ajay Karthikeyan TN 6½ 72 Dixit Nikhil MAH 5½ 113 Sreeshwan M TEL 4½
32 Navalgund Niranjan TN 6½ 73 Pranavananda V AP 5½ 114 Polakhare Aryan MAH 4½
A very good team of arbiters along with a
group of dedicated officials made the tour- 33 Moksh Amit Doshi GUJ 6½ 74 Wagh Suyog MAH 5½ 115 Barath Kalyan M TN 4½
naments successful. Finally I must thank Mr. 34 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6½ 75 Meruga Shanmukha USA 5½ 116 Yash Dhoke MAH 4½
Dongre the Director of Venus Chess Academy 35 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti GOA 6½ 76 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 5½ 117 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala AP 4½
, and also AICF for given me the chance to 36 Pradeep Kumar R A TN 6½ 77 Vijay Anand M. TN 5½ 118 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 4½
work as a Chief arbiter for this wonderful 37 Nayak Rajesh ODI 6½ 78 Kamdar Udit GUJ 5½ 119 Srihari L PON 4½
tournament. 38 Jayakumaar S TN 6½ 79 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 5½ 120 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 4½
39 GM Laxman R.R. TN 6½ 80 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5½ 121 Raghav Srivathsav V AP 4½
Final ranking-Category A 40 Yogit S TN 6½ 81 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 5½ 122 Shanmukha Teja P AP 4½
Rk Name Club Pts 41 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 6 82 Harshavardhan G B TN 5½ 123 WFM Lakshmi C TN 4½
1 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 8½ 42 Sekar B TN 6 83 CM Karthik Kumar P TEL 5 124 Kabir Md Sherajul BAN 4½
2 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8 43 Muthaiah Al TN 6 84 Aaryan Varshney DEL 5 125 Kadam Nikhil MAH 4½
3 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 7½ 44 FM Nitish Belurkar GOA 6 85 Chittal Sairaj MAH 5 126 Patil Ketan MAH 4½
4 GM Neelotpal Das WB 7½ 45 Dileep Kumar R TN 6 86 FM Ramakrishna J. AB 5 127 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 4½
5 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½ 46 Raahul V S TN 6 87 CM Lama Himal NEP 5 128 Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 4½
6 IM Karthikeyan P. TN 7½ 47 Sanjeev Kumar MAH 6 88 WFM Salonika Saina ODI 5 129 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 4½
7 GM Babujian Levon ARM 7½ 48 CM Raja Rithvik R TEL 6 89 IM Singh D.P. TN 5 130 AFM Choubey Saurabh MP 4½
8 FM Sai Krishna G V AP 7½ 49 Dahale Atul MAH 6 90 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala AP 5 131 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 4½

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132 Rohit S TN 4½ 6 Sourav Sahoo MAH 8 44 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 6½ 20 Hirani Raj MAH 7½
133 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 4½ 7 Aravind K TN 8 45 Aswin.P.G KER 6½ 21 Meet Puri MAH 7½
134 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 4 8 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade MAH 8 46 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½ 22 Bhagwat Heramb MAH 7½
135 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 4 9 Aravindaswami T TN 8 47 Verma Rahul MAH 6½ 23 Gaikwad Vishal MAH 7½
136 FM Rahman Syed M BAN 4 10 Deshpande Abhishek GUJ 8 48 Sivasubramanian R MAH 6½ 24 Naik Amit MAH 7½
137 Sai Krishna S. AP 4 11 Joshi Abhijeet M MAH 7½ 49 Ravi Kumar K AP 6½ 25 Sangvikar Rahul MAH 7½
138 Mohite Ranveer MAH 4 12 Dilip Das WB 7½ 50 Sudarshan Bhat KAR 6½ 26 Shelke Omkar MAH 7½
139 Saranya Y TN 4 13 Dere Pushkar MAH 7½ 51 Gadekar Sagar MAH 6½ 27 Sugunesh Babu KER 7½
140 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 4 14 Varun Bhatt MAH 7½ 28 Jayesh T A KER 7½
52 Gurumukhani Mohit J GUJ 6½
141 Manush Shah GUJ 4 15 Tajane Ganesh MAH 7½ 29 Akshit Jha DEL 7½
53 Deepak Rai DEL 6½
142 Vishwanath Prasad AP 4 30 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 7½
16 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 7½ 54 Saurav Agarwal DEL 6½
143 Shubham DEL 4 31 Das Jitendra Kumar ODI 7½
17 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7 55 Souhardo Basak WB 6½
144 Singh Neha BIH 4 32 Praveen Kumar G PON 7½
18 Kumthekar Shubham MAH 7 56 Nair Sanjeev MAH 6½
145 Sarvesh Kumar A TN 4 33 Qadri Zakir MAH 7½
146 Akshay Anand PUN 4 19 Pawar Rahul MAH 7 57 Shiek Fayaz AP 6½ 34 Potawad Anirudhha MAH 7½
147 WIM Ranasinghe S D SRI 4 20 Mota Pankit MAH 7 58 Narayan Joshi RAJ 6½ 35 Jagan V TN 7½
148 Nagare Akhilesh MAH 4 21 Niranjan Mocharla AP 7 36 B Chidambaram.C TN 7
59 Mishra Sanjeev MAH 6½
149 Patil Harshal MAH 4 22 Sahil Dhawan HAR 7 37 Basant N MAH 7
60 Batham Avinash MP 6½
150 Malla Nooka Raju AP 4 38 Gupta Sandeep Kumar MAH 7
23 Pranesh M TN 7 Final ranking:Category C
151 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 4 39 Lokendra Rohit MP 7
24 Kadav Omkar MAH 7 Rk Name C lub Pts
152 Harsh Suresh TN 4 40 Arora Honi RAJ 7
25 Gowtham K K TN 7 1 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan PON 9½
153 Mezanur Rahman BAN 4 41 Ulaganathan G TN 7
154 Thrish Karthik TN 4 26 Vignesh Kasi P L TN 7 2 Bhat Siddharth K DEL 8½ 42 Badoni Nitin MAH 7
155 Jain Kashish Manoj MAH 4 27 Cheniram Pegu ASM 7 3 Parekh Vishrut GUJ 8½ 43 Bartakke Aditya MAH 7
156 Karthik Sai Ch AP 4 28 Souradip Deb TRI 7 4 Nandu Amar MAH 8½ 44 Zala Akshar GUJ 7
157 Arvind Ramnath Iyer KAR 4 29 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 7 45 Mahale Tanmay MAH 7
5 Redij Aniket MAH 8½
158 Chandratreya Prachiti MAH 4 30 Sikka Sumit MP 7 46 Gengaje Pratik MAH 7
6 Vishwanath Kannam AP 8½
159 Morvekar Kedar MAH 3½ 47 Shinde Rujul MAH 7
31 Rawal Shailesh GUJ 7 7 Atri Chattopadhyay WB 8
160 Karthik Gopal G AP 3½ 48 Korde Kedar MAH 7
32 Sai Kiran Y AP 7
161 Patil Priyanshu MAH 3½ 8 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 8 49 Malik Rajat UP 7
33 Kochrekar Vishwesh MAH 7
162 Srimathi R TN 3½ 9 Subhash Kumar M TEL 8 50 Deshpande Jatin N MAH 7
34 Dhanush Ragav TN 7
163 Shah Jeet MAH 3½ 10 Phatak Aanjaneya MAH 8 51 Dharia Vishal MAH 7
35 Balaga Ravi Kumar AP 7
164 CM Shahil Dey ASS 3½ 11 Nitish Bhat KAR 8 52 Shenoy Siddharth MAH 7
36 Dinesh Rajan M TN 7
165 Manon Reja Neer BAN 3½ 12 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 7½ 53 Gupta Tanish UP 7
37 Nirgun Keval MAH 7
Final ranking:Category B 13 Joshi Tejas MAH 7½ 54 Shendre Prajapal MAH 7
38 Abijit Mistry WB 7
Rk Name Club Pts 14 Wairagade Khush MAH 7½ 55 Prasath K R TN 7
39 Amarasinghe A A C B SRI 7
1 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 8½ 15 Ananmay Sharma GUJ 7½ 56 Hadkar Sanman MAH 7
40 Dhoot Vinit MAH 6½
2 Vaibhav Bhat MAH 8 16 Kohli Pranav MAH 7½ 57 Shreyas Ghadi MAH 7
41 Shejwalkar Saurabha MAH 6½
3 Chittari Abhishek Varma MAH 8 17 Ved Shubham MAH 7½ 58 Deshmukh Varun MAH 7
42 Srinath K MAH 6½
4 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 8 18 Bhanushali Kunj MAH 7½ 59 Mahajan Akash MAH 7
43 Kadam Om Manish MAH 6½
5 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U AP 8 19 Garv Rai DEL 7½ 60 Shivika Rohilla DEL 7

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 31st National Under-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2017,Jalandhar
Raja Rithvik and Jyothsna emerge Champions
by Debasish Barua,IA,Chief Arbiter
T
he 31st National Under – 13 Open &
Girls Chess Championships were held
at Cambridge International School For
Girls Urban Estate Phase-II, Jalandhar, Pun-
jab from 21st June to 29th June 2017.
The Managers’ meeting for both the events
was held on 21th June 2017 at Cambridge
International School, Jalandhar on 12pm. It
was decided that the latest Swiss rules will
be followed.
The Inaguration function was held at Cam-
bridge International School on 21th June ,
2017. At 01:00 P.M. The Programme was
inaugurated by Sh. Sudarshan Kumar Sec-
retary, Himachal Pradesh Chess Association
by making the customary first move in the
presence of Sh. Rajinder Sharma Secretary,
Punjab State Chess Association, Sh. Muneesh
Thapar Secretary Jalandhar Chess Associ-
ation and Sh. Dr. J.S. Cheema , President
Jalandhar Chess Association.
The number of participants in Open section
was 167 including 136 Fide rated players. The
number of participants in girls section was
110 including 76 Fide rated players. There
were 11 rounds of play in both sections.
. In the final round In the Open section board
The playing venue was excellent with good
and comfortable table and seating arrange-
ments, sufficient lighting, all necessary
amenities like pure drinking water, sufficient
toilets etc.During the playing session, the
Organizers provided refreshments to all
players. There was no major dispute/protest
regarding the conduct of the tournament
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In the 7th round in the Open section Kusha-
gra Mohan (5.5) of Tel defeated Sreeshwan
Maralakshikari (5) of Tel and he became the
sole leader with 6.5 points . Mehta Naitik
(5) of Guj defeated Rathneesh (5) of TN and
second place with 6 points.
In the girls section the Leader WFM Divya
Deshmukh (5.5) of Mah beat Ananya Rishi
Gupta ( 5) of Mah and sole lead with 6.5
points. board no 2 WCM Mrudul Dehankar (5)
of Mah drew with Jyothsna L (5.5) of TN. and
board no 3 Savitha B (5) of TN beat WCM
Dhyana Patal (5) of Guj and Two players in
second place with 6 points.
In the 8th round the leader Kushagra Mohan
(6.5) of Tel defeated Mehta Naitik (6)of Guj
and maintain his lead with 7.5 points. and 4
players in second place with 6.5 points. 1)
CM Rohith Krishna S 2) CM Raja Rithvik R 3)
Arnav Tiwari & 4) Srihari L R
In the girls section board no 1. Bristy Muk-
herjee(5.5) of WB drew with WFM Divya
Deshmukh (6.5)of Mah. And board no 2 WCM
Jyothsna L ( 6 ) of TN beat Savitha B (6 )
join lead with 7 points and WCM Mrudul De-
hankar (5.5) of Mah beat Sahithya G (6) of Tel
and Mrudula with 6.5 points in second spot.
In the 9th Round the leader CM Kushagra
Mohan (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Rohith Kr-
ishna(6.5) of TN and in the second board CM
Raja Rithvik (6.5) of Tel beat Arnav Tiwari
(6.5) of Delhi and in third board Srihari L R
(6.5) of TN drew with Shyam Prasad Reddy
(6) of AP. CM Kushagra Mohan become sole
leader with 8.5 points and CM Raja Rithvik
with 7.5 points in second spot.
In the girls section WFM Divya Deshmukh
(7) drew with Nityata Jain (6) Of MP and
second boars WCM Jyothsna L (7) of TN
beat Abhirami Madabushi (6) of AP and WCM
Jyothsna L of TN sole lead with 8 points and
Divya Desmukh of Mah. with 7.5 points in
second spot
In the 10th Round Board No. 1 CM Raja
Rithvik R (7.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra
Mohan (8.5) of Tel. Board No. 2 Sreeshwan
Maralakshikari (7) of Tel drew with Srihari L
R (7) of TN. Board no 4 Arnav Tiwari (6.5)
of Delhi beat Pranesh M (6.5) of TN.And
board no. 5th Mehta Naitik R (6.5) of Guj
beat Samip Roy (6.5) of WB. Board no 7th
. Samant Aditya beat (6.5) beat Daaewik
Wadhawan (6.5) of Delhi.And board no 8th
Soham Kamotra (6.5) of J & K beat Baner-
jee Ashutosh (6.5) of Chhattisgarh. After 10
Round Two joint Leader CM Raja Rithvik R
(8.5) of Tel defeated CM Kushagra Mohan
(8.5).And Second Spot (7.5) six Players.
In Girls Section Board No. 1 WCM Jyothsna
L (8) of TN beat Ananya Rishi Gupta (6.5)
of Mah and maintain sole lead. WFM Divya
Deshmukh ( 7.5) of Mah beat Routry Priyanka
(6.5) of Odisha. WCM Divya Deshmukhof sec-
ond spot and board no 3. Mrudul Dehankar
(7) of Mah beat Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar
(6.5) of Goa. Mrudul Dehankar of tird Spot.
no. 1) CM Raja Rithvik R ( 8.5) of Tel. draw
with Mehta Naitik R ( 7.5 ) of Guj. Board no.
2) Samant Aditya S ( 7.5 ) of Mah. beat CM
Kushagra Mohan ( 8.5 ) of Tel. board no. 3)
Sreeshwan M (7.5) of Tel. draw with Arnav
Tiwari ( 7.5 )of Del. and board no.4) Srihari
L R ( 7.5 0 of TN beat Soham Kamotra ( 7.5
)of J&K. In open section CM Raja Rithvik R
of Telangana was Champion with 9 points
and in the second position was CM Kushagra
Mohan of Tel. 8.5 pts. with better tie. Third
position Srihari L R of TN 8.5 pts and fourth
position Samant Aditya S of Mah. with 8.5
pts.Girls section board no. 1) WCM Jyothsna
L ( 9) of TN beat Jain Nityata ( 7.5 ) of MP
and WCM Jyothsna L become Champion with
10 pts. Boars no. 2) WFM Divya Deshmukh
( 8.5 ) of Mah. beat Mehendi Sil ( 7.5 ) of
West Bengal and WFM Divya Deshmukh of
Mah. 2nd position with 9.5 pts. Board no. 3)
WCM Mrudul Dehankar ( 8 ) of Mah. defeat-
ed Mishra Riya ( 7.5 ) of UP. WCM Mrudul
Dehankar of Mah. 3rd position.
In the Prize Distribution function Dr. J.S.
Cheema President of JCA presided over the
function in the presence of Chief Guest Mr.
Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary AICF and
other distinguished guests.The organizers,
officials, arbiters and volunteers worked
wholeheartedly and sincerely to make the
tournament successful. The players and
guardians also extended full co-operation
which attributed to the smooth running of the
tournament. In my opinion, both the events
were very successful.
Final ranking:Open
Rk Name St Pts
1 CM Raja Rithvik R Tel 9
2 CM Kushagra Mohan Tel 8½
3 AGM Srihari L R TN 8½
4 Samant Aditya S Mah 8½
5 Arnav Tiwari Del 8
6 Mehta Naitik R Guj 8
7 S Maralakshikari Tel 8
8 Shyam Prasad Reddy K AP 8
9 Aryan Abhijeet Shah Mah 8
10 Saksham Rautela Utt 8
11 Aaryan Varshney Del 7½
12 Soham Kamotra J&K 7½
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13 Arya Bhakta WB 7½ 54 Mhatre Rahat Rahul Mah 6 94 Singh Ojasva MP 5½ 135 Agrim Jain Pun 4½
14 CM Rohith Krishna S TN 7½ 55 Rohnit G Amin Mah 6 95 Mihir Godawat Har 5½ 136 Devansh Ajay Sarda Mah 4½
15 Daaevik Wadhawan Del 7½ 56 Bhavesh Mahajan Pun 6 96 Gupta Tanish UP 5½ 137 Shabd Gupta Pun 4½
16 Samip Roy WB 7½ 57 Rahul K Viswanathan WB 6 97 Aditya Mukherjee Cha 5½ 138 Dhairya Aggarwal Pun 4½
17 Vrandesh Parekh Guj 7½ 58 Srikrishnan P TN 6 98 Patel Suyogkumar M Guj 5½ 139 Herald K A TN 4
18 Soham Saha WB 7½ 59 CM Tanmay Jain Pun 6 99 Patel Maharshi Guj 5 140 Amish Sood HP 4
19 Saypuri Srithan Tel 7½ 60 Bharadia Madhav Raj 6 100 Zala Akshar Guj 5 141 Rishav Sarkar Asm 4
20 AGM Rathneesh R TN 7 61 Mahendra Teja Mekala AP 6 101 Rakshith Srinivasan Kar 5 142 Suvibhu Sharma Pun 4
21 Barde Om Goa 7 62 Aman Sharma Del 6 102 Piyush Kumar Bih 5 143 Shaurya Chopra Chd 4
22 Dhrupad Kashyap Asm 7 63 AFM Bhavik Ahuja Del 6 103 Avathanshu Bhat Mah 5 144 Ronak Mahajan Pun 4
23 Samal Aditya Ranjan Odi 7 64 Shintre Neel Mah 6 104 Goel Pratyaksh Chd 5 145 Tirth Shresth Jha 4
24 Jain Kashish Manoj Mah 7 65 Anadkat Kartavya Guj 6 105 Krishna Bajaj Har 5 146 Nikunj Aggarwal Pun 4
25 Manish Kumar (2006) Odi 7 66 Kale Harshal V Mah 6 106 Adalja Vanssh A Guj 5 147 Archit Sehgal Pun 4
26 Mahitosh Dey Odi 7 67 Vishalraam C S TN 6 107 Rupesh B Ramchandra Bih 5 148 Wadhwa Rehan Pun 4
27 Keshav Kothari Kar 7 68 Konatham Snehil AP 6 108 Aryan Anand Kar 5 149 Kartik Juneja Pun 4
28 Panda Sambit Odi 7 69 Arun Kataria Raj 6 109 Vraj N Shah Guj 5 150 Makul Singal Pun 3½
29 Sanket Chakravarty WB 7 70 Panchal Soham Guj 6 110 Rishabh Singh Asm 5 151 Mukul Rana Pun 3½
30 Esshan Wadhawan Del 7 71 Pasricha Jayan Pun 6 111 Dhineshwar R S Pon 5 152 Shiv Jindal Pun 3½
31 Namitbir Singh Walia Pun 7 72 Avinash Ramesh TN 6 112 Vibhaan Har 5 153 Utkrisht Tuli Pun 3½
32 Jaeel Atharva Mah 7 73 Bhattacharyya Soham WB 6 113 Adalja Samarth Guj 5 154 Rehaan Arora Pun 3½
33 Shah Jeet Mah 7 74 Ashvin Sharma Asm 6 114 Mayukh Abhigyan Das Asm 5 155 Aggarwal Aayush Pun 3½
34 Pranesh M TN 6½ 75 Ayush Sharma MP 5½ 115 Manthan Arora Pun 5 156 Ishaan Narang Chd 3½
35 Hiren K G TN 6½ 76 Chilukuri Sai Varshith Tel 5½ 116 Kushagra Agrawal Har 5 157 Prabhpreet Singh L Pun 3½
36 AIM Pati Spandan Tel 6½ 77 AFM Kaushik G Iyer Kar 5½ 117 Singla Utsav Pun 5 158 Gunjit Singh Pun 3½
37 AIM Kalur Nikhil Tel 6½ 78 Manthan Kashyap D Asm 5½ 118 Shishir Lamba Chd 5 159 Mahajan Samin Pun 3½
38 Sourath Biswas WB 6½ 79 Nikam Sudhanshu Mah 5½ 119 Shirodkar Aayush Goa 5 160 Om Arya Pun 3½
39 Krishna Raaju J TN 6½ 80 Mahek J Hinhoriya Mah 5½ 120 Ayaan Sabharwal Pun 5 161 Zorawar Singh Pun 3
40 Ranadheer B J S K AP 6½ 81 Darsh Kansal MP 5½ 121 Harshit Amarnani UP 4½ 162 Aditya Garg HP 3
41 Karthik Sai Ch Tel 6½ 82 Gupta Anshurup Kar 5½ 122 Dev Raj Bih 4½ 163 Utkarsh Aggarwal Pun 3
42 Samdani Sahil Sagar Guj 6½ 83 Dadwani Sahil MP 5½ 123 Vidit Jain Pun 4½ 164 Neil Nanak Singh Pun 3
43 Abinandhan R TN 6½ 84 Ishan Sanjay Pagi Goa 5½ 124 Sahu Om Aditya Cha 4½ 165 Shreyas Arora Pun 2½
44 Aviral Jaiswal UP 6½ 85 Arora Honi Raj 5½ 125 Aditya Jain Pun 4½ 166 Krishna Jindal Pun 2
45 Panwar Krish Navratan Guj 6½ 86 Tejas Cavale Kar 5½ 126 Sadbhav Rautela Utt 4½ 167 Aabid Sheeraz J&K 1½
46 Vallabh Kavi Mah 6½ 87 Siddhant Nath Jha Har 5½ 127 Anhat Singh Chd 4½ Final ranking:Girls
47 Manish Anto Cristiano TN 6 88 Jai Mehtani Har 5½ 128 Patel Jaymin J Guj 4½ Rk Name St Pts
48 Abhinessh S TN 6 89 Priyansh Sahu Cha 5½ 129 Ayushpreet Singh Pun 4½ 1 WCM Jyothsna L TN 10
49 Ruban Sanjay M TN 6 90 Rishi Sanotra Pun 5½ 130 Durvish Khurana Pun 4½ 2 WFM Divya Deshmukh Mah 9½
50 Debata Sarthak Odi 6 91 Manikya Negi UP 5½ 131 Yugraj Pun 4½ 3 WCM Mrudul Dehankar Mah 9
51 Anirudh Jain Del 6 92 Parikh Pratham Guj 5½ 132 Parmarth Pun 4½ 4 Rindhiya V TN 8
52 Tanmay Chopra Del 6 93 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Ds AP 133 Divyam Puri Pun 4½ 5 Bristy Mukherjee WB 7½
53 Banerjee Ashutosh Cha 6 5½ 134 Singh Dimpalvir Pun 4½ 6 Jain Nityata MP 7½

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7 Mehendi Sil WB 7½ 48 Anahita Verma Pun 6 Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, Nainital
8 Mishra Riya UP 7½ 49 Parikh Urvi Guj 5½
9 Tanvi Vasudev H Goa 7½ 50 Sreenidhi C V Ker 5½
Nazir Wajih is Champion
by R S Tiwari,IA, Chief Arbiter
10 Nayanikaa Muralidharan TN 7½ 51 Manodhya Prakrati MP 5½

T
11 Eesha Ajay Sarda Mah 7½ 52 Velpula Sarayu Tel 5½
he Nainital open fide rated chess tour- below 1400-1599 category. Ravi Mathur of
12 Savitha Shri B TN 7 53 Sinthia Sarkar WB 5½
namen-2017 held at The Zoom Land, UP secured first position , while Joshi J C of
13 Routray Priyanka Odi 7 54 Shivika Rohilla Del 5½
Nainital from 20th to 25th May 2017.A Delhi secured second position in best unrated
14 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal Goa 7 55 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo Guj 5½ total number of 144 players which included category, Chetan Sharma & Hemant Kr Pan-
15 Arushi Kotwal J&K 7 56 Yashika Singh Raj 5½ 100 rated players from across India partici- dey of UTT got first & second position in best
16 Adane Narayani Mah 7 57 Kapadia Hrishita Mah 5½ pated in this nine round event played under UTT male player, Ayushi Kandpal of UTT got
17 Aanya Agarwal Del 7 58 Varshini M AP 5½ FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time control of 90 first prize in best UTT female player, Neeraj
18 Sai Divya M AP 7 59 Paridhi Shrivastava MP 5½ minutes each with increment of 30 second Sah & Mohhamad Wasim got first & second
19 Samyukta Banthia Mah 7 60 Adreeja Sinha Asm 5½ from move 1. Mr. Nasir Wajih of Rly. Delhi in best nainital male players Dinesh Sinha of
20 Swara Hetal Shah Guj 7 61 Yamijala Koulini Jha 5½ with a rating of 2185 started as the top seed UP received prize of veteran category. Best
21 Ananya Rishi Gupta Mah 6½ 62 Nitya Singhania Pun 5½ for this Rs.2,00,000 prize money tourna- School Trophy first position Hold by Presidium
22 Abhirami Madabushi AP 6½ 63 Sharanya Vinayak A Mah 5 ment. Indipuram 2nd Sunbeam Suncity Varanasi,
23 WCM Dhyana Patel Guj 6½ 64 Pranitha S R Kar 5 3rd DPS Varanasi. Also all players get gift
Shri. S N Babul Kar, Adv. General of UTT & hamper from Mohini Tea. There was no pro-
24 Garima Gaurav Bih 6½ 65 Praneeta Tanwar Har 5
Syyed Nadeem “Moon” President of High test & players showed great sportsmanship.
25 Bhagyashree Patil Mah 6½ 66 Swetha Sree Lanka AP 5
Court Bar Association inaugurated the event
26 Sathwika N AP 6½ 67 Nimorika Sekhari Del 5
on 20th June 2017 by making the customary The highlight of the tournament was the se-
27 Divyabharathi M TN 6½ 68 Sivasri S TN 5
first move in presence of Mr R S Tiwari, IA Mr rene environment surrounding the hall on the
28 Navya Tayal Har 6½ 69 Kaushika Kumari Jha 5 D K Joshi Patron NDCA Mr. I D Tewari, Sec. bank of nainital lake nestled in the mountain
29 David Avril R Mah 6½ 70 Arunika Ghosh Tri 5 NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita Patel. peaks of Himalyas. The players were unani-
30 Bhushita Ahuja Del 6½ 71 Yukti Goswami Kar 5 mous in praise of hill station of Nainital & the
31 AIM Vysetty Sahithi Tel 6½ 72 Viswanathan Pavithra TN 5 The tournament saw the surge of famous organization of the tournament under the
32 Shah Jiya Mah 6½ 73 Vanshika Sachdeva Raj 5 player of Railways Mr Nasir Wajih as he re- NDCA & Chess Association of UTT.
33 Juhi Bajaj Har 6½ 74 Yashika Bansal Pun 5 corded eight point from possible nine rounds
34 AIM Sahithya G Tel 6 75 Rabhya Chhabra Pun 5 and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 41,000/- Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA NTL, Guest
35 Cera Dagaria MP 6 76 Mannat Aggarwal Pun 5 along with coveted trophy. While Two play- of Honour Adv Vijay Bhatt, Mrs Shanti Meh-
36 Deepthi Lakshmi K Kar 6 77 Jesica Del 4½ ers with seven and half points tied for the ra,Ex. State Minister, Rajeev Lochan Sah
37 Shreetu Bhavikbhai N Guj 6 78 Anchita Sharma Asm 4½ second spot but better buchholz tie break Journalist, Mr D K Joshi, Patron NDCA, Mr I
score helped Ajay Kr Rai of Delhi finished D tewari sec NDCA, IA Raj Kumar & Kavita
38 Yashasvi Gupta Raj 6 79 AFM Advaita Sharma K Tel 4½
as runner-up while Sudhir Kr Sinha of Bihar Patel jointly distributed prizes among winners
39 Vijayasubhasri S TN 6 80 Kannan Jain Pun 4½
finished third. Himanshu Moudgil of Delhi in a befitting closing ceremony.
40 Charishma Yadav Palla AP 6 81 Tvisha Mangesh Shah Mah 4½
satisfied with fourth. Final ranking
41 Tanisha A R Som Asm 6 82 Tushita Chopra Pun 4½
Rk Name Pts
42 Ishvi Aggarwal Har 6 83 Kapadia Prisha Mah 4½ D S Negi of Delhi secured First position, while 1 Wajih Nassir 8
43 Kaamyaa Negi Del 6 84 Gunjan Kanda Pun 4½ Bhandari Jitendra Singh of Delhi secured 2 Ajay Kumar Rai 7½
44 Shah Kritee Guj 6 85 Aggarwal Anushka Pun 4½ second position, in best below 1600-2000 3 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7½
45 Aditi Mukherjee Cht 6 86 Pearl Pun 4½ category. Sharma Vaibhav of Delhi caught 4 Himanshu Moudgil 7
46 Tiya Setia Pun 6 87 Manmeet Kaur Pun 4½ first position while Singh Ambesh Pratap of
5 Anil Shivpuri 7
47 Shreya Das Bih 6 88 Bhavya Rai Pun 4½ Delhi satisfied with second position, Best

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6 Soni Krishan 7 47 Neeraj Sah 5 ‘Aditya Birla Memorial’17th Jharkhand State Senior Rating Chess Tournament 2017
7 Jatinder Kapoor 6½ 48 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5
8 Rishabh Nishad 6½ 49 Chirag Tayal 5
Anshul Nigam bags title
9 A K Kalshyan 6½ 50 Rakesh Khugsal 5 Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter

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10 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6½ 51 Anshul Bathla 5 th Jharkhand State Senior Fide 4 Nishant Kumar 6½
11 Deepak Rai 6½ 52 Kushagra Sharma 5 Rated Chess Championship 2017 5 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 6½
12 Shami Vipin K. 6½ 53 Kabir Anand 5 held at Sarala Birala School Audi- 7 Kumar Utkarsh 6
13 Garv Rai 6½ 54 Yogesh Sharma 5 torium, Ranchi Jharkhand from 1st to 4th 8 Shubham Srivastava 6
14 Sanjay Sharma 6½ 55 Raghuraman V 5 June 2017 Organized by All Jharkhand 9 Ankit Kumar Singh 6
15 Rawat Abhishek 6½ Chess Association. Total Participant was 115 11 Kumar Sanu 5½
16 Mohammad Zubar 6½ Puzzle of the month including 67 players rated. They have come 12 Basant Khandelwal 5½
17 Katiyar Prashant 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan from different remote districts of Jharkhand.
13 Ashish Kumar Singh 5½
18 Rawat R.S. 6 The tournament was inaugurated by Mrs.
15 Pracheta Agarwal 5½
The retro this month is from one of the Richa Sanchita, Exe. President, AJCA. Mr.
19 Kartikey Verma 6 16 Saikat Dutta 5½
finest books ever written on retroana- S.K. Sinha, Secretary, BDCA, Mr. Himangshu
20 Suryakant Verma 6 17 Aman Choubey 5½
lytical problems’The chess mysteries of B. Chakraborty, Jt. Secretary, AJCA & Mr.
21 Sharma Vaibhav 6 19 Shaswata Paul 5½
Sherlock Holmes’ with lucid narratives Pritam Singh, CEO, AJCA, were also present.
22 Singh Ambesh Pratap 6 20 Prem Kumar 5½
by its author Raymond Smullyan, an
23 Chetan Sharma 6 American The Tournament Hall was air conditioned, 21 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
24 Dinesh Sinha 6 mathematician, a concert pianist, logi- spacious with sufficient toilet facilities. The 22 Ishant Kumar 5
25 Levanshu Khullar 6 cian and philosopher.In the puzzle below Organizers provided breakfast, lunch, & din- 23 Raja Bose 5
26 Negi D.S. 5½ it is black’s turn to move.The question is ner to all participants at very minimum cost. 25 Lokesh Kumar 5
27 Ashfaq Ahmad 5½ whether he can castle or not. Solution 27 Milan Kumar 5
28 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 5½ on page At the end of final round games Anshul Nigam
rating between 1001 and 1200
29 Kunal Kanchan 5½ Raymond Smullyan (7) bagged the Championship title with Cash
Rank Name Pts
30 Sharma Avinash 5½ The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes Rs. 10000/- . Priyanka Kumar (7) & Alka
Das (6.5) secured second & third place and 1 Prem Kumar 5½
31 Sandeep Kumar 5½ 1979
bagged Rs. 8000/- & Rs. 6000/- respectively 2 Sunil Kumar Singh 5
32 Bhavnesh Taneja 5½
with better tie-break. In the Prize Distribution rating between 1201 and 1400
33 Hariom Solanki 5½
ceremony Mr. Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA, Mr. Rank Name Pts
34 Raj Prakhar 5½
Bhor singh Yadav, SDM, Ranchi, Mr. Pradip 1 Shaswata Paul 5½
35 Aditya Vaidya 5½
Kumar Verma, President, AJCA, & Mr. Pritam 2 Ishant Kumar 5
36 Bhandari Jitendra S 5½
Singh, CEO, AJCA were present and distrib-
37 Satvik Sharma 5½ uted the prizes to all prize winners. All Asstt. rating between 1401 and 1600
38 Hemant Kumar Pande 5 Arbiters did their job very well till last round Rank Name Pts
39 WFM Tanishka Kotia 5 games. NA Deepak Kumar and NA Prabhat 1 Aman Choubey 5½
40 Mohan Virwani 5 Ranjan Kumar get FA Norm Certificate from 2 Mukherjee Sanchit 5
41 Biswas M B 5 this tournament.
rating between 1601 and 1800
42 Malik Rajat 5 CATEGORY PRIZE LIST
Rank Name Pts
43 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 5 age group U25
Black to move 1 Kumar Sanu 5½
44 Cyrus Chhikara 5 Can black castle? Rk Name Pts
2 Manideep Mukhi 5
45 Parth Arora 5 1 Anshul Nigam 7
Solution On page 48
46 Ved Prakash 5 2 Priyanka Kumari 7

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 Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur
Ankit Chudasama emerges Champion
Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he Chess in Lakecity club organised its
Summer Cup fide rated tournament
(below 1600 category) at the beautiful
Udaipur city from 13th to 15th June 2017.
More than 475 players from Rajasthan, MP,
Delhi, Punjab, UP, Haryana, Gujarat, Maha-
rashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, AP, Karnataka,
Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka
and West Bengal besides Singapore partic-
ipated in the three days nine round event.
The time format of the tournament was 30
minutes + 30 seconds increment for each
move to each player.
Fifteen year old Dhruv Dak of the host club
Lakecity was the top seeded player of the
tournament with a rating of 1594, followed by
Arun Kumar of Punjab. The second round saw
the tumbling of the top seed at the hands of
Suryavanshi BL and fifth seed Gaha Narayan
of UP was held to a draw by young Deepak
Kataria of Rajasthan. Young players had no
respect for (higher rated) seniors and there
were upset galore in each and every round.
Sixteen players led with four points each at
the end of the fourth round.
The lead was narrowed down to four players
after five rounds – Arun Kumar, Ankit Chu-
dasama of Gujarat, Gaurav Jain of Rajasthan
and Shrivstav Hritik of MP. In the sixth round,
Ankit accounted for Arun and Gaurav beat
Hritik, to share the lead with full 6 points.
Four new players were trailing the leaders by
half point. Ankit defeated Gaurav and was the
only player to register seven wins in a row.
Sheth Shemal Ketan of Gujarat prevailed over
Arun Kumar to move into sole second spot
with 6.5 points. Sixteen players were on the
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third position after the completion of seven
rounds. In the penultimate round, Ankit
Chudasama continued his relentless march
to record one more win to score 8/8. Seven
players - Babel T Divyanshu and Norman
Porwal of Rajasthan, Hritik Shrivatsav and
Eshaan Chandrol of MP, Amar Joyti Kakoti of
Assam, Jitendra Mahale of Maharashtra and
Tarun Kumar Singh of UP were behind him
by one full point.
Chudasama Ankit suffered his first loss in the
tournament at the hands of fifteen year old
Babel. Eshaan, Tarun Kumar and Naman also
scored victories to tie with Ankit and Babel
for the top honours with 8 points each. Tie-
breaks favoured Ankit Chudasama to bag the
title and Babel won the second place. Ankit
received Rs.30000/- and Babel Rs.20000/-.
Sri. Chandra Singh Kotari, Mayor of Udai-
pur City was the chief guest for the final
day function. Sri. Pramod Ji Samar and Sri.
Sanchal Agarwal were the guests of honour.
The tournament was well organised by the
Lakecity Club in an air conditioned hall and
quality food was provided at an affordable
rate.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Chudasama Ankit 8
2 Babel T Divyanshu 8
3 Mahale Jitendra 8
4 Naman Porwal 8
5 Eshaan Chandrol 8
6 Raj Prakhar 7½
7 Bhat Siddharth K 7½
8 Utkarsh Agrawal 7½
9 Dinesh Pathak 7½
10 Shrivastav Hritik 7 51 Arbaz Shekh 6½
11 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7 52 Narayan Joshi 6½
12 Vishal Vala 7 53 Polavaram Harsha 6
13 Tohin Kumar Halder 7 54 Raval Mayur 6
14 Gaurav Jain 7 55 Nilesh Baldaniya 6
15 Kapil Sharma 7 56 Patil Aditi G 6
16 Srivastav Harsh 7 57 Yogesh Sharma 6
17 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 7 58 Walde Harshal 6
18 Badoni Nitin 7 59 Chauhan Narayan 6
19 Pawar Harshit 7 60 Gupte Aradhya 6
20 Bhawesh Pandiyar 7 61 Harsh Singh Senger 6
21 Rohit Parmar 7 62 Rajagopalan 6
22 Singh Tarun Kumar 7 63 Senger Dharmender Singh 6
23 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 7 64 Vivek Kumar Singh Nanhe 6
24 Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary 7 65 Suryavanshi B L 6
25 Suhaib Ahmad 7 66 Monika Sahu 6
26 Vijendra Kumar 7 67 Akshita Jain 6
27 Sheth Shemal Ketan 6½ 68 Sharma Kunal 6
28 Barsaiya Aryan 6½ 69 Sahu M L 6
29 Karthik Sorikh 6½ 70 Shashi Raj Saxena 6
30 Swayam Gupta 6½ 71 Chhabra Kunal 6
31 Arun Kumar 6½ 72 Kanjar Kirtan Ketanbhai 6
32 Udit Gupta 6½ 73 Parth Arora 6
33 Imran Hussain 6½ 74 Sahani Ram Prasad 6
34 Devansh Singh 6½ 75 Dheeraj Nihalani 6
35 Depender Sangwan 6½ 76 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6
36 Bardoliwala Nirmal 6½ 77 Sanghavi Manoj 6
37 Rakesh Bhatti 6½ 78 Yadav Bateshwar Singh 6
38 Maheshwari Prabhav 6½ 79 Srivastav Trisha 6
39 Arun Kataria 6½ 80 Chandwani Prateek 6
40 Sharma Vaibhav 6½ 81 Vraj Kayasth 6
41 Vijay Jhanwar 6½ 82 Gourav Nigam 6
42 Ashok Kumar Shukla 6½ 83 Rajkotia Shyam P 6
43 Saurabh Jain 6½ 84 Jani Kushal R 6
44 Gautam Kataria 6½ 85 Varun Gera 6
45 Pandya Anilkumar M 6½ 86 Nimit Jain 6
46 Tekwani Jay Anilbhai 6½ 87 Ujjwal Deep 6
47 Mishra Ashish 6½ 88 Harvinder Singh 6
48 Rishi Kumar Pandey 6½ 89 Aarush Gupta 5½
49 Nitin Kumar Pandey 6½ 90 Abhishek Kumar Mishra 5½
50 Kiaan Agrawal 6½ 91 Gaha Narayan 5½
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 1stFIDE Rated Punjab Chess Championship 2017, Punjab
Pardeep Arora wins title
Varun Kumar, Chief Arbiter
T
he 1rdFIDE Rated Punjab Chess
Championship -2017 was held at the
Cambridge International School, Kot-
kapura Bye Pass Moga (Punjab) from 08th
to 11thJune 2017.
A total number of 161 Players which include
59 rated players from 14 Different Districts
of Punjab participated in this 09 round event
played under FIDE’s Swiss Rules with a time
control of 60 minutes each with increment of
30 second from move 1. Mr.Arvinder Preet
Singh of Ludhianawith a rating of 2108 start-
ed as the top seed for this Championship.With
Rs.23,900 Prize money of the tournament.
Sh. Maheshinder Singh EX- MLA Chief Guest
(inaugurated the event on 08th June 2017 by
making the customary first move in presence
of Advocate RajanAggarwal, Mr.RaviPandit
(EX-Director of Central Co-Operative Bank
Moga) Mr.Vinod Sharma (Distt Secretary-Mo-
ga)& Chief Arbiter FA Varun Kumar.
The tournament saw the surge of Amritsar
Champion Mr.Pardeep Arora as he recorded
eight points from nine rounds and pocketed
a cash prize of Rs. 4,000/- along with cov-
eted trophy.
While AGM Shubham Shukla from Ludhiana
with seven and half points secured the sec-
ond postion. Better Buchholz tie break score
helped Ashwani Kumar Grover FromMoga
finished at Third Position.While Arvinder Preet
Singh from Ludhiana finished with fourth.
They All are selected for 55th National Chal-
lenger 2017 at Gujarat From 13th to 23rd
August, 2017.
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Priyanka From Ludhiana finished as best In
women category, Bhaveshmahajan From Am-
ritsar was best player In U-11 Open, Dhirain
Vij From Jalandhar was best player In U-15
Open, Shubham Bhardwaj From Ferozpur-
was best player In U-19 Open, Tejinder Pal
Singh Gill. From Ferozpur became the Best
Unrated pPlayer in the championship,Utsav
Singla was best player In U-15 Open of Moga
District Prize,AbhaevPratap Singh Sodhi From
Moga was best player In U-19 Open Moga
District Prize
Chief Guest Dr.Harjot Kamal (MLA Moga
Court) Guest of Honor Dr. Iqbal Singh (MD
of Cambridge International School Moga),-
Satwinder Kaur (Principal Cambridge Inter-
national School ),S. Bikramjit Singh Sandhu
(President of Punjab State Chess Association)
Rajinder Sharma (Secretary of Punjab State
Chess Association)Vinod Sharma, FA Varun
Kumar,NA Anuj Shingari jointly distributed
prizes among winners in a befitting closing
ceremony.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Pardeep Arora 8
2 Shubham Shukla 7½
3 Ashwani Kumar Grover 7
4 Singh Arvinder Preet 7
5 Sharma Pankaj 7
6 Love Jindal 7
7 Amanpreet Singh 7
8 Sukhjeet Singh Sivia 7
9 Gill Tejinder Pal Singh 7
10 Singh Tejinder 7
11 Singh Jagpreet 6½
12 Joshi Gagan Deep 6½ 53 Mittal Tanmay 5
13
14
Chetan Bansal
Arjun Veer Singh
6½
6½
54
55
Jindal Panshul
Singh Ayushpreet
5
5
15 Shubham Bhardwaj 6½ 56 Abhishek Bhargav 5
16 Marwaha Surinder 6½ 57 Rachit Kansal 5
17 Love Verma 6½ 58 Divedi Chetan 5
18 Dhirain Vij 6 59 Amit Singh 5
19 Jatinder Singh 6 60 Kirti Kumar 5
20 Pankaj Arora 6 61 Kansal Rajeev 5
21 Ishaan Bansal 6 62 Arun Kumar 5
22 Bhavesh Mahajan 6 63 Singla Manav 5
23 Singla Utsav 6 64 Ravinder Singh 5
24 Yudhveer Singh 6 65 Savi Julka 5
25 Ramandeep Singh Gill 6 66 Kishore Nand 5
26 Singh Himmat 6 67 Singh Sukhdeep 5
27 Bipin Dhingra 6 68 Davinder Singh 5
28 Harshit Dhingra 6 69 Aastha Kapoor 5
29 Adarsh Bhanot 6 70 Goyal Saksham 5
30 Priyanka Vashisht 6 71 Kaur Parminder 5
31 Rajan Dhiman 5½ 72 Datta Vani 5
32 Aditya Jain 5½ 73 Bharat Khanna 5
33 Sharma Radhey Mohan 5½ 74 Laksh Bansal 4½
34 Manthan Arora 5½ 75 Dhaliwal Tanish 4½
35 Shobhit Dhingra 5½ 76 Bir Singh Raminder 4½
36 Ayaan Sabharwal 5½ 77 Akul Goel 4½
37 Raghav Bansal 5½ 78 Divyam Puri 4½
38 Singh Harsimranjeet 5½ 79 Singh Amritpal(1998) 4½
39 Arjun Bhaskar 5½ 80 Abhaev Pratap Singh Sodhi 4½
40 Rishabh Chawla 5½ 81 Gupta Deepit 4½
41 Devang Singla 5½ 82 Gupta Prajwal 4½
42 Kapoor Divye 5½ 83 Neelam Bansal 4½
43 Rohit Kumar 5 84 Arora Nitish 4
44 Tiya Setia 5 85 Paramraj Singh 4
45 Rakesh Gupta 5 86 Paras Narang 4
46 Lohia Rajat 5 87 Talwar Chander Shekhar 4
47 Malika Handa 5 88 Bajaj Rahul 4
48 Samneet Munde 5 89 Singh Rajinder 4
49 Durvish Khurana 5 90 Chehal Nikhil 4
50 Chandan Kapahi 5 91 Harmanpreet Singh Sandhu 4
51 Parmarth 2007 5 92 Mehak Khurana 4
52 Jindal Paarth 5
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 7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai
Al. Muthaiah wins Title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
S
t.Joseph’s College Sponsored 7th St.
Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess
Tournament was organized by Mount
Chess Academy at St. Joseph’s college of En-
gineering, Old Mamallapuram Road, Jeppiaar
Nagar, Chennai- 119, from 24th to 29thJune
2017.
This event had attracted 548 players from 13
states which includes 375 Fide rated players
took part in the 9 rounds Swiss tournament.
The total prize fund was Rs. 2, 00,000/- and
prizes were given to the top fifty players and
five prizes each in the 8 categories. The En-
tire prize money was sponsored by St. Joseph
Group of Institutions, Chennai
This event was inaugurated by Dr.B.Babu
Manoharan, Managing Director, St.Joseph’s
group of educations on 24th June 2017 at
3.00P.M and he welcomed all players for the
7th Annual chess event and assured to host
this International fide rated event every year.
The first round started at 3.30 P.M on 24th
June2017.
At the end of the 5th Round 4 players includ-
ing top seeded Tarunkanth, Muthaiah, Joy
Lazer and Vinothkumar of Pondy were lead-
ing with 5points each. Bunch of 14players
were trailing the leaders with 4.5points each.
At the end of the sixth round Muthaiah and
Joy Lazer defeated overnight leaders Tarun
Kanth and Vinothkumar respectively and
jumped in to lead with 6points each.AGM
Vignesh,Vikramjit Singh and Roshan were
closely following the leaders with 5.5points
each.
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World Team Chess Championships 2017, Khanty Mansiysk,Russia
Indian men and women finish fourth
The Indian men and women missed out on the podium by a whisker as they finished fourth
in both the categories at the World Team Chess Championships.
In the seventh round overnight leaders held The last round went well for both Indian men and women as they scored fine victories over
to draw in a well fought game.Veteran Joy Norway and Azerbaijan respectively.However, the men lost the penultimate round against
Lazer utilized his experience and hold higher Russia by 1.5-2.5 that cost them a medal.
seeded Muthaiah.Vikramjit singh outwitted
young Vinesh and joined the leaders with
6.5points.11players FM Karthik Vekatara-
man, Hemantraam, Ram S Krishnan, Vijay
Sreeram, Vaisnav, Selvamurugan, Vignesh,
Balakannama, Tarunkanth, Alan Divya raj
and Vinodkumar were half point behind the
leaders with 6points each.
In the penultimate round Al.Muthaiah and Joy
Lazer jointly lead with 7.5ponts each. Muthai-
ah showed his skill and defeated well experi-
enced Vikram Jit Singh of Manipur. Joy lazer
outplayed unfancied Vaisnav in one sided
battle. Three players Ram S Krishnan,Karthik
Venkatraman and Hemant Raam on second
spot with 7points each.
In the final and 9th round on the top table
AL.Muthaiah employed Caro-Kann against
top seeded Fide Master Karthik Venkatara-
man and forced opponent to split point in
33moves.On the second board veteran player
Joy Lazer was held to a draw by young He- The crucial match with Russia that changed Indian fortunesd
mant Raam in the Tarrash defence, Queens
gambit in 24moves.On the third board IM The women were quite lucky to win the penultimate round against Vietnam as both D Hari-
norm holder Ram s Krishnan crushed S.Pras- ka and Tania Sachdev fought back from nearly lost positions to save the day for their side.
anna of Tamilnadu in 40moves.Ram S Kr-
ishnan opted centre counter gambit against Though Harika took a rest against Azerbaijan, it did not deter the Indian women from win-
Prasanna and went on to complicate middle ning comprehensively for a fourth place finish. This was a repeat of their performance in
game and checkmated the opponent. the previous edition of the championship held in China in 2015.
Seven players FM Karthik Venkataraman,- China won the championship in the open section with 16 points while Russia finished second
Vikramjit ingh,Hemant Raam, Alan Divya on 15 points. Poland snatched the bronze on 12 points, a point clear of the Indian men.
Raj, BalaKannamma, Anilkumar and Akil The Indian men had also finished fourth in the last Chess Olympiad held in Azerbaijan in
were scored 7.5points each and they finished 2016.
Cont.on p.27 23
The Chinese were clinical in the last round as they scored a 2.5-1.5 victory over Poland,
thanks to a fine victory by Li Chao on the fourth board. The Russians were ferocious as they
handed out a 4-0 defeat to the United States.
For India, Grandmaster B Adhiban yet again shone and scored a fine victory with white
pieces against Johan Soloman while National champion Murali Karthikeyan proved too strong
for Frode Elsness.On the other boards Vidit Gujarathi played out a draw against Aryan Tari
while Krishnan Sasikiran signed peace with Lars Oskar Hauge.In the women's section, the
Russians proved their supremacy over Ukraine defeating their neighbours 3-1.
The Indian women's team: From left to Right - Three times National Champion Padmini
Rout, First WGM of India S. Vijayalakshmi, one of the best women players India has ever
produced D. Harika, opening expert Eesha Karavade, and one of the most famous faces of
Indian chess Tania Sachdev.
The Russian team won gold with 16 points, while the Chinese bagged silver with 13 points.
It was a three-way tie for the third spot with Georgia, India and Ukraine and as the tie
was resolved, the Georgians came out on third spot, thanks to 1.5 game points more than
India. Ukraine finished fifth.
Results after Round 9 open: Norway (2) lost to India (11) 1-3 (Aryan Tari drew with Vidit
Gujarathi; B Adhiban beat Johan Soloman; Frode Elsness lost to Murali Karthikeyan; Krishnan
Sasikiran drew with Lars Oskar Hauge); Ukraine (6) beat Egypt (0) 2.5-1.5; Turkey (10)
lost to Belarus (8); Russia (15) beat USA (8) 4-0; China (16) beat Poland (12) 2.5 -1.5.
Women: Azerbaijan (5) lost to India (12) 1-3 (Gunay Mammadzada beat Tania Sach-
dev; Eesha Karavade beat Gulnar Mammadova; Ulviyya Fataliyeva lost to Padmini Rout;
S Vijayalakshmi beat Khanim Balajayeva); Russia (16) beat Ukraine (12) 3-1; Vietnam
(5) lost to Poland (9); Georgia (12) beat USA (6) 3-1; China (13) beat Egypt (0) 3-1.
Photos:courtesy chessbase india
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Shyam Sundar Wins Title
Maiden GM Norm For Iniyan
By Arvind Aaron
Teenaged and Erode’s only International Mas-
ter P Iniyan started as seed 19 and finished
third and on course completed his maiden
Grand Master norm at Montcada Open held
near Barcelona, Spain on July 3, 2017.
Trained by International Master norm holder K
Visweswaran of Chennai, Iniyan, born 2002,
completed his nine game GM norm in the
Barcelona Region of Spain.
Iniyan faced four GMs, and scored 2.5/4 beat-
ing top seed GM Evgeny Vorobiov of Russia.
and the second seed GM Fernando Peralta of
Argentina. He drew GM Shyam Sundar (Chennai) and lost to GM Burmakin (Rus). Iniyan
gains 27.4 Elo for his 6.5/9. He played at a stunning 2615, his career best result. Iniyan
is sponsored by “Olirum Erodu Foundation” , his school “The Indian Public School Erode”.
In the final round, Iniyan needed a draw for the norm while his opponent needed a win for
his norm. Many Indians thought Iniyan was losing but he managed to pull back and draw
for his maiden norm. He will need two more norms to complete the title requirement. Sig-
nificantly, he became an International Master only this year.
Grand Master M Shyam Sundar of Chennai started as fourth seed and won the event re-
maining undefeated on 7/9. He shared the first place with Russian Grand Master Vladimir
Burmakin. The players drew their mutual encounter. Iniyan was third on tie-break with 6.5
points. Former Indian champion P Konguvel finished ninth, further below on six points.
The event attracted 109 players. Hosts, Spain with 42 players had more numbers than the
large number of 30 Indians. However, Indians took two thirds of the podium in this 19-nation
event. This event had 10 Grand Masters, 15 International Masters and 64 titled players.
Untitled B.C.P. Prasad, 21-year old, impressed with 6/9 and played at 2471 Elo, good for
the International Master norm. Prasad gained 30.80 Elo.
Leading Indian rating gainers: Anuj Shrivatri (+116.80), Vardan Nagpal (+101.60), Jijo Joy
(+98.80), Avdhoot Lendhe (+98.40), Sapale Saloni (+83.20), M.L. Abhilash Reddy (+53.60).
Final placings (top 10): 1-2. GM M Shyam Sundar, GM Vladimir Burmakin (Rus) 7/9 each;
3-8. IM P Iniyan, IM Asis Gargatagli (Esp), GM Evgeny Vorobiov (Rus), IM Miguel Santos
(Esp), GM Cristobal Henriquez (Chi), IM Kevel Olivia (Cub) 6.5 each; 9-10. IM P Konguvel,
FM Dmitriy Volkov (USA) and others 6 each.
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Wesley So Beats Anand for Leon title fourth to tenth respectively on tie break. 28 Selvamurugan B 6½
Wesley So, formerly of the Philippines beat many time champion Viswanathan Anand by Shri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee, Weight lifter 29 Gowtham K K 6½
3.5-2.5 to win the City of Leon Chess Tournament in northern Spain on July 10. and Dr B.Babu Manoharan, Chairman & Man- 30 Vijay Shreeram P 6½
Wesley So has great amount of respect for Vishy Anand. He has said this openly in the past aging Director, St.Joseph’s Group of Institu- 31 Ayushh Ravikumar 6½
that he has learnt a lot from the five-time World Champion and his games. That's why the tions distributed the prizes to the winners. 32 Vigneshwaran S 6½
youth versus experience battle between So and Anand in the finals of the 30th Leon Masters I thank all my fellow Arbiters for their ded- 33 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½
2017 was looked forward to with great interest by chess fans all over the world. The rapid icated team who helped in organized this 34 Sanjay D G 6½
section of four games ended with a 2-2 tie. However, Wesley managed to win the match by event very well without any dispute. My
35 Eshwanth Dev Kumar J 6½
scoring a win in the blitz. In his first appearance at the Leon Masters, Wesley So goes back sincere thanks to AICF, TNSCA & KDCA and
36 Mohan Ram Sridhar 6½
home with the winner's trophy! V.Ravichandran, Secretary, Mount Chess
37 Abishek A 6½
Wesley So, living in the USA with a huge scholarship won the fifth game and drew the rest Academy for the successful conduct of this
Annual event. 38 Godson Merlin E 6½
for the title. In the all decisive game, So won a crucial
Final ranking 39 Nikhil M 6½
pawn and Anand resigned early by move 23.
Rk Name Pts 40 Aswin Kumar B S 6½
In the earlier rounds, Anand beat 20-year old Spainish
IM Jaime Santos by coming from behind. In the other 1 Muthaiah Al 8 41 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6½
semifinals, So beat Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland. 2 Joy Lazar M.A. 8 42 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½
World No.2 Wesley So (born Oct 9, 1993) won the 3 Ram S. Krishnan 8 43 Subash Mathivanan 6½
event representing the United States. Anand, 47, has 4 Karthik Venkataraman 7½ 44 Badavath Anand 6½
won the Torneo de Magistral most number of times. 5 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½ 45 Singaram P.L. 6½
In 2016, Anand had beaten Chinese prodigy Wei Yi for 6 Hemanth Raam 7½ 46 Thamizharasan J 6½
his ninth title. 7 Alan Diviya Raj 7½ 47 Kabhilan S 6½
8 Bala Kannamma P 7½ 48 Rohit Vassan S 6½
P.R.Venketrama Raja elected as President of All India Chess Federation
9 Anilkumar O.T. 7½ 49 Nandha Visakan 6½
Shri.P.R.Venketrama Raja was unanimously re-elected as President of the All
10 Akil A S J 7½ 50 Anurag Jaiswal 6½
India Chess Federation for the term 2017 - 2020 during the Annual General
Body Meeting held at Chennai on 25.6.2017. 11 Aravindaswami T 7 51 Shvetha V 6½
12 Roshan S 7 52 Ranjith R.K. 6½
The list of other office bearers elected unopposed is given below:
13 Shakthi Vishal J 7 53 Aasha C R 6½
Hon.Secretary Mr.Bharat Singh Chauhan Delhi 54 Subash Sanker D M 6½
14 Vignesh B 7
Treasurer Mr.Kishor M.Bandekar Goa 55 Shyam Kumar M 6½
15 Manu David Suthandram R 7
Vice Presidents Mr.D.V.Sundar Tamilnadu 16 Thamaraiselvi P 7 56 Gugan G 6½
Mr.A.Bhakthavatchalam Pondicherry 17 Kanishk S K 7 57 Akash Lal O 6½
Mr.A.Narasimha Reddy Telangana 18 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 7 58 Kannan.V 6½
Mr.Sekhar Chandra Sahu Orissa 19 Anup Shankar R 7 59 Raj Kamal S 6½
Mr.G.Bhasker Andaman 20 Anandha Venkatesan 7 60 Shaktivel Selvaraj 6½
Mr.Manoj Itkelwar Maharashtra 21 Watson Solomon Nathaniel 7 61 Arun R 6½
Joint Secretaries Mr.R.Hanumantha Karanataka 22 Vinodh Kumar B. 6½ 62 Vignesh N 6
23 Tarun V Kanth 6½ 63 Harsh Suresh 6
Mr.Kapil Saxena Madhya Pradesh
24 Vaisnav M 6½ 64 Bhaskar Teja K V 6
Mr.Atanu Lahiri Bengal
25 Bipin Raj S 6½ 65 Gokulraj K 6
Mr.Th.B.Singh Meghalaya
26 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 6½ 66 Subham Saha 6
Mr.Naresh Sharma Haryana
27 Prasannaa.S 6½ 67 Aravind Matthews A C T 6
Mr.Bhavesh Patel Gujarat
68 Sivakumar C. 6
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 4thTrichy All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Trichy
Hirthickkesh wins title
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter
H
irthickkesh PR of Neyveli, Tamilnadu
became the champion of 4thTrichy All
India Open Fide Rated Chess Tourna-
ment, with 7/8 points on better tie-break.
Mr .PR. Hirthickkesh, 1st Prize, Mr. S.S.
Manikandan, 2nd Prize, Mr. N. Surendran,
3rd Prize, Mr. S.P.K .Arul Anandh, 4t Prize
all form Tamilnadu, were tied for the 1st
Place with 7/8 points but on better tie-break
Hirthickkesh became the Champion of this
Tournament, which was held from 23rd to
26th June 2017 at Cauvery College of Engi-
neering & Technology, Trichy.
The event was inaugurated by Dr.Mrs.
RameswariNallusamy, Founder & Trustee,
Cauvery Engg.College with Mr. Yogit of
Chennai, the top seed of this event, on 23rd
June at 10.00 AM, Mr.N.Nallusamy Chair-
man, Cauvery Engg.College, Ex.Minister,
Governmant of Tamilnadu Presides over the
Inaugural Function. The Guests were Mr. Dr.
N. Senthikumar, Vice Chairman, Dr. N. Arun-
kumar, Secretary, Cauvery Engg.College, Mr.
MV Hariharan, Divisional Manager, Canara
Bank, Mr.N.Kannan, Andavar Water, Trichy,
R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint Secretary TN-
SCA, T.Sundarrajan, Secretary,Trichy District
Chess Association
This event was organized by Rockfort Chess
Academy & Saamrats Chess Academy, Total
401 Players (246 rated players, 155 unrated
players) from 6 States participated in this
event. Mr. S.Yogit of Tamilnadu was the top
seed of this event. The youngest player was
six Year old girl and the oldest was aged
seventy.
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5 Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6½ 46 Preejesh S B 5½
6 Barath Kalyan M 6½ 47 Raghavendra G 5½
7 Kamalanathan R 6½ 48 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5½
8 Sathya Giri V 6½ 49 Punit Easwar S 5½
On 29th evening at 6.30 Pm the Prize Dis- 9 Harshad S 6½ 50 Thoufeeq S 5½
tribution function was held, the Chief Guests 10 Kumar S. 6½ 51 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5½
are Mr.N.Nallusamy Chairman, Cauvery Engg. 11 Dhanasekar K. 6½ 52 R Venkatasubramani 5½
College, Ex.Minister, Governmant of Tamil- 12 Alaguraja M.A. 6 53 Srimozhi S 5½
nadu Mr. Dr. N. Senthikumar, Vice Chair- 13 Shyam Sundar M 6 54 Sangeetha P 5½
man, Cauvery Engg.College, All the above 14 Vaibhav Singh Verma 6 55 Muthu Paramaguru M 5½
Guests distributed 136 Prizes in total, in the 15 Abhijith M 6 56 Kanish Vikraman Adithan B 5½
presence of Mr.T.Sundarrajan, Secretary, 16 Mohith R 6 57 Iniyan Sivakumar 5½
Trichy District Chess Association &Mr.R.K.
17 Rajasekaran P. 6 58 Gopinath P 5½
Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter of this
18 Shanmugasundaram G. 6 59 Balu P 5½
Event and Jt.Sec.,TNSCA, Mr.R.Selvam,
19 Aswin Babu J 6 60 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5½
Presedient, Rockfort Chess Academy, Mr.PL.
Kannan, Jt.Sec., Saamrats Chess Academy. 20 Kiruthika B 6 61 Shreevathsan B S 5½
Mr.M.Iravatham of Rockfort Chess Academy 21 Nirmal L 6 62 Saravanan R 5½
Welcomes the gathering. 22 Vaisalie K 6 63 Aadarsh Sridharan 5½
The total Prize Money of the Event is Rs. 23 Gokul S 6 64 Nikhil K 5½
2,00,000/- , The Organisers also gave ad- 24 Balaji P 6 65 Kharunya C.S. 5½
ditional special prize to all Under-7 Players. 25 Kumaresh A 6 66 Keerthivasan P 5½
26 Govindarajan Suganthi 6 67 Kamarajan B 5½
The Tournament was conducted smoothly 27 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 6 68 Gayathri M 5
without any protest in a well-organized man- 28 Shri Bharath B 6 69 Abhinav Bhatt 5
ner and for this I have to thank the Cauvery 29 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6 70 Chandra Sekharan A P 5
College of Engineering & Technology Manage- 30 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6 71 Ram Kailash Pl 5
ment, AO, PD & all other Staff members for
31 Priya Varshini T 6 72 Sharan Krishnan 5
providing Venue, food at concessional rates
32 Sriram B 6 73 Kumaran Sachidhanandam 5
and good accommodation to players. I must
33 Saravanan A 6 74 Aakash G 5
also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches,
Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters for 34 Ragesh Sarma.M 6 75 Soundariya Lakshmi G 5
their Kind Co-operation to conduct the event 35 Sreenivasan N 6 76 Bargava Narasimhan S 5
successfully. I must thank AICF, TNSCA & 36 Anselm Flavian Paul 6 77 Leaha B 5
TDCA for giving me the chance to work as a 37 Sathyanarayanan S. 5½ 78 Mohana Praba R B 5
Chief Arbiter in this wonderful Chess Tour- 38 Balaguru B 5½ 79 Sivasubramanian S 5
nament. 39 Siva A C 5½ 80 Prawin K 5
Final ranking 40 Suganthan S 5½ 81 Sivaa G M 5
Rk Name Pts 41 Mukhesh C 5½ 82 Adithya A Chullikkad 5
1 Hirthickkesh Pr 7 42 Devaraja G 5½ 83 Subash R 5
2 Manigandan S S 7 43 Nitin M Pai 5½ 84 Balakowshi D S 5
3 Surendran N 7 44 Vinay R Jumani 5½ 85 Aswath S 5
4 Arul Anandh S P K 7 45 Sreejith V S 5½
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 45th WB State Junior(U-19) Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017
Koustuv Kundu and Shyamashree Sarkar win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he 45th State Junior (Boys & Girls)
Fide Rated Chess Championship 2017
organized by Jalpaiguri District Chess
Association under auspices of Bengal Chess
Association, was held at ‘Town Hall Audito-
rium, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, from 24th
to 27th June 2017 with 143 players (119 in
Boys section and 24 in Girls section). In the
inauguration ceremony IM Atanu Lahiri, Sec-
retary, BCA ,Mr. Nantu Paul, Secretary, Dar-
jeeling District Chess Association, Mr. Anand
Rai, Secretary, Jalpaiguri District Chess
Association, Chief Arbiter of the tournament
Mr. Asit Baran Choudhury, I.A. were present.
The tournament was played in 8 round Swiss
league format. DGT chess clocks were pro-
vided to all the chess boards in both Boys
and Girls section. All the Arbiters & volun-
teers performed their duties sincerely and
satisfactorily.
At the end of the final round Koustuv Kundu
(7.5) clinched the Championship title in Boys
Section, Rounak Pathak (6.5) & Pritam Bhat-
tacharya (6.5) placed 2nd & 3rd respectively
on better tie break). In the Girls Section
local girl Shyamashree Sarkar(6) placed 1st
position on better tie break. 1st Runner up
Shinjini Sengupta(6) & Sudipa Halder(5) on
3rd spot
In the Prize distribution ceremony, prizes
were distributed by Swami Shibpremanan-
da, Pride of Northbengal Padmasree Karimul
Haque.The organizers were very active dur-
ing the whole tournament. They provided
food, tea & snacks to all the participant &
guardians at very cheap cost.
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35 Aditya Datta 5 76 Kingsuk Dey Sarkar 3½
36 Saptorshi Gupta 4½ 77 Sagar Das 3½
37 Sougata Singha 4½ 78 Raj Ghosh 3½
38 Arman Siddique 4½ 79 Aranya Lala 3½
39 Anutosh Mukherjee 4½ 80 Snigdharup Bagchi 3½
Final ranking: Boys
40 Rounak Guha Roy 4½ 81 Abhirup Das 3½
Rk Name P ts
41 Debaprabho Gorai 4½ 82 Aditya Pan 3
1 Kaustuv Kundu 7½
42 Soham Roy 4½ 83 Subham Chaudhuri 3
2 Rounak Pathak 6½
43 Agrawal Rishab 4½ 84 Pramit Sarkar 3
3 Pritam Bhattacharya 6½
44 Subhadeep Das Burman 4½ 85 Rounak Malakar 3
4 Utsab Chatterjee 6
45 Mouhurtik Ray 4½ 86 Nabarka Das 3
5 Sambarta Banerjee 6
46 Nairwit Roy 4½ 87 Saptak Chakraborty 3
6 Neelash Saha 6
47 Yudhajit Saha 4½ 88 Kritartha Barman 3
7 Ganguly Ritabroto 6
48 Samyak Dharewa 4½ 89 Samadarshi Pramanik 3
8 Praloy Sahoo 6
49 Shourya Roy 4½ 90 Kingshuk Roy 3
9 Sarbojit Paul 6
50 Srinjoy Sarkar 4 91 Biraj Paul 3
10 Anustoop Biswas 5½
51 Sourjya Mukherjee 4 92 Devraj Chakraborty 3
11 Souhardo Basak 5½
52 Sayan Biswas 4 93 Aritra Roy Prodhan 3
12 Ritwick Pal 5½
53 Diptam Roy 4 94 Nilarnab Barman 3
13 Shrutarshi Ray 5½
54 Jit Modak 4 95 Saraswat Roy 3
14 Sounak De (1) 5½
55 Manish Mandal 4 Final ranking:Girls
15 Soham Dey 5½
56 Arkaprava Das 4 Rk Name Pts
16 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5½
57 Arrya Das 4 1 Shyamashree Sarkar 6
17 Krish Kedia 5½
58 Subhankar Kar 4 2 Shinjini Sengupta 6
18 Hrithik Chatterjee 5½
59 Sugato Chakraborty 4 3 Sudipa Haldar 5
19 Aritra Ganguly 5½
60 Avigyan Ghosh 4 4 Prateeti Gorai 5
20 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 5½
61 Srijit Saha 4 5 Diya Chowdhury 5
21 Bipra Nath 5½
62 Zeeshanur Rahaman 4 6 Anushka Gupta 4
22 Prabuddha Sarkar 5
63 Dhrubajyoti Barman 4 7 Kriti Mundhra 4
23 Dhritabrata Kundu 5
64 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 4 8 Rupkatha Malakar 4
24 Sayantan Das 5
65 Buddhadipta Ghosh 4 9 Srijana Bhowmik 4
25 Rajarshi Mandal 5
66 Priyangshu Karmakar 4 10 Manidipa Roy 3½
26 Tarafder Arghadeep 5
67 Soumya Ranjan Sarkar 4 11 Shaoni Mukherjee 3½
27 Debanjan Ghosh 5
68 Arion Singha 4 12 Trisha Bhattacharyya 3½
28 Saayan Dutta 5
69 Deboushnik De 4 13 Priya Mondal 3½
29 Soumyadip Deb 5
70 Ariya Roy 4 14 Shiny Ghosh 3½
30 Akshit Bose 5
71 Soumyadeep Raha 4 15 Shinjini Biswas 3
31 Sayan Sarkar 5
72 Tanishq Majumder 4 16 Raina Das Gupta 3
32 Anjishnu Mondal 5
73 Sourav Saha 4 17 Shreyashi Mukherjee 3
33 Aahwan Paul 5
74 Soumajit Singha 4 18 Debadrita Dutta 3
34 Subhrajit Saha 5
75 Rajdeep Dutta 3½ 19 Sumedha Das 3
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Selected games from 10th Mumbai
Mayor GM Open
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Hossain,Enamul (Ban) (2464) Ra-
ja,Rithvik R (2155) [B50]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 g6
5.0–0 Bg7 6.Re1 0–0 7.Bf1 Nc6 8.h3
e5 9.a3 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Bb5
Nde7 12.d3 h6 13.Be3 b6 14.b4 cxb4
15.axb4 Bb7 16.Ra2 a6 17.Ba4 Nd5
18.Bc1 b5 19.Bb3 Kh7 20.Rae2 f5
21.Bd2 Rc8 22.c4? [White has allowed
black to develop aggressively. Now he
must try to equalise the position by
solving the problem of his backward c-
and d-pawns. 22.Na3 Nc7 23.Qc2 Qd7
24.Nb1 Rfd8 25.Qa2!? Qxd3 26.Bg5!
e4 (26...hxg5 27.Nxg5+ Kh6 28.Nf7+
Kh7 29.Rd2+-) 27.Bxd8 (27.Rd2 Qxd2
28.Nbxd2 Rd3 29.Be6 Rf8 30.Bf4 exf3
31.Bxc7 Bxc3 32.Qb3 Nd4 33.Bg8+ Rxg8
34.Re7+ Rg7 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Be5+
Kf8 37.Bxd4+-) 27...Qxd8= 28.Rd2
Qe7 29.Kh1=] 22...bxc4 23.Bxc4
Nb6 24.Be6 Rc7 25.Be3 Nd5 26.Qb3
Ncxb4 27.Bd2?
Diagram # [Better was: 27.Bxd5 Nxd5
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28.Bd2 Nf4 29.Bxf4 exf4 30.Nbd2 Qd5
31.Qb6 Qc5 32.Qxc5 Rxc5 33.Re7 Bd5µ]
27...Nxd3 A nasty surprise which takes
advantage of the awkwardly huddled
white forces. 28.Qxd3 e4 29.Qb3 exf3
30.gxf3
Diagram # 30...Qa8?! [This is a Nimzow-
itschian move! Probably, black has been
looking up games by Nimzowitsch who
liked to place his queen on a1 with the
white pieces and attack the centre. Here,
this idea was not necessary. He could
gain an advantage by continuing nor-
mally: 30...Re8 31.h4!? (for 32 h5) 31...
Rxe6 32.Rxe6 Qxh4 33.Rc1 Rd7 34.Rc4
Qh3–+ Black's pieces are all well posted
and bristling with threats. One idea would
be for his Nd5 to vacate that square so
that Bxf3 is possible. White's main draw-
back is his Nb1 which is not contributing to
his defence.] 31.Na3 [White's position is
so bad that it is difficult to suggest a better
move. For example, if: 31.Ba5 Rc5 32.Qa3
Rxa5 33.Qxa5 Nf4 34.Rd2 Re8–+] 31...Rb8
32.Nc4 Bc6 33.Qd3 (white wants to be
in touch with his weak f3 pawn.) 33...Rd8!
34.Ba5 [Perhaps a little better was 34.Bxd5
Bxd5 35.Nb6 Qc6 36.Nxd5 Rxd5 37.Qa3 Rcd7
38.Re6 Qc4–+ Black will welcome entering a
pawn up, rook and bishop endgame.] 34...
Nf4 35.Qc2 Diagram #
35...Ba4!! This vacates the long white diag-
onal for his 'Nimzowitsch' queen to capture on
f3 and mate on g2. 36.Bxc7 [White's position
has become hopeless. If 36.Qxa4 Qxf3 (the
mate on g2 cannot be averted.) 37.Ne3
Nxh3+ 38.Kh2 Be5+] 36...Bxc2 37.Bxf4
Bd3? [Best was the obvious: 37...Qxf3
38.Rxc2 Qxf4 39.Ra2 Bc3 40.Re3 Rd1+
41.Kg2 Bd4 42.Rf3 Qc1!] 38.Re3 Rd4
39.Nb6 Qb7 40.Be5? Bxe5 41.Rxe5
Qxb6 42.Bd5 h5! 43.Re7+ Kh6 44.Bf7
Bc4 This makes absolutely sure that white
does not get to play R1e6. 0–1
Laxman,R.R (2421) Chitlange,Sak-
shi (2096) [E17]
When Sakshi Chitlange won the World
Women's Amateur Championship (open to
players rated Under 2300) in Singapore,
2014, she was automatically made a Wom-
an International Master. Born in 2000, she
was only 14 at that time. Now at 17, she is
half the age of the Tamil Nadu Grandmaster
R.R.Laxman who was himself a child prodigy.
This instructive and impressive game demon-
strates the enormous chess strength of Sakshi
Chitlange. 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 e6 3.Bb2 b6
4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.0–0 0–0 7.c4
d5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.d4 Nbd7 10.Nc3
Re8 11.e3 Ne4 12.Rc1 Ndf6 13.Nd2
Nxc3 14.Rxc3 Bb4 15.Rc2? [15.Rc1 gave
black only a negligible advantage.] 15...Ba6
16.Re1 Bd3 17.Rc1 Ne4! 18.Nxe4 Bxe4
[Better was: 18...dxe4 19.Bc3 Ba3 20.Ra1
Qd6 and black has a promising advantage.]
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19.Re2 Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Bd6 21.Rec2
Qg5 22.Qf3 Re4 Black has the freer posi-
tion. 23.Rxc7?
[Probably, white under-estimated his 17-
year old WIM opponent. Better was 23.b4 a6
24.Rc6 f5 25.a4 Rf8 26.Kh1 making black's
plan of f5-f4 very difficult.] 23...Bxc7
24.Rxc7 Qg6 25.Ba3 f5 26.Qe2 [This
plans to attack the d5 pawn with Qb5. After
26.Rd7 Qe6 27.Rd6 Qf7µ Black not only has a
rook for bishop and pawn but also a very firm
control over the centre.] 26...a6!? [Black
can brilliantly win with: 26...f4! 27.Qb5
Rd8 28.exf4 Rxf4 29.Be7 a6! 30.Qxa6 Re8
31.Bb4 Qg4 32.Qb5 Qf3+ 33.Kh3 Qe4! (This
not only defends her Re8, but also threatens
a deadly, and surprising, mate in two with
34...Rh4+!! 35 gxh4 Qf3#!!) 34.Rc3 Qf5+
35.Kg2 Rxf2+ mates.] 27.Qc2 Re6 [27...
Ree8!³] 28.Bb4 Diagram # [White should
have tried: 28.Rd7!? which would have pre-
sented both sides with attractive ways of
both winning and losing! 28...Rc6 29.Qe2 f4!
30.exf4 (30.Rxd5? Rc2 31.Qf3 fxe3 32.Rd6
Qe8 33.Qd5+ Kh8 34.Re6 Rxf2+ 35.Kh3 Qc8
36.Qe5 Rf6 37.d5 Rh6+ 38.Kg4 Rxh2–+)
30...Rc2 31.Qf3 (31.Qe5? Qe4+ 32.Kh3 Qxe5
33.fxe5 Rxa2 34.Be7 Rxf2 35.Rxd5 Rf3 36.Rd7
(Protecting the b-pawn would allow black to
take the initiative on the queen-side: 36.b4? a5
37.bxa5 bxa5 38.Kg4 Re3 39.Kf4 Re2 40.Rc5
a4µ) 36...Rxb3 37.d5 Re3 38.e6 Re5 (38...b5?
39.Bc5!± Re4 40.e7 Re8 41.d6+-) 39.Ba3
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Re8 40.Bb2 Rg5=) 31...Qe4 32.Rxd5 Qxf3+
33.Kxf3 Rxa2 34.Bd6 Rd8!]
28...Rae8 29.Qd3 Qg4 30.h3 [If 30.Qxa6
f4! 31.exf4 Rh6 32.h4 Rxh4 33.Re7 Qh3+ 34.Kf3
Rxe7 35.Bxe7 Qh1+! 36.Ke2 Qe4+ 37.Kd2
Qxd4+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 39.Kd2 Rh6³ Now, it is
easier than before for black to attack the white
king which has been smoked out of its castled
position.] 30...Qe4+ 31.Qxe4 fxe4 32.Rd7
Rc8 Black prepares to invade the white po-
sition through ...Rc2. 33.Bd6 Rf6 34.Be5
Rf7 35.Rxd5 Rc2 36.Bf4 Rxa2 37.g4
Rb2 38.b4 h6 39.Rd8+ Rf8 40.Rd7 Rf7
41.Rd8+ Kh7 42.Ra8 Rxb4 43.Rxa6
Rb7! The rook belongs behind the passed
pawn is a general endgame rule which should
not be forgotten. 44.d5 [To be considered
here was: 44.f3 exf3+ 45.Kxf3 b5 46.Ra1
Ra4³] 44...Rb5 45.Ra4 Rxd5 46.Rxe4
b5 47.Rb4 Rc5 48.Kf3 Kg6 49.h4 Kf6
50.g5+ hxg5 51.Bxg5+ Ke6 52.Ke4
Diagram # 52...Rd7! [Excellent strategy!
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Black prevents the white king from crossing
over to the queen-side to prevent her b-pawn
from queening. Premature would be: 52...
Rc4+?! 53.Rxc4 bxc4 54.Kd4 Rc7 55.e4 c3
56.h5 c2 57.Bc1 Rc8 58.Kd3 and black will
find it very difficult to win.] 53.Kf3 Kd5
54.Rb2 [If 54.Rd4+ Kc6 55.Re4 Rb7 56.Rb4
Rc2 57.Bf4 Kc5 and black is ready to victori-
ously push her b-pawn without any further hin-
drance.] 54...Kc4 Further play is easy to un-
derstand. 55.Ke2 b4 56.Rc2+ Kb5 57.Rb2
Ka4 58.Ra2+ Kb3 59.Ra8 Kc2 60.Ra2+
Kb1 61.Ra4 b3 62.e4 b2 63.Be3 Rc2+
64.Ke1 Rc6 65.Bd4 Kc2 66.Bxb2 Kxb2
67.Ke2 Kb3 68.Ra5 Rf7 69.Rg5 Rc2+
70.Ke3 Rcxf2 71.Rxg7 Rxg7 72.Kxf2
Rg4! 73.Ke3 Kc4! The h-pawn can wait as it
cannot get away. First, black frustrates white
by not allowing him any play. 74.h5 Rh4 0–1
Karthik,Venkataraman (2317) Pri-
yanka,K (2067) [B01]
1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 dxe4 3.Nxe4 Qd5 4.Nc3
Qa5 5.d4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.Bc4 c6 8.Bd2
e6 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.Nxf6+ gxf6 [10...Qxf6
11.Bc3=] 11.Qe2 This is a well-known pawn
offer in the Centre Counter Defence which
is known in Europe as the Scandinavian
Defence. For the pawn, white gets a lot of
attacking chances. 11...Bxc2 One has to
live dangerously after grabbing the pawn and
lagging behind in development. But the lure
of a pawn is always very tempting! 12.0–0
Be7 13.Rfe1 Bg6
14.Bxe6!?N [This launches the game into
extreme complications. 14.Bc3 has been tried
here earlier in M.Raeber vs H.Hugo in the
Canarias in 2004. White won in 28 violent
moves!] 14...fxe6 15.Qxe6 Qd7?! [The
best defence for black is: 15...Rf8 16.Bb4 Rf7
17.Re3 Na6 18.Bxe7 (18.Ba3 Kf8–+) 18...
Rxe7 19.Qg8+ Kd7 20.Rxe7+ Kxe7 (20...
Qxe7? 21.Qxa8+-) 21.Qg7+ Kd6 22.Qxb7
Nc7 23.Qb4+ Kd7 24.Re1 Rb8µ] 16.Qxf6
Rf8 17.Qg7 Rf7 18.Qg8+ Rf8 So far,
black has done well to survive, putting up a
dogged resistance. White has a slight advan-
tage as he has two pawns for his sacrificed
bishop. However, Black is uncomfortable
as her king is caught in the centre and her
queen-side yet to be developed. 19.Qb3!
Kd8? Diagram # [This immediately loses to a
short brilliant attack. Somewhat better was:
19...Bf7 20.Qc3 Rg8 (20...Bd5 21.Bg5 Rf7
22.Ne5+-) 21.Bg5 Rxg5 22.Nxg5 Bd5
23.Qe3 Kd8 24.Nxh7 Qd6±
White's rook and three pawns are not nec-
essarily superior to black's two bishops but
Black's real problem is her uncastled king and
her non-performing rook on a8.]20.Rxe7!!
Kxe7 [20...Qxe7?? 21.Bg5+-] 21.Bg5+! Kd6
22.Qb4+ Kc7 23.Qxf8 Qe8 [If 23...b6 24.Re1
for 25 Re7 wins.] 24.Qf4+ Kc8 [More stub-
born but still losing was: 24...Kb6 25.Qd6
Na6 26.Ne5+-] 25.Re1! White throws all
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his resources into the attack to clinch the
game effortlessly. 25...Qf7 26.Qd6! In
such a situation, with two extra pawns, a
beginner would tend to exchange off queens
and simplify. But a good player would try to
find the quickest way to execute mate. Now
the threat is 27 Qd8# 26...Nd7
27.Bf4! [The game has a beautiful finish after:
27.Bf4 Nb6 28.Re8+!! Qxe8 29.Qc7#] 1–0
Neelotpal,Das (2438) Singh,Neha
(1922) [E60]
So far, black has played well to hold the
Grandmaster to equality. But now she errs,
though the error is difficult to spot. But the
Grandmaster saw further.
32...e4? [Leading to equality was: 32...Rxa4
33.Rxa4 e4] 33.Rxa8! Rxa8 34.Bxg7
Kxg7 35.Rxa8 Qxa8 36.Bxe4! This
is what Black had not foreseen when
she played32...e4? 36...Qb7 [36...dxe4
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37.Qxd7+-] 37.Qd4+ f6 38.Bd3± Nf8
39.h4 Ne6 40.Qc3 Kf7
41.Be2 [Played with great caution. He could
play on both wings and bring black into a
big crisis]41...Nc7 42.Qa3 Kg7 43.Qa5 Ne6
Black appears to have a solid defensive po-
sition. 44.Bg4 [44.Qb6! Qd7 45.b5 cxb5
46.Bxb5 Qe7 47.c6 Nc7 48.Kf1+-] 44...f5
[44...Nf8? 45.Qb6!+-] 45.Be2 Kf7 46.h5
[After 46.Ba6 Qd7 47.b5 cxb5 48.Bxb5 Qc7
49.Qxc7+ Nxc7 50.Bc6± white will have
some technical problems in converting his
extra pawn to a win.] 46...g5 47.Bd3 Kf6
48.Qa1+ d4 49.Qb2 [Also winning was:
49.exd4 Qxb4 50.Qa8 Qxd4 51.Qh8+ Ke7
52.Qxh7+ Ke8 53.Qg6+ Ke7 54.Bxf5+-]
49...Qd7 50.Bc4 Ng7 51.exd4 Nxh5
52.d5+ Kg6 Diagram #
53.Qe5! In most endgames where queens
figure, it would be advisable to station the
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queen in the centre where its power is at its
most awful. 53...cxd5 54.Qxd5 Qa4 55.Qe6+
White perceives that it would be more prof-
itable to attack the King and its ill-placed
knight, than to push his passed pawns to
victory. 55...Kg7 56.Qe7+ Kh6 57.Qf8+ Ng7
[57...Kg6?? 58.Bf7+ Kf6 59.Bb3+ wins the
queen.] 58.Qf6+ Kh5 59.Be2+ [59.g4+!!
will check-mate in five moves. Check this out
yourself!] 59...g4 60.Qf7+ Kh6 61.Qf6+
Kh5 62.Bc4 Threat 63 Bf7# 1–0
Deviatkin,Andrei (Rus) (2481) Amon-
atov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2635)
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2
0–0 5.c3 d5 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Be2 Re8 8.0–
0 h6 9.Bh4 e5 [M.Bezold 2490 vs O.Cvitan
2570, Makarska, 1997 went: 9...c6 10.Rc1
e5 11.Nb3 exd4 12.cxd4 ...and drawn on the
15th move.] 10.h3 c5 11.Bg3 [The bishop
was pinning the Nf6 and it was best to leave
it on h4 and play: 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.b4 Ncd7
13.c4 dxc4 14.Nxc4=] 11...exd4 12.exd4
Ne4 13.Bf4 Qb6! 14.Rb1 Ndf6 15.dxc5
Nxc5 16.Nd4 Bd7 17.N2f3 [17.Be3 for
a veiled attack on the Qb6 or,; 17.Re1 were
better.] 17...Nfe4 18.Be3
18...Ng3! The start of black's stunning
moves. 19.Re1 Rxe3! A stunning but
risky follow-up! 20.fxe3 Re8 21.Bd3± h5
22.b4 Nce4 23.Qc2 g5 24.Bxe4 Nxe4²
For his rook and knight, black has two bishops
and aggressively posted pieces. To add to
white's woes, he has a backward pawn on e3
which soon becomes a target. 25.Nd2 g4!?
The critical point of the game. Depending on
what white does now, he would either go up
or go down. 26.hxg4?!
[White chooses the wrong way. It was best
to exchange off the dominating black knight
on e4: 26.Nxe4! Rxe4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.Qf2
Qh6 29.g3 Be5 30.Rbd1 Qh3 31.Ne2 Bc6
32.Rf1 f6²] 26...Nxc3!! 27.Qxc3 Rxe3!!
The white position collapses with this second
thunderbolt in a row. 28.Qxe3 [If 28.Rxe3
Bxd4 29.Kh1 Bxc3 30.Rxc3 hxg4 31.Nf1 Bf5
32.Rd1 Be4–+] 28...Bxd4 29.Nf1 hxg4!
The white queen can be captured leisurely,
there is no hurry! 30.a3 Bxe3+ 31.Nxe3
d4! 32.Nc4 Qh6 33.Ne5 [33.Rb3? Be6–+]
33...g3 34.Nf3 [If 34.Nxd7 d3! the key move
in the attack, which closes the escape route of
the white king via e2. 35.Nf6+ Qxf6 36.Rec1
Qd4+ 37.Kh1 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 Qh2+ 39.Kf1
Qh1#] 34...Bc6 35.Rb2
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Diagram # 35...d3! [35...d3 36.Rb3 (36.
Rd1 Qe3+–+; 36.b5 Bxf3 37.gxf3 d2! fol-
lowed by 38...Qh2+ ] 0–1
Mahindrakar,Indrajeet (1977)
Nguyen,Duc Hoa(Vie) (2477)
Indrajeet Mahindrakar, 17, is one of the many
untitled Indian teenagers who are becoming
terrors to visiting grandmasters in Interna-
tional Tournaments in India. Nguyen duc
Hoa, 28, became an IM in 2011 and a
GM in 2014. Currently, he is ranked 4th
in Vietnam. 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5
4.g3 d6 5.exd6 e6 6.Bg2 Bxd6 7.Nf3 0–0
8.0–0 Nc6 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bd7 11.Nf3
[Z.Bogut 2454 vs A.Kovacevic, BIH Ch.,
Vogosca, 2007, went: 11.c4 Nde7 12.Nc3
Be5 13.Be3 Qc8 14.Rc1 Drawn on the 89th
move.] 11...Qc7 12.Nbd2 Ne5 13.Nxe5
Bxe5 14.Qe2 Bc6 15.Re1 Bd6 16.Ne4
Be7 17.c4 Nb6 18.b3 [ P l a y i n g i n t o
black's hands would be: 18.Bf4 e5!]
18...Rae8 When a player makes such a
move, leaving his other rook on f8 with-
out any options, one can guess black's
strategy - he is going to push ....f5, ....
e5. 19.Bb2 e5 20.Rad1 f5 21.Nc3 e4
22.Bc1 [It is understood that the bish-
op plans to get to f4 attacking the black
queen. Instead of this 'undeveloping' move,
he should have tried either 22.Qe3 ; or
22.a3 ] 22...Qe5 23.Qc2 Bb4 24.Bb2
This return of the bishop to b2 is a kind
of morale booster for black. 24...Qe7
25.Qc1 Bc5 26.a3 a5 27.Re2 Rd8
Diagram # 28.Rde1!? [This second with-
drawal of a white piece would would be a
loss of face for White, but he is playing
what is required on the board and is not
looking for public adulation. Most players
would go for 28.Rxd8? Rxd8 29.g4 e3
30.fxe3 Rd3 31.Bxc6 bxc6 32.Qc2 Rxe3
33.Kg2 fxg4µ] 28...h5 [This move is to
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demonstrate his complete control over
(Position after 27…Rd8)
the game and to squash whatever dreams
white may have of busting white's centre
with g3-g4. Maybe he also plans h5-h4 in
some variations? But it does not aid in his
overall plan of crushing white in the cen-
tre. 28...Rd3 was to be considered here.]
29.Na2 White quietly prepares his own in-
genious counter attack which black has no
inkling off! 29...Rd3?! [This is a wee bit
late. He could keep his advantage with dy-
namic play: 29...e3! 30.fxe3 Bxg2 31.Kxg2
Qe4+ 32.Kg1 f4] 30.b4! The start of white's
counter-attack. 30...axb4 31.axb4 Bxb4
32.Nxb4 Qxb4 Diagram #
33.Bxg7!! this guarantees white a draw by
perpetual check. 33...Rf7? [Probably this
bishop offer stunned the Vietnamese and
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turned his world upside down. Till now,
he had probably anticipated an easy and
early victory over Mahindrakar, and a nice
dinner in a cozy restaurant. He could draw
easily by accepting the bishop, but he
wants more! Which grandmaster would
agree to a draw with an untitled teen-
ager! If 33...Kxg7 34.Qg5+ Kf7 (34...
Kh7 35.Qxh5+ Kg7 36.Qg5+ Kh7 is a
quiet draw.) 35.Qxf5+ Ke8 36.Qxh5+ Kd8
37.Bxe4 Bxe4 38.Rxe4 Nd7 39.Re8+ Rxe8
40.Rxe8+ Kc7 41.Qh4 with chances for both
sides.] 34.Be5! This bishop plays a great
role in white's victory. 34...Nxc4 35.Qg5+
Kf8 36.Qh6+ Ke7 37.Bf4² White enjoys
attacking play and plays powerful moves
targetting the king. 37...Kd7 38.Qxh5
Qe7 39.Bh3 Qf6 Unfortunately, black has
to defend his once mighty position with
such moves. 40.Rc2 Nb6 41.Bg5 Qe6
42.Qh8 (This threatens 43 Qd8#) 42...Qe8
Diagram # 43.Qb2! This queen flies from
flank to flank, threatening the black forces
with different threats. 43...Nd5 44.Bf1 Qg8
45.h4 f4? Diagram # [Black gambles, trying
to startle white into errors. But it only
speeds up his end. Better though still losing
would be: 45...Qg7 46.Bxd3 exd3 47.Qxg7
Rxg7 48.Rb2+-] 46.Qe5! Ne7 [If 46...
Re7 47.Bxe7 Rxg3+ 48.fxg3 Qxg3+ 49.Rg2
Qxe1 50.Qd6+ Ke8 51.Rg8+ mates. 51...
Kf7 52.Rf8+ Kg7 53.Qe5+ Kg6 54.h5+ Kh7
55.Qh8#; or if 46...fxg3 47.Bh3+ mates.]
47.Bxd3 exd3 48.Rc3 Qg6 49.Qd4+ Nd5
50.Rxd3 fxg3 51.Qg4+ Kc7 52.Qxg3+!
Kc8 53.Qg4+ Rd7 [If now 53...Kc7
54.Bd8+ Kxd8 55.Qxg6+-] 54.Ra3 b6
55.Qe6 [Stronger was: 55.h5 Qf7 56.h6
Kb7 57.Rea1+-] 55...Qxe6 56.Rxe6 Kb7
57.Re8 b5 58.Rd8 Exchange everything!
Perhaps this is white's first GM scalp and he
wants to make sure there are no hiccups!
58...Rg7 59.Rd3 Nc7 60.Re3 Rg6 61.Kh2
Kb6 62.f4 Bd5 63.h5 Rc6 64.h6 Rc2+ 65.Kg3
Rg2+ 66.Kh4 Be6 67.Rd6+! Kc5 68.Rdxe6
Nxe6 69.Rxe6 b4 70.Kh3 1–0
Gokhale,Anupama (2047) Mahalaksh-
mi,M (2180) [A47]
Anupama Abhyankar startled the chess world
by winning the male-dominated Maharashtra
Championship in 1988. In 1985 she became
a WIM by winning the inaugural Asian Jun-
ior Girls Championship in Adelaide. She got
the Padmashri and Arjuna Awards in 1987
and 1990. She won the National Women's
Championship five times. She is married to
the famous coach, Raghunandan Gokhale.
On the other hand, M.Mahalakshmi who is
19 now, was not even born when Anupama
was ruling Indian women's chess with all her
glory. Mahalakshmi's best result is winning
the World U–14 Girls Championship in 2012.
Hailing from a very humble background, the
only national title she has won is the National
U-7 Girls in 2005. But in recent years she has
been performing consistently well. 1.d4 Nf6
2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.Bd3 c5
6.c3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Be7 8.h3 0–0 9.0–0
Ne4 [B.McCarthy 2245 vs T.Tolnai 2500, New
York Open, 1993, went: 9...Nc6 10.Nc3 Rc8
11.Bh2 a6 12.e4 d5 13.e5 Nd7 Black won on
move 41.] 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 d5 [To
be considered here were both 11...d6 ; and
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
11...f5 ] 12.Ne5 [Better was: 12.Qb1 h6
13.Rc1 Ba3 14.Rc2 Qe7 15.c4 Ba6 16.Ne5²]
12...Nd7 13.Rc1 Rc8 14.Qe2 Nxe5 15.dxe5?
[Better was: 15.Bxe5! Bd6 16.Bxd6 Qxd6
17.Rc2 Rc7=] 15...Rc7?! [Better 15...Rc5]
16.Qg4 Re8 17.Bb5 Bc6 18.Bd3= It is
equal but with an edge for black. 18...Qa8
The influence of Nimzowitsch still prevails
in our country! 19.h4 Rec8 20.Bh6 Bf8
21.h5 Kh8 22.Bg5 h6 23.Bh4 Bb7! The
c3 pawn falls, but white thinks she can save
it! 24.Qd4?? [Better was: 24.Rfd1] 24...
Rc4!!–+ 25.Bxc4 Rxc4 26.Qd3 Rxh4
27.f4 d4 28.Qe2 d3! 29.Qd2 Rg4 30.Rf2
Be7 The bishop is headed for h4 attacking
the Rf2.31.Qb2 Bxg2[White prepares for the
knock out combination, though she is aware
of the quick win with: 31...Ba3!! 32.Qd2 Bxc1
33.Qxc1 Bxg2] 32.Rxg2 Ba3!! 0–1
Sai,Krishna G V (2339) Deepan,Chak-
kravarthy J (2480) [B42]
One of the many mysteries of the chess world
is why 21–year old FIDE Master G. V.Sai Kr-
ishna of Andhra is still only an FM. After his
winning the National Under-9 and Under–15
championships and his many superb victories
over famous players one expected greater
deeds from this great 'thinker'. In this thrilling
game he defeats the 30–year old Tamil Nadu
GM who has himself come close to winning
the prestigious Indian Championship a few
times, but never did! 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4
cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7
7.0–0 d6 8.f4 Nd7 9.Qe1 Ngf6 10.Nc3
Qc7 11.a4 b6 12.Qg3 [E.Raaste 2328 vs S.
Nyysti 2284, Finland, 2001 went: 12.Bd2 Bb7
13.Qg3 h5 14.Rae1 h4 15.Qf3 g5 16.fxg5 Ne5
17.Qe2 Nfd7 18.h3 Qd8 19.Be3 Bxg5 20.Bd4
white won on the 53rd move.] 12...g6 13.e5
dxe5 14.fxe5 Nh5 [If 14...Qxe5 15.Bf4
Qh5 16.a5! b5 17.Be2 Qf5 18.Bh6! (18.Bf3
Nh5 19.Qe1 Ra7 20.Be3 Rc7 21.Nd4+-) 18...
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Nh5 19.Qe3 Qe5 20.Qxe5 Nxe5 21.Bxh5
gxh5 22.Bg7±] 15.Qf3 0–0±
16.Bh6? [Better was to take the proffered
rook and dare black's minor pieces and
queen! 16.Qxa8 Bb7 17.Qa7 Ra8 18.Qxb7
Qxb7 19.Be4 Qc8 20.Bxa8 Qxa8 21.Be3=]
16...Nxe5 17.Qe2 [17.Qxa8? Bb7³] 17...
Nxd3 18.cxd3 Bd6! 19.g4 Ng7 20.Rac1
Qd8! A deeply thought out strategical move
by black! He threatens ...Qh4 and ....Bb7
to take advantage of white's 'airy' castled
king-side with his two bishops. 21.g5 Bb7
22.Ne4 Be7 23.Nf6+ Bxf6 24.gxf6=
Nf5 25.Bxf8 Qxf8 26.Rc7 Bd5 27.Nd2
Qd6 Threat 28....Ng3!! winning. 28.Rfc1
h5 29.Ne4 Bxe4 [The white knight can be
very troublesome. If 29...Qe5?? 30.Rc8+
Kh7 31.Ng5+ wins the queen.] 30.Qxe4!
Rf8 31.R1c3 a5? [Slightly better was: 31...
Nd4 32.Re7 e5!? 33.Kg2²] 32.Rc8 Rxc8
33.Rxc8+ Kh7 Diagram #
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34.d4!? White plans to deflect the knight
from the defence of f7 so that he can win by
capturing f7 with check. But he might have
overlooked the damage that the deflected
knight can do from d4! 34...Nxd4 35.Qb7
Qf4 36.Qxf7+ Kh6 37.Rc3 Ne2+ 38.Kg2
Qe4+ 39.Kf2 Nf4 40.h4!
Diagram # 40...Qg2+? [Black could win
with Qe2!+, the vital difference between
the two checks being that black is un-
able to grab the h4 pawn with check
after he gives 40...Qg2+? The capture
of the h4 pawn releases the black king
from the white queen's mate threat
on g7 as the king could escape to g5.
Therefore black could win with: 40...
Qe2+! 41.Kg3 Qg4+ 42.Kf2 Qxh4+
4 3 . Ke 3 K g 5 ! a n d b l a c k ' s q u e e n a n d
knight would combine for a victorious
a t t a c k . ] 41.Ke3 Nd5+ 42.Kd4 Qg4+
43.Ke5 Qf5+ [If now 43...Qxh4 44.Qg7+
Kg5 45.f7 Qf4+ 46.Kxe6 Qf5+ 47.Kd6+-]
44.Kd6 (Now the threat of 45 Qg7# calls
for giving up more material.) 44...Qf4+
45.Kxe6 Qf5+ 46.Kd6 Qxf6+ Forced
move. 47.Qxf6 Nxf6 48.Rb3! 1–0
Raghunandan,Kaumandur Srihari
(2410) - Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk)
(2635) [E94]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Karnataka's K.S.Raghunandan (16) is 22.Kg1
among the young crop of ambitious Indian
IMs one sees frequenting most Interna-
tional Opens in the country. The 30–year
old Tajik GM, Farrukh Amonatov is a
strong GM with an attractive, attacking
style of play. 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4
Bg7 4.Nc3 0–0 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 Nbd7
7.0–0 e5 8.Be3 Ng4 9.Bg5 f6 10.Bc1
c6 11.Qc2 Qe7 12.Rd1 exd4 [12...f5
was unsuccessfully tried in Tom Wiley
vs P.Hanko in Bled, 1999: 13.h3 Nh6
14.Bg5 Qe8 15.exf5 gxf5 16.d5 c5
17.Nb5 Qg6 18.Be7 Rf7 19.Nh4! 1–0] Diagram # 22...Bxd4+! 23.Rxd4 Qe3+
13.Nxd4 f5 14.g3 Nc5 15.exf5 gxf5 24.Kh1 Qxd4 We must take stock of the
16.h3= Diagram # position now. Black has an extra pawn but
lags in development though his bishop is
ready to enter the game. However, both
kings lack shelter, the black king having
just one pawn to hide behind while the
white king has none. Black's chances are
better. 25.Rg1+ Kh8 26.b4 Diagram #
[A better plan was: 26.Rg5 Qxf4 27.Rh5
Qf7µ] 26...Qxf4!! 27.bxc5 [After this
capture, five forceful moves force white's
resignation. A slower defeat followed:
27.Bf1 Bf5 28.Qh2 Qf3+ 29.Qg2 Qxc3
30.bxc5 dxc5–+] 27..Qh4+! 28.Kg2
Bh3+! 29.Kf3 Rf8+ 30.Ke3 Qf4+31.Kd3
16...Nxf2?! [16...Ne5 or 16...Nf6 would Bf5+0–1
have kept the balance. But the Tajik-
istan GM wants adventure and excite-
ment!] 17.Kxf2 f4!? After investing a
knight in an attack, black has to go
full throttle or be drowned. 18.Bxf4
Rxf4+! 19.gxf4 Qh4+ 20.Kg1 [With an
extra rook, white has only a very slight
advantage as his king is bereft of cover.
Here instead of passively going back
to g1, he should boldly try to escape
to the queen-side with: 20.Ke3 Bxh3
21.Rg1 Rf8 22.Nf3 Qxf4+ 23.Kf2 Qh2+
24.Ke3 Qf4+=] 20...Qg3+ 21.Kh1 Qxh3+ (Position after 26.b4)
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 Test your endgame
Tactics from master games by C.G.S.Narayanan
by S.Krishnan
Pogosjanc 1964 Bron & Kuznecov 1964

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

Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1962 Kalandadze & Neidze 1963

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

Koroljkov 1964 Perkonoja 1963

5 6 5. 6.
White to play and win White to play and win
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 47 )

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Masters of the past-78 Georgy Agzamov Aditya Birla 17th Jharkand Senior State Chess Tournament
Georgy Tadzhikanovich Agzamov (1954-1986) was the first Uzbeki-
stan Grandmaster (thus, the first Asian grandmaster). He was born
in Almalyk in the province of Tashkent of central Uzbekistan, into
a family of medical doctors on September 6, 1954. In 1966, at the
age of 12, he was the chess champion of his town. In 1971, he took
2nd place in the USSR Junior Championship, held in Riga. In 1973,
he played in his first Uzbekistan championship. He took 1st place in
the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1976 and 1981. In 1982, he
was awarded the International Master title. In 1984, he was awarded
the Grandmaster title.
His highest Elo rating was 2590 on the January 1, 1985 FIDE rating
list. Chessmetrics has him rated #8 in the world in 1984 with a
2728 rating. His best individual performance was Sochi, 1984, with
a performance rating of 2761. He won Belgrade 1982, Vrsac 1983, Sochi 1984 (defeating
Tal and scoring +7=7-0), Tashkent 1984, and Calcutta June 1986 (the strongest chess
tournament ever held in India up to that time – Niaz Murshed took 2nd and Anand took
3rd place).
In 1980, he played in the Championship of the USSR (1 League) in Tashkent. He took
11th-12th place (won by Beliavsky). In 1981, he took 1st place in the semifinal of the
USSR championship, held in Cheliabinsk. He played in the 49th USSR championship at (L-R) Dipak Kumar, Richa Sanchita, Executive-President, Ram Kumar Pahan, MLA RDCA Anshul Nigam,
Frunze in 1981 and tied for 6th-7th place (won by Kasparov and Psakhis). In 1982, he Champion, Pradip Verma, President AJCA
tied for 3rd-5th in the semifinal USSR championship, held in Pavlodar (won by Azmaipar-
ashvili). In 1982, he took 2nd in the 50th USSR Championship (1 League), held in Telavi
(won by Vaganian). He played in the 50th USSR championship at Moscow in 1983 (won Chess in Lakecity Summer Cup FIDE Rated Tournament,Udaipur
by Karpov), and tied for 10th-13th place. In 1984, he took 1st place in the USSR Cham-
pionship (1 League), held in Tashkent. His rating was 2570. He played in the 52nd USSR
championship at Riga in 1985 and tied for 7th-8th place (won by Gavrikov, M Gurevich,
and Chernin). The Agzamov variation in the Alekhine is 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3
Bg4 5.Be2 c6.
At the age of 32, just in the heyday of his glory, Georgy died on August 27, 1986 in a
mountaineering accident in Cremia. Agzamov studied English and literature at the univ-
eristy. A memoriam in Russian appeared in Chess Informant 42.
The Agzamov Memorial took place in March 2007 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It was the first
international tournament to commemorate Georgy Agzamov – the first ever Uzbek, and
arguably the first Asian Grandmaster. Not only was he a very strong player, nicknamed
“the nightmare of top GMs” in the Soviet Union, he also did a lot to promote chess in his
native Uzbekistan and beyond, in such remote locations as Cuba, United Arab Emirates,
India and many other countries where he worked or volunteered as a chess coach and
tournament organizer. Tied for 1st place were GM Leonid Yurtaev, GM Marat Dzhumaev,
and IM Sergey Kayumov.The 2008 Agzamov Memorial had 73 players from 9 countries.
Ties for 1st place were Farrukh Amonatov, Anton Filippov, and Vitaly Tseshkovsky. The
2009 Agzamov Memorial was won by GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky, age 64.
Champion Ankit receives the prize from IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Sri. Pramod Samar and Sri Sanchal
Courtesy:Chess.com Agarwal
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 Nainital Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2017, Nainital Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1.Shimanov,Aleksandr (2642) Stu-
kopin,Andrey (2586) [E10]
Saint Louis USA (6.3), 20.05.2017
White to play. 51.e6+! Kxd6 52.e7! Nxe7
[52...Nxh4+ 53.Kh3 g2 54.Kh2 Wins]
53.Rb4! Nd5 [53...Nd3 54.Rd4++-; 53...Nd1
54.Rd4++-] 54.Rxb2 Nxf4+ 55.Kxg3 Ke5
56.Kf3 Nd5 57.Rg2 Nf6 58.Rg5+ Ke6 59.Ra5
White King gets access to g5 and wins 1–0
2.Shyam,Sundar M (2535) Faizra-
khmanov,Ramil (2439) 39th Nezhmetdi-
nov Mem Kazan RUS (8.7), 07.06.2017
White to play. 21.Qb3+ Kg7 22.Bc5!
23.Ne6++- is simple (More enterprising
is 23.Qf7+ Kh6 24.Qxh7+ Kxg5 25.g3
fxe4 (25...Kg4 26.Kg2 fxe4 27.Qxg6+ Bg5
Vijay Bhatt, Guest of Honour, Chief Guest Sanjeev Arya MLA, Sudhir Kr Sinha (Third place) Mrs.Shanti
Mehra, Ex Cabinet Minister, Ajay Kr Rai (Runner-up) I D Yewari, Secretary NDCA,Rajiv Lochan Sah, 28.h3#; 25...Rh8 26.h4+ Kg4 27.Qxg6+
Champion Nassir Wajih,Wariyal, ED Mohini Tea and others Kf3 28.Qxf5+ Ke2 29.Qg4#) 26.h4+ Kg4
27.Qxg6+ Kf3 28.Qf5+) ] 1–0
7th St.Joseph’s International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Chennai 3.Iljiushenok,Ilia (2489) Andriasian,Za-
ven (2622) [B07]
18th ch-EUR Indiv 2017 Minsk BLR (7.60),
06.06.2017
Whitetoplay56.Qa1! Bxa2 57.Rxc8+ Kxc8
58.Qh8+ Kd7 59.Qg7+ Ke8 [59...Kc8
60.Qf8+ Kd7 61.Qf7+ Kc8 62.Qe8+ Wins]
60.Qf8+ 1–0
4.Das,Say (2396) - Rahman,Zia (2526)
[B06]
10th KIIT Elite Open 2017 Bhubaneswar
IND (6.1), 29.05.2017
Black to play 16...Bh6! 17.Qxh6 [17.Qf2 Qb4–
+] 17...Qxd4+ 18.Kh1 Nxe5! 19.Bxg6?! [19.
Qg5 Nxd3 20.cxd3 Qxa4µ] 19...Nxg6 20.Nc3
Qf2 21.h3 Qxc2 22.Qe3 e5–+ 0–1
5.Jimenez Fraga,P (2432) Lorenzana,W
(L-R) M.Vijayakumar (Chief Arbiter), Ravichandran V,Organizing Secretary,Sri T.Muthu,Arjuna Awardee (2330) [A49]
(Weightlifting) Winner Muthaiah and Dr.B.Babu Manoharan, Managing Director ,St.Joseph’s group & Guillermo Garcia Premier 21.05.2017
Principal, St.Joseph’s College
White to play. 24.Rc8! [24.Rc8 Rxc8 (24...Bxc8
46
25.Qxe8++-) 25.Qxe6+ Kf8 26.Rxc8++-;
Equally good is 24.Qxe6+! Rxe6 25.Bd5
Kf8 (25...Rc6 26.Bxe6+ Kf8 27.Rxc6 bxc6
28.Rxc6 Qb7 29.Rxd6 Ke8 30.Bd5 Qc8
31.Bxa8 Wins; 25...Qe8 26.Rc8) 26.Bxe6
Rc6 27.Rxc6 bxc6 28.Rxc6+-] 1–0
6.Kunin,Vitaly (2551) - Sjugirov,Sanan
(2654) [E12]
18th ch-EUR Indiv (9.35),08.06.2017
White to play. 27.Nf6+! Kf8 [27...gxf6 28.exf6
Red7 29.Qh6 Wins] 28.R3d2 Qa6 [28...Qc4
29.d5 gxf6 a) 29...exd5 30.Rxd5 gxf6 (30...
Rc8 31.Rd8+ Re8 32.Nxe8+-) 31.Qh6+ Kg8
32.Rd8+ Wins; b) 29...Rc5 30.d6 Rb7 (30...
Re8 31.Nxe8 Kxe8 32.d7++-) 31.d7 Rxd7
Wins; 30.Qh6+ Ke8 31.d6+-] 29.d5 1-0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1.Pogosjanc 1964
1.Qf7 Qh8+ 2.Kxh8 a1Q+ 3.Kg8 Qh8+
4.Kxh8 Ng6+ 5.Kg8 Be6 6.Ng5 Bxf7+ 7.Nxf7
mate
2.Bron & Kuznecov 1964
1.Bc3+ Kd6 2.Ra5 Rh2 3.h6 Bc1 4.Bg7 Bxh6
5.Bxh6 Rh5 6.Ra6+ Kd7 7.d6 Rh4 8.Rb6 Ke6
9.Kg8 Rg4+ 10.Kf8 Rd4 11.Bf4 Rxf4 12.Ke8
Rd4 13.d7+ Ke5 14.Rb5+ Ke4 15.Rb4 wins
3.Jindrich Fritz 1962
1.Nd4+ Kf6 2.Nd7+ Ke7 3.Rxa3 Nc7+ 4.Kc5
Rxd4 5.Re3+ Ne6+ 6.Rxe6+ Kxd7 7.Bh3 wins
4.Kalandadze & Neidze 1963
1.c6 Be5 2.gxh7 f2 3.h8Q Bxh8 4.c7 f1Q
5.c8Q+ Kg7 6.Qc3+ Kg6 7.Qc2+ Kg7 8.Qh7+
Kf8 9.Qh6+ Ke7 10.Qg5+ Kf8 11.Qd8+ Kg7
12.f8Q+ Qxf8 13.Qg5 mate
5.Koroljkov 1964
1.Rf5+ Kxg4 2.Rf1 exf1Q+ 3.Bxf1 d5 4.Be2+
Kf5 5.b6 a3 6.Bd3+ Ke6 7.b7 a2 8.b8Q a1Q
9.Qb6+ Ke5 10.Qc7+ Ke6 11.Qe7 mate
6.Perkonoja
1.Rg3+ Kh4 2.Rxa8 Be5+ 3.Kg6 Rg7+ 4.Kf5
Rg5+ 5.Ke4 Bxg3 6.Rh8+ Kxg4 7.h3 mate
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AICF Calendar July 2017 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament
1st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-30
1st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31
National Rapid & Blitz 2017 Kolkata Aug-01 to Aug-04
Western Asian Youth 2017 Aug-01 to Aug-07
Maharashtra State Open 2017 East, Mumbai Aug-02 to Aug-06
10th Modern School FIDE Rated for school, Chennai Aug-03 to Aug-08
3rd Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated open Karur Aug-03 to Aug-06
1st Nithim All India Open FIDE rated Hyderabad Aug-03 to Aug-08
4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated below 1500 Karur Aug-04 to Aug-06
Chess Mine Rapid Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-05 to Aug-06
18th National Cities Team Championship 2017 Raghunathpur Aug-06 to Aug-10
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial All India FIDE Rating Siliguri Aug-06 to Aug-11
Chess Mine Blitz Open 2017 Bangalore Aug-07 to Aug-07
2nd Telangana All India below 1600 Khammam Aug-10 to Aug-15
Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16
Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-15
1st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-15
1st GDCA Open FIDE Rating Rapid open Gulbarga Aug-12 to Aug-13
Maharashtra State Under 15 Open & Girls selection Akola Aug-12 to Aug-16
55th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-23
The Mayor of Mumbai Shri.Vishwanath inaugurating the 10th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup in the
2nd vithabai memorial Maharashtra State Open FIDE Rated tmt Pune Aug-17 to Aug-20 presence of D.V. Sundar ,Vice President FIDE, and Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 16: Given it’s Black to move in the diagram position,
is it legal for that player to castle? To answer this, we try to determine what occurred in the last few
moves. White made the last move and it was Pa3, and just before that Black must have made a cap-
ture, because otherwise White would have no free unit with which to make a further retraction. The
captured piece was one of the knights, since the only other missing white units are the rooks which
couldn’t have escaped from the first rank. This white knight wasn’t captured by any of the pawns
(none of which has a legal diagonal retraction), so it was captured by one of the four black pieces
on the top rank. The a8-rook couldn’t have made this capture, however, because the uncaptured
white knight on a8 would have no possible prior move. Likewise, if it were the c8-bishop which had
captured the knight, then the latter on c8 could only have just come from the empty square d6, but
such a retraction would be impossible because it implies that Black was in check by the knight on d6
while it was White’s turn to play. Therefore only the black king or the h8-rook could have captured (L-R) M Ephrame ( Chief Arbiter), Ravindra Dongre ( organizing Secretary) Jayraj Phatak IAS,
the knight, which had come from d6 (to e8) or g6/f7 (to h8). That proves Black had previously moved Ex Municipal Corporation Commissioner Mumbai (Chief Guest) Gokhale, Raghunandan V
the king or the h8-rook in the game, and now cannot castle. (Dronacharya Awadee)Kamal Preetsingh (Member of Zee learn)
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 Commonwealth Chess Championships 2017, New Delhi

Shri.Vijay Goel, Hon’ble

Minister for Sports, lighting
the lamp. Bharat Singh
Chouhan, Secretary,AICF and
D.V.Sundar, Vice President,
FIDE look on.

The top three finishers:

(L-R) Abhijeet Gupta (Gold),
Vaibhav Suri (Runner-up)
Abhijeet Gupta (Champion)
and Tejas Bakre (Third place)

Swati Ghate (Champion)

flanked by Mary Ann Gomes
(left) Runner-up and Tania
Sachdev (right) Third place