AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 8 Price Rs. 25 March 2017

37th National Team Chess Championship & 15th National Women Team Championship, Bhopal

Indian Railways A team

Men team Winner

Air India
Women team Winner
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37th National Team Chess Championship &
15th National Women Team Champonship, Bhopal
Indian Railways and Air India bag titles
by IA Prof. Rathinam Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 1
8th Arunachal Pradesh State Fide Rating
Chess Ch’ships,Itanagar
Dupit Tachung claims title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 6
Thrissur Chess Academy below 1600 FIDE rating Tmt, Thrissur
Raghul Saro wins at Thrissur
by Peter Joseph, Chief Arbiter 8
5th BRDCA FIDE Rating Rapid Chess Tmt,Bangalore
Shyamsundar wins title
by Murthy Manjunatha, Chief Arbiter 11
1st Chennai District Chess Association
FIDE Rated Rapid tmt 2017
Ram S.Krishnan wins CDCA Rapid
by R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter 14
Late Shree Chandrakant Naik Mem.All Goa Fide Rapid
Rating Tmt,Cuchorem
Ritviz Parab wins title
by Ashesh Keni FA, Chief Arbiter 16
2nd Karur FIDE Rating Below 1600 All India Chess Tmt.,Karur
Paulson Frenchy wins at Karur
by R.K.Balagunasekharan IA, Chief Arbiter 19
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
21
“Insight“ All India Open FIDE Intl. Rating Tmt Paroda,Goa
R.Balasubramanian wins in Goa
by Ashish Keni, Chief Arbiter 22
Selected games from Delhi&Chennai Open
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 29
Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-74 Svetozar Gilgoric 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
India’s pursuit of GM/IM titles
continues unabated! 14-year
old Delhi boy, Aryan Chopra,
completed his final GM norm in
style at the Abu Dhabi Masters
Tournament beating Armenian
GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan in the
final round to become India’s 45th
Grandmaster. At the Aeroflot Open 2017 twelve-
year-old Nihal Sarin completed the requirements
to become India's latest International Master and
the second youngest IM in Indian chess history.
This talented youngster is a former winner in
the under-10 category and silver medallist in the
under-12 category in the world championships.
Many more laurels await this prodigy from Kerala.
In the Women’s World Championship final held at
Teheran Tan Zhongyi from China clinched the title
with a victory over the favourite, Anna Muzychuk in a
dramatic tie-break. Earlier Dronavalli Harika Harika
was unlucky to lose in the semi-finals for a second
time as she lost to Tan Zhingyi 4-5 in an exciting
Amageddon battle.
On the home front, at Bhopal, Indian Railways ‘A’
won the 37th National Team Chess Championship
and Air India annexed the 15th National Women
Team Championship title. Reports, final standings
and photographs on this National event along with
those FIDE rated tournaments organized during
February 2017 are featured in this issue. Selected
games from Delhi GM open and Chennai GM Open
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this
issue. Serbian Grandmaster Svetozar Gilgoric 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.
37th National Team Chess Championship &15th National Women Team Champonship
Indian Railways and Air India bag titles
by IA Prof. Rathinam Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
T
he 37th National team Chess Championship and 15th National Women team Chess Cham-
pionship were prganised by Madhya Pradesh State Chess Association, at Bansal Institute
of Science and Technology, Bhopal, from 2nd to 8th February. Forty four teams in the
Open section and fourteen teams in the women category participated in the event. Nine rounds
were held for the open and seven for the women teams, with a time control of 90 minutes plus
30 seconds increment from move 1. It was a very strong tournament, as all players of the top
four seeded teams in the Open category were either grandmasters or international masters.
In total, there were 7 GMs, 18 IMs and 2 FMs in the Open and 1 IM, 5 WGMs, 3 WIMs and 6
WFMs in the women championship, indicating the growing popularity of the championship.
For the first time in the history of the championship, two teams Airports Authority of India and
Indian Railway A had average ratings above 2500 and two more teams Air India and Indian
Railway B had an average rating of 2458 and 2415 respectively.
The top four teams had overwhelming victories in the first two rounds and in the third round,
Indian Railway B was held to a draw by BSNL team, as Hemal Thanki and Ram S Krishnan de-
feated the IMs K Rathnakaran and CRG Krishna respectively. Air India grounded the top seed
Airport authority of India, with the triple GM norm holder N Srinath stunning the grandmaster
M Shyam Sundar in the fourth round. The fine journey by Air India was brought to a halt by
the A team of Indian Railway in the fifth round by a margin of 0.5 – 3.5. India Railway was
the only team to have scored 10 match points from five rounds.
The Railway team again stamped its superiority with a victory over Airport authority of India
by a stunning 3.5 – 0.5 score. IM Karthikeyan defeated IM Puranik Abhimanyu, GM Deepan
Chakkravarthy accounted for IM GA Stany and several GM norms holder IM Thejkumar out-
played GM Shyam Sundar. The encounter between the two GMs Swapnil Dhopade and SL
Narayanan ended in a draw. A 2 -2 draw between the Viyugam team from Tamil Nadu and
Railway B team was a mild upset, as B Sekar caused a flutter by beating experienced GM RR
Laxman. Karnataka also held higher rated BSNL to a draw in this round.
Indian Railway A was on the right track, when it registered another 3.5 – 0.5 win over LIC in
the seventh round. Air India experienced turbulence, as it was shocked by Viyugam. N Lokesh
and P Saravana Krishnan paved the way for victory to Viyugam by upsetting IM Sathyapragyan
and IM Swayams Mishra respectively and the orhter two players N Surendran and B Sekar split
the points with mighty opponents IM N Srinath and GM Tejas Bakre. After 7 rounds, the Indian
Railway team had collected the full 14 match points and Viyugam was on second position, way
behind with 11 points. Indian Railway A blanked Karnataka 4 – 0 to assure the title, with a
round to spare. While Viyugam defeated Kerala, Railway B team held Air India to a draw.
In the final round, The A team of Indian Railway met with stiff resistance from MP B team,
wherein Aishwin Daniel shocked GM Deepan Chakkravarhti, rated 480 points above him. But,
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the Railway team clinched the title with a perfect score of 18 match points from 9 rounds. 1st Chennai District Chess Association FIDE Rated Rapid tmt, Chennai
Airport Authority of India secured the runner up spot by beating Viyugam, who in turn got
the third position.

In the Women section, the star studded Air India was cruising well, until its flight was hit by
LIC in the third round. In the premium clash between the two experienced veterans, WGM
Swati Ghate of LIC won against IM S Vijayaalakshmi, a former Asian champion. Kiran Manisha
Mohanty of LIC also earned her bonus by beating WIM Michelle Catherina. However, former
world under 18 girls’ champion Aarthie Ramaswamy and WGM Bakti Kulkarni provided com-
pensation to Air India by winning their respective games, to salvage a draw. The result helped
Airport Authority of India to surge ahead with 6 match points. But, Air India overtook AAI, by
beating them in the fourth round with 3 – 1 margin. Vijayalakshmi and her sister Meenakshi
secured full points against Srija Seshadri WIM Parnali S Dharia respectively and Bakti and
Michelle drew with Rucha Pujari and Varshini. Bengal Chess had the honour of splitting the
points equally with LIC.

Air India had a crushing 4 – 0 win over Madhya Pradesh A team to maintain their lead with 9
match points after five rounds. In the crucial encounter between AAI and LIC, the former got
the better of the latter, to trail the leader by one match point. For the inauguration function, (L-R) R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter, K.Ganesan, Secretary CDCA, IM Manuel Aaron,
the dignitaries present were Smt Maya Maheshwari Assistant commissioner, Income Tax de- Arjuna Awardee and Chief Guest, Ram S.Krishnan,Winner, B.Sakthi Prabhakar,IM
partment, Mr Amrit Minj, MD Airport Authority of India, Dr N K Tiwari, Director Bansal Group S.Vijayalakshmi,Guest of Honour and Chitra Prakash
of Institutions, and Dr Sanjay Jain Joint Secretary, Bansal Group of Institution.
Late Shree Chandrakant Naik Memorial 2 All Goa Fide Rapid Rating
Mr Upendra Jain, Director of Sport and Youth Department, MP Government was the chief guest
for the Prize Distribution function.Mr Akashdeep Mathur of Airport Authority of India, Dr N K
Chess Tournament 2017,Cuchorem
Jain, Director Bansal Group of Institutions, and Dr Sanjay Jain, Joint Secretary Bansal Group
of Institutions were the other dignitaries present. Young Bengal Chess team held Air India
to a creditable draw in the final round and AAI subdued Tamil Nadu in the sixth and penulti-
mate round. Both Air India and AAI had easy outings in the final round to finish on par with
10 match points each. As Air India were declared the champions, as they had beaten AAI in
their individual encounter, Bengal Chess finished third ahead of LIC. In toto, Madhya Pradesh
Chess Association, under the leadership of its secretary Mr. Kapil Saxena did a commendable
job. The team of dedicated arbiters also contributed their mite.
37th National Team Chess Championship
Final ranking
Rank Team Gam. + = - MP
1 Indian Railway A 9 9 0 0 18
2 Airport Authority of India 9 7 0 2 14
3 Viyugam CA 9 6 1 2 13
4 Indian Railway B 9 5 3 1 13
5 Air India 9 6 1 2 13
6 LIC 9 6 0 3 12
7 Tamil Nadu - A 9 5 1 3 11 Ritviz Parab receiving the trophy from Smt.Premavati C. Naik , Shri Kishor Bandekar ( GCA
8 SSCB 9 5 1 3 11 Secretary), Shri Ashesh Keni (Chief Arbiter & V.P.GCA) Shri Subhashchandra Naik ( President
9 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 9 4 3 2 11 QTCA), Shri Sanjay Kavlekar ( Secretary QTCA).
Cont.On p.2 3
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Thrissur Chess Academy below 1600 FIDE rating Tournament, Thrissur
Thrissur district collector Dr. A Kousigan. IAS gives away the trophy to the Winner Raghul Saro of
Tamilnadu. Sri. Radhakrishnan K S,Secretary, Thrissur chess academy, Sri. Peter Joseph M, vice
president , Chess Association Thrissur are also seen
“Insight“ All India Open FIDE Intl. Rating Tournament 2017,Paroda,Goa
IM R.Balasubramanian, Winner, receivingthe trophy from the Chief Guest Mr.Vilas Gauns
Desai(Industrialist).,Mr.Prakash Volvotkar(Chairman,Insight),Mr.Ashesh Keni(President STCA),Mr.
Damodar Zambaulikar(Secretary are also seen
4
Cont.from p.2
10
11
Andhra Bank
Rajasthan A
9
9
3
5
5
1
1
3
11
11
12 Tamil Nadu - B 9 5 1 3 11
13 MP TEAM - B 9 5 0 4 10
14 Resha Chess 8 4 2 2 10
15 Punjab State 9 5 0 4 10
16 DASCB, Delhi 9 5 0 4 10
17 Karnataka 9 4 2 3 10
18 Kerala 9 4 2 3 10
19 MP TEAM - A 9 4 1 4 9
20 Anand Chess Club 9 4 1 4 9
21 Bihar State - A 9 3 3 3 9
22 Academy of Chess Education 9 4 1 4 9
23 Reserve Bank of India 9 4 1 4 9
24 Gujarat 9 3 2 4 8
25 Andhra Pradesh -B 9 3 2 4 8
26 Sivakasi Chess Club 9 3 2 4 8
27 SKM Chess Academy Indore 9 2 4 3 8
28 Unite Indore Chess Club 9 3 2 4 8
29 Bihar State - B 9 3 2 4 8
30 Telangana State B 9 2 4 3 8
31 Telangana State A 9 3 2 4 8
32 Academy of Chess Education -B 9 3 2 4 8
33 Urmi School & Hostel A 9 3 1 5 7
34 Virudhunagar DCA 9 2 3 4 7
35 Himachal Pradesh - A 9 2 3 4 7
36 Himachal Pradesh 9 3 1 5 7
37 Ewing Christian, U.P. 9 3 1 5 7
38 Fischer Chess Club 9 3 1 5 7
39 Rajasthan B 9 2 2 5 6
40 Gwalior District A 9 2 2 5 6
41 Gwalior District B 9 2 2 5 6
42 Gwalior District C 9 1 1 7 3
43 Jammu & Kashmir 9 1 0 8 2
44 Uttar Pradesh 5 0 0 5 0
Final ranking
Rank Team Gam. + = - MP
1 Air India 7 5 2 0 12
2 Airport Authority of India 7 6 0 1 12
3 Bengal Chess 7 4 2 1 10
4 LIC 7 4 2 1 10
5 Tamil Nadu 7 4 0 3 8
6 Madhya Pradesh - A 7 4 0 3 8
7 Madhya Pradesh - B 7 3 1 3 7
8 Gujarat Chess 7 3 0 4 6
9 Academy of Chess Education 7 2 2 3 6
10 Himachal Pradesh 7 3 0 4 6
11 Punjab State 7 1 3 3 5
12 Telangana State 7 2 1 4 5
13 Ewing Christian 7 0 2 5 2
14 Gwalior District 7 0 1 6 1
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 8th Arunachal Pradesh State Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017, Itanagar
Dupit Tachung claims title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he 8th Arunachal Pradesh State Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017 organized
by Tapang Chess Academy at held at Siddhartha Hall, Itanagar, Arunachal from
2nd to 6th February 2017 . The Tournament was inaugurated by Chief Guest Shri
Tadar Appa and also present Shri Naipung Konia, President AAPA, Shri Tai Kaku, Org.
Chairman, Shri Tapi shah, Org. Secretary and Shri Tamchi Kache, Secretary, AAPA.
Shri Naipung Konia, President AAPA inaugurated the tournament by make his first move
on the board. A total 69 players (19 Rated players) from 8 districts from remote corner
of the state have taken part in the tournament. The Venue was on the top of the hill and
natural view seen from the hall. The hall was beautiful, spacious, airy and sufficient toilet
facilities.
The tournament was played under swiss system format with 9 rounds. International chess
set was used and digital chess clocks in every board.All the organizer and players were
very supportive and cooperated. This type of fide rated vent is very rare in the Itanagar
as well as Arunachal Pradesh.
At the end of final round games Dupit Tachung clinched the Championship Title & being an
un beaten Arunachal Pradesh State Chess Champion and richer by Rs. 20000/-.whereas
Manjit Taw finished runner-up after he drew with Rejum Ronya in the final round and
was richer by Rs. 15000/-and 3rd place went to Tadam Dupit and richer by Rs. 10000/-.
The tournament went on smoothly throughout all the rounds.There were no disputes/
protests placed before the Appeals’ Committee. All deputy Arbiters were worked hard
during the whole tournament. FA2 Norms given to Shri Taba Anam of Arunachal Pradesh
and Shri Arun Singh M of Assam.
The Organisers provided tea snacks to all participants and who were present in the hall.
In the valedictory ceremony Shri Repo Ronya , Shri Naipung Konia, President AAPA,
Shri Tai Kaku, Org. Chairman, Shri Tapi Shah, Org. Secretary and Shri Tamchi Kache,
Secretary, AAPA were present and distributed the prizes.
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MAIN PRIZE LIST
Rank
Name Rtg Dist. Type Pts
1 Dupit Tachung 1739 Upper Subansiri U19 8
2 Monjit Taw 2108 Papum Pare 7
3 Tadam Dupit 1699 Upper Subansiri U15 7
4 Dupit Tabu 1860 Upper Subansiri 7
5 Hage Lasa Nado 1704 Lower Subansiri 7
6 Rejum Ronya 1667 Upper Subansiri 7
7 Gapur Dupit 1823 Upper Subansiri 6½
8 Kayang Nabam 1393 Papum Pare 6½
9 Dobin Doke 1654 West Siang VET 6
10 Takhe Pai 1504 Lower Subansiri 6
11 Tamchi Kache 1632 Kurung Kumey 6
12 Tamar Nilling 1630 Upper Subansiri 5½
13 Doke Bigam 0 West Siang 5½
14 Tadar Tallum 0 Kurung Kumey 5½
15 Hillang Taju 0 Kurung Kumey 5½
CATEGORY PRIZE LIST
age group U12
Rank Name IRtg Dist. Type Pts
Busen Dupit 0 Upper Subansiri U12 3½
age group U15
1.Katem Perying 0 Lower Subansiri U15 4
2.Mui Takar 0 Lower Subansiri U15 4
age group U19
1.Oniya Nalo 0 Upper Subansiri U19 5
2.Rei Punung 0 Kra Dadi U19 5
best Veteran
Repo Ronya 0 Upper Subansiri VET 6
best female
Nabam Jirnya F 0 Lower Subansiri 5½
Best Unrated
Tapir Mize 0 Siang 6
Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only
one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then
my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.
- Mark Taimanov
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 Thrissur Chess Academy below 1600 FIDE rating Tournament, Thrissur
Raghul Saro wins at Thrissur
by Peter Joseph, Chief Arbiter
T
hrissur chess academy and the Amma
Pervavai jointly organised a below 1600
AMMA Fide Rated Chess tournament
from 4 th to 6th Feb 2017. at VKN Menon
indoor stadium, Thrissur.
It is our privilege to conduct the first chess
tournament in India in the name of Hon'ble
Amma, former Tamilnadu Chief Minister and
great supporter of indian chess. In a colourful
opening ceremony Coimbatore MLA Sri. PRG
Arunkumar inaugurated the tournament and
our under 10 world champion, Master Nihal
Sarin made the customary first move on the
board. Sri. Vincent Kattookaran, President,
Thrissur District sports Council, Sri. Sasidha-
ran.V. Secretary, Chess Association Thrissur
were present at the meeting.
Tournament attracted 401 players from vari-
ous states of the country. Sri. Santhosh from
Kerala was the top seed with 1584 elo rating
points. As usual the tournament witnessed
many upsets and the 25th seed Tamilnadu
boy master Raghul Saro lifted first prize with
a sole 8.5 points. He earned 25000/- ,trophy
and certificate. Sri. Ranjith kaliayarasan,
Devaraja G, and Sharsha Backer were places
2nd,third, fourth respectively.
This is the fourth edition fide rated chess
tournament conducted by Thrissur chess
Academy in this year. We are thankful to
Sri. T J Sureshkumar, Patron, Thrissur chess
academy for his unconditional support in
these events. Sri. Hariharan Sir Secretary,
AICF, and all the officials of All India Chess
federation were very helpful and we express
our sincere gratitude to them. The mem-
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28 S. Jeevanandam 6½ 69 Priyan R S 6
29 Wanjari Rajendra 6½ 70 Harsha R 6
30 Naveen K 6½ 71 Samith Reddy I 6
31 Anissh S K 6½ 72 Sunilkumar P K 6
32 Sreyas Payyappat 6½ 73 Nishad A 6
bers of Chess Association Thrissur worked 33 Satheesh A S 6½ 74 Abhinav Karthik M 6
throughout the tournament and the team
34 Hari K Mohanan 6½ 75 Benny P C 6
work was the secret behind the success. My
35 Ragesh Sarma.M 6½ 76 Anoop K B 6
sincere gratitude to our home members. Our
36 Abel Saju Chazhoor 6½ 77 Dhamodharan R 6
thanks to God Almighty who keeps strong us
37 Livingston Solomon 6½ 78 Ashkar M M 6
to conduct these events successfully.
38 Thulaseedharan K 6½ 79 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6
Final standings: 39 Rishabh Kumara 6½ 80 Aron Rose 6
Rk Name Pts 40 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6½ 81 Sharan Krishnan 5½
1 Raghul Saro S 8½ 41 Bharath Venugopal 6½ 82 Yatharth Jain 5½
2 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 8 42 Jayakumar P K 6½ 83 Denny P K 5½
3 Devaraja G 8 43 Syam Peter 6½ 84 Shrija K M 5½
4 Sharsha Backer 7½ 44 Sathya Naarayanan S 6½ 85 Muralidharan C.R. 5½
45 Shalini J 6½ 86 Alex C Joy 5½
5 Gowrichander U 7½
46 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 6½ 87 Amal Roozi 5½
6 Yogeshwaran S A 7½
47 Manojan Ravi 6½ 88 Samson D Cruz J 5½
7 Andrew Veda Watson Solomon 7½
8 Jojo P John 7½ 48 Dinesh Kumar M Velayutham 6½ 89 Umeshwaran S A 5½
9 Mohana Praba R B 7½ 49 Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar 6 90 Athish Vikram C S 5½
10 Raghuraj V.N. 7 50 John Veny Akkarakarn 6 91 Binu Sebastian 5½
11 Gopichand K 7 51 Arun R 6 92 Benson Baby 5½
12 Kavya. S 7 52 Shibu M P 6 93 Bala Ganeshan 5½
13 Joju K V 7 53 Ranjith Kumar K 6 94 Thomas Valiyaprambil 5½
14 Arputha Jasmine B A 7 54 Vikumar P K 6 95 Arnav Muralidhar 5½
15 Shibin K Benny 7 55 Sudheesh M A 6 96 Antony Simethy 5½
16 Jayadev R Balan 7 56 Nived K K 6 97 Ramakrishnan K K 5½
17 Subramanian T.V. 7 57 Srijan J 6 98 Sanjay Srinivasan R 5½
18 Paulson Frenchy 7 58 Abdul Majeed K M 6 99 Anil Kumar S 5½
59 Vivek P Thomas 6 100 Anoop P 5½
19 Ershad P 7
20 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6½ 60 Soundariya Lakshmi G 6 101 Priyanka Bhatt 5½
61 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 6 102 Sreedharan P 5½
21 Paul Kodaly 6½
22 Imran Hussain 6½ 62 Rakshith Srinivasan 6 103 Dinakaran Vijayan 5½
23 Prabeesh K 6½ 63 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 6 104 Benny Thomas 5½
24 Eldho Skaria 6½ 64 Krishnadev S Nair 6 105 Shanoj T Syed Alavi 5½
25 Sudheer K B 6½ 65 Nithyan S 6 106 Madhu P P 5½
26 Aadarsh Sridharan 6½ 66 Neha Srinibash D 6 107 Jalal M O 5½
27 Pankaj Bhat 6½ 67 Saghey sajeevan 6 108 Ramesh R 5½
68 Bharathi Raja R 6 109 Naik Sayuri 5½
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110 Barath K N 5½ 151 Libin P Rajan 5
5th BRDCA FIDE Rating Rapid Chess Tournament,Bangalore
111 Anand M S 5½ 152 Abdul Samad Erumali 5
112 Surya A C 5½ 153 Arul Prakash N 5 Shyamsundar wins title
113 Raju M V 5½ 154 Prejeesh S B 5 by Murthy Manjunatha, Chief Arbiter

5
114 Kutty T P C 5½ 155 Rajeeb Mk 5
115 Konatham Snehil 5½ 156 Mohana Parvathala 5 th BRDCA FIDE rating rapid chess tour- presidentUKCA,Chidananda A Sec BRDCA
116 Tejaswi R 5½ 157 Athi Nandan B 5 nament was held at I V Sanctum hotel distributed prizes to winners.
117 Yuvraj P Madhav 5½ 158 Mohanan A K 5
Gandhi Nagar Bangalore on 18th and
19th Feb 2017.The 2 day tournament at- Final standings:
118 Biju Kumar 5 159 Balakrishnan V 5
tracted around 350 entries, including 5 Grand Rk Name Pts
119 Praveen K B 5 160 Sreevathsan H 5
Masters(R R Laxman, Shyam Sundar M, 1 GM Shyam Sundar M. 8½
120 Kishore Dev S 5 161 Vagish Kumar L S 5
Deepan Chakkravarthy J, Tejas Bakre,Vish- 2 GM Bakre Tejas 8
121 John Christopher 5 162 Devanand K C 5 nu Prasanna V), 1 Women Grand master 3 IM Himanshu Sharma 8
122 Ajitesh Kumara 5 163 Radhakrishnan K 5 (Soumya Swaminathan) and 5 International 4 Kulkarni Rakesh 8
123 Sathyadeep Kumar M 5 164 Pushpa Evengeline V 5 masters, 237 players were FIDE Rated 5
5 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 8
124 Sanjo Joison 5 165 Abdul Hameed 5 players were 6years old among them Nagtilak
6 IM Stany G.A. 7½
125 Soman C R 5 166 Aji Kumar A 5 Adhishree was the youngest player. Ravin-
7 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 7½
126 Anjitha Krishnakumar 5 167 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 5 daran R of KAR and Gopal Shah of GUJ were
8 Lokesh N. 7
127 Aslam C 5 168 Maran P 5 senior most players born on 1948. Players
from 9 states (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, 9 IM Karthikeyan P. 7
128 Melvin Thomas Varghese 5 169 Aringar Anna V 5
Kerala, Maharastra, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, 10 WGM Soumya Swaminathan 7
129 Sujith Kumar K V 5 170 Priyesh M J 5
Telangana and Karnataka) are participated in 11 Abhishek Das 7
130 Dhanesh P H 5 171 Vipin Raj K P 5
this event. Tournament was conducted in a 9 12 GM Laxman R.R. 7
131 Hari Hara Jagan S A 5 172 Sanjeev P Sivaraman 5
round Swiss league, the event carried a prize 13 Gahan M G 7
132 Rathish R 5 173 Murugesan S 5
pool of 2.5 Lakhs rupees in total. 14 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7
133 Rohith J Akkara 5 174 Ilyaraja S 5
15 Balkishan A. 7
134 Akash S 5 175 Sundar Rajan R 5
Grand Master Shyam Sundar M from Airport 16 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V 7
135 Vivek P S 5 176 Shreya S Pillai 5 Authority of India remained undefeated 17 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7
136 Vijayaraghavan G 5 177 Abinaya S 5 and clinched the trophy with 8 wins and a 18 Arjun K 7
137 Anand Rajan 5 178 Sruthi Naya B 5 draw. He was followed by GM Bakre Tejas,
19 Pranav Anand 7
138 Karthika Remeshchandra M 5 179 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 5 IM Himanshu Sharma, Kulkarni Rakesh and
20 AIM Sivasubramanian R 7
139 Kavin Karthik Velmurugan 5 180 Velayudhan Nair A. 5 IM Viani Antonio D’cunha of Karnataka with
21 AGM Karthikeyan J. 7
140 Jack Samuel 5 181 Vijayakumar S 5 8 points each. With a better tie break they
22 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7
141 Abhijith Sheheer 5 182 Adithya A Chullikkad 4½ secured 2nd to 5th places respectively.In
prize distribution ceremony BRDCA honoured 23 Gavi Siddayya 6½
142 Ramnath Sarankan 5 183 Abhijith P M 4½
IM Stany G A of KAR paid Rs 10000 as hon- 24 Yashas D. 6½
143 Thankachan K M 5 184 Anan N 4½
orarium. 25 Senthil Maran K 6½
144 Abel Viji George 5 185 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 4½
26 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar 6½
145 Sai Siddharth U 5 186 Santhosh Kumar C K 4½
Sri Uday Jadugar Magician and Sri M C Ven- 27 Likhit Chilukuri 6½
146 Vysakh B 5 187 Akhil Rony 4½
katesh chairmen IV Sanctum Hotel were chief 28 Kulkarni Chinmay 6½
147 Sunny Varghese 5 188 Santhosh K P 4½
guests of prize distribution ceremony. Sri 29 Ajith M.P. 6½
148 Femil Chelladurai 5 189 Arumugam N 4½
Aravind Shastry Sec UKCA,Sri Hanumantha 30 Pranav V 6½
149 Chandran M.V. 5 190 Sreejith V S 4½ R Joint Sec AICF, Nagendra Muralidhar Vice 31 Tarun Kanyamarala 6½
150 Pradeep Sawant 5 191 Anupam M Sreekumar 4½

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32 Shiva S 6½ 73 AGM Sa Kannan 5½ 114 Rajesh Chandrashekaran 5 155 Nitesh Bhat 5
33 AIM Sriram Udhayakumar 6½ 74 Krishna Karthik N 5½ 115 Audipudy Sitaram 5 156 Renuka Kumari B 5
34 Mohammed Fawaz 6½ 75 Ithal H L Rajath 5½ 116 Ambre Kapil 5 157 Disha P 5
35 Shanmukha Teja P 6½ 76 Varun Anant 5½ 117 Rahuldev M 5 158 Rudrashish Chakraborty 5
36 Raghav Srivathsav V 6½ 77 Latheef P.M 5½ 118 Ethan V Johnson 5 159 Pavan Kumar Posa 5
37 Manjunath J. 6 78 Arul Senthil B 5½ 119 Sathya Moorthy 5 160 Sujit Varghese 5
38 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6 79 Aravind P V S 5½ 120 Mohana R 5 161 Sharadhi Shastry 5
39 Harini S. 6 80 Ram Vishwanathan 5½ 121AIM Navodith V Bhat 5 162 Aadith Reddy 5
40 Sanjid Latheef 6 81 Rakesh N 5½ 122 Thippesh A 5 163 Shree Krishna Pranama 4½
41 Shet Prajwal P 6 82 Surya Prakash J 5½ 123 Rishabh Kumara 5 164 Abhay B Bhandarkar 4½
42 Subramanian V 6 83 Hruthik Lokesh P 5½ 124 Daniel Solomon Vs 5 165 Vaibhav Kalpaka 4½
43 Ojas Kulkarni 6 84 Babuji C P 5½ 125AIM Sushrutha Reddy 5 166 Rajath Menon 4½
44 Darshan V P S 6 85 Srinivasa Raju S 5½ 126 Yatish B 5 167 Aman Deepak Thadani 4½
45 Mohammed Fasal V U 6 86 Sameer Ghotane 5½ 127 Sridhar R 5 168 Gopal Shah 4½
46 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 87 Pranitha S R 5½ 128 Prithvi Rajan 5 169 Shibin K Benny 4½
47 Sameer Kumar Y 6 88 Manan Aeron 5½ 129 Murali Mohan Y 5 170 Neil J 4½
48 Chetan Sharma 6 89 Sudheera Satyanarayana 5½ 130 Kalki Eshwar D 5 171 Abhyuday Santhosh 4½
49 Shreyas J 6 90 Ajitesh Kumara 5½ 131 Vijaykumar R P 5 172 Aryan Anand 4½
50 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 6 91 Shantharam K 5½ 132 Diwakar V U 5 173 Karthik Muruganantham 4½
51 Salim Yoosuf 6 92 Prabhakaran K 5½ 133 Bhagyashree G Patil 5 174 Samrudh B S 4½
52 Ankit Payal 6 93 Navaneetha Krishna 5½ 134 Arhan Chethan Anand 5 175 Diya Wadhera 4½
53 Anand Vittal T R 6 94 Farooqui Md Bashiruddin 5½ 135 Sangam C N 5 176 Tejas Cavale 4½
54 Vincent Dave 6 95 Kunal Verma 5½ 136 Channawar Nilesh 5 177 Harshitaa Bagree 4½
55 Abhishek Shastry 6 96 Venu Madhav P L 5½ 137 Shreedhar Muchandikar 5 178 Pratham Ajay 4½
56 Abid Ali Mujawar 6 97 Anil Kathane 5½ 138 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5 179AFM Shashidhar B Rai 4½
57 Aditya S Hariharan 6 98 Amaresh 5½ 139 Nachiketh Adiga 5 180 Rakesh Gowda G C 4½
58 ManuDavid Suthandram R 6 99 Syed Rehman Nazer 5½ 140 Yash Abhijit Patil 5 181 Tusshar N B 4½
59 Shiek Fayaz 6 100 Dhanush Ravi 5½ 141 Aman Srinivasan Makhija 5 182 Rohit Venugopal 4½
60 Sanjay N. 6 101 Harshit Amarnani 5½ 142AFM Binni Boyina P Pratap 5 183 Siddharth Vezzu 4½
61 Sagar Praveen 6 102AGM Mani Bharathy 5 143 Srinivasa Srikanth Podila 5 184 Mohit Madiraju 4½
62 Sahithya G 6 103 Ravindran R 5 144 Avinash Shrivastava 5 185 Tejas Varma 4½
63 Samith Reddy I 6 104 Emil Sebastian 5 145 Sudipan Sarkar 5 186 Anil Thungesh 4½
64 Noushad A 6 105 Aryagopal 5 146 Avichal Jadeja 5 187 Saket Singh 4½
65 Trisha Kanyamarala 6 106 Nihaar L Akula 5 147 Sachith Katti 5 188 Sheshadri L 4½
66 Anannth Varun R 6 107 Vijaya Kumar V 5 148 Kiran Kishore P 5 189 Dhembre Dinesh 4½
67 AIM Ravi Srinivas V 6 108 Hariharan Subramony 5 149 Hari Kumar N 5 190 Ankana Ghosh Dastidar 4½
68 Binu Sebastian 6 109 Theju K V 5 150 Sri Akshitha Sajja 5 191 Jolly V P 4
69 Apoorv Kamble 6 110 Sanjana Raghunath 5 151 Abhishek C 5 192 Ronit Prasad 4
70 Prasada Rao G 6 111 Avi Jaiswal 5 152 Prachi Dayal 5 193 Suyash Srivastava 4
71 Ramesh Balasubramanian 6 112 Ayush J Yajaman 5 153 Zain K Muhammed 5 194 Venugopal Reddy K 4
72 Ananya Arumbakkam 6 113 Akshay Srivathsa 5 154 Abhiman Urs R 5 195 Sanjana C 4

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 1st Chennai District Chess Association FIDE Rated Rapid Chess tournament 2017
Ram S.Krishnan wins CDCA Rapid
by R.Ravikumar IA, Chief Arbiter
3
76 players participated in the 1st Chen-
nai District Chess Association FIDE
Rated Rapid Chess tournament 2017
was organized by Chennai District Chess
Association on 25th & 26th February 2017 at
Kumara Rani Meena Muthiah Arts & Science
College, Adyar, Chennai, India.
The tournament was conducted open to
all the players with FIDE Swiss Rapid rules
has been followed. Totally 9 rounds were
conducted with day 1 (5 rounds) and day 2
(4 rounds) with the time control of each 25
minutes plus 5 sec. increment.
The major upset of the tournament, top
seed Ram S. Krishnan was upset by Ajay
Karthikeyan in the 5th round. But Ram came
back with the fighting spirit won all the re-
maining games. Finaly, 4 players were tied
with 8 points are Ram S Krishnan, Tarun V
Kanth, Hari Madhavan N B & Hari Krishnan A
Ra. But with the better Buchcholz tie-break
system Ram S. Krishnan bags the title and
received the cash prize of Rs.3,000/- along
with glittering Cup.
The Chief Guest of the function Mr. Manuel
Aaron, Arjuna Awardee, First International
Master and the Guest of Honour Mrs. Vi-
jayalakshmi, Arjuna Awardee, International
Master & Women Grand Master gave the
prizes to the winners.
The tournament was very well organized by
Chennai District Chess Association with the
support of Parents, Players and my Co-Ar-
biters.I thank the All India Chess Federa-
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29 Dheekshith Kumar R 6½ 70 Shyam Kumar M 6
30 Chandak Shivam 6½ 71 Thrish Karthik 6
31 Krithigga K 6½ 72 Benny P C 6
32 Sivasubramanian R 6½ 73 Phani Krishna C H 6
33 Arun Prasad Raja V 6½ 74 Satvik V 6
tion, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association & 34 Jeyanth R 6½ 75 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 6
Chennai District Chess Association for giving 35 Aravindhan Chakravarthy 6½ 76 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 6
the wonderful opportunity to work as Chief 36 Sankaran P Krishnaswamy 6½ 77 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 6
Arbiter in this tournament.
37 Avinash Ramesh 6½ 78 Samyak L 6
38 Shivashankaran R 6½ 79 Abhinav Narasimhan K 6
Final standings:
39 Thaga Sheriff M 6 80 Sidharth P G 6
Rk Name Pts
40 Vinay R Jumani 6 81 Ramnath N 5½
1 Ram S. Krishnan 8
41 Vijay M. 6 82 Arivu Selvan A S 5½
2 Tarun V Kanth 8
42 Raj Kamal S 6 83 Sri Raagav Rathnam K 5½
3 Hari Madhavan N B 8
43 Shree Ganesh MAnnamalai 6 84 Dheepesh T 5½
4 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 8
44 Bharath Ravikumar 6 85 Ananth Ramdas 5½
5 Dileep Kumar R 7½
45 Shyaam M 6 86 Pooja S (2002) 5½
6 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 7½
46 Mukesh Kumar S M 6 87 Janani Priya N. 5½
7 Siddharth Sabharishankar 7½
47 Vinoth Kumar C 6 88 Perumal A 5½
8 Prajesh R 7½
48 Nitin M Pai 6 89 Abishna Anojan 5½
9 Arjun C Krishnamachari 7½
49 Dharunkumar 6 90 Shreyas Anand 5½
10 Ayyappan P Santhana Prabu 7
50 Krishan A 6 91 Varun Suresh Roshan 5½
11 Ajay Karthikeyan 7
51 Saravanan S (1971) 6 92 Ravichandran K 5½
12 Sarvesh Kumar A 7
52 Shriman K 6 93 Joseph Prakash M 5½
13 Rajarishi Karthi CM 7
53 Arnav Maheshwari 6 94 Hemalya G 5½
14 Rohith Krishna S 7
54 Aravind Nagarajan 6 95 Aravindh Srinivasan 5½
15 Lakshmi Narasimhan V S 7
55 Mischel Capriatie B 6 96 Danish Roy Vinoth Kumar 5½
16 Karthik P M 7
56 Sindhusree K 6 97 Aryaan Ganesh 5½
17 Hiren K G 7
57 Kirtana S P 6 98 Hariharan S 5½
18 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra 7
58 Gowthaman Alagar 6 99 Liban Reyhan M M 5½
19 Krishna K R 7
59 Guruprasadh K 6 100 Selvakumar Shanmugasamy 5½
20 Sarvadh Sathiaram 7
60 Venkatraman Satyamurthy 6 101 Vikram Natraj S 5½
21 Srihari L R 7
61 Murugan V 6 102 Balu Karthick 5½
22 Rohit S 7
62 Krishna Chaithanya Jammi 6 103 Badrinarayanan N 5½
23 Nitin Shankar Madhu 7
63 Deena Dayalan S 6 104 Mohammed Rafiq Syed Ali 5½
24 Shivani Madhu 7
64 Praveenkumar K 6 105 Madhav Lella 5½
25 Sivan S Roshan 7
65 Advaith Srinivas 6 106 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 5
26 Vijay Shreeram P 7
66 Mackenzie Campbel B 6 107 Harshini V 5
27 Manu David Suthandram R 7
67 Giridharan A 6 108 Karthikeyan 5
28 Surendran N 6½
68 Benasir M 6 109 Ravikumar A 5
69 Ayushh Ravikumar 6 110 Dilli Babu R 5
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 Late Shree Chandrakant Naik Memorial 2 All Goa Fide Rapid Rating Chess Tournament 2017,Cuchorem
Ritviz Parab wins title
by Ashesh Keni FA, Chief Arbiter
T
he tournament was organised by Que-
pem Taluka Chess Association. The
event was inaugurated by Mr.Nilesh
Cabral(MLA), Subhash Chandrakant Naik
,President of Quepem Taluka Chess Asso-
ciation in the presence of Ashesh Keni Vi-
cePresident of Goa Chess Association and
Chief Arbiter, Sanjay Kavlekar,Secretary of
QuepemTaluka Chess Association,Senior SAG
Coach and others.
Altogether 187 players participated in this
tournament out of which 65 players were
rated.The tournament was played under
Swiss league system using Swiss Manager as
the pairing program.Totally 9 Rounds were
played.The top seed of the tournament was
RitvizParab from Salcete Taluka.
Arrangements.The hall was well ventilated&
parking facilities were provided Round 1
results RitvizParab defeated Geetesh Naik.
Other top 10 seeded players won their re-
spective rounds. Round 2: RitvizParab beat
AdhyaGaitonde .On the 7th board Rajat-
Vaskar was held to a draw by Vinayak Thevar.
LoveKakodkar managed to beat higher seed
SadanandRawal on the 13th board.Round
3: Wilson cruz(1807) was held to a draw
by Devesh Anand Naik and Swayam Naik
drew with NandiniSaripalli.Round 4: Ritviz
Parab continued his good form by beating
upcoming Ridikesh DilipVernekar.On 4th
board Kavish Gharse (1281) upset Bhimappa
Harijan (1460).Round 5: RitvizParab leads
.On 3rd board Anirudh Parsekar was held to
a draw by G Madhavan.Round 6: Bhimappa
Harijan (1460) lost Ambar Dalal (1218) on
5thboard.Ritviz Parab Beat 2nd seed Niraj
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Saripalli to retain the lead.Round 7: Top
seed Ritviz Parab continues to lead .Niraj
Saripalli makes come back by beating Tanv
Hadkonkar.Round 8: Nandini Saripalli drew
with Ritviz Parab and Aryan Shamrao Raikar
drew with Rudrersh Fadte. At the end of 8th
round RitvizParab leads with 7.5 points,while-
Niraj Saripalli ,Nandini Saripalli and Saiesh
Audi are with 7 points in joint 2nd position.
Mr.AsheshKeni FA was the chief Arbiter of the
tournament.along with Arbiters.In the final
Round Ritviz Parab outplayed Saiesh Audi &
remain unbeaten in the tournament to win
the title.On the second board Niraj Saripalli
drew with sister Nandhini to share the point
and take the second and third positions re-
spectively. On the third board Wilson Cruz
won against Navin Morajkar and had to be
content with the fifth place.Rudresh Fadte
beat Bhimmapa Harijan to rank fourth.Aryan
Shamrao Raiker got the better of G.Madhavan
to bag the sixth place. A total of 187 players
participated out of which 60 players were
rated. The Chief Guest of the function was
Shri Ashish Karmali ( Secretary of Sarvodaya
Educational Society).
The total prizes of Rs. 40,000/- and trophies
were given at the hands of,Smt.Premavati
C. Naik Shri Kishor Bandekar ( GCA Secre-
tary), Shri AsheshKeni ( Chief Arbiter) Shri
Subhash Chandra Naik ( President QTCA),
Shri Sanjay Kavlekar (Secretary QTCA).
President QTCA Shri Subhash Chandra
Naik welcomed the gathering and Secre-
tary Sanjay Kavlekar proposed the vote of
thanks. The programme was compered by
Shree Vasant Bhagwant Sawant.
Final ranking 40 Netra P Savaikar 6
Rk Name Pts 41 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar
42 Pratik S Borkar
5½
5½
1 Ritviz Parab 8½
2 Niraj Saripalli 7½ 43 Varun R Shastry 5½
3 Nandhini Saripalli 7½ 44 Avaneeshwar Guin 5½
45 Kakodkar Love 5½
4 Fadte Rudresh 7½
5 Cruz Wilson 7½ 46 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 5½
6 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 7 47 Sanat Borkar 5½
7 Gaude Sachin 7 48 Naik Shvesh S 5½
8 Audi Saiesh 7 49 Geetesh R Naik 5½
9 Madhavan G 7 50 Salunke Vinayak 5½
10 Ayush R Shetkar 7 51 Mohammed Kassim Shaikh 5½
11 Anvesh Bandekar 7 52 Srilaxmi Kamat 5½
12 Porob Vraj 6½ 53 Telang Prasad 5½
13 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6½ 54 Katkar Prithviraj 5½
14 Morajkar Navin 6½ 55 Naik Nivesh Manoj 5
15 Parsekar Anirudh 6½ 56 Ananya Pandey 5
16 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6½ 57 Vinayak Thevar 5
17 Kakodkar Joy 6½ 58 Nipanikar Rishab 5
59 Nagvekar Sairudra 5
18 Pednekar Sagar 6½
19 Dalal Ambar Abhay 6 60 Ved Narvekar 5
20 Sahil Dayanand Desai 6 61 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 5
21 Bhimappa Harijan 6 62 Sadanand Kamat 5
22 Prashant Salvi 6 63 Sania Salvi 5
23 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 6 64 Shubh Kalangutkar 5
24 Sadanand M Rawal 6 65 Aarush Pandey 5
25 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6 66 Ghatwal Tushar Samir 5
26 Devesh Anand Naik 6 67 Siddhiraj Gaunekar 5
27 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6 68 Granthik Buyao 5
28 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 6 69 Kalagutkar Sai 5
29 Yash Paul 6 70 Atharva Sawal 5
30 Kavish Gharse 6 71 Sanjeev Parab 5
31 Swayam Naik 6 72 Om Prabhu 5
32 Naroji Sanskriti 6 73 Dyaneshwar Hawal 5
33 Soham Anil Dhuri 6 74 Kalparaj Ekavade 5
34 Colaco Reuben 6 75 Samant Sanvi 5
35 Faryaz Shaik 6 76 Karun Raikar 5
36 Paarth P Salvi 6 77 Vardhan V Shetker 5
37 Naik Vedant Sabaji 6 78 Bhat Pratham 5
38 Parab Sneh 6 79 Katkar Atharv 5
39 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 6 80 Raikar Sampada 5
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81 Prabhudesai Heramb 5 122 C Shyam Satardekar 4 2nd Karur FIDE Rating Below 1600 All India Chess Tmt.,Karur
82 Shweta K Sahakari 5 123 V rishti Naik 4
83 Dion Lourenco 5 124 Fallary Ulhas 4
Paulson Frenchy wins at Karur
by R.K.Balagunasekharan IA, Chief Arbiter
84 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5 125 Yash Kishore Naik 4

T
85 Travendra Sawant 5 126 P unit Rahi 4
he 2nd Karur FIDE Rating Below 1600 Weaving, Karur presided over the function.
86 Charuta J Shetye 4½ 127 B unnyfred V.R. D 4 All India Chess Tournament, Karur, Other dignitaries present on the dais were
87 Thanishq Kavlekar 4½ 128 B isht Rachit 4 Tamilnadu was held from 24.02.2017 Mr. R.K. Balagunasekharan IA, Chief Arbiter
88 Parab Rishikesh 4½ 129 S hetty Ankit 4 to 26.02.2017 at Atlas Kalai Arangam (Near of this Tournament, Mr. C. Shanmugam, Sec-
89 Mayuri A Chari 4½ 130 A smit Nandeep Kerkar 4 Kongu College), Karur - Salem Bye Pass retary and Mr. K.S. Maheswaran, Treasurer,
90 Blydon D Souza 4½ 131 A nushka Arora 4 Road, Karur organized by Karur District Chess KDCA.
91 Kunal B Bandolkar 4½ 132 S haikh Adnan 4 Association, Karur.
92 Narvekar P S 4½ 133 A adya Yatin Gaitonde 3½ The event was conducted by Chief Arbiter Mr.
93 Rahul Mahale 4½ 134 Kurtikar Avira 3½ The tournament was inaugurated today by R.K. Balagunasekharan, IA from Tiruvarur
94 Prabhav Shyam Satardekar 4½ 135 S tuti Rajesh Pai 3½ Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu, Chairman, Kongu and also Joint Secretary, Tamilnadu State
95 Naik Rahul 4½ 136 Pednekar Kaushik 3½ Educational Trust, Karur at 10.00 a.m.Wel- Chess Association along with Deputy Chief
come Address was delivered by Mr. N.K.M. Arbiter Dr. G.G. Sathiesh, FIDE Arbiter, from
96 Shriya Patil 4 137 V icente Fernandes 3½
Nallasamy, President, Karur District Chess Coimbatore.
97 Naik Shrijay 4 138 Varkekar Esha 3½
Association (KDCA). Other dignitaries present
98 Vas Bryan 4 139 N ayak Pavitra 3
on the dais were Er. P. Sivakumar, Corre- Paulson Frenchy of Kerala scored 8.5 points
99 Nidhi Gaude 4 140 Rayani Shiaan 3
spondent, Kongu Arts and Science College, and was tied at the top spot along with
100 M adgaonkar Shriyash 4 141 M unjare Yash 3 Thiru. M. Sivasamy, Shobical Impex and Thi- Aanandha Kumar M S of Tamilnadu but better
101 N air Parthiv 4 142 R iya Kamat 3 ru. P. Sethukumar, Sethman Exports, Mr. R.K. tie break fetched him the first place worth
102 D atta Bhika Naik 4 143 S alerio Luis 3 Balagunasekharan IA, Chief Arbiter of this Rs. 40,000/-. Subhash Chandrama Naidu
103 A arav Kamat 4 144 P ilgaonkar Siddhant 3 Tournament and Mr. C. Shanmugam, Secre- of Andhra Pradesh received the first prize
104 Kumari Khushi 4 145 N aik Saransh 3 tary, KDCA. Vote of Thanks was delivered by of Rs. 10,000/- in ‘1200 to 1400’ category.
105 S haikh Mohamad Sihan 4 146 Kumari Shriya 3 Mr. K.S. Maheswaran, Treasurer, KDCA. Aishwarya S of Tamilnadu received the first
106 Komarpant Saurav 4 147 N aik Sachin Laximan 3 prize of Rs. 7000/- in ‘1000 to 1200’ category.
107 A ditya Tari 4 148 H awal Shreyash 3 683 players comprised of 436 rated players
108 P rabhudesai Ayusha 4 149 N aik Drishti 3 from 4 countries participated in this event. Best veteran prize was given to Subramanian
109 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 4 150 N aik Sanika 3 Players from 11 states of India contested in T.V. scoring 6.5 points from 9 rounds. First
this tournament. Mr. N.K.M. Nallasamy, prize of Rs. 5000/- for unrated player was
110 S amant Vignesh 4 151 O mkar Kunkolienkar 3
President, Karur District Chess Association won by Singaram Subramanian scoring 6
111 G hatwal Samir Tukaram 4 152 Kuncolienkar Amisha 3
(KDCA) gave welcome speech for the Prize points from 9 rounds.
112 R udraj Dhuri 4 153 L uis Macvert 3
Distribution. Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu, Chair- I would like to thank AICF and TNSCA for
113 G audalkar Anshu 4 154 I kra Sarfaraz 3
man, Kongu Educational Trust presided the providing me an opportunity to be the Chief
114 M artins Ashkelon Jose 4 155 L otlikar Vruddhi Vishwesh 3 tournament. Thiru M.R. Vijayabhaskar, Min- Arbiter of this rating tournament and other
115 S hetty Sagar 4 156 S hree Ghonsekar 3 ister for Transport, Tamilnadu was the Chief arbiters who worked along with me to make
116 Ferrao Egle 4 157 I shan Naik 3 Guest of the Prize Distribution function. this tournament highly successful.
117 H ande Vrujesh 4 158 Ferrao Ronan 3 Thiru. K. Subramanian, Managing Director, Final ranking
118 N aik Shreeyash 4 159 Raikar Rivia R 3 R.K. Exports, Rk Name Pts
119 Zore Chinmay 4 160 B hat Vismit 3 Thiru. K Ramakrishnan, Secretary, M. Ku- 1 Paulson Frenchy 8½
120 S kandhaj Kotha 4 161 D esai Ansh 3 marasamy College of Engineering, Karur 2 Aanandha Kumar M S 8½
121 D esai Veer 4 162 C ardozo Selvino 2½ and Thiru. M.G.S. Ramesh Babu, Ramavilas 3 Santhosh V R 8

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4 Senthamizh Kumaran S 8 45 Krishna Raaju J 6½ 86 Madhan Kumar A 6 127 Lenin A G 6
5 Arjun Kumar S 8 46 Senthil Kumar N 6½ 87 Robinson M G 6 128 Sanjana Raghunath 6
6 Mohana Praba R B 7½ 47 Suganthan R 6½ 88 Naveen K 6 129 Rajeev Kumar K 5½
7 Santhosh Manikantan 7½ 48 Gokula Vishnu R 6½ 89 Arun Prasath P 6 130 Ranjith Kumar K 5½
8 Aravinth Shanmugam S 7½ 49 Midhun Kumar M A 6½ 90 Vishwak S 6 131 Manraja A 5½
9 Gowrichander U 7½ 50 Shanmugasundaram G. 6½ 91 Hari Prasad P 6 132 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5½
10 S. Jeevanandam 7½ 51 Sivashankar M 6½ 92 Baskar P 6 133 Marikani Kandasamy 5½
11 Sathyan P Muthukrishnan 7½ 52 Rupak M 6½ 93 Raghavendra Venkatasubramani 6 134 Andrew Veda Watson Solomon 5½
12 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 7½ 53 Kavya. S 6½ 94 Surya A C 6 135 Suresh Agarwal 5½
13 Subhash Chandrama Naidu 7½ 54 Antony Simethy 6½ 95 Bharanidharan Nedunchezian 6
14 Sharsha Backer 7 55 Nirmal L 6½ 96 Anand Kumar G 6 Puzzle of the month
56 Vijayasubhasri S 6½ 97 Manika Kesavan 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan
15 Vishwanath Kannam 7
16 Shibin K Benny 7 57 Mogan Raj S 6½ 98 Nandakumar S 6
I came across the interesting but easy
17 Hemadri T 7 58 Vamsi Krishna B 6½ 99 Pranav Hari Raja D 6
retro below in ‘The Problemist’ recently.
18 Harsha R 7 59 Anselm Flavian Paul 6½ 100 Ayyappan Ramasamy 6
The white mate Nd5 is staring in the face
19 Kishan Singh 7 60 Abishek A 6½ 101 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 6
but yet the stipulation requires retraction
20 Vineesh P S 7 61 Sakthi Subash A S 6½ 102 Vel Aswin Saminathan 6
of a move to result in a mate in one. Look
21 Pradeebarajan V 7 62 Mithesh M 6½ 103 Iniyan S 6
at the black pawn structure carefully and
22 Kaushik G Iyer 7 63 Devaraja G 6½ 104 Nithish M 6 reason out as to the black pieces which
23 Kishore Dev S 7 64 Sekar A Muthusamy 6½ 105 Bala Ganeshan 6 could have been captured at b3 and c3
24 Thatchinamoorthi Ponnusamy 7 65 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran 6½ 106 Gowtham Subramani 6 and then decide on the retraction.
25 Gopichand K 7 66 Adithya Ramesh 6½ 107 Hemanth Eswar G 6
26 Aadarsh Kumar M E 7 67 Nidheshpa S 6½ 108 Siva Subramanian A 6 Bror Larsson & Herbert Hultberg
27 Jayadev R Balan 7 68 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 6½ 109 Govindarajan Suganthi 6 Eskilstuna-Kurren 1955
28 Varadharajan I. 7 69 Suryanarayan B 6½ 110 Sriman Prabhu M K 6
29 Charan Madhuprakash 7 70 Mugunth R B 6½ 111 Muhammed Musthafa 6
30 Aishwarya S 7 71 Amarnath M 6½ 112 Femil Chelladurai 6
31 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 7 72 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6½ 113 Riya Shannon S 6
32 Ramachandran S M 7 73 Darsana M S 6½ 114 Karuppasamy C 6
33 Jegadeesh G 7 74 Srimozhi S 6 115 Tejes Suresh Kumar 6
34 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 6½ 75 Sanath K Jamadagni 6 116 Manokaran R 6
35 Sriram K 6½ 76 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 6 117 Rathish R 6
36 Jagan V 6½ 77 Suhaib Ahmad 6 118 Srinidhi M 6
37 Yogeshwaran S A 6½ 78 Aravind Matthews A C T 6 119 Shanmugam R 6
38 Gopinath Parthasarathy 6½ 79 Devanand B 6 120 Biju Kumar 6
39 Rohit S 6½ 80 Sarath Kumar Murugesan 6 121 Ramachandran. V 6
40 Venkatesan B 6½ 81 Singaram Subramanian 6 122 Adithya A Chullikkad 6
41 Vinoth Kumar M 6½ 82 Varunsatyaa, Parthasarathy 6 123 Raghul Saro S 6
White retracts his last move
42 Ragesh Sarma.M 6½ 83 Ashwin Sairam 6 124 Ramesh R 6
and mates in one
43 Subramanian T.V. 6½ 84 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6 125 Shaktivel Selvaraj 6 (solution on page 48)
44 Paul Kodaly 6½ 85 Gopinath P 6 126 John Jeyasingh S 6

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“Insight“ All India Open FIDE Intl. Rating Tournament 2017,Paroda,Goa
R.Balasubramanian wins in Goa
by Ashish Keni, Chief Arbiter
“I
nsight“ All India Open FIDE Inter-
national Rating Chess Tournament
2017 .The event was inaugurated
by Mr.Yashwant Karmali, the Vice president
of Damodar Education Society in the pres-
ence of Mr. Prakash Volvotkar, Chairman Of
INSIGHT, Ashesh Keni President of Salcete
Taluka Chess Association and Chief Arbiter,
Damodar Zambaulikar ,Secretary of Salcete
Taluka Chess Association, Sanjay Kavleka-
r,Senior SAG Coach and others.
Totally 129 players from all over India & one
player from United States of America partici-
pated in the tournament among whom were
International Master Chakravarti Reddy from
Tamil Nadu and International Master Ram-
nath Balsubramaniam from Telangana,There
were 87 Rated Players with the average rating
being 1250.The local favourite Ritviz Parab
was the top seed.The tournament was played
under Swiss league system using Swiss Man-
ager as the pairing program.
The first round of the tournament started at
9:30 AM, The second round was scheduled
at 3:00PM.At the end of second Round Top
seed Ritviz Parab(2234) of Goa defeated Akh-
ilesh Nigalye (1361). On the second board IM
Chakravarthi Reddy(2180) defeated Vishwa
Vanawala(1364) .On the third board Srinivas
Rao(2175) defeated Saish Fondekar(1352).
On the fourth board Niraj Saripalli(2159)
defeated Annapurni S(1361). On the fifth
board IM Ramnath Balsubramaniam (2151)
beat Devesh Anand Naik(1333).
There were no major upsets in the third
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World Women’s Chess Championship, Tehran
Tan Zhongyi is World Women’s Champion
By Arvind Aaron
round,In round four young and budding play-
er of Goa Anirudh Parsekar defeated Anish
Gandhi of Maharashtra.On the other hand
Goa’s Niraj Saripalli lost to Krishna Malay.In
the 5th round Top seed Ritviz Parab lost to
IM Balasubramaniam giving him the lead in
the tournament.Round 6 was played on the
same day at 3 pm as scheduled.
On the top board Anilkumar O.T. of Kerala
successfully interrupted the winning spree
of IM R Balasubramaniam of Tamil Nadu as
he managed to split point with him by forc-
ing a draw in Rook ending situation playing
with black pieces in Queens Indian opening.
On the second board Ritviz Parab(2234) de-
feated Sarvad Sathiaram(1625) by breaking
the French Defence. On the third board Fide
Tan Zhongyi of China beat Anna Muzychuk of Ukraine 2-2, 1½-½ in the tie-break to win the
Master Srinivas Rao(2175) played English
world women’s championship at Tehran on March 4, 2017.
opening and defeated Dr. Hitesh Vasan-
wala. On the fourth board Shalon Joanne
Tan Zhongyi became the fifth Chinese player to become champion after Xie Jun won first in
Pias(1697) defeated Navin Morajkar(1432)
who had earlier upset higher rated player 1991.Tan Zhongyi from Chongqing in China was born on May 29, 1991 and is 25 year old.
Niraj Saripalli(2159) in the previous round.
On the fifth board Gautham Prasanth(1447) “It was a tough event and I did not expect to win,” said the new champion. After the regular
lost to IM Chakravarti Reddy(2180) in score was tied 2-2, Tan Zhongyi won in the tie-break. She speaks with a Chinese interpreter.
French Defence.The tournament has reached Congratulating her on winning, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov invited her to the FIDE
in a interesting final stage with one round Presidential Board. She also became a Grand Master.On course, Tan Zhongyi beat India’s
to spare and it is not yet clear as about who Padmini Rout and Dronavalli Harika in a maximum possible Armageddon by 5-4.
will take the title away.
Tan Zhongyi overcomes Harika
On the final day of “ INSIGHT “ ALL-INDIA
OPEN FIDE (INTERNATIONAL) RATING CHESS China’s Tan Zhongyi beat Dronavalli Harika 5-4 in an exciting Armageddon battle of the
Tournament 2017 I.M.R Balasubramaniam of FIDE World Women Chess Championship semis in Tehran on Feb 25, 2017.
Tamil-Nadu won the the Championship due During this match Harika came back from deficit twice to level scores at 1-1 and again at
to his higher tie break even after being upset 3-3. Interim, she led 2-1 after rapid chess only to allow the Chinese to equalize.
by IM.Chakravarthi Reddy of Telanagana in
the final round. The game started in a Reti
Cont.On p.27 23
 After two blitz draws the
score became tied at 4-4,
requiring the match to
be decided in one game.
Harika lost a queen ending
with white.If Tan Zhongyi
wins the final she will be-
come the fifth Chinese to
do so. If Anna Muzychuk
wins she will become the
third Ukrainian to win the
world women’s title.Hari-
ka exited in the semis last
time and this time also it
is sadly the semis. She
has to wait for the next
cycle now
Senior Arbiter Examination 2017, Vellore, Tamilnadu
A report by Prof.Mr.R.Anantharam
A senior Arbiter examination was
organised by Vellore District Chess
Association, on behalf of Tamil Nadu
State Chess Association and All In-
dia Chess Federation, at Annai Mira
College of Engineering & Technolo-
gy, Vellore, on 18th February.2017.
Seventy one participants from fifteen
districts of Tamil Nadu attended the
examination and also the doubt
clearing session, conducted in the
forenoon by IA Prof.R. Anantharam,
Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission, All
India Chess Federation.

Dronavalli Harika came from behind to win the second game against Tan Zhongyi of China The event was inaugurated by lighting the holy lamp by the Founder president of the col-
and force the tie-break at Tehran. Having mated her Chinese opponent in 162 moves with lege Sri. Ramadoss, College Secretary and Treasurer. Sri G. Damodharan, Principal, Dr. T.K.
the bishop and knight, Harika has the upperhand in the tiebreak having won the last Gopinathan, College and participants – woman international master JE Kavitha and former
played game.The tie-break games decided as to which Asian will face Anna Muzychuk of state champion MRSangeetha.Sri. S.Manikandaswamy Vice President TNSCA & President of
Ukraine in the finals. Muzychuk beat A Kosteniuk of Russia 2-0 in the other semifinals. VDCA also present on the occasion.M.Shanmugahm and P. Manoharan and Secretary and
Anna Muzychuk’s younger sister Marina Muzuchuk was world women’s champion a couple Treasurer of VDCA coordinated the program well.
of years before. Interaction was mainly based on Laws of Chess, rating regulations, tiebreaks and pairing
rules and the participants were very keen in getting their doubts cleared. A three hour ex-
Dronavalli Harika moved closer to the title defeating Nana Dzagnidze 1-1, 1.5-0.5 in amination, leading to the title of Senior National Arbiter was held in the afternoon and the
the quarter finals of the FIDE World Women’s Chess Championship that is taking place at following have been declared passed.
Tehran.In the semis, Harika will face Tan Zhongyi (Chn) and in the other match Antoaneta
Stefanova (Bul) will take on Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus). List of Successful candidates
S.No Name 11 Sridharan Ramanathan
Her best so far is semis and Harika has reached that stage already. Tan Zhongyi has beaten 1 Cholavandan.S 12 Rajeswari S
many opponents like Padmini Rout and favourite Ju Wenjun (Chn). If Harika or Tan Zhongyi 2 Chockalingam Balaji U 13 Shankar Raman M
win the title, a new champion is for sure. Asia will have one finalist either way and Europe 3 Mohammed Yousuff A 14 Ahalya S
will have the other finalist as former champion Stefanova and Kosteniuk face each other in 4 Fidale Stanley Edwin P 15 Sankareswaran TA
another semis. 5 Sandeep T 16 Sivakumar C
6 Kavitha JE 17 Devendran K
Harika had at best been World Junior Girls champion and winning here will be a huge plus 7 Murukaananth A 18 Sanal Raj P R
for her chess career. In almost all matches, Harika played the tie-breaks and her rapid skills 8 Varshcine K 19 Vinodh C
are helping her win for sure. The event concludes on March 4, 2017. 9 Hariharan.S. Pillai 20 Thilagavathi E
10 Kumar.B 21 Jeganathan N
24 25
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22 Aravind G opening & IM R.Balasubramanian blundered ranged at subsidised rate.Accomodation was
42 Punitha K
23 Maheswaran B and lost the game.Geno Pharmaceuticals also provided at a temple complex nearby at
43 Ravi G
brand ambassador Ritviz Parab who beat Vraj very low rates.IMs were given free accomo-
24 Thanikachalam E 44 Moorthy R
Porob and IM Chakravarthi finished on 7.5 dation.
25 Pitchaimani S 45 Thiyagarajan B points along with IM R Balasubramanian but
26 Prabhu R 46 Sakthivel R had to contend with second & third position Final standings:
27 Balaskandan K 47 Royston Santhanakumar D respectively. Rk Name Pts
28 Magesh.J 48 Ilangovan K 1 R Balasubramaniam IM 7½
29 Maharasi Malathi KV 49 Manoharan.P IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam(FIDE Rating 2 Ritviz Parab 7½
30 Sundararjan S 50 Sudhakar Raj M 2151)is a 46 year old International master 3 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM 7½
31 Sangeetha MR 51 Arumugam R from Tamil Nadu & started playing Chess at 4 Srinivasa Rao M. FM 7
32 Anna Marial D 52 Pavithra. R the age of 12 and got his IM Title at the age 5 Niraj Saripalli 7
33 Gobi Kannan B 53 Yuvaraju H of 35 years.He is also the Former National B
6 Gandhi Anish 7
34 Kamalakannan MS 54 Elango S champion and National U- 19 Champion and
7 Brendan Peroz 6½
35 Shankar Govindaraj B 55 John Ramesh S is currently employed for Indian Railways and
8 Suthar Pradip 6½
36 Sigappi M is also into Chess coaching for beginners in
56 Padmini Sivakumar 9 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6½
37 Thavasipal Muthukutti I Chennai-Tamilnadu.
57 Gopal VK 10 Porob Vraj 6½
38 Pandian.S 58 Arumugam P 11 Audi Saiesh 6½
Ritviz Parab in the last round beat Vraj Po-
39 Vinodh R 59 Sathiya Poonkuzhali S 12 Dharani Srinivas K B 6½
rob of Goa with white pieces playing the
40 Ayyappan J 60 Ravi M S 13 Anilkumar O.T. 6½
Close Sicilian opening on the second board.
41 Poorna Chandra Prakash.G 61 Parvathi Mr.Ashesh Keni FA was the chief Arbiter of the 14 Parsekar Anirudh 6½
tournament along with Arbiters Mrs. Jostna 15 Krishna Malay 6½
Saripalli FA.A total of Rs. 150,000/- cash 16 Morajkar Navin 6½
prizes and trophies were distributed.The
More Indian men in Elo list 17 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6
Prizes were distributed at the Hands of Chief 18 Devesh Anand Naik 6
By Arvind Aaron
Guest Mr.Vilas Gauns Desai(Industrialist),Mr. 19 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
There are more Indian male players in the FIDE Elo list than Russian men. The latest list
Prakash Volvotkar(Chairman,Insight),Mr.
was published by FIDE on March 1, 2017. Russia and India have more players in the Elo list 20 Nandhini Saripalli 6
Ashesh Keni(President STCA),Mr.Damodar
than all other nations. 21 Shalon Joanne Pais 6
Zambaulikar(Secretary STCA),Mr.Sanjay
22 Dr Hitesh Vasanwala 6
Kavlekar(Senior SAG Coach),TanmayPrabhu-
It shows 53371 Indian men in the rating list, against 52925 Russian men. Russia however 23 Sathwika N 6
(Member,Insight).Mr.Damodar Zambaulikar
is higher in the combined rating list which includes men and women. proposed the Vote of thanks and the function 24 Gaude Sachin 5½
There are 11443 Russian women versus 8422 Indian women. Clearly, Indian women rating was compered by Mrs.Manjita Porob and Mrs. 25 Gautham Prasanth 5½
events need some incentive to catch up with the Russians! Navita Chari. 26 Annapurni S 5½
27 Subramanian T.V. 5½
Many nations compare themselves with Russia in chess and always stand dwarfed in all The tournament was organised in a good hall. 28 Prabhu Yash 5½
aspects. In another area, Indians are better is International Arbiter where we have more Generator arrangement was made though 29 Dhanush Ram M 5½
than Russia in men (India 112 v Russia 106). Again, in the IA combined count they have there was no electricity shutdown.Toilets 30 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5½
more because we have less International Arbiters among our women. separate for ladies and gents were provided. 31 Satawase Abhay 5½
In the middle of each round complimentary 32 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 5½
snacks and tea was provided to each player. 33 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5½
Veg and Non veg nutritious Lunch was ar-
34 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5½
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35 Colaco Reuben 5½ 76 Naik Vedant Sabaji
77 Jairaj Sitaram Borkar
4
4
Selected games from Delhi Open
36 Avaneeshwar Guin 5½ Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
37 Aanya Agarwal 5½ 78 Parab Sneh 4
Deviatkin,Andrei (2499)
38 Venugopalan Amayur Pisharam 5½ 79 Saidas D Fotto 4
80 Thanishq Kavlekar 4
Shakthi,Vishal J (2042) [A43]
39 Dubey Yadunandan 5
40 Swaroopa E T 5 81 Shivam Raikar 4
82 Nakul Chaudhary 4
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 b5 4.Bg5 Qb6 5.Bxf6
41 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgapras 5
83 Soham Anil Dhuri 4
Qxf6 6.c3 Qb6 7.e4 d6 8.Nbd2 g6 9.a4 bxa4
42 Tandel Mit Rajesh 5
84 Dutt B.S. 4
10.Nc4N Qc7 11.Qxa4+ Bd7
43 Chavan Abhijit 5
44 Swetha Sree Lanka 5 85 Aarush Pandey 4
45 Sadanand Kamat 5 86 Komarpant Saurav 4
46 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 5 87 Shubh Kalangutkar 4 26.Rh3! A good psychological move with the
47 Swayam Naik 5 88 Pednekar Balkrishna 4 vague threat of doubling his rooks on the
48 Andrew Veda Watson Solomon 5 89 Shinde Saumil 4 h-file through Ra2-a1–h1. Black's bishop is
49 Sarvadh Sathiaram 5 90 Pednekar Sagar 4 glued to c7, defending d6 while his knight is
50 Vishwa Vasnawala 5 91 Shubhang Hudekar 4 rooted to b8, defending his a6. And black's
51 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5 92 Gabbar 4 Rb7 is doing nothing but unable to get to
52 Eesh Prabhudesai 5 93 Charuta J Shetye 4 the king-side where the storm is brewing.
53 Paarth P Salvi 5 94 Kakodkar Joy 3½ 26...Nd7? [Unable to find a way out of the
54 Pratik S Borkar 5 95 Bir Yogesh Pai 3½ mess that he is in, black panics and throws
96 Salkar Prathamesh 3½
[This gives white a clear advantage. Some-
55 Selvakumar N 5 away a key pawn without a fight. But if 26...
97 Sahapurkar Vinisha 3½
what better was: 11...Nd7 12.e5 dxe5
56 Nipanikar Rishab 5 g5? 27.Ne3!+- exploiting the newly creat-
98 Netra P Savaikar 3½
13.Nfxe5 Bg7 14.Nc6 Bf6 15.Qa5! (The idea
57 Dr Dayal Sharad 5 ed hole on f5 would win.; a better try was:
99 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 3
of exchange of queens would not occur to
58 Prashant Salvi 5 26...f5 but it loses to 27.hxg6 hxg6 28.exf5
100 Parab Sanjeev 3
most of us. Such an exchange emphasises
59 Antoniolee Peroz 4½ gxf5 29.f3 Rf6 30.Rh5 Kg6 31.Rxf5! Rxf5
101 Parth Kamat 3
the weakness of black's a7 pawn.) 15...Qxa5
60 Vas Bryan 4½ 32.g4!+-] 27.Rxa6+- Nb6 28.Na5! heading
102 Bisht Rachit 3
(15...Qb7?? 16.Qd8#) 16.Rxa5 a6 17.Bd3
61 Fadte Rudresh 4½ for c6 from where this knight dominates the
103 Parab Rishikesh 3
0–0 18.Ke2! for Rha1 gives white a clear ad-
62 Ganpule Utkarsh 4½ black position till the end. 28...Rbb8 29.Ra7!
104 Aditya Tari 3
vantage because of black's weak a6 pawn.]
63 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 4½ Rf7 [An important alternative is: 29...Na8
105 Munjare Yash 3
12.Qa5! Qxa5 13.Rxa5 (threat 14 Nb6!) 13...
64 Mayuri A Chari 4½ 30.Nc4 Rf7 31.b4! cxb4 32.cxb4 Nb6 Black
106 Pai Kane Pushp 3
a6 14.Bd3 e5 15.Nb6 Ra7 16.Nd2 [Stronger
65 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 4½ cannot capture the b-pawn as his Na8 is
107 Raikar Rivia R. 3
was: 16.Nxd7! Kxd7 17.Kd2 Kc7 18.Kc2 Kb6
66 Ananya Pandey 4½ hanging. 33.hxg6 hxg6 34.Nxb6 Bxb6 (34...
108 Gaudalkar Anshu 3
19.Rha1±] 16...Rb7 17.Nxd7 Kxd7 18.Nc4
67 Shirodkar Aayush 4½ Rxb6 35.b5+-) 35.Rh7+ Kxh7 36.Rxf7+
109 Prabhu Sejal 3
[Stronger was: 18.Bxa6! Rxb2 19.Bd3 Rb7
68 Alaya Vella D Cruz 4½ Kh6 37.Rxf6+-] 30.Nc6! Ra8 31.Rxa8 Nxa8
110 Sawant Shraddha Narayan 3
20.Ke2! Be7 21.Nc4±] 18...Be7 19.0–0 Rf8
69 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 4½ 32.h6+ White sees the lack of coordination
111 Shetty Sushant 3
20.g3 f6 [After 20...f5 21.f4 fxe4 22.Bxe4
70 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 4 among black's minor pieces and decides to
112 Vicente Fernandes 3
exf4 23.Rxf4 Rb5 24.Ra1 Rxf4 25.gxf4 white
71 Garud Aniket 4 close operations on the king-side and take
113 Skandhaj Kotha 3
has only a minimal advantage.] 21.Kg2 Bd8
72 Kakodkar Love 4 his Rh3 to the a-file to exploit black's messy
114 Deshmukh Shreyas 3
22.Ra2 Bc7 Black has to permanently fight to
73 Srilaxmi Kamat 4 queen-side. 32...Kg8 [32...Kf8 might take his
115 Kadam Shubham 2½
save his threatened a6 and d6 pawns. 23.h4
74 Sainee N F Dessai 4 king faster to the queen-side, but after he
116 Luis Macvert 2½
Ke7 24.h5 Kf7 25.Rh1 Kg7 Diagram #
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reaches d7, white would have the nasty Bb5
threatening a dangerous discovered attack.]
33.Rh1 Bb6 34.Ra1! It is instructive to see
how the 37-year old Russian Grandmaster
creates a traffic jam among the black forces
on the queen-side. 34...Nc7 35.f4 Rf8 Black
has successfully stopped the white rook from
entering his position anywhere along the
a-file. But watch how white gets around this
hurdle! 36.Ra3! Kf7 The black king starts his
journey to the queen-side to help his belea-
guered minor pieces there, but it is now too
late. 37.Rb3 Na8 The only move and it seems
to be enough to keep the white forces at bay.
But.... 38.Ba6!+- Threat 39 Bb7! 38...Bc7
39.Rb7 Ke8 40.Ra7! White takes admirable
advantage of every unfortunate black situa-
tion! 40...Kd7
Diagram # 41.Bb5! Just when black thought
his troubles were over, comes this horrendous
threat of a discovered check. There is no let
up in the stream of devastating threats. The
king, which hurried to the defence of his
minor pices, has himself become an object
of attack. 41...exf4 42.gxf4 Nb6 43.Nd4+
Kc8 44.Ne6 [44.Rxc7+ Kxc7 45.Ne6+ Kc8
46.Nxf8 Kd8 47.Nxh7 Ke7 is also winning for
white.; however, 44.Ba6+!! Kd7 45.Ne6 wins
the game on the spot.] 44...Rf7 45.Ba6+!!
After 45.... Kb8 46 Rb7+ black has nothing
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more to play for. 1–0
Bidhar,Rutumbara (2009)
Neelotpal,Das (2462) [A57]
This is a very instructive rook end-game
which is worth studying in depth. The un-
fancied player misses chances against the
grandmaster. this looks like a clear winning
position for black but black has a trick up
his sleeve!
35...Bxd4 36.Nb5! This trap does not occur
naturally in the game and a grandmaster is
bound to look for the reason of white's gen-
erosity. And he finds it! 36...Kd5! [Black sees
that if 36...Bxf2?? 37.Rxd6#!] 37.Rf3 [White
misses a good opportunity to create an upset
and make the headlines in the first round of
the tournament with: 37.f5! gxf5 38.Rxf5+
Kc6 39.Nxd4+ cxd4 40.Rxa5! Rxb2 41.Rxb2
Rxb2 42.Rh5! and with a passed pawn on
the a-file and a potential passed pawn on
the g-file, white has an advantage which
he could convert to a win.] 37...Rf8 38.Kg2
h5 39.h3= [A serious attempt to win is:
39.gxh5! gxh5 40.f5 Rbf7 41.Nxd4 cxd4
42.Rf4 Rxf5 43.Rdxd4+ Kc5 44.b4+ axb4
45.Rc4+ Kd5 46.Rxf5+ Rxf5 47.Rxb4=] 39...
hxg4 40.hxg4 Rh7! Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
c3.) 58.g5 d2–+ 59.Rf8 Rxg5 60.Kxd2 Kxa4–+]
44.Ke2 cxd4 45.Rf2 gxf5 46.gxf5 white resigns
without waiting for 46...R8h3 for ...Re3# 0–1
Anisuzzaman,Jewel (Ban) (2002)
Visakh,N R (2453) [B96]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4
a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 9.Qd2 Qxb2
10.Rb1 Qa3 11.Be2 Be7 12.Bf2N White has
an ambitious plan to trap the black queen.
12...Qa5
41.f5? [This gives chances for black. Bet-
ter was: 41.Nxd4 cxd4 42.f5 gxf5 43.Rf4
Ke5 44.Rfxd4=] 41...Rfh8!µ 42.Kf1? [42.
Rfd3 Ke4! 43.Nxd6+ (43.Nxd4 c4! 44.fxg6
Rh2+ 45.Kf1 Rh1+ 46.Ke2 R8h2#) 43...Kf4
44.Rf3+ Kxg4 45.Rg3+ Kf4 46.Rf3+ Ke5
47.Nc4+ Kd5 48.b3 Rh2+ 49.Kg3 R8h3+
50.Kg4 Rxf3 51.Kxf3 Rxd2 52.Nxd2 gxf5µ]
42...Ke4³ 43.Nxd4
13.Nf5? exf5 14.Bb6 Nxe4 [14...Qa3
15.Rb3!²] 15.Bxa5 Nxd2 16.Kxd2 Nc6
17.Nd5 Bd8 18.Bc3 0–0µ White has obtained
this position at the cost of two pawns and
an uncastled king. 19.Nb6 Bxb6 20.Rxb6
Rd8 21.Bf3 d5 22.Ke2 d4!µ 23.Bd2 [23.Ba1
was better.] 23...d3+ 24.cxd3 Nd4+ 25.Ke3
43...Rh1+ [After 43...cxd4 Black will take Nxf3 26.gxf3
a longer time to win as per this long and
instructive analysis: 44.Rff2 Rh1+ 45.Kg2
(45.Ke2 R8h3–+) 45...R1h2+ 46.Kf1 Rxf2+
47.Rxf2 gxf5 48.Rxf5 d3! 49.Ke1 (49.Rh5
Rb8 50.Rb5 Rg8–+) 49...Rh1+ 50.Kd2 Rh2+
51.Kd1 Ke3 52.Rh5 (the only move) 52...
Rxb2 53.Rh3+ Kd4 54.Rh8 Rg2! 55.Rg8
Kc3! 56.Rc8+ Kb3 57.Rg8 d5! (Black is
plannng ....d2 and ...Kc3 and ...Rg1+ and to
answer a rook check from c8, or from f3, pro-
vides a safe haven or a block for his king at d3/
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Diagram # 26...Bd7! A neat way to get out
of white's bind on the queen-side! 27.d4 [If
27.Rxb7? Bb5 28.Kf2 (28.d4 Re8+ 29.Kf2
Re2+–+) 28...Rxd3 29.Be3 Re8 30.Re1
Ra3–+] 27...Bb5 28.Re1 Re8+ 29.Kf2 Rxe1
30.Bxe1 Re8!–+ 31.Bb4 Re2+ 32.Kg3 Bc6!
white can not save his crucial f3 pawn. 33.a3
Re3 34.Bd6 Rxf3+ 35.Kh4 f6! 36.Rb2
Diagram # [The only way to stop immediate
mate was: 36.Rxc6 ] 36...g5+! After 37 fxg5
hxg5+ 38 Kh5 Be8+ 39 Kh6 Rh3# 0–1
Iniyan,P (2363)
Bernadskiy,Vitaliy (Ukr) (2540) [E95]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nf3 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e4
0–0 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.0–0 e5 8.Re1 c6 9.h3
exd4 10.Nxd4 Re8 11.Qc2[11.Bf1 is usual
here.] 11...Nc5 12.Bf3 Diagram #
12...Nfd7 [Black cannot take advantage of the
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unprotected white knight on d4 with: 12...
Nfxe4? 13.Nxe4 Bxd4 14.Bg5! Qd7 15.Nf6+
Bxf6 16.Bxf6 Ne6 17.Qd2 Ng7 18.Qc3 Rxe1+
19.Rxe1 Ne6 20.Qd2 Rb8 21.Re4 and white
has a winning attack along the h-file.] 13.Be3
Nb6 14.b3 Be5 15.Rad1 Qf6 16.Nce2 a5
17.Qc1 Nbd7 18.Bg4 Diagram #
18...Qh8!? [No doubt the Grandmaster Ber-
nadskiy saw that the following variations were
not favourable for him and chose to put his
queen in the dead corner of the board. The
hypermodern master, and theoretician Aron
Nimzowitsch, (1886–1935) author of "My
System" was fond of such moves, especially
with the white pieces he played Qa1 early
in the middle-game to influence the centre.
18...Nxe4 19.f3 Nec5= 20.f4! Bxd4 21.Bxd4
Qd8 22.Bxd7! Bxd7 (22...Nxd7 23.Bb2 Nc5
24.Qc3 f6 25.Ng3 Rxe1+ 26.Qxe1 Kf7 27.f5²)
23.f5! g5 (23...Bxf5?? 24.Bxc5+-) 24.Bxc5
dxc5 25.Rd6 f6 (25...Qe7? 26.f6!+-) 26.Qd2
Re7 27.Rd1+-] 19.f4 Bf6 20.Bxd7! In our
times, when the two bishops are almost Gods
to our young chess players, this exchange
of an active bishop for a knight on d7 shows
an understanding of the position and what is
needed to advance ones cause in the game.
20...Bxd7 Diagram #
21.Nf5!? [Youthful exuberance. Only 15,
white embarks on an adventurous game,
no doubt sparked by the black queen self
cornered in h8. Leading to a tumultuous and
hair-raising equality was: 21.e5 dxe5 22.Nf3
(22.fxe5 Bxe5 23.Nc2 Bb2 24.Qb1 Rxe3!
25.Nxe3 Qe5³ 26.Ng4 Bxg4 27.hxg4 Qe3+
28.Kh1 (28.Kf1? Ne4–+) 28...Qh6+ 29.Kg1
Be5³ and black has all the fun!) 22...e4
23.Bxc5 exf3 24.Rxd7 fxe2 25.Qc2 Red8=]
21...Nxe4!³ 22.Nxd6 Bb2 23.Bd4 [If 23.Qc2
Nxd6 24.Rxd6 Bxh3 25.Bc1 Bxc1 26.Qxc1]
23...Bxc1 24.Nxc1!? [White plays risky chess
spurning the queen in the hope of gaining
more. Better was: 24.Bxh8 Nxd6 25.Rxd6
Bxh3 26.Be5 Be3+ 27.Kf1 Be6 28.Nd4 Bxd4
29.Bxd4 a4! black has an extra pawn but it
is very doubtful whether that would amount
to anything much with the presence of op-
posite colour bishops on the board.] 24...Nf6
25.Nxe8 Rxe8 26.Rxe8+ Bxe8 27.Be5! white
has only a rook for his queen. White's only
compensation is black's poorly placed queen.
But once the queen gets free of his shackles,
white would be doomed. White has a big
task on his hands. 27...Qg7! 28.Rd8 Qf8!
29.Bxf6 Qc5+ 30.Kh1 Qe3 31.Nd3 White
now has rook and bishop for his queen, but
the black queen is free and would soon gain
the upper hand unless something desperate
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is done. 31...Qe6 32.Be5 [The alternative is
not attractive: 32.Ne5 Qxf6 33.Rxe8+ Kg7
34.Rf8 Kxf8 35.Nd7+ Ke7 36.Nxf6 Kxf6 37.g4
g5 38.fxg5+ Kxg5 39.Kg2 Kf4µ] 32...Qe7
33.Rd6 b6 34.Nf2 f5
Diagram # Thus black has thwarted the
knight's intrusion into his position via Ne4
and Ng4. But white has another plan! 35.c5!
bxc5?! [Much better was: 35...b5 36.Nd3
h6 37.Kg1 b4 38.Kh2 Kh7 39.Nb2 g5 lead-
ing to some fascinating endgame 40.Nc4
gxf4 41.Bxf4 Qe2 42.Rxh6+ Kg7 43.Ne5
Qxa2 44.Re6 Bh5=] 36.Nd3 g5 37.Nxc5
gxf4 38.Bxf4 Qe1+ [Stronger was 38...
Qe2! threatening both 39...Qf1+ and 39...
Qxa2.] 39.Kh2 Qf2 40.Nd3 Qb6?! 41.Ne5=
Qb4 [41...a4=] 42.Nc4! Suddenly white
finds himself in a comfortable position with
all threats against his king disappearing.
42...a4? [42...Kg7 would have avoided the
unpleasantness that follows.] 43.Rd8! The
bishop cannot be saved. 43...Qe7 [If 43...
Qe1 44.Nd6+-; or 43...Kf7 44.Nd6++-]
44.Rc8 axb3 45.axb3 Kg7 46.Rc7! Bd7
47.Ne5 Qb4 48.Bg5! [Cool! but also winning
was: 48.Rxd7+! Kf6 49.Rd6+!! (dragging
the queen into a double attack!) 49...Qxd6
50.Ng4++-] 1–0
Ivana Maria,Furtado (2016)
Neverov,Valeriy (Ukr) (2478)
1.Nf3 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 d6 4.Bg2 e5 5.d3
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Be7 6.Nc3 0–0 7.0–0 Na6 8.a3 Qe8N
9.b4 Qh5 10.b5? [White goes out of her
way to bring the stranded black knight back
into the game! Better was: 10.d4 e4 11.Ng5
c6 12.f3=] 10...Nc5 11.d4 Nce4 12.Nd5
Nxd5 13.cxd5 Bd7 14.Qb3
Diagram # [Better was to counter-attack
with: 14.Bb2 exd4 15.Nxd4 Bf6 16.a4 Qf7
17.Qc2 Rac8 18.Rfd1=] 14...exd4 15.Bb2
Bf6 16.Rad1 [White was concerned about
black forking her queen and rook by ...Nd2 if
her knight were to move away from f3. Com-
paratively better was: 16.Rfc1 Nc5 17.Qc4 f4
18.Bxd4 a6 19.a4 fxg3 20.hxg3 Qf7] 16...
Nc5 17.Qb4
Diagram # 17...d3! This move starts white
on her way down. Her pawn structure is in
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pawns become easy prey for black's well co-
ordinated pieces. 18.exd3 Bxb2 19.Qxb2 f4!
White's d5 pawn is under threat now. 20.d4
Na4 21.Qb3 Nb6 22.Nd2 [Better was 22.Rc1!
Rac8 23.Rfe1 Rf7 24.Nd2³ and black has only
a small advantage.] 22...Bg4 23.Rc1 Be2
24.Rfe1 f3! 25.Bh1 Diagram # [If
25.Bf1 Bxf1 (25...Rf5 26.Rxc7=) 26.Rxf1
Rf7 27.Rfe1 Raf8 28.h4 Nxd5 29.Re4 Kh8µ]
25...Rf5 26.Rxc7 Raf8 27.h4 Kh8 28.Rec1
g5 29.hxg5 Rxg5 30.Ne4 [This is futile as
she cannot shake off the mating net down
the h-file. Her best would be to sacrifice her
knight for two pawns but that would also
lead to defeat: 30.Nxf3 Bxf3 31.Bxf3 Rxf3
32.R1c3 Rf8 33.Qc2 Rg6 for 34....Rh6] 30...
Rg6 31.Nc3 Rh6 0–1
Selected games from 9th Chennai
Open, Chennai
Horvath,Adam (Hun) (2499) Tukhaev,
Adam (Ukr) (2516) [B45]
The tournament winner, 29-year old Ukraini-
an grandmaster Adam Tukhaev put his mark
on this Chennai Open with this short, 21–
move, fiery brilliancy. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4
cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6
7.Qd2 e5 8.Nb3 Be7N 9.f3 0–0 10.0–0–0
a5!? 11.Na4 [This loses control over the
important d5 square. Better was 11.Kb1
a4 12.Nc1 a3 13.b3 With his queen-side
blocked and his king safe, white can now
turn his attention to the king-side.] 11...Be6
12.Kb1 d5! Diagram #
Generally, in an e2-e4 Opening, when black
is able to achieve ...d5 without any ill effect,
he achieves equality and sometimes, even
some superiority. The same way, in a Closed
Opening with 1 d2-d4 or 1 Nf3, if black achieves
....e5, he has achieved equality. 13.Bb6 [Best
here was: 13.Nb6 d4 14.Nxa8 a4 15.Nxd4 (15.
Bxd4? axb3! 16.Bc3 bxa2+ 17.Ka1 Qxa8–+)
15...exd4 16.Bxd4 Nxd4 17.Qxd4 Qxa8
18.Bc4 Bxc4 19.Qxc4 Qa5] 13...Qc8
14.Nbc5 dxe4 15.fxe4 Bxc5 16.Nxc5
These exchanges tend to favour black though
white has absolute control over the open
d-file. 16...Nd4! An excellent method to chal-
lenge the open d-file! 17.Nxe6
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[If 17.c3 Qc6! 18.cxd4 Qxb6 19.dxe5 Rad8
20.Qe1 Rxd1+ 21.Qxd1 Rd8! 22.Qc2 Ng4³
With his knight hanging on f6, black got in a
lot of development moves through the theme
of intermezzo and he now controls the d-file!]
17...Nxe4! Another intermezzo! Instead
of automatically recapturing the knight on
e6, black strikes at the centre and targets
the white queen. 18.Qe1 [This abandons
c2, leading to a speedy defeat. Better was:
18.Qc1 Qxe6 19.Bxd4 exd4 20.Rxd4
Qe5! 21.Rd7 (or 21.c3 Rad8! 22.Bd3 Rxd4
23.cxd4 Qxd4µ) 21...Nf2 22.Rg1 Rfd8!
23.Rxd8+ Rxd8 24.Bc4 Qxh2µ] 18...Qxc2+
19.Ka1 Nb3+!! 20.axb3 a4!! 21.Nc7 Di-
agram # [White is defenceless against the
attack on his castled king. If 21.Bd3 axb3+!
22.Qa5 (or, if 22.Ba5 Qxd1+!! 23.Qxd1
Rxa5+ 24.Kb1 Rfa8 25.Qxb3 (forced) 25...
Nd2+ 26.Kc2 Nxb3+-) 22...Rxa5+ 23.Bxa5
Qc6! (The queen is seen in all its glory, at-
tacking two white pieces, defending his own
knight on e4 and threatening mate!)
24.Nxf8 Qa4+ 25.Kb1 Kxf8! 26.Rhe1
Nf2! 27.Bb6 Nxd1 28.Rxd1 e4! 29.Bc5+
Ke8 30.Re1 f5 31.Ba3 b5 32.g4 Kf7
33.Bf1 b4! wins.] 1...a3!! There is no de-
fence against the threat of 22... axb2+ for if
22 bxa2, Rxa3+# 0–1
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Czebe,Attila (Hun) (2491)
Grover,S (2467) [A00]
1.g3 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.Bg2 Bb7 4.0–0 g6
5.d3 Bg7 6.e4 d6 7.Nh4 e5 8.f4 Nbd7
9.Nc3= Nh5?! [More cautious play marked
J.Emma vs H.Garcia, 7th Mar Del Plata Op,
1974 which went: 9...Qe7 10.Qe2 0–0–0
11.f5 Rdg8 12.Rb1 Ne8 13.b4 Bf6 14.fxg6
hxg6 15.Nf3 Rh7 drawn after the 34th move.]
10.fxe5 dxe5 11.Nf5 The experienced Hun-
garian Grandmaster is quick to take advantage
of black's 9th move 11...Bf8 Diagram # 12.Nh6!
This is the final destination for this knight. From
h6, it causes much discomfiture for the black
forces.
(position after 11….Bf8)
12...f6 [Somewhat better was: 12...Bc5+
13.Kh1 Rf8 14.Ng4 f6 15.a4!] 13.Bh3 Bc5+
14.Kh1 Qe7 15.Nd5! Bxd5 [Nobody likes an
opponent's knight to sit in the centre of the
board and threaten vital squares. Fascinat-
ing and very instructive play ensues after:
15...Qd6 16.Nf5! Qc6 17.b4! Bd4 18.b5!
Qc5 19.c3! Bxc3 20.Be3 Qa3 21.Nxc7+ Kd8
22.Ne6+ Kc8 23.Qc1!! Qxc1 24.Raxc1 gxf5
25.Rxc3+ Kb8 26.Rxf5+-] 16.exd5 Ng7
[Black hastens to dissuade the white bishop
from getting to e6 to aid Nf7. However, he can
withstand a small disadvantage after 16...0–
0–0 17.Be6 Ng7 18.Nf7 Nxe6 19.dxe6
Qxe6 20.Nxh8 Rxh8 21.Qf3 f5 and black
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is only slightly worse.] 17.Bg2 Bd6 [Wisely,
black avoids 17...0–0–0 18.c3 Bd6 19.b4 f5
20.Qa4 Kb8 21.Qa6 to be followed by a4-a5-
axb6 with a big attack.] 18.Be3 f5 19.Qd2
Rf8 20.Rae1 0–0–0 Finally, black takes the
plunge and castles long after all the white
forces are concentrated on the king-side.
But that is exactly where his troubles begin!
21.Bg5 Nf6 Diagram # 22.g4! Qd7 [22...f4?
23.Bxf4+-] 23.gxf5 gxf5 24.Bh3! The f5
pawn is so mercilessly pinned both against
his king and queen that black relieves himself
of the pressure by sacficing the exchange.
(position after 21…..Nf6)
24...Nxd5? [More stubborn with some faint
chances would be: 24...Kb8 25.Nxf5 Ngh5
26.Rf3 Qf7 27.Ref1 Qxd5 28.Ne3 Qxa2
29.Bxf6 Nxf6 30.Rxf6 Rxf6 31.Rxf6 Qxb2
black has two pawns for his knight but his
chances of surviving a mating attack are
remote.] 25.Bxd8 Nf4
[If 25...Kxd8 26.Qg5+ Qe7 27.Qg2 c6
28.Nxf5+-] 26.Rxf4!? [White returns the
exchange as he sees victory ahead. But he
had the following clever line which would
force immediate resignation: 26.Bg5! Nxh3
27.Qg2 threatening 28 Qa8# and winning the
Nh3 after which he would be a whole rook up!]
26...exf4 27.Be7! [This is spectacular! Also
winning was the prosaic: 27.Bg5 Qc6+ 28.Kg1
f3 (28...Bc5+? 29.d4!+-) 29.b4+-] 27...Bxe7
28.Qg2! A decisive double attack, mate with
Qa1# and capture of knight with Qxg7. 28...
f3 29.Qxg7 Qc6
30.Rf1 [White misses a beautiful finish:
30.Rxe7!! f2+ 31.Re4!! and black can resign
as every thing is against him; his pinned f5
pawn cannot capture the rook, his pawn pro-
motion 31...f1Q would result in 32 Bxf1 and
white is also threatening 32 Qxf8+.] 30...f2+
31.Bg2 Qe6 32.Rxf2 Kb8 33.Nxf5!! This
exploits black's back-rank weakness. After
33...Rxf5 34 Qh8+ Bf8 35 Qxf8+! Rxf8
36 Rxf8+ Qc8 37 Rxc8 wins. 1–0
Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy,(Vie) (2448) -
Patil,Pratik (2208) [D77]
This surely must be the best game of the
tournament! An unknown player, conceding
240 Elo points to his grandmaster opponent,
and conducting a successful king hunt with
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the black pieces is something to be remem-
bered! One must go through the variations as
there is an original, unbelievably brilliant
queen-sacrifice mate shown in the notes
to the 27th move. A near parallell in his-
tory to this game is the Letelier vs Fischer
game from the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad.
Like Patil here, Bobby Fischer also mates
Letelier's (white) king on f4 with his bish-
op from h6 on the 24th move. This game
is given separately lower down. 1.d4 Nf6
2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–0 5.0–0 d5
6.c4 dxc4 7.Na3 c3 8.bxc3 c5 9.Ne5 Qa5
10.Qb3 Nbd7 11.Nec4 [T.Sande vs A.
Skjelde, Norway Ch. 1991 went: 11.Nac4
Qa6 12.Re1 Nb6 13.Nxb6 axb6 14.Rb1
cxd4 15.cxd4 Ng4 16.Bf4 Qxa2 17.Qxb6
Nxe5 18.dxe5 Ra6 ...27 1–0] 11...Qd8
12.Rd1 cxd4 13.cxd4 Nb6 [Black does
not enjoy a comfortable game. If 13...a6
14.Bg5 Ra7 15.Ne5 Nb6 16.Rab1 Nbd5
17.e4 Nc7±] 14.Nxb6 Qxb6 15.Rb1 Rd8
16.Qc4? [He should take the offered
pawn: 16.Qxb6 axb6 17.Rxb6±] 16...Qa5
17.Bxb7 Bxb7 18.Rxb7 Rac8 19.Qb3
White has no inkling of what is about to
happen! 19...Rxd4!! A well calculated and
imaginative sacrifice which must have taken
the Vietnamese Grandmaster by surprise.
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20.Rxd4 Qe1+ [The move order is impor-
tant. If now 20...Rxc1+ 21.Rd1! (21.Kg2
Qe1 22.Rd8+ Bf8 23.Rxe7 as in the game.)
21...Rxd1+ 22.Qxd1 Qxa3 23.Qd8+ Bf8
24.Rb8 Qc1+ 25.Kg2 Qc6+ 26.f3 Nd7³
and black will slowly make his material
advantage count.] 21.Kg2 Rxc1 22.Rd8+
Bf8 23.Rxe7
The players are at each others throat. Who
will succeed?! 23...Qh1+! 24.Kh3 Qf1+!
25.Kh4 g5+! 26.Kxg5 Rc5+! 27.Kxf6 [If
27.Kh4 Rh5#; or if 27.Kf4 Qxf2+ 28.Qf3
Qd4+!! (Unpinning his bishop for mating!)
29.Rxd4 Bh6#
an amazing mate in the middle of the board!]
27...Qa1+!! White can stop the check by his
queen and two rooks, but one by one they
would be captured and it would be mate! 0–1
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Letelier,M.R - Fischer,R.J [E70]
Leipzig Olympiad Leipzig, 1960
This game played in the 1960 Leipzig Ol-
ympiad is reproduced here as a supplement
to the Nguyen Huyn Min Huy vs Pratik Patil
game given above. Both games feature a
black queen sacrifice followed by a pretty
mate by a bishop from h6. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4
g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0–0! 5.e5 Ne8 6.f4
d6 7.Be3 c5 8.dxc5 Nc6! 9.cxd6 exd6
10.Ne4 Bf5 11.Ng3 Be6 12.Nf3 Qc7
13.Qb1 dxe5 14.f5 e4! 15.fxe6 exf3
16.gxf3 f5! 17.f4 Nf6 18.Be2 Rfe8 19.Kf2
Rxe6 20.Re1 Rae8 21.Bf3 Rxe3! 22.Rxe3
Rxe3! 23.Kxe3
23...Qxf4+!! If 24 Kxf4 Bh6# !!! 0–1
Anilkumar,O.T (2086) Kurbonboe-
va,Sarvinoz (WGM (2274) [A48]
White is an untitled player from Kerala who
does not know much of opening theory. How-
ever. at the age of 54 he is an experienced
player having played in the National Premier
once. On the other hand he is pitted against
a 23-year old Uzbek WGM who must be upto
date in opening theory. The WGM is better off in
the openings but as the game progresses, the
veteran slowly prevails in the endgame. 1.d4
Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.e3 d6 5.Be2 0–0
6.h3 b6 7.c4 Nbd7 8.Nc3 Bb7 9.Qc2 Re8
10.0–0–0N [10.Rd1 has been played here.]
10...c5 11.d5 a6 12.g4 [The Indian veteran
is an old fox from Calicut and is not well known
for his expertise in the openings. On the other
hand the Uzbek WGM who is less than half
his age, must be well primed in chess theory.
Better was 12.e4 Qc7=] 12...Qc7 13.e4 Reb8
14.Rhg1 b5 15.cxb5 axb5 16.Bxb5 Ba6
17.Bc6 Ra7? [Better was 17...Bb7 18.Bxb7
Rxb7=] 18.Rge1! White realises that his in-
tended pawn storm on the king-side has
little prospects and turns his attention to
the centre. 18...Ne8 19.h4!? White appears
to taunt black for withdrawing her knight
to e8. With this move he seems to say,
"Come back to f6 to stop my h4-h5!" 19...
Qa5 20.Re3 Bc4 21.b3 Ba6
Diagram # 22.e5 [White shelves his plan
of attacking along the h-file is fraught
with risk and chooses to block black's
bishop on the long dark diagonal first. If
22.h5 Qa3+ 23.Kd2 (23.Qb2 Qb4 (with
the threat of 24... .c4)) 23...Bd4! 24.Ree1
Bxf2 25.Rh1 Nef6 26.hxg6 fxg6 27.g5 Ng4
28.Bxd7 Rxd7 29.Nh2 Rf8 30.Nxg4 Rxf4
31.Nb1 Qa5+ 32.Kc1=] 22...c4 23.Bxd7
[White fears that this knight might join the
attack by ....Nc5. Better was: 23.Rde1= ]
23...Rxd7 24.Nd4 [24.bxc4? Qa3+ 25.Kd2
Rb2–+] 24...cxb3 25.axb3 Bc4 26.Nc6²
[Again, if 26.bxc4? Qa3+ 27.Kd2 Rb2–+]
26...Qa3+ 27.Qb2 Rxb3 28.Qxa3 Rxa3±
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29.Rd4! [with black's major attacking
forces safely exchanged off, white keeps
the position closed before chasing away
the last remaining rook and bishop. If
29.exd6? Rxc3+ 30.Rxc3 Bxc3 31.Be5
Be2 32.Bxc3 Bxd1 33.Nxe7+ Kf8 34.Kxd1
N xd 6 – +] 29...Bf1 30.Rb4 Th r eaten s
31 Rb8 increasing the pressure on the
WGM. 30...Ra8 31.Kc2 Kf8 32.Re1 Bg2
33.exd6 exd6 [If 33...Nxd6? 34.Rxe7!
Rxe7 35.Bxd6 wins.] 34.Nd4 Rc8 35.Kd3
Material on the board is absolutely lev-
el. Positionally neither side has glaring
weaknesses. If anything, white's d5 pawn
hangs on the mercy of his Nc3. Now, the
skills of the two players alone is going to
count. 35...Nc7 36.Rc4 Rcd8 37.Bg5 Ra8
38.Rg1 Bxd5 Diagram #
[If black wants to avoid losing knight and
bishop for rook she will have to move her
attacked bishop to a passive position:
38...Bh3 39.h5 Na6 40.Na4²] 39.Rxc7!
Rxc7 40.Nxd5 Ra3+ 41.Ke4 Rc4 42.Bf6
[A little stronger was: 42.Be7+ Ke8 (42...
Kg8 43.Nf6+ Kh8 44.Rb1! Ra8 45.g5+-)
43.Bf6 Bxf6 44.Nxf6+ Ke7 45.g5+-] 42...
Raa4 43.Rd1 Bxf6 44.Nxf6 Ra2 45.f3
h6 46.Kd5± Rc3 47.Ne4 Ra5+ 48.Kxd6
Rc4 White has two knights, a rook and
an active king against two rooks. 49.g5
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hxg5 50.hxg5 Rb4 51.Nc6 Rb6 [51...
Ra6? 52.Nc5! Rab6 53.Nd7+ wins.] 52.Nc5
Kg7 53.f4 Ra2 54.Kc7 Rbb2 55.Rd7 Rd2
56.Re7 Re2 [56...Rac2 57.Nd7 (57.Ne6+
Kg8 58.Re8+ Kh7 59.Ned8 Kg7 60.Kb6 (60.
Re7? Rxd8!=) 60...Rb2+ and white cannot
make any progress.) 57...Rf2 58.Re4 Rc1
59.Kd6 Rd2+ 60.Nd4 Ra2 61.Nb3 Rb1
62.Nbc5 Rd2+ 63.Ke7 Rd5 and white is
not close to victory.] 57.Ne5 Rac2
58.Kd6 [After 58.Rxf7+? Kg8! Both knights
are under threat, Rxc5+ as well as Rxe5 be-
cause the Rf7 is under the protection of the
Ne5. 59.Rf6 Rxc5+ 60.Kd6 Rc1 61.Rxg6+
Kf8 62.Rf6+ Kg7 63.Ke6 Rc6+ 64.Kf5 Rxf6+
65.gxf6+ Kf8 66.Nf3 Kf7 67.Ng5+ Ke8
White cannot win!] 58...Rcd2+ 59.Kc6
Kg8! 60.Ncd7 Rc2+ [black is helpless
against the mating web being created by
the white forces. 60...Rd4? 61.Nf6+ Kh8
62.Re8+ Kg7 63.Rg8#] 61.Kb7 Rb2+
62.Kc7 Rbc2+ 63.Kd8 Rcd2 64.Rxf7 Re4
[64...Rxe5 65.Rf8+ Kg7 66.fxe5+- The
winning move now is 65.Ke8.]1–0
Neverov,Valeriy (Ukr) (2478) - Patil,Pra-
tik (2208) [D85]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5
5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0–0 8.Nf3
c5 9.Rc1 Bg4 10.Qd2 Nd7 11.d5N [L.Nen-
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kov 2245 vs N.Kirov 2455, Pernik, 1984,
was drawn after: 11.Ng5 Nb6 12.h3 Bc8
13.Be2 Na4 14.e5 Qa5 15.f4 Bf5 16.g4
Bd7 17.d5 f6 18.Nf3 Rad8 19.0–0 b5 20.c4
drawn!] 11...f5? 12.exf5 [Better was:
12.Ng5 fxe4 13.h3 h6 14.hxg4 hxg5 15.d6
Ne5 16.Qd5+ Rf7 17.Bxc5²] 12...Rxf5!
13.Bd3=
[This prosaic move inspires black to chart
an adventurous course. Much stronger
was: 13.Ng5! Nb6 14.c4 Rf8 15.Bxc5 Rc8
16.Be3±] 13...Rxf3! 14.gxf3 Ne5! 15.Be2
c4? [This loses. The obvious move gave the
advantage to black: 15...Nxf3+ 16.Bxf3 Bxf3
17.Rg1 Qd6] 16.f4?? [It is amazing that a
grandmaster can miss winning a bishop
and the game with the simple and obvi-
ous: 16.fxg4 ] 16...Nd3+? [Perhaps black
was so shocked that the Grandmaster did
not capture his bishop for nothing that he
misses the variation that would give him
the upper hand: 16...Bxe2! 17.fxe5 Bf3
18.Rg1 Bxe5 19.Rg5 Bf6 20.Rg3 Qxd5³
Black has enough compensation for his
sacrificed rook: bishop and two pawns.]
17.Bxd3² Qxd5 18.Bxc4! Qxc4 19.f3?
[This move tends to favour black. Bet-
ter was: 19.Rg1 Bf5 20.Bd4 Rd8 21.Qb2
Bh6=] 19...Be6 20.Kf2 Qxa2 21.Qxa2
Bxa2 The game is level as black has
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
enough activity for the loss of his rook for
a bishop and pawn. 22.Rhd1 Be6 23.Bd4
Bxd4+ 24.Rxd4 Rc8 25.Re1 Kf7 26.Rde4
Rc6
34...Rc3? [In the present situation the f3
pawn is not important. Though it might ulti-
mately lose, it was better to try to stop white's
h-pawn from advancing with: 34...Rc5 35.h6
Rg5+ 36.Kf2 Rh5 37.Rd4 Rh2+ 38.Kg1
27.f5!? The grandmaster who is playing
Rh4 39.Rh8+ Kf7 40.h7 Kg7 41.Re8! and
for a top cash prize, cannot afford to draw
whichever way the h7 pawn is captured, black will
against a local untitled Indian who is 240
lose his bishop.] 35.h6 Rxf3 36.Rg7 Bf5 [If
Elo lower than him. He tries his best to com-
36...Rh3 37.h7! Kf8 38.Rg8+! Bxg8 39.Rd8+ Kf7
plicate and win this game which appears to
40.hxg8Q+ wins.] 37.h7 Bxh7 38.Rxh7 Re3
be heading for a draw. 27...gxf5 28.Rh4
[Further resistance is futile. If 38...Rb3 39.Rd4 a5
Kg7 29.Rg1+ Kf8 30.Rxh7 Rxc3 31.Rd1
40.Rxf4 b5 41.Re4 Kd7 42.Rexe7++-] 39.Kf2
Ke8 32.h4 Though material is approximate-
b5 40.Ra1 Kd7 41.Rf7 Re4 42.Rxa7+ Kd6
ly level with white having a rook against
43.Kf3 Re1 44.Rxf4 Kd5 45.Rd7+ Kc6
bishop and two pawns, the effectiveness of
46.Rd2 Rf1+ 47.Rf2 Rxf2+ 48.Kxf2 e5
the pieces favour white who threatens to
49.Rh4! A little bit of technique at the end.
queen his h-pawn. In many endgames, the
This move prevents the black king from ad-
superiority in material is not as important
vancing and helping his two pawns. 1–0
as who is going to promote his pawn first.
Here, it is white. Black realises this and
offers a pawn to confuse the opponent and When Grand Masters play, they see the logic
of their opponent's moves. One's moves
lure him into some unfavourable situation. may be so powerful that the other may not
32...f4 [an interesting try is: 32...a5 33.h5 be able to stop him, but the plan behind the
Rc2+ 34.Kg3 f4+ 35.Kxf4 a4 36.h6 Rh2 moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His
moves did not make sense - at least to all
37.Re1!? (37.Rb1 Bb3 38.Re1 Kf8 (38... the rest of us they didn't. We were playing
Kd8 39.Kg3 Rh5 40.Rhxe7 Rxh6 41.Rxb7+- chess, Fischer was playing something else,
) 39.Kg3 (39.Rexe7 Rxh6! 40.Rxb7 wins.) call it what you will. Naturally, there would
come a time when we finally would under-
39...Rh5 40.Rc1!+-) 37...a3 38.Rxe6 a2 stand what those moves had been about.
39.Rexe7+ Kd8 40.Reg7 for 41 Rh8#] But by then it was too late. We were dead.
33.h5 Rc2+ 34.Kg1 - Mark Taimanov
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Prokes 1948 H.Rinck 1949

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

Dr.Artur Mandler 1950 Dr. Fritz 1951

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

Dr. Fritz 1951 Andre Cheron1951

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

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-74 Svetozar Gligorić 2nd Karur FIDE Rating Below 1600 All India Chess Tmt., Karur

S vetozar Gligorić (2.2.1923-14.8.2012) was a Serbian and

Yugoslavian chess grandmaster. He won the championship
of Yugoslavia a record twelve times, and is considered the
best player ever from Serbia. In 1958 he was declared the
best athlete of Yugoslavia.In the 1950s and 1960s Gligorić
was one of the top players in the world, and also among the
world’s most popular, owing to his globe-trotting tournament
schedule and a particularly engaging personality.
His first tournament success came in 1938 when he won the
Belgrade Chess Club championship.Following World War II,
Gligorić worked for several years as a journalist and organizer
of chess tournaments. He continued to progress as a player
and was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950
and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1951, eventually making
the transition to full-time chess professional. He continued active tournament play
well into his sixties.
Gligorić was one of the most successful tournament players of the mid-20th century,
with a number of tournament victories to his credit, but was less successful in com-
peting for the World Chess Championship. He was Yugoslav champion in 1947 (joint),
1948 (joint), 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958 (joint), 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965 and 1971. Seated(LR)C.Shanmugham,Secretary,KDCA,N.K.M.Nallasamy, President,KDCA, Atlas M.Nachimuthu,
He represented his native Yugoslavia with great success in fifteen Chess Olympiads Chairman,Kongu Educational Trust,R.K.Balagunasekharan IA, Chief Arbiter of the tournament.
from 1950 to 1982 (thirteen times on first board). In the first post-war Olympiad, on Standing: (L-R) K.S.Maheswaran, Treasurer, KDCA,Surya and Sivakumar
home soil at Dubrovnik 1950, Gligoric played on first board and led Yugoslavia to a
historic result, the team gold medal.
He made enormous contributions to the theory and practice of the King’s Indian De-
fense, Ruy Lopez and Nimzo-Indian Defense, among others, and particularly with the
King’s Indian, translated his theoretical contributions into several spectacular victo-
ries with both colours . As a commentator, Gligorić was able to take advantage of his
fluency in a number of languages and his training as a journalist, to produce lucid,
interesting game annotations. He was a regular columnist for Chess Review and Chess
Life magazines for many years, his “Game of the Month” column often amounting to a
complete tutorial in the opening used in the feature game as well as a set of compre-
hensive game annotations. He wrote a number of chess books in several languages.
One of the most notable was Fischer v Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century, a
detailed account of their epic struggle for the world title in Reykjavík in 1972. One of
Gligorić’s most famous games was his win against the former World Champion Tigran
Petrosian at the great “Tournament of Peace” held in Zagreb in 1970. It displays Glig-
orić’s virtuosity on the Black side of the King’s Indian and his willingness to play for a
sacrificial attack against one of history’s greatest defenders. Indeed, Gligorić was the
first person to inflict a defeat on Petrosian after he won the world title from Mikhail
Botvinnik in 1963. (L-R) R.K.Balagunasekaran IA, Chief Arbiter,N.K.M.Nallasamy, President ,Karur District Chess
On August 14, 2012, Svetozar Gligorić died from a stroke at 89 years of age in Bel- Association, M.G.S.Ramesh Babu, Ramavilas Weaving, Karur, Paulson Frenchy (Winner),
grade. Gligorić was buried on August 16, 2012 in the Alley of the Greats at Belgrade’s K.Ramakrishnan, Secretary, M.Kumaraswamy College of Engineering, Karur, Thiru M.R.Vijayabhaskar,
New Cemetery. Hon’ble Minister for Transport, Tamilnadu,Chief Guest, Atlas M.Nachimuthu,Chairman, Kongu
Courtesy: wikipedia Educational Trust, C.Shanmugham, Secretary
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 8th Arunachal Pradesh State Fide Rating Chess Championship 2017,Itanagar
Champion Dupit Tachhung receiving
Trophy from Repo Ronya
5th BRDCA FIDE Rating Rapid Chess Tournament, Bangalore
Chidananda ,M.C. Venkatesh, GM M.Shyam Sundar(Winner)Hanumantha.R,
Joint Secretary AICF,_Aravind Shashtry,Secretary UKCA
46
Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1. Starostits,I (2413) - Vuelban,V
(2298) [D05]
Litomysl CZE Litomysl CZE White to play.
17.Nxh6+! gxh6 [17...Nxh6 18.Bxg7+-
Kxg7 (18...f6 19.Bxh6 Rf7 20.Qg4+ Rg7
2 1 . B xg 7 Q xg 7 2 2 . Q xg 7 + ( 2 2 . Q xe 6 +
Kf8 23.Qxd6++-) ) 19.Qxh6+; 17...Kh7
18.Nxf5+; 17...Kh8 18.Nxf5+] 18.Qg5+
[18.Qg5+ hxg5 (18...Kh7 19.Rxh6+ Nxh6
20.Qg7#) 19.Rh8#] 1–0
2. Kulkarni,Vikramaditya (2285) - Mi-
hok,O (2505) [A37]
PRO League Eastern 2017 chess.com
Black to play 16...Bh3 17.f3 Bd4+ 18.Kh1
[18.Rf2 Qxf3–+ 19.Qxf3 (19.Be3 Qxe3–+)
19...Re1#] 18...Bxf1 19.Qxf1 Re1! 20.Qxe1
Qxf3# 0–1
3.Ceschia,I (2257) - Peric,Sl (2168)
Young kid of Arunachal Pradish making his
[C03]
move in the Tournament
1st Excelsior Palace Open Trieste ITA
White to play. 18.Rxd5! exd5 19.Qxd5+ Kh8
20.Qf7 Rg8 21.Bc2 Qe8 [21...Nf8 22.Bb3
Be6 23.Bxe6 Nxe6 24.Qxe6+-; 21...Nc5
22.Re1 Be6 23.Rxe6 Nxe6 24.Qxe6+-; 21...
Ne5 22.Nxe5 fxe5 23.Re1 Qh4 24.Bd2 Idea
25.Bc3+-] 22.Bg7+ 1–0
4.Smith,Mu (2320) - Dalton,Joseph
(1966) [A11]
4NCL 2016–17 Northampton ENG
Black to play. 27...cxd3! 28.Rxc8 [28.Qxc8
Qxc8 29.Rxc8 d2–+; 28.Rd1 d2 29.Qe4
Rc1+ 30.Rxc1 dxc1Q+ 31.Kxc1 Qe2–+]
28...d2 29.Rxf8+ Kxf8 30.Qc5+ Kg8 0–1
5.Zatonskih,Anna (2443) - Antipov,-
Mikhail Al (2580) [E11]
Gibraltar Masters 2017 Caleta ENG White
to play. 29.Qxf7+! Qxf7 30.Rxf7 Kxf7
31.b6 Nf6 [31...Rxg3+ 32.Kh2+-] 32.Rf1
Rc2+ 33.Kg1 Ke7 34.Rxf6 Kxf6 [34...
b3 35.axb3 Rc3 (35...Rb2 36.Rf3 Rb1+
37.Kf2 Rb2+ 38.Ke1 Rb1+ 39.Kd2 Rb2+
40.Kc1+-) 36.Re6+ Kd7 37.e5 dxe5 (37...
Rxb3 38.Rxd6+ Ke7 (38...Kc8 39.e6+-)
39.c5+-) 38.b7 Rxb3 39.c5! Kc7 (39...Rxb7
40.c6+) 40.Re7+ Kb8 41.c6+-] 35.b7 Ke5
36.b8Q+- 1–0
6.Hou,Yifan (2651) - Ju,Wenjun (2583)
[C11]
Gibraltar Masters 2017 Caleta ENG
Black to play 32...d3! Threatening 32...
Qg1Ch as well as 32...Qb2Ch 33.Qxd3
[33.cxd3 Qb2+ 34.Kd1 Qd2#] 33...Nb4
34.Qe4 [34.Qe3 Nxa2+ 35.Kd1 Qb1+
36.Ke2 Qxc2+ 37.Ke1 (37.Kf3 Qxf5+–+)
37...Qb1+ 38.Ke2 Qb2+ 39.Kf1 c2–+] 34...
Qg1+ 35.Qe1 Qg2! 36.Qe4 [36.Qe2 Qh1+
37.Qe1 Qb7 38.Re3 (38.Re7 Nd3+ 39.cxd3
Qb2+ 40.Kd1 c2+–+) 38...Nxa2+ 39.Kd1
Qb1+ 40.Ke2 Qxc2+ 41.Kf1 Qxf5+ 42.Kg2
c2–+] 36...Qd2+ 0–1
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.Prokes,Revista de Sah 1948
1.Kh8 c3 2.Rac2 Qe1 3.Rh2+ Kg1 4.Rcg2+
Kf1 5.Rh1+
2.H Rinck,I Pr,Revista deSah 1949
1.f7 Kf1 2.Kh2 Nf2 3.Kg3 Ne4+ 4.Kf4 Nc5
5.b7 Nd7 6.b8Q Nxb8 7.f8Q
3.Dr Artur Mandler,Sach1950
1.Kb4 e2 2.Rh1 Kd3 3.Kc5 Kd2 4.Kd4
4.Fritz,Ceskosl.Sach 1951
1.Kb4 Be6 2.Rd6 Bf7 3.Bg6 Nh6 4.Kc3 Kh2
5.Bh5 Bxh5 6.Rxh6
5.Fritz,Ceskosl.Sach 1951
1.Re3+ Kd4 2.Rg3 Ne4 3.Ra3 Nd5 4.Nf3#
6.Andre Cheron,Parallele 50,1951
1.Bf4 Ke2 2.Ba2 d3 3.Bc4 Kd1 4.Kf3 e2
5.Bb3+ Ke1 6.Kg2 d2 7.Bg3#
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 21: Looking at the structure of the black pawns it is clear
that both the black rooks could not have come out and must have been captured on the top rank.
The only missing men are black knight and the black bishop moving on white squares. The white At the PD function (L-R) Dr N K Tiwari, Director Bansal Group of Institutes,Kapil Saxena , Hony Secretary,
pawn which stands now on b3 must have captured the black bishop and WPc3 must have captured MPCA & Jt. Secretary , AICF,Shri Upendra Jain, Director,Sports and Youth Welfare,MP, Mr Akashdeep
the black knight. If you retract either of these captures the mate Nd5 is not possible.Therefore the Mathur Director Airport Authority of India, Bhopal, Dr Sanjay Jain Joint Secretary, Bansal Group of
WPd4 must be retracted back to d2 and now white mates with with Nd3! Institutes, IA Prof. Rathinam Anantharam,Tournament Chief Arbiter & IA MS Gopakumar.
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 37th National Team Chess Championship and &
15th National Women Team Championship, Bhopal

Smt Maya Maheshwari, Additional commissioner, Income Tax department (centre) making inaugural
move. From Left : GM M Shyam Sundar, , Dr N K Tiwari, Director Bansal Group of Institutes,Kapil
Saxena , Hony Secretary, MPCA & Jt. Secretary , AICF, Mr Amrit Minj, GM Airport Authority of India,
Dr Sanjay Jain Joint Secretary, Bansal Group of Institutes, IA Prof. Rathinam Anantharam,Tournament
Chief Arbiter & GM Vijyalaxmi

All the prize winners with dignitaries