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Publisher: Bharat Singh Chouhan National Cities Champion, Bhubaneswar,
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan th National Challengers Chess up to make a clean sweep for railway men at
finished runner-up among the twelve
Championship-2017 was held at top three positions.
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 teams from eight countries which took part in the above
event. Karnavati Club, Ahmedabad, Guja-
Inside… rat from 13th Aug 2017 to 23rd Aug 2017. A Deepan Chakkravarthy, Swapnil Dhopade,
Divya Deshmukh did India proud by winning the Gold in the total number of 258 players, which included Himanshu Sharma, Debashis Das, MR Lalith
55th National Challengers Championship,Ahmedabad
GM Deepan Chakravarthy wins title
U-12 girls section at the World cadets chess championship 13 Grandmasters, 17 International Masters, Babu, Abhijit Kunte, SL Narayanan, S Nitin
by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 1 2017 in Brazil. Incidentally this talented girl from Nagpur 1 Women Grandmaster, 5 Fide Masters, 3 and RR Laxman qualified for the National
won bronze medals in the two previous editions. Reports
18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017, Cuttack
Women Fide Master and 245 International Premier, scheduled to be held in Patna later
Team KIIT Odisha is Champion on these two events are presented in the centre pages of
by R.C.Chatterjee, IA,Chief Arbiter 7 this issue. rated players from 28 State Associations in November.
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE Rated Tmt,Siliguri and 11 Special Units participated in this
Mitrabha Guha clinches title Perseverance paid at last for GM Deepan Chakravarthi 13 round event, played under FIDE’s Swiss In a colourful closing ceremony, Shri. DV
By FA Biswanath Banerjee Chief Arbiter 9 of Tamilnadu who bagged the National Challenger title at System with a time control of 90 minutes Sundar, Vice President FIDE and Shri. Ajay
GMAX Album 1st Chess Beacon FIDE rated Tmt, Jaipur Ahmedabad after an exciting endgame win over Swapnil for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for all Patel, President Gujarat State Chess Associ-
Deepak Katiyar wins title Dhopade of Maharashtra.
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam 11 moves with 30 second increment from move ation gave away the prizes and trophies to
Chess Mine Open Rapid and Blitz Open Tmt ,Bangalore
A record 31 teams from across the country took part in 1. Grandamster Aravindh Chithambaram of the winners in presence of Shri. Jayesh Modi,
Abhijeet Gupta wins ChessMine Rapid in Playoff
Vidit Gujrathi bags the Blitz title the 18th National Cities Championships held at Cuttack Tamilnadu started as the top seed. President Karnavati Club and Shri. Bhavesh
by IA VasanthBH , Chief Arbiter 13 which won by team KiiT Odisha. Reports of these two Patel, Secretary Gujarat State Chess Asso-
1st GDCA All India open fide rating Rapid Tmt ,Gulbarga National events along with those of FIDE rated tournaments In a befitting opening ceremony, Indian Test ciation.
Chinmay Kulkarni wins title are featured in this issue.Selected games from National Cricketer Shri. Parthiv Patel inaugurated the
By Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 16 Under-25 and National Challenger are annotated by IM
4th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated (below 1500) Tmt, Karur Manuel Aaron. Ace Russian trainer Mark Dvoretsky is
event in presence of Shri. Jayesh Modi, Vice Penultimate round
Gokula Kannan wins at Karur featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series. President Gujarat State Chess Association Deepan Chakravarthy and RR Laxman pro-
by FA Dr.G.G.Satheish, Chief Arbiter 18
and Shri. Bhavesh Patel, Secretary Gujarat duced emphatic victories in the penultimate
10th Modern School International Rating , Nanganallur
At Tbilisi, Georgia most of world’s elite playing in the World State Chess Association. round to pave the way for an exciting finish.
Hemant Raam wins title
by M.Vijayakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 20
Cup 2017, are vying for a spot in the forthcoming Candidates
1st NITHM All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt, Hyderabad in Berlin.The knock-out format witnessed so many of the The championship saw lot of ups and downs Playing with black pieces in Sicilian defense,
Chakravarthy Reddy wins NITHM rated big names such as Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Caruana,
from the start itself but the final round of Deepan outsmarted his railway team mate
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 22 Nakamura tumbling out even before half the tournament is
5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Tmt,Udaipur done. The young Indian brigade of Vidith, Sethu and Adhiban National Challengers provided the best ad- Himanshu Sharma in a sheer attacking game
Pranav Shetty wins did exceptionally well getting vital wins against seasoned vertisement for the game as Deepan Chak- in 32 moves. This victory enabled Deepan
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 28 opponents before bowing out in the third round. The semi- kravarthy of Railways finished as champion to move to the second spot in the point-lad-
1st Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Tmt,Pallikaranai finals is on as this goes to the press and who would emerge after beating teammate Swapnil Dhopade in der to be at a striking distance with leader
Ravichandran Siddharth clinches the title as the winner is anybody’s guess! a fascinating encounter. Swapnil Dhopade. As expected playing safe,
by Buvanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 30
Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below1500) overnight leader Dhopade settled for peace
Dhiman Mitra wins at Trichy C.G.S.Narayanan Dhopade who lead most part of the cham- treaty with his Odisha counterpart Debashis
by R.K.Balagunashekaran IA, Chief Arbiter 31
Selected games from 26th National Ch’ships, Port Blair Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the pionship, started the final round with a Das in 25 moves and enjoyed a half-point
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 33 regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are half-point cushion but the never die attitude leader over Deepan. But the equations could
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42 also invited to send interesting articles, annotated of Deepan made the difference in the end. change, if Deepan secures a victory over him
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan Swapnil finished as first runner up while in final round tomorrow.
Masters of the past-80 Mark Dvoretsky 44
AICF Calendar 48 @hotmail.com. Himanshu Sharma finished as second runner In another exciting battle of the day, Grand-
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master RR Laxman outwitted third seed Lalith Tenth round Chess Mine Open Rapid and Blitz Open Tournament 2017, Bangalore
Babu to take his tally to 9 points. Playing with Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of Railways
light colour pieces, the Chennai-based ICF maintained his stay at the top with one-point
man Laxman did not give any breathing space difference at the end of tenth round.
to his rival to seal the victory in 43 moves
as he took only 52 minutes on his clock Playing safe on the top board, Dhopade
to clinch the encounter. Laxman and Das signed the peace treaty with S Satyapragyan
are now at joint third spot with 9 points.12 of Air India after mandatory 25 moves and
players were at joint fifth place and eyeing took his tally to 9 points. The second board
for the 9 qualification spots for the national encounter between railway men Himanshu
premier, scheduled in Novermber at Patna. Sharma and S Ravi Teja also ended in same
fashion. Third seed M R Lalith Babu beat team
Eleventh round mate Mary Ann Gomes in long battle which
With just two rounds remaining, overnight took more than five and half hour to finish.
leader Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of This crucial victory took Lalith to second spot
Railways moved close to secure his sec- with 8 points along with Himanshu Sharma.
ond national challenger title after splitting A pack of seven players including top seed
the point with third seed Lalith Babu in the Aravindh Chithambaram were at joint fourth
eleventh round. spot with seven and half points. Arvindh beat
Arvind Shastry, Hon Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association,Bharat Singh,Secretary, AICF
Fenil Shah of Gujarat and had the company Raju Chilkuri,Roopal Chilkuri, Winner of Rapid event GM Abhijeet Gupta
Playing with white pieces in Symmetrical of Debashis Das, Arghyadip Das, Deepan
variation of English Opening, Lalith tried hard Chakkravarthy, S Satyapragyan, Nitin S and
to derail Dhopade’s march in the event but S Ravi Teja at point table.
the 2015 champion stood firm to make a
peace treaty to maintain his one-point Final ranking
lead. The second board battle between Rk Name Club Pts
Himanshu Sharma and Aravindh Chitham- 1 GM Deepan C. J. RSPB 10½
baram also ended without decisive result 2 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade RSPB 10
after 56 moves. 3 GM Himanshu Sharma RSPB 9½
4 GM Debashis Das ODI 9½
5 GM Lalith Babu M R PSPB 9½
T h e t o p t w o b o a r d ’s r e s u l t s h e l p e d
6 GM Kunte Abhijit PSPB 9½
Grandmasters Deepan Chakkravarthy of
7 GM Sunilduth Lyna N KER 9½
Railways and Debashis Das of Odisha to
8 IM Nitin S. RSPB 9½
move to the joint second spot in the compa- 9 GM Laxman R.R. RSPB 9½
ny of Lalith and Himanshu after registering 10 GM Aravindh C Vr TN 9
resounding victories.. Deepan outwitted S 11 IM Das Arghyadip RSPB 9
Satyapragyan of Air India while Das put it 12 Sammed Jaykumar S MAH 9
across Arghyadip Das. 13 IM Shyaamnikhil P RSPB 9
14 IM Padmini Rout PSPB 9
Eight players including top two seeds Aravin- 15 Surendran N TN 9
dh Chithamabram and S L Narayanan were 16 Nayak Rajesh ODI 9
at joint sixth place with 8 points 17 Fenil Shah GUJ 8½
Arvind Shastry, Hon Secretary, United Karnataka Chess Association,Bharat Singh,Secretary, AICF
18 WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB 8½ Raju Chilkuri,Roopal Chilkuri, Winner of Blitz event GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi
19 IM Ravi Teja S. RSPB 8½
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18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017, Cuttack 20 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 8½ 67 Pradip Tiwari DASC 7½
21 Akash Pc Iyer TN 8½ 68 Audi Ameya GOA 7½
22 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M TEL 8½ 69 Imocha Laishram PSPB 7½
23 GM Roy Chowdhury S RSPB 8½ 70 FM Venkata Krishna K. K CFPD 7½
24 Hemant Sharma (del) RSPB 8½ 71 Mandloi Mukesh RAJ 7½
25 Wagh Suyog MAH 8½ 72 Vinay Thomas A. KER 7½
26 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8½ 73 Vatsal Singhania JHAR 7½
27 IM Krishna C R G RSPB 8½ 74 Akshay M. KER 7½
28 IM Kathmale Sameer MAH 8½ 75 WIM Jennitha Anto K. TN 7½
29 CM Raja Rithvik R TEL 8½ 76 Sudarshan Malga MP 7½
30 Navalgund Niranjan TN 8½ 77 Neelash Saha WB 7½
31 Dhananjay S CHAT 8½ 78 Tarun V Kanth TN 7½
32 Kamdar Udit GUJ 8 79 Arpan Das (jr) WB 7½
33 IM Satyapragyan S AI 8 80 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 7½
34 IM Swayams Mishra AI 8 81 Polakhare Aryan MAH 7½
35 FM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 8 82 Rajarshi Dutta WB 7½
36 Sankalp Gupta MAH 8 83 WFM Lakshmi C TN 7½
37 Baivab Mishra ODI 8 84 Shah Rutvi GUJ 7½
38 Tiwari Arjun MP 8 85 Manush Shah GUJ 7
39 CM Kushagra Mohan TEL 8 86 Pranavananda V AP 7
40 IM Shashikant Kutwal MAH 8 87 Sachin Malik DEL 7
(From Left: Dr. Achyuat Samanta, Founder KiiT, KiSS, Chief Arbiter Mr. R.C.Chatterjee, Mr. Sekhar 41 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 8 88 Arindam Mukherjee RSPB 7
Chandra Sahoo, President AOCA, with other dignitaries and champion team KiiT, Bhubaneswar 42 Lokesh N. TN 8 89 Arun Rathi HAR 7
43 Deepthamsh Reddy. M TEL 8 90 Jubin Jimmy KER 7
44 Bhambure Shantanu MAH 8 91 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 7
1st Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Pallikaranai 45 IM Rathnakaran K. RSPB 8 92 Prudhvi Kumar V AP 7
46 IM Koshy Varugeese PSPB 8 93 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 7
47 Dixit Nikhil MAH 8 94 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7
48 Kaustuv Kundu WB 8 95 Sreeshwan M. TEL 7
49 Niraj Saripalli GOA 8 96 IM Shetty Rahul AI 7
50 Srihari L PUD 8 97 Rahul Kumar BIH 7
51 Vipul Subhashi BIH 8 98 CM Sharma Pankaj PUN 7
52 Nikhil M AP 8 99 Trivedi Karan R GUJ 7
53 Thanki Hemal Karsanji BSNL 8 100 Sinha Santosh Kumar GUJ 7
54 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 8 101 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 7
55 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 8 102 Huidrom B. MAN 7
56 Katiyar Prashant UP 8 103 Chandrajeet Singh R RAJ 7
57 Toshali V AP 8 104 Rishabh Nishad UP 7
58 Koustav Chatterjee WB 7½ 105 Mohith R TN 7
59 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 7½ 106 Shubham DEL 7
60 Jayakumaar S TN 7½ 107 Patil Ketan MAH 7
61 Joy Pankaj Shah GUJ 7½ 108 Sudhakar Prem Dutt BSNL 7
62 WFM Tarini Goyal CHAN 7½ 109 Priyanka Kumari JHAR 6½
63 Samant Aditya S MAH 7½ 110 Sooraj M R KER 6½
64 Panda Sambit ODI 7½ 111 Alka Das JHAR 6½
65 Moksh Amit Doshi GUJ 7½ 112 Arya Bhakta WB 6½
IM Ravichandran Siddharth receiving the trophy from M.Muthukumar, Secretary,KDCA Joint Secretary,
66 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 7½ 113 Chaitanya Sairam M AP 6½
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114 Bhatt Jalpan GUJ 6½ 161 Abhay Bandewar MP 6 18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017, Cuttack
115 Santanu Borpatra G ASM 6½ 162 Verma Ashu UP 6
116 Nirav Y. Rajasuba GUJ 6½ 163 Bhrigu Suryanarayan GUJ 6 Team KIIT Odisha is Champion
117 Chauhan Joy GUJ 6½ 164 Rupesh Kumar Mishra CHAT 6 by R.C.Chatterjee, IA,Chief Arbiter
118 Anadkat Kartavya GUJ 6½ 165 Vikee Vishal BIH 6
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119 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 6½ 166 Arun Verma HP 6 he 18th National Cities Team Chess Championship-2017 was organised by Jagatsing-
120 Dave Sneh GUJ 6½ 167 Harsh Himanshu BIH 5½ hpur District Chess Association in Association with KiiT University under the aegis of
121 Samdani Sahil Sagar GUJ 6½ 168 Krishnater Kushager MAH 5½ All Odisha Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess Federation from 6th to 10th
122 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 6½ 169 Lalrinfela MIZ 5½ August’2017.
123 Akshay Anand DEL 6½ 170 Soundarya Kumar P AICF 5½
124 Neelabh Jyoti B. ASM 6½ 171 Patel Riddhi R GUJ 5½
On 6th August’2017 at 12 noon Manager’s meeting was started at the tournament hall under
125 Negi Virender Singh AI 6½ 172 Devesh Anand Naik GOA 5½
the chairmanship of R.C.Chatterjee, IA, Chief Arbiter, Mr. Sekhar Chandra Sahu, IM, Pres-
126 Khalid Amin J&K 6½ 173 Zala Akshar GUJ 5½
ident, AOCA, Dr. Gaganendu Dash, Sports Director, KiiT, Mr. K.K.Sarma, Secretary, AOCA,
127 Panwar Krish Navratan GUJ 6½ 174 Parmod Kharbash HAR 5½
128 Aravind P V S TEL 6½ 175 Harshit Arya HAR 5½ Mr. Nihar Ranjan Sasmal, IA, Dy. Chief Arbiter & Mr.G.C Mohapatra, Treasurer, AOCA were
129 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan UP 6½ 176 Parikh Pratham GUJ 5½ also present on the dais where all the necessary technical matters were discussed, settled
130 WFM Bommini Mounika A AP 6½ 177 Bhoopnath BIH 5½ and Appeals committee formed.
131 Aryan DEL 6½ 178 Jayakumar P. BSNL 5½
132 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 6½ 179 Shakil Ansari OFSP 5½ A colourful inauguration ceremony was held on 6th Aug’2017 by lighting the “Pradeep”
133 Banerjee Ashutosh CHAT 6½ 180 Shashi Nand Kumar BIH 5½ where dignitaries like Dr. Achyuta Samanta, founder of KiiT & KiSS, Sekhar Chandra Sahu,
134 Rathore S.K. MP 6½ 181 Swaroop Kashyap KAR 5½ IM, President, AOCA and others were present on the dais.
135 Ansh M Shah GUJ 6½ 182 Levanshu Khullar CHAN 5½
136 Tarun Sharma RAJ 6½ 183 Arnab Kumar Mullick DEL 5½ The first round started soon after the inauguration ceremony. A total no of 31 Teams from
137 Vikramaditya Mukhija RAJ 6½ 184 Bharadwaj Rallabandi TEL 5½ different parts of the country participated in the championship which is a record. A total of
138 Chandan Palash N MAH 6½ 185 Kamdar Aparva GUJ 5½
145 individual players took part of which 124 were Fide Rated players which included 2 IMs
139 Lalzawmliana MIZ 6½ 186 Patel Shlok K GUJ 5½
, 1 WGM & 1WFM .Tournament hall was AC and good. All the boards provided DGT chess
140 Rajeev V M KER 6½ 187 Patel Maharshi GUJ 5½
clocks. All players accommodation arranged by the organiser free in the Hostel nearby and
141 Aditya P Melani GUJ 6½ 188 Madhani Shilpee GUJ 5½
142 Bhatt Swayam GUJ 6½ 189 Pathak Vivek Kumar OFSP 5½ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner was also arranged at nominal cost in the canteen adjacent
143 Gautam Chakravarty MEG 6½ 190 Kandalgaonkar D.N MPSC 5½ the tournament Hall.
144 Kant Rupesh MP 6 191 Adarsh Bhanot PUN 5½
145 Aaryan Varshney DEL 6 192 Silseng N Marak MEG 5½ Total seven rounds team games have been conducted as per Swiss system with a time con-
146 Sahil Dhawan HAR 6 193 Jain Adi GUJ 5½ trol of 90 min with 30 sec increment from move no one. Latest Fide Tie Break rules applied
147 Vrandesh Parekh GUJ 6 194 Ruthra Kumar M PUD 5½ which come into force from July’2017.
148 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 6 195 Panda Raj Santosh ODI 5½
149 Nayandeep Dilip K DASC 6 196 Lakshminarashimhan V S MPSC 5½ After a tough fight the team “KiiT,Odisha” became the Champion of this edition, team “Puri
150 Ajay Kumar Rai DASC 6 197 FM Anand Nadar MAH 5 Senior” secured 2nd place followed by teams “Kolkata-2” finished third placing. First Board
151 Mahitosh Dey ODI 6 198 GMNarayanan Srinath AI 5 Prize winner V.K.Gangwani, Sonepat-Haryana followed by 2nd Board Prize goes to Sonkalan
152 Mokashi Rohit MAH 6 199 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 5
Bharati, Kol-2 & 3rd Board prize went to Smaraki Mohanty, JDCA,odisha, 4th board prize
153 Shah Jeet MAH 6 200 Thaker Kautilya P GUJ 5
went to WGM Kiran M Mohanty, KiiT, Odisha, 5th board prize goes to Ashish Raj, Patna-B.
154 Ahmed Sarfaraz UP 6 201 Mahajan Ayush MAH 5
155 Makwana Ashvin K (AICFB) AICF 6 202 Amanpreet Singh PUN 5
156 Diwan Rajesh OFSP 6 203 Uttam Prakash Sharma HAR 5 Team of Arbiters headed by the Chief Arbiter Mr. R.C.Chatterjee, IA, Dy Chief Arbiter Mr.
157 Agarwal Brajesh LIC 6 204 Savio P Rebello LIC 5 Nihar Ranjan Sasmal, IA, Tapas Mohanty, FA, Bhabesh Mohanty, NA, Santosh Mohapatra,
158 Himanshu Moudgil DASC 6 205 Appanna Pilla MPSC 5 NA, G.C.Mohapatra, NA and Miss Aparajita Gochhikar, NA conducted the championship
159 Rijied Katrai MEG 6 206 Adalja Vanssh A GUJ 5 smoothly without a single dispute.
160 Parth Arora HAR 6 207 Rajendra Singh Rana UTT 5
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Distribution Ceremony was held at open space outside the Tournament Hall.
Ranking(Top-10 teams) nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE 7.5 points. Guha suffered his first loss in the
Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts. Rated Chess tournament, organised by tournament in the eighth round at the hands
1 KiiT(Odisha) 7 6 1 0 13 22½ Marwari Yuva Manch, Siliguri Branch of 14 year-old Aronyak Ghosh. Experienced
2 Puri-Senior(Odisha) 7 5 1 1 11 18 attracted 148 players. Fide Master Mitrabha and Senior campaigner Santu Mondal and
3 Kolkata-2 7 4 2 1 10 19 Guha of Kolkata emerged as Champion with Tamal Chakraborty also scored 7.5 points to
4 KISS(Odisha) 7 5 0 2 10 18½ 7.5 points and took home the winner’s purse tie with Mitrabha and Aronyak for the top
5 Cuttack-Senior(Odisha) 7 4 2 1 10 17½ of Rs. 41,000/- and a beautiful Trophy. Ear- honours. Tie-breaks favoured Mitrabha to bag
6 Bhubaneswar-1(Odisha) 7 4 1 2 9 18 lier the 2nd edition of Badal Bhattacharjee the title and Aronyak won the second place.
7 Kolkata-1 7 3 3 1 9 18 Memorial got under way at Uttarbanga Mar- Mitrabha received Rs.41000/- and Aronyak
8 ARA(Bihar) 7 3 3 1 9 16½ wari Bhavan on 6th August,2017. The local Rs.25000/-.
9 MCF-1,Bhubaneswar(Odisha) 7 4 1 2 9 15
councillor and renowned political personality
10 Puri-Junior(Odisha) 7 3 2 2 8 17
Mr. Nantu Paul inaugurated the event in the Mr. Nantu Paul, local politician , Mr. Atanu
Board Prize-1
presence of Mr. Nitin Goyel President, Marwari Lahiri , Jt. Secretary of AICF , Mr. Kishore
Name Team % Games
1 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani Sonepat(Haryana) 78.6 7
Yuva Manch, Mr. Anand Agarwal, Organising/ Saha ,Bureau Chief of Ananda Bazar Patrika –
2 Ganguly Ritabroto Kolkatta-2 71.4 7 Convenor of the event, Mr. Joydeep Bhat- Siliguri , and Smt. Dhira Bhattacharjee , Wife
3 Badamundi Tapan KISS(Odisha) 71.4 7 tacharjee, Main Sponsor and son of Late Bad- of Late Badal Bhattacharjee was the chief
al Bhattacharjee and Mr. Pralay Chakraborty, guest for the final day function. Many other
Board Prize-2 General Manager Uttarbanga Sanbad. Atanu dignitaries from Marwari Seva trust were also
Name Team % Games Lahiri, Joint Secretary AICF and Secretary present in this gorgeous function. They also
1 Sonkalan Bharati Kolkatta-2 92.9 7 BCA, was the guest of honour. gave away the prizes to the winners.
2 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan KiiT(Odisha) 85.7 7
3 Samal Ansuman Cuttack-Senior(Odisha) 85.7 7 95 rated and 53 unrated players participated We should appreciate the Trust authority for
in this event. The organisers arranged lodg- their wonderful support and also to the sup-
Board Prize-3 ing facility for all the players and for their porting staff who worked with us for the past
Name Team % Games accompanying persons inside the venue. The 7 days. A very good team of arbiters along
1 Smaraki Mohanty Jagatsinghpur(Odisha) 92.9 7 tournament was well organised by the Mar- with a group of dedicated officials made the
2 Johnson Sahoo MCF-2,Kendrapara(Odisha) 85.7 7
wari Yuva Manch in an air conditioned hall and tournament successful. Finally I must thank
3 Pattnaik Bishal Cuttack-2(Odisha) 85.7 7
quality food was provided at affordable rates. Mr. Anand Agarwal, the main organiser of
this tournament, Mr. Joydeep Bhattacharjee,
Board Prize-4
Name Team % Games
Digital Chess Clocks were used in all the main sponsor of this tournament and Mr. At-
1 WGM-Kiran Manisha Mohanty KiiT(Odisha) 100 7 bords.This tournament with a prize fund of anu Lahiri , Secretary of Bengal Chess Asso-
2 Sudhanshu Ranjan ARA(Bihar) 92.9 7 Rs.3,00,000 ended on 10th August 2017. ciation , for giving me the chance to work as
3 Rudranarayan Puri-Junior (Odisha) 85.7 7 The time format of the tournament was 90 a Chief arbiter for this wonderful tournament.
mins + 30 sec increment from move no. 1. Final ranking
Board Prize-5 FM Mitrabha Guha was the top seed player Rk Name Pts
Name Team % Games of this tournament with a rating of 2323 1 FM Mitrabha Guha 7½
1 Ashish Raj Patna-B(Bihar) 100 5 followed by CM Aronyak Ghosh with a rating 2 CM Aronyak Ghosh 7½
2 Krushna Mishra Jagatsinghpur(Odisha) 80 5 of 2170. After 9 nerve wracking rounds the 3 Santu Mondal 7½
3 Shashi Nand Kumar Patna-A(Bihar) 66.7 6 top seed FM Mitrabha Guha won the title with
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7 Shuban Saha 7 48 Sanjib Ghosh 5
he GMAX Album 1st Chess Beacon FIDE withdrawal of Prince) lost to ShivamVerma
8 Tamang Thendup 6½ 49 Shounak Mazumder 5 rated Chess Tournament organised at of Bihar and Devendra Kumar went down to
9 Basak Sajal 6½ 50 Swapan Kumar Das 5 Jaipur from 12th to 16th August 2017 Deepak Batra of Punjab.
10 Sanjit Saha 6½ 51 Sankalan Shah 5 gave a fillip to chess in Rajasthan. The tour-
11 Gurung Rahul 6½ 52 Utpal Biswas 5 nament was conducted at the World Trade Six players-Deepak Katiyar of Railways,
12 Madhusudan Sahu 6½ 53 Arbind Kumar Singh 5 Park, Jaipur, the best shopping mall in Jai- Souhardo Basak of WB, Ashish Kumar of
13 Aneek Das 6½ 54 Yash Jyoti Bir 5 pur. It is not only the flavour of the mall, but UP, Anil Shivpuri of Delhi, Sher Singh of Ra-
14 Shuvam Roy 6½ 55 Acharya Tapas 5 also the venue on the second floor which jasthan and Deepak Batra were leading with
15 Namish Sharma 6½ 56 Agrawal Rishab 5 was such a huge one that the half of the air five points each. Ashish Kumar defeated Anil
16 Aniket Mondal 6½ 57 Shyamal Kumar Saha 5 conditioned hall could accommodate around Shivpuri, which was the only decisive result
17 Meher Rudranshu Kumar 6½ 58 Ruchir Sengupta 5 600 players comfortably. The ambience was among the leaders. He maintained a clean
so good that the players enjoyed the tour- slate of 6 points in as many rounds. But,
18 Sudarshan Mitra 6 59 Rai Sejal 5
nament thoroughly. the lead changed hands to five other players
19 Akash Tiwari 6 60 Sayantan Das 5
after seven rounds. Punit Indora of Haryana
20 Hilal Mondal 6 61 Mahfuzur Rahman Saif 5
Prince Bajaj of Delhi was the top seed in the shocked the hitherto leader Ashsih, Deepak
21 Subba Saurab 6 62 Rounak Guha Roy 5
tournament (who, before withdrawing from Katiyar overwhelmed Deepak Batra, Sher
22 Praloy Sahoo 6 63 Uttam Kumar 5 the tournament, completed his IM norm re- Singh got the better of Souhardo, SM Umer
23 Sheik Md. Abdul Muttalib 6 64 Somnath Banerjee 5 quirements of reaching a live rating of 2400), of MP subdued Rathore Mahendra Singh of
24 Chhetri Priya 6 65 Priya Mondal 5 followed by Nassir Wajih of Railways. The Rajasthan and EsshanWadhawan of Delhi
25 Md. Tamizar Rahman 6 66 Saayan Dutta 4½ tournament attracted about 460 players from overcame the resistance of Darji Giridharilal
26 Atri Chattopadhyay 6 67 Dipayan Das 4½ many states like Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, of Jaipur.
27 Aviroop Bhattacharya 5½ 68 Sen Animesh Chandra 4½ Punjab, UP, MP, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar,
28 Biswas Gopal Chandra 5½ 69 Anjishnu Mondal 4½ Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, AP, Deepak Katiyar and Umer registered wins in
29 Subhrangsu Kundu 5½ 70 Ishan Ghosh (siliguri) 4½ Tamil Nadu, Karnataka etc. The tournament the eighth round to share the lead with 7.5
30 Krish Kedia 5½ 71 Mayank Chakraborty 4½ was a nine round Swiss format with a time points after eight rounds. Sher Singh, Ashish
31 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 5½ 72 Joydeep Barman 4½ control of 90 minutes to each player with an Kumar, Esshaan Wadhawan and fide arbiter
increment of 30 seconds per move. RajendraTeli were trailing half a point behind.
32 Shreya Das 5½ 73 Ali Md. Kawsar 4½
In the final round, Deepak Katiyar drew with
33 Sengdup Lama 5½ 74 Dugar Chetan 4½
The important feature of the second round Umer and Esshan defeated Rajendra to pave
34 Soumen Mondal 5½ 75 Sushovan Chaudhury 4½
was that the fifth seeded Feroz Ahmed of a way for a three way tie at the top. After
35 Sharma Durga Prasad 5½ 76 Roy Manoj Kumar 4½
Bangladesh was held to a draw by Oshan applying tie breaks, Deepak Katiyar was de-
36 Pratyush Kumar 5½ 77 Pabitra Mukherjee 4½ Modi of Haryana, rated about 800 points clared winner and Umer runner up. Deepak
37 Sougata Singha 5½ 78 Singh Vidya Bhushan 4½ behind him. Likewise, third seeded Yunus received a cash prize of Rs.31000/- out of
38 Pintu Mondal 5½ 79 Anjistha Basak 4½ Khan of MP had to split the point with Gau- the total prize fund of Rs. three lakhs.
39 Sanika Sengupta 5½ 80 Sankar Saha 4½ tamKataria of Rajasthan in the next round.
40 Rajashekara N 5½ 81 Anutosh Mukherjee 4½ There were upsets galore in the fourth round, Laxmi Narayan Dhamani, Managing Director,
41 Md. Shahidul Islam 5½ 82 Tripathy Manoj Ku 4 with four of the top five boards had the re- Dhamani Groups, Sri. Ashok Lahoti, Mayor
42 Subhrajyoti Sarkar 5½ 83 Gaurav Danu 4 sults in favour of the lower rated players. The of Jaipur, Sri. Piyush Garg, Sri. Tikriwal of
43 Swaraj Saha 5 84 Rai Supriya 4 numero uno player Nassir Wajih (after the GMax Album and Sri.Mukesh Mishra CEO of
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Rk Name Pts 43 Shami Vipin K. 6½ bhijeet Gupta won ChessMine Rapid Krishna GV and Girish A Koushik, were tied
1 Deepak Katiyar 8 44 Anmol Sharma 6½ in Playoff; Vidit Gujrathi took the blitz for the first place with 8.5/10. Lots were
2 Umer S.M 8 45 CM Tanmay Jain 6½ title of ChessMine Open Rapid and drawn, and Abhijeet Gupta coasted to vic-
3 Esshan Wadhawan 8 46 Harshiel Sehgal 6½ Blitz Chess tournament held at S G Marriage tory with a 2-0 victory over Girish, while GN
4 Sher Singh 7½ 47 Gautam Kataria 6½ Hall, Magadi Road Bangalore from 5th to 7th Gopal bounced back from a first game defeat
5 Punit Indora 7½ 48 Kavya Aggarwal 6½ August 2017. against GV Sai Krishna to equalize in the first
6 Souhardo Basak 7½ 49 Naman Porwal 6½ tie-break. He beat Sai Krishna 2-0 in the
7 Dave Kantilal 7½ 50 Ananmay Sharma 6 Mr.Gopinath Naidu CG, Propriter, SG Marriage blitz to set up a thrilling final clash against
8 Ashish Kumar 7½ 51 Anil Shivpuri 6 Hall, Seegehalli, Magadi Road and Mrs.Sha- Abhijeet Gupta. He won the first game, but
9 Wajih Nassir 7½ 52 WFMTanishka Kotia 6 rada Gopinath inaugurated the FIDE Rated Abhijeet bounced back to equalize, and took
10 Ahmed Feroz 7½ 53 Sharma Varun 6 tournament by making the first move on the the trophy with a 1.5-0.5 win in the blitz tie-
11 Ayush Bhai Mehta 7 54 Manoj Sharma 6 chess board. breaks to win the 1st ChessMine Rapid Chess
12 Teli Rajendra 7 55 Tanmay Chopra 6 Championship.
13 Kumar Sanu 7 56 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6 A total of 466 players from different parts of
14 Garv Gaur 7 57 Yogesh Sharma 6 country were participated. 15 Grand Masters, Gopal was quite unfortunate to miss out on
15 Gavish Chotani 7 58 Bhanot Stuti 6 Two Women Grand Masters, 25 International the title despite being one of the best players
16 Gaha Narayan 7 59 Babel T Divyanshu 6 Masters and three Women International Mas- on display. The rapid tournament also showed
17 Devendra Kumar 7 60 Ritvik A Singh 6 ters were in the fray to win One lakh cash one of the hallmarks of the ChessMine Rapid,
18 Sanskriti Goyal 7 61 J M Baisakh 6 prize. Total prize money was 6 lakhs twenty where anyone can pit themselves against
19 Arun Kataria 7 62 Mihir Godawat 6 thousand. This was the strongest ever Rapid the best players in the world, challenge
20 Rathore Sonakshi 7 63 Piyush Sharma N C 6 Rated Chess tournament in India with 45 themselves, and even beat them to finish
21 Kapil Dadhich 7 64 Aman Sharma 6 titled players in the competition. on the top. Top seed Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
22 Yogesh Swami 7 65 Pawan Sain 6 finishing outside of the top 20 places was a
23 Daaevik Wadhawan 7 66 Balasubramanian A. 6 In the rapid, Abhijeet Gupta was held by surprise, standing testimony to how strong
24 Dinesh Sinha 7 67 Bhavyay Gupta 6 young FM Rathanvel VS of Tamilnadu in the the event was.
25 Darji Giridharilal 6½ 68 Yogender 6 fourth round, and suffered an unexpected
26 Shivam Verma 6½ 69 Arpan Gupta 6 upset at the hands of IM VAV Rajesh of Tamil- However, like Abhijeet Gupta, Vidit also
27 Aryan Ranjan 6½ 70 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 6 nadu. At 3.5/5, he looked pretty much out showcased one of the distinctive qualities of
28 Rathore Mahendra Singh 6½ 71 Ramandeep Singh Gill 6 of contention. However, this brought up the world class champions –the ability to bounce
29 Yatin Kumar 6½ 72 Tejashwi Sharma 6 best in him, and he won the last 5 rounds on back. When the blitz tournament got under-
30 AFM Pawar Harshit 6½ 73 Bharadia Madhav 6 demand, among which three were IMs and way, he was different. While he was good
31 Verma H.S. 6½ 74 Pranav Aggarwal 6 one was against the prodigious Nihal Sarin during the rapids, he was almost possessed in
32 Khan Yunus 6½ 75 Amit Bhargava 6 to tie for the first place. the blitz event. He went through the field like
33 Karthik Sorikh 6½ 76 Narayan Joshi 6 a surgical knife would go through the flesh.
34 AFM Choubey Saurabh 6½ 77 Manish Makwana 6 It was reminiscent of Abhijeet Gupta’s World He played fantastic chess and hardly made
35 Aarush Gupta 6½ 78 AGM Sandeep Chitkara 6 Junior 2008 victory. At the end of 10 rounds, a blunder. He defeated 4 GM’s, including
36 AGM Sikka Sumit 6½ 79 Sparsh Bordia 6 4 players, Abhijeet Gupta, GN Gopal, Sai the two other 2600’s in the event, Abhijeet
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st GDCA All India open fide rating Rapid Kulkarni of Maharastra, Raghav Srivathsava 25 Anilkumar Reddy K 6 68 Niranjan V Sangam 5
chess tournament 2017 was organized and Swaraj Patil of Jharkhand. Chinmay 26 Manohar Kallappa 6 69 Lahoti Jayanti 5
for 2 days with 9 rounds at the Paul Kulkarni bagged the 1st place with a better 27 AFM Shivakumar D M 6 70 ACM Iyer Arvind 5
Haris Auditorium, Rotary Club School, Public tie break score and twenty thousand cash 28 Aravinda B R 6 71 Ritik Kakeri 5
Garden, Gulbarga. It was organized jointly prize and trophy. 29 Alisher A Mulla 6 72 Manaswi M Swamy 5
by Gulbarga district Chess Association, Pro- 30 Kulkarni Varada 6 73 Nagaraj Guntal 5
mod’s chess Academy and Inner Wheel of The Prize distribution function took place at 5 31 AFM Srinidhi Kulkarni 6 74 Arun Badiger G R 5
Rotary club sun city. This was the 1st Rating p.m on 13th August 2017. Dignitaries present 32 Maskepatil Kaustubh 6 75 Sri Harini A 5
tournament organized in Northen Karnata- on the occasion were, Dr. Anilkumar Kop- 33 Sanjeev Kumar Singh 6 76 Dhembre Dinesh 5
ka. The event attracted 209 Players from palkar, Principal SS Margol College Kalaburgi, 34 Prasada Rao G 6 77 Chayendra H R 5
all over India including major states like Prof. Narendra Badsheshi, Retired Principal 35 Avinash Choori 6 78 Kulvinder Kaur Anand 5
Karnataka, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, of MSI Pre university College, Kalaburgi, Ms 36 Sharanabasappa D H 6 79 Achyuth Duggal 5
Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and all parts of Susheela Malu wife of late Ramgopalji Malu, 37 Rajashree S 6 80 Jairaj Shantappa 5
Telangana. 60 Fide rated players participated (sponsor of the event),Sapna Deshpande, 38 Lakshita Anchaliya 6 81 Shrinidhi A N 5
in this tournament. Top seed of the event President and Sapna Loya Secretary of Inner 39 Kiran Kumar A Simpi 6 82 Abdul Rehman Yusuf 5
was Chinmay Kulkarni of Maharastra with elo Wheel club of Rotary Suncity, Kalaburgi. 40 ACM Anand Harjee Singh 6 83 Shivaprasad V Tengli 5
rating of 2295. 41 Owais Md Q 6 84 Jagdishkumar 5
Final ranking 42 Yash Anchaliya 6 85 Anish Shekar Nagure 5
The Event was inaugurated on 12th August Rk Name Pts 43 Vaibhav Solankar 6 86 Piyush Prafulla Kulkarni 5
2017 at 9.30 am. The Dignitaries present 1 Kulkarni Chinmay 8 44 Chetan Sharma 5½ 87 Adarsh A Toshniwal 5
on the occasion, were Mrs Sapna Loya, Sec- 2 Raghav Srivathsav V 8 45 Srikant Nayak A 5½ 88 Ruchi Toshniwal 5
retary Inner Wheel Club, Mrs Sapna Desh- 3 Swaraj Palit 8 46 Shakeebudin Kashif 5½ 89 Gayatri C Duggani 5
pande, President, Inner Wheel Club of Rotary. 4 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala 7½ 47 Shetti Ameya 5½ 90 Tadwai Akshaya Reddy 5
Promod More, President, GDCA. The venue 5 Darshan V P S 7½ 48 Krishna Murthy 5½ 91 Tejaswini M P 5
was centrally located in the city with good 6 FM Ramakrishna J. 7 49 Jagadeesh Patnaik 5½ 92 Tanush Gilda 5
transport connections so that the player had 7 Rajinesh Chintala 7 50 Santoshkumar B Nippani 5½ 93 Addala Venkata Alankrith 5
a comfortable stay during the event. The 8 Sameer Kumar Y 7 51 Shreyas Karigar 5½ 94 Vijaya Kumar 5
weather which is generally supposed to be 9 Venkatesh S 7 52 Dhaneshwar Akash 5½ 95 Basalingappa Maraddy 5
hot in Gulbarga was good and it rained during 10 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 7 53 Deshpande Nimish 5½ 96 Aarush Raju Mahthena 5
the two days. 11 Balkishan A. 7 54 Abhishek Kallur 5½ 97 Harender J 4½
12 Naga Shashank D 7 55 Guruprasad Kulkarni 5½ 98 AFM Advaita Sharma K 4½
The event was well contested between the 13 Ramachandra Bhat 7 56 Suraj B Kunte 5½ 99 Shriya M Jaju 4½
players of various states, after the 7th Round 14 Syed Akbar Jahangir 7 57 Kulkarni Shrikant 5½ 100 Basavaraj Patil 4½
Raghav Srivathsava of Telangana took the 15 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala 6½ 58 Sriram P 5½ 101 Vijay Babu C 4½
lead. In the 8th and 9th round he was held 16 Ajay S M 6½ 59 Vishweshwarayya Gurumath 5½ 102 John Narasappa 4½
to draw by Darshan VPS of Karnataka and 17 Phani Kanuri 6½ 60 Araham Setiya 5½ 103 Sai Vivek D 4½
Trisha Kanyamarala of Telangana. After the 18 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 6½ 61 Saiteja V T 5½ 104 Shiva Prasad M 4½
final round there were three players who 19 Kalyan Srinivas Vetcha 6½ 62 Asuri Srida 5½ 105 Arnav Yogesh Parsewar 4½
tied for the 1st place with 8 points. Chinmay 20 Sami M A 6½ 63 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 5 106 Sanganna B Motgi 4½
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1500 Chess Tournament, Karur and other 38 Rajesh L S 6
th Kamaraj Memorial FIDE Rated BE- was delivered by S. Raja. arbiters who worked along with me to make 39 Samson D Cruz J 6
LOW 1500 Chess Tournament, Karur this tournament highly successful. 40 Ilanchezhiyan M 6
was held from 04th to 06th August The event was conducted by Chief Arbiter Dr. 41 Pandi Durai P 6
2017, organized by Kamaraj Memorial Chess Sathiesh GG, FIDE Arbiter from Coimbatore Final standings: 42 Naresh Krishna S 6
Club at Prem Mahal, Karur. The inauguration along with Deputy Chief Arbiter NA Vinoth Rk. Name Pts. 43 Unnikrishnan Skunnel 6
function was held at 10.30 a.m on 4th Au- M from Thanjavur.FA Silambarasan D, NA 1 Gokula Kannan R S 8.5 44 Varadharajan I. 6
gust 2017. The event started with the light- Gobikrishnan, NA Marikkannu P, NA John 2 Suren S 8 45 Adithya Ramesh 6
ing of Kuthuvilakku by Karur Vasavi Mehila Ramesh S, NA Royston Santhana Kumar, 3 Gopinath P 7.5 46 Naveen K 6
Mandali and other dignitaries present on the NA Parvathi R, NA Chitra R were the other 4 Satheesh Kumar G 7.5 47 Perumal A 6
dais. Welcome address was delivered by Mr. deputy arbiters. 5 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 7.5 48 Jegadeesh G 6
Tajmeera S. Thufail, President, Kamaraj Me- 6 Priyan R S 7 49 Arunkumar K S 6
morial Chess Club. The presidential address 302 players participated in the 4th Kamaraj 7 Arunraj S 7 50 Senthil Kumar Natarajan 6
was delivered by Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu, Memorial FIDE Rated BELOW 1500 Chess 8 Hariharan Gandhi 7 51 Vinni Prabhu R 6
President of Karur District Chess Associa- Tournament, Karur. Out of 302 players, 189 9 Umasankar S 7 52 Hemanathan C 6
tion. Chief Guest of the event was Sri.G.S. were rated and rest participated to gain FIDE 10 Umeshwaran S A 7 53 Navyashree M K 6
Ananthakumar, Chief General Manager, Karur ELO rating. Total amount of Rs. 2,00,000/- 11 Surya A C 7 54 Uthesh S 6
Vysya Bank. The other dignitaries present were distributed as prizes. 12 Binni Boyina P Pratap 7 55 Subramanian P V 6
on the stage were V. Veerappan, Prem Tex, 13 Charan Madhuprakash 7 56 Sanjay Ram J 6
K.R.S. Nagarajan,P.R. Gopal, Ex MC, Jupiter Title winner of this tournament was Gokula 14 Rajkumar S 7 57 Raghavendra Naik 6
M. Baskar and Dr. Sathiesh G G, FIDE Arbi- Kannan R.S. of Tamilnadu He remained un- 15 Sathyan P Muthukrishnan 6.5 58 Vijayakumar S 6
ter and Chief Arbiter of this event. Vote of defeated scoring 8.5 points out of 9 and re- 16 Arunkumar B Budihal 6.5 59 Karuppasamy C 6
thanks was delivered by M. Sekar, Treasurer, ceived a cash award of Rs. 20,000/-. Suren S 17 Rathish R 6.5 60 Surya Prakash 6
Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club. of Tamilnadu who stood second in main prize 18 Velavan S 6.5 61 Manikandan C 5.5
list after scoring 8 points was awarded first 19 Karthikeyan G 6.5 62 Jayaprakash M 5.5
The valedictory function was held at 6.00 prize of Rs. 15,000/- in the rating category 20 Mathavan T 6.5 63 Mithun P M 5.5
P.M on 6th August 2017. Welcome address of 1201-1400 because of the higher prize 21 Ramajayam J 6.5 64 Taanya S S 5.5
was delivered by Mr. Tajmeera S. Thufail, money criteria. Navyashree M K of Karnata- 22 Kathiravan S 6.5 65 Dhanush Karthik K R 5.5
President, Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club. ka scored 6 points to bag the best unrated 23 Kavya. S 6.5 66 Srinivasan R 5.5
Chief Guest of the event was Sri. M. R. Vi- prize of Rs. 5000/-. Kavya. S of Tamilnadu, 24 Ramesh Kumar N Pillai 6.5 67 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 5.5
jayabaskar, Tamilnadu Transport Minister. the top seed of this tournament scored 6.5 25 Anandaraj L 6.5 68 Tamilarasan A 5.5
Other dignitaries present on the dais were points to bag the best women award. The 26 Gokul Pandiyan S 6.5 69 Veerakumar M 5.5
Sri. Atlas M. Nachimuthu, President of Karur best veteran prize was bagged by. Ramesh 27 Shouvik Dutta 6.5 70 Gokulanathan S 5.5
District Chess Association, Mr. V. Veerappan, Kumar of the host city (Karur, Tamilnadu) 28 Raghvendra Kumar 6.5 71 Balu P 5.5
Prem Tex, Dr. G. Subramanian, Mr. K.R.S. after scoring 6.5 points. 29 Midhun Kumar M A 6.5 72 Sundararajan D S 5.5
Nagarajan, Mr. V. Neduchezian, Mr. K.N. An- 30 Jaya Suriyah Ayyappan 6.5 73 Ashok Kumar T D 5.5
balagan, Mr. P.R. Gopal, Ex MC, Mr. Jupiter Besides the best hospitality provided by the 31 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6 74 Ashok D 5.5
M. Baskar, Ms. Bhuvana Sai, International organizer Tajmeera S.Thufail, President, 32 Ramanan M 6 75 Jaidambareesh N R 5.5
Arbiter and Dr. Sathiesh G G, FIDE Arbiter Kamaraj Memorial Chess Club, the organizer 33 Gowri Karthikeyan 6 76 Venkata Jayanarayan R 5.5
and Chief Arbiter of this event. Vote of thanks distributed attractive gift bags as comple-
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R.Abinandhan, Vinay Jumani, Niteshpa and Final Ranking
he 10th Modern School International Dr.K.Mohana, Principal, Modern School.Nine
Arputha Jasmine were on the third spot with Rk. Name Pts.
Fide Rating Chess Championship for players including the top seeded Hemant
6.5 points. 1 Hemanth Raam 9.5
School students was held at Modern Raam of Velammal MHSS were leading the
Senior Secondary School from 03rd to 08th table with four points each at the end of the 2 Ilamparthi A R 9
Hemant Raam of Velammal School main- 3 Pooja S (2002) 8
August 2017 for a prize pool of Rs.1,20000/-. fourth round.
tained the lead with 9 points at the end of 4 Nitin Shankar Madhu 8
This Rating Chess Championship was organ-
the 9th round. A.R.Ilamparti of Sree Sankara
ized very well by Modern Senior Secondary Three players Hemant Raam, A.R.Ilamparti 5 Rathneesh R 7.5
Golden Jubilee School on second spot with
School, under the auspices of Tamilnadu of Sree Sankara Golden Jubilee School 6 Kirtana S P 7.5
8 points. Nitin Shakar Madhu scored excel-
State Chess Association and All India Chess and Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi of Jeevavel 7 Arputha Jasmine B A 7.5
lent win over Niteshpa and on third place
Federation The venue of the tournament was International School were leading with 5 8 Vignesh N 7.5
with 7.5points.Six players Rathneesh.R,
“Sankara Hall, Modern Senior Secondary points each at the end of the fifth round. 9 Srijan J 7.5
Abinandhan.R, Vignesh N, Srijan J, Pooja.S
School, AG’S colony, Nanganallur, Chen- Three players R.Rathneesh, R.Aaditya and 10 Nidheshpa S 7
and Rathinasabapathy are on Fourth spot
nai-61. R.Abinandhan were on second spot with 11 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 7
with 7points each.
4.5points each.
12 Rathina Sabapathi A 7
Main sponsor for this event was Modern
In the tensed final & tenth round battle over- 13 Abinandhan R 7
Senior Secondary School, Chennai and Two players Hemant Raam and A.R.Ilamparti
night leader Hemant Raam was held to a 14 Srikrishnan P 7
they provided free lodging to all players, were leading with 6points at the end of the
draw by Nitin Shankar Madhu in just 15 Raghul Saro S 7
free hospitality to officials, arbiters etc and sixth round. In the Top table Hemant raam
22moves and won the title with 9.5points.8 16 Sai Balaji E 7
also sponsored the entire prize money of played an aggressive game against Thi-
year old boy A.R.Ilamparti played an at- 17 Nakshathra Karthikeyan 7
Rs.1,20,000/-.This event attracted 197 par- yagarajan Tamilselvi and outwitted him in
tacking game against Rathinasabapathy in 18 Rohan Kailash B 7
ticipants from all over districts in Tamilnadu 55moves.8 year boy Ilamparti stunned expe-
the London system and won the game in
like Chennai, Kanchi, Madurai, Thiruvallur rienced opponent Abinandhan in the second 19 Varsha Ramesh 7
37moves and finished second place with
Salem, Villupuram, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, table and maintained the lead with Hemant 20 Gokula Vishnu R 7
9points. S.Pooja of Hindu Sr Sec School
Vellore, Coimbatore Trichy etc., Raam. R.Rathneesh of Vyasa Vidyalaya close- 21 Sham R 7
scored nicely against Abinandhan in a double
ly followed the leaders with 5.5points. 22 Vinay R Jumani 6.5
edged middle game and clinched third prize.
Participation of nearly 98 International rated Top seeded Hemant Raam of Velammal School 23 Honnesh Sankaran 6.5
Nitin Shankar Madhu also scored 8.5points
players including many National level play- jumped into sole lead with 7 points at the end 24 Prahalada Varadhan R 6.5
and on tie break he finished fourth place.
ers made the event stronger and colourful. of the 7th round. Young Ilamparti mishandled 25 Shyaam M 6.5
This was the 10th time the School students the pieces in the Sicilian Dragon defence
Winner Hemant Raam of Velammal School, 26 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 6.5
Tournament was being organized as a FIDE against Hemat Raam in the top board and
Chennai received cash prize of Rs25000 and a 27 Arjun Vasudevan 6.5
Rated event in Tamilnadu and this event was surrendered his game in 33 moves.
Trophy. A.R.Ilamparti of Sree Sankara Golden 28 Divyan T 6.5
conducted in a nine round Swiss format. Shri R.Rathneesh of Vyasa Vidyalaya was closely
Jubilee School,Kanchi won the runner up title 29 Shree G Muthu Annamalai 6.5
M Vijayakumar, IA officiated as Chief Arbiter. following the leader with 6.5points. Five play-
and received Rs18000 cash prize. S.Pooja of 30 Gokulvas M 6.5
ers Ilamparti, Srikrishnan, Nideshpa, Arputha
Hindu Sr Sec School bagged the third prize 31 Shivani Madhu 6.5
Dr.N.Kamakodi,M.D.,& C.E.O., City Union Jasmine and Saibalaji were on third spot
and got Rs12000. 32 Swethitha C 6.5
Bank Ltd inaugurated the Championship by with 6points each.
making the inaugural move on th board on 33 Madhavan M 6.5
In the prize giving ceremony Prof.Veeraragha-
03rd August 2017 in the presence Sri S.Pat- In the eighth round Hemant Raam crushed 34 Hiranmayi K 6.5
van, President, Modern Senior Secondary
tabiraman, Secretary, Modern School and R Rathneesh and maintained the lead with 35 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 6.5
N
ational Institute of Tourism & Hospital- nadu) tied for first place with 9 points out of Asian Cities Chess Champi-
ity Management (NITHM), Gachibow- 10 rounds, in tie-break Chakravarthy reddy onship-2017 for Dubai Cup
li, Hyderabad along with Telangana was declared winner. He bagged a Prize organized by All Odisha Chess
State Chess Association inagurated the 1st money of 1 Lakh and a Glittering Trophy Association and KiiT University
NITHM All India Open Fide Rated Chess Tour- while Muthaiah got second place, Sekar B on behalf of All India Chess
nament 2017 on the 03rd Aug at the NITHM (Tamilnadu) got third place with 8 points. Federation and Asian Chess
campus. A total of 361 players participated Federation was held at Kalinga
from Bangladesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar The Prize distribution function took place at Institute of Industrial Technol-
ogy, Bhubaneswar from 26 Aug
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bi- 4pm on 8th August 2017. Dignitaries pres-
17 to 01 Sep 17.
har, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Kar- ent on the occasion were Mr K S Prasad,
nataka, Kerala, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Railways, Secretary, TSCA, Major Shivaprasad, Vice
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Three Inter- President, TSCA, Mr Chinnam Reddy Direc- A total number of 12 teams
national Masters Rahul Sangma (Railways), tor, NITHM, and Mr Sheik Fayaz, Tournament from 8 countries were partic-
Chakravarthy Reddy (Telangana) and R. Bala Director. ipated in this 9 round Swiss
Subramaniam (Tamilnadu) participated in system team championship.
this event along with five Fide Masters in- Final ranking Iranian team Rasht started as the top seed followed Indian national cities champions Bhubane-
cluding Top seed J Sai Agni Jeevitesh in this Rk Title Name Pts swar and Dhaka from Bangladesh. Councilor of FIDE Arbiters Commission IA Abdulrahim Mahadi
six day event. The Highest prize money of 1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 9 of UAE officiated as Chief Arbiter of the event.
total Rs. 10,00,000 for the 1st time in the 2 Muthaiah Al 9 The championship was inaugurated by Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Registrar KIIT University in pres-
Telangana State. The event was conducted 3 Sekar B 8 ence of Shri. SC Sahu, Vice President All India Chess Federation, Shri. KK Sarma, Secretary All
for six days with ten Rounds. Odisha Chess Association and Shri. Abdulrahim Mahadi, the Chief Arbiter.
4 FM Srinivasa Rao M. 8
5 Dhananjay S 8
In the opening rounds, as expect-
The Inauguration took place on 3rd August 6 FM Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½
ed top two sides marched ahead
at 3.30 pm, The Chief Guest of the event 7 Balkishan A. 7½ without much struggle while late
was Shri.Venkateshwar Reddy, Chairman of 8 Mythireyan P 7½ arrival of players forced Dhaka
Sports Authority of Telangana State along 9 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 7½ to settle for a peace treaty with
with guest of honor Shri. K.S. Prasad, Sec- 10 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½ Alquds of Palestine in the first
retary, TSCA Tournament Director, Major KA 11 Bala Kannamma P 7½ round and suffered a shock defeat
Shiva Prasad, Vice President, TSCA and Mr. 12 Lokesh N. 7½ from the hands of Kolkata in the
M.Anjaiah, Treasurer, TSCA, Tournament – 13 Senthil Maran K 7½ next round.
in- Charge. 14 Varun V 7½
15 FM Sauravh Khherdekar 7½ The fourth round victory over
NITHM campus is a very well maintained 16 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7½ Bhubaneswar almost sealed the
venue with a pond view in front of the tourna- title for Rasht, but Dhaka came
17 Ankan Roy 7½
back from their opening rounds
ment hall and players had a comfortable at- 18 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7½
debacles to unsettle the top seeds
mosphere during the whole event. Free lunch 19 IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam 7½
in the fifth round and provided
was provided by the organizers to all players 20 Divya Lakshmi R 7½ an interesting twist to the cham-
for all days of the event.IM M Chakravarthy 21 Venkata Ramana J 7½ pionship.
reddy (Telangana) & Muthaiah AL (Tamil- Winner: Team Rasht, Iran
22 Rishabh Nishad 7½
Cont.on p.27 23
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september 2017
But there was no further stopping More Indian men in Elo list than Russians
for the top seeded Iranian outfit in by Arvind Aaron
the next four rounds as they over- There are more Indian men in the FIDE rating list than Russian men. In the latest, August 2017
come their rivals at ease and lifted rating list, there are 56497 Indian men, which is more than Russians who are 55946.
the Dubai cup with 16 match points However, in the combined list of men and women together, Russia is ahead at 67976 to 66163.
while Bhubaneswar finished as first In the events registered to be organised, Russia has 237 events to India’s 63. Scanning the
runner up with 14 points and Dhaka events, Russia has it evenly split among classical, rapid and blitz ratings while majority of the
completed the podium finish with Indian events are classical.
13 points. Rakesh Kumar Jena of India has the most rated players among the English speaking nations for the past two decades.
Bhuaneswar won Gold on second India had more Grand Masters than China recently.
board while Rasht team members India top 10: Anand 2783, Harikrishna 2743, Vidit 2693, Sasikiran 2688, Adhiban 2677, Ganguly
Arash Tahbaz, Faghirnavaz Ali, Sa- 2658, Negi 2656, Gupta 2639, Sethuraman 2618, Gopal 2589.
deh Shahin and Soozankar A M won India women top 10: Humpy 2557, Harika 2526, Eesha 2397, Tania 2392, Vijayalakshmi 2370,
Gold on First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Mary Ann 2344, Aakanksha 2328, Padmini 2327, Vaishali 2327, Soumya 2320.
boards, respectively.
In a colourful closing ceremony, AICF Central Council – 01.09.2017
Runner-up:Bhubaneswar, India Shri. Achuyuta Samanta, founder
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Tech-
nology and Kalinga Institute of Social Science gave away the medals and trophies to the winners
in presence of Shri. Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice President AICF, Shri. KK Sarma, Secretary All
Odisha Chess Association and Shri. Mahadi Abulrahim, Chief Arbiter.
Final standings of teams: 1.Rasht, Iran 16; 2.Bhubaneswar, India 14; 3.Dhaka, Bangladesh
13; 4.Penang, Malaysia 12;5.Kolkata, India 9; 6.Puri, India 8; 7.Dubai, UAE 7; 8.Muscat, Oman
7 ; 9. Alquds, Palestine 7; 10.Chinese Taipei 6; 11.Bhubaneswar A, India 5;12.Cuttack, India 4.
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5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Chess Tournament-2017,Udaipur 15 Sharma P L 6.5 58 Ravi Shanker 5.5
16 Prashanth J Naik 6.5 59 Mehak Jain 5.5
Pranav Shetty wins 17 Cheniram Pegu 6.5 60 Mandloi Mukesh AIM 5.5
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 18 Sumit Grover 6.5 61 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5.5
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19 Sher Singh 6.5 62 Arun Kataria 5.5
th N L Pandiyar Memorial FIDE Rating fantastic comeback and beat the penultimate 20 Babel T Divyanshu 6.5 63 Balasubramanian A. 5.5
Chess Tournament 2017 was organized round leader Ankit to emerge champion of 21 Katiyar Prashant 6.5 64 Bhogal Rupesh AGM 5.5
by Chess In lake city under the aegis of the tournament with a final tally of 8 points. 22 Kapil Dadhich 6.5 65 Ayush Lodha 5.5
All Rajputana Chess Association, from 24th 23 Tanmay Jain CM 6.5 66 Bahadur Singh 5.5
to 29th August 2017, at Mahapragya Bhavan, The prize distribution function of 5thNL Pandi- 24 Rishi Sonker 6.5 67 Tanmay Chopra 5.5
Udaipur. The earlier declared venue of the yar Memorial FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 25 Rawal Shailesh 6.5 68 Aneek Das 5.5
tournament was Bhandari Darshak Mandap, 2017 was held on 29th August, 2017 at 3 26 Mraduhas Tripathi 6.5 69 Bhat Sanjay 5.5
but later on the venue had to be shifted to pm at the venue.Shri. Rajesh Sharma, Shri. 27 Aashish Choudhary 6.5 70 Bhuta Hriday 5.5
Mahapragya Bhavan due to Udaipur visit of VikasSahu, Mr. Shreechandji Jain, President 28 Wazeer Ahmad Khan IM 6.5 71 Dhruv Dak 5.5
PM Shri Narendra Modi. The Total Number CIL Rajeev Bhardwaj, CIL Patron Shri C. P. 29 Abhay Bandewar 6.5 72 Nitul Khare 5.5
of participants were 289 which included GM Bhatt, ARCA Secretary, Shri Y S Rathore 30 Hilal Mondal 6.5 73 Kanjar Kirtan Ketanbhai 5.5
Norm holder IM Wazir Ahmed Khan as one Sirand the Chief Arbiter, IA Swapnil Bansod 31 Rathore Sonakshi 6 74 Baij Nath Prasad 5.5
of the participants. The total tally of rated were present on the occasion. 32 Sahil Dhawan 6 75 Gautam Kataria 5.5
players were 188. 33 Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay 6 76 Bhat Siddharth K 5.5
I express my sincere thanks to my team of 34 Umer S.M 6 77 Namish Sharma 5.5
The tournament was inaugurated at the arbiters consisting of FA Yashpal Arora, FA 35 Jalap Indraj 6 78 Kapil Kumar Khare 5.5
hands of Shri.PramodJi Samar, BJP Lead- MehmoodMohd., SNA PrathameshDharma- 36 Dave Sneh 6 79 Shreyas Ghadi 5.5
er. Other guests present on the dais were dhikari, SNA Rajeet Kumar, SNA NeeleshKu- 37 Dave Kantilal 6 80 Yung David 5.5
Shri. Vikas Sahu, Secretary CIL, Rajeev mawat, SNA Manish Chandalia, SNA Chandan 38 Shweta Priyadarshini 6 81 Deepak Raina 5.5
Bhardwaj,President CIL, BJP Sec. Shri Prem Chawla, SNARaghavendra Shukla and lastly I 39 Aman Sharma 6 82 Yadav Ashindra 5.5
Singh Shaktawat, Shri DevendraSahu, Shri thank the organizers, SNA Vikas Sahu & Dy 40 Bipin Dhingra 6 83 Mahabir Parshad Verma 5.5
Dineshji, CIL Patron & District Sports Council Chief FA Rajendra Teli who worked hard to 41 Sinha Santosh Kumar 6 84 Vikram 5.5
Member and IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbi- make the event a grand success. 42 Rishabh Jain 6 85 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5
ter. After the inaugural function the technical Final standings: 43 Chourasiya Hemant 6 86 Hariom Solanki 5
meeting was arranged. All the tournament Rk. Name Pts. 44 Garv Gaur 6 87 J M Baisakh 5
regulations were discussed and finalized in 1 Pranav Shetty 8 45 Batham Avinash 6 88 Nitin Rathore 5
the meeting. 2 Ankit Sen 7.5 46 Awasthi Balgovind 6 89 Deshmukh Nachiket 5
3 Anadkat Kartavya 7.5 47 Manthan Kashyap Datta 6 90 Govind Kumar Chandel 5
Top Seed Pranav Shetty(2201)of MAH, lost to 4 Dere Pushkar 7.5 48 Akshit Jha 6 91 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 5
Parmod Kharbansh of HAR in the 3rd round 5 Deepak Katiyar 7.5 49 Bhawesh Pandiyar 6 92 Anirban Basu 5
game. While in 4th round 4th seed Santosh 6 Rishabh Nishad 7.5 50 Sudhakar 6 93 Satinder Sharma 5
Kumar Sinha of GUJ lost to Sri Sai Baswath P 7 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 7.5 51 Hamendra Singh Makwana 6 94 Mishra Sanjeev 5
of AP. At the end of 5th round Pushkar Dare of 8 Jaspreet Singh 7 52 Choubey Saurabh AFM 6 95 Suryakant Verma 5
MAH was leading the table by winning all the 9 Awadh Chaitanya 7 53 Parmod Kharbash 5.5 96 Bagwe Gaurang 5
five games i.e. with 5/5 score. He maintained 10 Om Kharola 7 54 Bharti Vishal 5.5 97 Delwar Dharmesh 5
his lead till the end of 6th round, but at the 11 Trivedi Karan R 7 55 Madhav Mahere 5.5 98 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 5
end of 7th round Ankit Sen of UP joined him 12 Maulik Raval 7 56 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 5.5 99 Tiwari O P 5
with 6.5 points, Later in last round game on 13 Vikramaditya Mukhija 7 57 Leeladhar Kachroo 5.5 100 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 5
top board top seed Pranav Shetty made a 14 Roshan S 7
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st Sri Raghavendra Open Fide Rated Rk Name Pts Dhiman Mitra of West Bengal became the Arun Prasath, Saamrats Chess Academy.
Chess Tournament was organised by Sri 1 IM Ravichandran Siddharth 7½ champion of Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Mr.M.Iravatham of Rockfort Chess Academy
Raghavendra Chess Academy with the 2 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 Tournament (Below1500) which was held welcomed the gathering.
support of Mastermind Chess Academy. It 3 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7 from 25th to 27th August 2017 at Kongu-
was inaugurated by Shri Rangan here at Sri 4 Phoobalan P. 7 nadu College of Engineering and Technology, The total Prize Money of the event was Rs.
Neelambal Mahal, Pallikaranai, Chennai on 5 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7 Trichy. He scored 8.5 out of 9 points and was 2,00,000/- , The Organisers also gave addi-
12th August 2017. This event attracted 454 6 Chaithanyaa K G 7 the sole leader. The second prize was bagged tional special prize to all Under-7 Players. The
players from 5 federations (India, England, 7 Hemanth Raam 6½ by Satheesh Kumar G with 8/9 points, Third Tournament was conducted smoothly without
Kenya, Maldives and USA) which included 1 8 Osama Salim 6½ prize went to Priyan R S Of Tamilnadu with any protest and in a well-organized man-
IM, 1FM and 2 CMs. Seeded players sailed 9 AGM Srihari L R 6½ 8/9 Points. ner. For this I have to thank the Kongunadu
smoothly up to 2 rounds. At the end of 3rd 10 Chandak Shivam 6½ College of Engineering and Technology Man-
round 60th seeded player 13 years old boy 11 Karthik P M 6½ The event was inaugurated by Shri PSK agement, PD and all other Staff members for
Rathina Sabapathy, TN shocked 3rd seeded 12 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6½ Periyasamy Founder and Chairman, Kongu- providing Venue, food at concessional rates
player Syed Anwar Shazuli, ICF. 14 and 6 13 Karthick Narayanan S 6½ nadu Engineering College with Aswin and and good accommodation to players. I must
players shared the lead with full points after 14 Sree Veeramani P 6½ MS.Praveena of Trichy, , on 25th June in the also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches,
the 4th & 5th round respectively. In 7th round 15 Rohit Vassan S 6½ presence of MV Hariharan, Divisional Man- Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters
IM Siddharth Ravichandran and T.Selvabhar- 16 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½ ager, Canara Bank, Mr.N.Kannan, Andavar for their Kind Co-operation to conduct the
athy of TN played against each other with 6 17 Hiren K G 6½ Water, Trichy, R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint. event successfully.I must thank AICF, TNSCA
points on the top table, the experienced IM 18 Harini S. 6½ Secretary TNSCA, T.Sundarrajan, Secretary, & TDCA for giving me the chance to work
beat Selvabharathy and took sole lead with 19 Yashwanth Raj S 6½ Trichy District Chess Association as a Chief Arbiter in this wonderful Chess
the perfect score. Harikrishnan A. Ra (TN), 20 Selvabharathy T 6 Tournament.
P.Phoobalan (ICF) and M.Vinothkumar (TN) 21 Ram Vishwanathan 6 This event was organized by Rockfort Chess
followed the leader with 6.5 points each. 22 Avinash Ramesh 6 Academy and Saamrats Chess Academy.A Final ranking
23 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 total of 442 Players (237 rated players, 205 Rk Name Pts
Siddharth played with Harikrishnan and 24 Thaga Sheriff M 6 unrated players) from nine States partici- 1 Dhiman Mitra 8½
Phoobalan played with Vinothkumar on top 2 25 Aasha C R 6 pated in this event. Ms V. Meenatchi Rajam 2 Satheesh Kumar G 8
tables respectively. But they ended in peace 26 Satvik V 6 of Tamilnadu was the top seed of this event. 3 Priyan R S 8
with each other. IM Ravichandran Siddharth 27 Narendra Pallavan S 6 The youngest was a six year old boy and the 4 Mathavan T 7½
clinched 1st Sri Raghavendra Open Fide Rat- 28 Susarla Rishith 6 oldest was seventy year old man. 5 Ashok D 7½
ed Chess Tournament title and bagged the 29 Rupak M 6 6 Sathyaraj G 7½
cash 35,000 with beautiful glittering trophy. 30 Kiruthika B 6 On 27th evening at 3.30 Pm the Prize Dis- 7 Karthikeyan G 7½
Harikrishnan, Vinothkumar, Phoobalan, Bhar- 31 Abinandhan R 6 tribution function was held, the Chief Guests 8 Domnic Xavier R S 7½
ath Subramaniam and Chaithanyaa finished 32 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6 were Mrs. Dr.Anitha, A. Amburose, Patron 9 Puvaneswaran M 7½
with 7 points each and placed from 2nd to 6th 33 Muralidharan P S 6 Tanjore District Chess Association, All the 10 Vasudevan K 7
respectively. Mr. M. Muthukumar, Secretary, 34 Krishna K R 6 above Guests distributed 143 Prizes in total, 11 Midhun Kumar M A 7
KDCA, Joint Secretary, TNSCA and Mr. Ebe- 35 AGM Rathneesh R 6 in the presence of P. Palaniappan IA, Dy. 12 Surya A C 7
nesar Rajkumar, Treasurer, KDCA distributed 36 Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan 6 Chief Arbiter of this Event and Jt.Sec.,SD- 13 Arun Prasath P 7
the prizes to the winners. 37 Sidharth P G 6 CA, R.Selvam, President, Rockfort Chess 14 Ilanchezhiyan M 7
Final ranking (first 44 placings only) 38 Domnic Xavier R S 6 Academy, PL.Kannan, Mrs. K.Valliammai and 15 Arul Saravanan S 7
1 2
White to play and win White to play and win 1. 2.
3 4 3. 4.
White to play and win Black to play and win
5 6 5. 6.
Black to play and win White to play and win
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 47)
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Masters of the past-80 Mark Dvoretsky
2nd Badal Bhattacharjee Memorial FIDE Rated tournament, Siliguri
Dvoretsky wrote a series of chess training books. The series commenced with Secrets of
Chess Training which won the BCF book of the year award in 1991. Secrets of Chess Tactics,
Opening Preparation, Technique for the Tournament Player and Attack and Defence followed
along. Some time later came his 'School of Chess Excellence' books, which were recently (L-R in the foreground)
Dr.Smt.K.Mohana,
revised and re-issued by Edition Olms, a Swiss publishing house. Numbered 1-4, they are
Principal, Modern Senior
in order, Endgame Analysis, Tactical Play, Strategic Play and Opening Developments. The Secondary School,
books are sometimes co-authored by star pupil Yusupov and many contain contributions Hemant Raam, Winner,
from a host of other grandmasters. He wrote Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, published in GM Karthikeyan Murali,
2003, a manual on the endgame. The fourth edition of this book was published in 2014. Chief Guest and Prof.
Veeraraghavan, President,
Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual was published in 2008. He died on September 26, 2016, at Modern Senior Secondary
the age of 68. School, Nanganallur
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Trichy All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament (Below1500),Trichy Solutions to ‘Tactics from master Nh4! 29.Qg3 Re8–+] 29.Nc4 Rc2–+ There
games’ on page 42 are multiple threats which white cannot cope
by Srinivas Krishnan with. 0–1
1. Seo,Jung Min (2270) 5.Moise,O(2134)Petrisor,A (2372)
Grueso Cordoba,Santiago (2108) 10th Arad Open 2017 Arad ROU (2.27),
Stockholm SWE Stockholm SWE (3.1), 07.08.2017
10.07.2017 Black to play. 17...Rg5! 18.Qxf6 [18.Rab1]
White to play. 33.Be6! [Also playable is 33.Qe8 18...Rxg2+ 19.Kh1 Rxe2+ [19...Rxe2+!
Qa2 34.Nd2! Rxb4 35.Nc4 Bxe4+ 36.dxe4 At- 20.Kg1 Rg2+ 21.Kh1 Rg3+ Wins.; 19...Rg3+
tack on f7 cannot be avoided] 33...fxe6 34.Qe8 20.Bf3 (20.Rf3 Bxf3+ (20...Rxf3 21.Bxf3 Bxf3+
[34.Qe8 Kh8 35.Qf7 Wins] 1–0 22.Kg1 gxf6–+) ) 20...Rxf3 Also wins] 0–1
2.Firat,B (2480)Bulmaga,I (2412) 6.Kveinys,A (2542)Capone,N
6th MTS Logistics 2017 Izmir TUR (8.8), Pays de Charleroi Open Charleroi BEL (5.4),
11.07.2017 01.08.2017 White to play. 26.Be6! [26.Be6
White to play 20.Nf6+! Qxf6 [20...Kf8 21.Nh7+ Rxd2 (26...Bd6 27.Bg5+-; 26...Rf8 27.Rd7
Kg8 (21...Ke8 22.Qxg7 Nd7 (22...Rd5 23.Rxd5 Nxd7 28.Rxd7+-) 27.Bxf7+ Kh8 28.Rxd2
cxd5 24.Bxb5++-) 23.Qh8+ Nf8 24.Nxf8 Wins) Threatening 29.Be8 followed by 30. Qf7 28...
22.Qxe5 Qxe5 23.Rd8+ Kxh7 24.Bd3++- Na6 29.Qe6 Rd8 30.Be8 Rxe8 31.Rd7 Qb8
] 21.Qxe5 Na6 [21...Qxe5 22.Rd8+ Kh7 32.Qf7 Rg8 33.Rxe7 Wins] 1–0
(L-R) Dhakshinamoorthy, Nagapattinam Dist.Chess Association, Arun Prasad, PL.Kannan, Winner Mr. Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
Dhiman Mitra of West Bengal, A.Amburose, Patron, Tanjore Dist.Chess Association, M.Iravatham, 23.Bd3+ g6 24.Rxe5] 22.Qxf6 gxf6 23.Rd7
Rockfort Chess Academy, P.Palaniappan IA, Mr. Dhinakaran FA, Mrs. Dr. Anitha, Mrs. K. Valliammai Nc5 [23...Bc8 24.Rd8+ Kg7 25.Bg4+- Bb7 page 43
26.Rxa8 Bxa8 27.Re7+-] 24.Re7 Threatening 1.Cheron
25.Bh5 as well as 25.Rc1 1–0 1.Bf4 Ke2 2.Ba2 d3 3.Bc4 Kd1 4.Kf3 e2 5.Bb3+
3. Brkic,Ante (2565) Bukal,Vladimir Jr Ke1 6.Kg2 d2 7.Bg3#
5th N L Pandiyar FIDE Rating Chess Tournament-2017,Udaipur (2398) 2.Kopajev
28th Czech Open A 2017 Pardubice CZE (6.20), 1.Rf5+ Ka4 2.Ra5+ Kb4 3.Rh5 Rd3 4.Kc7 Rc3+
26.07.2017 5.Kb6 Rd3 6.Rh4+ Ka3 7.Kc7 Rc3+ 8.Kd8 Rc2
White to play. 21.Qh5! gxh5 [21...h6 22.Qxh6! 9.Ke7 Re2+ 10.Kd6 Rd2+ 11.Kc6 Rc2+ 12.Kb5
Bxh6 23.Rxh6 Wins; 21...Re8 22.Qxh7+ Kf8 Rb2+ 13.Ka5 Rd2 14.Rh3+ Ka2 15.Rxh2
23.Qh8+] 22.Rg3 [22.Rg3 Re8 23.Rxg7+ Kf8 3.Dr Arthur Mandler
(23...Kh8 24.Rg5#) 24.Bxh7 Now 25.Rg8 mate 1.Re8 Ra7 2.Rf8 Ke3 3.Rf7 Ra5+ 4.Ke6 Ke4
cannot be avoided] 1–0 5.Rb7
4. Harikrishna,Pentala (2737) Bacrot,E- 4.Kantorovic
tienne (2715) 1.g7 Rd8 2.Re6+ Kf3 3.Rf6+ Kg3 4.Rg6+ Kh3
50th Biel GM 2017 Biel SUI (9.5), 02.08.2017 5.Kg1 Rg8 6.Kf2 Kh2 7.Rg4 h3 8.Rg3
Black to play 21...Bxf5! 22.Nxf5 [22.Qxf5 5.F.Richter
Rd5–+] 22...Qh2+ 23.Kf1 Rd2 24.f4 h5 25.Qf3 1.Ka4 Kc4 2.Ka5 Kc5 3.Ka6 Bb8 4.Rc1+ Kd5
[25.Qg5 Bxf4; 25.Qg3 Qh1+ 26.Bg1 Bxf4] 5.Rc7 Kxd6 6.Rc8 Bc7 7.Kb5
Prize winners with dignitaries:(L-R) Front Row CIL Secretary Vikas sahu, Mr. Shree Chand ji Jain , President 25...Qh1+ 26.Bg1 Ba7 27.Re3 [27.Nd4 Bxd4 6.A.Hilderband
CIL Rajeev Bhardwaj, CIL Patron Shri C P Bhatt , Chief Guest Rajesh Sharma ,ARCA Sec. Shri Y S Rathore 28.cxd4 Nxf4–+] 27...Bxe3 28.Nxe3 Re8 [28... 1.Bd7+ Kc7 2.Bxe6 Kc6 3.Bd7+ Kc7 4.Bb5 Kc8
Sir, IA Swapnil Bansod 5.Ba6+ Kc7 6.Bb7
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AICF Calendar September 2017 1st NITHM All India Open FIDE Rating Tournament 2017, Hyderabad
30th FIDE Rating Open Chess Tmt Tuticorin Sep-24 to Sep-27
Hyderabad open All India FIDE Rating Hyderabad Sep-25 to Sep-29
3rd KCA FIDE Rating Kancheepuram Sep-27 to Oct-02
Dipak Ghatuar Memorial FIDE Rating Sivasagar,Assam Sep-28 to Oct02
KKCA First All India FIDE Rated Coimbatore Sep-29 to Oct-02
3rd Railwheel Factory FIDE Rated Open Bangalore Sep-29 to Oct-03
4th Sameen Singh Open FIDE Rating Tmt Amritsar Sep-29 to Oct-03
Chess Guru Academy Maharashtra Open Mulund, Mumbai Sep -30 to Oct 05
All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Hyderabad Sep-30 to Oct-02
St.Paul Public School CBSE FIDE rating Cuddalore Oct 01 to Oct 04
43rd National Sub Junior& 34th Sub Junior Girls Gujarat Oct-01 to Oct-09
World Junior 2017 Oct-01 to Oct-16
1st Nitai Ghosh Memorial FIDE Rated Jalpaiguri Oct-07 to Oct-11
Asian Senior 2017 Oct-09 to Oct-15
2nd Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated New Delhi Oct 11 to Oct 15
17 Adyar Times FIDE Rated Open Mylapore Oct 12 to Oct 15
1st Under - 19 Chhattisgarh State Open Raipur Oct 13 to Oct 15
National Under – 17 Boys & Girls Championship Coimbatore Oct-24 to Nov-01
Smt.Suneeta Singh & sanjay Kashiwal rating Indore Oct 26 to Oct 31
4th Late Laxmikant V.Desai Mem.FIDE rating Goa Oct-26 to Oct-29
Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-31 Major Shivaprasad, Vice President, TSCA K S Prasad, Secretary, TSCA, ,Shri. Chinnam Reddy Director,
NITHM, Winner IM Chakravarthi Reddy and Sheik Fayaz, Tournament Director
55th National Premier Chess Championship Patna Oct 27 to Nov 10
1st Punjab State Amateur RatingChampionship Oct 27 to Oct 29
National Under – 9 Gurgaon Nov-02 to Nov-10 National Challenger Chess Championship, Ahmedabad
Nanjil 1st All India FIDE Rated Open - 2017 03 Nov - 06 Nov
Chess in Lakecity winter Cup FIDE Rating 1600 Udaipur Nov-03 to Nov-05
National Amateur 2017 Delhi Nov-05 to Nov-11
World Senior – 2017 Nov-06 to Nov-19
2nd Delhi Chess Association below 1600 New Delhi Nov -12 to Nov 14
2nd Asom FIDE Rating Open Guwahati Nov-14 to Nov-19
1st Namkeen City All India Open Rating Ratlam,M.P Nov-15 to Nov 20
Athens of the East 2nd FIDE rating bel1500 Madurai Nov-10 to Nov-12
Shri. Parthiv Patel, Indian Test Cricketer makes the inaugural move of the championship against
WIM Dhyani Dave in presence of Shri Jayesh Modi, Vice President GSCA , Shri. Bhavesh Patel,
Secretary GSCA
Champion Deepan Chakkravarthy receiving winner’s trophy from Shri. DV Sundar, Vice President FIDE
& AICF and Shri. Ajay Patel, President GSCA in presence of Shri. Jayesh Modi, Vice President GSCA and
Shri. Bhavesh Patel, Secretary GSCA.