AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 13 Issue : 12 Price Rs. 25 July 2019

Commonwealth Chess
Championships, New Delhi

19th IPCA World Individual

Chess Championship 2019

GM Abhijeet Gupta IM Tania Sachdev

Commonwealth Open Champion Commonwealth Women Champion

WIM Jenitha Anto

Gold (Women)
33rd National Under-7 Open & Girls Chess Championships 2019, Kolkata

Sri Akhil Prasad Siddhi Rao

(Andhra Pradesh) (Karnataka)
Open Champion Girls Champion

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2nd Goa Intl. Open Grandmasters Tmt.,Taleigao
GM Samvel is Champion of Goa Open
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 1
12th KIIT Intl. Chess Festival, Bhubaneswar
Itturizaga wins at Bubaneshwar
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 8
12thMumbai Mayors Cup Intl. Tournament, Mumbai
GM Amanatov Farrukh is Champion
by IA R. Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter 12
33rd National Under-7 Open & Girls Ch’ships, Kolkata
Sri Akhil Prasad and Siddhi Rao are Champions
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter 15
ABCA Golden Jubilee FIDE Rating Tmt.,Patna
Sinha Sudhir Kumar wins title
by Dharmendra Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter 20
Late Ramesh Vinayak Rao Kotwal Mem.Open, Gondia
Pawan Dodeja wins title
by FA Deepak Chavan ,Chief Arbiter 22
Saturday Club Youth Championship Rapid Rating ,Kolkata
Srijit Paul wins title
13th Chessmate Inter-School Rapid Rating , Kolkata
Garden High School and LSA win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter 28
Smart Girl Fide Rated Chess Tmt , Gurgaon
Stuti Bhanot is ‘Smart Girl’ at Gurgaon
by Raj Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter 29
5th Triple ‘C’ FIDE Rating below 1600 Ch’ship,Cuttack
Dhiman Mitra emerged Champion
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 30
1st ICA Wayanad below 1600 Fide Rated Open Tmt
Paulson Frenchy champion at Wayanad
by Dr. M.S.Govindan Kutty IA, Chief Arbiter 32
Selected games from Goa GM Open
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-101:Vasily Smyslov 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Winning Commonwealth Chess has
become a second habit for GM Abhijeet
Gupta who took his fifth title outplaying
GM Erigaisi Arjun in the final round of
Commonwealth Chess Championships
at Delhi. It was the third Commonwealth
Women title for Tania Sachdev scoring an impressive win
over Varshini in the last round. India’s dominance at the
Commonwealth Chess was complete winning all the medals
which were up for grabs in the age-group events. In the 19th
edition of IPCA World Individual Chess Championship held
at Ruzomberok in Slovakia, WIM Jenitha Anto from Trichy
bagged he IPCA World Women’s title for the sixth time.
Reports on these events are featured in the centre pages
of this suue.
Close on the heels of Kathikeyan Murali’s stunning queen
sac at the Asian Continental comes yet another scintillating
queen sacrifice at the Goa GM Open last month, this time
by the IM from Kerala, K.Ratnakaran. This game against
GM Mchedlishvili, Mikheil of Georgia in the centre pages of
this issue is one for the anthologies.
There were three GM Open tournaments held last month.
Itturizaga Bonelli Eduardo of Venezuela won at the KIIT
Chess festival in Bhubaneshwar,GM Amanotov Farrukh
of Tajikistan was Champion in Mumbai Mayor’s Cup at
Mumbai and Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia won the
Goa GM Open at Taleigao.Sri Akhil Prasad of Andhra
Pradesh emerged Under-7 Open Champion and Siddhi
Rao of Karnataka became Under-7 Girls Champion in the
33rd National Under-7 Open & Girls Chess Championship
2019, Kolkata. Reports on the above tournaments along
with other FIDE rated tournaments held last month are
presented in this issue.
Selected games from Goa GM Open are annotated by
IM Manuel Aaron.Former World Champion and Russian
Grandmaster Vasily Smyslov 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.
2nd Goa International Open Grandmasters Tournament,Taleigao
GM Samvel is Champion of Goa Open
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
2nd Goa International Open Grandmasters
Chess Tournament-2019 was held at Dr.
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium,
Taleigao, Goa from 18th June to 25th June
2019 in three different categories.
Shri. Nilesh Cabral, Minister of Power, Gov-
ernment of Goa formally inaugurated the
tournament by making the customary first
move against top seed Grandmaster Eduardo
Iturrizaga Bonelli of Venezuela in presence
of Shri. Vassant M Prabudessai, Executive
Director Sports Authority of Goa, Shri. Sekhar
Chandra Sahu, Vice President All India Chess
Federation and Shri. Kishore Bandekar, Treas-
urer All India Chess Federation and Secretary
Goa Chess Association. The premier category
of the tournament with prize fund of Rs. 25
lakh attracted a total number 246 players
which included 35 Grandmasters, 29 Inter-
national Masters, 02 Women Grandmasters
and 10 Women International Masters from
23 countries.
The tournament started in surprising note
as Chennai based BSNL employee Ram S
Krishnan stunned seventh seed Grandmaster
Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus. Apart from
Aleksandrov, Grandmasters Karthik Venkat-
araman, RR Laxman, Himanshu Sharma and
Maximum Lugovskoy of Russia bit the dust
against their lower rated Indian opponents in
the opening round.
The tournaments saw lot of ups and downs
and provided exciting battles in entire ten
rounds. Before going to the final round, Ar-
menian Grandmaster Manuel Petrosyan en-
joyed a slender half point lead over nearest
contenders but in the dramatic last round,
sole leader Grandmaster Manuel Petrosyan
of Armenia signed the peace treaty with
Georgian Grandmaster Luka Paichadze which
opened up the tournament for an exciting
finish as defending champion Idani Pouya of
Iran defeated top seed Eduardo Iturrizaga
Bonelli of Venezuela on second board and
Armenian Grandmaster Ter-Sahakyan Samvel
beat Georgian Grandmaster Davit Jojua to
make it a three way tie at the top with eight
point apiece. Better tie break score helped
Samvel lift the winner’s trophy and pocket a
cash prize of Rs. 3,50,000/- while Petrosyan
had to be content with first runner up position
and Idani finished at third.
Women International Master Michelle Cath-
erina becomes the best Women player of
the tournament while Sameer Kathmale,
Isha Sharma, Priyanka K and Kamdar Udit
won best prizes in rating category below
2399, 2299, 2199 and 2099 respectively.
The tournament provided the right platform
for the Indian players as many as thirteen
International title norms were made. Anuj
Shivatri of Madhya Pradesh, Rathanvel VS
of Tamilnadu, Aaryan Varshney of Delhi,
Priyanka K of Tamilnadu, Mitrabha Guha of
West Bengal, Neelash Saha of West Bengal,
Bharath Subramaniyam of Tamilnadu and
Sankalp Gupta of Maharashtra achieved In-
ternational Master Norms while Tamilnadu
girls Srija Seshadri and Michelle Catherina
achieved their Women Grandmaster Norms.
Apart from her International Master Norm, K
Priyanka achieved here Women Grandmaster
and Women International Master Norms too
during the tournament. Odisha teenager Sai-
na Salonika completed the Indian Norm haul
with a Women International Master norm.
In a colourful closing ceremony Hon’ble Chief
Minister of Goa Dr. Pramod Sawant along with
Shri Manohar Ajgaonkar, Deputy Chief Min-
ister of Goa, Shri Nilesh Cabral, Minister of
Power Goa, Shri. DV Sundar, Vice President
FIDE, Shri. Bhart Singh Chauhan, Secretary
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All India Chess Federation gave away the
trophies and cash prizes.
Category ‘B’
The B Category of the tournament for the
Below 2000 rated players held from 18th to
21st June 19 with a prize fund of Rs. 16 lakh.
As the formal inauguration of the tournament
was scheduled in the afternoon on 18th June
2019 before the kick start of the ‘A’ catego-
ry, B category event started in the morning
hours without any formal inauguration. With
round one starting on time and players went
to their business mode at the beautiful venue
with lot of enthusiasm.
A total number of 458 players which included
403 International rated players from Nepal,
Sri Lanka, USA, Uzbekistan and 26 states of
India participated in the event spread over 4
days with a time control of 60 minutes and
30 seconds increment from move 1. Panta
Sumit of Nepal started as the top seed in the
10 round Swiss System tournament.
As expected, the tournament progressed with
lots of twists and turns and provided excite-
ment till the end. In the tenth and final round
Karthik Gopal of Andhra Pradesh defeated
Karthikeyan J of Tamilnadu to clinch the title
by scoring nine points and pocketed a cash
prize of Rs. 2 lakh along with beautiful trophy
and Y Saranya of Tamilnadu finished as first
runner up and got richer by Rs. 1.5 lakh. Even
though he lost his final round match against
the champion, J Karthikeyan finished at third
position on better tie break to take home a
cash award of Rs. 1.25 lakh.
Velpula Sarayu of Telangana adjudged as
best female player while Paul Chinnappan of
Karnataka became the best among unrated
players. Aditya Varun Gampa of Telangana,
Adi Reddy Arjun of Telangana, Nirnay Garg of
Haryana,Ethan Vaz of Goa, Diddhant Bharti of
Goa finished best among Under-15, Under-13,
Under-11, Under-19 and Under-7 open age
categories respectively while Bhagyashree
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Patil of Maharashtra, Mrittika Mallick of West
Bengal, Rajanya Datta of West Bengal, Saeeja 12thMumbai Mayors Cup Intl. Tournament, Mumbai
Gunesh Dessai of Goa and Diya Digamber
Sawal of Goa won the best prizes in same
age categories for girls. In the rating based
category prizes, Neil Franclin S of Tamilnadu,
Mrithyunjay Mahadevan of Tamilnadu, Vishrut
Parekh of Gujarat, Sairudra Nagvekar of Goa
and Harshad Shrinath Hagawane of Mahar-
ashtra finished as best among Below 1800,
1600, 1400, 1200 and 1100 respectively.
Ayush Pednekar became Best Goan Player.
Shri. Nilesh Cabral, Hon’ble Minister for Power
Government of India and President of Goa
Chess Association gave away the prizes along
with Shri. Sanjay Bhandari, Corporate Head
Nestle, Dr. Datta Bhatt, Deputy Director of
Aayush and Shri. Kishor Bandekar, Secretary
Goa Chess Association.
Category ‘C’
(L-R) Rajendra Konde Treasurer AMCA, Harish Mehta, co-founder, Nasscomm, GM Petrosyan Manuel
(Runner up of category A) Varun Wagh (winner Category C), GM Farrukh Amonatov ( Winner of Category
The C Category of the tournament for the
A) Jayraj Phatak (Former Municipal Commissioner) IA Srivatsan R (Chief Arbiter) R M Dongre, IM Sekhar
Below 1600 rated players was held from 22nd
Sahu, Vice President,AICF
to 25th June 19 with a prize fund of Rs. 12
lakh. A total number of 610 players which
included 416 International rated players from
Nepal, Sri Lanka and India participated in the
event which were spread over 4 days with a
time control of 60 minutes and 30 seconds
increment from move 1. Sanjib Mali of West
Bengal started as the top seed in the 10 round
Swiss System tournament.
Being an amateur event as expected, the
tournament progressed with lots of twists and
turns. At the end of tenth and final round eight
players tied for the pole position with eight
and half points in their kitty. But better tie
break score helped third seed Mayur Kalbande
of Maharasthra to lift the winner’s trophy
along Rs. 1.5 lakh as prize money. Stephan
Raj of Tamilnadu and Vangala Prashanth of
Andhra Pradesh finished at second and third
position respectively.
Mahi Amit Doshi of Gujarat adjudged as (L-R) IA Swapnil Bansod, IA Srivatsan R( Chief Arbiter) Winner of Category B Koustav Chakraborty, Chief Guest
best female player while Bharat Bhushan of Prashant Modi, (Senior Commander Air India), Runner Up Sharan Rao R M Dongre, IM Shekhar Sahu,Vice
Punjab becomes best among unrated play- President, IA Vitthal Madhav (Deputy Chief Arbiter)
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 ers. Adalja Vanssh of Gujarat, Prathamesh 20 GM Lugovskoy Maxim 7
12th Mumbai Mayors Cup Intl. Tournament, Mumbai Santosh Gawade of Maharashtra, Ankit Ray 21 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil 7
of West Bengal, Ethan Vaz of Goa and Erwin 22 Harshavardhan G B 7
Albuquerque of Goa finished best among 23 FM Rathanvel V S 6½
Under-15, Under-13, Under-11, Under-19 24 GM Kostenko Petr 6½
and Under-7 open age categories respec- 25 Neelash Saha 6½
tively while Vashita Jain of Madhya Pradesh, 26 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 6½
Srishanthi G of Telangana, Charvi Patidar of 27 GM Stupak Kirill 6½
Rajasthan, Shriya Patil of Goa and Poorvi 28 IM Shyaamnikhil P 6½
Nayak of Goa won the best prizes in same 29 GM Gupta Abhijeet 6½
age categories for girls. 30 IM Gusain Himal 6½
In the rating based category prizes, Amit 31 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 6½
Kumar Agarwal of Uttar Pradesh, Varghese
32 IM Iniyan P 6½
Pappachan of Maharashtra, Ayush Sanjeev
33 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej 6½
Naik of Goa, Sairudra Nagvekar of Goa and
34 WIM Srija Seshadri 6½
Harshad Shrinath Hagawane of finished as
35 GM Anurag Mhamal 6½
best among Below 1500, 1400, 1300, 1200
and 1100 respectively. Lad Mandar Pradip 36 FM Aaryan Varshney 6½
becomes Best Goan Player. 37 GM Fier Alexandr 6½
In a colourful closing ceremony Hon’ble Depu- 38 FM Pranesh M 6½
(L-R) Shri Rajendra Konde, Treasurer AMCA, Shri.R.M.Dongre, Shri Harish Mehta, co-founder Nasscomm, 39 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½
Varun Wagh,Winner Category C, receiving the prize from the Mumbai Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, ty Chief Minister of Goa Shri Manohar Ajgaon-
kar along with Shri Nilesh Cabral, Minister of 40 IM Sardana Rishi 6½
Shri Jayraj Pathak,former Municipal Commissioner,Shri Sekhar Sahu IM, Vice President AICF,IA R.Srivatsan,
Power Goa, Shri. DV Sundar, Vice President 41 GM Venkatesh M.R. 6½
Chief Arbiter
FIDE, Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary 42 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 6½
12th KIIT International Chess Festival, Bhubaneswar All India Chess Federation gave away the 43 IM Kathmale Sameer 6½
trophies and cash prizes. 44 WCM I sha Sharma 6½
45 FM Mitrabha Guha 6
Final ranking :Category A 46 IM Nguyen Van Huy 6
Rk Name Pts 47 GM Neverov Valeriy 6
1 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 8 48 Priyanka K 6
2 GM Petrosyan Manuel 8 49 WIM Michelle Catherina P 6
3 GM Idani Pouya 8 50 GM Malakhatko Vadim 6
4 GM Burmakin Vladimir 7½ 51 IM Sidhant Mohapatra 6
5 GM Tukhaev Adam 7½ 52 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 6
6 GM Paichadze Luka 7½ 53 FM Pranav Anand 6
7 GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo 7½ 54 IM Khusenkhojaev Muhammad 6
8 GM Rahman Ziaur 7½ 55 CM Rohith Krishna S 6
9 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 7½ 56 GM Manik Mikulas 6
10 GM Gukesh D 7½ 57 CM Kushagra Mohan 6
11 GM Debashis Das 7½ 58 IM Rathnakaran K. 6
12 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 7 59 IM Vignesh N R 6
13 GM Jojua Davit 7 60 WIM Priyanka Nutakki 6
14 FM Anuj Shrivatri 7 61 GM Thipsay Praveen M 6
From left to right: Prof.R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter, Prof. Sasmita Samanta Registrar KIIT University, GM Valery 15 GM Pantsulaia Levan 7 62 GM Himanshu Sharma 6
Neverov (runner up), GM Itturizaga Bonelli Eduardo (winner), Sri Naba Kishore Das, Hon’ble Minister, Health 16 GM Turov Maxim 7 63 FM Mithil Ajgaonkar 6
& Family Welfare Orissa, GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (2nd runner up), Ranjan Mohanty Vice President AOCA and 17 GM Kunte Abhijit 7 64 GM Karthik Venkataraman 6
Debabrata Bhatta, Secretary AOCA 18 GM Gagare Shardul 7 65 IM Abhishek Kelkar 6
19 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7 66 IM Siva Mahadevan 6
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67 IM Roy Prantik 6 114 Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi 5 7 Uma Maheswaran P 8 54 Mangal Prasad 7
68 Kamdar Udit 6 115 FM Srihari L R 5 8 Sooraj M R 8 55 Gowtam J K 7
69 Gaikwad Siddhant 6 116 Ganesh R 5 9 Gajanan Vijay Jayade 8 56 Kadav Omkar 6½
70 FM Jubin Jimmy 6 117 Srijit Paul 5 10 Koustav Chakraborty 8 57 Shiva S 6½
71 Saurabh Anand 6 118 WIM Aakanksha Hagawane 5 11 Vijay Kumar 8 58 Choubey Saurabh 6½
72 WIM Divya Deshmukh 6 119 Lokesh N. 5 12 Dave Kantilal 8 59 Tajane Ganesh 6½
73 Ajay Karthikeyan 6 120 Zia Tahsin Tajwar 5 13 Mraduhas Tripathi 7½ 60 Fredrick John 6½
74 FM Shailesh Dravid 6 121 Subhayan Kundu 5 14 Bakshi Rutuja 7½
75 Sankalp Gupta 5½ 122 Moksh Amit Doshi 5 15 Abhishek T M 7½ Category C :Final standings
76 IM Rahul Srivatshav P 5½ 123 Soham Datar 5 16 Dere Pushkar 7½ Rk Name Pts
77 FM Gajwa Ankit 5½ 124 Anilkumar O.T. 5 17 Sharsha Backer 7½ 1 Kalbande Mayur 8½
78 Koustav Chatterjee 5½ 125 Balkishan A. 5 18 Himanshu Moudgil 7½ 2 Stephen Raj A 8½
79 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 5½ 126 WIM Varshini V 5 19 Bhosale Shriraj 7½ 3 Vangala Prashanth 8½
80 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri 5½ 127 IM Rajesh V A V 5 20 Abdulkhader A. 7½ 4 Ravi Chopra 8½
81 Samant Aditya S 5½ 128 Gireman Ja 5 21 Shubham Shukla 7½ 5 Prasath K R 8½
82 IM Saravana Krishnan P. 5½ 129 Sibi Visal R 5 22 Krishna Malay 7½ 6 Deepak K S 8½
83 IM Nitin S. 5½ 130 Godbole Atharva 5 23 Joy Lazar M.A. 7½ 7 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 8½
84 Barath Kalyan M 5½ 131 Mezanur Rahman 5 24 Srivastava M Kumar 7½ 8 Mahendar B 8½
85 Raahul V S 5½ 132 IM Praveen Kumar C 5 25 Pradeep Tiwari 7½ 9 Kesavan G 8
86 Ajay Krishna S 5½ 133 Chandratreya Prachiti 5 26 Rishabh Nishad 7 10 Vishwanath Kannam 8
87 IM Muthaiah Al 5½ 134 WFM Makhija Aashna 5 27 Verma Rahul 7 11 Yashas Pessi 8
88 Siddarth M 5½ 135 WIM Gagare Shalmali 5 28 Akshay Anand 7 12 Dhirain Vij 8
89 Nayak Rajesh 5½ 136 WGM Kiran 29 Ajay Virwani 7 13 Utkarsh Agrawal 8
90 IM Akash G 5½ Manisha Mohanty 5 30 Khedkar Prasad 7 14 Gopinath P 8
91 WFM Salonika Saina 5½ 137 Karthick Narayanan S 5 31 Sher Singh 7 15 Vinoth M 8
92 Nguyen Phuoc Tam 5½ 138 Mulay Pratik 5 32 Mughaho Awomi 7 16 Santhosh V R 8
93 IM Raja Rithvik R 5½ 139 Samal Ansuman 5 33 Sushrutha Reddy 7 17 Sailesh R 8
94 Ritviz Parab 5½ 140 Dahale Atul 5 34 Cheniram Pegu 7 18 Vrashank Chouhan 7½
95 FM Navalgund Niranjan 5½ 141 Sarbojit Paul 4½ 35 Pingale Shivraj 7 19 Pednekar Ayush 7½
96 Hari Madhavan N B 5½ 142 Ram S. Krishnan 4½ 36 Sanjay Chhabra 7 20 Sarvaliya Niraj 7½
97 Niraj Saripalli 5½ 143 WIM Vantika Agrawal 4½ 37 Chavan Nameet 7 21 Patil Pranav Prafulla 7½
98 GM Karthikeyan P. 5½ 144 Thrish Karthik 4½ 38 Nayak Sanjeeban 7 22 Rohit S 7½
99 WIM Mahalakshmi M 5½ 145 Saptorshi Gupta 4½ 39 Sathya Giri V 7 23 Avhad Prajwal 7½
100 Jaeel Atharva 5½ 146 FM Nitish Belurkar 4½ 40 Chudasama Ankit 7 24 Narayan Iyengar 7½
101 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 5 147 Pattnayak Nilsu 4½ 41 Aditya Varun Gampa 7 25 Patil Sharvil 7½
102 Bhambure Shantanu 5 148 Sanket Chakravarty 4½ 42 Deepak Rai 7 26 Francis Lalhmunmawia 7½
103 Karthik Rajaa 5 149 FM Wagh Suyog 4½ 43 Sai Kiran Y 7 27 Dhanush Ram M 7½
104 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 5 150 Gokhale R Chandrashekhar 4½ 44 Neil Franclin S 7 28 Jariya Harsh 7½
105 Pranav V 5 45 Adireddy Arjun 7 29 Kannan R. 7½
106 CM Aditya Mittal 5 Category ‘B’:Final standings 46 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 7 30 Snehil Shetty 7½
107 Nandhini Saripalli 5 Rk Name Pts 47 Mayank Sharma N 7 31 Kanishka Basu 7½
108 FM Deshpande Aniruddha 5 1 Karthik Gopal G 9 48 Katiyar Prashant 7 32 Srilaxmi Kamat 7½
109 IM Ramnathan Balasubramaniam 5 2 Saranya Y 8½ 49 Patil Harshal 7 33 Kanani Parth R 7½
110 Senthil Maran K 5 3 Karthikeyan J. 8 50 Raghvendra KMishra 7 34 Rishi R 7
111 Patil Pratik 5 4 Selvamurugan B 8 51 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu 7 35 Sudheer M K 7
112 FM Harshal Shahi 5 5 Pawar Harshit 8 52 Raju O A 7 36 Parekh Vishrut 7
113 IM Deshmukh Anup 5 6 Sanchit Anand 8 53 Kavya Aggarwal 7 37 Sparsh Yadav 7

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 12th KIIT International Chess Festival, Bhubaneswar
Iturrizaga wins at Bubaneshwar
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
With the continued support of the KIIT Ka- jee of Kolkata. Amonatov defeated Laxman
linga Institute of Industrial Technology, the to surge ahead as the only player with five
All Odisha Chess Association jointly organised points after five rounds, as the other co-lead-
the 12th KIIT International Chess Festival er Khusenkhojaev was beaten by Itturizaga.
at the Deemed University campus, Bhu- Neverov, IM P. Shyaamnikhil, GM Vasquez
baneswar from 31st May to 7th June 2019. Schroeder of Chile and GM Maxim Turov of
It comprised three categories – A, the GM Russia joined Itturizaga on the second place
norm tournament, B category for players with 4.5 points each.
rated 1900 and below and the C category for
players having a rating of 1600 and below. With the top six boards of the sixth round
The total prize money for the tournament games ending in draw, Amonatov maintained
was twenty five lakhs rupees, the A catego- his half a point lead over eleven other play-
ry offering twelve lakhs and the other two ers who were on 5.5 points. GM Vasques
providing ten lakhs each. Schroeder of Chile extracted half point from
the leader in the seventh round. Itturizaga
The A category had 278 players in the field, and Maxim Turov scored facile wins over
headed by Itturizaga Bonelli Eduardo of Manik MIkulas of Slovakia and IM Siva Ma-
Venezuela with a rating of 2637,followed by hadevan to join Amonatov in the lead with
the former Russian Olympiad team coach six points each. In the crucial eighth round
Amaonatov Farrukh of Tajikistan. The total encounter between the top two seeds, Ittru-
contingent included 16 GMs, 16 IMs, 1 WGM zaga prevailed over Amonatov without much
and 2 WIMs from seventeen federations. In difficulty, snatching the lead, to be alone at
the second round, the third seeded Ter-Sa- the top. Three players – Turov, Neverov and
hakyan Samvel of Armenia (2611) was held IM P. Shyaamnikhil were close on the heels
to a draw by the youngster Ayush Sharrma. with 6.5 points each.
Two more grandmasters Vadim Malakhatko
of Belgium and Neverov Valeri of Ukraine Itturizaga and Turov settled for a quick draw
had to shed half a point each to their lower in the ninth and penultimate round and Nev-
rated opponents. erov dashed the hopes of GM norm aspirant
Shyaamnikhil to be on par with the leader
The spate of draws continued in the third with 7.5 points. They drew their final round
round also, with half the top twenty boards clash against each other increasing their tal-
ending without any decisive result. Fourth ly to eight points. Ter Sahakyan Samvel of
round witnessed the emergence of three Armenia registered a win over the Vietnam
players – Amaonatov, RR Laxman of India IM Nguyen Van Huy to tie for the first place.
and IM Kusenkhojaev of Tajiskistan as leaders Itturizaga with the best Buchholz Cut 1 score
with four points. The top seed Itturizaga was was declared the winner and he enriched
forced to share the point by Koustav Chatter- himself with two lakhs rupees. Neverev col-
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lected one lakh rupees for his second place
and and Ter Sahakyan got Rs.80000/-
A total of 323 players participated in the B
category tournament for players with a rating
of 1900 and below. Aditya P Melani of Gujarat
and Gaurav Das of West Bengal scored 8.5
points and the former was declared winner on
the tiebreak basis. Pattnak Bishal of Odisha
had the honour of winning the C category title
with 8.5 points. The tournament attracted
386 players from three federations. In the
inauguration at the KIIT premises; AICF
secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan, KIIT and
KISS founder Dr.Achyuta Samanta, AOCA
president Debasish Samantray, Kolkata SAI,
NSEC director Manmeet S Goinid, tournament
director Sekhar Chandra Sahoo and Olympian
and sprinter Dutee Chand were present as
guests.Sri. Naba Kishore Das, Hon'ble Minis-
ter Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Odisha
was the chief guest for the prize distribution
function Sri. Padmanava Behera, Hon'ble
Minister, Transport & Commerce, Govt.
of Odisha and Sri. Sameer Ranjan Dash,
Hon'ble Minister, School and mass Eduction,
Govt. of Odisha were the guests of honour.
Categories B & C
12th KIIT International Chess Festival –
2019wasorganised by All Odisha Chess
Association, under the auspices ofAll India
Chess Federation at KIIT International
School, Bhubaneshwar. A total of 310
players participated in the Category ‘B’ of
the12th KIIT International Chess Festival
– 2019 from 31st May to 3rd June. There
were 264FIDE rated players. Players from 4
countries participated in this Tournament.
A total of 10 rounds were played. 12TH
KIIT International Chess Festival – 2019,
Category ‘B’ was won by Aditya P Melani
of Gujarat and he received Rs.60000/-.The
second placewent to Gaurav Das of West
Bengal Both scored 8.5 points. Four players
had 8 eight points each and DebataSarthak
of KISS/KIIT was declared as the winner
of the third prize. At the Prize distribution
ceremony Ms Monalisa, Chairperson , KIIT
International School, was the Chief Guest.
The Chief Guest distributed the prizes and
trophies to the all prize winners. A total of
386 players participated in the Category ‘C’
of the 12th KIIT International Chess Fes-
tival 2019 was held from 4th to 7th June.
There were 250 FIDE rated players. Players
from 3 countries participated in this Tourna-
ment. A total of 9 rounds were played. The
tournament was won by Bishal Pattnaik
of Odisha with a score of 8.5 points. The
only player to collect eight points was Pan-
da Miracle of Odisha and Satyam Prakash
of Delhi was the topper among the three
players who scored 7.5 points, to finish
third. The tournament hall for the12THKIIT
International Chess Festival – 2019 was spa-
cious and could accommodate all the players
very comfortably. A lot of comfortable space
was provided for parents, guardians and
managers to sit in an adjoining hall. Good
accommodation facilities were provided to
the players at hostels nearby.
There were no disputes or protests filed by
the players in both tournaments. All in all the
perception of chess among the participants,
the spectators and the people improved by
the wonderful organisational skills displayed
by All Odisha Chess Association.The prize
distribution ceremony was held together with
the A Category tournament.
Final ranking: Category A
Rank Name Pts
1 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 8
2 GM Neverov Valeriy 8
3 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 8
4 GM Amonatov Farrukh 7½
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5 GM Turov Maxim 7½ 60 IM Vardaan Nagpal 6 13 Shuvam Roy 7½ 68 Balachandar E 6
6 IM Shyaamnikhil P 7½ 61 GM Ziatdinov Raset 6 14 Cheniram Pegu 7½ 69 Kuldeep 6
7 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy 7½ 62 Ayush Sharma 6 15 Tanishq Gupta 7½ 70 Dhritabrata Kundu 6
8 GM Kostenko Petr 7½ 63 Harsh Suresh 6 16 Binayak Rath 7 Final ranking:Category C
9 GM Burmakin Vladimir 7½ 64 Parthasarathy R 6 17 Bodhisatya Pal 7 Rk Name Pts
10 GM Petrosyan Manuel 7½ 65 Aryamann Sain 6 18 Swapnil Raj 7 1 Pattnaik Bishal 8½
11 Koustav Chatterjee 7 66 Sarthak Rawat 6 19 Samar Chatterjee 7 2 Panda Miracle 8
12 GM Laxman R.R. 7 67 Nepal Prakash 6 20 Shankhodip De 7 3 Satyam Prakash 7½
13 GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo 7 68 WIM Varshini V 6 21 Ujjwal Deep 7 4 Vishvajeet Singh 7½
14 IM Nguyen Van Huy 7 69 Aditya Bikram Paul 6 22 Behera Biswaranjan 7 5 Birendra Raita 7½
15 IM Gusain Himal 7 70 Rohit S 6 23 Daaevik Wadhawan 7 6 Pathak Vivek Kumar 7
16 GM Debashis Das 7 71 Ambarish Sharma 6 24 Tripathy Tanmaya 7 7 Swain Devi Prasad 7
17 Manish Anto Cristiano F 7 72 WCM J yothsna L 6 25 Bragadeeshwaran Chidambaram.C 7 8 Balaganeshan 7
18 Hari Madhavan N B 7 73 Rakshith Srinivasan 6 26 Chudasama Ankit 7 9 Sanku Mitra 7
19 IM Das Sayantan 7 74 WFM Meghna C H 6 27 Mughaho Awomi 7 10 Sanjib Mali 7
20 Saurabh Anand 7 75 AFM Pawar Harshit 6 28 Deepak Singh 7 11 Sivathanujan S 7
21 AGM Rathneesh R 7 76 Ilamparthi A R 6 29 Hruthik Lokesh P 7 12 Mahendar B 7
22 GM Malakhatko Vadim 7 77 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 6 30 Sourav Bhowmik 7 13 Amrit Raunak 7
23 GM Rahman Ziaur 7 78 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 6 31 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 7 14 Karthik N 7
24 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 7 79 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra 6 32 Nayak Sajan Kumar 7 15 Meher Bhabanee Prasad 7
25 Ajay Krishna S 7 80 Shah Vishwa 6 33 Sharan R S 7 16 Tapas Das 6½
26 IM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7 81 Patil Pratik 5½ 34 Sushrutha Reddy 7 17 Siva Kumar Badireddy 6½
27 IM Viani Antonio Dcunha 6½ 82 Kumar Gaurav 5½ 35 Khillo Purna 7 18 Vishal Vala 6½
28 IM Khusenkhojaev Md 6½ 83 Zia Tahsin Tajwar 5½ 36 Eshan Bhattacharjee 7 19 Dutta Samaritan 6½
29 Pranav V 6½ 84 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 5½ 37 Susarla Rishith 6½ 20 Ashish Kumar Sao 6½
30 IM Siva Mahadevan 6½ 85 Arnav Maheshwari 5½ 38 Nayak Sanjeeban 6½ 21 Babula Bhoi 6½
31 GM Manik Mikulas 6½ 86 Swain Ashirwad 5½ 39 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6½ 22 Pratyush Kiran Borgohain 6½
32 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 6½ 87 Barath Kalyan M 5½ 40 Anubhab Gupta 6½ 23 Soumen Mondal 6½
33 IM Roy Prantik 6½ 88 Safarov, Doniyor 5½ 41 Sahoo Dasharathi 6½ 24 Anubrata Priyadarshan Sahu 6½
34 IM Muthaiah Al 6½ 89 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5½ 42 Tamizhanban N 6½ 25 Tripathy Tanmaya 6½
35 FM Rathanvel V S 6½ 90 Joshi Govind Ballabh 5½ 43 Dinesh Kumar Behera 6½ 26 Mishra Om 6½
36 Kanishk S K 6½ 91 Adireddy Tarun 5½ 44 Deepak Rai 6½ 27 Hariharan Vinayagamurthy 6½
37 GM Lugovskoy Maxim 6½ 92 WFM Potluri Supreetha 5½ 45 Anurag Panigrahi 6½ 28 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 6½
38 Pradeep Kumar R A 6½ 93 Srikrishnan P 5½ 46 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 6½ 29 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 6½
39 FM Vatsal Singhania 6½ 94 Manthan Kashyap Datta 5½ 47 Kalyanaraghavan.V.S 6½ 30 Mohapatra Pratyush 6½
40 Manish Kumar (2006) 6½ 95 IM Suvrajit Saha 5½ 48 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6½ 31 Manas Kanti Mandal 6½
41 Panta Sumit 6½ 96 Barik Jagdish 5½ 49 Alekhya B 6½ 32 Rhea Mohapatra 6½
42 WCM M rudul Dehankar 6½ 97 WFM Sanskriti Goyal 5½ 50 Aman Kumar 6½ 33 Swain Arin Anwesh 6½
43 Senthil Maran K 6½ 98 Yadav Prem Gopal 5½ 51 Sanjay Kumar Mittal 6½ 34 Sahoo Sarbeswar 6½
44 Baivab Mishra 6½ 99 Karthik Sai Ch 5½ 52 Arnav Pradhan 6½ 35 Anurag Panigrahi 6½
45 Panda Sambit 6½ 100 Das Susobhit 5½ 53 Abhyuday Santhosh 6½ 36 Panda Gangadhar 6½
46 Kavinda Akila 6½ Final ranking:Category B 54 Subba Raju S. 6½ 37 Vijay Kumar Pakkurti 6½
47 FM Aaryan Varshney 6½ Rk Name Pts 55 Soham Pal 6½ 38 Maheshwar P 6½
48 Neelash Saha 6½ 1 Aditya P Melani 8½ 56 Biswal Sagar 6½ 39 Narayan Das 6½
49 Trivedi Karan R 6½ 2 Gaurav Das 8½ 57 Vikash Nishad 6½ 40 Thatavarthy Siva Suhas 6½
50 Nguyen Phuoc Tam 6½ 3 Debata Sarthak 8 58 Sahoo Ankita 6½ 41 Swapan Ghosh 6
51 Samal Ansuman 6½ 4 Karjee Manindra 8 59 Panda Miracle 6½ 42 Saurabh Kumar 6
52 WIM Arpita Mukherjee 6 5 Madduri Satya Tejeswar 8 60 J M Baisakh 6 43 Sankar Prasad Rao D 6
53 Nayak Rajesh 6 6 Akash Tiwari 8 61 Rao K. Damodar 6 44 Rout Prakruti 6
54 Raahul V S 6 7 Sai Kiran Y 7½ 62 Partha Sarathi Satpathy 6 45 Yuva Kishore Pilla 6
55 IM Deshmukh Anup 6 8 Ayan Pal 7½ 63 Hariharan Vinayagamurthy 6 46 Pradhan Lorence 6
56 FM Srihari L R 6 9 Raghul Saro S 7½ 64 Lochan Kumar Das 6 47 Aarav Sinha 6
57 FM Mohammad Fahad Rahman 6 10 Tirtha Sarkar 7½ 65 Aritrya Pal 6 48 Uttam Chatria 6
58 FM Dang Hoang Son 6 11 Sivathanujan S 7½ 66 Mukherjee Sanchit 6 49 Nayak Surajit 6
59 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 6 12 Kalyani B 7½ 67 Sham R 6 50 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar 6

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 12th Mumbai Mayors Cup International Chess Tournament, Mumbai
GM Amanatov Farrukh is Champion
by IA R. Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter
12th Mumbai Mayors Cup – An Interna-
tional Open Chess Tournament 2019 has
started smoothly in Mount Litera School
International BKC, Mumbai on 9th June
2019 organised by Mumbai Suburban
District Chess Association& Venus Chess
Academy. It comprised three categories –
A, the GM norm tournament, B category
for players rated 2000 and below and the
C category for players having a rating of
1600 and below. The total prize money
for the tournament was thirty six lakhs
rupees, the A category offering fourteen
lakhs and the other two eleven lakhs each.
The category A attracted 217 players
having top seed GM Itturizaga Bonelli
Eduardo of Venezuela with a rating of
2637,followed by Amaonatov Farrukh of
Tajikistan. The total contingent included
26 GMs, 13 IMs, 1 WGM and 8 WIMs from
twenty oneFederations. there were no ma-
jor upsets in top 10 boards but Pattnayak
Nilsu (ELO 1891) from Odisha held Brazil-
ian Grandmaster Fier Alexandr (ELO 2543)
to a draw and little champ Shah Jeet(ELO
1839) from Mumbai (MAH) held Grand-
master RR Laxman from Railways (ICF) to
a draw. Round Two Started with crackers
on top board itself where Rahul V S from
Tamilnadu outplayed Grandmaster Itur-
rizaga Bonelli from Venezuela in 49 moves
in English opening Fianchetto variation.
Vantika Agawal from Delhi & Nayak Rajesh
from Odisha held Georgian Grandmaster
Jojua Davit & Russian Grandmaster Bur-
makin Vladimir to a draw on boards 8
and 14 respectively. Woman International
Master Srija Seshadri demolished Russian
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Grandmaster Lugovskoy Maxim at the
end of round 2. In fifth round On Board
2, we saw a long drawn battle from the
orthodox variation of the Kings Indian
Defence between Malakhatko Vadim(BEL)
and Amonatov Farrukh(TJK) which even-
tually ended in draw after a gruesome 6
hours with 178 moves. At the end of the
final round there was a two way tie be-
tween GM Petrosyan Manuel of Armenia
and GM Amanatov Farrukh of Tajikistan
with 8 points. Amanatov Farrukh became
the winner of the 12th edition of Mumbai
Mayors Cup with a better tie break score.
A total of 301 players participated in
the B category tournament for players
with a rating of 2000 and below. Koustav
Chakraborty of West Bengal and Sharan
Rao of Karnataka scored 8.5 points and
the former was declared winner with the
better tie break score. Category C at-
tracted 396 participants from three fed-
erations. Wagh Varun of Maharashtra
became the winner with 9.0 points.
Earlier in the inauguration the dignitaries
present on the dias were Dr.Parinay Fuke
(MLA Nagpur and President AMCA), Shri R.
M Dongre, Shri Sekhar Sahu& Shri Manoj
Itkelwar (vice presidents AICF), Mr. Ra-
hul Shah( working President AMCA), Mr.
Vijay Deshpande (secretary AMCA), Mr.
Rajendra Konde (treasurer AMCA), Mr.
DilipKamdar (President Nagpur District
Chess Association) and Mr. Vitthal Madhav
(secretary MSDCA). At the prize distri-
bution function Shri JairajPhatak Former
Municipal Commissioner, Shri Harish Meh-
ta NASSCOM co-founder, shri R M Dongre
organising secretary, Shri Rajendra Konde
Treasurer AMCA, Shri Sekhar Sahu, Vice
President AICF were present and distrib-
uted the prizes. At the Category B Prize
Distribution on 12th Mr. Prashant Modi
Senior commander Air India was the Chief
Guest and Mr. R.M. Dongre, Mr. Sekhar
Sahu were also present and distributed
the prizes.
I was supported by International Arbiters
Vitthal Madhav as Deputy Chief Arbiter,
Vipnesh Bharadwaj, Swapnil Bansod, Prem
Pandit, Ms. Vinita Shrotri, Dr. Deepak
Tandel, Viswanath Madhav, Fide Arbiters
Preethi Deshmukh,Sohani Vivek Suhas,
Gaurav Kumar Ray, HemprakashBarsaga-
de, Nair Rajesh, Ingawale Dipesh, Sanjay
Kavalekar, Vijayakumar Agarwal, Sandesh
Nagarnaik, National Arbiters Karnik,
Bhavesh, NA Seemantin V Adane,All the
events were organised well and went on
without any problem.
Category A: Final standings
Rk. Tit Name FED Pts.
1 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 8
2 GM Petrosyan Manuel ARM 8
3 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 7.5
4 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 7.5
5 GM Fier Alexandr BRA 7.5
6 GM Turov Maxim RUS 7.5
7 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 7.5
8 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 7.5
9 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7.5
10 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7.5
11 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7
12 GM Vasquez S Rodrigo CHI 7
13 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo VEN 7
14 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 7
15 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 7
16 GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 7
17 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7
18 IM Gusain Himal IND 7
19 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 7
20 FM Dang Hoang Son VIE 7
21 GM Jojua Davit GEO 7
22 Koustav Chatterjee IND 6.5
23 WIM Srija Seshadri IND 6.5
24 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 6.5
25 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 6.5
26 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 6.5
27 IM Muthaiah Al IND 6.5
28 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 6.5
29 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 6.5
30 Balkishan A. IND 6.5
31 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh IND 6.5
32 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 6.5
33 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 6.5
34 GM Himanshu Sharma IND 6.5
35 FM Anuj Shrivatri IND 6.5
36 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 6.5
37 FM Wagh Suyog IND 6.5
38 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 6.5
39 Kumar Gaurav IND 6.5
40 Patil Pratik IND 6.5
41 Nayak Rajesh IND 6.5
42 FM Krishnater Kushager IND 6.5
43 GM Kostenko Petr KAZ 6.5
44 WIM Divya Deshmukh IND 6.5
45 FM Rohith Krishna S IND 6.5
46 Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri IND 6.5
47 IM Raja Rithvik R IND 6
48 Joy Pankaj Shah IND 6
49 FM Aaryan Varshney IND 6
50 FM Shailesh Dravid IND 6
51 Ilamparthi A R IND 6
52 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 6
53 Aradhya Garg IND 6
54 Samant Aditya S IND 6
55 WCM M rudul Dehankar IND 6
56 Manigandan S S IND 6
57 FM Phadke Sohan IND 6
58 Senthil Maran K IND 6
59 CM Kushagra Mohan IND 6
60 CM Kadam Om Manish IND 6
61 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6
62 Adireddy Tarun IND 6
63 WGM Babiy Olga UKR 5.5
64 FM Mohammad Fahad Rahman BAN 5.5
65 Panda Sambit IND 5.5
66 FM Vatsal Singhania IND 5.5
67 Subhayan Kundu IND 5.5
68 Shelke Sankarsha IND 5.5
69 Alan Diviya Raj IND 5.5
70 IM Prasad Devaki V IND 5.5
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Category B:Final standings 50 Ganesan K. 6.5 33rd National Under-7 Open & Girls Chess Championship 2019, Kolkata
Rk. Name Pts. Category C :Final standings
1 Koustav Chakraborty 8.5 Rk. Name Pts.
2 Sharan Rao 8.5 1 Wagh Varun 9
3 Gokulraj K 8 2 Sivathanujan S 8.5
4 Patil Harshal 8 3 Sailesh R 8
5 Mushini Ajay 8 4 Yashas Pessi 8
6 Sham R 8 5 Panchal Soham 8
7 Mansoor C M 7.5 6 Judedorison G 8
8 Sooraj M R 7.5 7 Mahendar B 8
9 Abhay Bandewar 7.5 8 Kannan R. 8
10 Dave Kantilal 7.5 9 Sachinder 8
11 Stanley Samson P. 7.5 10 Parekh Vishrut 7.5
12 Chudasama Ankit 7.5 11 Pandey Arpit 7.5
13 Rishabh Nishad 7.5 12 Avhad Prajwal 7.5
14 Wankhede Avishkar 7.5 13 Vrashank Chouhan 7.5
15 Saranya Y 7.5 14 Basant N 7.5
16 Susarla Rishith 7.5 15 Nishant Deoram Wanjari 7.5
17 Rawal Shailesh 7 16 Badgujar Vaibhav 7.5
18 Sudarshan Malga 7 17 Vaidya Mihir 7.5
19 Kadav Omkar 7 18 Subhash Kumar M 7.5
20 Dere Pushkar 7 19 Surana Aayush 7.5
21 Vijay Anand M. 7 20 Gowtham Ramamoorthy 7.5
22 Dhruvik Shah 7 21 Sheikh Jahan 7.5
23 Yatin Kumar 7 22 Gaude Sachin 7.5
24 Kapadi Yash 7 23 Rohit Rahulkumar J 7
25 Selvamurugan B 7 24 Bala Ganeshan 7
26 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 7 25 Anit Kumar Agarwal 7
27 Chavan Nameet 7 26 Bhanushali Kunj 7
28 Esshan Wadhawan 7 27 Tejash Jain 7
29 Patel Palak 7 28 Ravi Devarshetty 7
30 Gawai Siddhant 7 29 Kushagra Sharma 7
31 Nagare Kaivalya Sandip 7 30 Shetty Vihaan 7
32 Shreyas Ghadi 7 31 Samarth Raghuwanshi 7
33 Varun Bhatt 7 32 Deshmukh Nachiket 7
34 Selvabharathy T 7 33 Kherdekar Arnav 7
35 Ponkshe Sarang 7 34 Balkawade Sai 7
36 Baria Shailesh 7 35 Bakshi Mandar 7
37 Sivathanujan S 6.5 36 Karthikeyan G 7
38 Malla Nooka Raju 6.5 37 Rathish R 7
39 Mughaho Awomi 6.5 38 Shelke Omkar 7
40 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6.5 39 Nivedan Bhardwaj 7
41 Shubham Shukla 6.5 40 Chavda Naresh Kumar 7
42 Mishra Sanjeev 6.5 41 Thaker Vishwam Jayesh 7
43 Deepak Rai 6.5 42 Patil Harshal U 6.5
44 Hariom Solanki 6.5 43 Trivedi Gaurav V 6.5
45 Ashish Kumar 6.5 44 Vishal Vala 6.5
46 Falgun D Purohit 6.5 45 Nagargoje Dhananjay 6.5
47 Bhagwat Heramb 6.5 46 Mistry Devanshu 6.5
48 Uma Maheswaran P 6.5 47 Aggarwal Vansh 6.5
49 Sai Kiran Y 6.5 48 Kesavan G 6.5
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Sri Akhil Prasad and Siddhi Rao are Champions
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
33rd National Under-7 Chess Champion-
ship, 2019, was held from 1st June to 6th
June, 2019, at New Town School, Kolkata.
The event was organized by Global Chess
Foundation under the aegis of Bengal
Chess Association and All India Chess
Federation. The tournament attracted in
all 313 players (197 in open section, and
116 in girl’s section) from all over India.
There were in all 22 international fide
rated players among the participants.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Shri. Shayan Mukherjee, Vice
President Bengal Chess Association. The
other dignitaries present were Shri. Souvik
Chakraborty, Director Global Chess Foun-
dation, Shri. Antorip Roy, Director Global
Chess Foundation, IM Atanu Lahiri Hon.
Secretary, Bengal Chess Association and
IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter. The inau-
gural function was held at 10 AM and was
preceded by Managers / players meeting.
The necessary technical matters were dis-
cussed and decided and also the appeals
committee was formed in the meeting. The
six day long chess, 33rd National Under-7
Chess Championship 2019, concluded
at NewTown School, Kolkata, class and
talent of many young budding players
was observed. In the open section of the
tournament top seed Apaar Saxena lost
his game to Swastik Suvam Patnaik in
the 5th round. At the end of 6th round 5
participants namely Kiaan Shah, Swastik
Patnaik, Taseen Tadvi, Sri Akhil Prasad and
Siddhanth Bharti lead the table with 5.5
points each. Siddhant Bharti of Maharash-
tra beat Kiaan Shan of Gujarat in the 8th
round of the game and became the sole
leader. He maintained his lead till the end
of 9th round but lost his 10th round game
to Sri Akhil Prasad of Andhra Pradesh and
slipped to 2nd spot. Sri Akhil Prasad was
joined by Viraj Rane and Swastik Patnaik
for joint lead at the end of penultimate
round. In the last round game Sri Akhil
Prasad beat Swastik Patnaik and became
winner with 9.5 points to his credit while
top seed Apaar Saxena beat Rane Viraj
and secured 2nd place jointly with Rish-
abh Kumar, who beat Siddhant Bharti in
his last round game. Rishabh Kumar and
Apaar Saxena jointly shared the 2nd place
with 9 points each but better tiebreak
score helped Rishabh to secure the 2nd
place while top seed Apaar Saxena had to
settle for 3rd place.
In the Girls section, 100th Seed Siddhi
Rao from Karnataka took sole lead after
7th round. She maintained her lead till
10th round. In the last round game she
lost to top seed Aishwarya Sahoo of Odis-
ha. Siddhi Rao was followed by her rivals
Sreekarthika Velmurugan and Sannah
M both from Tamil Nadu. Sreekarthika
Velmurugan lost her 10th round game to
Sannah M. In the last round Diya Sawal
of GOA drew her game with Sannah M. So
Siddhi Rao and Sannah M both were tied
for the 1st place with 9.5 pts. each but di-
rect encounter helped Siddhi Rao to clinch
the title. Sannah M of Tamil Nadu had to
be satisfied with 2nd place. Sreekarthika
Velmurugan of Tamil Nadu and top seed
Aishwarya Sahoo of Odisha scored 9 pts
each and tied for 3rd place, but tiebreak
score helped Sreekarthika Velmurugan for
bronze medal while Aishwarya Sahoo set-
tled for 4th spot. Organizers distributed
chocolates, biscuits, glucon-d and on last
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day king and queen shaped special choco- 16 Sairaj Narvenkar Goa 8 63 Kush Mundhra Jha 6½ 110 Raghav Srivastav UP 5½
lates to all participants which was a unique 17 Kian Dishank Shah Guj 7½ 64 Protyay Bhowmick WB 6½ 111 Modith Aaroh M Tel 5½
move by Bengal Chess Association and was 18 Mayukh Majumder WB 7½ 65 Nivethan G M TN 6 112 Ishaan Jayaswal Mah 5
appreciated by all parents and managers. 19 Karthik Vedanth Mah 7½ 66 Zid Neo Mah 6 113 Aanraj Pun 5
The tournament ended in a very peaceful 20 Madhvendra Pratap S MP 7½ 67 Ayushman Sarkar A&N 6 114 Hridhaan Chawla Pun 5
atmosphere and without any protest i.e. 21 Dolas Aarush Mah 7½ 68 Vansh Jajoo Mah 6 115 Maharishi Prasad K Asm 5
the tournament was absolutely free from 22 Advaith Prabhuraj Kar 7½ 69 Krishay Jain WB 6 116 Nabhoneel Mitra WB 5
disputes. The prizes were distributed at 23 Pavan Karthikeya V G Tel 7½ 70 Jaiakash M M TN 6 117 Ethan Mathew Silveira Goa 5
the hands of Shri. Pranab Bardhan, Asian 24 Aansh Nandan Nerurkar Tel 7½ 71 Jha Aditya Mah 6 118 Anirban Ghosh WB 5
games gold medalist. The other dignitaries 25 Nehanraj Ramesh TN 7½ 72 Armaan Agarwal Raj 6 119 Lakshya Kumar Jha 5
26 Jayaditya Padhy Ori 7½ 73 Bhavya Dhandhania WB 6 120 Piyush Naik Dessai Goa 5
present were Shri. Biswajit Palit, Arjuna
27 Taseen Rafique Tadavi Mah 7 74 Nijesh R TN 6 121 Ishan Das WB 5
Awadee, former Indian Kabaddi Team
28 Diproneel Barman WB 7 75 Aditya Shripad Joshi Mah 6 122 Naksh Sumit Khanna Mah 5
Captain, Shri. Vineet Kansal, CEO New
29 Niladri Banerjee WB 7 76 Darshil Krunal Sutariya Guj 6 123 Vidyuth Bharadwaj V TN 5
Town School, Shri. Sunil Agrawal, Founder
30 Samrat Sutar WB 7 77 Yashas Mohan S Har 6 124 Havish Kovidh T Tel 5
Director New Town School, Shri. Shayan
31 Korlipara Vihaansai K Tel 7 78 Mithun Pranav TN 6 125 Arin Amogh B Mah 5
Mukherjee, Vice President Bengal Chess 32 Khandhadia Nivaan R Mah 7 79 Vedant Upadhyay UP 6 126 Dibit Roy WB 5
Association, IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary 33 Hriday Dhinwa Mah 7 80 D Vijay Krishna S AP 6 127 Nishanth K Pon 5
Bengal Chess Assn. and IA Swapnil Bansod 34 Daiwik Jain WB 7 81 Kedia Arjav Mah 6 128 Wrishiraj Sarkar WB 5
Chief Arbiter. 35 Bhandari Arjun Mah 7 82 Vasireddy Arjun AP 6 129 Farhan Faisal Rahman Asm 5
36 Shiyam Satyansh Ori 7 83 Adipta Saha WB 6 130 Mithilesh P AP 5
The team of Arbiters was headed by Chief 37 Karthikeya Nandan A Tel 7 84 Trilochan S TN 6 131 Nityanta Bathia MP 5
Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod and he was 38 Srinandhan A TN 7 85 Srivatsa Eshwar S G S Tel 6 132 Pragyan Sharma Sik 5
ably assisted by IA Debasish Barua, Dy. 39 Pratik Kushal Rout Ori 7 86 Aerramalla Bava S Tel 6 133 Kavish Rahul Parab Goa 5
Chief Arbiter, IA Biswanath Banerjee Dy 40 Aarav Arpit Shah Guj 7 87 Keshav Bang Guj 6 134 Manav Del 5
Chief Arbiter, FA Amit K Biswas, NA Survi 41 Porwal Kiyan MP 7 88 Viaan Jhawar Tel 6 135 Sandarsh Yadav UP 5
Dutta, NA Darunath Chatterjee, NA Swa- 42 Madhesh Kumar S Pon 7 89 Ekang Malvankar Goa 6 136 Rajat Bafna Asm 5
pan Adhikari, NA Sayak Banerjee and NA 43 Thanvanth V TN 7 90 Aryan Behera Ori 5½ 137 Mahir Taneja Del 5
Subrata Sarkar. 44 Gokul Ramesh TN 7 91 Sairaj Ghodke Mah 5½ 138 Aaradhya Raj Adhikari Sik 4½
45 Sarthak Deshpande Mah 6½ 92 Sarvesh G TN 5½ 139 Devansh Nigam WB 4½
Final ranking:Open 46 Sukirthan Arun TN 6½ 93 Shulin Walia Del 5½ 140 Subhang Agrawal Cht 4½
Rk Name Club Pts 47 Sanjay Narayanan P S TN 6½ 94 Aadee Manan Nayak Ori 5½ 141 Harshadeep Deka Asm 4½
1 Sri Akhil Prasad AP 9½ 48 Adhiraj Mitra Jha 6½ 95 Parambrata Sarkar WB 5½ 142 Kethan Reddy N Tel 4½
2 Rishabh Kumar Del 9 49 T Tapaan Shashikumar P TN 6½ 96 Krishnav Mrinmoy H Asm 5½ 143 Rahul Ramakrishnan Pon 4½
3 Apaar Saxena Kar 9 50 Vivaan Vishal Shah Guj 6½ 97 Tameem Rosaun N TN 5½ 144 Utkarsh V Kar 4½
4 Swastik Suvam Patnaik Ori 8½ 51 Somarjya Sarkar WB 6½ 98 Agastya Ranjit Kar 5½ 145 Prathamesh Chokhani WB 4½
5 Rane Viraj Mah 8½ 52 Mudil Dharewa WB 6½ 99 Gurudev M Tel 5½ 146 Lemba Sougaijam Man 4½
6 Pratiyush Kumar Bih 8½ 53 Mannan Gupta Pun 6½ 100 Aksh Chopda Cht 5½ 147 Elammuhil V M TN 4½
7 Nair Sreevaishnav Mah 8½ 54 Nihal Gautam Kurra Tel 6½ 101 Sidharth Bhargav Chd 5½ 148 Nabhaya Singh Raj 4½
8 Rudradaman Mertia Raj 8½ 55 Hem Harsanth TN 6½ 102 Arha Chaware Guj 5½ 149 Diptarka Das WB 4½
9 Rishit Agrawal Cht 8½ 56 Agastya Prakash AP 6½ 103 Erwin Albuquerque Goa 5½ 150 Krithik Reddy Nandyala Tel 4½
10 Sreehari S Mecheril Ker 8 57 Aryaman Ganguly WB 6½ 104 Arka Mishra Ori 5½ 151 Sidharth Lakra Del 4½
11 Siddhant Bharti Mah 8 58 Akshat Bansal Har 6½ 105 Lakshya Singh C MP 5½ 152 Tejas Rao Del 4½
12 Yuvanesh A Kar 8 59 Satyaki G Gokul Ker 6½ 106 Ekagra Pal Chaudhuri WB 5½ 153 Ayush Thombare Mah 4
13 B Jai Pranav Sri Ram AP 8 60 Siva Sai Karthikeya D AP 6½ 107 Prabhatha Prajwal G Tel 5½ 154 Arav Uppal Chd 4
14 Shravan Ambaru Tel 8 61 Vihan Ninad Parikh Guj 6½ 108 Yathaarth Poddar WB 5½ 155 Alwin Micheal TN 4
15 Aditya Trehan UP 8 62 Iniyan L Pon 6½ 109 Kaustubh Bhaskar W Mah 5½ 156 Vivaan Rudainwal Kar 4

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157 Keshav Chandra Jha 4 5 Diya Digamber Sawal Goa 8½ 52 Swathi Pon 6 This is a problem by one of the greatest
158 Keegan Jolyon G Goa 4 6 Umauthra M TN 8 53 Aarika Kapoor Pun 6 ever masters of the strategic three-mover.
159 Nishan Das WB 4 7 MAkshaya Laxmi Reddy Tel 8 54 Kaavini A TN 6 Each move by the f1 knight creates twin
160 Aritra Sarkar Tri 4 8 Nayak Poorvi Goa 8 55 Rupsha Mondal WB 5½ threats of mate in one, but these lie on the
161 Bihaan Sarkar WB 4 9 Anshika Dongre MP 8 56 Ridhima Bhuchar Del 5½ same white squared diagonal,so that the
162 Emil Borgohain Asm 4 10 Mysha Perwez Mah 8 57 Labdhi Dhabria MP 5½
black’s bishop is able to keep everything
163 Soumik Deb WB 4 11 Niharika Chakraborty Jha 7½ 58 Devaangana Sardar WB 5½
under control e.g 1.Nd2 (threats 2.Re4/
164 Atrajit Bhowmik WB 4 12 Pari Suresh Chavan Mah 7½ 59 Arshia Pun 5½
Nf3) Bd5, 1.Ne3? (threats 2.Rf5/Ng4)
165 Atharv Gupta WB 4 13 Aadya Tripathi Cht 7½ 60 Amaira Arora Del 5½
166 Kiyansh Mahajan Pun 4 14 Pardeshi Chaturthi Mah 7 61 Anushka Karuthody Ker 5½ Bxe6,1.Ng3? (threats 2.Re4/Rf5) Bc2 and
167 Suronoy Das Bih 4 15 Diya Umesh Kar 7 62 Atreyee Talukdar Asm 5 1.Nh2? (threats 2.Nf3/Ng4)Bd1. It is hard
168 Bellam Konda Sreekar AP 4 16 Ishani Das Ori 7 63 Akshara Chouhan Raj 5 to make a threat since most of the white
169 Aarush Koolwal MP 4 17 Charudharshini R TN 7 64 Panya Goel Del 5 pieces are already gainfully occupied with
170 Aum Kashyap Bih 4 18 Swadha Sunil Datir Mah 7 65 Aadya Ranganath Kar 5 important tasks.The obvious exception
171 Lanchenba N Man 4 19 Rammadugu Geethika S AP 7 66 Mahi Singh UP 5 is the king, usefully posted within firing
172 Aadvik Sharma HP 4 20 Hanya Shah Guj 7 67 Sadhana Ravi Tel 5 range of the enemy but as yet exercising
173 Samriddha Sheet WB 4 21 Bruhathi Kondisetti Kar 7 68 Suzein Ahmed Asm 5 no function.1.Ke7 is logical with 2.Rg4
174 Subhayan Halder WB 4 22 Anusha M S Ker 7 69 Pal Vedika Mah 5 followed by either 3.Bd4 or 3.Bd6.At first
175 Advay Agarwal WB 3½ 23 Anaya Agarwal Tel 7 70 Laksna Sri R TN 5 it seems that the theme will be interfer-
176 Avyay Bhatia Pun 3½ 24 Khanak Ruchit D Guj 7 71 Shreyasee Rath Raj 5
ence of the b3 bishop by black’s knight
177 Bagathi Karthikeya AP 3½ 25 Mandula Merry Amen AP 7 72 Sai Aindrisha G AP 5
but BN moves do not even defeat the
178 Rihansh Pandey WB 3½ 26 Reya Banker Guj 7 73 Mouli Bhattacharjee Tri 5
27 Aradhya Dash Ori 7 74 Sonakshi Roy WB 5
threat.Black actually has two methods to
179 Mohammad Ashar A Utt 3½
180 Sharbalik Chatterjee WB 3½ 28 Naga Unnathi M AP 6½ 75 Aradhya Kothari Guj 5 nullifying 2.Rg4.He may prevent it directly
181 Ananjan Tripathi Utt 3 29 Khayalvizhi Kamesh Ker 6½ 76 Ishwari Banerjee WB 5 from covering g4 with his bishop or he
182 Vivaan Jain AP 3 30 Anarghya S Kar 6½ 77 Krittika Bera WB 5 may prepare to play 1..Be4 cutting off
183 Yajnesh Kumar Sahoo Ori 3 31 Jyotika Sahoo Ori 6½ 78 Harithra Karpagakumar Pon 5 the line g4 to d4 and therefore stopping
184 Nishant Das Tri 3 32 Kota Nityasri Tel 6½ 79 Paraa Baranwal Del 5 both the bishop mates at d4 and d6.Each
185 Aarav Ritesh Prabhu G Goa 3 33 Ameena N K Ker 6½ 80 Muppana Vijaya Sahasra AP 5 method may be implemented in two ways,
186 Yohann Jain Asm 3 34 Aarya Beria WB 6½ so there are four defences:1...Bd1,1…
187 Samyak Bisht Utt 3 35 Vyavahare Ovee Mah 6½ A strategic three-mover Bc2,1…Bxe6 and 1..Bd5.In each case
188 Laksh Manpuria WB 3 36 Harika Yadlapalli Tel 6½ L.I.Loshinski the WNf1 replies as in the tries above.
189 Reyansh Agarwal WB 3 37 Megha Varshini D Kar 6 IPr,Kubbel Mem.Ty 1962 Black still can play his bishop onto the
190 Rohan Pal WB 3 38 Prisha Pahuja Har 6
crucial diagonals but the arrival square
191 Harshit S TN 3 39 Abhigya Addanki Tel 6
now is one of the squares where white is
192 Reagan Thoudam Man 3 40 Sourita Naru WB 6
193 Devanuj Gogoi Asm 2 41 Tharunika Shankari K TN 6
threatening mate. Thus white can mate by
194 Anish Sharma Asm 2 42 Dhanishka Aggarwal WB 6 taking the bishop. This is how it works:
195 Yaduvir Tayal HP 2 43 Lyia Marysil Silveira Goa 6 1…Bd1 2.Nd2 Bf3 3.Nxf3;1…Bc2 2.Ne3
196 Agniprobho Rao WB 2 44 Poorani K TN 6 Bf5 Rxf5;1…Bxe6 2.Ng3 Bf5 3.Rxf5;1…
197 Sanvir Bedi Pun 1 45 Sharvi Krishna Balaga AP 6 Bd5 2.Nh2 Bf3 3.Nxf3.The reader is urged
46 Navieka Jaiswal Jha 6 to work out why white’s second move is
Final ranking:Girls 47 Divisha Dhar WB 6 unique in each of these four lines.
1 Siddhi Rao Kar 9½ 48 SAnjali Sri Subhashini P AP 6
2 Sannah M TN 9½ 49 Harini N P Tel 6 (GM John Nunn in his book ’Solving in
3 Sreekarthika V TN 9 50 Janhavi Gore Mah 6 style’)
4 Aishwarya Sahoo Ori 9 51 Shashini Puvi Kar 6 Maye in three moves

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 ABCA Golden Jubilee FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Patna
Sinha Sudhir Kumar wins title
by Dharmendra Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter
ABCA Golden Jubilee FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament was organized by All Bihar Chess
Association at Lala Lajpat Rai Bhavan from
13.6.2019 to 17.6.2019.Total number of par-
ticipants was 162 of which 72 were rated.
The tournament was played in Swiss format
with a total of nine rounds.The time control
was 90 minutes with increment of 30 seconds
from move one.
Tournament hall was good, with enough
space for players and visiting dignitaries.
Separate sitting area was allocated on ground
floor for parents & accompanying person.
Both the halls were air-conditioned , neat &
clean very beautiful . In all the tournament
hall was very comfortable and appreciated by
players ,parents and officials . Chief Arbiter
of the tournament was IA Dharmendra Ku-
mar ably assisted by Deputy Chief Arbiter:
IA Arbind Kumar Singh and Arbiters,NA Pinki
Banerjee and NA Arun Kumar.
The five day tournament was inaugurated by
Chief Guest Mr. Pramod Kumar ,Minister of
Sports , Govt. of Bihar . He inaugurated the
tournament by making a ceremonial move
on the board with young chess players of
Bihar. Mr. Diljeet Khanna, President , All
Bihar Chess Association Mr. Sanjay Saluja ,
Secretary , Punjabi Biradari , Mr. Ajit Kumar
Singh, Patron of All Bihar Chess Association
Sikkim and Mr. Dharmendra Kumar , Chief
Arbiter &Hony Secretary All Bihar Chess As-
sociation were the other dignitaries present
on the dais .
Prize distribution ceremony was held in
presence of Chief Guest Shri J. S Gangwar ,
IPS , ADG , Special Branch Govt. of Bihar ,
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31 Manya Diptam 5½ 78 Rishiraj Bhardwaj 4½
32 Minki Sinha 5½ 79 Divyanshu Kr Singh 4½
33 Amandeep Chauhan 5½ 80 Anshuman Raj 4½
34 Akshat Chaurasia 5½ 81 Mayank Raj 4½
35 Ashwini 5½ 82 Keshavendra Mishra 4½
Patna, Guest of Honor Mr. Satyendra Kumar , 36 Amit Paswan 5½ 83 Pandav Kumar 4½
Secretary, ECR Sports Association,Mr. Diljeet 37 Nilesh Kumar 5½ 84 Ujjwal Raj 4½
Khanna, President, All Bihar Chess Associa- 38 Vishal Kumar 5½ 85 Subhankar Kumar 4½
tion , Mr. Sanjay Saluja , Secretary , Punjabi 39 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar 5½ 86 Rajnish Kumar T 4½
40 Aman Kumar Gupta 5½ 87 Kritika Ranjan 4½
Biradari and IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief
41 Manish Kumar 5½ 88 Suraj Kumar 4½
Arbiter&Hony Secretary , ABCA. IA Arbind
42 Harshvardhan Sahay 5½ 89 Chaitanya Singh 4½
Kumar Singh , Dy. Chief Arbiter of the tour- 43 Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal 5½ 90 Arman Sony 4½
nament has delivered the tournament report. 44 Swastik Roy 5½ 91 Kumar Sambhav 4
45 Avinash Kumar 5½ 92 Pratiyush kumar 4
Final ranking 46 Jatin Kumar 5½ 93 Prakash Bhardwaj 4
Rk Name Pts 47 Abhishree Deepu 5½
1 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 8½ 48 Raj Kumar 5½
2 Vipul Subhashi 8 49 Nitin Kumar 5 Puzzle of the month
3 Ashish Raj 7½ 50 Yash Ram Maurya 5 by C.G.S.Narayanan
4 Shiv Priya Bhardwaj 7 51 Rohan Kumar 5
5 Aashman Gupta 7 52 Vishuddh Nishchhal 5 Ernest Clement Mortimer
6 Tripathi Skand 7 53 Subhendu Guha 5 (version by Andrey Frolkin)
7 Shivam Pandey 7 54 Krishna Mohan 5 Die Schwalbe 1981
8 Roop Saurav 6½ 55 Rashmi Priya 5
9 Swapnil Raj 6½ 56 Ch. Narayana Rao 5
10 Piyush Kumar 6½ 57 Md. Kaif Ullah 5
11 Subham Saha 6½ 58 Nupur Anand 5
12 Aman Kumar 6½ 59 Avinash Kumar Yadav 5
13 Raj Aryan 6½ 60 Abhishek Raj 5
14 Dev Raj 6½ 61 Ram Krishna Mishra 5
15 Sneha Halder 6½ 62 Kumari Prerna 5
16 Shani Kumar Soni 6½ 63 Kumar Shubham 5
17 Shivam Verma 6½ 64 Rajnish Kumar 5
18 Marium Fatima 6 65 Sagnik Ghosh 5
19 Prashant Bhardwaj 6 66 Adiba Ullah 5
20 Vibhash Kumar Sinha 6 67 Komal Kriti 5
21 Rupesh B Ramchandra 6 68 Shivam Anand 5
22 Siddharth Khanna 6 69 Varsha Swaraj 5 Proof Game 4 moves
23 Prashant Kumar Singh 6 70 Kumari Shristi 5 This is known as ‘at-home ‘position where
24 Menhajul Hoda 6 71 Saksham Shreyansh 5 the pieces do not appear to have moved
25 Pratyush Kumar 6 72 Aishani Pathak 5
26 Abhishek Sonu 6
with the exception of rooks or knights.
73 Sumit Kumar 5
27 Mantosh Kumar 6 Solver has to find as to how this position
74 Reyan Md. 4½
28 Prakash Vaishnavi 6 is reached in exactly four moves from the
75 Veer Sharma 4½
29 Anurag Banerjee 6 76 Piyush Kumar Mishra 4½ initial game array.
30 Shivam Kumar Sinha 5½ 77 Kishan Kumar Paswan 4½ (Solution on page 48)
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 Late Ramesh Vinayak Rao Kotwal Mem.Open FIDE Fated Championship, Gondia
Pawan Dodeja wins title
by FA Deepak Chavan ,Chief Arbiter
All India Open Rapid Fide Rating Chess Cham-
pionship 2019 , was held from 22th June
2019to 023th June 2019 ,at Bhavbhuti Rang
Mandir,OPP. Saraswati Girls High School,Poo-
na Toli,Gondia (MAH). Tournament Organized
by Gondia District Chess Association,Gondia.
The tournament attracted 151 players from
Maharashtra,Telengana,West Bengal, Madhya
Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Karnataka There were
73 International FIDE rated players among
the participants .The Venue was spacious and
well ventilated &ample space was available
for parents & players outside the playing
hall . Venue was well Located in the heart
of the city.
After 2 days of battle of boards Pawan Dode-
ja clinched the title scoring 8 points out of
9 rounds.Runner up of the tournament was
Manoj Mishra from Madhya pradesh with 7.5
points & third postion was held by Shubham
Lakhudkar from Maharashtra with
7.5 points.
The tournament was inaugurated by
Dr.RadhyeshyamjiAgrawal,Chairman,Janata
Sahkari Bank. The other dignitaries were
present on dias were Shri Sarurkar,Presi-
dent ,Vidharbha Sahitya Sangh Gondia,Dilip
Jain, Vice President,GDCA ,Dr. Nitin Kotwal
& Madhav Kotwal.
Total Cash prizes of 50 thousand rupees,3
Attractive trophy & 24 medals for category
prizes were distributed winners of the tour-
nament The prizes distributed at the hands
of Mr.Pradip Vyawahre ,Secretary Vidharbha
Sahitya Sangh ,Prof. Madhav Kotwal,Shri.
Sachin Shende Chariman ,Public Welfare
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19th edtion of IPCA World Individual Chess,Ruzomberok,Slovakia
Jenitha Anto bags gold for the sixth time
In their 19th edtion of
Department. Other dignitaries were Dr.Amit IPCA World Individual
Jaiswal Director KGS Hospital, FA Deepak Chess, the International
Physically Disabled Chess
Chavan, Chief Arbiter of this tournament
Association (IPCA) pro-
present on the Dias.
vides a special opportunity
to physically disabled in
The team of arbiters was headed by FA the world to exhibit their
Deepak Chavan and he was assited by innate talent in the chess
FA Umesh Panbude, Dy. Chief Arbiter,FA in their own way. Even
Hempraksh Barsagade. though chess is primarily a
mental game, it demands
Final ranking from its players great
Rk Name Pts physical stamina. To keep
1 Dodeja Pawan 8 finding good moves on
2 Mishra Manoj 7½ the chessboard even after
3 Shubham Lakudkar 7½ hours of strenuous battle
4 Shreyansh Daklia 7½ is not for the faint hearted.
5 Hend Pravin 7 Every participant of this
6 Mayur S Shelke 7 event showed great tenacity sitting at the board and fighting it out for 3-4 hours at stretch,
7 Ahuja Kishan 7 despite their serious physical limitations.
8 Debiprasad Sarkar 7
9 Doshi Khush 6½ The 19th IPCA World Individual Chess Championship 2019 took place from 28th June to 6th
10 Mandakani Mishra 6½ July in Ruzomberok, Slovakia. It was a nine rounds swiss event following time control of 90
11 Raghav Srivathsav V 6½ minutes for the entire game with 30 seconds increment from move one. The tournament was
12 Sawant Akshay 6½ organized by the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) which is the inter-
13 Ghorghate Sahil 6½ national federation uniting all physically disabled chess players who have got a congenital or
14 Palash Nagdevte 6½ an acquired reduced efficiency of the musculoskeletal system and who have got difficulties in
15 Vijay M Dhale 6½ walking. Founded in 1992, the IPCA is affiliated to the FIDE on equal rights with the National
16 Wadhwani Kapil 6½ Chess Federations and its primary goal is to organize chess tournaments for physically disabled
17 Chavan Suresh 6½ chess players (men, women and youth) around the world who are IPCA members. In the last
18 Rajjak Rohit 6½ 26 years since its creation, the federation has organized many high-ranking events like the IPCA
19 Ritesh Urkude 6½ World Chess Olympiads, the IPCA Europe Individual Chess Championships and the IPCA World
20 Junghare Avanti 6 Individual Chess Championships. In addition, it has also facilitated the participation of disabled
21 Chandrani Shlok 6 chess players in the FIDE World Chess Olympiads. The IPCA teams of men and women have
22 Gaigore Sanskar 6 taken part in the FIDE Chess Olympiads since 2002.
23 Gahine Ashish 6
24 Anubhav Patel 6 WIM K. Jennitha Anto from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu bagged the IPCA World Women's title the
25 Mohd Irfan 6 sixth time this year. Jenitha was struck with polio at a very young age and has been wheelchair
26 Srinadh Madhavarapu 6 bound ever since. But nothing has deterred her from achieving her dreams to become a world
27 Mishra Kamad 6 class chess player.At the 19th IPCA World Individual Chess Championship 2019 she secured
28 Samir Tare 6 5.0/9 points to become the highest scoring female player in the event and thus clinched the
29 Chhangani Mohit 6 title for a record sixth time. She is easily one of the most inspirational figures of Indian chess.
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The game of Goa GM Tournament
at Taleigao
Mchedlishvilli,Mikheil (2609)AA Rathna-
karan,Kantholi (2338) [A27]
2nd Goa GM Playchess (2.17), 19.06.2019
[Rathnakaran,Kidambi]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5 4.g3 Nf6 5.d4
e4 6.Nh4 d5 7.Bg5 Bb4 8.cxd5 Nxd5!!
[With Rathnakaran one can be pretty sure
this was over the board improvisation! As
Sagar also mentions in the interview.In
comparison to Karthikeyan's Queen Sacri-
fice, this is fundamentally different. First of
all Black wins only one minor piece for the
moment, but keeps postponing winning the
second minor piece for as long as possible
in order to hold on to the initiative. Here
the compensation is not square weakness,
but the weak King of the opponent. It lacks
shelter throughout the game! A very dynam-
ic factor which is very well kept in control
by Rathnakaran.-Kidambi][8...Qxd5 9.Bxf6
gxf6 I did not like Black.-f4 square is weak
( Rathnakaran)]
9.Bxd8 Nxc3 10.Qb3 [is forced-Rathna-
karan][10.Qc2 Nxd4 Rathnakaran]10...
Nxe2+ [This doesnt look logical, but ma-
terial is also important-Rathnakaran][10...
Nb5+ 11.Kd1 Nbxd4 12.Qe3 At some point
Black's knight could be driven away from d4
by e2–e3. 12...Be6 13.Bg5 or (13.Bxc7 I am
not sure ( Rathnakaran)) ]11.Kd1 Nexd4
12.Qe3 Be6! [After this White has so many
options and you have only one piece?(
24
Sagar) But d1 King!!! ( Rathnakaran) Se-
riously, what courage! Rathnakaran is not
really counting pieces, but focussing only
on the opponent's King as he aptly points
out in just one word!-Kidambi][12...Kxd8 is
passive( Rathnakaran)]
13.Bg5 [13.Bxc7 Rc8 14.Bf4 0–0] 13...h6
14.Bf6 [Did you consider this?(Sagar) No,
not at all. I was thinking what was on f6!?
(Rathnakaran)]14...gxf6 15.Kc1 0–0–0
[Kidambi- 15...Rd8!? With the idea of not
allowing White to capture f5 with check
or get some threats along h3–c8. But, of-
course castling long was the most natural
option]16.Bh3 Bc5 [Perhaps as opined by
Sandipan Black missed Whites next move.
But only Rathnakaran can tell what exactly
happened. The downside of this move is
that White is able to simplify the position,
especially exchange the minor pieces which
were completely offside. -Kidambi I consid-
ered a few different alternatives for Black
with the basic idea of maintaining all 4
minor pieces on the board. They are][16...
Kb8!? 17.Ng6 Nf3 18.Nxh8 Bd2+ 19.Qxd2
Rxd2 The fact that White's Rooks are not
coordinated and that his pieces completely
lack coordination means that he cant hope
to hold this position.; 16...Rd5!? 17.Ng6
Rhd8 18.Nf4 Rc5+ 19.Kb1 At the moment
the Knight on f4 seems to hold whites posi-
tion from collapsing immediately. 19...Bf7
20.Rc1 Rxc1+ 21.Kxc1 Kb8 and despite
exchange of one pair of rooks its not obvious
how White is going to release his position(
especially the Rook on a1 and the King
still remains weak!); 16...Bc4!? 17.Nxf5
a) 17.Qxe4 Rhe8 18.Bxf5+ Kb8 19.Qg4
Ne5!–+ Blacks pieces are swarming around
the central squares and in the near future
around Whites King.; b) 17.Bxf5+ Kb8
18.Bxe4 (18.Qxe4 Rhe8) 18...Rhe8 A look
at the position is enough to observe the
power radiated by the combined effort of
all Black's pieces. White is helpless.;17...
Ne2+ 18.Kc2 (18.Qxe2 Bxe2 19.Nd4+ Kb8
20.Nxe2 White is a pawn down and behind in
development.) 18...Bd3+ 19.Kb3 Kb8 20.a3
Bd2! is another picture of domination!; 16...
Ne5!? 17.Rd1 c5! is another aesthetic pic-
ture. The way Black's minor pieces dominate
the centre and at the same time keep all of
White's pieces inactive is impressive.-Kid-
ambi; 16...Ba5! is also very strong. Pointed
out by Sandipan]17.Bxf5! [In Sandipan's
opinion Black probably missed this idea, as
no one would allow this if they had already
seen it coming.-Kidambi]17...Nxf5 [17...
Rhe8!? brining one more piece into play
and for the moment not letting the Knight
on h4 into the game also came into con-
sideration.-Kidambi]18.Qxc5 Nxh4 [18...
Nfd4!? Again from strategic point of view,
not exchanging the White's knight which
is stuck in the corner for the central black
knight came into consideration.But as al-
ways Rathnakaran has his own truly original
ideas!-Kidambi]9.gxh4 Rd4! [I had a feeling
I had minimum draw. His Rooks are not
connected. All my pieces are targetting his
K. There are lot of threats like Bg4 and Ne5.
I only have to take care of a7–P.(R)]20.b3
Rhd8 21.Rb1 [Do you consider candidate
moves like normal players?(S) Difficult to
say.... Very rarely!(R)][21.Kb2 Rd2+ 22.Ka3
R8d5 23.Qf8+ Kd7 24.Qg7+ Ke8 25.Qh8+
Ke7]21...Bg4 [First of all I wanted to stop
Rb2, but I do not know whether I am stop-
ping it or not!( Laughs) . Also stops Qh5.
But it could be dubious because of Rg1(
smiles)]22.Kb2 [I would think that White
has got out of jail in this position. This might
even be objectively true, but the course of
the game shows White is practically under
lot of pressure. Even quite a strong GM such
as Mchedlishvilli can't survive the renewed
wave of attack that Rathnakaran unleash-
es.-Kidambi]22...Nb4 23.Ka1 b6 24.Qc3 c5
25.a3 [25.Qg3 Bf3 26.Rhc1]
25...Nd5 [What about 25...Rd3 26.Qxf6
Nc2+ (Sagar). The Queen will come to
c6(Rathnakaran)]26.Qc1 h5 27.Rg1 Rd3
28.Qc4 Rd4 29.Qc1 Rd3 [Were you okay with
draw at this point?(Sagar) Yeah I could not
calculate :-) (Rathnakaran)]
30.b4 Nc3 31.Qb2 Nxb1!? [Rathnakaran
takes a simple practical decision- Kidam-
bi][31...Be6 As suggested to Sagar in his
online analysis by some viewers. 32.Rbc1
Na4 White is getting counterplay( Rathna-
karan). Perhaps Rathnakaran was in time
trouble as if we continue the line for a few
moves White appears defenceless. 33.Qxf6
Rxa3+ 34.Kb1 Ba2+ 35.Kc2 cxb4! Another
gorgeous position!-Kidambi] 3 2 . R x b 1
Rf3 33.bxc5 Rdd3 34.Qb5 [Now I think
its almost over( Rathnakaran) because of
the 2 Rooks and the Bishop and the a1–
K]34...Rxa3+ 35.Kb2 Bd7 36.Qc4 Ra4
37.Qg8+ Kb7 38.Rd1 Rxf2+ [First I create
a passed and pawn and am gaining some
time!(Rathnakaran)]39.Kb3 Rf3+ 40.Kb2
Rb4+ 41.Kc1 Rc3+ 42.Kd2 Rxc5 43.Ke1
Ba4 [Rathnakaran uses the dynamics of all
the resources in the position with great ef-
ficiency and beauty!-Kidambi]44.Qf7+ Rc7
45.Qd5+ Bc6 46.Qxh5 Rg7 47.Rd6 Rb2
0–1
courtesy:chessbase india
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 Commomwealth Chess Chanmpionships 2019, New Delhi
Abhijeet Gupta wins fifth Commonwealth title
Tania Sachdev wins third Women’s title
The quality of a master player stems from the fact as to how he plays the last round, espe-
cially when he is in a must-win situation. This is what happened with Abhijeet Gupta, four
time Commonwealth winner. Abhijeet was in a must-win situation and came out all guns
blazing to beat his opponent Arjun Erigaisi to claim his 5th Commonwealth title. He deserves
the title of Mr. Commonwealth. The women’s section was won by IM Tania Sachdev, who also
scored her 3rd title.
Winning tournaments means a lot to Abhijeet Gupta. He is ready to take tremendous amount
of risk to win the title and he proved this in the last round of the Commonwealth Champi-
onships 2019. Playing with the white pieces against Arjun Erigaisi, Abhijeet had his task cut
out. he went for the sharpest variation against Arjun’s Slav and won in 39 moves.
Aravindh won the silver medal. He has won the national title in all three formats - classical,
rapid and blitz. He was looking to win another gold, this time at Commonwealth, but a silver
is also an excellent result.Swapnil Dhopade is now almost a full time coach. Yet he is able
to deliver such a powerful performance! He scored a win against P. Iniyan in the final round
and secured his bronze medal.
One of the finest points of the Commonwealth Championships 2019 is the fact that the age
group of under-8 and under-10 get to play in the same playing hall as the open section.
This meant that the youngsters can go and see the games of top grandmasters like Abhijeet
Gupta, Aravindh Chithambaram, S.L. Narayanan and so on. And also the grandmasters often
visit the games of these youngsters. In all there were 14 age category tournaments that
took place and there were 42 medals at stake.
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30 Dhamgaye Pramod 6 77 Adish A Pendhari 4½
31 Rao Mahadev 6 78 Khobragade Nishad 4½
32 Nilesh Dashrath Bande 6 79 Satdeve Ravikant 4½
33 Narendrkumar Rangari 6 80 Kopulwar Mayuresh 4
34 Ramteke Vivek 5½ 81 Gajbhiye Shreyash 4
35 Borkar B C 5½ 82 Kopulwar Mangesh 4
36 Junghare Aditya 5½ 83 Mrinmay G 4
37 Awghad Shyam 5½ 84 Dnyaneshwar Wardhekar 4
38 Arun Kumar G 5½ 85 Ashay Mor 4
39 Pendhari Ayuti 5½ 86 Chede Shristi 4
40 Sahare Roshan 5½ 87 Durrani Mahin 4
41 Sabir Adnan 5½ 88 Addhyay Vinay Damke 4
42 Sayam Vishvesh 5 89 Motwani Akash 4
43 Chafle Prashant 5 90 Palandurkar Prabhakar 4
44 Chaudhary Bhavik 5 91 Rode Varad 4
45 Kotwal Archana 5 92 Bhavin Patel 4
46 Dhepe Harshal 5 93 Pranavi Prashant Bhagat 4
47 Gourav Prithyani 5 94 Chaudhari Mehransh 4
48 Chincholkar Aditya 5 95 Pari Suresh Chavan 4
49 Bhake Vallabh 5 96 Ramteke Asit 4
50 Ulhe Vedant 5 97 Anupam Verma 4
51 Ranade Soham Abhijit 5 98 Chainani Dimple 4
52 Fulmali Apurv 5 99 Misurkar Shantanu 4
53 Harshavardhan RChatte 5 100 Rudresh Kohade 4
54 Rasekar Omkar 5 101 Jambhulkar Chaitanya 4
55 Nayan Chandrabhan Ramteke 5 102 Ingole Sahil 4
56 Doshi Manas 5 103 Sharma Abhigyan 4
57 Shende Kshitij 5 104 Kshitij Bhende 4
58 Ved Chalakh 5 105 Dodeja Mahika 4
59 Paritosh Sudhir Bawnekar 5 106 Irshad Mohammed 3½
60 Bhalchandra Belorkar 5 107 Tiwari Akshad 3½
61 Madavi Ashay 5 108 Chandrakar Rakesh 3½
62 Chirag Ragesh Bais 5 109 Harshal Raut 3½
63 Agrawal Kushal 5 110 Kushagra Paliwal 3½
64 Gode Trushna 5 111 Hedau Anish 3½
65 Vimal Shrivastava 5 112 Dodeja Himal 3½
66 Raiyyani Zuber 5 113 Gajbhiye Aarthik 3½
67 Shah Atharva 5 114 Monu Bawankar 3½
68 Prabhakar Patil 5 115 Deshbhartar Shashikant 3½
69 Deshmukh Deep 5 116 Nagpure Sujal 3½
70 Khushal Banduji Katwale 4½ 117 Ingle Avnish 3½
71 Sai Rahul Tarekar 4½ 118 Aman Singhade 3
72 Ainchwar Paarth 4½ 119 Chaudhari Arnav 3
73 Meshram Akshay 4½ 120 Bansod Harshal 3
74 Roy Hridoy 4½ 121 Nandadhare Om 3
75 Hattimare Chirag 4½ 122 Lilhare Aman 3
76 Sahu Deepak 4½ 123 Saksham Chede 3
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 Saturday Club Youth Chess Championship 2019 Rapid Rating Event,Kolkata
Srijit Paul wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
The Saturday Club Youth Chess Championship 2019 have been concluded. The tournament was held at
Saturday Club AC Hall on 1st & 2nd June 2019 and it is rapid Rating Event organized by Alekhine Chess
Club, Kolkata. The Tournament was inaugurated by Mr. Sourav Kothari, Word Billiard Champion. Mr.
Jagpal Sing, President of Saturday Club., Mr. Samir Joshi, Mr. Rajesh Mundhra were also present in the
opening ceremony. Total 221 players participated along with GM Diptayan Ghosh, where 90 players were
rated. Till 5th round there was no upset. In the 6th round game Top seed Ditayan Ghosh Drew with
Subhayan Kundu on the top board, in 2nd board Arpan Ds lost to Srijit Paul, Arya Bhakta beat Ayush Jha.
In the 7th round Srijit Paul lost to Arya Bhakta and on the 2nd board Mitrabha beat Diptayan Ghosh. In
the 8th round Subhayan Kundu beat Arya Bhakta on the top board, but again Diptayan lost to Utsab
Chatterjee which creates open to championship fight in the final round game.
In the final round Subhayan Kundu lost to Mitrabha Guha on the top board, but Srijit Paul beat Soumyajit
Das and confirmed his Championship Title with better tie break. Srijit Paul bagged Rs. 35000/-, Mitrabha
Guha and Arya Bhakta placed 2nd and 3rd and got Rs. 25000/- & 17000/- respectively.The venue was
fantastic and well decorated, Ac, sufficient toilet. The organizers served lunch packet to all the partici-
pants on both days.The Arbiters and volunteers are worked hard and they have done their job well. No
single disputes were happened during the tournament. In the prize distribution ceremony GM Surya
Sekhar Gangaly was the chief guest and distributed the prizes to the Prize Winners.. Mr. Jagpal Sing,
President of Saturday Club., Mr. Samir Joshi, Mr. Rajesh Mundhra and Mr. Amit Agarwal , Convenor on
behalf of Saturday Club were also present in the Closing ceremony.
13th CHESSMATE The Inter-School FIDE Rapid Rating Team Championship, Kolkata
Garden High School and LSA win titles
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA, Chief Arbiter
The 13th Chessmate Inter School Team Chess Championship 2019 have been concluded. The tourna-
ment was held at South Point on 28th & 29th June 2019 and it is rapid Rating Team Event organized
by South . The Tournament was inaugurated by Mrs. Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharjee, Principal, South Point
High School, Kolkata, Mr. Krishna Damani, Educationist , Mr. Rajendra Singh, Tournament Director were
also present in the opening ceremony.
Total 34 Teams (Schools) 136 players were participated in the Team Chess Championship . The tourna-
ment consecutive 2nd year organized by the South Point Point School. Till 3rd round top seeded DPS,
North Kolkata team sailing smoothly but in the 4th round they lost to Garden High School. In the 5th
round Garden High school beat host School. In the final round La Martinere for Boys drew with Garden
High . At the end of final round game Garden High School clinched the championship title in Boys Sec-
tion where DPS, North Kolkata and La Martiniere for Boys placed second and third respectively. In girls
section LSA, for girls hold the championship Title. South Point HS for Girls and Shri Sikshayatan School
placed 2nd and 3rd position respectively. The venue was fantastic and well decorated, Ac, sufficient
toilet. The organizers were served lunch packet to all the participants on both days. The Arbiters
and volunteers are worked hard and they have done their job well. No single disputes were happened
during the tournament. In the prize distribution ceremony Mr. Krishna Damani, Educationist was the chief
guest and distributed the prizes to the Prize Winners.. Mr. D K Chadda, Principal, South Point School, IM
Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA & Jt. Secretary, AICF and Mrs. Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharya, Principal, South
Point High School were also present in the Closing ceremony.
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Smart Girl Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Gurgaon
Stuti Bhanot is ‘Smart Girl’ at Gurgaon
by Raj Kumar IA, Chief Arbiter
The “Smart” Girl Fide Rated Chess Tournament – 2019 was organised by District Chess Associ-
ation, Gurgaon under the aegis of The Haryana Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess
Federation at Meenakshi Public School, Sector–10 A, Gurgaon from 1st June 2019 to 5th June
2019. A total of 79 players participated in the tournament out of which 16 were FIDE rated
players. A total of 09 rounds each were played. The “Smart” Girl Fide Rated Chess Tournament
– 2019 was clinched by Ms. Stuti Bhanot, Gurugram the Second and the Third position went
to Sachi Jain, Delhi and Yuvika Sehgal, Delhi. Best U-15 Prize won by 1. Sameeksha Goyal,
Gurugram 2. Ishi Minj, Faridabad 3. Sobhita, Rohtak, Best U-11 Prize Won by 1. Kimaya Yadu-
vanshi, Delhi 2. Aisha Wadhwani, Gurugram 3. Prishita Gupta, Delhi Best U-07 Prize Won by
1. Arshika, Sonipat 2. Manisha Yadav, Delhi respectively.
The Chief Guest for the inauguration was Mrs. Gargi Kakkar, Chairperson of Khadi Gram Udyog
Board,Haryana Govt. and spoke on the occasion. Guest of Honour at the inauguration was Smt
Vipula Saxena, Director cum principal, MPS, Mr Naresh Sharma Gen Sec THCA, Mr Rajpal Chau-
han, Tournament Director, & Mrs, Sushma Chauhan from Distt. Chess Association, Gurgaon
were also present.
Mrs. Gargi Kakkar, Chairperson of Khadi Gram Udyog, Haryana, Inaugurated the championship by
making the first move on the board.The tournament hall for The “Smart” Girl Fide Rated Chess
Tournament - 2019 was fully A/C, spacious and could accommodate all the players. The playing
hall was well decked up for the chess championship and was neat and clean. The hall was very
well lighted and also well ventilated. The wash rooms were outside the playing hall on the first
floor and were kept in a hygienic condition. Safe drinking water was provided to the players. A
lot of comfortable space was provided for parents, guardians and managers to sit & relax. The
officials of the Distt. Chess Association, Gurgaon & The Haryana Chess Association were always
around helping the participants with accommodation problems, food and other requirements.
Good accommodation facilities were provided to the players nearby. Medical team from school
was there round the clock. There were no disputes or appeals filed by the players. All the
players played their games in a sporting manner. All in all the perception of chess among the
participants, the spectators and the people of Different districts improved and they appreciated
the efforts of DCAG & HCA.
During the Chess Championships the work of all the Arbiters performing the duties in this cham-
pionship was up to the mark. I thank all the Arbiters for their wonderful performance and towards
making these championships a success.The organisers provided all facilities to the players. The
hospitality was marvellous. The playing arena and the venue were excellent.
At the Prize Distribution ceremony Mrs. Madhu Azad, Mayor of Gurugram was the chief guest
& Rajpal Chauhan, Mr. Desh Ratan Gulati Mrs. Sushma Chauhan from Distt. Chess Association
Gurgaon, along with Mr. Naresh Sharma, Advocate, General Secretary of the Haryana Chess
Association were also present. Mr. Naresh Sharma delivered the Vote of Thanks.The Chief Guest
along with the other Guests of Honour distributed the prizes and trophies to the all prize winners.
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 5th Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating below 1600 Chess Championship 2019,Cuttack
Dhiman Mitra emerged Champion
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter
The exciting 5th Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE
Rating below 1600 Chess Championship
was organized by Triple ‘C’ chess Club
under the aegis of All Odisha Chess Asso-
ciation from 8th June 2019 to 10th June
2019 at Ravenshaw University (Seven
pillars of Wisdom), Cuttack, Odisha. The
total prize fund for above captioned Event
was `10,10,100/- (Rupees Ten lacs Ten
thousand One hundredonly) attracts only
368 participants from 17 States (Andhra
Pradesh 25, Assam 4, Bihar 11, Chhatisgarh
10, Delhi 10, Gujarat 1, Indian Air Force
4, Jharkhand 28, Karnataka 1, Kerala 1,
Maharashtra 10, Meghalaya 1, Odisha 179,
Railways 1, Telangana 7, Tamil Nadu 10,
Uttar Pradesh 3, West Bengal 68 with total
52 women have participated in the tour-
nament. Sanjib Malli, 1588 of West Bengal
was the top seed.
The tournament was formally inaugurat-
ed by Team Triple ‘C’ Chess Club, Sj. Ka-
malakanta Bisoi, President, Sj. Biswajeet
Ray, Vice President, Sj Biranchi Narayan
Sahoo, Secretary, Sj. Arghya Arpan Parida.
Four players (Dhiman Mitra, WB,1586;
Vishwanath Kannam, 1490, AP; Karthikeyan
G, 1348, TN; Ram Kumar R, 1547, AP)have
finished with 8 points each but, Dhiman
Mitra emerged Champion to take away the
top prize `1,00,100/-because of tie-break.
Viswanath Kannam of AP became 1st Run-
ner-up & Karthikeyan G of TN was the 2nd
Runner-up.
In the valedictory ceremony the Hon’ble
Chief Guest was Prof. Ishan Kumar Patro,
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Vice Chancellor, Ravenshaw University,
Cuttack;Other dignitaries who graced the
occasion on the last day wereMr. Ranjan
Mohanty, Vice President of All Odisha
Chess Association. Sri Debabrata Bhatta,
Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association;
Sri Kamala kantaBisoi, President, Triple ‘C’
Chess Club; Sri Biswajit Ray, Vice President,
Triple ‘C’ Chess Club; Sri Arghya Arpan
Parida, Jt. Secy. Triple ‘C’ Chess Club&Sri
Biranchi Narayan Sahoo, Secretary Triple
‘C’ Chess Club (the back bone of Triple ‘C’
Chess Club).The Press and Media covered
the event very well. There were no disputes
or protests filed by the players in this tour-
nament. All in all, the perception of chess
among the participants, the spectators
and the people improved by the wonderful
organisational skills displayed by Triple ‘C’
Chess Club.
The Chief Arbiter for the event is Interna-
tional Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably
assisted by IA Anandh Babu VL, TN; FA
Bhabesh Mohanty, Odisha; FA Santosh Ku-
mar Mohapatra, Odisha & FA Jyoti Shankar
Nanda of Odisha.I take this Opportunity to
thank the Triple ‘C’ Chess Club, Cuttackand
All Odisha Chess Association for making the
tournament a grand success, which will go
a long way in creating awareness and pop-
ularising Chess in our Nation & for giving
another chance to lower seeded players to
show off their talents.
Final ranking 46 Sankar Prasad Rao D 6 93 Manoj Kumar Hota 5½
Rk Name Pts 47 Khilendra Sahu 6 94 Manas Kanti Mandal 5½
1 Dhiman Mitra 8 48 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 6 95 Gopi M 5½
2 Vishwanath Kannam 8 49 Mohapatra Pratyush 6 96 Keshavendra Mishra 5½
3 Karthikeyan G 8 50 Patra Anilkumar 6
4 Ram Kumar R 8 51 Kumar Sankalp 6
5 Prasath K R 7½ 52 Soni Deepak R 6
6 Nagasri Saikanth 7½ 53 Siva Kumar Badireddy 6
7 Panda Miracle 7½ 54 Aaditya Ranjan 6
8 Sairupa P 7½ 55 Siddhartha Gupta 6
9 Satyajit Sarkar 7 56 Mallikarjuna Raob 6
10 Kesavan G 7 57 Srinivasa Rao Puppala 6
11 Shresth Mahapatra 7 58 Sovna Sonali Jena 6
12 Mahendar B 7 59 Pramod Kumar Soni 6
13 Palak Mohapatra 7 60 Pidintla Saikumar 6
14 Siddik Akbar 7 61 Swain Devi Prasad 6
15 Das Jitendra Kumar 7 62 Shouvik Dutta 6
16 Manna Chiranjit 7 63 Gaurav Danu 6
17 Bala Ganeshan 7 64 Saurabh Kumar 6
18 Debiprasad Sarkar 7 65 Md Hasnain Ali 6
19 Maheshwar P 6½ 66 Samir Kumar Saha 6
20 Sahoo Ankita 6½ 67 Barik Bijayalaxmi 6
21 Sanjib Mali 6½ 68 Dhirendra Kumar Das 6
22 Satyam Prakash 6½ 69 Pujari Kambupani 6
23 Nilanta Chanda 6½ 70 Pradhan Lorence 6
24 Subhankar Das 6½ 71 Rathindra Thakur 6
25 Suman Maity 6½ 72 Vikash Kumar Sahani 6
26 Bhargav Yarnagula 6½ 73 Subhransu Sekhar Dash 6
27 Raja S K 6½ 74 Rao Mahadev 6
28 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 6½ 75 Anil Dash 6
29 Sahu Biswahari 6½ 76 Yuva Kishore Pilla 5½
30 Prasanta Mondal 6½ 77 Gautam Kumar Maitra 5½
31 Vabesh Kumar Bardhan 6½ 78 Sahoo Devendra Kumar 5½
32 Manikya Negi 6½ 79 Md. Shabbir Ali 5½
33 Khamari Amarendra 6½ 80 Dutta Samaritan 5½
34 Choudhury Ashutosh 6½ 81 Mohanty Abhigyan 5½
35 Sankalp Tripathi 6 82 Narayan Das 5½
36 Shruthik Sarvagni P 6 83 Sudev Pal 5½
37 Soumen Mondal 6 84 Khandelwal Naman 5½
38 Rahul Mukhi 6 85 Dhruv Phukan 5½
39 Sahu Prakash 6 86 Kalindi Vikash 5½
40 Tushar Banerjee 6 87 Gopin Murmu 5½
41 Soyam Laxmidatt D Sabat 6 88 Ishan Ghosh (Siliguri) 5½
42 Raja Bose 6 89 Khadanga Omm Aditya 5½
43 Shreya Das 6 90 Anurag Panigrahi 5½
44 Qureshi A S 6 91 Das Gaurab 5½
45 Shaik Abdul Nabi 6 92 Amit Tiwari 5½
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 1st ICA Wayanad below 1600 Fide Rated Open Tournament,Wayanad
Paulson Frenchy champion at Wayanad
by Dr. M.S.Govindan Kutty IA, Chief Arbiter
Thirteenth seed Paulson Frenchy of Kerala be-
came champion in the first ICA Wayanad be-
low 1600 Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament
organised by The Indian Chess Academy,
Wayanadat Hotel Regency, SulthanBathery,
Wayanad, Kerala from 8th to 10th June 2019.
A total number of 329 players which include
225 International rated players participated
in this 9 round Swiss System tournament
spread over three days with prize fund of
Rs. 5,00,000/-
At the end of final round, three players tied
for the pole position with 8 points but better
tie break score helped Paulson to finish at
top to secure cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- with
trophy while his Kerala state mate Arpith S
Bijoy finished as first runner up to pocket
Rs. 40,000/- andP Gopinath of Tamilnadu-
finished at third spot to get richer by Rs.
30,000/-.
Kerala players Anoop E and Pournami S fin-
ished as best among Rating Category Below
1400 and Below 1200 respectively while PC
Biju became best among unrated players.
Nayan Megha K A, Sreeraman Namboodiri
P and Santhosh V R won best prizes in Best
Female, Best Veteran and Best Wayand cate-
gories respectively. All age category winners
were presented with trophies.
In a befitting closing ceremony, Shri.Vineesh
PS, ICA President;Shri.V R Santhosh Sec-
retary ICA andShri.Jaison K Jose, MD Hotel
Regency SulthanBathery along with other
members of orgnaising committee gave away
the cash prizes and trophies to the winners.
Final ranking 41 Ramesh R 6 88 Arun Mathew 5½ 135 Shreyas K Patil 5
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42 Vinod S 6 89 Sasikumar K P 5½
43 Jolly V P 6 90 Swetha S 5½
44 Vineesh P S 6 91 Karuppasamy C 5½
45 Manikuttan K P 6 92 Raveendran T. 5½
46 Sami M A 6 93 Sasikumar.S 5½
Rk Name Pts 47 Kannan.V 6 94 Ravindra Joshi 5½
1 Paulson Frenchy 8 48 Pournami S 6 95 Nikhil T L 5½
2 Arpith S Bijoy 8 49 Deepak K S 6 96 Sasikumar Subramani 5
3 Gopinath P 8 50 Senthil Kumar N 6 97 Abhinav Sathiajith 5
4 Anoop P 7½ 51 Nayan Megha K A 6 98 Adweith U P 5
5 Kannan R. 7½ 52 Jayesh T A 6 99 Ajinraj 5
6 Prabeesh K 7½ 53 Hemanathan C 6 100 Annapurni S 5
7 Stephen Raj A 7½ 54 Balaji Shankar 6 101 Gokulakrishna S 5
8 Sabu Joseph 7½ 55 Unni Krishnan Pg 6 102 Sameer C 5
9 Narayan Iyengar 7 56 Pravin P 6 103 Prasiddhi Bhat 5
10 Rajesh P 7 57 Aditya Menon 6 104 Subramanian T.V. 5
11 Lakshith B Salian 7 58 Karthik Raj 6 105 Ashwin Krishna 5
12 Vinoth M 7 59 Sreeraman Namboodiri P. 6 106 Karthikeyan M 5
13 Koushik Muthesh P 7 60 Biju P C 6 107 Sandeep Surendran M K 5
14 Bharanidharan Nedunchezian 7 61 Prasanth Varghese Sunny 6 108 Rockson S Parayil 5
15 Biju Kumar 7 62 Ramanan M 6 109 Laiju Ct 5
16 Eswaran P 7 63 Prakaash S A Krishna 5½ 110 Abdul Gafoor K. 5
17 Lakshmanan K A 6½ 64 Jegadeesh G 5½ 111 Prameeth M G 5
18 Umer Muhthar P S 6½ 65 Shiju M A 5½ 112 Anil E 5
19 Sai Kiran G V 6½ 66 Satheesh M 5½ 113 Thejas M U 5
20 Vysakh B 6½ 67 Sangeeth Krishnan R 5½ 114 Swarna Anand 5
21 Sugunesh Babu 6½ 68 Kannish Varmaa K 5½ 115 Rishi R 5
22 Gouthaman A M 6½ 69 Tanav Sudarshan 5½ 116 Nagarajan P 5
23 Praveen K B 6½ 70 Rajeev Kumar K 5½ 117 Mukesh Kanna J K R 5
24 Prathesh Kumar R 6½ 71 Thirumurugan R 5½ 118 Allen Varghese 5
25 Jagan V 6½ 72 Joju K V 5½ 119 Sagar P 5
26 Sidharth Damodar 6½ 73 Vishnu Ram M 5½ 120 Simon C A 5
27 Vijayakumar V Damodharan 6½ 74 Murukan M.K. 5½ 121 Vinod AS 5
28 Balakowshi D S 6½ 75 Devanand B 5½ 122 Nihal Swarna 5
29 Felix Moothedath 6½ 76 Prajwal K M 5½ 123 Adnan Fayas N K 5
30 Ajmal Ibrahim 6½ 77 Rajjan Sanjay 5½ 124 Junaise K K 5
31 Syam Peter 6½ 78 Sreerag Padman 5½ 125 Jayakumar P K 5
32 Suganthan R 6½ 79 Adra P 5½ 126 Prasanna Vadhanan M 5
33 Jojo P John 6½ 80 Avinash K P 5½ 127 Anandraj V S 5
34 Santhosh V R 6½ 81 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 5½ 128 Abhinav Raj V S 5
35 Abhijith U 6 82 Arjun Biju 5½ 129 Thulaseedharan K 5
36 Akhil Vijayakumar 6 83 Rajeev K 5½ 130 Vishnu Namboothiri M V 5
37 Lokesh Varmaa K 6 84 Ashkar M M 5½ 131 Aswin Biju 5
38 Gopal Aravamuthan Iyengar 6 85 Rathish K R 5½ 132 Anurag M S 5
39 Mano Ranjith J 6 86 Shihab Kadungallur 5½ 133 Santhosh A S 5
40 Sanoop P B 6 87 Antony Simethy 5½ 134 Jibi Kallingalpadem 5
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Selected games from Goa GM
Open,Taleigao
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Ter-Sahakyan,Samvel (GM Arm)
(2611) - Deepan,Chakkravar. (GM
Ind) (2557) [B80]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 e6 6.Be3 a6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 Bb7 9.g5
Nfd7 10.Qd2 Nb6 11.a4 Nc4 12.Bxc4
bxc4 13.h4 Nd7 14.h5 Qa5?N [#]
[ T h i s i s a N ove l ty t h a t i s b r i l l i a n t l y
bombed. More popular here is: 14...Ne5
or 14....Nc5.] 15.Kf2! With his king-side
pawns advanced to g5 and h5, white ex-
pects black to castle on the queen side
where he is now ready to attack through
the b-file. 15...Be7!= 16.g6! [This is the
way to crack the black king-side. If 16.h6
g6 17.Rab1 Rc8 18.Rhd1= with an inter-
esting middle-game battle in the offing]
16...hxg6? [An error in a tight defensive
position where it is easier to attack than to
defend. Better was 16...Bf6 17.Nde2 Qc7
18.gxf7+ Kxf7 19.Rad1 Ke7= Black has
no weak spots that could be exploited by
the opponent.] 17.hxg6 Rxh1 18.Rxh1±
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[#] 18...Ne5? [A sounder defence was:
18...Nf8 19.Rh8 Qb4 20.gxf7+ Kxf7
21.Bg5 Bxg5 22.Qxg5 Qc5 23.Qf4+ Ke7
24.Qe3 Kf7=] 19.gxf7+! Kxf7 20.Qe2
Rc8 21.f4 Ng6 22.Qg4! This targets
the key e6 square and makess the black
king practically defenceless as the queen
is excluded from the king-side. 22...Nf8
23.f5! exf5 24.Nxf5 [#]
24...g6 [If 24...Qe5 25.Bd4 Qe6 26.Bxg7+-
; worse was: 24...Bf6? 25.Nxd6++-]
25.Nd5! Bxd5 26.Nh6+ Kg7 27.Qxc8
Bxe4 28.Qe8!! [After 28.Qe8!! Kh8
29.Qxe7+- crushes!] 1–0
Rahul,Srivatshav P(IM Tel) (2395)
Malakhatko,Vadim (GM Bel) (2505)
[A09]
Vadim Malakhatkov, born 23 March 1977,
is a Ukrainian GM who plays for the US
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
since 2007. He was a member of the 23.Nf5!!+-] 18...Qb7 19.Nd6 Bxd6 [If
Ukrainian team that won the prestigious, 19...Qa7 20.b4! Bxb4 21.Nxf7! Bxf3 (oth-
once in four years, World Team Champion- erwise, the Bc6 becomes vulnerable on c6)
ship in 2001. He represented the Ukraine 22.Qxf3 Kxf7 23.Bxe6+!! Kxe6 24.Qg4+!
in the 2000 Istanbul Chess Olympiad and Kf7 25.e6++-] 20.Rxd6 Nc5 21.b4!
won a bronze medal. He is married to IM, Bxf3 [If 21...Nxa4 22.Bxa6! Bxf3 23.gxf3
WGM Anna Zozulia, born 10 March 1980. Qe7 24.Bb5+-] 22.gxf3 Nxa4 [#]
IM Rahul Srivatshav, a 17-year old from
Telengana is one of India's future GMs.
Watch his destruction of his more famous
and more experienced opponent! 1.Nf3
d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 Nf6 4.Bxc4 e6 5.0–0
c5 6.Qe2 a6 7.Rd1 Nbd7N [7...b5 is the
popular move here.] 8.d4 Qc7?!
23.Bxa6!! Qe7 24.Bb5 Qh4 25.Qd2!!
A very powerful move, after which black
cannot save himself. 25...Rf8 26.Kg2 f6
27.Rc7 Kh8 28.Rdd7 Qh5 29.Bxh6?!
[White seems to have a flair for the
[#] [Better was: 8...b5 9.Bd3 c4 10.Bc2 spectacular. The simplest and strongest
Bb7 11.e4 Be7 12.Bf4= Though techni- move was: 29.Rxg7 Rg8 30.Qd7 wins
cally level, white has the better chances hands down!] 29...Qg6+ 30.Kh2 gxh6
with his strong centre.] 9.a4! Black can no 31.Rxh7+!
longer play ...b5 and his forces are grad-
ually confirned to his half of the board.
9...Bd6 10.Nc3 0–0 11.h3 h6 12.dxc5
Bxc5 13.e4 White has played splendidly,
not allowing any easy development for
the black forces while his own pieces take
good outposts. 13...Rd8 14.e5! This in-
creases his board space and pushes back
the Nf6. 14...Nh7 [14...Ne8 15.Bf4 b6
16.Rac1 Bb7 17.Bg3 Bxf3 18.gxf3± 19.
Bh4 is threatened.] 15.Ne4 b6 [15...
N xe 5 ? ? 1 6 . R x d 8 + Q x d 8 1 7 . N xe 5 + - ]
16.Bf4 Bb7 17.Rac1! Bc6 18.b3 [A little [#][After 31.Rxh7+! Qxh7 32.Rxh7+
stronger was: 18.Nd6! Nhf8 19.Nh4 Bxa4 Kxh7 33.Qd7+ and white wins as the Na4
20.b3 Bc6 21.Qh5! Bxd6 22.exd6 Qb7 can be captured free.] 1–0
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Sankalp,Gupta (MH) (2359) Anurag,M-
hamal (GM Goa) (2497)
Sankalp Gupta is a 16-year old from Ma-
harashtra. He plays this game against
24-year old Anurag Mhamal, Goa's first
GM, confidently and imaginatively. Anoth-
er talent is emerging from Maharashtra!
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.d4 cxd4
5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 Qa5 8.0–
0 0–0 9.Bb3 d6 10.h3 Nxd4 11.Bxd4
Be6 12.Nd5 Bxd5 13.exd5 Nh5N [It is
best for black to avoid this variation as
white gets enormous pressure on e7 and
e6 and has little chances of counter-play.
13...Rfe8 is usual here.] 14.Re1! Rfe8
15.Re3! White does not have to scratch
his head to form a strategy. It is just easy,
double and triple on e7, making black's life
a misery. 15...Rac8 16.Bxg7 Nxg7 17.g4
A natural move to deny the black knight any
movement and generally dishearten black.
17...Qc7 18.Qe2 Qd7 19.Re1 e5! This is the
right time to make this move as he would
get white's c2 in return for his e-pawn.
20.dxe6 fxe6 21.c3 [#]
[White gets nothing after: 21.Bxe6+
N xe 6 2 2 . R xe 6 R xe 6 2 3 . Q xe 6 + Q xe 6
24.Rxe6 Rxc2 25.Rxd6 Rxb2 26.Rd8+
Kg7 27.Rd7+ Kg8=] 21...d5 [Forced! The
position is not ripe for the black king to
join the defence of e6: 21...Kf7? 22.Rd3
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a5 (or 22...b5 23.Red1 Rc6 24.Rf3+ Kg8
25.Qxb5+-) 23.Red1 Rcd8 (23...Rc6?
24.Ba4+-) 24.Rxd6+-] 22.Qd3 b5 23.h4
[white must strengthen his grip over the
game by centralising his queen: 23.Qd4
Red8 24.Re5 Qf7 25.f4² Black has very
little prospects left in this game.] 23...
Rf8 24.h5? [24.Rg3] 24...Qf7 25.R1e2
gxh5 26.Bc2 Qg6 27.Qxb5 Nf5!? [White
would enjoy the following variation! 27...
Qxg4+? 28.Rg3 Qf4 29.Qd7 Qf7 30.Qxe6
Qxe6 31.Rxe6 Kh8 32.Re7 Nf5 33.Bxf5
Rxf5 34.Rxa7±] 28.f3 hxg4 29.Rxe6!
White plays this move only after 28....
hxg4 so that black cannot respond Qxg4.
29...Qg5 30.f4! [30.fxg4?? Nh4! 31.Qb4
a5 32.Qd4 Rc4–+] 30...Qxf4 31.Qxd5
[#]
31...Kg7? [Black's best move is the
startling queen sacrifice 31...Qf1+!!
32.Kxf1 Ne3+ 33.Kg1 Nxd5 34.Bb3 Nf4!
(allowing white the luxury of a double
discovered check, which amazingly gets
nothing much for white) 35.Ra6+ Kh8
36.Re7 Rce8 37.Raxa7 Rxe7 38.Rxe7²
White has an extra pawn but the battle
is far from won!; 31...Kh8 32.Qe5+ Qxe5
33.R6xe5² was also better than the texxt.]
32.R6e4 Qc1+ 33.Re1! Qg5 [33...Qxc2??
34.Rxg4+ Kh6 (34...Kh8 35.Qe5+; 34...
Kf6 35.Qe6#) 35.Qh1+!+-] 34.Re7+!
Qxe7 35.Rxe7+ Nxe7 36.Qe5+!! [#]
This double attack forces the king to
the centre where he is quickly pumme-
led into submission. 36...Kf7 37.Bb3+
Ke8 38.Be6! [38.Be6! Rc6 (or 38...Rd8
39.Qb5++-) 39.Qb8+ Nc8 40.Bxc8+-] 1–0
Priyanka,K (TN) (2053) Sardana,Rishi
(IM Aus) (2428) [B92]
Untitled Priyanka Kalidhass, born 2001,
has won the National U–17 Girls Cham-
pionship twice, at Coimbatore (her home
town) in 2017 and at Sonepat (Haryana)
in 2018. Her Performance Rating of 2417
at the GM Goa Open has got her an IM
norm and a huge gain in rating points
–164 ! She played three IMs and 3 GMs
from whom she scored 2.5 and 0.5 points
respectively. Her 30th move tactical blow
is both delightful and instructive! IM Rishi
Sardana, the 22-year old Australian of In-
dian origin could not reproduce the magic
of January 2019 when he won outright,
the EKA IIFL Wealth Mumbai Grandmas-
ters Open in the face of numerous GMs.
He will be losing 8.5 Elo rating points
from this event. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4
cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nf3
Be7 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.a4 h6 10.Be3 [10.Bxf6
Nxf6 11.Bc4 0–0 led to a draw in a 1999
game.] 10...Ng4 11.Bc1= Ngf6 The knight
cannot accomplish much alone from g4,
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and he is very likely to be chased away
with h2-h3. So he gets back in advance.
12.Be3 b6 [12...Qc7= is the natural move
here.] 13.Nd2 Qc7 14.Nc4 [#]
14...Bb7 [Black thinks along the beaten
path, to develop the bishop on b7. Better
was: 14...Rb8 15.0–0 Nc5 16.f4 Ncxe4
17.Nxe4 Nxe4 18.fxe5 Be6= (if 18...
dxe5?? 19.Qd5 is a winning double at-
tack.) ] 15.f3 0–0 16.Qd2 Bc6 [An idea
worth pursuing was: 16...Rfd8 17.a5 b5
18.Nb6 Nxb6! 19.Bxb6 Qc6 20.Bxd8 Rxd8
21.0–0 d5² Black has compensation for
the loss of exchange by fluid piece play
with two bishops and white's weakness-
es on a5 and c3.] 17.Rd1 Rfd8 18.a5?!
[Better was to build a strong facade with:
18.b4 b5 19.axb5 Bxb5 20.Nxb5 axb5
21.Nxd6²] 18...bxa5 19.Ra1 a4 20.Nxa4
[#]
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20...Bxa4 [Black's best was the risky
looking: 20...d5! 21.Ncb6 (21.exd5 Nxd5
22.0–0? (this is too late now) 22...Nxe3
23.Nxe3 Bxa4 24.Rxa4 Nb6–+) 21...Nxb6
22.Bxb6 Qb7 23.Bxd8 Rxd8 24.exd5 Nx-
d5!µ] 21.Rxa4 Nc5? [Black can retain
a slight advantage with an explosion
in the centre: 21...d5 22.exd5 Nxd5!
23.Qxd5 Nc5! 24.Qxe5 Qxe5 25.Nxe5
Nxa4³] 22.Bxc5 [stronger was: 22.Qa5
Rac8 (22...Rdc8 23.Qxc7 Rxc7 24.Bxc5
Rxc5 25.b4 Rc7 26.Ne3±) 23.Bxc5 Qxc5
2 4 . Q x c 5 R x c 5 2 5 . R x a 6 ² ] 22...Qxc5
23.Ra5 Qc6 24.Ne3 Rdb8 [We have a gen-
eral rule that when black is able to play ....
d5 without any disadvantage in an e2-e4
Opening and e6-e5 in a d2-d4 Opening,
he not only equalises but can also look for
an advantage. So, here: 24...d5! 25.Nxd5
Nxd5 26.Rxd5 Qb6 27.c3 a5 with an edge
for black.] 25.Ra2 Bd8 26.0–0 at last!
26...Bb6 27.Kh1 Bxe3 28.Qxe3 Qxc2
29.Rc1 Having won a pawn, black is in eu-
phoria and becomes careless. 29...Qb3??
[#] [Leading to equality was: 29...Rb3!
30.Rxc2 Rxe3 31.Kg1=] 30.Rc8+!! Rxc8
[If 30...Kh7 31.Qxb3 Rxb3 32.Rxa8+-]
31.Qxb3+- Rc1+ 32.Bd1 Nd7 33.h3 Rb8
34.Qd5 Rb4 (threat ....Rd4) 35.Qd2 Rbc4
36.Rxa6 Nc5
(Position after 29…Qb3)
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37.Ra8+! The strongest continuation.
37...Kh7 38.Kh2 Rb1 Black is clearly los-
ing though he is trying his best to drum up
counter-play. But against superior forces,
his plans cannot work at this late stage.
39.Qxd6 Rcc1 40.Rc8 [40.Qxe5 mates in
four moves.] 40...Rxd1 41.Qxc5 Rh1+
42.Kg3 Rxb2 43.Qxe5 1–0
Ter-Sahakyan,Samvel (GM Arm) (2611)
- Iturrizaga Bonelli,Eduardo (GM Ven)
(2637) [B41]
This battle between the top seed Vene-
zuelan GM Iturrizaga and the third seed-
Ter-Sahakyan or Armenia is of absorbing
interest.For a major portion of the game,
the Armenian, with the white pieces, at-
tacks on the king-side and holds the ad-
vantage. Black plays with great patience
and foresight always keeping counter-at-
tacking options in the background. A small
error by white on the 40th move, lets the
Venezuelan GM stage his counter-play and
gain the advantage. Still, the game was
level until White gives a wrong check that
allows the Venezuelan to earn a well-de-
served victory. While went on to win this
tournament, black finished 12th as he lost
his last round game to the Iranian GM
Pouya Idani. This is a game that one must
analyse in detail for understanding the
various hidden resources for both players
in attack and defence. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4
7.Qd3 0–0 8.Be2 d6N 9.0–0 Nbd7 10.Nb3
Ne5 11.Qd4 Nc6 12.Qe3 Qc7 13.Rd1 b6
[13...Ne5 14.Qd4 Nc6 15.Qe3=] 14.Bd2
Bb7 15.Rac1 Bc5 16.Qg3± Making nat-
ural and sensible moves, white has ob-
tained a fine position. 16...Kh8 17.Bg5
Ne5 18.Nxc5 bxc5 19.f4!? Nc6 20.Bd3!
To win, you have to start pointing your
pieces against the opponent's king. 20...
Nd4 21.Re1 [If 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.Qh4 Qd8
23.Qh5 Qc7 24.Ne2 Nxe2+ 25.Qxe2]
21...Ng8! Deep defence! 22.f5 Rfe8
23.Bf4 [The white position needed clever
manoeuvring and patience to reach an
attacking position. Better was: 23.fxe6
Nxe6 24.Be3 Ne7 25.Nd5 Qc6 26.Bd2
Ng6 27.Bc3 f6 28.Rcd1 Rab8 29.Be2 Ne5
30.b3±] 23...e5 24.Bd2 a5 25.Re3 g6?!
[This appears to open up his castled
position for an attack down the g- and
h-files. Better was: 25...Qe7 ] 26.Rf1
gxf5 27.exf5 f6
[#]This is the position that black must
have considered perfectly defendable,
but it seems that white should be able to
mount a big and successful attack along
the g- and h- files. 28.Qh4 Re7 29.Be4
[An attacking line worth examination here
is: 29.Rg3! Rg7 30.Rf2 Qf7 31.Rg6! Rf8
32.Qh3 Rb8 33.b3 Ne7 34.Rxg7 Qxg7
35.Nb5!±] 29...Rg7 30.Nd5 Qd8 [If 30...
Bxd5 31.Bxd5 Rb8 32.b3 a4 33.bxa4 Rb2
34.Rf2 Nxf5! 35.Rxf5 Rxd2 36.Rf2 Qa5²]
31.Rh3 a4 3.Rf2 Rb8 Black is weathering
white's attack with sound defence laced
with creating possiblities for a coun-
ter-attack. 33.Bc3 Ba6 34.Ne3 Qf8 35.g4
[This move g2-g4?! has ruined many an
attacking player's game as it weakens
white's castled position too. 35.Bc2 Nxc2
36.Rxc2 Bb7 37.Rf2 Rd8 38.Rd2 Rdd7²
Black has put up such a solid defence that
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it would be enough for white to give up
trying for a win.] 35...Bb7 36.Bxb7 Rbxb7
37.Rg3 With h7 heavily defended, white
shifts his rook to the g-file as g4 might
come under attack. 37...Rbf7 38.Nd5 [38.
Qh3 Qc8 39.Kf1 Ne7=] 38...Ne7! 39.Nxe7
Qxe7 40.Bd2?! [Better was 40.Qh6 Qd8
41.Qe3 Qg8 42.h3 Rd7=] 40...e4! [#]
Threat 41....Nf3+ winning the exchange.
41.Kg2? [This lands white in a greater
mess. Better was: 41.Qh6 Nf3+ 42.Kf1
d5 43.cxd5 Qe5 44.Bc3 Qxd5 45.Qe3
(not 45.Bxf6? Qd1+ 46.Kg2 Qg1+ 47.Kh3
Qxf2 and black wins.) 45...Nd4=] 41...
Nf3 42.Qh6 Ne5 threatens g4. 43.g5
Nxc4 [Stronger was the preliminary 43...
Qb7! 44.Be3 Nxc4 45.g6 Rf8 46.b3 axb3
47.axb3 Nxe3+ 48.Qxe3 Re8µ White's
attack on the king-side has come to a
standstill and black's central pawns will
start rolling decisively.] 44.gxf6 Rxg3+
45.hxg3 Qb7!! The black forces have
beautifully manoeuvred to get a very
strong position. The main threat now is
46....e3+. The other threat is to capture
the b2 pawn. 46.Kh2 [This was an un-
fortunate choice of square for the king
as it comes within the striking reach of
the black knight. Better was:. 46.Kg1
Nxb2 47.Re2 Nc4³] 46...Qxb2 47.Qh5
Qb7 48.Bh6 Ne5 49.Bg7+ Kg8 50.Qg5
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Threatening to draw with Bh6+ Kh8, Bg7+
etc. 50...Rxg7 51.fxg7 e3 52.Qd8+ Kxg7
53.Qg5+ Kf8 54.Qh6+ Kg8 [#]
55.Qg5+? [The wrong check! After this
move, white is lost. He can save himself
by: 55.Qe6+! Qf7 56.Qc8+ Qf8 (56...Kg7?
57.f6+ Kg6 58.Qf5+ Kh6 59.Rf4 and it is
white who wins!) 57.Qe6+ Kh8 58.Rb2
a3! 59.Rg2 h5=] 55...Qg7 56.Qd8+ Qf8
57.Qxf8+ [IF 57.Qg5+ Kh8 White must
move his rook only along the f-file as
black is threatening ... ..Nf3+ forking
king and queen. 58.Rf4 e2–+] 57...Kxf8
58.Re2 [or 58.Rb2 d5 59.Kg2 d4 60.Kf1
d3–+] 58...d5! 59.g4 d4! [Also winning
was: 59...Nxg4+ 60.Kg3 h5 61.Kh4 d4
62.Kxh5 d3!!] 60.Kg3 d3!! [#][After 60...
d3!! 61.Rxe3 d2! white cannot prevent the
d-pawn from queening!] 0–1
Neelash,Saha (IM WB) (2315) Malakhat-
ko,Vadim (GM USA) (2505)
Malakhatko is a 42-year old Grandmaster
from the USA. He is basically an Ukrain-
inian who emigrated to the US in 2007.
Neelash Saha is a 17-year old IM from
Bengal. In 2013 he was National U–13
Champion. He became an IM at the Delhi
Open this year. In this game he has played
the attack like a grandmaster! 1.d4 e6
2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Bd2 a5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Qc2
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d6 6.Nf3 Qe7 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Bxc3 Nbd7
9.e3 a4 10.Be2 b6 11.0–0 0–0 12.Nd2
White's idea is to build up a strong pawn
centre starting with e3-e4. 12...Bb7 13.e4
e5 14.d5 Nc5 [As the white queen is on
the c-file, it might be worth exploring
14...c6 to open up the c-file.] 15.Bb4
Bc8 16.Rae1 This move declares that
white is planning f2-f4. 16...h6 17.Bd1
Nh7? [Leading to equality was: 17...Bg4
18.Bxg4 Nxg4 19.Bxc5 bxc5 20.Nb1 Nf6
21.Nc3 Qd7=] 18.f4 exf4 19.Rxf4 Bd7
20.Rff1 Rae8 21.Qb1 Ng5 22.Bc2 f6
23.Qd1 Ra8 24.Nf3 Nf7
[#] 25.e5!! Perhaps white has been stud-
ying the games of Alekhine and is inspired
by his pawn sacrifices! White does not get
any material advantage, but builds up a
lot of pressure on black's castled posi-
tion. 25...Nxe5 [If 25...dxe5 26.Nh4 Rfe8
27.Re3 Nd6 28.Qh5±] 26.Nh4 Qf7 27.Qd4
g6? [The strength of white's attack gets
to black and he opens up his castled po-
sition in an attempt to block the attack.
Better was to stay calm and play: 27...
Rfe8 28.Nf5 Qh5 29.Re3 Nb3 30.Nxg7!
Nxd4 (not 30...Kxg7 31.Rg3+ Kh8 32.Qf4
Rf8 33.Bd1+-) 31.Nxh5 Nxc2 32.Rg3+
Kh8 33.Rxf6 Re7 34.Bc3 Rd8=] 28.Re3
f5 29.Bc3 Kh7 30.Rh3 Rae8 [30...f4?
31.Nxg6 Nxg6 32.Rh4 Nb3 33.Qxf4 Qxf4
34.Rhxf4+- Whites bishops sweep the
board and the pin on the Ng6 is deadly.]
31.Qd2 Ng4 [As white is focusing on h6
best was: 31...Qg7= ] 32.Nf3 [This should
lead to equality. The winning brilliant con-
tinuation was 32.Rf4!! (threat 33. Rxg4
fxg4 34. Bxg6+ winning) 32...h5 33.Nf3!
Kg8 (with all the white forces pointing at
the black king, there must be a combina-
tion here!) 34.Rxg4!! fxg4 35.Rxh5! Re5
(35...gxh5?? 36.Qg5+ mates.) 36.Rh6!!
gxf3 37.Bxe5 f2+ 38.Kf1 dxe5 39.Qg5!
Bf5 40.Bxf5 Qxf5 41.Rxg6++-] 32...Qe7
33.Re1 Qd8= 34.Rxe8 [#]
34...Qxe8? [Black is pleased with the turn
of events as he has survived the storm.
This feeling of complacense is dangerous
as one should be on his toes all the time
as he has not seen a surprise combina-
tion coming up!. He should play 34...
Rxe8= ] 35.Qd4?± [White in turn misses
the quick finish with 35.Rxh6+!! Nxh6
36.Qd4! Qe7 37.Ng5+!+-] 35...Rf6 [More
stubborn was: 35...Ne5 36.Nxe5 dxe5
37.Qxe5 Qxe5 38.Bxe5 Rc8 39.Bf4 h5
40.g4!± White is almost winning.] 36.Rh4
Qe7 [If 36...Ne5 37.Nxe5 dxe5 38.Qe3
h5 39.Qxe5+-] 37.h3 Ne5 38.Ng5+ [If
38.Nxe5 dxe5 39.Qxe5 Qxe5 40.Bxe5 g5
41.Bxf6 gxh4 42.Bxh4+-] 38...Kg8 [If
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38...Kg7? 39.Rxh6! Kg8 (not 39...Kxh6
40.Qh4+ Kg7 41.Qh7+ Kf8 42.Qh8#)
40.Qh4 Qg7 41.Rh7+-] 39.Rxh6 Ne4
40.Nxe4 fxe4 41.Qxe4 Qf8 [#]
[If 41...Bf5 42.Qh4 Qg7 43.Rh7! Qxh7
44.Qxf6 Bxc2 45.Qd8+ Kg7 46.Qxc7+
Kg8 47.Qd8+ Kf7 48.Qxd6+-] 42.Rxg6+!!
Rxg6 [If 42...Nxg6 43.Bxf6 Qxf6 44.Qxg6+
Qxg6 45.Bxg6+- In this bishop ending,
white has two extra connected passed
pawns.] 43.Bxe5 Rh6 44.Bc3+- Fo r
black's rook, white has bishop and
two pawns plus an attack on the com-
pletely roofless bl a c k k i n g . 4 4...Qf7
45.Qe3! Qf8 46.Qg5+ Kf7 47.Bd2! Rf6
48.Qh5+! Ke7 49.Bg5 Qg7 50.Qh4 Kf7
51.Bxf6 Qxf6 52.Qxf6+ Kxf6 53.Kf2!
Ke5 54.Ke3 The rest is easy for white.
54...b5 55.cxb5 Bxb5 56.Be4! Bc4
57.g4 Bxd5 58.Bxd5 Kxd5 59.h4 Ke5
60.h5 d5 [#] [If 60...Kf6 61.h6 Kg6
62.g5 Kh7 63.Kf4 Kg6 64.Ke4 c6 65.Kf4
d5 66.Ke5 Kh7 67.Kf6! d4 68.g6+ Kxh6
69.g7! black has nothing left to play for.]
61.h6!+- [After 61.h6+- Kf6 62.g5+
Kg6 white wins easily with 63.Kd4! c6
64.Ke5! (Another way to win was: 64.Kc5
Kh7 65.Kb4 d4 66.Kxa4 c5 67.Kb3) 64...
Kh7 65.Kf6! d4 66.g6+ Kxh6 67.g7 Kh7
68.Kf7+-] 1–0
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Dolgov & Kuznecov 1972 Gurgenidze 1973

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

Pauly Perkonoja 1971 Gurgenidze 1971

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

Gurgenidze & Neidze 1973 Kalandadze 1973

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

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Masters of the past-101 Vasily Smyslov
13th Chessmate Inter-School FIDE Rapid Rating Team Championship, Kolkata
Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010)
was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World
Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the
World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953,
1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov twice tied for first
place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total
of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five
European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

Smyslov's father had also studied chess for a time under the
tutelage of Mikhail Chigorin and the senior Smyslov became the
boy's first teacher. Smyslov's competitive chess experiences be-
gan at the age of 14, when he started taking part in classification
tournaments. In 1938, at age 17, Smyslov won the USSR Junior
Championship. That same year, he tied for 1st–2nd places in the
Moscow City Championship, with 12½/17.

In his first Soviet final, the 1940 USSR Chess Championship, he performed exceptionally
well for 3rd place with 13/19, finishing ahead of the reigning champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
He won the 1942 Moscow Championship outright with a powerful 12/15. He was awarded
the International Grandmaster title in 1950 by FIDE on its inaugural list. Winner:Boys of Garden High School and Winner:Girls of Laxmipat Singhania Academy with
dignitaries
Smyslov won the Candidates' Tournament at Amsterdam in 1956, which led to another 5th Triple ‘C’ All India FIDE Rating below 1600 Championship,Cuttack
world championship match against Botvinnik in 1957. Smyslov won with the score 12½–9½.
Smyslov represented the Soviet Union a total of nine times at chess Olympiads, from
1952 to 1972 inclusive, excepting only 1962 and 1966. He contributed strongly to team
gold medal wins on each occasion he played, winning a total of eight individual medals.
His total of 17 Olympiad medals won, including team and individual medals, is an all-
time Olympiad record.Smyslov remained on FIDE's top 100 list until he was 70 years old.

His overall Olympiad score is an imposing 90 points in 113 games (+69−2=42), for
79.6%. This performance is the fifth all-time best for players participating in at least
four Olympiads. Smyslov also represented the USSR in five European Team Champion-
ships and won five team gold medals and five board gold medals. In 1991, Smyslov won
the inaugural World Senior Chess Championship. With a FIDE rating still around 2400
as of the year 2000, the 80-year old grandmaster participated in what was to be his
final tournament, the Klompendans Veterans Vs. Ladies Tournament in Amsterdam. The
highlight of the match was his rout of Zsofia Polgar, leaving the all-time record between
the two as 5–1–3. Smyslov died of congestive heart failure in a Moscow hospital on the
morning of 27 March 2010, three days after his 89th birthday. Smyslov was known for his
positional style, and, in particular, his precise handling of the endgame, but many of his
games featured spectacular tactical shots as well. In later years he also turned to the field Dhiman Mitra,Winner, receives the prize from the Chief Guest Prof. Ishan Kumar Patro,Vice Chancellor,
of chess problems and studies with success. Ravenshaw University,Cuttack.Other dignitaries, Ranjan Mohanty, Vice President of All Odisha Chess
Association. Sri Debabrata Bhatta, Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association,Sri Kamala kanta Bisoi,
Courtesy:Wikepedia President, Triple ‘C’ are also seen.
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 Smart Girl Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2019, Gurgaon Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1. Engel,Luis (2490) Donchenko,Anatoly
(2237) [C64]
Karlsruhe GER GER (3.77) 19.04.2019
28.Ne7+! Rxe7 [28...Kh8 29.Nxg6+ fxg6
30.Rdxh5+ gxh5 31.Rxh5#; 28...Kh7
Prize winners with dignitaries.Winner Stuti
29.Rdxh5#] 29.Rdxh5 [29.Rdxh5 Qxc2
Bhanot is in the centre (blue shirt)
(29...Qxh5 30.Rxh5+- g6(30...Ne4 31.fxe4
g6 32.e5 gxh5 33.Qg6+ Kh8 34.Qxh5+ Kg7
35.Qg5+ ; 30...Re4 31.fxe4 g6 32.Rh4+-)
31.Qxg6#) 30.Rh8#1- 0
2. Kuzubov,Yuriy (2653) Kosakowski,-
Jakub (2385) [A48]
GRENKE Chess Open 2019, 9.04.2019
33.Nd7![33.Nd7Qxa5(33...Nxd7 4.Qxc7+-
) 34.Nxf8+ Kg7 35.bxa5 Bb7 (35...Kxf8
1st ICA Wayanad below 1600 Fide Rated Open Tournament,Wayanad 36.Rd8++-)36.Nd7+-] 1–0
3. Goganov,Aleksey (2580) Coenen,Mi-
chael (2357) [D80]
GRENKE Chess Open 2019 Karlsruhe GER
(4.34), 20.04.2019
29.Rf7! Kxf7 30.Qxh7+ Ke8 [30...Kf8
Members of the Indian Chess 31.Qh8+ Kf7 32.e6#] 31.e6 Black cannot
Academy, Wayanad presenting the avoid mate.[31.e6 Rd6 (31...Kf8 32.Qf7#)
tropy to the winner Paulson Frenchy
32.Qg8#] 1–0
4. Sun,Chao (2063) - Li,Yunshan (2191)
[E60]
2nd Longtou Cup 2019 Qinhuangdao CHN
(7.15), 23.04.2019
22...Bb1! [%csl Ya1,Re1,Rf4] 23.Qd2 [23.
Rxe8 Qxf4+-; 23.Raxb1 Qxf4+-] 23...Bh6!
Saturday Club Youth Chess Championship Rapid Rating ,Kolkata 24.Rxe8 [24.Bxd4 Bxd2 25.Rxe8 (25.Bxf6
Rxe1+ 26.Bf1 Rxf6–+) 25...Qxd4–+] 24...
Bxd2 25.Rxf8+ Kxf8 26.Rxb1 Bc3–+ 0–1
5. Caruana,F (2816) - Ezra,Paul Cham-
bers (2241) [A16]
MI Rapid San Francisco,02.05.2019
Winner Srijit Paul is in the centre.GM 33.Ng6+ hxg6 [33...Kg8 34.Nxe5+ Wins]
Surya Sekhar Ganguly is second from 34.fxg6 Qe6 [34...Qe8 35.g7+ Bxg7 (35...
right Kg8 36.h7+ Kf7 37.g8Q#) 36.hxg7+ Kg8
37.Qh2 Kf7 38.Qh7 Ke6 (38...Qg8 39.Bg6+
Ke6 40.Qxg8+ Wins) 39.g8Q+ Wins] 35.g7+
Bxg7 36.hxg7+ Kg8 37.Bh7+! Kxh7 38.Qh5+
[38.Qh5+ Kg8 39.Qh8+ Kf7 40.g8Q#] 1–0
6. Milanovic,Da (2500) Zlatanovic,B
(2393) [A42]
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SRB (7.4), 02.05.2019
22.Rxh6! Bxh6 [22...Qf7 23.Rdh1 Bd7
24.Rh7 Qe7 (White was threatening 25.Qg5
followed by 26.Rxg7 with strong attack
through black squares around Black King.)
(24...Re5 25.Nf5! gxf5 (25...Bxf5 26.gxf5
Rxf5 27.Nd6+-) 26.Qg5 (Threatening
mate with 27.Rh8) 26...Kf8 (26...Qe7
27.Qg6 Wins) 27.Rh8+ Qg8) 25.Rxg7+
Qxg7 26.Qg5 Rxe4 a) 26...Rf8 27.Rh6+-
Be8 28.Ne6+-; b) 26...Qxd4 27.Nf6+ Kf7
28.Rh7+ Ke6 (28...Kf8 29.Qh6#) 29.Bf5+!
gxf5 30.Qxf5+ Kd6 31.Rxd7+ Wins; 27.fxe4
Rf8 (27...Qxd4 28.e5! Qxg4 29.Qf6 Wins)
22...Nc4 23.Bb3 Qf7 24.Qg5+-] 23.Qxh6
Qg7 24.Qg5 Threatens 25.Nf6 Ch[24.Qg5
Rf8 25.Qxa5+-]
Solution to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.Dolgov & Kuznecov 1972
1.Rh4+ Ke5 2.Bc3+ Kd6 3.Rh6+ Kc5 4.Rh5+
Kd6 5.Bb4+ Kc7 6.Rh7+ Kb6 7.Rh6+ Kc7
8.Ba5+ Kb8 9.Rh8+ Ka7 10.Rh7+ Kb8
11.Bc7+ Ka7 12.Be5+ Kb6 13.Bd4 wins
2.Gurgenidze 1973
1.Kf7 h2 2.g7 h1Q 3.g8N+ Kh5 4.Nf6+ Kh4
5.Be1+ Kh3 6.Nf4+ Kh2 7.Ng4+ Kg1 8.Bf2#
3.Pauly Perkonoja 1971
1.Ne7 Kh7 2.Nf5 Kg8 3.Nd6 Kh7 4.Nf7 Kg8
5.Ne5 Kh7 6.Ng4 Kh8 7.Kd2 Kh7 8.Kc3 Kg8
9.Nf6+ Kh8 10.h7 Kg7 11.h8Q+ Kxh8 12.h6
d2 13.Kxd2 c3+ 14.Kc1 c2 15.Ng4 wins
4.Gurgenidze 1971
1.h7 Ra1+ 2.Kb3 Rb1+ 3.Ka4 Ra1+ 4.Kb5
a6+ 5.Kb6 Rb1+ 6.Kxa6 Ra1+ 7.Kb5 Rb1+
8.Ka4 Ra1+ 9.Kb3 Rb1+ 10.Kc2 Rb2+
11.Kxb2 Be5+ 12.Kc2 Bxf6 13.Kd3 Kg2
14.Ke4 Kg3 15.Kf5
5. Gurgenidze & Neidze 1973
1.Nc1+ Kc4 2.Na3+ Kc3 3.Rxa2 Ra4 4.Rxa1
Kb2 5.Rb1+ Kxa3 6.Rb3#
6.Kalandadze 1973
1.b7 Rc5+ 2.Rf5 h6+ 3.Kg4 Ra4+ 4.Rf4 h5+
5.Kg3 Rc3+ 6.Rf3 h4+ 7.Kg2 Ra2+ 8.Rf2 h3+
9.Kg1 Rxf2 10.Kxf2 h2 11.b8Q h1Q 12.Qb1+
Rc1 13.Qd3#
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AICF Calendar July 2019 2nd Goa International Open Grandmasters Tournament, Taleigao
National Women Senior chess championship 2019 19 Jul - 27 Jul Sivagangai TN
6th Kurukshetra Open FIDE Rating Tournament 19 Jul - 24 Jul Dibrugarh
FIDE Rated Chess Tournament - Pondicherry 24 Jul - 28 Jul Puducherry ,
35th Haryana State Senior Selection (Open) chess Championship 24 Jul - 27 Jul Gurugram
Below 1600 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2019 26 Jul - 28 Jul Nagpur
Crown Sports Trust Open FIDE rating 27 Jul - 31 Jul Bathindi, Jammu
Smart Girl All India FIDE Rating - 2019 27 Jul - 31 Jul Guwahati,Assam
12th BRDCA All India Open FIDE Rating Rapid Chess Tournament 27 Jul - 28 Jul Bangalore
National youth U-25 chess championship 9 01 Aug - 07 Aug Bathindi, Jammu
Thalaivaipuram Perunthaliaivar Kamarajar School FIDE Rated 01 Aug - 04 Aug Thalaivaipuram
12th Modern School FIDE Rating Tmt for School children 02 Aug - 04 Aug Nanganallur,
AICF Women Round Robin at Gujarat 03 Aug - 11 Aug Ahmedabad,
National Under - 09 Boys & Girls chess championship 03 Aug - 11 Aug Ahmedabad
ANCA Open Chess FIDE Rating 05 Aug - 09 Aug Port Blair
Abu Dhabi Exposure Trip 06 Aug - 16 Aug Abhu Dhabi, UAE
1st Banke Bihari Brij Chess Cup U.P.State Open FIDE Rated 07 Aug - 10 Aug Mathura
Smart Girl Queen’s All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Tournament 09 Aug - 13 Aug Udaipur
Athens of the East 1st International GM open Cat B / C 10 Aug - 18 Aug Madurai
57th M.P.State Senior Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 10 Aug - 13 Aug Chhindwara
Athens of the East 1st International GM open Cat A 11 Aug - 18 Aug Madurai Prize winners with dignitaries Category B:
Ashesh Keni ( Vice President GCA), Mr Vishwas Pilankar ( Treasurer GCA), Y Saranya (First Runner Up); Dr. Datta
2nd RCPA All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 13 Aug - 18 Aug Rajkot
H Bhat Dy Director Ayush Goa, Minister of Power Goa & President GCA Mr Nilesh Cabralother; Kartik Gopal
47th W.B. State Junior (U-19) Open & Girls FIDE Rated 15 Aug - 18 Aug Kolkata (Champion); Mr Sanjay Bhandari Corporate Affairs Manager Nestle, Goa, Mr. Kishor Bandekar (Treasurer AICF),J
Avinash Group Smart Girls All India Women FIDE Rating chess mt 18 Aug - 22 Aug Raipur,CT Karthikeyan (Second Runner Up); Shri. Atul Kumar (President All J & K Chess Assn); IA Mr. M.S.Gopakumar (Chief
Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott Grandmaster Ty above 1700 20 Aug - 27 Aug Hyderabad. Arbiter)
World Cadet Chess Championship, China 20 Aug - 02 Sep China
8th National Amateur Chess Championship - 2019 20 Aug - 25 Aug Bhopal, M.P.
Talent Chess Academy's 1st FIDE Rated Open Chess tmt 21 Aug - 25 Aug Chennai
ARCA State Under 19 Boys and Girls FIDE Rated Chess tournament 23 Aug - 25 Aug Udaipur
1st Courtalam Saaral FIDE rated open- 29 Aug - 02 Sep Courtallam,
Western Asia Youth and Junior Rapid Chess Championship 05 Sep - 05 Sep Delhi
Pearl City All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 06 Sep - 11 Sep Hyderabad
Western Asia Youth and Junior Chess Championship 06 Sep - 10 Sep Delhi
Western Asia Youth and Junior (U 8 to 20 Open & Girls ) 06 Sep - 10 Sep Delhi
Maharashtra State U11 open & Girls Fide rating Championship 08 Sep - 11 Sep Akola

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’on page 15 : 1.Nf3 e5 2.Nxe5 Ne7 3.Nxd7 Nec6 4.Nxb8 Nxb8 Top three in Caregory C Tournament: Vangala Prashanth (Third) Kalbande Mayur (Winner) and Stephen Raj A
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 2nd Goa International Open Grandmasters Tournament,Taleigao

Hon Minister of Power Goa & President GCA Mr Nilesh Cabral, Mr Vasant Naik, Mr V M Prabhudesai ( Director
Sports & Youth Affairs), Mr. Kishor Bandekar (Secretary GCA), IA Mr.M.S.Gopkumar,Chief Arbiter, Mr. Sekhar
Sahu (Vice President AICF), Mr Vishwas Pilankar ( Treasurer GCA), Mr Mahesh Candolkar(Vice President GCA)
and top seed of the tournament GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli of Venezuela

Shri Bharat Singh,Secretary AICF, Shri. DV Sundar, Hon. Vice President FIDE & Vice President AICF, Hon Chief
Minister of Goa Shri Pramod Sawant, Champion A Category GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel, Hon Dy Chief Minister of
Goa Shri Manohar Ajgaonkar, Hon Minister of Power Goa & President GCA Mr Nilesh Cabral