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ContentsEditorial.................................................................................................................4Malcom Pein on the latest developments in the game

60 Seconds with... Ravi Haria .....................................................................7We catch up with the young star after his first GM norm

Scintillating Sasi! ..............................................................................................8Krishnan Sasikiran surpassed Vassily Ivanchuk in Cuba

Awesome Aronian, Carlsen Crumbles...................................................14Levon Aronian’s fine form continued in Norway

Find the Winning Moves .............................................................................16Can you do as well as the stars of the Grand Chess Tour?

A Return to Kos ..............................................................................................19David Gilbert enjoyed his time at the ACO World Championships

Rising Stars .......................................................................................................22Daniel Fernandez and Ravi Haria annotate their best 4NCL games

How Good is Your Chess? ..........................................................................26One of Daniel King’s favourite openings is the Hedgehog

The Grand Chess Tour in Pictures .........................................................30The opening events in Paris and Leuven certainly caught the eye

Daniel Fernandez ...........................................................................................32Junior Tay caught up with the rising star after his third GM norm

Introducing... Hector Shoosmith ............................................................34John Saunders on the tragic life of an early British chess pro

Azerbaijani GMs Make Their Mark in Iraq...........................................38Robert Cole of the AMAR Charitable Foundation explains

Opening Trends...............................................................................................39Who would have thought Giri could lose to the Colle in 20 moves?

When Extra is Less ........................................................................................40Steve Giddins shows why an extra tempo is not always useful

Never Mind the Grandmasters................................................................42Carl Portman reflects on teaching chess to juniors

Home News.......................................................................................................46Bates, Gordon and McShane came joint first at Kings Place

Forthcoming Events .....................................................................................48

Overseas News ...............................................................................................50China and Russia triumphed at the World Team Championships

Solutions............................................................................................................53

New Books and Software...........................................................................55Sean Marsh reviews new works by Daniel King and Steve Giddins

Saunders on Chess ........................................................................................58John enjoyed the DeMontford Bell Rapidplay at Kings Place

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C.Bekkesletten-H.PoelteltU1800 Amateur World Ch., Kos 2017

19 Ëg4!? And the gates of Troy swung open:19...Ëxg4? 20 Ìb6# 1-0

More adept readers will spot that19...Îf5! would have spoiled everything, butwhere’s the fun in that? Cato had someentertainment with tactics. If you’re anunder-1800 club player, check this out.

C.Bekkesletten-J.KaschubaU1800 Amateur World Ch., Kos 2017

23 Ëxe6! g5? There were better responses, but theoutcome is the same.24 Ëxh6 1-0

Mark Rich was the highest-ranked Englishplayer. He finished tied sixth in the 2200Section B with 6/9. Here he demonstrates theright moment for the exchange sacrifice for anoverworked black knight.

M.Rich-R.BlodigU2200B Amateur World Ch., Kos 2017

25 Îxf8+ Íxf8 26 Ëxg6+ Íg7 27 Ëxe6+Êh8 28 exd5 Ëd7 29 Ëg6 Ëe8 30 Ëxe8+Îxe8 31 Íxb6 Îe2 32 Ìc4 1-0

There’s room for one final bit of chessbefore I end this uninformed nonsense. TheACO provides some nice little extras that wedon’t find in our tournaments in the UK andwhich make you feel special. In Kos we wereprovided with lanyards with our names andflags. Then there’s tea (at least a dozenvarieties), coffee, bottles of water, orange juiceand a selection of fattening cakes availablethroughout the playing sessions. However, oneof the real joys is having Greek GrandmasterSpyridon Skembris supporting the post-gameanalysis. I’d like to see this novelty available to

help club players at some British events. It canbe a revelation and a learning experienceespecially for bumblers like me. Take this position:

B.Ingham-R.SuterU2000 Amateur World Ch., Kos 2017

In the game Bill Ingham, from Teignmouth,played 31 a4? and the game petered out intoa tame draw. Grandmaster Skembrisimmediately saw that this move eliminatedWhite’s victory hopes, which rely on his kingpenetrating to b6 via a4. Indeed, White wouldhave had winning chances after 31 hxg5 hxg532 Êd3 followed by shifting his king to thequeenside. Skembris then used the followingposition to illustrate the winning technique:

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Sabrina Needham teamed-up with Tom Darling for the team blitz.

Mark Rich of Chislehurst Chess Club.

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36 Êa5 Êc7 37 g4 f4 38 a4 Êc8 39Êb6 Êb8 40 b5 axb5 41 axb5 cxb5 42 Êxb5 Êc7 43 Êa4 Êd7 44 Êb4 Êc645 Êa5 Êc7 46 Êb5 Êd7 47 Êb6 Êc848 c6 bxc6 49 Êxc6 White wins the black d-pawn and the game.

Besides chess or relaxing by the pool and

taking the occasional splash, there were otherthings to do. I know this because I used therest day to visit Bodrum, in Turkey, and itssplendid castle and collection of amphoras(although once you’ve seen one amphorayou’ve pretty much seem them all). Othersenjoyed the 45 minute cruise out of the localport at Kardamena to the volcano island of

Nisyros, investigating its huge crater andsampling the island’s unusual speciality –tomato ice-cream! Also out in force this year were theInternational Chess collectors. Their dials areadjusted differently, but some of them playchess too. Michael Wiltshire, from DartfordChess Club and a significant British collector,told me the tale of how he acquired a silver-gilt travel set inscribed ‘Pressburg 1830’ froma dusty back-street antique dealer in Vienna.An astute Mike recognised that mark asrepresenting the coronation of Ferdinand V,the last Hungarian king, in Pressburg in 1830.There’s a good chance that this set was madeas a gift to the new king. That’s the familyheirloom sorted! I can’t heap enough praise on the ACOteam, this tournament and the Helona Resort.And don’t get me started on the food. The fallin the value of the pound against the europost-Election and post-Brexit has made thetrip a little more expensive, but I’d still say it’sworth every penny, or every cent, dependingon your currency. I’ll be returning to Kos in2018. Try keeping me away. Note the dates:arrival on Saturday, 12th May 2018 anddeparture on Monday, 21st May 2018. Likechess, like sun? See you there? Visit the 2018 website for more detailshttps://amateurchess.com.

The huge volcanic crater at Nisyros.

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The Grand Chess Tour in Pictures: Paris

A picture that lends itself to a caption competion. We’ve got no ideawhat was going on here, but we’d like to think that judging by the

concerned looks on Garry asparov and Maurice Ashley’s faces a largespider had just crawled right across the board.

The Paris leg staged a Pro-Am event before the tournament started.Kasparov played with Gilles Betthaeuser of Colliers International, a

sponsor of the event. They won one match, but then were knockedout in the semi-finals by the duo of Veselin Topalov and Jean-

Baptiste Rudelle of Criteo. Rudelle and Topaov went on to defeatMagnus Carlsen and Stéphane Roussel of Vivendi in the final.

A tournament that was literally made for TV, with all the play taking place in the studios of the CANAL+ TV channel in Boulogne-Billancourt.A very professional-looking programme was aired on each of the five days of the event, but alas it was only screened in France. The full

stream of each event, running to about five hours per day, is available free via one of the event’s sponsors, DailyMotion.com.

Proving his great sense of humour, Fabiano Caruana stages alow budget recreation of his epic 2014 Sinquefield Cup win.

Even though the tournament had ended, Carlsen’s duties were far from over.As befits a world champion, Magnus was in constant demand with the mediaand following his victory was happy to turn his charm mode to the maximum.

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The Grand Chess Tour in Pictures: Leuven

For a man who has retired, Garry Kasparov certainly likes to keephimself busy. Alongside commentating duties at Leuven, the former

world champion also delivered a lecture at the rather beautifulUniversity of Leuven on artificial intelligence, man and machineinteraction, and his new book ‘Deep Thinking – Where Machine

Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins’.

Leuven enjoyed lively post mortem sessions with GM Maurice Ashley.

A stare that would make even the most confident wilt. VassilyIvanchuk was one of four wildcard entries for the Leuven leg of theGrand Chess Tour. The current world rapidplay champion also gave a

simultaneous display against some promising youngsters.

The stunning Town Hall of Leuven provided the venue for the secondleg of the GCT. Its traditional decor was in stark contrast to the futuristic television studio setting of the opening Paris event.

For the full results of theParis & Leuven events see page 54

Garry Kasparov and our own Nigel Short provided some entertaining andinstructive commentary to the games in Leuven. Just a few days afterLeuven, the GCT tweeted that Kasparov would be playing in the SaintLouis Rapid & Blitz leg, Kasparov then tweeted: “Looks like I'm going to

raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!”.

The World Champion earned 13 tour points (one bonus point for winningclear first), a silver platter and $37,500 for his efforts in Belgium. He is

now leading the tour with 25 points. The next stop will be the SinquefieldCup in Saint Louis from August 2-12, followed by the Saint Louis Rapidand Blitz. The Sinquefield Cup will be the first classical event of the tour,while the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz is the newest stop added this year.

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if 4...Îxc2 (or 4...Ëxh8 5 Îxc8+ Êd7 6 Ìb6+Êe7 7 Îd7+! Êf6 8 Îxh8 axb6 9 Îd3) 5 Ìf6+ Êe7 6 Îd7#.

23) Ponkratov-Druska1 Îxe6!! fxe6 2 Ëxg6+ Êh8 (2...Êf8? 3 Ìxe6+ wins the black queen) 3 Ìxe6 Îd6?(now a rook lift decides; 3...Îg8? 4 Ëxh6+Ëh7 5 Ëf6+ Îg7 6 Îxb7 was also all over,and if 6...Îag8 7 Ìxg7 Îxg7 8 Îd7, butwith 3...Îf8! 4 Ëxh6+ Ëh7 5 Ëxh7+ Êxh76 Ìxf8+ Îxf8 7 Îxb7+ Êg8 8 Îxa7 Ìb4Black would have limped on into a somewhat

inferior endgame, with a piece for thenumerous white pawns) 4 Ëxh6+ Êg8 5 f4!1-0 5...Îxe6 6 Îg3+ Êf7 7 Ëh5+ stops theblack king scurrying away and is quiteruinous: for example, 7...Êf8 8 Ëh8+ Êf7 9 Îg7+ Êf6 10 Ëh6+ Êf5 11 Ëh7+, mating.

24) Naiditsch-Brunner1 Ìxc7!! Ëxc7 (1...Îb8 2 Ìd5 Ëe5 3 Íf4Ëb2 4 f6 would be pretty ruinous and havecost White no material) 2 f6 g6 3 Ëg5 Êh84 Îf1! (a delightfully slow-motioned, but alsomost deadly attack; the threat is 5 Îf4

followed by 6 Ëh6) 4...d5 (4...Ìe5 5 Îf4Íg4 6 hxg4 Îg8 is a desperate alternative, butafter Mikhalevski’s 7 Êf2! Black isn’t going tosurvive long in any case) 5 Îf4 Ëe5? (in hisdetailed notes for ChessPublishing, ViktorMikhalevski points out that 5...Íg4! had to betried, although as he shows, even this isinsufficient: 6 Îxg4 Ëe5 7 Ëh6 Ëxf6 8 Îh4Ëg7 9 Ëxg7+ Êxg7 10 exd5 Ìd6 11 Íh6+and the exchange goes west) 6 Ëh6 Ëd4+(6...Îg8 7 Îh4! would, of course, be all over) 7 Êh2 1-0 7...Îg8 but delays mate by acouple of moves: 8 Ëxh7+ Êxh7 9 Îh4#.

Grand Chess Tour Paris (Rapid) 21 - 23 June (category 22, average rating = 2783)

Player Country Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts TPR1 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2832 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7 29972 Alexander Grischuk RUS 2761 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 6½ 29513 Hikaru Nakamura USA 2785 ½ 1 * 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 6 29084 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2796 0 ½ 1 * 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 5½ 28615 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2800 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 5½ 28616 Wesley So USA 2812 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 4½ 27807 Sergey Karjakin RUS 2781 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 * ½ 1 ½ 4 27408 Veselin Topalov BUL 2749 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 2½ 26219 Etienne Bacrot FRA 2708 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 2 257110 Fabiano Caruana USA 2808 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1½ 2507

Grand Chess Tour Paris (Blitz) 24 - 25 June (category 22, average rating = 2783)

Player Country Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts TPR1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2796 * * ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 13 29472 Hikaru Nakamura USA 2785 ½ 0 * * 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 0 11 28633 Fabiano Caruana USA 2808 1 ½ 0 ½ * * 1 1 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 11 28604 Sergey Karjakin RUS 2781 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 * * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 10 28265 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2832 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 * * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 28206 Alexander Grischuk RUS 2761 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ * * ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 9 27857 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2800 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 * * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 9 27818 Veselin Topalov BUL 2749 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 * * ½ 0 ½ 1 6.5 26859 Wesley So USA 2812 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 * * 0 1 6 265510 Etienne Bacrot FRA 2708 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 * * 4.5 2598

Grand Chess Tour Paris - Final StandingsPlayer Rapid Blitz Total GP Prize

1 Carlsen 14 10 24 12 $31,2502 MVL 11 13 24 10 $31,2503 Nakamura 12 11 23 8 $20,0004 Grischuk 13 9 22 7 * $15,0005 Mamedyarov 11 9 20 6 * $12,5006 Karjakin 8 10 18 5 $10,0007 So 9 6 15 4 $7,5008 Caruana 3 11 14 3 $7,5009 Topalov 5 6.5 11.5 2 * $7,50010 Bacrot 4 4.5 8.5 1 * $7,500

2017 Grand Chess Tour - Results from Paris & Leuven

GCT: Your Next Move - Leuven (Rapid) 28 -30 June (cat. 22, ave. rating = 2778)

Player Country Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts TPR1 Wesley So USA 2812 * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 7 29932 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2796 ½ * ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 6 29003 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2832 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 5½ 28514 Anish Giri NED 2771 ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 5 28215 Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2732 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 ½ 0 0 1 4½ 27826 Levon Aronian ARM 2793 0 1 0 0 0 * 1 1 ½ 1 4½ 27757 Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2808 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 1 4½ 27748 Viswanathan Anand IND 2786 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 0 * 1 1 4 27339 Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2738 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 * 1 3½ 270110 Baadur Jobava GEO 2707 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 * ½ 2341

GCT: Your Next Move - Leuven (Blitz) 1 -2 July (cat. 22, ave. rating = 2778)

Player Country Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts TPR1 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2832 * * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 14.5 30222 Anish Giri NED 2771 1 ½ * * ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 10 28213 Maxime Vachier- Lagrave FRA 2796 0 0 ½ ½ * * 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 10 28184 Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2808 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 * * ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 9.5 27955 Levon Aronian ARM 2793 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * * ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 9.5 27966 Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2732 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 * * 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9 27827 Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2738 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 * * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8.5 27608 Wesley So USA 2812 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * * 1 0 1 1 8.5 27529 Viswanathan Anand IND 2786 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 * * 1 ½ 8 273310 Baadur Jobava GEO 2707 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ * * 2.5 2476

Grand Chess Tour Leuven- Final StandingsPlayer Rapid Blitz Total GP Prize

1 Carlsen 11 14.5 25.5 13 $37,500

2 So 14 8.5 22.5 10 $25,000

3 MVL 12 10 22 8 $20,000

4 Giri 10 10 20 7 * $15,000

5 Kramnik 9 9.5 18.5 5.5 * $11,250

5 Aronian 9 9.5 18.5 5.5 $11,250

7 Nepomniachtchi 9 9 18 4 $7,500

8 Anand 8 8 16 3 $7,500

9 Ivanchuk 7 8.5 15.5 2 * $7,500

10 Jobava 1 2.5 3.5 1 * $7,500

* denotes that the player was a wildcard entryand was competing for prize money only

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