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A I C F C H R O N I C L Ethe official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

43rd National Women Challenger Chess Championship, Chennai...

ChampionIM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman

National Rapid ChampionGM Neelotpal Das

ChampionKishan Gangolli

11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Visually Challenged 2016, Virar, Maharashtra

National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2016,Visakhapatnam…

National Blitz ChampionIM Prantik Roy

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From the Editor’s DeskThe five-time World champion who put India on top of the World chess map with countless achievements in the last three decades, Viswanathan Anand, has been conferred a Honorary Doctorate by IIT, Kanpur last month- a wel l -deserved honour for this

outstanding sports person. Anand’s passion to win still continues unabated when he beat the Chinese champion Wei Yi in the best of four Advanced Chess Tournament finals at Leon in Spain last month.

At the Eurasian Blitz Cup in Kazakhstan GM Dronavalli Harika finished 28th in the main prize list which included the likes of Svidler,Gelfand and Karjakin but finished as best woman in the field edging out GM Hou Yifan on tie break. At the 39th Open Internacional de Barbera del Valles “A” tournament in Spain, GM Murali Karthikeyan tied for the first place with Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez and was placed second on tie break. At the 11th edition of the Edmonton International Chess Festival GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly tied on points with Sam Shankland but finished second on tie break. Reports on the above events are featured in the centre pages of this issue.

On the home turf, there were four National events organized during June 2016. Seasoned campaigner Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman proved her mettle with a facile title victory at the National Women Challenger held at Chennai.Kishan Gangolli emerged Champion at the National ‘A’ Championship for the visually challenged organized by Ameya Chess Club, Virar, Maharashtra. GM Neelotpal Das and IM Prantik Roy won the Rapid and Blitz titles respectively at the National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships held at Visakhapatnam. Reports, final standings and photographs of the above Championships along with other FIDE rated events held during last month are presented in this issue.

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43rd National Women Challengers Championship ,ChennaiVijayalakshmi wins National Women Challengers titleIA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 111th National ‘A’ Championship for Visually Challenged,VirarKishan Gangolli wins titleM.Manjunath IA, Chief Arbiter 5National Rapid & Blitz Championship 2016,Visakhapatnam…Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titlesN.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 69th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Tmt, MumbaiVisakh lifts Mayor CupIA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 910th Anand Chess Academy CalicutAll India Open FiIDE Rating Tmt,CalicutVinoth Kumar wins titleM. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 14Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Championahip,New DelhiSantu Mondal is the WinnerGopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter 171st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Tmt, Vijayawada….Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad winsS Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter 191st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open, ShirpurAnish Gandhi is ChampionAnurag Singh, Chief Arbiter 21Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Mem.Fide Rating Tmt, HyderabadAICF Central Council Meeting/AGM-important decisions 27Akash Pc Iyer wins titleFA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 2954th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Championship Arjun lifts trophyM. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 3154th West Bengal Sate Championship, Kolkata…Sayantan Das wins titleDebasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter 33All Goa Open FIDE Rating Championship , QuepemNitish Belurkar wins championshipAshesh Keni, Chief Arbiter 34Selected games from GM Open BubaneshwarAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan 42Test your endgameby C.G.S.Narayanan 43Masters of the past-66 Viktor Korchnoi 44AICF Calendar 48

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O ne of the oldest registered Chess Associations, Tamil Nadu State Chess Asso-ciation,established in 1947, organised 43rd National Women Challenger Chess Championship 2016 in the Air Conditioned hall in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,

Chennai.The tournament was played from 17th June to 25th June, 2016 and con-ducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 11 rounds, with one round scheduled each day except two days two rounds.

The innovative idea of AICF central council not rating this event attracted more par-ticipation with 118 players hailing from all over part of India. Probably, the strong-est ever event in the National Women Challenger category, the championship was spearheaded by 5 WGM, 3 IM, 8 WIMs and 12 WFMs. Fierce fight was evinced until the end, as the winners would qualify for the prestigious National Women Premier. WGM Eesha Karavade of PSPB, with an ELO rating of 2409 and the defending cham-pion Vaishali R from Tamil Nadu also took part in this event.

In the penultimate round, WGM Swati Ghate lost to WIM Michelle Catherina P while IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman won against WFM Varshini V, and once again Vijay-alakshmi took lead of ½ point over nearest rivals. On the third board playing with white pieces WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty drew with WIM Vaishali R created immense pressure on WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty in final round. On the fourth board Bala Kannamma P lost to WGM Soumya Swaminathan.

In final round half-a-point was sufficient for IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman to win this event, while pressure was on WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty to gain berth in final selected players as she was in a must-win situation. The fierce fight between them resulted in draw. The champion IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman received Rs. Seven-ty-two thousand and the runner up WIM Michelle Catherina P Rs. Fifty-two thousand six hundred only. In retrospect it turned out to be a deserved title march for India's first Woman Grandmaster Vijayalakshmi who set a grand example, in putting the age behind.

The list of top eight qualifiers has a good mix of youth and experience. Michelle, Mahalakshmi, Vaishali and Bala Kannamma are bound to knock the doors of glory along with experienced quartet Viji, Swati, Soumya and Eesha who made the cut. Former National Women Champions Mary Ann Gomes, Nisha Mohota and Aarthie Ramaswamy failed to qualify. A sure indication of the strength of the event and the growth of youth power in Indian chess.

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The prize distribution function’s Chief Guest was Shri Bharat Singh, Dy. Pres-ident Asian Chess Federation & CEO All India Chess Federation, Guest of Honour Shri D V Sundar, Vice President FIDE, along with them Shri B Murugavel Vice President TNSCA, Shri Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Vice President AICF, Shri V Hari-haran Secretary AICF & TNSCA and Atul Kumar Gupta Joint Secretary AICF. The champion Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman re-ceived prize along with glittering trophy at the hands of Chief Guest Shri Bharat Singh.

Earlier the championship was inaugurated by Indian chess legend and nine times National Champion Manuel Aaron making the first move against IM Eesha Karvade. D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, was Guest of honour. International Arbiter Nitin Shenvi and his team ensured the smooth conduct of the tournament Final Ranking: Rk. Name Pts. 1 IM Vijayalakshmi S AI 92 WIM Michelle Catherina P AI 8.5 3 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 8 4 WGM Swati Ghate LIC 8 5 WGM Soumya Swaminathan PSPB 8 6 IM Karavade Eesha PSPB 8 7 WIM Vaishali R TN 8 8 Bala Kannamma P TN 7.5 9 WIM Pratyusha Bodda AP 7.5 10 IM Mohota Nisha PSPB 7.5 11 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 7.5 12 WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB 7.5 13 WFM Lasya.G AP 7.5 14 Sunyuktha C M N TN 7 15 WIM Pon Nkrithika TN 7 16 WFM Tarini Goyal CHAN 7 17 Vantika Agrawal DEL 7 18 Alka Das JHA 7 19 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 7

20 Priyanka Kumari JHA 7 21 Priyanka K TN 7 22 WFM Varshini V TN 7 23 Saranya Y TN 7 24 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri TEL 7 25 WFM Srija Seshadri DEL 6.5 26 Shweta Gole MAH 6.5 27 Divya Lakshmi R TN 6.5 28 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6.5 29 WIM Jennitha Anto K. TN 6.5 30 Harshini A TN 6.5 31 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 6.5 32 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 6.5 33 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie AI 6.5 34 P A Aman GOA 6 35 Janani J TN 6 36 Jain Nityata MP 6 37 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama AP 6 38 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 6 39 WCM Ananya Suresh KAR 6 40 Ankitha Goud Palle TEL 6 41 Adane Narayani MAH 6 42 Mishra Anisha ODI 6 43 Shweta PUN 6 44 WFM Saranya J TN 6 45 Aparajita Gochhikar ODI 6 46 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 6 47 Meenal Gupta J&K 6 48 Sandya M TN 6 49 Nisha N. Patkar KAR 6 50 Singh Neha BIH 6 51 Harivardhini I TN 6 52 Niharika Ch AP 5.5 53 WFM Lakshmi C TN 5.5 54 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 5.5 55 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 5.5 56 Parvathy S.L DEL 5.5 57 Potluri Saye Srreezza TEL 5.5 58 WFM B Mounika Akshaya AP 5.5 59 Pushpalata Mangal MAH 5.5 60 Rindhiya V TN 5.5 61 Abirama Srinithi G TN 5.5 62 Saughanthika As TN 5.5 63 WFM Bindu Saritha K. LIC 5.5 64 Rajput Gayatri MAH 5.5 65 Makhija Aashna MAH 5.5 66 Roy Pallabi WB 5.5

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Ramesh Cheela,org. Sec, Y. Srinivas Rao Director of sports, GVMC, Srihari.D Sec, APCA, Anand Kumar President VDCA, GM N. Das champion rapid Ravi shankar, AGM Sri Ram Properties, Satish Iano Pre International School Director,Raj gopal, Minarva School Director

(L-R)) Ramesh Cheela,org. Sec, Y. Srinivas Rao Director of sports, GVMC, Srihari.D Sec, APCA, Anand Kumar, President VDCA, GM N. Das champion rapid Ravi shankar, AGM Sri Ram Properties, Satish Iano Pre-International School Director,Rajgopal, Minarva School Director

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Late Rameshchandra Vinayak Rao Kotwal memorial all India Open Rapid, Gondia

Standing: Yudhajeet, 3rdplace,KishanGangolli Champion,Darpan Inani 2nd placeSitting: (L-R) Guest Mr Kedar Dhawle, Mangesh Vaykul Chatrapati Awardee, Sri Rajivji Patil Vasai-Virar city corporation 1st Mayor, Ramesh Poshampellu Rtd. District Sports officer

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T he tournament was inaugurated by Kumari Greesham Rajeev Patil, Director Ameya Classic Club Virar, Maharashtra on 5th June 2016 at Yashwant Nagar Samajik Kala Krida Mandal. Tournament was conducted in Round Robin system

consisting of 13 rounds. Fourteen players participated in this event (top fourteen players selected from National ‘B’ chess Championship for visually challenged which was held at Manipal, Karnataka.

On 6th morning first round of the tournament started smoothly. Darpan Inani of GUJ was leading with 5 points up to 6 rounds. On 7th round Darpan lost to youngest player of this event Aryan B Joshi of MAH. Defending Champion Kishan Gangolli of KAR took half point lead by scoring 5.5/7rounds.

At the end of 7th round Kishan Gangolli, Darpan Inani, National B Champion Soundarya Kumar Pradhan of ODI, and Yudhajeet De of WB were in joint lead with 6 points each. On 9th round Kishan Gangolli beat Darpan Inani, Soundarya Kumar defeated Samant Milind of MAH, Venkat Reddy of AP drew with Yudhajeet De. At the end of 9th round Kishan Gangolli was leading with 7 points thereafter Kishan went on maintaining the lead and clinched 11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship in style by scoring 10.5/13 rounds. Kishan won the National ‘A’ Championship 3 times at a row which happens to be a rare achievement. Kishan was followed by Darpan Inani 9.5/13, Yudhajeet De 9/13, Ashvin Makwana 9/10 securing 2nd, 3rd & 4th place respectively. Top four players will represent India in forth coming Asian Chess Championship.

Total cash prize was Rs 75000 distributed in 14 players. Prizes distributed by Sri Ra-jivji Patil Vasai Virar city corporation 1st Mayor, Mr Kedar Dhwale,Mr Mangesh Vaykul Chatrapathi Awardee, Ramesh Poshampellu Rtd,District Sports officer.

Final ranking 1.Kishan Gangolli(KAR)10½; 2.Darpan Inani (GUJ) 9½; 3.Yudhajeet DE (WB) 9;4.Makwana Ashvin K(GUJ)9; 5.Soundarya Kumar Pradhan (ODI) 7½; 6 .K r i shna Udupa (KAR) 6½; 7.Venkat Reddy S(AP)6; 8.Aryan B Joshi(MAH) 6; 9.Swapanil Shah(MAH) 5½;10.Marimuthu K (T N)5; 11.Samant Milind(MAH)5; 12.Patil Shirish (MAH)4; 13.Waghmare Sachin Lahu(MAH)4; 14.Prachurya Kumar Pradhan(ODI)3½

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Kishan Gangolli wins titleby M.Manjunath IA, Chief Arbiter

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T he National Rapid & Blitz Chess Cham-pionship-2016 organised by Visakha District Chess Association in association

with the Andhra Pradesh Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation was held at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium, Visakhapatnam, from 11 to 14 June, 2016. A total number of 122 players in Rapid event and 98 players in blitz event from 14 states (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Haryana Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Telengana, Tamilnadu and West Bengal)and 4 special units ( AirIndia, LIC, PSPB and Railways) took part in this prestigious event.

In a grand opening ceremony Chief Guest Shri. Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Hon'ble Minister for Education & Human Resources Develop-ment Government of Andhra Pradesh lit the traditional lamp and inaugurated the event. Special Invitee Mr.DV.Sundar, Vice President of FIDE along with other Guests of honour graced the occasion.

All the rounds witnessed fighting games and the championship in both formats, rapid and blitz, saw exciting battles over 64 squares. At the end of championship, Grandmaster Neelotpal Das of PSPB emerged as National Rapid Champion with a score of 9 /11 and International Master Prantik Roy of WB was crowned the Blitz Champion scoring 10 points out of eleven rounds..The champi-onship was conducted in the best possible manner and the event concluded without any protest or incidents or appeal.

Final ranking Rk Name Club Pts 1 GM Neelotpal Das PSPB 9 2 GM Bakre Tejas AI 8½ 3 IM Rathnakaran K. S Rly 8 4 Gusain Himal Chd 8 5 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 8 6 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 8 7 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8 8 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI 8 9 IM Thejkumar M. S. KAR 8 10 GM Venkatesh M.R. PSPB 7½ 11 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 7½ 12 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 7½ 13 Goswami Vedant KAR 7½ 14 CM Gopal K.N. AP 7½ 15 Lokesh N. TN 7½ 16 Sameer Kumar Y TEL 7 17 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 7 18 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 7 19 Sa Kannan TN 7 20 IM Roy Prantik WB 7 21 Prasannaa.S TN 7 22 Aishwin Daniel MP 7 23 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 7 24 Shubham Shukla PUN 7 25 FM Ramakrishna J. TEL 7 26 FM Nihal Sarin KER 7 27 Mari Arul S. S Rly 6½ 28 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 6½ 29 Toshali V AP 6½ 30 Negi Virender Singh AI 6½ 31 Sumit Kumar WB 6½ 32 Batham Avinash MP 6½ 33 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 6½ 34 Chakravarthy Y V K AP 6½ 35 Swaraj Palit JHA 6½

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Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titlesby N.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter

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36 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6½ 37 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 6½ 38 Ramana Babu B. AP 6 39 Unas K.A. KER 6 40 Shahid Ahmed S.K. WB 6 41 Rama Raju V L V AP 6 42 Srinivasa Rao Bayya AP 6 43 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 6 44 Karthik J C TEL 6 45 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 6 46 Prasad Das K AP 6 47 Srinivasa Rao G.V. TEL 6 48 Vatsal Singhania JHA 5½ 49 FM Purushothaman Ti AP 5½ 50 Hemanth Kumar AP 5½ 51 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 5½ 52 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 5½ 53 Sahithi Varshini M AP 5½ 54 Saketh B AP 5½ 55 Trinadh Virothi AP 5½ 56 Alekhya B AP 5½ 57 Diwakar V U TEL 5½ 58 Amlan Mahanta ASM 5½ 59 CH Narayana Rao AP 5½ 60 Homen Chandra Rabha ASM 5½ 61 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 5½ 62 Rajesh R KER 5½ 63 Charan K AP 5 64 Varahalu S. AP 5 65 Avaneesh Gupta D C S AP 5 66 Atul Bihari Sharan JHA 5 67 Sai Siddardha A AP 5 68 Aditya Srivastava HAR 5 69 Lokeswara Rao M PSPB 5 70 Madduri Satya Tejeswar AP 5 71 Sai Nikhil Y AP 5 72 Akhil B V S AP 5 73 Jaya Krishna B AP 5 74 Satyanarayana K AP 5 75 Jateen AP 5 76 Venkata Krishna K AP 5 77 Kalyani B AP 5 78 Sanjeev Kumar BIH 4½

79 Someswara Battu W AP 4½ 80 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 4½ 81 Kodanda Ramam P AP 4½ 82 S Venkata Sai Sathvi AP 4½ 83 Viluri Venkata Aparao AP 4½ 84 Dutt B.S. AP 4 85 Vishnu Komanduri AP 4 86 Dakshesh Chitta AP 4 87 Surya Vamsi P S AP 4 88 Pranav Kanumuri AP 4 89 Hariprasad Guntupalli AP 4 90 Lakshmi Charan Naidu G AP 4 91 Haswanth Avirneni AP 4 92 Karthik N AP 4 93 Prabhakar G AP 4 94 Manideep Naidu G AP 4 95 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. AP 3½ 96 Rama Devi B AP 3½ 97 Goutham Boni AP 3½ 98 Venkata Siva K AP 3½ 99 Sai Sussrush Kadiyala AP 3100 Vishal Anand M AP 3 101 Tanusri M AP 3 102 Sai Sampath S AP 3 103 Adinarayana G AP 3 104 Rithwik Reddy Poothi AP 3 105 Bharadwaj Villuri AP 2½ 106 Siddarth M TN 2 107 Harish M V AP 2 108 Uday Chandu AP 2 109 Dawood.K TN 1 110 Sri Sai Satwik V AP 1 Final ranking:Blitz Rk Name Club Pts 1 IM Roy Prantik WB 10 2 IM Rathnakaran K. SR 8½ 3 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 8½ 4 GM Neelotpal Das PSPB 8½ 5 GM Venkatesh M.R. PSPB 8 6 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI 8 7 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8 8 IM Thejkumar M. S. KAR 7½ 9 Sa Kannan TN 7½

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10 Gusain Himal CHD 7½ 11 GM Bakre Tejas AI 7½ 12 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 7½ 13 Prasannaa.S TN 7 14 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 7 15 Senthil Maran K TN 7 16 Srinivasa Rao G.V. AP 7 17 Shahid Ahmed S.K. WB 7 18 Ramana Babu B. AP 7 19 Chakravarthy Y V K AP 7 20 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 7 21 Swaraj Palit JHA 7 22 Shubham Shukla PUN 7 23 Lokesh N. TN 6½ 24 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6½ 25 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 6½ 26 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 6½ 27 Bhavani Shankar R AP 6½ 28 Unas K.A. KER 6½ 29 Sameer Kumar Y AP 6½ 30 Goswami, Vedant KAR 6½ 31 FM Ramakrishna J. TEL 6 32 FM Purushothaman T AP 6 33 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 6 34 CM Gopal K.N. AP 6 35 Karthik J C AP 6 36 Batham Avinash AP 6 37 Vatsal Singhania BIH 6 38 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 6 39 Aravind P V S AP 6 40 Negi Virender Singh AI 6 41 FM Nihal Sarin KER 6 42 Amlan Mahanta ASM 6 43 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 6 44 Varahalu S. AP 6 45 Aishwin Daniel MP 5½ 46 AHIRWAL DINESH MP 5½ 47 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 5½ 48 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 5½ 49 Rama Raju V L V AP 5½ 50 Homen Chandra Rabha ASM 5½ 51 Madduri Satya Tejeswar AP 5½ 52 Sumit Kumar WB 5½

53 Kalyani B AP 5 54 Jagadeeswara Rao G AP 5 55 Pavan Teja Medam AP 556 Saketh B AP 557 WCMChinnam Vyshnavi AP 5 58 Trinadh Virothi AP 5 59 Ravikumar K AP 5 60 Someswara Battu W AP 5 61 Sanjeev Kumar BIH 5 62 Srinivasa Rao Bayya AP 5 63 S Venkata Sai Sathvi AP 5 64 Harish M V AP 5 65 Varshini M AP 5 66 Toshali V AP 5 67 Sai Nikhil Y AP 5 68 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 4½ 69 Sai Siddardha A AP 4½ 70 Alekhya B AP 4½ 71 Goutham Boni AP 4½ 72 Avaneesh Gupta D C S AP 4½ 73 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 4½ 74 Aditya Srivastava HAR 4 75 Narayana Rao, Ch AP 4 76 Rajesh R KER 4 77 Dakshesh Chitta AP 4 78 Atul Bihari Sharan JHA 4 79 Vamsi Krishna R AP 4 80 Vishnu Komanduri AP 4 81 Venkata Krishna K AP 4 82 Ganagalla Partha Srikar AP 4 83 Jateen S AP 4 84 Sai Sussrush Kadiyala AP 4 85 Gopal Rao P V AP 3½ 86 Dutt BS AP 3½ 87 Akhil Bhuvanesh Reddy P AP 3 88 Rama Devi B AP 3 89 Hariprasad Guntupalli AP 3 90 Sri Sai Satwik V AP 3 91 Haswanth Avirneni AP 3 92 Shaik Karimunnisa AP 2 93 Adinarayana G AP 2 94 Pardeep Arora 0 95 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. AP 0

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9 th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2016 organ-ised by Venus Chess Academy and

conducted by Mumbai Suburban Chess Asso-ciation was inaugurated by Chief Guest MrsS-nehal Ambekar, Mayor of Mumbai at Mount Litera School, Bandra on 2nd June 2016.

The Inaugural function was presided over by Shri Arun Shah of Ankit Gems, Co Sponsor of the event, Shri AbhinavUpadhyay of Zee Learn and Shri RavindraDongre, Organis-ing Secretary and Treasurer AICF.GMIvan Popov and GM Boris Grachev of Russia, FarrukAmonatov of Tajikistan,GMGrigoryan Karen of Armenia, GM Sandipan Chanda of India were the prominent competitors of the tournament. Total of 205 players from 12 federations registered in 11 lakh prize fund Category A tournament. 333 player from 3 federations were registered in 8 lakh prize fund Category B tournament. 385 player were registered in 8lakh prize fund Category C.

The tournament was organized in a spacious air conditioned hall. Younger players and parents enjoyed the free time in food stall which was adjacent to the hall.

IM Visakh N R of Tamilnadu, GM Diptayan Ghosh of West Bengal and HimalGusain of Chandigarh scored 8 point out of 10 rounds in category A. Visakh NR won the 9th Mayors cup based on better tie break score.

In category B, 333 players from 21 states participated. Out of which 303 players were

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Visakh lifts Mayor Cupby Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

rated players. Soram Rahul Singh (1976) from Assam was top seed followed by Nikhil Dixit (1972) from Maharastra and Siddhant Gailwad (1965) from Maharastra.Varun Bhatt of Gujrat,Soram Rahul Singh of Assam and Siddhant Gaikwad of Maharastra score 8.5 each at the end of final round. Based on better tie break score, Varun Bhat of Gujrat became winner.In category C, 385 players from different parts of country participated. Gopalkrishnan S (1592) of Tamilnadu was top seed followed by Nitin M Pai (1589) of Kerala, Srihari L (1586) of Pondicherry.

Hruthik Lokesh P (1568) of Andra Pradesh score 9 points out of 10 rounds and won the tournament. Sivasubramanian R (1548) of Maharastra, Lumbani Nikhil (1580) of Gu-jrat and RohitMokashi (1496) of Maharastra scored 8.5 points out of 10 rounds and place 2nd to 4th based on tie break score.

Mrs.Alka Kerkar, Deputy Mayor, Mumbai was Chief Guest of Prize Distribution ceremony. MrAbhinav Upadhyay, Marketing Head Zee learn, MrUmesh Pradhan, CFO, Zee Learn, MrsAmrutaFadnavis, Mr Bharat Singh Chau-han, CEO AICF, Mr R M Dongre and MrDilip Page were on the dais.

Final standings ‘A’ Rk. Name Club Pts 1 GM Popov Ivan RUS 6 2 GM Grachev Boris RUS 7½ 3 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7½ 4 GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM 6½ 5 GM Sandipan Chanda PSPB 7½

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6 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 8 7 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 6½ 8 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V TN 2½ 9 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7 10 GM Ulybin Mikhail RUS 6½ 11 GM Gagare Shardul MAH 6½ 12 GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 7½ 13 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade RLYS 7½ 14 Gusain Himal CHN 8 15 IM Saptarshi Roy WB 5½ 16 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 7 17 IM Krishna C R G AP 7½ 18 IM Girish A. Koushik KAR 7½ 19 IM Visakh N R TN 8 20 IM Ravi Teja S. RLYS 6½ 21 IM Abhishek Kelkar MAH 6 22 GM Laxman R.R. ICF 7 23 Kunal M. TN 6½ 24 CM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 7 25 IM Kathmale Sameer RLYS 6 26 Kulkarni Rakesh MAH 6 27 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 6 28 Iniyan P TN 0 29 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 6½ 30 Muthaiah Al TN 6½ 31 IM Sangma Rahul RLYS 7 32 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6½ 33 FM Raghunandan K S KAR 6½ 34 FM Hamdani Rudin INA 6½ 35 Patil Pratik MAH 2 36 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya MAH 7 37 Aradhya Garg DEL 7 38 IM Shivananda B.S. KAR 5½ 39 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6 40 Hemant Sharma (del) RLYS 6½ 41 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7 42 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 6 43 IM Krishna Teja N AP 6 44 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 6½ 45 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6½ 46 FM Dutta Joydeep WB 4½ 47 FM Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 6½ 48 IM R Balasubramaniam TN 1

49 FM Islam Kh. Aminul BAN 6 50 FM Matta Vinay Kumar AP 5½ 51 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 7 52 Jayakumaar S TN 5½ 53 Manush Shah GUJ 2 54 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6 55 Snehal Bhosale MAH 5½ 56 Shailesh Dravid MAH 5½ 57 Dahale Atul MAH 4½ 58 Dodeja Pawan MAH 5½ 59 Kulkarni Vinayak KAR 5½ 60 Thanki Hemal Karsanji GUJ 3½ 61 Singh S. Vikramjit Rlys 5½ 62 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 6½ 63 FM Vinoth Kumar M. TN 6 64 Saurabh Anand BIH 6 65 Arjun K KER 4½ 66 Ajay Krishna S TN 6 67 Bharambe Bhavik C MAH 6 68 Wagh Suyog MAH 6 69 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 5½ 70 Senthil Maran K TN 6 71 Sankalp Gupta MAH 5 72 Kumar Gaurav BIH 4½ 73 Harshini A TN 4 74 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado GOA 6 75 Bartakke Amardeep S. MAH 5½ 76 Yohan J. KAR 3½ 77 CM Sadhwani Raunak MAH 5½ 78 AGM Sa Kannan TN 1 79 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 4 80 Kabir Md Sherajul BAN 5 81 CM Rajarishi Karthi TN 6 82 Barath Kalyan M TN 5½ 83 CM Gukesh D TN 5 84 Priyanka K TN 4½ 85 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 6 86 AGM Nishant Malhotra DEL 5 87 Chaithanyaa K G TN 0 88 Sahil Tickoo HAR 2½ 89 Gandhi Anish MAH 6½ 90 Phadke Sohan MAH 5½ 91 Sanjeev Kumar MAH 5½

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92 Satkar Chirag MAH 5½ 93 CM Aditya Mittal MAH-M 6 94 Audi Ameya GOA 5½ 95 Boricha Ketan MAH 4½ 96 FM G Chinthaka Anurud SRI 5 97 Ganguly Ritabroto WB 0 98 Likhit Chilukuri KAR 2 99 Ashutosh Kumar BIH 0 100 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 4 101 Vikas R Sharma RLYS 5 102 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 6 103 Soham Datar MAH 4½ 104 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 4½ 105 FM Tiwari Ashwani PUN 5 106 Ojas Kulkarni KAR 4½ 107 Sanjeet Manohar GUJ 5½ 108 Raahul V S TN 5 109 Supriya Joshi MAH 5 110 Zoar Haque Prodhan BAN 4 111 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5 112 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai GUJ 4½ 113 Prajesh R TN 6 114 Pruthu Deshpande MAH 4½ 115 Tamhankar Viraj MAH 5 116 Vantika Agrawal DEL 5½ 117 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 118 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 5 119 FM Purushothaman T AP 4½ 120 WFM Tarini Goyal CHN 7½ 121 Pavan B N B AP 5 122 Vakil Akhtar MAH 5 123 Krishnater Kushager MAH 5 124 Dilip Pagay MAH 4 125 Ponkshe Sarang MAH 4 126 Tushar Anand DEL 5 127 Vijay Anand M. TN 1½ 128 Shubham HAR 4 129 Gopal Rathod MAH 3½ 130 Joshi Abhijeet MAH 5 131 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 5 132 CM Mendonca Leon Luke GOA 5 133 Saksham Rautela UTT 0 134 Abul Kashem BAN 2½

135 Neelakantan Narayanan MAH 5½ 136 Tarun V Kanth TN 4½ 137 Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 5 138 Jayaram R. KAR 5½ 139 Shrestha Rajendra Prasad NEP 3 140 Afzal Kazi Md. Mahbub BAN 3½ 141 Md. Abdur Razzak BAN 3 142 Anant Prabhudesai GOA 2 143 Shah Rishab MAH 2½ 144 WIM Laubscher Anzel RSA 3½ 145 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 4½ 146 Shenvi Mohit MAH 6 147 Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 4 148 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 4½ 149 Unni C. S. MAH 4 150 Pranav V TN 4½ 151 Gajengi Rajababu MAH 3½ 153 WCM Salonika Saina ORI 5½ 154 Devansh Ratti MAH 4 155 Panesar Vedant MAH 3 156 Md. Rubel Parvej BAN 3 157 Shah Vishwa MAH 4 158 Das Susobhit ORI 0 159 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 4 160 Karma Sonam BHU 3½ 161 Sparsh Khandelwal CG 4½ 162 Md Nurul Islam Mahin BAN 2½ 163 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 3 164 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep TEL 5½ 165 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 5 166 Md Monir Hossain BAN 2 167 Deepak Kumar R TN 4½ 168 Pranav Anand KAR 4½ 169 Tarun Kanyamarala TEL 4½ 170 CM Hassuji Nurdin TAN 2½ 171 Panda Sambit ORI 4½ 172 Rai Suman NEP 1 173 Bhanot Stuti HAR 4½ 174 Om Kharola DEL 4 175 Phuyal Aashish NEP 4½ 176 Rounak Pathak WB 4 177 Abid Ali Mujawar KAR ½ 178 Aan Sikka DEL 4

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15 Deshpande Abhishek MAH 7½16 Mota Pankit MAH 7½17 Nair Sanjeev MAH 718 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 719 Jeet Jain GUJ 720 Srihari L PON 721 Vaidya Atharv MAH 722 Chopada Ketan B GUJ 723 Saranya Y TN 724 Kadav Omkar MAH 725 Chavan Nameet MAH 726 Kamdar Aparva GUJ 727 Umashankar A PON 728 Dhruvik Shah GUJ 729 Charles J TN 730 Jain Nityata MP 731 Amlan Mahanta ASS 732 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 733 Polakhare Aryan MAH 734 Bhogal Rupesh MAH 735 Aditya B Kalyani KAR 736 Patil Jitendra MAH 737 Patil Ketan MAH 738 Modi Kunal MAH 739 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 740 Aditya S S V TEL 6½41 Doshi Sanket MAH 6½42 Sathya Naarayanan S TN 6½43 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 6½44 Falgun D Purohit GUJ 6½45 Joshi Nikhil MAH 6½46 Ashar Grishma MAH 6½47 Balachandar E TN 6½48 Ravi Kumar K AP 6½Final standings:category ‘C’ 1 Gopikrishnan S TN 62 Nitin M Pai Ker 6½3 Srihari L PON 6½4 Dhannawat Chakshu MAH 65 Ameya Abhay Shrivastava MAH 76 Lumbhani Nikhil P GUJ 8½7 Saurabh Mathur UP 68 Sumeet Chorghade Mah 7½

179 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh MAH 3½ 180 Dave Sneh GUJ 4½ 181 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 4½ 182 Aryan Ranjan DEL 4 183 Siddharth Sabharishankar TN 5184 Jadhav Vaibhavi MAH 3 185 Jaeel Atharva MAH 4½ 186 Sarvesh Kumar A TN 4 187 Morvekar Kedar MAH 4 188 Shah Ram Surat Prasad NEP 3 189 Shourya Jain MAH 2 190 Nimdia Ridit MAH 5 191 Archi Agrawal DEL 3½ 192 Sanjeev Pitale MAH 3 193 WCM Mrudul Dehankar MAH 4 194 Aditya S Hariharan TN 4½ 195 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 3½ 196 Md. Raju Ahmed BAN 2½ 197 Krithigga K TN 3½ 198 Kanishk S K TN 3 199 Pradhan Mohan Singh NEP 2½ 200 Dikshant Dash ODI 3 201 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 4 202 Karunanayake Mayuri SRI 0 203 Tarimo Didik Widiarso INA 4 204 Cheten Dorji BHU 2 205 Rai Kiran BHU 2½ Final standings: Category ‘B’ Rk Name Club Pts1 Varun Bhatt GUJ 8½2 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 8½3 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 8½4 Bakshi Rutuja MAH 85 Jeel Shah GUJ 86 Shiva P Teja Sharma AP 87 Dixit Nikhil MAH 88 Adane Narayani MAH 89 Samant Aditya S MAH 7½10 Amit Soman MAH 7½11 Divya Deshmukh WFM MAH 7½12 Farhaan M PON 7½13 Aravind Babu L AP 7½14 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 7½

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9 Sahithya G TEL 1½10 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 7½11 Mohite Sagar 5½12 Avinash Prakash Ker 813 Hruthik Lokesh P AP 914 Lakhotiya Om MAH 5½15 Solanki Harsh MAH 6½16 Vishwanath Kannam AP 717 Gala Jainam 718 Chourasiya Hemant MP 7½19 Umer S.M MP 620 Sivasubramanian R Mah 8½21 Habib Qureshi Raaz MP 622 Shah Dhaval 623 Shardul Santosh Wakade MAH 6½24 Patil Harshal MAH 6½25 Kabir Belgikar MAH 6½26 Aswin P R KER 4½27 Chorge Mangesh MAH 628 Amar Jyoti Kakoty ASS 529 Deota Snehil S GUJ 4½30 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi MAH 831 Adane Narayani MAH 7½32 Khan Nasir MP 6½33 Trivedi Jindal GUJ 6½34 Krishna Malay MAH 735 Panchal Parth Guj 7½36 Rushil Gupta Del 6½37 Choubey Saurabh AIM MP 638 Ranjith Kaliyarasan Pon 839 Stephen Raj A TN 7½40 Gaikwad Vishal 741 Chetana D AP 042 Nagargoje Dhananjay MAH 743 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge MAH 644 Jha Kishor Mah 745 Gaurav Kumar (mah) MAH 646 Mhatre Rahat Rahul MAH 747 Ravi Sanjay Kumar MP 5½48 Hirani Raj 7½49 Garima Gaurav BIH 7½50 Mokashi Rohit MAH 8½

67 Jayashree P Sankpal LIC 5.5 68 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 5 69 Swaha V S KER 5 70 Aasha C R TN 5 71 Minki Sinha BIH 5 72 Aditi Arya BIH 5 73 Goyal Arunima CHAN 5 74 Dakshinya T R S TN 5 75 Bidisha Roy JHA 5 76 Krithigga K TN 5 77 Toshali V AP 5 78 Varsha C R TN 5 79 Pavithra B L KER 5 80 Routray Priyanka ODI 5 81 Khan Faiziya GOA 4.5 82 Alekya Medam TEL 4.5 83 Shah A Kishorekumar GUJ 4.5 84 Poorna Sri M.K TN 4.5 85 Bandodkar Vandana S LIC 4.5 86 Krushna Mishra ODI 4.5 87 Pammi Rani BIH 4.5 88 Kumari Prerna BIH 4.5 89 Gaayathri S GOA 4.5 90 Savitha Shri B TN 4.5 91 Sushma Reddy B TEL 4.5 92 Pooja S (2002) TN 4.5 93 Teebikaa S PON 4.5 94 Pallavi BIH 4.5 95 Malakar Durga MP 4 96 Arya Garg MP 4 97 Mahima Sherigar KAR 4 98 Meenakshi Mehra PUN 4 99 Radha Kumari V LIC 4 100 Akshitha Goud Pally TEL 4 101 Naroji Sanskriti GOA 4 102 Saralvarsha M PON 3.5 103 Sravya Gayathri TEL 3.5 104 Palakodeti Bhanumati AP 3.5 105 Shivangi Raina J&K 3.5 106 Rekha Gudsoorkar MAH 3.5 107 Malleswari P TN 3 108 Kraneshwary B PON 3 109 Pranjali Sharma HP 3 110 Biswal Pallishree ODI 2.5 111 C Madhura Lalasa AP 2.5 112 Sunita Devi HP 2.5 113 Devi Naina HP 2

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A nand Chess Academy Calicut or-ganized its 10th ACA All India Open Fide International Rating Chess Tour-

nament at Hotel Sana Tower Calicut. The tournament attracted 230 players from Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhyapradesh and Tamilnadu. Out of which 152 players are FIDE rated chess players. Participation from USA chess Federation made the tournament colourful. The tournament was held from 20th May 2016 to 22nd May 2016, offering a prize fund of Rs,2,00,000/- . FM Vinoth Kumar from Tamilnadu was the top seeded.

In this tournament 118th seeded Ruther-ford of Tamilnadu held the 3rd seeded Athul Krishna of Calicut on round one and 59th seeded Achaya Vijayan of Tamilnadu hold the 2nd seeded Alex Thomas of Kerala in Round two.

M Vinoth Kumar from Tamilnadu and three players O T Anilkumar, M A Joy Lazar and Abhishek T M from Kerala scored 5 points at the end of round five. In the final round Vinoth Kumar played a neat game against Joy Lazar and convincingly won the game where as O T Anilkumar took time to beat young Abhishek T M. Both Vinoth Kumar and O T Anilkumar collected 6 points from six rounds but better tie break score helped Vinoth Kumar won the title.

Vinoth Kumar lifted the winner's trophy and also received Rs.20000/- as cash prize. O T Anilkumar finished second place and re-ceived Rs.15000/-.

10th Anand Chess Academy Calicut All India Open FiIDE International Rating Chess Tournament,Calicut

Vinoth Kumar wins titleM. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

Mr. Kunhi Moideen the President, Chess Association Kerala distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint Sec-retary, All India Chess Federation and also the Director of Anand Chess Academy wel-comed the gathering , Shri Santhosh Henry David, Treasurer, United Kozhikode District Chess Association gave the vote of thanks.

Anand Chess academy has been doing lot of services to chess in Kerala for the past nine years. The director, Shri. P Venugopalan is regularly organizing chess tournaments in Calicut, Trivandrum and Palghat. Chess play-ers from north and south Kerala are getting the chance to play these tournaments. In addition to this, players from neighbouring states also get a chance to play in these tournaments. Final standings:Rk Name Pts1 Vinoth Kumar M FM 62 Anilkumar O.T. 63 Augustin A 5½4 Athul Krishna S 5½5 Abhishek T M 56 Joy Lazar M.A. 57 Rajith V. 58 Lakshimi Narayanan 59 Abdul Majeed N. 510 Sathya Giri V 511 Sharsha Backer 512 Gowrichander U 513 Kannan R. 514 Karan J P 515 Madhusoodanan K.R. 4½16 Jagadeesh A.K. 4½

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17 Vinay Thomas Abraham 4½18 Jyothir R 4½19 Athul Jyothish A 4½20 Bindu Saritha K. WFM 4½21 Mathivanan S 4½22 Prem Krishna N 4½23 Ashish Thomas Alex 4½24 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 4½25 Anfas Muhammed 4½26 Razikh Ali T T 4½27 Lakshmi Akshara Raj 4½28 Amal Roozi 4½29 Murali R Krishnan 4½30 Antony Simethy 4½31 Vijay M P 4½32 Prabeesh K 4½33 Nirmal Das E. 434 Nelson Clement 435 Nitin M Pai 436 Avinash Prakash 437 Swaha V S 438 Genish Prakash J 439 Chandramohan K 440 Neeraj Kumar 441 Sreehari G 442 Binu Sebastian 443 Arnav Maheshwari 444 Sanjeev M 445 Adithya E S 446 Shivani S 447 Ratheesh P.K. 448 Abishek A 449 Sudheer K B 450 Viswajith Vinod 451 Thomas Nidhin V V 452 Thulaseedharan K 453 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 454 Arul Anandh S P K 455 Abdurahiman Elangoli 456 Shine S J 457 Krishnanunny Menon C 458 Abhiram Sudheesh 459 Prasath K R 4

60 Shreyas P Vijay 461 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 462 Vaishnav S 463 Roshan Hari 464 Saket Kumar 3½65 Alex Thomas K. 3½66 Brahmaha V S 3½67 Achaya Vijayan 3½68 Jitendra Verma 3½69 Sameer C 3½70 Viswajith P Gopinathan 3½71 Gagan Bharadwaj K 3½72 Shankarasubbu B 3½73 Kuruvila M Jacob 3½74 Rutherford S 3½75 Aravindh Srinivasan 3½76 Tharshan M K 3½77 Pathrose C.T 3½78 Adarsh T R 3½79 Adhidev K P 3½80 Shijil K 3½81 Avinash Hari 3½82 Ameer K V Mohammed 3½83 Adithya Krishna H R 3½84 Sai Balaji E 3½85 Subinay Kumar 3½86 Manojan Ravi 3½87 Jaiyaharrsanth S J 3½88 Devika P 3½89 Jeefer W 3½90 Nayab Abdulahad 3½91 Hariharan S 3½92 Jyothis R 3½93 Ram Kumar G M 3½94 Ashitha C C 3½95 Nishad A 396 Shalini R 397 Senbabu M B 398 Mohammed Salih Pk 399 Bharath A 3100 Dheepesh T 3101 Roby J 3102 John Veny Akkarakarn 3

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103 Devjit A S 3104 Abdul Gafoor K. 3105 Deepa Sree S 3106 Shanmuga Kumar A 3107 Adarsh Narayanan 3108 Laiju Ct 3109 Hiran Raj 3110 Devi Priya T D 3111 Vaibhav S 3112 Manoranjan Kelad 3113 Manilal K.R 3114 Gautham Krishna P P 3115 Shirodkar Aayush 3116 Nandhakumar E 3117 Vishnudevanandan R P 3118 Ezhil Arasi Srinivasan 3119 Vinodkumar K V 3120 Abinand C 3121 Shrinidhi Jayakumar 3122 Shreya S Pillai 3123 Goutham Krishna G 3124 Periyasamy N 3125 Amith Anup 3126 Jey Pranavbala B B 3127 Eldho Skaria 3128 Arumugam N 3129 Krishnadev S Nair 3130 Mukund K P 3131 Vasundhara P. 3132 Husnul Nisam 3133 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 3134 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 3135 Rithunandan R 2½136 Benny Paul P 2½137 Karthik Jagannath 2½138 Brahmaiah V.J 2½139 Yogeshwaran K 2½140 Mahesh M S 2½141 Mithran Rajaraman 2½142 Benson Abraham 2½143 Nived C 2½144 Nived Sreesobh 2½145 Anton Rajeev 2½

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

The puzzle this month is a serieshelpmate. The stipulation can be explained in simple terms in the following manner. In a se-ries-mover, the normal practice of white and black taking turns moving is dispensed with. Instead, one side makes several moves in a row with no interruption by the other side. In the serieshelpmate problem below black plays four consecutive helpful moves followed by one white move which delivers the mate. An added condition is that the side making the series of moves is not allowed to give check until the final move of the series.The problem has two parts. Solve the diagram position and then replace WBf5 with WRf5 and solve again.

Yochanan AfekAl Hamishmar 1979

Serieshelpmate in foura)Diagram b) WRf5

(Solutions on page 48)

146 Adithya Narayanan 2½147 Akshaya Rajaraman 2½148 Prabhakaran K 2½149 Atul Jayesh 2½150 Ahga Kumaran 2½

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D elhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championahip-2016 was held at Am-ity International School Pushp Vihar,

New Delhi 10th Jun to 16th Jun 2016.

A total number of 150 players which in-cluded 92 International rated from across Delhi participated in the championship and served as selection event for Delhi team for the forthcoming National Championship. The event which were spread over seven days and played under Swiss System with 9 rounds with the time control of 90 minutes and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the championship was Rs. 1,50,000/-.

Santu Mondal started as top seed and the event progressed on expected lines. At the end of ninth round, top seed Santu Mondal and Prachet Sharma tied for the top spot with 7 ½ points but better Direct Encoun-ter tie break score helped Mondal to finish as champion while Sharma finished as first runner-up. Six players tied for the third spot with 7 points but better tie break score helped Om Batra to finish as third.

Mehak Jain adjudged as best female player while Shashi Raj Saxena become best vet-eran player. Rishabh Jain, Harshiel Sehgal and Kanishka Tiwari finished best among Under-15, Under-10 and unrated categories respectively.In the closing ceremony, Shri. AK Verma, Secretary of Delhi Chess Association gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. MS Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Santu Mondal 7½ 2 Prachet Sharma 7½ 3 Om Batra 7 4 Nishant Malhotra 7 5 Deepak Rai 7 6 Jaydeep Sharma 7 7 Alok Sinha 7 8 Sumay Mishra 7 9 Vantika Agrawal 6½ 10 Sachin Malik 6½ 11 Manish Uniyal 6½ 12 Shatrughan Kaushik 6½ 13 Aansh Gupta 6½ 14 Anil Shivpuri 6 15 Sandeep Kumar 6 16 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 6 17 Kanishka Tiwari 6 18 Deep Kapoor 6 19 Rishabh Jain 6 20 S K Srivastava 6 21 Aadit Bhatia 6 22 Mehak Jain 6 23 Rajagopalan 6 24 Shashi Raj Saxena 6 25 Bala K 6 26 Aaryan Varshney 6 27 Sarthak Kapoor 6 28 Kaur Palkin 5½ 29 Udit Sanghi 5½ 30 Esshan Wadhawan 5½ 31 Anirudh Jain 5½ 32 Raj Kumar 5½ 33 Arun Wahi 5½ 34 Varghese P D 5½ 35 Rijit Singh 5½

Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championahip-2016,New Delhi

Santu Mondal is the Winnerby Gopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter

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36 Aman Sharma 5½ 37 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5½ 38 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5½ 39 Harshiel Sehgal 5½ 40 Abhinav Gola 5 41 Hritvik Kishore 5 42 Bhavik Ahuja 5 43 Agastya Makkar 5 44 A K Nand Kishore 5 45 Keshavendra Mishra 5 46 Adhiveer Kapuria 5 47 Akshat Sharma 5 48 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5 49 Kartikey Verma 5 50 Manya Bagla 5 51 Garv Rai 5 52 Tanmay Chopra 5 53 Namish Sharma 5 54 Ishaan Thairanil 5 55 Hriday Goel 5 56 Daaevik Wadhawan 5 57 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 5 58 Hritwik Ranjan 5 59 Sudarshan Gopal 4½ 60 Daaksh Jain 4½ 61 Aryan 4½ 62 Yashita Dhawan 4½ 63 Kukreja Sankalp 4½ 64 Jyoti Kumar 4½ 65 Gurpreet Singh 4½ 66 Arham Surana 4½ 67 Dhawal Arora 4½ 68 Shayanak Kundu 4½ 69 Manvee Bansal 4½ 70 Garvit Bhutani 4½ 71 Rahil Raj Verma 4½ 72 Tushar Sharma 4½ 73 Aryan Garg 4½ 74 Akshay Dhingra 4½ 75 Pawar Harshit 4½ 76 Gupta Dhruv 4½ 77 Ram Anand 4½

78 Arhaan Jain 4½ 79 Tejas Pessi 4½ 80 Tarun Bansal 4½ 81 Shreyaa Rakheja 4½ 82 Prabhjyot Singh S 4½ 83 Kritika Pal 4½ 84 Ishaan Pant 4½ 85 Arshin Sikka 4 86 Roopak Arora 4 87 Chirayu Banga 4 88 Kapil Singhal 4 89 Piyush Arya 4 90 Tridibesh Dian 4 91 Sristi V 4 92 Yashas Pessi 4 93 Arjun Naidu 4 94 Saurav Agarwal 4 95 Rahul Dhawan 4 96 Bhushita Ahuja 4 97 Kushagra Khurana 4 98 Divyansh Sharma 4 99 Siddhant Rai Viksit 4 100 Sourav Sharan 4 101 Simarjiv R Singh 4 102 Gupta Arnav 4 103 Suresh Garg 3½ 104 Gunin Malik 3½ 105 Arnav Gupta 3½ 106 Aditya Jain 3½ 107 Lakshin Sharma 3½ 108 Anju Agrawal 3½ 109 Lakshya Chauhan 3½ 110 Ananta Anand 3½ 111 Kewal Mohapatra 3½ 112 Raghav Mahajan 3½ 113 Dravv Jain 3½ 114 K Bhattacharya 3½ 115 Hridyansh Yadav 3½ 116 Siddhansh Narang 3½ 117 Varun Khanna 3 118 Divyansh Yadav 3 119 Jalnidhi V 3

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2 nd seed Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad of Andhra Pradesh become champion in 1st ICON Piblic School Fide Rated

Open Chess Tournament concluded here at Icon Public School, Eluru Road, Vijayawada- Andhra Pradesh. The tournament was organ-ized by Global Chess Academy from 18th May to 21st May 2016.He scored 7.5 points from 8 rounds to claim clear winner trophy. There is a two way tie for second place between Ramanathan Bala Subramaniam (Tamilnadu) and Mehar Chinna Reddy(Andhra Pradesh) both scored 7 points each. Due to Buch Holz tie breaker R Bala Subramaniam got second. Winner Bala Chandra Prasad got prize money of Rs. 20,000/- and Runner Up Ramanathan Bala Subramaniam got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed Mehar Chinna Reddy got 10,000/- .Total 1 lakh prize money is distributed among 40 players. The event attracted 350 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telanga-na, Tamilnadu, Karnataka..FA S Subba Raju was the Chief Arbiter. FA V Srikanth and NA Karunakar Reddy were the deputy arbiters for the event.

The Tournament is inaugurated by Chief Guest Sri S.Khadir Rehman IRS(Customs Commissioner) Sri K.Rajendar (Chairman of Icon Public Schools),Sri Koneru Ashok (Dro-nacharya Awardee) , Sri Saik Khasim(Sec-retary Global Chess Academy) graced the occasion.

In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri.LSatyananda IRS (Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax), Sri L.SudhakarBabuDirec-torIcon),SriChPrakash,Secretary,SriK.Rajen-dra,Chairman,Icon,Grandmaster Lalith Babu

and Sri Parthasaradhi, Treasurer, Icon, graced the occasion. Final rankings: Rk Name Pts 1 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad 7½ 2 R Balasubramaniam IM 7 3 Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H IM 7 4 Chakravarthy Y V K 7 5 Rao J. Malleswara 7 6 Lakshmanrao D. 6½ 7 Nikhil M 6½ 8 Bommini M Akshaya WFM 6½ 9 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 6½ 10 Akshit Kumar J 6½ 11 D. Ashraf Subhani 6½ 12 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6½ 13 Venkata Krishna Karthik K FM 6½ 14 Thirunaga Sundaram S 6 15 Harisurya Bharadwaj Gundepudi 6 16 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6 17 Durga Prasad Penugonda 6 18 Ananya D 6 19 Harsh Suresh 6 20 Abhinav Chandra Kodali AFM 6 21 Kandula Raja Sekhar 6 22 Kareedu Jaya Prakash 6 23 Gatram Sravan Kumar AIM 6 24 Sampath B 6 25 Subramanian T.V. 6 26 Sanjay D G 6 27 Lokesh Malla (vizag) 6 28 Ranadheer B J S K 6 29 Toshali V 6 30 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 6 31 Konatham Snehil 6 32 Habibur Rahman 6 33 Prudvi Raj Pasala 6

1st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Vijayawada….

Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad winsby S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter

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34 Bipin Raj S 6 35 Ramayanam Chaitanya 5½ 36 Rama Rao T V 5½ 37 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 5½ 38 Mahendra Teja Mekala 5½ 39 Swarnamala B 5½ 40 Sesha Giri Rao S.R. 5½ 41 Deepak C 5½ 42 Kanthi Kiran Katarapu 5½ 43 Chintada Lakshmi Gayathri 5½ 44 Sarath Chandra K 5½ 45 Jagapathi Babu Ch 5½ 46 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 5½ 47 Sai Divya M 5½ 48 Sai Gnanadeep J 5½ 49 Jyothi Kiran P 5½ 50 Subbarao T V 5½ 51 Lasya Mayukha N 5½ 52 Ved Prakash 5½ 53 Manoj K V S R K 5½ 54 Velpula Sarayu 5½ 55 Ravindra Raju 5½ 56 Venkata Subbarao M 5½ 57 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 5½ 58 Bheri Yaswanth 5½ 59 Subba Reddy Jonnala 5½ 60 Santhosh Manikantan 5½ 61 Narasimha Raveendra G 5 62 Sevitha Viju M 5 63 Sri Harsha M M S V 5 64 Raghuraman V 5 65 Amulya D 5 66 Praneeth R 5 67 Swathi Y 5 68 Sreekanth Thimmugari 5 69 Tarun Vankadaru 5 70 Nithish Chilakalaraju 5 71 Keerthi Bandlamudi 5 72 Karthik P S R 5 73 Adityvardhan Saikiran Sure 5 74 Suresh Babu K 5

75 Pardhav Chandra Kls 5 76 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 5 77 Sumanth Mamidala 5 78 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 5 79 Charumati K 5 80 Dutt B.S. 5 81 Jaganatham K 5 82 Midhun G 5 83 Gopi Krishna Inti 5 84 Harshavardhan Ekambaranellore 5 85 Sai Raj Gopal K 5 86 Jayanth Kumar D 5 87 Nachiketh Adiga 5 88 Pidintla Saikumar 5 89 Siddharth Vezzu 5 90 Bolisetty Lochana 5 91 Avinash Vvus 5 92 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 5 93 Naveen P 5 94 Abhijith Cheettrala 5 95 Syed Tarannum 5 96 Sankar Narayana Ch 5 97 Srujana M 5 98 Ramu V 5 99 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 5 100 Chaitanya T V S 5 101 Manaswini Maheshweram 5 102 Varshini N 5 103 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgaprasad 5 104 Pavana Krishna D 5 105 Bhuvanchand Chowdary Kondepati 5 106 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 5 107 Narayana Sharma B L 4½ 108 Rakesh Kumar P 4½

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Garry Kasparov

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1 st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open Chess Tournament 2016, Shirpur was organized at shirpur,

District-Dhule, Maharashtra Between 15th June 2016 to 20th June 2016.

The Tournament was inaugurated in the hands of Mr.Aasha tai Randhe, Treasurer of KVP Sanstha. Other Dignitaries present on the Dias was Mr.Rohit Randhe, Trustee of KVP Sanstha, Dr. S N Patel, Principle of SPDM Col-lege Shirpur, Mr. Suresh Borase, Tournament Director and Mr.Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter.

The PD Function concluded on 20th June 2016, where the chief guest was Mr. Tushar Randhe, President KVP Sanstha other Digni-taries present on the Dias were Dr. S N Patel, Principal of SPDM College Shirpur, Aasha Tai Randhe, Treasurer of KVP Sanstha, Farooq Shaikh, Joint Sec. MCA, Pravin Thakre, IA and Mr. Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter. In total 36 prizes were given by the hands of the guests.The tournament saw the total of 91 players participating in the tournament Including 60 Rated players and 10 Female Players.

The tournament was conducted in a good note with a good venue and good organising team, the climate of Shirpur was also quite pleasant and players enjoyed playing at this venue.Anish Gandhi stood as Champion whereas Prashant Kasar and Sammed Shete stood 2nd and 3rd respectively.Mr. Suresh Borase was the Tournament Di-rector and Mr. Anurag Singh was the Chief Arbiter assisted by Mr. Shobhraj Khonde and Mr. Umesh Borase.The organising team con-sisted of Mr. Limbaji Pratale, Physical Director

of SPDM College, Mr. Mayur Borase, National Boxing Player and Mr. Bhave.Mr. Shobhraj Khonde and Mr. Umesh Borase were the Deputy Arbiters who carried out their duties as per the standard of FIDE Arbiter hence awarded Fide Arbiter Norm. Both of them carried out all the duties allotted to them by Chief Arbiter. Shobhraj Khonde handled the technical Aspect of the Tournament whereas Mr. Umesh Borase successfully handled the Hall related activities.

The Tournament venue was well maintained and was easily accessible (2Km from bus stand and accommodation place). The Indoor Stadium was well furnished to handle higher level of tournaments, other amenities like Washroom facility, Drinking water facility, etc were well arranged at the venue.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Gandhi Anish 82 Kasar Prashant 7½3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 74 Pranav Shetty 7 5 Patil Jitendra 7 6 Patil Priyanshu 77 Sankalp Gupta 6½8 Borase Manoj 6½9 Patil Mayur 6½10 Borse Vaibhav 611 Borse Pankaj 612 Hend Pravin 613 Golvankar Dilip K 614 Tajane Ganesh 615 Pathe Sankalp 6 16 Jadhav Rahul 6 17 Kapadi Yash 5½

1st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open Chess Tournament 2016, Shirpur....

Anish Gandhi is Championby Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter

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18 Kadav Omkar 5½ 19 Patil Rohit R 5½ 20 Dewang Kalpesh 5½ 21 Joshi Sunil 5½ 22 Badgujar Vaibhav 5½ 23 Narke Ajinkya 5½ 24 Kuwar Tushar 5½ 25 Ishwar Ramteke 5½ 26 Mahajan Mokshada D 5½ 27 Bhat Sanjay 5½ 28 Firke Yash 5 29 Kariya Mohak 5 30 Giri Abhishek 5 31 Ramole Saurav 5 32 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 5 33 Lasaroda Prince 5 34 Wadile Devendra 5 35 Suryawanshi Vijay 5 36 Kotkar Sunil 5 37 Samplewala Ebrahim 5 38 Pandhare Swapnil 4½ 39 Sonar Rushikesh 4½ 40 Patil Hemant 4½ 41 Bhoite Krishna 4½ 42 Khonde Ashwmeghraj 4½ 43 Patil Pawan 4½ 44 Sonawane Deepak 4½ 45 Ravandale Yogesh 4½ 46 Kotkar Harshal 4½ 47 Pardeshi Vivek 4½ 48 Khonde Ashwini 4½ 49 Salunke Mrunal 4½ 50 Padvi Kanchan 4 51 Patil Dattatray 4 52 Pardeshi Gayatri 4 53 Sompurkar Shreyash 4 54 Mali Shubham 4 55 Agrawal Mehul Anupkumar 4 56 Kotkar Suhas 4 57 Borse Suresh 4 58 Deore Jidnyesh 4 59 Patil Parth Ramakant 4 60 Joshi Prasad 4

61 Joshi Samruddha 4 62 Deore Yash 4 63 Koli Anil 4 64 Sonawane Rohit 4 65 Shinde Vishwjeet 3½ 66 Salunke Atharva 3½ 67 Khadke Chandrashekhar 3½ 68 Bhoi Yogesh V 3½ 69 Hande Bhausaheb 3½ 70 Bhamare Tushar g 3½ 71 Kokane Khushbu 3½ 72 Deore Anand 3 73 Shinde Darshan 3 74 Marathe jidnyesh 3 75 Suryavanshi Yash 3 76 Borase Gautami 3 77 Patil Naitik 3 78 Avtade Malhar 3 79 Kant Swapnil 2½ 80 Bhamare Vishakha 2½ 81 Gorane Jay 2½ 82 Kirange Ganesh 2½ 83 Dhangar Manasi 2½ 84 Kharchane Aamrapali 2½ 85 Rajput Yash 2½ 86 Sonar Vedant 2½ 87 Mahajan kadambari 2 88 Gore Ruchita 1 89 Kharchane Samira 1 90 Khandate Avinash 0 91 Patil Navneet 0

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

Garry Kasparov

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Garry Kasparov

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Anand wins ninth title in LeonBy Arvind Aaron

Five-time world champion Viswana-than Anand beat the Chinese cham-pion Wei Yi 2.5-1.5 in the best of four Advanced Chess Tournament finals at Leon in Spain on June 13, 2016. Anand took the lead with the white pieces in the first game and drew the last three to win the tournament by the minimal margin. In game one, Anand won pawns on the queen side and reached a winning queen ending that forced his Chinese opponent to give up in 50 moves.In the remaining games, Wei Yi held marginal advantages but was never close to winning any of the three drawn games.Earlier, in the semifinals, Anand

slipped from 1.5-0.5 lead to 1.5-1.5 score when he lost to David Anton Guijarro overlooking a tactic on move 41. However, in the all-decisive fourth game, Anand won a pawn on move 41 and converted that into a win after 68 moves for a place in the finals. Wei Yi also accounted for Jaime Santos Latasa by 2.5-1.5 in the other semis.Rapid events at Leon (Esp) and Mainz (Ger) have helped Anand’s career immensely. Having a flair for quick thinking and a heart for facing knock out competitions, has helped the Indian stay on top in the elite ladder longer than most of his peers.

Ganguly finishes second on tie-break at EdmontonThe 11th edition of the Edmonton International Chess Festival took place at the Edmonton Chess Club between June 17-26, 2016. The main event was a ten-player Round Robin tournament. This year's event featured the legendary GM Alexei Shirov. Other participants include Indian GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S.P. Sethuraman. Also in the fray were GM Sam Shankland, GM Bator Sambuev, IM Richard Wang, India's Bitan Banerjee, Belsar Valencia, FM Ian Findlay and FM Dale Haessel.

Surya Shekhar Ganguly had a blistering start to his tournament when he crossed off his In-dian rivals Bitan Banerjee and S.P. Sethuraman quite early to race away to a caruanasque streak—7.0/7! One would predict, by looking at the starting list, that the main rivals for each

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of the contenders were the other three stars in the fray. For Ganguly, it had to be Shirov, Sethu and Shankland, in that order. He had already got past Sethu with a win, and now, he was standing regally on a perfect score, with two rounds to go. He was facing Shankland in the eighth round, and Shirov in the ninth. Sam Shankland of the USA, was not far behind, though, as he stood at 6.5/7. Shankland, playing white, sacrificed two minor pieces for a rook and two pawns, the latter impressively positioned on e4 and d4, at the

epicenter. Curiously, a couple of moves later, the material imbalance shifted again, this time it became Ganguly's knight versus three pawns for White, with their central dominance still intact. Shankland eventually rolled across the black position to land a crucial blow—he had overtaken Ganguly and was now in the lead with 7.5/8!

Harika wins gold at Eurasian Blitz!The Eurasian Blitz Cup of the President of Kazakh-stan was held on 18 June and 19 June at the city of Almaty. The strongest players from Europe and Asia assimilated in the Kazakh city to play the blitz tournament including names such as Nepomni-achtchi, Karjakin, Gelfand, Grischuk (the World Champion), Svidler, etc. India had two contenders for the medals — Sasi and Harika.

Harika finished 28th in the main prize-list, but she was the best women in the field. There was a host of other women players, and GM Hou Yifan too scored the same points as Harika but was relegated to the second spot on the tiebreak. Not too long ago, Harika had also won the FIDE Online Arena Blitz Championship that was held among the best women players in the world. If you are wondering if it would be appropriate to call Harika the best in blitz among the women, Harika shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe it's fine to say that. But I can't say this, the spectators should!" XXXIX Open Internacional de Barberà del Vallès "A" tournament, Spain

GM Karthikeyan Murali finishes second on tie breakA total of 97 players participated in the 39th Open Internacional de Barbera del Valles “A” tournament and 31 of them were Indians.The group is second highest by numbers behind Spanish themselves. The Indian challenge was led by GM Shyam Sundar and GM Karthikeyan Murali followed by an array of International Masters and under-rated Indians. After nine rounds

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of play GM Murali Karthikeyan tied for the first place with Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez and was second on the tie break.

14-year-old Iniyan P was the impressive Indian player in the array, as he came off successfully with a maiden IM Norm. He defeated GM Shyam Sunder M. in the 8th round. He finished sixth after drawing his final round game against Armenian GM Grigoryan Karen .

Coutesy: chessbaseindia.com

Harika, Humpy Finish 1-2 In FIDE Grand Prix At ChengduBy Arvind Aaron

In the final round, while leader Dronavalli Harika drew Russia’s Olga Girya, Koneru Humpy caught up on points defeating former world women’s champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.Harika and Humpy tied for the first place with seven points from eleven games in the 12-player event that concluded at Chengdu in China on July 14, 2016. The tie-break favoured Harika. Both players finished one point clear of the other rivals.

Harika’s biggest triumph since entering the semifinals of the World Women’s Chess Championship at Ukraine last year. She takes home Euro 10,000. Harika played it safe in the final round despite having an extra pawn in an opposite colour bishop ending. She offered and got a draw despite having a three to one pawn majority on the queen side.

Humpy promoted a second queen and that crushed Ste-fanova in 65 moves in the final round.Harika remained the only undefeated player of the meet and Humpy scored the most (five) wins of the competition. It is a huge achievement for the Indian duo.Final placings (tie-break order): 1-2. D Harika, Koneru Humpy (both Ind) 7/11 each; 3-5. Ju Wenjun (Chn), A Stefanova (Bul), Anna Muzychuk (Ukr) 6 each; 6-8. Bela Khotenashvili (Geo), Zhao Xue (Chn), Mariya Mucychuk (Ukr) 5.5 each; 9-10. Lela Javakhishvili (Geo), Olga Girya (Rus) 5 each; 11 Tan Zhongyi (Chn) 4; 12 Pia Cramling (Swe) 3.5.

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Indian composers meet German masterby C.G.S.Narayanan

Torsten Linss, Professor of Mathe-matics from Dresden and a German Grandmaster in chess composition, visited (NIT) National Institute of Tech-nology,Tiruchirappalli,Tamilnadu for a seminar in Mathematics in the first week of June 2016. Indian compos-ers- C.G.S.Narayanan, FM for chess composition and Editor of AICF Chron-icle, N.Shankar Ram, IM for chess composition and Kalyan Seetharaman, Indian Team leader 10th WCCT and co-Editor Kobulchess met Mr.Linss at his room in NIT campus on 7th June 2016 and discussed different aspects of problem chess. CGSN and Shankar Ram presented Mr.Torsten Linss a copy of IM Manuel Aaron’s book ‘Indian Chess His-tory’ on the occasion .Mr.Torsten Linss after showing us some of his astounding more-movers also presented us copies of German problem magazine‘Harmo-nie-Aktiv’ which he edits.

C.G.S.Narayanan, Torsten Linss, N.Shankar Ram

AICF Central Council /AGM on 26.06.2016 at Chennai

Details of important decisions on opposite page

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AICF Central Council /AGM on 26.06.2016 at ChennaiImportant decisions

1. South Asian Amateur Championship 2016 to be held at Srinagar, J&K from 01st to 06th September, 2016:As a special case players even those who have not participated in 2015 National Amateur Chess Championship are eligible to participate. However only those players who are registered with AICF are eligible.2. Asian Nations Cup held at Abu Dhabi:Indian men team won the title for the first time in many years, in the process defeating the reigning Olympic Champion China. Members appreciated the good work done by the players 1. GM. P.Harikr-ishna, 2.GM.B.Adhiban 3. GM.S.P.Sethuraman 4.GM.Vidit Santosh Gujarati 5. GM .DeepSen Gupta and coach GM R.B.Ramesh3. GM S.P.Sethuraman won the Gold in Open and WGM Bhakti Kulkarni made India proud by winning the Women title in the Asian Continental Chess Championship held at Uzbekistan. The mem-bers congratulated both the champions. IM Vishal Sareen accompanied them as the coach.4. Asian Senior Chess Championship and World Senior Chess Championship Eligibility of Players:It was decided that all players registered with the All India Chess Federation and who are ELO rated, are eligible to participate subject to age regulations.5. National Amateur Chess Championship:FIDE organises World Amateur Chess Championships under three categories, namely below 2300, below 2000 and below 1700. Therefore to identify the ranking in our National Amateur Chess Cham-pionship which is held only under one category i.e. below 2300 ELO, it was decided separate placing will be given as per the above three categories of rating namely below 2300, 2000 and 1700. It was resolved that the players should inform in writing the category that they would like to be identified with, to the organisers before the start of the first round of the National Amateur Chess Champi-onship and they would be permitted to participate only in that category in Asian / World Amateur Chess Championship. All other conditions for participation in any National Championship will remain.6. All National Championships default time limit:It was unanimously resolved to allow 15 minutes default time for players in all National Champion-ships and it was decided that it should be strictly followed.7.Caught for cheating using electronic gadgets during Delhi tournament – Action taken on Shrang Rajendra (FIDE ID: 45027862).It was resolved to ban him for life from being associated with the game of chess in any manner and in any capacity.8. To amend the existing Rule and to decide on exceptions to players regarding career rat-ing for playing below rated events and regarding participation of players in Round Robin tournaments abroad:A committee with the following members was formed to submit a report to the next Central Council meeting for consideration.R.M.Dongre (Mah) Chairman, A.K.Verma (Delhi) Member,Prof.Anantharam (TN) Member,R.Hanumantha (Kar) Member, K.K.Sharma(Odisha) Memnber, V.Har-iharan,Hon.Secretary AICF, Convenor9. Disciplinary Action :Universal Chess Academy-Bangalore, Mr.S.H.Bhagawati-Organiser and Mr.K.V.Sripad-Chief Arbiter, were barred from involving in all chess related activities in any manner and in any capacity till 31st December, 2016 for disobeying the orders of the United Karnataka Chess Association’s Secretary and any repetition of their actions in future will attract severe penalty. Mr.Rohan Vijay Shandilya

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was banned from all chess activities in any manner and in any capacity for a period of 3 years for disguising his identity.10. Confirmation of Affiliation:a.Affiliation to Chhattisgarh Pradesh Chess Association andb. Telangana State Chess Association were confirmed.11. Manipur Chess Association affairs:The Manipur Chess Association was expelled and disaffiliated as a member of the All India Chess Fed-eration. In its place an ad-hoc committee consisting of the following members was formed to look after the interest of players.1. Mr.Laishram Atembi, Chairman 2.Mr.Hyindram Bhupendranath,Member,3. Mr.R.K.Bhogen Singh,Member 4. Mr.H.Jogendro Meetei, Member 5. Mr.S.Mangi Jao Singh,Member12. Certificate for National Championships :It was resolved that in all the National Championships serial number should find place in all the cer-tificates. The serial numbers should start from 001.13. North Eastern States improvement Committee:Mr.Pradip Kumar Choudhuri of Tripura was nominated as Chairman of the Committee. Other mem-bers of the committee are Mr.Atanu Lahiri (Bengal), Mr.Rachhuunga Ralte (Mizoram) and Mr.Hari S Sharma (Sikkim) and Charlei Bhuyan (Assam).14. Eligibility Criteria while playing abroad :It was decided that all GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs will be eligible to participate in Commonwealth open Championship even if they have not participated in the immediate previous year National Challenger / Premier Chess Championships.It was also decided to permit GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs in Commonwealth / Asian / World Cadet and Youth Championships even if they have not participated in the corresponding immediate previous year National age group championships, subject to age.All the above entries will be considered only as Donor / Special Entries and subject to the FIDE / Asian / Commonwealth regulations.15. Eligibility Criteria while playing in India:All GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs, all medal winners in Asian / World in the immediate previous year championships, All National Champions in the immediate previous year, all those who participated in the corresponding immediate previous year National championships. All the above entries will be considered only as Donor / Special Entries and subject to the FIDE / Asian / Commonwealth regulations.Note: 14 & 15) Preference will be given in the following order.i) Seeded players as per FIDE guidelines ii) The first three of the National Championship iii) GM in Open and WGM in Women section iv) Previous year age group World champions v) IM in Open and WIM in Women section vi) Previous year age group Asian / World medallists16. World Junior Chess Championship at BhuvaneshwarAs per FIDE Regulations the number of participation in any country cannot exceed one third of the total number of participants. Therefore for the World Junior Chess Championship to be held at Bhuvaneshwar, the following eligibility criteria will apply in the following order.i) Seeded players as per FIDE guidelines ii) The first three of the Under 19 National Champi-onship 2015 iii) GM in Open and WGM in Women section, iv) Previous year age group World champions v) IM (Open), IM (Women), WIM, all medal winners of the immediate previous year Asian / World, All those who participated in the 2015 National Junior Chess Championship and all National Champions of 2015. Note: the above players in section (v) will be considered as per their ELO rating as on July 01, 2016.17. Promotion of Chess tournaments:On popular demand, it was decided that the prospectus of all the FIDE rated tournaments con-ducted in India should be posted on the AICF website.18. India – China Summit:The return match between India and China will be held at China during November 2016.

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T hird seed Akash Pc Iyer of Tamilnadu become champion Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Memorial International Fide

Rating Chess Tournament held at L B Stadi-um, Hyderabad from18th to 2nd June, 2016. He scored 8 points from 9 rounds. In the final round Akash(8) defeated his state-mate International Master R Balasubrahmanyam (6.5) to clinch the title with clear margin of half point. V Varun of Hyderabad tied for second place with AL Muthaiah, S Prasanna (both from Tamilnadu), J Ramakrihna of Andhra Bank. These four players scored 7.5 each, but due to higher tie break score Varun declared runner-up.

Winner Akash got prize money of Rs. 30,000/- where are Varun received Rs. 20,000/- Total Rs. 2 Lakh prize money is distributed among 50 prize winners.he event attracted 227 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Delhi,Pondichery,Jharkh, Hary-ana and a few participants from USA,Iran, Bangladesh.

Tournament was inaugurated by Dr.So-malingam, Liasion Officer , Sports Authority Of Telangana State. Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice President TS Chess Association, Sri K S Prasad, Advisor – TSCA and Sri Ganta Arvin-dkumar, Tournament Organizer also present. FA S Subba Raju was the Chief Arbiter and FA Major K A Shiva Prasad was deputy arbiter for the event.

In the valedictory function, chief guest Sri Dinakar Babu, IAS, VCMD-SATS distributed the prizes. Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice Pres-ident Telangana State Chess Association, Sri K S Prasad, Advisor – TSCA and Sri Ganta Arvindkumar, Tournament Organizer were also present.Final ranking Rk Name Pts 1 Akash Pc Iyer 8 2 Varun V 7½ 3 Muthaiah Al 7½ 4 Prasannaa.S 7½ 5 Ramakrishna J. 7½ 6 Ajay Kumar Rai 7 7 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7 8 Avi Jaiswal 7 9 Soni Krishan 7 10 R Balasubramaniam 6½ 11 Badrinath S. 6½ 12 Vishwanath Prasad 6½ 13 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6½ 14 Balkishan A. 6½ 15 Bolhari Orfeh 6½ 16 Kumar A. 6½ 17 Kushagra Mohan 6½ 18 Bharath Subramaniyam H 6½ 19 Akshit Kumar J 6½ 20 Karthick Narayanan S 6½ 21 Karthik Sai Ch 6½ 22 Prasad J R C 6½ 23 Himanshu Moudgil 6½ 24 K Ashleesh 6 25 Aaryan Varshney 6 26 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6 27 Satyanarayana P. 6 28 Anurag Kuruvada 6

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Akash Pc Iyer wins titleby FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter

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29 Jishitha D 6 30 Sanjay D G 6 31 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 6 32 Raju K.S.R.M. 6 33 Srivastava Pratyush 6 34 Prateek Atluri 6 35 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 6 36 Sarath Chandra K 6 37 Pati Spandan 6 38 Bipin Raj S 6 39 Roneet Das 6 40 Aseem Bihari Sharan 6 41 Sai Divya M 6 42 Singireddy Sathvik 6 43 Rohith Yadav B R 6 44 Khan S 5½ 45 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5½ 46 Thirumurugan R 5½ 47 Ashar Grishma 5½ 48 Raghav Srivathsav V 5½ 49 Abdul Azeez S.K. 5½ 50 Saypuri Srithan 5½ 51 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 52 Sharan R S 5½ 53 Satbir Singh 5½ 54 Laasya Priya P 5½ 55 Nanditha V 5½ 56 Hanumantha Reddy N 5½ 57 Deepakraj Raja 5½ 58 Sathya Naarayanan S 5½ 59 Bharath Venugopal 5½ 60 Raghu S B 5½ 61 Diwakar V U 5½ 62 Alapati Venkata 5½ 63 Geethika Mahalakshmi J 5½ 64 Pranav Ram Hariharan 5 65 Ahmed Feroz 5 66 Thrish Karthik 5 67 Rajesh Kumar 5 68 Kanishk S K 5 69 Prasada Rao G 5 70 Kalur Nikhil 5 71 Sevitha Viju M 5

72 Jayanth R 5 73 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 5 74 Rithvik Raja M 5 75 Krishna Balaji 5 76 Viswak Sen M 5 77 Divyabharathi Masanam 5 78 Neeraj Anirudh K 5 79 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 5 80 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 5 81 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 5 82 Abhiram Pramod K 5 83 Abhinav Karthik M 5 84 Sreekar J S S 5 85 Bharat Goel 5 86 Pranay Venkatesh 5 87 Kareedu Jaya Prakash 5 88 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 5 89 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5 90 Rajesh Ramachandran R 5 91 Chilukuri Sai Maneendhra 5 92 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 5 93 Kapil Surya P 5 94 Sai Nithin Allenki 5 95 Viswas Dinesh 5 96 Santosh Kumar Kandala 5 97 Ravi Teja Macherla 5 98 Subbarao T V 5 99 Raivath Mallela 5 100 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 4½ 101 Devansh Gupta 4½ 102 Gandham Yaswanth Naveen 4½ 103 Muchandikar Shrikant 4½ 104 Chetana D 4½ 105 Goguloth Malsur 4½ 106 Gopal Reddy B 4½ 107 Gyaneshwar B 4½ 108 Murali Mohan Y 4½ 109 Soni Ram 4½ 110 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 4½ 111 Praveen Veeramalla 4½ 112 Divya Sree M 4½ 113 Malvankar Avinash 4½ 114 Herwadkar Niranjan 4½

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5 4th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Chess Championship was organized by Chanakkiya Chess Academy Thal-

assery in association with Kannur District Chess association from 25th May 2016 to 29th May 2016 at Christ college hall, Thal-assery, Kerala. This championship attracted 157 participation from 13 districts. Out of which 124 players are FIDE rated chess players. The only absent is the Iddikki Dis-trict. The tournament offered a prize fund of Rs,1,25,000/-. M B Muralidharan the former State Champion from Ernakulam was the top seeded.

Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by Shri.Bala Kiran IAS, District Collector Kannur. The Chief guest appreciated young children for their appearance in the senior State chess Championship, quoting their challenging skill with the seniors.

In the first round 90th seeded, 16 years old Alex P Joy of Kazarakode caused a ma-jor upset, beating the former State Cham-pion U C Mohanan of Ernakulam . Another upset came from the local girl Ashitha C C of Kannur beat 30th seeded Pr. Rajeevan of Kozhikode. Important victories came from 10 years old Jubin Jimmy from Kollam Infant Je-sus International school shocked 11th seeded Chandar Raju of Ernakulam and Rajashree Rajeev of Thrissur shocked 3rd seeded U S Satheesan of Ernakulam in the second round.

The top seeded M B Muralidharan lost in

54th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Chess Championship - 2016

Arjun lifts trophyby M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter

the hands of K A Unas from his own district in round 3. K Arjun and K R Madhusoodanan from Kozhikode, Joy Antony from Ernakulam and O A Raju from Thrissur scored 4 points at the end of round 4. Arjun's victory in round 5 with Joy Antony helped to lead the cham-pionship with 5 points after the 5th round, as the other two leaders split their points. Arjun's victory continued in round 6. Arjun beat Abhijith M of Ernakulam and continued the sole lead with 6 points out of the possible six. O A Raju halted Arjun's victory in round 7 but Arjun continued the sole lead with 6.5 points at the end of round 7. Arjun's win over Lakshimi Narayanan in the penultimate round helped to maintained the lead with 7.5 points, one point ahead of the nearest rivals at the end of round 8. O A Raju, P K Suresh, Joy Antony and K R Madhusoodanan were in the second spot with 6.5 points.

In the final round K Arjun drew with Suresh P K and won the championship with 8 points with a clear 1 point lead. K Arjun lifted the winner's trophy and also received Rs.20000/- cash prize.

7 players scored 7 points, Joy Antony, Lakshimi Narayanan, Chandar Raju, A K Jagadeesh, K R Madusoodanan, O A Raju, P K Suresh and tied for the second place but better tiebreak helped Joy Antony became the runner up Lakshimi Narayanan, Chandar Raju placed 3rd & 4th respectively. First 4 place winners will represent Kerala State for

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the forth coming Nationals. Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 Arjun K 8 2 Joy Antony 7 3 Lakshimi Narayanan 7 4 Jagadeesh A.K. 7 5 Raju O A 7 6 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7 7 Suresh P K 7 8 Marthandan K U 6½ 9 Unas K.A. 6½ 10 Ajeesh Antony 6½ 11 Meghna C H 6½ 12 Sooraj M R 6½ 13 Abhijith M 6½ 14 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6½ 15 Muralidharan M.B. 6½ 16 Chandar Raju 6½ 17 Sujithkar Meethale Chalil 6½ 18 Anil Kumar S 6 19 Anilkumar O.T. 6 20 Sumesh Kabeer 6 21 Satheeshan U.S. 6 22 Karan J P 6 23 Sanjay S Pillai 6 24 Johny P 6 25 Devadasan K.V. 6 26 Nithin Babu 6 27 Mohammed Dilshad 6 28 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 29 Anwar N K 5½ 30 Abhishek T M 5½ 31 Jinan Jomon 5½ 32 Sachin Pradeep 5½ 33 Athul Jyothish A 5½ 34 Ashish Thomas Alex 5½ 35 Gireesh P.V. 5½ 36 Harikrishnan A 5½ 37 Abdul Majeed N. 5½ 38 Nelson Clement 5½ 39 Jubin Jimmy 5½

40 Santhosh David 5½ 41 Sreedeep C V 5½ 42 Pathrose C.T 5½ 43 Anjana Krishna S 5½ 44 Alex C Joy 5½ 45 Anfas Muhammed 5½ 46 Salim Yoosuf 5 47 Joseph S A 5 48 Kadakkavur Anil 5 49 Murukan M.K. 5 50 Amal Roozi 5 51 Syam Hari H V 5 52 Sojith E. 5 53 Rajashree Rajeev 5 54 Roopesh Kumar D S 5 55 Neeraj Kumar 5 56 Rethish Puthanpurayil 5 57 Fathima Abdeen 5 58 Pramod K K 5 59 Sujithraj U Mallan 5 60 Ajesh Kumar A 5 61 Rahul Rajeev 5 62 Sugunesh Babu 5 63 Sharsha Backer 5 64 Senbabu M B 5 65 Sreekumar Sm 5 66 Vaishnav S 5 67 Aarushi Prashanth 5 68 Nitin M Pai 4½ 69 Prem Krishna N 4½ 70 Unni Krishnan Pg 4½ 71 Mohanan U.C. 4½ 72 Martin Samuel 4½ 73 Akash Thomas 4½ 74 Nithyan S 4½

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

Garry Kasparov

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5 4th WB State Chess Championship 2016 organised by Kolkata District Chess As-sociation held at Calcutta Girls’ School

Auditorium, Kolkata from 08/05/2016 to 12/06/2016. The tournament was held 10 rounds swiss league. Total no of participants was 285 including 192 rated.

The tournament was inaugurated by Jahar Sarkar, CEO, Prasar Bharati, Govt. of India, by making first move in the chess board against GM Dibyendu Barua. Mr. Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA, Mr. Atin Sengupta, Secre-tary, KDCA were present in the Inauguration Ceremony. The Secretary IM Atanu Lahiri welcome to all participant who have come from different districts of West Bengal and also expressed his views about promoting of chess.

At the end of final round game IM Sayan-tan Das ( 9 pts) clinched the title of State Champion and bagged the amount of Rs. 21000/-. Sandip Dey ( 8.5 pts.) & Aronyak Ghosh ( 8 pts) placed second & third and got Rs. 15000/- & Rs. 10000/- respectively.

The players, guardians were very co-op-erative during the tournament. Not a single dispute arose during the whole tournament. The venue was Air-conditioned, spacious with sufficient toilet. In the closing ceremony Mr. Rajeev Kumar , Commissioner of Police, Kolakta, was the Chief Guest and gave away the prizes to the all prize winners.

Rk Name Rtg Pts 1 Das Sayantan JM 2429 9 2 Sandip Dey 1867 8½ 3 Aronyak Ghosh CM 2149 8 4 Debasish Mukherjee 2104 8 5 Mitrabha Guha FM 2257 8 6 Koustav Chatterjee 2042 7½ 7 Sayantan Mukherjee 1893 7½ 8 Srijit Paul 2154 7½ 9 Nath Rupankar 2105 7½ 10 Abhishek Sarkar 2011 7½ 11 Kaustuv Kundu 2150 7½ 12 Arka Sengupta 1919 7½ 13 Sayan Sen 1822 7½ 14 Anurag Jaiswal 1981 7 15 Sayantan Das 1743 7 16 Sudarshan Mitra 1720 7 17 Nirmalya Bose 1419 7 18 Rajarshi Dutta 1860 7 19 Mukherjee Dyutimoy 1841 7 20 Barun Paul 1773 7 age group F07 Rk Name Rtg Pts 1 Ishani Mondal 0 3 2 Kasturi Saha 0 3 3 Shubhi Bansal 0 2½ age group F09 1 Sinthia Sarkar 1221 5½ 2 Anwesha Saha 1196 4 3 Jagriti Agarwal 0 4 age group F11 1 Ayantika Das 1447 6 2 Annyatoma Das 1147 5 3 Ishika Mondal 1069 5 age group F13 1 Mehendi Sil 1536 6½ 2 Bristy Mukherjee 1659 6½ 3 Sudipa Haldar 1648 6

54th West Bengal Sate Chess Championship 2016, Kolkata…

Sayantan Das wins titleby Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter

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T he All Goa Fide Rated state chess championship 2016 got underway on 1STJune at DSY Quepem Sports Com-

plex. The five days Tournament was played under Swiss league system in which total number of nine rounds were conducted and 153 players from all over Goa participated out of which 53 were rated players.

The Tournament was organised by Que-pemTaluka Chess Association along with DharbandoraTaluka Chess in collaboration with Sports Authoriry of Goa.The Tourna-ment was recognised by Goa Chess Asso-ciation and was a FIDE Rated tournament.

The championship commenced today after Mr.Nilesh Cabral,MLA and Chairperson of GTDC inaugurated the event in the pres-ence of Mr.KishorBandekar, Secretary GCA, AsheshKeni, Vice-president GCA and ChiefAr-biter,SubashchandraNaik,President QTCA, Sanjay Kavlekar , Secretary QTCA and other officials.

At the end of the first round top seed Nitish-Belurkar ,NirajSaripalli ,Wilson Cruz, Aditee-Prabhugaonkar lead with many others. On the fifth board DhanviFondekar drew with senior player AmoghNamshiker.The total prize fund of the tournament was Rs. 50000/- and trophies.The hall arrangements were good .The toilets were clean and the hall was

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kept clean on all days. There was sufficient space to accommodate all the players.Clean and tasty food was provided free of cost to all the participants and their parents.

Nitish Belurkar of Tiswadi Taluka retained the "All Goa Open FIDE Rating Chess Cham-pionship 2016”, in the end. In the 9th round last years winner & Top seed of the Tourna-ment Mast. NitishBelurkar of Tiswadi Taluka beat Morajkar Navin of MourmugaoTaluka with white pieces to score 8.5 from 9 rounds to clinch the title thus remaining unbeaten throughout the Tournament.

On the second board Niraj Saripalli of Sal-cete Taluka defeated Aditee Prabhugaonkar of Canacona Taluka to finish runners up and Wilson Cruz of PondaTaluka outwitted Saish-Fondekar of SalceteTaluka and was placed third in list.

Mr.Ashesh Keni was the Chief Arbiter and Sanjay Kavlekar was the first Deputy Chief Arbiter and DattaramPinge, second Deputy Chief Arbiter,Swapnil Hoble and Sudhakar Patgar were the Asst. Arbiters.

The Prizes were given at the hands of Mr.Vinay Tendulkar, President GCA, Mr.KishorBandeka-r,SecretaryGCA,Mr.Subashchandra Naik, President, QTCA, Mr.Ashesh Keni(VicePresi-dent GCA) Chief Arbiter Mr.Sanjay Kavlekar

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(Deputy Arbiter),Mr.Sagar Sakordekar (Vice President GCA),Maschindra Desai,Secre-tary,(DTCA).Mr.SharendraNaik was the com-pere at the function.Final standings:Rk Name Pts 1 Nitish Belurkar FM 8½ 2 Niraj Saripalli 8 3 Cruz Wilson 7½ 4 Parsekar Anirudh 7 5 Tanad Anil Bandodkar 7 6 Thorat Aishwarya 7 7 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 6½8 Thorat Sanjay 6½ 9 Milind Gauns 6½ 10 Morajkar Navin 6½ 11 Dalal Ambar Abhay 6½ 12 Alaina J J Pereira 6½ 13 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 6 14 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6 15 Pratik S Borkar 6 16 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 17 Eesh Prabhudesai 6 18 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6 19 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 6 20 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6 21 Fadte Rudresh 6 22 Devesh Anand Naik 6 23 Gaayathri S 6 24 Colaco Reuben 6 25 Faryaz Shaik 6 26 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 6 27 Paarth P Salvi 6 28 Mahesh A Shetti 6 29 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 6 30 Amogh S Namshiker 5½ 31 Ved Gurudatt Patil 5½ 32 Swayam Naik 5½ 33 Mohammed Kassim Shaikh 5½ 34 Yash Paul 5½ 35 Shirodkar Aayush 5½ 36 Varun R Shastry 5½

37 Vinayak Thevar 5½ 38 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 5½ 39 Nischal Parulekar 5½ 40 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 5½ 41 Vas Bryan 5½ 42 Kshitij Mayenkar 5½ 43 Farhan Bukhari 5½ 44 Shivam Kapdi 5½ 45 Pai Vishwesh 5 46 Prashant Salvi 5 47 Cyrus Gomes 5 48 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5 49 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5 50 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5 51 Naik Nivesh Manoj 5 52 Kakodkar Love 5 53 Parab Sneh 5 54 Anish Naik 5 55 Sainee N F Dessai 5 56 Kakodkar Joy 5 57 Ammar Lashkarwale 5 58 Srilaxmi Kamat 5 59 Pai Vithal 5 60 Soham Anil Dhuri 5 61 Vibhuti S Dessai 5 62 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 5 63 Charuta J Shetye 5 64 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 5 65 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 4½ 66 Asfiya Lashkarwale 4½ 67 Samarth Prabhu Nasnodkar 4½ 68 Neshma Nitin Metri 4½ 69 Bhat Pratham 4½ 70 Blydon D Souza 4½ 71 Chaitanya M. Naik 4½ 72 Kunal B Bandolkar 4½ 73 Desai Veer 4½ 74 Geetesh R Naik 4½ 75 Sathvik Ashok Kerkar 4½ 76 Ramani Varad 4½ 77 Parsekar Aditya 4½ 78 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4½ 79 Kulkarni Vedant 4½

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Selected games from GM Open, BubaneshwarAnnotated by IM Manuel AaronSandipan,Chanda (2585) Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2614) [A65]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5 9.cxd5 Re8 10.f3 a6 11.a4 b6 [O'Kelly - Hindle, Bognor Regis, 1965, went: 11...Nbd7 12.Nh3 Rb8 13.Nf2 Qc7 14.0–0 c4 15.Rfc1 b5 16.b4 bxa4 17.Rxa4 Ne5 18.h3 Qb7 19.Rb1 Bd7 20.Ra3 and 1–0 41]12.g4 h6!?=

A familiar black tactic in such positions is to offer this pawn and get it back through ....Qh4+. But here, it should not have been good for black.]13.Be3?! [The situation here is a little different and white could get a slight advantage by accepting the gambit pawn: 13.Bxh6! Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Qh4+ 15.Kd1 Bxh6 16.g5 Bg7 17.Nxd6 Rd8 18.Nxc8 Rxc8 19.f4]13...Qe7 14.Ra3 [This development of the queen's rook via a3 is occasionally met in the Kings Indian Defence. But in this game this rook plays no major role and sits out the action. White is anyway lost when this rook moves again on the 31st move. If white decides to develop his king's knight a series of unpleasant black moves await him:

14.Nh3 Nxg4! 15.fxg4 Bxc3! 16.bxc3 Qxe4 17.Kf2 Bxg4 18.Bxg4 Qxg4=]14...h5 15.g5 [This leads to equality but with the g5 pawn out on a limb, white's position is now devoid of elasticity. Better was: 15.h3 Nbd7=]15...Nh7 16.Bd3 Nd7 17.f4 [The attempt to move out and develop his long delayed knight from g1 takes a hit after: 17.Nge2? Ne5! 18.Rf1 (or 18.0–0 Nxd3 19.Qxd3 Nx-g5µ) 18...Nxg5 19.Bxg5 Nxd3+ 20.Qxd3 Qxg5]17...c4 18.Bc2= Nc5 19.Nge2 Bh3 [prevents white from castling.]20.Nd4 f5?! [This unnecessarily presents white with chances to recover from a weak position. Best was to anticipate white's 21 Nc6 with 20...Qd7]21.Nc6?

[White proceeds according to his plan without appreciating the opportunities that black has suddenly presented him with. He can take the advantage with: 21.gxf6! Qxf6 22.Rg1 Bg4 23.Qg2 Nf8 24.a5 b5 25.Nc6]21...Qf7 22.e5? [Best was: 22.Bxc5 bxc5= 23.Nb1 c3 24.Nxc3=]22...dxe5 23.fxe5 Bxe5 24.Nxe5 Rxe5± 25.Kd1? [White's forces are in a bad way, lacking coordination and harmony. A more active defence like 25.Kf2 preventing ....Bg2 was better]25...Bg2–+ 26.Bf4 [26.Qxg2 Rxe3 27.a5 (aiming to take advantage of the unprotected black rook on e3) 27...b5 (27...Rb8 28.axb6 Rxb6 29.Ra2 Qe7–+) 28.Nxb5 Rxa3 29.Nxa3 Rd8µ]26...

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Annotated by IM Manuel AaronBxd5 27.Rf1 [27.Nxd5? Rxd5–+]27...Ree8 28.Nxd5 Rad8 [The heavy pin along the d-file is winning for black.]29.Kc1 Rxd5 30.Qb4 Ne6 [Much stronger was: 30...b5!! 31.Re3 (white loses his queen through a discov-ered check after: 31.axb5 axb5 32.Qxb5?? Nd3+) 31...Rxe3 32.Bxe3 Nd3+ 33.Bxd3 cxd3–+]31.Re3 [With this move, white brings his queen rook into play, but black's advantage immediately doubles! Though two pawns down and losing, white should contin-ue: 31.Bg3 Qb7 32.Rc3 b5 when black is still winning but not with the earlier clarity.]31...Nxf4 32.Rxe8+ Qxe8 33.Qxc4

33...Qe2! [After 33...Qe2 34.Qxf4 Rc5 35.Rf2 Qe1#]0–1

Grigoryan,Karen H (Arm) (2616)Rathnavel,V S (2315) [B84]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.a4 Be7 8.Be2 0–0 9.0–0 Qc7 10.a5 Nc6 11.Nb3 Nd7 12.Na4 Rb8 [Rahul Sangma (2214) - Wilson Cruz (2021) World Junior, 2002 went: 12...Nc5 13.Naxc5 dxc5 14.c3 Rd8 15.Qc2 Bd7 16.Bxc5 Bxc5 17.Nxc5 Nxa5 18.Rxa5 Qxa5 19.Nxb7 Qb6± 1–0 53] 13.Nb6 Nf6 14.Bd3 d5 15.exd5 exd5 16.Nxc8 [This bishop was threatening to get active with 16....Bg4] 16...Rfxc8 17.Bb6 Qd7 18.Nd4 Re8

19.Nf5 Bd8! 20.Be3 [The game is equal after: 20.Qd2 Ne4 21.Bxe4 Rxe4 22.Ng3 Re6=]20...g6 21.Nh6+ Kg7 22.Qd2 Bc7 [Better was: 22...d4! 23.Bf4 Rc8 24.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 25.Qxe1 Qe7 as the white pawn on a5 is a big liability and his knight on h6 is doing nothing.]23.Nf5+ Kg8 [If 23...gxf5? 24.Bh6+ Kh8 25.Qg5 Nh5 the only move. 26.Qxh5 Qd6 27.Bxf5 Re5 28.Bf4±]24.Ng3 Qd6 25.Bg5 [Also leading to equality was: 25.Rfd1 Ng4 26.Bg5 f6 27.Be2 Nxf2 28.Kxf2 fxg5 29.Qxd5+ Qxd5 30.Rxd5 Rbd8 31.Bf3=]25...Ne5 26.Ra4!

[White embarks on an elaborate plan to take this rook to h4 and then play b2–b4. It was best to play the direct 26.b4 as the rook's effectiveness on h4 is not clear. In hindsight one can say that the cause of white's doom could be traced to this rook manoeuvre.]26...Nxd3 27.cxd3 Nd7 28.Rh4 [The unde-fended dark squares around Black's castled position inspire white to post his rook on h4. Unfortunately the rook does nothing from h4 to attack black. Better was 28.Rc1]28...Nf8 29.b4 Rbc8 30.Ne2 [30.Bh6 does not advance white's cause because of 30...Ne6! 31.Re1 b6! 32.axb6 Qxb6³ as black has cov-ered his king-side weakness very well and is poised to go on the offensive against b4.]30...Bd8 31.Nd4 Bxg5 32.Qxg5 Qe7! 33.Qg3? [33.Rg4 Qxg5 34.Rxg5 Ne6! 35.Rxd5 Nf4

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron36.Rd7 Rcd8! 37.Rxd8 Rxd8 38.Nb3! Ne2+ 39.Kh1 Rxd3 40.Nc5 Rd4³]33...Rc1!

This move exploits white's weak first rank and threatens the winning 34....Rxf1+ 35 Kxf1 Qe1# as well as 34...Qe1!]34.f4 Rxf1+ 35.Kxf1 Qxb4! [Now black is a pawn up and continues to have mating threats.]36.Ne2 Qd2 [Black's king-side is so secure that he could collect one more pawn and then return to the attack with: 36...Qxa5 The white rook on h4 is a useless piece!]37.Qe1 Qxd3 38.Rh3 Qb5 39.Qd2 Nd7 [After successfully defending his castled position from f8, the knight now sallies forth to deliver the coup de grace.]40.Rd3 Nf6 41.Nd4 Qb1+ 42.Qd1 Qa2 43.Nb3 Ne4! 44.Qe1 [Diagram #][White can lengthen the game by: 44.Nd2 Qxa5 45.Nxe4 dxe4 when black has three extra pawns and a totally winning position.]

44...Ng3+!! 45.Rxg3 [If 45.Qxg3 Qb1+ 46.Kf2 Qe1+ 47.Kf3 Qe2#]45...Rxe1+ 46.Kxe1 d4! [Af ter 46. . .d4 47.Rd3 Qc2 48.Rf3 Qxg2 the plunder contin-ues.]0–1

Praggnanandhaa,R (2368) - Grigoryan,Karen H (Arm) (2616) 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nc6 3.d4 Bg4 4.Bg2 Qd7 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 0–0–0 7.Bg2 e5 8.dxe5 Nxe5 9.0–0 Qe6 [Gerber (2260) vs Mal-jutin (2385), EU Cup, Moscow, 1991 went: 9...Nf6 10.Qd4 Nc6 11.Qa4 Bc5 12.Bg5 Qf5 13.Bxf6 Qxf6 14.Nc3 Ne7 15.Qb3 c6 16.e4 d4 17.Na4 Bd6 18.f4 Qg6 19.e5= 54.1–0]10.c3 f5 11.Qa4 Bc5 [The game is level though black has a greater presence in the centre.]12.Nd2 Bb6 13.Nb3 Qf6 14.Bf4 g5 15.Bxe5 Qxe5

[Diagram # Black threatens 16 Qxg3 as the f2 pawn is pinned. But white's next move starts a counter which takes care of the threat to his g3 pawn.]16.c4! dxc4 [16...Qxg3?? 17.c5+–]17.Qxc4 Nf6 [Black cannot let his queen act on the pro-tection of his bishop pinning the f2 pawn. If now, 17...Qxg3? 18.Na5! and black can neither capture the knight nor protect his b7 pawn for if 18...Bxa5?? 19.fxg3]18.a4 a5 19.Qb5!

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[Diagram # Normally, a youngster would opt to go for a queen-side offensive here. Remarkably here, white who is only 11–years old, evaluates the position as ripe for an advantageous endgame and goes out of the way to offer exchange of queens.]19...Qxb5 [If 19...Qxg3 20.Rac1 Kb8 21.Nc5!+–; or if 19...Rhe8 20.Nxa5 Bxa5 21.Bxb7+ Kb8 22.Qa6+–]20.axb5 [Threatened with the loss of his a5 pawn, black must do something immediately.]20...Ne4 21.Nxa5 Kb8 [If 21...Nxg3 22.Nxb7 Nxf1 23.Bc6 (this plugs the black king's escape via d7 and threatens mate.) 23...Kb8 24.Nxd8 Ba7 25.Nf7+–]22.Bxe4! fxe4 23.Nc4± [White has a clear ad-vantage, not just because he has a pawn more, it is because of the open a-file along which he could generate a mating attack with his rooks and black's weak pawn on e4.]23...Bd4 24.Ra4! [He is going to double his rooks along the a-file.]24...Rd5 25.Rfa1! Kc8 26.Rd1!

[Diagram #][White pins the Bd4 which is supporting the Rh8. If immediately: 26.Ra8+ Kd7 27.Rxh8 Bxh8 White has only a very slight advantage.]26...c6 [If 26...Bxf2+ 27.Kxf2 Rf8+ 28.Ke3 Rxd1 29.Ra8+ Kd7 30.Rxf8+–]27.Nb6+!! Bxb6 28.Rxd5 cxd5 29.Ra8+ Kc7 30.Rxh8 Bd4 31.Rxh7+ Kb6 32.Rd7 [32.b3 was equally good.]32...Kxb5 33.Rxd5+ Kc4 34.Rxd4+! [This simplifies into a winning pawn ending.]34...Kxd4 35.h4! [The pawn ending is easily won after: 35.h4 gxh4 36.gxh4 Ke5 37.Kg2 Kf4 38.Kh3 Kf5 39.e3 b6 40.Kg3 b5 41.b4 Ke5 42.Kg4]1–0

Gagare,Shardul (2514) Raghunandan,K.S (2280) [D46]1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0–0 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.e4 e5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Nd4 Neg4 14.g3 Bc5 [This is a new move in this position, Vidit Gujrathi (2625) vs Shyam Nikhil (2454), National Premier Ch, Kottayam, 2014 went: 14...Bxg3 15.hxg3 Qxd4 16.Qd1 Qxd1 17.Rxd1 Rfe8 18.f3 Ne5 19.Be3 drawn after 35 moves.]15.Nf5 Re8 16.Bf4 g6 17.Rad1 Qb6 18.Bxg4 Nxg4 19.h3? [This immediately hands over the initiative to black. Better was" 19.Nd6 Re6 20.Nxb7=]19...gxf5 20.hxg4 Bd4?

[This is an enthusiastic, but over ambitious move. He wants to play .....c6–c5 to enable

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronhis light square bishop unchallenged sway along the long white diagonal. especially as white does not have a white square bishop. However better was the preliminary: 20...fxg4 with traces of advantage for black.]21.exf5? [White can thwart black's plan by capturing with the other pawn: 21.gxf5! c5 22.Nd5! Bxd5 23.exd5 a5 24.d6²]21...c5 22.Kh2 [The Nd5 resource indicated in the previous note is sadly lacking here be-cause white has no pawn on e4.]22...Bf3 [22...Qa6 (threat b5–b4) 23.a3 b4 24.axb4 cxb4 25.Na2 Re2 26.Qc7 Bb6 27.Nxb4 Bxc7 28.Nxa6 Bxa6 29.Bxc7 Rc2³]23.Rde1 [Better was: 23.Rd2 b4 24.Ne2 Bg7 25.Ng1 Bb7= (25...Bxg4? 26.f3 Bh5 27.g4+–) ]23...Qc6 24.g5 Bg2 25.Rg1 [Black threatens 26 ...Nxb5 27 Qxb5 Kxg2.]25...b4 26.Nb5 Qxb5 27.Kxg2 Qc6+ 28.Kh3 Qf3 29.Be3? [Diagram #][Much better was: 29.Rgf1 Rxe1 30.Rxe1 Bxf2 31.Qe2 (31.Rf1 Qh5+ 32.Kg2 Re8! 33.Rxf2 Re1 34.Rf1 (34.g4 Qxg4+ 35.Kh2 (35.Bg3?? Re3–+) 35...Qh4+=) ) 31...Qxe2 32.Rxe2 Bd4 With material level white's prospects are excellent as his control over the e-file cannot be challenged.]

29...Bxe3 30.Rxe3 Rxe3 31.fxe3 Rd8! 32.Re1!! [Excellent tactics! He gives time for white to defend his e3 pawn. If now 32.Qxc5 Qh5+ 33.Kg2 Rd2+ 34.Kf1 Qe2#]32...Rd5! 33.Qe2 [33.e4 Rd3 34.Rg1 (34.Qg2?? Qh5#)

34...c4! 35.e5 (35.Qxc4 Qh5+ 36.Kg2 Rd2+ 37.Kf1 Qd1#) 35...Qh5+ 36.Kg2 Re3! (threat 37....Re2+ winning queen) 37.Qxc4 Re2+–+]33...Qxf5+ 34.g4 Qxg5 35.Qf2 Rd6 [Black plans to capture g4 also and reach a simple winning position.]36.Qf3 Rh6+ 37.Kg2 Rh4 38.Rh1 Qxg4+ [Two pawns up, black wants to ensure victory against his Grandmaster opponent and exchanges off queens not wanting to give white the smallest chance to escape. He could also win with: 38...Rxg4+ 39.Kf2 Rc4! 40.Re1 (40.Rg1? Rc2+ 41.Kf1 Rc1+–+) 40...Rc2+ 41.Re2 Qh4+ 42.Kg2 Rc1 43.Qg3+ Qxg3+ 44.Kxg3 c4–+]39.Qxg4+ Rxg4+ 40.Kf3 Rc4 41.Rh2 Kg7 42.b3 Rc1 43.Ke4 Rg1 [Diagram # Black has played the game so far. But it is not known how he would handle the winning rook ending that he has got. Instead of tamely giving up the game, white

should try 44 Rh5 and test the Rook and Pawn ending prowess of his 15–year old op-ponent.]0–1

Sidhant,Mohapatra (2239) Sandip-an,Chanda (2585) [A00]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4 9.Na4 Nbd7 10.c4 bxc3 11.Nxc3 Bb7 12.Be2 Be7 13.0–0 0–0 14.Rfd1 Rc8 [Pv.Nandhidhaa (2174) vs Irina Petrukhi-

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronna (2218), World Junior Girls, Pune, 2014 was drawn after: 14...Qb8 15.Rac1 Rc8 16.Bf4 Nh5 17.Be3 Nhf6 18.Bf4 Nh5 19.Be3 drawn.]15.Nb3 Ne5 [All good players know that if black is able to play ....d5 without any ill effects in such positions black obtains equality. But does a GM in an Open Swiss rel-ish a draw against a player rated nearly 350 points below him? This is the disadvantage for high rated players when they play in an Open where the opposition is low and une-ven. 15...d5! 16.exd5 exd5 17.Rac1!=]16.Qd4 Nfd7 17.Kh1 Kh8 18.Rac1 [Black is waiting for f3–f4 so that he could have some chances against white's centre, especially his e4 pawn. But white has been well trained not to change the pawn structure when ones de-velopment is not yet complete. However, f4 could be played here: 18.f4 Nc6 19.Qd2 Na5 20.Nxa5 Qxa5 21.a3² Note that the f-pawn remains on f3 till the end of the game!]18...Nc6 19.Qd2 Na5 20.Nxa5 Qxa5 21.Nb1!? [Diagram #][A very interesting offer of a pawn. If 21.Bf4 d5 22.exd5 exd5 23.Rc2 (23.Nxd5? Qxd2 24.Bxd2 Bxd5 25.Bxa6 Rxc1 26.Bxc1 Be6µ) 23...Nf6 24.Be5 Nd7 25.Bd4 Bf6=]21...Qd8 [After 21...Qxa2 22.Qb4! (black must worry over his queen getting trapped with Nc3!) 22...Bc6 (the only move) 23.Nc3 a5 24.Nxa2! axb4 25.Ba6! Rc7 26.Nxb4 Ne5 27.Bb6 Rb8 28.Bxc7 Rxb4 29.Bxd6+–; Black's main alternative is: 21...Qxd2 22.Nxd2 d5 23.Nc4! Ba8 24.a3]22.Qb4 Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Qb8 24.Nd2 Re8 [(threatening to ambush the queen with d6–d5)]25.Qa4 Nc5 26.Qa3 Rc8 27.Nb3 Nxb3 28.Qxb3 Bf6 29.Qb6 Rxc1+ 30.Bxc1 [All these exchanges are taking the game clos-er to a draw which is not agreeable to the grandmaster.]30...Qc8 31.Be3 d5!= 32.exd5 exd5 [If 32...Bxd5 33.Bxa6 Qa8 34.Qa7 Qxa7 35.Bxa7 Bxa2 36.b4]33.h3 h5 34.a4 h4 35.Bd3 Be5? [35...Qc6 36.Qb4 Kg8 would be equal.]36.b4 g6 37.Qc5 Qxc5 38.Bxc5

Kg7= [The game is absolutely equal.]39.b5 a5? [After this, black has the task of pro-tecting both, the a5 and h4 pawns on black squares. His dark square bishop is not equal to this task in the long run.]40.Bb6! Bc3 41.Bd8! f6² [41...Be1 42.Kg1 Kf8 43.Kf1 Ke8 44.Bg5 Bg3 45.Ke2 Kd7 46.Bc2 Bc8 and white would have to do a lot of patient and clever manoeuvring to convert his slight ad-vantage to victory.]42.Kg1 Kf7 43.Kf2 Ke8 44.Bb6 f5 45.Ke2 Bc8 46.Be3 d4?? [Prob-ably the grandmaster was in time trouble. Or perhaps he was overwhelmed by the method-ical positional play by the 18–year old untitled youngster from Odissa? After the text, black loses his h4 pawn for no compensation. He had a better alternative here: 46...Bf6 47.b6! Kd7 48.Bb5+ Kd6 49.f4! and white has two dangerous threats, 50 Bd2 threatening Bxa5 and 50 Be8 threatening g6.]47.Bg5 Kd7

[Diagram #][Black's proposed counter-attack against a4 loses brilliantly: 47...Be6 48.b6! Bd5 (48...Bc8 49.Bb5+ Kf7 50.Bc6+–; or if 48...Kd7 49.b7 Kc7 50.Ba6 and black has no defence against Bf4+ queening the pawn.) 49.Bb5+! (driving the black king further away from the b-file before pressing with his b-pawn.) 49...Kf7 50.Ba6 Bb4 (for 51...Bd6 to control the queening square) 51.Bf4!]48.Bxh4 Kd6 [White has a simple win after 49 g4, creating a assed pawn on the king-side too.1–0

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Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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

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

5 6 White to play and win White to play and win

(solutions on p. )

 

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Tjavlovski 1962 V. Bron 1963

1. 2.

Hillel Aloni 1964 Genrkh Kasparyan 1962

3. 4.

V.Bron 1962 V.Bron 1962

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above (Solution on page )

 

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Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Tjavlovski 1962 V. Bron 1963

1. 2.

Hillel Aloni 1964 Genrkh Kasparyan 1962

3. 4.

V.Bron 1962 V.Bron 1962

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above (Solution on page )

 

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Masters of the past-66 Viktor Korchnoi Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (23March1931–6 June 2016) was a chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, Korchnoi defected to the Netherlands in 1976, and later resided in Switzerland from 1978, becoming a Swiss citizen. Korchnoi played three matches against GM Anatoly Karpov. In 1974, he lost the Candidates final to Karpov, who was declared World Champion in 1975 when GM Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title. He then won two consecutive Candidates cycles to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978 and 1981, losing both.

Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions (1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991). He was also a four-time USSR chess champion, a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European cham-pionship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad. In September 2006, he won the World Senior Chess Championship.

He learned to play chess from his father at the age of five. In 1943, he joined the chess club of the Leningrad Pioneer Palace, and was trained by Abram Model, Andrei Batuyev, and Vladimir Zak. In 1947, Korchnoi won the Junior Championship of the USSR, with 11½/15 at Leningrad, and shared the title in 1948 with 5/7 at Tallinn, Estonia.

In 1951, he earned the Soviet Master title, following his second place finish in the 1950 Leningrad Championship, with 9/13.One year later, Korchnoi qualified for the finals of the USSR Chess Championship for the first time. FIDEawarded him the title of Inter-national Master in 1954. He was awarded the Grandmaster title at the FIDE Congress in 1956. Korchnoi earned his first international team selection for the Soviet student team in 1954, joined the full national team for the European Team Championship three years later, and would represent the USSR through 1974. He won a massive 21 medals for the USSR. Korchnoi won the USSR Chess Championship four times during his career.

From 2001 onwards, Korchnoi became a prolific author of books on his career, publishing four new volumes, including two books of annotated games, an updated autobiogra-phy, and an overview (along with several other authors) of Soviet politics applying to chess; he also wrote a book on rook endings.

On the January 2007 FIDE rating list Korchnoi was ranked number 85 in the world at age 75, by far the oldest player ever to be ranked in the FIDE top 100. As of 2011, Korchnoi was still active in the chess world with a notable win (in Gibraltar) with black against the 18-year-old Fabiano Caruana, who was rated above 2700 and 61 years Korchnoi's junior. Korchnoi became the oldest player ever to win a national champion-ship when he won the 2009 Swiss championship at age 78. Korchnoi died aged 85 on 6 June 2016 in the Swiss city of Wohlen.

Courtesy: Wikipedia

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1st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Vijayawada….

Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championahip-2016,New Delhi

(L to R )Sri L.Sudhakar Babu (Director-Icon), Ch.Prakash(Secretary Icon), Sri K.Rajendra, (Chairman Icon ) Sri D.Srihari(Secreatary- AP Chess Assn) , Chief Guest L.Satyananda IRS (Assit Commissioner Income Tax) , Grandh Master Lalith Babu; D.Bala Chandra Prasad(1st prize) ,IM R.Balasubramanian(2nd prize),Meher Chinna Reddy(3rd Prize), Sri Saik Kashim (Secreatary-Global Chess Academy) and Sri Prasad ( Icon School)

First Runner-up Prachet Sharma, Winner Santu Mondal and Second Runner Up Om Batra

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(L- R)Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice President ,Telangana State Chess Association, Sri Dinakar Babu, IAS, VCMD-SATS ; Runner-up V Varun; Sri K S Prasad, Advisor, Telangana State Chess Association ,Winner Akash

1st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open Chess Tournament 2016, Shirpur...

Prize winners with officials and dignitaries

Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Memorial International FIDE Rating Tournament Hyderabad

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 42

1. Bivol,A (2368) Dimitrova,Aleksandra (2128) [A05]Loo RUS Loo RUS (1.3), 20.04.2016Position after 34th move. White to play. 35.Ng6! [35.Bd5+-] 35...fxg6 [35...f6 36.Bd5+ Re6 37.Nf4+-] 36.Bd5+ Re6 37.Qxg6+- 1–02. Shabalov,Alexander (2528) Rob-son,Ray (2663) [D43]ch-USA 2016 Saint Louis USA (1.6), 14.04.2016Position after White's 42nd move. Black to play. 42...Ne2![42...Ne2 43.Rxc7 (43.Bxe2 Rxc1–+) 43...Ng1+ 44.Kh4 Nf3+ 45.Kh3 Rxh2#] 0–13.Buscara,S (2340)Churm,R (2145) [C02]4NCL 2015–16 Birmingham ENG (9.155), 30.04.2016Position after18th move.White to play. 19.Bxh7+! Kxh7 20.Ng5+ Kg8 [20...Kh6 21.Rc3+-; 20...Kg6 21.Qg4 f5 22.exf6 Kxf6 23.Nxe6 Qf7 24.Re1 Qg6 25.Qh4+ Kf7 26.Rxb7+ Kg8 27.Rxg7++-] 21.Qh5 Rfb8 22.Rc3+- Qd7? 23.Qh7+ [¹23.Rh3! Kf8 24.Nh7+ Ke8 25.Nf6+ Ke7 (25...gxf6 26.Qh8+ Ke7 27.Qxf6+ Ke8 28.Rh8#) ] 23...Kf8 24.Rf3 Nd8 25.Qh8+ Ke7 26.Qxg7+- 1–04. Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2254) Java-nbakht,N (2417) [C00]Asian Juniors Rapid 2016 Delhi IND (3.2), 03.05.2016Position after White's 21st move. Black to play. 21...Bd7! 22.Qd1 [22.Qxd7 Qg5+ 23.Kh1 Qxc1+ 24.Kg2 Qg5+ 25.Kh1 Qd8–+] 22...Qg5+ [22...Bh3!] 23.Kh1 Bh3! 24.Qg1 Bg2+! [24...Bg2+ 25.Qxg2 Qxc1+ 26.Qg1 Qxg1+–+] 0–15.Liang,Awonder (2410)Landa,K (2618) [B10]

Hasselbacken Open 2016 Stockholm SWE (9.11), 08.05.2016Position after 20th move. White to play. 21.Nxe6! fxe6 [21...Rg8 22.Nd4 Nxe5 23.Nf5 Nxf3 24.gxf3 c5 (24...Rd8 25.Rde1+-) 25.Rhe1 Bxf3; 21...Bf8 22.Nxf8 Rxf8 23.Rhe1+-] 22.Bh5+ Kd8 23.Bxb6+ Rc7 24.Bf7 Kc8 25.Bxe6+- [25.Bxe6 Rd8 26.Rxd7 Rcxd7 (26...Rdxd7 27.Rd1+-) 27.Rd1] 1–06. Shirov,A (2686) - Saren,Bjorn (2032) [A81]Hasselbacken Open 2016 Stockholm SWE (1.2), 30.04.2016Position after 24th move. White to play. 25.Nd5+! [25.Nd5+ cxd5 (25...Kb8 26.Rxf8+-) 26.Qc3+ Kd7 27.Rxf8 Bxf8 28.Qh8 Ke7 (28...Be7 29.Qh3++-) 29.Qg8+- [%csl Rg2] 29...Nxe3 (29...Nh4 30.Qh7++-; 29...Ne1 30.Qxd5+-) 30.Qg5+-] 1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431.Tjavlovski 19621.g7 Bd1 2.g4+ Kh6 3.g8N+ Kg6 4.Nf6 Kg5 5.Nd5+ Kxg4 6.Ne3+ 1…Be2 2.Kd5 Bd1 3.Kc4 Bg4 4.g8B 2.V.Bron 19631.Ng8+ Kf7 2.e7 Rxg2 3.d8R Rh2+ 4.Nh6+ Ke7 5.Ra8 Kd6 6.Ra5 Rh5 7.Ra6+ Kxd5 8.Ra5 wins3.Hillel Aloni 19641.Nc7 Qd1 2.Kc3 Qe2 3.Be4 Qxe4 4.Ne8+ Kf8 5.Nd7+ Ke7 6.Bg5+ Kxd7 7.Nf6+ Ke6 8.Nxe4 Kf5 9.Kd4 wins4.G.Kasparyan 19621.f7 Rb3 2.QxR Bxf7 3.Qd3 Kh4 4.Kg2 Rg1+ 5.Kxh2 Rg4 6.Qh7+ Bh5 7.Qe7+ Rg5 8.Qe1+ Kg4 9.Qe4 wins5.V.Bron 19621.Bb5+ Kxc3 2.Qe5+ Kb4 3.Qe7+ Kb3 4.QxB d5 5.Qh2 d4 6.Qd2 d3 7.Qxd3+ Kb4 8.Qd6+ Kb3 9.Qd2 wins6.V.Bron 19621.Kg3 Ke1 2.cxd Kd2 3.Ta3 Rc6 4.Kf4 Rc3 5.Ra2+ Kxd3 6.Be2#

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AICF Calendar July 2016World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016 Slovakia Jul-21 to Jul-30The BRC Schools Chess Championship Kolkata Jul-21 to Jul-2130th National Under-13 Boys &Girls Ahmedabad Jul-22 to Jul-30Cheerothi Kochuvareed mem. FIDE rated below 1600 Thrissur Jul-23 to Jul-25TN State Junior Chess Championship Open Rajapalayam, Jul-23 to Jul-279th Modern FIDE Rating tmt for school children Chennai Jul-29 to Aug-03World Junior and Girls U20 Championship Bubaneshwar Aug-07 to Aug-212nd KCA FIDE Rating Chess tmt Kanchipuram Aug-10 to Aug-15DCA Open FIDE rated 2016 Delhi Aug-11 to Aug-152nd Thali Yuva Sangh Open FIDE Rating Ahmedabad Aug-12 to Aug-17KCA’s 12th FIDE Rated below 1500 Cochin Aug-13 to Aug-15All Goa Open FIDE Rapid Rating tmt Panaji Aug-13 to Aug-1430th National U-9 Championship (Boys & Girls) Jalandhar Aug-22 to Aug-30Fomento All India FIDE Rating Tmt 2016 Panaji Aug-27 to Aug-3142nd World Chess Olympiad 2016 Baku, Azerbaijan Sep-01 to Sep-14South Asian Amateur Championship below 2000 Srinagar Sep-01 to Sep-06Nat. U-17 Boys & Girls West Bengal Sep-09 to Sep-18Talent Chess Academy 1st FIDE Rating Dharmavaram Sep-09 to Sep-115th Keshabananda Das Mem. All India Rating Bhubaneswar Sep-09 to Sep-144th NL Pandiyar Memorial FIDE Rating Open Udaipur Sep-10 to Sep-152nd Players Chess League Rapid Rating team Ahmednagar Sep-11 to Sep-127th BBSR All India FIDE Rating below 1600 Bhubaneswar Sep-16 to Sep-20Nat. U-7 Boys & Girls Pondicherry Sep-18 to Sep-26World Youth U14, U16, U18 Championships Khanty-Mansiysk Sep-20 to Oct-04National U-25 Sep-20 to Sep-26Viktor Korchnoi Memorial Open FIDE Rating Mysore Sep-30 to Oct-05DCA Below 1600 FIDE Rated 2016 New Delhi Oct-01 to Oct-03Nat. U-19 Boys & Girls Oct-08 to Oct-16CAKottayam’s 2nd Open FIDE Rating Kottayam,Kerala Oct-08 to Oct-11Asian Amateur Championship 2016 Oct-16 to Oct-25World Cadets U8, U10, U12 Championships Georgia Oct-18 to Oct-31

Solution to puzzle of the month on page 16 a) 1.Ba1 2.Qb2 3.Qh8 4.Bg7 5.Be6 mate b) with WRf5: 1.Ra7 2.Qb7 3.Qh7 4.Rg7 5.Rf8 mate.

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9th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament, Mumbai

(L-R)Abhinav Upadhyay, Marketing head ,Zlearn, Umesh Pradhan CFO Zee learn, Winner Visakh N R , Deputy Mayor, Alka Kerkar, Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO AICF, Mrs.AmrutaFadnavis, R M Dongre, Treasurer, AICF

(L-R) MrArun Shah, Mrs.Snehal Ambekar lighting the lamp, MrAbhinav Upadhyay, Mr.Ravindra Dongre, Treasuer,AICF

43rd National Women Challenger Chess Championship, Chennai...

V.Hariharan , Secretary, TNSCA(partly seen), B.Murugavel, Vice-President TNSCA,D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, WGM Eesha Karavade making the inaugural move against IM Manuel Aaron, Atul Kumar, Joint Secretary, AICF.

(L-R) B.Murugavel, Vice-President TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, Bharath Singh Chouhan ,CEO AICF and Chief Guest, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahoo, Vice President, AICF, Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman , (Champion receiving the trophy) and V.Hariharan, Secretary, TNSCA