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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

25th National Under-17 Open and GirlsChess Championships,Patna

SIB – CMS 52nd National Premier & Zone 3.7 Chess Championship, Kottayam

Varshini Girls Champion

Aradhya GargOpen Champion GM S.P.Sethuraman

National Premier Champion

INDIA RETAINS TITLEWorld Youth Chess Olympiad,Hungary

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From the PresidentAt the outset I wish the members of chess fraternity a very happy New Year! Even though it is hardly six months since I took over as President, I look back with pride the excellent achievements by our players in the year gone by. It was a proud moment for Indian sport when

our young team won the first ever medal, a bronze, at the 41st Chess Olympiad, the prestigious biennial team event. I notice meticulous planning in the preparation and fielding of teams and indomitable team spirit as the key factors behind this historical triumph.It was heartening that Viswanathan Anand won the Candidates event in March 2014 and earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World title.The World Championship at Sochi match was very closely fought but could not be won by Anand much to our disappointment. However Anand wound up the year winning the London Chess classic in style and also finishing fifth in the FIDE rating, a stupendous performance by our stalwart at the age of 45.I am delighted that India retained World Youth Olympiad 2014 title in Hungary and that this, I learn, is the fourth time we are winning this title. I am happy note that 15-year-olds Arvindh Chidambram and Karthikeyan Murali are joining the growing list of Grandmasters. Due to the concerted efforts of the Federation in spotting and training young talent India reaped most number of medals both at the World Youth Chess Championship at Durban and at the Asian Youth Chess Championships held at Uzbekistan and New Delhi. Narayan Srinath’s hat trick of Asian Junior titles is a shot in the arm for Indian chess.In retrospect, India has virtually become a chess power-house thanks to the excellent domestic structure and administration of the game at the ground level by the All India Chess Federation. I hope the ensuing year will stand witness to more laurels.

P.R.Venketrama RajaPresident/AICF

Inside……SIB-CMS 52nd National Premier &Zone 3.7 Chess Championship, Kottayam Sethuraman is National Premier Championby R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 125th National Under-17 Open & Girls Chess Championships, PatnaVarshini and Aradhya Garg win titlesby Dharmendra kumar IA, Chief Arbiter 51st 64squares FIDE Rated Open,KolkataLaltu Chatterjee is the winnerby Udayan Kanti Ghosh IA Chief Arbiter 82nd Arvinddurga FIDE Rated,TambaramOsama Salim emerges winnerby M.Muthukumar IA,Chief Arbiter 11Big Brains FIDE rated Ty(below 1600),Kozhikode Abdul Raheem wins titleby Saleem Baig,Chief Arbiter 13Cube Open FIDE Rating 2014,VadodaraVikramaditya Kulkarni wins titleAmbrish C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter 161st Dhenkanal FIDE Rating (below 1800),DhenkanalSanjeeban Nayak wins titleby Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA,Chief Arbiter 18Lions Club Kakinada Elite FIDE Rating,KakinadaJ.Sai Agni Jeevitesh winsby FA Venkat Kumar,Chief Arbiter 211st Nilambur CA FIDE Rated(below 1600),NilamburJojo P.John wins at Nilamburby L.R.Bhuavanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter 28RTNarayana Memorial Cup FIDE Rated(below 1600), MandyaPavan Kumar Yaramala winsby Vasanth BH,Chief Arbiter 301st Sammen Singh FIDE Rated (below 2000),AmritsarRahul Upadhyay wins titleby IA Gopakumar MS,Chief Arbiter 32Selected games from Asian Youth Chess Championships,New DelhiAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34Tactics from master games by Srinivas Krishnan 42Test your endgameBy C.G.S.Narayanan 43

Masters of the past-48Jorgen Bent Larsen 44AICF Calendar 48

The 52nd edition of National Premier Chess Championship, sponsored by South Indian Bank and co- sponsored by CMS College, Kottayam was held at the picturesque CMS Col-lege campus from 4th to 18th December 2014. Thirteen players – eight grandmasters and five international masters participated in the round robin format championship, comprising thirteen rounds. Former under 14 world champion Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB was the highest rated player in the tournament, with a rating 0f 2625 and it had one more super grandmaster in SP Sethuraman, also of PSPB. Average rating of the tournament was 2487, a category 10 event. As in Olympiad and World Cup, the duration of play was 90 minutes each for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes each for the remaining game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The championship also gained importance, as the winner of the tournament will qualify for the World Cup, to be held in 2015.Fierce fighting was witnessed from the very beginning. Both top two players Vidit and Sethuraman were held to a draw in the first round by former Commonwealth champion MR Lalith Babu of PSPB and IM P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu respectively. In the second round too, Vidit had to concede a draw to his team mate and former national champion Abhijit Kunte. GM Deep Sengupta of PSPB, Lalith and Sethu scored two successive wins each in third and fourth rounds to lead the table with 3 points, at the end of the fourth round.All the six games were drawn in the fifth round, the lead still remaining in the hands of the three grandmasters, Sethu, Lalith and Deep. In the sixth round, Deep outwitted Swayams Mishra, the international master form Orissa, to wrest sole lead. This was possible because of the shocking defeat of Lalith at the hands of Delhi GM Sahaj Grover and Sethuraman had a rest day. Sethuraman dealt a blow to Deep in the seventh round and Lalith overcame RR Laxman, grandmaster from Railways, enabling the trio to share the lead again together, with 4.5 points each. Deepan Chakkravarthy of Railways and Sahaj were breathing at their shoulders, with 4 points each.Eighth round witnessed the emergence of a sole leader in Sethuraman, who defeated IM PDS Girinath of Railways to reach 5.5 points, one point ahead of five other players. Lalith Babu suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Swayams Mishra in this round. IM Karthikeyan P of Railways also rose up to second spot with a win over Tamil Nadu IM VAV Rajesh. Sethura-man maintained a half point lead over three others with 6 points, after securing a draw against Lalith Babu. Sethuraman defeated Abhijit Kunte and Sahaj closely followed him with a win over Dee-pan in the tenth round. Sethu remained alone at the top with 7.5 points, at the end of the eleventh round, after being held by Vidit in the crucial and much anticipated tie. Sengupta and Sahaj remained in contention for the title with 7 points. Deepan Chakkravarthy had an ignominious hat trick of losses, this time against RR Laxman. In the penultimate round, P. Karthikeyan dashed the hopes of Sahaj by beating him, which also fetched him his third GM norm. Both Deep and Sethu drew the games against their re-spective opponents. Sethu needed half a point in the final round to clinch the championship.

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Sethuraman is National Premier Championby R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

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Sethuraman ensured the title by securing a formal draw with Deepan Chakkravarthy, which also enriched his bank account by 2.5 lakh rupees. Both Karthikeyan and Deep Sengupta scored 8 points and had equal number of wins. Sonneborn Berger tiebreak favoured Deep Sengupta to finish second and Karthikeyan secured the third spot. Vidit suffered a shocking loss at the hands of veteran IM PDS Girinath in the final round. Sethuraman received two lakhs and fifty thousand rupees for his efforts, out of total prize money of Rs. ten lakhs.After six hard fought rounds, the players enjoyed a refreshing trip to Kumarakom, a popular boating resort. The very big lake of back waters, extending by 83 KMs by length and 14 KMs by width was worth visiting, which also had a bird sanctuary. Players relished every second of the three hours boating. Rt. Rev. Thomas K Ommen, Deputy moderator, Church of South India presided the inaugural function and Honourable Minister for Sports, Government of Kerala, Sri. T Radhakrishnan inaugurated the championship in the august presence of Dr. Alexander Jacob, Director Gen-eral of Police, Kerala, Sri. TC Mathew, Chairman, National Cricket Academy and Mr. Shelly Joseph, Regional Dy. GM, South Indian Bank.Dr. Babu Sebastian, Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University was the chief guest for the prize distribution function, presided by Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal of the host CMS College in the august presence of Mr. Shelly Joseph, Regional Head & Dy. GM, South Indian Bank, the main sponsor.Final rankingRk Name Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2622 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8½

2 GM Sengupta Deep 2566 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 8

3 IM Karthikeyan P. 2400 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 8

4 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2625 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 7

5 GM Grover Sahaj 2505 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7

6 GM Kunte Abhijit 2480 0 0 1 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 6½

7 GM Lalith Babu M.R. 2547 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 6

8 IM Shyam Nikil P. 2454 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 5½

9 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy 2489 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 1 5½

10 IM Swayams Mishra 2491 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 5

11 GM Laxman R.R. 2408 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 * ½ ½ 4

12 IM Rajesh V A V 2408 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ * 1 3½

13 IM Girinath P.D.S. 2333 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * 3½

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1st Sameen Singh FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2014 for below 2000,Amritsar

Mr. Narinder Singh, President Punjab State Chess Association; Mrs. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School Amritsar; Dr. V P Lakhan Pal, Chairman DAV International School Amritsar, Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable Society along with other organising committee members inaugurating the tournament by lighting the lamp.

R a h u l U p a d hyay ( W i n n e r ) receiving the trophy from Chief Guest

A view of the tournament Hall

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1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating Chess Tournament below 1600

1st MCA FIDE Rated Bengal Junior Open Chess Tmt 2014

Kerala State Minister Shri Aryadhan Mohammed inaugurates the event in the presence of AICF Joint secretary Shri Venugopal, CAK President Shri Kunhi Mohideen and Malappuram District Secretary Shri Rasheed

The winner Jojo P John receives cash award with A P Aslam memorial trophy form the Chief Guest ,Kerala MLA Basheer P K, in the presence of IM Ratnakaran

(L-R)R.C.Chatterjee_U.K. Rathi_Koustav Chatterjee(2nd) Arpan Das (Champion) Sayan Bose(3rd)Atanu Lahiri(Secretary, BCA)

The participants started arriving since 30th November 2014 itself that lasted till the opening time 3:30 pm. on 2nd December 2014. The inaugural function was delayed by one hour awaiting arrival of players from TN and other states coming from a late run-ning train. Venue was elegant Conference Hall of Adhiweshan Bhawan situated in Bihar Secretariat , Patna. On 2nd December 2014, The campus, the entrance and the corridors were attractively decorated with scented flowers that provided the venue a beautiful ambiance. The young participants, their parents and the other guests received hearty welcome with showering of flower-bits by a team of pretty DPS students led by Mrs.Chetna Jha, the event Director.As the Championship was organised in collaboration with Takshila Edu-cational Society,an organization dedicated to Art and Music, so it was obvious that the championship had the impact of melodious music, songs, arty decoration and creative presentation throughout. The opening of the championship began with melodious welcome song (Swagat Gaan) and ‘Vandana Geet’ presented by DPS boys and girls. They received greetings from the duo organisers, ABCA Secretary A K Sinha and Sanjiv Kumar, Secretary, Takshila Educational Society. The Chief Guest Bharat Singh Chauhan,CEO AICF, described this unprecedented as he never saw Sanjiv Kumar,Ex VP of AICF and Pro Vice-Chairman DPS so keenly involved arranging a chess function.The marvelous presentation of history of chess in Hindi and English was unique and memorable. The dignitaries, Kumar San-jay, IRS, Commissioner Income Tax, Bihar

25th National Under-17 Open & Girls Chess Championships, Patna…..

Varshini and Aradhya Garg win titlesIA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter

&Jharkhand, Vivek Kumar Singh, IAS and President, ABCA, IG Parmar,IA the Chief Arbiter and CEO,AICF were welcomed by bouquet by DPS girls. ABCA Secretary himself escorted the guests onto the dais one by one.Venue & Accomodation Entire second floor of Adhiveshan Bhawan with separate sitting ar-rangements for open and girls championships was engaged. It was spacious and clean. The ground floor of the fully air-conditioned building was kept reserved for the parents and coaches. A canteen was also situated in the floor.It was also an apt place for security and safe-ty of players where they were provided ac-commodation i.e State Institute of Health and Family welfare (SIHFW), a Government set up with neat and clean three-bedded rooms and canteen facilitating the participants with daily food, refreshments etc. Arrangement of stay in some hotels nearby Railway station was also made. The tournament venue was at a distance of 1 and half kilometer away from the hotels. But since the SIHFW place of stay was about 3 kilometers away from the tour-nament venue, the participants and parents were provided free to and fro transportation by DPS buses throughout the event.On the 3rd and 5th December 2014 two rounds were scheduled. For convenience of the participants, free lunch was served to all the parents and participants, arbiters and managers on both the occasions. On 7th (Sunday) an excursion trip was also arranged for the parents and participants to visit the Ganges, Gurudwara, Patna Sahib etc. free of any charges.A delicious dinner was also hosted by DPS Patna in the honour of all the parents and participants on the penultimate

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round i.e. on 9th December 2014.Three DPS buses were engaged for bringing them for the dinner and dropping them back to their places of stay. Organisers also provided each player a printed folder comprising a news letter, a tournament bulletin, participation certificate and his own post card size photograph as souvenir at the prize distribution function and arranged free transportation to the Raiway station/airport.101 Players (51 in Girls and 50 in Open) from 19 states participated in the 25th National U-17 Chess Championship. 11 round individual Swiss system championship was played with the time control of 90 minute with increment of 30 second. Zero tolerance was applied here and soon after the inau-guration all technical matters was discussed and decided during the managers meeting. Aradhya Garg of Delhi started his crown campaign with strong will and consistent per-formance. He won all his first four game and became sole leader after 4th round. In 5th round,1st runner-up of this championship, V.Prananvananda forced him to share his point but even though Aradhya was leader but jointly with S.Adhitya of Tamilnadu. In the very next round , he defeated to Ad-hitya and became sole leader . Later , he allowed two more drew out of 5 game , on the way to become champion. At the same time wV.Pranavananda of A.P. also joined the lead after 10th round . In 10th round ,on the top board, the leader Aradhya Garg of Delhi (FIDE Rating 2066) had to face Eng-lish Opening against Y Grahesh of AP but his careful play could not earned a significant advantage in the game for the either players and they agreed to share points. On the sec-ond board Pranavanad opted for ‘c4’ against Kumar Gaurav of Bihar. Kumar Gaurav play-ing black found lack of space and exchanged both his rooks that led to a losing position

and he resigned. Last round started with two leader , Aradhya Garg and V.Pranavananda, both of them had 8.5 point and both of them defeated their opponent Krishna Teja and Y.Grahesh respectively . The Championship ended in a tie which was decided by apply-ingg buchholz and this favoured Aradhya win the title. V.Pranavananda was declared 1st runner-up and S. Yogit as 2nd runner-up.In Girls section, championship was full of suspense.A sole leader of the championship till last round ,WFM M.Mahalakshmi (8) of Tamilnadu, lost her last round game to WFM Srija Seshadri (7) . 2nd spot leader in Girls section , WFM G.K.Monnisha (7.5) lost to Chandigarh girl WFM Tarini Goyal(6.5) on board no. 2 . Both these upset result pro-duced the champion from board no.3 where WFM V, Varshini ( 7.5) of Tamilnadu defeated Sunyasakta Satpaty(6.5) of Odisha and with 8.5 point she became champion of this 25th edition U-17 National Girls Chess Champi-onship. WFM M.Mahalakshmi and WFM Srija Seshadri placed 2nd and 3rd respectively. The championship remained free of any dispute or any protest under the able team of Arbiters IG Parmar, Chief arbiter, Dharmendra Kumar, Amrendra Pandey and Deepak Kumar. Live games of the championship were looked after by Anand Babu.In the closing ceremony too, DPS boys and girls presented musical, vocal songs to welcome the distinguished guests and the participants. Chief Guest Nitish Mishra,Minister,Rural De-velopment, Government of Bihar and guests of honour Vijoy Praksh,IAS, Dipak Kumar Singh, IAS and B Binod,DPS Principal gave away the prizes and trophies to the top twenty winners in open and girls section. IA Dharmendra Kumar announced the names of winners while Arvind Kumar Sinha,Secretary, ABCA proposed vote of thanks.The champi-onship ended with National anthem.

National Under 17 OpenFinal ranking Rk. Name Club Pts. 1 Aradhya Garg Del 9.5 2 Pranavananda V AP 9.5 3 Yogit S TN 7.5 4 Baivab Mishra Odi 7 5 Prasannaa.S TN 7 6 Grahesh Y AP 7 7 Neelash Saha WB 7 8 Hemanth Raam TN 7 9 Abhishek A Ker 7 10 Kumar Gaurav Bih 7 11 Krishna Teja N AP 6.5 12 Adhithya S TN 6.5 13 Srijit Paul WB 6.5 14 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J TEL 6.5 15 Manan Rai Del 6.5 16 Saptorshi Gupta WB 6 17 Eashwar.M TN 6 18 Saurabh Anand Bih 6 19 Satvik M. Kar 6 20 B Sri Viswaroopanand Odi 6 21 Rahul Kumar Bih 6 22 Ankit Sen UP 6 23 Arka Sengupta WB 5.5 24 Vishwanath Vivek TEL 5.5 25 Dubey Sanchay UP 5.5 26 Lawaniya Eshan UP 5.5 27 Vaisnav M TN 5.5 28 Tridev Buragohain Asm 5.5 29 S Uttam Aalewad Mah 5.5 30 Priyadarshi Alok Bih 5.5 31 Aswin Balakrishnan Ker 5 32 Dave Sneh Guj 5 33 Saksham Rautela Utk 5 34 Prajjwal Har 5 35 Dias Aston Goa 5 36 Souradip Deb Tri 5 37 Parth Jain UP 5 38 Prasad Kaustav Bih 5 39 Shubham Srivastava Jha 4.5 40 Anmol Surana Cht 4.5 41 Madhav Maira Har 4.5 42 Shrutarshi Ray WB 4 43 Aayush Agarwal Jha 4 44 Singh Angad J&k 4

45 Shivang Aryan Bih 3.5 46 Aditya Singh Utk 3.5 47 Nayak Sumit Kumar Jha 3 48 Aamir Suhail Mir J&k 2.5 49 Kanwar Surya Dev HP 2 50 Aaqib Manzoor J&k 1 National Under 17 Girls1 Varshini V WFM TN 8.52 Mahalakshmi M WFM TN 83 Srija Seshadri WFM TN 84 Monnisha Gk WFM TN 7.55 Soneji Janhavi Mah 7.56 Tarini Goyal WFM Chd 7.57 Toshali V AP 7.58 Lasya.G AP 79 Arpita Mukherjee WFM WB 710 Divya Lakshmi R TN 711 Tejaswini Sagar WCM Mah 6.512 Smaraki Mohanty Odi 6.513 Ashwini U TN 6.514 Isha Sharma Kar 6.515 Sunyasakta Satpathy Odi 6.516 Chandreyee Hajra WB 6.517 Chitlange Sakshi WFM Mah 618 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 619 Pandey Srishti Mah 620 Mishra Anwesha Odi 621 Ankitha Goud Palle Tel 622 Divya Garg Mah 623 Sanskriti Goyal UP 624 Prakruthee A TN 625 Dakshinya T R S TN 5.526 Thamaraiselvi P TN 5.527 Kavya Srishti K Tel 5.528 Makhija Aashna Mah 5.529 Patel Aditi Mah 5.530 Anannya Menkudle Mah 5.531 Mehak Jain Del 532 Tanya Pandey Mah 533 Vani S Indrali Kar 534 Poojanjali B Tel 535 Purvi Malani WB 536 Aasa Deepika K AP 537 Adane Narayani Mah 538 Bhavya Verma Bih 539 Sagar Siya Mah 540 Garima Gaurav Bih 4.5

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1st 64 Squares FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament 2014 was held at Kalighat Mi-lan Sangha, Kolkata,(W.B) from 22nd to 26th December 2014 in befitting manner. The tournament was inaugurated by GM Dibyendu Barua,Vice President, AICF and IM Atanu Lahiri, Hony. Secretary , Bengal Chess Association.The tournament was played in a 2 different big halls. There were sufficient drinking water and toilet facilities for the players. The organizers arranged lunch and snacks for all participants and their guard-ians every day.No dispute, argument etc. arose during the tournament. It may be mentioned that no complaint was placed before the Appeals’ Committee. The tournament was played in 10 round swiss league format. At the end of final round Laltu Chatterjee bagged the Champi-onship title . A total of 234 players, of whom 195 were rated, from different states of our country and other countries participated in this chess meet. FA norms were awarded to NA Santanu Lahiri and NA Tapas Chakraborty.The prize distribution ceremony was held on Friday, the 26th December 2014. Sri Ajit Banerjee, President, Bengal Olympic Association, and IM Atanu Lahiri distributed the prizes. Total prize fund of Rs. 250000/- were distributed to the winners. Thirty Six Trophies were given away to winners in dif-ferent categories.Final standings:Rk Name Pts1 Chattarjee Laltu 8½2 Kaustuv Kundu 8½3 Abhishek Das 84 Mitrabha Guha FM 85 Chatterjee K.K. 7½

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Laltu Chatterjeee is the Winnerby Udayan Kanti Ghosh IA Chief Arbiter

6 Nayak Rajesh 7½7 Avijit Das 7½8 Arpita Mukherjee WFM 7½9 Mallick Anjan 7½10 Koustav Chatterjee 7½11 Bose Sayan 7½12 Subhayan Kundu 7½13 Sudarshan Mitra 7½14 Debasish Mukherjee 715 Tamojit Chakraborty 716 Iyer Vishal 717 Sayantan Mukherjee 718 Sonkalan Bharati 719 Sarbojit Paul 720 Bhattacharya N Shekhar 721 Srijit Paul 722 Subhra Banerjee 723 Satya Sekhar Mitra 724 Swarup Dey Sarkar 725 Sayan Banik 6½26 Arka Sengupta 6½27 Arpan Das 6½28 Sayan Sen 6½29 Ganguly Ritabroto 6½30 Sawyan Baran De 6½31 Anshul Nigam 6½32 Anustoop Biswas 6½33 Nath Rupankar 6½34 Bhowmik Bibhas 6½35 Chakrabarti Tamal 6½36 Sudipta Chakraborty 6½37 Khushi Dharewa 6½38 Shounak Ghatak 6½39 Rounak Pathak 6½40 Dilip Das 6½41 Soumma Chakraborty 6½42 Anis Mukhopadhyay 6½43 Sandip Dey 6½44 Shyamashree Sarkar 6½45 Mukherjee S.K. 6½46 Panda Sambit 6½

47 Jayanta Kr. Sarkar 648 Sanjit Saha 649 Manideep Mukhi 650 Koustav Chakraborty 651 Sanket Chakravarty 652 Soham Das 653 Rajarshi Dutta 654 Shrutarshi Ray 655 Sambarta Banerjee 656 Shouvik Kar 657 Arpan Das (jr) 658 Arijit Mukherjee 659 Soumyaditya Saha 660 Priya Ranjan Das 661 Ghosh Samriddhaa 662 Shuban Saha 663 Apurba Chakraborty 664 Mandal Ardhendu 665 Chandreyee Hajra 5½66 Md Fahad Rahman FM 5½67 Aneek Das 5½68 Soumik Datta 5½69 Balai Dutta 5½70 Mahitosh Dey 5½71 Sukanta Dutta 5½72 Shinjini Sengupta 5½73 Dipanjan Chowdhury 5½74 Ayushman Majumdar 5½75 Debashis Majumder(irs) 5½76 Bidhan Bhattacharjee 5½77 Swapan Kumar Das 5½78 Ritwick Pal 5½79 Avijaan Roy Choudhury 5½80 Moloy Mazumder 5½81 Deep Dutta 5½82 Avhra Biswas 5½83 Animith Srimani 5½84 Ambarish Sharma 5½85 Samip Roy 5½86 Shahil Dey 5½87 Samir Kumar Saha 5½88 Soham Biswas 5½89 Joy Majumdar 5½90 Chinmoy Mukherjee 5½91 Swarnava Biswas 5½92 Indrajeet Sharma 5½93 Chandan Kumar Prasad 5½

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141 R. K. Sharma 4½142 Diya Chowdhury 4½143 Adrija Dawn 4½144 Pal C.N. 4½145 Sagnik Chakraborty 4½146 Sinthia Sarkar 4½147 Anil Kumar Nair 4½148 Pratyay Chowdhury 4½149 Sumit Naskar 4½150 Soumita Das 4½151 Sandipan Paul 4½152 Ananya Bothra 4½153 Aarohon Bharadwaj 4½154 Surjo Ghosh 4½155 Swapneel Gupta 4½156 Vikram Mishra 4½157 Vatsal Nagelia 4½158 Soumili Chandra 4½159 Swapneel Chanda 4½160 Tamojit Poddar 4161 Asmita Das 4162 Mehendi Sil 4163 Aniruddh Chatterjee 4164 Kishor Shazzad 4165 G.K.R. Krishna 4166 Biswas Sampurna 4167 Rushikumar 4168 Dhritabrata Kundu 4169 Srijita Sarkar 4170 Arhan Boyd 4171 Subhabrata Roy 4172 Utsav Ghosh 4173 Pathikreet Chowdhury 4174 Hridya Ghosh 4175 Swapan Kr Das Iol 4176 Rijoo Ghoshal 4177 Ankit Chatterjee 4178 Shubhankar Saha 4179 Romok Bhattacharjee 4180 Mukherjee Dyutimoy 3½181 Basu Utkarsh 3½182 Sayantan Das 3½183 Sourath Biswas 3½184 Utsab Chatterjee 3½185 Mishra Abinash 3½186 Soham Dey 3½187 Tanmay Biswas 3½

188 Aneek Biswas 3½189 Harshit Baid 3½190 Sanika Sengupta 3½191 A Bandyopadhyay 3½192 Debargha Basu 3½193 Debannita Paik 3½194 Pradip Kr. Mahato 3½195 Olivia Chatterjee 3½196 Debosmita Ghosh D 3½197 Ishika Mondal 3½198 Pradip Das 3½199 Deepraj Mandal 3200 Aniket Nath 3201 Aditya Bikram Paul 3202 Aditya Kujur 3203 Peter Joseph 3204 Hrisav Rakshit 3205 Pragati Das 3206 Rishiraj Guha Ray 3207 Rano Banerjee 3208 Shantamurti Paul 3209 Mahek Sethia 3210 Samriddhi Roy 3211 Nayak Sanjeeban 2½212 Utsav Das 2½213 Samprikta Biswas 2½214 Shreejit Sarkar 2½215 Banerjee Abhradeep 2½216 Ashpriha Das 2½217 Tanisha Chatterjee 2218 Saikat Kundu 2219 Jakhon Singpho 2220 Dwaipayan Gupta 1½221 Jaim Singpho 1½222 Anurag Jaiswal 0223 Tamal Naskar 0224 Rohan Nag Chowdhury 0225 Sayak Ghosh 0226 Ashok Pillay 0227 Shreyan Chakraborty 0228 Arunava Bhattacharjee 0229 Hiran Banerjee 0230 Aritra Ganguly 0231 Debasmit Biswal 0232 Asit Sarkar 0233 Atreya Nandy 0234 Dipankar Malakar 0

2nd Aarvindurga All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament (2014) was held from 25th to 29th December 2014 at Valluvar Gurukulam School, Tambaram sponsored by Aarvindurga School of Chess. In all, the tournament had attracted 288 players from different parts of the country, which included two players of Indian origin, played under different Federation Flags. One International Master (R.Balasubramaniam), a couple of Women Fide Masters (J.Saranya and C.Lakshmi) and Candidate Master (Nikhil Magizhnan) and 206 FIDE rated players par-ticipated in the tournament.The tournament was conducted in five days starting from 25.12.2014 to 29.12.2014 in a SWISS format with 9 rounds, under incre-mental time control as per the FIDE rules and regulations by qualified Arbiters.Earlier this tournament was inaugurated by Mr Chockalingam, President of Arrvindurga School of Chess.Fourth seeded, youngster, FIDE Rated, Osama Salim, kept his cool till the end and emerged as Winner with 8 points. Though his score was tied with the International Master Balasubramanian, yet he emerged as winner with better tie break scores. Balasubramanian finished runner-up. The efforts taken by the Organiser, Arrvin-durga School of Chess, for the successful organizing of the tournament are highly commendable The team of arbiters ensured smooth running of the tournament.

Final ranking: Rk. Name Pts. 1 Osama Salim 82 R Balasubramaniam IM 83 Balasubramaniam H 7.5

4 Rajarishi Karthi 75 Vigneshwaran S 76 Saranya J WFM 77 Rahul S 78 Ganesh P 79 Visveshwar A 710 Akash R 711 Barath Kalyan M 712 Bala Kannamma.P 713 Chandar Raju 714 Harshavardhan G B 715 Rahul Bharadwaj B 716 Abhishek Jaiswal 717 Shet Prajwal P 6.518 Marthandan K U 6.519 Sivasankar B. 6.520 Jagadish P 6.521 Vinodh Kumar B. 6.522 Keerthivasan K 6.523 Arjun Kalyan 6.524 Dileep Kumar R 6.525 Balaji P. 6.526 Rakshith N D 6.527 Gowtham K K 628 Vinay Vijaykumar 629 Sudhakar K.V.S. 630 Praveen Kumar S 631 Ajay Karthikeyan 632 Harshini A 633 Arjun Adappa 634 Sunyuktha C M N 635 Swaroop M 6 36 Sathyanarayanan V 637 Shakthi Vishal J 638 Upendra R 639 Kasinathan S 640 Umashankar A 641 Priyamvadha Sundar 642 Pranav Ram Hariharan 643 Suganthan S 644 Sudha Kalyan Lakshmi 645 George Daniel 6

2nd Aarvindurga All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2014, Tambaram

Osama Salim emerges winnerby M.Muthukumar, Chief Arbiter

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93 Saroja K 594 P V Lakshmanan 595 Kruthika K R 596 Vikhram R 597 Vijay V.S. 598 Srivatsan Sekar 599 Naresh M 5100 Venkatesh K 5101 Shriman K 5102 Rangesh N D 5103 Yukash Ram E 5104 Dharshan P 5105 Taanya Ss 5106 Mrinal S 5107 Arul Suresha G A 5108 Pranav Senthil Kumar 5109 Shivani Madhu 5110 P Durai Thangapandi 5111 Vishal Kaleeswaran 5112 Surya Prakash M 5113 Andrew VW Solomon 5114 Abinands R 5115 Vasudev R 5116 Prasath K 5117 Sushil Raaja U 5118 B Chidambaram.C 5119 Ganesh M 5120 Vikrant Raj S 5121 Shyam Kumar M 5122 Saravana Kumar M 5123 Surendiraa A Sathish 5124 Vishwanatha Kundadka 5125 Prasant N Nayagam 4.5126 Sivaji Baskar S 4.5127 Thulasingam V 4.5128 Prakruthee A 4.5129 Srivatsan R 4.5130 Roshan S 4.5131 Nikhil Murugkar 4.5132 M Udhayakumar 4.5133 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 4.5134 Vedant P Kumbakonam 4.5135 Deepak K R 4.5136 Arun R U 4.5137 Mohanraj V 4.5138 A Gnanamurtthy 4.5139 R Suriyanarayanan 4.5

Big Brains FIDE Rated Tournament 2014 be-low 1600 was conducted from 20th to 22nd December 2014. The three-day tournament attracted 313 entries and was conducted in a 9 round Swiss format, with two rounds on day one, 4 rounds on day two and 3 rounds on day three. The event carried a prize pool of Rs.2 Lakhs in cash.194 players were FIDE Rated, 32 players were female and 15 players were above 60 years. 5 year old Fadiya Rahman E was the youngest player and 73 year old Mr. Govindan C was the oldest player of the tournament. Abdul Raheem K A of KER with a ELO Rating of 1441 remained undefeated in the tourna-ment. He won 8 straight rounds and drew in the last round to clinch the title. event was organized by BBIAS, Calicut, Kerala. The event attracted local players and benefited local talents. Players from 10 states (KER, KAR, TN, MAH, GOA, TEL, AP, WB, DEL and PUD) took part in this event.Mr. Kunhi Moideen President Chess Associa-tion of Kerala inaugurated the tournament and presided over the Prize Distribution Ceremony. Others who graced the occasion were Mr. Kabhilan, Artist (Singer) and Mr. Nirmal Das Secretary UKDCA who distributed the prizes along with Mr. Kunhi Moideen. All the 97 players below the age of 15 years received medals.Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Abdul Raheem K A 8½2 Brahmaha V S 83 Stephen Raj A 84 Akash K A 7½5 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 7½6 Mulla Nihalahamad 7

7 Sreehari G 78 Mohamed Yousuff A 79 Anoop P 710 Vinodkumar K V 711 Vasudevan K E 712 Wanjari Rajendra 713 Arun D 714 Pranav Shridhar 715 Sathyanadhan Moothoran 716 Sasikumar.S 717 Naren J 718 Ranjith Kaliyarasan 719 Ramakrishnan T V 720 Sasikumar K P 6½21 Kadakkavur Anil 6½22 Ani Joseph 6½23 Roopesh Kumar D S 6½24 Aanandha Kumar M S 6½25 Kanishk S K 6½26 Sudheer M K 6½27 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty 6½28 Bino Sebastian 6½29 Chandramohan K 6½30 Shreyas P 6½31 Syam Hari H V 6½32 Kavi Samrat P 633 Bala Subramaniyan R 634 Muhammed Musthafa 635 Karan J P 636 Sudheesh M A 637 Akhil Vijayakumar 638 Veeresh Bharamasagara 639 Afinu Shifan M 640 Bharath Subramaniyam 641 Abdurahiman Elangoli 642 Fathima Abdeen 643 Thomas Valiyaprambil 644 Soman C R 645 Nitin M Pai 646 Abdul Gafoor K. 647 Kutty T P C 6 48 Ayushh Ravikumar 6

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Abdul Raheem wins titleby Saleem Baig,Chief Arbiter

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96 Satheesh M 597 Sajan S A 598 Amal Roozi 599 Anandan T P 5100 Souvik Roy 5101 Sreekumaran Nair K G 5102 Dileep V R 5103 Devika P 5104 Alex C Joy 5105 Megha K 5106 Mohanan T K 5107 Viswajith Vinod 5108 Sahadevan M 5109 Lingesh@arunkumar P 5110 Porob Vraj 5111 Raja V 5112 Jayanth C 5113 Sharsha Backer 5114 Vasundhara P. 5115 Rajiv A 5116 Varadharajan I. 5117 Shane V Jose 5118 Vasudevan A V 5119 Vineesh P S 5120 Aswin K 5121 Bagwan Vasim 5122 Pudhuraja V 5123 Amal Raj N R 5124 Ashitha C C 5125 Anfas Muhammed 5126 Ganesh Aravind N 5127 Dawood.K 5128 Jasir A 5129 Vishnudevanandan RP 5130 Abdul Basheer K M 5131 Adhi Dev K P 5132 Sidharth A Kumar 5133 Vaheeb Shafi Hassan K 5134 Sreejith Paramparambath 5135 Amrethesh P 5136 Prabhakaran K 5137 Taanya Ss 4½138 Abhirami Madabushi 4½139 Abhinav Manoj 4½140 Sreedharanarayanan k 4½141 Kunhi Moideen Am 4½142 Vishal M 4½

143 Krishna Das P 4½144 Eswaran P 4½145 Sai Charan Raj Rayudu 4½146 Dijo Cherian 4½147 Abdul Majeed K M 4½148 Amareesh Kochu Purakkal 4½149 Senthil Kumar .M.R. 4½150 Abhinav Bhatt 4½151 Nithish Kumar S 4½152 Shree Krishna Pranama 4½153 Prabeesh K 4½154 Mukund K P 4½155 Arnav Muralidhar 4½156 Varadharajan S 4½157 Krishnanunny Menon C 4½158 Noel Benny 4½159 Christi G Mathai 4½160 Ajul Ratish 4½161 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 4½162 Shajith Kumar E 4½163 Ridhan M Feroz 4½164 Akhil Chandran S 4½165 Sidharthan C P 4½166 Rajeevan P Kunnummal 4167 Gowtham Sakthivel 4168 Jojo P John 4169 Vishnu Prasad S 4170 Abhiram Vijay 4171 Sai Kiran K V 4172 Hrishikesh R Raghuvaran 4173 Hemanth Gajula 4174 Shaiju Villunnikkal 4175 Shirodkar Aayush 4176 Hareendran V 4177 Askkar Ali P 4178 Panneerselvam R 4179 Ajay C K 4180 Abhinand Manoj 4181 Dheeraj P V 4182 Harikrishnan S B 4183 Karthikeyan S 4184 Mohammed Sudheer P P 4185 Valsarajan P Ramanujan 4186 Basavesh Mrutyunjayappa 4187 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4188 Athul Krishna K A 4189 Ranji Philipstephen 4

190 Harishwa S 4191 Anjana T M 4192 Rithunandan R 4193 Harshini V 4194 Jaffar Vali S 4195 Pranav Thelath Nanari 4196 Arun Narayanan K 4197 Pranav Krishna Mukkolath 4198 Adithyan M 4199 Abhishek Anand 4200 Vinodan V P 4201 Ashkar M M 4202 Manoranjan Kelad 4203 Adeena Arjun 4204 Vinoth Kumar M 4205 Pavithran K M 4206 Vasu Deva Reddy M 4207 Sanjay Srinivasan R 4208 Gayathry Ravindran P 4209 Atul V Chandran 4210 Vrishva Swaran M 4211 Vinod Kumar Kokkodan 4212 Midhun G 4213 Athulya V Ajayakumar 4214 Pradyuem Madgaonkar 4215 Roshan Hari 4216 Meghana Siddamshetty 4217 Sandeep Thiruthiyil 4218 Abineshwar Gnanamurtthy 3½219 Jagadeesan Mamiyil 3½220 Abhijith Karthikeyan P 3½221 Avinash Hari 3½222 Aswin K 3½223 Anand Sarada Nivas 3½224 Swetha K 3½225 Dara Sai Preetam Reddy 3½226 D Souza Ynez 3½227 Goutham Krishna G 3½228 Akhila T M 3½229 Bharath Kulandai Velu 3½230 Yadhukrishna V 3½231 Deepak K Rajesh 3½232 Shyju M 3½233 Harsh Sawant 3½234 Asna Abdeen 3½235 Srikrishnan P 3½236 Rajath Rajesh 3½

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Cube Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2014 was held at Ved Trans Cube plaza Hall, 4th Floor,Cube Central Bus station,Vadodara from 24th to 28th December 2014.This tournament carried out a prize amount of Rs.2,50,000/- ( Two lakh Fifty Thousand) which is splitted into 50 cash prizes and the winner gets the cash prize of Rs.50,000/-. With a beautiful crystalized Trophy.This 9 round swiss format tournament had 220 play-ers from All over india out of which 1 GM and 3 IM as well as 115 are internationally rated and 105 were unrated.The tournament was inaugurated by honour-able member of Parliament Smt. Ranjanben Bhatt,Mayour Shri Bharatbhai Shah,Grand Master Shri Praveen Thipsay,President of Vadodara Chess Association Smt. Bindyaben Shah and other Dignitaries on Dias.Hard fought victories and some higher rated play-ers draws were witnessed in the tournamnet, culminating in the emergence of IM Kulkarni Vikramditya of Maharshtra as the champion of this event, followed by IM Rahul Sangma of Railway as 1st Runner-up and Deshpande Anirudha of Maharshtra. 2nd Runner up. Accommodation was available in the same Campus as well in nearby Hotels so as even in cool days, players reached at venue before time and easily followed the time schedule. An Architech tournament hall gave the great satisfaction to players and parents . A Deli-cious food was available in food court and the fantastic traditional show with great in-ternational level shopping chance blended with this event was the experience of foriegn tour like the players and parents not vis-ited the baroda but they sense the feelings

of Dubai. It’s look like we came here for a picnic rather then a competition. The Prize Distribution carried out in a open Cube Hall with full presence of sporting people where 55 prizes in total were awarded By Guj.State Secretary Shri Bhavesh Patel,VCA President Shri Bindyaben Shah, Cube Chair Person Shri Sanjay Shah , Tournament Director Shri S.D.Rajan,Chief Arbiter Shri A.C.Joshi, V.P of GSCA Shri.Mayurpatel Guj.Coach Shri.SekharSahu & Shri Ranvir Singhji.Under the Guidance of Shri Bhavesh Patel ( Hon.Secretary of Gujarat),Vadodara Chess Association had the privilege of conducting many National, International and Reputed events. Kudos to Mr. S.D.RAJAN Sir (Tour-nament Director & Org.Secretary), and his Excellent team who work hard for the great success of the tournament and Special thanks to Cube Management and his team who has fulfil all the requirements of the players. The keen efforts of dedicated official of the VCA and GSCA was the key factor for or-ganizing and smooth running of tournament .How I can forget My Technical expert team ?? without them we are helpless. Special thanks to All Arbiters. Once again thanks to one and all. Final standings:Cube OpenRk. Name Pts. 1 Kulkarni Vikramaditya IM 82 Sangma Rahul IM 83 Deshpande Aniruddha 7.54 Prasad Devaki V IM 7.55 Bhatt Jalpan 7.56 Jeet Jain 77 Maulik Raval 78 Sudarshan Malga 79 Leuva Pruthviraj 6.5

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Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins titleAmbrish C Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter

10 Aradhya Garg 6.511 Trivedi Karan R 6.512 Mehta Jwalin 6.513 Deepak Katiyar 6.514 Joshi Manish 6.515 Rawal Shailesh 6.516 Mehta Naitik R 6.517 Kane Samvid 6.518 Falgun D Purohit 6.519 Desai Jay Viral 6.520 Sarvesh G Rao 6.521 Dhruvik Shah 6.522 Avdhoot Lendhe 623 Soham Datar 624 Makwana Ashvin K 625 Mukund G. Bhatt 626 Kotai Kamlesh S 627 Harshita Guddanti 628 Kiranpal Singh Mahajan 629 Dave Kantilal 630 Sinha Santosh Kumar 631 Aditya Guhagarkar 632 Makhija Aashna 633 Dave Sneh 634 Kamdar Udit 635 Soneji Maitrey 636 Dr Sanjay Date 637 Amit Panchal 638 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 639 Nimdia Ridit 640 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 641 Vivek N Vala 642 Joy Pankaj Shah 643 Shah Aayush 644 Raichura Niyant 645 Diwan Rajesh 5.546 Sanjeet Manohar 5.547 Chauhan Ashvinkumar 5.548 Jayesh Ramanuj 5.549 Parikh Kairav 5.550 Ayush Bhai Mehta 5.551 Thaker Kautilya P 5.552 Parth M Shah 5.553 Pandhare Swapnil 5.554 Chudasama Ankit 5.555 Kavisha S Shah 5.556 Kamdar Aparva 5.5

57 Bhavik Dave 5.558 Yash Mandawaria 5.559 Agrawal Anay 5.560 Shah Manav Hiren 5.561 Milap Pandya 5.562 Neel Thomas 5.563 Thipsay Praveen M GM 564 Gorakhia Yogesh 565 Surti Bankim 566 Vrandesh Parekh 567 Patel Nishayank 568 Vyas Nilesh 569 Sparsh Khandelwal 570 Bhavsar Aniket P 571 Soni Ajay 572 Shaival Patwa 573 Borse Vaibhav 574 Shah Mihir 575 Meet Puri 576 Samdani Sahil Sagar 577 Ansh M Shah 578 H.N. Vyas 579 Pathak Nileshbhai S 580 Arun Kataria 581 Yash Jagtap 582 Ayush Lodha 583 Anmol Sharma 584 Damani Malay 585 Chandrani Shlok 586 Malvi Nirav 587 Panchal Tisha N 588 Panwar Krish Navratan 589 Pihu Nimdia 590 Vraj N Shah 591 Mahi Amit Doshi 592 Vakil Hardik 593 Chandan Palash N 594 Shah Aaditya 595 Parmar Mittal R 596 Agrawal Shubh 597 Bhatkar Zaheer Abbas 4.598 Lumbhani Nikhil P 4.599 Dhyana Patel 4.5100 Dhruvin Sajnani 4.5101 Gautam Kataria 4.5102 Goswami Sagargiri 4.5103 Dwivedi Umang 4.5

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1st Dhenkanal Fide Rating (below1800) Chess Championship-2014 was inaugurated by Chief Guest Brigadier Sri Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo, former Union minister, Dhena-kanal district Collector Smt. Rupa Roshan Sahu (chairman reception committee), Guest of honor Professor Prafulla Kumar Mishra, on 12th Dec at Synergy College of Engineering & technology, Dhenkanal in the presence of Mr. Nabin Chandra Narayan Das, President DDCA, Debabrat Bhatta , Sect DDCA, Biran-chi Narayan Pany, Working President DDCA, Santosh Mohapatra, working vice president DDCA, Sagarika Mishra, coordinator & San-tosh Kumar Swain Jt Sect DDCA.This international rating event was success-fully organized by Dhenkanal District Chess Association for the first time under the aegis of All Odissa Chess Association & under the AICF event code 102548/ORI/2014 & was recognized by AICF and FIDE.A Total no of 194 participants (from 12 states) had taken part in this event from different parts of the Country. A total of 9 rounds Swiss system league was played with a time control of 60 min. with 30 sec incre-ment. Also a total no of 57 new players Fide id has created in this tournament. Some seeded players of the tournament were Anwesha Mishra (Odi)-1799, Sanjeeban Nayak (Odi)-1796, Tirth Sarkar (WB)-1776 etc. There was a total Cash Prize of Rs.1,50, 000/- (1st prize Rs.30, 000/- with 53 other cash prizes).A total of 194 players which included 103 rated players participated in the event. Players from 12 States (ODI, WB, BIH, AP, UP, TRI, CHHAT, MAH, TN, KER, DEL etc.).There were 35 women players.Oldest player was Sikha

1st Dhenkanal FIDE rating (below 1800) Championship,Dhenkanal…

Sanjeeban Nayak wins titieNihar Ranjan Sasmal(IA),Chief Arbiter

Das Gupta of Tripura and the three young players just above 5 years were Priansh Das, Sriansh Das, Smruti Samrudhi Das.Top seed Anwesha Mishra of Odisha with a rating of 1799 finished 46th whereas sec-ond seed Sanjeeban Nayak clinched the top honour and became the Champion of “1st Dhenkanal Fide Rating Chess Tourna-ment- 2014 and was awarded Cash Prize of Rs.30,000/- along with Champion Trophy. He scored 8 points out of possible 9 points along with Sambit Panda but in better tie break Sanjeeban pushed panda to clinch the title. Sambit panda bag a cash amount of Rs.15,000/-.In the closing ceremony the Chief guest was Sri Saroj Samal, Hon’ble MLA Dhenkanal.Oth-er dignitaries who graced the occasion on the last day were Vivek kumar Tibarewal (Sec-retary, All Odisha Chess Association), Smt Rupa Roshan Sahu, Dhenakanal district Col-lector, Nabin Chandra Narayan Das, President DDCA, Debabrat Bhatta , Secretary, DDCA, Biranchi Narayan Pany, Working President DDCA.The accommodation and food were excellent. Dhenkanal is known as the hill area of eastern Odisha and weather condition during these days was very cold .The Press and Media covered the event well and we had considerably support from the parents and guardians of the kid participants. This event has added to the mileage of Dhenkanal as one of the fast developing Chess towns in Odisha after Cuttack & Bhubaneswar.Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 Nayak Sanjeeban 82 Panda Sambit 83 Tirtha Sarkar 7½

4 Kaushik Nath 75 Sinha Rajesh Kumar 76 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 77 Dave Sneh 78 Sahu Thompson 79 Rath Hrusikesh 710 Pattnaik Bishal 6½11 Mishra Om 6½12 Pattnayak Nilsu 6½13 Acharya Tapas 6½14 Adarsh Tripathi 6½15 Nayak Surajit 6½16 Mishra Srinibas 6½17 Rajan N Sundar 6½18 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 6½19 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 6½20 Pranab Kumar Patra 6½21 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 6½22 Ali Khan A Gulrez 623 Shahil Dey 624 Isha Sharma 625 Mahitosh Dey 626 Pradeep Kumar Das 627 Raja S K 628 Mallikarjuna Raob 629 Imran Hussain 630 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 631 Behera Dillip 632 Bhoi Gunanidhi 633 Karmakar Ramen 634 Chakravarthy M S R K 635 Rajbeer Ahmed 636 Bidyut Kr. Mondal 637 Debasish Majumder 638 Mishra Anisha 5½39 Sudhir Kumar Mohanty 5½40 Sahoo Ankush 5½41 Shinjini Sengupta 5½42 Tapas Mandal 5½43 P Biranchi Narayan 5½44 K Kumar Pradeep CM 5½45 Sanku Mitra 5½46 Mishra Anwesha 5½47 Nishant Raj 5½48 P Subhendu Kumar 5½49 Pattnayak S Kumar 5½50 W Sanskruti WCM 5½

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98 M Aditya Anurakta 4½99 Sahu Aswini Kumar 4½100 Naik Siddharth 4½101 Dash Pramod 4½102 Amit Ranjan 4½103 S Charan Behera 4½104 Prashant Raj 4½105 Bag G 4½106 Ramesh Kumar S 4107 Anil Bhoi 4108 Adijyoti Amarnath 4109 Maheswar Dalnayak 4110 Nikita Mallick 4111 Chinmaya K Sahu 4112 Jena Bipra Charan 4113 P Pragyan Paramita 4114 Sangeeta Saha 4115 Pratyusha P 4116 Sahil Lenka 4117 Nayak Suddh Simon 4118 Mohanty Aditi 4 119 Bishnu Beshra 4120 Arunika Ghosh 4121 Govind Chandra Barik 4122 Priansh Das 4 123 Arabinda Padhan 4124 Dhira Padhan 4125 Raimohan Purty 4126 Ranjit Beshra 4127 Sahu Bibek Kumar 4128 Nayak Aryan 4129 Mohapatra Hrushikesh 4130 Barik Bijayalaxmi 4131 Nirmal Kumar Behera 4132 Pani Om Prasad 4133 Suka Murmu 4134 M Saswat Samichin 4135 Shubhra Jyoti Samal 4136 Sitikantha Prusty 4137 Satyabrata Sahoo 3½138 Jiban Jyoti H Sahoo 3½139 Suryapranjal Indrajeet 3½140 Sikha Das Gupta 3½141 Prem Kumar 3½142 Sandeep Kumar Nanda 3½143 Dalal Sitikantha 3½144 Mallick Saswat 3½

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J Sai Agini Jeevtesh of Telangana won Li-ons Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament concluded here at Challa Jagannatha Sastry Kalamandhir, Vidyut-nagar, Kakinada. He scored 7.5 points from 9. He tied with 4 other players with same score. Due to tie break score Ram S Krish-nan of Tamilnadu got 2nd and Arjun Tiwari of Railways placed third. Winner J Sai Agni Jeevitesh got prize money of Rs. 20,000/- and Runner Up Ram S Krisnan got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed Arjun Tiwari got Rs. 10,000/- A total prize money of one lakh was distributed among 20 players. The event attracted 230 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, West Bengal,Gujarat Sates and Railways, Income Tax Departments.FA Ven-kat Kumar G was the Chief Arbiter and FA S Subba Raju is deputy arbiter for the event.In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri. D V Sunder, Vice President , FIDE and guests of honor Lion M Visweswarao, Program Chairman,Lion MV Subrahmanyam, Chief Organiser Sri YD Ramarao, APCA Adhoc Committee Convener, D Srihari, APCA Adhoc Committee, FA,Venkata Kumar G, Chief Ar-biter distributed the prizesFinal ranking Rk Name Pts1 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 7½2 Ram S. Krishnan 7½3 Tiwari Arjun 7½4 Srinivasa Rao M. 7½5 Ramana Babu B. 7½6 Ankan Roy 77 Rao J. Malleswara 78 Adhithya S 79 Pvs Aravind 7

Lions Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Kakinada

J Sai Agni Jeevitesh Winsby FA Venkat Kumar G, Chief Arbiter

10 Chaintanya Sairam Mogili 711 Pavan B N B 6½12 G Hema Chandra Mouli 6½13 Aravind Babu L 6½14 Srivastava Pratyush 6½15 Anilkumar O.T. 6½16 Majumdar Shankar 6½17 Surya Dhanush G 6½18 Toshali V 6½19 Lakshmanrao D. 6½20 Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 6½21 Kranthi Kumar B. 6½22 Teja Kirthi 6½23 Duvvala Suresh 6½24 Dave Sneh 6½25 Prateek Srivastava 6½26 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. 6½27 Mahesh Kumar K 628 Subhash K V 629 Arjun Kalyan 630 Rajasekhar K 631 Musini Ajay 632 Sarma RSR 633 Varada Suresh 634 Nagaraju J 635 Harikrishna Marri 636 Nitheesh Pothireddy 637 Krithigga K 638 Jishitha D 639 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 640 Krishna Madhava Rao P 641 Cheela Naga Sampath 642 Murali Mohan Y 643 Jayesh Kumar Chowdary 644 Bonu Ravi Kumar 5½45 Shanmukha Teja P 5½46 Jadi Kishan 5½47 Eswar Sai Akhlil Ch 5½48 Sampath B 5½49 Praneeth R 5½50 Raga Jyothsna R 5½51 Alekhya B 5½

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52 Prasad Das K 5½53 Viswa Sudhakar Repalle 5½54 Srinivas Ch 5½55 Leela Kumar D 5½56 Trinadharao S 5½57 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 5½58 Rama Krishna G 5½59 Shaik Sydulu 5½60 Sidhesh M 5½61 Pavan Kumar Posa 5½62 Ravi Teja Kanakala 5½63 Ammu Rammurthy Kaushik 5½64 Sudeesh Karri 5½65 Raghu Ram D 5½66 Sarat Chandra Dunna 5½67 Bharadwaj NNS 5½68 Suryanaraya Swamy Mopuri 569 Satyanarayana MVV 570 Vamsi Krishna R 571 Bala Chandrudu A 572 Sai Nikhil Y 573 Srikanth T 574 Manohar M 575 Rajesh Y 576 Ch Gopalakrishna Rao 577 Mallikarjuna Raob 578 Sathwika N 579 Kalyani B 580 Botta Durga Deepak 581 Eshwar Gandi 582 Sri Koushik M 583 Sai Raj Gopal K 584 C B Surya Bangaru Raju 585 Suribabu Kommusetti 586 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 587 Subba Rao K 588 Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R 589 Madhu Marri 590 Venkata Satya Pranav G 591 Kameswarao ASL 592 Siri P 593 Appaji P S V 594 Manoj Kumar JYV 595 Uday Kumar T 596 K Sai Sankalp 597 Divya Teja P 598 Amulya D 5

99 V Sumant 5100 Mahender Marri 4½101 Jayanth Reddy K 4½102 Armaan Jal Gala 4½103 Kuppili Sai Venkat 4½104 Kumar Reddy M V 4½105 Mahendar B 4½106 Samarateja K 4½107 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 4½108 Satwik Seethamraju V S 4½109 Yesu Babuk 4½110 Roshan S 4½111 Shivaiah K 4½112 Rajkumar Duvvuri 4½113 Ram Prasad S 4½114 Surya Mouli Ullangi 4½115 Jayanth Kumar D 4½116 Yuva Teja P 4½117 Trimurthulu Pinapothu 4½118 Abhishek N Rao P 4½119 Varshini M 4½120 Avinash V V U S 4½121 Siddharth Bhaskar Chundru 4½122 Butchi Raju SVR 4½123 Pardhesh M 4½124 Narasimha Raveendra G 4½125 Rakesh Kumar Voonna 4½126 Sri Vidya Sambhavi R 4½127 Bhaskar Anish Yadlapalli 4½128 Dunnala K S Vikash 4½129 Prudvi Raj Pasala 4130 Bharath P 4131 Rohit S 4132 Saketh B 4133 Madhurya M 4134 Laasya Priya P 4135 Jemini Charan Karri 4136 Vijay Paul G 4137 Sai Yaswanth G V 4138 Hemanth Bommidi 4139 Datta Ramakrishna J 4140 Bheri Chinna Rao 4141 Lasya Mayukha N 4142 Manas M 4143 Abhilash Varma A 4144 Ch Pratap 4145 Srinivas Goud Yenumula 4

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India retains World Youth Olympiad TitleBy Arvind Aaron

India retained the World Youth Chess Olympiad title by racing ahead of Iran and Russia at the end of the tenth round at Gyor in Hungary on December 21, 2014. Significantly, India is winning this title for the fourth time.In the final round, India faced an unexpected setback on board one when Diptayan Ghosh lost his only game of the event but the trio on the others boards won to help India defeat Turkey 3-1. India won nine matches and lost one to Russia to total 18 match points.

Iran went down narrowly to hosts Hungary-1 by 1.5-2.5 to be relegated to the third place with 16 points. Russia won big time 3.5-0.5 against Ukraine to take the silver medal with 17 points.

A total of 37 nations took part in this ten round Swiss format event on four boards.

Indian scorers: Diptayan Ghosh 5.5/9; Karthikeyan Murali 8/10; Aravindh Chithambaram 8/9; B Kumaran 4.5/9; G.K. Monnisha 0.5/3. Aravindh was India’s best player gaining 19.4 Elo while Karthikeyan Murali made 10.1 Elo and also became a Grand Master mid-way through this event.

Experienced coach, Grand Master R.B. Ramesh was the coach of the Indian team. He runs his own chess academy, Chess Gurukul in Chennai. He trains most of these young players personally as well.

India’s advancement can be seen in the context that our main Olympiad team played from 1956 to 2014 and won a bronze medal this year in

2014. Our Youth are faring better and have won the titles in 2007, 2008, 2013 and now 2014. Our youngsters are building strongly from what our senior players have achieved.

Final placings (match points): 1 India (gold) 18/20; 2 Russia (silver) 17; 3 Iran (bronze) 16; 4 Hungary-1 14; 5-10. Canada, Georgia, Belarus, Romania, Israel, Moldova

13 each; 11-15. Germany, Turkey, Ukraine, Mongolia, Serbia 12 each…54 teams.

IM. Karthikeyan Murali

IM. Vr. Arvindh Chidambaram

IM. Diptayan Ghosh

B. Kumaran

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The gold medal winning Indian Youth

Olympiad team was given a formal

warm reception at the Chennai Airport

onDecember 23, 2014 when they

returned from Gyor, Hungary.The team,

comprising of coach R.B. Ramesh and

the players minus Diptayan Ghosh

(of Kolkata) were received by officials

of the Chennai and Kanchi District

Chess Associations, the Tamil Nadu

State Chess Association and the

All India Chess Federation.

A crown was placed on the heads of Karthikeyan Murali and Aravindh Chithambaram and all of

them were garlanded and offers flowers and sweets. That is Chennai's own way of welcoming

champions. This tradition started in 1987 and is happening more and more often these years.

The previous one was when the bronze medal winners returned from Tromso, Norway in August

this year.

B Kumaran, G.K. Monnisha were the other two players who arrived. Among those who received

the team were V. Hariharan (AICF Secretary) and his wife Malarvizhi Hariharan, Sakthi Prabhakar,

K Gopalakrishnan, Ganesan, N.K. Nandakumar, K Thirukalathy and others.

Indian team won this event for the fourth time. India had won it in 2007, 2008, 2013 and

now 2014. With many talented junior stars in our line up more such titles are on the way in

the years ahead. India was fortunate to have two stars from the successful team of 2013

which is Diptayan Ghosh and Karthikeyan Murali. Both are world beaters in that age category.

The World Youth Chess Olympiad is for players under 16.

Coach R.B. Ramesh had been part of the Indian youth success in the past. Once he said players

played cricket in Turkey to relax and unwind! Ramesh's coming into chess is also quite a story.

He was resting at home following a head injury playing cricket. Anand had won the 1987 World

Junior then and the resultant wave brought in many including Ramesh.

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Anand wins London Chess Classic

Vishy Anand won the 6th London Chess Classic on tie-break from Vladimir Kramnik and Anish

Giri after defeating Mickey Adams with the black pieces in

the final round on Sunday. Final scores in tie-break order: 1

Anand 7, 2 Kramnik 7, 3 Giri 7, 4 Nakamura 6, 5 Adams 4,

6 Caruana 4.

It speaks volumes for the character of the man that he was

able to bounce back from the disappointment of Sochi a

few weeks ago to take this prestigious title in London. And

prestige is a two-way street: Vishy Anand’s name on the

trophy adds lustre to the London Chess Classic and means

that all three world champions active during the tournament’s

existence have now won it. Vishy’s win on tie-break is karmic

compensation for losing out to Magnus Carlsen on tie-break

in 2010 despite defeating him in the tournament. Given that

the event has now been in existence for five years and six

events, it might be timely to publish our roll of honour: 2009 and 2010 Magnus Carlsen; 2011

Vlad Kramnik; 2012 Magnus Carlsen; 2013 Hikaru Nakamura; and now, 2014, Vishy Anand.

You’d be hard pushed to find another 21st

century tournament with a list of winners as impressive as that.

The 3-1-0 scoring system ensured that the outcome was in doubt right down to the final result.

Things looked a little ominous at the start as two Berlin Defences appeared on the board. But

perhaps we’ve been a bit too quick to condemn the modern super-GM’s all-purpose antidote

to 1.e4 as it produced the one decisive result of the round, and indeed decide the destination

of the trophy.

Incidentally, there was one interesting exchange in the commentary room after the Adams-

Anand game. Nigel Short told Vishy that “There were some inner groans when the Berlin was

played." Vishy shot back “by now it can just be called the London!” Do you know, he’s got a

very good point: given that 3...Nf6 against the Ruy Lopez played a vitally important role in

Vladimir Kramnik wresting the world title from Garry Kasparov in 2000, and now Vishy Anand’s

use of the same line to win with Black and thus secure the 2014 London Classic title, there is

a strong case

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for renaming it the London defence to the Ruy Lopez/Spanish. Or, if you like, the Tower of

London rather than the Berlin Wall. For me the clincher is that Vishy says so: if the Tsar of

Russia had the right to name the first grandmasters, then a world champion should have the

privilege of naming opening variations anyway he chooses.The Adams-Anand game was the

first to finish. Having given our heartiest congratulations to Vishy, we must also pass on our

heartfelt commiserations to Mickey Adams, whose tournament started so well but ended so

disappointingly, with losses in the last two rounds. His fourth round loss was grim but he had

reasonable chances in the fifth game. If things had turned out differently, he might easily have

been the man receiving the plaudits instead Press Release 12: 15 December 2014, John Saunders

of Vishy as a win for him in this final game would have won him the tournament on tie-break.

(courtesy:official website)

India widens lead in new rating listby Arvind Aaron

FIDE has published its new rating number on the first of January. India’s lead over the rest of

the nations in the number of players present in the list has widened to 4203. In the second

place behind India is Russia.

The total number of players found in the FIDE rating list is: India 46024, Russia 41821, France

39556, Spain 34171 and Germany 29276.

In the world top ratings, Anand moved to fifth place following his victory in the London Chess

Classic. He is the oldest player in the top ten showing excellent fitness. Carlsen, Caruana,

Grischuk and Topalov are ahead of him. Behind him are Aronian, Giri, Kramnik, Nakamura and

Wesley So (now USA not Philippines!).

India is ranked sixth among nations in the average ratings of the top ten players after Russia,

China, Ukraine, USA and France. Among women India are fifth after China, Russia, Georgia

and Ukraine.

Asian numbers in the rating list: India 46024, Iran 13723, Sri Lanka 6334, Australia 2653,

Malaysia 2373, Bangladesh 2003, Singapore 1963, Philippines 1957, Kazakhstan 1817, China

1598, Vietnam 1568, UAE 1555.

In 2014, India went past China in the number of Grand Masters. India has the most grandmasters

in any Asian nation. Eugenio Torre of the Philippines was Asia’s first Grand Master but India’s

big growth in the last ten years swept past all.

( contd from p.22 )146 Sudheer Kumar J 4147 Lasya K 4148 Srinath Reddy D 4149 Nikhilesh B 4150 Sudharma, Kiran Kokkira 4151 Sai Sumanth Reddy R 4152 Sathwik Penjarla 4153 Garapati Sai Rishitha 4154 Harika Kantamani 4155 Haneesha Arlapalli 4156 Sreenivas Naveen 4157 Dutt B.S. 4158 Ammu Sai Bhargav 4159 Dattha VSMS 4160 Hema Chandra K 4161 Sai Rishi Katari 4162 Ananya D 3½163 Prasada Rao Kommuri 3½164 Kalki Mohan Boda 3½165 Labba Sree Deekshith 3½166 Sajja Satyanarayanan 3½167 Bhavana VSK 3½168 Sai Bhargav Reddy T 3½169 Pradeep Kumar Reddy M 3½170 Adithya V 3½171 Sri Nihar Krishna Palasala 3½172 Amarnath B D V 3½173 Karthik Naik Bhyrapu 3½174 Prasanna V Rao 3½175 Bhavya Sri Ponnaganti 3½176 Nymisha SVSR 3½177 Jayant Lunani 3½178 Venkanna Tuluri 3½179 Venkata Sairam Varada 3½180 Siva Sai Sri Ram Desetti 3½181 Naga Saketh Manukonda 3½182 Raja Rao S 3183 Polisetti Y V E Raja 3184 Sai Hrushikesh Simhdri 3185 Ramachandra Rao Adapa 3186 Ravi Kumar K 3187 Krishna Koruprolu 3188 Lakshmi Srinivas D 3189 Sai Rajveer Kondeti 3190 Haranadh JV 3191 Shreya K 3

192 Sai Sujan Anna 3193 Hasini Nagumalla 3194 Sairam Attuluri 3195 Satyateja Ravulapally 3196 Vishal Pydah 3197 Srinivas Kamisetty 3198 Akhil Bhuvanesh Reddy P 3199 Mani Teja MVBNS 3200 Haridhar Kartik M 3201 Hari Vikas K 3202 Reshma Neelima V 3203 Vennela D 3204 Vinod Kumar MVSSSN 3205 Durga Prasad S. 2½206 Mohan Rao Polamarasetti 2½207 Manoj KVSRK 2½208 Sai Kiran Giduturi 2½209 Rohith Babu P 2½210 Venkata Rao Vuta 2½211 Abhishikth YVSS 2½212 Satya Vaishnavi Jami 2½213 Umamahesh Varma Seva 2½214 Reddy KU 2215 Kavitha Devi D 2216 Sri Venkat Satya M K 2217 Lasya Priyanka V 2218 Satya Karthikk Apparaju 2219 Prince Precious Manoj Y 2220 Varnika Reddy Sathi 2221 Sai Durga Praveen K 2222 Jay Gupta 2223 Anantha Sarma M 2224 Chaitanya EVVAS 1½225 Bhagya Sree S 1226 Sri Satya Vinay M 1227 Rohan Kumar S 1228 Krishna Teja N 0229 Sai Nihar Krishna 0

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1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating Chess Tournament was inaugurated by Kerala state Minister Shri Aryadhan Muhammed at Hotel Nilambur Manor on 26th December 2014 at 11.00 am. The 9 round Swiss system event attracted 175 players from 10 states and 1 union territory (Puducherry). Among them 106 were rated players. Top billing was given to Telang Mrinal of Goa. Shakeel, Satheesh, Joseph of Kerala and Ste-phen Raj of Tamilnadu shared their lead with full points at the end of 4th round. Satheesh took the sole lead with 5 points in 5th round. Jojo P John and Sreehari G of Kerala were the leaders with 6.5 points after 7th round. 11years old Hari Suresh and 12 years old J.P. Karan followed the leaders with 6 points. Jojo and Sreehari maintained their lead with 7 points after the penultimate round. Four players ended the tournament with 7.5 points each. But better tie break helped Jojo P john to win title. Raja V of Tamilnadu and Sreehari G and Hari Suresh of Kerala were in 2nd, 3rd and 4th spot respectively. Top 3 winners received cash award with A.P.Aslam memorial trophy.Kerala MLA P.K. Basheer distributed the prizes to the winners in the presence of Municipal Chairman Shri Aryadhan Shoukath and IM K. Ratnakran. The tournament concluded in a grand manner. Final Ranking:Rk. Name Pts. 1 Jojo P John 7.5 2 Raja V 7.5 3 Sreehari G 7.5 4 Hari Suresh 7.5 5 Sasikumar K P 7 6 Akash K A 7

1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating Chess Tournament below 1600

Jojo P.John wins at NilamburL.R.Bhuavana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

7 Aziz M 7 8 Sriram Udhayakumar 7 9 Aanandha Kumar M S 7 10 Stephen Raj A 6.5 11 Satheesh P 6.5 12 Karan J P 6.5 13 Shajahan T Moideen 6.5 14 Raj Kumar B 6.5 15 Sahadevan M 6.5 16 Sudheer M K 6.5 17 Sai Kiran K V 6.5 18 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty 6.5 19 Amal Roozi 6.5 20 Anas M Saleem 6 21 Shakeel O P 6 22 Sameer C 6 23 Mohamed Yousuff A 6 24 Joseph S A 6 25 Shivashankaran R 6 26 Chandran K C 6 27 Fathima Abdeen 6 28 Rajashree Rajeev 6 29 Jeeva T 6 30 Harikrishnan S B 6 31 Hareendran V 6 32 Magesh M 6 33 Unnikrishnan T 6 34 Joju K V 5.5 35 Telang Mrinal 5.5 36 Junaid V 5.5 37 Sudheer K B 5.5 38 Swaha V S 5.5 39 Anfas Muhammed 5.5 40 Rahul Rajeev 5.5 41 Deepak Kumar R 5.5 42 Sivaa G M 5.5 43 Sandeep T 5.5 44 Naushad Vavachan 5.5 45 Abdul Raheem K A 5.5 46 Brahmaha V S 5.5 47 Ummer Thayyil 5.5 48 Abdul Gafoor K. 5.5

49 Niranjan Raghu 5.5 50 Pranav Shridhar 5.5 51 Krishna M K Ramanatha 5.5 52 Anjitha Krishnakumar 5.5 53 S.A. Surya Kumar 5 54 Abhinav Chakrapani S 5 55 Abdurahiman Elangoli 5 56 Sujith Kumar K V 5 57 Abdul Samad Erumali 5 58 Sakkir Hussain 5 59 Adhi Dev K P 5 60 Amal Raj N R 5 61 Adarsh P.B 5 62 Athish Vikram C S 5 63 Vinodkumar K V 5 64 Ahammed Kutty K 5 65 Bharath Kulandai Velu 5 66 Muhammed Faizal K T 5 67 Jagadeesh O K 5 68 Kanishk S K 5 69 Akhil Chandran S 5 70 Sharsha Backer 5 71 Laiju Ct 5 72 Logeswaran T 5 73 Chandi Takhellambam 5 74 Mohammed Sudheer P P 5 75 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 5 76 Shaiju Andrews 5 77 Ajay Babu Eladath 5 78 Prabhakaran K 5 79 Prabeesh K 4.5 80 Gowtham K J 4.5 81 Ashkar M M 4.5 82 Anantha Sai S 4.5 83 Harsha R 4.5 84 Nanda Gopa Sachin 4.5 85 Naveen K 4.5 86 Bhuvanesh Kumar M 4.5 87 Nagarajan V 4.5 88 Gokul Nath T K 4.5 89 Syam Hari H V 4.5 90 Viswanadhan P 4.5 91 Radhakrishnan K 4.5 92 Murali N P 4.5 93 Ashitha K M 4.5 94 Shivanth M 4.5 95 Tejaswi R 4.5

96 Sanjay Srinivasan R 4.5 97 Shaiju Villunnikkal 4.5 98 Shafi Paramban 4.5 99 Gowtham Sakthivel 4.5 100 Aniket Mondal 4.5 101 Thangadurai M 4.5 102 Ramakrishnan T V 4 103 Darsan T I 4 104 Ashwin K R 4 105 Karunakara Menon K 4 106 Shyju M 4 107 Balakrishnan.K 4 108 Gokhulavasan S 4 109 Manoj Kumar J 4 110 Devanand K C 4 111 Shirodkar Aayush 4 112 Denil James 4 113 Siva Shanmugam S 4 114 Prabhu Veluswamy 4 115 Farha Rahman E 4 116 Bhuvanesh T 4 117 Yadhukrishna V 4 118 Vijay Johnson P 4 119 Pratyush J 4 120 Yadhu Krishna P P 4 121 Dipu Jacob 4 122 Pavithran K M 4 123 Raaj Kiruthik N P 4 124 Nived C 4 125 Krishnendu V 4 126 Harikiran J 4 127 Sudeep K C 3.5 128 Krishnadev S Nair 3.5 129 Yaser Arafat 3.5 130 Sujin S 3.5 131 Sumesh K 3.5 132 Vishnu Sekhar 3.5 133 Charuta J Shetye 3.5 134 Saravana Kumar S 3.5 135 Abilash M 3.5 136 Suresh Babu M 3.5 137 Atul V Chandran 3.5 138 Asna Abdeen 3.5 139 Sanjeev Kumar S 3.5 140 Raizel T 3.5 141 Athul M E 3 142 Dara Sai Preetam Reddy 3

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R T Narayana Memorial Cup FIDE Rated (below 1600) Chess tournament was organ-ised by Mandya Chess Academy, Mandya at SB Samudaya Bhavan, Near Factory Circle, mandya from 26th to 28th December 2014.Mr Abhaya Chandra Jain, Minister for Youth Empowerment and Sport, Government of Karnataka inaugurated the tournament by moving the pawn. Mr M S Atmanada, Member of District Stadium Committee and Ex Minister, Govt of Karnataka, Mr P M So-mashekhar, Vice President, Sports Authority of Karnataka, Mr K M Mohan Kumar, Presi-dent, Mysuru Urban Development Authority, Mr Hanumantha R , Joint Secretary, AICF and Mr Manjunath Jain, Secretary, Mandya Chess Academy were present on occasion.A total of 417 players from Andra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Gujarat, Keral, Maharastra, and Tamilnadu participated in the tourna-ment. out of which 163 were rated players.Ananda K R (1580)of Mandya was top seed followed by Dhanush Raghav (1541) of Tam-ilnadu, Ekantharaju (1539) of KarnatakaUnrated Player Mr Pavan Kumar Yaramala of Andra Pradesh won the tournament by scoring eight and half points. He defeated Mr Ekantharaju (1539), Mr Arun D (1477), MrAnil N J (1484), Mr Sunil Bhargav (1364), Mr Sanath Jamadagni (1397), Mr Komal Srivatsava Sajja (1308), Mis Kushi Hombal (1193), Ganesh MS and drew with Navodith Bhat (1272).Mr Siddhant Dharwar (1483) and Mr Suhas Reddy M (1487) scored 8 points each and on better tie break score Siddhant Dharwar became first runner up and Suhas Reddy 2nd runner up. Chief guest of Prize distribu-tion ceremony, Mr Anantha Kumar Swamiji,

R T Narayana Memorial cup FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, Mandya

Pavan Kumar Yaramala wins tournamentVasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

Founder Secretary of Abhinav Bharathi Vidya Kendra, Mandya, Dr (Lion) G A Ramesh, Mr Hanumantha R, Joint Secretary, AICF, Mr K M Mohan Kumar, President, Mysuru Urban Development Authority, Mrs Meera Shivalin-gaiah, President Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Mrs Nisha Olivera, Branch Manager, Federal Bank, Mandya, distributed the prizes.Final Ranking: Rk. Name Pts. 1 Pavan Kumar Yaramala 8.5 2 Siddhant Dharwar 8 3 Suhas Reddy M 8 4 Vinayak B Hariwal 7.5 5 Arun D 7.5 6 Ekantharaju 7.5 7 Srinidhi B S 7.5 8 Sakshath U K 7.5 9 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 7 10 Anil N J 7 11 Sai Siddardha A 7 12 Kishan Chand 7 13 Prajwal V S 7 14 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 7 15 Naveen H J 7 16 Abid Ali Mujawar 7 17 Porob Vraj 7 18 Dinakar B R 7 19 Sanath K Jamadagni 7 20 Muniraj K 7 21 G. Harish 7 22 Aravindh Srinivasan 7 23 Mahima Sherigar 7 24 Anand D B 7 25 Srinivasa 6.5 26 Chorge Mangesh 6.5 27 Dhanush Ragav 6.5 28 Sri Balaji M 6.5 29 Sudhindra A Rao 6.5 30 Somasekhar Prasad 6.5 31 Niranjan V Sangam 6.5

32 Kunal Verma 6.5 33 Chirag Mudraje 6.5 34 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6.5 35 Abdulh Rahaman K 6.5 36 Chetana D 6.5 37 Dinesh Rajachar 6.5 38 Karthik Jagannath 6.5 39 Sudheera Satyanarayana 6.5 40 Dhanush Ravi 6.5 41 Lokesh N 6.5 42 Vijaykumar R P 6.5 43 Sagar Ravi 6.5 44 Veerabhadri K 6.5 45 Hemadri Dasari 6.5 46 Wanjari Rajendra 6 47 Navodith V Bhat 6 48 Mahesh Adra 6 49 Prashanth J Naik 6 50 Arifulla T Abdul Hameed 6 51 Pranav Kumar 6 52 Hemadri T 6 53 Neha Ananth K 6 54 Sunil Bhargav N 6 55 Tejas Cavale 6 56 Kavi Samrat P 6 57 Abhishek K J 6 58 Harsh M Averi 6 59 Dara Devadanam 6 60 Shibin K Benny 6 61 Sharath R Shanbhag 6 62 Nidhi Shenoy 6 63 Srinivasan Viswanathan 6 64 Mekala Negendra 6 65 Deviprasad B H 6 66 Hariharan S 6 67 Samyak Kumar Jain 6 68 Banthiya Rishabh 6 69 Aathreya Sastry B 6 70 Ramana Prasad P V 6 71 Sarfaraz Goodwala 6 72 Varun Vishnumurthy 6 73 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 6 74 Chiranjan S 6 75 Sanjay Kumar N 6 76 Kruthik K S 6 77 Manish Paul Simon 6 78 Priyanka Narayan 6

79 Sanjay Kumar S 6 80 Poorvik M P 6 81 Kori Amitanand 6 82 Jakir Hussain 5.5 83 Manish Sherigar 5.5 84 Pavan Kumar Devaraj 5.5 85 Chaithanya Ganesh 5.5 86 Supraja Mahadevaswamy 5.5 87 Shashikirana T K 5.5 88 Girish Reddy 5.5 89 Satvik V 5.5 90 Nachiketh Adiga 5.5 91 Samarth J Rao 5.5 92 Daniel K R 5.5 93 Suresh Agarwal 5.5 94 Lakshmi Narayanan Rajadurai 5.5 95 Abhilash Reddy 5.5 96 Srinivas T Kulkarni 5.5 97 Shaik Shavali 5.5 98 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5.5 99 Diya James 5.5 100 Chandrashekhar K M 5.5 101 Anjan H 5.5 102 Arnav Muralidhar 5.5 103 Raghavendra G 5.5 104 Oke Aditya 5.5 105 C Krishna G Viswanath 5.5 106 Yatheendra Vamshi S 5.5 107 Preetham H N 5.5 108 Vinod Kumar Boya 5.5 109 Binni Boyina Penchala Pratap 5.5 110 Yaseen Goodwala 5.5 111 Sanjana Raghunath 5.5 112 Santhosh A Pinto 5.5 113 Sukumar.S 5.5 114 Srikant Nayak A 5.5 115 Bagwan Vasim 5.5 116 Vijay Sridharan 5.5 117 Manjula R 5.5 118 Rakesh N 5.5 119 Sathvik M N 5.5 120 Pavithra K J 5.5 121 Sreevatsa Srinivasa 5.5 122 Vradhika Shetty 5.5 123 Sanjiv Kumar J 5.5 124 Sanjith C 5 125 Shabreen T Khanam 5

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The First Sameen Singh FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2014 for below 2000 rated play-ers was conducted by Sameen Singh Chari-table Society under the aegis of Punjab State Chess Association at beautiful DAV Interna-tional School Amritsar from 26-28 Dec 2014. The tournament was organized in the mem-ory of Dr. Sameen Singh, a national level chess player who was five times CBSE North Zone-II champion from 2005 to 2009 and twice position holder at national level. On the dark day of 22nd March 2014, he met with a fatal accident near Delhi NCR and took his last breath on 7th April 2014. The event attracted a total number of 425 players including 196 international rated players from across the country. The actual schedule of the event was from 25-28 Dec 2014 with 10 round but due to force majeure situation the entire first day was lost and the event was curtailed to 8 round Swiss System tournament. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. 2,25,000/-. The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. V P Lakhanval, Chairman DAV International School in presence of Shri. Narinder Singh, President Punjab State Chess Association; Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV Interna-tional School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, Presi-dent Sameen Singh Charitable Society and father of Dr. Sameen Singh.The event was played under the time control of 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move and players moved to business mode from the start itself and provided much excitement till the end. After the seventh and penultimate round four players namely Anchit Vyas, Akshay Anand, Rishabh Nishad and Rahul Ubadhyay were

in joint lead with six and half points. But in the final round, Ubadhyay defeated Akshay Anand while Nishad outwitted Anchit Vyas in a spectacular manner to take their point tally to seven and half points. But better Buchholz score helped Ubadhyay to clinch the winner’s trophy along with a cash prize of Rs. 31,000/- while Rishabh Nishad satisfied with runner-up position and pocketed a cash award of Rs. 21,000/- Haribabu Sharma, Aswani Grover and Mayur Vispute tied for the third spot with seven points and Sharma become second runner-up with better tie break score while Grover and Vispute finished fourth and fifth respectively.Mehak Jain bagged the best woman player trophy while Dinesh Asotra adjudged as best unrated player. Anshul Mehta, Soham Ka-motra and Namitbir Singh Walia became the best boys players in Under-15, Under-12 and Under-9 age categories respectively while Garushi, Udisha and Trisha Kanyamarala won the same age category prizes in girls section. Shri. Kuljinder Singh Malhi, Assistant Educa-tion Officer (Sports) gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the winners in presence of Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV Inter-national School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable Society in a glittering closing ceremony.Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Rahul Ubadhyay 7½2 Rishabh Nishad 7½3 Haribabu Sharma 74 Grover Aswani 75 Vispute Mayur 76 Anchit Vyas 6½7 Akshay Anand 6½

1st Sameen Singh FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2014 for below 2000,Amritsar

Rahul Ubadhyay wins titleBy IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

8 Prithu Gupta 6½9 Shubham Shukla 6½10 Kadav Omkar 6½11 Awasthi Balgovind 6½12 Madhav Mahere 6½13 Swapnil Raj 6½14 Javed Ansari 6½15 Katiyar Prashant 6½16 Manoj Kumar 617 Vaibhav Aggarwal 618 Rawat Abhishek 619 Nitul Khare 620 Thakur Sanjeev 621 Chandel Jagdish 622 Ashitosh Kumar 623 Vikrant Jaglan 624 Gaikwad Vishal 625 Nema Anupam 626 Nilesh Jindal 627 Ankit Sen 628 Amanpreet Singh 629 Tayyeb Asif Mohmad 630 Babi Dildar Ahmed 631 Dinesh Asotra 632 Raja Bose 633 Kumar Sanu 634 Dishant Jain 635 Anirban Basu 636 Nakul Chaudhary 637 Anshul Mehta 638 Arora Honi 5½39 Raghav Bagri 5½40 Sharma Pankaj 5½41 Ravi Shanker 5½42 Arvindu 5½43 Manik Arora 5½44 Bharti Vishal 5½45 Vikram Mukhija 5½46 Thakur Diwan 5½47 Vaibhav Barahate 5½48 Kuldeep Srivastava 5½49 V Anush Kumar 5½50 Jyotirmay Singh 5½51 Ravi Sharma 5½52 Namitbir Singh Walia 5½53 Soham Kamotra 5½54 Chandrajeet Singh R 5½

55 Rishabh Jain 5½56 Dushyant Sharma 5½57 Deepak Poonia 5½58 Ajit Kumar Saw 5½59 Punit Indora 5½60 Sinha Shivam 5½61 Raghav Juneja 5½62 Vardan Nagpal 5½63 Chirag Arora 5½64 Krishan Kumar 5½65 Prabhsimran Singh 5½66 Sudhakar 5½67 Kapil Dadhich 5½68 Nikhil Bansal 5½69 Darshan V P S 5½70 Singh Amarjit 5½71 Ayushmaan Saini 5½72 Mahendra Lakhyani 573 Amit Sharma 574 Saikat Nath 575 R Mahendra Singh 576 Das Anindo Kumar 577 Mehak Jain 578 Gautam Sharma 579 Anirudh Kapoor 580 Saraju Khan 581 Gaurav Sood 582 Vivekananda L 583 Jonny Verma 584 Anshul Bathla 5 85 Sahithya G 586 Sunil Gupta 587 Arushi Kotwal 588 Umesh S Lalwani 589 Jeeru Yaswanth Reddy 590 Pratish Raj 591 Piyush Khurana 592 Bharath M 593 Harvinder Singh 594 Prabhujot Singh 595 Sanjay Kumar Das 596 Gaha Narayan 597 Sharma Keshav 598 Alok Kumar Yadav 599 Jose A N K 5100 Rambabu Sachan 5101 Arman Arora 5

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Selected games from Asian Youth Championship 2014,New Delhi

Annotated by IM Manuel AaronNazarov,Rustem (TKM) (2091)Sultan,F.S M Alsham (UAE) (1265)[C80]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Nxe4 6.Re1

6...b5?! [Black enters a violent variation and comes out second best. Better was: 6...Nc5 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Nxe5 Be7 9.d4 Ne6 10.c3=] 7.Rxe4 bxa4 8.Nxe5 Ne7 [G.Krauss vs S.Lerner, 2002 went: 8...Qe7 9.Qe1 f5 10.Re3 f4 11.Nxc6 fxe3 12.Nxe7 exf2+ 13.Qxf2 Bxe7 and white won.] 9.Qf3

9...f6 [Black is lost, but slightly better re-

sistance was offered by: 9...f5 (attacking the rook that is threatening the discovered check) 10.Qh5+ g6 11.Nxg6 fxe4 12.Nxh8+ Ng6 13.Nxg6] 10.Qh5+ g6 11.Nxg6 Kf7 [If 11...hxg6 12.Qxg6#!; However, 11...d6 (would have led to a less spectacular defeat!) 12.Nxe7+ Kd7 13.Qg4+ Ke8 14.Nc6+! Be7 15.Qg7!] 12.Nxe7+ Kg7 13.Rg4# 1-0

Atabayev,Saparmyrat (Tkm) Lorparizangeneh,Shahin (Iran) [B12]1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Ne7 6.0–0 c5 7.c4 Nbc6 8.Na3 a6 [H.Vysochin vs M Podgaets, 2007 went 8...dxc4 9.Nxc4 Nd5 10.Bg5 Qc7 11.Ne3=] 9.dxc5 d4 10.Qa4 Ng6 11.Rd1 d3 [The natural move here leads to some exciting play: 11...Bxc5 12.b4! Ba7 (12...Bxb4 13.Nxd4 Qa5 14.Qxa5 Nxa5 15.Nxf5 exf5 16.Rb1) 13.c5 0–0 14.Nc4 Be4 15.Nd6 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 Ngxe5 17.Be4 f5=] 12.Qb3 Bxc5 13.Bxd3 Bxd3 14.Rxd3 Qc7 Black will soon lose his extra pawn and the game will tend to be in his favour. 15.Nc2 0–0 16.Be3 Ncxe5 17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.Rd2 Rac8 19.Bf4 [19.Bxc5 Qxc5 20.Qxb7 Rb8 21.Qxa6 (21.Qe4 Nxc4 22.Rd4 Nxb2µ) 21...Nf3+ 22.gxf3 Qg5+ wins the exchange.] 19...Bd6 20.Rad1 Qxc4 21.Rxd6 Qxf4 22.Ne3 h6 23.Qxb7

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

23...Ng4! An excellent move attacking both f2 and h2. 24.Qf3 [If 24.Nxg4? Qxd6! 25.Rxd6 Rc1+ mates.; 24.R6d2 Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Nxe3+ A devastating blow that shatters white's castled position and paves the way for a mating attack by the black queen and rook. 26.fxe3 Rc5! (threatening 27 Rf5+) 27.e4 Rg5! 28.Rf2 Rb5! (now the threat is through the queen-side after 29....Qh1+, 30 Ke2 Rxb2+) 29.Qd7 (defend-ing the Rook on d1) 29...Qh1+ 30.Ke2 Qh4 31.Qd4 Rfb8 with a decisive attack for black.] 24...Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Qxd6! Vacating the h2 square for his knight. 26.Rxd6 Nh2+ 27.Ke2 Nxf3 28.Kxf3

28...a5 Black has won a pawn and the ex-change through excellent middle-game play. Now he follows it up with admirable endgame technique. 29.b3 [If 29.Ra6 Ra8 as well as 29...Rc5 are good] 29...Rfd8 30.Rb6 [If 30.Ra6 Ra8! With the exchange and a pawn up, black

has many, many options.] 30...Rd2! It pays to play aggressively at all stages of the game. 31.a4 Rb2 32.Rb5 [32.Nc4?? Rxc4] 32...Rc3! 33.Rxa5 Rcxb3 34.Ra8+ Kh7 35.a5 Ra2 36.Ra7

36...Kg6! As white's a-pawn cannot get away far, black first protects his f7 pawn. 37.Ke4 Ra4+ [This pushes the white king back to f3 as 38 Ke5 Rb5+ would cost white his a-pawn, his only hope to survive. 37...Rxf2 was simpler.] 38.Kf3 Rba3 Ke4 0–1Azali,Ashkan (Iran) (2033)Visakh,Nr (Ind) (2319) [B51]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4 a6 6.Bxd7+ Bxd7 7.c4 Nf6 8.Nc3 e5 [This violent move, voluntarily acceping a backward pawn on d6 in a Maroczy bind set-up seems to be bad. Better was the usual 8...g6 ] 9.Qd3² h6 10.0–0 Be7 11.Rd1 0–0 12.c5 dxc5 13.Nxe5 Be6 14.Qg3

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

14...Qb8 [Not 14...Qc7? 15.Ng6 Qxg3 16.Nxe7+ Kh7 17.hxg3 and white is win-ning.] 15.Bf4 Nh5 16.Nc6 Qxf4 17.Nxe7+ Kh7 18.Qxf4 Nxf4 19.g3?! [Better was: 19.Ned5 Bxd5 20.exd5 Rfd8 21.g3 Nh5 22.Na4 Nf6 23.Nb6 Rab8 24.d6 Nd7=] 19...Nh3+ 20.Kg2 Rae8 21.Nf5 Ng5 22.f3 Threat 23 h4 menac-ing the Ng5. 22...f6 23.Nd6 Re7 24.Na4 Bh3+ 25.Kf2 f5 26.exf5 Bxf5 27.Nxc5?

[White goes pawn hunting when disaster is imminent over the f-file. Prudent was: 27.Nxf5 Rxf5 28.f4 Ne4+ 29.Kf3 g5 30.Nb6=] 27...Bg4!+- 28.Re1 [28.f4? Re2+ 29.Kf1 Rc2 and the threat of 30...Bh3+ followed by 31 ...Nf3+ is killing.] 28...Rxf3+ 29.Kg2 Rc7 30.Rac1 Bh3+ 31.Kg1 Rf8! Vacating f3 for his knight. 32.Red1 Re7 33.Rc2 Nf3+ 34.Kh1

34...Ne1! Threatens 35...Rf1# 0–1

Pranav,Vijay (Ind) (2328)Lorparizangeneh,Shahin (Iran) 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.Nc3 e6= 7.Nh4?! [It is hard to fathom this move which does nothing to help develop his two bishops. And in the bargain, he takes his knight to an edge of the board. Better was 7.Bd2 trying to complete his development quickly should lead to an equal, dull game.] 7...Bh5= [And black responds with an equally mysterious move! Better was: 7...Qxb3 8.axb3 Be7=] 8.h3 Na6 9.g4 Qxb3 10.axb3 Nb4 In this queenless middle-game the more resourceful player would win. 11.Ra4 Bg6 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.g5?! This unwise move offers black objec-tives to attack and leads to a tough position for himself. Better were 13 Be2 or 13 f3 keeping the position elastic. 13...Nd7 14.Na2 [Often the way to equality and a comfortable game is not reached by exchanging pieces, but by com-pleting development and not presenting the opponent with objectives. Better was 14.Bd2 ] 14...Nxa2 15.Rxa2 Bb4+ 16.Ke2 Ke7 17.Bg2 Rh4 18.f4 [After 18.Bd2 Bxd2 19.Kxd2 a6 20.f4 f6 21.gxf6+ gxf6 Black has a slight advantage on the king-side thanks to pressure on the h-file.] 18...f6 19.gxf6+ gxf6 20.c5?! On general principles it is not good to block the position when one has the two bishops against bishop and knight. 20...Rhh8 21.e4 dxe4 [Better was: 21...f5 22.Ra4 a5 23.exd5 exd5 24.Bd2 Bxd2 25.Kxd2 Rh4 26.Ke3 Nf6 27.b4 As his f4 pawn is destined to fall, black must seek counter-play on the queen-side. 27...Kd7! 28.Rxa5 (28.bxa5 Re8+ 29.Kd3 Nh5–+) 28...Re8+ 29.Kd3 (29.Kf3 Nh5!–+) 29...Nh5–+] 22.Bxe4 f5 [It is hard to imagine that the following alternative was a better one as it apparently opens up the centre allowing white's bishops good play. 22...e5! 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.dxe5 Bxc5 25.Bxg6 Nxe5³ Though material is level, white has doubled pawns and his pieces stuck in odd, ineffective squares permitting the better developed white

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronforces to seize the initiative.] 23.Bf3= Rhd8? [This puzzling move, taking the rook from a vantage point to a square where it is ineffective shows black's momentary indecision. He will have to take back this rook to h8 soon. 23...Nf6 was better.] 24.Be3 Nf6 25.Raa1 [Better was: 25.Ra4 (forcing black to push his pawn a7-a5 which is hardly an advantage for black and then get his rook back to a1.) 25...a5 26.Raa1 is about equal but with a slight pull for black.] 25...Kf7 26.h4 Rh8 Diagram

27.Rag1 [The game is unclear and not deci-sively in favour of either player. Lots of possi-bilities with different strategic ideas and tactics come into play in this position with different weakness both players. One good possibility for white is: 27.Ra4 a5 28.Bd2 Bxd2 29.Kxd2 Nd5 30.Bxd5 exd5 31.b4=] 27...Ba5 28.Rg5 Bd8!? Black threatens to win the exchange with 29...Ng4! trapping the rook by cutting off its escape back to g1 or g2. 29.Rg2 Bc7 30.Rg5 Bd8 31.Rg2 Be7 32.Bf2 Rh6 33.Rhg1 Rah8 34.Kd3 Ne8 35.Ke3 Black can win the h4 pawn only at the cost of his own g6 pawn. 35...Bf6 36.Ra1 a6 37.Rag1 Nc7 With the h4 pawn defying capture, black shifts his focus to the d4 pawn and is about to attack it with ....Nb5 and ....Rd8. 38.h5 [Threatened with attack on all fronts, white desperately sacrifices a pawn for activity. If 38.Be1 Nb5 39.Bc3 Rd8 40.Rd2 Rxh4–+; or, if 38.Kd3 Nb5 and if now 39.Kc4

Rxh4! 40.Bxh4 Rxh4 41.Rxg6 (if 41.Kd3 Bxd4 42.Rf1 Rxf4 black is winning as he has three pawns for the sacrificed exchange and a great position.) 41...Rxf4 wins for black with a double attack - 42...Rxd4!# and 42... Rxf3.] 38...gxh5

39.Bh4 this is the resource on which white has based his counter-play. 39...Ne8 [Black is overly cautious and overprotects g7. He could win with: 39...Nd5+ 40.Bxd5 exd5 41.Bxf6 Kxf6 42.Rg7 R8h7! 43.Rg8 h4–+] 40.Bg5!? R6h7! 41.Rh1 h4 42.Rh3 Nc7! White plays this after the threat of Rg7 is no longer possible. 43.Bxf6 Kxf6 44.Rgh2 Kf7 45.Rh1 Ne8 46.Rg1 Nf6 47.Rgh1 Ng4+ 48.Ke2 Kf6 49.Rg1 Rd8! This move returns his extra pawn in return for a victorious rook ending. 50.Bxg4 fxg4 51.Rxg4 Rxd4 52.Rgxh4 Rxh4 53.Rxh4 Rb4! After this move, the scattered, un-coordinated white pawns fall like the proverbial rotten apples. 54.Rh3 Rxf4 55.Kd2 Rb4 56.Kc3 a5 57.Rh8 e5 58.Ra8 Rb5 59.Kc4 Kf5 60.Rf8+ Ke4 61.Rd8 Kf4 62.Rf8+ Ke3 63.Re8

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

63...Kd2! Amazingly, the white king is in a mating net! 64.Rd8+ [If 64.Rxe5? Rb4# is an unexpected mate.] 64...Kc2 0–1Ananya,Suresh (Ind) (1924)Bauyrzhan,Arnash (Kaz) (1957) [B42]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.0–0 d5 8.c4 Nf6 9.exd5 cxd5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Nc3 Qc6 12.Bg5 [D.Wegener 2312 vs T. Hebesberger 2288, 2002 went: 12.Be2 Bb7 13.Bf3 Qc7 14.Qa4+ Nd7 15.Bf4 Qb6 16.Rad1 Rd8 17.Bxb7 Qxb7 18.Nd5 Bc5 19.Nc7+ Ke7+- and white later won.] 12...Bb7 13.Qa4 Qxa4 [13...Be7=] 14.Nxa4 Nd5 15.Rac1 h6 16.Bd2 Be7 17.Nc3 0–0 18.Nxd5 Bxd5 19.Bb1 Bf6 Material is even in this game. The position is also equal, but black could have better options as her bishops are aggressively placed. 20.Bc3 Rab8 Black is confident that the doubled pawns on her f-file would not be a problem for her. 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.b3

22...Rb4?! [This move indicates that black has little idea of the complexities that could arise from this level ending. Both 22...Kg7 and 22...Rfc8 are equal.] 23.f3 a5 24.Bc2 Kg7 25.Bd1 Ra8= Black plans a5-a4 to create an isolated pawn for white on the queen-side and make it an object of attack. 26.Rf2 f5 27.Rd2 Kf6 28.Rc7 Rb7 29.Rxb7 Bxb7 30.f4 Rg8 31.g3 Ke7 to prevent Rd2-d7 invading her second rank. 32.Be2 Be4 [This move here is not urgent. Bet-

ter was to guard her second rank. Therefore, 32...Rc8! 33.Bb5 Rc7 reaching equality was essential.] 33.Bb5

33...Rd8 [Black is forced to offer exchange of rooks to get some counter-play. After 33...Rc8 34.Rd7+ Kf6 35.Bc4! (White must first guard against the black rook's invasion of her own backyard first before attacking black's a5 pawn. If immediately 35.Ra7? Rc1+ 36.Kf2 Rc2+ 37.Ke3 Rxa2 38.Be8 e5 39.fxe5+ Kxe5 40.Bxf7=) 35...Bb1 36.Ra7 Bxa2 37.Rxa5 Bb1 38.Kf2! white has an advantage as she pos-sesses a passed pawn on the b-file while black would find it very difficult to create a passed pawn on the e-file as she has doubled pawns on the f-file. Nevertheless, white must go miles before she could convert her slight advantage into victory.] 34.Rxd8 Kxd8 The exchange of rooks has made white's task easier as she has a potential passed pawn on the queen-side while black has her central pawns fixed on white square - the same colour as the bishops on the board. 35.Kf2 Kc7 36.Ke3 Bb1 37.a3 f6 38.b4 axb4 39.axb4 Kd6 40.Be8 e5 (See diagram) 41.Bg6! White focuses on the blocked f5 pawn, the only pawn on the board on a white square - and ties down the black bishop to defend it. Tactically, white is threatening to win the f5 pawn with 42 g4 as it is pinned against its bishop. White is winning the game. Black's only hope is to abandon her f5 pawn

and counter attack white's b4 pawn.

(Position after 40.e5)

41...Kd5 [41...Ke6? 42.g4 Bc2 43.b5 exf4+ 44.Kxf4 Kd6 45.Bxf5 Bd1 46.Bd3 Bb3 47.Be4! (If 47.Kf5 Be6+ follows a tricky win: 48.Kg6! Bxg4 49.Kxh6! Kc5 50.h4+-) 47...Kc5 48.Kf5 Bd1 49.Bc6 Be2 50.h4+-] 42.g4 Bc2 43.Bxf5 Ba4 [White wins the pawn ending easily af-ter: 43...Bxf5 44.gxf5 e4 45.b5 h5 46.h4 Kd6 47.Kxe4 Kc5 48.b6 Kxb6 49.Kd5+-] 44.fxe5 fxe5 45.Bd3 Preventing the black king from getting to c4 and threaten her b4-pawn. 45...Bd7 46.Be2 Be8 47.h4 e4 48.b5 h5 49.b6! Kd6 [49...Kc6? 50.Bb5+!! Kxb5 (Or 50...Kxb6 51.Bxe8 hxg4 52.h5! wins.) 51.b7 queens.] 50.g5 Bg6 51.Bb5! If the black king moves anywhere, b6-b7 would queen! 51...Bf7 [Not 51...Bh7 52.Be8! Bf5 53.g6+-] 52.Kxe4 Kc5 53.b7! Bd5+ 54.Ke5 Bxb7 55.Be2! This en-sures that she has two winning connected passed pawns on the king-side. 55...Bc8 56.Bxh5 Bd7 57.Bf7 1–0

4.B.Dolgov, I prize, Shakmaty vs CCCP 1968 1.g7 Rb1+ 2.Ka4 Ra1+ 3.Kb5 Rb1+ 4.Ka6 Ra1+ 5.Kb7 Rb1+ 6.Ka7 Bg1+ 7.Ka8 Ra1+ 8.Kb8 Bh2 9.g3 Bxg3+ 10.Kb7 Rb1+ 11.Ka6 Ra1+ 12.Kb5 Rb1+ 13.Ka4 Ra1+ 14.Kb3 Rb1+ 15.Kc2 Rb2+ 16.Kd3 Rb3+ 17.Ke4 Rb4+ 18.Kf5 Rb5+ 19.Kg4 wins5.Harold Lommer, 3 pr, Szachy 1964-651.Qe8+ Qc8 2.Qe5+ Qc7 3.Qh8+ Qc8 4.Bg8 Rb5 5.Qh2+ Qc7 6.Ra8+ Kxa8 7.Qxc7 Rb1+ 8.Kg2 Rg1+ 9.Kf3 Rf1+ 10.Ke4 Re1+ 11.Kd5 Rd1+ 12.Ke6 Re1+ 13.Kd6 Rd1+ 14.Bd5+ Rxd5 15.Ke66.Osmo Kaila, Comm,Suomen TT 19651.Kd3 a1Q 2.Bb1 Qxb1 3.Nxb1 Kb3 4.Nd2 wins

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Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan

This month’s puzzle is also retro colouring problem. Take your black pencil and colour some of the white men black to reach a position where black king stands check-mated. Answer the questions given below the diagram.

G.Husserl Premio,Israel Ring Ty 1966/71

Colour some of the men black to create a checkmated position. Now which are the black men in the diagram and what is white’s mat-ing move? What was the last move for black before the mate was delivered? (Solution on page 48)

I can’t count the times I have lagged seem-ingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies – counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

- Magnus Carlsen

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Problem World

Gamage and Goethart unpinsby C.G.S.Narayanan

In problem chess a pinned black piece can be unpinned by white when the unpinned piece is no longer in a position to defend a particular white mate. The unpins by white are effected either after the pinned piece is interfered with by another black piece or when the pinned piece itself moves on the pin line resulting in the white mates. These two types of unpin of black are termed Gamage unpins. In the diagram below shows four Gamage unpins in an elegant set-ting. After key 1.Kb4! threatening 2.Rd5 black interferes with the pinned black rook allowing WQ to mate in rank and file.1…Ne6 2.Qxd7 ; 1…Be6 2.Qa7 and 1…Nf5 2.Qg4;1…Bf5 2.Qg1

Jan Hartong Good Companions 1915

Mate in two moves

The second example shows a crisp Gamage unpin variation in a three-mover.There is a set continuation 1…Bxf3+ 2.Kxf3 b5 3.Qf6.After the waiting key 1.Qf6! the random move by the bishop leads to 2.Nc5+ Ka5 3.Qc3.After 1…Bxa4 white switchbacks 2.Qa1(3.Qxa4) b5 3.Qf6 mate. The unpinned BB can no longer interfere on the sixth rank.

A.Goldstein & W.A.WhyattThe Problemist 1967

Mate in three moves

There is yet another interesting variation 1…Bxb7 is met by the sacrificial 2.Qc6.2…Bxc6 3.Ra7.The continuation after 1…Bxf3+ is changed 2.Qxf3.The problem below belongs to the second variety of Gamage unpin where the defences are by the pinned piece on the pinned line

T.Mota2 Pr, Chess Review Decalet Ty 1943

Mate in two movesSolution: 1. Qc3! [2. Qxc6]1... Qc5 2. Qh3; 1... Qc4 2. Qh8; 1... Qxc3 2. Rxc3; 1... Qc7 2. Qxc7In the two variations the pinned black queen interferes with black pawn at d5 and white queen unpins by withdrawal to h3 and h8. When white unpins black not directly but by interfering on the pinned line the resultant white mates are called Goethart mates. In

the first illustration below after the waiting key 1.Kb3! the defence 1…d5 interferes with pinned BRe5 and so white can unpin the BR with the battery mate 2.Nc3. Similarly the correction move 1….Ne2 leads to 2.Nc1, the unpin of BBf1 no longer affects the white battery.1…N any leads to 2.Rxf1 mate.

C.G.S.Narayanan&T.S.KrishnamoorthyThe Hindu. Apr 1969

White mates in two moves

The second problem is an interesting com-bination of Goethart mates and Grimshaw (mutual interference between black rook and black bishop) The two complex variations suf-ficiently compensate for the highly inferior key which takes a flight. After 1.Rxa6! the threat is the double check 2.Nc2.The motif behind the defences 1…Rc4 and 1…Bc4 is to cut off white bishop’s guard on b3 so that white cannot close the WQ line. Unlike in the previous example here both the batteries become operative when black mutually interfere.

Key: 1.Rxa6! (2.Nc2)1…Rc4 2.Nc3! (BBd3 can be safely un-pinned)1…Bc4 2.Nd3! (BRc3 is unpinned). It may be seen that 1…Rc5 is no defence as 2.Nc2 is a double-pin mate.

Wclaw GrzankowskiSachsische Zeitung 1987

White mates in two movesThe problem below has only a single Goethart mate to offer but has two good changes includ-ing the mate after 1…Qe4+.

M.StanI Pr, Romanian Nat.Ty 1939

Mate in two movesSolution: 1. Qg6! [2. Qg3]1.. d6 2. Sd5; 1.. Qe4 2. Qxe4 1... Ke3 2. Qd3; 1.. f1=S 2. Sg4 1. ... Se2 2. Rd3.The set mate after 1…Qe4+ has been changed from 2.Bxe4 to Qxe4 after the flight giving key.

In general I consider that in chess everything rests on tactics. If one thinks of strategy as a block of marble, then tactics are the chisel with which a master operates, in creating works of chess art.

- Tigran Petrosian

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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.    Black to play and win            Black  to play and win

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

                    (Solutions on page ) 47

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

E.Dobrescu 1966 Tjavlovski 1965

1 2

Ignace Vandecasteele 1967 B.Dolgov 1968

3 4

Harold Lommer 1964-65 Osmo Kaila 1965

5 6

White to play and win in all the above six endings (Solutions on page ) 47

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Masters of the past-48 Jorgen Bent LarsenJørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, and he was the first Western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance in chess. He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.Larsen was a six time Danish Champion and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions, reaching the semifinal three times. He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik,Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov. Larsen was born in Tilsted, near Thisted in Denmark and was educated at Aalborg Cathedral School. He represented

Denmark twice in the World Junior Championship, in 1951 at Birmingham (placing fifth) and in 1953 at Copenhagen (placing eighth). He started playing seriously at the age of 17 when he moved to Copenhagen to study Civil Engineering, but he never graduated choosing instead to play chess professionally. He became an International Master at the age of 19 in 1954, from his bronze-medal performance on board one at the Amsterdam Olympiad. He won his first of six Danish Championships in 1954 repeating this feat in 1955, 1956, 1959, 1963, and 1964. Larsen defeated Friðrik Ólafsson in an exhibition match at Oslo in 1955 by 4½–3½. He won at Copenhagen in 1956 with 8/9. Larsen became an International Grandmaster in 1956 with his gold-medal performance on board one at the Moscow Olympiad, where he drew World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. He tied for 1st–2nd places at Hastings 1956–57 on 6½/9 with Svetozar Gligorić. At Dallas 1957, he scored 7½/14 for a shared 3rd–4th place; the winners were Gligorić and Samuel Reshevsky.Larsen was known as a deep thinking and highly imaginative player, more willing to try unorthodox ideas and to take more risks than most of his peers. This aspect of his play could even manifest itself in his choice of openings.He was one of seven top grandmasters who wrote chapters for the 1974 book How to Open a Chess Game. He edited the tourna-ment book for San Antonio 1972 and contributed a chapter to the Raymond Keene edited book Learn From The Grandmasters (1975). He also wrote the well-received Karpov Vs. Korchnoi: World Chess Championship, 1978, which was published within days of the match ending and was the first book in any language on the 1978 World Championship match. In the April 2009 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2415.He died in Buenos Aires in 2010. from a cerebral haemorrhage. Courtesy:Wikepedia

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R T Narayana Memorial cup FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament,Mandya

Mr Manjunath Jain, Mr Hanumantha R, Mr PM Somashekhar, Mr M S Atmananda, Mr Abhay Chandra Jain, Mr K M Mohan Kumar.

Champion Pavan Kumar Yaramala, Anantha Kumar Swamiji, Dr Ramesh, R Hanumantha

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1st Dhenkanal FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Odisha

Lions Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Kakinada

(L-R) Champion Sanjeeban Nayak(ODISHA), Chief Guest A Samal(MLA,Dhenkanal) and Guest of Honor Mrs Rupa R Sahoo(Collector)

Lighting the lamp by Sri Yd Ramarao, APCA Adhoc Committee Convenor, Sri M Ravi Prakash, IPS,SP-East Godavari District,(Chief Guest), D Srihari, APCA Adhoc Committee,Lion M Visweswarao,Program Chairman

Winner J Sai Agni Jeevitesh Receiving Trophy from Sri D V Sunder, Vice President FIDE.Lion M Visweswarao, Program Chairman,Lion MV Subrahmanyam, Chief Organiser,Sri YD Ramarao,APCA Adhoc Committee Convener are in the picture

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on p. 421. Postny,E (2652)Helmschrott,O (2044) [D43]Bad Wiessee GER Bad Wiessee GER (1.3), 25.10.2014Position after 24th move.Diagram [#] White to play. 25.Qf5! g6 [25...Kf8 26.Qh7 f5 27.Bxf5+-] 26.hxg6 fxg6 27.Qxd5+! Qxd5 28.Rxd5 Rxd5 29.Bb3 Rad8 30.Re5 1–02. Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2217) Anurag,M (2442) [A28]World Junior Open 2014 Pune IND (4.29), 09.10.2014Position after White's 31st move.Diagram [#] Black to Play to play. 31...Qxh2+! [31...Qxh2+ 32.Kxh2 Rh8+ 33.Bh3 Rd2+ 34.Rf2 Rxf2+ 35.Kg1 Rd2+ 36.Kf1 Rxh3–+ 37.....Rh1# can-not be avoided] 0–13. Madeira,W (2207) - Bruno,Fabi (2422) [C15]World Senior 50+ 2014 Katerini GRE (6.7), 29.10.2014[Srinivasa Krishnan]Position after White's 27th move.Diagram [#] Black to play to play. 27...Nd2! 28.Rd1 [28.Ng1 Nxb1–+] 28...Rh2+! [28...Rh2+ 29.Kxh2 (29.Kg1 Nxf3+–+) 29...Nxf3+–+] 0–14. Bogdanovich,Stanislav (2590) Kovchan,Alexander (2585) [D70]83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (7.4), 18.11.2014Position after White's 30th move.Diagram [#] Black to play. 30...Nxd5! 31.exd5 [31.Ne2 Bxe2 32.exd5 Bg4! (Threatening 33.Bf5+) 33.Nd3 (33.Qxg4 Qxd2–+; 33.Nc2 Rxa2 34.Kxa2 Ra8+ 35.Kb1 Bf5–+) 33...Rxa2! 34.Rxa2 (34.Kxa2 Ra8+ 35.Kb1 Ra1#) 34...Qxd3+ 35.Kc1 Qc3+ 36.Rc2 Qa1+ 37.Kd2 Qxh1 38.Qxg4 Qe1+ 39.Kd3 Qe3+ 40.Kc4 Re4+–+] 31...Rxa2! [31...Rxa2 32.Rxa2 Rxe1+ 33.Rxe1 Bd3+ Wins] 32.Kxa2 Ra8+ 33.Kb1 Ra1# 0–1

5. Kuzubov,Yuriy (2661) Zubov,Alexander (2588) [D36]83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (7.5), 18.11.2014Position after 46th move. Diagram [#]. White to play. 47.Rg7+! [47.Rg7+ Kh8 (47...Kxg7 48.Ne6+) 48.Ne6! (or 48.Qa7!+- ) 48...Qd5+ 49.f3 c5 50.Qa7 Rb2+ 51.Kg3 Qd6+ 52.f4 Wins Black runs out of checks. and has no answer to 53 Rxh4 Ch followed by mate.] 1–06. Kovchan,A (2585)Korobov,A (2680) [B92]83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (10.6), 21.11.2014Position after White'45th move.Diagram [#] Black to play. 45...Ng4! [45...Nfd5! was even stronger. 46.Nxd5 (46.Qxc3 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Rxf1+ 48.Kg2 Rg1+ 49.Kh2 Nxc3–+) 46...Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Qxe1–+; 45...Ng4 46.Rg1 (46.Qxc3 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Rxf1+ 48.Kg2 Rg1#; 46.Qb1 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 d2–+; 46.hxg4 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Qxe1–+) 46...Nf2+ 47.Kh2 (47.Rxf2 Qxe1 48.Rxe1 Bxf2 49.Rd1 Bh4–+) 47...Bc5!–+]0–1Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on p. 43 1.Emilian Dobrescu,19661.Qf3 Rb1+ 2.Kc2 Rb8 3.Qc6+ Ka7 4.Qc7+ Ka8 5.Qd7 e4 6.Qc6+ Ka7 7.Qc7+ Ka8 8.Qd7+ e3 9.Kd3 Rb3 10.Ke4 Rb4+ 11.Kf3 Rb8 12.Qc6+ Ka7 13.Qc7+ Ka8 14.Qd7 wins2.Tjavlovski,I Pr, Shakmaty Vs CCCP 19681.Kc3 d5 2.Nf7 g3 3.Ne5 g2 4.Nf3 d4+ 5.Kc2 Ka1 6.Kb3 a2 7.Ka3 g1Q 8.Nxg1 d3 9.Kb3 d2 10.Bc2 d1Q 11.Bxd1 Kb1 12.Ne2 a1Q 13.Bc2#3.Ignace Vandecasteele 1967 1.Nc1 Na3 2.Na2+ Ka4 3.Nc3+ Kb4 4.Nd5 Ka4 5.Nb6+ Kb4 6.Bc3+ Kb5 7.Nd5 Ka4 8.Nf6 Kb5 9.Nxe4 Ka4 10.Nc5+ Kb5 11.Nd7 Ka4 12.Nb6+ Kb5+ 13.Bd4 Kb4 14.Nd5+ Ka4 15.Bc3 Nb5 16.Nb6#

( contiued on page 39 )

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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 39:Pawn at b7 and King at c8 are black and the frest are white.The mating move was cxd8=R.The previous move of black was Ne6 to d8.

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AICF Calendar January 2015

St.Ann’s All India Open FIDE Rating 21Jan 15-25Jun15 Mehidpatna,Hyderabad

6th AIM All India FIDE Rated Tmt 22Jan15-26Jan15 Namakkal,TN

4th WBCWS Open FIDE Rated Tmt 22Jan15-26Jan15 Kolkata,WB

1st Balasore (below 1800)FIDE Rating Tmt 23Jan15-26Jan15 Balasore, Orissa

1st Assam Downtown University NE Open 24Jan15-28Jan15 Gawahati, Assam

National Schools Championships 28Jan15-31Jan15 Goa

Rotary Chess King 2015 Open(below 1600) 30Jan15-01Feb15 Chennai,TN

3rd Kanyakumari FIDE Rated Open 05Feb15-09Feb15 Nagercoil, TN

National Team Open &Women Championship 20 Feb15-26 Feb15 Goa

Grandmasters Tournament, Kolkata 15 Mar15-24 Mar15 Kolkata

3rd Chess Specific Open FIDE Rated 25Mar15-29Mar15 India Gate,Delhi

2nd ACCF FIDE rated 03Apr15-07Apr15 Kozhikode,Kerala

National Rapid &Blitz Chess Championship 25 Apr15-29 Apr15 Odisha

6th KCM FIDE rated Open 29Apr15-03May15 Coimbatore,TN

Don Bosco Birth Bicentenary FIDE Rated 01May15-05May15 Irinjalakuda,Kerala

Bhopal FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 04May15-09May15 Bhopal, MP

National Junior Championships 12 May15-20 May15 Tamil Nadu

2nd Imperia Structures FIDE Rated Tmt 16May15-20May15 JNStadium,Delhi

Grandmaster Tournament ,Odisha 24 May15-31 May15 Bubaneshwar

Grandmaster Tournament, Mumbai 02 Jun15- 09 Jun 15 Mumbai

National Under-9 Championship 11 Jun15-19 Jun15 Gujarat

Commonwealth Chess 22 Jun15- 30 Jun 15 Delhi

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National Under-17 Open and Girls Championships,Patna

Bharat Singh Chauhan ,CEO, AICF inaugurating the championship by making a move with Income tax commissionar Kumar Sanjay. , ABCA, Secretary A,K,Sinha, ABCA ,President, IAS Vivek Kumar Singh and Chief Arbiter I.G.Parmar also seen.

Standing(L-R): IA Dharmendra Kumar , WFM Srija Seshadri,WFM M.Mahalakshmi ,WFM V.Varshini, Aradhya Garg, V.Pranavananda, S.Yogit ,Deepak Kumar Sitting (L-R): I.G.Parmar ,B.Vinod,Principal ,DPS, Vivek Singh,IAS,President,ABCA, Nitish Mishra,Minister Rural Development,Govt.of Bihar,Vijoy Prakash,IAS and Deepak Kumar Singh ,IAS, A.K.Sinha,Hony.Secretary,ABCA

SIB – CMS 52nd National Premier & Zone 3.7 Chess Championship,Kottayam

Sethuraman receives the winner’s trophy from Dr. Babu Sebastian, Vice Chancellor, MG University and a cheque for Rs 250000/-. From Mr. Shelly Joseph, Regional Head & Dy. GM, South Indian Bank. Others in the picture are Rev. Kuruvilla, Bursar of CMS College, Mr. R. Rajesh Secretary, All Kerala Chess Association, Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal CMS College, And IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

Deep Sengupta finished runner up in the Championship

Karthikeyan secured the third position, besides getting a GM norm