Volume : 10 Issue : 3 Price Rs. 25 October 2015

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

Aakanksha Hagwane

Girls Champion

29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship, Gurgaon

Priyanka Nuttaki

Girls Champion

Inian

Boys Champion

National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub juniorchess championship for girls 2015, Jammu

Tamilnadu Maharashtra

Andhra Prasdesh

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Inside….National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub junior chess championship for girls 2015, JammuInian and Aakanksha Hagwane are Championsby IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter 1

29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship,GurgaonPriyanka Nuttaki wins title 7

1st International Open Rapid Chess Tournament, PondicherryLaxman wins Rapid titleby IA Ganesh Babu S,Dy.Chief Arbiter 915th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament, Chennai….Balasubramanian lifts Adyar Times trophyby IA S.Paul Arokia Raj,Chief Arbiter 10

Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament 2015,GoaNiraj Saripalli winsby Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 12

4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament, Bubaneshwar...Swapnil Dhopade is championby Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter 14

RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,VijayawadaMeher Chinna Reddy winsby Venkata Kumar FA, Chief Arbiter 16

Saharanpur International FIDE Rating All India Open Ty,SaharanpurLokesh wins at Saharanpurby IA Dharmandra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 19

28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Thoothukudi….Manigandan wins titleby M.Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter 22

Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…Sameer Kathmale winsFA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 28

Selected games from National Women Challenger, ThaneAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron 30

Puzzle of the month by C.G.S.Narayanan 41

Tactics from master gamesBy S,Krishnan 42

Test your endgameBy C.G.S.Narayanan 43

Masters of the pastRobert Byrne 44

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Jammu District Chess Association conducted the 41st National Sub-Junior Open & 32nd National Sub-Junior Girls Chess Champi-onship – 2015 at Jalsa Retreat, Domana (Akhnoor Road), Jammu, which is one of the superb well furnished air conditioned party halls, very good seating arrangement for parents along with lawns surrounded by greenery. The table height and width was as per FIDE standards with ample space for each participant. The good quality chairs were provided for all participants and parents. The flooring was covered with Kashmiri carpet also called “gaaliccha”.

This event was organized by prominent chess players and key personalities conducting many chess related activities in the Jammu and Kashmir State viz. Shri Atul K Gupta, AICF Joint Secretary and J&K State President, Shri Taran Vir Singh Vice-President J&K, Shri Vikas Nanda Co-ordinator, accompanied by other chess players like, Shri Ashiq Ahmed Gen Secretary J&K, Dr. A. S. Bhatia Advisor J&K, etc. The tournament was played from 21st September to 29th September 2015 and conducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 11 rounds, with two rounds two days else one round. The time control for the game was 90 minutes to each player with an increment of 30 seconds per move from first move.

Shri Chander Prakash Ganga honourable cabinet minister J&K state was chief guest of Inaugural function. Shri Sanjeev Sharma OSD of Dr. Jitender Singh MOS PMO was

special guest in the opening function along with all official bearers of J&K and Jammu district chess association were present for inaugural function. Chander Prakash Ganga congratulated all J&K chess association for conducting this prestigious national event in J & K.

In this event total 23 states took part namely J & K (Host), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Hary-ana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bihar, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Assam. In the open section 107 players out of which 81 were rated having rating average 1724 and the girls’ championship had 77 entries out of which 58 were rated having rating average 1577, with players coming from nearly all parts of India. The open championship was being led by 6 FMs & 3 CMs including twen-ty-two players above 2000 ELO rating. The sub-junior girls event had one WIM, 5 WFMs and 2 WCMs including eleven participants above 1900 ELO points. This field and the importance of the event itself (as the winners would qualify for the World and Asian Cup) was bound to ensure the best battles on the board. Iniyan P of Tamil Nadu, with a rating of 2299 and Vaishali R also from Tamil Nadu with ELO point 2314 were the top seeds in the open and girls categories respectively.In the penultimate round Priyanka Nutakki defeated Vaishali R became sole leader in girl section with 8 points followed by Vaishali R, Aakanksha Hagawane, & Priyanka K with 7½

National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub junior chess championship for girls 2015, Jammu

Inian and Aakanksha Hagwane are Champions by IA Nitin Shenvi,Chief Arbiter

From the Editor’s desk

Sergey Karjakin, the young Ukranian Grandmaster, has done justice to his prodigious talent winning FIDE World Cup 2015 at Baku beating Peter Svidler in the final and qualified for the Candidates to be held in March 2016.Alexander Grischuk

won the World Blitz Championship and Magnus Carlsen retained the World Rapid Championship title he won last year at Dubai.

India’s No.2 Grandmaster Pentyala Harikrishna continued his good form winning the Poker Stars Isle of Man International Tournament on tie break. Russia’s Mikhail Antipov and Nataliya Buksa of Ukraine won the World Junior Championships that concluded at Khanty-Mansiyst in Russia last month. Indian success was not upto expectations with IM G.Akash finishing 9th in the Open section and J.Saranya 20th in the Girls section. India hopefully can do better in the next edition to be held at Bubaneshwar next year. Reports on these international events are presented in the centre pages of this issue.

Due to space constraints, detailed report on Indian success at the Asian Youth Chess held at South Korea is held back for the next issue. On the home front, Senior Arbiter Examination held early this month at Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu was an overwhelming success with nearly 120 participants. Reports on two National events-National Under-17 and National Under-13 Champion ships along with those FIDE rated tournaments conducted last month are presented in this issue.IM Manuel annotates selected games from National Women Challenger held at Thane. American Grandmaster Robert Byrne is featured in the ‘Masters of the past series’.

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points. In open group on second board Kumar Gaurav drew with one of the overnight leader Mitrabha Guha and on first board Aradhya Garg lost with Iniyan P. This resulted in sole leader for open group none other than Iniyan P with 8 ½ points followed by Mitrabha Guha with 8 points.

In final round in the Open category, Hirthickkesh Pr played against Rajdeep Sarkar on first board which ended in draw, while Raja Harshit played against Bharambe Bhavik C (Mah) on second board and in cru-cial position, Harshit managed a draw. With one round to spare, WFM Vaishali R had made a lead of one point on other competi-tors and in one way playing for second time in Jamshedpur retained the title (last time Champion in Nat U11 Chess Championship, Jamshedpur) by beating Pandey Shrishti Mah even though the latter tried to win against her but her efforts stood less against Vaishali’s chess experience and expertise. With Con-tinuous efforts from beginning of this event Vantika Agrawal won against Ghosh Samrid-dhaa & managed to become runner-up. In Open section, Iniyan P proved his seeding by winning the event followed by Raja Harshit.

Chief guest for PD function was Mr. Abdul Qayoom (Chief sports officer J&K), while guest of honour Ranjeet Kalra (Member BCCI), Javaid Ahmed Shah (Secretary J&K Sports Council) and Shiv Kumar Sharma (Joint Secretary J&K Sports council), In prize distribution function along with above guest Chief Arbiter Nitin Shenvi, Ashiq Ahmed (Gen Secy. AJKCA), Mr. Vikas Nanda (coordinator AJKCA), Atul Kumar (President AJKCA and Joint Secy. AICF) Raj Kumar (President Kisht-war distt. chess association), Rajan Sharma (Div.Sports officer Jammu), Taranvir singh (Vice President AJKCA) and Dr.A.S.Bhatia

(Advisor to Organizing commiittee) were present on dais. Both champions received Rs. Twenty two thousand and the runners up Rs. Sixteen thousand each by the hands of Chief Guest.

The tournament was completed in peaceful manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals Committee members consisting of Ms. Varsha Rani of Jammu & Kashmir, Adv. Thorat of Goa, Mr. Akhilan of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Pradeep Kumar of Punjab and Mr. Mahindrikar Ravindra of Maharashtra as the main members and Mr. Ajay Agarwal of Delhi & Mr. Satya Prakash of Haryana as reserve members.

The championship was a real boon for many players, as many of them gained considerable ELO rating of 100 or above. Special mention has to be made of Katlamudi Vinita (TELG) & Bristy Mukherjee (WB) increased their rating by 142 and 128 points respectively. Whereas, Subhash K V (AP) had the distinction of up-dating his rating by 211 points, a wonderful achievement indeed. Ithal H L Rajath (KAR) with 115 points, Mahitosh Dey (ODI) with 106 points & Satabdajit S Baruah (ASSM) with 102 points.In open section out of 25 unrated participants, 15 participants became rated players & in the Girl section out of 16 unrated, 5 participants became rated players.

Final ranking: OpenRk Name Club Pts1 Iniyan P TN 92 Mitrabha Guha FM WB 8½3 Raghunandan K S FM KAR 8½4 Nitish Belurkar CM GOA 8½5 Jayakumaar S TN 86 Aradhya Garg DEL 87 Srijit Paul WB 88 Rathanvel V S CM TN 7½9 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ODI 7½

Know your Arbiter V.Kameswaran Venkatachalam Kameswaran was born on 8th October 1943 at Chennai,Tamil nadu,.He is a retired Income tax Officer and also served as Sports officer in that Department. He underwent an orientation course in coaching at NIS, Patiala. He was Chief Coach of the Children’s Club Society Mylapore, Chennai fom the year 1991 year onwards training young children below 16 years. Now monitor-ing “Kameswaran Chess Academy” besides being chief coach of the GSS Jain Vidyalaya, Vepery.

As Arbiter:Represented India in the First Asian Technical Chess Conference at Manila, Philippines,1979. He became International Arbiter in 1980.He seved as Arbiter in-World Juniors, Calicut, 1998.Asian Zonal, Chennai, 1995.Pentamedia GM, Chennai.Chess Olympiad, Bled Slovenia, Oct 2002.Asian Chess (Indl), Cebu,Philippines, 2007.

He was Deputy Chief Arbiter at the World Candidates between Viswanathan Anand (India) Vs Alexi Dreev (Russia) Chennai,1991.

He was Chief ArbiterGrandmasters, Tiruchy (BHEL), 1979.Asian Juniors, Sivakasi, 1980.International Rating , Coimbatore, 1983.International Rating , Hyderabad, 1997.Natl Women “A”, Bangalore, 2005.FIDE Rated Guruswamy Memorial Palani for more than 15 times.44th National-B, Ahmedabad , 2006.World chess Championship for the Blind , Goa, 2006 (latest).National’A’ for the Blind, Mount Abu, 2008.Conducted All India Technical Chess Conferences and National Level Arbiters’ Examinations:-.Bangalore(twice) , Nagpur, Calicut (twice), Kottayam, Sangli, Chennai (Six times), Sivakasi, (twice).Selected as Chairman, AICF Arbiters’ Council, 1997-2000, 2001-2004, 2005-08.

As a player he has represented Tamilnadu in the National B Championships nine times between 1966 and 1986. He has represented Central Revenue Sports Board and also represented Central Services Regional Sports Board several times in the All India Civil Services Chess Tournament.

Organized CRSB National Institutional Team Chess Championship at Chennai for eleven years in succession from 1990 to 2000. At the administrator level he held various posts in the Madras District Chess Asociation and Tamilnadu State Chess Association.

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Smt. Tara Devi Bagla Memoiral Open FIDE Rated Tournament, New Delhi

Late Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid FIDE Rated Tournament,Goa

10 Kumar Gaurav BIH 7½11 Barath Kalyan M TN 7½12 Praggnanandhaa R FM TN 7½13 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 7½14 Sankalp Gupta MAH 7½15 Rajdeep Sarkar FM WB 716 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 717 Devansh Ratti MAH 718 Aansh Gupta DEL 719 Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor CM GUJ 720 Mahindrakar Indrajeet MAH 721 Saksham Rautela UTT 722 Grahesh Y AP 723 Neelash Saha WB 6½24 Anand Nadar FM MAH 6½25 Saurabh Anand BIH 6½26 Vijay Shreeram P TN 6½27 Madkaikar Gaurav S GOA 6½28 Elancheralathan P TN 6½29 Raahul V S TN 6½30 Vardan Nagpal DEL 6½31 Adhithya S TN 6½32 Shrutarshi Ray WB 6½33 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 6½34 Singh Nishit MAH 6½35 Vatsal Singhania JHA 636 Rounak Pathak WB 637 Manu David Suthandram R TN 638 Reetish Padhi KAR 639 Sparsh Khandelwal CHT 640 Kakkad Jeet GUJ 641 Arjun Singh Puri HAR 642 Dubey Sanchay UP 643 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 644 Uttam Prakash Sharma HAR 645 Dhananjay CHT 5½46 Sharma Vivek BIH 5½47 Saikat Bose WB 5½48 Soham Kamotra J&K 5½49 Karan J P KER 5½50 Subhash K V AP 5½51 Ranadheer B J S K AP 5½52 Pavan Teja Medam TEL 5½

53 Sambarta Banerjee WB 5½54 Jatin S N KAR 5½55 Jyotirmay Singh PUN 5½56 Milind Gauns GOA 5½57 Sankalp Arora UP 5½58 Sharma Suyash MP 5½59 Bipra Nath WB 5½60 Sahoo Sangram Keshari ODI 5½61 Madhavan G GOA 5½62 Sadhu S Adithya TN 563 Jyothir R KER 564 Anshul Mehta PUN 565 Bhawesh Pandiyar RAJ 566 Prateek Atluri TEL 567 Yaksh Chopra J&K 568 Nabayan Das ASM 569 Ishaan Singh Mendiratta CHD 570 Imtiaz Ahmad Shah J&K 571 Mehta Jwalin GUJ 4½72 Ishan Gupta JHA 4½73 Lakshit Rana HP 4½74 Meghanshram B V TEL 4½75 Vinayak Thevar GOA 4½76 Raghav Bhalla PUN 4½77 Aakashdeep Singh J&K 4½78 Mukherjee Sanchit JHA 4½79 Rachit kansal PUN 4½80 Babel Harshit RAJ 4½81 Sharma Vedanta RAJ 4½82 Singh Angad J&K 4½83 Akash Pritam BIH 4½84 Jatin Sharma HP 485 Sonawane Harsh GOA 486 Ritik kansal PUN 487 Gujral Jaiveer Singh J&K 488 Vansh Mahajan J&K 489 Sadbhav Rautela UTT 490 Aditya Sood HP 491 Jain Divay J&K 492 Harshit Gupta J&K 3½93 Yadav Saksham HP 3½94 Gupta Divyam J&K 3½95 Jain Daksh RAJ 3½

Runner-up Matta Vinay Kumar receiving trophy from IM Atanu Lahiri in presence of Shri OP Bagla and Shri. Rajendra Gupta, Social Activists

Winner T Purushothaman receiving Winners trophy from IM Atanu Lahiri in presence of Shri OP Bagla and Shri. Rajendra Gupta, Social Activists

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Winner Niraj Saripalli receives the trophy from Subash Faldesai,MLA, Sanguem Constituency.Also seen are Kishor Bandekar,Secretary,GCA(on the left) Ramdas Sawant, Treasurer GCA and Smt.Meera Naik (partly seen)

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29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship,Gurgaon

Priyanka Nuttaki wins title

29th National U-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship started on 30th August 2015 and concluded on 7th Sep 2015 at the mul-tipurpose hall Govt Girls College Near sec 14 Mehrauli road, Gurgaon, Haryana. Dr Rakesh Gupta IAS Additional Principle Secretary to CM Haryana inaugurated the championships in presence of Shri T L Sathy-aprakash IAS DC Gurgaon, Shri Vinay Prat-hap Singh IAS ADC Gurgaon, Sri Anil Kumar Parnami President DCA Gurgaon, Shri Raju verma President HCA, Mr Naresh Sharma welcomed the gathering followed by dinner for all the guests.The tournament was played by around 290 players from all over the country. The 9 day, 11 rounds event is a qualifier for the World & Asian Chess Championships. The event carried a prize fund of Rs.1,75,000/- and the winner of each section got Rs.87,500/- among the top 18 prizes. Defending under-13 Champion Iniyan P of TN led the pack with an ELO of 2214 fol-lowed by Saurabh Anand of BIH with an ELO of 2156. In the corresponding girls section former Under 10 World Champion Priyanak Nuttakki of AP gets the top billing with an ELO of 2073. Out of 193 participants in the open section 139 are internationally rated among them three were CM Title holders and 105 participants in the girls section, 74 are internationally rated including 3WFM and WCM.In the girls section Priyankka Nuttaki of AP was all the way leading throughout and went undefeated to clinch the title with 10 points conceding only 2 draws. Mishra Anwesha of ODI and Vantika Agarwal of DEL socred

9points on tie break secured 2and 3rd place respectively.The prize distribution function was graced by Chief Guest Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, on last day Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon arranged a nice lunch for players and parentsGuests of Honor were Col. D.K.Segan., Mr. Sharad Goel, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Mr. Raju Verma, Mr. Anil Parnami, Mr. Naresh Sharma, Mr. Rajpal Chauhan, Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Mr. Kalyan Singh

Final standings:Under-13 Girls Rk Name Club Pts1 Priyanka Nutakki AP 102 Mishra Anwesha ODI 93 Vantika Agrawal DEL 94 Bommini MAkshaya WFM AP 85 Sanskriti Goyal UP 86 Lakshmi C WFM TN 7½7 Salonika Saina WCM ODI 7½8 Shah Rutvi GUJ 7½9 Srimathi R TN 7½10 Meenal Gupta J&K 7½11 Sudipa Haldar WB 712 Tanya Pandey MAH 713 Khandelwal Khushi MAH 714 Makhija Aashna MAH 715 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 716 Rajashree Rajeev KER 717 Riddhi Zantye Goa 718 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 719 Manya Bagla DEL 720 Kaur Palkin DEL 721 Mishra Anisha ODI 722 Iyengar Sharanya WCM KAR 723 Jishitha D AP 724 Jain Nityata MP 7

96 Manik Shah J&K 3½97 Mehta Naitik R GUJ 398 Ayush Gupta J&K 399 Superb Jain J&K 3100 Ritvik Nanda J&K 2½101 Aryan Nanda J&K 2½102 Bhanu Pratap Sharma J&K 2½103 Varshil Yagnik GUJ 1½104 Faizan Shabir J&K 1½105 Hardik Pajiala HP 1106 Wani Zaid Hilai J&K 1107 Syed Rozal Sajjad J&K 1

Final standings:Girls1 Aakanksha Hagawane MAH 8½2 Vaishali R WFM TN 8½3 Priyanka K TN 8½4 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 85 Priyanka Nutakki AP 86 Vantika Agrawal DEL 87 Chitlange Sakshi WIM MAH 7½8 Ananya Suresh WCM KAR 7½9 Tejaswini Sagar WFM GUJ 7½10 Pandey Srishti MAH 711 Arpita Mukherjee WFM WB 712 Harshita Guddanti AP 713 Sunyuktha C M N TN 714 Sneha G P S TN 715 Bhanot Stuti HAR 6½16 Isha Sharma WCM KAR 6½17 Harshini A TN 6½18 Makhija Aashna MAH 6½19 Hilmi Parveen WFM KER 6½20 Prabhugaonkar A Aman GOA 6½21 Abirama Srinithi G TN 6½22 Surana Khushi Shailendra MAH 6½23 Jasper Jothi P TN 6½24 Srimathi R TN 6½25 B Mounika Akshaya WFM AP 6½26 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 6½27 Toshali V AP 628 Neela S TN 629 Garima Gaurav BIH 6

30 Meenal Gupta J&K 631 Archi Agrawal DEL 632 Pousumi Maity WB 633 Shanya Mishra UP 634 Megha Mondal WB 5½35 Kavisha S Shah GUJ 5½36 Bidisha Roy JHAR 5½37 Thorat Aishwarya GOA 5½38 Sudipa Haldar WB 5½39 Arushi Kotwal J&K 5½40 Tishrota Chakraborty WB 5½41 Mudaliar Nandini GUJ 5½42 Nivetta T TN 5½43 Jinal Yagnik GUJ 5½

44 Tanya Pandey MAH 5

45 Anannya Menkudle MAH 5

46 Nizami Sada BIH 5

47 Palorkar Riddhi MAH 5

48 Akshatha Raju KAR 5

49 Arushi Gupta PUN 5

50 Meenakshi Mehra PUN 5

51 Gaayathri S GOA 5

52 Lavanya Jain PUN 5

53 Sagar Siya GUJ 5

54 Sarah Gayle Fernandes GOA 4½55 Pranjali Sharma HP 4½56 Laasya Priya P TEL 4½57 Arya Usha BIH 458 Avni Gupta J&K 459 Gujja Dheekshitha TELG 460 Chahat HP 461 Sushma Reddy B TELG 462 Jasleen Kaur CHAN 463 Abha Kumari BIH 464 Sanjukta S Sobani J&K 465 Priyanka Sharma J&K 466 Savi Julka PUN 3½67 Shriya Singh HP 3½68 Aastha Verma HP 369 Gujja Vaishnavi TELG 370 Mehroz Sajjad J&K 2½

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25 Tejasvi M TN 6½26 Pagay Shalaka MAH 6½27 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM AP 6½28 Prachi Bharti KAR 6½29 Rakshitta Ravi TN 6½30 Sahithya G TEL 6½31 Shyamashree Sarkar WB 632 Shreya S Mohanty WCM ODI 633 Parakh Niyati CHT 634 Tanishka Kotia WCM HAR 635 Chetana D TEL 636 Indulekha K S TN 637 Alekhya B AP 638 M Padma Pratibha TN 639 Kritika Pal DEL 640 Arputha Jasmine B A TN 641 Anannya Menkudle MAH 642 Yuti Mayur Patel MAH 643 Diya Chowdhury WB 644 Diya James KAR 645 Srimozhi S TN 646 Laheri Nitya GUJ 647 Nanditha V TEL 5½48 Bidisha Roy JHA 5½49 Neha Srinibash D TN 5½50 Tanvi V Hadkonkar Goa 5½51 Bhavi Bhansali CHT 5½52 Shanya Mishra UP 5½53 Aanya Agarwal DEL 5½54 Garima Gaurav BIH 5½55 Ishika Arora HAR 5½56 Kannan Hemavati MAH 5½57 Aditi Bajaj MP 5½58 Amisha Arunjay Kumar Goa 559 Kalyani B AP 560 Ashitha C C KER 561 Kriti Mayur Patel MAH 562 Arya Ranjan DEL 563 Racha Sobhita AP 564 Aneri Ketan Kanjar GUJ 565 Ojasi Gopikrishna KAR 566 Shah Vrushti GUJ 567 Harini R RAJ 568 Florisha Basumatari ASM 569 Prakriti Singh JHAR 5

70 Varshitha V TEL 571 Ria Dhamija HAR 572 Anshika Thapliyal UP 573 Garapati Sai Rishitha AP 4½74 Vavri PUN 4½75 Khandelwal Krisha MAH 4½76 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo GUJ 4½77 Anishka Vikram DEL 4½78 Riddhika Kotia HAR 4½79 Nibha Kumari BIH 4½80 Avni Gupta J&K 4½81 Saanya Mahesh DEL 482 Rajpurkar Sakshi MAH 483 Arpita Gupta (2002) HAR 484 Atushree Das JHA 485 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 486 Srivastav Trisha GUJ 487 Prizam Deep Kaur HP 488 Savri PUN 489 Japnit Kaur DEL 490 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi GUJ 491 Aarushi Mittal CHD 492 Madhu Mitha S TN 493 Jain Dishee RAJ 3½94 Shriya Singh HP 3½95 Saini Mitali CHD 3½96 Dia Aneja HAR 397 Saumya Tyagi UP 398 Shreya Chawla HAR 2½99 Radhika Singh UTK 2100 Ananya Kumar HAR 0101 Advika Singh HAR 0102 Arnav Bharti UP 0103 Ch Chrisennoch ODI 0104 Jaishree Sriram HAR 0105 Yashika Singh RAJ 0106 Parina Mishra Delhi 0

All India Chess Federation has initiated action against two Bengal players on charges of match fixing on the top board. Hence the report and final standings on the Open section of National Under-13 Championship is being withheld till a final decision is taken on the issue.

Grand Master R R Laxman of ICF won the 1st International Open Rapid Chess Tournament organized by Bishop Academy of Chess. The 2 day event from August 29 to August 30 was held at Arumuga Kalyana Mandapam, Pondicherry.

The Prize fund of Rs.1, 00,000 was split into 30 Main Prizes & 33 Special Prizes & the winner gets Rs.15, 000.The Event attracted 231 players from 10 states, out of which 107 players were internationally rated players.

At the end of sixth round IM S Nitin of Southern Railways lead the tournament with full six points. In the Seventh round Nitin held to a draw by IM Shyam Nikhil of TN, while in the second board Laxman won the against IM P Karthikeyan of ICF to share the lead with Nitin.

Laxman took the lead, when he won over the joint leader Nitin with 7.5 points at the end of eighth round. Laxman continued the lead in the next round by winning his game against Purushothaman of AP. In the second spot Shyam Nikhil with 8.0 points won the game against S S Manigandan of TN.

In the final round clash between Laxman and Shyam Nikhil, Laxman won the title by signing a peace treaty with Shyam Nikhil. Laxman won the event and won the Cash Prize of Rs.15,000.

Prizes were distributed by Panner Selvam, Minister. Dignitaries present on the dais were R K Balagunashekaran, Chief Arbiter, Vinoth Kumar, Tournament Director and Nadaradjane, Secretary, Bishop Academy

of Chess. Balaguru, President Bishop Academy of Chess delivered the vote of thanks.

Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 GM Laxman R.R. 92 IM Shyaamnikhil P 8½3 IM Nitin S. 84 IM Karthikeyan P. 85 Purushothaman T 86 IM Vijayalakshmi S 87 Venkat Sundaram 88 IM R Balasubramaniam 89 Manigandan S S 7½10 Ganesh R 7½11 Ram S. Krishnan 7½12 Sa Kannan 7½13 WGM Meenakshi S 7½14 Dhinesh Kumar G 7½15 Sangeetha P 7½16 Gowtham K K 717 Raja Chokkarvel Y 718 Sriram B 719 Raman R. 720 Vivek Ramanathan V 721 Farhaan M 722 Nitin M Pai 723 Girinath B S 724 Poojakanth M. 6½25 Mani Bharathy 6½26 George Daniel 6½27 Gowri Shankar A 6½28 Sami M A 6½29 Muthu Palaniappan P L 6½30 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 6½

1st International Open Rapid Chess Tournament, Pondicherry

Laxman wins Rapid titleby IA Ganesh Babu S,Dy.Chief Arbiter

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29th National U-13 Open & Girls Chess Championship started on 30th August 2015 and concluded on 7th Sep 2015 at the mul-tipurpose hall Govt Girls College Near sec 14 Mehrauli road, Gurgaon, Haryana. Dr Rakesh Gupta IAS Additional Principle Secretary to CM Haryana inaugurated the championships in presence of Shri T L Sathy-aprakash IAS DC Gurgaon, Shri Vinay Prat-hap Singh IAS ADC Gurgaon, Sri Anil Kumar Parnami President DCA Gurgaon, Shri Raju verma President HCA, Mr Naresh Sharma welcomed the gathering followed by dinner for all the guests.The tournament was played by around 290 players from all over the country. The 9 day, 11 rounds event is a qualifier for the World & Asian Chess Championships. The event carried a prize fund of Rs.1,75,000/- and the winner of each section got Rs.87,500/- among the top 18 prizes. Defending under-13 Champion Iniyan P of TN led the pack with an ELO of 2214 fol-lowed by Saurabh Anand of BIH with an ELO of 2156. In the corresponding girls section former Under 10 World Champion Priyanak Nuttakki of AP gets the top billing with an ELO of 2073. Out of 193 participants in the open section 139 are internationally rated among them three were CM Title holders and 105 participants in the girls section, 74 are inter-nationally rated including 3WFM and WCM.In the open section after 7th round 11th seeded Bharambe Bhavik C of MAH was so lead leaving behind including defend-ing champion, In the eighth round Saurabh Anand holdup the sole leader by drawing, in the 9th round on top board Bharame Bhavik lost to Rahul Srivatshav of TEL, on the second board Panda Sambit of ODI lost to Neelash Saha of WB with this full point made Neelash as a sole leader with halfpoint. In 10th round Neelash Saha of WB maintains the advantage

& had easy win against Rahul Srivatshav of TEL. In the final round on top board Neelash Saha of WB had walkover his state mate CM Aronyak Ghosh forfeited his point due to Illness. On the second board Defending champion and top seed Iniyan P of T N lost to Bharambe Bhavik C of MAH.Neelash Saha Scored 10 points out of 11 rounds and clinched 29th National U-13 Cha-pionship -2015,Bharambe Bhavik C Scored 9.5points and secured 2nd place.In the corresponding girls section Priyankka Nuttaki of AP was all the way leading through-out and went undefeated to clinch the title with 10 points conceding only 2 draws. Mishra Anwesha of ODI and Vantika Agarwal of DEL socred 9points on tie break secured 2and 3rd place respectively.The prize distribution function was graced by Chief Guest Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, on last day Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon arranged a nice lunch for players and parentsGuests of Honor : Col. D.K.Segan., Mr. Sharad Goel, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Mr. Raju Verma, Mr. Anil Parnami, Mr. Naresh Sharma, Mr. Rajpal Chauhan, Mr. Sanjay Sharma, Mr. Kalyan SinghFinal standings:Open Rk. Name Club Pts. 1 Neelash Saha WB 102 Bharambe Bhavik C MAH 9.53 Iniyan P TN 8.54 Aansh Gupta DEL 8.55 Rahul Srivatshav P TEL 86 Saurabh Anand BIH 87 Erigaisi Arjun TEL 88 Aronyak Ghosh CM WB 89 Panda Sambit ODI 810 Ayush Bhai Mehta MP 811 Krishnater Kushager MAH 812 Vardan Nagpal DELi 7.513 Harisurya Bharadwaj G AP 7.5

IM R.Balasubramanian of ICF,Chennai emerged as the champion with 8 out of 9 in the 15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament organized by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association at Dr.MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women, Chennai from September 23 to 27,2015.He carried home winner’s purse of Rupees Twenty Five Thousand.In a two way tie for the runner up spot IM C.Praveen Kumar also from ICF finished second with 7.5 points and relegated P.Saravana Krishnan of Karur Vysya Bank to the third spot.R.Balasubramanian is winning this prestigious title for the third time.Earlier he has won the title way back in the year 2002 and 2005.

Sponsored by Adyar Times,a neighbourhood newspaper this FIDE rated open finds a permenant place in the annual calendar of Tamil Nadu State chess Association.

Final standings: Rk Name Pts1 R Balasubramaniam IM 82 Praveen Kumar C IM 7½3 Saravana Krishnan P. 7½4 Ashwath R. 75 Muthaiah Al 76 Harihara Sudan M 77 Hari Madhavan N B 78 Singh D.P IM 79 Phoobalan P. 6½10 Sa Kannan 6½11 Vignesh B 6½12 Santoshkashyap Hg 6½13 Bala Kannamma.P 6½14 Prasannaa.S 6½15 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6½

16 Kumar S. 6½17 Arun J 6½18 Vasantha Ruba Varman 6½19 Prakashram R 6½20 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6½21 Pranav V 6½22 Lakshmi C WFM 6½23 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½24 Sivakumar C. 625 Vijay Anand M. 626 Badrinath S. 627 Subramanian V 628 Bharath Subramaniyam H 629 Ayushh Ravikumar 630 Vivek Ramanathan V 631 Dharani Kumar M S 632 Yutesh P 633 Srihari L R 634 Dev Shah CM 635 Rohit Vassan S 5½36 Raj Kamal S 5½37 Upendra R 5½38 Arjun C Krishnamachari 5½39 Sanjay D G 5½40 Alan Diviya Raj 5½41 Saranya Y 5½42 Shyam Kumar M 5½43 Pranav Anand 5½44 Venkatesh K 5½45 Nikhil Magizhnan CM 5½46 Sathyanarayanan V 5½47 Sarvadh Sathiaram 5½48 George Daniel 5½49 Samyuktha B S 5½50 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5½51 Atul Srivatsa 5½52 Rohit S 5½

15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament,Chennai….

Balasubramanian lifts Adyar Times trophyby IA S.Paul Arokia Raj,Chief Arbiter

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Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament 2015,Goa was organized in for 2 days with 9 rounds, 1st day 4 rounds, 2nd day 5 round. This was first Rapid rating chess tournament organized by Quepem Taluk Chess Association at Churcherem , Goa under the name of Late Shri Chandrakant Naik. The event attracted 176 Players from all over Goa. 67 Fide rated players participated in this tournament.

For the inauguration of the event, Mr Nilesh Cabral, MLA Curcheram constituency was the chief guest and also Mr Vinay Tendulkar, GCA President and Bharatiya Janata Party President of Goa State, Mr Kishore Bhandekar Joint Secretary of AICF, Subash Naik President QTCA, Sanjay Kavlekar, Tournament Director and Secretary QTCA were present. The event started as per schedule at 1. 00 pm on 3rd Oct.

In the prize Distribution Mr Subash Faldesai, MLA Sanguem Constituency was the chief guest, Mr Kishore Bhandekar, Mr Ramdas Sawant GCA Tresurer and Smt Meera Naik were present as guests and they distributed the prizes to the winners

The organizers took good care of the all the things related to event very well and also provided Free lunch to all the participants. Many players earned their new rating in this event.

I thank AICF, Mr Sanjay Kavlekar and QTCA Executive committee for providing me an opportunity to be chief Arbiter for the event .Final ranking Rk Name Pts1 Niraj Saripalli 8½

2 Riddhi Zantye 7½3 Thorat Sanjay 7½4 Audi Ameya 7½5 Cruz Wilson 7½6 Nandhini Saripalli 77 Madhavan G 78 Parsekar Anirudh 79 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 710 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6½11 Kambli Datta 6½12 Thorat Aishwarya 6½13 Sahil Shetty 6½14 Morajkar Navin 6½15 Milind Gauns 6½16 Eesh Prabhudesai 6½17 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 618 Porob Vraj 619 Sudhakar Patgar 620 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 621 Kavish Gharse 622 Bir Yogesh Pai 623 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 624 Audi Saiesh 625 Yash Paul 626 Dalal Ambar Abhay 627 Colaco Reuben 628 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 629 Pai Sunay Pundalik 630 Colaco Vernon Jesus 631 Prabhu Yash 632 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 633 Parab Sneh 634 Devesh Anand Naik 635 Swayam Naik 636 Bharadwaj Rahul 637 Kakodkar Joy 638 Pai Vithal 6

39 Abhijit Datta Prabhu 640 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5½41 Paarth P Salvi 5½42 Aniket Datta Prabhu 5½43 Sanat Borkar 5½44 Urvi Bandekar 5½45 Naik Nivesh Manoj 5½46 Soham Naik 5½47 Sachin Kakodkar 5½48 Borkar Shubh 5½49 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 5½50 Soham Anil Dhuri 5½51 Sangaokar Yogiraj 552 Prashant Salvi 553 Kaushal M Naik 554 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 555 Kakodkar Love 556 Netra P Savaikar 557 Yash Manoj Upadhye 558 Sairth Sitaram Shirodkar 559 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 560 Joshi Chinmay 561 Calantha Gomes 562 Aditya Sawant 563 Sahil Dayanand Desai 564 Nischal Parulekar 565 Sania Salvi 566 Sanad Talavalikar 567 Samarth P Nasnodkar 568 Nehal Kudchadkar 569 Mayuri A Chari 570 Harsh Sawant 571 Shriyash Madgaonkar 572 Kunal B Bandolkar 573 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 574 Parsekar Aditya 575 Sanjeev Akash 576 Thanishq Kavlekar 577 Vibhuti S Dessai 578 Shreyash Naik 579 Sonawane Harsh 4½80 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 4½81 Chand Khan 4½

82 Varun R Shastry 4½83 Ayush Nagarsekar 4½84 Naik Tejas 4½85 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 4½86 Raikar Shet M Shlok 4½87 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 4½88 Afnan Saiyed 4½89 Neha R Naik 4½90 Prathamesh P Desai 4½91 Prabhugaonkar Advika 4½92 Sainee N F Dessai 4½93 Shivam Kapdi 4½94 Caesarius Mario Vaz 4½95 Chaitanya M. Naik 4½96 Sarvad V S Amonkar 4½97 Dessai F Aryavrat 498 Raj Borkar 499 Shivam Raikar 4100 Cyrus Gomes 4101 Anurag Ajay Chari 4102 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 4103 Blydon D Souza 4104 Asfiya Lashkarwale 4105 Karun Raikar 4106 Om Prabhu 4107 Vas Bryan 4108 Shubham Laad 4109 Niraj Y Naik 4110 C Shyam Satardekar 4111 Om Kudchadkar 4112 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 4113 Bhargavi Joshi 4114 Ohmkar Naik 4115 Dessai F Sharv 4116 E Valenius Coutinho 4117 Bunnyfred V.R. D 4118 Sanil Naik 4119 Pallav D Naik 4120 Yash Kishore Naik 4121 Nikita K. Kamath 4122 Raut Dessai Vedank Mahadev 4123 Tanishka Shet Raikar 4124 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 4

Late Shri Chandrakant Naik Memorial Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament 2015,Goa

Niraj Saripalli winsby Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter

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The exciting 4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament has come to an end. Overall the tournament was incredibly hard fought, with battles, blunders, deep preparations, complete opening surprises and basically everything that fuels a fantastic event. IM Swapnil S. Dhopade (Perfect winner to grab the title) is without a doubt the deserved winner.

The total prize fund for the event was ` 5,25,000/- (Rupees Five lacs twenty five thousand only) attracts only 109 participants from 14 States (Andhra Pradesh-3, Bihar-1, Chandigarh-1, Delhi-1, Goa- 1, Gujarat-1, Haryana-1, Karnataka-5, Maharshtra-12, MP-1, Odisha-24, Telengana-5, Tamilnadu-14, WB-20) and 05 Special units (Andhra Bank – 2, DASCB – 2, Income-Tax- 1, KIIT – 4, LIC – 2) with the average ELO 1908, two Grandmasters, one Women Grandmaster, 15 International Masters, 5 FIDE Masters, 1 Women FIDE Master, 4 Candidate Master & 1 Women Candidate Master with total 10 Women have participated in the tournament. IM Swapnil S. Dhopade, 2483 of Railways was the top seed.

I take this Opportunity to thank the Khordha District Chess Association and All Odisha Chess Association for making such tournament a Grand success, which will go a long way in creating awareness and popularising Chess in our Nation & for giving another chance to all top ranking players to show off their talents.

Mahindra & Mahindra (Rise) & Shriram Capital Limited sponsored the major part of the tournament. Odisha Mining Corporation Ltd. came forward as associated sponsor for

making the tournament a successful one.

Opening Ceremony held at 10:30 hrs on dt. 11.sep.15 Chief Guest : Sj. Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Minster of State (Independent Charge), Food supply & consumer welfare, Employment & Technical Education & Training, other honoured guests were Sri Debasis Mekap, Vice President, Khordha District Chess Association, Sri G.C. Mohapatra, Executive Member, All Odisha Chess Association & Sri Subhasis Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha District Chess Association cum Executive Member All Odisha Chess Association.

IM Swapnil Dhopade, Railways (Top seed – Current National Challenger Champion)) emerged champion by a draw with IM Narayanan Srinath, TN (2nd seed – 3rd Keshabananda Champion) in the 10th Round (FINAL) and finished with 8.5 points (1 points lead) to took away the top prize of 1.5 Lac. IM S Nitin, Railways with 7.5 points drew with GM R.R. Laxman in board no.2 and placed 1st runner-up with 1 Lac and IM Narayanan Srinath, TN became 2nd runner-up position with 50 thousand in the tournament.

It was really a tough battle for all the participants. Throughout the tournament top 10 boards game was live at https://monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1841

Many upsets started from the 2nd Round onwards. In round 5, IM Anurag Mhamal, 2396, Goa beat IM Sayantan Das, 2430, WB, IM Shyamnikhil P, 2427, TN lost from Kaustuv Kundu, 2203, WB FM Mitrabha Guha,2124, WB lost from Arjun Adappa, 1849, KAR Pranav V, 1698, TN beat Mohammad Ashraf, 2167, KIIT.

In round six, GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury, 2361, Railways lost to Muthaiah AI, 2206, TN

FM Soumyaranjan Mishra, 2197, Odisha beat Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, 2276, KIIT Karthick V Ap, 2266, AP lost from Srinath Rao SV, 2135, Maharashtra, IM Mithrakanth Poorna Shrama, 2279, TN lost from Snehal Bhosale, 2084, Maharashtra Ansuman Samal, 1923, Odisha beat IM D.P. Singh, 2192, Railways Manishkumar, 1573, Odisha beat Sambit Panda,1797, Odisha.In round eight, IM Anurag Mhamal, 2396, Goa lost from Muthaiah AI, 2206, TN Karthick V Ap., 2266, AP beat Kunal M., 2350, TN Kishan Gangoli, 2003, Karnataka beat Arpan Das,2249, IM Mithrakanth Poorna Shrma,2279, TN lost from WFM Arpita Mukherjee, 1916, WB IM D.P. Singh, 2192, Railways lost from Sabjeev Nair, 1878, Maharashtra

Out of 03 unrated players 2 players will get the Rating in the month of October. Three players CM Mullick Raahil, 1288, Maharashtra ; Arjun Adappa, 1849, Karnataka and Muthaiah Al, 2206, Tamilnadu increased their rating by 124, 108 & 82 respectively.

In the valedictory ceremony the Chief guest was Sj. Sudhanshu Bhusan Mishra, IAS (Retd.) former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Odisha. Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on the last day were Sri Vivek Ku. Tibarewal, Hony. Secy. , All Odisha Chess Association,Sri Ranjan Mohanty, Vice President, All Odisha Chess Association & Subhasis Patnaik, Secretary, Khordha District Chess Association – cum – Executive Member, All Odisha Chess Association. The Press and Media covered the event very well. Without any dispute the tournament ended successfully.

The Chief Arbiter of the tournament was International Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sahoo ably assisted by FA Anandh Babu VL, Tamilnadu (monroi), FA Arghya Arpan Parida

& Bhabesh Mohanty of Odisha.

Final standings:Rk Name Club Pts1 Swapnil S. Dhopade IM RLY 8½2 Nitin S. IM RLY 7½3 Narayanan Srinath IM TN 7½4 Gusain Himal CHA 7½5 Muthaiah Al TN 76 Laxman R.R. GM ICF 77 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan KIIT 78 Krishna C R G IM AP 79 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 710 Sangma Rahul IM RLY 711 Ravi Teja S. IM RLY 6½12 Anurag Mhamal IM GOA 6½13 Rajesh V A V IM TN 6½14 Kunal M. TN 6½15 Roy Chowdhury SaptarshiGM RLY 6½16 Shyaamnikhil P IM TN 6½17 Matta Vinay Kumar FM AB 6½18 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM TEL 6½19 Hemant Sharma (del) DEL 6½20 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6½21 Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 622 Karthik V. Ap AP 623 Deshmukh Anup IM LIC 624 DBala Chandra Prasad AP 625 Santu Mondal ITA 626 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 627 Das Sayantan IM WB 628 Rakesh Kumar Jena FM ODI 629 Snehal Bhosale MAH 630 Kishan Gangolli KAR 631 Mishra Soumyaranjan FM ODI 5½32 Kiran M Mohanty WGM LIC 5½33 Kaustuv Kundu WB 5½34 Lakshmi Narayanan M V TN 5½35 Rakesh Kumar Nayak ODI 5½36 Senthil Maran K TN 5½37 Mitrabha Guha FM WB 5½38 Sahu Rajendra Kumar ODI 5½39 Bose Sayan WB 5½

4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament, Bubaneshwar...

Swapnil Dhopade is championby Suresh Chandra Sahoo, Chief Arbiter

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Top seed Meher Chinna Reddy of Andhra Pradesh become champion of RP Constru ctions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament concluded on 27th September2015 at Krishna District Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition Society Hall, Jawahar Auto Nagar, Vijayawada. He scored 7. points from 8. He tied with T Purushothaman also from A P. With lesser buch holz score Purushothaman placed second. S V Srinadh Rao of Maharashra got 3rd with 6.5 points

Winner Meher Chinna Reddy got prize money of Rs. 25,000/- and Runner Up Purushothaman got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed S V Srinadh Rao got 12,000/- .Total 1.5 lakh prize money is distributed among 44 players. The event attracted 208 participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, West Bengal, Airforce, Andhra Bank and LIC Departments.

Tournament was Inaugurated by Chief Guest Sri Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, Hon Minister for Irrigation Govt. of AP by playing first move. Sri YD Ramarao, President APCA presided over the function. Mr Devaram Srihari, Secretary APCA also present.

In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri. G V Ramarao, Krishna Industrial & Agricultural Exhibition Society distributed the prizes. P.V.Nageswar Rao President, Krishna Dist Chess Assn, preside over the Function. Sri Devaram Srihar, Secretary APCA and FA Venkata Kumar G, Chief Arbiter were also present.

FA Venkat Kumar G was the Chief Arbiter

and FA Vappangi Srikanth was deputy arbiter for the event.

Final standings:

Rk Name Pts1 Mehar Chinna Reddy CH FM 72 Purushothaman T 73 Srinath Rao S.V. 6½4 Lakshmanrao D. 6½5 Srikanth K. 6½6 Teja Suresh M 6½7 Gopal K.N CM 6½8 Aditya S S V 6½9 Ramakrishna J FM 610 Rao J. Malleswara 611 Nitheesh Pothireddy 612 Pvs Aravind 613 Hinduja Reddy 614 Sandhya G 615 Cheela Naga Sampath 616 Ravindra Raju 617 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 618 Ravi Kumar K 619 Shiva Suri 620 Sai Kiran Y 621 Gowtham T. 622 Sharan R S 623 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 624 Potluri Supreetha WFM 5½25 Subba Raju S. 5½26 Sambamurthy P. 5½27 Subba Rao P Venkata 5½28 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 5½29 Kandari Sasidar Kartheek 5½30 Chandran T. 5½31 Akavaram Aashish Reddy 5½32 Srinivasulu V 5½

33 Sanghai Dhruv 5½34 Praneeth R 5½35 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 5½36 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 5½37 Gatram Sravan Kumar 5½38 Sri Sai Baswanth P 539 Suryanaraya Swamy Mopuri 540 Shah Bhaven Jay 541 Jishitha D 542 Niharika Ch 543 Sriram Udhayakumar 544 Kalur Nikhil 545 Digvijay Sunil 546 Shah Rishab 547 Jaisingh Anugraha 548 Ismail S K 549 Jayanth Reddy K 550 Sarath Chandra K 551 Chalapathi Rao M 552 Nagasri Saikanth 553 Swathi Y 554 Suresh Bondalapati 555 Purushotham Reddy C 556 Rama Mohan Rao N 557 Sreevijay Sunil 558 Raivath Mallela 559 Akhil B V S 560 Naga Chaitanya 561 Diyi Suryanarayana 562 Lakshmi Sahithi Akunuri 563 Kavya Srishti K 4½64 Vara Prasad Ryali 4½65 Rehaman Kotte 4½66 Sudheesh Karri 4½67 Priyanka S 4½68 Nikhil Babu Boya 4½69 Ishwar Ramteke 4½70 Rama Rao T V 4½71 Vangala Shanti Bhushan 4½72 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 4½73 Chanakya V B S L 4½74 Shaik Pharuk 4½75 Konatham Snehil 4½

76 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 4½77 Vangala Shashi Bhushan 4½78 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 4½79 Bolisetty Lochana 4½80 Diyan Kubadia 4½81 Sridhar N 4½82 Lasya Mayukha N 4½83 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 4½84 Subba Reddy K 4½85 Sreenivasulu P V 4½86 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 4½87 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 4½88 Pranay Venkatesh 4½89 Prraneeth Vuppala 490 Abhijith Cheettrala 491 Vinodbabu Medidi 492 Sri Ram T 493 Vamsi Krishna Suram 494 Rajkumar Duvvuri 495 Tarun Vankadaru 496 Radhika Devi Chavali 497 Jyothi Kiran P 498 Sri Harsha M.M.S.V. 499 Surya Raghava I 4100 Advait Bagri 4101 Srinadh Madhavarapu 4102 Bharghav K 4103 Sathwika N 4104 Rohit Yarakala 4105 Gopika Naga Sahithi N 4106 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 4107 Bala Krishna Gummala 4108 Siva Rama Rao P 4109 Sruthi Soora 4110 Charumati K 4111 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 4112 Divya Shree P 4113 Aditya Reddy Velagala 4114 Renuka Kumari B 4115 Dutt B.S. 4116 Syed Tarannum 4117 Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 4118 Perli Rashmi 4

RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Vijayawada

Meher Chinna Reddy winsby Venkata Kumar FA, Chief Arbiter

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Saharanpur International Rating All India Open Chess Tournament 2015 was Organized by Saharanpur District Chess Association from September 09th to 13th , 2015. Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal Corporation in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is the administr ative headquarters of Saharanpur District and the Saharanpur Division. City is Situated close to the borders of Haryana and Uttrakhand states, the city is surrounded by a fertile agricultural region that produces plentiful grains and fruits. Saharanpur is known for its wood carving cottage industry as well as a thriving market for local agricultural produce, including basmati rice and mangoes. A variety of industrial enterprises are located here including textiles, sugar, paper and cigarette factories. Rajinish Goel was the Organizing Secretary of the event.

Accommodation was provided to all the players , managers and parents free of charge at Aggarwal Dharmashala , Gaushala Road , Saharanpur . Food was available in stadium premises on payment basis. Tournament was held in two halls. There were separate toilets for ladies and gents in tournament hall .In all , playing condition was good and comfortable for all the players .During the rounds tea was provided to all including parents and spectators . Drinking water was available all the time in and out of the tournament hall.

464 players from all over India and two other foreign federation were participated in this mega event. 278 out of 464 were rated players including 2 IM , 1FM , 1WFM and 1 CM .

Tournament was formally inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr. Ramkaran Arya (State Minister, Sports & Youth Affairs of UP Government) declared the tournament open while Mr. Sanjay Garg (Ex. State Minister of UP Government) presided over the function. Other dignitaries present on the dais were .A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary, UPCSA , Mr. Rajnish Goel ,Orgnising Secretary, Mr. Amit Kumar Rai ,Secretary, SDCSA, Deepak Saigal and IA Dharmendra Kumar (Chief Arbiter) .

Soon after the inaugural ceremony ,there was a technical meeting to discuss & confirm the regulation for the event and to form the appeals committee amongst the players. Meeting was presided by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter , in presence of A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary ,UPCSA and Rajnish Goel , Org. Secretary.

4th seed N.Lokesh of Tamilnadu , fide rating 2198 won the tournament with 8 points He left behind 4 masters to clinch the title . With better tie-break , Lokesh stood first while IM Dinesh K. Sharma finished 2nd spot. Arvinder Preet Singh of Punjab and Ankan Roy of West Bengal placed 3rd and 4th respectively .

Chief Guest Dr. Ashok Kumar Raghav, DIG Police, Saharanpur Range distributed cash prizes worth Rs. six lacs along with Trophies and medals to all the winners during felicitation ceremony held on 13th of September while Mr. Snjay Garg (Ex. State Minister of UP Government) presided over the function, where as other dignitaries present dignitaries present on the dais were .A.K.Raizada , Hony. Secretary, UPCSA , Mr. Rajnish Goel ,Orgnising Secretary, Mr. Amit Kumar Rai ,Secretary, SDCSA, Deepak Saigal

Saharanpur International FIDE Rating All India Open Ty,Saharanpur

Lokesh wins at Saharanpurby IA Dharmandra Kumar, Chief Arbiter

119 Shaik Sumer Arsh 4120 Manikanta Reddy J 4121 Aditya S Hariharan 3½122 Sai Suhash K V K 3½123 Shourya Jain 3½124 Pavan Kumar Mathamsetty 3½125 Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 3½126 Avaneesh Gupta DCS 3½127 Siva Chowdeswar N 3½128 Viswas Dinesh 3½129 Swetha Sree Lanka 3½130 Yuva Teja P 3½131 Bhuvanchand Chowdary K 3½132 Venkata Ramana Maradana 3½133 Ram Prasad S 3½134 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 3½135 Anjishnu Mondal 3½136 Dharmik Banka 3½137 Amrutavalli P D S 3½138 Uday Kiran Kumar P 3½139 Gopi Krishna Inti 3½140 Teja R 3½141 Viswa Vibhu V 3½142 John Wesley Ganji 3½143 Gowtham Reddy G 3½144 M Lakshmi Bharath Chandra 3½145 Kirthi Shreya K 3146 Chilukuri Sai Maneendhra 3147 Sevitha Viju M 3148 Preetham Pidapa 3149 Mallikarjuna G 3150 Abhiram Mopuri 3151 Vora Arjun 3152 Gayithri N R 3153 Dheeraj T 3154 Tanish Sai Kavuru 3155 Harshita Koppolu 3156 Venkata Sai Teja T 3157 Venkata Sai Tushar 3158 Hasita Narikimilli 3159 Bhagat Kush 3160 Venkata Ashish Potluri 3161 Nagaraju G 3

162 Syamala Rao Gottapu 3163 Jyothiraditya N 3164 Abhiram Reddy K 3165 Vedalatha P 3166 Sara Gupta 3167 Jahnavi Mathe 3168 Dhanvin P T L N V 3169 Mounika Yedla 3170 Ram Narasimha Tarun V 3171 Jahnavi Sri Lalita Mareddy 3172 Venkateswara Rao Ramaraju 3173 Nithin Kumar Yedla 3174 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 2½175 Sohith Podile 2½176 Jagruthi K 2½177 Vaishnavi PV 2½178 Sai Raghava Pulijala 2½179 Shaik Julekha Bahaar 2½180 Rithin Ravela 2½181 Omesh M 2182 Suguna Ch 2183 Rithesh Kusuma 2184 Lokesh I 2185 Rishi Preetham G 2186 Suhitha Narikimilli 2187 Rahul P 2188 Rolla Ruthwik 2189 Sumana Sri Ch 2190 Vennela D 2191 Charan Teja P 2192 Yuvaraj Vittal 2193 Yogyatha A 2194 Akash Nagineni 2

195 Sanjay Gupta MSNV 2

196 Pravallika P 2

197 Gana Teja M 2

198 Tejasree M 2

199 Tanishka Jain 1½

200 Nizamuddin Sk 1

201 Krishna Prasad A 1

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and IA Dharmendra Kumar (Chief Arbiter) .

The eight member Arbiter team was efficient and conducted the tournament smoothly without any protest and disturbance. All the arbiters were having license from FIDE as arbiter. I was ably assisted by Dy. Chief IA Umesh K.C. , FA A.K.Raizada , FA Yashpal Arora , FA Rajendra Teli , NA Deepak Saigal , NA Kavita Patel and NA Neeraj Sharma. Iam thankful to them for their co-operation and understanding .

Team of organizers lead by Sanjay Garg , Ex. Minister , Govt. of UP ,and Rajnish Goel , Org. Secretary , put in their best efforts to make good arrangement for all the players and accompanying persons . However , In my opinion , they should try to improve the organization next time.

Final standings

Rk Name Club Pts1 Lokesh N. TN 82 Sharma Dinesh K IM UP 83 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 84 Ankan Roy WB 85 Himanshu Sharma IM RLY 7½6 Surendran N TN 7½7 Athul Krishna S KER 7½8 Govind Kumar UP 7½9 Sharma Avinash UP 710 Prince Bajaj CM DEL 711 Deepak Katiyar DEL 712 Sumit Grover JK 713 Anchit Vyas MP 714 Srija Seshadri WFM TN 715 Purushothaman T AP 716 Rishabh Nishad UP 717 Pawan Bathm UP 718 Raahul V S TN 719 Nishant Malhotra DEL 720 Lawaniya Eshan UP 721 Kapil Dadhich RAJ 7

22 Saksham Rautela UTK 723 Ajinkya Pingale MAH 724 Gaurav Sharma UP 725 Dilip Das WB 726 Rathore M Singh RAJ 727 Ahmed Feroz 728 Avijit Das WB 6½29 Shuban Saha WB 6½30 Verma Ashu UP 6½31 Dave Kantilal RAJ 6½32 Gupta Alok Kumar UP 6½33 Kaushik Shubham HAR 6½34 Mishra Uttam CHG 6½35 Shrestha Bilam Lal FM 6½36 Chaudhary Sushil 6½37 Arijith M KER 6½38 Pukhraj Singh PUN 6½39 Sudhakar RAJ 6½40 Anuj Shrivatri MP 6½41 Rajveer Singh R UP 6½42 Himanshu Agarwal UP 6½43 Mulay Pratik MAH 644 Verma H.S. DEL 645 Rahul Ubadhyay UP 646 Shashi Prakash UP 647 Subba Raju S. TEL 648 Ambesh UP 649 Ved Prakash BIH 650 Vikash Nishad UP 651 M Tulasi Ram Kumar TEL 652 Kumtakar Deepak MAH 653 Shrestha Janardan 654 Shah Gulab UP 655 Mayank Pandey UP 656 Krishna Prasad BIH 657 Gajendra Singh UP 658 Pathak Vivek Kumar MP 659 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 660 Ravishankar UP 661 Dubey Sanchay UP 662 Katiyar Prashant UP 663 Dileep Tripathi UP 664 Barun Paul WB 665 Varma Vikrant HAR 666 Raghav Srivathsav V TEL 6

67 Pallab Bala WB 668 Mathew Sunny UP 669 Ramgopal Chaurasiya MP 670 Ashutosh Kumar BIH 671 Chakravarthy M S R K AP 672 Prasannakumar Nayak ORI 673 Dhanush Ragav TN 674 Singh Suman Kumar BIH 675 Menon Padmanand MAH 676 Batham Avinash MP 677 Ravi Kumar Gautam UP 678 Goswami Varunkant UP 679 Khan Md. Raisudin UP 680 Kapil Kumar Khare UP 681 Singh Dharmendra Kr UP 682 Mahendra Lakhyani RAJ 683 Koradia G V GUJ 684 Raul Sumit MAH 685 Vaidya Kaiwalya MAH 686 Sankalp Arora UP 687 Ayan Banerjee WB 688 G Pratap Singh UP 689 Rajan Sood UTK 690 Binod Kumar Saw JHR 691 Karunanayake Mayuri 692 Azmat Ali UP 693 Ashish Kumar Singh UP 694 Tayyeb Asif Md MP 695 Dharmaveer Singh UP 696 Vicky HAR 697 Siddiqui Md. Sabir UP 698 Amitabh Chourasia MAH 5½99 Sahil Dhawan HAR 5½100 Haribabu Sharma UP 5½101 Wazeer Ahmad Khan UP 5½102 Diwan Rajesh MP 5½103 Dishant Jain UP 5½104 Shubham Shukla PUN 5½105 Dinesh Sinha UP 5½106 Kunal Kanchan UP 5½107 Manjeet Singh UP 5½108 Aasha.C R. TN 5½109 Dhruv Dak RAJ 5½

110 Chauhan Atul UP 5½111 Raghav Bansal PUN 5½112 Kapadi Yash MAH 5½113 Kariya Mohak GUJ 5½114 Madhav Mahere UP 5½115 Arjun Veer Singh MAH 5½116 Swapnil Lingayat MAH 5½117 Sunil Kumar UP 5½118 Mayank Pal DEL 5½119 Mallikarjuna Rao B AP 5½120 Shreya Rajendra UP 5½121 Rahan Md. UP 5½122 Saini Ashutosh UP 5½123 Dinesh Kumar PUN 5½124 Tete Sandeep Barnad UP 5½125 Manash Bala WB 5½126 Priti UP 5½127 Priye Bikram 5½128 Sukhwinder Singh PUN 5½129 Jaspreet Singh PUN 5130 Satinder Sharma HAR 5131 Awasthi Balgovind UP 5132 Tiwari Aradhana UP 5133 Gupta Sandeep K. UP 5134 M Parshad Verma HAR 5135 Anil Shivpuri DEL 5136 Arun Kataria RAJ 5

Nimzowitsch supplemented many of the earlier simplistic assumptions about chess strategy by enunciating in his turn a further number of general concepts of defensive play aimed at achieving one's own goals by preventing realization of the opponent's plans. Notable in his "system" were concepts such as overprotection of pieces and pawns under attack, control of the center by pieces instead of pawns, blockading of opposing pieces (notably the passed pawns) and prophylaxis. He was also a leading exponent of the fianchetto development of bishops.

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Third seeded S S Manigandan of Madurai won the title in 28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament at Spic Nagar Thoothukudi, he collected 8point in nine rounds and won the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash prize of Thirty thousand Rupees. Along with Manigandan Joy Lazar from Kerala also collected 8 points but better tie break score helped Manigandan won the title. Vadivel of Thoothukudy became the champion in Non medalist section with 8.5 points.

The chief guest of the function Shri. Jawahar Kennedy, Asst. Engineer TWAD Board tax gave away the prizes Mr. S R Ramakrishnan, WTD and the president of Thoothukudi District Chess Association presided over the meeting. Nine times National Champion Arjuna awardee, India's first International Master Mr. Manuel Aaron felicitated the function, Gopalakrishnan Secretary, Thoothukudi District Chess Association welcomed the gathering and Mr. Bhaskar Velayutham Secretary, Spic Nagar Multi Activity Club(SMAC) proposed the vote of thanks.

Earlier, the 28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament got underway at Spic Community Hall, Spic Nagar,Thuthukudi from 26th September 2015. The event attracted 261 players in Medalist section out of which 168 players are Fide rated. Players from Assam, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharastra, Pondicherry and Tamilnadu participated. In Non-Medalist section there were 240 players. Spic is the only organization in Tamilnadu which is conducting chess tournament for Non- medalist players regularly. The previous medal winners will not be allowed in this section and also the rated players are also

not allowed to participate in this tournament.

Ram S Krishnan of BSNL is the top seeded. The total prize fund of the event was One Lakh forty eight thousand and five hundred in medalist section, out of which, Rs. 30000/- was reserved to the winner. The total prize fund for Non medalist was Rs.23100/-

The tournament was declared open by Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Sivakasi Thiru. R Masilamony. In his inaugural speech he pointed out that chess players have very good memory power and the game itself will sharpen the brain.

In round 3 The 11 years old boy Ruban Sanjay from Sivakasi shocked the former deaf & dump National Champion Alaguraja from Madurai in Sicilian defense. 13 years old Genish Prakash from Kanyakumari District made an upset win against the 8th seeded Uma Maheswaran of Madurai. In round four Joy Lazar of Kerala beat the second seeded J Nishvin of Kanyakumari and lead the event with 5 points along with Ram S Krishnan, S S Manigandan of Madurai and Aadhityaa of Kanch District. young Aadhityaa's win against the top seeded Ram in round six made him sole lead, as the encounter between Joy Lazar and S S Manigandan ended in a draw. Manigandan beat the previous round leader Aadhityaa in round seven where as the local star Shakthi lost to Joy Lazar in the same round. Mani and joy are the leader with 6.5 points at the end of round seven. Mani & Joy did not take any risk in the eighth round and settled draw against their opponent and maintained the lead with seven points, where as Vinodh Kumar of Pondicherry joined the leader after won against Selvamurugan at

28th SPIC FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Thoothukudi….

Manigandan wins titleby M.Ephrame IA,Chief Arbiter

Arbiter Examination Senior, 2015 ThoothukudiReport by IA R.Anantharam

Senior Arbiter title has acquired great significance to the untitled arbiters in India, as it is the minimum pre requisite to officiate in fide rated tournaments. While FIDE arbiter title will be awarded to those who pass in the FA examination and they need three norms from fide rated or international tournaments. Senior Arbiter title is of national importance. Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Thoothukudi District Chess Association organized the Senior Arbiter examination on behalf of All India Chess Federation at Thoothukudi

on Thursday 24th October 2015. The event attracted an overwhelming response from 119 participants, mostly from Tamil Nadu, with a few participants from Assam, Karnataka, Kerala and Pondicherry. Sri.V. Hariharan, Secretary, All India Chess Federation and Gen. Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association was the chief guest for the inauguration, in the presence of Sri. M. Ephrame, Joint Secretary, TN State Chess Association.

The examination in the afternoon was preceded by a doubt clearing session in the morning and the resource person was Prof.R. Anantharam, Chairman, Arbiters’ Commission, All India Chess Federation. Finer points in Laws of Chess were elaborately discussed, besides the salient features of rating and pairing regulations. The lecture was held at the air conditioned hall of Indian Chamber of Commerce and the session was lively, as the participants were enthusiastic by bombarding questions to the resource person.

As there was an unexpected rise in the number of participants had arranged one more nearby air conditioned hall for the smooth conduct of the examination. Duration of the examination was 2 hours and 30 minutes, with 49 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer type and 5 true/false, totaling to 50 marks. After the exam, the participants were patient and eager to know the correct answers. Thoothukudi District Chess Association, especially Mrs. Karpagavalli and Secretary Mr. Gopalakrishnan left no stone unturned in organizing the event successfully. FIDE World Cup 2015,BakuSergey Karjakin wins FIDE World Cup 2015

Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler returned today to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to finally decide the FIDE World Cup winner in quick-play tie-breaks. After the games with the classical time control the result was even 2-2.

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The qualifiers for the Candidates:Sergey Karjakin( Winner) and Peter Svidler

In the first set of the rapid games Karjakin prepared a surprise with the white pieces but Svidler reacted well and achieved good position. At some point black was even slightly better.

Being under the severe time pressure black lost a pawn, but still managed to reach an ending with opposite-colored bishops. Black set the blockade and white tried to walk the king across the entire board in order to press the enemy pawns from behind.

Playing quickly in order to gain time from the increment Svidler missed an excellent opportunity to push 68...g5, which apparently was sufficient for a draw.White prepared his own breakthrough 80.d5+ and proceeded to advance the passed e-pawn to finally clinch a victory.

In the return game Svidler employed the King's Indian Attack, but unlike the classical match, he pushed the pawn 9.e5 instead of trading on d5.White started piling pieces towards the opponent's king, but then he shifted the focus to combat black's queenside counterplay and win a pawn in the process.

Black was able to take the pawn back while trading a bunch of pieces in the process, but white emerged with a dominant centralized knighAfter black allowed the trade of the queens, Svidler reached the back rank and started exerting strong pressure. Black position collapsed and the score was leveled once again.

In the next set of the rapid games with faster time control the players got a Benoni setup on the board, which according to the tournament commentators is not in their opening repertoires. Svidler, playing black, got the better of it and proceeded to win the game in convincing fashion.

In the return game Svidler once again avoided the Naidorf Sicilian and went for the Maroczy setup. But he mixed the plans, lost a pawn early on and Karjakin used the opportunity to strike back.

In the blitz time control we had it all: great opening preparation, wonderful tactical shots and, inevitably, blunders. Karjakin won both blitz games and emerged winner of the 2015 FIDE World Cup!

The total net prize fund of the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup was 1,6 million USD. In addition, the tournament awarded two places in the 2016 Candidates Tournament, part of the FIDE World Championship cycle.

Pentyala Harikrishna wins Isle of man TourneyIndia No 2 Pentala Harikrishna continued his rich vein of form, winning the PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament on 11th October 2015.

Remaining undefeated, Harikrishna won his second title of the year with a hard-fought draw against former World Championship Challenger Nigel Short in the ninth round. There was a three-way tie for first spot between Harikrishna, Laurent Fressinet and Gabriel Sargissian (all seven points) but the India No 2’s better tie-break helped him triumph in one of the strongest Opens. French champion Fressinet and Armenia’s No 2 took the second and third spots.

The way Harikrishna has been progressing in the last one year, it won’t be long before he breaks into the top 15. He is currently ranked 20th with a rating of 2737. Going into the Isle of Man event as second seed, Harikrishna got off to a good start, securing four points in five games. Victory over Arkadi Naiditsch in the seventh round from a complicated position gave him the lead. Two draws in the last two rounds showed his growing stature at the international level.

Indian GM Sundararajan Kidambi had a good tournament, gaining 16.3 rating points, and finishing in 27th place with 5.5 points. He called Harikrishna’s effort a “clinical victory”.Another GM from India, Swayams Mishra (6), who had the satisfaction of defeating Dutch legend Jan Timman in the final round, ended 16th, besides increasing his rating by 20.6 points. Harikrishna’s talent was first noticed when he won the World U-10 crown in 1996. By becoming the second Indian to win the World Junior title in 2004 after Viswanathan Anand, he showed his growth as a player. His progress was not meteoric but steady. Harikrishna showed he can compete at the highest level performing creditably in the Tata Steel Chess in 2013 and 2014.

Antipov, Buksa Win World Junior In Russiaby Arvind Aaron

Russia’s Mikhail Antipov and Nataliya Buksa of Ukraine won the World Junior Chess Championships that concluded at Khanty-Mansiyst in Russia on Sep 15, 2015.Top seeds rarely win in Swiss format contests. Antipov scored a final round win to catch up with the event leader and top seed Duda Jan-Krzysztof of Poland on 10/13 and win the title on tie-break score.Antipov and Duda scored 10 points apiece and the tie-break decided the title. German GM Bluebaum won the bronze medal with nine points, one clear point below.

Asia did not get much. Zhansaya Abdumalik of Kazakhstan who was leading the girls section won a bronze medal on lower tie-break score.Woman Grand Masters fared poorly among Girls. Seed 23, Nataliya Buksa, only an WFM gathered steam and overtook Zhansaya to win the World Junior Girls title by a clear half point margin. Drawn games became the order of the day in the lead boards of girls. India’s IM G.Akash finished 9th in the Open section and J.Saranya finished 20th in the Girls section.India can hope to get better results in 2016 when this event will be held in Bhubaneswar, in the east coast of India next year.

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the end of the penultimate round. In the last round both Manigandan and Joy Lazar won their game against Vinothkumar and Muthuhareeswaran respectively and tied for the first prize with 8 points. But better tie break score helped Manigandan won the tournament. In non medalist section, Vadivel of Thoothukudi collected 8.5 points and become the champion.

Final ranking: Rk Name Pts1 Manigandan S S 82 Joy Lazar M.A. 83 Aadhityaa M 7½4 Ram S. Krishnan 7½5 Nishvin J 76 Vinodh Kumar B. 77 Girinath B S 78 Selvamurugan B 79 Rajasekaran P. 710 Ravi Shankar A. 711 Dave Sneh 712 Natarajan M 713 Francis N. P. 6½14 Shakthi Vishal J 6½15 Aswin Kumar B S 6½16 Prasant N Nayagam 6½17 Uma Maheswaran P 6½18 Kamalanathan R 6½19 Ruban Sanjay M 6½20 Rajeev V M 6½21 Sathish Chandra G 6½22 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6½23 Balasankar M 6½24 Charan N 6½25 Arivu Selvan A S 6½26 Dheekshith Kumar R 627 Arun Kumar P 628 Dharmaraj P. 629 Rajashakkthivel K K 630 Arun R U 631 Bharkavi S 632 Narayanan P 6

33 Aravinth Shanmugam S 634 Muthu Rakesh Babu 635 Roshan R 636 Abirami S 637 Sanjay Sreekandan 638 Virgil Jebas J 639 Suryaa S S 640 Achuthan K 641 Senbabu M B 642 Jayashri K K 643 A Noah Fernando S 644 Dhanusha S 645 L Ishwaryaa 646 Hari Varshan S R 647 Ebnesar Anto A 648 Gayathri M 649 Jai Priya K 650 Achaya Vijayan 651 Genish Prakash J 5½52 Godson Merlin E 5½53 Nithin A V 5½54 Suganthan S 5½55 Subbhu Karthick S M 5½56 Sibi Visal R 5½57 Meyyappan M 5½58 Richis Jesvanth Julius 5½59 Mithesh M 5½60 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 5½61 Iniyan S 5½62 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 5½63 Harikrishna R 5½64 Ajithkumar Murugan 5½65 Sriram S 5½66 P Samuthura Pandi 5½67 Devadharshini C 5½68 Vivekanandhan S 5½69 Sangeethaa S 5½70 Ram Kumar G M 571 Karunakaran M 572 Santhosh Kumar G 573 Kalidass C. 574 Lenin A G 575 Shanjay Krishnaa S 5

Alexander Grischuk is World Blitz ChampionAlexander Grischuk from Russia emerged winner of the 2015 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after concluding the event with 15,5/21 points, half a point ahead of the nearest followers.Grischuk started the day with a loss to Teimour Radjabov, but then he switched gear and had a furious finish of 8 points from nine last rounds.

This is Grischuk's third World Blitz title, but he said this one was the most difficult to win, due to a very strong field and more demanding Swiss tournament system.On the shared second place are Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik with 15 points each. After breaking the tie Vachier-Lagrave is awarded with the silver medal, while Kramnik claimed the bronze.

The overnight leader Vachier-Lagrave had a major setback near the end of the tournament when he lost two consecutive games. However, the last round win against Rustam Kasimdzhanov took him to the podium. Kramnik was very pleased with his result, having in mind that he planned to skip the Blitz Championship and rest before the European Club Cup.

World Rapid Championship Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE Magnus Carlsen convincingly won the 2015 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship by concluding the event with 11,5/15 points, a full point ahead of the nearest followers.Carlsen retained the title that he won in in 2014 in Dubai, UAE.

In the final third day of competition Carlsen started with two wins, against Zhigalko and Ivanchuk respectively, to secure a firm lead ahead of the rest of the field. With

three draws in the final rounds he maintained the gap and brought the trophy home.On the shared second place are Ian Nepomniachtchi, Teimour Radjabov and Leinier Dominguez with 10,5 points each. After breaking the tie Nepomniachtchi is awarded with the silver medal, while Radjabov claimed the bronze.In the final press conference Magnus Carlsen said: "It is important not to let the results affect you too much and you shouldn't be afraid of draws when you play in a tournament of 15 rounds.", and added, "There were many games which could have gone either way for me, but I always had a little more time and a little bit of control of position."The 2015 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship was held from 10-12th October at the Bolle Meierei in Berlin, Germany, with 158 world's top players competing for the prestigious title and 200,000 USD prize fund.

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It gives me immense pleasure in presenting this report of Fomento All India Fide Rat-ing Chess Championship 2015 organized by Rudreshwar Panaji under the aegis of Goa Chess Association , Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association and All India Chess Federation. The tournament was held from 29th Aug to 2nd Sept 2015 at the Institute Menenzes Braganza Hall Panaji Goa. A total of 221 participants took part in this tournament which included 2 IM’s 2 FM’s 1 CM and 2 WCM’s .I would like to congratulate the or-ganizers for providing AC Hall to play and successfully conducting this tournament. Organizers provided tea , snacks and wa-ter to the players and parents during the rounds.

There were altogether 25 main prizes, apart from category prizes from U-7 to U-15 Boys. Total prize fund was Rs 2 lakhs.

IM Sameer Katmale of Railways won the championship. He scored 8 points out of 9 rounds. FM Sauravh Khardekar of Railways stood 2nd with the score of 7.5 points while Raghav Srivatsav of Telangana finished 3rd with 7.5 points.

The conduct of all the players remained excellent throughout the tournament and there was no dispute or any protest. Shri Uday Balikar, Ex Principal, Damodar High-er Secondary & representative,Fomento group of companies, Kishor Bandek-ar Ssecretary,GCA.Arv ind Mhamal , Chief Arbiter, Shri. Deepak Amonker President,Rudreshwar Panaji, Shri. Satish

Narvekar, Secretary Rudreshwarpanaji. Sangam Chodankar, Sports Secretary Ru-dreshwar Panaji were the dignitaries.

At the closing ceremony Shri Vinay Ten-dulkar ( President GCA) was the Chief Guest and gave away the prizes in the presence of MrAkashTimblo, Mr Sanjay Harmalkar, DrAshwini Kumar, DipakAmonkar, Arvind-Mhamal, TanayKaisary, DnyaneshwarNaik , SatishNarvekar, and other office bearers of RudreshwarPanaji.Final ranking:Rk Name Pts1 Kathmale Sameer 82 Sauravh Khherdekar 7½3 Raghav Srivathsav V 7½4 Barath M 7½5 Sahil Tickoo 7½6 Dutta Joydeep 77 Saranya Y 78 Falgun D Purohit 79 Akshay V Halagannavar 710 Himanshu Sharma 6½11 Chandar Raju 6½12 Audi Ameya 6½13 Stanley Samson P. 6½14 Dave Sneh 6½15 Viswanath Sandilya B. 6½16 Kadav Omkar 6½17 Cruz Wilson 6½18 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6½19 Kochrekar Vishwesh 620 Gajengi Rajababu 621 Jeel Shah 622 Dias Aston 623 Vijay Anand M. 624 Sawant Tatvesh Ramdas 625 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6

Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…

Sameer Kathmale wins FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter

26 Mendonca Leon Luke 627 Trivedi Karan R 628 Patil Samiksha 629 Shah Rishab 630 Shah Bhaven Jay 631 Dutta Debarghya 632 Jaisingh Anugraha 633 Samant Aditya S 634 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 635 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 636 Ankit Dalal 637 Barde Om 638 V Chandrasekaran 639 Bhobe Harsh 640 Swera Ana Braganca 641 Amogh S Namshiker 642 Ananya Rishi Gupta 643 Raheja Rohan 644 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5½45 Bodke Sharmad S 5½46 Meet Puri 5½47 Chopdekar Gunjal 5½48 Thorat Aishwarya 5½49 Sahil Shetty 5½50 Bhuta Hriday 5½51 Mohan Ram E 5½52 Shirodkar Aayush 5½53 Thorat Sanjay 5½54 Naik Snehal 5½55 Gaude Sachin 5½56 Shah Simit 5½57 Jaeel Atharva 5½58 Das Annika 5½59 Dwivedi Umang 5½60 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5½61 Morajkar Navin 5½62 Gaayathri S 5½63 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5½64 Nandhini Saripalli 565 Sachin Kakodkar 566 Prabhu Yash 567 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 568 Madhavan G 569 Bajaj Anandamayi 5

70 Abhay V Nadgouda 571 Singh Kartik Kumar 572 Sahil Dayanand Desai 573 Urvi Bandekar 574 Karra Abhinav 575 Shah Hard Nikeshkumar 576 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 577 Aayush Prabhu 578 Eeshan Gad 579 Patni Adeesh 580 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 581 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 582 Bhavsar Rachay 583 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 584 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 585 Mahajan Ayush 586 Prajwal M Joshi 587 Pratik S Borkar 588 Pednekar Sagar 589 Vikram Natraj S 590 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 591 Devesh Anand Naik 592 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 593 Sonawane Harsh 594 Varun R Shastry 595 Anurag Ajay Chari 596 Prashant Salvi 597 Shah Yesha 4½98 Kuncolienkar Shivank 4½99 Kavish Gharse 4½100 Utsav Divecha 4½101 Sharath R Shanbhag 4½102 Alaina J J Pereira 4½103 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½104 Bang Atharva 4½105 Bharadwaj Rahul 4½106 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 4½107 Balaji D 4½108 Naroji Sanskriti 4½109 Shlok Dhulapkar 4½110 Gangawane Vaibhav 4½111 Gaude Sumesh 4½112 Arun Kumar.B 4½113 Kakodkar Love 4½114 Sanjeev Akash 4½

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Selected games from National Women Challenger, ThaneAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Priyanka,Nutakki (2043)Salonika,Saina (1703) [E74]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 h6 8.Be3 a6 9.Qd2 Kh7 10.f3 Qc7 [An interesting idea was tried in M.Mueller, 2355, vs M. Hellwig, 1992: 10...e6 11.g4 exd5 12.exd5 Qa5 13.h4 Re8 14.g5 Nh5 15.gxh6 Bf6 16.0–0–0 Bf5 17.Bd3 Bxd3 18.Qxd3 Nd7 Black eventually won.] 11.g4 e5 12.g5 [12.dxe6 Bxe6 13.0–0–0 Ne8 14.Nd5 Bxd5 15.cxd5 Nd7 16.g5 c4 17.Qc2 Rc8 18.Nh3 h5 19.Kb1 b5 20.Rc1 Qa5= with equal chances.] 12...hxg5 13.h4!? gxh4 14.Rxh4+ Kg8 15.Nh3 [It was too early to commit this knight to h3. Best was to castle long: 15.0–0–0 when white has the option of 16 f4 as well.] 15...Bxh3

Diagram # [15...Nh5?! would only add fuel to white's fire: 16.0–0–0 b5 17.Rg1 b4 18.Nd1 b3 19.a3 Bxh3 20.Rxh3 Nf4 21.Bxf4 exf4 22.Qxf4 Qe7±] 16.Rxh3 Nh5 17.0–0–0± Nd7 18.Rg1 [Better was: 18.Bh6 Ndf6 19.Qg5 Nh7 20.Qe3 N7f6 21.Rdh1

Rfb8 22.Qg5 Nh7 23.Qd2 N7f6²] 18...Ndf6 19.Nd1 [White plans to transfer her knight to the king-side through a slow manoeuvre which is taken advantage of by black. Better was: 19.Bh6² ] 19...Rfb8! 20.Nf2 b5 21.Ng4 Nxg4 22.Rxg4

Diagram # 22...Nf4! This is a typical manoeuvre by black in the Kings Indian Defence. It turns out to be a winning ma-noeuvre! She gives back her extra pawn to give life to her dark square bishop which plays a great role in the attack. 23.Bxf4 [White's only alternative was: 23.Rh1³ ] 23...exf4 24.b3 a5! Threatening ...a4 and the complete destruction of white's queen-side. 25.cxb5 a4! 26.Bc4 axb3 27.Bxb3 [27.axb3?? Ra1+ 28.Kc2 Ra2+ wins the queen.] 27...c4! [27...Rxb5! was even more power-ful.] 28.Qc2 Diagram #

28...cxb3!! 29.axb3 [29.Qxc7 bxa2! and black's a-pawn queens come what may!] 29...Ra1+ 30.Kd2 Qa5+! 31.Kd3 Qxb5+ 32.Qc4 [If 32.Kd2 Qb4+ 33.Ke2 Qe1+ 34.Kd3 Qe3+ 35.Kc4 Qd4#] 32...Qxb3+! 33.Qxb3 Rxb3+ [33...Rxb3+ 34.Kc4 Rab1! and ....Rc3# could only be temporarily prevented by meaningless sacrifices.(or, 34...Rc3+ 35.Kb4 Rb1+ 36.Ka4 Rc8 mat-ing.) ] 0–1

Sachdev,Tania (2413)Vaishali,R (2276) [A57]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.e3 e6 6.Nc3 exd5 7.Nxd5 Bb7 8.Nxf6+ Qxf6 9.Nf3 Be7 10.Be2 0–0 11.bxa6 Nxa6 12.Bd2 d5 [A 1973 game between Portisch and Cio-caltea went: 12...Qe6 13.0–0 Nc7 14.a3 Be4 15.b4 Bf6 16.Rc1 Rxa3 17.Rxc5²] 13.Bc3 Qh6 14.0–0 Nc7?! [The immediate 14...Bd6 pointing the bishop at white's castled posit ion was best.] 15.Qd2 Ra4?! [Such early rook manoeuvres in the middle-game have been seen at World Championship matches - Kasparov against Karpov in Leningrad 1986 and Carlsen against Anand in Chennai 2013. Both times the manoeuvres escaped unscathed though technically they are considered unsound. But here black did not escape the consequences. 15...Bd6 would have limited white to only a mini-mal advantage.] 16.b3 Rg4 [Black persists in her high risk manoeuvre. She still had time to get back to normal chess with: 16...Ra7 ] 17.Be5 Ne6 18.Bg3 [As black is threatening d5-d4 taking advantage of the unprotected queen on d2, it was best for black to complete her development with: 18.Rfd1 ] 18...d4 19.Ne5! Diagram # 19...Rxg3 [Panic or a belief that she is winning?

If 19...Rg5 20.Rad1 Rd8 21.f4 Rxe5

(Position after 19.Ne5)22.fxe5 dxe3 23.Qb2 Rd2 24.Rxd2 exd2 25.Qc3±; black's best choice seems to be: 19...Re4 20.Bf3 Rxe5 21.Bxe5 Bxf3 22.gxf3 Qg6+ 23.Bg3 h5 24.Kh1 Qf5=] 20.hxg3 Ng5 21.Nf3 Rd8 22.Nxg5 Bxg5 23.Rad1 Re8 [Black shifts her focus to the pinned e3 pawn. If 23...dxe3?? 24.Qxd8+] 24.Qc2+- dxe3? Diagram

25.Qxc5? [White could win without any problem after: 25.f4! Be7 26.Bc4 Qc6 27.Rfe1 Bf6 28.Bd5+-] 25...exf2+ 26.Rxf2 Be3 27.Qf5 Bxf2+ 28.Qxf2 Be4? [Better was: 28...Ba6 29.Bf3 Bc8 and white no longer has the winning advantage that she had earlier.] 29.Bc4! Bg6 30.Qc5 [30.

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Qf4 Qxf4 31.gxf4 Kf8 32.a4 and white is winning.] 30...Bh5 31.Rf1 Rf8 32.a4 Qg6? Diagram #

[This loses instantly, but the best defence also loses: 32...Bg6 33.a5 Qd2 34.a6 Qd7 35.Bd5 Rc8 36.Qd4+-] 33.Rxf7 Qxf7 [If 33...Rxf7?? 34.Qc8# Black resigned without waiting for 34 Qxh5! after which she will be a rook down.] 1–0

Bhakti,Kulkarni (2256) Rucha,Pujari (2156) [D10]1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Qb3 Na5 8.Qa4+ Bd7 9.Bb5 e6 10.Bxd7+ Nxd7 11.Nf3 a6 12.0–0 b5 13.Qd1 Rc8 14.a4 b4 15.Ne2 Be7 16.Qd3 Qb6 17.Rfc1 [D.Moldovan (2409) - H.Hamdouchi (2559), in 2005 went: 17.Rac1 0–0 18.b3 Qb7 19.Qb1 h6 20.Nd2= The game was drawn.] 17...0–0 18.b3 Qb7 [18...Bd6! challenging the Bf4 was equal.] 19.Nd2 Rxc1+ 20.Rxc1 Rc8 21.Rxc8+ Qxc8 22.f3 Qc6 23.e4 dxe4 [It was best to leave the centre alone and relocate her knight on a5 as it will become a liability there: 23...Nb7= ] 24.fxe4 Dia-gram # 24...e5?! this is a thrust that is good in normal situations, but not with a pawn hanging on a6.

25.dxe5 Qc5+?! [¹25...Nc5 26.Qd5 Qxd5 27.exd5 Naxb3 28.Nxb3 Nxb3=] 26.Kh1 Nxe5 27.Qxa6 Ng4 [This is unwise as the knight is bound to be kicked away with h2-h3 leaving white with the advantage. ¹27...Ng6 28.g3 (28.Bg3 Qe3=) 28...Nxf4 29.gxf4 Qe3=] 28.h3 Nf2+ 29.Kh2± h5 30.Ng3 Dia-gram #

30...h4?! [¹30...g6 denying the white knight a post on f5.] 31.Nf5 Bf6 32.Be3 Qe5+ 33.Kg1 Nd1 [33...Nxe4?? 34.Qa8+ Kh7 35.Qxe4+-] 34.Bd4 Qf4 35.Bxf6 Qf2+ 36.Kh1 Qxd2 37.Bxg7! Nf2+ [The alternative would lead to a straight mate: 37...Qe1+ 38.Kh2 Nf2 39.Qc8+ Kh7 40.Qh8+ Kg6 41.Qh6#] 38.Kh2 Qf4+ 39.Kg1 Diagram #

39...Kh7 [Destroying the pawn which sup-ports the Nf5 makes no difference either! 39...Qxe4 40.Qc8+ Kh7 41.Qh8+ Kg6 42.Qh6+ Kxf5 43.Qf6#] 40.Qc8 Kg6 41.Ne7+ Kxg7 42.Qg8+ Kh6 [42...Kf6 43.Nd5+ forks king and queen.] 43.Nf5+ Kh5 44.Qh7+ If 44...Kg5 45 Qh6# 1–0Soumya,Swaminathan (2363)Vaishali,R (2276) [C45]1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Nb6 9.Nc3 Bb7 10.Bf4 0–0–0 11.0–0–0 g5 12.Bg3 Bg7 13.Re1 [P.Rewitz (2285) vs D.Pedersen (2230) 1994 went: 13.h4 Rde8 14.hxg5 Qxg5+ 15.Rd2 Bxe5 16.Rh5 Bxg3 17.Rxg5 Rxe2 18.Nxe2 Bxf2 19.Rd3 Nxc4 Black has a clear advantage as he has three pawns for the sacrificed exchange. He went on to win.] 13...Rde8 14.Qe3 Diagram #

14...Qe6 [An interesting alternative is: 14...

f5 15.f4 gxf4 16.Bxf4 c5 17.Bd3 Bxg2 18.Rhg1 Bc6 19.Qh3 Rhf8 20.Qxh7 Bxe5 21.Qxe7 Bxf4+ 22.Kc2 Rxe7 23.Rxe7 Bxh2 24.Rgg7 Kb7 25.Ref7] 15.Bd3! h5 [Black should not open up her position for the white pieces to pour in. For example, if 15...Nxc4? 16.Qxa7 c5 (16...Nxe5?? 17.Ba6 Bxa6 18.Qa8#) 17.f3 h5 18.Nb5!? Nxe5 19.Qa5 Qb6 20.Qxb6 cxb6 21.Nd6+±] 16.Ne4

Diagram # 16...g4?! [Perhaps better was: 16...Bh6 17.Nxg5 Nxc4 18.Nxe6 Nxe3 19.fxe3 fxe6 20.Bg6 Ref8 21.Bxh5 c5 22.Rhg1 Bxe3+ 23.Rxe3 Rxh5 and white is only slightly better.] 17.Nc5 Qe7 18.Bf4 f6? [18...Kb8 was a good, safe move, throwing the onus of taking advantage on white.] 19.exf6?! [Stronger was: 19.e6! d5 (or 19...d6 20.Nxb7 Kxb7 21.h3±) 20.Qd4 dxc4 21.Bf5 Kb8± White has a crushing posi-tion.] 19...Bxf6 20.Qxe7 Rxe7 21.Rxe7 Bxe7 22.Nxb7 Kxb7 23.h3! Diagram #

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White has a majority of pawns on the king-side and she correctly initiates action there. 23...Bc5? [This practically loses the game. A good counter-attacking possibility which of-fered chances for black was: 23...Rf8 24.Be3 d5 25.hxg4 hxg4 26.Rh7 dxc4 27.Be2 Nd5 28.Bxg4 Nxe3 29.fxe3 Rf1+ 30.Bd1 Bg5 31.Rh3 Bf6²; Another major alternative was: 23...Rg8 24.hxg4 hxg4 25.Rh5 d5 26.cxd5 cxd5 27.Rh7 Nc8 28.Bf5 Rf8 29.Bxc8+ Kxc8 30.g3 Bd6 31.Bxd6 cxd6 32.Rxa7 Rxf2 and again, white has only a minimal advan-tage.] 24.hxg4 Rf8 25.Bh6! Rxf2 26.gxh5 Rxg2 27.Bd2 Bd4 28.b3?! [After this tame defence, white has to work some more to win. She should boldly take the short cut to victory by playing 28.h6! probably she feared, unnecessarily, the tactic 28...Bxb2+ 29.Kxb2! Rxd2+ 30.Kc3 Rf2 31.h7 and black must give up her rook to stop the pawn from queening.] 28...d5 29.h6 dxc4 30.bxc4 Nd7 31.h7 Bh8 Now white's problem is how to prod the black bishop out of the h8 corner. Thanks to her 28th move, she cannot play Bc3. 32.Kc2 Nc5? [This loses quickly. How-ever, if 32...Kb6 33.Be4 Rg3 preventing Bc3. 34.Bf5 Nf6 35.Rb1+ Kc5 36.Rb8+-] 33.Rb1+! Ka6 34.Bf5! The focus has sud-denly changed from queening the h-pawn to mating the king with Bc8! 1–0

Vaishali,R (2276)Michelle Catherina,P (2220) [A07]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7 4.d4 Ngf6 5.Ne5 Bf5 6.c4 e6 7.Nc3 c6 8.0–0 Bd6 9.Bf4 Qb8 [This is an improvement over a little known 2003 game which went: 9...Qc7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Rc1 Bxe5 12.dxe5 Nxe5 13.Qd4 Nfd7 14.Nxd5 Qd6 15.e4 Bg6 16.Bxe5 Nxe5 and white won.] 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Qb3 Nxe5 [Sometimes the urge

to immediately engage the opponent in mid board is very overpowering. After this premature skirmish, black is always on the back foot, trying to equalise by getting back her pawn. Best here was to complete development by castling: 11...0–0 12.Nxd7 Bxd7 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Qxb7 Rfb8 15.Qa6 Rxb2 16.Rab1 Qb4=] 12.dxe5 Bxe5 13.Bxe5 Qxe5 14.Qxb7 0–0 15.Qxc6 Rac8 16.Qb5! White attacks the d5 pawn to stay one jump ahead of black. 16...Rb8 17.Qa5 Rxb2 18.Rad1 [Better 18.Nxd5 Nxd5 19.Bxd5! Rxe2 20.Rae1!] 18...Be6? Diagram #

[This tame move allows white to vigor-ously add heat to the conflict in the centre. Somewhat better was the complicated aggressive defence: 18...Bg4 19.h3 Bxe2 20.Rfe1 Rc2 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Rxd5 Qf6 23.Qxa7 Bc4 24.Ra5 and white has man-aged to cling to her extra pawn.] 19.e4 Qh5 With this move, black surrenders her d5 pawn, but hopes to stir up complica-tions in white's castled position. 20.exd5 Bh3 21.Qa3 [better was: 21.Rb1 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 Rd2 23.Rbd1 Rc2 24.h3²] 21...Rfb8?! [Equalising was: 21...Rc2 22.Qb3 Bxg2 23.Kxg2 Qf5 24.h3 Rc8= Black has enough counter-play for her pawn minus.] 22.Rfe1 [22.Qxa7! winning a second pawn would have sealed black's fate.] 22...h6 23.Ne4! Nxe4 24.Bxe4 Bg4 25.Rd3 Qg5?

[¹25...Bf5 26.Bf3 Qg6 27.Rde3 Qb6±] 26.Qxa7!+- Qf6 27.d6 Rb1 28.Rxb1 Rxb1+ 29.Kg2 Diagram #

29...Bh3+! [An ingenious attempt to turn the tables on her redoubtable adversary! Blocking white's mating set up is not that easy. If 29...g6? 30.d7!] 30.Kxh3 Qe6+! 31.Kg2 Qxe4+ 32.Rf3 Diagram #32...Qe1? [It is just possible that black overlooked that white's 32 Rf3, besides defending against the check also helped white in attacking f7. After this weak move Black loses by force. Surprisingly she could now either win or gain the upper hand with: 32...Qc4!! Defending f7 and threatening 33...Qf1# 33.Qa8+ Kh7 34.Kh3 (White gets better

defensive resources with 34.g4 f5! 35.Rb3 Qxg4+ 36.Rg3 Qd1³) 34...Qf1+ 35.Kg4 (35.Kh4 g5+ 36.Kg4 Qc4+ 37.Kh5 Rh1 38.h4

Qxh4+! 39.gxh4 Rxh4#) 35...Rb4+! 36.Rf4 (36.Kf5? Qb5+) 36...h5+ 37.Kh4 (37.Kxh5 Qh3+ 38.Kg5 f6+) 37...Rb5! 38.Qd8 (after 38.Qe4+ Kh6 and g7-g5+ will win.) 38...g5+–+] 33.Qxf7++- Kh8 34.Qf8+ Kh7 35.Qf5+ Kh8 36.Qc8+ Kh7 37.Qc2+ Kg8 38.Qc4+ Kh7 39.Qd3+ Kg8 40.d7 Qg1+ 41.Kh3 1–0

Ivana Maria,Furtado (2236)Mohota,Nisha (2277) [A41]1.d4 d6 2.e4 g6 3.Be3 Bg7 4.Qd2 a6 5.f3 Nd7 6.Nc3 c6 7.h4 h6?! [L. Kubacsny (2382) vs Z.Szabo 1999 was drawn after: 7...h5 8.Nh3 b5 9.Nf2 Nb6=] 8.h5! g5 9.f4?! [This is all out war! A more positional way of playing was: 9.Nge2 b5 10.Ng3 Nb6 11.0–0–0 Rb8 12.b3] 9...gxf4 10.Bxf4 c5! 11.dxc5 [After 11.d5 b5 12.Nf3 Qa5 black has a comfortable posi-tion.] 11...Nxc5 12.e5 Qb6 [Black can seize the advantage with: 12...Ne6! 13.Bg3 Bxe5 14.Bxe5 dxe5 15.Qxd8+ Nxd8 16.Nd5 Rb8!µ] 13.0–0–0 Be6 14.Nd5 [14.exd6 0–0–0 15.Qe1 exd6=] 14...Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Rd8 [¹15...Ne6! 16.Bh2 dxe5 17.Qd7+ Kf8 18.Qa4 e4 19.c3 Nf6³] 16.Rh3 dxe5! Diagram # [If 16...e6 17.Qc4 Bxe5 18.Bxe5 dxe5 19.Rxd8+ Kxd8 20.Rc3 Nd7 21.Qc8+ Ke7 22.Nh3 e4 23.Be2 Qa5 24.a3 Qe5=

However white seems to have a strangle-hold over the eighth rank with the black Rg8

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and Ng8 unable to devlop. The moment white captures Qxb7, then comes Ngf6=] 17.Qxd8+ Qxd8 18.Rxd8+ Kxd8 19.Be3 Nd7 20.Rg3! Bf6 [After this move, where can his Ng8 be devel-oped? The strange, 'undeveloping' move 20...Bf8! reserving the f6 square for his Ng8 would have given black an advantage.] 21.Bd2 e6 This provides the much needed square for her Ng8 to enter the game. But the knight never got there! 22.Ba5+ Kc8 23.Nh3 e4? [23...Ne7!] 24.Rg4

Diagram # 24...Bg5+? After this unfortunate move giving up her extra pawn for no appar-ent reason, black, instead of capitalising on her extra pawn, suddenly finds herself de-fending an undefendable position! 25.Nxg5 hxg5 26.Rxg5 f5 [After 26...Ne7! 27.g4 Rh7 white is only slightly better.] 27.Bc4! This is a winning move. 27...Ngf6 [If 27...Nf8 28.Bc3! Nh7 29.Bxe6+ and 30 Rxg8 wins.] 28.Bxe6 f4 29.Rf5! Kb8

Diagram # 30.Bc3! [After 30.Bc3 Rh6 31.Rxf4 Nxh5 32.Bxd7! Nxf4 33.Be5++- The awesome power of the two bishops!] 1–0

Pujari,R (2156)Pratyusha,B (2244) [D10]1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Qb3 Na5 8.Qa4+ Bd7 9.Bb5 Nc6 10.Qd1 e6 11.h3 a6 12.Bd3 b5 13.Nge2 Na5 14.b3 Ba3 15.Qd2 Qe7 16.0–0 Qb4 17.Rad1 Rc8 18.f3 Bc6 19.Nb1 Qxd2 20.Rxd2 Bb4 21.Rc2 0–0 22.Rfc1 Bb7 23.Kf2 Rxc2 24.Rxc2 Rc8 25.Rxc8+ Bxc8 26.Bc7 Nc6 27.a3 Be7 28.e4 Kf8 29.Ke3 Ke8 30.g4 Kd7 31.Bb6 h6 32.e5! Diagram # So far the game has been either dead level or very slightly better for white. Only after this pawn thrust does white have a durable but slight advantage as she controls more board room. From now onward the

more experienced player with the white piec-es gradually turns the position into a win-ning one. 32...Ne8 33.b4! Slowly, white gets more space while black gets less and less! 33...g5 [A better way to challenge white's growing ascendancy in space was: 33...f6 34.f4 g5 35.f5 Ng7 36.exf6 Bxf6 37.Nbc3 Ne7 38.fxe6+ Nxe6 39.a4 bxa4 40.Nxa4 Kc6 41.Bc5²] 34.f4 (intending 35 f5) 34...gxf4+ 35.Nxf4 Bg5?! [This is not such a great idea as the sequel would show. Better was to ad-

dress the space problem head on with: 35...f6 36.Ng6 fxe5 37.Nxe5+ Nxe5 38.dxe5 Kc6 39.Bd4 Nc7 40.Kf3 Na8 41.Be3 Bg5 42.h4 Bxh4 43.Bxh6 Nb6 44.g5 but the woes of lack of space continue.] 36.Nd2 f6 37.Nf3 fxe5 38.dxe5 Bb7 39.h4 Be7 40.Bg6 Ng7 41.Bf7 [Though this keeps black's knight pinned to the defence of her e6. it is not as effective as 41.Nd3 a5 42.bxa5 Bxa3 43.h5 (threatening the winning 44 g5! But such small inaccuracies do not harm white's pros-pects as she has such a tremendous space advantage.)] 41...a5?! Diagram # [Kept under restraint for long in a cramped game, black lashes out on the queen-side. But this only aggravates her woes. She had an in-teresting bishop sacrifice which would have given her two pawns and some play: 41...Bxh4!? 42.Nxh4 Nxe5 43.Bd4! Nc4+ 44.Kd3 e5 45.Ba1 d4 46.Bxd4 exd4 47.Bxc4 bxc4+ 48.Kxc4 and white will have to work long and hard to make her extra pawn count.]

42.bxa5 Bxa3 43.Nd3± Ba8 Bracing against Nc5+ and not wishing to exchange her dark square bishop for a knight. 44.Nd4 Nxd4 45.Kxd4 Be7 46.Nc5+ Bxc5+ 47.Bxc5 h5 48.Bf8! [This squashes black's dreams of drawing with opposite colour bishops in this ending. Even that would show that white still wins: 48.Bxh5 Nxh5 49.gxh5 Ke8 50.a6 Kf7 51.Bb4+-] 48...hxg4 49.Bxg7 g3 50.Bh6! g2

51.Be3 b4 52.Bg6! Ke7 53.h5 Kf8 54.h6 Bb7 55.Kc5! b3 56.Kb6 d4 57.Bxd4 Bf3 58.a6 b2 59.a7

White's plan is to play Kb6-c7-b8 and then push a7-a8=Q winning. 1–0

Swathi Ghate (2279)G.Lasya (1955) [B23]1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nge2 d6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7 6.0–0 e6 7.d3 Nge7 8.Be3 Nd4 9.Qd2 0–0 10.Nd1 Rb8 11.Nc1 b5 12.c3 Ndc6 13.d4 cxd4 14.cxd4 d5 15.e5 Nf5 16.Nc3 Bd7 [Black should attack the apex of white's pawn chain: 16...f6 17.f4 b4 18.N3e2 Nxe3 19.Qxe3 Na5 20.b3 Ba6³ Black has the freer game and no problems.] 17.N3e2 b4 18.Bg5 [This only encourages black to play what she intends to do, attack the e5 pawn. Better was to restrain black by moving: 18.Bf4 ] 18...f6 19.exf6 Bxf6 20.Bxf6 Qxf6= 21.Nb3

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Diagram # 21...Rf7 [The bishop is sort of vulnerable on d7. It could be re-lo-cated to a6 when necessary by moving it to 21...Bc8 22.Rac1 Rb6 23.Rfd1 Nd6 24.Nf4 g5 25.Nh3 h6=] 22.Rad1 Nd8 23.Nf4 g5 24.Nd3 Bb5 [With his g5 hanging black cannot con-tinue: 24...Nxd4 25.Nxd4 Qxd4 26.Qxg5+ Rg7 27.Qh5²] 25.Rfe1 Bxd3 26.Qxd3 Nc6 27.Bh3 Ng7 [This withdrawal was not necessary. 27...Rc8 28.Rc1 Rff8 29.f4 gxf4 30.Bxf5 Qxf5 31.Qxf5 exf5 32.gxf4 a5=] 28.Qe3 Re8 29.Rc1 Ne7? [The sec-ond knight also goes back. Unnecessarily! ¹29...e5 30.Qd2 e4 31.Rc5 Rd8=] 30.Rc2 Nef5 31.Qd2 a5 32.Re5

32.. .Qg6 [If 32.. .a4?! 33.Nc5 Qg6 34.Bxf5 Rxf5 35.Re1 b3 36.axb3 axb3 37.Nxb3 e5 38.dxe5 Rfxe5 39.Rxe5 Rxe5 40.Nd4± White is nearly winning.] 33.Rc6 g4 34.Bf1! Ne7 35.Bd3 Qf6 Black's queen-side pawns are a liabiliy and black finds it difficult to defend them. 36.Rc2?! [¹36.Ra6± and black's queen-side pawns collapse.] 36...a4 37.Nc1 [37.Nc5 was more aggres-sive.] 37...Ng6 38.Bxg6 Qxg6 39.Rg5 Qe4 40.Re5 Qg6 41.Nd3 b3 [It is not possible to defend her b4 pawn: 41...Rb8 42.Nxb4 h6 (42...Rxb4?? 43.Rc8+ Rf8 44.Rxf8+ Kxf8

45.Qxb4+ wins.) 43.Re1±] 42.axb3 axb3 43.Rc1 [More stubborn was: 43.Rc3 Rb7 44.Rg5 Qh6 45.Qf4 Rf7 46.Qxg4 White's domination is total.] 43...Ref8 44.Nf4 Qh6 45.Rc6 Ra7 46.Qd1 Rxf4 47.gxf4 Qxf4 48.Qxb3! White's counter-attack cannot be stopped. 48...Qxd4 49.Qb8+! Kf7 50.Rc3 Re7 Diagram White has the equivalent of a rook for knight and pawn. She has the advantage, but victory is far, far away. Perhaps black overstepped the time limit after this plucky fight. 1–0]

Gomes,Mary Ann (2353)Mohanty,Kiran Monisha (2146) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.0–0 Ngf6 5.Re1 a6 6.Bd3 e5 7.a4 b6 8.c3 This is a new idea in this position. White wants to pull back her Bd3 to c2 and then play d2-d4. 8...g6 9.Bc2 Bg7 10.d4 0–0 11.Na3 Bb7 12.d5 b5 [Black's pawn configuration indicates that the thrust f7-f5 is in order. In the game this move never happens. We give the variation that could have been tried in this respect: 12...Ne8 13.Bg5 f6 14.Bd2 Qe7 15.c4 f5 with many opportunities and resources for black.] 13.Be3 By moving her bishop to e3, white protects her Ra1 with her queen. She is threrefore threatening 14 axb5 winning a pawn. Black's reply is forced. 13...bxa4 14.Nc4 Nb6

Diagram # 15.Nfd2 [If 15.Na5 Bc8! 16.Bc1 (This preliminary move is necessary for white as she intends playing Nfd2 but fears black's Nfg4 capturing her good, dark square bishop on e3.) 16...Bd7 17.Nd2 Bb5 18.c4 Bd7 and black's a4 pawn will cause trouble for white.] 15...a5 [If 15...Bc8 16.h3 (This prevents .... Ng4 targeting her Be3.) 16...Nxc4 17.Nxc4 Qc7 18.Rxa4 Bd7²] 16.Nxb6 Qxb6 17.Rxa4 Qc7 [Picking the b2 pawn was extremely risky: 17...Qxb2? 18.Nc4 Qb5 (18...Qxc3 19.Bd2 Qd4 20.Qc1! and the threat of 21 Nb6 wins the queen.) 19.Nxd6 Qb6 (or 19...Qa6 20.Bxc5+-) 20.Nc4 Qc7 21.Qa1+-] 18.f3 Nd7 19.Qe2 The quickest way to get her Re1 into play on the queen-side! 19...Ba6 20.c4 Rfb8 Black sees white's backward pawn on b2 and plans to exchange it for her a5 pawn which will soon be under threat. So she forgets about king-side operations by f7-f5 and swings her rook to the queen-side. 21.b3 Rb4 Diagram

[For white, the b4 square is weak. But black need not 'occupy' that square unless she gains some advantage. Controlling the b4 square in-stead of occupying it was important. Curiously, the rook never leaves b4 alive. The b4 square is black's Waterloo in this game. Therefore 21...Bc8 came into serious consideration.]22.Rea1 Bb7 23.R4a3! The black rook is trapped on b4. 23...Nb6 [Black is hoping to generate enough play by a5-a4. Best was: 23...Bc8 to keep an exit file for the troubled Rb4. Now the rook is doomed on b4.] 24.Bd1 Bf6 A waiting move, hoping for a blunder from white in the next move. 25.Nb1 [Not 25.Rxa5? Rxa5 26.Rxa5 Nxd5! and black has not only got back her pawn, but also has a slightly bet-ter position.] 25...a4 There was no other way of saving the pawn. 26.Bd2 Just in time, the rook on b4 is attacked. 26...Ba6 27.Nc3 [If 27.Bxb4 cxb4 28.Rxa4 (28.R3a2 Bg5 29.Nd2 Qc5+ 30.Kh1 a3²) 28...Nxa4 29.Rxa4 Bd8 30.Kf1±] 27...axb3 28.Nb5! Bxb5 29.Rxa8+ Nxa8 30.Rxa8+ Kg7 31.Bxb4 cxb4 32.Bxb3 Diagram # [32.cxb5? Qc1!! (with the winning threat of 33...b2) 33.Kf2 b2! 34.Bc2 Bh4+! 35.g3 Qh1 36.gxh4 Qxh2+ 37.Ke3 Qf4+ 38.Kf2 (38.Kd3? Qc1 (the new threat is 39...b1=Q! 40 Bxb1 Qc3#!) 39.Rc8 b3! 40.Bb1 Qxb1+ 41.Kd2 Qa2!!) 38...Qh2+ 39.Ke1 Qg1+ 40.Qf1 Qe3+ 41.Qe2 Qg1+ 42.Qf1 (not 42.Kd2? Qc1+ 43.Kd3 b1Q 44.Bxb1 Qc3#!) 42...Qe3+ 43.Qe2 Qg1+ draw.]

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32...Bd7 33.Qe3 The smoke has cleared and white has emerged a clear exchange up and in a winning position. 33...Bd8 34.Kf1 Kf6? [White is going to play 35 Qa7 exchanging queens and winning with the advantage of the exchange. Perhaps best was to play 34...h6 and wait for white to reveal her hand. If white does not attack, she should shift her king beween the two squares - g7 and h7 - and wait. The move played (34...Kf6) throws away the game immediately.] 35.Qh6! The h7 pawn is defenceless. 1–0

Michelle Catherina,P (2220)Rucha,Pujari (2156) [C77]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0–0 Bg7 8.Re1 0–0 9.Nbd2 b5 10.Bc2 Bb7 11.a4 Re8 12.b4 Qd7 13.Nb3 h6 [A new strategy allowing the exchange of rooks along the a-file. 13...Rab8 14.h3 Nh5 15.Bd2² happened in R.B.Ramesh (2490) vs S.Kidambi in 2006. The game was drawn.] 14.h3 Nh7 [After 14...Nh5 15.Bd2 Kh7 16.axb5 axb5 17.Rxa8 Bxa8 18.d4 exd4 19.cxd4 Nd8 white continues to be slightly better.] 15.Bd2 f5 16.Nh4

16...f4?! [Optimistically, but unwisely, black seeks adventure and complications. Bet-

ter was: 16...Nf8 17.exf5 g5 18.Nf3 Qxf5 19.axb5 axb5 20.Rxa8 Bxa8 21.Nbd4 Nxd4 22.Nxd4 Qd7 would leave white with only a minimal advantage.] 17.Nxg6 In all likeli-hood, black had dreams of trapping this knight. But deep in black's castled position, the knight makes black's defence very dif-ficult. Eventually, the knight dies, but be-fore that it exacts a heavy toll on the black forces. 17...Bf6 Black now controls the white knight's only escape square, h4. 18.d4!± With this move the white forces burst into action. 18...Qg7 19.dxe5 dxe5 20.Qh5 Bg5 Vacating f6 for her knight so that when the white queen retreats the Ng6 is captured. But this is too slow. 21.Nc5!

Diagram # This is a winning counter-at-tack. The main threat is 22 Bb3+ mating. Simultaneously the Bb7 is under attack. 21...Nf6 22.Qd1 [A shade better was: 22.Qf3 Rad8 23.Bb3+ Kh7 24.Bxf4 exf4 25.Nxb7 Qxg6 26.Nxd8 Nxd8 27.axb5 axb5 28.e5 Nd7 29.Qd5+-] 22...Nd8 23.Nxf4?! [This throws away much of her advantage. Best was to play 23.h4 Qxg6 24.hxg5 Qxg5 25.axb5 axb5 26.Qe2 Rxa1 27.Rxa1 Bc6 28.Ra7 Re7 29.Qd3±] 23...Bxf4? [Better was: 23...exf4 24.Bb3+ Kh8 25.e5 Ng8 26.Qh5 Qe7 27.Nxb7 Nxb7 28.Bd5±] 24.Bxf4 exf4 25.Nxb7 Nxb7 26.e5! This

pawn thrust wins the game. It advances down the centre throwing the black forces into confusion. compare the two kings. While the white king is safe, the black king does not have pawn cover to shield him. 26...Nd7 27.Qd5+ With this double attack white regains her sacrificed piece. 27...Kh8 28.e6! This is stronger than the immedi-ate capture of the Nb7. 28...Qxc3 29.Bg6 [Winning immediately was: 29.Qh5! Qxc2 (or 29...Qg7 30.exd7+-) 30.exd7] 29...Rg8 30.exd7 Nd6 31.Bf7 [Stronger was bringing all of her forces into the at-tack: 31.Rac1 Qg7 32.Rxc7 Qxg6 33.Re6 Qg7 34.d8Q!+-] 31...Nxf7 32.Qxf7 Raf8 33.Qh5! Qg7 34.Qe5 Rf6 By unpinning her queen, black renews the threat of mate on g2. 35.Qd5 Rd6 [If 35...f3 36.g3 Rd6 37.Qxf3 Qxd7 38.axb5 axb5 39.Ra7 Rg7 40.Rc1 Rf7 41.Qc3++-] 36.Qe4 Rg6

Diagram # [White gets a clear advantage after: 36...Rxd7 37.axb5 axb5 38.Ra8 Rf7 39.Rxg8+ Qxg8 40.Qe5+±] 37.Rad1 As g2 is beyond saving, white accepts some inconvenience and allows black a little bit of fun. 37...Rxg2+ 38.Kh1! f3 [With this move black threatens 39...Rh2+ and mate on g2. However, if 38...Rxf2 39.Rg1 Rd2 40.Rde1+-] 39.Qxf3 Kh7 40.d8Q simplest! 1–0

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

This month’s puzzle is a rertractor in which the solver has to find the moves retracted last both by white and black and after retraction also spot the black move which helps white to mate in one move.

Dr. Julio SunyerThe Chess Amateur, 1923

White and Black retract one move each and thereafter black helps white to mate the black king in one.

(solution on page 48)

Grandmaster (GM) Raymond Keene writes that Nimzowitsch "was one of the world's leading grandmasters for a period extending over a quarter of a century, and for some of that time he was the obvious challenger for the world championship. ... [He was also] a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade,My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess."

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Tactics from master games S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p. )

Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Hugh Blandford 1949 Frantisek Prokop 1951

1. 2. Andre Cheron 1952 Marcel Dore 1955

3. 4. Federov 1947 Ladislav Prokes 1947

5. 6.

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

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RP Constructions All India Fide Rating Tournament ,Vijayawada

(L-R) D Srihari,Secretary APCA, T Purushothaman (second prize),Cheif Guest Sri. G V Ramarao, Krishna Industrial & Aagricultural Exhibition Society , Meher Chinna Reddy( Winner), Sri PV Nageswarao President, The krishna Dist Chess Assn , S V Srinath Rao(3rd Prize), FA Venkata Kumar G, Chief Arbiter.

(L-R) Chief Guest Sri Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao, Hon Minister for Irrigation Govt. of AP by playing first move. Sri YD Ramarao, President APCA presided over the function. Mr Devaram Srihari, Secretary APCA and participating kids.

Masters of the past-57 Robert Byrne

Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 – April 12, 2013) was an Ameri-can chess Grandmaster and chess author. He won the U.S. Cham-pionship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006. Byrne worked as a university professor for many years, before becoming a chess professional in the early 1970s.

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where he scored a respectable 4/9 to place 8th; the winner was Weaver Adams. He tied 1st–2nd in the Premier Reserves section at the U.S. Open Chess Championship, Pittsburgh 1946. he represented the U.S. in a 1950 radio match against Yugoslavia. In the Maurice Wertheim Memorial, New York 1951, Robert Byrne scored 6/11 for a tied 6–7th place; this was a Grandmaster round-robin with 6 of the world's top 36 players, and it was won by Samuel Reshevsky.

Byrne became an International Master based on his results at the 1952 Chess Olympiad at Helsinki (bronze medal on third board). In that same year he graduated from Yale University. He went on to become a professor of philosophy at Indiana University, and his academic career left him little time for chess. He did represent the U.S. in team matches against the Soviet Union at New York 1954.

Byrne achieved his career highlight of third place at the Leningrad Interzonal in 1973, with 12½/17, which made him only the fourth American (after Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer, and Pal Benko) to qualify for the Candidates Tournament (part of the world chess champion-ship process).

When he became the columnist for the Times in 1972, he became less active as a player. He has also been a frequent contributor to Chess Life magazine, the publication of the United States Chess Federation. He has chaired USCF's committee on masters' affairs and been one of its vice presidents. Byrne was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.

He made original contributions in several opening systems. He was the first to play 6.Be3 against the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3); this system has been named for him and has been very popular since the mid-1980s. He developed the Byrne Variation against the King's Indian Defense in the Saemisch Variation, with a quick queenside expansion by Black. Byrne played competitively until age 74 in 2002 and he retired from writing his chess column at age 78.Byrne died in 2013 at his home in Os-sining, New York from Parkinson’s disease.

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4th Keshabananda Das Memorial tournament, Bubaneshwar...

Players in action

Sri Debasis Mekap, Vice President, KDCA; Chief Guest - Sj. Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, Minster of State (Independent Charge), Food supply & consumer welfare, Employment & Technical Education & Training; Subhasis Patnaik, Secy, KDCA; G.C. Mohapatra, Executive Member, AOCA

Champion IM Swapnil S Dhopade of Railways receiving trophy from Chief Guest

Solution to ‘Tactics from master games’ on page 42

1. Starostits,I (2443) Gaydym,Michail (2327) [D31]Albena BUL Albena BUL (7.22), 23.06.2015Black to play 40...Rc3+! 41.Kb1 41...Ra1+ 42.Kxa1 [42.Kb2 Rcc1#] 42...Rc1+ 43.Ka2 Ra1# 0–1

2. Strebkovs,A (2358)Onturk,Senan Utku (1919) [D91]23rd Troya Open 2015 Canakkale TUR (9.8), 15.08.2015Position after 18th move. Diagram [#] White to play. 19.Nxf7! Bd5 [19...Qe7 20.Bc4+- b5?! 21.Qxb5 Rxf7 22.Rb1 Rb8 (22...Bc8 23.Bxf7+ Qxf7 24.Qc6) 23.Qb3+- idea 24.Rfc1. Black shall succumb to multiple pins in due course. 23...Bf8 24.Rfc1 Bd5; 19...Rxf7 20.Bc4+-] 20.Nxd8 Bxb3 21.axb3 Rfxd8 22.Rc7+- 1–0

3. Shishkin,Va UKR (2513)Mielczarski,M (2145) [D43] 26th Jozef Kochan Mem Koszalin POL (2.1), 18.08.2015White to play. 30.Rf7! [30.Rf7 Rxf7 31.Rxf7 Kxf7 32.Qxh7+ Kf8 33.Qh8+ Kf7 34.Nh6#] 1–0

4. Czebe,Attila (2439)Gupta,Abhijeet (2619) [A05]22nd Abu Dhabi Chess Festival Masters Abu Dhabi (2.14), 24.08.2015Black to play. 30...Neg4! 31.fxg4 [31.Bd4 Nxd5 32.Qd3 Qxd3 33.Rxd3 Bxd4 34.Rfd2 (34.fxg4 Bxf2 35.Rxd5 (35.Kxf2 hxg4! 36.Rd2 Nc3–+) 35...hxg4! 36.Rd2 Be3 37.Rc2 Bxg5–+) 34...Re2+ 35.Rxe2 (35.Kh3 Nf2+–+; 35.Kf1 Nh2#) 35...Rxe2+ 36.Kf1 Rf2+ 37.Ke1 Bc3+ 38.Kd1 Nge3+ 39.Kc1 Rf1+ Wins; 31.Bxf6 Nxf2 32.Bxe7 Nxd1–+] 31...Nxg4 [%cal Ge7e2] 32.Bxg7 [32.Kg1 Nxf2 33.Qxf2 Bxa1 34.Rxa1 Qxd5–+] 32...Re2 0–1

5. Arenas,D (2439)Bachmann,Ax (2623) [C86]

17th Sants Open 2015 Barcelona ESP (6.6), 26.08.2015White to play. 22.Nfxg7! Nxg7 [22...Bc8 23.Nxe8 Rxe8 24.Nf6++-; 22...Bd6 23.Nxe8+-] 23.Nf6+ Kg6 [After 23...Kh8 24.Bxh6 Idea Qg3-Qh4.] 24.Qg3+ [24.Qg3+ Kxf6 25.Qh4+ Kg6 26.Qxh6#] 1–0

6. Kunin,V (2571)Ivanov,Sergey1 (2565) [D45]30th Schwarzacher Open Schwarzach AUT (8.5), 28.08.2015Black to play. 20...Nf4! 21.Bxf4 [21.Qc2 Rb6 22.b3 Nxc3+ 23.Bxc3 Rbc6–+] 21...Rxc3 22.Qd2 [22.bxc3 Qb6+ Wins] 22...Rb6 23.b3 Bf5+ [Also 23...Rcxb3+! 24.axb3 Rxb3+ 25.Kc1 (25.Ka2 Qb6) 25...Qb6–+ Wins] 24.Ka1 Rc2 25.Qe1 Re6 26.Be5 Nc3 27.Rd2 Qa5 28.Rxc2 Bxc2 29.a4 Qb4 30.Qc1 Qxb3 0–1

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 431. Hugh Blandford 19491.Bd4+ Ka8 2.c4 Nd2 3.c5 Nb3 4.c6 Na5 5.c7 Nc6 6.c8R+ Nb8+ 7.Kd6 Kb7 8.Rc7+ Ka6 9.Ra7+ Kb5 10.Rb7+ wins

2.Prokop 19511.Kc7 Bd4 2.Ne4 Kb3 3.Nd6 Bc5 4.Nc8 Bf2 5.Kd7; 1…Be3 2.Ne2 Bc5 3.Nc1+ Ka3 4.Nd3 Bg1 5.Ne5

3.Andre Cheron 19521.Ka6 Ke2 2.Bb5+ Kf2 3.Bb6+ Kf3 4.Be8 d1Q 5.Bh5+ wins

4.Marcel Dore 19551.f6 Kg6 2.Ke5 Kf7 3.Kd5 Ne6 4.Kc6 Nd4+ 5.Kb6 Nf5 6.Kc5

5.Federov 19471.Bc5 f2 2.Bb4 f1N 3.Ne4+ Nd2 4.Kd3 Kd1 5.Nc3+ Ke1 6.Nxe2 Kd1 7.Nc3+ Ke1 8.Nd5 Kd1 9.Ne3+ wins

6.Prokes 19471.Kf5 Bg1 2.d6 Bc5 3.d7 Bb6 4.Ke6 Bd8 5.Kf7 Kg5 6.e6 Kf5 7.Ke8 Ba5 8.Kxe7 Ke5 9.Kf7 Kd6 10.e7 wins

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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 41 : Black played Rh8xQh5 and white captured Kg6xRh5.So with at BRh8, WQ at h5 and WK at g6 now black helps by castling and white mates with Qh7.

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Fomento All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015, Goa…

15th Adyar Times FIDE rated open chess Tournament, Chennai….

L-R) ArvindMhamal , DipakAmonkar ( President Rudreshwar Panaji), FM Saurav Khardekar ( Runners Up) , Sanjay Harmalkar, Shri Vinay Tendulkar (President GCA & BJP Goa) , IM Sameer Katmale ( Winner) , MrAkashTimblo, RaghavSrivatsav ( 3rd place) , Dr. Ashwini Kumar, TanayKaisary, DnyaneshwarNaik( Tournament Director) and SatishNarvekar ( Secretary RudreshwarPanaji)

Winner IM Balasubramanian (ICF) receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest Shri.A.D.Ranjan, Editor and publisher of Adyar Times.Other from left to right are: IA R. Balagunasekaran, Paul Arokia Raj, Chief Arbiter, Mr.R.Muthukumar ,Editor, Trinity Mirror, IM Manuel Aaron, V.Hariharan, Secretary AICF, IA R.Anantharam

October 2015

29th National U-13 Girls Chess Championship, Gurgaon

National Sub Junior 41st Chess Championship for boys & 32nd National Sub junior chess championship for girls 2015, Jammu

(L-R) Mr.Anil Parnami, Priyanka Nuttaki (Champion) , Col. D.K.Segan, Mr. T.L.Satyaprakash, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Raju Verma, Mr. Naresh Sharma

Prize-winners (L-R) Priyanka K WFM Vaishali R (TN) Priyanka K (TN) Aakanksha Hagawane(MAH) (TN) Iniyan P (TN) Mitrabha Guha (WB) Raghunandan K.S (Karnataka) with dignitaries