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The juggernaut rolls on! Carlsen turned up yet another stellar performance in the Tata Steel tournament, scoring 10 out of 13 without a single loss, equaling Gary Kasparov's record at Wilk Aan Zee. The

tournament would also be remembered for one of the greatest games played by World Champion Vishy Anand against Aronian in the fourth round. Anand was back to his winning ways for most part of this tourney but a crucial loss in the final round to Wang Hao pushed him to the third place. On the home front, the eleventh edition of Parvsnath Delhi Chess Festival, which closely followed the six-player category-18 tournament, was successfully conducted for the first time in three sections with a participation of nearly 900 players and Alexandrov of Belarus won the premier section. Thirteen year old Karthikeyan Murali from Tamilnadu earned his maiden GM norm here and along with S.L.Narayanan is all set to become India's latest International masters. K. Ratnakaran gained GM norm and Rakesh Kulkarni an IM norm in the same tournament. GM Lalith Babu became the first Indian to win the fifth edition of Chennai GM Open sponsored by Chennai Super Kings edging out the Lu Shanglei of China in the tie break. S.L.Narayanan achieved his final IM norm and IM Swapnil Dhopade his final GM norm. This issue carries reports and photographs of these two premier events. Reports on the 1st National Amateur Championship held at Katni which has brought Madhya Pradesh chess to the fore and Kanyakumari FIDE rated tournament are also featured in this issue.

Parsvnath International Chess Festival, New Delhi…Aleksej Aleksandrov wins premier section 01

Chennai Super Kings 5th Intl GM Open, Chennai……Lalith Babu emerges Champion 10Lu Shanglei takes runner-up spotby S.Paul Arokiaraj, IA and Chief Arbiter

Rohini College of E&T 1st Kanyakumari FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kanyakumari….Rishub Naresh Naik wins 16by IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

1st National Amateur Chess Championship, Katni….Dangmei Bosco is National Amateur Champion 19

Selected games from Parsvnath Open, New Delhi 20Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Problem World 37

Tactics from master games 39by S.Krishnan

Test your endgame 40by K.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Masters of the past-26 41Max Lange

Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games 41

AICF Calendar 48

Tata Steel Tournament, Wijk aan Zee....Carlsen wins, Anand third 23

Anand wins Baden-Baden Tournament 26

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Parsvnath International Chess Festival, New Delhi…

Aleksej Aleksandrov wins premier sectionGrandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus wonthe premier section of Parsvnath InternationalChess Festival after drawing with GrandmasterHenrik Teske of Germany in the tenth and finalround. Aleksandrov finished with eight points outof a possible ten and finished clear first ahead ofMarat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan who finishedsecond with best tiebreak score on 7.5 points. Itturned out to be a three-way tie for the secondspot and Teske finished third while IndianGrandmaster Vaibhav Suri ended fourth.

Aleksandrov won the winner's purse of Rs.300000/- while Dzhumaev took home Rs.200000/-. Amongst the Indians Vaibhav Suri gotthe biggest check of Rs. 75000/-.MaratDzhumaev defeated P Magesh Chandran whileVaibhav Suri ended the party of K Rathnakaranwho had made a Grandmaster norm after winningthe penultimate round.

M R Lalith Babu, Lu Shanglei of China and MShyam Sundar finished in a tie for the fifth spotwinning their final round games with JahongirVakhidov of Uzbekistan, Akshayraj Kore and KirilKuderinov of Kazakhstan respectively.Thetournament produced four International normsand the biggest beneficiary was 13-year oldyoungster Murali Karthikeyan who made hismaiden Grandmaster norm. Besides RathnakaranGM norm, Wang Doudou of China made aWomen International Master norm while RakeshKulkarni made an International Master norm.Meanwhile, Kumar Gaurav deservingly won theCategory 'C' tournament of the festival Bannerjeelogged nine points out of a possible ten to pocketRs. 100000/- winner's purse out of a total prizepool of Rs. 600000/-.

The tournament produced an Indian record interms of participation as in all 899 participantstook part in three different categories. In termsof prize money offered too, it was a giant leap

forward as the total prize fund of the festivalwas at 2.05 million Rupees, bettering the highestprize fund ever offered by over 30%.

The Delhi Chess Association is known to honourits stars and this time was no exception. Fourplayers were felicitated with a cash award of Rs.25000 each. Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta andTania Sachdev were rewarded for their excellentshow in the chess Olympiad where they wonindividual medals while Sahaj Grover got thehonour for becoming the latest Grandmaster fromDelhi. Grandmaster Abhijeet Kunte was alsorewarded for his contribution as the trainer ofIndian women team in the Chess Olympiad. TheIndian women team had finished best-ever fourthin the chess Olympiad at Istanbul in Turkey.

Earlier the 11th edition of prestigious ParsvnathDelhi International Chess Festival got off to arousing start on January 5th, 2013. At a colourfulopening ceremony, Shri. Sunit Sachar, Senior VicePresident Parsvnath Developers inaugurated theevent by making the customary first move inpresence of Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan,Secretary All India Chess Federation. This yearthe event was split in to three different sectionsand in a major upset in the premier event,Maharashtra youngster Rakesh Kulkarni stunnedfifth seed Indian Grandmaster B Adhiban in theopening round.

Apart from Adhiban, all the other top rankedplayers registered comfortable victories toadvance to the second round with full points intheir kitty. Top seed Indian GrandmasterAbhi jeet Gupta started his tournamentcampaign in style after defeating InternationalMaster B T Murali Krishanan of Railways whilesecond seed Belarusian Grandmaster AleksejAleksandrov beat Himal Gusain. Third seedGrandmaster Magesh Chandran defeatedWomen Grandmaster Soumya Swaminathanand fourth seed Andrei Deviatkin of Russia

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made short work of Fide Master Sayatan Das.Local stars Vaibhav Suri and Sahaj Groverstarted their tournament campaign on winningnote as they defeated Prince Bajaj and DeepakKatiyar respectively in the first round.

The other surprises of the round came in theform of draws as International Master PraveenKumar held seasoned Uzbek Grandmaster MaratDzhumaev and Grandmaster Henrik Teske ofGermany forced split the point with AdarshJayakumar of USA.In the B category, asexpected all the top ranked players registeredvictories without much struggle in the first round.

Round 4

Grandmaster P Magesh Chandran defeatedAleksej Alexandrov of Belarus in the fourthround.The Indian Grandmaster benefitted froma blunder by Alexandrov in a level position afterthe latter fell short of time out of a Nimzo Indiandefense game. Playing white, Magesh was readyto repeat moves early in the opening as hethought a draw as black would have been a goodresult on the top board.

Alexandrov however went for a complicatedstruggle instead but lost valuable time in decidingwhether he wanted to go for it. As a result,Magesh Chandran had 40 extra minutes on theclock which, in the opinion of the winner, was thedeciding factor behind his victory.Lu Shanglei ofChina, Kirill Kuderinov of Kazakhstan and M RLalith Babu emerged as the new co-leaders alongwith Magesh Chandran on 3.5 points apiece afterthe end of the fourth round of this Rs. 1.1 millionprize money tournament. With six rounds still tocome as many as 20 players follow the fourleaders a half point behind.

It turned out to be a good day forCommonwealth champion Lalith Babu as hescored an important victory over GrandmasterRaset Ziatdinov of United States. Lu Shangleidefeated G A Stany out of a Sicilian Rossolimoand it was a pretty clean effort by the ChineseGrandmaster who played with white pieces.

Kudrinov defeated V Vishnu Prasanna.Theyoung trio of Arvindh Chithambaram, S LNarayanan and Murali Karthikeyan continuedto impress with their fine run in the fourth roundas well. While Chithambaram held GrandmasterAbhijeet Kunte to a draw, Narayanan had littledifficulty in splitting the point with GM SahajGrover. Murali Karthikeyan also came goodsigning peace with German Grandmaster HenrikTeske.Top seeded Grandmaster and formerworld junior champion Abhijeet Gupta scored avictory at the expense of T U Navin Kannaafter two back-to-back draws. Gupta took histally to three points in all from his four games.

After a shocking first round loss, former nationalchampion B Adhiban scored his third victory onthe trot defeating Dinesh Kumar Sharma. In anupset result, P Lokesh defeated InternationalMaster Tania Sachdev. In the 'B' group heldsimultaneously with a prize pool of Rs. 300000/-,four players - Sushant Bannerjee, Gahain SantanuBorpatra, Bavan Kumar and Amir Aseem sharethe lead after six rounds with 5.5 points apiece.

Round 6

Young Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri joined MageshChandran Panchanathan in lead on five pointsafter the end of the sixth round. At the top ofthe tables, Magesh Chandran Panchanathansurvived a real scare before he could salvage adraw against Commonwealth champion M R LalithBabu while Suri had it easy against InternationalMaster Anup Deshmukh to match overnightleader Chandran on points.

On what turned out to be a tough day for him,top seeded Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta suffereda major reversal going down to veteranGrandmaster Niaz Murshed of Bangladesh. It wasan excellent position for fancied Gupta in theopening but Murshed kept himself in the huntand eventually turned the tables with somefighting chess.With Suri and Chandran in front,as many as nine players are in close pursuit on4.5 points apiece. They are Aleksej Aleksandrov

Sahaj Grover (born on 7th September 1995) learnt the early moves of the game from his father Vijay Grover and started playing at an early age of four and a half years. Sahaj first came to notice when he won the under-7 National Championship in 2002 and then the under-9 national champion title followed. At some point, he also became the youngest player (then) to achieve FIDE rating. The big break for Sahaj came in 2005 when he won the World under-10 chess championship and thereafter it was a slow progress towards higher laurels.

Sahaj became an International Master of FIDE in January 2010. Meanwhile, he had also acquired a Grandmaster norm at the Kolkata International open in 2009. In 2010, Sahaj also won the Indian sub junior championship and in 2011 his Bronze medal performance at World Junior championship at Chennai stands out as one of his finest achievements till date. This performance also gave him the second GM norm but for the third norm he had to wait for almost a year, missing it several times in between for one reason or the other.

The Grandmaster title was finally achieved in 2012 World junior championship at Athens in Greece. Soon after Sahaj also won the National junior championship.

Sahaj's favourite players are Anand and Magnus Carlsen. Since 2005 Sahaj has been trained by IM Vishal Sareen.A list of his main achievements are given below:International Achievements:

Second Place in London Chess Classic FIDE Open in December 2011Silver medal on first board in the World Youth championship 2011.Bronze medal in World Juniors Chess Championship (Under-20) 2011at ChennaiSecond Grandmaster Norm in World Junior Chess Championship 2011Best Junior London Chess Classic 2010 (Open Section)Second position in Cultural Village Grandmaster tournament 2010Awarded the IM title in January 2010 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation.Made first GM norm in 4th Kolkata Intl. Chess tournament in Kolkata in Sep 2009.Made third International Master norm in the Ballaton International chess tournament at Balatonlelle, Hungary in June 2008.Made second IM norm during the Reykjavik Intl. open tournament in March 2008.Made maiden IM norm at the Commonwealth Championship 2007 at New Delhi.Gold in Under-12 Category in Commonwealth Championship 2007 at New Delhi.Gold in the World Under-10 Championship at Belfort, France in 2005First in Dubai Juniors chess championship in Under-10 category in 2005.National level

Winner Naurang Memorial School tournament 2012Winner Rajiv Gandhi Memorial FIDE open 2012 Gold Medal in National Sub-Junior Chess Championship 2010Gold medal in Under -9 National Championship in 2004.Gold Medal Under-7 National Chess Championship in 2002

Sahaj GroverKNOW YOUR GM

Front Row left to right- Niklesh Jain organizing seceratry , Pankit Mota (Maharashtra) runner up open, Dangmei Bosco Champion open ( Manipur), Varshini V 1st- women section (Tamilnadu) Back row - Mr Jitendra Singh Vice president SLCAMP, Mr Yashpal Arora joint Sec. SLCAMP, Mr Kapil Saxena , Secretary SLCAMP,IA Dharmendra Kumar Chief Arbiter , Mr Sumit Agrawal President Katni District Chess Association,Mr Manish gai Member KDCA

(L-R)M Ephrame, Secretary Kanya Kumari Dist Chess Association, Dr. K. Sasi, Principal, Rohini College of Engineering & Technology, Naik Rishubh Naresh, the Winner , K.Neela Marthandan, Chairman, Rohini College of Engineering & Technology, Shri. Manuel Aaron, International Master , D V Sundar, FIDE Vice President, Chief Guest , A Kulathooran Pillai, President, Kanyakumari District Chess Association

1st National Amateur Chess Championship, Katni1st National Amateur Chess Championship, Katni

Rohini College of E&T 1st Kanyakumari

FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kanyakumari

Rohini College of E&T 1st Kanyakumari

FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kanyakumari

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of Belarus, Lu Shanglei of China, Czebe Attila ofHungary, Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan,Murshed and Indians, Lalith Babu, Ankit Rajpara,Swapnil Dhopade and Murali Karthikeyan. A packof 11 players including former national championB Adhiban is in the hunt too on four points apieceand the battle for the top is only going to getinteresting as the event progresses further.

Amongst the Indian youngsters MuraliKarthikeyan kept himself in contention for a normafter defeating Wang Yunguo of China. After sixrounds, the 13-year old has a staggeringperformance rating of 2610 points. If the trendcontinues, the under-12 world champion of 2011is on course for a Grandmaster norm here.

The 'C' category of the first Indian chess festivalgot underway here on a chilly but not-so-coldWednesday morning. The temperatures movedtowards normalcy which was a big respite for theplayers.In all 555 players are taking part in thecategory 'C' event which is reserved for playersbelow 1900 ELO rating. The festival has cateredto 890 players in all including all categories.

Round 8

Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarusdefeated overnight leader Grandmaster VaibhavSuri to be in joint lead along with Marat Dzhumaevof Uzbekistan after the end of the eighth roundof the premier section.

Dzhumaev accounted for Commonwealthchampion M R Lalith Babu to match Aleksandrovon 6.5 points after the eighth round and thesetwo will clash in the penultimate round now.Aleksandrov ended the dream run of Suri fromthe black side of a closed Ruy Lopez. The Delhiboy could not keep pace with his counter-attackwhen black's pieces came hurling at the kingsideand the result was a smooth attack and a swiftvictory for Aleksandrov. Dzhumaev, who recentlywon the strong Kolkata open, made short workof Lalith Babu in a Caro Kann defense game.Playing white, Marat went for a less-playedsystem and got a dangerous attack right from

the early middle game. An erroneous planby Lalith Babu resulted in lost position pretty quicklyand Dzhumaev clinched the issue in a mere 24moves.

With Aleksandrov and Dzhumaev in front fourplayers - Henrik Teske of Germany, Kiril Kuderinovof Kazakhstan, Jahongir Vakhidov of Uzbekistanand Suri share the third spot with six points apiece.Teske defeated Sahaj Grover from the black sideof a Queen pawn opening. The German GM wasworse in the endgame but ended up swindling hisyoung opponent. Kuderinov turned the tables onLu Shanglei of China after struggling in the middlegame while Vakhidov had luck smiling at him whenBangladeshi Grandmaster Niaz Murshed forgotto keep track of his clock and lost on time.

Murali Karthikeyan kept himself in contention for aGrandmaster norm after drawing with P MageshChandran. The Chennai-based 13-year old tookhis tally to a very impressive 5.5 points and a drawin the next round should be enough to get him hismaiden Grandmaster norm. Kuderinov was anotherplayer who was in with a chance to make aGrandmaster norm. Amongst other Indians in thefray, Diptayan Ghosh did well to hold top seedAbhijeet Gupta to a draw. With five points fromeight games, Gupta was out of contention.

Final standings:Rk. Title Name FED Pts.1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 82 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 7.53 GM Teske Henrik GER 7.54 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 7.55 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 76 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 77 IM Shyam Sundar M. IND 78 GM P Magesh Chandran IND 6.59 Karthikeyan Murali IND 6.510 IM Kuderinov Kirill KAZ 6.511 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 6.512 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 6.513 GM Czebe Attila HUN 6.514 IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 6.515 IM Udeshi Aditya IND 6.516 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 6.517 IM Stany G.A. IND 6.5

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18 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 6.519 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 6.520 IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 621 IM Saptarshi Roy IND 622 IM Sangma Rahul IND 623 IM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 624 IM Vakhidov Jahongir UZB 625 GM Laxman R.R. IND 626 Wan Yunguo CHN 627 IM Akshayraj Kore IND 628 GM Adhiban B. IND 629 GM Grover Sahaj IND 630 IM Karthikeyan P. IND 631 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 632 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 5.533 Kulkarni Rakesh IND 5.534 Narayanan.S.L IND 5.535 FM Anurag Mhamal IND 5.536 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 5.537 FM Gagare Shardul IND 5.538 Gusain Himal IND 5.539 Vignesh Nr IND 5.540 Patil Pratik IND 5.541 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 5.542 GM Kayumov Dmitry D UZB 5.543 IM Swayams Mishra IND 5.544 FM Jayakumar Adarsh USA 545 Navin Kanna T.U. IND 546 WGM Padmini Rout IND 547 IM Mohota Nisha IND 548 IM Suvrajit Saha IND 549 Abhishek Kelkar IND 550 Kathmale Sameer IND 551 Wang Doudou CHN 552 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 553 IM Sharma Dinesh K. IND 554 IM Praveen Kumar C. IND 555 Deshpande Aniruddha IND 556 Wajih Nassir IND 557 Hemant Sharma (del) IND 558 Visakh Nr IND 559 Phoobalan P. IND 4.560 Ram S. Krishnan IND 4.561 Tiwari Arjun IND 4.562 Lokesh P. IND 4.563 FM Aravindh Chithambaram IND 4.564 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 4.565 Rishi Sardana IND 4.566 IM Saravanan V. IND 4.567 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 4.5

68 WGM Swathi Ghate IND 4.569 CM Prince Bajaj IND 4.570 Deepak Katiyar IND 4.571 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. IND 4.572 Kulkarni Chinmay IND 4.573 Pradeep Kumar R.A. IND 4.574 Chaithanyaa K.G. IND 4.575 IM Deshmukh Anup IND 476 FM Das Sayantan IND 477 Shreyans K. Shah IND 478 FM Hamal Manish NEP 479 K. Praneeth Surya IND 480 Pratyusha Bodda IND 481 Madhurima Shekhar IND 482 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 483 Krishna Teja N IND 484 Xu Huahua CHN 485 Dahale Atul IND 486 Joshi G B IND 487 Lama Surbir NEP 488 Aradhya Garg IND 3.589 Vaishali R IND 3.590 FM Harshal Shahi IND 3.591 IM Tania Sachdev IND 392 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 393 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 394 WFM Bharathi R. IND 395 Thapa Krishna NEP 396 WFM Raghavi N. IND 397 Natarajan C. IND 398 Rawal Basant NEP 399 Chandra Akshat USA 2.5100 Anuprita Patil IND 2.5Category BRk. Name Pts.1 Banerjee Sushant 82 Santanu Borpatra Gohain 7.53 Jaiswal Puneet 7.54 Chattarjee Laltu 7.55 Maulik Raval 7.56 Harihara Sudan M 7.57 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv 78 Singh Y. Dhanabir 79 Karthik V. Ap 710 Anilkumar O.T. 711 Vinoth Kumar M. FM 712 Bavankumar 6.513 Gajwa Ankit 6.514 Amir Asim 6.515 Suresh Kumar T.J. 6.5

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16 Hornell Colin (Singapore) 6.517 Santoshkashyap Hg 6.518 Joy Lazar M.A. 6.519 Prasannaa.S 6.520 Santu Mondal 6.521 Anand Raj S. 6.522 Trailokya Nanda 6.523 Dodeja Pawan 624 Pradip Ghosh 625 Shailesh Dravid 626 Bhattacharya Niladri Shekhar 627 Vikas Sharma 628 Venkata Ramana J 629 Harsha Bharathakoti 630 Gireesh P.V. 631 Deep Kapoor 632 Vasantha Ruba Varman 633 Godbole Atharva 634 Arjun Satheesh 635 Ajay Virwani 636 Dave Kantilal 637 Aparajita Gochhikar 638 Ayush Garg 639 Hitesh S. Jariya 640 Manish Uniyal 641 Rajasurya J. 642 Yogesh Gautam 643 Dilip Das 644 Snehal Bhosale 5.545 Gajendra Singh 5.546 Dusthageer Ibrahim M. 5.547 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 5.548 Ponkshe Sarang 5.549 Mughaho Awomi 5.550 Devesh Mukherjee 5.551 Konde Gaurav 5.552 Sandeep Chitkara 5.553 Matta Vinay Kumar 5.554 A K Kalshyan 5.555 Subhayan Kundu 5.556 Kumar Gaurav 5.557 Abhishek Sarkar 5.558 Bakshi Rutuja 5.559 Pujari Rucha WFM 5.560 Suresh Krishna S 5.561 Singh Soram Rahul 5.562 Negi V. S. 5.563 Tushar Anand 5.564 Savant Riya WCM 5.565 Raja Harshit 5.5

66 Manan Rai 5.567 Kumar Deepak 5.568 Vijay Kumar 5.569 Thanki Hemal Karsanji 5.570 Chakrapani P 5.571 Mallick Anjan 5.572 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 5.573 Munemane Ameya 5.574 Nath Rupankar 575 Rohan Bharat Joshi 576 Saksham Dewan 577 Rawal Shailesh 578 Praggnanandhaa R 579 Shelke Sankarsha 580 Jain Naveen 581 Raghav Bagri 582 Jayakumar S 583 Aurangabadkar Prasad 584 Harshit Sharma 585 Badri Narayan 586 Rudraksh Parida 587 Kadav Omkar 588 Lohana Kapil 589 Sharma Jay Bardhan 590 Debashish Dutta 591 D.K. Chopra 592 Rajesh Kumar Nath 593 Barath Kalyan M 594 Khalid Amin 595 Saxena Manav 596 Sushrutha Reddy 597 Rajarishi Karthi 4.598 Pavit Singh 4.599 Sumit Grover 4.5100 Singh Arvinder Preet 4.5101 Cheela Naga Sampath 4.5102 Bhandari Jitendra Singh 4.5103 Visveshwar A 4.5104 Aditya Chowdhury 4.5105 Rather Adil Ashraf 4.5106 Intkhab Alam 4.5107 Aryan 4.5108 Chandan Mandal 4.5109 Kaushik Shubham 4.5110 Sarthak Bansal 4.5111 Saurabh Anand 4.5112 Thakur Ameya 4.5113 Shishir Kumar 4.5114 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 4.5115 Adarsh Shrivastava 4.5

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116 Adithya S 4.5117 Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor 4.5118 Me Sandip 4.5119 Abhash Kumar 4.5120 Sandhya G 4.5121 Karan Manish Jain 4.5122 Alok Sinha 4.5123 Anigani Kavya 4.5124 Karthik K 4.5125 Wagh Suyog 4.5126 Ram Vishwanathan 4.5127 Satyendra K Srivastava 4.5128 Linda Rangarajan 4129 Nihar N. Kulkarni 4130 Atul Kumar 4131 Kuldeep Kashyap 4132 Yashashwat Srivastava 4133 Barun Paul 4134 Roop Saurav 4135 Dave Shiv Shankar 4136 Kaur Palkin 4137 Deepak Rai 4138 Mayank Soni 4139 Ajit Singh 4140 Chakrabarti Tamal 4141 Raghav Srivathsav V 4142 Parth Bhatia 4143 Rajendra Kumar Bajpai 4144 Shrutarshi Ray 4145 Varma Vikrant 4146 Meghna Upadhyay 4147 Anil Verma 4148 Trinav Rattan 4149 Amrendra Kumar 4150 Lokesh Hans 4Category CRk. Name Pts.1 Kumar Gaurav 92 Aurangabadkar Prasad 8.53 Nitul Khare 8.54 Rakesh Chakravorty 8.55 Barath Kalyan M 8.56 Wagh Suyog 8.57 Shaon Chowdhury 88 Aditya Chowdhury 89 Athish K 810 Singh Gursher 811 Srivastava Mithilesh Kumar 812 Anshul Kaushik 813 D. Ashraf Subhani 8

14 Dev Krishan 815 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 816 Rajendra Kumar Bajpai 7.517 Prem Raj K 7.518 Anil Tiwari 7.519 Goutam De 7.520 Sushrutha Reddy 7.521 Mohammed Dilshad 7.522 Rudraksh Parida 7.523 Rajesh Kumar Nath 7.524 Chitaranjan.T 7.525 Ravi Kumar K 7.526 Sharma Pankaj 7.527 Adithya S 7.528 Raja Harshit 7.529 Rahul Lamba 7.530 Mughaho Awomi 7.531 Kumar Deepak 7.532 Visveshwar A 7.533 Patil Jitendra 7.534 Bhandari Jitendra Singh 7.535 Venkataramana P 7.536 Badri Narayan 7.537 Bakshi Rutuja 738 Suresh Krishna S 739 Sarthak Mahajan 740 Rajasurya J. 741 Sahoo Dasharathi 742 Md Khaja Abdul Latheef S 743 Khalid Amin 744 Nandan Vikesh 745 Intkhab Alam 746 Jashanpreet 747 Ayush Garg 748 Dhiraj Patil 749 Barun Paul 750 Singh Amarjit 751 Atul Kumar 752 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 753 Amanpreet Singh 754 Xavier P P 755 Dipesh.Y. Khilari 756 Uppal Anshul 757 Abhinav Gola 758 Mohammed Fasal V U 759 Arsh Verma 760 Ankit Dalal 761 Sandesh Mhatre 762 Sandhya G 7

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63 Anchit Vyas 764 Deepak Gautam 765 Kshitij Singla 766 Madhusudan Sahu 6.567 Shishir Kumar 6.568 Kaushik Shubham 6.569 Shailesh Dravid 6.570 Chauhan Ashvinkumar 6.571 Menhajul Hoda 6.572 Ajit Singh 6.573 Kamdar Udit 6.574 Samal Ansuman 6.575 Ravikant Sharma 6.576 Karan Manish Jain 6.577 Anigani Kavya 6.578 Karthik Gopal G 6.579 Shelke Sankarsha 6.580 Das Susobhit 6.581 Duvvala Suresh 6.582 N.N.Behera 6.583 Rahim Lakhani 6.584 Meherjot S Kals 6.585 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 6.586 Adethya R 6.587 Swain Ashirwad 6.588 Kochrekar Vishwesh 6.589 Dabhade Ajit Padman 6.590 Rahul Sadhukhan 6.591 Satya Sekhar Mitra 6.592 Raghav Bagri 6.593 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6.594 Abdus Sidique 6.595 Singh Manpal 6.596 Bramhecha Divya 6.597 Raghav Srivathsav V 6.598 Jaydeep Sharma 6.599 Bhupendra Gadjiya 6.5100 Biswajit Bharadwaj 6.5101 Vikram Ranolia 6.5102 Adarsh Shrivastava 6.5103 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6.5104 Sahil Dhawan 6.5105 Harshit Sharma 6.5106 Rather Adil Ashraf 6.5107 Dangmei Bosco 6108 Gupta Rajesh R.S. 6109 Aadhityaa M 6110 Goyal Arunima 6

111 Aishwin Daniel 6112 Dinesh Kumar Behera 6113 Prachet Sharma 6114 Swain Diptanshu Ranjan 6115 Durgesh K 6116 Kumar Naveen 6117 Narayan Das 6118 Shravan Nilkanth 6119 Saksham Dewan 6120 Praggnanandhaa R 6121 Akshat Kumar Bansal 6122 Prasannakumar Nayak 6123 Puneet Manchanda 6124 Ahmad Sayeed 6125 Karthik K 6126 Saxena Arpit 6127 Varma Vikrant 6128 Jayakumar S 6129 Love Jindal 6130 Goyal Jaydeep 6

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

In the retro-puzzle below by Prof.RobertSmullyan, it is given that White has just castledand neither White nor black made a captureon the last move. It is black's turn tomove.Can he castle?

Robert Smullyan ,Chess Mysteries ofSherlock Holmes 1979

Can Black castle?

(Solution on page 48)

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Indian Grandmaster Lalith Babu, with a bettertie-break edged out Grandmaster Lu Shanglei ofChina and emerged Champion after the eleventhand final round in the Chennai Super Kings 5thInternational Grandmaster chess tournament2013 at Media Hall, Nehru Stadium, Chennai.

Lalith Babu and Lu Shanglei logged in 9.0 pointsfrom eleven rounds, half a point ahead of GMsAdhiban Baskaran and Niaz Murshed. Also, LalithBabu becomes the first Indian to emerge theChampion in the five editions of Chennai Open heldso far and went through the event without anyloss, winning seven and drawing four. Lu Shangleisuffered a solitary loss to GM Adhiban Baskaran.

Lalith Babu takes home the winner's prize of Rs.2,00,000 (Rupess Two Lakhs only) out of totalprize money of Rs. 10,00,000 (Rupees Ten lakhsonly) sponsored by Chennai Super Kings. Chennaicontinues to be good hunting ground for AndhraPradesh star Lalith Babu who won theCommonwealth 2012 title here last year. Sharingthe third spot were GMs Adhiban Baskaran (India)and Niaz Murshed (Bangladesh) at 8.5 points.

Shri K Shankar, President, Shipping Division, IndiaCements Ltd distributed the prizes. Present onthe dais were Shri D V Sundar, Vice President,FIDE, International Arbiter S Paul Arokiaraj, ChiefArbiter and Shri B Murugavel, Vice President, TamilNadu State Chess Association. The eleven round259 player event has the confirmed participationof 48 FIDE titled players. This includes 13Grandmasters and 18 International Masters. Thetournament had its share of upsets, with Assamplayer Santanu Borpatra Gohain defeating GMCzebe Attila (Hungary) in the second round. Inthe next two rounds GM Ziaur Rahman(Bangladesh) went down to Vikramjit Singh & RVaishali. Round four saw Padmini Rout stunning

Chennai Super Kings 5th International GM Open, Chennai…….

Lalith Babu emerges ChampionLu Shanglei takes runner-up spot

by S.Paul Arokiaraj, IA and Chief ArbiterGM SP Sethuraman, while Chennai boy BKumaran brought down IM Rathnakaran.Kumaran his good run holding two foreign GMson a single day. Kumaran and Vaishali wereunlucky not to make their Norms despite agood show. Kerala teenager S L Narayanantook off from where Kumaran left, defeatedGM Czebe Attila, and went on to make his 3rdand final IM Norm. But the star of the eventwas Amaravathi based IM Swapnil S Dhopadewho defeated top seed GM Aleksej Aleksandrovin a must win situation, achieving his final GMNorm. The third player to make the Norm wasthe untitled by strong Chinese Wan Yunguowho achieved an IM Norm. Achieving Normsspells the success of the tournament, with 3Norms being made here, the CSK sponsoredevent has surely made the grade.

Earlier this mega annual Chennai event wasinaugurated by Shri M Balasubramaniam, Director,Brookefields & Spencer Plaza who made thesymbolic first move against Shri Bharat Singh, Hon.Secretary, All India Chess Federation. Shri D VSundar, Vice President, FIDE in his welcome addressmentioned that "Chennai is Mecca of Indian chessand added that Tamil Nadu has produced India'sfirst International Master in Manuel Aaron, firstGrandmaster in Viswanathan Anand, first WomanGrandmaster in Vijayalakshmi, first InternationalArbiter in Kameswaran. Out of 31 GMs 13 werefrom TN. This tournament is a big oppotunity forthe youth to showcase their talent in theseInternational tournaments." Speaking on theoccasion, Shri Balasubramaniam said, "We arehappy to be associated with chess, especially thatof international events held in Chennai. Chess hasgiven the sportspersons in the country the kind ofrecognition that has not been awarded elsewhere.Also he offered to sponsor such events in future in

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Tamil Nadu especially in Coimbatore. I wish thistournament will produce more future champions."The 259 player, 13 country event ran for elevenrounds and concluded on 23rd Jan, 2013.

Earlier rounds…. (inputs by R.R. Vasudevan)

4th round

Top seed Grandmaster Aleksandrov Aleksej ofBelarus shared the lead with 4.0 points after thefourth round. Sharing the lead at 4.0 points withAleksandrov were GMs Deviatkin Andrei (Russia),Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan), Lu Shanglei(China), Teske Henrik (Germany) and IMPrasanna Raghuram Rao (India) among others.Top seed Aleksandrov showed superior middle-game play to out class Uzbek GM KayumovDmitry, while second seeded Deviatkin Andrei(Russia) handled IM Shivananda's unorthodoxplay with elan and sewed the full point. The thirdboard game between GM Adhiban and IM ShyamNikil ended in a 25 move draw.

In upsets of the day, National Under 11 & 13Champion R Vaishali scored an exciting win overGrandmaster Ziaur Rahman, while 14-year-oldChennai lad B Kumaran overcame InternationalMaster K Rathnakaran. In the longest game ofthe day, Woman Grandmaster Padmini Rout upsetfellow Grandmaster S P Sethuraman. Themarathon 4 hour encounter lasted 147 moves.

6th round

Chinese Grandmaster Lu Shanglei shared the leadwith 5.5 points after the sixth round in the ChennaiSuper Kings 5th International Grandmaster chesstournament 2013 at Media Hall, Nehru Stadium,Chennai here today. Sharing the lead with LuShanglei were GMs Teske Henrik (Germany) andM R Lalith Babu (India). Further half a point downat 5.0 points were GMs Aleksej Aleksandrov(Belarus), Adhiban Baskaran (India), Czebe Attila(Hungary) among others.

Earlier, the morning session saw both the topseeds going down to lower rated GMs. ChineseGrandmaster Lu Shanglei scored over top seedGM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus, while the

second seed GM Deviatkin Andrei (Russia) lostto GM Teske Henrik (Germany), when he slippedfrom an apparently equal position.

14-year-old Chennai lad B Kumaran, a 9thStandard student of Sri Sankara Senior SecondarySchool, Adyar, Chennai was impressive as he heldtwo Grandmasters to draw on a double roundday. Playing with black pieces Kumaran drew withGM Niaz Murshed (Bangladesh) in the morningsession and held GM Ziatdinov Raset of USA to adraw in the evening session. Kumaran has playedtwo IMs and two GMs in the last four roundssecuring a 3/4 score.

In another upset, 15-year-old Chennai lad N RVignesh scored over experienced UzbekGrandmaster Kayumov Dmitry in a Sicilian gamethat lasted 37 moves. Showing understandingahead of his age, Vignesh handled the middlegame with elan and marched to win in a rookand pawn end game.

8th round

Double International Master Norm holder S LNarayanan (6.5) stunned HungarianGrandmaster Czebe Attila in the eighth round inthe Chennai Super Kings 5th InternationalGrandmaster chess tournament 2013 at MediaHall, Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Thewin took the youngster from Thiruvananthapuramto the top of the table with 6.5 points. Sharingthe top spot at 6.5 points were GMs AleksandrovAleksej (Belarus), Adhiban Baskaran, M R LalithBabu (both India), Teske Henrik (Germany), LuShanglei (China) among others.

In the top board, Grandmaster Adhiban drewwith fellow Indian GM Lalith Babu in an Englishgame that lasted 28 moves. A draw in the secondboard between GM Teske Henrik (Germany) andWan Yunguo (China) allowed a few more to jointhe leaders at the top. The title chances ofaspirants have now become wide open.

Local hope Karthikeyan Murali suffered a setbackas he went down to top seed GrandmasterAleksandrov Aleksej in a Queens Gambit game

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that lasted 64 moves. With two InternationalMaster Norms to his credit, S L Narayanan is oncourse for the third one as he grounded higherrated Grandmaster Czebe Attila of Hungary. TheBenko Gambit game was well handled by theKerala youngster who kept his cool and chartedhis way to win in 46 moves.

Hope for Norm chances rest with Indian juniorsS L Narayanan, R Vaishali, B Kumaran and WanYunguo (China) as three more rounds remainedto be played.

10th round

Swapnil S Dhopade (8.0) become a GrandmasterElect as he stunned top seed GrandmasterAleksej Aleksandrov (Belarus) achieving his thirdand final GM Norm in the tenth and penultimateround of the Chennai Super Kings 5th InternationalGrandmaster chess tournament 2013 at MediaHall, Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Thecrucial win gives Swapnil his third GrandmasterNorm in addition to the ones he made in theNational Premier Championship and Rose ValleyGM tournament both at Kolkata, last year.

The win takes Swapnil to the top of the tablealong with fellow Indians Adhiban Baskaran, M RLalith Babu, Niaz Murshed (Bangladesh), AndreiDeviatkin (Russia), Lu Shanglei (China)respectively. Half a point below the leaders at7.5 points were Teske Henrik (Germany) alongwith the Indian duo Ramnath Bhuvanesh and RA Pradeep Kumar.

Needing a win against the top seed, Swapnil gavehis all and came out smiling. Employing thedynamic Benko gambit, the Indian InternationalMaster had Aleksandrov on the defensive rightthrough. Forced to find a way out, Aleksandrovgave up his rook for a minor piece on the 29thturn. But, Swapnil was game for that and cameup with a series of forced exchanges that lefthim with a technically winning position. Nursinghis advantage Swapnil waked his way to gloryand now needs to touch ELO 2500 to confirm hisGrandmaster title.

In other interesting games, Adhiban Baskaranwent all out to down Wan Yunguo of China, whileLalith Babu outwitted Dmitry Kayumov(Uzbekistan) without much ado. The last andfinal round to be played tomorrow offers multipleopportunities with six players on top and threemore breathing down their neck. In crucial finalround pairings, Andrei Deviatkin plays Lu Shanglei,Niaz Murshed faces Adhiban Baskaran and LalithBabu takes on Swapnil Dhopade.

Final standings:Rk. Title Name Club Pts.1 GM Lalith Babu M.R. PSPB 92 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 93 GM Adhiban B. PSPB 8½4 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 8½5 GM Teske Henrik GER 86 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade RLY 87 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 88 IM Kuderinov Kirill KAZ 89 IM Shyam Nikil P. TN 810 Wan Yunguo CHN 811 IM Prasanna Raghuram Rao MAH 812 IM Praveen Kumar C. ICF 813 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 814 WGM Padmini Rout ORI 815 IM Ravichandran Siddharth TN 816 Narayanan.S.L KER 7½17 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 7½18 IM Shivananda B.S. KAR 7½19 GM Czebe Attila HUN 7½20 FM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr TN 7½21 Visakh Nr TN 7½22 IM Prakash G B IB 7½23 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7½24 Pradeep Kumar R.A. TN 7½25 Shashikant Kutwal RLY 7½26 Phoobalan P. TN 7½27 Kathmale Sameer MAH 7½28 IM Murali Krishnan B.T. RLY 7½29 Sidhant Mohapatra ORI 7½30 Arun Karthik R. TN 7½31 Gahan M.G. TN 7½32 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 733 Matta Vinay Kumar AP 734 GM Kayumov Dmitry D UZB 735 Karthikeyan Murali TN 736 Anand Raj S. TN 7

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37 Vignesh Nr TN 738 Lakshmi Narayanan Mv TN 739 WGM Swathi Ghate LIC 740 Lokesh P. TN 741 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 742 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena ORI 743 Harihara Sudan M TN 744 FM Maheswaran P. TN 745 Singh S. Vikramjit AP 746 Michelle Catherina P TN 747 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty ORI 748 Yogit S TN 749 IM R Balasubramaniam ICF 750 Prasannaa.S TN 751 Ashwath R. TN 752 IM Singh D.P. RLY 6½53 FM Ramakrishna J. AP 6½54 Niraj Saripalli GOA 6½55 Kumaran B TN 6½56 IM Nitin S. TN 6½57 Phadke Sohan MAH 6½58 Suresh Kumar T.J. ICF 6½59 IM Rathnakaran K. RLY 6½60 Harsha Bharathakoti AP 6½61 IM Shetty Rahul AI 6½62 Ram S. Krishnan Bsnl 6½63 Ritviz Parab GOA 6½64 FM Jayakumar Adarsh TN 6½65 Harikrishna. S. R. TN 6½66 Kulkarni Rakesh MAH 6½67 Krishna Teja N AP 6½68 Raghunandan K S TN 6½69 Patil Pratik MAH 6½70 Choudhary Jitendra Kumar MAH 6½71 FM Shantharam K.V. IB 6½72 Santanu Borpatra Gohain ASM 6½73 Lama Surbir NEP 6½74 Bhuvan R TN 6½75 Yohan J. TN 6½76 Chaithanyaa K.G. TN 6½77 Meghna C H AP 6½78 Wang Doudou CHN 6½79 Negi V. S. DEL 680 Gopalakrishnan K. IB 681 Uma Maheswaran P TN 682 Navin Kanna T.U. TN 683 Satra Hardik MAH 684 IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman IA 685 Karthik V. Ap TN 686 Ajay Krishna S TN 6

87 Vaishali R TN 688 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie TN 689 FM Ram Aravind L N TN 690 Vasantha Ruba Varman TN 691 Ponkshe Sarang KAR 692 IM Babu N Sudhakar IB 693 IM Deshmukh Anup LIC 694 Muthaiah Al TN 695 Sai Vishwesh.C TN 696 Bala Kannamma.P TN 697 Thapa Krishna NEP 698 Prajesh R TN 699 Aniruddh Aiyengar TN 6100 Azikri Gur ISR 6101 Sa Kannan TN 6102 Gavi Siddayya KAR 6103 Joshi G B DEL 6104 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama AP 6105 Sadhu S Adithya TN 6106 Visalatchi R TN 6107 Aaditya Jagadeesh TN 6108 WFM Pujari Rucha MAH 6109 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 6110 Ananya S TN 6111 Arjun Satheesh TN 6112 FM Vinoth Kumar M. TN 6113 Senthil Maran K TN 6114 Selvabharathy T TN 6115 Siva Mahadevan TN 5½116 Iniyan P TN 5½117 Eashwar.M TN 5½118 Audi Ameya GOA 5½119 Ganesh R TN 5½120 Paramasivam M. TN 5½121 Srikanth K. TN 5½122 Vigneshwaran S TN 5½123 Sai Prahlad K TN 5½124 WCM Savant Riya GOA 5½125 Hemanth Raam TN 5½126 Rajarishi Karthi TN 5½127 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J TN 5½128 Prakashram R TN 5½129 Godbole Atharva MAH 5½130 WFM Lakshmi C TN 5½131 Kumar Gaurav BIH 5½132 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 5½133 Nandhini Saripalli GOA 5½134 Xu Huahua CHN 5½135 Aarthi G TN 5½136 Islam Kazi Taherul BAN 5½

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137 Rajeev V.M. TN 5½138 Gnanasekar .G TN 5½139 Dave Shiv Shankar RAJ 5½140 Saughanthika As TN 5½141 Praggnanandhaa R TN 5½142 Narendran V TN 5½143 Aswin Kumar B S TN 5½144 Harshavardhan G B TN 5½145 Abhishek A TN 5146 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 5147 Mythireyan P TN 5148 Aadhityaa M TN 5149 Erigaisi Arjun TN 5150 Meera D TN 5151 Prabhat Koutha AP 5152 Senbabu M B KER 5153 Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 5154 Rajadharshini M. TN 5155 Visveshwar A TN 5156 S M Sharon BAN 5157 Prathish A TN 5158 Jayakumar P. TN 5159 Divya Lakshmi R TN 5160 Anisuzzaman Jewel BAN 5161 Elancheralathan P TN 5162 Chaudhary Sushil NEP 5163 Manickavelu. A TN 5164 Sushmitha.G. TN 5165 Thamaraiselvi P TN 5166 Aadityan G TN 5167 Aarthi V TN 5168 Hari Madhavan N B TN 5169 Vignesh V TN 5170 Aryan Haribhau Kawade TN 5171 K.C. Umesh NEP 5172 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar TN 5173 Varshini V TN 4½174 CM Malakar Prachand Man NEP 4½175 Naren Swaminathan P TN 4½176 Barath Kalyan M TN 4½177 Joshi Abhijit TN 4½178 Sunil Vaidya MAH 4½179 Chowdhury Rana BAN 4½180 Manu David Suthandram TN 4½181 Jayakumar S TN 4½182 Vishwak S TN 4½183 Akash R TN 4½184 Jatin S N KAR 4½185 Vishwanath Vivek TN 4½186 Karmukilan S TN 4½

187 Hilmi Parveen KER 4½188 Raahul V S TN 4½189 Grueninger David SUI 4½190 Vikram G TN 4½191 Prakruthee A TN 4½192 D.K. Chopra DEL 4½193 Balachandar G TN 4½194 Priyamvadha Sundar TN 4½195 Girinath B S TN 4½196 Jegatha B TN 4½197 Ashwini U TN 4198 George Daniel TN 4199 Poorna Sri M.K TN 4200 Amatya Bipin NEP 4201 Viekash V.K. TN 4202 Alan Diviya Raj TN 4203 Harshini A TN 4204 Anuraag G TN 4205 Pooja S (2002) TN 4206 Audi Saiesh GOA 4207 Krishnan Chatadi S TN 4208 Jasper Jothi P TN 4209 Rohini G TN 4210 Prajwalesh TN 4211 Joan Jeremiah J TN 4212 Roshan Antony C TN 4213 Arvind N TN 4214 Kishore Kumar E TN 4215 Jayalakshmi R K TN 4216 Mohana R TN 4217 Sushmit Banerjee ORI 4218 GM Sethuraman S.P. TN 3½219 Uddin Saif BAN 3½220 Srimathi R TN 3½221 Johnitto Francis TN 3½222 Priyanka K TN 3½223 Aditya M TN 3½224 Nitin Shankar Madhu TN 3½225 Sundar Chokkalingam TN 3½226 Athira S Prabhu TN 3½227 Bhavani R TN 3½228 Kareedu Jaya Prakash AP 3½229 Sri Raaman M TN 3½230 Arun M TN 3231 Dawood.K TN 3232 Krishna R Ve TN 3233 Ram Arcot Mohanarangam TN 3234 Vinoth Kumar M TN 3235 Malleswari P TN 3236 Iswariya Murugan TN 3

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237 Sruti L TN 3238 Chamundeswari B TN 3239 Vidula V K TN 3240 Rindhiya V TN 2½241 Sivalingam.R TN 2½242 Mythreyi Sudevan TN 2½243 Aadith R TN 2½244 Dhanush Bharadwaj KAR 2245 Akshaya Lakshmi P TN 2246 Nikhil Nihar V TN 2247 Swetha Balaji TN 1½248 Rajasurya J. TN 1

249 Varshini Senthilkumar TN 1250 Obuli Raj TN 0251 IM Himanshu Sharma HAR 0252 IM Sangma Rahul DEL 0253 Niraula Niraj NEP 0254 Binayak Rath TN 0255 B.K Tirth Bahadur NEP 0256 Harish Kumar TN 0257 Nivetta T TN 0258 Krishnan S TN 0259 Sandhya B TN 0

This year (2013) 50 years agoIA V.Kameswaran(continued from January 2013 article)

Dutch GM Jan Hein Donner (July 6,1927 -Nov27,1988) started learning chess fromthe day Aug 22, 1941 and the specialmention for this accurate date was becauseon this day he came from school to knowthat his father was arrested by Germans.History and the nemesis continued but in apositive way for him. His nephew Piet HeinDonner became the Dutch Minister of SocialAffairs .Just before Donner's last days, hewas unable to walk, but had learned to typewith one finger, and wrote for NRCHandelsblad and Schaaknieuws !

The second Inter-Club tournament organisedby the Madras State Chess Association wasin the year 1963, eight years after the firstone in 1955 and surprisingly the third andlast one was in 1966 to stop with that .Later on converted into a Tamil State Inter -District Chess Championship with a tail pieceState Blitz included every year non-stop !

In our game, the first January every year isthe most important because it is a cutoffdate for age wise competitions throughoutthe chess world . The chess player born witha silver spoon on Jan 01, 1963 is SergyOkrugin. He is one of the strongest chessplayers in Yaroslavl, Russia. But havingdevoted to more chess fascinations especiallytraining youngsters, he got his IM title in

the year 2009 only at the age of 46 (youngveterans and chess trainers to note !!) In1992 he won the Open Latvian ChessChampionship in Riga. In 1999 SergeyOkrugin participated in Russian ChessChampionship in Moscow. In 2010 heparticipated in tournament in honor of theYaroslavl's millennium. In 2011 SergeyOkrugin won silver medal in Yaroslavl OblastChampionship.

Any problems should be faced and solvedat the earliest. Why not you try an interesting2NB v BP ending . The jugglery of threeminor pieces for the white and the lonebishop with King on either side are simplyamazing to watch

Z. Birnov Shakhmaty v SSSR 1963

WinSolution :-1 Na5+ Ka4 2 Nxb7 Kb5 3 Nb8Bh2 4 Nd7 Kc6 5 Nbc5 Bg1 6Ne5+ Kxc5 7Nf3 and wins

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The Rohini Col lege of Engineering andTechnology 1st Kanyakumari International FIDERated Chess Tournament was organised byKanyakumari District Chess Association was heldat Rohini College of E & T, Kanyakumari from1st to 4th February 2013. Around four hundredplayers from various parts of India congregatedat the southern most tip of India, where Arabiansea, Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal meet.M. Eashwar of Coimbatore was top seeded inthe nine round Swiss format tournament, witha time control of 60 minutes plus thirty secondsincrement per move.

Rishub Naresh Naik of Goa did not look backfrom the f i rst round and scored eightconsecutive wins in the first eight rounds. Inthe last round, he drew with PK Suresh of Keralato bag the beautiful trophy and a cash prize ofRs.25000. Suresh and B Vinodh Kumar ofPuduchery scored eight points each to tie forthe second place and Buchholz favoured Sureshfor the runner up spot. The closing ceremonywas attended by the two stalwarts of IndianChess, Mr. DV Sundar, Vice president of FIDEand Mr. Manuel Aaron, nine times nationalchampion. Sri. Neela Marthandan, Chairman,Rohini College of Engineering presided over thefunction and Dr. Sasi, Principal of the collegeoffered felicitations. Sri. Kulathooran, Presidentof the district chess association welcomed thegathering and Sri. M. Ephrame, Secretary ofthe association proposed a vote of thanks.

The organiser Mr. M. Ephrame, joint secretary ofTN State Chess Association and his team did awonderful job towards the successful conduct ofthe tournament. A sight seeing trip was alsoarranged for the participants on the day after thetournament to nearby tourist and historical places.

Rohini College of E&T 1st Kanyakumari FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kanyakumari….

Rishub Naresh Naik winsby IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

Final standings: (first 240 placings only)Rk. Name Club Pts.1 Naik Rishubh Naresh GOA 8½2 Suresh P.K. KER 83 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 84 Abhishek A KER 7½5 Ajay Krishna S TN 7½6 Aaditya Jagadeesh TN 7½7 Kumar S. TN 7½8 Elancheralathan P TN 7½9 Siva Mahadevan TN 710 Santhosh Purushothaman KER 711 Eashwar.M TN 712 Sa Kannan TN 713 Ananya S KAR 714 Prathish A TN 715 Noohu M.J. TN 716 Shince Sebastian KER 717 Hirthickkesh Pr TN 718 Jayasangar T TN 719 Suresh Krishna S TN 720 Vignesh B TN 721 Barun Paul WB 722 Sathya Giri V TNK 723 Selvabharathy T TN 724 Marthandan K U KER 725 Gautham V TN 726 Sharath E. TN 727 Iyappan P PUD 6½28 Clifford Flair TN 6½29 Senthil Maran K TN 6½30 Rajesh Vn KER 6½31 Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 6½32 Chinnadurai S. TN 6½33 Ajeesh Antony KER 6½34 Vivekananda L KAR 6½35 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 6½36 Adithya S TN 6½37 M David Scanny TN 6½38 Sankaranarayanan.K TN 6½39 Barath Kalyan M TN 6½40 Karthick Narayanan S TN 6½41 Dharmaraj P. TN 642 Vignesh V TN 643 Kavitha P L TN 6

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44 Raju J KER 645 Raahul V S TN 646 Yuvan Bharathi K S TN 647 Harish Raghavendra S TN 648 Raju S TN 649 Sanil S KER 650 Dhanush Bharadwaj KAR 651 Ojas Kulkarni KAR 652 Balaguru T PUD 653 Muthukumar C P TNK 654 Saji T. KER 655 Jayakumar S TN 656 Vigneshwaran S TN 657 Sanjay S Pillai KER 658 Narendran V TN 659 Aravind K TN 660 Sonkalan Bharati 661 Antony Simethy KER 662 Bharkavi S TNK 663 Jobin Anto Jochim TNK 664 Gowri Shankar A TN 665 Pramod K K KER 666 Vishwa Anand V TN 667 Karthik Raj C TN 668 Purushoth G TN 669 Radhakrishnan N KER 670 Jayakrishnan P KER 671 Harshavardhan G B TN 672 Guhan Ram Shankar TNK 673 Harshini A TN 674 S.A. Surya Kumar TN 675 Venkatesh K TN 676 Navnitan S V TN 677 Kumara Swamy S BSNL 678 Fernandes Krystal GOA 679 Jai Aditya D TN 680 Prakash James TN 681 Sankar R TN 682 Thamaraiselvi P TN 5½83 Sachin Pradeep KER 5½84 Ashish Thomas Alex KER 5½85 Bhagavathi Sankar K TNK 5½86 Abhilash G KER 5½87 Dilan Paul Roy J TNK 5½88 Yogesh Kumar A TN 5½89 Krishna Mohan KER 5½90 Roshan Antony C TN 5½91 Aasha.C R. TN 5½92 Vishnu R V TN 5½93 Unnikrishnan T KER 5½

94 Arun Kumar M TNK 5½95 Anandharaj K TN 5½96 Shyam Sundar M TN 5½97 Annie Gladys A TNK 5½98 Suresh R TN 5½99 Niveditha K TN 5½100 Athish S TNK 5½101 Karunakaran V TN 5½102 Vijayaraj R. TNK 5½103 Lakshmi V.D. TNK 5½104 Koushik Muthesh P TN 5½105 Prabhugaonkar A Aman GOA 5½106 Poorna Sri M.K TN 5½107 Raghul Adhitya PJ TN 5½108 Vishwak S TN 5½109 Vijayakumar S TN 5½110 Rooswelt TN 5½111 Routray B C ODI 5½112 Hari Kumar N KER 5½113 Amarnath S J TN 5½114 Raja R S TNK 5½115 Sona Preethy B R TN 5½116 Ravi Kiran D J KAR 5½117 Siva Harish R TN 5½118 Siva B TN 5½119 Abhishek S TNK 5½120 Suryakanth C TN 5½121 Bhuvaneash J J TNK 5122 Sneha G P S TN 5123 Subramanian T.V. TN 5124 Senthilkumar K KER 5125 Neeraj Kumar.R TN 5126 Sanathanan N.R.S. TN 5127 Manu David Suthandram 5128 Arivarasan M TN 5129 Dhanaraj Samuel TN 5130 Nanda Pradeesh N TN 5131 Kathir Balaji K TN 5132 Saktheesh V TN 5133 Thiripurasundaram N TN 5134 Sriram B TN 5135 Mani K TN 5136 Naren Akash R J TNK 5137 Christi G Mathai KER 5138 Ajay Kumaar.S PUD 5139 Sreekumaran Nair K G KER 5140 P Shailesh Vernekar GOA 5141 Shiva Kumar S TN 5142 Abirami S TN 5143 Dawood.K TN 5

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144 Shanmugam C TN 5145 Arjun T TNK 5146 Paul Kodaly KER 5147 Ilakiya M K TN 5148 Akash Sivaram D TN 5149 Charan N TNK 5150 Jeyakumar P TN 5151 Praveen R TN 5152 John Christopher TN 5153 T Kirubanandan TNK 5154 Antony M C KER 5155 Rijo Mathew KER 5156 Balaji Vijayakumar TN 5157 Jeevan C TN 5158 Tajmeera S Thufail TN 5159 Prem Kumar C TN 5160 Nirupama K G TN 5161 Dinesh Kumar A TN 5162 Selvam D TN 5163 Jasper Jothi P TN 5164 Manikandan P TN 5165 Achaya Vijayan TNK 5166 Venkateshwaran G TN 5167 Vishweshwaran K TN 5168 Swarnamala B TN 5169 Ramesh Krishnan Ar TN 5170 Abhinessh S TN 5171 Aboo Manazir TNK 5172 Balaji S Murugadoss TNK 5173 Bharath Chandar J TN 5174 Pradhyumna Kumar K KAR 5175 Anantha Padmanabhan KER 5176 Shyam Aravind B R TN 5177 Nicknesar Anto A TN 5178 Rahul K Suresh Kumar TN 5179 Sujith Kumar A TNK 5180 Selvam M TNK 5181 Ramachandran N TN 5182 Barath S TNK 5183 Rajesh K TN 5184 Senbabu M B KER 4½185 Benny V M KER 4½186 Senthil Kumar .M.R. TN 4½187 Agash Raj James TN 4½188 Tulsi M KAR 4½189 Ashwin Kumaar M TNK 4½190 Maheshwaran L TN 4½191 Kruthikaa Rashmikaa TN 4½192 Ashok Kumar T D TN 4½

193 Hameed Suhail S K TNK 4½194 Ram Kumar G M TNK 4½195 Dhanusha S TNK 4½196 Desabandhu TNK 4½197 Deepa Praba TN 4½198 Akash Raj S T TNK 4½199 Sarath Kumar D TN 4½200 Vishnu M H KER 4½201 R Chithambaranathan TNK 4½202 Varsha Murugan TNK 4½203 Sneha Murugan TNK 4½204 Eyal Amuthan Gb TN 4½205 Rohan Kailash TN 4½206 Manikandan Chellappan TNK 4½207 Hasan M TN 4½208 Sasikesan Thanu Pillai TN 4½209 Vihrteshwar T R TN 4½210 Ronie S J Shine TNK 4½211 Priyadarshini B TN 4½212 Sabari Kirishna Perumal TNK 4½213 Shyam Ramachandran TNK 4½214 Gangatharan M TN 4½215 Mohammed Alieef M TNK 4½216 Vasanth B TNK 4½217 Aditya Radhakrishnan TN 4½218 Abhijith Karthikeyan P TNK 4½219 Sanjeev Bhagavath TNK 4½220 Philip Benis Jeyaraj J TN 4221 Binil Benjamin TNK 4222 Ashok Manickam P TN 4223 Benatin Britto Hamlet raj TNK 4224 Hariharan Iyappan TNK 4225 Devanand B KER 4226 Narendiran Raveendiran TN 4227 Annamalai Raja C TN 4228 Arumugaraj T TN(H) 4229 Viswanathan P TNK 4230 Karthikeyan G TN 4231 Babu O K KER 4232 Mega R TN 4233 Jebin J F Felix TNK 4234 Brewin Jacob Stanly TNK 4235 Allan Gorfor Ananth TNK 4236 Jebin Jasper K TNK 4237 Romok Bhattacharjee WB 4238 Arul Vetha Binekas TNK 4239 Shivaneesh Arul Kumar TNK 4240 Pavithra M TNK 4

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Chess in the heartland Indian state of MadhyaPradesh is active. If you visit www.mpchess.comone can measure the activity that is happeningin the state with new officials Kapil Saxena,Secretary, Niklesh Jain, Treasurer. They have SunilBansal as President.

The 1st National Amateur Chess Championshipwas organised successfully at the Madhav NagarAuditorium in Katni, Madhya Pradesh from Jan26-31, 2013. International Arbiter DharmendraKumar was the Chief Arbiter and FA Yashpal Aroraand Kapil Saxena were also arbiters.

Attracting 285 entrants, the event was a majorsuccess. The World Amateur Championship isbeing held regularly and many Indians areapplying to play in them and this will be the idealselection for that event. Dangmei Bosco startedas seed 19 and would be gaining more than 37Elo from this contest besides the prize money.

The 1988-born Dangmei Bosco drew RahulSingh Soram of Assam, LekhMithawala andMota Pankit, both of Maharashtra whiledefeating therest to remain undefeated.VVarshini of Tamil Nadu lost one Elo but wonthe women's event with 8/11 while playing inthe same open event along with men.

Final standings: (first 60 placings only)Rk. Name City Pts.1 Dangmei Bosco MAN 9.52 Mota Pankit MAH 93 Kumar Gaurav BIH 94 Dhananjay CG 95 Vivek.M. TN 96 Ganesan K. TN 8.57 Lekh Mithawala MAH 8.58 Sai Prahlad K TN 8.59 Karthik K KER 8.510 Varshini V TN 811 Kirti Singh MP 812 Mughaho Awomi NAG 813 Aradhya Garg DEL 8

1st National Amateur Chess Championship, Katni….

Dangmei Bosco is National Amateur Champion14 Patel Palak GUJ 815 Sharma Pankaj PUN 816 Anchit Vyas MP 817 Ranjan Rakesh BIH 7.518 Anshul Kaushik HAR 7.519 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 7.520 Vikram Mukhija RAJ 7.521 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 7.522 Sathya Priya S.V. TN 7.523 Chandak Shivam GUJ 7.524 Gupta Atit MAH 7.525 Brajesh Upadhya MP 7.526 Sinha Abhay Kumar BIH 7.527 Prabhat Koutha AP 7.528 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 7.529 Harshe Arvind MP 7.530 Sandhya G AP 7.531 Kishorekumar V. TN 7.532 Samal Ansuman ORI 7.533 Shyam Sundar T. TN 7.534 Gajanan Jayde MAH 7.535 Aditya Pai MAH 7.536 Sudarshan Malga MP 737 V Jaiprakash MP 738 Kadav Omkar MAH 739 Aishwin Daniel MP 740 Kaushik Shubham HAR 741 Shailesh Dravid MAH 742 D.K. Chopra DEL 743 S Sanjeev Kapoor MAH 744 Aryan BIH 745 Saxena Anshul MP 746 Pattanaik P R MP 747 Thomas Nidhin V V KER 748 Chitlange Sakshi MAH 749 Shenvi Pratik MAH 750 Nagle Manoj MP 751 Jadhav Vaibhavi MAH 752 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 753 Sadhu S Adithya TN 754 Waikar Varun MAH 755 Anuj Saxena CG 756 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 6.557 Awadh Chaitanya MP 6.558 Amardeep Tiwari MAH 6.559 Anshuman Singh MP 6.560 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 6.5

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Selected games fromParsvnath Open, New DelhiAnnotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Mageshchandran,P (2580) -Himanshu Sharma (2406) [B47]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc65.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.0–0 b5 8.Nxc6dxc6 9.f4 Bb7 10.Bf3 Rd8

11.Qe1 [So far the move seen here hasbeen 11.Qe2 when black plays e6-e5 withequality. As e6-e5 for black is almostinevitable, there is more logic in playing thequeen to e1 from where it can get intoactive play via g3.] 11...c5 12.f5! Whiteperceives that the entire black king-side isundeveloped and plans to attack beforethey become functional. 12...b4 [Black cantry to block the opening of the centre with12...e5 but after 13.Nd5! Bxd5 14.exd5Nf6 15.Bg5²; However, 12...c4 allowing theapparently dangerous 13.fxe6 fxe6 14.Qh4g6 is almost equal.] 13.fxe6 fxe6 [If13...bxc3 14.Bh5! and black’s position isdestroyed.] 14.Bf4 Qe7 15.Ne2 g616.Qg3 Bh6 [The problem with this moveis that white will not play Bxh6 and allowthe black knight to get out of his stable.After this move black’s attempt atcompleting development is seriouslyhindered. Somewhat better was: 16...Bg7with the idea of playing e6-e5 or Ng8-f6.]

17.e5 [Stronger was: 17.Rad1 Rxd118.Rxd1 Bxf4 19.Nxf4 Nf6 20.Nxg6 Rg8(20...hxg6 21.Qxg6+ Kf8 (21...Qf722.Rd8+!) 22.e5 wins.) 21.Qb8+ Kf722.Qxg8+ Nxg8 23.Nxe7 Kxe7 24.e5+-]17...Bd5 18.c4! Bxf3 [18...bxc319.Nxc3±] 19.Qxf3 Rc8 To prevent white’sinvasion with 20 Qc6+ 20.Rad1 White hasa fabulous attacking position. 20...Qf7 [Thequeen gets into further harrassment alongthe f-file. He should bow to the inevitablewith 20...Bxf4 21.Nxf4+-] 21.Qe3! Bxf422.Nxf4 Ne7 [If 22...Qe7 23.Qb3 for 24Qa4+ and 23 Qh3 for 24 Nxg6 as well as24 Nxe6 are winning.] 23.Nh5 Nf5

24.Rxf5! In good positions such goodmoves come naturally. Now that queencannot recapture the rook as there is a knightfork on g7. 24...gxf5 25.Nf6+ Kf826.Rd7 Qg6 27.Qd2! The threat is 28

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Qd3+ mating. If now 27....Rc6 28 Rb7threatening 29 Qd8. Black was playing a rookdown (Rh8) throughout the game. 1–0

Anurag Mhamal (2399)Shyam Sundar,M (2501) [A14]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg2 Be75.0–0 0–0 6.Qc2 d4 7.d3 c5 8.e4 Nc69.Qe2?!

[Why move the queen a second time withhis whole queen-side undeveloped? 9.e5is normal here.] 9...e5!³ As white failed topush e4-e5, black seizes his chance tooccupy the centre and gain some spaceadvantage. 10.Nh4 g6!? 11.Na3?! [Thisknight has no future on a3. Though notquite satisfactory, white should continue:11.Bh6 Re8 12.h3 Bf8 13.Bxf8 Rxf8³]11...a6 12.f4 This was the plan when heplayed 10 f4, but it allows some familiartactical play based on the unprotectednature of his knight on h4. 12...exf413.gxf4 [Better was 13.Bxf4 Ng4 14.Bh3Nce5 15.Ng2 with a tense game whereblack’s chances seem to be better.]13...Nxe4! Taking advantage of theunprotected knight on h4. 14.Nxg6 Thisis the only way to avoid the loss of a pawn.But it leads to increased power for the blackforces. 14...fxg6 15.dxe4

When white gets pawns on c4 and d4 withno pawns on the b- and e-files, they areknown as ‘hanging pawns’. This happensgenerally in the Queen’s Gambit openings.the hanging pawns have the advantage ofcontrolling important central squares. Onthe flip side, if either of the pawn moves,the other pawn becomes weak. Curiously,here we have ‘hanging pawns’ on the king-side on e4 and f4. 15...Rb8 [Played withabundant caution and a very profound planfor black. More aggressive was: 15...d3!16.Qe3 Bg4³] 16.Bd2 b5 17.Rae1 [If17.cxb5 axb5 18.f5 d3 19.Qe3 c4³ withvery interesting play.] 17...b4 18.Nb1Bh4! 19.Rd1 d3! 20.Qe3 Nd4! 21.f5[Not 21.Qxd3?? Bg4 22.Rc1 Ne2+ winsthe queen.] 21...gxf5 22.Qxd3 As black’sBg4 is not possible now, white captures ond3. But white has another storm ready.22...Rb6 23.Be3 Rg6! 24.Bxd4 cxd425.exf5 [This throws open his position forattack. However, if 25.Qxd4 Qxd4+26.Rxd4 Bf6! 27.Rd6 (or Rd2) 27...fxe4and black’s two bishops would win.]

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving thegame can get pleasure just from the number ofpoints scored no matter how impressive the total.I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of theolder generation, from whose games we learned,the aesthetic side was the most important.- Alexander Kotov

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25...Rxg2+!! 26.Kxg2 Qg5+ 27.Kh1Bb7+ 28.Rf3 Qxf5 [28...Rxf5 is a slowerway to win. 29.Nd2–+] 29.Rg1+ Kh830.Qxd4+ Bf6 0–1

Wan Yunguo (2497)Ziatdinov,R (2354) [C95]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d68.c3 0–0 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd711.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf814.Ng3 g6 15.b3 c6 16.Bg5 h617.Be3 Qc7 18.Qd2 Kh7 19.a4 Rad8[This is new but it is not clear whether itis good to commit this rook to d8 soearly when the pawn structure of thegame has not been defined. Better wasthe time tested: 19...Bg7 or 19...c5 isusual.] 20.h4 Ng4 [With a white bishopawkwardly placed on e3, this was theright time to equalize the game with20...d5 21.dxe5 (21.exd5 Nxd5=)21...dxe4 22.Nxe4 Nxe4 23.Bxe4 Nxe5with equality, but black’s pieces are ashade better placed than white’s.] 21.h5Bg7! 22.axb5 cxb5 23.Rec1 [23.d5Rc8 24.Ne2 Nxe3 25.Qxe3 Nf6 26.hxg6+fxg6 27.Bd3= with the idea of c3-c4.]23...Ndf6 24.d5 Nxe3 25.Qxe3 Qe726.c4 bxc4 27.bxc4 Rc8 28.Ba4 Rg8?![This is a curious move, probablydreaming that the g-file will miraculously

open up in the future for his rook to workon. It was better for him to focus onwhite’s c4 pawn. and just get thethreatened rook out of harm’s way with28...Red8 29.Rab1 Rc7 when white isonly marginally better.] 29.Rab1 Rc5[29...Rc7 would not have allowed theshock that follows.] 30.hxg6+ fxg6

31.Nxe5! Bc8! Black cannot do anythingabout the lost pawn and, accepting theinevitable, plays sensibly to survive. 32.Nc6Rxc6?! [Black should have tried 32...Qc733.Bd1 Nd7 34.Bg4 Ne5 35.Bxc8 Rxc836.Nxe5 Bxe5 37.f4 Bf6 though white hasa clear advantage.] 33.dxc6+- Ng4 Whitehas to target the white king-side where hecould rustle up most of his forces with ease.34.Qd2 Rf8 35.f3

Tata Steel tournament, Wijk aan Zee..

Carlsen wins, Anand third

World No.1 ranked Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the Tata Steel Group 'A' with a towering 10/13 score at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands on January 27, 2013.Carlsen, from last year's event until this one, won all events and broke various rating records mainly those of Kasparov. He is the only player who remained undefeated. Carlsen played at 2933 and gaining Elo on a regular basis. Before 2013 ends, one can expect him to cross 2900 provided he keeps playing. Carlsen levelled Kasparov's record of 10/13 in this event 14 years before.

World No.2 ranked Aronian finished second. Anand and Karjakin finished third. The most rating loser was Sokolov and Caruana. Anand made four draws, won one and lost one in the last six games and in many ways that spoilt his good start. The last round defeat to Wang Hao was the only defeat suffered by Anand. He had recovered well from the London showing and one can expect him to do better at Baden Baden next month.

Anand and Harikrishna both played better than their rating levels. Anand rated 2772 played at 2816, Harikrishna with 2698 played at 2735. Both Anand and Harikrishna will be gaining Elo from this event. Importantly, Harikrishna has entered the 2700 rating club.

Battling for second place, last year's winner Levon Aronian was all set to make matters even worse for Fabiano Caruana, who had lost his last three games. Nevertheless, in the end Caruana rose to the occasion and managed to draw after 104 moves. Although his score of 8,5 out of 13 would ordinarily suffice for first place, Aronian had to settle for the runner-up position. He did not, however, have to share second place with Viswanathan

Anand. The World Champion suffered a defeat at the hands of Wang Hao . The Chinese Grandmaster reached a slightly better endgame out of the opening and went on to exploit the advantage of a bishop over a knight in exemplary manner.

Hou Yifan ended the tournament with a quick theoretical draw against Peter Leko. The former Women's World Champion started the tournament as bottom seed and had a rough start in the tournament. In the end, her fighting spirit and youthful energy prevailed and with a score of 5,5 out of 13 she clearly exceeded expectations. In order to

avoid last place, Ivan Sokolov gave it his all one more time, but Erwin l'Ami kept his cool and held the draw. Finally, Pentala Harikrishna tried to convert an extra pawn in an endgame against Hikaru Nakamura, but the American Grandmaster did not care for a third loss in a row and minimized the damage taking half the point.

The winner of Group B only emerged after six hours of play and 82 moves when Arkadij Naiditsch finally brought Sipke Ernst to his knees in a queen endgame. Tied for first, but losing the fight for the right to participate in Group A on tie-break is Richard Rapport, who tricked Predrag Nikolic in a complicated position. Jan Smeets was the best Dutchman in Group B in third place with a score of 8,5/13. Group C was won by Sabino Brunello with the massive score of 11 (!) out of 13. Fernando Peralta had quickly drawn his black game against Alexaner Kovchan, giving Brunello the chance to take clear first by beating Miguoel Admiraal. The best Dutchman was Robin Swinkels in third place with a score of 8,5/13.

Final placings: 1 M Carlsen (Nor) 10/13; 2 L Aronian (Arm) 8.5; 3-4 V Anand (Ind), S Karjakin (Rus) 8 each; 5 P Leko (Hun) 7.5; 6 H Nakamura (USA) 7; 7 P Harikrishna (Ind) 6.5; 8-10. A Giri (Ned), Wang Hao (Chn), L Van Wely (Ned) 6 each; 11 Hou Yifan (Chn) 5.5; 12 F Caruana (Ita) 5; 13 E L'Ami (Ned) 4; 14 I Sokolov (Ned) 3.

Anand's masterpiece in round four

World champion Viswanathan Anand played one of his greatest games against his nemesis Levon Aronian of Armenia in the fourth round. At the end of an eventful round, Anand, Carlsen won again and joined Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the lead on three points from four games. Nine rounds remained to be played. Anand crushed Aronian in 23 mesmerising moves. It is a must-see game. When his rook and bishop were attacked Anand put his knight in the mouth of two white pawns! It is a game, Paul Morphy would want to put his name as the black player. Carlsen handed Harikrishna his first defeat of the event in 49 moves. Carlsen planted a pawn deep in the heart of the black territory and used that to weave out a victory.

White:GM Levon Aronian (2802)

Black:Viswanathan Anand (2772)

Tata Steel,Wijk aan Zee, 2013

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qc2 Bb7 11. a3 Rc8 All well-known moves by now... 12. Ng5 (see diagram)

White has tried 12. b4 but after 12... c5! 13. bxc5 Bxf3 14. gxf3 Nxc5 15. dxc5 Rxc5 16. f4 Nd5 17. Bb2 Nxc3 18. Bxc3 Qc7 19. Rfc1 Rc8 20. Bxh7+ Kh8 21. Bd3 Rxc3 22. Qxc3 Qxc3 23. Rxc3 Rxc3 24. Bxb5 Bxa3 the draw is near, as in Topalov,V-Kasimdzhanov,R London 2012. 12... c5! A strong novelty. Anand stated that this was his preparation for his match vs. Boris Gelfand for the FIDE WC in 2012. Previously 12... Bxh2+ 13. Kxh2 Ng4+ 14.

Kg1 Qxg5 15. f3 Ngf6 16. b4 had been seen in Wojtaszek,R-Negi,P Germany 2012. He also stated that he didn;t remembered all the details in his analyses, but netherless it wasn't that hard to work them out! 13. Nxh7 13. Bxh7+ was the obvious alternative - Anand said that 'we found compensation everywhere'. A sample line could be 13... Kh8 14. f4 cxd4 15. exd4 Qb6 . 13... Ng4! 14. f4?! In view of what happened, I think that White should have opted for 14. h3 . But then 14... Bh2+ 15. Kh1 Qh4 looks quite fine for Black: 16. Be4 Bxe4 17. Qxe4 f5 18. Qxe6+ Kxh7 19. Qxd7 and now Black can force a draw with 19... Bb8 20. Kg1 cxd4 21. exd4

Bh2+ (or play for more with 21... Rce8!?) 22. Kh1 Bb8= . 14... cxd4 15. exd4 After 15. Nxf8 Bxf8 16. exd4 Ndf6 17. h3 Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Bc5! 19. hxg4 Nxg4 Black's attack should decide - the black queen will finally land on the h-file! 15... Bc5! A great move, easily overlooked! 16. Be2? Good or bad White had to opt for 16. dxc5 Nxc5 17. Nxf8 (17. Qe2 Qd4+ 18. Kh1 Nxd3 19. Qxg4 Kxh7 20. Qg3 a6) 17... Nxd3 18. h3 Qd4+ 19. Kh1 Ndf2+ 20. Rxf2 Nxf2+ 21. Kh2 Kxf8 , where Black has the more pleasant position but White retains fair chances to hold. 16... Nde5!! (see diagram)

Anand doesn't seem to care about Aronian's pawns - his light pieces are dancing around them! Note that this is the third black piece under attack! Also that 16... Bxd4+ 17. Kh1 Nf2+ 18. Rxf2 Bxf2 19. Nxf8 Nxf8 would be 'just' better for Black! 17. Bxg4 17. fxe5 Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Qg1+! 19. Rxg1 Nf2# or 17. Nxf8 Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Qg1+ 19. Rxg1 Nf2# was the point of 16... Nde5!!. 17... Bxd4+ 18. Kh1 Nxg4 19. Nxf8 (see diagram)

19. Ng5 fails to 19... f5 20. h3 Rf6 and White is helpless... 19... f5! Anand said that he was very round of this move. Now the black queen is ready to come to the h-file. 19... Qh4? would be too naive: 20.

Qh7+ Qxh7 21. Nxh7 Kxh7 22. h3 . 20. Ng6 Stopping ...Qh4 for the moment... 20... Qf6 'To be honest I didn't see a defence' said Anand... 21. h3 Qxg6 22. Qe2 Qh5 23. Qd3?! The endgame is lost after 23. Rf3 Nf2+ 24. Kh2 Bxf3 25. Qxf3 Qxf3 26. gxf3 Nd3 . White decided that he had seen enough... 23... Be3! And it's over, as 24...Qxh3+ cannot be met... Anand reminded us of the similarity of this game to Rotlewi-Rubinstein: 'It was the same concept: bishop on b6, bishop on b7, and Rubinstein's version was even ... Rxc3-h3, but essentially the same idea: . ..Qh4 and ...Qxh3 - all these ideas work' 0-1. (Courtesy : E.Grevas) (position after 23….Be3!)

Anand wins Baden-Baden Tournament

For the first time the chess center of Baden-Baden organized Grand Master tournament of the highest class, the Grenke Chess Classic Baden-Baden. Thus the tradition of major chess tournaments of the last and the last century continues in the famous spa town. In the 2000s, the OSG Baden-Baden became the most successful chess club in Germany and with the founding of the chess center of Baden-Baden 1996 was an important step to establish the city as a major center of European chess.

The main event was 19th Chess Classic Chess Grenke the Baden-Baden, a GM tournament of Category. It allowed three top German players in a round robin tournament to compete against three world-class grandmasters. In Grenke Chess Classic Baden-Baden the following six grandmasters entered double round against each other: Viswanathan Anand, the world champion Fabiano Caruana of Italy, Michael Adams of England, Arkady Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier all of Germany

World champion Viswanathan Anand scored two victories in the last twogames to surpass Fabiano Caruana of Italy and win the 1st Grenke Chess Classic at Baden-Baden in Germany on Feb 17, 2013.

It has been a long wait for Anand fans. He had not won a classical contest for some time. Three wins and seven draws helped him win this six player double all-play-all by a half point margin. Anand, 43, was the oldest competitor and kept his energy for the last two games. Against Naiditch he sacrificed a rook for knight and two pawns and played a great fighting game to win. This fighting spirit was last seen at the tie-break games against Boris Gelfand at Moscow last year.

In the final round, Anand needed Fridman to hold Caruana. Fridman lost a pawn but held Caruana to a draw after a marathon struggle. Only Anand remained undefeated as the cross table would indicate. The hosts, Germans were left at the bottom with Adams too winning in the end.

Anand played at a huge 2808 rating level. He would need to up his rating as Magnus Carlsen is making speedy progress towards the gigantic 2900 mark. Anand, Kramnik and others would play at Zurich in a closed event following this contest. From May 7, Anand will play the strongest chess tournament ever at Norway. Anand is having his busiest year as world champion.

Anand coming from behind and playing catch up with Caruana at the penultimate round and even surpassing in the final round gave cinematic entertainment value to this contest.

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35...Ne5 [White has to be very careful. Ifhere 35...Qe5 36.fxg4 (36.Nf1 Qc5+37.Kh1 Nf2+ 38.Kh2 Be5+ 39.g3 Bd4! andblack wins with the threat of 40.. ..Qh5!)36...Qxg3 37.Rf1 Rxf1+ 38.Rxf1 Be6 39.Rf3Qe5 and though white is materially ahead,the black forces are bristling with threats.]36.f4? [Instead of opening up his positionlike this, better would have been: 36.Qe3h5 37.Ne2 Bh6 38.f4 Ng4 39.Qf3 when thechances in this complicated position with bigmaterial imbalance are equal.] 36...Ng4Black’s threat of 37...Qh4 is hard to meet.37.f5 Qe5?! [Much stronger was: 37...Qh438.Nf1 Be5³ with the threat of 39...Bh2+40 Kh1 Bg3+ 41 Kg1 Bf2+ winning.] 38.Rb3Qc5+ 39.Kh1 Nf2+ 40.Kh2 Be5 41.Qd5!this move seems to take the sting out ofblack’s attack, but black is not done with hisbold play. He exploits the pin on the whiteknight. 41...Nxe4!! 42.Qxc5 [If 42.Qxe4Rxf5 43.Re3 Rf4 44.Qd3 Rh4+ 45.Kg1 Bxg3with a winning attack for black.] 42...Nxc543.Rf3 [With tension mounting, whiteabandons his bishop. 43.Ra3 h5 44.fxg6+Kh6 and black has a winning attack.]43...Nxa4 Now black is clearly winning.44.fxg6+ Kg7! 45.Rxf8 Kxf8 46.Rb1Kg7 47.Rb8 Bg4 48.c7

48...h5! 49.c8Q Bxc8 50.Rxc8 h4! Therest is easy. 51.Kh3 hxg3 52.Kg4 Kxg653.Ra8 Nc5 54.Ra7 Kf6 55.Kf3 Ke6

56.Ke3 Bc3 57.Kf3 Be1 58.Ke2 Bf259.Ra8 Ke5 60.Kf3 Kd4 61.Rd8 Kxc462.Rxd6 a5 0–1

Murshed,N (2473)Suvrajit Saha (2336) [D45]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3Nbd7 6.Qc2 g6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.0–0 0–09.b3 b6 10.a4 a5 11.Rd1 Bb7 12.Ba3Black’s dark square weakness gives whitean enduring advantage. 12...Re8 13.Bd6Ra7?! [Even the best of players sometimesmake such incomprehensible moves. Betterwas 13...c5 though it leads to a slightly betterposition for white.] 14.Rac1

14...Qa8! So, this is the reason for themysterious rook move! When Nimzowitchsometimes played such moves long, longago, it was called Neo-Modern chess.15.Ne5 Nxe5 16.Bxe5 Qd8 The queenis back. Black cannot put up a fight withoutplaying ...c5 but at the same time, hecannot allow white to play Nb5 when hisrook is stuck on a7! 17.Bf3 Bf8 18.e4!Nxe4 19.Bxe4! white evaluates that hisknight can do more wonders in this positionthan his bishop. 19...dxe4 20.Nxe4 Be721.c5! A positional move permanentlycrippling black’s light square bishop.andsecuring d6 for possible invasion of theblack bastion. 21...Ba8 22.cxb6 Qxb623.Nf6+! Bxf6 24.Bxf6

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Now white’s strategy is clear. He plans totake his queen to h6 threatening mate ong7. And black’s strategy will be to thwart it.24...Qb4 25.Qd3 Rd7 26.Qe3 Qf8[26...c5?? 27.Qh6 mates.] 27.h4 Rd528.Rc5 Bb7 29.Re1 h6 30.Qf4 Ra831.Rxd5 cxd5 32.Rc1 Ba6 With theDamocles Sword hanging over him on f6,black has little choice. He has been outplayedstrategically. 33.Rc7 Rc8 34.Rxc8 Bxc8[34...Qxc8? 35.Qxh6 wins.] 35.Qc7! Kh736.Qxa5 Bd7 37.Qc5! Kg8 [After37...Qxc5 38.dxc5 the opposite colourbishop ending is easily won for white. Withoutmoving any of his queen-side pawns, he willjust walk his king to a5 and then onlyadvance his b-pawn. In the meanwhile theblack king cannot easily break out of his jailon the king-side. For example, if 38...g5 39h5!] 38.Kf1 Qb8 39.Qe7 39...Qc8 [Whitedoes not get perpetual checks with 39...Bxa440.bxa4 Qb1+ 41.Ke2 Qc2+ 42.Ke3 Qc3+(42...Qe4+ 43.Kd2 Qf4+ 44.Kd1+-) 43.Kf4Qd2+ 44.Kg3] 40.g3 White secures a safehaven, free from perpetual checks, for hisking 40...Qe8 41.Qxe8+! Bxe8 42.Ke2

(position after 39.Qe7)

White will take his king to b6 and thenadvance his a-pawn. 1–0

Prince Bajaj (2270)Pratyusha,B (2128) [C15]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5exd5 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 0–0 8.Ne2 Bg4 9.0–0 Re8 10.f3 Bh511.Nf4 Bg6 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.Bg5 Nbd7[Better was: 13...Qd6 which is usual hereand is equal.] 14.Rb1 c5

15.c4! [A brave move, refusing to let blackherself play 15....c4. If 15.Rxb7 c4 16.Be2Nb6 and the rook is trapped in enemyterritory.] 15...Qc7 16.cxd5 Nxd5=17.Qd2 cxd4 18.Be4 Qc5 19.a4 [Thevariation 19.Rxb7 N7b6 20.Re1 d3+21.Kf1 dxc2 22.Qxc2 Qxa3³ threatening

"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will,whose notion of Beauty always differs from yoursand whose means (strength, imagination,technique) are often too limited to help youeffectively! What torment, to have your thinkingand your fantasy tied down by another person!" -Alexander Alekhine

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23...Qa6+ winning the Rb7 will not beinteresting to white despite his having twobishops against the knights.] 19...Nc320.Rxb7 Nb6 21.Kh1 f5?

[One cannot blame black for notanticipating the brilliant refutation of thismove that follows. Black can still keepher advantage with: 21...Rab8 22.Rxb8Rxb8 23.Bd3 Re8µ] 22.Bf6!! Despite hislight square bishop being under threat,white offers his other bishop for animaginative attack. 22...fxe4 [The mainvariation is: 22...gxf6 23.Qh6! (thecontrol of the seventh rank) by the Rb7is deadly.) 23...Re7™ 24.Qxg6+ Kf825.Qxf6+ Ke8 26.Bc6+ Nd7 27.Bxd7+]23.Rxg7+ Kf8 24.Qh6 Qh5 25.fxe4Rxe4 [If 25...Qxh6 26.Bxd4+ Qf427.Rxf4#] 26.Bxd4+ Ke8 27.Qxh5!

Now it is only a matter of simple calculations.27...gxh5 28.Bc5! Threat: 29 Rf8#28...Kd8 [28...Nd7 (defends the mate onf8, but blocks the escape square of his king,resulting in tremendous loss of material)29.Rg8+ Nf8 30.Rgxf8+ Kd7 31.Rxa8]29.Rf8+ Re8 30.Bxb6+! axb631.Rxe8+ After 31...Kxe8 32 Rg8+ and 33Rxa8 black has nothing to play for. 1–0

Mohota,Nisha (2335)Grover,Sahaj (2472) [D90]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg75.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qb3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 0–08.e4 b5 9.Qd3 [Thius is new. Usual hereis 9.Qb3 ] 9...b4 10.Nb1 a6 [Playable hereis the usual way for black to liberate hisgame: 10...c5 11.dxc5 Qa5 12.Nbd2Qxc5 13.Nb3 Qc7 14.Be3 Nc6 15.Rc1 Rfd8and in this position with equal material blackseems to have slightly better chances. Butgenerally, the higher ranked player is notlooking for equality as much as for betterwinning prospects in the future.] 11.Be2c5 12.dxc5 Qa5 13.Nbd2 [13.Be3? Bb514.Qd1 Nxe4] 13...Qxc5 14.Nb3 Qc7

15.Qe3 [White has problems if she castlesnow: 15.0–0? Bb5 16.Qd1 Nxe4³] 15...a516.h3 [Better was 16.0–0 a4 17.Nbd4Nc6 18.h3 and though white has taken

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good defensive measures her queen-sidedevelopment is a matter of concern.]16...a4 17.Nc5 Rc8 18.Nd3 Na6 19.0–0 Qb7 20.Nfe5! Counter-attack is oftena good defence. 20...Bb5 21.f3 Nd722.Ng4 [After 22.Nxd7 Qxd7 23.Nf2 Bxe224.Qxe2 Qe6µ White has a big problemwith her undeveloped queen-side.]22...Qb6 23.Qxb6 Nxb6 24.Ne3 a3!25.Rb1 White has placed her trust on thismove to get out of the queen-side messthat she is in. But it gets worse.

25...b3! [We have seen this kind of a pawnrush on the king-side of a Sicilian Defencebut here, it is remarkable. However, another,more decisive alternative here was:25...Bxd3 26.Bxd3 Bd4 27.Bd2 Nc5 28.Bc2Nc4 and black is totally winning.] 26.axb3a2! 27.Ra1 Bxd3 28.Bxd3 Nb4 29.Bb5

29...Bd4! (threatening 30... Nc2 as well as30... Rxc1!! 31 Rfxc1 Bxe3+) 30.Kf2 Nc231.Bd2 Nxa1 32.Rxa1 Bxb2!! The bishoplets go the pinned knight and goes for thecrucial b2 pawn. 0–1

Lokesh,P (2198)Tania Sachdev (2403) [B42]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a65.Bd3 Nf6 6.0–0 Qc7 7.c4 d6 8.Qe2 g69.Nc3 Bg7 10.Rd1 0–0 11.Nf3 Nbd712.h3 b6 13.Bf4 Bb7 14.Rac1 Rac815.Qe3 [A new move. Usual here is 15.b4making c5 inaccessible for black.]15...Rfe8?! [This move indicates that blackis planning d6-d5 which is impossible onaccount of her queen and white’s bishopsituated on the same diagonal. Better was:15...Rfd8 ] 16.Bf1

16...e5 [After this move the pawnstructure becomes fixed and sterile forblack. To be considered was: 16...Ne517.Nxe5 dxe5 18.Bg3 Red8] 17.Bg5 Qb818.b4 Bf8 19.Bxf6 [Instead of voluntarilyexchanging pieces on f6 it was better toincrease the pressure with 19.Nd2 ]19...Nxf6 20.a4 [20.Qxb6 Nxe4 21.Nxe4Bxe4 22.Qxb8 Rxb8 23.b5 Bxf3 24.gxf3=]20...a5 The best way to stall white’sthreatened a4-a5. 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.cxd5axb4 23.Bb5± White’s advantage isbecause black’s bishop is hemmed in by itsown pawns. 23...Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Rc8

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25.Bc6! It was best to keep the rooks onthe board and deny any activity to the blackrook. 25...Qa7 26.Rb1 Qa5 27.Qe1 b328.Qe3 Qb4 29.Rxb3 white decides totrade queens so that it is easy to operateon the queen-side. 29...Qxe4 30.Qxe4Nxe4 31.Rxb6 Material is equal, but thequality of the bishops make a significantdifference. 31...Be7 32.Rb4 Nc5 33.a5 e4[If 33...Bd8 34.Rb5 e4 35.Nd2 Kf8 36.Nc4+-white is threatening the exchange sacrificeRxc5! which wins.] 34.Nd2 f5 At last theblack pawns start advancing, but white’spassed a-pawn is most dangerous. 35.Rb5Rc7 36.Rb8+ Kg7 37.Nc4 Ra7 38.Ra8[This offer to exchange rooks could havebeen delayed in favour of 38.Kf1 ] 38...Rxa839.Bxa8 Bd8

40.Bb7!! Bc7 [If 40...Nxb7 41.a6 Na542.a7 and the pawn queens.] 41.a6 Bb842.Bc8 [White has to be careful. Ifimmediately 42.Nxd6? Nxa6! and black isno longer losing.(but not 42...Bxd6??43.a7+-) ] 42...Nd3 [Though losing, morestubborn was 42...Kf6 43.Na5! Ba744.Nc6 Bb6 45.Kf1 (This improves his kingposition and keeps the black king awayfrom e5, the key central square. Ifimmediately 45.a7 Bxa7 46.Nxa7 Ke5 andwhite is only slightly better.) 45...Nd3 46.a7Bxa7 47.Nxa7 Ke5 48.Be6+-]

(Position after 39….Bd8)

43.Nxd6! Ba7 44.Nb5 Bxf2+ 45.Kf1Kf6 46.d6! If 46...Bb6 47 a7 Bxa7 48Nxa7 Nb4 49 g4 wins. 1–0

Patil,Prathik (2182)Udeshi,A (2403) [B22]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Qa5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bd3 d65.h3 Nf6 6.0–0 g5 7.Nh2?! [7.Qb3 Rg88.Bc4 e6 has been tried here.] 7...h5 Withthe white bishop on d3 and knight on h2,black already has the better possibilities.And he proceeds aggressively.

8.Be2 g4! 9.hxg4 If you are underpressure and if your opponent sacrifices apawn or a piece, accept it anyway as it isbetter to suffer a poor position with a pawnup than with equal material. 9...hxg4

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10.Nxg4 Nxg4 11.Bxg4 Bxg4 12.Qxg4Note that white’s only active piece is hisqueen. The rest are in their home bases,doing nothing. 12...Ne5 13.Qe2 c4!14.b3 Nd3 15.bxc4 Nf4 16.Qg4 Qe5!!

17.f3 [17.d4?? Ne2+ 18.Qxe2 Qh2#]17...Nd3 Threatening 18....Qh2# 18.g3™Rh6! Very clever! The obvious threat is19....Rg6. But he also has the hidden threat19....Qh1! 19.Kg2 Qh8! 20.f4 Rh2+21.Kf3 Rh1! White’s queen-side is soundeveloped that even this ordinary threatof 22...Rxf1 is decisive. 22.Rxh1 [22.Ke3?Rxf1 23.Kxd3 Rxc1 wins.] 22...Qxh1+23.Ke3 Nxc1 24.Qf3

[This hastens the end. All alternatives loseby force now. 24...Qe1+ 25.Kd4 Bg7+26.Kd5 Rc8! 0–1

Soumya Swaminathan (2315)Sahoo,U (2276) [C45]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd58.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 0–0–0 10.b3 Re811.Bb2 Qg5 [Black has an active plan ashe wants to follow up with Bb4. Seen hereearlier is: 11...f6 12.Nf3 fxe5 13.Nxe5 Nf614.Qe3 d6 15.Qxa7 Bb7 16.Bd3 g6 17.0–0 dxe5 18.Rfe1 Nd7 Kurochkina—Savchenko eventually 0–1, 2000.] 12.0–0–0! castling into a pin! 12...Bb4

13.h4± Qh6 14.Qf3! Walks out of the pinalong the f1–a6 diagonal and threatens theknight on d5. 14...Nf4 15.Qe3! Bb7 16.g3!c5 17.Rg1 Ne6 18.f4! white has a verygood position. 18...f6 [18...f5 19.Qd3 Qg620.a3 Ba5 21.Bg2 Bxg2 22.Rxg2 Kb823.Qf3 (Not 23.Qxd7? Nxf4) 23...Qf7]19.a3! Ba5 20.Bg2 Bxg2 21.Rxg2 fxe522.Qf3! the queen walks out of the pin witha mating threat. 22...Kb8 23.Bxe5 Rhf8[This was the time to play 23...d6 24.Bb2Rhf8 25.Re2 Re7 and white has only aminimal advantage.] 24.Ne4 Rf7 [If blackplays the natural 24...d6 there comes thebombshell: 25.Rxd6!! Nd4 (The best in thecircumstances. If 25...cxd6 26.Nxd6threatens both 27 Qb7# as well as 27 Nf7+winning the queen on h6.) 26.Rxh6 Nxf327.Bxg7 Rf7 28.Bc3 and white has twopawns more.] 25.b4! cxb4

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26.Rd5 [Also playable was: 26.Nd6! cxd627.Rxd6 Bc7 28.Rb2! with a devastatingattack.] 26...Bb6 27.c5! Nxc5 28.Nxc5white is threatening 29 Rd6 for mate with30 Qb7# 28...Bxc5 29.Rxc5 d6 30.Rb5+Kc8 31.Rd2! Black cannot play 31...dxe5on account of 32 Qa8# 31...Kd7 Diagram# 32.Qb7! The threat now is 33 Rxd6+!32...Re6 33.Rc5 Rxe5 34.Qxc7+ If 34....Ke8 35 Rxe5! dxe5 36 Rd8#; Or if34...Ke6 35 Rxe5! dxe5 36 Qxe5# 1–0

Aleksandrov,Aleksei(2607)Mageshchandran,P (2580) [E25]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d55.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd58.dxc5 Qa5 9.e4 Nf6 10.Be3 0–011.Kf2 Nfd7 12.Rb1 Rd8 13.Qb3 Qc714.Rd1 Rf8 15.Qb4 Nc6 16.Qa4 Na517.Qd4 Nc6 18.Qa4 Na5

19.Qd4N [White wants more than a drawand chooses a new move. 19.Qb5 a620.Qb4 Nc6 21.Qa4 Na5 Ulibin(2586)-Tischbeirek (2468) 2004 and Ulibin (2581)-Bologan (2630) 2003 were identical uptothis point and eventually drawn.] 19...Nc620.Qd2 Rd8 [20...Qa5 was easy equality,but now it is black’s turn to want more!]21.Qb2 Nce5 22.Bb5 b6 23.cxb6 axb624.Ne2 Ba6

25.Bxa6?! [Much better was: 25.Bxd7Bxe2 26.Kxe2 Rxd7 27.Rxd7 Nxd7 28.Rd1Nc5 and white is slightly better thanks tohis extra pawn.] 25...Rxa6 26.Qb5[Insted, better was 26.Bf4 Qc5+ 27.Kg3(27.Be3? Qxe3+!) 27...Rxa3 28.Qb4Rda8=] 26...Rda8 27.Rd2 Ra5 [If27...Rxa3 28.Rhd1 h6 (white was threat-ening back rank mate with 29 Bxb6 Nxb630 Qxe5! Qxe5? 31 Rd8+) 29.Rxd7 Nxd730.Qxd7±] 28.Qb4 Nc5 [28...Rxa329.Rhd1 Ra2 30.Qd6 Qc8 31.Bf4 Rxd232.Rxd2 Qc5+=] 29.Qd4?? [29.Rhd1 Ra430.Qb5 R4a5=] 29...Ra4 30.Qd6

The Chess pieces are the block alphabetwhich shapes thoughts; and these thoughts,although making a visual design on thechessboard, express their beauty abstractly,like a poem. - Marcel Duchamp

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[The queen has no other go but to get intothe danger spot on d6. If 30.c4 Rxc4 31.Qd6Ng4+ as in the game.] 30...Ng4+! 31.Kg3[If 31.fxg4 Nxe4+ wins the queen.]31...Qxd6+! 32.Rxd6 Nxe3 33.Rxb6Rxa3 white has only one pawn for his knightminus. 34.Rhb1 g6 35.Rc6 Nd3 36.f4 e537.f5 gxf5 38.Kf3 f4 Now white hasnothing for his lost night, moreover the blackforces are tightening the screws around hisking. 39.g3 Ra1 40.Rcb6 Nc4! the knightsare dancing all over the board. 0–1

Aleksandrov,Aleksei (2607)Swapnil Dhopade (2474) [A59]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a65.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf18.Kxf1 d6 9.g3 Bg7 10.Kg2 0–0 11.Nf3Nbd7 12.h3 Qa5 13.Re1 Rfb8 14.e5dxe5 15.Nxe5 Nxe5 16.Rxe5 Rb717.Qe2 Raa7 18.Qf3N [Boensch (2540)- Khalifman (2655) 1997 went: 18.Bg5 h619.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Re3 Bd4 21.Rd3 Qb422.Rd2 Bxc3 Draw] 18...Ne8 19.Re2 Nd620.g4 Nc4 21.Qd3 Qb4 22.Qg3 Rd723.Re4 Bd4 24.Bh6 Plans for white aredifficult to come by in this position. The textoffers a pawn but places his bishop in theopponent’s castled position. 24...Qb7[Accepting the pawn would lead toimmediate defeat: 24...Nxb2? 25.Rxd4!

cxd4 (25...Qxd4?? 26.Qb8+ mates.)26.Qe5 f6 27.Qe6+ Kh8 28.Qf7 and 29Bg7 mates.] 25.Rd1

25...Nd6? [25...f6!= would have givenblack a solid fortress where white could notpenetrate despite his well-posted bishop onh6.] 26.Re2? [White misses 26.Rxe7!Rxe7 27.Qxd6 Qd7 28.Qxd7 Raxd7 29.Kf3White’s knight and two pawns are adequatecompensation for the sacrificed rook.]26...Ne8 27.Kg1 Nf6 28.a4 Nxd5 [If28...Ra8 29.Nb5 Rxa4 30.Nxd4 Rxd431.Rxd4 cxd4 32.Qe5 Qb6 33.g5]29.Rxd4! Nxc3

[Black loses by force after: 29...cxd430.Qe5 Nf6 (30...f6 31.Qe6+ Kh8 32.Qf7mates.) 31.Qxf6!] 30.Rxd7 [White misses

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the brilliant back rank combination:30.Rxe7!! which terminates the gameimmediately.] 30...Nxe2+ 31.Kh2

Black seems to be totally lost. But....31...Qh1+!! A very spectacular movewhich turns the table and wins for black.this move drags the king into a vulnerablesquare whence the white queen could becaptured by check without loss of time.32.Kxh1 Nxg3+ 33.fxg3 Rxd7 34.Be3the bishop is now no match for the rook.34...c4 35.a5 Rd3 36.Bb6 [36.a6? Rxe337.a7 Re1+ 38.Kg2 Ra1–+] 36...Rd1+37.Kg2 Rd2+ 38.Kf3 Rxb2 39.Ke4 c340.Kd3 c2 41.Kd2 Ra2 Black will gladlyexchange his c-pawn for white’s a-pawnas he can easily win on the king-side.42.Kc1 e5 43.g5 e4 44.h4 Kf8 45.Be3Ke7 46.a6 Ke6 47.a7 Kd5 48.g4 Kc449.Kd2 [49.a8Q Rxa8 50.Kxc2 Ra2+51.Kd1 Kd3 and black wins.] 49...Kb350.Bd4 Ra4 51.Kc1 White is mated after51...Rxd4 52 a8Q Rd1# 0–1

Kuderinov,K (2432)Lu Shanglei (2526) [D45]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0–0 dxc49.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.e4 e5 12.dxe5Nxe5 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bh4 Ng6 15.Bg3

[This is new. 15.Rad1 Qe7 16.Bxf6 Qxf617.e5 Bxe5 18.Ne4 Qe7 19.Nxe5 Nxe520.f4 Nc4 21.Bxc4 bxc4 22.Rfe1= Z Takac- S Savchenko 1996] 15...Bxg3 16.hxg3Re8 17.Rad1 Qa5 18.a3 a6 19.Nh4[19.b4? Qb6 (19...Qxa3! 20.Rb1 threat Rb3trapping the queen.) 20.Rd6 Rac8]19...Nxh4 20.gxh4 Qc7 Despite hismuzzled bishop, black is better as he hasplans of advancing c6-c5. 21.g3 [If 21.Nd5Nxd5 22.exd5 Qe5! 23.dxc6 Bxc6 24.Qxc6Qxe2³] 21...Re7 22.Bf3 Rae8 23.Bg2Qb8 24.b4 Nd7 [Black could unmask hisbishop now with: 24...c5 25.bxc5 Nxe426.Rfe1 Nxc3 27.Rxe7 Rxe7=] 25.Ne2 c526.bxc5 Qc7 27.c6 Bxc6! Black easily getsaround the pin on the c-file. 28.Nd4 Ne5!Diagram # 29.Nxc6 [29.f4? Nc4]29...Qxc6 30.Qxc6 Nxc6 31.f4 Na532.e5 [White could have tried 32.Rd6 Re633.Rxe6 Rxe6 34.e5 Nc4 35.Bd5 Re736.Rc1 Rc7 though many alternatives inbetween lead only to equality.]

(position after 28….Ne5)

32...Nc4 33.Rd3 h5 34.Bd5 Rc7 35.Rc1Kf8 36.a4 Rd8! 37.axb5 axb5

The beauty of a move lies not in itsappearance but in the thought behind it. -Aaron Nimzowitsch

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38.Be4 [White can win a pawn with 38.Rb1Rb8 39.Rdb3 Rc5 40.Bxc4 Rxc4 41.Rxb5Rc1+ 42.Rxc1 Rxb5 43.Rc7 Rb2 but it isextremely hard to win the game as can;be seen, 44.Kf1 g6 45.Rd7 Ke8 46.Rd6Ke7 47.Rf6 (white threatens f4-f5)47...Rb5! 48.Kg2 Rc5 49.Kh3 Rd5 50.Rc6Rd2 and if now 51.g4? Rd3+=] 38...Rb839.Rb3 g6 40.Bd5 Rc5 41.Bf3 [41.Bxc4Rbc8=] 41...Nd2 42.Rxc5 Nxb3 43.Rc7Nd4 44.Bd5 Ne6 45.Ra7 b4 46.Bb3=Rc8 47.Kg2? [A crucial error which allowsthe black pawn to move one step closerto queening. Best was: 47.Bxe6 fxe648.Rb7 Rc4 leads to a draw as the passedpawn is blocked on b4, not on b3 ashappens two moves later.] 47...Rc348.Bxe6 Now this move does not savewhite. 48...fxe6 49.Rb7 b3

Black is better because of his advancedpassed pawn and the weakness of white’sg3 pawn. As the white rook must stayon the b-file to prevent the black pawnfrom advancing, black has a clear plan -to march his king towards the white rookwith Kf8-e8-d8-c8. 50.Kh3 Ke8 51.Rg7[If 51.Kh2 Kd8 52.Kh3 Kc8 53.Rb4 Kc7The black king will now shepherd his b-pawn to queen.] 51...Kd8 52.Rb7 [It isa simple win for black after: 52.Rxg6?b2 53.Rg8+ Kc7 54.Rg7+ Kc6] 52...Kc853.Rb6 Kc7 54.Rb5 Kc6 55.Rb8 Kd556.Rb5+ Ke4 57.Rb6 Kf3 threatening58...Kf2 and 59...Rxg3+ 58.Rxe6[58.Rb7 Kf2 59.Kh2 Rxg3–+] 58...Rc1!Double attack, threatening both 59...Rh1# and 59....b2. 0–1

India set to be No.1 by 2016-17The number of Indians in the FIDE rating file is everclimbing. The number in the February 2013 rating listis a massive 29550. In 2013-2014, India shouldsurpass that of Spain and by 2016-2017 should getahead of France. The Indian rise is steep unlike Franceand Spain which are also growing but modestly.India is a hot destination for chess. There is non-stopchess tournaments happening in the land of the worldchampion Viswanathan Anand. India is also the landin which chess was born.Who are above and below India? Above are France33374 and Spain 30222 and below are Germany 25945and Russia 25224. The activity of the All India ChessFederation since 2005 has been player friendly and itis a role model organisation for other nations to follow.One might think if other English speaking nations wouldhave more numbers. USA has 9241, England has 3425on the FIDE rating file. On the Asian front, Iran has8169 and China 1169.What are these numbers? The FIDE rating file is anindicator of things that are brewing. A rating eventproduces rated players and other players who do notget ratings remain in the file. It simply indicates activity.The larger the number of players, greater thepossibility to create champions. The new numberspoint to more champions after Anand. The WorldYouth Chess Championship success is also anotherhealthy indicator of things to happen in Indian chess.

(courtesy:AICF website)

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Problem World

Narayanan's prize-winningCompositionsby Manuel Aaron

International chess problemist and the Editorof AICF Chronicle, CGS Naraynan has recentlywon three prizes in international problemcomposing contests. He won the first prizein the American chess problem magazine,‘StrateGems’ for 2011 in the two moversection. Then, he won the second and thirdprizes for three movers published in 2010and 2011 in ‘The Problemist’, the official organof the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS).He had already won the Brian Harley awardof the BCPS three times. In the FIDE WorldCup for Chess Compositions held in 2010 hewon the third prize in the 3-mover section.His recent prize winners are given below:

C.G.S.NarayananFirst prize, StrateGems (US)2011

Mate in two movesSet: 1….Rxb3 2.Ne3 (A) 1…Kxe6 2.Ne7(B)Key: 1.Qc7! (threat 2.Qd6)1…Rxb3 2.Ne7(B) ;1…Kxe6 2.Ne3 (A)Judge

Miodrag Mladenovic comments:

An original matrix showing reciprocallychanged mates between set play and solution.In the set play white queen controls e4 andf7 squares and in the solution the white queencontrols c4 and e5 squares. The variations

are complex with many opening /closing ofwhite lines.

C.G.S.Narayanan3rd prize, The Problemist 2010

Mate in three moves

1.Qf8!! (2.Nf6+ Nxf6 3.Rxe5) 1…N any2.hxg4 3.Nf6; 1…Nd7!? 2.g8=N 3.Ne7[2…Rxc7 3…Rxe7??] 1…Nc6!!? 2.Bf4 any/Ne73.Qd6/Qd8 [2…Rc6??] 1….Nc4!!!? 2.Nxf3 any3.Rxd4 [2….Rc4??]

Judge Don Smedley observes:

”An accomplished quaternary correctionproblem based on successive interference ofa black knight with a black rook. The correctionplay arises from some very ingenious logic,though solvers had considerable difficulty inteasing it out!”

The judge,Evgeny Fomichev, GM for chesscomposition, writes in the Award for three-movers of British Chess Problem Societyinformal Tourney for 2011

“39 problems were published, by 35composers from 21 countries. The total issplendid, as was the standard of the tourney,which was significantly stronger than the #3move section of the recently completedOlympic Tourney, dedicated to the ChessOlympiad at Istanbul. All in all, this is the besttournament I have judged in the last tenyears. The prize-winners will surely get intothe FIDE Album”.

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His comments on the second prize-winnerwere:

“I have spent a lot of time working on blackcorrection and know how difficult it is to show3 accurate correction moves by a black piece(in this case the rook) with logically connectederrors (which is very important- with the Indianmaster they are interferences on BBe1).Thedistinguishing of second moves is excellent, all4 variations are quiet, non-checking- it wouldmake a fine problem for a solving tourney.Theside variation 1..Bd1 is also good. “

C.G.S.Narayanan, Second Prize,The Problemist 2011

Mate in three moves

1.Nd5! (2.Bf3+ gxf3 3.gxf3)1…Rany 2.Bc4 any 3.Rf4;1…Rd4 (2. Bc4?Rxc4!) 2.Rxc6, any 3.Re6 (2…Bc3!) (2…Rxd53.Rf4); 1…Rc3 (2.Bc4? Rxc6? Rxc4! Rxc6!)2.Rb8, any 3.Re8(2…Bb4!)(2…Rxd53.Rf4);1…Rd2 (2.Bc4? Rxc6? Rb8? Rxe2!)2.Rb4+ Nxb4 3.Nc3;1….Bd1 2.Qf1

In search of a solving IMby IM Manuel AaronFor the last 20 years CGS Narayanan, born1947, has been following his passion fororganizing problem solving competitions everynow and then at the venue of major chesstournaments. He is sad that though ourcountry has plenty of talent in the field of

chess problems right from the days ofTrivengadacharya Shastree around the year1800, India has only one International Masterin Problem Composing in N Shankar Ram fromBangalore and none at all in the field ofProblem Solving.

Unlike in chess tournaments where cashprizes are the order of the day, there is nocash in Problem Composing or SolvingContests. One gets a nice beautiful certificateor, at best, a free subscription to a chessproblem magazine, but no cash. Composersand solvers do it for the challenge and forthe satisfaction of creating flawless, brilliantworks of art.

Narayanan’s encouragement to youngstersfor solving chess problems has attracted theattention of the Mylapore Sports Trust basedin Mylapore Club, Chennai. Already this clubhas successfully completed two SolvingChampionships. With a definite objective, theywill be continuing the monthly SolvingContests throughout 2013. The entry fee hasbeen reduced to Rs 50 and the quantum andnumber of the cash prizes increased. (Yes,they give substantial cash prizes!) The aimof the Mylapore Sports Trust under the benigninfluence of Narayanan is to identify and buildthe best Problem Solving talent during 2013and win the 2014 International SolvingContest.

In 1929, when the first International TeamSolving Contest was held, India came third.But three of that team, TA Krishnamachari(Madras), SC Chatterjee (Calcutta) and NSMuthuswamy (Jaffna) scored the maximumpossible points and earned the title of “World’sBest Solvers”.

Now, a hundred years later, would Narayananbe able to recreate the magic of 1929 andproduce India’s first International Master inProblem Solving?

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Tactics from master gamesby S.Krishnan

White to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win White to play and win

White to play and win White to play and winSolutions on page 42

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3. 4.

5. 6.

Black to play and win White to play and win

Black to play and win Black to play and win

White to play and win White to play and win

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Test your endgameK.Muralimohan, FIDE Instructor

Solutions on page 42

T.Kok , 1941 L.Salkind, 1928

J.Behting, 1927 A.Troitzky 1909

K.Arnstam, 1941 G.Van Altena 1940

White to play and win in all the six endings above

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5. 6.

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Max Lange was not only a player but also a theoretician and problemist.As a player he was 1st at Dusseldorf in 1862, 1863 and 1864, 1st atHamburg 1868 and 1st at Aachen in 1868. His book 'Handbuch derSchachaufgaben' (published 1862) was the first systematization of problemsand he also invented the 'Helpmate' problem. He was the organiser ofthe Leipzig 1894 tourney and he edited 'Deutsche Schachzeitung' from1858 to 1864. Perhaps he is best known for the 'Max Lange Attack'normally reached via 1.e4 e5 2. f3 c6 3. c4 f6 4.d4 exd4 5.0-0 c5 6.e5but which can arise from several openings; Two Knights Defense (C55),Center Game (C21), Giuoco Piano (C50), Petrov Defense (C42) andScotch Game (C45), which he suggested in 1854.

In 1858-64, Lange was an editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung (German Chess Newsletter).He was a founder of Westdeutscher Schachbund (West German Chess Federation, WDSB),and an organizer of the 9th DSB-Congress (Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes) atLeipzig 1894. He was second President of the German Chess Federation (DSB).[2]

Max Lange won four Western German championships: thrice in Düsseldorf (1862, 1863,1864), and at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) 1868 (7th WDSB-Congress). He also won at Hamburg1868 (1st Congress of the North German Chess Federation). The statistical websiteChessmetrics.com estimates that Lange was one of the top ten players in the world in the1860s. He took an extended sabbatical from tournament chess from 1868 until his finalappearance in the third DSB-Congress at Nuremberg 1883. Lange finished in a tie for 17th-19th place, which was last. His ability had clearly deteriorated as a result of his long layoff butChessmetrics.com places him among the top 40 to 50 players in the world in the 1880s onthe basis of this result.

The Max Lange Attack is a chess opening that can arise from many different opening lines,including the Two Knights Defense, Petroff's Defense, Scotch Gambit, Bishop's Opening,Center Game, and Giuoco Piano. Two of the most commonly seen move orders are 1.e4 e52.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 (the Two Knights Defense) 4.d4 exd4 5.0-0 Bc5 6.e5 and 1.e4 e52.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 (the Scotch Gambit) Bc5 5.0-0 Nf6 6.e5. It is named for theGerman master Max Lange, who suggested it in 1854. After 6.e5, Black has two mainreplies. Black's 6...Ng4 is playable, but rarely seen. More common is 6...d5, when the mainline continues 7.exf6 dxc4 8.Re1+ Be6 9.Ng5 Qd5 (9...Qxf6?? 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Qh5+followed by 12.Qxc5 is a notorious trap) 10.Nc3 Qf5 (10...dxc3?? 11.Qxd5 wins, since11...Bxd5 is illegal) 11.Nce4 0-0-0 with complex play.An alternative for White is 8.fxg7 Rg89.Bg5, analysed by Lev Gutman and Stefan Bücker in Kaissiber, which they consider to begood for White. Black's usual response is 9...Be7 10.Bxe7 Kxe7.

The variation of the Two Knights Defense 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Bc56.e5 is called the Max Lange Attack. The Vienna Game variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 isknown as the Max Lange Defense.

Courtesy : Wikepedia

Masters of the past-26 Max Lange

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on p38

1.Volodin,Aleksandr (2509)Popilsky,Gil (2475) [D85]28th European Club Cup Eilat ISR (7.2),17.10.2012Position after White’s 25th move. Black toplay. 25...Bf6!–+ 26.Rd8 Bc3+ 27.Rd2Bg4! 28.Bd4+ Bxd4 [28...Bxd4 29.Rxd4Qc3+ 30.Rd2 Qc1+ 31.Rd1 Qxd1#] 0–1

2.Naiditsch,Arkadij (2704)Kopylov,Michael (2473) [D30]Bundesliga 2012–13 Hamburg GER (2.2),21.10.2012Position after 21st move. White to play.22.Nxd5! Bxd5 [22...Nxd5 23.Qh8+Ke7 24.Qxa8+-] 23.Rc7 White threatens24 Qh8 mate.[23.Rc7 f6 24.Qxg7+ Ke825.Qe7#] 1–0

3. Jobava,Baadur (2734)Malakhov,Vladimir (2700) [C53]Black Sea Countries Final Burgas BUL (1),12.09.2012Position after White’s 21st move. Black toplay. 21...Rxf4! 22.Bxf4 [22.Bc1 Qxb323.Bxb3 Rxg4+ 24.Kf1 Bd3+ 25.Ke1 c6–+] 22...Nxf4 23.Bf3 [23.Rc1 Qxb324.Bxb3 Nh3+–+; 23.Qxh3 Nxh3+–+]23...Ne2+ 24.Rxe2 [24.Bxe2 Qxb3–+]24...Bxf3 25.Rf2 Qxg4+ 26.Kf1 Rf8!Threatening Be2 Mate. 27.Re1 Qh3+28.Kg1 Rf4! 0–1

4. Oparin,Grigoriy (2490)Jovanic,Ognjen (2511) [B47]14th Trieste Open A Trieste ITA (3),02.09.2012Position after White’s 20 th move. Blackto play. 20...Qxc3!–+ [20...Qxc321.Rxd8+ Rxd8 22.bxc3 Rd1+ 23.Rf1Rxf1+ 24.Qg1 Rxg1+–+] 0–1

5. Malakhov,V (2700) Nisipeanu,LD(2648) [A30]Black Sea Countries Burgas BUL (4),14.09.2012Position after 19th move. White to play.20.e5! Qxa4 21.exf6 e5?! [21...Nxf622.Bxd6+-] 22.Bh6! [22.Bg5; 22.Bh6gxh6 23.Qxh6 Nxf6 24.Qg5+ Kh825.Qxf6+ Kg8 26.Be4 Qd7 27.d4 Idea28.Rg3+] 1–0

6. Cheparinov,I (2689) - Atalik,S(2603) [E05]Black Sea Countries Final Burgas BUL (6),16.09.2012Position after 42nd move. White to play.43.Bxf7!+- Rxh1 [43...Nxf7 44.Ne6+(44.Rg4+ Ng5 45.Ne6++-) 44...Kg845.Qg6#; 43...Rd6 44.Rxh8 Kxh845.Ne6+-] 44.Rg4+ [44.Rg4+ Kh6(44...Kh8 45.Rg8#; 44...Nxg4 45.Qg6+Kf8 46.Qg8#) 45.Rg6+ Kh7 46.Rg8+ Kh647.Rh8+ Kg7 48.Ne6+ Kxh8 49.Qxe5+Kh7 50.Qg7#] 1–0

Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 39

1. G.Kasparyan BCM 1938White to play and win1.aRa7 f3+ 2.Kf2!/i, with either: Rg6 3.b7Rg2+ 4.Kf1/ii f2/iii 5.Rf7! Rb8 6.Ra8!/ivKxf7 7.Rxb8 Rg1+8.Kxf2 Rb1 9.Rh8 wins,or Rh6 3.b7/v Rh2+ 4.Kg3/vi f2/vii 5.Rg7+Kg8 6.Rf7 and White wins.i) That 2.Kf1? is wrong will be seen lateron - as shown in (v).ii) There is no win after 4.Ke3? Re2+ 5.Kd3Rb2 6.Rg7+ Kh8 7.Rh7+ Kg8.iii) Rb2 5.Ra8 Rb1+ 6.Kf2 Rb2+ 7.Kg3! f28.Rxf8+ Kxf8 9.Kg2 and wins.iv) 6.Rc7? Rf8 repeats.v) 3.Rg7+? is premature: Kh8 4.b7 Rh2+

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5.Ke3 Re2+ 6.Kd3 Rd8+, with an easydraw. Now the point of 2.Kf2! is clarified,as 2.Kf1? could be met by (Rh6 3.b7) f24.Rg7+ Kh8 5.Rf7 Rh1+, drawing.vi) Skirting round the tempting 4.Ke3? f2/viii 5.Rg7+ Kh8 6.Rf7 Re8+, when there isno white win.vii) Rg2+ 5.Kh3 f2 6.b8Q f1Q 7.Qb3+ Kh88.Rh7 mate.viii) Re2+? 5.Kd3 f2 6.Rg7+ Kh8 7.b8Q,when White wins.

2. Genrikh Kasparyan Shakhmaty vSSSR 1934(version 1962)White to play and win1.Bh3 Nh6+/i 2.Kg7 Nf7 3.Bc8 bNd8!/ii4.Nf6+/iii Ke7 5.Nd5+ Ke8 6.cNb6/iv Ne5/v 7.Bd7+!/vi Nxd7 8.Nc7+ Ke7 9.Nc8mate.i) If Nh2 2.Bc8 Nd8 3.Nf6+ Ke7 4.Nd5+Ke8 5.Nd6 mate.ii) This is the best defence. [The main linecontinuation also meets fNd8.]iii) After 4.Ne3? Black would save himselfwith 4...Nc6.iv) 6.Bf5? fails to b3 7.cNb6 Nb7 8.Bd7+Kd8 9.Kxf7 b2, drawing.v) Defending against the mate threat.vi) In spite of everything!Similar mates have been shown manytimes before in studies and problems, forinstance in an ancient Persian position, inthe work of Troitzky, and elsewhere. Thepresent study differs in that the checkmateis in mid-board and is the outcome of playthat lasts nine moves.

3.V. & M. Platov“Deutsche Schachzeitung” 1906White to play and win

1 c6 b3/i 2 c7 Bg3+/ii 3 Kxg3 b2 4 c8B/iiiKe4/iv 5 Kxg4 and wins.i) 1...Bc3 2 Bf4 wins.ii) 2...b2 3 c8Q b1Q 4 Qf5+.iii) 4 c8? b1Q 5 Qf5+ Ke2 and both 6 Qxb1and 6 Qxg4+Ke1 leave White only with adraw.iv) 4...Kc2 5 Bf5+ Kb3 6 Bb1 wins.

4. A. Troitzky500 Endspielstudien, 1924White to play and win1 Be3 d2 2 Bxd2 Rd7+ 3 Kc6 Rxd2 4 Kc7c1Q 5 Bd5+! Rxd5 6 Rxc1 Ra5 7 Kb6 andwins. 5...Ka7 6 Rxc1 Ka6 7 Kc6 Ka5 8 Kc5.5 Bd5+! compels Black’s Rook to the fifthrank.

5. R. Bianchetti“L’Italia Scacchistica” 1925White to play and win1 Bb2 Rf8/i 2 Rc7+ Kg8 3 Rg7+ Kh8 4Ka2!/iii) 1...Rh6 2 Rg3+ Kh7 3 Rg7+ Kh8 4 Kb1!Ii) 4 Kb1? Rf1 and draws. A classicalendgame renowned throughout the world.Its elegant play will unquestionably make apleasant impression on any player who isnot yet familiar with it.

6.T. Gorgiev“Shakhmaty v SSSR” 1936 2 PrizeWhite to play and win1 b4 axb4 2 Nd3 c2 3 Bxc2 Kh5 4 Ne1Bc5 5 Ng2 Be7 6 Bd1Bxh4 7 Ke3+ Kg5 8Kf3 b3 9 Bxb3 Kh5 10 Bf7+ Kg5 11 Be8andwins.Usually Bishops of opposite colors increasethe weaker side’s drawing chances.However here White is able to takeadvantage of this situation.

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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the Month’ on page 9Solution: If white's last move was with the king then the black rook move to check him and sohe cannot castle. If black's last move was with the bishop then there is no white move prior tothat. Suppose it were with black pawn, then white' last move must have been e2xf3 in whichcase BBd1 is promoted piece! BPd7 must have promoted via d2 checking the WK.

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