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Volume : 11 Issue : 6 Price Rs. 25 December 2015 AICF CHRONICLE the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation National Amateur Chess Championship 2015, New Delhi Bakshi Rutuja Women Champion Ajith M.P Open Champion WGM Padmini Rout Champion GM Karthikeyan Murali Champion ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, Tiruvarur,Tamilnadu Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2015, Kolkata

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Page 1: the official magazine of the All India Chess Federationassets.aicf.in/magazines/2015-Dec-Chronicle-AICF.pdf · the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation National Amateur

Volume : 11 Issue : 6 Price Rs. 25 December 2015

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

National Amateur Chess Championship 2015, New Delhi

Bakshi RutujaWomen Champion

Ajith M.POpen Champion

WGM Padmini RoutChampion

GM Karthikeyan Murali Champion

ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, Tiruvarur,Tamilnadu

Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2015, Kolkata

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Room No. 70,Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,Chennai - 600 003.Ph : 044-65144966 /Telefax : 044-25382121E-mail : [email protected]: V. HariharanEditor : C.G.S. Narayanan

AICF CHRONICLE December 2015

Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300

Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are also invited to send interesting articles, annotated games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘[email protected]’ or ‘[email protected].

The ONGC sponsored 53rd National Premier Chess Championship had many salient fea-tures to its credit – the first category 11 Premier championship, the first championship to have an average rating above 2500, the first one to have all participants rated above 2400 and the first tournament in the history of Indian Premier Championship to have two play-ers above 2650 rating. Defending champion SP Sethuraman and former under 14 world champion Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, both from PSPB were the top two rated players, followed by former under 12 world champion Deep Sengupta, also pf PSPB. The championship was well organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association at Kasi’s Inn, Tiruvarur, a small town about 300 KMs south east of Chennai.

The tournament was a 14 player round robin format, with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and remaining game in 30 minutes, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1. The tournament carried a total prize money of Rs.ten lakhs, with a first prize of Rs.2,50,000/-. Both Sethuraman and Vidit started their campaign with fluent wins over former under 16 world champion KarthikeyanMurali of Tamil Nadu and debutant K Praneeth Surya of Telangana. Neelotpal Das of PSPB inflicted a shocking defeat on the defending champion SP Sethuraman, in the second round, while Vidit and IM P. Karthikeyan of Railways led the table with two points.

Former Under 16 world chess champion SP Sethuraman of PSPB bounced back from his sec-ond round loss to score a crucial win over Deep Sengupta also of PSPB, third highest ranked player of the tournament in the third round. Both overnight leaders Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB and P. Karthikeyan of Railways drew their respective games with Shyaamnikhil of Tamil Nadu and Neelotpal Das of PSPB to continue to share the lead with 2.5 points each.Though new to the format of round robin tournament, debutant to National Premier Chess Championship, K Praneeth Surya of Telangana displayed his prowess to outwit GM elect Swapnil Dhopade of Railways. In the battle between the winner and runner up of the Na-tional Challengers Championship, Praneeth, the runner up rose up to the occasion under time pressure to expose the opponent’s unguarded king. He first sacrificed his knight on 35th move and went further to sacrifice his rook for a bishop to finish the game in style.

Sethuraman joined the two leaders Vidit and P. Karthikeyanat the end of the fourth round, by defeating GM M ShyamSundar of AAI. In an absorbing struggle arising from Catalan opening, both Sethuraman and GM M ShyamSundar of AAI played an attacking game. Af-ter exchanging the queens, Sethuraman managed to win a pawn on 34th move, resulting three chain pawns to him, compared to that of two isolated pawns to Shyam. In a rook and knight ending, Shyam committed hara-kiri by exchanging the rooks and the extra pawn helped Sethuraman to secure a valuable point in 57 moves. Sixteen year old grandmaster

ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, Tiruvarur...

Karhtikeyan Murali wins titleby R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

From the Editor’s desk

The Concert Hall of Russian Centre for Science and Culture, New Delhi wore a festive look at the grand felicitation function brought up by the All India Chess Federation on 12th December 2015 to felicitate the eleven medal winners at the World Youth and cadet Champion ships at

Halkidiki, Greece held from 24th October to 6th November 2015. The presence of Chief Guest of the evening Shri.Onkar Kedia,IAS Joint Secretary, Sports from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Venketrama Raja, President AICF and Shri.D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE and their felicitations to the young achievers who brought laurels to the nation, added new dimension to the event . Rupees six lakhs were distributed as cash awards to the medal winners besides citation to each one of them. Earlier in the day important decisions were taken at the Central Council meeting of the Federation and these are also featured in the centre pages of this issue.

Tiruvarur, which hosted prestigious National Premier Chess Championship , is a district Headquarters in Tamilnadu, surrounded by Nagoor Darga, Velankanni Church and Brahadeeswarar temple built by Raja Raja Chola.16 year-old GM Murali Karthikeyan emerged as the new National Champion here. On the side lines of this premier event Tiruvarur Chess festival included six other chess events which are presented in this issue.

Elsewhere in the eastern India Odisha star WGM Padmini Rout retained her National Women Premier title at Kolkata. Ajith of Karnataka and Bakshi Rutuja of Maharashtra are the new National Amateur Champions in the event held at Delhi.Selected games from National Challenger and National Women Premier are annotated by IM Manuel Aaron.Efim Geller, the Russian Grandmaster, is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.

C.G.S.Narayanan

ONGC 53rd National Premier Championship,Tiruvarur

Karthikeyan Murali wins title

by IA,R.Anantharam,Chief Arbiter 1

1st RK Chess Club Intl Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament,Maddur

R.R.Laxman RR is the winner

by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 6

Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Championship

2015,Kolkata

Pamini Rout is Champion

by R.Srivatsan IA, Chief Arbiter 7

National Amateur Chess Championship 2015, New Delhi

Ajith and Bakshi Rutuja clinch titles

by B.Sakthi Prabhakar IA, Chief Arbiter 9

Living Legned Shri. Virendra Bhatnagar Rapid and Bltiz

FIDE Rated Chess Tournaments 2015, New Delhi…

Matta Vinay Kumar and Sriram Jha win titles

by M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 10

Chess Club live Open Fide Rating Tournament,Vadodara

R.R.Laxman wins title

by Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter 14

1stSilicon City Intl. FIDE Rated Rapid FIDE Rating Ty.,

Prajesh wins title

IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 16

8th ACA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Trivandrum…

Rajesh emerges winner

by M.Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 18

1st All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Tiruvarur

Bala Kannamma wins at Tiruvarur

by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter 20

Tiruvarur Chess Festival State Level Children & Open Ty.,

M.Kunal wins Open event

by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter 22

Tiruvarur Chess Festival 2nd A.IFIDE Rating Ty.,(below 1800)

Dhanush Raghav wins title

by S.GaneshBabu, IA, Chief Arbiter 27

Selected games from National Challenger

Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 29

Tactics from master games

by S.Krishnan 42

Test your endgame

by C.G.S.Narayanan 43

Masters of the past-59:Efim Geller 44

AICF Calendar 48

Inside….

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KarthikeyanMurali of Tamil Nadu recorded his second successive win in the tournament by beating GM Neelotpal Das of PSPB in the exchange variation of Spanish opening.

Underdog K Praneeth Surya of Telangana, the lowest ranked player caused the biggest upset of the tournament, beating the defending champion and joint top rated player SP Sethura-man of PSPB in the fifth round. Probably Praneeth might have been inspired by Pelletier of Sweden who stunned world champion Magnus Carlsen, who is placed 284 points above him in the rating list, in the European Team Championship yesterday. The 238 rating points dif-ference between Sethuraman and Praneeth did not cause any panic to Praneeth in the Kings Indian attack. Praneeth ventured into attack from 22nd move, by opting a pawn break with f4 and boldly threw open his king side. Sethuraman underestimated his ploy and preferred to encash it with his queen manoeuvre. Six moves later, Praneeth not only regained the pawn, but won the exchange also. Sethuraman tried to defend the position, but another rook sacrifice by Praneeth for a knight, tilted the game in his favour. Praneeth’s first win over a player rated above 2650 is bound to take him to greater heights.

Defending champion SP Sethuraman of PSPB suffered second consecutive shock defeat, this time at the hands of IM K Rathnakaran of Railways in the sixth round of the Champi-onship. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB continued to lead with 4.5 points, after splitting the point Swapnil Dhopade of Railways, followed by IM P. Karthikeyan and IM Arghyadip Das of Railways with 4 points each.

Vidit, former under 14 world champion extended his sole lead with 5.5 points by beating IM Arghyadip Das of Railways for the only decisive result in the seventh round. He was one point ahead of IM P. Karthikeyan of Railways, who remained on second spot. In a Slav defence played by Arghyadip, Vidit gained a slight advantage on the 33rd move by forking his opponent’s king and rook. The two rooks vs rook and knight ending looked like a draw, when Arghyadip committed a minor mistake of moving his rook instead of knight on the 43rd move. Another mistake on the very next move cost the game to Arghyadip.

In the much awaited eighth round clash between the joint top two seeds, friends and foes from PSPB, former under 16 world champion SP Sethuraman and former under 14 world champion Vidit, the latter applied classical variation of French defence. Sethuraman, handling the white pieces, castled on the long side. Vidit tried to exploit it by forwarding the queen side pawns and Sethuraman did the same on the king side. But, Vidit seized the initiative first and went for a kill on 28th move, forcing Sethuraman to lose his queen for a bishop and knight, definitely a meagre compensation. But, under time pressure, both, especially Vidit made serious mistakes to level the game with equal pieces towards the end. An excit-ing game had a tame draw after 48 moves. Vidit Santosh Gujrathi maintained his sole lead with, raising his tally to six points and IM P. Karthikeyan also continued with good form to remain on second spot, half a point behind.

Vidit maintained his unbeaten record and a lead by full point, beating the second placed

Know your Arbiter S.Paul Arokia Raj

Hailing from Thanjavur, a mofussil town in the eastern part of Tamil Nadu, Paul Arokia Raj (Born on 18.12.1964) became an International Arbiter in 1995..Earlier in 1992 he was awarded title of National Arbi-ter..He has officiated as• Chief arbiter in ten National championships and many FIDE rated

events.• Sector Arbiter for under 8 girls in World Youth Championship in

2013 in Al Ain,UAE.• Chief Arbiter for the Asian Youth under 14,16 and 18(open &girls)

Championships New Delhi 2014.• Chief Arbiter for 5th Chennai Open GM• Arbiter in three World Juniors Championsip(Calicut 1993,Panaji,Goa

2002 and Chennai 2011),Commonwealth championship(Bikaner,1999),Chess Olympiad for the Blind(Chennai.2012), Global Youth Championship (Kulalumpur, 2003)

‘Arbiter’s Angle’ a regular column in Chess Mate by him narrating interesting incidents pertaining to Laws of Chess. Acted as a course lecturer in National Arbiters’ Conference held Chennai in 2000 and 2001.He was an Assistant lecturer in the Refresher course for FAs and IAs held in Bubaneshwar in 2015 conducted by the All India Chess Federation. He was a regular chess columnist in Trinity Mirror, an eveninger from Chennai.

Beside being an Arbiter Paul was also a distinguished player and trainer. He was India’s 4th national Sub Junior champion in 1978 and went on to represent the country at the World Cadet Chess Championship(Under16) in Belfort, France in July 1979. He represented India in the Asian Junior championship also at Coimbatore in 1984.

A post graduate from Loyola College, he had the unique honor of playing for Tamil Nadu State in Sub Junior Nationals ,Junior National ,National under 25, National ‘B’,National team and National rapid championships several times. He was member of Madras University chess Team which won the All India Inter University championship for three years 1982,1984 and 1987. His highest career rating was 2245 in 1992. During his brief stint with Income Tax department he represented Central Revenue Sports Board(CRSB) in the Nationals. Member of CSRSB,Tamil Nadu team which won the All India Civil Services Regional Sports Board in 1988 and 1989.In the year 1990 he joined Chennai Port Trust where he is serving now and is the All India Major Ports chess Champion for the past 12 years.

As a trainer:As a trainer he had been successful in nurturing many young talents . Since 2000 he was Coach of Madars University teams both men and women which won several titles between 2000 and 2008 in the All India Inter University Championships. He was coach of the Madras University Chess Team in the Global Youth Territory Chess Championship in Singapore in 2000 which won third place.

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1st Badal Battacharjee Memorial Intl.FIDE Rated Ty

Chess Club live Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2015,Vadodara

1st Silicon City Intl. FIDE Rated Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament

Back row L to R IM Sekhar Sahu-VP(AICF),Pruthviraj Leuva-CEO ( Mineral Chess Academy),Hashmukh Shah Director-(Hotel Surya), Mrs. Ganguly, BhaveshPatel Hon,Secretary (GSCA),IA Ambrish Joshi with the prize winners

(From L-R)Koustav Chatterjee(Runner up),Arindam Mukherjee(champion),A.B. Choudhury(Chief Arbiter),Joydeep Dutta(2nd runner up), Atanu Lahiri(Secretary, BCA).jpg

Condt. from page 2P. Karthikeyan of Railways in the ninth round. KarthikeyanMurali moved ahead of P Karthikeyan to second place with six points, winning over his team mate P. Shyaam Nikhil. Karthikeyan-Murali was on a roll, as he had secured five wins and two draws, after first two rounds loss. KarthikeyanMurali dealt a blow to the title aspirations of Vidit Santosh Gujrathi by beating him in the tenth round. Stopping the unbeaten run of Vidit, Karthikeyan jointed him with seven points and the tournament became wide open. In the fight between the top two rank-ers of the previous ninth round, Vidit adopted the c5 line in the Tarrasch variation of French defence against KarthikeyanMurali. His decision to exchange the queens on 21st move was not wise enough, only to lose his rook for a knight after four more moves. Karthikeyan held on the advantage and gave back the rook for a bishop to wipe Vidit’s one pawn off the board. It culminated in a passer pawn to KarthikeyanMurali, which could not be stopped. Vidit resigned on 63rd move, paving way to Karthikeyan to reach cloud nine, along with him.

As the leaders drew their respective games in the eleventh round, the lead remained un-changed, both KarthikeyanMurali and Vidit collecting 7.5 points and three players - defend-ing champion SP Sethuraman, new comer to National Premier K Praneeth Surya and IM P. Karthikeyan trailed them by one point. In the penultimate and twelfth round, Karthikeyan rose to occasion to subdue Swapnil Dhopade and was alone on cloud nine with 8.5 points. Vidit was forced to concede a draw to his team mate Deep Sengupta in a deep struggle for supremacy and pushed to second place with 8 points. Sethuraman also came back into contention for the title, with a win against PSPB team and state mate MR Venkatesh, scor-ing 7.5 points. An exciting climax was set up, as three players had theoretical chances to win the title.

In the ultimate round, Sethuraman’s chances for the title vanished in the air, because of a draw agreement with P. Karthikeyan. Vidit tried his best to win against AAI grandmaster M. ShyamSundar, but the latter had a stubborn defence to hold out to a draw. The two results enabled KarthikeyanMuarli to win the title, irrespective of his loss to Arghyadip Das in the final round. Both Karthikeyan and Vidit tied with 8.5 points, but the tenth round encounter between them, in which Karthikeyan edged out Vidit, stood in favour of the former, as direct encounter was the first tiebreak. Karthikeyan won the title in his second attempt and for the first time, when he participated in the round robin format.Sri Rajesh Saxena, Chief Manager (HR), ONGC, Cauvery Asset, Karaikkal was the chief guest for the final day function in the august presence of Sri V. Hariharan, Ho. Secretary of All India Chess Federation. Earlier on the first day, the championship was inaugurated by Sri. R. Kamaraj, Honourable minister for Food, Government of Tamil Nadu in the presence of Sri. V. Ravichandran, Chairman, Tiruvarur Municipality. K Praneeth Surya achieved his maiden IM norm in the tournament.

Tiruvarur District Chess Association organised the championship in a very good manner, providing free accommodation and boarding, not only to the players, but also to their ac-companying persons. Sri. R.K. Balagunashekaran, Joint Secretary of TNSCA and secretary of the District association, shouldered the heavy burden and proved that big tournaments can be organised in small towns successfully.

Mrs. Sumalini Laguve, Principal, SCASE, Winner Prajesh, Mr.Sameera Simha, Chairman of Silicon City Academy of Secondary Education and Mr. Ravi Laxman, Secretary, SCASE

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Final Standings: 1. GM KarthikeyanMurali 2498 TN 8½, 2. GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2651 PSPB 8½, 3 .GM Sethuraman S.P. 2651 PSPB 8, 4.IM Karthikeyan P. 2441 Rlys 7½, 5.IM Das Arghyadip 2456 Rlys7, 6. IM Rathnakaran K. 2447 Rlys 6½, 7.FM K. Praneeth Surya 2413 TEL 6½, 8. GM ShyamSundar M. 2481 AAI 6½, 9.GM Kunte Abhijit 2515 PSPB 6, 10. GM Neelotpal Das 2475 PSPB, 6, 11 GM Sengupta Deep 2589 PSPB 5½, 12.IM Swapnil S. Dhopade 2497 Rlys 5½, 13 IM Shyaamnikhil P 2436 TN 4½, 14. GM Venkatesh M.R. 2464 PSPB 4½.

The Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2015 the category 7F Women Premier Chess Championship organised by Diaspora Times on behalf of Bengal Chess Associa-tion and All India Chess Federation at Bengal Gallery, ICCR, Kolkata was inaugurated on 13th November 2015 here by Shri Rajesh Pandey, Secretary Sports, Government of West Bengal.

It was a 12 player all play all event with 11 rounds with a time control of 90 minutes each for first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the remaining game with an increment of 30 seconds from move one. The defending Champion IM Padmini Rout was the top seed. The average rating of this event is 2219. The total prize fund of Rs.600000/- with a First prize of Rs.175000/- was awarded to the players.

In the first round All the title holders won their untitled opponents in three boards and another three boards ended in a draw.The 2nd Round on 14th November was inaugurated by Shri Bharat Singh, CEO, All India Chess Federation.In the second round All the players played with white piece won the game except on the 2nd board where WIM Michelle Catherina lost to WIM Pratyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh. WGM Swati Ghate of LIC defeated IM Tania Sachdev of Air India.

In the third round Pratyusha Bodda outplayed top seed Padmini Rout . On first and second board both the Priyanka’s drew their games against Tania Sachdev and Swati Ghate respec-tively.In the 4th Round All the experienced players won their games against their opponents. World Under 14 champion R. Vaishali drew her game against Pratyusha Bodda. The fifth round was witnessed and inaugurated by the Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal His Excellency Keshari Nath Tripathi. Shri Tribhuvan Kabra, Chairman, Ramratna Group and the main sponsor of this event was also present and felicitated the players.

Round 6 was inaugurated by Mr. Sajjan Bhajanka, Chairman, Century Ply and Star Cement. On the top board Padmini Rout had an easy victory over Priyanka Nutakki and Tania Sachdev suffered a loss on the 4th board against Bhakti Kulkarni. Swati Ghate defeated Pratyusha Bodda on the fourth board. Mr. Sudhir Kasat, Director of Ramratna group inaugurated the two games held on the rest day between Varshini & Vaishali and Michelle Catherina & Pratyusha Bodda on account of Vaishali’s President award to be received and an eye infection of Michelle Catherina. Both the sportive players won their games.

The seventh round was inaugurated by Mr. Gautam De, Director, ICCR. In the seventh round Pratyusha held Tania in the third board. Soumya Swaminathan suffered a loss agains Michelle Catherina. Padmini Rout defeated world under 14 girls champion R. Vaishali and joined Swati Ghate to lead with 5.5 points.

Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2015,Kolkata

Pamini Rout is Championby R.Srivatsan IA, Chief Arbiter

Ist R K Chess Club International Ra,IApid FIDE Rating Chess tournament was oragnised by RK Chess club, Mandya and Mandya Chess Acad-emy, Mandya at R K Education, K Honnalagere, Maddur, Mandya District, Karnataka from 7th to 8th Nov 2015.

GM Laxman RR of ICF was top seed followed by IM Thejkumar MS and Himanshu Sharma of South western Railways, Ram S Krishnan of BSNL, Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF, Matta Vinay Kumar and Ramakrishna J of Andra Bank. A Total of 268 players from Assam, Tamilnadu, Tellangana, AP and Kerala participated in the 1 lakh cash prize event.

Organiser provided free Breakfast, Lunch and coffee/tea for all the participants and accom-panying persons on both days. GM Laxman RR, IM Thejkumar MS, Ram S Krishnan, Syed Anwar Shazuli were tied for 1st place by scor-ing 8 points each. Based on better tie break score, Laxman emerged winner and bagged Rs 15000 cash prize and a trophy. IM Thejkumar MS, Ram S Krishnan, Syed Anwar Shazuli were place 2nd to 4th place respectively.

MrsChandrakala Ramakrishna, Secretary, RK

Institutions was the chief guest for the prizes ceremony. MrShivanne Gowda HN, Admin-istrative Officer, RK Institutions, MrKS Ma-hadeva Gowda, PRO, RK Institutions and Mr N Rajashekar, IPS were the other dignitaries on the dais.Final standings ( first 20 placings only)Rk Name Pts 1 GM Laxman R.R. 82 IM Thejkumar M. S. 83 Ram S. Krishnan 84 Syed Anwar Shazuli 85 FM Ramakrishna J. 7½6 Vivekananda L 7½7 IM Himanshu Sharma 78 Aman Chandra 79 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 710 Varun Anant 711 Reetish Padhi 712 Likhit Chilukuri 713 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 714 Anand Vittal T R 715 WCM Ananya Suresh 716 Shiek Fayaz 717 Abhijit Chutia 718 Purushothaman T 6½19 Darshan V P S 6½20 Sudheera Satyanarayana 6½

1st RK Chess Club Intl Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Maddur…

GM Laxman RR is the winnerIA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

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There were lots of ups and downs in this event. Till round 5 Prathyusha and Soumya Swami-nathan were leading and at the end of the 6th Round Soumya became the sole leader by de-feating Neha Singh. After Round seven Swati Ghate and Padmini Rout became the joint leaders and continued to lead upto 8th round. In the ninth round Padmini defeated Swati Ghate and became the sole leader. Padmini defeated Tania in the penultimate round and became the champion of this event with a round to spare and retained the title. Surprisingly in the final round Padmini Rout suffered a defeat in the hands of Priyanka Kalidas of Tamilnadu and Pratyu-sha Bodda lost to Priyanka Nutakki. Soumya Swaminathan defeated Swati Ghate and tied for the second place with Swati and Bhakti with 7.5 points. Despite the final round loss Padmini Rout defended the title of National Women Champion for the second time in a row. Soumya Swaminathan, Bhakti Kulkarni and Swati Ghate became second, third and fourth respectively.The final round was inaugurated by Mr. Prashant Kumar Srivastav, CGM, State Bank of India.

Shri Mahendra Kabra, Director of Ramratna Group was the Chief Guest for the closing ceremony and distributed the prizes. Grand Master Surya Shekar Ganguly, Grand Master Dibyendu Barua, Vice President, AICF, Mr. Gautam Dey, Director, ICCR, Mr. Ashok Motwani, Organising Secretary, IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, Bengal Chess Association were also present at the prize distribu-tion function and distributed the prizes.. Our special appreciation to WIM Prathyusha Bodda of Andhra Pradesh and WFM V. Varshini of Tamilnadu for the excellent sporting gesture shown by them in this event. They both agreed to play their round on the rest day.WIM Pratyusha Bodda achieved a nine game WGM Norm and WFM R. Vaishali achieved a eleven game third and final WIM Norm.

This event went on very well with an excellent support of the players and Bengal Chess As-sociation from the day one till the end of the Championship.I was assisted and supported by my fellow arbiters, IA Debashish Barua, FA Sumit Chatterjee , FA Anand babu and volunteers Poulmi and Nikitha in conducting the event without any problem.

Final Ranking:

1. IM Padmini Rout (ODI) 8½; 2.WGMSoumya Swaminathan (PSPB)7½; 3.WGM Kulkarni

Bhakti(GOA)7½; 4.WGM Swati Ghate(LIC)7½; 5.WIM Pratyusha Bodda(AP)6½; 6.WFM Vaishali

R (TN)6½; 7.IM Tania Sachdev(AI)5; 8.WIM Michelle Catherina P (TN)4½; 9.Priyanka Nutakki

(AP)4½; 10.WFM Varshini V(TN)4; 11.Priyanka K(TN)3; 12.Singh Neha(BIH)1

4th National Amateur Chess Championship-2015 got off to a rousing start at Arya Samaj Bhawan, New Delhi. A total number of 319 players out of which 218 rated players from across India participated in this championship and top finishers will represent India in the Asian and World Amateur Chess Championships.

In a brief opening ceremony Shri. Sanjay Saraswat, Director Sports Authority of India along with Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation and Shri. AK Verma Secretary Delhi Chess Association inaugurated the event by making customary first move.

Total number of rounds 11, played under Swiss pairing system, duration of play each 1 hour plus 30 seconds increment from Move No.1. The event went well smoothly without any disturbance and protests. Zero tolerance is followed from round 1 to till end.

Men category 10 prizes, winner cashed Rs.21,000 with trophy, runner Rs.12,000 with tro-phy, in women category Winner cashed Rs.10,000 with trophy and Runner Rs.6,000 with trophy.Prize Distribution function started at 1.30 pm on 20th November 2015, with two Chief Guests, International Arbiters R S Tiwari and H K Tewari. They distributed the prizes to winners.

The two National Arbiters who got got FA norm were Mr. Ajeet Kumar Verma and Mr. Shivakant Mishra.I would like to thank All India Chess Federation for giving me this opportunity. My special thanks to Delhi Chess Association, Mr Gopa Kumar IA, Tournament Director, Mr R Ravikumar IA, Deputy Chief Arbiter, FA Biju Raj S, FA Jitendra Choudhary, NA Ajeet Kumar Verma, NA Shivakant Mishra.

National Amateur Chess Championship 2015, New Delhi

Ajith and Bakshi Rutuja clinch titlesby B.Sakthi Prabhakar IA, Chief Arbiter

Final ranking: Men- 1.Ajith M.P (Kar)10; 2.Sharma Pankaj(Pun)9; 3.Kadav Omkar(Mah)9;

4.Dilip Das(WB) 9; 5.Alok Sinha(DEL) 8½; 6 Bakshi Rutuja(Mah) 8½; 7.Vardan Nagpal(DEL)

8½; 8.Shubham Lakudkar(Mah)8½; 9.Ayush Garg(Raj) 8½ 10.Ankit Sen(UP)8

Women- 1..BakshiRutuja(Mah)8½; 2.Nanditha(VTEL)7½; 3.Krithigga TN)7½; 4.Mehak

Jain(DEL)7; 5.Sanskriti Goyal(UP)6½; 6.Sandhya(GAP)6½Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything

else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative

ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify

anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to be the

norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering instead of real

engineering, with catastrophic results for both sectors - Garry Kasparov

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play - Garry Kasparov

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Living Legned Shri. Virendra Bhatnagar Rapid and Bltiz FIDE Rated Chess Tournaments were organised by Genius and Pinnacle Chess Academies at Manavsthali School, New Rajender Nagar, New Delhi from 21-22 November 2015.

A total number of 244 players from different parts of India and one player each from Poland, Cuba, USA and Bangladesh participated in the Rapid which played with time control of 25 minutes with 10 seconds increment from move 1. The total prize fund of the rapid event was Rs. 1,50,000 in which Rs. 35,000/- was reserved for the Winner while the Blitz event attracted 246 players and played under the time control of 3 minutes with 2 second increment from move 1. The prize fund for Blitz event was Rs. 50,000/-. Both tournaments were played under Swiss System with 9 rounds each.

The event was started without opening ceremony and from the start itself the players moved to their business mode. International Master Akshat Khamparia of Railways started as top seed in Rapid while Grandmaster Sriram Jha of LIC got the top billing in Blitz.

At the end of nine rounds in rapid event, Andhra Bank employee Matta Vinay Kumar clinched the title with 8 points while three players Akshat Khamparia, Hemant Sharma of Railways and Stuczynski Andrzej of Poland tied for the runner-up position with 7 ½ points but better tie break score helped Khamparia to finish as first runner up. Hemant and Stuczynski finished third and fourth positions respectively.

Meanwhile the Blitz event was more intense and three players namely Sriram Jha, Himal Gusain of Chandigarh and International Master PDS Girinath of Railways tied for Winner’s trophy with 8 points after final round matches. Better Buchholz tie break score made Sriram Jha to occupy pole position while Gusain and Girinath becomes first and second runner up respectively.

In a vibrant closing ceremony of Rapid event, Dr. Virendra Bhatnagar, Director Manavsthali School and Shri. Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO All India Chess Federation gave away the trophies and cash prizes to the winners in presence of Shri. Mamta V Bhatnagar and Shri. Vikram Bhatnagar while Chief Arbiter MS Gopakumar gave away the prizes to Blitz winners.

Final ranking: Rapid Rk Name Pts 1 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 8 2 IM Akshat Khamparia 7½ 3 Hemant Sharma (del) 7½ 4 Stuczynski Andrzej 7½ 5 IM Girinath P.D.S. 7 6 GM Sriram Jha 7 7 Navalgund Niranjan 7 8 Santu Mondal 7 9 Jaiswal Puneet 7 10 Rishi Thariani 7 11 Taorem Chitaranjan 712 FM Harshal Shahi 713 FM Dutta Joydeep 7 14 Praveen Kumar 7 15 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 6½ 16 Gusain Himal 6½ 17 Vikas Sharma 6½

18 Shubham Lakudkar 6½ 19 Baig Akram 6½ 20 Srikanth K. 6½ 21 Anshul Kaushik 6½ 22 Yatin Kumar 6½ 23 Akshay Anand 6½ 24 Deepak Katiyar 6½ 25 Souradip Deb 6½ 26 WFM Tarini Goyal 6½ 27 Kaushik Shubham 6½ 28 Cheela Naga Sampath 6½ 29 Yogesh Swami 6 30 Deepak Rai 6 31 Sharma Avinash 6 32 Abhishek Pandey 6 33 Shyam Sundar T. 6 34 Haque Minhajul 6 35 Ajeet Kumar Verma 6 36 Singh Soram Rahul 6 37 Suman Yaddanapudi 6 38 Shashi Raj Saxena 6 39 Alok Sinha 6 40 Bharathi S.C. 6 41 Priya Ranjan Das 6 42 Gaurav Danu 6 43 CM Dev Shah 644 Rohit Roy Chaudhary 6 45 Ritvik Gupta 6 46 Herschelle Gupta 5½ 47 Ahmed Feroz 5½ 48 Suraj Dahiya 5½ 49 Sharma Pankaj 5½ 50 Tarun V Kanth 5½ 51 Yatin Agarwal 5½ 52 Arun Wahi 5½ 53 Rushil Gupta 5½ 54 Verma H.S. 5½ 55 Rodriguez Rivero Damian 5½ 56 Tiwari Rade Shyam 5½ 57 Vaisakh R P 5½ 58 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 5½ 59 Mayank Pal 5½ 60 Vardan Nagpal 5½

61 Aaryan Varshney 5½ 62 Punit Indora 5½ 63 Ravinder Goyat 5½ 64 Nanditha V 5½ 65 Shanya Mishra 5½ 66 Kavisha S Shah 5½ 67 Yash Joshi 5½ 68 Ananya Rishi Gupta 5½ 69 Kritika Pal 5½ 70 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 5½ 71 Ankit Kumar Singh (hdca) 5½ 72 Sastry Jm 5 73 Virendra Singh 5 74 Darshan Gupta 5 75 Akshay Dhingra 5 76 Rakesh Kumar 5 77 Harshiel Sehgal 5 78 Amit Bhattrai 5 79 Projnabrata Seth 5 80 Aan Sikka 5 81 Devanshi Rathi 5 82 Udit Sanghi 5 83 Saurav Agarwal 5 84 Ashish Sehgal 5 85 Pradeep Kumar Dey 5 86 Sudeep S 5 87 Arshin Sikka 5 88 Rawat Rakesh Singh 5 89 Shah Mahek 5 90 Akhilesh Goel 5 91 Agastya Rattan Nashier 5 92 Namish Sharma 5 93 Bhanu Pratap Singh 5 94 Aryaman Bhatia 5 95 Madan Kumar 5 96 Arhaan Jain 5 97 Harsh Vardhan Joshi 5 98 Jay Kakar 5 99 Arora Honi 5 100 Dutt B.S. 5 101 Sharma Aribam M. 4½ 102 Sahil Tickoo 4½ 103 Ruthwik K.V.S. 4½

Living Legned Shri. Virendra Bhatnagar Rapid and Bltiz FIDE Rated Chess Tournaments 2015, New Delhi…

Matta Vinay Kumar and Sriram Jha win titlesby M.S.Gopakumar IA, Chief Arbiter

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104 Anirudh Jain 4½ 105 Narendra Singh 4½ 106 Hariom Solanki 4½ 107 Shambu Rathee 4½ 108 Atembi Laishram 4½ 109 Navvye Anand 4½ 110 Syed Irshad 4½ 111 Gupta Arnav 4½ 112 Aarush Saxena 4½ 113 Laxman Singh Khati 4½ 114 Kartikeya Birla 4½ 115 Bhavik Ahuja 4½ 116 Bhushita Ahuja 4½ 117 Vayom Garg 4½ 118 Avneet Ahuja 4½ 119 Tanmay Garg 4½ 120 Vedantha Neogi 4½ 121 Vinayak Tripathy 4½ 122 Gunin Malik 4 123 Durai Balaji K K 4 124 Lance Ethan Rockwell 4125 Mandeep 4 126 Divya Rani 4 127 Paarth Saxena 4 128 Aditya Jain 4 129 Anirudh Jain 4 130 Anamika 4 131 Devansh Tiwari 4 132 Raj Shekhar 4 133 Dhruv Jain 4 134 Tejas Garg 4 135 Sinha Akanksh 4136 Parth Goel 4 137 Angad Minocha 4 138 Pranav Gupta 4139 Priyanshu Mittal 4140 Saksham Manchanda 4 141 Kinshuk Joshi 4142 Siddhanta Neogi 4 143 Jai Gupta 4144 Shivam Kukreja 4 145 Bhanvi Nayer 4 146 Tanush Sawhney 4

147 Sachin Manchanda 4148 Chaudhary Parth 4149 Aniruddh S V 4 150 Manit Singh 4

Final ranking:BlitzRk Name Pts 1 GM Sriram Jha 8 2 Gusain Himal 8 3 IM Girinath P.D.S. 8 4 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 7½ 5 Navalgund Niranjan 7½ 6 FM Dutta Joydeep 7½ 7 Singh Soram Rahul 7 8 FM Matta Vinay Kumar 7 9 Taorem Chitaranjan 7 10 Praveen Kumar 7 11 Srikanth K. 7 12 Alok Sinha 7 13 Yogesh Swami 7 14 Ajit Singh 7 15 Krishnankit Banerjee 7 16 Aansh Gupta 7 17 Rishi Thariani 6½ 18 IM Sareen Vishal 6½ 19 Vikas Sharma 6½ 20 Tarun V Kanth 6½ 21 Sharma Aribam M. 6½ 22 Aan Sikka 6½ 23 Rajendra Kumar Bajpai 6 24 Shubham Shukla 6 25 bhishek Jaiswal 6 26 ouradip Deb 6 27 FM Prasenjit Dutta 6 28 FM Harshal Shahi 6 29 Cheela Naga Sampath 6 30 Jaiswal Puneet 6 31 Arun Kumar 6 32 Deepak Katiyar 6 33 Punit Indora 6 34 Yash Hari Dixit 6 35 Preetika Tayal 6 36 WFM Tarini Goyal 6

37 Yatin Kumar 6 38 Khalid Amin 6 39 Kumar Sanu 6 40 Herschelle Gupta 6 41 Chauhan Atul 6 42 Sastry Jm 6 43 Satyendra K Srivastava 6 44 Jaskeerat Singh 6 45 Girish Chandra Gupta 6 46 Aadit Bhatia 6 47 Kunal Kakumanu 6 48 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 6 49 Rajesh Kumar Nath 6 50 Sahil Tickoo 5½ 51 Sumay Mishra 5½ 52 Suman Yaddanapudi 5½ 53 Vardan Nagpal 5½ 54 Ravinder Goyat 5½ 55 Akshay Anand 5½ 56 Nanditha V 5½ 57 Heikrujam Jacky Singh 5½ 58 Divyanshu Joshi 5½ 59 Haque Minhajul 5 60 Sharma Pankaj 5 61 Shubhankit Banerjee 5 62 Raj Kumar 5 63 Rohit Roy Chaudhary 5 64 Baig Akram 5 65 Aryaman Bhatia 5 66 Devanshi Rathi 5 67 Arun Wahi 5 68 Rodriguez Rivero Damian 5 69 Esshan Wadhawan 5 70 Gupta Shailendra 5 71 Saket Kumar 5 72 Tanmay Garg 5 73 Ankit Kumar Singh (hdca) 5 74 Nitin Kumar Pandey 5 75 Yatin Agarwal 5 76 Kakumanu Kautil 5 77 Devashish Gupta 5 78 Kashish Vats 5 79 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5

80 Spandan Srivastava 5 81 Manish Khanduja 5 82 Rishik Sood 5 83 Amit Dalal 5 84 Mayank Pal 5 85 Yash Joshi 5 86 Lakshay Nagpal 5 87 Hardik Khurana 5 88 Ram Singh 5 89 Laxman Singh Khati 5 90 Raj Prakhar 5 91 Bhavya Gupta 5 92 Mandeep 5 93 Tanmay Garg 5 94 Chaitanya Kapoor 5 95 Ankit Upadhyay 5 96 Parth Sharma 5 97 Aman Sharma 5 98 Namish Sharma 5 99 Suraj Dahiya 4½ 100 Sudeep S 4½ 101 Vaisakh R P 4½ 102 Virendra Singh 4½ 103 Ankit 4½ 104 Saurav Agarwal 4½ 105 Bhavik Ahuja 4½ 106 Hariom Solanki 4½ 107 Kunal Batra 4½ 108 Projnabrata Seth 4½ 109 Anshul Kaushik 4 110 Ritvik Gupta 4 111 Sharma Avinash 4 112 Ananya Rishi Gupta 4 113 Santosh Pal 4 114 Narendra Singh 4 115 Tiwari Rade Shyam 4 116 Rushil Gupta 4 117 CM Dev Shah 4 118 Akshat Sharma 4 119 Gaurav Danu 4 120 Kothari Praveen Kumar 4 121 Rajat Agarwal 4 122 Paras Vats 4

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The Chess Club live Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2015 was held at the Surya Hotel, Vadodara from 18th to 22nd Nov 2015.In this tournament, total 374 players had participated from all over India, comprising 1 GM, 7 IM, 1 WIM, 2FM, 1WFM and 254 Rated players. The tournament had 10 rounds, with two rounds per day for all day.

Hard fought victories between some higher rated players were witnessed in the tourna-ment, culminating in the emergence GM RR Laxman(ICF) as the Champion of this event with cash prize of Rs.1 Lakh, followed byIM Ravi Teja S(Railway)as Runners-up with prize of Rs. 70,000 .The total of Rs. 5 lakh prizes had awarded to achievers with beautiful trophy to champion and under category children players. In addition to that organizer encouraged by providing a prize to Best Unrated, Best Veteran and Best Female player and Best Vadodara players of the event.

Accommodation was available in the same hotels & nearby hotels so as even in tight schedule, players reached at venue before time & easily followed the time schedule. An fully equipped AC tournament hall gave the great satisfaction to players. And a delicious variety of food was the great satisfactory for the outside players who are staying in & nearby venue. Mineral Chess Academy had the privilege of conducting this type of tournament continuously with all satisfactory level in all area for players. Kudos to Mr. PruthvirajLeuva (OrganizingSecretary) &Mr.Sunil Manoharwho work hard and fulfil all the requirements of the players for the success of the tournament.

The players and parents were very happy with the amenities and facilities provided by the organizer.

The team of the chief Arbiter IA A.C.Joshi was always on the four corner of the hall with eagle eye for technical support. Thanks all the players for not arise a single appeal during the tournament.Once again thanks to one and all.

TOP-20 Main Prizes Rk Name Pts 1 GM Laxman R.R. 8½ 2 IM Ravi Teja S. 8½ 3 IM Sangma Rahul 8½ 4 IM Anurag Mhamal 85 FM Thakur Akash 86 IM Kathmale Sameer 87 IM Himanshu Sharma 7½ 8 Raja Harshit 7½ 9 Muthaiah Al 7½ 10 Mehta Jwalin 7½ 11 Deshpande Aniruddha 7½12 Kumar Gaurav 7½ 13 Saumil Nair 7½ 14 Pruthu Deshpande 715 FM Praggnanandhaa R 716 IM Deshmukh Anup 717 CM Sharang Sanjeev Kapoor 718 Shashikant Kutwal 719 CM Gukesh D 7 20 Vigneshwaran S 7

Category Prize Elo Rating(1600-1999) Rank Name Pts1 Adhithya S 8 2 Shelke Sankarsha 7½3 Audi Ameya 7½ 4 Maulik Raval 7½ 5 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 7½

6 Krishnater Kushager 7 7 Karthik Gopal G 78 Hrishikesh Chavan 7 9 Joshi Tejas 710 CM Aditya Mittal 7 Category Prize Elo Rating(0-1599) 1 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 7 2 Joshi Deep 6½ 3 Shelke Gangadhar 6½ 4 Shah Dhaval 6 5 Raval Niraj 6 6 Audi Saiesh 6 7 Dutta Debarghya 6 8 Chaudhary Sanket 6 9 Gourav Barik 6 10 Vrandesh Parekh 6

Best Vadodara Players 1 Sanjeet Manohar 7 2 Dhruvik Shah 6½ 3 Rawal Shailesh 6½ Best Veteran Players 1 Makwana Virendra Sinh 7 2 Wazeer Ahmad Khan 6 3 Kumtakar Deepak 6Best Unrated Players 1 Jobanputra Hiren 6 2 Raninga Aditya Himanshu 5½3 Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi 5½ Best Woman Players 1 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 7 2 WCM Isha Sharma 6½ 3 WFM Tejaswini Sagar 6½ Age Group (Boys & Girls) U-9(Boys) 1 Mendonca Leon Luke 2 Samant Aditya S 3 Adalja Vanssh A U-9(Girls) 1 Mahi Amit Doshi 2 Shah Viha 3 Sagar Siya U-11(Boys)1 Raja Rithvik R 2 Dhanush Bharadwaj 3 Prithu Gupta U-11(Girls)1 Panchal Tisha N

2 Swara Hetal Shah 3 Ananya Parikh U-13(Boys)1 Samal Ansuman 2 Shah Rishab 3 Parikh Kairav U-13(Girls)1 Makhija Aashna 2 Shah Rutvi 3 Aneri Ketan Kanjar U-15(Boys) 1 Avdhoot Lendhe 2 Singh Nishit 3 Mahindrakar Indrajeet U-15(Girls) 1 Nandhini 2 Saranya Y 3 Jadhav Vaibhavi Best Vadodara Players Rank Name U-9(Boys) 1 Shah Divy Bhupesh 2 Nachiket Iyer 3 Ananmay Sharma U-9(Girls) 1 Pawani Bhatt 2 Sachika Tomer U-11(Boys)1 Anadkat Kartavya 2 Bokade Chinmay 3 Upadhyay Prince U-11(Girls)Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo U-13(Boys) 1 Kamdar Aparva 2 Ansh M Shah 3 Aditya P Melani U-13(Girls) 1 Sunidhi Goyal 2 Manna Sachita 3 U-15(Boys)1 DAMANI MALAY 2 Parikh Vivek Tarak 3 Jesing Jugal J U-15(Girls) Bhansali Anushri

Chess Club live Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2015,Vadodara

R.R.Laxman wins title by Ambrish C Joshi,IA,Chief Arbiter

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The 1st Silicon City FIDE Rating Chess Tourna-ment got off to a glittering start on 21st Nov at the Silicon City Academy of Secondary Educa-tion. Nearly 250 players from various parts of India weretook part in the Event. It was for the first time ever in the history of Karnataka Chess that an Inter-School FIDE Rating Chess Tournament was being conducted. The players were in the age group of four to sixteen. Six-teen players were aged six and below.

The Tournament wasOrganized by Silicon City Academy of Secondary Education and was sponsored by Bank of Baroda and co-sponsored by Sir M Visweswaraiah Co-operative Bank and Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank. MrsSumaliniLaguve, Principal of Silicon City Public School, was the Director of the Tourna-ment.The Event was inaugurated by SameeraSimha, Chairman of Silicon City Academy of Second-ary Education.

Prajesh R of P.S.Senior Secondary School, Tamil Nadu leads the field and was the top seed in the Chess Tournament. Karnataka had its top players in ReetishPadhi of Greenwood High, Bangalore, Aditya B Kalyani of Chinmaya Eng-lish Primary School, Hubli and Pranav Anand of Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore.

Top seed Mr R Prajesh (1997) from P S Senior Secondary School, Chennai won the Ist Silicon City FIDE Rated Rapid Chess Tournament by scoring 9 out of 10 rounds. Second seed Reet-ishPadhi (1828) of Greenwood High, Bangalore secured second place by scoring eight and half

points. Third place won by Jatin SN (1511) of JSS Mysore by scoring 8 points.

Chief guest of prize distribution ceremony, Mr. Sameera Simha, Chairman of Silicon City Academy of Secondary Education along with MrsSumaliniLaguve, Principal, SCASE and Mr Ravi Laxman, Secretary, SCASE distributed prizes to winners.

Final standings:Rk Name Pts1 Prajesh R 92 Reetish Padhi 8½3 Jatin S N 84 Aditya B Kalyani 85 Pranav Anand 86 Sriram Udhayakumar 87 Vasishta S 88 Ashwath Sai Darshan 89 Ithal H L Rajath 7½10 Tejas Cavale 7½11 Sishir B 7½12 Aaron Ghosh 7½13 Chaithanya Ganesh 7½14 Rakesh N 7½15 Prachi Bharti 7½16 Keshav Kothari 7½17 Rohan Nachnani 718 Zain K Muhammed 719 Chiranjan Kumarr K S 720 Nachiketh Adiga 721 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 722 Kaushik G Iyer 723 Sanjana Raghunath 724 Manya Hegde 725 Shreyas V S 7

26 Hrishikesh Rupesh R 727 Nikilesh G K 728 Anirudh Gosakan 729 Ashuthosh Srivatsa R 730 Harish Srinivasan 731 Shabreen T Khanam 6½32 Dalal Ambar Abhay 6½33 Agrawal Arnav 6½34 Tanav Sudarshan 6½35 Shubh Kapur 6½36 Kruti G 6½37 Shravan Subramanian.B 6½38 Nitesh Bhat 6½39 Akshatha Raju 6½40 Rakshith Ashok Kumar 6½41 Afreed T Khan 6½42 Neelesh Thonse Rao 6½43 Avichal Jadeja 6½44 Ayush J Yajaman 6½45 Tejas Varma 6½46 Rahuldev M 6½47 Ishani Bhat 6½48 Tarun S 6½49 Ananya Arumbakkam 650 Chaitanya Gadgil 651 Sanjana K N 652 Albin Shaji 653 Afreen T Khanam 654 Valety Swetha 655 Chinua Pailoor 656 Amal P S 657 Sumukh M G 658 Pranav Suraj Nair 659 Bhumika L N 660 Cheenu Sathyanarayana 661 Ahan Sahoo 662 Arhan Chethan Anand 663 Anya Seth Syed 664 Ojasi Gopikrishna 665 Disha Daimane 666 Tejes Suresh Kumar 667 Naidhruva S Bettadapur 6

68 Ananya Murali 669 Nishanth S S 670 Shreya Kar 671 Pratham Ajay 672 Pranitha S R 673 Suchit Paul Santosh 674 Viswajith P 675 Sivant M 676 Aditya Chiplunkar 677 Pasapula Teja Sree 678 Shreyas V 679 Rishab S 680 Sankalp Sundar 681 Shreyas Singh 682 Saigal Archit 683 Pranav Srikar B S 684 Nishant V Trivedi 685 Abhilash Reddy 5½86 Anmol S 5½87 Dhanusha V S 5½88 Pratik Dinesh Kumar 5½89 Aarav Urgaonkar 5½90 Krishna K Ravi 5½91 Muhilkumar A 5½92 Ankit Loni 5½93 Vishnu Sridhar 5½94 Keerthi Sooraj H S 5½95 Sri Akshitha Sajja 5½96 Zoya Nizar 5½97 Deepanshu Gupta 5½98 Radhakrishna S Kavalgi 5½99 Sooryanarayana M V 5½100 Anirudh B S 5101 Sachi Thonse Rao 5102 Gurav Gandhar 5103 Pranav Sudhakar 5104 Yashas Donthi 5105 Jainarayana M V 5106 Neil J 5107 Sachin V S 5108 Dhruv M N 5109 Yatharth Jain 5110 Naman Kashyap 5

1stSilicon City Intl. FIDE Rated Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament

Prajesh wins titleIA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

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Second seeded International Master, V A V Rajesh, of Tamilnadu won the title in 8th ACA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament at Members Lounge, Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Trivandrum. He collected 5.5 points in six rounds and won the Winner’s trophy and pocketing a cash prize of forty thousand rupees. Along with him, M Kunal of Tamilnadu, Abhishek T M, Unas K A and K. U. Marthandan all from Kerala also collected 5.5 points but better tie break score helped V A V Rajesh winning the title.

The chief guest of the function, Shri. N Nandakumar IAS, Director of Collegiate Education gave away the prizes. Shri. R. Rajesh, Secretary, Chess Association Kerala, presided over the meeting. Shri. Venugopalan Joint. Secretary, AICF welcomed the gathering. Shri. Rajendran Achary, Secretary, Chess Association Trivandrum and Shri.G. Ashok, President Travancore Chess Club felicitated the function and Mr.C Suresh, President, Chess Association Trivandrum proposed the vote of thanks.

Earlier, the 8th ACA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament got underway at Members Lounge, Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Trivandrum, from 14th November 2015. The event attracted 185 players out of which 117 players are Fide rated. Players from Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Orissa and Tamilnadu participated. M.Kunal of Tamilnadu is the top seeded. Participation of International Master VAV Rajesh from Tamilnadu made the tournament colourful. The total prize fund of the event was two lakhs and one thousand,

out of which Rs. 40,000/- was reserved to the winner.

The 4th seeded, K. Alex Thomas of Wynad, Kerala was beaten by 28th seeded M. Shreyas of Kerala and the 32nd seeded, 9 years old Jubin Jimmy shocked 8th seeded U C Mohanan of Kerala are the two upsets in round three. At end of round five M Kunal, V A V Rajesh and K U Marthandan were the leaders with 5 points. In the final round, the encounter between Rajesh and M Kunal ended in a draw whereas K U Marthandan was also held by Chandar Raju. In the mean time K A Unas and T M Abhishek won their games against M B Muralidharan and K Dhanesekaran and joint with the leaders. Five players V A V Rajesh, M Kunal, T M Abhishek, K A Unas and K U Marthandan scored 5.5 points and tied for the first place but better tie break helped V A V Rajesh won the tournament.

Main PrizesRank Name Pts1 Rajesh V A V 5½2 Kunal M. 5½3 Abhishek T M 5½4 Unas K.A. 5½5 Marthandan K U 5½6 Joy Lazar M.A. 57 Mohammed Dilshad 58 Chandar Raju 59 Alex Thomas K. 510 Mohanan U.C. 511 Unnikrishnan M A 512 Muralidharan M.B. 4½

13 Dhanasekar K. 4½14 Genish Prakash J 4½15 Muralidharan R. 4½16 Abhiram C Nath 4½17 Sooraj M R 418 Shreyas M 419 Hari Suresh 420 Mohammed Nizzar 4 Category prizes rating between 1000 and 1599 Rk Name Pts1 Arumugam N 52 Mansoor C M 53 Deepak Kumar R 4½4 Archana S G 4½5 Sumesh Kabeer 4½6 Girish G 4½7 Jubin Jimmy 48 Kabhilan S 49 Salim Yoosuf 410 Vivek Vinod 4rating between 1700 and 1799 Vijin Babu S 4

rating between 1500 and 1699 Shibin K Benny 4

rating between 1400 and 1499

Anil Kumar S 4

rating between 1300 and 1399

Syam Hari H V 4

rating between 1200 and 1299

Aji Goodwill 4

rating between 1000 and 1199

Santo Wilbert 4

Unrated Vishnu Mohan age group S60 Antony Simethy 4Club KERT Akhil Vijayakumar 4age group U09

1 Lekshanth M 42 Sreyas Payyappat 3½3 Colaco Vernon Jesus 3½4 Hrishikesh Rupesh R 3½5 Sanil Saha 3½Under 9 Girls 1 Anupam M Sreekumar 32 Riya Shannon S 33 Vijayasree S P 24 Pillai Shreya S 2age group U11 1 Devathma D 3½2 Abhishek A R 3½3 Abhinav Chakrapani S 3½4 Sharath R Shanbhag 3½5 Rahul Krishna V 3 Girls Under 11 1 Amritha Vinod 2½2 Anjitha Krishnakumar 23 Arya S Nair 2age group U13 1 Eldho Skaria 42 Shreyas P Vijay 43 A Jesumarian Leslie 3½4 Ramachandran S M 3½5 Ananthu T S 3½ Under 13 Girls 1 V L Priya Suresh 3½2 Anamika S S 33 Nandana Sajeevan 34 Leaha B 2½ age group U15 1 Sanjay Snehal M S 3½2 Sujithraj U Mallan 3½3 Bala Yogesh S 3½4 Prajwal V P 3½5 Dhananjay V P 3 Under 15 Girls 1 Mesmin Jinu M 32 G Krishna Priya Suresh 33 Varsha V Venugopal 34 Amisha Sany M 2½

8th ACA FIDE Rated Open Chess tournament, Trivandrum…

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To celebrate the 53rd National Premier Championship, Tiruvarur District Chess Association conducted 1st All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament from 16th November to 20th November 2015, at New Bharath Matriculation Hr.Sec.School, Tiruvarur.

This Tournament attracted 132 entries from 5 States & 2 Special Units, in that 73 Players were rated and one IM participated, Top seed was IM Ramanathan Balasubramanian from ICF.

Sri.V.Ravichandran, Chairman, Municipality, Tiruvarur, inaugurated the event on 16th November morning with Mr.BarathKalyan&Ms.Harshini the top players from Tiruvarur in the presence of Sri V.Hariharan, Gen. Secretary, AICF & TNSCA, Sri R.Anantharam, Chairman Arbiters Council, AICF, Mr.Balagunasekharan, Jt.Secretary, TNSCA, Mr.Muralidharan, Mr.Balan, Mr.ArunaBhasakr, Vice- Presidents of Tiruvarur District Chess Association’s &all the office bearers were present in the Inauguration. The function was presided by Sri Natarajan, Properieter, Arun Hotels, Tiruvarur.

Even though the entries are less the strong competition started from the 3rd round, in that round both the Top two seeds IM Ramanathan Balasubramanian of TN& Ram S Krishnan of ICFlost to low rated opponents. At The end of sixth round S.PrasannaTN and P BalaKannammaof TN took the lead in by scoring 6 out of 6,in the seventh round Balakannamma beat Prasanna and took

the sole lead, and then there was nobody to stop her, she won the title in style.she was unbeaten and secured 9 points out of 9 rounds.

The Prize Distribution function was held on 20th afternoon 3pm, The Total Prize Money was Rs 2,00,000/- and Total 90 Prizes. Sri IM TN Parameswarn gave away the Prizes, in the presence of Sri V Ravichandran, Chairman, Muncipality, Tiruvarur, Mr.Balagunasekharan, Jt. Secretary, TNSCA & Organising Secretary, and All the Tiruvarur DCA office bearers were present.

I Thank AICF, TNSCA &Tiruvarur DCA for giving me the wonderful opportunity to be Chief Arbiter for this Special event. I thank The New Bharath Matriculation School, Management & Staffs. I thank all the players and parents for their kind co-operation and finally my gthanks are due to all my co=arbiters who enables the smooth and successful conduct of the tournament.

Final standings:Rank Name Pts1 Bala Kannamma.P 92 Anilkumar O.T. 7½3 Ram S. Krishnan 7½4 Kumar S. 75 Dharani Kumar M S 76 Prasannaa.S 6½7 Barath Kalyan M 6½8 Abhinessh S 6½9 Anandha Venkatesan 6½10 R Balasubramaniam IM 6½11 Aravindaswami T 6½

12 Vignesh Kasi P L 6½13 Harshini A 6½14 Anup Shankar R 615 Arun Kumar M 616 Sri Sai Baswanth P 617 Kamalanathan R 618 Sriram B 619 Vishwanath Kannam 620 Kaliyuga Varatharajan V 621 Shanmukha Teja P 622 Vallabhai S 623 Ruban Sanjay M 624 Suudhan S 625 Purushoth G 626 Ganesha Moorthy D 627 Bargava Narasimhan S 628 Rishi R 629 Dhanush Ragav 5½30 Subash Mathivanan 5½31 Suthershun A 5½32 S. Jeevanandam 5½33 Santhosh S 5½34 Kamali B 5½35 Naveen Prabhhu S 5½36 Rohinth S 5½37 Aravindhan P 5½38 Jayadev R Balan 5½39 Subramanian T.V. 540 Abdul Hameed 541 Ragesh Sarma.M 542 Rindhiya V 543 Aasha.C R. 544 Mohana Praba R B 545 Krishnaa S 546 Srimathi R 547 Allin Rushvica 548 Pradeebarajan V 549 Surya Prakash J 550 Harshad S 551 Swetha P 552 Akash S 553 Nagasri Saikanth 554 Yuvasree S A 5

55 Arjun Kumar S 556 Vedhanayaki K 557 Rajarajan S 558 Rajaram Suriyanarayanan 559 Vairavelan K 560 Umeshwaran S A 4½61 Savitha Shri B 4½62 Giridhar S 4½63 Vinoth Pm 4½64 Nafisa Nehal T B 4½65 Siddhesvarajith P S 4½66 Yogeshwaran S A 4½67 Jaswanth Prasanna V 4½68 Dhanush P 4½69 Manivanan S 4½70 Suthi Arasan M 4½71 Ribhav V 4½72 Reshma D 4½73 S Krishnamoorthy 4½74 Vimal S 4½75 Shanmuhasundaram R 4½76 Allin Anishvica 4½77 Dhanya V 4½78 Sarmila S 4½79 James S Thamilarasan A 480 Arul Jothi A 481 Dravid T 482 Deebhika K 483 Kuraloviyan V 484 Kishore J 485 Priyadharshini G 486 Kirubadharsini S 487 Azagesan R T 488 Subiksha S 489 Nishanth Kamaraj 490 Archana G 491 Thatchayani R 492 Prem Kishore M 493 Shasrajith P S 494 Jayakumar Thamarai 495 Vimal Sakthivadivel 4

1st All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Tiruvarur

Bala Kannamma wins at Tiruvarurby P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter

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State Level Chi ldren & Open Chess Tournament was organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association on the eve of Tiruvarur Chess Festival at New Bharath Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruvarur. Total of 165 players are participated from 14 districts cross Tamil Nadu in the Swiss format with 25 minutes + 5 seconds increment.

The tournament was conducted in 5 categories (Open, Under-09, 11, 13, and 17). The Strong open category attracted 48 players with 39 rated players in which the IM elected and 2010 TN State Open Chess Champion M Kunal from Trichy was top seeded, followed by Current TN State Junior Chess Champion S Prasanna from Kanchipuram 2nd seed, Commonwealth Under-16 silver Medalist M Barath Kalyan from Tiruvarur 3rd seed, TN State Rapid champion Sa Kannan from Sivagangai 4th seed.

All the top players had a smooth run in the first three games, in the 4th round Sa kannan drew first seed M Kunal. After 5th Uma Maheswaran of Madurai become sole leader with full points, and then he was stopped by Sa kannan in 6th round. In the dramatic last 7th round Sa kannan was beat by S Prasanna of Kanchipuram and IM elect M Kunal beat Uma Maheswaran and got Title of State Level Children & Open Chess Tournament in open category and got (Rs.5000/-). S Prasanna, Sa Kannan, and M Barath Kalyan got 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively.

Tiruvarur Chess Festival State Level Children & Open Chess Tournament 2015

M.Kunal wins Open eventby P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter

The All India Chess Federation felicitated the 11 medal winners in the last World Youth and Candidates Chess Championship at Halkidiki in Greece at the Concert Hall of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, New Delhi. There was Governmental participation at the function with Shri.Onkar Kedia IAS, gracing the function as Chief Guest. Shri.Venketrama Raja, President, All India Chess Federation and Shri.D.V.Sundar ,Vice President, FIDE, V.Hariharan, Secretary AICF, Bharat Singh, CEO AICF, Pradeep Jain and S.C.Sahu, Vice Presidents AICF,Shri.R.M.Dongre, Treasurer, AICF were present at the felicitation. Members who attended the Central Council also attended the function. Bharat Singh. CEO, welcomed the gathering, Chief Guest Shri.Onkar Kedia, Venketrama Raja,President AICF and Shri.D.V.Sundar, Vice President offered their felicitations to the medal winners.

The young achievers, smartly dressed in dark blue blazers provided by the Federation, were seated in the front row facing the podium. Each medal winner was invited on to the dais amidst applause from the crowd. Dignitaries on the dais garlanded, presented a shawl to each medal winner after which a citation listing out the achievements of the medal winner was read out and presented along with cash award. The coaches who accompanied the Indian World Youth contingent – Shri.K.Gopalakrishnan, Shri.L.Imocha, Shri.Vijay Deshpande and Ms.Sujatha were also honoured on this occasion. Shri.V.Hariharan, Secretary, AICF proposed the vote of thanks. IM Vishal Sareen was the compere at the event. The function came to an end with National anthem

At the central-council meeting held earlier in the day, the AICF amended a proposed change in the existing awards for the medal winners and it was unanimously passed. As a result, a total of Rs. 6,00,000/- (Rupees Six Lakhs) were distributed to the young achievers for their remarkable performance.The five Gold medal winners were awarded with a cash award of Rs. 75000/- each while the Silver and Bronze medal winners went home richer by Rs.45000/- and Rs.30000/- respectively.

AICF felicitates medal winners

IM K Rathnakaran of Railways inaugurated the tournament by moving the piece in the chess board in the presence of IA RK Balagunashekaran - Organising Secretary, IA NK Nandhakumar – Arbiter National Premier, Mr.N Muralidharan – Corresponded New Bharath Matric.Hr.Sec.School, IA Rathinam Anantharam- Chief Arbiter, National Premier, IA P Palaniappan, FA T Shyam Sundar – Chief Arbiter of this tournament, Mr.Balan – Vice President TDCA.

Total prize fund of Rs.20,000/- in that 20 cash prizes for Open and 40 Cups each for U09, U11, U13, U17 (Boys and Girls each 20 cups). Apart from this the organizer graces to arrange special prizes for all players who not got prize. All 165 players got prizes. Prizes were distributed by Mr.Bala – CA Honda, Auditor Mr.Balaji alone with vice-president Mr.Balan and Mr. RK Balagunashekaran, the man who made all these events possible.

Solution to ‘puzzle of the month’on page 41 : Looking at the pawn structure in the diagram, it requires exactly 10 captures by pawns to reach this position. Six men are left on the board. Secondly what was the black’s last move? There could be only one of the following two moves- d7 to d5 or f7 to f5.Had it been d7 to d5 then the BB could not have come out for capture by the pawn.So the key is 1.gxf en passant after f7 to f5 followed by f7 mate.

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With five Gold, three Silver and three Bronze medals, the country was the best performing team of the world for the fourth year in a row and winning five gold medals was indeed a special achievement given the fact that no other country could win more than one Gold medal.

Bharath Subramaniyam – Under 8 Open Gold

R.Praggnanandhaa – Under 10 Open Gold

Rakshitta Ravi – Under 10 Girls Gold

R.Vaishali -Under 14 Girls Gold

Dev Shah – Under-8 Open Silver

V.Varshini – Under-18 Girls Silver

Saina Salonika Under-12 Girls Bronze

M.Mahalakshmi Under-18 Girls Gold

Nihal Sarin – Under-12 Open Silver

Divya Deshmukh – Under-10 Girls Bronze

Vantika Agarwal Under-14 Girls Bronze

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Thirteen Year Old DhanushRagav of Dindigulwon the 2ndAll India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament Below 1800 with 7.5 points out of possible 9 rounds organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association.The 4 day event from November21 toNovember 24 was held at New Bharath Matriculation School,Tiruvarur. The prize fund of Rs.1,50,000 was split to 24 main prizes and 72 special prizes &the winner gets Rs.15,000.

The t ou rnament was i naugura ted Mr.Murugaiyan, Vice Principal, Mr. Rajendran V C, Dist Secretary, Tamil Maanila Congress, P Karthikeyan, International Master along with Swampnil S Dhopade, International Master.The event attracted 192 players from 6states ,12 districts out of which 114 were internationally Rated Players.

In the fifth round Dhanush Ragav of Dindigul beat the top seed B Selvamurugan of Madurai to share the lead with M S Dharani Kumar with 5 points each.In the sixth round the game between the leaders ended in a draw, but still maintained the lead with 5.5 points each.Dharani Kumar lost in the seventh round to AnandhaVenkatesan, while the other leader Dhanush Ragav was held to a draw by Sri SaiBaswanth of Telangana. In the round 8 Dhanush emerged as a sole leader by winning his game against Anandha Venkatesh with 7 points. In the final round Dhanush& Sri SaiBaswanth tied for the first place, Dhanush won the Tournament with a better tiebreak and a cash amount of Rs.15,000/-

Chief guest of the prize distribution function AnbuChozhan,Asst. Governor, Rotary District

2982, Zone 10, Bragathambal, Correspondent, New Bharath School distributed the prizes.Dignitaries present on the dais were Balan, Vice President, TNSCA,R.K Balagunashekaran, Org.Secretary,Rotary Presidents Senthil Nathan ,Kumarasamy, and R.K.Selva.

I thank all the Players, Parents, New Bharath School Management and the co-arbiters for their kind co-operation to run this event successfully. I Thank All India Chess Federation, Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and Tiruvarur District Chess Association for appointing me as a Chief Arbiter for this event.

Main prize winnersRank Name Pts1 Dhanush Ragav 7½2 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7½3 Dharani Kumar M S 74 Selvamurugan B 75 Sasikumar N 76 Rahul Krishna Viswanathan 77 Deepak Kumar R 78 Gowrichander U 79 Ram Kailash Pl 6½10 Harshad S 6½11 Srimathi R 6½12 Balaji J 6½13 Jawahar K S 6½14 Nagasri Saikanth 6½15 Antony Jesumarian Leslie 6½16 S. Jeevanandam 617 Anandha Venkatesan 618 Vengatesan B 619 Shanmukha Teja P 620 Ganesha Moorthy D 6

Tiruvarur Chess Festival 2015 2nd All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament Below 1800

Dhanush Raghav wins titleby S.GaneshBabu, IA, Chief Arbiter

Decisions taken by the Central Council Meeting of AICF on 12.12.2015 at New Delhi1. Dress Code to be made compulsory for the all the players participating in all the National Championships. To begin with, all the State Associations are directed to give two T-Shirts with their Association logo in the front and the name of the State at the back printed prominently. Players without this will not be permitted to participate.2. The report of the Disciplinary Sub Committee on match fixing during the National Under13 Chess Championship

2015 held at Gurgaon, from 30th August to 06th September, 2015 was accepted by the Central Council. Accordingly Neelash Saha was stripped of his gold medal. Both Aronyak Ghosh who conceded a point to Neelash Saha to help him win the title and Neelash Saha are barred from participating in any National Championship or FIDE rated tournaments or the State/District Championships till 01st April, 2016. Further both can not represent the country till 31.12.2016.3. Mr.A.Narasimha Reddy, Chairman Ad-hoc committee Telangana State Chess Association informs the AICF that a new body will be elected in January 2016.4. Bhubaneswar to be the venue for the World Junior Chess Championship from 7th to 21st August, 2016.5. Asian Junior Chess Championship 2016 is allotted to India.6. New Financial Regulations approved.7. Uniform Financial Regulations for State Associations in key areas approved.8. The AICF felicitates medal winning members of the Indian team at the World Youth and Cadet Chess Championships 2015 held at Greece. Rs.6 lakhs was disbursed among the Eleven children with Rs.75,000, Rs.45,000 and Rs.30,000 for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medallists respectively.9. AICF suspends Mr.Y.Arun Singh organising Secretary of Manipur Chess Association. 10. A thrust to be given to the preparation of the Indian Women team for the Chess Olympiad to be held at Baku in 2016. A committee consisting Mr.Bharat Singh, Mr.R.M.Dongre, IM.Vishal Sareen, IM Sekhar Sahu, Mr.V.Hariharan along with GM. R.B.Ramesh was formed to chalk out the modalities for the above. 11. Financial Regulations: Some important decisions:a. FIDE Rated tournaments: In future FIDE rated tournaments conducted for 5 days and below, the organisers cannot charge more than 0.5% of the total prize money as entry fee. For tournaments of 6 days and above, the old regulations continues. b. Since July 2014, FIDE has started levying 1 Euro from each player from all the FIDE Rated tournaments. AICF will allow upto 150 players without collecting this levy from the organisers. However, over and above 150 players, the organisers shall pay at the rate of Rs.100/- per player to the AICF. The old Rule will be in force for all the tournaments which have been approved. New Rule will come into effect for all future tournaments.

(L-R) R.M.Dongre, Treasurer AICF, V.Hariharan, Secretary AICF, D.V.Sundar, Vice President,FIDE,P.R.Venketrama Raja, President AICF, Pradeep Jain, Vice President AICF, Bharat Singh, CEO AICF and Sekar Chandra.Sahu, Vice President

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21 Sivakumar T S 622 Narayanan P 623 Shyam Sundar M 624 Savitha Shri B 5½

Special prizesRating Category 1401 to 16001 Purushoth G 72 Surya Kumar S A 73 Shanmugasundaram G. 6½4 Aasha.C R. 65 Suudhan S 66 Vishwanath Kannam 5½7 Kabhilan S 5½8 Vijayaragavan A R 5½9 Kabil S 5½10 Akilesh Viswaa 5½Rating Category 1201 to 14001 Shanjay Krishnaa S 72 Robinson M G 6½3 Naveen Prabhhu Sundaresan 64 Dawood.K 65 Suthershun A 66 Pradeebarajan V 5½7 Anselm Flavian Paul 5½8 Mohana Praba R B ½9 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5½10 Dhanaviswanathan C T 5½Rating Category 0 to 12001 Rishi R 62 Madhan K 63 Dhanasekar M 5½4 Iniyan S 5½5 Shibu A 5½6 Swetha P 5½7 Bhagyashree G Patil 5½8 Aravindhan P 5½9 Arjun Vasudevan 5½10 Rajaram Suriyanarayanan 5½Best Veteran1 Abdul Hameed 4½2 Jayakumar Thamarai 3Under -8 Girls1 Sruthi Naya B 4½

2 Anusri K 1Under -10 Girls1 Ahalya A 4½2 Cuba Punitha Vilvam 43 Shiny Angeline G 3½4 Abinaya K 2½5 Prithicksha M 2Under - 12 Girls1 Rindhiya V 5½2 Kamali B 53 Deebhika K 54 Jeevika S 4½5 Diviya G 4½Under -15 Girls1 Yuvasree S A 52 Vedhanayaki K 4½3 Nafisa Nehal T B 4½4 Arul Jothi A 4½5 Priyadharshini G 4Under -8 Boys1 Muthu P 52 Sri Hari S 4½3 Hayrish Jayaraam S 44 Rajesh L S 3½5 Hari Ramachandran S 3½Under -10 Boys1 Jayadev R Balan 5½2 Surya Prakash J 53 Divyan T 54 Vasanth S 55 Arjun Kumar S 5Under - 12 BoysSNo. Name Pts1 Kaliyuga Varatharajan Vengades 5½2 Nishanth Kamaraj 5½3 Ragesh Sarma.M 54 Rohinth S 55 Vel Murugan B 4½Under -15 BoysSNo. Name Pts1 Girish G 5½2 Rishi R 4½3 Harish Babu K S 4½4 Ribhav V 4½5 Krishnaa S 4½

Selected games from National Challenger, NagpurKarthik,V (2256)Mhamal,Anurag (2393) [C95]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Nb8 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Nbd2 Bb7 12.Bc2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf8 14.Ng3 g6 15.a4 c5 16.d5 c4 17.Bg5 Be7 18.Be3 Qc7 19.Qd2 Nc5 20.Nh2 Nfd7 [Quinteros (2545)-Najdorf (2515), 1979 went: 20...Rab8 21.Rf1 bxa4 22.Bxa4 Nxa4 23.Rxa4 Bc8± but the game was drawn.]21.a5 Bc8 22.Ng4 Nb7 23.Rf1 Ndc5 24.Nh6+ Kg7 25.f4?! f6 [Risky would be: 25...Kxh6? 26.f5+ Kg7 27.f6+ Bxf6 28.Bh6+ Kg8 29.Rxf6 Nd7 (29...Nxa5 Much worse would be to go pawn hunting: 30.Raf1 Re7 31.Qg5 Nab7 32.R6f2+– with the winning threat of Qf6 and Qg7#) 30.Qf2! Nd8 31.Rf1 Re7 32.Bg5²]26.f5 Nxa5

27.Rxa5!? [White has a grand plan of at-tack for which he wants to divert the black queen from the scene of operations.]27...Qxa5 28.Ng4 [Probably it was better to destroy the Nc5 which could come to the aid of the black king: 28.Bxc5! dxc5

29.Ng4 Qc7 (29...g5 30.d6 Bd8 31.d7+–) 30.Qh6+ Kh8 31.Nxe5 Bxf5 32.exf5 fxe5 33.fxg6+–]28...Nd7 29.Kh2 Rg8 [Black should have tried the blockad-ing manoeuvre which would not have gone so devastatingly against him as the actual game. 29...g5 30.Bxg5 fxg5 31.f6+ Nxf6 32.Qxg5+ Kh8 33.Nxf6 Qd8 34.Nxe8!! Qxe8 (34...Bxg5?? 35.Rf8#) 35.Qh6 Qg6 36.Rf8+ Bxf8 37.Qxf8+ Qg8 38.Qxd6 Qe8 39.Qf6+±]30.fxg6 hxg6

31.Bb6!! [A line clearance sacrifice to get his queen to h6 wihout any loss of tem-po.]31...Qxb6 32.Qh6+ Kf7 33.Qh7+ Rg7 [33...Kf8? 34.Nh6+–]34.Nh6+ Ke8 35.Qxg7 Kd8 36.Ng8 Bf8 37.Qxg6 Kc7 38.Nxf6 Nxf6 39.Rxf6 Bd7 40.Rf7 Rd8 41.Bd1! Qe3 42.Bg4 Bh6 43.Qf5! Bf4 44.Rxd7+ Kb6 45.Bf3! Rxd7 46.Qxd7 Bxg3+ 47.Kxg3 Qf4+ 48.Kf2 Qd2+ 49.Kg1 Qe3+ 50.Kh1 Qc1+ [Diagram # Black's only hope is to give perpetual checks.]51.Bd1! [This is white's only way to avoid perpetual check. After captur-ing the bishop the black queen cannot get to f4 for check.]51...Qxd1+ 52.Kh2 Ka5 [Amazingly, there is no way black can avoid the capture of his key d6 pawn.]

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

(position after 50…..Qc1+)53.Qc7+ Ka4 54.Qxd6 Kb3 55.Qxe5! Kxb2 56.d6! Qd2 57.Qd4! Qxd4 [After 57...Qf4+ 58.g3 black has no perpetual check and the d-pawn would pro-mote soon.]58.cxd4 c3 59.d7 c2 60.d8Q c1Q 61.Qf6

We now have a second queen ending, and again, b lack has no perpetual check!]61...b4 62.d5+ Kb1 63.d6 b3 64.Qd4 Qf4+ 65.Kg1 Qc1+ 66.Kf2 Qf4+ 67.Ke2 Qg3 68.d7 Qxg2+ 69.Kd3 Qg3+ [If 69...Qc2+ 70.Ke3 Qc1+ 71 .Ke2 Qc2+ 72 .Ke1 Qc1+ 73.Qd1 the black queen is immobil-ised.]70.Kc4 Qc7+ 71.Kxb3 Qb8+ 72.Qb4!1–0

Nitin,S (2404)Kulkarni,Vikramaditya (2322) [C00]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3 Nc6 4.c3 e5 5.Nf3 exd4 6.0–0 Bg4 7.exd5 Qxd5 8.Re1+ Nge7 [M.Uritzky (2450) - A.Kaminik (2245), 1997 went: 8...Be7 9.Be4 Qa5 10.h3 Bh5 11.Bxc6+ bxc6 12.Qxd4± White eventually won.]9.Be4 Qd6 10.Qb3 0–0–0 11.Nxd4

This makes the Bg4 feel stupid, sitting on g4 with nothing to pin! Not only that, in the further course of the game, the unprotected nature of this bishop on g4 is a mill around black's neck. Meanwhile white is whipping up a great attack on the queen side.]11...f6?! [A move like this could very rarely be satisfactory for the development of black's game. Yet the alternative is hardly attractive: 11...Qf6 12.Be3 Be6 13.Nxe6 Qxe6 14.Nd2 Qxb3 15.Nxb3±; or if, 11...f5 12.Bxc6 Nxc6 13.Bg5 Nxd4 14.cxd4 black loses the ex-change.]12.Na3 Na5 13.Qa4 [Diagram #]13...Qc5? [Compared to what he gets in the game, slightly better was the direct: 13...Qa6 14.b4 c5 15.bxc5 Bd7 16.Nab5 Ng6 17.c6 Bxc6 18.Bf5+ Kb8 19.Rb1!]14.Ndb5! Qb6 15.Be3 Qa6 [After these three successive unhappy

(position after 13.Qa4)queen moves, black is clearly lost.]16.Nxa7+ Kb8 17.b4 [Rather than the pro-saic prosecution of the attack with this formal frontal assault, a more devastating possibility, based on the unfortunate Bg4, was available: 17.Bxb7! Qxb7 18.Qxg4 Nd5 19.N7b5]17...f5 18.b5! Qd6 19.b6

19...Nd5 20.Bxd5 Qxd5 21.bxc7+ Kxc7 22.N7b5+ 1–0

Das,Sayantan (2444)Reddy,Mehar Chinna (2327) [A09]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Qc2 Nbd7 6.b3 Bd6 7.Bb2 a6 8.Be2 Qe7 9.Rg1 [White has a penchant for new ideas and rare variations. Usual here is: 9.d4]9...Ne5 [Better was: 9...e5! 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.g4

h6]10.Nxe5 Bxe5 11.g4 h6 [Probably black feared a trap. He could have gone in for: 11...Bxh2 12.Rh1 Bd6 13.g5 Nd7 14.g6 Nf6 (14...fxg6 15.Rxh7!=) 15.gxh7 g6 16.Na4 Rxh7 17.0–0–0=] 12.h4 Nd7 13.g5

The tone of the opening indicates that white is set for attack and black to defend.]13...hxg5 14.hxg5 b5 15.f4 Bd6= 16.0–0–0 bxc4 17.Rh1? [This could lead to disad-vantage for white. Probably he was a little wary of opening the b-file. Best was to ac-cept equality with: 17.bxc4 Rb8 18.Rh1 Rg8=]17...Rxh1 18.Rxh1 Ba3?! [If 18...cxb3 19.Rh8+ Nf8 20.axb3 Rb8?! (20...Bb7=) 21.Na4 (Threat 22 Bxg7) 21...Ba3 22.Bxa6! Bxb2+ 23.Kxb2 Bxa6 24.Qxc6+ Kd8 25.Qxa6]19.Rh8+ Nf8 20.bxc4± Rb8 21.Bxa3 Qxa3+ 22.Kd1

22...g6 [22...Rb2 seems to be very danger-

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronous, even winning, but it leads to nothing much as the sequel shows. 23.Qh7! White's knight is an unbelievable, magical defender of the white king. The black forces, though ap-pearing threatening, cannot harm the white king in anyway! 23...g6 24.Qg7 this keeps the black queen pinned to the defence of the Nf8. 24...Bd7 25.cxd5 cxd5 26.Bxa6! Ba4+ 27.Ke1 Bc6 28.Bd3 and a winning Bxg6 sac-rifice is looming over the black position.]23.Ke1 Qc5 24.Na4 Qb4 25.Kf2 a5 26.cxd5 cxd5 27.Qc7! [The winning move as the queen is well placed now to move to the key d6 square when possible.]27...d4

28.a3!! [The black queen is overloaded and must move! He cannot allow white to play Qd6 which threatens unstoppable mate on f8 or capture of his rook on b8. However, faster and stronger was the stroke: 28.Bb5+!! Qxb5 (An easy mate follows: 28...Rxb5 29.Qxc8+ Ke7 30.Qxf8+ Kd7 31.Qc8+ Kd6 32.Rd8+) 29.Qd6!! dxe3+ 30.Kg3 and Rxf8# cannot be stopped.]28...dxe3+ 29.dxe3 Qxa4 30.Qd6! 1–0

Harsha,Bharathakoti (2360)Deepan,Chakkravarthy (2500) [A01][White was National U–13 Champion in 2013 and black is a Grandmaster of many years standing.]1.b3 [Off beat openings are sometimes tried against players perceived to

be good in the openings.]1...Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.Bxf6 [This early exchange of his bishop for a knight is to inflict doubled pawns on black and make him device a brand new strategy for the game. Yet, this is not new in the Chess World!]3...exf6 4.c4 Bg7 5.Nc3 0–0! 6.g3! [In the pawn configuration obtaining on the board g2 is the best square for the bishop.]6...d6 7.Bg2 h5?! [Fritz suggests many moves here for black like Re8, f5, c6, etc., but not . ....h5.]8.e3 Re8 9.Nge2 Nd7 10.d4 Nf8 [Black does not seem to have a plan for this knight. The purpose of this move seems to be only to get the knight away from d7 to activate his Bc8. Better alternatives were: 10...c6 and 10.. ..f5 for 11...Nf6 and and an eventual....Ne4.]11.Nf4 Rb8 [A variation worth trying was: 11...c6 12.0–0 Ne6 13.Nd3 f5]12.0–0 Bh6 13.b4 Bg4 14.Qa4 g5 15.Nd3 a6 16.c5!

White logically pursues his queen-side at-tack.]16...h4? [This loses his a-pawn. However, after 16...Nd7 17.c6 Nb6 18.Qc2 bxc6 19.Bxc6 Bd7 20.Nd5± white has an unshakable grip on the c-file.]17.c6! b5 [Black could tr Black could also try to reduce his losses by trying to keep the position as closed as possible but that also does not offer much scope for survival: 17...b6 18.Qxa6 hxg3 19.hxg3 f5 20.Nd5 Ra8 21.Qb5 Ra3 22.Nb2+–]18.Qxa6 f5 19.Rfe1

Ng6 20.Nd5 Kg7 21.Qa7 Rc8 22.a4 [White plans a pawn assault on the queen-side. Better was 22.Qa5 which wins a pawn with-out any problem.]22...hxg3 23.hxg3 f4 24.axb5 f3 25.b6!

A well calculated advance.]25...cxb6 [If 25...fxg2? 26.bxc7 and black must give up his rook with Rxc7 as the queen has no escape.]26.c7! Qd7™ 27.Nxb6 Qxc7 28.Nxc8 Qxc8 29.Bh1 [White has emerged the exchange and a pawn up after the skirmish. His advantage is emphasised as black's bishops and knight are hopelessy and ineffectively massed on the king-side blocked by a handful of white pieces.]29...Bf5 30.Rac1 Qd8 31.Rc7 Qf6 [After 31...Bxd3 32.Rxf7+ Kg8 33.Rh7 Re7 34.Rxe7 Nxe7 35.Bxf3 White is winning positionally and materially.]32.Bxf3 Bxd3 33.Bd5 Ne7 [Somewhat better would have been: 33...Re7 34.Rd1 Be2 35.Rd2 Bb5 36.Rdc2 White would like to drive black's light square bishop off the a6–f1 diagonal so that he could push his passed b-pawn to queen. 36...g4 37.R2c3 (over protecting e3 where black could make a desperate bishop sacrifice for counter-play.) 37...Be2 38.Qb7± Now the b-pawn is ready to roll.]34.Bg2 g4 35.Qa3 Bb5 36.Qa5 Bd3 37.Qa3 Bb5 38.Qa5 Bd3 39.Qa4! [Attacking the rook and also threatening the double attack 40 Qd1!]39...Rh8 40.Qd1!

Bf5 41.e4 Bc8 42.b5!

All the black forces are crowded into a small section of the board and his prospects are bleak.]42...d5 43.exd5 Ng6 44.b6?! [Stronger was 44.Be4! Bf5 45.Bxf5 Qxf5 46.Qc2 Qh5 (threatening 47...Bd2! and 48....Qh1#!) 47.Rc8 Rh7 48.Qe4±]44...Qxb6 45.Qc2 Qa6 [Black canno escape with the tactics: 45...Bf5!? 46.Rxf7+ Kxf7 47.Qxf5+ Kg8 48.Re6+–]46.d6 Qa5 47.Rb1 Bf5 [Has white overlooked this? No!]48.Qc4! Bg5 49.Rc5 [The bishop on f5 is lost. A well-played game by white.] 1–0

Karthikeyan,P (2426)Laxman,R (2425) [A15]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.b3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 g6 6.Bb2 Bg7 7.0–0 0–0 8.e3 c5 9.d4 d6 10.Qc2 [10.Nc3 is the natural move here.]10...Nc6 11.Nbd2 Rc8 12.Rad1 Qe7 13.Qb1 Rfd8 14.Rfe1 a6 15.a3 cxd4 16.exd4 d5 17.Ne5 Qc7 18.Rc1 Qb8 [Nothing much has happened in the last many moves with both players trying to place their pieces in the best possible squares and whenever possible pointing them at the hostile forces. Now starts manoeuvring to improve their prospects of attack.]19.Nef3! Ne7 20.c5 Nd7 21.b4 Bc6 22.Ba1 Ba4 23.Qd3 Qb7 24.h4 a5 25.h5 axb4

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron26.axb4 bxc5 27.bxc5 Bb5 28.Qb3 Rb8 29.hxg6 hxg6 30.Ng5 Qc7 31.Qf3 Nf6 32.Bh3 Rf8

33.Qh1!? [This is a queer move, placing the queen in a corner at h1 to attack h7. But it threatens to destroy black immediately with 34 Rxe6. In many of the variations, whites Ba1 is a big negative factor. Sacrifices on the e6 square are attractive but do not lead to a win. The immedieate: 33.Rxe6?! fxe6 34.Bxe6+ (34.Nxe6 Qc6 35.Nxf8 Rxf8 36.Qb3µ) 34...Kh8 35.Qh1+ is refuted by 35...Nh5 36.Bg4 Rxf2!! 37.Kxf2 Qxg3#!]33...Bd7 [Black hastens to overprotect his e6 to prevent a decisive sac-rifice on that square.]34.Ndf3 Bh6 35.Bc3! [Without the participation of this bishop in the attack white cannot hope to win. This was lying idle on a1.]35...Rb3 36.Bd2 [White is now threatening 37 Nxe6! winning the unprotected bishop on h6.]36...Bg7 37.Bf4

[Diagram # This bishop has transformed itself from a piece of wood on a1 to white's attack-ing spearhead on f4!]37...Qa5 38.Bd6?! [White is celebrating in excess the trans-formation of his bishop from a nobody to a VIP. This bishop is now worth more than the exchange and should be used to finish off the king! 38.Bg4! Nf5 39.Be5! and the threat of 40 Bxf6 and 41 Qh7# is crushing.]38...Nc6 [If 38...Re8 39.Ne5 Qd2 40.Nexf7 Rb2 41.Qh2 Nc6 42.Rcd1 Qc2 43.Ne5+–]39.Ne5 [Now the white attack plays itself smoothly.]39...Bh6 40.Bxe6! Bxg5

[Diagram #]41.Nxg6! fxe6 42.Qh8+ Kf7 43.Ne5+! Nxe5 44.Qxf8+ Kg6 45.dxe5 Rf3 46.exf6 Qd2 47.Qg7+ Kh5 48.Rf1 [An attractive finish would be: 48.Qh7+! Kg4 49.Rc4+! dxc4 50.Re4+ Rf4 51.Bxf4+–]48...Be8 49.Qh8+! 1–0

Selected games from National Premier Championships, KolkataAnnotated bby IM Manuel Aaron

Pratyusha,Bodda (2248)- Padmini,Rout (2437) [A40]1.d4 Nc6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.e4 Ng6 5.Nc3 Bc5 6.g3 d6 7.Bg2 Nf6 8.Na4 [M.Twyble (2216) - A.Brameld (2115), 1998 was eventually drawn after: 8.Nf3 Bd7 9.Qe2 c6 10.0–0 cxd5 11.cxd5 b5 12.a3 a6=] 8...

Bb4+ 9.Bd2 a5 10.Ne2 Bxd2+ 11.Qxd2 0–0 12.0–0 b6 13.b3 Nd7 14.Nec3 Nc5 15.Nb2 f5 16.exf5 White cannot allow 16...f5-f4. 16...Bxf5 17.Nbd1 Qd7 18.Ne3 Bd3!? Diagram # [Planting the bishop in enemy ter-ritory no doubt feels good. But after this, black seems to have fewer strategical choices left in the game. She could have considered: 18...Bh3 19.f3 Rf7 20.Ne4 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Qe7=]

19.Rfe1 e4?! [This firmly commits the bish-op to d3, but concedes the more important d4 square to a white knight. A knight on d4 is worth more than a bishop on d3. 19...Rf7 keeping the position flexible and having the threat of doubling rooks on the f-file, was a better choice.] 20.Nc2 Ne5 21.Nd4 Qg4 [Slightly better was 21...a4! 22.Ne6 axb3 23.Nxc5 bxc5 24.axb3 Rxa1 25.Rxa1 Qg4 Black has the more active position and the better chances.] 22.h3 Qg6 23.Re3 Rf6 24.Ne6! Nxe6 25.dxe6

We now sense that black's game is going downhill and her 'strong' pawn on e4 is not so strong after all. 25...Nf3+? [She could have done comparatively better with: 25...Re8 26.Nd5 c6 27.Nxf6+ Qxf6 28.Rae1 Rxe6 29.Rxe4 Bxe4 30.Rxe4±] 26.Bxf3 Rxf3 27.Rxf3 exf3 28.Nd5!+- Re8 [28...Qxe6? 29.Qxd3 Qxh3 30.Qxf3+-] 29.Re1 [If 29.Nf4 Qf6! (attacks the unprotected Ra1) 30.Re1 Be2 and white's position has turned from 'winning' to 'clear advantage'.] 29...Be2 30.Nxc7! Rxe6 [If 30...Qh5 31.Qf4! Rf8 (31...Qxh3?? 32.Qf7+ mates.) 32.Qg4!+-] 31.Qd5! Kf7 32.Rc1! Qh6 33.Qxe6+ Diagram # [A stronger move that needs calculation and allows her roook to be cap-tured with check is: 33.Nxe6 Qxc1+ 34.Kh2 Qf1 35.Nc5+ Kg6 (35...Kf8 36.Qxd6+ Kg8 37.Qe6+ Kf8 38.Nd7#) 36.Qe6+ Kh5 37.g4+ Kh4 (or 37...Kg5 38.Qf5+ Kh4 39.Qh5#) 38.Qe7+ g5 39.Qxh7# There are many other variations and a calculation of them would improve the strength of the reader.]

33...Qxe6 34.Nxe6 Kxe6 35.Rc3! The superiority of a rook over a bishop is amply demonstrated in the following ending. 35...Ke5 36.Re3+ Kd4 37.Re6! Kc5 38.Re7! a4 39.Rxg7 Bd3 40.Rc7+ Kb4 41.Rb7 a3 42.Rxb6+ Kc3 43.Rxd6 Bb1 44.c5! Bxa2 45.c6 Bb1 46.c7 Bf5 47.Rc6+ Kxb3 48.c8Q 1–0

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel AaronSoumya,Swaminathan (2341)- Singh,Neha (2024) [C79]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 d6 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.Bxc6 bxc6 9.Qf3 c5 10.Nf5 Bxf5 11.exf5 Be7 12.Qc6+ Nd7 13.Nc3 0–0 14.Nd5 Nf6 15.Nxe7+ Qxe7 16.Bg5 h6? [Aggressive defence was better: 16...Qe4 17.Qxc7 Qxf5 18.Bh4 Qf4 19.Bg3 Qb4 20.Bxd6 Rfc8 21.Qe7 Re8 22.Bxc5 Qxb2 23.Qd6 Qxc2= Black is a shade better.] 17.Bxf6 Qxf6 18.Qxc7 Rfc8 19.Qb7 Qxf5= 20.c4 a5 21.Rab1 Re8 22.Qc6 Qf4 23.b3 Rec8 24.Qd5 a4 25.Rbe1 axb3 26.axb3 Re8 27.Re3 Rf8 28.g3 Qf6 29.Rd3 Ra6 30.Re1 Qg5 31.Qb7 Qf5 32.Rf3 Ra7 33.Qc6 Qd7 34.Qd5 Rfa8 35.Kg2 Kf8? Diagram # [With her king perfectly safe, there was no need for this move. In a level position like here, black must keep making moves without compromising her position in anyway. The art of doing nothing and losing nothing while keeping the game going, was perfected by Petrosian and the Indian masters of old like Mohamed Hassan. Better was: 35...Rb8= ]

36.Re4 Re8 37.Rxe8+ Kxe8 38.Qe4+ Kd8 [Black must take her king back into the safety of her king-side: 38...Kf8 39.Qh7 f6=] 39.Qh7 f6 40.Re3 Kc7 41.Qh8 d5? [This opening up of her own position could

only help the white queen and rook. Better alternatives were: 41...Qc6+ 42.f3 Ra2+ 43.Kh3 Qd7+ 44.g4; or 41...Kb6± were less dangerous alternatives.] 42.Qf8 Kc6 43.b4! To get at the black king, white removes as many pawns around it as possible. 43...cxb4 44.Qxb4 Rb7 Diagram #

[Better chances of survival were offered by: 44...d4 45.Re8!! Qb7 (45...Qxe8?? 46.Qb5+) 46.Qf8 (46.Re6+ Kd7+ is check!) 46...Kb6+ 47.f3 Ra2+ 48.Kh3 Qd7+ 49.g4 Qc6 50.c5+ Kb5 51.Rb8++-] 45.Qa4+ Kd6 46.Qa5 Kc6? [Better was: 46...dxc4 47.Re1 Rb3 48.Kg1 Rd3²] 47.Qa4+ Kc5 48.Qa3+ Kc6 49.cxd5+ Qxd5+ 50.f3 Qd2+ 51.Kh3 Qd7+ 52.g4 Rb5 The black king has no pawn cover on the queen-side and would like to flee to the safety of her pawns on the king-side. The chances are loaded in favour of white. Black has to parry the combined onslaught of the queen and rook in a pawn less area of the board. One small slip and she will be doomed. On the other hand, white can afford to make small mistakes without any penalty. 53.Qa6+ Kc7 54.Qa7+ Kd8 55.Qa8+ Kc7 [55...Qc8?? 56.Re8++-] 56.Qf8 Kb6 57.Qb8+ Kc5 58.Qa8 It is in moments like these in a game when a player, like black here, under pressure and without subject to any direct threat from the opponent should try to find some way to counter-attack or take

the king to safety. As taking her king to the king-side is obviously not possible, black must seek counter-play. But she is probably resigned to defend and defend and defend! 58...Kb6 [Best was to defend aggressively with: 58...h5!? 59.Qe4 hxg4+ 60.fxg4 Rb4 61.Rc3+ Kb5 62.Qe2+ Kb6 63.Rd3 Qc6 64.Qe3+ Kb5± Black is not out of the woods yet, but the white king is no longer as safe as he was a little earlier.] 59.Qa3 Re5 [Too late now is: 59...h5 60.Re7 hxg4+ 61.fxg4 Qc8 62.Qd6+ Qc6 63.Qd4+ Qc5 64.Qd8+ Ka6 65.Qa8+ Kb6 66.Qa7+ Kc6 67.Rc7+ wins.] 60.Rd3 Rh5+ 61.Kg2 Rd5 62.Qb3+ Kc5 [62...Rb5? 63.Rxd7 Rxb3 64.Rxg7+-] 63.Qc3+ Kd6? [This loses outright. Better was: 63...Kb6 64.Re3 Rd2+ 65.Kh3 Qd6 66.Qb3+ Ka5 67.f4 though black has to walk a tight rope of imminent danger.] 64.Qb4+ Ke6 65.Qe4+ Re5 66.Rxd7 Rxe4 67.Rxg7+- Re5 68.Rh7 Black's h6 pawn is beyond saving. 68...h5 69.Rxh5! Rxh5 70.gxh5 Kf5 Diagram #

71.h4! There is an interesting endgame study with this same theme. 71...Ke6 72.Kg3 Kf7 73.Kf4 Kg7 74.Kf5! 1–0

Swati,Ghate (2230) Pratyusha,Bodda (2248) [B85]1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nf6 8.f4 d6 9.Be2 Be7 10.0–0 0–0 11.Kh1 Nxd4

12.Bxd4 e5 [Very popular here is 12...b5 A 1996 game between T.Pawlitzki and G.Legde continued... 13.e5 dxe5 14.Bxe5 Qb6 15.Bf3 Bb7 16.Bd4 Qc7 17.Qe3 b4 18.Be5 Qc8 19.Ne4 Nd5 20.Qc1 Rd8³] 13.Be3 exf4?! [This gives a slight advantage to white. Better was to develop her light square bishop on b7 as it has no prospects elsewhere. Better was: 13...b5 14.a3 Bb7 15.Bf3 Rac8=] 14.Bxf4 Be6 [The object of this move appears to be to exchange off this bishop for white's Be2 which does not appear to be strategically good. Better was to develop this bishop more actively along the long, white diagonal with: 14...b5 15.Qd4 Qa7 16.Qd3 Re8 17.Rae1 Qc5²] 15.Rad1 Rfd8?! [In hindsight and in view of the vulnerability of f7 that transpires later in this game, this was the wrong rook. Better was: 15...Rad8 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.exd5 Bf5 18.c4 Rfe8²] 16.Rf3?! [This is a minor misadventure which does not lead to a bad position. Better was: 16.Nd5 Nxd5 17.exd5 Bf5 18.c4 Qd7 19.a3²] 16...b5 17.a3 Ng4 18.Rff1 [White wisely acknowledges her er-ror and retracts. If 18.h3 Ne5! 19.Rf2 Bh4 20.g3 Bf6 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 Re8=] 18...Qc5 [More prudent was 18...Qa7 as the queen will still have some contact with her weak f7 square] 19.Bxg4! Bxg4 20.Nd5! Bf8?

[Any player would hate the variation where her bishop is taken with check, but here, that is the only way to get an equal position: 20...

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel AaronBxd1! 21.Nxe7+ Kf8 22.Nf5 Bxc2 23.b4 (or 23.Bxd6+ Rxd6 24.Nxd6 Bb3 25.Rc1 Qe5 26.Qb4 Kg8=) 23...Qc4 24.Rc1 Qxe4=] 21.Be3!± This must have come as an un-pleasant surprise to black. 21...Qc6 22.Bd4! Another excellent grandmaster move which plunges the black defence into a big crisis. 22...Re8 [Now too late would be: 22...Bxd1 23.Bxg7!! Kxg7 24.Qg5+ Kh8 25.Nf6 (Not 25.Rxf7? Rd7 26.Nf6 Bh6! and it is black who wins!) 25...Bg7 26.Qf5 Bxf6 27.Qxf6+ Kg8 28.Qxf7+ Kh8 29.Qf6+ Kg8 30.Qg5+ Kh8 31.Rf7 Rg8 32.Qf6+ mates.] 23.Qg5 Bxd1 24.Nf6+ Kh8 25.Qf5!

25...Qxe4 [Black sacrifices her queen to prolong the game because, if, 25...gxf6 26.Bxf6+ Bg7 27.Bxg7+ Kxg7 28.Qxf7+ Kh8 29.Qf6+ Kg8 30.Qg5+ Kh8 31.Rf7 and despite all the extra forces that black has, she is mated quickly.] 26.Nxe4 Bxc2 27.Rf4 d5 28.Qxd5 Rad8 29.Qxf7 Bxe4 30.Qa7

(position after 30…Bb7)

[This leads to some adventure and excite-ment. She is threatening 31 Rxf8+! Rxf8 32 Qxg7# But this allows black to wriggle with some of her own tactics. Better was the solid 30.h3 Bg6 31.Qb7 Be7 32.Qxa6 Bd6 33.Rf1!+-] 30...Bb7!(See diagram)Diagram # With this clever move, black changes the status of her game from 'lost' to 'clear dis-advantage'. Now, white has to work for her win with care. 31.Qxb7! Re1+ 32.Bg1 Bc5 33.h4 Bxg1 34.Re4! Rb1 35.Qf7!+- Now white is back in her winning track. 35...Bc5+ 36.Kh2 Bd6+ 37.Kh3 Rh1+ 38.Kg4 h6 39.Re8+ Rxe8 40.Qxe8+ Kh7 41.Kh5 White threatens 42 Qg6+ and 43 Qxd6. 41...Rd1 42.g4 Rd2 43.Qe4+ Kh8 44.g5 hxg5 45.hxg5 Bf8 46.Kg6 The threat is 47 Kf7. Therefore, if 46....Kg8 47 Qe6+ Kh8 48 Qh7+ Kg8 49 Qh7# 1–0

Vaishali,R (2298) Priyanka, Nutakki (1994) [A01]

In 2012, N.Priyanka was World U–10 Girls Champion while R.Vaishali was World U–12 Girls Champ. In the last three years both girls have improved vastly, with Vaishali winning this year's World U–16 Girls Championship besides pocketing many National titles. The comments to the 20th move would illustrate that both girls had done their own private research into an exotic, little known open-ing. Despite her opponent's greater fame and strength, Priyanka disdains a forced draw on the 35th move and boldly plays for more! 1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.f4 Qh4+ 6.g3 Qe7 7.Nf3 f6 8.fxe5 fxe5 9.Bxc6+ bxc6 10.Nxe5! Nf6 [If 10...Bxe5? 11.Qh5+ Kd7 12.Qxe5 Nf6 13.0–0±] 11.Nxc6 Qe4 12.0–0 Bh3 13.Rf2 Ng4 14.Nc3 Qh1+ 15.Kxh1 Nxf2+ 16.Kg1 Nxd1 17.Nxd1 0–0 18.Nf2 Bd7

19.Ne5 Bf5 20.c4 [This is new. Amazing that this little known variation, called the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Opening, has a his-tory behind it! Here, an earlier game had gone: 20.Ned3 Rac8 21.b4 Rfe8 22.Bd4 Bxb4 23.Nxb4 c5 24.Bxc5 Rxc5 25.c3 a5 26.Nbd3 Rb5 and black went on to win in R. Cebrian (2140) vs P.Fluvia (2403), 2002.] 20...Rae8 21.Nc6 dxc4 22.bxc4 Bd7?

[One should not pull back an active piece without compelling reasons. Black has rook and bishop against two knights and two pawns which is approximately equal. Who-ever frames a successful strategy in such positions is likely to win. Here black should improve the position of her forces and have a plan which the opponent cannot easily foresee. A suggested plan is: 22...Rf7!? 23.Nxa7 Ref8! By threatening ....Bd7 now, black is targeting both white knights caus-ing severe problems for white. 24.Nb5 Be6 25.Nd4 (25.Nxd6 cxd6 26.Ne4 Bh3! 27.Bf6 gxf6 28.Nxd6 Ra7µ) 25...Bxc4 26.Ne4 Rf1+ 27.Rxf1 Rxf1+ 28.Kg2 Rb1] 23.Nd4 Bb4 24.Nb3 Ba4 [If 24...a5 25.a3!=] 25.Rd1 Rf5 26.Nd3 Bf8 27.Bc3 Ba3? [This move has not much point. Better was: 27...c5= ] 28.Re1 Rff8 [Black is unable to find an effective plan of action against the white forces. Black should try to anticipate where the white minor pieces would go and take

steps to deny entry at those squares. Bet-ter was 28...c6 to prevent the Nd3 from getting to d5 via f4, and then capture the knight on b3.] 29.Nf4 Bd6 Unable to find a plan of action, black moves her bishop back and forth. 30.d4 Rb8 31.Rb1 Bb4 32.Rc1 [32.Bxb4 Rxb4 33.Nd2 Rxb1+ 34.Nxb1 Bd7 35.Nc3 g5 36.Nd3 Bf5] 32...Ba3 33.Rb1 Bb4 34.Rc1 Ba3 35.Rb1 Rb7

[Black could have claimed a draw by repeti-tion announcing her intention of playing: 35...Bb4 In all likelihood she had calcu-lated that in another few moves her rook would ilfiltrate the white position through the open b-file and win the game for her.] 36.Nd2 Rxb1+ 37.Nxb1 Bc1 38.Nd2 Rb8 39.Nd3 Bxd2 40.Bxd2 Rb1+ This must be the position that black had anticipated when she played 35.. .Rb7. But it is only equal ! 41.Kf2 Rh1 42.h4 Be8? [Better was: 42...Bc2 43.Ne5 Rh2+ 44.Ke1 Rh1+ 45.Ke2 Rh2+=] 43.e4 Rh2+ 44.Ke3 Rg2 45.d5! White advances her d-pawn and at the same time secures the d4 square for her king. The loss of the g-pawn does not affect white's prospects in this game. The question is who will queen her pawn first! 45...Rxg3+ 46.Kd4 Rg4 47.c5 Rxh4 48.c6!± Her plan is to play Bd2-a5, and capture the c7 pawn. After that all she has to do to win would be to carefully push her

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron Annotated by IM Manuel Aaronconnected c- and d-passed pawns to victory. 48...Kf7 49.Ba5+- Ke7 50.Bxc7 Rh6 51.Kc5 g5 52.Ne5 [An alternate winning line was: 52.d6+ Ke6 53.Kb5 threatening 54 Nc5+ and then 55 d6-d7 won comfortably.] 52...Bxc6 [This gives up the battle. She could have put up more resistance by attacking white's centre from the rear with 52...Rh1 ] 53.Nxc6+ [The other way to win was: 53.dxc6 Rh1 54.Ba5! Rc1+ 55.Nc4 Rf1 56.c7 Kd7 57.e5! Rf8 58.Kd5!] 53...Kd7 54.d6! It is clear that white likes to start yet another pair of connected passed pawns with her d- and e-pawns. 54...Rh1 55.e5 Rc1+ 56.Kd5 Rd1+ 57.Nd4 g4 58.e6+ Kc8 59.Ba5 There is no way to stop the d-pawn from reaching d8 and queening. 1–0

Padmini,Rout (2437) Kulkarni,Bhakti (2257) [C10]1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd7 5.Nf3 Bc6 6.Bd3 Nd7 7.0–0 Ngf6 8.Neg5 Be7 Diagram #

9.Nxf7! A fascinating knight sacrifice, which has, however, been played before. It leads to exciting play. 9...Kxf7 10.Ng5+ Kg8 11.Nxe6 Qc8 12.Re1 Bd6 13.Bc4 [R. Win-snes (2395) vs M.Bus (2380), 1993 went: 13.Bf5 Bd5 14.Bg5 Qb8 15.Qd3 b5 16.Qh3 h6 17.Bh4 g5 18.Bg3 Bxg3 19.hxg3 and

white went on to win.] 13...b5 14.Bb3 Bd5 15.Bxd5 Nxd5

16.Bh6! A cheeky attempt to win a third pawn for her knight! If now 16... gh6?? 17 Qg4+ mates. 16...g6 17.Qf3! [Also playable was: 17.Bg7 Nf8! 18.Bxh8 Kxh8 19.Ng5 Qf5 20.Ne4] 17...N7f6 18.Bg7 Kf7 19.Bxf6 Nxf6 20.Qb3!+- Rf8™ Black gives up the exchange as white was threatening 21 Ng5+ Kg7 22 Qf7+ with a devastating attack. 21.Nxc7+ Kg7 22.Ne6+ White prefers to capture the active rook of black instead of the other one. 22...Kh8 23.Nxf8 Qxf8+- 24.Qf3 Rc8 25.c3 [White has the winning equivalent of rook and three pawns for knight and bishop. She plays sensibly without taking undue risks. She could also play: 25.Re6! Kg7! 26.c3] 25...Rc7 26.Re6 Rf7 27.Rae1 Kg7 28.Qc6 Bb8 29.g3 [White is over cautious, not allowing the semblance of a counter-attack. She could safely grab one more pawn with: 29.Qxb5 Qd8 30.R1e2 and increase her advantage.] 29...b4 30.Qb5 bxc3 31.bxc3 Qd8 32.h3 Bc7 33.Qe2 Bd6 34.c4 Bb4 35.Rd1 Rd7 36.d5 Bc5 37.Rd3 Qb8 38.Rf3! In the last few moves black has been able to improve the positioning of her pieces and breathe a bit more freely. But this move throws her back on the defensive. 38...

Rf7 39.Kg2 Bd6 40.Qe3 Threatening the centralising 41 Qd4 and then 42 c5! 40...Nd7 41.h4!

Adding one more weapon to her arsenal. 41...Rxf3 [41...Ne5 42.Rxf7+ Nxf7 43.c5 Bf8 44.Qd4+ Kg8 45.d6 Qb7+ (45...Qc8 46.Qd5 Kg7 47.Re3+-) 46.Qe4] 42.Qxf3 Bf8 43.h5! Qb1 44.Rc6 Threat 45 Rc7. 44...Qb8 45.hxg6 hxg6 46.d6 Qe8 [46...Bxd6? 47.Qd5 wins a piece.] 47.c5 Ne5 48.Rc7+ Kh8 49.Qe4 White has two ma-jor threats: 50 Qh4+ mating and 50 f4 1–0

T.R.DawsonFalkirik herald 1914

Puzzle of the monthby C.G.S.Narayanan

Picture problems usually have the dubious distinction of laying more stress on format than content.Sam Loyd, the great American wizard, had a lot to convey through his famous pictorial compositions ‘The kilkenny cats’ ‘The Statue of liberty’,The Challenge Cup’and the like,all presented with captivating narratives.

He was however critical of the production of such hieroglyphic problems where most composers tend to load their problems with a surfeit of pawns and the strain in such problems becomes very apparent.

The retro by another famous composer known as ‘father of fairy chess’is unique in that although the position smacks of symmetry with a lot of pawns strewn around there is only one solution.The stipulation is white to play and mate in two moves.What was the black’s last move. We look at it carefully we notice only two of them, but to find as to which one requires some serious retro analysis.

Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’on page 22 Mate in two moves

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method - Garry Kasparov

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'

- Garry Kasparov

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Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan

Dolgov& Kuznecov 1972 Gurgenidze 1973

1. 2.

Pauli Perkonoja 1971 Gurgenidze 1971

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Gurgenidze & Neidze 1973 Kalandadze 1973

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

Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan

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Masters of the past-59 Efim Geller

Efim Petrovich Geller (March 8, 1925 – November 17, 1998) was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won fourUkrainian Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the 1991 World Seniors' Championship, winning the title outright in 1992.Geller was also a coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. He was also an author. Geller grew up in Odessa, USSR, and was Jewish. He was a fine basketball player, and earned

his doctorate in physical education before specialising in chess. His development as a top player was delayed by the inception of World War II.

Geller began to make his mark in the late 1940s, as he won the USSR Championship semifinal qualifier at Tbilisi 1949 with 11½/16, thus advancing to the final later that year. His finals debut was sensational at URS-ch17 at Moscow; as a virtual unknown he tied for 3rd–4th places with 12½/19, behind only winners David Bronstein and Vasily Smyslov. Geller is reckoned to have been among the best ten players in the world for around twenty years. He was awarded the International Master title in 1951, and the International Grandmaster title the following year.Geller played in 23 USSR Chess Championships, a record equalled by Mark Taimanov, achieving good results in many.

Geller reached the later stages of the World Championship several times. He was a Candidate at Zurich 1953 and Amsterdam 1956. Geller's best result was in the 1962 cycle, as he finished second to Bobby Fischer at the Stockholm Interzonal. Geller represented the USSR seven times in Chess Olympiads, over a 28-year span from 1952 to 1980, and contributed well each time to the team gold medal victories. He won three gold medals and three silver medals on his board. Geller was also selected on six occasions for the USSR team to the European Team Champion-ships. His team won gold each time, and he won four gold medals on his board.

According to Jeff Sonas' Chessmetrics rating system, Geller was ranked No. 3 in the world from 1962–63, and was in the world's top ten for much of the 1950s and 1960s, and broke back into the top ten in 1973, 1975–7 and 1979–80.[1] Geller is best remembered today for the tacti-cal ability and original attacking style which characterised the earlier part of his career. In later years he became a more rounded player. He was noted as an openings expert, and was one of the pioneers in developing the King's Indian Defence to prominence, along with fellow Ukrainians Isaac Boleslavsky and David Bronstein. Geller also greatly advanced the knowledge in several variations of the Sicilian Defence, such as the quiet line with 6.Be2 against the Najdorf Variation 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6, which he used to defeat Bobby Fischer. He introduced the sharp Geller Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4) against the Slav Defence. He acted as second (assistant) to World Champion Boris Spassky in the World Championship match of 1972 against Bobby Fischer, and later seconded World Champion Anatoly Karpov, as well as his lifelong close friend Tigran Petrosian. His books included an autobiography, translated by Bernard Cafferty as Grandmaster Geller at the Chessboard (1969). Former champion Botvinnik stated that, in his opinion, Geller was the best player in the world in the late 1960s.

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MrShivanne Gowda, Mr KS Mahadeva Gowda, MrsChandrakala Ramakrishna, Mr N Rajashekar, GM Laxman RR

1st RK Chess Club Intl Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Maddur…

SBI Life Maharashtra Open FIDE Rated Tournament,Borivili

4th National Amateur Chess Championship 2015, New Delhi

(L-R) Mr.Pradeep Kumar, Regional Sales Manager, SBI Life, Rev. Father Baptist, Administrator, Don Bosco High School, Mr. Santosh Chacko, Regional Manager, SBI Life, IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni (with trophy) FI. Praful Zaveri (Indian Chess School) and IA. Vitthal Madhav (Chief Arbiter)

Prize winners with dignitaries

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’on page 42

1. Nakamura,Hikaru (2816)- Ortega, Lexy (2478) [D43]31st ECC Open 2015 Skopje MKD (3.3), 20.10.2015White to play33.Rd5! [33.Rd6]33...Qxd5 34.Nf6+ gxf6 35.Qxd5 fxg5 [35...Rc5 36.Qa8++–]36.f5 Rc5 37.Qe4 Nf8 38.h6 f6 39.Qe7 1–02. Rasulov,Vugar (2505) - Najer,Evgeniy (2658) [B51]31st ECC Open 2015 Skopje MKD (7.3), 24.10.2015Black to play 30...Bxg2!–+ 31.Qd3 [31.Rxg2 Qf4+ 32.Rg3 (32.Kh1 Re1+) 32...Re2+ 33.Nxe2 Qxd6–+; 31.Kxg2 Qg5+! 32.Kf1 Qf4+ 33.Rf2 (33.Kg2 Rg5+ 34.Kh1 Qf1+ 35.Kh2 Qg1#) 33...Re1+–+]31...Bxh3 32.Qxf5+ Bxf5–+ 0–13. Roiz,Michael (2600) - Ivanchuk,Vassily (2726) [D12].31st ECC Open 2015 Skopje MKD (7.1), 24.10.2015Black to play 28...Ne4! [28...Ne4 29.fxe4 Qxe4+ 30.Kh3 (30.Kg1 Nf3+–+) 30...g5! 31.Bd3 (31.Be2 g4+ 32.Bxg4 Qxg4+ 33.Kg2 Qe4+ 34.Kh3 Nf3! 35.Rxd5 f5!–+) 31...Nxd3 32.Qe2 Nf2+ 33.Qxf2 Rc4! 34.Qe2 g4+–+] 0–14. Lai,Hing Ting (2334) - Van Wessel,R (2398) [A12]Dutch League 2015–16 Netherlands NED (2.1), 10.10.2015Black to play.]34...Bg3! 35.gxf5 [35.fxg3 Qxg4+ 36.Kh2 hxg3+ 37.Rxg3 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 (38.Rh3 Qf2#) 38...Qxg3+ 39.Kf1 Qg2+ 40.Ke1 Qe2#; 35.Rxg3 hxg3 36.fxg3 (36.gxf5 g2 37.fxg6 gxh1Q+–+) 36...Qh6#; 35.g5 Qxg5 does not change anything]35...Qxf5# 0–15. Williams,A. Howard (2317)- Morris,Charles F (2147) [D34]31st ECC Open 2015 Skopje MKD (4.1), 21.10.2015White to play 17.f5! gxf5 [17...Bxf5 18.Ne4

Qxe1 19.Nxf6+ Kg7 20.Raxe1 Kxf6 21.g4+–; 17...Bc8 18.fxg6+–]18.Ne4! [18.Ne4 Qxe1 19.Nxf6+ Kg7 20.Nh5+ Kg6 21.Nf4+ This is the point of playing 17.f5!. 21...Kg7 22.Rfxe1+–]1–06. Karpov,Anatoly. (2628)- Fressinet,Laurent (2702) [E62]4th Karpov Trophy Prelim Cap d'Agde FRA (12.1), 28.10.201518...Nxf2! Black to play [Also playable is 18...Qb6! 19.Qxc4 (19.Rc2 Rxb4–+) 19...Qxf2+ 20.Kh1 Qxb2–+]19.Kxf2 Qb6+ [19...Qb6+ 20.Kf1 a) 20.Ke1 Qg1+ 21.Bf1 Bxc3+ 22.Bxc3 Rxe4+–+; b) 20.Ke2 Rxb4 21.Qd1 Rxb2+ 22.Rc2 (22.Ke1 Qf2#) 22...Bxc3;20...Rxb4 21.Qd1 Rxb2–+ (21...f5!–+ 22.e5 f4 23.g4 f3 24.Bh1 (24.Bxf3 Bxg4–+) 24...Bxg4–+) ]0–1Solutions to ‘Test your end game’ on page 43 1.Dolgov & Kuznecov, Third prize,Scach 19721. Rh4+ Ke5 2. Bc3+ Kd6 3. Rh6+ Kc5 4. Rh5+ Kd6 5. Bb4+ Kc7 6. Rh7+ Kb6 7. Rh6+ Kc7 8.Ba5+ Kb8 9.Rh8+ Ka7 10.Rh7+ Kb8 11.Be7+ Ka7 12.Be5 Kb6 13.Bd4+ Wins2.Gurgenidze,2 Pr.Cs Sach 19732.1.Kf7 h2 2.g7 h1Q 3.g8N+ Kh5 4.Nf6+ Kh4 5.Be1+ Kh3 6.Nf4+ Kh2 7.Ng4+ Kg1 8.Bf2#3.Pauli Perkonoja,I prize ,Suomen Shakki 19711.Ne7 Kh7 2.Nf5 Kg8 3.Nd6 Kh7 4.Nf7 Kg8 5.Ne5 Kh7 6.Ng4 Kh8 7.Kd2 Kh7 8.Kc3 Kg8 9.Nf6+ Kh8 10.h7 Kg7 11.h8Q+ KxQ 12.h6 d2 13.Kxd2 c3+ 14.Kc1 c2 15.Ng4 wins4.Gurgenidze,IPr,Shakmati 1971 1.h7 Rh1+ 2.Kb3 Rb1+ 3.Ka4 Ra1+ 4.Kb5 a6+ 5.Kb6 Rb1+, 6.Ka6 Ra1+ 7.Kb5 Rb1+ 8.Ka4 Ra1+ 9.Kb3 Rb1+ 10.Kc2 Rb2+ 11.KxR Be5+ 12.Kc2 Bxf6+ 13.Kd3 Kg2 14.Ke4 Kg3 15.Kf5 wins 5.Gurgenidze & Neidze,II Pr ‘64’ 1973 1.Nc1+ Kc4 2.Na3+ Kc3 3.Rxa2+ Ra4, Rd1 4.RxB Kb2 5.Rb1+ Ra2+, KxN 6.Rb3 Rc2# 6.Kalandadze,4 Pr, Shakmati 1973 1.b7 Rc5+ 2.Rf5 h6+ 3.Kg4 Ra4+ 4.Rf4 h5+ 5.Kg3 Rc3+ 6.Rf3 h4+ 7.Kg2 Ra2+ 8.Rf2 h3+ 9.Kc1 RxR 10.KxR h2 11.b8Q h1Q 12.Qb1+ Rc1 13.Qd3#

1st All India Open Fide Rating Tournament 2015

TN State Level Children & Open Tournament

Arbiter’s refresher course Problem Solving Contest

GM B Adhiban giving a simul

2nd All India FIDE Rating Tournament Below 1800

Tiruvarur Chess Festival

Open Rated won by P Bala Kannamma of Tamil Nadu. Prize are given by IM TN Parameswaran

Dhanush Ragav of Tamil Nadu won Below 1800 Rated Tournament. Prizes are distributed by Anbu Chozhan Asst. Governor, Rotary District 2982, Zone 10, Ms.Bragathambal, Correspondent, New Bharath Matriculation Hr.Sec.School (Venue)

Prizes are Distributed by Mr.Bala – CA Honda, Auditor Mr.Balaji. IM elected M Kunal won the open category.

GM B Adhiban of Tamil Nadu giving simultaneous exhibition against 30 Players ( for 6 hours with 28 wins and 2 draws on 14th November, 2015)

Arbiter’s refresher course by IA N.K.Nadakumar, Web Administrator AICF for State Arbiters & FIDE Arbiters

Problem Solving Contest-50 players participated on 28th November, 2015. This was won by M Barath Kalyan

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Ramratna 42nd National Women Premier Chess Championship 2015, Kolkata

L-R) GM Dibyendu Barua, WGM Padmini Rout ,Shri Rajesh Pandey, Secretary Sports, Government of West Bengal (making the inaugural move) IM Tania Sachdev and R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter

The fifth round witnessed and inaugurated by the Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal His Excellency Keshari Nath Tripathi

(L-R) R.Srivatsan, Chief Arbiter, Debashis Barua, Dy.Chief Arbiter, Mr. Gautam Dey, Director, ICCR, Mr. Ashok Motwani, Organising Secretary, Shri Mahendra Kabra, Director of Ramratna Group,Chief Guest presenting the trophy to the Winner WGM Padmini Rout, GM Dibyendu Barua

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ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, Tiruvarur

(L-R) R.K.Balagunasekaran, Organizing Secretary, A.K.M.Kasinatna Dhevar, V.Ravichandran, Municipal Chairman, Tiruvarur & Chairman Organizing Committee, Shri.R.Kamaraj, Hon’ble Minister for food and HR, Tamilnadu Government ( making the inaugural move) V.Hariharan, Secretary,AICF(partly seen), GM B.Adhiban.GM S.P.Sethuraman and A Harshini of Tiruvarur, Under-13& Under-15 State Champion, are seen in the foreground

Players in action at the venue

(L-R) R.K.Balagunasekaran, Organizing Secretary,S.Rajagopalan, Vice President, TRRDCA,J.Kanagarajan, Founder, Aanmigam Anandham,Dr.P.Senthil of Hotel Kasi’s Inn, V.Ravichandran, Municipal Chairman, Tiruvarur & Chairman Organizing Committee,M.Ilayaraja,Administrator,Dharani MHS,Mannargudi,Shri.Rajesh Saxena, Manager(HR)ONGC, Karaikkal, GM Karthikeyan Murali(Winner), A.K.M.Kasinatha Dhevar,G.Sivakkozhundhu, President, Rotary Club of Mannargudi Mid-town, V.Hariharan, Secretary,AICF and V.Govindarajulu, President , NDCA