AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 June 2017

Asian Continental Chess Championships, Chengdu, China

GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi WFM R.Vaishali

Bronze medal (Open) Bronze medal (Women) &
Gold medal (Asian Women blitz)

17th IPCA World Chess Championships, Slovakia

Sashikant Kutwal WIM Jennitha Anto Sammarth J.Rao

World Disabled Champion Gold medal (Women) Bronze medal (Junior) &
Gold medal (Open) Gold medal (Junior Blitz)
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10th KIIT Inter. Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Hoa Duc Nguyen of Vietnam wins title
by IA Paul Arokia Raj S, Chief Arbiter
7th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tmt.,
Bangalore
Keshav Kothari is the winner
by FA Saleem Beig ,Chief Arbiter
1st Charminar All India open fide rating (below 2000) tmt
2017,Hyderabad
Sri Sai Baswanth emerges Champion
by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
DCA below 1600 fide rated tmt 2017
Somakanta Singh wins DCA Below 1600
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
3rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rated Tmt, Virudhunagar
Kunal wins Hatsun Idhayam FIDE rated
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rating Championship
2017,Bangalore
Viani Antonio DCunha wins
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter
1st Khammam All India FIDE rating open tournament
2017,Khammam
Varun is the Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
All India FIDE Rating National Open Ty for the Visually
Challenged,Jharkand
Ashwin Makwana wins title
by FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
3rd Pavna All India Fide rated Tmt,Aligarh
Himal Gusain wins Pavna Fide Rated
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
3rd SCS FIDE Rated Tmt, Sivakasi
Kunal wins at Sivakasi
by Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
Late Shri Satyendra Pathak Mem.3rd SYNA Open Intl. Rating Tmt
Chakravarthi Reddi wina Syna Open
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
1st St.Peters Fide Rating Tmt,Kodaikanal
Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF wins title
by M.Vijayakumar,Chief Arbiter
43rd Tripura State Chess Championship 2017,Udaipur
Biswajit Nag wins title
by Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter
Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament,Kolkata
R.R.Laxman wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
Selected games from Asian Junior Girls
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past Larry Evans
AICF Calendar
From the Editors desk
There were many notable Indian
successes in May 2017 at international
events. Grandmaster Sasikiran has
added to the already long list of
achievements his latest title win at the
52nd edition of the Capablanca Memoria
in Cuba finishing ahead of the top seed
and seven time winner Vassily Ivanchuk.
In the Asian Continental Chess Championship in Chengdu,
1 China GM Vidit Santhosh Gujarathi and WFM R.Vaishali
won bronze medals. The latter also won gold in the Blitz
event. At the 17th IPCA World Chess Championships
6 Shashikant Kutwal became the World Disabled Champion
2017 and also became an International Master.Woman
International Master Jenitha Anto of Tiruchi won her
8 fifth world title for women in style with a round to spare.
Sammarth J Rao who won bronze in the junior event
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bagged the gold in the blitz junior section. Reports and
photos of these events are featured in the centre pages
of this issue.
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On the home front, the 10th KIIT International Chess
festival at Bubaneshwar recorded a whopping 1050 entries
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in the three categories. Debashis Das and Diptayan Ghosh
finished second and third in this tournament which was
won by Vietnam GM Hoa Duc Nguyen.
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A three-day chess training camp Winning moves was
successfully organized by Andaman and Nicobar Chess
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Association last month at TMG Emerald View,a star hotel
in Port Blairwith 40 kids under the able guidance of IM
20 Lanka Ravi, a FIDE Senior Trainer. Selected games from
Asian Junior Girls are annotated by IM Manuel Aaron.
22 Larry Evans, noted American chess grandmaster, author
and journalist, is featured in the masters of the past series.
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C.G.S.Narayanan
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Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
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annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
36 Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
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10th KIIT International Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Hoa Duc Nguyen of Vietnam wins title
by IA Paul Arokia Raj S, Chief Arbiter
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s many as 1050 players from vari-
ous federations and different states
thronged the KIIT university campus,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha vying for the top hon-
ors in the 10th KIIT international chess fes-
tival, 2017 organised by Odisha State Chess
Association. The event was categorized into
Category A (GM open), Category B (below
1999) and Category C (below 1600) for a
hefty cash prize of Rupees twenty lakhs in
total.
Now we will have a short look at the Cate-
gory A event held at the Sports and Fitness
Center, Campus15,KIIT University from May
26 to June 02. The outcome of the tenth and
the final round clash between the visiting GM
from Vietnam Hoa Duc Nguyen and the local
GM Debashis Das on June 2nd was keenly
watched by chess fans across the country.
GM Nguyen was the sole leader with 8 points
before the start of this round and the only
GM from Odisha Debashis Das was close
on the heels of the leader with 7.5 points.
Therefore a decisive result from this table
was the deciding factor for the championship.
However the former had everything under
control as he played the exchange slav and
drew the game in 25 moves, thus winning
the title clearly with 8.5 points. The champion
became richer by two lakhs rupees. Curiously
the Vietnamese GM tasted his only loss at the
hands of Vikramjit Singh of Manipur in the
third round, Thereafter Nguyen had a dream
run scoring straight five victories. Debashis
Das by virtue of occupying the runner up po-
sition with 8 points on account of his better
tie break score pocketed one lakh rupees and
the Kolkota collegian GM Diptayan Ghosh
finished third.
This event one of the four GM events con-
ducted annually in India was sponsored
by the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. This
was its 10th edition without any break and
it was conducted between May 25 and June
2. With 251 players drawn from 13 national
federations, the 15 GMs, 20 IMs and 1 WIM
who were in the fray provided a good ground
for the norm seekers. Earlier the 8 days
event was formally inaugurated by Prof. A.
Samanta, founder, KIIT & KIIS in a glittering
opening ceremony.
Category B and C were organized as the
part of KIIT chess festival 2017 at the KIIT
International School. A total of 375 players
took part in this below 1999 rating event con-
ducted from May 26 to 29. Niranjan Mocharla
of Andhra Pradesh netted 9 points from ten
rounds and stood clear first to carry home
Rs.50000/- . In a two tie for the second
place with 8.5 points Rishabh Nishad (UP)
and Gaurav Das (WB) finished in that order.
In the Category C event for below 1600 rating
held from May 29 to June 2, in a four way tie
for the title Vangala Prashant of Telengana
emerged as the champion followed by Sanjib
Mali (West Bengal) and Mohanty Soyamsree
(Odisha). Here too the champion was award-
ed Rs.50000/- as prize money.
This eight days chess carnival provided a
festive mood for the players who enjoyed
the hospitality of the KIIT university. The
organizers did a great job in transporting
all the players every day from their place
of stay to the tournament hall and back.
On the penultimate round when it rained
heavily just before the start of the game the
organizers ensured the safe arrival of the
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players to the playing hall. The tournament 34 FM Rathanvel V S IND 6 All India FIDE Rating National Open Tournament for the Visually Challenged, Jharkand
hall was elite looking one which also housed 35 Kaustuv Kundu IND 6
the World Junior chess championship, 2016. 36 FM Ramakrishna J. IND 6
IM and FST S.C.Sahu coordinated the event 37 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6
in great style. Curiously he also participated 38 Dhananjay S IND 6
in the Category A event winning the best 39 Saravana Krishnan P. IND 6
veteran prize! 40 Kumar Gaurav IND 6
41 IM Rajesh V A V IND 6
Final standings: Category A 42 IM Das Sayantan IND 6
43 Singh S. Vikramjit IND 6
Rk Name FED Pts 44 Hari Madhavan N B IND 6
1 GM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 8 45 AGM Fenil Shah IND 6
2 GM Debashis Das IND 8 46 Nayak Rajesh IND 6
3 GM Ghosh Diptayan IND 8 47 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6
4 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 8 48 Srijit Paul IND 6
5 GM Grover Sahaj IND 8 49 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M I ND 6
6 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7 50 GM Roy C Saptarshi IND 6
7 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7 51 Senthil Maran K IND 6
8 IM Khusenkhojaev Md TJK 7 52 Dileep Kumar R IND 6
9 IM Iniyan P IND 7 53 Dixit Nikhil IND 6
Ashwin Makhwana (Winner) receiving the prize from the Chief Guest Shri. Rai Mahimapat Ray
10 IM Raghunandan K.S IND 7 (IPS),Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bokaro City, Mr. Vikram Shanan ,CEO Zaika is also seen.
54 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra IND 6
11 IM Nitin S. IND 7 55 IM Krishna Teja N IND 6
12 IM Krishna C R G IND 7 56 Jeet Jain IND 6
13 GM Babujian Levon ARM 7 57 Subhayan Kundu IND 6 Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Tournament,Kolkata
14 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7 58 Raahul V S IND 6
15 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 7 59 Neelash Saha IND 6
16 IM Shyaamnikhil P IND 7 60 Aradhya Garg IND 6
17 GM Neelotpal Das IND 7 61 Jayakumaar S IND 6
18 Saurabh Anand IND 7 62 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 6
19 FM Sai Krishna G V IND 7 63 Hirthickkesh Pr IND 6
20 FM Karthik Venkataraman IND 7 64 CM Raja Rithvik R IND 6
21 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 7 65 Thanki Hemal K IND 6
22 GM Reefat Bin-Sattar BAN 7 66 WFMSalonika Saina IND 6
23 Arjun Kalyan IND 7 67 Saptorshi Gupta IND 6
24 Muthaiah Al IND 7 68 WFM Arpita Mukherjee IND 6
25 CM Erigaisi Arjun IND 7 69 IM Padmini Rout IND 6
26 IM Sardana Rishi AUS 7 70 Vignesh B IND 6
27 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 7 71 Pranavananda V IND 6
28 Navalgund Niranjan IND 6 72 Wagh Suyog IND 5
29 IM Ravi Teja S. IND 6 73 CM Aditya Mittal IND 5
30 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 6 74 Sreeshwan
31 Akash Pc Iyer IND 6 Maralakshikari IND 5
32 Sammed Jaykumar S IND 6 75 CM Aronyak Ghosh IND 5 (L-R) Anilava Chatterjee, CEO_Xtra time,Sambaran Banerjee_ Cricketer, GM S. Roy Choudhury,
33 Samal Ansuman IND 6 GM RR Laxman,Champion, GM Dibyendu Barua, GM Neelotpal Das
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 3rd SCS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Sivakasi
Sivakasi Chess Sparklers Secretary K.Kumar, Anandh, VDCA secreatary SR Rajan, AC Ganesh, former
Vice President of TNSCA, Sri A. Gopalsamy, M Kunal (Winner), Sri. Nadakumar, Principal of Arasan
Ganesan Polytechnic College, IA R. Anantharam, Narendran Kamak, IA V. Vijayaraghavan, and Ganesh
Kumar
Karnataka State Open FIDE Rating Championship 2017,Bangalore
Prize winners: Yashas D (Third place) , IM Viani Antonio Dcunha(Winner), Nambiar Vivek(Runner-up)
Gahan M G (Fourth place)
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76 Harshavardhan G B IND 5 17 Bhagyashree Patil 7
77 CM Karthik Kumar P IND 5 18 Singh Soram Rahul 7
78 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai IND 5 19 Cheniram Pegu 7
79 CM Rohith Krishna S IND 5 20 Sandip Dey 7
80 Singh Y. Dhanabir IND 5 21 Bodhisatya Pal 7
81 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri IND 5 22 Nayak Sanjeeban 7
82 WFMDivya Deshmukh IND 5 23 Banerjee Ashutosh 7
83 Yogit S IND 5 24 Sooraj M R 7
84 AGM R itam Nag IND 5 25 Abijit Mistry 7
85 Ajay Karthikeyan IND 5 Final Ranking: Category C
86 Pruthu Deshpande IND 5 Rk Name Pts
87 CM Lama Himal NEP 5 1 Vangala Prashanth 8
88 Soham Datar IND 5 2 Sanjib Mali 8
89 Pranav Anand IND 5 3 Mohanty Soyamsree 8
90 Aaryan Varshney IND 5 4 Manas Kanti Mandal 8
91 IM Prasad Devaki V IND 5 5 Debata Sarthak 7
92 Priyanka K IND 5 6 Shriman K 7
93 Sahu Rajendra Kumar IND 5 7 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 7
94 Arya Bhakta IND 5 8 B Chidambaram.C 7
95 Mahindrakar I IND 5 9 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi 7
96 WFM Tarini Goyal IND 5 10 Nagargoje Dhananjay 7
97 IM R. Balasubramaniam IND 5 11 Vishwanath Kannam 7
98 FM Rahman Syed M BAN 5 12 Shounak Mazumder 7
99 Sayantan Chandra IND 5 13 Manas Singh 7
100 Pandey Srishti IND 5 14 Samantaray Aryan Arnav 7
Final standings:Category B 15 Mohanty Rajesh 7
Rk Name Pts 16 Routray Priyanka 7
1 Niranjan Mocharla 9 17 Sreekar J S S 7
2 Rishabh Nishad 8 18 Pujari Kambupani 7
3 Gaurav Das 8 19 Ritwick Pal 7
4 Leeladhar Kachroo 8 20 Gopikrishnan S 6
5 Chetan Sharma 8 21 Sai Shravan R 6
6 Punit Indora 8 22 Ashok Kumar Jaju 6
7 Sudhir Kumar Behera 8 23 Arora Honi 6
8 Arijit Mukherjee 8 24 Sahoo Auroshis Sudip Kumar 6
9 Nikhil M 7 25 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan 6
10 AIM Aryan 7 26 ACM Anirudh Venkat R Kumar 6
11 Smaraki Mohanty 7 27 Karmakar Ramen 6
12 Ambarish Sharma 7 28 Kritika Pal 6
13 Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U 7 29 Karthik Reddy P 6
14 AGM S hubham Shukla 7 30 Aanandha Kumar M S 6
15 Kumud Kumar Nath 7 31 Manoj Kumar Hota 6
16 Mishra Anisha 7 32 Sadbhav Rautela 6
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7th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tournament,Bangalore
Keshav Kothari is the winner
by FA Saleem Beig ,Chief Arbiter
7
th BRDCA International Fide Rating (Be-
low 1600) Chess Tournament was held
from 2nd May 2017 to 4th May 2017
at Hotel City Centaur, Near Railway Station
Bengaluru, one of the prominent and well
known Hotels in the city. The Tournament was
organized by Bangalore Rural District Chess
Association. The Tournament attracted 604
players from major states like AP, ASM, BIH,
CHH, GOA, GUJ, HAR, KER, MAH, MP, ODI,
PUD, PUN, RAJ, TEL and WB and was con-
ducted in 9 round Swiss format. There were
2 players from neighboring federation, Sri
Lanka. Top seed of the event was Sreelaksh-
mi M Sunil Kumar of Tamil Nadu with a rat-
ing of 1599. There were 378 rated players.
Total cash prize was RS. 4Lakhs.There was
no inauguration and the first round started
as per schedule.
The final round started at 3.30 pm on 4th of
May. On the top board Keshav Kothari(1583)
U 13 Karnataka State Champion 2017 drew
with Prasath K R(1489) of TN to secure the
1st prize with a better tie break in The 7th
BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below
1600) chess tournament which concluded at
Hotel City Centaur, Majestic Bangalore. He
remained undefeated in the entire tourna-
ment with 7 wins and 2 draws. Rakesh N of
Karnataka Amal Roozi of Kerala and Prasath
K R of Tamil Nadu secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th
Places respectively based on better tie break.
The Prize Distribution Ceremony took place
on 4th of May 2017 at 7.00 pm. Chief Guest
was Mr. Hanumanta R Joint Secretary AICF.
Other dignitaries who were present on the
occasion were Mr. Durgesh K Treasurer UKCA,
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34 Vikumar P K 7 75 Ayush J Yajaman 6
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Theju K V
Apoorv Kamble
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76 Sugunesh Babu
77 Sathyan S R
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37 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 7 78 Anfas Muhammed 6
Mr. Chidanand A Secretary BRDCA and Mr. 38 Chaithanya Ganesh 6 79 Shree G Muthu Annamalai 6
Saleem Beig Chief Arbiter. 39 Lokesh N 6 80 Ananya Arumbakkam 6
Final ranking 40 Das Jitendra Kumar 6 81 Ganesh Aravind N 6
Rk Name Pts 41 Gopikrishnan S 6 82 Nithish M 6
1 Keshav Kothari 8 42 Aruna Dinakara 6 83 Sanchith Sundararam K 6
2 Rakesh N 8 43 Bargava Narasimhan S 6 84 Rohan Anand 6
3 Amal Roozi 8 44 Mahendra Teja Mekala 6 85 Ramesh R 6
4 Prasath K R 8 45 Ibrahim E 6 86 Dhanush Ram M 6
5 Sharad Pandit 7 46 Antony Simethy 6 87 Sudhakar T 6
6 Amar Jyoti Kakoty 7 47 Biju Kumar 6 88 Kamatham Balaji 6
7 Aanandha Kumar M S 7 48 Pandhare Swapnil 6 89 Karthik Reddy P 6
8 Devaraja G 7 49 Abdul Nabi 6 90 Bhaskar Teja K V 6
9 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 7 50 Imran Hussain 6 91 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 6
10 Kohli Pranav 7 51 Shakthi P 6 92 Bhaskara Rao Balaga 6
11 Avinash Vaidyanathan 7 52 Robinson M G 6 93 Raju G 6
12 Nachiketh Adiga 7 53 Shashidhar B Rai 6 94 Samith Reddy I 6
13 Dhrikshu K Vasant 7 54 Rama Rao T V 6 95 Aditya Somasundaram 6
14 Sathya Naarayanan S 7 55 Muthukumar Thangapandian 6 96 Sai R. Arulmurugan 6
15 Vijay Raghav J S 7 56 Ramanan M 6 97 Prakhyath Kc 6
16 Subash Anand R 7 57 Srikar Yerrabati 6 98 Sagar P 6
17 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 7 58 Varun B S 6 99 Tanav Sudarshan 6
18 Chirag Mudraje 7 59 Anya Seth Syed 6 100 Sankeerth. R 6
19 Arun R 7 60 Khude Laxman 6 101 Soundariya Lakshmi G 6
20 Mahamuni Yogesh 7 61 Vineesh P S 6 102 Jadhav Rahul 6
21 Radha Krishnan K 7 62 Amaey Advait 6 103 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 6
22 Muhammed Musthafa 7 63 Rakshith Srinivasan 6 104 Pavan Kumar Posa 6
23 Tejas Cavale 7 64 Satyanarayana Raju D S 6 105 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 6
24 Vangala Prashanth 7 65 Amitesh Kumar Sinha 6 106 Shreedhar Muchandikar 6
25 Sangvikar Rahul 7 66 Karpagakumar S V S 6 107 Vishwa Dheep D N 6
26 Sanath K Jamadagni 7 67 Srijan J 6 108 Jayaprakash M 6
27 Bhojwani Ravi 7 68 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 6 109 Sai Nikhil Y 6
28 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 7 69 Vishwanath Kannam 6 110 Abdul Hameed 6
29 Arvind Kumar S 7 70 Hemadri Sathish 6 111 Swaroop Kashyap 5
30 Suganthan R 7 71 Tanish Sai Kavuru 6 112 Halkude Nagnath 5
31 Paulson Frenchy 7 72 Alok Nagdev 6 113 Prasanth A S 5
32 Ravindran R 7 73 Neha Srinibash D 6 114 Ismail S K 5
33 Anirudh B S 7 74 Venkatesh K 6 115 Rohan Nachnani 5
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 1st Charminar All India open fide rating (below 2000) chess tournament 2017,Hyderabad
Sri Sai Baswanth emerges Champion
by IA Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter
1
st Charminar All India fide rating chess
tournament was organized for 6 days
with 10 rounds. The event attracted 194
Players from all over India including major
states like Karnataka, Kerala, Maharastra,
Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andrapradesh
and all parts of Telangana. 101 Fide rated
players participated in this tournament. Top
seed of the event was Vedadri K of Telangana
fide rating 1999.
The Event was inaugurated on 16th May 2017
at 2.30 pm. The Dignitaries present on the
occasion, were Indo China Summit Manager
Mr K S Prasad, Mr Anamchinni Venkatesh-
wara Rao, Mr Srinivas Reddy, Tournament
Director , Ijak Raj, Telanagana State BJP
Leader and Chief Arbiter Promodraj Moree.
On the 1st day one round was conducted and
on the next four days we had two rounds per
day and then final day last round with prize
distribution in the evening.
Sri Sai Baswanth (1707) of Andra Pradesh
became the Champion of the 1st Charminar
All India Fide Rating (Below 2000) Chess
tournament and bagged a prize money of
20000 and a glittering Trophy. He secured 9
points of 10 rounds by winning 9 games and
losing one game with Sai Akshay. 2nd place
was bagged by Sheik Fayaz of Telangana who
defeated S Khan on the 2nd board.
The Prize distribution function took place at
4pm on 21st May 2017. Dignitaries present
on the occasion were Mr Taduri Srinivas,
Chairman of Most Backward Classes Cor-
poration, Ramana (SATS), Srinivas Reddy,
Corporator Shanthi Saizen Shekar, Indo Chi-
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33 Sreekar J S S 6 74 Karthikeya Sairam T 5
34 Osman Bin Sayeed 6 75 Sriram Devulapalli 5
35 Raivath Mallela 6 76 Prashanth Kumar D 5
36 Krishna Kalyan 6 77 Sri Krishna Praneeth K 5
na Summit Manager Mr K S Prasad and Mr 37 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 6 78 Anirudh M 5
A Venkateshwara Rao, Tournament Director. 38 Rao C S 6 79 Sanjana Ch 5
39 Kandi Ravi 6 80 Ramadugu Akshay 5
Final ranking: 40 Ojas Mehetre 6 81 Abdul Azeez S.K. 5
Rk Name Pts
41 Rohit Yarakala 6 82 Nitish Bhat 5
1 Sri Sai Baswanth P 9
42 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6 83 B Kishan 5
2 Shiek Fayaz 8
43 Mohan Sapa 6 84 Pasupulati Saphal 5
3 Duvvala Suresh 8
44 Sheetal Sonwane 6 85 Dhanush Reddy A 5
4 Khan S 7
45 Rajesh Ekkaladevi 6 86 Satya Vaishnavi Jami 5
5 Sai Akshay Y 7
46 Subbarao T V 6 87 Neeraj Anirudh K 5
6 Pati Spandan 7
47 Satish Hegde 6 88 Arueran Raghuraman 5
7 Dharani Srinivas K B 7
48 Velpula Sarayu 6 89 Vishvas Reddy K 5
8 Meghanshram B V 7
49 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 6 90 Rachita Sabbathi 5
9 Amer Basha Sk 7
50 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 6 91 Kapil Surya P 5
10 Narasimha Raveendra G 7
51 Kotalwar Shubh 6 92 Aarav Nambiar T 5
11 Anurag Kuruvada 7
52 Prasada Rao G 6 93 Sankarshana Goli 5
12 Kalur Nikhil 7
53 Umesh Konduru 6 94 S Sri Subhash Bharadwaj 5
13 Subba Raju S. 7
54 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch 6 95 Boorla Vamshi Krishna 5
14 Sarath Chandra K 7
55 Krishna Devarsh P 6 96 Bommidi Nithin Kumar 5
15 Vedadri K. 7
56 Viswanath Alur 6 97 Anuraag Vidwan K 5
16 Naga Venkata Raju G 7
57 Bharadwaj G V 6 98 Nikunj Buddhawar 5
17 Amar C S 7
58 Md Bashiq Imrose 5 99 Vishnu, Vardhan 5
18 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 7
59 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 5 100 Srivatsa Ananth K 5
19 Susarla Rishith 7
60 Aditya Reddy K 5 101 Nigamaa Sree D 5
20 Karthik Ganesh 7
61 Naman Mehrothra 5 102 Madhu Karthik Ch 5
21 Prateek Atluri 7
62 Naga Chaitanya 5 103 Nair Devika 5
22 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 7
63 Singh Arun Kumar 5 104 Sushanth Kamabathula 5
23 Sathwika N 7
64 Manaswini Maheshweram 5 105 Asuri Srida 5
24 Umesh S Lalwani 6
65 Karyasheel P 5 106 Arnav Pradhan 5
25 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6
66 Pakashiva Prasad 5 107 Jami Pranay Teja 5
26 Nanditha V 6
67 Sai Atchyut B 5 108 Mir Maahir Ali 5
27 Sathishkumar L 6
68 Viswa Teja G 5 109 Sushma Reddy B 4
28 Rohith Yadav B R 6
69 Hima Surya K 5 110 Lakshmi Sai Bhargav V 4
29 Krishna Karthik N 6
70 Karthikeya Sambhangi 5 111 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 4
30 Aravind P V S 6
71 Abhilash Raghusala 5 112 Gayapu Linga Reddy 4
31 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 6
72 Himesh Empally 5 113 Ravi Teja Macherla 4
32 Perumallu K. 6
73 Sampat Kumar M V 5 114 Sai Sricharitha Varenya 4
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DCA below 1600 fide rated chess tournament-2017, New Delhi
Somakanta Singh wins DCA Below 1600
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
T
he Delhi Chess Association FIDE Rated
Chess Tournament for Below 1600 rated
players was held at Jawaharlal Nehru
Stadium, New Delhi from 13-15 May 2017.
A total number of 850 players which includes
604 International rated players from different
parts of India, Nepal, Ireland and USA partic-
ipated in the event which were spread over
3 days with a time control of 60 minutes and
30 seconds increment from move 1. The total
prize fund of the event was Rs. 17,70,000.
The Tournament was played under Swiss
System with nine rounds and had Bikash
Chandra of West Bengal with 1599 rating as
top seed. With Round one starting on time
without any formal inauguration and the
players went into their business mode from
the start itself.
The tournament progressed on expected
lines with lot of twists and turns. In the pe-
nultimate round, Somakant Singh Haobam
of Manipur defeated Harbib Qureshi Raaz of
Madhya Pradesh to take sole lead and a quick
draw in the final round against Abhinandan
Mohan of Uttar Pradesh took his point tally
to 8.5 points. Subhash Kumar of Telangana
joined Somakanta at the pole position after
a hard fought victory over Habib Qureshi
Raaz in the final round. But better tie break
score helped Somakanta to clinch the title
along with cash prize of 1,51,000/-. Subhash
Kumar satisfied with first runner position to
secure cash award of Rs. 1,25,000/- while
Ranjith Kalaiyarasan of Puducherry finished
as second runner up with 8 points and be-
come richer by one lakh rupees.
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Manabi Chouhan of West Bengal adjudged as
best female player while Ajay Narayan Trip-
athi of Madhya Pradesh become best among
unrated players. Arnal Nanal of Maharashtra,
Sudhanshu Nikam of Maharashtra, Avinaya
Mohan Singh of Chattisgarh and Qamar
Naim of Uttar Pradesh finished best among
Under-9, Under-12, Under-15 and Veteran
respectively. Daaevik Wadhawan and Kritika
Pal become Best Delhi player and Best Delhi
girl player respectively.
In the closing ceremony, Shri. Bharat Singh,
CEO All India Chess Federation gave away the
cash prizes and trophies to the winners along
with Shri. D Srihari, Secretary The Andhra
Pradesh Chess Association and Shri. AK Ver-
ma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Association.
Final ranking (first 100 placings only) 39 Anit Kumar Agarwal 7 80 Raj Kumar(up) 6
Rk Name Pts 41 Mahendar B 7 82 Mukeshkumar Parmar 6
1 Somakanta Singh Haobam 8
2 Subhash Kumar M 8
3 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 8
4 Kotha Surya N 8
5 Om Chauhan 8
6 Abhinandan Mohan 8
7 Ragesh Sarma.M 8
8 Soham Saha 7
9 Md. Furqan Khan 7
10 Bala Ganeshan 7
11 Bhawesh Pandiyar 7
12 Rajesh Kumar Shukla 7
13 Arun Kumar 7
14 Bhat Siddharth K 7
15 Satyam Prakash 7
16 Jayesh T A 7
17 Habib Qureshi Raaz 7
18 Jain J S 7
19 Dhruv Dak 7 60 Swayam Gupta 6
20 Dinesh Pathak
21 Tejash Jain
7
7
61 Patel Nishyank
62 Utkarsh Agrawal
6
6
22 Sachinder 7 63 Sanjib Mali 6
23 Utkarsh Gupta 7 64 Avinya Mohan Singh 6
24 Devi Das Suresh Pai 7 65 Murarilal Kori 6
25 Debata Sarthak 7 66 Manabi Chouhan 6
26 Sugunesh Babu 7 67 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 6
27 Jatinder Singh 7 68 Aanandha Kumar M S 6
28 Shivshankar Iyer S 7 69 Kritika Pal 6
29 Manikanta Singh T 7 70 Kumar Reddy M V 6
30 Gaha Narayan 7 71 Dhimal Bharat 6
31 Kapil Sharma 7 72 Qamar Naim 6
32 Babel T Divyanshu 7 73 Kalpesh Dihora 6
33 Vishal Thorat 7 74 Shrikant Bardiya 6
34 Stephen Malsawmtluanga 7 75 Lalfakmawia P C 6
35 Thakkar Romil J 7 76 Sharma Vaibhav 6
36 Aashish Choudhary 7 77 Aryan Pankaj Kasera 6
37 Rohit Roy Chaudhary 7 78 Nishant Vakani 6
38 Gursimar Singh Arneja 7 79 Devansh Singh 6
40 Parth Arora 7 81 Raaj Bajaj 6
42 Wairagade Khush 6 83 Suthar Manish 6
43 Gopikrishnan S 6 84 Ullas Krishnan U B 6
44 Vishwanath Kannam 6 85 Tohin Kumar Halder 6
45 Aarohon Bharadwaj 6 86 Dabhi Sangeet H 6
46 Paritosh Malvi 6 87 Mohd. Arshi Khan 6
47 Dhanvij Ansh 6 88 Debiprasad Sarkar 6
48 Saurav Agarwal 6 89 Mishra Jayesh 6
49 Anirudh Jain 6 90 Vangala Prashanth 6
50 Atma Prakash 6 91 Singh Dinesh Pratap 6
51 Manikandan Tayalan 6 92 Choudhary Pushpendra Kumar 6
52 Waikar Varun 6 93 Suman Yaddanapudi 6
53 Nikam Sudhanshu 6 94 Sanjib Chatterjee 6
54 Imran Hussain 6 95 Arbaz Shekh 6
55 Stephen Raj A 6 96 Jagan V 6
56 Daaevik Wadhawan 6 97 Kirtana S P 6
57 Gaurav Nishad 6 98 Uttam Prakash Sharma 6
58 Phani Kanuri 6 99 Shah Dhaval 6
59 Abeer Nandrajog 6 100 Gupta Shailendra 6
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3rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Virudhunagar
Kunal wins Hatson Idhayam title
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he 3rd Hatsun Idhayam FIDE Rat-
ed Chess Tournament, organised by
Virudhunagar Chess Club at VSVN Pol-
ytechnic, Virudhunagar attracted about 270
players from Tamil Nadu, AP, Telanagana,
Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, Maharash-
tra and Jharkhand. International master P.
Shyaamnikhil, international master elects
Ara Harikrishnan and M. Kunal all from Ta-
mil Nadu were the top three seeds, followed
by Asian Under 9 champion D. Gukesh of
AP. The tournament was of 9 round Swiss
format, with a time control of 90 minutes to
each player, with an increment of 30 seconds
per move.
In the inaugural round, former TN State
women champion S. Harini was held to a draw
by K. Yogaraj of TN. A similar result was on
cards for the state women champion P. Bala
Kannamma, when she met low rated Arjun
Sidharth in the second round. Fourth round
witnessed the Madurai talents B Selvamuru-
gan, and TS Nandakumar extricating half a
point each from the top two seeds Shyaam
anf Hari respectively. Kunal emerged the
sole leader at the end of the fifth round by
beating former under 17 TN champion SS
Manigandan of Madurai, as other top board
games ended without any decisive result.
Tough fighting prevailed in the sixth round, as
there were only two draws in the first fifteen
games, leading to a six way share of the
lead. Harikrishnan defeated Yogit of Chen-
nai and Kunal got the better of Dusthageer
of Madurai to seize the lead with 6.5 points
each, with Shyaamnikhil, Gukesh, S Kumar
and Manu David Suthanthiram of Chennai
half a point behind the leaders. After a spate
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10 Alan Diviya Raj 7 51 Aasha C R 5
11 Alaguraja M.A.
12 Dusthageer Ibrahim M.
7
6
52 Avinash Ramesh
53 Yashwant Annamalai
5
5
13 Paramasivam M. 6 54 Aravindaswami T 5
of draws on top boards, Harikrishnan and 14 Shakthi Vishal J 6 55 Harini S. 5
Kunal continued to lead with 7 points each at 15 Gowtham K K 6 56 Suganthan S 5
the end of the eighth and penultimate round. 16 AGM Rathneesh R 6 57 Bala Kannamma P 5
The tournament was poised for an exciting 17 Peter Anand A 6 58 Rooswelt 5
finish, as nine others were breathing at the
18 Godson Merlin E 6 59 Srijan J 5
shoulders of the leaders with 6.5 points each.
19 Anilkumar O.T. 6 60 Hemachandran M 5
Kunal and Gukesh settled for an early draw.
20 Marimuthu K 6 61 Jinan Jomon 5
Shyaamnikhil used his vast resources to break
21 Sreekumar P. 6 62 Kumaresh A 5
open the sturdy defence of Harikrishnan to
script a win. Manu David Suthanthiram, S 22 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 6 63 Divyan T 5
Kumar and P. Mythireyan also recorded wins 23 Subramanian V 6 64 Shadursshaan R 5
to scored 7.5 points to tie with Kunbal and 24 Karuppasamy C 6 65 Kathiravan S 5
Shyaam. When the tiebreaks were applied, 25 Anirudh D Venkat 6 66 Shyaam M 5
Kunal was decalred winner followed by Shy- 26 Rajeev V M 6 67 AIM M ohammed Shamil A 5
aamnikhil and others in the above order. 27 Vijin Babu S 6 68 Rajkumar N 5
Kunal received Rs.50,000/- and Shyaam got 28 Badrinath S. 6 69 Tarun Vaibhav V 5
Rs.30000/-. A total cash prize of 4.5 lakhs 29 Yogit S 6 70 Yashwanth Raj S 5
was awarded in the form of about 230 prizes. 30 Selvamurugan B 6 71 Vel Murugan B 5
31 Dharmaraj P. 6 72 Sivashankar M 5
Sri. TKSPA Shanmugamoorthy, Secretary of
32 Nanda Kumar T.S. 6 73 Bhadrinathan A 5
VSVN Polytechnic inaugurated the tourna-
33 Kavitha P L 6 74 Arjun Sidharth S 5
ment in the presence of Sri. VMG. Rajaseka-
34 Jayasangar T 6 75 Muthu Jeyram M 5
ran industrialist and Vice President of VDCA.
35 Prawin K 6 76 Sivanandha V 5
Sri. VVR Idhayam Muthu, one of the spon-
sors of the tournament was the chief guest 36 Vishnu Viswanathan P 6 77 Jagendran Kamak N 5
in the prize distribution function and Sri. S. 37 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 78 Vigneshwar D P 5
Eswaran BE., of SPK Hotel, Madurai was the 38 Prashanth J Naik 6 79 Sangeetha P 5
guest of honour. 39 Srihari L 6 80 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5
Final ranking 40 Gokul S 6 81 Sivasubramanian Manoj 5
Rk Name Pts 41 Rathina Sabapathi A 6 82 Lekshanth M 5
1 Kunal M. 7 42 Srivatsan Sekar 6 83 Unnikrishnan M A 5
2 IM Shyaamnikhil P 7 43 Shetty Murugan 6 84 Prithvi Rajan 5
3 Manu David Suthandram R 7 44 Jayashri K K 6 85 Meenatchi Rajam V 5
4 Kumar S. 7 45 Rathish T.J. 6 86 Arun Prasad Raja V 5
5 Mythireyan P 7 46 Jos Paul Davis 6 87 Vigneshwaran K 5
6 CM Gukesh D 7 47 Lenin A G 6 88 Femil Chelladurai 5
7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7 48 Aravind Matthews A C T 6 89 Sriram K 5
8 Manigandan S S 7 49 Muthu P 6 90 Anandan Arunachalakani 5
9 Swaraj Palit 7 50 Chandra Sekharan A P 6 91 Murugan M 5
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1st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017, Udaipur
Vikramaditya Kulkarni of Railways wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod,Chief Arbiter
1
st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess
Tournament 2017 was organized by
Chess Inlakecityunder the aegis of All
Rajputana Chess Association, from 30th-
March to 4thApril, 2017. at Sahu Samudaik
Bhavan, Udaipur. The Total Number of partici-
pants were 330including 3 IM, a current Asian
Senior Champion. GM Norm holder IM Wazir
Ahmed Khan also one of the participants.
The total tally of rated players were 226.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Shri. Chandra Singh Kothari, Mayor
Udaipur. Other guests present on the dais
were Prem Singh Shaktawat ,Shri. Pankaj
Mangrudia,DevendraSahu, Rajendra Bordia,
Narayan Lal Sharma ,Rajeev Bardwaj, Pres-
ident Chess In lakecity and IA SwapnilBan-
sod, Chief Arbiter. After the inaugural function
thetechnical meeting was arranged. All the
tournament regulations were discussed and
finalized in the meeting, including the shifting
of venue for all the remaining rounds after
the round 1.
Second SeedIM Vikramaditya Kulkarni of
Rlys, clinched the title of the tournament. He
beat Sing Soram Rahul of Assam in the last
round of the tournament to score 9 points
out of maximum 9.Vikramadityawon all his
games and scored a perfect 9. At the end of
5th round Vikramaditya, IM Himanshu Shar-
ma and AtulDahale leading the tournament
with 5 points each.In6th round game Vikram-
aditya beat Himanshu and crushed himan-
shus 2500 live rating dream.IM Himanshu
Sharma, the top seed of tournament, finished
2nd with 8 points.He lost his only game to IM
Vikramaditya Kulkarni.Vinod Sharma of Rlys,
Jay Kundaliya of GUJ and BhavdatAnand of
AP scored 7.5 points each and finished in 3rd
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23 Akash Tiwari 6 66 Devendra Kumar 5
24
25
Sunny Bedi
Prakash Yadav
6
6
67
68
Shrivastav Hritik
Anadkat Kartavya
5
5
26 Ashwani Kumar Grover 6 69 Panwar Krish Navratan 5
27 Sumit Roy 6 70 Sangeen Mandre 5
to 5th. positions respectively.
28 Satyanarayana P. 6 71 Chaudhary Pallav 5
The prize distribution function of 1st SL
29 Nandha Kumar K 6 72 Babel T Divyanshu 5
Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament
30 Srivastava Anurag 6 73 Jain Nityata 5
2017 was held on 4thApril, 2017 at 3 pm at
31 Dave Kantilal 6 74 Leeladhar Kachroo 5
SahuSamudaikBhavan, Udaipur. Shri Deven-
32 Kadam Om Manish 6 75 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 5
draSahu , Member District Sports Council, Dr.
33 Jaspreet Singh 6 76 Nimdia Ridit 5
Om Sahu VP, Chess in lakecity, Shri Ravin-
34 Ankit Payal 6 77 Ananmay Sharma 5
draShrimali, Chairman, UIT Udaipur, Shri Anil
35 Nand Kishore Chandel 6 78 Agarwal Saket 5
Sharma , Rt . Chief Engineer PWD, Rajasthan
36 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6 79 Utkarsh Agrawal 5
,ShriDevnarayanDhabhai , VP District Sports
37 Hriday Dharmesh Sheth 6 80 Darsh Kansal 5
Council , Shri ShatrudhanBandwal, President
38 Niranjan Mocharla 6 81 Golvankar Dilip K 5
BuddhibalsevaSansthan , Udaipur, Shri Anil
39 Rathore Sonakshi 6 82 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 5
Mangrudiya , Org. Chairman and IA Swap-
40 Rawat R.S. 6 83 Bonu Ravi Kumar 5
nilBansod Chief Arbiter were present on the
41 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 6 84 Raghav Srivathsav V 5
occasion.
42 AFM Choubey Saurabh 6 85 Dr Sanjay Date 5
Final ranking
43 Arbaz Shekh 6 86 Srikrishnan P 5
Rk Name Pts
44 Roshan S 6 87 Yash Tulapurkar 5
1 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya 9
45 Ayan Banerjee 6 88 Aayush Bhattacherjee 5
2 IM Himanshu Sharma 8
46 Gautam Kataria 6 89 Bharadia Madhav 5
3 Vinod R. Sharma 7
47 Ansh M Shah 6 90 Sudhakar 5
4 Jay Kundaliya 7
48 Singh Vimlesh Kumar 6 91 Madhusudhan Reddy E 5
5 Badavath Anand 7
49 Katiyar Prashant 6 92 Rahul Dev Das 5
6 Dahale Atul 7
50 Dave Shiv Shankar 6 93 Kamdar Umang 5
7 Sanjeet Manohar 7
51 Vikramaditya Mukhija 6 94 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 5
8 Sumit Grover 7
52 AGM Rathneesh R 6 95 Aanya Agarwal 5
9 Dere Pushkar 7
53 Bhogal Rupesh 6 96 Hamendra Singh Makwana 5
10 Sharma Vaibhav 7
54 Govind Kumar Chandel 6 97 Johney Mandal 5
11 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 7
55 Subhadip Seth 6 98 Saran Kumar Thakur 5
12 Abhay Bandewar 7
56 Gupta Dinesh 6 99 Thakkar Jatan 5
13 Sher Singh 7
57 Deepak Batra 6 100 Sharma Avinash 5
14 Rishabh Nishad 7
58 Rajendra Singh Rana 6 101 Karthik P M 5
15 Suresh Kolavapalli 7
59 Ayush Lodha 6 102 Gawade Milind 5
16 Mraduhas Tripathi 7
60 Soham Kamotra 6 103 Jain Adi 5
17 Esshan Wadhawan 7
61 Arun Kataria 6 104 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 5
18 Singh Soram Rahul 6
62 Purushotham Joshi 6 105 Kamdar Aparva 5
19 Sahil Dhawan 6
63 Aswin.P.G 6 106 Dhruv Dak 5
20 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6
64 Mumukshu Mittal 6 107 Sharma Vicky 5
21 Tamal Chakrabarty 6
65 Srivatsan Sekar 6 108 Jadhav Rahul 5
22 Dilip Das 6
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1st Khammam All India FIDE rating open tournament 2017,Khammam
Varun is the Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
1
st Khammam All India Fide Rating open
Chess Tournament was held at Hotel Se-
quel Resort, Khammam, Telangana, one
of the prominent and well known Hotels in
the city from 5th May to 10th May 2017. The
Tournament was organized by Anamchinni
Foundation in association with Telangana
State Chess Association. The Tournament
attracted 165 players, with 37 rated players.
The event was inaugurated on 4th May with
a grand function. The Dignitaries present
on the inauguration were- Karnati Veerab-
hadram (Tournament adviser), Anamchinni
Venkateshwar Rao, Member chess in schools
Committee, R V Nagendra Kumar (Chairman,
resonance Educational Institutions, Rama
Krishna Elluri, CEO, Sequel Resorts, Ramya
Venkat, Chairperson, Telangana State Chess
in Schools Foundation, Nagendra (HMTVE).
The event started on 5th May 2017 with one
round on 1st day. All the top seeded players
sailed smoothly to win in the first round. On
the next four days we had two rounds per
day and then final day last round with prize
distribution in the evening.
Important results of the Final 10th Round
:Krishna Karthik N (7) lost to Varun V(9), Rao
J Malleshwara (8) drew with Satyanarayana P
(8), Badavath Anand(8.5) Beat Sri Sai Bas-
wanth (7.5), Velupula Sarayu (7) lost to Joel
Paul G(8), Sahik Gouse (8) beat chakravarthi
S V C (6.5).
Varun V of Telangana became the Champion
of the 1st Khammam All India Fide Rating
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Open Chess tournament. He secured 9
points of 10 rounds by winning 8 games and
drawing two games. The Prize distribution
function took place at Hotel Sequel Resort at
4pm. The Chief guest of the event was MLA
Mr Puvadda Ajay Kumar. Other dignitaries
present on the occasion were, Indo China
Summit Manager Mr K S Prasad, AICF Chess
in Schools Member Mr A Venkateshwara Rao,
Sequel CEO , Mr Ramakrishna, Resonance
Info school Chairman, Mr R V Nagendra
Kumar, Mr Murali, Anamchinni Foundation
Member, Ms A Sai Ramya, Ms Aimavati
, Ms Geeta, Mr Nagendra , Mr Ramu, Mr
Promodraj Moree Chief Arbiter. The guests
distributed the prizes to the winners.
Final ranking 41 Pokala Tarun Teja 6 82 Shreeramchandra V 5
Rk Name Pts
1 Varun V 9
2 Badavath Anand 8
3 Satyanarayana P. 8
4 Rao J. Malleswara 8
5 Joel Paul G 8
6 Shaik Gouse 8
7 Sri Sai Baswanth P 7
8 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 7
9 Gopathi Yogi Yashwanth 7
10 Narasimha Rao Konda 7
11 Nanditha V 7
12 Sampat Kumar M V 7
13 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 7
14 Krishna Karthik N 7
15 Gorthi Madan Gopal 7
16 Ravikumar M 7
17 Velpula Sarayu 7
18 Dammalapati Sri Ram 7
19 Sai Suhash K V K 7
20 Md Bashiq Imrose 7
21 Abhilash Raghusala 7 62 Vishnu Vardhan 5
22 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 6 63 Md Noushad Ahmed 5
23 Rama Mohan Rao N 6 64 Sharang Polichetti 5
24 Ojas Mehetre 6 65 Mani Deepika M 5
25 Abhilash Varma A 6 66 Srilahari Mudumba 5
26 Bommidi Nithin Kumar 6 67 Sri Anjana Sarvani M 5
27 Sai Dhanush V 6 68 Shivas Reddy K 5
28 Pavani Prasanth K 6 69 Karunya Shesha Sai Y 5
29 Mourya Manyam 6 70 Varma G Y C 5
30 Vangala Prashanth 6 71 Vamsi Krishna Ratnakaram 5
31 Suryasumedh Behera 6 72 Biswajith Krishna Ch 5
32 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 6 73 Vishnu Komanduri 5
33 Varshith Nela 6 74 Akkula Mahesh 5
34 Srinivas Bangarapu 6 75 Sriram Paramathma A 5
35 Rozer Samuel P A 6 76 Satya Vaishnavi Jami 5
36 Adhvaith Kodam 6 77 Yeramala Bharath 5
37 Ramesh Kumar Dontha 6 78 Sivaramakrishna Jampana 5
38 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 6 79 Shashi Prakash A 5
39 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 6 80 Aleti Tharun 5
40 Navile Venkatamurali 6 81 George Burugumala 5
42 Lakavath Nagesh 6 83 Sai Ganesh Mokkapati 5
43 Davuluri Vihar 6 84 Apurva Vanama 5
44 Vaibhav Ladda 6 85 Abhiram Vaddi 5
45 Sanjana Ch 6 86 Pindiprolu Vidya 5
46 Bhavya Sree Yeramala 6 87 Pinni Venkatanarayana 5
47 Samhitha Thantarapalli 6 88 Sri Vishnu Shiva A 5
48 Vishvas Reddy K 6 89 Talla Nischal 5
49 Parupalli ChandrashekarT G 6 90 Uttham Naresh P 5
50 Karthikeya Sambhangi 6 91 Krishna Sai Koushik P 5
51 Bhaskar Bachala 6 92 Sai Satya Saketh Vudattu 5
52 Magam Vasista Sai 6 93 Victor Joseph D 5
53 Kotha Bharath Reddy 6 94 Raja Konjerla 5
54 Venkata Sai Madhav Varma 6 95 Harsha Vardhan Gedhala 5
55 Sanjaychandra Samudrala 6 96 Meghana Pasam 5
56 Srinivas Gopal Reddy K 6 97 Yata Manaswini 5
57 Charumati K 5 98 Nagendhraprasad P (VC) 5
58 Pranay Reddy B 5 99 Venukumar G 4
59 Pindiprolu Srinivas 5 100 Bommidi Nikhitha 4
60 Ramesh Kasani 5 101 Dhruthi Sriprada M 4
61 Sai Janani Pothula 5 102 Arush Srivatsa U S 4
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 All India FIDE Rating National Open Ty for the Visually Challenged,Jharkand
Ashwin Makwana wins title
by FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
Final ranking 42 Sourav Ghosh 4
Rk Name Pts 43 Anil Kumar Malik 4
1 Makwana Ashvin K 7 44 Rajan Kunnumpuram 4
2 Sujit J Chudasama 7 45 Singh Surypratap 4
3 Samant Milind 7 46 Rajeev Ranjan Das 4

A
A total of 70 players from different States 4 Akhilesh K. Srivastava 6 47 Rajapandian Vijay 4
ll India FIDE Rating National Open
took part in this event. Out of these 70 5 Yudhajeet De 6 48 Abhishek Kumar Shah 4
Chess Tournament for the Visually
players, 34 players were rated and 36 were 6 Venkat Reddy S 6 49 Md. Isrfin Baks 4
Challenged was inaugurated on 24th
unrated. Top seed was Makwana Ashvin K 7 Shambhu Kumar Roy(vc) 6 50 Meghnath Mondal 3
July 2017 on 10.00 am at Asha Lata Vikal-
with a Irtg-1826 , Top seed Makwana Ashvin 8 Nemai Das 6 51 Rakesh Kumar 3
anga Kendra , Sector V , Bokaro Steel City.
K clinched the Championship Title and be- 9 Suman Kumar Blind 6 52 Subho Singh 3
This FIDE Rating Tournament for Visually
came the Champion of All India FIDE Rating 10 Viral Trivedi 6 53 Ajit Oran 3
Impaired persons is organised for the first
National Open Chess Tournament for the Vis- 11 Madan Jana 6 54 Shahjada Salim 3
time in Bokaro Steel City as well as in the
ually Challenged and was awarded a Cash 12 Chirantan C Mesariya 6 55 Vijay Kumar 3
entire Jharkhand State. This tournament was
Prize of Rs.8000/- along with Certificate. He 13 Madhukesh Ram 6 56 Amar Kumar Sharma 3
inaugurated by the Chief Guest Shri Paban
scored 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. Sujit J 14 Hariharan Gandhi 5 57 Manoj Kumar 3
Kumar Singh, CEO Bokaro Steel Plant. Many
Chudasama and Milind Samant became 2nd 15 Agesh Kumar A 5 58 Ravinder Kumar 3
Officials and dignitaries of Bokaro Steel Plant
and 3rd respectively. The Total prize money of 16 Aniruddha Khunte 5 59 Bhawarlal Prajapat 3
and Asha Lata were present in this colourful
the entire tournament was Rs.52,000/-. Not 17 Sudhira Kumar Nayak (blind) 5 60 Chandralesh Kumar 3
ceremony. This tournament was organized
a single protest/claim was there during that 18 Dipak Kumar Bhoi 5 61 Sivadasan Madathil 3
by Asha-Lata under the Aegis of AICFB,
period. Tournament was smoothly conducted 19 Subodh Rajvanshi 5 62 Shahina Ibrahim 3
AICF and FIDE. Zaika Resort , ONGC, SAIL
by me with the help of so many volunteers 20 Vikas Shitole 5 63 Ashis Biswas 2
, Hindusthan Copper Ltd, and BPACL extend
provided by the organiser. 21 Megha Chakraborty 5 64 Ajay Sahoo 2
their hands as a sponsor for this noble event.
22 Balaram Hansda 5 65 Arindam Guchhait 2
The closing Ceremony was held in a befitting 23 Mirjan Sekh 5 66 Ramesh Kumar Singh 2
Asha-Lata Institute is a registered NGO
manner. Deputy Commissioner of Police, 24 Pratima Ghosh 5 67 Kalu Charan Nayak 2
working for Education, Development and
Bokaro City, Mr. Rai Mahimapat Ray (IPS) , 25 Mercel Tomkinson 5 68 Amar Kanta Jhankar 2
Rehabilitation of all categories of Divyang
Mr. Vikram Shanan ,CEO Zaika were present 26 Patel Lav 5 69 Niranjan Swain 1
Children, such as hearing impaired, visually
in this ceremony & gave away the prizes to all 27 Rajkumar Bhagat 5 70 Subhash Shaw 0
impaired, mentally retarded and orthope-
the winners. Many players will get Elo rating 28 Prathap Reddy B 5
dically impaired including autism, cerebral When Grand Masters play, they see the
and some players got partial rating from this 29 Vijay Arumugham 5
palsy and multiple disabilities. logic of their opponent's moves. One's
event. I express my thanks to the organizing 30 Shiv Kumar Sahu 5
moves may be so powerful that the oth-
body for giving me an opportunity to under- 31 Dharmaraj R 5
They provided a big AC hall for playing, with er may not be able to stop him, but the
take the responsibility as Chief Arbiter for 32 Mahesh Sudam Mhabdi 5
sufficient drinking water and washroom facil- plan behind the moves will be clear. Not
this event. I express my special thanks to 33 Milan Adhikari 5
ities. The organisers arranged an A.C Lodg- so with Fischer. His moves did not make
Asha Lata and their entire volunteer team for 34 Pradeep K K 5
ing facilities for all the players, officials and sense - at least to all the rest of us they
their immense support. Without their support 35 Rathi Himanshi 4
parents. They provide a beautiful Cafeteria, didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was
this is not possible for anybody to make this 36 Hemant Rao 4
from where all the participants , officials and playing something else, call it what you
event a grand success. The Press and Media 37 Abhay Ram 4
others can get their breakfast , lunch , and will. Naturally, there would come a time
covered the event well and we had consid- 38 Sidhanta Nayak 4
dinner free of cost. There was no entry fee when we finally would understand what
erably very good support from the parents 39 Rahul Navghane 4
for all the participants.Digital Chess Clocks those moves had been about. But by then
and guardian of the participants. 40 Sankar Chakraborty (blind) 4
were provide in all the boards. it was too late. We were dead.
41 Raj Das 4
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 3rd Pavna All India Fide rated Chess Tournament,Aligarh
Himal Gusain wins Pavna Fide Rated
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
T
hird Pavna All India Fide rated Chess
Tournament was inaugurated on May
19, 2017 by Mr. Mukesh Jain , Executive
Director of Pavna Group. He made a ceremo-
nial move on the Chess board and declare
the tournament open. During his speech on
occasion , Mr. Jain appreciated the effort of
District Chess Association of Aligarh and its
office bearer . He promised to continue his
support to the game of Chess and this tour-
nament. Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay, Principal ,
D.P.S. Agra road, Aligarh , was also present
there as guest of honour . On behalf of organ-
ization as well as District Chess Association ,
Chandramohan Sadani welcomed the guest
and players while Mr. Vijay Kumar Pachisiya
,Treasurer deliver the vote of thanks.
Soon after the inaugural ceremony , Chief
Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar conducted a
players meeting to discuss and frame the
necessary regulations for tournament.
3rd Pavna Open took off for 9 round tour-
nament with 181 players including GM elect
IM Himanshu Sharma on May 19, 2017 at 4
oclock evening. Time control was 90 minute
with 30 sec/move from move 1. However
, top seed IM Himanshu Sharma missed
his first round as couldnt reached up the
city within time . IM elect Himal Gusain of
Chandigarh was in his full form and he just
allowed to share half point with IM Himanshu
Sharma. He scored 8.5/9 and clinch the title
of 3rd Pavna Fide Rating Chess Tournament
. Winner of last 2 edition IM Himanshu Shar-
ma scored 7.5 point with Gajendra Singh of
LIC (UP) but not lucky enough to secure 2nd
position even. 2nd place went to Gajendra
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Singh while IM Himanshu Sharma finished
3rd place.
In a clourful closing ceremony , Chief Guest
Swapnil Jain , Pro Chairman of Pavna Group
,Guest of Honor Rajiv Agrwal , Chairman ,
Plus Point Ltd. and Special Guest Vijay Bajaj
, Chairman , Lock Master of India gave away
the prizes to all the winners in presence of
Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay , Principal , D.P.S. ,
Agra Road , Aligarh .
Chief Arbiter Dharmendra delivered the
tournament report , Vijay Kumar Pachisiya ,
Treasurer , DCSA,Aligarh welcomed the gath-
ering and Chandra Mohan Sadani Secretary ,
DCSA, Aligarh presented the vote of thanks.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Gusain Himal 8
2 Gajendra Singh 7
3 IM Himanshu Sharma 7
4 Anuj Shrivatri 7
5 Deepak Katiyar 7
6 Dubey Sanchay 7
7 Ankit Sen 7
8 Sharma Pankaj 7
9 Rishabh Nishad 6
10 Sumit Grover 6
11 Deepak Rai 6
12 Dave Kantilal 6
13 Esshan Wadhawan 6
14 Leeladhar Kachroo 6
15 Negi D.S. 6
16 Verma Ashu 6
17 Sharma Varun 6
18 Haribabu Sharma 6
19 Bajpai Vasu 6
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21 AFM
Sanskriti Goyal
Choubey Saurabh
6
6
22 Om Chauhan 6
23 Aaryan Varshney 6
24 Katiyar Prashant 6
25 Saurav Agarwal 6
26 Shweta Priyadarshini 6
27 Nakul Chaudhary 6
28 Tripathi Skand 6
29 Rajat Pratap Singh 6
30 Sharma S K 6
31 Gabbar 6
32 Singh Amarjit 5
33 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5
34 Shankar Kuldeep 5
35 Kartikey Verma 5
36 Hariom Solanki 5
37 Himanshu Agarwal 5
38 Ayush Sharma 5
39 Arnav Maheshwari 5
40 Raghav H S 5
41 Awasthi Balgovind 5
42 Ashvani Saini 5
43 Daaevik Wadhawan 5
44 Shashi Nand Kumar 5
45 Kritika Pal 5
46 Gupta Tanish 5
47 Yung David 5
48 Himanshu Prakash 5
49 Atul Bihari Sharan 5
50 Jay Saxena 5
51 Vijay Kumar Agrawal 5
52 Neelesh Raj Singh 5
53 Medha Chauhan 5
54 Patil Priyanshu 5
55 Garv Rai 5
56 Tiwari O P 5
57 Singh Dinesh Pratap 5
58 Saini Ashutosh 5
59 Wais S M 5
60 Manikya Negi 5
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62
Sankalp Arora
Rohit Gupta
5
5
63 Dutta Sarthak 5
64 Shivam Kumar 5
65 M Thangapandian 5
66 Aashman Gupta 5
67 Arnav Haldia 5
68 Varshney Roopak 5
69 Parth Bhatnagar 5
70 Vikram Vishwajeet 5
71 Yadav Narayan 5
72 Asif Mohammad Tayyeb 5
73 Divyanshu Sharma 5
74 Gaurav Varshney 5
75 Sahil Jamal Ansari 5
76 Rajesh Kumar Garg 5
77 Devansh Singh 5
78 Pramod Kumar Sharma 5
79 Saxena Vikash 5
80 Nitul Khare 4
81 Kranti Kumar Gupta 4
82 Raghuraman V 4
83 Munna Das Bairagi 4
84 Arnav Kushwaha 4
85 Tejas Gupta 4
86 Shambhavi Srivastava 4
87 Akhil Chaudhary 4
88 Kunal Kishore 4
89 Arunesh Narain Gaur 4
90 Shiva Garg 4
91 Aashi Upadhayay 4
92 Aditya Pratap Singh 4
93 Arun Kumar Saxena 4
94 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 4
95 Hemendra Singh Tomar 4
96 Parmod Kharbash 4
97 Vinayak Verma 4
98 Ashraf Ali 4
99 Sara Prakash 4
100 Syed M Hussain Jafry 4
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 3rd SCS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Sivakasi
Kunal wins at Sivakasi
by Prof. R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
S
ivakasi Chess Sparklers is organising
a major fide rated tournament every
year in Sivakasi, inviting strong players
from all over India. The third edition of the
tournament conducted from 18.5.2017 to
22.5.2017 is no exception with about 325
players participating in the five days open
tournament. The playing field included IM
elects A Ra Harikrishnan and M. Kunal of
Tamil Nadu as the top two seeds, IM Mura-
likrishnan BT of Railways, IM Chakkravarthy
Reddy of Telangana and Asian Under 9 cham-
pion D. Gukesh of Andhra Pradesh.
In the first two rounds, seeded players had a
smooth sailing. In the third round, PL Kavitha
of Tamil Nadu, shocked S. Harini also of Tamil
Nadu, who is rated about 500 points above
the former. SS manigandan a former Tamil
Nadu champion in the under 17 category held
the top seed Harikrishnan to a draw in the
fifth round. Similarly, fourth seeded Gulesh
also had to be content with a draw against
M. Barath Kalyan, a Commonwealth silver
medallist in age category. Five players M
Kunal, AL Muthaiah, S Yogit of Chennai BT
Muralikrishnan and Chakkravarthy Reedy led
with five points in as many rounds. Kunal
escaped from the clutches of defeat against
international arbiter S Ganesh Babu, who
blundered in the dyeing minutes.
Gukesh and Hrithikesh of Tamil Nadu defeat-
ed BS Aswin Kumar and M. Barath Kalyan to
join the five overnight leaders with 5.5 points
each after six rounds. Top four boards of the
seventh round ended in draw, resulting in
a eleven way tie at the top, each with 6.5
points at the end of eighth round, leaving
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nobody to guess or have a clue about the
winner. The pattern did not change in the
final round also. On the top boards IM Mu-
ralikrishnan had to be content with a draw
and on the second board, Muthaiah inflicted
a defeat on Gukesh. While Kunal and IM
Chakkravarthy Reddy overcame the stiff re-
sistance from Harini and Manigandan. Kunal,
Murali, Muthaiah, Chakkravarthy Reddy and
RM Subramanian scored 7.5 points each ad
tied for the first place. Kunal, fresh from
his victory at Virudhunagar five days back,
secured the first place, followed by Murali
and Muthaiah. Kunal was awarded with a
cash prize of Rs.70000/- and Murali received
Rs.50000/- for his efforts. All the players
were complimented with chess sets and free
lunch on all days of the tournament.
The inauguration was a grand and elite
function, with stalwarts from FIDE, AICF and
TNSCA attending it. Vice President of FIDE
Sri. DV. Sundar inaugurated the tournament
in the august presence of Sri.V. Hariharan,
secretary of AICF and General Secretary of
TNSCA and Sri. B. Murugavel, Vice president
of TNSCA. Sri. AMSG Asokan, industrialist
and Correspondent of Arasan Ganesan Poly-
technic College was the chief guest and other
dignitaries present were Sri. A Gopalsamy,
President of Virudhunagar District Chess As-
sociation and Sri. G. Ramamoorthy, President
of Sivakasi Chess Club.
Sivakasi has been the hub of chess activities
for the past forty years, which includes Asian
Junior Championships in 1979 (wherein GM
Dibyendu Barua participated as a thirteen
year old boy), several national and state
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Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championships, Chengdu,China
Wei Yi, Vaishali win Asian Blitz 2017
By Arvind Aaron
Wei Yi of China and R Vaishali of India won the Asian Continental Blitz Chess
Championships in China on May 21, 2017. Wei Yi who won the Chinese
Championship recently tied for first place with former world champion
Rustam Kasimdzhanov scoring 7.5/9.
Vr Aravindh Chithambaram scored seven points and shared the third
place with Chinas Bai Jinshi. A total of 18 Indians played in this event,
nine in Open and nine in the women sections.Vaishali won the Womens
section starting as the 16th seed. She remained undefeated drawing
Khademalsharieh Sarasadat (Iri) and Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh (Mgl). India
had a second member in the podium when Padmini Rout finished third
with seven points. Padmini played a shade below expectations, starting as third seed and
finishing third. Top seed Khademalsharieh Sarasadat of Iran finished second.
The Asian Continental started with a one day blitz on May 21 at Chengdu City in Sichuan
Province. The time control for blitz was 3 minutes for the whole game plus an increment of
two seconds per move. It was organised by the Chinese Chess Association. Sixty-six players
from 17 nations took part in this event.
Final placings: 1-2. Wei Yi (Chn), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 7.5/9 each; 3-4. Bai Jinshi
(Chn), Vr Aravindh Chithambaram (Ind) 7 each; 5-8. Lu Shanglei (Chn), Nguyen Ngoc
Truong Son (Vie), M.R. Lalith Babu, Vidit Gujrathi (both Ind) 6.5 each; 9-11. Maghsood-
loo Parham (Iri), B Adhiban (Ind), Wang Hao (Chn) 6 each; 22 Surya S Ganguly 5, 24-25
Sandipan Chanda, S.P. Sethuraman 5 each, 36 Deep Sengupta 4.5, 57 Karthikeyan Murali
366 players.
Final placings (women): 1 R Vaishali (Ind) 8/9; 2 Khademalsharieh Sarasadat (Iri) 7.5; 3
Padmini Rout (Ind) 7 each; 4-6. Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh (Mgl), Pham Le Thao Nguyen (Vie),
Frayna Janelle Mae (Phi), Zhu Chen (Qat), Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie), Hoang Thi Bao Tram
(Vie) 6 each; 12 Soumya Swaminathan 5.5, 16 Mary Ann Gomes 5, 26 Swati Ghate 4.5,
31 Bodda Pratyusha 4, 35 Nisha Mohota 3, 38 P.V. Nandhidhaa 3, 42 Kiran Mohanty 348
players
17th IPCA World Chess Championship,Slovakia
Three Golds for India
By Arvind Aaron
Three golds, one bronze for the Indians at Slovakia was on the back of a strong perormance
in the 17th IPCA World Chess Championship.
Woman International Master Jenitha Anto of Tiruchi won her fifth world title in style with
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a round to spare. Shashikant Kutwal became the World Disa-
bled Champion 2017 and also became an International Master.
Sammarth J Rao who won bronze in the junior got the gold in
the blitz junior section.
Shashikant Kutwal was received at the Pune airport when he
returned from Slovakia. Joseph DSouza and R Konde, President
and Secretary of the Pune District Chess Association felicitated
Shashikant Kutwal at the airport.The last round was spectacular.
Indians played on boards one, two and three! noted Kanickai
Irudayaraj.
Sichuan Airlines Cup 2017 Asian Continental Chess Championship, Chengdu,China
Indians win Bronze Medal at Asian Continental
By Arvind Aaron
Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi of Nasik (Mah) and R Vaishali of Chennai won
bronze medals in the Sichuan Airlines Cup 2017 Asian Continental Chess
Championship that concluded recently at Chengdu in China.Sixth seed
Wang Hao of China won the event after he and countryman Bu Xiangzhi
scored the same seven points and remained undefeated to tie for first.
Wang Hao had the better tie-break. Vidit Gujrathi lost to champion Wang
Hao in the middle of the tournament and raced towards a 3.5/4 finish to
win the bronze medal.
GM Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi
Eighth seed Vo Thi Kim Phung (7.5/9) of Vietnam won the Asian Continental
event for women remaining undefeated and also gaining a massive 54.6
Elo points. Ninth seed Nakhbayeva Guliskhan of Kazakhstan also remained
undefeated to take the second place with seven points.Vaishali gained 40.2
points and scored 6.5/9 to take the third place after suffering two defeats
to Mary Ann and the champion.
Final placings: (Open): 1-2. Wang Hao, Bu Xiangzhi (both Chn) 7/9; 3-4.
Vidit Gujrathi, Yu Yangyi (Chn) 6.5 each; 5-9. Batchuluun Tsegmed (Mgl),
Sadorra Julio Catalino (Phi), Wei Yi (Chn), B Adhiban (Ind), Surya S Ganguly (Ind) 6 each...11
S.P. Sethuraman 5.5, 13 Deep Sengupta 5.5, 17 Aravindh Chithambaram 5, 21 Karthikeyan
Murali 5, 28 Sandipan Chanda 5, 32 M.R. Lalith Babu 4.5, 53 Sriram Jha 4...69 players.
Final placings: (Girls): 1 Vo Thi Kim Phung (Vie) 7.5/9; 2 Nakhbayeva Guliskhan (Kaz) 7;
3 R Vaishali (Ind) 6.5; 4-9. Mary Ann Gomes (Ind), Lei Tingjie (Chn), Hoang Thi Bao Tram
(Vie), Padmini Rout (Ind), Swati Ghate (Ind), Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (Vie) 6 each; 13-14.
Nisha Mohota, Soumya Swaminathan 5.5 each; 15-16. Kiran Mohanty, P.V. Nandhidhaa 5
each; 34 Bodda Pratyusha 4 each...50 players.
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Sasikiran wins Capablanca Memorial
This prestigious tournament began in 1962, under the initiative of
Commander Ernesto Che Guevara to remember the third world
champion Jos Ral Capablanca, who won the world title in 1921 in
Cuba.The first edition of this tournament, was won by the famous
Don Miguel Najdorf, who we all still remember today, thanks to the
famous variation of the Sicilian. And of course in more recent times
the Capablanca Memorial has been won by Ivanchuk multiple times!
(2005,2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016. This tournament is
famous for many reasons. The main one could be that Fischer played
in it. Then of course, the best names of chess, have played in such
tournament and won it, here we mention a few: Smyslov (in 1964, 1965, and 1973) Viktor
Korchnoi (in 1963, 1969). Sasi can be billed as the Rahul Dravid of Indian chess.The un-
sung hero, Sasikiran Krishnan, is truly one of the finest chess players that India has ever
produced. He has a host of achievements to his credit, and now he adds another feather to
his cap by winning the 52nd Capablanca Memorial 2017 ahead of Vasily Ivanchuk.Krishnan
Sasikiran was also born in Chennai, just like five-time World Champion Vishy Anand. In fact
he was Anands second during the 2013 World Championship. He has won multiple times
the Indian Championship, and many international tournaments. Sasikiran reached a peak
rating of 2720 in 2012.
Sasikiran in round one crushed the Polish Champion GM Piorun, in just 28 moves. and out-
witted GM Shankland from USA in an opposite coloured bishop ending generally considered
drawish.Shankland last year worked with Carlsen in preparation for the world championship
and is one of the top grandmasters of America.
Courtesy:chessbase india
Winning moves Chess Training Camp
Andaman and Nicobar
Chess Association or-
ganised a Chess Training
camp from 15th May
2017 to 19th May 2017
at one of the most sought
after star hotels in Port
Blair- TSG Emerald View.
The camp was conducted
under the able guidance
of Mr Lanka Ravi, Inter-
national Chess Master
and FIDE Senior Trainer.
The inaugural day kick
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started with a simultaneous display in championships, besides rating tournaments, 34 Aswin Kumar B S 6
which 40 students participated in the Si- all conducted by Sivakasi Chess Club. Now, 35 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6
multaneous Chess Game.During the chess Sivakasi Chess Sparklers has also joined 36 Kavitha P L 6
training the students were taught on the hands with Sivakasi Chess Club to promote 37 Arun A. 6
preparations for a tournament as a chess. 38 Kabhilan S 6
refresher program. Opening preparation, Final ranking (first 90 placings only) 39 Suthershun A 6
Middle game Tatics, and End game prepa- 40 Subash Mathivanan 6
ration were discussed at length using a Rk Name Pts
41 Kumaresh A 6
power point presentation. 1 Kunal M. 7
42 Arivu Selvan A S 6
Students were supported with the relevant 2 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7
43 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 6
material and books to be mastered for 3 Muthaiah Al 7
effective learning of chess game.During 44 Suganthan S 6
4 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
the chess training session students were 45 Jagendran Kamak N 6
5 Subramanian R M 7
given wide opportunity to participate in 46 Siva Shanmugam S 6
6 Yogit S 7
47 Vinoth M 6
Mr.Lanka Ravi International Master &Sr FIDE solving puzzles too. Students were guided 7 CM Gukesh D 7
Trainer playing with local talents on how puzzle solving will enhance hilds 48 Mohana Praba R B 6
8 Ganesh Babu S 7
49 Narendra Pallavan S 6
intellectual skill and problem solving 9 Manu David Suthandram R 7
50 Subramanian V 6
abilities. 10 Hirthickkesh Pr 7
51 Senthamizh Kumaran S 6
11 Anilkumar O.T. 7
52 Ulaganathan G 6
On the valedictory day an open fo- 12 Bala Kannamma P 7
53 Unnikrishnan M A 6
rum was organised for parents and 13 Alaguraja M.A. 7
54 AIM Navodith V Bhat 6
trainees.They utilised this oppor- 14 Venkat Sundaram 7
55 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6
tunity and discussed about various 15 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6
56 Balakowshi D S 6
International chess tournaments 16 Manigandan S S 6
57 AIM Dharshan Venkatachalam 6
and opportunities available for their 17 Harini S. 6
wards. All the questions were an- 58 Kalidass C. 6
18 Barath Kalyan M 6
swered by the team on the Dais and 59 Harshad S 5
19 Sibi Visal R 6
they also explained the measures 60 Marimuthu K 5
20 Abhinessh S 6
and initiatives taken by ANCA and 61 Sriram B 5
21 Jagadish P 6
AICF in promoting Chess in All over 62 Sanil S 5
22 Ruban Sanjay M 6
India and incentives available from 63 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5
Government and various education- Children receiving Merit Certificates from President 23 Harsh Suresh 6
64 Aasha C R 5
al institutions. Students were also G.Bhaskar, Sh Lanka Ravi and ShPrasad,Vice President 24 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6
65 Naveen K 5
informed of encouragement given ANCA 25 Alan Diviya Raj 6
66 Gokul S 5
to the high achievers and also job 26 Girinath B S 6
67 Meenatchi Rajam V 5
opportunities provided by the Government and various PSUs. 27 Shakthi Vishal J 6
68 Reshma C R 5
28 Vignesh Kasi P L 6
69 Rajeev V M 5
Andaman Chess Association President Shri. G.Bhaskar spoke on the valedictory function 29 Prathish A 6
70 Mohana R 5
Bhaskar and assured his continuous support to all the budding stars of the Islands. 30 Rathina Sabapathi A 6
71 Mithesh M 5
Shri. H. Dinesh Secretary of ANCA said that ANCA shall organise Chess training programs 31 Subbhu Karthick S M 6
like the one happened on regular basis to improve the game standards and help local talents 72 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5
32 Sangeetha P 6
to bring medals for Andaman and India.It may be noted that ANCA will organise National 73 Prithvi Rajan 5
33 Paramasivam M. 6
Under 25 Chess Championships from 13th July to 19thJuly, 2017. 74 Vigneshwaran K 5
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 Late Shri Satyendra Pathak Memorial 3rd SYNA Open International Rating Tournament
Chakravarthi Reddi wina Syna Open
by IA Dharmendra Kumar,Chief Arbiter
T
he much awaited SYNA Open 2017 was
inaugurated in a grand ceremony at
SYNA International school by the Chief
Guest MSME Minister Sanjay Satyendra
Pathak, S.P. Katni Shashikant Shukla, was
the guest of honour, other distinguished
guests included the officials from Katni
District Chess Association Vice President
Mr. Deepak Jain and the Executive Member
Mr. Sandeep Bajpaye and the International
Arbiter Mr. Dharmendra Kumar. The pro-
gram started with the lighting of lamp and
a floral homage to Late Pandit Satyendra
Pathak by the dignitaries.
The tournament began with SYNAs Ayush
Pattnaik, Captain of Indian team play-
ing a move with the Chief Guest Sanjay
Satyendra Pathak and Anuj Shrivatri, who
will be leading the Indian team in Brazil
later this year, playing another move with
S.P. Katni, Shashikant Shukla
Principal Dr. Aditya Kumar Sharma wel-
comed the guests, players and parents in
his welcome speech. Dr. Sharma said that
Chess is a part of curriculum at SYNA and
the students have done wonders playing at
all the levels.
Addressing the gathering on this occasion,
the Chief Guest honourable Minister Sanjay
Satyendra Pathak shared the vision of his
father Late Pandit Satyendra Pathak, the
founder of SYNA International School who
conceived a dream of building a school
where students would be nurtured with a
vision of all round development. SYNA is
the only school in central India and
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The 6-day long tournament saw many ups 2 Dhananjay S 7
and downs on the top level but 2226 rated 3 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 7
Chakarvarthi Reddy M. maintained his hold 4 Hemant Sharma (del) 7
right from the first game and finally proved 5 Sumit Grover 7
his mettle by emerging as the best out of 152 6 Joshi Govind Ballabh 7
M.P. which has led the Indian National
players participating in Central Indias biggest 7 Sharma Suyash 7
Chess Team at the international level in
prize-money-tournament. Reddi started his 8 Vinod Kumar Sharma 6
Sochi, Russia earlier this year. It is the reali-
game with white pieces against Arvinder 9 Singh Arvinder Preet 6
zation of dream of Pandit Satyendra Pathak.
preet Singh of Punjab. He opened his game 10 Negi Virender Singh 6
in English opening variation and sacrificed 11 Pandey Srishti 6
152 players from thirteen states of the
his exchange to get better position. He later 12 Anuj Shrivatri 6
country has participated in this tournament.
converted this position to win the game and 13 Mishra Manoj 6
Some of the prominent players include M.
the tournament as well. 14 Ayush Bhai Mehta 6
Chakravarty Reddy (IM) from Telangana,
15 Ayush Pattanaik 6
Vinod Sharma (Railways), Shrinath Rao (Ma-
Pandit Satyendra Pathak Memorial 3rd Syna 16 Shah Asif 6
harashtra) The event last for six days and the
Open International Rating Chess Tourna- 17 Awadh Chaitanya 6
last round was played
ment-2017 came to a close on 6th of May 18 Kewat Subham Kumar 6
with Chakravarthi Reddy M. from Telangana 19 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6
on the 6th of May. SYNA Open-2017 is cen-
emerging as the winner with 8 points. Red- 20 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 6
tral India's richest tournament with Rupees
dy was awarded a cash prize of 1, 00,000 21 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 6
Five Lakh Fifty One Thousand prize fund. The
INR while Rs. 60,000/- & Rs. 30,000/- for 22 Pardeshi Ajay 6
opening ceremony ended with a brief on the
S.Dhananjay and S . V. Srinath Rao as 1st 23 Karankar Padmakar 6
tournament and proposal of Vote of Thanks
& 2nd runners up respectively in the closing 24 Himanshu Ranjan 6
by SYNA Chess Coach and International
ceremony . 25 Saurabh Lokhande 6
Chess player FI Niklesh Jain.
26 Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay 6
Chief Guest ShashankShrivastav, Mayor 27 Bhat Siddharth K 6
About the games & results :
of Katni, Guest of honour Sanjay Gautam, 28 Gourav Nigam 6
Editor-in-Chief DainikBhaskar, Katni, Chief 29 Kasar Prashant 6
In the 7th round all three top board ended in
Arbiter of the tournament Dharmendra Ku- 30 Arora Honi 6
draws. IM Reddi with Dhananajay , Arvinder
mar, Chairman of the organizing committee 31 Rishabh Nishad 5
Preet with GB Joshi and Hemant Sharma with
Dr. Aditya Kumar Sharma, Principal SYNA 32 Nasir Ali Syed 5
V S Negi signed their score sheet by sharing
International School, Organizing Secretary 33 Roneet Das 5
their score.
Niklesh Jain were the prominent guests on 34 Umer S.M 5
stage for the closing ceremony. 35 Jagdish Narang 5
And the same history repeated in 8th round
36 Tiwari Shivansh 5
also when All three top board score shared
The ceremony began with the lighting of lamp 37 Rishi Sonker 5
by the players ! They preferred safe side and
and floral homage to the founder of SYNA 38 Tayade Vivek 5
signed the peace treaty . All these last two
International School Late PanditSatyendraPa- 39 Thakare Seeya 5
round drew results favored to sole leader IM
thak by the Chief Guest and other dignitaries. 40 Tiwari O P 5
M Chakravarthi Reddi to maintain his sole
41 Eshaan Chandrol 5
lead with 7 point after 8th round. Meanwhile
Final standings (first 54 placings only) 42 Dhanvij Ansh 5
, some more joined the next group of leaders
Rk Name Pts 43 Swapnil Raj 5
with 6.5 .
1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 8 44 Mishra Kamad 5
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 1st St.Peters Fide Rating Chess Tournament at Kodaikanal
Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF wins title
by M.Vijayakumar,Chief Arbiter
S
t Peter's School 1st All India Open
FIDE Rated Chess tournament held at
St Peter's International School, Golf
Club Road, Kodaikanal on 18.05.2017 to
21.05.2017. This event attracted 247 play-
ers including 158 Rated Players. Many top
players including International Master R
Balasubramaniam, IM Norm holder Ram S
Krishnan,Top seeded N.Lokesh,Former Na-
tional youth Champion Syed Anwar Shazuly
etc., made this event a stronger and colourful
one. This 8round Swiss format Fide Rated
event held at 7000 feet above sea level. Top
seed N Lokesh (ELO 2211)
The tournament was inaugurated in a grand
opening ceremony. Mr. J Sambabu, Corre-
spondent, St Peters International School,
Kodaikanal in his Presidential address wel-
comed the gathering of players all over
the country. Mr. S Ganapathi, IPS, Director
General of Police (Retd.) made the first move
with white pieces for which Dr R Murugan,
IFS, District Forest Officer, Kodaikanal replied
with black pieces.
Grandmaster Norm holder Ram S Krishnan
of BSNL led the pack of leaders with 3/3 af-
ter the third round of the Sharing the lead
with Ram S Krishnan were 21 players viz.,
top seed N.Lokesh , International Master
Balasubramaniam. R and local star Lakshmi
Narayanan M V among others. Phoobalan P
and Syed Anwar Shazuli (both ICF, Chennai)
shared the lead with 5.0 points after the fifth
round spot with 4.5 points were 9 players
viz., top seed N.Lokesh, International Master
Balasubramaniam R and local star Lakshmi
Narayanan M. V among others.
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10 AGM Vignesh B 6.5 53 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 5
11 Phoobalan P. 6 54 Venkatesan A N 5
12 AIM Mohammed Shamil A 6 55 Kharthikheyan B 5
13 Swarnamala B 6 56 AIM Chandni R Y 5
14 Kannan.V 6 57 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5
Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF, Chennai emerged 15 Rohit Ramanan T G 6 58 Infant Jose H 5
the champion on superior tie-breaks, with 7.0 16 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6 59 Karthikeyan T 5
points after the eighth and final round Shazuli 17 Swaraj Palit 6 60 Nagarajan P 5
takes home a handsome trophy and a cash 18 Aravindaswami T 6 61 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 5
prize of Rs 35,000 (Rupees Thirty five thou- 19 Siva A C 6 62 Anupam M Sreekumar 5
sand only) Sharing the top spot with Shazuli 20 Godson Merlin E 6 63 Guruprasadh K 5
were local star Lakshmi Narayanan M V and 21 Gokula Chandhiran A 6 64 John Christopher 5
Ram S Krishnan (BSNL Chennai) at 7.0 points 22 Karthik P M 5.5 65 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 5
apiece. Half a point behind at 6.5 points were 23 AGM Mani Bharathy 5.5 66 Muthu Rakesh Babu 4.5
seven players viz., top seed N.Lokesh and IM 24 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5.5 67 Jaidambareesh N R 4.5
Balasubramaniam R among others. 25 Sivakumar C. 5.5 68 Prathesh Kumar R 4.5
26 AIM Durgesh K 5.5 69 Arputha Jasmine B A 4.5
Chief Guest Dr G S Sameeran, IAS, Additional 27 Sakthi Subash A S 5.5 70 Sham R 4.5
Director, Fisheries Department distributed 28 Jinan Jomon 5.5 71 Naveen Kumar T 4.5
the cash prizes worth Rs.3,10,000 (Rupees 29 Shanmugasundaram G. 5.5 72 Jayakrishna H 4.5
Three lakhs ten thousand only) in the Open 30 Sathananthan I 5.5 73 Amisha Sany M 4.5
section and for various age categories in the 31 Abinandhan R 5.5 74 Kumar T V 4.5
presence of Mr.Rohan Sambabu, Director, St 32 Sathyanarayanan S. 5.5 75 Mithilesh Krishnan 4.5
Peters International School, Dr Lion Ravin- 33 Bharkavi S 5.5 76 Subhransu Sekhar Dash 4.5
dran, Sun Builders, and Axiom Abdul Nazar, 34 Ramnath N 5.5 77 Shrija K M 4.5
Secretary, Dindigul District Chess Associa- 35 Vijayaragavan A R 5.5 78 Uthesh S 4.5
tion.The tournament was organized very well 36 Mckenzie Lionel Joseph 5.5 79 Swethitha C 4.5
by Mount Chess Academy & ICS ,Dindigul 37 Bagat Singh P 5.5 80 Pragadesh P 4.5
under the supervision ofMr. V.Ravichandran 38 Prahalad B 5.5 81 AFM Shashidhar B Rai 4.5
and Mr.John Jayaraj.Our team of Arbiters 39 Diwakar V U 5.5 82 Pratyush J 4.5
conducted the tournament very well without 40 Singaram P.L. 5.5 83 Vignesh Srinivasan 4.5
any dispute. 41 Subramanian T.V. 5.5 84 Subash R 4.5
42 Sivaneshan V 5.5 85 Sanjay Sreekandan 4.5
Final Ranking crosstable after 8 Rounds 43 Shankarasubbu B 5.5 86 Saadhana A 4.5
Rk. Name Pts. 44 Kalideva A 5.5 87 Anni Shayana Stephen 4.5
1 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7 45 Rajkumar N 5 88 Aswath S 4.5
2 AGM Lakshmi Narayanan M V 7 46 Janakiraman R 5 89 Reshap G 4.5
3 Ram S. Krishnan 7 47 Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 5 90 Kavin B 4.5
4 Lokesh N. 6.5 48 AFM Kaushik G Iyer 5 91 Emmanuel Austin B 4.5
5 Kanishk S K 6.5 49 Srivatsan Sekar 5 92 Karpagakumar S V S 4.5
6 IM R Balasubramaniam 6.5 50 Harish G 5 93 Shivashankaran R 4.5
7 Anup Shankar R 6.5 51 Bharath Raj K 5 94 Karthikeyan Panchapakesan 4.5
8 Saranya Y 6.5 52 AIM Komal Srivatsav Sajja 5 95 Kishore M 4.5
9 Gowtham K K 6.5
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 43rd Tripura State FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2017,Udaipur, Tripura
Biswajit Nag wins title
by Pradip Kumar Roy, FA,Chief Arbiter
T
his is the first time Tripura state chess
championship was organized as a FIDE
Rating Championship . The tournament
was held at Auditorium , Udaipur Girls HS
School , Udaipur , Tripura from 13-17 th
May 2017. Total prize fund was declared Rs
15000/ ( Fifteen thousands only) with 26 tro-
phies in age group category . Total 116 (one
hundred sixteen ) players were participated
in this Tournament & 37 players were rated
among them. Sri Madhab Saha ,honble MLA
of Tripura Legislative Assembly , Sri Subrata
Deb , Honble chairperson , Udaipur municipal
council , Sri Salil Debbarma , President , All
Tripura Chess Association ,Sri Pradip Kumar
Choudhury , Secretary , All Tripura Chess As-
sociation , Pradip Kumar Roy, Chief Arbiter
of the tournament, , Members of Udaipur
Chess Association and other dignitaries were
present in the opening ceremony.
The overall standard of the tournament was
good. At the end Mr. Biswajit Nag of Sadar
subdivision stood Champion and awarded
Rs 5000/- and a beautiful trophy. Bappi Deb
of Teliamura and Anurag Debnath of Sadar
subdivision stood 2nd & 3rd position re-
spectively and awarded Rs 3500 & Rs 2000
with trophy .
The Prize distribution ceremony was attended
by Mr Tarun Chakraborty , honble chairman
, Amarpur Nagar Panchayet , Sri Chanchal
Majumder , Ex deputy Director of sports ,Go-
mati district , Mr Priyabrata Baidya , honble
guardian and host of other dignitaries.The
tournament was conducted by FIDE Arbiter
Pradip Kumar Roy as the Chief Arbiter and he
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34 Das Debayan 5 76 Soumyaditya C 4
35 Kundu Rajbir 5 77 Baishali Debnath 4
36 Edmund Debbarma 5 78 Diksha Saha 4
37 Pradip Kumar Debnath 5 79 Deepjoy Das 4
38 Arshiya Das 5 80 Supratim Laskar 4
is assisted by Swaraj Buragohain as Deputy 39 SriHari S Barman 5 81 Samson Debbarma 3
Arbiter. 40 Rakesh Paul 5 82 AKBandyopadhyay 3
Final ranking 41 Saikat Biswas 5 83 Dulal Banik 3
Rk Name Pts 42 Sourav Rabi Das 5 84 Debajit Paul 3
1 Biswajit Nag 7 43 Rajdeep Das 5 85 Subham Debnath 3
2 Bappi Deb 7 44 Soumyadip Bhaumik 5 86 Ankita Tamang 3
3 Anurag Debnath 7 45 Rajanna Sharma 5 87 Drishya Banik 3
4 Dutta Umashankar 7 46 Bitan Chakraborty 5 88 Omkar Chakraborty 3
5 Dipak Chowhan 7 47 Ratan Mani Banik 5 89 Arkajit Acharya 3
6 Abid Hossain 7 48 Pradip Debbarma 4 90 Akash Datta 3
7 Arindam Biswas 6 49 Rahul Kanti Nag 4 91 Pritam Rabi Das 3
8 Soham Chakraborty 6 50 Goutam De 4 92 Anusree Nath 3
9 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar 6 51 Hari Sadhan Banik 4 93 Swapan Debbarma 3
10 Nil Kumar Datta 6 52 Deepraj Sarma 4 94 Pranjal Bhowmik 3
11 Jadab Majumder 6 53 Joydeb Nandi 4 95 Eliza Deb Roy 3
54 Dhanesh Debnath 4 96 Riya Das 3
12 Shamik Saha 6
55 Muskan Debnath 4 97 Alaka Nanda Tamang 3
13 Abhijit Choudhury 6
56 Tuton Datta 4 98 Pritanu Dey 3
14 Sangita Saha 6
57 Sikha Das Gupta 4 99 Nabajit Pal 3
15 Akashdeep Majumdar 6
58 Nishan Biswas 4 100 Amartyadeep Lodh 2
16 Subhadip Som 6
17 Arun Chandra Das 6 59 Ronit Roy 4 101 Mithan Das 2
18 Barnita Singha 6 60 Sandip Som 4 102 Srijib Acharya 2
19 Hillol Debnath 6 61 Uttam Rabi Das 4 103 Arghyadeep Saha 2
20 Parthajit Saha 6 62 Subhrajit Sarkar 4 104 Partha Sarathi Banik 2
21 Sushil Sutradhar 6 63 Bapu Debbarma 4 105 Sahinoor Islam 2
22 Rajbeer Ahmed 5 64 Deep Saha 4 106 Srijita Baidya 2
23 Mano Raj Sarkar 5 65 Avigyan Ghosh 4 107 Manjistha Debnath 2
24 Goutam Sarkar 5 66 Dipak Das 4 108 Rituraj Dey 2
25 Arunika Ghosh 5 67 Debadrita Debnath 4 109 Soumyadeep Saha 2
26 Debajit Sarkar 5 68 Saurav Shil 4 110 Rishan Roy Choudhury 1
27 B Bhushan Chaudhuri 5 69 Arnab Kumar Pal 4 111 Trishita Saha 1
28 Abhinaba Roy 5 70 Hrituraj Saha 4 112 Aaditri Singha Roy 1
29 Binoy Singha 5 71 Anish Das 4 113 Mithun Pal 0
30 Gopal Tamang 5 72 Biprayan Choudhuri 4 114 Sulekha Das 0
31 Sudarsan Saha 5 73 Prishan Mani Banik 4 115 Agrajit Paul 0
32 Subhradeep Sengupta 5 74 Tanveer Ahmed 4 116 Snehalika Das 0
33 Debalina Kundu 5 75 Debjyoti Nandi 4
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 Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament,Kolkata
R.R.Laxman wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury, IA,Chief Arbiter
Xtra Time All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament 2017 held at Khudiram
anushilan Kendra, Kolkata, WB on 17th and
18th May 2017.Organized by CHESSPERT.
The total number of participants was 159
including 142 rated players. They have come
from different states. 4 GMs, 4 IMs and 3
Title holders took part in this highest ever
prize money in Bengal in two days Rapid
Rating Chess tournament. The tournament
was inaugurated by Deep Dasgupta, former
Indian Cricketer. Grandmasters were also
present on the dias.
The Tournament Hall was air conditioned
with sufficient toilet facilities. The Organiser
provided lunch to all participants on both
days. In the very first round GM Dibyendu
Barua lost to local kid Agnivo Ghosh. After 3
years GM Barua played in any Chess Tourna-
ment. Two other upsets in the first round
were when Arghyadeep Das drew with Bristy
Mukherjee and Arya Bhakta held IM Prantik
Roy to a draw. But from the beginning GM
RR Laxman sailed smoothly till last round.
His only draw was with GM S. Roy Choudhury
in the 4th round.
At the end of final round games GM RR
Laxman scored 9.5 bagged the Champion-
ship Title with Cash Rs. 50000/- . Mitrabha
Guha(8.5) & Srijit Paul (8)placed second &
third with bagged Rs. 35000/- & 25000/-
respectively with better tie break. All Asstt.
Arbiters did their job very well till last round
games. No single dispute arose in the games
during the entire tournament .
In the Prize distribution ceremony Eminent
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33 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6 75 Dhritabrata Kundu 5
34 Bose Sayan 6 76 Sanket Chakravarty 5
35 AGM Sa Kannan 6 77 Chandrasekhar M K 5
36 Shuban Saha 6 78 Basant Khandelwal 5
37 Ganguly Ritabroto 6 79 Bodhisatya Pal 5
Cricketer Sambaran Banerjee & Mr. Anilabha 38 Soumma Chakraborty 6 80 Rajat Kumar 5
Chatterjee, CEO Xtra Time were present and 39 Agnivo Ghosh 6 81 Ankan Saha 5
distributed the prizes to the all prize winners. 40 Rahul K Viswanathan 6 82 Aditya Bikram Paul 5
Final ranking 41 Shrutarshi Ray 6 83 Sneha Paul 5
Rk Tle Name Pts 42 Suvradeepta Das 6 84 Sk Riaz Uddin 5
1 GM Laxman R.R. 9 43 Sandip Dey 6 85 Soham Dey 5
2 FM Mitrabha Guha 8 44 Shuvam Roy 6 86 Diya Chowdhury 5
3 Srijit Paul 8 45 Verma Sanjay 6 87 Pranjal Sarkar 5
4 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 8 46 Sayantan Mukherjee 6 88 Swapan Kumar Mitra 5
5 IM Palit Somak 7 47 Dipanjan Chowdhury 6 89 Bheri Chinna Rao 5
6 Arya Bhakta 7 48 Abijit Mistry 6
7 CM Aronyak Ghosh 7 49 Ambarish Sharma 6
8 IM Roy Prantik 7 50 WCM Chandreyee Hajra 6 Puzzle of the month
9 GM Neelotpal Das 7 51 Basak Bishal 6 By C.G.S.Narayanan
10 Kaustuv Kundu 7 52 Ritwick Pal 6
11 Anurag Jaiswal 7 53 Ayan Pal 5 In the retro analytical problem below first the
12 Arpan Das 7 54 Arunava Bhattacharjee 5 solver has to find out as to whose turn it is
13 Dilip Das 7 55 IM Mishra Neeraj-Kumar 5 to play and then find the mate in one by the
14 Anustoop Biswas 7 56 Devangshu Datta 5 side which moves next.
15 IM Das Arghyadip 7 57 Sudarshan Mitra 5
16 Arindam Mukherjee 7 58 Chakrabarti Tamal 5 N.Nagnibida
17 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 7 59 Ghosh Samriddhaa 5 The Problemist,March 1998
18 IM Suvrajit Saha 7 60 Bheri Yaswanth 5
19 GM Barua Dibyendu 7 61 Vikesh Nandan Kumar 5
20 Singh Soram Rahul 7 62 Baisakhi Das 5
21 Koustav Chatterjee 6 63 Jimmy Zothanpuia 5
22 Vipul Subhashi 6 64 Ananya Bothra 5
23 Himanshu Ranjan 6 65 Jayanta Kr. Sarkar 5
24 Neelash Saha 6 66 Raghuraj Pratap Singh 5
25 B Niladri Shekhar 6 67 Rajarshi Dutta 5
26 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 6 68 Arijit Mukherjee 5
27 Sourath Biswas 6 69 Soumik Datta 5
28 AGM Arka Sengupta 6 70 Akshath Sinha 5
29 Bristy Mukherjee 6 71 Sounak De (1) 5
30 Vikash Nishad 6 72 CM Bhagat Kush 5
31 Subhajit Bhattacharyya 6 Mate in one!
73 Sonkalan Bharati 5
32 Tuhin Dutta 6 (solution on p.48)
74 Kamal Kishore Debnath 5
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Selected games from Asian Junior
Girls, Shiraz, Iran
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Manar,Khalil (Syr) (1894)
Ivana Maria,F (2132) [B01]
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Nf6
5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nc6 7.Be3 Black as well
as white have many different possibilities in
this opening variation. What black chooses
now is new. 7...Bxf3 8.Bxf3 000 9.Ne2?
[This unnecessary backward movement
of the knight is the cause of all of white's
problems that arise. An excellent alterna-
tive was: 9.Qe2! Nb4 (9...Nxd4 10.Bxd4
Qxd4 11.Bxb7+! Kxb7 12.Rd1+-) 10.00
e6 11.Nb5 Qb6 12.d5 Bc5] 9...e5! 10.Bxc6
Qxc6 11.00 The only way to save the g2
pawn. 11...Ng4
Diagram # 12.Qc1? [White's anxiety to re-
move his queen away from the d-file where
a black rook is stationed is normal. However,
she could have played: 12.Qd3 Bd6 13.h3
Nxe3 14.fxe3= though black has a slight
edge.] 12...h5 13.c3 g5?! [Black is looking
for adventure and an attacking win. Safer
was: 13...Bd6 14.h3 Nxe3 15.Qxe3 Rhe8
16.Rad1 exd4 17.Nxd4 Qd5] 14.Bxg5 f6
Diagram #
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15.f3? [This opens up her castled position,
facilitating her opponent's attack. Better
was: 15.Bd2 h4 16.Qb1 h3 17.Qf5+ Qd7
18.Qxd7+ Rxd7 19.g3 and white has a
healthy extra pawn!] 15...Nxh2 16.Be3?
[White loses her cool and sacrifices the ex-
change. Best was: 16.Kxh2 fxg5 17.Qxg5
Re8 18.dxe5 Rxe5! 19.Qd2 (19.Qxe5?? Bd6
wins the queen.) 19...Bc5 Black is better, but
only a little.] 16...Nxf1+ 17.Kxf1 h4! After
sacrificing the exchange, white has found no
easing of the pressure as black continues her
king-side assault. 18.Qc2 h3 19.Qf5+ Qd7!
Probably white had overlooked this in her
planning and now loses quickly. 20.Qxf6??
[She must play 20.Qxd7+ and bow to the
inevitable.] 20...Be7 21.Qxe5 h2 22.Kf2
[if 22.Ng3 Bd6 wins on the spot.] 22...h1Q
23.Rxh1 Rxh1 24.Qa5 a6 25.c4 Re8!
Black is preparing a clever ambush along the
e-file. 26.Bf4 Bd6 27.Be3 [After 27.Bxd6
Qxd6 the game is of no further interest.]
27...c5 [27...Qh7 threatening 28....Qh4+
wins on the spot.] 28.dxc5 Qe7 29.cxd6
Qxe3+ 01
Qe1+ 35.Kh3 Diagram #
Mosadeghpour,Masoud (IRI) (2444) -
Firouzja,Alireza (IRI) (2487) [B47]
Masoud Mosadeghpour won the 2017 Asian
Junior Championship. The top five in Shiraz
were all Iranians, the Indians were far be-
hind! The game below is probably the key
game of the championship as Firouzja won
the silver medal. 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3
e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.a3 a6 7.Be2
Nf6 8.Be3 d6 9.f4 Be7 10.g4 h6N 11.Nb3
b5 12.Bf3 Bb7 13.00 g5! 14.f5 exf5
[14...Ne5] 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 Ne5
17.gxf5 Nxf3+ 18.Qxf3
Diagram # 18...Bf6 [18...Qxc2 19.Bd4 g4
20.Qxg4 h5! 21.Qg3 (21.Qg7 Qxb3 22.Qxh8+
Kd7 23.Qg7 Qxd5+) 21...Bh4! 22.Qg7 Rf8
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
23.Rf3 Bxd5 24.Rc1 Qxc1+ 25.Nxc1 Bxf3
26.Bf2 Kd7!+ 27.Bg3 Bxg3 28.hxg3
Bg4!+ Black has two rooks and pawn for
his queen and should win.] 19.Rae1 Kd7
20.c3 Rae8 21.Nd2 g4 22.Qg2 Rxe3
23.Rxe3 Qc5 24.Rfe1 Bg5 25.Nf1 Re8
26.b4 Bxe3+ 27.Rxe3 Qc4 28.Rxe8 Kxe8
29.Ne3 Qxc3 30.Qe4+ Kd8 31.Nxg4 h5
32.Ne3! The knight does a wonderful job
throughout this game, keeping the bishop in
chains. 32...Qe1+ 33.Kg2 Qe2+ 34.Kg3
Threatening 36 Qh4+ exchanging queens
with a winning endgame. 35...Qc3? [An
apparently aggressive defence, but white
has a simple winning plan against it. Better
was: 35...Bxd5! 36.Qf4! the last attempt to
win. 36...Ba2! 37.Qxd6+ Ke8 38.Qc6+ Kd8
39.Qa8+ Kd7 40.Qa7+ Ke8 41.Qb8+ Ke7
42.Qe5+ Kd7 43.Qd4+ draw.] 36.Kh4! Qf6+
37.Kxh5 Qh8+ 38.Kg5 Qxh2 39.f6! [The
best try to win. 39.Kf6? looks like a winning
try but ends in a forced draw: 39...Qh6+!
40.Kxf7 Qh7+ 41.Kf8 Qh8+ 42.Kf7 Qh7+
draw.] 39...Qg1+ 40.Kh6 Kc7 41.Ng2!
This move blocks the black queen's control
over the g-file and threatens to march his
king to g7 and an easy win. This knight per-
forms admirably in winning this game. 41...
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Qd1 42.Qe7+ Kb6 [If 42...Kc8 43.Qe8+
Kc7 44.Qxf7+ Kb6 45.Ne3!] 43.Qxd6+
Ka7 44.Nf4 Qg4 45.Qe5 Qg8 [45...Bxd5
46.Qxd5 (46.Nxd5?? Qg6#) 46...Qxf4+
47.Kg7+-] 46.d6! Qh8+ 47.Kg5 Qg8+
48.Kh4 Qh8+
14...Qc7 [The pawn cannot be accepted for if
14...Nxh4 15.Nxh4 Bxh4 16.Qh5+- f5 17.exf6
Bxf2+! 18.Kh1 Rxf6 19.Qxh7+ Kf8 20.Bg5!+-
] 15.g3 dxc3 16.bxc3 Rfd8 17.Na3 b4
18.cxb4 cxb4 19.Nc4 Na5 [Black gives
up his dreams of capturing the pawn on e5.
19...Rab8 and 19 Nf8 were to be considered
here.] 20.Bxb7 Nxb7 21.h5 [Better was:
21.Be3 to be followed by 22 Rac1.] 21...Nf8
22.h6 g6 23.Be3 Nc5 24.Nd6 Nb7?! [This
is a very odd square for any knight! Better:
24...Ncd7 25.Rac1 Qb8 26.Nc4 Nc5 27.Nd4
Rxd4 28.Bxd4 Nb3 29.Qe4 Nxc1 30.Rxc1=]
25.Rac1! Qd7 26.Bb6 Nxd6 [If black tries
to save the exchange 26...Rdb8 27.Rc7 White
wins hands down.] 27.Bxd8 Rxd8 28.exd6
Diagram #
black's immediate collapse. 29...f5 30.Rc6!
Qe7 31.Rxa6+-] 29.Nd2 Bd4 [29...Bg5?
30.Ne4! Bxc1 31.Nf6+ wins the queen.]
30.Ne4 f5 31.Rc7 Qxa4 32.Nc5 Bxc5 [If
32...Qb5 33.Nxe6 Re8 34.Re7! Qe5 35.Qxe5
Bxe5 36.Rxe8+-] 33.Rxc5 [33.Rg7+ Kh8
34.Qe5! Qxd1+ 35.Kg2 And black has no
defence against the threat of 36 Rg8+!! and
37 Qg7#] 33...Rxd6 34.Rc8 Qb3 35.Qe5
Rd7 Diagram #
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
a6 ] 14.Nb5 Bb8 15.Ba3 dxc4 16.bxc4
Diagram # 16...Nf8 Black has a positional
advantage as she has no weak spots which
white may target. On the other hand white's
hanging pawns on c4 and d4 could turn out to
be weaknesses. 17.c5 The problem with the
hanging pawns is that if one of them advances,
the other one is weak. Here the d5 square is
available for the black forces.

49.Nh5! The knight does the damage again!

49...Qc8 50.Qd4+ [After 50.Qd4+ Ka8
51.d7 Qd8 52.Qd6+-] 10
Firouzja,Alireza (IRI) (2487) Ghola-
mi,Aryan (IRI) (2423) [B30]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.00 Nge7
5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 Bb7 8.Qe2 d5
9.e5 Qb6 10.Rd1 d4 11.Be4 Ng6 12.d3
Be7 13.a4N 00 14.h4! Diagram #
28...Bf6 [It is very dangerous to leave an
opponent's passed pawn so deep in our ter-
ritory. But black cannot capture it now. If
28...Qxd6 29.Ne5! Bg5 (29...Nd7 30.Nc6
Re8 31.Nxe7+ Qxe7 32.Rc7 Rd8 33.Qb2 e5
34.Rdc1 Qf8 35.Ra7 Qxh6 36.Rxd7 Rxd7
37.Rc8+ Kg7 38.Qxe5+ f6 39.Qe8 mates.)
30.Rc6 Qb8 31.Rxa6 Bxh6 32.Nc6 Qb7
33.d4 Ra8 34.Rxa8 Qxa8 35.Qb5+- black
has no answer to the advance of white's
a-pawn.; Even worse was: 28...Bxd6?
29.Qb2! threatening mate on g7, triggers
17...Qd5 18.Qe2 Red8? [Black shifts her
rook to a more active file. But she misses to
36.Qh8+!! [After 36.Qh8+ Kxh8 37.Rxf8#] take advantage of white's poorly positioned
10 pieces all over the board. Better was: 18...
a6! 19.Bc4 Qd7 20.Nd6 Bxd6 21.cxd6 Qa4!
Bidhar,Rutumbara (1964) - Meghna,C 22.Bb2 Qb4] 19.Bc4 Qd7 20.Nd6 Bxd6
(1915) [D35] 21.cxd6
1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 Be7 5.b3
00 6.Bd3 Nbd7 7.Nge2 white adopts an
unusual pattern of development with her
Bishop not developed outside the pawn chain
and her king's knight on e2 instead of on
its customary f3 square. 7...b6 8.00 Bb7
9.Bb2 c5 10.Rc1 Rc8 11.Ng3 Re8 [This
move serves no purpose. Better was: 11...
cxd4 12.exd4 Nb8 13.Re1 a6 14.Qe2 Nc6
15.cxd5 Nxd5 16.Nxd5 Qxd5= with slight-
ly better prospects for black.] 12.f4 cxd4
13.exd4 Bd6 [In view of what follows it
was better to precede this move with: 13...

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21...Ne8?! [This backward move is the im-
mediate cause of black's defeat. Rather than
attack the troublesome passed pawn on
d6, black should go for the bishop that is
supporting the d6 pawn. Therefore, best
was: 21...Qa4! 22.Qd3 Qa5 23.Qb3 Bd5
24.Bxd5 Nxd5 25.f5 Rxc1 26.Rxc1 Qd2]
22.Bb5 Bc6 23.Rxc6! Rxc6 24.d5!
exd5 25.Qe7! The threat is 26 Qxd7 and
27 Bxc6 winning. 25...Rdc8 26.Qxd7
Nxd7 27.Nf5! This strong move ensures
the win for white. He gets back his sac-
rificed exchange with a great advantage.
27...Nxd6 [27...Kf8 28.Ne7 Rc3 29.Nxc8
Nef6 30.Rc1 Rxa3 31.Bxd7 Nxd7 32.Nxb6
Nxb6 33.Rc8+! Nxc8 34.d7 and the pawn
queens on either c8 or d8.] 28.Bxd6 Rxd6
Diagram #
29.Ne7+! A brilliant finish.[After 29.Ne7+!
Kf8 30.Nxc8 a6 31.Nxd6! axb5 32.Re1! Nf6
33.g4 wins.] 10
Moradi,A (IRI) (2218)
Harsha,B (2413) [B48]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.a3 Nf6 8.f4 d6
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9.Qf3 Be7 10.Bd3 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 00
[11...e5N or 11....b5 are met at this junc-
ture.] 12.e5 Nd7 13.000 [Better was the
immediate 13.Qe4 g6 14.exd6 Bxd6 15.00
Bc5 16.Bxc5 Qxc5+ 17.Kh1 White has a
positional advantage thanks to the hole on
f6 and black's incomplete development with
a bishop on c8.] 13...dxe5! 14.fxe5 Bc5
[There are two alternatives, both demand-
ing accurate play from both sides: 14...
Nc5 15.Rhf1 Nxd3+ 16.Rxd3 Bd7 17.Bb6!
Q c 6 = ; o r 1 4 . . . N xe 5 1 5 . B x h 7 + K x h 7
16.Qh5+ Kg8 17.Bxe5 Qc5=] 15.Qe4 g6
16.Rhe1 b5!? Diagram # Black comes up
with some exciting play of his own. The
stronger player should win this position
in the normal course.
17.Bxc5 [If 17.Qxa8 Bxd4 (17...Bb7
18.Qxf8+ Bxf8=) 18.Qe4 Bxe5! 19.Ne2
Bb7 20.Qg4] 17...Nxc5 18.Qh4 [If
18.Qxa8 Bb7 19.Qa7 Ra8 20.Qxa8+ Bxa8
21.Rd2] 18...Bb7 19.Re3 Rfd8 [Black
knows that the white attack down the h-file
will happen sooner or later and prepares for
it. Leading to equality is the immediate: 19...
Bxg2 20.Rg3 Bb7 21.Rh3 Nxd3+ 22.Rdxd3
f5 23.exf6 Qf7=] 20.Rde1 [White builds his
attack calmly as black's h-pawn is beyond
saving. If 20.Rh3 Qxe5 21.Qxh7+ Kf8 22.Rf1
Nxd3+ 23.Rxd3 Qg7 24.Rxd8+ Rxd8 25.Qh4
Ke8 26.Qg5 Rd7 and the game is absolutely
level.] 20...Bxg2! 21.Rg1 Nxd3+ 22.cxd3
Qc5! 23.Kd2 [A sorry necessity! If 23.d4?
Rxd4+; or if: 23.Rge1 Rac8 White's attack
has vanished and black's counter-attack is
building up!] 23...Bc6 24.Rg4 Rd7 25.Rh3
Qxe5! 26.Qxh7+ Kf8 27.Qh6+ Ke7
28.Qh4+ Qf6+ 29.Qe1 Rad8 30.Re3 Di-
agram # 30...Qf5 [Black misses a nice, deep
combination: 30...Rxd3+! 31.Rxd3 Rxd3+
32.Kxd3 Qf3+ 33.Qe3 Qxg4 34.Qc5+ Kd7
35.Qa7+ Ke8 36.Qxa6 Qf5+ 37.Kd2 Qf2+
38.Kd3 Kd7+ indirectly protecting his b5
pawn through a skewer, Qf1+.]
(Position after 30.Re3)
31.Qh4+ Qf6! [31...Kd6? 32.Qg3+! Ke7=]
32.Qg3 Ke8 [32...Rd4! 33.h3 R8d6 and
black can coast to victory without much
trouble.] 33.Rf4 Qe7 34.Qh3 Rd6 Af-
ter winning a pawn, black is putting up
an excellent defence to clinch the game
without much trouble! 35.Qh8+ Kd7
36.Qg7 Rf8 37.Qe5 g5 [Black's main
problem is to avert perpetual checks.
Here he misses a strong, perhaps win-
ning move: 37...f6! 38.Qc5 g5 39.Rd4
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
e5 40.Qa7+ Ke8 41.Qxa6 (or 41.Qb8+
Rd8 42.Rxd8+ Qxd8 43.Qa7 Rh8) 41...
Rxd4 42.Qxc6+ Qd7 43.Qxb5 R h 4
44.Qxd7+ Kxd7 45.h3 f5 46.Rxe5 Rxh3
and black's pawns should win.] 38.Rf6
g4 39.Na2? Rd5 40.Qf4 a5?! [This pre-
vents 41 Nb4. But better was: 40...Rh5
41.Rexe6 fxe6 42.Rxf8 Rxh2+ 43.Ke3
R h 7 ] 41.Nc1?! [ L e a d i n g t o u n e a s y
equality was: 41.Nc3! Rd6 42.Rf5 b4
43.axb4 axb4 44.Nb5 Bxb5 45.Rxb5 Rc8
46.Qxb4=] 41...b4 Diagram # 42.Nb3?
[White misses: 42.Rexe6! fxe6 43.Rxf8
Qg5 44.axb4 axb4 45.Rf7+ Kd8 46.Ne2=]
42...bxa3 43.bxa3 Qxa3+ 44.Rxf7+
Rxf7 45.Qxf7+ Qe7 46.Qxe7+ [White is
forced to exchange queens for if 46.Qf4
a4 47.Nc1 Qg7 and black's a-pawn will
advance victoriously.]
(Position after 41.b4)
46...Kxe7 47.Kc3 a4 48.Nd4 Bd7
49.Re4 Kf6 50.Nc2 [50.Rxg4?? e5!+ A
winning double attack in the endgame!]
50...Rc5+ 51.Kb2 Rb5+ 52.Kc1 Rb3
53.Rxg4 Rxd3 54.Kb2 e5 55.Rg2 Rb3+
56.Kc1 Bf5 57.Rf2 Rc3 58.Kb2 [After
58.Kb2 Rxc2+ 59.Rxc2 Bxc2 60.Kxc2 a3
61.Kb3 e4 black wins.] 01
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Belenki 1964 Evreinov 1962

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

Evreinov 1962 Dr Jindrich Fritz 1964

3 4
White to play and win White to play and win 3. 4.

Kuznecov 1963 Pauli Perkonoja 1962

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

(solutions on p.47) White to play and win in all the six endings above
(Solution on page 47)

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Masters of the past- 77 Larry Evans
DCA below 1600 fide rated chess tournament-2017,New Delhi
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 November 15, 2010)
was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist.
He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times
and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times. He wrote
a long-running syndicated chess column and wrote or co-
wrote more than twenty books on chess.
Evans was born in Manhattan on March 22, 1932, and learned
much about the game by playing for ten cents an hour on
42nd Street in New York City, quickly becoming a rising
star. At age 14, he tied for 4th5th place in the Marshall
Chess Club championship. The next year he won it outright,
becoming the youngest Marshall champion at that time. He
also finished equal second in the U.S. Junior Championship,
which led to an article in the September 1947 issue of Chess
Review. By age 18, he had won a New York State champion-
ship as well as a gold medal in the Dubrovnik 1950 Chess Olympiad. In 1951, Evans first
won the U.S. Championship, ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, who had tied for 3rd4th in
(L-R) AK Verma, Hony Secretary Delhi Chess Association, Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation,
the 1948 World Championship match-tournament. Evans won his second championship
Somakanta Singh (Winner) and Shri. D Srihari, Secretary The Andhra Pradesh Chess Association
the following year by winning a title match against Herman Steiner. He won the national
championship three additional times: in 196162, 196768, and 1980, the last in a tie
with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen. 2nd Balasore All India FIDE rated Championship 2017,Balasore
FIDE awarded Evans the titles of International Master (1952) and International Grand-
master (1957). In 1956 the U.S. State Department appointed him a "chess ambassador".
He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1951, 1952, 1954 (he tied with Arturo
Pomar but won the title on the tie-break) and tied with Walter Browne in 1971. Evans
represented the U.S. in eight Chess Olympiads over a period of twenty-six years, winning
gold (1950), silver (1958), and bronze (1976) medals for his play, and participating in
team gold (1976) and silver (1966) medals. At his peak in October 1968 he was rated
2631 by the United States Chess Federation.
Evans had always been interested in writing as well as playing. By the age of eighteen,
he had already published David Bronstein's Best Games of Chess, 19441949 and the
Vienna International Tournament, 1922. His book New Ideas in Chess was published
in 1958, and was later reprinted. He wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books on chess.
He wrote the tenth edition of the important openings treatise Modern Chess Openings
(1965), co-authored with editor Walter Korn. He also wrote the introductions to Fischer's
My 60 Memorable Games (1969) and urged the future World Champion to publish when
he had initially been reluctant to do so. Some of Evans's other books are Modern Chess (L-R) (back row) Sj. Pradipta Kumar Panda, C.A., Working President, Balasore District Chess Association;
Sj. DebasisChakrabarty, President, Balasore District Chess Association;Chief Guest Sj. Ranjan Mohanty,
Brilliancies (1970), What's The Best Move (1973), and Test Your Chess I.Q. (2001).He
Vice President, All Odisha Chess Association;Sj. Santosh Mohapatra, Dy Arbiter
was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.On November 15, 2010, Evans (front row) Champion IM SayantanDas, Chief Guest Er. Rabindra Kumar Jena, Honble Member of
died in Reno, Nevada, from complications following gallbladder surgery. Parliament, Balasore Sadar; Runner-up Arindam Mukherjee, WB; Sj. Manoranjan Panda, Jt. Secretary,
Courtesy: Wikepedia All Odisha Chess Association & Secretary, Balasore District Chess Association)
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 7th BRDCA international FIDE rating (below 1600) tournament, Bangalore
Prize winners : (L-R) Rakesh N
(Runner-up) Keshav Kothari (Winner)
Amal Roozi (Third place)
1st St.Peters Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Kodaikanal
Syed Anwar Shazuli of ICF receiving the
Winner trophy fromChief Guest Dr G
S Sameeran, IAS, Additional Director,
Fisheries Department. Mr.Rohan Sambabu,
Director, St Peters International School, Dr
Lion Ravindran, Sun Builders, and Axiom
Abdul Nazar, Secretary, Dindigul District
Chess Association are also seen
1st SL Mangrudiya FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2017, Udaipur
Back row (L-R) Swapnil Bansod, IA & Chief Arbiter,
Shri Devendra Sahu Member District Sports
Council, Dr. Om sahu VP, Chess in lakecity, Shri
Ravindra Shrimali, Chairman, UIT Udaipur, Shri
Anil Sharma , Rt . Chief Engineer PWD, Rajasthan
Shri Devnarayan Dhabhai, VP District Sports
Council Shri Shatrudhan Bandwal,President
Buddhibal seva Sansthan, Udaipur, Shri Anil
Mangrudiya, Org.Chairman.Front row: Sudhakar
Shri Kailash Gulaniya, Legal Adviser, Chess
in lakecity , Champion in below 1800 Dere
Pushkar , Champion of Tournament, IM Kulkarni
Vikramaditya , Champion in below 1500 , Sharma
Vaibhav , Shri Vikas Sahu , Org. secretary
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Solutions to Tactics from master
games on page 42
1. Edvardsson,Kristjan (2228) - Friedel,-
Joshua E (2524) [E04]
Reykjavik ISL Reykjavik ISL (2.23),
20.04.2017
Black to play 20...Bxf2+! 21.Rxf2 Qh1+!
22.Kxh1 Nxf2+ 23.Kg2 Nxd1 24.Nd2 [24.
Bd2 Rc2 25.Bxb4 Rxe2+ 26.Kf1 Rxb2+]
24...Nxb2 25.Be5 Rc2 26.Bxg7 Rh7 27.Bxb2
Rxb2 28.Ne4 Rg7+ 01
2. Adamova,T (1984) - Guerrero Fuent-
es,C (2073) [B27]
World Amateur U2300 Spoleto ITA (8.18),
07.04.2017
White to play. 25.Rxf7! dxe3 [25...Qh3
26.Ref3 Bxf3 27.Qe5+ Wins; 25...Qh6
26.Ref3 Bxf3 27.Qe5+ Rg7 (27...Qg7
28.Rxg7 Rxg7 29.Qxb8++-) 28.Qxb8+ Rg8
29.Qe5+ Wins; 25...Rg7 26.Rxg7 Kxg7
27.gxh4+-] 26.Qxe3 [%cal Ge3e5] 26...
Qh5 [26...Rg5 27.Rxh7+ Qxh7 28.Bxh7+-;
26...Rxg3+ 27.hxg3 Qh1+ 28.Kf2+- Qh2+
29.Ke1 Qh1+ 30.Rf1 Qh5] 27.Qd4+ [27.
Qe5+!] 27...e5 28.Qxe5+ 10
3. Maghalashvili,Da (2469) - Duran,Es-
ma Doga (1847) [A07]
3rd Ordu Open 2017 Ordu TUR (1.12),
White to play 32.Qxe5! [32.Qxe5 Qxe5
33.Rxe5 Rxe5 34.d7! Queens] 10
4. Langrock,H (2387) - Anagnostopou-
los,Konstantinos (2201) [D45]
1st Capablanca Mem IM Heraklion GRE (6.2),
21.04.2017
White To play. 18.Bxh7+! Kxh7 [18...Qxh7
19.Rd8 Wins] 19.Qxf8 [19.Qxf8 Bg4 20.Qxb8
Bxd1 21.Qxb7+-] 10
5.Ledger,Andrew (2391) - Agdestein,Si-
men (2626) [A20]
London Classic rapid op 6th London (3),
06.12.2014
Black to play 32...Ne1! 33.Qxc4+ [33.Bh3
Qf1+ 34.Bxf1 Rxf1#] 33...Kh8 34.Qa2 [34.
Bh3 Nf3+ Wins] 34...Qf1+! [34...Qf1+
35.Bxf1 Rxf1#] 01
6.Gu,T (2212) - Xiao,Yiyi (2290) [C65]
ch-CHN w 2017 Xinghua CHN (9.3),
02.05.2017
White to play. 22.Nf6+! gxf6 23.Ne4 Qe7
[23...Bg7 24.Bxh6+- Qe7 (24...Kf8 25.Nxf6
Qe7 26.Bxg7+ Kxg7 27.Qg5+ Kf8 28.Qg8#)
25.Qg6 Qf8 26.Nxf6+ Kh8 27.Qh7#] 24.Bxh6
Bg7 25.Qg6 Kf8 [25...Qf8 26.Nxf6+]
26.Qxg7+ [26.Qxg7+ Ke8 27.Nxf6+ Kd8
28.Qg8+ Wins] 10
Solutions to Test your endgame on
page 43
1.Belenki 1964
1.Bg6+ Ke3 2.Nh4 Qd7+ 3.Nf5+ Ke4 4.Nb5
Qxb5 5.Nd6+ Ke3 6.Bc2
2.Evreinov 1962
1.Rf7 Rhxf7 2.Ne7+ Rf3 3.Nc8 R8f5 4.Be4
Rf6 5.Nd6 R6f4 6.Bxf3+ Rxf3 7.Ne4
3.Evreinov 1962
1.c6 h2 2.b4 Kg1 3.Rxh2 Kxh2 4.b5 Kg3
5.Kf6 Kf4 6.Ke7 Ke5 7.bxa6 bxa6 8.Kd7 a5
9.Kxc7 a4 10.Kd7 a3 11.c7 a2 12.c8Q a1Q
13.Qh8+
4.Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1964
1.e6+ Ke7 2.exd7 Rc7+ 3.Kd2 Rxd7 4.Kd1
Rd8 5.Ke2 Rd7 6.Kf3 Rd8 7.Ke4 Rd7 8.Kf5
5.Kuznecov 1963
1.Rg7 Nh8 2.Rg8+ Kxe7 3.Rxh8 d5+ 4.Kd3
Kd6 5.Kd4 b5 6.Ra8 Rxh7 7.Ra6+
6.Pauli Perkonoja 1962
1.Kg2 Nb3 2.Nd2 Nd4 3.Nxd4 Kd1 4.Nc4
e1N+ 5.Kf2 Nxc2 6.Nb3 Ra2 7.Kf1
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AICF Calendar June 2017 3rd Pavna All India Fide rated Chess Tournament, Aligarh
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National Women Challenger 2017 Karnataka Jul-21 to Jul-29
1st Dhakshinamoorthy Mem. Rapid Pammal Jul-22 to Jul-23
1st Champions FIDE Rating 2017 Salem Jul-27 to Jul-30
1st ICA- MCA FIDE Rating chess for below 1600 Dindigul Jul-29 to Jul-31
National Rapid & Blitz 2017 WB Aug-01 to Aug-04
National Cities 2017 HP Aug-06 to Aug-10
Chess Beacon 1st Open FIDE Rated Chess tmt Jaipur Aug-12 to Aug-16
Athens of the East 1st FIDE Rating Madurai Aug-12 to Aug-15
1st Sri Raghavenndra Open FIDE rated open Chennai Aug-12 to Aug-15
55th National Challenger 2017 Gujarat Aug-13 to Aug-23
5th NL Pandiyar memorial Open FIDE Rated Udaipur Aug-24 to Aug-29
Asian Cities 2017 Bhubaneshwar Aug-25 to Sep-02
1st Trichy All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Trichy Aug-25 to Aug-27 Sitting:(from left to right) Anuj Shrivatri , Deepak Katiyar , Gusain Himal, Gajendra Singh , Himanshu
Sharma. Standing: behind the winners (from left to right) Chief Arbiter IA Dharmendra Kumar Vijay
2nd Champions FIDE Rating below 1600 Salem Sep-01 to Sep-03
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National Junior 2017 Bihar Sep-03 to Sep-11 Chief Guest Swapnil Jain , Pro Chairman of Pavna Group ,Guest of Honor Rajiv Agrwal , Chairman , Plus
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30th FIDE Rating Open Chess tmt Tuticorin Sep-24 to Sep-27 , D.P.S. , Agra Road , Aligarh
Hyderabad open All India FIDE Rating Hyderabad Sep-25 to Sep-29
3rd KCA FIDE Rating Kancheepuram Sep-27 to Oct-02 Late Shri Satyendra Pathak Memorial 3rd SYNA Open Intl.Rating Tournament
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Solution to Puzzle of the month on page 35: Black has no legal last move (f7xg8=B Kd5-c6 requires
11 captures, one too many). So the solution is:1. ... e5/e6/ed6/ef6/gf6 2. Na7/Qf3/Qc3/Nd4/Nd4 Prize Winners(L-R) S.V. Srinath Rao, IM M Chakravarthi Reddi and S.Dhananjay
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 10th KIIT International Chess Festival 2017, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

(L-R) Ranjan Mohanty, VP, OSCA, IM S.C.Sahu, President, OSCA ,G.C.Mohopatra, Treasurer,OSCA, GM
Hoa Duc Nguyen,Prof.P.P.Mathur, Cice Chancellor. KIIT University, Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Registrar, KIIT
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