AICF CHRONICLE

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43rd National Women Challenger Chess 11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Visually
Championship, Chennai... Challenged 2016, Virar, Maharashtra

IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman Kishan Gangolli

Champion Champion

National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2016,Visakhapatnam…

GM Neelotpal Das IM Prantik Roy

National Rapid Champion National Blitz Champion
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cover photo : Chessbase India continues unabated when he beat the Chinese champion
Inside…. Wei Yi in the best of four Advanced Chess Tournament
43rd National Women Challengers Championship ,Chennai finals at Leon in Spain last month.
Vijayalakshmi wins National Women Challengers title
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 1
11th National ‘A’ Championship for Visually
At the Eurasian Blitz Cup in Kazakhstan GM Dronavalli
Challenged,Virar Harika finished 28th in the main prize list which included
Kishan Gangolli wins title the likes of Svidler,Gelfand and Karjakin but finished as
M.Manjunath IA, Chief Arbiter 5
National Rapid & Blitz Championship 2016, best woman in the field edging out GM Hou Yifan on tie
Visakhapatnam… break. At the 39th Open Internacional de Barbera del
Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titles
N.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter 6
Valles “A” tournament in Spain, GM Murali Karthikeyan
9th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Tmt, Mumbai tied for the first place with Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez
Visakh lifts Mayor Cup and was placed second on tie break. At the 11th edition
IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 9
10th Anand Chess Academy Calicut of the Edmonton International Chess Festival GM Surya
All India Open FiIDE Rating Tmt,Calicut Sekhar Ganguly tied on points with Sam Shankland but
Vinoth Kumar wins title
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 14
finished second on tie break. Reports on the above events
Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Championahip,New Delhi are featured in the centre pages of this issue.
Santu Mondal is the Winner
Gopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter 17
1st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Tmt, Vijayawada…. On the home turf, there were four National events organized
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad wins during June 2016. Seasoned campaigner Vijayalakshmi
S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter 19
Subbaraman proved her mettle with a facile title victory
1st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open,
Shirpur at the National Women Challenger held at Chennai.
Anish Gandhi is Champion Kishan Gangolli emerged Champion at the National ‘A’
Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter 21
Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Mem.Fide Rating Tmt,
Championship for the visually challenged organized by
Hyderabad Ameya Chess Club, Virar, Maharashtra. GM Neelotpal Das
AICF Central Council Meeting/AGM-important decisions 27
and IM Prantik Roy won the Rapid and Blitz titles respectively
Akash Pc Iyer wins title
FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 29 at the National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships held
54th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Championship at Visakhapatnam. Reports, final standings and photographs
Arjun lifts trophy
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 31
of the above Championships along with other FIDE rated
54th West Bengal Sate Championship, Kolkata… events held during last month are presented in this issue.
Sayantan Das wins title
Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter 33
All Goa Open FIDE Rating Championship , Quepem C.G.S.Narayanan
Nitish Belurkar wins championship
Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter 34
Selected games from GM Open Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 36
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
Tactics from master games regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
by S.Krishnan 42 also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
Test your endgame games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan@
Masters of the past-66 Viktor Korchnoi 44 hotmail.com.
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 43rd National Women Challenger Chess Championship, Chennai...
Vijayalakshmi wins National Women Challenger
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter

O
ne of the oldest registered Chess Associations, Tamil Nadu State Chess Asso -
ciation,established in 1947, organised 43rd National Women Challenger Chess
Championship 2016 in the Air Conditioned hall in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium,
Chennai.The tournament was played from 17th June to 25th June, 2016 and con -
ducted in the Swiss League format, comprising 11 rounds, with one round scheduled
each day except two days two rounds.

The innovative idea of AICF central council not rating this event attracted more par-
ticipation with 118 players hailing from all over part of India. Probably, the strong -
est ever event in the National Women Challenger category, the championship was
spearheaded by 5 WGM, 3 IM, 8 WIMs and 12 WFMs. Fierce fight was evinced until
the end, as the winners would qualify for the prestigious National Women Premier.
WGM Eesha Karavade of PSPB, with an ELO rating of 2409 and the defending cham -
pion Vaishali R from Tamil Nadu also took part in this event.

In the penultimate round, WGM Swati Ghate lost to WIM Michelle Catherina P while
IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman won against WFM Varshini V, and once again Vijay-
alakshmi took lead of ½ point over nearest rivals. On the third board playing with
white pieces WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty drew with WIM Vaishali R created immense
pressure on WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty in final round. On the fourth board Bala
Kannamma P lost to WGM Soumya Swaminathan.

In final round half-a-point was sufficient for IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman to win

this event, while pressure was on WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty to gain berth in final
selected players as she was in a must-win situation. The fierce fight between them
resulted in draw. The champion IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman received Rs. Seven -
ty-two thousand and the runner up WIM Michelle Catherina P Rs. Fifty-two thousand
six hundred only. In retrospect it turned out to be a deserved title march for India's
first Woman Grandmaster Vijayalakshmi who set a grand example, in putting the age
behind.

The list of top eight qualifiers has a good mix of youth and experience. Michelle,
Mahalakshmi, Vaishali and Bala Kannamma are bound to knock the doors of glory
along with experienced quartet Viji, Swati, Soumya and Eesha who made the cut.
Former National Women Champions Mary Ann Gomes, Nisha Mohota and Aarthie
Ramaswamy failed to qualify. A sure indication of the strength of the event and the
growth of youth power in Indian chess.

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The prize distribution function’s Chief 20 Priyanka Kumari JHA 7
Guest was Shri Bharat Singh, Dy. Pres - 21 Priyanka K TN 7
ident Asian Chess Federation & CEO All 22 WFM Varshini V TN 7
India Chess Federation, Guest of Honour 23 Saranya Y TN 7
24 WFM Cholleti Sahajasri TEL 7
Shri D V Sundar, Vice President FIDE,
25 WFM Srija Seshadri DEL 6.5
along with them Shri B Murugavel Vice
26 Shweta Gole MAH 6.5
President TNSCA, Shri Sekhar Chandra 27 Divya Lakshmi R TN 6.5
Sahu, Vice President AICF, Shri V Hari - 28 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv TN 6.5
haran Secretary AICF & TNSCA and Atul 29 WIM Jennitha Anto K. TN 6.5
Kumar Gupta Joint Secretary AICF. The 30 Harshini A TN 6.5
champion Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman re - 31 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 6.5
ceived prize along with glittering trophy 32 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 6.5
at the hands of Chief Guest Shri Bharat 33 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie AI 6.5
Singh. 34 P A Aman GOA 6
35 Janani J TN 6
36 Jain Nityata MP 6
Earlier the championship was inaugurated
37 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama AP 6
by Indian chess legend and nine times
38 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 6
National Champion Manuel Aaron making 39 WCM Ananya Suresh KAR 6
the first move against IM Eesha Karvade. 40 Ankitha Goud Palle TEL 6
D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, was 41 Adane Narayani MAH 6
Guest of honour. International Arbiter 42 Mishra Anisha ODI 6
Nitin Shenvi and his team ensured the 43 Shweta PUN 6
smooth conduct of the tournament 44 WFM Saranya J TN 6
45 Aparajita Gochhikar ODI 6
Final Ranking: 46 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 6
Rk. Name Pts. 47 Meenal Gupta J&K 6
1 IM Vijayalakshmi S AI 9 48 Sandya M TN 6
2 WIM Michelle Catherina P AI 8.5 49 Nisha N. Patkar KAR 6
3 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 8 50 Singh Neha BIH 6
4 WGM Swati Ghate LIC 8 51 Harivardhini I TN 6
5 WGM Soumya Swaminathan PSPB 8 52 Niharika Ch AP 5.5
6 IM Karavade Eesha PSPB 8 53 WFM Lakshmi C TN 5.5
7 WIM Vaishali R TN 8 54 Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 5.5
8 Bala Kannamma P TN 7.5 55 Rathi Dhanashree MAH 5.5
9 WIM Pratyusha Bodda AP 7.5 56 Parvathy S.L DEL 5.5
10 IM Mohota Nisha PSPB 7.5 57 Potluri Saye Srreezza TEL 5.5
11 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 7.5 58 WFM B Mounika Akshaya AP 5.5
12 WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB 7.5 59 Pushpalata Mangal MAH 5.5
13 WFM Lasya.G AP 7.5 60 Rindhiya V TN 5.5
14 Sunyuktha C M N TN 7 61 Abirama Srinithi G TN 5.5
15 WIM Pon Nkrithika TN 7 62 Saughanthika As TN 5.5
16 WFM Tarini Goyal CHAN 7 63 WFM Bindu Saritha K. LIC 5.5
17 Vantika Agrawal DEL 7 64 Rajput Gayatri MAH 5.5
18 Alka Das JHA 7 65 Makhija Aashna MAH 5.5
19 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 7 66 Roy Pallabi WB 5.5
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 National Rapid and Blitz Championships 2016, Visakhapatnam

(L-R)) Ramesh Cheela,org. Sec, Y. Srinivas Rao Director of sports, GVMC, Srihari.D Sec, APCA, Anand
Kumar, President VDCA, GM N. Das champion rapid Ravi shankar, AGM Sri Ram Properties, Satish Iano
Pre-International School Director,Rajgopal, Minarva School Director

Ramesh Cheela,org. Sec, Y. Srinivas Rao Director of sports, GVMC, Srihari.D Sec, APCA, Anand Kumar
President VDCA, GM N. Das champion rapid Ravi shankar, AGM Sri Ram Properties, Satish Iano Pre
International School Director,Raj gopal, Minarva School Director

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 11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Visually Challenged ,Maharashtra

Standing: Yudhajeet, 3rdplace,KishanGangolli Champion,Darpan Inani 2nd place

Sitting: (L-R) Guest Mr Kedar Dhawle, Mangesh Vaykul Chatrapati Awardee, Sri Rajivji Patil Vasai-Virar
city corporation 1st Mayor, Ramesh Poshampellu Rtd. District Sports officer

Late Rameshchandra Vinayak Rao Kotwal memorial all India Open Rapid, Gondia

Prize winners with officials

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11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship for Visually Challenged 2016,Maharashtra
Kishan Gangolli wins title
by M.Manjunath IA, Chief Arbiter

T
he tournament was inaugurated by Kumari Greesham Rajeev Patil, Director
Ameya Classic Club Virar, Maharashtra on 5th June 2016 at Yashwant Nagar
Samajik Kala Krida Mandal. Tournament was conducted in Round Robin system
consisting of 13 rounds. Fourteen players participated in this event (top fourteen
players selected from National ‘B’ chess Championship for visually challenged which
was held at Manipal, Karnataka.

On 6th morning first round of the tournament started smoothly. Darpan Inani of
GUJ was leading with 5 points up to 6 rounds. On 7th round Darpan lost to youngest
player of this event Aryan B Joshi of MAH. Defending Champion Kishan Gangolli of
KAR took half point lead by scoring 5.5/7rounds.

At the end of 7th round Kishan Gangolli, Darpan Inani, National B Champion Soundarya
Kumar Pradhan of ODI, and Yudhajeet De of WB were in joint lead with 6 points each.
On 9th round Kishan Gangolli beat Darpan Inani, Soundarya Kumar defeated Samant
Milind of MAH, Venkat Reddy of AP drew with Yudhajeet De. At the end of 9th round
Kishan Gangolli was leading with 7 points thereafter Kishan went on maintaining the
lead and clinched 11th National ‘A’ Chess Championship in style by scoring 10.5/13
rounds. Kishan won the National ‘A’ Championship 3 times at a row which happens
to be a rare achievement. Kishan was followed by Darpan Inani 9.5/13, Yudhajeet
De 9/13, Ashvin Makwana 9/10 securing 2nd, 3rd & 4th place respectively. Top four
players will represent India in forth coming Asian Chess Championship.

Total cash prize was Rs 75000 distributed in 14 players. Prizes distributed by Sri Ra -
jivji Patil Vasai Virar city corporation 1st Mayor, Mr Kedar Dhwale,Mr Mangesh Vaykul
Chatrapathi Awardee, Ramesh Poshampellu Rtd,District Sports officer.

Final ranking
1.Kishan Gangolli(KAR)10½; 2.Darpan Inani (GUJ) 9½; 3.Yudhajeet DE (WB) 9;4.
Makwana Ashvin K(GUJ)9; 5.Soundarya Kumar Pradhan (ODI) 7½; 6.Krishna
Udupa (KAR) 6½; 7.Venkat Reddy S(AP)6; 8.Aryan B Joshi(MAH) 6; 9.Swapanil
Shah(MAH) 5½;10.Marimuthu K (T N)5; 11.Samant Milind(MAH)5; 12.Patil Shirish
(MAH)4; 13.Waghmare Sachin Lahu(MAH)4; 14.Prachurya Kumar Pradhan(ODI)3½

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 National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2016,Visakhapatnam…
Neelotpal Das and Prantik Roy win titles
by N.K.Nandakumar IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he National Rapid & Blitz Chess Cham-
pionship-2016 organised by Visakha
District Chess Association in association
with the Andhra Pradesh Chess Association
under the aegis of All India Chess Federation
was held at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium,
Visakhapatnam, from 11 to 14 June, 2016.
A total number of 122 players in Rapid event
and 98 players in blitz event from 14 states
(Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh,
Haryana Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Telengana,
Tamilnadu and West Bengal)and 4 special
units ( AirIndia, LIC, PSPB and Railways) took
part in this prestigious event.
In a grand opening ceremony Chief Guest
Shri. Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Hon'ble Minister
for Education & Human Resources Develop-
ment Government of Andhra Pradesh lit the
traditional lamp and inaugurated the event.
Special Invitee Mr.DV.Sundar, Vice President
of FIDE along with other Guests of honour
graced the occasion.
All the rounds witnessed fighting games and
the championship in both formats, rapid and
blitz, saw exciting battles over 64 squares.
At the end of championship, Grandmaster
Neelotpal Das of PSPB emerged as National
Rapid Champion with a score of 9 /11 and
International Master Prantik Roy of WB was
crowned the Blitz Champion scoring 10
points out of eleven rounds..The champi-
onship was conducted in the best possible
manner and the event concluded without any
protest or incidents or appeal.
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Final ranking
Rk Name Club Pts
1 GM Neelotpal Das PSPB 9
2 GM Bakre Tejas AI 8½
3 IM Rathnakaran K. S Rly 8
4 Gusain Himal Chd 8
5 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 8
6 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 8
7 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8
8 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI 8
9 IM Thejkumar M. S. KAR 8
10 GM Venkatesh M.R. PSPB 7½
11 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 7½
12 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 7½
13 Goswami Vedant KAR 7½
14 CM Gopal K.N. AP 7½
15 Lokesh N. TN 7½
16 Sameer Kumar Y TEL 7
17 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 7
18 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 7
19 Sa Kannan TN 7
20 IM Roy Prantik WB 7
21 Prasannaa.S TN 7
22 Aishwin Daniel MP 7
23 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 7
24 Shubham Shukla PUN 7
25 FM Ramakrishna J. TEL 7
26 FM Nihal Sarin KER 7
27 Mari Arul S. S Rly 6½
28 Ahirwal Dinesh MP 6½
29 Toshali V AP 6½
30 Negi Virender Singh AI 6½
31 Sumit Kumar WB 6½
32 Batham Avinash MP 6½
33 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 6½
34 Chakravarthy Y V K AP 6½
35 Swaraj Palit JHA 6½
36 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6½ 79 Someswara Battu W AP 4½
37 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 6½ 80 Siva Sai Sugandhi Ch AP 4½
38 Ramana Babu B. AP 6 81 Kodanda Ramam P AP 4½
39 Unas K.A. KER 6 82 S Venkata Sai Sathvi AP 4½
40 Shahid Ahmed S.K. WB 6 83 Viluri Venkata Aparao AP 4½
41 Rama Raju V L V AP 6 84 Dutt B.S. AP 4
42 Srinivasa Rao Bayya AP 6 85 Vishnu Komanduri AP 4
43 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 6 86 Dakshesh Chitta AP 4
44 Karthik J C TEL 6 87 Surya Vamsi P S AP 4
45 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 6 88 Pranav Kanumuri AP 4
46 Prasad Das K AP 6 89 Hariprasad Guntupalli AP 4
47 Srinivasa Rao G.V. TEL 6 90 Lakshmi Charan Naidu G AP 4
48 Vatsal Singhania JHA 5½ 91 Haswanth Avirneni AP 4
49 FM Purushothaman Ti AP 5½ 92 Karthik N AP 4
50 Hemanth Kumar AP 5½ 93 Prabhakar G AP 4
51 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 5½ 94 Manideep Naidu G AP 4
52 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 5½ 95 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. AP 3½
53 Sahithi Varshini M AP 5½ 96 Rama Devi B AP 3½
54 Saketh B AP 5½ 97 Goutham Boni AP 3½
55 Trinadh Virothi AP 5½ 98 Venkata Siva K AP 3½
56 Alekhya B AP 5½ 99 Sai Sussrush Kadiyala AP 3
57 Diwakar V U TEL 5½ 100 Vishal Anand M AP 3
58 Amlan Mahanta ASM 5½ 101 Tanusri M AP 3
59 CH Narayana Rao AP 5½ 102 Sai Sampath S AP 3
60 Homen Chandra Rabha ASM 5½ 103 Adinarayana G AP 3
61 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 5½ 104 Rithwik Reddy Poothi AP 3
62 Rajesh R KER 5½ 105 Bharadwaj Villuri AP 2½
63 Charan K AP 5 106 Siddarth M TN 2
64 Varahalu S. AP 5 107 Harish M V AP 2
65 Avaneesh Gupta D C S AP 5 108 Uday Chandu AP 2
66 Atul Bihari Sharan JHA 5 109 Dawood.K TN 1
67 Sai Siddardha A AP 5 110 Sri Sai Satwik V AP 1
68 Aditya Srivastava HAR 5 Final ranking:Blitz
69 Lokeswara Rao M PSPB 5 Rk Name Club Pts
70 Madduri Satya Tejeswar AP 5 1 IM Roy Prantik WB 10
71 Sai Nikhil Y AP 5 2 IM Rathnakaran K. SR 8½
72 Akhil B V S AP 5 3 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 8½
73 Jaya Krishna B AP 5 4 GM Neelotpal Das PSPB 8½
74 Satyanarayana K AP 5 5 GM Venkatesh M.R. PSPB 8
75 Jateen AP 5 6 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu AI 8
76 Venkata Krishna K AP 5 7 GM Sriram Jha LIC 8
77 Kalyani B AP 5 8 IM Thejkumar M. S. KAR 7½
78 Sanjeev Kumar BIH 4½ 9 Sa Kannan TN 7½

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10 Gusain Himal CHD 7½ 53 Kalyani B AP 5
11 GM Bakre Tejas AI 7½ 54 Jagadeeswara Rao G AP 5
12 D Bala Chandra Prasad AP 7½ 55 Pavan Teja Medam AP 5
13 Prasannaa.S TN 7 56 Saketh B AP 5
14 Debarshi Mukherjee WB 7 57 WCMChinnam Vyshnavi AP 5
15 Senthil Maran K TN 7 58 Trinadh Virothi AP 5
16 Srinivasa Rao G.V. AP 7 59 Ravikumar K AP 5
17 Shahid Ahmed S.K. WB 7 60 Someswara Battu W AP 5
18 Ramana Babu B. AP 7 61 Sanjeev Kumar BIH 5
19 Chakravarthy Y V K AP 7 62 Srinivasa Rao Bayya AP 5
20 IM Sharma Dinesh K. LIC 7 63 S Venkata Sai Sathvi AP 5
21 Swaraj Palit JHA 7 64 Harish M V AP 5
22 Shubham Shukla PUN 7 65 Varshini M AP 5
23 Lokesh N. TN 6½ 66 Toshali V AP 5
24 Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6½ 67 Sai Nikhil Y AP 5
25 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 6½ 68 Sai Raj Gopal K AP 4½
26 Sinha Sudhir Kumar BIH 6½ 69 Sai Siddardha A AP 4½
27 Bhavani Shankar R AP 6½ 70 Alekhya B AP 4½
28 Unas K.A. KER 6½ 71 Goutham Boni AP 4½
29 Sameer Kumar Y AP 6½ 72 Avaneesh Gupta D C S AP 4½
30 Goswami, Vedant KAR 6½ 73 Narasimha Raveendra G AP 4½
31 FM Ramakrishna J. TEL 6 74 Aditya Srivastava HAR 4
32 FM Purushothaman T AP 6 75 Narayana Rao, Ch AP 4
33 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 6 76 Rajesh R KER 4
34 CM Gopal K.N. AP 6 77 Dakshesh Chitta AP 4
35 Karthik J C AP 6 78 Atul Bihari Sharan JHA 4
36 Batham Avinash AP 6 79 Vamsi Krishna R AP 4
37 Vatsal Singhania BIH 6 80 Vishnu Komanduri AP 4
38 Joshi Govind Ballabh AI 6 81 Venkata Krishna K AP 4
39 Aravind P V S AP 6 82 Ganagalla Partha Srikar AP 4
40 Negi Virender Singh AI 6 83 Jateen S AP 4
41 FM Nihal Sarin KER 6 84 Sai Sussrush Kadiyala AP 4
42 Amlan Mahanta ASM 6 85 Gopal Rao P V AP 3½
43 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 6 86 Dutt BS AP 3½
44 Varahalu S. AP 6 87 Akhil Bhuvanesh Reddy P AP 3
45 Aishwin Daniel MP 5½ 88 Rama Devi B AP 3
46 AHIRWAL DINESH MP 5½ 89 Hariprasad Guntupalli AP 3
47 Koshtu Varaha Prem Sai AP 5½ 90 Sri Sai Satwik V AP 3
48 Sanjiv Kumar BIH 5½ 91 Haswanth Avirneni AP 3
49 Rama Raju V L V AP 5½ 92 Shaik Karimunnisa AP 2
50 Homen Chandra Rabha ASM 5½ 93 Adinarayana G AP 2
51 Madduri Satya Tejeswar AP 5½ 94 Pardeep Arora 0
52 Sumit Kumar WB 5½ 95 Vijaya Kumar A.V.S. AP 0

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 9th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Open Chess Tournament, Mumbai
Visakh lifts Mayor Cup
by Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
9
th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International
Open Chess Tournament 2016 organ-
ised by Venus Chess Academy and
conducted by Mumbai Suburban Chess Asso-
ciation was inaugurated by Chief Guest MrsS-
nehal Ambekar, Mayor of Mumbai at Mount
Litera School, Bandra on 2nd June 2016.
The Inaugural function was presided over by
Shri Arun Shah of Ankit Gems, Co Sponsor
of the event, Shri AbhinavUpadhyay of Zee
Learn and Shri RavindraDongre, Organis-
ing Secretary and Treasurer AICF.GMIvan
Popov and GM Boris Grachev of Russia,
FarrukAmonatov of Tajikistan,GMGrigoryan
Karen of Armenia, GM Sandipan Chanda of
India were the prominent competitors of the
tournament. Total of 205 players from 12
federations registered in 11 lakh prize fund
Category A tournament. 333 player from 3
federations were registered in 8 lakh prize
fund Category B tournament. 385 player
were registered in 8lakh prize fund Category
C.
The tournament was organized in a spacious
air conditioned hall. Younger players and
parents enjoyed the free time in food stall
which was adjacent to the hall.
IM Visakh N R of Tamilnadu, GM Diptayan
Ghosh of West Bengal and HimalGusain of
Chandigarh scored 8 point out of 10 rounds
in category A. Visakh NR won the 9th Mayors
cup based on better tie break score.
In category B, 333 players from 21 states
participated. Out of which 303 players were
rated players. Soram Rahul Singh (1976)
from Assam was top seed followed by Nikhil
Dixit (1972) from Maharastra and Siddhant
Gailwad (1965) from Maharastra.Varun Bhatt
of Gujrat,Soram Rahul Singh of Assam and
Siddhant Gaikwad of Maharastra score 8.5
each at the end of final round. Based on
better tie break score, Varun Bhat of Gujrat
became winner.In category C, 385 players
from different parts of country participated.
Gopalkrishnan S (1592) of Tamilnadu was top
seed followed by Nitin M Pai (1589) of Kerala,
Srihari L (1586) of Pondicherry.
Hruthik Lokesh P (1568) of Andra Pradesh
score 9 points out of 10 rounds and won the
tournament. Sivasubramanian R (1548) of
Maharastra, Lumbani Nikhil (1580) of Gu-
jrat and RohitMokashi (1496) of Maharastra
scored 8.5 points out of 10 rounds and place
2nd to 4th based on tie break score.
Mrs.Alka Kerkar, Deputy Mayor, Mumbai was
Chief Guest of Prize Distribution ceremony.
MrAbhinav Upadhyay, Marketing Head Zee
learn, MrUmesh Pradhan, CFO, Zee Learn,
MrsAmrutaFadnavis, Mr Bharat Singh Chau-
han, CEO AICF, Mr R M Dongre and MrDilip
Page were on the dais.
Final standings ‘A’
Rk. Name Club Pts
1 GM Popov Ivan RUS 6
2 GM Grachev Boris RUS 7½
3 GM Amonatov Farrukh TJK 7½
4 GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM 6½
5 GM Sandipan Chanda PSPB 7½
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6 GM Ghosh Diptayan WB 8 49 FM Islam Kh. Aminul BAN 6
7 GM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 6½ 50 FM Matta Vinay Kumar AP 5½
8 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V TN 2½ 51 Mithil Ajgaonkar MAH 7
9 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 7 52 Jayakumaar S TN 5½
10 GM Ulybin Mikhail RUS 6½ 53 Manush Shah GUJ 2
11 GM Gagare Shardul MAH 6½ 54 FM Sauravh Khherdekar MAH 6
12 GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 7½ 55 Snehal Bhosale MAH 5½
13 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade RLYS 7½ 56 Shailesh Dravid MAH 5½
14 Gusain Himal CHN 8 57 Dahale Atul MAH 4½
15 IM Saptarshi Roy WB 5½ 58 Dodeja Pawan MAH 5½
16 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 7 59 Kulkarni Vinayak KAR 5½
17 IM Krishna C R G AP 7½ 60 Thanki Hemal Karsanji GUJ 3½
18 IM Girish A. Koushik KAR 7½ 61 Singh S. Vikramjit Rlys 5½
19 IM Visakh N R TN 8 62 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal KAR 6½
20 IM Ravi Teja S. RLYS 6½ 63 FM Vinoth Kumar M. TN 6
21 IM Abhishek Kelkar MAH 6 64 Saurabh Anand BIH 6
22 GM Laxman R.R. ICF 7 65 Arjun K KER 4½
23 Kunal M. TN 6½ 66 Ajay Krishna S TN 6
24 CM Erigaisi Arjun TEL 7 67 Bharambe Bhavik C MAH 6
25 IM Kathmale Sameer RLYS 6 68 Wagh Suyog MAH 6
26 Kulkarni Rakesh MAH 6 69 Singh Arvinder Preet PUN 5½
27 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R TN 6 70 Senthil Maran K TN 6
28 Iniyan P TN 0 71 Sankalp Gupta MAH 5
29 FM Ahmed Sk. Nasir BAN 6½ 72 Kumar Gaurav BIH 4½
30 Muthaiah Al TN 6½ 73 Harshini A TN 4
31 IM Sangma Rahul RLYS 7 74 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado GOA 6
32 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6½ 75 Bartakke Amardeep S. MAH 5½
33 FM Raghunandan K S KAR 6½ 76 Yohan J. KAR 3½
34 FM Hamdani Rudin INA 6½ 77 CM Sadhwani Raunak MAH 5½
35 Patil Pratik MAH 2 78 AGM Sa Kannan TN 1
36 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya MAH 7 79 Aurangabadkar Prasad MAH 4
37 Aradhya Garg DEL 7 80 Kabir Md Sherajul BAN 5
38 IM Shivananda B.S. KAR 5½ 81 CM Rajarishi Karthi TN 6
39 Akash Pc Iyer TN 6 82 Barath Kalyan M TN 5½
40 Hemant Sharma (del) RLYS 6½ 83 CM Gukesh D TN 5
41 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7 84 Priyanka K TN 4½
42 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 6 85 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J AP 6
43 IM Krishna Teja N AP 6 86 AGM Nishant Malhotra DEL 5
44 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 6½ 87 Chaithanyaa K G TN 0
45 Deshpande Aniruddha MAH 6½ 88 Sahil Tickoo HAR 2½
46 FM Dutta Joydeep WB 4½ 89 Gandhi Anish MAH 6½
47 FM Srinath Rao S.V. MAH 6½ 90 Phadke Sohan MAH 5½
48 IM R Balasubramaniam TN 1 91 Sanjeev Kumar MAH 5½

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92 Satkar Chirag MAH 5½ 135 Neelakantan Narayanan MAH 5½
93 CM Aditya Mittal MAH-M 6 136 Tarun V Kanth TN 4½
94 Audi Ameya GOA 5½ 137 Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 5
95 Boricha Ketan MAH 4½ 138 Jayaram R. KAR 5½
96 FM G Chinthaka Anurud SRI 5 139 Shrestha Rajendra Prasad NEP 3
97 Ganguly Ritabroto WB 0 140 Afzal Kazi Md. Mahbub BAN 3½
98 Likhit Chilukuri KAR 2 141 Md. Abdur Razzak BAN 3
99 Ashutosh Kumar BIH 0 142 Anant Prabhudesai GOA 2
100 Md. Jamal Uddin BAN 4 143 Shah Rishab MAH 2½
101 Vikas R Sharma RLYS 5 144 WIM Laubscher Anzel RSA 3½
102 Shelke Sankarsha MAH 6 145 WFM Patil Mitali Madhukar MAH 4½
103 Soham Datar MAH 4½ 146 Shenvi Mohit MAH 6
104 Harsh Mangesh Ghag MAH 4½ 147 Hrishikesh Chavan MAH 4
105 FM Tiwari Ashwani PUN 5 148 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 4½
106 Ojas Kulkarni KAR 4½ 149 Unni C. S. MAH 4
107 Sanjeet Manohar GUJ 5½ 150 Pranav V TN 4½
108 Raahul V S TN 5 151 Gajengi Rajababu MAH 3½
109 Supriya Joshi MAH 5 153 WCM Salonika Saina ORI 5½
110 Zoar Haque Prodhan BAN 4 154 Devansh Ratti MAH 4
111 Kothari Swapnil MAH 5 155 Panesar Vedant MAH 3
112 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai GUJ 4½ 156 Md. Rubel Parvej BAN 3
113 Prajesh R TN 6 157 Shah Vishwa MAH 4
114 Pruthu Deshpande MAH 4½ 158 Das Susobhit ORI 0
115 Tamhankar Viraj MAH 5 159 Aditya Guhagarkar MAH 4
116 Vantika Agrawal DEL 5½ 160 Karma Sonam BHU 3½
117 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 5½ 161 Sparsh Khandelwal CG 4½
118 Avdhoot Lendhe MAH 5 162 Md Nurul Islam Mahin BAN 2½
119 FM Purushothaman T AP 4½ 163 CM Mullick Raahil MAH 3
120 WFM Tarini Goyal CHN 7½ 164 CM Karthik Kumar Pradeep TEL 5½
121 Pavan B N B AP 5 165 Adarsh Tripathi DEL 5
122 Vakil Akhtar MAH 5 166 Md Monir Hossain BAN 2
123 Krishnater Kushager MAH 5 167 Deepak Kumar R TN 4½
124 Dilip Pagay MAH 4 168 Pranav Anand KAR 4½
125 Ponkshe Sarang MAH 4 169 Tarun Kanyamarala TEL 4½
126 Tushar Anand DEL 5 170 CM Hassuji Nurdin TAN 2½
127 Vijay Anand M. TN 1½ 171 Panda Sambit ORI 4½
128 Shubham HAR 4 172 Rai Suman NEP 1
129 Gopal Rathod MAH 3½ 173 Bhanot Stuti HAR 4½
130 Joshi Abhijeet MAH 5 174 Om Kharola DEL 4
131 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 5 175 Phuyal Aashish NEP 4½
132 CM Mendonca Leon Luke GOA 5 176 Rounak Pathak WB 4
133 Saksham Rautela UTT 0 177 Abid Ali Mujawar KAR ½
134 Abul Kashem BAN 2½ 178 Aan Sikka DEL 4

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179 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh MAH 3½ 180
15 Deshpande Abhishek MAH 7½
Dave Sneh GUJ 4½ 16 Mota Pankit MAH 7½
181 Pankaj Sindhu HAR 4½ 17 Nair Sanjeev MAH 7
182 Aryan Ranjan DEL 4 18 Vinodh Kumar B. PON 7
183 Siddharth Sabharishankar TN 519 Jeet Jain GUJ 7
184 Jadhav Vaibhavi MAH 3 20 Srihari L PON 7
185 Jaeel Atharva MAH 4½ 21 Vaidya Atharv MAH 7
186 Sarvesh Kumar A TN 4 22 Chopada Ketan B GUJ 7
187 Morvekar Kedar MAH 4 23 Saranya Y TN 7
188 Shah Ram Surat Prasad NEP 3 24 Kadav Omkar MAH 7
189 Shourya Jain MAH 2 25 Chavan Nameet MAH 7
190 Nimdia Ridit MAH 5 26 Kamdar Aparva GUJ 7
191 Archi Agrawal DEL 3½ 27 Umashankar A PON 7
192 Sanjeev Pitale MAH 3 28 Dhruvik Shah GUJ 7
193 WCM Mrudul Dehankar MAH 4 29 Charles J TN 7
194 Aditya S Hariharan TN 4½ 30 Jain Nityata MP 7
195 Joglekar Abhijit MAH 3½ 31 Amlan Mahanta ASS 7
196 Md. Raju Ahmed BAN 2½ 32 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 7
197 Krithigga K TN 3½ 33 Polakhare Aryan MAH 7
198 Kanishk S K TN 3 34 Bhogal Rupesh MAH 7
199 Pradhan Mohan Singh NEP 2½ 35 Aditya B Kalyani KAR 7
200 Dikshant Dash ODI 3 36 Patil Jitendra MAH 7
201 Ghelani Dhairya MAH 4 37 Patil Ketan MAH 7
202 Karunanayake Mayuri SRI 0 38 Modi Kunal MAH 7
203 Tarimo Didik Widiarso INA 4 39 Rahul Bharadwaj B TN 7
204 Cheten Dorji BHU 2 40 Aditya S S V TEL 6½
205 Rai Kiran BHU 2½ 41 Doshi Sanket MAH 6½
Final standings: Category ‘B’ 42 Sathya Naarayanan S TN 6½
Rk Name Club Pts 43 Rohan Bharat Joshi MAH 6½
1 Varun Bhatt GUJ 8½ 44 Falgun D Purohit GUJ 6½
2 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 8½ 45 Joshi Nikhil MAH 6½
3 Gaikwad Siddhant MAH 8½ 46 Ashar Grishma MAH 6½
4 Bakshi Rutuja MAH 8 47 Balachandar E TN 6½
5 Jeel Shah GUJ 8 48 Ravi Kumar K AP 6½
6 Shiva P Teja Sharma AP 8 Final standings:category ‘C’
7 Dixit Nikhil MAH 8 1 Gopikrishnan S TN 6
8 Adane Narayani MAH 8 2 Nitin M Pai Ker 6½
9 Samant Aditya S MAH 7½ 3 Srihari L PON 6½
10 Amit Soman MAH 7½ 4 Dhannawat Chakshu MAH 6
11 Divya Deshmukh WFM MAH 7½ 5 Ameya Abhay Shrivastava MAH 7
12 Farhaan M PON 7½ 6 Lumbhani Nikhil P GUJ 8½
13 Aravind Babu L AP 7½ 7 Saurabh Mathur UP 6
14 Vaibhav Jayant Raut MAH 7½ 8 Sumeet Chorghade Mah 7½

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9 Sahithya G TEL 1½
10 Chudasama Ankit GUJ 7½
11 Mohite Sagar 5½
12 Avinash Prakash Ker 8
13 Hruthik Lokesh P AP 9
14 Lakhotiya Om MAH 5½
15 Solanki Harsh MAH 6½
16 Vishwanath Kannam AP 7
17 Gala Jainam 7
18 Chourasiya Hemant MP 7½
19 Umer S.M MP 6
20 Sivasubramanian R Mah 8½
21 Habib Qureshi Raaz MP 6
22 Shah Dhaval 6
23 Shardul Santosh Wakade MAH 6½
24 Patil Harshal MAH 6½
25 Kabir Belgikar MAH 6½
26 Aswin P R KER 4½
27 Chorge Mangesh MAH 6
28 Amar Jyoti Kakoty ASS 5
29 Deota Snehil S GUJ 4½
30 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi MAH 8
31 Adane Narayani MAH 7½
32 Khan Nasir MP 6½
33 Trivedi Jindal GUJ 6½
34 Krishna Malay MAH 7
35 Panchal Parth Guj 7½
36 Rushil Gupta Del 6½
37 Choubey Saurabh AIM MP 6
38 Ranjith Kaliyarasan Pon 8
39 Stephen Raj A TN 7½
40 Gaikwad Vishal 7
41 Chetana D AP 0
42 Nagargoje Dhananjay MAH 7
43 Dnyaneshwar S Gharge MAH 6
44 Jha Kishor Mah 7
45 Gaurav Kumar (mah) MAH 6
46 Mhatre Rahat Rahul MAH 7
47 Ravi Sanjay Kumar MP 5½
48 Hirani Raj 7½
49 Garima Gaurav BIH 7½
50 Mokashi Rohit MAH 8½
NWC final standings contd from Page 2
67 Jayashree P Sankpal LIC 5.5
68 Pracheta Agarwal JHA 5
69 Swaha V S KER 5
70 Aasha C R TN 5
71 Minki Sinha BIH 5
72 Aditi Arya BIH 5
73 Goyal Arunima CHAN 5
74 Dakshinya T R S TN 5
75 Bidisha Roy JHA 5
76 Krithigga K TN 5
77 Toshali V AP 5
78 Varsha C R TN 5
79 Pavithra B L KER 5
80 Routray Priyanka ODI 5
81 Khan Faiziya GOA 4.5
82 Alekya Medam TEL 4.5
83 Shah A Kishorekumar GUJ 4.5
84 Poorna Sri M.K TN 4.5
85 Bandodkar Vandana S LIC 4.5
86 Krushna Mishra ODI 4.5
87 Pammi Rani BIH 4.5
88 Kumari Prerna BIH 4.5
89 Gaayathri S GOA 4.5
90 Savitha Shri B TN 4.5
91 Sushma Reddy B TEL 4.5
92 Pooja S (2002) TN 4.5
93 Teebikaa S PON 4.5
94 Pallavi BIH 4.5
95 Malakar Durga MP 4
96 Arya Garg MP 4
97 Mahima Sherigar KAR 4
98 Meenakshi Mehra PUN 4
99 Radha Kumari V LIC 4
100 Akshitha Goud Pally TEL 4
101 Naroji Sanskriti GOA 4
102 Saralvarsha M PON 3.5
103 Sravya Gayathri TEL 3.5
104 Palakodeti Bhanumati AP 3.5
105 Shivangi Raina J&K 3.5
106 Rekha Gudsoorkar MAH 3.5
107 Malleswari P TN 3
108 Kraneshwary B PON 3
109 Pranjali Sharma HP 3
110 Biswal Pallishree ODI 2.5
111 C Madhura Lalasa AP 2.5
112 Sunita Devi HP 2.5
113 Devi Naina HP 2
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 10th Anand Chess Academy Calicut
All India Open FiIDE International Rating Chess Tournament,Calicut
Vinoth Kumar wins title
M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
A
nand Chess Academy Calicut or-
ganized its 10th ACA All India Open
Fide International Rating Chess Tour-
nament at Hotel Sana Tower Calicut. The
tournament attracted 230 players from
Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhyapradesh and
Tamilnadu. Out of which 152 players are
FIDE rated chess players. Participation from
USA chess Federation made the tournament
colourful. The tournament was held from
20th May 2016 to 22nd May 2016, offering
a prize fund of Rs,2,00,000/- . FM Vinoth
Kumar from Tamilnadu was the top seeded.
In this tournament 118th seeded Ruther-
ford of Tamilnadu held the 3rd seeded Athul
Krishna of Calicut on round one and 59th
seeded Achaya Vijayan of Tamilnadu hold
the 2nd seeded Alex Thomas of Kerala in
Round two.
M Vinoth Kumar from Tamilnadu and
three players O T Anilkumar, M A Joy Lazar
and Abhishek T M from Kerala scored 5
points at the end of round five. In the final
round Vinoth Kumar played a neat game
against Joy Lazar and convincingly won the
game where as O T Anilkumar took time to
beat young Abhishek T M. Both Vinoth Kumar
and O T Anilkumar collected 6 points from
six rounds but better tie break score helped
Vinoth Kumar won the title.
Vinoth Kumar lifted the winner's trophy
and also received Rs.20000/- as cash prize.
O T Anilkumar finished second place and re-
ceived Rs.15000/-.
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Mr. Kunhi Moideen the President, Chess
Association Kerala distributed the prizes to
the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint Sec-
retary, All India Chess Federation and also
the Director of Anand Chess Academy wel-
comed the gathering , Shri Santhosh Henry
David, Treasurer, United Kozhikode District
Chess Association gave the vote of thanks.
Anand Chess academy has been doing
lot of services to chess in Kerala for the past
nine years. The director, Shri. P Venugopalan
is regularly organizing chess tournaments in
Calicut, Trivandrum and Palghat. Chess play-
ers from north and south Kerala are getting
the chance to play these tournaments. In
addition to this, players from neighbouring
states also get a chance to play in these
tournaments.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Vinoth Kumar M FM 6
2 Anilkumar O.T. 6
3 Augustin A 5½
4 Athul Krishna S 5½
5 Abhishek T M 5
6 Joy Lazar M.A. 5
7 Rajith V. 5
8 Lakshimi Narayanan 5
9 Abdul Majeed N. 5
10 Sathya Giri V 5
11 Sharsha Backer 5
12 Gowrichander U 5
13 Kannan R. 5
14 Karan J P 5
15 Madhusoodanan K.R. 4½
16 Jagadeesh A.K. 4½
17 Vinay Thomas Abraham 4½
18 Jyothir R 4½
19 Athul Jyothish A 4½
20 Bindu Saritha K. WFM 4½
21 Mathivanan S 4½
22 Prem Krishna N 4½
23 Ashish Thomas Alex 4½
24 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 4½
25 Anfas Muhammed 4½
26 Razikh Ali T T 4½
27 Lakshmi Akshara Raj 4½
28 Amal Roozi 4½
29 Murali R Krishnan 4½
30 Antony Simethy 4½
31 Vijay M P 4½
32 Prabeesh K 4½
33 Nirmal Das E. 4
34 Nelson Clement 4
35 Nitin M Pai 4
36 Avinash Prakash 4
37 Swaha V S 4
38 Genish Prakash J 4
39 Chandramohan K 4
40 Neeraj Kumar 4
41 Sreehari G 4
42 Binu Sebastian 4
43 Arnav Maheshwari 4
44 Sanjeev M 4
45 Adithya E S 4
46 Shivani S 4
47 Ratheesh P.K. 4
48 Abishek A 4
49 Sudheer K B 4
50 Viswajith Vinod 4
51 Thomas Nidhin V V 4
52 Thulaseedharan K 4
53 Selvaraj Yesudasan V 4
54 Arul Anandh S P K 4
55 Abdurahiman Elangoli 4
56 Shine S J 4
57 Krishnanunny Menon C 4
58 Abhiram Sudheesh 4
59 Prasath K R 4
60 Shreyas P Vijay 4
61 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 4
62 Vaishnav S 4
63 Roshan Hari 4
64 Saket Kumar 3½
65 Alex Thomas K. 3½
66 Brahmaha V S 3½
67 Achaya Vijayan 3½
68 Jitendra Verma 3½
69 Sameer C 3½
70 Viswajith P Gopinathan 3½
71 Gagan Bharadwaj K 3½
72 Shankarasubbu B 3½
73 Kuruvila M Jacob 3½
74 Rutherford S 3½
75 Aravindh Srinivasan 3½
76 Tharshan M K 3½
77 Pathrose C.T 3½
78 Adarsh T R 3½
79 Adhidev K P 3½
80 Shijil K 3½
81 Avinash Hari 3½
82 Ameer K V Mohammed 3½
83 Adithya Krishna H R 3½
84 Sai Balaji E 3½
85 Subinay Kumar 3½
86 Manojan Ravi 3½
87 Jaiyaharrsanth S J 3½
88 Devika P 3½
89 Jeefer W 3½
90 Nayab Abdulahad 3½
91 Hariharan S 3½
92 Jyothis R 3½
93 Ram Kumar G M 3½
94 Ashitha C C 3½
95 Nishad A 3
96 Shalini R 3
97 Senbabu M B 3
98 Mohammed Salih Pk 3
99 Bharath A 3
100 Dheepesh T 3
101 Roby J 3
102 John Veny Akkarakarn 3
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103 Devjit A S 3 146 Adithya Narayanan 2½
104 Abdul Gafoor K. 3 147 Akshaya Rajaraman 2½
105 Deepa Sree S 3 148 Prabhakaran K 2½
106 Shanmuga Kumar A 3 149 Atul Jayesh 2½
107 Adarsh Narayanan 3 150 Ahga Kumaran 2½
108 Laiju Ct 3
109 Hiran Raj 3
110 Devi Priya T D 3 Puzzle of the month
111 Vaibhav S 3 by C.G.S.Narayanan
112 Manoranjan Kelad 3
113 Manilal K.R 3 The puzzle this month is a serieshelpmate.
114 Gautham Krishna P P 3 The stipulation can be explained in simple
terms in the following manner. In a se-
115 Shirodkar Aayush 3
ries-mover, the normal practice of white
116 Nandhakumar E 3 and black taking turns moving is dispensed
117 Vishnudevanandan R P 3 with. Instead, one side makes several
118 Ezhil Arasi Srinivasan 3 moves in a row with no interruption by the
119 Vinodkumar K V 3 other side. In the serieshelpmate problem
below black plays four consecutive helpful
120 Abinand C 3
moves followed by one white move which
121 Shrinidhi Jayakumar 3 delivers the mate. An added condition is
122 Shreya S Pillai 3 that the side making the series of moves
123 Goutham Krishna G 3 is not allowed to give check until the final
124 Periyasamy N 3 move of the series.The problem has two
parts. Solve the diagram position and then
125 Amith Anup 3
replace WBf5 with WRf5 and solve again.
126 Jey Pranavbala B B 3
127 Eldho Skaria 3 Yochanan Afek
128 Arumugam N 3 Al Hamishmar 1979
129 Krishnadev S Nair 3
130 Mukund K P 3
131 Vasundhara P. 3
132 Husnul Nisam 3
133 Basavaraj Pattanashetti 3
134 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 3
135 Rithunandan R 2½
136 Benny Paul P 2½
137 Karthik Jagannath 2½
138 Brahmaiah V.J 2½
139 Yogeshwaran K 2½
140 Mahesh M S 2½
141 Mithran Rajaraman 2½
142 Benson Abraham 2½ Serieshelpmate in four
143 Nived C 2½ a)Diagram b) WRf5
144 Nived Sreesobh 2½ (Solutions on page 48)
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 Delhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess Championahip-2016,New Delhi
Santu Mondal is the Winner
by Gopakumar Sudhakaran IA, Chief Arbiter
D
elhi State Open FIDE Rated Chess
Championahip-2016 was held at Am-
ity International School Pushp Vihar,
New Delhi 10th Jun to 16th Jun 2016.
A total number of 150 players which in-
cluded 92 International rated from across
Delhi participated in the championship and
served as selection event for Delhi team for
the forthcoming National Championship.
The event which were spread over seven
days and played under Swiss System with 9
rounds with the time control of 90 minutes
and 30 seconds increment from move 1. The
total prize fund of the championship was Rs.
1,50,000/-.
Santu Mondal started as top seed and the
event progressed on expected lines. At the
end of ninth round, top seed Santu Mondal
and Prachet Sharma tied for the top spot
with 7 ½ points but better Direct Encoun-
ter tie break score helped Mondal to finish
as champion while Sharma finished as first
runner-up. Six players tied for the third spot
with 7 points but better tie break score helped
Om Batra to finish as third.
Mehak Jain adjudged as best female player
while Shashi Raj Saxena become best vet-
eran player. Rishabh Jain, Harshiel Sehgal
and Kanishka Tiwari finished best among
Under-15, Under-10 and unrated categories
respectively.In the closing ceremony, Shri. AK
Verma, Secretary of Delhi Chess Association
gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. MS
Gopakumar, Chief Arbiter.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Santu Mondal 7½
2 Prachet Sharma 7½
3 Om Batra 7
4 Nishant Malhotra 7
5 Deepak Rai 7
6 Jaydeep Sharma 7
7 Alok Sinha 7
8 Sumay Mishra 7
9 Vantika Agrawal 6½
10 Sachin Malik 6½
11 Manish Uniyal 6½
12 Shatrughan Kaushik 6½
13 Aansh Gupta 6½
14 Anil Shivpuri 6
15 Sandeep Kumar 6
16 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 6
17 Kanishka Tiwari 6
18 Deep Kapoor 6
19 Rishabh Jain 6
20 S K Srivastava 6
21 Aadit Bhatia 6
22 Mehak Jain 6
23 Rajagopalan 6
24 Shashi Raj Saxena 6
25 Bala K 6
26 Aaryan Varshney 6
27 Sarthak Kapoor 6
28 Kaur Palkin 5½
29 Udit Sanghi 5½
30 Esshan Wadhawan 5½
31 Anirudh Jain 5½
32 Raj Kumar 5½
33 Arun Wahi 5½
34 Varghese P D 5½
35 Rijit Singh 5½
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36 Aman Sharma 5½ 78 Arhaan Jain 4½
37 Aaryansh Bhartiya 5½ 79 Tejas Pessi 4½
38 Arnab Kumar Mullick 5½ 80 Tarun Bansal 4½
39 Harshiel Sehgal 5½ 81 Shreyaa Rakheja 4½
40 Abhinav Gola 5 82 Prabhjyot Singh S 4½
41 Hritvik Kishore 5 83 Kritika Pal 4½
42 Bhavik Ahuja 5 84 Ishaan Pant 4½
43 Agastya Makkar 5 85 Arshin Sikka 4
44 A K Nand Kishore 5 86 Roopak Arora 4
45 Keshavendra Mishra 5 87 Chirayu Banga 4
46 Adhiveer Kapuria 5 88 Kapil Singhal 4
47 Akshat Sharma 5 89 Piyush Arya 4
48 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5 90 Tridibesh Dian 4
49 Kartikey Verma 5 91 Sristi V 4
50 Manya Bagla 5 92 Yashas Pessi 4
51 Garv Rai 5 93 Arjun Naidu 4
52 Tanmay Chopra 5 94 Saurav Agarwal 4
53 Namish Sharma 5 95 Rahul Dhawan 4
54 Ishaan Thairanil 5 96 Bhushita Ahuja 4
55 Hriday Goel 5 97 Kushagra Khurana 4
56 Daaevik Wadhawan 5 98 Divyansh Sharma 4
57 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 5 99 Siddhant Rai Viksit 4
58 Hritwik Ranjan 5 100 Sourav Sharan 4
59 Sudarshan Gopal 4½ 101 Simarjiv R Singh 4
60 Daaksh Jain 4½ 102 Gupta Arnav 4
61 Aryan 4½ 103 Suresh Garg 3½
62 Yashita Dhawan 4½ 104 Gunin Malik 3½
63 Kukreja Sankalp 4½ 105 Arnav Gupta 3½
64 Jyoti Kumar 4½ 106 Aditya Jain 3½
65 Gurpreet Singh 4½ 107 Lakshin Sharma 3½
66 Arham Surana 4½ 108 Anju Agrawal 3½
67 Dhawal Arora 4½ 109 Lakshya Chauhan 3½
68 Shayanak Kundu 4½ 110 Ananta Anand 3½
69 Manvee Bansal 4½ 111 Kewal Mohapatra 3½
70 Garvit Bhutani 4½ 112 Raghav Mahajan 3½
71 Rahil Raj Verma 4½ 113 Dravv Jain 3½
72 Tushar Sharma 4½ 114 K Bhattacharya 3½
73 Aryan Garg 4½ 115 Hridyansh Yadav 3½
74 Akshay Dhingra 4½ 116 Siddhansh Narang 3½
75 Pawar Harshit 4½ 117 Varun Khanna 3
76 Gupta Dhruv 4½ 118 Divyansh Yadav 3
77 Ram Anand 4½ 119 Jalnidhi V 3

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 1st ICON Public School Fide Rated Open Chess Tournament, Vijayawada….
Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad wins
by S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter
2
nd seed Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad
of Andhra Pradesh become champion
in 1st ICON Piblic School Fide Rated
Open Chess Tournament concluded here at
Icon Public School, Eluru Road, Vijayawada-
Andhra Pradesh. The tournament was organ-
ized by Global Chess Academy from 18th May
to 21st May 2016.He scored 7.5 points from
8 rounds to claim clear winner trophy. There
is a two way tie for second place between
Ramanathan Bala Subramaniam (Tamilnadu)
and Mehar Chinna Reddy(Andhra Pradesh)
both scored 7 points each. Due to Buch Holz
tie breaker R Bala Subramaniam got second.
Winner Bala Chandra Prasad got prize money
of Rs. 20,000/- and Runner Up Ramanathan
Bala Subramaniam got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd
placed Mehar Chinna Reddy got 10,000/-
.Total 1 lakh prize money is distributed
among 40 players. The event attracted 350
participants from Andhra Pradesh, Telanga-
na, Tamilnadu, Karnataka..FA S Subba Raju
was the Chief Arbiter. FA V Srikanth and NA
Karunakar Reddy were the deputy arbiters
for the event.
The Tournament is inaugurated by Chief
Guest Sri S.Khadir Rehman IRS(Customs
Commissioner) Sri K.Rajendar (Chairman of
Icon Public Schools),Sri Koneru Ashok (Dro-
nacharya Awardee) , Sri Saik Khasim(Sec-
retary Global Chess Academy) graced the
occasion.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri.
LSatyananda IRS (Assistant Commissioner
of Income Tax), Sri L.SudhakarBabuDirec-
torIcon),SriChPrakash,Secretary,SriK.Rajen-
dra,Chairman,Icon,Grandmaster Lalith Babu
and Sri Parthasaradhi, Treasurer, Icon,
graced the occasion.
Final rankings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad 7½
2 R Balasubramaniam IM 7
3 Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H IM 7
4 Chakravarthy Y V K 7
5 Rao J. Malleswara 7
6 Lakshmanrao D. 6½
7 Nikhil M 6½
8 Bommini M Akshaya WFM 6½
9 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 6½
10 Akshit Kumar J 6½
11 D. Ashraf Subhani 6½
12 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6½
13 Venkata Krishna Karthik K FM 6½
14 Thirunaga Sundaram S 6
15 Harisurya Bharadwaj Gundepudi 6
16 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6
17 Durga Prasad Penugonda 6
18 Ananya D 6
19 Harsh Suresh 6
20 Abhinav Chandra Kodali AFM 6
21 Kandula Raja Sekhar 6
22 Kareedu Jaya Prakash 6
23 Gatram Sravan Kumar AIM 6
24 Sampath B 6
25 Subramanian T.V. 6
26 Sanjay D G 6
27 Lokesh Malla (vizag) 6
28 Ranadheer B J S K 6
29 Toshali V 6
30 Vidya Sagar J.B.M. 6
31 Konatham Snehil 6
32 Habibur Rahman 6
33 Prudvi Raj Pasala 6
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34 Bipin Raj S 6 75 Pardhav Chandra Kls 5
35 Ramayanam Chaitanya 5½ 76 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 5
36 Rama Rao T V 5½ 77 Sumanth Mamidala 5
37 Chinnam Vyshnavi WCM 5½ 78 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 5
38 Mahendra Teja Mekala 5½ 79 Charumati K 5
39 Swarnamala B 5½ 80 Dutt B.S. 5
40 Sesha Giri Rao S.R. 5½ 81 Jaganatham K 5
41 Deepak C 5½ 82 Midhun G 5
42 Kanthi Kiran Katarapu 5½ 83 Gopi Krishna Inti 5
43 Chintada Lakshmi Gayathri 5½ 84 Harshavardhan Ekambaranellore 5
44 Sarath Chandra K 5½ 85 Sai Raj Gopal K 5
45 Jagapathi Babu Ch 5½ 86 Jayanth Kumar D 5
46 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 5½ 87 Nachiketh Adiga 5
47 Sai Divya M 5½ 88 Pidintla Saikumar 5
48 Sai Gnanadeep J 5½ 89 Siddharth Vezzu 5
49 Jyothi Kiran P 5½ 90 Bolisetty Lochana 5
50 Subbarao T V 5½ 91 Avinash Vvus 5
51 Lasya Mayukha N 5½ 92 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 5
52 Ved Prakash 5½ 93 Naveen P 5
53 Manoj K V S R K 5½ 94 Abhijith Cheettrala 5
54 Velpula Sarayu 5½ 95 Syed Tarannum 5
55 Ravindra Raju 5½ 96 Sankar Narayana Ch 5
56 Venkata Subbarao M 5½ 97 Srujana M 5
57 Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla 5½ 98 Ramu V 5
58 Bheri Yaswanth 5½ 99 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 5
59 Subba Reddy Jonnala 5½ 100 Chaitanya T V S 5
60 Santhosh Manikantan 5½ 101 Manaswini Maheshweram 5
61 Narasimha Raveendra G 5 102 Varshini N 5
62 Sevitha Viju M 5 103 Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgaprasad 5
63 Sri Harsha M M S V 5 104 Pavana Krishna D 5
64 Raghuraman V 5 105 Bhuvanchand Chowdary Kondepati 5
65 Amulya D 5 106 Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 5
66 Praneeth R 5 107 Narayana Sharma B L 4½
67 Swathi Y 5 108 Rakesh Kumar P 4½
68 Sreekanth Thimmugari 5
69 Tarun Vankadaru 5
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my
70 Nithish Chilakalaraju 5
popularity in the country and abroad but at the
71 Keerthi Bandlamudi 5
end of the day it's not as important because I
72 Karthik P S R 5
believe that my presence here could make some
73 Adityvardhan Saikiran Sure 5 difference and it could encourage people.
74 Suresh Babu K 5 Garry Kasparov

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1st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating Maharashtra Open Chess Tournament 2016, Shirpur....
Anish Gandhi is Champion
by Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter
1
st Karmveer V.T.Randhir FIDE Rating
Maharashtra Open Chess Tournament
2016, Shirpur was organized at shirpur,
District-Dhule, Maharashtra Between 15th
June 2016 to 20th June 2016.
The Tournament was inaugurated in the
hands of Mr.Aasha tai Randhe, Treasurer of
KVP Sanstha. Other Dignitaries present on
the Dias was Mr.Rohit Randhe, Trustee of KVP
Sanstha, Dr. S N Patel, Principle of SPDM Col-
lege Shirpur, Mr. Suresh Borase, Tournament
Director and Mr.Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter.
The PD Function concluded on 20th June
2016, where the chief guest was Mr. Tushar
Randhe, President KVP Sanstha other Digni-
taries present on the Dias were Dr. S N Patel,
Principal of SPDM College Shirpur, Aasha Tai
Randhe, Treasurer of KVP Sanstha, Farooq
Shaikh, Joint Sec. MCA, Pravin Thakre, IA and
Mr. Anurag Singh, Chief Arbiter. In total 36
prizes were given by the hands of the guests.
The tournament saw the total of 91 players
participating in the tournament Including 60
Rated players and 10 Female Players.
The tournament was conducted in a good
note with a good venue and good organising
team, the climate of Shirpur was also quite
pleasant and players enjoyed playing at
this venue.Anish Gandhi stood as Champion
whereas Prashant Kasar and Sammed Shete
stood 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Mr. Suresh Borase was the Tournament Di-
rector and Mr. Anurag Singh was the Chief
Arbiter assisted by Mr. Shobhraj Khonde and
Mr. Umesh Borase.The organising team con-
sisted of Mr. Limbaji Pratale, Physical Director
of SPDM College, Mr. Mayur Borase, National
Boxing Player and Mr. Bhave.Mr. Shobhraj
Khonde and Mr. Umesh Borase were the
Deputy Arbiters who carried out their duties
as per the standard of FIDE Arbiter hence
awarded Fide Arbiter Norm. Both of them
carried out all the duties allotted to them by
Chief Arbiter. Shobhraj Khonde handled the
technical Aspect of the Tournament whereas
Mr. Umesh Borase successfully handled the
Hall related activities.
The Tournament venue was well maintained
and was easily accessible (2Km from bus
stand and accommodation place). The Indoor
Stadium was well furnished to handle higher
level of tournaments, other amenities like
Washroom facility, Drinking water facility, etc
were well arranged at the venue.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Gandhi Anish 8
2 Kasar Prashant 7½
3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7
4 Pranav Shetty 7
5 Patil Jitendra 7
6 Patil Priyanshu 7
7 Sankalp Gupta 6½
8 Borase Manoj 6½
9 Patil Mayur 6½
10 Borse Vaibhav 6
11 Borse Pankaj 6
12 Hend Pravin 6
13 Golvankar Dilip K 6
14 Tajane Ganesh 6
15 Pathe Sankalp 6
16 Jadhav Rahul 6
17 Kapadi Yash 5½
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18 Kadav Omkar 5½ 61 Joshi Samruddha 4
19 Patil Rohit R 5½ 62 Deore Yash 4
20 Dewang Kalpesh 5½ 63 Koli Anil 4
21 Joshi Sunil 5½ 64 Sonawane Rohit 4
22 Badgujar Vaibhav 5½ 65 Shinde Vishwjeet 3½
23 Narke Ajinkya 5½ 66 Salunke Atharva 3½
24 Kuwar Tushar 5½ 67 Khadke Chandrashekhar 3½
25 Ishwar Ramteke 5½ 68 Bhoi Yogesh V 3½
26 Mahajan Mokshada D 5½ 69 Hande Bhausaheb 3½
27 Bhat Sanjay 5½ 70 Bhamare Tushar g 3½
28 Firke Yash 5 71 Kokane Khushbu 3½
29 Kariya Mohak 5 72 Deore Anand 3
30 Giri Abhishek 5 73 Shinde Darshan 3
31 Ramole Saurav 5 74 Marathe jidnyesh 3
32 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 5 75 Suryavanshi Yash 3
33 Lasaroda Prince 5 76 Borase Gautami 3
34 Wadile Devendra 5 77 Patil Naitik 3
35 Suryawanshi Vijay 5 78 Avtade Malhar 3
36 Kotkar Sunil 5 79 Kant Swapnil 2½
37 Samplewala Ebrahim 5 80 Bhamare Vishakha 2½
38 Pandhare Swapnil 4½ 81 Gorane Jay 2½
39 Sonar Rushikesh 4½ 82 Kirange Ganesh 2½
40 Patil Hemant 4½ 83 Dhangar Manasi 2½
41 Bhoite Krishna 4½ 84 Kharchane Aamrapali 2½
42 Khonde Ashwmeghraj 4½ 85 Rajput Yash 2½
43 Patil Pawan 4½ 86 Sonar Vedant 2½
44 Sonawane Deepak 4½ 87 Mahajan kadambari 2
45 Ravandale Yogesh 4½ 88 Gore Ruchita 1
46 Kotkar Harshal 4½ 89 Kharchane Samira 1
47 Pardeshi Vivek 4½ 90 Khandate Avinash 0
48 Khonde Ashwini 4½ 91 Patil Navneet 0
49 Salunke Mrunal 4½
50 Padvi Kanchan 4 I learned that fighting on the chess board could
51 Patil Dattatray 4
also have an impact on the political climate in the
52 Pardeshi Gayatri 4
country.
Garry Kasparov
53 Sompurkar Shreyash 4
54 Mali Shubham 4 Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many
55 Agrawal Mehul Anupkumar 4 Russians. They could see that ordinary people in
56 Kotkar Suhas 4 Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to
57 Borse Suresh 4 Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want
58 Deore Jidnyesh 4 to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian
59 Patil Parth Ramakant 4 officials.
Garry Kasparov
60 Joshi Prasad 4

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 Anand wins ninth title in Leon
By Arvind Aaron

Five-time world champion Viswana-

than Anand beat the Chinese cham-
pion Wei Yi 2.5-1.5 in the best of four
Advanced Chess Tournament finals at
Leon in Spain on June 13, 2016.

Anand took the lead with the white

pieces in the first game and drew the
last three to win the tournament by
the minimal margin. In game one,
Anand won pawns on the queen side
and reached a winning queen ending
that forced his Chinese opponent to
give up in 50 moves.
In the remaining games, Wei Yi held
marginal advantages but was never
close to winning any of the three
drawn games.
Earlier, in the semifinals, Anand
slipped from 1.5-0.5 lead to 1.5-1.5 score when he lost to David Anton Guijarro overlooking a
tactic on move 41. However, in the all-decisive fourth game, Anand won a pawn on move 41
and converted that into a win after 68 moves for a place in the finals. Wei Yi also accounted for
Jaime Santos Latasa by 2.5-1.5 in the other semis.
Rapid events at Leon (Esp) and Mainz (Ger) have helped Anand’s career immensely. Having
a flair for quick thinking and a heart for facing knock out competitions, has helped the Indian
stay on top in the elite ladder longer than most of his peers.

Ganguly finishes second on tie-break at Edmonton

The 11th edition of the Edmonton International Chess Festival took place at the Edmonton Chess
Club between June 17-26, 2016. The main event was a ten-player Round Robin tournament.
This year's event featured the legendary GM Alexei Shirov. Other participants include Indian
GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S.P. Sethuraman. Also in the fray were GM Sam Shankland,
GM Bator Sambuev, IM Richard Wang, India's Bitan Banerjee, Belsar Valencia, FM Ian Findlay
and FM Dale Haessel.

Surya Shekhar Ganguly had a blistering start to his tournament when he crossed off his In-
dian rivals Bitan Banerjee and S.P. Sethuraman quite early to race away to a caruanasque
streak—7.0/7! One would predict, by looking at the starting list, that the main rivals for each

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 of the contenders were the other three stars in
the fray. For Ganguly, it had to be Shirov, Sethu
and Shankland, in that order. He had already got
past Sethu with a win, and now, he was standing
regally on a perfect score, with two rounds to go.
He was facing Shankland in the eighth round, and
Shirov in the ninth. Sam Shankland of the USA,
was not far behind, though, as he stood at 6.5/7.

Shankland, playing white, sacrificed two minor

pieces for a rook and two pawns, the latter
impressively positioned on e4 and d4, at the
epicenter. Curiously, a couple of moves later, the material imbalance shifted again, this time it
became Ganguly's knight versus three pawns for White, with their central dominance still intact.
Shankland eventually rolled across the black position to land a crucial blow—he had overtaken
Ganguly and was now in the lead with 7.5/8!

Harika wins gold at Eurasian Blitz!

The Eurasian Blitz Cup of the President of Kazakh-
stan was held on 18 June and 19 June at the city
of Almaty. The strongest players from Europe and
Asia assimilated in the Kazakh city to play the blitz
tournament including names such as Nepomni-
achtchi, Karjakin, Gelfand, Grischuk (the World
Champion), Svidler, etc. India had two contenders
for the medals — Sasi and Harika.

Harika finished 28th in the main prize-list, but she was the best women in the field. There was
a host of other women players, and GM Hou Yifan too scored the same points as Harika but
was relegated to the second spot on the tiebreak.

Not too long ago, Harika had also won the FIDE Online Arena Blitz Championship that was held
among the best women players in the world. If you are wondering if it would be appropriate to
call Harika the best in blitz among the women, Harika shrugged, "I don't know. Maybe it's fine
to say that. But I can't say this, the spectators should!"

XXXIX Open Internacional de Barberà del Vallès "A" tournament, Spain

GM Karthikeyan Murali finishes second on tie break

A total of 97 players participated in the 39th Open Internacional de Barbera del Valles “A”
tournament and 31 of them were Indians.The group is second highest by numbers behind
Spanish themselves. The Indian challenge was led by GM Shyam Sundar and GM Karthikeyan
Murali followed by an array of International Masters and under-rated Indians. After nine rounds
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of play GM Murali Karthikeyan tied for the first place
with Chilean IM Cristobal Henriquez and was second
on the tie break.

14-year-old Iniyan P was the impressive Indian player

in the array, as he came off successfully with a maiden
IM Norm. He defeated GM Shyam Sunder M. in the
8th round. He finished sixth after drawing his final
round game against Armenian GM Grigoryan Karen .
Coutesy: chessbaseindia.com

Harika, Humpy Finish 1-2 In FIDE Grand Prix At Chengdu

By Arvind Aaron
In the final round, while leader Dronavalli Harika drew
Russia’s Olga Girya, Koneru Humpy caught up on points
defeating former world women’s champion Antoaneta
Stefanova of Bulgaria.
Harika and Humpy tied for the first place with seven
points from eleven games in the 12-player event that
concluded at Chengdu in China on July 14, 2016. The
tie-break favoured Harika. Both players finished one
point clear of the other rivals.

Harika’s biggest triumph since entering the semifinals

of the World Women’s Chess Championship at Ukraine
last year. She takes home Euro 10,000. Harika played
it safe in the final round despite having an extra pawn GM Dronavalli Harika
in an opposite colour bishop ending. She offered and
got a draw despite having a three to one pawn majority on the queen side.

Humpy promoted a second queen and that crushed Ste-

fanova in 65 moves in the final round.
Harika remained the only undefeated player of the meet
and Humpy scored the most (five) wins of the competition.
It is a huge achievement for the Indian duo.
Final placings (tie-break order): 1-2. D Harika, Koneru
Humpy (both Ind) 7/11 each; 3-5. Ju Wenjun (Chn), A
Stefanova (Bul), Anna Muzychuk (Ukr) 6 each; 6-8. Bela
Khotenashvili (Geo), Zhao Xue (Chn), Mariya Mucychuk
(Ukr) 5.5 each; 9-10. Lela Javakhishvili (Geo), Olga Girya
(Rus) 5 each; 11 Tan Zhongyi (Chn) 4; 12 Pia Cramling
(Swe) 3.5.
GM Koneru Humpy
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 Indian composers meet German master
by C.G.S.Narayanan

Torsten Linss, Professor of Mathe-

C.G.S.Narayanan, Torsten Linss, N.Shankar Ram
matics from Dresden and a German
Grandmaster in chess composition,
visited (NIT) National Institute of Tech-
nology,Tiruchirappalli,Tamilnadu for
a seminar in Mathematics in the first
week of June 2016. Indian compos-
ers- C.G.S.Narayanan, FM for chess
composition and Editor of AICF Chron-
icle, N.Shankar Ram, IM for chess
composition and Kalyan Seetharaman,
Indian Team leader 10th WCCT and
co-Editor Kobulchess met Mr.Linss at
his room in NIT campus on 7th June
2016 and discussed different aspects of
problem chess. CGSN and Shankar Ram
presented Mr.Torsten Linss a copy of IM
Manuel Aaron’s book ‘Indian Chess His-
tory’ on the occasion .Mr.Torsten Linss
after showing us some of his astounding
more-movers also presented us copies
of German problem magazine‘Harmo-
nie-Aktiv’ which he edits.

AICF Central Council /AGM on 26.06.2016 at Chennai

Details of important decisions on opposite page

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 AICF Central Council /AGM on 26.06.2016 at Chennai
Important decisions
1. South Asian Amateur Championship 2016 to be held at Srinagar, J&K from 01st to 06th
September, 2016:
As a special case players even those who have not participated in 2015 National Amateur Chess
Championship are eligible to participate. However only those players who are registered with AICF
are eligible.
2. Asian Nations Cup held at Abu Dhabi:
Indian men team won the title for the first time in many years, in the process defeating the reigning
Olympic Champion China. Members appreciated the good work done by the players 1. GM. P.Harikr-
ishna, 2.GM.B.Adhiban 3. GM.S.P.Sethuraman 4.GM.Vidit Santosh Gujarati 5. GM .DeepSen Gupta
and coach GM R.B.Ramesh
3. GM S.P.Sethuraman won the Gold in Open and WGM Bhakti Kulkarni made India proud by
winning the Women title in the Asian Continental Chess Championship held at Uzbekistan. The mem-
bers congratulated both the champions. IM Vishal Sareen accompanied them as the coach.
4. Asian Senior Chess Championship and World Senior Chess Championship Eligibility of
Players:
It was decided that all players registered with the All India Chess Federation and who are ELO rated,
are eligible to participate subject to age regulations.
5. National Amateur Chess Championship:
FIDE organises World Amateur Chess Championships under three categories, namely below 2300,
below 2000 and below 1700. Therefore to identify the ranking in our National Amateur Chess Cham-
pionship which is held only under one category i.e. below 2300 ELO, it was decided separate placing
will be given as per the above three categories of rating namely below 2300, 2000 and 1700. It was
resolved that the players should inform in writing the category that they would like to be identified
with, to the organisers before the start of the first round of the National Amateur Chess Champi-
onship and they would be permitted to participate only in that category in Asian / World Amateur
Chess Championship. All other conditions for participation in any National Championship will remain.
6. All National Championships default time limit:
It was unanimously resolved to allow 15 minutes default time for players in all National Champion-
ships and it was decided that it should be strictly followed.
7.Caught for cheating using electronic gadgets during Delhi tournament – Action taken on
Shrang Rajendra (FIDE ID: 45027862).
It was resolved to ban him for life from being associated with the game of chess in any manner and
in any capacity.
8. To amend the existing Rule and to decide on exceptions to players regarding career rat-
ing for playing below rated events and regarding participation of players in Round Robin
tournaments abroad:
A committee with the following members was formed to submit a report to the next Central Council
meeting for consideration.R.M.Dongre (Mah) Chairman, A.K.Verma (Delhi) Member,
Prof.Anantharam (TN) Member,R.Hanumantha (Kar) Member, K.K.Sharma(Odisha) Memnber, V.Har-
iharan,Hon.Secretary AICF, Convenor
9. Disciplinary Action :
Universal Chess Academy-Bangalore, Mr.S.H.Bhagawati-Organiser and Mr.K.V.Sripad-Chief Arbiter,
were barred from involving in all chess related activities in any manner and in any capacity till 31st
December, 2016 for disobeying the orders of the United Karnataka Chess Association’s Secretary
and any repetition of their actions in future will attract severe penalty. Mr.Rohan Vijay Shandilya

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was banned from all chess activities in any manner and in any capacity for a period of 3 years for
disguising his identity.
10. Confirmation of Affiliation:
a.Affiliation to Chhattisgarh Pradesh Chess Association and
b. Telangana State Chess Association were confirmed.
11. Manipur Chess Association affairs:
The Manipur Chess Association was expelled and disaffiliated as a member of the All India Chess Fed-
eration. In its place an ad-hoc committee consisting of the following members was formed to look after
the interest of players.1. Mr.Laishram Atembi, Chairman 2.Mr.Hyindram Bhupendranath,Member,3.
Mr.R.K.Bhogen Singh,Member 4. Mr.H.Jogendro Meetei, Member 5. Mr.S.Mangi Jao Singh,Member
12. Certificate for National Championships :
It was resolved that in all the National Championships serial number should find place in all the cer-
tificates. The serial numbers should start from 001.
13. North Eastern States improvement Committee:
Mr.Pradip Kumar Choudhuri of Tripura was nominated as Chairman of the Committee. Other mem-
bers of the committee are Mr.Atanu Lahiri (Bengal), Mr.Rachhuunga Ralte (Mizoram) and Mr.Hari S
Sharma (Sikkim) and Charlei Bhuyan (Assam).
14. Eligibility Criteria while playing abroad :
It was decided that all GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs will be eligible to participate in Commonwealth open
Championship even if they have not participated in the immediate previous year National Challenger
/ Premier Chess Championships.
It was also decided to permit GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs in Commonwealth / Asian / World Cadet and
Youth Championships even if they have not participated in the corresponding immediate previous
year National age group championships, subject to age.All the above entries will be considered only
as Donor / Special Entries and subject to the FIDE / Asian / Commonwealth regulations.
15. Eligibility Criteria while playing in India:
All GMs / IMs / WGMs / WIMs, all medal winners in Asian / World in the immediate previous year
championships, All National Champions in the immediate previous year, all those who participated
in the corresponding immediate previous year National championships. All the above entries will
be considered only as Donor / Special Entries and subject to the FIDE / Asian / Commonwealth
regulations.Note: 14 & 15) Preference will be given in the following order.i) Seeded players as
per FIDE guidelines ii) The first three of the National Championship iii) GM in Open and WGM in
Women section iv) Previous year age group World champions v) IM in Open and WIM in Women
section vi) Previous year age group Asian / World medallists
16. World Junior Chess Championship at Bhuvaneshwar
As per FIDE Regulations the number of participation in any country cannot exceed one third of
the total number of participants. Therefore for the World Junior Chess Championship to be held
at Bhuvaneshwar, the following eligibility criteria will apply in the following order.
i) Seeded players as per FIDE guidelines ii) The first three of the Under 19 National Champi-
onship 2015 iii) GM in Open and WGM in Women section, iv) Previous year age group World
champions v) IM (Open), IM (Women), WIM, all medal winners of the immediate previous year
Asian / World, All those who participated in the 2015 National Junior Chess Championship and
all National Champions of 2015. Note: the above players in section (v) will be considered as per
their ELO rating as on July 01, 2016.
17. Promotion of Chess tournaments:
On popular demand, it was decided that the prospectus of all the FIDE rated tournaments con-
ducted in India should be posted on the AICF website.
18. India – China Summit:
The return match between India and China will be held at China during November 2016.

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Kasinadhuni Rajya Lalkshmi Memorial International Fide Rating Tournament Hyderabad
Akash Pc Iyer wins title
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter
T
hird seed Akash Pc Iyer of Tamilnadu
become champion Kasinadhuni Rajya
Lalkshmi Memorial International Fide
Rating Chess Tournament held at L B Stadi-
um, Hyderabad from18th to 2nd June, 2016.
He scored 8 points from 9 rounds. In the
final round Akash(8) defeated his state-mate
International Master R Balasubrahmanyam
(6.5) to clinch the title with clear margin
of half point. V Varun of Hyderabad tied for
second place with AL Muthaiah, S Prasanna
(both from Tamilnadu), J Ramakrihna of
Andhra Bank. These four players scored 7.5
each, but due to higher tie break score Varun
declared runner-up.
Winner Akash got prize money of Rs.
30,000/- where are Varun received Rs.
20,000/- Total Rs. 2 Lakh prize money is
distributed among 50 prize winners.he event
attracted 227 participants from Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu,
Karnataka, Delhi,Pondichery,Jharkh, Hary-
ana and a few participants from USA,Iran,
Bangladesh.
Tournament was inaugurated by Dr.So-
malingam, Liasion Officer , Sports Authority
Of Telangana State. Major K A Shiva Prasad,
Vice President TS Chess Association, Sri K S
Prasad, Advisor – TSCA and Sri Ganta Arvin-
dkumar, Tournament Organizer also present.
FA S Subba Raju was the Chief Arbiter and FA
Major K A Shiva Prasad was deputy arbiter
for the event.
In the valedictory function, chief guest Sri
Dinakar Babu, IAS, VCMD-SATS distributed
the prizes. Major K A Shiva Prasad, Vice Pres-
ident Telangana State Chess Association, Sri
K S Prasad, Advisor – TSCA and Sri Ganta
Arvindkumar, Tournament Organizer were
also present.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Akash Pc Iyer 8
2 Varun V 7½
3 Muthaiah Al 7½
4 Prasannaa.S 7½
5 Ramakrishna J. 7½
6 Ajay Kumar Rai 7
7 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
8 Avi Jaiswal 7
9 Soni Krishan 7
10 R Balasubramaniam 6½
11 Badrinath S. 6½
12 Vishwanath Prasad 6½
13 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6½
14 Balkishan A. 6½
15 Bolhari Orfeh 6½
16 Kumar A. 6½
17 Kushagra Mohan 6½
18 Bharath Subramaniyam H 6½
19 Akshit Kumar J 6½
20 Karthick Narayanan S 6½
21 Karthik Sai Ch 6½
22 Prasad J R C 6½
23 Himanshu Moudgil 6½
24 K Ashleesh 6
25 Aaryan Varshney 6
26 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6
27 Satyanarayana P. 6
28 Anurag Kuruvada 6
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29 Jishitha D 6 72 Jayanth R 5
30 Sanjay D G 6 73 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 5
31 Venkat Narasimha Rao P 6 74 Rithvik Raja M 5
32 Raju K.S.R.M. 6 75 Krishna Balaji 5
33 Srivastava Pratyush 6 76 Viswak Sen M 5
34 Prateek Atluri 6 77 Divyabharathi Masanam 5
35 Abhinav Chandra Kodali 6 78 Neeraj Anirudh K 5
36 Sarath Chandra K 6 79 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 5
37 Pati Spandan 6 80 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 5
38 Bipin Raj S 6 81 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 5
39 Roneet Das 6 82 Abhiram Pramod K 5
40 Aseem Bihari Sharan 6 83 Abhinav Karthik M 5
41 Sai Divya M 6 84 Sreekar J S S 5
42 Singireddy Sathvik 6 85 Bharat Goel 5
43 Rohith Yadav B R 6 86 Pranay Venkatesh 5
44 Khan S 5½ 87 Kareedu Jaya Prakash 5
45 Sri Sai Baswanth P 5½ 88 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 5
46 Thirumurugan R 5½ 89 Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5
47 Ashar Grishma 5½ 90 Rajesh Ramachandran R 5
48 Raghav Srivathsav V 5½ 91 Chilukuri Sai Maneendhra 5
49 Abdul Azeez S.K. 5½ 92 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 5
50 Saypuri Srithan 5½ 93 Kapil Surya P 5
51 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5½ 94 Sai Nithin Allenki 5
52 Sharan R S 5½ 95 Viswas Dinesh 5
53 Satbir Singh 5½ 96 Santosh Kumar Kandala 5
54 Laasya Priya P 5½ 97 Ravi Teja Macherla 5
55 Nanditha V 5½ 98 Subbarao T V 5
56 Hanumantha Reddy N 5½ 99 Raivath Mallela 5
57 Deepakraj Raja 5½ 100 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 4½
58 Sathya Naarayanan S 5½ 101 Devansh Gupta 4½
59 Bharath Venugopal 5½ 102 Gandham Yaswanth Naveen 4½
60 Raghu S B 5½ 103 Muchandikar Shrikant 4½
61 Diwakar V U 5½ 104 Chetana D 4½
62 Alapati Venkata 5½ 105 Goguloth Malsur 4½
63 Geethika Mahalakshmi J 5½ 106 Gopal Reddy B 4½
64 Pranav Ram Hariharan 5 107 Gyaneshwar B 4½
65 Ahmed Feroz 5 108 Murali Mohan Y 4½
66 Thrish Karthik 5 109 Soni Ram 4½
67 Rajesh Kumar 5 110 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 4½
68 Kanishk S K 5 111 Praveen Veeramalla 4½
69 Prasada Rao G 5 112 Divya Sree M 4½
70 Kalur Nikhil 5 113 Malvankar Avinash 4½
71 Sevitha Viju M 5 114 Herwadkar Niranjan 4½

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 54th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated Chess Championship - 2016
Arjun lifts trophy
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
5
4th Kerala State Senior Fide Rated
Chess Championship was organized
by Chanakkiya Chess Academy Thal-
assery in association with Kannur District
Chess association from 25th May 2016 to
29th May 2016 at Christ college hall, Thal-
assery, Kerala. This championship attracted
157 participation from 13 districts. Out of
which 124 players are FIDE rated chess
players. The only absent is the Iddikki Dis-
trict. The tournament offered a prize fund of
Rs,1,25,000/-. M B Muralidharan the former
State Champion from Ernakulam was the
top seeded.
Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by
Shri.Bala Kiran IAS, District Collector Kannur.
The Chief guest appreciated young children
for their appearance in the senior State chess
Championship, quoting their challenging skill
with the seniors.
In the first round 90th seeded, 16 years
old Alex P Joy of Kazarakode caused a ma-
jor upset, beating the former State Cham-
pion U C Mohanan of Ernakulam . Another
upset came from the local girl Ashitha C C
of Kannur beat 30th seeded Pr. Rajeevan of
Kozhikode. Important victories came from 10
years old Jubin Jimmy from Kollam Infant Je-
sus International school shocked 11th seeded
Chandar Raju of Ernakulam and Rajashree
Rajeev of Thrissur shocked 3rd seeded U S
Satheesan of Ernakulam in the second round.
The top seeded M B Muralidharan lost in
the hands of K A Unas from his own district
in round 3. K Arjun and K R Madhusoodanan
from Kozhikode, Joy Antony from Ernakulam
and O A Raju from Thrissur scored 4 points at
the end of round 4. Arjun's victory in round
5 with Joy Antony helped to lead the cham-
pionship with 5 points after the 5th round,
as the other two leaders split their points.
Arjun's victory continued in round 6. Arjun
beat Abhijith M of Ernakulam and continued
the sole lead with 6 points out of the possible
six. O A Raju halted Arjun's victory in round
7 but Arjun continued the sole lead with 6.5
points at the end of round 7. Arjun's win
over Lakshimi Narayanan in the penultimate
round helped to maintained the lead with 7.5
points, one point ahead of the nearest rivals
at the end of round 8. O A Raju, P K Suresh,
Joy Antony and K R Madhusoodanan were in
the second spot with 6.5 points.
In the final round K Arjun drew with
Suresh P K and won the championship with
8 points with a clear 1 point lead. K Arjun
lifted the winner's trophy and also received
Rs.20000/- cash prize.
7 players scored 7 points, Joy Antony,
Lakshimi Narayanan, Chandar Raju, A K
Jagadeesh, K R Madusoodanan, O A Raju, P
K Suresh and tied for the second place but
better tiebreak helped Joy Antony became
the runner up Lakshimi Narayanan, Chandar
Raju placed 3rd & 4th respectively. First 4
place winners will represent Kerala State for
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the forth coming Nationals. 40 Santhosh David 5½
Final standings: 41 Sreedeep C V 5½
Rk Name Pts 42 Pathrose C.T 5½
1 Arjun K 8 43 Anjana Krishna S 5½
2 Joy Antony 7 44 Alex C Joy 5½
3 Lakshimi Narayanan 7 45 Anfas Muhammed 5½
4 Jagadeesh A.K. 7 46 Salim Yoosuf 5
5 Raju O A 7 47 Joseph S A 5
6 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7 48 Kadakkavur Anil 5
7 Suresh P K 7 49 Murukan M.K. 5
8 Marthandan K U 6½ 50 Amal Roozi 5
9 Unas K.A. 6½ 51 Syam Hari H V 5
10 Ajeesh Antony 6½ 52 Sojith E. 5
11 Meghna C H 6½ 53 Rajashree Rajeev 5
12 Sooraj M R 6½ 54 Roopesh Kumar D S 5
13 Abhijith M 6½ 55 Neeraj Kumar 5
14 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6½ 56 Rethish Puthanpurayil 5
15 Muralidharan M.B. 6½ 57 Fathima Abdeen 5
16 Chandar Raju 6½ 58 Pramod K K 5
17 Sujithkar Meethale Chalil 6½ 59 Sujithraj U Mallan 5
18 Anil Kumar S 6 60 Ajesh Kumar A 5
19 Anilkumar O.T. 6 61 Rahul Rajeev 5
20 Sumesh Kabeer 6 62 Sugunesh Babu 5
21 Satheeshan U.S. 6 63 Sharsha Backer 5
22 Karan J P 6 64 Senbabu M B 5
23 Sanjay S Pillai 6 65 Sreekumar Sm 5
24 Johny P 6 66 Vaishnav S 5
25 Devadasan K.V. 6 67 Aarushi Prashanth 5
26 Nithin Babu 6 68 Nitin M Pai 4½
27 Mohammed Dilshad 6 69 Prem Krishna N 4½
28 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 70 Unni Krishnan Pg 4½
29 Anwar N K 5½ 71 Mohanan U.C. 4½
30 Abhishek T M 5½ 72 Martin Samuel 4½
31 Jinan Jomon 5½ 73 Akash Thomas 4½
32 Sachin Pradeep 5½ 74 Nithyan S 4½
33 Athul Jyothish A 5½
34 Ashish Thomas Alex 5½ I started playing chess when I was five years
35 Gireesh P.V. 5½
old. I learned the moves from my mother, then
36 Harikrishnan A 5½
worked with my father - and later trainers. My
37 Abdul Majeed N. 5½
style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of
38 Nelson Clement 5½
things. I was always hunting for the king, for the
39 Jubin Jimmy 5½
mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
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 54th West Bengal Sate Chess Championship 2016, Kolkata…
Sayantan Das wins title
by Debasish Barua, IA, Chief Arbiter
5
4th WB State Chess Championship 2016
organised by Kolkata District Chess As-
sociation held at Calcutta Girls’ School
Auditorium, Kolkata from 08/05/2016 to
12/06/2016. The tournament was held 10
rounds swiss league. Total no of participants
was 285 including 192 rated.
The tournament was inaugurated by Jahar
Sarkar, CEO, Prasar Bharati, Govt. of India,
by making first move in the chess board
against GM Dibyendu Barua. Mr. Atanu Lahiri,
Secretary, BCA, Mr. Atin Sengupta, Secre-
tary, KDCA were present in the Inauguration
Ceremony. The Secretary IM Atanu Lahiri
welcome to all participant who have come
from different districts of West Bengal and
also expressed his views about promoting
of chess.
At the end of final round game IM Sayan-
tan Das ( 9 pts) clinched the title of State
Champion and bagged the amount of Rs.
21000/-. Sandip Dey ( 8.5 pts.) & Aronyak
Ghosh ( 8 pts) placed second & third and
got Rs. 15000/- & Rs. 10000/- respectively.
The players, guardians were very co-op-
erative during the tournament. Not a single
dispute arose during the whole tournament.
The venue was Air-conditioned, spacious
with sufficient toilet. In the closing ceremony
Mr. Rajeev Kumar , Commissioner of Police,
Kolakta, was the Chief Guest and gave away
the prizes to the all prize winners.
Rk Name Rtg Pts
1 Das Sayantan JM 2429 9
2 Sandip Dey 1867 8½
3 Aronyak Ghosh CM 2149 8
4 Debasish Mukherjee 2104 8
5 Mitrabha Guha FM 2257 8
6 Koustav Chatterjee 2042 7½
7 Sayantan Mukherjee 1893 7½
8 Srijit Paul 2154 7½
9 Nath Rupankar 2105 7½
10 Abhishek Sarkar 2011 7½
11 Kaustuv Kundu 2150 7½
12 Arka Sengupta 1919 7½
13 Sayan Sen 1822 7½
14 Anurag Jaiswal 1981 7
15 Sayantan Das 1743 7
16 Sudarshan Mitra 1720 7
17 Nirmalya Bose 1419 7
18 Rajarshi Dutta 1860 7
19 Mukherjee Dyutimoy 1841 7
20 Barun Paul 1773 7
age group F07
Rk Name Rtg Pts
1 Ishani Mondal 0 3
2 Kasturi Saha 0 3
3 Shubhi Bansal 0 2½
age group F09
1 Sinthia Sarkar 1221 5½
2 Anwesha Saha 1196 4
3 Jagriti Agarwal 0 4
age group F11
1 Ayantika Das 1447 6
2 Annyatoma Das 1147 5
3 Ishika Mondal 1069 5
age group F13
1 Mehendi Sil 1536 6½
2 Bristy Mukherjee 1659 6½
3 Sudipa Haldar 1648 6
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 All Goa Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2016, Quepem
Nitish Belurkar wins championship
by Ashesh Keni, Chief Arbiter
T
he All Goa Fide Rated state chess
championship 2016 got underway on
1STJune at DSY Quepem Sports Com-
plex. The five days Tournament was played
under Swiss league system in which total
number of nine rounds were conducted and
153 players from all over Goa participated
out of which 53 were rated players.
The Tournament was organised by Que-
pemTaluka Chess Association along with
DharbandoraTaluka Chess in collaboration
with Sports Authoriry of Goa.The Tourna-
ment was recognised by Goa Chess Asso-
ciation and was a FIDE Rated tournament.
The championship commenced today after
Mr.Nilesh Cabral,MLA and Chairperson of
GTDC inaugurated the event in the pres-
ence of Mr.KishorBandekar, Secretary GCA,
AsheshKeni, Vice-president GCA and ChiefAr-
biter,SubashchandraNaik,President QTCA,
Sanjay Kavlekar , Secretary QTCA and other
officials.
At the end of the first round top seed Nitish-
Belurkar ,NirajSaripalli ,Wilson Cruz, Aditee-
Prabhugaonkar lead with many others. On
the fifth board DhanviFondekar drew with
senior player AmoghNamshiker.The total
prize fund of the tournament was Rs. 50000/-
and trophies.The hall arrangements were
good .The toilets were clean and the hall was
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kept clean on all days. There was sufficient
space to accommodate all the players.Clean
and tasty food was provided free of cost to
all the participants and their parents.
Nitish Belurkar of Tiswadi Taluka retained
the "All Goa Open FIDE Rating Chess Cham-
pionship 2016”, in the end. In the 9th round
last years winner & Top seed of the Tourna-
ment Mast. NitishBelurkar of Tiswadi Taluka
beat Morajkar Navin of MourmugaoTaluka
with white pieces to score 8.5 from 9 rounds
to clinch the title thus remaining unbeaten
throughout the Tournament.
On the second board Niraj Saripalli of Sal-
cete Taluka defeated Aditee Prabhugaonkar
of Canacona Taluka to finish runners up and
Wilson Cruz of PondaTaluka outwitted Saish-
Fondekar of SalceteTaluka and was placed
third in list.
Mr.Ashesh Keni was the Chief Arbiter and
Sanjay Kavlekar was the first Deputy Chief
Arbiter and DattaramPinge, second Deputy
Chief Arbiter,Swapnil Hoble and Sudhakar
Patgar were the Asst. Arbiters.
The Prizes were given at the hands of Mr.Vinay
Tendulkar, President GCA, Mr.KishorBandeka-
r,SecretaryGCA,Mr.Subashchandra Naik,
President, QTCA, Mr.Ashesh Keni(VicePresi-
dent GCA) Chief Arbiter Mr.Sanjay Kavlekar
(Deputy Arbiter),Mr.Sagar Sakordekar (Vice 37 Vinayak Thevar 5½
President GCA),Maschindra Desai,Secre- 38 Dhanavi Ulhas Fondekar 5½
tary,(DTCA).Mr.SharendraNaik was the com- 39 Nischal Parulekar 5½
40 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 5½
pere at the function.
41 Vas Bryan 5½
Final standings:
42 Kshitij Mayenkar 5½
Rk Name Pts
43 Farhan Bukhari 5½
1 Nitish Belurkar FM 8½
44 Shivam Kapdi 5½
2 Niraj Saripalli 8
45 Pai Vishwesh 5
3 Cruz Wilson 7½
46 Prashant Salvi 5
4 Parsekar Anirudh 7
47 Cyrus Gomes 5
5 Tanad Anil Bandodkar 7
48 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5
6 Thorat Aishwarya 7
49 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5
7 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 6½
50 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5
8 Thorat Sanjay 6½
51 Naik Nivesh Manoj 5
9 Milind Gauns 6½
52 Kakodkar Love 5
10 Morajkar Navin 6½
53 Parab Sneh 5
11 Dalal Ambar Abhay 6½
54 Anish Naik 5
12 Alaina J J Pereira 6½
55 Sainee N F Dessai 5
13 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 6
56 Kakodkar Joy 5
14 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
57 Ammar Lashkarwale 5
15 Pratik S Borkar 6
58 Srilaxmi Kamat 5
16 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6
59 Pai Vithal 5
17 Eesh Prabhudesai 6
60 Soham Anil Dhuri 5
18 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6
61 Vibhuti S Dessai 5
19 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 6
62 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 5
20 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6
63 Charuta J Shetye 5
21 Fadte Rudresh 6
64 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 5
22 Devesh Anand Naik 6
65 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 4½
23 Gaayathri S 6
66 Asfiya Lashkarwale 4½
24 Colaco Reuben 6
67 Samarth Prabhu Nasnodkar 4½
25 Faryaz Shaik 6
68 Neshma Nitin Metri 4½
26 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 6
69 Bhat Pratham 4½
27 Paarth P Salvi 6
70 Blydon D Souza 4½
28 Mahesh A Shetti 6
71 Chaitanya M. Naik 4½
29 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 6
72 Kunal B Bandolkar 4½
30 Amogh S Namshiker 5½
73 Desai Veer 4½
31 Ved Gurudatt Patil 5½
74 Geetesh R Naik 4½
32 Swayam Naik 5½
75 Sathvik Ashok Kerkar 4½
33 Mohammed Kassim Shaikh 5½
76 Ramani Varad 4½
34 Yash Paul 5½
77 Parsekar Aditya 4½
35 Shirodkar Aayush 5½
78 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4½
36 Varun R Shastry 5½
79 Kulkarni Vedant 4½

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Selected games from GM Open,
Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Sandipan,Chanda (2585)
Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2614) [A65]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6
5.Be2 0–0 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Qd2 exd5
9.cxd5 Re8 10.f3 a6 11.a4 b6 [O'Kelly -
Hindle, Bognor Regis, 1965, went: 11...Nbd7
12.Nh3 Rb8 13.Nf2 Qc7 14.0–0 c4 15.Rfc1 b5
16.b4 bxa4 17.Rxa4 Ne5 18.h3 Qb7 19.Rb1
Bd7 20.Ra3 and 1–0 41]12.g4 h6!?=
A familiar black tactic in such positions is to
offer this pawn and get it back through ....
Qh4+. But here, it should not have been
good for black.]13.Be3?! [The situation
here is a little different and white could get
a slight advantage by accepting the gambit
pawn: 13.Bxh6! Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Qh4+ 15.Kd1
Bxh6 16.g5 Bg7 17.Nxd6 Rd8 18.Nxc8 Rxc8
19.f4]13...Qe7 14.Ra3 [This development
of the queen's rook via a3 is occasionally
met in the Kings Indian Defence. But in this
game this rook plays no major role and sits
out the action. White is anyway lost when
this rook moves again on the 31st move. If
white decides to develop his king's knight a
series of unpleasant black moves await him:
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14.Nh3 Nxg4! 15.fxg4 Bxc3! 16.bxc3 Qxe4
17.Kf2 Bxg4 18.Bxg4 Qxg4=]14...h5 15.g5
[This leads to equality but with the g5 pawn
out on a limb, white's position is now devoid
of elasticity. Better was: 15.h3 Nbd7=]15...
Nh7 16.Bd3 Nd7 17.f4 [The attempt to
move out and develop his long delayed
knight from g1 takes a hit after: 17.Nge2?
Ne5! 18.Rf1 (or 18.0–0 Nxd3 19.Qxd3 Nx-
g5µ) 18...Nxg5 19.Bxg5 Nxd3+ 20.Qxd3
Qxg5]17...c4 18.Bc2= Nc5 19.Nge2 Bh3
[prevents white from castling.]20.Nd4 f5?!
[This unnecessarily presents white with
chances to recover from a weak position.
Best was to anticipate white's 21 Nc6 with
20...Qd7]21.Nc6?
[White proceeds according to his plan without
appreciating the opportunities that black has
suddenly presented him with. He can take
the advantage with: 21.gxf6! Qxf6 22.Rg1
Bg4 23.Qg2 Nf8 24.a5 b5 25.Nc6]21...Qf7
22.e5? [Best was: 22.Bxc5 bxc5= 23.Nb1
c3 24.Nxc3=]22...dxe5 23.fxe5 Bxe5
24.Nxe5 Rxe5± 25.Kd1? [White's forces
are in a bad way, lacking coordination and
harmony. A more active defence like 25.Kf2
preventing ....Bg2 was better]25...Bg2–+
26.Bf4 [26.Qxg2 Rxe3 27.a5 (aiming to take
advantage of the unprotected black rook on
e3) 27...b5 (27...Rb8 28.axb6 Rxb6 29.Ra2
Qe7–+) 28.Nxb5 Rxa3 29.Nxa3 Rd8µ]26...

Bxd5 27.Rf1 [27.Nxd5? Rxd5–+]27...Ree8
28.Nxd5 Rad8 [The heavy pin along the d-file
is winning for black.]29.Kc1 Rxd5 30.Qb4
Ne6 [Much stronger was: 30...b5!! 31.Re3
(white loses his queen through a discov-
ered check after: 31.axb5 axb5 32.Qxb5??
Nd3+) 31...Rxe3 32.Bxe3 Nd3+ 33.Bxd3
cxd3–+]31.Re3 [With this move, white
brings his queen rook into play, but black's
advantage immediately doubles! Though two
pawns down and losing, white should contin-
ue: 31.Bg3 Qb7 32.Rc3 b5 when black is still
winning but not with the earlier clarity.]31...
Nxf4 32.Rxe8+ Qxe8 33.Qxc4
33...Qe2! [After 33...Qe2 34.Qxf4 Rc5
35.Rf2 Qe1#]0–1
Grigoryan,Karen H (Arm) (2616)
Rathnavel,V S (2315) [B84]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.a4 Be7 8.Be2
0–0 9.0–0 Qc7 10.a5 Nc6 11.Nb3 Nd7
12.Na4 Rb8 [Rahul Sangma (2214) - Wilson
Cruz (2021) World Junior, 2002 went: 12...
Nc5 13.Naxc5 dxc5 14.c3 Rd8 15.Qc2 Bd7
16.Bxc5 Bxc5 17.Nxc5 Nxa5 18.Rxa5 Qxa5
19.Nxb7 Qb6± 1–0 53] 13.Nb6 Nf6 14.Bd3
d5 15.exd5 exd5 16.Nxc8 [This bishop
was threatening to get active with 16....
Bg4] 16...Rfxc8 17.Bb6 Qd7 18.Nd4 Re8
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
19.Nf5 Bd8! 20.Be3 [The game is equal
after: 20.Qd2 Ne4 21.Bxe4 Rxe4 22.Ng3
Re6=]20...g6 21.Nh6+ Kg7 22.Qd2 Bc7
[Better was: 22...d4! 23.Bf4 Rc8 24.Rfe1
Rxe1+ 25.Qxe1 Qe7 as the white pawn on
a5 is a big liability and his knight on h6 is
doing nothing.]23.Nf5+ Kg8 [If 23...gxf5?
24.Bh6+ Kh8 25.Qg5 Nh5 the only move.
26.Qxh5 Qd6 27.Bxf5 Re5 28.Bf4±]24.
Ng3 Qd6 25.Bg5 [Also leading to equality
was: 25.Rfd1 Ng4 26.Bg5 f6 27.Be2 Nxf2
28.Kxf2 fxg5 29.Qxd5+ Qxd5 30.Rxd5 Rbd8
31.Bf3=]25...Ne5 26.Ra4!
[White embarks on an elaborate plan to take
this rook to h4 and then play b2–b4. It was
best to play the direct 26.b4 as the rook's
effectiveness on h4 is not clear. In hindsight
one can say that the cause of white's doom
could be traced to this rook manoeuvre.]26...
Nxd3 27.cxd3 Nd7 28.Rh4 [The unde-
fended dark squares around Black's castled
position inspire white to post his rook on h4.
Unfortunately the rook does nothing from
h4 to attack black. Better was 28.Rc1]28...
Nf8 29.b4 Rbc8 30.Ne2 [30.Bh6 does not
advance white's cause because of 30...Ne6!
31.Re1 b6! 32.axb6 Qxb6³ as black has cov-
ered his king-side weakness very well and is
poised to go on the offensive against b4.]30...
Bd8 31.Nd4 Bxg5 32.Qxg5 Qe7! 33.Qg3?
[33.Rg4 Qxg5 34.Rxg5 Ne6! 35.Rxd5 Nf4
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
36.Rd7 Rcd8! 37.Rxd8 Rxd8 38.Nb3! Ne2+
39.Kh1 Rxd3 40.Nc5 Rd4³]33...Rc1!
This move exploits white's weak first rank and
threatens the winning 34....Rxf1+ 35 Kxf1
Qe1# as well as 34...Qe1!]34.f4 Rxf1+
35.Kxf1 Qxb4! [Now black is a pawn up
and continues to have mating threats.]36.
Ne2 Qd2 [Black's king-side is so secure that
he could collect one more pawn and then
return to the attack with: 36...Qxa5 The
white rook on h4 is a useless piece!]37.
Qe1 Qxd3 38.Rh3 Qb5 39.Qd2 Nd7
[After successfully defending his castled
position from f8, the knight now sallies
forth to deliver the coup de grace.]40.Rd3
Nf6 41.Nd4 Qb1+ 42.Qd1 Qa2 43.Nb3
Ne4! 44.Qe1
[Diagram #][White can lengthen the game
by: 44.Nd2 Qxa5 45.Nxe4 dxe4 when black
has three extra pawns and a totally winning
position.]
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44...Ng3+!! 45.Rxg3 [If 45.Qxg3 Qb1+
46.Kf2 Qe1+ 47.Kf3 Qe2#]45...Rxe1+
46.Kxe1 d4! [ A f t e r 4 6 . . . d 4 4 7 . R d 3
Qc2 48.Rf3 Qxg2 the plunder contin-
ues.]0–1
Praggnanandhaa,R (2368) - Grigoryan,
Karen H (Arm) (2616)
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nc6 3.d4 Bg4 4.Bg2 Qd7
5.h3 Bxf3 6.Bxf3 0–0–0 7.Bg2 e5 8.dxe5
Nxe5 9.0–0 Qe6 [Gerber (2260) vs Mal-
jutin (2385), EU Cup, Moscow, 1991 went:
9...Nf6 10.Qd4 Nc6 11.Qa4 Bc5 12.Bg5
Qf5 13.Bxf6 Qxf6 14.Nc3 Ne7 15.Qb3 c6
16.e4 d4 17.Na4 Bd6 18.f4 Qg6 19.e5=
54.1–0]10.c3 f5 11.Qa4 Bc5 [The game is
level though black has a greater presence
in the centre.]12.Nd2 Bb6 13.Nb3 Qf6
14.Bf4 g5 15.Bxe5 Qxe5
[Diagram # Black threatens 16 Qxg3 as
the f2 pawn is pinned. But white's next
move starts a counter which takes care
of the threat to his g3 pawn.]16.c4!
dxc4 [16...Qxg3?? 17.c5+–]17.Qxc4 Nf6
[Black cannot let his queen act on the pro-
tection of his bishop pinning the f2 pawn.
If now, 17...Qxg3? 18.Na5! and black can
neither capture the knight nor protect his
b7 pawn for if 18...Bxa5?? 19.fxg3]18.a4
a5 19.Qb5!

[Diagram # Normally, a youngster would
opt to go for a queen-side offensive here.
Remarkably here, white who is only 11–
years old, evaluates the position as ripe for
an advantageous endgame and goes out of
the way to offer exchange of queens.]19...
Qxb5 [If 19...Qxg3 20.Rac1 Kb8 21.Nc5!+–;
or if 19...Rhe8 20.Nxa5 Bxa5 21.Bxb7+ Kb8
22.Qa6+–]20.axb5 [Threatened with the
loss of his a5 pawn, black must do something
immediately.]20...Ne4 21.Nxa5 Kb8 [If
21...Nxg3 22.Nxb7 Nxf1 23.Bc6 (this plugs
the black king's escape via d7 and threatens
mate.) 23...Kb8 24.Nxd8 Ba7 25.Nf7+–]22.
Bxe4! fxe4 23.Nc4± [White has a clear ad-
vantage, not just because he has a pawn more,
it is because of the open a-file along which
he could generate a mating attack with his
rooks and black's weak pawn on e4.]23...Bd4
24.Ra4! [He is going to double his rooks along
the a-file.]24...Rd5 25.Rfa1! Kc8 26.Rd1!
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[Diagram #][White pins the Bd4 which is
supporting the Rh8. If immediately: 26.Ra8+
Kd7 27.Rxh8 Bxh8 White has only a very
slight advantage.]26...c6 [If 26...Bxf2+
27.Kxf2 Rf8+ 28.Ke3 Rxd1 29.Ra8+ Kd7
30.Rxf8+–]27.Nb6+!! Bxb6 28.Rxd5 cxd5
29.Ra8+ Kc7 30.Rxh8 Bd4 31.Rxh7+ Kb6
32.Rd7 [32.b3 was equally good.]32...
Kxb5 33.Rxd5+ Kc4 34.Rxd4+! [This
simplifies into a winning pawn ending.]34...
Kxd4 35.h4! [The pawn ending is easily
won after: 35.h4 gxh4 36.gxh4 Ke5 37.Kg2
Kf4 38.Kh3 Kf5 39.e3 b6 40.Kg3 b5 41.b4
Ke5 42.Kg4]1–0
Gagare,Shardul (2514)
Raghunandan,K.S (2280) [D46]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3
Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 0–0 8.0–0 dxc4
9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 Bb7 11.e4 e5 12.dxe5
Nxe5 13.Nd4 Neg4 14.g3 Bc5 [This is
a new move in this position, Vidit Gujrathi
(2625) vs Shyam Nikhil (2454), National
Premier Ch, Kottayam, 2014 went: 14...Bxg3
15.hxg3 Qxd4 16.Qd1 Qxd1 17.Rxd1 Rfe8
18.f3 Ne5 19.Be3 drawn after 35 moves.]15.
Nf5 Re8 16.Bf4 g6 17.Rad1 Qb6 18.Bxg4
Nxg4 19.h3? [This immediately hands over
the initiative to black. Better was" 19.Nd6 Re6
20.Nxb7=]19...gxf5 20.hxg4 Bd4?
[This is an enthusiastic, but over ambitious
move. He wants to play .....c6–c5 to enable
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his light square bishop unchallenged sway
along the long white diagonal. especially as
white does not have a white square bishop.
However better was the preliminary: 20...
fxg4 with traces of advantage for black.]21.
exf5? [White can thwart black's plan by
capturing with the other pawn: 21.gxf5!
c5 22.Nd5! Bxd5 23.exd5 a5 24.d6²]21...
c5 22.Kh2 [The Nd5 resource indicated in
the previous note is sadly lacking here be-
cause white has no pawn on e4.]22...Bf3
[22...Qa6 (threat b5–b4) 23.a3 b4 24.axb4
cxb4 25.Na2 Re2 26.Qc7 Bb6 27.Nxb4 Bxc7
28.Nxa6 Bxa6 29.Bxc7 Rc2³]23.Rde1 [Better
was: 23.Rd2 b4 24.Ne2 Bg7 25.Ng1 Bb7=
(25...Bxg4? 26.f3 Bh5 27.g4+–) ]23...Qc6
24.g5 Bg2 25.Rg1 [Black threatens 26
...Nxb5 27 Qxb5 Kxg2.]25...b4 26.Nb5
Qxb5 27.Kxg2 Qc6+ 28.Kh3 Qf3 29.Be3?
[Diagram #][Much better was: 29.Rgf1 Rxe1
30.Rxe1 Bxf2 31.Qe2 (31.Rf1 Qh5+ 32.Kg2
Re8! 33.Rxf2 Re1 34.Rf1 (34.g4 Qxg4+
35.Kh2 (35.Bg3?? Re3–+) 35...Qh4+=) )
31...Qxe2 32.Rxe2 Bd4 With material level
white's prospects are excellent as his control
over the e-file cannot be challenged.]
29...Bxe3 30.Rxe3 Rxe3 31.fxe3 Rd8!
32.Re1!! [Excellent tactics! He gives time for
white to defend his e3 pawn. If now 32.Qxc5
Qh5+ 33.Kg2 Rd2+ 34.Kf1 Qe2#]32...Rd5!
33.Qe2 [33.e4 Rd3 34.Rg1 (34.Qg2?? Qh5#)
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34...c4! 35.e5 (35.Qxc4 Qh5+ 36.Kg2 Rd2+
37.Kf1 Qd1#) 35...Qh5+ 36.Kg2 Re3!
(threat 37....Re2+ winning queen) 37.Qxc4
Re2+–+]33...Qxf5+ 34.g4 Qxg5 35.Qf2 Rd6
[Black plans to capture g4 also and reach
a simple winning position.]36.Qf3 Rh6+
37.Kg2 Rh4 38.Rh1 Qxg4+ [Two pawns
up, black wants to ensure victory against
his Grandmaster opponent and exchanges
off queens not wanting to give white the
smallest chance to escape. He could also
win with: 38...Rxg4+ 39.Kf2 Rc4! 40.Re1
(40.Rg1? Rc2+ 41.Kf1 Rc1+–+) 40...Rc2+
41.Re2 Qh4+ 42.Kg2 Rc1 43.Qg3+ Qxg3+
44.Kxg3 c4–+]39.Qxg4+ Rxg4+ 40.Kf3
Rc4 41.Rh2 Kg7 42.b3 Rc1 43.Ke4 Rg1
[Diagram # Black has played the game so far.
But it is not known how he would handle the
winning rook ending that he has got. Instead
of tamely giving up the game, white
should try 44 Rh5 and test the Rook and
Pawn ending prowess of his 15–year old op-
ponent.]0–1
Sidhant,Mohapatra (2239) Sandip-
an,Chanda (2585) [A00]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4
9.Na4 Nbd7 10.c4 bxc3 11.Nxc3 Bb7
12.Be2 Be7 13.0–0 0–0 14.Rfd1 Rc8
[Pv.Nandhidhaa (2174) vs Irina Petrukhi-

na (2218), World Junior Girls, Pune, 2014
was drawn after: 14...Qb8 15.Rac1 Rc8
16.Bf4 Nh5 17.Be3 Nhf6 18.Bf4 Nh5 19.Be3
drawn.]15.Nb3 Ne5 [All good players know
that if black is able to play ....d5 without
any ill effects in such positions black obtains
equality. But does a GM in an Open Swiss rel-
ish a draw against a player rated nearly 350
points below him? This is the disadvantage
for high rated players when they play in an
Open where the opposition is low and une-
ven. 15...d5! 16.exd5 exd5 17.Rac1!=]16.
Qd4 Nfd7 17.Kh1 Kh8 18.Rac1 [Black is
waiting for f3–f4 so that he could have some
chances against white's centre, especially his
e4 pawn. But white has been well trained not
to change the pawn structure when ones de-
velopment is not yet complete. However, f4
could be played here: 18.f4 Nc6 19.Qd2 Na5
20.Nxa5 Qxa5 21.a3² Note that the f-pawn
remains on f3 till the end of the game!]18...
Nc6 19.Qd2 Na5 20.Nxa5 Qxa5 21.Nb1!?
[Diagram #][A very interesting offer of a
pawn. If 21.Bf4 d5 22.exd5 exd5 23.Rc2
(23.Nxd5? Qxd2 24.Bxd2 Bxd5 25.Bxa6
Rxc1 26.Bxc1 Be6µ) 23...Nf6 24.Be5 Nd7
25.Bd4 Bf6=]21...Qd8 [After 21...Qxa2
22.Qb4! (black must worry over his queen
getting trapped with Nc3!) 22...Bc6 (the only
move) 23.Nc3 a5 24.Nxa2! axb4 25.Ba6!
Rc7 26.Nxb4 Ne5 27.Bb6 Rb8 28.Bxc7 Rxb4
29.Bxd6+–; Black's main alternative is: 21...
Qxd2 22.Nxd2 d5 23.Nc4! Ba8 24.a3]22.
Qb4 Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Qb8 24.Nd2 Re8
[(threatening to ambush the queen with d6–
d5)]25.Qa4 Nc5 26.Qa3 Rc8 27.Nb3 Nxb3
28.Qxb3 Bf6 29.Qb6 Rxc1+ 30.Bxc1 [All
these exchanges are taking the game clos-
er to a draw which is not agreeable to the
grandmaster.]30...Qc8 31.Be3 d5!= 32.exd5
exd5 [If 32...Bxd5 33.Bxa6 Qa8 34.Qa7
Qxa7 35.Bxa7 Bxa2 36.b4]33.h3 h5 34.a4
h4 35.Bd3 Be5? [35...Qc6 36.Qb4 Kg8 would
be equal.]36.b4 g6 37.Qc5 Qxc5 38.Bxc5
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Kg7= [The game is absolutely equal.]39.b5
a5? [After this, black has the task of pro-
tecting both, the a5 and h4 pawns on black
squares. His dark square bishop is not equal
to this task in the long run.]40.Bb6! Bc3
41.Bd8! f6² [41...Be1 42.Kg1 Kf8 43.Kf1
Ke8 44.Bg5 Bg3 45.Ke2 Kd7 46.Bc2 Bc8 and
white would have to do a lot of patient and
clever manoeuvring to convert his slight ad-
vantage to victory.]42.Kg1 Kf7 43.Kf2 Ke8
44.Bb6 f5 45.Ke2 Bc8 46.Be3 d4?? [Prob-
ably the grandmaster was in time trouble. Or
perhaps he was overwhelmed by the method-
ical positional play by the 18–year old untitled
youngster from Odissa? After the text, black
loses his h4 pawn for no compensation. He
had a better alternative here: 46...Bf6 47.b6!
Kd7 48.Bb5+ Kd6 49.f4! and white has two
dangerous threats, 50 Bd2 threatening Bxa5
and 50 Be8 threatening g6.]47.Bg5 Kd7
[Diagram #][Black's proposed counter-attack
against a4 loses brilliantly: 47...Be6 48.b6!
Bd5 (48...Bc8 49.Bb5+ Kf7 50.Bc6+–; or if
48...Kd7 49.b7 Kc7 50.Ba6 and black has no
defence against Bf4+ queening the pawn.)
49.Bb5+! (driving the black king further
away from the b-file before pressing with his
b-pawn.) 49...Kf7 50.Ba6 Bb4 (for 51...Bd6
to control the queening square) 51.Bf4!]48.
Bxh4 Kd6 [White has a simple win after 49
g4, creating a assed pawn on the king-side
too.1–0
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by S.Krishnan

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

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

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

(solutions on p. 47 )
 
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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan

Tjavlovski 1962 V. Bron 1963

1. 2.

Hillel Aloni 1964 Genrkh Kasparyan 1962

3. 4.

V.Bron 1962 V.Bron 1962

5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution on page 47 )

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Masters of the past-66 Viktor Korchnoi

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (23March1931–6 June 2016) was a chess

grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest
players never to have become World Chess Champion.Born in
Leningrad, Soviet Union, Korchnoi defected to the Netherlands
in 1976, and later resided in Switzerland from 1978, becoming a
Swiss citizen. Korchnoi played three matches against GM Anatoly
Karpov. In 1974, he lost the Candidates final to Karpov, who was
declared World Champion in 1975 when GM Bobby Fischer refused
to defend his title. He then won two consecutive Candidates cycles
to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978
and 1981, losing both.

Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions (1962, 1968,
1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991). He was also a four-time USSR
chess champion, a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European cham-
pionship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad. In
September 2006, he won the World Senior Chess Championship.

He learned to play chess from his father at the age of five. In 1943, he joined the chess
club of the Leningrad Pioneer Palace, and was trained by Abram Model, Andrei Batuyev,
and Vladimir Zak. In 1947, Korchnoi won the Junior Championship of the USSR, with
11½/15 at Leningrad, and shared the title in 1948 with 5/7 at Tallinn, Estonia.

In 1951, he earned the Soviet Master title, following his second place finish in the 1950
Leningrad Championship, with 9/13.One year later, Korchnoi qualified for the finals of
the USSR Chess Championship for the first time. FIDEawarded him the title of Inter-
national Master in 1954. He was awarded the Grandmaster title at the FIDE Congress
in 1956. Korchnoi earned his first international team selection for the Soviet student
team in 1954, joined the full national team for the European Team Championship three
years later, and would represent the USSR through 1974. He won a massive 21 medals
for the USSR. Korchnoi won the USSR Chess Championship four times during his career.

From 2001 onwards, Korchnoi became a prolific author of books on his career, publishing
four new volumes, including two books of annotated games, an updated autobiogra-
phy, and an overview (along with several other authors) of Soviet politics applying to
chess; he also wrote a book on rook endings.

On the January 2007 FIDE rating list Korchnoi was ranked number 85 in the world at
age 75, by far the oldest player ever to be ranked in the FIDE top 100. As of 2011,
Korchnoi was still active in the chess world with a notable win (in Gibraltar) with black
against the 18-year-old Fabiano Caruana, who was rated above 2700 and 61 years
Korchnoi's junior. Korchnoi became the oldest player ever to win a national champion-
ship when he won the 2009 Swiss championship at age 78. Korchnoi died aged 85 on
6 June 2016 in the Swiss city of Wohlen.
Courtesy: Wikipedia

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Solutions to ‘Tactics from master games’ on
page 42
1. Bivol,A (2368) Dimitrova,
Aleksandra (2128) [A05]
Loo RUS Loo RUS (1.3), 20.04.2016
Position after 34th move. White to play.
35.Ng6! [35.Bd5+-] 35...fxg6 [35...f6
36.Bd5+ Re6 37.Nf4+-] 36.Bd5+ Re6
37.Qxg6+- 1–0
2. Shabalov,Alexander (2528) Rob-
son,Ray (2663) [D43]
ch-USA 2016 Saint Louis USA (1.6),
14.04.2016
Position after White's 42nd move. Black to
play. 42...Ne2![42...Ne2 43.Rxc7 (43.Bxe2
Rxc1–+) 43...Ng1+ 44.Kh4 Nf3+ 45.Kh3
Rxh2#] 0–1
3.Buscara,S (2340)
Churm,R (2145) [C02]
4NCL 2015–16 Birmingham ENG (9.155),
30.04.2016
Position after18th move.White to play.
19.Bxh7+! Kxh7 20.Ng5+ Kg8 [20...Kh6
21.Rc3+-; 20...Kg6 21.Qg4 f5 22.exf6
Kxf6 23.Nxe6 Qf7 24.Re1 Qg6 25.Qh4+
Kf7 26.Rxb7+ Kg8 27.Rxg7++-] 21.Qh5
Rfb8 22.Rc3+- Qd7? 23.Qh7+ [¹23.Rh3!
Kf8 24.Nh7+ Ke8 25.Nf6+ Ke7 (25...gxf6
26.Qh8+ Ke7 27.Qxf6+ Ke8 28.Rh8#) ] 23...
Kf8 24.Rf3 Nd8 25.Qh8+ Ke7 26.Qxg7+- 1–0
4. Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2254) Java-
nbakht,N (2417) [C00]
Asian Juniors Rapid 2016 Delhi IND (3.2),
03.05.2016
Position after White's 21st move. Black to
play. 21...Bd7! 22.Qd1 [22.Qxd7 Qg5+
23.Kh1 Qxc1+ 24.Kg2 Qg5+ 25.Kh1 Qd8–+]
22...Qg5+ [22...Bh3!] 23.Kh1 Bh3! 24.Qg1
Bg2+! [24...Bg2+ 25.Qxg2 Qxc1+ 26.Qg1
Qxg1+–+] 0–1
5.Liang,Awonder (2410)
Landa,K (2618) [B10]
Hasselbacken Open 2016 Stockholm SWE
(9.11), 08.05.2016
Position after 20th move. White to play.
21.Nxe6! fxe6 [21...Rg8 22.Nd4 Nxe5
23.Nf5 Nxf3 24.gxf3 c5 (24...Rd8 25.Rde1+-
) 25.Rhe1 Bxf3; 21...Bf8 22.Nxf8 Rxf8
23.Rhe1+-] 22.Bh5+ Kd8 23.Bxb6+ Rc7
24.Bf7 Kc8 25.Bxe6+- [25.Bxe6 Rd8 26.Rxd7
Rcxd7 (26...Rdxd7 27.Rd1+-) 27.Rd1] 1–0
6. Shirov,A (2686) - Saren,Bjorn (2032)
[A81]
Hasselbacken Open 2016 Stockholm SWE
(1.2), 30.04.2016
Position after 24th move. White to play.
25.Nd5+! [25.Nd5+ cxd5 (25...Kb8 26.Rxf8+-
) 26.Qc3+ Kd7 27.Rxf8 Bxf8 28.Qh8 Ke7
(28...Be7 29.Qh3++-) 29.Qg8+- [%csl Rg2]
29...Nxe3 (29...Nh4 30.Qh7++-; 29...Ne1
30.Qxd5+-) 30.Qg5+-] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1.Tjavlovski 1962
1.g7 Bd1 2.g4+ Kh6 3.g8N+ Kg6 4.Nf6
Kg5 5.Nd5+ Kxg4 6.Ne3+ 1…Be2 2.Kd5
Bd1 3.Kc4 Bg4 4.g8B
2.V.Bron 1963
1.Ng8+ Kf7 2.e7 Rxg2 3.d8R Rh2+ 4.Nh6+
Ke7 5.Ra8 Kd6 6.Ra5 Rh5 7.Ra6+ Kxd5
8.Ra5 wins
3.Hillel Aloni 1964
1.Nc7 Qd1 2.Kc3 Qe2 3.Be4 Qxe4 4.Ne8+
Kf8 5.Nd7+ Ke7 6.Bg5+ Kxd7 7.Nf6+ Ke6
8.Nxe4 Kf5 9.Kd4 wins
4.G.Kasparyan 1962
1.f7 Rb3 2.QxR Bxf7 3.Qd3 Kh4 4.Kg2
Rg1+ 5.Kxh2 Rg4 6.Qh7+ Bh5 7.Qe7+ Rg5
8.Qe1+ Kg4 9.Qe4 wins
5.V.Bron 1962
1.Bb5+ Kxc3 2.Qe5+ Kb4 3.Qe7+ Kb3
4.QxB d5 5.Qh2 d4 6.Qd2 d3 7.Qxd3+
Kb4 8.Qd6+ Kb3 9.Qd2 wins
6.V.Bron 1962
1.Kg3 Ke1 2.cxd Kd2 3.Ta3 Rc6 4.Kf4 Rc3
5.Ra2+ Kxd3 6.Be2#
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 16
a) 1.Ba1 2.Qb2 3.Qh8 4.Bg7 5.Be6 mate b) with WRf5: 1.Ra7 2.Qb7 3.Qh7 4.Rg7
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Treasuer,AICF

(L-R)Abhinav Upadhyay, Marketing head ,Zlearn, Umesh Pradhan CFO Zee learn, Winner Visakh N R ,
Deputy Mayor, Alka Kerkar, Bharat Singh Chauhan, CEO AICF, Mrs.AmrutaFadnavis, R M Dongre, Treasurer,
AICF

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 43rd National Women Challenger Chess Championship, Chennai...

V.Hariharan , Secretary, TNSCA(partly seen), B.Murugavel, Vice-President TNSCA,

D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, WGM Eesha Karavade making the inaugural move against
IM Manuel Aaron, Atul Kumar, Joint Secretary, AICF.

(L-R) B.Murugavel, Vice-President TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Vice President, FIDE, Bharath Singh Chouhan
,CEO AICF and Chief Guest, IM Sekhar Chandra Sahoo, Vice President, AICF, Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman
, (Champion receiving the trophy) and V.Hariharan, Secretary, TNSCA