AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 8 Issue : 12 Price Rs. 25 June 2015

CARUANA WINS FIDE GRAND PRIX SERIES

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Inside….
1st SCS FIDE Rated Ty, Sivakasi
Deepan Chakravarthy clinches title
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 1
1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Ty,Goa
Thejkumar wins TTCA FIDE Rated
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter 5
Pavna All India Fide Rated Ty,Aligarh
Himanshu Sharma wins
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 7
Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial
All India FIDE Rating Ty, Ponda, Goa
Ritviz Parab is winner
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 9
Royal Chess Challenge Open ,New Delhi
CRG Krishna wins Royal Chess Challenge
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 11
Ln Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi
district Ist National Open FIDE Rating Ty, Udupi
Girinath is Champion On the home front, there was a surfeit of FIDE
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 13
3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Ty, Tirupur
Lakshminarayanan wins title
by G.G.Sathiesh FA, Chief Arbiter
2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated
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Chess Tournament,New Delhi
IM Somak Palit wins Imperia Open
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 17
3rd One Goal Chess Academy
Rapid Fide Rating TY, Hyderabad
C R G Krishna is the winner
S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter 19
Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Ty
Phoobalan is Champion
Peter Joseph M, FA, Chief Arbiter 21
6th KCM International FIDE Rated Open , Coimbatore
Priyanka wins KCM FIDE rated Open
V.Vijayaraghavan IA, Chief Arbiter 27
All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum
Shivananda is Champion
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 28
Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memorial
Open FIDE Rating Ty,Rucha Pujari wins title
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 30
Selected games annotated by
IM Manuel Aaron 33
Tactics from master games
by S. Krishnan 41
Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan 42
Masters of the past-Herman Reshevsky 43
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
The city of Khanty-Mansiysk
has become the hub of chess
activity of the world hosting many
prestigious chess events of FIDE in
the past, such as Chess Olympiad
2010,World Rapid and Blitz 2013,
and Candidates Tournament 2014
besides several World Cups in the last decade.
The latest in this long list of premier events was the
fourth and final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix which
concluded on 26th May 2015 at Ugra. The event
witnessed keenly fought games among dozen top
rung Grandmasters and the result was unpredictable
until the last round. Fabiano Caruana finished first,
and Hikaru Nakamura second in the overall Grand
Prix standings and both have qualified for the 2016
Candidates Tournament. A brief report on this event
is presented in the centre pages of this issue.
rating tournaments during the month that passed
by. The reports, final standings and photographs of
these events are presented in this issue. Selected
games from National Team Chess and Kolkata Open
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are also presented
in this issue. ‘Puzzle of the month’ features yet
another short proof game to sharpen your solving
skills.‘Masters of the past’ series features American
Grandmaster Herman Reshevsky, a positional player
par excellence, who in his long career played twelve
World Champions and beat seven of them!
It is sad news that Smt.Susheela Viswanathan,
mother of five-time World Champion Vishy Anand,
who nurtured the chess talents and motivated the
champion in the early years of his chess, passed
away on 26th last month. AICF and its office bearers
offer their condolences to Anand and the rest of the
bereaved family.
C.G.S.Narayanan
1st SCS FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015, Sivakasi
Deepan Chakravarthy clinches title
by R. Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
The 1st SCS FIDE Rated chess tournament,
organised by Sivakasi Chess Sparklers was
held at Sivakasi Institute of Printing Technol-
ogy, Sivakasi from 17th to 21st May 2015.
True to its name, the tournament, with a
prize money of three lakhs rupees, sparkled
with vibrant colours in the form of former
world under 16 champion and India’s latest
GM KarthikeyanMurali, former Asian Junior
champion DeepanChakkravarthy of ICF, for-
mer Commonwealth champion RR Laxman
of ICF, former under 17 national champion
P. ShyamNikil of Chennai and a host of other
IMs and FMs. A record total of 493 players
from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra, Telangana,
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh,
Pondicherry and Bihar participated in the 9
round Swiss format tournament, with a time
control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per
move.
Things went on the expected lines until fifth
round and there were no hiccups. The four
top seeds Karthikeyan, Deepan, Laxman and
ShyamNikil led the field with six points in
as many rounds, culminating in a semi final
like clash in the seventh round. Shyam upset
Karthikeyan on the top board, which helped
Shyam to seize the lead, as the other game
between Deepan and Laxman ended in a
draw. In the eighth and penultimate round,
Shyam and Laxman shared the point, same
as the result between Karthikeyan and Dee-
pan.Shyam enjoyed the lead with 7.5 points
andseven players were trailing him by half a
point, resulting in a tough fight on top boards
in the final round.
Deepan cruised to a win over Shyam in the fi-
nal round to score 8 points. Rajesh and Kunal
also registered wins over BalaKannamma and
Phoobalan respectively to tie with Deepan,
but better tiebreak helped Deepan to clinch
the title. Rajesh and Kunal finished second
and third respectively.
Sri TD Rajendran, Proprietor, Herbs India
and Balasubramanian, Secretary, SIvakasi
Institute of Printing Technology were the
chief guests in the prize distribution function.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by
Sri. A. Gopalsamy, President, Virudhunagar
District Chess Association in the presence
of Sri Raja Sankar, Treasurer, SIPT.Top four
boards of each round were podcast live us-
ing DGT boards on prominent and popular
websites like aicf.in, chessbomb.com and
chessdom.com. Sumptuous unlimited food
was provided to the participants at a very
nominal cost. Games were conducted for
parents to while away the time and prizes
were distributed to them. In all, the tourna-
ment was a very enjoyable one to both the
players and parents.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 8
2 IM Rajesh V A V 8
3 Kunal M. 8
4 GM Laxman R.R. 7½
5 IM Shyam Nikil P. 7½
6 Hemanth Raam 7½
7 FM Maheswaran P. 7½
8 GM Karthikeyan Murali 7½
9 IM Praveen Kumar C 7½
10 Shakthi Vishal J 7½
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11 Phoobalan P. 7
12 Prajesh R 7
13 Barath L 7
14 Bala Kannamma.P 7
15 Dileep Kumar R 7
16 Subramanian Pl 7
17 Karmukilan S 7
18 Varsha C R 7
19 Nanda Kumar T.S. 7
20 Divya Lakshmi R 7
21 Girinath B S 7
22 Hari Madhavan N B 7
23 Lokesh P. 6½
24 Prasath K R 6½
25 Prakashram R 6½
26 Syed Anwar Shazuli 6½
27 Uma Maheswaran P 6½
28 Barath Kalyan M 6½
29 Clifford Flair 6½
30 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6½
31 Ajay Karthikeyan 6½
32 Akil A S J 6½
33 Prathish A 6½
34 Yuvan Bharathi K S 6½
35 Dhanush Ragav 6½
36 Balachandar E 6½
37 Siddharth Sabharishankar 6½
38 Karthick Narayanan S 6½
39 Prasant N Nayagam 6½
40 Ashwin R 6½
41 Dheekshith Kumar R 6½
42 Dharani Sree R 6½
43 Jai Aditya D 6½
44 Natarajan M 6½
45 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6½
46 Arjun Kalyan 6½
47 Bhuvaneshwari.R 6½
48 Merryston David Scanny 6½
49 Aravind S 6½
50 Vadivel A 6½
51 Yutesh P 6
52 Poluri Kumaraswamy 6
53 Prakash V R 6
54 Shankarasubbu B 6
55 Mohamed Anees M 6
56 Bharkavi S 6
57 Palani Kumar D. 6
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Siddharth M
Suresh Kumar G
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Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2015, Aligarh
60 Subramanian V 6
61 Anup Shankar R 6
62 Vijay Shreeram P 6
63 Gnanasekar .G 6
64 Aasha.C R. 6
65 Aravindaswami T 6
66 Dhanasekar K. 6
67 Vishwak S 6
68 Thamaraiselvi P 6
69 Baskar P 6
70 Kannan.V 6
71 WCM Ananya Suresh 6
72 Selvamurugan B 6
73 Muniraj K 6
74 Sowjanya Sowrirajan 6
75 Hirthik Rajan B P 6
76 Ram Kumar G M 6
77 Sai Krishna S 6
78 Koushik Sarun Reddy Y 6 Shri Pavan Jain , Chairman , Pavna Group and Shri Mahendra Bahadur Singh , C.D.O ,Aligarh lighting
79 Reshma C R 6 the lamp during inauguration .
80 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6
81 Shreyas M 6
82 Vijay Raghav J S 6
83 Shivani Madhu 6
84 Sandeep Santhosh 6
85 Aditya Somasundaram 6
86 Surya Thangavel 6
87 Pranav Ram Hariharan 6
88 Gowthaman Alagar 6
89 Sa Kannan 5½
90 Saughanthika As 5½
91 Poojakanth M. 5½
92 Haricharann D V 5½
93 Rajashakkthivel K K 5½
94 Mugesh B 5½
95 Suryakanth C 5½
96 Santhosh Kumar G 5½
97 Suganthan S 5½
98 Aswin Kumar B S 5½
99 Rathish T.J. 5½
Standing from left: Prize-winnners: Deepak Katiyar , Prince Bajaj , IM Himanshu Sharma (Champion),Gajendra Singh,
100 Jayasangar T 5½
Naveen Hegde and Prafful Sharma. Sitting from left : Vijay K Pachisiya, IA Dharmendra Kumar , Mrs. Pallavi Upadhyay,
101 Balaji Narayanan 5½ Principal, D.P.S. , Mr. Balkar Singh , I.A.S. , D.M. , Aligarh , Mukesh Jain , Ex. Director , Pavna Group of Industries , Ram
102 Jitendra Kumar Jawahar 5½ kumar Sadani , Director , Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd, Rajkumar Agrawal , MD , Spider Metal Product Pvt Ltd and Chandra Mohan
103 Yashwanth Babu P 5½ Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA.
104 Krithigga K 5½
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3rd One Goal Chess Academy Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Hyderabad 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Goa
Thejkumar wins TTCA FIDE Rated
FA Arvind Mhamal,Chief Arbiter
The 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess
Winner C R G Krishna receiving prize from Chief Guest Tournament 2015 was organized by Tiswa-
Sri M Ramesh Reddy, Asst IG , Law & Order,Telangana.
diTaluka Chess Association under the aegis
of Goa Chess Association and All India Chess
Federation. The tournament was held from
18th to 22ndMay 2015 at Institute Mene-
zes Braganza Hall, Panaji Goa . All together
225participants took part in this tournament
which had 4 IM’s and other title players
from different parts of India. I would like to
2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi congratulate the organizers for successfully
conducting this tournament. The response of
Chess players for this tournament was very
good in spite of so many tournament taking
Shri. Manish Sisodia, Hon'ble Deputy place at the same time in different parts of
CM of Delhi inaugurating the event India. Organizers took utmost care by pro-
by lighting of holy lamp
viding International standard AC playing Hall
which players enjoyed during this summer
season. They also provided tea and snacks
to the players and parents during the rounds.
IM M.S. ThejKumar of Railways won the
tournament with the score of 8.5 points. He
remained undefeated in the tournament. 2nd
place went to IM AkshatKamparia of Madya
Pradesh while NiranjanNavalgund of Tamil
Nadu stood 3rd . Both players scored 7.5
points each. There were all together 30 main
prizes ,apart from category prizes from U-7
to U-15 Boys & Girls and Rating Category
IM SomatPalik, Winner with trophy
prizes. Total prize fund was Rs 3.50 Lakhs.
As a tournament Director Shri Mahesh Can-
dolkar and his team had taken good care of
arrangements at Hall for the smooth conduct
of tournament . I was assisted by Dy Arbi-
ter, MrPramodraj More ( FA), Mr.Dattaram
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Pinge (NA), MrTanay Kaisary, Mr.Madhan ,
Mrs. Sarika Chopdekar, MrsVishlakshi Shetty,
Balakrishnan V and other office bearers of
Tiswadi Taluka Chess Association.
The tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Shri Shubham Chodankar( Mayor
of Panaji) in the presence of Shri Kishor
Bandekar (Jt Secretary AICF and Secretary
GCA) , Shri Mahesh Candolkar (Tournament
Director &President TTCA), Shri SagarSa-
kordekar ( Vice President GCA) , Shri Sanjay
Belurkar (Organizing Secretary TTCA) and
other members of the organizing Committee
and TTCA.The conduct of all the players re-
mained excellent throughout the tournament
and there was no dispute or any protest.
At the closing ceremony Shri Dilip Parulekar(
Minister for Tourism Govt of Goa ) was the
chief Guest and Shri Suraj Morajkar
(main Sponsor of the tournament) was the
Guest of Honor. Prizes where given at the
hands of the guest in the presence of Shri
Vinay Tendulkar ( President GCA & BJP Goa),
Shri Sanjay Harmalkar ( Chairman IMB)
Shri Kishor Bandekar (Jt Secretary AICF and
Secretary GCA) , Shri Mahesh Candolkar
( Tournament Director & President TTCA),
Shri Sanjay Belurkar ( Organizing Secretary
TTCA), MrBalakrishnanV. (Treasurer TTCA),
Members MrMadhan R., Sarvanand Shirodkar,
Dnyaneshwar Naik, Shri Chetan Tarkar, Shri
Prakash Sawant and Shri Shekhar Degvekar
(Corporator,PanajiMunicipality).Souvenir was
also released during the Prize Distribution
function.
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Final Ranking:TTCA 46 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 5.5
Rk. Name Pts.
1 IM
2 IM
Thejkumar M. S.
Akshat Khamparia
8.5
7.5
3 Navalgund Niranjan 7.5
4 Vijay Anand M. 7.5
5 FM Ramakrishna J. 7
6 Hapse Shreyas 7
7 Panesar Vedant 7
8 Shane Alvarin Braganca 7
9 Rohan Ahuja 6.5
10 IM Kathmale Sameer 6.5
11 Prasannaa.S 6.5
12 Stanley Samson P. 6.5
13 IM Shivananda B.S. 6.5
14 Audi Ameya 6.5
15 Barath M 6.5
16 Saranya Y 6.5
17 Pruthu Deshpande 6.5
18 Sunny Renju 6.5
19 Dhanush Bharadwaj 6.5
20 Rohit Vassan S 6.5
21 Cruz Wilson 6.5
22 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6.5
23 Raghavendra V. 6
24 Ojas Kulkarni 6
25 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
26 Anant Prabhudesai 6
27 Naik Rishubh Naresh 6
28 Verma Rahul 6
29 Krishnamoorthy K 6
30 Siddhant Dharwar 6
31 Sirsat Shekhar V. 6
32 Sahil Shetty 6
33 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6
34 Manoj B Kulkarni 6
35 Suyan Belurkar 6
36 Ayush R Shetkar 6
37 Arjun Adappa 5.5
38 Gandhi Anish 5.5
39 Vakil Akhtara 5.5
40 Milind Gauns 5.5
41 Anandha Venkatesan 5.5
42 Madkaikar Gaurav S 5.5
43 Kabir Belgikar 5.5
44 Nandhini Saripalli 5.5
45 Kochrekar Vishwesh 5.5
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47 Kambli Datta 5.5
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49
Sourav Raj K K
More Amit
5.5
5.5
50 Vivek Gajanan Joshi 5.5
51 Riddhi Zantye 5.5
52 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5.5
53 Vanjale Prasad Prakash 5.5
54 Kulkarni Aakash 5.5
55 Sachin Kakodkar 5.5
56 Bhobe Harsh 5.5
57 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 5.5
58 Vinay Kamath 5.5
59 Aniketh Datta Prabhu 5.5
60 Madhavan G 5.5
61 Naravankar Milind 5
62 Prashant Salunke 5
63 Suhas B. Asnodkar 5
64 Antre Ayush 5
65 Parsekar Anirudh 5
66 Sudarshan Bhat 5
67 Sachin P Arolkar 5
68 Bhoite Krishna 5
69 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 5
70 Kori Amitanand 5
71 Barde Om 5
72 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 5
73 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 5
74 Bhat K R 5
75 Vaibhav NT Pednekar 5
76 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 5
77 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 5
78 Porob Vraj 5
79 Audi Saiesh 5
80 Eesh Prabhudesai 5
81 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5
82 Naresh M 5
83 Ghosarwadkar Pushparaj 5
84 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5
85 Shreyas Kannan 5
86 Sharath R Shanbhag 5
87 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5
88 Khan Faiziya 5
89 Colaso Vernon 5
90 Amit Panchal 5
91 Morajkar Navin 5
92 Shirodkar Aayush 5
Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tournament – 2015,Aligarh
Himanshu Sharma wins
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
Pavna All India Fide Rated Chess Tourna-
ment – 2015 was held from 18th to 22nd
May 2015 at the Delhi Public School, Aligarh.
The tournament was formally inaugurated
by Mahendra Bahadur Singh , I.A.S. C.D.O.,
Aligarh and Pawan Jain , Chairman , Pavna
Group of Industries. Other dignitaries pres-
ent on the functionwere Rajiv Agrwal , well
known industrialist of the city as well as
country , Anand Sadani , Chairman, Sadani
Group of Industries , Pallavi Singh, Principal,
D.P.S. , Aligarh , ChandraMohan Sadani ,
Hony. Sectretary , DSCA Vijay Kumar Pa-
chisia , Treasurer DCSA and IADharmendra
Kumar , Chief Arbiter. All the dignitaries
lighted the traditional lamp and delivered
their good wishes to all the participants .
Chiefguest Mahendra Bahadur Singh played
a friendely game with IM Himanshu Sharma
anddeclared the event open.
First four round results was usual as all
seeded players on first 8-10 board won their
games . Intersting results started from round
5th onward . In 5th round , IM Himanshu
Sharma was held by Deepak Katiyar on board
no. 1 while on board 2 & 3 Prince Bajaj and
Gajendra Singh of LIC defeated to Rajat Prat-
ap Singh and Syed Nassir Ali respectively. At
the end of 5th round CM Prince Bajaj was
sole leader with 5 point. 3 others were on
2nd spot with 4.5 point. In round no. 6th ,
all four top players paired themselves . On
board no. #1 , CM Prince Bajaj was playing
with IM Himanshu Sharma while on board
#2, Deepak Katiyar was paired with Gajendra
Singh and both the game ended in drew. On
third board , Syed Nasir Ali , Ex- National
Champion lost again . He was defeated by
Ashu Verma with a rating 1611.CM Prince
Bajaj maintained his lead with 5.5/6 where
9 others had 5 points.
In the seventh round , Rajesh Kumar of
Kanpur , U.P. played extremely well against
sole leader Prince Bajaj and forced him to
share the score. It was close symmetrical
queen ending of Catalan opening , in which
Prince agreed for drew. On board # 2-4 IM
Himanshu Sharam, Deepak Katiyar , Gajen-
dra Singh and Alok Kumar Gupta defeated
Saket Kumar , Dr. Somnath Narang, Milind
parle and Ashu Verma respectively. And the
final results after 7th round left 5 leaders
with 6 point each.
In the penultimate round , on board one , IM
Himanshu Sharma couldn’t convert his game
in full point against Gajendra Singh while on
board #2 , Prince Bajaj defeated to Deepak
Katiyar and became sole leader once again.
Another leader Alok Kumar Gupta , drew his
game against Rajesh Kumar on board no.
# 3 . But the most interesting thing , a cli-
max of the tournament was still awaiting to
come ! In last round , CM Prince Bajaj drew
his game against Gajendra Singh but IM Hi-
manshu Sharma played with killing instinct
and defeated to his opponent Alok Kumar
Gupta of U.P. And with 7.5 point each for
IM Himanshu Sharma and CM Prince Bajaj ,
winner was decided by tie-break score which
favoured IM Himanshu Sharma ! Leader of
the tournament CM Prince Bajaj placed 2nd
while 3rd place went to Gajendra Singh.
At a colourful prize distribution function, Chief
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guest Dr. Balkar Singh ,I.A.S,D.M., Aligarh
gave away the prizes amongst the prize win-
ners in the graciouspresence of Mukesh Jain
, Ex. Director , Pavna Group of Industries ,
RajkumarAgrawal , MD , Spider Metal Product
Pvt Ltd , Vijay Bajaj of MD , Lock MasterIn-
dia (P) Ltd Ram kumar Sadani Director ,
Sadani Steel Pvt. Ltd and Chandra Mohan
Sadani, Hony Secreatry, DCSA. Munesh Jain
, Vice-president of DCSA Aligarh welcomed
the guest , Chief Arbiter Dharmendra Kumar
delivered the tournament report and Vijay
Kumar Pachisia ,Treasurer , DCSA delivered
the vote of thanks.
Overall it was a well organized tournament
as every individual was happy and enjoyed
his stay. Organisers were very supportive
and helpful to all the players , parents and
officials . All basic requirement was available
there .Hygienic and neat and clean toilet , air-
conditioned tournament hall dining on ground
floor and accommodation in same premises.
The Arbiters team consisted of Chief Arbiter:
IA Dharmendra Kumar,Deputy Chief Arbiter
FA A.K.Raizada, FA Raval Dilipkumar Trib-
hovandas, NA Kavita Patel
Final placings:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Himanshu Sharma IM 7.5
2 Prince Bajaj CM 7.5
3 Gajendra Singh 7
4 Deepak Katiyar 7
5 Naveen S Hegde 7
6 Rajesh Kumar Sharma 7
7 Gupta Alok Kumar 6.5
8 Nasir Ali Syed 6.5
9 Kuldeep Srivastava 6.5
10 Sanskriti Goyal 6.5
11 Himanshu Agarwal 6.5
12 Saket Kumar 6
13 Milind Parle 6
14 Verma Ashu 6
15 Dr.Somnath Narang 6
16 S.M. Wais 6
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18
Saxena Anshul
Hitesh Kumar
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6
19 Varshney Roopak 6
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21
Vipul Singh
Goyal Sarthak
6
6 Ritviz Parab is winner
22 Srivastava Rajesh K. 6
23 Vishnu Singh 6
24 Daleep Singh 5.5
25 Gaurav Sharma 5.5
26 Das Anindo Kumar 5.5
27 Himanshu Prakash 5.5
28 Manoj Kumar Singh 5.5
29 Tarun Ratn 5.5
30 Rajat Pratap Singh 5
31 Rajendra Singh 5
32 Divyanshu Sharma 5
33 Krishan Kumar Baghel 5
34 Divya Mohan Verma 5
35 Arun Kumar Saxena 5
36 Vikas Saxena 5
37 S.M. Mustafa Zaidi 5
38 Vijay Kumar Agrawal 5
39 Akhil Chaudhury 5
40 Shiva Garg 5
41 Harsh Sharma 5
42 Neeraj Kumar Sharma 5
43 Mukul Kumar Tyagi 5
44 Aman Verma 5
45 Aastha Singh 5
46 Sarwar Ahmad 5
47 Ishika Garg 5
48 Satyadev Kumar 5
49 Ruchin Yadav 4.5
50 Abhishek Vaidhy 4.5
51 Paras Vats 4.5
52 Dharmendra Jain 4.5
53 Chinmay Jain 4.5
54 Harshit Jain 4
It is well known phenomenon that the same
amateur who can conduct the middle game quite
creditably is usually perfectly helpless in the end
game.One of the principal requisites of good
chess is the ability to treat both the middle and
end game equally well
- Aaron Nimzowich
Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial All India FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament, Ponda, Goa
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
2nd Desai Pratishthan's Late Laxmikant V.
Desai Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament was inaugurated at the
hands of Rajendra Desai, Trustee of Desai
Pratishthan on 6th May 2015 at Wagle High
School, Mangeshi.
This tournament was organized by Ponda
Taluka Chess Association and Wagle High
School Golden Jubilee Celebration commit-
tee. Also present at the inauguration were
Vinay Tendulkar (President, Goa Chess
Association), Kumar Jambhale (Trustee,
Desai Prathishthan), Sagar Sakordekar
(President, Ponda Taluka Chess Association
and Vice-President, Goa Chess Association),
Amogh Namshiker (Secretary, Ponda Taluka
Chess Association), Damodar Naik (Sarpanch,
Veling-Priol-Kuncoliem Panchayat), Avdhut
Kamat (Vice-chairman, Manguirish Vidyadini
Saunstha) and members of Wagle High
School Golden Jubilee Celebration committee.
Mr. Rajendra Desai appreciated the efforts of
Ponda Taluka Chess Association for organiz-
ing the tournament and said that Desai
Pratishthan is conducting this tournament
for the 2nd year in successioin. Anirudh
Borkar (Secretary, Wagle High School Golden
Jubilee Celebration committee) said that
he is proud to be associated with this
tournament.
Total of 211 players from Goa, Maharash-
tra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamilnadu,
Delhi, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh
participated in this tournament out of which
107 were rated players.IM Anurag Mhamal
( ELO Rating 2402) of Goa was top seed
followed by Ritviz Parab (2305) of Goa and
Soni Krishan (2023) of Delhi.The tournament
was organized in a very spacious and well
ventilated hall. Every day organiser provided
cool drinks to all the players and high tea on
the last day.
At the end of 4th day, Ritviz Parab of Goa
was leading with seven and half points fol-
lowed by Barat M of Goa and Arjun Adappa
of Mangalore with seven points each. IM
Anurag Mhamal of Goa and Rajesh kumar
of Delhi with six and half points.After the
final round second seed Ritviz Parab and M
Barath both from Goa scored 8 points each,
based on tie break score, Ritviz Parab was
declared as winner and bagged Rs 35000
prize money and Trophy, Barath M as Run-
nerup and bagged Rs 25000 and Trophy. IM
Anurag Mhamal of Goa and Arjun Adappa
scored seven point five and placed third and
fourth respectively.
Chief guest, Mr Arun Desai, Trustee of Desai
Pratishthan distributed the prizes to winners.
Other dignitaries on the dais were, Mr Vinay
Tendulkar, President, Goa Chess Association,
Mr Kishor Bandekar, Joint secretary, AICF and
Secretary Goa Chess Association, Rajendra
Desai, Trustee of Desai Pratishthan, Sagar
Sakordekar (President, Ponda Taluka Chess
Association and Vice-President, Goa Chess
Association), Amogh Namshiker (Secretary,
Ponda Taluka Chess Association) and Mr
Gaurish Abhisheki (Vice Chairman, Wagle
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Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Ritviz Parab 8
2 Barath M 8
3 Arjun Adappa 7½
4 Anurag Mhamal IM 7½
5 Soni Krishan 7
6 Kambli Datta 7
7 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 7
8 Yuti Mayur Patel 7
9 Ajay Kumar Rai 6½
10 Raahul V S 6½
11 Ian Savio Rodrigues 6½
12 Gopal Shah 6½
13 Sudhakar Patgar 6½
14 Rajesh Kumar 6½
15 Madkaikar Gaurav S 6½
16 Parsekar Anirudh 6½
17 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 6½
18 Dias Aston 6½
19 Pawar Rahul 6½
20 Soham Naik 6½
21 Kuncolienkar Shivank 6½
22 Naik Rishubh Naresh 6
23 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 6
24 Thorat Aishwarya 6
25 Kriti Mayur Patel 6
26 Barde Om 6
27 Wagle Aakash Abhay 6
28 Sunad Govekar 6
29 Madhavan G 6
30 Milind Gauns 6
31 Morajkar Navin 6
32 Urvi Bandekar 6
33 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 6
34 Thorat Sanjay 6
35 Alaina J J Pereira 6
36 Gaayathri S 6
37 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6
38 Vaibhav N Tarkar Pednekar 5½
39 Siddhartha Sarkar 5½
40 Khandeparkar Mohit 5½
41 Naik Snehal 5½
42 Shirodkar Aayush 5½
43 Colaso Vernon 5½
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44 Sawant Vignesh 5½
45 Eesh Prabhudesai 5½
46
47
Sakordekar Nandan Sagar
Naroji Sanskriti
5½
5½
48 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5½
49 Hetvi Pethad 5½
50 Kaushik M Khedekar 5½
51 Aniket Datta Prabhu 5½
52 Pai Sunay Pundalik 5½
53 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5½
54 Satbir Singh 5½
55 Fadte Rudresh 5½
56 Bhobe Harsh 5½
57 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 5½
58 Sawant Varad 5½
59 Shijil K 5½
60 Naik Shvesh S 5½
61 A K Kalshyan 5
62 Nandhini Saripalli 5
63 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 5
64 Khan Faiziya 5
65 Kavish Gharse 5
66 Ashmit Arunjay Kumar 5
67 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 5
68 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 5
69 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5
70 Antonio A J D 5
71 Yash Paul 5
72 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5
73 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 5
74 Arun S 5
75 Kumar Prasanna 5
76 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5
77 Chavan Abhijit 5
78 Adelkar Shrikrishna 5
79 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5
80 Chodankar Akash 5
81 Parab Sneh 5
82 Jagannathan Govind 5
83 Dhaimodkar Anish 5
84 Gaude Sumesh 5
85 Swayam Naik 5
86 Chandil Sandeep 5
87 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 5
88 Pratik S Borkar 5
89 Sainee N F Dessai 5
90 Poorvi Adappa 5
Royal Chess Challenge Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi
CRG Krishna wins Royal Chess Challenge
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
The Royal Chess Challenge Open Fide Rated
Chess Tournament was conducted by Royal
Chess Academy and Bishop Lovers Academy
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi
from 20-23 May 2015. A total number of
104 players which included five International
Masters and 94 International rated players
from different parts of India and Singapore
participated in the event which were spread
over four days with a time control of 90 min-
utes and 30 seconds increment from move
1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs.
2,60,000.
The Tournament was played under Swiss
System with seven rounds and had Interna-
tional Master S Ravi Teja as top seed. There
was no opening ceremony for the event and
the tournament started on surprising note
as fourth seed International Master Rahul
Sangma suffered a shock defeat by the hands
of unheralded Sanjeevan Saraswat of Him-
achal Pradesh.
The entire seven rounds saw lots of up and
downs and produced exciting games in pur-
suit. In second and third round, Asian Youth
Gold Medalist International Master Chakkra-
varthy Reddy tasted defeat from lower rated
Likhit Chilukari of Karnataka and Sarthak
Kapoor of Delhi respectively while in fourth
round, Vishal Didwania of West Bengal held
top seed S Ravi Teja to a creditable draw.
After this minor setback, top seed withdrawn
from the event due to personal reasons.
Second seed IM CRG Krishna and seasoned
campaigner Nassir Wajih of Delhi took joint
lead after defeating Tamilnadu duo Senthil
Maran and Vinoth Kumar M in fifth round.
Krishna and Wajih signed the peace treaty
in the penultimate round, which made the
tournament wide open.
In the final round, CRG Krishna drew with
Ram S Krishnan to take his point tally to
six points while International Master Rahul
Sangma defeated Nassir Wajih to register his
sixth win on the trot after first round debacle
to occupy the pole position along with CRG
Krishna. But better tie break score helped
Krishna to lift the winner’s trophy along with
cash prize of Rupees forty thousand while
Rahul finished as first runner up and pocketed
Rupees thirty thousand as cash award and a
glittering trophy.
Vantika Agrawal of Delhi was adjudged
best women player and H S Verma of Delhi
adjudged as best Veteran player. Moksh
Amitbhai Doshi of Gujarat, Vikrant Jaglan
of Haryana and Aaryan Varsheny of Delhi
finished best among Under-20, Under-15
and Under-10 age categories respectively.
Manoj Sharma becomes best Delhi player and
Ayush Ranjan of Bihar secured best unrated
prize. In the closing ceremony, members of
Organising Committee gave away the cash
prizes and trophies to the winners.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Krishna C.R.G. 6
2 Sangma Rahul 6
3 Wajih Nassir 5½
4 Srinath Rao S.V. 5½
5 Ram S. Krishnan 5½
6 Senthil Maran K 5½
7 Harshal Shahi 5½
8 Vinoth Kumar M. 5½
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9 Arpan Das 5½
10 Aansh Gupta 5
11 Badavath Anand 5
12 Chakravarthi Reddy M 5
13 Sanchit Anand 5
14 Negi D.S. 5
15 Santu Mondal 4½
16 Likhit Chilukuri 4½
17 Didwania Vishal 4½
18 Khan S 4½
19 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 4½
20 Shrutarshi Ray 4½
21 Deepak Rai 4½
22 Nath Rupankar 4½
23 Sahil Dhawan 4½
24 Vantika Agrawal 4½
25 Sumit Grover 4½
26 Sahil Tickoo 4½
27 Sarthak Kapoor 4
28 Palit Somak 4
29 Dave Kantilal 4
30 Manoj Sharma 4
31 Ashutosh Kumar 4
32 Cheniram Pegu 4
33 Baig Akram 4
34 Pereira Johnharry 4
35 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 4
36 Vikrant Jaglan 4
37 Aditya S Hariharan 4
38 Soham Das 4
39 Ritwan Sauntra 4
40 Sanjeevan Sarswat 3½
41 Suraj Dahiya 3½
42 Rajesh Kumar Nath 3½
43 Sanjib Ghosh 3½
44 Rishabh Jain 3½
45 Lawaniya Eshan 3½
46 Kaushik Shubham 3½
47 Saksham Rautela 3½
48 Tarun Kanyamarala 3½
49 Om Kharola 3½
50 Shankar Kuldeep 3½
51 Avi Jaiswal 3½
52 Verma H.S. 3½
53 Alok Sinha 3½
54 L Raju Mangang 3½
55 Shuban Saha 3½
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56 Mehta Naitik R 3
57 Shatrughan Kaushik 3
58 Shounak Ghatak 3
59 Rajarishi Karthi 3
60 Tanuj M. Meshran 3
61 Deepak Singh 3
62 Tushar Anand 3
63 Vardan Nagpal 3
64 Aaryan Varshney 3
65 Sarthak Gupta 3
66 Aryan Ranjan 3
67 Sharma Avinash 3
68 Ruhaan Mahindru 3
69 Ayush Ranjan 3
70 Tatparya Shankar 3
71 Jalap Indraj 3
72 Dinesh Kumar Gupta 3
73 Ravi Teja S. 2½
74 Joy Pankaj Shah 2½
75 Sumay Mishra 2½
76 Trivedi Karan R 2½
77 Hari P. Nambiar 2½
78 Gurveer Singh 2½
79 Abhinav Gola 2
80 Jaspal Singh Bhati 2
81 Khakhai Zou 2
82 Kumar Prashant 2
83 Shashwat Chakraborty 2
84 Kapil Gupta 2
85 Gupta Aashita 2
86 Bhavyay Gupta 2
87 Vedanth Reddy 2
88 Mouhurtik Ray 2
89 Ajitpal Singh Bhati 1½
90 Shami Vipin K. 1
91 Sandeep Chitkara 1
92 Tauqeer Ahmad 1
93 Harshit Jindal 1
94 Shourya Jain ½
95 Sankalp Gupta ½
You must be able to handle a variety of
move orders during the first 5-6 moves -
otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time
and time again.
- Edmar Mednis
Ln Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi district Ist National Open
FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Udupi
Girinath is Champion
by IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
Ln. Kallya Devaraya Shenoy Memorial Udupi
District Ist National Open FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament 2015 orgaised by Udupi Dis-
trict Chess Association was inaugurated by
Dr Vishal Ravi, IAS, Deputy Commissioner,
Udupi District, at KK Pai Block, T A Pai Man-
agement Institute, Manipal, Udupi District on
13th May 2015.
Chief Guest, Dr H S Ballal, Pro Chancellor,
Manipal University, Manipal, Guest of Honour,
PMJF Lion K Suresh Prabhu, District Governor,
Lion District317C, Dr R C Natarajan, Direc-
tor, TAPMI, MJF Lion Shridhar Shenava, Vice
District Goovernor, Lion District 317 C, Ln
Keshavaraya Pai, Ln Dr K Rajgopal Shenoy,
Shri Babu Poojary were on the dais of inau-
guration function.
A total of 297 players from Goa, Gujrat,
Karnataka, Kerala, Maharastra and Tamilnadu
participated. Out of which 154 were fide rated
players.
International Master Girinath PDS (ELO Rat-
ing 2328) of South Central Railways is a top
seed followed by International Master Shiva-
nanda BS (ELO Rating 2301), Arvind Shatry
(2247), Santoshkashyap HG (1976).The
tournament was conducted in Air-conditioned
Hall, Vegetarian food and tea/coffee was pro-
vided to all the participants and accompany-
ing persons, air-conditioned accommodation
was provided for the players.
At the end of final round IM Girinath PDS, IM
Shivananda BS scored 8 point each, based
on tie break score, Girinath was adjudged
as winner and won Rs 30000 cash prize and
trophy. IM Shivananda as runner up and
won Rs 20000 and trophy.. Arvind Shastry
and Dhanush Bharadwaj scored seven point
five each and placed third and fouth place.
Chief guest of the valedictory function, Dr
Vinod Bhat, Pro Vice Chancellor, Manipal Uni-
versity handed over Kallya Devaraya Shenoy
Memorial Trophy to the winner along with
Rs Thirty Thousand Cash Prize. The other
guests were Sri K P Achanrya, Chairman,
Vidyanikethan Group of Institution Kaup,
Dr R C Natarajan, Director TAPMI, Sri Ln
Nagesh Kamath, Vice President, Manipal
Technologies, Dr Rajgopal Shenoy, President,
Udupi District Chess Association, Sri Arvind
Shastry, Secretary, United Karnataka Chess
Association.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Girinath P.D.S IM 8
2 Shivananda B.S IM 8
3 Arvind Shastry 7½
4 Dhanush Bharadwaj 7½
5 Sharan Rao 7
6 Arjun Adappa 7
7 Stanley Samson P. 7
8 Santoshkashyap Hg 7
9 Raahul V S 7
10 Vivekraj 7
11 Nikhilesh M Holla 7
12 Shalon Joanne Pais 7
13 Joshi Omkar 7
14 Vinay Thomas Abraham 7
15 Andria L D`souza 7
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16 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 6½
17 Varma Shabdhik 6½
18 Kshitij R
19 Jagadish P
6½
6½
20 Aditya B Kalyani 6½
21 Ajay Sm 6½
22 Panchami Shenoy K 6½
23 Niranjan Rajeev 6½
24 Gopal Shah 6½
25 Harish Kumar 6½
26 Sushrutha Reddy 6½
27 Dhrikshu K Vasant 6½
28 Pranav Anand 6½
29 Sathya Prasad K. 6½
30 Avi Jaiswal 6½
31 Siddharth Murali 6½
32 Chaithanya Ganesh 6½
33 Ajith M.P. 6
34 Chirag Hirinja G J 6
35 Sriram Udhayakumar 6
36 Mahima Sherigar 6
37 Sakshi Naik Gaonkar 6
38 Devi Das Suresh Pai 6
39 Shashank S Mayya 6
40 Arun M S 6
41 Krishnakanth S S 6
42 Yuti Mayur Patel 6
43 Govardhana C 6
44 Chandan Sharma A S 6
45 Shreyas Pavan 6
46 Ithal H L Rajath 6
47 Shree Krishna Pranama 6
48 Hariharan Subramony 6
49 Muniraju Narayanappa 6
50 Nagendra B 6
51 Sheron Vishwas 6
52 Rajat Dhruva Ravindra 6
53 Tejas Cavale 6
54 Nachiketh Adiga 6
55 Mahalinga Gowthama 6
56 Vinayak B Hariwal 6
57 Gopalkrishna.P 5½
58 Madhavan G 5½
59 Sakshath U K 5½
60 Sreedhara K T 5½
61 Sachin Nayak K 5½
62 Shashidhar Rai B 5½
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63 Shivanth M 5½
64 Vathan P H 5½
65 Vedamurthy S M
66 Dhyaan S Nayak
5½
5½
67 Gowri Shankar A 5½
68 Chaithanya Shyam D 5½
69 Aditya S Hariharan 5½
70 Navodith V Bhat 5½
71 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5½
72 Shashank S L 5½
73 Avathanshu Bhat 5½
74 Rohnit G Amin 5½
75 Manish Sherigar 5½
76 Suhas A 5½
77 Sudeep S 5½
78 Siddharth Beedu 5½
79 Shashank Bhat G S 5½
80 R Bhandarkar B 5½
81 Viola Lewis 5½
82 Anudeep K S 5½
83 Nidhi Shenoy 5½
84 Ashuthosh Srivatsa R 5½
85 Prateek K 5½
86 Prajwal M Joshi 5½
87 Ananth B S 5½
88 Deepak Pai 5
89 Shreesha Bhat 5
90 Adithya J D Silva 5
91 Tarun Thiyagarajan 5
92 Shridevi Kote 5
93 Shriram 5
94 Amulya Shetty 5
95 Raghavendra G 5
96 Chomal Amit B 5
97 Prashanth J Naik 5
98 Swathi Bhat 5
99 Vradhika Shetty 5
100 Samarth J Rao 5
101 Ravi Prasad S N 5
102 Pankaj Bhat 5
103 Vinaya Prakash Ashirwad 5
104 Prithvi Rajan 5
105 Satwik M Hegde 5
106 Kriti Mayur Patel 5
107 Rajath Kumar 5
108 Aneesha Sathish 5
109 Shalmika K Jain 5
3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Tirupur
Lakshminarayanan wins title
by G.G.Sathiesh FA, Chief Arbiter
The 3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament was held from 6th to 10th
May 2015 at Sri Kamatchiamman Kalyana
Mandapam,Tirupur organized by KPK Chess
Academy, Tirupur. V.T. Subramaniam, Presi-
dent of Tamil Kalai Illakiya Mandram and Mr.
Easwaran of Tamilnadu Murpokku Ezhuthaalar
Sangam inaugurated the event in the pres-
ence of KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess
Academy and Office Bearers of Tirupur District
Chess Association headed by its Secretary, K.
Lakshmanasami.
G. Suresh Kumar, Lions District Governor,
Sulur, Managing Director, Renuka Spinning
Mills, A. Ranganathan, First Vice Governor
Elect, Simta Group of Companies, M. Varad-
harajan, Past President, Sulur Lions Club,
Andavar Ramasamy, Correspondent, Vikas
Vidyala, Tirupur, KPK Selvaraj, President of
KPK Chess Academy,S Pranesh, Treasurer
of KPK Chess Academy, K. Lakshmanasami,
Secretary, TDCA were present on dais during
the prize distribution.
The event was conducted by Chief Arbiter
G.G.Sathiesh, FIDE Arbiter, from Coimbatore
along with Deputy Chief Arbiter Ganesh,
Senior National Arbiter from Mettupalayam
who acted as Technical Arbiter (Systems).
R. Ganesh Kumar, Ms. Deepa Rani, Mani, Ra-
malingam and Manohar, State Arbiters were
the deputies.
The event category attracted 280 players
comprised of 182 rated players and 98 unrat-
ed payers. Players from 9 states participated
in this event. 45 players were first timers for
a FIDE rated event. Lakshmi Narayanan MV
scored 8 points to clinch the first place worth
Rs. 20,000/- and the prestigious KPK Rolling
Trophy. B Sree Nithish an unrated player from
Coimbatore received the first prize of Rs.
5000/- in ‘Unrated to Below 1600’ category.
Best veteran prize was given to TV Subra-
manian for scoring 6.5 points from 9 rounds.
Best women prize was bagged by GPS Sneha
scoring 6.5 points from 9 rounds.Best Tirupur
District player prize of Rs. 2000/- was bagged
by C Ashhwath for scoring 6.5 points from 9
rounds.
N Arul Prakash and A Ilamparithi, both 2009
born, were the youngest participants and TV
Subramanian born in 1934 was the oldest
player. I would like to thank AICF and TNSCA
for providing me an opportunity to be the
Chief Arbiter of this rating tournament and
other arbiters who worked along with me to
make this tournament highly successful.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Lakshmi Narayanan M V 8
2 Vaisnav M 7.5
3 Vigneshwaran N. 7.5
4 Aravindaswami T 7
5 Hirthickkesh Pr 7
6 Sanathanan N.R.S. 7
7 Sarveshwaran P 7
8 Raman D 7
9 Anandha Venkatesan 7
10 Babu S. 7
11 Solomon Rathna Sekaran 7
12 Girinath B S 7
13 Shalon Joanne Pais 6.5
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14 Mani Bharathy 6.5 61 Senguttuvan K P 5.5 2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament,New Delhi
15 Dileep Kumar R 6.5 62 Datta Ramakrishna J 5.5
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Vijay Shreeram P
Sree Nithish B
6.5
6.5
63 Narendra Pallavan S
64 Jayanth Reddy K
5.5
5.5
Somak Palit wins Imperia Open
18 Arun M S 6.5 65 Sivamurugan N 5.5
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
19 Meenakshi Sundaram 6.5 66 Rajagopal A 5.5
20 Ashhwath C 6.5 67 Vivek Ramanathan V 5.5 The 2nd Imperia Structures Open FIDE Rated which helped International Master Somak
21 Arjun Kalyan 6.5 68 Jaya Surya G 5.5 Chess Tournament was conducted by Parents Palit of Railways, Abhishek Das of Railways
22 Aswin Kumar B S 6.5 69 Srijan J 5.5 Chess Promotion Foundation at the beautiful and Ram S Krishnan of Tamilnadu to catch up
23 Arjun B 6.5 70 Sudarsan P 5.5 Talkotara Indoor Stadium, New Delhi from the leader after beating Vinoth Kumar of Tam-
24 Yutesh P 6.5 71 Aadith R 5.5 16-20 May 2015. ilnadu, International Master CRG Krishna of
25 Tharanitharr P 6.5 72 Devaraj L 5.5
Andhra Pradesh and Hemant Sharma of Delhi
26 Shankarasubbu B 6.5 73 Abineshwar Gnanamurtthy 5.5
A total number of 215 players which in- respectively in the ninth and final round.
27 Prasant N Nayagam 6.5 74 Dinesh Maran T 5.5
28 Yashwanth Babu P 6.5 75 Swaminathan K 5.5
cludes one Grandmaster, five International
29 Sneha G P S 6.5 76 Rohit S 5.5 Masters and 146 International rated players Four-way tie for the pole position was re-
30 George Daniel 6.5 77 Suudhan S 5.5 from different parts of India and Singapore solved by buchholz system and better tie
31 Natarajan M 6.5 78 Nivetha Vijayakumar 5.5 participated in the event which were spread break score helped International Master
32 Subramanian T.V. 6.5 79 Srivatsan Sekar 5.5 over five days with a time control of 90 min- Somak Palit to clinch the title along with a
33 Kathir Balaji K 6.5 80 Anirudh D Venkat 5.5 utes and 30 seconds increment from move cash award of Rs. 75,000/- while Chakkra-
34 Murali. R 6.5 81 Ashwin K R 5.5 1. The total prize fund of the event was Rs. varthy Reddy finished as first runner up and
35 Manu David Suthandram R 6 82 Mugunth R B 5 4,00,000. pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/- along
36 Sabarish V 6 83 Mugesh B 5 with coveted trophy. Ram S Krishnan and
37 Sarvesh Kumar A 6 84 Navnitan S V 5 In a colourful opening ceremony, Shri. Man- Abhishek Das satisfied with third and fourth
38 Jubin Jimmy 6 85 Digvijay Sunil 5 ish Sisodia, Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister of position respectively.
39 Umashankar A 6 86 Rohan Kailash 5
Delhi inaugurated the event in presence of
40 Dhanush Ragav 6 87 Shyam Kumar M 5
Brigadier D S Gill (Retd), Director Imperia Stuti Bhanot of Haryana adjudged as best
41 Vignesh R 6 88 Sreevijay Sunil 5
42 Domnic Xavier R S 6 89 Savitha Shri B 5
Structures. The Tournament was played un- women player while Manya Bagla become
43 Sakthinandhan S 6 90 Jeremiah S V 5 der Swiss System with nine rounds and had Best Delhi Girl player. Verma H S of Delhi
44 Atul Srivatsa 6 91 Sibi Visal R 5 Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury as bagged the best veteran prize and Ayush
45 Mano Ranjith J 6 92 Keerthana Maran T 5 top seed. Bhai Mehta of Madhya Pradesh, Dushyant
46 Qamar Naim 6 93 Lokesh R 5 Sharma of Punjab, Adarsh Tripathi of Delhi,
47 Kannan R 6 94 Rahul Krishna Viswanathan 5 The tournament progressed on expected lines Garv Rai of Delhi finished best among Un-
48 Yashwanth Raj S 6 95 Chinnadurai S. 5 as seeded players registered comfortable der-14, Under-12, Under-10 and Under-8
49 Vignesh Shiva Ram M 6 96 Keerthi Srinath K 5 victories on first two rounds but in the third Boys categories respectively. Tarini Goyal
50 Alexander P 6 97 Prahalada Varadhan R 5 round unheralded Maharasthra youngster of Chandigarh, Tanishka Kotia of Haryana,
51 Priyan R S 6 98 Thanga Manickam M 5 Sankalp Gupta held top seed Saptarshi Roy Kiyaara Sunil Kathuria of Maharashtra and
52 Shreyas M 5.5 99 Punit Easwar S 5 Chowdhury of Railways to a creditable draw. Prathviya Gupta of Delhi become best among
53 Shyaam M 5.5 100 Vignesh N 5
Asian Youth Gold medalist International Mas- girls in same age group categories. Visually
54 S. Jeevanandam 5.5 101 Shenthil A A 5
ter Chakkravarthy Reddy of Telangana took Challenged Somender of Delhi becomes best
55 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 5.5 102 Srikrishnan P 5
56 Rathneesh R 5.5 103 Mohan Sundar S 5
the sole lead at the end of seventh round unrated player.
57 Kanishk S K 5.5 104 Sathya Naarayanan S 5 and enjoyed the slender half point lead over
58 Sai Balaji E 5.5 105 Gowtham T S 5 nearest rivals till last round. He signed the In a brief closing ceremony, International
59 Kavya Srishti K 5.5 106 Anirud M 5 peace treaty with compatriot International Master and Arjuna Awardee Tania Sachdev,
60 Vikhram R 5.5 107 Chitrarasu C 5 Master Ravi Teja of Railways in the final round Shri. AK Verma, Secretary Delhi Chess

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Association, Brigadier D S Gill (Retd), Di-
rector Imperia Structures and Mrs. D G Gill
gave away the cash prizes and trophies to
the winners.
Final ranking:
Rank Name Pts
1 Palit Somak 7½
2 Chakravarthi Reddy M 7½
3 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
4 Abhishek Das 7½
5 Sangma Rahul 7
6 Ravi Teja S. 7
7 Arpan Das 7
8 Dhananjay 7
9 Rajarishi Karthi 7
10 Krishna C.R.G. 6½
11 Vinoth Kumar M. 6½
12 Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6½
13 Santu Mondal 6½
14 Abhinav Gola 6½
15 Joshi Govind Ballabh 6½
16 Kranti Kumar P. 6½
17 Deepak Rai 6½
18 Sumit Grover 6½
19 Nath Rupankar 6½
20 S Mithilesh Kumar 6½
21 Kaushik Shubham 6½
22 Hemant Sharma (del) 6
23 Srinath Rao S.V. 6
24 Senthil Maran K 6
25 Shrutarshi Ray 6
26 Sankalp Gupta 6
27 Vantika Agrawal 6
28 Ayush Bhai Mehta 6
29 Ashutosh Kumar 6
30 Lawaniya Eshan 6
31 Dave Kantilal 6
32 Soham Das 6
33 Didwania Vishal 6
34 Bhanot Stuti 6
35 Om Batra 6
36 Verma H.S. 6
37 Shatrughan Kaushik 6
38 Rajesh Kumar Nath 5½
39 Lokesh Hans 5½
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40 Sarthak Mahajan 5½
41 Suraj Dahiya 5½
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43
Thaker Kautilya P
Likhit Chilukuri
5½
5½
44 Vardan Nagpal 5½
45 Adarsh Tripathi 5½
46 Soumik Datta 5½
47 Sanjib Ghosh 5½
48 Awadh Chaitanya 5½
49 Khan S 5½
50 Dubey Sanchay 5½
51 Daksh Jain 5½
52 Adethya R 5½
53 Dushyant Sharma 5½
54 Tarini Goyal 5½
55 Jagdeep Singh Sudan 5½
56 Kunal Kakumanu Prasad 5½
57 Tushar Anand 5½
58 Pereira Johnharry 5½
59 Shuban Saha 5½
60 Shashwat Chakraborty 5½
61 Saksham Rautela 5½
62 Dharmpal Khari 5½
63 Alok Sinha 5
64 J M Baisakh 5
65 Aansh Gupta 5
66 Pavit Singh 5
67 Prithu Gupta 5
68 Hitesh S. Jariya 5
69 Rajagopalan 5
70 L Raju Mangang 5
71 Sneha Paul 5
72 Ambarish Sharma 5
73 Aaryan Varshney 5
74 Anshul Mehta 5
75 Jatinder Kapoor 5
76 Aan Sikka 5
77 Aryan Ranjan 5
78 Manoj Sharma 5
79 Manya Bagla 5
80 Om Kharola 5
81 Kaur Palkin 5
82 Shashi Raj Saxena 5
83 Somender B L (blind) 5
84 Khakhai Zou 5
85 Narender Kumar 5
86 Aneek Das 5
3rd One Goal Chess Academy Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament , Hyderabad
C R G Krishna is the winner
S Subba Raju (FA) , Chief Arbiter
Top Seed and International Master Elect C R
G Krishna of Hyderabad won 3rd One Goal
Chess Academy All India FIDE Rapid Rat-
ing Chess Tournament held at Delhi Public
School, Nacharam, Hyderabad on 2nd and
3rd May 2015. In the final round on top board
C R G Krishna defeated J K Raju (7.5). He got
8.5 points from 10 rounds. On second board
P Kranthi Kumar (8.5) defeated Vikramjit
Singh (7.5). Both Krishna and Kranthi tied for
first place with equal score. After applying tie
break (Buchholz) C R G Krishna and P Kranthi
Kumar were placed in that order. Krishna got
prize money of Rs. 15,000/- and winner’s
trophy. Kranthi received Rs. 10,000/- with
runner up trophy. Total prize money of Rs.
1,00,000/- was distributed among 35 top
rankers.The event attracted 160 participants
from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal.
On the inaugural day Smt T Sudha, Director of
the Delhi Public School, Nacharam declared
open the event by playing the customary first
move on the board. Sri A Narasimha Rao,
Advocate, Member-Adhoc Body, Telangana
Chess Association also spoke on the occa-
sion. Sri I J Ganesh of OGCA, Tournament
convenor was also present on the occasion.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri
M Ramesh Reddy, Asst Inspector General,
Law & Order – Telangana State distributed
the prizes. Sri Bhaskar, Director of Physical
Education, Delhi Public School and I Ama-
rnadh of One Goal Chess Academy graced
the occasion.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Krishna C.R.G. 8½
2 Kranti Kumar P. 8½
3 Erigaisi Arjun 8
4 Ramakrishna J. 8
5 Varun V 8
6 Lakshmi Sandeep Naidu V 8
7 Singh S. Vikramjit 7½
8 Deepthamsh Reddy. M 7½
9 Raju J.K. 7½
10 Ramakrishna Perumalla 7
11 Badavath Anand 7
12 Khan S 7
13 Rohith Svs 7
14 Rao J. Malleswara 7
15 Saket Kumar 7
16 Murthy V S N 7
17 Harshavardhan B 7
18 Subhash Kumar M 7
19 Prateek Srivastava 7
20 Raja Rithvik R 7
21 Pvs Aravind 7
22 Kumar A. 6½
23 Raju M.Y. 6½
24 Sugyan Prakash Maharaj 6½
25 Sri Sai Baswanth P 6½
26 Srivastava Pratyush 6½
27 Ramanujacharyulu N C 6½
28 Subuddhi Ramesh Kumar 6½
29 Praveen Veeramalla 6½
30 M Vijaya Kumar Reddy 6½
31 M K Shaji 6½
32 Vishwanath Kannam 6½
33 Narayana Rao M 6½
34 Sudheesh Karri 6½
35 Suresh Babu T 6
36 Aditya S S V 6
37 Ankit Payal 6
38 Kandi Ravi 6
39 Rajasekhar K 6
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40 Bipin Raj S 6 87 Chandrahas Reddy V 5 Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015
41 Abhijit Chutia 6 88 Yashwanth Reddy K 5
42 R Venkata Raghunandan 6 89 Shaik Sumer Arsh 5 Phoobalan is Champion
43 Krishna G M 6 90 Vignesh Ramaswamy 5
Peter Joseph M, FA, Chief Arbiter
44 Veldandi Shivaji 6 91 Sriharinadha S 5
45 Shanmukha Teja P 6 92 Harender J 4½ The first edition of Don Bosco Birth Bi- Cen- shared with 7.5 points but better tie break
46 Viswa Sudhakar Repalle 6 93 Rajinesh Chintala 4½ points helped Mr. Phoobalan of ICF to picked
tenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament con-
47 Gyaneshwar B 6 94 Geereddy Saketh Reddy 4½
ducted by Don Bosco youth center from May up the first prize of the Don Bosco Birth Bi-
48 Laxmana Chary M 6 95 Krishna Balaji 4½
1st to May 5th 2015. The organizers planned Centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament and
49 Mangaldeep Mitra 6 96 Akhil Madhav 4½
a ten rounds Swiss format tournament, with a bagged Rs. 25000/- .Mr. Syed Anwershasuli
50 Sudhir Vanarase 6 97 Akarsh Reddy Ch 4½
51 Perumallu K. 5½ 98 Muralikrishna Mandarapu 4½ time control of 90 minutes each with an incre- ICF, and Mr. Joy Lazar from Thrissur, Kerala
52 Naga Chaitanya 5½ 99 Visesh Reddy Mandadi 4½ ment of30 seconds per move. Unfortunately were claimed the second and third spots
53 Srinivasa Rao Puppala 5½ 100 Vedanth Chinta 4½ the shortfalls of participants the organizers respectively. Grand Master Laxman ICF turn
54 Satyanarayana M 5½ 101 Pradeep Kumar V 4½ were forced to reduce one round as opined out to be the fourth prize winner.
55 David Vargheese 5½ 102 Venkateswara Rao R 4½ by players in the players meeting.
56 Arthi Sampreet 5½ 103 Saranya Kaghitha 4½ The tournament was inaugurated by
57 Sathwika N 5½ 104 Kagitha Jahnavi 4 Grandmaster Rajaram Laxman with a rat- Hon’bleChief Whip of Kerala, . Thomas Un-
58 Indukuri Gayatri 5½ 105 Varshini Chinta 4 ing of 2424 was the top seed and the main niyaden in the presence of dignitaries like
59 Pati Spandan 5½ 106 Maanas Jitendra Vennekanti 4 attraction of the five day tournament.The Mrs. Marykutty joy,Chair person, Irinjalakuda
60 Murali Mohan Y 5½ 107 Prashanth Kumar D 4 Municipality, Fr. Thomas Poovelikkal, Rector,
tournament organized in a small town like
61 Vysetty Sahithi 5½ 108 Mihir Chandra Loke 4
Irinjalakuda attracted 186 players from six Don Bosco Institutions, Fr. Varghese Edathi-
62 Sudeep S 5½ 109 Mallesh Beerla 4
states, Tamil nadu, Karnataka, west Bengal, chira, Principal, Don BoscoSchool,Sri.T.J.Su
63 Naveen Kumar V 5½ 110 Devivaraprasad M 4
Andaman, Maharashtra and Kerala. 126 reshKumar,
64 Srihari Padmanabhan 5½ 111 Shruthik Sarvagni P 4
65 Suribabu Kommireddi 5½ 112 Krishna Sanketh K 4 players are elo rated players and many of the
66 Nithish Chilakalaraju 5½ 113 Ojas Mehetre 4 unrated players get eligibility to get rating. Treasurer, Chess Association Kerala, Sri.T M
67 Venkat Vemparala 5½ 114 Shaan Rai 4 S Namboothiripad, Patron, Chess Association
68 Naga Srinish K 5½ 115 Mukesh Varma Gangaraju 4 As usual the lower rated players produced Thrissur, Mr. M M Babu, President, Chess As-
69 Anirudh R S 5 116 Bhuvanendra Sivan Reddy 4 many upsets throughout the tournament. sociation, Thrissur. Mr. Kuriyan Joseph, Presi-
70 Bharat Goel 5 117 Pittampally Sai Rohan 4 Master Nithin Babu of Kerala with rating of dent, PTA, Don boscoschool. Mr. Unniyaden
71 Suhrit Padakanti 5 118 Anvay Maramreddy 4 1679 beat second seed Sri.Phoobalan with made a customary first move against Sri R R
72 Erigaisi Keerthana 5 119 Rithika Reddy N G 4 a rating of 2258. Mr.Sreekumar 2127, Mr. Laxman in the first board and flagged off the
73 Raghuvarun Reddy K 5 120 Sravya Sridevi Y 4 JoyLazar 1919, and Master Chandar Raju prestigious chess tournament in the history
74 Karthik Sai Ch 5 121 Padma Priya P 4 of Irinjalakuda Town.
1911 were forced the Grand master Raja
75 Lochana B 5 122 Ravi Kumar Ganji 4
ram Laxman to a draw. The thrilling uncer-
76 Srinadh Madhavarapu 5 123 Aaromal R S 3½
tainty was projected in the eighth round In the closing ceremony Mr.Sinoj, Circle
77 Durga Prasad P V 5 124 Mourya Manyam 3½
pairing with 6 players- Mr. R Laxman,Mr. Inspector of Police was the chief guest, Fr.
78 Jayant Sai 5 125 Tarun Lakshman Nagineni 3½
79 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 5 126 Sri Chandana G 3½ Syed Anwar shasuli,Mr. Phoobalan,Master Thomas Poovelikkal, FR. VargheseEdathi-
80 Midhush Sirigudi 5 127 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 3½ Chanderraju,Mr. Joy Lazar and Master Ab- chira, T J Sureshkumar BrotherJith, brother
81 Ved Prakash 5 128 Tejasree P 3½ hishek T M were shared six points .Iin the jithin are lead the programmes. Chief Arbi-
82 Anilkumar Reddy Kasireddy 5 129 Viswa Teja G 3 beginning of the ultimate round Mr. Syed ter Peter Joseph Presented the tournament
83 Abbas S 5 130 Vegolapu Anush Kumar 3 AnwerShasuli was the sole leader. report. Complementary T-shirts distributed
84 Karthikeya Sai Ram T 5 131 Raghav Sai T 3 to all participants by the chief sponsor Mr.
85 Manmadha Rao L 5 132 Jayanth E 3 At the end of the tournament Mr. Phoobalan Rafi Ponnari.
86 Abhinay Basvoju 5 133 Rohith Babu P 3 ICF and his colleague Syed Anwar Shasuli

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On behalf chess fraternity of Thrissur I would
like to congratulate the Salesians Don Bosco
missionaries for their true efforts to make
the tournament a grand success. I wish
to convey my thanks to Chess association
Kerala especially Sri. T.J Sureshkumar for
the co-operation and support for the event.
I wish to appreciate the other arbiters Mr.
Govindankutty,FA, Mr.Kumaran.K V, NA,Mr.
Sa ju Manjali, NA Mr. Noushad K U. NA.for
contolling the event in a smooth way. I wish
to salute the youth center members volun-
teer team and NCC cadets for their hard work
throughout the day without any rest.
Final standing:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Phoobalan P. 7.5
2 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7.5
3 Joy Lazar M.A. 7
4 Laxman R.R. GM 7
5 Madhusoodanan K.R. 7
6 Nair Sanjeev 7
7 Mohanan U.C. 7
8 Rajith V. 7
9 Sooraj M R 7
10 Chandar Raju 6.5
11 Manikandan K.K. 6.5
12 Aditya Mittal CM 6.5
13 Abdulkhader A. 6.5
14 Suresh P.K. 6.5
15 Raghuraj V.N. 6.5
16 Raju O A 6.5
17 Raahul V S 6.5
18 Karan J P 6.5
19 Marthandan K U 6.5
20 Sreekumar P. 6
21 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
22 Nithin Babu 6
23 Karmukilan S 6
24 Rajeev V.M. 6
25 Unas K.A. 6
26 Sushrutha Reddy 6
27 Abhishek T M 6
28 Francis N. P. 6
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29 Lakshmanan K A 6
FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk
30 Hari Suresh 6
31 Jibi Kallingalpadem
32 Sriram Udhayakumar
6
6
Caruana and Nakamura qualify for FIDE Candidates 2016
33 Nandan Hegde 6
34 Harilal.P.P 6
35 Naveen Giri 6
36 Rajashree Rajeev 6
37 Prasad Subramanian 6
38 Benjamin Varghees Issac 5.5
39 Jolly V P 5.5
40 Jos Paul Davis 5.5
41 Prem Krishna N 5.5
42 Sreelakshmi M Sunilkumar 5.5
43 Karthik Shetty 5.5
44 Hariharan Subramony 5.5
45 Satheesh A S 5.5
46 Avi Jaiswal 5.5
47 Prasanna Venkatesh B 5.5
48 Syam Peter 5.5
In the final round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru
Nakamura drew their respective games to take the top two spots in the overall Grand Prix
49 Abhiram C Nath 5.5
standings and qualify for the 2016 FIDE Candidates Tournament.The Ugra nominee Dmitry
50 Mohanan A K 5.5
Jakovenko was in position to fight for qualification in the direct duel against Nakamura, but
51 Sishir B 5.5
he couldn’t achieve more than a draw with black pieces.Eventually, Caruana, Jakovenko and
52 Sibin Paul 5.5
53 Anugrah Nair 5.5 Nakamura shared the first place in the last Grand Prix tournament with 6,5/11 points each.
54 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5.5
55 Amal Roozi 5.5 A short unofficial ceremony preceded the start of the last round: FIDE President Kirsan
56 Abhinav Chakrapani S 5.5 Ilyumzhinov, his adviser Berik Balgabaev, and RCF Executive Director Mark Glukhovsky planted
57 Jubin Jimmy 5 a lilac tree in the Honor Alley near the Ugra Chess Academy. Now they will have an extra
58 Harish B Menon 5 incentive to visit the Ugra capital.The tournament intrigue lived until the last day, but the last
59 Amal Raj N R 5
round did not bring any major changes. Five games ended in a draw, and only Peter Svidler
60 Raghavendra G 5
slightly improved his position by winning against Baadur Jobava.
61 Santhosh P.V. 5
62 B Lee M Sunilkumar 5
63 Radhakrishnan.K.S 5
64 Fathima Abdeen 5
65 Sruthi P.S 5
66 Nijai Giri 5
67 Jaseel Badar 5
68 Vinayak Mittal 5
69 Jyothir R 5
70 Yukash Ram E 5
71 Antony Simethy 5
72 Sujith Kumar K V 5
73 Senbabu M B 5
Fabiano Caruana received the Grand Prix winner’s Cup from FIDE President and Ugra Governor.
74 Aji Kumar A 5
During the series he collected 370 points. Hikaru Nakamura finished second overall. Thus, these
75 Abhinav Bhatt 5
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two players qualified for the Candidates Tournament.
Final standings:4th leg of Grand Prix 1st SCS FIDE Rated Chess
1.GM Jakovenko Dmitry (RUS)6½; 2.GM Nakamura Hikaru(USA) 6½; Tournament 2015, Sivakasi
3.GM Caruana Fabiano(ITA)6½;4.GM Dominguez Perez Leinier(CUB)6;
Deepan with trophy: Ponraj, Committee
5.GM Gelfand Boris (ISR)6;6.GM Svidler Peter (RUS)5½; member, Narendran Kamak Treasurer, SCS,
7.GM Grischuk Alexander(RUS)5½;8 GM Giri Anish (NED)5½; R. Anantharam Chief arbiter, TD Rajendran
9.GM Karjakin Sergey(RUS)5½;10.GM Tomashevsky Evgeny(RUS)5; Industrialist, Deepan Chakkravarthy,
11.GM Jobava Baadur(GEO)4;12.GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime(FRA)3½ Balasubramanian, Secretary, SIPT College,
Asan Badhrudeen, SMPA, SR Rajan Secretary
Virudhunagar DCA, Prabakaran President
Hungarian Chess Championship, Zalakaros SMPA and Kumaresan Secretary, Sivakasi
Chess Sparklers
Igor Kovalenko wins again
The 34th edition of the Zalakaros Chess Festival took place from 14 May to 21 May 2015. At the
Hotel Karos Spa, in Gala Hall the traditional Festival was held, which determines the Hungarian
Open Championship title too. The second highest rated Latvian player, GM Igor Kovalenko 1st TTCA All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2015,Goa
repeated his success from last year. Kovalenko started with a loss against IM Kantor Gergely
(HUN), a promising talent of Hungarian chess, but in the next 8 games he won 6 drawing two. IM Thejkumar receiving the 1st
In the 8th round he defeated the player at first place at the time, GM Avital Boruchovsky (ISR). prize winner trophy. From Left :
In the last game a 122-move draw was fought successfully. He held his position with a rook Arvind Mhamal ( Chief Arbiter), Shri
against Austrian Markus Ragger’s rook and knight. Ragger started with three from three, but Mahesh Candolkar ( Tournament
Director & President TTCA) , Shri
in the later rounds only won one game. The Indian Adhiban was left unbeaten.
Sanjay Harmalkar, Shri Vinay
Tendulkar ( President GCA & BJP Goa
State), MR Suraj Morajkar ( Guest of
Honor), Shri Dilip Parulekar ( Chief
Guest, Minister of Tourism Goa
State) Shri Kishor Bandekar ( Joint
Secretary AICF & Secretary GCA) and
Sanjay Belurkar ( Secretary TTCA).

6th KCM International FIDE Rated Open , Coimbatore

The title of Hungarian Champion was won by GM Horvath Adam, player of Zalaegerszeg Csuti-
Hydrocomp team. Horvath started with a draw, lost twice, being forced to surrender against Priyanka receiving the 1st prize
Adhiban B. (IND) and against Matthias Bluebaum (GER), with six won games he won the title from Mr Jayabal, Executive
with 6.5 Pts. On the last day he defeated Ukrainian Olympic champion Zahar Efimenko. He also Director of Salzer Limited,
Coimbatore and the newly
won 15 Rating points.
elected President of CDCA

Final placings: 1.GM Kovalenko Igor (Latvia) 2.GM Boruchovsky Avital (Israel) 3.GM Ragger
Markus(Austria) 4.GM B.Adhiban (India) 5.Horvath Adam(Hungary) 6.Papp Gabor (Hungary)
7.IM Bluebaum Matthias (Germany) 8.GM Berkes Ferenc(Hungary) 9.GM Prohaszka Peter
(Hungary) 10.IM Raznikov Danny (Israel)
(Courtesy : fide.com)
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 Don Bosco Birth Bi-centenary FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2015 All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum
Shivananda wins at Belgaum
Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter
Adv.thomasunniyaden,chief whip,
Kerala making the inaugural move All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament or-
against Grand Master Rajaram Laxman ganized by Lions Club of Belgaum Midtown
Belgaum in association with Belgaum District
Chess Association under the auspices of
United Karnataka Chess Association was in-
augurated by Honorable Principal District and
Sessions Judge, Belagavi Shri P Krishan Bhat,
on 1st May 2015 at Advocates Samuday Bha-
All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Belgaum van, New Court Complex, near Chennamma
Circle, Belgaum, Karnataka. Lion Adv. Bhas-
kar Patil, President, Lions Club of Belgaum
Shri S Ravi, IPS, Commissioner of
Midtown, MJF Lion Shrinivas Shivangi, Past
Police, Belagavi, Lion Adv. Bhaskar
Patil, President, Lions Club of District Governor, Lions Club International
Belgaum Midtown, Lion Arvindrao A Dist 317-b, Mr B R Kulkarni, President, Bel-
Deshpande, Past District Governor, gaum District Chess Association also shared
Lions Club International, the dais at the inaugural function.
Winner IM Shivananda
A Total of 159 players from different parts
of India played in this tournament. Interna-
Sushila Viswanathan passed away tional Master Sameer Kathmale (ELO Rating
By Arvind Aaron 2327) of Maharastra was top seed, followed
by International Master T S Ravi(2317) of
Sushila Viswanathan, the mother of five-time world chess champion Tamilnadu, International Master Shivananda
Viswanathan Anand passed away on May 26. She was 79. Sushila hailed
BS (2307) of Karnataka, FIDE Master Rag-
from a family of lawyers who played chess. Her contribution towards the
hunanadan KS (2291) of Karnataka, FIDE
success of Anand was immense. Besides teaching him the basic moves,
she played and nurtured him into a champion. Clearly she was a role model Master Joydeep Dutta (2241) of Karnataka
parent for the present generation. were stars of attraction of the tournament.
There are 98 rated players playing in this
“We recognised his talent at the right time,” said Sushila Viswanathan when tournament.
Anand won the World Title for the first time in Tehran 2000. At that time
she was 64. “Thrilled. Anand’s triumph did not come as a surprise for us.” IM Shivananda BS of Karnataka, IM Sameer
She was sure that one day he is going to win the world title. She leaves behind her husband K Kathmale, OT Anil Kumar and FM Raghu-
Viswanathan, daughter and two sons of whom Anand is the youngest. AICF fraternity mourns nanadan KS scored seven and half points but
her death. based on better tie break Shivanand, Sameer
Kathmale, Anil kumar and Raghunanadan
P.R Venketrama Raja, President Al India Chess Federation and Vice Chairman Ramco group, declared 1st to 4th place respectively. The
who was the main sponsor during Anand’s formative years, expressed his heartfelt condolences
winner bagged Rs 35000 plus Trophy.
on the demise of Sushila Viswanathan. He recalled her dedicated efforts in making Anand a
Champion chess player.
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In the final round, fourth seed, FM Raghu-
nanadan KS of Bangalore played Queens
pawn and third seed, IM Shivananda BS re-
plied Modern Benoni. Shivanada’s inaccuracy
in the 23rd move landed him in a pawn down
position. On the 29th move Shivananda lost
a pawn. Raghunandan cashed in on this op-
portunity and won the game in 39 moves.
In the 3rd round, Aditee Prabhugaonkar
(1628) drew with the second seed IM TS Ravi
(2317) in the second board and on 3rd Board,
Ritesh Dharmatti (1616) of Karnataka held
3rd seed IM Shivananda BS (2307) to draw.
Shri S Ravi, IPS, Commissioner of Police,
Belagavi was the chief guest for the prize
distribution ceremony. Guest of Honour, Shri
Vinay Manglekar, President Velagavi Bar As-
sociation, Lion Arvindrao A Deshpande, Past
District Governor, Lions Club, International
Dist. 317-b, MJF Lion Dr. Vijay Gramopad-
hye, Past District Governor, Lions Club In-
ternational Dist 317-b. MJF Lion Shrinivas
Shivangi, Past District Governor, Lions Club
International Dist 317-b, MJF Lion Shrikant
Shanbag, Past District Governor, Lions Club
International Dist 317-b, Lion Rammohan
Naik, Lion Adv. Bhaskar Patil, President, Lions
Club of Belgaum Midtown, Mr B R Kulkarni,
President, Belgaum District Chess Association
were the other dignitaries on the dais.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 IM Shivananda B.S. 7½
2 IM Kathmale Sameer 7½
3 Anilkumar O.T. 7½
4 FM Raghunandan K S 7½
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6 FM Dutta Joydeep 7
7 Raghavendra V. 7
8
9
WFM
Pujari Rucha
Bachikar Girish
7
7
10 Dhanush Bharadwaj 6½
11 Meet Puri 6½
12 Ritesh Dharmatti 6½
13 Prabhugaonkar Aditee Aman 6½
14 Ajay Sm 6½
15 Rao Vishal 6½
16 Aditya B Kalyani 6½
17 Abid Ali Mujawar 6½
18 Sameer Ghotane 6
19 Vatsal Singhania 6
20 Sathya Prasad K. 6
21 Ithal H L Rajath 6
22 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 6
23 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 6
24 Chirag Hirinja G J 6
25 Vinay R Navali 6
26 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 6
27 Thorat Sanjay 6
28 Thorat Aishwarya 5½
29 Walvekar Praveen 5½
30 Vathan P H 5½
31 Sudarshan Bhat 5½
32 Manoj B Kulkarni 5½
33 Naik B S 5½
34 Akash Kulgod 5½
35 Gajanan D 5½
36 Gowtham Pollam 5½
37 Shashwat S Mudenagudi 5½
38 Dinamani S Dixith 5½
39 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5½
40 Muaz Bin Abdullah 5½
41 Pawar Rahul 5½
42 Anvekar Prashant 5½
43 Urvi Bandekar 5½
44 Suhas A 5½
45 Prachi Bharti 5½
46 Kulkarni Prakash 5½
47 Nachiketh Adiga 5½
48 Shreyash A Kulkarni 5
49 Rakshitta Ravi 5
50 Kulkarni Aakash 5
51 Navodith V Bhat 5
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Vinuth Sajjan
K R Bhat
5
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54 Bachalkar Sadanand 5
55
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Nagaraj Naik
Prajwal M Joshi
5
5 Rucha Pujari wins title
57 Prajwal V S 5
58 Niranjan V Sangam 5
59 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5
60 Ithal H L Rahul 5
61 Abhisheka K Sadashiva 5
62 Diya James 5
63 Ajay A Raikar 5
64 Dhruva 5
65 Swayam Naik 5
66 Kulkarni Anandrao 5
67 Harsh M Averi 5
68 Suhas P Nidoni 4½
69 Belgundkar Raghavendra 4½
70 Shashank Bhat G S 4½
71 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 4½
72 Colaso Vernon 4½
73 Kavish Gharse 4½
74 Yashukiran N 4½
75 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 4½
76 Khan Faiziya 4½
77 Kaushik M Khedekar 4½
78 Aakash G Madiwalar 4½
79 Meghanshram B V 4½
80 Gargare Prathmesh 4½
81 Rajannavar Ansh 4½
82 Patole Bharat 4½
83 Dattatray Tulajappa S 4½
84 Mulla N J 4½
85 Shriram 4½
86 Shubham B Choudhari 4½
87 Shriya M Jaju 4½
88 Barath M 4
89 Dara Devadanam 4
90 Bhagwat S.M. 4
91 Suhrith K 4
92 Vineeth Sakaria 4
93 Prajwalesh 4
94 Pauskar Siddesh 4
95 Gangadharaiah S Salimath 4
96 Abhishek Jain Ananthkumar 4
97 Rishab Telisara 4
98 Vinit Nandkumar Khatore 4
Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memorial Open FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
Nutan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli conducted
the Late Shri Babukaka Shirgaonkar Memo-
rial Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament at
Bapat Bal Shikshan Mandir, Sangli, Maha-
rashtra, which is one of the oldest organizer
in India from 1941 conducting 48th chess
festival in Month of May every year.
This event was organized by prominent chess
players and key personalities of various
Chess activities in Sangli and Maharashtra
viz. Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaonkar, Mr. Chinta-
mani Limaye, Mr. Girish Chitale, Mr. Chidam-
bar Kotibhaskar, Dr. Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita
Kelkar, Mrs. Seema Kathmale accompanied
by other chess players and chess lovers like
Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mr. Deepak
Vaychal, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, etc.
The event was organized and played from
11th to 17th May, 2015 and conducted in
the Swiss League format, comprising nine
rounds, with two rounds only on two days
else single round to give enough rest and
preparation time for participants to improve
their skills and of course score. The time
control for the game was 90 minutes to each
player with an increment of 30 seconds per
move from first move.
SP Dilip Sawant, Chintamani Limaye Sec,
NBM, Shri Ulhas Mali, PSI More and Shri Vijay
Apte were the dignitaries on dais of the in-
augural function. The event was inaugurated
by Superintendent of Police Shri Dilip Sawant
and ceremonial match between IM Sameer
Kathmale. Introduction of the Guests was
done by the Ulhas Mali. Chintamani Limaye
introduced guests and participants the aim
and moto of NBM. Dilip Sawant Sir, in his
speech talked about importance of chess,
and opportunity given by NBM by conduct-
ing month long Buddhibal Festival. Some of
the important players who took part were IM
Sameer Kathmale (Sangli), WFM Swati Mo-
hota WB, WFM Rucha Pujari (Kolhapur), WCM
Swera Ana Bragansa (Goa), Jyoti Prakash
Sharma (Rajasthan), Suyog Wagh (Ahmed-
nagar), Barath M (Goa), and Vigneshwaran
S (Tamil Nadu).The Inaugural Match between
SP Dilip Sawant and IM Sameer Kathmale
ended in draw. In this event 225 players
out of which 163 were rated having rating
average 1480, with players coming from
nearly all parts of India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Goa, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Mad-
hya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana). The championship was being led
by a IM, two WFM & a WCM including 23 play-
ers above 1800 rating. IM Sameer Kathmale
of Sangli, with a rating of 2327 was the top
seed in this event.
The upset started right from the first round,
as the unrated Dhananjay Thakur of Thane
Chodankar Sehal of Goa and Ghorpade Yash
of Kolhapur outwitted Bhoite Krishna of Pune,
Sharma Jyoti Prakash of Rajsthan and Khad-
ilkar LP of Pune respectively whereas lower
rated Phadnis Adwait of Nashik, Pendsey
Muktanand of Nagpur and Atharv Gavade
of Thane drew with Shane Alvarin Braganca
of Goa, Kolhatkar Rajeev of Sangli (Canara
Bank), Bhandarkar Dinesh of Mumbai re-
spectively.
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At the end of fifth round Singh Nishit be-
came sole leader beating WFM Swati Mohota
of WB with 5 points in his pocket followed
by six players with 4½ points each. In this
round Kulkarni Aakash of Pune outwitted
Indrajeet Mahindrikar of Aurangabad hav-
ing ELO difference of more than 200 points.
In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari
won against fortnight leader Nishit Singh.
Khushi Surana and Omkar Shelke outwitted
Dinesh Bhandarkar and Pravin Sawardekar
respectively (the rating difference is nearly
200 ELO points).
At the end of end seventh round Rucha Pujari
playing with black forced Kathmale Sameer
to take draw. At the end of this round four
players namely Rucha Pujari, Soham Datar,
WFM Swati Mohota and Nikhil dixit managed
to score 6 points each and became leaders.
This elite group was followed by fifteen play-
ers scoring 5½ points. Total thirty unrated
managed to cross 1000 ELO point mark. In
the eighth round WFM Swati Mohota and
WFM Rucha Pujari played with each other.
In history of this event two women were
fighting on first board to clinch champion-
ship. Rucha managed to win whereas the
game on the second board ended in draw.
This made Rucha sole leader with 7 points
followed by seven players with 6½ points.
Inthe final round Rucha escaped with draw
against Suyog Wagh resulting in four play-
ers having 7½ points namely, Rucha Pujari,
Sameer Kathmale, Soham Datar and Barath
M. Tie breaker decided the champion of this
event.
The champion Rucha Pujari received Rs.
Thirty thousand and the runner up Sameer
Kathmale Rs. Twenty thousand. In this event
out of 62 unrated participants, 35 partici-
pants became rated players.
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The tournament was completed in peaceful
manner and no appeals arose. The Appeals
Committee members consisted of IM Sameer
Kathmale of Maharashtra, WFM Swati Mohota
of West Bengal, and Mr. Jyoti Prakash Sharma
of Rajsthan as the main members and Mr.
Vigneshwaran S of Tamil Nadu & Mr. Pradeep
Pandya of Gujrat as reserve members.
The championship was a real bonus for many
players, as many of them gained consider-
able ELO rating of 100 or above. Special
mention has to be made of Abid Ali Mujawar
(Karnataka), Muktanand Pendsey (Nagpur,
Maharashtra), Pruthu Deshpande (Pune, Ma-
harashtra) and Avishkar Wankhde (Nashik,
Maharashtra) increased their rating by 109,
106, 102 and 101 points respectively. In open
section out of 25 unrated participants, 15
participants became rated players & in the
Girl section out of 16 unrated, 5 participants
became rated players.
The prize distribution function chaired by Mr.
Gadgil of PNGadgil Jwellers, accompanied by
his wife Mrs. Gadgil, NBM President Rajabhau
shirgaonkar, Mrs. Bapat, Mrs. Joshi and Mrs.
Dalvi along with Mr. Joshi and Nippani busi-
nessman Shri Pravin Bhai Shah.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Pujari Rucha WFM 7½
2 Kathmale Sameer IM 7½
3 Barath M 7½
4 Soham Datar 7½
5 Wagh Suyog 7
6 Ponkshe Sarang 7
7 Ajinkya Pingale 7
8 Pruthu Deshpande 7
9 Soneji Janhavi 7
10 Verma Rahul 7
11 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7
12 Dixit Nikhil 6½
13 Shelke Sankarsha 6½
14 Audi Ameya 6½
15 Kadav Omkar 6½ 62 Deshpande M.N. 5½
16 Vigneshwaran S 6½ 63 Swera Ana Braganca WCM 5½
17 Nikam Ravindra 6½ 64 Pendsey Muktanand 5½
18 Phadke Sohan 6½ 65 Magdum Sammed 5½
19 Singh Nishit 6½ 66 Nankar Pranav 5½
20 Joshi Tejas 6½
21 Bakshi Rutuja 6½
22 Joshi Nikhil 6½ Puzzle of the month
23 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6½
by C.G.S.Narayanan
24 Menon Padmanand 6½
25 Bhandarkar Dinesh 6½ SPG (Short proof game) is a type of
26 Jain Kashish Manoj 6½ problem in which the task is to recon-
27 Swati Mohota WFM 6 struct a legal game. Starting from the
28 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 6 opening array, the solver has to find the
29 Inamdar Sameer 6 shortest possible game that leads to the
30 Gajanan Jayde 6
diagram position. White and Black thus
31 Kulkarni Aakash 6
32 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6 effectively cooperate to achieve this, and
33 Bhilare Rushikesh 6 that the moves would not be sensible
34 Pogul Yuvraj 6 in a competitive game is considered ir-
35 Pradeep Pandya 6 relevant. SPGs are also characterized by
36 Telang Yashwant 6 their exact play – the move order in each
37 Joshi Abhijeet M 6
solution is unique. Separate section for
38 Patil Ketan 6
39 Jadhav Vaibhavi 6
retros and proof games is introduced in
40 Lahoti Riya 6 the latest 10th WCCT announced.
41 Nirgun Keval 6
42 Raiker Shaunak 6 Michael Caillaud
43 Shegaonkar Akshay 5½ Probleemblad May/June 1999
44 Abid Ali Mujawar 5½
45 Surana Khushi Shailendra 5½
46 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi 5½
47 Ashar Grishma 5½
48 Joshi Mihir 5½
49 Joshi Abhijeet 5½
50 Bhosale Shruti 5½
51 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 5½
52 Kapadi Yash 5½
53 Patil Samiksha 5½
54 Thorat Aishwarya 5½
55 Balwan Tejas 5½
56 Shelke Omkar 5½
57 Sawardekar Pravin 5½
58 Thorat Sanjay 5½
59 Bandekar Aditya 5½ SPG in 7 moves:2 solutions
60 Audi Saiesh 5½ (Solution on page 48)
61 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5½
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Selected games from KolkataOpen
Swapnil,Dhopade (2450) Vignesh,Nr
(2365) [E11]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ A varia-
tion invented by Bogoljubov, now known as
Bogo-Indian Defence. 4.Nbd2 d5 5.e3 0–0
6.a3 Be7 7.Bd3 c5 8.dxc5 a5 9.cxd5 Qxd5
10.Qe2 Rd8 11.Bc4 Qh5 [11...Qxc5 is usual
here. Black deliberately delays this, probably
trying to get the white pieces into an ineffec-
tive tangle.] 12.Nf1 Qxc5 13.Ng3 e5 14.Ng5
Rf8= 15.0–0 h6 16.N5e4 Nxe4 17.Nxe4
Qc6 18.Nc3 Be6= 19.Bxe6 fxe6?
[Black goes out of his way to willingly suffer
ugly isolated doubled pawns on the e-file.
Probably this puts the onus on white to win
against this pawn structure. 19...Qxe6 20.e4
was simple and equal.] 20.e4 Nd7 21.Be3
Nc5 22.Qc4 Qa6!? 23.Nb5? Diagram #
[Black's ugly doubled pawns lulls white into
complacense. He over looks a small combi-
nation. 23.Qxa6 Rxa6 24.Rad1 Rc6] 23...
Nxe4!= With this easy combination, black
equalises the game. But this must have come
as a shock to white. 24.Rac1 Nf6 25.a4 [If
25.Nc7 Qxc4 26.Rxc4 Rac8= and the doubled
pawns are safe!] 25...Nd5 26.Bd2 Qb6 27.Qe2
Bc5 Black's focus is on f2. 28.Qxe5? [This
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(Position after 23.Nb5)
leads to a clear advantage for black. Better
was to be slightly worse off with 28.Bc3 e4!]
28...Bxf2+ 29.Kh1 Be3 30.Bxe3 Qxe3
31.Qxe3 Rxf1+ 32.Rxf1 Nxe3 33.Re1 Rd8!
Probably white missed this back-rank tactic
in his calculations. 34.Kg1 [34.Rxe3?? Rd1+
mates.] 34...Rd3 Thus black has reached the
endgame with a healthy passed pawn on e6.
35.Kf2? [More stubborn was: 35.Re2 Kf7 36.h3
e5 37.Kf2 Nd1+ 38.Ke1 Kf6µ] 35...Nd1+–+
36.Ke2 Nxb2 This leads to a pin that had to
be calculated precisely. 37.Rb1 Rb3 38.Nc3
[38.Kd2 Nc4+ 39.Kc2 Rxb5! 40.Rxb5 Na3+
41.Kb3 Nxb5 42.axb5 e5! Black wins with his
two passed pawns on the a- and e- files.] 38...
Rxc3 39.Rxb2 Ra3! 40.Rxb7 Rxa4 41.Ra7
Re4+ Generally, the best position for a rook in
a rook and pawn ending is behind the passed
pawn. Here it is not possible. Therefore black
opts for the second best, placing the rook on the
same rank as his passed pawn. However one
must note that we have to change our plans
according to the needs of the position. 42.Kf3
Re5 43.Kf4 Rf5+ 44.Ke3 Kf8 To prevent the
white rook from getting to e7 in some variations.
45.g4 Rb5 46.h4 Rb4 47.Kf3 Ra4 [47...a4
48.h5 Rd4 49.Rc7 Rd1 50.Ra7 Ra1!–+ Black's
a-pawn would advance to a2 and when the
white king comes over for the defence to the
queen-side, the black rook would go to Rb1 at-
tacking the g-pawn to win.] 48.h5 Ra1 The same
idea as in the notes to the previous move. 49.Kf4
a4 50.Ke5 a3 51.Kxe6 Kg8!
Must be careful at all times. White was threaten-
ing 52 Ra8#! 52.g5 hxg5 53.Kf5 Kh7! [Well
played! Black denies the white king a vantage
square on g6. With the careless 53...a2? white
will come under unpleasant pressure and cede
a draw after 54.Kg6! Kf8 55.Rf7+ Ke8 56.Rf2
g4! 57.Kxg7 Rh1 58.Rxa2=] 0–1
Sriram,J (2409) - Rahman,Ziaur (Ban)
(2496) [D02]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c6 4.Qc2 dxc4 5.Qxc4
Nf6 6.Bg5 b5 7.Qc2 Bb7 8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.e4
a6 10.Be2= [If 10.e5 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Nxg5
(or 12.Bg3 Nh5 13.Qe4 Nxg3 14.hxg3 Rb8³)
12...hxg5 13.Bxg5 c5 14.exf6 cxd4 when black
has better prospects.] 10...h6 11.Bh4 Rc8
12.0–0 g5 13.Bg3 Nh5 14.Qc3 [As black has
made his intention of playing c6-c5 with 11...
Rc8, to be considered was 14.a4 making ....c5
risky.] 14...Nxg3 15.hxg3 Bg7 16.b4 [No
better was: 16.a4 g4 17.Nh4 Nb6 18.e5 Nxa4
with an advantage that is threatening to snow-
ball.] 16...c5! Probably white thought that this
move was impossible, overlooking the dragon
on g7! 17.bxc5 g4 [Black wants to hit at the
heart of the white pawn phalanx, the d4 pawn.
However, stronger was: 17...Nxc5 18.Qe3 g4µ
as the d4 pawn is still pinned, now against the
Ra1.] 18.e5 Diagram # [Greater chances of
black going wrong could be found in the varia-
tion with: 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 Qc7 (19...Qg5
20.Rac1 h5µ) 20.Rac1 Bxe5 21.Qa3]
18...gxf3 19.Bxf3 Bxf3 20.gxf3 [White has
only two pawns for his sacrificed bishop. And
those two pawns pose no threats to black. If
20.Nxf3 Nb8! 21.Rfd1 Nc6µ] 20...0–0 21.Ne4
Nb6! A cheeky way to get to the strong square
d5. 22.Nd6 Nd5µ With this beautifully planted
knight on d5, black has the superior position.
23.Qb3 Rc7 24.f4 Kh8 [A good way to un-
dermine the Nd6 would be: 24...f6 25.Rae1 f5
26.Kg2 Qd7 27.Rh1 b4 28.Rc1 a5 29.Qd1 Rb8
The position is clearly better for black as his
queen-side offensive is about to take off while
it is not clear how white can continue making
aggressive moves on the king-side.] 25.f5
Rg8µ 26.Qf3
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 26...Qg5?! [Black probably did not want to
get his queen locked out of the king-side with
f5-f6. By the text he gets his queen onto g5,
but he has to lose the exchange. Better was to
plan queen-side play with: 26...Qd7 27.f6 Bf8
28.Rac1 Rg6µ] 27.fxe6 [Worth consideration
was 27.f6 leading to a blocked position and
a game of long drawn manoeuvres difficult
to fathom. 27...Bf8 28.Ne4 Qh4 29.Rfc1 Qh3
30.Nc3 Nb4 31.Ne2 Nc6 32.Rd1 Rg5 33.Rac1
Despite black's marginal material superiority, no
clear plan has emerged for either side.] 27...
fxe6 28.Nf7+ Rxf7 29.Qxf7 Qg4 The ma-
terial equation is white's rook and two pawns
against a knight and bishop. Maybe it is a slight
plus for white, but the dynamics of the position
decides whose chances are better. Compara-
tively the white king has better pawn cover than
its counter part. The black queen cannot capture
d4 as he would lose his e6 and the white queen
could do a lot of damage from e6.. 30.Rad1?
Diagram # [White should use his passed pawn
and throw black on the defensive. As explained
in the notes to the previous move, the d4 pawn
was not under threat and did not need to be
defended. This is a very interesting position.
If you have a sparring partner, try playing this
position with white against him (her) and then,
reverse, play the black side. It would increase
your strength in analysing practical games.
30.c6! ]
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30...Rf8 31.Qb7 Qf3?! [The simple attack with
the h-pawn was stronger: 31...h5 32.Qxa6 h4
33.Qxb5 Rf3 34.Rd3 Nf4 35.Rxf3 Qxf3 36.gxf4
h3–+] 32.Rb1 Qe4 [Black should press ahead
regardless of the Rb3 threat. 32...Rf5 33.Rb3
Qe4 34.Qc8+ Kh7 35.Qxe6 Rh5 36.f3 Qe2
37.Rf2 Qe1+ 38.Rf1 Qxg3#] 33.Rb3 Rf5
34.g4 [White is desperate. If 34.Re3 Qxd4
35.Ra3 b4 36.Rxa6 (or 36.Rb3 Qxc5 and black's
attack continues unabated.) 36...Rg5 37.Kg2
Qe4+ 38.Kg1 Rh5–+] 34...Rf8!? [More force-
ful was: 34...Rg5 35.Rg3 Qxd4 36.Qc8+ Kh7
37.Qxe6 Nf4 38.Qd6 Ne2+ 39.Kh2 Qe4 when
all the important white pawns on g4 and e5
are ready for capture with disastrous effects.]
35.Rg3 Qxd4 36.Qxa6 Qxc5 37.Qd6 [If
37.Qxe6 Nf4 38.Qb3 Ne2+ 39.Kg2 Nxg3–+
40.Qxg3 Bxe5–+] 37...Qc8 38.g5 h5 [Prob-
ably in time trouble, black misses the quick fin-
ish with 38...Rf5 ] 39.g6 Nf4 [Again, the same
rook move wins for black very easily: 39...Rf5
40.Qa3 Bxe5 41.Qa7 Qg8 42.Rg2 Nf4] 40.Qd1
Rf5 41.Re1 Qa8 [A simple win was: 41...Bxe5
] 42.Kh2 Nd5 43.Qd2 Qf8! 44.Kg1 Kg8 Sure
of victory, black is finessing and enjoying the
winning of a won game. 45.Rg5 Nf4 46.Rxf5
Qxf5 47.Qd8+ Bf8 48.Qh4 Be7! 49.Qg3 [49.
Qxe7?? Qg4+ and mate next move by 50 Qg2.]
49...Bb4 50.Re3 Bd2! 51.Qh4 [If 51.Ra3
Ne2+ wins the Queen.] 51...Bxe3 52.Qd8+
Qf8 [52...Kg7! 53.Qd7+ Kxg6 54.Qe8+ Qf7 and
the game is over.] 53.Qd7 Ne2+! 0–1
Chess strategy as such today is still in its
diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We
live today in a beautiful time of progress in
all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has
been made to explore and formulate the
laws of chess strategy. - 1925
- Aron Nimzowitsch
Selected games from
National Team Championship,Goa
Adhiban,B (PSPB) (2630) - Sriram,Jha
(LIC) (2413) [C77]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0–0 8.Nbd2
Nd7 9.Re1 Nc5 10.Bc2 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5
12.g4!? [A game L.Fressinet (2646) vs Y.
Salun (2328), 2007 went: 12.Nf1 Ne6 13.g4
Bg6 14.Ng3 Ng5 15.Kg2 Nxf3 16.Qxf3 Bg5
17.Be3 f6 18.d4= and white went on to win.]
12...Bg6 13.d4 Nd7 14.d5 Ncb8 15.Nf1
c6= 16.c4 [this leads to a solid equal middle-
game. Worth trying here was: 16.dxc6 bxc6
17.Ng3= with flexible options.] 16...cxd5
17.cxd5 a5 Black plans to plant a knight on
c5 as in some variations of the Kings Indian
Defence. 18.Bd2 Nc5 19.Ng3 Nbd7 20.b3
Nf6 21.Nh2 Ne8 22.Kg2 Bg5 23.Bxg5 Qxg5
24.Nf3
24...Qd8 [This leads to equality as does 24...
Qe7. But not 24...Qf4?? 25.g5! as the threat
of 26 Ne2! traps the queen and black would
have to sacrifice a knight to take his queen to
safety: 25...Nxe4 26.Bxe4 f5 27.gxf6+-]
25.h4 h6 26.Qd2 Nf6 27.Nh2 Ne8 [More
aggressive was: 27...b5! 28.Rac1 b4 29.g5
(29.h5 Bh7 30.f4 Re8 is good for black.) 29...
hxg5 30.hxg5 Nh5 31.Nxh5 Bxh5 32.Nf1 f6!
33.Ng3 Bg6 34.f4 exf4 35.Qxf4 fxg5 36.Qe3
g4!± With the white king exposed, black's at-
tacking prospects are excellent.] 28.h5 Bh7
29.a3 Nf6 [A much better way for taking
advantage of white's pawn advances on the
king-side would be: 29...Qh4 30.b4 Nd7
31.Ba4 Nef6 32.Bxd7 Nxd7 33.bxa5 Nc5]
30.f3 Qb6 31.Rab1 Rfc8 32.Nhf1 Ncd7
33.Ne3 Qd4 [Played with the idea that the
exchange of queens would cost white his
Bc2 after 34 Qxd4 exd4 and the Ne3 has
to move abandoning his bishop. If 33...Rc7
with the idea of doubling rooks on the c-
file is thwarted by 34.Bd3 Nc5 35.Rec1=]
34.Rbd1 Qxd2+ [Black has a slight edge
and nothing more after: 34...Qc5 35.a4
Qc7 36.Rc1 Nc5] 35.Rxd2 Nb6 [If 35...Rc3
36.Nc4! Nxd5 (36...Rc8 37.a4 Threat 38 Ne2,
trapping the Rook.) 37.Rxd5 Rxc2+ 38.Re2
Rc3 39.Rxd6 Nc5 40.Red2 Ne6 41.Nxe5
Rxb3 42.a4 Rb4 43.Rd7 f6 44.Ng6 and white
is nearly winning.] 36.Ngf5² Bxf5 Black is
happy to exchange off his bishop which, in
some variations, was aiding white to mate
by blocking his king's freedom. 37.Nxf5
Rd8 38.Bd3 g6 [Black sacrifices a pawn
for some freedom. If he plans to achieve
g7-g6 without sacrificing a pawn, white
shifts his focus to the c-file as follows:
38...Kh7 39.Rc1 Ne8 40.Bb5 Nd7 41.Rdc2
g6 42.hxg6+ fxg6 43.Ne3 Nc5 44.Bxe8
Rxe8 45.b4±] 39.hxg6 fxg6 40.Nxh6+
Kg7 41.Rh1 Rh8 42.g5 Nh7± White
loses his g-pawn, but he finds other re-
sources for attack. 43.Rc2! Rac8 [If 43...
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Nxg5 44.Rc7+ Kf8 (44...Kf6?? 45.Ng4#)
45.Rxb7 Nc8 46.Rd7! Rh7 47.Rd8+ Kg7
48.Rg8+ Kf6 49.Bb5+- Black is paralysed!]
44.Rxc8 Rxc8 45.Nf7! Rc3 46.Bb5 Rxb3
47.Nxd6 Nxg5
Black has restored material balance in the
game and is probably heaving a sigh of relief.
But.... 48.Rc1!! a very fine move, renewing
the attack through the queen-side. 48...
Rxa3 [The knight on Nb6 is in fear of being
trapped. If 48...Rxf3 49.Rc7+ Kh6 50.Rxb7
Na8 51.Ra7 Rf6 52.Nc4+-] 49.Rc7+ Kh6
50.Rxb7 Na4 51.Nc4 Ra2+ [Or, if 51...
Nc5 52.Nxa3 Nxb7 53.Nc4 Nf7 54.Bc6+-]
52.Kg3 Nc5 53.Rc7 Nd3 54.Ne3! Ne1
[54...Nf2 denying white the use of the
g4 square would not have lost so fast.]
55.Ng4+ Kh5 56.Nxe5 Rg2+ 57.Kf4
Nc2 Threatening 58.....Nh3#! 58.Ng4
Nd4 59.Bf1 Rg1 60.Rc8 Threat: 61 Rh8+
mating. 60...Nf7 61.Bd3 Re1 This controls
the e3 square and threatens mate after
....Kh4 with ....g5#! 62.Rf8 g5+ 63.Kg3
Kg6 64.Kf2 Rd1 black puts up some clever
resistance, but it does not help. 65.Ke3
Kg7 (See diagram next column) 66.Rb8!
[A clever retreat, cutting off the black
knight's access to the b3 square. After
66.Rb8 Rxd3+ (or 66...Nxf3 67.Be2!+-)
67.Kxd3 Nxf3 68.Ra8 white wins.]1–0
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(position after 65….Kg7)
Dongre,R.M. (AICF) (2103)
Akshat Khamparia,Rlys (2415)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bg7
5.f4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 d6 8.Be2 0–0
9.0–0 Bd7 10.Kh1 a6 11.Bf3 Na5 12.b3
Rc8 13.Qd2 [13.Nde2 has been played
here. White tries to bolster his weak c3
square, but that weakness lives till the end.]
13...b5 [This allows the equalising 14 a4.
To be considered was the immediate 13...
Qc7 14.Nde2 b5 15.a3= with chances for
black along the long dark diagonal.] 14.a3
[After the aggressive 14.a4! b4 15.Na2 e5
16.fxe5 dxe5 17.Ne2 white's chances are
better.] 14...Qc7
15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 The pawn on c2 is
immune from capture as the Na5 is hanging.
16...Qc3 17.Rad1 Qxd2 18.Rxd2 Rc3=
19.Bg1 Rfc8 The doubled rooks on the
semi-open c-file appears to give the initiative
to black, but white has adequate resources.
20.Be4 [Solid play with equal chances would
follow: 20.Bd1 R3c7 21.Re1 Kf8=] 20...Rb8
21.Rf3 Rc7 22.h3 f5 23.Bd3 Rc5?
[The rook goes to a square where white's
knight and bishop battery could do him
harm. Better was to relocate his Na5 and
make it more effective: 23...Nb7 for 24....
Nc5 was better.] 24.Ne2? [White misses:
24.Ne6! Bxe6 (Worse was: 24...Rxd5 25.Nc7
and the Rd5 is captured!) 25.dxe6 Rc3 26.g4
fxg4 27.hxg4² White has the initiative.]
24...Rxd5 25.Bc4 This is the move that
white had relied on to win the exchange.
But he gets the exchange at the cost of two
pawns, a heavy price! [25.c4 Nxb3 (or 25...
bxc4 26.Bxc4 Nxc4 27.Rxd5 Nxa3 28.Ra5
Nc2 and if now 29.Rxa6? Bb5–+) 26.Rc2
Rxd3! 27.Rxd3 Na1! 28.Rc1 bxc4±] 25...
Nxc4 26.Rxd5 Nxa3 27.Rd2 Bc6 28.Rf1
b4 [Also winning was: 28...Be4 29.c3 Nb1!]
29.Bd4 Bh6 Black's bishops are threatening
the white forces from different angles and
could not be neutralised. 30.Bb2 e5 [The
preliminary 30...Nb5 defending his d6 pawn
in preparation for e7-e5 was to be preferred.
31.Kg1 e5] 31.Rxd6 Bb5
[Here, white resigned, a case of premature
resignation! Probably white was short of
time or was over impressed by black's two
bishops. He could have forgotten that he is
the exchange up and has the option of giv-
ing it back at the right time. Though black's
position looks threatening, white could save
the game with: 31...Bb5 32.Rf2! threatening
Bxe5 winning. 32...e4 33.Nd4! e3 34.Rf3
Re8 (34...e2? 35.Re6!²) 35.c4 bxc3 36.Bxa3
e2 37.Nxe2 Bxe2 (37...Rxe2 38.Rd8+ Kf7
39.Rc8 c2 40.Rc7+ Ke6 41.Kh2) 38.Rxc3
Bf8 (38...Bxf4 39.Rd4 Be3 40.Rd7²) 39.Rc7
Bxd6 40.Bxd6=] 0–1
Rupesh,Ranjan (Bihar) (1873) - Nitin,S
(Airport Authority (2357) [C41]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.f3 0–0 8.Be3
c6 9.Qd2 [9.Bb3 to brace against black's
threatened d6-d5 has been played here.]
9...b5 10.Ndxb5! Diagram # Obviously,
white had planned this sacrifice. He gets
two pawns straightaway and one more
after some struggle. 10...d5 [Or if 10...
cxb5 11.Nxb5 Nc6 12.Qxd6 a6 13.Qxc6 Bd7
14.Qc5 Bxb5³] 11.exd5 cxb5 12.Bxb5
Bd7 13.Bc4 Qc8 14.Bb3 [This retreat in-
vites the pawn assault by a7-a5-a4. Better
was: 14.b3 Ne8 15.Bd4=] 14...a5 15.Na4
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(position after 10.Ndxb5)
[If 15.a4 Na6 16.0–0 Nc5 17.Bc4] 15...
Bxa4 White has 3 pawns for his knight, but
none of them pose a threat to black who now
pins the black king to the centre. Black has
a slight advantage. 16.Bxa4 Qc4! 17.Bb3
Qh4+ 18.g3 Qh3 19.Kf2 [Probably, best
was: 19.0–0–0 Nbd7 20.Ba4 Rac8 21.Rhe1
(21.Qxa5 Ra8 22.Qb4 Rfb8+-) 21...Ne5
22.Qf2 Qf5] 19...Nbd7 20.Rae1 a4! He
wants his Nd7 to come to life with a tempo.
21.Bc4 Ne5 22.Bb5 Rab8 23.Bf1 [Black's
attack rages after: 23.Bxa4 Neg4+ 24.Kg1
Nxe3 25.Rxe3 Rxb2 26.Re1 Rd8–+] 23...
Qh5 24.Be2 Nxd5! 25.Bd4
[25.Qxd5?? Ng4+ 26.fxg4 Qxd5 wins the
queen.] 25...Rfd8! Black brings all of his
forces into the attack to ensure victory.
26.c3 Nb6 27.f4 Qf5! The knight on e5
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leads a charmed life as nothing could capture
it! 28.Qc1 Nd3+! 29.Bxd3 Bxd4+ 30.Ke2
[If 30.cxd4 Qxd3 31.Rd1 Qf5 32.Qb1 Qxb1
33.Rxb1 Rxd4–+]30...Qg4+ 31.Kd2 Bf2!
This move gets the Bd3 into a deadly pin.
32.Kc2 [If 32.Re2 Rxd3+! 33.Kxd3 Rd8+
34.Kc2 Qf5+! mates! In all these variations,
the white queen helps the black attack by
blocking the exit hatch for his own king.] 32...
Bxe1 [This wins. However, again the same
32...Rxd3! leads to a crisp mate: 33.Kxd3
Rd8+ 34.Kc2 Qf5+! 35.Re4 Qxe4#] 33.Qxe1
33...Qf3 [Yet again, the same sacrifice
discussed in the previous moves, wins al-
beit with added frills: 33...Rxd3!! 34.Kxd3
Qf3+ 35.Kc2 (35.Qe3?? Rd8+–+) 35...Nc4
36.b3 Qg2+ 37.Kd3 (A sad necessity. The
king must come out into the open for if
37.Kc1 Qb2+ 38.Kd1 Rd8+–+) 37...Rd8+!
38.Kxc4 Qd5+! 39.Kb4 Rb8+ 40.Ka3 (40.
Kxa4?? Qa8#) 40...Rxb3+! 41.axb3 Qxb3#]
34.Be4 Qh5 35.b3 axb3+ 36.axb3 Re8
37.Qe3 Qa5! [37...Qa5 38.Rb1 Nc4 39.bxc4?
Qa2+–+] 0–1
“The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should
be kept under lock and key.
Mild measures, such as police surveillance,
are not sufficient”
-Aaron Nimzovich
Problem World Example 2
Themes of 10th WCCT Vladimir Tikhankov
The World Chess Composition Tournament is 3 HM Odessa 1989
a long-established team event enabling com-
posers from all over the world to compete at
international level with new chess problems
and studies on set themes. Nine such tourna-
ments have been held to date, with enthusiastic
worldwide participation. The 10th WCCT themes
for the different sections have been announced
recently. The WCCT includes the following sec-
tions: A) Twomovers, B) Threemovers, C) More-
movers, D) Endgame studies, E) Helpmates, F)
Selfmates, G) Fairies, H) Retros.The themes for Mate in two moves
two-movers and three-movers with examples 1.Bd4? [2.Qe2‡] 1…Qe4 2.Qf1‡ 1…Ke4
are given below. 2.R×f4‡ but 1…Qa6!
Key:1.Qf1! [2.R×f4]
Section A: Two-movers 1…Ke4 2.Qe2‡ 1…Qe4+ 2.Bd4‡
Theme: Anticipatory unpin of a white piece. Example 3
In the diagram position a white piece A is not Thomas Maeder
pinned. The first move of a try and/or solution Reto Aschwanden
ensures that this white piece A is not pinned 3 Pr The Problemist 1993-I
later, in order to provide a mate.
Example 1
Francisco Salazar
6 HM Probleemblad 1976
Mate in two moves
1.Bd4? [2.Q×e5 A,Q×e4‡ B]
1…b2 a 2.B×e5‡ but 1…Bc4! b
1.Rd4? [2.Q×e5 A,Q×e4‡ B]
Mate in two moves 1…Bc4 b 2.Rxe4‡ but 1…b2! a
1.Rb4? [2.Qf6‡] 1…B×e4 2.Nd3‡ 1…Q×e4 Key: 1.Kg7! [2.Qf7‡]
2.Ng2‡ but 1…Bd4! 1.Rb7! [2.Rf7‡] 1…B×e4 1…b2 a 2.Q×e5‡ A1…Bc4 b 2.Q×e4 B
2.Qc1‡ 1…Q×e4 2.Q×h6‡ 1…Ra6 2.Q×e4‡ 1…Se3 2.B×e3‡ 1…e×f3
2.Q×f3
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 Tactics from master games
Example 4 Mate in three moves S.Krishnan
I.N. Gazhimon Solution: 1.Rd3! [2.Rb3‡] 1…Kc2+ 2.Rd4+
Sinfonie Scacchistiche 1969 Kb2 3.Rb4‡ 1…K×b1+ 2.Rc3+ Kb2 3.Rb3‡
Here battery check by black is parried by bat-
tery check by white.
Alexandre Kuzovkov
1 Pr Probleemblad 1991

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

Mate in two moves

1…N4 any a 2.Bc4‡ A 1…Ne4 b 2.Rf3‡ B
1.Qf6! [2.R×d4,Q×d4‡]
1…N4 any a 2.Rf3‡ B
1…Ne4 b 2.Bc4‡ A Mate in three moves
1…Re5,Rd5 2.N×b4 1.Rg5! [2.N×e3+ K×d6/Kd4 3.Q×d8/N×d1‡]
Section B: Three-movers 1…e6+ 2.Nd7+ Rb5/c5 3.c4/R×c5‡ 1…e5+
Theme: In a directmate in 3 moves in the 2.Nb7+ Rb5/c5 3.c4/R×c5‡ 1…e×d6+ 2.Ng7+
same variation the black defensive motif and Kd4 3.Q×d6‡ 1…e×f6+ 2.Ne7+ K×d6/Kd4
the white response are of the same tactical na- 3.Q×d8/Q×f6‡ battery check vs battery check
ture. For example, if Black is making a square Jean-Marc Loustau 3 4
evacuation defense then White is making a 1 Pr Phenix 1995-96 (v) White to play and win White to play and win
square evacuation on second move. Black
unpin is replied by white unpin, black flight
provision (unblock, capture or interference)
is replied by a flight provision on W2 move.
Otto Wurzburg
The Minneapolis Journal 1934

Mate in three moves

5 6
Key:1.Bh6! [2.Rg3+ h×g3 3.Q×g3‡] 1…Be5
2.Rd5 [3.N×e5,B×e6‡] B×f6+ 3.N×f6‡ 1… White to play and win White to play and win
Re5 2.Rd4+ R×d4/B×d4 3.N×e5/Rf4
Interference vs interference (solutions on p. 44 )

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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Masters of the past-53 Herman Reshevsky
Nadereshvili1964 Dr.Hans Staudte 1963
Herman Samuel Reshevsky (November 26, 1911 – April
4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading
American chess grandmaster. He was a strong contender for
the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the
mid-1960s: he came equal third in the 1948 World Chess
Championship tournament, and equal second in the 1953
Candidates Tournament. He was an eight-time winner of
the U.S Chess Championship. An outstanding match player
throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at positional play,
1 2
and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He was an
accountant by profession, and a well-regarded chess writer.
Reshevsky learned to play chess at age four, and was soon
G Kasparyan 1962 Petrov 1964 acclaimed as a child prodigy. At age eight he was beating
accomplished players with ease, and giving simultaneous
exhibitions. Reshevsky won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1931 at Tulsa;
this event was known as the Western Open at the time. He shared the 1934 U.S.
Open title with Reuben Fine at Chicago.
Reshevsky won the U.S. Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942,
1946, and 1969. He also tied for first in 1972, but lost the playoff in 1973 to Robert
Byrne. Reshevsky was a serious contender for the World Championship from roughly
1935 to the mid-1960s. He was one of the five chess grandmasters to compete in
the World Championship match tournament in The Hague/Moscow 1948 and finished
3 4 in joint third place with Paul Keres, behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov.
In 1950, Reshevsky was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE,
the World Chess Federation, on its inaugural list. Reshevsky competed eight times
Dr.W.Speckmann&.HStaudte 1963 A.Hilderband 1968 for the USA at the Chess Olympiads, six times on board one, over a 37-year span,
helping the U.S. team to win the gold in 1937 and bronze in 1974, and winning an
individual bronze medal for his performance on board one in 1950.
During his long chess career, Reshevsky played eleven of the first twelve World
Champions, from Emanuel Lasker to Anatoly Karpov, the only player to do so (he
met Garry Kasparov but never played him). He defeated seven World Champions:
Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik,
Vasily Smyslov, and Bobby Fischer.
Reshevsky's books include Reshevsky on Chess (1948), How Chess Games Are Won
(1962), Great Chess Upsets (1976), and The Art of Positional Play (1978), as well
5. 6 as an account of the 1972 World Championship match between his great rival Bobby
Fischer and Boris Spassky. He was also a columnist in chess magazines, and wrote
White to play and win in all the above six endings about chess for The New York Times.
(Solutions on page 44 ) Courtesy:Wikepedia

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Solution to ‘Tactics from master games’
on page 41
1. Agdestein,S (2620) - Graf,F (2478) [A10]
Fagernes NOR Fagernes NOR (3.7), 31.03.2015
Position after 33rd move.White to play. 33.Bxb6+!
Kxb6 34.Rxd6+ Rxd6 35.Rxd6+ Rxd6 36.c5+
Kc6 37.cxd6 Kxd6 38.Kxh4 [38.Kxh4 Kd5
39.Kh5 Kc4 40.Kxh6 Kxb4 41.Kg6 Wins] 1–0
2. Ezat,M (2479) - Mammadzada,G (2336)
[A04]
17th Dubai Chess Open Dubai UAE (5.26), 11.04.2015
Position after 39th move. White to play. 40.Rh8+!
Kxh8 [40...Kg7 41.Ne6+ Kxh8 42.Nxg5+-] 41.Nf7+
Kg7 42.Nxg5 Kf6 43.Nf3 [43.Nf3 Nxf3 44.Kxf3 Kf5
45.h4 The outside passer ensures win] 1–0
3. Cornette,M (2548) - Zaragatski,I (2472)
[C10]
Bundesliga 2014–15 Schwaebisch Hall GER (14.3),
11.04.2015
Position after 23rd move. White to play. 24.Ne5!
fxe5? [24...Qxg2 25.Nf7 Qg4 26.Nxh8 Rxh8
27.Qg3++-] 25.Qxe5+ Kb7 26.Rxa7+ Kxa7
27.Qc7+ Ka6 [27...Ka8 28.Re3 Wins] 28.Re3
Qh5 29.Ra3+ Qa5 30.c5! Kb5 31.Rxa5+
bxa5 [31...Kb4 32.Ra4+ Kxa4 33.Qxb6 Idea
34.b3...35Qa5#] 32.b3 Kb4 33.Kb2 Ba6
34.Qb6+ Bb5 35.a3# 1–0
4. Zaragatski,I (2472)
Meister,P (2411) [A10]
Bundesliga 2014–15 Schwaebisch Hall GER (15.4),
12.04.2015
Position fter 17th move. White to play. 18.Nd5! cxd5
[18...Qxb3 19.Ne7#; 18...Nxd5 19.Qxf3] 19.Qxf3
e4 20.Qf4 dxc4 21.Bxf6 Bxf6 22.Qxe4+- White
won in 33 moves. 1–0
5. Georgiev,Ki (2623)
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Dimov,Di (2340) [A15] 3rd KPK Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Tirupur
79th ch-BUL 2015 Pleven BUL (1.4), 18.04.2015
Position after 25th move. White to play. 26.Rd6!
Qa8 [26...Bxd6 27.Nf6+ Kf7 28.Qxc6 Re6 29.Qb7+
Kxf6 30.Qxa7+-] 27.Rg6+ [27.Rg6+ Kh7 (27...
Kh8 28.Qf7 Wins) 28.Qf7+ Kh8 29.Rxh6#] 1–0
6. Gustafsson,J (2639) Kongsee,U (2304)
[A81]
15th BCC Open 2015 Pattaya THA (2.4), 13.04.2015
Position after 22nd move.White to play. 23.Rxe8+!
[23.Rxe8+ Qxe8 (23...Rxe8 24.Ne6+ Kf7 25.Qg7+
Kxe6 26.Qf6#) 24.Nxh7+ Kxh7 (24...Kf7 25.Qf5+
Ke7 (25...Kg8 26.Qg5+ Kf7 27.Qf6+ Kg8 28.Qg7#)
26.Bf6+ Kf7 (26...Kd6 27.Qd5# (Also 27.c5# ) ) )
25.Qg7#] 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 42
1.Nadershveli,Cs Sach 1964 Inauguration photo Mr. V.T. Subramaniam, President of Tamil Kalai Illakiya Mandram and Mr. Easwaran of Tamilnadu
1.a5 Kb4 2.a6 Kb5 3.a7 Bc6 4.Bxc6 Kb6 5.a8N+ Murpoku Ezhuthaalar Sangam inaugurated the event in the presence of Mr. KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess
wins Academy and Office Bearers of Tirupur District Chess Association headed by its Secretary, Mr. K. Lakshmanasami and
G.G.Sathiesh, Chief Arbiter.
2.Dr.Hans Staudte
Sp.Hm Schachbulletinen 1963
1.Qe7 Qf3 2.Qd6 Ka5 3.Qc5+ Ka4 4.Qc4+ Ka5
5.Qa2+ Kb6 6.a8Q wins
3.Kasparyan
2nd prize,Shamati v CCCP 1962
1.Nc5+ Kc6 2.Nd3 Bg4 3.Kd2 Ba1 4.Rh1 Bg7
5.Rh7 Ba1 6.Ra7 Bh8 7. Ra8 Bg7 8.Ra6+ Kb5
9.Rg6
4.Petrov 1964
1.h5 Kg2 2.h6 Rc6+ 3.Ke5 Kh3 4.Kf5 Kh4 5.h7
Rh6 6.Re8 Rxh7 7.Kg6 Rh5 8.Re4+ wins
5.W.Speckmann& Staudte 1963
1.Bg4 Ng6 2.Nf3+ Kd1 3.Ne5+ wins 1…Ng2+
2.Kf3 Nh4+ 3.Kg3 Ng2 4.Nf3+ Kf1 5.Bf5
6.A.Hilderband G. Suresh Kumar, Lions District Governor, Sulur, Managing Director, Renuka Spinning Mills, Mr. A. Ranganathan, First Vice
I Pr, Schachbulletinen 1962 Governor Elect, Simta Group of Companies, Mr. M. Varadharajan, Past President, Sulur Lions Club, Lakshmi Narayanan
1.Rf2 gxf2 2.b5 e4 3.b6 e3 4.b7 f3 5.b8R MV (Winner), Mr. KPK Selvaraj, President of KPK Chess Academy, Mr. Andavar Ramasamy, Correspondent, Vikas Vidyala,
Tirupur, Mr. K. Lakshmanasami, Secretary, TDCA.
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 34: 1. b4 h5 2. b5 Rh6 3. b6 Rc6 4. bxc7 Rxc2 5. (L-R) Dr Prakash Shenoy K, Prakash Bhat Uppunda, Dr Rajgopal Shenoy, Sri Amit
cxb8=Q Rxd2 6. Qd6 Rxd1 7. Qxd1 and 3. ... Rd6 4. bxc7 Rxd2 5. cxb8=B Rxc2 6. Bbf4 Rxc1 Shetty, , Dr R C Natarajan, Dt Vinod Bhat, Sri KP Acharya, Dr Suresh Shenoy K, Girinath
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Ritviz Parab receiving winner's trophy from Chief Guest Arun Desai in presence
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chairman, Wagle High School Golden Jubilee Celebration committee), Rajendra Desai,
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