AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 14 Issue : 3 Price Rs.25 October 2019

World Youth Chess Championships 2019, Mumbai

WIM Divya Deshmukh

Silver
Under 14 Girls

FM Srihari LR WIM Vantika Agarwal

Silver Silver
Under 14 Open Under 18 Girls

GM R.Praggnanandhaa
Gold
Under 18 Open

FM Shreewan Maralakshikari CM Aronyak Ghosh

Bronze Bronze
Under 14 Open Under 16 Open

WIM Rakshitta Ravi

Bronze
Under 14 Girls

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1st Lakecity GM International Tmt,, Udaipur
GM Deepan Chakravarthy of ICF wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 1 Open event. In the under-14 category Srihari LR
02nd Gujarat Open Intl. GM Trnt 2019, Ahmedabad
GM Ivan Rozum wins Gujarat GM Open
by N.K.Nandakumar, International Arbiter 6 The tournament was inaugurated at the hands
Rotary 100 Years Celebration Rated Tmt,Mannargudi
Sabarish wins title
by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter 10
Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial FIDE rating Tmt 2019, Bihar
Shuvam Roy wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 13
1stCourtallam Saaral fide Rated Tmt,Courtallam
Muhammad Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan wins title
by IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 15
5thKanchi Chess Academy FIDE rated tmt, Chennai
Prasanna wins title
by Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter 17
6thKanchi Chess Academy Fide rated open, Chennai
Gopinath wins title
by Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter 18
15TH KCM international open FIDE rated, Coimbatore
Manigandan clinches title
by Dr.G.G.Sathiesh IA, Chief Arbiter 19
57th Kerala state open fide rated tmt,, Kozhikode
A Harikrishnan wins title
by Dr. Govindankutty MS, IA, Chief Arbiter 21
1stNellai Below 1600 Fide Rated Tmt,Courtallam
Vishwanath Kannam wins title
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam,Chief Arbiter 27
Pearl City All India Open Fide Rating Tmt,Hyderabad
GM Laxman RR is Champion
by IA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter 29
Rotary Club of Ponda Open FIDE Rating Blitz Nitish Belurkar is Winner
IA Vasanth BH,Chief Arbiter 31
Smart Girl Fide Rating Chess Tmt,
Patna Marium Fatima is Smart Girl in Bihar
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter 33
UP State U-19 Open FIDE Rating Ch’ships,
Agra Prithvvi Singh of Lucknow is winner
by Kavita Patel IA, Chief Arbiter 34
Selected games from Tetrasoft GM Open,
Hyderabad Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 35
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-104 Dr.Max Euwe 44
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
India hosted World Youth Chess
Championships for the first time,
from 1st to 13th October 2019 in
Mumbai and the excellent organ-
ization by the Maharashtra Chess
Association drew praise all round
including the five-star accommoda-
tion provided for all the players for the first time.
This prestigious event, held in three categories ,
showcased some of the best young talents in the
country. Barely 14, young GM Praggnanandhaa
stamped his class winning gold in the Under-18
and Shreeshwan Maralakshikari won silver and
bronze in the Open event while on the distaff side
WIM Divya Deshmukh and Rakshita Ravi took sil-
ver and bronze respectively. Vantika Agarwal won
silver in Under-18 Girls category and Aronyak
Ghosh bagged a bronze in Under 16 Open. This
seven medal haul is the highest by any nation in
this Championship.
Making a come-back, GM Koneru Humpy clinched
the title at the first of the four Women FIDE Grand
Prix series at Skolkovo holding the reigning World
Champion Ju Wnjun to a draw in the final round.
A FIDE Arbiter seminar was organised by All Ra-
jputana Chess Association at Udaipur last month.
Reports on the above three events are presented
in the centre pages of this issue.
There were two GM tournaments held last month.
The Gujarat GM Open at Ahmedabad was won by
Russian GM Ivan Rozum and in the 1st Lake city
GM Open at Udaipur GM Deepan Chakravarthi
was the Champion. Reports on these tournaments
along with other FIDE rated tournaments held dur-
ing September 2019 are carried in this issue.
IM Manuel Aaron annotates selected games from
Tetrasoft Marriott GM Chess Tournament, Hydera-
bad.Former World Champion and President FIDE
Dr.Max Euwe is featured in the ‘Masters of the past’
series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Editor at indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
1st Lakecity GM International Chess Tournament,, Udaipur
GM Deepan Chakravarthy of ICF wins
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter
1st Lakecity GM International Chess Tournament,
was held from 13th September to 20th Septem-
ber, 2019, at Orbit Resort, Udaipur Rajasthan.
The event was organized by Chess In Lakecity,
Udaipur. The tournament attracted total 223
players from 11 Federations. There were in all
204 international fide rated players among the
participants which includes 13 GM, 2 WGM, 9 IM
and 6 FM from 20 states.
of Dr. Vikas Bhale, IAS, Divisional Commission-
er. Other dignitaries present were Shri. Sekhar
Chandra Sahu, Vice President AICF; Shri. Ra-
jendra Teli, Jt. Secretary, ARCA, Shri. Devendra
Sahu, Shri. Himmat Sikligar, Shri. Vikas Sahu,
Secretary Chess In lakecity and IA Swapnil Ban-
sod, Chief Arbiter. The inaugural function was
held at 10 A.M. & was followed by a technical
meeting and thereafter the first round of the
tournament. The necessary technical matters
were decided in the meeting and also the appeal
committee was formed in the same meeting.
The 8 grueling days of top notch chess of 1st
Lakecity GM tournament 2019, which concluded
at Orbit Resort, observed many higher rated play-
ers were biting the dust and also the emergence
of few new talents.
GM Ivan Rozum of RUS, the top seed of the
tournament, was held by IM Sayantan Das of
WB in a Petroff
Defense game. A critical knight endgame ended
in a draw after 49 moves. In the 8th Round game
GM Hesham Abdelarahman of Egypt won against
Chillian GM Vasquez Rodrigo. Hesham started the
game with English opening. He took a advantage
of his advanced “d” pawn to convert the game
into win. With this win GM Hesham took the sole
lead after round 8. Top seed GM Ivan Rozum beat
GM Hesham in the penultimate round to share the
lead with 3 others. GM Deepan Chakravarthi beat
IM Siddhant Mohopatra in a 25 moves Queens
Gambit game. While on 3rd board IM Sayantan
Das of WB having good chances of GM Norm,
lost to GM Maxim Lugovesky of RUS. Fourth
board result went in favour of GM Neelotpal Das
who beat his state mate and newly crowned IM
Mitrabha Guha both were from WB.
In the last round in his game the Grandmaster
GM Ivan Rozum and GM Neelotpal Das settled for
a quick draw. 2nd board GM Swapnil Dhopade
and GM Deepan Chakravarthy split the score in
a queen/rook endgame. On 3rd board also GM
Maxim Lugovsky drew his game with GM R R
Laxman. At the end of 10th round GM Deepan
Chakravarthy of ICF, GM Maxim Lugovksy of RUS,
top seed GM Ivan Rozum of RUS and GM Neelot-
pal Das of PSPB tied for 1st place with 8 points
each. Better tiebreak score helped GM Deepan
Chakravarthy to clinch the title ahead of other 3
rivals. GM Lugovksy Maxim, GM Ivan Rozum and
GM Neelotpal Das stood 2nd to 4th respectively.
The prizes were distributed at the hands of Shri.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Cabinet Minister
of Water Resources, Government of India. The
other dignitaries present were Shri. Gulabchand
Kataria, Opposition Leader Shri. C.P. Joshi, MP
Chittor, Shri. Fulsingh Meena, MLA Udaipur, Shri.
Chandrabhan Singh Ankya, MLA, Chittorgarh,
Shri Devendra Sahu, Shri. Tushar Mehta, Shri.
Himmat Sikligar, Shri. Rajendra Teli, Jr. Secre-
tary ARCA, Shri. Vikas Sahu, Secretary, Chess
in Lakecity, and IA Swapnil Bansod Chief Arbiter.
The tournament, organized by Chess in Lakecity
on behalf of All India Chess Federation, concluded
smoothly.
Chief Arbiter IA Swapnil Bansod headed the team
of Arbiters consisting of IA Rajendra Teli, Dy.
Chief Arbiter, IA Anandh Babu VL, live games
incharge, FA Sunil Soni, FA Neelesh Kumawat, FA
Manish Chandalia, FA Chocklingam Balaji, and FA
Deepak Chavan, who ably assisted him.
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Final Ranking 47 Satkar Chirag IND 6 Rotary 100 Years Celebration FIDE Rated Tournament,Mannargudi
Rk. Name FED Pts. 48 FM Siddharth Jagadeesh SGP 6
1 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 8 49 AIM Abhay Bandewar IND 6
2 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 8 50 Mayank Chakraborty IND 6
3 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 8 51 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 6
4 GM Neelotpal Das IND 8 52 Samal Ansuman IND 6
5 FM Mitrabha Guha IND 7.5 53 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 6
54 Gajendra Singh IND 6
6 GM Hesham Abdelrahman EGY 7.5
55 Shubham IND 6
7 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7.5 56 Parekh Vishrut IND 6
8 Bharat Kumar Reddy P IND 7.5 57 Arun Rathee IND 6
9 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 7.5 58 Dubey Sanchay IND 6
10 IM Sidhant Mohapatra IND 7.5 59 Tanishq Gupta IND 6
11 FM Shailesh Dravid IND 7.5 60 Ayush Jha IND 6
61 Medhansh Saxena IND 6
12 GM Himanshu Sharma IND 7.5
62 Bhagwat Heramb IND 6
13 FM Mehdi Hasan Parag BAN 7.5 63 Nayem Haque BAN 6
14 IM Das Sayantan IND 7 64 Anubhab Gupta IND 6
15 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 7 65 Choudhury Md. Zahid BAN 6
16 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 7 66 Goel Pratyaksh IND 5.5
17 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 7 67 Lad Mandar Pradip IND 5.5
18 Thanki Hemal Karsanji IND 7 68 Swayham P Das IND 5.5
19 IM Vlassov Nikolai RUS 7 69 Vrashank Chouhan IND 5.5 (L-R) The Winner Mr.R K Sabarish, Mr.D.Palanivel,Rotary Club Madhukkur, Mr.D.Jayakumar, Zone Secretary,
20 Patil Pratik IND 7 70 Shah Vishwa IND 5.5 Mr.P.Ramesh, President, Rotary Club Mannargudi Mr. M. Senthilkumar,Assistant Governor,Rotary Zone 15 (giving
21 IM Abu Sufian Shakil BAN 7 71 Ashutosh Kumar IND 5.5 the trophy), Mr. V. Sankar, Secretary, Rotary Club Mannargudi; Mr.S.Rajmohan,President,Rotary Club Greencity
22 Jay Kundaliya IND 7 72 Nirgun Keval IND 5.5
23 IM Sarwat Walaa EGY 7 73 Roop Saurav IND 5.5 1st Courtalam Saaral FIDE Rated Tournament, Courtalam
24 GM V Schroeder Rodrigo CHI 6.5 74 AIM Sahib Singh IND 5.5
25 Nayak Rajesh IND 6.5 75 FM Muhammed Shuaau MDV 5.5
26 IM Eraschenkov Denis RUS 6.5
76 Md.Abzid Rahman BAN 5.5
27 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6.5
28 Pranav Shetty IND 6.5 77 Sinthia Sarkar IND 5.5
29 Sibi Visal R IND 6.5 78 Priyankara Chamil SRI 5.5
30 WGM Swati Ghate IND 6.5 79 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M IND 5.5
31 Ramakrishna Perumalla IND 6.5 80 Rathore Sonakshi IND 5.5
32 Sourath Biswas IND 6.5 81 Prithvvi Singh IND 5.5
33 Aniruddh Chatterjee IND 6.5
82 Mrittika Mallick IND 5.5
34 Dahale Atul IND 6.5
35 Pandey Srishti IND 6.5 83 Sanchit Anand IND 5.5
36 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6.5 84 Garv Gaur IND 5.5
37 Arpan Das (Jr) IND 6.5 85 Sanjeet Manohar IND 5.5
38 Aradhya Garg IND 6.5 86 Naman Porwal IND 5.5
39 GM Saptarshi Roy IND 6 87 Amatya Pramit NEP 5.5
40 Kumar Gaurav IND 6
88 Arun Kataria IND 5.5
41 Anadkat Kartavya IND 6
42 Vaibhav Jayant Raut IND 6 89 Sunny Bedi IND 5.5
43 Chilukuri Sai Varshith IND 6 90 Sankalan Shah IND 5.5
44 Rathore S.K. IND 6 91 Bajaj Prakhar IND 5.5 IM Muhammad Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan, Paul Kumar Secretary, TDCDA, Ms. Hemalatha, Assistant Conserva-
45 Nikhil M IND 6 92 Praveen Kumar IND 5.5 tor of Forest, Dr. Sheik Saleem Governor, Rotary District 3212 and former President of Tirunelveli District Chess
46 Sinha Sudhir Kumar IND 6 93 Priyanka Kumari IND 5.5 Association and IA R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

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 Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial All India FIDE rating 2019, Bihar
Prize winners with dignitaries
Smart Girl Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Patna
(L-R)Marium Fatima ,Champion of Smart Girls Fide Rating,Patna Amaranjay Dubey, Treasurer ,ABCA , Dhar-
mendra Kumar , Hony. Secretary , ABCA Chief Guest Diljeet Khanna , President , ABCA , Guest of Honour
Mahesh Kolekar , Professor , IIT , Patna , Ajit Kumar Nayan and NandKishor,Joint Secretary of ABCA.
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94 Aman Agarwal IND 5.5 141 Abul Kashem BAN 4.5
95 Tanisha Chatterjee IND 5.5 142 Mahabir Parshad Verma IND 4.5
96 Kothari Pranit IND 5 143 Abdullah Al Raison BAN 4.5
97 Babel T Divyanshu IND 5 144 Jitendra Sharma IND 4.5
98 Gourav Nigam IND 5 145 Aanya Chawat IND 4.5
99 Dere Pushkar IND 5
146 AFM Choubey Saurabh IND 4
100 Joshi Deergha Raj NEP 5
101 AIM Mandloi Mukesh IND 5 147 Arya Bhakta IND 4
102 Samarth Mittal IND 5 148 Gautam Kataria IND 4
103 Prudhvi Kumar V IND 5 149 Subramanian T.V. IND 4
104 AGM Chandrajeet Singh R IND 5 150 Mythri Maddisetty IND 4
105 Sarthak Rawat IND 5 151 Shah Ram Surat Prasad NEP 4
106 Pingale Shivraj IND 5
152 Bhawesh Pandiyar IND 4
107 Puneet Manchanda IND 5
108 IM Sahu Sekhar Chandra IND 5 153 AFM Amrit Raunak IND 4
109 Makwana Devam IND 5 154 Deepak Khas IND 4
110 Jena Suhana IND 5 155 Yajat Vyas IND 4
111 Gawade Milind IND 5 156 Pawar Sohum IND 4
112 Kartikey Verma IND 5 157 Ashutosh Jamwal IND 4
113 Bhoopnath IND 5 158 Timalsina Binod NEP 4
114 Cera Dagaria IND 5 159 Ajay S Parvathareddy IND 4
115 Patel Suyogkumar M IND 5 160 Charvi Patidar IND 4
116 Mayank S Nandkishore IND 5 161 AGM Chinmay Danawat IND 4
117 Tomar Nishant Singh IND 5 162 Md Salman Munshi BAN 4
118 Ammar Habib IND 5 163 Koirala Sunil Bahadur NEP 4
119 Kavinda Akila SRI 5 164 Dakshita Kumawat IND 4
120 Joel Paul G IND 5 165 Yug Desai IND 4
121 Md Zia Uddin BAN 5 166 Dugar Chetan IND 4
122 Tanmay Nalwaya IND 5 167 Hamendra S Makwana IND 4
123 Chhabra Kunal IND 5 168 Rithwik Gandikota IND 4
124 IM Sobh Amrou EGY 4.5 169 Prakhar Chaplot IND 4
125 Sree Veeramani P IND 4.5 170 Porwal Dhruv IND 4
126 Gengaje Pratik IND 4.5 171 Deo Varad IND 4
127 Sadbhav Rautela IND 4.5 172 Ankur Agarwal IND 4
128 Swarnavo Choudhury BAN 4.5 173 Nayak Amit IND 4
129 Yadav Ashindra IND 4.5 174 Shivika Saraogi IND 4
130 Chandan Palash N IND 4.5 175 Sachin Kumar Saini IND 4
131 Dawda Vihaan IND 4.5 176 Md Ashraf Qureshi IND 3.5
132 Dadwani Sahil IND 4.5 177 Chudasama Ankit IND 3.5
133 Vikramaditya Mukhija IND 4.5 178 Madhav Ajmera IND 3.5
134 Rahul Bharadwaj B IND 4.5
179 Awade Pradeep IND 3.5
135 Karankar Padmakar IND 4.5
180 Rudradaman Mertia IND 3.5
136 Govind Prabhu Mah IND 4.5
181 Jeetan Patel IND 3.5
137 Dhruv Dak IND 4.5
182 Govind Kumar Chandel IND 3.5
138 Ankit Ray IND 4.5
183 Sharma Ramesh Chandr IND 3.5
139 Shankhodip De IND 4.5
184 Agrawal D Ramakant IND 3.5
140 Chetan Pratap Singh R IND 4.5
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 02nd Gujarat Open International GM Tournament 2019, Ahmedabad
GM Ivan Rozum wins Gujarat GM Open
by N.K.Nandakumar, International Arbiter
The prestigious event was inaugurated by
Shri Ajay Patel (President Emeritus, Gu-
jarat State Chess Association), by making
a first move and he will be accompanied
by Shri Bhavesh Patel (CEO, Gujarat State
Chess Association), Shri Jayesh Modi (Presi-
dent, Karnavati Club), Shri Mayur Patel (Vice
President, Gujarat State Chess Association),
Shri Samir Shah (Treasurer, Gujarat State
Chess Association) and Shri Tejas Bakre (1st
GM of Gujarat) at Golden Glory hall, Kar-
navati Club,Gandhinagar-Sarkhej Highway,
Opp Shalby Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
380058. The ten rounds Swiss league tour-
nament has a prize fund of Rs 13 lakhs for
category A, Rs.6,00,000 for Category B and
Rs.6,00,000 for category C, the winner will
be presented a cash prize of Rs.2,00,000/-
+ Trophy. With 46
title holders from 13 Countries (15 GM, 2
WGM, 13 IM, 2 WIM, 6 FM, 2 WFM, 5 CM and
1 WCM and thus totaling 206 participants in
category A, 264 players in Category B and
375 players in category C.Grandmaster Ro-
zum Ivan of Russia and won the title and first
prize of Rs.2,00,000/-. Mr.Ajay Patel, Pres-
ident The Prize distribution ceremony was
held in a colorful manner in the same hall.
Category “B” event was won by Mr.Anurag
Jaiswal of West Bengal and the category
“C” event was won by Mr.Pathak Rudhra of
Gujarat
The Russian Grandmaster Ivan Rozum quick-
ly drew his final round game against IM
Neelash Saha to finish clear first with an
unbeaten score of 8.5/10 points and win
the 2nd Gujarat International Open 2019.
Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder, Neelash Saha,
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and Sandipan Chanda finished just half a
point behind with 8.0/10 each and were de-
clared second, third, and fourth respectively
based on tie-breaks. Both Sandipan and
Rodrigo remained unbeaten in the event and
won their last round encounters to ensure a
strong finish.
Ivan Rozum played safe in the last two
rounds of the event drawing both his games
against Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder and
Neelash Saha by agreement in less than
twenty moves. Well, one can hardly criticize
him, for he finished clear first and became
the champion anyway, and returned home
richer by Rs. 2,00,000. Ivan remained un-
beaten throughout the event, winning seven
out of the total ten games with an impressive
performance rating of 2607. Ivan not only
clinched victories against strong in-form GMs
like Maxim Lugovskoy and Saptarshi Roy but
also exercised caution when he needed to
which paid off in the end. Rodrigo Vasquez
Schroeder remained unbeaten in the event
and defeated IM Sayantan Das in the final
round to finish as runner up of the event.
Sandipan Chanda started off the tournament
with four victories but slowed down between
rounds five to eight drawing four games in a
row. Fortunately, in the last two rounds he
found his spark back and registered wins
against Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and Saptarshi
Roy to pull off a strong finish.
Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy had the
white pieces against Neelash Saha in the
penultimate round of 2nd Gujarat Interna-
tional Open 2019. Deepan began the game
with his oft-used Reti opening but after the 12 IM Nguyen Van Huy VIE 7
13 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 7
third move transposed into the Torre attack
instead. On move 12 he started a provoca-
14 IM Eraschenkov Denis RUS 7
15 Bharat Kumar R P IND 7
tive flank expansion on the kingside at the 16 FM Manush Shah IND 7
risk of keeping his own king in the middle 17 IM Sidhant Mohapatra IND 7
18 GM Murshed Niaz BAN 7
of the board, a few inaccuracies thereafter
19 AGM Lakshmi N MV IND 7
enabled his opponent to break open through 20 GM Hesham A EGY 6.5
the center and launch a winning attack with 21 GM Neelotpal Das IND 6.5
a hyperactive queen. 22 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 6.5
23 FM Srihari L R IND 6.5
24 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 6.5
The 2nd Gujarat International Grandmas- 25 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 6.5
ter Open is a 10-round Swiss tournament 26 GM Manik Mikulas SVK 6.5
taking place from 22-29 September 2019 27 IM Konguvel P IND 6.5
28 WGMKiran Manisha M IND 6.5
in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The tournament
29 IM Abu Sufian Shakil BAN 6.5
consisted of an impressive cash pool of Rs. 30 FM Shailesh Dravid IND 6.5
25,00,000/- The category A of the event is 31 Chilukuri Sai Varshith IND 6.5
meant for players rated 2000 or above, while 32 Aradhya Garg IND 6.5
33 Anadkat Kartavya IND 6.5
categories B and C are reserved for players
34 IM Vlassov Nikolai RUS 6.5
below 1999 and 1599 respectively. 35 Pandey Srishti IND 6.5
36 CM Nikhil Magizhnan IND 6.5
I thank All India Chess Federation & Gujarat 37 WGM Srija Seshadri IND 6.5
38 Aaditya Dhingra IND 6.5
State Chess Association for given me the
39 CM Liyanage R Dilshan SRI 6
opportunity to officiate as Chief Arbiter in 40 Pranav Shetty IND 6
this tournament and my special thanks to 41 Thanki Hemal K IND 6
the Deputy Chief Arbiter Mr.Sakthi Prab- 42 IM Deshmukh Anup IND 6
43 Kavinda Akila SRI 6
hakar, International Arbiter, Mr.V.L.Anandh
44 Zia Tahsin Tajwar BAN 6
Babu, International Arbiter, Mr.Vijayaragha- 45 FM Mehdi Hasan Parag BAN 6
van, International Arbiter, Mr.M.S.Govindan 46 Patil Pratik IND 6
Kutty, International Arbiter and other sector 47 Satkar Chirag IND 6
48 Gandhi Anish IND 6
Arbiters and Volunteers who worked day
49 Ramakrishna P IND 6
and night to make this tournament a grand 50 Kishan Gangolli IND 6
success. 51 CM Kadam Om Manish IND 6
52 Soham Datar IND 6
Final Ranking:Category A (first 150 placings) 53 Jay Kundaliya IND 6
Rk. Name FED Pts. 54 Bhatt Jalpan IND 6
1 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 8.5 55 Samal Ansuman IND 6
2 GM Vasquez S Rodrigo CHI 8 56 Ayan Pal IND 6
3 IM Neelash Saha IND 8 57 Pranav V IND 5.5
4 GM Chanda Sandipan IND 8 58 IM Nitin S. IND 5.5
5 GM Saptarshi Roy IND 7.5 59 Sri Sai Baswanth P IND 5.5
6 GM Lugovskoy Maxim RUS 7.5 60 Katdare Jayant C IND 5.5
7 GM Himanshu Sharma IND 7.5 61 Souhardo Basak IND 5.5
8 GM Karthikeyan P. IND 7.5 62 Alan Diviya Raj IND 5.5
9 GM Laxman R.R. IND 7.5 63 Gaikwad Siddhant IND 5.5
10 IM Das Sayantan IND 7 64 Pimpalkhare Vedant IND 5.5
11 GM Deepan C IND 7 65 Priyankara Chamil SRI 5.5
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66 Sibi Srinivas Einstein IND 5.5 120 Vijay Anand M. IND 4.5 22 Parekh Vishrut 7 7 Sarode Om 8
67 Arun Rathee IND 5.5 121 Abhirami Madabushi IND 4.5 23 Arnav Kushwaha 7 8 Lasaroda Prince 8
68 Barath Kalyan M IND 5.5 122 Ananmay Sharma IND 4.5 24 Deepak Rai 7 9 Chudasama Ronak 8
69 Kshatriya Nitin V IND 5.5 123 AFM Choubey Saurabh IND 4.5 25 Yatin Kumar 7 10 Jval Saurin Patel 7.5
70 IM Sobh Amrou EGY 5.5 124 Priansh Das IND 4.5 26 Singla Aaryan 7 11 Kshitij Kadam 7.5
71 WIM Harshita Guddanti IND 5.5 125 Tiwari Shivansh IND 4.5 27 Stanley Samson P. 7 12 Deshpande Omkar 7.5
72 Sreekar J S S IND 5.5 126 Gadhavi V IND 4.5 28 Mraduhas Tripathi 7 13 Raval Mayur 7.5
73 Jani Kushal R IND 5.5 127 Aritrya Pal IND 4.5 29 Dave Kantilal 7 14 Ashvath Mittal 7.5
74 Chauhan Joy IND 5.5 128 Sadbhav Rautela IND 4.5 30 Bhoopnath 7 15 Borkhetariya Devarsh M 7.5
75 Ashvin Venkat G IND 5.5 129 Nawin M S IND 4.5 31 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 7 16 Khandelwal Naman 7.5
76 AGM Rathneesh R IND 5.5 130 Gourav Nigam IND 4.5 32 Joglekar Abhijit 7 17 Adalja Vanssh A 7.5
77 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara IND 5.5 131 Giri Abhishek IND 4.5 33 Borse Vaibhav 7 18 Vishal Vala 7.5
78 Saranya Y IND 5.5 132 Shankhodip De IND 4.5 34 Darsh Kansal 6.5 19 Chetan Pratap Singh Rathor 7.5
79 Saypuri Srithan IND 5.5 133 Jaiveer Mahendru IND 4.5 35 Gaurav Kathuria 6.5 20 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 7
80 Daaevik Wadhawan IND 5.5 134 Bharadia Yash IND 4.5 36 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 6.5 21 Surana Aayush 7
81 Chokshi Manthan J. IND 5.5 135 Lakshyesh M Gupta IND 4.5 37 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6.5 22 Johney Mandal 7
82 Deodhar Vrushali U IND 5.5 136 Aagam Aditya E IND 4.5 38 Pradeep Tiwari 6.5 23 Chavada Rajendrasinh 7
83 Vedant Nitin V IND 5.5 137 AFM Nagarkatte Vedant IND 4.5 39 Srikanth K. 6.5 24 Arnav Dhamija 7
84 Joshi Govind Ballabh IND 5.5 138 Amatya Pramit NEP 4.5 40 Hapse Shreyas 6.5 25 Soni Deepak R 7
85 Bagwe Gaurang IND 5.5 139 Phatak Aanjaneya IND 4 41 Mhamane Sourabh 6.5 26 Neev Patel 7
86 Kumthekar Shubham IND 5.5 140 Shirodkar Aayush IND 4 42 Gautam Kataria 6.5 27 Tomar Nishant Singh 7
87 Md.Abzid Rahman BAN 5.5 141 Nirnay Garg IND 4 43 Sarode Om 6.5 28 Shah Krish G 7
88 Akira Sowmyanath IND 5.5 142 Rithwik Gandikota IND 4 44 Sarvade Mihiir 6.5 29 Bhat Siddharth K 7
89 Sanket Chakravarty IND 5 143 Vaibhav Kalpaka IND 4 45 Suraj Choudhary 6.5 30 Raval Rushil 7
90 FM Siddharth Jagadeesh SGP 5 144 WIM Gokhale Anupama IND 4 46 Swapnil Raj 6.5 31 Kaushal Vyas 7
91 Shubham IND 5 145 Akshit Jha IND 4 47 Makwana Virendra Sinh 6.5 32 Vivek N Vala 7
92 Chaitanya Sairam M IND 5 146 Rohnit G Amin IND 4 48 Jatinder Kapoor 6.5 33 Varshita Jain 7
93 Shah Moxit J IND 5 147 Sriansh Das IND 4 49 Patil Mayur 6 34 Anurag Panigrahi 7
94 Sparsh Khandelwal IND 5 148 Parth Kuntal Raval IND 4 50 Gaurav Das 6 35 Aneri Ketan Kanjar 7
95 Anusha N L V IND 5 149 Agarwal Mukund H IND 4 51 Swastik Singhal 6 36 Bharwad Merubhai 7
96 Nanal Arnav IND 5 150 Kheerthi Ganta IND 4 52 Katiyar Prashant 6 37 Gupta Niti 7
97 Aditya P Melani IND 5 Final Ranking:Category B(first 67 placings) 53 Patil Harshal U 6 38 Patil Aditi G 7
98 Nayak Rajesh IND 5 Rk. Name Pts. 54 Bopardikar Veer 6 39 Rudra Jaiswara 7
99 Swayham P Das IND 5 1 Anurag Jaiswal 9 55 Mughaho Awomi 6 40 Venkatesh H 7
100 Rahul Bharadwaj B IND 5 2 Nikhil M 8.5 56 Aliporewala Priyank 6 41 Rajbeer Ahmed 6.5
101 Potawad Anirudhha IND 5 3 Raj D Vyas 8 57 Vrashank Chouhan 6 42 Manpreeth Singh R 6.5
102 Tamhankar Siddhant IND 5 4 Sumit Grover 8 58 Saksham Omer 6 43 Pandey Arpit 6.5
103 Kumar Gaurav IND 5 5 Chudasama Ankit 8 59 Vikesh Nandan Kumar 6 44 Girishbhai V Koradiya 6.5
104 Shah Vishwa IND 5 6 FM Muhammed Shuaau 8 60 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 6 45 Patel Jaymin J 6.5
105 Kanishk S K IND 5 7 Falgun D Purohit 8 61 Ashutosh Jamwal 6 46 Sanjay Davda 6.5
106 Vishwa Bala K IND 5 8 AGM Chandrajeet Singh R 8 62 Kalbande Mayur 6 47 Trivedi Gaurav V 6.5
107 Aniruddh Chatterjee IND 5 9 Chavan Nameet 7.5 63 Anubhab Gupta 6 48 Pradeep Pandya 6.5
108 AFM Kukreja Sankalp IND 5 10 Kadav Omkar 7.5 64 Suresh Garg 6 49 Shibin K Benny 6.5
109 CM Nayem Haque BAN 5 11 Mohit Kumar Soni 7.5 65 Rupesh Reddy Y 6 50 Kamdar Abhay 6.5
110 Dave Sneh IND 5 12 Basak Bishal 7 66 Dony K V 6 51 Dhrubajyoti Barman 6.5
111 Alekhya M IND 4.5 13 Ajay Kumar Rai 7 67 Trivedi Rushang 6 52 Khairmode Dhanashree 6.5
112 Anustoop Biswas IND 4.5 14 Dandekar Anuj 7 Final Ranking :Category C(first 60 placings) 53 Sanghavi Manoj 6.5
113 Jain Adi IND 4.5 15 Kapil Dadhich 7 Rk. Name Pts. 54 Anit Kumar Agarwal 6.5
114 Adarsh Tripathi IND 4.5 16 Prudhvi Kumar V 7 1 Pathak Rudra S 9.5 55 Santosh Pal 6.5
115 IM Sarwat Walaa EGY 4.5 17 Gajanan Vijay Jayade 7 2 Kacha Akshit 8.5 56 Sanjay Tolia Dr 6.5
116 WFM Patil Mitali IND 4.5 18 Sher Singh 7 3 Suresh Garg 8.5 57 Chopra Syna 6.5
117 Sawant Akshay IND 4.5 19 Rawal Shailesh 7 4 Vrashank Chouhan 8.5 58 Varun P Jhangiani 6.5
118 Sankalan Shah IND 4.5 20 Rishabh Nishad 7 5 Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy 8.5 59 Prince Chirag Gandhi 6.5
119 Shah Vrushti IND 4.5 21 Kapadi Yash 7 6 Shaikh Sohil 8 60 Shamim Ahmad 6.5

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 Rotary 100 Years Celebration FIDE Rated Tournament,Mannargudi
Sabarish wins title
by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter
The Rotary 100 Years Celebration All India
FIDE Rated Chess Tournament was held at
SBA Matriculation Higher Secondary.School,
Mannargudi from 24th to 27th September
2019 very well organized by Tiruvarur Dis-
trict Chess Association.
Rtn.Major Donar Er N.Manimaran, District
Governor-RI Dist 2981 inaugurated the
tournament by making the first move with
Jayadev R Balan and Kamali, SGFI Gold
Medallist, both players of Tiruvarur Dis-
trict,in the presence of President, Secre-
tary and members of Rotary Club of Man-
nargudi,Rotary club of Maddukur, Rotary
club of Mannai Green city, Rotary club of
Adirampattinam, Rotary club of Mannar-
gudi Mid-Town, Tiruvarur District Chess
Association and MannargudiTaluk Chess
Association.
The speciality of this tournament was the
low entry fee of Rs.250/- and the Prizes
were attactive trophies. In this prestigious
event a total 286 Players from 2 States
were participated out of which 63 are FIDE
rated.Top seed of the event was Mr. T.Shy-
am Sundar from Tanjore of Tamilnadu.
Mr.R K Sabarish from Trichy, Tamilnadu
won the title in the ‎Rotary 100 Years
Celebration All India FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament.He was the sole leader secur-
ing 6.5/7 Points.
Upto the final round it is very hard to pre-
dict the winner, even though Mr. Mani-
kandaPrabhu B V of Tamilnadu
had slight advantage of better tie break
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score in the penultimate round. In the
final round Mr. T Shyamsundar and Ms.
S Annapurani of Tamilnadu played in the
top board and shared the points. In the
second board Mr. R K Sabarish of Tamil-
nadu beat Mr.Raghavendra Subarmani of
Tamilnadu and in the third board Mr.Man-
iknda Prabhu and Mr.Dhinesh Kannan of
Tamilnadu shared the points, all played
with 5/5 points, Mr. R K Sabrish victory in
second board fetched him the prestigious
title and the Cup
Mr. B V Maniknda Prabhu T Shyamsundar
Mr.Dhinesh Kannan, T Srithar T, Kaviyarasan
and Ms. S Annapurai all with six points were
placed in that order as per the tie break
score.As a welcome gesture the organisers
sponsored lunch for all the players and par-
ents on all days. They also encouraged all
Under 08 and Under 10 Players by giving
prizes to all of them.
In The Prize Distribution function On 27th
September 2019 at 4.30 p.m,Mr.P Ramesh,
President, Rotary Club of Mannrgudi Mid-
town presided over the Function, Mr. V.
Sankar, Secretary, Rotary Club of Mannar-
gudi welcomed the gathering, Mr.M Sen-
thilkumar Assistant Governor gave of the
Prizes to the Prize Winners in the presence
of Mr. D Jayakumar, Zone Secretary and
coordinator, Presidents of Rotary Clubs
Mr.G Karthikeyan, Mr. S Rajmohan, Mr. D
Palanivel, and Mr. N Santha Kumar, Presi-
dent Tiruvarur District Chess Association,
Mr.P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter of this
event and all the Tiruvarur District and
Mannargudi Taluk Members .Mr. RK Balagu-
na Sekharan, Secretary, Tiruvarur District
Chess Association and Jt. Secretary, TNSCA
proposed vote of thanks.I thank AICF, TN-
SCA,Tiruvarur District Chess Association for
giving me an opportunity to work as Chief
Arbiter in this prestigious tournament. I also
have to thank the School Management, Staff
and volunteers for their wonderful support.
I have to thank my Arbiter team for their
excellent work.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Sabarish R K 6½
2 Manikanda Prabhu B V6
3 Shyam Sundar T. 6
4 Dhinesh Kannan 6
5 Srithar T 6
6 Kaviyarasan T 6
7 Nishanth Prabhakaran 6
8 Karthick Bala G 6
9 Annapurni S 6
10 Priyanjana V 6
11 Mridubashini S S 6
12 R Venkatasubramani 5½
13 Srihari Satheeswaran 5½
14 Arjun Kumar S 5½
15 Kamali B 5½
16 Irulappan G 5½
17 Sivasri S 5½
18 Ussain R 5½
19 Swetha J 5½
20 Harsha Y 5½
21 Jayadev R Balan 5½
22 Mohana Surya V 5
23 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 5
24 Samson D Cruz J 5
25 Lakshmanan 5
26 Sai Prasad S 5
27 Pramesh P 5
28 Arulkumar S 5
29 Vijaya Baskar S 5
30 Bhuvanesh G 5
31 Sarumathi S 5
32 Tejaas S R
33 Surya V
5
5
34 Raveena Shri A 5
35 Harshini S 5
36 Prabakaran S 5
37 Surhenthar J 5
38 Manohar Arokiaraj B 5
39 Abinaya H 5
40 Tamilarasan Ramaswamy 5
41 Hirithick Siva G 5
42 Sivaguru S 5
43 Jaya Kumar R 5
44 Saravanamuthu P 5
45 Srilakshmi S 5
46 Prabhu P 5
47 Anish H 5
48 Vishwabharathi Sakthivel 5
49 Vidula Anbuselvan 5
50 Sangeetha M 5
51 Aathin Priya J 5
52 Nithin K 4½
53 Mukesh K 4½
54 Vigneswar M 4½
55 Kayalarasan V 4½
56 Rafik S 4½
57 Lakshet S R 4½
58 Bharani S 4½
59 Arulthiruvasagam A 4½
60 Dhilipan Raj R J 4½
61 Mohamed Mujahideen A 4½
62 Rohith Prabakar A R 4½
63 Roshni S 4½
64 S.Jayaseeli 4½
65 Maitreya R 4½
66 Vignesh S 4½
67 Aadhithyan E 4½
68 Balaji Shanmugavel 4½
69 Sarvesh G 4½
70 Rithis Vasan K 4½
71 Arrumugarajan C P 4½
72 Roshitha R 4½
73 Jayasurya M 4
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74 Prakatheesh A 4
75 Nafisa Nehal T B 4
76 Megala G 4
77 Siranjeevi Sanjay S 4
78 Lokesh A 4 120
79 Ananth Balaji F S 4
80 Vijayasree S P 4
81 Sabthagiri Vinayagan S 4
82 Mohan Raj A 4
83 Keerthi Vinayagan S 4
84 Gurunath E S 4
85 Sundararajan D S 4
86 Karishma S K 4
87 Guruprasanth R 4
88 Lakshmi M 4
89 Madhan Kumar M 4
90 Divya R 4
91 Hariprasath S 4
92 Jayadharshini R 4
93 Siddharth S 4
94 Mohamed Irfan A 4
95 Sineha P 4
96 Tamilselvan R 4
97 Meiyappan M 4
98 Jubair H 4
99 Sujeeth A 4
100 Jeevika S 4
101 TT Shashikumar Pillay 4
102 Sakana S 4
103 Mohanasanthosh M 4
104 Saravana Bose T 4
105 Aadhit Saravanan A 4
106 Harishma M 4
107 Stevia V E 4
108 Joe Prakash B 4
109 Caris Jeshurun A 4
110 Surya Prakash M 4
111 Yuthaya Karthhick T R 4
112 Bewin Janarius A 4
113 Shivani S 4
114 Dharanya C S 4
115 Aathin Venkatesh J 4
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116 Ajithkumar V 4
117 Deepanraj P 4
118 Ilanthevan C 4
119 Kaviyarasan S R 4
Sabarishwaran B 4
121 Akash A 4
122 Giridhar V P 4
123 Madhuvanthi S 4
124 Jaya V 4
125 Monish Rv 4
126 Kesavan G 3½
127 Raja R 3½
128 Boaz Bhagath S 3½
129 Mithun K 3½
130 Varshan G D 3½
131 Athithya R K 3½
132 Praveenkumar K 3½
133 Dharani Raj A 3½
134 Yazhini P 3½
135 Sachin S 3½
136 Lithika P 3½
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.Hendrik Mesman 1948
1.Bd5+ Ka1 2.d7 Rb1 3.Bb3 Rh1 4.Kf8 wins
2.Reino Liungman 1945
1.Rb1+ Ka7 2.Kc7 Ka6 3.Kc6 Ka5 4.Kc5 Ka4
5.Kc4 Ka5 6.Rb5+ Ka6 7.Rxf5 Kb7 8.Rf6 e3
9.Kd3 Kc7 10.Rh6 Nf7 11.Rh7 wins the knight
3.Prof.Ladislav Prokes,1948
1.Kh8 c3 2.Rac2 Qe1 3.Rh2+ Kg1 4.Rcg2+
Kf1 5.Rh1+ wins the queen
4.Jendrich Fritz 1951
1.Re3+ Kd4 2.Rg3 Ne4 3.Ra3 Nd5 4.Nf3#
5.Andre Cheron 1948
1.Bf4 Ke2 2.Ba2 d3 3.Bc4 Kd1 4.Kf3 e2
5.Bb3+ Ke1 6.Kg2 d2 7.Bg3#
6.Dr Artur Mandler 1955
1.Kb6 Rd6+ 2.Kb5 Re6 3.Rf3+ Kc2 4.Kc4 Kd2
5.Kd4 Ke2 6.Rxf5 wins
Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial All India FIDE rating 2019, Bihar
Shuvam Roy wins title
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial All India Fide
Rating Tournament was inaugurated by
Chief Guest Prof. K C Sinha , Principal , Sci-
ence College . He inaugurated the tourna-
ment by making the ceremonial first move
on the board with young chess players of
Bihar. L N Rai , Head of the Department of
Mathematics , Prof B G Prasad,Mr. Ajit Ku-
mar Singh , Patron , All Bihar Chess Associ-
ation. Ajit Kumar Nayan , Vice President of
All Bihar Chess Association , Mr. Dharmen-
dra Kumar , Chief Arbiter & Hony Secretary
All Bihar Chess Association , Nand Kishor
& Vipal Subhashi , Joint Secretary of ABCA
, Arbind Kumar , President , Ved Prakash ,
Secretary Minki Sinha , Director & Pammi
Rani , Treasurer of MVP Chess Club were
the other dignitaries present on the dais .
Tournament was played on open Swiss
system format and total number of rounds
was 9 but due to heavy rain ,water logging
& flood situation , two rounds were can-
celled . Hence the final number of rounds
was 7 instead of 9 . Total Number of players
was 188 out of which 67 players were rated
. Every game was played with Electronic
clock ( DGT 3000) and standard chess
boards were used for all the games .
1st Balkeshwar Prasad Memorial Rating
Chess Tournament was won by Shuvam Roy
of West Bengal . He scored 6.5 point along
with two others , Vipal Subhashi and Rahul
Kumar. This tied score group was resolved
with tiebreak criteria and with better Bu-
chholz score Shuvam was declared winner
.Vipal ubhashi , who drew his last round
game with , stood 2nd while Rahul who
won his last game against Kumar Gaurav
got 3rd place .
Prize distribution ceremony was held in
presence of Chief Guest Mrs. Dolly Sinha ,
Pro VC , Patna University Prof. K C Sinha ,
Principal , Science College, L N Rai , Head
of the Department of Mathematics , IA
Dharmendra Kumar , Chief Arbiter & Hony
Secreatry ,ABCA Nand Kishor & Vipal
Subhashi , Joint Secretary of ABCA , Arbind
Kumar , President , Ved Prakash , Secreatry
,Minki Sinha , Director and Pammi Rani ,
Treasurer of MVP Chess Club.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Shuvam Roy 6½
2 Vipul Subhashi 6½
3 Rahul Kumar 6½
4 Syed Hasan Musa 6
5 Roop Saurav 6
6 Ankit Kumar Singh 6
7 Piyush Kumar 6
8 Singh Subham Kumar 6
9 Sinha Sudhir Kumar 5½
10 Shiv Priya Bhardwaj 5½
11 Dev Raj 5½
12 Basak Bishal 5½
13 Piyush Raj 5½
14 Kumar Gaurav 5
15 Anand Shekhar 5
16 Srivastava Y.P. 5
17 Mitul Anand 5
18 Aman Kumar 5
19 Adiba Ullah 5
20 Shivam Kumar Sinha 5
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21 Manish Kumar 5 66 Utkarsh Aryan 4 1stCourtallam Saaral fide Rated Chess Tournament,Courtallam
22 Harshvardhan Sahay 5 67 Ayush Kumar Dayanand 4
23 Avinash Kumar Yadav 5 68 Kumari Ziya 4 Muhammad Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan wins title
24 Piyush Kumar Mishra 5 69 Shrawan Kumar 4 by IA Prof. R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
25 Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal 5 70 Neeta Kumari 4
26 Mohd Tabseer Alam 5 71 Rayirth Vats 4 Tirunelveli District Chess Development As- Vasquez and Khusenkhojaev had a quick
27 Rupesh B Ramchandra 5 72 Nupur Anand 4 sociation organised the 1stCourtalam Saaral draw and Manigandan too drew with Senthil
28 Brij Nandan Singh 5 73 Kartik Kumar 4 FIDE rating chess tournament at Courta- in the eighth and penultimate round. This
29 Anurag Banerjee 5 74 Geethika Samyuktha 4 lam the spa of Tamil Nadu, adjoining the helped the international masters Sayantan
30 Vishnu Dev 5 75 Yash Ram Maurya 4 Kerala border. The tournament held from and Muthaiah to catch up with the over-
31 Minki Sinha 5 76 Ayush Kumar 4 29th August to 2nd September had play- night leaders by beating Dinesh Kumar and
32 Gupta R K 4½ 77 Ashwarya Shree 4 ers from four federations – GM Vasquez Swaraj Palit of Jharkhand.
33 Mitra Subhanil 4½ 78 Lakshya Kumar 4 Rodrigo Schroeder of Chile, IM Muhammad
34 Reyan Md. 4½ 79 Kumar Sambhav 3½ Khusenkhojaev of Tajikistan, Dangi Mani In the final round, all the top four boards
35 Ashutosh Bhardwaj 4½ 80 Vedant Nehal 3½ Raj of Nepal, besides Indian internation- ended without any decisive result, lead-
36 Prakash Bhardwaj 4½ 81 Jagriti Kumari 3½ al master Sayantan Das of West Bengal, ing to a seven way tie for the first place.
37 Sachin Anand 4½ 82 Aditya Sinha 3½ IM Muthaiah A L and R Balasubramanian The tiebreak favoured IM Muhammad
38 Krishna Mohan 4½ 83 Rijul Sharan 3½ added strength and attraction to the tour- Khusenkhojaev as the winner of the
39 Abhishek Kumar Gupta 4½ 84 Ninad Sharma 3½ nament. tournament, providing him a cash prize of
40 Abhishek Shrivastava 4½ 85 Shubham Anand 3½ Rs.70000/- in a pool of five lakhs rupees.
41 Rishav Kumar 4½ 86 Neerav Vishal 3½ The first three rounds of the tournament IM Sayantan Das secured the second place
42 Geetansh Seth 4½ 87 Sunil Kumar Jain 3½ went on the expected lines except for a and GM Vasquez was declared third, fol-
43 Vansh Choudhary 4½ 88 Ajay Kumar Gupta 3 few minor hiccups. In the fourth round, lowed by SS Manigandan.
44 Ashwini Giri 4½ 89 Pranav Kumar 3 Dinesh Kumar J of Tamil Nadu rated 1878
45 Akash Seth 4½ 90 Shailendra Kumar 3 shook the confidence of the top seeded Dr, Sheik Saleem, Governor of the Ro-
46 Sneh Kumar 4½ 91 Arman Sony 3 grandmaster Vasquez (rated more than tary district and former president of the
47 Kadambinee Ghadai 4 92 Arshit Chowdhary 3 600 points than Dinesh) by holding him to Tirunelveli District Chess Association inau-
48 Menhajul Hoda 4 93 Sumit Kumar 3 a draw in a queen and pawn ending. Sixth gurated the tournament. Ms. Hemalatha,
49 Md. Kaif Ullah 4 94 Aum Kashyap 3
50 Ved Veer 4
sseded IM Balasubramanian was also held Assistant Forest Conservator was the chief
95 Abhimanyu Kumar 3 to a draw by little known S Aswath of TN. guest and Dr. Sheik Saleem, Governor, Ro-
51 Ayush Kumar 4 96 Chandra Prakash 3
52 Mantosh Kumar 4 97 Aadarsh 3
Sa Kannan of Karaikudi drew with Muthaiah tary District 3212 was the guest of honour.
53 Rishiraj Bhardwaj 4 98 Praneet Raj 3 in the fifth round, enabling IM Khusenk-
54 Vishuddh Nishchhal 4 99 Priya Rani (Bihar) 3 hojaev, IMSayantan Das, K Senthil Maran Final ranking
55 Ishita Gupta 4 100 Abhimanyu Tibrewal 3 and M BarathKalyan of TN to shoot into Rk Name Pts
56 Ashika Kumari 4 1 IM Khusenkhojaev Muhammad 7½
57 Farhan Raza 4
101 Anshuman 3 the lead with five points apiece. Senthi
2 IM Das Sayantan 7½
58 Kumari Shristi 4 102 Aditya Tulsyan 3 Maran shocked Sayantan in the sixth round
3 GM Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo 7½
59 Dilmohan Kumar 4 103 Surya Prakash 3 to emerge sole leader with six wins. GM 4 Manigandan S S 7½
60 Abhay Kumar Saxena 4 104 Kashish Fatma Sabri 3 Vasquez regained his form to outwit Sen- 5 IM Muthaiah Al 7½
61 Amiya Krishna Mishra 4 105 Ravi Kumar 3 thil in the seventh round, Khusenkhojaev 6 Alan Diviya Raj 7½
62 Pratiyush Kumar 4 106 Sinha Pari 3 defeated OT Anil Kumar of Kerala and Mani- 7 Barath Kalyan M 7½
63 Vagisha Anand 4 107 Shubham Narayan 3 gandan stopped the good run of Sa Kannan 8 Senthil Maran K 7
9 Swaraj Palit 7
64 Abhishree Deepu 4 108 Akarsh Anand 3 to share the lead with 6.5 points each.
10 Sreekumar P. 7
65 Abhilasha Deepu 4 109 Sangiya Palak 3 11 Bala Kannamma P 7
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12 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 7
13 Kathiravan M. 7
14 Sathya Giri V 7
15 Raghul Saro S 7
16 AGM Sa Kan-
nan 6½
17 Aswath S 6½
18 IM R Balasubramaniam 6½
19 Dhanush Ragav N S 6½
20 Dhanasekar K. 6½
21 Suganthan S 6½
22 Yukash Ram E 6½
23 Merryston David Scanny 6½
24 Rajkumar S 6½
25 Dahale Atul 6½
26 Sivasubramanian Manoj 6½
27 Livingston Solomon 6½
28 Thiripurasundaram N
29 Anilkumar O.T.
6½
6
30 Arun A. 6
31 Gokul S 6
32 Arulkumar S 6
33 Marimuthu K 6
34 Manikanda Prabhu B V 6
35 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6
36 AIM Sidharth Balaji Sridharan 6
37 Shadhursshaan R 6
38 Godson Merlin E 6
39 Arul Anandh S P K 6
40 Anilkumar K.V. 6
41 Mohammed Ibrahim 6
42 Achaya Vijayan 6
43 Ashwin Mani C 6
44 Keerthi Srinath K 6
45 Anupam M Sreekumar 6
46 Rathish T.J. 6
47 Hari Hara Jagan S A 6
48 Sanjay Ganesh Pandi 6
49 S. Jeevanandam 6
50 Jack Samuel 6
51 Shiva Rajan K 6
52 Jayakrishna H 6
53 Bala Ganeshan 6
54 Jaivant R 6
55 Infant Jose H 6
56 Porkalaivani N 6
57 Hariharan A C G 6
58 Prakaash S A Krishna 6
59 Rosewe M 6
60 Balaji Karthic R S 6
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61 Abdul Hameed 6
62 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 5½
63 Vikash K S 5½
64 Sreekumar Sm 5½
65 Bharkavi S 5½
66 Yashwant Annamalai 5½
67 Prasath K R 5½
68 Arun R 5½
69 Sooriya B Y 5½
70 Rajesh L S 5½
71 Vel Aswin Saminathan 5½
72 Raaghav Rajesh 5½
73 Dangi Mani Raj 5½
74 Ethan V Johnson 5½
75 Balaji V 5½
Puzzle of the momnth
by C.G.S.Narayanan
In Pronkin theme a promoted piece goes
to the same square of same type- piece
(which has been captured) .This is a vital
clue in solving this proof game below.
Thierry Le Gleuher
Probleemblad 2006
SPG in 6.5 moves
In the retro given the diagram position
has to be arrived at in 6.5 moves from
the initial game array
(Solution on page 48)
5thKanchi Chess Academy FIDE rated tournament, Chennai
Prasanna wins title
by Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter
5thKanchi Chess Academy Fide rated In-
ternational open chess tournament was
organized by Kanchi Chess Academy from
22nd to 27th September 2019.The event
was held at Annie Matriculation Higher
Secondary School, Mudichur, Chennai.The
tournament was conducted successfully
with 92 participants from India and 3 from
Singapore.
The tournament was inaugurated by the
Principal of Annie Matriculation Higher Sec-
ondary School on 22nd September 2019.
One round of tournament was held on the
first day and the last day of the tourna-
ment. From 23rd to 26th September 2
rounds were held for a total number of
10 rounds.
The winner of the tournament Mr. Prasanna
who took a lead over IM Mr. Ramanathan
Balasubramanium from the 6th round till
the end and became the title holder of the
tournament.
On 27th September 2019, Mr.Neduchezhi-
an,,Secretary,Villupuram District Chess
Association, Secretary presided over the
prize distribution function with IM Mr.Ra-
manathan Balasubramanium as the Chief
Guest of Honor.The tournament was con-
ducted without any disturbance or dispute
thanks to the great support of organizer
Mr. Nithyanandham Players enjoyed ambi-
ence of well ventilated Halls.Once again I
thank you for your continuous support and
encouragement.
Final standings:
Rk. Name Pts.
1 Prasannaa.S 9.5
2 R. Balasubramaniam IM 8.5
3 Selvamurugan B 7.5
4 Surendran N 7.5
5 Swaraj Palit 7
6 Midilesh Ms 7
7 Kiruthika B 7
8 Balaji Rao D 7
9 Sridharan Ramanathan 7
10 Bharanidharan Nedunchezhian 6.5
11 Gautam Kaushik 6.5
12 Jeyasurya Umashankar R 6.5
13 Balasubramanian G 6.5
14 Sathyanarayanan S. 6.5
15 Vijayakumar.N. 6.5
16 Thenamudhan B J 6.5
17 Vikraanth S 6.5
18 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6
19 Karthick Narayanan P 6
20 Jaikavin Senthilkumar 6
21 Rajagopalan 6
22 Abijith S 6
23 Selvaraj Mahendran 6
24 Aadith R 6
25 Kavin Keerthivel S 6
26 Sanjeev S S 5.5
27 George Daniel 5.5
28 Gagan B R 5.5
29 Bharath Ravikumar 5.5
30 Kishore V 5.5
31 Rishidh Prasanna A 5.5
32 Hemachandran M 5.5
33 Kavya. S 5.5
34 Richard Solomon M 5.5
35 Janakiraman R 5.5
36 Dhasarathan K 5.5
37 Bhillva Nilaya K E K 5.5
38 Naveen Kanniyappan S 5.5
39 Jishnurajan V 5.5
40 Silambarasan P 5.5
41 Deepak Kumar Maurya 5.5
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 6thKanchi Chess Academy Fide rated open tournament, Chennai 15TH KCM international open FIDE rated chess tournament, Coimbatore
Gopinath wins title Manigandan clinches title
Sriman VS, Chief Arbiter by Dr.G.G.Sathiesh IA, Chief Arbiter

6thKanchi Chess Academy Fide rated In- 9 George Daniel 7 15th KCM International Open FIDE Rat- prize of Rs. 40,000/-Vigneshwaran N. of
ternational open chess tournament organ- 10 Yuvan Kumar S 7 ed Chess Tournament organized by Kovai Coimbatore won the first prize of
ized by Kanchi Chess Academybetween 11 Gopichand K 7 Chess Mates Sports Trust was held from fifteen thousand rupees in the Special Priz-
12 Vishnu Vijay 7 28th September to 2nd October 2019 at es 1401- 1600 category scoring 7 points.
28th to 30th September 2019 was held 13 Kishore Dev S 7
at Annie Matriculation Higher Secondary Sri Krishna Kounder Kalyana Mandapam, Sooriya B Y of Tamilnadu secured 5 points
14 Sriram Suresh 7
School,Mudichur,Chennai. The tournament 15 Jaikavin Senthilkumar 7 Ganapathy, Coimbatore. to win the first prize of Rs. 12000 in the
attracted 452 participants, out of which3 16 Jai Sankar Subramanian 7 Special Prizes 1201- 1400 Category.
were from Singapore, 2 from France and 17 Mahendar B 7 The event was inaugurated by Mr. N. Jay-
1 from Botswana. 18 Kirtana S P 7 abal, President, Coimbatore District Chess Sharanesh Sof Kerala won the first prizes
19 Prajit Ravishankar 7 Association by making the first move on the of Rs. 7000 in the Best Unrated category
20 Daniel Joseph 7
The tournament was inaugurated by the top board. The other dignitaries present of Tamilnadu securing 5 points out of 9
21 Sanjeev S S 7
Principal of Annie Matriculation Higher Sec- 22 Naveen R S 7 on the dais were Mr. Senthil Chinnasamy, rounds. Santhosh Gof Tamilnadu scored
ondary School on 28th September 2019. 23 Bala Murugan G 7 President, Kovai Chess Mates Sports Trust, 5 points to win the first prize of Rs.10000
Three rounds of tournament was held on 24 Kavya. S 6.5 Dr. G.G. Sathiesh, International Arbiter, in the Special Prizes 1000-1200 Category.
all days. Mr. Gopinath P, 4th seed of the 25 Aadith R 6.5 Chief Arbiter of the Event, Mr. K. Dhanase-
26 Calvin Richard C J 6.5 kar, Secretary, Coimbatore District Chess Subramanian V of Tamilnadu won the Best
tournament took a lead over Mr. Vijaya- 27 Aakash K P 6.5
kumar from the 7th round till the end and Association and members of Kovai Chess Veteran prize of Rs. 4000 scoring 6½ points
28 Gobinath E 6.5
became the title holder of the tournament. 29 Sakthi Subash A S 6.5 Mates Sports Trust. and Kharunya C.S.won the Best Women
30 Hari Ganesh T 6.5 (Above 18)prize of Rs. 4000scoring 5½
On 30th September 2019, Mr. M.R.Senthil 31 Adharsh D P 6.5 The event had attracted a total of 343 play- points. Four players born in 2013 partici-
Kumar, FIDE Arbiter, and Secretary of Taan- 32 Arvind Rajamanohar 6.5 ers out of which 298 are from Tamilnadu, pated in this tournament and Best Younger
33 Akshay Arivu 6.5 45 players from other states and 1 player Player was awarded to Athvik M scoring 3
ya Kaavya School of Sports, presided over 34 Vignesh Manikandan 6.5
the prize distribution with Mr.Nithyanan- from ICF. Out of 343 players, 222 players points and bettering Dharsh M on tie break
35 Danish Roy Vinoth Kumar 6.5
dam, Secretary of Kanchi Chess Academy. 36 Deepak Kumar Maurya 6.5 are rated. Two International Masters (IM) score. Other than these cash awards, top 3
The tournament was conducted without any 37 Thrayambhakesh A 6.5 Muthaiah AL from Tamilnadu, top seed of players of Coimbatore under age categories
disturbance and dispute on time with the 38 Abinaya Anojan 6.5 this tournament and Girinath P.D.S. from 9,11,13 and 15 were awarded cash prizes
great support of organizer Mr. Nithyanand- 39 Abilash G 6.5 Andhra Pradesh were notable participants. and top 10 players in age categories Under
ham .Players enjoyed ambience of well 40 Vijay Kumar Pakkurti 6.5 Visually Challenged player Mohammed Sa- 9, Under 11, Under 13 and Under 15 were
ventilated Halls. 41 Vishnu Prasaanth R A 6.5 lih from Kerala also participated in this given trophies.
42 Vishnuram S 6.5 tournament.
Final standings: 43 Aringar Anna V 6.5 The Chief Guest at the Prize Distribution
Rk Name Pts 44 Adhithya B 6 Manigandan S S of Madurai clinched the function was
1 Gopinath P 8 title of the 15th KCM International Open Mr. V. Vijayaraghavan, Joint Secretary, TN-
45 Shyam Ganesh R 6
2 Vikash K S 8 FIDE Rated Chess Tournament with the SCA. He along with the members of Kovai
3 Venkatesh K 8 46 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6
47 Sanchith Sundararam K 6 cash prizes of Rs. 50,000/-. He and IM Chess Mates Sports Trust distributed the
4 Arunkumar Mutthukumar 7.5
5 Sai Kiran G V 7.5 48 Akkshat N 6 Muthaiah Al both scored 8 points but bet- prizes.I would like to thank AICF, TNSCA,
6 Dhilip Kumar M 7.5 49 Benatin Britto Hamlet Raj 6 ter tie break score paved the way for the Mr. V. Vijayaraghavan, Joint Secretary, TN-
7 Sri Harish J 7 50 Naveen Kanniyappan S 6 former’s title.IM Muthaiah Al won the cash SCA, Mr. R. Dhanasekar, Secretary, Coim-
8 Aaditya A 7 51 Shanthosh R 6 batore District Chess Association and the

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organizer Kovai Chess Mates Sports Trust 43 Hiren K G 6 57th Kerala state open fide rated chess tournament-2018, Kozhikode
for providing me an opportunity to be the 44 Muralishankar J T 6
Chief Arbiter of this grand tournament. 45 Nandish V S 6 A Harikrishnan wins title
46 Paramasivam M. 6 by Dr. Govindankutty MS, IA, Chief Arbiter
47 Keshav Padmanabhan 6
Final ranking 48 Sarveshwaran V 6 57th edition of Kerala State Open FIDE Players in Under-14, Under-11 and Un-
49 John Christopher 6 Ra t e d C h e s s C h a m p i o n a h i p - 2 0 1 9 wa s der-8 categories respectively while Anji-
Rk Name Pts 50 Raman D 6 held at Govt. Polytechnic College,Westhill, tha Krishnakumar of Ernakulam and An-
1 Manigandan S S 8 51 Koushik Muthesh P 6 Kozhikode from 12thto 16th September upam Sreekumar of Thiruvananthapuram
2 IM Muthaiah Al 8 52 Vengatesh Krishnan C 6 2019. becomes Best Girls Players in Under-14
3 Senthil Maran K 7½ 53 Evan Sanjoe 6 and Under-11respectively.Puthuparam-
4 IM Girinath P.D.S. 7½ 54 Jaysree S 6 A total number of 131 players which in- bathAbdurahman of Malappuram becomes
5 Nandha Kumar K 7½ 55 Abi A 6 cluded 104 rated players from across Ker- Best Veteran Player and Jyothika U.R of
6 Lokesh N. 7½ 56 Sasvatha A 6 ala participated in the championship and Thrissur adjudged as best female player.
7 Prasannaa.S 7 57 Ethan V Johnson 6 served as selection event for Kerala team
8 Phoobalan P. 7 58 Gokula Vishnu R 6 for the forthcoming National Champion- In a befitting closing ceremony, Shri-
9 Jagadeesh A.K. 7 59 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 6 ships. The event which was spread over Kunhi Moideen, President Chess Associa-
10 Aswath S 7 60 Raman R. 6 five days and played under Swiss System tion Kerala and Shri.R Rajesh, Secretary
11 Bala Kannamma P 7 61 Ryan Priyank S 6 with 9 rounds with the time control of 90 Chess Association Kerala gave away the
12 Ananthapadmanabh D 7 62 AGM Shalini J 6 minutes and 30 seconds increment from prizes in presence Shri. Shajik, Secre-
13 Selvamurugan B 7 63 Tejaswi R 6 move 1. tary, All Kozhikode Chess Association and
14 Vigneshwaran N. 7 64 Alagiri Sriram B 6 Shri.E.Nirmal Das,Organizing chairman.
15 Balkishan A. 7 65 Shaktivel Selvaraj 6 In a colourful inauguration ceremony, Shri. Final standing:
16 Anilkumar O.T. 7 66 Sandeep Santhosh 6 A.Pradeep Kumar, MLA inaugurated the
17 WFM Saranya J 6½ 67 Giridhar A 6 championship in presence of Shri. Kunhi Rk Name Pts
18 CM Rajarishi Karthi 6½ 68 Kannan R 6 Moideen, President Chess Association Ker- 1 Harikrishnan A 7½
19 Gugan G 6½ 69 Sharanesh S 6 ala,Shri. R Rajesh, Secretary Chess Asso-
20 Manoj B 6½ 70 Adithya Ramesh 5½ 2 Abhishek T M 7½
ciation Kerala, Shri. VN Viswanathan, CEO
21 Dhanush Ragav N S 6½ 71 Harsh Suresh 5½ 3 Jinan Jomon 7½
Chess Association Kerala and Shri.E.Nir-
22 Aakash G 6½ 72 Sai Alagappan S 5½ 4 Sharsha Backer 7½
mal Das,organizing Chairman.
23 Kabhilan S 6½ 73 Anupam M Sreekumar 5½ 5 Sreejith G.S. 7
24 AGM Vignesh B 6½ 74 Charan K 5½ Former champion Anilkumar O.T of 6 Madhavan R Munjanattu 7
25 Mukhesh C 6½ 75 Raaghav Rajesh 5½ Kozhikode started as top seed in this one 7 Jagadeesh A.K. 7
26 Midilesh Ms 6½ 76 Saravana Vel R 5½ lakh prize fund event. At the end of ninth
27 Subramanian V 6½ 77 Manikandan J 5½ 8 Hari R Chandran 6½
and final round, four players with 7.5
28 K Vikraman Adithan B 6½ 78 Siva A C 5½ 9 Roshan Hari 6½
points tied for the pole position but better
29 Abel Saju Chazhoor 6½ 79 Praveen K B 5½ 10 Abdulkhader A. 6½
tie break score helped Harikrishnan A of
30 Shreyas M 6½ 80 Jeevan Prakash N 5½ Kottayam to clinch the title while Abhishek 11 Madhusoodanan K.R. 6½
31 Thirumurugan R 6½ 81 Leaha B 5½ T.M of Kozhikode had to be contented 12 Avinash Hari 6½
32 Sudharsan G 6 82 Jagatheeswaran G 5½ with first runner up position. Jinan Jomon 13 John Veny Akkarakaran 6½
33 Kathiravan M. 6 83 Nihal Swarna 5½ of Wayanad becomes second runner up
34 Sivaa G M 6 84 Srihari K R 5½ 14 Unas K.A. 6½
while Sharsha Backer of Kozhikode satis-
35 Deepak Raj R 6 85 Shravan Swaminathan 5½ 15 Ananthapadmanabh D V 6
fied with fourth spot finish. Sreejith G.S
Nirmal L 6 86 Nishanth K 5½ 16 Sooraj M R 6
of Thriruvanathapuram and Madhavan R
37 Raghul Saravanakumar 6 87 Swapna C N 5½ Munjanattu of Kottayam finished at fifth 17 Rajeev V M 6
38 Roshan S 6 88 Anantha Sai S 5½ and sixth position respectively. 18 Sanjay S Pillai 6
39 Sidharth P G 6 89 K Kalyanasundaram 5½
40 Kishore V 6 90 J Balasubramanian 5½ 19 Raju O A 6
Felix Moothedath of Kazarkode, Gautham
41 Sooriya B Y 6 91 Ramakrishnan M R 5½ 20 Joy Lazar M.A. 6
P.R of Thiruvanathapuram and Sathya-
42 Gokula Kannan G M 6 92 Kharunya C.S. 5½ 21 Mohanan U.C. 6
chith E.M of Kozhikode becomes Best Boys

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22 Sandeep Santhosh 6 65 Heera P 4½ FIDE World Youth Chess Championships (U14, U16, U18 open & girls)
23 Vijin Babu S
24 Vishnu Menon
6
6
66 Ravisankar P
67 Achilles M
4½
4½
India bags seven medals
25 Arpith S Bijoy 6 68 Karthik Krishna K B 4½ GM Praggnanandhaa is U18 Open Champion
26 Jos Paul Davis 6 69 Viswanathan V N 4 Report by IA M.Ephrame
27 Jyothika U R 6 70 Martin Samuel 4
28 Eldho Skaria 5½ 71 Mahesh K 4
29 Anupam M Sreekumar 5½ 72 Rohan Ebi 4
30 Anilkumar O.T. 5½ 73 Krishnan K. V. 4
31 Justin Joseph 5½ 74 Syam Hari H V 4
32 Nivin Ravichandran 5½ 75 Abhayadev R V M 4
33 Felix Moothedath 5½ 76 Hari Kumar N 4
34 Sreerag M R 5½ 77 Nishad A 4
35 Agnij P 5½ 78 Senbabu M B 4
36 Lakshimi Narayanan 5 79 Justin Tony John 4
37 Gautham B 5 80 Sasidhara Kurup C 4
38 Nithyan S 5 81 Arun Thrigunan 4
39 Hrishikesh A J 5 82 Arunodhay K 4
40 Anoop P 5 83 Drupath A 4
41 Unnikrishnan M A 5 84 Kashinathan A 4
The traditional lighting of the lamp for an auspicious beginning by the Chairman of the organizing
42 Rajeevan V P 5 85 Sathyachith E M 4
committee Mr. Pravin Jain
43 Abhijith U 5 86 Benson Abraham 4
44 Gabriel B M 5 87 Shakeel O P 3½ FIDE World Youth Chess Championships(under 14, 16 and 18 years old categories) fin-
45 Umesh P 5 88 Sujithkar Meethale Chalil 3½ ished in Mumbai, India. 464 players from 64 countries, including 3 GMs, 22 IMs, 48 FMs,
46 Satheeshan U.S. 5 89 Adithya Raveendran 3½ 11 WIMs, 1WGM39WFMs participated in this event. Russia bags 3 gold, one silver and one
47 Karthik Raj 5 90 Rethish Puthanpurayil 3½ bronze in its credit, lifted the overall championship. India got one gold, 3 silver & 3 bronze
48 Parambath Abdurahman 5 picked up the runner up and Kazakhstan lifted up the third with one gold one silver.
49 Manoharan V.P. 5 Strategically important points should
50 Akhila T M 5 be overprotected. If the pieces are so 14 Years old Indian Grandmaster Praggnandhaa from Chennai engraved a careful draw
51 Ajayan PP 5 engaged, they get their regard in the on the final round against Valentin Buckelsof
52 Gautham P R 5 fact that they will then find themselves Germany and became the clear champion in
53 Nandagopal V T 5 well posted in every respect. the World Youth Chess championship Under
54 Sanil S 4½ 18 open category with 9 points, as the near-
55 Nitin M Pai 4½ How vain are our fears! I thought to est rival Armenian Grandmaster Sargsyan
56 Unnikrishnan V S 4½ myself. Sometimes we fear that which Shant failed to collect the full point from In-
57 Fathima Abdeen 4½ our opponent (or fate) had never even dian IM Arjun Kalyan.
58 Sunil Kumar V T 4½ considered! After this, then, is it any
59 Anjitha Krishnakumar 4½ longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to The top seeded WIM Shuvalova Polina of
60 Mihir A K 4½ find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All Russia scored 8.5 points became the clear
61 Sreerag Padman 4½ hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis under 18 Girls champion by drawing her fi-
62 Gunaseelan V A 4½ Mattison after he overlooked an unusu- nal round game against WFM SerikbayAssel
63 Ameen Akbar T A 4½ al knight manouevre. Gold - R. Praggnanandhaa (center), Silver Shant of Kazakhstan. WIM Vantika Agrawal of In-
64 Vinodkumar K V 4½ Aron Nimzowitsch Sargsyan (left), Bronze - Artur Davtyan (right) dia,finished with 8 points,however,couldn’t

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 beat WGM Obolentseva Alexandra of Russi- ing into the tournament hall
ain the final round but Vantika won the silver before the round. In addition
medal with half a point behind Polina. to that, a routine check was
maintained separately.
In Under 16 open category, in the final round,
two Russians played on the top board, the Earlier, the World Youth Chess
seventh seeded IM MakarianRudik drew his Championship 2019, got un-
game against IM Pogosyan Stefan which as- der way at Renaissance Ho-
sured the gold medal for Makarianwith 8.5 tel and Convention Centre
points since the second board game finished Mumbai, India on 1st October
quickly with a draw between FM DaghliArash 2019. At a colourful opening
of Iran and CM Aronyak Ghosh of India. ceremony Mr.Keshav Muru-
gesh CEO of WNS inaugurat-
Polina Shuvalova Gold (centre) Vantika
The two way tie is perceived in Under 16 girls ed the event in the presence
Agrawal Silver (left) Bronze - Alexandra Obo-
category, the top seeded WCM GarifullinaLeya of VIPs from Maharashtra,the
lentseva (right)
of Russia and the fourth seeded WFM Nurgal- Fide and the AICF officials.
iNazerke of Kazakhstan scored with 8.5 points each,but better tie break helped Garifullina
became the champion. Mr.Pravin Darade, Munici- Gold - Aydin Suleymanli Gold - Meruert Kamaliden-
pal Commissioner of Brihan (center), Silver - Srihari LR ova (center), Silver - Divya
The 3rd seeded IM Suleymanli Aydin of Azerbaijanscored an impressive win in the final Mumbai was the Chief Guest (left), Bronze - Sreeshwan Deshmukh (left) and Bronze -
round against Amanzhol Sultan of Kazakhstan and procured9 points which clearly secured for closing ceremony and dis- Maralakshikari (right): Rakshitta Ravi (right)
the under 14 Open Gold medal for him with one point ahead. The penultimate round leader tributed the prizes to the medal winners.The organizers along with Renaissance Hotel
WCM Mungunzul Bat-Erdene of Mongolia’s defeat in the hands of WIM Rakshitha Ravi of provided a good atmosphere in Renaissance Hotel Convention Centre Mumbai with beauti-
India helped the 8th seeded WFM KamalidenovaMeruertof Kazakhstanto get hold of her fulair conditioned spacious playing hall. Players, parents and delegates from various coun-
Gold medal in Under 14 girls category. Kamalidenovascored 8.5 points with a worthy win in triesenjoyed the playing hall, the venue, food and accommodation and the hospitalities
the final round with RoebersEline of Netherland and won the Under 14 girls championship given by the organizers.Weshould appreciate the All Marathi Chess Association (Mahar-
with a perfect half point up. astra) having given a wonderful World Youth Chess Championship. A very good team of
arbiters along with a group of dedicated officials,organizers and the volunteers made the
The championship was played in 11 world Youth Championship successful.
round swiss system with the time con-
trol of 90 minutes for first 40 moves Koneru Humpy wins first tournament of FIDE Women Grand Prix series 2019-20
plus 30 minutes for the remaining pe- India’s Koneru Humpy held the reigning Women’s World
riod with an increment of 30 seconds Champion Ju Wenjun to a quick draw in the final round to
per move from move one.26 arbiters clinch the Fide World Grand Prix title with 8 points from 11
have been betrothed to work in this rounds. Humpy takes home 15,000 Euro first prize and 160
championshipwhich includes, IANiko- WGP points. The other India in the fray, Dronavali Harika
lopoulos, Panagiotis of Greece as the finished seventh.
Chief Arbiter, the deputy Chief Arbi-
ters IA Ephrame, IA SwapnilBansod Women’s FIDE Grand Prix Series 2019-2020 consist of four
and IA Gopakumar for Anti Cheat- (4) Women’ Grand Prix tournaments (hereinafter referred
ing. Players are thoroughly checked Gold - Rudik Makarian (center), Silver - Stefan Pogo- to as WGP tournaments) held over two years (2019-20).
by the arbiters of anti-cheating wing syan (left) and Bronze - Aronyak Ghosh (right) The Skolkovo FIDE Women’s Grand Prix is a 12-player
with metal detector while they enter- round-robin taking place in Skolkovo, near Moscow from

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11-22 September 2019. It forms the first of four stages of the 2019-20 WGO events, which 1st Nellai Below 1600 Fide Rated Chess Tournament 2019,Courtallam
will determine two places in the 2021 Candidates Tournament. Sixteen players compete in
the series, each playing in three of the four events. Vishwanath Kannam wins title
by IA Prof.R.Anantharam,Chief Arbiter
Humpy, the strongest female player of India, had won four games in a row before the final
round and that run meant that she only needed a draw to clinch the title.In the last round, The 1stNellai Below 1600 Fide Rated
she had the advantage of playing white against Ju, who is the reigning World Champion. Chess Tournament was organised by the
Tirunelveli District Chess Development As-
sociation at the Community Hall, Courtalam
FIDE Arbiter Seminar at Udaipur from 28th to 30th September 2019. A total
of 312 players from Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
AP, West Bengal, Pondicherry, UP and Kar-
nataka took part in the nine round three
day tournament. The time control was 30
minutes plus 30 seconds increment from
move 1.
KR Prasath of Madurai the top seed of
the tournament was held to a draw in the
fourth round, which witnessed the sharing
of the lead by eight players. Of the eight
players, S Rutherford and U Gowrichander
of Tamil Nadu and KS Sudeepan of Kerala
registered fifth consecutive victories in five
rounds to share the lead. Gowrichander fell
A FIDE Arbiter seminar was organised by All Rajputana Chess Association and hosted by a victim to Rutherford in the sixth round
Chess in Lake City on behalf of All India Chess Federation and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and he was joined at the top by Sudeepan
at Udaipur, Rajasthan from 17th to 19th September 2019 under AICF’s Vision 2020 project.
who defeated R Kannan of TN.The two
Following is the list of thirty participants from Tamilnadu, Puducherry, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
leaders drew their seventh round encoun-
Karnataka, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sikkim and Rajasthan participated in this three-
ter which helped Kesavan G of Tamil Nadu
day event.
to join them by beating Akhil VIjayakumar
of Kerala.
International Arbiter and Fide Lecturer, Gopakumar M S was the Chief Lecturer and Inter-
national Arbiter Swapnil Bansod assisted him in the lectures. They lectured on topics like In the penultimate and eighth round, Ru-
Laws of Chess, Rating regulations, Title regulations, Arbiter regulations, Competition rules, therford got the better of Kesavan and
Tiebreaks, Pairing regulations, Anti-cheating regulations etc. The participants were very Sudeepan defeated his Kerala team mate
enthusiastic and inquisitive with lot of inputs. Many of them cleared their doubts they had Emmanuel Thomas, again to share the
in their mind about many regulations and focus was mainly on Laws of Chess. Several case lead among them with 7.5 points each.
studies and practical examples were also discussed during the seminar. Vishwanath Kannan of AP and Gowrichand-
er were half a point behind the two leaders.
On the third day, the participants attended the examination and hosts Chess in Lake City
Things turned around in the final round,
provided mementos to all the participants and lecturers as token of love. FIDE Arbiters’
as Vishwanath defeated Rutherford and
Commission will declare the results after evaluation of answer sheets in due course as per
Sudeepan was held to a draw by Gowri, re-
regulations.
sulting Vishwanath Kannan and Sudeepan
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to tie for the first place with eight points
each. Vishwanath had a better tiebreak to
clinch the title as a clear winner with 8.5
points and bag the first prize of Rs.70000/.
Sudeepan received Rs.50000/- for his ef-
forts. The total prize money for the tour-
nament was five lakh rupees. Rutherford
who was leading throughout the tour-
nament had to be content with the third
place because of the final round debacle.
Sri Arunachala Prabhu, Area Manager C
& S Electricals distributed the prizes on
the final day. The weather and climate in
Courtalam were fine with all the waterfalls
almost flooding, making the tournament
a memorable one for the players and par-
ents.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Vishwanath Kannam 8
2 Sudeepan KS 8
3 Rutherford S 7½
4 Gowrichander U 7½
5 Prasath K R 7½
6 Kannan R. 7½
7 Kesavan G 7½
8 Akhil Vijayakumar 7½
9 Vinod S 7
10 Livingston Solomon 7
11 Muhammed Reja C 7
12 Karthikeyan G 7
13 Sumesh Kabeer 7
14 Sivasubramanian Manoj 7
15 Vignesh G 7
16 Karuppasamy C 7
17 Divin S V 6½
18 Kannish Varmaa K 6½
19 Jaivant R 6½
20 Prawin K 6½
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21 Satheesh Kumar G 6½ 68 Chinnadurai S. 5½ Pearl City All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Hyderabad
22 Rathish R 6½ 69 Steve Rohan S 5½
23 S. Jeevanandam 6½ 70 Riya Shannon S 5½ GM Laxman RR is Champion
24 Yadhu Krishna M L 6½ 71 Gowtham S G 5½ by IA Anandh Babu VL, Chief Arbiter
25 Manikandan C 6½ 72 Dr.Vinubhaskar 5½
26 Kannan.V 6½ 73 Palaniappan S 5½ The Pearl City Open All India Fide Rating GM laxman RR won a unique prize of the
27 Mohammed Ibrahim 6½ 74 Naveen Kumar P 5½ Chess Tournament 2019 was organized Maruti Alto 800 Car+Rs.50,001/- + Trophy,
28 Vignesh G 6½ 75 Deepak Sanjay T 5½ by Alwick School of Chess Pvt Ltd with followed by GM Karthiyean P by Bike Shine
29 Dhamodharan M. 6½ 76 Suresh C 5½ the support of Chessplug.com at Maruthi + Rs.30000+Trophy, 3rd IM Muthaiah AL
30 Devin S V 6½ 77 Mitul Bala S 5½ Gardens, Hyderabad from 06th to 11th Laptop I Ball series 10 + Rs.20,000/-+Tro-
31 Gokulakrishna S 6 78 Divya Sree K 5½
September 2019. phy.
32 Emmanuel Thomas 6 79 Sidharth Sreekumar 5½
33 Jayakrishna H 6 80 Harini M C 5½
34 Ishan Dashottar 6 81 Madhav S 5½
The tournament was conducted in a eleven Final ranking
round Swiss System and it attracted 333 Rk Name Pts
35 Anil Kumar S 6 82 Khunais Md Mohideen A 5½
36 Stephen Raj J 6 83 Sheik Syed K 5½ Participants from All over India 19 States 1 GM Laxman R.R 9
37 Babu K 6 84 Balakrishnan 5½ Players and 5 special Unit players , which 2 GM Karthikeyan P. 9
38 Hari Hara Jagan S A 6 85 Ayyappan S 5½ include 3 Grandmastersp-Laxman RR (ICF), 3 IM Muthaiah Al 9
39 Babu R 6 86 Hari Sakthivel R 5 Karthikeyan P (ICF) and Himanshu Sharma 4 IM Rajesh V A V 8½
40 Marimuthu K 6 87 Aravinth N 5 (Income Tax) and 6 International Masters., 5 Kaustuv Kundu 8½
41 Vignesh Kannan P 6 88 Eswaran K 5 Nitin S (ICF), Muhammed Nubair Shaik 6 FM Mitrabha Guha 8½
42 Ilanchezhiyan M 6 89 Jagendran Kamak N 5 (Maharashtra), Rajesh VAV (TamilNadu), 7 IM D Bala Chandra Prasad 8½
43 Lokesh Varmaa K 6 90 Ganesan M 5 Dhulipala Bala Chandra Prasad (Andhra 8 GM Himanshu Sharma 8½
44 Naveen Kumar K 6 91 Jaivanth M K 5 Pradesh), Muthaiah Al (Tamilnadu),Anup- 9 Ram S. Krishnan 8½
45 Barath G 6 92 Sudheesh M A 5
Deshmukh (LIC). 10 Dhananjay S 8½
46 Satheesh M 6 93 Aswin A 5
11 Senthil Maran K 8½
47 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 94 Parthasarathy Baskaran 5
48 Srinivasaraj S 6 95 Vijesh L 5
In the 333 entries 246 players were Rated 12 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 8½
49 Radha Krishnan S 6 96 Senbabu M B 5 players.It had been very tough fight from 13 Lokesh N. 8½
50 Suresh Kumar Ashok 6 97 Nithish M 5 round one till the last round for the biggest 14 IM Nitin S. 8½
51 Priyanka Bhatt 6 98 Jawahar K S 5 ever prize money The Maruti Alto 800 was 15 Balkishan A. 8
52 Thiripurasundaram N 6 99 Shanmuga Kumar A 5 the added attraction apart from the cash 16 Manigandan S S 8
53 Rajesh L S 6 100 Raaghav Kabil M 5 prize Rs.50001/- for the champion. 17 Ramakrishna Perumalla 8
54 Bala Krishnan J 6 101 Vijay K 5 18 Syed Anwar Shazuli 8
55 Rosewe M 6 102 Rishywanth K S M 5 The event inaugurated by ShriNarshima 19 Rishabh Nishad 8
56 Kirpesh I 6 103 Sanjai Karna R 5 Reddy , President of Telangana State Chess 20 Nidheshpa S 8
57 Appas M 6 104 Suresh R 5 Association & Chairman of Bar Council Tel- 21 Katiyar Prashant 8
58 Antony Simethy 6 105 Gowtham Dhileepan S 5 angana, with Mrs. BhavaniVemula from 22 Sibi Srinivas Einstein 8
59 Shrinimeshika K 6 106 Palvannan A 5
Kyati Foundations. 23 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 7½
60 Vignesh E 6 107 Venkatachalam S 5
24 Pradeep Kumar R A 7½
61 Unnikrishnan S 6 108 Thatchinamoorthi P 5
62 Sathish Kumar K 5½ 109 Nagaraj M 5 The Top Seed of the tournament GM Lax- 25 Venkata Ramana J 7½
63 Joseph S A 5½ 110 Nithya Padmashree K 5 man RR became the champion of the event 26 Ayush Jha 7½
111 Santhiya S 5 by 9.0/11. 3 players where sharing the 9.0 27 Bharat Kumar Reddy P 7½
64 Hamza Razak A M 5½ 112 Darsika B Padmanabhan 5
65 Surya V 5½ equally GM Karthikeyan P and IM Muthai- 28 Setumadhav Yellumahanthi 7½
113 Sriram Sundar V 5
66 Rohith Vinay R 5½ 114 Dheekshith Singh D 5 ah Al became runner up and 2nd Runner 29 AGM Sa Kannan 7½
67 Parthiban V 5½ 115 Yogapriyan E 5 up- with the tie break of the Tournament. 30 Banerjee Ashutosh 7½

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31 Kalyani B 7½ 73 Vaishant Kumar Gangwani 7 Rotary Club of Ponda All India Open FIDE Rating
32 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7½ 74 Adithya A Chullikkad 6½ Blitz Chess in memory of Mrs Pushpa Gaunekar
33 Kapadi Yash 7½ 75 Rithvik Raja M 6½
34 Sreehith Reddy R 7½ 76 Suhaib Ahmad 6½ Nitish Belurkar is Winner
35 Ranadheer B J S K 7½ 77 Apoorv Kamble 6½ IA Vasanth BH,Chief Arbiter
36 Sai Krishna S. 7½ 78 Trinadh Virothi 6½
Rotary Club of Ponda All India Open Blitz Chinmay Kulkarni of Maharastra and Nitish
37 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 7½ 79 Panda Miracle 6½
Rating Chess Tournament was inaugurated Belurkar of Goa tied for the 1st place with 9
38 Vaibhav Singh Verma 7½ 80 Borse Pankaj 6½
by the Chief Guest Mr Gaurish Dhond in the points each. Based on the better tie break
39 Bala Ganeshan 7½ 81 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 6½
presence of Sagar Sakordekar (Tournament score FM Nitish Belurkar of Goa declared
40 Sushanth Kamabathula 7½ 82 WCM Wankhade Sanskruti 6½
director), Vinayak Nayak, Amogh Nam- as winner, Chinmay Kulkarni and Sharan
41 IM Deshmukh Anup 7 83 Vishwanath Kannam 6½
shiker (President, Ponda TCA); Mahesh Rao were declared as 1st and 2nd Runner
42 FM Ramakrishna J. 7 84 Sreenandan Babu J 6½
Khedekar (Treasurer, Ponda TCA) on 29th up of Rotary Club of Ponda All India Open
43 Arpan Das 7 85 Dhritabrata Kundu 6½
September 2019 at VPK Grampanchayat Blitz Rating Chess Tournament,
44 Santu Mondal 7 86 Arjun Sidharth S 6½
Hall, Mardol. The tournament was organ-
45 AGM Mani Bharathy 7 87 Rupesh Reddy Y 6½
ized by Ponda Taluka Chess Association un- Mr Narendra Sawaikar was the Chief guest
46 Ramana Babu B. 7 88 Mummana Venkata Ruthvik 6½
der the auspices of Goa Chess Association of the prize distribution function. Also
47 Soni Krishan 7 89 Sanjay Chhabra 6½
and All India Chess Federation. present were Mahesh Khedekar, Sagar
48 Ankit Kumar Singh 7 90 Kulkarni Pawan 6½
Sakordekar, Mohan Agarwal, Amogh Nam-
49 Dave Kantilal 7 91 Uddipan Roy 6½
A total of 256 players from Goa, Mahar- shiker, Vinayak Nayak, Prakash Gaunekar,
50 Mythireyan P 7 92 Bharathakoti Sneha 6½
ashtra, Karnataka, Mizoram, Tamilnadu, Ashish Keni and Vasanth BH
51 Rohith Yadav B R 7 93 Sayandeep Roy 6½
Madya Pradesh and Assam participated
52 Vivekananda L 7 94 Netra P Savaikar 6½
in this tournament out of which 118 were Final ranking
53 Gyana Sai Santhosh M 7 95 Anshul Mishra 6½ Rk Name Pts
rated players.Chinmay Kulkarni of Maha-
54 Hariharan Vinayagamurthy 7 96 Jyothi Kiran P 6½ 1 FM Nitish Belurkar 9
rastra was top seed with 2281 ELO rat-
55 Madduri Satya Tejeswar 7 97 Rao K. Damodar 6½ 2 Kulkarni Chinmay 9
ing. FM Nitish Belurkar (2256) of Goa,
56 Dalal Aashi 7 98 Sirsat Shekhar V. 6½ 3 Sharan Rao 8½
IM Abhishek Kelkar (2238), IM Sameer 4 Ritviz Parab 8
57 Sathishkumar L 7 99 Srivastav J.P 6½
Kathmale (2229), Ritviz Parab (2223), CM 5 Bachikar Girish 8
58 Suhrud Sudheer Acharya K 7 100 Karthik Arige 6½
Vinod Bhagwat 6 IM Abhishek Kelkar 8
59 Rushyendra Chowdary K 7 101 Chidvilash Sai Surapaneni 6½ 7 Pednekar Ayush 8
60 Sudarshan Bhat 7 102 Avigyan Ghosh 6½ The tournament was organized in a very 8 IM Kathmale Sameer 7½
61 AGM Renganayaki V 7 103 Negi Augustiya 6 9 CM Bhagwat Vinod 7½
spacious and well ventilated hall. Organis-
10 Andria L D`souza 7½
62 Patil Aditi G 7 104 Saurabh Lokhande 6 ers provided tea, biscuits and lunch to all 11 Niraj Saripalli 7½
63 Shanmukha Pulli 7 105 Neeraj Anirudh K 6 the players and parents. 12 Nandhini Saripalli 7½
64 Sujay B M 7 106 Pandey Arpit 6 13 Colaco Reuben 7½
In the seventh round, Devesh Anand Naik 14 Parsekar Anirudh 7½
65 Menon Padmanand 7 107 Saksham Omer 6 15 Dasari Dattatreya Rao 7½
(1139) drew with IM Sameer Kathmale
66 Juare Deep 7 108 Gokula Vishnu R 6 16 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 7½
(2229) in board number 2. CM Vinod Bhag-
67 Om Nagnath Lamkane 7 109 Bhagwat Heramb 6 17 Lad Mandar Pradip 7½
wat (2146) drew with Anirudh Parsekar 18 Francis Lalhmunmawia 7½
68 Suresh Duvvala 7 110 Kumar A. 6 (1542) in the fifth board.In the final round, 19 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 7½
69 Mohammad Ismail Khadar 7 111 Kushal O 6 Top seed, Chinmay Kulkarni of Maharastra 20 Abhishek I Ganiger 7
70 Buxy Rajanikant 7 112 Himanshu Moudgil 6 defeated IM Abhishek Kelkar (2238) of 21 Paarth P Salvi 7
71 Jadhav Omkar S 7 Maharastra on top board and Niraj Saripalli 22 Nagvekar Sairudra 7
113 Pawar Sohum 6 23 Madhavan G 7
72 AIM Kulkarni Rakesh 7 lost to Nitish Belurkar in the 2nd board.

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24 Vasant Vishnu Naik 7 74 Prabhu Varad 6 Smart Girl Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Patna
25 Hermon Dain Saldanha 7 75 Naik Snehal 6
26 AIM Cruz Wilson 7 76 Mohsin Sayyed 6 Marium Fatima is Smart Girl in Bihar
27 AFM Shlok Dhulapkar 7 77 Sequeira Jennica 6
by IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter
28 Parab Rishikesh 7 78 Vernekar Shubham 6
29 Gaude Sachin 7 79 Vardha Raghuvir Dessai 6
30 Athul Shetty 7 80 Tejas R Shet Verenkar 6 Smart Girl Fide Rating Chess Tournament ABCA , Amaranjay Kumar Dubey , Treasur-
31 Atharv Nitin Narayan 7 81 Siddhiraj Gaunkar 6 was held at Youth Hostel,Frazor Road ,Pat- er, ABCA, Nand Kishor and Vipal Subhashi
32 Fadte Rudresh 7 82 Tanaiah Da Silva 6 na , Bihar. This five-day tournament was , Joint Secretary of ABCA.
33 Ganesh Babu .R.K 7 83 Hemangi H Pednekar 6
34 Netra P Savaikar 7 84 Desai Dhruv Manjunath 6
inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr. Ajit Kumar
35 Ali Amanat 7 85 Leelajai Krishna N 6 Singh ,Patron , All Bihar Chess Association. Final ranking
36 ACM Vaz Edrick 7 86 Salvi Rajendra Ravindranath 6 He inaugurated the tournament by making Rank Name Pts
37 Devesh Anand Naik 6½ 87 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5½ a ceremonial move on the board with young 1 Marium Fatima 8
38 Sakalle Abhisar 6½ 88 Nayak Pavitra 5½ chess players of Bihar. Mr. Rajendra Kumar 2 Singh Neha 7½
39 Kantak Adv. P.M. 6½ 89 Suvrat Acharya 5½ 3 Garima Gaurav 7½
and Ajit Kumar Nayan , Vice President of All
40 Kambli Datta 6½ 90 Vaibhav M N Gaunekar 5½ 4 Roy Pallabi 6½
41 Porob Vraj 6½ 91 Shourya Suraj Pednekar 5½
Bihar Chess Association , Mr. Dharmendra 5 Adiba Ullah 6
42 Surajit Das 6½ 92 Saksham Paresh Natekar 5½ Kumar , Chief Arbiter &Hony Secretary All 6 Nupur Anand 6
43 ACM Srilaxmi Kamat 6½ 93 Sutar Vinay 5½ Bihar Chess Association were the other 7 Kumari Shristi 6
44 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 6½ 94 Bir Yogesh Pai 5½ dignitaries present on the dais . 8 Kumari Priti 6
45 Yash Manoj Upadhye 6½ 95 Angle Vedant 5½ 9 Kumari Ziya 6
46 Anish Naik 6½ 96 Shetty Sagar 5½ A total of 55 players including 19 rated 10 Kumari Prerna 6
47 Devasthali Madhav 6½ 97 Saeeja Gunesh Dessai 5½ 11 Minki Sinha 5½
48 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 6½ 98 Kundaikar Rounak 5½
players from four different states partici-
12 Ankita Kumari 5½
49 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 6½ 99 Shivprasad Ashok Kokane 5½ pated in this tournament The tournament
13 Harshita 5½
50 Anchit Ajeet Naik 6½ 100 Atharv Damodar Shirodkar 5½ hall was good, with enough space for play- 14 Vagisha Anand 5½
51 Erwin Albuquerque 6½ 101 Bindussar Chaitanya Dessai 5½ ers and visiting dignitaries . 15 Patel Kavita 5
52 Suhas B. Asnodkar 6 102 Gawas Sani 5½
16 Prerna Shankar 5
53 Bhandari Nilesh 6 103 Lad Raghav Pradip 5 The 5-Day Smart Girl Fide Rating Chess 17 Sangya Palak 5
54 AFM Vaz Ethan 6 104 Shriya Patil 5
55 AIM Naik Sayuri 6 105 Raghuvendra J Gupta 5
Tournament won by young girl chess prod- 18 Rashmi Priya 5
igy of Bihar Marium Fatima. She Scored 8 19 Jagriti Kumari 5
56 Varad Devari 6 106 Maanas Phal 5
57 Pai Vithal 6 107 Asmita Avijit Ray 5 point out of possible 9 and was declared 20 Priya Rani (Bihar) 5
21 Varsha Swaraj 5
58 Malviya Mukeshkumar 6 108 Nayak Poorvi 5 clear winner with half point margin . Behind
59 Nipanikar Rishab 6 109 Nadish Sagar Sawant 5 22 Pammi Rani 5
Marium , there were 2 players , Neha Sin-
60 Chincholimath Halsagar 6 110 Chapolkar Soham 5 23 Palak Sinha 4½
gh and Garima Gaurav , they both scored 24 Bhumi Giri 4½
61 Sequeira Alex 6 111 Shweta Kamalaksh Sahakari 5
62 Narayan Bahadur Thapa 6 112 Shree Ghonsekar 5
7.5 point but with better tie break , Neha 25 Abhishree Deepu 4½
63 Atharva Sawal 6 113 Anirudh Dattatreyarao D 5 declared runner up while Garima placed on 26 Trivedi Manisha 4½
64 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 6 114 Parth Kamat 5 3rd position . 27 Tanvi Singh 4
65 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 6 115 Shetty Ankit 5 28 Ashika Kumari 4
66 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 6 116 Sakordekar Nandan Sagar 5 Prize distribution ceremony was held in 29 Ashwarya Shree 4
67 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 117 Pagi Sarvang 5 presence of Chief Guest Mr. Diljeet Khan- 30 Kanij Fatma Sabri 4
68 Sanket Shamkuwar 6 118 Coleridge TFernandes 5 31 Komal Singh Muskan 4
69 Gosavi Vinay 6 119 Aditya Tari 5
na, President , All Bihar Chess Association,
32 Jaya Kumari 4
70 Ved Narvekar 6 120 Suraj Kale 5 Mahesh Kolekar , Proffessor , IIT , Patna , 33 Amisha Arunjay Kumar 3½
71 Mahadev Laximan Sawant 6 121 Hawal Shreyash 5 Ajit Kumar Nayan , Vice President of All 34 Swati Sheetal 3½
72 Dessai Purush Rajkaran 6 122 Dharmaditya Sandeep Naik 5 Bihar Chess Association , IA Dharmendra 35 Kashish Fatma Sabri 3½
73 Varad Naresh Shirodkar 6 123 Amit Ashok Bandekar 5 Kumar, Chief Arbiter and Hony Secretary ,

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 UP State U-19 Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2019, Agra
Prithvvi Singh of Lucknow is winner
by Kavita Patel IA, Chief Arbiter
UP State U-19 Open FIDE Rating Chess
Championship 2019 was organized by Agra
District Chess Association from 22nd Sep-
tember to 25th September 2019 in the
campus of St. Andrews Premier School,
Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The tournament was
formally inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr.
Jitendra Verma MLA of Agra, Dr. Girdhar
Sharma CMD of Andrews group of Institu-
tions Agra, Mr. Anil Srivastava President
of ADCSA, Other dignitaries presented on
the dais were Mr. sanjay Dubey Secretory
of ADCSA, Ms. Kavita Patel, Chief Arbiter.
The tournament was played by 77 players
including 27 Rated players from all over
UP. All the rounds were started on sched-
uled time. The tournament hall was very
spacious. Accommodation and food was
provided to all the players, parents and ac-
companying persons in the same premises
on nominal cost. In all, playing and staying
condition were very good and comfortable.
After 4 days of hard fought chess games,
Prithavi Singh of Lucknow emerged as the
champion in a three-way tie with 7.5 out
of 08 in the UP State U19 Open Fide Rat-
ed Chess Championship. He carried home
winner’s prize of Rupees three thousand
and a trophy. First runner up prize went to
Dubey Sanchay from Agra whereas second
runner up position was secured by Tanishq
Gupta from Lucknow.In main pool winners
awarded with cash prizes of Total sum of
Rs. Fifteen thousand and trophy. Given the
some special prizes for Agra Players, School
Prize boys and girls, best Agra boys & girls,
and youngest players awarded by trophy &
medals.
Chief Guest Mrs. Rayana Bansal of Agra,
Special Guest Dr. Girdhar Sharma CMD of
Andrews group of Institutions Agra, Mr.
Anil Srivastava President of ADCSA, Mrs.
Indu Trikha Principal of Andrews Primer
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Tetrasoft Hyderabad Marriott 17...g5?! [This tries to trap the white
GM Op. Marriott Hyderabad queen by blocking off the retreat route. It
ANNOTATED BY IM MANUEL AARON is not successful. So also is the alternative
queen-trap idea with: 17...Bg4 18.Rfe1
Potluri,Supreetha(WFM AP) (1805) -
School Agra, Distributed cash prizes along Tukhaev,Adam (GM Ukr) (2541) [A40] g5 19.e5 Rg8 20.exf6 Rg6 21.Qxg6 hxg6
with Trophies to all the winners during fe- 22.fxe7 Bd7 23.Ne4 Qc7 24.c5!±; The
licitation ceremony held on 25th Septem-
In the first round itself, Supreetha, 18,
ber while Mr. Sanjay Dubey Secretary of of Andhra, created a sensation holding quiet 17...Kg8= was the best as all the
ADCSA,Ms. Kavita Patel, Chief Arbiter. It 3rd seeded GM Tukhaev of Ukraine to a black forces are at their best positions
was a remarkable effort of Agra District draw. Throughout the game, Tukhaev. whereas white's bishop is yet to find a
chess Sports Association to conduct the 31, though at the peak of his powers, purpose.] 18.e5! Qxe5 19.Rfe1 Qd4
tournament in such a place that is very was losing when a draw was offered, and 20.Qxg5 Ng4 21.Ne4 d5 22.h3! Ne5
good for popularity of chess. The staff of 23.Nc5!+- Ng6 24.Nxe6 fxe6 25.Rxe6
school were very co-operative with helpful
accepted, in a winning ending for the
nature. The Arbiter team was efficient and Andhra girl! Probably Supreetha was in Rf8 26.Qe3 Qb2 27.cxd5 cxd5 [#]
conducted the tournament smoothly with- time trouble, or perhaps she didnt know
out any protest and disturbance. I was ably how to handle this ending. Whatever the
supported by Jitendra Sharma, Ashindera reason she missed a great opportunity.
Yadav, and Vaishnavi Yadav, Krishna for She had won the National Schools U–17
smooth conduct of the tournament. I am
thankful to them for their co-operation and
Girls Championship in Nagpur, 2016. Af-
understanding.
ter drawing this game, Supreetha's per-
formance was indifferent and she lost
59.6 rating points from this tournament
Final ranking
because of losing three, drawing five and
Rk Name Pts
winning only two games. 1.d4 g6 2.Nf3
1 Prithvvi Singh 7½
2 Dubey Sanchay 7 Bg7 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6
3 Tanishq Gupta 6½ 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.0–0 Rb8 8.c4 Nf6 9.Nc3
4 Sankalp Arora 6 0–0 10.Rb1 Qa5 11.Bf4 d6 12.Qd2
5 Utkarsh Bhatnagar 6
Bf5 13.Rbc1 Kh8 14.Bh6 Bxh6?! [This At this point Tukhaev must have been
6 Udit Gupta 6
makes further play for black a bit diffi- preparing for resignation as he could
7 Mohit 6
cult. Better was: 14...Rfc8 15.b3 Bxh6 see white's winning move. But sad-
8 Aditya Pratap Singh 6
ly, the Andhra girl misses the winning
9 Aditya Pant 5½ 16.Qxh6 Qe5=] 15.Qxh6 Rfd8 16.e4
10 Parth Bhatnagar 5½ [16.b3 was best, threatening the c6 combination! 28.Qc3+!? [White miss-
11 Yachna Singh 5½ pawn.] 16...Be6 17.b3 [#] es the winning exchange sacrifice with:
12 Shubh Saxena 5½
28.Rxg6!! hxg6 (If 28...Rxf2 29.Bh1 (Not
13 Deepak Kashyap 5½
very emphatic was: 29.Bxd5 Rd2 30.Rgc6
14 Shantanu Pathak 5
Rxd5 31.Qxe7 Qd4+ 32.Kh1+-) 29...Re2
15 Bhatnagar Shabd 5
30.Qf4 Qe5 31.Ra6+- White's extra bish-
16 Anish Agarwal 5
17 Tejaswa Tiwari 5 op would win.) 29.Qh6+ Kg8 30.Bxd5+
18 Nitin Ranjan 5 Rf7 31.Bxf7+ Kxf7 32.Qf4+ Kg7 33.Rc7
19 Parth Gupta 5
Re8 34.Rxa7+-] 28...Qxc3 29.Rxc3+-
20 Aryan Rajawat 5
With an extra pawn and active pieces,
21 Sanchita Yadav 5
white should win. 29...Rfd8 30.Rd3 Rb5
22 Sankalp Gupta 5
31.h4–+
23 Anshul Chimnani 4½
24 Shivam Chaudhary 4½
25 Aayush Gupta 4½
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[#][In all probability, white, after mak-
ing this good move offered a draw which
was accepted. Most players playing white
in this position would have pressed on
for victory as follows: 31.h4! d4 32.f4
Ra5 33.Rd2 Kg7 34.Be4 Kf7 35.Rc6 Nf8
36.Bd3+- White has a winning advan-
tage. She not only has a sound extra
pawn, but also has chances of winning
one more pawn through pressure on the
d- and h-pawns. And her three pawns on
the king-side are forbidding. Tukhaev has
had a very lucky escape!] ½–½
Mohamed,Anees M (1910) Kaustu-
v,Kundu (2295) [E98]
Mohamed Anees, born 2003, is an un-
known Tamil Nadu player who did very
well in this Tetrasoft Tournament. He
plays the white side of the Kings Indian
Defence against Bengal's experienced
20–year old Kaustuv Kundu with great
confidence meeting the ferocious pawn
assault on the king-side with an original
strategic idea where his knight goes back
from c3 to b1! The final combination is
delightful. The fact that Kundu was rated
385 points more than him did not deter
Anees from playing his natural game.
This was a very successful tournament
for Anees as he had a number of good
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results like his draw against Russian GM
Pavel Smirnov. Anees increased his rat-
ing by 96 points from this single tourna-
ment! We are likely to hear more of this
player in the future. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6
3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0–0 6.Be2
e5 7.0–0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7
10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Rc1
Rf6 14.Nd3 Rh6 15.c5 Qe8 16.Kh1
Nf6 17.cxd6 cxd6 18.a4 a6 19.Nb1!?
[This backward movement of the knight
is a new concept in the Kings Indian!
Seen hitherto was: : 19.a5 Nh5 20.Kg1
Nf6 21.Kh1 Qh5 22.Bg1 Qg6 23.Nf2 led
to a draw in a 1995 German tournament
game between two little known players.]
19...g4!=
[#] With the white knight back on b1,
further away from the defence of his
king-side and from his own attack on
the queen-side, this was the opportune
moment for black to start his attack. The
chances are equal. 20.fxg4!? [The best
under the circumstances though he risks
losing all of his centre pawns. 20.g3??
Qh5! 21.h4 (21.Bg1 fxg3 22.fxg4 Qh3 It
will take ages for the white queen to get
to g2 for defence! 23.Bf3 Bxg4!–+) 21...
Qg6! 22.Qe1 gxf3 23.Bxf3 Bg4! 24.Nd2
Bxf3+ 25.Nxf3 Nxe4 26.gxf4 Qf5!! 27.Qe2
(27.Nh2 exf4!–+) 27...exf4 28.Kh2 Nxd5
29.Rg1 Re8–+ White's once proud cen-
tre has disintegrated and he is about
to collapse.] 20...Nxe4 21.Bf3 Ng5 [If
21...Ng3+?! 22.Bxg3 fxg3 23.h3 Bd7
24.Nc3²] 22.Re1 Ng6? [This takes the
pressure off d5. Better was: 22...Nxf3
23.gxf3 Bd7 24.a5 Nxd5 25.Nxe5 dxe5
26.Qxd5+ Kh8 27.Nd2 Bc6 28.Qc4 Qg6
29.Qf1=] 23.Nd2 Qd8 24.Ne4 Nxe4
25.Rxe4 Bd7 26.Rec4 b5 [26...Rc8?
27.Rxc8 Bxc8 28.g5! The black queen
is overloaded! 28...Rh4 29.Bxh4 Nxh4
30.Be4] 27.Rc7 Nf8 Defends the bish-
op so that the queen is free to move
around for more important assignments.
It also enables the rook to get back to
his second rank as nothing is happening
along the h-file. 28.a5 Bf6 [Black fails to
get a working plan even after: 28...Rg6
29.Nb4 Qg5 30.h3 Bf6 31.Nc6±] 29.Bb6
Qe8 30.Nf2 Bd8 31.R7c6! Be7 [Black
cannot accept the exchange as white;s
d5 pawn will immediately become a dan-
gerous advanced passed pawn: 31...Bxc6
32.dxc6+- threatening c6-c7.] 32.Ne4
Qg6 [#]
With white totally dominating the queen-
side, black seeks counter-play on the king-
side. But this foray meets with immediate
disaster as the rook is now confined to the
h-file. 33.g5!! Bxg5 [This is forced, for
if 33...Rh4 34.Bf2! Rg4 35.Nf6+!! (excel-
lent play!) 35...Bxf6 36.gxf6 Rg5 37.Rxd6
e4 38.Be2 Rxg2 39.Bh5 Bg4 40.f7+!!
Kg7 41.Qd4+!+-] 34.Rxd6 Qf5 35.Rxh6
Bxh6 36.d6 Threat 37. Qd5+ forking
king and rook. 36...Re8 37.Rc7+- white
has won no material, but his pieces are
all over the centre while black's king-side
pawn storm has fizzled out to nothing.
37...Kh8 38.h3 He makes an emergen-
cy escape hatch for his king and at the
same time threatens Bg4 in some var-
iations. 38...Qg6 39.Nc5 e4 [Pushed
to the wall, black has nothing better.
If 39...Bf5?? 40.Bh5 loses the Re8 for
nothing.] 40.Bh5 Qg3 41.Nxd7 f3 With
his bishop captured and the rook facing
immediate capture, black has to seek
mate in one. But white finishes him off
neatly and immediately. 42.Bd4+! Bg7
[42...Kg8?? 43.Qb3+ Ne6 44.Nf6+! Kf8
45.Rf7#] 43.Bxg7+ Kxg7 [43...Qxg7
was a better try. 44.Qg1 Rd8 45.Nxf8
fxg2+ 46.Qxg2 Qxf8 47.Rf7 Qh6 48.d7+-]
44.Nxf8+ As this is a discovered check,
black has no time to mate on g2. 44...
Kxf8 45.Qf1! Defends the mate on g2
and pins the dangerous black pawn on
f3. 45...Qxd6 46.Rf7+! Kg8 47.gxf3!!
Qe5 48.Qg1+ Kh8 [#]
49.Rxh7+!! [49.Rxh7+!! This is practi-
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cally the best move. 49...Kxh7 50.Qg6+
Kh8 51.Qxe8+ Qxe8 52.Bxe8 e3 53.Bxb5!
axb5 54.Kg2 White's a-pawn cannot be
stopped from queening.; however, 49.Bg6
is technically the best as it mates in 13
moves. Calculate how for a good training
exercise!] 1–0
Bhambure,Shantanu (Mah) (2288)
Ambarish,Sharma (WB) (1868)
Untitled, unsung, 24-year old Shantanu
Bhambure of Maharashtra exhibits high-
class attacking chess though he is rated
only 2288. And 17-year old Ambarish
Sharma of WB proves he is no pushover.
The middle-game theme of Bxh7+ sacri-
fice decides this game. With young play-
ers like these trying to find a place under
the sun, Indian Chess is in good hands.
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Be7
5.Nc3 Bb7 6.d5 exd5 7.cxd5 d6 8.e4
Nbd7 9.Bd3 0–0 10.0–0 Ne5 11.Bc2
Nfd7 12.Nd4 Ba6N [M.Rakitskaja 2220
vs E.Strelnikova 2124 from the from
the 2005 Russian Women Championship
in Samara went: 12...c5 13.dxc6 Nxc6
14.Nf5 Nf6 15.Bg5 Ba6 16.Re1 Ne5 and
37.1–0] 13.Ncb5 Nc5 14.b4 [#]
14...Bf6? [¹14...c6 15.bxc5 dxc5 16.Nf5
Bxb5 17.f4! Ng6 (17...Bxf1 18.fxe5 Bb5
19.d6 Bg5 20.Qg4 h6 21.h4+-) 18.d6
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Bxd6 19.Qxd6 Qxd6 20.Nxd6 Bxf1
21.Kxf1² White's two bishops are slightly
superior to black's rook and two pawns in
this open position.] 15.Rb1 [With 15.a4!
Ncd7 16.f4 Ng6 17.Nc6+- White has a
crushing position.] 15...Nb7 16.f4! Ng6
17.Nc6 [17.Ba4 first and then Nc6 was
a stronger opeion as the black queen
seeks a safe square where no discovered
attack could harm it.] 17...Qd7 18.a4
[Again 18.Ba4 Bxb5 19.Bxb5 a6 20.Ba4
b5 21.Bc2±] 18...Nd8 19.e5 [Probably,
white has already mapped out a deep
plan culminating in the Bxh7+ sacrifice.
If 19.Ncxa7! c5 20.dxc6 Nxc6 21.Nxc6
Qxc6 22.Qd3 Rac8 23.Rf2 led to a good
advantage.] 19...dxe5 20.fxe5 Bxb5
21.axb5 Nxe5 [#]
[21...Bxe5 would have also lost after
22.Bxg6 Nxc6 23.Bf5 Qd6 24.dxc6 Bxh2+
25.Kh1+-] 22.Rxf6!! Paving the way for
the Bxh7+ sacrifice. 22...gxf6 23.Nxe5
[The immediate 23.Bxh7+!! Kxh7 (23...
Kg7 24.Qh5+-) 24.Qh5+ Kg8 25.Nxe5
Qxd5 26.Qg4+ Kh8 27.Qh4+ Kg8 28.Bh6!
wins.] 23...fxe5 [#] 24.Bxh7+! Kg7 [If
24...Kxh7 25.Qh5+ Kg8 26.Rb3 f5 27.Rg3+
Qg7 28.Rxg7+ Kxg7 29.Bh6+ wins.; Af-
ter 24...Kg7 25.Rb3 Rh8 26.Bh6+!! Kxh7
27.Qh5 Qd6 28.Bf4+ Kg8 29.Rg3+ Kf8
30.Qxh8+ Ke7 31.Re3! wins.] 1–0
(Position after 23….fxe5)
Savchenko,Boris (GM Rus) (2576)
Sammed Jaykumar,Shete (Mah)
(2416) [D80]
The 20–year old Maharashtra star Sammed
Jaykumar puts up a good fight against
the 33-year old Russian GM. His out of
the blue, 11th move knight sacrifice, is
masterly. For a long, long time, the game
is equal, or even better for black, till
Savchenko pulls off a gamble with 20 h4?!
with his king still uncastled! 1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Bg7 5.cxd5
Nxd5 6.e3 [As 6.e4 is well known and so
thoroughtly analysed over the years that
white tries to take the 20–year oldIndian
off the book.] 6...c5 7.Rc1 Nc6 [¹7...
Nxc3! 8.bxc3 Be6 9.Nf3 Qa5 10.Bd3 cxd4
11.exd4 Nc6=] 8.Nxd5 Qxd5 9.Rxc5
Qxa2 10.Qc1! 0–0 11.Ne2 [#]
11...b6! [A clever combination, exploit-
ing white's incomplete development with
his king still in the centre. If 11...f6 =12.
Nc3! (Threat 13. Bc4+!) 12...Qf7 13.Bf4
Rd8 (13...e5?! 14.Bc4 Be6 15.d5! Qe7
16.dxc6! exf4 17.cxb7 Rab8 18.Ne2±)
14.Bc7 Rd7 15.Bg3 Rd8 16.d5 Ne5 17.Be2
Qf8 18.f4²; However, best was: 11...h6!
12.Bh4 Qe6 13.Nf4 Qd6 14.Bg3 e5 15.Nd3
Bf5! 16.Nxe5 Nxe5 17.Bxe5 Bxe5 18.dxe5
Qb6 19.Rb5 Qe6=] 12.Rxc6 Qa5+
13.Nc3 Qxg5 14.f4!= Qa5 [Also possible
was: 14...Qh4+ 15.g3 Qh5 16.Be2 Qh3=;
Probably stronger was: 14...Qf5!? 15.Rc7
Be6 16.Ba6 Qa5 17.Bb7 b5! 18.Rc5 Rab8
and, if now, 19.Rxb5?! Qc7³] 15.Rc7
Be6! 16.Rxe7 Rfc8 [If 16...g5 17.g3
gxf4 18.gxf4 Bf6 19.Rc7 Bh4+ 20.Kd2
Rfc8 21.Rxc8+ Rxc8 22.Bd3± and white is
ready to consolidate his pawn advantage
with 23. Qa1! The black Queen is not so
well placed on a5 after all !] 17.Be2 Bf6
[Black has the choice of attacking the
rook from f8 or f6. Whichever way he
chooses, white is going to sacrifice his
rook for the bishop. He chooses the less
effective way, from f6. From f6 his bish-
op has fewer options. Better was: 17...
Bf8! 18.Rxe6 fxe6 19.0–0 Bb4 20.Bg4
Kf7 21.d5 exd5 22.Bxc8 Rxc8 23.f5 Kg7
24.Qd1 Bxc3 25.bxc3 Qxc3 26.f6+ Kh8
27.Qxd5 Qxe3+ 28.Kh1 Qe2 29.Rd1=]
18.Rxe6 fxe6 19.Qb1 Rc7 20.h4!? [The
Russian seeks complications from which
he hopes to emerge successful. In a Swiss
system tournament, a GM needs to pick
points from all lesser rated opponents, es-
pecially those untitled. In Europe, against
another GM, he would not dare! Leading
to equality was: 20.0–0 Rac8 21.Bg4=]
20...Rf8 21.Kf2 Qf5 [If 21...g5?! 22.b4!
Qf5 23.Qxf5 exf5 24.Nd5± Rc2 25.hxg5
Bd8 26.Kf3±] 22.Qd1 Bg7 [Better was to
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move the bishop to e7: 22...Be7 so that
the white rook is obliged to stay on the
h-file protecting his h-pawn.] 23.g4?!
[This is the romantic way by which most
of us would carry on with the attack.
But technically the best way to initiate
an attack here was with the pieces so
that his Kf2 is safe. Best, therefore, was:
23.Bg4! Qf7 24.Ne4! Bf6 25.Qb3±] 23...
Qf7 24.Kg2 Rd8 25.Qb3! [#]
25...Bxd4? 26.Nb5 [It was simpler to
accept the sacrifice and win: 26.exd4!
Rxd4 27.Rf1 Rd2 28.Rf2 Qd7 (28...e5?
29.Qxf7+ Kxf7 30.Bc4++-) 29.Kg3 Qc6
30.Bb5 Rxb2 31.Qxb2 Qxc3+ 32.Kg2±]
26...Bg7 [Better was to deploy the bish-
op actively against the white king as his
own king is in no danger Note that white's
king-side pawns have advanced, making
inroads targeting the white king not very
difficult. Therefore: 26...Bc5 27.Nxc7
Qxc7²] 27.Nxc7 Qxc7 28.Qxe6+ Kh8
29.b3 Bb2 30.Kf3 Qb7+ 31.Qe4 Qxe4+
32.Kxe4 Rd2 Black's best chance in this
ending is to attack white's pawn on e3
with his rook and bishop and pin white
down to its defence. 33.Bc4 Kg7 34.h5
a5 35.g5 Ba3 36.Kf3 Bc5 37.h6+ Kf8
38.Rc1 Rd8 [If 38...Ba3 39.Rf1 Bc5 40.e4
Rh2 41.f5! White threatens 42. fxg6 hxg6
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43. Kg3+, discovered check, winning the
rook!] 39.Rc3 Ke7 40.Rd3 White plans
to exchange off rooks because he sees
that his bishop would play havoc against
black's fixed pawns on h7 and g6. Though
opposite colour bishop endings are very
hard to win, advanced, blocked pawns
like here, give the superior side good
chances of victory. 40...Bd6 41.Rd4 Rb8
42.Re4+ Kd7 43.Bb5+! Kc7 44.Re8!
Rd8 45.Rxd8 Kxd8 46.Bc4! Threat:
Bg8, Bxh7, Bxg6 winning. This idea is
worth remembering in such endgames.
[46.Bd3! was another winning idea, the
threat being: Bxg6! hxg6, h6-h7 queen-
ing.] 46...b5 [#]
47.Bxb5 [There was no need to be side-
tracked by the offer of the b-pawn. White
should continue as planned: 47.Bg8 Ke7
48.Bxh7 Kf7 49.f5 Be5 50.fxg6+ Kf8
51.g7+ Bxg7 52.hxg7+ Kxg7 53.Bc2+-]
47...Ke7 48.e4 Bc5 49.Bc4 Kf8 He can-
not allow 50. Bg8. 50.e5! Bd4 51.Ke4
Bc3 52.f5 gxf5+ 53.Kxf5 Bb2 54.g6!
hxg6+ 55.Kf6!! g5 56.h71–0
Sa,Kannan (2021) - Smirnov,Pavel
(GM Rus) (2574) [A46]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.c3 h6
5.Bxf6 Qxf6 6.e3 b6 7.Nbd2 Bb7
8.Bd3 Nc6 9.Qe2 [9.0–0 is the usual
move here. White has an original plan, to
castle on the queen-side.] 9...Qd8 Black
has an inkling of white's plan to castle
on the queen-side and keeps his options
ready. 10.Ba6?! [Instead of worrying over
black's bishop on b7, white should com-
plete his development by castling: 10.0–0
Be7 11.Ne5 0–0 12.f4 d6=] 10...Bxa6
11.Qxa6 Be7 12.0–0–0?! This is risky
as white's pawn on c3 becomes a target
for black's pawn assault. Such things you
learn by playing and analysing many sim- [An ignominous corner for the knight.
ilar games. 12...0–0 13.d5! This is reallly If 16.Nbd4 b5 17.Nc2 b4 18.Rxd5 bxc3
not a pawn sacrifice because though black 19.bxc3 Qb6 20.Kd2 Qa6µ] 16...b5
could capture it, he cannot hold on to it. 17.Rxd5 White recovers his pawn, just
13...exd5 14.Nb3 [#] as black's attack becomes very danger-
ous. 17...b4! Refer to the 12th move
commentary where white's c3 pawn is
described as having the potential to speed
up black's attack! 18.Nc2 bxc3 19.bxc3
Qb6 20.Rhd1 [This loses immediately
and beautifully! Best was: 20.Kd2 Qa6
21.Rc1 Bf6 22.Rc5 d5 23.Nfd4 Nxd4
24.cxd4 Rfd8 25.Ke1 Be7–+ The Rc5 is
trapped!] 20...Qb2+ 21.Kd2 [#]
14...Rb8!? Favourites and higher rated
players in large Swiss system tourna-
ments have to undertake risky continu-
ations to win games against lower rated
opponents. With this move, black has a
vague threat of trapping the queen with
b6-b5, Rb6, etc. 15.Qe2? [Black's bluff
works and the white queen scurries back
to 'safety'. However, if he pressed on
boldly he would get a slightly worse po-
sition as follows: 15.Rxd5! b5 16.Rhd1 21...Nb4!! [After 21...Nb4 (Threats ....
Rb6 17.Qa3 c4 18.Nc5 b4 19.Qa4 Bxc5! Qxc2 as well as .... Nxd5) 22.cxb4 Bxb4#
20.Rxc5 bxc3 21.bxc3 Qf6 22.Qxc4 Qg6! It is an unbelievable, but very neat mate!]
23.g3 Rfb8³] 15...c4 16.Na1 [#] 0–1
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

HenrikMesman 1948 Reino Liungman 1945

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

Prof.Ladislav Prokes 1948 Jendrich Fritz 1951

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

3. 4.

Andre Cheron 1948 Dr Artur Mandler 1955

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

(solutions on p.47) 5. 6.

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution
(Solution on page
on page 47 ) 12)

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Masters of the past -104 Max Euwe Pearl City All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Hyderabad
Max Euwe (1901-1981) was a Dutch chess grandmaster, mathematician, author,
and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Cham-
pion (1935–37). Euwe served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation,
from 1970 to 1978.Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam. He
studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, earning his doctorate in
1926 and taught mathematics.After World War II, Euwe became interested in
computer programming and was appointed professor in this subject at the uni-
versities of Rotterdam and Tilburg, retiring from Tilburg University in 1971. Euwe
published a mathematical analysis of the game of chess from an intuitionistic
point of view, in which he showed, using the Thue–Morse sequence, that the
then-official rules (in 1929) did not exclude the possibility of infinite games.[3]

Euwe played his first tournament at age 10. Euwe won every Dutch chess championship that he
contested from 1921 until 1952, and additionally won the title in 1955 – his 12 titles are still a re-
cord. The only other winners during this period were Salo Landau in 1936, when Euwe, then world
champion, did not compete, and Jan Hein Donner in 1954.[5] He became the world amateur chess
champion in 1928, at The Hague, with a score of 12/15.
On December 15, 1935, after 30 games played in 13 different cities around the Netherlands over
a period of 80 days, Euwe defeated Alekhine by 15½–14½, becoming the fifth World Chess Cham-
pion. Alekhine quickly went three games ahead, but from game 13 onwards Euwe won twice as
many games as Alekhine.[ His title gave a huge boost to chess in the Netherlands. This was also
the first world championship match in which the players had seconds to help them with analysis
GM R.R.Laxman Winner with Maruti Alto
during adjournments.

Euwe’s performance in the great tournament of Nottingham 1936 (equal third, half a point behind 1st Lakecity GM Intl. Chess Tournament 2019. Udaipur
Botvinnik and Capablanca, half a point ahead of Alekhine) indicated he was a worthy champion,
even if he was not as dominant as the earlier champions. Euwe lost the title to Alekhine in a re-
match in 1937, also played in the Netherlands, by the lopsided margin of 15½–9½. Euwe’s final
major tournament was the double round robin Candidates’ Tournament in Zürich, 1953, in which
he finished next to last. He was in the top half of the field after the first half of the tournament, but
tired in the second half.

Euwe played for the Netherlands in a total of seven Chess Olympiads, from 1927 to 1962, a 35-
year span, always on first board.His aggregate was 54½/87 for 62.6 percent.Euwe won a total of
102 first prizes in tournaments during his career. While it is true that many of those were local and
were not very strong, the total is nevertheless very impressive, especially considering that Euwe
was never a true professional player.[25]
Euwe became a computer science professor at Tilburg University in 1964.From 1970 (at age 69)
until 1978, he was president of the FIDE. As president, Euwe usually did what he considered morally
right rather than what was politically expedient.

Euwe wrote over 70 chess books, far more than any other World Champion; some of the best-known
are The Road to Chess Mastery, Judgement and Planning in Chess, The Logical Approach to Chess, and
Strategy and Tactics in Chess.[6][21] Former Soviet grandmaster Sosonko used Euwe and den Hertog’s
1927 Practische Schaaklessen as a textbook when teaching in the Leningrad House of Pioneers, and
considers it “one of the best chess books ever”.[19] Fischer World Champion, an account of the 1972
World Chess Championship match, co-authored by Euwe with Jan Timman, was written in 1972 but not (L-R)Devendra ji Sahu, Dr. Om Sahu, Shri. Phool Singh Meena MLA,Winner GM Deepan Chakravarthy,
published in English until 2002.[26] Euwe’s book From My Games, 1920–1937 was originally published Shri. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Central Minister govt of India, Shri, Gulab Chand Kataria, Opposition
in 1939 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, and was republished by Dover in 1975
Leader, Rajasthan state govt, Shri C P joshi MP, Shri. Chandrbhan MLA, Shri Himmat Sikligar,VP
Courtesy:Wikepedia

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 Rotary Club of Ponda All India Open FIDE Rating Blitz Chess in Solutions to ‘tactics from [33...Qe4] 34.Kg1 [34.Rxf2 Qxf2 35.Qxf2
master games’ on page 42 Rxf2–+] 34...Nh3+ 35.Kh1 Qe4–+ 0–1
memory of Mrs Pushpa Gaunekar
1.Jablonicky,Martin (2343) Ma- 4. Sanal,V (2535) - Ter Sahakyan,S
zur,Ste (2437) [E95] (2632) [C78]
Serbian League 2019 Subotica SRB (2.1),
Trnava SVK Trnava SVK (6.3), 16.08.2019
23.08.2019
Black to play. 29...Rxf3+ 30.gxf3 [30.
White to play. 23.Bxh6 Qd7 [23...
Ke1 Qe4+ 31.Kd2 (31.Kd1 Qb1+ 32.Kd2
gxh6 24.Rf3 Kf8 (24...Qd7 25.Rg3+ Kf8
Rf2+ Wins) 31...Rf2+ 32.Kd1 Qb1+
26.Qxh6+ Wins) 25.Qxh6+ Ke8 (25...
33.Qc1 Qd3+ 34.Ke1 Rf1#; 30.Ke2 Qe4+‚]
Ke7 26.Qg7+) 26.Qh8+ Ke7 27.Qg7+
30...Qxf3+ 31.Ke1 Qf2+ 32.Kd1 Nxd6
Kd8 28.Qxf6+ Kd7 29.Qg7+ Kd8 30.Rh3
33.Qd5 [33.Rxd6 Qg1+ 34.Kd2 Qxh2+
Bd7 31.Rh8+ Be8 32.f6 Qd7 33.f7 Wins]
35.Kd3 Qxd6–+] 33...Qg1+ 34.Kd2
24.Bxg7! Qxg7 25.Rf3 Bd7 26.Rg3
Qxh2+ 35.Kd3 [35.Kd1 Qg1+ 36.Kc2
Be8 27.Qh6+- 1–0
Qf2+ 37.Kd1 Nf5‚] 35...Qg3+ 36.Kxd4
Qh4+ 37.Kd3 Qxd8–+ 0–1
5. Bijaoui,M (2433) - Stephan,V
(2413) [C42]
2. Tiba,V (2378) - Ilincic,Z (2412)
ch-FRA Accession 2019 Chartres FRA
[B92]
(7.4), 23.08.2019
FSGM August 2019 Budapest HUN (9.1),
(L-R)Mahesh Khedekar, Sagar Sakordekar, Mohan Agarwal, Nitish Belurkar (winner), Narendra SAwaikar, Vinaya- Diagram # Black to play. 18...Qf6+!
13.08.2019
ka Nayak, Prakash Gaunekar, Ashish Keni, IA Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter 19.Kg1 [19.Kg3 Qxf1; 19.Ke1 Rae8+
White to play 28.Bxf7+ Kxf7 [28...
20.Be2 Rxe2+ 21.Kxe2 Rxh2+ 22.Ke3
Kf8 29.Qh7 Kxf7 (29...Ke7 30.Qxg7‚)
UP State U-19 Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship 2019, Agra (22.Kd1 Qf3+ 23.Ke1 Qh1#; 22.Ke1 Qf2+
30.Qg6+ Ke7 31.Qe6+ Kd8 32.Rh8+
23.Kd1 Qe2#) 22...Rh3+ 23.Kd2 (23.Ke2
Wins] 29.Qh5+ Ke7 [29...Kf8 30.Qg6
Qf3+ 24.Kd2 Rh2+ 25.Ke1 Qh1#) 23...
Bh6 31.f6‚] 30.Qg6 Rg8 31.Rdh3 [31.
Qf2+ 24.Kd1 Rh1+ Wins] 19...Qxd4+
Rh8! Rxh8 32.Qxg7+ Kd8 33.Qxh8+ Be8
20.Kh1 Rxh2+ [20...Rxh2+ 21.Kxh2
(33...Ke7 34.Rh3) 34.Qh4+! Kc8 (34...
Qf2+ 22.Bg2 (22.Kh3 Rh8+; 22.Kh1
Kd7 35.Nd5) 35.Nd5 Wins] 31...Kd8
Rh8+) 22...Rh8+ Wins] 0–1
32.Rh8 Re8 33.Nd5 Qa4 34.Nxc7
Kxc7 35.Qxg7+ Bd7 36.Rxe8 1–0
6. R,M (2416) - Licznerski,L (2341)
[B17]
3. Rook,J (2540) - Kriebel,T (2531)
27th Poznan Open 2019 Poznan POL
[D37]
(9.2), 25.08.2019
Werle-Kriebel Classical Novy Bor CZE (3),
White to play. 21.Rxg7+! Kxg7 22.d5!
22.08.2019
cxd5 [22...f6 23.Qg4+ Kf8 (23...Kh7
Black to play. 30...Nh3! 31.Qe1 [31.
24.Qg6#) 24.Ng6+ With a winning attack;
gxh3 Rxf3 32.Nxf3 Bxf3+ 33.Ng2 Bxg2+
22...Be7 23.Nd7+ e5 (23...Kg8 24.Qg4+
34.Bxg2 Qxd1+ 35.Qg1 (35.Qf1 Qxd4–
Kh7 25.Qg7#; 23...Kh7 24.Qe4+ f5
+) 35...Qe2–+; 31.Qe2 Rxf3 32.Nxf3
25.Qxe6 Wins) 24.Qg4+ Bg5 25.Bxe5+
Bxf3 33.Qd2 (33.gxf3 Rg1#) 33...Bxd1
Wins; 22...Kf8 23.Ng6+! Ke8 (23...fxg6
34.Nxd1 Qxd1!–+] 31...Bxf3 32.Nxf3
24.Qf6+ wins) 24.Nxh8+-] 23.Nd7+
Prize winners with dignitaries Qxf3 33.Rd2 [33.gxf3 Rg1#] 33...Nf2+
Kh7 24.Qf6 1–0

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(L-R) Bhavesh Patel (CEO, Gujarat State Chess Association), IA Nandakumar NK Chief Arbiter (partly seen),
Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 16 : 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nc6 3.dxc6 Qd5 4.cxb7 Qxa2 Mayur Patel (Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association) giving trophy to Category C Champion Pathak
5.bxa8R Qxb1 6.R(8)xa7 Qxa1 7.Rxa1 Rudra S of Gujarat

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SEPTEMBER 2019
 2nd Gujarat Open Intl. GM Tournament 2019, Ahmedabad

(L-R) Shri Jayesh Modi (President, Karnavati Club), Shri Ajay Patel (President Emeritus, Gujarat State Chess Asso-
ciation), Shri Bhavesh Patel (CEO, Gujarat State Chess Association) and Shri Tejas Bakre (1st GM of Gujarat) along
with other dignitaries and Shri Samir Shah (Treasurer, Gujarat State Chess Association)

(L –R) Samir Shah (Treasurer, Gujarat State Chess Association), Rajesh Chavda (Secretary, Gujarat State Chess
Association), Jayesh Modi (Vice President, Gujarat State Chess Association), Rakesh Shah (President, Gujarat
State Chess Association), Bhavesh Patel (CEO, Gujarat State Chess Association) and Tejas Bakre (1st GM of Guja-
rat) giving trophy to Category A Champion GM Rozum Ivan of Russia

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