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January 2015

World Youth Chess Olympiad,Hungary

INDIA RETAINS TITLE

25th National Under-17 Open and Girls

Chess Championships,Patna

Varshini

Girls Champion

Aradhya Garg
Open Champion

SIB CMS 52nd National Premier & Zone 3.7

Chess Championship, Kottayam

GM S.P.Sethuraman

National Premier Champion

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SIB-CMS 52nd National Premier &
Zone 3.7 Chess Championship, Kottayam
Sethuraman is National Premier Champion
by R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

25th National Under-17 Open & Girls
Chess Championships, Patna
Varshini and Aradhya Garg win titles
by Dharmendra kumar IA, Chief Arbiter

1st 64squares FIDE Rated Open,Kolkata
Laltu Chatterjee is the winner
by Udayan Kanti Ghosh IA Chief Arbiter

2nd Arvinddurga FIDE Rated,Tambaram
Osama Salim emerges winner
by M.Muthukumar IA,Chief Arbiter

Big Brains FIDE rated Ty
(below 1600),Kozhikode
Abdul Raheem wins title
by Saleem Baig,Chief Arbiter

Cube Open FIDE Rating 2014,Vadodara
Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins title
Ambrish C.Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter

1st Dhenkanal FIDE Rating
(below 1800),Dhenkanal
Sanjeeban Nayak wins title
by Nihar Ranjan Sasmal IA,Chief Arbiter
Lions Club Kakinada Elite FIDE Rating,Kakinada
J.Sai Agni Jeevitesh wins
by FA Venkat Kumar,Chief Arbiter

1st Nilambur CA FIDE Rated(below 1600),Nilambur
Jojo P.John wins at Nilambur
by L.R.Bhuavanaa Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

RTNarayana Memorial Cup FIDE Rated
(below 1600), Mandya
Pavan Kumar Yaramala wins
by Vasanth BH,Chief Arbiter

1st Sammen Singh FIDE Rated
(below 2000),Amritsar
Rahul Upadhyay wins title
by IA Gopakumar MS,Chief Arbiter

Selected games from Asian Youth Chess
Championships,New Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Tactics from master games
by Srinivas Krishnan

Test your endgame
By C.G.S.Narayanan

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From the President

At the outset I wish the members of
chess fraternity a very happy New Year!
Even though it is hardly six months since
I took over as President, I look back with
pride the excellent achievements by
our players in the year gone by. It was
a proud moment for Indian sport when
our young team won the first ever medal, a bronze, at
the 41st Chess Olympiad, the prestigious biennial team
event. I notice meticulous planning in the preparation and
fielding of teams and indomitable team spirit as the key
factors behind this historical triumph.
It was heartening that Viswanathan Anand won the
Candidates event in March 2014 and earned the right to
challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World title.The World
Championship at Sochi match was very closely fought but
could not be won by Anand much to our disappointment.
However Anand wound up the year winning the London
Chess classic in style and also finishing fifth in the FIDE
rating, a stupendous performance by our stalwart at the
age of 45.
I am delighted that India retained World Youth Olympiad
2014 title in Hungary and that this, I learn, is the fourth
time we are winning this title. I am happy note that
15-year-olds Arvindh Chidambram and Karthikeyan
Murali are joining the growing list of Grandmasters. Due
to the concerted efforts of the Federation in spotting and
training young talent India reaped most number of medals
both at the World Youth Chess Championship at Durban
and at the Asian Youth Chess Championships held at
Uzbekistan and New Delhi. Narayan Srinaths hat trick
of Asian Junior titles is a shot in the arm for Indian chess.
In retrospect, India has virtually become a chess powerhouse thanks to the excellent domestic structure and
administration of the game at the ground level by the
All India Chess Federation. I hope the ensuing year will
stand witness to more laurels.

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Masters of the past-48

Jorgen Bent Larsen

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P.R.Venketrama Raja
President/AICF

SIB CMS 52nd National Premier & Zone 3.7 Chess Championship, Kottayam

Sethuraman is National Premier Champion

by R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter

The 52nd edition of National Premier Chess Championship, sponsored by South Indian
Bank and co- sponsored by CMS College, Kottayam was held at the picturesque CMS College campus from 4th to 18th December 2014. Thirteen players eight grandmasters and
five international masters participated in the round robin format championship, comprising
thirteen rounds. Former under 14 world champion Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of PSPB was the
highest rated player in the tournament, with a rating 0f 2625 and it had one more super
grandmaster in SP Sethuraman, also of PSPB. Average rating of the tournament was 2487,
a category 10 event. As in Olympiad and World Cup, the duration of play was 90 minutes
each for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes each for the remaining game, with an increment
of 30 seconds per move. The championship also gained importance, as the winner of the
tournament will qualify for the World Cup, to be held in 2015.
Fierce fighting was witnessed from the very beginning. Both top two players Vidit and
Sethuraman were held to a draw in the first round by former Commonwealth champion MR
Lalith Babu of PSPB and IM P. Shyam Nikil of Tamil Nadu respectively. In the second round
too, Vidit had to concede a draw to his team mate and former national champion Abhijit
Kunte. GM Deep Sengupta of PSPB, Lalith and Sethu scored two successive wins each in
third and fourth rounds to lead the table with 3 points, at the end of the fourth round.
All the six games were drawn in the fifth round, the lead still remaining in the hands of the
three grandmasters, Sethu, Lalith and Deep. In the sixth round, Deep outwitted Swayams
Mishra, the international master form Orissa, to wrest sole lead. This was possible because
of the shocking defeat of Lalith at the hands of Delhi GM Sahaj Grover and Sethuraman had
a rest day. Sethuraman dealt a blow to Deep in the seventh round and Lalith overcame RR
Laxman, grandmaster from Railways, enabling the trio to share the lead again together,
with 4.5 points each. Deepan Chakkravarthy of Railways and Sahaj were breathing at their
shoulders, with 4 points each.
Eighth round witnessed the emergence of a sole leader in Sethuraman, who defeated IM PDS
Girinath of Railways to reach 5.5 points, one point ahead of five other players. Lalith Babu
suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Swayams Mishra in this round. IM Karthikeyan P
of Railways also rose up to second spot with a win over Tamil Nadu IM VAV Rajesh. Sethuraman maintained a half point lead over three others with 6 points, after securing a draw
against Lalith Babu.
Sethuraman defeated Abhijit Kunte and Sahaj closely followed him with a win over Deepan in the tenth round. Sethu remained alone at the top with 7.5 points, at the end of the
eleventh round, after being held by Vidit in the crucial and much anticipated tie. Sengupta
and Sahaj remained in contention for the title with 7 points. Deepan Chakkravarthy had an
ignominious hat trick of losses, this time against RR Laxman.
In the penultimate round, P. Karthikeyan dashed the hopes of Sahaj by beating him, which
also fetched him his third GM norm. Both Deep and Sethu drew the games against their respective opponents. Sethu needed half a point in the final round to clinch the championship.

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Sethuraman ensured the title by securing a formal draw with Deepan Chakkravarthy, which
also enriched his bank account by 2.5 lakh rupees. Both Karthikeyan and Deep Sengupta

1st Sameen Singh FIDE Rated Chess Tournament-2014 for below 2000,Amritsar

scored 8 points and had equal number of wins. Sonneborn Berger tiebreak favoured Deep
Sengupta to finish second and Karthikeyan secured the third spot. Vidit suffered a shocking
loss at the hands of veteran IM PDS Girinath in the final round. Sethuraman received two

Mr. Narinder Singh, President Punjab

State Chess Association; Mrs. Anjana
Gupta, Principal DAV International School
Amritsar; Dr. V P Lakhan Pal, Chairman DAV
International School Amritsar, Dr. Gurvinder
Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable
Society along with other organising
committee members inaugurating the
tournament by lighting the lamp.

lakhs and fifty thousand rupees for his efforts, out of total prize money of Rs. ten lakhs.
After six hard fought rounds, the players enjoyed a refreshing trip to Kumarakom, a popular
boating resort. The very big lake of back waters, extending by 83 KMs by length and 14
KMs by width was worth visiting, which also had a bird sanctuary. Players relished every
second of the three hours boating.
Rt. Rev. Thomas K Ommen, Deputy moderator, Church of South India presided the inaugural
function and Honourable Minister for Sports, Government of Kerala, Sri. T Radhakrishnan
inaugurated the championship in the august presence of Dr. Alexander Jacob, Director General of Police, Kerala, Sri. TC Mathew, Chairman, National Cricket Academy and Mr. Shelly
Joseph, Regional Dy. GM, South Indian Bank.
Dr. Babu Sebastian, Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University was the chief guest for
the prize distribution function, presided by Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal of the host CMS
College in the august presence of Mr. Shelly Joseph, Regional Head & Dy. GM, South Indian

A view of the tournament Hall

Bank, the main sponsor.

Final ranking
Rk
Name

Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12

1 GM
Sethuraman S.P.

2622 * 1 1 1 1 1 8

2
GM
Sengupta Deep

2566
0 * 1 1 1 1
1 8

3
IM
Karthikeyan P.

2400


* 1 0 1 1 1 1
8

13

4 GM
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
2625 * 1 1 1 0 7
5
GM
Grover Sahaj

2505
0 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 1
7

6 GM
Kunte Abhijit

2480 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 1 6

7
GM
Lalith Babu M.R.

2547


0 0 * 1 0 1 1
6

8 IM Shyam Nikil P.

2454 0 0 * 1 5

9 GM
Deepan Chakkravarthy 2489 0 0 * 0 1 1 5
10
IM Swayams Mishra

2491 0 0 0 1 * 0 1 5

11
GM
Laxman R.R.

2408
0
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 *
4

12 IM Rajesh V A V

2408

13
IM
Girinath P.D.S.

2333
0 0 1 0 0 0
0 * 3

Rahul Upadhyay (Winner)

receiving the trophy from Chief
Guest

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1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating Chess Tournament below 1600

Kerala State Minister Shri Aryadhan

Mohammed inaugurates the event in
the presence of AICF Joint secretary Shri
Venugopal, CAK President Shri Kunhi
Mohideen and Malappuram District
Secretary Shri Rasheed

The winner Jojo P John receives cash award

with A P Aslam memorial trophy form the
Chief Guest ,Kerala MLA Basheer P K, in the
presence of IM Ratnakaran

1st MCA FIDE Rated Bengal Junior Open Chess Tmt 2014

(L-R)R.C.Chatterjee_U.K. Rathi_Koustav
Chatterjee(2nd) Arpan Das (Champion)
Sayan Bose(3rd)Atanu Lahiri(Secretary,
BCA)

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25th National Under-17 Open & Girls Chess Championships, Patna..

Varshini and Aradhya Garg win titles

IA Dharmendra Kumar, Chief Arbiter

The participants started arriving since 30th

November 2014 itself that lasted till the
opening time 3:30 pm. on 2nd December
2014. The inaugural function was delayed
by one hour awaiting arrival of players from
TN and other states coming from a late running train. Venue was elegant Conference
Hall of Adhiweshan Bhawan situated in Bihar
Secretariat , Patna. On 2nd December 2014,
The campus, the entrance and the corridors
were attractively decorated with scented
flowers that provided the venue a beautiful
ambiance.
The young participants, their parents and
the other guests received hearty welcome
with showering of flower-bits by a team of
pretty DPS students led by Mrs.Chetna Jha,
the event Director.As the Championship was
organised in collaboration with Takshila Educational Society,an organization dedicated
to Art and Music, so it was obvious that the
championship had the impact of melodious
music, songs, arty decoration and creative
presentation throughout. The opening of
the championship began with melodious
welcome song (Swagat Gaan) and Vandana
Geet presented by DPS boys and girls. They
received greetings from the duo organisers,
ABCA Secretary A K Sinha and Sanjiv Kumar,
Secretary, Takshila Educational Society. The
Chief Guest Bharat Singh Chauhan,CEO AICF,
described this unprecedented as he never
saw Sanjiv Kumar,Ex VP of AICF and Pro ViceChairman DPS so keenly involved arranging
a chess function.
The marvelous presentation of history of
chess in Hindi and English was unique and
memorable. The dignitaries, Kumar Sanjay, IRS, Commissioner Income Tax, Bihar

&Jharkhand, Vivek Kumar Singh, IAS and

President, ABCA, IG Parmar,IA the Chief
Arbiter and CEO,AICF were welcomed by
bouquet by DPS girls. ABCA Secretary himself
escorted the guests onto the dais one by one.
Venue & Accomodation Entire second floor of
Adhiveshan Bhawan with separate sitting arrangements for open and girls championships
was engaged. It was spacious and clean.
The ground floor of the fully air-conditioned
building was kept reserved for the parents
and coaches. A canteen was also situated in
the floor.
It was also an apt place for security and safety of players where they were provided accommodation i.e State Institute of Health and
Family welfare (SIHFW), a Government set
up with neat and clean three-bedded rooms
and canteen facilitating the participants with
daily food, refreshments etc. Arrangement of
stay in some hotels nearby Railway station
was also made. The tournament venue was at
a distance of 1 and half kilometer away from
the hotels. But since the SIHFW place of stay
was about 3 kilometers away from the tournament venue, the participants and parents
were provided free to and fro transportation
by DPS buses throughout the event.
On the 3rd and 5th December 2014 two
rounds were scheduled. For convenience of
the participants, free lunch was served to all
the parents and participants, arbiters and
managers on both the occasions. On 7th
(Sunday) an excursion trip was also arranged
for the parents and participants to visit the
Ganges, Gurudwara, Patna Sahib etc. free
of any charges.A delicious dinner was also
hosted by DPS Patna in the honour of all the
parents and participants on the penultimate

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round i.e. on 9th December 2014.Three DPS

buses were engaged for bringing them for the
dinner and dropping them back to their places
of stay. Organisers also provided each player
a printed folder comprising a news letter, a
tournament bulletin, participation certificate
and his own post card size photograph as
souvenir at the prize distribution function and
arranged free transportation to the Raiway
station/airport.
101 Players (51 in Girls and 50 in Open)
from 19 states participated in the 25th
National U-17 Chess Championship. 11 round
individual Swiss system championship was
played with the time control of 90 minute
with increment of 30 second. Zero tolerance
was applied here and soon after the inauguration all technical matters was discussed
and decided during the managers meeting.
Aradhya Garg of Delhi started his crown
campaign with strong will and consistent performance. He won all his first four game and
became sole leader after 4th round. In 5th
round,1st runner-up of this championship,
V.Prananvananda forced him to share his
point but even though Aradhya was leader
but jointly with S.Adhitya of Tamilnadu. In
the very next round , he defeated to Adhitya and became sole leader . Later , he
allowed two more drew out of 5 game , on
the way to become champion. At the same
time wV.Pranavananda of A.P. also joined the
lead after 10th round . In 10th round ,on
the top board, the leader Aradhya Garg of
Delhi (FIDE Rating 2066) had to face English Opening against Y Grahesh of AP but his
careful play could not earned a significant
advantage in the game for the either players
and they agreed to share points. On the second board Pranavanad opted for c4 against
Kumar Gaurav of Bihar. Kumar Gaurav playing black found lack of space and exchanged
both his rooks that led to a losing position

and he resigned. Last round started with two

leader , Aradhya Garg and V.Pranavananda,
both of them had 8.5 point and both of them
defeated their opponent Krishna Teja and
Y.Grahesh respectively . The Championship
ended in a tie which was decided by applyingg buchholz and this favoured Aradhya win
the title. V.Pranavananda was declared 1st
runner-up and S. Yogit as 2nd runner-up.
In Girls section, championship was full of
suspense.A sole leader of the championship
till last round ,WFM M.Mahalakshmi (8) of
Tamilnadu, lost her last round game to WFM
Srija Seshadri (7) . 2nd spot leader in Girls
section , WFM G.K.Monnisha (7.5) lost to
Chandigarh girl WFM Tarini Goyal(6.5) on
board no. 2 . Both these upset result produced the champion from board no.3 where
WFM V, Varshini ( 7.5) of Tamilnadu defeated
Sunyasakta Satpaty(6.5) of Odisha and with
8.5 point she became champion of this 25th
edition U-17 National Girls Chess Championship. WFM M.Mahalakshmi and WFM Srija
Seshadri placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The championship remained free of any
dispute or any protest under the able team of
Arbiters IG Parmar, Chief arbiter, Dharmendra
Kumar, Amrendra Pandey and Deepak Kumar.
Live games of the championship were looked
after by Anand Babu.
In the closing ceremony too, DPS boys and girls
presented musical, vocal songs to welcome
the distinguished guests and the participants.
Chief Guest Nitish Mishra,Minister,Rural Development, Government of Bihar and guests
of honour Vijoy Praksh,IAS, Dipak Kumar
Singh, IAS and B Binod,DPS Principal gave
away the prizes and trophies to the top
twenty winners in open and girls section. IA
Dharmendra Kumar announced the names of
winners while Arvind Kumar Sinha,Secretary,
ABCA proposed vote of thanks.The championship ended with National anthem.

National Under 17 Open

Final ranking
Rk. Name
1 Aradhya Garg
2 Pranavananda V
3 Yogit S
4 Baivab Mishra
5 Prasannaa.S
6 Grahesh Y
7 Neelash Saha
8 Hemanth Raam
9 Abhishek A
10 Kumar Gaurav
11 Krishna Teja N
12 Adhithya S
13 Srijit Paul
14 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
15 Manan Rai
16 Saptorshi Gupta
17 Eashwar.M
18 Saurabh Anand
19 Satvik M.
20 B Sri Viswaroopanand
21 Rahul Kumar
22 Ankit Sen
23 Arka Sengupta
24 Vishwanath Vivek
25 Dubey Sanchay
26 Lawaniya Eshan
27 Vaisnav M
28 Tridev Buragohain
29 S Uttam Aalewad
30 Priyadarshi Alok
31 Aswin Balakrishnan
32 Dave Sneh
33 Saksham Rautela
34 Prajjwal
35 Dias Aston
36 Souradip Deb
37 Parth Jain
38 Prasad Kaustav
39 Shubham Srivastava
40 Anmol Surana
41 Madhav Maira
42 Shrutarshi Ray
43 Aayush Agarwal
44 Singh Angad

Club
Del
AP
TN
Odi
TN
AP
WB
TN
Ker
Bih
AP
TN
WB
TEL
Del
WB
TN
Bih
Kar
Odi
Bih
UP
WB
TEL
UP
UP
TN
Asm
Mah
Bih
Ker
Guj
Utk
Har
Goa
Tri
UP
Bih
Jha
Cht
Har
WB
Jha
J&k

Pts.
9.5
9.5
7.5
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4
4
4

45 Shivang Aryan
46 Aditya Singh
47 Nayak Sumit Kumar
48 Aamir Suhail Mir
49 Kanwar Surya Dev
50 Aaqib Manzoor

Bih
Utk
Jha
J&k
HP
J&k

3.5
3.5
3
2.5
2
1

1 Varshini V WFM
2 Mahalakshmi M WFM
3 Srija Seshadri WFM
4 Monnisha Gk WFM
5 Soneji Janhavi
6 Tarini Goyal WFM
7 Toshali V
8 Lasya.G
9 Arpita Mukherjee WFM
10 Divya Lakshmi R
11 Tejaswini Sagar WCM
12 Smaraki Mohanty
13 Ashwini U
14 Isha Sharma
15 Sunyasakta Satpathy
16 Chandreyee Hajra
17 Chitlange Sakshi WFM
18 Ghosh Samriddhaa
19 Pandey Srishti
20 Mishra Anwesha
21 Ankitha Goud Palle
22 Divya Garg
23 Sanskriti Goyal
24 Prakruthee A
25 Dakshinya T R S
26 Thamaraiselvi P
27 Kavya Srishti K
28 Makhija Aashna
29 Patel Aditi
30 Anannya Menkudle
31 Mehak Jain
32 Tanya Pandey
33 Vani S Indrali
34 Poojanjali B
35 Purvi Malani
36 Aasa Deepika K
37 Adane Narayani
38 Bhavya Verma
39 Sagar Siya
40 Garima Gaurav

TN
TN
TN
TN
Mah
Chd
AP
AP
WB
TN
Mah
Odi
TN
Kar
Odi
WB
Mah
WB
Mah
Odi
Tel
Mah
UP
TN
TN
TN
Tel
Mah
Mah
Mah
Del
Mah
Kar
Tel
WB
AP
Mah
Bih
Mah
Bih

8.5
8
8
7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4.5

National Under 17 Girls

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1st 64 Squares FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament, Kolkata

Laltu Chatterjeee is the Winner

by Udayan Kanti Ghosh IA Chief Arbiter

1st 64 Squares FIDE Rated Open Chess

Tournament 2014 was held at Kalighat Milan Sangha, Kolkata,(W.B) from 22nd to
26th December 2014 in befitting manner.
The tournament was inaugurated by GM
Dibyendu Barua,Vice President, AICF and IM
Atanu Lahiri, Hony. Secretary , Bengal Chess
Association.The tournament was played in
a 2 different big halls. There were sufficient
drinking water and toilet facilities for the
players. The organizers arranged lunch and
snacks for all participants and their guardians every day.
No dispute, argument etc. arose during the
tournament. It may be mentioned that no
complaint was placed before the Appeals
Committee. The tournament was played in 10
round swiss league format. At the end of final
round Laltu Chatterjee bagged the Championship title . A total of 234 players, of whom
195 were rated, from different states of our
country and other countries participated in
this chess meet. FA norms were awarded to
NA Santanu Lahiri and NA Tapas Chakraborty.
The prize distribution ceremony was held
on Friday, the 26th December 2014. Sri
Ajit Banerjee, President, Bengal Olympic
Association, and IM Atanu Lahiri distributed
the prizes. Total prize fund of Rs. 250000/were distributed to the winners. Thirty Six
Trophies were given away to winners in different categories.
Final standings:
Rk Name
1
Chattarjee Laltu
2
Kaustuv Kundu
3
Abhishek Das
4
Mitrabha Guha FM
5
Chatterjee K.K.
8

Pts
8
8
8
8
7

6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46

Nayak Rajesh
Avijit Das
Arpita Mukherjee WFM
Mallick Anjan
Koustav Chatterjee
Bose Sayan
Subhayan Kundu
Sudarshan Mitra
Debasish Mukherjee
Tamojit Chakraborty
Iyer Vishal
Sayantan Mukherjee
Sonkalan Bharati
Sarbojit Paul
Bhattacharya N Shekhar
Srijit Paul
Subhra Banerjee
Satya Sekhar Mitra
Swarup Dey Sarkar
Sayan Banik
Arka Sengupta
Arpan Das
Sayan Sen
Ganguly Ritabroto
Sawyan Baran De
Anshul Nigam
Anustoop Biswas
Nath Rupankar
Bhowmik Bibhas
Chakrabarti Tamal
Sudipta Chakraborty
Khushi Dharewa
Shounak Ghatak
Rounak Pathak
Dilip Das
Soumma Chakraborty
Anis Mukhopadhyay
Sandip Dey
Shyamashree Sarkar
Mukherjee S.K.
Panda Sambit

7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93

Jayanta Kr. Sarkar

Sanjit Saha
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2nd Aarvindurga All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament 2014, Tambaram

Osama Salim emerges winner

by M.Muthukumar, Chief Arbiter

2nd Aarvindurga All India Open FIDE Rated

Chess Tournament (2014) was held from
25th to 29th December 2014 at Valluvar
Gurukulam School, Tambaram sponsored by
Aarvindurga School of Chess.
In all, the tournament had attracted 288
players from different parts of the country,
which included two players of Indian origin,
played under different Federation Flags. One
International Master (R.Balasubramaniam),
a couple of Women Fide Masters (J.Saranya
and C.Lakshmi) and Candidate Master (Nikhil
Magizhnan) and 206 FIDE rated players participated in the tournament.
The tournament was conducted in five days
starting from 25.12.2014 to 29.12.2014 in
a SWISS format with 9 rounds, under incremental time control as per the FIDE rules and
regulations by qualified Arbiters.
Earlier this tournament was inaugurated by
Mr Chockalingam, President of Arrvindurga
School of Chess.Fourth seeded, youngster,
FIDE Rated, Osama Salim, kept his cool
till the end and emerged as Winner with 8
points. Though his score was tied with the
International Master Balasubramanian, yet
he emerged as winner with better tie break
scores. Balasubramanian finished runner-up.
The efforts taken by the Organiser, Arrvindurga School of Chess, for the successful
organizing of the tournament are highly
commendable The team of arbiters ensured
smooth running of the tournament.
Final ranking:
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Rahul Bharadwaj B
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Marthandan K U
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Keerthivasan K
Arjun Kalyan
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Big Brains FIDE Rated Tournament 2014 below 1600, Kozhikode

Abdul Raheem wins title

by Saleem Baig,Chief Arbiter

Big Brains FIDE Rated Tournament 2014 below 1600 was conducted from 20th to 22nd
December 2014. The three-day tournament
attracted 313 entries and was conducted in
a 9 round Swiss format, with two rounds on
day one, 4 rounds on day two and 3 rounds
on day three. The event carried a prize pool
of Rs.2 Lakhs in cash.
194 players were FIDE Rated, 32 players
were female and 15 players were above 60
years. 5 year old Fadiya Rahman E was the
youngest player and 73 year old Mr. Govindan
C was the oldest player of the tournament.
Abdul Raheem K A of KER with a ELO Rating
of 1441 remained undefeated in the tournament. He won 8 straight rounds and drew in
the last round to clinch the title. event was
organized by BBIAS, Calicut, Kerala. The
event attracted local players and benefited
local talents. Players from 10 states (KER,
KAR, TN, MAH, GOA, TEL, AP, WB, DEL and
PUD) took part in this event.
Mr. Kunhi Moideen President Chess Association of Kerala inaugurated the tournament
and presided over the Prize Distribution
Ceremony. Others who graced the occasion
were Mr. Kabhilan, Artist (Singer) and Mr.
Nirmal Das Secretary UKDCA who distributed
the prizes along with Mr. Kunhi Moideen. All
the 97 players below the age of 15 years
received medals.
Final ranking:
Rk
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Abdul Raheem K A
Brahmaha V S
Stephen Raj A
Akash K A
Amitesh Kumar Sinha
Mulla Nihalahamad

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24 Aanandha Kumar M S
25 Kanishk S K
26 Sudheer M K
27 Sai Pranav Siddamshetty
28 Bino Sebastian
29 Chandramohan K
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32 Kavi Samrat P
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34 Muhammed Musthafa
35 Karan J P
36 Sudheesh M A
37 Akhil Vijayakumar
38 Veeresh Bharamasagara
39 Afinu Shifan M
40 Bharath Subramaniyam
41 Abdurahiman Elangoli
42 Fathima Abdeen
43 Thomas Valiyaprambil
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Ridhan M Feroz
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Rajeevan P Kunnummal
Gowtham Sakthivel
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Vishnu Prasad S
Abhiram Vijay
Sai Kiran K V
Hrishikesh R Raghuvaran
Hemanth Gajula
Shaiju Villunnikkal
Shirodkar Aayush
Hareendran V
Askkar Ali P
Panneerselvam R
Ajay C K
Abhinand Manoj
Dheeraj P V
Harikrishnan S B
Karthikeyan S
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Valsarajan P Ramanujan
Basavesh Mrutyunjayappa
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Cube Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2014, Vadodara

Vikramaditya Kulkarni wins title

Ambrish C Joshi IA,Chief Arbiter

Cube Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament

2014 was held at Ved Trans Cube plaza Hall,
4th Floor,Cube Central Bus station,Vadodara
from 24th to 28th December 2014.
This tournament carried out a prize amount
of Rs.2,50,000/- ( Two lakh Fifty Thousand)
which is splitted into 50 cash prizes and the
winner gets the cash prize of Rs.50,000/-.
With a beautiful crystalized Trophy.This 9
round swiss format tournament had 220 players from All over india out of which 1 GM
and 3 IM as well as 115 are internationally
rated and 105 were unrated.
The tournament was inaugurated by honourable member of Parliament Smt. Ranjanben
Bhatt,Mayour Shri Bharatbhai Shah,Grand
Master Shri Praveen Thipsay,President of
Vadodara Chess Association Smt. Bindyaben
Shah and other Dignitaries on Dias.Hard
fought victories and some higher rated players draws were witnessed in the tournamnet,
culminating in the emergence of IM Kulkarni
Vikramditya of Maharshtra as the champion
of this event, followed by IM Rahul Sangma
of Railway as 1st Runner-up and Deshpande
Anirudha of Maharshtra. 2nd Runner up.
Accommodation was available in the same
Campus as well in nearby Hotels so as even
in cool days, players reached at venue before
time and easily followed the time schedule.
An Architech tournament hall gave the great
satisfaction to players and parents . A Delicious food was available in food court and
the fantastic traditional show with great international level shopping chance blended
with this event was the experience of foriegn
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of Dubai. Its look like we came here for a

picnic rather then a competition. The Prize
Distribution carried out in a open Cube Hall
with full presence of sporting people where
55 prizes in total were awarded By Guj.State
Secretary Shri Bhavesh Patel,VCA President
Shri Bindyaben Shah, Cube Chair Person
Shri Sanjay Shah , Tournament Director Shri
S.D.Rajan,Chief Arbiter Shri A.C.Joshi, V.P
of GSCA Shri.Mayurpatel Guj.Coach Shri.
SekharSahu & Shri Ranvir Singhji.
Under the Guidance of Shri Bhavesh Patel (
Hon.Secretary of Gujarat),Vadodara Chess
Association had the privilege of conducting
many National, International and Reputed
events. Kudos to Mr. S.D.RAJAN Sir (Tournament Director & Org.Secretary), and his
Excellent team who work hard for the great
success of the tournament and Special thanks
to Cube Management and his team who has
fulfil all the requirements of the players.
The keen efforts of dedicated official of the
VCA and GSCA was the key factor for organizing and smooth running of tournament
.How I can forget My Technical expert team
?? without them we are helpless. Special
thanks to All Arbiters. Once again thanks to
one and all.
Final standings:Cube Open
Rk. Name Pts.

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Kulkarni Vikramaditya IM
Sangma Rahul IM
Deshpande Aniruddha
Prasad Devaki V IM
Bhatt Jalpan
Jeet Jain
Maulik Raval
Sudarshan Malga
Leuva Pruthviraj

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Trivedi Karan R
Mehta Jwalin
Deepak Katiyar
Joshi Manish
Rawal Shailesh
Mehta Naitik R
Kane Samvid
Falgun D Purohit
Desai Jay Viral
Sarvesh G Rao
Dhruvik Shah
Avdhoot Lendhe
Soham Datar
Makwana Ashvin K
Mukund G. Bhatt
Kotai Kamlesh S
Harshita Guddanti
Kiranpal Singh Mahajan
Dave Kantilal
Sinha Santosh Kumar
Aditya Guhagarkar
Makhija Aashna
Dave Sneh
Kamdar Udit
Soneji Maitrey
Dr Sanjay Date
Amit Panchal
Doshi Moksh Amitbhai
Nimdia Ridit
Gupta Rajesh R.S.
Vivek N Vala
Joy Pankaj Shah
Shah Aayush
Raichura Niyant
Diwan Rajesh
Sanjeet Manohar
Chauhan Ashvinkumar
Jayesh Ramanuj
Parikh Kairav
Ayush Bhai Mehta
Thaker Kautilya P
Parth M Shah
Pandhare Swapnil
Chudasama Ankit
Kavisha S Shah
Kamdar Aparva

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Yash Mandawaria
Agrawal Anay
Shah Manav Hiren
Milap Pandya
Neel Thomas
Thipsay Praveen M GM
Gorakhia Yogesh
Surti Bankim
Vrandesh Parekh
Patel Nishayank
Vyas Nilesh
Sparsh Khandelwal
Bhavsar Aniket P
Soni Ajay
Shaival Patwa
Borse Vaibhav
Shah Mihir
Meet Puri
Samdani Sahil Sagar
Ansh M Shah
H.N. Vyas
Pathak Nileshbhai S
Arun Kataria
Yash Jagtap
Ayush Lodha
Anmol Sharma
Damani Malay
Chandrani Shlok
Malvi Nirav
Panchal Tisha N
Panwar Krish Navratan
Pihu Nimdia
Vraj N Shah
Mahi Amit Doshi
Vakil Hardik
Chandan Palash N
Shah Aaditya
Parmar Mittal R
Agrawal Shubh
Bhatkar Zaheer Abbas
Lumbhani Nikhil P
Dhyana Patel
Dhruvin Sajnani
Gautam Kataria
Goswami Sagargiri
Dwivedi Umang

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1st Dhenkanal FIDE rating (below 1800) Championship,Dhenkanal

Sanjeeban Nayak wins titie

Nihar Ranjan Sasmal(IA),Chief Arbiter

1st Dhenkanal Fide Rating (below1800)

Chess Championship-2014 was inaugurated
by Chief Guest Brigadier Sri Kamakhya Prasad
Singh Deo, former Union minister, Dhenakanal district Collector Smt. Rupa Roshan
Sahu (chairman reception committee), Guest
of honor Professor Prafulla Kumar Mishra, on
12th Dec at Synergy College of Engineering
& technology, Dhenkanal in the presence of
Mr. Nabin Chandra Narayan Das, President
DDCA, Debabrat Bhatta , Sect DDCA, Biranchi Narayan Pany, Working President DDCA,
Santosh Mohapatra, working vice president
DDCA, Sagarika Mishra, coordinator & Santosh Kumar Swain Jt Sect DDCA.
This international rating event was successfully organized by Dhenkanal District Chess
Association for the first time under the aegis
of All Odissa Chess Association & under the
AICF event code 102548/ORI/2014 & was
recognized by AICF and FIDE.
A Total no of 194 participants (from 12
states) had taken part in this event from
different parts of the Country. A total of 9
rounds Swiss system league was played with
a time control of 60 min. with 30 sec increment. Also a total no of 57 new players Fide id
has created in this tournament. Some seeded
players of the tournament were Anwesha
Mishra (Odi)-1799, Sanjeeban Nayak (Odi)1796, Tirth Sarkar (WB)-1776 etc. There was
a total Cash Prize of Rs.1,50, 000/- (1st prize
Rs.30, 000/- with 53 other cash prizes).A
total of 194 players which included 103 rated
players participated in the event. Players
from 12 States (ODI, WB, BIH, AP, UP, TRI,
CHHAT, MAH, TN, KER, DEL etc.).There were
35 women players.Oldest player was Sikha
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Das Gupta of Tripura and the three young

players just above 5 years were Priansh Das,
Sriansh Das, Smruti Samrudhi Das.
Top seed Anwesha Mishra of Odisha with a
rating of 1799 finished 46th whereas second seed Sanjeeban Nayak clinched the
top honour and became the Champion of
1st Dhenkanal Fide Rating Chess Tournament- 2014 and was awarded Cash Prize of
Rs.30,000/- along with Champion Trophy.
He scored 8 points out of possible 9 points
along with Sambit Panda but in better tie
break Sanjeeban pushed panda to clinch
the title. Sambit panda bag a cash amount
of Rs.15,000/-.
In the closing ceremony the Chief guest was
Sri Saroj Samal, Honble MLA Dhenkanal.Other dignitaries who graced the occasion on the
last day were Vivek kumar Tibarewal (Secretary, All Odisha Chess Association), Smt
Rupa Roshan Sahu, Dhenakanal district Collector, Nabin Chandra Narayan Das, President
DDCA, Debabrat Bhatta , Secretary, DDCA,
Biranchi Narayan Pany, Working President
DDCA.The accommodation and food were
excellent. Dhenkanal is known as the hill
area of eastern Odisha and weather condition
during these days was very cold .The Press
and Media covered the event well and we had
considerably support from the parents and
guardians of the kid participants. This event
has added to the mileage of Dhenkanal as
one of the fast developing Chess towns in
Odisha after Cuttack & Bhubaneswar.
Final standings:
Rk Name
1
Nayak Sanjeeban
2
Panda Sambit
3
Tirtha Sarkar

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Sinha Rajesh Kumar
Singh Vimlesh Kumar
Dave Sneh
Sahu Thompson
Rath Hrusikesh
Pattnaik Bishal
Mishra Om
Pattnayak Nilsu
Acharya Tapas
Adarsh Tripathi
Nayak Surajit
Mishra Srinibas
Rajan N Sundar
Sahoo Soumya Ranjan
Gohel Bimal Ramnik
Pranab Kumar Patra
Rajat Kumar Sahoo
Ali Khan A Gulrez
Shahil Dey
Isha Sharma
Mahitosh Dey
Pradeep Kumar Das
Raja S K
Mallikarjuna Raob
Imran Hussain
Gopal Ch Mahapatra
Behera Dillip
Bhoi Gunanidhi
Karmakar Ramen
Chakravarthy M S R K
Rajbeer Ahmed
Bidyut Kr. Mondal
Debasish Majumder
Mishra Anisha
Sudhir Kumar Mohanty
Sahoo Ankush
Shinjini Sengupta
Tapas Mandal
P Biranchi Narayan
K Kumar Pradeep CM
Sanku Mitra
Mishra Anwesha
Nishant Raj
P Subhendu Kumar
Pattnayak S Kumar
W Sanskruti WCM

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Padilam Yeshwant
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Deshmukh Anurag
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David Gladson B
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Sukadev Guru
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Baibhab Singh
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Sahoo Ankita
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Sahoo A Sudip Kumar
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Ankit Kumar Singh
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Dash Sanjay Kumar
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Gopin Murmu
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Rahul Mukhi
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Dikshant Dash
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Khan Almas
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Sumanta Pattnaik
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Panda Miracle
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Bharadwaj Gundepudi
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Lokesh Kumar
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Mrinmoy Chakma
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Ashish N R
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Ansuman Bhatta
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Ismail P
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Saketh B
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Sanika Sengupta
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Amrutansu Bhatta
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Pati Manjeet Sagar
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Sanjay Pradhan
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Manoranjan Mishra
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Choudhuri Kumar N
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Behera Muna
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SK Ajizulla
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Prasmit Prayansu
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Sen Animesh Chandra
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Chandra Mohan Munduri
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Das Devanssh Arav
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Jadhav Pratik
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Khuntia Shreejita
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Narayan Das
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Manish Kumar (2006)
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Panda Jagdish
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Swain G Chandra
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Sahu Ajay Kumar
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Ashraya Das
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Sahu Aswini Kumar
Naik Siddharth
Dash Pramod
Amit Ranjan
S Charan Behera
Prashant Raj
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Ramesh Kumar S
Anil Bhoi
Adijyoti Amarnath
Maheswar Dalnayak
Nikita Mallick
Chinmaya K Sahu
Jena Bipra Charan
P Pragyan Paramita
Sangeeta Saha
Pratyusha P
Sahil Lenka
Nayak Suddh Simon
Mohanty Aditi
Bishnu Beshra
Arunika Ghosh
Govind Chandra Barik
Priansh Das
Arabinda Padhan
Dhira Padhan
Raimohan Purty
Ranjit Beshra
Sahu Bibek Kumar
Nayak Aryan
Mohapatra Hrushikesh
Barik Bijayalaxmi
Nirmal Kumar Behera
Pani Om Prasad
Suka Murmu
M Saswat Samichin
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Sitikantha Prusty
Satyabrata Sahoo
Jiban Jyoti H Sahoo
Suryapranjal Indrajeet
Sikha Das Gupta
Prem Kumar
Sandeep Kumar Nanda
Dalal Sitikantha
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Mallick Tanvi
Dipayan Behera
Sai Shakti Mohanty
Ronit Roy
Tarunima Acharya
Ankit Biswal
Sriansh Das
Guru Nirmal Chandra
Bhagabat Senapati
Mishra Bishnu Mohan
Debalina Kundu
K Kumar Dalmia
Nakul Padhan
Behera Debasmita
Ayusman Bhuyan
Sahu Ritish Kumar
Sidhanta Padhan
Prasanjit Prusty
P Divya Divyajita
Amrita Ananya
Meghali Kumari
Mishra Sonali
Rahul Kumar
Rout Yashita
Priyanka Kumari
Bibhu Padhan
Somya Ranjan Bej
Debidatta Sahoo
Priyanshu Bhuyan
Ujjaini Das
Das Diya
S Suvalaxmi Mishra
Sradha Suman Jena
Sajan Dhala
Abhay Kumar Rai
Dash Dibyaranjan
Himdri Tanayee Sahoo
Rohan Agarwalla
Krishna Munda
Asutosh Dalei
AAnurag Acharya
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Lions Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament ,Kakinada

J Sai Agni Jeevitesh Wins

by FA Venkat Kumar G, Chief Arbiter

J Sai Agini Jeevtesh of Telangana won Lions Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating
Chess Tournament concluded here at Challa
Jagannatha Sastry Kalamandhir, Vidyutnagar, Kakinada. He scored 7.5 points from
9. He tied with 4 other players with same
score. Due to tie break score Ram S Krishnan of Tamilnadu got 2nd and Arjun Tiwari
of Railways placed third.
Winner J Sai Agni Jeevitesh got prize money
of Rs. 20,000/- and Runner Up Ram S Krisnan
got Rs. 15,000/- . 3rd placed Arjun Tiwari
got Rs. 10,000/- A total prize money of one
lakh was distributed among 20 players. The
event attracted 230 participants from Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra,
Tamilnadu, West Bengal,Gujarat Sates and
Railways, Income Tax Departments.FA Venkat Kumar G was the Chief Arbiter and FA S
Subba Raju is deputy arbiter for the event.
In the valedictory function Chief Guest Sri.
D V Sunder, Vice President , FIDE and guests
of honor Lion M Visweswarao, Program
Chairman,Lion MV Subrahmanyam, Chief
Organiser Sri YD Ramarao, APCA Adhoc
Committee Convener, D Srihari, APCA Adhoc
Committee, FA,Venkata Kumar G, Chief Arbiter distributed the prizes
Final ranking
Rk Name
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Sai Agni Jeevitesh J
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Ram S. Krishnan
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Tiwari Arjun
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Srinivasa Rao M.
5
Ramana Babu B.
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Ankan Roy
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Rao J. Malleswara
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G Hema Chandra Mouli
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Srivastava Pratyush
Anilkumar O.T.
Majumdar Shankar
Surya Dhanush G
Toshali V
Lakshmanrao D.
Kandari Sasidar Kartheek
Kranthi Kumar B.
Teja Kirthi
Duvvala Suresh
Dave Sneh
Prateek Srivastava
Vijaya Kumar A.V.S.
Mahesh Kumar K
Subhash K V
Arjun Kalyan
Rajasekhar K
Musini Ajay
Sarma RSR
Varada Suresh
Nagaraju J
Harikrishna Marri
Nitheesh Pothireddy
Krithigga K
Jishitha D
M Tulasi Ram Kumar
Krishna Madhava Rao P
Cheela Naga Sampath
Murali Mohan Y
Jayesh Kumar Chowdary
Bonu Ravi Kumar
Shanmukha Teja P
Jadi Kishan
Eswar Sai Akhlil Ch
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Pavan Kumar Posa
Ravi Teja Kanakala
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Sudeesh Karri
Raghu Ram D
Sarat Chandra Dunna
Bharadwaj NNS
Suryanaraya Swamy Mopuri
Satyanarayana MVV
Vamsi Krishna R
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Srikanth T
Manohar M
Rajesh Y
Ch Gopalakrishna Rao
Mallikarjuna Raob
Sathwika N
Kalyani B
Botta Durga Deepak
Eshwar Gandi
Sri Koushik M
Sai Raj Gopal K
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Suribabu Kommusetti
Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam
Subba Rao K
Lalit Vishnu Vardhan R
Madhu Marri
Venkata Satya Pranav G
Kameswarao ASL
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Mahender Marri
4
Jayanth Reddy K
4
Armaan Jal Gala
4
Kuppili Sai Venkat
4
Kumar Reddy M V
4
Mahendar B
4
Samarateja K
4
Sri Sai Harsha Kuralla
4
Satwik Seethamraju V S
4
Yesu Babuk
4
Roshan S
4
Shivaiah K
4
Rajkumar Duvvuri
4
Ram Prasad S
4
Surya Mouli Ullangi
4
Jayanth Kumar D
4
Yuva Teja P
4
Trimurthulu Pinapothu
4
Abhishek N Rao P
4
Varshini M
4
Avinash V V U S
4
Siddharth Bhaskar Chundru 4
Butchi Raju SVR
4
Pardhesh M
4
Narasimha Raveendra G
4
Rakesh Kumar Voonna
4
Sri Vidya Sambhavi R
4
Bhaskar Anish Yadlapalli
4
Dunnala K S Vikash
4
Prudvi Raj Pasala
4
Bharath P
4
Rohit S
4
Saketh B
4
Madhurya M
4
Laasya Priya P
4
Jemini Charan Karri
4
Vijay Paul G
4
Sai Yaswanth G V
4
Hemanth Bommidi
4
Datta Ramakrishna J
4
Bheri Chinna Rao
4
Lasya Mayukha N
4
Manas M
4
Abhilash Varma A
4
Ch Pratap
4
Srinivas Goud Yenumula
4
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India retains World Youth Olympiad Title

By Arvind Aaron

India retained the World Youth Chess Olympiad title by racing ahead
of Iran and Russia at the end of the tenth round at Gyor in Hungary
on December 21, 2014. Significantly, India is winning this title for
the fourth time.In the final round, India faced an unexpected setback
on board one when Diptayan Ghosh lost his only game of the event
but the trio on the others boards won to help India defeat Turkey
3-1. India won nine matches and lost one to
IM. Karthikeyan Murali

Russia to total 18 match points.

Iran went down narrowly to hosts Hungary-1 by 1.5-2.5 to be relegated

to the third place with 16 points. Russia won big time 3.5-0.5 against
Ukraine to take the silver medal with 17 points.
A total of 37 nations took part in this ten round Swiss format event on
four boards.
Indian scorers: Diptayan Ghosh 5.5/9; Karthikeyan
Murali 8/10; Aravindh Chithambaram 8/9; B

IM. Vr. Arvindh Chidambaram

Kumaran 4.5/9; G.K. Monnisha 0.5/3. Aravindh was Indias best player
gaining 19.4 Elo while Karthikeyan Murali made 10.1 Elo and also became
a Grand Master mid-way through this event.
IM. Diptayan Ghosh

Experienced coach, Grand Master R.B. Ramesh was the coach of the

Indian team. He runs his own chess academy, Chess Gurukul in Chennai. He trains most of
these young players personally as well.
Indias advancement can be seen in the context that our main Olympiad
team played from 1956 to 2014 and won a bronze medal this year in
2014. Our Youth are faring better and have won
the titles in 2007, 2008, 2013 and now 2014.
Our youngsters are building strongly from what
our senior players have achieved.
Final placings (match points): 1 India (gold)
18/20; 2 Russia (silver) 17; 3 Iran (bronze) 16; 4
B. Kumaran

G.K. Monnisha

Hungary-1 14; 5-10. Canada, Georgia, Belarus, Romania, Israel, Moldova

13 each; 11-15. Germany, Turkey, Ukraine, Mongolia, Serbia 12 each54 teams.

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Indian team given a warm reception

Anand wins London Chess Classic

The gold medal winning Indian Youth

Vishy Anand won the 6th London Chess Classic on tie-break from Vladimir Kramnik and Anish

Olympiad team was given a formal

Giri after defeating Mickey Adams with the black pieces in

warm reception at the Chennai Airport

the final round on Sunday. Final scores in tie-break order: 1

onDecember 23, 2014 when they

Anand 7, 2 Kramnik 7, 3 Giri 7, 4 Nakamura 6, 5 Adams 4,

returned from Gyor, Hungary.The team,

6 Caruana 4.

comprising of coach R.B. Ramesh and

It speaks volumes for the character of the man that he was

the players minus Diptayan Ghosh

able to bounce back from the disappointment of Sochi a

(of Kolkata) were received by officials

few weeks ago to take this prestigious title in London. And

prestige is a two-way street: Vishy Anands name on the

of the Chennai and Kanchi District

trophy adds lustre to the London Chess Classic and means

Chess Associations, the Tamil Nadu

that all three world champions active during the tournaments

State Chess Association and the

existence have now won it. Vishys win on tie-break is karmic

All India Chess Federation.

compensation for losing out to Magnus Carlsen on tie-break

A crown was placed on the heads of Karthikeyan Murali and Aravindh Chithambaram and all of

in 2010 despite defeating him in the tournament. Given that

them were garlanded and offers flowers and sweets. That is Chennai's own way of welcoming

the event has now been in existence for five years and six

champions. This tradition started in 1987 and is happening more and more often these years.

events, it might be timely to publish our roll of honour: 2009 and 2010 Magnus Carlsen; 2011

The previous one was when the bronze medal winners returned from Tromso, Norway in August

Vlad Kramnik; 2012 Magnus Carlsen; 2013 Hikaru Nakamura; and now, 2014, Vishy Anand.

this year.

Youd be hard pushed to find another 21st

B Kumaran, G.K. Monnisha were the other two players who arrived. Among those who received

century tournament with a list of winners as impressive as that.

the team were V. Hariharan (AICF Secretary) and his wife Malarvizhi Hariharan, Sakthi Prabhakar,

The 3-1-0 scoring system ensured that the outcome was in doubt right down to the final result.

K Gopalakrishnan, Ganesan, N.K. Nandakumar, K Thirukalathy and others.

Things looked a little ominous at the start as two Berlin Defences appeared on the board. But

Indian team won this event for the fourth time. India had won it in 2007, 2008, 2013 and
now 2014. With many talented junior stars in our line up more such titles are on the way in
the years ahead. India was fortunate to have two stars from the successful team of 2013
which is Diptayan Ghosh and Karthikeyan Murali. Both are world beaters in that age category.
The World Youth Chess Olympiad is for players under 16.
Coach R.B. Ramesh had been part of the Indian youth success in the past. Once he said players

perhaps weve been a bit too quick to condemn the modern super-GMs all-purpose antidote
to 1.e4 as it produced the one decisive result of the round, and indeed decide the destination
of the trophy.
Incidentally, there was one interesting exchange in the commentary room after the AdamsAnand game. Nigel Short told Vishy that There were some inner groans when the Berlin was
played." Vishy shot back by now it can just be called the London! Do you know, hes got a
very good point: given that 3...Nf6 against the Ruy Lopez played a vitally important role in

played cricket in Turkey to relax and unwind! Ramesh's coming into chess is also quite a story.

Vladimir Kramnik wresting the world title from Garry Kasparov in 2000, and now Vishy Anands

He was resting at home following a head injury playing cricket. Anand had won the 1987 World

use of the same line to win with Black and thus secure the 2014 London Classic title, there is

Junior then and the resultant wave brought in many including Ramesh.

a strong case

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for renaming it the London defence to the Ruy Lopez/Spanish. Or, if you like, the Tower of
London rather than the Berlin Wall. For me the clincher is that Vishy says so: if the Tsar of
Russia had the right to name the first grandmasters, then a world champion should have the
privilege of naming opening variations anyway he chooses.The Adams-Anand game was the
first to finish. Having given our heartiest congratulations to Vishy, we must also pass on our
heartfelt commiserations to Mickey Adams, whose tournament started so well but ended so
disappointingly, with losses in the last two rounds. His fourth round loss was grim but he had
reasonable chances in the fifth game. If things had turned out differently, he might easily have
been the man receiving the plaudits instead Press Release 12: 15 December 2014, John Saunders
of Vishy as a win for him in this final game would have won him the tournament on tie-break.

(courtesy:official website)

India widens lead in new rating list

by Arvind Aaron
FIDE has published its new rating number on the first of January. Indias lead over the rest of
the nations in the number of players present in the list has widened to 4203. In the second
place behind India is Russia.
The total number of players found in the FIDE rating list is: India 46024, Russia 41821, France
39556, Spain 34171 and Germany 29276.
In the world top ratings, Anand moved to fifth place following his victory in the London Chess
Classic. He is the oldest player in the top ten showing excellent fitness. Carlsen, Caruana,
Grischuk and Topalov are ahead of him. Behind him are Aronian, Giri, Kramnik, Nakamura and
Wesley So (now USA not Philippines!).
India is ranked sixth among nations in the average ratings of the top ten players after Russia,
China, Ukraine, USA and France. Among women India are fifth after China, Russia, Georgia
and Ukraine.
Asian numbers in the rating list: India 46024, Iran 13723, Sri Lanka 6334, Australia 2653,
Malaysia 2373, Bangladesh 2003, Singapore 1963, Philippines 1957, Kazakhstan 1817, China
1598, Vietnam 1568, UAE 1555.
In 2014, India went past China in the number of Grand Masters. India has the most grandmasters
in any Asian nation. Eugenio Torre of the Philippines was Asias first Grand Master but Indias
big growth in the last ten years swept past all.
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146 Sudheer Kumar J
147 Lasya K
148 Srinath Reddy D
149 Nikhilesh B
150 Sudharma, Kiran Kokkira
151 Sai Sumanth Reddy R
152 Sathwik Penjarla
153 Garapati Sai Rishitha
154 Harika Kantamani
155 Haneesha Arlapalli
156 Sreenivas Naveen
157 Dutt B.S.
158 Ammu Sai Bhargav
159 Dattha VSMS
160 Hema Chandra K
161 Sai Rishi Katari
162 Ananya D
163 Prasada Rao Kommuri
164 Kalki Mohan Boda
165 Labba Sree Deekshith
166 Sajja Satyanarayanan
167 Bhavana VSK
168 Sai Bhargav Reddy T
169 Pradeep Kumar Reddy M
170 Adithya V
171 Sri Nihar Krishna Palasala
172 Amarnath B D V
173 Karthik Naik Bhyrapu
174 Prasanna V Rao
175 Bhavya Sri Ponnaganti
176 Nymisha SVSR
177 Jayant Lunani
178 Venkanna Tuluri
179 Venkata Sairam Varada
180 Siva Sai Sri Ram Desetti
181 Naga Saketh Manukonda
182 Raja Rao S
183 Polisetti Y V E Raja
184 Sai Hrushikesh Simhdri
185 Ramachandra Rao Adapa
186 Ravi Kumar K
187 Krishna Koruprolu
188 Lakshmi Srinivas D
189 Sai Rajveer Kondeti
190 Haranadh JV
191 Shreya K

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Sai Sujan Anna

193

Hasini Nagumalla

194

Sairam Attuluri

195

Satyateja Ravulapally

196

Vishal Pydah

197

Srinivas Kamisetty

198

Akhil Bhuvanesh Reddy P

199

Mani Teja MVBNS

200

Haridhar Kartik M

201

Hari Vikas K

202

Reshma Neelima V

203

Vennela D

204

Vinod Kumar MVSSSN

205

Durga Prasad S.

206

Mohan Rao Polamarasetti

207

Manoj KVSRK

208

Sai Kiran Giduturi

209

Rohith Babu P

210

Venkata Rao Vuta

211

Abhishikth YVSS

212

Satya Vaishnavi Jami

213

Umamahesh Varma Seva

214

Reddy KU

215

Kavitha Devi D

216

Sri Venkat Satya M K

217

Lasya Priyanka V

218

Satya Karthikk Apparaju

219

Prince Precious Manoj Y

220

Varnika Reddy Sathi

221

Sai Durga Praveen K

222

Jay Gupta

223

Anantha Sarma M

224

Chaitanya EVVAS

225

Bhagya Sree S

226

Sri Satya Vinay M

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Rohan Kumar S

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Krishna Teja N

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1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating Chess Tournament below 1600

Jojo P.John wins at Nilambur

L.R.Bhuavana Sai IA, Chief Arbiter

1st Nilambur Chess Academy Fide Rating

Chess Tournament was inaugurated by Kerala
state Minister Shri Aryadhan Muhammed at
Hotel Nilambur Manor on 26th December
2014 at 11.00 am. The 9 round Swiss system
event attracted 175 players from 10 states
and 1 union territory (Puducherry). Among
them 106 were rated players.
Top billing was given to Telang Mrinal of Goa.
Shakeel, Satheesh, Joseph of Kerala and Stephen Raj of Tamilnadu shared their lead with
full points at the end of 4th round. Satheesh
took the sole lead with 5 points in 5th round.
Jojo P John and Sreehari G of Kerala were
the leaders with 6.5 points after 7th round.
11years old Hari Suresh and 12 years old
J.P. Karan followed the leaders with 6 points.
Jojo and Sreehari maintained their lead
with 7 points after the penultimate round.
Four players ended the tournament with 7.5
points each. But better tie break helped Jojo
P john to win title. Raja V of Tamilnadu and
Sreehari G and Hari Suresh of Kerala were
in 2nd, 3rd and 4th spot respectively. Top 3
winners received cash award with A.P.Aslam
memorial trophy.
Kerala MLA P.K. Basheer distributed the prizes
to the winners in the presence of Municipal
Chairman Shri Aryadhan Shoukath and IM
K. Ratnakran. The tournament concluded in
a grand manner.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name
Pts.
1
2
3
4
5
6

Jojo P John
Raja V
Sreehari G
Hari Suresh
Sasikumar K P
Akash K A

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7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
7
7

7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48

Aziz M
Sriram Udhayakumar
Aanandha Kumar M S
Stephen Raj A
Satheesh P
Karan J P
Shajahan T Moideen
Raj Kumar B
Sahadevan M
Sudheer M K
Sai Kiran K V
Sai Pranav Siddamshetty
Amal Roozi
Anas M Saleem
Shakeel O P
Sameer C
Mohamed Yousuff A
Joseph S A
Shivashankaran R
Chandran K C
Fathima Abdeen
Rajashree Rajeev
Jeeva T
Harikrishnan S B
Hareendran V
Magesh M
Unnikrishnan T
Joju K V
Telang Mrinal
Junaid V
Sudheer K B
Swaha V S
Anfas Muhammed
Rahul Rajeev
Deepak Kumar R
Sivaa G M
Sandeep T
Naushad Vavachan
Abdul Raheem K A
Brahmaha V S
Ummer Thayyil
Abdul Gafoor K.

7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5

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50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95

Niranjan Raghu
Pranav Shridhar
Krishna M K Ramanatha
Anjitha Krishnakumar
S.A. Surya Kumar
Abhinav Chakrapani S
Abdurahiman Elangoli
Sujith Kumar K V
Abdul Samad Erumali
Sakkir Hussain
Adhi Dev K P
Amal Raj N R
Adarsh P.B
Athish Vikram C S
Vinodkumar K V
Ahammed Kutty K
Bharath Kulandai Velu
Muhammed Faizal K T
Jagadeesh O K
Kanishk S K
Akhil Chandran S
Sharsha Backer
Laiju Ct
Logeswaran T
Chandi Takhellambam
Mohammed Sudheer P P
Sarvesh Aadityaa R
Shaiju Andrews
Ajay Babu Eladath
Prabhakaran K
Prabeesh K
Gowtham K J
Ashkar M M
Anantha Sai S
Harsha R
Nanda Gopa Sachin
Naveen K
Bhuvanesh Kumar M
Nagarajan V
Gokul Nath T K
Syam Hari H V
Viswanadhan P
Radhakrishnan K
Murali N P
Ashitha K M
Shivanth M
Tejaswi R

5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5

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97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
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119
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122
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124
125
126
127
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129
130
131
132
133
134
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137
138
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140
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Sanjay Srinivasan R
Shaiju Villunnikkal
Shafi Paramban
Gowtham Sakthivel
Aniket Mondal
Thangadurai M
Ramakrishnan T V
Darsan T I
Ashwin K R
Karunakara Menon K
Shyju M
Balakrishnan.K
Gokhulavasan S
Manoj Kumar J
Devanand K C
Shirodkar Aayush
Denil James
Siva Shanmugam S
Prabhu Veluswamy
Farha Rahman E
Bhuvanesh T
Yadhukrishna V
Vijay Johnson P
Pratyush J
Yadhu Krishna P P
Dipu Jacob
Pavithran K M
Raaj Kiruthik N P
Nived C
Krishnendu V
Harikiran J
Sudeep K C
Krishnadev S Nair
Yaser Arafat
Sujin S
Sumesh K
Vishnu Sekhar
Charuta J Shetye
Saravana Kumar S
Abilash M
Suresh Babu M
Atul V Chandran
Asna Abdeen
Sanjeev Kumar S
Raizel T
Athul M E
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4.5
4.5
4.5
4.5
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4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
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4
4
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3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
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R T Narayana Memorial cup FIDE Rated (below 1600) Tournament, Mandya

Pavan Kumar Yaramala wins tournament

Vasanth BH, Chief Arbiter

R T Narayana Memorial Cup FIDE Rated

(below 1600) Chess tournament was organised by Mandya Chess Academy, Mandya at
SB Samudaya Bhavan, Near Factory Circle,
mandya from 26th to 28th December 2014.
Mr Abhaya Chandra Jain, Minister for Youth
Empowerment and Sport, Government of
Karnataka inaugurated the tournament
by moving the pawn. Mr M S Atmanada,
Member of District Stadium Committee and
Ex Minister, Govt of Karnataka, Mr P M Somashekhar, Vice President, Sports Authority
of Karnataka, Mr K M Mohan Kumar, President, Mysuru Urban Development Authority,
Mr Hanumantha R , Joint Secretary, AICF and
Mr Manjunath Jain, Secretary, Mandya Chess
Academy were present on occasion.
A total of 417 players from Andra Pradesh,
Telangana, Goa, Gujarat, Keral, Maharastra,
and Tamilnadu participated in the tournament. out of which 163 were rated players.
Ananda K R (1580)of Mandya was top seed
followed by Dhanush Raghav (1541) of Tamilnadu, Ekantharaju (1539) of Karnataka
Unrated Player Mr Pavan Kumar Yaramala
of Andra Pradesh won the tournament by
scoring eight and half points. He defeated
Mr Ekantharaju (1539), Mr Arun D (1477),
MrAnil N J (1484), Mr Sunil Bhargav (1364),
Mr Sanath Jamadagni (1397), Mr Komal
Srivatsava Sajja (1308), Mis Kushi Hombal
(1193), Ganesh MS and drew with Navodith
Bhat (1272).
Mr Siddhant Dharwar (1483) and Mr Suhas
Reddy M (1487) scored 8 points each and
on better tie break score Siddhant Dharwar
became first runner up and Suhas Reddy
2nd runner up. Chief guest of Prize distribution ceremony, Mr Anantha Kumar Swamiji,
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Founder Secretary of Abhinav Bharathi Vidya

Kendra, Mandya, Dr (Lion) G A Ramesh, Mr
Hanumantha R, Joint Secretary, AICF, Mr K
M Mohan Kumar, President, Mysuru Urban
Development Authority, Mrs Meera Shivalingaiah, President Kannada Sahitya Parishat,
Mrs Nisha Olivera, Branch Manager, Federal
Bank, Mandya, distributed the prizes.
Final Ranking:
Rk. Name
Pts.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

Pavan Kumar Yaramala

Siddhant Dharwar
Suhas Reddy M
Vinayak B Hariwal
Arun D
Ekantharaju
Srinidhi B S
Sakshath U K
Baligar Dr Vishwanath
Anil N J
Sai Siddardha A
Kishan Chand
Prajwal V S
Amitesh Kumar Sinha
Naveen H J
Abid Ali Mujawar
Porob Vraj
Dinakar B R
Sanath K Jamadagni
Muniraj K
G. Harish
Aravindh Srinivasan
Mahima Sherigar
Anand D B
Srinivasa
Chorge Mangesh
Dhanush Ragav
Sri Balaji M
Sudhindra A Rao
Somasekhar Prasad
Niranjan V Sangam

8.5
8
8
7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
7.5
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5

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33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78

Kunal Verma
Chirag Mudraje
Komal Srivatsav Sajja
Abdulh Rahaman K
Chetana D
Dinesh Rajachar
Karthik Jagannath
Sudheera Satyanarayana
Dhanush Ravi
Lokesh N
Vijaykumar R P
Sagar Ravi
Veerabhadri K
Hemadri Dasari
Wanjari Rajendra
Navodith V Bhat
Mahesh Adra
Prashanth J Naik
Arifulla T Abdul Hameed
Pranav Kumar
Hemadri T
Neha Ananth K
Sunil Bhargav N
Tejas Cavale
Kavi Samrat P
Abhishek K J
Harsh M Averi
Dara Devadanam
Shibin K Benny
Sharath R Shanbhag
Nidhi Shenoy
Srinivasan Viswanathan
Mekala Negendra
Deviprasad B H
Hariharan S
Samyak Kumar Jain
Banthiya Rishabh
Aathreya Sastry B
Ramana Prasad P V
Sarfaraz Goodwala
Varun Vishnumurthy
Arunkumar Mutthukumar
Chiranjan S
Sanjay Kumar N
Kruthik K S
Manish Paul Simon
Priyanka Narayan

6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
6.5
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Poorvik M P
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6
Jakir Hussain
5.5
Manish Sherigar
5.5
Pavan Kumar Devaraj
5.5
Chaithanya Ganesh
5.5
Supraja Mahadevaswamy
5.5
Shashikirana T K
5.5
Girish Reddy
5.5
Satvik V
5.5
Nachiketh Adiga
5.5
Samarth J Rao
5.5
Daniel K R
5.5
Suresh Agarwal
5.5
Lakshmi Narayanan Rajadurai 5.5
Abhilash Reddy
5.5
Srinivas T Kulkarni
5.5
Shaik Shavali
5.5
Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 5.5
Diya James
5.5
Chandrashekhar K M
5.5
Anjan H
5.5
Arnav Muralidhar
5.5
Raghavendra G
5.5
Oke Aditya
5.5
C Krishna G Viswanath
5.5
Yatheendra Vamshi S
5.5
Preetham H N
5.5
Vinod Kumar Boya
5.5
Binni Boyina Penchala Pratap 5.5
Yaseen Goodwala
5.5
Sanjana Raghunath
5.5
Santhosh A Pinto
5.5
Sukumar.S
5.5
Srikant Nayak A
5.5
Bagwan Vasim
5.5
Vijay Sridharan
5.5
Manjula R
5.5
Rakesh N
5.5
Sathvik M N
5.5
Pavithra K J
5.5
Sreevatsa Srinivasa
5.5
Vradhika Shetty
5.5
Sanjiv Kumar J
5.5
Sanjith C
5
Shabreen T Khanam
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Rahul Ubadhyay wins title

By IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter

The First Sameen Singh FIDE Rated Chess

Tournament-2014 for below 2000 rated players was conducted by Sameen Singh Charitable Society under the aegis of Punjab State
Chess Association at beautiful DAV International School Amritsar from 26-28 Dec 2014.
The tournament was organized in the memory of Dr. Sameen Singh, a national level
chess player who was five times CBSE North
Zone-II champion from 2005 to 2009 and
twice position holder at national level. On the
dark day of 22nd March 2014, he met with
a fatal accident near Delhi NCR and took his
last breath on 7th April 2014.
The event attracted a total number of 425
players including 196 international rated
players from across the country. The actual
schedule of the event was from 25-28 Dec
2014 with 10 round but due to force majeure
situation the entire first day was lost and the
event was curtailed to 8 round Swiss System
tournament. The total prize fund of the event
was Rs. 2,25,000/-.
The tournament was inaugurated by Dr. V
P Lakhanval, Chairman DAV International
School in presence of Shri. Narinder Singh,
President Punjab State Chess Association;
Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh, President Sameen Singh Charitable Society and
father of Dr. Sameen Singh.
The event was played under the time control
of 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment
from move and players moved to business
mode from the start itself and provided much
excitement till the end.
After the seventh and penultimate round four
players namely Anchit Vyas, Akshay Anand,
Rishabh Nishad and Rahul Ubadhyay were
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in joint lead with six and half points. But in

the final round, Ubadhyay defeated Akshay
Anand while Nishad outwitted Anchit Vyas in
a spectacular manner to take their point tally
to seven and half points. But better Buchholz
score helped Ubadhyay to clinch the winners
trophy along with a cash prize of Rs. 31,000/while Rishabh Nishad satisfied with runner-up
position and pocketed a cash award of Rs.
21,000/- Haribabu Sharma, Aswani Grover
and Mayur Vispute tied for the third spot with
seven points and Sharma become second
runner-up with better tie break score while
Grover and Vispute finished fourth and fifth
respectively.
Mehak Jain bagged the best woman player
trophy while Dinesh Asotra adjudged as best
unrated player. Anshul Mehta, Soham Kamotra and Namitbir Singh Walia became the
best boys players in Under-15, Under-12 and
Under-9 age categories respectively while
Garushi, Udisha and Trisha Kanyamarala won
the same age category prizes in girls section.
Shri. Kuljinder Singh Malhi, Assistant Education Officer (Sports) gave away the trophies
and cash prizes to the winners in presence
of Smt. Anjana Gupta, Principal DAV International School and Dr. Gurvinder Singh,
President Sameen Singh Charitable Society
in a glittering closing ceremony.
Final ranking
Rk Name
Pts

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7

Rahul Ubadhyay
Rishabh Nishad
Haribabu Sharma
Grover Aswani
Vispute Mayur
Anchit Vyas
Akshay Anand

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7
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Prithu Gupta
9
Shubham Shukla
10
Kadav Omkar
11
Awasthi Balgovind
12
Madhav Mahere
13
Swapnil Raj
14
Javed Ansari
15
Katiyar Prashant
16
Manoj Kumar
17
Vaibhav Aggarwal
18
Rawat Abhishek
19
Nitul Khare
20
Thakur Sanjeev
21
Chandel Jagdish
22
Ashitosh Kumar
23
Vikrant Jaglan
24
Gaikwad Vishal
25
Nema Anupam
26
Nilesh Jindal
27
Ankit Sen
28
Amanpreet Singh
29
Tayyeb Asif Mohmad
30
Babi Dildar Ahmed
31
Dinesh Asotra
32
Raja Bose
33
Kumar Sanu
34
Dishant Jain
35
Anirban Basu
36
Nakul Chaudhary
37
Anshul Mehta
38
Arora Honi
39
Raghav Bagri
40
Sharma Pankaj
41
Ravi Shanker
42 Arvindu
43
Manik Arora
44
Bharti Vishal
45
Vikram Mukhija
46
Thakur Diwan
47
Vaibhav Barahate
48
Kuldeep Srivastava
49
V Anush Kumar
50
Jyotirmay Singh
51
Ravi Sharma
52
Namitbir Singh Walia
53
Soham Kamotra
54
Chandrajeet Singh R

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Rishabh Jain
56
Dushyant Sharma
57
Deepak Poonia
58
Ajit Kumar Saw
59
Punit Indora
60
Sinha Shivam
61
Raghav Juneja
62
Vardan Nagpal
63
Chirag Arora
64
Krishan Kumar
65
Prabhsimran Singh
66 Sudhakar
67
Kapil Dadhich
68
Nikhil Bansal
69
Darshan V P S
70
Singh Amarjit
71
Ayushmaan Saini
72
Mahendra Lakhyani
73
Amit Sharma
74
Saikat Nath
75
R Mahendra Singh
76
Das Anindo Kumar
77
Mehak Jain
78
Gautam Sharma
79
Anirudh Kapoor
80
Saraju Khan
81
Gaurav Sood
82
Vivekananda L
83
Jonny Verma
84
Anshul Bathla
85 Sahithya G
86
Sunil Gupta
87
Arushi Kotwal
88
Umesh S Lalwani
89
Jeeru Yaswanth Reddy
90
Pratish Raj
91
Piyush Khurana
92
Bharath M
93
Harvinder Singh
94
Prabhujot Singh
95
Sanjay Kumar Das
96
Gaha Narayan
97
Sharma Keshav
98
Alok Kumar Yadav
99
Jose A N K
100 Rambabu Sachan
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Selected games from Asian Youth

Championship 2014,New Delhi
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Nazarov,Rustem (TKM) (2091)
Sultan,F.S M Alsham (UAE) (1265)
[C80]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.00
Nxe4 6.Re1

6...b5?! [Black enters a violent variation

and comes out second best. Better was:
6...Nc5 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Nxe5 Be7 9.d4 Ne6
10.c3=] 7.Rxe4 bxa4 8.Nxe5 Ne7 [G.Krauss
vs S.Lerner, 2002 went: 8...Qe7 9.Qe1 f5
10.Re3 f4 11.Nxc6 fxe3 12.Nxe7 exf2+
13.Qxf2 Bxe7 and white won.] 9.Qf3

9...f6 [Black is lost, but slightly better re34

sistance was offered by: 9...f5 (attacking

the rook that is threatening the discovered
check) 10.Qh5+ g6 11.Nxg6 fxe4 12.Nxh8+
Ng6 13.Nxg6] 10.Qh5+ g6 11.Nxg6 Kf7
[If 11...hxg6 12.Qxg6#!; However, 11...d6
(would have led to a less spectacular defeat!)
12.Nxe7+ Kd7 13.Qg4+ Ke8 14.Nc6+! Be7
15.Qg7!] 12.Nxe7+ Kg7 13.Rg4# 1-0

Atabayev,Saparmyrat (Tkm)
Lorparizangeneh,Shahin (Iran) [B12]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Ne7
6.00 c5 7.c4 Nbc6 8.Na3 a6 [H.Vysochin vs
M Podgaets, 2007 went 8...dxc4 9.Nxc4 Nd5
10.Bg5 Qc7 11.Ne3=] 9.dxc5 d4 10.Qa4 Ng6
11.Rd1 d3 [The natural move here leads to
some exciting play: 11...Bxc5 12.b4! Ba7
(12...Bxb4 13.Nxd4 Qa5 14.Qxa5 Nxa5
15.Nxf5 exf5 16.Rb1) 13.c5 00 14.Nc4 Be4
15.Nd6 Bxf3 16.Bxf3 Ngxe5 17.Be4 f5=]
12.Qb3 Bxc5 13.Bxd3 Bxd3 14.Rxd3 Qc7
Black will soon lose his extra pawn and the
game will tend to be in his favour. 15.Nc2
00 16.Be3 Ncxe5 17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.Rd2
Rac8 19.Bf4 [19.Bxc5 Qxc5 20.Qxb7 Rb8
21.Qxa6 (21.Qe4 Nxc4 22.Rd4 Nxb2) 21...
Nf3+ 22.gxf3 Qg5+ wins the exchange.]
19...Bd6 20.Rad1 Qxc4 21.Rxd6 Qxf4
22.Ne3 h6 23.Qxb7

has many, many options.] 30...Rd2! It pays

to play aggressively at all stages of the game.
31.a4 Rb2 32.Rb5 [32.Nc4?? Rxc4] 32...Rc3!
33.Rxa5 Rcxb3 34.Ra8+ Kh7 35.a5 Ra2 36.Ra7

23...Ng4! An excellent move attacking both f2

and h2. 24.Qf3 [If 24.Nxg4? Qxd6! 25.Rxd6
Rc1+ mates.; 24.R6d2 Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Nxe3+ A
devastating blow that shatters white's castled
position and paves the way for a mating attack
by the black queen and rook. 26.fxe3 Rc5!
(threatening 27 Rf5+) 27.e4 Rg5! 28.Rf2 Rb5!
(now the threat is through the queen-side after
29....Qh1+, 30 Ke2 Rxb2+) 29.Qd7 (defending the Rook on d1) 29...Qh1+ 30.Ke2 Qh4
31.Qd4 Rfb8 with a decisive attack for black.]
24...Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Qxd6! Vacating the h2
square for his knight. 26.Rxd6 Nh2+ 27.Ke2
Nxf3 28.Kxf3

36...Kg6! As white's a-pawn cannot get away

far, black first protects his f7 pawn. 37.Ke4
Ra4+ [This pushes the white king back to f3 as
38 Ke5 Rb5+ would cost white his a-pawn, his
only hope to survive. 37...Rxf2 was simpler.]
38.Kf3 Rba3 Ke4 01
Azali,Ashkan (Iran) (2033)
Visakh,Nr (Ind) (2319) [B51]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.d4 cxd4 5.Qxd4
a6 6.Bxd7+ Bxd7 7.c4 Nf6 8.Nc3 e5 [This
violent move, voluntarily acceping a backward
pawn on d6 in a Maroczy bind set-up seems to
be bad. Better was the usual 8...g6 ] 9.Qd3
h6 10.00 Be7 11.Rd1 00 12.c5 dxc5 13.Nxe5
Be6 14.Qg3

28...a5 Black has won a pawn and the exchange through excellent middle-game play.
Now he follows it up with admirable endgame
technique. 29.b3 [If 29.Ra6 Ra8 as well as
29...Rc5 are good] 29...Rfd8 30.Rb6 [If 30.Ra6
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14...Qb8 [Not 14...Qc7? 15.Ng6 Qxg3
16.Nxe7+ Kh7 17.hxg3 and white is winning.] 15.Bf4 Nh5 16.Nc6 Qxf4 17.Nxe7+ Kh7
18.Qxf4 Nxf4 19.g3?! [Better was: 19.Ned5
Bxd5 20.exd5 Rfd8 21.g3 Nh5 22.Na4 Nf6
23.Nb6 Rab8 24.d6 Nd7=] 19...Nh3+ 20.Kg2
Rae8 21.Nf5 Ng5 22.f3 Threat 23 h4 menacing the Ng5. 22...f6 23.Nd6 Re7 24.Na4 Bh3+
25.Kf2 f5 26.exf5 Bxf5 27.Nxc5?

[White goes pawn hunting when disaster is

imminent over the f-file. Prudent was: 27.Nxf5
Rxf5 28.f4 Ne4+ 29.Kf3 g5 30.Nb6=] 27...
Bg4!+- 28.Re1 [28.f4? Re2+ 29.Kf1 Rc2 and
the threat of 30...Bh3+ followed by 31 ...Nf3+
is killing.] 28...Rxf3+ 29.Kg2 Rc7 30.Rac1
Bh3+ 31.Kg1 Rf8! Vacating f3 for his knight.
32.Red1 Re7 33.Rc2 Nf3+ 34.Kh1

34...Ne1! Threatens 35...Rf1# 01

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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron

Pranav,Vijay (Ind) (2328)
Lorparizangeneh,Shahin (Iran)
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Qb3
Qb6 6.Nc3 e6= 7.Nh4?! [It is hard to fathom
this move which does nothing to help develop
his two bishops. And in the bargain, he takes
his knight to an edge of the board. Better was
7.Bd2 trying to complete his development
quickly should lead to an equal, dull game.]
7...Bh5= [And black responds with an equally
mysterious move! Better was: 7...Qxb3 8.axb3
Be7=] 8.h3 Na6 9.g4 Qxb3 10.axb3 Nb4 In this
queenless middle-game the more resourceful
player would win. 11.Ra4 Bg6 12.Nxg6 hxg6
13.g5?! This unwise move offers black objectives to attack and leads to a tough position for
himself. Better were 13 Be2 or 13 f3 keeping
the position elastic. 13...Nd7 14.Na2 [Often
the way to equality and a comfortable game is
not reached by exchanging pieces, but by completing development and not presenting the
opponent with objectives. Better was 14.Bd2
] 14...Nxa2 15.Rxa2 Bb4+ 16.Ke2 Ke7 17.Bg2
Rh4 18.f4 [After 18.Bd2 Bxd2 19.Kxd2 a6 20.f4
f6 21.gxf6+ gxf6 Black has a slight advantage
on the king-side thanks to pressure on the hfile.] 18...f6 19.gxf6+ gxf6 20.c5?! On general
principles it is not good to block the position
when one has the two bishops against bishop
and knight. 20...Rhh8 21.e4 dxe4 [Better was:
21...f5 22.Ra4 a5 23.exd5 exd5 24.Bd2 Bxd2
25.Kxd2 Rh4 26.Ke3 Nf6 27.b4 As his f4 pawn
is destined to fall, black must seek counter-play
on the queen-side. 27...Kd7! 28.Rxa5 (28.bxa5
Re8+ 29.Kd3 Nh5+) 28...Re8+ 29.Kd3 (29.
Kf3 Nh5!+) 29...Nh5+] 22.Bxe4 f5 [It is
hard to imagine that the following alternative
was a better one as it apparently opens up the
centre allowing white's bishops good play. 22...
e5! 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.dxe5 Bxc5 25.Bxg6 Nxe5
Though material is level, white has doubled
pawns and his pieces stuck in odd, ineffective
squares permitting the better developed white

forces to seize the initiative.] 23.Bf3= Rhd8?

[This puzzling move, taking the rook from a
vantage point to a square where it is ineffective
shows black's momentary indecision. He will
have to take back this rook to h8 soon. 23...
Nf6 was better.] 24.Be3 Nf6 25.Raa1 [Better
was: 25.Ra4 (forcing black to push his pawn
a7-a5 which is hardly an advantage for black
and then get his rook back to a1.) 25...a5
26.Raa1 is about equal but with a slight pull
for black.] 25...Kf7 26.h4 Rh8 Diagram

27.Rag1 [The game is unclear and not decisively in favour of either player. Lots of possibilities with different strategic ideas and tactics
come into play in this position with different
weakness both players. One good possibility
for white is: 27.Ra4 a5 28.Bd2 Bxd2 29.Kxd2
Nd5 30.Bxd5 exd5 31.b4=] 27...Ba5 28.Rg5
Bd8!? Black threatens to win the exchange
with 29...Ng4! trapping the rook by cutting
off its escape back to g1 or g2. 29.Rg2 Bc7
30.Rg5 Bd8 31.Rg2 Be7 32.Bf2 Rh6 33.Rhg1
Rah8 34.Kd3 Ne8 35.Ke3 Black can win the h4
pawn only at the cost of his own g6 pawn. 35...
Bf6 36.Ra1 a6 37.Rag1 Nc7 With the h4 pawn
defying capture, black shifts his focus to the
d4 pawn and is about to attack it with ....Nb5
and ....Rd8. 38.h5 [Threatened with attack on
all fronts, white desperately sacrifices a pawn
for activity. If 38.Be1 Nb5 39.Bc3 Rd8 40.Rd2
Rxh4+; or, if 38.Kd3 Nb5 and if now 39.Kc4

Rxh4! 40.Bxh4 Rxh4 41.Rxg6 (if 41.Kd3 Bxd4

42.Rf1 Rxf4 black is winning as he has three
pawns for the sacrificed exchange and a great
position.) 41...Rxf4 wins for black with a double
attack - 42...Rxd4!# and 42... Rxf3.] 38...gxh5

39.Bh4 this is the resource on which white

has based his counter-play. 39...Ne8 [Black is
overly cautious and overprotects g7. He could
win with: 39...Nd5+ 40.Bxd5 exd5 41.Bxf6
Kxf6 42.Rg7 R8h7! 43.Rg8 h4+] 40.Bg5!?
R6h7! 41.Rh1 h4 42.Rh3 Nc7! White plays this
after the threat of Rg7 is no longer possible.
43.Bxf6 Kxf6 44.Rgh2 Kf7 45.Rh1 Ne8 46.Rg1
Nf6 47.Rgh1 Ng4+ 48.Ke2 Kf6 49.Rg1 Rd8!
This move returns his extra pawn in return for
a victorious rook ending. 50.Bxg4 fxg4 51.Rxg4
Rxd4 52.Rgxh4 Rxh4 53.Rxh4 Rb4! After this
move, the scattered, un-coordinated white
pawns fall like the proverbial rotten apples.
54.Rh3 Rxf4 55.Kd2 Rb4 56.Kc3 a5 57.Rh8 e5
58.Ra8 Rb5 59.Kc4 Kf5 60.Rf8+ Ke4 61.Rd8
Kf4 62.Rf8+ Ke3 63.Re8

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63...Kd2! Amazingly, the white king is in a
mating net! 64.Rd8+ [If 64.Rxe5? Rb4# is an
unexpected mate.] 64...Kc2 01
Ananya,Suresh (Ind) (1924)
Bauyrzhan,Arnash (Kaz) (1957) [B42]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3
Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.00 d5 8.c4 Nf6 9.exd5
cxd5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Nc3 Qc6 12.Bg5
[D.Wegener 2312 vs T. Hebesberger 2288,
2002 went: 12.Be2 Bb7 13.Bf3 Qc7 14.Qa4+
Nd7 15.Bf4 Qb6 16.Rad1 Rd8 17.Bxb7 Qxb7
18.Nd5 Bc5 19.Nc7+ Ke7+- and white later
won.] 12...Bb7 13.Qa4 Qxa4
[13...Be7=] 14.Nxa4 Nd5 15.Rac1 h6 16.Bd2
Be7 17.Nc3 00 18.Nxd5 Bxd5 19.Bb1 Bf6
Material is even in this game. The position is
also equal, but black could have better options
as her bishops are aggressively placed. 20.Bc3
Rab8 Black is confident that the doubled pawns
on her f-file would not be a problem for her.
21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.b3

22...Rb4?! [This move indicates that black has

little idea of the complexities that could arise
from this level ending. Both 22...Kg7 and 22...
Rfc8 are equal.] 23.f3 a5 24.Bc2 Kg7 25.Bd1
Ra8= Black plans a5-a4 to create an isolated
pawn for white on the queen-side and make
it an object of attack. 26.Rf2 f5 27.Rd2 Kf6
28.Rc7 Rb7 29.Rxb7 Bxb7 30.f4 Rg8 31.g3 Ke7
to prevent Rd2-d7 invading her second rank.
32.Be2 Be4 [This move here is not urgent. Bet-

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ter was to guard her second rank. Therefore,

32...Rc8! 33.Bb5 Rc7 reaching equality was
essential.] 33.Bb5

33...Rd8 [Black is forced to offer exchange of

rooks to get some counter-play. After 33...
Rc8 34.Rd7+ Kf6 35.Bc4! (White must first
guard against the black rook's invasion of her
own backyard first before attacking black's a5
pawn. If immediately 35.Ra7? Rc1+ 36.Kf2
Rc2+ 37.Ke3 Rxa2 38.Be8 e5 39.fxe5+ Kxe5
40.Bxf7=) 35...Bb1 36.Ra7 Bxa2 37.Rxa5 Bb1
38.Kf2! white has an advantage as she possesses a passed pawn on the b-file while black
would find it very difficult to create a passed
pawn on the e-file as she has doubled pawns
on the f-file. Nevertheless, white must go miles
before she could convert her slight advantage
into victory.] 34.Rxd8 Kxd8 The exchange of
rooks has made white's task easier as she has
a potential passed pawn on the queen-side
while black has her central pawns fixed on
white square - the same colour as the bishops
on the board. 35.Kf2 Kc7 36.Ke3 Bb1 37.a3
f6 38.b4 axb4 39.axb4 Kd6 40.Be8 e5 (See
diagram) 41.Bg6! White focuses on the blocked
f5 pawn, the only pawn on the board on a
white square - and ties down the black bishop
to defend it. Tactically, white is threatening
to win the f5 pawn with 42 g4 as it is pinned
against its bishop. White is winning the game.
Black's only hope is to abandon her f5 pawn

and counter attack white's b4 pawn.

(Position after 40.e5)

41...Kd5 [41...Ke6? 42.g4 Bc2 43.b5 exf4+
44.Kxf4 Kd6 45.Bxf5 Bd1 46.Bd3 Bb3 47.Be4!
(If 47.Kf5 Be6+ follows a tricky win: 48.Kg6!
Bxg4 49.Kxh6! Kc5 50.h4+-) 47...Kc5 48.Kf5
Bd1 49.Bc6 Be2 50.h4+-] 42.g4 Bc2 43.Bxf5
Ba4 [White wins the pawn ending easily after: 43...Bxf5 44.gxf5 e4 45.b5 h5 46.h4 Kd6
47.Kxe4 Kc5 48.b6 Kxb6 49.Kd5+-] 44.fxe5
fxe5 45.Bd3 Preventing the black king from
getting to c4 and threaten her b4-pawn. 45...
Bd7 46.Be2 Be8 47.h4 e4 48.b5 h5 49.b6!
Kd6 [49...Kc6? 50.Bb5+!! Kxb5 (Or 50...Kxb6
51.Bxe8 hxg4 52.h5! wins.) 51.b7 queens.]
50.g5 Bg6 51.Bb5! If the black king moves
anywhere, b6-b7 would queen! 51...Bf7 [Not
51...Bh7 52.Be8! Bf5 53.g6+-] 52.Kxe4 Kc5
53.b7! Bd5+ 54.Ke5 Bxb7 55.Be2! This ensures that she has two winning connected
passed pawns on the king-side. 55...Bc8
56.Bxh5 Bd7 57.Bf7 10

I cant count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody
except myself thinks I can win. But I have
pulled myself in from desperate [situations].
When you are behind there are two strategies
counter-attack or all men to the defences.
Im good at finding the right balance between
those.
- Magnus Carlsen

( contiued from page 47 )

4.B.Dolgov, I prize, Shakmaty vs CCCP
1968
1.g7 Rb1+ 2.Ka4 Ra1+ 3.Kb5 Rb1+ 4.Ka6
Ra1+ 5.Kb7 Rb1+ 6.Ka7 Bg1+ 7.Ka8 Ra1+
8.Kb8 Bh2 9.g3 Bxg3+ 10.Kb7 Rb1+ 11.Ka6
Ra1+ 12.Kb5 Rb1+ 13.Ka4 Ra1+ 14.Kb3 Rb1+
15.Kc2 Rb2+ 16.Kd3 Rb3+ 17.Ke4 Rb4+
18.Kf5 Rb5+ 19.Kg4 wins
5.Harold Lommer, 3 pr, Szachy 1964-65
1.Qe8+ Qc8 2.Qe5+ Qc7 3.Qh8+ Qc8 4.Bg8
Rb5 5.Qh2+ Qc7 6.Ra8+ Kxa8 7.Qxc7 Rb1+
8.Kg2 Rg1+ 9.Kf3 Rf1+ 10.Ke4 Re1+ 11.Kd5
Rd1+ 12.Ke6 Re1+ 13.Kd6 Rd1+ 14.Bd5+
Rxd5 15.Ke6
6.Osmo Kaila, Comm,Suomen TT 1965
1.Kd3 a1Q 2.Bb1 Qxb1 3.Nxb1 Kb3 4.Nd2 wins

Puzzle of the month

by C.G.S.Narayanan

This months puzzle is also retro colouring

problem. Take your black pencil and colour
some of the white men black to reach a
position where black king stands checkmated. Answer the questions given below
the diagram.
G.Husserl
Premio,Israel Ring Ty 1966/71

Colour some of the men black to create a

checkmated position. Now which are the black
men in the diagram and what is whites mating move? What was the last move for black
before the mate was delivered?
(Solution on page 48)

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Problem World
Gamage and Goethart unpins

A.Goldstein & W.A.Whyatt

The Problemist 1967

by C.G.S.Narayanan

In problem chess a pinned black piece can be

unpinned by white when the unpinned piece is
no longer in a position to defend a particular
white mate. The unpins by white are effected
either after the pinned piece is interfered with
by another black piece or when the pinned piece
itself moves on the pin line resulting in the white
mates. These two types of unpin of black are
termed Gamage unpins. In the diagram below
shows four Gamage unpins in an elegant setting. After key 1.Kb4! threatening 2.Rd5 black
interferes with the pinned black rook allowing
WQ to mate in rank and file.1Ne6 2.Qxd7 ;
1Be6 2.Qa7 and 1Nf5 2.Qg4;1Bf5 2.Qg1
Jan Hartong
Good Companions 1915

Mate in two moves

The second example shows a crisp Gamage
unpin variation in a three-mover.There is a set
continuation 1Bxf3+ 2.Kxf3 b5 3.Qf6.After
the waiting key 1.Qf6! the random move by the
bishop leads to 2.Nc5+ Ka5 3.Qc3.After 1Bxa4
white switchbacks 2.Qa1(3.Qxa4) b5 3.Qf6
mate. The unpinned BB can no longer interfere
on the sixth rank.

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the first illustration below after the waiting key

1.Kb3! the defence 1d5 interferes with pinned
BRe5 and so white can unpin the BR with the
battery mate 2.Nc3. Similarly the correction
move 1.Ne2 leads to 2.Nc1, the unpin of
BBf1 no longer affects the white battery.1N
any leads to 2.Rxf1 mate.

Wclaw Grzankowski
Sachsische Zeitung 1987

C.G.S.Narayanan
&T.S.Krishnamoorthy
The Hindu. Apr 1969
Mate in three moves
There is yet another interesting variation 1
Bxb7 is met by the sacrificial 2.Qc6.2Bxc6
3.Ra7.The continuation after 1Bxf3+ is
changed 2.Qxf3.The problem below belongs
to the second variety of Gamage unpin where
the defences are by the pinned piece on the
pinned line
T.Mota
2 Pr, Chess Review Decalet Ty 1943

Mate in two moves

Solution: 1. Qc3! [2. Qxc6]
1... Qc5 2. Qh3; 1... Qc4 2. Qh8;
1... Qxc3 2. Rxc3; 1... Qc7 2. Qxc7
In the two variations the pinned black queen
interferes with black pawn at d5 and white
queen unpins by withdrawal to h3 and h8.
When white unpins black not directly but by
interfering on the pinned line the resultant
white mates are called Goethart mates. In

White mates in two moves
The problem below has only a single Goethart
mate to offer but has two good changes including the mate after 1Qe4+.
M.Stan
I Pr, Romanian Nat.Ty 1939

White mates in two moves

The second problem is an interesting combination of Goethart mates and Grimshaw
(mutual interference between black rook and
black bishop) The two complex variations sufficiently compensate for the highly inferior key
which takes a flight. After 1.Rxa6! the threat is
the double check 2.Nc2.The motif behind the
defences 1Rc4 and 1Bc4 is to cut off white
bishops guard on b3 so that white cannot close
the WQ line. Unlike in the previous example
here both the batteries become operative when
black mutually interfere.
Key: 1.Rxa6! (2.Nc2)
1Rc4 2.Nc3! (BBd3 can be safely unpinned)1Bc4 2.Nd3! (BRc3 is unpinned). It
may be seen that 1Rc5 is no defence as 2.Nc2
is a double-pin mate.

Mate in two moves

Solution: 1. Qg6! [2. Qg3]
1.. d6 2. Sd5; 1.. Qe4 2. Qxe4
1... Ke3 2. Qd3; 1.. f1=S 2. Sg4
1. ... Se2 2. Rd3.The set mate after 1Qe4+
has been changed from
2.Bxe4 to Qxe4 after the flight giving key.

In general I consider that in chess everything

rests on tactics. If one thinks of strategy as
a block of marble, then tactics are the chisel
with which a master operates, in creating
works of chess art.
- Tigran Petrosian

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Test your endgame

by C.G.S.Narayanan

Tactics from master games

by S.Krishnan

E.Dobrescu 1966

1.

2.

White to play and win

Black to play and win

Ignace Vandecasteele 1967

3.

4.
Black to play and win

Black to play and win

5.

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White to play and win

B.Dolgov 1968

6.

Black to play and win

Tjavlovski 1965

(Solutions on page 47 )

Harold Lommer 1964-65

Osmo Kaila 1965

6
White to play and win in all the above six endings

(Solutions on page

47 )

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Masters of the past-48

Jorgen Bent Larsen

Jrgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 9 September 2010)

was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author. Larsen was
known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play,
and he was the first Western player to pose a serious
challenge to the Soviet Union's dominance in chess. He
is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark
and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence
of Magnus Carlsen.
Larsen was a six time Danish Champion and a Candidate
for the World Chess Championship on four occasions,
reaching the semifinal three times. He had multiple wins
over all seven World Champions who held the title from
1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik,Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail
Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and
Anatoly Karpov.
Larsen was born in Tilsted, near Thisted in Denmark and
was educated at Aalborg Cathedral School. He represented
Denmark twice in the World Junior Championship, in 1951 at Birmingham (placing fifth)
and in 1953 at Copenhagen (placing eighth). He started playing seriously at the age of 17
when he moved to Copenhagen to study Civil Engineering, but he never graduated choosing
instead to play chess professionally. He became an International Master at the age of 19 in
1954, from his bronze-medal performance on board one at the Amsterdam Olympiad. He
won his first of six Danish Championships in 1954 repeating this feat in 1955, 1956, 1959,
1963, and 1964. Larsen defeated Fririk lafsson in an exhibition match at Oslo in 1955
by 43. He won at Copenhagen in 1956 with 8/9.
Larsen became an International Grandmaster in 1956 with his gold-medal performance
on board one at the Moscow Olympiad, where he drew World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
He tied for 1st2nd places at Hastings 195657 on 6/9 with Svetozar Gligori. At Dallas
1957, he scored 7/14 for a shared 3rd4th place; the winners were Gligori and Samuel
Reshevsky.
Larsen was known as a deep thinking and highly imaginative player, more willing to try
unorthodox ideas and to take more risks than most of his peers. This aspect of his play
could even manifest itself in his choice of openings.He was one of seven top grandmasters
who wrote chapters for the 1974 book How to Open a Chess Game. He edited the tournament book for San Antonio 1972 and contributed a chapter to the Raymond Keene edited
book Learn From The Grandmasters (1975). He also wrote the well-received Karpov Vs.
Korchnoi: World Chess Championship, 1978, which was published within days of the match
ending and was the first book in any language on the 1978 World Championship match.
In the April 2009 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2415.He died in Buenos Aires in 2010.
from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Courtesy:Wikepedia
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Mr Manjunath Jain, Mr Hanumantha R, Mr PM Somashekhar, Mr M S

Atmananda, Mr Abhay Chandra Jain, Mr K M Mohan Kumar.

Champion Pavan Kumar Yaramala, Anantha Kumar Swamiji, Dr Ramesh, R

Hanumantha

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1st Dhenkanal FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Odisha

(L-R) Champion Sanjeeban Nayak(ODISHA), Chief Guest

A Samal(MLA,Dhenkanal) and Guest of Honor Mrs Rupa
R Sahoo(Collector)

Lions Club Kakinada Elite All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament,Kakinada

Lighting the lamp by Sri Yd Ramarao, APCA Adhoc Committee Convenor, Sri M Ravi Prakash, IPS,SP-East Godavari
District,(Chief Guest), D Srihari, APCA Adhoc Committee,Lion M Visweswarao,Program Chairman

Winner J Sai Agni Jeevitesh Receiving Trophy from Sri D V Sunder, Vice President FIDE.
Lion M Visweswarao, Program Chairman,Lion MV Subrahmanyam, Chief Organiser,Sri
YD Ramarao,APCA Adhoc Committee Convener are in the picture
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Solutions to Tactics from master games on p. 42

1. Postny,E (2652)
Helmschrott,O (2044) [D43]
Bad Wiessee GER Bad Wiessee GER (1.3),
25.10.2014
Position after 24th move.Diagram [#] White to
play. 25.Qf5! g6 [25...Kf8 26.Qh7 f5 27.Bxf5+-]
26.hxg6 fxg6 27.Qxd5+! Qxd5 28.Rxd5 Rxd5
29.Bb3 Rad8 30.Re5 10
2. Chakravarthi Reddy,M (2217) Anurag,M
(2442) [A28]
World Junior Open 2014 Pune IND (4.29),
09.10.2014
Position after White's 31st move.Diagram [#]
Black to Play to play. 31...Qxh2+! [31...Qxh2+
32.Kxh2 Rh8+ 33.Bh3 Rd2+ 34.Rf2 Rxf2+
35.Kg1 Rd2+ 36.Kf1 Rxh3+ 37.....Rh1# cannot be avoided] 01
3. Madeira,W (2207) - Bruno,Fabi (2422)
[C15]
World Senior 50+ 2014 Katerini GRE (6.7),
29.10.2014
[Srinivasa Krishnan]
Position after White's 27th move.Diagram [#]
Black to play to play. 27...Nd2! 28.Rd1 [28.Ng1
Nxb1+] 28...Rh2+! [28...Rh2+ 29.Kxh2 (29.
Kg1 Nxf3++) 29...Nxf3++] 01
4. Bogdanovich,Stanislav (2590)
Kovchan,Alexander (2585) [D70]
83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (7.4), 18.11.2014
Position after White's 30th move.Diagram [#]
Black to play. 30...Nxd5! 31.exd5 [31.Ne2 Bxe2
32.exd5 Bg4! (Threatening 33.Bf5+) 33.Nd3
(33.Qxg4 Qxd2+; 33.Nc2 Rxa2 34.Kxa2 Ra8+
35.Kb1 Bf5+) 33...Rxa2! 34.Rxa2 (34.Kxa2
Ra8+ 35.Kb1 Ra1#) 34...Qxd3+ 35.Kc1 Qc3+
36.Rc2 Qa1+ 37.Kd2 Qxh1 38.Qxg4 Qe1+
39.Kd3 Qe3+ 40.Kc4 Re4++] 31...Rxa2! [31...
Rxa2 32.Rxa2 Rxe1+ 33.Rxe1 Bd3+ Wins]
32.Kxa2 Ra8+ 33.Kb1 Ra1# 01

5. Kuzubov,Yuriy (2661) Zubov,Alexander

(2588) [D36]
83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (7.5), 18.11.2014
Position after 46th move. Diagram [#]. White
to play. 47.Rg7+! [47.Rg7+ Kh8 (47...Kxg7
48.Ne6+) 48.Ne6! (or 48.Qa7!+- ) 48...Qd5+
49.f3 c5 50.Qa7 Rb2+ 51.Kg3 Qd6+ 52.f4 Wins
Black runs out of checks. and has no answer to
53 Rxh4 Ch followed by mate.] 10
6. Kovchan,A (2585)
Korobov,A (2680) [B92]
83rd ch-UKR 2014 Lviv UKR (10.6), 21.11.2014
Position after White'45th move.Diagram [#]
Black to play. 45...Ng4! [45...Nfd5! was even
stronger. 46.Nxd5 (46.Qxc3 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1
Rxf1+ 48.Kg2 Rg1+ 49.Kh2 Nxc3+) 46...
Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Qxe1+; 45...Ng4 46.Rg1 (46.
Qxc3 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 Rxf1+ 48.Kg2 Rg1#;
46.Qb1 Rxf1+ 47.Bxf1 d2+; 46.hxg4 Rxf1+
47.Bxf1 Qxe1+) 46...Nf2+ 47.Kh2 (47.Rxf2
Qxe1 48.Rxe1 Bxf2 49.Rd1 Bh4+) 47...
Bc5!+]01
Solutions to Test your endgame on p. 43
1.Emilian Dobrescu,1966
1.Qf3 Rb1+ 2.Kc2 Rb8 3.Qc6+ Ka7 4.Qc7+
Ka8 5.Qd7 e4 6.Qc6+ Ka7 7.Qc7+ Ka8
8.Qd7+ e3 9.Kd3 Rb3 10.Ke4 Rb4+ 11.Kf3
Rb8 12.Qc6+ Ka7 13.Qc7+ Ka8 14.Qd7 wins
2.Tjavlovski,I Pr, Shakmaty Vs CCCP
1968
1.Kc3 d5 2.Nf7 g3 3.Ne5 g2 4.Nf3 d4+
5.Kc2 Ka1 6.Kb3 a2 7.Ka3 g1Q 8.Nxg1 d3
9.Kb3 d2 10.Bc2 d1Q 11.Bxd1 Kb1 12.Ne2
a1Q 13.Bc2#
3.Ignace Vandecasteele 1967
1.Nc1 Na3 2.Na2+ Ka4 3.Nc3+ Kb4 4.Nd5
Ka4 5.Nb6+ Kb4 6.Bc3+ Kb5 7.Nd5 Ka4 8.Nf6
Kb5 9.Nxe4 Ka4 10.Nc5+ Kb5 11.Nd7 Ka4
12.Nb6+ Kb5+ 13.Bd4 Kb4 14.Nd5+ Ka4
15.Bc3 Nb5 16.Nb6#
( contiued on page 39 )

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SIB CMS 52nd National Premier & Zone 3.7 Chess Championship,Kottayam

Sethuraman receives the winners trophy

from Dr. Babu Sebastian, Vice Chancellor,
MG University and a cheque for Rs 250000/-.
From Mr. Shelly Joseph, Regional Head & Dy.
GM, South Indian Bank. Others in the picture
are Rev. Kuruvilla, Bursar of CMS College,
Mr. R. Rajesh Secretary, All Kerala Chess
Association, Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal
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Arbiter

Deep Sengupta finished runner up in the

Championship

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position, besides getting a GM
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