AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 10 Price Rs. 25 May 2017

Asian Junior Chess Championships, Shiraz, Iran

Ivana Maria Furtado

Asian Junior Girls Champion

C.H. Meghna WFM Bidhar Rutumbara

Silver medal Bronze medal
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1st Sardar Prakash Singh Mem.Open FIDE Rated Ty,Sonepet
Anup Deshmukh shines at Sonepat
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter 1
6th BRDCA Intl. Fide Rating Tmt, Bangalore
Nitin emerges Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter 5
3rd ADRA FIDE Open Intl. Rating Tmt.,Purulia
Rahul Sangma clinches title
by IA Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter 7
Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tmt,Margao
Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar wins title
by Ashesh Keni ,Chief Arbiter 9
11th KCM FIDE Rated Chess Tmt, Coimbatore
Kunal wins KCM Open
by IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter 12
6th Keshabananda Das Mem Open Chship, Bubaneshwar
Chakravarthi Reddy wins title
by FA Tapas Kumar Mohanty, Chief Arbiter 14
Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating Tmt, Udaipur
Arghyadip Das is Champion
by IA, Tiwari Rade Shyam, Chief Arbiter 16
1st Mahaveer Trophy Open Fide Rating Tmt, Hyderabad
Rama Krishna wins title
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter 18
Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open FIDE Rated
National Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, Telangana
Aryan B Joshi emerges Champion
IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter 20
11th ACA Intl. Fide Rated Tmt,Calicut
Kunal wins at Calicut
by IA M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 22
12th ACA Intl.FIDE rated Tournament (below 1500), Calicut
Santhosh Kumar wins at Calicut
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 28
65th Tamilnadu State Open FIDE Rated Chships, Erode
Akash Pc Iyer emerges Champion
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 30
Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Bangalore
Audi Ameya wins title
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 32
Selected games from 1st S.P.Singh Mem. Tmt, Sonipat
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
Masters of the past-76: Robert Byrne 44
AICF Calendar 45
From the Editors desk
It was a podium sweep for
the Indian girls at the Asian
Junior Chess Championships at
Iran. Goan prodigy WIM Ivana
Maria Furtado was crowned the
Asian Junior Girls Champion,
C.H.Meghna of Kerala won the
silver medal and Bidar Rutumbara
of Odisha took the bronze. This is Ivanas second
title triumph after 2012 at Taskent.
Indian Grandmasters were on a roll in a few major
events. GM S.P.Sethuraman finished second at
the five-nation Brics Masters Rapid held in China,
which included three chess super powers- Russia,
China and India. GM Baskaran Adhiban was second
behind GM Wang Hao and GM Harika finished the
best woman player, at the 1st Sharjah Open.IM
Thejkumar won the title at the Dhamso International
chess festival at Sri lanka. Shriyani Mallyas bronze
in the under-7 category at the World Schools Chess
Championship in Romania rounds up the string of
Indian successes during April 2017. The reports on
these events with photographs are featured in the
centre pages.
This issue also presents reports, final standings
on the FIDE rated tournaments held last month. IM
Manuel Aaron annotates seven selected games from
Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open FIDE Rated
Chess Tournament held at Sonepet. Study of the
Year 2014 , presented elsewhere in this issue, is an
effort by World Federation for Chess Composition to
draw the attention of players at all levels to the art
of end game study.US Grandmaster and renowned
author Robert Byrne is featured in the Masters of
the past series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
are also invited to send interesting articles,
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
1st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Sonepet
Anup Deshmukh shines at Sonepat
by IA Gopakumar MS, Chief Arbiter
1
st Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial Open
Fide Rated Chess Tournament organized
by Baba Kalinath Chriatable Trust was
held at Gulshan Dhaba, Sonipat from 17-22
April 2017.
This Rupees Five Lakhs prize money event
attracted a total number of 327 players which
includes two Grandmasters, eight Interna-
tional Masters and 260 international rated
players from different parts of India and two
foreign federations. The event conducted
under Swiss system with 10 rounds and the
time control was 90 minutes and 30 second
increment from move 1.
In a befitting opening ceremony, Shri. Bharat
Singh CEO All India Chess Federation inaugu-
rated the event in presence of Shri. Naresh
Sharma, Secretary the Haryana Chess As-
sociation. Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade of
Railways got the top billing. The entire tour-
nament saw lots of ups and downs as well
as grueling battles over chequered board.
The initial two rounds progressed on expect-
ed lines but on third round, 12 year old Delhi
Player Aaryan Varshney caused a flutter not
only in the tournament but also in chess
world by upsetting top seed and Grandmas-
ter Swapnil Dhopade with black pieces. In
the fifth round, the long awaited moment of
Haryana Chess happened as International
Master Himanshu Sharma crossed the rating
barrier of 2500 to become the 47th Grand-
master-elect and first from Haryana.
Shock defeat of Dhopade in third round
and achievement of Sharma in fifth round
changed the complexion of the entire tour-
nament. At the end of penultimate round,
Saravana Krishnan P of Tamilnadu emerged
as sole leader after beating Fide Master
Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha. In the final
round, Saravana Krishnan signed the peace
treaty with Hemant Sharma of Railways but
seasoned campaigner International Master
Anup Deshmukh of LIC had other ideas as
he ensured a thrilling end to the tourna-
ment by beating Grandmaster Saptarshi Roy
Chowdhury to catch up with leader Saravana
Krishnan. A two way tie for the pole position
was resolved by buchholz tie break score and
better tie break score helped Deshmukh to
lift the Sardar Prakash Singh Memorial tro-
phy and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh.
Saravaran Krishnan satisfied with Rs. 71000
while IM Dinesh Sharma finished at third
position to secure Rs. 41000 as cash prize.
K Srikanth of Indian Air Force and Raj Pra-
khar of Haryana become best players among
Below 1900 and Below 1600 respectively
to fetch cash awards of Rs. 25000 and Rs.
21000. Amit Kumar Bansal of Uttar Pradesh
and Stuti Bhanot of Haryana secured prizes
for Best Unrated and Best Girl respectively.
At a colourful closing ceremony, Smt. Kavita
Jain, Cabinet Minister Government of Harya-
na and Shri. Mahipal Dhanda, MLA gave away
the cash prizes and trophies to the winners
along with Shri. Naresh Sharma, Secretary,
Haryana Chess Association.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 IM Deshmukh Anup 8
2 Saravana Krishnan P. 8
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3 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 8
42 Punit Indora 6
Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Bangalore
4 Hemant Sharma (del) 8
43 Adarsh Tripathi 6
5 Pradeep Kumar R A 8
44 Sharma P L 6
6 IM Krishna C R G 8
45 Arun Rathi 6
7 FM Srinath Rao S.V. 8
46 Negi D.S. 6
8 Doshi Moksh Amitbhai 8
47 Katiyar Prashant 6
9 Sumit Grover 8
48 Pukhraj Singh 6 Audi Ameya, Winner,
10 GM Swapnil S. Dhopade 8
49 Gangan Ashutosh 6 receiving the prize
11 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7
50 Gajendra Singh 6 from Shri.Samik Ghosh,
Principal, Candor
12 Joshi Govind Ballabh 7
51 Kartikey Verma 6 International School,
13 Srikanth K. 7
52 Sanjay D G 6 Bangalore
14 IM Himanshu Sharma 7
53 Subhash Srivastava 6
15 Sahil Dhawan 7
54 IM Wazeer Ahmad Khan 6
16 Pankaj Sindhu 7
55 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 6
17 Vinay Raj Bhatt 7 56 Sangeen Mandre 6 Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open
18 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7 57 Suthar Pradip 6 FIDE Rated National Chess Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, Telangana
58 Aditya P Melani 6
19 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7
59 Dubey Sanchay 6
20 Himanshu Ranjan 7
60 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6
21 Aaryan Varshney 7
61 Awadh Chaitanya 6
22 IM R Balasubramaniam 7 Aryan B Joshi receivingtrophy Shri
62 Shubham 6
23 Badavath Anand 7 K T RamaRao, Honourable Minister
63 Esshan Wadhawan 6 for IT, Municipal administration &
24 Negi Virender Singh 7 Urban Development NRI Affairs,
64 Manoj Kumar 6
25 Rishabh Jain 7 Govt of Telangana
65 Rathore Sonakshi 6
26 Akshay Anand 7
66 Alok Sinha 6
27 Govind Kumar 7
67 Arushi Kotwal 6
28 Hilal Mondal 7
68 Singh Jagpreet 6
29 AGM Shubham Shukla 7
30 Sharma Pankaj 7
69 Vikrant Jaglan 6 6th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Championship, Bubaneshwar
31 Verma H.S. 7 70 J M Baisakh 6
32 Manush Shah 7 71 Lokesh Hans 6 M.Chakravarthi Reddy
33 Raj Prakhar 7 72 Komal Ashish 6 receiving the prize from
73 Ashwani Kumar Grover 6 the Chief Guest SJ. Sarat
34 Manoj Trivedi 7
Ch. Misra, IPS (Rtd.,
35 Kuldeep Kashyap 7 74 Harshit Arya 6 Ex- Director General of
36 Satinder Sharma 7 75 Swarnamala B 6 Police, Govt. of Odisha) in
37 Singh Arvinder Preet 6 76 Rajendra Singh Rana 6 the presence of Subhasis
77 Harminder Singh 6 Patnaik, Hony. Secretary
38 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar 6
,Khordha District Chess
39 Bhanot Stuti 6 78 Vivek Kaushal 6 Association and Ranjan
40 Samant Aditya S 6 79 Mahabir Parshad Verma 6 Mohanty (Vice president
41 Sachin Malik 6 80 Sadhu Bhagyesh 6 of AOCA)
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 6th BRDCA International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Bangalore
1st Mahaveer Trophy All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
Nitin emerges Champion
by Promodraj Moree,Chief Arbiter
6
th BRDCA International Fide Rating
Chess Tournament was held at Hotel
City Centaur, Near Railway Station,
Bangalore, one of the prominent and well
known Hotels in the city. The Tournament
was organized by Bangalore Rural District
Chess Association from 27th April to 1st
May 2017. The Tournament attracted 279
players from all over India, including major
states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Goa,
Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashta
etc, with six International Masters, Nitin
S, Praveen Kumar C, R. Balasubramaniam,
Murali Krishna B T, Krishna CRG and Hegde
Ravi Gopal. Top seed of the event was Nitin
S of Tamil Nadu with rating of 2432.
Inaugural move by Chief Guest Sri Bandaru Dattatreya, Central Minster in the presence
of Sri S Sudershan Reddy, Chairman,Mahaveer Institutions.
The event was inaugurated on 27th April at
10 am. Chief guest of the event was Mr
Ravi Kumar Naik, IPS,Bangalore, Guest of
honor Mr Aravind Shastry, Secretary UKCA,
Other dignitaries who were present on oc-
casion were Mr R Hanumanta, AICF Joint
Secretary, International Master Shivanand
B S, Mr Mallikarjun MD Hotel City Centaur
and Mr Rajashekar N, SP, Assam.
The final round took place at 9 a.m on 1st
May. International Master Nitin S of Tamil
Nadu defeated Sammed Jaykumar Shete
of Maharashtra who was leading in the 8th
round, to secure the 1st prize in The 6th
BRDCA International FIDE Rating chess
tournament which concluded at Hotel City
Centaur, Majestic Bangalore. Nitin S secured
8 points out of 9 round and bagged prize
money of Rs 80000 and a Glittering Trophy.
Senthil Maran K of Tamil Nadu secured sec-
Kandi Ravi (third place) and Winner J Rama Krishna (in the foreground with trophies) with Chief
ond Prize Rs 50000 with Trophy and third
Guest Sri A Narasimha Reddy, Vice-President,AICF and other dignitaries
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Prize was bagged by Sammed Jaykumar
Shete of Maharashtra Rs 40000 cash with
Trophy.
The Prize Distribution Ceremony took place
on 1st May 2017 at 2.30 pm for which Chief
Guest was Mr Hanumanta R, Joint Secre-
taty AICF, other dignitaries present on the
occasion were, Mr Nagendra Muralidhar,
Vice President UKCA, Mr Raghavendra V,
Vice President UKCA, Mr Rajashekar N, SP,
Assam, Mr Chidanand A Seretary BRDCA and
Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter.
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 IM Nitin S. 8
2 Senthil Maran K 7
3 Sammed Jaykumar Shete 7
4 Saravana Krishnan P. 7
5 Sekar B 7
6 IM Praveen Kumar C 7
7 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 7
8 Gavi Siddayya 7
9 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 7
10 Gahan M G 7
11 FM Purushothaman T 7
12 Raghavendra V. 7
13 Mythireyan P 7
14 Nikhil M 7
15 IM Krishna C R G 6
16 IM Murali Krishnan B T 6
17 Sreeshwan Maralakshikari 6
18 Subramanian V 6
19 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 6
20 Balkishan A. 6
21 Dhanush Ragav 6
22 Ajay Karthikeyan 6
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23 AGM Sa Kannan 6 64 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5 3rd ADRA FIDE Open International Rating Tournament,Purulia,WB
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Parthasarathy R
Arun R U
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6
65
66 AIM
Sai Divya M
Mohammed Shamil A
5
5
Rahul Sangma clinches title
by IA Debasish Barua, Chief Arbiter
26 Sooraj M R 6 67 Vivekananda L 5

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27 Chaithanya Ganesh 6 68 Tejas Cavale 5 rd Adra Fide Open International Rating by Rs. 100000/-. And the third place went
28 Shiva S 6 69 Muhammed Reja C 5 Chess Tmt-2017, organized jointly by to GM Diptayan Ghosh (7.5) of Bengal who
29 Marthandan K U 6 70 Andria L D`souza 5 SERSA Sports Association & SERSA was richer by Rs. 60000/.-
30 IM R Balasubramaniam 6 71 Jinan Jomon 5 Chess Academy was held at MSA Indoor
31 Alan Diviya Raj 6 72 Dharani Srinivas K B 5 Stadium, Purulia, WB from 11th to 15th April The tournament went on smoothly through-
2017.The tournament was inaugurated on out, in all the nine rounds. There were no
32 Singh S. Vikramjit 6 73 Vellarkad N Viswanadhan 5
11th April 2017 by Chief Guest of the function disputes/protests placed before the Appeals
33 Vijay Shreeram P 6 74 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5
Mr. Anshul Gupta, DRM, Adra Division, SE Committee. All deputy Arbiters worked hard
34 Shah Rishab 6 75 Shivani Madhu 5
Railway. Mr. A.K. Chourasia, Sports Officer, during the whole tournament. The Organizers
35 Susarla Rishith 6 76 Mano Godwin Gunasekaran 5
SERSA Adra, & IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, provided tea snacks to all participants and
36 Aditya Guhagarkar 6 77 Aravind Matthews A C T 5 BCA were also present. also guardians.
37 Pranav V 6 78 Sudarshan Bhat 5
38 Shalon Joanne Pais 6 79 Dhrikshu K Vasant 5 A total of 162 players (126 Rated players) In the valedictory ceremony Mr. S.N. Agarwal,
39 AGM Jubin Jimmy 6 80 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5 including 3 Grand Master, 3 International General Manager, S.E. Railway, Mr. Anshul
40 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 6 81 Shreyas M 5 masters from Nine states and 2 players from Gupta, DRM, Adra Division, SE Railway. Mr.
41 AGM Sriram Udhayakumar 6 82 Rajeev V M 5 neighboring country Bangladesh took part in A.K. Chourasia, Sports Officer, SERSA Adra,
42 AIM Shashank Bhat G S 6 83 AIM Navodith V Bhat 5 the tournament. The tournament was played & IM Atanu Lahiri, Secretary, BCA were
43 Hari Suresh 6 84 Prabhakaran K 5 under swiss system format with nine rounds. present and distributed the prizes to the all
44 Avinash Hari 6 85 Arnav Muralidhar 5 International chess set was used and digital prize winners.
45 Digvijay Sunil 6 86 Sanath K Jamadagni 5 chess clocks in every board. The playing hall Final ranking ( fi r st 105 pl aci n gs o n l y )
was a beautiful indoor stadium.
46 Shuban Saha 6 87 Sreevijay Sunil 5
47 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 88 Sarath Chandra K 5 Rk Tle Name Pts
In the 3rd round Suman Basu of SE Railway 1 IM Sangma Rahul 7
48 Aryagopal 6 89 Shreyash A Kulkarni 5
player beat GM Saptarshi Roy Choudhury 2 IM Das Arghyadip 7
49 Kalur Nikhil 6 90 Arvind Ramnath Iyer 5
. In the fourth round Ratam Nag held Top 3 GM Ghosh Diptayan 7
50 Neeraj Anirudh K 6 91 Anselm Flavian Paul 5 Seeded GM Diptayan Ghosh and Subhayan
51 Balakowshi D S 6 92 Nachiketh Adiga 5 4 Gusain Himal 7
Kundu also held GM Sriram Jha. In the final
52 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 6 93 Saket Kumar 5 5 Arindam Mukherjee 7
round on the third board Diptayan beat Ar-
53 Ravindran R 6 94 Rishabh Kumara 5 6 GM Sriram Jha 7
onyak Ghosh and Koustav Chatterjee beat
54 Vinay Thomas Abraham 5 95 Bhagyashree G Patil 5 Laltu Chatterjee on the fourth board. 7 Koustav Chatterjee 7
55 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 5 96 Tejes Suresh Kumar 5 8 Subhayan Kundu 6
56 Hari R Chandran 5 97 Madhavan G 5 At the end of final round games IM Rahul 9 Anustoop Biswas 6
57 Nitin Shankar Madhu 5 98 Badri Narayan B 5 Sangma (7.5) of Railways clinched the 10 Swaraj Palit 6
58 Keshav Kothari 5 99 AIM Aaromal R S 5 Championship Title on better die break 11 Nath Rupankar 6
59 AGM Chirag Hirinja G J 5 100 Hariharan Subramony 5 and got richer by Rs. 150000/-. Where IM 12 Bhattacharya N Shekhar 6
Aghyadip Das(7.5) 13 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 6
60 Nandhini Saripalli 5 101 Apoorv Kamble 5
61 Rahul Bharadwaj B 5 102 Srijan J 5 14 Meghna C H 6
62 Roshan Hari 5 103 Anjishnu Mondal 5 15 Kamal Kishore Debnath 6
of Railways placed 2nd position and richer
63 Rohit S 5 104 Muthu Paramaguru M 5

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16 Abhishek Das 6 57 Sumit Barua 5 Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tournament,Margao
17 CM Aronyak Ghosh
18 Chattarjee Laltu
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Sudipa Haldar
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Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar wins title
by Ashesh Keni ,Chief Arbiter
19 Pradip Ghosh 6 60 Supriya Guru 5

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20 Soham Das 6 61 Ali Md. Kawsar 5 hree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide the second board Sushant Jadhav beat Ma-
21 Sanjit Saha 6 62 Agarwal Rahul 5 Rating Chess Tournament-2017 was yank Chulet (1489)for the third prize whilst
22 Debanga Kalita 6 63 Mukherjee Sanchit 5 inaugurated by Ex-Chief Minister of Goa Santhosh VR beat Meet Puri for the fourth
23 Sonkalan Bharati 6 64 Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 5 Shri Digamber Kamat in the presence of Shri prize. Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar beat
24 Alka Das 6 65 Abhirup Das 5 Ashesh Keni Vice President ,Goa Chess Asso- Saiesh Audi on the fourth board to bag the
ciation,Kishor Bandekar Joint Secretary,AICF, second place .The first three prize winners
25 Utsab Chatterjee 6 66 Sinthia Sarkar 5
Apurv Bhembre ,Secretary ,Margao Cricket were richer by Rs.25000/- ,Rs,15000/- and
26 Verma Sanjay 6 67 Raunak Datta Nath 5
Club Damodar Zamabulikar ,Secretary Sal- Rs.12000/- respectively. The total prize fund
27 Mahitosh Dey 6 68 Shounak Mazumder 5
cete Taluka Chess Association, Sanjay Kavl- was Rs. 150,000/- along with trophies worth
28 Ambarish Sharma 6 69 Swapnil Sen 4
ekar,Senior SAG Coach and others. Rs.50000/-.Totally 91 prizes were distrib-
29 Sourath Biswas 6 70 Akshath Sinha 4
uted which included first 30 prizes in open
30 Ganguly Ritabroto 6 71 Shashi Nand Kumar 4 Totally 508 players from all over India partic- category and age group category prizes.
31 Ghosh Samriddhaa 6 72 Prasenjit Das 4 ipated in the tournament whom among were Trophies were given to all winners. There
32 Aditya Basu 5 73 Aniket Mondal 4 players from Telangana West Bengal,Maha- were prizes for best five Rated from 1400 to
33 Biswajit Chatterjee 5 74 Ananya Bothra 4 rastra,Tamil Nadu and Goa.This was the 1201 best five from 1200 to 1001 and also
34 Sayantan Chandra 5 75 Pramit Chanda 4 largest ever tournament conducted in Goa unrated players. Also prizes for best Woman
35 Chakrabarti Tamal 5 76 Roy Parimal 4 considering the number of players.259 rated player,best veteran, age group in u-15,u-
36 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 5 77 Dhritabrata Kundu 4 players participated on 25th 26th and 27th 13,u-11,u-9,u7 in open ,Goan and Salcete
37 Shrutarshi Ray 5 78 Soham Pal 4 April at the Karwarkar Hall, Margao Cricket Taluka were given out.
38 Rahul Kumar 5 79 Abhinav Dubey 4 club premises. The Chief Arbiter of the tour-
nament was Ashesh Keni and it was organ- Among the Goans Sairaj Dilip Vernekar of
39 Arijit Mukherjee 5 80 Aayush Bhattacherjee 4
ised by Salcete Taluka Chess Association and Salcete Taluka stood seventh while Audi
40 Sanket Chakravarty 5 81 Mouhurtik Ray 4
Margao Cricket Club. Saiesh also of Salcete stood thirteenth in
41 Soham Dey 5 82 Soumya Sardar 4
the open section.The Prize distribution fuc-
42 Biswas Gopal Chandra 5 83 Rahul Mukhi (jhar) 4
The Chief Arbiter of the tournament is Fide tion was held in the evening with the Chief
43 Mehendi Sil 5 84 Rishab Debsharma 4 Arbiter Ashesh Keni ably assisted by with Guest Apoorv Bhembre Secretary of Margao
44 Satyanarayan U 5 85 Mayukh Chatterjee 4 Deputy Sanjay Kavlekar, Jotsna Saripalli Cricket Club giving away the prizes along
45 Sambarta Banerjee 5 86 Shankhodip De 4 ,Vivek Soni,Swapnil Hoble,Gautam Tari, with Shri Adesh Karwarkar ,Patron of STCA
46 Abhay Bandewar 5 87 Kumar Sankalp 4 Avinash Malvankar.The hall premises were ,Shri Ashesh Keni ,Vice President ,Goa Chess
47 Amaranjay Kumar Dubey 5 88 Arun Kumar 4 partly air-conditioned and toilet and park- Association, Kishor Bandekar, Secretary,-
48 Ritam Nag 5 89 Prateeti Gorai 4 ing facilities were amply provided. Drinkiing GoaChessAssociation,Sudesh Bhise ,Vice
49 Basu Suman 5 90 Sheik Md. Abdul Muttalib 4 water was also provided Sitting space for President,Margao Cricket Club,Damodar
50 Swarnava Biswas 5 91 Rowdrick Saha Talukdar 4 parents was also provided.Tanvi Vasudev Zambaulikar ,Secretary STCA ,Sanjay Kav-
51 Suvradeepta Das 5 92 Krishna M K Ramanatha 4 Hadkonkar (1485)of Goa won the first Shree lekar,Chess Coach Sagar Sakordekar ,Vice
52 Sibi Visal R 5 93 Rakesh Dubey 4 Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Chess President GCA,Ramdas Sawant Treasurer
Tournament-2017 by comprehensively ,GCA Dilip Verneker ,Treasurer ,STCA and
53 Harsh Himanshu 5 94 Shaswata Paul 4
beating Dhanajay Nagargoje (1471)of Ma- others.
54 Subash Mathivanan 5 95 Srijita Sarkar 4
harastra in the final round played at the
55 Aryan Bandyopadhyay 5 96 Atreya Nandy 4
Karwarkar Hall MCC premises Margao. On A total of Rs. 150,000/- cash prizes and tro-
56 Rounak Pathak 5 97 Dibakar Das 4

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phies were distributed.The Prizes were dis-
tributed at the Hands of Chief Guest Mr.Vilas
Gauns sai, Industrialist,Mr.Prakash Volvotkar
(Chairman,Insight),Mr.Ashesh Keni (Presi-
dent,STCA), Mr.Damodar Zambaulikar(Sec-
retarySTCA),Sanjay Kavlekar(SeniorSAG-
coach),Mr.Tanmay Prabhu(Member,Insight).
Mr.Damodar Zambaulikar proposed the Vote
of thanks and the function was compered by
Mrs.Manjita Porob and Mrs.Navita Chari.
The tournament was organised in a good hall.
Generator arrangement was made though
there was no electricity shutdown.Toilets
separate for ladies and gents were provided.
In the middle of each round complimentary
snacks and tea were provided to each player.
Veg and Non.veg nutritious Lunch was ar-
ranged at subsidised rates Accomodation was
also provided at a temple complex nearby at
very low rates.
Final standings
Rk Name Pts
1 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 8
2 Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar 8 Josef Haas
3 Jadhav Sushant 8 I prize, Problem Them Ty 1972
4 Santhosh V R 8
5 Nagargoje Dhananjay 7
6 Bhojwani Ravi 7
7 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 7
8 Srikanth Myakala 7
9 Utkarsh Gupta 7
10 Chulet Mayank L 7
11 Biju Kumar 7
12 Sathya Naarayanan S 7
13 Audi Saiesh 7
14 Giri Abhishek 7
15 Meet Puri 7
16 Arun Prasath P 7
17 Vashishtha Ankesh 7
18 Pankaj Bhat 7
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19 Kohad Dipesh 7 60 Asain L 6 101 Nishad A 5
20 Gaude Sachin 7 61 Mhadeshwar Nimish Prakash 6 102 Pethe Suyash 5
21 Parsekar Anirudh 7 62 Satawase Abhay 6 103 Marasttiwar Yash 5
22 Mahajan Vivek 7 63 Shetty Murugan 6 104 Vishwanath Kannam 5
23 Bothikar Tegas 7 64 Padhye Abhijit 6 105 Gaikwad Vishal 5
24 Singh Amarjot 7 65 Deepthi Lakshmi K 6 106 Siddhesh Datta Pednekar 5
25 Yadav Aakashkumar 7 66 Sangle Abhishek 6 107 Vijayakumar S 5
26 Ganpule Utkarsh 7 67 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 108 Samhitha Sharma B S 5
27 Jayesh T A 6 68 Subramanian T.V. 6 109 Sanjay Srinivasan R 5
28 S. Jeevanandam 6 69 Colaco Reuben 6 110 Abhinav Karthik M 5
29 Sanghavi Manoj 6 70 Aryan Khurana 6 111 Adalja Samarth 5
30 Kriti Mayur Patel 6 71 Priyanka Bhatt 6 112 Dhanala Abhinav 5
31 Paulson Frenchy 6 72 Shreetu Bhavikbhai Nandi 6 113 Anirudh Ra 5
32 Shibin K Benny 6 73 Wadia Kiran 6 114 Rohan Raju Sathis Kumar 5
33 Thorat Sanjay 6 74 Varshil Yagnik 6 115 Naik Shvesh S 5
34 Shreyas Ghadi 6 75 Pratik S Borkar 6 116 Kunnekar Vanshri 5
35 Yuti Mayur Patel 6 76 Neha Srinibash D 6
36 Kayalarasan V 6 77 Fadte Rudresh 6 Puzzle of the month
37 Morajkar Navin 6 78 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6 by C.G.S.Narayanan
38 Gurjeet Singh 6 79 Sathiya Narayanan S 6
39 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 6 80 Anil Pradhan 6 In the retro this month white retracts
40 Livingston Solomon 6 81 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 6 his last move and mates black in
41 Shirodkar Aayush 6 82 Mhadeshwar Sanket 6 two moves.
42 Andrew Veda Watson Solomon 6 83 Khan Faiziya 6
43 Devesh Anand Naik 6 84 Nidhin Kumar S 6
44 Krishna Prabhakar 6 85 Adelkar Shrikrishna 6
45 Arun S 6 86 Veeresh Bharamasagara T 6
46 Manojan Ravi 6 87 Jayant Sai 6
47 Eesh Prabhudesai 6 88 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 6
48 Marbhal Avishkar 6 89 Polepally Surendar 6
49 Rama Rao T V 6 90 Vas Bryan 6
50 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6 91 Naroji Sanskriti 6
51 Kamalnayan Deshmuk 6 92 Nipanikar Rishab 6
52 Sahil Dayanand Desai 6 93 Varier Darshan 6
53 Chirag Mudraje 6 94 Porob Naguesh Rama 6
54 Singh Prakash Vikram 6 95 Gouravkumar Nanwani 5
55 Binu Sebastian 6 96 Swayam Naik 5
56 Bagwe Gaurang 6 97 Geetesh Mishra 5
57 Dhruv G Kulkarni 6 98 Prathmesh Dharmadhikari 5 White retracts and mates in two
58 John Paul 6 99 Nagasri Saikanth 5 (solution on page 48)
59 Dhanush Ram M 6 100 Pushpa Angela V 5
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 11th KCM FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Coimbatore.
Kunal wins KCM Open
by IA V.Vijayaraghavan, Chief Arbiter
M
.Kunal of Trichy won the 11th edi-
tion of KCM FIDE Open here at
Coimbatore on 29th April, 2017.
The Open State Champion of 2016 and top
seed of the event was the clear favourite.
He scored 7.5 points out of 8 rounds and
won the 1st prize fund of Rs.50,000/-.
Bharath Kalyan of TN scored 7 points and
finished runner up to receive a cash prize of
Rs.30000/-. Around 300 players have par-
ticipated in this 4 day event. OT Anilkumar
of Kerala and Ganesh Babu of TN placed 3rd
and 4th respectively.
The tournament prize fund of Rs.3,00,000
was distributed in 25 main prizes followed by
Rating Categories, Unrated & Special Prizes
for districts and others. The members of KCM
distributed the prizes.
Final ranking 35 Kathir Balaji K 5
Rk Name Pts
1 Kunal M. 7
2 Barath Kalyan M 7
3 Anilkumar O.T. 6
4 Ganesh Babu S 6
5 Manigandan S S 6
6 Marthandan K U 6
7 Avinash Hari 6
8 Aravindaswami T 6
9 Godson Merlin E 6
10 Vijay Shreeram P 6
11 Hemanth Raam 6
12 Arunachalam ShivaaT V 6
13 Rajashakkthivel K K 6
14 Sree Nithish B 6
15 Mani Bharathy 6
16 Nandha Kumar K 6
17 Dhanasekar K. 6
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54 Kannan R 5 95 Ragesh Sarma.M 4
55
56
Nirmal L
Yogeshwaran S A
5
5
96 Balasubramanian V
97 Sivashankar M
4
4
57 Sivaa G M 5 98 Rajkumar S 4
58 Rishi R 5 99 Sivaneshan V 4
18 Sathananthan I 6
59 Abhishek S 5 100 Jack Samuel 4
19 Nitin Shankar Madhu 6
60 Abel Saju Chazhoor 5 101 Jayashri K K 4
20 Karthik P M 6
61 Gowri Shankar A 5 102 Shivashankaran R 4
21 Sivakumar C. 6
62 Roshan Hari 5 103 Tamilarasan B 4
22 Vinay Thomas Abraham 6
63 Aishwarya Natarajan 5 104 Saravanakumar T S 4
23 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6
64 Siva Shanmugam S 5 105 Aji Kumar A 4
24 Harshad S 6
65 Tarunika P 5 106 Bhadrinathan A 4
25 Shreyas M 6
66 Koushik Muthesh P 5 107 Ashok Kumar T D 4
26 Balaji P 6
67 Anirudh VRamesh Kumar 5 108 Thiruvengadam C 4
27 Kabhilan S 6
68 Natarajan M 5 109 Gowtham K P 4
28 Mohith R 6
69 Divyan T 5 110 Neha Srinibash D 4
29 Muralidharan R. 6
70 Shivani Madhu 5 111 Abinands R 4
30 Jayasangar T 6
71 P Gunasekaran 5 112 Lakshmi Narayanan R 4
31 Prahalad B 6
72 Kathiravan S 5 113 Dhineshwar R S 4
32 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5
73 Devaraja G 5 114 Pratyush J 4
33 Gautham Prasanth 5
74 Sharan Krishnan 5 115 Joshua Anto A 4
34 Kiruthika B 5
75 Anjana Devi G 5 116 Amitha Sureshbabu 4
76 Umeshwaran S A 5 117 Andrew Veda Watson S 4
36 Narendran V 5
77 Reshvanth V 5 118 Naveen Kumar T 4
37 Jinan Jomon 5
78 Priyan R S 5 119 Midhun Kumar M A 4
38 Thirumurugan R 5
79 Soundariya Lakshmi G 5 120 Keerthi Srinath K 4
39 Charles J 5
80 Arjun Sidharth S 5 121 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 4
40 Dharani Sree R 5
81 Adithya A Chullikkad 5 122 Arunachalam S 4
41 Aravinth Shanmugam S 5
82 Nandish V S 5 123 Srihari K R 4
42 Jayaprakash M 5
83 Midhru Jayan K 5 124 Samyuktha B S 4
43 Aasha C R 5
84 Gowrichander U 5 125 Thamaraiselvan K 4
44 Senbabu M B 5
85 Sarveshwaran V 5 126 Allen S David 4
45 Tarun V 5
86 Akshaya R.S. 5 127 Abhinav Karthik M 4
46 Arjun Kumar S 5
87 Nandakumar S 5 128 Ayyappan S 4
47 Mukhesh C 5
88 Mathavan T 5 129 Nishanth R 4
48 Gopinath P 5
89 Mohammed Shamil A 4 130 Vaishag P V 4
49 Jai Aditya D 5
90 Thoufeeq S 4 131 Tejaswi R 4
50 Vigneshwaran N. 5
91 Shalini J 4 132 Arivarasu K P 4
51 Joy Antony 5
92 Atul Srivatsa 4 133 Kasi Viswanathan N 4
52 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5
93 Aakash G 4 134 Rohan Anand 4
53 Hari Hara Jagan S A 5
94 Roshan S 4 135 Arul Prakash N 4
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 6th Keshabananda Das Memorial All India Open FIDE Rating Chess Championship, Bubaneshwar
Chakravarthi Reddy wins title
by FA Tapas Kumar Mohanty, Chief Arbiter
T
he 6th Keshabananda Das Memori-
al All India Open FIDE Rating Chess
Championship - 2017 was inaugurated
on 5th April 2017 at 10.00 am by Subhasis
Patnaik, Hony. Secretary, Khordha District
Chess Association. This tournament was
organized by Khorda District Chess Associ-
ation under the Aegis of AICF,FIDE, and All
Odisha Chess Association . The tournament
was played in a big AC hall of Hotel Empires,
with sufficient drinking water and washroom
facilities. The organisers arranged a separate
waiting place for parents. Organiser provid-
ed the accommodation of all the outstation
players in the same venue.Hotel Empires
is one of the biggest Star Category Hotel
in Bhubaneswar. Digital Chess Clocks were
provided in all the boards.
A total of 259 players from different States
took part in this event. Out of these 259
players, 193 players were rated and 66 were
unrated. Top seed was Krishna CRG, but he
did not participate. In his absence Saravana
Krishna P was the top seed with ELO 2347.
Chakraborty Reddy M of Telengana with ELO
2189 clinched the Championship Title and
became the Champion of 6th Keshabananda
Das Memorial All India Open Fide Rating
Chess Championship 2017 and was award-
ed a Cash Prize of Rs.50,000/- along with
Champions Trophy. He scored 8 points out
of 9 rounds. Gm Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi
of West Bengal and Muthaiah Al of Tamil-
nadu became 2nd and 3rd respectively. The
Total prize money of the tournament was
Rs.5,00,000/-. Not a single protest/claim
was there during that period. Tournament
was smoothly conducted by me with the
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9
10
Arun J
Sonkalan Bharati
7
7
50
51
Vijaya Kumar A.V.S.
Padhi Jyoti Ranjan
6
6
11 Koustav Chatterjee 7 52 Harshit Ranjan Sahu 6
help of my Deputy FA Biswanath Banerjee. 12 IM Deshmukh Anup 7 53 Sudhanshu Ranjan 6
Other Arbiters were Bhabesh Mohanty and 13 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7 54 Samanta Singh Priyabrata 6
Sontosh Mohapatra.NA Santosh Kumar Mo- 14 Barath Kalyan M 7 55 Rajesh Kumar Nayak 6
hapatra (25093010) gets his FA norm from 15 Balasubramaniam H 6 56 Manish Kumar (2006) 5
this tournament. 16 Swaraj Palit 6 57 Soham Das 5
17 Lokesh N. 6 58 CM Shahil Dey 5
The closing Ceremony was held in a befitting
18 Nayak Biswajit 6 59 Samal Aditya Ranjan 5
manner. Mr. Subhasis Patnaik, Hony. Secre-
19 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 6 60 Kaushik Nath 5
tary ,Khordha District Chess Association, SJ.
20 Surendran N 6 61 Durgesh K 5
Sarat Ch. Misra, IPS (Rtd., Ex- Director Gen-
eral of Police, Govt. of Odisha), Mr. Ranjan 21 Himanshu Ranjan 6 62 Patnaik Shreyash Subham 5
Mohanty (Vice president of AOCA) and many 22 Dhanush Ragav 6 63 Lochan Kumar Das 5
dignitaries were present in this ceremony & 23 Avijit Ghosh 6 64 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 5
gave away the prizes to all the winners. Many 24 Abhishek Sarkar 6 65 Biswal Gitashree 5
players will get their Elo rating and some 25 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 6 66 Sandil Nirmal Chandra 5
players got partial rating from this event. I 26 Subhasis Barik 6 67 Swapnil Priyadarshi 5
express my thanks to the organizing body 27 Sa Kannan 6 68 Sai Shravan R 5
i.e Khordha District Chess Association & All 28 Nikhil M 6 69 Mehendi Sil 5
Orrissa Chess Association for giving me an 29 Sibi Visal R 6 70 Panda Raj Santosh 5
opportunity to undertake the responsibility 30 Nayak Sanjeeban 6 71 Narayan Das 5
as Chief Arbiter for this event. I express my
31 Sarath Chandra K 6 72 Aasha C R 5
special thanks to Mr. Subhasis Patnayek , Ho-
32 Sahu Rajendra Kumar 6 73 Behera Biswaranjan 5
tel Empires, Mr. V.L.Anandh Babu and all the
33 Sounak De (1) 6 74 Binayak Rath 5
sponsors for their immense support. Without
34 Shrutarshi Ray 6 75 Gugan G 5
their support this is not possible for anybody
to make this event a grand success. The 35 Smaraki Mohanty 6 76 Mahitosh Dey 5
Press and Media covered the event well and 36 Vakil Akhtar 6 77 Routray Priyanka 5
we had very good support from the parents 37 Subash Mathivanan 6 78 Barik Jagdish 5
and guardians of the participants. 38 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 6 79 Patra Subhendu Kumar 5
39 Sahoo Ankita 6 80 Aditya Bikram Paul 5
Final ranking 40 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 6 81 Raja Bose 5
Rk Name Pts 41 Naveen Kumar T 6 82 Sai Siddardha A 5
1 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 8 42 Dikshant Dash 6 83 Mishra Siddharth 5
2 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 7 43 Sahoo Dasharathi 6 84 Mohanty Aditya Anurakta 5
3 Muthaiah Al 7 44 Atri Chattopadhyay 6 85 Manoj Kumar Hota 5
4 Audi Ameya 7 45 Sahoo Swastik Sourav 6 86 Shambhu Yadav 5
5 Saravana Krishnan P. 7 46 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 6 87 Sanyasi Sethi 5
6 CM Bharath Subramaniyam H 7 47 Rudranarayan 6 88 Debargha Daw 5
7 IM Suvrajit Saha 7 48 Ankit Kumar Singh 6 89 Nayanikaa Muralidharan 5
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 Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Udaipur
Arghyadip Das is Champion
by IA, Tiwari Rade Shyam, Chief Arbiter
T
he Ladji Kothari Rapid Fide Rating
Chess Tournament was held at Central
Public School,Udaipur, Rajasthan from
08/04/2017 to 09/04/2017. The tourna-
ment was organized by Ladji Chess School,
Udaipur.
Total number of 153 players participated
in the tournament, including 84 FIDE rated
players. Top players includes GM Sriram Jha,
IM Arghyadip Das, IM Dinesh Kumar Sharma
and FM Srinath Rao S V. This 9 round event
was played under FIDEs Swiss Rules with a
time control of25 minutes each with incre-
ment of 5 second from move 1. IM Arghyadip
Das of West Bengal with a rating of 2429
started as the top seed for Rs. 3,21,000/-
prize money tournament.
The Tournament was won by top seed IM
Arghyadip Das who pocketed a cash prize
of Rs. 51,000/- along with coveted trophy.
Second, Third & Fourth Prizes with trophies
were bagged by GM Sriram Jha of LIC, IM
Dinesh Kumar Sharma of LIC and FM Srinath
Rao S V of Pune respectively.
Prize distribution ceremony was compered by
Mr Praveen Kothari (Org. Secy) and was held
at Central Public School, Udaipur Rajasthan.
Also attractive mementos were awarded to
all participants. The tournament was well
received by the chess players, as this was the
highest prize money tournament in rapid for-
mat. There was not a single dispute and the
event was completed smoothly. FA, Sandeep
Chitkara, and SNA Qmar Abbas were the
arbiters of tournament with IA R S Tiwari as
Chief Arbiter. The Tournament Director of the
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35 Mohan Singh Devat 5 76 Yatharth Dangi 4
77 Varun Soni 4
36
37 AGM
Shiv Priya Bhardwaj
Sikka Sumit
5
5 78 Yashika Singh 4
38 Sharma Harsh Yogesh 5 79 Dhruv Kalani 4
tournament was Mrs Neepa Kothari. 39 Raval Mayur 5 80 Yogesh Kumar Khare 4
Final ranking 40 Chandwani Prateek 5 81 Meetali Thadani 4
Rk Name Pts 41 Arora Honi 5 82 Rohan Batra 4
1 IM Das Arghyadip 8 42 Kanchiwala Kamal 5 83 Lethwala Sagar 4
2 GM Sriram Jha 8 43 Delwar Dharmesh 5 84 Khemraj Gadri 4
3 IM Sharma Dinesh K 7 85 Aanya Chawat 4
44 Saxena Arpit 5
4 FM Srinath Rao Sv 7 45 Tekwani Jay Anilbhai 5 86 Vikas Vyas 4
5 Shashikant Kutwal 7 46 Chandrajeet Singh Rajawat 5 87 Samrath Singh Chhabra 4
6 Devendra Kumar 7 47 Ankit Payal 5 88 Bhavesh Choudhary 4
7 Mraduhas Tripathi 7 48 Bharadia Madhav 5 89 ACM Iyer Arvind 4
8 AIM Mandloi Mukesh 7 49 Bhavya Gehlot 5 90 Mohammad Hyatt Khan 4
9 Patel Nishrut R 7 50 Patel Raman Bhai 5 91 Cheshta Jain 4
10 Sanjit Dutta 7 51 Vinay Ramchandani 5 92 Naik Piyush H 4
11 Dave Kantilal 6 52 Mehul Gupta 5 93 Anurag Singh Tomar 4
12 Ladhe Mohit 6 53 Saxena Ram Kishore 5 94 Praveen Kumar Jelia 4
13 Kanwal Om Prakash 6 54 Mohit Kumar Dalal 5 95 Bhushan Ramawat 4
14 Manoj Trivedi 6 55 Kukreja Neelam 5 96 R Hrishikesh Kaushik 4
15 Sonakshi Rathore 6 56 Mahesh Bhatnagar 5 97 Sneha Dhingra 4
16 Gajendra Singh 6 57 Chaudhary Pallav 5 98 Gaurav Shrimali 4
17 Mahendra Lakhyani 6 99 Shivam Lodha 4
58 Shah Mayur 5
18 Darji Giridharilal 6 100 Pranay Chordia 4
59 Mehra Jyoti 5
19 Gulhariya B K 6 60 Bhagat Rajesh J 5 101 Lalit Bharadia 4
20 Sudhakar 6 61 Rajivade Nilesh 5 102 Hemesh Yaturu 4
21 Ankel Gautam 6 62 Aditya Vinay Gupta 5 103 Krishti Jain 4
22 Chopada Ketan B 6 63 Binwani Tushar 5 104 Dhimant Bhadada 4
23 Sadhu N Vishal 6 64 Godhani Maharth 5 105 Romil Jain 3
24 Batham Avinash 6 65 Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal 5 106 Granth Kothari 3
25 Tarun Sharma 6 66 Ronak Gupta 5 107 Mayank Sharma 3
26 Singh Vikram 6 67 Varma Pratik 5 108 Paarth Mundhra 3
27 Nikunj Soni 6 68 Harsh Ramteke 5 109 Prakhar Pathak 3
28 Naman Porwal 6 69 Lakshya Kholi 5 110 Karishma Jain 3
29 Sharma Varun 6 70 Chinmay Jain 5 111 Anjali Nair 3
30 Rishabh Jain 6 71 Bharadia Yash 4 112 Pragya Jain 3
31 Gaurav Jain 6 113 Atharv Arora 3
72 Hamendra Singh Makwana 4
32 Sumit Batra 6 114 Krishaa Jodhawat 3
73 Ashray Agarwal 4
33 Sunny Bedi 5 74 Choudhary Sagar 4 115 Yugant Jain 3
34 Nimdia Ridit 5 75 Kartik Agrawal 4 116 Shambhavi Sinha 3
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 1st Mahaveer Trophy All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Hyderabad
Rama Krishna wins title
by FA S Subba Raju , Chief Arbiter
44 Shaan Rai 6 85 Devi Vara Prasad Ch 5
45 Dhanush Reddy A 6 86 Udaybhaskar Shastri K 5
46 Praveen Saki 6 87 Anirudh M 5
47 Prraneeth Vuppala CM 6 88 Renuka Kumari B 5
48 Rama Mohan Rao N 6 89 Bhanu Sai Vengaldas 5

F
IDE Master J Rama Krishna of Andhra 8 Farhaan M 7 49 Adireddy Arjun 6 90 J Teja Venkata Sai Mohan 5
Bank won the 1st Mahaveer Trophy All 9 Pati Spandan 7 50 Ojas Mehetre 6 91 Akshat Goverdhan V 5
India Open Fide Rating Chess Tourna- 10 Satyanarayana P. 7 51 Sreevijay Sunil 6 92 Shreya K 5
ment held here at Mahaveer Institute of 11 Khan S 7 52 Sushma Reddy B 6 93 Pasupuleti Subhash 5
Science and Technology, Bandlaguda, Hy- 12 Amar C S 7 53 Juare Deep 6 94 Jashwanth V 5
derabad. Rama Krishna scored 9 points from 13 Nanditha V 7 54 Srinivas Siddanth 6 95 Ved Prakash 5
10 rounds and became champion with clear 14 Anurag Kuruvada 7 55 Kapil Surya P 6 96 Arnav Pradhan 5
half point margin, whereas M Chakravarthi
15 Raju M.Y. 7 56 Aditya Reddy K 6 97 Nadimpally Tharun Tej 5
Reddy and Kandi Ravi got 8.5 points and due
16 Kushagra Mohan CM 7 57 Sai Suhash K V K 6 98 Narahari Geethika Hasini 5
to better tie break Chakravarthi got second
17 Chakravarthi S.V.C. 7 58 Pranav Mahaadev 6 99 Viswak Sen M 5
place and Ravi was placed third.
Winner got prize money of Rs. 25,000/- 18 Sai Krishna S. 7 59 Kheerthi Ganta 6 100 Surisetti Manikanta Rao 5
where as Runner up arun received Rs. 19 Chilukuri Sai Varshith 7 60 Sevitha Viju M 6 101 Karyasheel P 5
15,000/- and 3rd placed got Rs. 10,000/- 20 Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7 61 Rushyendra Chowdary K 6 102 Yagna Priya Polisetty 5
Total Rs. 2 Lakh distributed among 50 prize 21 Gopal Shah 7 62 Sai Atchyut B 6 103 Thirupatha Chary Pusala 5
winners.The event attracted 247 participants 22 Rohith Yadav B R 7 63 Dalli Shriya Reddy 6 104 Srivatsa Ananth K 5
from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Mahar- 23 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 7 64 Mythri Maddisetty 6 105 Rajesh Ekkaladevi 5
ashtra, Tamilnadu, Pondichery, Gujarat and 24 Amer Basha Sk 7 65 Shiva Sai Boddu 6 106 Sai Mahati A 5
Andhra Bank. 25 Karthikeya Kasyap K B S 7 66 Sri Chandana G 6 107 Sai Vikram A 5
At the inaugural function Chief guest Sri 26 Advaita Sharma K 7 67 Makkella Vijaya Bharadwaj 6 108 Arun Kumar Tadaboina 5
Bandaru Dattatreya, Central Minister and Sri 27 B Kishan 7 68 Vishwa Teja B 6 109 Raju Vislavath 5
S Sudarshan Reddy, Chairman Mahaveer 28 Krishna Devarsh P 7 69 Sai Rishiraj P 6 110 Rithwik Gandikota 5
Institutions inaugurated the event. In the
29 Abhiram G 7 70 Manaswini Maheshweram 6 111 Himesh Empally 5
valedictory function Chief guest Sri A Nar-
30 Bharathakoti Sneha 7 71 Yashodarshan Kalmanoor 6 112 Karthikeya Sairam T 5
asimha Reddy, Vice President, AICF distrib-
31 Kalur Nikhil 6 72 Surya Karthikeya Varma 6 113 Pranitha Priya Polisetty 5
uted trophies and cash prizes to the winners.
Final standings: 32 Satyanarayana M 6 73 Hemprakash Barsagade 6 114 Sridhara Sriman Manoj 5
Rk Name Pts 33 Mallesh Beerla 6 74 Yeswanth Bondalapati 6 115 Sankarshana Goli 5
1 Ramakrishna J FM 9 34 Murali Mohan Y 6 75 Varshith Nela 6 116 Honmane Suyog 5
2 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM 8 35 Srujan Keerthan Solletti 6 76 Tanmayee Reddy 6 117 Harini Narahari 5
3 Kandi Ravi 8 36 Madhusudan T 6 77 Digvijay Sunil 5 118 Vishvas Reddy K 5
4 Varun V 8 37 Meghanshram B V 6 78 Mohan Rao Maddala 5 119 Nigamaa Sree D 5
5 Bipin Raj S 8 38 Bharath Bhushan Reddy N 6 79 Umesh Konduru 5 120 Shivaiah K 5
6 Aditya Varun Gampa 8 39 Adireddy Tarun 6 80 Ganesh Sai Siddarth S 5 121 Ganesh Palla 5
40 Shaik Sumer Arsh 6 81 Osman Bin Sayeed 5 122 Mourya Manyam 5
41 Vasistha Ramana Rao K V 6 82 Tamilselvan Nedunchezhian 5 123 Jai Shankar Sreeyans R 5
7 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 8 42 Md Bashiq Imrose 6 83 Saketh Kumar Reddy C 5 124 Shivas Reddy K 5
43 Raivath Mallela 6 84 Chetan Rao D 5 125 Pranay Reddy B 5

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 Devnar Foundation for the Blind- AICFB Open FIDE Rated
National Chess Tournament for the blind, Hyderabad, Telangana
Aryan B Joshi emerges Champion
IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter
D
evnar-AICFB Open FIDE rated na-
tional chess tournament for the blind
was held at Devnar foundation for the
Blind school, Hyderabad from 26th to 30th
April 2017. This tournament was organized
by All India Chess Federation for the Blind in
association with Devnar foundation for the
blind sponsored by State Bank of India
The total Number of participants were 117
among them 56 are FIDE rated players. Play-
ers from 15 states represented. Organizer
provided free boarding and lodging to all the
participants and escorts. The tournament
was conducted in Swiss league format with
9 rounds.
At the end of eighth round Aryan B Joshi
of Maharashtra lead the race with 7 points.
On ninth round at top board Patil Shirish of
Mah played against Aryan B Joshi of Mah.
Patil Shirish senior player attacked from the
beginning but young talent Aryan defended
the game calmly. At the end Aryan had better
position and offered draw Shirish agreed.
Aryan B Joshi scored 7.5 points secured first
place, Krishna Udupa of Kar, Yudhajeet De
of W B,Samant Milind of Mah,Ashvin Mak-
wana K of Guj,Soundarya Kumar Pradhan
of Odi,Patil Shirish of Mah scored 7points.
On their best tie breaks secured respective
places.
The total cash prize of Rs.50, 000 was dis-
tributed to top 30 players. Chief Guest Sri K
T Rama Rao honorable minister for IT, Mu-
nicipal administration & Urban Development
NRI Affairs Govt of Telangana and Dr. A.
Saibaba Goud, MS, Ph.D Padmashri Awar-
dee Founder Chairman DFFB, distributed the
prizes to prize winners.
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35 Prasanna Kumar M 5 76 Basalingappa Maraddy 4
36 Narendra Salavkar 5 77 Pasuvula Prasad 4
37 Chirantan C Mesariya 5 78 Chudasama Dharmishtha 4
38 Madhukesh Ram 5 79 Anil Kumar Malik 4
39 Chotelal Ramlal Gour 5 80 Harish Venkatesh D 4
Rank Name Pts 40 Tijan Punaram Gawar 5 81 Vadlakoonda Venkatesh 4
1 Aryan B Joshi 7 41 Viral Trivedi 5 82 Harish M Prajapati 4
2 Krishna Udupa 7 42 Vaishali Nrendra Salavkar 5 83 Shahjada Salim 4
3 Yudhajeet De 7 43 Satish Wahule 5 84 Khorasiya Khushali 4
4 Samant Milind 7 44 Nagaraj Guntal 5 85 Uppo Prasad 4
5 Makwana Ashvin K 7 45 Karthikeyan R Kasaragod 5 86 Praful Manohar Moon 4
6 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan 7 46 Rajesh Pilazi Nimbulkar 5 87 Dokula Durgaprasad 4
7 Patil Shirish 7 47 Rajan Kunnumpuram 5 88 Chandru Sampath 3
8 Hariharan Gandhi 6 48 Harish Sankar Kharat 5 89 Yasa Narendher Reddy 3
9 Venkat Reddy S 6 49 Sreemalappagari Harish 5 90 Akilan S 3
50 Prathap Reddy B 5 91 Vijayakumar Kumbar 3
10 Swapanil Shah 6
51 Ashish Rokade 5 92 Bora Srinivas Vamshi 3
11 Marimuthu K 6
12 Patel Darshan 6 52 Dharmaraj R 5 93 Mohammed Rafiq 3
13 Deeptyajeet De 6 53 Ravindra Shirkar (blind) 5 94 Bhawarlal Prajapat 3
14 Sanjiv Kar 6 54 Pradeep K K 5 95 Venkateswararao A 3
15 Agesh Kumar A 6 55 Ganesh Sivalingam 5 96 Sanjay S V K 3
16 Shambhu Kumar Roy(vc) 6 56 Rahul Navghane 5 97 Aadamelli Ramesh 3
17 Somender B L 6 57 Devaraj S 5 98 Kankurthipudi Rohith 3
18 Satya Praksah Shrivastava 6 58 Ajaykumar Y V 5 99 Yangani Bhanuprakash 3
19 Ashok Parekh 6 59 Vasant D Patil 4 100 Syed Mushrafuddin 3
20 Vignesh R (blind) 6 60 Vijay Arumugham 4 101 Pooja Parbate 3
21 Dipak Kumar Bhoi 6 61 Dharavath Saleem 4 102 Thalari Subhash 3
22 Barot Ashok 6 62 Ashish Kumar Dahiya B L 4 103 Nagaraju Naick B 3
23 Patel Lav 6 63 Laxmikant A Simpi 4 104 Margam Ganesh 3
64 Nagarajan R 4 105 Mohammed Sameer 3
24 Gopi R 6
65 Mahesh Sudam Mhabdi 4 106 Ankita Shinde 3
25 Meghnath Mondal 6
26 Balaraman P 5 66 Jagadish Chhasatia 4 107 Galeti Devender Reddy 2
27 Sathish M 5 67 Nemai Das 4 108 T Nehru 2
28 Vijay Yetre 5 68 Amar Kumar Sharma 4 109 K Venkatesh 2
29 Ramesha A R 5 69 Anant Baban Khopkar 4 110 Nagabhushanam G 2
30 Kiran Kumar A Simpi 5 70 Thota Praveen 4 111 Santhosh Kumar V 2
31 Aniruddha Khunte 5 71 Siddramayya M Hiremath 4 112 Rathod Saikiran 2
32 Megha Chakraborty 5 72 Bhangi Jagadish R 4 113 Raju B 2
33 Akhilesh K. Srivastava 5 73 Vajira Vaibhav 4 114 Jam Jaggili Prudviraj 2
34 Muthuraman K. 5 74 Mehta Piyush 4 115 Pranil More 1
75 Kuruva Kubera 4 116 Esarapu Gangadhar 1
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 11th ACA International Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Calicut
Kunal wins at Calicut
by IA M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
Anand Chess Academy Calicut organized
its 11th ACA International Fide Rated Chess
Tournament at Gujarathi Hall, Beach Road,
Calicut.
The tournament attracted 302 players from
Andhrapradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala,Ma-
harastra,Pondicherry,Telungana, Tamilnadu
and Utterpradesh. Out of which 243 players
were FIDE rated. Participation from Canadi-
an Chess Federation made the tournament
colourful. The tournament was held from
8th April 2017 to 11th April 2017, offering a
prize fund of Rs,3,00,000/- . M Kunal from
Tamilnadu was the top seed.
In this tournament 89th seeded S Harshad
of Tamilnadu held the 2nd seeded IM Kath-
male Sameer of Railways in Round two and
46th seeded T Aravindaswami of Tamilnadu
beat the 7th seeded M B Muralidharan of
Kerala in the same round.
Ram S Krishnan of BSNL, M Vinoth Kumar
from Tamilnadu and K Alex Thomas of Kerala
scored 5 points at the end of round five. Ram
beat Vinoth kumar in the 6th round and took
the sole lead with six points as Alex lost to
Kunal. Ram was held by R P Senthil Kumaran
of Tamilnadu in round seven whereas Kunal
beat young Benjamin Varghees Issac of
Kerala and joined the lead with Ram. Much
expected Kunal and Ram encounter ended
in a draw. M Vinoth Kumar, R P Senthilku-
mar, IM R Balasubramaniam and Kathmale
Sameer also scored 7 points and tied for 1st
prize but better tie break helped Kunal win
the tournament.
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Asian Junior Chess Championships,Shiraz, Iran
Ivana Furtado wins Asian Junior Girls
By Arvind Aaron
Woman International Master Ivana Maria Furtado of Goa
won the Asian Junior Chess Championship for girls yet
Kunal of Tamilnadu lifted the winner's trophy
again at Shiraz in Iran on May 10, 2017.
and also received Rs.40000/- as cash prize.
Ivana of Rosary Higher Secondary School, Dona Paula in
Ram S Krishnan finished second and received
Rs.25000/-. Goa remained undefeated and gained 14 Elo from this
event. She won five games and drew four in the nine
Rtn. A P Vinoth Kumar, past President of Rota- round Swiss format contest.
ry Club of Calicut South distributed the prizes Ivana, 18, had won the World Under-8 twice in a row in
to the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan, Joint 2006 and 2007. She won the Asian Junior girls in 2012
Secretary, All India Chess Federation and also at Tashkent. Indian girls swept the podium with Meghna
the Director of Anand Chess Academy offered and Rutumbara winning the silver and bronze medals.
his felicitation at the event. Rtn.P Rethish, Like Indians dominated the girls section, Iran dominated
president Rotary Club of Calicut South wel- the Open section taking the top five placings! Indians, IM M.N. Shaikh got the tenth place
comed the gathering and Shri Abdul Rehman with 5.5/9, Kumar Gaurav (14th), IM Harsha Bharathakoti (18th) scored 5 each. The chief
gave the vote of thanks. arbiter was IA Arvin Abrishami of Iran and the event ran from May 3-10, 2017.
Final placings: (Open): 1 IM Masoud Mosadeghpour (Iri) 8/9; 2-3. IM Alireza Firouzja (Iri),
Rk Name Pts
Arash Tahbaz (Iri) 7 each; 4-7. IM Aryan Gholami, Arash Daghli (both Iri), IM Tran Tuan
1 Kunal M. 7
Minh (Vie), IM Mersad Khodashenas (Iri) 6.5 each53 players from 8 nations.
2 Ram S. Krishnan 7
Final placings (Girls): 1 WIM Ivana Furtado 7/9; 2-C.H. Meghna 6.5; 3-5. WFM Bidhar Ru-
3 Vinoth Kumar M FM 7
tumbara, Alijanzadeh Mohadesh (Iri), Harshita Guddanti 6 each22 players from five nations.
4 Senthil Kumaran R.P. 7
5 R Balasubramaniam IM 7
6 Kathmale Sameer IM 7
Sethuraman finishes second at the BRICS Masters Rapid
7 Marthandan K U 6 After an early loss to Yu Yangyi at the start of the tournament S.P.
8 Ajay Karthikeyan 6 Sethuraman steadied his ship and finished second at this strong
9 Hari Suresh 6 BRICS Masters rapid event held in China. Yu Yangyi was the cham-
10 Abhiram Sudheesh 6 pion. Ganguly was the other Indian participant and in the combined
11 Benjamin Varghees Issac 6 standings India took the bronze.
12 Jubin Jimmy 6
13 Vinodh Kumar B. 6 BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging
14 Nithin Babu 6 national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
15 Rajarishi Karthi CM 6 The BRICS members are all leading developing or newly industrial-
16 Sooraj M R 6 ized countries, but they are distinguished by their large, sometimes
fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional affairs.
17 Joy Lazar M.A. 6
As of 2015, the five BRICS countries represent over 3.6 billion peo-
18 Alex Thomas K. 6
ple, or about 40% of the world population; all five members are in
19 Subramanian V 6
20 Manigandan S S 6 the top 25 of the world by population, and four are in the top 10.
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In terms of chess three of these five countries - Russia, China and India are real superpow-
ers. Brazil has good chess players, while South Africa is an improving nation. Two players
from each of these countries took part in this event, making it a ten player round robin rapid
tournament. The time control was 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move. These
were the participants:Brazil: Rafael Leitao and Alexander Fier Russia: Vladimir Potkin and
Alexander Motylev India: S.P. Sethuraman and Surya Ganguly China: Yu Yangyi and Li Chao
South Africa: Cawdery and Steel.
The event was held in Under-7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 for Boys and Girls. It is an annual contest
and the numbers are growing. The World Youth and Cadet Championships are held annual on
the even age groups.Seven of the 15 nations that figured in the medals list were from Asia.
Medal Winning Nations:Gold/Silver/Bronze;;Mongolia3-3-1;Uzbekistan3-0-0;Turkey
2-0-2;Romania 1-1-4;Kazakhstan 1-1-0;Ireland 1-0-0;Moldavia 1-0-0;Azerbaijan 0-3-
1; Turkmenistan 0-2-0;USA 0-1-0;Poland 0-1-0; India 0-0-1; Bulgaria 0-0-1; Kyr-
gyzstan0-0-1;Sri Lanka 0-0-1

Sethuraman scored 6.5/9 and finished second, while Ganguly with 4.5/9 had to be content
with the seventh place.At the team event where the scores of both the players are added
Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017, Ambalangoda,Sri Lanka
together India finished third with 11 points. Russia scored 11.5 and China 12.5. Sethu went Thejkumar wins in Srilanka
back home with not just US$ 6,000 but also two glittering trophies! Says Sethuraman,
"This was my best performance in rapid so far. Honoured to play in China again; one of the
grandest tournaments I have took part in and the organization was simply amazing with Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 was
very impressive hospitality and conditions." organized by the Dharmasoka College Old Boys
Final Standings Chess Association for the seventh consecutive year
1.Yu Yangyi (2750)7,0/9; 2.Sethuraman (2619)6,5/9; 3.Motylev (2658)6,0/10 on behalf of the CFSL, Asian Chess Federation and
4-5. Li Chao (2720), Potkin (2594) 5 , 5 / 9 ; 6 . L e i t a o ( 2 6 1 8 ) 5 , 0 / 1 0 ; 7 . G a n g u l y the World Chess Federation. Event was held in down
(2640)4,5/9;8.Fier (2562)4,0/9;9.Steel (2414)1,5/9;10.Cawdery (2434)0,5/9 south Sri Lanka at beautiful city of Ambalangoda
which is a coastal town. DICF 2017 was held from
27th April to 3rd May 2017 where event was held 9
World Schools Chess Championships, Iasi,Romania rounds with swiss pairing.
Shriyani Mallya Wins Bronze
by Arvind Aaron 416 Players from 4 federations competed in the
Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 where
Shriyana S Mallya (Elo 1024) of India won the IM Thej Kumar from India with 2482 was the top seated player. Players from India, Bang-
bronze medal in the Under-7 Girls section of the ladesh and Maldives were in the event. Total cash fund was LKR 400,000.00 where first
World Schools Chess Championships that concluded prize was LKR 75,000.00. IM Thej Kumar won the title of DICF 2017 player of the year with
at Iasi in Romania on May 1, 2017.Asian nations led winning all the games. He was the only player unbeaten throughout the event. He scored
by Mongolia and Uzbekistab won three gold medals 9/9 points. Twol players tied for the 2nd position but with better tie break Abhishek Das
each in this record 41-nation event that attracted (ELO 2286) secured the 1st Runner up position and A A C B Amarasinghe from Sri Lanka
576 players. had to satisfied with the 2nd Runner Up position.

The organisers received 6000 e-mails and respond-
ed to 6000! The low spring time temperature of
-1C left the organisers having to postpone the first
round.The official website had 120,000 visitors and
270 press releases were sent out! A total of 100 organisers worked at the impressive Palace
of Culture in Iasi, Romania.
WCM Sayuni Gihansa Jayaweera won the women championship with tied with W A Tiumi
Yasora. Both scored 7/9 points but with better tie break Sayuni won the championship and
Tiumi had to satisfy with 1st Runner Up position. Five players tied for the 2nd Runner up
position with 6/9 points. But with better tie break Shalini De Silva secured the 2nd runner
up position.Dhamso International Chess Festival 2017 concluded in grand manner with
good memories.

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Wang Hao wins the 1st Sharjah Open 21 Sivakumar C. 6 62 Karan J P 5
22 Raju O A 6 63 Fathima Abdeen 5
Adhiban finished second 23 Abhishek T M 6 64 Akila Mahendran 5
Harika the best woman player 24 Pr Rajeevan 6 65 Sachjith M 5
25 Abdul Majeed N. 6 66 Syam Peter 5
In the last round of the 1st Sharjah Open
26 Sujithraj U Mallan 6 67 Yogeshwaran S A 5
Chess Championship which concluded
27 Phadke Sohan 6 68 Sathyanarayanan S. 5
on March 31,2017 all leaders finished
28 Mani Bharathy 6 69 Devaraja G 5
their games in a draw. The two leaders
29 Yashavishree N 6 70 Jinan Jomon 5
Wang Hao and Yury Kryvoruchko made
30 Anilkumar O.T. 5 71 Puparambath Abdurahman 5
a solid draw against each other, while
31 Lakshimi Narayanan 5 72 Amal Raj N R 5
both Adhiban and Kravtsiv had more
32 Mythireyan P 5 73 Adarsh P.B 5
complicated games against Radoslaw
33 Srikrishnan P 5 74 Ashish Thomas Alex 5
Wojtaszek and Arkadij Naiditsch, which
34 Dhanasekar K. 5 75 Tarunika P 5
eventually finished peacefully as well.
35 Arunachalam ShivaaT 5 76 Balakowshi D S 5
It gave a chance for the group of 12
36 Jagadeesh A.K. 5 77 Madhu P P 5
players to catch the leaders on the po-
37 Godson Merlin E 5 78 Gautham Prasanth 5
dium but only 2 of them managed to do
Wang Hao and B.Adhiban 38 Athul Jyothish A 5 79 Pratyush J 5
so - S.P. Sethuraman and Salem Saleh.
39 Harshad S 5 80 Prabhakaran K 5
40 Adhidev K P 5 81 Ismail.K.P 5
The encounter Salem Saleh Alexander Areshchenko was obviously a key game for the
41 Thoufeeq S 5 82 Sharsha Backer 5
organizers and the local spectators as nothing would have been more desirable than a vic-
42 Aruna Dinakara 5 83 Aravind Matthews A C T 5
tory in the last round for their player. The local chess star pleased all his fans by winning
43 Sameer C 5 84 Unnikrishnan M A 5
hard-fought game against Ukrainian player and shared the 1st place.Wang Hao from China
44 Arun R U 5 85 Roshan Hari 5
became the winner of the tournament and got a trophy and $15,000. Baskaran Adhiban
45 Sidharth P G 5 86 Aringar Anna V 5
finished second and Martyn Kravtsiv from Ukraine is on the third place.
46 Mohith R 5 87 Sathwika N 5
Harika Dronavalli made a draw against GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko in the last round and with
47 Charles J 5 88 Swarnamala B 5
6 points out of 9 became the best women player of the tournament.
48 Aravindaswami T 5 89 Eugene M.M. 5
The closing ceremony took place right after the end of the last round and was attended by
49 Muralidharan M.B. FM 5 90 Abhijit Chutia 4
Sheikh Saud Bin Abdul Aziz Al Muala, the General Secretary of UAE chess federation Husain
50 Avinash Prakash 5 91 Prem Krishna N 4
Al Shamssi, the General Secretary of Sharjah chess club Omran Allah, the Deputy President
51 Aswin.P.G 5 92 Joy Antony 4
of the organizing committee of 1st Sharjah Championship, the Chief Arbiter Sultan al Taher,
52 Amal Roozi 5 93 Prashanth J Naik 4
the Club Executive Manager Rajai Alsusi and other officials.
53 Hari R Chandran 5 94 Sudheer K B 4
The key game of the eighth round between two leaders Wang Hao and Martyn Kravtsiv fin-
54 Madhusoodanan K.R. 5 95 Jibi Kallingalpadem 4
ished in a draw relatevely quickly and 12 players, who were half a point behind, got a real 55 Avinash Hari 5 96 Saravanan R 4
chance to join the leaders in case of a victory. Baskaran Adhinban and Yury Kryvoruchko 56 Sreehari G 5 97 Akhila T M 4
scored important wins and as a result there were four players on top with one round to go. 57 Shreyas M 5 98 Victor K.A.D. 4
12 players were half a point behind, including top UAE player Salem Saleh, who defeated 58 Anselm Flavian Paul 5 99 Rajan K.N. 4
GM Deepan Chakkravarthy from India. In the 7th round Wang Hao outplayed the leader of 59 Nitin M Pai 5 100 Devanand B 4
the tournament Baskaran Adhiban to replace him on the top. 60 Abhirami Madabushi 5 101 Kutty T P C 4
61 Sushmit Banerjee 5 102 Murukan M.K. 4
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 12th ACA Intl.FIDE rated Tournament (below 1500), Calicut
Santhosh Kumar wins at Calicut
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
Anand Chess Academy Calicut organized
its 12th ACA International Fide Rated Chess
Tournament at Hotel New Nalanda, Aravind
Gosh Road, Calicut.
The tournament attracted 353 players from
Andhrapradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Karna-
taka, Kerala, Maharastra, Pondicherry,Telun-
gana, Tamilnadu, Utterpradesh and West
Bengal. Out of which 219 players are FIDE
rated. The tournament was held from29th
April 2017 to 1st May 2017, offering a prize
fund of Rs.2,00,000/- Vashishtha Ankesh
from Rajesthan was the top seeded.
Four players viz. C K Santhosh Kumar from
Calicut, Abdallah M Nisthar from Kerala, K
Gopichand from Tamilnadu and Binu Sebas-
tian from Karnataka scored 8 points and tied
for the first prize but better tie break score
helped the 34th seeded C K Santhosh Kumar
from Calicut lift the winner's trophy with a
cash prize of Rs. 25000/-. Abdallah M Nisthar
from Kerala finished second.
Rtn.P Rethish, president Rotary Club of Cali-
cut South and former Kerala State Champion
O T Anil Kumar from Calicut distributed the
prizes to the winners. Shri. P Venugopalan,
Joint Secretary, All India Chess Federation
and also the Director of Anand Chess Acad-
emy felicitated the event. Well known chess
player & Chess coach K R Madhusoodhanan
of Calicut
welcomed the gathering , Shri Abdul Rehman
proposed the vote of thanks.
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35 Abdurahiman Elangoli 6 76 Nihal Nithish 5
36 Manish Sherigar 6 77 Sathyanarayanan K M 5
37 Sameer C 6 78 Abdul Basheer K M 5
38 Emayasri S 6 79 Mohamed Nisthar 5
39 Karthik Raj 6 80 Cherla Sai Raghava 5
Final ranking
40 Sreyas Payyappat 6 81 Nikhil K 5
Rk Name Pts
41 Vijayaraghavan G 6 82 Manoranjan Kelad 5
1 Santhosh Kumar C K 8
42 Srikanth Myakala 6 83 Nirmal K G 5
2 Abdallah M Nisthar 8
43 Raju G 6 84 Sathwik Shivananda P.S 5
3 Gopichand K 8
44 Mubeen Yaseen Khan 6 85 Sanal V A 5
4 Binu Sebastian 8
45 Priyan R S 6 86 Atul Jayesh 5
5 Venkatesan B 7
46 Ratheesh P.K. 6 87 Mahesh A T 5
6 Bala Ganeshan 7
47 Sanjay Srinivasan R 6 88 Megha K 5
7 Rajeevan Puthiya Kunnummal 7
48 Aswin K 6 89 Mohana Parvathala 5
8 Manikandan Tayalan 7
49 Nykaj A K 6 90 Shamil Mohammed 5
9 Rohith N D 7
50 Dinesh Sardar 6 91 Shahad P V 5
10 John Veny Akkarakarn 7
51 Sharan Krishnan 6 92 Mattania Wilfred 5
11 Bhaskar Teja K V 7
52 Veerakumar M 6 93 Sourav M S 5
12 Lakshmi Raja Perumal K 7
53 Ramesh V P 6 94 Sanjeev P Sivaraman 5
13 Gopinath P 7
54 Varun Sudarshan 6 95 Ponnu Durai Thangapandi 5
14 Ajmal Ibrahim 7
55 Nagarjun K M 6 96 Mahima Sherigar 5
15 Eswaran P 7
56 Chandrashekaramurthy S R 6 97 Niran Krishna K A 5
16 Vinodkumar K V 7
57 Swetha K 6 98 Farhan M 5
17 Manikuttan K P 7
58 Vivek P Thomas 6 99 Zoya Nizar 5
18 Jayakumar P K 7
59 Iyer Arvind 6 100 Sidharth Rajeev 5
19 Balaji S 7
60 Aswanth S Kumar 6 101 Shanmuga Kumar A 5
20 Phani Krishna C H 7
61 Pranav Sajith 6 102 Prajwal P 5
21 Sukumaran V K 7
62 Vijayakumar S 6 103 Balu P 5
22 Vijay M V 7
63 Dinesh Babu Manakkal 6 104 Harshavardhan Anand P 5
23 Akhila T M 6
64 Shreya S Pillai 6 105 Anoop kumar K 5
24 Devanand B 6
65 Muralidharan Naniyate 5 106 Amitha Sureshbabu 5
25 Benny P C 6
66 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5 107 Prasada Rao Ponnapalli 5
26 Bhojwani Ravi 6
67 Vivek P S 5 108 Bharathi Raja R 5
27 Adhidev K P 6
68 Sahadevan M 5 109 Raghavan V 5
28 Ranjith Kumar K 6
69 Zain K Muhammed 5 110 Ibrahim E 5
29 Devika P 6
70 Abhinand Manoj 5 111 Suresh Kumar S 5
30 Shriram 6
71 Santo Wilbert 5 112 Aslam C 5
31 Varadharajan I. 6
72 Rathish R 5 113 Abhijith U 5
32 Vashishtha Ankesh 6
73 Binni Boyina P Pratap 5 114 Rajesh L S 5
33 Gopinath Parthasarathy 6
74 Varkey M O 5 115 Nirmal K M 5
34 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 6
75 Mukunthan Udhayakumar 5 116 Ramakrishnan K K 5
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 65th Tamilnadu State Open FIDE Rated Championship, Erode
Akash Pc Iyer emerges Champion
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
65th Tamilnadu State Open Fide Rated Chess
Championship was organized by Erode Dis-
trict Chess Circle, Erode. The tournament at-
tracted 196 players all over from Tamilnadu.
The local star IM elect P Iniyan's Participation
made the tournament glamour. Out of 196
players, 154 players are FIDE rated chess
players. The tournament was held from23rd
April 2017 to 27th April 2017, offering a prize
fund of Rs.1,00,000/- . P Iniyan from Erode
was the top seed.
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by
Dr. R Shivakumar I P S the Superintendent
of Police Erode District . A chess 'Kavithai' in
Tamil was written and released by Dr. R Shi-
vakumar IPS, in the inaugural function.Dr.
Ramesh the organizing secretary welcomed
the gathering.
26th seeded P Yutesh from Thiruvalluvar
District shocked the top seeded, IM elect-
ed P Iniyan of Erode on the 3rd round was
the major upset. Harshavardhanan G B and
Akash Pc Iyer both from Chennai took the
lead with 5 points each at the end of the 5th
round. In round six Harshavardhanan lost
to Akash Pc Iyer and Akash was in sole lead
with six points. In round seven N Lokesh
from Krishnagiri held Akash but Akash con-
tinued the lead with half a point higher than
his nearest rivals. Akash was outplayed by
Iniyan on the penultimate round and Iniyan
took the lead along with N Lokesh with 7
points. In the final round Iniyan was held by
Lokesh. There were five players viz Akash
Pc Iyer of Chennai, N Lokesh of Krishnagiri,
Pr Hirthickkesh of Cudalore, N Surendran of
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21 Ruban Sanjay M 6 62 Shanjay K Sathiskumar 5
22 Vinod Kumar M. 6 63 Vignesh N 5
23 Chujeeth Vignesh A 6 64 Shyam Kumar M 5
24 Mohamed Anees M 6 65 Ananda Balaji S 5
25 Rathneesh R 6 66 Tarun V 5
Chennai, and P Iniyan of Erode scored 7.5 67 Arul Suresha G A 5
26 Anandha Venkatesan 6
points and tied for the first prize. But better
27 Barath L 6 68 Midhun Kumar M A 5
tie break helped Akash Pc Iyer emerge as
28 Jayachandra Srinivas V 6 69 Yukash Ram E 5
the Champion and N Lokesh finished second.
29 Suganthan S 6 70 Arnav Maheshwari 5
30 Gugan G 6 71 Manikandan Rangan 5
Rtn. MD. S Senguttuvan was the Chief guest
31 Nandha Kumar K 6 72 Surya Prakash J 5
for the prize distribution function. Shri. V
S Elango M D ALFA Switch Gear (I) Pvt.Ltd 32 Muthu Hareeswaran S 6 73 Sathish Chandra G 5
distributed the prizes to the winners. Shri. A 33 Sai Prasath A S 6 74 Dharshan Venkatachalam 5
Sekar D S P , Erode and Mrs. J Beulah Jane 34 Akash S 6 75 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 5
Susila are the guest of honours. Rtn Ar. K K 35 Kumaresh A 6 76 Honnesh Sankaran 5
Vijayachandhran welcomed the gathering, 36 Subash Mathivanan 6 77 Rajagopal A 5
Dr.Ramesh Secretary, Erode Chess Circle 37 Ganesh Babu S 5 78 Nandakumar S 5
proposed the vote of thanks. 38 Sibi Visal R 5 79 Arjun Kumar S 5
39 Rohith Krishna S 5 80 Darsana M S 5
Final ranking 81 Ilamparthi A R 5
40 Godson Merlin E 5
Rk Name Pts 41 Yutesh P 5 82 Bharath Venugopal 5
1 Akash Pc Iyer 7 42 Arivu Selvan A S 5 83 Rajiv A 5
2 Lokesh N. 7 43 Sa Kannan 5 84 Sam Jebadurai 5
3 Hirthickkesh Pr 7 44 Shyam Sundar M 5 85 Arul Anandh S P K 5
4 Surendran N 7 45 Gokul S 5 86 Akash P 5
5 Iniyan P 7 46 Gokulraj K 5 87 Ram Kailash Pl 4
6 Muthaiah Al 7 88 Praveen K B 4
47 Selvabharathy T 5
7 Hari Madhavan N B 7 48 Dinesh Kumar Jaganathan 5 89 Praveen Narayan S 4
8 Tarun V Kanth 7 49 Anup Shankar R 5 90 Niteesh Lingeswaran 4
9 Manigandan S S 6 50 Suriya S V 5 91 Aakash G 4
10 Jayakumaar S 6 51 Mohith R 5 92 Deenadayalan M P 4
11 Barath Kalyan M 6 52 Raghul Saro S 5 93 Sivashankar M 4
12 Ram S. Krishnan 6 53 Thaga Sheriff M 5 94 Sabhesan R 4
13 Sivakumar C. 6 95 Logesh S 4
54 Sachjith M 5
14 Kumar S. 6 55 Hari V P 5 96 Sarvesh Hinduja S A 4
15 Harshavardhan G B 6 56 Anand J P 5 97 Sharan Krishnan 4
16 Dileep Kumar R 6 57 Ragesh Sarma.M 5 98 Naveen Kumar T 4
17 Kishore Kumar Jaganathan 6 58 Avinash Ramesh 5 99 Krishnakumar Ramanathan 4
18 Aravindaswami T 6 59 Nawin J J 5 100 Krishan A 4
19 Hemanth Raam 6 60 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5 101 Aravinthan Loganathan 4
20 Sathya Giri V 6 61 Kannan R. 5 102 Jawahar K S 4
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 Candor All India Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Bangalore
Audi Ameya wins title
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter
Audi Ameya of Goa won the Candor All India
Open FIDE Rated Tournament at Bangalore.
5 lakh prize money event was organized
by Bangalore Chess Academy along with
title sponsor Candor International School,
Bangalore from 14th to 18 th April 2017 at
Candor International School, BegurKoppa
Road, Near E-City Phase I, off Bannergatta
Road, Bangalore
Shri.Samik Ghosh, Principal, Candor Inter-
national School inaugurated the tourna-
ment by lighting the lamp. Mr Sridhar C,
Dean Administration, Candor International
School, welcomed the players and wished
them. Vedant Goswami, Director,Bangalore
Chess Academy and Ms Pavitra D, Business
Development Manager, Candor International
School were the other dignitaries on the dais.
The nine round swiss league format tour-
nament attracted 467 players from Andra
Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujrat, Harya-
na, Kerala, Maharastra, Orissa, Pondichery,
Orissa,Telangana, Tamilnadu, UP and West
Bengal.
Sanjay N of Income Tax Bangalore was top
seed with ELO rating 2366followed by IM Mu-
rali Krishnan BT (2241) of Tamilnadu, Lokesh
N (2225) of Tamilnadu, Pranav Shetty(2222)
of Maharastra, NassirWajih (2187) of Delhi,
IM Ravi Gopal Hegde (2168) of Karnataka.
There were total of 290 rated players.
Top seed N Sanjay withdrawn from the
tournament after 6th round. In the eight-
round,Audi Amey of Goa defeated IM Ravigo-
pal Hegde and Manigandan SS of Tamilnadu
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defeated Gopal KN of Andra Bank to lead the
contender list. In the final round Audi Amey
defeated Manigandan SS and emerged as
sole leader to clinch the title.
The prize distribution was simple one and
prizes were distributed by Shri.Samik Ghosh,
Principal, Candor International School,
Sridhar C, Dean Administration, Candor
International School and Vedant Goswami,
Director, Bangalore Chess Academy
Final ranking
Rk Name Pts
1 Audi Ameya 8
2 FM Ramakrishna J. 8
3 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7
4 Wajih Nassir 7
5 Manigandan S S 7
6 Soni Krishan 7
7 Anilkumar O.T. 7
8 Lokesh N. 7
9 Ajay Karthikeyan 7
10 Karthik P M 7
11 AGM Rathneesh R 7
12 Balkishan A 7
13 Saket Kumar 7
14 Satkar Chirag 7
15 Srihari L 7
16 CM Gopal K N 7
17 Pranav Shetty 7
18 Mohamed Anees M 7
19 Sanjay Sindhia Mh 7
20 Deodhar Vrushali Umesh 7
21 IM Murali Krishnan B T 7
22 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 7
23 Jagadish P 6
24 Gavi Siddayya 6 65 Thakre Ajinkya 6
25
26
Ajay Kumar Rai
Alan Diviya Raj
6
6
66
67
Dilip Kumar Pedda
Venu Madhav P L
6
6
27 Harsh Suresh 6 68 AIM Pankaj Bhat 6
28 Himanshu Moudgil 6 69 Sathananthan I 6
29 Hari Madhavan N B 6 70 Shyaam M 6
30 Vignesh Kasi P L 6 71 Badrinarayanan N 6
31 Madhavan G 6 72 Sathya Naarayanan S 6
32 Atul Srivatsa 6 73 Sudarshan Bhat 6
33 Prashanth J Naik 6 74 Audi Saiesh 6
34 Sanjana Raghunath 6 75 Hari Charan Sai Kalluri 6
35 Avinash Hari 6 76 Muthu P 6
36 Aravind P V S 6 77 Varun Agrawal 6
37 Surya Prakash J 6 78 Devaraja G 6
38 AGM Vignesh N 6 79 Ithal H L Rajath 6
39 AIM Shashank Bhat G S 6 80 AIM Sushrutha Reddy 6
40 Ramachandra Bhat 6 81 ACM Anirudh V Ramesh Kumar 6
41 Subramanian V 6 82 Sathwika N 6
42 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra 6 83 Samith Reddy I 6
43 AGM Sriram Udhayakumar 6 84 AFM Abhinav Karthik M 6
44 Aravind Matthews A C T 6 85 Vedanth Reddy 6
45 Shanjay Krishnaa S 6 86 Yashwant Annamalai 6
46 Sai Aravindh Sridhar 6 87 Arun R U 5
47 AGM Chirag Hirinja G J 6 88 Tejas Cavale 5
48 Digvijay Sunil 6 89 Dharani Srinivas K B 5
49 Nisha N. Patkar 6 90 Kaushik G Iyer 5
50 Vijay Shreeram P 6 91 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5
51 AFM Aruna Dinakara 6 92 Sreevijay Sunil 5
52 Aasha C R 6 93 Roshan Hari 5
53 Abhisek Mohanty 6 94 Manthan Kashyap Datta 5
54 Thaarak Charen Saravankumar 6 95 Sanath K Jamadagni 5
55 Jinan Jomon 6 96 Sivashankar M 5
56 Sriram B 6 97 Prabhakaran K 5
57 Sarath Chandra K 6 98 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5
58 Keshav Kothari 6 99 Nachiketh Adiga 5
59 Rakesh Kumar Sinha 6 100 Chandran T 5
60 Gautham Prasanth 6 101 Sukrutha Bharadwaj H K 5
61 Gokulraj K 6 102 Apoorv Kamble 5
62 Chaithanya Ganesh 6 103 Praveen Kumar G 5
63 Abhinessh S 6 104 Anupam M Sreekumar 5
64 Raghavendra G 6 105 Iniyan Sivakumar 5
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Selected games from 1st S.P.Singh
Mem. Tournament, Sonipat
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Krishna,C R G (2393)
Govind Kumar (2012)
25.b4! This move, pushing the knight to
b7, leads to a winning position for white
as black is weak on the white squares.
25...Nb7 26.Bxe6+! Rxe6 27.Qc8+ Kf7
the best in this situation. 28.Qxb7+ Re7
29.Qa8 [A shade better was: 29.Qc8 a5
30.Qh3 Rc7 31.Qxh7 axb4 32.axb4 Rxc1+
33.Bxc1 Bxb4 34.Bh6 Bf8 35.Nh4] 29...
Nc7 30.Qc6! [Capturing the pawn was bad:
30.Qxa7 Qe2! 31.Qxb6 Qxb2 32.Rc6 Qe2
33.Nh4 Nd5! 34.Qa6 Qg4 35.Ng2 Bb8] 30...
Qxc6 31.Rxc6 Ke6 32.Kf1 Kd7 33.Rc2
a5 34.bxa5 bxa5 35.Ne1 Re8 36.Nf3?
[Though white is a pawn up, it is on d4, block-
ing his own bishop and the black knight's
occupation of d5 would be compensation for
his pawn minus. 36.Nd3 Rb8 37.Ke2 Rb3
38.Nc1 Rb8 39.h4] 36...Rb8?! [36...Re7!
not allowing the white king to enter the centre
would have made it very difficult for white to
realize his pawn up advantage, especially as
black would establish a strong blockade with
his knight on the d5 square.] 37.Nd2 Nd5
38.Ke2 White now proceeds to build up a
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position from which he could win the game.
38...Nb6? [Better was 38...a4 fixing white's
pawn on a3 and retaining his knight on d4,
its powerful, central square.] 39.Bc1 Re8+
[Better 39...Nd5 ] 40.Kd3 a4 41.Nc4
Diagram # [Still stronger was: 41.Ne4! Bf8
42.g4 Rc8 43.Nc5+ Bxc5 44.dxc5+-] 41...
Nxc4 [Too late now is: 41...Nd5 42.Nxd6
Kxd6 43.Rc4 Ra8 44.g4 g6 45.Bd2+- and
black has the unpleasant task of defend-
ing his a4 pawn for the remainder of the
game.] 42.Rxc4 Ra8 43.d5! g6 44.Bb2
f5 45.f4 [45.Bc1! Be7 46.Rc6 Rb8 47.Bf4
Rb3+ 48.Kc4 Bxa3 49.Rc7+ Kd8 50.d6!+-]
45...h5 46.Rc6 Ra5 [46...Rb8?? 47.Rxd6+!
Kxd6 48.Be5++-] 47.Kc4 Ra8 48.Be5! Bxa3
49.Rc7+! Kd8 50.Rh7! (threat 51 Rh8 skew-
ering the Ra8) 50...Bf8 [If 50...Rc8+ 51.Kb5
Rc2 52.Kxa4 Bc5 53.Rc7!+-] 51.d6! Bxd6
[If 51...a3 52.Bf6+ Kc8 (52...Ke8 53.d7#)
53.d7+ Kb7 54.d8Q+] 52.Rh8+ 10
Pradeep Kumar,R A (TN) (2316) Hemant
Sharma,(Del) (2375)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 00
5.00 d5 6.d4 dxc4 7.Ne5 c5 8.dxc5 Qc7
9.c6N [9.Nxc4 Qxc5 10.Nba3 has been usu-
ally played here.] 9...Nxc6 10.Nxc6 bxc6
11.Qc2 [If 11.Qa4 Be6 12.Nc3 Rfd8 13.Bxc6
Bd7 14.Bxd7 Rxd7 15.Bf4 Qc5=] 11...Rb8
12.Qxc4 Be6 13.Qc2 Nd5 14.Rd1 [14.a3 or
14 Nd2 were better choices to lead to equality.]
14...Nb4 15.Qa4 Nxa2 16.Bf4 Be5 17.Rxa2
Bxf4 18.Ra3 [18.gxf4 Bb3 19.Qxa7 Qxa7
20.Rxa7 Bxd1+] 18...Bd6 19.Rc3
19...Rxb2 So quickly in the game, white
is two pawns down! Not all the tricks in his
experience could retrieve the game from
this point. 20.Nd2 [If 20.Rxc6 Qb8! 21.Nd2
Bd7!+] 20...Rfb8 21.Nc4 Rb1 22.Rdc1 c5
23.Be4 Rxc1+ 24.Rxc1 Rb4 25.Qa6 Qc8
26.Qa2 White avoids the exchange of queens
to keep alive his chances of saving the game.
26...a5 27.Bd3 a4 28.Qa3 Qb7 29.f3 h5!
30.Qc3 Qd5! Black is controlling the game
beautifully giving no chances of a counter-at-
tack to white. 31.Kg2 Qd4 32.Qc2 [White
cannot find any relief in exchanges: 32.Qxd4
cxd4 33.Nxd6 exd6 34.Ra1 g5 35.h4 gxh4
36.gxh4 Kg7 37.Kg3 Kf6 38.Kf4 Bc4 39.Ke4
d5+! 40.Kxd4 Bxd3+ 41.Kxd3 Rxh4 and
white is menaced by two rook pawns in the
rook ending.] 32...h4 33.e3 Qf6 34.Qe2
[34.Nxd6?? Rb2+] 34...Rb3 Diagram #
[Another interesting way to win was: 34...
h3+! 35.Kf2 Bxc4 36.Rxc4 Qa1 37.Qf1 Rb2+
38.Be2 Qxf1+ 39.Kxf1 a3! 40.Ra4 Bxg3!
41.hxg3 (41.Rxa3 Rb1+ wins.) 41...Rb1+
42.Kf2 h2! wins.]
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
35.Rc2 hxg3 36.hxg3 Diagram
36...Qh8! 37.Nxd6 Qh3+! 38.Kf2 Qh2+
39.Ke1 [39.Kf1 Rb1+ wins.] 39...Qxg3+
[After 39...Qxg3+ 40.Kd1 Rb1+ 41.Kd2
Qxd6 white is absolutely lost with dangerous
threats all over the board.] 01
Gokhale,Chandrashekhar (2205) Mahin-
drakarIndrajeet (1901)
Chandrashekhar Gokhale is an experienced
43-year old International Master. And In-
drajeet Mahindrakar is an unknown 17 year
old. But in this game the roles are reversed
and Mahindrakar plays like an experienced,
confident Master! 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c5 3.Bg2
Nc6 4.d3 e5 5.Nbd2 Be6 6.e4 d4 7.Nc4
f6 The Opening is like a reversed King's In-
dian Samisch Attack. 8.a4 Qd7 9.b3 Nge7
Diagram #
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Black has a space advantage and White has
the problem of developing his Bc1. 10.Ng1?!
[Apparently white fears an attack down the
h-file with h7-h5-h4 combined with ....Bh3.
By making two moves in the opening with the
same knight and pulling it back to its original
square white indicates that he wants to play
f2-f4 in tune with the existing pawn forma-
tion. However, it turns out that white has an
entirely different, time consuming positional
idea. Better was 10.a5 which gave black only
a minimal advantage.] 10...g5 11.h3 Ng6
12.Bf3 000 Ignoring white's ponderous
play, black goes for rapid development of his
pieces. 13.Bg4 The idea is to exchange off
his light-square bishop which is considered
a 'bad bishop' as it is hemmed in by his own
central pawns. His other bishop which runs
on dark squares is considered 'good' as the
pawns are 'fixed' on light squares. But over-
all this can only be a general consideration,
and the student must judge a bishop more
by its activity and practical reach rather than
by merely the colour of the squares. 13...
Kb8 This ensures that the queens do not
get exchanged along the h3-c8 diagonal.
14.Qf3 Nb4! 15.Na3? [This pulling back of
the knight for defence is an error. Of course
if 15.Qxf6? Bxg4 16.hxg4 Nxc2+ 17.Kd1
Nxa1+; however, white can get an equal
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game with: 15.Kd1! Be7 16.Bd2 Nc6=]
15...Be7 16.Bf5 Bxf5 Diagram #
17.exf5? [This leads to immediate trouble.
The exchange of queens leads to equality:
17.Qxf5 Qxf5 18.exf5 Nf8 19.Bd2 Nd5
20.Ne2 Rg8 21.Nc4 h6 22.h4 Nd7=]
17...e4! 18.dxe4 Ne5 19.Qe2 [If 19.Qd1
c4 20.Kf1 (20.bxc4 d3 21.Kf1 Qc6+) 20...
d3 21.c3] 19...d3! 20.cxd3 Qd4 21.Rb1
Nbxd3+ 22.Kf1
Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 00
22...Nxf2!! 23.Bb2 [23.Qxf2 Qxe4 with
dual threats 24.... Rd1+ and 24...Qxh1.]
23...Nxh1! 24.Bxd4 Nxg3+ 25.Kf2 Nxe2
26.Bxe5+ fxe5 27.Nxe2 [If 27.Kxe2
(to prevent the black rooks invasion of d2
and d3,) 27...g4! 28.hxg4 Rhg8+] 27...
Rd3 28.Nc4 Bf6 29.Kg2 h5 30.b4 cxb4
31.Rxb4 Rc8! 32.a5 Be7 33.Ra4 Bf6
34.Rb4 g4 35.hxg4 hxg4 36.a6 b6!
37.Nxb6 White's last hurrah! 37...axb6!
38.Rxb6+ Ka7 39.Rxf6 Rc2! 40.Kf1
Rd1+! 41.Kf2 Rdd2! Very simple! 01
Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2545) Aary-
an,Varshney (1826) [D37]
Chess in India is getting younger and young-
er. Aaryan Varshney is an unknown 12-year
old who defeats his grandmaster opponent
who is rated 700 points above him, without
any problem. This sort of thing is happening
almost in every tournament, every day! 1.d4
h5! trapping the Ng4. 20.f3 (forced.) 20...
6.e3 Nbd7 7.Qc2 dxc4 8.Bxc4 a6 9.a4N
9 Be2 and 9 000 have been seen in this
position. 9...c5 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.00 Qe7
Diagram # 12.Bg5?! [On general principles,
one should not move the same piece twice
in the opening before moving other pieces
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
once. Better was:
12.Rfd1 b6 13.Ne4 Nxe4 14.Qxe4 Ra7
15.Bg5 Nf6] 12...h6 13.Bh4 b6 14.Ne4
Bb7 15.Nxf6+ Nxf6 16.Ne5 [the previous
commentary applies to this move as well.
16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Qe2 Bd6 18.Rac1 e5 19.h3
e4 20.Nd4=] 16...Qc7 A courageous move
allowing the dangerous shattering of his
castled position. 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Ng4 Kg7
19.Qc3 Be7 Diagram #
Unnoticed, a black threat has emerged 20...
Rac8 21.Rac1 Rfd8 22.Qe1 h5 [After 22...
f5 23.Qc3+ f6 24.Nf2 Rd6 25.Rc2 Rc6 black's
advantage is gathering speed.] 23.Nf2 Bd6
24.h3 It is difficult to say whose castled
position is worse, white's or black's! 24...
Bh2+ 25.Kh1 Bg3 26.Rc3 Qd7 27.a5
[Better was: 27.b3 b5 28.axb5 axb5 29.Rd3
Qe8 30.Rxd8 Rxd8 31.Be2 Qd7] 27...Qd2
28.Kg1 b5 29.Bb3 Qxb2 30.Rxc8 Bxc8
Diagram # 31.Nd3?! with this move white
averts immediate collapse. But now he faces
slow but certain defeat against black's two
bishops. 31...Bxe1 32.Nxb2 Bxa5 White
has no prospects of survival as he is two
clear passed pawns down against two active
bishops.
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33.Rd1 Rxd1+ 34.Bxd1 Bc3 35.Nd3 a5
36.Kf2 a4 37.Ke2 Bb7 38.e4 Bc6 39.Nc1
b4 40.Kd3 Bb5+ 41.Kc2 Bd4 42.Nd3 b3+
43.Kd2 Bc4 44.Nb4 a3 01
Roy Chowdhury,Saptarshi (2345)
Deshmukh,Anup (2228) [B50]
Anup Deshmukh, born 1967, won this tour-
nament. He is one of the active veteran
International Masters of the country and a
much sought after chess trainer. Here, he
defeats one of the young crop of India's latest
Grandmasters. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6
4.Be2 Nbd7 5.d3 b6 6.00 Bb7 7.Nbd2
Qc7 8.Re1 g6 9.Nf1N [The Grandmaster
treats this like a variation in the Ruy Lopez!
9.Bf1 Bg7 10.Nc4 00! 11.Bf4 Nh5 12.Bg5
led to a draw in just another 3 moves in R.
Gaerths 2285 vs J. Shulz 2210, Berlin, 2001]
9...Bg7 10.Ng3 00 11.Bf1 Ne5 12.a4
Nxf3+ 13.Qxf3 Nd7 14.Qd1 e5 15.a5 d5
16.a6 Bc6 17.b4 d4 18.c4 [Better was:
18.cxd4 cxd4 19.Qb3= with a faint edge for
black.] 18...cxb4 19.Bd2 Rfe8 20.Bxb4
Bf8 21.Bd2 Nc5 22.Be2 Bd7 23.Rf1 Bd6!
Making the project of f2-f4 harder. 24.Bb4
Ne6 25.Bxd6 Qxd6 26.Bg4 b5! An excellent
move that isolates white's advanced pawn
on a6 and eventually threatens to capture
it. 27.Bxe6 Rxe6 28.Qd2 bxc4 29.dxc4 Bc8
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30.Ra4 Rb8 [If 30...Bxa6 31.Rfa1! Bc8
32.Rxa7] 31.Rfa1 Qc7 32.h4 Qe7 33.h5
Reb6 A study in contrast! While the black
rooks are doubled along the only open file
on the board, the white rooks are defensively
doubled behind their a6 pawn, trying to save
it. 34.Qc1 Qf6 35.hxg6 hxg6 36.R4a2 (Black
was threatening the invasion 36....Rb2.)
36...Kg7 37.c5
Diagram # 37...Rc6 Now black has two
targets, the pawns on a6 and c5. 38.Ra3 [If
38.Ra5 Rb3 39.Ne2 Bxa6 40.Qc2 Rb5 41.Rxb5
Bxb5 42.Ng3 (42.Rxa7?? d3+) 42...a6+]
38...Bg4 39.Ra5 [If 39.f3 Bc8 40.Ra5 Rb3
41.R1a3 Rbb6 42.Qa1 Rxa6] 39...Qh4
40.Nf1 Be2 41.f3 Bxf1 with this knight
off the board, black's attacking prospects
improve. 42.Qxf1 Rh8 43.Qe1 Qf4 44.Qc1
Qh2+ 45.Kf2 Qh4+ 46.Kg1 Rf6 threatening
....Rxf3 at the opportune moment. 47.R5a3
g5 48.Qe1 Qh2+ 49.Kf2 g4 50.Qg1 Qf4
[50...g3+ 51.Ke2 Rc8 and black should win
as the white forces are overloaded with the
defence of their c-pawn and their king-side.]
51.Qc1 g3+ 52.Ke2 Rh2! 53.Qxf4 Rxg2+
54.Kd3 Rxf4 55.Kc4 Diagram
55...Rf6?! [The best way to win was:
55...Rc2+ 56.Kd5 Kf6 57.Kd6 Rh4 58.c6
g2 59.Rd1 Rh8 60.Kd7 Kg5 61.Rg1 f5
62.exf5 Kxf5+] 56.Kd5 Rc2 57.Rg1 Rg6
58.Kxe5 Rxc5+ 59.Kxd4 Rc2 Material is
level but black has better chances with his
advanced passed pawn on g3. 60.Ke3 g2
61.Raa1 Kf8 62.Ra5 Ke7 63.Raa1 Kd6
64.Rad1+ Kc6 65.Ra1 White unwittingly
creates a prison for his own king and loses.
Better, though eventually losing would be:
[65.Rb1] 65...Rb2 66.f4? [If 66.Kf4 Kb5
+ Black will safely capture the a6 pawn and
win with his a-pawn.] 66...Rg3+ 67.Kd4
f6 Diagram #
[Or 67...Kd6 68.Rac1 Rd2+ 69.Kc4 Rf2
70.Rcd1+ Ke6+] 68.e5? [The game is
far from over. White could still fight with:
68.Rac1+ Kb5 69.Rc5+ Kxa6 70.Rc6+
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Kb5 71.Rxf6] 68...Rb4# And suddenly, it
is Mate!! 01
Verma,H.S (1767)
Pradeep,Kumar R A (2316)
17.e5?! An enterprising move in an unstable
position. 17...dxe5? [17...Nxe5! 18.Nxe5
Qxe5 19.Bxh5 Rxf1+ 20.Qxf1 gxh5 21.Re1
Qd4+] 18.Nd4! exd4 19.Rxf6 Nxf6= For
his queen, black has a rook, knight and pawn.
It is about equal but white's prospects are
better. The natural skills of the player now
come into play and decide the final outcome.
20.Bf3! Ne5 21.Ne4 Nfd7 22.Bg4 Rb6
23.b4 Nxg4 24.hxg4 cxb4 25.Rxb4 Bb7
26.Rxd4+- Bd5 27.g5 Rc6 28.Qb1 Rf5
black defends his b5 pawn with an ambush
idea. 29.Qb4 [29.Qxb5? Bxe4 and black
wins.] 29...Rc2 30.Qe7 Rf7 31.Qd8+ Kg7
Diagram #
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32.Rxd5! exd5 33.Nd6 Rc1+ 34.Kh2 Rcf1
35.Ne8+ Kh8 36.Nf6+ Nf8 37.Qxd5 Kg7
38.Qxb5 [White is not quite sure of his vic-
tory and goes pawn hunting when it is not
necessary. The win is staring him in the face:
38.Ne8+ Kh8 (38...Kg8? 39.Nd6) 39.Qe5+
Kg8 40.Nf6+ Kh8 41.Ng4+ Rg7 42.Qe8!
and the threat of 43 Nf6 is decisive.] 38...
h6 Black uses the chance to make his king
a little more comfortable with this move.
But it should not be enough! 39.Qb2 hxg5
40.Ne4+ Kh6 41.Qd2 [From d2, the queen
has no control over h8. Stronger was: 41.a4!
Ra7 42.Nf2! Rxa4 43.Qe2! Rh4+ 44.Kg3
Rc1 45.Ng4+ Kh5 (45...Kg7 46.Qe7+
wins.) 46.Nf6+ Kh6 47.Qe7+-] 41...Ne6
42.d4? [Black's prayers are answered! And
he has a win on hand. White could have won
with: 42.Qa2! Nf8 43.a4! and black has no
way to improve his position or gain material.]
42...R7f4 43.Qd3 Diagram
43...Rh4+ 44.Kg3 Rf8 Black has a clear cut
plan - to play his knight to h5 mating. 45.d5
Nf4 46.d6 Nh5# 01
Ramnathan,Balasubramaniam,ICF
(2164) Himanshu,Sharma (Rly) (2493)
Himanshu Sharma, born 1983, has been Har-
yana's only International Master since 2006.
Like most good chess players from North
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India where traces of Indian style chess are
still seen, he is strong in the middle-game.
Logic and clarity of thought mark his games.
He already has three GM norms and has
been waiting for his Rating to touch 2500
to claim his GM title and become Haryana's
first Grandmaster. During this tournament
it crossed 2500! His opponent, Ramanathan
Balasubramaniam, 46, is a chess lover and
an IM since 2005, who works for the Integral
Coach Factory in Chennai.
37.Rc1 white is anticipating 38.....Nd4!
threatening c2. 37...Re6 The first move in his
try to win this game. 38.Rxe6 Kxe6 39.g4?
[If white tries to challenge black's threatened
Nd4 without playing g3-g4 he would still
get an inferior position: 39.Nf3 g4 40.hxg4
hxg4 41.Ng1 Nd4 42.Ne2 Nxe2 43.Re1 c4
44.Rxe2+ Kd6] 39...hxg4 40.hxg4 Ke5
The black king is very active and threatens
to invade the white position through d4 or f4.
41.Nf1 Kd4 42.Ne3 Temporarily prevent-
ing ....Kc3 by an attack on d4. 42...Rd7!
43.Re1 Kc3 44.Re2 conceals an interesting
trap! 44...Kb2 [If black plays the 'natural'
44...Nd4? 45.Nd1#! is an unexpected
mate!] 45.f3 Nd4 46.Rf2 Diagram #
46...Nxb3!! 47.Nxd5!? [This is a very in-
teresting counter-attack trying to retrieve
his sinking game. If 47.cxb3+ Kxb3 48.f4
Kxa4 and black's wave of pawns on the
queen-side should win with careful play.;
47.cxb3+ Kxb3 48.f4 Kxa4 and the wave
of black pawns on the queen-side should win
for black.] 47...Rxd5! Black willingly accepts
the challenge knowing fully well what he is
letting himself in for. He has calculated this
endgame well. 48.c4+ White has counted
on this frightening discovered check to win
the game but black is unfazed. 48...Kc3
49.cxd5 Nd4 50.d6 b3 51.d7 Nc6 52.f4
b2 53.Rxb2 Kxb2 Diagram #
ter 10...Bb1! 11.Be2 Bc2! the white bishop
The rest is simple. 54.Kf3 Kb3 55.fxg5
fxg5 56.Ke4 Kxa4 57.Kf5 Kb5 58.Kxg5
a4 59.Kh6 a3 60.g5 a2 61.g6 a1Q 62.g7
Qf6+ 63.Kh7 Qh4+ 64.Kg6 Qg4+ 01
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
The Study of the Year award is
organized by the WFCC and aims at introduc-
ing to the general public a single friendly end-
game study that would hopefully appeal to
chess players of various levels and encourage
them to pay a deeper attention to the art of
the endgame study on a more regular basis.
Oleg Pervakov and Karen Sumbatyan
2nd prize, Dobrescu 80-JT 2014
Study of the Year 2014
The black pawns are weak, but White must
rescue his bishop first.1.Bf5 d4 !2.Nxh5+
The threat was 2...Bh2+ winning the
knight. Bad is 2.Bxe4? Bxe4 3.Sxe4 dxc3!
4.Sxc3 Sxh3 with an easily won ending for
Black.2Kh63.Bd2 !3.Bxd4? Sf3+ 4.Kd5
Sxd4 wins.3Kxh53...e3 4.Bxd3 exd2
5.Be2 Sxh3 6.Sf6! draws.4.Bg4+Kg64...
Kh4? 5.Be1+ Bf2 6.Bxf2 mate!5.Bf5+Kh5
!5...Kh6 6.h4, and now 6...e3 7.Bxe3 dxe3
8.hxg5+ Kxg5 9.Bxd3, or 6...Be3 7.hxg5+
Kxg5 8.Bxe4draw.6.Bg4+Kh6 !7.h4Be3
!7...e3 8.hxg5+ Kxg5 9.Kxd4 exd2+ 10.Kxd3
draws.8.hxg5+Now the most logical move
seems to be 9.Bxe3+? dxe3 10.Bd1, but af-
does not have a free square on h1-d5 diag-
onal, and White loses because of zugzwang:
12.Kd4 Kf4.8Kxg59.Be2 !! Jackpot! Now
there are two echoing lines:
9Bxe29Bxd210.Bxd3exd311.Kxd410.
Bxe3+dxe311.Kxe4
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 Tactics from master games Test your endgame
by S.Krishnan by C.G.S.Narayanan

Kuznekov &Kralin 1965-66 Bondarenko & Kuznekov1967

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

Kalandadze 1965 Nadareisveli 1965

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

Kuznecov 1967 Neidze1967

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

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

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Masters of the past-76 Robert Byrne 11th ACA International Fide Rated Chess Tournament,Calicut
Robert Eugene Byrne (April 20, 1928 April 12, 2013) was an
American chess Grandmaster and chess author. He won the U.S.
Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship
Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States nine
times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976 and won seven
medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the
New York Times, which ran his final column (a recounting of
his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006.
Byrne worked as a university professor for many years, before
becoming a chess professional in the early 1970s.

Robert Byrne's first Master event was Ventnor City 1945, where
he scored a respectable 4/9 to place 8th; the winner was Weaver
Adams. He tied 1st2nd in the Premier Reserves section at the
U.S. Open Chess Championship, Pittsburgh 1946. Byrne became
an International Master based on his results at the 1952 Chess
Olympiad at Helsinki (bronze medal on third board). In that same year he graduated from
Yale University. He went on to become a professor of philosophy at Indiana University,
and his academic career left him little time for chess. He did represent the U.S. in team
matches against the Soviet Union at New York 1954.Byrne did not play in his first U.S. (L-R).M Ephrame( chief Arbiter ,. Rtn P Rethish President Rotary Club of Calicut South,. Rtn A p Vinoth Kumar
Chess Championship until age 30 in 195859, placing tied 910th with 4/11; the winner Past president Rotary Club of Calicut South,. Shr. P Venugopalan AICf Joint Secretary, M Kunal (winner), Shri
was Bobby Fischer. But Byrne improved dramatically the next year in the same event to Abdul Rehman , Shri.O T anilkumar ,Shri Madhu Soodhanan, Shri P M Shaji (Arbiter)
place 2nd with 8/11, ahead of Reshevsky and Pal Benko, as Fischer won again. In 1960,
Byrne increased his serious play, winning the U.S. Open Chess Championship at St. Louis,
and taking a silver medal on third board at the Olympiad in Leipzig. 11th KCM FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament,Coimbatore
In 1964, Byrne's third-place finish at the Buenos Aires tournament (behind Paul Keres and
World Champion Tigran Petrosian), with 11/17, made him an International Grandmaster.
Byrne lost his first-round Candidates' match to former world champion Boris Spassky by
14 at San Juan, Puerto Rico 1974.As a 1974 Candidate, Byrne was seeded direct-
ly to the 1976 Biel Interzonal, where he performed very strongly, but missed a playoff
berth by only half a point.

When he became the columnist for the Times in 1972, he became less active as a play-
er. He did, nevertheless, win tournaments at Torremolinos (197677), Harare (1983),
and Lagos (1993). He has also been a frequent contributor to Chess Life magazine, the
publication of the United States Chess Federation. He has chaired USCF's committee on
masters' affairs and been one of its vice presidents. Byrne was inducted into the U.S.
Chess Hall of Fame in 1994.
He made original contributions in several opening systems. He was the first to play 6.Be3
against the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3); this system has been named for him and has been very popular
since the mid-1980s. He developed the Byrne Variation against the King's Indian Defense
in the Saemisch Variation, with a quick queenside expansion by Black. He used the Dutch
Defense with success when that opening was rarely seen at the top level.. He retired
from writing his chess column at age 78.Byrne died in 2013 at his home in Ossining, New
York from Parkinsons disease. Courtesy: wikipedia (LtoR) Kunal receiving the trophy from Mr Senthil Chinnasamy (3rd from right), President, KCM
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 6th BRDCA International Fide Rating Chess Tournament, Bangalore Solutions to Tactics from master
games on page 42
1. Chirila,Cristian (2522) Sukandar,Irene
(2423) [A22]
2017 Winter Chess Classic 2017
White to play 23.Rf6!!+ Qxd3 [23...Bxh3
24.Rxh6 gxh6 25.Nf6+ Kh8 26.Nxd5+]
24.Bxe6 Qxe3+ 25.Rf2 fxe6 26.Nf6+ Kh8
[26...gxf6 27.Qg6+ Bg7 28.Bxf6 Wins]27.
Qg6 Qd3 28.Ne4 Qe3 29.Kg2 [Threatening
29.Rxf8]29...Kg8 30.Nf6+10
2. Tokhirjonova,Gulrukhbegim (2297)
- Torre,Eugenio (2481) 7th HD Bank
Cup 2017 Ho Chi Minh City VIE (1.22),
12.03.2017
White to play31.f6! [This is best and sim-
ple][Also winning is 31.g6 fxg6 32.fxg6 Qg8
33.gxh7 Qg4 (33...Qxh7 34.Rxf8+ Rxf8
35.Rxf8+ Nxf8 36.Qxf8+ Qg8 37.Qh6+ Qh7
38.Qxd6) 34.Rxf8+ Rxf8 35.Rxf8++ Nxf8
Left to Right. Mr Ravi Kumar Naik, IPS,Bangalore, IM Shivananda B S, Mr Chidananda A, Tournament
36.Qxf8+ Kxh7 37.Qf7+ Qg7 38.Qxg7+
Director and BRDCA Secretary , Mr Rajashekar N, SP, Assam and Mr Hanumanta R, Joint Secretary AICF
Kxg7 39.Bxb6]31...Rg8 32.Qxh7+!]10
3. Tueckmantel,R (2156) - Englert,F
(2377) [A27]
33rd ChessOrg Open Bad Woerishofen GER
(3.5), 12.03.2017
Black to play 30...Nxh3! 31.gxh3 [31.
Ng3 Qg5+; 31.Bxe5 Nf4+ 32.Kg1 Nxe2+
33.Kf2 fxe5 34.Qxe2 Rf7+ 35.Ke1 Qxe2+
3 6 . K xe 2 R x f 1 3 7 . K x f 1 + ] 3 1 . . . Qxh3+
32.Kg1 Ng4 33.Nf4 [33.Nd4 Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1
Ne3+ 35.Ke2 Nxc2 36.Nxc2 Ra2+]
33...Qxf1+! [33...Qxf1+ 34.Kxf1 Ne3+
+]01
4.Wang Hao (2683) - Sethuraman,S
(2629) [C88]
1st Sharjah Masters 2017 Sharjah UAE
(3.1), 25.03.2017
White to play 24.Nd6! [24.Nd6 Rxg4 25.Nf7+
Kg8 26.Rxg4+ Kf8 27.Nxd8+; 24.Qxg8+
Qxg8 25.Rxg8+ Kxg8 26.Nb6+ Kf8 27.Nxa8
(L-R) Senthil Maran K (Runner-up) IM S.Nitin (Winner) and Sammed Jayakumar Shete(Third) Also wins] 10
46
5. Vedder,R (2213) - Jens,J (2386)
[C88]
Dutch League 201617 Netherlands NED
(8.6), 01.04.2017
Black to play 20...Qg4! 21.Rxe8+ [21.f3
Bxf3 22.Rxe8+ (22.Qxf3 Rxe1++) 22...
Rxe8 23.Qxf3 Re1+ 24.Kf2 Bh4+ 25.g3
Rf1+ Wins]21...Rxe8 22.f3 [22.Qf1 Re1
23.f3 (23.Qxe1 Qxg2#; 23.g3 Qh3) 23...
Bxf3 Wins]22...Bxf3! 23.Qxf3 Re1+ 24.Kf2
Bh4+ 25.g3 Rf1+ 01
6.Benoit,Rodrigo (2114) - Saralegui,M
(2111) [D34]
ch-URU 2017 Montevideo URU (7.5),
31.03.2017
White to play 25.Rb1! Qc5 [25...Qxb1
26.Nxe7+ Kf8 27.Nxc8+; 25...Qa3
26.Qxb7+]26.Rb5! Qa3 27.Qg4! [27.
Qxb7+]27...g6 [27...Bg5 28.Nxh6+ Bxh6
29.Qxc8++]28.Nxe7+10
Solution to Test your endgameon
page 43
1.Kuznecov & Kralin 1965-66
1.Bf3 a1Q 2.a8Q h1Q+ 3.Bxh1 Qxa8 4.Re1+
Kh2 5.Be4 Qa1 6.Rb1
2.Bondarenko & Kuznecov 1967
1.Ne6 Nc6 2.a7 Bf3+ 3.Kg1 Nd8 4.Nxd8 h4
5.a8Q Bxa8 6.Nb7 h3 7.d8N
3.Kalandadze 1965
1.Rf6+ Nf2+ 2.Rxf2+ Rxf2 3.Bd3+ Kg1
4.Bh2+ Kh1 5.Be4 Re2 6.Bd5 Rd2 7.Bc6 Rc2
8.Bb7 Rb2 9.Ba8
4.Nadareisveli 1965
1.Ba4 Ng4 2.Bd1 Nf2 3.Bb3+ Kg6 4.a6 Ng4
5.a7 Kh5 6.a8R g6 7.Ra1 d1Q 8.Rxd1
5.Kuznecov 1967
1.Ng6+ hxg6 2.h7 Kxh7 3.g5 fxg5 4.Rc1
6.Neidze 1967
1.Ke2 d1Q+ 2.Kxd1 exf2 3.Ke2 Rxg8 4.hxg8B
fxg1N+ 5.Ke3 Nxh3 6.Be6 Ng5 7.Bg4
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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 11: WBf1 has been captured at home and wBa4 is a
promotee. Retract -1. Rb3xBb1 and now Bl. O-O-O is forbidden. Indeed, Bl. cannot retract -1 ... b2-
b1=B+ or -1 ... c2xb1=B+ or -1 ... Rf5xb5+ (too many captures) so that what has been played is -1
...Rf5-b5+ -2. b5xa6+. There, the wBa4 promotion took place on a8, forbidding Bl. O-O-O.Forward
(L-R) Vihang Kulkarni Organiser, Dronacharya Awardee Raghunandan Gokhale, Dr. Vinod Ghosalkar
mate is then 1. Kxg7 ~ 2. Rf8#.(Other attempts at breaking Bl. O-O-O fail: -1. Bf2xBe1?? and Bl.
President Dahisar Sports Foundation, Winner IM Sameer Kathmale, And Nitin Warde.
can still O-O-O; -1. Kh7xPg6?? leads to an illegal position.)
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 Shree Damodar All India U-1600 Fide Rating Tournament, Margao

Ex-Chief Minister of Goa Shri Digamber Kamat makes the inaugural move in the presence of,Kishor Bandekar Joint
Secretary,AICF, Shri Ashesh Keni Vice President Goa Chess Association, Apurv Bhembre ,Secretary ,Margao Cricket
Club Damodar Zamabulikar ,Secretary Salcete Taluka Chess Association, Sanjay Kavlekar,Senior SAG Coach

(L-R) Dilip Vernekar,Damodar Zambaulikar,Kishor Bandekar,Ashesh Keni,Adesh Karwarkar,Sudesh Bhise and

Sanjay Kavlekar with top three prize winners with trophies-Anirudh Venkat Ramesh Kumar (Runner-up) Tanvi
Vasudev Hadkonkar (Winner) and Jadhav Sushant (Third)