AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 11 Price Rs. 25 MAY 2016

Asian Youth Chess Championship, Mongolia

MEDAL WINNERS ALL!

Praggnanandhaa R Divya Deshmukh Anwesha Mishra

Under-12 (Gold) Under-12 Girls (Gold) Under 14 Girls(Gold)

Harshita Guddanti Iniyan P

Under-15 Girls(Silver) Under-16(Silver)

Aaditya Mittal Khushi Kandelwal R.Vaishali

Under-10 (Bronze) Under-14 Girls (Bronze) Under-16 Girls(Bronze)
AICF CHRONICLE May 2016 From the Editors Desk
Room No. 70, Over the years India has been
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, systematically producing an array of
Chennai - 600 003. champions in youth events at National,
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E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com Asian and World stages in both the
Publisher: V. Hariharan girls and open sections. Indias latest
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan haul of eight medals at the Asian
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 Youth Chess Championships 2016
held in Mongolia last month included
cover photo : Chessbase India three golds, two silver and three bronze medals. While
Inside. Divya Deshmukh, Praggnanandhaa and Anwesh Mishra
2nd Triple C All India FIDE Rating Open Chess dominated their respective categories to win gold medals,
Championship, Puri Harshita Guddanti and Iniyan P bagged silver medals.
Himal Gusain wins title
Khushi Kandelwal, Aditya Mittal and Vaishali R won bronze
by IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter 1
All India below 1800 FIDE Rating Chess in their categories. Considering the sterling performance
Tournament 2016, Jalgaon earlier at the World Youth Championship last November this
Vaibhav Raut of Nagpur Wins is slightly a below par performance largely due to crucial
by IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter 6
KC Sebastin Memorial 11th KCA FIDE Rated final round hiccups which cost us a few medals.
Tournament, Kottayam
Saravanakrishnan wins title At the Hasselbacken Open, organized by one of the oldest
by IA R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 8
3rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial
chess clubs in the world founded in 1866 in Stockholm,
FIDE Rating Tmtl, Goa Grandmaster Baskaran Adhiban tied for the first place with
Ram S Krishnan wins at Goa Andreikin Dmitry and was placed second on tie break.
by FA Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter 11
Reports on these events along with important decisions
3rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Tmt
(below 1800), Puri taken at the Central Council Meeting of the Federation
Katiyar Prashant is Champion held at Raipur on 9th April 2016 are featured in the centre
by FA Anandh Babu VL IA, Chief Arbiter 14 pages of this issue.
Maharashtra State Selection Women
FIDE Rating Tmt, Sangli From chess to cricket it is a unique sports journey for
Rucha Pujari wins title
by IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter 16 Yuzvendra Chahal, a thinking leg spinner and leading wicket
Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open taker for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL. Not many
Rapid Fide Rating Tmt,Goa took notice when this Haryana youngster became under-12
Shyam Sundar wins
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter 19
National Champion at Kolkata way back in 2002 and went on
United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association to represent the country at the Asian and World Youth Chess
Fide Rated Open Tmt, an year later. His popularity soared after his recent exploits
Calicut Vinothkumar wins title
with the ball for RCB. Chess do help Chahal in plotting the
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter 22
Devnar Foundation for the Blind AICF B Open FIDE Rated downfall of many a batsman, it seems!
National Tournament for the Blind, Hyderabad, Telangana
Vijay Karia wins at Hyderabad
by IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter 29 C.G.S.Narayanan
More selected games from National Team Championships,
Bubaneshwar
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 31 Readers are invited to offer their feedback on
Two games from Asian Youth Chess Championships
Annotated by K.S.Raghunandan 38
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42 are also invited to send interesting articles,
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43 annotated games and chess anecdotes to the
Masters of the past-64 Editor at www.indianchessfed@gmail.com or
Filip Miroslav 44 cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com.
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 2nd Triple C All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, Puri
Himal Gusain wins title
IA Suresh Chandra Sahoo,Chief Arbiter
T
he 2nd Triple C All India FIDE Rating
Open Chess Championship, organ-
ized by TripleC Chess Club in asso-
ciation with District chess Association of
Puri under the aegis of All Odisha Chess
Association came to an end on 4th April
2016. Overall the tournament was incred-
ibly hard fought, with battles, blunders,
deep preparations, complete opening sur-
prises and basically everything that fuels
a fantastic event. Finally, Himal Gusain
of Chandigarh was without a doubt the
deserved winner.
The total prize fund for above captioned
event was 5,05,050/- (Rupees Fivelacsfive
thousand fifty only) which attracted 236
participants from 18 States& 3 Special
Units(Andhra Pradesh-35, Assam 3,
Bihar-2, Chandigarh-1, Gujarat-1, Hary-
ana-1, J&K-1, Jharkhand-10, Karnataka
2, Kerala 1, Maharshtra-11, Madhya
Pradesh-1, Odisha-57, Punjab 3, Telen-
gana 8, Tripura 1, Uttar Pradesh -1),
Telengana-5, Tamilnadu-14, WB-20) and
03 Special units (AIR ANDIA 1, KIIT 2,
LIC 2) with the average ELO 1606, one
Women Grandmaster, 8 International Mas-
ters, 1 FIDE Master, 1 Women FIDE Master,
1 Candidate Master & 1 Women Candidate
Master with total 42 Women participated
in the tournament. IM Dipatayan Ghosh,
2562 of West Bengal was the top seed.
Triple C Chess Club, District Chess
Association of Puri and All Odisha Chess
Association made this tournament a
grand success, which will go a long way in
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creating awareness and popularising
chess and for giving chance to all top
ranking players to show off their talents
without any sponsor.
The tournaments inaugural Ceremony
was held at 12:30 hrs on 2nd April 16 by
Chief Guest :Sj. Pradyumna Mishra, Vice
President, District Chess Association of
Puri by moving the piece on top board.
The entire team of Triple C Chess Club-
Sj. Kamalakanta Bisoi, President, Biswa-
jit Ray, Vice President, Biranchi Narayan
Sahoo, Secretary & Jt. Secretary) &
District Chess Association of Puri-Sj.
Pradyumna Mishra, Vice President, DCAP,
PrabasiniRoutray, Jt. Secy, DCAP, other
members of DCAP were Subhashree Das,
UnmeshNandiniSahoo, Member, Swa-
dhinMohanty, Parthasarathy Satpathy,
Gagan Behari Routray, present.
Only three players were leading before
the final round. Finally, HimalGusain,
2429 of Chandigarh emerged champion
by defeating IM CRG Krishna of AP scor-
ing 8 points (1 point lead) to took away
the top prize of `50,000/-. In Board no.
2 IM Himanshu Sharma, 2384 of Haryana
defeat IM Diptayan Ghosh and became
the runner-up with 7.5 points. Abhishek
Das, 2241 of Jharkhand grab the 3rd prize
by defeating IM AnupDshmukh of LIC.
Many upsets started from the 2nd Round
onwards. Out of 26 unrated players 12
will get the new rating in the month of
May. Six playershave increased more than
100 rating points.
In the valedictory ceremony the Chief
Guest was Sj. Uddhab Charan Majhi, ADM,
Puri, Other dignitaries who graced the
occasion on the last day were Sri Rabi
Narayan Samantray, Proprietor, Rumani
Hotel; Sri Kamalkanta Bisoi, President,
Triple C Chess Club; Sri Subhash Chandra
Sahoo, Hony. Secy, District Chess Associ-
ation of Puri, Sri Manoj Kumar Panigrahi,
Jt. Secy, All Odisha Chess Association;
Sri Biswajit Ray, Vice President, Triple C
Chess Club; Sri Arghya Arpan Parida, Jt.
Secy. Triple C Chess Club.The Press and
Media covered the event very well. With-
out any dispute the tournament ended
successfully.
The Chief Arbiter for the Event was In-
ternational Arbiter Suresh Chandra Sa-
hoo ably assisted by FA Anandh Babu VL,
Tamilnadu, FA Biswanath Banerjee, WB
and National Arbiter Bhabesh Mohanty of
Odisha.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Gusain Himal 8
2 IM Himanshu Sharma 7
3 Abhishek Das 7
4 IM Swayams Mishra 7
5 IM Krishna C R G 7
6 IM Ghosh Diptayan 7
7 Arpan Das 7
8 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 7
9 Kadav Omkar 7
10 Debarshi Mukherjee 7
11 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 7
12 IM Deshmukh Anup 6
13 Bhattacharya Niladri S 6
14 Rakesh Kumar Nayak 6
15 Rajarshi Dutta 6
16 Barath Kalyan M 6
17 Prasannaa.S 6
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18 Yohan J. 6
19 IM Suvrajit Saha 6
20 Lakshmi NarayananM V 6
21 Nath Rupankar 6
22 Nayak Rajesh 6
23 Santu Mondal 6
24 Lakshmanrao D. 6
25 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 6
26 Sai Agni Jeevitesh J 6
27 Srijit Paul 6
28 Kaustuv Kundu 6
29 Panigrahi Manoj Kumar 6
30 CM Aronyak Ghosh 6
31 Harshini A 6
32 Pimpalkhare Vedant 6
33 WFM Arpita Mukherjee 6
34 Baivab Mishra 6
35 Soumma Chakraborty 6
36 Raghav Srivathsav V 6
37 Shubham Shukla 6
38 Dheekshith Kumar R 6
39 Sarbojit Paul 5
40 Soham Das 5
41 Rabindra Kumar Ojha 5
42 Saptorshi Gupta 5
43 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty 5
44 Sharma Pankaj 5
45 Koustav Chatterjee 5
46 Sayan Banik 5
47 Sumit Grover 5
48 Smaraki Mohanty 5
49 Manish Kumar (2006) 5
50 Sumit Kumar 5
51 Shubham 5
52 Sayantan Chandra 5
53 Binayak Rath 5
54 Sunyasakta Satpathy 5
55 Ghosh Samriddhaa 5
56 Sayantan Mukherjee 5
57 Tarun V Kanth 5
58 Ajinkya Pingale 5
59 S Maralakshikari 5
60 Das Susobhit 5
Cond. on p.5
Know your Arbiter Pranesh Yadav
Pranesh Yadav, born on 18th April 1964, is an International Arbiter
from Shimoga, Karnataka. He became National Arbiter after passing
examination in 2003 held in Bangalore and took the title of International
Arbiter in 2005 and since then he has worked as an Arbiter in many
FIDE rated tournaments and State championships. He learnt chess at
the age of 18 and started playing a few rated tournaments and is an
Arena FIDE Master (AFM) with a FIDE rating of 1562. Srikrishna Udupa
was his mentor in chess coaching and Pranesh later started his own
institute Yadava School of Chess and is coaching in rural districts in
Chikmagalore and Shimoga. He has authored three chess books for
beginners, namely, Basic Chess, Short Games and Check Mate in 2 to 3 moves and
two more books in Kannada for school teachers titled Pairing Method and Chess Mar-
gadarshi. He holds a diploma in Pharmacy and was working as a paramedical worker
in Health Department from 1990. The following is a list of tournaments he arbitrated

Arbiter Name of Event Year&month

Chief 3rd National Amateur Championship,2014 Dec 2014
Chief National Cities July2012
Chief National Under - 25 Chess Championship Nov 2011
Chief 23rd National Under - 9 Open Championship Sep 2009
Deputy 46th National A Chess Championship, India Apr 2009
Chief XXIth National Under 11 Boys Championship Jan 2008
Chief XXIth National Under 11 Girls Championship Jan 2008
Chief Unique Chess Academy All India FIDE Rapid Rating Tmt Nov2014
Chief Prime Squares Chess Academy's FIDE rtg below 2000 Oct 2014
Chief Prime Squares Chess academy fide rating Oct2014
Chief Fomento All India Under 2200 FIDE Rating Chess Tmt Oct2014
Deputy Nalanda cup FIDE Rating below 2000 Jun2014
Chief QTCA FIDE Rated Rapid Chess tmt Feb2014
Chief 05th RSC International Rating Chess tmt Dec2012
Chief UKCA Cup All India FIde Rated Oct 2012
Chief All India Open FIDE Rated at Shivamoga Aug2012
Deputy 2nd MDCA All India Open FIDE Rated Jul 2012
Chief Ramit Memorial FIDE Rating All India Open May2012
Chief Curchorem Chess Club Fide Rating below 2000 Mar2012
Deputy Rated Tournament Below 2200 Rating Jan2012
Chief All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt(For Below 2000 Rtg) Jan2012
Deputy 05th Mangalore International FIDE Rating Sep2011
Chief PESITM, Shivamogga Karnataka Sep2011
Chief 1st DDCA All India Open FIDE Rating Tmt (Below 2200) Sep2010
Chief All India Open FIDE Rtg Tournament- Udhampur (J&K) Oct2008
Chief South Kanara District State Open FIDE Rated U-15 Ch Oct2008
Deputy Mangalore FIDE Rated All India Open Chess Tmt Oct2007
Chief 2nd Malleshwaram Association Karnataka State Chship Jul2007
Chief 01st Calicut Chess Academy Apr2007
Chief 1st All India Open FIDE Rat. Tnmt R.9 Jan2007
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 2nd Syna Open FIDE Rated Tournament, Katni

Niklesh Kumar Jain, the

winner GM Swapnil
Dhopade, IM Anup
Deshmukh and Himal
Gusain with the SYNA
School principal.
2nd Triple C All India
FIDE Rating Open Chess
Championship, Puri

2nd Triple C All India FIDE Rating Open Chess Championship, Puri

Tournament Hall

(L-R) Third place- Abhishek

Das of Jharkand, Champion
Himal Gusain of Chandigarh
and Runner-up IM Himanshu
Sharma of Haryana with
Officials

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61 Sandip Dey 5
62 Rounak Pathak 5
63 Rohan Bharat Joshi 5
64 Subhasis Barik 5
65 Sanket Chakravarty 5
66 Parichha Sk 5
67 Biswajit Chatterjee 5
68 Souradip Deb 5
69 Panda Sambit 5
70 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 5
71 Mukherjee S.K. 5
72 Rajat Kumar Sahoo 5
73 Subba Raju S. 5
74 WCM Salonika Saina 5
75 Sradhanjali Jena 5
76 Kumari Rama 5
77 Mohite Ranveer 5
78 Anurag Jaiswal 5
79 Haldar Ajoy 5
80 Md Monir Hossain 5
81 Pattnayak Nilsu 5
82 Kar Satyabrata 5
83 Devansh Ratti 5
84 Roneet Das 5
85 Jishitha D 5
86 Sai Kiran Y 5
87 Rajesh Kumar 5
88 Sonkalan Bharati 5
89 Natarajan M 5
90 Subramanian V 5
91 Shyam Prasad Reddy K 5
92 Sandhya G 5
93 Balachandar E 5
94 Sounak De (1) 5
95 Arpan Das (jr) 5
96 Aasha C R 5
97 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan 5
98 Ambarish Sharma 5
99 Sahoo Dasharathi 5
100 Kumtakar Deepak 5
101 Vallabh Kavi 5
102 Lochan Kumar Das 5
103 Tanya Pandey 5
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104 M Tulasi Ram Kumar 5
105 Bose Sayan 4
106 Pankaj Sindhu 4
107 Karmakar Ramen 4
108 Keerthi Srinath K 4
109 Rindhiya V 4
110 Dikshant Dash 4
111 Mehendi Sil 4
112 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 4
113 Sudipta Chakraborty 4
114 Pranav Anand 4
115 Panda Raj Santosh 4
116 Vignesh R 4
117 Prasannakumar Nayak 4
118 Nilesh Jindal 4
119 Behera Biswaranjan 4
120 Mishra Anisha 4
121 Patra Subhendu Kumar 4
122 Avijaan Roy Choudhury 4
123 Megha Mondal 4
124 Bidisha Roy 4
125 Rudranarayan 4
126 Pabitra Mukherjee 4
127 Prasanta Mondal 4
128 Ashwani Kumar Grover 4
129 Nitheesh Pothireddy 4
130 Abhay Bandewar 4
131 Manideep Mukhi 4
132 MLakshminarayan 4
133 Ifthikar Ahammad S 4
134 Sambarta Banerjee 4
135 Sahoo Ankush 4
136 Sivasubramanian S 4
137 Atul Bihari Sharan 4
138 Swapan Kumar Das 4
139 Samip Roy 4
140 Mohanty Aditya A 4
141 Bristy Mukherjee 4
142 Gopal Ch Mahapatra 4
143 Bisoi K.K. 4
144 Arijit Mukherjee 4
145 Barik Jagdish 4s
 All India below 1800 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Jalgaon
Vaibhav Raut of Nagpur Wins
IA Swapnil Bansod, Chief Arbiter
A
ll India below 1800 FIDE Rating
Chess Tournament 2016 was or-
ganized byJalgaon District Chess
Association jointly with Jain Sports Acad-
emy under the aegis ofMaharshtra Chess
Association, from 17 th April to 22nd April,
2016. at ChatrapatiShivajiKridaSankul,
Jalgaon. The Total Number of participants
were 137 including 1 AIM. The total tally
of rated players were 91.
Inauguration Function was skipped due
to sudden demise in sponsors family.
Tournament started at 11.30 am, on 17
th April 2016.
Third Seed Vaibhav Raut of Nagpur,
clinched the title of the tournament. He
beat Saumil Nair of Gujrat in the last
round of the game to score 9 points out
of 10. GajananJayade of Mumbai secured
2nd place with 8.5 points in the tourna-
ment.Vaibhav won 9 games and tasted 1
defeat against 2nd seed and his nearest
rivalGajananJayade in 6th round.At the
end of 5th round GajananJayade and Vaib-
hav Rout both leading thetournament with
5 points each. In 6th round Gajanan Beat
Vaibhav to takethe sole lead. At the end of
penultimate round both again sharedthe
lead with 8 points each. In the last round
Gajanan drew his game withKale Harshal
and had to remain satisfied with 2nd po-
sition. BimalGohel of Gujrat, Kale Harshal
ofAurangabad, PatilKetan of Jalgaon and
Akhilesh Nagare of Nashiksecured 3rd to
6th positionsrespectively.
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The prizes were distributed at the hands
of Shri. NitinLaddha, Mayor Jalgaon.Other
guests present were, Shri. Faruk Shaikh,
Jt. Secretary MCA, Shri. RajeshChaudhari,
Shri. RajumamaBhole, MLA, Shri. N J Ga-
diya, Secretary JDCA, Smt.SunandaPatil,
DSO Jalgaon, Shri. PravinThakare, Organ-
izing Secretary and IASwapnil Bansod,
Chief Arbiter.
Rk Name Pts
1 Vaibhav Jayant Raut 9
2 Gajanan Jayde 8
3 Gohel Bimal Ramnik 7
4 Kale Harshal V 7
5 Patil Ketan Anil 7
6 Nagare Akhilesh 7
7 Saumil Nair 7
8 Thakare Seeya 7
9 Chavan Vivek 7
10 Rathi Dhanashree 7
11 Wankhede Avishkar 7
12 Deshpande Jatin N AIM 7
13 Venkatesan A N 7
14 Bhagyashree Patil 7
15 Dashputre Ravindra 7
16 Nikam Sudhanshu 7
17 Vamsi Krishna R 7
18 Phadnis Adwait 7
19 Pawar Rahul 6
20 Lakhotiya Om 6
21 Borse Pankaj 6
22 Dewang Kalpesh 6
23 Tanuj M. Meshran 6
24 Waikar Varun 6
25 Patil T S 6
26 Pitale Kiran 6
27 Pawar Pravin S. 6
28 Omkar Paldhe 6
29 Tayade Vivek 6
30 Spandan P Seth 6
31 Gouravkumar Nanwani 6
32 Pimpale Dhananjay 6
33 Kasar Prashant 6
34 Shantharam K 6
35 Tiwari Somdutt 6
36 Bhagare Abhishek 6
37 Karankar Padmakar 6
38 Pathe Sankalp 6
39 Suryawanshi Vijay 6
40 Kolambe Yash 6
41 Kothari Pranit 6
42 Vraj N Shah 6
43 Agrawal Uttaransh 6
44 Ladhe Mohit 6
45 Borase Manoj 5
46 Borse Ketan 5
47 Athalye Varad 5
48 Kotkar Sunil 5
49 Patil Rohit R 5
50 Soni Piyush 5
51 Dhangar Akash 5
52 Deshmukh Chandrashekar 5
53 Borse Umesh Suresh 5
54 Birla Sarvesh 5
55 Shaikh Sahil 5
56 Ankush Raktade 5
57 Kasar Gunvant 5
58 Firke Yash 5
59 Amale Bharat 5
60 Purkar Shreyas 5
61 Kagde Shushrut 5
62 Ashar Parth 5
63 Mistry Tinaz Dinkoo 5
64 Dodeja Mann 5
65 Rajput Vilas 5
66 Badgujar Vaibhav 5
67 Naik Chinmay 5
68 Jain Nakul 5
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69 Satra Devansh 5
70 Padave Rupesh 5
71 Mahajan Mokshada D 5
72 Milind B Naik 5
73 Amale Kalpesh 5
74 Rathi Anubha 5
75 Sani Deshpande 5
76 Tayade Arvind 4
77 Kishor Ril 4
78 Ishwar Ramteke 4
79 Avathanshu Bhat 4
80 Borade Sagar 4
81 Kant Swapnil 4
82 Chandurkar Bhalchandra 4
83 Kukreja Neelam 4
84 Binwani Tushar 4
85 Agrawal Mehul Anupkumar 4
86 Patil Parth 4
87 Ganesh A Wagh 4
88 Rathi Anay Anup 4
89 Pise Prashant 4
90 Gunjalkar Vijay 4
91 Maheshwari Krishna 4
92 Kotkar Suhas 4
93 Bothara Navkaar 4
94 Bante Utkarsh 4
95 Biyani Pawan 4
96 Mahale Tanmay 4
97 Pawar Anjali 4
98 Jain Hemant 4
99 Bhatia Jugal 4
100 Chaudhari Pragalbh 4
101 Arjun J Chitlange 4
102 Tare Mukul 4
103 Sadafale Aaditya 4
104 C Utkarsh Shailesh 4
105 Sitlani Lokesh 4
106 Bidkar Nikhil 3
107 Deshpande Ishan M 3
108 Vaishnav Abhijit 3
109 Himanshu Jethwani 3
110 Kolhe Shruti 3
 KC Sebastin Memorial 11th KCA FIDE Rated Chess Tournament, Kottayam
Saravanakrishnan wins title
by IA R.Anantharam, Chief Arbiter
K
arippaparambil KC Sebastin Me-
morial 11th KCA FIDE Rated Chess
Tournament was organised by Kot-
tayam Chess Academy, in association with
CMS College, Kottayam. CMS College, the
oldest college in India, which is poised to
celebrate bicentennial celebrations next
year. It has also the distinction of organ-
ising many chess tournaments, including
National Premier championship in 2013.
The tournament, with the distinction of
providing the highest prize money (in
fide rated tournaments) of rupees six and
a half lakhs, attracted 386 players from
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka,
Andhra, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Goa,
UP and Pondicherry. International mas-
ter Kathmale Sameer of Central Railways
headed the players list, followed by N.
Lokesh of Tamil Nadu.
In the second round of the tournament,
former national blitz champion Ram S
Krishnan of BSNL was held to a draw
by L Srihari of Pondicherry. Third round
witnessed two more draws, IM R Balas-
ubramanian of ICF conceding a draw
to PL VIgnesh Kasi of TN and Godson
M e r l i n E f o r c i n g a d raw w i t h h i g h l y
r a t e d S a m m e d J a ya k u m a r S h e t e o f
Maharashtra. K Srikanth of Services
Board drew with second seeded Lokesh
in the fifth round, reducing the number
of leaders to six Kathmale, of ICF,
Muraleedharan MB of Kerala, Saravana
Krishnan P of TN, Arjun K of Kerala,
Phoobalan P of ICF and Maheswaran P
of Tamil Nadu.
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Saravana Krishnan, working for KarurVy-
sya Bank, defeated former Indian player
MB Muralidharan of Kerala to emerge sole
leader, as the other two top board games
featuring the leaders were drawn.
He maintained his perfect score of 7 points
from seven rounds by beating N. Lokesh
of TN, followed by Sameer Kathmale and
SammedJeyakumarShete of Maharashtra,
with 6.5 points each. Results witnessed
a topsyturvy, when hitherto leader Sar-
avankrishnan was beaten by Kathamale
Sameer, enabling the latter to snatch the
leadwith 7.5 points and he was followed
by five players with 7 points each at the
end of the eighth and penultimate round.
In the final round, Saravanakrishnan
defeated Sammed Jayakumar Shete of
Maharashtra and J Yohan of Kerala de-
feated his state mate K. Arjun to tie for
the first place, along with Kathmale, who
was held to a draw by P. Maheswaran of
Postal Services.
Tiebreak favoured Saravana Krishnan to
clinch the tile and Kathmale finished sec-
ond. A prize money of Rs.6,51,000, the
highest prize for a rated tournament in
South India was distributed to the partic-
ipants, with a first prize of Rs.60,000/-.
The tournament was well organised by
Kottayam Chess Academy and CMS Col-
lege. Dr. Roy Sam Daniel, Principal of CMS
College, KunhiMoideen, President of Chess
Association Kerala were the chief guests
for the final day function. Sri.Thiruvan-
jurRadhakrishnan, Honourable Minister
for Sports, Transport and Forest, Kerala
Government inaugurated the tournament,
in the presence of Joshi Mathew, Chari-
chitra Academy Director.
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Saravana Krishnan P. KVB 8
2 Yohan J. KER 8
3 Kathmale Sameer CRLY 8
4 Ramakrishna J. AB 7
5 Raju O A KER 7
6 Maheswaran P. TN 7
7 Ram S. Krishnan BSNL 7
8 Muralidharan M.B. KER 7
9 Nithin Babu KER 7
10 R Balasubramaniam ICF 7
11 Sammed Jaykumar Shete MAH 7
12 Arjun K KER 7
13 Lokesh N. TN 7
14 Phoobalan P. ICF 7
15 Abhishek T M KER 7
16 Prasannaa.S TN 7
17 Kumar S. TN 7
18 Tarun Kanyamarala TEL 7
19 Sabarish V TN 7
20 Saranya J TN 6
21 Srikanth K. IAF 6
22 Dileep Kumar R TN 6
23 Manu David Suthandram R TN 6
24 Badrinath S. PON 6
25 Godson Merlin E TN 6
26 Balaji P TN 6
27 Madhusoodanan K.R. KER 6
28 Vijay Anand M. TN 6
29 Karthik P M TN 6
30 Chandar Raju KER 6
31 Patil Ketan MAH 6
32 Joy Lazar M.A. KER 6
33 Karan J P KER 6
34 Pramod K K KER 6
35 Vinay Thomas Abraham KER 6
36 Alex Thomas K. KER 6
37 Sudipta Chakraborty WB 6
38 Bala Kannamma P TN 6
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39 Mohammed Dilshad KER 6
40 Sanjay S Pillai KER 6
41 Narendran V TN 6
42 Venkataramana P 6
43 Francis N. P. KER 6
44 Gowtham K K TN 6
45 Subramanian V TN 6
46 Prince Mundakayam KER 6
47 Lenin A G TN 6
48 Balasubramanian A. TN 6
49 Subash Mathivanan TN 6
50 Thomas Nidhin V V KER 6
51 Sachin Nayak K KAR 6
52 Raj Kamal S TN 6
53 Jinan Jomon KER 6
54 Aasha C R TN 6
55 Vignesh Kasi P L TN 6
56 Umashankar A 6
57 Arun J TN 6
58 Ithal H L Rajath 6
59 Sooraj M R KER 6
60 Akshay Madhusoodhanan KER 6
61 Vivekananda L KAR 6
62 Vignesh R TN 6
63 Dheekshith Kumar R TN 6
64 Yutesh P TN 6
65 Raju S TN 6
66 Mohanan U.C. KER 6
67 Subramanian T.V. TN 6
68 Vangala Prashanth TEL 6
69 Reetish Padhi KAR 6
70 Anwar N K KER 5
71 Nandhini Saripalli GOA 5
72 Vinodh Kumar B. PUD 5
73 Balaji M TN 5
74 Aswin Kumar B S TN 5
75 Prasath K R TN 5
76 Abhiram Sudheesh KER 5
77 Thirunaga Sundaram S TN 5
78 Fathima Abdeen KER 5
79 Gautham B KER 5
80 Sathishkumar L TEL 5
81 Sibi Visal R TN 5
82 Kishore Dev S. KER 5
83 Dinesh K K KER 5
84 Amit Panchal MAH 5
85 Stephen Raj A KAR 5
86 Kabhilan S TN 5
87 Thaga Sheriff M TN 5
88 Benjamin Varghees Issac KER 5
89 Aryagopal KAR 5
90 Shalon Joanne Pais KAR 5
91 Suriya S V TN 5
92 Krishnamurthy S TN 5
93 Mansoor C M KER 5
94 Anirban Basu WB 5
95 Shine S J KER 5
96 Jadi Kishan TEL 5
97 Srihari L PUD 5
98 Menon Padmanand MAH 5
99 Ananthakrishnan B KER 5
100 Mythireyan P TN 5
101 Gupta Rajesh R.S. MAH 5
102 Binoy Chacko KER 5
103 Rajith V. LIC 5
104 Vivek Vinod KER 5
105 Anil Kumar S KER 5
106 Gnanasabesan G TN 5
107 Shane V Jose KER 5
108 Sharath E. TN 5
109 Sahithya G TEL 5
110 Joseph T K KER 5
111 Bindu Saritha K. LIC 5
112 Ananthapadmanabh D V KER 5
113 Jos Paul Davis KER 5
114 Chandra Sekharan A P AP 5
115 Lakshmanan K A KER 5
116 Unnikrishnan M A KER 5
117 Arijith M KER 5
118 Ismail P TN 5
119 Aravindaswami T TN 5
120 Rapalli Krishna IAF 5
121 Prince K V KER 5
122 Krishna Raaju J TN 5
123 Gokulraj K TN 5
124 Sumesh Kabeer KER 5
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125 Ershad P KER 5
126 Jayakumar P K KER 5
127 Gunaseelan V A KER 5
128 Shamkumar Malayil MAH 5
129 Antony Simethy KER 5
130 Sunildutt KER 5
131 Aruna Dinakara KAR 5
132 Shreyas P Vijay TN 5
133 Sidharth A Kumar KER 5
134 Marimuthu K TN 5
135 Prabhu R V KER 5
136 Roshan S TN 5
137 Mohammed Fasal V U KER 5
138 Ashish Thomas Alex KER 5
139 Saket Kumar KAR 5
140 Deota Snehil S KAR 5
141 Karthik Shetty KAR 5
142 Benasir M TN 5
143 Hari Suresh KER 5
144 Rejith Babu C KER 5
145 Syed Sadathullah KER 5
146 Tejasvi M TN 5
147 Abhinessh S TN 5
148 Gautham Prasanth KER 5
149 Shiva Chethan Halamane KAR 5
150 Naveen K TN 5
151 Basant N MAH 5
152 Athul Jyothish A KER 5
153 Jolly V P KER 5
154 Aanandha Kumar M S TN 5
155 Gabriel B M KER 5
156 Prem Krishna N KER 5
157 Aravinth Shanmugam S TN 5
158 Aji Kumar A KER 5
159 Komal Srivatsav Sajja KAR 5
160 Shanjay Krishnaa Sathiskumar TN 5
161 Adhidev K P KER 5
162 Nivekithan S TN 5
163 Arnav Agrawal KAR 5
164 Ahalya A TN 5
165 Nandhini R TN 5
166 Harshavardhan V Ravindhra TN 5
167 Shankarasubbu B TN 5
 3rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial FIDE Rating Tournament, Mardol, Goa
Ram S Krishnan wins at Goa
FA Saleem Beig, Chief Arbiter
3
rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Me-
morial FIDE Rating chess Tmt at Man-
geshi, Mardol, Goa was conducted
from 25th to 28th April 2016. The 4 day
tournament attracted 234 entries and was
conducted in an 8 round Swiss format,
with two rounds per day. The event carried
a prize pool of Rs. 1,50,000/- in cash.
The tournament was inaugurated by Dr.
Anil Desai and Rajendra Desai was the
chief guest for the prize distribution Cer-
emony. Rajendra Desai gave away the
prizes.
GM Laxman RR was the top seed. IM
Ramnathan Balasubramaniam, FM Ram-
akrishna J, WCM Swera Ana Braganca and
WCM Chopdekar Gunjal were the other
titled players who took part in this event.
150 players were FIDE Rated, 59 players
were female and 3 players were above
60 years. 5 year old Miss Shriya Patil is
the Youngest Player and 82 years old Mr.
Subramanian T V is the oldest player of
the tournament.
The event was organized by Ponda Taluka
Chess Association, Ponda, Goa. The event
attracted local players and benefited local
talents. Players from 8 states (DEL, GUJ,
GOA, KAR, KER, MAH, TEL AND TN) took
part in this event.
There were 4 players (Ram S Krishnan, GM
RR Laxman, Ramnathan Balasubramaniam
and Mukund G Bhat) tied with 7 points
at the end of 8 rounds and finally Ram S
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Krishnan Emerged as the Champion of the
tournament with a better tie break score.
He lost GM RR Laxman in the 7th round.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Ram S. Krishnan 7
2 Laxman R.R GM 7
3 R Balasubramaniam IM 7
4 Mukund G. Bhatt 7
5 Ramakrishna J. FM 6
6 Gajanan Jayde 6
7 Ritviz Parab 6
8 Audi Ameya 6
9 Joshi Tejas 6
10 Chandar Raju 6
11 Bavankumar 6
12 Bachikar Girish 6
13 Prabhugaonkar A Aman 6
14 Parsekar Anirudh 6
15 Krishnamoorthy K 6
16 Ramesh Kumar N 6
17 Dias Aston 6
18 Gaude Sachin 6
19 Thaga Sheriff M 6
20 Subba Raju S. 5
21 Subramanian V 5
22 Benasir M 5
23 Ithal H L Rajath 5
24 Suriya S V 5
25 S Ana Braganca WCM 5
26 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 5
27 Aryagopal 5
28 Kartik Kumar Singh 5
29 Kuncolienkar Shivank 5
30 Madhavan G 5
31 Harish S 5
32 Kavish Gharse 5
33 Thorat Aishwarya 5
34 Shirodkar Aayush 5
35 Tanvi Vasudev Hadkonkar 5
36 Prithvi Rajan 5
37 Chopdekar Gunjal 5
38 Madkaikar Gaurav S 5
39 Ritwik Vasudev Bilgi 5
40 Deepthi Lakshmi K 5
41 Morajkar Navin 5
42 Ayush Ramchandra S 5
43 Sawant Vignesh 5
44 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 5
45 Siddhesh Milind Marathe 5
46 Milind Gauns 5
47 Audi Saiesh 5
48 Prabhu Yash 5
49 Subramanian T.V. 5
50 Sahil Shetty 5
51 Urvi Bandekar 5
52 Arumugam N 5
53 Colaco Vernon Jesus 5
54 Pankaj Bhat 5
55 Nachiketh Adiga 5
56 Devaraja G 5
57 Ayush Sanjeev Naik 5
58 Eesh Prabhudesai 5
59 Mahesh A Shetti 5
60 Salunke Pramod 5
61 Shaik Faryaz 5
62 Ishani Bhat 5
63 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 5
64 Datta Bhika Naik 5
65 Wagle Aakash Abhay 4
66 Avaneeshwar Guin 4
67 Swayam Naik 4
68 Anurag Sandesh Adwalpalkar 4
69 Fadte Rudresh 4
70 Barde Om 4
71 Devesh Anand Naik 4
72 Thorat Sanjay 4
73 Sharath R Shanbhag 4
74 Tejas Cavale 4
75 Soham Naik 4
76 Alaya Vella D Cruz 4
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77 Sahil Dayanand Desai 4
78 Kaushik M Khedekar 4
79 Shridevi Kote 4
80 Keshavendra Mishra 4
81 Aniket Datta Prabhu 4
82 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 4
83 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 4
84 Kaushal Mangaldas Naik 4
85 Bhobe Harsh 4
86 Sangaokar Yogiraj 4
87 Kruti G 4
88 Abhisheki Shravani 4
89 Naroji Sanskriti 4
90 Parab Sneh 4
91 Ramesh Murugesan 4
92 Soundariya Lakshmi G 4
93 Colaco Reuben 4
94 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad 4
95 Naik Snehal 4
96 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 4
97 Varun R Shastry 4
98 Yash Manoj Upadhye 4
99 Pai Vishwesh 4
100 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4
101 Panchami Sarpangala 4
102 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 4
103 Varad Devari 4
104 Bir Yogesh Pai 4
105 Gaayathri S 4
106 Pednekar Sagar 4
107 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 4
108 Anvesh Bandekar 4
109 Rutik Shanbhag 4
110 Ved Gurudatt Patil 4
111 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 4
112 Bharadwaj Rahul 4
113 Sanat Borkar 4
114 Vishnu Sridhar 4
115 Reagan Aaron Rodrigues 4
116 Dhaimodkar Anish 4
117 Prabhugaonkar Advika 4
118 Naik Saish Harishchandra 4
119 Ghosarwadkar Vaishnavi 4
120 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 4
121 Abhijit Datta Prabhu 4
122 Vibhuti S Dessai 4
123 Akhil K Savaikar 4
124 Diukar Tushar 4
125 Anchit Ajeet Naik 4
126 Pradnya Sachin Kakodkar 4
127 Soham Anil Dhuri 4
128 Naik Sayuri 4
129 Sushruth S Bhat 4
130 Aakash Rajan 4
131 Shubhang Hudekar 4
132 Swayam Kamat B 4
133 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 3
134 Saidas D Fotto 3
135 Akhil Naik 3
136 R Abendhra Ramesh 3
137 Yash Paul 3
138 Prashant Salvi 3
139 Vinayak Thevar 3
140 Nadkarni Saniya 3
141 Kakodkar Love 3
142 Charuta J Shetye 3
143 Saraf Harsh 3
144 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 3
145 Srilaxmi Kamat 3
146 Ammar Lashkarwale 3
147 Kakodkar Joy 3
148 Ameya Ashok Kamat 3
149 Parsekar Aditya 3
150 Vaibhav M N Gaunekar 3
151 Sainee N F Dessai 3
152 Nischal Parulekar 3
153 Dion Lourenco 3
154 Sathvik Ashok Kerkar 3
155 Naik Saksham Sandesh 3
156 Dhrithi Murgod 3
157 Maruti Ganesh Naik 3
158 Bhargav Suraj Chari 3
159 Kundaikar Rounak 3
160 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 3
161 Medhaj Amshekar 3
162 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 3
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163 Aishwarya Kadamb 3
164 Cyrus Gomes 3
165 Asfiya Lashkarwale 3
166 Divya Dinesh Gawde 3
167 Calantha Gomes 3
168 Ghatwal Tushar Samir 3
169 Dhruv S Jalmi Velingkar 3
170 Karmalkar Dipshika 3
171 Patil Rohan 3
172 Dharvatker Urja 3
173 Bhat Sharmad 3
174 Niraj Y Naik 3
175 Naik Sarthak Shyam 3
176 Parth Kamat 3
177 Dion Fernandes 3
178 Netra P Savaikar 3
179 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 3
180 Girija A Pednekar 3
181 Caesarius Mario Vaz 3
182 Bhakti S Prabhudesai 3
183 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 3
184 Ramkrishna Shinkre 3
185 Parthiv Prakash 3
186 Kamat Brahmanand 2
187 Dhruv Pravin Joshi 2
188 Gonsalves Jayden 2
189 Shlok Dhulapkar 2
190 Govardhan Palekar 2
191 Dessai Siya 2
192 Ramani Varad 2
193 Chaitanya M. Naik 2
194 Phadte Aradhya 2
195 Aditya Gaonkar 2
196 Anushka Arun Mardolkar 2
197 Rudraksh Rama Parab 2
198 Kavish Priolkar 2
199 Joshi Chinmay 2
200 Riva Ritesh Naik 2
201 Nidhi Gaude 2
202 Neha R Naik 2
203 Soham Somesh Naik 2
204 Harsh Khandeparkar 2
205 Kunal B Bandolkar 2
 3rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 (below 1800), Puri
Katiyar Prashant is Champion
FA Anandh Babu VL IA, Chief Arbiter
3
rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess
Tournament-2016 (below 1800) was
organized by Triple C Chess Club
at Hotel Rumani, Puri from 21st to 24th
April-2016 under the agies of All Odisha
Chess Association, District Chess Associ-
ation of Puri, All India Chess Federation
and FIDE.The Tournament was conducted
in Swiss System with 9 Rounds Event, To-
tal Participant of the Tournament is 287
which compiles of 239 Fide Rating Players
and 48 Unrated Players .
The inauguration of the event was held
at Hotel Rumani on 21st August 2016, at
01:00 PM, Chief Guest who inaugurated
the Tournament is Mr.Rabi Narayanan
Senapati, District Sports Officer,Puri, by
making a 1st Move, Guests present on the
dias where Shri Rabi Shankar Pratihari,
Secretary ,Puri District Athletic Associa-
tion, Shri.Kanduri Suar-Social Worker,Pu-
ri,Shri Pradyumna Mishra , Vice Presisent
, District Chess Association of Puri, Shri.
Subhash Chandra Sahoo, Secretary , Dis-
trict Chess Association of Puri, Shri Kamal
kanta Bisoi,President , Triple C Chess
Club, Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President,
Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Biranchi Narayan
Sahoo, Secretary, Triple C Chess Club.
Katiyar Prashant of Uttar Pradesh won
the tournament with scoring 8.5points/9
Rounds and won the one Lakh Rupees
Prize Money, Followed Charles J of Tamil-
nadu spotted his position to second spot
w i t h s c o r i n g 8 . 0 p t s / 9 . 0 Ro u n d s a n d
gained Rs.60000/- and third position there
were 4 players with 7.5 points/9 Rounds
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and in the Tie break points Aryan of Delhi
Grabbed his position to third spot and won
Rs.40000/-.
The Prize Distribution was held in the
same hall at 12.01 pm on 24th April
2016, the Chief Guest was Shri.Nilu Sa-
rangi- Chairman, Puri Municipality, Guest
of Honor present in the Dias where Shri.
Subash Chandra Sahoo, Secy,District
Chess Association of Puri, Shri.Padyumnn
Mishra-Vice President,DCAP,Puri, Shri.
Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, Asst Secy , All
Odisha Chess Association, Shri.G C Mo-
hapatra, Executive Member , All Odisha
Chess Association , Shri Kamal Kantha Bi-
soi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri,
Organizer present where Shri.Sahoo BN
Secy Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Arghya
Arpan Parida, Jt.Secy Triple C Chess Club
and Shri.Biswajit Ray,Vice President,Triple
C Chess Club.
Final standings:
Rk Name Club Pt
1 Katiyar Prashant UP 8
2 Charles J TN 8
3 Aryan DEL 7
4 Sai Kiran Y AP 7
5 Farhaan M PUD 7
6 Avijit Ghosh WB 7
7 Ravi Shanker UP 7
8 Jaspreet Singh PUN 7
9 Sri Sai Baswanth P AP 7
10 Dev Shah CM MAH 7
11 Anwar N K KER 6
12 Nayak Sanjeeban ODI 6
13 Mishra Srinibas ODI 6
14 Aryamann Sain WB 6
15 Sahoo Ankush ODI 6
16 Arunava Bhattacharjee WB 6
17 Sivasubramanian S TN 6
18 Sen Animesh Chandra WB 6
19 Haris N K KER 6
20 Dhrupad Kashyap ASM 6
21 Ashwani Kumar Grover PUN 6
22 Jishitha D AP 6
23 Sinha Rajesh Kumar BIH 6
24 Kaushik Nath WB 6
25 Gaurav Das WB 6
26 Madhav Mahere UP 6
27 Rath Hrusikesh ODI 6
28 Prudhvi Kumar V AP 6
29 Gabbar UP 6
30 Sugunesh Babu KER 6
31 Amitansu Priyadarsan ODI 6
32 Pratik Das WB 6
33 Mohapatra Sarat ODI 6
34 Prraneeth Vuppala CM AP 6
35 Sirsat Shekhar V. MAH 6
36 Sasikumar N TN 6
37 Mahender Marri TEL 6
38 Shouvik Kar WB 6
39 Singh Vimlesh Kumar BIH 6
40 Vashishtha Martanda JHA 6
41 Shivam Verma BIH 6
42 Aasha C R TN 6
43 Souhardo Basak WB 6
44 Manoj R KAR 6
45 Vedant P Kumbakonam TN 6
46 Rupam Mukherjee WB 6
47 Sounak De (1) WB 6
48 Sudhir H Adalja GUJ 6
49 Tiwari O P MP 6
50 Sumit Roy WB 6
51 Gaurav Sharma UP 6
52 Animith Srimani WB 6
53 Debarghya Samanta WB 6
54 Sayantan Das WB 6
55 Sabat Prabhat Kiran ODI 6
56 Uppal Anshul CHA 5
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57 M Tulasi Ram Kumar AP 5
58 Tanishka Kotia WFM HAR 5
59 Padhi Jyoti Ranjan ODI 5
60 Sumesh Kabeer KER 5
61 Harshit Ranjan Sahu ODI 5
62 Venkat Reddy S AP 5
63 Pathak Rudra S GUJ 5
64 Pathak Vivek Kumar MP 5
65 Gugale Sunny MAH 5
66 Verma Manas CHA 5
67 Mohapatra Biswanath G ODI 5
68 Sandil Nirmal Chandra JHA 5
69 Deepak Singh DEL 5
70 Sahu Biswahari ODI 5
71 Shiek Fayaz TEL 5
72 Ashok Kumar Jaju ODI 5
73 Sai Shravan R MAH 5
74 Verma Vedansh CHA 5
75 Mishra Anisha ODI 5
76 Sahoo Soumya Ranjan ODI 5
77 Rajat Kumar Sahoo ODI 5
78 Nakul Chaudhary UP 5
79 Rao Mitta AP 5
80 Panda Raj Santosh ODI 5
81 Sai Sujan S TN 5
82 Sambarta Banerjee WB 5
83 Soham Dey WB 5
84 Aravind P V S AP 5
85 Adrian Sajjan WBl 5
86 Sai Balaji E TN 5
87 Sathishkumar L TEL 5
88 Gopal Ch Mahapatra ODI 5
89 Subba Surendra WB 5
90 Patel Vivek GUJ 5
91 Ankit Kumar Singh JHA 5
92 Soham Pal WB 5
93 Nayak Surajit ODI 5
94 Samantaray Aryan Arnav ODI 5
95 Patra Subhendu Kumar ODI 5
96 Tapas Mandal WB 5
97 Bhaskar N S TN 5
98 Anurag Medhi ASM 5
99 Kamma Surya Teja AP 5
 Maharashtra State Selection Women FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Sangli
Rucha Pujari wins title
IA Nitin Shenvi, Chief Arbiter
N
utan Buddhibal Mandal, Sangli
conducted the Mahrashtra State
S e l e c t i o n Wo m e n F I D E Ra t i n g
Chess Tournament at Bapat Bal Shikshan
Mandir, Sangli, Maharashtra, which is one
of the oldest organizer in India from 1941
conducting 49th chess festival in Month
of April-May every year. This event was
organized by prominent chess players
and key personalities of various Chess
activities and businesses in Sangli and
Maharashtra viz. Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaon-
kar, Mr. Chintamani Limaye, Mr. Girish
Chitale, Mr. Chidambar Kotibhaskar, Dr.
Ulhas Mali, Mrs. Smita Kelkar, Mrs. See-
ma Kathmale, Mrs. Apte accompanied
by other chess players and chess lovers
like Mr. Vijay Apte, Mr. Kumar Mane, Mr.
Deepak Vaychal, Mrs. Madhuri Apte, etc.
The event was organized and played from
26th to 30th April, 2016 and conducted in
the Swiss League format, comprising 09
rounds, with one round on last day else
double rounds. The time control for the
game was 90 minutes to each player with
an increment of 30 seconds per move from
first move.
Shri Nitin Prabhu, prominent business
tycoon from Sangli district was the chair-
man of Inaugural function. Along with him
Mrs. Prabhu, Mr. Rajabhau Shirgaonkar
President NBM, Chintamani Limaye Sec,
NBM, Mrs. Kelkar Madam, Treasurer NBM
and myself were the dignitaries on dais of
the inaugural function. The event was in-
augurated by Shri Nitin Prabhu with light-
ing the devotional lamp and ceremonial
match between Shri Nitin Prabhu and Mrs.
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Prabhu . Introduction of the Chief Guests
was done by the Rajabhau Shirgaonkar.
The aim and motto of NBM was explained
by Chintamani Limaye to the gathering.
Nitin Prabhu wished the best of luck to
the participants and their parents in
Maharashtras 2nd highest event. Some of
the important players namely WFM Rucha
Pujari Kolhapur, WFM Mitali Patil Aurang-
abad, Ms Rutuja Bakshi Aurangabad, Ms
Vrushali Deodhar Mumbai suburban, Ms.
Khushi Surana Solapur, Ms Dhanashree
Rathi Nasik, Ms Riya Lahoti Satara etc.
In this event 25 players out of which 45
were rated having rating average 1222,
with players coming from nearly all parts
of Maharashtra (Mubai suburban, Buldha-
na, Aurangabad, Solapur Nagpur, Jalgaon,
Thane, Palghar, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur,
Pune). The championship was being led by
two WFM including 6 players above 1600
ELO rating. WFM Rucha Pujari of Kolhapur,
with a rating of 2152 was the top seed in
this event.
The first round went smoothly with higher
rated won easily against their rivals. In
2nd round, the second seed of tourna-
ment Ms Rutuja Bakshi Aurangabad was
defeated by Ms. Chandratreya Prachiti of
Nasik (nearly 500 ELO points difference).
Ten players scored full points i.e. 2 points
each.At the end of 3rd round, Rucha Pujari
& Deodhar Vrushali became joint leader
scoring 3 points each and took points
lead on nearest seven competitors.
In the 4th round, Rucha Pujari & Deo-
dhar Vrushali drew match between them
resulted in five players taking joint lead
namely Rucha Pujari, Deodhar Vrushali,
Mitali Patil, Khushi Surana and Prachiti
Chandratreya scored 3 points each.At
the end of fifth round Rucha Pujari and
Mitali Patil won against their opponents
and scored 4 points each followed by
them Prachiti Chandratreya, Rutuja Bak-
shi & Tanvi Advade scored 4 points each.
In 6th round, on 1st board Rucha Pujari
won against joint leader Mitali Patil and in
the race Prachiti Chandratreya and Rutuja
Bakshi.
At the end of seventh round Rucha Pujari
playing with white stunned by Rutujas
attack AND THE GAME resulted in draw.
This result once again opened champion-
ship chances amongst participants even
though Rucha scored 6 points but she is
tracked by Prachiti Chandratreya, Rutuja
Bakshi & Dhanashree Rathi scored 5
points each. In the penultimate round
top seed Rucha Pujari, Rutuja Bakshi
and Mitali Patil managed to won their
respective games while Bhagyashree
Patil Jalgaon outwitted Shruti Bhosale
Kolhapur and now she was also in frame
of selection.
In the final round Rucha with her expe-
rience managed a win from a drawish
position against Bhagyashree Patil of
Jalgaon. The champion Rucha Pujari re-
ceived Rs. Seven thousand five hundred
and the runner up Rutuja Bakshi Rs. Five
thousand. In this event out of 20 unrated
participants, 3 participants became rated
players. The order of the players was de-
termined according to number of points
obtained.
The tournament was completed in peace-
ful manner and no appeal arose. The
Appeals Committee members consisted
of WFM Rucha Pujari of Kolhapur, WFM
Mitali Patil of Aurangabad, and Ms. Uma
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Kumbhar of Sangli as the main members
and Ms. Prema Vincent of Mumbai Sub-
urban & Ms. Mahavira Savla of Thane as
reserve members.
The prize distribution function chaired by
Dr. Vasanti Paradkar, Director Sangli Ur-
ban Bank, along with Mr. Govind Kulkarni,
Director, NBM, Shri Chintamani Limaye
Secretary NBM, Mrs. Smita Kelkar Treas-
urer, and Shri Mangesh Gambhire CIS
Instructor of Nasik.
Final Ranking:
Rk Name Pts
1 Pujari Rucha WFM 7
2 Kathmale Sameer IM 7
3 Barath M 7
4 Soham Datar 7
5 Wagh Suyog 7
6 Ponkshe Sarang 7
7 Ajinkya Pingale 7
8 Pruthu Deshpande 7
9 Soneji Janhavi 7
10 Verma Rahul 7
11 Mahindrakar Indrajeet 7
12 Dixit Nikhil 6
13 Shelke Sankarsha 6
14 Audi Ameya 6
15 Kadav Omkar 6
16 Vigneshwaran S 6
17 Nikam Ravindra 6
18 Phadke Sohan 6
19 Singh Nishit 6
20 Joshi Tejas 6
21 Bakshi Rutuja 6
22 Joshi Nikhil 6
23 Gaurav Rajesh Zagade 6
24 Menon Padmanand 6
25 Bhandarkar Dinesh 6
26 Jain Kashish Manoj 6
27 Swati Mohota WFM 6
28 Harsh Mangesh Ghag 6
29 Inamdar Sameer 6
30 Gajanan Jayde 6
31 Kulkarni Aakash 6
32 Shreyash A Kulkarni 6
33 Bhilare Rushikesh 6
34 Pogul Yuvraj 6
35 Pradeep Pandya 6
36 Telang Yashwant 6
37 Joshi Abhijeet M 6
38 Patil Ketan 6
39 Jadhav Vaibhavi 6
40 Lahoti Riya 6
41 Nirgun Keval 6
42 Raiker Shaunak 6
43 Shegaonkar Akshay 5
44 Abid Ali Mujawar 5
45 Surana Khushi Shailendra 5
46 Hrishikesh Shirish Bakshi 5
47 Ashar Grishma 5
48 Joshi Mihir 5
49 Joshi Abhijeet 5
50 Bhosale Shruti 5
51 Ankur Mahesh Gokhale 5
52 Kapadi Yash 5
53 Patil Samiksha 5
54 Thorat Aishwarya 5
55 Balwan Tejas 5
56 Shelke Omkar 5
57 Sawardekar Pravin 5
58 Thorat Sanjay 5
59 Bandekar Aditya 5
60 Audi Saiesh 5
61 Ojas Mahavir Karnavat 5
62 Deshpande M.N. 5
63 Swera Ana Braganca WCM 5
64 Pendsey Muktanand 5
65 Magdum Sammed 5
66 Nankar Pranav 5
67 Wankhede Avishkar 5
68 Jenil Shah 5
69 Shijil K 5
70 Aryan Abhijeet Shah 5
71 Ian Savio Rodrigues 5
72 Pangshe Laukik 5
73 Rajput Gayatri 5
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Solution to puzzle of the month on p. 30
After looking at the position that has just
arisen after Blacks move at the nearest chess
table, a player remarked that, according to the
FIDE Laws of Chess the FIDE Laws of Chess
, White now has an opportunity to mate in 1
move. Is the player right?
The possible last moves by black are 0-0-0 or
bxc3. bxc3 is not possible as the black pawn
structure then necessitates 7 captures (e7-d6-
c5-b4-c3 and f7-e6-d5-c4) and already there
are 10 white men on board. So, the last move
by black is 0-0-0. So now basically, the ques-
tion translates to whether castling is possible
by black or not. If it is possible, then there is
no way to mate in 1. If it is not possible and
black has castled wrongly, he should take the
move back and because he has touched his
king, he will be forced to move the king and
thats possible only to d8. Now white could
mate with Qxd7#. To find if this is possible,
we need some more retro analysis.
The pawns at c3 & c4 necessitates 5 captures
by them. Already there are 10 white men on
board. So the black pawns at a6 must have
come from a7 and b6 pawn must have come
from b7 only. (a7-b6 and b7-a6 is not possible
as there cant be two more captures). There
are two possible ways the white rook could
have reached b7 one is through entering
8th rank via e or f file (making castling illegal)
or it should be a promoted one (making cas-
tling viable still, if promoted at b8 without a
check). And now the basic question translates
to whether the b7 rook is a promoted one or
not. We have to dig more to find this.
If it is a promoted one, there must have been
atleast 4 captures by white pawns. Already
there are 11 black men on board. The captures
by the black pawns (now at c3 & c4) cannot
be the g or h white pawns. For this to hap-
pen, the g pawn must have been promoted at
f8 and the h pawn is captured as such. This
accounts perfectly for all the captures made
by both black and white. Promotion of g pawn
at f8 means that the black king has moved
earlier thus making castling illegal.
So even if the rook at b7 is a promoted one,
castling is illegal. So the correct answer is that
there is a mate in 1!
 Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament
Shyam Sundar wins
by Promodraj Moree FA, Chief Arbiter
T
op seeded GM Shyam Sunder (2488)
of TN won the Hotel Calangute Tower
All Rapid Rating Chess Tournament
organized by Mormugao Taluk Chess As-
sociation, held at Centenary Hall, Baina,
Vasco with 8 points at the end of 9 rounds
and received prize money of Rs.25,000
and winners trophy. Master Ritviz Parab
(2163) of Geno Pharma of Goa stood 2nd
with 8 points on lower tie breaker. IM
Abhimanyu Puranik (2208) of Maharashtra
stood 3rd also with 8 points on lower tie
breaker.
The two day event was Inaugurated on
23rd of April by Chief guest Mr Krishna
(Daji) Salkar in the presence of Title
Sponsorer and guest of Honor Mr Umesh
Sinha CFO of Hotel Calagute Tower, Mr
Kishore Bandekar Joint Secretary of AICF,
Mr Pundalik Naik VP of MTCA, Sponsorer
of Trophies Mr Vasant Naik sec of MTCA ,
GM Tejas Bakre, and GM Sham Sundar ,
Mr Promodraj Moree, Chief Arbiter of the
Tournament, Mr Sanjay Kavlekar and Mr
Swapnil Hoble
This was first Rapid rating chess tour-
nament organized by Mormugao Taluka
Chess Association in Vasco,Goa. The
event attracted 266 Players from all over
India Including major states like Gujrath,
Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Ker-
ala, Pondichery and Karnataka. 139 Fide
rated players participated in this tourna-
ment, with 5 titled players. Top seed of
the event was Mr Sham Sundar of Tamil
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Nadu and 2nd Seed Grand master Tejas
Bakre of Gujrath. Two International mas-
ters Puranik Abhimanyu of Maharastra and
Rohan Ahuja of Goa.
The Prize distribution function took place
on 24th April at 6.00 Pm, The Trophies and
Prizes were awarded by the Chief Guest
Mrs. Alina Saldhana, Honourable Minis-
ter of Goa for RDI, Science, Technology
and Museum during the prize distribution
function. The Chief Guest in her address
expressed the role of children and ex-
pressed satisfaction about parents taking
keen interest in overall development of
their children by devoting time as most
of the participants were small children.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 GM Shyam Sundar M. 8
2 Ritviz Parab 8
3 IM Puranik Abhimanyu 8
4 Gahan M G 7
5 Ram S. Krishnan 7
6 Mani Bharathy 7
7 Audi Ameya 7
8 IM Rohan Ahuja 7
9 Anant Prabhudesai 7
10 Niraj Saripalli 7
11 GM Bakre Tejas 7
12 Cruz Wilson 7
13 Sameer Ghotane 7
14 Verma Rahul 7
15 Bavankumar 7
16 FM Ramakrishna J. 6
17 Chandar Raju 6
18 Akshay V Halagannavar 6
19 Subramanian V 6
20 Nandhini Saripalli 6
21 Kambli Datta 6
22 Sneha Ghatpande 6
23 Nagaraj Naik 6
24 Siddhant Dharwar 6
25 Sahil Shetty 6
26 Tanvi Vasudev H 6
27 Kulkarni Ketaki 6
28 Snehil Shetty 6
29 Brendan Peroz 6
30 Kantak Adv. P.M. 6
31 Dias Aston 6
32 Shane Alvarin Braganca 6
33 Thorat Aishwarya 6
34 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 6
35 Subramanian T.V. 6
36 Harsh M Averi 6
37 Bhimappa Harijan 6
38 Parsekar Anirudh 6
39 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6
40 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 6
41 Kiran Shantaram C 6
42 Sanjil Hoble 6
43 Barde Om 6
44 Sunad Govekar 6
45 Audi Saiesh 6
46 Thorat Sanjay 6
47 Bachikar Girish 6
48 Porob Vraj 6
49 P Aditee Aman 6
50 Gaude Sachin 6
51 Praveen Kamath 6
52 Pethe Suyash 6
53 Muraleedharan P G 6
54 Anurag Sandesh A 6
55 Colaco Vernon Jesus 6
56 Fadte Rudresh 6
57 Gaayathri S 6
58 Sawant Tatvesh R 5
59 Gajanan D 5
60 Abhishek Shastry 5
61 Nemlekar Suresh 5
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62 Sudhakar Patgar 5
63 Chokalingam P 5
64 Kavish Gharse 5
65 Sanat Borkar 5
66 Gangnaik Santosh 5
67 Alaya Vella D Cruz 5
68 Naik Vrunda V 5
69 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 5
70 Viswajith P 5
71 Radhakrishna S K 5
72 Parab Sneh 5
73 Vaskar Rajat Raghoba 5
74 Niranjan Raghu 5
75 Rajesh K 5
76 Akhilesh A Nigalye 5
77 Morajkar Navin 5
78 Nayaz Ahamad 5
79 Madhavan G 5
80 Shirodkar Aayush 5
81 Shenoy Siddharth 5
82 Puranik Parth 5
83 Aneesh Aparanji 5
84 Devesh Anand Naik 5
85 Rutik Rohidas Gaude 5
86 Naik Shvesh S 5
87 Sahil Dayanand Desai 5
88 Sami M A 5
89 Saish Ulhas Fondekar 5
90 Prabhu Yash 5
91 Nischal Parulekar 5
92 Gopal Shah 5
93 Bir Yogesh Pai 5
94 Prashant Salvi 5
95 Colaco Reuben 5
96 Swayam Naik 5
97 Yash Paul 5
98 Varun R Shastry 5
99 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 5
100 Eesh Prabhudesai 5
101 Vasanth Pradeep V 5
102 Khan Faiziya 5
103 Soham Anil Dhuri 5
104 S Gayle Fernandes 5
105 Saidas D Fotto 5
106 Vishnu Sridhar 5
107 Akhil Naik 5
108 Dhuri Khushi 5
109 Kshaunish Naik 5
110 Sarvam Sandesh Naik 5
111 Kakodkar Joy 5
112 Vinayak Thevar 5
113 Dhrithi Murgod 5
114 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 5
115 Avaneeshwar Guin 5
116 ARamchandra Shetkar 5
117 Paarth P Salvi 5
118 Aadya Yatin Gaitonde 5
119 Kakodkar Love 5
120 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 5
121 Advait Rajiv D 4
122 Arjun U Prabhu 4
123 Ved Gurudatt Patil 4
124 Ashesh Keni 4
125 Ridikesh Dilip V 4
126 Dhembre Dinesh 4
127 Roshan Abendhra R 4
128 Srilaxmi Kamat 4
129 Shivaprasad V Tengli 4
130 Pradnya Sachin K 4
131 Charuta J Shetye 4
132 Kshitij Mayenkar 4
133 Calantha Gomes 4
134 Pednekar Sagar 4
135 Sania Salvi 4
136 Saraf Harsh 4
137 Shivdatt Kuncolienkar 4
138 Sanvi Naik Gaonkar 4
139 Md Kassim Shaikh 4
140 Neeraj Krishna R 4
141 Allen Thomas Sunish 4
142 Singnapurkar Sanjyot 4
143 Sanjeev Parab 4
144 Iyer Arvind 4
145 Ammar Lashkarwale 4
146 Naik Gaonkar Suyash 4
147 Pethe Varad 4
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148 Gonsalves Jayden 4
149 Thanishq Kavlekar 4
150 Krishnapriya Varma 4
151 Cyrus Gomes 4
152 Ashish Paingankar 4
153 Naik Saksham S 4
154 Mahesh A Shetti 4
155 Sunish K Abraham 4
156 Shubhang Hudekar 4
157 Parth Kamat 4
158 Prithiviraj M 4
159 Costa Diogo P 4
160 Rachana 4
161 Saeesh Sadashiv K 4
162 Shivam Kapdi 4
163 Janavi Pawaskar 4
164 Manoj Jagtap 4
165 Vas Bryan 4
166 Ghatwal Samir T 4
167 Asfiya Lashkarwale 4
168 Shreyash Naik 4
169 Neha R Naik 4
170 Aditya Gaonkar 4
171 Yash Rawool 4
172 Abhishek Velankar 4
173 Basavaraj Patil 4
174 Niranjan Babu 4
175 Adarsh Pramod 4
176 Shubham Laad 4
177 Vernekar Sohum 4
178 Rajadurai Nithish 4
179 Harsh Khandeparkar 4
180 Sawant Vignesh 3
181 Dhaneshwar Akash 3
182 Krishnaraj Patil 3
183 Rajdatta Timble 3
184 Avaneesh P Sawant 3
185 Swara Lakshmi S Nair 3
186 Swayam Kamat B 3
187 Antoniolee Peroz 3
188 Prabhugaonkar Advika 3
189 Kalagutkar Sai 3
190 Parsekar Aditya 3
 United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016, Calicut
Vinothkumar wins title
by M. Ephrame IA, Chief Arbiter
U
nited Kozhikode District Chess
association has added one more
FIDE rated chess tournament in
its activities, by organizing a Fide rated
chess tournament in this summer holi-
days. The tournament was held at spa-
cious Jubilee hall which is situated at the
heart of the city, from 29th April 2016
to 1st May 2016, offering a prize money
of Rs,2,00,000/-. A total 301 players
participated in the event, with 197 play-
ers are Fide rated. International Master
Ramanathan Balasubramanian was the
top seeded.
Top seeded IM Balasubramanian, FM M
Vinothkumar from Tamilnadu, Ram S
Krishnan from BSNL and Kerala's former
State champion O T Anilkumar form Cali-
cut were the leaders with five points at
end of round five.
In the final round, IM Balasubramanian
did not take any risk and agreed a quick
draw against O T Anilkumar whereas the
FM Vinothkumar voluntarily entered into
complication and won the game against
Ram. This win earned Vinothkumar to win
the title, a cash award of Rs.25000/- along
with a beautiful trophy. He scored 6 points
out of the possible six. 5 players scored
5.5 points but better tiebreak helped
Alex Thomas to finish runner up and Alex
received Rs.15000/-. along with trophy.
Earlier the tournament was inaugurated
by the President Kozhikode Sports coun-
cil Dr. Kunhalu. Nirmaldas, the Secretary
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United Kozhikode District Chess Associa-
tion distributed the prizes.
Final standings:
Rk Name Pts
1 Vinoth Kumar M. FM 6
2 Alex Thomas K. 5
3 R.Balasubramaniam IM 5
4 Anilkumar O.T. 5
5 Vinay Thomas Abraham 5
6 Prasannaa.S 5
7 Ram S. Krishnan 5
8 Mohammed Dilshad 5
9 Chandar Raju 5
10 Joy Lazar M.A. 5
11 Rajith V. 5
12 Athul Krishna S 5
13 Sooraj M R 5
14 Jos Paul Davis 5
15 Muthu Palaniappan P L 5
16 Deepak K S 5
17 Muhammed Musthafa 5
18 Lakshimi Narayanan 5
19 Xavier P P 5
20 Badrinath S. 5
21 Jagadeesh A.K. 4
22 Sachin Pradeep 4
23 Arjun Satheesh 4
24 Satvik V 4
25 Santhosh Purushothaman 4
26 Anirban Basu 4
27 Prem Anantha Rajan V. 4
28 Kabhilan S 4
29 Benjamin Varghees Issac 4
30 Keerthi Srinath K 4
31 Ashish Thomas Alex 4
32 Akila Mahendran 4
33 Jyothir R 4
Cond. on p.27
 AICF Central Council Meeting on 09.04.2016
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Important decisions:
1. It was decided that henceforth
entry fees / forms for all the
National Championships will be
accepted only through online.
2. Asian Junior Chess Champion-
ship will be held at New Delhi
from 02nd to 11th May, 2016.
3. KIIT International Grandmas-
ter tournament will be held at
Bhuvaneshwar from 23rd to
30th May, 2016.
4. Mumbai Mayors Cup Interna-
tional Grandmaster tourna-
ment will be held at Mumbai
from 01st to 08th June, 2016.
5. World Junior Chess Champion-
ship sponsored by KIIT University will be held at Bhuvaneshwar from 07th to 21st August,
2016.
6. India will host World Youth (Under 16) Chess Olympiad in 2017.
7. A FIDE Trainer Seminar will be organise at Bhubaneswar during the World Junior Chess
Championship 2016.
8. A FIDE Arbiter Seminar will be organise at New Delhi during the Asian Junior Chess Cham-
pionship 2016.
9. As per AICF Rules only those players who participate in the respective age group Nationals
in the immediate past year are eligible to participate in the current years official FIDE tour-
naments like Asian/World/Com-
monwealth. However, the Central
Council decided that exceptions
will be extended, as detailed
below, while India is the host for
Asian / World / Commonwealth
Championships in future.

National Champions, Asian and

World medal winners in two age
categories below the intended
International tournament can be
permitted to participate as do-
nor/special entries in age group
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International tournaments conducted in India subject to satisfying other conditions in force,
even if they have not participated in the respective National age group championship, in the
immediate past year.
For example a player who has not participated in the National Junior (Under 19) Chess Champi-
onship at Dindigul in 2015, will be allowed to participate in this years Asian Junior to be held at
New Delhi and World Junior to be held at Bhubaneswar if he/she satisfies the above condition.
i.e. if he/she is a) National Champion in Under 15 and Under 17. b) if he/she has won a medal
in Asian / World in Under 15 and Under 17 during 2015. Their participation, however, will be
subject to FIDE Rules on number of participants from each country.
10. Henceforth the National Challengers and the National Women Challengers will be a non
rating event. i.e the results will not be sent to FIDE for the purpose of ELO rating.
11. A new National Championship National Schools Team Olympiad will be introduced.
12. The Under-6 Championship is not regularly organised by the Asian Chess Federation in Asian
Schools and Asian Youth Chess Championships. In case such championships are announced by
the Asian Chess Federation, the players who would like to participate as Special/Donor entries in
Asian Schools / Asian Youth Championship will be selected based on ranking from the National
School Under 7 / National Under-7 Chess Championship respectively, subject to their age.

Eight Medals for India in Asian Youth

by Arvind Aaron

India won three titles in the Asian Youth Chess Championship that concluded in Mongolia on
April 14, 2016. India won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

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R Praggnanandhaa (U-12, 7.5/9, unbeaten), Anwesha Mishra (U-14G, 8/9, unbeaten) Divya
Deshmukh (U-12G, 8/9, unbeaten) won the gold medals in the Asian Classical Chess Champi-
onships remaining undefeated.
Silver medals were won by P Iniyan (U-16, 6.5/9), Harshita Guddanti (U-15G, 7/9). Bronze
medals were won by Aditya Mittal (U-10, 7/9), Khushi Khandelwal (U-14G, 6.5/9), R Vaishali
(U-16G, 7/9).
Many Indians at the top suffered final round defeats and that led to the modest 3-2-3 medal
count. Last round defeats were suffered by: Anagha (U-8G, eighth place), Kadakia Veer (U-8,
seventh place), Bharath Subramaniyam H (U-10, fifth),L Jyothsna (U-12G, fourth), Rakshitta
Ravi (U-12G, fifth), K Priyanka (U-16G, sixth), Rajdeep Sarkar (U-18, fourth).

Adhiban ties for first place in Hasselbacken Open in Sweden

The tournament Hasselbacken Open commemorated the 150th
anniversary of the Stockholm Chess Society, which is the oldest
chess society in existence as well as the third oldest continuously
running chess club in the world, running uninterrupted since
1866. The club was first created on December 29, 1866, at La-
gergren Caf in the old opera house. The society's first chairman
was the famous explorer, Professor Adolf Erik Nordenskild.

At the end of six rounds, three Indians Sasikiran, Vidit, and

Adhiban were in close pursuit of the leaders, while Sethuraman
had just lost to Andreikin. It is very interesting to note that in
the aftermath of the splendid Asian Nations Cup victory in Abu
Dhabi a month back, the trio of Vidit, Adhiban and Sethu have
played in Dubai and Stockholm at present. They are also sched-
uled to appear at the strong Zalakaros Open tournament at the
end of May.Coincidental or not, one would hope that a bit of bonding would only help India's
cause at the upcoming Olympiad.

GM Vidit Gujrathi (2648) managed to defeat Icelandic GM Hannes Steffanson (2581) in the sev-
enth round but then settled for draws with Andreikin (2736) and Zoltan Almasi (2682) to finish
with 7.0/9, eighth place. GM S.P. Sethuraman (2658) bounced back in the seventh round by
beating Swedish GM Axel Smith (2503) after previously losing to Andreikin in the sixth round.
He was held to a draw by American talent GM Samuel Sevian (2581) in the eighth round but
finished with a win over French GM Fabien Libiszewski (2520).

GM Adhiban B. (2663) settled for a draw with Israeli GM Ilia Smirin (2665) but beat GM Aleksey
Goganov (2591) in the penultimate round. In the ninth round, he delivered a masterful perfor-
mance to beat GM Viktor Mikhalevski (2516) leaving him tied for the first place with Andreikin!
He was second in the tiebreak.

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Final standings
1.GM Andreikin Dmitry(Rus)7,5;2.GM Adhiban B(Ind)7,5;3 GM Smirin Ilia(Isr)7,0;4. GM Almasi
Zoltan(Hun)7,0;5.GM Maze Sebastien(Fra)7,0;6. GM Tkachiev Vladislav (Fra)7,0;
7.GM Sethuraman S.P (Ind)7,0;8.GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi(Ind)7,0;9.GM van Foreest Jor-
den(Ned)7,0;10.GM Shirov Alexei(Lat)7,0 (courtesy: chessbase india)

FIDE Awards GM titles for two Indians

by Arvind Aaron
FIDE at its Presidential Board Meetings in Moscow confirmed the Grand Master titles of Diptayan
Ghosh (Elo 2562) of Kolkata and Shardul Gagare of Rahuri (Ahmednagar, Mah).

Diptayan, born in 1998 made his maiden GM norm in April 2013 at the Dubai Open, second
norm in the Czech Open at Pardubice in July 2015 and the final GM norm at the HD Bank Open
at Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in March 2016. He had become an International Master in 2013 and
FIDE Master in 2009.

FIDE has made Shardul Gagare as GM, R Vaishali as WIM after seeking and getting norm in-
formations. India added two International Masters in Prantik Roy and Siva Mahadevan.
Chess thinking helps in cricket
Its a new innings for Yuzvendra Chahal who has been included
in the Indian cricket squad for the upcoming Zimbabwe tour.The
leg-spinner from Jind, Haryana, has another interesting story to tell
apart from his cricket career. The 25-year-old was a top rated chess
player as a teenager and had represented India in the Asian as well

as world youth championships.Chess helps me in plotting the

opposition batsmans dismissal. I try to be one step ahead of the
batsman, especially in T20 where the bowler has to think on his
feet, Chahal told The Times of India.
When the batsman is going hard, I try to remain calm. My chess
training helps me in staying focused with the job at hand, he added.
Chahal developed an interest in both chess and cricket simulta-
neously when he was seven years old. Gradually, he concentrated
on chess and won the under-12 national chess championship.He
represented India at the Asian Youth Championship held in Kozhikode, Kerala, and the World
Youth Chess Championship in Greece.
Chahal, who had a FIDE rating of 1946 once, is still listed on the official website of the World
Chess Federation.Chahal is leading the bowling charts of the Indian Premier League (IPL) this
year with 19 wickets from 11 matches. The star player of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
has an average of 23.27 and an economy of 7.75.
His performance in the Champions League T20 final of 2013 paved his way into the RCB. Chahal
took 2 for 9 in just 3 overs in the final against RCB leading to the victory of Mumbai Indians.
RCB roped him to their team. (courtesy: times of india)
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34 Sourav Suresh 4
35 Lakshmanan K A 4
36 Aswin.P.G 4
37 Ananthapadmanabh D V 4
38 Prasath K R 4
39 Ananthakrishnan B 4
40 Santhosh David 4
41 Aboobacker Chukkan Md 4
42 Bindu Saritha K. WFM 4
43 Madhusoodanan K.R. 4
44 Sharan Rao 4
45 Sanil S 4
46 Amal Roozi 4
47 Chandramohan K 4
48 Hari R Chandran 4
49 Shankarasubbu B 4
50 Abdul Nazar 4
51 Bright Lee M Sunilkumar 4
52 Pradeesh Tk 4
53 Praveen Kamath 4
54 Sidharth P G 4
55 Jamal Muhammad M 4
56 Alex C Joy 4
57 Sanju Oommen 4
58 Sai Balaji E 4
59 Shaji T. L. 4
60 Anees V 4
61 Antony Simethy 4
62 Unnikrishnan V P 4
63 Swaha V S 4
64 Gopakumar P K 4
65 Rohit S 4
66 Syam Peter 4
67 Sanjay D G 4
68 Adithya Krishna H R 4
69 Rithwik Maya Rajesh 4
70 Abdurahiman Elangoli 4
71 Vinodan V P 4
72 Sumod M 4
73 Karan J P 4
74 Ayushh Ravikumar 4
75 Pranav Ram Hariharan 4
76 Aji Kumar A 4
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77 Shine R S 4
78 Martin Samuel 4
79 Prem Krishna N 4
80 Anfas Muhammed 4
81 Aswin B S 4
82 Sreeraman NamboodiriP. 4
83 Vaibhav Kumar Karn 4
84 Devanand K C 4
85 Dhyaan S Nayak 4
86 Unas K.A. 4
87 Latha Vihar Shijith Lal 3
88 Digvijay Sunil 3
89 Randhir P. N. 3
90 Ashitha C C 3
91 Kishore Kumar J 3
92 Muralidharan Naniyate 3
93 Suriya S V AFM 3
94 Sreedeep C V 3
95 Sudheer M K 3
96 Abdul, Samad T K 3
97 Zain K Muhammed 3
98 Niranjan Rajeev 3
99 Sharsha Backer 3
100 Nithyan S 3
101 Abel Saju Chazhoor 3
102 Girish G 3
103 Denny V Davis 3
104 Nakul Ramaswamy 3
105 Vishnu Vinod 3
106 Sreevijay Sunil 3
107 Balakrishnan.K 3
108 Haniah Zainab Manipady 3
109 Sidharth Damodar 3
110 Viswajith Vinod 3
111 Mohammed Salih Pk 3
112 Divyan T 3
113 Sunil Kumar V T 3
114 Nasar C 3
115 Nanda Gopa Sachin 3
116 Abhinav Manoj 3
117 Basheer P V 3
118 Pushpakumar P B 3
119 Abhiram T 3
120 Ameer K V Mohammed 3
121 Jyothis R 3
122 Prajwal V P 3
123 Sidharth A Kumar 3
124 Brahmaha V S 3
125 Sameer C 3
126 Nishad A 3
127 Ahga Kumaran 3
128 Ramakrishnan T V 3
129 Nagaraj Naik 3
130 Vishnudevanandan R P 3
131 K Mundiyantharakkal 3
132 Goutham Krishna G 3
133 Kevin Martin 3
134 Santhosh K P 3
135 Dhanasekar M 3
136 Akhila T M 3
137 Rithunandan R 3
138 Ethan V Johnson 3
139 Anirudhan T.P 3
140 Jafar V 3
141 Devjit A S 3
142 Ranji Philip Stephen 3
143 Ummer Thayyil 3
144 Bhuvaneshwaran R 3
145 Thulaseedharan K 3
146 Swaroopa E T 3
147 Dhineshwar R S 3
148 Murali N P 3
149 Devanand B 3
150 Sneha Haridas 3
151 Padmanaban K 3
152 Darsan T I 3
153 Gautham Krishna P P 3
154 Shreya K 3
155 Prabeesh K 3
156 Adam T 3
157 Shanmugam Pck 3
158 Vasundhara P. 3
159 Harikumar K V 3
160 Abhiram Vannadil 3
161 Senbabu M B 3
162 Edwin Dorairaj J 3
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163 Rajeev K 3
164 Aarushi Prashanth 3
165 Arjun Manoj R 3
166 Heera P 3
167 Adithya A Chullikkad 3
168 Manikanda Prabhu B V 3
169 Dhrikshu K Vasant 3
170 Anirudh Ra 3
171 Arjun K P 3
172 Adhidev K P 3
173 Varsha T.P 3
174 Yogesh Krishna Vijay 3
175 Gautham Prasanth 3
176 Parthiv M Jagannath 3
177 John Veny Akkarakarn 3
178 Sanjay Kumar Karn 3
179 Badri Narayan Balaji 3
180 Nived C 3
181 Apoorva Prashanth 3
182 Sanjay Kunthanthodikayal 3
183 Pranjal Srivastava 2
184 Anupam M Sreekumar 2
185 Rijesh A V 2
186 Sreyas Payyappat 2
187 Sai Kiran K V 2
188 Sudheer K B 2
189 Rithesh Bhat 2
190 Aswin S 2
191 Kunhi Moideen Am 2
192 Muhammed MansoorP K 2
193 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 2
194 Aswanth S Kumar 2
195 Amal Noush C K 2
196 Abhijith U 2
197 Amil Shahul 2
198 Abhinand Manoj 2
199 Bhoomika K 2
200 Velayudhan Nair A. 2
201 Atul Jayesh 2
202 Husnul Nisam 2
203 Rajendran K S 2
204 Niranjan B 2
205 Ranjith Kumar K 2
 Devnar Foundation for the Blind
AICF B Open FIDE Rated National Tournament for the Blind, Hyderabad, Telangana
Vijay Karia wins at Hyderabad
by IA Manjunatha .M, Chief Arbiter
D
evnar-AICF B Open FIDE rated
national chess tournament for the
blind was held at Devnar founda-
tion for the Blind school, Hyderabad. This
tournament was organized by All India
Chess Federation for the Blind in associa-
tion with Devnar foundation for the blind.
The total Number of participants were 119
among them 45 are FIDE rated players.
Players from 13 states took part in this
event. 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 7th round current National
B champion for the blind Soundarya Ku-
mar Pradhan of ODI was leading with 6.5
points, but in the 8th round, Marimuthu K
of T N defeated him to share the lead with
Sri Krishna Udupa with 7 points. In the
final round, on the top board Marimuthu
K and Sri Krishna Udupa agreed for early
draw, Viajy Karia of GUJ beat Soundarya
and Joined Udupa and Marimuthu with
7.5points. Vijay Karia with more number
of victories secured 1st place and became
the winner of 6th Hyderabad FIDE Rating
Chess tournament for Visually Challenged.
Sri Krishna Udupa and Marimuthu K se-
cured 2nd and 3rd place respectively
based on latest tie breaks.
The total cash prize of Rs.50, 000 was
distributed to top 30 players. Prof. Sridhar
Murthy of Osamania University was the
Chief Guest of the prize distribution cere-
mony and he distributed the prizes along
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with Sri Krishna Reddy, Sri Saibaba, Sri
Daivjna Sharma and Dr. A. Saibaba Goud,
MS, Ph.D Padmashri Awardee Founder
Chairman DFFB.Dhanaji Kakade, Rabiran-
jan Pradhan, Archana Joshi and Daviat
Karia Worked as Asst Arbiters
Final ranking:
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Vijay Karia GUJ 7
2 Krishna Udupa KAR 7
3 Marimuthu K T N 7
4 Swapanil Shah MAH 7
5 Prachurya Kumar Pradhan ORI 7
6 Patil Shirish MAH 7
7 Soundarya Kumar Pradhan ORI 6
8 Samant Milind MAH 6
9 Aryan B Joshi MAH 6
10 Yudhajeet D E W B 6
11 Ramesha A R KAR 6
12 Somender B L DEL 6
13 Venkat Reddy S A P 6
14 Rajesh Kumar Sahu U P 6
15 Vaishali Nrendra Salavkar MAH 6
16 Kiran Kumar A Simpi KAR 6
17 Hariharan Gandhi T N 6
18 Vijay Yetre MAH 6
19 Sujith M Unni KER 6
20 Ragupathi R T N 6
21 Shidad M KER 6
22 Narendra Salavkar MAH 6
23 Akediwala Prince D GUJ 6
24 Deeptyajeet De W B 6
25 Rajkumar B T N 5
26 Noushad E P Blind KER 5
27 Dipak Kumar Bhoi (blind) ORI 5
28 Mercel Tomkinson T N 5
29 Karthikeyan R Kasaragod KER 5 72 Mrunali Pande MAH 4
30 Manoranjan Reddy V A P 5 73 Laxmikant A Simpi KAR 4
31 Vijay Arumugham PON 5 74 Vijayakumar Kumbar KAR 4
32 Muthuraman K. T N 5 75 Harshad Vijay Andurlekar MAH 4
33 Satya Praksah Shrivastava DEL 5 76 Dharmaraj R T N 4
34 Lokhande Shobha MAH 5 77 Vadlakoonda Venkatesh TEL 4
35 Vasant D Patil MAH 5 78 Arvind (DELHI) DEL 4
36 Mahesh B A P 5 79 Rajan Kunnumpuram KER 4
37 Mohammed Rahil KER 5 80 Mehta Piyush GUJ 4
38 Navnath S Bhogade MAH 5 81 Seshaiah G A P 4
39 Atish Suresh Jagtap MAH 5 82 Narendra Kumar DEL 4
40 Prasanna Kumar M A P 5 83 Manthesh Niralkeri KAR 4
41 Murugan K T N 5 84 Bhakiyaraj S T N 4
42 Pavankumar Reddy C A P 5 85 Vajire Vaibhav TEL 4
43 Lokesh V T N 5 86 Venkateswararao A ORI 4
44 Ganesh Sivalingam T N 5
45 Debasish Halder W B 5
46 Shivanagouda N M KAR 5
47 Aniruddha Khunte MAH 5
Puzzle of the month
by C.G.S.Narayanan
48 Meghnath Mondal W B 5
49 Harish Sankar Kharat MAH 5 Grigory Popov & Andrey Frolkin
50 Megha Chakraborty W B 5 SuperProblem 30.4.2016
51 Chandru Sampath T N 5
52 Sathish Kumar Rajendran T N 5
53 Mohan Narayan Pathode MAH 5
54 Dileep K KER 5
55 Manoj Kumar Reddy S A P 5
56 Aboobacker Siddeeque KER 5
57 Dharavath Saleem A P 5
58 Sivasankar A A P 4
59 Kumar Raja C H A P 4
60 Gopi R T N 4
61 Vignesh R (blind) T N 4
62 Devender Kumar DEL 4
63 Biswanath Murmu W B 4 Was blacks last move an illegal one?
64 Tijan Punaram Gawar MAH 4 After looking at the position above that
65 Kirti Karia GUJ 4 has just arisen after Blacks move at the
66 Nagarajan R T N 4 nearest chess table, a player remarked
67 Satywan B Teli MAH 4 that, according to the FIDE Laws of Chess
the FIDE Laws of Chess , White now has
68 Sakthikumar V PON 4
an opportunity to mate in 1 move. Is the
69 Bhangi Jagadish R GUJ 4 player right?
70 Ningaraju S Kambali KAR 4 (Solution on page 18 )
71 Azhagukrishnan PON 4

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More selected games from at f1 to be able to control c4 as black's
plan is Nc6a5c4. Here, it would have
National Team Championships, been better to make a central thrust
with: 17.e4 dxe4 18.fxe4 e5 19.dxe5
Bubaneshwar Bxe5 20.Nd5 Qf7 21.Bg2 Black has only
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron a very small advantage.; or, if 17.Bg3
Na5 18.Qc2 Rfc8 19.Bxd6 Qxd6 20.Rg1
Sharma,Dinesh K (2362)
Rc7 21.Qg2 Rac8]17...Na5! 18.Qc2 Nc4
Das,Arghyadip (2442) [A00]
19.Qd3 Rab8 20.Rc1?
1.d3 d5 2.e3 e5 3.d4? [This delib-
erately 'loses' a move and leads to an
unusual game. Probably white wanted to
take his young opponent out of well an-
alysed theoretical variations. The game
becomes similar to a French Defence with
reversed colours - a very, very rare set
up!]3...e4 [Perhaps black would do well
to develop the game classically with:
3...Nc6! 4.Nf3 (4.dxe5 Nxe5 5.Nd2 Bd6
6.Ngf3 Nf6 7.Nxe5 Bxe5 8.c4) 4...e4
5.Nfd2 Be6 6.c4 Nf6 7.Nc3 dxc4 8.Nxc4=
This puts the rook in the exact square
black has an edge.]4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 Nf6
that would make black's impending
6.Qb3 a6 7.Nh3 [This is an idea bor-
s a c r i f i c e o n b 2 w o r k ! B e t t e r wa s t o
rowed from the black side of a French
precede this move by: 20.Bg3 Rb6
Defence where black plays ....Nh6.][Worth
21.Rc1]20...Nxb2!! 21.Kxb2 Ba3+
considering here was another black idea
22.Kc2 Bxc1 23.Kxc1 Qa3+ 24.Kd2
from the French Defence: 7.c5 Nbd7 8.f3
b4! 25.Nb1 Qxa2+ 26.Kd1 [Not
b6=]7...b5! 8.cxb5 cxb5 [Black should
26.Qc2?? b3! 27.Qxa2 bxa2 and the
call white's bluff and smash the daring
pawn queens!]26...Rb6!+
knight on h3 to get the upper hand. 8...
Bxh3!? 9.gxh3 axb5 10.Rg1 Nbd7]9.
Nf4 Be6 10.f3 [White follows the same
strategy that black adopts in the Ad-
vance Variation of the French when he
attacks the apex pawn on e5 with ....
f6.]10...exf3 11.gxf3 Bd6 12.Nxe6
fxe6 13.Bd2 [White prepares to castle
on the queen-side as his king-side is no
longer a safe position for his king. The
king-side is better for launching an at-
tack via the semi-open g-file.]13...00
14.000 Nc6 15.Kb1 Qe7 16.Be1
Black has rook and two pawns for white's
Kh8 17.Bh3 [White attacks the back-
two bishops. This does not constitute a
ward e6 pawn. This bishop was needed

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winning advantage. But white's inactive
rook and bishops plus the king in the
centre grant black a winning position.]
27.Bd2 Rc6 [He offers his b4 pawn
as a bait for a quicker victory. It was
not necessary. Both 27...Rc8 or 27...
a5 would have showcased black's great
superiority.]28.Ke2 [If 28.Bxb4?? Rb8
29.Nd2 Rxb4 30.Ke2 Rc2 31.Rd1 Rb3
and the white queen is trapped.]28...
Rfc8 29.Rf1 Rc1!
[Diagram #][29...Rc1! 30.Rd1 (after
30.Rxc1 Rxc1 the white knight dies on
b1.) 30...R8c2! The threat is 31....Rxd1
32 Kxd1 Qxb1+ winning. 31.Rxc1 Rxc1
and the white knight is lost.]01
Swapnil,S. Dhopade (2478) Agarwal,
Brajesh (2023) [A00]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.e3 e6
5.Bd3 Nd7 6.Ne2 Ndf6 7.00 [Nikolay
Legky (2540) - Peter de Jonghe (2245)
Antwerp Op 1996 went: 7.f3 Nd6 8.g4
c5= 9.dxc5 Qa5+ 10.Nbc3 Qxc5 11.Nd4
Nd7 12.Qe2 a6 13.000 b5 14.Nb3
Qb6 15.Rhe1 b4 16.Nxd5!? exd5 17.e4
d4 18.e5 Nb5 19.Be4 Ra7 20.Bf5 Bc5?
( 2 0 . . . B e 7 ! 2 1 . e 6 f xe 6 2 2 . B xe 6 R f 8 )
21.e6! 00 22.exd7 Bxd7 23.Nxc5 Qxc5
24.Qe7 Qd5? 25.Bxh7+! Kxh7 26.Qxf8
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Qxa2 27.Be5 f6 28.Bxf6! Be6 29.Re5
10 But the result of this game can-
not doom the opening played by black
as white was 300+ rating points more
than black.]7...Be7 8.c4 Nh5 [Black is
anxious to get rid of white's dark square
bishop. If he does not play ....Nh5 now,
white could prevent that option with 8
Ng3.]9.Bxe4 dxe4 10.Nbc3 f5 11.Be5
00 12.d5?! [12.Nb5!? leads to some
interesting and tricky play. 12...Bd6
13.c5 Bxe5 14.dxe5 Qe7 15.Rc1! (15.
Ned4 a6 16.Qxh5 axb5 17.c6 b4!=) 15...
a6 16.Nbd4 Rd8 17.Qb3]12...Bd6 [A
better alternative seems to be: 12...
Bf6 13.Bxf6 Nxf6 14.Qb3 Qe7 15.Rad1
e5 16.Rd2 a6 17.Rc1 Kh8 18.c5 Qxc5
19.Nxe4 Qa5 20.N4c3 Rd8= 21.Qc4 Bd7
22.b4 Qb6=]13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Nd4
Nf6 15.dxe6 Qe5 [A blunder would be:
15...Bxe6? 16.Ncb5 Qe5 17.Nxe6 Qxe6
18.Nxc7+]16.h3 c5 [The pawn on e6
could now be captured though white
seems to have many attacking opportu-
nities: 16...Bxe6! 17.Qb3 a6! 18.Nxe6
(18.Qxb7 The b7 pawns are often easy
pickings, but sometimes poisoned. 18...
Rfb8 19.Nc6 (19.Qc6?? Bd7 20.f4 Qa5
21.b4 Qa3 22.Qxc7 Qxc3+) 19...Rxb7
20.Nxe5 Rxb2 21.Rfd1 Kf8=) 18...Qxe6
1 9 . N d 5 N x d 5 2 0 . c x d 5 Q d 6 2 1 . Ra c 1
Rab8=]17.Ndb5 a6 18.Qd6 Qxe6
19.Qxe6+ Bxe6 20.Nd6 [20.Nc7?
Bxc4]20...b6 21.Rfd1 Rfd8 22.Na4
Rab8 23.Rd2 Kf8 [It must be remem-
bered that the king is a fighting piece
in the endgame. Here he lends a hand
to move to e7 and attack the knight on
d6.]24.Rad1 Rd7 25.a3 Ke7 [As the
Nd6 has no safe exit squares and the
doubled white rooks on the d-file have
no point of entry black could have safe-
ly continued: 25...Rc7!?=]26.Nxb6!

[Diagram # This looks like a winning
sacrifice, but in fact it is the only move
for white to stay alive!]
26...Rc7!= [26...Rxb6?? 27.Nc8++
]27.Na4 Rc6= [Despite white having
won a pawn, he is far from victory be-
cause: 1 the Nd6 cannot move anywhere
without being captured; 2 the doubled
white rooks on the d-file cannot leave
the file as they have to keep protecting
the Nd6.]28.f3 [28.Nc3 Rcb6!]28...exf3
29.gxf3 Nd7 30.Kf2 Nb6! 31.Nc3 [If
31.Nxb6? Rbxb6 and the Nd6 would be
c a p t u r e d ! ] 31...Nxc4 32.Nxc4 Bxc4
33.Rc1 Bf7 34.Na4 c4 [the game is
level with black having some pressure
along the b-file.]35.Rcd1 g5 [Black has
become ambitious. If 35...Be6 36.h4
Rb3 37.Nc3 Rcb6 (37...g6 38.Kg3 Rcb6
39.Na4 Rc6) 38.Na4=]36.Rd7+ Ke6
37.Ra7 [This leads to an advantage
for black. Better was: 37.f4!=]37...h5
38.Rd2 Be8 39.Rh7 Kf6 40.Ra7 Bf7
41.Rd4 Be6 42.Rd2 g4 43.h4 [Diagram
#]43...gxf3 [Better was to attack white
through the third rank: 43...Rb3! 44.Nc3
Rcb6 45.Na4 (45.fxg4 fxg4 46.Ke1 Rxb2
(46...g3 47.Ne4+ (not 47.Rg2? Rxc3
4 8 . b xc 3 R b 1 + 4 9 . Ke 2 B g 4 + 5 0 . K d 2
Rb2++) 47...Kg6 48.Nxg3 Rxe3+
49.Kf2 Reb3) 47.Rxb2 Rxb2 48.Rxa6
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Rh2) 45...f4! 46.exf4 Rxf3+ 47.Kg2 Rc6]
(position after 43.h4)
44.Kxf3 Rg8 [The attempt to deploy
his bishop more aggressively does not
amount to much. Better was: 44...Ke5
45.Kf2 Rg8 46.Rh7 Bd5 47.Rxh5 Rg2+
48.Ke1 Rg1+ 49.Kf2 Rcg6 50.Rxd5+!
Kxd5 51.Rxf5+ Kd6 (51...Ke4 52.Rf4+=)
5 2 . R a 5 Ke 7 = ] 4 5 . N c 3 R g 4 4 6 . N e 2
R x h 4 47. Nf 4 R h 1 48. R d8? [ B e t t e r
was: 48.Rh7 h4 49.Rh6+ Kf7 50.Rh7+
Kf6=]48...Rf1+ 49.Kg3 Re1 50.Kf3
Rf1+ 51.Kg3 Re1 52.Rf8+ [White
wants to win.]52...Ke5 53.Kf3 Rf1+
54.Kg3 c3? [A better way to seek an
advantage was: 54...Rb1! 55.Nxe6 (55.
Rb7) 55...Rxe6 56.Rc7 Rxb2 57.Rxc4 Rb3
58.Rc5+ Ke4 59.Rcxf5 Rxe3+ 60.Kh4
Rxa3]55.bxc3 Rxc3 56.Kg2 Rxf4 [This
is adventurous and very interesting. But
a simpler winning attempt was: 56...Re1!
57.Nxe6 Re2+! 58.Kf1 Rb2 59.Rc7 Rxa3
60.Rc1 Kxe6+]57.exf4+ Kxf4 58.Rxa6
Bd5+ 59.Kh2 Rc2+ 60.Kh3 [Diagram
#]60...Bg2+?? [The losing move! Black
is thinking of mating along the h-file
through ....Rh2. If he had thought of
mating by ...Rh1, he would have won:
60...Rc1!! 61.Ra4+ Be4 62.Rxe4+ Kxe4
63.Kh4 Ra1 64.Ra8 f4 65.Kxh5 f3 66.Rf8
Ke3 67.Re8+ Kd2 68.Rd8+ Ke2 69.Re8+
Kf1 70.Kg4 Rxa3 and
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
it is hemmed in by its own pawns and
does not have much of a role to play in
this game. Black is slightly better. White
should try here: 28.Qe2 Qg6 29.h5 Qe8
30.Nd2 f5 31.Nxe4 fxe4 32.Nf2 Nf6]

(position after 60.Kh3)

black has reached the winning Lucena
position.]61.Kh4 Bc6 [61...Bf3 62.Ra4+
Be4 63.Kxh5]62.Kxh5 10

Rajesh,V A V (2341) Himanshu,

Sharma (2398) [A00] 28...g5! [With all of his pieces placed
satisfactorily, black attempts to start
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 an attack.]29.Bb2 h6 [Black is waiting
5.e3 b5 6.b3 Bg4 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.h3 patiently for the right moment to attack.
Bh5 9.00 e6 10.Bb2 Bd6 11.c5 Bb8= If here: 29...gxf4 30.exf4 Rg7 31.Nd2 f5
12.Ne5 Bxe2 13.Nxe2 Qc8 14.Nf4 00 32.Nxe4 fxe4 33.Ne5 Nf6 34.Qe2=]30.
15.Nfd3 a5 16.a3 Ne4 17.f4 Ra7 18.g4 Qe2 Rg7 31.Bc1 Rff7 32.Nf2 Nxf2
f6 19.Nf3 a4 [This is what one may call [Slowly the game is changing in favour
an "Indian style" game where early hand of white. 32...gxh4 would have been
to hand combat is avoided and players better]33.Rfxf2 Qd8 34.hxg5 hxg5
tend to block the game and manoeuvre 35.fxg5 fxg5
for long. Black has gained a space ad-
vantage and has his knight posted on the
central e4 square. Of course, white could
kick out that knight quickly if he wants
to.]20.b4 Rf7 21.Rc1 [The idea behind
bringing this rook to c1 is to transfer it
to g2. But he could have done it more
s i m p l y b y 2 1 . Ra 2 ] 2 1 . . . N f 8 2 2 . R c 2
Ng3? [Better was to bring the queen's
rook into the game first and then think
about where to deploy his Nf8: 22...
Rae7]23.Re1 Rae7 24.Rg2 Ne4 25.h4
Nd7 26.Rf1 Qe8 27.Qe1 Rf8 28.Ba1 36.e4! [After this move, White's 'bad'
[Diagram #][With this move black ac- bishop turns into a good bishop.]36...
knowledges that his bishop is bad as Bf4 37.Bxf4 gxf4 38.g5! Qe7 39.Rf1!

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[White re-positions his rook onto the
e-file. Black is unable to take advantage
of this slow manoeuvring because of the
white pawn on g5.] 39...Rf8 40.Re1
Re8 41.Qf2 Qf7 42.Qh4 Nf8 43.exd5
exd5 44.Rxe8 Qxe8 45.Qxf4 Ng6
46.Qd2 Qe4 [With his queen well placed
in the centre, black has some advan-
tage now.]47.Qe2 Nf4! 48.Qxe4 dxe4
49.Rg4 [If 49.Ne5 Nxg2 50.Kxg2 Rxg5+
51.Kf2 Rh5 52.Ke3 Rh3+ 53.Kxe4 Rxa3
54.Nxc6 Rh3+]49...Ne2+ 50.Kf2 exf3
51.d5!? [With the tide going against him,
white gambles! If 51.Kxf3 Nc3 and ....Nd5
wins for black.]51...cxd5 52.Kxf3 Re7
53.g6 d4? [It is necessary for a player
to be careful at all times, especially when
victory is within his grasp. He could now
win with: 53...Kg7 54.c6 Nc3 55.Kf4
Rc7+]54.Re4! Ng1+ 55.Kf4 Rd7
56.c6! Rc7 57.Re6 Kg7 58.Rd6 Rc8
59.Ke4 Ne2 60.Kd3 Nc3
[If 60...Ng3 61.Kxd4! Nf5+ 62.Kc5 Nxd6
63.Kxd6 Kxg6 64.Kd7 Ra8 65.c7 Kf5
66.c8Q Rxc8 67.Kxc8 Ke6 68.Kc7 Kd5
69.Kb6 Kc4 70.Kc6 Kb3 71.Kxb5 Kxa3
72.Kc4 Kb2 73.b5 a3 74.b6 a2 75.b7
a1Q 76.b8Q+ Kc1 (76...Kc2 77.Qh2+
Kc1 78.Qg1+ Kb2 79.Qf2+ Kc1 (79...Ka3
80.Qe3+ Kb2 81.Qd2+ Ka3 82.Qb4+ Ka2
83.Qb3#) 80.Qe1+ Kb2 81.Qd2+ Kb1
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82.Kb3!+) 77.Qf4+ Kb1 78.Qf1+ Ka2
79.Qe2+ Qb2=]61.Kxd4 Nb1 62.Kc5
Nxa3 63.Rd3 Nb1 64.Rd1 Nc3 65.Rd3
Na2 66.Kxb5 Nxb4! 67.Rd7+ Kxg6?
[67...Kh6! would have drawn as it does
not allow white's Rd6 with check.]68.
Rd6+ Kf7 69.Kxb4 Ke7 70.Rd7+ Ke6
71.Kc5 Ra8 72.Rd1 a3 73.c7 a2 74.Kc6
Ke5 [Not 74...a1Q 75.Rxa1 Rxa1 76.c8Q+
is check, and he has no time for 76...
Rc1+]75.Ra1 [White played the ending
very well to turn defeat into victory.]10
Muthaiah,Al (2301)
Shyam,Sundar M (2512) [A00]
1.c4 e5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3
Ne7 5.e4 d6 6.Nge2 Bg4 [This is un-
usual. Evidently, black wishes to take
white out of the book.]7.d3 [7.f3 Be6
8.d4 exd4 9.Nxd4=]7...Qd7 8.Be3
00 9.Qd2 c5 [Black probably want-
ed to rule out white ever playing d3
d4.]10.00 [A more aggressive plan
was to castle long: 10.f3 Be6 11.h4
Nbc6 12.h5 Nd4 13.000]
10...Nbc6 11.Nd5 Nd4 12.Bxd4 [12.
Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.f3 Be6 14.f4 Rae8 Ex-
pecting f4f5, black prepares an am-
bush down the e-file. If now 15.f5 gxf5
1 6 . B xd 4 e xd 4 1 7 . e x f 5 B x f 5 1 8 . R x f 5
Qxe2]12...cxd4 13.f3 Nxd5 14.cxd5
Bh3 15.Rac1 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 h5 [Black
intends to keep an eye on c1 to prevent
white from doubling rooks along the
open c-file.]
17.Rc4 [Doubling along the only open
file in the game was very tempting. As
this is not allowed to happen, white
could have tried here: 17.f4 Rac8
18.h3 (18.Rxc8 Rxc8 19.f5 Kh7 20.fxg6+
fxg6 21.h3 Bh6 22.Qd1 Qc7 23.Rf6 Bg5
24.Rf2= Be3 25.Rf6 Qc2) 18...Rxc1
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
19.Nxc1 f5 20.Ne2 Qe7=]
17...Kh7 18.Qc2 Bh6! [Diag]Black has
seen further into the game and allows an
apparently dangerous incursion of a white
rook into his camp.]
19.Rc7 [Had white foreseen what was
coming, he would have played: 19.f4
Rac8=]19...Rac8! 20.Rc4 [If 20.Rxd7?
Rxc2 The knight is pinned and threat-
ened with capture, costing him a pawn.
21.Re1 Rxb2]20...Be3 21.f4 Kg7
22.fxe5 dxe5 23.Ng1 h4 24.gxh4
24.Nf3 Rxc4 25.dxc4 hxg3 26.Nxe5 (26.
h4 f5) 26...Qe7 27.Nf3 gxh2 28.Kh1
Rc8 29.b3 b5 White has a very difficult
position to defend.]24...Rxc4 25.dxc4
Qg4+ 26.Kh1 f5 27.exf5 Rxf5 28.Qg2
Qxg2+ 29.Kxg2 d3! [Diagram #]
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30.Rd1 [White is lost. If now: 30.Nh3
e4 31.Rd1 Bc5 32.a3 e3 33.Rxd3 e2 and
the pawn cannot be stopped.]
30...e4 01
Srinath,Narayanan (2469)
Kumar, S (1782) [A00]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4
Nf6 5.e5 Nc6 6.Qa4 Nd5 7.Qe4 [7.Qb3
would not have given all the play that
black gets in this game]7...Nb6 8.Nc3
Bg7 9.Bf4 00 10.000 d5 11.Qe3
[This gives black lots of good play. Kateri-
na Rohonyan 2316 vs Jerry Wheeler 2155,
USA 2007 went: 11.exd6 Bf5 12.dxe7
Qxe7 13.Qxe7 Nxe7 14.Bd6 Rfe8 15.Bb5
Nc6 drawn on Move 33.]
11...Bg4![So easily, black has achieved
a better position. He has developed all his
pieces at the right places and is threat-
ening to seize white's pawn on e5 which
will soon be without any defence.]12.h4?
[Diagram #][This is just a hit in the air
and does not do white any good. Better
was to develop his unmoved bishop as
shown. It is a very complicated variation
and either player could slip before the
queen sacrifices. The student would ad-
vantageously explore the many unstated
sub-variations that abound in this fas-
cinating play.

12...d4 13.Qe4 Bf5? [This should lead
t o e q u a l i ty. S t r o n g e r wa s : 1 3 . . . N d 7
14.Nxd4 Bxd1 15.Nxc6 Bxc2 16.Kxc2
bxc6 17.Bc4 Nb6 18.Bb3 e6]14.Qe1
Rc8! [The position is equal but black's
pressure along the c-file is worrisome.]15.
Bb5 Nd5 16.Bxc6 Nxc3 17.bxc3 bxc6
[Material is even, but white's castled
position looks ready to fall apart.]18.
Nxd4 Qa5 19.Nxf5 Qa3+! 20.Kd2 gxf5
21.Rh3 Rfd8+ 22.Rd3 Qxa2 23.Rxd8+?
[It is natural to seek exchanges when
under pressure. But here it only hastens
the entry of black's dormant rook on
c8 into the game. Better was 23.Qe3=
Sometimes it takes many, many mistakes
to lose a game!]23...Rxd8+ 24.Ke3
Rd5! 25.f3? [It was best to hurry his
king to the safety of the king-side with:
25.Kf3 Now his king is stuck in a kind
of traffic jam.]25...Qxc2 26.Rxd5 cxd5
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
27.Qa1? [Comparatively better was:
27.Qd2 Qxd2+ 28.Kxd2 e6 and the pawn
down, same colour bishop endgame is
lost for white.]27...Qxg2 28.Qa5 [With
his previous move, white had probably
hoped to capture the a7 pawn as compen-
sation for his g2. Too late, he finds that if
28.Qxa7 Qg1+ skewers the queen. From
now onwards the game is full of skewers!]
28...Qc2 29.Qb4 [If 29.Qd8+ Bf8
30.Qxd5 Qxc3+ 31.Kf2 e6 32.Qd8 Qc5+
33.Kg3 h5 34.Bh6 Qxe5+!+ 35.Kh3
Qd6]29...e6 30.Qb8+ Bf8 31.Bg5 [31.
Bh6?? Qc1+! skewers the bishop!]31...
Qxc3+ 32.Kf2 Qb4 33.Qd8 [33.Qxa7??
Bc5+]33...h6!
This clever move drags the white bish-
op to a vulnerable square and ensures
the exchange of queens and a winning
bishop ending.]
34.Bxh6 Qe7 35.Qxe7 [35.Qb8??
Qxh4+ 36.Kg2 Qxh6]35...Bxe7 36.h5
Bc5+ 37.Ke2 Bd4! [Whenever possi-
ble, pin down your opponent's forces
into defence! Then they cannot attack
you.]38.Bf4 f6! 39.exf6 Bxf6 40.Kd3
a5 41.Kc2 a4 42.Bd6 Kh7 43.Kb1
[The poor king has to capture black's a4
pawn.]43...Kh6 44.Ka2 Kxh5 45.Ka3
Kg5 46.Kxa4 e5! [The king is planning
Kf4 and Kxf3 becoming three pawns
up.]01
Two games from Asian Youth Chess
Championship
Annotated by Raghunandan K.S
Raghunandan,Kaumandur Srihari (2260)
Tahbaz,Arash (2359) [D37]
[The following game was with the winner
of the tournament]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6
5.Bf4 00 6.Rc1 Nbd7 7.e3 c6 8.cxd5
Nxd5 [if 8...exd5 then after 9.h3 White
would have a favourable version of the
QGD Exchange and I would continue
with Bd3 and 00 with a comfortable
game]9.Bg3 [The capture 9.Nxd5?! is
not so good because after 9...exd5 Black
would move his knight to f6 and com-
pared to the variation with 8...exd5 the
f6square is free for the d7knight and
Black could develop his light-squared
bishop easily]9...Nxc3 [9...c5 10.Bd3
cxd4 (10...b6 11.00 Bb7 12.e4 Nxc3
13.bxc3) 11.exd4 Nxc3?! (11...N7b6
12.00 Bd7 13.Qe2 with good attacking
chances for white) 12.bxc3 b6 (12...Nf6
leads to 13.Ne5 b6 14.Nc6 Qe8 15.Nxe7+
Qxe7 16.Bh4! an important move, pin-
ning the knight to the queen and white is
better) 13.Be4 Ba6 14.Qa4!+ (14.Bxa8?
Qxa8 15.c4 Ba3 16.Rc2 Bb4+ 17.Kf1 Rc8
18.Qc1 Qd5 Black would win the c4pawn
and have good compensation for the ex-
change because of White's vulnerable
king) ]10.bxc3 c5 11.Bd3 cxd4 [Black
has to play this if he wants some sort of
counter play][if 11...Nf6 then 12.00 b6
and here either 13.e4 (or 13.Ne5 Bb7
14.Qa4 threatening Nc6 14...Qc8 (if 14...
Qd5 then 15.f3 is not good for Black)
15.f3 with a nice plus for White) 13...Bb7
14.Qe2 and white has a nice centre]
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12.cxd4 [12.exd4 was also possible
transposing to 9...c5]12...Bb4+ [for
12...Qa5+ 13.Nd2 and I don't mind giv-
ing the a2pawn for a huge compensa-
tion for eg. after: 13...Qxa2 14.00 just
look at the Black pieces and compare it
to White's! who has dangerous threats
like Nc4 and Ra1]13.Nd2 e5 [if 13...
Qa5 14.Rc2 e5 (14...Nb6 15.00 Bd7
16.Nb3; 14...Qa3?! 15.Qe2 and 00)
15.00 Bxd2 16.Rxd2 exd4 17.exd4 b6
(17...Nf6 18.Be5) 18.Re1 (18.Be4?!
B a 6 ) 1 8 . . . B a 6 ( 1 8 . . . B b 7 1 9 . Re 7 )
1 9 . B x a 6 Q x a 6 2 0 . Re 7 a n d d 4 d 5
d6]14.00 exd4 15.exd4 [15.Ne4!? I
thought of this for some time but at last
took back on d4 15...Nb6! Black wants
to play ...Bf5 a) 15...Nf6 16.Nxf6+ Qxf6
17.exd4 and white has threats like Qh5
and Be5 and he can also play Rb1 to
prevent the c8bishop from coming out;
b) 15...dxe3 16.fxe3 with Qh5 and Ng5
coming (16.Qh5 Qa5 17.Ng5 h6) ;16.Qh5
(16.exd4 Bf5) 16...f5! is a good defence
for Black (16...h6 17.exd4 Be6 18.Rfd1
with Nc5 coming next) ]15...Nf6?! [15...
Nb6! 16.Nc4 Be6 (16...Nxc4?! 17.Rxc4
Bd6 18.Be4 and atleast for some time
white has prevented black from devel-
oping his c8bishop.) 17.Ne3 Nd5 was
much better for Black although white has
a small plus]16.Ne4

[this move keeps Black's pieces tied
down and also poses threats.][16.Rc4
Nd5; 16.Nc4 Be6; 16.Nb3 b6 (or 16...Be6
17.Nc5 Bd5) ; 16.Be5 Bg4! this is impor-
tant to induce f3 first 17.f3 (17.Bxf6?!
Qxf6 18.Qxg4 Bxd2) 17...Be6]16...Nd5
[16...Nxe4 17.Bxe4 Bd6 18.Re1 here
white has a passed d-pawn and nice
space whereas Black's pieces are tied
down; 16...h6 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Be5
Qd8 19.Bb1 and Qd3 comes next; 16...
Qxd4? loses 17.Rc4 Qb6 18.Nxf6+ gxf6
(18...Qxf6 19.Rxb4) 19.Qh5 f5 20.Rg4+!
Kh8 21.Be5+ f6 22.Rh4+]17.Qh5 h6
[17...g6? 18.Qxd5 Qxd5 19.Nf6++;
17...f5 18.Bc4]18.Rb1! [this prevents
Black from developing his c8bishop im-
mediately and also prepares the rook lift
Rb3g3]18...b6 [18...Be7 19.Bc4 (19.
Be5 f6 20.Bd6 now d5 is hanging 20...f5
21.Bc4 Bxd6 22.Bxd5+ Kh8 23.Nxd6 Qxd6
24.Qf3) 19...Nf6 20.Nxf6+ Bxf6 21.d5
and d6 comes next; 18...a5! 19.Be5! (19.
a3?! Bxa3 20.Rb5 Be6 21.Rxb7 Be7 now
Black has the passed a-pawn; 19.Bc4?!
Be6 20.Nc5 Bxc5 21.dxc5 Nf4! 22.Bxf4
Bxc4=) 19...f6 (19...Be6 20.a3 Bxa3
21.Rxb7 Be7 22.Qf3! with threats like
Qg3 or Nc5) 20.Bd6 Ne7 21.Bc5 with a
plus for white (21.Bxb4?! axb4 22.Rxb4
Nc6=) ]19.Be5 Be7 20.Rb3 [20.Bc4
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is also possible but I hesitated to play
this as I wanted to keep my bishop on
the b1h7 diagonal 20...Be6 (20...Bb7
21.Rb3; 20...Nf6 21.Qf3) 21.Rb3 Nf4
22.Bxf4 Bxc4 23.Rg3 Qd5 (23...Bxf1
24.Rxg7+ Kxg7 25.Qxh6+ Kg8 26.Be5
f6 27.Qg6+ Kh8 28.Ng5+; 23...Qxd4
24.Be5) 24.Qxh6 Qxd4 25.Be3 Qb2
26.Rd1 and Bd4 next wins]20...Be6
21.Bb1
[and surprisingly Black has no good de-
fence!]21...Nf6 [21...f6 22.Rg3! (22.
Ng5? fxg5 23.Bxg7 Rf6 24.Bxf6 Bxf6)
22...fxe5 (22...Rf7 23.Qxh6+) 23.Nc5!
(or 23.Qxh6 Bf6 24.dxe5+ Bxe5?
25.Qxe6+) 23...bxc5 24.Rxg7+ Kxg7
25.Qg6+ Kh8 26.Qh7#; 21...f5 22.Rg3
Bf6 23.Qxh6 fxe4? 24.Rxg7+ Bxg7
25.Qxg7#]22.Nxf6+ Bxf6 23.Rg3 Kh8
[23...Bxe5 24.Qxe5 and the g7pawn
cannot be defended without making con-
cessions 24...g5 (24...g6 25.Bxg6+)
25.Qe4 (25.f4+) 25...Kg7 26.Qh7+
Kf6 27.Qxh6++]24.d5! Bd7 [24...
Qxd5 25.Qxh6+ gxh6 26.Bxf6#; 24...
Bxd5 25.Bxf6 Qxf6 (25...gxf6 26.Qxh6#)
2 6 . Q xd 5 ] 2 5 . B f 4 [ t h r e a t e n i n g B x h 6 ]
[25.Bd6? Bg4! (25...Rg8 26.Qxf7 Be8
27.Rxg7!+) ]25...Qe7 26.d6! [26.
Bxh6 g6 27.Bg7+ Kxg7 28.Bxg6 (28.
Rxg6+?? fxg6 29.Qxg6+ Kh8+) 28...
Rh8 29.Bh7+ Kf8 30.Qh6+ also prob-
ably wins]26...Qe6 [26...Qe8 27.Bxh6
g6 28.Bxg6 fxg6 29.Rxg6+]27.Bxh6 g6
28.Bg7+! Kxg7 29.Rxg6+ fxg6 30.Qxg6+
[and Qh7 mate next]
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Tran,Minh Thang (2332) Raghunan-
dan, Kaumandur Srihari (2260) [D47]
Asian Youth Chess Championship
Ulan Bator (5), 09.04.2016
[This is the 5th round game and I had
lost in the 4th round]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e3 Nf6
5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5
8.Bd3 Bd6 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Ne4?! [White
wants to keep control on c5 or win a
p aw n ][1 0 .00 w oul d be better ] 1 0 ...
Nxe4 11.Bxe4 [now white threatens to
win a pawn either on c6 or on h7]11...
Rc8 [or 11...f5 12.Bxc6 Rc8 13.Bxd7+
Qxd7 14.Qe2 Be4 15.00 00 Black has
the 2 bishops and the open c-file and
white's dark squared bishop has no good
squares]12.Bd2
[white wants to play b4 and stop any
counterplay with ...c5 opening the a8h1
diagonal for the bishop][now if 12.Bxh7
Black plays 12...c5 13.Be4 cxd4 14.Qd3
(14.Qb1? Rxc1+ 15.Qxc1 Bxe4+) 14...
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Bxe4 15.Qxe4 dxe3]12...f5 [for fast
development][12...Qe7 13.a3 f5 14.Bd3
00 (14...c5?! 15.Bxb5 cxd4 16.Qa4
dxe3 17.Bxe3) 15.b4 a5 16.Qb3 is ok
for white]13.Bd3 00 [13...c5 14.Bxb5
cxd4 15.Qa4 dxe3 16.Bxe3 a6! 17.Be2
00 was also good for me but I liked to
castle first; 13...Qe7 14.e4 fxe4 15.Bxe4
Nf6 16.Bg5 is good for White]14.b4 Qf6
[now Black is threatening both ...c5 and
e5 which cannot be prevented]15.Rc1
[15.00? loses to 15...c5! 16.bxc5 Bxf3
17.gxf3 Bxh2+! 18.Kxh2 (18.Kh1 Qh4;
18.Kg2 Qg5+) 18...Qh4+ 19.Kg1 Qg5+
20.Kh2 Rf6+; 15.Bc3 preventing ...c5
and controlling the e5square but Black
has other ideas like 15...Qg6 16.Kf1
Nf6 17.a3 Nd5 now White's king might
come under attack and also his h1rook
is out of the game and in the next move
Black can play ...a5]15...Qg6 [15...
e5 was playable but I didn't like this
move because of the following variation
16.dxe5 Nxe5 17.Nxe5 Bxe5 18.00
now White is threatening to play f4, so
18...c5! 19.bxc5 Bxh2+ 20.Kxh2 Qh4+
21.Kg1 Bxg2 22.f3! (22.Kxg2 Qg4+=)
2 2 . . . Q h 1 + 2 3 . K f 2 Q h 2 2 4 . Ke 1 B x f 1
25.Bxf1 Qg3+= with a perpetual, but I
wanted to win the game at any cost]16.
Kf1 [16.00 c5 17.Nh4 Qh5 18.g3 (18.
dxc5 Bxh2+ 19.Kxh2 Qxh4+ 20.Kg1
Bxg2+) 18...c4+ and the d3bishop is
trapped; 16.Qb3 Rce8 17.Nh4 Qh5 (17...
Qg4 18.g3 c5 19.bxc5 Bxh1 20.cxd6 a6
21.Be2 Qh3 22.Nf3) 18.Nf3 Nf6 with a
good position for Black]16...e5 [16...a5
17.a3 axb4 18.axb4 Nf6 with ...Ne4/.
..Nd5 next is also good for Black]17.
Nh4? [White was greedy][17.e4! was
better although after 17...f4! Black has
a good initiative (17...exd4?! 18.exf5
Qf7 (18...Qf6 19.Qb3+ Kh8 20.Bg5 and
Nxd4) 19.Ng5 (19.Nxd4 Ne5 20.Ne6
Nxd3 21.Qxd3 Qxf5) ) ; 17.dxe5?! Nxe5
18.Nxe5 Bxe5 now Black is threatening
...c5 19.f3 Rcd8 not only is White's king
weak but even his bishops are very weak
and other pieces passive]
17...Qf6 18.Nxf5 [18.dxe5? Nxe5
19.Nxf5 Nxd3+; 18.Bxf5? Qxh4 19.g3
Qf6+]18...g6 19.Nh6+? [19.dxe5! was
better 19...Bxe5 20.f4 gxf5 21.fxe5 Nxe5
but even then Black has a great attack go-
ing on as the white king is so weak]19...
Kg7 20.Ng4 Qh4 21.h3 [21.f3 Qxg4+;
21.Be2 h5 22.g3 Qh3++]21...h5 22.Bxg6
[22.g3 Qxg3+]22...hxg4 23.Bf5 e4?!
[23...Rcd8 24.g3 Qh5 25.Bxg4 Qf7; 23...
c5! should have been played 24.dxc5
Nxc5 (24...e4? 25.Bc3+ Kh6 26.g3 Bxg3
27.fxg3 Rxf5+ 28.Kg2+) 25.bxc5 (25.
Bxc8 Qxf2#) 25...Rxc5 26.Qb1 (26.
Qd3 Rd5 27.Qc2 Rxf5 28.Qxf5 Rxd2) 26...
Rxc1+ 27.Bxc1 g3! 28.f3 Rxf5! 29.Qxf5
Qc4++ I saw this variation when I was
analysing; 23...g3 also works 24.Bxd7
(24.f3 Rcd8+; 24.Bc3 e4) 24...Rxf2+
25.Kg1 (25.Ke1 Bxb4) 25...Bxb4 26.Rd1
c5 27.d5 Bxd5 Even after seeing this I
was somehow not sure about 23...g3]24.
Qxe4 [24.g3! Bxg3 25.Qxe4! (25.fxg3
Qxg3 26.hxg4 (26.Qxe4 Rxf5+ 27.Qxf5
Rf8) 26...Qf3+ (26...Qxg4 27.Rh7+ Kg8
28.Qb3++) 27.Kg1 Rh8 28.Rh5 Rxh5
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29.gxh5 Qxf5+) 25...c5 26.Qxb7 Rxf5
27.f4! I had missed this move during
the game (27.Qxd7+ Rf7 28.Qxg4+ Qxg4
29.hxg4 Rxf2+ 30.Ke1 Rh2++) ]24...
Nf6 25.Qd3 [25.Qe6 Rcd8 threatening
...Bc8 26.g3 Qh8+ and ...Bc8 next;
25.Qc2 Rce8 threatening ...Ne4 26.g3
Bxg3 27.fxg3 Qxg3+]25...c5!!
[25...Rce8 is also winning but is not so
easy to declare 26.Be1 a) 26.e4 Nxe4;
b) 26.g3 Qh5 27.e4 (27.Bc3 Nd5 and
if the bishop moves then ...Bxg3) 27...
c5+;26...g3! 27.f3 Nd5 28.e4 Rxf5]26.
dxc5 [26.Bxc8 Ne4 27.Be1 Rxf2+ 28.Kg1
Qg3 29.Bxf2 Qxf2#; 26.Qxb5 was a bit te-
nacious 26...Rc7 27.Qe2 cxd4! (27...Ne4?
28.Qxg4+ Qxg4 29.hxg4 Nxd2+ 30.Ke2
Ne4 31.bxc5) 28.Rxc7+ Bxc7 29.exd4
Re8+ and Black is winning]26...Ne4!
[now f2 is under attack]27.Qd4+ [27.
cxd6 Qxf2#; 27.Bxe4 Qxf2#]27...Kh6
28.g3 [28.Be1 Rxf5+]28...Rxf5 [28...
Nxg3+?? 29.fxg3 Rxf5+ 30.Ke2 and white
escapes]29.gxh4 [29.Qxe4 Bxe4 30.gxh4
g3+]29...Rxf2+ 30.Ke1 Bg3! [Impor-
tant move][30...Rxd2? 31.Qxe4! Bxe4
32.Kxd2 Bxh1 33.cxd6= is a draw]31.Kd1
Rxd2+ 32.Qxd2 Nxd2 33.Kxd2 Rd8+
34.Kc3 [34.Kc2 Be4+ 35.Kb3 (35.Kb2
Be5+ 36.Ka3 Rd3+) 35...Rd3+ 36.Kc2
Ra3+ 37.Kb2 Rxe3 and Be5+ on the next
move wins]34...Be5+ 01
 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan

1 2

3 4

5 6

White to play and win in all the above six positions

(Solutions on page 47)

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 Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan

White to play and win in all the above six endings

(Solutions on page 47)

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Masters of the past-64 Filip Miroslav

Miroslav Filip (27 October 1928 27 April 2009) the Czech chess
grandmaster, devoted his professional career to many aspects of the
game, as player, author, journalist and arbiter. Filip was awarded the
title of International Master in 1953, and the Grandmaster title in 1955.
It was during the seven years from 1955 to 1962 that Filip twice
achieved the arduous feat of qualifying for the Candidates Tourna-
ments for the World Championship, at Amsterdam 1956 and again at
Curacao, 1962. Thus Filip was automatically propelled into the upper
echelons of the world elite. It was during this period that Filip inflict-
ed defeat on no fewer than three world champions, Dr Max Euwe in
1955, Vassily Smyslov (the reigning champion) in 1957 and former
world champion Mikhail Tal in 1962.

Filip also won the international tournaments at his home city of Prague in 1956, again at
Marienbad 1960 and Buenos Aires 1961. In spite of his glittering achievements and wins
against the world's best in individual encounters, Filip failed in his ultimate ambition to
challenge for the world title. Indeed, in his second appearance in the candidates tourna-
ment at Curacao 1962, despite scoring a fine counter-attacking victory against Mikhail
Tal, he was generally outclassed, both by the established Soviet grandmasters and the
new force represented by Bobby Fischer, the mercurial young American. Therafter, Filip
grew less enthusiastic about tournament play, becoming more concerned with avoiding
defeat, at which he was an adept, than in scoring wins. As a result he turned his profes-
sional hand ever more to authorship, journalism and arbiting.

He was selected by the World Chess Federation to be arbiter for six subsequent world
championship contests, including the controversial Karpov v Korchnoi match at Baguio
1978. He conducted the chess column in the Prague daily sports paper "Denik Sport"
with great distinction, and wrote books on the candidates tournament of 1956, the world
championship of 1978 and the Lucerne Chess Olympiad of 1982.

His prowess as a player was further confirmed by his results for Czechoslovakia in the
Chess Olympiads , where he represented his country on a remarkable twelve occasions,
three of those on top board, scoring 114 points from 194 games for a 58.76 percentage.
In 1970 he won the individual gold medal for his performance in the Kapfenberg Euro-
pean Team Championship.

Miroslav Filip was a worthy successor to the tradition of the Prague School, which numbered
amongst its alumni Wilhelm Steinitz, the first "official" world champion, Richard Reti, the
pioneeer of hypermodernism and Oldrich Duras , the great tournament competitor. Filip
was born in Prague on October 27, 1928, and died there on April 27.

TalFilip, Candidates Tournament (round 12), Curacao 1962; Sicilian Defence (ECO B43)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.f4 b5 7.a3 Bb7 8.Qf3 Nf6 9.Bd3 Bc5
10.Nb3 Be7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bd2 d6 13.g4 d5 14.e5 Nfd7 15.Qh3 g6 16.Nd4 Nc6 17.Nce2
Nxd4 18.Nxd4 Nc5 19.b4 Ne4 20.Be3 Rfe8 21.Rae1 Bf8 22.Nf3 a5 23.f5 exf5 24.gxf5 Rxe5
25.fxg6 hxg6 26.Nxe5 Qxe5 27.c3 axb4 28.Bd4 Bc8 29.Qg2 Qh5 30.Bxe4 dxe4 31.Qxe4
Qg5+ 32.Kh1 Be6 33.Be5 Rd8 34.h4 Qh5 35.Qf4 Rd3 36.Bf6 Qd5+ 37.Kg1 bxc3 38.Re4
Bc5+ 39.Kh2 Qa2+ 01 courtesy: Wikipeidia

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3rd Late Shri Laxmikant V Desai Memorial FIDE Rating Tournament, Mardol, Goa

Winner Ram S Krishnan receiving the trophy from the Chief Guest Shri.Rajendra Desai.Kisor M
Bandekar, Secretary, Goa Chess Association is to the right of the Chief Guest.

Maharashtra State Selection Women FIDE Rating Chess Tournament, Sangli

(Left to right) Mangesh Gambhire, Chintamani Limaye, Dr. Vasanti Paradkar, Shri Govind Kulkarni,
Mrs. Smita Kelkar, IA Nitin Shenvi along with champion WFM Rucha Pujari.
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 All India below 1800 FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2016, Jalgaon

L to R- N J Gadia Secretary JDCA, Rajesh Chaudhari, Mayor Nitin Laddha, MLA Rajumama Bhole,
Lalit Kolhe, DSO Sunanda Patil and Faruk Shaikh, Jt Secretary MCA

United Kozhikode Dist. Chess Association Fide Rated Open Tournament 2016,Calicut

Fide Master M Vinoth Kumar Is receiving the winner trophy from Mr. E Nirmaldas, the secretary,
United Kozhikode District chess association, Near- M Ephrame ,the chief arbiter, Jamal Mohaideen,
Malapuram chess foundation, Shaji, Joint. Secretary,United Kozhikode District chess association
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Solutions to Tactics from master games on p.42
1. Matthiesen,M (2370)
Ovsejevitsch,S (2584) [D31]
Aarhus Chess House GM Aarhus DEN (8.1),
20.02.2016 [Position after 21st move. White
to play.]22.Rxd7! [22.Rxd7 Qxd7 (22...Qxe4
23.Qxf7+ Kh7 24.Qh5+ Kg8 (24...Nh6 25.Rxg7+
Kh8 26.Qxh6+) 25.Bxg7 Nxg7 (25...Qh4
26.Qf7+ Kh7 27.Bf6+ Kh6 28.Qh7#) 26.Qf7+
Kh8 27.Qxg7#) 23.Nf6+ gxf6 (23...Kf8
24.Nxd7++) 24.Bxf6 Ng7 25.Qh6 Wins]10
2.Jumabayev,Rinat (2607)
Igonin,Temur (2470) [D20]
Aeroflot Open A 2016 Moscow RUS (6.25),
06.03.2016 [Position after 23rd move.White to
play.]24.Bd7! Qxd7 [24...Rxc1 25.Rxc1! Qxd7
26.e6+]25.e6+ Qd6 [25...Qc7 26.Bxc7+ Rxc7
27.Qg3 Nxe6 (27...Nc6 28.Rxf7+) 28.Rxc7
Nxc7 29.Qxg4+]26.Qa3! Nxe6 27.Bxd6+
Bxd6 28.Qxd6+ Ka8 29.Rxc8+ Rxc8 30.Rxf7
10
3.Goganov,Aleksey (2575)
Jobava,Baadur (2676) [E11]
Aeroflot Open A 2016 Moscow RUS (1.9),
01.03.2016 [Position after 27th move. White
to play.]28.Rg6! [28.Kxf2 Qxe6 (28...Rf8+
29.Kg2 Qxe6 30.Rh1) 29.Rh1 Rf8+ 30.Kg2
wins too.]28...Qh3 [28...Bc5 29.Rxg4 Bxe3
30.Bxg7+ Kg8 31.Bd4+ Kf8 32.Bxe3+]29.
Bxg7+ Kg8 30.Bd5+ Rf7 31.Rg5 Be7 [31...
Ne7 32.Bxf7+ Kxf7 33.Rf1+ Ke8 34.Rf8+ Kd7
35.Rxa8+]32.Bxf7+ Kxf7 33.Rf1+ [33.Rf1+
Ke8 34.Rf8+ Kd7 35.Qd3+ Bd6 (35...Ke6
36.Qd5#) 36.Rxa8+] 10
4.Stupak,K (2537)
Santos Ruiz,Miguel (2418) [E17]
VII Ciutat de Manacor Manacor ESP (7.5),
26.02.2016 [Position after 27th move.
White to play]28.Nh6+! Kh8 [28...gxh6
29.Bxf6+]29.Bxf6 [=29.Bxd8 gxh6 (29...
Bxd8 30.Qxd8+) 30.Bxf6#; 29.Bxf6 gxf6
30.Qxd8+ Qxd8 31.Nxf7++] 10
5.Vaicekauskas,G (2210)
Mickevicius,J (2345) [B14]
TCh-LTU 2016 Lithuania LTU (5.1), 07.02.2016
[Position after 21st move: White to play.]22.
Bg5! [22.Nxg6 also wins 22...hxg6 (22...
Bxg3 23.Ne7+ Kh8 (23...Rxe7 24.Qxg3+)
24.Nxd5+) 23.Rg5 Bf4 (23...Qc6 24.Bxg6
fxg6 25.Rxg6++ Wins) 24.Rxd5 exd5
25.Rf1+]22...Bxe5 [22...Be7 23.Nxf7
Kxf7 24.Bxf6 Bxf6 25.Qxh7++ Kf8 (25...
Bg7 26.Bxg6+ Kf8 27.Bf7! Ke7 (27...Kxf7
28.Qxg7#) 28.Rxg7+) 26.Rxg6 Wins]
23.dxe5 Nd7 24.Qh6 Kh8 25.Bf6+ Nxf6
26.exf6 Rg8 27.Qxh7+! [27.Qxh7+ Kxh7
28.Rh3+ Qh5 29.Rxh5#] 10
6.Kraemer,Mart (2570)
Bosiocic,Mari (2559) [D45]
TCh-AUT 201516 Austria AUT (5.1), 25.02.2016
[Position after 26th move: White to play.]
27.Qe2! Re5 [27...Qxe2 28.Rfxf7#]28.
Rgxf7+ [28.Qxh5 Wins too 28...Rxh5
2 9 . R g x f 7 + K g 8 ( 2 9 . . . Ke 8 3 0 . R f 8 + + )
30.Rg7+ Kh8 31.Bd4!+]28...Kg8 [28...Ke8
29.Qxh5 Rxh5 30.Rf8+ Wins]29.Qg2+ [29.
Qg2+ Ng5 a) 29...Rg5 30.Rg7+! Kh8 (30...
Rxg7 31.Qxg7#) 31.Rxg5+ Wins; b) 29...
Qg5 30.Bxe5+30.Bxe5+]10
Solutions to Test your endgame on p.43
1.F.Lazard 1901
1.Be6+ Kh7 2.Bg8+ Kh8 3.Bb3+ Kh7
4.Rxb7+Kh8 5.Rb8+ Kh7 6.Bg8 wins
2.V&M Platov 1911
1.f7 Qe5! 2.Ra8 Kb3 3.Ra3 KxR 4.f8Q
Kb3 5.Qb4+! KxQ 6.d4+ wins
3.H.Rinck 1903
1.Ra8 Qa2! 2.Rxa3 Qg8 3.Ra8 Qh7
4.Bg6+ wins
4.K.A.L Kubbel 1928
1.f5 KxP 2.Bd7 Ke5 3.f4 Kd5 4.Bc6
Kc55.b4+ wins
5.W.A.Korolkov 1930
1.h8Q Qxh8 2.Be5! Qxe5 3.Rg8 Kxf7
4.Bc4 Kf6 5.Rg6 Kxf5 6.Bd3 Kf4
7.Rg4 wins
6.H.M.Lommer 1934
1.Rd8 Qg5 2.Ra8 Qg2 3.Rb8 h2 4.Rc8
Qh3 5.Rd8 Qh4 6.Re8 QxN 7.Ra8 wins

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AICF Calendar May 2016
Pavna All India FIDE Rated Tournament May-17 to May-22 Aligarh,UP
All India Open FIDE Rating May -17to May- 22 Nasik,Mah
TN State Under 25 Open & Girls Chess May-21to May-25 Kumbakonam
GM Tournament Odisha May-23 to May-30 Odisha
Asian Individual Championship (Men and Women) May-25 to Jun-05 Uzbekistan
Kerala State Senior FIDE Rated 2016 May 25 to May 29 Thalasseri
Maharashtra State selection FIDE Open Rating May 25 to May 29 Kolhapur
GM Tournament Mumbai Jun-02 to Jun-09 Mumbai
National A for visually challenged June 06 to June 14 Virar(West)
National Rapid and Blitz June-11 to June 14 Visakhapatnam
Maharashtra Chess League June 11 to June 15 Pune, Mah
1st Karmveer VT Randhir FIDE rating June 15 to June 20 Dhule, Mah
National Women Challenger Jun-17 to Jun-25 Chennai
Kasinadhuni Rajya Laxmi Mem.All India Open Jun-18 to Jun-22 Telangana
Late Rameshchandra Kotwal Mem.All India Rapid June-25 to June-26 Gondia, Mah
National U-11Boys & Girls Jun-28 to Jul-06 Chattisgarh
PCA FIDE Rating Open June-28 to Jul 03 Nagpur
Robert Fischer Memorial 2016 July 02 to July 06 Trivandrum
All India below 1600 tmt July-02 to July 04 Telengana
3rd Arvind Durga Open FIDE Rating Jul-06 to Jul-10 Tambaram,TN
Kalajyothi FIDE rating Open July-07 to July 10 Dharmavaram
1st Sivasagar CA rating Tmt July-08 to July 13 Joysagar, ASM
Asian Schools Championships 2016 Jul-09 to Jul-18
National Challenger Champonship Jul-09 to Jul-19 UP
World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016 Jul-21 to Jul-30 Slovakia

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3rd Triple C All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 (below 1800), Puri

Inauguration Photo: (Lto R)-Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President, Triple C Chess Club, Shri.Subhash
Chandra Sahoo, Secretary , District Chess Association of Puri, Shri.Rabi Narayanan Senapati,
District Sports Officer,Puri, Shri Rabi Shankar Pratihari, Secretary ,Puri District Athletic
Association,Shri.Kanduri Suar-Social Worker,Puri,Shri Pradyumna Mishra , Vice Presisent ,
District Chess Association of Puri,Shri Kamal Kantha Bisoi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri,
Organizer

Prize Distibution (Lto R)-Shri Biswajit Roy, Vice President, Triple C Chess Club, Shri Kamal
Kantha Bisoi, President of Triple C Chess Club,Puri, 2nd Runner Up :Aryan from Delhi,Shri Rabi
Shankar Pratihari, Secretary ,Puri District Athletic Association.Champion of the tournamnent
: Mr.Prashant Katiyar,Uttar Pradesh,Shri.Nilu Sarangi- Chairman, Puri Municipality,Shri.G C
Mohapatra, Executive Member , All Odisha Chess Association, Shri Arghya Arpan Parida,Joint
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Hotel Calangute Tower All India Open Rapid Fide Rating chess Tournament,Vasco, Goa

Mr Daji Salkar lighting the lamp along with Mr Kishor Bandekar, Umesh sinha, GM Tejas Bakre and
Mr Vasant Naik

Winner GM Shyam Sundar (Centre) flanked by runner-up Ritviz Parab of Goa sitting on right and IM
Puranik Abhimanyu with the Chief Guest Mrs. Alina Saldhana, Honourable Minister of Goa for RDI,
Science, Technology (Back row centre) and officials