AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 12 Issue : 1 Price Rs. 25 August 2017

44th National Women Challengers 26th National Youth Under-25

Chess Championship2017, Mysuru Chess Championship 2017, Port Blair

WGM Bakthi Kulkarni IM P.Shyaamnikhil

Winner Winner

National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, Kolkata…

IM Anwesh Upadhyaya GM R.R.Laxman

National Rapid Champion National Blitz Champion
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26th National Youth Under-25 Championship,Port Blair
Shyaam Nikhil wins title
by R.R.Vasudevan IA, Chief Arbiter 1
44th National Women Challengers Ch’ship, Mysuru
Bakthi Kulkarni wins National Women Challenger
by IA Bhuvanaa Sai L R. Chief Arbiter 5
Late Prof. S K Ananda Thirtha Mem.Rating Rapid,Mysuru
Dinesh Sharma clinches title
by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 8
1stAnasuya Chess Academy FIDE Rated Open Tmt
Ramakrishna bags title
By Prof.R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter 11
Guwahati Intl. Fide Rating Tmt,Guwahati
Rahul Sangma wins title
by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter 13
Karnataka State Open Rapid Championship
Stany G A is Champion
By FA Saleem Beig,Chief Arbiter 16
1st all Bengal FIDE rated Open Rapid Tmt ,Kolkata
Aronyak Ghosh wins title
By FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter 18
1st Dhakshinamoorthy Mem.Open Rapid FIDE Rated Tmt
R R Laxman wins title
by IA Ganesh Babu S, Chief Arbiter 21
Maharashtra State Junior U-19 FIDE Rating, Pune
Md Nubairshah Shaikh and Bakshi Rutuja win
By IA DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter 28
12th KCM FIDE rated tournament, Coimbatore
Phani Kanuri wins KCM FIDE Rated
by IA V.Vijayaragahavan, Chief Arbiter 30
1st Champions International Fide Rating Tmt,Salem
Syed Anwar Shazuli and Manigandan tie for first place
by V.L.Ananda Babu IA, Chief Arbiter 32
Selected games from National
Under-25 Championship.Port Blair
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 34
Problem World by C.G.S.Narayanan 40
Tactics from master games by S.Krishnan 42
Test your endgame by C.G.S.Narayanan 43
AICF Calendar 48
From the Editor’s desk
Indian players turned out impressive
performances in various tournaments
in Europe last month. Commonwealth
Champion Grandmaster Abhijeet
Gupta was second at the Czech
Open. GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly of
Kolkata finished third in the Biel Open
Tournament in Switzerland and India’s latest IM from
Erode,Tamilnadu, P.Iniyan, beat top seeded Grandmaster
Romain Edouard of France in the final round to finish a
creditable fourth in the 35th Andorra Open. Reports on
these events are presented in the centre pages of this issue.
Consistent performances by our star players in the last
few years enabled seven of our Grandmasters qualify for
the World Cup 2017 and hopefully an Indian Challenger
would emerge out of this bunch.
On the home front, three National events were held last
month. WGM Bakthi Kulkarni of Goa won National Women
Challenger Championship title in Mysuru. International
Master Anwesh Upadhyaya of Odisha won the National
Rapid Chess Championship at Kolkata and Grand Master
R.R. Laxman of ICF, Chennai representing Railways took
the National Blitz title at the same venue.
In a historic decision AICF allotted National Youth
Under-25 to Port Blair, Andaman islands. JNRM, the
venue, surrounded by the hills and the sea, provided a
rare scenic spot for hosting the event. Shri G Bhaskar,
President, Andaman Nicobar Chess Association & Vice
President AICF, set good organizing standards making the
event a memorable one for the participants. Top seeded
IM P.Shyaamnikhil emerged Champion.
In an endeavour to produce more arbiters to govern
the conduct of chess events across the country AICF
arranges periodically FIDE Arbiter seminars. Thirty seven
participants from various parts of India took part in one
such seminar conducted by Delhi Chess Association.
Selected games from the National Under-25 Championship
annotated by IM Manuel Aaron are presented in this issue.
Vladimir Bagirov, grandmaster,author and trainer is
featured in the ‘Masters of the past’ series.
C.G.S.Narayanan
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the
regular features in the AICF Chronicle and are
also invited to send interesting articles, annotated
games and chess anecdotes to the Editor at ‘www.
indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or ‘cgsnarayanan
@hotmail.com.
26th National Youth Under-25 Chess Championship 2017, Port Blair
Shyaam Nikhil wins title
By R.R.Vasudevan IA, Chief Arbiter
T
op seed International Master P Shy-
aamnikhil of Tamil Nadu won the 26th
National Youth Under-25 Chess Cham-
pionship 2017 scoring 8.0 points from nine
rounds at Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkiya Mahav-
idhyalaya, Port Blair, Andaman Islands. Su-
perior tie-break gave Shyaamnikhil the title
ahead of second seed FIDE Master Mitrabha
Guha of West Bengal who also logged in 8
points.
The tournament ran from 13th to 19th July,
2017 in JNRM College, a venue that was fac-
ing the sea, a spectacular one by all counts.
Fresh air, less cluster of traffic, hills and sea
all round, made it a memorable playing expe-
rience for those who were fortunate to make
it to Andamans.
 
Shyaamnikhil was steady right through shed-
ding two draws on way to the title. The lone
challenger to the title Mitrabha, faced Shy-
aamnikhil in the fifth round and a defeat in
the hands of the top seed, almost put paid an
end to his chances. The title should be sweet
for the 24-year-old Champion, who made it
in his last attempt.
The nine round Swiss tournament attracted
122 entries, the highest in the history of Na-
tional Youth Championship. An Internatioal
Master, two FIDE Masters and two Candidate
Masters completed the line-up. The tourna-
ment also happens to be first FIDE Rated
tournament in Andaman Islands which had
the representation from 17 states and 4 four
Union Territories.  9   Harikrishnan.A.Ra TN 6½
Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by
Shri Anindo Majumdar, Chief Secretary, An-
daman and Nicobar Islands. Present in the
dais were Shri B Eswar Rao, Chairperson,
Port Blair Municipal Council, D V Sundar,
Vice President, AICF, Bharat Singh Chauhan,
Hon. Secretary, AICF, G Bhaskar, President,
Andaman Nicobar Chess Association, Chief
Arbiter R R Vasudevan and H Dinesh, Sec-
retary, Andaman Nicobar Chess Association.
Cash prizes worth Rs 277000 (Rupees Two
lakhs seventy seven thousand only) were
distributed by  Chief Guest, Shri Jagdish
Mukhi, Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nico-
bar Islands, and Smt Rashmi Singh, IAS,
Secretary, (Industries), Andaman & Nicobar
Administration respectively.The organising
committee headed by Shri G Bhaskar, Presi-
dent, Andaman Nicobar Chess Association set
high organising standards, taking the Nation-
al Championship to a new level. As soon the
rounds were complete, players were shown
around the beautiful Islands one landmark
after the other. Hospitality was par excellence
and the personal touch shown in each and
every detail, is likely bring more such events
to Andamans in future. 
Final ranking
Rk   Name St Pts
1 IM Shyaamnikhil P TN 8
2 FM Mitrabha Guha WB 8
3   Grahesh Y AP 7
4   Mohite Ranveer MAH 7
5   Badrinath S. PON 6½
6   Jayakumaar S TN 6½
7 FM Gajwa Ankit MP 6½
8 CM Kushagra Mohan TEL 6½
10   Kumar Sanu JHA 6½
11   Joy Pankaj Shah GUJ 6
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12   Chandak Shivam GUJ 6 55   Singh Harishabh Kumar CHT 5
13   Chudasama Ankit GUJ 6 56   Dhan Raju M A&N 5
National Under-25 Chess Championship, Andaman & Nicobar
14   Baivab Mishra ODI 6 57   Akshay V Halagannavar KAR 4½
15   Roy Pallabi WB 6 58 CM Sharang Sanjeev K GUJ 4½
16   Harikrishnan A KER 6 59   Anubhav Patel CHT 4½
17   Samal Ansuman ODI 6 60   Sounak De (1) WB 4½
18   Cheela Naga Sampath AP 6 61   Shaati Majumder WB 4½
19   Das Susobhit ODI 6 62   Sai Hrushikesh Simhdri AP 4½
20   Shrutarshi Ray WB 6 63   Pukhraj Singh PUN 4½
21   Chandrajeet Singh R RAJ 6 64   Debanjan Ghosh WB 4½
22   Nandhini Saripalli GOA 6 65   Udai Singh Gill CHA 4½
23   Shubham Lakudkar MAH 5½ 66   Vishal Kanna E A&N 4½
24   Nirmalya Bose WB 5½ 67   Sai Sagar S A&N 4½
25   Bavankumar TN 5½ 68   Aakashdeep Singh J&K 4
26   Nagare Akhilesh MAH 5½ 69   Chirag Arora PUN 4
27   Nitin M Pai KER 5½ 70   Shubham Rao D A&N 4
28   Niraj Saripalli GOA 5½ 71   Anil R A&N 4
29   Balkishan A. KAR 5½ 72   Sahu Raju Kumar CHT 4
Welcome address by Shri Abhijit Agarwal, Vice President,Andaman Nicobar Chess Association, Shri B Eswar
30   Harjap Singh PUN 5½ 73   Sanjay Bhargawa B TEL 4 Rao, Chairperson, Port Blair Municipal Council, Shri G Bhaskar, President, ANCA, Shri D V Sundar, Vice
31   Satya Sekhar Mitra WB 5½ 74   Mishra Sandeep Kumar CHT 4 President, FIDE, Shri Anindo Majumdar, Chief Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Shri Bharat Singh
32 AFM Choubey Saurabh MP 5½ 75   Dugar Chetan BIH 4 Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF, Chief Arbiter R R Vasudevan and Shri H Dinesh, Secretary, ANCA.
33   Sanchit Anand DEL 5½ 76 AIM Krishn Charan UP 4
34   Pavan Teja Medam TEL 5½ 77   Murugappan N TN 4
35   Muthu Palaniappan P L TN 5½ 78   Eswar Rao N A&N 4
36   Manasa H R KAR 5½ 79   Nikhil Mahajan MP 4
37   Abhijith M KER 5 80   Domnic Xavier R S A&N 4
38   Anjana Krishna S KER 5 81   Sai Ram K A&N 4
39   Chaitanya Sairam M AP 5 82   Pravalikha T A&N 4
40   Mrityunjay Kumar BIH 5 83   Shreyansh Goenka A&N 4
41   Shanmukha Teja P TEL 5 84   Sree Srujana K TEL 4
42   Kakumanu Kautil DEL 5 85   Manvender Rao P A&N 4
43   Panda Sambit ODI 5 86   Siddharth Shyam Kumar A&N 4
44   Wankhede Avishkar MAH 5 87   Shawn Pravin A&N 4
45   Bhoopnath BIH 5 88   Yadhava Rao J A&N 4
46   Aasha C R TN 5 89   Dhruva Kumar D A&N 4
47   Gabriel B M KER 5 90   Kedar Umesh Vaze KAR 3½
48   Lakshit Rana HP 5 91   Chandra Kala B A&N 3½
49   Samantaray Biswanath ODI 5 92   Siva Vamsikrishna AP 3½
50   Sambarta Banerjee WB 5 93   Jogeshwar Rao T A&N 3½
51   Farhaan M PON 5 94   Trisha Bhattacharjee A&N 3½ G Bhaskar, President, Andaman Nicobar Chess
Chief Guest Shri Anindo Majumdar, Chief Association & Vice President AICF, Champion
52   Mehul Gupta RAJ 5 95   Taran Deep Kaur Bohra A&N 3½
Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shyaamnikhil, Chief Guest, Shri Jagdish Mukhi,
53   Prabhujot Singh PUN 5 96   Jasleen Kaur Bohra A&N 3½ inaugurating the tournament making the first Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
54   Anant Mittal BIH 5 97   Pavan R A&N 3 move against top seed International Master P Chief Arbiter R R Vasudevan
Shyaamnikhil of Tamil Nadu.
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 National Under-25 Chess Championship, Andaman & Nicobar
Dignitaries with volunteers
12th KCM FIDE rated chess tournament, Coimbatore
Phani Kanuri , Winner, receiving prize from Kovai Chess Mates
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44th National Women Challengers Chess Championship2017, Mysuru
Bakthi Kulkarni wins National Women Challenger
by IA Bhuvanaa Sai L R. Chief Arbiter
44 th National Women Challengers
Chess Championship was organised
by Mysore Chess Centre with the
support of Mysore Sports Club which was es-
tablished since 1933. The Championship was
inaugurated by Sri. Dhruva Kumar, Chairman,
Mysore Urban Development Authority who
made 1st move with IM Mohota Nisha, PSPB,
here at Kanteerava Narasimaraja Sports Club
(Mysore Sports Club),Mysore on 21st July
2017, in the presence of Sri. Hanumantha,
Jt.Secretary of AICF, Sri D P Anantha, Presi-
dent of UKCA, Sri Anantha Raje Urs Secretary
of MRC, Sri Arunkumar Singh, President, Ro-
tary Club of Mysore East, Sri Uday Shankar,
and Sri Vishwanath, President and Secretary
of Sports Club respectively.
This event attracted 128 players from 17
states, 3 Union Territories and 4 special
units which included 1 IM, 7 WGMs, 8 WIMs
and 7 WFMs. WGM Soumya Swaminathan
(PSPB) was the top seed with the rating
2349. On inaugural day (1st round) V.Rin-
dhiya from Tamilnadu shocked 5th seeded
player Kulkarni Bhakti of AI in 39 moves. All
other seeded players sailed smoothly to the
next round. The organisers introduced beam
a virtual Robot in this championship and it
was telecasted Live on you tube. WGM Swati
Ghate, IM Mohota Nisha and WGM Meenak-
shi Subbaraman ended their game in peace
with Isha Sharma (Karnataka), Saranya Y
(Tamlnadu) and Toshali V (Andharapradesh)
respectively at the end of 2nd round. The
senior players realised to play tough against
with these upcoming talented children.
Taminadu state women chess champion
Divyalakshmi R upset the current common
wealth women chess champion WGM Swati
Ghate in the 4th round and shared the lead
with WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) and
the current common wealth under-16 gold
medallist K Priyanka (Tamilnadu) on perfect
score. In the 6th round on the top table due
to repetition of moves Soumya and Mary Ann
Gomes ended the game in draw and Soumya
emerged as a sole leader with 5.5 points.
In the next round WFM C. Lakshmi shocked
WIM M. Mahalakshmi by her victory in 45
moves and moved to the top and joined with
Soumya on 6 points each.
WGM kulkarni Bhakthi (AI) lost the game in
the 1st round but gained that point by her
victory against IM Mohota Nisha (PSPB) and
joined the leaders Soumya and Lakshmi with
6.5 points each after 8th round.
The experienced player Bhakti won and
stopped the rally of overnight leader Laksh-
mi from Tamilandu at the end of 9th round.
Soumya and Bhakti were the joined lead-
ers with 7.5 points each. Mary Ann Gomes
was the only player with 7 points behind
the leaders. The tough battle between the
players on top 2 boards came to an end and
favoured for the players who played with
black pieces after the penultimate round.
Bhakti was the sole leader with 8.5 points
and Mary was behind her with 8 points. Sri.
Bharat Singh Chouhan Honorary Secretary,
AICF inaugurated the final round. At the end
of the final round WGM Kulkarni Bhakti (AI)
won the 44th National Women Challengers
Chess Championship with 9.5 points. She
bagged 72,000 as cash prize. WGM Mary Ann
Gomes of PSPB finished 2nd with 9 points.
WGM Soumya Swaminathan (PSPB) took 3rd
spot with 8.5 points.
Sri Bharat Singh Chouhan, Honorary Secre-
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tary, AICF and Sri. Ravi D. Channannavar , 29   Saranya Y TN 6½ 69   Hemadri Sathish KAR 5½ 110   Prema P KAR 3½
IPS Superintendent of Police, Mysore distrib- 30 WFM Kotepalli Sai Nirupama AP 6½ 70   Shweta PUN 5½ 111   Sharadhi Shastry KAR 3½
uted the prizes to the winners in the presence 31   Nimmy A.G. KER 6½ 71 WFM Bindu Saritha K. LIC 5½ 112   Ananya R KAR 3½
of Sri. Hanumantha, Jt.Secretary of AICF, 32   Shetye Siddhali MAH 6½ 72   Rindhiya V TN 5 113   Sanghamitra Handique ASM 3½
Mrs. Sumalini, principal, Silicon City School, 33   Priyanka Kumari JHA 6½ 73   Rathi Dhanashree MAH 5 114   Kanak Parmar HP 3½
Banglore, Mr. Jagadeesh. Manager, Karnata- 34   Bhanot Stuti HAR 6½ 74   Khushi M Hombal KAR 5 115   Dorothy Gogoi ASM 3
ka Bank, Sri Anantha Raje Urs Secretary of 35   Alka Das JHA 6½ 75   Vincent Alaina MAH 5
Mysore Rotary Club, Sri Uday Shankar, and
36   Savitha Shri B TN 6½ 76   Ananya Bothra WB 5
Sri Vishwanath, President and Secretary of
37   Mohana R TN 6½ 77 WCM Shefali A N KAR 5
Puzzle of the month
Sports Club respectively. The championship by C.G.S.Narayanan
38   Aditi Arya BIH 6½ 78   Marium Fatima BIH 5
concluded successfully.
Final ranking 39 WCM Isha Sharma KAR 6 79   Naik Snehal GOA 5 The puzzle of the month is a twin which
Rk   Name Club Pts 40   Manasa K. KAR 6 80   Kavya S PON 5 has four parts. In each part black retracts
1 WGM Kulkarni Bhakti AI 9½ 41   Harshita Guddanti AP 6 81   Gangamma B.N. KAR 5 his last capture move, makes a differ-
2 WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB 9 42   Kaur Palkin DEL 6 82 AFM Naik Sayuri GOA 5 ent move followed by white move which
3 WGM Soumya Swaminathan PSPB 8½ 43   Meenu Rajendran KER 6 83   Vindya Sridhar KAR 5 stalemates the black king. I am giving
4 WIM Nandhidhaa Pv AAI 8 44   Toshali V AP 6 84   Shrivastava Savita MP 5 the solution to the diagram position so
45 WCM Dhyana Patel GUJ 6 85   Aneri Ketan Kanjar GUJ 5 that the readers can solve the remaining
5   Bala Kannamma P TN 7½
46 WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie AI 6 86   Krushna Mishra ORI 5 three parts.
6 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty LIC 7½
47 WIM Michelle Catherina P TN 6 87   Pahul Kaur Chhabra PUN 5 In the diagram BK retracts his last move
7 WIM Parnali S Dharia MAH 7½
48   Bhagyashree Patil MAH 6 88   Manjul Shrivastava LIC 5
Kd2xNe1 and now plays Kd1.White plays
8 WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman AI 7½ Kf2 and black is stalemated.
9   Ghosh Samriddhaa WB 7½ 49 WCM Swera Ana Braganca GOA 6 89   Gupta Niti MAH 4½
Shift the BK to d1,d4 and the WB to e5
10 WGM Swati Ghate LIC 7½ 50   Deodhar V Umesh MAH 6 90   Shrivastava Aditi MP 4½
and solve each time for a helpstalemate
11 WFM Arpita Mukherjee WB 7½ 51   Archi Agrawal DEL 6 91   Sri Chandana G TEL 4½
in 1 after black retracts his last capture.
12 WFM Srija Seshadri DEL 7½ 52   Tulsi M KAR 6 92   Malika Handa PUN 4½ Branco Koludrovic
13   Pandey Srishti MAH 7½ 53   Jayashree P Sankpal LIC 6 93   Kumari Priti BIH 4½ Problem online,16.1.2005
14 WIM Chitlange Sakshi MAH 7½ 54   Jigna Joshi GUJ 6 94   Dhatri Umesh KAR 4½
15 WIM Mahalakshmi M TN 7 55   Niharika Ch AP 6 95   Vaishnavi Badasheshi KAR 4½
16   Divya Lakshmi R TN 7 56   Andria L D`souza KAR 5½ 96   Thakkar Riya Bharat GUJ 4½
17 IM Mohota Nisha PSPB 7 57   Kalyani B AP 5½ 97   Swara Lakshmi S Nair KAR 4½
18   Sandhya G AP 7 58   Jain Nityata MP 5½ 98 WIM Pratyusha Bodda AP 4
19   Priyanka K TN 7 59 WCM Chinnam Vyshnavi AP 5½ 99   Sushma Reddy B TEL 4
20 WIM Pujari Rucha MAH 7 60   Anusha N L V AP 5½ 100   Manickammal D LIC 4
21 WCM Jyothsna L TN 7 61   Manasa H R KAR 5½ 101   Sevitha Viju M TEL 4
22 WFM Lasya.G AP 7 62   Pracheta Agarwal JHA 5½ 102   Varshita Jain MP 4
23 WCM Chandreyee Hajra WB 7 63   Garima Gaurav BIH 5½ 103   Pinky Das ASM 4
24 WFM Bommini M Akshaya AP 7 64   Sreelakshmi 104   Pradnya S Kakodkar GOA 4
25 WIM Gagare Shalmali MAH 7 M Sunilkumar KER 5½ 105   Sonal Parmar HP 4
Retract one black move, then h=1
26 WFM Lakshmi C TN 6½ 65   Tarunika P TN 5½ 106   Prema Leela K R KAR 4
a) diagram b) Ke1 to d1 c) Ke1 to d4 d)
27   Sanskriti Goyal UP 6½ 66   Smaraki Mohanty ORI 5½ 107   Nethra Chandupatla TEL 4 Bf4 to e5
28   Makhija Aashna MAH 6½ 67   Prasiddhi Bhat KAR 5½ 108   Garima Rao B R KAR 4
(Solutions on page 48)
68   Abirama Srinithi G TN 5½ 109   Kaur Amarjeet PUN 4

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 Late Prof. S K Ananda Thirtha Memorial All India FIDE Rating Rapid tournament, Mysore 2 FM Karthik Venkataraman 7.5 45 AIM Pankaj Bhat 5.5
3   Ram S. Krishnan 7.5 46   Abhijith M 5.5
Dinesh Sharma clinches title 4 FM Dutta Joydeep 7.5 47   Manasa H R 5.5
By IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter 5   Saravana Krishnan P. 7.5 48   Nitish Bhat 5.5

T
he Late Prof. S.K.AnandaThirtha memo-
rial All India Rapid Chess tournament
2017 conducted by the Mysore District
ChessAssociation (MDCA) jointly with the
Hoysala Karnataka Sangha, Mysuru under the
aegis of the UKCA & AICF got off to a start
at the Hoysala Karnataka Sangha auditorium
from 1 to 2nd July 2017.
The tournament was inaugurated by Mr. S
A.Mohan Krishna, son of late Prof S K Anan-
da Thirtha by lighting the lamp and also by
making the inaugural move along with the
top-seed IM S Satyapragyan.Dr. C Krishna,
Chief Patron, MDCA & Former Director Dept.
of PhysicalEducation, University of Mysuru,
Mr. N Sudharshan, President, MDCA, Mr. P
VBharadwaj,President, Hoysala Karnataka
Sangha, Mysuru. Mr. K R Shivarame Gowda,
Hon Secretary, MDCA and Mr C K Mural-
idharan, Patron, MDCA were present onthe
occasion.
214 players from different states namely Kar-
nataka, Goa, Andhra,Telengana, Tamil Nadu,
Orissa, Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra
&Uttar Pradesh took part in the tournament.
IM S Sathyapragyan (Orissa-Rating 2417) was
the top-seed and wasfollowed by IM Dinesh
Sharma K (UP-2358), Saravana Krishnan
P(TN-2356), Ram S Krishnan (TN-2316),
K.Senthil Maran (TN-2266) whowere seeded
from second to five respectively. Joydeep
Dutta (WB-2259),N.Lokesh (TN-2236), IM
Ravi Gopal Hegde (Kar-2193),Swaraj Palit(-
Jhar-2116), Muthaiah A I (TN-2069) were the
other top players to beseen in action.
The tournament carried a total cash fund of
Rs.2 lakhs. A total of 52 trophies were given
for the U-9, U-11, U-13 & U-15 (boys & girls)
sections. Cash prize and Trophy were given
to the Best Female (Above30 years) & Best
Veteran (Above 55 years).
IM Dinesh Sharma of Uttar Pradesh won his
final round against K Senthil Maran (TN) in the
top board in the final round and clinchedthe
title with 8 points from nine roundsThe win-
ner took home a cash prize of Rs.20,000/-
and a trophy. Fourplayers FM KarthikVentara-
man (AP), Ram S Krishnan (TN), FM Dutta
Joydeep (WB) and Saravana Krishnan P (TN)
tied with 7.5 points each,but on their better
tie-break scores secured they were placed
from second tofifth places. The winners from
2nd place to 5th place took home a cash prize
of 15,000/-, 10,000/-, 8,000/- and 6000/-
along with a trophy. Trophies for thefirst five
places were given for U-15, U-13, U-11, U-9
(boys & girls).
Accommodation was provided to the officials
and the IM's by the organisers. Food was
made available at the venue with a food
stall with reduced rates. The prizes to the
winners were given away by Mr P Krishniah,
In-chargeDirector, Dept. of Physical Educa-
tion, University of Mysuru, Mr Kanthara Raj
Urs, Managing Director, Urs Kars, Mysuru, Mr.
Varchasvi S Shankar (Managing Director,V-
2soft, USA) and Mr. N Sudharshan, President,
MDCA. Mr. K R Shivarame Gowda, Hon Secre-
tary, MDCA and Mr. C KMuralidharan, patron,
MDCA were the others present.
Final Ranking: 42   Muhammed Reja C 6
Rk.   Name Pts.
1 IM Sharma Dinesh K. 8
6   Senthil Maran K 7
7 AIM Tarun Kanyamarala 7
8   Athul Krishna S 7
9   Lokesh N. 7
10 AIM Trisha Kanyamarala 7
11 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7
12   Muthaiah Al 6.5
13   Balkishan A. 6.5
14   Swaraj Palit 6.5
15 IM Satyapragyan S 6.5
16   Ajith M.P. 6.5
17   Yashaskara Jois K.R 6.5
18   Kanishk S K 6.5
19   Ramachandra Bhat 6.5
20   Darshan V P S 6.5
21   Deota Snehil S 6.5
22   Vijay Ravi 6.5
23 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 6
24   Srinivasa Rao G.V. 6
25   Chetan Sharma 6
26   Thyagaraj M T 6
27   Ram Vishwanathan 6
28   Arijith M 6
29   Nishanth H N 6
30 AGM Karthikeyan J. 6
31   Sameer Kumar Y 6
32   Sheshadri L 6
33   Thirumurugan R 6
34   Upendra K 6
35   Chiranth M D 6
36   Abhay B Bhandarkar 6
37   Nitin M Pai 6
38   Vishnu Sridhar 6
39   Pavan C 6
40   Gautam J.K. 6
41   Prasanna Swamy 6
43   Eshanvi M N 6
44   Selva Kumar S 6
49   Aravinda B R 5.5
50   Deepthi Lakshmi K 5.5
51   Chirag Mudraje 5.5
52   Shivanth M 5.5
53 AGM Navodith V Bhat 5.5
54   Preetham H N 5.5
55   Krishna Karthik N 5.5
56   Abhishek I Ganiger 5.5
57   Preetham Gangadhar 5.5
58   Prameeth M G 5.5
59   Karunanayake Mayuri 5.5
60   Charan K 5
61   Anannth Varun R 5
62   Vrushank V 5
63   Rafi Abdulla 5
64   Satish Hegde 5
65   Abhiram K 5
66   Pradeep K T 5
67   Sharan R Setty 5
68   Sanath K Jamadagni 5
69 AFM Binni Boyina P Pratap 5
70   Roshan Abendhra R 5
71   Padma Rao J N 5
72   Kundan D Gowda 5
73   Eshan Bhatta 5
74   Karthikeya Sairam T 5
75   Shashidhar K M (blind) 5
76   Vikas Saini 5
77   Abhilash Gowda 5
78   Ravindra Joshi 5
79   Smiran Bhandari 5
80   Srinadh Madhavarapu 5
81 AFM Samhitha Sharma B S 5
82   Amith T 5
83   Prasada Rao G 5
84   Manvith K 5
85 AIM Raviprakash S.M. 5
86   Shridevi Kote 5
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88   Kumar Patil 5
89   Abhinayak S 5
90   Bharath M 5
91   Swara Lakshmi S Nair 5
92   Kumara Teja M 5
93   Thanush Gowda R 5
94   Pradhyumna Kumar K 4.5
95   Neil J 4.5
96   Ram R 4.5
97   Sachin Suresh 4.5
98   Prasiddhi Bhat 4.5
99   Kruti Gangadkar 4.5
100   Srimannarayana K S S 4.5
101   Prajwal K M 4.5
102   Siva Swamy V. 4.5
103   Rudrashish Chakraborty 4.5
104   Jagadish Patnaik 4.5
105   Sandeep J 4.5
106   Skanda S 4.5
107   Sushant Kabbinada 4.5
108   Prahalada Udupa 4.5
109   Adit Ajad Yarra 4.5
110   Ajay C 4.5
111   Sankarshana Goli 4.5
112   Chinmayee R K 4.5
113   Nataraj T M 4.5
114   Girisha M J 4.5
115   Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 4
116   Alexander P 4
117   Ganesha Udupa N S 4
118 ACM Nirupam Gogoi 4
119   Anamika Menon C T 4
120   Vaishnavi Badasheshi 4
121   Prateek B 4
122   Aishani Anand 4
123   Varun A 4
124   Dhanyashree P 4
125   Raksha P 4
126   Pritam S Rao 4
127   Sathwik Sharma B S 4
128   Yash Anchaliya 4
129   Dhembre Dinesh 4
130   Renganayaki V 4
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131   Ramesh Murugesan 4
132   Praneel Rai M 4
133   Pranav A 4
134   S Prabhu Nasnodkar 4
135   Akash M H 4
136   Gambhir N C 4
137   Yashaswi K 4
138   Jayanth Sarathy P 4
139   Binu Sebastian 4
140   Kalal I 4
141   Anuj Kumar Rajput 4
142   Afreen Tabassum 4
143   Aishwarjya Gogoi 4
144   Harshitha H K 4
145   Akshay G 4
146   Dinesh Rajachar 3.5
147   Chandrashekhara M 3.5
148   Dhatri Umesh 3.5
149   Shashidhara S J 3.5
150   Arjun S Gowda 3.5
151   Prema Leela K R 3.5
152   Ashwin Raj G 3.5
153   Abhigna Jayaker E M 3.5
154   Ishanth P 3.5
155   Avinash V 3
156   Mohith V 3
157   Dhaneshwar Akash 3
158   Vindya Sridhar 3
159   Venugopal Reddy K 3
160   Shiva Prasad M 3
161   Yashwanth Bharadwaj M 3
162   Mrudula Mascarenhas 3
163   Kavin I 3
164   Prakash V 3
165   Radhakrishna Kamat 3
166   Anasuya Chiplunkar 3
167   Ankith V 3
168   Karthik Ramesh 3
169   Sanjana Rangaswamy 3
170   Soma Shankara S B 3
171   Thejas M U 3
172   Sudhanva K R 3
173   Riddhi N 3
1stAnasuya Chess Academy FIDE Rated Open Chess Tournament
Ramakrishna bags title
By Prof.R.Anantharam IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he Anasuya Chess Academy, headed
by Kishore Madasu, Joint Secretary of
AP Chess Association organised its first
ever fide rated tournament at Kirana Mer-
chants Hall, Bhimavaram, the headquarters
of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh
from 18th to 23rd Jult 2017. A heavy rain
monsoon and cyclone forecast had an ad-
verse effect on the tournament, attracting
only 105 players, mostly from Andhra, be-
sides Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Maharash-
tra. FM Ramakrishna J of Andhra Bank topped
the seeding list, followed by international
master R. Balasubramanian of ICF. The six
day Swiss format event had 10 rounds with
a time control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds
per move.
It was announced in the Players’ meeting
that no draw shall be agreed between play-
ers, before each makes at least 20 moves.
In the second round of the tournament, Vai-
bhavBarahate of Maharashtra succumbed to
Sri Satya Sai Vinay, rated 700 points below
him. Third round witnessed the defeat of third
seeded KN Gopal to Tamil Nadu youngster
VikramNataraj. Fourth round was marked by
the fall of second seeded T Gowtham of AP
at the hands of 12 year old RishithSusarla
of USA. J Ramakrishna defeated Rishith and
Tarun V Kanth of Tamil Nadu overcame Thrun
D Valla of AP to score five consecutive wins
in as many rounds.
Sixth round saw the emergence of Ramakr-
ishna as the sole leader with his victory over
Tarun to collect 6 points. IM Balasubramani-
an defeated Vijay Anand M of Tamil Nadu to
score five successive wins, as he could not
participate in the first round due to the late
arrival of his train. Ramakrishna added one
more victim to his kitty – his colleague KN
Gopal from Andhara Bank, to lead with seven
points. Bala, J Malleswara Rao and Gowtham
recorded wins to score six points at the end
of the seventh round. In an intense struggle,
Ramakrishna drew with J Malleswara Rao to
keep a slender half point (7.5 points) lead
over Balsubramanian, Malleswara, Gowtham
and Tarun V Kanth in the eighth round.
In the ninth and penultimate round clash
between the top two seeds, Ranakrishna
prevailed over the second seeded IM Bala to
consolidate his points to 8.5, one full point
ahead of Malleswara Rao and Tarun V Kanth.
Ramakrishna did not relax in the final round
and went on to beat Ajay Mushni to secure
9.5 points and won the first place and a
cash prize of Rs.25000. Tarun V Kanth and
Malleswara Rao scored 8 points each, as did
by KN Gopal and finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th
respectively. IM Balasubramanian finished
fifth. Both Bala and Malleswara did a com-
mendable job, as they did not play the first
round.
Smt. Thotta Seetha Ramalakshmi, Raja
Sabha MP and Mr. Sri Hari, Secretary, AP
Chess Association were the chief guests in
the valedictory function. The tournament was
inaugurated by Sri. YD Rama Rao, President
of AP Chess Association.
Final ranking
Rk   Name Pts
1 FM Ramakrishna J. 9½
2   Tarun V Kanth 8
3   Rao J. Malleswara 8
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4 CM Gopal K.N. 8 47   Srikanth T J V K 5½ Guwahati Intl. Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2017,Guwahati
5 IM R Balasubramaniam 7½ 48   Tharun Kumar Devalla 5
6   Vijay Anand M. 7½ 49   Goutham D 5
Rahul Sangma wins title
7   Mushini Ajay 7 50   Sasikanth R 5 by Asit Baran Choudhury IA, Chief Arbiter

G
8   Srinivasa Rao G.V. 7 51   M Venkateswara Reddy 5
9   Sri Sai Baswanth P 7 52   Gaddipati Anjani Kumar 5 uwahati International FIDE Rating the tournament.
10   Susarla Rishith 7 53   Chakravartula Hari 5 Chess Tournament 2017 held at Ju- In the Prize distribution ceremony Manish
11   Rao K. Damodar 7 54   Asuri Srida 5 bilee Hall, Sector-III, Guwahati Refin- Sharma, First Assamese to climb Mount Ev-
12   Narasimha Raveendra G 7 55   Moodu Veerabhadru 5 ery, Noonmati, Guwahati-20 from 12-16th erest, Manoranjan Basumatary, President,
13   Guttula Sai 7 56   Sameer Kumar U 5 July 2017,Organized by Guwahati Chess GCA, Rajib Dhar, Secretary, AACA, & Lachit
14   Diwakar V U 7 57   Sowmya Bala G S R N 5 Association in association with Chess play- Barman, Org. Secretary, Chess players par-
15   Vaibhav Barahate 7 58   Dhanvin P T L N V 5 ers parents’ Association. Total Participants ents’ Forum, were present and distributed
16   Gowtham T. 6½ 59   U Kundan Rithwik 5 were 258 including 157 players rated from the prizes to the all prize winners.
17   Chilukuri Sai Varshith 6½ 60   Grandhi Kavya 5 13 States in India. 4 IMs and 3 other Title
18   Sankarshana Goli 6½ 61   Srinivash Gopal Reddy K 5 holders were played in this International Final Ranking:
19   Sai Suhash K V K 6½ 62   Dhanush G 5 Rating Chess tournament. The tournament Rk.  Name Pts.
20   Vikram Natraj S 6 63   Sathwik Vemulapalli 5 was inaugurated by Mr. Jogen Barpujari, Exe. 1 IM Sangma Rahul 7.5
21   Prathesh Kumar R 6 64   Sampath Sai Anil K 4½ Director, Guwahati Refinery and Manoranjan 2   Arpan Das 7.5
22   Konatham Snehil 6 65   Sajja Satyanarayana 4½ Basumatary, President, AACA , Sadikul Bo- 3 IM Palit Somak 7.5
23   Mithilesh K Balagopalan 6 66   Agasta Roshi 4½ rah, Treasurer, GCA & Lachit Barman, Org. 4   Anustoop Biswas 7.5
24   Dharmik Banka 6 67   Abhinav Theerdhala 4½ Secretary, Tournament Committee. The 5   Singh Y. Dhanabir 7.5
25   Gowtham Dharma K 6 68   Nischala Y 4½ Tournament Hall was air conditioned with 6 FM Karthik Venkataraman 7
26   Chintada Lakshmi Gayathri 6 69   Bhargav Reddy P L 4½ sufficient rest room facilities. The Organiser 7 IM R Balasubramaniam 7
27   Uday Kiran Kumar P 6 70   Harsha Vardhan Gedhala 4½ provided lunch to all participants through 8   Dhar Rajib 7
28   Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 6 71   Md Imran 4½ out the tournament at very minimum cost. 9 IM Suvrajit Saha 7
29   Harshith Satindra S 6 72   M Anantha Saikumar 4½ 10   Kaustuv Kundu 7
30   Krishna L M S S 6 73   Yajvin P T L N V 4½ In the second round, local boy Divyanga S. 11   Singh S. Vikramjit 7
31   Karthikeya Sairam T 6 74   M Anantha Yatin Sharma 4 Baruah held IM Suvrajit Saha. In the sixth 12   Trailokya Nanda 7
32   Gagan P 6 75   Kanaka Dinesh K M S S S 4 round Arpan Das of Bengal beat IM Rahul 13   Sharma Aribam M. 7
33   Radha Kumari Vemparala 6 76   Lohith Kumar Nalla 4 Sangma. Till final round games the cham- 14   Dhruvik Shah 7
34   Duvvuri S Subrahmanyam 5½ 77   Talla Nischal 4 pionship was open. All top 5 boards make 15   Nath Rupankar 6.5
35   Bhavya Charita Addala 5½ 78   Nallani C Parankusa 4 draw except 3rd board, where Rahul beat 16   Singh Soram Rahul 6.5
36   Seshagiri Rao P N 5½ 79   Khandavalli Saikumar 4 Apollosana M Rajkumar after tough fight in 17   Pradip Ghosh 6.5
37   Mourya Manyam 5½ 80   Siriki Yogesh 4 4 hours game. 18   Souradip Deb 6.5
38   Varshith Nela 5½ 81   Varma G Y C 4 19 FM Dutta Joydeep 6.5
39   Sri Satya Vinay M 5½ 82   Pradyumna Kanukollu 4 At the end of final round games IM Rahul 20   A Mangang Rajkumar 6.5
40   Sanketh Reddi K R K K 5½ 83   Patnana Kishore Rajan 4 Sangma scored 7.5 & bagged the Champi- 21   Biswajit Nag 6.5
41   Adithya Krishna Sai Ch 5½ 84   Appana Vaishnavi 4 onship Trophy by better tie break and bagged 22   Rajdip Das 6.5
42   Gopi Krishna Inti 5½ 85   Sathwik Datta Y 3½ Cash Rs. 50000/- . Arpan Das(7.5) & IM 23   Nandan Buragohain 6.5
43   Goluguri Sateesh 5½ 86   Chitti Phani Bhushan K 3½ Somak Palit (7.5)placed second & third with 24   Naveen S Hegde 6.5
44   Sathwik DSSU 5½ 87   Mandula Babu Syamal 3½ better tie break and bagged Rs. 35000/- & 25   Madhab Sarma 6.5
45   Satya Sai Vardhan P 5½ 88   Himanish Srivatsa A 3½ 25000/- respectively. All Asstt. Arbiters did 26   Rajashekara N 6.5
46   Anusha Gunturi 5½ 89   Edupuganti Varshith 3½ their job very well till last round games. No 27   Amom Chakritombi Singh 6.5
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29   Syed Jahan Hussain 6.5 72   Prodip Bhuyan 5 115 Chiraranjan Bhuyan 4.5 158 Suraj Jyoti Changkakoti 4
30   Das Monaj 6 73   Bora Mahendra 5 116 Sanjoy Kumar Nath 4.5 159 Twinkle Patgiri 4
31   Heikrujam Jacky Singh 6 74   Prasanna Tamuli 5 117 Anuraag Saikia 4.5 160  Medha Barooah 4
32   Santanu Borpatra Gohain 6 75   Mishra Maheshwar 5 118 Angom Nongsha Singh 4.5 161  Keshab Gaggar 4
33   Chakrabarti Tamal 6 76   Gautam Chakravarty 5 119 Kishor Kumar Deka 4.5 162  Arindam Das 4
34   Leeladhar Kachroo 6 77   Singh Th. Nabachandra 5 120 Aarohan Saikia 4.5 163  Avigyan Ghosh 4
35   Subrata Nandy Roy 6 78   Ravi Kant Tiwari 5 121 Snehasish Das 4.5 164  Dhrubajyoti Barman 4
36   Manikanta Singh T 6 79   Raj Dey 5 122 Mayank Chakraborty 4.5 165  Bibhashjyoti Borah 4
37   Kakati Uddipta 6 80   Homen Chandra Rabha 5 123 Jutiaditya Kakoti 4.5 166  Ravin Sarkar 4
38   Rintu Brahma 6 81   Arunabh Gohain 5 124 Sanjeeta Kakati 4.5 167  Bhringish Kalita 4
39   Dhrupad Kashyap 6 82   Abinash P Gogoi 5 125 Prandeep Bhattacharjya 4.5 168  Nihad Islam Hazarika 4
40   Divyanga Spondon Baruah 6 83   Nabam Nikum 5 126 Abichal Sarma 4.5 169  Tirthankar Kharghoria 4
41   Padma Gogoi 6 84   Tapir Mize 5 127 Rishabh Singh 4.5 170  Ikshita Barman 4
42   Aarohon Bharadwaj 6 85   Sahmin Abdul 5 128 Aryam Sreyoj Gogoi 4.5 171  Priyam Bhagawati 4
43   Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur 6 86   Ahiron Kaushik Saikia 5 129 Thakor Sagarkumar V 4.5 172  Shaunak Deb 4
44   Arunava Bhattacharjee 6 87   Vivek Rajkumar 5 130 Anchit Thakuria 4.5 173  Hrishikesh Chakraborty 4
45   Abhishek Borthakur 6 88   Gunajit Khataniar 5 131 Anoushka Priyam 4.5 174  Kalagara Aniketh 4
46   Lohit Gogoi 6 89   Dhritiman Bez 5 132 Gunjan K Basistha 4.5 175 Swapneel Chanda 4
47   Maharnav Deka 5.5 90   Biraj Baruah 5 133 Subhash Chandra Sinha 4.5 176 Aditya Paul 4
48 CM Shahil Dey 5.5 91   Bhabishnu Pranti Bordoloi 5 134 Maharnab Choudhury 4.5 177 Novonil Das 4
49   Debanga Kalita 5.5 92   Madhab Saikia 5 135 Punit Basu 4.5 178 Dhaniram Borah 4
50   Mughaho Awomi 5.5 93   Mangaldeep Mitra 5 136 Ballyr Sinha 4.5 179 Winee Thengal 4
51   Rijied Katrai 5.5 94   Trideep Luchan Thengal 5 137 Sudipto Dam 4.5 180 Tanveer Ahmed 4
52   Tuhin Kashyap 5.5 95   Md Ardash Ali 5 138 Sakib Alam 4.5 181 Rishi Vishal Gogoi 4
53   Dutta Umashankar 5.5 96   Dutta Samaritan 5 139 Rajdeep Mudiar 4.5 182  Pragyan Hazarika 4
54   Aryamann Sain 5.5 97   Anurag Medhi 5 140 Abhigyan Anubhav 4.5 183 Swaraj Jyoti Neog 4
55   Barun Paul 5.5 98   Protul Gogoi 5 141 Sajal Saroj Lahkar 4.5 184 Mayukh Abhigyan Das 3.5
56   Raja Basar 5.5 99   Arkaprova Rajkonwar 5 142 Saurabh Biswas 4.5 185 Barnil Kumar Das 3.5
57   Nitish Das 5.5 100 Pran Govinda P Kashyap 5 143 Mridumoloy Das 4.5 186  Lepstan R Marak 3.5
58   Kaustabh Das 5.5 101 Priyangshu Mazumder 5 144 Saikat Bhattacharjee 4.5 187  Baishali Debnath 3.5
59   Nirmalya Chakraborty 5.5 102 Dibyansu Lahon 5 145 Manish Tiwari 4 188  Alpana Gogoi Chamuah 3.5
60   Dipjyoti Borah 5.5 103 Anubhab Gupta 5 146 Patil T S 4 189  Hrishi Raj Kumar 3.5
61   Devabarenya Gogoi 5.5 104 Parag Dhar Goswami 5 147 Jitabrata Nath 4 190  Priyam Das 3.5
62   Hillol Debnath 5.5 105 Tripartha Saikia 5 148 Padmeswar Konwar 4 191  Rishav Sarkar 3.5
63   Deba Kumar Das 5.5 106 Sashanka Kr. Dhar 5 149 Bitupon Saika 4 192  Jugal Kishore Gogoi 3.5
64   Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 5.5 107 Nabajyoti Saikia 5 150 Pankaj Bhuyan 4 193  Singh Surypratap 3.5
65   Anurag Kalita 5.5 108 Rishita Sinha 5 151 Anubrat Barthakur 4 194  Akhinur Sultan 3.5
66   Jayanta Chutia 5.5 109 Tapovrata Handique 5 152 Navoneel Choudhury 4 195  Joseph Pegu 3.5
67   Sujay Kumar Dam 5.5 110 Prasenjit Purkayastha 5 153 Dutta Pehlaj 4 196  Prakash Nath 3.5
68   Raj Rahul 5.5 111 Devansh Gupta 5 154 Kamini Kumari 4 197  Chinmoi Saikia 3.5
69   Pranit Malhotra 5.5 112 Bhargav Kalita 5 155 Pallab Bhattacharjee 4 198  Unmilita Pathak 3.5
70   Avirup Kundu 5.5 113 Bishal Patowary 5 156 Manish Gwra Basumatary 4 199  Kuvam Kumar Kashyap 3.5
71   Sankar Sarma 5.5 114 Uddipta Gogoi 4.5 157 Zakir Hussain 4 200   Priya-

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 Karnataka State Open Rapid Chess Championship 2017 57   Deota Santoshkumar 6 100 Mukesh Kumar J 5
58   Shrikar Hippargi 6 101 Sripathi Ramaswamy 5
Stany G A is Champion 59   Dinesh Rajachar 6 102  Vikas Saini 5
By FA Saleem Beig,Chief Arbiter 60   Abhishek Shastry 6 103 AFM Binni Boyina P Pratap 5

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61 AFM Aruna Dinakara 6 104 Anantha Krishna Nayak 5
arnataka State Open Rapid Chess 18   Gajanan D 7
62   Renganayaki V 6 105 Meghana S 5
Championship was held at Hotel City 19 AGM Sriram Udhayakumar 6½
63   Shree Krishna Pranama 6 106 Abhilash Gowda 5
Centaur International, Bengaluru from 20   Sharad Pandit 6½
64   Ramachandra Bhat 5½ 107 Medhansh Rathi 5
22nd to 23rd July 2017. The Tournament 21   Raghavendra V. 6½
65   Santhosh M R S 5½ 108 Abhiman Urs R 5
was organized by BRDCA. The Tournament 22   Sagar Praveen 6½
66 AFM Shashidhar B Rai 5½ 109 Vasuki H V 5
attracted 298 players in total and was con- 23   Shiva S 6½
67   Hariharan Subramony 5½ 110 Vishwa Dheep D N 5
ducted in 9 round Swiss format. Top seed of 24   Ganthimeri Akkisetty 6½
68   Karthikay C 5½ 111 Rishabh Kumara 5
the event was IM Stany G A with a rating of 25   Kalki Eshwar D 6½
69   Aryan Anand 5½ 112 Ajitesh Kumara 5
2377. There were 157 rated players. Total 26   Nishanth Hn 6½
70   Varun B S 5½ 113 Shreyas Shashi Kumar 5
cash prize was RS. 132000/- 27   Sachin A S 6½
71   Baligar Dr Vishwanath 5½ 114 Yashas Donthi 5
28   Upendra K 6½
72   Srikant Nayak A 5½ 115 Abhay K 5
Top seed IM Stany G A from Shivamogga is 29   Prasanna B M 6½
73   Neil J 5½ 116 Sanjana Raghunath 5
the Champion with 8 wins and a draw. It was 30   Ajith M.P. 6½
74   Sudeep S 5½ 117 Rohit Venugopal 5
easy sailing for him. He is the best player 31 AFM Shivakumar D M 6½
75   Ashuthosh Srivatsa R 5½ 118 Pratham Singh 5
from Karnataka with a Classical rating of 32   Yashaskara Jois K.R 6
76 AIM Raghavendra Naik 5½ 119 Yatharth Jain 5
2501 and a GM norm in his kitty.Prize distri- 33   Aryagopal 6
77   Radhakrishna S Kavalgi 5½ 120 Rudrashish Chakraborty 5
bution Ceremony was presided by Mr. Arvind 34 AFM Kaushik G Iyer 6
78   Sujit Varghese 5½ 121 Aarav Rane 5
Shastry Secretary UKCA, Mr. Chidananda 35   Balkishan A. 6
79   Deota Sriyansh 5½ 122 Niranjan Babu 5
secretary BRDCA and Stany G A. 36   Ruthvik R 6
80   Kumar Patil 5½ 123 Dhanush Senthil 5
37   Thyagaraj M T 6
81   Ronit Prasad 5½ 124 Chandrashekhara M 5
Final ranking 38   Sudarshan Bhat 6
82   Vaibhav Kalpaka 5½ 125 Anoushka Bhatt 5
Rk   Name Pts 39   Chincholimath Halsagar 6
83   Darshan Koushik 5½ 126 Chethan S P 5
1 IM Stany G.A. 8½ 40   Samith Reddy I 6
84   Shibin K Benny 5 127 Pranav Suraj Nair 5
2   Bhat Narayan K 8 41   Druva Chipli 6
85   Raju M. 5 128 Sourav Mitra 5
3   Prachura P.P. 7½ 42   Binu Sebastian 6
86   Nagarjun Ghatti 5 129 Udayan Banerjee 5
4 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 7½ 43   Anil Kathane 6
87   Akshat Sanghvi 5 130 Preksha Jain J 5
5   Gahan M G 7½ 44   Abhyuday Santhosh 6
88   Venkat Shyam V 5 131 Zoya Nizar 5
6   Arvind Shastry 7½ 45   Anudeep K S 6
89   Rakesh N 5 132 Deekshith V 5
7   Sameer Ghotane 7½ 46   Ayush J Yajaman 6
90   Ekantha Raju 5 133 Abhinav Girish Hegde 5
8   Santoshkashyap Hg 7 47   Pradhyumna Kumar K 6
91   Prajwal K M 5 134 Ganapathi R Mysore 5
9   Jagadish P 7 48   Anya Seth Syed 6
92   Smriti Prabhuraj 5 135 Sankha Ghosh 5
10   Gavi Siddayya 7 49   Aravindakshan Su 6
93   Kruti Gangadkar 5 136 Anjishnu Roy Choudhry 5
11   Bachikar Girish 7 50   Abhinav Bhatt 6
94   Mahesh P 5 137 Aman George Thomas 5
12   Nitish Bhat 7 51   Manish Paul Simon 6
95   Abhinandan 5 138 Anirudh Gosakan 4½
13   Saket Kumar 7 52   Varun Sudarshan 6
96   Johnson K A 5 139 Tejas Varma 4½
14   Deota Snehil S 7 53   Abhin A S 6
97   Sri Krishna H V 5 140 Rakesh Kumar Sinha 4½
15   Parthasarathy R 7 54   Rakshith Srinivasan 6
98   Sachin Suresh 5
16 AIM Raviprakash S.M. 7 55   Nachiketh Adiga 6
99   Bhagyashree G Patil 5
17   Arhan Chethan Anand 7 56   Ananya Arumbakkam 6

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 1st all Bengal FIDE rated Open Rapid Chess Tournament 2017, Kolkata
Aronyak Ghosh wins title
By FA Biswanath Banerjee, Chief Arbiter
T
he 1st All Bengal FIDE Rated Open Rapid
Chess Tournament 2017 was inaugu-
rated by Mr. Atanu Lahiri,(Secretary ,
BCA & Jt. Secretary AICF) in the presence
of Mr. Amar Roy Vice President, BCA & other
executive body members of District Chess
Association & State Chess Association on
08th July at 12.30 pm at ICCR Kolkata. This
tournament was organized by Pioneer Chess
School with 64 SQUARES under the Aegis of
BCA, KDCA ,AICF and FIDE. The tournament
is played in one of the best Air conditioned
venue in Kolkata, i.e. ICCR, with sufficient
drinking water and washroom facilities. The
organisers arranged a separate AC place for
parents. They provide a beautiful Cafeteria,
from where all the participants , officials and
others can get their lunch , tea etc. Digital
Clocks were provide in all the boards.
A total of 376 players from different district
of West Bengal took part in this event. This
is the first time in the history of West Bengal
that a rapid rating tournament attracts 376
participants. Out of these 376 players, 184
players were rated and 192 were unrated. Top
seed was IM Somok Palit with a Irtg-2338 ,
who ranked 2nd position & and bagged Rs.
8000/-. 16th seeded CM Aronyak Ghosh with
a Irtg of 1912 clinched the title and became
the Champion of “1st ALL BENGAL FIDE RAT-
ED OPEN RAPID CHESS TOURNAMENT 2017
and was awarded a Cash Prize of Rs.10000/-
along with Champions Trophy. Koustav Chat-
terjee got the 3rd prize respectively. Total
prize fund was Rs.1,20,000/- Not a single
protest/claim was there during that period.
The closing Ceremony was held in a befit-
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8 AIM Debarghya Samanta 7½ 51   Sourav Bhowmik 6
9   Arpan Das (jr) 7 52   Debargha Basu 6
10 AGM Arka Sengupta 7 53   Rounak Pathak 6
11   Arindam Mukherjee 7 54   Gautam Kr Maitra 6
12   Pradip Ghosh 7 55   Shuban Saha 6
ting manner. Grand Master Diptayan Ghosh 13 AGM Ritam Nag 7 56   Shuvam Roy 6
was the Chief Guest in the Prize Distribution 14   Neelash Saha 7 57   Bhattacharyya Soham 6
Ceremony. IM Atanu Lahiri, Hon Sec, Bengal 15   Mallick Anjan 7 58   Shaati Majumder 6
Chess Association, Mr.Amar Roy, Vice-Pres- 16   Soumma Chakraborty 7 59   Sanjib Ghosh 6
ident BCA and so many dignitaries were 17   Chattarjee Laltu 7 60   Bodhisatya Pal 6
present in this ceremony and gave away 18   Basu Suman 7 61   Subhabrata Roy 6
the prizes to all the winners. Pioneer Chess 19   Dhiman Mitra 7 62   Nirmalya Bose 6
School along with 64 SQUARES felicitate IM 20   Ayush Jha 7 63   Pratyay Chowdhury 6
Atanu Lahiri for becoming the Jt. Sec of AICF 21   Shaon Chowdhury 6½ 64   Asmita Das 6
and GM Diptayan Ghosh for his incredible 22   Verma Sanjay 6½ 65   Chandramoli Chakraborty 6
success in Oddisa and Mumbai GM Tourna- 23   Soumik Datta 6½ 66   Diya Chowdhury 6
ment. Many local players will get Elo rating 24   Sayan Sen 6½ 67   Supriyo Kundu 6
and some players got partial rating from this 25   Dilip Das 6½ 68   Ritam Mukherjee 6
event. I express my thanks to the organizing 26   Anurag Jaiswal 6½ 69   Annyatoma Das 6
body i.e Pioneer Chess School , Bengal Chess 27   Kaustav Bhattacharya 6½ 70   Saikat Saha 6
Association , KDCA & 64 SQUARES for giving 28   Rahul K Viswanathan 6½ 71   Saikat Das 6
me an opportunity to undertake the respon- 29   Chakrabarti Tamal 6½ 72   Ankan Saha 6
sibility as Chief Arbiter for this mega event. 30   Kaustuv Kundu 6½ 73   Aneek Das 6
31   Ganguly Ritabroto 6½ 74   Hrittik Sarkar 6
I express my special thanks to Mr. Atanu 32   Sandip Dey 6½ 75   Anubhab Gupta 6
Lahiri, and Mr. Prasenjit Bhattacharjee, Di- 33   Souhardo Basak 6½ 76 AGM Shahid Ahmed S.K. 5½
rector Pioneer Chess School and Mr. Goutam 34   Soham Saha 6½ 77   Avijaan Roy Choudhury 5½
De, Director ICCR for their immense support. 35   Anish Rooj 6½ 78   Akash Tiwari 5½
Without their support this is not possible for 36   Ritwick Pal 6½ 79   Subham Saha 5½
anybody to make this event a grand success. 37   R Nag Chowdhury 6½ 80   Anirban Basu 5½
The Press and Media covered the event very 38   Rupankar Kundu 6½ 81   Rajarshi Dutta 5½
well and we had considerably very good 39   Satya Sekhar Mitra 6 82   Anand K 5½
support from the parents and guardian of 40   Sanjit Saha 6 83   Sambarta Banerjee 5½
the participants. 41   Saptorshi Gupta 6 84   Shounak Mazumder 5½
42   Patit Paban Adhikary 6 85   Sanket Chakravarty 5½
Final ranking 43   Tuhin Dutta 6 86   Rittik Chakraborty 5½
Rk   Name Pts 44   Sanjib Mali 6 87   Aritrya Pal 5½
1 CM Aronyak Ghosh 8 45   Sonkalan Bharati 6 88   Somdeb Mazumder 5½
2 IM Palit Somak 8 46   Sounak De (1) 6 89   Debapriyo Saha 5½
3   Koustav Chatterjee 8 47   Ayan Pal 6 90   Sagnik Ray 5½
4 FM Rajdeep Sarkar 7½ 48   Raghuraj P Singh 6 91   Ishan Das 5½
5   Arpan Das 7½ 49   Mallick Samput 6 92   Bihan Chowdhuri 5½
6   Anustoop Biswas 7½ 50   Sukomol Mondal 6 93   Sayak Ghosh 5½
7   Nath Rupankar 7½
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94   Saktipada Barai 5½ 136 Sagnik Saha 5 1st Dhakshinamoorthy Memorial Open Rapid FIDE Rated Tournament 2017
95   Mouhurtik Ray 5½ 137 Kuhelika Das 5
96   Arit Chakrobarty 5½ 138 Madhav Patel 5
R R Laxman wins title
97   Rishab Debsharma 5½ 139 Juhi Parekh 5 by IA Ganesh Babu S, Chief Arbiter

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98   Ankan Ghosh 5½ 140 Nihar Ranjan Banerjee 5 rand Master R R Laxman of ICF won the ments nowadays, organized this tournament
99   Sritama Sen 5½ 141 Anukarssa Dutta 5 1st Dhakshinamoorthy Memorial Open in a grand manner. He gave prizes to all kids
100 Sneha Paul 5½ 142 Pragati Mazumder 5 Rapid FIDE Rated Chess Tournament under the age of eight, also a memento in
101 Pradip Dey 5½ 143 Supriya Guru 5 organized by Master Mind Chess Academy. memory of Mr.Dhakshinamoorthy to all the
102 Aniket Mukherjee 5½ 144 Ankita Kundu 5 The 2 day event from July 22 to July 23 was 408 players, arbiters and officials. He also
103 Atish Dipankar Chowdhury 5½ 145 Agradeep Halder 5 held at Ganesh Kalyana Mandabam, Pammal, arranged a seminar class before the prize
104 Shaunak Mallick 5 Chennai. distribution which was taken by Mr. Sara-
146 Soutrik Maitra 5
105 Sawyan Baran De 5 The Prize fund of Rs.2, 00,000 was split into vanan, International Master. He shared the
147 Sayan Karmakar 5
106 Swapan Kumar Das 5 20 Main Prizes, 33 Special Prizes & 83 Tro- memories of Mr. Dhakshinamoorthy chess life
107 Akshath Sinha 5 148 Abhishek Muhuri 5 phies for age categories. The winner gets and his chess knowledge to the young kids
108 Soureen Bhattacharya 5 149 Eshan Bhattacharjee 5 Rs.21, 000 and a glittering trophy. The Event who were present in the function.
109 Soham Bhattacharyya 5 150 Sharba Das 5 attracted 408 players from 10 states, out of Prizes were distributed by Saravanan V, In-
110 Sayandeep Roy 5 151 Vedika Agarwal 5 which 239 players were internationally rated ternational Master. Dignitaries present on
111 Mohana Sengupta 5 152 Kabid Basu 5 players. the dais were Mr. T J Suresh Kumar,ICF, Mr.
112 Anushka Gupta 5 At the end of 5th round, topseed players R R Vasudevan, International Arbiter, Mr.
153 Shreyashree Bansal 5
113 Joydeep Laha 5 sailed smoothly. Eight Players were leading Ilan Kumar, MMCA, Mr. Babu, MMCA, Mr.
154  Rupkatha Malakar 5
114 Param Das 5 with full five points. In the sixth round Ram Chandrasekaran, MMCA and MR. Natarajan,
115 Shrestha Saha 5 155 Pratyush Das 5 S Krishnan, former national rapid champi- Secretary,MMCA.
116 Soumyadip Deb 5 156 Tejash Jain 5 on lost to Eighteenth Seed Player Hemanth Final Ranking:
117 Rwitik Chakraborty 5 157  Mahek Sethia 5 Raam of Chennai. Laxman took the sole lead Rk.  Name Pts.
118 Sohini Ganguly 5 158 Soumita Das 5 at the end of seventh round. Unstoppable 1 GM Laxman R.R. 8.5
119 Ahaan Kanaujia 159  5
Manosij Malakar 5 Laxman went onto win against Ajay Krishna 2   Shankar A. 8
120 Arijit Ghosh 5 of Chennai in the eighth round. 3 IM Praveen Kumar C 7.5
160 Ujaan Bhattacharya 5
121 Debadrito Banerjee 5 In the final round Laxman drew with his team 4   Lokesh N. 7.5
161  Soumalya Mukherjee 5
mate IM Praveen Kumar to lift the winner 5   Balasubramaniam H 7.5
122 Aditi Saha 5 162 Swapnil Ghosh 5 trophy and cash award of Rs.21, 000 with 6 CM Bharath SubramaniyamH 7.5
123 Ritabrata Chakraborty 5 163 Sankalan Shah 5 8.5 pts. A Shankar of Southern Railways 7   Ajay Krishna S 7
124 Jagriti Agarwal 5 164 Shreyas Ray 5 finished second place with 8 points and IM 8   Hemanth Raam 7
125 Akash Gunin 5 165  Ayush Chakraborty 5 C Praveen Kumar of ICF finished 3rd place 9   Venkat Sundaram 7
126 Debayan Biswas 5 166 Pranab Maity 5 with 7.5 points. 10   Ashwath R. 7
127 Sourjya Sarkar 5 Mr.Natarajan, org. Secretary took the initia- 11 AGM Srihari L R 7
167 Rajdeep Dutta 5
128 Debraj Gangopadhyay 5 tive to conduct this tournament in the name 12   Syed Anwar Shazuli 7
168 Agnish Ray 5
of Mr.Dhakshinamoorthy who lived a life of 13   Mohan Kumar 7
129  Anirudha Menon 5 169 Subhra Kanti Karsharma 5 love for chess and left on 21st February 2017, 14   Ganesh R 7
130 Debanjan Ghosh 5
170  Ananya Bothra 4½ at the age of 92 years. “I am a lonely soul, 15 AGM Sa Kannan 7
131 Tanisha Chatterjee 5
171  Sayanton Mazumder 4½ and my house is always open to anyone who 16   Manigandan S S 7
132 Amit Kumar Santra 5
172 Indrava Banik 4½ wishes to play chess,” was one of his cryptic 17   Nitin Shankar Madhu 7
133 Ayan Ganguly 5
173 Aadrito Datta 4½ sentences. 18   Ram S. Krishnan 7
134 Oishik Kundu 5
Mr. Natarajan who is organizing many tourna- 19 AGM Rathneesh R 7
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20   Sridhar C S 7
21   Abhijit Chutia 7
22   Mythireyan P 7
23   Subramanian R M 7
24   Gokulraj K 7
25   S G Muthu Annamalai 7
26   Harini S. 7
27   Manu David Suthandram 7
28   Pranesh M 7
29   Karthik B 7
30 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 6.5
31   Ravi Kumar K 6.5
32   Darwin S. 6.5
33   Karthick Narayanan S 6.5
34   Chandra Sekharan A P 6.5
35   Aasha C R 6.5
36   Jayachandra Srinivas V 6.5
37   Muthu Palaniappan P L 6.5
38   Govindarajan Suganthi 6.5
39   Ulaganathan G 6.5
40   Arjun C Krishnamachari 6
41   Balachandar E 6
42   Harivardhini I 6
43   Ranjith R.K. 6
44   Sanjay Thiruvengadam 6
45   Nandha Visakan 6
46   Subramanian V 6
47   Sanathanan N.R.S. 6
48   Varun Suresh Roshan 6
49   Chujeeth Vignesh A 6
50   Thamizharasan J 6
51   Hiren K G 6
52 AGM Vignesh N 6
53   Suresh Kolavapalli 6
54   A P Santhana Prabu 6
55   Singaram P.L. 6
56   George Daniel 6
57   Manish Anto Cristiano F 6
58   Gugan G 6
59   Azeezuddin H. 6
60   Lakshmi NarasimhanVS 6
61   Sidharth P G 6
62   Charan Madhuprakash 6
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63   Kishore V 6
64   Kabhilan S 6
65   Venkatakrishnan R.V. 6
66   Shreyas Anand 6
67   Ashwin Sairam 6
68   Vinith Kumar I. 6
69   Domnic Xavier R S 6
70   Arun R U 6
71 AGM Vignesh B 6
72   Subramanian T.V. 6
73   Krishan A 6
74   Nidheshpa S 6
75   Sivan S Roshan 6
76   Baranidharan K 6
77   Sakthi Subash A S 6
78   Sudha KLakshmi Narayana 6
79   Suriya S R 6
80   Manikanda Prabhu B V 6
81   Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan 6
82   Vijay M. 6
83   Anandan Arunachalakani 6
84   Nagalingam G 6
85   Sridhar R 6
86   Balasubramanian G 6
87   Aringar Anna V 6
88   Aravindkumar S 5.5
89   Babu S. 5.5
90   Yashwanth Raj S 5.5
91   Shyaam M 5.5
92   Divyabharathi Masanam 5.5
93   Bharath Ravikumar 5.5
94   Anirudh D Venkat 5.5
95   Rathina Sabapathi A 5.5
96   Aaditya R 5.5
97   Kavitha P L 5.5
98   Sujit Prathameesh R 5.5
99   B Nedunchezian 5.5
100 Badrinarayanan N 5.5
101 P Kumar Pugazhendhi 5.5
102 Vishwa Bala KumaranM 5.5
103 Haresh Nandan C 5.5
104 Rajesh Selvarajan 5.5
105 Deepakraj Raja 5.5
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Abhijeet Gupta finishes second in Czech Open
Commonwealth Champion Abhijeet Gupta of Delhi who was in sole lead with 5.5/6 slipped in
the end to score 1.5/3 and take the second place at Pardubice on July 29, 2017. Gupta was
beaten by Indian team-mate G.N. Gopal in the seventh round. Twenty-five year old Jan Krejci
of Czech Republic won seven games in a row after starting with two draws to win the title by a
one point margin.
International Master Sayantan Das, 20, of Kolkata made a Grand
Master norm by remaining undefeated in the Czech Open. The 2399
rated player clocked a rating performance of 2609, gaining 25.5 Elo
in the process.
Nihal Sarin (born 2004) started as seed 43 and finished 13th scoring
6.5 points but missed the GM norm. He suffered only one loss to G.N.
Gopal in a battle for the Kerala supremacy! The other GM norm seeker,
Abhimanyu Puranik remained undefeated but did not face the required
GMs.FIDE Master Raunak Sadhwani (Elo 2314, born 2005) played at
2498 and completed an International Master norm. Incredibly, the
12-year old from Nagpur also remained undefeated. He scored 3/5
against the five Grand Masters he faced.
The other two IM norms were recorded by FM Nihal Sarin (6.5/9) and Harshit Raja (5.5/9). 
Untitled Harshit Raja played at 2469 gaining a huge 26.80 rating points. Four draws against the
five GMs he faced was the high point for 16-year old Harshit Raja.Nihal Sarin played at 2558,
42 short of a GM norm in performance rating. However, he made an IM norm and took home
10.9 Elo. Besides the four Indians who made norms, 13 others made norms and this festival is
popular for chess and other indoor games.
Players: 1116. Nations: 51. Players from: Czech Republic 299, Germany 262, Russia 148, Ukraine
54, Poland 52, India 40 etc.
Final placings: 1 GM Jan Krejci (Cze) 8/9; 2-5. GM Abhijeet Gupta, GM Daniil Lintchevski (Rus),
IM David Paravyan (Rus), GM Vlastimil Babula (Cze) 7 each; 6-25. GM G N Gopal, GM Jakov
Geller (Rus), GM Viktor Laznicka (Cze), GM M.R. Lalith Babu, GM Evgeny E Vorobiov (Rus), IM
Roven Vogel (Ger), GM Kirill Bryzgalin (Rus), FM Nihal Sarin, GM Ante Brkic (Cro), IM Sayantan
Das, IM Christopher Noe (Ger), FM Viacheslav Tilicheev (Rus), IM Klementy Sychev (Rus), IM
Abhimanyu Puranik, GM Semen I Dvoirys (Rus), GM Arnaud Hauchard (Fra), FM Yevhenii Yelisie-
iev, GM Volodymyr Vetoshko (both Ukr), GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Rom), GM Maksim Chigaev
(Rus) 6.5 each.
Ganguly finishes third in Biel Open
Former six-time Indian champion Surya Sekhar Ganguly of Kolkata finished third in the Biel
Open Tournament that concluded at Biel in Switzerland on August 2, 2017.
The first-second places went to Mateusz Bartel of Poland and Vladimir Baklan of Ukraine. Both
remained undefeated on 7/9 and also drew their mutual encounter.
Ganguly, 1983-born, played at 2676 and gained 3.2 Elo points. He lost one game to Grand Master
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 Hera Imre of Hungary. Ganguly beat Vaibhav Suri and drew Karthikeyan Murali
in clashes between Indians. Ganguly started as third seed and finished third.
Aravindh Chithambaram also scored 6.5 points and gained 8.4 Elo, remain-
ing undefeated. He started as seed 14 and finished sixth place tying for the
third place.
A dozen Indians who played in this event gained 213.80 Elo points. Our
players are successful, or more hungry for success or they are under-rated
by about 100 points.
Leading final placings and Indians: 1-2. GM Mateusz Bartel (Pol), GM Vladimir
Baklan (Ukr) 7/9 each; 3-8. GM Surya S Ganguly (Ind), GM Davorin Kul-
jasevic (Cro), GM Salem A.R. Saleh (UAE), GM Aravindh Chithambaram (Ind), GM Mikhail Al.
Antipov (Rus), GM Milos Perunovic (Srb) 6.5 each; 12 GM Karthikeyan Murali 6; 22 GM V Vishnu
Prasanna 5.5; 25 GM Vaibhav Suri 5.5; 34 IM Swayams Mishra 5; 44 Kautil Kakamanu 5; 48 GM
M.R. Venkatesh 4.5; 59 FM Dhanush Bharadwaj 4.5; 67 Sankalp Gupta 4; 71-72. FM Ashwani
Tiwari, Vedant Goswami 4.
Iniyan finishes fourth in Andorra
International Master P Iniyan beat the top seed Grand Master Romain Edouard
of France in the final round with the black pieces to take the fourth place in
the 35th Andorra Open on July 30, 2017.
Iniyan started as seed 31 and gained 20.40 Elo from this contest scoring
7/9. While on 3/4, Iniyan had a rare shocking pairing against a 1848 (K
Krithigga of India) opponent that pulled his average rating low! Iniyan won
the last three games in a row but could post only a 2534 rating performance.
A rating performance of 2600 is needed for a GM norm.
Andorra is a hill station nation perched on the French-Spanish internation-
al border.  It is the 16th smallest country in the world by land mass and eleventh smallest by
population (85,000). A total of 153 players from 18 nations took part in which 13 were GMs
and 18 IMs.
Many Indians are close to the GM norm like Nihal Sarin, Abhimanyu Puranik, Sayantan Das,
Iniyan. In the next two years, India should have atleast ten more Grand Masters.
Indians who played: IM Akshat Khamparia (5.5, 22nd), Akash PC Iyer (5.5, 24th), Soham
Das (5.5, 27th), Kalyan Arjun (5.5, 31st), Srijit Paul (5.5, 33rd), B Vignesh (5.5, 37th), Ajay
Karthikeyan (5.5, 41st), S Rohith Krishna (5, 48th), Krithigga (4.5, 72nd).
Final placings: 1-3. IM Manuel Pena (Esp), GM Daniel Forcen (Esp), IM Alexander Kaspi (Isr)
7.5/9 each; 4-5. IM P Iniyan, IM Alfonso Jerez Perez (Esp) 7 each.
National Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships, Kolkata…
Anwesh Upadhyaya wins National Rapid
Despite a last round defeat, 25-year old International Master Anwesh Upadhyaya of Odisha won
the National Rapid Chess Championship that concluded at Kolkata on August 3, 2017.
In the interesting final round, Anwesh who was leading with 9/10 lost to top seed Grand Master
Laxman. Strangely, P Saravanakrishnan of Tamil Nadu who was in the second position on 8.5 also
lost to GM Deep Sengupta. Although rattled, tenth seed Anwesh and seed 15 Saravanakrishnan
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took the top two places. There was a tie for the second place on 8.5 points and
Laxman was third behind untitled Saravanakrishnan.
This event attracted six GMs, one WGM (Soumya), 11 IMs and 188 players in all.
The tournament director was IM Atanu Lahiri. The total prize fund for this event
and the National Blitz slated for August 4 are Rs.2,50,000.
International Arbiter Rajendra Shidore of Pune was the chief arbiter. The event took
place at Bhowanipur Education Society College and was organised by the Bengal
Chess Association from August 1-3, 2017.
Final placings: 1 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya (Odi) 9/11; 2-6. P Saravanakrishnan (TN),
GM R.R. Laxman (Rly), GM Neelotpal Das (PSPB), GM Sriram Jha (LIC), GM Deep Sengupta (PSPB) 8.5
each; 7-14. Koustav Chatterjee (WB), IM K Ratnakaran (Rly), IM D K Sharma (LIC), IM P Shyaam-
nikhil (TN), IM S Nitin (Rly), CM Aronyak Ghosh (WB), GM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Rly) 8 each…
Laxman wins National Blitz at Kolkata
Grand Master R.R. Laxman of ICF, Chennai representing Railways won the
National Blitz Chess Championship that took place in Kolkata on August
4, 2017.
When the start rank and finish rank is No.1 it might seem that he was ex-
pected to win and he won. It was not so. This big made 1983-born Grand
Master ceded a draw in the opening round to Mrityunjay Kumar (seed 90)
and raced ahead winning the last five rounds.
Laxman drew one more game against Nitin in round six and did not get to face any of the top
ten seeded players! Laxman’s blitz rating is 2575 and it is bound to climb another 9.8 points.
He practices in online events, wins prizes, and is always good in quick play games.
Another Chennai player, IM P Karthikeyan finished second suffering one defeat to D.K. Sharma
in the middle. He scored 2.5/3 against players seeded in the top 10.
Mitrabha, 16, did not do well against the top ten (2/4) but importantly won the last four rounds
for a place in the podium. He lost to Shyaamnikhil and Karthikeyan.
Besides Laxman, two other Grand Masters took part. Seven time National champion P.M. Thipsay
was on 7/9 but defeats to D.K. Sharma and Baivab Mishra in the last two rounds cut his string
of five wins.
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury had a tough day, meeting all eleven opponents from his Bengal state!
He is losing blitz rating heavily. Three of his defeats and two draws were against teenagers.
Final placings: 1 GM R.R. Laxman (Rly) 10/11; 2 IM P Karthikeyan (Rly) 9.5; 3 FM Mitrabha
Guha (WB) 9; 4-5. IM V.A.V. Rajesh (TN), IM Rahul Shetty (IA) 8.5 each; 6-13. IM D.K. Shar-
ma (LIC), FM G.V. Sai Krishna (AP), IM S Nitin (Rly), P Saravanakrishnan (TN), IM Somak Palit
(Rly), IM K Ratnakaran (Rly), Ram S Krishnan (TN), Baivab Mishra (Odi) 8 each….174 players.
FIDE Arbiter Seminar, New Delhi
A report by Prof.R.Anantharam IA
A FIDE Arbiter seminar was organised by Delhi Chess Association on behalf of All India Chess
Federation and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission at the luxurious Hotel Park Plaza from 4th to 6th July
2017. Prof.R. Anantharam international arbiter and Councillor, FIDE Arbiters’ Commission was the
lecturer and Mr. MS. Gopakumar IA member of Anticheating Commission, FIDE was the assistant
lecturer. Thirty seven participants from various parts of India took part in the three day event.
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Lectures were delivered on Laws of Chess, 106 C Gopalakrishnan 5.5 149 Paul I. Sumi 5
Rating regulations, Title regulations, Pairing 107 Vijay Kumar Pakkurti 5.5 150 AFM SPonnada Krishnasamy 5
rules, Competition rules, Standards of Chess 108 Rishiraj P 5.5 151  Ramesh V 5
Equipment, Arbiter regulations, Anticheating 109 Praveenkumar C 5.5 152 Sudarshan B 5
rules and other aspects related the arbiters. 110 Jaikavin Senthilkumar 5.5 153 Gokula Chandhiran A 5
More emphasis was given to the changes 111 Balakrishnan.K 5.5 154 Rohan M 5
in rules, which are effective from 1st July
112 Ayushh Ravikumar 5 155 Ramakrishnan M R 5
2017. Many case studies were discussed on
113 Dinesh Kumar G 5 156 Dwip Doshi 5
Laws of Chess. At the end of the third day,
114 Sandhya S 5 157 V Kalianasundara 5
an examination was conducted in which all
the participants attended. The following have 115 Srinivasan V K 5 158 Ramakrishnan T V 5
been declared passed by the FIDE Arbiters’ 116 Dharani Srinivas K B 5 159 Venkata Jayanarayan R 5
Commission. 117 B Kumar Radhakrishnan 5 160 Vijayaraghavan T 5
Name State Fide Id 118 Pranav Kumarsubja 5 161 AVeda Watson Solomon 5
119 Anilkumar K.V. 5 162 Avanthika F G 5
Sohani Vivek Suhas Mahrashtra 25710478
120 AFM Pradeep Srivaths 5 163 Magesh Kumaar M 5
Aparajita Gochhikar Odisha 5046556 121 Jayakrishna H 5 164 Raphael P 5
Praful B Zaveri Maharashtra 5020050 122 Subashree Ranganathan 5 165 Sreejith Paramparambath 5
Rajeev Kumar Haryana 25771760 123 Ari Shivamani S A 5 166 Dhinesh Kumar P R 5
Chandan Chawla Haryana 25744658 124 Shivani Madhu 5 167 Harish Krishnan 5
Puneet Jaiswal Delhi 5006830 125 Marikani Kandasamy 5 168 Prasanth K 5
126 Mukunthan Udayakumar 5 169 Benny P C 5
Praveen Kumar Kothari Rajasthan 5045789
127 S H Sai Jagadees 5 170 Sakthi Saravanan V 5
Ajmal PA Kerala 5046084
128 Rangarajan Srinivasan 5 171 Umeshwarr 5
Hemprakash Borsagade Maharashtra 25086260 129  Sairam B Subramaniam 5 172 Aswinika Mani R 5
SmithaSelvi Kerala 25771779 130  Roshan A Ramesh 5 173 Calvin Richard C J 5
Tejavath Naresh Telangana 35000810 131 Srinivasa Jagan 5 174 Shravan Swaminathan 5
Swaraj Buragohain Assam 5035538 132 Durga R 5 175 Harini M C 5
Joshi Abhijit Shrikant Maharashtra 5026091 133 Venuprasath G 5 176 Anirudh R 5
134 Narasimhan V S 5 177 Kashyap Adithya A 5
Karthik R Karnataka 25712870
135 Keshav Padmanabhan 5 178 Sreenivasan S 5
Kaviraj Sawant Maharashtra 35010069
136 Sri Surya Bharathi S 5 179 Mukunthan A R 5
Martin Samuel Kerala 25091158 137 Jeyanth R 5 180  Praveen Kumar E 4.5
Raghavendra MV Karnataka 45051518 138 Swarnamala B 5 181 Vengatesh Krishnan C 4.5
Sandesh Mahavir Nagarnaik Maharashtra 25649833 139 Naga Srinish K 5 182 Varadharajan S 4.5
140 Prashannaa S R 5 183 Herald K A 4.5
Seven Indians in World Cup 2017 141 Vigneshwaran 5 184 Vinayakarao Venkatesh 4.5
FIDE has announced a list of 128 players for the World Cup 2017. It includes seven Indians.This 142 Hariharan A 5 185 Velavaa Ragavesh 4.5
128-player knock out event will take place at Tbilisi in Georgia from September 2-27, 2017. 143 Mithran Rajaraman 5 186 Shravan R 4.5
Five time former world champion Viswanathan Anand has played in these events before. He and 144 Gurunathan S 5 187 Sasvatha A 4.5
Harikrishna are selected from the 2016-2017 ratings.National champion Karthikeyan Murali is 145 Santhosh V 5 188 Devanand K C 4.5
selected as India is a separate FIDE Zone and the champion automatically gets in.Sethuraman 146 Srinadh Madhavarapu 5 189 Eswar Raj G 4.5
and Deep Sengupta are from the Asian Continentals of 2016 and Vidit Gujrathi is from the Asian 147 Aravind Matthews ACT 5 190 H Karthik Manikandan 4.5
Continentals of 2017.Adhiban is one of the five FIDE nominees. One of the other four nominees 148 K Thirukkalathy 5 191 Muthukumaran V 4.5
is Hou Yifan of China.
Inputs:Arvind Aaron
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 Maharashtra State Junior U-19 Open and Girls FIDE Rating, Pune
Md Nubairshah Shaikh and Bakshi Rutuja win
By IA DI Prem Pandit Chief Arbiter
M
aharashtra State Junior U-19 Open
and Girls FIDE Rating Chess Tour-
naments 2017 was organised by
Pune District Chess Association (PDCA) at
YMCA , 382 New Rasta Peth, Quarter Gate,
Pune 411011. The tournament was from
25th July- 29th July. The tournament had
two categories Open( Event code- 165952/
MAH/2017) and Girls( Event code- 165950/
MAH/2017) .
The tournament ( both the categories) was
played under the Swiss League Format. All
the FIDE rules applicable from 1st July 2017
were followed. After the opening ceremony
two round were conducted on first day. Simi-
larly two rounds were conducted on each day
till the 28th and the last round on the 29th.
Everyday the first round was at 9:00 am and
the second round was at 2:30pm,with the
exception of last round which was conducted
at 10:00am.
All Pairings were shown on chess-results.com
site. In the open category, there were 79
players in which 40 players were rated, out
of which IM Nubairshah Shaikh with Rating
of 2392 of Thane was the top seeded player.
.In the Girls category, there were 30 players
in which total of 16 players were rated, out
of which Rutuja Bakshi of Aurangabad with
Rating of 1940 was the top seeded player.
And in the boys category For the opening
ceremony Mr. Deepak Londhe, The General
Secretary of YMCA;
Mr.Pravin Mckenzie, Asst General Secretary
of YMCA; Mr.Ramish Borde, Member sports
committee; Mr.Sanjay Kedge, Secretary
AMCA; Mr.Joseph D’souza, Chairman PDCA;
Mr.Rajendra Konde, Secretary PDCA ; IA DI
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6   Gaikwad Siddhant 6½ 49   Tyagi Rudransh 4
7   Nirgun Keval 6½ 50   Bhure Harsh 4
8   Apte Dhaivat 6½ 51   Tamboli Sohel 4
9   Bhagwat Heramb 6½ 52   Shinde Om 4
10   Jail Digambar 6 53   Pawar Krushna 4
Mr.Prem Pandit, Chief Arbiter; were present
11   Jadhav Aditya 6 54   Jathar Rishabh 4
on the dias.
12   Kurhe Dhiraj 6 55   Jathar Soham 4
In all the rounds IM Nubairshah Shaikh was
13   Jain Kashish Manoj 6 56   Salunkhe Varad 4
leading in the open category and so was Ru-
14   Dhoot Vinit 5½ 57   Deotale Yash 3½
tuja Bakshi in the girls category.In the open
15   Mahindrakar Indrajeet 5½ 58   Bhatia Nihal 3½
category, Wagh Suyog 2212 (Ahmednagar),
16   Gadhiya Hrithvik 5½ 59   Ghanekar Soham 3½
Mahindrakar Indrajeet 2154(Aurangabad),
17   Dhumal Amit 5½ 60   Hirlekar Shaurya 3½
Gaikwad Siddhant 2128(Pune), Dixit Nikhil
18   Patil Harshal 5½ Final standings: Girls
2116(Pune), Nagare Akhilesh 1862(Nashik)
19   Patil Rohit R 5½ 1 Bakshi Rutuja 9
, Satyam Warude 1808(Ahmednagar) were
20   Agasti Vaibhav 5½ 2 Patel Aditi 7½
in the run for the top ranks.
21   Dewang Kalpesh 5½ 3 Kohle Anushka 6
At the end of 5 rounds Suyog Wagh won a
22   D'souza Kevin 5½ 4 Riya Narendra Marathe 6
point against Gadhiya Hrithvik of Aurangabad
23   Joshi Tejas 5½ 5 Patil Aditi G 5½
and secured 2nd place, followed by Warude
24   Wangikar Aashay 5½ 6 Prabhu Trupti 5½
Satyam at 3rd place and Dixit Nikhil at 4th
25   Phadnis Pranav 5½ 7 Yadnya Rahul Chaudhari 5½
place. In the next round Dixit Nikhil secured
26   Awghad Shyam 5½ 8 Kale Ashika 5½
a point against Waruden Satyam and secured
27   Nanal Arnav 5 9 Pardeshi Gayatri 5
the 2nd rank and continued his position till
28   Ukey Lokesh 5 10 Sheth Siddhi 5
the last round, followed by Wagh Suyog .
29   Shejal Sahil Sanjay 5 11 Kamble Ankita 5
In the girls Category,Rituja Bakshi was the
30   Shewale Teerth 5 12 Patil Sanskruti 5
top seeded player followed by Riya Marathe
31   Dandawate Abhishek 5 13 Palkar Nisarga 5
(pune)1196, Patil Aditi G (1370)of Nagpur,
32   Patel Devang 5 14 Pardeshi Nikita 4½
Kohle Anushka (1336) Nagpur , Prabhu Trupti
33   Datar Amey 5 15 Mhetre Shravani 4½
(1194)of Kolhapur, Patel Aditi (1619) of Nag-
34   Shah Dhruvin 5 16 Undale Shravni 4
pur , were in the run for the ranking.
35   Mhamane Sourabh 4½ 17 Choudhari Anushka 4
After the 6th round followed by Rutuja Bakshi
36   Mahale Tanmay 4½ 18 Walimbe Lalitagauri 4
was Kohle Anushka and on the 3rd rank was
37   Phatak Aanjaneya 4½ 19 Gulave Aakanksha 4
Riya Marathe. Riya Marathe , during the 7th
38   Lonkar Parth 4½ 20 Khandelwal Avni 4
round had to lose her point to Kohle Anushka
39   Chaudhari Tanmay 4½ 21 Ambilwade Ojal 3½
who went up to the 2nd ranking and main-
40   Uplenchwar Anay 4½ 22 Nageswaran Gaayatri 3½
tained her position till the last round.
41   Ghamande Kaustubh 4½ 23 Mittal Ayushi 3
Final standings: Open
42   Patil Adhiraj 4½ 24 Vaidya Mansi 2
Rk   Name Pts
43   Pingle Aditya 4½ 25 Pardeshi Chaturthi 2
1 IM Mohammad Nubairshah
44   Varad Deepak Kabra 4 26 Rakhade Sakshi 2
Shaikh 9
45   Jadhav Om 4 27 Bhange Anushka 1½
2   Dixit Nikhil 7
46   Surawar Omkar 4 28 Kulkarni Diksha 1
3   Wagh Suyog 7
47   Mhetre Prem 4 29 Narke Janhavi 0
4   Nagare Akhilesh 6½
48   Fernandes Glenn 4
5   Warude Satyam 6½
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 12th KCM FIDE rated chess tournament, Coimbatore Under-9 6 Nikhil K 4½
S.No.Player Name Pts 7 Dharun Prasanna V 4½
Phani Kanuri wins KCM FIDE Rated 1 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 6 8 Nayan Megha K A 4
by IA V.Vijayaragahavan, Chief Arbiter 2 Jack Samuel 5 9 Vasudeva Reddy Menati 4

P
3 Midilesh Ms 5 10 Pranava Ravikumar 4
hani Kanuri of Telangana won the 12th 18 Amuthan R 6½
4 Jaidambareesh N R 4½
KCM FIDE rated chess tournament for 19 Theju K V 6½
5 Aniruddh B 4½ Rating 1000 1200
below 1600 with an outright score of 20 Andrew Solomon 6½
6 Sanchith Sundararam K 4½ S.No.Player Name Pts
9 points. Starting as 31st seed , Kanuri sur- 21 Anand Selvarajan 6½
7 Steve Rohan S 4½ 1 Shihab Kadungallur 6½
prised everyone with his brilliant performance Best Younger Player
8 Vasanthi S 4½ 2 Gunasekaran R 6½
and went home richer with Rs.50,000/- cash Shiloh Nithila J
9 Mitul K H 4 3 Shirish Jayaprakash 6
prize. Around 390 players participated in this Best Unrated
10 Kanishkaa C 4 4 Thejasvi N 6
12th fide event which was held from 14th S.No. Player Name
Under-11 5 Singh Vidya Bhushan 6
to 16th July,2017 organized by Kovai Chess 1 Vigneshwaran R
S.No.Player Name Pts 6 Joshua Anto A 5½
Mates, a parents initiative in Coimbatore 2 Senthil Kumar R
1 Shravan Swaminathan 6 7 Thamaraiselvan K 5½
district. A prize fund of Rs.3 lakh was dis- 3 Swarna Anand
2 Jayakrishna H 5½ 8 Muralishankar J T 5½
tributed across various categories like Rating 4 Tanushree V P
3 Srivatsan Karthikeyan 5½ 9 Aishwarya S 5½
& Unrated, Age, Best Women, Veteran etc. 5 Sairam S
Best Veteran 4 Lanka Sri Karthikeya D 5½ 10 Keshav Padmanabhan 5½
5 Vakeesh S 5 11 Abhinav Raj V S 5½
Ranjith Kalaiyarasan of Puduchery, Gow- S.No. Player Name
6 Muthu P 5 12 Leaha B 5½
richander & Sham of TN tied for the 2nd 1 Subramanian T.V.
7 Akshaya R.S 5 13 Sarveshwaran V 5
to 4th spot with 8.0 points apiece and placed Best Women (Above U18)
8 Harroop Chhabda 5 14 Harith R 5
respectively on tie break scores. The prizes S.No. Player Name
9 Sri Vishnu Vardhan C 5 15 Prakalya Nithish S 5
were distributed by the members of Kovai 1 Priyanka Bhatt
10 Kannish Varmaa K 5
Chess Mates and CDCA office bearers present. U9 Sp.l Prize Coimbatore Players
Under-13 Rating 1201 1400
Main Prizes S.No.Player Name Pts
1 Nandish V S 5½ S.No.Player Name Pts S.No.Player Name Pts
S.No. Player Name Pts
2 Sruthi Naya B 5 1 Ruhaan Mahindru 6 1 Sham R 8
1 Phani Kanuri 9
3 Siddharth K S 4½ 2 Midhun Kumar M A 6 2 Prasath K R 7
2 Ranjith Kalaiyarasan 8
U11 Spl Prize Coimbatore Players 3 Santhosh Manikantan 5½
3 Gowrichander U 8 3 Vishnu Ram M 7
S.No.Player Name Pts 4 Sailesh R 5½
4 Koushik Muthesh P 7½ 4 Sanath K Jamadagni 7
1 Raghul Saravanakumar 6 5 Lokesh Varmaa K 5½
5 Kishore Dev S 7½ 5 Rangarajan Srinivasan 7
2 Sarvesh Aadityaa R 6 6 Hemanth Sankar Reddy D 5
6 Nandha Visakan 7
7 Anantha Sai S 5 6 Uma Maheswara Rao K 7
7 Nitish Bhat 7 3 Abi A 5
U13 Spl PrizeCoimbatore Players 8 Sivaneshan V 5 7 Afinu Shifan M 6½
8 Santhosh V R 7
S.No.Player Name Pts 9 Boopesh S J 5 8 Biju Kumar 6½
9 Lakshmi Raja Perumal 7
1 Nirmal L 6 10 Nishanth K 5 9 Allen S David 6½
10 Paulson Frenchy 7
2 Kavin Karthik Velmurugan 6 Under-15
11 Mogan Raj S 7 10 Pragadesh P 6½
3 Midhru Jayan K 6 S.No. Player Name Pts
12 Vishwanath Kannam 7 11 Yogeshwaran S A 6½
U15 Spl PrizeCoimbatore Players 1 Gagan Bharadwaj K 5½
13 Sidharth A Kumar 7 12 Karthikeyan G 6½
S.No.Player Name Pts 2 Samson D Cruz J 5½
14 John Veny Akkarakarn 6½ 13 Gokul Pandiyan S 6
1 Devaraja G 6½ 3 Nimbole Sarvesh 5
15 Ashwin Sairam 6½ 14 Satheesh Kumar G 6
2 Umeshwaran S A 6 4 Kishore M 5
16 Kohli Pranav 6½ 15 Sami M A 6
3 Soundariya Lakshmi G 6 5 Sharan Krishnan 5
17 Ragesh Sarma.M 6½

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 1st Champions International Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2017,Salem
Syed Anwar Shazuli and Manigandan tie for first place
by V.L.Ananda Babu IA, Chief Arbiter
T
he 1st Champions International Fide
Rating Chess Tournament-2017 was Or-
ganized by Champions Chess Academy,
Salem from 27th July to 31st July-2017 at
Chettinadu Mahal, Law College Stop, Yercaud
Main Road, Under the ageis of Salem District
Chess Association, Tamil Nadu State Chess
Association and All India Chess Federation.
The Tournament was conducted in Swiss
System with 8 Rounds with 90 min plus 30
seconds increment from move No.1, The
Tournament was conducted per day 2 rounds.
Total Participant of the Tournament is 195
from 8 states and 2 special units with 129
Rated Players, attracted with 1 Internation-
al Master Ramnath Balasubramaniam from
ICF and 1 Fide Master Vinoth Kumar from
Chennai.
On 27th July 2017 , 10:30 A.M. players
Meeting was held , appeals committee was
formed and first Round started at 11:00 A.M.
All seeded players cleared the point in smooth
manner.All rounds started on time and there
was big fight for the title. In the final round
there were 7 players with 6 points each and
after the completion of the event Syed Anwar
Shazuli from ICF , Jagadish P from Karnata-
ka and Manigandan SS from GKCA, Madurai
cleared with 7 points each.
With the tie break of the event announced
Syed Anwar Shazuli and Manigandan S S
all the tie breaks were same , so the prize
money was
shared for the both with even prize and An-
nounced joint winner of the tournament.
The Prize Distribution conducted at 06:00
P.M. at the same venue. Fide Arbiter Dr.GG
Sathiesh, Deputy Chief Arbiter,Mr.Devan,
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37 Balaguru B 5 172 Koushikragav S S 2
38 Sudarshan Bhat 5 173 Shivanga V 2
Rating 1201-1500 176 Naren Adhitya M S 2
Rank Player Name Pts 177 Pradosh C G 2
35 Deepakraj Raja 5 178 Sivamaran V L 2
Mr.Manigandan S S Joint Winner of the 41 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran 5 179 Dheena G 2
Tournament, Mr.Senthilvel, Chief guest of 45 Swarnamala B 5 180 Visveish 2
the event., Mr.Sivasubramanian,organzier of 47 Rohan Anand 5 183 Sharvesh S 1½
the tournament , Mr.Syed Anwar Shazuli,ICF 48 Prithvi Rajan 5 Trophy Under-7 Girls
Joint winner of the Tournament, Internation- 49 Vishwa Bala Kumaran M 5 Rank Player Name Pts
al Arbiter Anandh Babu VL-Chief Arbiter of 50 Harish G 5 146 Kaushika Sridharan 3
the Tournament, International Arbiter Pala- 54 Avinash Vaidyanathan 5 167 Hanshika V P 2
niappan S,Coordinator of the tournament 57 Jaidambareesh N R 5 175 Umauthra M 2
took part in the valedictory function. 63 Aravindakshan Su 4½ Trophy Under-9 Boys
Main prizes Rating 1501-1800 Rank Player Name Pts
Rank Player Name Pts Rank Player Name Pts 68 Apoorv Kamble 4½
1 Syed Anwar Shazuli 7 12 Rahul Bharadwaj B 6 74 Ilakiyan M Xavier Jeen 4½
Manigandan S S 7 15 Nitin M Pai 6 97 Varunsatyaa Parthasarathy 4
3 Jagadish P 7 17 Srihari L R 5½ 107 Velavaa Ragavesh 4
4 Prasannaa.S 6½ 24 Thaga Sheriff M 5½ 111 Yuv Agarwal A 4
5 R Balasubramaniam 6½ 26 Sanathanan N.R.S. 5½ 148 Srivishva Barath R Agavesh 3
6 Ram S. Krishnan 6½ 28 Nitish Bhat 5½ 152 Saran K 3
7 Pradeep Kumar R A 6 161 Jashwanth B 2½
29 Krishna K R 5½
8 Balkishan A. 6
39 Anilkumar K.V. 5 170 Rahul Kannan V 2
9 Ranjith R.K. 6
40 Subramanian V 5 182 Divesh E 1½
10 Anup Shankar R 6
11 Chakravarti K. 6 42 Abhijit Chutia 5 Trophy Under-9 Girls
13 Surendran N 6 Unrated -1200 Rank Player Name Pts
14 Mohith R 6 Rank Player Name Pts 87 Kanishkaa C 4
16 Kanishk S K 5½ 44 Gokula Kannan G M 5 142 Sahanaa S M 3
18 Rohit Ramanan T G 5½ 185 Poorvika N 1
46 Rajeeb Mk 5
19 Vinoth Kumar M. 5½
53 Laddha Shubh Jayesh 5 188 Muthamilselvi T 1
20 Aravindaswami T 5½
58 Thamaraiselvan K 5 Trophy Under-11 Boys
21 Gowtham K K 5½
22 Vigneshwaran S 5½ 64 Dhanush Karthik K R 4½ Rank Player Name Pts
23 Gopinath Parthasarathy 5½ 69 Manaswini Maheshweram 4½ 76 Sarvesh Hinduja S A 4½
25 Sathya Giri V 5½ 73 Charan K 4½ 82 Adithya Sekar 4
27 Parthasarathy R 5½ 77 Surya Prakash 4½ 105 Shaktivel Selvaraj 4
30 Sathish Chandra G 5½ 78 Kalaiarasi D Pasubathi 4 115 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 3½
31 Singaram P.L. 5½ 86 Anil Thungesh 4 120 Rishiraj P 3½
32 Aasha C R 5½ Trophy Under-7 Boys 123 Laddha Yash Jayesh 3½
33 Barath Kalyan M 5 Rank Player Name Pts 126 Saket Singh 3½
34 Uma Maheswaran P 5 99 Mitul K H 4 128 Udayathkiran S 3½
36 Chujeeth Vignesh A 5 168 Gousiktharan M 2 137 Vaiebhav Shreevarshan R 3
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Selected games from National
Under-25 Championship.Port Blair
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Sai,Hrushikesh Simhdri (1251) Gra-
hesh,Y (2063) [B56]
Grahesh was National U-7 champ at Luc-
know 2007 and U-9 champ at Chennai in
2009. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.f3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Be3
Be7 9.Qd2 a6 10.0–0–0 Qc7 11.Kb1
0–0 12.g4 Rac8 13.h4 d5 14.exd5 Nxd5
15.Bd3 [If 15.Nxd5? Bxd5 16.Qf2 (16.Qxd5?
Rfd8–+) 16...Nb4 17.Bd3 Qc6 18.Bf5 Bxf3
19.Bxc8 Rxc8 20.Rhf1 Qa4!–+] 15...Nxc3+
Diagram # 16.Qxc3? [This loses quickly. A
slower defeat folllowed: 16.bxc3 Na5 17.Qe1
Nc4–+] 16...Bb4! 17.Bxh7+ The only move
to save his queen. 17...Kxh7 18.Qd3+ f5!
19.g5 [Slightly better was: 19.c3 Be7 20.h5
Na5–+] 19...Rfd8 20.Qe2 Rxd1+ 21.Rxd1
Rd8 The general rule is that one must ex-
change off pieces when one is materially
ahead. 22.Rg1 A bishop down, white natu-
rally avoids exchanges and hopes in vain to
complicate the game and obtain counter-play
on the king-side. 22...f4 23.Bc1 Bf5 [23...
a5!] 24.h5 Nd4 25.Nxd4 Rxd4 26.g6+
Kg8
27.Rg5
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Diagram # 27...Rd2!! This is an 'interfer-
ence' idea often used in problem composition.
This rook move interferes with the white
queen's defence of the vital c2 square for
if now 28 Bxd2? Qxc2+ mates next move.
28.Qxd2 Bxd2 29.Rxf5 Bxc1 [Immediate-
ly after winning the queen, black relaxes.
Much stronger was: 29...Be3! 30.Rf7 Qb6]
30.Kxc1 Qa5 31.c3 Qd5 32.Kc2 Qe6!
The strongest continuation, stronger than
32...Qxf3 33 Rxe5. 33.Rf7 e4! 34.Rxb7 Kf8
35.Rf7+ Ke8 36.Rxf4
Diagram # 36...exf3! 37.Kd3 [If 37.Rxf3?
Qe2+–+] 37...Qe2+ 38.Kd4 f2 39.c4
Qd2+ 40.Ke4 Qxf4+! 41.Kxf4 f1Q+ The
rest is easy for black. 42.Kg5 Qxc4 43.b3
Qc1+ 44.Kg4 Ke7 45.Kf5 Qc5+ 46.Kg4
Kf6 47.a4 Qb4+ 48.Kh3 Qxb3+ 49.Kg4
Qxa4+ 50.Kg3 Kf5 51.Kh3 Qg4+ 52.Kh2
Qxh5+ 53.Kg2 Qxg6+ 54.Kf3 0–1
Shyaamnikhil,P (2450) Kushagra,Mohan
(2003) [D01]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Qd2 Bg7
5.Bh6 0–0 6.h4 c5 7.Bxg7 Kxg7 8.e3
cxd4 [A game from the BCF Ch, South-
port, 1983 between Jane Garwell 2090, and
C.Smyth went: 8...Nc6 9.Be2 e5 10.Nf3 cxd4
11.exd4 e4 12.Ng5 h6 13.Nh3 Bxh3 14.Rxh3
a6 15.0–0–0 h5 ...and 64.0–1] 9.exd4 Nc6
10.f3 Qc7 11.0–0–0 a6 12.h5 e6 [12...
Nxh5? 13.g4 Nf6 14.Qh6+ Kg8 15.Nxd5+-;
12...Rh8 13.g4 Qa5 14.Nge2 Bd7 15.Kb1 b5
16.h6+ Kg8 17.g5 b4 18.gxf6 bxc3 19.Qxc3
e6±] 13.Nce2 b5 14.Nf4 Qa5 15.Qxa5
Nxa5 16.hxg6 hxg6 17.Nd3 Nd7 18.Ne2
Nc4 19.Re1 Bb7 20.b3 Nd6 21.g4 Rh8
22.Bg2 Rac8 23.Ne5 Nb6 24.Nd3 Nd7
25.Kd2 a5 26.a3 Rxh1 27.Rxh1
Diagram # 27...Rc7? [Black believes that
everything is under control and dares white
to open up on the queen side. However, he
should be a little more aggressive with: 27...
a4! 28.Nc3 Ra8! not allowing much scope
for white to have ambitions on the king-side
as his a3 pawn is indirectly threatened and
needs his attention.] 28.Nef4 Rc8 29.Bf1
Rc7 30.Ne5! Nf8 [A pawn is lost after:
30...Nxe5 31.dxe5 Nc8 32.Bxb5] 31.Ned3
Nd7 32.Rh2 Rc8 33.Ne2 Bc6 34.Rh1 Rb8
Repetition of the last few moves have made
black confident that he would be drawing
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
against his opponent who is 447 Elo more
than him. But he is just a wee bit careless
as he underestimates the return of white's
knight to e5. Better was 34....f6 = 35.Ne5!
Rb6?! [Better was: 35...Rc8 But most of us
generally do not acknowledge having erred
earlier and try to justify our positional mis-
takes!] 36.Nxd7? [It is white's turn to fum-
ble. Leading to a better position was: 36.Nf4
Kf6 37.Nfd3 Kg7] 36...Bxd7 37.Nf4 Rc6
[Black misses the opportunity to equalise the
position with: 37...b4! 38.axb4 axb4 39.Nd3
Bb5!= Black has successfully solved the
problem of his inactive bishop.] 38.Nd3 Rc7
[38...f6 limiting white's options was better.]
39.Rh2 Be8 40.Re2 Kf6 41.Re3 White has
total control over the e5 square which makes
black fidgetty. 41...Kg7 42.Nc5 The threat is
43 Rxe6! as black's king and rook are well sit-
uated for white's knight fork. 42...Kf6? Black
panics. 42...Rc8 would not have led to the
catastrophy that happens later. 43.Bd3 Rc8
44.Be2 [44.f4! g5! 45.f5] 44...Rc7 45.Bf1
Rc8 46.Bd3 Rc7? Diagram # [Unwitting-
ly black walks into the very position that
white had wanted to get. Equal was: 46...
Bc6= ] 47.g5+! Kxg5 [If 47...Ke7 48.Bxg6
fxg6 49.Rxe6+ Kf8 50.Rxd6+-; or 47...Kg7
48.Rxe6! Rxc5 49.Rxd6+-] 48.Rxe6!! fxe6
49.Nxe6+ Kf6 50.Nxc7 Bc6±
(Position after 46.Rc7)
The smoke has cleared and black is only one
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
pawn down. But for the determined IM, it
is enough to win. 51.Ke3 g5 52.Na6 Nb7
53.Bh7 Ke6 54.Bg6 Kd6 55.b4 axb4
56.axb4 Nd8 57.Nc5 Ne6 Diagram #
58.Nd3! [After the exchange of knights,
it is not that easy for white to win despite
his extra pawn: 58.Nxe6 Kxe6 59.f4 Kf6!
60.Bh7 Bb7 61.Bd3 Bc6 62.Kf3 Bd7 63.c3
Be8 It is difficult for white's king to enter
black's king-side, without which there can
be no practical way of winning.] 58...Bd7
59.Bh7 Ng7 [Better was: 59...Nf8 60.Bg8
Be6 61.Bxe6 and the win for white is a long
way off. 61...Nxe6] 60.Ne5! Be6 61.Bd3!
this forces black to exchange off his knight
for the bishop, a good transaction for white.
61...Nf5+ 62.Bxf5 Bxf5 63.Nf7+! Ke7
64.Nxg5 Bxc2 The past few moves have
seen the players exchanging pawns. But
the advantage has increased for white as he
has exchanged off his backward c3 pawn for
black's g5 pawn and created a passed pawn
on the f-file. 65.Kf4!In most endings, the
king leads the advance and clears the way
for his pawns as here. The white king aims
to get to either e5 or g5. 65...Kf6 66.Nh3
The knight now moves to evict the black king
from the strategic f6 square to make way
for his king. 66...Bf5 67.Nf2 Ke6 Knowing
that 68 Ng4 can no longer be prevented, the
black king gives way. 68.Kg5 Bc2 69.f4 Bf5
70.Nd1! The agility of this knight is remark-
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able. 70...Be4 71.Ne3 Kf7 72.f5 Ke7 [If
72...Bh1 (a waiting move to see how white
makes progress.) 73.Kf4! Kf6 74.Ng4+ Ke7
75.Ke5 wins easily.] 73.Kg6 Kd6 74.Kg7
Black cannot stop the threatened march of
the white pawn to f8. 1–0
Krishn,Charan (1351) Harikrishnan.A.Ra
(2272) [C01]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Bd6
5.h3 Ne7 6.Ne2 0–0 7.0–0 Bf5 8.f4? [In
the Finnish Championship in Helsinki, 1997,
the game A.Holmsten 2325 vs E.Raaste
2340 was drawn immediately after: 8.Bf4
with no further play!] 8...Nd7 9.Ng3 Bxd3
10.Qxd3 c5 11.c3 Nc6 12.Be3 Re8
13.Nd2 [13.dxc5?? Rxe3 14.Qxe3 Bxc5–+]
13...cxd4 14.Bxd4 Nc5 [Better was: 14...
Nxd4 15.cxd4 Qf6 16.Nf5 Rac8 17.Rae1 Rxe1
18.Rxe1 Bb4 (18...Bxf4? 19.Ne7+) 19.Qb5
Qxf5 20.Qxb4 b6 21.Qe7 Nf8 White has
weak pawns on d4 and f4, both objects of
attack in conjunction with his poorly defend-
ed castled position.] 15.Qf3 [Better was:
15.Bxc5 Bxc5+ 16.Kh2 Re3 17.Qb5 Bb6
18.Nf5 a6 19.Qb3 Na5 20.Qc2 Re8=] 15...
Nxd4 16.cxd4 Ne6 17.Ne2 [If 17.Qxd5?
Bxf4 18.Qxd8 Raxd8 19.Nde4 Rxd4µ] 17...
Bc7 18.Rae1 Qd6 Diagram #
19.g3? [This weakening of his castled po-
sition is the consequence of 8 f4? However,
better was: 19.Nb3 a5 20.a4 Rad8 21.Qc3
b6³] 19...Bb6 20.Qd3 Qb4? [A mis-adven-
ture which black acknowledges immediately.
Better was: 20...Re7 21.Nf3 (21.f5? Nxd4
22.Nxd4 Bxd4+ 23.Qxd4 Qxg3+ 24.Kh1
Qxh3+ 25.Kg1 Qg3+–+) 21...Rae8 22.Kg2
Qb4³] 21.a3! Qd6!= [Black will get into all
sorts of troubles after: 21...Qxb2? 22.Rb1
Bxd4+ (22...Qa2 23.f5 Ng5 24.Nc1 wins the
black queen.) 23.Kh1 Nc5 24.Qxd4²] 22.Nf3
Re7 23.f5 Nd8 24.Nf4 Rxe1 25.Rxe1
Nc6= 26.Kg2 Rd8 Black protects his d5 in
advance so that he could move his queen to
other, more profitable, activities. 27.Qb5?!
White places his queen in a more aggressive
position but at the cost of making his own
position vulnerable in the long run. 27...g6!
Black gets a safe square for his king at g7 as
in some variations, white is threatening back
rank mate at e8. This move inspires white
into an indiscretion! It must be noted that
the white king's position is not as compact as
black's and is soon an object of attack. 28.f6?
Qxf6 It looks as though black is inviting trou-
ble with this move, but it is, in fact, the first
move of a deeply thought out combination
to snare white. 29.Nxd5 Diagram #
29...Qxf3+!! 30.Kxf3 Nxd4+ 31.Kf4 Nxb5
32.Nxb6 axb6 The combination is over and
black has emerged with an extra knight and
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
pawn in a winning endgame. 33.Re7 Nd6
The methodical way in which black evicts the
white rook from his second rank and wins the
game is instructive. First of all he ensures
that his b7 pawn is safe. Then he proceeds to
chase out the rook. 34.b3 Kf8 35.Rc7 Rc8
36.Rd7 Rc6! 37.Ke5 Nb5! black is happy
to exchange off one of his doubled b7 pawns
for white's healthy a3 pawn. 38.a4 Nc7! This
shields his b7 pawn from capture. 39.b4 [If
39.Rd8+ Ke7 40.Rb8 b5 41.Rxb7 bxa4 42.g4
(42.bxa4? Rc4!!–+ threat 43...f6#) 42...
axb3 43.Ke4 b2 44.Rxb2 Rc3 45.h4 Rh3+-]
39...Ke8 40.Rd3 Now that the rook is evicted
from his second rank, black can look forward
to using his material superiority without any
technical problems. 40...Ke7 41.g4 With the
black rook free from defensive duties, white
takes steps to defend his own pawns from
poaching by the black rook. But he overlooks
an amazing mid-board mate! 41...Rc4 The
only move for white to stay alive was 42 Rd4
exchanging rooks and face a slow but certain
death. 42.Rb3 Diagram #
42...f6#! 0–1
Jayakumaar,S (2173) - Mehul,Gupta
(1349) [C47]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4
5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
cxd5 9.0–0 0–0 10.Bg5 Be6 11.Ne2 Bd6
12.Nd4 h6 [12...c5 has been played here of-
ten, but without much success.] 13.Bh4 Rb8?
A bluff that is called immediately! 14.Nc6
Bxh2+ 15.Kh1!+- [Leading to equality
would be: 15.Kxh2? Qd6+ 16.Kg1 Qxc6
17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Qf3 Kg7 19.Qg3+ Kh8
20.Qe3 Kg7=] 15...Qd6 16.Nxb8 Ng4
[After 16...Be5 17.Na6 Bc8 18.f4 Bxb2
19.Rb1 Bd4 20.Qd2 c5 21.c3 Bxa6 22.cxd4
c4 23.Be2 c3 24.Qc2+- White has a rook for
two pawns.] 17.Nc6 [Cheeky, but stronger
was: 17.Na6 ] 17...g5 18.Be2 h5 19.Nd4
[Stronger was: 19.Bxg5 Qxc6 20.f3 Be5
21.fxg4 hxg4 22.Bxg4 Bxb2 23.Rb1+- Black
has only a pawn for his rook.] 19...gxh4
20.Nxe6 Bg1 21.f4 Ne3 22.Qd3 Qxe6
23.Kxg1 h3!? Till the very end, black
plays aggressively, though in vain. 24.Rf3
Qg4 25.g3 Nf5 26.Re3! Qg6 27.Re5 f6
28.Rxf5! h4
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Diagram # 29.Rg5!! A pretty finish! 1–0
Joy,Pankaj Shah (1909)
Harikrishnan.A.Ra (2272) [E13]
It is games like these where little-known and
under-rated players display their fine chess
skills, that promise India a bright future. 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nf3 Bb7
6.Bd3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 0–0 8.0–0 d6 9.Re1
Qe7 10.e4 e5 11.Bg5 [Here 11.h3 had
been played earlier.] 11...h6 12.Bh4 Nbd7
13.Qd2 Rfe8 [The best. If 13...g5? 14.Nxg5
hxg5 15.Qxg5+ Kh7 16.Qf5+ Kh8 (16...
Kg7 17.Bxf6+ Nxf6 18.Qg5+ Kh8 19.Qh4+
Kg7 20.Re3 Rg8 21.Rf3!+-) 17.Qh3! Kg7
18.Bxf6+ Nxf6 19.Qg3+! Kh7 20.Qh4+ Kg7
21.Re3+-] 14.Rad1 Nf8 15.g3 Ng6 [Again,
not 15...g5? 16.Nxg5 hxg5 17.Qxg5+ Now
the Nf6 is lost.] 16.Bxf6 Qxf6 17.Kg2 Bc8
18.Qe3 Bg4 Black's position is preferable
because between the two bishops on the
board, black's bishop has more options and
white has doubled pawns which restrict
his bishop's activity. 19.h3 exd4 20.cxd4
Bxf3+ 21.Qxf3 Qxd4
Diagram # Black was probably congratulat-
ing himself on his fine play that won him a
central pawn, but now white throws a span-
ner in his works as the saying goes! 22.e5!
White rattles his opponent with the threat of
a discovered attack against his queen on d4.
22...Qc5? [Obviously, black has not thought
over the position calmly and allows himself
to be pushed into a defensive positon.
When a player in a good position is sud-
denly confornted with tactical problems
as here, he tends to think that he is lost,
whereas he is not really lost. Black could
survive with: 22...Nxe5! 23.Qxa8! Rxa8
24.Bh7+ Kxh7 25.Rxd4 Black has the
equivalent of knight and two pawns for a
rook and has no weaknesses that white
could exploit. Now White's counter-attack
comes like hammer blows.] 23.e6!± This
hits at the defence of the black knight on
g6. 23...Nh8
Diagram # 24.Be4! An excellent continu-
ation of the attack! He has already smelt
victory 24...fxe6 [If 24...Rac8 25.exf7+
Nxf7 26.Bd5 Rf8 27.Re7+-] 25.Bxa8 Rf8
26.Qe2 Rxa8 27.Qxe6+ Nf7 28.Rd3
Rf8 29.Rf3 Qc6 Black defends his f7 by
pinning the Rf3. 30.Re4! What a forceful
way to unpin his Rf3 30...Kh7! A witty
defence. If white captures on f7, he would
lose his Re4. 31.Qd5! Exploiting the fact
that the Nf7 is now irrevocably pinned
against his rook. 31...Qd7 32.Ref4! Kg8
33.h4 It is extremely difficult for the
black king to escape out of the pin along
the f-file and the d5-g8 diagonal. Black is
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
lost. 33...c6 34.Qd4 Qe7 35.Re3 Qc7
36.Qe4 Rd8 [If 36...Ne5 37.Rxf8+ Kxf8
38.f4! If the knight moves, Qe8# is wait-
ing to happen!] 37.Qe6 Qd7 38.Qe7!+-
Qxe7 39.Rxe7 Ne5 40.Rxa7 d5 41.cxd5
cxd5 42.Rf5! The idea is to chase away
the knight and play Rff7, crushing black
along the seventh rank. 42...Nc6 43.Rb7
Nd4 44.Rff7 Ne6
45.Rfd7 [Another good way to finish the
game was: 45.Rfe7 Rd6 46.Re8+ Kh7
47.h5! Threatening 48 Rb8 and mating
on h8.] 45...Rxd7 46.Rxd7 d4 47.Rd6
Kf7 48.Rxb6 Kf6 49.Kf3 Ke5 50.Rxe6+!
Kxe6 51.Ke4 d3 52.Kxd3 1–0
By the time a player becomes a
Grandmaster, almost all of his train-
ing time is dedicated to work on this
first phase. The opening is the only
phase that holds out the potential for
true creativity and doing something
entirely new.
When your house is on fire, you can’t
be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as
we say in chess, if your King is under
attack, don't worry about losing a
pawn on the queen side.
Attackers may sometimes regret bad
moves, but it is much worse to forever
regret an opportunity you allowed to
pass you by.
By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule
regarding the thorough analysis of
one's own games, with the years I
have come to realize that this provides
the foundation for the continuos de-
velopment of chess mastery.
- Garry Kasparov.
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Problem World
Tries in two-movers
by C.G.S.Narayanan
Try is a move which nearly solves a prob­lem
and for this reason these tries are called ‘al­
mosts’. It would be better to define try as
a method of attack which draws the solver’s
at­tention and obscures the real solution. In
such a case the try must make an impression
which is as good as the true solution is likely
to make. It is for this reason that tries are
arranged by having the key-piece somewhat
obvious, with the deception center­ing around
its disposition. In the problem for study given
below the key piece can be easily identified as
the WNe4 but the common error behind the
refutations to the tries cannot be missed –
C.G.S.Narayanan
Mate in two moves
1 . N xd 6 ? ( 2 . Q e 4 ) N c 5 ! ( 2 . Q xd 6 ? ) 1 . N c 5 ?
Nd5!(2.Qc4?);1.Nc3?Rb4!(2.Qc1?);
.Ng3? Re3!;1.Nf6? d5!(2.Qf6?)
Key 1.Nd2! (2.Qe4)
The tries by the white knight obstruct five of
the set white mates. The key by WN contin-
ues to obstruct WQ mate at c1 after 1…Rb4
but provides a changed mate 2.Qxf3.
“Tries, are the soul of complete blocks”
wrote Allan C. White, the great American
com­poser. The tries which add to the beauty
of block prob­ lems also serve to delay the
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solver from discovering the intended solution.
Alain C.White
First prize, Meredith Ty, 1900
Mate in two moves
In the above problem it is clear that
the WRe4 should make way for WBc6
to mate at e4 when unpinned but where?
Try: 1. Rc4? 1... Qd5!; Try: 1. Ra4? 1. ...
Qd4; Try: 1. Rf4? 1... Qxd7!
Solution: 1. Rb4! waiting
1...Qxd7/Qd5/Qd4 2.Be4/Bb5/Rb3
H.Ahues & A Volkmann
I Pr, SV Dortmund Hombruch 1951
Mate in two moves
In the diagram above It is obvious that the
WBd5 should make the key but to which
square is the question. The tries 1.Ba8? Nb7!
1.Bg8? Ne6! 1.Bh1? Ne4! and 1.Ba2? Nb3! In
all the four tries BNc5 closes the WB line so
that WNb4 cannot close the WRd1.The key
1.Bc4 solves. C.G.S.Narayanan
There are many try problems which seldom Second prize, The Hindu 1989
show any worthwhile play after the key but
the interest in these revolve around the mo-
tive and the error in the tries. The tries in
virtual play problems can be classified broad-
ly in two categories-Tries with common aim
and Tries with common error. The key piece in
such tries can be obvious but its destination
could be difficult to spot.
N.A.Macleod
1st Prize, Mat 1988
Mate in two moves
Set: 1…Kxf5/gxf5 2.Qe6/Qxh5
Try:1.Nxd5? Kxf5/gxf5 2.Qxe4/Nf6 but 1…
Qxf1! Try:1.Nd3? Kxf5/gxf5 2.Qd7/Ne5
but 1…Be3! Key:1.Ne2!!
1…Kxf5/gxf5 2.Bh3/Nh2
C.G.S.Narayanan
The Hindu 1976
Mate in two moves
In the first example above the common aim
is to provide mate for the move of the black
knight at f4 and there are as many as six
‘correction’ tries which fail to single black
refutations some of them being corrections
by the BNf4.
Try: 1.Nf7? (2.Qe5) N any!
Try:1.Nc8? N any 2.Ne7 but 1…N4g6! Mate in two moves
Try:1.Ne8? Nh5! Try:1.Nf5? cxd4! Try:1.Ne4? White error creeps in when bishop moves on
Kxd4!Try:1.Ndc4? the diagonal as black chooses to close the
Ng2!Try:1.Nb5? Ne2! WQ line to prevent the mating piece from
Key : 1.Ndb7! (2.Qe5) interfering with bishop line. After the try
1…N any/Nd7/N8g6/Kxd4/cxd4 1.Bc8? black refutes by 1..Rb5 as WNe6 will
2.Qxc6/Qd6/Qxd8/Rd1/Rg5 have to close the bishop’s guard on f5 and so
In the second problem white’s aim is to the mate is not possible.Similarly the other
provide mates for two defences 1…Kxf5 and prominent tries are: Try: 1. Bh7? Bb5!;1.
gxf5 in the two tries and the key.There are Bb1?Rc5!and 1.Bh3? Nd5! Key 1. Bg4! [2.
set mates in the diagram for these defences. Qf5#]1. ... Bd7/Rb5/Nd5/Rc5
2. Ng6/Ne6/Re4/Nd3
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 Tactics from master games
by S.Krishnan Test your endgame
by C.G.S.Narayanan

Prokes 1948 Jindrich Sulc 1948

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

H.Rinck 1949 Dr.Artur Mandler 1950

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

Dr,Jindrich Fritz 1951 Dr,Jindrich Fritz 1951

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

White to play and win in all the six endings above

(Solution on page 47 )
(solutions on p.47)

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Masters of the past-79 Vladimir Bagirov
Late Prof. S K Ananda Thirtha Memorial All India FIDE Rating Rapid tournament, Mysore
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bagirov (1936-2000) was a Soviet-Latvian grand-
master of chess, chess author, and trainer. He played in ten USSR Cham-
pionships, with his best result being fourth place in his debut in 1960.
Bagirov was World Senior Champion in 1998. He died of a heart attack while
playing a tournament game.
Vladimir Bagirov was born to an Armenian father and a Ukrainian mother in
Baku. He showed chess talent as a youth, and came under the wing of the
Master and trainer Vladimir Makogonov. He made his debut in the semi-fi-
nals of the Soviet Championship in 1957, but did not advance to the final.
Bagirov qualified for the final for the first time in 1960, and made an excellent 4th place at
URS-ch27 in Leningradwhich was won by Viktor Korchnoi.
He was selected to the Soviet team for the European Team Championship at Oberhaus-
en 1961, and played for the Soviet Student Olympiad team in 1961. Bagirov was awarded
his International Master title in 1963, but had to wait until 1978 to be formally recognized
as a Grandmaster, although his 1960 Soviet Championship result showed he was clearly
at that level.
Bagirov moved into training work in the 1970s, and for a short time in 1975, as Azerbai-
jan national coach, was the sole trainer of future World Champion Garry Kasparov. Following
a dispute with chess officials, Bagirov moved to Latvia in the late 1970s, and coached former K R Shivaramegowda. Hon Secretary, MDCA, Ramesh, Treasurer, MDCA, N Sudhrashan, President,
World Champion Mikhail Tal, and future Grandmasters Alexei Shirov and Alexander Shabalov. MDCA, S A Mohan Krishna, Dr C Krishna, Chief Patron Mdca, B V Bharadwaj , President Hoysala
Karnataka Sangha, C K Muralidharan, Patron, MDCA
Bagirov was a well-regarded openings theoretician, with one of his favourites the unusu-
al Alekhine's Defence. He published two books and a CD-Rom from 1994 to 2000.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Bagirov played more tournament chess than
he ever had before, taking part in many Open tournaments in Europe. He maintained a good
standard, and won the 1998 World Senior Championship at Grieskirchen, Austria, with 8.5/11.
Bagirov played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:
In 1992, at fourth board in the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila (+1 –1 =6);
In 1996, at third board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+3 –2 =3).
Bagirov played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championships:
In 1992, at second board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen (+1
–1 =4).
Bagirov played for Latvia in World Team Chess Championships:
In 1993, at fourth board in the 3rd World Team Chess Championship in Lucerne (+0 –0 =5).
Bagirov died while playing a tournament in Finland in 2000. He had started the Heart of
Finland Open event with three straight wins to take the lead, and, following a time scram-
ble, was in a winning position in round four against Teemu Laasanen, but suffered a heart
IM Sharma Dinesh, winner in the Open section seen receiving the winner trophy with the cash prize
attack, and died the next day, on July 21, 2000. from Dr.P.Krishniah, In-charge Director, Dept. of Physical Education, University of Mysore (third from
His publications included ‘Classical and Indian’, English Opening: Symmetrical’, (both left). Other guests are: (From left ): P.V.Bharadwaj, President, Hoysala Karnataka Sangha, Mysore,
translated from the Russian by Ken Neat, London, Cadogan Chess), ‘Queen's Gambit De- N.Sudharshan, President, Mysore District Chess Association (R), Kantharaj Urs, Managing Director,
clined, Exchange Variation’, CD-Rom ,Amsterdam, New In Chess, 2000. Urs Kars, Mysore,  and S.N.Raju (fifth from right), in the Prof.S.K.Ananda Thirtha Memorial All India
FIDE rating rapid chess tournament 2017 held in Mysuru recently
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 1st Champions International Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2017, Salem Solution to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
By Srinivasa Krishnan
1.Fedorov,Alexei(2598) Abdelnab-
bi,Imed (2428) [C53]
Khanty-Mansiysk RUS Khanty-Mansiysk RUS
(7.4), 24.06.2017
Position after 25th move [#] Diagram. White
to play. 27.Rxf6 Nxf6 [27...gxf6 28.Qxd5+-]
28.Rxf6 gxf6 29.Qxd5 [%csl Rd6,Rf7] 29...
Re6 30.Nxe6 Bxa3 31.Qf5 Bf8 [31..fxe6
32.Bxe6+ Kg7 33.Bxc8+]32.Bb1 1–0
2.Belouadah,Saad(2400) Phiri,Rich-
mond (2267) [E12]
ch-Africa 2017 Oran ALG (9.5), 10.07.2017
Position after 30th move. [#] Diagram White
(L-R) Fide Arbiter Dr.GG Sathiesh, Deputy Chief Arbiter, Devan, .Manigandan S S Joint Winner to play. 31.Rxd7! Qxe4 32.Rxd8 Qe7 [32...
of the Tournament, Senthilvel, Chief guest of the event., Sivasubramanian,organzier of Rxd8 33.Nxe4+-] 33.Rxf8+ Qxf8 34.Re1!
the tournament , Syed Anwar Shazuli,ICF Joint winner of the Tournament, International
Idea 35.Re8+- 1–0
Arbiter Anandh Babu VL,Chief Arbiter of the Tournament, International Arbiter Palaniappan
3. Ivic,Velimir (2370) - Dobrov,V (2486)
S,Coordinator of the tournament
[B56]
Guwahati Intl. Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2017,Guwahati Silver Lake Open 2017 Veliko Gradiste SRB
(4.2), 20.06.2017
Position after White's 22nd move.[#] Dia-
gram. Black to play 22...Rh2! [%csl Rc3,Rd2]
[%cal Gc4c3][22...Rh2 23.Qxh2 (23.Bb6
Rxd2 24.Bxc7 Rxd1+ 25.Rxd1 Rxc7–+) 23...
Rxc3+ 24.Kd2 (24.bxc3 Qxc3+ Wins) 24...
Rc2+ 25.Ke1 Rxh2+] 0–1
4. Artemiev,V (2695) - Pogonina,N
(2469) [A45]
70th ch-RUS HL 2017 Sochi RUS (5.12),
06.07.2017
Position after 35th move.[#] Diagram.
White to play 36.Ra2! [%csl Rf7] 36...
Rxa2 [36...Re7 37.Rxa7 Qxa7 38.hxg6+-;
36...Kg7 37.h6+ Kh8 (37...Nxh6 38.Rxa7
Qxa7 39.Nxh7+-) 38.Rxa7 Qxa7 39.Nxf7+
(L-R) Arpan Das,Runner Up_Rahul Sangma, champion_CA A B Choudhury_IM Somak Wins; 36...Nh6 37.Qf6+ Kg8 38.Rxa7 Qxa7
Palit,3rd 39.hxg6+- 36...f5 37.exf6 Rxa2 (37...
46
Nh6 38.Rxa7 Qxa7 39.hxg6+-) 38.f7+-]
37.Nxf7+ Kg7 38.h6+! Nxh6 39.Qf6+ [39.
Qf6+ Kg8 40.Nxh6#] 1–0
5.Papadopoulos,Ar(2176) Morozov,N
(2437) [B06]
6th Ideon Andron Op 2017 Anogia GRE (3.3),
11.07.2017
Position after White's 31st move.[#] dia-
gram Black to play. 31...Rf6+! 32.Kg4 Rg5+
33.Kh4 Rf4+! [33...Rf4+ 34.g4 (34.gxf4
Bf2+ 35.g3 Bxg3#) 34...Bf2+ 35.g3 Kg7!
(idea 36...Kg6 followed by 37...Rh5 mate).
36.Re4 (36.Re8 Rf3–+; 36.Rb4 Rf3–+) 36...
Rf3 Wins] 0–1
6.Boehm,ThGER(2154) Weber,Samuel
(2123) [A46]
9th Vellmar Open 2017 Vellmar GER (4.2),
15.07.2017
Position after White's 27th move. [#] di-
agram. Black to play. 27...Ba6! 28.Qxa6
[28.Qe1 Ng4+ 29.Kg1 Qxe1+ Wins] 28...
Ng4+ 29.Ke2 Qc2+ [29...Qc2+ 30.Ke1 (30.
Kf1 Qf2#) 30...Qf2+ 31.Kd1 Nxe3+ 32.Kc1
Qc2#] 0–1
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on page 43
1.L.Prokes,Revista de Sah 1948
1.Kh8 c3 2.Rac2 Qe1 3.Rh2+ Kg1 4.Rcg2+
Kf1 5.Rh1+ wins
2.Jindrich Sulc,Sachove Umeni 1948
1.Be1 Bc5 2.Bh4 h6 3.Be7 Bb6 4.Bb4 Bd8
5.Ba5 Bg5 6.Bc3 wins
3.Henri Rinck,Ipr,Revsitade Sah, 1949
1.f7 Kf1 2.Kh2 Nf2 3.Kg3 Ne4+ 4.Kf4 Nc5
5.b7 Nd7 6.b8Q Nxb8 7.f8Q wins
4.Dr.ArturMandler Ceskos1 Sach 1950
1.Kb4 e2 2.Rh1 Kd3 3.Kc5 Kd2 4.Kd4 wins
5.Dr.Jindrich Fritz, Ceskos1 Sach 1951
1.Kb4 Be6 2.Rd6 Bf7 3.Bg6 Nh6 4.Kc3 Kh2
5.Bh5 Bxh5 6.Rxh6 wins
6.Dr.Jindrich Fritz, Ceskos1 Sach 1951
1.Re3+ Kd4 2.Rg3 Ne4 3.Ra3 Nd5 4.Nf3#
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AICF Calendar August 2017 1st Dhakshinamoorthy Memorial Open Rapid FIDE Rated Tournament 2017,Pammal
World Cadet U 8,10,12 Aug-21 to Aug-31
5th NL Pandiyar memorial Open FIDE Rated Udaipur Aug-24 to Aug-29
Vijayanand Chess Academy 1st FIDE Rated Tmt Chennai Aug-24 to Aug-27
Asian Cities Bhubaneshwar Aug-25 to Sep-02
1st Trichy All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Trichy Aug-25 to Aug-27
2nd Champions FIDE Rating below 1600 Salem Sep-01 to Sep-03
World Cup 2017 Sep-02 to Sep-28
National Junior 2017 Patna Sep-03 to Sep-11
National Under - 7 Vijayawada Sep-03 to Sep-12
Fomento All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament Panaji Sep-06 to Sep-10
Asian Indoor – 2017 Sep-15 to Sep-24
World Cadet U – 14,16,18 – 2017 Sep-16 to Sep-26
2nd Asom FIDE Rating Open Guwahati Sep-21 to Sep-26
6th MSV Memorial FIDE Rated Chess tmt Chennai Sep-23 to Sep-26
30th FIDE Rating Open Chess tmt Tuticorin Sep-24 to Sep-27
Hyderabad open All India FIDE Rating Hyderabad Sep-25 to Sep-29
3rd KCA FIDE Rating Kancheepuram Sep-27 to Oct-02
KKCA First All India FIDE Rated Coimbatore Sep-29 to Oct-02
3rd Railwheel Factory FIDE Rated Open Bangalore Sep-29 to Oct-03
4th Sameen Singh Open FIDE Rating Tournament  Amritsar Sep-29 to Oct-03
All India FIDE Rating below 1500 Hyderabad Sep-30 to Oct-02 (L to R):Ilan Kumar, Vice President, Tiruvallur District Chess Association, Mr. T J Suresh Kumar,
43rd National Sub Junior& 34th Sub Junior Girls Gujarat Oct-01 to Oct-09 ICF, R R Vasudevan, International Arbiter, GM R.R.Laxman receiving the winnner trophy from
World Junior 2017 Oct-01 to Oct-16 IM Saravanan, Mr. Chandrasekaran, MMCA, Mr. Natarajan, Org. Secretary
1st Nitai Ghosh Memorial FIDE Rated Jalpaiguri Oct-07 to Oct-11
Asian Senior 2017 Oct-09 to Oct-15 Karnataka State Open Rapid Chess Championship 2017, Bengaluru
National Under – 17 Boys & Girls Championship Coimbatore Oct-24 to Nov-01
4th Late Laxmikant V.Desai Mem.FIDE rating Goa Oct-26 to Oct-29
Cooperative Cup FIDE Rating open Udupi Oct-27 to Oct-31
National Premier 2017 Bihar Oct-31 to Nov-14
National Under – 9 – 2017 Haryana Nov-02 to Nov-10
Chess in Lakecity winter Cup FIDE Rating 1600 Udaipur Nov-03 to Nov-05
National Amateur 2017 Delhi Nov-05 to Nov-11

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Solution to puzzle of the month on page 7:

b) -1. Kd2xBd1 & 1. Ke1 Be2=
c) -1. Ke5xRd4 & 1. Kf5 Rd6= Winner IM Stany G.A and Bhat Narayan K
d) -1. Kd2xQe1 & 1. Kd3 Qc1=
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 44th National Women Challengers Chess Championship, Mysuru

Winner WGM Bakthi Kulkarni receiving the trophy from Bharat Singh Chouhan, Secretary, AICF

(L-R) WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman AI (8th place),Balakannamma P TN (5th place)

WGM Kiran Manisha Mohoanty LIC (6th place), WIM Nandhidhaa P V AAI (4th place)
WGM Kulkarni Bhakti AI (Champion), WGM Gomes Mary Ann PSPB (2nd place), WGM Soumya
Swaminathan PSPB (3rd place)