AICF CHRONICLE

the official magazine of the All India Chess Federation

Volume : 11 Issue : 7 Price Rs. 25 February 2017

15th Delhi International Open Grandmasters

Chess Tournament, New Delhi

9th Chennai Open Grandmaster

Chess tournament 2017, Chennai

GM Farrukh Amonatov (Tajikistan)

Winner

Adam Tukhaev (Ukraine)

Winner
AICF CHRONICLE February 2017 From the Editor’s desk 15th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess tournament,New Delhi
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E-mail : indianchessfed@gmail.com different openings and systems that
Publisher: V. Hariharan the opponent has to work for it’ was Amonatov of Tajikistan won the 15th Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation.
Editor : C.G.S. Narayanan the thoughtful observation by the Parsvnath Delhi International Chess
Price: Monthly Rs.25 Annual Rs.300 five-time World Champion GM Vishy tournament after settling for a quick draw After Niranjan Navalgund making a Grand-
Anand during an interview to IM with Grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh in the master norm, Aradhya Garg of Delhi made
Inside…. V.Saravanan in Chennai recently. This view has some
10th and final round that concluded in Del- an International Master norm defeating
15th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess tournament,New Delhi striking relevance to the games at the recent Wijk Aan Zee
Amonatov wins Delhi International Open 1 by GM Adhiban. Choosing openings he never ever played hi.Scoring 8.5 points out of a possible ten, Grandmaster Nilotpal Das in what was a
Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess tournament 2017, Chennai before, he beat GM Karjakin using French Defence and Amanotov stayed a half point ahead of Ghosh fine display of attacking chess. Aradhya
Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine wins title drew the World Champion GM Carlsen in Scandinavian and Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan who sacrificed a piece in the early stages of the
B.Sakthi Prabhakar IA , Chief Arbiter 9 opening, both as black, surprising his opponents on both both tied for the second spot on eight points middle game and got a handful of pawns as
Aadi International FIDE Rating chess Tournament.Mandla occasions. Adhiban who qualified for A category coming
through 2016 qualifiers put out his career best performance but the former was declared the runners up the game progressed. Making the most of
Swapnil Dhopade wins title
finishing third in this top notch event. Reports on Tata Steel based on his better tiebreak. While Amonatov opportunities provided, Aradhya went on to
FA Yashpal Arora, Chief Arbiter 13
3rd BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below 1600) Ty,Bangalore
Group A Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee and Gibraltar got richer by Rs. 400000/-, Diptayan got Rs. score a memorable victory.
Sugunesh Babu wins title
Masters are featured in the centre pages of this issue. 300000/- and Dzhumaev took Rs. 200000/- Another norm was scored by Arpita Mukher-
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by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter from the total kitty of over fifty one lakhs jee who ended up with a Women’s Interna-
The turn of the year witnessed two popular GM Open
Late Smt.Kanchani Prabhudessai Mem. All Goa Open FIDE rapid
Tournaments. The fifteenth edition of Parvsnath Delhi GM prize money split over three categories. tional Master norm from her performance
Ritviz Parab wins title
Open set a record of sorts both for the maximum number of here. Arpita drew with R A Harikrishna in her
by Bharat Chougule,Chief Arbiter 17
entries 2054 and the prize money pegged at Rs.51 lakhs, A total number of 258 players from 23 coun- final round game.
17th North Eastern States Championship, Agartala
which is likely to take a leap to Rs.77 lakhs in the next tries, which include 24 Grandmasters, 22
R. M. Apollosana wins title
edition. GM Farrukh Amonatov of Tajikistan won the event
Pradip Kumar Choudhuri,Organizing Secretary 20 and GM Diptayan Ghosh was runner-up. Ukranian GM International Masters are taking part in the Meanwhile in the ‘C’ group, Suhaib Ahmad
Nipani Open Fide Rapid Rating Tmt.,,Nipani Adam Tukhaev continued from where he left at IIFL Wealth premier section while in the Category ‘B’ for of Uttar Pradesh won the first prize with nine
Sameer Kathamale wins title Open,Mumbai to lift Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam Trophy the players below 1999 international rating points out of a possible ten. It was a four
by IA Bharat Chougule, Chief Arbiter 22 at the 9th Chennai GM Open.Top seed Alberto of Italy was
which is underway simultaneously with the way tie at the top between R P Baisakh, S
Naivedhyam 6th National Schools Chess Championships, Nagpur runner-up.Reports, final standings of these events along premier section attracted a total number of Satyanarayan, Bishal Basak on nine points
Maharashtra tops in medal tally with those of FIDE rated events held in January 2017 are
by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter 27 presented in this issue.
638 players. apiece in the event and Ahmad had the best
1st Salem International Chess Tournament FIDE Rated…. The Delhi International is part of a huge fes- tiebreak to back him.
Surendran wins in a three way tie Besides the regular features IM Manuel Aaron annotates tival and the final event is called the ‘C’ cate-
29 selected games from
by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbite Delhi GM Open. Ossip Bernstein, gory. The record books have been set again Untitled Niranjan Navalgund made his maiden
AICFB National B Chess Championship 2017, Kolkata Russian-French Grandmaster, is featured in the Masters
as the event has participation of over 1100 Grandmaster norm despite losing to Grand-
Ashvin Makwana emerges Champion of the past series.
players in the ‘C’ category. Buoyed by the master Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan in the
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter 32
Kushiyara & Longal Valley 1st Open Fide Rating Tmt,Assam
huge response, Bharat Singh Chauhan, the ninth and penultimate round.Having secured
Souradip Deb wins title
C.G.S.Narayanan president of Delhi Chess Association has an- 6.5 points against high ranking opposition
By Debasish Barua, I.A,Chief Arbiter 34 nounced a total prize pool of Rs. 77,77,777/- in the first eight rounds, Navalgund only
Selected games from Delhi GM Open,New Delhi (over Seventy Seven lakhs) prize fund for had to turn up to play his game in the ninth
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron 35
Readers are invited to offer their feedback on the next year’s event. This year the prize round and despite the loss his performance
Tactics from master games
the regular features in the AICF Chronicle and fund is over 51 Lakhs. Earlier, in the open- thus far was good enough for a grandmas-
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are also invited to send interesting articles, ing ceremony, Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy ter norm. Being untitled, Navalgund has set
Test your endgame
annotated games and chess anecdotes to the Chief Minister of Delhi formally inaugurated a new benchmark for youngsters and the
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Editor at ‘www.indianchessfed@gmail.com’ or
Masters of the past-73 Ossip Bernstein
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‘cgsnarayanan@hotmail.com. the tournament by making the customary Chennai-based author looks good to be a
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Meanwhile Grandmaster Farrukh Amanotov
of Tajikistan stayed ahead of the field with
a quick draw against Swayams Mishra. With
8 points in his kitty, Amanotov remains the
sole leader and is now trailed by Diptayan
Ghosh and Dzhmaev who both are a half
point behind.
Top seed Grandmaster Farrukh Amanotov
of Tajikistan pulled ahead of the field with
a finely crafted victory over Vitaly Sivuk of
Ukraine in the eighth round.With his sev-
enth victory in eight games, Amanotov took
his tally to a whopping 7.5 points out of a
possible eight and stretched his lead to a
full point over nearest rivals with just two
rounds remaining in the Rs. 18 Lakhs prize
money tournament.The day was tailor-made
for Amanotov who played with black and got
a slightly better position in the middle game.
Sivuk fell under a bit of time scramble after
losing a pawn and it was a strategic domi-
nation by the top seed in the end.
Niranajan Navalgund continued with his
dream run in the tournament and defeated
Hungarian Grandmaster Adam Horvath in an-
other scintillating performance. The victory
with black pieces not only took Navalgund to
a shared second spot on 6.5 points but also
brought him extremely close to what would
be his maiden Grandmaster player.
Among other important games of the day, In-
dian talents Murali Karthikeyan and Diptayan
Ghosh played out a draw between them after
a tense struggle to inch up to 6.5 points as
well while Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan
outplayed Alberto David of Italy to also reach
6.5 points. International Masters Sapatarshi
Roy, Swayams Mishra and NR Visakh all had
victories over Grandmasters to also reach
6.5 for a shared second spot.Saptarshi Roy
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defeated Czebe Atilla of Hungary, Swayams Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess tournament 2017, Chennai
Mishra proved stronger than Niaz MUrshed
of Bangladesh while Visakh defeated local
hopeful Sahaj Grover.
Top seed Grandmaster Farrukh Amonatov of
Tajikistan defeated overnight sole leader Mu-
rali Karthikeyan to emerge as the new leader
after the end of the seventh round.Amonatov
showed immense discipline and skill to beat
Karthikeyan who was clearly not in the best
of forms for the first time in the tournament.
Having won the first six, Karthikeyan could
have almost sealed the tournament victory
with a seventh victory but it was not his day.
It was an irregular set up in the Sicilian
defense that Amonatov chose as white and
got the initiative after the Indian played a
bit passive. The middle game saw queens
changing hands quickly but the ensuing Back row (L-R) B.Murugavel, Vice President, TNSCA, D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE,
V.Hariharan, Secretary, AICF, Paul Arokia Raj IA (partly seen) and Prof.R.Anantharam
endgame gave a tangible advantage to the IA. In the foreground IM Manuel Aaron making the customary first move against
highest rated player. Karthikeyan lost a pawn top seed GM David Alberto of Italy
and did not get a chance to recover. The
game lasted 55 moves.
Amonatov took his tally to 6.5 points out of a
possible seven and is now a half point ahead
of Karthikeyan, Grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh
and GM Vitaly Sivuk of Ukraine. Diptayan
played a fine game to beat N R Visakh while
Sivuk got the better of compatriot Valeriy
Neverov.Niranjan Navalgund almost ensured
himself an International Master norm after
holding International Master Swayams Mishra
to a draw. Navalgund took his tally to a very
impressive 5.5 points and his International
Master norm looks a near certainty now.
Among the local favourites, Grandmaster
Sahaj Grover came back in reckoning after a D.V.Sundar, Vice President FIDE, Chief guest Dr Rajendra Kumar, I.A.S.,Secretary, Youth
loss in the previous round defeating Sidhant Welfare and Sports Development, Government of Tamil Nadu presenting the trophy to
Mohapatra. Grover also moved to 5.5 points the winner Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine. On the extreme right is Shri. K Shankar Vanavarayar,
Joint Correspondent, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore.
Cont.On p.2 3
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17th North Eastern States Chess Championship, 2016-17, Agartala and will need a good finish in the last three
remaining rounds.
Grandmaster and national champion Murali
Karthikeyan continued with his winning ways
and downed highest rated Indian in the fray
– M R Lalith Babu to jump in to sole lead in
the 15th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess
Tournament now underway here.Scoring his
fifth victory in as many games, Karthikeyan
edged ahead of the field and will take on
Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia in
the important sixth round game.
Lalith Babu went for unwarranted complica-
tions out of a symmetrical structure in the
opening and Karthikeyan took his chances
with black pieces to enter wild complexi-
ties. The game was already in Karthikeyan’s
(L-R) Shri.Manas Deb Barma, Patron, All Tripura Chess Association,Dr.Prafullajit Sinha, Mayor,
Agartala Municipal Corporation, Sri.Manik Sarkar, Hon.Chief Minister of Tripura lighting the lamp, Sri. favour in the early middle game and the
Salil Deb Barma, President, All Tripura Chess Association and Kamal Saha, Vice Chairman, Organizing Chennai-based ensured nothing went wrong
Committee. for him.
Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy of Vietnam drew
with top seed Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistan
in what turned out to be a little less absorbing
contest. Both these players were joined at the
second spot by seven other players having
4.5 points apiece.
Local hopeful Sahaj Grover made sure he re-
mained in reckoning and reached 4.5 points
after a fine victory over Akash Thakur while
N R Visakh defeated Grandmaster Saptarshi
Roy Chowdhury to also reach 4.5 points.The
day yet again belonged to Niranjan Naval-
gund who continued with his smashing form
and also reached 4.5. On the receiving end
was International Master P Shyaamnikhil. The
way he is playing, Navalgund looks within
striking distance of what might be his maiden
Grandmaster norm. The aspiring novelist is
Prize winners with the Chief guest and other dignitaries still an untitled player.
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The B Group of the big festival ended today
with Sairaj Chittal of Maharashtra bagging
the first prize of Rs. 200000/- (Rupees Two
Lakhs). Udit Kamdar of Gujrat finished sec-
ond and won 1.5 lakhs while Sradhanjali Jena
of Odisha was declared third that was worth
one lakh rupees.
Final standings:Category A
Rk Name Rtg Fed Pts
1 GM Amonatov Farrukh 2619 Tjk 8½
2 GM Ghosh Diptayan 2570 Ind 8
3 GM Dzhumaev Marat 2457 Uzb 8
4 GM Karthikeyan Murali 2564 Ind 7½
5 IM Swayams Mishra 2491 Ind 7½
6 GM Lalith Babu M R 2587 Ind 7½
7 GM Czebe Attila 2491 Hun 7½
8 GM Deviatkin Andrei 2499 Rus 7½
9 GM Tukhaev Adam 2516 Ukr 7½
10 IM Visakh N R 2453 Ind 7
11 GM Nguyen H Minh Huy 2448 Vie 7
12 GM Sivuk Vitaly 2540 Ukr 7
13 IM Saptarshi Roy 2418 Ind 7
14 Aradhya Garg 2230 Ind 7
15 GM Grover Sahaj 2467 Ind 7
16 GM David Alberto 2569 Ita 7
17 IM Shyaamnikhil P 2446 Ind 7
18 GM S L Narayanan 2541 Ind 7
19 CM Erigaisi Arjun 2270 Ind 7
20 GM Movsziszian Karen 2507 Arm 7
21 IM Md Nubairshah Shaikh 2412 Ind 7
22 IM Vignesh N R 2414 Ind 7
23 Navalgund Niranjan 2207 Ind 6½
24 GM Neverov Valeriy 2478 Ukr 6½
25 FM Thakur Akash 2369 Ind 6½
26 GM Horvath Adam 2499 Hun 6½
27 IM Ravi Teja S. 2388 Ind 6½
28 Singh S. Vikramjit 2145 Ind 6½
29 GM Murshed Niaz 2444 Ban 6½
30 FM Gajwa Ankit 2275 Ind 6½
31 IM Raghunandan K S 2416 Ind 6½
32 GM Stopa Jacek 2479 Pol 6½
33 WGM T Gulrukhbegim 2284 Uzb 6½
34 Arjun Kalyan 2269 Ind 6½
35 IM Nitin S. 2427 Ind 6½
36 IM Kathmale Sameer 2313 Ind 6½
37 Iniyan P 2363 Ind 6½
38 Debarshi Mukherjee 2193 Ind 6½
39 Masango Spencer 2198 Zim 6½
40 GM Bernadskiy Vitaliy 2540 Ukr 6½
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41 GM Hesham Abdelrahman 2418 Egy 6½ 92 Baivab Mishra 2112 Ind 5½ 143 Saksham Rautela 1798 ind 5 194 Aaryan Varshney 1835 ind 4
42 FM Md Fahad Rahman 2279 Ban 6½ 93 AGM Nishant Malhotra 2186 Ind 5½ 144 AGM Arka Sengupta 1945 ind 5 195 WFM Bidhar Rutumbara 2009 ind 4
43 Saravana Krishnan P. 2282 Ind 6½ 94 CM Sadhwani Raunak 2246 Ind 5½ 145 Joy Pankaj Shah 1847 ind 5 196 CM Dev Shah 1778 ind 4
44 D Bala Chandra Prasad 2353 Ind 6½ 95 IM Nester Ihor 2373 Ukr 5½ 146 Bala Kannamma P 2124 ind 5 197 Mahitosh Dey 1750 ind 4
45 WIMIvana Maria Furtado 2016 Ind 6½ 96 WIM Gagare Shalmali 2069 Ind 5½ 147 Panda Sambit 1904 ind 4½ 198 Anisuzzaman Jewel 2002 ban 4
46 Koustav Chatterjee 2265 Ind 6½ 97 CM Raja Rithvik R 1991 Ind 5½ 148 Panesar Vedant 1966 ind 4½ 199 Gavi Siddayya 1914 ind 4
47 IM Deshmukh Anup 2244 Ind 6½ 98 CM Chowdhury Sohel 2129 Ban 5½ 149 Dheekshith Kumar R 1784 ind 4½ 200 Sudarshan Malga 1913 ind 4
48 Kulkarni Rakesh 2344 Ind 6½ 99 Nayak Rajesh 2089 Ind 5½ 150 FM Nouri Alekhine 1794 phi 4½ 201 Sarvesh Kumar A 1817 ind 4
49 IM Singh D.P. 2144 Ind 6½ 100 Joshi Govind Ballabh 2149 Ind 5½ 151 Goswami Vedant 2189 ind 4½ 202 Iasman Inna 1827 fra 4
50 IM Murali Krishnan B T 2255 Ind 6½ 101 Vinay Raj Bhatt 2039 Ind 5½ 152 Badrinath S. 2015 ind 4½ 203 Islam Mohammad A 2150 ban 4
51 IM Das Sayantan 2371 Ind 6 102 Bhattacharya N Shekhar 2023 Ind 5½ 153 Chakravarthy Y V K 2047 ind 4½ 204 Aan Sikka 1670 ind 4
52 WIM Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz 2274 Uzb 6 103 Senthil Maran K 2147 Ind 5½ 154 S Sabharishankar 1962 ind 4½ 205 Saroha Chirag 1824 aus 4
53 Dodeja Pawan 2189 Ind 6 104 Divya Lakshmi R 1918 Ind 5½ 155 Sachin Malik 1870 ind 4½ 206 Thrish Karthik 1840 ind 4
54 Akash Pc Iyer 2205 Ind 6 105 WFM Tarini Goyal 2081 Ind 5½ 156 WFM Salonika Saina 2059 ind 4½ 207 Sumay Mishra 1772 ind 4
55 GM Roy C Saptarshi 2351 Ind 6 106 Pranav V 2108 Ind 5½ 157 Likhit Chilukuri 2206 ind 4½ 208 Balkishan A. 1989 ind 4
56 WFMArpita Mukherjee 2054 Ind 6 107 IM Chakravarthi Reddy M 2242 ind 5½ 158 Aubhropratim M 2176 ind 4½ 209 WFM Patil Mitali M 1996 ind 4
57 GM Malakhatko Vadim 2514 Bel 6 108 Prasannaa.S 2159 ind 5 159 Gandhi Anish 2210 ind 4½ 210 Kanishk S K 1618 ind 4
58 Patil Pratik 2208 Ind 6 109 Sankalp Gupta 2093 ind 5 160 Shanya Mishra 1688 ind 4½ 211 Kakumanu Kautil 2154 ind 3½
59 Nouri Hamed 2363 Phi 6 110 Wagh Suyog 2177 ind 5 161 Toshali V 1797 ind 4½ 212 CM Prraneeth Vuppala 1610 ind 3½
60 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 2259 Ind 6 111 FM Md Abdul Malek 2176 ban 5 162 Sunyuktha C M N 1971 ind 4½ 213 Akshit Kumar J 1769 ind 3½
61 IM Rajesh V A V 2331 Ind 6 112 CM Gukesh D 2236 ind 5 163 AGM Krishnater K 1913 ind 4½ 214 Deota Snehil S 1659 ind 3½
62 CM Urazayev Arystanbek 2365 Kaz 6 113 Ajay Krishna S 2167 ind 5 164 Sreeshwan M 1968 ind 4½ 215 IM Wazeer Ahmad K 1897 ind 3½
63 S Jaykumar Shete 2282 Ind 6 114 Jeet Jain 1866 ind 5 165 Santanu B Gohain 2051 ind 4½ 216 Ankitha Goud Palle 1752 ind 3½
64 FM Rakesh Kumar Jena 2335 Ind 6 115 IM Roy Prantik 2405 ind 5 166 Shyam Prasad R K 1920 ind 4½ 217 Saypuri Srithan 1651 ind 3½
65 Tiwari Arjun 2169 Ind 6 116 WIM Mahalakshmi M 2225 ind 5 167 Ashutosh Kumar 1967 ind 4½ 218 Krithigga K 1652 ind 3½
66 GM Venkatesh M.R. 2439 Ind 6 117 Prasant N Nayagam 1 907 ind 5 168 Anustoop Biswas 1973 ind 4½ 219 Badavath Anand 1961 ind 3½
67 Shelke Sankarsha 2175 Ind 6 118 Aditya Basu 1967 ind 5 169 WIM February Jesse N 1904 rsa 4½ 220 Shah Rishab 1977 ind 3½
68 Jayakumaar S 2211 Ind 6 119 Kirchhof Arno 2071 ger 5 170 Saranya Y 1917 ind 4½ 221 Pankaj Sindhu 1848 ind 3½
69 Didwania Vishal 1976 Ind 6 120 WIM Parnali S Dharia 2209 ind 5 171 WCM Isha Sharma 1902 ind 4½ 222 Jatinder Kapoor 1745 ind 3½
70 Neelash Saha 2071 Ind 6 121 Vantika Agrawal 2059 ind 5 172 Sanjeet Manohar 1914 ind 4½ 223 Chandan Palash N 1618 ind 3½
71 GM Neelotpal Das 2462 Ind 6 122 Pranavananda V 2163 ind 5 173 Shakthi Vishal J 2042 ind 4½ 224 Sanjeevan Sarswat 1742 ind 3½
72 Kulkarni Vinayak 2268 Ind 6 123 Hemanth Raam 2231 ind 5 174 Ravindra Raju 1740 ind 4½ 225 Makhija Aashna 1771 ind 3½
73 Kavinda Akila 2091 Sri 6 124 Vigneshwaran S 1905 ind 5 175 Aansh Gupta 1922 ind 4½ 226 Naveen Bansal 1824 ind 3
74 CM Mendonca Leon Luke 1999 Ind 6 125 Subhayan Kundu 2093 ind 5 176 WCM Chandreyee Hajra 1964 ind 4½ 227 Pal Nishit Kumar 2002 ban 3
75 WIMStyazhkina Anna 2289 Rus 6 126 Priyanka K 1980 ind 5 177 IM Lahiri Atanu 2291 ind 4 228 Eesha Ajay Sarda 1765 ind 3
76 Abhilash Reddy M.L. 2149 Ind 6 127 Soham Das 1895 ind 5 178 WFM Srija Seshadri 2091 ind 4 229 Deepak Kumar R 1917 ind 3
77 WGMToma Katarzyna 2322 Pol 6 128 CM Nikhil Magizhnan 2142 ind 5 179 AGM Sa Kannan 1985 ind 4 230 Rishabh Jain 1643 ind 3
78 Manish Anto Cristiano F 1807 Ind 6 129 Saurabh Anand 2072 ind 5 180 Shourya Jain 1821 ind 4 231 Sarkar Md. Ali N 1839 ban 3
79 IM Sangma Rahul 2314 Ind 5½ 130 Doshi Moksh A 1897 ind 5 181 Rahul Srivatshav P 2335 ind 4 232 Souradip Deb 1777 ind 3
80 Shashikant Kutwal 2257 Ind 5½ 131 Kumar Gaurav 2150 ind 5 182 Sinha Santosh K 2058 ind 4 233 WIM Laubscher Anzel 1846 rsa 3
81 Pranav Shetty 2199 Ind 5½ 132 Singh Arvinder P 2125 ind 5 183 Lakshmi Sandeep N 1970 ind 4 234 CM Shahil Dey 1891 ind 3
82 Sidhant Mohapatra 2267 Ind 5½ 133 Arnav Tiwari 1910 ind 5 184 Singh Neha 1898 ind 4 235 Fonseka C K D 1873 sri 3
83 Gireman Ja 2199 Ind 5½ 134 Rajarshi Dutta 1934 ind 5 185 Soham Datar 2005 ind 4 236 Wettasinha Vasanta 1 730 sri 3
84 IM Rathnakaran K. 2428 Ind 5½ 135 Tarun V Kanth 1983 ind 5 186 Manush Shah 2145 ind 4 237 CM Bharath S 2023 ind 2½
85 CM Aditya Mittal 2068 Ind 5½ 136 Jay Kundaliya 2028 ind 5 187 Rakshitta Ravi 1932 ind 4 238 Aryan Ranjan 1748 ind 2½
86 Raahul V S 2089 Ind 5½ 137 Kabir Md Sherajul 1991 ban 5 188 Indranil Das 2060 ind 4 239 WFM Nasybullina Alfia 2219 rus 2½
87 CM Aronyak Ghosh 2180 Ind 5½ 138 Dahale Atul 2140 ind 5 189 Nitish Das 1780 ind 4 240 CM Mullick Raahil 1840 ind 2½
88 Srijit Paul 2347 Ind 5½ 139 Priyanka Nutakki 1944 ind 5 190 WFM Divya Deshmukh 1920 ind 4 241 Aditya P Melani 1609 ind 2½
89 FM Dutta Joydeep 2215 Ind 5½ 140 Mulay Pratik 2109 ind 5 191 Aditya S Hariharan 1727 ind 4 242 Archi Agrawal 1605 ind 2½
90 Jaiswal Puneet 2183 Ind 5½ 141 Alok Sinha 1922 ind 5 192 CM Niraula Bhupendra 2068 nep 4 243 Md Asifur Rahman 1821 ban 2½
91 WIMMichelle Catherina P 2245 Ind 5½ 142 Negi Virender S 1976 ind 5 193 WIM Jennitha Anto K. 1968 ind 4 244 Arjun C K 1671 ind 2½

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245 Mumukshu Mittal 1568 ind 2½ 39 Gurung Rahul 7
246 WCM Fisher Michelle M 1711 rsa 2½ 40 Abid Ali Mujawar 7
Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess tournament 2017, Chennai
247 Ankan Roy 2049 ind 2 41 Singh Soram Rahul 7 Adam Tukhaev of Ukraine wins title
248 AGM Vardan Nagpal 2073 ind 2 42 Balaga Ravi Kumar 7
B.Sakthi Prabhakar IA , Chief Arbiter
249 Tamang Thendup 1992 ind 2 43 Punit Indora 7
250 Md. Abdur Razzak 1652 ban 2 44 Chandan Mandal 7

251 C Jitendra Kumar 1990 ind 1½ 45 Dhanush Ragav 7
252 Kadavil Suresh 1526 can 1½ 46 Sanket Chakravarty 7
253 Ashok Vishwakarma1937 ind 1½
254 Vakil Akhtar 1917 ind 1
2Final ranking:Category B 50 Mohamed Anees M 7
Rk Name Pts
1 Chittal Sairaj 9
2 Kamdar Udit 8½
3 Sradhanjali Jena 8½
4 Shubham Lakudkar 8½
5 Mohite Ranveer 8½
6 Sumit Kumar 8½
7 Lakshmi Krishna Bhushan D 8
8 Shubham 8
9 CM Amini Habibullah 8
10 Vinodh Kumar B. 8
11 Awadh Chaitanya 8
12 Akshay Anand 8
13 Joshi Tejas 8
14 Biswajit Nag 8
15 AGM Mani Bharathy 7½
16 Mota Pankit 7½
17 Dixit Nikhil 7½
18 Verma Rahul 7½
19 Hruthik Lokesh P 7½
20 Kadav Omkar 7½
21 Deepak Rai 7½
22 Nagare Akhilesh 7½
23 Baig Akram 7½
24 Sher Singh 7½
25 Madhav Mahere 7½
26 Rahul Ubadhyay 7½
27 Bakshi Rutuja 7½
28 Dubey Sanchay 7½
29 Rohan Bharat Joshi 7½
30 Mandloi Mukesh 7½
31 Banerjee Ashutosh 7½
32 Ayan Banerjee 7½
33 Hapse Shreyas 7½
34 Shaon Chowdhury 7½
35 Deshpande Abhishek 7½
36 Rishabh Nishad 7½
37 AGM Sandeep Chitkara 7½
38 Nair Sanjeev 7
U
kraine Grandmaster Tukhaev Adam of Rs 1100000 (Rupees Eleven lakhs only),
(8.5) emerged the champion, after with the winner being awarded a cash prize
47 Sandip Dey 7
48 Chaitanya Sairam Mogili 7
the 10th and final round, in the 9th of Rs 200000 (Rupees Two lakhs only) along
49 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 7 Chennai Open Grandmaster Chess tourna- with the Chennai Open GM trophy. The run-
ment 2017 for the Sakthi Group Dr N Ma- ner-up and third placed players take home
51 Gurung Rohit 7 halingam Trophy at Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Rs 150000 & Rs 100000 respectively. Further,
52 Binayak Rath 7 Tukhaev took the winner's purse of Indian the Top 60 finishers are awarded handsome
53 Nikam Ravindra 7 Rupees 2,00,000 (Rupees two lakhs only) cash prizes. Top 40 boards were webcast
54 Soham Kamotra 7
55 Jeel Shah 7
along with the Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam LIVE daily, through website tamilchess.com
Final standings:Category C trophy. The second spot was shared by top On Wednesday 18th Jan, 2017 the tourna-
Rk Name Pts seed GM David Alberto (Ita), GM Czebe Attila ment was inaugurated by Shri D V Sundar,
1 Suhaib Ahmad 9 (Hun), GM Malakhatko Vadim (Bel) and IM Vice President, FIDE (World Chess Feder-
2 Vaisakh R P 9 Nitin S (Ind) at 8.0 points apiece. ation), in the presence of Arjuna Awardee
3 Sathya Naarayanan S 9 Manuel Aaron, the Guest of Honour. IM Aaron
4 Basak Bishal 9
5 Himanshu Ranjan 8½
The 9th edition of the annual Chennai Open made the symbolic first move against top
6 Maharnav Deka 8½ Grandmaster Chess tournament 2017 for seed GM Alberto David of Italy, inaugurating
7 Bidkar Nikhil 8½ the Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam Trophy the tournament.
8 Shanmukha Teja P 8½ organised by the Tamil Nadu State Chess
9 Esshan Wadhawan 8½ Association, under the auspices of All India On the final day, 25th Jan, 2017 cash prizes
10 Gouravkumar Nanwani 8½ Chess Federation, ran from 18th to 25th were distributed to the prize winners by Dr
11 Hemanth Eswar G 8½
12 Prashanth J Naik 8½
January, 2017 at the New Media Hall, Nehru Rajendra Kumar, I.A.S.,Secretary, Youth Wel-
13 Lakshit Rana 8½ Stadium, Chennai. fare and Sports Development, Government
14 Murarilal Kori 8½ of Tamil Nadu. Present in the dais were Shri
15 Patil Harshal 8½ This mega Chennai event attracted 317 play- K Shankar Vanavarayar, Joint Correspondent,
16 Borase Manoj 8 ers from 17 countries, including 16 Grand- Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coim-
17 Arun R 8 masters, 2 Woman Grandmasters, 17 Inter- batore, Shri D V Sundar, Vice President, FIDE
18 Sachinder 8
19 Singh Ambesh Pratap 8
national Masters and 5 Woman International (World Chess Federation), Shri B Murugavel,
20 Chaitanya Suresh V 8 Masters, among 62 titled players. Vice President, Tamil Nadu State Chess As-
21 Tushar Banerjee 8 Grandmaster Alberto David (Italy) with an sociation, Shri V Hariharan, Gen Secretary,
22 Barde Om 8 ELO rating of 2569 was the top seed. The Tamil Nadu State Chess Association.
23 Vineesh P S 8 Indian battalion headed by GMs Sahaj Grov-
24 Shivam Kumar 8 er, M R Venkatesh and R R Laxman put up a I wish to thank TNSCA and AICF for bestow-
25 Swaha V S 8
26 Bhat Sanjay 8
good challenge. But was International Master ing the honor of Chief Arbiter upon myself for
27 Soumyajit Das (jr) 8 S Nitin who finished as the best Indian player this prestigious event. Hats off to the highly
28 Samal Aditya Ranjan 8 with 8.0 points, which fetched him a cash efficient team of Arbiters, volunteers, staff
29 Vishwanath Kannam 7½ prize of Rs. 50000. of TNSCA and AICF who were on their toes
30 Aadit Bhatia 7½ round the clock, ensuring the success of the
31 Anuraag Saikia 7½ The tournament offered a total prize money tournament.
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Final ranking 47 CM Erigaisi Arjun 2270 IND 6½ 96 Sekar B 2213 IND 5½ 147 Pranesh M 1762 IND 5
Rk Name Rtg FED Pts 48 Singh S. Vikramjit 2145 IND 6½ 97 Toshali V 1797 IND 5½ 148 WFM Sultana Zakia 1861 BAN 5
1 GM Tukhaev Adam 2516 UKR 8½ 49 Vignesh B 2186 IND 6½ 98 Raahul V S 2089 IND 5½ 149 Hari Suresh 1709 IND 5
2 GM David Alberto 2569 ITA 8 50 GM Nguyen 99 WFMDivya Deshmukh 1920 IND 5½ 150 Subramanian R M 1832 IND 5
3 GM Czebe Attila 2491 HUN 8 Huynh M Huy 2448 VIE 6½ 100 Prajesh R 2242 IND 5½ 151 Samdani Sahil S 1559 IND 5
4 GM Malakhatko Vadim 2514 BEL 8 51 IM Hegde Ravi Gopal 2163 IND 6½ 101 Shubham 1894 IND 5½ 152 Samant Aditya S 1793 IND 5
5 IM Nitin S. 2427 IND 8 52 IM Murali Krishnan B T 2255 IND 6½ 102 Sanjeet Manohar 1914 IND 5½ 153 Jayachandra S V 1714 IND 5
6 GM Bernadskiy Vitaliy 2540 UKR 7½ 53 Surendran N 2119 IND 6½ 103 Jyothsna L 1831 IND 5½ 154 AGM Srihari L R 1879 IND 5
7 GM Horvath Adam 2499 HUN 7½ 54 Yogit S 2239 IND 6½ 104 IM Deshmukh Anup 2244 IND 5½ 155 Suganthan S 1618 IND 5
8 GM Sivuk Vitaly 2540 UKR 7½ 55 Harshavardhan G B 1870 IND 6½ 105 IM Shetty Rahul 2236 IND 5½ 156 Selvamurugan B 1792 IND 5
9 GM Grover Sahaj 2467 IND 7½ 56 Ajay Karthikeyan 1777 IND 6½ 106 Utsab Chatterjee 1921 IND 5½ 157 S Sabharishankar 1962 IND 5
10 GM Deviatkin Andrei 2499 RUS 7½ 57 Hemanth Raam 2231 IND 6½ 107 WFM Bommini M Akshaya 1700 IND 5½ 158 Shanya Mishra 1688 IND 5
11 IM Saptarshi Roy 2418 IND 7½ 58 Neelash Saha 2071 IND 6½ 108 WIM Kurbonboeva S 2274 UZB 5½ 159 Srivatsan Sekar 1557 IND 5
12 GM Stopa Jacek 2479 POL 7½ 59 Anilkumar O.T. 2086 IND 6½ 109 Akil A S J 1942 IND 5½ 160 Srihari L 1770 IND 5
13 GM Neverov Valeriy 2478 UKR 7½ 60 IM Gokhale C 2213 IND 6½ 110 Balkishan A. 1989 IND 5½ 161 AGM Rathneesh R 1837 IND 5
14 Arjun Kalyan 2269 IND 7½ 61 Subhayan Kundu 2093 IND 6½ 111 Ganguly Ritabroto 1977 IND 5½ 162 Poorna Sri M.K 1570 IND 5
15 IM Shyaamnikhil P 2446 IND 7½ 62 Sonkalan Bharati 1912 IND 6½ 112 Dixit Nikhil 1970 IND 5½ 163 Hiren K G 1663 IND 5
16 IM Navin Kanna T.U. 2322 IND 7½ 63 CM Rajarishi Karthi 2094 IND 6½ 113 Hari Madhavan N B 1988 IND 5½ 164 Jagadish P 1890 IND 5
17 Kumaran B 2303 IND 7 64 IM R Balasubramaniam 2 164 IND 6½ 114 Subbhu Karthick S M 1568 IND 5½ 165 Islam Md Aminul 2150 BAN 5
18 Srijit Paul 2347 IND 7 65 Ajay Krishna S 2167 IND 6 115 Gavi Siddayya 1914 IND 5½ 166 Gokulraj K 1633 IND 5
19 IM Vignesh N R 2414 IND 7 66 IM Chakravarthi 116 Chakravarthy Y V K 2047 IND 5½ 167 Rohit S 1381 IND 5
20 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 2259 IND 7 Reddy M 2242 IND 6 117 WCM Isha Sharma 1902 IND 5½ 168 Jijo Joy 1560 IND 5
21 Saurabh Anand 2072 IND 7 67 Tiwari Arjun 2169 IND 6 118 WGM Toma Katarzyna 2322 POL 5½ 169 Arnav Maheshwari 1450 IND 5
22 IM Ravichandran 68 Pranavananda V 2163 IND 6 119 Aravind P V S 1726 IND 5½ 170 WIM February Jesse Nikki 1904 RSA 5
Siddharth 2391 IND 7 69 Manigandan S S 2067 IND 6 120 CM Chowdhury Sohel 2129 BAN 5½ 171 Harisurya Bharadwaj G 1 531 IND 5
23 Aniruddh Aiyengar 2112 IND 7 70 Soham Datar 2005 IND 6 121 Saksham Rautela 1798 IND 5½ 172 Sanjay D G 1771 IND 4½
24 CM Urazayev 71 CM Raja Rithvik R 1991 IND 6 122 Ayushh Ravikumar 1592 IND 5½ 173 Shyam Prasad R K 1920 IND 4½
Arystanbek 2365 KAZ 7 72 Prathish A 1819 IND 6 123 Muthuswamy A. 2101 IND 5½ 174 Rakshitta Ravi 1932 IND 4½
25 Kumar Gaurav 2150 IND 7 73 FM Md Abdul Malek 2176 BAN 6 124 Iasman Inna 1827 FRA 5½ 175 Subramanian V 1758 IND 4½
26 Masango Spencer 2198 ZIM 7 74 Senthil Maran K 2147 IND 6 125 Yutesh P 1694 IND 5½ 176 Sahil Dhawan 1760 IND 4½
27 GM Venkatesh M.R. 2439 IND 7 75 Balasubramaniam H 1 963 IND 6 126 Tarun Kanyamarala 1797 IND 5½ 177 Tejasvi M 1706 IND 4½
28 FM Md Fahad Rahman 2279 BAN 7 76 IM Nester Ihor 2373 UKR 6 127 Sarvesh Kumar A 1817 IND 5½ 178 Karthik P M 1862 IND 4½
29 Nayak Rajesh 2089 IND 7 77 Vatsal Singhania 1908 IND 6 128 Unnikrishnan M A 1581 IND 5½ 179 Panda Sambit 1904 IND 4½
30 GM Laxman R.R. 2416 IND 6½ 78 Sooraj M R 1818 IND 6 129 Mohite Ranveer 1979 IND 5½ 180 Benasir M 1533 IND 4½
31 WIM Mahalakshmi M 2225 IND 6½ 79 Karthick Narayanan 1957 IND 6 130 Ponkshe Sarang 1889 IND 5½ 181 Ravindra Raju 1740 IND 4½
32 S Maralakshikari 1968 IND 6½ 80 Bala Kannamma P 2124 IND 6 131 Shanmukha Teja P 1589 IND 5½ 182 Hari R Chandran 1577 IND 4½
33 Saravana KrishnanP 2 282 IND 6½ 81 WFMNasybullina Alfia 2219 RUS 6 132 Jaeel Atharva 1746 IND 5½ 183 Peter Anand A 1881 IND 4½
34 Kunal M. 2298 IND 6½ 82 Arpan Das (jr) 1752 IND 6 133 Shiva Pavan Teja S 1905 IND 5 184 Shyam Kumar M 1698 IND 4½
35 Jaiswal Puneet 2183 IND 6½ 83 Arya Bhakta 1883 IND 6 134 Ganesh R 2085 IND 5 185 Mckenzie Lionel J 1531 IND 4½
36 Patil Pratik 2208 IND 6½ 84 Ram S. Krishnan 2239 IND 6 135 GM Hesham Abdelrahman 2418 EGY 5 186 WFM Lakshmi C 1875 IND 4½
37 WGM T Gulrukhbegim 2284 UZB 6½ 85 Dahale Atul 2140 IND 6 136 Satkar Chirag 2098 IND 5 187 Niklesh Kumar Jain 1867 IND 4½
38 CM Gukesh D 2236 IND 6½ 86 Ashutosh Kumar 1967 IND 6 137 Negi Virender S 1976 IND 5 188 Rounak Pathak 1781 IND 4½
39 Sidhant Mohapatra 2267 IND 6½ 87 Parthasarathy R 1955 IND 6 138 Rohith Krishna S 1790 IND 5 189 Digvijay Sunil 1529 IND 4½
40 FM Gajwa Ankit 2275 IND 6½ 88 Priyanka Nutakki 1944 IND 6 139 Shubham Lakudkar 1894 IND 5 190 Polakhare Aryan 1754 IND 4½
41 Jayakumaar S 2211 IND 6½ 89 Lakshmi K Bhushan D 1964 IND 6 140 Parikh Kairav 1728 IND 5 191 Suthershun A 1489 IND 4½
42 CM Aronyak Ghosh 2181 IND 6½ 90 Sradhanjali Jena 1864 IND 6 141 MDavid Suthandram R 1915 IND 5 192 AIM Rohan Kailash B 1527 IND 4½
43 Pranav V 2108 IND 6½ 91 WCMMrudul Dehankar 1923 IND 6 142 Arunachalam S 1780 IND 5 193 Anannth Varun R 1335 IND 4½
44 CM Mendonca 92 FM Vinoth Kumar M. 2118 IND 6 143 AGM Mani Bharathy 1875 IND 5 194 AGM Vignesh R 1701 IND 4½
Leon Luke 1999 IND 6½ 93 Alan Diviya Raj 1836 IND 6 144 AGM Sa Kannan 1985 IND 5 195 Saroj Naraynan K 1545 IND 4½
45 IM Praveen Kumar C 2293 IND 6½ 94 Mithil Ajgaonkar 2216 IND 5½ 145 AGM Vignesh N 1442 IND 5 196 Arjun Krishnamachari 1671 IND 4½
46 Lokesh N. 2240 IND 6½ 95 Joshi Govind Ballabh 2 149 IND 5½ 146 Adarsh Tripathi 1771 IND 5 197 Ruban Sanjay M 1665 IND 4½

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198 IM Singh D.P. 2144 IND 4½ 249 Begum Masuda 1831 BAN 3½ Aadi International FIDE Rating chess Tournament.Mandla
199 Anandha Venkatesan 1631 IND 4½ 250 Abhirami Madabushi 1608 IND 3½
200 WFM Khan Nazrana 1970 BAN 4½ 251 WIM Laubscher Anzel 1846 RSA 3½ Swapnil Dhopade wins title
201 Neela S 1516 IND 4½ 252 Triton Maxime 1800 FRA 3½ FA Yashpal Arora, Chief Arbiter

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202 Ilamparthi A R 1529 IND 4½ 253 AFM Suriya S V 1616 IND 3½
203 Kishore Kumar J 1617 IND 4½ 254 Abel Saju Chazhoor 1379 IND 3½ adi international International Fide Madhya Pradesh had 4 Points each.
204 Nitin Shankar Madhu 1733 IND 4½ 255 P Samuthura Pandi 1345 IND 3½ Rating Chess Championship was or-
205 Srimathi R 1534 IND 4½ 256 Punit Sudhakar 0 IND 3½ ganized excellently by MDCA under At the end of the 5th round GM Swapnil Dhop-
206 Avinash Ramesh 1530 IND 4½ 257 Srikrishnan P 1493 IND 3½
the guidance of MPCA, MP at Mandla, from de won the Game against IM aragyadeep Das
207 Bhagyashree Patil 1735 IND 4½ 258 Dudochkin Dmitry 1638 RUS 3½
208 Narasimha R G 1597 IND 4½ 259 Leela Maheswari B 1249 IND 3½ 27 January to 1St February 2017. Realy This was best game in the event and
209 A P Santhana Prabu 1 461 IND 4½ 260 Manikandan Rangan 1072 IND 3½ in the 2nd board GM Shriram Jha won over
210 Arnav Agrawal 1521 IND 4½ 261 Shivani Madhu 1314 IND 3½ Shri Faggan Singh Kulastey (central min- Saurabh Choubey.At the end of 5th round
211 Krishna Raaju J 1511 IND 4½ 262 Mahek J Hinhoriya 1342 IND 3½ ister), shri Bheeshm Dwivedi (President GM Swapnil was in sole lead with ½ point
212 Subash Mathivanan 1698 IND 4 263 Aadith R 1314 IND 3½ MDCA) and Shri Kapil Saxena (Secretary respectively, sriram jha with 4.5 points place
213 Soham Das 1895 IND 4 264 Sriram Viswanathan 1234 IND 3½
MPCA), shri Anil Baba Mishra (Nagar Pali- 2nd .
214 Hruthik Lokesh P 1572 IND 4 265 GM Murshed Niaz 2444 BAN 3
215 Ghelani Dhairya 1565 IND 4 266 Sarbojit Paul 2042 IND 3 kaAdhyaksha), Smt. Sampatiya oikey (pres-
216 Mokashi Rohit 1625 IND 4 267 Thrish Karthik 1840 IND 3 ident jila panchayat) jointly inaugurated the In the 6th round on the top board Swap-
217 Dinesh Rajan M 1576 IND 4 268 Bharath Ravikumar 1675 IND 3 Aadi international fide rating chess tourna- nil and Shriram jha agreed for a draw and
218 Trisha Kanyamarala 1585 IND 4 269 Vijay Shreeram P 1872 IND 3 ment 2017 shared the points. On the second board IM
219 Dinesh Kumar J 1521 IND 4 270 Satvik V 1507 IND 3 Aragyadeep Das played a brilliant attacking
220 Shriman K 1549 IND 4 271 Mohana R 1330 IND 3
This Championship attracted 88 players in- game and crushed Ajay Pardeshi.
221 Shweta Priyadarshini 1552 IND 4 272 Saahil Ahmed M 1157 IND 3
222 Aditya Guhagarkar 1876 IND 4 273 Dawood.K 1206 IND 3 cluding 37 rated players from all over India
223 Thaga Sheriff M 1701 IND 4 274 Sadbhav Rautela 1155 IND 3 including GM Swapnil Dhpade From Mahar- In the 7th round GM Swapnil lead with 6.5
224 Kanishk S K 1618 IND 4 275 Weber Richard 1594 FRA 3 ashtra And GM Shriram Jha From LIC with poind and GM Shriram Jha ,Suyash Sharma,
225 Mohamed Anees M 1888 IND 4 276 Vishal Ramprasad 0 IND 3 presence of IM Aragyadeep Das from West and IM Aragyadeep with 6 points And they
226 Harsh Suresh 1557 IND 4 277 Ilakiyan M Xavier J 1065 IND 3 Bengal. still in place 2nd.In the 8th round in the top
227 Dhrupad Kashyap 1618 IND 4 278 Pakkurti Vijay Kumar 1407 IND 3
board GM Swapnil easily won against Mp
228 Savitha Shri B 1480 IND 4 279 Naveen Rajan C J 1623 IND 3
229 Abinandhan R 1492 IND 4 280 Sidharth P G 1489 IND 3 This has been the strongest chess cham- Junior Star Suyash Sharma in the 2nd Board
230 Abul Kashem 1765 BAN 4 281 Varadharajan S 1189 IND 3 pionship in MP in recent times.Total Prize GM Shriram and IM Aragya deep das respec-
231 Vinay R Jumani 1478 IND 4 282 Indira P S 0 IND 3 Fund 500,000 Rs. This championship was tively draw. After this round GM Swapnil now
232 Sarath Chandra K 1754 IND 4 283 Sona Sudhakar 0 IND 3 organized in 10 Rounds Swiss format. The sole lead with 1 points ahed to Sriram Jha
233 Janakiraman R 1375 IND 4 284 Manish Anto C 1807 IND 2½ organizers provided free Lodging Food and ,Rishabh Jain and IM aragyadeep das They all
234 Sreevijay Sunil 1350 IND 4 285 Krithigga K 1652 IND 2½
Pure drinking water to all players at free of have 6.5 points.In the 9th and 10th round
235 Senthamizh Y S 1478 IND 4 286 Aasha C R 1751 IND 2½
236 Prithvi Rajan 1561 IND 4 287 Karunakaran V 1465 IND 2½ cost. Players and Parents were very happy all the seeded players won easily .
237 Anilkumar K.V. 1780 IND 4 288 Vengatesh Krishnan C 1109 IND 2½ at the facilities provided by Organizers such
238 Meyyappan M 1528 IND 4 289 Suresh Babu B 1272 IND 2½ as Hotel Accommodation ,Tournament Hall Top seeded GM Swapnil S.Dhopde won the
239 Arora Honi 1212 IND 4 290 Malleswari P 1139 IND 2½ and boarding. tournament and got 100,000/- rs with 9.5
240 M Thangapandian 1419 IND 4 291 Aarav Nambiar T 1066 IND 2½ points. IM Aragyadeep Das got 2nd position
241 Krishnan Ritvik 1275 IND 4 292 Sarathraj R 0 IND 2½
At the end of the 4th round GM Swapnil with 8.5 points and got 51000/.GM Shriram
242 B Chidambaram.C 1414 IND 4 293 Kashyap Adithya A 0 USA 2
243 Divyan T 1412 IND 4 294 Pranav Ram H 1532 IND 2 S.Dhopde of Railways won easily , Delhi Jha got 3rd position with 8.5 points and got
244 Varun Agrawal 1348 IND 4 295 Senbabu M B 1367 IND 2 player Rishabh Jain rating 1643 drew with 35000/- Rs.
245 Aaromal R S 1245 IND 4 296 Sivaneswaran C 1411 IND 2 GM Shriram Jha from LIC. After 4th round
246 Linga Bathini R 1057 IND 4 297 Siva Kumar M 0 IND 2 three players GM Swapnil s.Dhopade ,IM On the concluding day 01 Feb .2017, Shri
247 Vigneshwaran S 1905 IND 3½ 298 Ruffina Perlintina 0 IND 2 Aragyadeep Das,and Saurabh Choubey of Shivraj Shah ( Cabinet minister,MP) , chief
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guest and special guest Smt. Sampatiya 27 Sharma Kunal 6 3rd BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below 1600) Tournament, Bangalore
Uikey ,Shri Sanjeev Uikey (MLA) Shri Anil
Baba Mishra ,shri Sunil Dubey, Senior Jour-
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Sumit Choudhary
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nalist ,Munnalal distributed the prizes with by IA Vasanth BH , Chief Arbiter
30 Barsaiya Aryan 6

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Mr. Bheeshm Dwivedi President of MDCA 31 Ayush Sharma 5½
who was the backbone of this event rendered ugunesh Babu of Kerala won the 3rd Final standings:
32 Sibi Srinivas Eistein Reddy 5½ BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below
the vote of thanks.I take this opportunity to Rk Name Pts
33 Jagdish Narang 5½ 1600) Chess tournament here at Ban-
thank mr.Vivek Ydave ji (MI) who gave the 1 Sugunesh Babu 8½
34 Rakesh Dixit 5½ galore. The 3 lakh prize money event was
Great support for MDCA. My special thanks 2 Shanmukha Teja P 8
35 Manodhya Prakrati 5½ organized by Bangalore Rural District Chess
to Mr.Sayed Javed Ali Secretary, MDCA, Ka- 3 Sharma Tushar B 8
pil Saxena ji (secretary) MPCA and AICF for
36 Prakash Banskar 5½ Association from 27th to 29th January 2017 4 Hruthik Lokesh P 8
giving me an opportunity to serve as Chief 37 Sidak Chhabra 5½ at Hotel City centaur International, Near City
5 Kohli Pranav 8
Arbiter for this successful championship. 38 Ram Naman Patel 5½ Railway Station, Bangalore.
6 Gaurav Sharma 7½
Final ranking: 39 Choubey Saurabh 5
7 Barde Om 7½
40 Mishra Kamad 5 The nine round swiss tournament had partic-
Rk Name Pts 8 Andrew Veda WSolomon 7½
41 Chhattani Shourya 5 ipation of 685 players from Andra Pradesh,
1 Swapnil S. Dhopade GM 9½ 9 Kaushik G Iyer 7½
42 Shivam Kosti 5
Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujrat, Haryana, Kerala,
2 Das Arghyadip IM 8½ 10 Biju Kumar 7½
Maharastra, Orissa, Pondichery, Orissa,Tel-
3 Sriram Jha GM 8½ 43 Shivam Pandram 5
angana, Tamilnadu, UP and West Bengal. 11 Ravindra P 7½
4 Devansh Ratti 7 44 Abhishek Sudhakar Jadhav 5
ShanmukhaTeja P of Andra Pradesh was top 12 Chirag Mudraje 7½
5 Spandan P Seth 7 45 Rohit Namdev 5
seed with ELO 1589 followed by Ravi Srini- 13 Pankaj Bhat 7½
6 Shah Asif 7 46 Godhani Maharth 5 vas V (1587), Gajanan D(1582), Vaisakh RP 14 Kishore Dev S 7
7 Sharma Varun 7 47 Aditya Tiwari 5 (1579). There were totl of 423 rated players. 15 Kalyanaraghavan.V.S 7
8 Pardeshi Ajay 7 48 Thakkar Shashank 5
16 Shibin K Benny 7
9 Ankur Khatri 7 49 Chourasia Yogendra 4½ Top seed ShanmukhaTejaDrew with Kalki 17 Gabriel B M 7
10 Rishabh Jain 6½ 50 Pooranlal Banskar 4½ Eshawr D (1441) of Karnataka in the 4th 18 Narayanan G K 7
11 Mishra Manoj 6½ 51 Mandakani Mishra 4½ round and in the final roundhe drew with
19 Jaiswal Prince 7
12 Bhogal Rupesh 6½ 52 Sajal Patel 4½ SuguneshBabu (1526).
20 Mohamed Yousuff A 7
13 Patil Rohit R 6½ 53 Vineet Choudhary 4½
21 Pidintla Saikumar 7
54 R Hrishikesh Kaushik 4½ 15th seed SuguneshBabu (1526) defeated
14 Sadhu N Vishal 6½ 22 Komal Srivatsav Sajja 7
55 Satyam Gupta 4½ Kishore Dev S (1514) of kerala to become
15 Sharma Suyash 6 23 Athish Vikram C S 7
56 Gangaram Choudhary 4½ the sole leader. He continued the leadership
16 Vikash Kumar Dwivedi 6 24 Ravindran R 7
by defeating TanavSudarshan in 8th round. A
17 Kewat Subham Kumar 6 57 Ravi Palsule 4½
safe draw against top seed ShanmukhaTeja 25 Nidhi Shenoy 7
18 Thakare Seeya 6 58 Jagdeesh Barmaiya 4½
clinched him a title. 26 Shashidhar B Rai 7
19 Ayushmaan Saini 6 59 Siddharth Aggrawal 4½
27 Afroz Akhtar 7
20 Eshaan Chandrol 6 60 Shivangi Tiwari 4½
The prize distribution was simple one and 28 Chintada Lakshmi Gayathri 7
21 Kasar Prashant 6 61 Shivanshi Tiwari 4 prizes were distributed by MrMallikarjun, 29 Soni Deepak R 7
22 Vishal Yadav 6 62 Saket Tiwari 4 Management representative of Hotel City 30 Patil Sharvil 7
23 Sahu M L 6 63 Kritika Kushwaha 4 centaur International,MrAravind Shastry, 31 Goutham Yasodhar Bandaru 7
24 Tiwari Shivansh 6 64 Shreyansh Bansal 4 Secretary of UKCA, R Hanumantha, Vice 32 Venkata Krishna Komanduri 7
25 Akira Sowmyanatha Reddy 6 65 Sambhav kumar Mishra 4 President of UKCA, V Raghavendra, Vice Pres-
33 Halkude Nagnath 7
26 Sharma Vicky 6 66 Malay Agrawal 4 ident of UKCA and MrChidananda, Secretary,
34 Tanav Sudarshan 6½
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36 Pavasandra Basavaraju S
37 Rishabh Kumara
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38 Kalki Eshwar D 6½
39 Prashanth J Naik 6½
40 Chaithanya Ganesh 6½
41 Varun Sudarshan 6½
42 Chiranjan Kumarr K S 6½
43 Dhanush Ravi 6½
44 Manvith K 6½
45 Gajanan D 6½
46 Keshav Kothari 6½
47 Theju K V 6½
48 Pragatheesh M 6½
49 Bhavana A 6½
50 Rakesh N 6½
51 Srikanth Ranya 6½
52 Sagar Ch 6½
53 Sudheera Satyanarayana 6½
54 Thiyagarajan Tamilselvi 6½
55 Kishan Singh 6½
56 Ekantharaju 6½
57 Jayanth R 6½
58 Manojan Ravi 6½
59 Nithish M 6½
60 Srinivas Krishnan 6½
61 Bhagwat S.M. 6½
62 Vengatesan B 6½
63 Devaraja G 6½
64 Adithya Ramesh 6½
65 Nanal Arnav 6½
66 Amogh Reddy R 6½
67 Avichal Jadeja 6½
68 Gorky S R 6½
69 Trishul C 6½
70 Hemadri Sathish 6½
71 Chorge Mangesh 6 112 Umasankar S 6 27 Umang Kaisary 6½
72 Durga Shankar Chakroborty 6 113 Tanveer Monga 6 The prize distribution function took place at
73 Gourish K Biradar 6 114 Baligar Dr Vishwanath 6 the hand of Women Grandmaster & Asian
74 Radhakrishnan.K.S 6 115 Rohan Nachnani 6
75 Shreedhar Muchandikar 6 116 Krishna Bharadwaj 6
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76 Prasad Janapati 6 Late Smt.Kanchani Prabhudessai Memorial All Goa open FIDE rating rapid, Banavli, Goa
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Mahamuni Yogesh
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by Bharat Chougule,Chief Arbiter
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80 Bhaskara Rao Balaga 6 he above tournament was organised ciation.) , Ashish Keni, Dilip Vernekar Bharat
81 Abhay V Nadgouda 6 successfully by Banavli Chess Club, Chougule ,Sanjay Kavalekar & Directors of
82 Sameer C 6 Goa. Total number of entries were 256 Banavli Chess Club.
83 Amith T 6 from Goa State. The opening ceremony of
84 Subramanian T.V. 6 the tournament took place in the presence Final ranking
85 Shivakumar D M 6 sponsors, co-sponsors and other dignitaries. Rk NamePts
86 Kirtana S P 6 Dr.Sidharth Vedprakash & Mr. Vallabh Desai 1 Ritviz Parab 8
87 Yashavishree N 6
both inaugurated the tournament. Alongside 2 Porob Vraj 8
him members Mr.Ashish Keni ( President- Sal- 3 Niraj Saripall 7½
88 Arjun Rao K 6
shet Taluka Chess Association ), Chief Arbiter
89 Akshay R Kashyap 6 4 Shane Alvarin Braganca 7½
Mr. Bharat Chougule,Mr.Sanjay Kavlekar &
90 Vinit K 6 5 Nandhini Saripalli 7½
Tournament Director Mr.Dilip Vernekar graced
91 Basavaraj D N Dr. 6 6 Akhilesh Akshay Nigalye 7½
the occasion with their prominent presence.
92 Priyanka Narayan 6 7 WCM Chopdekar Gunjal 7½
93 Arnav Muralidhar 6 The Tournament was smoothly conducted 8 Parsekar Anirudh 7
94 Darshan J Jain 6 by the team of arbiters Shri. Bharat Chou- 9 Ishan Sanjay Pagi 7
95 Kavya. S 6 gule(Chief Arbiter),Shri.Satishchandra Dalal 10 FM Nitish Belurkar 7
96 Bharath Bhushan ReddyN 6 (Dy. Chief Arbiter) Mr.Sanjay Kavlekar,Swap- 11 WCM Swera Ana Braganca 7
97 Siva Prasad A T 6 nil Hobale & Gautam Tari (Asst. Arbiter) and 12 Sikchi Saurabh 7
98 Rangarajan Srinivasan 6 team of volunteers from organizers. All the 13 Fadte Rudresh 7
99 Prabu R 6 players including 91 rated players played 14 Sahil Dayanand Desai 7
100 Nagasri Saikanth 6 with sporting spirit and in discipline. The 15 Gaude Sachin 6½
101 Nagabhushan U S 6
event concluded without any protests and 16 Aryan Shamrao Raikar 6½
complaints. 17 Cruz Wilson 6½
102 Raghul Saro S 6
103 Alok Nagdev 6 18 Sahil Shetty 6½
Top seeded Ritviz Parab secured 8 points
104 Krishna Murthy 6 19 Audi Saiesh 6½
out of 9 rounds & became champion of the
105 Ayush J Yajaman 6 20 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar 6½
tournament. Porob Viraj secured 8 points &
106 Siddharth Vezzu 6 21 Kiran Shantaram Chopdekar 6½
stood runner up in the tournament. List of
107 Gupta Anshurup 6 prize winners enclosed (Distributed Rs. 43 22 Brendan Peroz 6½
108 Channawar Nilesh 6 Thousand cash prizes & Attractive Trophies 23 Pratik S Borkar 6½
109 Nagendra Muralidhar 6 amongst the winners). All the players 24 Alaya Vella D Cruz 6½
110 Prajwal M Joshi 6 were provided decent hall. Also free Break- 25 Sachin Kakodkar 6½
111 Guna Sekhar G (chittoor) 6 fast & Lunch were provided to players. 26 Eesh Prabhudesai 6½
28 Bhimappa Harijan 6
29 Devesh Anand Naik 6
Champion Miss Bhakti Kulkarni in presence of 30 Sukhlecha Aditya 6
Kishor Bandekar (Secretary,Goa chess Asso-
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31 Vasant Vishnu Naik 6 72 Anchit Ajeet Naik 5½ 113 Aditya Tari 5 154 Komarpant Krunal 4
32 Shenoy Siddharth 6 73 Sudhakar Patgar 5 114 Ferrao Egle 5 155 Pantawane Balaji 4
33 Kavish Gharse 6 74 Trayangdatt Vithal Naik 5 115 Yash Kishore Naik 5 156 Luis Macvert 4
34 Naik Saish Harishchandra 6 75 Katkar Prithviraj 5 116 Avish Naik 5 157 Gaudalkar Anshu 4
35 Morajkar Navin 6 76 Vibhuti S Dessai 5 117 Suvrat Acharya 5 158 Anuj, Arabekar 4
36 Prabhu Yash 6 77 Parth Kamat 5 118 Bugde Shrihari 5 159 Mujawar Badrunissa 4
37 Advait Rajiv Dhawalikar 6 78 Sankesh, Kaisukar 5 119 Prabhudesai Heramb 5 160 Shirvant Yash 4
38 Colaco Reuben 6 79 Atharva Sawal 5 120 Geetesh R Naik 4½ 161 Karekar Tanish 4
39 Antoniolee Peroz 6 80 Shivam Raikar 5 121 Swayam Kamat Bambolkar 4½ 162 Naik Drishti 4
40 Naik Shvesh S 6 81 Prabhav Shyam Satardekar 5 122 Desai Veer 4½ 163 Varkekar Ekta 4
41 Kakodkar Joy 6 82 Vasant Shivanand Borker 5 123 Tejal Sunil Lotlikar 4½ 164 Shetty Sagar 4
42 Nagvekar Sairudra 6 83 Nipanikar Rishab 5 124 Nidhi Gaude 4½ 165 Nikita Mohane 4
43 Swayam Naik 6 84 Thanishq Kavlekar 5 125 Prabhu Sahil Sudheer 4½ 166 Rayani Shiaan 4
44 Telang Prasad 6 85 Nischal Parulekar 5 126 Varkekar Esha 4½ 167 Dukle Saksham 4
45 Sania Salvi 6 86 Kakodkar Love 5 127 Ruthvi Gaude 4½ 168 Jatav Satybhan 4
46 Ruturaj Yogesh Desai 6 87 Parab Sneh 5 128 Varada Naik 4½ 169 Pereira Juella 4
47 Bharadwaj Rahul 6 88 Saidas D Fotto 5 129 Girija A Pednekar 4½ 170 Sejal Lotlikar 4
48 Rahul Mahale 6 89 Vivaan Sunil Ballikar 5 130 Vicente Fernandes 4½ 171 Kurtikar Avira 4
49 Jugan Sales Rodrigues 6 90 Sarah Gayle Fernandes 5 131 Vernekar Shubham 4½ 172 Gawde Praveen 4
50 Bir Yogesh Pai 6 91 Coutinho Sinai 5 132 Caesarius Mario Vaz 4 173 Jared Menezes 4
51 Ayush Ramchandra Shetkar 6 92 Desai Rahul Ganpati 5 133 Shweta Kamalaksh Sahakari 4 174 Fallary Ulhas 4
52 Prashant Salvi 6 93 Uskaikar Aryan 5 134 Samant Sanvi 4 175 Sahani Aman 4
53 Kalparaj Ekavade 6 94 Komarpant Saurav 5 135 Naik Shrijay 4 176 Parth, S Govekar 4
54 Yash Paul 5½ 95 Srilaxmi Kamat 5 136 Naik Ayush P 4 177 Rudraksh Manchanda 4
55 Madhavan G 5½ 96 Soham Anil Dhuri 5 137 Raikar Sampada 4 178 Silva Andrick 4
56 Ananya Pandey 5½ 97 Vinayak Thevar 5 138 Raikar Saish 4 179 Kalge Rahim 4
57 Paarth P Salvi 5½ 98 Shubh Kalangutkar 5 139 Chopdekar Aman 4 180 Katkar Atharv 3½
58 Ridikesh Dilip Vernekar 5½ 99 Kalagutkar Sai 5 140 Stuti Rajesh Pai 4 181 Shirodkar Ved 3½
59 Mohammed Kassim Shaikh 5½ 100 Jaswanth, R 5 141 Shubhang Hudekar 4 182 Skandhaj, Kotha 3½
60 Chodankar Mitra 5½ 101 Granthik Buyao 5 142 Mayanka Arsekar 4 183 Sahakari Rahul 3½
61 Yash Chauhan 5½ 102 Dyaneshwar Hawal 5 143 Namesh Milesh Churi 4 184 Kesarkar Kaushik 3½
62 Harsh Mangesh Dagare 5½ 103 Pereira Zaphenia 5 144 Hande Vrujesh 4 185 Hawal Shreyash 3½
63 Naik Vedant Sabaji 5½ 104 Ved, Narvekar 5 145 Dillon, Asher Almeida 4 186 Anushka Arora 3½
64 Naik Sayuri 5½ 105 Vas Bryan 5 146 Shaikh Mohamad Sihan 4 187 Naik Rahul 3½
65 Sanat Borkar 5½ 106 Sadanand Kamat 5 147 Swayam Laad 4 188 Costa Diogo P 3
66 Charuta J Shetye 5½ 107 Aarush Pandey 5 148 Aarav Kamat 4 189 Arabekar Sandesh 3
67 Dhruv Vinayak Patil 5½ 108 Chitraksh Shyam Satardekar 5 149 Rudraksh Rama Parab 4 190 Pai Kane Pushp 3
68 Yash Manoj Upadhye 5½ 109 Sarvesh Sahadev Rao 5 150 Riya Kamat 4 191 Shetti Sushant 3
69 Sonawane Harsh 5½ 110 Sainee N F Dessai 5 151 Narvekar P S 4 192 Rivankar Pranay 3
70 Datta Bhika Naik 5½ 111 Om Prabhu 5 152 Prabhu Sejal 4 193 Bhakti Gaude 3
71 Shubham Laad 5½ 112 Kambli Raju 5 153 Samant vignesh 4 194 Travendra Sawant 3

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 17th North Eastern States Chess Championship, 2016-17, Agartala
R. M. Apollosana wins title
Pradip Kumar Choudhuri,Organizing Secretary
A
ll Tripura Chess Association organ-
ized 17th North Eastern States Chess
Championship, 2016-17 at Sahid
Bhagat Singh Youth Hostel, Khejurbagan,
Agartala from 25th to 29th January, 2017.
Honourable Chief Minister of Tripura Sri Manik
Sarkar inaugurated the tournament by light-
ing a lamp in the presence of huge audience
on 25th January, 2017 at 4-30 P.M.
A record numbers of 202 players including
99 rated players participated from Aruna-
chal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Sikim and host Tripura. Nagaland
did not send any competitor for this time.
Mr.Y.Dhanbir Singh of Manipur with ELO rat-
ing 2135 was top seeded. The most oldest
and youngest player of the tournament were
Mrs. Anju Sarkar ( 71+) and Master Rituraj
Bhowmik (5+) respectively both from Tripu-
ra and both met in the 2nd round and Mrs
Sarkar won the battle. The tournament had
nine rounds with two rounds daily and single
round in inaugural day. We have arranged
lodging, boarding and tournament hall in a
same complex so there was no difficulty for
arriving on the board in time despite busy
schedule and not a single dispute arose dur-
ing the whole tournament. Very close fight
was there among the top seeded players and
finally R. M. Apollosana of MKanipur clinched
the title with eight points followed by Y. Dhan-
bir Sing of Manipur, Rahul Soram Singh of
Assam, Thendup Tamang of Sikim, Sauradip
Deb of Tripura and Santanu Borpatra Gohain
of Assam finished just behind the Champion
with 7.5 points and ranked from 2nd to 6th.
The prize distribution was held at 7 PM on
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29th January, 2017. Honourable Minister of
Forest and Rural Development, Tripura Mr.
Naresh Jamatia graced the function as Chief
Guest. A total amount of Rs.150, 150/- with
some trophies distributed among the prize
winners.
Final ranking:
Rk Name Club Pts
1 Apollosana Mangang Rr MAN 8
2 Singh Y. Dhanabir MAN 7½
3 Singh Soram Rahul ASM 7½
4 Tamang Thendup SIK 7½
5 Souradip Deb TRI 7½
6 Santanu Borpatra G ASM 7½
7 Dutta Umashankar TRI 7
8 Gurung Rohit SIK 7
9 Aarohon Bharadwaj ASM 7
10 Alok Barman ASM 6½
11 Neelabh Jyoti Borthakur ASM 6½
12 Arunava Bhattacharjee TRI 6½
13 Rijied Katrai MEG 6½
14 Rajdip Das ASM 6½
15 Chakrilombi Singh A. MAN 6½
16 Anurag Debnath TRI 6½
17 Subrata Nandy Roy ASM 6½
18 Heikrujam Jacky Singh MAN 6½
19 Trailokya Nanda ASM 6½
20 Surajit Das ASM 6½
21 Debanga Kalita ASM 6½
22 Gurung Rahul SIK 6½
23 Rampanmawia H MIZ 6½
24 Lalrinliana John MIZ 6
25 Thangchungnunga MIZ 6
26 Cheniram Pegu ASM 6
27 Nandan Buragohain ASM 6
28 Lalawmpuia MIZ 6
29 Durlov Nanda ASM 6 70 Bapi Debbarma TRI 5
71 Arunika Ghosh TRI 5
30 Rajbeer Ahmed
31 Atembi Laishram
TRI
MAN
6
6 72 Taba Anam ARP 5
32 Bappi Deb TRI 6 73 Ramsankar Das TRI 5
33 Piyal Roy Chowdhury ASM 6 74 Uday Bhaskar Sarmah ASM 5
34 Pratik Debnath TRI 6 75 Bapu Debbarma TRI 5
35 Gautam Chakravarty MEG 6 76 Suprakash Bir TRI 5
36 Prateek Choudhury ASM 6 77 Mrinmoy Rajkhowa ASM 5
37 Lallianthanga P C MIZ 6 78 Samson Debbarma TRI 5
79 Vivek rajkumar ASM 5
38 Projit Phukon ASM 6
39 Das Monaj ASM 5½ 80 Ramesh Kalai TRI 5
40 Bibendu Das ASM 5½ 81 Anju Sarkar TRI 5
41 Stephen Malsawmtluanga MIZ 5½ 82 Dibyansu Lahon ASM 5
42 Manthan Kashyap Datta ASM 5½ 83 Gipolson Pahsyntiew MEG 5
43 Lalpekliana T MIZ 5½ 84 Krittibash Deva Sarmah ASM 5
44 Singh Th. Nabachandra MAN 5½ 85 Binode Chakraborty TRI 5
45 Arunabh Gohain ASM 5½ 86 Abhinaba Roy TRI 5
46 Hridaya Gogoi ASM 5½ 87 Subhadip Som TRI 5
47 Dibya Jyoti Sarkar TRI 5½ 88 Gopal Tamang TRI 5
48 Shamik Saha TRI 5½ 89 Parthajit Saha TRI 5
49 Das Debayan TRI 5½ 90 Barnita Singha TRI 5
50 Debalina Kundu TRI 5½ 91 Ashok Kumar Das TRI 4½
51 Syed Jahan Hussain ASM 5½ 92 Pritom Nath ASM 4½
52 Soham Chakraborty TRI 5½ 93 Subhranil Majumder TRI 4½
53 Jayanta Chutia ASM 5½ 94 Nil Kumar Datta TRI 4½
54 Anuraag Saikia ASM 5½ 95 Kharbani Boney J MEG 4½
55 Biswajit Nag TRI 5½ 96 Pranab Jyoti Boruah ASM 4½
56 Chayan Palit ASM 5½ 97 Arun Chandra Das TRI 4½
57 Subhrajit Dutta ASM 5½ 98 Zodinpuia MIZ 4½
58 Lallianmanga MIZ 5 99 Acharya Leela Prasad SIK 4½
59 Prasenjit Purkayastha ASM 5 100 M ithun pal TRI 4½
60 Abhijit Choudhury TRI 5 101 Arnab Kumar Pal TRI 4½
61 Benjamin Lalhmingliana MIZ 5 102 Edmund Debbarma TRI 4½
62 Dipak Chowhan TRI 5 103 Soumyadip Bhaumik TRI 4½
63 Abhinay Debbarma TRI 5 104 Thakor Sagarkumar V ASM 4½
64 Nabam Nikum ARP 5 105 Mui Takar ARP 4½
65 Rangke E.R. Marak MEG 5 106 Rahul Kanti Nag TRI 4½
66 Zoramthara MIZ 5 107 Sulekha Das TRI 4½
67 Soham Nag TRI 5 108 Dhritiman Deka ASM 4½
68 Nirmalya Chakraborty ASM 5 109 Dibakar Banik TRI 4½
69 Apurba Sonowal ASM 5 110 Bhargav Kalita ASM 4½
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 Nipani Open Fide Rapid Rating Chess Tournaments 2016, Nipani
Sameer Kathamale wins title
by IA Bharat Chougule, Chief Arbiter
N ipani Grand Open Fide Rapid Rating
Chess Tournaments 2016 held at
Nipani from 10th & 11th December
2016.was organised successfully By Nipani
Utkarsh Foundation, Nipani. A total number
of 230 entries were received from various
State of India.
The opening ceremony of the tourna-
ment took place in the presence spon-
sors, co-sponsors and other dignitaries.
Shri.Sunil Patil ex.Vice-President(Nipani
Nagarpalika) & Subodh Shah (Treasurer
of Janata Shikshan Mandal) both inau-
gurated the tournament. Alongside him
members Mr.Pravin Shah (President of
Utkarsh Foundation),DayanandSajan-
navar,Babasaheb Magdum,Shivaji Bhi-
lugade & Aravind Bedekar graced the
occasion with their prominent presence.
The Tournament was smoothly conducted
by the team of arbiters Shri. Bharat Chou-
gule( Chief Arbiter),Shri.Deepak Vaychal
(Dy Chief Arbiter),Karan Parit ,Dat-
ta Saravade & Smt. Jayashri Patil (Asst.
Arbiter) and team of volunteers from
organizers. All the players including 113
rated players played with sporting spirit
and in discipline. The event concluded
without any protests and complaints.
Top seeded IM Sameer Kathamale,Maha-
rashtra secured 8 points out of 9 rounds
and became champion of the tournament.
Rahul Varma of Maharashtra secured 8
points & stood runner up in the tourna-
ment. List of prize winners enclosed An
amount of Rupees one lakh was distributed
amongst the prize winners.All the players
were provided with free dormitory Lodging.
The prize distribution function took place
jointly at the hand of Businessman & main
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Tata Steel Group A Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands
Adhiban finishes third at Wijk aan Zee
sponsor of tournament Mr. Popatbhai Shah By Arvind Aaron
& Mrs.Malatibai Shah in presence of Pravin
Shah (president) & Directors of Nipani Former Indian and former world under-16 champion Bas-
Utkarsh Foundation, Nipani. karan Adhiban scored an impressive 7.5/13 good for the
Final standings:Open third place in the Tata Steel Group A Chess Tournament that
Rk Name Age Pts concluded at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands on January 29,
1 Kathmale Sameer IM 8 2017. For such an outstanding performance rating of 2812,
2 Verma Rahul 8 Adhiban gains the most rating of 29 points in this 14-player
3 Dixit Nikhil U18 8 super category 21 event (average Elo 2751).
4 Gandhi Anish U20 8
5 Sammed Jaykumar Shete U18 7
6 Patel Mudassar 7 On course, Adhiban won four games, lost two and drew the
7 Chakravarthi Reddy M IM U20 7 rest of the seven games. He defeated Karjakin using the
8 Kulkarni Vinayak 7 French defence as black (see game below)and drew Carls-
9 Himanshu Chabda 7 en playing the Scandinavian defence with the dark colour.
10 Rao J. Malleswara 7 Adhiban played all kinds of unusual openings and it included
11 Nikam Ravindra 7
the rare king’s gambit against Wesley So that was drawn. He suffered two defeats, one to
12 Ajith M.P. 7
countryman Harikrishna and another to Eljanov. Adhiban was accompanied by his parents.
13 Mokashi Rohit 7
14 Utkarsh Lomate 7
15 Gajanan D 7 Wesley So, born Oct 9, 1993 broke Carlsen’s record of the youngest player to cross the 2600
16 Sonecha Raju S50 7 rating mark in 2008. He is now the eleventh player ever to cross the 2800 rating mark. He
17 Devesh Anand Naik U12 7 won the Sinquefield Cup 2016, London Chess Classic 2016 and by winning the 2017 Wijk
18 Kurle Raju 6½ aan Zee event by a one point margin, he will be seen as a future challenger to Carlsen.
19 Bhosale Shriraj U14 6½
Notably, in March 2016 he received the Samford Fellowship which grants him US$42000
20 Mandhare Hemant Kumar 6½
21 Rohan Bharat Joshi 6½
to train and play in top events. He remained undefeated for the second year in a row at
22 Aditya Savalkar U12 6½ Wijk aan Zee. Needing a draw in the final round for the title, So won with the black pieces
23 Abid Ali Mujawar U18 6½ against Nepomniachtchi to claim his maiden title in this elite event in style.
Consolation prizes:Under-8
1 Apoorv Kamble U08 5½ Last year’s champion, Carlsen, who was unexpectedly defeated by Richard Rapport of Hun-
2 Sairaj Dilip Vernekar U08 5 gary, struggled and is losing Elo despite finishing second with eight points. Carlsen missed
Consolation prizes:Under-10
a mate against Giri and stalemated the Dutch player after 123 moves. Harikrishna lost to
1 Bhosale Aditya U10 5
So and Van Wely, the top and bottom finishers of this event. He was solid with the others
2 Yogaraj Vivek Mahale U10 4½
scoring 6/13. He is losing about eight points. The 79th edition of this event was smoothly
Consolation prizes:Under-12
1 Jamsandekar Sujal U12 6 conducted and the festival attracted over 2000 players. Wijk aan Zee is a village of less
2 Patil Harshal U U12 6 than 5000 people by the Sea and about one hour drive from Amsterdam.
Consolation prizes:Under-14
1 Chindake Harikrushan U14 6 Final placings: 1 Wesley So (USA) 9/13; 2 Magnus Carlsen (Nor) 8; 3-5. Baskaran Adhiban
2 Aryan Shamrao Raikar U14 6
(Ind), Levon Aronian (Arm), Wei Yi (Chn) 7.5 each; 6-7. Sergey Karjakin (Rus), Pavel Eljanov
Consolation prizes:Under-16
1 Magdum Darshan U16 6 (Ukr) 7 each; 8 Anish Giri (Ned) 6.5; 9-11 Pentala Harikrishna (Ind), Dmitry Andreikin (Rus),
2 Bhonsale Gayatri Harshad U16 5½ Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol) 6.5 each; 12 Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus) 5; 13 Richard Rapport
(Hun) 4.5; 14 Loek Van Wely (Ned) 3.5.
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Karjakin,Sergey (2785) - Adhiban,Baskaran (2653) [C11] the rest is not too difficult. 27.Nd1 Rh5?! [27...Qf6 28.Ne3
79th Tata Steel Chess 2017-Masters Rotterdam (5), 19.01.2017 Rf4 29.Rxf4 Qxf4–+ was easily winning.] 28.h4 28...Re5
29.Ne3 29...Bb5! 30.Rd4 [30.Kc2 Rc8+ 31.Kb3 Bxd3
1.e4 e6 This is the first time in his career that Adhiban has played the French Defence? 32.Qxf3 Be4–+; 30.Nc4 Bxc4 31.dxc4 Rf6–+] 30...Re4!?
What motivated him to play this with black? Your guess is as good as mine! On his Facebook 31.Rxg6? Bxd3+!
page Adhiban summed up the situation quite aptly. Desperate situation calls for desperate
decisions! 2.d4 d5 1 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qd2 a6 This clear shot ends the game. Karjakin is known as a Master
9.a3 0–0 10.dxc5 Nxc5 11.Qf2 All of this has been played before and has been seen of Defence. The fact that Adhiban could beat him without any
in top level encounters like Kramnik-Meier, Ragger-Bluebaum, Sethuraman-Korobov and glitches makes it a highly commendable victory.[31...Qxg6
Salem-Svane. The main moves for Black have been either b6 or Qa5. Adhiban unleashes is also winning after 32.dxe4 dxe4–+; 31...Bxd3+ 32.Rxd3
a novelty. 11...Nd7!? Qxg6–+] 0–1
The credit for finding this move was given by Adhiban to his
coach, most likely K. Visweswaran. 12.Nd4 Karjakin thinks
for 10 minutes and goes for the most critical line. 12...Nxd4 Gibraltar Masters
13.Bxd4 f6 Adhiban is still in his preparation. Facing Adhib- David Antom Guijarro of Spain wins Gibraltar Masters
an when he is well prepared can be an unnerving experience.
He moves very quickly and can often unsettle you. But this is In a bizarre series of events, Hou Yifan has
common for players at the level of Karjakin. They are used to lodged a unique form of protest at the Gi-
this. 14.exf6 Bxf6 3 15.Bxf6 Qxf6 16.g3 g5! The f4 pawn braltar Masters by choosing to make unchar-
can no longer be held. That being said, no one would like to acteristic moves in the opening and resign
weaken his kingside with a move like g5 in an opposite side soon after. The incident happened in the
castling situation. 17.0–0–0 gxf4 18.Kb1 This move surprised final round game of the Gibraltar Masters.
Adhiban. [18.Rd4 should have been preferred by Karjakin. 18... Hou Yifan was playing with the white pieces
f3 19.Rf4 Qh6 20.Qxf3 e5 (20...Rxf4 21.gxf4±) 21.Qg4+ Kh8 22.Qh4 The only way not on the 17th board against Indian GM Lalith
to lose a rook. 22...Qxh4 23.Rxh4 Nf6 24.Bg2 Be6 Black looks fine with the strong central Babu. She arrived 25 minutes after the games
pawns, but after 25.Re1 e4 26.Bh3 White should have a small edge.] 18...f3 19.g4 [19. began and started to play quickly. Speaking
Rd4 Qg7 20.Bh3 Nf6 21.Qxf3 e5 22.Rh4 Bxh3 23.Rxh3 Ne4 24.Qe2 Nxc3+ 25.bxc3 to ChessBase India soon after the game,
e4] 19...Ne5 20.g5 Qg7 21.g6 Karjakin plays with great energy. He realizes that he Lalith said, "I was scared when she played
must open the position of the black king. He is a pawn down already, so he throws another 1.g4 and I suspected preparation! But when
pawn into the fire. Objectively it might not be a great idea, but as Adhiban says, practical- I saw 2.f3, I figured out that something was Levon Aronian and David Antom Guijarro
wrong." To make matters even more curious, spectators are reporting that Yifan sported a
ly it was quite a challenging one to face. 21...hxg6! [21...Nxg6 22.Bd3 Followed by Rg1
smile during the game. Fans in social media are speculating that she may have done this
and h4 should give White good attacking chances.] 22.Bd3?!
in protest against the pairings-system that has been employed in the tournament where in
Once again, not the most challenging move, as this bishop can
10 games, she has played 7 female players.
be chopped off by the knight anytime. [22.Rg1 Bd7 23.h4 Rf5
Black maintains control.; 22.h4 Bd7 23.Bh3 This might be the
Final standings:1.Anton Guijarro David(ESP)8;2.Nakamura Hikaru(USA)8;3.Yu Yangy-
most complicated way to play the position. But still Black has i(CHN)8;4.Vachier-Lagrave Maxime (FRA)7.5;5.Adams Michael(ENG)7.5; .6.Su-
the advantage is beyond any doubt.] tovskyEmil(ISR)7.5;7.CheparinovIvan(BUL)7.5;8.GelfandBoris (ISR)7.5;10.Howell Da-
vid(ENG)7
22...Bd7 Once Adhiban made this move, he was happy be-
cause the bishop could always drop back to e8 and defend the In the penultimate round-
g6 pawn. 23.Rdg1 23...Nxd3 24.cxd3 Rf5 25.Rg4 Raf8 With Sethuraman’s scintillating victory against the in-form Austrian IM Valentin Dragnev in
26.Rhg1 26...Be8–+ The bishop defends the g6 pawn and the eighth round, hopes were high for him to finish among the top 10 of the star-studded
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 Naivedhyam 6th National Schools Chess Championships, Nagpur
field of Gibraltar Masters. Playing on board 4 against the English number one, GM Michael
Adams, Sethu had a tough task to accomplish. In an almost similar situation was GM R Lalith Maharashtra tops in medal tally
Babu. Although half a point behind Sethuraman in terms of his tournament score, he had a by IA Prof.R. Anantharam, Chief Arbiter

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fair chance of finishing among prize winners. In the penultimate round GM Lalith Babu was
pitted against the 2702 rated Azerbaijani Super-GM Arkadij Naiditsch. he mega event, Naivedhyam 6th Na- ry. In the open section of same category,
tional Schools Chess Championships Arjun Adireddy of Telangana, Kiaan Agrawal
Playing with the black pieces against a veteran such as Adams is definitely not easy. But was organised by Nagpur Chess Acad- of Chhattisgarh and Sadbhav Rautela of
given his performance so far, Sethu definitely looked like he was up for the task. Coun- emy, on behalf of Maharashtra Chess Asso- Uttharkhand scored 8 points each, but the
tering the Englishman’s 1. c4 with 1…e5, Sethu drifted the game into a French defence ciation and All India Chess Federation from Telangana boy had the best tiebreak score.
like structure with colours reversed. Adam’s strategy in the position was to allow his 5th to 7th January 2017. The mammoth In the tournament for under 9 girls, Anupam
opponent to gain space and then make use of the weaknesses in his position. But this tournament’s breakup of 804 players is as M Sreekumar gifted a gold medal to Kerala
almost backfired when on move 19, he allowed his opponent to get a winning position. given below: with his good performance of 8 points in nine
Sethu, unfortunately, missed this chance. rounds, followed by B Sruthi Naya of Tamil
Under 7 Girls-60;Under 7 Open- 7 9 ; U n - Nadu was the runner up. Gaurang Bagway
Following this, Adams was able to create a material imbalance in the position by ex- der 9 Girls-71;Under 9 Open-116;Under and Shreya Payyapat collected 8 points, but
changing his rook for a minor piece and three pawns. Sethu’s position was still objectively 11 Girls-63;Under 11 Open-100;Under 13 the former won the title in the open section
equal but very difficult to hold practically because of the weak pawns in his position. Girls-53;Under 13 Open-114;Under 15 of under 9 category.
As the game progressed, Adams put strong pressure on Sethu’s position by pushing his Girls-35;Under 15 Open-74;Under 17 Girls-
extra pawns on the kingside whilst attacking Sethu’s king on the other wing. By move 14;Under 17 Open-25 Ananya Arumbakkam of Karnataka and
30, Sethu’s position was already lost and his blunder on move 44 forced immediate Kaamyaa Negi of Delhi tied for the first place
resignation. Playing with the white pieces in against Naiditsch’s King’s Indian Defence, Needless to say that the championship at- with a score of 7.5 points each in the under
Lalith Babu was never in any trouble. In a 74-move-long encounter, pieces were traded tracted players from all states of India, except 11 girls’ section and Ananya had more num-
at regular intervals and after a long hard-fought endgame, Lalith Babu forced a draw with a few from the north eastern region. There ber of wins to pick up the title. The upcoming
perpetual checks. This is a good result for the young Indian GM. But with this draw, his was equal number of parents, totalling the Chennai boy D Gukesh had an amazing score
chances finish among the tournament’s prize winners have evaporated. On the brighter
number of participants to more than 1600. of 9/9 in the open section of under 11 cate-
side, he’s earned himself a chance to play Hou Yifan in the final round. We hope he could
The two chandelier light lit huge and spa- gory and Dev Shah was a distant second with
keep up his good form and do well against Yifan as well.
cious halls and beautiful Iranian carpets for 7.5 points. It was an all Maharashtra affair
the entire playing space will make even GM in the under 13 girls division, with the state
The biggest result of the round was David Anton’s win against Veselin Topalov. With this
tournament organisers to envy. To add to it, bagging the first four places, Bhaghyashree
win, the 2650 rated Spaniard has not only beaten a former FIDE World Champion but
has taken the sole lead in the tournament over big names like Nakamura, Caruana, MVL the waiting hall for parents cum dining hall Patil and local girl Mrudul Dehankar, finish-
and Adams. Going into the final round, he will have the white pieces against the English catering the north and south Indian cuisines ing in that order. Gujarat’s R Naitik Mehta
number one Mickey Adams. On board 3, Fabiano Caruana, who has made a remarkable for more than 400 parents at a time was a big and Telangana’s R Raja Rithvik had 8 points
comeback after his upsets in the initial rounds, sat down to play against his countryman, grandeur. The children enjoyed the fun and each and recived the gold and silver medals
Hikaru Nakamura. Looking for another victory, Caruana came up with some zany ideas frolic, besides the high quality competition. respectively in the boys’ group.
in the Queen’s Gambit Accepted which Nakamura said he found suspicious but wasn’t The three day tournament with three rounds
able to prove anything over the board. After 45 moves of play, the players chose to a day left the arbiters and officials high and Parakh Niyati of Chhattisgarh and M Tejasvi
repeat the position in a dead equal bishop endgame. dry, but they managed to pull on, making it of Tamil Nadu were the winner and runner
a successful tournament. up in the under 15 girls’ section. Nagpur’s
Ju Wenjun, who became the fifth female player in the history of the game to cross 2600 Elo Yash Dhake contributed one more gold to
mark, won a fantastic game against the French GM Sebastian Maze. After this win, Wenjun Shriyana S Mallya of Karnataka was the lone Maharashtra’s collection medals by winning
is tied for second in the tournament and is the only female player among the top 10. With player to secure 8 points in nine rounds to the under 15 open and Joy Pankaj Shah stood
only one round to go, a clear leader and a big league of super strong grandmasters within clinch the title in the under 7 girls’category, behind him. Another local girl Pande Shrishti
striking distance, round 10 of the Gibraltar Masters is sure to be a treat for all comers. the runner up being Kamalini of Pondicher- had an equal contribution by securing the
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first place in under 17 girls’ category Kavisha gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze and Karnataka 1st Salem Intl. Chess FIDE rated Tournament , Salem
S Shah of Gujarat helped her state to get was way behind with 2 gold and 1 bronze.
the silver medal. It was A Ra Harikrishnan’s The inauguration and closing ceremony were
Surendran wins in a three way tie
turn to help Tamil Nadu to pile up one more conducted in a grand manner and Syna In- by P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter
gold medal by winning the under 17 open ternational School was declared as the best
N.Surendran of Chennai became the champi- bution function was held, the Chief Guests
category. school, followed by Velammal Vidyalaya,
on of 1st Salem International Chess tourna- were Mr.Sujith Kumar IPS, Additional Super-
Overall, Maharashtra bagged 11 medals – 4 Chennai.
ment –Fide Rated, with 7.5/8 points on bet- intendent of Police, Salem; Mr. Geo George
ter tie-break. Mr.N.Surendran of Tamilnadu, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police Law &
Medals - Categorywise
Ram S Krishnan of BSNL 2nd Prize, Rao J Order, Salem city; Mr. Maha Ajay Prasad, MD
Gold Silver Bronze Malleswara of Andhrapradesh, 3rd Prize were Mahendra Educational Institutions; Mr. Raja
tied for the 1st Prize with 7.5/8 points but Director Thangam Mount litera Zee School;
Maharashtra 4 2 5
on better tie-break Surendran became the Mr. N. Nagappan, Salem Metro Acme Round
Karnataka 2 0 1
Champion of this Tournament, which was held Table 175; Mrs. Savithri Kumararajah, Salem
Tamil Nadu 1 2 1 from 26th to 29th January 2017 at Mahendra Metro Acme Ladies Circle 91;Mr. R.Asokan,
Gujarat 1 2 0 Engineering College, Salem. Principal, Mahendra College of Engineering.
Chhattisgarh 1 2 0 All the above Guests distributed 207 Prizes
Kerala 1 1 0 The event was inaugurated by Mrs. Savithri in total, in the presence of Mr.N.Arun, Sec-
Telangan 1 1 0 Kumararajah, Salem Metro Acme Ladies retary, Salem District Chess Association &
Circle 91 & Mrs. Nagappan, Salem Metro Mr.P.Palaniappan IA, Chief Arbiter of this
Andhra Pradesh 1 0 1
Acme Round Table 175 on 26th morning at Event. The total Prize Money of the Event
Delhi 0 1 0 11.00 Am in short function, in the presence was Rs. 2,00,000/-
Pondicherry 0 1 0 of District Mr.N.Arun, Secretary, Salem Dis-
Goa 0 0 1 trict Chess Association& Mr. Ponniyin Selvan, The Tournament was conducted smooth-
Madhaya Pradesh
0 0 1 Administrative Officer, Mahendra Engineering ly without any protest in a well-organized
Uttarkhand 0 0 1 College. manner, for this I have to thank the Mahen-
Uttar Pradesh 0 0 1 dra Engineering College Management, AO,
This event was organized by Salem District PD & all other Staff members for providing
Medals - Categorywise
Chess Association & Students Chess Founda- excellent Venue, food at concessional rate
Gold Silver Bronze tion and this steel city is witnessing a Rating and good accommodation to players. I must
Under 7 Girls Karnataka Pondicherry Goa tournament after 7years, with overwhelming also thank all the Players, Parents, Coaches,
crowd. A total 715 Players (380 rated play- Other District Officials and fellow Arbiters for
Under 7 Open Telangana Chhattisgarh Uttarkhand
ers, 335 unrated players) from 12 States their Kind Co-operation to conduct the event
Under 9 Girls Kerala Tamil Nadu Maharashtra participated in this event. Mr. AL. Muthaiah successfully.
Under 9 Open Maharashtra Kerala Karnataka of Tamilnadu was the Top seed of this event.
Under 11 Girls Karnataka Delhi Tamil Nadu The Youngest was a five-year old boy and Final ranking
Under 11 Open Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh the oldest was seventy years old. WGM Arthi Rank Name Pts
Under 13 Girls Maharashtra Maharashtra Maharashtra Ramasamy visited this event and inaugurated 1 Surendran N 7½
Under 13 Open Gujarat Telangana Maharashtra the 2nd round, IM Nitin visited this even and 2 Ram S. Krishnan 7½
inaugurated the final round in the presence 3 Rao J. Malleswara 7½
Under 15 Girls Chhattisgarh Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh
of Mr.M.Senthilvel, SDCA President & Jt.Sec- 4 Muthaiah Al 7
Under 15 Open Maharashtra Gujarat Madhya Pradesh retary TNSCA.
Under 17 Girls Maharashtra Gujarat Maharashtra 5 Harshavardhan G B 7
6 Lokesh N. 7
Under 17 Open Tamil Nadu Chhattisgarh Maharashtra On 29th evening at 6.30 Pm the Prize Distri-

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7 Vinoth Kumar M. 7 48 Rohan Kailash B 6 89 Kamalanathan R 5½ 130 Anjana Devi G 5
8 Siddarth M 7 49 Genish Prakash J 6 90 Vijayaragavan A R 5½ 131 Rohith S 5
9 Hemanth Raam 7 50 Muralidharan R. 6 91 Aadhisan Balakrishnan 5½ 132 Vinoth M 5
10 Abhinessh S 6½ 51 Aravinth Shanmugam S 6 92 Lokesh Malla (vizag) 5½ 133 Vignesh N 5
11 Ram Vishwanathan 6½ 52 Sathish Chandra G 6 93 Ragesh Sarma.M 5½ 134 Unnikrishnan M A 5
12 Aravindaswami T 6½ 53 Rathneesh R 6 94 Naveen K 5½ 135 Harshad S 5
13 Vijay Anand M. 6½ 54 Arut Prakasha Yarish S 6 95 Rathina Sabapathi A 5½ 136 Sai Prasath A S 5
14 Gopalakrishnan K. 6½ 55 Karthik Raj C 6 96 Balakowshi D S 5½ 137 Darsana M S 5
15 Bala Kannamma P 6½ 56 Sathyanarayanan S. 6 97 Yogeshwaran S A 5½ 138 Dhineshwar R S 5
16 Dhanasekar K. 6½ 57 Vinni Prabhu R 6 98 Dharunkumar 5½ 139 Mugilan G G 5
17 Harikrishnan.A.Ra 6½ 58 Chakravarti K. 6 99 Roshan Abendhra Ramesh 5½ 140 Kathiravan I 5
18 Subash Mathivanan 6½ 59 Ramachandran S M 6 100 Vinodh Kumar B. 5½ 141 Siva Shanmugam S 5
19 Dinesh Annamalai 6½ 60 Tarunika P 6 101 Dhanasekaran Suresh R. 5½ 142 Naveen S 5
20 Alan Diviya Raj 6½ 61 Avinash Ramesh 6 102 Senbabu M B 5½ 143 Shrija K M 5
21 Gugan G 6½ 62 Tarun V 6 103 Prithvi Rajan 5½ 144 Muthu P 5
22 Gowtham K K 6½ 63 Muthu Jeyram M 6 104 Srigopeshraj P 5½ 145 Sakthivel R 5
23 Shyam Kumar M 6½ 64 Sangeetha P 5½ 105 Vishwak S 5½ 146 Ganesh Aravind N 5
24 Manu David Suthandram R 6½ 65 Akash Lal O 5½ 106 Anilkumar K.V. 5½ 147 Moir Donald 5
25 Nawin J J 6½ 66 Saranya Y 5½ 107 Anand Kumar G 5½ 148 Arun Prasath P 5
26 Suseenthiram.R 6½ 67 Anilkumar O.T. 5½ 108 Roshan Hari 5½ 149 Ranjith Kumar K 5
27 Vijaya Sharathy 6½ 68 Sushmit Banerjee 5½ 109 Nandhini R 5½ 150 Jayadev R Balan 5
28 Avinash Hari 6½ 69 Venkatakrishnan R 5½ 110 Honnesh Sankaran 5½ 151 Shyaam M 5
29 Sathya Giri V 6½ 70 Bala Murugan G 5½ 111 Jai Ganesh G Hvf 5½ 152 Santhosh Manikantan 5
30 Rajashakkthivel K K 6½ 71 Arunachalam Shivaa T V 5½ 112 Jeyanth R 5½ 153 Bharath Venugopal 5
31 Akash S 6½ 72 Ram Kumar G M 5½ 113 Midhun Kumar M A 5½ 154 Rahul Raja.M 5
32 Dharmaraj P. 6 73 Mohana Praba R B 5½ 114 Anannth Varun R 5½ 155 Dixit Tharun Raja P 5
33 Roshan S 6 74 Yashwanth Raj S 5½ 115 Yukash Ram E 5½ 156 Sundaralingam A 5
34 Karthik Rajaa 6 75 Mithesh M 5½ 116 Gowtham K P 5½ 157 Mukhesh C 5
35 Alaguraja M.A. 6 76 Ulaganathan G 5½ 117 Sriram K 5½ 158 Manikanda Prabhu B V 5
36 Aasha C R 6 77 Senthil Kumaran T.H. 5½ 118 Sekar A Muthusamy 5½ 159 Senguttuvan K P 5
37 Ayyappan P Santhana Prabu 6 78 Arul Suresha G A 5½ 119 Vivian Akshay J 5½ 160 Kanish Vikraman Adithan B 5
38 Subramanian V 6 79 Thamizharasan J 5½ 120 Badri Narayan B 5½ 161 Gopinath P 5
39 Venkat Sundaram 6 80 Sivasubramanian Manoj 5½ 121 Indulekha K S 5½ 162 Aadarsh Kumar M E 5
40 Aswin Kumar B S 6 81 Praveen Kumar Gunasekaran 5½ 122 Arjun Sidharth S 5½ 163 Guru Sabari Thirumalai 5
41 Kanishk S K 6 82 Sudharsan Gurukrishnan 5½ 123 Charan K 5½ 164 Gokul S 5
42 Nitin M Pai 6 83 Chakravarthy M S R K 5½ 124 Kabhilan S 5 165 Kamali B 5
43 Muthu Palaniappan P L 6 84 Surya Prakash J 5½ 125 Kavitha P L 5 166 Ratnapriya K 5
44 Aravind K 6 85 Evan Sanjoe 5½ 126 Sathyan P Muthukrishnan 5 167 Varsha Ramesh 5
45 Sree Nithish B 6 86 Vijay M. 5½ 127 Thoufeeq S 5 168 Magdalene Roy R 5
46 Shanjay Krishnaa Sathiskumar 6 87 Bhaskar N S 5½ 128 Senthamizh Kumaran S 5 169 Aakash G 5
47 Saroj Naraynan K 6 88 Nithish Muthukumaran 5½ 129 Nandha Kumar K 5 170 Saadhana A 5

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 AICFB National B Chess Championship 2017, Kolkata
Ashvin Makwana emerges Champion
by IA Manjunatha M, Chief Arbiter
All India Chess Federation for the Blind Na-
tional B Chess Championship 2017 was start-
ed on 26/01/2017 at ILEAD institute, Kolkata.
123 players have represented 20 states.
Among them, 72 are FIDE rated players and
14 of whom are female players. 3 times Na-
tional Champion Kishan Gangolli of KAR was
the top seed of the tournament with an ELO
rating of 1993, followed by former national
champions Ashvin Makwana and Srikrishna
Udupa. Rajan K of Kerala born in 1948 was
the senior most player of this event. Shahina
Ibrahim of W B born in 2006 is the youngest.
This tournament was conducted in the Swiss
league system with 9 rounds. The Top 14
players from this tournament have qualified
for National Chess Championship which is
to be held in Mumbai from 03/03/2017 to
11/03/2017.
In the first and second round there was no
upsets.The third round witnessed many ma-
jor upsets. In the third board, Noushad E P
of Kerala defeated Srikrishna Udupa. In the
8th board, defending champion Soundarya
Pradhan of Odissa lost to Sujit J Chudasama
of GUJ. In the 9th board National School
Champion Marimuthu K of T N defeated
Aryan B Joshi of MAH. Aryan happens to be
the last year’s youngest player who qualified
for National A.
In the fourth round major upset was on the
5th board. Sujit J Chudasama of GUJ defeat-
ed Swapnil Shah of MAH. At the end of 4th
round four players namely Kishan Gangolli,
Shashidhar K M of KAR, Sujit J Chudasama of
GUJ and Deshpane Amit of MAH were in joint
lead.In the 5th Round on top board Kishan
Gangolli of KAR played against Shashidhar K
M of KAR. There was equal position. Both
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players didn’t want to take risk and agreed
for a quick draw.In the second board Sujit J
Chudasama of GUJ played with white piec-
es against Deshpande Amit of MAH. After a
long battle Sujit won the game and lead the
tournament with 5 full points.
In the 6th round,at the 1st table National
Champion Kishan Gangolli of KAR played with
white pieces against Sujit J Chudasama of
Guj. Sujit had a better position and played
an aggressive game against Kishan. However
the National Champion defended the position
very calmly and capitalised on errors and
converted them into win.
In the 7th round top Board Ashvin Makwana
of Guj Played with white pieces against Kis-
han Gangolli of Kar. In the beginning kishan
made an opening error. Experienced Ashvin
got advantage but he was not sure about
his position and offered draw on 13th move.
Kishan agreed very quickly.
In the 8th round Kishan Gangolli played with
white pieces against Subendu Patra of ODI.
Subendu played a nice game he fought hard
in the middle game. Kishan had exchange up
but he failed to convert it into win. After a
long battle, both signed for peace.In the 9th
round, all top board players agreed for quick
draw to secure a place in the forth coming
National “A” chess championship
Ashvin Makwana of GUJ,Kishan Gangolli
of KAR, Patra Subendu Kumar of ODI and
Aryan B Joshi of MAH all scored 7points on
best tie break Ashvin clinched title National
B championship.
International Master Atanu Lahir, Secretary,
West Bengal Chess Association was the chief
guest of prize distribution, Dr. Kanchan Gab-
a,General Secretary of AICFB,Shivashankar
Paul Former Indian team cricket Player, 30 Hariharan Gandhi T N 5½
Arindam Das Ranji cricket player and Pragya
Chopra Director of ILEAD Institute graced
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32
Sathish M A P 5½
Vaishali Nrendra Salavkar MAH 5½
the prize distribution ceremony.West Bengal
33 Bhakiyaraj S T N 5½
Chess Association for the Blind conducted 34 Newaskar Deepak MAH 5½
the event and provided Free Boarding and 35 Ambika Prasad Singh DEL 5½
lodging for all the players. The Venue was36 S Praksah Shrivastava DEL 5½
excellent. ILEAD Institute management,
37 Vignesh R (blind) T N 5½
employees and students cooperated whole
38 Ramesha A R KAR 5½
heartedly.
39 Mahadev Jana W B 5½
Final ranking
40 Prathap Reddy B AP 5½
Rk Name Club Pts
41 Kakade Atul MAH 5
1 Makwana Ashvin K GUJ 7
42 Noushad E P Blind KER 5
2 Kishan Gangolli KAR 7
43 Kartik Damle MAH 5
3 Patra Subhendu Kumar ODI 7
44 Manoj Kumar Reddy S A P 5
4 Aryan B Joshi MAH 7
46 Sagar M Mungurdekar MAH 5
5 Shashidhar K M (blind) KAR 6½
47 Rakesh Narwal ( Blind) HAR 5
6 Yudhajeet De W B 6½
48 Sudhira Kumar Nayak ODI 5
7 Swapanil Shah MAH 6½
49 PrakashramVishawkarma DEL 5
8 Akhil Sharma (blind) DEL 6½
50 Subodh Rajvanshi W B 5
9 Marimuthu K T N 6½
51 Nagendiran S T N 5
10 Samant Milind MAH 6½
52 Jayaprakash R T N 5
11 Deshpande Amit MAH 6½
53 Mantu Das W B 5
12 Krishna Udupa KAR 6½
54 Vijay Yetre MAH 5
13 Patil Shirish MAH 6½
55 Madhukesh Ram MAH 5
14 Soundarya K Pradhan ODI 6½
56 Shidad M KER 4½
15 Deeptyajeet De W B 6½
57 Nemai Das W B 4½
16 Waghmare Sachin L MAH 6½
58 Shaibu T KER 4½
17 Gaurav Gadodia MAH 6½
59 Sankar Chakraborty W B 4½
18 Mahesh B A P 6½
60 Ashok M Shrimali MAH 4½
19 Shambhu Kumar Roy BIH 6½
61 Mirjan Sekh W B 4½
20 M Narayan Pathode MAH 6
62 Rajkumar Naskar W B 4½
21 Rajesh Kumar Sahu DEL 6
63 Pankaj Bendre MAH 4½
22 Somender B L DEL 6
64 Sanjiv Kar W B 4½
23 Sujit J Chudasama GUJ 5½
65 Mrunali Pande MAH 4½
24 Khetre Gaurav MAH 5½
66 Aloknath HAR 4½
25 Venkat Reddy S A P 5½
67 Chotelal Ramlal Gour MAH 4½
26 Akhilesh K. Srivastava DEL 5½
68 Mandeep Singh (blind) PUN 4½
27 Muthuraman K. T N 5½
69 Rajan DEL 4½
28 Vikas Shitole MAH 5½
70 Shiv Kumar Sahu JHA 4½
29 Balaraman P KER 5½
71 Solanki Pragnesh GUJ 4
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Kushiyara & Longal Valley 1st Open Intl. Fide Rating Tournament, Assam
Souradip Deb wins title
By Debasish Barua, I.A,Chief Arbiter
Kushiyara & Longai Valley 1st Open Interna-
tional Fide Rating Chess Tournament 2017
held at Govt. H.S. School, Karimganj ,Assam
from 31st Junuary to 5th February2017.A
total of 48 players (30 fide rated players)
from the States of West Bengal, Manipur,
Meghalaya and Tripura took part in this
tournament. The tournament was organ-
ized by Karimganj Dist. Chess Association.
In the inauguration ceremony Sri Radhika
Ranjan Chakraborty, Principal Karimganj
College inaugurated the Chess Tournament
by making first move in the chess board,
Prof. Gorish Roy, Sri Raghunath Ghosh (
President, Karimganj Dist. Chess Asso.)
and Benu Kumar Das (Secretary, Karim-
ganj Dist. Chess Asso.) were present on
the dais .
The tournament took place in a very remote
district of Assam. The organizers were very
disappointed over the lesser number of
entries though their initiatives were very
effective and they tried their best to pro-
vide all amenities to the participants. The
tournament hall was airy and very spa-
cious with sufficient toilet facilities .All the
players were comfortable to play in such
environment. The organizers arranged to
serve tea to all participants.
No dispute, arguments etc. arises during
the tournament. It may be mentioned here
that no complaints were placed before the
Appeals’ Committee. The tournament was
played in 8 round swiss league format. At
the end of the final round Souradip Deb of
Tripura became the Champion with seven
points and bagged Rs. 30,000/- with Tro-
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Selected games from Delhi GM plunge into a tempting variation which he
Open,New Delhi
has not thought through thorougly. This
combination is based on the pin of white's
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron d4 pawn against his unprotected Rh4.
phy. Singh Th. Nabachandra of Manipur Grover,Sahaj (2467) Unfortunately for black, this pin can be
placed 2nd with 6 points with better tie Badrinath,S (2015) [B50] easily broken! After this, the difference
break and bagged Rs. 20,000/- and Rajib between a Grandmaster and an untitled
Das of Assam with 6 points secured 3rd 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.h3 Nc6 player becomes evident. Stronger was:
place and richer by Rs. 15,000/-. 5.Bd3 g6 6.Bc2 Bg7 7.d4 cxd4 8.cxd4 37...Ng5! 38.Rc1 Ne4 39.Rxc4 dxc4
0–0 9.Nc3 d5 10.e5 Ne8 11.0–0 Nc7 Black is comfortably placed.] 38.Nxe5
In the prize distribution ceremony Dr. Manas 12.Bf4 [Willemze - Hodge, Mureck, EU Rxe5 39.b3!+- This simple move breaks
Das ( Former Chairman, Municipality ) as Ch. 1998 went: 12.Be3 b6 13.Rc1 Bb7 the pin on the d4 pawn and brings both
Chief Guest Sri Pankaj Kumar Roy Chowd-
14.Ng5 Qd7 15.f4 f5 16.Qe1 and 1–0] black rooks on the point of capture.
hury ( Branch Manager, LIC ), Sri Raghunath
12...b5 13.Bd3 a6 14.a4 b4 15.Ne2 Only one can escape. 39...Re2 40.bxc4
Ghosh ( President, Karimganj Dist. Chess
Ne6 16.Be3 Bb7 17.h4 f5?! 18.Nf4 dxc4 41.Kf3 [Simpler was: 41.Rf4 Re4
Asso.)and Benu Kumar Das (Secretary, Ka-
rimganj Dist. Chess Asso.) were present. Nxf4 19.Bxf4 Qb6 20.Bc2 a5 [Black 42.Rxf5 Rxd4 43.Rxa5 winning.] 41...Rd2
Total prize money of Rs.1,38,000/- distrib- plans to use the a6-f1 diagonal. But it 42.Rg1+! Kh8 43.Rf4! Diagram #
uted amongst the Prize Winners. was better to first concentrate on the
open c-file with: 20...Rac8 21.Rc1 (or
Final ranking 21....Nd8) 21...Na5=] 21.h5 Rac8
Rk Name Pts 22.Bb3 Nd8 23.Bg5 Re8 24.Qd2 Nf7
1 Souradip Deb 7 25.hxg6 Qxg6= 26.Bf4 e6 27.g3 Bh6
2 Singh Th. Nabachandra 6 28.Kg2 Bxf4 29.Qxf4 Qh6 30.Qxh6
3 Rajdip Das 6 Nxh6 31.Rh1 Nf7 32.Rh4 Ba6 33.g4
4 Rijied Katrai 6 Bd3 34.Ne1 Bc4= 35.Bxc4 Rxc4 36.gxf5
exf5 37.Nd3 Nxe5?+-
5 Trailokya Nanda 5½
6 Piyal Roy Chowdhury 5½
7 Das Monaj 5½
8 Deep Das 5½
9 Nirmalya Chakraborty 5½ White is not worried about black's queen-
10 Iftikar Alom Mazumdar 5 side pawns. 43...h6 44.Rxf5 Rxd4
11 Alok Barman 5 45.Rxa5 b3 46.Ra8+ Kh7 47.Ra7+
12 Bibendu Das 5 Kh 8 4 8 . R b 7 I t i s easy n o w fo r wh i te
13 Subrata Nandy Roy 5 t o m a t e t h e c o r n er ed k i n g. 48. . . Rd2
14 Raj Dey 5 4 9 . Re1 ! R d 8 5 0. a5 1–0
15 Chayan Palit 4½
16 Rintu Brahma 4½ M a h a la k s h m i,M ( 2 2 2 5 )
17 Pritom Nath 4½ Diagram # [So far black has played admi- L a lith , B a b u M R ( 2 5 8 7 )
18 Cheniram Pegu 4½ rably with reasonable aggression and kept
the grandmaster at bay. Probably this
19 Ballyr Sinha 4½ 3 4 . . . N a 2 ! [ At f ir st si gh t th i s appear s
20 Soubam Ronish Singh 4½ made him overconfident and makes him to be dubious as the knight, which
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
is the he ro of this ga me, is lia ble t o
b e t ra p p e d i n t h i s c o r n e r. B u t i t i s
stronger than: 34...Nxd5 35.Rxd5 Re2
3 6 .f5 Rf2]
35.Qc4 Nc3! White has a hard task. His
queen has to keep supporting his f4 pawn.
His bishop on d5, which is currently well
protected, will soon find that it is very
vulnerable on d5. The black knight hops
around and has many forking threats over
all the white forces. Black has a great
advantage. 36.Rf1 Ne2! 37.Kh2 Ng3
38.Rc1 [38.Rf2?? Re1–+; 38.Rd1 Nf5
(threat 39....Ne3 winning the exchange.)
39.Qd3 Ne3 and f4 falls with a check.]
38...b5! Remarkably, the white queen
cannot support his f4 pawn any more.
39.Qc5 [If 39.Qb4 a5 40.Qxb5 Qxf4
41.Qc4 Qe5 42.Qc3 Qxc3! 43.Rxc3 Re1
44.Rxg3 hxg3+ 45.Kxg3 f5 46.Kf2 Ra1–+]
39...Qxf4 [After 39...Qxf4 40.Qxe7 Ne2+
41.Kh1 Qxc1+ 42.Kh2 Qg1#] 0–1
Das,Sayantan (2371)
Ghosh,Diptayan (2570) [C77]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6
5.d3 d6 6.c3 Be7 7.Nbd2 0–0 8.h3 b5
9.Bc2 d5 10.0–0 h6 [10...dxe4 11.dxe4
h6= is usual here.] 11.Qe2 d4 With more
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space, Black has an edge in this position.
12.Rd1 Re8 13.a4 Be6! 14.Nf1 Nd7
15.cxd4 exd4 16.Bf4 Bd6? [16...b4!]
17.Bxd6 cxd6 18.Ng3 Nde5 19.axb5
axb5 20.Rxa8 Qxa8 21.Ne1!= Nd7
22.f4 f6 23.Nf3 b4
Diagram # 24.Nh4?! [As black's pawn on
d4 is weak, white could have profitably tar-
getted it: 24.Qf2! Qa2 25.Bb1 Qa4 26.Re1
b3 27.Ne2±] 24...b3 25.Bb1 Qa5 26.Qf2
Qc5 27.Ngf5 Kf7 28.Qd2 [Planning Rc1
invading the queen-side. Stronger was:
28.Qg3 Rg8 29.Qe1²] 28...Ne7 29.Rc1
Qb6 30.Nxe7 Kxe7 31.Qf2 Ra8 32.Kh2
Ra5 33.Nf3 Ra4 34.f5 Bf7 35.Qg3 Qb8
[Black cannot save his g7 pawn. For if 35...
Kf8 36.Rc8+ Be8 37.Qg6 mates.] 36.Qxg7
Diagram # 36...d5+ Black has depended on
this discovered check to get counter-play.
But this releases white's entombed Bb1
into the game. 37.Kh1 [If 37.Qg3 Qxg3+
38.Kxg3 dxe4 39.dxe4 Ne5 40.Nxe5 fxe5
41.Kf3 Rc4 42.Rg1] 37...dxe4 38.dxe4
Qf4 39.Rd1 Rc4 Black intends ...Rc1 for
equality. 40.Qg4 Qe3 41.Rd3 Rc1+?
Diagram # [Black misses the winning line
with: 41...Qc1+ 42.Kh2 Qxb1 43.Rxb3 h5
44.Qf4 Rc2 45.Rb7 Rxb2–+] 42.Kh2 Qe2?
[This brings his queen into a vulnerable
square. The only move to survive was: 42...
Qf2! 43.e5 Nxe5 44.Qe4 Kf8 45.Nxe5 fxe5
46.Qa8+ Ke7=] 43.Rxd4 Now white threat-
ens 44 Rxd7+! Kxd7 45 Ne5+! fxe5 46
Qxe2 winning the queen. 43...Nc5?
[This fails to a double attack. His best
was 43...Qe3= or 43...Qxb2 44.Qg7 Qxb1
45.Rxd7+ Kxd7 46.Qxf7+ Kc8 47.Qe6+
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
Kb7 48.Qe7+=] 44.Qf4! This is a double
attack. The first threat is 45 Qd6+ Ke8 46
Qd8#, and the other is the direct capture
of the rook on c1.44...Be8 45.Qxc1 1–0
Nester,Ihor (Ukr) (2373)
Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2619)
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–0
5.0–0 d6 6.d4 Nbd7 7.Nc3 e5 8.e4 a6
9.Qc2 Rb8 10.Rd1 Re8 11.h3 exd4
12.Nxd4 Ne5 13.c5 [Tania Sachdev, 2383,
vs Pravin Thipsay 2494, Pune CC K.O. Rap-
id, 2006, ended quickly: 13.b3 c5 14.Nde2
b5 15.f4 Ned7 16.cxb5 axb5 17.Bb2 Qc7
18.Qd3 c4 19.Qxd6 Qxd6 20.Rxd6 b4
21.Na4 c3 22.Bc1 Nxe4 23.Bxe4 Rxe4
24.Kf2 Bf8 25.Rd3 Nc5 26.Nxc5 Bxc5+
27.Kf3 Bb7 0–1.] 13...Qe7 14.Bg5 Be6
15.f4 Nc6 16.cxd6 cxd6 17.Qf2 [Rather
than defend the Nd4, white could do well to
exchange it off advantageously: 17.Nxe6!
fxe6 18.Kh1 Qc7 19.Rd2 Rbd8 20.Rad1
Rd7 21.Bxf6! Bxf6 22.e5! Be7 23.Qb3
Nd8± (not 23...d5? 24.Bxd5!+-) ] 17...
Nxd4 18.Rxd4 h6! 19.Bh4? [This leads
to an interesting and winning combina-
tion for black. White could have kept
some advantage by exchanging off the
black knight with: 19.Bxf6 Bxf6 20.Nd5
Bxd5 21.Rxd5 Rbc8 22.Rad1] 19...g5!
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20.fxg5 Ng4! 21.hxg4 Bxd4 22.Qxd4
Black has so far got a rook for his knight
and bishop, not enough. But he has mon-
ey in the bank - the white bishop nailed
at h4, unable to move. 22...hxg5 23.Rf1
gxh4µ 24.Rf6 White's only hope is to carry
out an attack against black's shattered
castled position. 24...Bxg4! 25.e5 Bh5
26.Qxh4?
[If white pursued his attack with greater
determination he could save the game, or
even win it! Here is what he missed: 26.e6
fxe6 27.Qxh4 Qg7! 28.Ne4 Bg4 29.Rf4
Bf5 30.Nxd6 Rbd8 a) he cannot save the
exchange: 30...Rf8? 31.Nxf5 exf5 (31...
Rxf5 32.Rg4+-) 32.Bd5+ Rf7 33.Rxf5+-;
b) 30...Re7 31.Nxf5 exf5 32.Rxf5 Re5
33.Bd5+ Rxd5 34.Rxd5+- white's queen
and rook have excellent mating chances
against the shelterless king.; 31.Nxe8 Rxe8=]
26...Qxe5 The black forces are springing to
the defence of their king at the right time.
27.Be4 Re6 28.Rf5 Qd4+ 29.Rf2 [29.Kg2
Bg6–+; or if 29.Kh2 Bg6 30.Rf4 Qd2+ 31.Kh3
Qxb2–+] 29...Qh8!? [Stronger was: 29...Qc5!
30.Nd5 (30.Bd5 Re1+ 31.Kg2 Re5–+) 30...
Bg6 31.Nf6+ Kg7 32.Bxg6 Qxf2+! (32...
fxg6?? 33.Qh7+ Kf8 34.Qg8+ Ke7 35.Qe8+)
33.Kxf2 Rxf6+ 34.Kg2 Rxg6µ] 30.Qg5+ [30.
Rh2 Rbe8 31.Bf3 Re1+ 32.Kf2 Rb1 33.Ne2
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Rxb2 34.Bxh5 Qe5µ] 30...Bg6 31.Nd5
[More stubborn was: 31.Bd5 Re1+ 32.Rf1
(32.Kg2?? Qh1#) 32...Rxf1+ 33.Kxf1 Kf8–
+] 31...Qe5! 32.Qxe5 (Forced, or the Be4
is lost.) 32...dxe5 33.Bxg6 fxg6 34.Nc3
Black has the exchange and a pawn more
and should win comfortably 0–1
Erigaisi,Arjun (2270)
Das,Sayantan (2371) [B00]
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 b6 3.e4 Bb7 4.Bd3 c5 5.c3
Nf6 6.Qe2 Be7 7.0–0 d6 8.dxc5 dxc5
9.Bf4 [A 2007 game between Astapov and
Poberzhnik went entirely differently with
9.Bb5+ Kf8? (9...Nc6) 10.Bd3 Nc6 11.Bf4
Nh5 12.Be3 Qc7 13.g3 Rd8 14.Nbd2 h6
15.Ne1 g6 16.f4 Nf6 but was drawn after
42 moves.] 9...Nc6 10.Na3 Nh5 11.Be3
Nf6 12.Rad1 Qc7 13.Bg5 h6 14.Nb5 Qb8
15.Bh4 e5?!
Diagram # [This prematurely relinquishes
control over the key d5 square. Better was:
15...a6 16.Bg3 e5 17.Na3 b5=] 16.Bc4! a6
17.Bxf6! gxf6 [If 17...axb5 18.Bxe7 bxc4
19.Bd6±; but not 17...Bxf6? 18.Nd6++-]
18.Na3 b5 19.Bd5 Qc7 20.Nh4± Black
cannot castle on either side for obvious
reasons. 20...h5 21.Nc2 Bf8 [Black pre-
pares 0–0–0 for if immediately 21...0–0–
0? 22.Bxf7+-] 22.Bxc6+ Qxc6 23.f3 c4!
[After 23...Qe6 24.Ne3! Qxa2 25.c4!
(This prevents the queen from getting
back to defence via e6.) 25...Qa5 26.Nhf5
Qb6 27.Nd5 Bxd5 28.Rxd5 bxc4] 1–0
Lalith,Babu M R (2587)
Karthikeyan,Murali (2564) [E16]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Bb4+
5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0–0 7.0–0 c6 8.Nc3 b6
9.Bf4 Bb7 10.Rc1 Nbd7 11.cxd5 cxd5
12.Nb5 Ne8 13.Qb3 a6 14.Nc7 g5!?
[This is a new move and challenges the
safety of the Nc7. It violently varies from
Radjabov-Izoria, EU Ch, Antalya, 2004
which went: 14...Rc8 15.Nxe8 Rxe8 16.a4
Rc6 17.Rxc6 Bxc6 18.Rc1 Qa8 19.e3 Rc8
drawn on the 40th move.] 15.Be5 [This
tends to slightly favour black. Better was:
15.Nxg5 Bxg5 16.Bxg5 Qxg5 17.Nxa8
Bxa8 18.Qa4 Nb8=] 15...Nxe5 16.Nxa8?!
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
[The alternative was also bad for white:
16.dxe5 Nxc7 17.Qxb6 g4! 18.Nd2 (18.
Rxc7 gxf3 19.Bxf3 Bc8µ) 18...Nb5 19.Qxb7
Ra7 20.Qc6 Nd4–+] 16...Nxf3+ 17.Bxf3
Bxa8µ 18.Rc2 Bb7 19.Rfc1 Bd6 Black
has proteced his position well and has not
allowed any entry point for white's two
doubled rooks on the c-file. 20.Qd3
Diagram # 20...f5! This not only
p revent s w hi t e's dream of opening up
the centre with e2-e4, but also makes
his first step in conducting a king-
side attack. 21.Bg2 Qf6 22.e3 f4!
23.e4 Qg6! 24.Rc6?! [White had to
do something like this, otherwise what
g o o d a r e h i s t wo do u bl ed r o o k s! H e
c o u l d h ave a l s o t r i e d : 2 4 . Q b 3 d xe 4
25.Qxb6 Rf7 26.Qd8 Re7–+] 24...
Bxc6 25.Rxc6 White has an extra
knight now with no complications and
h e c a n a f f o r d t o t o s s a wa y a p a w n
fo r t h e a t t a c k . 2 5 ...dx e4 ! 2 6 .Bx e4
Qf6! Black shifts his focus back to the
f-file, giving up his h-pawn. 27.Bxh7+
Kg 7 28.R c 2 [ T he rook scurries back to
defend f2. White can also try to block
the f-file but must pay heavily: 28.g4
f3! 29.Kf1 Qh6! 30.Be4 Qh3+ 31.Ke1
Qxg4–+] 28...Rh8!
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Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
With f2 guarded, black turns his
forces on to the h-file. 29.Be4 Qh6
30.Qxa6 [White is totally lost. If now
30.Kf1 Qxh2 31.Qxa6 fxg3 32.Qb7+
K f 6 3 3 . B g 2 Q h 7! 34.Qf3+ Qf5–+] 30...
Qxh2+ 31.Kf1 Qh5 32.Qb7+ Kf6 0–1
Ghosh,Diptayan (2570)
Visakh,N R (2453)
With three extra pawns white's victory
is certain, but the finish is quite pretty:
53.Qe7+ [After 53.Qe7+ Kxf5 54.Qe4#] 1–0
Amonatov,Farrukh (Tjk) (2619)
Grover,Sahaj (2467) [C13]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5
dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 gxf6 7.Nf3
f5 8.Nc3 a6 9.g3 b5 10.Bg2 Bb7
11.0–0 c5 12.d5 b4 13.dxe6 bxc3
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14.exf7+ Kf8 15.Qc1 [Ivanchuk 2752
- Volkov 2622, EU Cup, Saint Vincent,
2005, took on an exciting course: 15.Qe2
cxb2 16.Rad1 Qb6 17.Rfe1 Qf6 18.c3 Be4
19.Nh4 Nc6 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Qxe4 Rd8
22.Rb1 Rd2 23.Nf3 and 41 1–0.] 15...
Qb6 16.bxc3 Qf6 17.Rd1! Prevents ....
Nd7. 17...f4 [17...Be4 18.Qf4 Nc6 19.Nh4
Bxg2 20.Kxg2 Kxf7 21.Rd5 Qe6 22.Rxf5+
Ke8 23.Qg4 Bxh4 24.Rf8+ Kd7 25.Qg7+
Be7 26.Rxh8 Rxh8 27.Qxh8 Qd5+ 28.Kg1]
18.Rb1 Bc6
Diagram # [Better was 18...Ra7 (though
it temporarily leaves the knight unguarded
on b8) 19.Nh4 Nc6 20.Qb2 Kxf7³ 21.Qb3+
Kg7 22.Qa4 (threat 23 Rxb7!) 22...Ba8
23.Rb6 Rc8 24.Rxa6µ Black has the
advantage as he has an extra bishop
for three pawns. However, his king’s
exposed position is shaky and needs ex-
treme care in handling.] 19.Nh4 Qxf7
20.Bxc6 [If 20.Rxb8+ Rxb8 21.Bxc6
Bxh4 22.gxh4 Qf6µ is clear advantage to
black.] 20...Nxc6 21.Rb7 Rd8 [Though
this rook has moved to the open d-file,
it has no threat. After 21...Rg8! 22.Ng2
Nd8 23.Rbd7 Ne6–+ Black has got his
p i e c e s i n t o t h e g a m e a n d h i s e x t ra
bishop would now prove too powerful.]
22.Re1 Qf6 23.Re4 Bd6 24.Qe1 Rg8
25.Rxh7 Now white has three pawns for
his bishop and by the way he has de-
fended the capture of his Nh4. But black
still stands better thanks to his bishop.
25...Ne5 26.Kh1! Nf7?
Diagram # [Probably the turning point in
the game. Black could improve further
with: 26...Ng4! 27.Re6 Qg5 28.c4! Be5
(threatens 29....Rd1!! 30 Qxd1 Nxf2+
w i n n i n g ) 2 9 . K g 2 B f 6 ] 27.Re6! Qg5
28.Qe4!= fxg3 29.hxg3 Qc1+?
Diagram # [The game has been slipping
away from black during the last few
moves, mainly because of the exposed
nature of the black kikng. This move,
taking the queen away from the scene
of action for one harmless check los-
es. The only way to have possibilities
of staying alive was in the compli-
cated variation where white could go
Annotated by IM Manuel Aaron
wron g : 29...Rg7! 30.Kg2 c4 ( 3 0 . . .
Rxh7 31.Qxh7 Qd5+ 32.Re4 Ne5 33.c4
(33.f4 Rd7 34.Qh6+ Kg8 35.Qg5+
R g 7 3 6 . Qf5 R f7 37. Q g5+=) 33. . . Q c6
34.f3 Qc7 35.Qh6+ Qg7 36.Qe6+-)
3 1 . N g 6 + Kg 8 32. Rxg7+ Kxg7 33.Nh4
Kf8 34.Qh7 Qd5+ 35.Re4 Ne5 36.Qf5+
Kg7 37.Nf3!+-] 30.Kg2 [After 30.Kg2
Qg5 31.Ng6+ Rxg6 32.Rxg6+-] 1–0
Puzzle of the month
By C.G.S.Narayanan
Proof game is a retro analytical prob-
lem in which the solver has to find
the sequence of moves from the initial
game array to the position shown in
the diagram in fixed number of moves
indicated, here in seven moves.
The solution goes like this:1.A a 2.B b
3.C c 4.D d 5.E e 6.F f 7.G g
The retro below features Phoenix theme.
In this theme the captured black piece
reappears after black promotes to the
same piece.
W.Pascal
Retro mailing list 1999
Proof Game in 7(see text above)
(solution on page 48)
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 Test your endgame
Tactics from master games by C.G.S.Narayanan
by S.Krishnan
V.Bron 1973 Dr.Jindrich Fritz 1973

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

Dr.Christopher Sells 1971 V.Bron 1973

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

Yochanan Afek 1973 V.Bron 1971

5 6 5. 6.
Black to play and win White to play and win
White to play and win in all the six endings above
(solutions on p.47) (Solution on page 47)

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Masters of the past-73 Ossip Bernstein 3rd BRDCA International FIDE Rating (Below 1600) Ty, Bangalore
Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (20 September 1882
– 30 November 1962) was a Russian-French chess
grandmaster and a financial lawyer. Born in Zhytomyr,
Russian Empire to a family of Jewish heritage, Ossip
Bernstein grew up in pre-revolutionary Russia. He
earned a doctorate in law at Heidelberg University in
1906, and became a financial lawyer.

In June 1902, Bernstein won at Berlin. In July–August

1902, he took 2nd, behind Walter John, at Hannover
(the 13th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A). In 1902/03,
he won at Berlin. In September 1903, he took 2nd,
behind Mikhail Chigorin, in the Kiev 1903 chess tour-
nament (the 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament). In
1903/04, he tied for 2nd–3rd with Rudolf Spielmann,
Shanmuga Teja V (Runner-up) Sugunesh Babu (Winner)and Sharma Tushar B
behind Horatio Caro, at Berlin. In July–August 1904, he tied for 4th–5th at (Third)
Coburg (14th DSB Congress). In 1906, he tied for 1st with Carl Schlechter at
Stockholm.In 1907, he tied for 1st with Akiba Rubinstein at Ostend (Masters
A).In 1912, Bernstein took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, at Vilna (All-Russian ch.)
Late Smt.Kanchani Prabhudessai Memorial All Goa open FIDE rating rapid, banavli,Goa

After the WW II, Bernstein came back to chess. In 1946, he took 2nd, behind
Herman Steiner, at London. In 1946, he tied for 15th-16th at Groningen.
In June 1946, he won a game against Lajos Steiner at a match Australia vs
France in Australia. In December 1948, he drew a game against Reuben Fine
at a cable match New York vs Paris. In 1954, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Miguel
Najdorf, behind René Letelier, at Montevideo at age 72. The septuagenarian
Bernstein routed him in a 37-move Old Indian Defense that won Bernstein
the Brilliancy Prize.

Bernstein played at first board for France at the 11th Chess Olympiad in Am-
sterdam 1954 . He was a member of the French team, at the 12th Olympiad
in Moscow 1956, but he did not play because of illness.When FIDE introduced
official titles in 1950, Bernstein was awarded the International Grandmaster
title. He had level or nearly level lifetime scores against such outstanding
players as the second World Champion Emanuel Lasker , Akiba Rubinstein ,
Aron Nimzowitsch , Mikhail Chigorin and Salo Flohr . However, he had a poor
record against third World Champion José Raúl Capablanca and against the
Winner Ritviz Parab receiving the trophy from Women Grandmaster & Asian Champion Miss Bhakti
fourth World Champion Alexander Alekhine .Bernstein died in a sanatorium in Kulkarni in presence of Kishor Bandekar (Secretary,Goa chess Association.) Ashish Keni, Dilip Vernekar
the French Pyrenees in 1962. Courtesy: wikipedia Bharat Chougule ,Sanjay Kavalekar & Directors of Banavli Chess Club.
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 1st Salem International FIDE rated Tournament, Salem Solutions to ‘Tactics from master
games’ on page 42
1.Girya,O (2446)- Severina,M (2232)
[E16]
Sochi RUS Sochi RUS (10.8), 03.10.2016
White to play. 26.Rxe7! Rxe7 27.Bf6
g6 [27...Kf8 28.Qxg7+ Ke8 29.Qxh7+-
] 28.Qg5 Nc6? [28...Kf8 29.Qh6+ Ke8
30.Qxh7+-] 29.Qh6 Mates on g7 1–0
2.Ragger,M (2694) - Bromberger,S
(2535) [E04]
Beautiful Minds 2016 Munich GER (10.3),
27.11.2016
White to play. 23.Rxd5! [23.Rxd5 exd5
24.Nf5+ Kf6 25.Ne3+-] 1–0
3.Zhou,Yang-Fan (2470) - Hawkins,-
(L-R)Raja, Director, Thangam Mount Litera Zee School, Maha Ajay Prasad, Managing Director, Mahendra Jonathan (2590) [C00]
Group of Institutions, Sujith Kumar IPS, Additional Superintendent of Police, Salem, Geo George IPS, London Classic Open 2016 London ENG
Deputy Commisioner of Police Law & Order, Salem City, N.Arun, Secretary, Salem District Chess Association, (9.11), 16.12.2016
N.Surendran, (Winner) of 1st Salem International Chess Tournament, N.Nagappan, Kumar,Salem Metro Black to play. 29...Bg2+! [29...Bg2+
Acme Round Table-175, Smt.Savithri Kumararajah, Salem Acme Ladies Circle-91, Asokan, Principal, 30.Kxg2 Rcxf2+ 31.Kg1 Rf1+ 32.Kg2
Mahendra College of Engineering.
R8f2#] 0–1
AICFB National B Chess Championship 2017, Kolkata 4.Bacrot,Etienne(2689) - Shabalov,Al-
exander (2563) [A89]
London Classic Superrapid London ENG
(7.1), 18.12.2016
White to play. 20.Rxf6! Rxf6 21.Rd8+ Kh7
22.Be4+ Bf5 [22...Rf5 23.Rxc8+-; 22...Rg6
23.Qe7+- Idea 24. ... Qe8] 23.Bxf5+ Rxf5
24.Rxb8+- 1–0
5. Kovchan,A (2585) - Kravtsiv,M
(2645) [A13]
85th ch-UKR 2016 Rivne UKR (6.4),
11.12.2016
Black to play. 33...Qxf2+! 34.Rxf2 Rc1+
35.Rf1 Be3+ 36.Kh1 Rxf1# 0–1
6. Batsiashvili,Nino (2489) - Skrip-
chenko,Almira (2455) [A41]
(L-R) 1st line Arindam Das, Shivashankar Paul, IM Atanu Lahiri, Dr.Kanchan, Pragya KM WGP 2016 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (5.2),
Chopra.Prize winners ( L- R) Subendu Patra,Ashvin Makwana, Kishan Gangolli
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24.11.2016
White to play. 16.Rxh7! Rxh7 [16...Bxh7
17.Qh5+ Kf8 (17...Bg6 18.Qxg6+ Kf8
19.Bh6+ Rxh6 20.Qxh6+ Ke8 21.Be2+-
) 18.Bh6+ Kg8 19.Qg4+ Kf7 20.Ng5+
Bxg5 (20...Kg6 21.Bd3+ Kxh6 22.Nf7#)
21.Qe6#] 17.Qxg6+ Rf7 18.Be2‚ Nf8
19.Qh5+- 1–0
Solutions to ‘Test your endgame’ on
page 43
1.V.Bron,Farago Mem.Ty 1973
1.f7 e5 2.h6 Rf1 3.Kg2 exf4 4.exf4 Rxf4
5.h7 e1N+ 6.Bxe1 Be5 7.Bh4+ Kd7 8.Bf6
Rxf6 9.h8Q Rg6+ 10.Kh1 Bxh8 11.f8Q wins
2.Dr.Jindrich Fritz, 3rd Pr,New States-
man, 1973
1.Bf3 Rbxa7 2.Rxb6+ Kf7 3.Bd5+ Kf8
4.Bxa8 Rxa4+ 5.Be4 Rxe4+ 6.Kf3 Re8
7.Rbg6 Ne7 8.Rf6#
3.Dr.Christopher Sells,I Pr, The Prob-
lemist 1971
1.Na6+ Kb7 2.Rb2+ Kxa6 3.Bb5+ Ka5 4.Bf1
a3 5.Rb5+ Ka4 6.Bxg2 a2 7.Bc6 a1Q+
8.Rb1+ wins
4.V.Bron,3rd Pr,The Problemist 1973
1.h7 Qxh7 2.Rc6 Qg7 3.Re6 Kh4 4.b4 c6
5.Rd6 c5 6.b5 c4 7.b6 c3 8.b7 c2 9.b8Q
c1Q 10.Qd8+ Kh5 11.Qe8+ Kh4 12.Qe7+
Qxe7 13.Rh6#
5.Yochanan Afek, 2 Pr,Tidskrift for
Schack 1973
1.Rxb5+ Kxb5 2.Ne5+ Ka4 3.Nd7 Be2
4.Bxe2 Rb8+ 5.Bb5+ Rxb5+ 6.Ka2 wins
6.V.Bron, I Pr, Shakmathy 1971
1.Bb5+ Bc4 2.Bxc4+ Rd3+ 3.Bxd3+ exd3
4.Rh1+ Kg2 5.Rg1+ Kxg1 6.Rxg5+ Kf1 7.f4
Qb6 8.Rg1+wins
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Solution to ‘Puzzle of the month’ on page 41 :It shows Phoenix theme i.e black bishop is captured
and later g pawn is promoted to the same piece.Also the oddity is taken care of by good
maneuvering by the white rook.1.Nh3 d6 2.Rg1 Bxh3 3.gxh3 g5 4.Rg3 g4 5.Rg2 g3 Suhaib Ahmad (Winner category C in the centre) Vaisakh R P (Runner-up-second from left) ) Sathya
Naarayanan S(Third- second from right) with dignitaries
6.Rg1 g2 7.Rh1 and gxf1B!
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FEBRUARY 2017
 15th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess tournament, New Delhi

Shri. Madhup Tiwari IPS, and Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO, AICF, Chief guest Shri. Manish Sisodia, Deputy
Chief Minister of Delhi, Group Captain J Rajendra VSM,A.K.Verma, Secretary, Delhi Chess Association
at the inauguration

GM Amonatov Farrukh (Tajikistan)(Winner category A , third from left) GM Ghosh Diptayan(Ind)

(second from right) GM Dzhumaev Marat(Uzbekistan) (extreme left) with dignitaries Shri. Madhup
Tiwari IPS, Group Captain J Rajendra VSM and Shri. Bharat Singh, CEO All India Chess Federation and
A.K.Verma of DCA